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Speaker 1: Nome Hello Lauren Hogan, Well, good afternoon, Flame Monroe. How
Speaker 1: are you. I'm pretty good? Hello, Flame. It's welcome to
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Speaker 1: Lauren Hogan. As you can see, we are dressed in
Speaker 1: all black. We're not ready to the battle, but we're
Speaker 1: ready to talk about it. And we're feeling our blackness today. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: to hey, I'm feeling very black. So if y'all hear
Speaker 1: me a little a b W A b he we
Speaker 1: yeah to abe he we come angry black, angry black
Speaker 1: because I'm sinking a bull of ship. But we want
Speaker 1: you to come on there, Lauren, what you've been You've
Speaker 1: been gone now I'm tired. I was in Atlanta travels
Speaker 1: picking up. I just got back yesterday, and you know,
Speaker 1: I traveled all the time. I'm used to it, but
Speaker 1: this this trip kind of kicked my butt a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to get acclimated again on West Coast
Speaker 1: time because my body is in between. Let me ask
Speaker 1: your question, because about traveling, do you think it's because
Speaker 1: you're not consistently travel because your other job usually have
Speaker 1: as you consistently travel, you think the breaks in between
Speaker 1: make you be like, oh, I forget what to do
Speaker 1: because you ain't traveling as much. Maybe, but it's picking
Speaker 1: back up again. I had a little break because I
Speaker 1: canceled a couple of trips, so I didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: travel for like a whole month. And maybe maybe that's
Speaker 1: what it is. I don't know, because who the travel
Speaker 1: schedule is getting a little real. Yeah, yeah, I traveled
Speaker 1: this week too. I went to Oakland, Hey, Oakland, back Oakland.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Victavian Jackson for a wonderful time. He had
Speaker 1: a great party. But baby Oakland and meeting I'm good good,
Speaker 1: Baby Oakness. It's a nice place to visit, but that
Speaker 1: can't go. Listen. Mom was born and raised in New York.
Speaker 1: New York is my second home. All families there we
Speaker 1: know all about the can't go and thank you for acknowledge.
Speaker 1: It's fully a label hole. Let me just she is
Speaker 1: a full don't let me go and get the biggest
Speaker 1: I did not call your I said a label hope.
Speaker 1: Really distinct difference, not even h o E a label hole.
Speaker 1: Were glad to be back, though kid our boy Kid
Speaker 1: was here saying he lokendo we even kid the money.
Speaker 1: I ain't been working two weeks. Last week I went
Speaker 1: out with a showcase for Netflix and then I had
Speaker 1: to do Seeing the End with Pamela Brown, which was great,
Speaker 1: But right after that I had to go do a
Speaker 1: comedy show. I was sick with the cold. Guess what
Speaker 1: I did. Took my U glass to work and made
Speaker 1: it work and get a part to stand ovation. I
Speaker 1: think I have about ninety six percent of the room
Speaker 1: on their feet with the code. Voice was so deep
Speaker 1: you thought I was very white and a dressed what
Speaker 1: was it? It was shocking a couple of times because
Speaker 1: that said, that's a lot of base. I had a code,
Speaker 1: you know that code didn't care, but no, damn have
Speaker 1: picture on the low pictures like I'm here to stay.
Speaker 1: But I bustled through because let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: My name was on the my key and on the
Speaker 1: bal board. And if you cancel on white people, white
Speaker 1: people will cancel you. All I can think about was
Speaker 1: because you don't want to get canceled you and you
Speaker 1: got started yet. So we made it. We made it
Speaker 1: work because I am a professional sometimes and yeah, well
Speaker 1: I went to work. But now we are here, We
Speaker 1: are here. I wanted to start off talking about in
Speaker 1: the news. We're gonna get to the to the heavy stuff,
Speaker 1: but let's start off and say, didn't I tell you
Speaker 1: all that that Elon mus ship was a smoke screen. Listen,
Speaker 1: there's the dealers on hold. The dealers on hold because
Speaker 1: they got they got too many recalls on TESTA. He
Speaker 1: to fix that with those investors before he can come
Speaker 1: up with that forty four billion. I'm wondering. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Because all of a sudden, it's like,
Speaker 1: are the funds not there. He's we know that he's
Speaker 1: a billionaire, we know that he's rich, but what's going
Speaker 1: on that all of a sudden, the deals on being
Speaker 1: rich on paper and having and being cash rich. It's
Speaker 1: called being a house poor and cash now house rich
Speaker 1: and cash poor, which means that it may look rich
Speaker 1: on paper, but you might not have that tangible forty
Speaker 1: four billion dollars in cash. Saying that you have the
Speaker 1: forty four being with assets and everything. Ain't like having
Speaker 1: forty four billion dollars in your hand, you know. That
Speaker 1: is so I think what the smoke screen was. I
Speaker 1: think the overplay for the other play was that he
Speaker 1: put that out there so he can get other investors
Speaker 1: to jump in on this with him, because the the
Speaker 1: ultimate play was to get Marjorie Taylor Green and Trump
Speaker 1: back on Twitter so the division and this country can
Speaker 1: get greater for the two and four elections that are
Speaker 1: right upon us. Listen, are we talking about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just the just the election. I was watching you know,
Speaker 1: MSNBC because you know, it feels like now I had
Speaker 1: a break, I felt comfortable. Now I'm back to watching
Speaker 1: MSNBC every day, and the polls are just terrible. You know,
Speaker 1: Democrats aren't doing well. Republicans really aren't doing well either.
Speaker 1: They're doing about five percent better than Democrats. But I'm
Speaker 1: concerned about all these seats. You know, Ohio just you know,
Speaker 1: elected that Republican front runner who you know, it's just
Speaker 1: a racist, was talking about shooting Mexicans and his um ads.
Speaker 1: Dr oz is the front runner for the primary in
Speaker 1: um Pennsylvania. And you know, there's also elections happening in
Speaker 1: North Carolina. You know, l A. We have our first
Speaker 1: mayoral election in the middle of an election cycle in June,
Speaker 1: and Rick Caruso has spent you know, over twenty four
Speaker 1: million dollars in TV ads. So you can't watch any
Speaker 1: type of news in l A without seeing a Rick
Speaker 1: Caruso ad. And he's anti abortion, pro Trump the whole thing,
Speaker 1: but is running as like a Democrat. Well that that
Speaker 1: is the new overplay for the underplay. A lot of
Speaker 1: the Republicans are running under the Democratic Party ticket, but
Speaker 1: they still have the Republican values of Joe Mansion for one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: who not? What's the one name from West Virginia is Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you look at me. I ain't even had one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling it. I think my week too tight? Uh,
Speaker 1: it is it? Girl? How are we gonna win? How?
Speaker 1: How are we going to win? Long with people tell
Speaker 1: the other people the whold they vote, and I love
Speaker 1: what you always say. If the vote was not so important,
Speaker 1: if the black vote and the brown vote was not
Speaker 1: so important, why would they keep trying to implement new
Speaker 1: voting laws. I'm telling you all your votes, mad at
Speaker 1: your vote counts, and you need to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and honestly, with you know, them closing down certain polling
Speaker 1: places in you know, black neighborhoods, it's a scary time
Speaker 1: to say the least. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: seats that are up on Democratic and G O P side,
Speaker 1: and um one is a state a state Senate seat
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. Yeah, the Democrat and that seat is actually retiring.
Speaker 1: So it's uh. I don't think the Democrats should be
Speaker 1: allowed to retire. I think we need to die in
Speaker 1: offense now. I think they need to retire. We need
Speaker 1: some fresh blood because they don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of old white men that are sitting
Speaker 1: in Congress, that are sitting in the Senate, and they
Speaker 1: need to go they need to go. Well, since we're
Speaker 1: talking about what's his name from Kentucky Turkey nick oh, um,
Speaker 1: that's not what's his name? Mitch McConnell needs to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll give me that to go. Well. M McConnell just
Speaker 1: got reelected, Linda Graham just got re elected. Um, I
Speaker 1: think Ted cruise Is seat is up in two years,
Speaker 1: so they've got some time. And I find it interesting
Speaker 1: too that all of these previous pro Trumpers like Liz Cheney,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, she's calling the GOP white
Speaker 1: supremacists and that they need to renounce white supremacy and
Speaker 1: all these other things and anti semitism. So it's interesting.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting time. Since we are you didn't open
Speaker 1: up the door, that's gonna be the whole show any day. Way,
Speaker 1: Lauren opened Lauren Hogan and opened up the door to
Speaker 1: the white supremacy. Speaking of white supremacies, white supremacists Saturday,
Speaker 1: I don't even know the nigga's name. And I said
Speaker 1: just what I said, the nigga's name, the white man,
Speaker 1: the white man, because you'll want to say he a boy,
Speaker 1: and now y'all want to say he mentally served the
Speaker 1: white man who was born in the house of racism,
Speaker 1: who was grew up growing raised by racists. I don't
Speaker 1: give a funk. What did nobody else say that y'all
Speaker 1: want to say that he was mentally challenged, that he
Speaker 1: drove four hours, two hundred miles with an assault rifle,
Speaker 1: planned it, plotted it out, wrote a whole manifesto of
Speaker 1: what he was going to do. Y'all had him up
Speaker 1: under your radar a year ago when he wanted to
Speaker 1: shoot up the school. Nothing transpired from that. Y'all could
Speaker 1: have stopped this long before it happened. And on the
Speaker 1: other side, he drove to a nice black neighborhood, nice calm,
Speaker 1: older black people, affluent neighborhood. And it was a poor neighborhood,
Speaker 1: but it was just nice working class people. He went
Speaker 1: up in the grocery store on a Saturday afternoon and
Speaker 1: shot and killed. I think he shot eleven people and
Speaker 1: ten died. Yeah, And before y'all get to Holland, he
Speaker 1: was mentally challenged, and he grew up in a broken home.
