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Ben Crump knew. He knew. On July 5th, a government document. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, not a conservative blog, listed it in plain English. Nolan Wells had been drinking heavily with his friends on Horn island before he drowned. 18 years old, the 4th of July. An American tragedy that belonged to one grieving family. This week, it finally broke wide. ABC News reported that witnesses told authorities that Nolan Wells had a heavy alcohol intake in the hours before he vanished into the water. TMZ ran it the same news cycle, the headline plain as day. Nolan Wells was drinking before his death. Not a rumor, not a right wing theory. Witness accounts in the official record matching a government document that existed on July 5. The day before his body was even recovered. The alcohol was always there. Crump knew, and he flew to Chicago anyway. Stood at a podium and waved the shirt of Emmett Till over a boy who drank too much on the 4th of July and never made it home. This is that fire. Grab your popcorn. None of this should surprise you, because in 1972, Gordon Parks Jr. Put a man on a movie screen who explains Ben Crump better than any law degree ever could. His name was Youngblood Priest. Superfly Priest is a cocaine dealer in Harlem. Sharp suit, long leather coat, cash falling out of his pockets. And America walked out of that theater thinking he was the coolest man alive. Curtis Mayfield, the R and B singer, was the original Eazy E. The founder of NWA the promoter of drug dealing culture. Mayfield wrote a soundtrack, a soundtrack for Superfly that was like auditioning in front of Jerry Heller for membership in Negroes With Attitude. Listen to Pusherman and tell me it's not the R and B version of of Eazy E's 1987 Dopeman song. I'm your mama, I'm your daddy. I'm that N word in the alley. I'm your doctor when in need. Want some coke? Have some weed. You know me. I'm your friend, your main boy, thick and thin. I'm your pusher man. The pusher man sells himself as your family friendly criminal. The one who shows up to soothe your pain. He gets you high, tells you he loves you and empties your pockets while you float. That is Ben Crump. He doesn't push cocaine. He pushes grievance. He pushes victimhood. And there is no stronger high in America right now than the belief that you're suffering with somebody else's crime. Here's the thing about Ben Crump. The cable news networks will never say out loud. And every drug has a buyer and a seller. But the dope Crump moves, has a second victim, one who never bought a thing, never signed a retainer, never sat in the. In the press conference. And that second victim is the entire point. Follow the transaction. Crump sells grievance to black America. That's a front of the store. He tells a grieving family, a neighborhood, a movement. The system murdered your son. And I'm the only man alive who will make them pay. And it feels like power. It feels like justice is finally coming. Watch what that same product does on the other side of the counter every time Crump turns a drowning into a lynching, a self defense case into a modern Emmert till. There is a white American watching. A white father, a white teacher, a man who had genuinely decided to see his black neighbor as a neighbor and not an adversary. And he watches Ben Crump, a black man in a $5,000 suit, flanked by cameras and NAACP. NAACP accused people who look like him of murder based on nothing. And when the facts come out weeks later and the story collapses that that white American gets no apology, no correction. He just gets the next case and the next. And somewhere around the fifth or sixth time, he stops trying. He stops giving the benefit of the doubt. He looks at the next black tragedy on his television and thinks, here we go again. Another hustle. And a piece of the trust that Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington spent their lives building dies in that living room. That is the product, not the settlement, not the GoFundMe. The product is the death of trust between black and white Americans. And Crump manufactures it on an industrial scale. Sit with this. You cannot run this play for 14 years, watch it collapse this many times, and count the money every single time and still call the wreckage an accident. A man does not step on the same rake a hundred times. A man who profits every time he steps on it isn't clumsy. He's in business. And a divided America is a very good business for Ben Crump. Ask who goes broke the day black and white Americans decide they trust each other. The race hustler, the grievance industry, the cable panels. And the best dressed man at the funeral every time is Ben Crump. Ben Crump's entire fortune rests on a guarantee that black and white Americans will never stop seeing each other as enemies. So he makes sure they don't. He's not working to end racial division. Racial division is his inventory. A healed country is a threat to his revenue. No man in America has done more in the last 14 years than to keep the wound open and bleeding. Not with a Hood and a rope. But with a podium and a press release. 14 years. Let me show you the sales record. His first big score was a dead teenager named Trayvon Martin in 2012. The prosecution star witness was a young woman named Rachel Genteel. She testified under oath that she was the last person to speak to Trayvon who on the phone with him in his final minutes and that she heard the confrontation with George Zimmerman. She was the emotional center of the state's case. The voice America was told connected that boy to his killer. And Joel Gilbert, you've heard him on his show. He spent eight months and 750 pages of phone records reconstructing how Crump built that testimony. Gilbert's forensics are argue Rachel Gentile was a substitute. Not Trayvon's real girlfriend, but a stand in who was coached into the role. Different age, different voice. Nowhere in the 3, 000 photos on Trayvon Martin's own phone. And Crump admitted the method. He admitted it on microphone to Court tv. He said, this is verbatim. This interview happened because we pushed her making a statement. Pushed. There's that word. The pusher man pushes. That's the whole job. He pushed a witness into a courtroom in 2012. Two years later, he pushed the slogan in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown. Ben Crump represented that family too. And out of that case came four words the that burned American cities to the ground. Hands up. Don't shoot. Crump led the chant himself. There's footage of him doing it, hands raised, crowd echoing him back, selling the story that Michael Brown was executed with his hands up, surrendering. Let's take a look. Don't shoot. Don't shoot. Hands up.
