 Happy New Year. Welcome back first day back We've been gone for a long time Welcome to HBCU digest digest after dark the semester to opener on serious XM radio channel 142 HBCU the pride of Howard University and Tonight we have almost everybody. We have or is the Morganite midnight Winston Laurel the Aggie and Eric. I still don't have like a Tag name for Eric because obviously not my frat brother. All right, so a lot of things have happened Since we last spoke and or y'all last heard us or watched this and I think that most people thought it was a joke or Did not take Jared seriously when he Retired When he started working for Howard, so obviously you all know if you're a subscriber of the digest You know that Jared has not written anything for the digest and some of you Have made it known and I heard you we heard you about how hey Ain't nobody said nothing about insert this HBCU and this happening and or some of you have decided to Email me and I was like Why am I getting all these emails some of you have Email me asking for things I'm like I get it there's a void and We all feel that void in terms of they're not being enough HBCU coverage or Substances HBCU Coverage for the things that matter and To that I would like to say and would like to remind y'all that this is more than a one-person job This is more than a one-person responsibility, especially for a collective of institutions that It's it's a hundred on a good day. It is a hundred institutions to follow and to cover Personally if you've been following digest in me with digest in particular, I Write what I want to write when I want to write it. I did not Get a degree in communication or English or strategic communications or anything like that from Howard University my degree is in Political science And so with that being said oh or journalism, I'm not a journalist. I write though, but I'm not a journalist and so for me and I don't know why people think I'm in charge of the digest I And Just a strong volunteer Community leader for the digest, but I'm not I'm not in charge. We do this together Right, so like help me help us help the collective so there won't be such a Avoid I'm gonna stop ranting now. I'm gonna go straight to Eric Oh You don't have anything to add Ramley remember now Winston or In the words of Marty Love and clean the table ladies first so Laurel can go ahead and Do that Laurel Catfish is my answer That's all I got or as you got it I Mean, you know Shout out to the editorial board, you know I'm saying Okay, so like I said Help me help us Move the collective forward, okay Lastly before we get into the other segments If you have a project a program an Initiative That you would like for the cast of Digest after dark to cover Please know we all get paid to do this show We do please Respectfully and all of us have multiple degrees At this point Respectfully sponsor The podcast if you are representing Million-dollar organization companies That are doing anything related to HBC use and you feel that Something we should discuss, please sponsor a podcast all of us again Have multiple degrees. 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This is really bad that I can't remember McDowell's not McDowell's not Mono Burger Yes, lay back Yes, all right, I'm done with my rent Actually, I'm not gonna kick the rides as a rent I'm done with the facts now Okay, so now that we got that out the way here's to a new year new year new me Um You know still in effect Okay, so Obviously, I want us to discuss And make our well wishes For the second semester The first one was rocky And that's putting it lightly Um, so obviously we're back in session um some schools Have brought their students back Some schools are delaying um campus repopulation because we are still in a pandemic And I know for me when I look On the timeline, I see like students like yo, why are we going back? Why and then there are other students that are already back and they're like We in this thing So I know I'm interested in your point of view Winston As someone who Works in college access What this looks like for how you're Helping your students in midnight golf Honestly, are y'all having your annual tour I mean I get it if you can't answer but I am curious about that One of the other things that I've seen Or haven't seen or saw and then it went away Was Tours not happening or happening But obviously all in relation to the pandemic But like if we aren't even having students populate campus In some areas how but Winston Um for starters as far as just supporting the young people, you know, I think There's so many moving parts in regard to Navigating this pandemic and young people in college You know, we talk a lot about you know the safety of folks in Staying at home doing remote learning and those things but we've also talked at nauseam in the past in this on this podcast about You know internet access is is a thing Some folks living situation is not ideal for them to be In their house or at home. It's not an ideal learning environment not an ideal space Mentally, etc So it varies, you know from from students to student like you said It's what you said you see on the twitter line is kind of similar to our Experience of what we navigate. There's there's probably a line down the middle of Folks who are eager to get back to campus And those folks who have some apprehensions about what that looks like how we're safely Doing those things safely migrating back to campuses and those who are on campus concerned about you know What safety measures are in place and what schools are doing to make sure? That that everybody's safety is is at the forefront of the concerns So it varies definitely from student to student. It's not a Cross the board thing. I think it's just a reality of us having to navigate A pandemic and what that looks like. I think there's some you know differences of opinion With folks in charge especially when you talk