Don't Start None, Won't Be None: Tariffs, Trade, and the Fight for Power.

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A Black Executive Perspective now presents Need to Know

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with the award winning hyphenated Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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Dr.

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Burton.

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What do we need to know?

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Dr. Nsenga Burton:

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Good afternoon and welcome

to need to know with Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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I am she and today I am talking about

an African american proverb called

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don't start none won't be none.

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Of course, you know what I'm talking

about I'm talking about the man that

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man as Elizabeth says that man in

the White House Who continues to just

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poke the bear, poke the bear, throw

stones, hide his hands, all the things.

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I'm talking about the tariffs.

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Now, see, this is what

we've been talking about.

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Actually, we've been talking

about this since before.

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Uh, 47 came into office, it's

like, do you remember the chaos?

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Do you remember the, the constant,

you know, back and forth the

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flip flop and flip flop and flip

flop and all of those things.

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Well, they're back for a 2nd term.

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And in this case, it's

with the tariffs and, uh.

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47, making threats based on power that

he does not have right in the same way

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that he's been making just all these

proclamations, signing all of these

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documents that the judges, right?

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The courts are saying, actually,

that's power that you do not have.

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So, again, people have elected him

thinking that he can do all the things

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that he said he's going to do now.

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He's gonna try, but can he

actually do them with the 3,

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the 3 branches of government?

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That in existence to have checks

and balances, and then the judicial

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part, a branch of the government that

is really there, you know, for the,

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the guardrails now, whether or not

he listens to the judicial court.

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So, to the judicial, the judicial

branch, I don't know why I keep

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getting tongue tied on that.

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Um, that's another story.

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But what I am tripping over is this back

and forth with the tariffs with Mexico

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and Canada and China and then, okay, yeah,

we're going to, we're going to put these

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tariffs on you at 25 percent for this.

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And then Canada comes back with, okay,

we won't sell you liquor and we're

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going to put tariffs on you at 100%.

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They're not going like 50%, 75%, you

know, 30% like we're on, you know,

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the price is right or something.

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You know, you go up like 10, 10 points

to see if you can get over and get

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to the, uh, the wheel or whatever.

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No, no, no, no.

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They're like, oh, okay.

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You wanna do that?

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Okay, I'll see you 100% tariffs

on something you absolutely

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need and keep playing with us.

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We're gonna turn off your electricity

. So I think that, uh, 47 is.

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Writing checks that he cannot cash.

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That's not unusual for him.

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That's why he has all those, uh,

felonies, but, um, I think what

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we need to know today is that if

you are not in in place, right?

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If you are not in a place where you

can deliver on what you are promising.

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You probably shouldn't do it.

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If someone is minding their business, i.

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e.

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Canada, i.

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e.

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Mexico, they've been minding

their business pretty much, right?

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If they're minding their business,

don't go poking the bear, and don't go

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starting something that you cannot finish.

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The United States, yes, is a world power.

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The United States thinks it's the

world's, the, the world's strongest power.

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If we keep on, uh, doing the

things that we're doing, that

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is not going to be the case.

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It probably isn't anymore anyway.

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If you look at, you know, depending on

which category you're analyzing, right?

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Education, for example, it's a hell.

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No, we are not the leading place

where you want to be educated, right?

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And we can talk about other things too.

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But what you need to know is.

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Okay.

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If you don't have the power to do it,

stop saying that you're going to do it.

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All right?

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Don't start none, won't be none

means where people are minding

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their business, leave them alone.

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When people are not doing

anything to you, leave them alone.

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Don't be an agitator or an instigator.

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Now if you got to defend yourself,

that's something completely different.

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Somebody comes at you first and you're

defending yourself, which is what

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Canada is doing, which is what Mexico

is doing, which is what China is doing.

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That's something else.

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They're defending themselves against us.

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They're defending themselves against 47.

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That's a different story.

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So as the African American proverb goes,

don't start none and won't be none.

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When people are minding their

business, Leave them alone.

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When people are not messing

with you, leave them alone.

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Stop trying to start fights as

a distraction from all the other

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terrible things that you're doing.

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And please stop doing things and then

going back and saying, Oh, you know what?

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We're going to extend another 30 days.

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Oh, we're not going to do that.

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Oh, you know what?

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We're going to have to go back and

think about that a little bit more.

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That means you didn't think

about it in the beginning.

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You hadn't thought about it at all before

you started throwing out these cards

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that you don't and you don't have a hand.

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So we don't want the flip flop in 47 back.

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You know, it looks like

we're going to get them back.

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But what I want people to know,

and this is what you need to know.

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Don't go places acting like you got

power that you don't have because someone

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will call your bluff that someone today

is Mexico Canada and China and then

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what you got to tuck in your tail and

go back and say let me figure this out

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Let's go back and think about this.

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Maybe we can work this out What

so you can pretend to be a problem

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solver when you're a problem starter?

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No, thank you.

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No, thank you So what you need to know

is don't start none Won't be none.

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Leave people alone who aren't

doing anything to you and

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going about your business.

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All right, and that is Dr.

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Nsenga.

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Um, and thank you for joining us and

join us next week for a Black Executive

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Perspective Podcast, the award winning

A Black Executive Perspective Podcast.

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And of course, for another

need to know with Dr.

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Nsenga Burton, have a wonderful

day and remember whatever

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you do, mind your business.

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BEP Narrator: A black

executive perspective.