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it’s different than any other message
that I have given because most of my
messages about inspiration motivation
manifesting your greatness pursuing your
dreams and focusing on your destiny but
I want to have another conversation with
you tonight I got in bed and and I could
not sleep because I had a word come to
my mind that says what are you doing why
are you getting in bed what have you
done to celebrate this time where we’re
recognizing dr. Martin Luther King for
his supreme sacrifice by doing what you
can to speak up and what came to me
people who operate from darkness people
that are divisive people who work
against individuals that are pursuing
their dreams are just trying to live a
decent life people that are possessed
with evil behavior and thoughts and
hatred they don’t take any time off they
work relentlessly and so I’m not and I
know some of you probably say oh now
that they’re there he goes he’s he’s
gonna talk about the president I’m not
I’m not going there I’m not into
labeling and calling people anything but
here’s where I’m going
I was called today by a friend named
Reiser
and the school were her daughter Genesis
goes
they gave the students an assignment to
read the letter of dr. Martin Luther
King jr. when he was incarcerated and
Birmingham letters from Birmingham and
what did they get from that and she gave
some good insight but what I want to
talk to you about tonight is courage
and moral responsibility and speaking up
I heard a reporter say tonight
it was interviewing someone about what
the president said the vowel filthy
racist words that he spoke about
Haitians and Africans and I want to
first of all apologize on behalf of
everyday Americans everyday Americans
are decent people everyday American are
Christians everyday Americans believe in
in the scripture that says the least
that you do unto these my brethren you
do it also unto me I don’t believe that
everyday Americans want the people that
are part of the daca program who became
here’s children want them to be deported
no we want you to become Americans I
want to apologize for the climate that
we’re in I want to apologize for the
leadership for the vile vulgar and
embarrassing things
that have been said from the highest
office in the land and giving the
impression to the world that all
Americans feel this way that all of
Americans have an anti-immigrant spirit
about them that’s not true that’s not
true so I want to apologize I want to
apologize and this news person raised a
major question he said what the
president said was bad there’s no
question but you know what he said that
got me he said what’s worse is the
Silence of the Republicans that’s worse
and let me tell you what’s worse than
that because I’m not anti Republican and
Jeff’s Pro Democrat because we have them
both in families I’m a twin my my twin
brother he’s conservative he is a
Republican I’m an independent but let me
share with you what I think’s worse not
just the silence and the denials of the
Republicans and those who justify what
the president says but what’s worse it’s
the silence of Ministers these invitees
these evangelists these ministers how
could someone hold a Bible and it says
clearly the least that you’re doing to
and not speak up how can you say well I
can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me but not say hey you
shouldn’t say that about the Haitians
about the Africans and and doc people of
color immigrants from different places
around the world you should
be so silent you can do all things
except speak up for those who are
voiceless who are powerless who being
bullied families being separated
children being separated from the
parents children being deported parents
being deported and their kids are
staying here and and and you you can’t
speak up because your politics is more
important than your morals your politics
don’t get that just like I questioned
myself how can you go to sleep and you
haven’t said anything about this you’re
talking about them you got three fingers
pointing out and yourself are you scared
are you scared
all you can just tell people just pursue
your greatness and pursue your dream and
manifest your destiny you have greatness
in you
you think I gave you a voice just for
that and just look the other way our
families are being destroyed people who
have worked and educated themselves and
came here as children and now going to
sleep if they can get any sleep at night
with fear immigrants feeling like
targets see I can identify with that
see one of the things about being a
person who have the complexion of
rejection the only time that I’ve ever
known white Americans to feel threatened
and use the word terrorists as after
9/11 but as a black man every time as a
kid I saw a white policeman I felt
terror now and once again my
brother-in-law been a police officer for
