RFK Jr. The Defender - September 01, 2021


Medical Apartheid with Kevin Jenkins


Episode Stats

Length

28 minutes

Words per Minute

189.94145

Word Count

5,407

Sentence Count

387

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

26


Summary

Kevin Jenkins, co-producer of Medical Racism and founder of the Urban Global Health Alliance, joins Jemele to discuss his journey to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the anti-racist, anti-big government movement. He also discusses his new venture, PROBLE, and how he is using his experience as a real estate developer to build a better future for his community and the country. He also talks about how he and his partner, Bobby Lee, have been able to unify the fight against Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Education, Big Ideology, Big Government, and Big Money in order to create a healthier, more just, and more just world. Kevin also shares his vision for the future of his organization and what it means to be a good neighbor and a good friend. This episode is a must-listen for anyone who is interested in joining the movement to fight Big Government and big pharma. In order for us to be free, we must be free from Big Business and Big Tel, and we must fight Big Tel and Big Government. We must all be free of Big Tel. - Dr. James Waller, Dr. Henry Healy and Dr. Sinead Healy, The NITAC Consortium, Breaking the Back of the PCR Test Project, Breaking The Back of Big Pharma and the DNA Testing Project, and Breaking The Phosphor Test, and The DNA Testing Cartel, joins us in this episode to talk about how we can all work together to break the back of Big pharma, Big Tel's monopoly, Big Money, Big Colopoly, Big Big Telco, Big P, Big C, Big Prada, and the Big P.C., and Big Tech's Big P? and much more! Music: "Dr. James W. Cahill" - "In Need of a Better Future" by Kevin Jenkins (Music: "Racism" by Jeff Perla & Bobby Lee (feat. Kevin Jenkins) - "Good Morning America" by John Singleton Join us in the Fight Against Bigger Minds (featuring Bobby Lee and Bobby Hawley ( ) & Dr. Jay Sheeran ( ) - "Podcasts: "Goodbye Bigelows" is out on the road to a Bigger Future, Bigger Is Better, Biger Minds" by Bobby Lee ( ) and the NTEAC ( )


