Trump is Breaking Systems Built for Disabled People

0:00 She break it down, down, down, [music] down, down. She got the message for the people. [singing] A brilliant mind and a clean [music] soul. She standing up to the evil and making sure that we all grow. Strong enough to break these chains we get that keep us [singing and music] in this painful condition. She give us tools and a vision. >> [singing] >> That's why [music] we listen. She break it down, down, down, down, down. >> Yes, yes, yes, yes. Welcome back. Welcome back. You are listening to LaRae Daniel Favors on SiriusXM's Urban View where talk empowers and becomes action. Do you guys remember the Ferguson uprising? Uh or or any of the uprisings

0:47 where we began becoming much more familiar with phrases like Black Lives Matter and and then, you know, white people who were racist came with all lives matter. But do you remember how in Missouri, how after the uprising that took place there when Mike Brown had been uh assassinated by the local police officers that there were a number of other Black Lives Matter activists who mysteriously died? Like or just went just random. Uh I remember the brother who became a famous for throwing picking up the the tear gas canister and throwing it back like I think before he had the tear gas canister he was like eating something and then the they threw the tear gas at him so he took it up and he threw it back. Brother with dreads. I believe I There were a number of people who were iconic figures during the Black Lives Matter uprisings. That and and

1:33 many of them have now died. What was very interesting about this was that a lot of the deaths were mysterious, right? And and was mysterious deaths of some of the leaders of this movement. And one of the things that has troubled me about this is the fact that a lot of times after a major protest breaks out, we often forget about the families and the communities that live there. When we were protesting at Penn State University because of the the killing of a black man by local hate groups, Penn State's effort to cover all of that up. I've shared that story many, many times. Uh, one of the elders who came to the rescue, and I do mean to the rescue because we had to get escorted out of Happy Valley under the armed protection of members of the New Black Panther Party who had to stop at the local Walmart to buy up all the ammunition before the racists could get to it because they understood what was happening in ways that even we, the activists and organizers, did not. But,

2:19 in that moment, one of the elders who showed up to sort of help make sure that we, as young activists, were not going to end up shooting ourselves in the Oh, that's a terrible analogy. We weren't going to end up hurting our own selves, uh, in terms of our having bad strategy and just not knowing. And, because he was older and had seen some things, Uncle Stan shows up. He goes by Uncle Stan, that's what we call him for this conversation. His name is Uncle Stan. And, Uncle Stan would tell us about how he was Martin Luther King Jr.'s pooper scooper. And, by that he meant after Martin Luther King Jr. would go around doing protests and rallies and whatnot and and boycotts, that when he would leave town, black people would catch hell. And, so people like Uncle Stan would have to come in and basically stand guard and stand watch and make sure that the people who were living in those towns were not abandoned, abused, and allowed

3:05 to basically, uh, be run roughshod all over. And, so he called himself Martin Luther King Jr.'s pooper scooper. I mention that because after the Ferguson uprisings, and and we saw this with a number of other places where Black Lives Matter protests broke out and were successful as they were in terms of calling attention to some of these issues, that we saw that the people who lived in those communities suffered greatly. I'm going to share with you all an image, and I want to talk very, very briefly about this particular brother, Malik Muhammad, uh, before we get into today's conversation. And, in fact, let me share my screen so that those of you who are watching will be able to see. This is not a video, uh, so Urban View, you're not going to hear anything. I just want you to see this brother's face. A beautiful young brother, and what this brother has gone through since he has been a part of the uprising. He received 10 years in prison, um, for

3:51 protesting in in 2020. And he got the longest federal sentence of any of the Black Lives Matter protesters. And then, after being incarcerated, not too long ago, he went missing. His name is Malik Muhammad. We do not know where he's at, still to this day. This was posted about a week ago. I According to the caption, his lawyers believe he may have been transferred because while incarcerated, he was also helping other people who were incarcerated fight for their legal rights. A number of the supporters have said that Mr. Muhammad had already been targeted while he was in prison because he had such outspoken political views. And being a political prisoner and a community organizer while incarcerated is usually not going to end well. And so, now there are concerns because in March of 2026, as you can again see from the caption, Malik Muhammad's scheduled