over 35 years some night anti police men
and women who put their lives on the
line every day to protect us and the
majority when the minority do something
these criminals these Klansmen who have
a badge and a gun and and and our judge
when they commit these crimes the good
cops look the other way only profession
were if a cop does something wrong he’s
investigated by his friends the internal
police affairs trust me if one of them
come in our community and we take them
out we won’t have the option of saying
okay less you know this is what you’ve
just done we’re going to have a trial
here in the projects and we’re going to
see whether or not you were justified
you said that the reason that you took
your gun out was because the cop
approached you and said your tag was
expired and he reached for his gun and
you felt your life was in danger so you
said I’m not going down like this
I saw him reaching for his gun and I’m
if he feels that he’s in danger I
thought he was going for a gun so I
killed him so should not have the right
I thought he was going for his gun I
didn’t commit any crime I saw him going
for his gun I I took him out cuz I felt
in danger
I felt he’s gonna kill me yes that’s
what they use all the time and they said
oh that’s justifiable homicide that was
within the parameters of what we trained
them to do you know there’s a saying
that until the pain of staying the same
as greater than the pain of change we
will never change at what point do we
draw the line and say no and so right
now there is a anti-immigrant sentiment
that’s being promoted from the highest
office in the land and I say to you that
that represents the position and the
sentiments of the president and the
cowards that surround him of his party
but that does not represent the average
American and don’t call Donald Trump a
racist
his father was arrested at a cool clock
Klan rally the largest Klu Klux Klan
rally in the history of this country
he’s not a racist he’s a Klansmen donal
Klansmen Trump he’s not a racist he’s a
Klansman no doctor don’t don’t and you
say that and think you’ve done something
we we know what the Klansmen represent
it’s in his DNA it’s who he is now that
so this is not about name-calling I
don’t recall dr. Cain calling anybody
names I recall him having the courage to
stand up for his conviction having the
courage to to go to jail and be and and
and be be didn’t have dogs sicked on him
and and water hoses
anybody could say oh he’s a racist okay
next you think his father the Klansmen
they were sued for discriminating
against black people then what I’m
renting their property you think are you
here’s what we have to ask ourselves
what do we do to stop these families
from being destroyed what do we do to
stop the daka people from being deported
and and create a process for them to
become Americans and not just set around
for the political process to work in
their behalf and have our fingers in our
eyes and our legs cross or just pray I
believe what Mary McLeod Bethune said
pray as if everything depends upon God
and work as if everything depends upon
you this is time to work these people
are serious when they say take our
country back
yes serious take our country back to
slavery take our country back to
segregation take our country back so
that everybody will not be able to enjoy
the American dream
there’s serious and once again I
apologize this it’s not every white
person know the majority of white people
are decent people decent good-hearted
and silent I saw something at this lady
oh my goodness her her name escapes me
she did a study called blue-eyed Rana my
students and she’s white her name
escapes me right now
and she’s talking to her all-white
audience and she asked them she said
anybody here that like to be treated
like black people or people of color in
this country please stand up and there
was silence and this all-white audience
no one stood up she said well no let me
ask again because maybe you didn’t hear
me if you hear me listen to me anybody
here that would like to be treated like
a person of color like a black person is
treated in this country the United
States of America please stand up that
she waited again and of course none of
the white people stood up and she said
the reason that you didn’t stand up but
that you know they’re not being treated
right and you haven’t said anything
about it you just watched that’s why you
didn’t stand up you know it’s wrong and
you don’t want to be treated less than
you don’t want to be discriminated
against you don’t want to be judged by
your color and have institutions and
structures designed to destroy your
anybody here anyway people that are
watching now would like to be treated
like Haitians
and people from Africa El Salvador or
volunteer to change roles yeah right
whatever what is it that we want to take
away to be and celebrating dr. King see
