Speaker 1: What's up. Family, it's your girl to Meka D. Mallory,
Speaker 1: and it's your boy my son in general. And we
Speaker 1: are your hosts of street politicians, the places, streets and politics.
Speaker 1: Missus Mallory, how are you today. I'm doing good. I'm
Speaker 1: doing good. There's a lot of a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: happened and in the uh news world. I got one
Speaker 1: that is so good. I'm so excited to talk about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of stuff going on. Man, it's been
Speaker 1: it's been a very eventful week. Man, it has it has.
Speaker 1: I have one that is well, let me, let me,
Speaker 1: let me kind of guess what you might be one
Speaker 1: that you're excited to talk. Well, it's not so much
Speaker 1: being excited to talk about it. It's just funny that
Speaker 1: you know, the world has just changed so much, and
Speaker 1: so the plastic surgery industry has obviously boomed. I mean
Speaker 1: we all know that not everybody, but a lot of
Speaker 1: people are getting a nick and a tuck in a
Speaker 1: pole and the thing and the mommy makeovers and all
Speaker 1: different types of stuff. And I have no no judgment
Speaker 1: of people taking care of themselves, getting what they think
Speaker 1: they need to be their best selves. And how they
Speaker 1: want to feel. I did see and I laughed a
Speaker 1: lot about the lips thing. I do think that's a
Speaker 1: little crazy where people are getting their lips done and
Speaker 1: they can't even talk, Like I have actual friends or
Speaker 1: people I know well that cannot really speak because their
Speaker 1: lips are so tight, especially immediately following the lip surgery.
Speaker 1: So that's a little crazy. And I saw one of
Speaker 1: the guys talking about it. But the new news that
Speaker 1: was released on Hollywood Unlocked today was that the industry
Speaker 1: has grown even more because of men that they're that
Speaker 1: at least one point three million dollars in the United
Speaker 1: States has been calculated or earned based upon men getting
Speaker 1: plastic surgery. That includes things like you know, ab enhancement,
Speaker 1: and that's something that when a lot of women get
Speaker 1: their stomachs done, like they get the Mommy makeover or whatever,
Speaker 1: the doctors do put some construction around the ads to
Speaker 1: make them look better so that you know, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe someone felt they needed that as a man. Then
Speaker 1: they have the liposuction piece. Which liposuction has become way
Speaker 1: more accessible and a usable tool for a lot more people.
Speaker 1: It's not just women that do it, it's there are
Speaker 1: men who are all so getting light bosuction once they
Speaker 1: especially in cases where they were once really big and
Speaker 1: they're working out and all of that, and they need
Speaker 1: to get skin remove on a little bit of light
Speaker 1: bo suction. So men are doing that. And the thing
Speaker 1: though that I thought was a little like, whoa is
Speaker 1: the BBLS. I don't know or understand what. So men
Speaker 1: are getting bbls. Yes that yes, men are getting BBL
Speaker 1: too far. Man, we're taking this shit way too far.
Speaker 1: A man getting a Brazilian butt lift. It's crazy to me,
Speaker 1: just the sound of it. It's crazy to me, like
Speaker 1: they're doing it. Men are getting No, it's true. No,
Speaker 1: I know because once I saw the story. You know,
Speaker 1: all you gotta do is go to YouTube in a
Speaker 1: couple of places and you can actually see it happening.
Speaker 1: And I see it. It's happening. Men are getting bb else.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. You walk in as a man and you like,
Speaker 1: I want the Brazilian butt lift. They don't really say
Speaker 1: all those words. They just those words. It makes it
Speaker 1: sound so much more, you know, Yeah, like what it is,
Speaker 1: I want the BBL get the BBL. Wow, that's crazy
Speaker 1: to me. And I love I love to tell this
Speaker 1: one because I knew it was gonna make you be
Speaker 1: like what in next He's like, come on, bro, you
Speaker 1: gotta do better the abs. Okay, I ain't gonna do
Speaker 1: it because I'm the word can get minds back somehow,
Speaker 1: but I could kind of back. Yeah, I gotta get
Speaker 1: them back because I had a complete six pack. But
Speaker 1: it's about three and a half now, so I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get that two and a half back, trying to
Speaker 1: get the old thing back. I get that old thing back.
Speaker 1: But so I understand a little bit about that, you know,
Speaker 1: you get bomb. But the BBL is too much like
Speaker 1: I don't even like needed what men need to listen,
Speaker 1: who who are you? I mean, I guess well, you know,
Speaker 1: people are doing different things for different reasons. You know,
Speaker 1: a little bit strange. They act a little strange for
Speaker 1: a little bit of change. Man, I'm just saying. So
Speaker 1: that's it. So the BBL, then, um, well, the plastic
Speaker 1: surgery and how men are also taking advantage of these
Speaker 1: great services as a nip and a tuck to make
Speaker 1: themselves feel a little bit more confident. Okay, So then
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was finally arrested. Now let me Trump and
Speaker 1: ste got arrested him. They finally he turned named perp
Speaker 1: walk man, I need a little perp walk. Well, I
Speaker 1: can understand why they did mug shot come on or not,
Speaker 1: but I understand why they I got purple walk the
Speaker 1: mug shot for some shit, I didn't even do Trump
Speaker 1: needed on mug shot. But I have a perspective on
Speaker 1: why they didn't. I have a perspective. And here's my
Speaker 1: one two quick punch. And I'm not saying, first of all, yes,
Speaker 1: all of it is racism and white privilege and all
Speaker 1: of that. I already know all of that. I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving another bucket that we could also pull from.
Speaker 1: It is not helpful to the United States to have
Speaker 1: an image of the president of the United States, and
Speaker 1: you know, as a mug shot. That's not necessarily it's
Speaker 1: not helpful to our nation. Yes, we're already weak, Yes
Speaker 1: we already look crazy, Yes, all the things, but the
Speaker 1: mug shot. Forget about what American citizens and Trump haters
Speaker 1: may do. But it's also not good for the country's
Speaker 1: profile to have a picture of the president, the former
Speaker 1: president of the United States as a mug shot. You know,
Speaker 1: they do have to kind of consider some of the
Speaker 1: international ramifications of things that we do. So I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I'm giving it as a separate, very minute potential
Speaker 1: point that is under the racism of how black and
Speaker 1: brown men and even white people are in which you
Speaker 1: know that would be white supremacy because then the white
Speaker 1: people impacted by it as well. But whatever how they are,
Speaker 1: we are as a people at perp Walk then the
Speaker 1: mug shot and the whole thing. So I get that,
Speaker 1: and of course white privilege is a big part of it,
Speaker 1: because there is white privilege, right. I was watching a
Speaker 1: documentary that was on and CNN International while traveling in Europe,
Speaker 1: and I saw that they did a story where they
Speaker 1: talked about the other presidents like Clinton and also Nixon
Speaker 1: and in the moments when they were, you know, facing indictment.
Speaker 1: Nixon was actually indicted, which he was parted by Ford
Speaker 1: President Ford, so he didn't do jail time. And then
Speaker 1: of course Clinton, they did a deal with him that
Speaker 1: he would not be indicted so long as he admitted
Speaker 1: that he lied. So white men they always figure out
Speaker 1: a way, and that's what I said. I said, Trump
Speaker 1: must be so bad that they couldn't even find their
Speaker 1: usual ways of manipulating the system to try not to
Speaker 1: do this last thing which a black man had to
Speaker 1: use what was in his hand in order to indict him.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, even still the
Speaker 1: privileges there, Trump should be in jail, should have been
Speaker 1: in jail. However, I'm just giving us a third perspective
Speaker 1: and another bucket that we do got to think about
Speaker 1: the international profile of this country. Well, I can understand
Speaker 1: that perspective, you know, but in just my personal opinion,
Speaker 1: you know, we all created equal and although this is
Speaker 1: a was the president, he committed an legal act, you know.
