2020 Election

a man of many hats. To be honest, when I met him, I was a door girl at the club, and I just always saw him with celebrities and and movers and shakers, and he was always taken care of. And I didn't understand what the hell Jacob York did, Okay, But then I found out. Okay, he's been very successful in the music industry. You've managed quite a few people. You had an interesting childhood. You know, it's public knowledge, stuff that your dad was involved in and who actually

we're on the other side it a bit um. So it was like you grew up an advocate for the right things. Yeah, I would say I've always been on the an advocate for those who might have been exploited in any way, abused in any way, taking advantage of any way. So I guess it's growing up with it, you know what what my dad helped me to, you know, find my calling, if that makes sense. I know that

bother our nation is probably scratching their heads. What we're talking about is Jacob's father was a cult leader, but Jacob wasn't into all of that, Okay, Jacob actually spoke out against what his father may have been doing. Um, which is I guess a part of why and how it is that you're so successfully vocal about politics. Yeah, I mean, ultimately, you know, the good and the bad of my dad is, you know, being an influential person.

At one point he was. He was religiously the first and then obviously as he descended more and more to madness, he became a colt leader. Um. But what I learned, you know from my mother and father ben us how a lot about politics because we would have like mayors and governors and local senators you know, down to the house and they would be buying for my dad's approvals because he had a big following. So that they can

endorse whatever tickets. So we would have made dankins at the time at the house, so we would have you know, and cops would come down to the house. But whoever it was that wanted my dad's voto block, because at the time it was a big Muslim leader, they would come to the house. So I was always amazed by the that ability and my family had to influence politics

within the city. And that made me very interested in understanding how that works, because that was that the you know, my dad was able to get away with what he got away within Georgia because he had influence over the Democratic governor because of his power within george and his ability to change votes right and and and drive votes

to this government. This government. Literally when his victims I came at, you know, broke to the g b I what was happening to them, the governor told the g b I to back off because he had that much political influence in the state of Georgia. And so you but that's the bad part of political influence. But again, my my dad has always understood how to you know, use his his congregation or in his million followers at the time to best suit his needs. You know it's

which is very interesting. Yeah, it's crazy because they try to say that, you know, these days are separate and they're really not. They're not. That line is very blurred, Yeah, very extremely blurred. Like the power, the power does that be spend their entire time trying to convince those who are not in power that their votes don't count or their voices are not being heard or they don't matter.

And what people don't understand, you know, the reason why you have one percent is because people are convincing you that if you step outside of your I mean they convince you not to step outside of you, right, And they don't want you to become part of the one percent because you know, they have to share money with you because it's this, there's a fine the amount of money floating around this world. So whoever's changing hands, right, it's gonna change. It's like so in other words, if

this guy becomes worth a hundred billion, someone's feeling that current. Right. So at the end of the day, they want you to stay there. They want you to not involve yourself in politics, not to get involved in what you know, they want you to stay where you are, you know, because you're a consumer base for them. So I always remember that. And I'm not I'm not into conspiracy theories. I'm just telling you this is economics one on one.

Any educated person and anybody that's ever accounted money understands that. You know, when you have to share it with twenty people, it's a lot less than when you share with four people. Right, So my dad understood that, but that also made me want to learn it. Right. And the weirdest thing on the in the world is what made me care about civics more. As I was on my way to Columbia University one day on the one train and the specific

actor was on the on the train. I'm not gonna say his name, um, and he saw me reading the newspaper and he said, oh, what are you reading about it? And I had been reading at the time about the political issues within New York politics, and he said, what do you So he asked me about civics? How much do you know about civics? And as I don't really know.

I know what I learned in you know, high school and something what I've learned, he said, well, let me did He started the whole ride up to the Morningside campus. He educated me on on civics in this country and changed me as a black man, from the emotional part of the history of this country to literally understand the power structure, right and what And then that's he's he's a very famous white actor. I'll just say that a white man talked to all this stuff. A white man

made me open my eyes. He said, here's what you have to do. And he was a liberal. He said, you have to remove the emotions of history in America and understand what America's civics is was about. Right. And he says, as a black man in America, most of us are caught in the emotions because we have dealt

with the brash realities of America's darkness, right. And what happens is we forget that it's good against evil or rich against port, you know what I'm saying, and we get caught up in themotional access aspects of racism or you know, and we forget that racism as a mechanism, right, it wasn't quite personal. It was designed to make money. Right.