4:36 call with his attorney, whose name is Lauren Reagan, was canceled. Reagan checked the Oregon prison inmate tracker, and his name disappears, and he's not anywhere within the system. As you can continue to see from the post, uh, he's a human rights activist. He's also a military veteran. He was arrested in April of 2021. And again, he was sentenced to 10 years in, as a result of his involvement in the 2020 Portland, Oregon racial justice protest. So, uh, the folks who are coming out of Ferguson, the folks who are coming out of Oregon, the folks who are coming out of Minnesota right now, the folks who are coming out of uh, Baltimore, there are so many people at so many different uprisings who, after being jailed, are often forgotten about. And as a result, we need to raise attention. So, I am just doing what I can to use my platform uh, to highlight this fact. Um, because

5:22 these things often happen without a whole lot of sunlight, it's important that we are ready, or that we are at least thinking about what we can do to show up for our community. Spread the word. Please share that information. Somebody in the Bureau of Prisons knows where this brother is at, or what has happened to him. And it is going to be increasingly important that those of us who have platforms, and yes, my platform is here, but you got a platform, you got WhatsApp groups, you got Facebook connections, you got all sorts of social media connections. We are going to have to be our own news media as we always have, quite frankly, but now so more than ever. Um so just prayers for that brother and his family and all of the activists and organizers who in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter uprisings basically are are still dealing with battles and struggles the likes of which many of us have forgotten about assuming we knew about it in the first

6:08 place. So I just wanted to share that um before we get into today's conversation. In the podcast today, which will be out uh later on this afternoon, the podcast is called "The Reid Breaks It Down." Um you are going to we have more of a conversation about what it means to be in this corridor of freedom. Uh found some amazing audio uh from the the the these um there's this point in history in the 1930s when there was this project where they basically were able to interview formally enslaved Africans. I don't know a lot of people are thinking, "How what you mean you was listening to audio of formally enslaved Africans?" That's how recently slavery ended. Slavery ended so recently that one of the people that you will hear in the podcast recordings, and these were recordings that were put together by PBS. These are recordings that there are over 2,000 of these interviews held at the Library of Congress. You're going to hear from somebody in the podcast whose grandfather was owned by Thomas

6:54 Jefferson. And I just got to say that because as we're in this Juneteenth to the 4th of July corridor, we are in a moment where thinking not just about Black freedom and liberation, but what it's going to look like in this new era is very very important. And in the podcast, we have a recognition that you know that phrase, "A fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." And then that's supposed to be where the fool ends. That ain't how the quote ends, but that's basically what's supposed to happen. Cuz if you fool a third time, then you just use a fool. And so we position the first reconstruction as the fool me once, shame on you. White people, shame on you for what y'all did during reconstruction and in the aftermath. But then we had civil rights. And in the civil rights era, as we heard from Simone D. Sanders um Townsend and and Eugene Daniels on the Clock It podcast, they said that the questions that were being asked in the

7:39 reconstruction era of the 1860s were the very same questions that were being asked in the civil rights era of the 1960s. And frankly, what we're going to have to figure out now is how to get back to what we had in the 1960s. But when you recognize that what they fought for and won in the 1960s was what they had fought for and won in the 1860s. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. We not doing this [ __ ] with y'all a third time. You the fool, not us. And so that is the sort of the the question that we think about in today's podcast. And so that will be out later on today. Again, the podcast is called The Rewrites It Down. Thank you to all of you who helped get us to over Now we have over we we just broke a million downloads. We're now at over 1,100,000 downloads. Y'all is sharing the podcast. So I really do appreciate that and want to thank you.