Speaker 1: So for us to show any level of favoritism to
Speaker 1: him when we know that he committed a crime because
Speaker 1: he was arrested in the reigned on these charges, well
Speaker 1: you know allegedly, you know, when we are arrested in
Speaker 1: the rain. You know, you think you think my mother
Speaker 1: wanted to see me, wanted to see me, and you know,
Speaker 1: in handcuffs, in a mug shot, purp walk. No, you know,
Speaker 1: so I understand all of the political you know, mumbo
Speaker 1: jimbo that we speak of and how it doesn't look good,
Speaker 1: But it doesn't look good that average people, who citizens,
Speaker 1: who the government who elect the government who that we
Speaker 1: actually the people who work for us. You know, we
Speaker 1: have to be purp walked and have mug shots, but
Speaker 1: the people that we elect that do crimes though, So
Speaker 1: I think, you know, the fairness of it is wrong.
Speaker 1: I understand the politics of it, but a lot of
Speaker 1: I'm tired of politics, you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: just so tired of politics because politics doesn't been so
Speaker 1: I want. I want the same I want. My sain
Speaker 1: was just as big as his man. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I want the same exacting and everybody else.
Speaker 1: God wanted to be equaling on the board. If I'm
Speaker 1: deemed the criminal and i could have committed a crime
Speaker 1: and I'm arrested, I want the same treatment that you
Speaker 1: would give anybody else that's arrested. So I expect them
Speaker 1: to get the same treatment that I was getting. Right,
Speaker 1: And then people keep saying he was arrested, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: because the rest don't look like that to me. Arrest
Speaker 1: he was able to turn himself in and he made
Speaker 1: it back to Marlago before the evening, which that can
Speaker 1: happen to any one of us. Because I've been arrested
Speaker 1: in a city and made it on the plane from
Speaker 1: DC or wherever back home by the night time. So
Speaker 1: that's not it's not to say that it's not possible,
Speaker 1: but the arrest. So anyway, that I was my little
Speaker 1: perspective one that I was watching. I was looking at
Speaker 1: something on social media the other day and it was
Speaker 1: it was actually, yeah, it was this. The other day
Speaker 1: a few people posted about the Shaan King. Of course,
Speaker 1: Linda Sausor, who is our partner and saws and she
Speaker 1: is Palestinian. And I saw during last weekend how the
Speaker 1: Israeli the IDF, the Israeli military was inside of a
Speaker 1: temple while the Palestinians were in prayer and in service,
Speaker 1: and they were beating them. I mean, I'm so glad
Speaker 1: that it was caught on camera, in clear view. So
Speaker 1: no one can say, oh, well, the Palestinians did this
Speaker 1: to them first, because the truth is why were they
Speaker 1: inside their church? Like what the inside of their mosque?
Speaker 1: Why were you in their place? Exactly? But this is
Speaker 1: a thing that happens every year, and I think people
Speaker 1: need to know that that this is not a new situation.
Speaker 1: This is something that happens every year because this particular
Speaker 1: place of worship, the um, the the the Israelis have
Speaker 1: decided that they have to have this space, and we
Speaker 1: should actually have Linda on to talk about the specifics
Speaker 1: around this, because of course, you know, I'm not an expert,
Speaker 1: but I do read one and two. I listen, and
Speaker 1: you know, and I understand some of the because we've
Speaker 1: been to Palestine and we are also closely aligned with
Speaker 1: pro Palestine organizations and activists, I do understand some of
Speaker 1: the things that's happening in the region. And I know
Speaker 1: that they have prayer of course during Ramadan in this
Speaker 1: same place every year, and it is a real thing
Speaker 1: that the Israelis believe that this particular area. I think
Speaker 1: it's like up in wherever it's it's geographically placed somewhere
Speaker 1: that they believe it should be theirs. So it is
Speaker 1: a ritual for both sides to go there and pray
Speaker 1: because it is the Palestinian people's temple, or I might
Speaker 1: be using the wrong word. It is their place of
Speaker 1: worship and they've been there praying there for whoever knows
Speaker 1: how many years, and since the Israelis have decided that
Speaker 1: it has it should be returned to the Jews, or
Speaker 1: it should be the Jews and their place of worship.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna take it. They're just gonna be bow it.
Speaker 1: And that's it. And I think that the thing that
Speaker 1: is so important for us to understand, because I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are people who are listening and they're like, why
Speaker 1: are you telling us this? Like what this got to
Speaker 1: do with us? Here's the thing. The Israeli military that
Speaker 1: was in the place of worship beating on these people
Speaker 1: are paid our tax dollars. See, that's it. That's the
Speaker 1: reason why it's important because the money. There are billions
Speaker 1: of dollars, not millions, not thousands, not a few dollars.
Speaker 1: There are billions of dollars being sent from the United
Speaker 1: States of America, our tax dollars to fund what is happening,
Speaker 1: the atrocity, the human rights violation. Now, when I say
Speaker 1: human rights violation, I got that language from Amnesty International.
Speaker 1: I got that language from some of your most credible
Speaker 1: UH human rights organizations in the world, Okay, that have
Speaker 1: deemed what has happening to the Palestinian people to be
Speaker 1: a human rights violation. So we pay for it with
Speaker 1: our money. And that's why we have the right to
Speaker 1: speak on it. That's why we have the right to
Speaker 1: call it out. You know, just watching that video and
Speaker 1: hearing them praying while they were being beaten with something
Speaker 1: that was just like damn, and knowing that it's Ramadan
Speaker 1: and hearing them praying and watching them being beat you know,
Speaker 1: it shifted my soul. So I just prayed for the
Speaker 1: Palestinians during this time. You know, you know that God
Speaker 1: continues to give them strength and protect them. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, we're just living We're just living
Speaker 1: in dangerous times. We just live in a world with
Speaker 1: so many things are going on, like it's it's crazy
Speaker 1: to me because it's like Trump never said a lot
Speaker 1: of real shit to me. But one thing he did
Speaker 1: say that you know, me and you joke about and
Speaker 1: we laugh about a lot, is people are dying and
Speaker 1: never died before. He said, people are dying and never
Speaker 1: died before. And that's really what's happening. And I turned
Speaker 1: around every day it's a new person man or a
Speaker 1: close friend of Mines. I wasn't even able to go
Speaker 1: to his funeral because you know, we were out of town.
Speaker 1: But you know, close friend of Mines, you know, he
Speaker 1: passed away and passed away. Hurd, he passed away. Somebody
Speaker 1: killed him in the Dominican Republic. You know, I didn't
Speaker 1: get the semi regards of my respects to his family,
Speaker 1: but you know, shout out to my brother Nathan ingram
Speaker 1: Man since third grade was really close friends, and you know,
Speaker 1: he lost his life. And then every day you just
Speaker 1: hear different people are going Instagram and see people that
Speaker 1: I know just lost their life. You know, we're in
Speaker 1: that age as you start getting your forties, you start seeing,
Speaker 1: you know, people start to disappear. So we got to
Speaker 1: be healthy, man. I wanted to see everybody. Listen, if
Speaker 1: you're forty thirty eight, thirty nine and over, get real
Speaker 1: about your health. Man. Start eating properly, start exercising, start
Speaker 1: taking care of yourself, start getting your check ups. I
Speaker 1: gotta go get my check up real soon. But we
Speaker 1: gotta be attentional about taking care of ourselves. Man. It's
Speaker 1: a mental health thing too. It's not just you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta protect them mental health space. You have to
Speaker 1: cut off family, friends, whoever it is that's stressing you
Speaker 1: out and making you feel unwell. You have to check
Speaker 1: yourself from making you feel unwell because you're trying to
Speaker 1: live up to expectations in the world that you know,
Speaker 1: it's you know, we really gotta be careful out here,
Speaker 1: we do. We gotta be very We gotta protect our space,
Speaker 1: our mind, everything, so you know, hopefully, you know, the
Speaker 1: situation in Palestine gets better before it gets worse. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting out my love, prayers and regards, man, and
Speaker 1: shout out to our sister Linda, who you know, I
Speaker 1: know she's personally, you know, affected by this trustity. You
Speaker 1: know that this is her native landess, her people. So
Speaker 1: we always standing in solidarity with her and gonna stand
Speaker 1: on the side of the righteousness in this situation. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just crazy. I'm just looking around. There's
Speaker 1: just so much stuff going on. I mean, I could
Speaker 1: just go on and on, but things we deal a little,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to. Yeah, like too many different things.
