From Chrisley’s to Corrupt Sheriffs: Why Justice Isn't Equal

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A Black Executive Perspective.

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Now presents need to know with

the award-winning hyphenated Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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Dr.

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Burton, what do we need to know?

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Dr. Nsenga Burtonn:

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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.

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I hope that you are having

a wonderful day today.

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I want to talk to you about the hypocrisy

of this democracy You may have been.

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Um.

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Minding your business and drinking

your water as people like to say.

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Um, uh, yo.

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That girl, Erica, she

says that on Instagram.

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Let me give her her credit.

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Um, but if you have not been doing

that and perhaps you're living under

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a rock, perhaps you just had so much

going on that you're like, I can't take

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another second of watching the news.

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'cause it's just horrible every time.

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Something you may have missed,

um, is, uh, 40 sevens pardon?

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Of the Chrisley Reality Show stars.

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Um, and, uh.

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Uh, Todd and I'm, I'm blanking on the,

um, the, the mother's name, but the

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Chrisley family, uh, they went to jail.

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Um, they were found guilty in Atlanta

and they did everything to evade arrest.

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They even moved to Nashville so they could

finish filming their film, uh, filming

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their show, uh, while they, uh, were on

trial before they were on trial and during

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the, uh, and when they were on trial.

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But they, uh, basically

defrauded, um, banks.

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Area banks, they basically will go around

and falsify documentation and get loans,

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um, and to the tune of $36 million.

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So this is not like a little sum of money.

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It's not $3,000, which

they lock people up for.

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You know, they put people

in jail in Atlanta.

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I live in Atlanta, by the way.

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Um, they put people in jail in

Atlanta for writing bad checks.

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They still do that in 2025.

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Um, you know, $3 check,

you might go to jail.

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Um, you know, something happens between

you closing the house and you moving into

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the house and for whatever reason, bank

account doesn't have any money in it.

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Whatever.

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I, I've heard all kinds of

things from people I've known.

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Um, you know, these things.

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So when you hear $36 million,

that's not a small sum of money.

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It's a huge sum of money.

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And then in addition to that, they

defrauded the I-R-S-I-E did not pay

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taxes, um, of half a million dollars.

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So part of being a citizen of the United

States, um, and why I don't complain about

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paying taxes, even though I do think they

are high, especially my property taxes.

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If anybody's listening, um, is

because that's a requirement of

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citizenship, you have to pay taxes.

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So, um, sometimes you, you know, you

have, you know, fines if you don't pay, if

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you pay late, all the things can happen.

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You might have an accountant, which was

my situation, who I thought was filing

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taxes and did not one year, 'cause he was.

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Having a moment or something.

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Um, and then you get that, that letter

in the mail, like, Hey, we noticed you

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pay your taxes every year, but we don't

have this, uh, is there a problem?

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You know, things of that nature.

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So taxes are important.

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Um, accountant's gone by the way,

but I'm still here, so I still pay

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taxes and I will pay them until

I go into the ground, I'm sure.

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Uh, but the point is, um, when you

defraud people of half a million

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dollars in taxes, the government, what

that does is it falls on other people.

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Uh, and it falls on people who

actually do pay their taxes.

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Um, it is very hard to get a

bank loan, um, if you are not

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a part of the establishment.

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I'll say that.

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Um, it is very hard to have a bankruptcy

and then to have to get bank loans,

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which is why everybody is perplexed.

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Why 47?

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Who's had, uh, I think seven

bankruptcies at this point and

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bankrupted a casino even, which I don't

even know how you do that, but, um.

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Can continue to get these loans and

get this money and all this stuff.

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Um, you know, over all these years,

we know all the intersectionality.

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We know, um, how you know, uh, who you

are matters more than, and then, um,

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what you do and have done in order,

uh, to get loans, um, from banks.

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It's just very hard to do in general,

um, especially if you do not have

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collateral or a ton of money to put up.

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And so, uh, what the Leys did,

because you know, they're obviously.

