➡ Black celebrities are rallying together more than ever, particularly around political issues. This is seen in the context of the upcoming elections, where candidates are focusing on black male voters. The Harris campaign has rolled out an economic opportunity agenda for black men, while Trump has held roundtables with black voters. However, there’s concern about the potential shift of black male voters towards the Republican party, despite traditionally leaning Democrat.
➡ The speaker believes that black men’s political needs are often overlooked, particularly their desire for updated family court laws. He argues that these laws should reflect modern society and be fair to both parents, rather than favoring women by default. He criticizes politicians for ignoring these concerns and instead focusing on issues he feels are less relevant to black men. He pledges that if he were in a position of power, his first action would be to address these family court laws.
➡ Anton plans to run for president in 2034 or 2036 with a focus on family court law reform. He proposes mandatory paternity tests at birth to ensure accurate child support payments and wants to limit lawyer’s fees to prevent bankruptcy. He believes in bipartisan solutions that benefit all men, not just black men. He also emphasizes that men care about a variety of societal issues, including economic prospects, environmental concerns, and education.

Black celebrities. And we gonna get into the whole BET movement next after this. But black celebrities have now come out mass. I have never in my life seen more black celebrities, more town halls. The only other time that black people and black men in particular came together was during the Millionaire Man March. And Farrakhan had to do that. Let me tell you something. The only time that I seen… I’m sorry, you’re right. It’s one other time outside of that. The main time that I seen black people come together for no reason was when they came together for the Millionaire Man March.

Millionaire March, and then they made some movies that came along with it. The only other time that I see black men come together in order to advocate for women is when they’re opening up a new strip club in your neighborhood. You know what I’m saying? But I’ve never seen so many black men come together outside of a ditty party to advocate for women to do things… The only other time I seen them come together was when they all wanted to go to a ditty party so they could get taller. I ain’t seen so many black men celebrities in the same room since they all said that they wanted to go to a ditty party.

The only other time. That’s it. That’s it. Is it just me? Is it me? Or is it this election? I don’t know. Let’s see what D.L. Hughley had to say on the news, on CBS Warnings, about candidates focusing on black male voters with Election Day right around the corner. Let’s get to it. The election likely to come down to tens of thousands of votes in battleground states. The candidates are tailoring messages for every single group that may have a vote up for grabs that could put them over the edge. One group, Harris, has been focusing on, as you’ve noticed, probably black men.

Just this morning, she was on the radio show The Breakfast Club, and two weeks ago she sat down with the host of The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne the God. There she rolled out her economic opportunity agenda, specifically for black men, which includes forgivable loans for black businesses. Former President Trump, for his part, has held roundtables with black voters, and he told an Atlanta crowd that African-Americans and Latinos who cast their votes for Harris need to have their heads examined, saying, quote, they’re really screwing you, unquote. Now, much has also been made of a New York Times poll from a few weeks ago that found that 20% of black men plan to vote for Trump, and that black male support for Harris is lower than it was for Biden in 2020.

Now, CBS News polling, however, shows that Harris support with black voters is pretty stable, and according to exit polls, is roughly on par with their 2020 and 2016 support. But the Harris campaign has made moves that make it look like they’re at least a little bit worried about this voting bloc. Our friends at BET, which, like us, is owned by Paramount Global, decided to go ahead and hear from black men. Tonight, their Black Men Summit premieres at 10 p.m. And that was last night, but let’s continue. 9 Central, actor, comedian, and radio personality, D.L. Hughley, hosts the conversation with black politicians, leaders, and artists.

And D.L. is with us now, and we’ll talk to him in just a second. But first, we want to play this exclusive clip from tonight’s special featuring Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson. Our socialization has taught us to praise people who are famous. Right. Our socialization has taught us to praise people who can get a lot of women and can say what they want and do what they want and have said, hey, that image of a, that’s an image of a real man. That’s an image of a strong person. That’s an image of a real leader who can just fire people at will.

Now, he running for president. And a lot of people are like, wait, no, that’s not. Hey, why are they talking like Trump wasn’t already president of the United States of America for four years? I asked the guy at the table today when I was going to pick up my pancake house on the way into the studio and I asked him and I said because they was talking about Trump, Trump, Trump. It was some older black man, 60 and above, most of them. And I’m going to go into it on the next segment. And I asked him, I said, hey, listen, if Trump is this bad and this is what he want to do to y’all, then how come he didn’t do it in the last last time that he was in office? He didn’t get a chance to.