8:25 Let's get into today's conversation. You all know how I feel about artificial intelligence. And usually I feel like artificial intelligence is going to destroy the planet. >> [laughter] >> It's going to destroy the earth. And I don't know that what we get in exchange for our embrace of artificial intelligence is worth the destruction of the planet. Reasonable people can disagree about this. You can disagree with me about it. It's fine. I just don't know that being able to do a super fast PowerPoint or generating a super fast letter is worth 10 gallons of water. When water is already scarce and frankly it's it's it's a scarce resource that we don't already have enough of. And then you got whole ass wars where they blowing up desalination plants. We'll talk about the war another day. But I just I I'm concerned that we are being told that artificial intelligence is going to do all of these amazing wonderful awesome things. But then what

9:11 we end up getting is like, oh that's cute. But was it worth it? Did we really need it? Let's talk about how this is going to show up in medicine. According to Nature magazine, there is now a number of there are number of studies that demonstrate that doctors are 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after artificial intelligence is implemented. Now I'm old enough to remember that a whole lot of people told us that artificial intelligence was going to make everything better. It was going to make our doctors better. It was going to make all the cars It's going to make everything better. And the reality is that does not seem to yet be the case. We know that there have been a number of business cases, case studies that have demonstrated that businesses are not reporting uh uh are not reporting any benefits. They fired all these people and now they're spending way more on AI tokens

9:56 than they ever did on the humans. And then the AI be wrong and be messed up. And then we talked about the fact recently about how now because all the websites are being written by AI bots that the AI, artificial intelligence, now when it goes out to search for information to give you an answer, it's giving you inferior answers because artificial intelligence only works when it's learning from human-based content, not when it's learning from from content generated by artificial intelligence, which is one of the reasons why the elongated muskrat's of the world are going into Africa and forcing African nations to decide whether or not they're going to give over all of their data in exchange for a little bit of health care. And this is important because as more professionals, according to Nature magazine, as more professionals, quote, begin to rely on artificial intelligence tools in their work, could their hard-earned skills atrophy? That's the question. The answer appears

10:42 to be yes. The article goes on to say that possibility is a growing concern for medical specialists, computer scientists, and other workers. 70% of nurses and 77% of physicians, for example, are worried about losing their skills because of over-reliance on AI systems, according to a survey of US healthcare workers published earlier this month. But here's the kicker. The article continues, "Their fear might be justified. Evidence suggests that AI-driven deskilling or de-skilling is starting to happen in medicine, computer science, and other other fields." Which means, let's pause it here, you have skills. You start using artificial intelligence. But before you start using artificial intelligence, your skills were cultivated as a result of doing activities so much so that you developed expertise. Then once you start incorporating artificial intelligence,

11:29 you don't cultivate your expertise no more because your expertise is kind of like doing white water rafting. Either you are steering the boat or you're being thrown about the rocks. Either you are working on enhancing your expertise or it's just sort of being splattered all over the place. And there's a study coming out of Poland of physicians who specialize in endoscopy, which is the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body. And this study showed just how quickly use of artificial intelligence could erode your human abilities. The article says, quote, "The physicians who had all performed at least 2 thousand colonoscopies during their careers were given access to an AI system analysis that it were given access to an AI system that analyzes colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called adenoma adeno-

12:16 adenoma. It's called something in the medical world that's bad. It's a bad cancerous cell. The tool was available to the specialist on some days during the study, but not on others. Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly. Whenever the system was unavailable, during the 3-month period before the AI tool was included or introduced, the specialist found at least one of these cancerous just things, adenomas. Adeno- We're just going to call it adenoma. That sound like a good name. They were able to find at least one adenoma during 28.4% of the colonoscopies. During the 3-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate dropped to 22.4%. That's a problem. And the idea that we can just outsource our our questions or we can outsource our expertise to systems that were not