So he changed my perspective on that, and I remove the emotions for a second in those still hurts, and I started to study American history, and I started to study specifics of American and I got really caught up

in it. And I was lucky to have access to obviously in Columbia University Library with nine million books um, and was just going through and I was after that, I was like, you know what I'm gonna That's what I'm gonna do on my in my spare time as I'm just gonna, you know, try to help with civics and and and and and political discourse in America. And that's what I've done for you know, maybe thirty years now. Quietly is it? Is it an emotional question when people

have to ask has Donald Trump done anything for black people? How? How can that not be associated to any form of emotions. Uniquely enough, the reason why Trump has gone is because of emotions. Emotions can be used as a tool. So when we look at it like that, we can, Okay, let's look at it. Let's look at slavery as a whether that has that that institution. A lot of bad people don't want to understand that black people traditionally sold their enemies or their foes or the poor people to

white people who dragged them here to this country. At the time, the country was a very poor country, right. What that means by because there was no system, so they brought a bunch of people here to work for free to build an empire. Right now, when we speak of it logically, it looks like a business decision. Right, cheap labor so that you can undercut the world's cotton

market so you can become an empire. Sounds but good that way when you deal with it from the emotional perspective of being beaten separated, you know, as black people are treated like mules, like commodities, the fit that emotion is still there, right, So there's room for both if you can to control the narrative around politics, right, because you have to get people emotional for them to get out and vote, right, because we're human beings are not

at that point where they can just vote because it's logical. Most people vote because it's emotional to them, Right, I feel fear of this, or I don't like this, or someone's gonna take this away from me. They don't really get that deep. Right. So the question is, has Donald done anything for black people? Yes? He has? Has he done the right thing for black people? No? So what does that mean Every president that comes around gives money to the HBCUs. Every president. It's not abnormal, it's party

in the hpc US. Is is a bargaining tool that's used, you know, to leverage. Right, So that's done. Every president that comes around finds a way to do that. When they speak of criminal justice reform, there's two things. This is not a reform, right, it was the first step act. Yes, the people of color and people in prison will lead out of jail. Right. A lot of them had a few weeks least some were over Uh, the sentence was

a bit overreached. Yes, that happened, But it happened with Evan Jones, who worked on the same criminal justice form on the Obama's administration that the Republicans never passed, Right, they waited until it was under Trump to pass it. Does that matter to us, Yes, because people got out of jail. Another thing we have to be careful about is Trump thinks that's only what that meant what matters to us of us and not criminals. And so it turns around and he says, oh, I like a fouser,

I let two thousand black people out of jail. Yeah, but we're not all in jail. You also turned right back around and co signed police officers hurting black people five minutes later. So again, do you think that we care about the fact that you let two thousand black people out jail, who maybe two percent of them was probably innocent, as opposed to sending out a message to the police that they can murder us at at at will. The contradiction in Trump's message is what causes people to

say it's a sour pill. It's not what you did, is who you did it for? You like, who did it? Right? So agatting with you. Somebody could come to you and say here's a thousand dollars, gonna be like, well, what the hell is this motherfucker want? I and someone else can come to you say here's the thousandledge you' be like, well, I know who that person is, right, So it's really who right? Didn't he got these smart black people that come in and say, well he did Opportunities On And

I sit back and I go, what is that? Exactly right? What is opportunities On? Opportunities On is the largest gentrification program for black neighborhoods in the history of America. So is that a good thing? It started under black Obama so we are to create this opportunity's on concert right. Trump passed it, but he passed it and it involved capital gains tax. So it gave corporations the ability to

go into black neighborhoods and develop it. And he gave he rewarded them, like what reducing their capital gains tax and black he said, well that helps us? Do you pay capital gains thus, how does that help you? So? How does that help you? And so there is a misunderstanding in the behavior of Trump. It's not whether he

passed opportunities on. Opportunities On has been proven if you look at uh an article done by the President of Federal Reserve of Georgia which shows that most people, and that will be most Black people will not be able to afford the neighborhoods once these this opportunities on is created because most black people do not have capital gains tax. Capital gains tax comes from what stocks, that comes from specific things, selling physical things, you know, and being able

to gain capital gains in that right. And so at the end of the day, most of us when it comes to our mortgages where it's costing us more to own housing. They prove that because black people more to own housing, right, you know, we don't have enough ownership to have the capital gains tax to be able to be you know, for the subsidies that will come from the federal government for opportunities. And so again it's just gentrification.

It says to these go into these black neighborhoods, right, all these minority neighborhoods, and you get to rebuild it. It doesn't say anything unit which both Barack Obama had in mind, that says you have to sell it a certain amount to them. You have to subsidize things for people in that neighborhood to be able to afford to buy those properties or participate in the opportunities. So unfortunately, these headlines are going out and that's what we're getting

stuck on. We're looking at these headlines and we're saying, hey, this is what Trump is doing, but we're not taking the time to actually research what these things are and

when they were really presented to us. Yes, the first people that started working on it was under Barack Obama, right, and it was part of the heat he had did it and after he passed it for a housing bill, right, which said that people in the suburbs have to allow for low income housing to be purchased by people coming out of minority communities, which Trump three months of a oldverternment, right, and say, your neighborhoods are safe once again, safe from who. Right,

your suburbs are safe again, safe from who. So Breba women loved me. I just got rid of the negroes, okay. And so when you sit back and look at that, when Obama was doing it, he was working on it so that it can become our neighborhoods can be regentrified, right, and we would participate in the ability to purchase back out on neighborhoods. Right, Trump does it. There's no provision in this bill is just if you have capital game stacks, you can stay. You get you get subsidies for development.