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Brandon Tatum
Don't shoot.
Jason
Hands up. Hands up. Don't shoot. Thank you. There was one problem. It never happened. Don't take my word for it. Take Barack Obama's word for it. The Obama Justice Department, a black president's own Department of Justice, no friend of Darren Wilson investigated that shooting and concluded the physical evidence did not support Hands up. Don't shoot. The witnesses who pushed it had lied to change their stories or admitted they never saw it. The Obama administration debunked Ben Crump slogan. But the slogan had already done its job. It had already sold cities burned, trust died. And Ben Crump moved on to the next case with the profit in his pocket while the neighborhoods he lit up were still smoldering. He pushed a witness in 2012. He pushed a lie in 2014. He pushed a racial narrative onto a drowning in 2026. Same verb, same product. Same man. And here's what tells you the truth was never his merchandise. Watch him try to read. And then it goes the gunshot wound of the head a the injury proliferation of the left internal carrot.
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Shamika Michelle
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Brandon Tatum
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Jason
It's not subdued artery, but it's it's subarachnoid, is what he's trying to say. And the first one was carotid. That's Ben Crump at a podium in front of cameras trying to read an autopsy report out loud. And failing. Stumbling over carotid and choking on subarachnoid. Admitting into the microphone in real time that he doesn't know what he's looking at because he's not prepared. That's the problem with he just makes it up as he goes. He doesn't prepare. I won't tell you what to think. I'll let your own eyes do the work. Which is more courtesy than Ben Crump ever extended to a jury. The most powerful civil rights attorney in America, the man who tells grieving families he has read the evidence, studied the silence, uncovered the conspiracy. Can't get through the medical report at his own press conference because he's not prepared. There's no standard Ben Crump has been held to the the report was never the point. Ben Crump is the most obvious plant in American culture. He's barely literate. He has no qualifications for leadership beyond the degrees some government agency handed him as cover. Superfly is actually super spy he's an MKUltra, or as I like to call it, an MLK Ultra. His occupation is racial chaos. He put a witness on the Trayvon stand who read at a fourth grade level and sold her to America as an eyewitness. Facts were never the merchandise. The high was the merchandise. The story, the fury, the feeling. A pusher man doesn't need to read the chemistry. He needs desperate customers and a steady supply. Here's what Curtis Mayfield understood that Hollywood never did. Every dealer leaves bodies. There's a song on that soundtrack called Freddy's Dead. Freddy is the little guy, the user, the one who believed the pusher man was family, followed him and ended up face down in the street while Priest kept his suit clean. Ben Crump has a lot of Freddy's. Nolan Wells's parents. A family that will spend the rest of their lives believing their son Will was murdered because a man in a nice suit told them so and left town when the alcohol report went public. That grief is permanent. Now that's a Freddy. The truth tellers in that case, getting death threats tonight for promote. For pointing at a government document and saying this was an accident. Crump lit that fire and walked away. Freddy's every neighborhood he's rolled into and left more enraged, more helpless, more convinced the system is rigged because you don't build in a country you've been taught to hate. Freddy's and the white American in the living room who was trying, now permanently done. That's trust. Dead in the street. Crump killed it as surely as any dealer ever killed a kid on a corner. Now I'm going to read you something. A black man wrote this, a great one. Booker T. Washington. He's born a slave, built Tuskegee with his own hands and told black men to make themselves so excellent the world could not look past them. He wrote this in 1911, more than 100 years ago. List. This is direct quote. There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. And having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs, partly because they want sympathy, partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their jobs. That's Booker T. Washington more than 100 years ago. They do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their jobs. Booker T. Washington. Described Ben Crump 100 years before Ben Crump ever stood at a podium, he saw the whole business. A class of men who make a living out of black troubles, who need the grievances kept alive because the grievance is the paycheck. He didn't have the Superfly reference. He didn't need it. He named the pusher man in 1911 and measured the distance between the two men. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery and taught himself to read by lamplight. Ben Crump was born free, went to law school and can't get through an autopsy report. On camera Washington wanted black Americans to lose their grievances, to put them down and pick up a trade, a skill, a business, a future. Ben Crump needs black Americans to keep their grievances forever because the day they put them down is the day his phone stops ringing. In the movie, Priest says he wants out. One last score and he's done. Ben Crump will never say that there is no last score. There's Trayvon Ferguson, a boat accident off the Mississippi coast, and whatever tragedy trends next week. The Pusher man doesn't retire, he restocks. He is the best dressed man at every funeral he manufactured. And the dope he's been dealing for 14 years isn't cocaine. It's the belief that black and white Americans can never trust each other. A high that feels like justice on the way up and leaves a country face down in the street on the way down. Curtis Mayfield wrote a soundtrack so America would hear what the Pusher man cost the people who love him. Booker T. Washington wrote the indictment and a hundred years before the crime, consider this the encore. The Nolan Wells case is going to blow up in Ben Crump's face. It will be remembered as the most obvious racial hoax in American history. It's going to make Jussie Smollett sound believable. Brandon Tatum, the cop turned social media influencer. He visited Mississippi to pull the receipts. He thinks the toxology report is going to expose this hoax. Take a listen.
Brandon Tatum
To think that nobody saw it when they're entangled within all these people, I think is a disservice. We need to get to the information that I heard. We'll get to Ms. Rachel and her silly self and Judge Mathis. We'll get to Judge Mathis. But what I was told, and you guys, please take in consideration that it's reliable sources. However, the only way to prove the truth in this is if I see it with my own eyes. If the law enforcement have the investigation of this and also when the toxicology results come out. But people are messaging me and telling me that there is heavy drinking and there's cocaine involved and there's a particular person whom I know this person's name. I'm not going to disclose it. I'm going to go to the police first and then I will disclose it if it doesn't interfere in the investigation. But this person allegedly was offering people cocaine. And someone close to Nolan, one of his friends told me that this person was offered cocaine and rejected it from this person. And I was also told, and this person told me that it's over 100% chance that Nolan was using cocaine during this period of time. This person said it was 150% sure that when the toxicology comes back that Nolan will have cocaine in his system.
Jason
Can you not see where this is going? I mean seriously, Stevie Wonder can see where this is going. This is going to be the biggest egg on our faces moment in the history of racial hoaxes. And there's been a lot of racial hoax over the last 30 years or so. This case is designed to destroy the credibility of black Americans. Ben Crump is the double agent commission to execute the script. He is super spy. This is no accident. This man's job is to destroy the credibility of black Americans. He's making millions of dollars destroying the credibility of black Americans and sowing the seeds of racial division. He's not doing this all by himself. This is his job. He is a plant. This nothing could be more obvious than this case is going to to be a laughingstock. Young man went out and partied with a bunch of other teenagers and early 20 people, early 20s people on some water in an island, Horn island, and did what? Young people do dumb things and it cost him his life. It's a tragedy. It's not Emmett Till. It's not a lynching. It. Hell, it's not even Trayvon Martin. This is a hoax. Brought to you by super spy Ben Crump. Let's because I got a lot going on today. Let's go straight to Shamika Michelle. Shamika, obviously you've. I just unpacked my thoughts on this. What are yours?
