August 12, 2024 • 35 mins
We're talking with Memphis City Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper- Sutton and Deputy Treasurer Shelandra Y. Ford on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.
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Speaker 1 (01:49):
Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome in to
wd I A good morning, good morning, good morning, and
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welcome in to WDIA The Rev. Johnson Show. Here we go,
good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome in the
WDIA The Rev. Johnson Show. It is indeed a pleasure
to have you with us once again on this Monday,
August twelfth, twenty twenty four. Enjoyed this fabulous day today,
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get ready to put your ears on as we welcome
in a special guest. Hope she makes it. We'll talk
to you for the first time. City council woman. Yeah,
she'll be in here, New City Council. We've never talked
with her before. We'll be talking with her. Councilwoman Yolanda
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Cooper Sutton will be in to talk with us our
second hour. We'll ask the expert with her chiropractor, doctor
Bobby Martin. Martin Well Myers, will be in to talk
with us this day. Get it together, bit of join. Yeah,
we'll be talking with him. And in all ways, we
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if of this day, this day, Monday, August twelfth, twenty
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twenty four, is your birthday like my jib our friend
Ronald Kent Senior. What's up, ron Kent? Happy birthday to
my jive ass friend Ronald kit It's also his anniversary
Runnald and Karen Kent in forty five years. What you old, brother,
You old, not me? Yeah, Happy birthday Ron Kent and
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all of you all out there who may be celebrating
a birthday on this day. You know what we say.
We say, go out and celebrate your life. You better,
you better. You better do that. You can hear me talking.
You better do that, my jive ass friend. I love
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Ron Kent.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We getting ready for the Southern Heritage Classic. Get ready.
Coming up next we will talk to city council Woman
Yalanda Cooper Sutton will be with me Bev Johnson on
the Bev Johnson Show on Doubdia. Yes, it is that
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is the way of the world. My guys, Avenue Blue,
welcome into WDIA the Rev Johnson Show. It is indeed
a pleasure and a privilege to be with you once
again on this Monday, August twelfth, twenty twenty four. Enjoy
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this fabulous day to day. Hope you had a fabulous weekend. Yeah,
I had a fabulous weekend. I'll tell you about it.
But first, I'm excited to have this sister in the
house with me today. The first time me meeting her,
and what I've seen so far far, I like it.
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I like it. I like it. Want you to welcome
in to WDIA and the BEV Johnson Show. City Councilwoman
Yolanda Cooper Sutton, Good morning to you, sister. How are you.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I tell the Lord thank you in greetings, greetings to
the entire WDA listeners.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Love, thank you for being here. Counselwoman Sounton, thank you,
thank you, thank you. I want to start off it's
a pleasure meeting you. I've been hearing you. I like
what you have to say. But for our listeners who
may not know, Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton, tell us a
little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
First, I have been here in Memphis for twenty nine years.
I have been an activist, an advocate, quietly serving this city.
For the years that I've been in this city, I've
had many many amazing job opportunities. I've met many, many people,
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But what was so amazing was I guess I didn't
meet the cliques, as they may say here in Memphis.
I was not in the encircle, so I didn't have
a name that was known to them. But my name
was known to the Master, who was very important and
the only one who needed to know who I was
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for such a time as this. So this is why
I'm here now.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I love it. I love it. Why, Councilwoman Suddon, you decided? Well,
first before I asked that what is the district that
you serve?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I served Martavius Jones O Seed, which is Super District
eight three, which is half of Memphis, And I can
go on, I serve over three hundred and fifteen thousand people,
Okayven Castelia, Parkway, Village, Smoky City, a little of Binghampton,
Hickory Hill, White Haven, Westwood, Coral Lake, you name it, Downtown, Uptown,
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you name it. That is part of super District eight
district and whom we serve.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh wow, wow. Why did you decide to run for
Memphis City council seat?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It was not my decision, it was the creator's decision.
I had no interest in politics. I had no interest
in this position. It was a very small, still voice
that said, you are over overgrown and now it's time
for you to step in. For all the times that
I've groomed you, all the experiences you've had so far,
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it is time. And so I'm here on a Kingdom assignment.
It's strictly Kingdom business, nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Oh wow, wow, I love that that. Since you've been
on the city Council, I know you've seen some lot
of stuff that just ain't right, and I'm curious to
know to talk to me about what are some of
the things. I know, the biggest thing, councilwoman, that you
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all have been looking and trying to deal with is
this crime. I know that's about the biggest thing that
you all have been working on. How are we coming
with that?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, I don't think the biggest thing is crime.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I think the biggest thing is the disapportionation of how
this city has been ran over the last twenty years.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So this is just not a crime issue.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It's the way that prior administrations, past administrations have allowed
this city to be ran and so what has happened is,
as the old people say, where I come from.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
The chicken has just come to roost.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And so when you take equality and fairness out of
a place of a predominantly black city, this has been
going on since King's assassination and his mother, and so
we are here now. It's time to pay the piper
for the things that we have misused, manipulated, been dishonest, unfair,
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and totally greedy in so many different areas and aspect
of this city. So this is why we are here now.
So crime is at it's all time high because of poverty,
the neglect of the black community a city that is
predominantly black.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So what do you expect when.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You have erased literally try to erase us out of
the equation. What do you expect when you look at
our children, when you look at our education system, when
you look at the wealth gap, when you look at growth,
economic growth, what do you expect to see to happen?
And you see the same group of people, the same
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white people growing and none of us, not any of us.
We only just just get a little piece of the
pie and then we get satisfied and we sell out.
Black balling. Black people are over. It's too much black balling.