13:01 designed to replace expertise, but were designed to be tools for experts is a real concern. And considering what else is happening within the medical community, especially for disabled people, these sorts of studies are really concerning. I want you, before we get into what's happening right now with artificial intelligence and and the medical community and the disabled community, something that I told y'all was is to happen about this time last year. About this time last year when they were passing the big [ __ ] ass bill, I told you these things were coming because the cuts that they were planning to the to the health care services that we rely upon were going to be based on increased automation, decreased number of nurses, and more of your family members ending up in homes. And now we're going to see how all of those concerns come together. But first,

13:47 because sometimes we talk about these topics and we don't have no real connection to it, we don't have no real uh ability to understand what the issues are because we're not necessarily experiencing it ourselves, I want you all to take a listen to this mother, Marlena Hendricks. Uh Marlena Hendricks, who is a mother of a disabled child, who traveled 2 hours from Cleveland to Columbus in order to oppose one of the bills that Ohio is trying to put forward as it pertains to how they deal with Medicaid. This bill would basically ban family members of Medicaid recipients from being considered certified caregivers. This was in Project 2025, this was in the language of the big [ __ ] ass bill last year that came out last year. I want you to take a listen to this black woman as she describes what she has to navigate, what she goes through to raise her child, and then we're going to talk about the way that artificial intelligence and the big

14:33 [ __ ] ass bill is about to make life for disabled people very, very challenging, far more than it has to be. Let's take a listen. >> I'M SO MAD THEY CAME UP HERE AND SAID THANK YOU TO Y'ALL. THANK YOU FOR WHAT? WHY AM I THANKING YOU FOR SOMETHING THAT'S ALREADY BEEN AWARDED TO ME? THIS IS MY CHILD. HOW YOU GOING TO TELL ME I CAN'T TAKE CARE OF MY CHILD? >> I AM A SPECIAL needs mom. This is Osiah Todd. Um he's my son. He's 11 years old. He was born with a rare genetic disorder called STXBP1. There's not too many like him. He's non-verbal. He suffers from myoclonic seizures. He's completely um on a 3-to-4-year-old level cognitively. Um when I first had Osiah, I had no assistance. Surprisingly, my son has only been on a waiver for 3 years.

15:20 Medicaid denied me five times before he got on a waiver. I had to hire a lawyer to take the city of Euclid to court >> [screaming] >> because they had my son in A REGULAR CLASSROOM >> [screaming] >> LIKE THIS. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT STAFF. I HAD TO HIRE TWO lawyers to take the city of Euclid to court and I won during COVID on Zoom. I also had to get a social security lawyer because they denied me social security with him like this. When my son attended UCP where he goes now, I had to completely change my life. Instead of going to school for eight hours a day, he went to school for five hours a day Monday through Thursday. I took a $20,000 pay cut my God because of that.

16:06 So I'm standing here before today frustrated, angry, and I am pissed off. These programs that y'all give us is already poorly ran. This is what I deal WITH EVERY DAY. HOW DARE YOU TELL ME WHO CAN COME in my HOUSE AND CARE FOR my child? I'M NOT STANDING HERE BEFORE YOU TELLING YOU THANK YOU LIKE THEY DID. Thank you for what? I drove two and a half HOURS FROM CLEVELAND, OHIO WITH MY SON AND NOBODY'S HERE TO HELP ME. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PROGRAM OHIO RISE. Y'ALL HAVE CARE COORDINATORS WHO HAVE BACHELOR'S DEGREES WHO DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING about when it comes to my son. I'm educating agencies every day on my son. I'M EDUCATING YOUR PEOPLE EVERY DAY ABOUT MY SON.

