We always talk about the money. Follow the money. Well, the Trump administration is moving to dismantle a landmark federal program that has supported minority and womenowned businesses for more than four decades. This could have major consequences for black entrepreneurs and the people that work for them. The Department of Justice has filed a proposed settlement to end the $ 37 billion disadvantaged business enterprise program.
It allocates at least 10% of federal transportation funding uh to firms owned by historically marginalized groups.
The move comes after two white-owned Indiana construction companies sued the Department of Transportation 202323 arguing that their DBE program was unconstitutional and amounted to discrimination against non minority businesses. Now, now mind you, 90% of the $700 billion dollar in federal contract goes to white people. And of the minority and women business enterprises, white women get 78% of [Applause] that. No shock.
Donald Trump administration sided with the white plaintiff stating that the program’s race and genderbased requirements quote can no longer pass constitutional scrutiny in light of recent Supreme Court decisions which is actually [ __ ]. If a federal judge approves the settlement, the DBE program will be permanently dismantled, putting at risk the livelihoods of 49,000 minority and womenowned businesses that rely on these contracts to grow and compete in the 759 billion transportation sector. Matt, this is why this is [ __ ]. They are trying to take the Supreme Court decision regarding race and admissions applied to everything. That’s [ __ ], Matt.
The Supreme Court is on record as laying out the parameters of affirmative action in contracting in previous decisions. So this college admissions ruling should have no bearing on the other programs which the Supreme Court has already established precedent.
Now they can always overturn that precedent. But to say that the college admissions Supreme Court decision now impacts every other is a lie. Which is exactly why they’re framing it this way to try to extend or modify the law.
Um, there’s a a rule in the federal rules of civil procedure that says you can try to modify existing law in certain circumstances and that’s what they’re trying to do.
They’re trying to engraft that upon any issue or there is a racial component to it or they they think there’s an affirmative action component to it and they’re trying to take that logic and attack every single thing Allah Edward Bloom which we know he’s doing and others behind um that movement are doing. And I have really three thoughts on this. The first is I had a conversation this week. I didn’t realize um that she had said this, but Nicole Hannah Jones apparently said something I think very profound that’s appropriate here.
She said, “What you’re seeing is you’re seeing the language of civil rights obviously being co-opted by white plaintiffs trying to turn things on their head.” And that’s exactly right because if you look at this complaint, in this complaint they cited that quote disfavored groups are being disadvantaged by quote preferred racial groups. It’s crazy that they would frame it that way because they’re calling the white people here disfavored. But just like you said, the imbalance is so egregious.
I mean, 90% of that $7 billion is going towards white firms.
Then it stands to reason that is de facto the favored group. So to use that language is to turn it on its head and to try to extend that law. But the other thing about it that’s bogus is that the Trump administration is apparently on record in this court filing saying that this was patently unconstitutional.
Now Ro every day of the week they file some asinine lawsuit that is patently unconstitutional or really he files an executive order that on its face is unconstitutional. We’re seeing the courts continue to say they’re doing things unconstitutional and they’re talking out the other side of their head this time when they say that this is unconstitutional and that’s why they’re ending the program.
So there’s not only cognitive dissonance, but there is flatout dishonesty because they choose to do things that are unconstitutional when it’s ideologically consistent with what they want to do. And otherwise, they’re trying to beat the drum the other way. And you cannot have that. Michael, you remember this [ __ ] right here? the platinum plan opportunity.
By achieving historic employment levels for black Americans, as well as increasing access to capital for new businesses, Trump has been committed to ensuring all black Americans can achieve the American dream. Remember, he claimed 3 million new jobs, creating 500,000 new blackowned businesses, increase access to capital in black communities by almost 500 billion, blah blah blah blah blah. all the little black economic empowerment and access to capital. Oh, I’m going to do all of these things and this that and the other and oh look at this here.
Oh my goodness.
Fueling access to capital for blackowned businesses. Uh look at this here. He said h make the minority business development agency permanent opponents leader to the assistant secretary of commerce level. create a sub office of African-American affairs and engage with private sector advisors to ensure realworld plans and solutions. Oh, look at this here.
Increase the number of blackowned contracting businesses, financial services entities, and private equity investment funds through regulatory reform and up to $40 billion in Oh, and up to $40 billion in government funding alongside traditional private investment. Oh, that was all of the things that he was sitting here uh touting that he was going to be doing. And boy, I’m going Oh, look at this right here. He said he was going to seek infrastructure funding that will lead to widespread growth in the annual 500 billion federal contracting opportunities. Look at this year.
Grow minority owned businesses with additional tax cuts to stimulate hiring and investment. We said it then. And then all these negroes. Oh, Ice Cube. He met with the Trump people and y’all diss cube.
