Oh, Build Power have a roll to the polls situation going on, right, in L.A., correct?

Absolutely.

So thank you so much for letting me come on and announce this quickly.

So Build Power...

They are the originator, as they might say, of Roll to the Polls, and it's an opportunity for folks to get free rides to the polls as well as some resources and some information.

It is Build Power.

It is Baji.

Well, what else do you want to tell us, Attorney Nana Jamfee?

um the cornell seven this whole um jane doe you know fraternity gang rape case um do you feel like i mean did you see any any of this kind of culture on the campus when you when you were a student there no it's been a minute but yeah

no of course listen i was in the same school system in high school with brett kevin uh do i have to say more This is who these people are.

This is them.

Him.

I drink beer.

People getting assaulted left and right.

This is how they are.

Is that accurate?

No one knows about Samuel Little? No one knows about his victims?

Yeah, because his victims aren't white women.

If you are a Black woman and you are a sex worker or you are an addict, then you are deserving of any horrible and terrible thing that happens to you.

That is, that is dark, isn't it? That's-

But that's the mentality, right? And when we look at the police reports that LAPD put together, so many of them have at the top, NHI, NHI standing for no human involvement.

The police literally describe this in which no human was involved.

The, the-

Panamanians who are darker than me who said they weren't Black.

Exactly.

So the reality is that there's defining.

Oh, my God.

That made me think of Sammy Sosa.

Let me skip over that, though.

So there's a definition issue.

And they said before they were broke, let me let Nana in, because I know you had a point you wanted to make.

I- if this cannot be good for the economy, I, I have to imagine that some of these industries are speaking up, right? To say, "Please don't take our workers," or are these industries being really quiet?

So I would say comparably the industries are being quiet, and why do I say comparably? Let us remember, I live in LA, right? In California.

When the body snatchers were running through the fields in the agricultural areas, Big Ag sat down with the orange menace and said, "Hey, uh, you gotta do something 'cause this is not gonna work out for us.

Like, you can't use machines for everything.

We gotta have some hands up in here." And they went and had those conversations, and of course Stephen Miller was like, and r- remember the same with the hotels, and Stephen Miller came out and said, "Absolutely not," after, uh, the orange menace had said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do something for you." But you didn't hear much about it, and I would say that you have had a reduction, um, not a complete, uh, elimination, but a reduction in the type of body snatching happening in those spaces because money talk to money and they try to figure it out.

I haven't heard that same thing here, so we're putting our ear to the ground, listening to see what do we hear from big business? What do we hear from unions? There are unions that are service worker unions, that are unions that are hotel unions, home healthcare unions, right? And these people are part of unions Um, haven't heard much from them either, so it'll be interesting to hear about that.

But also to understand in the greater context that they don't care.

What about churches? Are there other organizations that are allying with you?

Extreme Court has done, Attorney Nana Jomfi? And good morning.

Good morning, good morning, good morning.

So...

Yes, it's a lot that has happened in one decision.

And I think, so first of all, very glad that we had five justices.

They claim it's six, but I'll explain that in a moment.

It's technically six-three ruling to block the executive order that the Trump administration had put into place, which actually was not just targeting just children of undocumented mothers, but it was anyone who they felt had the kind of visa, either no visa or the kind of visa, where you weren't staying here.

And we've got three minutes, so I'm handing the mic to you to talk about the U.S. Supreme Court ending temporary protected status for Haitian and a few Syrian immigrants.

Um, what is BAJI's r- uh, position on all of this?

So firstly, one thing that we try to do at BAJI, it's really important to us, is to always put forth first the human part of this, right? And so beyond being workers, beyond being people that have boosted economies, that have brought s- towns and cities like Springfield from the dust into real life towns with a lot more happening because people were leaving, um, that were originally from Springfield because of the conditions in Springfield, we have to talk about the fact that Haitians bring their culture, they bring their spirit, they s- bring their energy.

They bring all of these things into communities, and they're part of the fabric, and they're part of the fabric that has been here for a long time.

Not just with, uh, my brother here, but W. E.

B.

Du Bois' family was from Haiti.

Um, th- Crispus Attucks was from Haiti.

I, I understand what you're saying, but there have never been more eyes on the Court, and I think that, for them, means that more people are attuned to what they're doing, and are more skeptical that what they are doing is law, because it looks and feels weird, and out of step, and out of touch, and not lawful, and not legal.

And this is by a legal scholar, Lawrence Tribe, that particular book.

Yeah, no, I have not read the book, obviously, or really even looked at the book.

Black folks, let's put it this way, Black folks have been talking about the duality of the Constitution forever.

Our mama, Fannie Lou Hamer, talked about the fact that the Constitution was drenched in the blood of Black folks, and we know from the very beginning that that before the 250th, when black people were here, through to today, that black people have always been talking about the fact that there's one constitution that we see, and then there's another way that this country is run, right? So that in itself is not new.

A lot of times we have situations in which white people with certain means and reputations, you know, write books, are able to come up with concepts that literally...

We were talking about even as sharecroppers and enslaved people in terms, but didn't have that same kind of, you know, access, let's say, to be able to write the books that we're going to do X, Y, and Z. I think that we are seeing the ways in which the Constitution actually is and what it is that, you know, what we see happening, the ways in which people's rights are violated, the ways in which the Constitution is being weaponized against black people and should not be surprising because that is the constitution that was written when black people were enslaved.

And so it has always incorporated our suffering.

Where do you see where we are on this and the possible outcomes here?

Yes.

So what is going on is that this regime and its supporters in the Supreme Court are getting on all fours.

They have just decided that they're just gonna be who they are, they're gonna revive the techniques of the CRASH units at LAPD, the Jump Out boys of NYPD, we can go, you know, the torture, um, folk, uh, cops in Chicago, and they're gonna say that all of that is okay because it's all right to racially profile people.

It's all right to profile people based upon the jobs that they work at.

It's all right to profile people based upon whether or not they have an accent.... and, and it, you know, but also we're gonna pretend that that's not racially profiling people, right? And we understand this specifically as Black people, immigrant or citizen, because when we think about how our children ended up on gang databases, hello? When we think about the racial profiling that had us being stopped left and right, stopped and frisked, stopped in our cars.

The whole Black Lives Matter movement and movement for Black lives is about how people are raci- Black people being racially profiled and then ended up dead or injured, and this Supreme Court has said, "Yes, that is fine," and it's also, "Don't worry, Angela, because you just have to carry a pass or a passport around, and so when they stop you because they think that you're from the Caribbean, that it do- don't worry, you just have to pull out your passport," when we know that we don't want our people to be under that pass condition.

And we can't, we got Black folks who can't get a real ID, so who are we really talking about here?

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

We had people being arrested in the courtrooms.

Eight people in Chicago, when I was in Chicago this past Friday, eight Black migrants, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.... just like that.

Families, wholes in our community, um, going into immigration court as they were supposed to do.

We see the expansion of detention at Adelanto, one of the main detention prisons outside of Los Angeles.

We had almost closed it down because that's what the law is, that they're supposed to be closed.

It was down to two people, now over 800 people are in there.

There you go.