Transcript

00:00:00.000 For those of you who don't know Kevin Jenkins, you're in for a treat.
00:00:04.000 Kevin is, I would say, you're a very close friend of mine, Kevin.
00:00:08.000 And over the past year, you've become really a dynamo, a juggernaut in this movement.
00:00:15.000 Kevin co-produced the film Medical Racism with me.
00:00:19.000 I know that he's gotten a lot out of our relationship, but I have gotten even more.
00:00:25.000 Kevin, welcome so much to the podcast.
00:00:28.000 Thank you very much.
00:00:30.000 Thank you very much, Bobby.
00:00:31.000 How you doing, buddy?
00:00:32.000 I'm great.
00:00:33.000 Tell us how you are.
00:00:34.000 Well, you know, Bobby, this has been a very, very interesting year and a half.
00:00:38.000 Last year, sometime in Connecticut, Jamel Hawley and I were talking about medical freedom, you know, religious freedoms and medical exemptions that we were having a problem in New Jersey.
00:00:49.000 He came to my house and started talking to me about what was going on.
00:00:52.000 And he introduced me to you a couple of months ago.
00:00:55.000 I think it might have been a month ago in Connecticut.
00:00:57.000 And you gave this presentation about the impact.
00:01:01.000 Well, as you know, Bobby, you know, we've known each other for a while.
00:01:04.000 And, you know, I've been working on building Urban Global Health Alliance.
00:01:07.000 And our single focus at Urban Global Health Alliance is to change the culture of health in this country, you know, through public policy, education, and of course, advocacy.
00:01:17.000 So we've been doing that work.
00:01:18.000 And I think the work That we're really doing kind of spun out of the meeting that we had last year.
00:01:25.000 I think when you were here fighting for medical exemptions, for New Jersey's to keep medical exemptions, I think because of all the work that you've been doing and I've been doing, it was a perfect synergy for me to take an institution by the throat, like the Urban Global Health Alliance, which we created after that meeting,
00:01:41.000 to push it out into the world because we believed in the Black community and the white community that retail, advocacy, education, and public policy was the way to start to bring the debate together, like bring our communities together, white and Black together, to talk about how we can unify The fight against this tyranny that we see that's in full bloom now.
00:01:58.000 So from last year to this year, I've been to 57 cities, 37 states.
00:02:03.000 Last year to this year, I helped to co-produce the movie Medical Racism, which has been really I mean, people are responding to that all over the country, white and black, which I'm very, very happy about.
00:02:14.000 And this year, we have moved beyond just giving speeches.
00:02:18.000 One of the things I think people see me as giving speeches every day, but I'm building institutions every day that's going to drive Or give us the ability to move past the world that we live in today to build a bridge to a better future for us.
00:02:30.000 That we can still have ownership in our lives.
00:02:32.000 We can still love our families.
00:02:34.000 We can still be free to breathe.
00:02:36.000 We can make the decisions around our body sovereignty.
00:02:38.000 That we will embrace informed consent and educate how we can all work together to do that.
00:02:44.000 So this year, you know, I'm a part of the NITAC consortium with Dr.
00:02:48.000 Sin Lee and Dr.
00:02:49.000 Henry Healy and Dr.
00:02:51.000 James Waller and Dr.
00:02:51.000 Cahill.
00:02:52.000 And we're working on breaking the backs of the PCR test.
00:02:55.000 I think you might have heard something about that.
00:02:57.000 This year, you know, I went on a national tour through the heartland where I was pretty amazed how awakened, not awoke, how awakened America is to this issue and how they're prepared and working together to fight back against the tyranny.
00:03:13.000 I think one of the greatest tyrannies of our time, big pharma, big tech, The banking industry, the education cartel.
00:03:20.000 I call it the education cartel for many, many reasons.
00:03:23.000 So I've really been excited.
00:03:24.000 And then we created a development corporation that we're looking at properties all around the country to build community again.
00:03:31.000 You know, to what does it mean to build community?
00:03:34.000 So we've done that called PROBLE, which means new community.
00:03:37.000 And I have some history in the development space.
00:03:39.000 I grew up in community economic development.
00:03:42.000 I've ran several nonprofits.
00:03:44.000 I've ran several real estate operations where we did large commercial developments, creating jobs all through the city of New York and greater New Jersey.
