WEBVTT - Giving Girls Hope with Chikesia Clemons 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.840 What's up. Family, it's your girl to Meka D. Mallory, 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.840 and it's your boy my son in general. And we 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:17.120 are your hosts of street politicians, the places, streets and politics. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.160 Missus Mallory, how are you today. I'm doing good. I'm 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.640 doing good. There's a lot of a lot of stuff 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:26.799 happened and in the uh news world. I got one 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:31.080 that is so good. I'm so excited to talk about it. Yeah, 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.040 it's a lot of stuff going on. Man, it's been 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.400 it's been a very eventful week. Man, it has it has. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.960 I have one that is well, let me, let me, 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.599 let me kind of guess what you might be one 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.120 that you're excited to talk. Well, it's not so much 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:54.040 being excited to talk about it. It's just funny that 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.279 you know, the world has just changed so much, and 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:05.920 so the plastic surgery industry has obviously boomed. I mean 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.200 we all know that not everybody, but a lot of 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.440 people are getting a nick and a tuck in a 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.399 pole and the thing and the mommy makeovers and all 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:20.880 different types of stuff. And I have no no judgment 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.640 of people taking care of themselves, getting what they think 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.280 they need to be their best selves. And how they 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.960 want to feel. I did see and I laughed a 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:36.000 lot about the lips thing. I do think that's a 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.440 little crazy where people are getting their lips done and 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.000 they can't even talk, Like I have actual friends or 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:47.600 people I know well that cannot really speak because their 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.880 lips are so tight, especially immediately following the lip surgery. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.200 So that's a little crazy. And I saw one of 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.880 the guys talking about it. But the new news that 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:07.960 was released on Hollywood Unlocked today was that the industry 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.800 has grown even more because of men that they're that 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.919 at least one point three million dollars in the United 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:21.560 States has been calculated or earned based upon men getting 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.200 plastic surgery. That includes things like you know, ab enhancement, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.040 and that's something that when a lot of women get 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.160 their stomachs done, like they get the Mommy makeover or whatever, 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.800 the doctors do put some construction around the ads to 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:41.000 make them look better so that you know, okay, you know, 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.679 maybe someone felt they needed that as a man. Then 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:51.160 they have the liposuction piece. Which liposuction has become way 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:56.440 more accessible and a usable tool for a lot more people. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.760 It's not just women that do it, it's there are 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.560 men who are all so getting light bosuction once they 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.880 especially in cases where they were once really big and 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:08.840 they're working out and all of that, and they need 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.720 to get skin remove on a little bit of light 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.600 bo suction. So men are doing that. And the thing 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.760 though that I thought was a little like, whoa is 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:22.959 the BBLS. I don't know or understand what. So men 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:28.160 are getting bbls. Yes that yes, men are getting BBL 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.760 too far. Man, we're taking this shit way too far. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.960 A man getting a Brazilian butt lift. It's crazy to me, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.560 just the sound of it. It's crazy to me, like 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:47.360 they're doing it. Men are getting No, it's true. No, 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.680 I know because once I saw the story. You know, 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.600 all you gotta do is go to YouTube in a 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.680 couple of places and you can actually see it happening. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.320 And I see it. It's happening. Men are getting bb else. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.320 That's crazy. You walk in as a man and you like, 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.120 I want the Brazilian butt lift. They don't really say 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.160 all those words. They just those words. It makes it 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.880 sound so much more, you know, Yeah, like what it is, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:22.279 I want the BBL get the BBL. Wow, that's crazy 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.560 to me. And I love I love to tell this 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.359 one because I knew it was gonna make you be 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:33.200 like what in next He's like, come on, bro, you 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.000 gotta do better the abs. Okay, I ain't gonna do 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.640 it because I'm the word can get minds back somehow, 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.880 but I could kind of back. Yeah, I gotta get 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.039 them back because I had a complete six pack. But 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.039 it's about three and a half now, so I'm trying 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.320 to get that two and a half back, trying to 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.840 get the old thing back. I get that old thing back. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.000 But so I understand a little bit about that, you know, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.680 you get bomb. But the BBL is too much like 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.559 I don't even like needed what men need to listen, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.840 who who are you? I mean, I guess well, you know, 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.960 people are doing different things for different reasons. You know, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.680 a little bit strange. They act a little strange for 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.160 a little bit of change. Man, I'm just saying. So 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.920 that's it. So the BBL, then, um, well, the plastic 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.400 surgery and how men are also taking advantage of these 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.960 great services as a nip and a tuck to make 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:34.520 themselves feel a little bit more confident. Okay, So then 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:42.840 Donald Trump was finally arrested. Now let me Trump and 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:47.760 ste got arrested him. They finally he turned named perp 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.600 walk man, I need a little perp walk. Well, I 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.880 can understand why they did mug shot come on or not, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.080 but I understand why they I got purple walk the 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.279 mug shot for some shit, I didn't even do Trump 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:04.039 needed on mug shot. But I have a perspective on 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.440 why they didn't. I have a perspective. And here's my 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.280 one two quick punch. And I'm not saying, first of all, yes, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:17.560 all of it is racism and white privilege and all 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.560 of that. I already know all of that. I get it. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:24.400 I'm just giving another bucket that we could also pull from. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.280 It is not helpful to the United States to have 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.520 an image of the president of the United States, and 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.240 you know, as a mug shot. That's not necessarily it's 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.520 not helpful to our nation. Yes, we're already weak, Yes 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.080 we already look crazy, Yes, all the things, but the 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.960 mug shot. Forget about what American citizens and Trump haters 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.880 may do. But it's also not good for the country's 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:57.320 profile to have a picture of the president, the former 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.919 president of the United States as a mug shot. You know, 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.159 they do have to kind of consider some of the 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:08.560 international ramifications of things that we do. So I'm just 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:14.320 saying I'm giving it as a separate, very minute potential 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:19.920 point that is under the racism of how black and 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.000 brown men and even white people are in which you 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.920 know that would be white supremacy because then the white 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.080 people impacted by it as well. But whatever how they are, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.040 we are as a people at perp Walk then the 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.400 mug shot and the whole thing. So I get that, 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.200 and of course white privilege is a big part of it, 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:44.800 because there is white privilege, right. I was watching a 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:50.760 documentary that was on and CNN International while traveling in Europe, 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.200 and I saw that they did a story where they 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.760 talked about the other presidents like Clinton and also Nixon 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:06.200 and in the moments when they were, you know, facing indictment. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:11.239 Nixon was actually indicted, which he was parted by Ford 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.520 President Ford, so he didn't do jail time. And then 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.560 of course Clinton, they did a deal with him that 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.400 he would not be indicted so long as he admitted 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.840 that he lied. So white men they always figure out 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.720 a way, and that's what I said. I said, Trump 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.160 must be so bad that they couldn't even find their 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:34.199 usual ways of manipulating the system to try not to 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.880 do this last thing which a black man had to 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.959 use what was in his hand in order to indict him. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.000 But at the end of the day, even still the 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.440 privileges there, Trump should be in jail, should have been 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.839 in jail. However, I'm just giving us a third perspective 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.200 and another bucket that we do got to think about 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:54.920 the international profile of this country. Well, I can understand 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.880 that perspective, you know, but in just my personal opinion, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.040 you know, we all created equal and although this is 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.480 a was the president, he committed an legal act, you know. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.840 So for us to show any level of favoritism to 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.679 him when we know that he committed a crime because 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.000 he was arrested in the reigned on these charges, well 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.400 you know allegedly, you know, when we are arrested in 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.120 the rain. You know, you think you think my mother 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.000 wanted to see me, wanted to see me, and you know, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.240 in handcuffs, in a mug shot, purp walk. No, you know, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.840 so I understand all of the political you know, mumbo 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.880 jimbo that we speak of and how it doesn't look good, 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:41.640 But it doesn't look good that average people, who citizens, 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.000 who the government who elect the government who that we 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.880 actually the people who work for us. You know, we 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.920 have to be purp walked and have mug shots, but 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.720 the people that we elect that do crimes though, So 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.400 I think, you know, the fairness of it is wrong. 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.599 I understand the politics of it, but a lot of 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.280 I'm tired of politics, you know what I'm saying. I'm 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.800 just so tired of politics because politics doesn't been so 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.719 I want. I want the same I want. My sain 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.760 was just as big as his man. You know what 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.560 I'm saying. I want the same exacting and everybody else. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.160 God wanted to be equaling on the board. If I'm 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.040 deemed the criminal and i could have committed a crime 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.360 and I'm arrested, I want the same treatment that you 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.880 would give anybody else that's arrested. So I expect them 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.640 to get the same treatment that I was getting. Right, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.640 And then people keep saying he was arrested, I'm like, yeah, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.199 because the rest don't look like that to me. Arrest 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.400 he was able to turn himself in and he made 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.000 it back to Marlago before the evening, which that can 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.880 happen to any one of us. Because I've been arrested 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.640 in a city and made it on the plane from 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.880 DC or wherever back home by the night time. So 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.079 that's not it's not to say that it's not possible, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.880 but the arrest. So anyway, that I was my little 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.079 perspective one that I was watching. I was looking at 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.680 something on social media the other day and it was 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.959 it was actually, yeah, it was this. The other day 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.680 a few people posted about the Shaan King. Of course, 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:18.160 Linda Sausor, who is our partner and saws and she 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:26.559 is Palestinian. And I saw during last weekend how the 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:33.959 Israeli the IDF, the Israeli military was inside of a 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:40.040 temple while the Palestinians were in prayer and in service, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.240 and they were beating them. I mean, I'm so glad 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.920 that it was caught on camera, in clear view. So 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:51.079 no one can say, oh, well, the Palestinians did this 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.760 to them first, because the truth is why were they 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.160 inside their church? Like what the inside of their mosque? 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:03.319 Why were you in their place? Exactly? But this is 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.640 a thing that happens every year, and I think people 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.480 need to know that that this is not a new situation. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.640 This is something that happens every year because this particular 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:21.080 place of worship, the um, the the the Israelis have 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.480 decided that they have to have this space, and we 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.120 should actually have Linda on to talk about the specifics 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.160 around this, because of course, you know, I'm not an expert, 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.760 but I do read one and two. I listen, and 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.680 you know, and I understand some of the because we've 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.480 been to Palestine and we are also closely aligned with 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:46.240 pro Palestine organizations and activists, I do understand some of 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.240 the things that's happening in the region. And I know 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.600 that they have prayer of course during Ramadan in this 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:59.040 same place every year, and it is a real thing 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:04.280 that the Israelis believe that this particular area. I think 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.760 it's like up in wherever it's it's geographically placed somewhere 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.080 that they believe it should be theirs. So it is 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.360 a ritual for both sides to go there and pray 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:20.400 because it is the Palestinian people's temple, or I might 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.760 be using the wrong word. It is their place of 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.160 worship and they've been there praying there for whoever knows 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:31.640 how many years, and since the Israelis have decided that 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.200 it has it should be returned to the Jews, or 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.960 it should be the Jews and their place of worship. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.920 They're just gonna take it. They're just gonna be bow it. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.360 And that's it. And I think that the thing that 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.079 is so important for us to understand, because I'm sure 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.640 there are people who are listening and they're like, why 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.480 are you telling us this? Like what this got to 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:55.200 do with us? Here's the thing. The Israeli military that 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.640 was in the place of worship beating on these people 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.600 are paid our tax dollars. See, that's it. That's the 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:07.400 reason why it's important because the money. There are billions 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:12.720 of dollars, not millions, not thousands, not a few dollars. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.920 There are billions of dollars being sent from the United 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:22.880 States of America, our tax dollars to fund what is happening, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.760 the atrocity, the human rights violation. Now, when I say 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.800 human rights violation, I got that language from Amnesty International. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.040 I got that language from some of your most credible 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.480 UH human rights organizations in the world, Okay, that have 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.880 deemed what has happening to the Palestinian people to be 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:50.080 a human rights violation. So we pay for it with 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.000 our money. And that's why we have the right to 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.360 speak on it. That's why we have the right to 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.560 call it out. You know, just watching that video and 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.880 hearing them praying while they were being beaten with something 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.680 that was just like damn, and knowing that it's Ramadan 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.240 and hearing them praying and watching them being beat you know, 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.040 it shifted my soul. So I just prayed for the 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.200 Palestinians during this time. You know, you know that God 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.800 continues to give them strength and protect them. You know, 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.720 it's just, you know, we're just living We're just living 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.040 in dangerous times. We just live in a world with 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.040 so many things are going on, like it's it's crazy 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.760 to me because it's like Trump never said a lot 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.760 of real shit to me. But one thing he did 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.360 say that you know, me and you joke about and 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.880 we laugh about a lot, is people are dying and 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:46.200 never died before. He said, people are dying and never 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.440 died before. And that's really what's happening. And I turned 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.000 around every day it's a new person man or a 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.320 close friend of Mines. I wasn't even able to go 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.800 to his funeral because you know, we were out of town. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.200 But you know, close friend of Mines, you know, he 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.680 passed away and passed away. Hurd, he passed away. Somebody 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.280 killed him in the Dominican Republic. You know, I didn't 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.800 get the semi regards of my respects to his family, 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.920 but you know, shout out to my brother Nathan ingram 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.680 Man since third grade was really close friends, and you know, 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.680 he lost his life. And then every day you just 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.120 hear different people are going Instagram and see people that 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.000 I know just lost their life. You know, we're in 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.160 that age as you start getting your forties, you start seeing, 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.040 you know, people start to disappear. So we got to 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.840 be healthy, man. I wanted to see everybody. Listen, if 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:43.080 you're forty thirty eight, thirty nine and over, get real 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.720 about your health. Man. Start eating properly, start exercising, start 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.560 taking care of yourself, start getting your check ups. I 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.960 gotta go get my check up real soon. But we 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.760 gotta be attentional about taking care of ourselves. Man. It's 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.440 a mental health thing too. It's not just you know, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.480 you gotta protect them mental health space. You have to 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.240 cut off family, friends, whoever it is that's stressing you 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.880 out and making you feel unwell. You have to check 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.879 yourself from making you feel unwell because you're trying to 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.640 live up to expectations in the world that you know, 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.800 it's you know, we really gotta be careful out here, 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:21.080 we do. We gotta be very We gotta protect our space, 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:27.600 our mind, everything, so you know, hopefully, you know, the 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.520 situation in Palestine gets better before it gets worse. Man. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.880 I'm sitting out my love, prayers and regards, man, and 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.439 shout out to our sister Linda, who you know, I 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.040 know she's personally, you know, affected by this trustity. You 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.320 know that this is her native landess, her people. So 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.560 we always standing in solidarity with her and gonna stand 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.480 on the side of the righteousness in this situation. You know, 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.520 it's just it's just crazy. I'm just looking around. There's 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.400 just so much stuff going on. I mean, I could 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.880 just go on and on, but things we deal a little, 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.840 but I'm not going to. Yeah, like too many different things. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:10.560 And speaking of that until Freedom Partners and some of 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.200 our team they're down in Tennessee. They've been there for 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.120 the last several days. And you know, folks know that 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:23.280 we are taping our show. So sometimes by the time 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.000 the show airs, it would you know, things would have 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:30.760 been would have progressed, and so but people should know 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:36.200 that in Tennessee there are three legislators, two young black 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:43.720 men and an older white woman who joined protesters, young protesters, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:49.640 students who were protesting the gun violence issue. Obviously, just 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:54.640 in the last two weeks a week, it's happening so fast, 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.399 there was a mass shooting there where. For the first 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.320 time that I know of, it has been recorded in 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:09.200 my research that a woman actually committed this atrocity. Now 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.560 I know that she is trans or they are trans, 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.360 and so I can't I don't. I'm not sure exactly 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:21.160 all the things, but I think that they identify as 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:28.480 a woman and h identified because they're no longer with it, right, okay, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:33.240 So they identified as a woman, and so she committed 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:38.840 this atrocity. Where these I don't know. I think it's 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.800 it's several people who were killed. It's so many of them. 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.080 I actually now don't even remember the exact numbers. God 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.840 bless every single soul. I know there were adults, I 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:52.240 think three adults, and one of them was a black 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.920 man who was in his sixties who worked at the school. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:07.000 And then others individuals and of course some young children, kids, baby, unbelievable, disgusting, horrible. 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:14.120 Everything you could think of, the worst ever, deplorable, just 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.119 throw everything, just anything, any word you could come up 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:21.679 where it's terrible. And you know, I was thinking the 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:26.359 other day, it can't continue like it has to. People 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:32.000 cannot have fear of sending their children to school that 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.000 somebody's gonna walk into school and potentially shoot their kids. 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:40.040 That is way too much. It's just way too much. 