It's been going on for years. I'm not saying anything
that's foreign to Memphis, Tennessee. I to be wells Fanny
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lou Haima, Yes, you understand me.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So I'm not saying anything that's foreign.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
What happened, what has happened is this city and the
black people have been baboozled. We've been bamboozled over and
over and over and over.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I have nothing to lose.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I will not compromise my integrity, my morals, and what
I stand for. I am here on the Kingdom assignment
and I'm going to tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Bring truth with power, whether you like it or not.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I said it back in January the ninth, it's time
out for the stealing exposure.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Time is here.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
We're not asking for a Tesla or a Cadillac, but
we sure want something better than a flintstone.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Your sister, you know what. And councilwoman Son, I like
your spirit because you are quite right. I've seen in
my years living in Memphis those council people who were
afraid to speak up or like you said, we've had
some sellouts. We know, we know who they are, and
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I always get angry because we continue to vote those
same people in office who have been doing us wrong.
And you're absolutely right. So you're here. I'm glad you're
there to speak up and tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And so when you see the same behavior over and
over and over, what it has said to some of
us here in Memphis and across the world, because eyes
are all on Memphis, we are psychotic. We keep putting
the same people in the same positions, and you keep
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getting the same results. I know his mama, his mama
was so and so, but he ain't his mother, that's right.
I know his daddy and I went to school with
his dad is daddy.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The first thing Memphians at, you native Memphians, is what
school right? That doesn't that's that's not important.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Just like this last election, we just went over it's
it's it's it's an embarrassment.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It was absolutely totally.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Sometimes I just don't even have the words to describe
the actions and the behavior that I see that is
displayed in Memphis over and over and over and over.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Again and again.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
But you expect different results, and I keep hearing the
same thing over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
BEV.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
When I decided to run and I was able to
get out, I was told in my face.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Nobody knows you.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
You don't have enough name recognition, and I doubt it
very seriously if you win.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And so my remark to them.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Those and they were, you do what you do, and
I'm gonna do what I know to do.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And it's all Hayes has worked.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Me obeying God, the Creator yr way y'all shoe of
the Christ, the best of my ability.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And I have not saw him yet lose a case.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And so that's why I am here, and I'm here
for the next four years. I'm not preparing for the
next four eight years. That's not my worry. What my
concern is living in the now. Governor Lee came here
and spoke to the Church of God and Christ, all
those black brothers sitting on that seat of power and authority,
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and he said something that was so key, and I
think it went over their head because no one had
a rebuttal, no one made a remark. He told them,
hope wasn't enough. You need strategy, you need to strategize.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
There is no strategy.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I haven't seen one person with a strategy to come
in with a strategy. What they didn't see me coming see,
I wasn't on their radar.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
See.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
He didn't allow them to see me coming. He hid
me for such a time as this. And so if
you keep and if we keep allowing I'm in the
city Hall and I'm going through the offices, and I
see people that's been there for twenty five in thirty years,
and you are not preparing to pass the torch to
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someone younger, innovated. And then when they do come with
new innovated ideas and want to try something new, the
old regime mindset is still there, and so we can't
move forward.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So what do we do?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Bath?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What do we do Memphis?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
What do we do Memphis?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
What do we do? What changes?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
What are you going to do to make it happen?
So what are we're going to do? We have the power.
And what's so amazing is black folks ken in Memphis
have nailed down how to win an election, but they
ain't nailed down how to use their power and authority.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You are so correct. They nailed it down how to
get out of here.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And bamboozle us poor people and light of us constantly
on a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
They have nailed it down how to win.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Elections, but they have not nailed down on how to
appropriate and how to use their power and authority.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And especially councilwoman sudden to help those people they represent.
We go vote for him, You go vote for him.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I ride around this city.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I work for it City of Memphis full time.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
The Father, the Creator allowed me to quit my full
time job, he said, because if you're gonna do it,
I need you to understand the full the fullness of it,
not half of it, but the fullness of it. When
I see that Hickory Hill, Parkway, Village, white Haven, Westwood,
Oak Haven, Castelia, all these communities, all these black communities,
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don't let me forget about Orange Mound. Don't let me
forget about the mound. Forgive me if I didn't mention
you out earlier the mound. But you all know these communities,
and they all look alike. That was systematically and deliberately done.
The other day, I wrote down Central, he said, write
down Central. I wrote down Central, just writing, just observing.
Their houses are beautiful, their yards a manicud. I was
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able to look through one house and I can see
the mother last sweet all the way through the backyard.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Did you hear what I say I heard? Did you
hear me, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
But about time I got ready to turn and come
up airways to lamar huh, despair, hopelessness. We still trying
to survive, the eight to five and nine to five,
the can the cank trying to work. So you tell me,
I want to know what they doing different. Give us
the secret sauce that you got over there, so we
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can bring it over here in our communities, so our
children canna have a good education. Make me understand it, yes,
make it make sense. You've made it made sense to you.
Make it make sense to us and to me, so
we can prosper.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
So we can just have a little bit. We ain't
asking for much, just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Make it makes sons, all your high players, your big bawlers,
your powers to be, You're still everything that come your way,
our way. They have raped this city constantly, over and
over for the twenty nine years that I've watched, and
I've set back, and the more he gives me, the
more I see people here are so greedy. They're greedy
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so they keep the money in one pot. And then
our black politicians that halfway make it just halfway halfway,
sell us out every time don't have the balls to
stand up and speak the truth and say enough is enough.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
BEV, Yes, enough is enough. If y'all listening this morning
in house with me is City Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton.
We are going to open up our phone lines. You
may have a question or two for her. Five three
five nine three four two is our number eight hundred
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A good morning and welcome back to w d I A.