about state level Institutions and private institutions and who's doing what and you know how they're laying those things out That varies I think there's some schools that feel comfortable that they have Plans to execute You know students coming back to campus and there's others who I think are trying to buy By time to make sure that they do that Successfully and and that they feel like there's a plan that folks are comfortable with so It's all over the place as far as what we're dealing with and many different things and it definitely is not A single thing. It's very as of now. We are still scheduled to go on our tour We probably won't make a determinant for sure until Probably the end of February Is when we'll kind of decide based on where we are and what projections look like if we'll be able to do Our tour. I know we would love to do it We haven't had the chance to do the past couple years. Well, you know, it's a it's a huge Factor in in like young people from from michigan seeing things that they wouldn't normally get a chance to see Otherwise typically And it can be a huge determinant as far as will they choose to go to school? So but I don't think we'll do it if it doesn't make sense from You know health concerns and safety concerns of everybody involved Everybody in our program is vaccinated this year. We made that for the first time a requirement Oh Yeah, something that we decided to do at the end of the year Which you know, we got some kickback for and done a lot of emails and phone calls But it was if we were planning on trying to even consider doing a road trip It was kind of just like We we made that determinant that we were going to do that that it was going to be mandatory For this year's class so before the school district made it made a decision. Okay. Yeah, we yeah That's the mgp. I I got to cut you off. But that is the mgp difference I remember asking Last semester if you all thought that your alma mater's were handling um The pandemic appropriately if there were things that you Would suggest differently. Um, I'm here to follow up on that today So or do HBC you you know Alma mater's One is in the most reckless state on earth and the other is in a less reckless state, so Um, I don't think fam did much be quite honest with you. I mean these kids is is in they out it's it's To say that there's precautions that fam would be me lying and I try not to do that um I mean they've put out media and they put out official media from the university a kid They masked down yelling at packed basketball games that we happen to lose because our basketball team is trash, but um You know, it's um I think it's just fam is just a mess in terms of covet I don't know what their testing capacity is and stuff and quite frankly I know that there are schools out there and fam may be one of them I can't say for sure that aren't testing at the capacity that they should because it helps keep the numbers lower. I mean Even the president of the united states at one point made the same determination that if you test less you have a lower positivity rate. So um, I know morgan is a bit more equipped to deal with um With covet because morgan is is less of a residential campus More of the students live in areas that have access to high speed internet and broadband That's a big issue in parts of rural parts of of florida like fam so Um, obviously florida is a much more rural state than maryland is maryland's extremely dense extremely urban So I know that and morgan is probably and was more equipped to deal with it um But to cut this off to not be so long-winded I don't think that there is Any right way to deal with this I think that Both of my mods have probably made mistakes But if I was still in school, I would feel much safer in baltimore on east cold spring lane than I would off of uh gamble street in tallahassee so You went a lot of places there a lot of places um insert that Bugs bunny Short of him just cutting off florida because that's honestly how I feel a little bit. Um, do y'all remember that? I know y'all do. Um Eric you got it You got two i'ma modders, too I do have two i'ma modders and they are not the same um They they're just not the same um I want to think back to when we were on this podcast towards the beginning of COVID which seemed like we're actually about to be in year three of this. So it's kind of like oh my god, um And i'm going to say this in a most really jokingly way, but yesterday's price is not today's price So like literally two years ago calendar year is not actual years, but two years ago. I talked about how um COVID presented a very particular um opportunity for schools to rethink how they are funding certain things from an infrastructure standpoint primarily a digital infrastructure standpoint to see how A lot of institutions are already thinking as far as you know, what it looks like to merge Uh technology with how we're offering our courses and how we're offering our classes and students are able to get degrees um And how it will be really important for us to Fund that right Uh, I was talking to to the rest of us amongst ourselves and everything and I was discussing how you know How many of our institutions actually pay pay for the version of blackboard that we need to really benefit our students Or canva or the updated version of banner or whatever it may be, right? We said we said if you're talking about I'm my alma mater. I'm seeing flyers about paying for c i double a and While that's exciting. I don't know if I could be in the stands sitting next to omicron It's just that's just where I'm at right now, right? It just is what it is like Like they they don't have they don't have banner nine right now Like the banner system for am I alma mater looks like it did when I started in 2006 as a matter of fact, I could still log in the exact same way I could in 2006, right? and that's not to say that you know Things aren't working for current