you can have sales you can give people
time off but I think Reverend Otis Moss
who’s dr. King’s classmate out of
Cleveland Ohio great preacher dr. King
said the greatest preacher you ever
heard he’s since retired he said blind
celebration and empty ceremonies will
not keep the dream alive I’m
paraphrasing what will keep the dream
alive courage what will it take for the
Dockers people to become Americans the
courage of millions of Americans
standing up calling the congressman
calling their senator calling the White
House and said no you’re not gonna break
up any more families no surrounding
houses I believe that I believe that
that there are some places that’s civil
disobedience is required I think we
should organize and and if we get word
and and and and see and create groups to
look out and see military people coming
to invade somebody’s house to drag them
out in the middle of the night the
families two children that we should
have systems where we watch and be
vigilant the price of freedom is
constant vigilance
and and and and provide sanctuary
provide help and support in housing and
be is silent have you seen any immigrant
no haven’t seen anything just like y’all
will see anything when one of your cops
kill somebody unjustifiably all of a
sudden the blue shield you become silent
no I haven’t seen anything at all I
think you have to create this is the
militant less Ron this is the less run
the community activist people in
Columbus Ohio they know this less about
y’all know this one here they know who I
am
we have to organize and work and say no
because it’s the Mexicans today Africans
today
the Haitians today and then as us many
Jews looked other ways with other people
which were Nazi Germany when when when
Hitler was taking people out many looked
the other way until their name was
No the best celebration we can give of
dr. Martin Luther King who took bullets
so that we could have the freedom to
speak and the courage to stand up and
defend each other to honor what we say
the least that you doin to these my
brethren you do it also under me mr.
Brown how can you go to sleep and you
haven’t said anything about that because
it’s controversial because some people
might not like you because they might
not come see you because they might
abandon you they might boycott you they
might call them threatened you have you
ever been concerned about that I dare
you
do you know how much time you have left
this might be your last day on earth and
you’re gonna take your behind a bed and
you’re not doing the work that I have
chosen you for get your behind off
you’ve got a phone that you can talk to
the world I dare you go to sleep after
watching hours of news you’ve become an
addicted junkie to watching the news no
I didn’t I didn’t save you from death to
cancer to watch the news I saved you so
you can make the news who are you really
I mean there’s some things that can
happen that take your breath away I used
to do a tour with Donald Trump it was
called millionaires in training he spoke
around lunchtime and I spoke in the
evening I’ve met him have met his
you know when I look at what’s going on
now
the hatred the stress the drama the
what happened to courage that fear is
its dominating the landscape God has not
given us a spirit of fear but a spirit
of love and of power and of sound mind
you can’t be in a sound mind if you
living in fear and trust me that’s what
they’re doing traumatising frightening
people threatening people if you speak
up they call and they threaten you like
my friend congresswoman Frederica Wilson
she needed to get security they called
and threatened to take her life I dare
you that’s not America that’s not
America
you know fear Zig Ziglar called it false
evidence appearing real no we don’t want
to live from our fear we want to live
from our faith that’s what dr. King did
faith finding answers in the heart where
your heart is there your treasures also
and we know in our heart of hearts that
daca participants should be Americans we
know in our heart of hearts that the
despicable things that the president
said about Haitians Haiti and Africa are
not true we know in our heart of hearts
that’s not true
and it’s horrible to gutless Punk
Republicans said I don’t recall him
saying it they were there I don’t recall
not first of all if you in that kind of
setting you will either say he didn’t
say it you would not say oh I don’t
recall know what what did why they said
like that lest they want to give
themselves an out because there were
witnesses there they’re gutless they are
punks and they’re worse than he is I
then I say I don’t call people names I
apologize I didn’t take my medication oh
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my god I’m looking at the news and and
see them lying and being silent you can
hear crickets oh I think the president
just say what other people are thinking