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I'm BEV. We are talking with this morning, City Councilwoman
Yolanda Cooper Sutton, Councilwoman. We're going to our phone lines
to talk to some of our listeners. Good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Steve, Hello, my most beautiful lady African Radio Tennessee Radio
Hall of Fame Queens Beverley Elaine Johnson.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
That's you, Bill, Thank you Steve.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Oh real quick, let.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Me say you shout out my beautiful wife Angela Sidney
I had a ball with and real quick, Happy bed lady,
birthday to kimoj this body's wife Bell. Excuse my friends, boo,
damn I like that lady, Miss sud Lord Bell. You
know I ain't saying nothing nothing that never did. But
you know miss said, and I can't vote due to
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me when I was younger, But I heard too Shall
on Bell Show say if you can't vote, take seven
people to the vote to the post. I took kings.
You are fiery. I'm talking about Bell. That's the count
of politician we need right there. You know, I've never
never been a follower. She sounded like a leader. You know.
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Nain't recognition like you said. You got folks been in
there for years and years, and I ain't doing nothing.
They promise you everything in the world when they run it,
but once they get in office, you can't find them.
You can't see them. You see them out of their
parties and events and join their life. Miss Sudden, I
can tell you right now, if you well, when you
win re election next time you run, my whole family
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will be if I have to rent a bus and
post up somewhere and take people to the ma'am. I
like you. You are fiy the if that is the
politician we need in this office, right n ain't recognition.
Don't go along to get along? Do what you're supposed
to do. Bab Look, I know your line lit up
like Christmas. Everybody want to talk to this lady man. Look, Bell,
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I pull I'm on the way to get some game.
I pulled over the listening to this lady.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
She got me.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You should Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
I wish you.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
I wish you the longest leadership you can have. You
are humble. You sound like you're gonna get the job done.
You're not going along to get along. Bell. I just
had a call to say that to that lady man.
She an inspiration to me, and I know people listening
I seem inspired. She inspired people. Hey Bill, that's my
dam Hey Suster, I got you lot, Hey Bill. If
I see you had a ball that we get at
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the rocket ships with their truck all day, I would
have been up there with you, man. Lady sister got
you a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Thank you, Steve, thank you, thank you, Bye bye, w
D I a bantastic what's up? Norman?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
You already know what to say. I do Norman and Bell.
I'll tell you what how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
First? I'm doing well today, I'm doing well normal.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
I know you. I'll show you all in your white
all good like you always cut yourself up here. You
better watch out now, you better watch out. Now I'm married,
you better watch out, BEB, knowing you do long all right, Hey, BB,
you know when I say black tastic, I mean what
I say. I think you know that about now right right?
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I do well, BEB. When I tell you a picture
an action of what black black tastic gears, he said,
right there, right there with you, right there with you.
I met that sister the first time before she ran
the office. I met her at a Quansa celebration and
she was up there talking. My first mind was she
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ain't gonna talk, and she's gonna talk the rest of them.
That was my first ugly mind. But BEB, when I
started listening to that sister, watching what she won, and
I started listening to her and watching her on UH
and to be going to the meeting and watching her online, BB,
everything she said she gonna do bell she stepped right
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into it. She didn't hesitate, she didn't bow down, she
stepped into it. And every time I watch her at
the meeting, BEB, I'm telling you, I'm on fire that girl.
I'm sorry. That sister is something else. When I tell
you and BEB not only that, not only that she
comes to every community meeting we have at the avenue,
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guess to show up that sister right just in front
of you. Yes, she does, she does, and she means
what she say and she does exactly what she say.
The only problem that I have and I said this
to my sister. How you doing, my sister?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
How you doing? Knowam? How are you you know?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
I'm black? Jesse.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
You already know I do?
Speaker 8 (25:40):
I do, sir, So when I well, when I tell
you and so so this this is the only issue
I have, and not with you. But I'm just saying
overall you and I've had this conversation before. When we
know the truth, and I know you believe this, we
speak the truth. And here's the issue with us as
a people. Here's why we keep voting in the same
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people over and over again. So Sni, I don't know,
y'all understand, it's because we trust, we believe. With seeking
our hope and faith, we're believing in trusting that our
people are gonna do what they say they're gonna do,
only to find out that they don't, and then we
give them another chance, and sadly enough, when they bring
up a bag of grosses or something foolish. They'll turn
around and tell us they gonna do it again, and
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we vote for them again. The truth is, here's what
we need to really know and understand. Who are the sellouts?
Who are the ones that's lying to us and hurting
us as politicians. We need to know them by name
so we can stop this Buddhists keep voting them over
and over and over again. I know it's difficult to
do that to your colleagues publicly, but at some point
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we need to know because otherwise we're gonna have faith
and believe it and they gonna lie to us and
tell us they're doing all the work, when the truth is,
is you doing the work. They just take credit for us.
So they take credit for the work that you do,
and they're gonna build on what they see you do,
but they ain't doing the damn thing aligned to us. Now,
we've got some good people up there, don't misunderstand me,
and I know we do without a self it out.
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But they are those there who are white and black,
and then there are those who are Democrat and Republican
who are selling us out. And it's time for it
to end. I'm so happy sister that you're finally here
on this bed of Jeffer show, because a lot of
people all around this country, not only in Memphis, is
listening to you, and we can learn from you like
we do with doctor Harper, like we do with doctor Jeffers,
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and well, like we do with Bebbist sharing it with
us about our issues in our community. We will learn
from you, whether it's in Memphis or not. So anyway,
I just want you to know I love your sister,
and we need to follow up on a couple of
things that we talked about because some community things. But listen,
I love you girl, a sister, and you keep that,
keep that in your heart and mind and keep us
in prayer because we need it. And bab I love
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you girl. I thank you so much for all you do.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Thank you, Norman. I appreciate you. Thank you. Bye bye,
w d I A hi cheees.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Beverly Elaine. Riding down the street, minding my own business,
and I've turned on your channel, just haven't turned on
your channel, and I'm listening to this young lady say
things that gave me goosebumps. One of the things she
said that that absolutely blew my mind is that we
are the We are the majority in this city as
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far as African Americans are concerned, but we have yet
to grasp that concept that we can control with what
we need to control. You're talking about over sixty five
percent of us are black, twenty percent are white, and
then there's others and all the foul things that are
going on in this city we turn to blind eye to.
