Host you are watching booktv on cspan2 this sunday evening. We are pleased to be alive with the authors diamond and a cell, their book is called uprising who the hell said you cant ditch and a switch, the uprising of diamond and silk. I want to ask you what you mean by ditch and switch. Guest to ditch what we call the democrat plantation and switch to republican and vote for donald trump and when we say this we are talking about the mindset of being on a plantation and being controlled. The ideology thats being implemented into people every day and that was being implemented into us as democrats. We want people to ditch the ideology. This got people thinking and that is what we did. We switch to the party to republican to vote for donald trump. Host what was led to the event that led for you to switch . Guest the candidate back in 2015 when he came down the escalator and said i want to secure the border. The first thing we thought is the American House should be secure and then he said i want to bring back jobs. Why would our government officials, we the American People, why would you outsource our jobs and of the American People have no jobs. He had a solution for the problems and that is when the lightbulb went off. We didnt need another career politician. We wanted a businessman. Host at that time you were both working at burlington . Guest we used to be a manufacturer into so when donald trump talked about how our jobs were being outsourced and illegal aliens were coming into the country, we knew what that fold like. Working at burlington mens where we saw that our jobs were outsourced and went overseas. What would make our government, bill clinton and therefore joe biden went along with it, we saw that in the community and then people that were supposed to be retired you go back to school to find something to do and now they have Student Loan Debt to pay off. Guest we talk about that in the books of people understand the experience that we had when it came down to working in manufacturing. Host in the book you refer to yourself as the mouth of the selsouth and silk as inspector gadget. She is going to research it and investigate it. She knows how to deliver the message. People could actually hear the message as to what she is saying. Host here is what diamond rights in uprising. The only thing we had was truth and that is what we spoke, the nasty lowdown dirty truth let us be talking heads. I dont have a problem with sticking the knife in you, twisting it and bringing you down with the truth and then silk rights when di amanda starts cutting the truth i am the one that softens the blow with a loving spirit to give you something to think about. That is just a metaphor. Im not trying to hurt anybody but when wthat when we go to thf things, the uproar, the civil unrest. When you have the leftwing media making money off the narrative there are other things that are not right. Guest we have a president that he speaks his mind and tells the truth about whats going on. Instead of telling the truth about what is actually happening. We wouldnt be at this place today that we are at and that is if we actually told the truth about how we are the party of slavery and jim crow and maybe then people wouldnt be out on the streets talking about systemic racism. Its ran by the people that they voted for. Host this is your chance to talk about the book to get a 202 for all of the numbers. 7488200 in the east and central time zone 7488201 for those in the mountain and pacific time zone. If you want to send a text message please include your first name and city. 202 7488003. We will begin taking calls and texts in just a few minutes. How did you become diamond and silk . Guest how did we even get thrown into this political arena. We didnt like how the media was throwing him under the bus and demonizing him, so we spoke out about it. We didnt know all these people were going to hear it. Its crazy because you have people out of out there with crazy ideas. That is how diamond and silk came about. We do have a story and we tell in uprising make sure you go out and get the book. Host you write about your folks and say in one part they are both pastors and a very loving but at the same time, mother was very controlling. Guest i love how we were raised because the one thing about our mother, she didnt allow us to walk around as if we were the victims she didnt experience this. Get what you want. Obtain the American Dream so you dont live the american nightmare. That is the kind of mother and father that we had. What you see happening in the country today we understand exactly what is going on. A lot of people misinterpret that and dont realize that is a way for people to control you. Looking at our mother instilled the morals and the values in us and these kids today need that in their lives they think they can just go and burn down somebodys business. They made a time for parents to rise up so they wont be on the streets acting like a fool. Our mother is a double amputee today but we still reference her and we dont get out of line when it comes to our mom. What did Wendy Williams have to do with you both getting on social media . She put out a little documentary movie about elia. We didnt like how it went. She may have been the executive producer of that movie. At the crazy thing is she didnt talk about it on her show the next day and we were Wendy Williams watchers. We need Something Like the viewers view to call people out when they dont call ou calloutr own stuff. So that is how our Youtube Channel kind of got started. It was supposed to be a podcast. That didnt take off or do what it needed to do. It was like we dont want to do that. And then i started making videos just a speaking that out