Voting While Black: Empowering Communities through Civic Engagement

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Hi, this is the proper and I'm Rhonda Nolan.

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Welcome to the let's talk with Leann Rhonda show. We're here for you and we're ready to go. Let's do it.

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Good morning, Las Vegas. How you doing today? Hey, oh, hey, good morning, Ron. Good morning, Leah. It's a beautiful Saturday morning. Oh my god, I'm so happy to be here. I am, too. Did you get your exercising this morning? Of

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course not. Because Because only because I'm about to do a must a much needed r&r. So I'm going to do my r&r and I will get in all the exercise that I've missed in the past six months. Okay, fantastic. I'm gonna get out I promise you. I'm going to walk and I'm going laugh and I'm going joke, and I'm wondering what the laugh and I'm a joke. And I'm sorry. I promise I won't jump off the cliff this time though.

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Okay, please don't do that. Because the last time ladies and gentlemen, she was not in good health. When she came back. She felt like she broke her tailbone and she could barely walk.

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Oh, and it was funny though. It was we had a ball though. We had a ball, I must say I always enjoy, always enjoyed myself. I always enjoy myself. Well, today, we're gonna talk about something different because we always talk about, you know, business, professional development, stuff like that. And we said that this election season that we were going to talk about the importance of being an entrepreneur and voting. That's right, and voting. Why should we vote? Why is it important for entrepreneurs, especially to know who their elected officials are the laws that impact and affect their businesses, whether they're federal whether their state, and who are the lawmakers? That's right, what lawmakers,

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a small business owners should be very happy that those lawmakers were really on our side during COVID.

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Again, again, having the right people in place that can make hard decisions, because this is the No COVID was really the first time your mom and pop, because we talk about small businesses. And then there's the category of the mom and pop. So that's the, you know, I'm in business from us micro, small, micro small businesses, you know, and they got help, they were able to get PPP, if they did payroll, they were able to get a IDL that they had the financial statement showing or the tax returns showing that they weren't in business. But it also helped people get the documents in order. That's right, you know, get their paperwork in order. That's right, and to make sure that they are doing the things necessary to be in business. Are you working on your business being a business owner, but we want to bring somebody to talk to talk to someone today? He has an event coming up? He's excited to run them let you do the introduction.

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Well, we have the wonderful community leader, Mr. Jerry Smith with us today. Hi, Mr. Smith. How you doing?

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Good morning. Good morning. Can I say good morning and good morning. Fantastic. So yeah, don't break any parts of your body. This you

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want to know what this time I don't know where I'm going if there any cliffs, but in Jamaica, you know, don't you know, when you go to Jamaica, there's Rick's cafe and you know, they got the cliff jump. Okay. And they had five feet 10 feet 25? Well, they wouldn't let me do 50. But they let me do 2525 I did. 25.

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I did for three feet.

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My son was my son was cool for 10. He was cool for 10. And he looked at him he's like, Man, are you crazy? And my cousins, they were sitting over like a year no is that head

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first feet first or so you have to go feet flat for

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what I did. Because they tell you how to jump in and you're supposed to jump in with your feet first. Because of the down or why? Well, you should have your total. See, that's what you got experienced, right. But that's why I tell you to practice off the five and 10 so she can practice and see what I realized I got a part of my body that comes out further in the back. jump a little bit different. So I could have went in but after my description. But it was it was actually a lot of fun. And my family I know people talk about it when we get because it's a family trip that we're going on. So I'm excited. I'm sure we're gonna hit there. We'll figure out something they haven't laid out for me the itinerary yet, but I know my cousins and they, they are dangerous. That's always what's always fun. No matter what we do. This won't be fun, and everybody can swim. So that's

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a beautiful thing. Yeah, so we're here today to talk to Mr. Smith about voter registration education and just voting in general voting while black. That's going to be the topic of upcoming advance voting while black the

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ones that conjure up but everybody that I talked to have different responses real and what that means Yeah, voting while black. Oh, what are

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they thoughts on it?

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Well as its own Replace. And I think it's primarily based on where they are. If they're professional, if they're a business owner, if their ex felon, if they are stay at home mom, no, we are bloat voting bloc, but not a monolith. So within that block, we have all different types of people that are voting for different motivations and reasons. I'm retired law enforcement, 2020 years at Metro Police and eight years of military and business owner as well, and a whole lot of stuff that I'm doing. But my motivation for voting is, is all over the not one, not mine all over the place. But as the community or a bloc of voters, were all over the place with Chad.

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Let's talk a little bit about the history of voting.

