The Walt Weekly Podcast

The Walt Weekly Christmas Show: Rebroadcast

Hello all and thank you for joining FridayLive! Believe it or not this is our second end of year show and in honor of that we are having our Annual Christmas Show. We humbly thank all our listeners for supporting us and our Panel. We also extend our deepest appreciation to our esteemed guest for taking time out of their busy schedule, to appear on the TWW. Looking back at the 2021, I am proud that we maintained our value proposition of providing information impacting our community.

We would like to congratulate our panel member, Gene Edwards, for being awarded The Black Veterans Award.

May your holidays be happy, safe, memorable, and full of love.

We have done 123 episodes. We will be rebroadcasting some of these over the next few weeks.  See you live on January 7^th!

Interview with Jose Antonio Coello, Sr on NYC Construction- Rebroadcast

This week we take a look at the 800 Billion dollar construction industry. How do you bid for a contract? Our guest, Mr. Jose Antonio Coello, will address that question and more.

 

About Mr. Coello, Sr.

As a committed business entrepreneur and

proven community advocate and organizer, Jose

Sr. strongly advocates for minority contractors,

minority employment, and MWBE contractual

opportunities. As the President of the New York

State Association of Minoritv Contractors. Jose

Sr. had the mission of advancing and promoting

the mutual interests of minority and women

contracting firms based in New York. The

organization's corporate partners include the

School Construction Authority (SCA), MTA, FCRC,

DASNY, Con Edison, Battery Park, and the New York Port

Authority, amongst several others.

NYSAMC is particularly proud of being a signatory to the

precedent- setting Community Benefits Agreement (CBA)

of the Barclay Center Arena and Atlantic Yards Project,

and will continue to monitor and advocate for small

businesses.

Small Business and Entrepreneurship With Ray J. McGuire Former Vice Chairman Of Citigroup and Former NYC Mayoral Candidate

The TWW welcomes trailblazer Raymond J. McGuire. He is a former NYC Mayoral Candidate and a former Vice Chairman of Citigroup. He was also Global Head of Investment Banking during his tenure at Citigroup with a specific focus on Mergers and Acquisitions. Ray held this position for 13 years. This was the longest any person, Black or White, held this role.

Ray is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ray will bring his expertise and experience to small business, startups, and entrepreneurship. What does the current environment look like with COVID, supply chain disruptions, inflation, and the country’s political divide?

Saving Our Kids: :Stop and Frisk, Raise the Age? Rebroadcast

Attorney Walter Fields and his partner, Ronald Fisher,  will be discussing the” Raise the Age” changes that Bronx DA Clark wants to implement as part of the fight against gun violence. We will also discuss the return of” Stop and Frisk” and the Rittenhouse not guilty verdict. Today’s guest will provide us with a legal analysis of this verdict.

Where Are Our Black Churches? Rebroadcast

Harlem ‘s Reverend Dr. James A. Kilgore and  Greg Coleman join us to discuss why black churches appear to be absent from the struggle for equal rights.

Healthcare and the African American: Why Are We Left Out?

The TWW is joined today by a 16-year Healthcare professional who will help us discuss the lack of proper Healthcare African Americans have received. Whose to blame?

The Corona Pandemic exposed the ingrained discriminatory treatment of Blacks by the medical profession. It is prolific and permeates throughout this most important service. If you are not healthy, your options are automatically constrained and most tines unobtainable. Ergo, the lack of proper treatment served to insure that Blacks remained at the bottom of the economic ladder. What can be done? Is there some quick remedy? Or do we have to totally restructure the existing system.

Unnamed Guest Background

BSN (bachelor in the science of nursing)
CEN (certified emergency nurse)
16 years of experience

 

 

Black Fathers Not Getting Credit

This show is about why Black fathers are hardly mentioned when thanks are being given out by Blacks who have become successful in their fields. This could be sports, entertainment, etc. Black fathers are the Rodney Dangerfield of parents. We get no respect, no respect at all.

Superman‘s Son Is Bisexual- Rebroadcast of Friday Live

The TWW takes on the the recent announcement by DC Comics that Superman's son will be bisexual. Is this an attempt at normalization? What about the young kids that are comic book enthusiast? Are we supposed to just accept this as part of our being in the 21st century?

Who Is At Fault for Violence In Our Community? Us!

Black on Black violence, with images of shootings, babies being caught in the crossfire, other innocents killed or wounded. What can we attribute this scourge too?  We have gangs, drug dealers, people that prey on the old and elderly. What do we do? Depend on the police to implement programs to address it? They have. We have. Yet it continues unabated.

Let’s put the responsibility where it lies. We are responsible first and foremost. A child is a product of his environment. If he is brought up in an environment where life is cheap and going to school is for punks, this will become his reality. This along with systemic racism has manifested itself with kids who don’t respect life. It is not precious to them.

Have you ever asked yourself how a kid can kill someone and go to McDonalds? How a mother can grieve for her murdered child, not knowing that her child killed another child 2 weeks ?

 

The Way it Was. What Happened? Rebroadcast

On this week’s show ,we want to go back, way back, to growing up Black during the 60s and 70s. Life was valuable, and discipline was up front and community driven.

What Happened to us?

Photo provided by my classmate,  Tonette Speller