WEBVTT - The Power Of Influence with Latoya Shambo 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:07.320 That's what's up. Family. It's your girl to mek A D. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.800 Mallory, and it's your boy, my son and general. 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.280 And we are your hosts of street politicians, the place 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:14.960 where the streets and politics. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:15.280 Me. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.880 Why you gotta say it like I said, Why you 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:20.160 can't say it your own way? 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.840 Because I have to match the cadence to me, because 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.880 because they're gonna match them together. So if it's no cadence, 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.280 then it's gonna be off. So when you say it away, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:29.840 I try to say it the same way so when 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.000 they put them together that it actually messhes. No, I 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:37.040 want you to go police, because it doesn't. It's not 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.920 going to line up. It's not going to line up together. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:41.760 Can't line up. 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:49.080 Don't talk like me anyway you want to. That's called 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:50.160 being a bier. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.159 Trying to be an alignment. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:59.880 Oh, alignment on street politicians. I didn't know about that. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.800 Now let me get into alignments. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.560 Yes, sometimes in sync, how about that. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.039 Let me tell you this about my situation. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:12.679 I don't know if I already told you this or not, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:17.919 but for the audience, I wake up at three thirty 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.160 in the morning to leave New Orleans for no. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.520 I woke up at three o'clock. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:27.120 To leave New Orleans for a five to twenty nine flight. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.679 So I wake up and I see it's three o'clock. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.800 I'm like, yo, I need thirty more minutes. Because mind 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:41.120 you bet week weekend and essence weekend are one week apart, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.920 and then in between you go home for a few days. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.160 You got to repack your bag, you got to get 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.200 yourself together, get back to work. 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:49.840 Just that, and the third it's a whole lot. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.280 It's a lot of fun, a lot of drinking, a 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.400 lot of party and standing up till six seven o'clock 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.000 in the morning, and working also because we do panels 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.160 and go to events and do all of this stuff. 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.360 So it's a lot going on in both times. So 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:02.680 I'm tied tied. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.520 So I was laying down and I said, at three o'clock, 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.160 I said, yo, I just need thirty more minutes. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.640 But I need to know. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.799 How long the check in for a bag is. So, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.040 in other words, is it an hour? Which is only 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.120 a few places around the country that's an hour. JFK 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.640 is one of those places. So in New York, if 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.680 you're going to JFK, you know you gotta be at 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.640 the airport before an hour. I have certainly learned the 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.639 hard way. They're not gonna talk, they're not gonna try. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:35.000 If it's literally three minutes after an hour, they you 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:35.919 do asked out. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:36.960 That's it. It's not happening. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:41.400 So but then, and most airports is forty five minutes 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.880 and then some airports is thirty minutes to check your bag. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.720 So I wanted to just check real quick to make 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.720 sure do I got thirty minutes to sleep or do 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.800 I need to get up now and move? So I look, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.120 I look, I look, I look, I'm looking. I'm like, 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.640 I'm looking for Houston Airport. I'm looking, I'm looking. I 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.880 don't find Houston Airport. I'm like, damn, I need to 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.799 know Houston, Houston, Houston. Looking everywhere, can't find it. So 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.239 I still say, fuck it, we'll see. Hopefully it'll be 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.160 all right. I go to sleep. I wake up at 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.800 three twenty five hustling to the airport. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.920 Yet in the car the driver says no. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.840 So when we pull up in front of it, and 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.760 I'm in the shot with thinking, Yo, the Houston Airport, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.640 it's gotta be it's not JFK. It's got to be 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.120 forty five minutes. I'm gonna be good. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.440 I leave, I go in the car. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.040 We pull up at the airport, and as soon as 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.320 we get there, I'm looking at the outside of the 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.760 airport and I've been to Houston Airport a million times, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.640 and I say to the driver, Sir, are you sure 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.640 this is the only place for delta? Because I never 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.000 looked to see the terminal, So I'm like, is this 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.040 the only place for the for delta? 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:48.920 He like yeah. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:54.920 I go inside. Still I'm in Houston. I go to 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.920 the desk and I'm like, ma'am, how long for because 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.200 it was a little line, so I ask like, hey, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.280 excuse me, how long is for check back? So she 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.280 said thirty minutes. I'm like, okay, cool. And then I 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:06.920 hear us say something and I'm. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:13.160 Like, oh shit, I'm in New Orleans. I literally I 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:13.880 swore I. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.480 Was in you thought she was already there. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.120 I land in my connection in Atlanta and get on 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.600 a conference call line and I'm looking for everybody that's 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.919 supposed to be on there, and I'm like, this is crazy, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.120 Like my whole team they didn't make the call, Like, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.120 what the hell is going on here? I'm about to 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.200 start texting people it was the wrong day. So you 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.960 know what I did when I arrived in Houston. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.520 I laid down because clearly I'm tired. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.359 Literally, it wasn't clear. He wasn't clear. He was not 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.800 clear of man. You know, sometimes you do a lot, man, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:49.120 you know. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.159 I know BT was a lot, you know, coming home 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.520 and just being with my sons all week and traveling, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.839 taking them to boxing practice, and then we went to 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.560 a rally that I had to do, then a speaking 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.320 engagement and. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:07.400 Oh wait, we left the rally. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.160 Wait a minute, We left b T weekend and went 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.600 to DC and the heat wave for the rally for 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:14.480 Jalen Walker. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:15.359 So I forgot that. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.040 You said rallies all types of shit. We just was moving. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.040 So yesterday was a day that I just laid down. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.920 I ain't do much at all, laid and rest because 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.039 you gotta you gotta rejuvenate, You gotta rejuvenate. So I 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.239 get it, man, because sometimes you just don't be clepped. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.479 Speaking of rejuvenation, people better get rejuvenated for the fight 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:37.320 that's ahead of us. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.320 You know, I think that we're going to We're in 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:40.480 a time when. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:45.400 A lot more things, excuse me, a lot of things, unfortunately, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.719 are going to have to happen to like make people 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:56.480 get serious, I want to say, And I'm being careful 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.880 because just because people are not out there pumping their 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.560 fist and doing all of that, does not mean that 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.240 they're not seriously engaged, that they're not angry about the 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.600 things that's happening in this country. But it feels like 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.320 folks are kind of just so tired of dealing with 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.640 all of it, that things are just happening and people 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.839 are not really engaged. And it's a little scary because 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.839 last week should give us an example. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.080 And you know, this is my thing. I listen to. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.200 I pay attention to a lot of people. I pay 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.960 attention to a lot of pages. I listen to a 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:36.920 lot of feedback. And what I noticed is that even 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.960 in the midst of the Supreme Court decisions last week, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.640 so the Supreme Court is now out of session, but 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.760 while they, you know, all these last few months, they 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:50.240 were working and having decisions come out and voting on 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:55.320 stuff that would be which governs our lives, right, And 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.080 a lot of people don't understand that. When I was 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.480 making the decision, when we were talking through how we 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.479 were going to engage in the last election, one of 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.679 the bigger parts of the whole dialogue, and the reason 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:16.400 why we decided to support the Biden administration was because 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:21.400 of the courts. Not just the courts locally, I mean, 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.120 excuse me, not just the Supreme Court, but also federal 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.440 courts where our people are often caught in the system. 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.520 So we were really really concerned because if you are 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.840 a student of history and you understand what's happening in 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.520 this moment, one of the bigger pieces of what we 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:45.360 see in this moment is that they always had an agenda. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.720 And when I say they, I'm talking about conservatives and 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:54.920 specifically the white supremacist arm of the Republican Party. Their 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.960 specific goal and focus was to af fac the courts. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.240 They wanted court they want the federal courts. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.120 They wanted to make sure that their judges were in 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.920 position so that they would be able to roll back 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.720 things like Roe v. Wade, you know, to tamper with 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:18.440 affirmative action in education, to advance some of their own causes, 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.400 you know, different things that they want to do. The 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.800 judges are super important, so the courts have to be protected. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.080 And so a lot of people are like, oh, you 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.880 know so and so, ain't no good and this and 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.319 that I we say all. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.480 The time, i am not a Joe Biden fan. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.560 I'm not invited to see Joe Biden damn near about anything. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.040 For some reason, I'm back on the White House list 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.559 every now and then, and I got i'ven't been invited 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.640 to a few things assigning and a couple social events, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.080 but overall I'm not on the list. So I'm not 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.280 a Biden. They don't love me, and I certainly did 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.160 not want to support Joe Biden for president. That is 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.800 not a thing, right, But I also knew that from 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:05.120 a strategic perspective, that these people were working on taking 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.320 the court so that they could change laws that govern 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:09.560 our lives and that. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.640 Will be in place for generations. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.240 And so when you have a situation like the affirmative 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:20.760 action piece that happened last week, while and there are 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.320 still people who are like, well, I don't care about 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.840 white institutions anyway, It's not about white institutions. Sure, we 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.040 should be going to HBCUs, but we also should not 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.160 have situations in this country after our people. 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.959 Fought for us to have access to. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:43.720 Any institution in inequitable situations, to just allow those rights 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.840 to be rolled back and taken from us. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.120 And I think that what people are struggling with. 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.120 Understanding is that this is not an an isolated thing. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.560 The police violence, the laws being changed in terms of stacking, 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:01.280 the courts, the way, the banning of EDG. All of 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.560 this stuff is designed to be able to put us, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:09.360 as black people back in our place. And yes, sure, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.640 not just black people but others as well, but just 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.800 for the purpose of our show, we're talking about black people. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.040 And yes, it is true that we need to focus 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.480 on economic stability and all of that, but again, they 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.200 make the laws and the rules as it relates to 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.880 that as well, and as soon as they catch on 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.560 to what people are trying to do economically, they're gonna 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.560 shift the codes and the laws and start voting on 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.720 things that would make it where it's more difficult to 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.160 even do some of these things from an economic perspective 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.559 that a lot of our people are pushing and rightfully so, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.120 so we have to be engaged in the political process. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.599 There's no way around it, because everything you want to 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.760 do is impacted by what these folks are doing. And 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.080 they are smart. They know what we're trying. They're watching 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.000 the chatter online, they know who's hot. They know the 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.840 conversations and how it's being shifted, and they sit back 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.960 and plan while I don't know what sometimes some of 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.719 our people be doing. I just don't know. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:07.880 I mean, it's it's the reality. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.560 Like they say, if you don't do politics, politics gonna 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.880 do you. You know, And we're looking at we're looking 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.280 at the result of us talking about. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.920 We not doing politics. You know, us talking about Trump. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.720 Wasn't that bad when Trump was intentionally putting in Supreme 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:27.439 Court Justice Kavanaugh and others to make sure that these laws, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.360 these these monumental you know, laws that were being passed 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.239 and roll back and these you know, these Supreme Court 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.520 rulings in the past were being overruled and turned back, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.480 and we all knew these things were happening. So I 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.360 just think that we're at a very very critical time 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.480 where we have to understand every level of government. Right. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.280 We have to understand the Supreme Court, we have to 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.960 understand House representatives, we have to understand the local We 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.240 have to look at how every part plays a role 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.480 in our day reality. You know, when we're talking about 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.920 a lot of our friends and family are talking about, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:11.120 you know, the tuitions and and and and being in 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.120 forgiveness to tuition. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:13.000 These are. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:19.760 Right now situations. We're looking at that and we're seeing 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.600 how those things are impacted. And people are like, oh, 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.960 well this and that and and I hate when people 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:26.560 keep saying, oh, that's to white people. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.200 No, you can't. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.160 Now, you can't look at things that are affecting us 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:32.800 as a whole. 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:33.680 It is just white. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.480 No, the white people are the ones that's implementing laws. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.360 And if you're not, dont matter who's in government. When 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.199 they implement them laws, you got to follow them. So 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.439 you got to make sure that the people that's in government, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.680 the people that's being voted in that you at least 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.400 have a chance to understand what the fuck are their policies, right, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.040 what are the policies that they stand firm more? How 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.720 does that affect my everyday life, How does that affect 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:57.760 my long term life? 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.319 How does that affect my life in general? Like, we 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:02.160 have to play. 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.319 This game from a strategic standpoint and stop just being 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.959 pieces on the board. You know, no more of us 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.200 just being pawns on the board and you can just 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.480 sacrifice us. No, we were moving as kings and rooks, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.240 and we got to start acting like it, And we're 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.160 in position, you know, I think we're in the age 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:24.000 of awakening, especially for black people, economic awakening, understanding how 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.839 economics are entrepreneurship. And I don't care how much money 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:32.160 you got, if you don't understand the dynamics of the politics, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.959 how to you know how to utilize that money, then 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.440 you'll lose that money if you don't understand the laws 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.319 that's going to place. So how do you keep that money, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.840 how do you invest that money? How are they taxing 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.679 that money, how they taking that money? Who gets this 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:46.640 who doesn't get. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.320 That property tax? 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.959 If you're not aware of those things, and these politicians 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.800 keep putting people in place that are going to negatively 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.800 affect you and the dynamic and the community that you 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.880 I'm from all the time, because like they said, when 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.360 when shit happens to the white. 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.000 People, you know we're gonna get it a million times worse. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.120 So if white people is fighting against most of the 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.480 shit that these conservatives putting in place, the average white person, 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.680 right then you know the shit that we need to 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.319 be fighted. So we just got to pay attention to 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.000 be a lot more, you know, hands on, Yeah. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.800 I think so. And And by the way, it's important 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.480 to say that we do vote right. We do vote right. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:31.160 Ninety four percent of Black women voted in ninety four 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.800 percent of Black women continue to vote in presidential elections. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.720 We're showing up in local elections. Black women are literally 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:44.480 the difference between in many cases, you know, two candidates, right, like, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.320 we make the difference. Black men followed us at like 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:52.120 eighty something percent in the presidential elections. So we are voting, 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.640 but not enough of our people are showing up, and 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.960 not enough of our people are running for office and 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:01.600 also donating your resources and your time to help people 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.800 get elected if you want somebody who you feel is 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.560 going to represent your community better. And we just we 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.400 really do have to be focused. I'm just saying, like, 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.440 it's just a time, it's a time, it's the time, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.240 and I don't know, I don't I don't know. I 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.400 think also because so we we we've been shielded so 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:28.200 much from and banned, if you will, from understanding civic 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.400 engagement and understanding. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:30.840 How laws work. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.040 That in a way, many of us don't even understand 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:36.000 the seriousness of the. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:36.520 Time we're in. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.240 And that's why they didn't want us to learn it 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:43.360 right and there and Meanwhile, white people are participating in 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.360 you know, a lot of them, not in all everybody, 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:47.200 because both. 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.920 Sides have whites. We have white and black. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.480 People who don't vote, right, So it's not to say 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.880 that all white people are voting on majority of white 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.720 people and black people are not. But there's some intentional 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.360 stuff that they're doing in the white community because they 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.920 are taught about civic engagement, so they understand the power 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.760 of the vote. And that's why voter suppression exists to 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.360 try to suppress us from voting, because they know that 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.760 if we ever make up our mind that we're going 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.800 to show up at the polls and then large enomb, 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:19.760 they can never beat us. 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.680 They literally could never win if most of us vote. 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:24.440 So this is a. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.800 You know, it's a hard conversation to have in a 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.120 short period of time. But when you talked about student loans, 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.040 the only point I wanted to add on that is 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.560 that even if the strategy is economics, money, money, money, 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.360 we got to get the money, get the money cool. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.960 If we didn't have to pay student loans, we would 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.200 be able to advance so much more in buying property 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.200 and buying land and buying stocks and other things that 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:54.680 benefit us from investing right because student loans is as 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.120 we have the studies have been done. It shows that 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.080 canceling student loans is one of the ways that you 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.280 help level the plan field in terms of the doug 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:08.720 the wealth gap between white and black and other ethnic groups. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.800 So it should make common sense to folks why this 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.320 needs to be done. But some of our people just 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.360 you know, are just jaded and tired and everything else. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.879 And I just hope that all of this is waking 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:28.200 us up. So another conversation that I've been watching unfold 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.720 online is that in Georgia, a man who were an 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:38.120 employee at a restaurant saw a man fondling and groping 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.439 aggressively a woman, and he stepped in and told the 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.119 man he had to leave, and he needed to stop 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.880 and touch the woman. The predator touched the woman on 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.480 her bottom. And so the black I mean, excuse me, 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:52.080 not the black guy. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:52.760 The other man. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.760 I don't know what their race are or what their 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.760 races are. He approached him and told him he had 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.120 to leave. The guy looks like out side the restaurant, 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.040 predator shoots this man six signs And so a lot 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.280 of people, a lot of the comments are people being like, see, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.840 this is exactly why people don't like to step in 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.119 and help. And in fact, the reason why I know 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.639 that this happened is because in my mentions, there was 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.080 a guy that was like, oh, I hope Tamika and 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.840 my son see this and understand and I, you know, 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.359 and I hope that they would go and support this 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.520 guy's gofund me, which I certainly want to do. 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:30.200 That I didn't say. 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.320 I was looking for the information. I couldn't find it, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.880 you know, to support this guy. And so a lot 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.200 of people are like, this is why mind your business, 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.200 Mind your business, mind your business. And I'm sticking to myself, Wow, 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.080 this again, it's a time because I hear that, I 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.679 hear that people are afraid for their lives. I still 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.280 think in the situation where we most recently talked about 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.520 people stepping in was in that restaurant where the fourteen 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:02.840 year old boy shot the guy who punched the woman 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:08.000 right his mother, And I still say that I don't 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.760 think people had to aggressively get involved. But I do 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.640 think that a simple voice of someone saying, hey, y'all, look, 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.879 this ain't come on y'all. You know this ain't this 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.200 ain't worth it. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.440 Since come on out of here. You know, something would 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.200 have been better than people saying nothing. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.679 What concerns me and you take it from here, is 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:35.439 that it really makes me fear for my life so 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:40.000 much that I could be being growth by somebody. 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:41.600 And people. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.160 I'm not talking about whether or not she the woman 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.600 in the restaurant was arguing back because by the way. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.000 Listening to what she was saying, she wasn't even telling him. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.160 You you know, like like I said me, I probably 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.040 would have been saying, you bitch ass so and so 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.800 talking crazy. 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:58.560 You know what I'm saying. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.560 She wasn't even doing all that, just merely was making 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.000 her point and unwilling to tell let somebody tell her 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.080 that she was not allowed to speak. But in this situation, 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.160 this woman was being growth by man. And so what 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.080 we are now saying is let the woman be growth. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.280 Let whatever it is happen, let it play out. Let 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:23.159 people be robbed. You see elderly people being robbed, folks 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:27.480 just keep walking by. You see women being harm children, whatever, 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.359 Just let whatever happen, and just mind your business, because 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.920 our society is about save yourself. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.120 So where does that leave us? 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.200 I think you know there is, it's very it's very 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.760 it's kind of cut and dry for me. Everybody is 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.160 not built a certain way, and I don't and I don't. 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:49.200 I don't expect everyone to step up, right, I don't. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.840 I don't expect every man to be aggressive and be 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:58.120 a hero or step up. But I do think that 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:02.240