On this week’s episode, we continue our conversation about Ja Morant. After spending a week in a rehab center, and with plans on returning to NBA play this week, many are asking if mental health was the real reason he left. And why it seems as though he was rushed back to play? Also on the show, the San Francisco branch of the NAACP decided to reject the proposed offer of reparations the city had put together, which included money pay outs of up to $5M dollars. What was their reasoning? And Ben Crump, is once again, fighting for another family to get answers. The body of Rasheem Carter was found with it’s head severed, in the woods of Mississippi, in October of 2022. This gruesome find happened just a month after he made reports to the police of being chased by “truck loads” of White men hurling racial slurs. What really happened to him. And lastly, Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, has arguably the most diverse cabinet in the country. We discuss whether or not diversity is all it’s cracked up to be.

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Rasheem Carter - Headless Body Found

Last October, Rasheem Carter told Taylorsville, Mississippi police that he had been chased by truckloads of white men yelling racial slurs at him. 

Days later, Carter was officially reported missing. 

His remains were found a month later, just 1 mile south of the town. In a statement posted to Facebook at the time, the Smith County Sheriff’s Office, where Taylorsville is located, said that there was “no reason to believe” that foul play was involved. 

Months after Carter’s disappearance, the state Bureau of Investigation and local police still maintain that an investigation is ongoing, but have provided his family with scant information. His family thinks that Carter, a 25-year-old Black man, was murdered in cold blood and found decapitated—and that police inaction put Carter in danger and is now stalling his family’s quest for justice. 

NAACP Rejects Cash Reparations

In a stunning turn of events, the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP has come out in opposition to a reparations proposal for cash payments to the city’s Black residents in an effort to atone for the lingering damages from slavery.

A city-appointed committee proposed $5 million payouts to Black adults who are descendants of enslaved people with a guaranteed annual income of at least $97,000 for 250 years. The committee also proposed the elimination of personal debt and homes in San Francisco with a price tag of just $1 a family. 

But while it appeared the movement was gaining momentum, the NAACP San Francisco Branch tweeted a statement on Tuesday bashing the reparations proposal. Instead, the NAACP San Francisco Branch offered its own reparations proposal that does not include cash payments.