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Faking the funk.

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Um, and they are, you know, they

call themselves devout Christians.

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Um, you know, so that's the other thing

that is interesting about this hypocrisy

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and this democracy, um, how these,

uh, devout Christians are engaging in

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unrest in, in non Christ-like behavior.

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Um.

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And, you know, damning you to hell,

uh, while they're busy, uh, stealing,

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which is, you know, one of the 10

commandments you're not supposed to steal.

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But that's just basic stuff.

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Uh, the point is, is that

they have been pardoned.

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He also pardoned a, uh, sheriff in

my, um, home state Virginia, uh,

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who had taken $75,000 in bribes.

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Um, to either look the other way, to get

rid of evidence, to do things like that.

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So we think about our criminal justice

system and we think about who's in our

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employee, and we think about all of

the folks that go to jail, um, over

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little things, frivolous things, um,

and then people who are over prosecuted.

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So, 47 is saying that he thinks that

these people were over prosecuted.

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Well, we know that 47 has an ax to grind

with, uh, Georgia anyway, because he had

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the greatest chance of going to jail.

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Um, had they not con made up, um, you

know, this case against Fannie Willis,

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uh, he would probably, uh, and, uh, be

in jail based on the evidence that they

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had, which is also a recording of him

asking for, uh, the Secretary of State

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at the time to, um, find, uh, some votes

for him so that he could win Georgia.

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All right, so there's a recording of that.

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Um, so he has an ax to grind

against Atlanta anyway.

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Um, so of course he would pardon

these two reality stars who have

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thumbed their noses at, um, not only

the justice system, but also just

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all the systems that are in place.

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You know, whether it is lying to

numerous banks, falsifying documentation

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in order to get loans, allegedly.

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Um.

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And or, or not paying their taxes to

the tune of half a million dollars.

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Uh, and this is all while being on

television, all while, you know,

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purchasing multimillion dollar

homes, doing all of these things.

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So it's all very well documented.

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You don't actually have to, um,

have been seeing it, uh, or living

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it, I, I would say, to see it.

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Um, so what I think you need to

know today is that life is not fair.

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And if you have the expectation.

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Of fairness.

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Um, I would say it's also a privilege.

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The idea that you can even think that life

is fair, like you can be in business for.

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You know, a decade for yourself

and you cannot get a, a bank

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loan loan to save your life.

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You cannot procure a bank loan.

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You've never had a bankruptcy.

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You pay all your bills on time.

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You have money in the bank.

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You have a steady stream of customers.

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You can show all of this data 'cause

you have to collect this data to do the

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application of, um, you know, all of your

on time payments, all of the income that

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you've had, which you pay out all of the

things and you need this money to scale.

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This is work I used to do.

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Almost every single time it was a no

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yet.

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And still you have people who

defraud, defraud other people.

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They defraud banks.

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They defraud the IRS government

entities, and I promise you those

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crystals are gonna come out.

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Land on their feet.

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I promise you somebody's gonna be

giving them $10 million to do whatever

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the hell they wanna do with it.

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Um, despite their colorful,

their colorful past.

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You know, this is what I think

will happen because this is how

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it works in the United States.

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Right.

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Those who can buy their

way out of things, right?

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Um, you know, the people who are

aligned with people who are used

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to buying their way out of things.

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Um, when you have money and you come for

money, you have more resources people

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are willing to take a chance for on you.

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You have co-signers, right?

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You have people who can say, okay, if

Tony doesn't pay this loan back, I can pay

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it and you have a great payment history,

so then they'll let you go with it.

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Um.

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So I need you to know that

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not only is life not fair to many,

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it is for sale.

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To many as well.

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Um, and so unfortunately for the

bulk of us, and that's the majority

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of us, I mean even the white folks

who don't have money, which we don't

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ever talk about in this country.

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And then the one person who stood the op

stood the chance to, who actually wrote a

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book about it and had a great opportunity

to educate and help bring those folks into

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the fore, has now aligned himself with

a, uh, megalomaniac billionaire Trump.