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So you may or may not be aware of counsel woman,
but there's a manifesto that went out about this fire
chief that we have. This woman has turned this fire
department into her own business. She does she wants, when
she wants, and they're any African American to say anything,
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she'll fire, She'll she'll disrupt your whole life. And that
they're an outcry. And these brothers and sisters that are
own a job are looking for a safe haven like
yourself to say what's going on, to tell you guys,
this ain't right. You got that many African Americans in
this city, but they don't have all those promotable spots.
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You got sixty percent of the promotable spots, all them.
If it's fire department occupied by Caucasians and the vast
majority of them. It's done through favoritism, uh, through sexual orientation.
It is out of control to where the guys they're
giving up. They don't have somebody who will listen to
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all the discrepancies that are so painfully obvious. First things, first,
you know, how did this woman end up back you know,
you know, you know as the fire chief again. She
served under, She served under strictly two times. There's no
other you know, I mean, there's no other director that
has ever served more than two, you know, And so
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she ended again like Okay, they need a faithful lift.
Everybody up top needs to go, and it needs to
be hit, you know, hitting on like a reset. You're
taking care of people and you're daring people just say
something so, you know, like the counsel woman said, it is.
It is absolutely absinine that these boys and girls are
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going through that type of hell. But you want them
to perform, You want them to be worked. Don't call
off sick, you know, I mean, I want you to
do what I tell you, dud. Don't you worry about
what I'm doing up here. But yeah, you know, I
hearried about this thing, and I'm trying to get a
copy of it. Myself because what I heard that is
it is absolutely a blockbuster and it needs to be reported,
you know, you know, city wide, so these boys and
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girls can get some answers. That woman needs to go,
That woman absolutely needs to go.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
All right, chief, thank you, Chief counsel woman.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
You want to say anything, Thank you, Chief.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
I want to have Yes, I want to have some
coffee with you. Woman, I really do, thank you. I mean,
I'm one person. I'm one person. But if these boys
and girls could talk to you, they tell you what
I'm hearing that in that whatever it is, they would
tell you it's true.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Well, the US bad they needed to send it. They
have a thirteen member council members and so that manifesto
need to be sent to us. We represent the people.
The people don't work for us. We work for the people.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
But he has the thing though, the councilwoman, that don't
mean to cut you off.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
So all the eyes were on MPD with all the
issues that they were happy. No one looked at this
fire department like it could be a problem. It's been
a problem when you got achieved that that is blatant,
you you know, blatantly promoting white men and white women
to positions that they don't deserve. And the African Americans
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don't have a voice, not that, not with their union,
not with their black organizations, not amongst themselves, because everybody
is afraid to talk. When you get rid of certain
black men and certain black women off the job, you know,
you set the tone. You scared everybody else.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
You're totally correct. Cut, I totally.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Concur, And that's the atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I mean it is, I totally concur goodness, because there
there was a scare tactic, and you're exactly right. I
totally concur with you, sir. And I know we were
limited because we have other people on the line. But
there there was a scare tactic that set the presidents
in this city.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
When they were able to kill M. L. K.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That was the scare tactic for the for the whole
entire Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
They called it that.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
So that was the initial scare tactic. Did you hear
what I say? For this man to travel all over
the world to be who he was, but he was
able to cut to this place, Memphis, Tennessee, and they
were able to pull it off. Speaks volumes don't ever
forget it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
So that you.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Know, if you ever got it, you will get it.
And please, please, please, y'all do some of those boys
in your they're working too hard.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Thank you, Bye.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Bye w D I A High Clyde.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Was little Bell Johnson, you got it.
Speaker 9 (33:26):
I was listening to the show and and and when
I heard this young lady on the talking, I said, nah.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
And we had more people in offense that spoke up
likeer and thought likeer for Memphis to be ran by
the majority of black And you look how this.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Shit is being ran.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
I mean, it's just a crime shame.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You know you and they know who they keep voting
the same people back in off of them. You ain't
got You ain't got to sit there and realize what
that person's doing for your neighborhood or for your shit.
All you got to do is just look when get
an offer, and they needed and they need to keep
the churches out of the politics. You know who they preacher.
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If he vite that person to the church, that's who
they gonna vote us so and and like I said, Bill,
it's a crime shin Bell Johnson. But like she said,
when she ride through certain neighborhoods and she see how
good it looks then you can you can, you can
you can go a little further and see how it
started getting tore up on the floor up. I bought
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my cousin down there to see the Sash Museum Bell
and once we once we pad Stash Museum Bell, it
was a crime shine.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
And when my auntie stayed over there back in the day,
that was a beautiful neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
When I stayed over there, my folks stayed over there
back in the day, it was a beautiful neighborhood. I
stayed right around the corner.