Speaker 1: Got damnit look in the mirror, so did I. And
Speaker 1: before you come at me an argument where he was
Speaker 1: broken up here, grew up in a home. Both of
Speaker 1: his parents are engineers. He grew up in a full
Speaker 1: on home. And if any kids are gonna be messed
Speaker 1: up in this country, let me start with man. They
Speaker 1: grew up with a father that's transgendered. I got titties.
Speaker 1: I walk around with women's clothes on to make money,
Speaker 1: and I dressed up as a woman, and my children
Speaker 1: have known this. So my children are racist. I didn't
Speaker 1: raise those children to be racist. I didn't raise my
Speaker 1: children to be hateful. I raised them to meet people
Speaker 1: where they were and don't like nobody that don't like you.
Speaker 1: So don't come at me sideways with no excuse about
Speaker 1: what he did not have, because then I'm a tell
Speaker 1: you what my children did not have. But what they
Speaker 1: did have was a responsible parent. Those are irresponsible parents.
Speaker 1: Y'all need to go out to the parents, stop take
Speaker 1: their home, take everything from them. Because he ain't learned
Speaker 1: the nigger word from the Jefferson is a good times
Speaker 1: all in the family. They don't show that numb moore,
Speaker 1: he said at the Denter table, and learn that word all.
Speaker 1: They hate that he knows he learned eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: And you hate like that. Oh, I agree, and The
Speaker 1: interesting thing is yesterday, like I said, I just got
Speaker 1: back from Atlanta and I went out, me and my
Speaker 1: dad went to go have sushi together, and we were
Speaker 1: sitting at the table. There was this white family who
Speaker 1: directly across from us. There was this little girl that
Speaker 1: was sitting in her hot chair and she kept turning
Speaker 1: around and smiling at me and looking at me and waving,
Speaker 1: and you could tell, not that the parents were uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: but you could just tell it was like, oh, like,
Speaker 1: you know, there was some apprehension to make sure it
Speaker 1: was okay, you know, and then you know if she
Speaker 1: kept looking at us, but she was so sweet, you know,
Speaker 1: and she was laughing and wanting to play and interact,
Speaker 1: and it was just that's the prime example of how
Speaker 1: racism is just to learn behavior. Because you got these
Speaker 1: babies that are is happy, they want to engage with you.
Speaker 1: They're not looking at the color of your skin, They're
Speaker 1: looking at you as a person. But racism is truly
Speaker 1: a learned behavior. And I hope wholeheartedly agree. There was
Speaker 1: three different incidents actually this weekend. There was also an
Speaker 1: incident in Orange County in California, Laguna um Woods, and
Speaker 1: then there was I forgot what city had happened in,
Speaker 1: but three Koreans were killed. Three Korean women were killed too,
Speaker 1: So that was a bad black man too. Well, it
Speaker 1: is it is just marching and protesting, ain't doing nothing.
Speaker 1: They killed ten black people and in the y'all keep
Speaker 1: holland we don't want y'all in that neighborhood. They were
Speaker 1: in their own neighborhood. This man drove all these mouths
Speaker 1: to this neighborhood because in his head he was fucked up.
Speaker 1: He was an empty, broken person. He's an ignorant nigger.
Speaker 1: I see what I said. And if he got this
Speaker 1: much hate and he's eighteen, this thing just starting the
Speaker 1: researching this, and I've been researching that he was only
Speaker 1: Internet up under all of these militant girls. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he watched Tego cossing every day. He also was a
Speaker 1: huge Trump supporter. Trump did not release the racist, but
Speaker 1: he let made all the roaches and rats come out
Speaker 1: the crevices. They were in their own corner of the world,
Speaker 1: living their life, doing what they were doing. But he
Speaker 1: has made it so open. And this is the man
Speaker 1: that y'all think about trying to put back in the office.
Speaker 1: He was also the same president as that said he
Speaker 1: wasn't leaving when he lost and did not leave for
Speaker 1: what a month? Well, he he left when he had
Speaker 1: to leave, yes, But but the mere fact that he
Speaker 1: said that and he stayed longer than he was supposed
Speaker 1: to and then all these missing documents are coming up
Speaker 1: that he took all these legal documents that he was
Speaker 1: supposed to turn in and now they're missing. Supposed that
Speaker 1: Mara lago. But this is the man you'll want to
Speaker 1: put back in the office. Y'all got to do better
Speaker 1: as a people by voting. Y'all got to make sure
Speaker 1: that all your ads are died and all your teas
Speaker 1: across and again with Laurence said that was a great
Speaker 1: example of that kids are not born racist. Racism is
Speaker 1: a learned behavior because little kids just see other people.
Speaker 1: They wore human contact and human cut touch. Just like
Speaker 1: the little six year ol white boy. Did you see
Speaker 1: that that went bamming on the people? He is not
Speaker 1: I would have belt and took him to his mom
Speaker 1: and daddy house and say this ain't what y'all. Y'all
Speaker 1: ain't doing your job, so he won't do this to
Speaker 1: my house. And well, I whooped his ask, well, that
Speaker 1: father was well, the father was arrested and for like
Speaker 1: criminal conduct, but that father was arrested. You know the
Speaker 1: thing that trips me up about white people. They always
Speaker 1: get mad and try to say that, you know, go
Speaker 1: back where you came from. I wonder if they really like,
Speaker 1: grasp or fathom the fact that y'all weren't born here.
Speaker 1: Maybe y'all should take your own advice because your ancestors
Speaker 1: were not here. Y'all were not Native Americans. So the
Speaker 1: fact that you'll keep telling us to go back to
Speaker 1: where we are and they need to y'all were not
Speaker 1: born here. Y'all immigrated here. My response for telling us
Speaker 1: to go back to where we came from. Show up
Speaker 1: with a bill of sale and we out of here,
Speaker 1: because the only person who takes you back without a
Speaker 1: receipt is Northern reck and y'all didn't get us from
Speaker 1: Northern y'all care to Africans stole us? You cannot return
Speaker 1: stolen goods one more time. Show me the bill of
Speaker 1: sale and I go back. You purchased my ancests because
Speaker 1: you ain't purchased it, you stole. It's just baffling to me, honestly,
Speaker 1: It's really baffling to me, the just the sense of
Speaker 1: entitlement and the fact that, oh, I'm supposed to be here,
Speaker 1: and y'all was, you know, escaping religious persecution and came
Speaker 1: over here, but you brought diseases, you know, famine, everything
Speaker 1: else and destroyed this country and then couldn't build upon
Speaker 1: it and couldn't create an economy. So you went and
Speaker 1: stole us because you couldn't do what your damnselves and
Speaker 1: got the nerve to have an attitude talk about go
Speaker 1: back where you came from. We initially don't want to
Speaker 1: come here in the first damn place, but we're here now,
Speaker 1: and I ain't going nowhere, honey, I got welfare, Section
Speaker 1: A E B T. I ain't going No, it is,
Speaker 1: it is. It's so scary loring. And then this man
Speaker 1: come out with the gun that I'm just talking about,
Speaker 1: the NaIO dad, and shoot the gun. I'm gonna shot
Speaker 1: his own kid. The daughter was gone. Your daughter was
Speaker 1: like behind a gun and children Because I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, it's just ridiculous. That's why he got arrested.
Speaker 1: But the little look at the what now, so what
Speaker 1: is this little boy gonna become at eighteen. He's now
Speaker 1: now like this, what will he do at a team
Speaker 1: at sixteen? America? Keep sending the wrong message, even we're
Speaker 1: written how shooting up the people? Y'all sent the wrong message.
Speaker 1: So now all the copycat killers. And that is my
Speaker 1: biggest fear, the copycat killers, because I've seen this guy
Speaker 1: shoot ten black people? Can I do more? What can
Speaker 1: I do to make the news? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: A long and we as black people, we are keep
Speaker 1: oh another one. We're not We're not making it a
Speaker 1: big deal. We have to make it a big deal.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it is that we're just tired.
Speaker 1: I'm tired. I'm tired of waking up. I'm tired of protesting,
Speaker 1: but seeing us get killed, like mentally, physically, emotionally, I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that bothers me too, is like,
Speaker 1: you know, any type of hate is unacceptable. But we've
Speaker 1: been doing this for so long, and it's like every
Speaker 1: time something happens, we're expected to just galvanize and to
Speaker 1: just show up and be present. It's tiring. It's so tiring.
Speaker 1: It says our sound is in and out? Is it
Speaker 1: the are you on your WiFi. So I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I hear that. But at the same time, there's just
Speaker 1: we're just expected to keep the wheels turning into just
Speaker 1: keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on, and it's
Speaker 1: it's it's unfair sometimes to just set that expectation because
Speaker 1: out of everybody, we've been fighting the longest, we really have,
Speaker 1: and sometimes we're just tired. We need a moment, we
Speaker 1: really do. And every time some type of hate comes up,
Speaker 1: whether it's eight and um, you know, people being anti
Speaker 1: Asian or anti Semitic, the black people are expected to
Speaker 1: show up because you know, we have the blueprint, we
Speaker 1: know what we're supposed to do. But if the tables
Speaker 1: are turned, the same thing doesn't apply. You know what
Speaker 1: was the most ironic part of that whole situation that
Speaker 1: happened in uh Buffalo, New York. And shout out to
Speaker 1: the people of Buffalo, New York, to the city into
Speaker 1: all the victims and all the victims families because it
Speaker 1: was so tragic and we want to give their names,
Speaker 1: acknowledging all the victims because this coward because what it
Speaker 1: was was a coward ass move. You went to a neighborhood, Hey,
Speaker 1: tweinaky bird. You went to a neighborhood where it's a
Speaker 1: bunch of elderly people. You went to a neighborhood where
Speaker 1: these were just upstanding existed. You ain't went to Compton,
Speaker 1: n You ain't went the Bronx. You didn't go to
Speaker 1: the West Side or the South side of Chicago. You
Speaker 1: didn't go to Detroit of Baltimore. That's when you want
Speaker 1: to prove your man who there's a white person, show
Speaker 1: up in the neighborhoods and see what they give your ass.
