Black Mayoral Town Hall: The Preview

take about half your panel out of mayors. Our mayors who we were speaking to today are all currently holding office, as well as a lieutenant governor, and are currently being impacted by this storm. Folks got lights out and hopefully no lives lost, but the storm is still coming across. In fact, right here in Tallahassee where I am, we are under hurricane warning. I got a text a few moments ago We're under a hurricane mornings. I'm not a

tornado warning, forgive me. So just first heads up is that we have we scheduled our conversation with the mayors and you will not want to miss it. It's gonna be a really good, I think important conversation. Will revisit some of the ice stuff that is still ravaging communities here firsthand from the elected officials. I got to deal with this in Minnesota, Chicago, Los Angeles and other places. For those who are trying to figure out what do we do, what powers the locals have, how do we

protect ourselves? We want to get underneath all of that and offer some real saying advice for not just elected officials, but members of our community who can help your elected officials plan members of our community who quite frankly, I think and you'll hear it directly from them. But if the folks who were to tell a story of how they won or push back the federal government, the mighty might of the federal government and Trump's gustapo, they would

say it was the people showing up. Basically, they were first aid, they were triaging, they were they drew together as a community and and helped. Uh. The least of these help those who were targets and and so doing made themselves targets. Uh. We also want to look ahead toward the election. What kind of shenanigans can we expect

and what sort of security might you know? We all have that the elections one will occur, and two, when they occur, will take place in a fair and honest and dignified manner where every vote legally cast is legally counted, and I think you all will be surprised to learn how much power does exist at a local level to to hopefully ensure to UH an uninterrupted federal state local election coming up soon. The date for if, if Nick, you could just throw that up for our reschedule Mayor's

Roundtable will be March thirtieth. Please, please please, you will not want to miss this again. You don't have to be an elected official, you don't have to like politics. We want to make sure you get equipped with the knowledge and the tools that you need so that none

of us are caught unawares. This last week, during our show, our regular Thursday show, I had mentioned that I had heard feedback from people that when we talk about the kinds of shenanigans that can take place at the ballot box, are we doing the job of the opposition for them by basically broadcasting all of the red alerts such that people say, you know what, I don't think I want to do that, no voting for me this time. And the truth is that I actually think that's the strategy.

I think that's where they want us to believe that the barriers are going to be so great, so insurmountable, that people just make the decision to sit it out, stay home. I take a different position. I think by talking about this that we can walk in through them at the same time, where complex people get on with complex stuff every day of the week, multiple times a day.

If you, if you're like me, and and we can hear truths and then uh, you know, think through them, plan through them, and come up with a strategy for how we overcome with that is the people who are gonna announce that now I've just sit it out, you know, won't deal with the hassle. I question whether or not they're for planning to truly really vote in the first place.

And that's not what we want. We want all of our family members, all of our friends, all of the people of like mind and heart, uh making their way to the polls. It is. The threat is existential, and I don't think you need me to explain it anymore than uh than that frightful word. I'm not gonna hold you long today. And I want to invite lolo. If there are things that any folks have questions about or want to toss out there, get me thinking about it.

If you've got questions directly from me for a few moments, I don't mind responding. But the other point I wanted to make was around oftentimes, when we hear about this war incursion, ex. Whatever it is that Trump and HEXTFF believe they're doing in Iran, that we are somehow not connected to it that's happening over there, And I just want to focus our attention more on the fact that we're all about to be feeling, if we haven't begun

feeling already. The news has focused a whole lot on the straight of her moves and the fact that twenty percent of the world's oil flows through that very narrow straight and it's effectually closed, holding up the ability for ships to make uh uh uh see transit to get that oil into critical places. Mostly people have been talking about in terms of gas prices, but I want us to just think about the fact that petroleum is practically in everything we use. I mean, I don't mean that literally,

but almost literally. When fuel and petroleum, natural gas, when those kinds of things are held up, don't make it to market, don't well before market to the to the suppliers, can't get it to those who are in need of it to make the products, produce the products. They end up on the shelves when we think about things like, uh, fertilizer, Like, what do you call it? Seeds? No fertilizer helps to see you grow? Huge, huge, huge impact on US agriculture,

world agriculture for that matter. Much of that produced from I ran from, transited through the strait of her moves, and it ends up on our shelves when we need it. If this thing were to end tomorrow, the disruption that has taking place just over these you know, two weeks of Trump's showboating, which has cost lives, numerous American lives, of course, but also the lives of innocent children and people.