Speaker 9 (34:48):
My auntie stayed at fo O to Loosen, right across
from Areta Franklin, the old house, and that was a
beautiful neighbor And you look, I went through that last time,
took my family through that. I was really shamed to
take them down there.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, you're right. Well, thank you, Clyde. You're right, Clyde, ye,
take care, take care of you two. W D I
a prince of the chows. Let me get prince of
the cho.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
I love the way you say my name, Say my name,
say my name.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
Why are you doing love?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I'm doing
Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome in to
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welcome in to WDIA The Rev. Johnson Show. Here we go,
good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome in the
WDIA The Rev. Johnson Show. It is indeed a pleasure
to have you with us once again on this Monday,
August twelfth, twenty twenty four. Enjoyed this fabulous day today,
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get ready to put your ears on as we welcome
in a special guest. Hope she makes it. We'll talk
to you for the first time. City council woman. Yeah,
she'll be in here, New City Council. We've never talked
with her before. We'll be talking with her. Councilwoman Yolanda
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Cooper Sutton will be in to talk with us our
second hour. We'll ask the expert with her chiropractor, doctor
Bobby Martin. Martin Well Myers, will be in to talk
with us this day. Get it together, bit of join. Yeah,
we'll be talking with him. And in all ways, we
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invite you to call nine zero one five three five
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if of this day, this day, Monday, August twelfth, twenty
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twenty four, is your birthday like my jib our friend
Ronald Kent Senior. What's up, ron Kent? Happy birthday to
my jive ass friend Ronald kit It's also his anniversary
Runnald and Karen Kent in forty five years. What you old, brother,
You old, not me? Yeah, Happy birthday Ron Kent and
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all of you all out there who may be celebrating
a birthday on this day. You know what we say.
We say, go out and celebrate your life. You better,
you better. You better do that. You can hear me talking.
You better do that, my jive ass friend. I love
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Ron Kent.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We getting ready for the Southern Heritage Classic. Get ready.
Coming up next we will talk to city council Woman
Yalanda Cooper Sutton will be with me Bev Johnson on
the Bev Johnson Show on Doubdia. Yes, it is that
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is the way of the world. My guys, Avenue Blue,
welcome into WDIA the Rev Johnson Show. It is indeed
a pleasure and a privilege to be with you once
again on this Monday, August twelfth, twenty twenty four. Enjoy
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this fabulous day to day. Hope you had a fabulous weekend. Yeah,
I had a fabulous weekend. I'll tell you about it.
But first, I'm excited to have this sister in the
house with me today. The first time me meeting her,
and what I've seen so far far, I like it.
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I like it. I like it. Want you to welcome
in to WDIA and the BEV Johnson Show. City Councilwoman
Yolanda Cooper Sutton, Good morning to you, sister. How are you.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I tell the Lord thank you in greetings, greetings to
the entire WDA listeners.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Love, thank you for being here. Counselwoman Sounton, thank you,
thank you, thank you. I want to start off it's
a pleasure meeting you. I've been hearing you. I like
what you have to say. But for our listeners who
may not know, Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton, tell us a
little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
First, I have been here in Memphis for twenty nine years.
I have been an activist, an advocate, quietly serving this city.
For the years that I've been in this city, I've
had many many amazing job opportunities. I've met many, many people,
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But what was so amazing was I guess I didn't
meet the cliques, as they may say here in Memphis.
I was not in the encircle, so I didn't have
a name that was known to them. But my name
was known to the Master, who was very important and
the only one who needed to know who I was
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for such a time as this. So this is why
I'm here now.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I love it. I love it. Why, Councilwoman Suddon, you decided? Well,
first before I asked that what is the district that
you serve?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I served Martavius Jones O Seed, which is Super District
eight three, which is half of Memphis, And I can
go on, I serve over three hundred and fifteen thousand people,
Okayven Castelia, Parkway, Village, Smoky City, a little of Binghampton,
Hickory Hill, White Haven, Westwood, Coral Lake, you name it, Downtown, Uptown,
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you name it. That is part of super District eight
district and whom we serve.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh wow, wow. Why did you decide to run for
Memphis City council seat?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It was not my decision, it was the creator's decision.
I had no interest in politics. I had no interest
in this position. It was a very small, still voice
that said, you are over overgrown and now it's time
for you to step in. For all the times that
I've groomed you, all the experiences you've had so far,
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it is time. And so I'm here on a Kingdom assignment.
It's strictly Kingdom business, nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Oh wow, wow, I love that that. Since you've been
on the city Council, I know you've seen some lot
of stuff that just ain't right, and I'm curious to
know to talk to me about what are some of
the things. I know, the biggest thing, councilwoman, that you
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all have been looking and trying to deal with is
this crime. I know that's about the biggest thing that
you all have been working on. How are we coming
with that?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, I don't think the biggest thing is crime.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I think the biggest thing is the disapportionation of how
this city has been ran over the last twenty years.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So this is just not a crime issue.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It's the way that prior administrations, past administrations have allowed
this city to be ran and so what has happened is,
as the old people say, where I come from.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
The chicken has just come to roost.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And so when you take equality and fairness out of
a place of a predominantly black city, this has been
going on since King's assassination and his mother, and so
we are here now. It's time to pay the piper
for the things that we have misused, manipulated, been dishonest, unfair,
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and totally greedy in so many different areas and aspect
of this city. So this is why we are here now.
So crime is at it's all time high because of poverty,
the neglect of the black community a city that is
predominantly black.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So what do you expect when.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You have erased literally try to erase us out of
the equation. What do you expect when you look at
our children, when you look at our education system, when
you look at the wealth gap, when you look at growth,
economic growth, what do you expect to see to happen?
And you see the same group of people, the same
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white people growing and none of us, not any of us.
We only just just get a little piece of the
pie and then we get satisfied and we sell out.
Black balling. Black people are over. It's too much black balling.