Speaker 1: And speaking of that until Freedom Partners and some of
Speaker 1: our team they're down in Tennessee. They've been there for
Speaker 1: the last several days. And you know, folks know that
Speaker 1: we are taping our show. So sometimes by the time
Speaker 1: the show airs, it would you know, things would have
Speaker 1: been would have progressed, and so but people should know
Speaker 1: that in Tennessee there are three legislators, two young black
Speaker 1: men and an older white woman who joined protesters, young protesters,
Speaker 1: students who were protesting the gun violence issue. Obviously, just
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks a week, it's happening so fast,
Speaker 1: there was a mass shooting there where. For the first
Speaker 1: time that I know of, it has been recorded in
Speaker 1: my research that a woman actually committed this atrocity. Now
Speaker 1: I know that she is trans or they are trans,
Speaker 1: and so I can't I don't. I'm not sure exactly
Speaker 1: all the things, but I think that they identify as
Speaker 1: a woman and h identified because they're no longer with it, right, okay,
Speaker 1: So they identified as a woman, and so she committed
Speaker 1: this atrocity. Where these I don't know. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's several people who were killed. It's so many of them.
Speaker 1: I actually now don't even remember the exact numbers. God
Speaker 1: bless every single soul. I know there were adults, I
Speaker 1: think three adults, and one of them was a black
Speaker 1: man who was in his sixties who worked at the school.
Speaker 1: And then others individuals and of course some young children, kids, baby, unbelievable, disgusting, horrible.
Speaker 1: Everything you could think of, the worst ever, deplorable, just
Speaker 1: throw everything, just anything, any word you could come up
Speaker 1: where it's terrible. And you know, I was thinking the
Speaker 1: other day, it can't continue like it has to. People
Speaker 1: cannot have fear of sending their children to school that
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna walk into school and potentially shoot their kids.
Speaker 1: That is way too much. It's just way too much.
Speaker 1: It's way too much for us to have to be
Speaker 1: thinking about it happening on the streets. But it's way
Speaker 1: too much to also not know if your children will
Speaker 1: be safe when the door is closed to the building
Speaker 1: in school. Even with us as African Americans who deal
Speaker 1: with violence and a lot of different ways, in school,
Speaker 1: that was the one place it might be a fight,
Speaker 1: maybe even a knifefold, maybe depending on how you know
Speaker 1: where you went to school and those types of situations.
Speaker 1: But the majority of our children and us as kids
Speaker 1: were safe in school. And the ship really popped off
Speaker 1: when the doors opened and you went on the outside
Speaker 1: of the building the inside you didn't really had casualties
Speaker 1: and large quantities and the adults and the kids being
Speaker 1: killed at the same time. That just is not a
Speaker 1: thing now. This is becoming a regular thing. So these
Speaker 1: students were protesting. Shout out to those kids. They were bold,
Speaker 1: they were they were They was given the series. It
Speaker 1: was given hell up in there. And the legislators, these
Speaker 1: three legislators they, as I said, two younger black men
Speaker 1: and an older white woman. An older white woman. They
Speaker 1: sat down in the chambers with the kids. Now, Tennessee
Speaker 1: is a supermajority red state, so that means they read
Speaker 1: red red red. Okay, they blood are in dread. And
Speaker 1: they have rules where of decorum where legislators are not
Speaker 1: supposed to protest in the chambers. So these three individuals
Speaker 1: chose to do so. All three of them have been
Speaker 1: stripped of their of their committees and their responsibilities. And
Speaker 1: now there's a vote that is happening today as we
Speaker 1: are taping today and tomorrow to decide whether they will
Speaker 1: be completely ousted from their seats as legislators in general
Speaker 1: because of again this decorum issue. It is bullshit. It
Speaker 1: is racism, it is white supremacy, it is it should
Speaker 1: be illegal, it should be inhumane. The people of Tennessee
Speaker 1: voted for these individuals. The youth were there standing up
Speaker 1: for their lives and the thing that really bothers me,
Speaker 1: and this is sort of I have two points to
Speaker 1: my thought of the day today. The first thing is
Speaker 1: how do people even fix their faces to have the
Speaker 1: same response to children being killed and adults legislators standing
Speaker 1: with the children as they would you know, maybe that
Speaker 1: the legislators had sex out of wedlock right and had
Speaker 1: a baby out of wedlock with somebody, because that's a
Speaker 1: decorum issue that could get you outsted that you was
Speaker 1: sleeping with staff members, or you have sex out of
Speaker 1: wedlock with somebody and got you know, the person pregnant
Speaker 1: or whatever. So it's basically like you're doing something that
Speaker 1: disgraces the seat that you're sitting in. How can you
Speaker 1: put that and this together and actually make a move
Speaker 1: on it right? Like you? I think it's simple. America
Speaker 1: has shown you that they canna always do shit that
Speaker 1: fits them right and it benefits them. You know, we
Speaker 1: looked at these are two black people, especially two black people,
Speaker 1: and the issue at hand is something that they fight.
Speaker 1: They they gonna fight you too for now about their guns,
Speaker 1: about the guns, and it's not even about and the
Speaker 1: thing is people keep saying, you're trying to take the
Speaker 1: guns No, we're not trying to take the guns. Were
Speaker 1: just trying to make sure that psychopaths don't get guns. Right.
Speaker 1: There should there should be a level of of a
Speaker 1: process that you go through to where the person who
Speaker 1: is that checks things that that makes sense, Like everybody
Speaker 1: just don't supposed to have a gun in the hand,
Speaker 1: right and you shouldn't. You should never. I don't believe
Speaker 1: that any person should have automatic weapons that they could
Speaker 1: kill that. I don't believe. That don't make sense. It
Speaker 1: doesn't made those houses. Those supposed to be people who
Speaker 1: are who have passed extensive background checks, who are skilled,
Speaker 1: who have mental like the mental health um threshold threshold
Speaker 1: for that has to be unrealistic. Like you got you're
Speaker 1: supposed to have monthly check ins with psychologists, like we
Speaker 1: have to understand, young man, anybody's that's in possessions of
Speaker 1: guns of weapons of mass destruction should have probably weekly man,
Speaker 1: like you should have a mandatory weekly visit to a mentor.
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying, So what the process, because
Speaker 1: I don't know if people lose their mind every day,
Speaker 1: like every day some and then you can just take
Speaker 1: somebody's life and we and that's what we're seeing every day.
Speaker 1: So if there's no process in which look, we're sure
Speaker 1: this person is upside mind, we're doing this evaluation. We
Speaker 1: check them every weekly, he comes in, we have conversations.
Speaker 1: He seems to be on. Well, at least you're doing
Speaker 1: the due diligence. These people want to be to have
Speaker 1: guns of mass instruction with impunity, and that makes no
Speaker 1: sense to me. It's not making say they have background checks.
Speaker 1: That's what they're gonna say. They're gonna say you have
Speaker 1: to fill out a form. That's not true, not true,
Speaker 1: because you could go to Walmart and buy all types
Speaker 1: of weather and and and and by the way, obviously
Speaker 1: it's not strong enough. Number one, Number two and the
Speaker 1: thing that just happened, I think it was at Howard University,
Speaker 1: and might we should look that up, but I think
Speaker 1: it was at Howard where they found a person who
Speaker 1: had some other knives, some some ammunition, some other stuff
Speaker 1: like chicken foot and some other ship. That's cra He
Speaker 1: was on an HBCU. I don't know, it's hard, but
Speaker 1: I know it was an HBCU and he definitely was
Speaker 1: there with ammunition and guns and some blood, some chicken
Speaker 1: blood and foot or some ship that he was going
Speaker 1: to whatever he was gonna do it us most powerful
Speaker 1: points of the day. People lose their mind every day.
Speaker 1: Every day is a new day for humans because we
Speaker 1: live in a world. I saw a video that DL
Speaker 1: hugely posted also this week where a little girl is
Speaker 1: crying saying, daddy calls me a democrat and her mother
Speaker 1: is like, what, what what? And she's taping or what
Speaker 1: And then the mother goes, Daddy, why would you call
Speaker 1: her that? And this little girl is no older than
Speaker 1: six or seven, and she is having a whole breakdown,
Speaker 1: a meltdown about being called a democrat. So the thing
Speaker 1: about it is that when you say people lose their
Speaker 1: mind every day, this country is so effed up. It's
Speaker 1: so effed up that people are physically, emotionally, physically, mentally whatever,
Speaker 1: having all types of reaction to racism and societal issues, oppression. Okay,
Speaker 1: people again, their mental health is a poverty is impacting them.