I said, so if he didn’t get it, I said, so in four years, four, four years, he had an opportunity to create an agenda to where he didn’t focus on opportunity zones. He didn’t focus on continuing to fund HBCUs. He didn’t do any of that type of stuff, right? Instead, he actually advocated for it and y’all actually love Trump prior to him getting in the office and running for president of the United States of America in 2016. Why didn’t he push this agenda to where he wanted to unseat y’all and completely destroy your lives? Why didn’t he do it the first time around? These people are talking like he wasn’t already president of the United States of America, and we can’t see a large sample size of what his presidency would look like for us as individuals.

That’s not it anymore. But years of socialization have to that you want to leave the perception. Right. I got to wear shades. Good morning. Good morning, man. You know I love democracy. I’m up early in the morning trying to save it, baby. I hear you. I hear you. All right. Well, let’s talk about these vote totals that may or may not come in by black men voting for Kamala Harris. It would seem the campaign is at least a little worried, at least based on the Obama comments and where they’ve been going and the audience they’ve been having.

But other people say not so fast. This is all overblown. Where do you stand on the question? Well, ultimately, I think it’s a false choice. Because I think that it’s disingenuous to pretend that black men, we vote at a higher rate than any other demographic except black women. And I think we’re going to be there ultimately. But I think the media seems to be a bit one-sided. I think it is legitimate to ask the question whether Kamala and the campaign is concerned about the perceived erosion of black men. But it would be a more honest approach would be why is he eroding that we can talk to DeAndre at the barbershop in Detroit.

Why aren’t we talking about him losing Dick Cheney and Geraldo Rivera and Jeff Flake? So it seems a bit one-sided. I think that she’s working as hard as she should to reach out to people who are an important constituent and to hear their concerns. It’s also important to remember that Donald Trump has been the top of the ticket for the Republican Party for 10 straight years. Hey, let me ask you all a question. The question was about the engagement of black people and whether or not they’re going to continue to vote for Kamala Harris, considering that we’ve traditionally, as a black population or as black culture, swung in favor of Democrats, but more and more of them, men in particular, are moving towards the party of the Republican because we are largely considered conservative in our lifestyle anyway.

The question was about her ability to court this demographic. The same thing happens every single time. And you know what that is? Somehow, some way, they start talking about how much they don’t like Trump. It’s free promotion, baby. It’s free promotion, baby. Every single time, somehow, some way, they go into what they don’t like about Donald Trump, no matter what the question is. And it’s never come up with a plan. He has concepts of a plan. 120 days, she’s been out and already has a plan that was an agenda for black men that they constructed.

So I think you can see that. Yeah, I’m not really interested in marijuana laws being decriminalized on a federal level. That don’t really affect me. The difference is right there. D.L., just this morning on the Breakfast Club, Kamala Harris said that brothers aren’t saying that they are going to Trump, that that is overplayed in the media. But the polls are what they are. Or do you think the polls aren’t accurate? Well, I think the quickest way, I say this all the time, the quickest way to make a black dude lie to you is ask him a question with a clipboard in your hand.

So I think, you know, if there are people who are reticent to speak to pollsters who are Trump borders, I think that that would be true of anybody, I think. But I don’t know the methodology. I know, personally, this is not anecdotal, but I don’t know anybody who’s ever been polled before. But ultimately, I think this is an opportunity for young black men or black men, period, to do something I’ve never seen the political process avail them to. And that’s an opportunity to tell people what they want. And I think she’s done that and she was doing that before she was the top of the ticket and she’s doing it now.

And I think she’s laid out an agenda that is full of the things that a lot of black men have said they wanted. And I think we have an obligation to see if she is true to her word. So, no, no, no, I haven’t heard anybody ask black men what they wanted. And I’ve seen them roll out a set of policies or a set of revised versions of what they’ve already had on the books to then try to appease. And that’s why even when you looked on the website, it says to black men and others. And then right under those summary talking points, do you know what you’re saying? Right under those summary talking points, do you know what you’re saying? You’re seeing an ad about how it is that you need to be afraid of Donald Trump.