It's been going on for years. I'm not saying anything
that's foreign to Memphis, Tennessee. I to be wells Fanny
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lou Haima, Yes, you understand me.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So I'm not saying anything that's foreign.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
What happened, what has happened is this city and the
black people have been baboozled. We've been bamboozled over and
over and over and over.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I have nothing to lose.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I will not compromise my integrity, my morals, and what
I stand for. I am here on the Kingdom assignment
and I'm going to tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Bring truth with power, whether you like it or not.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I said it back in January the ninth, it's time
out for the stealing exposure.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Time is here.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
We're not asking for a Tesla or a Cadillac, but
we sure want something better than a flintstone.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Your sister, you know what. And councilwoman Son, I like
your spirit because you are quite right. I've seen in
my years living in Memphis those council people who were
afraid to speak up or like you said, we've had
some sellouts. We know, we know who they are, and
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I always get angry because we continue to vote those
same people in office who have been doing us wrong.
And you're absolutely right. So you're here. I'm glad you're
there to speak up and tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And so when you see the same behavior over and
over and over, what it has said to some of
us here in Memphis and across the world, because eyes
are all on Memphis, we are psychotic. We keep putting
the same people in the same positions, and you keep
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getting the same results. I know his mama, his mama
was so and so, but he ain't his mother, that's right.
I know his daddy and I went to school with
his dad is daddy.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The first thing Memphians at, you native Memphians, is what
school right? That doesn't that's that's not important.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Just like this last election, we just went over it's
it's it's it's an embarrassment.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It was absolutely totally.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Sometimes I just don't even have the words to describe
the actions and the behavior that I see that is
displayed in Memphis over and over and over and over.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Again and again.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
But you expect different results, and I keep hearing the
same thing over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
BEV.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
When I decided to run and I was able to
get out, I was told in my face.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Nobody knows you.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
You don't have enough name recognition, and I doubt it
very seriously if you win.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And so my remark to them.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Those and they were, you do what you do, and
I'm gonna do what I know to do.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And it's all Hayes has worked.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Me obeying God, the Creator yr way y'all shoe of
the Christ, the best of my ability.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And I have not saw him yet lose a case.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And so that's why I am here, and I'm here
for the next four years. I'm not preparing for the
next four eight years. That's not my worry. What my
concern is living in the now. Governor Lee came here
and spoke to the Church of God and Christ, all
those black brothers sitting on that seat of power and authority,
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and he said something that was so key, and I
think it went over their head because no one had
a rebuttal, no one made a remark. He told them,
hope wasn't enough. You need strategy, you need to strategize.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
There is no strategy.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I haven't seen one person with a strategy to come
in with a strategy. What they didn't see me coming see,
I wasn't on their radar.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
See.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
He didn't allow them to see me coming. He hid
me for such a time as this. And so if
you keep and if we keep allowing I'm in the
city Hall and I'm going through the offices, and I
see people that's been there for twenty five in thirty years,
and you are not preparing to pass the torch to
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someone younger, innovated. And then when they do come with
new innovated ideas and want to try something new, the
old regime mindset is still there, and so we can't
move forward.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So what do we do?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Bath?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
What do we do Memphis?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
What do we do Memphis?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
What do we do? What changes?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
What are you going to do to make it happen?
So what are we're going to do? We have the power.
And what's so amazing is black folks ken in Memphis
have nailed down how to win an election, but they
ain't nailed down how to use their power and authority.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You are so correct. They nailed it down how to
get out of here.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And bamboozle us poor people and light of us constantly
on a regular basis.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
They have nailed it down how to win.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Elections, but they have not nailed down on how to
appropriate and how to use their power and authority.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And especially councilwoman sudden to help those people they represent.
We go vote for him, You go vote for him.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I ride around this city.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I work for it City of Memphis full time.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
The Father, the Creator allowed me to quit my full
time job, he said, because if you're gonna do it,
I need you to understand the full the fullness of it,
not half of it, but the fullness of it. When
I see that Hickory Hill, Parkway, Village, white Haven, Westwood,
Oak Haven, Castelia, all these communities, all these black communities,
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don't let me forget about Orange Mound. Don't let me
forget about the mound. Forgive me if I didn't mention
you out earlier the mound. But you all know these communities,
and they all look alike. That was systematically and deliberately done.
The other day, I wrote down Central, he said, write
down Central. I wrote down Central, just writing, just observing.
Their houses are beautiful, their yards a manicud. I was
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able to look through one house and I can see
the mother last sweet all the way through the backyard.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Did you hear what I say I heard? Did you
hear me, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
But about time I got ready to turn and come
up airways to lamar huh, despair, hopelessness. We still trying
to survive, the eight to five and nine to five,
the can the cank trying to work. So you tell me,
I want to know what they doing different. Give us
the secret sauce that you got over there, so we
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can bring it over here in our communities, so our
children canna have a good education. Make me understand it, yes,
make it make sense. You've made it made sense to you.
Make it make sense to us and to me, so
we can prosper.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
So we can just have a little bit. We ain't
asking for much, just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Make it makes sons, all your high players, your big bawlers,
your powers to be, You're still everything that come your way,
our way. They have raped this city constantly, over and
over for the twenty nine years that I've watched, and
I've set back, and the more he gives me, the
more I see people here are so greedy. They're greedy
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so they keep the money in one pot. And then
our black politicians that halfway make it just halfway halfway,
sell us out every time don't have the balls to
stand up and speak the truth and say enough is enough.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
BEV, Yes, enough is enough. If y'all listening this morning
in house with me is City Councilwoman Yolanda Cooper Sutton.
We are going to open up our phone lines. You
may have a question or two for her. Five three
five nine three four two is our number eight hundred
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in to us. You're listening to double you d I
A good morning and welcome back to w d I A.