Speaker 1: So from minute to minute, somebody with an assault rifle,
Speaker 1: somebody with any kind of weapon. By the way, so
Speaker 1: I imagine if you had you if you got a knife,
Speaker 1: you might stab one or two and then the world,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully people will be able to fight, back,
Speaker 1: run or do whatever. But if you have an assault
Speaker 1: rifle and you can reach me while I'm running away
Speaker 1: from the stabbing that you just committed, right you, you
Speaker 1: commit a stabbing over here, I see it and I'm
Speaker 1: out and you can't just catch me. This is not
Speaker 1: the movies. This is not pretty that walks right. But
Speaker 1: the gun, the gun is gonna catch you wherever you are.
Speaker 1: It's gonna kill as many people as possible. Right, So
Speaker 1: that's a problem. And if you know that every day
Speaker 1: people are losing their mind, how is this you know? Anywhere?
Speaker 1: I don't know. But the other part of my daughter
Speaker 1: to day is are people paying attempt I get it.
Speaker 1: It's too much. It's too much. It's too much, and
Speaker 1: nobody has the time, the energy, the wherewithal. The mental
Speaker 1: health issue is important. And so there are a lot
Speaker 1: of folks out here who have tuned out, they have
Speaker 1: turned it off because they they cannot maintain the daily
Speaker 1: information of what's going on. But I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people that tell me they don't even watch the news.
Speaker 1: They don't watch the news, they don't read the papers,
Speaker 1: they don't know anything. And meanwhile, this serious things because
Speaker 1: we haven't even talked about what's going on in Mississippi,
Speaker 1: and Mississippi they're trying to pass all types of laws.
Speaker 1: They're doing so much it would do a disservice for
Speaker 1: me to sing here and go through Mississippi. But Mississippi
Speaker 1: is dealing with five or six things at one time
Speaker 1: in terms of all the attempts to destroy communities, to
Speaker 1: steal resources, and things in response to the water crisis,
Speaker 1: where they want to take the money that that Mississippi
Speaker 1: is supposed to get from the federal government for the
Speaker 1: water crisis. They want to take Jackson, Mississippi's money specifically
Speaker 1: and put it towards some other things. Then you have
Speaker 1: a state like Kentucky. You know, there's so much debate
Speaker 1: on trans the issue around the trans community and whether
Speaker 1: or not kids should be able to have their you know,
Speaker 1: alter their genitals and all of that and everything. There's
Speaker 1: so many people have different perspectives. But I'm not even there.
Speaker 1: I'm not even in this I'm not even using this
Speaker 1: particular part of this conversation to talk about that. I'm
Speaker 1: just focused on how in Kentucky they passed the law.
Speaker 1: The democratic government, I mean, Governor vetoed the law, and
Speaker 1: now they have again turned around and veto that or
Speaker 1: did something to overturn it. Where the school district is
Speaker 1: going to be able to look at the genitols of
Speaker 1: the children to decide, you know, to like look at
Speaker 1: them and be able to determine what the genitals are
Speaker 1: of children. So if the child had yes, that happened,
Speaker 1: this just happened. I get it that people have different
Speaker 1: feelings about from their from their explain to me to
Speaker 1: what you mean. They're gonna be able to see if
Speaker 1: the child, something happened to the child, So they're gonna
Speaker 1: they get to examine the child genitals or something. Yes,
Speaker 1: they get to examine. The school district can examine the
Speaker 1: child's genitals to make a determination of I guess what
Speaker 1: sports they can play, and you know, and to know
Speaker 1: about the child. Now, mind you, these laws coincide with
Speaker 1: other places, like I think in Iowa they are talking
Speaker 1: about if you had your genitals changed, they want it
Speaker 1: to be changed back. Like this is some serious shit
Speaker 1: that's going on out here. So I know people feel like, well,
Speaker 1: that's not my issue. And I was just about to
Speaker 1: say that there are some people who probably feel like well,
Speaker 1: from my spiritual perspective or my religious you know, background,
Speaker 1: or just why or whatever I feel my family or
Speaker 1: whatever however I come up. I don't believe that a
Speaker 1: child should be able to change the genesials, and you
Speaker 1: have every right to feel that way. But the state
Speaker 1: should not have the right to allow people violated. It's
Speaker 1: too much. The government is doing too much. Like y'all
Speaker 1: gotta calm down, you know what I'm saying. Like people
Speaker 1: like I don't agree with a lot of shit. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of shit that goes on. But I just
Speaker 1: don't think the government should have, you know, control over
Speaker 1: people's bodies and be able to examine and tell you
Speaker 1: what to do and what not to do with you.
Speaker 1: But I just don't think nobody other than me should
Speaker 1: be able to tell me what to do with my body.
Speaker 1: You know, that's crazy, And that's what I say. You
Speaker 1: might say, well, I don't care about that issue, or
Speaker 1: that's not my issue, or I agree with them. But
Speaker 1: then on the other side, do you like yeah, but
Speaker 1: I also think women should have the right to have
Speaker 1: an abortion. And all I'm saying is that people need
Speaker 1: to be paying attention that all of this is happening
Speaker 1: at the same time. So first women under the same
Speaker 1: guys and under the same exactly. First they come for
Speaker 1: women's right to choose. Then they come for uh, forcing
Speaker 1: you to to to um to allow for your genitals
Speaker 1: to be searched. Hey, then y'all gonna be fucked out soon.
Speaker 1: They like, no more bbs. Too much money in the
Speaker 1: medical The government ain't making no money off it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet you you're crazy. People gotta pay taxes. So
Speaker 1: the more money that you spend, the more taxes that
Speaker 1: they get. They get taxes off some money getting a
Speaker 1: sex change operation. Yeah, it's the medical And I said
Speaker 1: they do so, I mean, but that's different because they
Speaker 1: say this is their Christian values, right, So that's different.
Speaker 1: And remember that a big part of what white folks,
Speaker 1: white supremacists are angry about is that they want to
Speaker 1: maintain population control. And so when people have less children
Speaker 1: because they are no longer producing or they don't want
Speaker 1: to carry babies or whatever, it creates a problem where
Speaker 1: they continue to diminish in numbers. So all of this
Speaker 1: or what I'm and then that's why they don't want
Speaker 1: people to have abortions. It has nothing to they don't
Speaker 1: give a damn if we kill every black fetus. Ever.
Speaker 1: They do not give a damn. What they care about though,
Speaker 1: it's stopping white women who are becoming more career driven,
Speaker 1: they're having less children. They want to stop them from
Speaker 1: decreasing and or putting a sort of a stop to
Speaker 1: the mass production of white children. I mean, all this
Speaker 1: shit is like, it's it's deep. It's deep, deeper than
Speaker 1: the mobuck boy. Listen, even if you don't agree, even
Speaker 1: if you have a different perspective, you should at least
Speaker 1: be aware. Yeah, you need to be aware of because
Speaker 1: the bottom line is when the government has too many
Speaker 1: control I mean too much control over individual's personal body,
Speaker 1: in the agency over you. When the government has too
Speaker 1: much agency over your person, that's a problem. Like that
Speaker 1: that that is a problem, and it teeters on slaver.
Speaker 1: You know, they've never used it, and they've never used
Speaker 1: it for the right reasons. Never so because by the way,
Speaker 1: while they're doing all this shit to check your genitals
Speaker 1: to stop you from having abortion and every other thing
Speaker 1: they got going on, it's like it's a shitty ass
Speaker 1: healthcare system that people can't even get their damned medications
Speaker 1: and their heart check properly. And we're dealing our friend
Speaker 1: Tiffany Loft in this dealing with something so crazy right now,
Speaker 1: with her father being released from the hospital, not being
Speaker 1: able to walk and can't even make it to dialysis,
Speaker 1: and they basically are telling him a man who has
Speaker 1: the he could live, he could live, and they're telling
Speaker 1: her to just put him in hospice and let him go.
