Welcome to another episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. We're in the crazy season, election season, the silly season, some people call it, so silly that Black Lives Matter isn't even sure who represents them and who doesn't. Let me read to you from the Providence Journal. The national Black Lives Matter organization condemned a man once associated with a

local BLM group after he endorsed Donald Trump for president. In a joint statement with Black Lives Matter

Rhode Island Political Action Committee, which is a fully separate from BLM Rhode Island, the two groups accused Mark Fisher of an attention grab.

Quote, this is a publicity sunt, the statement read.

The right wing continues to use and amplify fringe black voices

to create an idea of broad support for their corrupt candidates.

The guy they're calling a fringe, right-wing voice, Mark Fisher, joins us next to answer all of this.

Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

Mark Fisher, welcome. I've been doing a lot of reading. There are people who say you have nothing to do with Black Lives Matter. So I want to give you a forum for a moment to explain to our audience who you are, what your affiliation is with BLM and why some people are denouncing you.

Well, it's funny, the people who are denouncing me are the people actually don't do anything for black people who never have

and probably will never plan on doing anything for my community. I actually have the receipts.

If you go and Google me, my record precedes me. I've done the work. I've been

on the front lines. I've led 10,000 people through the streets of Providence to the Capitol building.

I've got the first hate crime press for in the state of Rhode Island. We opened up a charter school,

African American Innovation Center and Library. I partnered with the governor, the Department of

Labor and Training, me. I sat through the Zooms, connected with these people, created these

relationships, and got this done. I pushed it through why everyone else was on the sidelines

and stealing money and siphoning money off to the tune of $90 million for luxury properties

and, you know, and mansions and over-the-top

parties. So these are the people who talk, the people who actually don't do anything, all they

do is talk. So that doesn't bother me in the slightest bit, because I'm about action.

Well, it is really interesting that, you know, in the wake of the George Floyd incident and

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