students, right? Well, my question is at what point Do does do our institutions like realize that multiple truths can exist at the same time, right? in the sense of On campus might be the best place for some of our students in the midst of kovat because of their home situations They may be guaranteed more ways to eat a meal on a consistent basis On our campus than they would in some of their home situations and that's fine but also could it also be just as true to say that Students should have Deserving campus that is trying to fund the means to upgrade their classrooms from still having green or black chalkboards and investing in boards that allow them to actually Show a professor within the classroom Inside of their rooms because that means the least amount of contact with other students So there's a couple of things here where I'm just like at what point it may not be across the entire campus But there should be a concerned effort For every single one of our hbc institutional buildings because honestly It sounds great that a lot of our schools are now getting r2 designations But I don't want to hear anything about your r2 designations if you still got professors going to buying chalk Let me ask you this question Because you just reminded me of Of something that I always see or I've seen since we've been in the panning People want discounts or want tuition back or want to pay less. So are you also? Saying or do you agree that the price is still the price or the price should be more so we could do what we need to do to upgrade Have y'all seen inflation? Listen This is this is what transparency looks looks like to me when it comes to education not just hbc's but in general Increase your prices due to how much things actually cost and also Be quite clear in communicating with your students. This is what you're paying for And also, this is how much you would be paying if we weren't subsidizing it with your tuition Yeah, that's hard because I'm gonna tell you this it is it is some of these students Because it has not been properly communicated to them Do not expect to pay what they owe Or to pay what they weigh They don't and that causes a money a cash flow problem if you will So that's the whole other thing That's something I think Winston you're very familiar with that as well like you or we have to consistently explain that like a This is your bill. It don't matter what they tell you or what they don't tell you This is your bill You got to pay that bill You must You must Laura are you ready? Hey, no discounts Even if That was an original question, but you got it There's just no discounts. It doesn't matter what the topic of the conversations. There's no discounts that that day has passed Um, my alma mater However, it's not having those kind of problems Um, I will say I am mildly annoyed. We are also newly a r2 university. Um But even with requiring students to get tested offering tests offering masks because I also notice other Universities who are not hbc use are requiring k and 95s, but are not handing them out and it's ma'am sir How are people supposed to get that and it's reminding me of the second week of the pandemic when harvard said You ain't got to go home, but you got to get the hell out of here in a week. Okay. Bye And they're the richest school in this country So The game is still continuing as it is, but I am proud of my alma mater for not doing that But also still trying to hold on to the dream that is athletic events and being indoors And seeing as the entire east coast is probably going to get snow to get in part two by the end of the month That's not really a good idea. So I think Those some schools are still have finally learned that hey, we're still in a panoramic. It's not going away Um, we're probably we've probably already exhausted the greek alphabet We're probably going to go on to astrological signs next for the new variants And so on and flu onus and delta cron and optimus prime and whatever else But still trying to have events Months from now in I should know the date But months from now when it's homecoming season, are we still going to be playing the same game that we did last fall? But we need the money, but we need the Mackenzie Bezos And it's like and it's my 10th year. So trust me. I want to go. I want to be there But I also like being alive. I like living. I like life Okay, so It's like, what are we What are we doing and the numbers are starting to come in now? But I feel like they're not all the way in on falling enrollments and lower numbers of enrollments overall, which means less money um I think the 15 minutes has run out on black people being being cool, you know, the george floyd effect So that that check is starting to bounce So what are we going to do when the pandemic's still here and price is going up? You know, there's no more ramen noodles on the shelves. What are what are we doing? So I think, you know All the other stuff that goes on on campus is whether it's a pandemic or not aside. I think schools really have to Stop stop operating on a wish list And and look at reality Because clearly the government's not gonna do anything For my public institutions. Yeah, you out here. I mean, we're already out here. But like we really out here now bold I can't I have this actually brings back something that tiffani brought up a cup like about a year ago And I have to bring this up. Thank you for reminding me laurel For all of your institutions that took the mckinsey scott money and decided to pay all people's tuition that they owed as opposed to Improving their institution It's going to get worse now Because the students that are now there They got to still deal with chalkboards But it's bigger than chalkboards. It's bigger than eno brown because even if you even if you address the minutiae of chalk Bricks bricks that are not lodged into the steps. I'm talking to you steps in front of the calf. I didn't forget