things i didnt like and so this stuff is crazy. Im going to upload this to youtube, and that is how it began. We wanted to create Something Like a low judgment zone where people could speak their true opinion without somebody shutting it down. That is what we wanted to create. We created it but now we have other social media platforms trying to silence. It was originally supposed to be a podcast. And i had another that was to mean. We went on to video and this is where we are at today. Host you also refer to algorithms the social Media Companies use as, quote, modernday lynchings. Guest oh yes, absolutely. If you bear a platform one person at a time and then you have social media giants that dont like what you say end of the stifle your reach with algorithms. They keep people from seeing your content. It is a modernday lynching. I hear the word systemic racism. Let me push play for you all. It doesnt have anything to do with skin color. It is discrimination. When you discriminate against somebody because of their political view or voice or you dont like what they are saying, that is systemic racism within a construct. Its discrimination is what it is. It knows no color. It can happen to a white person or a black person. When you look at the social media platforms going along with their narrative it is a concern to me as a discrimination. What they are doing is choking out your reach and the fact that you have all these people on in your social media platform. We didnt buy people. These are people that come to our platform or our page to see what diamond and silk have to say. But if you cant beat them, join them, so thats what we did. We started our own a social media platform. If you want to hear what diamond and silk have to say without being censored, you can enjoy them and you get to hear everything diamond and silk has to say. Thats right. Host lets hear from the viewers. Annette is in albany, new york. You are on with diamond and silk. Go ahead. Caller i am in albany and im a little confused about [inaudible] trying to support someone who has yes told us the truth but openly denigrate you in terms of calling, ancestors denying folks benefits. I would like im a little confused yes he speaks his mind but is it in your benefit . Eight done one thing for black folks. Not one thing. You living in albany new york why do you support quick c havent ever done anything for black people. Kamala harris and doctor. They want you to kill your babies up to the birth and as a christian we worked hard. So as a question or whoever you hard on where you are believe in taking life then you are a hypocrite if you do. We support donald j trumps he has done Amazing Things for america including the black community. Name one thing they have done for america to benefit them as democrats otherwise they would be out in the streets. Host lets hear from ron in massachusetts you are on with the diamond and silk and a booktv. Caller thank you for taking my call. Diamond and silk i love you guys. We love you more. Caller i have internet or anything like that but when i see you on jesse waters i have to watch every time and the reruns. You should be in the white house having a job helping to keep america great. Guest thank you for the love. We are too big to fit in the white house. We want to be out here with the people to see whats going on and keep our ear on the ground. We love educating the public and to educate them and let them know we are here with you. And the elitist and so we can learn together. Host and here is a picture of diamond and silk in the white house with President Trump this is in their book uprising lets hear from Linda Newport beach california. Caller i just finished reading begin again about James Baldwin and i would suggest these two women try to educate themselves. Peter James Baldwin and find out what is really going on and what has been since the beginning of the country. These are two of the most ignorant human beings i have ever seen where they are absolute liars. Caller can i address that . Instead of telling us to read work at what her governor has proposed for california. A bill that would allow, you are calling us ignorant . That is what you call racism for a white woman to get on the phone to call to black women in because we dont belong with her ideology that is that what has destroyed the black community and this is why you need diamond and silk to put an end to this foolishness. That is what you call discrimination. Keep in mind President Trump is not a career politician he got into office four years ago Something Like jim crow joe has been in their half a century. He has enriched himself well taken from we, the American People. He is in debt with china. But then pick up our book from diamond and silk to learn about the hard ideology that has been implemented in her thinking that what is going on in our government is okay. Donald j. Trump wants to cut waste and fraud and abuse take our tax dollars using it for the good of the people not Something Like jim crow joe biden is for. Women are living in the pain of our ancestors. So that we would have to do the things. Understand that. Do i have to go back to 1619 . This is 2020 will have to go back to 1960 we can drink out of the same water fountain. Host Pompano Beach florida to go ahead. Caller ladies, i am beyond thrilled to speak with you. I have been following you since you first posted on the scene i have not read your book yet but i am looking forward to it. But also grateful if you stood up and have the courage to do you are doing and if you have your family support. Now have they come over if not . Caller by two books and give one to a liberal. Yes. Whenever i approach my parents about a candidate trump in 2014 