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Yeah. Okay, so I go all the way back to the initial voting 1776. And that's when the Constitution made the War of Independence. So 7076, all the way up to 1789, then that's when the United States became the Constitution was ratified in 1789. So prior to that, of just a federation of states, once the Constitution was to make us the United States of America, then the there was a caption in the the research I was doing, saying, the ones who own the country ought to govern it. So that means that white men, land owners were the ones who were able to vote by 6% of the population. Wow, yeah. And that didn't change until 1821 1821, a 21 year old, white men were then able to start voting, and they didn't have to be property owners, and the difference in that,

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so one, that black people get the right to vote. So that goes up to

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1868 69. And then the 15th amendment to say that now if you were formerly enslaved, now they are able to vote.

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So for 40 years, the white men were the

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quick vote. That's, that's interesting, now

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longer than that, but I'm 40 plus 40, plus 40. Plus long as persons in here writing down, write down the date. But the end, but the interesting dialogue is, first is white men and 6% of the population made a decision with the 6% of the population made a decision for and that's it, they all voted right. But 6% were eligible, right vote for the people that were in office to govern, to go to country, the governor controversial six months or so. So we take it in perspective, right? Yeah. So we got 1000 people. So of this 1000 People 6%, the 60. So are those 60 people that are eligible because they're property owners. But if all 60 Don't go out to vote, if one person goes out to vote, then that one person that voted made the decision for the 1000 people? That's right, because of how you broke the numbers down because being eligible to vote doesn't mean voting. Yeah, are two different things, right? Yeah.

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Look at what I tried to do is look at it from a lot of different angles. And to say that had I've been at the table, and I'm a land owner. And I'm looking to say that well, should someone who doesn't have any skin in the game, as in property owning should vote or have the same power as I do in governing the country, and governing the country telling me how to spend my money, how to pay my taxes, how to what do you

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think of what was going on during that time? Yes, at the time, you got the fight with England? Yeah. And England is governing you taxation without representation, taxation without representation, right? That broke it off. Yeah, broke it off. And just what was going on during that period, understand the climate, the rise, season and everything else. But the fact that you had to be a white male land owner, first of all, then we expand that to say, you have to be white and 21, because we're gonna get the boys because the boys don't own up. Right, right. To vote for what I think he should vote for. Doesn't mean that they voted. Then we expand that to say, okay, so black men can now vote because when black men were eligible to vote, a bunch of black folks got in office. Yeah, yeah. So you had a period struction during the Reconstruction Era, era, era era. So children, you know, read about the Reconstruction Era, a lot of information in here, learning about the history of this land.

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They used to teach us that did they did they I felt like I learned that like in Junior High High School. I felt like I knew about that since that time since that

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time, right. So the reconstruction era you have that, but then you still got a problem. Was women a vote? Women? I'm sorry. Women are not to say a politically correct professional. Women are not voting.

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They have no color. No, no, no,

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no, that came in 1920. How many years we had who doing the math 1870s 19 So we're talking Reconstruction Era 18 70 to 1877 reconstruction error. So as

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as someone who who don't vote for baby, no, you need to vote Go Go vote for this person.

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There you go, there you go. Or do you want to do something that you want to go in and do so entice him to vote the way that you're thinking should vote.

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But the other thing I guess I look at it is, it becomes interesting, because if, and I know back then they had a bunch of children. But what if you were that man that had a bunch of daughters, then how does your wealth transfer? I mean, it was, it's very interesting. Yeah. Because I know men, I have a bunch of girls, and I have

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one child, a daughter, a daughter and daughter. Right? So yeah, I'm with you, nonetheless. So 18, seven 818 77 reconstruction error. And this is saying, for me, the gray constitution reads is that formerly enslaved? Because you might say it has a history of enslaving white men, Indians, Chinese and black. So there's constitutions, they don't know how to read a ballot. Well, that to that. So what happened is that an 1877 haze and there's another guy who like neck and neck on becoming presidents, and the South say that will lead to voter behavior become president, if you remove the troops, the Union troops from the south. So that was the birth of the Jim Crow laws, and voters voter suppression in essence, for for the black community 1877, Georgia, passed one of the first laws of saying that literacy and tact a poll tax and grandfather clause, that if your grandfather didn't vote, then you can't vote. No, it doesn't matter if you're black male, and a male and land owner used to okay boat. So I was looking at grandfather couldn't vote, because you were a slave, your grandfather was a slave and you couldn't vote. So again, that's when voting while black, the suppression laws came into being. And that that didn't change until 1964, I believe, when Nixon took away the poll tax. And then a lot of literacy, a lot of those things were were addressed. When did that weigh

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100 years

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of tricks. But look, look, this is how I viewed it, as I was doing my research to say the initial constitution ratified, didn't have anything about voting. And a lot of African Americans say that, well, we weren't even considered a full person at that time. And the way that I looked at it, again, from my research is saying that the context represented representatives in North and South, the North will always had an advantage, had they not

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considered south would have always had the advantage because they're way more slaves.