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Jason
Oh, unmute yourself. First time on the show. Think it's the hat every day.
Shamika Michelle
I'm so sorry, Jason. First, let me say I'm so glad that Brandon Tatum is showing us that he's willing to actually investigate, you know, ask questions. Although we don't completely have the evidence. I really love that it puts me in the mind of. I can't really put my finger on it, but I love that he's doing that. And I'm not shocked that there would be alcohol in the young man's system. I've kind of thought that from the beginning. I know when I was that age, I drank like a fish. Thankfully, I never had to, you know, end up swimming with him. But I'm not shocked about the alcohol. And I guess I would say I'm not very surprised about the cocaine. My mother attended an all white school for girls. For high school. My uncle attended Boston University. And it's always been the thought that. And I hate to say this for the people that will get mad, but it's always been the thought that white people can get the good stuff much easier than black people. And that's just kind of the thing. So I'm not surprised. I do want the toxicology report because again, these parents have said they want a complete investigation. And I am under the belief that they should get the absolute truth no matter how it looks, no matter how it paints their son. I think that if you are saying your goal is truth, then you have no problem with it coming out. You have no problem with anyone who is willing to bring that to light. And I want Ben Crump exposed. I have to agree with you that I believe this is just a hoax. When you watch the way that he moves and the way that he has moved for the last decade, you know, or more, you have to know that this man is unserious. He's planted. Even though Al Sharpton says he is the Attorney General of black people, it just makes me even more want to unblack myself because he can never be an Attorney General of mine.
Jason
Al Sharpton calls himself the Attorney General or Ben Crump the Attorney General.
Shamika Michelle
I think he said Ben Crump was the Attorney General of black people. Black America, actually.
Jason
And that's why we can't get any justice that actually moves things forward. It's. It's. And so I've heard you say it, but I just want you to be a bit more clear. I'm. And maybe I've gone down too many rabbit holes. I've rabbit. Reading that book Chaos about Charles Manson and just the MK Ultra program. I authentically believe that Ben Crump is allowed to do this and is promoted to do this, that this is one of these government agencies backing him, that they've given him some kind of law degree, allowed him to run around like he's a lawyer. The man can barely read that. You'll never convince me he's a legitimate lawyer. I think one of our intelligence agencies is using Ben Crump, Jason.
Shamika Michelle
I agree. And it's the fact that he can't read. I would think an attorney has read thousands, you know of books or just you're. You're very learned. The fact that he can't pronounce simple words is a red flag for me. He's just always come across very stupid. I mean, like an idiot. I would have actually had to see Ben Crump in class to believe that he's an actual attorney. I just don't buy it. I don't buy that an attorney can't read the basics. He can't pronounce basic words. He can't just communicate the way that we converse here on the show. We don't see that with being Crump. The most we get is him yelling some type of slogan or phrase as if he's in an outside rally. And any man willing to do this in a physical funeral, because that's exactly what he did for Nolan Wells has nothing else to offer but getting the audience stirred up, full of emotion, and just completely glossing over the fact that they're being led by a.