If you don't, you get to move somewhere else. And so what you're seeing around this country is taking back of these communities because we tend to live in urban areas which have larger value. Right when you look at it, and they come in and they re gentrify the community, and most of people in the community cannot afford that community, and so they get pushed out, and then the cycle

of poverty continues. And so yes, you can yell out of number, or you can yell out of statement, but when you sit back and put peel back the layers in that statement, the facts is, no, he didn't do anything good for us. No, he did. Right, let's move to this administration. Um President he led Joe Biden and Vice President led Kamala Harris. Um. Trump has refused to concede as at this point, and he's not being very

successful in the lawsuits that he has created. But over eighteen right right, it's like you you did all this for what sir, um. Georgia is still count down. There's a Senate runoff that is coming up. What are your thoughts on all of this that's going on currently right now? Reality industration is Trump doesn't have a job, right. Trump

truly believes believed that he would get reelected. No one around him tells him the truth because he's such a narcissistic asshole that they are afraid to tell him the reality is on the ground. So it's one of those things where I can't tell the elder because if I tell him, he's gonna fire because he doesn't take bad news very well. Right, And so he really thought he would get reelected, and now that he hasn't gotten reelected, he's first emotionally dealing with the fact that he cannot lose.

So it's emotional. He's probably he's tearing up the White House right now. Right The second part of it, he has to he remove. He loses his presidential uh and immunity. He becomes a regular citizen against citizen Trump. You cannot indict a citty as a city in president of the United States. They will not allow it. So now he's citizen trust. He's got rape cases he's looking at, he's looking at indictments, some taxig and he's looking at massive

lawsuits he's looking at so he's freaking out. The other thing is when he was a citizen, he was making sixty five million dollars a season on a year on Apprentice. Where's his money coming from? Right now? His his projects, his a lot of his property is under performing. He's got nine hundred million dollars in loan to do next year. Do you understand that people are just like, what we're gonna do about this? And so you're dealing with a guy that's literally sitting there going what the hell am

I gonna do and his the recourses. But he has popped lark amongst the Republican base. Right, He's got a solid twenty five million right, regardless of the fact that seventy one million that might have voted for him, that is irrelevant. The solid is twenty five to thirty million people and he can move that around. He so he's trying to leverage that, aside from the fact he's got about four hundred million dollars worth of debt from the last election that he has to call, you know, he

has to pay off. And so he's raising money against this narrative right now so he can pay off his debt. He's trying to set up a super path for four. He's trying to figure out ways to back the Republican Party and pay off for this this runoff. So they're working together, they try to figure it out, and he wants to be head that I sit in Florida with influence so he can have the Republicans protect him from these lawsuits or anything else. And so what you're dealing

with is a guy that knows he lost. Don't think he doesn't think he lost. He knows he loves I mean Michigan is at like a hundred. He he's under like one hundred and fifty thousand votes like what the Pennsylvania is and there sixty thousand I need. George is probably we really stuck it to him, right, Let's just we gave him a little four team for the for the just just hurt his feelings, like y'all really did.

But we just did definitely keep I mean, we see Arizona, John McCain's and the Native Americans and the Latino vote out there stuck it to him there. And so you're dealing with a man that it's honestly literally dealing in the reality that he did loose. But he needs to

figure out how to protect him. So he has to figure out how he's gonna make money, right, And at the end of the day, he had a plan in his mind that said, I'm gonna get four more years and my daughter is gonna get the next four more four years, eight years, and he thought he was gonna keep up a lineage for a while in control of his presidency. So right now he's making a play to

dominate the Republican Party. Right, we have all these people beholding to him, and what he's thinking, is he's gonna They're gonna try to push these to them, these Republican

senators into place in Georgia. The Republicans will have a majority to fillip buster anything that comes through the Democratic bills, and they'll be able to negotiate on behalf of Trump because again, Republicans still need him for their constituency to come out because regardless of what people said, very if he did draw a ship ton of people on the day of election, came out absolutely so his so his

his that message is still strong, you know. But he he knows he lost, but you know, right now, he's he didn't. He he woke up and was like, wait, I'm out of here, right you know, I wait, I really lost. But he really thought his entire family was going to end up being president of years. He thought he he had to have a point ship about Kamala saying that we're not going to have a female, not a female, especially not a female. But then you're gonna turn around and I think your daughter was gonna be

the first people president. Yes, and right now he's his And then here's another thing. Nobody likes him or his family. So it's really like he doesn't really have allies, right, he doesn't have true allies. Everyone is hold him to him because he you know, those guys will be the Republican Party are be holding to So look at their message. They're not saying it's aside from the Trumpians. The Republican pretty much Mitch McConnell was saying, every legal vote shook out.