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:42.479 It's way too much for us to have to be 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.920 thinking about it happening on the streets. But it's way 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:51.160 too much to also not know if your children will 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.720 be safe when the door is closed to the building 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:58.680 in school. Even with us as African Americans who deal 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.520 with violence and a lot of different ways, in school, 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.840 that was the one place it might be a fight, 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:11.479 maybe even a knifefold, maybe depending on how you know 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.320 where you went to school and those types of situations. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.879 But the majority of our children and us as kids 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:23.200 were safe in school. And the ship really popped off 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.840 when the doors opened and you went on the outside 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:31.000 of the building the inside you didn't really had casualties 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.520 and large quantities and the adults and the kids being 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:36.560 killed at the same time. That just is not a 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:40.400 thing now. This is becoming a regular thing. So these 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.919 students were protesting. Shout out to those kids. They were bold, 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.399 they were they were They was given the series. It 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:50.400 was given hell up in there. And the legislators, these 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:55.200 three legislators they, as I said, two younger black men 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.960 and an older white woman. An older white woman. They 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:03.960 sat down in the chambers with the kids. Now, Tennessee 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:08.119 is a supermajority red state, so that means they read 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:12.040 red red red. Okay, they blood are in dread. And 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:18.920 they have rules where of decorum where legislators are not 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:23.600 supposed to protest in the chambers. So these three individuals 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.720 chose to do so. All three of them have been 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:33.679 stripped of their of their committees and their responsibilities. And 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.280 now there's a vote that is happening today as we 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:41.520 are taping today and tomorrow to decide whether they will 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:47.240 be completely ousted from their seats as legislators in general 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:51.959 because of again this decorum issue. It is bullshit. It 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:57.000 is racism, it is white supremacy, it is it should 0:22:57.080 --> 0:23:00.840 be illegal, it should be inhumane. The people of Tennessee 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:05.239 voted for these individuals. The youth were there standing up 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.480 for their lives and the thing that really bothers me, 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:10.679 and this is sort of I have two points to 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:18.480 my thought of the day today. The first thing is 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:24.120 how do people even fix their faces to have the 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:31.160 same response to children being killed and adults legislators standing 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:36.200 with the children as they would you know, maybe that 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:41.520 the legislators had sex out of wedlock right and had 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:43.520 a baby out of wedlock with somebody, because that's a 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.960 decorum issue that could get you outsted that you was 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:49.879 sleeping with staff members, or you have sex out of 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:53.840 wedlock with somebody and got you know, the person pregnant 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:56.840 or whatever. So it's basically like you're doing something that 0:23:56.920 --> 0:24:01.359 disgraces the seat that you're sitting in. How can you 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:06.480 put that and this together and actually make a move 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:10.120 on it right? Like you? I think it's simple. America 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:11.959 has shown you that they canna always do shit that 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:14.399 fits them right and it benefits them. You know, we 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:18.040 looked at these are two black people, especially two black people, 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:21.920 and the issue at hand is something that they fight. 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:24.360 They they gonna fight you too for now about their guns, 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:26.800 about the guns, and it's not even about and the 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:28.760 thing is people keep saying, you're trying to take the 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:30.640 guns No, we're not trying to take the guns. Were 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:33.840 just trying to make sure that psychopaths don't get guns. Right. 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.720 There should there should be a level of of a 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:40.920 process that you go through to where the person who 0:24:41.480 --> 0:24:44.840 is that checks things that that makes sense, Like everybody 0:24:44.880 --> 0:24:46.480 just don't supposed to have a gun in the hand, 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:49.639 right and you shouldn't. You should never. I don't believe 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:55.000 that any person should have automatic weapons that they could 0:24:55.119 --> 0:24:59.639 kill that. I don't believe. That don't make sense. It 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:03.120 doesn't made those houses. Those supposed to be people who 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:07.480 are who have passed extensive background checks, who are skilled, 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:13.760 who have mental like the mental health um threshold threshold 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:17.640 for that has to be unrealistic. Like you got you're 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:20.800 supposed to have monthly check ins with psychologists, like we 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:23.879 have to understand, young man, anybody's that's in possessions of 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:29.560 guns of weapons of mass destruction should have probably weekly man, 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:34.120 like you should have a mandatory weekly visit to a mentor. 0:25:36.800 --> 0:25:39.439 But that's what I'm saying, So what the process, because 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:42.560 I don't know if people lose their mind every day, 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:46.800 like every day some and then you can just take 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:49.160 somebody's life and we and that's what we're seeing every day. 0:25:49.359 --> 0:25:52.440 So if there's no process in which look, we're sure 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:55.879 this person is upside mind, we're doing this evaluation. We 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:59.000 check them every weekly, he comes in, we have conversations. 0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:00.920