Jason
Listen, I'm going to put a little context around what I tried to say in the mano. I don't. Carotid artery, subarachnoid. You're reading it off a sheet. I'm not going to call them basic words. What I'm going to call them are like, hey, when you're a lawyer, you're paid to prepare. And so you should have already, because that's from two years ago. He's doing some other case, some other race based case. But. But you prepare. And so you read through the autopsy and you go, kara, Kara. Oh, let me make sure I know how to pronounce that carotid. Let me. You. They're paying you to prepare. That's Your job. And he doesn't need to be prepared because there are no rules as it applies to him. He is a puppet that they've installed. And it's no different. Where I'll give Stephen A. Smith credit is he bought a Hooked on Phonics book and built up his vocabulary. And he can pretend like he's a learned person, but just like Stephen A. Smith, this is his own words. Got held back in fourth grade. They thought he was retarded. Don't blame me for that. That's what Stephen A. Put in his own book. The thought of him going to College as an 11th grader made a counselor laugh out loud. Don't blame me for that. That's what Stephen A. Has admitted. They install people at the tops of these fields as it relates to black people. They install people that are mentally limited, intellectually limited, easier to control. If, if, if you're not excellent, if you're not qualified, you're now dependent on whoever installed you in those positions. And that's that people hear me, and they've heard me ever since Katt Williams did his interview with Shannon Sharp and Cat Williams point out, like, man, all these people at the top of these industries, they're all installed and they are, and it's true. And Ben Crump's job is to go lead black people in a retarded direction. So a Black kid at 18 goes out to party on an island with a predominantly white crowd, and, and he harms himself or gets harmed in some way. And the they've installed Ben Crump is there to tell people, yeah, well, they had to murder him. You know, I know we're not great swimmers. I, I, you know, I know teenage kids love to get drunk, high and stupid, you know, but, but let me tell y' all how this is Emmett Till 2.0. That thought would have never crossed anybody's mind. It was almost the bigness of the lie. I think it was in the show the Wire, they had a slogan like, the bigger the lie, the more people are, are prone to believe it. And, and that's like the operating standard of these MK Ultras. Like, tell the biggest lie possible. People will believe it because they're stupid. We've trained them to be stupid. We've dumbed down everything. The audience that Ben Crump is speaking to, many of them can't read, or they read at a level below efficiency or, or proficiency or whatever level you're supposed to be. They don't read like adults. And so you go tell them children's stories. And, and that's Ben Crump's job, and we keep falling for it. You know, I, I think this. Am I exaggerating when I say this is going to be the greatest, most damaging hoax to ever be exposed as it relates to racial stories? Am I exaggerating? Tawana Brawley was really bad. It got exposed. But. But this one here just seems even bigger than that.
Shamika Michelle
You know, I think what may make this one bigger is that we have social media now that. Because I think with Tawana Brawley, we. People found out it was a hoax, but they glossed over that it just kind of went overlooked. You know, I've read about it in books, even the whole Crystal Mangum and the Duke lacrosse. We believed here in Durham that it was foolishness from the beginning, but people seem to just have moved on from it and not even referencing that when thinking about this whole Nolan Wells things. So hopefully the fact that we have social media, it will make it the biggest thing. But I do believe that we have produced a culture that want to be oppressed so bad that they may just go on to the next opportunity to feel like, you know, white man bad. I don't even know if they will stop in their tracks to say, maybe we should start really looking into something. Maybe we should think about this whole thing differently. I just don't know, because we've produced so many people that want to be oppressed or so many people that want to just blame white supremacy for every failure in the black community. Even thinking about being Crump. The reason why so many people overlook the fact that he just doesn't come across smart is because we've made so many excuses. He's black, so he shouldn't have to be able to read. He's black, so we don't expect him to be able to converse and communicate his thoughts. Thoughts properly. He's black. And we've just created this culture of excuses that I just don't know if people will actually stop in their tracks once this blows up.
Jason
Shamika, you're 1,000% right. It's. It's. We. We sit here and say, well, he doesn't have command of the English thing, but he's from the South. You know, that's just the way they talk down in the South. That's a. You know, anybody would stumble over those words. You know, it, It. That's not a big deal. He knows. I've never heard this man quote any law. This is not Thurgood Marshall. This is no good. Ben Crump and Shemeka I think I'm out. I think we've done all we can do here today. Thank you so much. We will see you next time on Harmony.
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Episode Title: How Ben Crump Makes White Americans Hate Black Americans | Jason Whitlock Harmony
Date: July 29, 2026
Host: Jason Whitlock (with Brandon Tatum and Shamika Michelle)
Podcast Network: Blaze Podcast Network
In this fiery episode, Jason Whitlock and his guests dissect the public persona and actions of civil rights attorney Ben Crump, accusing him of fostering distrust and animosity between Black and White Americans for personal profit. Using the recent Nolan Wells case as a backdrop, Whitlock argues that Crump’s interventions in national tragedies are orchestrated "grievance sales" that damage social cohesion, comparing Crump's role to that of a "pusher man" in Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly. The panel weighs the rhetoric, literacy, and integrity of Crump, contextualizing his actions within a historical lineage of "race hustlers" and questioning the legitimacy of his leadership.
Summary of Case: Nolan Wells, 18, drowned after heavy drinking on Horn Island. Official records showed clear evidence of alcohol, but Crump elevated the incident to national racial controversy, likening it to Emmett Till.