That's all he's saying. Right, they're not really saying Trump's you know, because look at what's happened. You got a Republican senator that stood up, stood up recently and said, if Joe Biden is not given critical information he needs for transition when it comes to certain things, I'm gonna step in Friday and I'm gonna do something about it.

Because at some point they're just like, listen, we know you lost, and you're not gonna be too petty because because ultimately America can't because they're blocking his people are blocking world leaders from speaking to Joe Biden. They're not trying to transfer messages. They're literally being petty. So at some point, the Republican Party knows that they put themselves in a in a constitutional crisis, and America is really going to turn around and say, wait what it's a

balance middle school beef. Yes, like it's really childish with this man. I think, honestly, I think for the first time in fifty sixty years, I mean a hundred years, America is gonna change certain laws and requirement for presidencies. I feel like they're gonna adjust certain things. The Trump effect is gonna change the way America. The amendments are gonna be to try to prevent this from happening again. Certain things will be preventable in the future because even

Nixon didn't do this. Okay, so legally we don't need him to concede ship Ye know, No, he doesn't need it, don't need to do ship if on January one, if he if he if he's not gone by the twenties to January, they're gonna drag him, kicking and screaming out of it. Just like they said, the federal government has a history and knowledge on how to build with trespasses in the White House. They will legitimately physically remove him

because he's the ones. He's a citizen, he's not the president, so he no longer has a community and no one has to listen to him. And that in the the government anymore, so they will physically remove him. And it's gonna so if he and I think he knows that, I believe before the year is out, he's gonna come with a way. If he once he raises enough money from his followers and his in his constituency, he's gonna Well, I'm I still want, but I'm leaving. We'll be right

back with more of the Boiler Alert Show. Back to the ball Alert Show starting March Ferrari Simmons and Sue Solo Nation. We are talking with the one and only Jacob York. We're talking about the state of the election right now. Um, let's talk about these runoffs that happen in January five. For Georgia. We have Senator David Perdue running against David Alstoff, and then we have Reverend Rappie.

We're not going against Kelly Laffler. Hey, um, Jacob, can you explain to the listeners how important this is for Georgia to um win the Senate for the Democrats? Okay? And so the important thing about it is, I think that people think the residency is the Polish right, and they don't understand that it's really the legislative branch, right, which is Congress. Congress is the power. They passed the laws.

The president's job is to sign laws into power. Right, he signs off on it, but he's not really the guy that aside from executive orders. Executive orders are not laws, right, they can be overturned. But no matter which president comes, laws are passed by the Congress. Right, it goes from the House of Representatives to the Senate and laws of past. So again you have laws currently. That's been bills that have been four hundred bills sitting with Mitch McConnell that

he hasn't passed. And that's because the Republicans control the Senate. Simple bills like that, nonpartisan bills Kamala Harris and Tim Cook from South Carolina, the Republican UH senator, the anti lynching bill blocked by Mitch McConnell. Simple things like you know, first responders bills right that helps them, blocked by to McConnell, there's many bills that are sitting there, four hundred because he has the ability to do it, because the Republicans

control the Senate, right, so it will matter. It wouldn't matter what what what what? Joe Biden does at that moment if he doesn't have a lot more control than the Senate, because ultimately what you run into is he sends a bill down, he goes to Congress and said, hey, I want to I want to put this particular bill

right now. He talks about systematic racism, and he turns around, he goes to Nancy Pelosi and says, hey, I want to do something about systematic racism, and they create a bility and because the Democrats control the House, right they can pass that bill. Then it goes to the Senate. Mitch McConnell and the Republicans, who says there's no such

thing as systematic racism, can block it. And then Joe Biden will didn't have to water that bill down to a bill that they think is worth them passing, thus removing things from it or adding things to it just so the Republicans could pass it, or he'll have to do it as an executive order and lo and behold, four years from now, if if a Trump gets elected again, they'll just reverse it and we'll react to start again.

And so the important thing is if you get us off and we're not into place, the Democrats and the Republican will then have the equal amount of people in the Senate, and Kamala Harris our next VP. The VP of the United States is the President of the Senate. Yes, yes, so she will sit there and then she will be the deciding vote on all these laws. She will break the filibuster. And so if you want to see certain laws get through, it's important to get out and get

these these two gentlemen elected as senators. Senators have more power than almost anyone in this country, as weird as that sounds, but they do. The president are uniquely enough if you look at the history of America, um, the president was really put into place to deal with international years more than he was put into place to deal

with domestic affairs. Congress really dealt with domestic affairs. The president was really because it was a bunch of different states, right, and they operated with their own kind of presidents called governors. They had their own Congress within their states, which is their state present and if they had their own supreme courts, that their own police force and their own you know,