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I know about what I'm suggesting, said that 3/5 In order to, to make it even somewhat, the compromise was that you will not count your slave as a whole person to have a representative, right? Because the South would have always had the abandon numbers have been advanced. So they compromise the standard 3/5. Right. So

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the compromise was the three fifths because the South had majority of the slaves, right? The North didn't. So in order and again, being at the table, right? Because what is the compromise? Yeah, and the South had majority of the slaves. So we're saying that you can't count all of them. Because if you count all of them, because I want to say,

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then now we got to advance but Southworth, well, no, no, I think

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that's how they even the advantage. They even did, because we're, you also had your great migration to the north, a whole whole bunch of other things going on. Right. But the population was down south. Not up north, right. For blacks. Yeah, yeah. Well, people were talking about people, okay. Because if you look at the census or back in back, then that's why they went two to three first, because you got these large plantations with all these people. Right? Got to you got all these people here. We don't want you to count that because then it would be slayed it. So then this, these are counted as three fifths but then my question has always been, if the slaves were counted as three fifths, what about those free blacks that were up north that had always been free? Yeah. Were they counted as individuals? Or were they three fifths also. So

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he was a surprising thing that I discovered in in 1780. In Boston, there was a free black man as well, as a Native Americans. They petitioned Boston to allow them to vote, taxation, only representation. Boston said no. So in 1784, the entire state of Massachusetts allow free blacks and Native Americans to vote. So when a constitution was being ratified in 1787 88, free black men voted to ratify the law of lamps. And it's powerful to me that free black men voted to ratify the law of land.

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Yeah, it's not it's not saying Well, wait, I know, you got to think and because we have sometimes this false narrative that everybody was a slave. Oh, yeah, I know. It was just like, so when you even though that is part of the story, that is not the host No. And when we talk about voting, actually, the results are still the same because only six only 20% of the people are making a difference or not. Making a decision now. Now now that we have the laws in place, you are eligible to vote, when I hear things like 18 year old, down 18 years old, and actually now when you go get your driver's license, they automatically register you to vote. Yeah. In Nevada and Nevada,

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for you people in other places that don't drive because you're in cities where you don't have

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to drive no government ID.

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And you don't have a driver's license or state ID. People like us are there to find you, wherever you are.

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We want you because we want you to register to vote because voting is powerful, because these people make decisions on your behalf. On your behalf.

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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So in 1920, women's suffrage 19th amendment. So now women are able to vote. And as you indicated, they did very little for F black women, black women did very little black women are white with white women, white women were then in 1924, the Native Americans were given citizenship. So now 1924, the Native Americans, Indians owned slaves, and they were required to allow their former slaves to become members of the tribe. And because now the remember with the tribes, you have black men that are able to vote

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through the now I want you to think how crazy this didn't and I'm just gonna, I'm gonna I'm gonna take this from another angle. Yeah, the Indians are native to this land, right? Native, and they can't vote. I can't tell you how crazy this reservation does. But that's it mattered. I know what I got. There are decisions that are being made, there are roads being built, there are a railroad come, there's a railroad that's coming in, you are making decisions on land, you're cutting down trees, where my reservation might not have been that long, but you I can't, I'm not participating in people that are native to this land had to wait until 1924 to participate in the things that are going to happen on this land. But this is the land that

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I'm Native to. I've been here. Oh, yeah.

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Okay, God, okay. I just wanna make sure I understood

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when I was looking at it, same thing and say that the 13 colonies, and they know you're angry. So they first they, as the new people coming from Europe, colonized England colonized the 13 colonies, and they were pushing the Indians into reservations or further, Somalia. No, you ain't with date. So there's, um, they took it. So

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I mean, that and that's and that's I

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look at the crazy part of the land ownership. That's why they were saying that we who owned the land of this country ought to govern it, land ownership, the Indians did not have titles to the land that they were pitching their tents. They were not structured that way. Should that way, that's what I'm suggesting, structured that way? Well, I'm just looking at the drill. That's all it was anyway.

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So a person told me once you're not truly American, unless you own some property, and I never knew why they meant girl now understands why only ship that

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because in England, it was the same way that only certain people could own property, you got to inherit it, you can pass it on to your heirs and all that. And those same original laws came here. So when I look at the

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rule of law, if you think about the rule of law, the rule of law,

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right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's English law, right.