Speaker 1: And so the victims names here and long you read
Speaker 1: it because your your your addiction is better than man.
Speaker 1: Celestine Cheney, ROBERTA. Drury to the ages, please okay. Celestine
Speaker 1: Cheney sixty five, ROBERTA. Drury thirty two, Andre McNeil fifty three,
Speaker 1: Katherine Macy seventy two, Marguts D. Morrison fifty two, Hayward
Speaker 1: Patterson sixty seven, Aaron Salter Jr. Who's also retired police officer.
Speaker 1: When there was a feature, Yes, Geraldine Tally sixty two,
Speaker 1: Ruth Whitfield eighty six, and Pearl Young seventy seven. Rest
Speaker 1: in peace to all the victims and shout out to
Speaker 1: all their families, because when you kill one person, you
Speaker 1: don't just kill that one person. It affects so many others,
Speaker 1: so many others, And this was this was a coward
Speaker 1: ass move. It was cowardly to me because cowards where
Speaker 1: it don't take courage to pull a trigger. It takes
Speaker 1: courage to not pull a trigger. You need to be
Speaker 1: at a reason and talk to people. But that's not
Speaker 1: who you all are, because that's not what you can do.
Speaker 1: And you was going to throwing hands. One of them
Speaker 1: old women that you shot and kill probably would have
Speaker 1: beat your ass because old black ladies do not play
Speaker 1: at all. But it's it's let's talk about the trauma
Speaker 1: that happens afterwards. Like we have these isolated incidents, but
Speaker 1: then there's no conversation about the trauma that happens afterwards.
Speaker 1: So we have situations where a black man is pulled over.
Speaker 1: You have to teach your young black kids and black
Speaker 1: you know, females at this point what you do when
Speaker 1: you get pulled over by the police officer. So now
Speaker 1: it's black folks going into a grocery store, we gotta
Speaker 1: be on our p's and Q going into a restaurant,
Speaker 1: going into a church. It's traumatic. It's trauma, and nobody
Speaker 1: talks about the fact that mental health is such a
Speaker 1: big contributing factor when we have to go through all
Speaker 1: of these, you know, tragic events and we are suffering
Speaker 1: from mental health. So before y'all come at me sideways
Speaker 1: and say he had mental health, he didn't have mental health.
Speaker 1: He was a racist who was taught to be to
Speaker 1: be hateful. He was an empty big he was. He
Speaker 1: was an empty person who had nothing. And it's so
Speaker 1: fucking saying and so tragic. And for all you celebrities
Speaker 1: that kept running around holland'all was traumatized because Will Smith
Speaker 1: slapped Chris Rock. That wasn't traumatizing. This is this situation
Speaker 1: is trauma because I didn't heard none of y'all say
Speaker 1: none y'all quiet a church house mouth. I ain't heard
Speaker 1: nobody said it was traumatazed behind this nobody. And if
Speaker 1: you think I'm talking to you, yes, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1: I just honestly need um. I don't know what needs
Speaker 1: to happen, but it just seems like we're on this
Speaker 1: hamster wheel and this perpetual ongoing cycle. Nothing's getting better
Speaker 1: because every time something like this happens. Congress was like, oh,
Speaker 1: we need to have a gun reformed, you know, conversation
Speaker 1: which we have these conversations and nothing ever changes. So
Speaker 1: I just I can't. I'm not going to promote violence.
Speaker 1: I'm not for that. But I am on on that
Speaker 1: self preservation is the first love of nature. You have
Speaker 1: to protect you, your first priority, to protect you and
Speaker 1: your loved ones. That is not telling me to tell
Speaker 1: you to do anything out of sorts, but hear me
Speaker 1: when I tell you that I would rather be with
Speaker 1: some protection than without some protection. Because now they keep saying, well,
Speaker 1: y'all need to stay in your own neighborhood, stay where
Speaker 1: you're safe. Safe. They were in a grocery store where
Speaker 1: people were in the church. They prayed with him, for him,
Speaker 1: and around him and over him, and he still killed
Speaker 1: on none of those people. Uh, Brianna Taylor was safe
Speaker 1: in her bed sleeping. Where can you be saving with
Speaker 1: a lockdoor? They keep the doing and shout and killed
Speaker 1: this woman, the Amber Gaga's victim, I can't think of
Speaker 1: his name. She went in the wrong apartment trying to
Speaker 1: get some dick from somebody else and shot the wrong man.
Speaker 1: Where are we safe? That you are safe when you
Speaker 1: get some safety on you, because guess what, you can
Speaker 1: only that once. But that's what I'm saying. There's so
Speaker 1: much trauma related to all of these isolated incidents, and
Speaker 1: I feel like nobody talks about that. It's just that, oh,
Speaker 1: we're so sad. You see a post on Twitter prayers
Speaker 1: a breast in peace. This is so it's in the
Speaker 1: news cycle for a little bit. But then what about
Speaker 1: after that, the trauma that you're constantly experiencing. Nobody's talking
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, we need some black leaders that will
Speaker 1: help form We need to form some kind of coalition
Speaker 1: or something. And I'm not saying that I'm ready to
Speaker 1: go to war, but I ain't scared of the fight.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm not scared of the fight because listen,
Speaker 1: if I got to do what I got to do
Speaker 1: to protect me a man, that's exactly what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do. I ain't know gangster, I ain't no hardcore thug,
Speaker 1: but I am a human being. And what I am
Speaker 1: as an American, I'm a fucking American. Whatever you think
Speaker 1: I am not, I am an American, born, raised and
Speaker 1: made in America. Because these cities and ass wasn't for free.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. But y'all, some of y'all not, some of y'all.
Speaker 1: Just I don't know why you think that in all
Speaker 1: this we want a pure race. We want a pure
Speaker 1: Arean race. First of all, that that doesn't exist. We
Speaker 1: would have had a pure Area race. Y'all would have
Speaker 1: had a pure Avery race. If you're a great, great,
Speaker 1: great great grass As could have stayed there. Nancy. Nancy
Speaker 1: asses out the slave quarters and the white women want
Speaker 1: to breastfeed their own babies. You do know that there
Speaker 1: is blood and breast milk. There is nothing pure in
Speaker 1: this country. Nothing. Everything is mixed, and everything is mostly
Speaker 1: mixed with African. We are the originators. Everything is mostly
Speaker 1: mixed with Africa. And if you want your white daughters
Speaker 1: to stop sleeping with black men, tell them stop going
Speaker 1: to the sports games. Because all you need to have
Speaker 1: on a jersey, basketball, football, baseball, soccer, hockey ship lacross
Speaker 1: they're gonna give it up. Cassie. Hello, how's how's every thing?
Speaker 1: Everything is wonderful, Everything was wonderful. It brings me my
Speaker 1: heart pain to hear you read off um everyone who
Speaker 1: was murdered. He just thirty eight to eighty six. I believe,
Speaker 1: I mean, and then I just yeah, and tragically. I
Speaker 1: have the video and I would share and show the
Speaker 1: video because they took it down, but I have the
Speaker 1: actual video where he taped it and everything. But it's
Speaker 1: so disheardening for people to see, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to put that in people's psyche. Hey, Terry, my darling,
Speaker 1: I don't want to put that in people's psyche because
Speaker 1: everybody hasn't seen it, and some people can't deal with it.
Speaker 1: It is. It's a lot. I had some nightmares last night.
Speaker 1: I saw the video. He said. I usually don't watch
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, but I watched it, and I
Speaker 1: just my heart, My heart was grieving. It's just like
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of my grandma. I'm thinking of my aunt,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of my sister's my you know, everyone that
Speaker 1: was murdered by this sense was killing like straight up.
Speaker 1: He was groomed up, racist. It's it's kind of surreal
Speaker 1: to watch it because it looks like a video game.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look real. And now, you know, even though
Speaker 1: I know it was very real, and I'm not giving
Speaker 1: this man a pass. That all fun this clown, but
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if if, if that played a part in
Speaker 1: his psyche, that in his head, that he thought that
Speaker 1: it was an actual video game and he lived it
Speaker 1: out because some of these kids we have no, I
Speaker 1: don't think it was that. I know he was complete
Speaker 1: on racist because even the guns said, this is your reparations, niggers.
Speaker 1: The end of his gun said that. But then the office,
Speaker 1: the arresting officer, the officer with the handcuff him, had
Speaker 1: all kind of swatskas and shipped on his arm, So
Speaker 1: how can we win? Was that confirmed? If you looked
Speaker 1: at the news, you can see the ship on his
Speaker 1: arm when he put his arm out. Okay, because I
Speaker 1: know people were asking, like they were saying, we would
Speaker 1: love to see what was actually on his arms. So
Speaker 1: were those tattoos confirmed? Yeah, they had the tattoos on
Speaker 1: his arm? Hello, gorgeous twinky, How are you hello? Mclan
Speaker 1: Put the mica over here, I mean the headphones over here.