military force. But they did not know how to deal with national international issues, like how who's gonna deal with us, Who's gonna deal with London, with England, who's gonna deal with France, who's gonna deal with Germany? And who's gonna deal with all this stuff international US? We need to nominate a national guy in place to do that stuff

for us. That's how it originally started, and so that as as time went by, the President became more and more empower But at the beginning they just wanted him to deal with like how much are we gonna sell our cotton to Australia? Force who's gonna talk to Australia for us? We can't have fifty governors, right, so we have to nominate two senators per state. We have to nominate people from within the districts in America to go to a federal House, and we've got to nominate someone

on top of them. And then they can handle the guys. The Senators and the House of Representative which create the Congress can handle national issues for US, and then the president can handle international issue like if we decided to go to war outside, the president can do that right. Internally we can handle it right. So that's how it

really started, and that's time went by. The federalist, which is people that wanted federal power to control more, put the president into more and more and more and more power within the state, right within the country here, So always understand that senators have a ship ton of power, right and we have to make sure and and the way the map is set up, it's two senators per state. It doesn't matter if your California with sixty million or you're not the quota with nine thousand. It's two senators

for state. And if you notice, there's more red states than there are blue states. So it's very interesting how that senator thing works. And senators can stop everything they they they're responsible for nominating Supreme Court justices, they're involved in past laws. And if they can block you, it doesn't matter what Joe Biden tries to do. He'll have to use the executive power or he has to water

down that bill. Right. Two stuff you don't like, like the crime Bill where he had to water the bill down as a senator so that to get the Republican support, and you get three strikes in your out and then you get this mass incarceration. Everybody gets mad at him and he's like, well, I can't pass it through the Senate.

What I was involved in them because we didn't control the Senate, and so they put things in and we put things in, and you get bills that don't turn out the way you wanted to, but you try to get the best of both worlds to get the Republican to sign off. So it's important to understand that we can't put a president in place and not help him with backing him up with the Senate so that the VP can sit there and as the President of the Senate, she can help to move things away. We need to

move on now. This election, people came out in record numbers, whether it was melon ballads, in person, voting early, whatever the case was. I also felt like there was a big celebrity push in this year's election. Do you think that that this celebrity influence had a lot to do with the younger people getting out and voting, and not

only that and the pickingback off of that. So what do you think about all the people who endorsed Trump, the rappers and stuff who endorse Trump and with cancel culture now these days, do you feel like these people will be canceled? I don't think that we should cancel people because they vote for Trump. Ignorance is bliss right.

Some people just are ignorant. They don't understany don't have the ability sometimes to make the CISTI divisive or decisive decisions that like, oh, look at the people that voted for Trump, right, it's why did they vote for Trump? Right? Little Wayne says, Oh, I'm not with black Lives matter because a white cops saved my life when I was young. Cops is not a it's not a race of people. Right. So that statement alone should make us understand where he stands. Right,

He doesn't have the complete ability to really see it through. Um. Do I think the celebrities made a difference. I think no. I think they played their part like they played their part in most I think that people got engaged through hashtags like black Lives Matter. I think that they're fund the police. I think young people did a very good job on TikTok. They were able to get informed. See yeah. I think George Floyd played a big part of I think deleated. I think to Army played a big part

in it. I think people were able to visually see right those things and you saw a swell from there. I think celebrities, I think there's I think We definitely have to correct things within the black community because in the sixties, the fifties, the forties, celebrities were not the instrued to our political figures. We had leaders, We had political leaders. We had activists that spoke, We had people that spoke, and celebrities felt they needed those people's validation, right,

so celebrities joined them. Now you have people that are activists that need celebrity validation, right, and they had a back in that time. Yes, they of course the churches played you know, the Senate of the Muslim uh monster everybody.

But ultimately you had black planter had leaders. You had m l. K. You had Byron Ruster, you had Philip and Randolph, you had Noble Jually, you had Malthelmax, you had and then you had all these leaders that weren't quite they were in their their own they were their own celebrities, but they were activists. And activism was actually cool back then, right as part of the fifties and sixties counterculture. People wanted to say I was an activist.

Right in in two thousand and twenty twenty, people don't care to say I'm activites. It sounds better to sam a rapper. Them is something to say I'm a swiper than it is to be I'm an activist, right, And so people, we have to we have to really begin to put power back in activism and understand that we can revere people like to make a Mallory who's an activist, right, who's out here every day in in in in Louisville, Kentucky, on the streets, fighting the battles, and she doesn't she

doesn't make this change. She's not a millionaire. She's someone that's dedicated her life to change in the narrative around what's happening to brown people in this country. And we need to and we need to endear her right in a category differently than we endear ice Cube or fifty cent a little Wayne. We can enjoy their contact, we can enjoy their uh, their movie, their movie, we can

enjoy you know, their concerts. We don't have to agree with their political views, and we don't have to follow their political views because they haven't dedicated their lives to this stuff. So it's not shut up and drip as much as it is. I take what you say, but I would rather listen to to make a Maori who