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Now, as we let this thing let this

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was in the 1944 1943 route, that the Chinese there are barriers

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to owning a house, I'm I'm outside of all the barriers to buying a house the owner property. Well, you might not own the land. Hmm, interesting. And well, we're gonna go here.

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So again, I do 43 The Chinese were able to vote in 1943. Prior to that they weren't able to vote. And they nice to 65 we have the Voting Rights Act, coming into law 1965. So as I look at saying voting while black and starting back in with the 15th Amendment, so the 14th Amendment says that if you are born on the soils and or naturalized, then you are endowed inalienable rights. When we talked about the part of saying African Americans, we're not we're only considered three fifths of the person. So that was in 1789, three fifths of a person. And I say that okay, that was remedied with the 14th Amendment in 1868. And rarely do I have a conversation with African Americans who are saying it? Okay, so, unalienable rights. I have this concept that I'm working on American patriotism and black chores, claim your citizenship, cast your vote, you claim your citizenship, and now you demand you don't ask request protest or you demand because you have these on a civil rights through the 14th amendment. And we seems that we are a lot of us or too many of us are still looking at and stuck in the narrative of you were three fifths of a person that was remedied that's the the now you can vote and you got to hold on You can use them on you still. But you can figure the number should be as

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big as the number should be okay, my name is Leah Crawford.

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My name is Rhonda Nolan. And you've been listening to less talk with Leanne Rhonda. And today we have a very special guest, Mr. Jerry Smith.

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So when I was when I was doing my show here, professional next door, I started doing Jerry, our period Smith. And that came when he was doing Toastmaster as Lee and I were talking and they want us to introduce ourselves. And I said, I don't know why you said I was nervous. Jerry RPS Smith. And so when I started doing a talk show here, I started using the JR, period Smith and whenever someone addressed me as that I knew they'd heard my show. Anyway, so then you had a comment.

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I guess my comment. Let's talk about the event because you are going to event voting while black and you have some amazing people on the panel. Your moderator is no other than Miss Tanya planning. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Tanya Tanya is has been very she's been very influential in in this community and has done a lot of things. You also we also

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have Commissioner William McCurdy the second, we have Senator Dina Neill. We have Chief of Staff at CSN. Dr. Lewis weekly. Yes, Commissioner. We have NAACP President Roxanne McCoy. And we have community activist Robert Stroud are so that is the lineup and we have some other people that were making some guest appearances. But you know, we will you need to, you know, check us out to where is the so here's the event, it's going to be on June, the second at the Pearson Center at 6pm.

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We can't be June, anything. The second

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Tuesday, excuse me, it's going to be on August the second at the Pearson center is 6pm

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Pearson center, Pearson center, 1625 West Cary Avenue near North Las Vegas, Nevada. I know that, you know, when you when you know, the community, you know, the community. So yep, Pearson center, as has been a good center, and has done a lot of amazing things. In this, this, this dialogue will be a good dialogue, because the importance of voting, just the importance of casting the ballot, knowing even what what offices are, are running. You know, there are a lot of judges, lots of judges, lots of judges on this ballot, and you might not know them. But if you could, I mean, you have a computer in your hand now, right? And instead of one tick tock just google the name, see, I mean, just, I mean,

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so no measurable so as a business owner, no matter where your business is, because your business may not be in the same community, community you live in, you get you need to get to know who your people are for your Assemblyman, who was your Senator, because when you have different problems, you have to know who to go to to fix it, because everybody doesn't work on every problem. You know, who was your commissioner

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or you went? Incorporate a clerk? Are you an unincorporated Clark County? Are you in Henderson? Are you in Las Vegas? Are you in the city of North Las Vegas? Where what jurisdiction? Are you living in?

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Who depends on what you're doing as in your license requiring

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your license requirements? I mean, with license requirements, you know, normally that there's a board, but then, on your state board, who's on a committee on the state board, who's over the licensing, I mean, how do all of these things flow and flow together? What, you know, the decisions that are made? And you'll be shocked? I mean, just just good to know the information? And to know who's in office? And can you have a conversation with them? Right? Are they available?

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Right? One of the things I when I'm doing the research, it was a guy on YouTube, African American, he was saying that oftentimes, we will vote for the candidate that will address our hot button issue. And we will miss out on another candidate, he might be better for the entire community at large, as opposed to only primarily speaking the buzzwords or phrase that address us. And I'm thinking that okay, that's if you do schools, and no, the school boards, and then lights and garbage and all that, that affects your community, homeowners association or not, but some because someone had indicated they're looking out for your injustice as an an ex con, or something along those lines, then the one that was for the greater good for the entire community. I'm of the ilk of saying I'd rather go for the greater good. And I can work on my stuff behind the scenes, or with lawyers or with, you know, UC or ACLU or whatever. But I'm looking for the greater good for the community for my my children, they're going to school, they need to have drafted like or for a crosswalk.