Speaker 1: So people are dying because we've this system, our healthcare
Speaker 1: system has failed. And we know that because millions of
Speaker 1: people died not just because they had COVID or not
Speaker 1: because they had COVID, but because they went to shitty hospitals,
Speaker 1: they sat in their homes dealing with shitty answers or
Speaker 1: non answers. And we had a president that, regardless of
Speaker 1: whether he believed that the pandemic was exactly this or
Speaker 1: that in the third there was clearly a problem and
Speaker 1: it should have been handled a certain way, and he
Speaker 1: did not put his hands around it in time because
Speaker 1: he was so busy trying to deny that something was
Speaker 1: going on. The country does not value natural medicine and
Speaker 1: telling people to be healthy and take care of themselves.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so much, so while we're so
Speaker 1: into we're so into managing and monitoring what people do
Speaker 1: with their bodies, we have not even afforded any of
Speaker 1: these individuals, any of us as American citizens, with the
Speaker 1: type of healthcare system that we need in order to
Speaker 1: be healthy physically and or mentally. So you know, I
Speaker 1: don't we just sitting up there being like, Wow, I
Speaker 1: think they right. No, the whole shit is it's a disaster.
Speaker 1: It's all fucked up now. And we have a guest though,
Speaker 1: and I love her so much, so I'm excited to
Speaker 1: bring our guests on. So now this is not our friend,
Speaker 1: it's our system. It's our like it was. At one point,
Speaker 1: she was our baby girl, but she's grown all up.
Speaker 1: Now she's a big girl. Now she is is so
Speaker 1: In two thousand and eighteen, we met Shakisha Clemens after
Speaker 1: she was assaulted by sarah Land, Alabama police officers in
Speaker 1: a waffle house. I recently shared the video after getting
Speaker 1: frustrated because I saw so many people talking about how
Speaker 1: much they love waffle house or celebrating and sort of
Speaker 1: joking about a lot of the fights and things that
Speaker 1: take place in waffle house, and I wanted to remind folks,
Speaker 1: because you know, we our memories are short, because it's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that's happening about what happened to
Speaker 1: Shakisha clements and where we have been since that point,
Speaker 1: boycotting waffle House and will be forever doing so because
Speaker 1: I was absolutely I ain't had a waffle a waffle
Speaker 1: house since, I ain't had a waffle house since, and
Speaker 1: won't be havn't will never, I'll never probably step back
Speaker 1: in waffle house rest of my life. And there have
Speaker 1: been times not long ago, I was traveling with my family.
Speaker 1: My aunt was sick. We had to get up and
Speaker 1: pack up everybody and go to Ohio. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be transparent and go on tell the truth.
Speaker 1: I made my parents miss they flight, being late to
Speaker 1: the airport. Next flight didn't get us in until eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock at night, and it was one o'clock in an afternoon.
Speaker 1: I really messed us up. But my sister was with me.
Speaker 1: She made me late, she made them late too, And
Speaker 1: when we arrived my family everybody was hungry and there
Speaker 1: was literally nothing open except the waffle house, and we
Speaker 1: as a family decided we would not eat it because
Speaker 1: we don't eat waffle House period after what happened to
Speaker 1: our sister, what we saw, which was Shaqisha being an
Speaker 1: assaulted in d Row and the bigger issue because some
Speaker 1: people will say, well the police officers did that, it
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, it wasn't waffle House. Well, the bigger
Speaker 1: issue was that a white woman in waffle House tried
Speaker 1: to charge Shakisha for a plastic ware after they were
Speaker 1: already eating. They were already eating and paint the bill
Speaker 1: for food. Then they tried to charge for the plastic wear.
Speaker 1: And when Shakisha and her friends protested it or contested
Speaker 1: they didn't want to do it, they said no, the
Speaker 1: white woman started a whole bunch of shit that ended
Speaker 1: up being an argument that turned into the police being
Speaker 1: called and waffle House did and said nothing. In fact,
Speaker 1: they were actually offensive. They actually leaned in and supported
Speaker 1: the police department instead of saying this should never have
Speaker 1: happened and apologizing properly, they did not do that, and
Speaker 1: so done with waffle House. And after posting the video,
Speaker 1: Shakisha was traumatized, which we discussed. She was completely traumatized,
Speaker 1: but she's been working and we brought her on this
Speaker 1: show today to talk about what's been happening in her
Speaker 1: life post the waffle house and all the other things
Speaker 1: that's going on. And so I am just so happy
Speaker 1: to see my sister. Man. How you've been, Yo, mind
Speaker 1: so good? How you doing? You know, we just you're
Speaker 1: still fighting a good fight. You know. I want to say,
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you just watching you continue to grow
Speaker 1: into your own you know, you have your level of activism,
Speaker 1: you have your level of motivation. You're just very motivational individual.
Speaker 1: And seeing you come from the young girl that we
Speaker 1: met that was shy and scared and didn't and just
Speaker 1: seeing you open up and become this motivational figure, you know,
Speaker 1: it makes me feel proud. So I just want to say,
Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. Oh well, And I appreciate
Speaker 1: you out because y'all was like the leading force to
Speaker 1: pushing me to get to that point. So I appreciate
Speaker 1: you out just being Yeah, Shakeisha Clemens. You are from Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 1: This incident happened in Sarah Lamb which is right outside
Speaker 1: of Mobile. And one thing I will say is that,
Speaker 1: um my mother is from a place called Monroeville, Alabama.
Speaker 1: I've been in now and In fact, my son's family
Speaker 1: is from what's the town called. My son to come
Speaker 1: from Bruton, Alabama. So this is all very close, very close.
Speaker 1: Except Mobile anyway, it's different. It's closed though an hour
Speaker 1: here our there. I want to have the most to
Speaker 1: get to either Bruton, Monroeville or to Mobile, and I
Speaker 1: have a lot of family and Mobile. And the one
Speaker 1: thing I will say is that while there are some
Speaker 1: of my family members that are doing well, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of younger women and younger men in Alabama
Speaker 1: that are not doing so well. In those smaller towns,
Speaker 1: things are real struggle financially, and there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of information. So if you don't have a cell phone,
Speaker 1: which a lot of people do, if you don't have internet.
Speaker 1: We always take for granted that everybody has internet. Everybody
Speaker 1: does not. But if you don't have certain information, if
Speaker 1: people are not providing information or showing you an outside
Speaker 1: person expective, all you know is the stuff four or
Speaker 1: five square miles of your town, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of bad things that go on. I mean, your exposure
Speaker 1: is important, it truly is. So I think what you're
Speaker 1: doing now, my son I talked about your becoming a
Speaker 1: motivational person with your workout. Um, you know you started.
Speaker 1: You have your your waist vand which I need to
Speaker 1: go and put mine on right now, Lord have mercy,
Speaker 1: but you have your um, your your waist vand to
Speaker 1: help people swimming and work out and keep there themselves fit.
Speaker 1: And you work out, you work out hard. Now, prior
Speaker 1: to what happened with your incident of twenty eighteen, were
Speaker 1: you working out? No? I wasn't. I was like on
Speaker 1: a mile journey, but it wasn't as extent as it
Speaker 1: is now. So what did you push you to start
Speaker 1: working out? Like? What was the thing that said I
Speaker 1: need to work out? So that incident really put me
Speaker 1: in a play where I was the press. I was
Speaker 1: in a dark space. I didn't know how to let
Speaker 1: out my emotion and understand why I was coming from.
Speaker 1: So working out, you know it got me to that
Speaker 1: point of being able to release my emotion and um,
Speaker 1: let out the pain and the hurt and just be
Speaker 1: able to push forward to reach gold, set them, reach them,
Speaker 1: and you know, just continue to be able to motivate
Speaker 1: other people. You know, in that situation, I did motivate
Speaker 1: a lot of black women to you know, speak out
Speaker 1: and you know, be a full force for theirselves. So
Speaker 1: this also pushed me to be able to push forward
Speaker 1: and motivate a little bit more soil so I find
Speaker 1: enjoyment with inspiration and motivation. You work out hard? Not you?
Speaker 1: And you also are you have what they call at
Speaker 1: bottom heavy? You an Alabama girl for real? I fedam
Speaker 1: and how you your mama got a little bit of
Speaker 1: jump in your trunk and still you You really work
Speaker 1: out hard, right, um, you know more than most? Like
Speaker 1: how many hours are you putting into your physical training? Um? Me, personally,
Speaker 1: I go to the gym and I trying myself at
Speaker 1: least between an hour to two hours. Just depends on
Speaker 1: how I'm feeling that day. Um some days I may go.