actually is doing this every day right. And she's not a politician, right, she's an activist, right, and we should look It's like you know you, you know, so you can come to me and I could say, man, my stomach, you say if you've got gas, But I'm gonna saying, well, okay, so I'm not disrespecting me. I'm gonna say, all right, cool, but I'm gonna ask my doctor, and my doctor's gonna say no, no, you have something more. And I'm gonna

say soon, I have something more. And I'm not gonna say me and you ain't friends no more because you gave me your opinion, right, so we should look at little Way and as his opinion right, fifty cent his opinion because fifty spent spoke about a sixty cent tax rate that does not exist, right, But that just tells me that he's not informed. And then you've got some people like he's got informed, and so I don't get

offended by him. The only offense I'm gonna tell you, the only offense I took is that you are black men and you publicly went against a black woman for this walking hikey. It just like at some point that should be enough to just be like I ain't voting for nobody if you don't agree with the Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris is on this ticket. If you don't agree with it, just abstain. But you can't publicly go against a black woman if we don't get enough for that right.

And so for me, that's the only personal thing that offended me about it that they didn't even take that recourse, because a lot of black men just abstained, and you can see in the number. It's like, I just rather not vote for anybody. I don't agree with her, but I ain't gonna vote for him. I would have accepted that more than I would have accepted them going up there and publicly saying I'm with this walking hicky named Trump.

What you think about a kaya West whose first time voting was this year and he voted for himself at the end of the day, this is his first time voting as a forty two year old man in America and all that stuff he talked about under George Bush not liking black people, but yet he didn't do anything to change them another the thing, you know. But but you gotta look at Kanye and the Michael Casimus Kanye like you know he's you know, I know him means

you know, whatever it is. But he has a lot of issues that you know, a lot of some of this with black men have something to do with feeling emasculated, feeling like they're being left behind in the messaging you know, in America. Um, and it's a whole another subject there when you deal with America black men versus black women in America. And you know, a lot of my friends

on the campaign told me, don't split yere. Yeah, Jacob, but I told him, we're gonna see a big decline in black male vote because they feel like a message and it's not speaking to them. And as you started seeing as they were peeling off a little by little, and it would have been more as election was next year, you would see more more black men out of jail because that's that's who they were talking to. Yeah. It Trump's message seemed like it spoke to black men. It was.

It was it was somewhat anti cancel culture, anti anything that seemed like it was emasculating men. He seemed like he was a strong man, he was taught getting down to women, he was fighting away, you know, and a lot of black men feel like they're being emasculated. They feel like, you know, I heard black Joe Biden spoke to Cardi b. Why isn't he talking to Ice C.

You know, it's it's it's it's splitting hairs. But there's a history of black men being ignored by America more than anybody else, and so the messaging around that is what's causing black men to feel like, Okay, I'm gonna be anti the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden ticket because it sounds like they're gonna lift black women and they're gonna ignore us. But still, no matter what, you don't go against a black woman for that walking pus. It's

to me, that's just not acceptable in America. For me, I would have rather because again, i'm gonna tell you something really crazy. I was a Republican most of my life. I voted for Obama because he was black, point blank period. But I could not bring myself to vote against the blak, the first black president. I just couldn't. I was well, well, well, I was very happy with what he did, but I couldn't bring myself to vote against the first black press.

I just couldn't bring myself to do. And people say, well, why don't you you know, black people, why don't your vote based on merrit went in the history of America has anything been about merry. I'm telling you, I'm waiting for telling you. What has it been about marriage? The people that marriage has finished last? Whenever white people ever done anything in America by working, I walk in there. I can't even get a cab in New York because

of my skin Joe, I can't. You know, there's things that I can't get away with because of my skin tone. America has never done things on merry, but yet now they want us to do things on merria. No, I'll vote on because he's black. I'm gonna vote Kamala Harris because you're black. I'm gonna do what you do. And so at the end of the day, you know, for me, it's the voting for Rock Obama and watching the Republican Party and watching what they did made me go okay.

Black people are fifth fourteen percent of this country, twelve percent to fourteen percent of this country. When you get the Democratic Caucus, right, we look at the House of Representative, which is supposed to be voted from within the people. There's about fifty five people, which represents about twelve percent of this country to fourteen this country. So we are truly representative in the Democratic Party when it comes to Congress.