but we shouldn’t judge you about what he
says we just let’s see what happens in
four years what he has done oh is that
right you bought to make me lose my mind
up in here up in here you bought to make
I’ve got it down on this I don’t want to
talk to a lot of it a hotel I don’t what
they knock on the door I say who is it
they shoot me say oh well he said who is
it I thought he was asking the question
so he can go get a gun so I shot it and
they say well that operated that shot
that was operating in in the parameters
of how we trained you my son John Wesley
he doesn’t understand I said son you
need to get to medication for your
bipolar these cops will kill you they
don’t care about
oh he’s mentally ill I was living in
Playa Vista they killed a black man he
was naked he was out of his mind he was
bipolar and they shot him oh he was
reaching for our gun so we shot him oh
he’s reaching for a gun two of us we
didn’t tase him we shot him oh he was
reaching for one of the gun we didn’t
shoot him in his leg or his arm or his
behind
we shot him in his chest and shot him in
when you don’t recognize and value the
humanity of someone because of their
paint job you can do anything to him you
can do anything to mean it’s okay it’s
okay
I remember Arthur McDuffie he went to
boogity washed in high school he
graduated after I did cops
pursued him because he’s speeding on a
motorcycle Janet Reno was was the state
Attorney General they found those cops
innocent why well he was dead he was
killed but we got let them all go
because we couldn’t determine who struck
the fatal blow hmm
so if if six black men kill a cop they
will go free because we couldn’t
yeah did they did that in and Cleveland
kill a black couple and said we couldn’t
determine who fired the shot that killed
and so our country is being divided but
we must come together in spite of in
spite of the leadership that that’s what
it is and we know what it is it’s not
name-calling it’s about what are we
going to do I remember when I was
working at WV ko and I was joking with
Eddie Saunders he was an older guy and
the vice-president of the radio station
played gospel music for many years and
Eddie used to box and there I was a
young disc jockey WV Calvin Gilmore’s
program director and I said to Eddie and
he was probably in his 70s and I was I
think I was 24 25 then I said you know
Otto run over there and hit you over the
head Eddie
he said well you can run over here if
you want to but you go limp back I can
run faster with you that I can’t without
you you know courage when you think
about how much money that was spending
on entertainment how much time we spend
watching craziness what do you think
about it if I was thumbing through the
channels and I was trying to find
something that will inspire me or that
would educate me by somebody who looked
like me and I know I couldn’t find it I
could I couldn’t find it I mean
sometimes you know I’m a infomercial
junkie but if you just start using your
remote control interest I’m
turn find something religious and but
just find it sometime something that’s
not violent not people cursing at each
other and pulling each other wigs off
just something that makes sense so one
program lady said I hope you baby die in
your stomach I said oh my god how could
you say that how could you say that and
I can tell you I travel around the world
I didn’t and I walked in various places
only black men there and they look and
hold their person thing and I and and I
think they see us so television and say
they crazy how we showing up to the
world and right now this is the most
embarrassing humiliating insane view
no let’s not get into name-calling
no because that doesn’t take you
anywhere let’s think evil prevails evil
prevails when good men and women do
nothing evil prevails when good men and
women – nothing
and I think we can do more than just
wait to see what the Republicans are
going to do what a stupid wall Mexico
will pay for the wall Mexico will pay
for the wall now America pay for the
wall excuse me holy minute you ran on
Mexico gonna pay for this wall so all we
have to do is get a ladder one foot
higher and jump over Stevie Wonder can
see that you know I want to ask Abraham
Lincoln is it really true he said you
can fool some of the people some of the
time but you can’t fool all the people
all the time this man has done a good
job he was born into the class when he’s
the class when Donald Klansmen Trump why
are you calling my name I’m not that’s
what he does that’s who he is he was
born into that I’m not calling him me
that’s a group that he’s the part of and
he’s proud of that and that’s why he’s
doing what he does and until we make
preparations to stop it organize
ourselves raise money and as he said
take him out we don’t know when Haitians
here they got it it’s take him out you
know what that means he’s giving
those SWAT teams ice justjust do