16:53 IT'S SICK WHAT Y'ALL ARE DOING. I'M not standing here saying thank you. THANK YOU FOR WHAT? GIVE ME MY GAS MONEY BACK FOR ME DRIVING THOSE TWO AND A HALF HOURS THAT I DIDN'T HAVE TO DRIVE BACK WITH HIM. MR. WILLIAMS, SINCE YOU'RE THE SPONSOR OF THIS BILL 795, come take a step IN MY SHOES. I GO TO THERAPY EVERY WEEK BECAUSE OF THE MENTAL TORTURE THAT I GO THROUGH. YOU THINK I ASKED FOR THIS? YOU THINK I KNEW I WAS GOING TO HAVE A CHILD WITH ALL OF THIS? I DID NOT ASK GOD FOR THIS. BUT I STEPPED IN IT. I TOOK this on the chin. IT'S NOT HIS FAULT THAT Y'ALL ALLOW FRAUD. IS HIS FAULT? Y'ALL TRYING TO TAKE THE

17:39 GOOD FROM US BECAUSE Y'ALL LET BAD GET OUT OF CONTROL. >> MHM. THAT mom is speaking, I know, for so many people who are navigating life with disabled family members. And during this testimony, she's basically confronting the Ohio House Medicaid Committee. Where she's explaining how the cuts that they're trying to make to Medicaid services in that state, how devastating it's going to be for her and her family. In her public testimony, in her written testimony, she says, "How can you propose a bill that takes away the little we've benefited from for years? If your only solution to address fraud is to rob from the good, you don't belong in this committee or in your state representative position. We are constantly battling a system that is not meant for us." And you could hear there

18:25 in the audience a lot of people in agreement. And one of the reasons why people who are a part of the disability community and those of us who love them are so up in arms about what's happening right now is because of everything that went into the big [ __ ] ass bill that got passed in order to to give permanent tax cuts to billionaires last July 4th. We're almost at the one-year mark. And remember what we said? We said that that bill had had positions in it that were not going to become realized until after certain points and elections. We are beginning to reach that moment where some of the things that were baked into the bill, which were not going to have immediate effect, are now coming to bear. And cuts to Medicaid are a part of that. But that's not the only thing. We learned from an an in a new source called Unfiltered Ledger, which is a source that I've been reading a lot of

19:10 on on Threads. Uh they said that quote last summer about 40 nursing home companies put nearly $4.8 million into a pro-Trump super PAC and then met with him at his golf club to lobby against disability rules. By December, the rule making them staff more nurses was dead. Last year we spoke about this concern. The concern was that if you cut the money for Medicaid, a couple of things were going to happen. Number one, most states require or most states require you to if you're going to be if you're going to live in Medicaid, you're going to have to use some of your assets. You're going to have to they're going to look at what some of your financial holdings are, if you've got property, if you've got wealth captured in any particular set of assets, they're going to take a look at that. And they are going to if they are cutting access to Medicaid services and Medicare services

19:56 and the types of services that people rely upon to take care of family members who are long-term disabled, take care of family members who who are going to be requiring nursing home care. If you cut those budgets and 2/3 of the people who live in nursing homes are able to afford to live there because of the budgets that were at that point not being cut, once you cut the budgets, you are going to remove massive amounts of people from eligibility for being able to afford to stay in these nursing homes. Now, that a lot of times gets couched as a concern for elderly people, but it's not just about elderly people. It's also about how we treat people who are disabled who could stay at home if the funding were there, but when you cut the budgets, you force them out of the homes that they live in, you stop their family members from being able to be caretakers for them and then you end up forcing them

20:42 into institutions. This is a really big deal because in this country there is a history of these institutions basically warehousing disabled people. And that matters because as you recall from Project 2025, one thing that eugenics don't like are disabled people. They believe that only the strong should survive. And so when an outfit like the Heritage Foundation, which is populated with a lot of eugenics, is writing proposals within Project 2025 language that's basically saying we're cutting these programs. We no longer need to be funding disability programs and we're not going to allow people who are disabled to claim disability rights as civil rights. Then you see how if you are black and disabled, some of the worst fears you could possibly imagine are beginning to come true. The rules that we are

