you unlock this door with the key of imagination. door wi beyond it is another dimension you ve just crosse imaginad ove the twilight zone. i m scared. thankfully, we can rely on the media to tell us the e can rek in witen fantasy and the twilight zone. let s check in, for example, with msnbc. they know how to cover the problems that america really cares about. how to c. here to discuss a fabulous panel, nikki d is with us. new york city nightlife awards producer of the year, julie jay is here, legendary drag queen, activist and creator of the ofp nyc. rosie is here. rupaul s drag race, seasonsts an 13 finalist and off-broadway stard and marry a trans woman activist and superstar drag performerstar drr. ladies. i am so happy you are here because dozens om happy f states this country are targeting drag performerscross . to what do you want our audience to know? sorry that was just msnbc. they have an all star drag panel. orry. that s why we couldn t book them. they had t
you re judged based on the membership in certain groups, not on your abilities. getting scary now.not on y if all of this isn t crazy scar. enough, we now have topless transgender activists running around the white house lawn. whit you look at all of this happening, it s easy to throw up your hands and give up. nothing makek at this sense anyt seems. but something else is happening. thing elamericans are starting g back against the woke nonsense, not becaus te i m saying it not because you re thinking it. it s because they re acting on it. they kno w it s wrong.n it regular, everyday americans of all backgrounds, for examplelar in hamtramck, michigan, the muslim city council. y coun look at this. they just voted to ban the pride flag from city y becauset propertci at this juo they re anti-gay. they just didn t do this because they re against the lgbt community. the city council member, his name is nyein chowdhry. he explained it this way the the vote was about respecting the religious
life without fearing whatever s happening in the middle east. talk about where you are in your practice of your religion. are you all actively practicing your faith? yes. yeah. i mean, main thing, the five pillars of islam, is praying five times a day. donating to the poor. going to hajj, or going to mecca. it s a pilgrimage. yeah. fasting and telling our other peers about the religion. those are the five pillars of islam. we see, that s the call of prayer. is that the call to prayer? yeah. you have an alarm on your phone? i have an app. of course it is. it s called muslim pro. it will tell you the call of prayer in the city you re in. so it moves with you, based on the time? we pray five times a day. i m not getting you in trouble now? you can do it with the next one, as long as you don t skip it overall. the mosques have the call of prayers on the speakers. you hear that in hamtramck. other cities you won t. there are a lot of people against it, they
of the idea of this factory closing, which, of course, we don t know what s going to happen yet six months down the line, but you have to start thinking about, okay, so we ve got what do we do next? what do we do next? what do we do with this land? what do we do with this facility? how do we reuse or rethink that resource in a way that reflects our community and that feeds our community rather than than sucks from it? the cars may be going but the dream remains here in hamtramck. back to you. kevin, thank you for that important reporting on that community. these plants close and people don t get to know what the communities are like around there. kevin tibbles for us in hamtramck, michigan. president trump is attacking general motors over its decision to idle plants and layoff workers. a short time ago tweeted very disappointed with general motors and its ceo mary barra for
business that supports those workers. it s interesting ali listening to the clip that just played, yes, this is an economic story but it s very much a social story as well. we re standing in the polish village cafe, which has been a fixture here since about the 1920s welcoming new immigrants into this area to come and work in these factories. i happened to be joined with the mayor of hamtramck right now, karen myoski. let s talk a little bit about that, mayor. we re essentially talking about the fact none of this would have been here without the auto industry. how did the auto industry end up in hamtramck? absolutely, hamtramck was born in the auto industry. in 1910 the dodge brothers came here. they built an enormous plant, and before that hamtramck had been a sleepy farm community. and it turned into one of e tthe fastest growing the fastest-growing place in