00:03:51.000 So I've taken all of that history and I've kind of put fire underneath me to really start to say, listen, in order for us to be free, in order for us to fight against the segregation of our time, in order for us to fight against Against bigotry of our time, we need to bring all those things together and start working to show people that if we work together, we can build that bridge to the future.
00:04:13.000 So that's what I'm really excited about.
00:04:15.000 So when people see me talking, it comes from a long history of understanding how to build communities, a long history of understanding how governments work, a long history of what institutional science we need to break away from what we see, I think, as some of the most horrible things That are happening to black communities all around the world.
00:04:37.000 There's a poll that just came out, a national poll, that showed that the two demographics that are most, what they call vaccine applicants, are PhDs and African Americans.
00:04:51.000 How do you explain that?
00:04:53.000 Well, I'm surprised PhDs were in that list.
00:04:55.000 I never knew they were really smart.
00:04:57.000 I got a couple of them in my family.
00:04:58.000 You're going to beat me up about that.
00:05:00.000 But I got to tell you, you have to understand, Black Americans have a deeper understanding of these industries better than anyone, and in particular, Big Farmer, with all of the chronic illness in our community.
00:05:10.000 What all of the experimentation that has happened in our community, what they understand that they don't ever need to or ever want to trust the system that has trapped them into the health system that they are now paying more attention to because of this COVID narrative that came out, that more Black Americans are dying of COVID Than anybody else.
00:05:31.000 Not saying that we're the most chronically ill because of the things that we have accepted in our own lives, but the things that this industry has been perpetuating for the last 50 to 60 some odd years.
00:05:42.000 And I think that they understand it.
00:05:44.000 And I think they are willing to now wake up and start fighting back against it.
00:05:49.000 I mean, better than I actually thought they weren't.
00:05:51.000 I didn't think they understood it.
00:05:53.000 But guess what?
00:05:54.000 I was wrong.
00:05:54.000 And I'm very proud to say that Black Americans are really, really waking up, really doing more research, really turning off the TV, really going back and looking at the history, looking at Margaret Sanger, looking at eugenics, looking at Tuskegee, look what's happening in Africa.
00:06:09.000 And they are tying it all together.
00:06:11.000 And they're asking a very important question.
00:06:13.000 When did white America and this industry ever care about us that much that they want to give us something for free?
00:06:18.000 I think that was very basic.
00:06:20.000 Somebody said that to me one day, and I was like, wow, that's pretty simple.
00:06:24.000 I never thought about it that way.
00:06:25.000 But think about it.
00:06:26.000 Like when that, you know, now they have lotteries now for the take the, I call it the injection of whatever you want to call it.
00:06:33.000 And now they're saying that if you go to your job, we'll give you a bonus.
00:06:37.000 Oh, by the way, we'll give you better housing.
00:06:39.000 Oh, by the way, we'll give you an opportunity to go to better schools.
00:06:45.000 Now, that is coercion at a whole other level.
00:06:49.000 I mean, that's what that is.
00:06:50.000 And I think that Black Americans now are saying, now you're going to force us to take it because you're going to take out jobs?
00:06:55.000 Well, that's a problem for us.
00:06:57.000 And I think that this is the trigger.
00:06:59.000 Six months ago, I didn't understand it, but now the trigger has happened.
00:07:02.000 And I think Black Americans are waking up and pushing back.
00:07:05.000 I was in New York the other day speaking in front of some union members.
00:07:08.000 I could see the energy.
00:07:10.000 I could see the thinking.
00:07:11.000 I can see their brains opening up to the fact that We're in a crisis to save our humanity.
00:07:17.000 I just spoke in New York again at Columbus Circle, and guess what?
00:07:20.000 The same energy, the same focus, black and white, everybody coming together.
00:07:24.000 It reminds me of the civil rights movement in the sense that people are starting to say, we have to come together to fight against this.
00:07:32.000 This is not about race.
00:07:33.000 It is not about class.
00:07:35.000 It is about power, period.
00:07:37.000 That's right.
00:07:38.000 Tell me some more of that.
00:07:41.000 What kind of stories are you seeing or hearing on the ground?
00:07:45.000 Who are these people?
00:07:46.000 Are they mothers?
00:07:48.000 Are they grandmothers?
00:07:49.000 Are they old people?
00:07:50.000 Are they young black men and women?
00:07:53.000 All of the above.
00:07:59.000 I mean, to have the privilege to go across the country and not run for office is a pleasure.
00:08:05.000 It was really wonderful.
00:08:07.000 So let me tell you what I'm hearing in the heart lane.