Speaker 1: I may get an urn, some days I might. I
Speaker 1: might get an hour, two hours and forty five. Men,
Speaker 1: it just depends on how I feel that day. But um,
Speaker 1: I believe how many days a week? I go every day?
Speaker 1: Every day it'sself for itsself for Saturday, and don't go
Speaker 1: on Saturday because it's like Chiel Day. But I go
Speaker 1: every day. Yep, wow yeah wow. So for folks who
Speaker 1: are listening, and then you could go check Shakeisha out
Speaker 1: on her social media where she promotes and posts a
Speaker 1: lot about her workout and the journey. Now you decided
Speaker 1: to take your experience and move into helping the young women. Yes,
Speaker 1: a man, that's correct. So tell us about what's happened
Speaker 1: on April sixteen. So April sixteen, UM, since my incident,
Speaker 1: I started a nonprofit called Wrong Girls Rule the World,
Speaker 1: a nonprofity it does strive to be a big sister
Speaker 1: in the community. UM. We're trying to target the preteens
Speaker 1: and the teenage girls in the community to be able
Speaker 1: to you know, UM, start those conversations with the women. UM,
Speaker 1: you know, teach them about self care, about financial systems,
Speaker 1: about goals, about UM, love and life and God and
Speaker 1: you know, just be that because it's a lot of girls,
Speaker 1: like you stated in Alabama, it's a lot of UM
Speaker 1: women down here that does not have that that direction
Speaker 1: to be able to know suf resources and have this
Speaker 1: type of education for this and that. So my purpose
Speaker 1: for it, this UM, this tea party is to bring
Speaker 1: the girls together in the community, open up those conversations,
Speaker 1: start those conversations. UM. My daughter, you know, Live Live
Speaker 1: is going to the sixth grade next year. This is
Speaker 1: like the journey for me. He not only me, but
Speaker 1: for her. And so I know when I transition over
Speaker 1: from fifth grade elementary over to sixth grade middle school,
Speaker 1: I learned a lot of stuff that was the wrong information.
Speaker 1: And my mom, you know, you know, our parents they
Speaker 1: are raised basically in that bubble as well, so it's
Speaker 1: a lot of information that they were weren't taught as well.
Speaker 1: So when I transition over to middle school, I found
Speaker 1: out about a lot of stuff like six and guns
Speaker 1: and drugs and money and you know, just a lot
Speaker 1: of different stuff that you know, if someone would have
Speaker 1: took the time to say, hey, this is what this
Speaker 1: is really about, this is how this really go you know,
Speaker 1: I would have had that education on how to move
Speaker 1: forward in my life with different things. So with her,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm trying to introduce to those girls
Speaker 1: starting that conversation, Like I said, redirect that narrative for
Speaker 1: our younger girls and you know, just be a big
Speaker 1: sister in a community to them. So this is what
Speaker 1: the tea party is going to be about. That that's
Speaker 1: really amazing. Is this the first is going to be
Speaker 1: the first tea party. This is our very first event,
Speaker 1: and so we're a little we're skeptical, you know, we're
Speaker 1: kind of anxious and excited, but you know, it's for
Speaker 1: the battery, it's for the best. It's a free event.
Speaker 1: We want the girls to be able to dress up
Speaker 1: in those tea party offices and come and have the
Speaker 1: teacakes and drink the tea and socialize and um, you know,
Speaker 1: get educated, to get those program preventional resources, um and
Speaker 1: just talk. You know. Yeah. So it's called Butterflies and
Speaker 1: Flowers Tea Party for preteens and teenage girls from one
Speaker 1: to four on April sixteen. Now, let me ask you,
Speaker 1: oh and if for folks who are out there listening,
Speaker 1: who want to help, who want to donate, who want
Speaker 1: to support, who want to bring their children, you can
Speaker 1: follow the group on Instagram and Facebook at Brown Girls
Speaker 1: Rule the World twenty one. That's Brown Girls Rule the
Speaker 1: World twenty one. And from what I hear, Facebook is
Speaker 1: where all the information is being shared and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of communication there about the event. Now, you talked
Speaker 1: about girls dressing up in their tea party outfits. Do
Speaker 1: you think that that already prevent or places a barrier
Speaker 1: on kids that don't have a tea party outfit, Like,
Speaker 1: what is the solution for that? So what we want
Speaker 1: to do with the tea party outfice, We want to
Speaker 1: be able to build confidence. So with the tea party
Speaker 1: office you always see on TV though the other color
Speaker 1: women always dress up and they have these nice tea
Speaker 1: parties where they go and you know, fellowship with these
Speaker 1: other ladies to do this and do that. Well, I
Speaker 1: want to regards to be able to like they can
Speaker 1: do that as well they see other people that look
Speaker 1: like them to be able to do that as well.
Speaker 1: It's not a requirement, We're not requiring everyone to have
Speaker 1: on that, but you know, it's just something to enlighten
Speaker 1: the mood, enlighten the you know, the event. So you
Speaker 1: just want to be able to bring some type of
Speaker 1: event to them like that because I know it's a
Speaker 1: lot of us that has never been to a tea
Speaker 1: party before. You know, what we should do moving forward? Right, Like,
Speaker 1: since she did bring up a good point, is that
Speaker 1: prior to each tea party, because we're gonna do this
Speaker 1: for the next twenty years. You know, we raise money
Speaker 1: to have people donate tea party dresses so that the
Speaker 1: girls who come in who don't have it don't feel
Speaker 1: out of place, and we're able to give those girls
Speaker 1: dresses so that everybody is able to fit the decorum.
Speaker 1: Everybody feels like the aligne with what's going on. So
Speaker 1: that's something that we should work towards. I love their minds.
Speaker 1: I like that. I really like that. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to put that in there. And I also think that today,
Speaker 1: if we want to try to accommodate five to ten
Speaker 1: girls to get them addressed throughout this week, we can
Speaker 1: post it and tell people to help support. So do
Speaker 1: you all have a port like a place where people
Speaker 1: can donate? Yes, man, we do. We have donate don't namely,
Speaker 1: it's a link that we have. It's a tax SMIs linkum.
Speaker 1: Even if you don't have cash AP or PayPal or demo,
Speaker 1: you know, you're always a click the link, put in
Speaker 1: your credit card, debit card information, back account information, any
Speaker 1: goals right out of your accountbody know, today, I think
Speaker 1: today's the thirteenth or whatever it is that you all
Speaker 1: are seeing this, and so you may say, well the
Speaker 1: sixteenth is right now, but still help because I see
Speaker 1: my vision. Just it came to me in the vision
Speaker 1: that even if people just give you two days of donations.
Speaker 1: At least they could go out. You could go out
Speaker 1: and buy a flower, a carnation not carnation, what's that
Speaker 1: thing called that? People the Presage crossade or maybe the
Speaker 1: little hat or hat have a box of things that
Speaker 1: any girl can get something out of it and put
Speaker 1: it on to make them feel like they are part
Speaker 1: of the event. So that's what I'm asking. I'm asking
Speaker 1: for anyone who is listening today to donate. You see
Speaker 1: the information. I'm posting the information here, you see it
Speaker 1: so that you will give an opportunity to Shakeisha and
Speaker 1: her team to go out and fill up a little
Speaker 1: box with things that these young girls can put on
Speaker 1: even if they only had a sweatsuit, they only had jeans,
Speaker 1: and and and and a T shirt, that they can
Speaker 1: have something a scar, they can have some type of flower,
Speaker 1: They can have a little hat that they can add
Speaker 1: to their outfit that helps to bring make them feel
Speaker 1: like they're in the room. So we all should be
Speaker 1: able to do that. I'm going to start with the
Speaker 1: first hundred and fifty dollars donation because go and hopefully
Speaker 1: pick up some things. I'm going to also make sure
Speaker 1: that until freedom gives one hundred and fifty dollars today,
Speaker 1: my son give one hundred and fifty thank you, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna I'm gonna make sure that Linda and Angelo
Speaker 1: and others that we go ahead and donate one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars today to support what you all are
Speaker 1: doing and make sure you have something for all the girls.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Si, and also I do I do want
Speaker 1: to reiterate this as well. We are also collecting donations
Speaker 1: because we are also trying to accommodate two or three
Speaker 1: young girls that are going to be in this tea
Speaker 1: party for senior dudes or um, you know, they're junior
Speaker 1: dudes at school. We do have a few prom dresses
Speaker 1: that we do have. People have donated prom verses to us,
Speaker 1: so we do have prom dresses for the prom that
Speaker 1: is coming up. For those girls who don't have a dress,
Speaker 1: we do have those available for them. So we're trying
Speaker 1: to accommodate as far as like prom, any junior and
Speaker 1: senior fees that they may have, even crossing over fees
Speaker 1: that the parents may have. We want to be able
Speaker 1: to accommodate that as well. We on it. I'm asking
Speaker 1: everybody that is listening to join us and given one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. We're not you know, we ain't
Speaker 1: at five hundred at this moment, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars for each one of us to give to help
Speaker 1: support what they're doing in Mobile, Alabama, which is a
Speaker 1: place that I'm telling you, I know, I've been there.