um Black mold in the backs of buildings leaky roofs leaky pipes mushrooms growing in hallways and bathrooms and it's safe Not the not the cyclical solid ones it's all of them Wood ear mushrooms and shiitake. They're all growing in the hallway Okay, it's the third trolls movie going on right now even with that it's still I mean, I feel like now I mean as we see the labor movement, I think now for the presidents that are smart leadership that's smart now is the time To add pressure because again, like we said, what was that last episode where kamala at where's she at? Oh, we get in there. We we get in there. Where's she at? We get to her but it's like What We've always, you know, we've always made a dollar out of 15 cent, but now we don't even have 15 cent We barely have we don't even have a my angel recorder. Like we have nothing We have nothing Let me also say Because as we're saying this I just said this the other day to a charter school superintendent. I asked him like Why Why does it seem like you're not using covet as an excuse? whereas your Other educational leader peers are This is a high school superintendent and he was like Because we know what we need to do Yeah, COVID is still here, but life goes on business goes on I still got to get my kids to college and I said, well, I love to hear because guess what? I still got to go to work and be a university employee because it's a business And we out here. Yeah, until ain't no business or college left because everything is That's true, but like it's it's it's it's a delicate balance that I think we've yet to fully Strike and or some of us haven't come to terms with it some of us haven't Like I said this obviously to the people who will listen to this and watch this I said this before we started recording Like I really want for us to do all that we can do to ensure that students are safe And for me that means safe from themselves And others and by that I fully mean Prioritizing vexed and boosted students. I don't care what it looked like if you want to live In play Because it's a lot of play going on if you want to do those things in a communal place Not your mama's house or your people's house Where you can live how you want to live You got to be vexed and boosted That's the bare minimum And it's like I really do think back to all of The workshops that I've either watched or had to sit through As a university student About safe sex We're not even doing as much as we can For another More highly or a highly communicable disease or virus We're not doing enough Not enough to be safe and not enough For us to be people who are responsible For yes other adults but other adults who are not as responsible as we should be We're not doing enough Eric were you about to say something this I'm waiting for the The new leader within the sector because I don't like I don't know if it's going to be a private President slash chancellor. I don't know if it's going to be a public president slash chancellor Somebody has to make a decision To be transparent To a to the fault of some others but to the benefit of more Right like it's like there has to be a president eventually say like listen I care about the current students To the point that I will piss some of you off It's unfortunate, but this is what has to take place We're going to move ahead to make sure that we will make sure that you Are getting degrees or not getting sick and are able to matriculate as best as you possibly can based upon these conditions If you are not willing to meet these conditions These are your options And just leave it there. It just gotta be like that But nobody's going to do that because one People are too scared of alumni bases who barely donate anything unless they're paying to show them a homecoming Or they're in competition with their GOP led university state education systems Shout out to um, I'm not even going to put the state out there. They know who they are but it all it all of it's related all of this matters and I and I understand How tender the situation is but we talk about people that are actually going to die Not going to have Have died and are going to die Quicker than not putting on a condom and and having unprotected sex will kill you people are died Some people still think this a hoax I can't say I can't shout out the president that I was going to shout out Because it was on a timeline and it's not there anymore Of course And it was there though. I because I'm never gonna forget. It was there. I saw it That's called general counsel got No, but it was real and I appreciate that because I'm like That's what it is That is exactly what it is. Y'all need to know I did this and I'm prioritizing Your health Your safety You need to work with me You need to work with me But you know good question or it's where the vacs at Yeah, I'm just saying like I live in the black We got two We got two prep big prep, uh billboards We ain't got no vacs though though, I will say paul wall and trade the truth is zero get to a a vac song so But uh But nah, I mean It's it's bad, but unfortunately the problem with these kids is that We're gonna what's gonna happen. It's gonna be another little outbreak not a little but another big outbreak probably Uh, I said by I said by early march about spring break time They're gonna send the kids back home And then mama gonna die grandma gonna die And then that's gonna be the real issue is that You know they killing Like these kids are getting other people sick and they really are becoming you know Almost like petri dishes for the vaccine to mutate And mess up these older people so it's unfortunate, but At the same time The country is not about to do anything about this And your man Biden already made a decision. So it's a wrap Man, biden ain't even really there like he there, but he ain't there I've been saying that for the past two years that he went Lay down out my head hurt Shit, he already did it He just