You’re seeing an ad of how you need it to be afraid of Donald Trump. Look at it. I can pull it up for you right now. No worries. We’re going to go ahead and do so because this is my show and I can do what I want when I want to do it. And nobody can tell me what to do because I don’t I don’t control. I’m not controlled and I’m not a paid shill. Nobody can control me and nobody can tell me what I can and can’t talk about. Guess what? I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

Yep, I do what I want to do when I want to do it. So if I go to it, there will be no subscribing for me. If I go to it, I can look at it. Oh, smack to black entrepreneurs and others. Already got good health care coverage, so I’m not really focused on that. I’m good because the National Health Equity Initiative is applicable to everybody. I don’t really care about legalizing marijuana and the unjust barriers of smoking trees every day on a federal level. I don’t care. And then all the rest of this stuff is applicable to everybody because it’s just the reform.

It’s the revised version of what she’s saying as far as going after corporate America, who already have low margins in the grocery sector for price gouging for food and groceries. How is this applicable to black men? How are you? And again, this is the revised version and that’s why. Oh, man. Oh, my God. How bro. And then look, check this out right after that. Look at Donald Trump. He’s a serious threat to the lives and opportunity of black Americans and men trying to fear mongering and trying to fear mongering. But let’s continue. What do you think are the biggest misconceptions about black men voters? I know that one of the things that black men wanted that nobody paid attention to and everybody called us because I don’t even I’m not even under the thumb of a child support.

They wanted revisions to the family court laws. Guess what you heard? Zero zilch nada. One of the things that black men said that they wanted because they just threw these initiatives out there and nobody wanted to have a conversation about it. One of the things that black men said that they wanted is they wanted to update family court laws that was established at a time where women didn’t have as many rights as they have now. And women have the right to choose for themselves. They have the ability to be able to make as much money as men.

And by default, the family court laws are still slated in favor of women. Yet we want to say we want equal for all. Why aren’t we updating family court laws to better or less or to more more importantly reflect the values and the ways in which opportunities are being presented to women today. And guess what everybody said. It was silent. You know what they always say. They say everything should be equal. Equal work for equal pay. People should have the right to do what they want to do with their own body. My body, my choice. Do what you want to do when you want to do it.

OK, cool. Since everything is equal, can we update the family court laws? No, you a man. You need to man up. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought you said everything is equal and I thought you wanted to know what men wanted. No, you a man. Wait, wait, wait. Is it equal or are we separating it? Because if I want to go and use your bathroom, you OK with it. If I want to go and play in your makeup and then dunk on your head, then you cool with it. If you let me get in the boxing ring and then go and use the bathroom next to your daughter, you cool with it.

But when you ask me what I want and I say that I want to update family court laws to be more reflective of what we’re looking at in society today, you said that I need to man up. You don’t really care about what I think. And guess what? I’m not even a person that is affected by it, but I’m listening to my constituents. I’m listening to my constituents and I would love to make sure that I address your needs and concerns reasonably if it makes sense. And guess what? It makes sense. But I don’t see anything.

I don’t see anybody asking men what they want because the minute that they say what makes sense and what’s fair and equitable for all, they ignore you. Listen, they don’t want to hear nothing that you’ve got to say. They want to throw you crumbs and say eat. Eat them crumbs. Take them little crumbs off the table. And guess what? Even updating family court laws, nobody is saying that you’re giving us a handout. We’re just saying that we want a fair playing field. We want an equal playing field. Nobody is saying give us diversity, equity, and inclusion and give us a handout.

We don’t want your marijuana. We don’t want your loans. We don’t want none of that. All we want is the ability to have a fair playing field so we can make it make sense when you decided that you wanted to align yourself with feminism and leave the family. We said my money, my choice. Your body, your choice, my money, my choice. Why should you by default get the kids? Who said that you was the best parent? Shouldn’t the best parent or the one that has the capacity or the availability of resources to be able to parent that child effectively, to put them in a strong household, in a great community? Shouldn’t it be on a case by case basis instead of it default be swinging in the favor of a woman just because she’s a woman? Because if the woman, men aren’t complaining.

Hey, if the woman is the one that’s the best for the kid, all I’m asking you to do is to allow for me to play a role in his life and we can figure it out from there. It’s a case by case basis. It should not be default slanted in one favor or another. Equal is equal, right? It’s whoever is the best for the child and also who is the most fair when it comes to making sure that the child has the ability to participate in both parents’ life. Who can give this child the best situation and the best life? I don’t really understand why that’s such a bad thing.