But there's another toll, and that is going to be the financial toll, and I just want to get us ready for it. So I pulled the list here of what are some of the products that are likely to be financially impactful in your life. Obviously energy and fuel. I think oil is already over one hundred dollars a barrel, was reading this morning. Some estimates believe that will reach over two hundred dollars a barrel before this is done. Liqu petroleum, or natural gas. I'll just admit I live

in a city. I led a city as a mayor that was over ninety percent dependent on natural gas. It was a great asset for us. It probably still is. But the fact that almost all the natural gas comes through this region, we're going to be seeing higher energy bills. And my guess is is probably many of us going

to sk higher energy bills. Petro Chemicals and plastics I mentioned that sort of at the top, fertilizer, agriculture, manufacturing inputs like aluminium, rubber, chemical components essential to automotive and aerospace. I got to get some work done on my car now, and I better do it like today before the sticker shock hits and those parts become unavailable or just too expensive.

That's not worth doing at the moment. Consumer shipping and consumer goods, just general maritime freight again, the straight up her Moods is a very very active shipping lane, very narrow lane. It is rather that opens obviously up into the greater ocean. But tons of materials that I can't even name come through that strait that again will be impacted. Industrial gases like helium. It's largely exported from Qatar, but again the strait becomes critical for the passage of those goods.

So I just wanted to mention that in the context of really everything is everything we think because you have a military and you're the most powerful, mightiest, the truth is is that there are things that it can't quite fix. You can cause a lot of damage, but that damage, when the whole toll is taken, is damage not just done to the place that you might be targeting, but really it is a hex on the on the rest

of the world. And I think that's what's coming to fruition here, that every action has a reaction, and we're not the only ones with tools in our pocket. There are other people with tools, and I think we're about

to see a lot of that being flexed. I'm looking at your note here, Lo Lo to prepare, how to prepare for the financial impact well planning, and I know we don't have a lot of it, but as I read through some of the materials that will be impacted, you have to make the decision because already prices are are showing up on shelves, and certainly our gas stations, refueling stations, I think, in utility bills, but those will get worse. If you've got an automotive prepare that is

of crises, you probably need to handle that asap. Otherwise, as this war continues on those automotive parts, those materials, aluminiums will become harder to access and more costly. They'll be accessible, but accessible to those who supply and demand. Basically, who can pay the most get it, and those who can't just have to wait their turner. So be be aware of that, and then just you know, look up

for yourselves. Materials that flow through the straight of her news, and I'm sure it will produce, you know, Google gobs of things that I haven't even mentioned, and I have been thinking about, and I just think we all have to individually make the decisions around can I say this for later or is it something I got to do now? Should I sit on that purchase, or should I go

out and splurge. I trust all of us, hopefully, and I right mind, as we know what we supposed to do, and then there's then what we do, So hopefully those things come to marry a little bit a little bit more. I'm here, but this is going to be my only comment. I'm done with American politics from here. On and I will vote if we still get to vote. But I'm

only caring about building a foundation for my community. I hear you that that messages from tyrone, Nor would I appreciate the comment Tyrone, And really just to say, in the spirit of everything being everything, take for instances, war not a war of our choosing, but of Donald Trump's choosing. And even though I didn't choose it, we're in it now. That means sons, daughters, uncles, cousins, relatives, you know, are at his whim and obviously at the reflexes of those

who are at war. With any loss taken there is not Frankly, I can't tell that it impacts the president yet right his the way he showed up to uh see the soldiers as they return, the final return, I mean it was. It was despicable, and I think it's just an illustration his presentation, his outward presentation. I think it's just an illustration of his inward. I think la

a care, concern, disdain. So just know that there is the front line, and of course that impacts that's not by our choice, but there's also think about the financial impacts of that choice, of of of of of aggression and and the fact that it's going weigh on all of us. So in the I feel the need because I'm very much so resolute about taking care of my household, my family, and the people who are closest around to me.