Speaker 1: I can hear over there. How are you? Twin keys? Are?
Speaker 1: I am? I would have greater days, better days, better spirits.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm angry, I'm frustrated, I'm mad. I want to retaliate,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to be stopped by the police
Speaker 1: because I do not think that it will end well
Speaker 1: for me. Let me be very honest and very transparent
Speaker 1: right now, because they won't see my transgender, they won't
Speaker 1: see my LGBT. All they're gonna see is that I'm black. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. Yeah. Yeah. This man was arrested without incident.
Speaker 1: He videotaped his his whole debacle. That it was methodical,
Speaker 1: he plotted and playing in skiing and put this out
Speaker 1: and then y'all allow him to come to court and
Speaker 1: plead not guilty. What the funk are we even having
Speaker 1: a trial for I'm still wondering why he's alive, right,
Speaker 1: because how did that even? How did that even happen?
Speaker 1: Especially with the weapon here, I mean, come on, like
Speaker 1: he's full on through thee I mean you should have
Speaker 1: just took him out, like the double standard is through
Speaker 1: the roof. And um, it's going to be some time.
Speaker 1: Uh it's it's time now for us to get uncomfortable
Speaker 1: because Uh, our ancestors did it. They were uncomfortable for
Speaker 1: three d and eighty two days and brought down the
Speaker 1: Montgomery bus system. It's time for us to get uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: We're playing games now we just think that social we
Speaker 1: think social media is actually it's a tool. It is not.
Speaker 1: It's not an actual boycott. It's not an it's not
Speaker 1: hitting them where they live financially, it's not. They're playing
Speaker 1: games with us. They're playing games with us. Don't give
Speaker 1: me that one more more, not one more trinket. I
Speaker 1: don't need another trinket. I don't need another person in
Speaker 1: in front of the camera to represent something. Right now,
Speaker 1: we need some legislation, we need reparations. We need uh
Speaker 1: anti lynching. We need more than an anti lynching bill.
Speaker 1: We need We needed to go big. It's it's it
Speaker 1: takes take care of take care of those white supremacist
Speaker 1: groups and get rid of them, dismantle them. They got
Speaker 1: rid of our people who were doing good, who were
Speaker 1: bringing food programs to our neighborhoods, who are educating our youth,
Speaker 1: who were taking care of our homeless and our women.
Speaker 1: But these white supremacists that they're everywhere. So either they're
Speaker 1: doing the job that you want them to do, or
Speaker 1: you get rid of them. And and he's such a
Speaker 1: coward move you you go to a place where most
Speaker 1: of these people were, there's a food desert so all
Speaker 1: of them were there shopping for their neighborhoods and for
Speaker 1: the people, their loved ones, in order they have fresh
Speaker 1: fruit and vegetables for their own homes, for their own
Speaker 1: for their own bodies, for the nourishment of their bodies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And in as much as I appreciate the government of
Speaker 1: New York speaking and saying we're not going to tolerate
Speaker 1: this and move, I don't want this neign to be
Speaker 1: charged with a federal hate cramp. I want him to
Speaker 1: go to a state prison and do state time with
Speaker 1: state boys and unders. Seeing me, they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: handle his ass, I would hope. So we're still waiting
Speaker 1: on them to handle the other people. I'm angry, and
Speaker 1: I'm frustrated, and I'm afraid, and I'm my back is
Speaker 1: to the wall, and I have children that's eighteen and
Speaker 1: nineteen years old. I'm transgender. I got so many minuses
Speaker 1: at me. But the plus is, I'm not gonna live
Speaker 1: my life in fear. I'm not going to live You're
Speaker 1: not going to intimidate me or shake me or make
Speaker 1: me afraid. I will retaliate and I will stand up
Speaker 1: for myself, even if that means my life. And I
Speaker 1: mean that because I can only that one time. I
Speaker 1: think it's really caused me to really be mindful. Like
Speaker 1: I was at the gym today and I positioned myself
Speaker 1: so I can see the door, and every time someone
Speaker 1: came in, I'm looking to see what you're looking like.
Speaker 1: And so I'm on the treadmill, but I'm looking, Okay,
Speaker 1: how is this person looking? So you're just really on
Speaker 1: high and learning because you don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: you don't know. And this is how we have to
Speaker 1: in with our heads on a swivel. Yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: we have to live in defense mode all the time,
Speaker 1: always ready, all the time. And what does that do
Speaker 1: to you? Post traumatic disorder, stress disorder. You're stressed out
Speaker 1: because you always got your guard up. You're knuckled up
Speaker 1: all the time. Angry black people are angry black women.
Speaker 1: We have a right to be angry. We are always
Speaker 1: on high fucking alert. We are always on high alert.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be on highler. I would like
Speaker 1: to be able to walk down the street and not
Speaker 1: worry about somebody walking past me and looking at me
Speaker 1: because of the color of my skin and saying that
Speaker 1: they hate me, you nigger. You don't know me. He
Speaker 1: I don't know you. I hate you back, but I'm
Speaker 1: to retaliate. I'm not gonna try to hurt you. I
Speaker 1: don't live my life to hurt people. I hope, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping I'm having people agreed. And you are. You're such
Speaker 1: a beacon. You are such a beacon of light, saying
Speaker 1: thank you. I'll tell you something. I got some beacons
Speaker 1: with me, and I'm not promoting violent but self preservation
Speaker 1: is the first live of nature. And if you cross
Speaker 1: this land, baby, it's with me too. And I'm not
Speaker 1: leaving home without them. I was at a comedy event
Speaker 1: on Saturday night, and I was looking at all the
Speaker 1: exits at a comedy event just because the place was
Speaker 1: full of black people. That's how I have to live,
Speaker 1: That's how we have to live there. Well, I can
Speaker 1: be honest. I don't like going into movie theaters anymore
Speaker 1: because I don't feel safe going into a movie theater.
Speaker 1: I think i'd rather just watch it when it comes
Speaker 1: out on regular TV, or if I could stream it somewhere.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go into a movie theater because
Speaker 1: I always feel like I don't know what's about to happen,
Speaker 1: is somebody walking in here. Security is not that great,
Speaker 1: they're not you know, there's no metal detectors. When you
Speaker 1: go into a movie theater, it's dark, you know, and
Speaker 1: the exits aren't always in the most prime spots if
Speaker 1: you're sitting at the top, like, there's just certain places
Speaker 1: that I just don't want to go to anymore. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. Sadly. It's sadly when and if, because there
Speaker 1: will come a day that we will have to get
Speaker 1: on our hand legs and retaliate to stand up for ourselves.
Speaker 1: When it kicks off, it's going to be we gotta
Speaker 1: stop running as black people. We gotta start running to
Speaker 1: get labels and Gucci. We gotta go get Ammo and
Speaker 1: be prepared for whatever's going to happen in this country.
Speaker 1: It's not like it has not happened before. It will
Speaker 1: happen again, and it will be it'll be magnanimous because
Speaker 1: of the weapons that we have now. They didn't have
Speaker 1: these weapons of destruction back when they had the Civil War.
Speaker 1: We got weapons of destruction now. And look how easy
Speaker 1: it is to get this nigga eighteen years old. They
Speaker 1: need to strip his mom and dad of everything because
Speaker 1: that nigga ain't learning the nigger word and hate watching
Speaker 1: Good Times and the Jeffersons that ship don't come out
Speaker 1: on the more he set at his dinner table with
Speaker 1: his parents. They need to take their homes, their livelihood,
Speaker 1: stripped them of everything, because if you're gonna keep raising
Speaker 1: hate for racist children, it will never stop. It will
Speaker 1: never stop. Well, I mean that's how I feel at
Speaker 1: this point. I don't think that racism is racism is
Speaker 1: ever gonna end in this country. It's not. It's just
Speaker 1: the stain that we have that we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: constantly live with. And how he was able to get
Speaker 1: hands on that calibra of a weapon is just beyond me.
Speaker 1: I know, picking up a shotgun like at like a
Speaker 1: like a gun show, But that calibrale weapon belongs in
Speaker 1: the in the military, not in the civiliar. Well, Minnesota
Speaker 1: sent the wrong message when they gave Kyl Riddenhouse a pass.
Speaker 1: See did we keep sending the wrong messages? Even with
Speaker 1: the ship with Dave Chappelle two weeks ago? They sent
Speaker 1: the wrong man. They should have charged the young man.
Speaker 1: They should have charged Cayl Riddinghouse with full on murder.
Speaker 1: They send the wrong message to say you can do
Speaker 1: this and get away with it. And the copycat killer
Speaker 1: is gonna get it hell out of me because he
Speaker 1: did tear The next person gonna want to do fifteen
Speaker 1: or twenty because they keep trying to outdo each other.
Speaker 1: We just happened to be the collateral damage in the
Speaker 1: middle until we stand up and shoot back. When we
Speaker 1: fight back, then we're gonna be looked at your vigilante.
Speaker 1: Call me whatever the funk you want to, but call
Speaker 1: me a laugh. We gotta fight back, but we also
Speaker 1: gotta turning these juries too, like people don't kind of
Speaker 1: jury that these people are getting our, you know, And
Speaker 1: so we gotta learn how to work the system on
Speaker 1: how to be able to get picks to go on
Speaker 1: jury duty. I'm very affilionated. I never get picked, so
Speaker 1: I gotta learn how to just calm down and get
Speaker 1: picked so I could be able to be there for
Speaker 1: whatever it may need to happen. That's the thing. We're
Speaker 1: not on any side of the wain fighting back wing,
Speaker 1: serving on the jury whatn't and voting serve on the
Speaker 1: on the jury's voting, and being very focused on the voting.