What did I say to Ice Cube? They full of [ __ ] cube. Don’t buy the [ __ ] cube. They lying. We said that.
We called it out. And all these little negroes. I’m going talk about some of them uh the help. I called them the help. And that’s right.
I’m talking about you, Michaela Montgomery. I’m talking about you, Shereice Lane. I’m talking about you, Pastor Daryl Scott. I’m talking about David Harris. I’m talking about King Randall.
I’m talking about Joseph Pinñan. I’m talking about Terrence Williams. All you simple Simon Negroes who were at the White House Black History Month reception. Y’all just skinning and grinning.
Y’all just happened to be in the house thinking y’all doing boots on the ground when they were sitting here tap dancing on your goddamn heads.
You know, you know, Roland, um, I call that the fool’s gold plan. We talked about this on your show, October 2020. That’s when I made my first appearance. I’ve been on your show for 5 years. I call that the fool’s gold plan.
Donald Trump basically didn’t do any of that stuff in his first term in office. Keep in mind, he had four years to do all that. He basically did none of that. and he just signed an executive order at the end of March 2025 to kill the minority business development agency that he promised in the [ __ ] platinum plan that he was going to make permanent. Okay?
And when you look at the conversation that we just had with Naomi, you look at that Supreme Court ruling uh 2023 Supreme Court ruling uh that struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
They’re using this to as one of as one of the tools to gut all these programs that were partially beneficial for African-Americans, whether we talk about the $37 billion uh program uh the the disadvantaged uh business enterprise program. Okay? And then you you you um saw him the platinum plan, he talked about an infrastructure bill. Every other week was infrastructure week in the Trump in the first Trump administration.
He could not get an infrastructure bill passed. But you know who got one pushed through? Biden Harris. $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
And this $37 billion is distributed that’s part of it’s distributed in that $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. So when you go through and and I encourage all all the people that you just named, Google how have the policies of the Biden Harris administration helped the black community. One of the documents that comes up is about a 36-page document that takes you through all these the fastest growth of blackowned businesses in the last 30 years happened under the Biden Harris administration.
When you look at the uh also $10 billion in government contracts, okay, in 2023, $10 billion in government contracts went to African-Americanowned businesses.
Now, even though that was only about 1.7% of all government contracts, that’s a record amount. We didn’t get that under the Trump ad Trump administration. But see the but see the again their whole deal here Melinda is to shut it all down. And I ain’t sitting here saying where the fans at.
I’m saying where the FBA at? Where the B1 at? Where all y’all Negroes? Come on. I Here’s what I want to know.
Philip Scott, Jason Black. Come on. Vicky Dylan to help Vicky Dylan. Come on. Come on.
Uh, what’s the other boy with the little documentaries? I forgot his little name. All y’all, all them Negroes, your vote ain’t going to do nothing. It ain’t going to do nothing.
It ain’t going to achieve nothing really.
And these are Hold up. Hold up. Where you Where your punk ass at, Boyce Watkins? All y’all ran y’all miles. Y’all was [ __ ] on Kamla, [ __ ] on Biden.
Y’all was sitting there all of y’all nonsense. And we told y’all voting has an impact. And so, and then y’all running. So, I love the same negro. Yeah, I’m specifically cuz see, normally I don’t even say nothing about his sorry trifling ass.
But I’mma go ahead and say it. All this [ __ ]. Boyce Watkins after Trump inauguration, we focus on black owned businesses, building blackowned businesses, supporting black owned businesses. Well, please tell me this. If your ass can’t get access to federal contracts and your ass can’t get state contracts, then they gonna target county contracts, then they gonna target city contracts and school district contracts.
What your ass going to get? Oh, I’m sorry.
Because when they also shut down DI, now you can’t get corporate. So, let me I I just want to know all of y’all uh uh uh uh support blackowned businesses uh negroes who [ __ ] on Harris and saying damn her and you I ain’t say vote for Trump but that’s what you were saying indirectly. I just want to know if we shut down this program forget the contracts.
So again, we seeing loss of contracts in corporate, loss of contracts in federal. Republicans are controlling the red states where black people are. So what do you think they going to do next in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina? Republicans control North Carolina legislature. What do you think is going to happen in Arkansas?
What do you think? Oh, so that’s all I’m trying to understand.
But see, but we would call Shields. We would call uh Kiss of the Democratic Party. See, all you socalled wannabe fake ass radicals super duper revolutionaries.
Here’s what I want to know. Every black person can’t sell incense. Every black person can’t have a t-shirt business. Every black person can’t sit here. So, I I just want to know what businesses do y’all think black people can actually create.
And here’s the reality that nobody wants to own up. The United States economy is a $30 trillion economy. Black people do not have enough money to solely fund black people. Right? It’s just a fact.