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I'm BEV. We are talking with this morning, City Councilwoman
Yolanda Cooper Sutton, Councilwoman. We're going to our phone lines
to talk to some of our listeners. Good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Steve, Hello, my most beautiful lady African Radio Tennessee Radio
Hall of Fame Queens Beverley Elaine Johnson.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
That's you, Bill, Thank you Steve.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Oh real quick, let.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Me say you shout out my beautiful wife Angela Sidney
I had a ball with and real quick, Happy bed lady,
birthday to kimoj this body's wife Bell. Excuse my friends, boo,
damn I like that lady, Miss sud Lord Bell. You
know I ain't saying nothing nothing that never did. But
you know miss said, and I can't vote due to
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me when I was younger, But I heard too Shall
on Bell Show say if you can't vote, take seven
people to the vote to the post. I took kings.
You are fiery. I'm talking about Bell. That's the count
of politician we need right there. You know, I've never
never been a follower. She sounded like a leader. You know.
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Nain't recognition like you said. You got folks been in
there for years and years, and I ain't doing nothing.
They promise you everything in the world when they run it,
but once they get in office, you can't find them.
You can't see them. You see them out of their
parties and events and join their life. Miss Sudden, I
can tell you right now, if you well, when you
win re election next time you run, my whole family
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will be if I have to rent a bus and
post up somewhere and take people to the ma'am. I
like you. You are fiy the if that is the
politician we need in this office, right n ain't recognition.
Don't go along to get along? Do what you're supposed
to do. Bab Look, I know your line lit up
like Christmas. Everybody want to talk to this lady man. Look, Bell,
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I pull I'm on the way to get some game.
I pulled over the listening to this lady.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
She got me.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You should Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
I wish you.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
I wish you the longest leadership you can have. You
are humble. You sound like you're gonna get the job done.
You're not going along to get along. Bell. I just
had a call to say that to that lady man.
She an inspiration to me, and I know people listening
I seem inspired. She inspired people. Hey Bill, that's my
dam Hey Suster, I got you lot, Hey Bill. If
I see you had a ball that we get at
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the rocket ships with their truck all day, I would
have been up there with you, man. Lady sister got
you a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Thank you, Steve, thank you, thank you, Bye bye, w
D I a bantastic what's up? Norman?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
You already know what to say. I do Norman and Bell.
I'll tell you what how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
First? I'm doing well today, I'm doing well normal.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
I know you. I'll show you all in your white
all good like you always cut yourself up here. You
better watch out now, you better watch out. Now I'm married,
you better watch out, BEB, knowing you do long all right, Hey, BB,
you know when I say black tastic, I mean what
I say. I think you know that about now right right?
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I do well, BEB. When I tell you a picture
an action of what black black tastic gears, he said,
right there, right there with you, right there with you.
I met that sister the first time before she ran
the office. I met her at a Quansa celebration and
she was up there talking. My first mind was she
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ain't gonna talk, and she's gonna talk the rest of them.
That was my first ugly mind. But BEB, when I
started listening to that sister, watching what she won, and
I started listening to her and watching her on UH
and to be going to the meeting and watching her online, BB,
everything she said she gonna do bell she stepped right
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into it. She didn't hesitate, she didn't bow down, she
stepped into it. And every time I watch her at
the meeting, BEB, I'm telling you, I'm on fire that girl.
I'm sorry. That sister is something else. When I tell
you and BEB not only that, not only that she
comes to every community meeting we have at the avenue,
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guess to show up that sister right just in front
of you. Yes, she does, she does, and she means
what she say and she does exactly what she say.
The only problem that I have and I said this
to my sister. How you doing, my sister?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
How you doing? Knowam? How are you you know?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
I'm black? Jesse.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
You already know I do?
Speaker 8 (25:40):
I do, sir, So when I well, when I tell
you and so so this this is the only issue
I have, and not with you. But I'm just saying
overall you and I've had this conversation before. When we
know the truth, and I know you believe this, we
speak the truth. And here's the issue with us as
a people. Here's why we keep voting in the same
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people over and over again. So Sni, I don't know,
y'all understand, it's because we trust, we believe. With seeking
our hope and faith, we're believing in trusting that our
people are gonna do what they say they're gonna do,
only to find out that they don't, and then we
give them another chance, and sadly enough, when they bring
up a bag of grosses or something foolish. They'll turn
around and tell us they gonna do it again, and
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we vote for them again. The truth is, here's what
we need to really know and understand. Who are the sellouts?
Who are the ones that's lying to us and hurting
us as politicians. We need to know them by name
so we can stop this Buddhists keep voting them over
and over and over again. I know it's difficult to
do that to your colleagues publicly, but at some point
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we need to know because otherwise we're gonna have faith
and believe it and they gonna lie to us and
tell us they're doing all the work, when the truth is,
is you doing the work. They just take credit for us.
So they take credit for the work that you do,
and they're gonna build on what they see you do,
but they ain't doing the damn thing aligned to us. Now,
we've got some good people up there, don't misunderstand me,
and I know we do without a self it out.
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But they are those there who are white and black,
and then there are those who are Democrat and Republican
who are selling us out. And it's time for it
to end. I'm so happy sister that you're finally here
on this bed of Jeffer show, because a lot of
people all around this country, not only in Memphis, is
listening to you, and we can learn from you like
we do with doctor Harper, like we do with doctor Jeffers,
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and well, like we do with Bebbist sharing it with
us about our issues in our community. We will learn
from you, whether it's in Memphis or not. So anyway,
I just want you to know I love your sister,
and we need to follow up on a couple of
things that we talked about because some community things. But listen,
I love you girl, a sister, and you keep that,
keep that in your heart and mind and keep us
in prayer because we need it. And bab I love
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you girl. I thank you so much for all you do.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Thank you, Norman. I appreciate you. Thank you. Bye bye,
w d I A hi cheees.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Beverly Elaine. Riding down the street, minding my own business,
and I've turned on your channel, just haven't turned on
your channel, and I'm listening to this young lady say
things that gave me goosebumps. One of the things she
said that that absolutely blew my mind is that we
are the We are the majority in this city as
(28:23):
far as African Americans are concerned, but we have yet
to grasp that concept that we can control with what
we need to control. You're talking about over sixty five
percent of us are black, twenty percent are white, and
then there's others and all the foul things that are
going on in this city we turn to blind eye to.