00:08:10.000 Kevin, we need to do something.
00:08:12.000 We want to fight back.
00:08:13.000 We're going to go after our school boards.
00:08:15.000 Guess what?
00:08:16.000 How do we do the rest of it?
00:08:18.000 I said, educate yourself and absorb the power you already have in you.
00:08:22.000 Now, let me tell you what that means.
00:08:24.000 When I'm talking to the heartland, they're basically with us now.
00:08:28.000 I didn't know that.
00:08:29.000 They're basically tied in.
00:08:30.000 They're like, we don't trust the government anyway.
00:08:32.000 And let me tell you what they have done to us.
00:08:34.000 Let me tell you what they have done to our land.
00:08:36.000 Let me tell you what they have done to our rights.
00:08:39.000 So they are like really in a position to say, hey, we don't want any part of this.
00:08:44.000 We want to work with you.
00:08:46.000 It's not about race, Kevin.
00:08:47.000 And then the emotional side of it is, how could they do this to us?
00:08:51.000 How could they take our rights from us?
00:08:53.000 And I have one message for them when they do that.
00:08:56.000 Every time I get off the stage, Bobby, women are crying.
00:08:59.000 Men are coming up and hugging me.
00:09:01.000 Men are saying, Kevin, I'm so happy you're having this conversation with us.
00:09:04.000 We thought people in the North or people around the country didn't like us.
00:09:09.000 Guess what?
00:09:10.000 We're willing to work with anybody.
00:09:12.000 We want to educate ourselves.
00:09:13.000 Can you come back?
00:09:14.000 Can you have more meetings in our community?
00:09:16.000 Can you show the documentary on medical racism?
00:09:19.000 I've done that every city I've gone to, but not on this tour, because it was like we were just moving so fast.
00:09:24.000 But I got to tell you, they're waking up in the heartland in the Midwest.
00:09:27.000 When I come closer to the Northeast, I think people are starting to see it, in particular in the Black community, because you have Black leaders that are telling Black Americans, it's okay to take an experiment of biologic.
00:09:39.000 That might destroy you as a group.
00:09:41.000 It's okay.
00:09:42.000 So what they're doing now, they're looking at all of those people and say, we don't trust you anymore.
00:09:49.000 We're looking at the information.
00:09:51.000 Why are you putting pressure on our jobs?
00:09:54.000 Why are you saying, if I work for the New York Housing Authority, I have to take an experimental biologic?
00:09:58.000 You should know better, Black leader.
00:10:00.000 You should know better, Black church.
00:10:02.000 You should know better, Black medical professional.
00:10:04.000 You should know better.
00:10:05.000 Why are you teaching us?
00:10:06.000 Why are you telling us that?
00:10:07.000 And that's where the resistance is.
00:10:09.000 There's a lot of people quietly That have been following us, Bobby, over the last year and a half and probably following you longer than me.
00:10:17.000 So, but they understand and they trust us because we've been in the middle of this fight one way or another.
00:10:22.000 You know, fighting for human rights, fighting for stronger communities, fighting for economic development in our community, building projects where people can have quality living, quality shopping, quality, you know, family time, building new kinds of schools that will allow us to build effective human capital for the future.
00:10:38.000 But now they see it in full bloom that if they don't fight back now, they won't have anything available to them ever.
00:10:46.000 They understand what the banking system is doing.
00:10:48.000 They understand what the education cartel is doing.
00:10:51.000 They understand that they don't trust the medical industry.
00:10:54.000 And what the medical industry has been, the big pharma has been very clever of trying to position Black Americans that look like me to do it.
00:11:01.000 So I always remind people that that's what happened during Margaret Sanger, during the eugenics era.
00:11:07.000 So it's really interesting.
00:11:09.000 Explain that to people, that Margaret Sanger had a project who was eugenicist, who was a racist eugenicist, who started Glenn Barenhood.
00:11:18.000 She did a project to recruit black preachers.
00:11:24.000 In her private notes, she says we've got to convince blacks and We don't want to kill them all.
00:11:32.000 But it's clear for Venosa that's exactly what she wanted to do.
00:11:36.000 She wanted to get these guys.
00:11:38.000 We call it the Negro Project.
00:11:40.000 It was a book, and I think I've read this book.
00:11:43.000 Yeah, right, right.
00:11:45.000 The Negro Project.
00:11:46.000 And what she did was she actually went around the country convincing prominent Black Americans, prominent Black ministers, To convince Black people, Black women, Black families to abort their children, which are part of her master plan because she thought that Black people were not worthy to live the life that they were living.