Speaker 1: I got a text message about voting for who is
Speaker 1: this person? In l A. Got a text message They
Speaker 1: said would you can we count on you to vote?
Speaker 1: And I said, where's his record? I went all the
Speaker 1: way to the record, went all the way through. I said, no,
Speaker 1: you cannot count on me to vote because he wants
Speaker 1: more police in Los Angeles and we're black and brown
Speaker 1: are already being Our police is military. So no, you
Speaker 1: cannot count on my vote. Oh well, if you change
Speaker 1: your mind, I will not be changing my mind until
Speaker 1: he changes his stance. Period. Stop texting me. I do
Speaker 1: the same thing. I respond to those people that want
Speaker 1: me to get to vote for those other uh right
Speaker 1: wing especially they always get my phone numb and I
Speaker 1: always respond and say nope, I will be voting for
Speaker 1: such and such. I would tell you what I respond
Speaker 1: when I get those, but this is a family show.
Speaker 1: I sit back horrible ship so they won't keep coming
Speaker 1: at me. I've been sitting back the worst ship I do.
Speaker 1: I'm a horrible person. I'm a terrible person. I love it.
Speaker 1: I want to ask this group of question that we
Speaker 1: have here, Twinky. I saw you put some comments in
Speaker 1: the chat talking about we need to get comfortable with
Speaker 1: being uncomfortable in essence, and we hear that phrase a lot,
Speaker 1: but I'm curious to see what that means from your
Speaker 1: various perspectives. So, Cassie, you, but also Twinkie, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts. We're gonna have to pull back. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to pull all the way back. It's something that, uh,
Speaker 1: that we're not comfortable with, but that is something that
Speaker 1: our ancestors did. I I wrote a film, co wrote
Speaker 1: a film with the Reverend Jesse Jackson's daughter Ashley Jackson,
Speaker 1: and it was called The Counter nineteen sixty and it
Speaker 1: was about our youth going back in time to sit
Speaker 1: at the lunch counter in nineteen six because our you
Speaker 1: think they're different. I am not my ancestors. It won't
Speaker 1: go down like that. Well you okay, you're you're in
Speaker 1: their shoes. Now you're in their shoes right now. It
Speaker 1: is not about your ancestors. Now you're in their shoes
Speaker 1: right now. What are you going to do? What are
Speaker 1: you also going to do without? Can you do without
Speaker 1: that party? Can you do without those shoes? Can you
Speaker 1: do without that event? Can you do without that new phone?
Speaker 1: Can you do without the things? Can you be uncomfortable
Speaker 1: for a month, six months a year because we can
Speaker 1: bring them down. But we've got a galvanize and we
Speaker 1: have got to get uncomfortable. If they've made it so comfortable,
Speaker 1: now we're so comfortable we think that. You know, activism
Speaker 1: is like I hit it. I like what you said.
Speaker 1: So that was my activism. No, it's going to be
Speaker 1: an action. It's going to be an activation. It is
Speaker 1: going to be a stop shopping here, stop eating there,
Speaker 1: stop using this, stop watching that. It is going to
Speaker 1: be a blackout, and I need it. I wish we
Speaker 1: had a call to arms, Twinky Berry where we had
Speaker 1: somebody standing in a position of power, somebody that looked
Speaker 1: like us and thought like us and spoke for us
Speaker 1: because they think like us and look like us, to
Speaker 1: make us do that. Because we've been saying that to
Speaker 1: how much power the black dollar has, but so many
Speaker 1: people don't take it serious. We have a lot of
Speaker 1: power with our money. We just need to work it
Speaker 1: to make it work for us. Done always pushes. If
Speaker 1: the vote wasn't so important, they wouldn't be trying to
Speaker 1: take it away from us. This is where I pushed
Speaker 1: on my children, get your ass up. They got their
Speaker 1: papers over there, and make them go with me when
Speaker 1: I vote. They need to know how important it is because,
Speaker 1: like you said, I'm paying respect to my ancestors. This
Speaker 1: is what this is your if I'm dead and gone,
Speaker 1: this is how you honor me. You get your ass
Speaker 1: up and you go vote. You can go to a party,
Speaker 1: you can run to the store, you can go hang
Speaker 1: out with your friends. You can go vote and respect
Speaker 1: for me as your dad because I do it, because
Speaker 1: my grand of they used to do it. So this
Speaker 1: is but it is all a learning process, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people, black people and some brown people don't
Speaker 1: teach their kids that if you need to learn at home,
Speaker 1: just like with finances, had I known better as a
Speaker 1: kid about how to handle money and control money, I
Speaker 1: would be in a much better position. But nobody taught me.
Speaker 1: I didn't learn until I got much older about the
Speaker 1: value and what money can does and the power that
Speaker 1: it has. We have to start getting in here when
Speaker 1: they're young and getting in their minds and then their
Speaker 1: spirit to teach them. We don't have a leader right
Speaker 1: now that we look forward to. We're not a male leader,
Speaker 1: and they just disregard the females, not because they're black,
Speaker 1: just because they're females. This country is so damn sexist. Well,
Speaker 1: I just feel like at this point, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to maybe um rethink that because if we look at
Speaker 1: you know, history, every time we had that person that
Speaker 1: could speak up for the community, you know, the government
Speaker 1: made sure that they were either you know, assassinated, murdered,
Speaker 1: or just died under mysterious circumstances. So we can't rely
Speaker 1: on that. I feel like at this point, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a rainbow coalition to get this together
Speaker 1: or what, but I just feel like the strategy is
Speaker 1: gonna have to shift because we know those paths, practices,
Speaker 1: those people are gonna be taken out because they don't
Speaker 1: want that. So we we're gonna have to do something
Speaker 1: a little different if we're going to really see some
Speaker 1: type of difference, because I really feel like that at
Speaker 1: this point we are on a perpetual hamster wheel. I'm
Speaker 1: seeing what my grandfather saw, I'm seeing what my great
Speaker 1: grandmother saw. She's a hundred and two, She's lived through
Speaker 1: every major event in this country. Damn there, you know,
Speaker 1: so we gotta do something a little different. I agree
Speaker 1: with Twinkie. I'm sorry, miss Twinky. I agree with that,
Speaker 1: um that we have to get uncomfortable. I mean, we
Speaker 1: were uncomfortable for a little while, was on quarantine, and
Speaker 1: now we're out. We're not out of the pandemic, but
Speaker 1: we're out of quarantine. And so it's like, no, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be uncomfortable. Yes, we need to be uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: We need to stop everything that you said. I come
Speaker 1: in full agreement. I don't gotta repeat everything that you
Speaker 1: just said, but I come in full agreement. We need
Speaker 1: to be uncomfortable. It takes action. It does. We have
Speaker 1: to move forward and steps backwards. We have to start
Speaker 1: creating a list. We need to start creating a list.
Speaker 1: We need to start pulling back. I mean in a
Speaker 1: real way on here, actually bank at a black bank,
Speaker 1: real talk talk, thirty six people on here, right, you know,
Speaker 1: let me be honest. I don't, right, I do, but
Speaker 1: I also have other banks, but I'm I need to
Speaker 1: be it in black bank. Absolutely, You're absolutely right. So
Speaker 1: I mean we have to be uncomfortable. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: have the same you know, interest rates, but it's a
Speaker 1: black own bank. So we're giving back, we're helping we're
Speaker 1: lifting up, we're voting, we're gift going on jury duty,
Speaker 1: we're taking time off going. You're like, we're moving, we're
Speaker 1: making things happen. But we don't want to be uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: We don't want to walk like our ancestors didn't and
Speaker 1: boycott the buses and stop spending money and no, because
Speaker 1: we want to finer things in life. We want to
Speaker 1: look like we're doing as well as we're really not. Exactly,
Speaker 1: it's the trappings. It's the trappings. It's the trappings of success.
Speaker 1: And there's it's it's the prison. And there's a prison
Speaker 1: of fame, the prison of fame. No one wants to
Speaker 1: talk because they're in what a prison? They're famous, so
Speaker 1: they don't want to Well, I mean, oh, I could say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: now it's being filmed. That's my activism. I just said
Speaker 1: on national television. Racism exists, it always has, it's just
Speaker 1: now being filmed. Huh. That's all You've got to say.
Speaker 1: You have this national internationals that's really so. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't look to you can't look to celebrity to
Speaker 1: be leaders leaders either. We have got to do it ourselves.
Speaker 1: We've got to do it ourselves. It is the mirror.
Speaker 1: That's the person you gotta please, that's the person you
Speaker 1: gotta that's the person you gotta like. But I hate
Speaker 1: that these so many big names celebrities would tell people
Speaker 1: to hold their vote, and we are so easily distracted
Speaker 1: by that. It is so it's more black millionaires now
Speaker 1: then it has ever been. But we can't band together
Speaker 1: because there's no unity in our community. You know, we
Speaker 1: all the in fighting. The gaze is fighting against the blacks,
Speaker 1: of trans is fighting against the black community, the black
Speaker 1: community fighting against the light skin and dark skin. We
Speaker 1: got to find a common balance where we all get
Speaker 1: and create our own lane. But yeah, yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: I feel like more and more, maybe it's gonna take
Speaker 1: a rainbow coalition. Fred Hampton had the right idea. Um,
Speaker 1: I agree, and we need to get that rainbow coalition.