Speaker 1: I've spent my entire life in Alabama. Some people don't
Speaker 1: know that, but you know, New York of course is
Speaker 1: my home, but I have spent literally half of my
Speaker 1: life in Alabama being there as a young girl. And
Speaker 1: I know how detrimental, detrimental it is to get support
Speaker 1: for these young girls because the system has starved them out.
Speaker 1: There's no resources, there's economic challenges. They don't get to
Speaker 1: see the bright lights in the big cities they get.
Speaker 1: They are in communities where there's a lot of devastation,
Speaker 1: and basically a lot of them end up pregnant, they
Speaker 1: end up maybe incarcerated, they end up in really bad situations.
Speaker 1: And so what you all are doing with butterflies and flowers,
Speaker 1: the tea party, but also more importantly, Round Girls Rule
Speaker 1: the World as an organization is important, and Shakisha I
Speaker 1: just want to say to you that I'm so proud
Speaker 1: of what you've been able to do because I know
Speaker 1: the dark place that we met you in in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen. You know, the people who talked about you,
Speaker 1: lied on you, the friends you lost, the relationships that
Speaker 1: went bad, the just the insecurities of it all, and
Speaker 1: more importantly, sitting in that courtroom watching a kangaroo trial
Speaker 1: take place where they had no intention whatsoever of ever
Speaker 1: giving you justice. It has and in fact you there
Speaker 1: were charges against you, so you have a record. Should
Speaker 1: see word, should I ever seen man? So you know,
Speaker 1: we like we just want to say we appreciate you,
Speaker 1: We celebrate you. You look you don't look like you've
Speaker 1: been through. You look like the phoenix that rose from
Speaker 1: the ashes, and you continue to grow into this, this
Speaker 1: budding young leader, you know, an excellent mother and just
Speaker 1: continuing to do the things in the community and painting forward.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna support you every time. You know, you
Speaker 1: got both of our phone numbers, and whenever you need us,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be there place. I know where, I know
Speaker 1: where I know. I love y'all, y'all people forever. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: congratulations April sixteen. Y'all, we need one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars today. Thank you, thank you, Love y'all. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Shakisha Clemments. Man. I love that girl and and
Speaker 1: everything that she's a woman. She's a little girl to you,
Speaker 1: but she's still gonna be She always gonna be my
Speaker 1: little girl, but who's evolved into an enormous leader, a
Speaker 1: great leader and motivator. You know. Support her organization, Brown
Speaker 1: Girls Ruler World and her events Butterflies and Flowers Tea
Speaker 1: Party Immobile, Alabama from one to four. Make sure that
Speaker 1: you go to the site to get the exact address,
Speaker 1: but donate some money to it. Man, we want to
Speaker 1: see all of those girls come out there and they
Speaker 1: little tea party dresses and their hats. But the court sagers.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna We're gonna invest in it, and we
Speaker 1: want you to invest in it too. You know, Shakisha
Speaker 1: has damn you know, I remember so I remember seeing
Speaker 1: watching her grow from you know, I remember crying watching
Speaker 1: that that waffle house situation and hitting you up like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta go fight for this young lady, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And to see her, you know, go
Speaker 1: to all. Like you said, we went to that court
Speaker 1: case with her. We marched through sarah Land where they
Speaker 1: told us that they might shoot us down. My god,
Speaker 1: we went through a lot of stuff. People don't even
Speaker 1: know the stuff that we've been through, but you know,
Speaker 1: and Shakisha was brave through it all. Man. She didn't
Speaker 1: know what to do, you know, and she trusted us.
Speaker 1: We trusted her, and we stood with her, and we
Speaker 1: fourth through it all. Now she's evolved into this motivational
Speaker 1: individual who is you know, giving back and providing energy
Speaker 1: and providing you know, that level of big sisterhood to
Speaker 1: the young black and brown girls in her community. So
Speaker 1: we want to make sure that we continue to support her.
Speaker 1: And butterflies and flowers tea party, We're gonna give up
Speaker 1: her flowers as we talked about join us, y'all that
Speaker 1: one fitty speaking of young black girls, My don't get it.
Speaker 1: It's about another young black queen that has garnered a
Speaker 1: lot of attention. You know, I've just seen that the
Speaker 1: final for the Women's Final four that I mean, the
Speaker 1: Women's championship game that she played in was the most
Speaker 1: viewed in history. So they made history with the views,
Speaker 1: you know, Um Andrew Reese, you know, the young they
Speaker 1: call her Miss Deevil Devil, the BUYU Barbie, you know,
Speaker 1: straight out of Baltimore. You know, she has a passion
Speaker 1: and energy and a will to win. She reminds me
Speaker 1: of the female Kobe Bryant, like she just has a
Speaker 1: killer instinct. And you know, I really don't get it.
Speaker 1: So many things I don't get. I could point out,
Speaker 1: you know, people calling her class lists, you know, the
Speaker 1: owner of bar still calling her classes piece of shit.
Speaker 1: I can point out Jill Biden deciding or voicing that
Speaker 1: she would like both of the teams to come to
Speaker 1: the White House even after LSU was victorious, and it's
Speaker 1: never been done before with the losing team goes to
Speaker 1: the White House. And I could point out how that
Speaker 1: didn't make sense and I didn't get that. You know,
Speaker 1: I could point out how numerous people all over criticize this,
Speaker 1: this young lady. But what I really what I think
Speaker 1: I've really don't get is why do we celebrate the
Speaker 1: passion that same passion in male athletes. Why do we
Speaker 1: look at Draymond and we look at Kobe, and we
Speaker 1: look at Alan Noviston and we look at Jordan who
Speaker 1: talk shit, and we looked at all of those those
Speaker 1: are our favorite players in the world, and we never
Speaker 1: heard people criticize them the way that we watched this
Speaker 1: young girl who had the same level passion that each
Speaker 1: of those players had get called all types of names
Speaker 1: and have to defend her passion. You know, I really
Speaker 1: just don't get it. I felt it was so unfair.
Speaker 1: I've trash talked through our games. We watched, you know,
Speaker 1: the young lady who she's playing against, who is actually
Speaker 1: the best player in the nation, you know, And that's
Speaker 1: when you talk shit. You want to talk shit against
Speaker 1: the best. When you beat the best player in the
Speaker 1: nation by fifteen to twenty points and you win pretty
Speaker 1: much the whole game, and you watch watch that player
Speaker 1: talk shit to your friends and all around and even
Speaker 1: talk shit to you before you're coming there with a
Speaker 1: chip on your shoulder. You're gonna talk shit at the
Speaker 1: end of the game because that's what we do. We
Speaker 1: told we want to look at you and say you
Speaker 1: ain't better, Yeah, I whipped your ass. That's what That's
Speaker 1: what that's what the fire is about. That's that killer instinct.
Speaker 1: You want to look at the best player and say
Speaker 1: you ain't better than me. I'm the best player. That's
Speaker 1: what That's what that fire is about. You say, that's
Speaker 1: what that fire is about. So why we why we
Speaker 1: don't celebrate it in women when we see it? Why
Speaker 1: is this something classless about a woman having that same
Speaker 1: energy and that same player. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I want to continue. And that's why, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That is why I think most people don't
Speaker 1: respect the women's basketball lead because they don't see that enough. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but those are the things, because the thing is people
Speaker 1: want view it if you've seen that level of intensity,
Speaker 1: if you've seen that level, if there was rivalries and
Speaker 1: there was that level of intensity, and everybody's I want
Speaker 1: I believe so because it's provident. I think that if
Speaker 1: that was more celebrate, if it wasn't a little frowned
Speaker 1: upon that women had this level and it had that
Speaker 1: level of competitive nature to where two people that's that's dogs,
Speaker 1: that's going growling at each other after every ball, we're filing,
Speaker 1: we're looking at each other like, yeah, I'm gonna whip
Speaker 1: your ass. They do do it. Because sometimes when I
Speaker 1: am like you know, sometimes I just stopped because There's
Speaker 1: been a few women's players that I like. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't really watch sports, but a few times, especially
Speaker 1: with the young lady her name is Tamika catchings Um.