00:12:05.000 She thought they were unclean.
00:12:07.000 They were uneducated.
00:12:08.000 She thought that they should be wiped out, that Black people had no place on this earth, and that she was singular focus on Black white supremacy.
00:12:16.000 That was the key, her key movement, white supremacy.
00:12:20.000 Even Nazis came to talk to her about how could they do the same thing to the Jews in Germany.
00:12:25.000 But what she did, and people don't understand this, and we're seeing it again, Black Americans that call themselves leaders in the church, Black Americans that call themselves political leaders, Black Americans that are pseudo-activists, Black Americans that are intellectual, pseudo-intellectuals, they have now been paid off To go into our communities and lie to the people.
00:12:48.000 Basically trap them back into a system where they will live in perpetual slavery.
00:12:52.000 Now that is evil.
00:12:53.000 When your own kind that looks like you, understanding the history that we have, understanding the troubles that we've had, understanding all of the health conditions that we have, that they will come into our community and tell people it's alright to give your body back over to the same people that have been trying to annihilate you.
00:13:11.000 That is very frightening.
00:13:12.000 Black Americans have the lowest vaccination rate of any demographic.
00:13:16.000 I think it's around 30%, 23%.
00:13:19.000 What happens when Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, says that unless you can show a vaccine passport, You cannot get into a shoe store.
00:13:31.000 You cannot take public transportation.
00:13:33.000 You can't go to the back of the bus.
00:13:35.000 You can't get on the bus.
00:13:37.000 You can't go to a bar or a gym or any public entertainment or public parks even.
00:13:44.000 I know how you feel about that because you've written about it.
00:13:48.000 And I'm basically just mimicking what you've said.
00:13:52.000 So let's hear it.
00:13:53.000 Let's hear it first.
00:13:55.000 Well, I gotta tell you, I think the bow has broken.
00:13:59.000 I think when he did that, I think he gave all of us that have been trying to educate and give power to people and give them the tools to fight back, I think he's helped us.
00:14:10.000 Because that is what it is.
00:14:12.000 It is racist.
00:14:13.000 It says that we are unclean.
00:14:16.000 It's saying that the same doors that I've fought for 60 years, 200 years, 100 years to get in, are going to be closed to me.
00:14:23.000 And it's going to have a direct impact on Black Americans.
00:14:26.000 I think what he did was give us the right thing.
00:14:29.000 That we need to understand that this is real.
00:14:33.000 I think Black Americans now understand this is real.
00:14:36.000 And I think they're prepared to fight back and join with all of the other people in New York.
00:14:41.000 I think New York is going to be alive in the next several months.
00:14:44.000 And I think that every restaurant that's saying, you can't come in.
00:14:47.000 And this is what I said at the speech yesterday.
00:14:49.000 I said, listen.
00:14:50.000 If you go into a restaurant, the same thing that happened to us in the 60s, 60-some-odd years ago, couldn't go into a diner because we were unclean, couldn't drink at the faucet because we were unclean, couldn't swim in swimming pools because we were unclean, couldn't travel because we were unclean.
00:15:06.000 We had to work through that system to get to where we are now to go in reverse.
00:15:11.000 I think Black Americans, Latinos, Jewish Americans, Greek Americans, anyone that came from other parts of the world that had to live in this way, they're going to understand it.
00:15:23.000 And it's going to give us more strength to beat them.
00:15:25.000 I think these people are moving fast.
00:15:28.000 They know time is running out.
00:15:30.000 And so they're trying to put us in a position of desperation.
00:15:33.000 No, we shouldn't be desperate.
00:15:35.000 We should say no.
00:15:36.000 We're not going to eat in those places.
00:15:38.000 We should do what they did in France, picnic outdoors.
00:15:41.000 No one should go into those places.
00:15:44.000 None of us should participate in it.
00:15:45.000 We should be saying no.
00:15:46.000 So if you can't go into a park, you got to stop paying taxes for a park.
00:15:50.000 If you can't get on the bus, you got to stop paying taxes for MTA. You have to divest yourself from that tyranny.
00:15:56.000 If not, they win.
00:15:57.000 You can't be comfortable and say, oh, it's not affecting me.
00:16:00.000 I grew up in Virginia and I was born in 1954.
00:16:05.000 My parents had a man working for our family.
00:16:09.000 His name was Bill Siegel.
00:16:10.000 He was a World War II veteran In World War II, Black Americans were not allowed to carry weapons.