If black spending tri spending power is 1.6 trillion and if we know that most Americans are spending half of their income on housing, boom, 1.6 is now cut to 800 billion.
So we we ain’t got to food. We ain’t got to clothes.
We ain’t got to any of that stuff as well. So the point I’m saying is you cannot grow a black business sector if you’re only serving one community. And when you’re getting xed out and now we’re talking engineering firms, architecture firms, now we’re talking about contracts with DoD, now we’re talking about contracts with every federal government agency. Please tell me what’s going to happen. But we were shields.
We were sitting here. Oh, we were on the plantation. Oh, we were sitting here kissing up the Kamla. All this [ __ ] has happened and we ain’t even hit the sixmon mark of this white supremist administration.
Uh, well, there a couple things I want to respond to.
First, Michael, I do love that you did point out how Trump did not do anything in those four years in regards to the platinum plan. And that’s also the excuse that people used for Kamla, but they didn’t give her the chance when she wasn’t even president in the first place. So, I do love that you pointed that out. Um, but I think that this is a clear move to obviously block black people specifically, but also women and minorities from just achieving any form of economic success. It’s a way it’s just a way to strip away support that we need to level the playing field because they don’t want us to level the playing field.
They want to gaslight us to make it seem like we can’t we don’t have enough money, we don’t have the infrastructure, we don’t have the good businesses. Wait for them to continue to control us. And the reality is is that we’ve had generations of exclusion and discrimination that have kept us from allowing our black businesses to succeed. And that’s exactly why they are getting rid of this help because they don’t want us to surpass them in any way. They don’t want us to achieve any form of success.
Um, do all y’all on the show, do y’all remember? Let me just go ahead and pull this up because I think a lot of people just seem to forget.
So, just in case anybody is sitting here saying, you know, I don’t know about all that rolling, just go to my iPad. See, if I if y’all go right now to YouTube and type in Roland Martin defund black America, you are going to see uh the these are the segments that we did uh we’ve done thus far where I said Trump wants to defund black America. Oh, I I I laid it all out.
I’m sorry. What is this right here? Oh, this is called white fear. How the brownie of America is making white folks lose their minds. Everything in this book I’ve been saying since 2009.
The book was published in 2022.
You can get it on Audible as well. Oh, I’m sorry. What was I saying in this book? They’re going to be attacking every single economic program that black people have been able to participate in.
Oh, and let me be real clear. I’m not saying those programs have been amazing, have been great, have been wonderful. My point is they actually exist. Last point I’ll make before I go to break. This is also for you simple silent son [ __ ] out there who was sitting here talking all this [ __ ] calling all this out.
Y’all saying, “Well, see all that stuff that ain’t got down that ain’t got down uh to the brother and the sister in the hood. That’s also a lie.” Cuz you know what? When you own a blackowned business, you’re likely going to be employing black people. That means somebody not only is a VP or a COO, some a salesperson, they also might be an assistant or receptionist.
That means that they now have a job and they are also funding other family members.
It also means that where else are you going to go? Oh, those same blackowned businesses are funding black institutions. Those same blackowned businesses are creating economic opportunities and funding H.B.
CU. They are tithing in churches. They are supporting black organizations. Oh, I’m not talking just about the divine nine. I’m not talking just about Alpha and AKA and Delta and Omega and Kappa and the All of Divine Nine.
I’m not talking just about Prince Hall Mason. I’m not talking just about the Lynx or Jack and Gio or or uh or um uh uh the top ladies of distinction. See all y’all punk ass? Oh, the black boule, the black boule. Y’all don’t know [ __ ] about black people.
Y’all don’t know [ __ ] about how black people, how things are funded in the black community. And the underpinning of the black middle class and the black lower class has literally been access to contracts. On top of that, it has been access to jobs in government. Federal government, state government, city government, county government, school district government. So, what then happens when you begin to whack those particular jobs?
What begins to happen when you whack those jobs? Oh, I’m sorry.
They start getting laid off. Oh, I’m sorry. What then happens?
Their kids now can’t go to school. What then happens? They now have to file uh for uh unemployment insurance because they don’t have a job. And we’re seeing that right now. So, it’s called the downstream effect.
the downstream impact of all of these different things and all y’all simple assignments. Oh, I remember Umar saying, “Uh, that vote ain’t going to get you nothing.” Really? Okay.
Gotcha.
All y’all, what’s all them people y’all listening to? all running their miles, feeding feeding the algorithm, feeding on Instagram and Tik Tok and Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and y’all sitting going, “See, you a sellout.” Say, “Yeah, you a sellout. You a sellout.” And we told y’all asses this was going to happen.