whatever you want to do get them out of
here
but it’s okay if people come in from
from Russia if they come here you know
that’s his boy that’s his sweetheart
if they come here from any of these
white countries all that’s fine that’s
fine
yeah but Haitians Africans or they’ll be
glad to go back to their little huts
what an insulting jackass excuse me
there you go get I’m sorry I’m a baby
you about to make me lose my mind
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Mamie Browns baby boy it’s been a plum
pleasing pleasure as well as a privilege
you have something special you have
greatness in you now out of greatness
comes Kurt stand up and let’s fight to
make the Dockers Americans rather than
deport them let’s fight and draw the
line so that if anyone ever want to say
something did crating about africans or
Haitians that lips will tremble because
there will be consequences choices and
consequences not just jaws jacking on
the news no what are we going to do
commit that works until the Lord and I
thought should be established commit
that works commit that works until the
Lord and I thought should be established
in all thy ways acknowledge him and he
shall direct thy path therefore take
unto you the whole armour of God that ye
may be able to withstand in the evil day
that having done all to stand the fort
dear Brutus is not in Our Stars but in
ourselves that we are underlings else he
Robertson come forth things may happen
around you and things may happen to you
but the only things that really count
are the things that happen in you yeah
I’m outraged no I dare you all they need
to go back to their huts
you got the nerve you Nazi I dare you
yeah they all got A’s here it takes one
to know one I dare you
the CIA probably outside my door I’m
trying to restrain myself I’ve been
trying to hold this Les Brown back he
was in Columbus Ohio many years ago many
years ago and I thought I’d killed him
off but he’s still back there you try to
get out some people I mean you know
there’s some people they can bring it
out they can make you go there do you
understand what I’m saying they can’t
bring it out
oh they do they don’t know I they don’t
want to bring him out no let him stay
back there no no no I saw this interview
with Larry King and this this racist
skinhead it was on and so Larry asked
him a question he said why do you hate
black people and he said because they’re
black and and and I’m white and then
Larry asking another question he asked
what did you have to do with that he
said what what did you have to do with
your being white he just looked
dumbfounded he had no answer
because prejudice and racism comes out
of ignorance he had no answer
and that’s the kind of leadership we
have with a Klansman hood on with no
mask he wants you to see who he is
praise the Lord thank you whatever I
don’t know okay I’ll be back on
motivation tomorrow over London Les
Brown is coming out that other less loud
who Cubs that every day less proud is
coming to let the January the 20th I
want you to go to less round in London
dot-com Les Brown in London calm I know
some of y’all saying you need to go to
sleep before the CIA yeah come up it
there makes me nuts I understand that oh
yes arrogance ignorance and a big ego is
a problem you got that right without
question I hope that you got some value
out of this and and if you did it’s okay
to shoot where’d anyhow you have
something special you have greatness in
you
this has been missus Mamie Brown’s baby
boy Lord I hope I served you well
tonight now I can go to sleep because I
share some thoughts this morning good
night take care share this like the page
and I want your comments I like to know
what I’d like to know how you feel I
believe that we live in the greatest
country in the world and and the average
American decent people the least that
you do unto these my brethren you do
also under me do unto others as you
would have others to do unto you
and this man doesn’t even go to church
to Corinthians when we give the church
you tried to read the Bible say well 2
Corinthians then to open your mouth and
remove all doubt well you’re lucky I got
people on both sides of my room because
I could get loosed up in here tonight
fucking try and call myself that I got
to pray I got to read the 23rd psalm I
keep the in perfect peace whose mind is
stayed on thee
now don’t be Donald the Klansmen Trump
but whose mind is stayed on thee thank
you Lord for that tonight I’ll go to
sleep with the Bible in the Holy Quran
and I will Chan know me your whole reign
geikie oh I will do everything I need to
go to sleep ok ok let me push finish bye
y’all
I want I want to y’all be good Londyn
spread the word less father’s coming and
okay I’m not gonna tell you my name is
less valid I don’t care what you think okay homie good bye y’all
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