my father said i aint never voted for no republican before but he kept watching him and he liked he was saying. They loved it. Let me tell you something. To lifelong democrats. Lifelong democrats. They love this man and his policy. The media tries to vilify him. Let me tell you about president donald j. Trump there is what you see and what you dont see. Thats what people need to understand. People try to be career politicians people are tired of that. Host here is the forward to the book uprising from mom and dad you can read it in uprising. Seagrove North Carolina please go ahead with your question or comment for diamond and silk. Caller hello. I am a High School Teacher getting close to where you are from in moore county i love your show. I record it all the time and listening to these people colon you were raise like i was raised and your parents made you put into some work for you did your work. Nobody looked for a handout. If you need something your neighbors helped you if they needed something you helped them. These people call and calling us ignorant . That just shows that they probably never worked or helped anybody in their life. Thank you for all you do. And thats it. Host thank you keith any comment . Caller thank you for your love. We appreciate that. Thats why we work very very hard. You go get it yourself. He created the opportunity for you to go get it yourself. When people start calling you out your name to assassinate your character because they have no fax to come back on what diamond and silk have said. Thats right. Host diamond you spent quite a bit of time in the book talking about your first job at shoneys and then mcdonalds. Why do you spend so much time on that . Guest i wanted to emphasize. Shoneys is my first job. When i got pregnant, i got pregnant at a young age of 17. My mom said im not signing papers for you to get on welfare. You better go get a job. I was a hostess and a waitress. I absolutely love that job. I love greeting people and reading the tables. I loved it. Then i had a second job at mcdonalds. Now at mcdonalds i dont know if you call that discrimination or racism play pointed out they had beyond the fry machine but i had jerry curl i didnt want my hair to catch on fire. [laughter] they said as soon as another cashier position opens up i could have it listed of me he gave it to a white girl. I was upset i dont know if it is racism but he lied to me. I was upset about the lie. Dont tell me youre going to do something i expect you to do it. I am behind president donald j. Trump promises made and promises kept. He said i would do this and he did it and more. That is what i love. When you are down you are not out to pick like that job not because he gave it to the white girl but lied to me. Host john from astoria were again you are on with diamond and silk the book is called appraising. Caller hello ladies. I wanted to Say Something to silk that people think diamonds are more valuable than silk people think diamonds are more valuable than silk anyway, you said one of the things that turned you on to donald trump as he is a good businessman. My question is, and then you talk about the problem of outsourcing to other countries. But in a businessman would take outsourced labor to improves profits. Would you be willing to take a more socialist initiative to interfere with the free market in that regard . Caller listen. We are americans. I will never be for taking our jobs to outsource to other countries. When you have government officials from the top i became the Business People i blame the system for allowing that. To keep these businesses right here in america. And then you have to cut the regulation and the incentive to keep this hear from the American People. As president of the United States of america with american wounds right here that can work into the same job you dont take away their source of income leave them homeless and hungry just to satisfy your own kickback. And then to provide for their family you dont do that as president of the United States. That is what obama did. That is what bill clinton did to outsource those jobs. Obama was about to sign the tpp agreement to outsource more job jobs. Those manufacturing jobs are not coming back. We need a leader like donald j. Trump knows how to negotiate and that they are paying off the fabric of america because we are not charging them but they are charging us tariffs and it took donald trump was a businessman to realize this is a business. So that if you want to know so we cannot be processed and then to outsource my jobs to cut out the lower wages. Host finally lets hear from john in chesapeake virginia teeeight. Caller i have a comment if the ladies. Thank you and you for speaking the truth dont let anybody hush you up you are beautiful in person and the truth. You wish you could come to this area to do some book signing. Caller thank you so much. Were thinking of the book tour in 2021 after the pandemic. Caller thank you and god bless you. Host diamond and silk talk about their relationship extensively with fox news if you are curious about that pick up appraising who the hell said you cant to switch the weakening of diamond insult thank you for joining us on tv. Caller thank you for having us. Host for the past 20 years but tv has partnered with the library of congress and the National Book festival to bring extensive coverage of the festival we have been on capitol hill and in a ritual issue with the book fair. Several hours of programming this evening from the National Book festival you can find the full schedule on your Program Guide and right now we will go back to the book festival to show you a program former secretary of state Madeleine Albright one Madeleine Albright