We told you exactly what they were going to attack. And here’s the worst part. They [ __ ] told you to. They gave your ass a nearly 1,000page document. And they told you we coming after all your [ __ ] and y’all run the [ __ ] around with your little oh talking Black Wall Street, Black Wall Street.
Oh yeah, we need to give back to Black Wall Street. Well, tell me this here. How you going to build on some [ __ ] without some contract? See y’all the same simple assignments. Oh yeah.
Uh see you got $350,000 uh from the Coma campaign. Uh and yeah, uh you got that. It’s called advertising. You know who also got advertising? Disney.
Comcast, Sinclair, I could go down the damn line. All media companies live on advertising. Oh, I’m sorry. So, if I got a media company, I can’t get advertising. So, I’m supposed to do [ __ ] for free?
Run ads for free? Really? So, when Netflix is running ads on a Fox, what? So, they Fox get to charge them for ads, but I can’t charge them for ads. Is that how this works?
Oh, I’m sorry. So, how did we just buy our new vehicle for $276,000? How do we pay for the insurance for $20,000 a year? Oh, it’s coming from advertising contracts.
That shit’s called business.
So, can we just go ahead and cut to the chase? The real reason that people are talking all this [ __ ], a bunch of them simple assignments, cuz they actually don’t have businesses. They’ve been talking about opening schools now for a decade. See, see, see, I’m going there because see this is what happens when you listen to people who don’t know [ __ ] they talking. I saw a video earlier and a sister did, she just killed me with the video.
She said, “Don’t y’all notice?” She said, “Very few people go from employee to entrepreneur.” She said, “Your ass was never a middle manager. You ain’t never seen a P&L statement. You ain’t never seen a damn spreadsheet, but now you want to be an entrepreneur cuz you think a business card says CEO and now you the boss and now you running some [ __ ].
” No, that ain’t the case. Oh, I know somebody sitting there saying, “Damn, dog. You on one.” Yeah, I’m on one cuz we told you dumb asses what was going to go down.
We told you what they were doing.
We told you that they were pissed with the advancements of black America. We told you they did not like 2043 and the estimate saying America is going to be a nation majority people of color. We told y’all that. So that’s why they hate the Haitians in Springfield. That’s why they can’t stand black and brown immigrants coming into this country because they like nah nah this our [ __ ].
We told y’all what the scene the scene from the movie uh The Good Shepherd when homeboy when Matt Damon said uh when Joe Peshy said uh we got this and they got this. what y’all got. They said, “We got the we got the United States of America. The rest of y’all just visited.” But a lot of y’all chose to listen to Chaos agents who are grossly ill informed.
And what are they doing? They snatching it all. What did we just tell y’all? They want to permanently permanently [Music] get rid of the disadvantaged business enterprise program. Yep.
Do you now understand that you wiped that out? Now, please tell me how you going to compete for contracts.
You you you do know that under Trump they rebundle contracts. So as opposed to having 10 $10 million contracts which you were then able to compete for. They No, no, no.
Make that one $100 million contract. Now you can’t compete. Oh, I’m sorry. Where did that unbundlingly come from? Oh, that was from Mayor Jackson.
That was from Atlanta. You know the city where black people were getting 00012% of all contracts. 1972. He became mayor in 1973. So what did he say?
Let’s unbundle contracts to allow an African-American to become a prime contractor. What does that mean? Well, because the rules say I I cover city government, y’all. I cover county government. I saw how they actually wrote the rules of uh of various um proposals.
Yes, I actually saw how they were written. And they would say you cannot bid on a prime contract unless you have been a prime contractor. So therefore, if you are only a subcontractor, you never can bid on a prime contractor. Mayor Jackson in Atlanta, they changed that where they said, “Okay, we going to break the contracts up.
You now can we going to call them 10 prime contracts, you now can bid on a prime, and if you bid on a prime and win at one time, you now can now compete for prime contracts in the future.
” But y’all keep listening to the simple Simons who call us shields, who say we’re the boule, who say we talk down to regular ordinary people and understand they literally have no idea what the hell they’re talking about. And they got a lot of y’all fooled listening to them. And y’all just repeat phrases as if and then you say, “Oh yeah, y’all are over there talking down to people.” Okay, please by all means tell me what’s going to happen when a 37 billion initiative is wiped out. Where you going to go?
That’s why y’all got to support this show. That’s why y’all got to watch this show. That’s why you got to not listen uh to folk who know they talking about because I’m telling y’all.
I’m telling y’all. And this real simple.
How many of these same shows talking about this very story? I’ll wait. And what are they saying? I’ll wait. They ain’t saying nothing.
They feeding you a bunch of [ __ ]. Now maybe you can subsist on [ __ ]. Go right ahead. Because for me, last I checked, what you ingest is what you output. So therefore, if you ingest [ __ ], you gonna output [ __ ].
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