00:16:17.000 But he had gone to serve his country, and he had served in the Seabees in the Pacific, which is a construction brigade, which is where a lot of Blacks ended up.
00:16:27.000 He came back, he was six foot four, very powerful man, very brilliant guy.
00:16:32.000 And when I was a kid, I liked to go catching hawks down in southern Virginia.
00:16:38.000 And he would drive me down there, and when we would go down there, we would go to places to eat lunch, and I would have to go in, order his lunch, and then I would bring it back out, and we would eat in the car.
00:16:51.000 One day, he took me to Salon Village, which was a little shopping center in McLean, Virginia, and he asked me to go into a shoe store and buy him shoes.
00:17:03.000 Because Blacks were not allowed into shoe stores.
00:17:07.000 And they had to buy shoes estimating their size.
00:17:10.000 They weren't allowed to try them on because they were regarded as disease carrying.
00:17:15.000 And that's why so many Blacks, when I was a kid, had corns on their feet.
00:17:20.000 They were famous for having chronic foot problems.
00:17:25.000 And the reason for that is because they weren't allowed into stores to try on their shoes.
00:17:30.000 They had to take whatever they bought.
00:17:31.000 Whatever size it was, they had to keep it.
00:17:34.000 And those laws, my state, a black man was not allowed to marry a white woman.
00:17:41.000 They had to be buried in a black cemetery.
00:17:43.000 They were identified by race on their birth certificate, their death certificate.
00:17:48.000 They weren't allowed to drink at drinking fountains.
00:17:51.000 They had their own public parks, et cetera, and transportation.
00:17:55.000 And that system was called Jim Crow.
00:17:57.000 Right.
00:17:58.000 And is this kind of a new Jim Crow that we're headed into?
00:18:03.000 Well, yeah.
00:18:04.000 You know, one of the things, Bobby, I've been very careful because over the last several years, I've seen the term Jim Crow.
00:18:11.000 I've seen the word systemic racism, structural racism be manipulated by a group of people that I don't believe care about Black Americans at all.
00:18:20.000 That's why this whole race narrative is so scary to me, because it's not about that.
00:18:24.000 But if you want to put it in those terms, Jim Crow was just about that.
00:18:29.000 Complete control of your body.
00:18:31.000 You know, you couldn't travel.
00:18:33.000 You know, you're right.
00:18:34.000 We couldn't go into stores.
00:18:35.000 But what we did, though, this is very interesting.
00:18:38.000 We went and built other local economies.
00:18:41.000 We built our own churches.
00:18:43.000 We built our own schools.
00:18:44.000 We built our own businesses.
00:18:45.000 And because Jim Crow emerged on us, they destroyed all of that through Tulsa, through New Jersey, through Virginia.
00:18:53.000 Everywhere we built black communities that were strong and investing in a community and investing in the future of America, they destroyed that because they saw us as the economic engine for their wealth.
00:19:05.000 Because remember, in the South, you know, they weren't trained to do anything.
00:19:08.000 The slave ran the whole house, ran everything.
00:19:10.000 So when we left and we started building a future for ourselves after Reconstruction, during Reconstruction, the white person at that time in the South, what did they want?
00:19:20.000 They said, no, we can't have that because we can't take care of ourselves.
00:19:23.000 They have to come back here basically and take care of us.
00:19:26.000 And we want this Jim Crow to take over and create policies that did what?
00:19:31.000 Those policies eviscerated the Black community.
00:19:34.000 Based on all the things you just said, but it's deeper than that.
00:19:37.000 It happened at the hospitals, right?
00:19:40.000 It happened everywhere where we lived and where we worked.
00:19:43.000 We could not go in to do the things that were necessary to protect our health, to protect our children, to protect our business, to protect the future of our group.
00:19:52.000 And it's coming back again.
00:19:54.000 But this is slightly different.
00:19:55.000 All of these forces now, they're students of that history.
00:19:59.000 So what they're going to do is not only are they going to trap us into poverty, but they're going to eviscerate what we look like in the future.
00:20:06.000 What does my grandson life looks like in the future?
00:20:10.000 What does my great-great-great-grandson life looks like in the future?
00:20:13.000 So I always try to tell people, understand the history, deeply understand the history, but understand where we're going now.
00:20:20.000 And guess what?
00:20:21.000 This is Jim Crow that's just not going to affect Black Americans.
00:20:24.000 It's going to affect everyone.
00:20:27.000 Everyone.
00:20:27.000 Everyone will be touched by this.
00:20:29.000 So it's not a Black issue now.
00:20:31.000 It's a universal issue, and that's what I'm trying to echo out there now.