Crump’s Narrative vs. Facts: Jason points out ABC News and government documents affirmed Wells was drunk, yet Crump pushed a racially charged narrative despite knowing the facts.
“Crump sells grievance to black America...every time Crump turns a drowning into a lynching, a self-defense case into a modern Emmett Till, there is a white American watching...and a piece of the trust...dies in that living room.” — Jason (03:20)
Trayvon Martin Case: Discusses how Crump allegedly “pushed” Rachel Jeantel as a key witness, who may have been coached and not the real girlfriend.
Michael Brown/Ferguson: Highlights Crump’s role in spreading “Hands up, don’t shoot”—later debunked by Obama’s Department of Justice, but already socially and financially lucrative for Crump.
“He pushed a witness in 2012. He pushed a lie in 2014. He pushed a racial narrative onto a drowning in 2026. Same verb, same product.” — Jason (09:45)
Crump’s Core Method: According to Whitlock, Crump leverages emotional stories, regardless of truth, to stoke outrage and mobilize support.
Onstage Literacy Moment: Clips and quotes show Crump stumbling over medical terms during a press conference, implying he is ill-prepared and not truly engaged with the details of cases he fronts.
“The most powerful civil rights attorney in America...can’t get through the medical report at his own press conference because he’s not prepared.” — Jason (11:24)
Historical Perspective & Booker T. Washington: Whitlock reads a century-old quote from Booker T. Washington condemning those who profit from Black grievances, directly comparing it to Crump’s alleged business model.
“They do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their jobs.” — Booker T. Washington (14:45 read by Jason)
Brandon Tatum's Update: Shares findings from his own investigation, suggesting that Nolan Wells was drinking and possibly using cocaine, making the racial narrative a fabrication.
Skepticism of Media and Crump’s Agenda: The panel repeatedly claims that Crump’s actions are less about truth and more about performance and profit.
“This case is designed to destroy the credibility of black Americans. Ben Crump is the double agent commissioned to execute the script. He is Super Spy.” — Jason (19:32)
Desire for Truth: Shamika supports a thorough investigation no matter the outcome, expressing concern over Crump's pattern and lack of credibility.
On Ben Crump’s Representation: Both Shamika and Jason suggest Crump is a "plant" — possibly a tool of larger institutional forces, with Shamika harshly criticizing his intelligence and professionalism.
“Any man willing to do this in a physical funeral...has nothing else to offer but getting the audience stirred up, full of emotion, and just completely glossing over the fact that they’re being led by a...” — Shamika (26:10)
Cultural Issues: Shamika and Jason lament what they perceive as a culture of excuse-making and anti-intellectualism, arguing that many overlook Crump’s shortcomings due to entrenched low expectations.
“We have produced a culture that want to be oppressed so bad that they may just go on to the next opportunity to feel like, you know, white man bad.” — Shamika (31:00)
On Leadership and Standards: Jason contends credentialed, accomplished Black leaders are systematically replaced with “installed” but less competent figures like Crump, who are easier to control and keep the cycle of division in motion.
“They install people at the tops of these fields...that are mentally limited, intellectually limited, easier to control.” — Jason (28:00)
The Pusher Man Analogy:
“He doesn't push cocaine. He pushes grievance. He pushes victimhood. And there is no stronger high in America right now than the belief that you're suffering from somebody else's crime.” — Jason (01:50)
On the Impact of Racial Narratives:
“Every dealer leaves bodies. There's a song on that soundtrack called Freddy's Dead. Freddy is the little guy, the user, the one who believed the pusher man was family, followed him and ended up face down in the street while Priest kept his suit clean. Ben Crump has a lot of Freddy's.” — Jason (12:15)
On Crump’s Leadership:
“Booker T. Washington described Ben Crump 100 years before Ben Crump ever stood at a podium, he saw the whole business.” — Jason (14:58)
On Cultural Excuses:
“He's black, so he shouldn't have to be able to read. He's black, so we don't expect him to be able to converse and communicate his thoughts properly. … We've just created this culture of excuses...” — Shamika Michelle (31:00)
On the Alleged ‘Planting’ of Black Leaders:
“They install people at the tops of these fields as it relates to black people. They install people that are mentally limited, intellectually limited, easier to control.” — Jason (28:00)
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