hasn't said it yet. This is like reagan 2.0. Okay. My father was the reagan administration That man was panocchio And everybody else were pulling the strings So maybe that's where kamala's at. She pulling the string Because and this how you know Breaker would have never been against drunk driving But that's another conversation He was in the land of Oz In munchkin land. Yeah, we heard about the uh the book so we know why So that's where he was. I don't know where biden is but He in you know, he in Delaware, but he about to get on that ship the narnia too. Just wait I'm sorry. I was yelling. Um I just remember that You're right. Um Shout out to mr. T Amazing day An amazing day An amazing day Okay So let's let's move on. Um, and we kind of touched on it a little bit, but we're gonna stepfully in it so Obviously, we need to talk about The aftermath the lasting effects of Howard's Blackburn student takeover and what that Shaked up for how other hbcu's responded or non hbcu's we won't name those because No, but and here I am pausing But obviously there was a thing that happened Like other students was like no, we ain't accepting this So now what? So we do need to talk about that Um Oars um Okay, I do have on hella dc stuff today and I have my flags my office now so but um Yeah, you know, I was never a fan of them children with them With them sports authority tents and I said sports authority on purpose is closed Them tents was donated I don't know from where but Uh It was It's just fun. It's funny because Howard is still gonna be Howard It's gonna have some issues as I said on the podcast. I think this was sometime in november Maybe october that I think um Wayne and toshny need to go because it's just been too much but Again, I don't think that Howard will um Have any issues long term institutionally I think that the administration is tainted by all these issues um And hopefully over time You know we can move past this but I just think it was stupid. I just think I had to use that word but I think it was stupid because You know you fight institutions by Inside and outside games you you do different things you agitate You consult you have people who are going to negotiate people who are going to protest And it was just how wholly unorganized And they also wanted things that weren't realistic You know they the school modified the board structure They're not giving you no board seats And quite frankly if you look back and you look at do some research you can see like The people who are in those seats were wholly How can you what's the right word ineffective? And they just caused they just caused issues So they made changes But again, I used to use the word stupid, you know shout out to Howard And um, I'm glad those kids went inside for it got too cold because they were still outside now We'd have some bodies on that pavement So because that snow and They didn't send out them kids on 95. It wouldn't be no heat though Or please help me. Um Who's next Winston Um, yeah, it's a it's a it's a moot point. Um You know It's not I mean, I'm just saying from collectively I'm saying like from the perspective of The timeline for the perspective of the young people on the timeline talking the way that was being spoken about in the midst of it I'm talking about from Initially, there was some concern about will kids still apply to Howard. Is it gonna affect enrollment? It hasn't affected any any young person I've talked to this year about Go out just telling or it's about going to school college. Everybody got Howard on their list still it's still a primary destination Everybody still is interested or not if they weren't before as they were before I don't really think it's I don't I haven't seen it really affect much. Like I said, I haven't seen students that were involved and or supporting Saying anything about it to this stage or talk like literally from what from my perspective from what I've seen from what's going on It doesn't seem like it's moved the needle Anymore I feel like the the time span of it being at the forefront of conversation has passed Um, and if there is still rumblings about it, which I want to debate whether or not It's still people talking about it and moving it, but um, I certainly haven't seen anything in relation to it Amongst the young people that I serve or the ones who are on their way to college so Okay, but what do y'all say and this is for laurel because I remember seeing pictures on the timeline of agiland and things, uh Falling apart in agiland. I don't know what hall, but Agiland is looking a little crazy um Certain hbc's down in florida for example um I know I did watch a family matters Live movement uh intro video where they are like who next where we going next and morgue estate was One of the first ones shown. So like I'm really curious like Because we all know like we have infrastructural issues we have millions of dollars in deferred maintenance to handle and It is this do you foresee this being the standard of the standard practice for our students? I mean because I literally remember like seeing a lot of these schools on the timeline Like hey, we got this too Laura I mean You've now entered that age of higher ed where You know if it's not students its parents I was actually just talking to My supervisor about this today and I don't work in higher ed anymore, but similar similar environment um Again, it is still a pandemic and I think the overall anxiety from Everything that's going on plus the stuff that's always been going on And it's creating a special type of pimple that is about to pop um And so it's like on the at least with students just from what I remember and talking to them like it's very much Face obstacle i'm gonna hit the nuke button And so it's like that has only just accelerated where now i'm stressed I either can't be on campus Or I am on campus, but not in the way that I had envisioned Don't let it be my senior year