Speaker 1: That's the only way this is gonna work. And actually
Speaker 1: having those other people show up for us for once.
Speaker 1: We always show up for other people. People start showing
Speaker 1: up for us at the end. I do that all
Speaker 1: the time. Every time they asked me, I'm a member
Speaker 1: of c S, a casting society organization. They send you
Speaker 1: emails or we're doing this, and we're gonna march for this,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna walk for cancer, and we're gonna do
Speaker 1: And I said, you know what, guys, I will show
Speaker 1: up as soon as you show up for a Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter, as soon as you show up for my community,
Speaker 1: that's when. That's when I will be there. But until then,
Speaker 1: you can stop sending me emails because if you're not
Speaker 1: showing up for my community, I can't show up for you.
Speaker 1: I can't. There will be nothing left to my community.
Speaker 1: I mean, case some point, case some point. If we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it too. You know, Asian hate happened
Speaker 1: at an astronomically larger rate because of COVID. They got
Speaker 1: legislation passed in ninety days. Just u MTEL Federal Act passed.
Speaker 1: Just happened, happenny as after two hundred attempts that just
Speaker 1: got passed. We're tired. We're tired that work to do,
Speaker 1: we've got working because it's constantly in our faces, like
Speaker 1: more than our ancestors didn't see it as much, they
Speaker 1: experienced it. Right, Yes, not only are we experience it,
Speaker 1: but we're seeing it over and over and over and over.
Speaker 1: And it's like you get. I'm trying to think what
Speaker 1: the word is um complacent? It's battle fatigue, you know
Speaker 1: what you you You had to go back and think
Speaker 1: about what Harriet Tubman said, but her quote supposed it
Speaker 1: was she would have freed so many more people had
Speaker 1: they known they were slaves. We live in the mentality
Speaker 1: now and just what you said, Twinkie, the fame, the fame,
Speaker 1: slavery ship. I'm prisoned to that. But that don't mean
Speaker 1: I don't say what I want to say. But I
Speaker 1: could have been so much further in my career if
Speaker 1: I probably didn't say what I want to say. But
Speaker 1: I don't think like that because my man is made up.
Speaker 1: I have to live with me and I have to
Speaker 1: be happy with the decisions that I make. I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about somebody else's decisions because I got to look
Speaker 1: me in the mirror and like that was looking back
Speaker 1: at me. I don't want to fall privy to that.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you I'm ready to battle stand on
Speaker 1: the battlefield mark all that marchin ain't doing for me,
Speaker 1: because sitting at the lunch counter, it's real different now.
Speaker 1: They used to release the holses on you spend your
Speaker 1: face in billy clubs. They're pulling out a K fifties
Speaker 1: and shooting us now and killing us and getting world
Speaker 1: right now it is, we're still not seeing as humans,
Speaker 1: but as soon as one of us explodes. Remember that
Speaker 1: police officer that was here a few years ago. He
Speaker 1: was killing the police and they couldn't find his in
Speaker 1: He was strategic keep playing. They swear they burned him
Speaker 1: down to the ground and turning. I don't believe they
Speaker 1: ever caught that babe. I think he was all smart
Speaker 1: at all the asses oh know you're talking about? This
Speaker 1: was that was several years ago. They said they found
Speaker 1: his teeth recause that wasn't him. That was bullshit. He
Speaker 1: got away from them and he was killing police. And
Speaker 1: I'm not promoting killing police. I'm not advocating that at all.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is to get damn and when
Speaker 1: is enough gonna be enough? Because one day we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to retaliate, and then they're gonna say all the
Speaker 1: black people are out of control. No, we just like
Speaker 1: y'all have been saying, we're fucking tired. I'm tired. I'm
Speaker 1: tiring the news. Are you killing people we're waiting on legislation.
Speaker 1: We're waiting on someone to be found guilty. We're waiting
Speaker 1: for We're waiting and waiting and waiting. We're waiting our
Speaker 1: money to get put back into our neighbor, waiting on
Speaker 1: the money to our education. I mean, we make a
Speaker 1: whole show about an elementary school with teachers that do
Speaker 1: everything they can just to teach the kids. It's a comedy,
Speaker 1: it's brilliantly done. But the base, the base of it,
Speaker 1: just the foundation of it is, look at what our
Speaker 1: teachers have to do just for our kids to have
Speaker 1: half as much m hm. And teachers are the most underpaid,
Speaker 1: underrated people on this planet because teachers don't get what
Speaker 1: they deserve when you send your craziest kids to school,
Speaker 1: because some of these kids are sucked up. Let me
Speaker 1: just say it. Oh yeah, time, ain't that around with
Speaker 1: Little Billy? Little Billy crazy is the role. There's a
Speaker 1: good guy, but then it really little Billy and the
Speaker 1: right family and his uncle is a police officer on
Speaker 1: the forest. Little Billy gat pool. So you take his
Speaker 1: craziest and make him a police officer, give him a
Speaker 1: badge on the gun, and release him to us in
Speaker 1: our neighborhood. Keep his crazy. That's over there with y'all.
Speaker 1: Amen to that. I hate that we just don't stand
Speaker 1: with each other. We might we talk about for each other,
Speaker 1: but when it comes down to it, we don't stand
Speaker 1: with each other. I am a loyal person, like to
Speaker 1: a point where I have lost jobs because of my
Speaker 1: loyalty and don't care because I still have to face
Speaker 1: who I am. So many people are afraid to face
Speaker 1: who they are. I got some uncomfortable shit about me,
Speaker 1: and I love what you said, Twinkie. We have to
Speaker 1: be comfortable being uncomfortable. Ship got to go left for
Speaker 1: real and you'll be like, you know what, we can
Speaker 1: push through this. We don't have the same DNA to
Speaker 1: that ancestor said they had strength. We don't even have courage.
Speaker 1: We don't everybody. No, I agree with that because nowadays
Speaker 1: and I am a millennial, I am, but to go
Speaker 1: through what my ancestors went through, I can't even say
Speaker 1: confidently like yes I can do that. I can't. Yeah
Speaker 1: you can't. You can, you can and you will because
Speaker 1: you have no choice, just like they did. They could.
Speaker 1: They did it not because they with any different than us,
Speaker 1: because they wanted better for us. That strength came from inside,
Speaker 1: and we disrespect them by saying we are not our ancestors.
Speaker 1: Damn right, you're not. You're not ready to get uncomfortable
Speaker 1: right now. That's how you're not your ancestors. Not the
Speaker 1: other way around. Not the I'm gonna throw hands You're
Speaker 1: gonna throw hands at the a case? What is it
Speaker 1: You're gonna throw hands at that kind of gun? You're
Speaker 1: throwing hands on me? Nothing you got. We have got
Speaker 1: to find that strength deep inside of us, and sometimes
Speaker 1: that strength is absolute silence, absolute complete pulled back. I
Speaker 1: have disappeared. He was strategic and his planning. So we
Speaker 1: need to be strategic and our and strategic and our responses,
Speaker 1: you know, not just fly by the night. But we
Speaker 1: really got to be strategic because playing games, we need
Speaker 1: to quit playing games. Yea, twinky, I really love what
Speaker 1: you just said, honestly, because just me as a person,
Speaker 1: I do have my best epiphanies and thoughts when I
Speaker 1: kind of pulled back and I'm just silent, and in
Speaker 1: my own company, I probably enjoy my own company a
Speaker 1: little too much, let Flames tell it. But maybe that
Speaker 1: is what needs to happen. You know, we just really
Speaker 1: need those moments of silence and solitude just to help
Speaker 1: us kind of rejuvenate and you know, get those creative
Speaker 1: juices falling maybe and some of these some of these,
Speaker 1: some of these times when we're together, some of these
Speaker 1: times like what was happening this weekend? The laugh and
Speaker 1: love to the something? What was that? And and friends,
Speaker 1: where we gathered together. We need to gather together. But
Speaker 1: that was a whole mess too. Did you hear about that?
Speaker 1: The backfiring of the of the golf cart. Oh there
Speaker 1: was a shooting scare. There wasn't water, the backfiring of
Speaker 1: the golf cart. Yeah, yes, I did hear about that.
Speaker 1: But when we're together in large in groups, we need
Speaker 1: to have start having some real conversations or start you know,
Speaker 1: the old paperway. You don't necessarily have to send everything
Speaker 1: via text message, the paperway of where we're gonna meet,
Speaker 1: who we're gonna talk to, how are we gonna talk,
Speaker 1: what the what the topic is? What are we what
Speaker 1: are we going to do? Because we need to gather together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm heartbroken because I'm so afraid and I know who
Speaker 1: I am as a black person, not not even just
Speaker 1: as a black person, but as a person, I know
Speaker 1: who I am, I know my DNA and I'm telling
Speaker 1: you my biggest fear is me being put in a
Speaker 1: terrible situation with a police officer or with an open
Speaker 1: races and I think that you're gonna hurt me. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know it is. I don't know what,
Speaker 1: and I'm admitting this publicly. I don't know another way,
Speaker 1: but the way that I know I'm gonna come out
Speaker 1: of Lie, the way that I know I'm gonna come
Speaker 1: out of Lie. Hmm. It is very, very scary when
Speaker 1: you're being policed. Our neighborhoods are policed and militarized. It
Speaker 1: is when you're afraid of being pulled over and you're
Speaker 1: driving so slow and you don't know what you can't.
Speaker 1: Should I go the speed limits? Should I go slower?