But I also know, with both eyes wide open that the thing that happens over there, while it may not be caused by me, I didn't ask for it, that it has ripples. You know, the old story of the pedal thrown in the water and the ways in which it ripples heavily up front and as it goes further and further out a little less. Well, this is a pretty big pebble and it will have large ripples. So I wish it well, taking care of you, your family and and and so on, But also recognize that, man,

everything is everything. What happens there and heavily be impacts us. What do we do as black people to secure our finances with a high unemployment rate among us that is so real, you know, the black unemployment is now three times that I think of white folks. We all experience live through the trauma of watching Trump lay off black people and droves at the federal government level, which was you know the toll of its impact will not be

fully felt in the moment. I know it's tough being without a job and having to really resituate yourself and your life unexpectedly. But the I think the real toll of that loss of middle class black incomes will have

a generational impact. I hate to say it, and I don't want to carry on too long about it because I don't want to sow bad seeds, but I really believe that they're going to be They're going to be generational ripples to the kinds of actions that this administration took that they've been you know, conservatives have been wanting to take for a long time to push us out of the workforce, you know, the hard working, qualified, experienced

ones for the underqualified, unqualified frankly ridiculous by every by every corner and definition of that word, people who could not qualify for their jobs. And so they had to get waivers from the President of the United States to assume some of the highest uh and most influential roles in the United States government. And we'll see how that's going, right, not well served. Yet they were real free to let us go. And so in the weak of the financial

impacts that it's obviously harvesting in so many households. I think we all just have to be a lot more stratinct one. Let's find new strands of independent income. Might be a good opportunity to flex your legs on your own entrepreneur entrepreneurism by seeing what the need is and figuring out if you have an idea something you can provide.

Then always have to be a widget. It could be in your own thinking, your strategic thinking that can be offered up to help people navigate things that quite frankly, you could do in your sleep based off your experience. There's always, you know, there's always a market out there. We just have to go real hard in the paint scratching for it. And I don't have a doubt my body.

Corporate America understands what our community has brought to them and continues to bring to them, and our absence is noticed, so you know, and those are the folks who are very, very much so particular about the bottom line. The politics be damn it's about how do I, you know, keep keep the money coming. So of course I encourage people on the independent strands of income. I think there are

markets out there, still open and available to us. These are also good times when economics for us don't look on the upswing to deepen into our education, whether that be through university system, community college system, or through trades apprenticeships skills building in the artificial intelligence field where there obviously appears to be a lot of deep pocketed investment. Hope it didn't balloon on them. But the thing is here, right,

we can't fight that. The thing is here, and now we got to get our fingernails, you know, dirty, and get up under it so we know how to not just survive in it, but how we how we use it to our advantage to thrive. Y'all, I've gone too long. I've so suggest announced that we're going to be talking

with mayors in just a few days. But I thank you all always for your It has never lost on me how you spend your time as a choice, and we are honored every week when you tune into Native lampod it is it is, yes, work for us, but it is ministry. It is also a catharsis, you know, being in fellowship with our community, hearing from you, you all participating us, giving feedback. We appreciate you choosing us obviously many solo pods, all that stuff to go along

with it. I don't do these on the regular because y'all already tell me I'm verbos. I need to shut up so you'll hear from me when I have something to say. Aside from that, I'll just say, please, please please throw the flyer up one more time. Join us for our March thirtieth Mayor's round Table. We will cover turf that you will want to hear, you will want

to know. In fact, while watching the federal government is distressing right now, locals is where it's at, and so I want to invite you back to be part of that. On March thirtieth, there'll be an updated flyer that will come out with greater specifics RSVP and we'll see you them. And until then, thank you to Nick and Lolo and the team for your help with this broadcast, and to all of you who are listening, watching, hearing. Welcome Home.

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