21:29 currently operating under are going to be changing a lot when it comes to ensuring that disabled people have access to the protections and the resources that they need. I want you all to take a listen to this clip. Uh this is a a clip shared out of PBS. PBS is doing some amazing work right now and they're talking about this recently released Department of Justice memo that is you know how the Supreme Court just basically took the Voting Rights Act Section 2 and just tossed it on its head and was like damn that, we ain't doing that no more. That's basically what the Department of Justice is planning to do now when it comes to rights that disabled people have had in this country. I need you to take a listen to this because if they doing it for them, you know they planning to do it for able-bodied people who they also don't like cuz unless you a wealthy white land owner, you ain't nobody that they like or can appreciate. Take a listen to this discussion on PBS and then we'll unpack

22:16 some of this on the other side. Let's hear it. >> The new memo is one of several attempts to change services and policies dedicated to people with disabilities. The DOJ says states aren't required to provide home and community-based services that have long kept disabled Americans out of institutions if they would benefit from these other services. And as the administration seeks to shutter the Department of Education, it's moving key responsibilities to agencies which disability advocates say are less equipped to handle them. For perspective on what these actions mean for the disability community, I'm joined by Maria Town. She's president and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities. Maria, you are on the move today. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. I first want

23:02 to ask about this DOJ memo which really provides a new interpretation of these existing laws and a Supreme Court decision that reaffirmed what we have understood to this point to be the rights afforded to people with disabilities. Can you just walk us through what those existing statutes are? >> So, in the Americans with Disabilities Act which turns 36 next month, there is an integration mandate and the Olmstead decision is a Supreme Court decision that turns 27 years old today that affirmed the integration mandate in the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Olmstead decision stated that people with disabilities had to be served in

23:48 the most integrated setting whenever possible. What this means in practice is that states cannot forcibly institutionalize people with disabilities whether that be in nursing homes, state psychiatric facilities, or in other institutional settings. And so, this memo from the Department of Justice which says that Olmstead is not enforceable completely goes against all previous legal precedent and it also goes against the will of Congress and the will of the Supreme Court. >> So, if states no longer feel obli- >> let's pause it right there because I I want us to understand what's happening here. Disabled people have had to fight

24:34 for every single right that they've had. In this society, if you were disabled prior to rules like the the ADA, you were basically warehoused. If you were born and you were you were considered somebody who was on the spectrum and we didn't have language like on the spectrum. A lot of times people will say, "Where all these autistic people come from?" Autistic people have always been here, but society used to just put them in warehouses, base detentions, whatever the hell you want to call it, they would put them in institutions where you would often be just sort of abandoned. There was a lot of shame around mental illness and physical disability in the society, and so people would literally be warehoused in institutions like Willowbrook. Willowbrook State School is a was a state-sponsored institution for children who were considered to be intellectually disabled, and it was a a school that was in Staten Island in New York, and it was

25:20 open for about 40 years, from 1947 to 1987. It was only designed to hold 4,000 people, but by 1965, they had over 6,000 children in this school who were not getting their services. I want you to think about all of the overcrowding issues that we imagine with prisons, that we hear about with detention centers. They would do that on a regular basis to disabled people. Like, America is sucks so bad for so many people, and the good things about this country are because black people fought for it, and that inspired and empowered other people to be able to fight for their rights as well. But living conditions in places like Willowbrook were described as, quote, "crowded and filthy." And during its first decade of its operations, outbreaks of hepatitis, primarily hepatitis A, were common. Medical researchers initially carried out research on the disease and its effects at the school, which was discontinued

26:05 after public outcry. They would allow disabled people to contract diseases and then do experiments on them. Kind of like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Do you understand the commonalities here and the reason why we say when black people get rights, everybody gets rights, and when you take rights from us, you set up a pathway for everybody to have their rights taken. And and so what we learn about this rule, this is what the the current reality is. There is an integration mandate. You are not allowed to warehouse disabled people anymore. You have to include them in to the greatest extent possible, because the more you include them, we know that the more likely they are able to get the services that they need, and they're likely to do better in life. And so the reality is, for the past 27 years, the Department of Justice was clear. Warehousing disabled people in institutions when they could