We're not represented anywhere when it comes to the same because that's just that's a that's a statewide thing as opposed to a district thing. And so we have to we were dealing with majority black states, I mean white states, so it's difficult to move black people into senatory job,

which you we gotta do a better job at. But when I sit back and look at what the Democratic Party has done in the last forty years when it comes to black people being in positions of power, right electing black officials, I had to say to myself seven thousand Democratic officials, three hundred Republican officials. Now, fuck y'all. Republicans, y'all are not doing anything to help us be in a position to change the narrative in this country for

us as black people. So I caucus with the Democratic Party because I'm not that I agree with everything they do, not that I disagree with everything the Republicans do, but we're not going to change systematic racism. We're not going to change a party five we're not going to change you know, economic racism. We're not going to change any of that stuff unless we're in a position to change those laws. And I look at the Democratic Party and I said, they seem to be letting us get in there, right,

and the Republicans aren't. Now, you won't throw a lot of people off with that, you know, I was Republican most of my life. Situation, Jacob, I think the question is gonna be one second, So we're gonna come right back with more Jacob your after this, we'll be right back with more of the Bailer Alert Show. You you're listening to the show, We are back with Jacob. You're we're talking about the election on this special edition of the ball Alert Show. So you have a question. Now.

Jacob revealed that he was a Republican for most of his and I think that's gonna as some people all a little bit okay, because for you to make a comment now saying that you feel that the Democratic Party is allowing us to you know, get in and and but as some positions that will allow us to make changes. Did you feel that way about the Republican Party the whole time you were supporting no um, you. I mean, most kids vote based on their parents. And my dad

was a Republican. Wow, right, And so interestingly enough, yes, he was a Republican and still is. He's actually his his followers are the ones that created the black for Trump website, so he's still right. He's a very unique guy. So you you you get your mostly you get your political views from your parents. Right. My mother wasn't a Republican. She was pretty much you know, her own person, right, But my dad was right, and so you know, the

things that he showed us. He said, you know, we have to be in a position of power, and the Republican Party seems to be and always in a position of power. And you know, they were good for money, and they were good for this, and it were good for that. And then he sold me on this concept of the original Republican Party, who uh, you know free the slaves and the Democrats were not and blah blah blah. And I was you know, I was ignorant, right, And so at the end of the day, as time when

buying I began to learn more and more. I was like, hmm, interesting, this is interesting. That's not so I began to become more of an independent right where it depends on who it was. I was shipped, but I just never saw anyone on the Democratic ticket. I could see myself voting for right. And there's a big difference between Republicans and Trump is Trump Trump trumpsters right. Trump's Republican is a

completely different Republican Party. And uh, the Republican Party that that inherited the Tea Party bothered me because the Tea Party popped up right as soon as a black man was elected, and they claimed to be a party about smaller government and low spending. But George Bush spent all this money and they didn't show up around the time he was elected. They waited to Obama was there, and by January, before he even got inaugurated, they were mad

at it. And so and when the when the Republican Party said, hey, I'm going to cut these people and bring him into the party, I took offense to that as a black man, because the funny thing is I'm a black man first. Hm, That's what I am first,

Like everything else comes after that. Right, And so at the end of the day, when I saw them, we obviously knew when they when the Tea Party popped up into thousand and eight that they were there were a bunch of people that were very unhappy with how tan America was getting and how dark America was getting, and they had a problem with all these you know, dark kids on TV or in commercials, and they were like, wait, they're gonna take again. Y'all will not replace us, right,

They're gonna take over this country. And they popped up as soon as a black president And when I saw the Republican Party said y'all welcome here, I said, I can't be a part of this. You're not gonna tell me. You're not gonna tell I can't be a part part of a party that's co signing people to have a problem with the country getting dark or getting browner, or US having right so us becoming president of us, you know,

moving out of you know, a lower class. I can be a part of a party that will will will adapt these people for power, right, And so for that I never I looked at the Republican Party and I began to change like a lot of things, because again I believe in you know, you know, a certain conservative values right, which benefited benefits us, right. But then you know, like I don't believe in this this liberal concept of abolishing the electorial votes, Like I don't believe in that

the electoral college. So right, that's something that the conservatives do not agree with that I don't agree with either, right, because I think that's dangerous for black people to abolish

the electoral colleges. Right, because if we had abolished the electoral college is three years ago, we would not have been the deciding factor in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being elected, right, because ultimately it would be based on a popular vote, and obviously we're twelve to fourteen percentative population. We can never be a popular vote, right, So they ignored or the other. And so I don't agree with the philosophy of abolishing the electoral college. I think that's

a mistake. I think that at that point presidents wouldn't care if they got the black vote. You don't get a you don't get you know, Trump trying to pass laws or body. They don't care about the black vote at that one because we will not change the electric Trust me, we made a difference in Detroit, we made a difference by in in Philadelphia, we made a difference in Georgia, in Atlanta. Atlanta came in, Savannah came in out. We made a difference, and they talk to us. Speaking

of Georgia, we're currently doing a recount by hand. Right now, here's the thing. Listen to Rastlingberg, who was the Secretary of State, who would be the one overviewing all of this right as a Republican. He said, we will certify the votes first and then we will do recount. So this is just to appease Trump's ego. What's gonna happen is we're gonna go from fourteen thousand, six hundred votes to probably seventeen thousand votes in favor of Joe Biden. But this is this is stall tactic. So this is