because now it's like this is it and i'm not going to have the experience that I was promise The dream that I was sold has turned into a nightmare Gotta take it out on somebody Then you got faculty or staff who are also tired Probably should have quit three months ago They may not be talking directly to a student a student may be in the same room Mouthing all frustrations put a bug in the student's ear Like it's very very easy how things like this can blow up then we add social media We already know that something goes viral in two seconds. No context No background No screenshots of emails no video just Tweet out a context this happened Wayne Frederick Now he's you know, it's like he's the joker And it's like, you know, I just I don't think that this will ever really stop. I think it will get worse Especially if some administrations we shall go on name Keep treating students as if they're a nuisance And I'm like, you know, yes, we all get annoyed when they say my tuition pays for this and it don't pay for that But they're not wrong But this is also not the student movements of the 60s and 70s. We're in a totally different era And I said this before offline that All these attacks with the school boards and teachers unions right now with k through as well We are next I know the bomb threats that happen nobody's saying nothing about that and that may have been a one off but Once they really get in get their foot in good with these various school boards across the country Who do you think they're coming for next? Because every other time they don't really pay attention to hbc use we know It's only for bad bad news never really for good But what do you think especially schools that are in these states where they're literally surrounded Like the kraspy krab in sponge bob And you know what episode i'm talking about We're heading there and they're going to be surrounded and what are they going to do Not in the state that shall not be named, but we know what state it is I'm not even talking about them talking about like alabama mississippi texas And They're able to do things especially for our public hbc use they're able to do things like florida And I don't think people are People aren't really taking the k through 12 stuff seriously and that's going to be hilarious Um because if they pass but they're trying to pass an indiana I was like oh every every single teacher in the state will quit in five minutes They will quit you talk about Parents can talk to me about my lesson plan and if they don't like my lesson plan I got to write a different lesson plan for that their child And I got 50 students now because everybody else sick Or quit Or in kansas, oh if you're over 18 and pass a background check you can be a substitute teacher As a background checks are like airtight Are you serious? So it's like once once they really get good with them. They're coming for us and so I really want to know Do administrations have a plan for that? Yes, there's a lot of your plate. Yes, there's a lot going on right now But it's like what are you going to do because like I said Joe biden is asleep somewhere. He's asleep. He landed Okay, he landed Kamala quit Kamala gave up. Okay. She said you can't find a test google She said that So What are y'all gonna do? What do y'all want to do? What is your plan? Mackenzie Bezos ain't coming She's not coming Eric You want me to follow that now let's we let's start there Like I got things to add but you want me to follow that like come on. I'm gonna give you because we got it We do have to get to It's not much that you could say to follow that but she ain't lying though like it listen You already underpaid everybody in education You already underpaid everybody in education and you wasn't gonna deal with this you ain't paying us enough Let's start that like everything she said plus the fact that everybody you want to stay around That actually cares about students You ain't paying enough People can go get a job in ed tech right now and instantly get a boost of $12,000 How much they paying or how much they getting there it's a good year. That don't seem like it's a lot But when you ain't been paid which for when you When you are literally a school teacher and you're going to pay for supplies out your pocket Which means that your take home is already less than what it actually is You you a full-time school teacher the school teachers want today And you got only fans at night because you can't afford to live like let's let's let's talk about it. All right Let's talk about it Let's talk about it Listen, listen a only fans is for multiple things. All right. I know you're right. You're right But also it's for multiple things But the point is the fact you got to go and hustle because your regular full-time job That you've got an undergrad degree and a teaching certification slash master's degree to actually go do Don't pay enough for you to actually live and you got to pay a choke pocket to make sure your kids got stuff to actually do Because the federal and state government will not pay enough money for you to actually like do what you do And y'all doing all this mess And you want us to listen to parents who aren't smarter than a fifth grader telling you what you should be doing about your but let's have one in Like what you what you what you like the united states For the last 20 years has significantly ignored the fact that education reform needed to take place So now when you have everybody quitting education from k Through the doctorate level And there ain't going to be enough teachers There are Already messed up Like what would you what you you got like let's think about this for a second You got kids in high school talking about talking to their parents talking about um, um How come math doesn't reflect real life stuff. I was like you ain't never heard of a world problem had you Because of work because a world problem will tell you how to do