26:51 live at home was considered discrimination. The Civil Rights Division would use that understanding, that rule to win all of the arguments, and they were winning in states all across the country. And this June 18th opinion came down just a few days after six states in particular are now suing to no longer have to implement this rule. It's very expensive. And they would rather cut the costs by cutting fees or by cutting programs for disabled people and the programs that service them. I want you to take a listen to to the impact of this new rule because it is going to be devastating. Let's return to the clip. Amina, and we'll go ahead and pick it up from where we left off. Let's take a listen. >> obligated because of this DOJ legal opinion, which we should mention is not a law, but could have far-reaching

27:38 implications anyway. States don't feel obligated to provide these services to people who would benefit from them rather than going to an institution, what does that mean for the people who rely on home-and-community-based services? >> This means that people's um ability to live in their homes and in their communities and with their families and friends that they love is in jeopardy. If states decide not to follow decades of legal precedent uh and existing civil rights, it it means that people with disabilities may be forced into institutions instead of being provided with services that allow them to thrive in their communities. It may also mean that people's health suffers, and in the worst-case scenario, it means people

28:24 will die. We know that people with disabilities and older adults have better outcomes and live longer lives when they are served in the community and not in institutions. So, this could have extremely dire consequences for many people and their families across the country. >> Let's hold it there, Amina, cuz I want to come back to this conversation Uh because the challenge we now have to remind ourselves as is what you do to one marginalized group of people, just know that that is the plan going forward. We need to be clear that the services and the programs that many in the disabled community rely upon also are services and programs that we in the black community rely upon because we're talking about systematization. And so when they are attempting to cut these sorts of programs for the disabled community, we just need to know that

29:10 that is just round one. Rounds two through infinity look like them cutting everything else that we rely upon as well. And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to start by letting us hear from that mother who in her own words can tell you the challenges that she's facing. Uh what we learn from Unfiltered Ledger is that the DOJ didn't wake up and decide to reopen, this is a direct quote, 27 years of civil rights work on its own. Per the memo's own footnotes, the White House asked it to. On February 17th, an associate counsel to the president emailed the Department of Justice to ask whether the integration mandate was even valid. I suspect that they just did what the DOJ folks did and just ran keywords through an AI system like integration or segregation or woke and then came up with programs that included those sorts of languages in them and just decided

29:56 that they should also be cut. Uh on February 17th, after that happened, hold on, where is there? Four Okay, four months later, the DOJ came back and answered that question about whether or not the integration mandate was legal and said no. No, it's not. They say line this up with the court against a court case. Six states are suing to kill this same rule. They filed for summary judgment on May 19th and the government's response brief was due on June 15th. The opinion came 3 days after that deadline, siding with the states who are suing the government. The memo, quote, even concedes its reading is, quote, out of step with the common understanding of that decision within the federal courts. Then they go on to talk about what this is going to do to the overall nursing home industry. They say, quote, the for-profit nursing home industry national occupancy sat at 79%

30:42 last year, which was under pre-pandemic levels. And the states that are suing had the largest numbers of emptiest beds. We're talking Texas, which had 65% empty beds, Montana, 63% empty beds. What they're saying is if you're taking care of your loved one at home, who is going to pay us to keep the hospitals open so that we are getting paid to care for them here? If you are allowed, as that black mama did, to stay home and get paid to to have enough us to pay for the services that your disabled one relies upon. Well, if you're taking care of your baby, who's paying me to keep these medical beds open? And I'm white. I have a right to make money, even if it means it's going to cause you harm, cuz I live in Whitelandia. And so, according to the report, uh

31:29 these states that are suing, as I said, are the ones that have the largest number of open beds, and an empty bed is costing $119,340 a year. And they consider that lost revenue. So, they're not going to fight to expand the programs. They're not going to fight to pour more money into the programs. They're going to fight to cut the programs that allow you to provide the services for your loved ones at home, so that you got to take them to the institution. Isn't that great? Oh, America USA USA. These people are psychopaths. I keep saying this. I'm not the only one to say I'm I'm quoting Dante King when I say they are psychopaths. HE WROTE AN ENTIRE SEVERAL BOOKS about how psychopathic and sociopathic these people actually are. Because the reality is, if for just a