00:20:35.000 You know, I think it's good that we focus on justice and on race, but I have this very uncomfortable feeling that this is not about bringing people together.
00:20:46.000 It's about dividing people so that we can focus on the differences between ourselves, the old bourbon strategy.
00:20:56.000 And we're not looking at what Bill Gates is doing and Mark Zuckerberg and Mike Bloomberg and the people who run these networks who control all the media in our country We're now making themselves billionaires by impoverishing the rest of us.
00:21:11.000 And it keeps us from focusing.
00:21:12.000 Yeah, you're right about that, Bobby.
00:21:14.000 Look, you talked about transfer of wealth.
00:21:16.000 You're talking about over $17 trillion.
00:21:18.000 I'm just talking about between Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, Trump.
00:21:23.000 I mean, maybe $17 trillion, even more than that.
00:21:26.000 And this next transfer of wealth based on...
00:21:31.000 That's right.
00:21:32.000 But I got to tell you, the reason why race is always used when it comes to the Black community is because it's a trigger.
00:21:41.000 Oh, race.
00:21:42.000 You know, white people are against us.
00:21:45.000 Or, you know, some other group out there stopping us from progressing.
00:21:49.000 Oh, by the way, these policies are in place to stop us from engaging in commerce and building community.
00:21:56.000 But this is what I try to explain to people.
00:21:59.000 Let me get this straight.
00:22:00.000 Because, you know, I live in a city.
00:22:02.000 You know, I live in a Black community, predominantly Black community.
00:22:05.000 My family has helped to build this community.
00:22:08.000 I've worked in government.
00:22:09.000 I've lobbied in D.C. I've lobbied in Trenton.
00:22:11.000 I've done all kinds of projects to bring growth to my community, economic development, looking at my cities as emerging markets.
00:22:19.000 White Americans are not destroying our communities.
00:22:22.000 We are.
00:22:23.000 And they have black mayors and black councilmen and black professionals in their communities.
00:22:32.000 Black, white peaked in those board members to do that.
00:22:34.000 We're not participating.
00:22:35.000 So when people start talking to me about race, I find it very interesting.
00:22:39.000 I'm like, well, why are we talking about race when we should be looking at our health conditions in our own community and taking control over that?
00:22:45.000 We should be looking at how to create better schools and better children, educating our children so they can participate in this emerging market.
00:22:52.000 Why is our government who set policies We're creating a narrative that somebody out there is doing something harmful to us when we just had a Black president.
00:23:02.000 We had a Black US Attorney General.
00:23:04.000 We got Black judges.
00:23:06.000 We have Black...
00:23:06.000 So wait a minute.
00:23:07.000 So let me get this straight.
00:23:08.000 So I understand systemic racism.
00:23:10.000 But I have people in Congress that look like me.
00:23:13.000 I have people in Senate that looks like me.
00:23:14.000 I have a party they might call the Democratic Party that says they care about me.
00:23:18.000 But when I look and do a trajectory of all of their policies, it doesn't reflect any growth for my community whatsoever.
00:23:24.000 Not whatsoever.
00:23:25.000 So when I have that kind of conversation, it makes people uncomfortable.
00:23:29.000 But the reason I can have it is because I lived it.
00:23:32.000 Because I've seen it.
00:23:33.000 And we have to be responsible for the future of our community.
00:23:37.000 The barbarian at the gate is not the problem.
00:23:40.000 The barbarian inside the gate is the problem.
00:23:42.000 And we have to have people that look like us stop masquerading like they're concerned about us when they already have sold us out.
00:23:50.000 Now, I hate to use that word sold out as overused, but they work for them.
00:23:54.000 They have chosen a side.
00:23:56.000 Anyway, so for me, that's where I'm at.
00:23:58.000 You know, I'm trying to get us focused on that.
00:24:00.000 Because Black Americans, we stay on the issue of race too much, and not talking about what do we do to make our communities better.
00:24:07.000 And this health issue, this health issue that's happening right now, this health crisis right now is starting that new dialogue.
00:24:15.000 People are starting to talk about chronic illness in our community.
00:24:18.000 People are saying maybe we should not trust our doctors that don't really care about holistic health.
00:24:22.000 You know, people are really starting to dig deep.
00:24:25.000 I get a lot of calls now about, Kevin, what do you think we should do?
00:24:30.000 Kevin, well, I didn't know this.
00:24:31.000 Kevin, I didn't understand this.
00:24:33.000 Kevin, how can you bring people around the table to have this discussion?
00:24:40.000 And I walked them through it.
