#389: Meet the Black Lives Matter Activist Who Rallied With Trump Supporters

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🗓️ 31 January 2019

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Hawk Newsome says he often makes it a point to meet people where he grew up. So on a cold day not long ago, I made my way to Papa Juan’s Cigar Room in the South Bronx to see the man who led Black Lives Matter of Greater New York.“I appreciate you having the courage to come to the South Bronx,” he tells me as we sit down to chat. “I make it a point to bring people to the Bronx. So, they could one, see the folks that I’m a part of, see what we represent. Two, just to see how scared they get.”It really wasn’t scary, but it certainly was outside of my comfort zone.Describing himself as a devout Christian and family man, Newsome shared stories with me about his youth and why he was motivated to become a civil rights activist and organize Black Lives Matter of Greater New York. Then, in September 2017, he made headlines when he took the stage at a pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C.—and won over the crowd.Today, he’s focused on studying for the bar exam and starting a new organization with the goal of finding common ground.Our interview runs about 40 minutes. An abridged and lightly edited transcript is available on DailySignal.com.Conservatives won’t agree with Newsome on many issues, but I hope you’ll appreciate the opportunity to hear a different perspective. Leave a comment and let us know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast from Monday, February 4th. I'm Rob Bluey,
0:09.4	editor-in-chief. And I'm Rachel Del Judas. Today we're featuring an interview with someone who you might not expect to hear on our podcast.
0:17.0	His name is Hawk Newsom, and he's a civil rights activist and leader of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York.
0:23.0	I recently visited him in the South Bronx and will have our conversation in just a moment.
0:28.0	We also have your letters to the editor and we share a story about former Secretary of State Colin Powell and how a good Samaritan save the day.
0:48.0	The Daily Signal is on location today in the South Bronx of New York City at Papua Sagaru. We're talking to Hawk Newsom, who's the president of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, and also the co-founder of
0:56.3	rejuvenation. Hawk, thanks for joining us.
0:59.2	Thanks for having me today.
1:00.9	I appreciate you having the courage to come to the South Bronx, you know? I often make it a point
1:07.2	when people want to meet with me, be they activists or the strategic business type meeting, I make it a point to bring people to the Bronx.
1:17.0	So they could, one, see the folks that I'm a part of, see we represent and two just to see how scared they get.
1:26.0	Well, Yankee Stadiums just down the street, so I have to admit I had a peak.
1:32.0	I've never been to a Yankees game in this stadium. I did come when I was a young kid.
1:36.0	So it's been a while since I've been back here.
1:38.0	You know those basketball courts that were on the other side?
1:41.0	Yes. I lived there growing up. I literally would go there at about six o'clock in the
1:45.9	morning, play until 10, go home, shower, change, come back at 2, play basketball, leave at 545 because my sister's daycare released her at 6,
1:58.8	so I'd sprint to the daycare center, pick her up, take her to get food, then come back to the courts.
2:04.2	So I literally like live there.
2:06.6	It was so bad, like the bowling alley was our bathroom, so the people at the bowling alley knew
2:11.7	us. Oh yeah, those are the basketball kids but yeah I mean I pretty much earned the college scholarship right behind Yankee Stadium playing those courts.
2:20.0	That's great. Well I want to say one other thing, you know, you mentioned that getting out and showing up and going to communities, that's one of the things that we strive to do at the Daily Signal is we want to get out of Washington because we know that there are
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