Speaker 1: If I'm going slower, I get pulled over if I
Speaker 1: go to speed limit. I do I have an air
Speaker 1: freshener in my cars. This is a place where air
Speaker 1: fresheners are not allowed. Like a litany, it is a
Speaker 1: litany of just out of this world. And we need
Speaker 1: a meeting. We need to sit down, We need to
Speaker 1: get to gather our lists and come together because this
Speaker 1: has got to it's got to stop. It's our elderly.
Speaker 1: They're taking out our elderly and they are our foundation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so tragic that one one lady was killed yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think she was in her eighties and her husband.
Speaker 1: They won't even tell her husband. They have been married
Speaker 1: for like sixty eight years. They won't even tell the husband.
Speaker 1: What do you mean because he didn't die. She died
Speaker 1: and they've been married for like six years. Girl. You
Speaker 1: know when people have been married a long time, when
Speaker 1: usually when you tell the other partner that they usually
Speaker 1: they died. Because that was so much more than his wife.
Speaker 1: That was so much more than just his wife. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this coward bastard went to where all these older
Speaker 1: people were. He didn't go to no Compton. He ain't
Speaker 1: went to once. Then they didn't go to the west
Speaker 1: side of south As. That's what I'm talking. That's the
Speaker 1: coward ship right there. Yeah, he talk people that really
Speaker 1: didn't have a chance to be honest with you. They
Speaker 1: had no camp. You know. He just went in. And
Speaker 1: something needs to happen. Someone needs to come for his
Speaker 1: too much him. Something needs to happen and and and
Speaker 1: all of these hardcore black doug not the rappers, but
Speaker 1: all these gangsters and where y'all let when y'all, I'm
Speaker 1: like you twink Black Panther Party did wonderful things. They
Speaker 1: helped women, they helped care, they provided services with lunch
Speaker 1: and free lunch and all. They stay programmed. And they
Speaker 1: hate when we do well, so they should disappear. They
Speaker 1: hate when we own, when we stand on our own
Speaker 1: and being in a group. And I wish that as
Speaker 1: a black people, as a black world, we would see
Speaker 1: how much power we have when we are fist as
Speaker 1: opposed to being just fingers. Yeah. Well, I'm missa say.
Speaker 1: The other side to that too, though, is and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to mention any cases that are happening right
Speaker 1: now because it's not my b'na stay out of I'm
Speaker 1: said of that. But there are situations where there are
Speaker 1: some of these rappers and you know, young black men
Speaker 1: that are doing good for their community, but you know,
Speaker 1: have reco charges being brought against them for criminal activity.
Speaker 1: And that's also been the history of this country. You
Speaker 1: go after the people that are doing good in your community,
Speaker 1: whereas you have the real mobsters, and you know, because
Speaker 1: Trump's organization, I don't understand what that's not considered in
Speaker 1: my organization. What's happening with them. He's still not in jail.
Speaker 1: They're still investigating January six. Still, if that's the reco
Speaker 1: I don't know what else would be a regal other
Speaker 1: than that. Explain to me what a rico is. Please,
Speaker 1: I'm ignorant in that area. Child. Hold on, let me go,
Speaker 1: let me go Google. Yes, it is, it's racketeering. Hold on,
Speaker 1: let me get the official. Hold on one second. I
Speaker 1: don't know when I put Trump asked in jail yet,
Speaker 1: I'm not understanding how y'all thought that Elon must funny
Speaker 1: looking ass was about to back Twitter for forty four
Speaker 1: billion dollars which he did not have in cash, which
Speaker 1: he just opened up a canna where a plethora bullshit
Speaker 1: because he's trying to get him and Marjorie Tayler Green
Speaker 1: back on there for the division in his country, for
Speaker 1: the election that's coming up. It was all a smoke screen.
Speaker 1: I said when he first said he always and he said, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to put anybody back on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: knew what it was when he went down with his
Speaker 1: funny looking ass. I said it. So here's official definition.
Speaker 1: So RICO stands for a racketeer, influenced and corrupt organization.
Speaker 1: The official definition it is a crime for any person,
Speaker 1: through a pattern of racketeering activity, to acquire or maintain
Speaker 1: any interest in or control of any type of property
Speaker 1: or business under the law. I think that describes Trump's family, right.
Speaker 1: Listen to the lord cutting up, twinking lord is reading
Speaker 1: over here. I love it. I'm just saying that that's
Speaker 1: the prime definition for what we see with these certain
Speaker 1: high fluting white I'll even go Italian families. We see that.
Speaker 1: But it's not them that the government's going after. It's us.
Speaker 1: We're the target. We're the target. So at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, one are again, one one again. Self
Speaker 1: preservation is the first law of nature. I'm not telling
Speaker 1: nobody to do anything, but I'm telling you, if you
Speaker 1: own in their plane, they tell you strap yourself in first,
Speaker 1: before you strap in the person next to you. Take
Speaker 1: care of yourself and whatever that means to you, Because
Speaker 1: I know what it means to me. Take care of
Speaker 1: yourself when you're going into these stories. Because they keep
Speaker 1: saying what we gotta gonna say, basis, what is the
Speaker 1: safe space. The young man in Texas was in his
Speaker 1: own house, Uh philandral Castro. They said, they won't shoot
Speaker 1: you in front of your wife and kids. Tell that
Speaker 1: to Castro's mistress, because he did. They shot him in
Speaker 1: front of his baby and in front of his woman.
Speaker 1: That's bullshit. Sometimes we're gonna have to take that the
Speaker 1: low road for all the harrowd. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: take the low road and meet them where they're at.
Speaker 1: We're not going with Michelle. You know my my joke
Speaker 1: on stages get back, you know what sucked. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna say that. We got to if we don't show
Speaker 1: them that we are not afraid, because that's what they think.
Speaker 1: They think we're afraid. They think we have no courage,
Speaker 1: because they think we're not gonna stand together, which is
Speaker 1: what detected that they have used for four hundred years.
Speaker 1: Divide them, take separate their children, tell them that they're
Speaker 1: black men are no good, discredit their black women together
Speaker 1: as a fist with monsters. But as fingers were useless,
Speaker 1: and we keep being fingers, we get to get together.
Speaker 1: We gotta quit doing this though. We gotta quit talking
Speaker 1: about it and be about it. Many people are whooping
Speaker 1: and not got no action like our ancests because they
Speaker 1: put action, they spoke, and then they put work in.
Speaker 1: So we just people put spilling and let's get busy,
Speaker 1: let's get let's get to working. But I think that's
Speaker 1: the issue to Cassie, is that we're in such a scramble.
Speaker 1: It's almost like we don't even know where to start.
Speaker 1: And that's the sad part is where is the starting
Speaker 1: point that we can come together? And I just don't
Speaker 1: think that collectively we can establish that. And that's why
Speaker 1: it was a great point being like chaos. That's what
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. So I ain't go ahead to give
Speaker 1: me a great act, think give me a great TV show.
Speaker 1: I'm about muscle up my money and I'm taking my kids.
Speaker 1: We're going to Germany or somewhere. I'm going somewhere else
Speaker 1: where they like black people ship. I'm tired twinking. You
Speaker 1: saw that shameless plug, right oh, I didn't even think
Speaker 1: about that. That feel like that. That's Lauren Man, that's
Speaker 1: that business manager man that I heard it. I heard it.
Speaker 1: I heard it is a casting director. But I didn't
Speaker 1: even think about that. Right now, I was just saying,
Speaker 1: because I've been saying I would get the hell out
Speaker 1: of here. Lauren did that? You see she trying to
Speaker 1: get you, got to make her money. I'm going as
Speaker 1: a black man in this country because you know, I'm
Speaker 1: very comfortable with my sexuality and who the funk I am?
Speaker 1: I don't care who's watching in this and black women
Speaker 1: are the saving grace for us as a black people
Speaker 1: right now and have been for such a long time.
Speaker 1: If we started giving honor to that and started respecting
Speaker 1: black women for the power that they hold and have
Speaker 1: and the way that they can segue into spaces that
Speaker 1: black men cannot seem to be able to get into,
Speaker 1: I promise you as a people, we would thrive. We
Speaker 1: got some great black women out here that speak for us,
Speaker 1: for us and for us, but y'all don't respect or acknowledges.
Speaker 1: Black women are always looking for help from a black man.
Speaker 1: Black men will turn on you, not all of them,
Speaker 1: because Tim Scott is a black man. Tim Scott ain't
Speaker 1: for us, But Staycy Arams is a black woman, and
Speaker 1: she's not only for us. She's a groundbreaking woman that's
Speaker 1: for us. But because she don't fit into this mold,
Speaker 1: which I'll think she should look like. She don't need
Speaker 1: to look Listen to her. Man here the content that
Speaker 1: comes out of her heart. That's what you need to hear.
Speaker 1: Stop looking for these pretty six bitches that can't tell
Speaker 1: you nothing but what shoes the right shoes the back
Speaker 1: m hm. I don't need you to look like what
Speaker 1: I need you to look. I need you to teach
Speaker 1: me and help me and show me so I can
Speaker 1: do do better for myself and my children and my grandchild.
Speaker 1: Staycy Avams is the money ticket for us. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you all right now, y'all need to respect that
Speaker 1: woman when Georgia goes to vote, because y'all better show
Speaker 1: up like they're given away some free butter and cheese
Speaker 1: and a ship. My thing is I just wish I
Speaker 1: want people to care about us. You know, nobody's talking
Speaker 1: about nine thousand you know black women and young children
Speaker 1: that were missing, Black women and young females that we're
Speaker 1: missing at the end of one. Nobody's talking about that,
Speaker 1: and nobody cares. I need people to care. I care.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm I'm team I'm team pro life, I'm
Speaker 1: team uh IF, pro choice, I am pro life too.