this is Trump's stall tactic. They're just baby in the baby. December eight is the deadline to certify all votes in all states. Correct, Yes, yes, I just wanna remind everybody about the runoff election that in Georgia. First, I'm sorry if you're but yes, you can still vote. Yes. Vote. The runoff is January five, UM. The early voting starts December four. UM GOP incumbent Senator David Purdue is defending his seat against John ass Off. Reverend Matphew Warnock get

challenges Kelly Loffler in the Georgia's special election. Let's finish Trump off. Both of those people are Trumpers, not true Republicans, but they're Trumpers. Finished them off by getting rid of Purdue. Let's get rid of uh Kelly. And let's give Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and you know, the legislative branch a chance to see what they're willing to do. Because guess what, if they don't do what we want them to do, there's always two We could take them out

right and replace them. So let's give them a chance to see what they can pull off. Um, and see if we get some of the things we fought for and what we voted for. You know, you're talking about seventy nine million people voting for Joe Biden, right, So that's record numbers. Right. We wanted change, and we wanted a true change from Trump is Um. We wanted to

see certain things happen. And again, the only way to do that is to give the Democrats a chance to at least pass some laws without being obstructed by the Republicans. And and and so that's my opinion, and uh I don't have to agree with every candidate I have, but I will look at people and say this makes sense, and this doesn't make sense, and to give a divided government is only going to create gridlock and nothing gets done. This has been a very special edition of The Boler

Show podcast edition. Thank you so much. Let me tell you, I am guilty of of not educating myself in the way that I should. But I will say that Donald Trump made me wake the funk up there, and I think that's him, right, And I think that's the one thing that he did for black people that was in a good light, because I've never paid attention to politics more than now. And also what he did for black

people is liberal guilt, right. You know, you go the day after they certified the election, I walked down the street and you had white people going right. I'm like, thank you, right, so great. Whatever it takes, whatever he represented. Sometimes you gotta get a monster to understand how did you at it right? Sometimes you gotta show America realized,

wait a minute, we didn't really want this right. Even some of his people were probably like, yeah, we don't really want this right, because you know, looking at how they voted, they you know, they voted conservative values. You know, they didn't want extreme left or extreme right right. They pretty much voted down the middle across the legislative branch

and everything. But you know, and they gave you Joe Biden, who's a centrist Democrat as opposed to a extream left Democrat, and they had to be rid of the extreme right Republican right, and so we have to start looking, you know, to be honest with you, I like the fact that people are educated, y'alls, you know, being Robin talk all the time and like a political consultant to the to

the site. And you know, it's just like the engagement that everybody has in the election is the best thing that can possibly happen, because now we will see the power of our votes and the power of our engagement and why it matters so much for us to be sold involved. And that's why I tell people, don't if somebody ever says their vote doesn't matter, rewind the tape of run the tape, because trust me, the black vote decided this damn election one and temperac and no one's

hidden that. Like the Republicans are not saying it's not the Democrats are not They're like, okay, and I'm sure the Republic's gonna wake up and say we gotta do something of black people. So the lies of the last hundred years that your vote don't count, don't don't vote, your vote don't gone, that's changed. Now that's changed. Now you know what did Joe Biden said in his expected

acception speech to the African Americans. I got y'all. Y'all had me like longs and that like I'm like, I got y'all to the point where it's making other constituencies a little jealous, right, they're like, we got something too. They're like Joe Biden is like, y'all, you know what

I'm saying, Like, that's the importance of elections. And then based on elections, deciding on Atlanta, Philly for trying deciding factor right, And and that's the that's why we worked so hard over the last four years to get people so engaged, right, because it was like, if you get involved, See, here's the thing. Politicians only care about people that two people, people that can hire them, and people that can fire them.

So if you don't participate, you don't matter. If you do participate, you can fire and hire whoever you want. And if you hire the right mayor, then they hire the right police chief. They hired the right district attorneys. If you hire, if you vote in the right district attorneys, policies change across how people are criminally, you know charge.

You know the woman that that went against i'm ad Aubrey, right, she got voted out, right, that district attorney right, that signed with the guy that murdered our our brothers, but she got voted up. So now they're they're they're really coming under pressure, right. You start seeing you know, Shore picked out for other I'm I'm sorry, I'm like, I'm I was in Brittan and it was bugging me out.

Um uh so I'm out Aubrey. So at the end of the day, when you look at that, that's something that matters because now you have a district attorney in there that's gonna really try somebody and not give him haven because he used to work for her. Right, We have to be very clear and concise about understanding. There will be no change if we don't activate and fire and hire these people. And that's that's just it. Jacob Erge, everybody, we appreciate you for stopping by the Bottler Show. We

look forward to seeing you and you educating this once again. Man, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me thinking enough of baller Alert. Follow us on all social media platforms at baller alert. He going to baller alert dot com