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And I don't think he's a billionaire,

but you know, um, as vice president.

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Right, but even PE white people who don't

have money, and they are the majority

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in this country of the impoverished, um,

based on numbers alone, this is raw data.

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This is not per, per, per, uh, this is

not proportion, this is raw numbers.

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Um, you have the opportunity.

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Um, to help them get out of poverty

like the rest of us, um, to help those

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who have their own businesses, um, to

get out of poverty like the rest of us.

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Um, you defund the SBA, you defund

this agency, you defund that agency

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and then you turn around and free

people who are criminals and have

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defrauded these institutions that we

rely on in order to build businesses

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that do in fact help the economy.

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All right, so your president keeps telling

you he's a word in economy and economy.

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Economy.

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Oh, the tariffs are

gonna hurt a little bit.

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If you've been to the grocery store,

you see what the tariffs are doing.

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You've been to the grocery store, you

see how much more your groceries are.

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I'm gonna, I'm talking

about $3 differences now.

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$3 times 10, that's $30.

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That's an extra bill, right?

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Um, but what I need you to know is that.

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While people are holding your feet

to the fire and making sure that you

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do everything correct and having no

empathy for you and giving you little

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grace for like small, small things.

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You know, I think about people

who steal stuff outta the grocery

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store 'cause they are hungry.

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They're not selling, stealing groceries

and selling them somewhere else.

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Stealing groceries and eating

them 'cause they are starving.

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Um, and then you letting somebody

out who's stealing money to

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the two $36 million from banks.

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Right.

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But you know, if somebody went in

and robbed that bank of $3,600,

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they'd be in jail for 25 years.

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Right?

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But you get to go and do this

white collar crime and you get

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to go and serve a little time.

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'cause they only got sentenced in 2022.

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Um, and now you're coming out.

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And then they have the audacity to

pretend that they were persecuted.

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We were this overzealous prosecution.

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How can it be overzealous?

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It was $36 million proven.

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$36 million.

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It's all numbers, it's data.

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It's traceable.

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You did it half a

million dollars in taxes.

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It's traceable.

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You all know I got a bill the other

day for like a dollar something.

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There was like a dollar something.

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The difference between when I paid

the bill and when they did the taxes,

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uh, the, the interest and what I owed.

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They can follow that stuff to the t.

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You better pay that dollar

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something else is coming after it.

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All right, so I need you

to know life isn't fair.

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There are separate rules for

different people in society.

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Those who have money and are

aligned with people who have money.

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And I will also say are,

uh, morally bankrupt.

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Even though they call themselves

devout Christians, uh, seem to win

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a lot in society and seem to get

the most help and grace and empathy.

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Um, but it is disgusting to see that

people who are defacto criminals, um,

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are acting like their case is similar

to someone who is in jail for 30

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years, over a half an ounce of weed.

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You're pretending that you're over

prosecuted when you in fact defrauded.

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I.

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Banks and the IRS that is disgusting.

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It is not the same thing.

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You were not over prosecuted.

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You are getting hooked up by 47 who's

been prosecuted but never served any

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time and will not serve any time.

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And we all know that if any

of us did any of those things,

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we would be under the jail,

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under the jail, not in it, not behind

it, not next to it under the jail.

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So you're just seeing society

play out in real life, right?

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Those who have helped, those

who have those who have not

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gotta get it themselves.

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All right, so thank you

for tuning in today.

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Make sure you tune in next week

so you can hear from me again.

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Definitely make sure you check out A

Black Executive Perspective podcast,

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the awarding podcast award-winning

podcast by Tony and Chris.

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Um, 'cause they always have

wonderful things to say.

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They have great, uh, guests and wonderful

topics and make sure that you understand

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that there is a double standard.

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The price that you will have

to pay for something much less

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than what these folks have done.

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Um, it will be much greater.

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So don't do it.

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Have a wonderful day.

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Bye.

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