(28:44):
So you may or may not be aware of counsel woman,
but there's a manifesto that went out about this fire
chief that we have. This woman has turned this fire
department into her own business. She does she wants, when
she wants, and they're any African American to say anything,
(29:05):
she'll fire, She'll she'll disrupt your whole life. And that
they're an outcry. And these brothers and sisters that are
own a job are looking for a safe haven like
yourself to say what's going on, to tell you guys,
this ain't right. You got that many African Americans in
this city, but they don't have all those promotable spots.
(29:28):
You got sixty percent of the promotable spots, all them.
If it's fire department occupied by Caucasians and the vast
majority of them. It's done through favoritism, uh, through sexual orientation.
It is out of control to where the guys they're
giving up. They don't have somebody who will listen to
(29:50):
all the discrepancies that are so painfully obvious. First things, first,
you know, how did this woman end up back you know,
you know, you know as the fire chief again. She
served under, She served under strictly two times. There's no
other you know, I mean, there's no other director that
has ever served more than two, you know, And so
(30:10):
she ended again like Okay, they need a faithful lift.
Everybody up top needs to go, and it needs to
be hit, you know, hitting on like a reset. You're
taking care of people and you're daring people just say
something so, you know, like the counsel woman said, it is.
It is absolutely absinine that these boys and girls are
(30:30):
going through that type of hell. But you want them
to perform, You want them to be worked. Don't call
off sick, you know, I mean, I want you to
do what I tell you, dud. Don't you worry about
what I'm doing up here. But yeah, you know, I
hearried about this thing, and I'm trying to get a
copy of it. Myself because what I heard that is
it is absolutely a blockbuster and it needs to be reported,
you know, you know, city wide, so these boys and
(30:54):
girls can get some answers. That woman needs to go,
That woman absolutely needs to go.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
All right, chief, thank you, Chief counsel woman.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
You want to say anything, Thank you, Chief.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
I want to have Yes, I want to have some
coffee with you. Woman, I really do, thank you. I mean,
I'm one person. I'm one person. But if these boys
and girls could talk to you, they tell you what
I'm hearing that in that whatever it is, they would
tell you it's true.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Well, the US bad they needed to send it. They
have a thirteen member council members and so that manifesto
need to be sent to us. We represent the people.
The people don't work for us. We work for the people.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
But he has the thing though, the councilwoman, that don't
mean to cut you off.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
So all the eyes were on MPD with all the
issues that they were happy. No one looked at this
fire department like it could be a problem. It's been
a problem when you got achieved that that is blatant,
you you know, blatantly promoting white men and white women
to positions that they don't deserve. And the African Americans
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don't have a voice, not that, not with their union,
not with their black organizations, not amongst themselves, because everybody
is afraid to talk. When you get rid of certain
black men and certain black women off the job, you know,
you set the tone. You scared everybody else.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
You're totally correct. Cut, I totally.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Concur, And that's the atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I mean it is, I totally concur goodness, because there
there was a scare tactic, and you're exactly right. I
totally concur with you, sir. And I know we were
limited because we have other people on the line. But
there there was a scare tactic that set the presidents
in this city.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
When they were able to kill M. L. K.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That was the scare tactic for the for the whole
entire Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
They called it that.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
So that was the initial scare tactic. Did you hear
what I say? For this man to travel all over
the world to be who he was, but he was
able to cut to this place, Memphis, Tennessee, and they
were able to pull it off. Speaks volumes don't ever
forget it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
So that you.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Know, if you ever got it, you will get it.
And please, please, please, y'all do some of those boys
in your they're working too hard.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Thank you, Bye.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Bye w D I A High Clyde.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Was little Bell Johnson, you got it.
Speaker 9 (33:26):
I was listening to the show and and and when
I heard this young lady on the talking, I said, nah.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
And we had more people in offense that spoke up
likeer and thought likeer for Memphis to be ran by
the majority of black And you look how this.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Shit is being ran.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
I mean, it's just a crime shame.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You know you and they know who they keep voting
the same people back in off of them. You ain't
got You ain't got to sit there and realize what
that person's doing for your neighborhood or for your shit.
All you got to do is just look when get
an offer, and they needed and they need to keep
the churches out of the politics. You know who they preacher.
(34:08):
If he vite that person to the church, that's who
they gonna vote us so and and like I said, Bill,
it's a crime shin Bell Johnson. But like she said,
when she ride through certain neighborhoods and she see how
good it looks then you can you can, you can
you can go a little further and see how it
started getting tore up on the floor up. I bought
(34:29):
my cousin down there to see the Sash Museum Bell
and once we once we pad Stash Museum Bell, it
was a crime shine.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
And when my auntie stayed over there back in the day,
that was a beautiful neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
When I stayed over there, my folks stayed over there
back in the day, it was a beautiful neighborhood. I
stayed right around the corner.
Speaker 9 (34:48):
My auntie stayed at fo O to Loosen, right across
from Areta Franklin, the old house, and that was a
beautiful neighbor And you look, I went through that last time,
took my family through that. I was really shamed to
take them down there.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, you're right. Well, thank you, Clyde. You're right, Clyde, ye,
take care, take care of you two. W D I
a prince of the chows. Let me get prince of
the cho.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
I love the way you say my name, Say my name,
say my name.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
Why are you doing love?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I'm doing
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