WEBVTT - Covid Impact on Education 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.880 His family is to meeke A D. Mallory and then 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.200 your boy in general, and we are your host of 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.319 street politicians, the place where the streets and politics meet. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.880 We're back on set. Were separated. We had a little 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:23.920 distant a little distant travel that we had to do 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.480 to a lot of folks, a lot of folks. We 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.040 spent a lot of time dealing with a lot of 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.440 death unfortunately, a lot of police violence, a lot of 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.440 community trauma, UM over the last few weeks. But we're 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.480 back on set today and this show is really really packed. Um. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.720 We're gonna be talking about COVID, but not from the 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:52.680 perspective of the vaccinations or the health risk, which we 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:57.040 definitely are going to do a show that addresses that 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.720 particular topic. But this is going to be more about 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:06.039 our children and what has happened to them mentally, um, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.759 emotionally and most important, I guess it's not more important 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.959 than your mental health, and mental health is number one, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:17.520 but very important is educationally. Um. You know, they say 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.560 that black children will lose at least one year of 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.800 education just in the shifting of moving from in school 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.560 to out of school, which, by the way, schools in 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.560 the inner city are not educating our kids the way 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.880 that they should be anywhere. We know that. We know that, 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:38.040 and especially young black males. Um, we know are really 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:43.480 really struggling in the just the the public school educational system, 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.280 and not just that. There's some charter schools that I've 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.800 heard from folks are not really working as well as 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.360 they should as you know as well, and so just 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:56.360 the education system in general, like every other system that 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.320 we every other institution that exists within this kind tread, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.320 needs an overhaul. Um I am. I have thrown out 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.520 the word reform sometimes, I might say, because you know, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.840 you gotta covery yourself because the Negroes will find the 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:18.680 day that you said yes. So no. So you know, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.080 because I've been saying reform for so long, I catched myself. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.680 And in fact, um, you know, my book was written 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.760 a while ago, and now that it's out and I've 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.160 been reading it over and over and studying the material 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.440 and also um, you know, just just and well, first 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.079 of all, I had to read it, which was difficult 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.680 for the audio over to. Thank you very much. It's 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.079 coming in May eleventh, just a few days and it's 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.639 gonna be released. As crazy, how this process started somewhere 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:52.799 around July or August of last year, and now here 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.080 I am like trying it's really coming out like, oh 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.799 my god. But anyway, UM, what one of the things 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.800 that I wish I could go back and change, which 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.440 will be a part of my next book because I'm 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.560 in the process of writing my memoir. UM. But it 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.840 says the word reform. It talks about reforming systems. And 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.320 of course, over the course of the year, as I 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.560 really have done a deep dive and they have grown 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.880 in my own understanding of what has to happen in 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.679 this movement, I realized that reform won't work. It will 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.840 not work. I've thrown that out. And even though it 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.040 says reform in the book as the title of one 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.600 of the areas where I'm talking about what needs to 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.960 happen with systems, if you read the content, it talks 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:41.840 about overhauling. It talks about tearing. Yeah. Transform, that's that's 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:46.080 a good word. You're very good words. Transforming, um. You know, 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:51.200 just dismantling really and rebuilding new systems. So education, it's 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:56.640 one of those institutions that where that needs to happen, transformation, UM. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.880 And what we know is because they're saying one year, right, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:06.600 that these kids going from school every day, which is 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.800 not that great to being at home, even finding a 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:15.360 spot in your house where you could sit, and really 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:19.080 just you know, being being a parent and and having 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.480 to remote school. You know, both of my son's door 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.200 remote school, and just finding two separate places in the 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.760 house for them to do their own school. It's almost 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.159 impossible because if you them together, that's never gonna happen. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.440 So you you sit one of them on one side, 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.440 you said, the other one on that side, and then 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.040 one of them is talking too loud or they hear 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:40.920 the other one than the other one got their headphones, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.760 and and then the other one gets up because he 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.719 gets a little bored. He gets a break before the 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.720 other one does. He's in the screen and he's telling 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.520 him to sit down. And they got breaks at different times. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.000 So it's just it's a lot. So you have that. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.480 Then of course the teachers trying to figure it out 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.120 other students. It was so much so that went on 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.360 for months just trying to figure that out. And and and 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.720 and don't let your teacher get COVID because then the 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.000 teacher the parents is out that this all of this 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:12.360 stuff happened to try to get the education to operate online, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.120 and I still don't think that they figured out figured 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.680 it out a hundred percent. And now it's May. The 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.160 year is about to end, so a whole year of education, 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.320 maybe even a year and some change these kids have lost. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.040 What do we do? And really, honestly, if you think 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.200 about it, it is more than a year at this point, 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.480 because this began last year in March, right, So this 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.200 is you know, really serious. And we have a bunch 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.680 of guests that are coming on today that are going 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.560 to talk about COVID nineteen and education and what we've 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.040 got to do to try to get our kids up 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.320 to speed. Can't wait to see what they have to say, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:51.760 because I need some help. Yes, that's this is why 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:57.560 why helps me. I don't have any more children, because 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.960 but people who have kids, you know what it is 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.200 is for me. I think the conventional way teaching is 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.960 just something I adhere to. Even if you you home 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.880 school in your children, just separating kids to what they're 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.040 not able to interact, it's very difficult, you know, because 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:21.080 it puts them on these games. If you off parents 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:28.000 then you know, Minecraft, Fortnight Fortnite and roadblocks control your home. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.080 Especially in these days. They don't even want to go outside. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.520 Kids into soccer. They want to go out soccer all 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.880 the time. Now they want to sit on a game 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.560 and I have to have to have to force them 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.520 to They only can play those games on the weekends. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:46.640 Like but they over Mario had us. It was like Fortnight. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.400 It wasn't like Super Mario was a big deal. Only thing. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.440 Super Mario was a big deal. Like you stayed in 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.280 the house, that's just Super Mario Mario, just when it 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.320 was the regular Mario. Because remember Super Mario came second. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.599 When it was regular Mario, you were in the house 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.680 trying to figure out how to get that thing to 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.200 climb over and go up the wall and do the things. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.560 But it wasn't Fortnite. The thing is this the difference 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.960 with these games, right, your your friends had to come 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.239 to your house to play technology. Right technology they're playing 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.400 with their friends from across the world. My cousin with 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.800 their cousins live in Baltimore. They on the game and 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.320 they're talking to each other and it's like you and 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.480 it's so loud. It completely takes over your house. It 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.000 is the weird. It is the yourdition is the craziest 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.640 thing ever. So my thought of the day today, Um, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.040 you know, and speaking of transforming systems, you know, I 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:45.240 just listen. I've been I just be trying to figure 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.080 out why do we have to fight everybody all the 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.680 time about everything? It's just too much? Like that's literally 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.080 my thought of the day. Why do we have to 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:59.320 fight everybody all the time about everything? Why? So the 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.640 reason why bring this up is because in New York City, 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.680 the City Council of which could you know, folks say, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.840 y'all don't do nothing. Y'all y'all ain't never changed no laws. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.400 You don't you never you know, you're gonna do nothing. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.480 That also what we do. Meanwhile, in a place like 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.160 New York. The other thing is you're going working in 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.000 other states. What's happening in your own state? Well, well 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.000 let me tell you so. First of all, many of 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:34.120 the people in office, elected officials in the state of 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.320 New York are people we fought to get them in 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.439 office healthy and not just when I say that, I'm 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.319 not talking about I just endorsed the candidate, or like 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.559 I make you donate. That's the funniest thing. Come almost 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:53.760 twelve o'clock right before these deadlines. My sign you gotta 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.160 open up your pocketbook or you you don't have pocket 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.120 book but your bank account, and you gotta donate to 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.360 this one. That one when you're like, wait a minute, 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.599 is too many people, and it's usually a slate and 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.960 unfortunately you can. You have to at least do two 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.720 hundred and fifty dollars, which we usually donate more than that. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.480 You've done probably about five hundred dollars per person. I 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:19.200 have been expect more. Listen, they come to me and 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.000 then like we need the thousand. We're gonna need some 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.319 people do it. We've been doing it right. The reason 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.559 why two hundred and fifty dollars is significant is because 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.400 you get matching funds eight to one. So for every 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.120 two hundred and fifty dollars, each dollar gets an eight 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.280 dollar match from the city, so that goes into their 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.000 campaign fund. And so if you so when you donate 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.439 two hundred and two hundred and fifty, and that's um 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.560 so it's yes two thousand dollars that they receive just 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.679 off of that. So they want you to donate to 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.600 fifty if you can't do nothing else, if you can't 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.160 do anything else they need you to do to fifty 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.640 anything else that you donate above that helps and pay 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.000 the staff and do other things right, And there's usually 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.280 a limit on the amount that you can donate as 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:14.000 a regular person and definitely as a corporation to any candidate. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.440 They have like a four thousand dollar minimum. It just 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.360 depends on what it is that they're running for. So 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.560 you know, we've been doing that. So now that's one 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.439 is that we actually do take our own personal money 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.400 and ensure that we get certain types of elected officials 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.480 in office. But beyond that, when I say fighting, what 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.040 I mean is that we've had to actually work to 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:40.079 transform the political landscape in New York to start getting 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:44.680 more candidates who are more radical even in terms of 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.960 they're thinking. And I like using the word radical because 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:52.000 that pisces people off radical radical, radical, Yeah, no, so 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.080 when when we say that, well, we're talking about these 0:10:55.120 --> 0:11:01.720 are people who are super liberal, super aggressive, right, And 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.480 that's important because these are folks and even in their 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.839 super super progressive state, we still gotta fight, even our 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.199 friends to be like, yo, we need you to push harder, 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.880 we need you to go harder, because they're up against 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.520 systems that immediately once they walk in the door talking 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.240 about we need to end qualified immunity, the whole system 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.920 blows up. No, we don't want to do it. We 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.520 don't want to do it. But these are individuals who 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.120 work to really push the envelope in terms of the 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.400 things we care about. From New York State, where we 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.600 just um legalized marijuana, let let's talk about this story 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:41.839 really quickly. The state legalized marijuana last session. They were 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.200 supposed to do it. It came down to the last 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:50.600 few moments. And our friend Senator Brian Benjamin, somebody we helped. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.120 We helped him get elected. We work with him, we 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.360 we advise him, even though sometimes I have to fight 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.120 Brian because Brian, like you know, can't be doing everything 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.240 y'all need me to do. It just ain't gonna happen. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.200 But he still understands why we sent him to the Senate, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.480 right so he in last session was one of the 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.800 only people who held out his vote. And everybody was 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.160 piste off because they wanted to see marijuana get you know, 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.319 they wanted to see marijuana become legalized. He said no 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.120 because he did not feel that number one, there was 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.480 enough being done on the expungement side for people who 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.920 are currently people who was in jail forward selling weed 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.040 was getting their records clean. There was one day when 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.480 he wanted to do more that, but the main reason 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.680 was because he felt that the license in in terms 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.480 of people being able to actually sell and get in 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:49.240 the business of those people they locked up that was criminals. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.600 Then they're gonna need to get a load licensees so 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.440 they can make some legal money with marijuana, because you 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.040 locked him up and said it was illegal, So now 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.040 give him an opportunity to make some money while it's legal, right, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:06.800 except not necessarily people. I don't know this. I don't 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.320 want to put this on him. I don't know if 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.920 it's folks that might have a felony conviction, because I 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.880 don't know exactly how that works. But he's definitely trying 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.160 to make sure that more black and brown people have 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.280 access into the pipeline so that they could get in 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.240 the business of of of marijuana. Right. But I think 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.920 most I think a lot of them people are saying 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.040 that they want those who were convicted of marijuana to 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.920 have to have a you know, a certain percentage to 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.240 be just advocated and put to them, so that I 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.720 think that that's right. So he didn't feel that that 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:45.439 was happening because because because in the state of New York, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.960 first of all, one of the things that folks are 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.120 supposed to be checking for me and I really want 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:54.280 to know I'm under I've been told that all the 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.640 Republicans that are in the Senate and the Assembly in 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.400 the state of New York are white. I have not 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.600 been able to having anybody show me one that is 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.920 of color. Now I might be wrong, But if if 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.679 I am wrong, I'm wrong by one or two no 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:16.160 state senators and or assembly members that are Republicans in 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.920 New York. It might be the city council too. I'm 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:20.560 gonna have to check that out. I could be wrong 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.280 about city council, but from the state level, I have 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.000 not found one, and so some other folks are doing 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.880 the research to make sure. But if I'm wrong, I'm 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:36.040 wrong by one person, maybe two people every year is white. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.080 And so the Republicans, And of course at the time 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.000 we had that I d C, which was the independent 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.280 caucus of people who got elected as Democrats. But they 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.440 went into a small caucus and started to mean and 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:56.080 vote with the Republicans. So the governor Cuomo. Who y'all 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.080 just love Cuomo because you see him on TV and 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.520 he's doing such a good job with COVID, which he's 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.600 not doing more than he's supposed to do as a governor. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:09.200 He's doing his job. He's charismatic, he speaks well. He's fine. Yes, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.800 he is, Ladies, I know. The white boy is fine. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.640 Excuse me, the white man is fine. I get it, ladies, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:20.200 I know. But nonetheless, when you look at his record 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:26.280 in New York State, Governor Cuomo has been extremely problematic, 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.920 and in some instances, I would go as far as 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.400 to say that he and his administration have actually discriminated 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.960 against black and brown people and particularly poor people. Now, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.040 I could go harder, but I'm not for the purpose 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:47.960 of this conversation. So we right advocated to get a 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.440 black woman back in her seat as the speaker in 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:57.480 the state, which is um okay, which is Andreas Stewart Cousins, Okay, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.960 a black woman, Okay. We help to get a black 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.560 woman who is now in the process of investigating the 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:09.960 NYPD and investigating Donald Trump as a New York resident. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.400 Her name is Letitia James, and she is the the 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.480 Attorney General of this We helped get her elected. We 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:23.120 helped to get several progressives and key positions within the state. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.360 And Brian Benjamin, who I just we just went through 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.120 what he's been working on. This is a man who 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.080 was specifically one of our candidates that we ran and 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.840 helped get the elector. But they're gonna don't really mean 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.360 I'm not talking repentation. What were they doing, but we're 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.920 not talking about representation. We just gave you just some 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.560 of the things, just some of the things. Controller Now 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.760 I'm supporting him. This show is not the street politicians 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:54.200 is not involved. But I'm no, I'm supporting Brian. I'm 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.720 going to support him to um now. But in the city, 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:05.520 the second ranking highest the second highest ranking elected official 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:10.080 in the city, the public advocates name is Jermanni Williams, 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.720 who we also ran and helped him get elected. And 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.159 anybody who you just go google Jamana, Well, I'm just 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.679 trying to say high that school get black people free. Okay, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.240 Well we know, come on, Jamani, I'm saying you've got 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.359 all the year. We heard that year they've got some stuff. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.240 Well is that gonna get black people free? So we 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:34.040 we were gonna getting black people free? But Jermanni Williams, 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.280 is that gonna get black people free? You're crazy. But 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:42.040 Jermanni Williams yet another person who was in the City Council, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.800 and because of him, the city got has a crisis 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:50.639 management system that actually helped to reduce violence in epic 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.199 proportions in the city. First of all, we're talking about 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:59.760 now maybe forty million dollars that is being designated for 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:05.160 for normally incarcerated people, health services, uh, jobs and all 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:11.680 types of programs, legal services. All of that are coming 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.680 out of the City Council because of people like Jamanni 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:20.719 Williams and also City council Member Fernando Cabrera. Cabrera excuse me, so, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:27.119 and we could go on. We could talk about people, um, 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.320 you know, folks who are now running Vanessa Gibson is 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:34.320 now running for Bronx Borough president. These are our people. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:39.119 People have done amazing things in the City of New 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.080 York and in the State of New York, and and 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.440 it just got to the point where we're actually able 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.720 to do even more. We had just been trying to 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.720 clean it up and get some people out and new 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.360 people in. Now we're at the place where we can 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:55.320 actually pass progressive laws and progressive legislation in the city. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.520 So back to my question in the day, because we 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.280 went all the way around from next to get back 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:05.320 to it. The city council signed a bill ending qualified 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.800 immunity because just so we know, just so we know, 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.760 just so we know, the George Floyd Justice and Policing 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:18.520 Act is a federal bill that by the way, Joe Biden, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.560 President Joe Biden, when he did his State of the 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.000 I don't know what I think it was a one 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:28.520 hundred day address just the other day, he mentioned he 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:33.680 stated that he wanted to see the George Floyd Justice 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:38.520 and Policing Act passed by May, the anniversary of when 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.520 George Floyd was murdered. That's what he said, and we're 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.360 going to hold him to the But that's federal legislation 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.919 that includes ending qualified immunity. And there are many like um, 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.879 like Congresswoman Corey Bush and others who have said that 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.920 they will not sign a bill that does not deal 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.760 with qualified immunity. And for folks who who are listening, 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.600 who are saying, what is that, it means that you 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:10.080 will be able to sue a police officer directly, that's right, 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.920 So that they will have to pay if they are 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:17.080 participate in an issue where someone is abused or murdered 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.919 in in an in an incident of police brutality. Okay, 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:25.920 so that yes, it is a federal uh, federal legislation 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.280 that we want to see get pass, but cities and 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.359 states do not have to wait. Colorado as a state 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:38.800 just ended qualified immunity. Teslin A. Figura always reminds me 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:43.960 Colorado as a state. New York City City Council voted 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.960 to pass and into qualified immunity. And when they sent 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:51.560 the bills to the mayor, because folks don't be understanding 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.359 all the details, when they sent the bills to the 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.119 mayor so that the mayor could sign all the bills 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.040 and say, okay, I agree to all of this and 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:04.200 send it back. He did not send the qualified immunity 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.880 build back signed. So that's why we got the fight. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:13.760 And that's what the problem is for me from these 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.920 government officials like you work for us, you know, and 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.200 and if if the people are telling you that qualified 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:23.560 immunity does not fit the needs of the people, then 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.320 how are you going to continue to tell us that 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:27.600 it does? You know? And I think that's the reason 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.360 why you know the mayor is on his way out. Well, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.800 he was gonna be out anyway because it's time is up. 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:35.240 But I'm saying he needs to go, and he really 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.240 just need to go now. He's really in a way. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.440 And at this point it's like, listen, man, we've seen 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.399 what we were dealing with police, and we realized that 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.040 qualified immunity is one of the things that has shielded 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:49.960 him and protected them. There's no real responsibility, there's no 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.320 real consequences. When you understand that when you harm someone 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.159 and you physically abuse and you murder someone, that you 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:58.360 can't get paid and that it's gonna come out your 0:21:58.440 --> 0:21:59.840 check and you're not gonna be able to survive and 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.639 need your kids and all those things, then you think twice. 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.680 When there's no real consequences of things, then you continue 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.400 to move on because the same taxpayers that you're killing 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.639 are gonna pay for you killing them. So that doesn't 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:13.360 really make much sense. You know, you got to say 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:16.000 that again because people may not understand that the same 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:20.119 taxpayers that you're killing are gonna pay for you to 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.720 kill them. Well, did you got to explain what that means? 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.359 So that means the money that is being allocated to 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:30.360 the families who win these civil suits come from taxpayers 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:34.240 money in any cases. I mean, they have some insurance policies, 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.760 but there's still a large but there's a large portion 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.560 that comes from taxpayers money. So there's no consequences for 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:45.000 that individual who takes the life or beats and abuses 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:49.000 on a taxpayer. So that's what we're saying. So at 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.880 this point, man, you know, come on, you don't. You've 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:54.440 been boring long enough. Man, get out the way. Man, 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.439 stop blocking stuff. We tied of fighting you about stuff 0:22:57.640 --> 0:22:59.960 that we want. Not only are we fighting him up 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:02.480 our stuff that we want. This is what he said 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:04.880 he was gonna be about when we voted for him. 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:11.880 Today it's not the day, so you know, it's it's 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:14.320 just I'm like, now we now we got to go 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:19.800 to work on Deblasio again, and a whole lot of 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:21.720 people that we do. And I and you know what, 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:28.080 I actually really really like Deblasio as a person. This 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:32.040 is somebody and he's a nice guy. But I found 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:36.440 he really he betrayed. I mean I raised money for him, 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:39.160 I supported I stumped for him, like I was out 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:42.440 there and I and I'm like wow, and now and 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:45.560 by the way, there was another man running, Bill Thompson, 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:48.560 a black man who I was more insupportive, but unfortunately 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:51.160 it didn't work out. And they also asked Billy built 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:54.040 Billy is what we call you know, But Bill Thompson, 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:58.200