32:15 couple million dollars, members of your industry can come together and and change rules that have been hard fought for decades, and create a situation where people who have real needs are no longer going to be able to get those needs met, all so wealthy white people can get wealthier and stay white. My god. Y'all, 866-801-8255. 866-801-talk. We are going to have to figure out how to do everything for ourselves. I'm looking for my pen cap. We're going to have to figure out how to do everything for ourselves. And here's the thing, we been did it. Like I said yesterday, building medical schools is the easy part. We had over 10 of them by 1910. Just less than 60 years out of enslavement, we had over 10 medical

33:00 schools. You know what the hard part was? Defending it from whiteness. Defending it from whiteness. We know what it is to lay down pipes so that we have fresh water and and and are able to have clean purified water pumped into our houses and then to take the the sewage out of our our kitchens and our our our our bathrooms. We know what that is. We been had plumbing systems. We had plumbing systems in the continent of Africa when white people were sticking their booties out the window and pooping and peeing out the window or pooping and peeing in a bucket. Like we had let we had sanitation when they were in caves. That's not the hard part. The building of the thing is easy. But while you're building it in whiteness, can you defend it? We done did the school We done created the schools. We done created the hospitals. We done created the stores, the shops, the We done created all the things.

33:47 Can we defend it? Can we defend it? Can we defend the rights that we fought for? The disability community is asking and answering these questions right now. They're answering and asking and answering the question right now. In the podcast, we talk about the fact that we had to ask and answer questions for the first time after enslavement. We were asking and answering questions about whether or not this could be a multiracial democracy. That was the first time the question was really being asked after enslavement. Makes sense that we would get a lot of insight, right? We we tried a lot of things. We built a lot of towns. We built a lot of societies. They got destroyed largely, not all, but largely. And so we learned a lot in that first round of multiracial democracy building. Then we went back to we went into Jim Crow, which was like the nadir, which was considered a little bit worse than slavery depending on who you asked, a lot worse than slavery if you were a convict lease slave. And so

34:33 then we had the 90 years of of Jim Crow. And then that brought us to the the 1960s, you know, people are fighting for civil rights ever since we lost them in the 1860s and we get them back in the 1960s. And then we we have a multiracial democracy once again. That's fool me twice. Fool me once, that was shame on you. Fool you twice Fool me twice, that's shame on me. We're now at the third dismantling of rights for black people and everybody else in this society. So we got we got a lot more data now. Right? We Our ancestors in the 1860s, they didn't have the data about what was going to happen when you trying to create a multiracial democracy with these sociopathic psychopaths. They didn't know. I mean, they knew, but they didn't know. And what choices they have? What choices they have? But then the second time around we should have been knew that integration as a result of the 1960s era

35:20 was going to be fleeting. We saw what they did in Reconstruction. Our memories were too short. And we did not learn the lessons of build and defend. Now, we're at the third iteration. We got a lot of building to do. We're starting from scratch. We're starting so from scratch that a lot of us didn't even know about all the [ __ ] we'd already built. We're starting from scratch in many ways. Are they going to fool us again? Because if that's the case, then let's just try integration again. That seemed to be worked so well. It worked so well, doesn't it? But if we are wise enough to look at the past through Sankofa, right? And understand what the past teaches us about this moment, our future goals can't be integration as America celebrates 250 years of whatever the [ __ ] this is. Our future goals got to be black liberation. However that comes and

36:06 wherever it comes, right? But it cannot be that our goal is to integrate into the sociopathic psychopaths who would be willing to destroy their own people. They would They're doing this to white folks. You know what they planning to do for us. Urban View, 866-801-8255, 866-801-talk. YouTube, we appreciate you. We love y'all. Uh stay blessed, stay black, and stay tuned for the podcast where we break it down out later today. Peace. >> Peace.