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I think that my thing I don't, I need you to vote. No, just go out and vote true. And if you are voting for this, and I know some people have hot buttons that affect everything. And as far as what those hot buttons are, no judgement, just vote. I just want you to vote. I want you to go and I want you to just I want

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you to know who you're voting for educated. I want you to go on Google, you know, put in your address, figure out who all your people are. Because there are a lot of judges that are running in different areas but you need to know, what quarter they running in, is it family court? Is this civil court? Where are they? What do they do? What are their background?

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I consider myself to be alright educated. I couldn't tell you when it comes to a judge and looking at the ballot, and I look, I'm like Circuit Court district eight. What? Okay, who can I call? Because I know somebody knows, right better than me, you know, because they vetted it. And that's when trust comes into play. Like I trust that I'm sure like the union workers, they vet their candidates with different groups. They do, and they vet so I can see, okay, so they vetted this person, and I'm putting my trust there because there is some trust because you won't know everything. Certain things like Governor, I think it's only two people, you can look that up.

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So is there something like that in the black community of saying that? I am, like, in charge of looking at the court circuit court judge? I don't know if they're saying that. And I deliver that message to

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know that there is somebody I know that different. They're different groups that might say they endorse candidates. Right. And there's different groups, and you'll have to find, I don't know the names of the groups. I don't want to mention. So

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I said when I was volunteering with no, okay. There was an organization I volunteered with and we vetted. Yeah, the

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difference the different unions in many different fields, all have vetted because the candidate, unions vet,

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based off of who's going to push their agenda they vet based off of who was who was union for all candidates aren't union friendly. Right. Right. They vet based off of that, and I think that that's why I say you really can't say like I want issue, I'm not that what is I want you to vote, I want you to practice voting. And again, right here, you you want to be educated in your vote. But I know people when certain people were running for office, they just voted for that office, but you got out you voted.

Unknown Speaker 26:47
Yeah, if you if you get a check. I know small business owners are extremely busy, because they're in their business running it. But if you ever get an opportunity to be invited to any of these community meetings to come meet these people, go meet them go meet them face to face, know who you're voting for. I mean, I've had ballots in the past where I didn't know anybody on the damn ballot, excuse me, nobody on the ballot. And I didn't know what to do. Right. But now, years later, now I do my research on who's running for each office. So I'll know who they are. What school did they go to? Where did they currently work? You know, are they currently sitting in office doing the job? Or are they brand new and they're running for office? You have to know all those things. And I look at I look at who the unions and doors I say okay, because the unions do a very thorough interview of each candidate. And then after they do their interview, then they determine who they're going to endorse. So I roll with the union people.

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Where are you from? Detroit.

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I'm from Detroit, W baby.

Unknown Speaker 27:45
You're from Detroit. So that that kind of makes sense. And for me, it is actually understanding who because some people vote party, and they go down until you get to those nonpartisan races, and then it's like, okay, so who do you what do you do? How do you do it? But Jerry, I want to tell you, let's talk about your event. Again, let's give it out. It's on

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August, the seventh

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on Tuesday. On Tuesday, yeah. 830.

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Today is Saturday, Tuesday is in several days. It's on Tuesday at the Pearson community center.

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At what time six o'clock, six feet. 6pm 6pm. And if you know Pearson's parking lot, you want to probably get Dave out 530 ish, pretty much so that you can get a parking space, you know, parking across the street around the corner, or take

Unknown Speaker 28:27
an Uber have Uber drop you off, and then you can stroll into the Pearson center. And then when you're ready to go, you can call your Uber and stroll back

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out and join in the conversation. Discussion. Yeah, me personally,

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I want to live on Instagram or on Facebook.

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I'm okay. I invite people do you want to do you want to say you live here now? Go ahead.

Unknown Speaker 28:46
All right, you're okay with that? Yeah. All right, Rhonda. We said we were gonna talk about voting because our platform is basically trying to help educate small business owners. That's right on different things and voting is very important. Extremely, extremely appointing Well, this concludes our show for this month. already.

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Yes. Yes. You having fun. My name is Rhonda Nolan. And I am Leah Krause and you've been listening to less talk with Leah and Rhonda we would like to thank our special guest today. Jerry Smith, Jr. Period. Smith. Thank you for joining us, Mr. Jerry. Period are our periods man, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Until next month, Las Vegas, we'll see you and don't forget to get your exercise. And remember, start your day with exercise and you'll have a great day. Bye. See ya.

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