00:24:41.000 I'm like, okay, this is where we are.
00:24:44.000 This is where we're coming from.
00:24:46.000 Here are all the partners that are part of us that are participating in it.
00:24:50.000 And we have a decision to make.
00:24:52.000 What's the decision?
00:24:53.000 Are we going to surrender?
00:24:55.000 Or are we going to fight back?
00:24:56.000 Are we going to take the lessons of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Megha Evers, Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, you know, Paul Robeson?
00:25:03.000 Or are we going to surrender?
00:25:05.000 Are we going to go back and look at history?
00:25:08.000 And say it's happening all over again, but it should never happen again.
00:25:12.000 And should we empower ourselves to say, no, that's it.
00:25:16.000 No, we're not going to do it.
00:25:17.000 No, we're not listening to you anymore.
00:25:20.000 Are you going to turn off your TV? Are you going to trust you?
00:25:22.000 Are you going to trust your God?
00:25:23.000 Because one of the things I've been noticing is the Black church has, without question, abandoned Black America.
00:25:30.000 They now work for them.
00:25:32.000 And when I say that, people say, Kevin, that's not true.
00:25:34.000 I say, well, show me one Black minister right now in your inner city that has come out and said, something is wrong with this.
00:25:41.000 And so when I challenge the Black church, because I've invested in the Black church, I've challenged the Black church because I'm a part of the Black church.
00:25:48.000 I've challenged the Black church because I understand Professor Cohn's theology, the liberating theology of Jesus Christ.
00:25:54.000 I understand it.
00:25:55.000 So I've studied under Dr.
00:25:56.000 Vincertema, studied under Dr.
00:25:58.000 Ben, studied under Dr.
00:26:00.000 Scobie, studied under Dr.
00:26:01.000 I've studied underneath all of them.
00:26:03.000 So the history is right there and is real for me.
00:26:06.000 So from an economic perspective, from a social perspective, from a community development perspective, from a business perspective, I've seen all of it.
00:26:13.000 It is right here in front of us.
00:26:14.000 If we don't start to push back in a very aggressive way, we will lose everything that we even think we attain.
00:26:21.000 And that's where I'm at right now, Bob.
00:26:23.000 Kevin, thank you so much for joining us.
00:26:25.000 Please tell our audience how they can support you and what you're doing and what you're up to now, how they can come and see you when you travel.
00:26:33.000 Well, I travel extensively.
00:26:35.000 I've been all over the country, but you can go to our website, Urban Global Health Alliance, and support us because we definitely need your support.
00:26:41.000 Last year when we started, we started with a nickel and we have people now calling and giving us support every day.
00:26:47.000 And so this is a very arduous project that we're working on because we're fully committed to it.
00:26:51.000 So if you can contribute to us at urbanglobalhealthalliance.com, we would greatly appreciate it because we need it.
00:26:58.000 We need it.
00:27:01.000 And you're about to go on tour, right?
00:27:03.000 Yeah, we're about to go on tour.
00:27:05.000 We're doing a medical apartheid tour where we're going to four cities, Los Angeles, Georgia, Detroit, and Chicago.
00:27:11.000 That's the first phase.
00:27:12.000 And we're putting on panel discussions with prominent doctors, Prominent lawyers, constitutional lawyers, prominent leaders in their community.
00:27:20.000 To educate Black Americans about what's at their doorstep, what medical apartheid is, the new discrimination, the new segregation, you know, and what COVID is getting ready to do to our lives.
00:27:32.000 When medical racism, when we did the documentary, now we're getting ready to go into all of these cities and have a bigger conversation that they have not had.
00:27:40.000 So I've been very, very blessed to be able to do that.
00:27:42.000 At Urban Global Health Alliance, we work every day, 24 hours a day, Retail, retail, retail, retail.
00:27:50.000 Because we realized that if we didn't inject ourselves right in the middle of those communities, right, nobody would be listening to us.
00:27:58.000 You can watch too many podcasts.
00:27:59.000 You could do that every day.
00:28:00.000 But we had to go meet them where they were.
00:28:02.000 So Angela Stanton King...
00:28:04.000 And that's Martin Luther King's niece, right?
00:28:07.000 Yes.
00:28:08.000 The American King Foundation...
00:28:10.000 And Urban Global Health Alliance are partnering to go to those cities to open up a bigger dialogue about what's getting ready to happen.
00:28:16.000 So UrbanGlobalHealthAlliance.com, we need you to contribute to us like today.
00:28:21.000 Kevin Jenkins, thank you very much.
00:28:24.000 I love you.
00:28:25.000 Thank you, too.
00:28:26.000 You're the best.
00:28:27.000 Thank you, man.