How come nobody is talking about that? Listen, when I run for president of the United States of America, the first thing that I’m going to do. No, no, no, no, no, no. I’m not doing nothing until I change and advocate all the way up to the top of the top. I want Congress to work with me. Congress members, Congress, I’d love to have you vote. Before we solve for anything that’s happening, the first thing that I want to do is I want to make sure that we update our laws to more effectively be a reflection of what we see society going into today.

And it is unfair. I mean, I don’t like it. It’s almost become a racket. And we need to make sure that we update family court laws to be more reflective and for these judges to participate and keeping families together and making sure that they do the thing that’s in the best interest of the child. No, not for any special demographic. It’s about the children. It’s about the children. When I become president of the United States of America, when I run my campaign, my first first action is for us to update family court laws and may the best parent be the one that gets the majority of the custody.

Everybody get joint custody. You get joint custody. You get joint custody. Yeah. Yeah. And we’re going to make sure that we hold these judges accountable to ensure that they are not substituting child support for alimony. That way, prenuptial agreements are absolutely 100% full in effect enforced. And another thing, since we go in ahead and putting our agenda out there for 2034, where Anton is going to be running for president of the United States, 2034, 2036. And another thing while we at it. Paternity require paternity at the birth of the child. Require paternity at the birth of the child.

Yes. It is no longer going to be default, what she puts on a birth certificate, and then that’s the person that pays child support. We’re going to find out and we’re going to proactively hold people accountable for who they open up their legs to. And guess what? More of your money is going to go in your pocket. You don’t even need no tax cut. You’re going to get all of your own child support back because we’re going to realize and figure out the fact that she had sex with somebody that wasn’t you and had a child and we’re not going to require you to take care of that kid.

Paternity at the birth of the child, and people going to start being more careful of who they open up their legs to. Listen, I got real solutions. I got real bipartisan solutions that’s going to help the everyday American. And guess what? Guess what? That’s not even just for black men. That’s for all men. That’s for all men. My agenda in 2036 is going to be absolutely 100 percent. A bipartisan working across both sides of the aisle because both Democrats and Republicans alike are the ones that’s suffering at the hands of family court law.

It should not be this way. We’re not gonna put a cap on insulin, we gonna put a cap on lawyer’s fees. We’re not gonna put a… Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. We not putting a cap on insulin, we putting a cap on lawyer’s fees. Yes, we are. Forgive the cap on insulin, some of us can just eat right, forget that. Listen, eat right, you ain’t gotta worry about no insulin. We putting a cap on lawyer’s fees. Yeah, yeah, we not gonna drive people bankrupt just because they no longer wanna sit there next to the person that don’t have their best interests at heart.

We putting a cap on lawyer’s fees. Now, if you wanna know what men really want, I could tell you what men want. And it ain’t no federal non-banding on marijuana. Let’s hear what the rest of the DOU we gotta say. I think that we’re not involved. I think that we’re not engaged in things. Everything society cares about, we do. We care about our economic prospects. We care about being involved in the wealth-making mechanisms of this country. We care about a woman’s bodily autonomy. We care about the environment. We care about schools. So we’re no different than anybody else.

I think what is different is this is the first time in my recent recollection or in my memory at all. And when women decide that they wanna put the wrong man on the birth certificate intentionally, that is a felony and you are going to be prosecuted at the fullest extent of the law. That’s falsifying documents. That is the equivalent of filing false documents in order to enrich thyself. That is going to be a felony by default. Oh, but somebody asked us what we wanted. I’ve been married a long time. My wife ain’t never asked me what I wanted.

So it’s a different process, but I think, I think, what do you want? Is this a trick question? I think it is interesting and it shows how important we are. But we have to understand, like a lot of demographics that understand, politics is transactional. You don’t have to deify a politician or worship a politician. You don’t have to be, they are a tool to get what you want. And I think for the first time, not only are black men being asked what they want, but they’re coming up with specific things that they need to have to feel like they’re participating in this process.

Dio, let’s talk about the summit, which premieres tonight on BET. What is something you learned from it? And a misconception, something debunked, any takeaway for you personally from what you learned? Well, what I have learned is that we are, we’re not a monolith. We’re, we’re, we’re, we’re, we’re demographic. The gap. We don’t even know what he’s doing. He don’t even know how to talk right. We’re not going to worry about Dio. We’re going to get to him in a minute. [tr:trw].

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