some math in real life If I have to drive 60 miles What speed do I have to drive my car at to get to this destination? You're not about to trigger me. We're moving on. We're moving on. We're moving on. You're not about to trigger me. I'm sorry Donnie had Who are my christian school folks if jesus cast out 17 demons Yes, this was a real world problem. I'm not making this up. Listen, you uh, you're really triggering me right now, laurel We're not doing that Listen, I ain't gonna hold you but I got a little cousin who's in grass. Who's in charter school right now All right charter schools, which was a big thing and no child left behind and the former Secondary education who was an idiot and I have no problem saying This my grandfather god rest his soul who just passed away went to my cousin and said Give me ten dollars And I'm going to get you 25 interest on that ten dollars a week later She is 16 and she ain't even know how to turn a percentage into a Ooh, it's who a person to a decimal point that actually do the problem What we do in the education when we pay any charter schools that are prioritized education to teach these kids Supposedly better, but they actually are not smarter than the kids who were in regular public schools Ten years ago I don't like mad been playing the long game. They've been doing this in incremental levels Since starting the 70s, but definitely kicked off in the 80s A bit by bit trying to siphon away and again, we already wasn't getting that much money to begin with but siphon away Money and resources from the public school system just to devote it to the private and charter school Marketed as better Even though it's not because something that's private if it's private and you own it and you have all this money Looking at you evangelical christian school system at the kthuswell and collegiate level high liberty university That's it so that they can control it because it hasn't come out yet bookmark this Because they are not done yet with jerry fallwell jr and co Because there are still nda's there are people right now that are willing to break those nda. They are willing to sing Like a choir of canary And I bet money that liberty is one of many Institutions in this country that are supposed to be well, it is educational But it's mainly being used as a money laundering front for other activities like lobbying Like funding various GOP candidates Maybe even a few foreign hostile governments give or take And it all starts there and so all this stuff right now with challenging the school boards and critical race theory All of that's just buzzword stuff as usual. But what they're really doing is what they've been doing Devote and these other three um billionaire Families because she was on a charter school train. That's all they're doing And so when you see people and they don't know how to do What we would assume are Simple life skills things and it's not just oh gen z. I was like, no, it's not It's parents it may be grandparents people that have been to school But they're in schools where it's the banking model It's i'm gonna i'm gonna teach you to take this standardized test that has no Relevance outside of this room So I can get a score and I can tell the reason and it's already skewed so Already skewed no relevance does not I'm not teaching you a skill I'm not teaching you how to function to be anything else But a worker to follow directions and then you're doing that if they make it to college They run into challenges and then they're looking at you like well, what do I do and it's like Go to the person and talk to them Follow up Send them an email Ask questions They sit there paralyzed because we have not taught them how to think critically how to read comprehensively how to analyze Information that we're taking in that's why now with this whole issue of misinformation and media again long game People believe anything they just read they read a headline You can't comprehend the even headlines even this as I know the greeks say discernment discernment And what you read? Hey, where is this from who wrote this? Is this an onion article? Who was it from is it from a it's from a newspaper, but it's a newspaper being funded by GOP But people are just taking it retweet and it's just And so all of these things are connected and it's like I don't know how we get back from that Except to get everybody off line, which ain't happening tomorrow, but it's like all of this stuff. It's not an accident. It's not, you know Trump was the perfect puppet He was just he was the smoking mirrors people people already got distracted by the smoking mirrors and you're not looking at the people who are real quiet You haven't heard from such and such in a while yet because such and such is on an island in granada robbing you blind slowly like And so No No, he wasn't even bush 2.0 because Bush, you know, there's some corn cobs floating around in his brain. There's not really much in there No, but he was also manipulated what I'm saying is that it's never the person everybody could point at It's never the person I reckon point at People are looking at bush and his cheney and they was in there clapping to cheney when he came in there last week It's going how it's supposed to be going It's no and no one bats an eye And all y'all love and y'all all y'all and y'all know who y'all is y'all love bush now No, they don't know what you're saying is The game is the game The game is the game is the longest game that's ever been played and is being Played right now. I did not want to be editing this for like ever, but it's okay. I'm a part one and part two it I am um Thank you guys So much You all have been listening to hbcu digest Digest after dark on serious xm radio channel 142 hbcu the pride of Howard university. I am wow, didn't I say this earlier your hostess? Um tiffany dang. I really didn't say that earlier. 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