Speaker 1: When she was playing, I would go every now and
Speaker 1: then and watch it, Yeah, because she share my name
Speaker 1: and everybody used to talk about how great she was,
Speaker 1: so I would watch it check her out. And they
Speaker 1: do have because they do. They are very competitive and
Speaker 1: they have a lot of aggression. But it's not amplified.
Speaker 1: It's not well, that's what I'm saying. I just want
Speaker 1: it's clear that it is literally muffled in the media.
Speaker 1: Like that's the issue. It doesn't receive the same respect,
Speaker 1: they don't get paid the same they're not respect they
Speaker 1: don't get the same endorsement deals. So this is an issue.
Speaker 1: But the thing is you have to the question is
Speaker 1: not about basketball. That's a great question, and I appreciate
Speaker 1: you for even acknowledging it, which I know that over
Speaker 1: time you've become very very clear and sensitive to how
Speaker 1: women are treated different, right, and so I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: But this is not a basketball problem. This is an
Speaker 1: American or a world's problem, a societal problem in terms
Speaker 1: of how women are constantly devalued, and how patriarchy plays
Speaker 1: out in our society where there is more reverence and
Speaker 1: respect and acknowledgement and celebration of men for the same
Speaker 1: exact task. I was watching a film returning from Europe.
Speaker 1: I watched the movie about it's called The Independent, and
Speaker 1: I suggest any and everybody go watch this film. It's
Speaker 1: called The Independent. It's about a guy running for president
Speaker 1: white man. He's an independent and he becomes a superstar because,
Speaker 1: like you know, he's saying the right things. And it's
Speaker 1: at a time at school shootings, at this and that
Speaker 1: and all the ship and people are looking for something
Speaker 1: different and it ends up being a clusterfuck at the
Speaker 1: end of the movie. But it was really good. But
Speaker 1: there's a black woman in the newsroom and she has
Speaker 1: suggestions about great news stories, including covering this independent. So
Speaker 1: she's all into, you know, trying to pitch different stories.
Speaker 1: If you ever see the bullet the bullypen or the bullpen,
Speaker 1: excuse me, the bullpen where they all the reporters are
Speaker 1: in there and they're meeting and they're kicking out story
Speaker 1: ideas and those and some of them are chosen for
Speaker 1: front pages and important placement in the paper and online
Speaker 1: or whatever. This is what the scene is. So she
Speaker 1: explains what she thinks should be done in terms of
Speaker 1: covering the Independent and how it ties to some of
Speaker 1: the issues around public schools and students and different things.
Speaker 1: They don't the white man who is the head of
Speaker 1: the newspaper, he's like he's the main editor or whatever.
Speaker 1: He's just like, no, you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: He completely He basically disrespects her, But any disrespects white
Speaker 1: folks in the room too, So it's just the culture.
Speaker 1: But when she finally convinces him that the story is important,
Speaker 1: he turns around and does a double whammy. And this
Speaker 1: is why people have been upset with me for saying
Speaker 1: that sexism is worse than racism in some situations. Well,
Speaker 1: it's worse than racism, but I was speaking about a
Speaker 1: black woman being Kamala Harris when I said it, and
Speaker 1: how sexism is worse. It's a double whammy. So you
Speaker 1: already are dealing with racism, which is horrible, and then
Speaker 1: when you are a woman, it compounds the issue and
Speaker 1: now you have to deal with that as well. Right,
Speaker 1: so to hell. But whoever didn't understand it. But I'll
Speaker 1: give you an example. He turns around, takes her story
Speaker 1: and gives it to a white man who is her junior.
Speaker 1: He's not even as smart as she is, but he
Speaker 1: gives it to this white man. Two things happen. One,
Speaker 1: he gave it to a white person, so that was racist.
Speaker 1: But he also gave it to a man, as if
Speaker 1: to say that he was not confident in her as
Speaker 1: a woman, a black woman, that she could do the job.
Speaker 1: So this is where the double whammy of sexism and
Speaker 1: racism exists. And that's what we see playing out not
Speaker 1: just in basketball, but it plays out in corporate boardrooms,
Speaker 1: it plays out in politics, it plays out in our communities.
Speaker 1: It's all over. It's all over the place. And then
Speaker 1: let me just finish my point with this or bring
Speaker 1: another point. I appreciate Caitlin Clark, the young lady who
Speaker 1: you said is the number one player or whatever. She's
Speaker 1: the best too. I respect her because when asked about it,
Speaker 1: first of all, homegirl did an interview. She was super cool.
Speaker 1: She wasn't all charged up and whatever. Super cool. No,
Speaker 1: I ain't going to the White House because that's not
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. I hope I get invited
Speaker 1: at another time, and you could tell that she has
Speaker 1: been trained to make sure that she covers all bases.
Speaker 1: So she circled back and said, and I appreciate that
Speaker 1: the first Lady came to the game and that so
Speaker 1: many powerful people and important people and special people were
Speaker 1: there to watch us play. That was great. But no,
Speaker 1: I would not take that away from LSU. There's no
Speaker 1: runner up situation. She should They should be going on
Speaker 1: their own and we should be invited to go to
Speaker 1: the White House at the time. I would love to
Speaker 1: do that. So she she got a politics in order,
Speaker 1: her a personal politics. Then she got a race relations
Speaker 1: in order because and she didn't say it when they
Speaker 1: asked her, but she just said yeah and continued on.
Speaker 1: She didn't yeah, yeah, that that angel Ye should not
Speaker 1: be receiving any backlash or criticism for what she did.
Speaker 1: I've done trash talk. That's what the game is all about.
Speaker 1: She covered all her basis in that interview and talked
Speaker 1: about how great the team was. She made sure to
Speaker 1: dispel narratives that were out there, and she hit women's rights.
Speaker 1: Why is it that we are seeing different when we
Speaker 1: do certain things that's right. Whoever's training, whoever's working with Caitlin,
Speaker 1: they're doing a damn good job. She's definitely the truth.
Speaker 1: When I watched it, I was like, let me see
Speaker 1: what she's gonna say. And when I heard, I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: she gets it. You know's and you know she know more,
Speaker 1: but she just knows politically, she's politically savvy enough to
Speaker 1: say what I need to say. What I was saying.
Speaker 1: What you what I'm gonna say. That's what make you
Speaker 1: say that I says the bullshit? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't just do nothing. I said, you
Speaker 1: can't make it. See I said exactly what I said,
Speaker 1: and you know what I meant. But you can't say
Speaker 1: I said what I meant, right, you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: use my words against me to start another two weeks
Speaker 1: of the cycle that gets my people all up and
Speaker 1: the panties and a bunch. So I'm just gonna say it,
Speaker 1: and and and and that's privilege, and that is white privilege.
Speaker 1: Let's be clear, because I know that somebody's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's what we want. That's what we want white
Speaker 1: people to use their privilege for. We want you to
Speaker 1: walk around with your privilege and use it to dispel
Speaker 1: myths and speak on behalf of shit that you know
Speaker 1: is wrong that we're dealing with every day because we
Speaker 1: know we can't say so when you can't say it.
Speaker 1: But when when angel Rea says it, like I'm sure
Speaker 1: that at some point she's she's the way that she's
Speaker 1: so blunt, the way that she's so real and raw
Speaker 1: and everything that she's saying, a part of that comes
Speaker 1: from the trauma of being black. No matter what it is,
Speaker 1: you're gonna throw anyway being black. But Caitlin, as a
Speaker 1: privileged white woman or privileged young white woman, she ain't
Speaker 1: got to walk all the way into the lions Den,
Speaker 1: but she's sure enough made sure she got up on
Speaker 1: the gates close enough that you knew she was dead.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate that about her. So that's all I
Speaker 1: have to say, and that's all that needs to be said. Man.
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