Tornado Town Hall: Your Voice. Our Future.
Where was BLM during the Tornado Response? | Tef Poe Responds
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Host Carol Daniel asks Tef Poe to respond to the recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an editorial with the headline "The tornado devastated Black neighborhoods. Where was the BLM organization?" At the Tornado Town Hall, Carol Daniel asked Tef Poe to respond to that idea.
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Tornado Town Hall: Your Voice. Our Future. is a local public television program presented by Nine PBS
Tornado Town Hall: Your Voice. Our Future.
Where was BLM during the Tornado Response? | Tef Poe Responds
Clip: Special | 2m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an editorial with the headline "The tornado devastated Black neighborhoods. Where was the BLM organization?" At the Tornado Town Hall, Carol Daniel asked Tef Poe to respond to that idea.
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- I wanna start with Tef Poe, musician, rapper, poet, activist.
He is a multi-talented and and gifted man.
Very passionate.
Tef talked to me about this recent editorial, which I just read about today, that claimed Black Lives Matter wasn't part of the recovery, set the record straight.
- I mean, I don't know what record I'm supposed to say straight.
The Post-Dispatch is a historically racist institution, so it's to be expected.
They've never really identified themselves as a mechanism of media that was on our side to begin with.
So to ask, where is Black Lives Matter?
I mean, that's oddly hypocritical when they helped gut over 30 years of black leadership in this very exact city.
So, so Black Lives Matter was Tishaura Jones, Black Lives Matter was Darlene Green.
And I'm not saying that because I blindly agree with the last administration on everything.
'cause I didn't, I went to odds with Tishaura Jones about several things.
But what I'm saying is, if you want to ask real quick, if you want to ask questions, let's ask real questions, right?
Like, that's just a oddly insidious thing to write, print, publish, and to stand behind when you know that the country right now is in a position where we have a issue with white nationalism.
We have a issue with people specifically in the Democratic Party, organizing these little coup d'états against black women in leadership, not just in St. Louis, not just in Missouri, but nationwide.
And I think what, what my generation of people want is we just want real talk about what's really going on, 'cause we can't cure the problem if we're allowing the Trojan horse to reside amongst us.
And the whole time, (crowd clapping) and the whole time that we're here, we get treated as the activists as if we don't have a sophisticated view on what's going on, as if we're just raging maniacs who wanna see the city burn down as if we're complacent in calling for violence in the city.
When all too often when the big mamas need help, the Grand Mamas need help.
The Titi's need help, it's me and the people I know that's there for 'em.
(crowd clapping)
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