Speaker 1: I mean when I say pro life, I would like
Speaker 1: for people to have their kids and raise it. But
Speaker 1: if you feel like you can and you're in a
Speaker 1: situation you don't want to do it, I'm all for
Speaker 1: that's your body, your body, your choice. Because once they
Speaker 1: tell women what they can't do trans women, they're gonna
Speaker 1: start telling us you can't wear weeks, you can't wear makeup.
Speaker 1: In the sixties, you had to have on three articles
Speaker 1: of male clothing or they put you in jail because
Speaker 1: they were a transvestite. If you did not have on
Speaker 1: three articles of male clothing, we wearing makeup and weeks
Speaker 1: and they put you in jail. We're going back to basics.
Speaker 1: Trans women need to stay with biological women and all
Speaker 1: people need to stay with this a boy right, because
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it will open up a plethora of bullshit.
Speaker 1: They're gonna take away this one. They're gonna go back
Speaker 1: to Jim Crow's segregation gay. It is the gateway, Yeah, agreed,
Speaker 1: it is. It is the gateway. And you're right about
Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams, and it is not about a look. I
Speaker 1: believe she's beautiful. She's a beautiful woman and her and
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. Her body is beautiful, she is strong, she
Speaker 1: is awesome, she's she's amazing, and we have many many
Speaker 1: others and we do need to because behind that civil
Speaker 1: rights movement, behind the movement that I love so much,
Speaker 1: all women including Bear Arrusted, Oh yeah, yes, that women die.
Speaker 1: Diane was behind that, snick Diane Nash was. They were amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing women at the forefront and behind the scenes who
Speaker 1: were doing all of the work, all of the brain storming,
Speaker 1: all of the planning, all of the gathering, all of everything.
Speaker 1: And we can do it again. We can. We can
Speaker 1: learn from them. Some of them are still here with us,
Speaker 1: and we need to sit at the feet of the
Speaker 1: elders and and get those pearls. That's what we need
Speaker 1: to be doing. Go back and get it saying kofa
Speaker 1: go back and get it back. That's my favorite way
Speaker 1: to learn. It always has been. It ain't been in
Speaker 1: a textbook, it ain't been on no TV show, it
Speaker 1: ain't been on no Google. But sitting and listen to
Speaker 1: my grandmother's and my aunties around the table and a
Speaker 1: bunch of old women and even older me and my
Speaker 1: uncle's when they were to that was always my learning mechanism,
Speaker 1: cause those life lessons that they teach you the value
Speaker 1: in that you came back nowhere and you can't read
Speaker 1: no book. Oh god, the experience of what they would
Speaker 1: tell you, and if you took the time to be
Speaker 1: that sponge and suck that ship up, you would come
Speaker 1: out of that room ten times smarter than anybody they
Speaker 1: got any degree from any Ivy League school that you
Speaker 1: thought you wanted to go to, because they don't be
Speaker 1: still having now. I might not be, but I damn
Speaker 1: show showed you how to get to the other side
Speaker 1: of the street. I was gonna say, you didn't open
Speaker 1: up another door because a lot of these you know,
Speaker 1: white parents are realizing that education at historically black college
Speaker 1: is the same thing that you get at these Ivy
Speaker 1: League schools. That's a whole another conversation though, because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a spelling graduate, so anyway, it's not But I
Speaker 1: didn't have the right sexual equipment. No, I'm very proud
Speaker 1: of her, and I love that she puts you to
Speaker 1: HB and she's so proud of her, and I want
Speaker 1: somebody on my team that could be opposite for me. Huh.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing, amazing place. And that's why we should
Speaker 1: be we should attend. That is why those of us
Speaker 1: that have elders need to go because I keep hearing
Speaker 1: young people say, well, nobody taught me this, well, nobody
Speaker 1: said that to me. Well I didn't know about this,
Speaker 1: well I didn't know about Gather them, right, Gather them.
Speaker 1: They're waiting for you to ask them. Yep. They're not
Speaker 1: trying to push their way into your life because y'all
Speaker 1: keep saying, I don't need to, I don't need I
Speaker 1: got this, I know what I'm doing, I'm here, I'm
Speaker 1: I got it, Okay, but now you need to know
Speaker 1: Gather them, Miss Twinkie. I think that would be a
Speaker 1: great organization for you to start a website called Gathering
Speaker 1: where you can bring people in It's called gathering and
Speaker 1: they can talk about that. That girl just saying it,
Speaker 1: I say it, and your hat like it's a bang girl, girl,
Speaker 1: that ain't. This is my band, it's my bank. I
Speaker 1: love that at least it ain't blind. Thank you for sister,
Speaker 1: for being a sister. I love it. That would be
Speaker 1: a great That would be a great push. Gather them
Speaker 1: because it made me think about the movie. But love
Speaker 1: it when the old lady and Jorney was be somebody.
Speaker 1: She's an actress and she was in the woods and
Speaker 1: she gathered all the black people to tell them what
Speaker 1: would happened that that that would be it. That's good,
Speaker 1: you know. I like that though, because it's an action.
Speaker 1: It's an action. Yeah. Wow, y'all have made you said,
Speaker 1: y'all have taught me today. I'm not that smart, but
Speaker 1: I learned something today. I've learned something today to thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for teaching me. And what RICO I did
Speaker 1: not know. I've seen it. I saw the acronym around,
Speaker 1: but I was not aware of what it actually meant.
Speaker 1: So thank you for teaching me. And it's interesting too
Speaker 1: to see how the government uses those certain um i'll
Speaker 1: call them laws to uh further, just to press our community.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting, just the tactics involved. So yeah, this
Speaker 1: has been a good one. I think I'm the oldest
Speaker 1: person on his lab right now. No, and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that to be funny. I'm saying that in my
Speaker 1: lifetime I would like to see not just the one
Speaker 1: person like Dr King or Malcolm X to come and
Speaker 1: be the voice for us, to gather us up, to
Speaker 1: get us going in the right direction. But I'd like
Speaker 1: to see a collage of black leaders. I'd like to
Speaker 1: see being Crump and Stacy Abrams and and and powerful
Speaker 1: people come voices to speak, for even a trans person
Speaker 1: to come and say, hey, we are still black. Because
Speaker 1: the light, the driver, i mean, the bird certificate can
Speaker 1: say only saying sex male black or sex female black.
Speaker 1: Anything else that you become in this life, you become.
Speaker 1: But goddamnit, it starts with being black. With being black.
Speaker 1: We remind ourselves that we are black people in this America,
Speaker 1: in this America. Because I'm American before anything else, I'm
Speaker 1: still American. I was born and raised here. I was
Speaker 1: made here. These titties and asks weren't free. They gave
Speaker 1: them to me in America. So Davin, I'm made in
Speaker 1: America because they always hollowed everything made. We were made
Speaker 1: in America. You brought us here. We were created here.
Speaker 1: This is our greatest caper. I call it the greatest caper,
Speaker 1: the great kidnapping God Jesus, Miss Twinky, thank you for
Speaker 1: joining me, y'all, please follow. Twin is a very sharp,
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Speaker 1: And Miss Cassy, I didn't get a chance to meet you. Hello,
Speaker 1: how are you sis? Oh? So wonderful to meet you
Speaker 1: as well. I just followed you. Wonderful to meet you.
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Speaker 1: What is it? Oh? Please do tell called Identity Crisis,
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Speaker 1: thank you all right. I will be making a purchase
Speaker 1: right now, Identity Crisis. Thank you so much for joining Tweak.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Cassie. We appreciate man. Thank you guys for
Speaker 1: joining Lord. I ain't touching up because everything I touched him,
Speaker 1: I'm not at all. That's very true. I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: you girl girl because you owe me. I owe you
Speaker 1: accustomed out because you were supposed to came to tell
Speaker 1: me at Caroline is on Broadway and you didn't even
Speaker 1: got had your neighbors to doing everything we're talking about.
Speaker 1: I remember what you sent me a message, you said,
Speaker 1: we're talking about it. That's true, actly right. I love
Speaker 1: how calm you was like, oh yeah, absolutely right. You
Speaker 1: gave my word no, no, what had There is no excuse,
Speaker 1: and I apologize. Let me be clear on that my
Speaker 1: project fell through and I was supposed to be in
Speaker 1: New York that week, and my project fell through when
Speaker 1: I stayed home, So it had nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1: It had to do with the project I was working on.
Speaker 1: So I apologize. Okay, I give because I was ready
Speaker 1: to put my girl. I don't want you to be
Speaker 1: mad at I'm just cut up. Thank you for joining
Speaker 1: in the conversation. We appreciate you absolutely. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: all too, because we could not have a show with
Speaker 1: you all this. It's so smart sometimes y'all sometimes right,
Speaker 1: sometimes right? But were you here? And we hope that
Speaker 1: you guys please pay attention to your surroundings. If you
Speaker 1: have to go out in public, and we have to
Speaker 1: go out in public, try not to live your life
Speaker 1: in fear. Please stay prayed up. I'm gonna say this,
Speaker 1: and I know this is gonna sound up, but please
Speaker 1: make sure that you get some kind of life insurance
Speaker 1: policy because nobody knows when it's gonna happen, where it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, or how it's gonna happen. We all do
Speaker 1: know that someday we are going to leave here, and
Speaker 1: insurance is very important. Don't leave that burden on your family.
Speaker 1: It don't need to be no major policy. If you
Speaker 1: can get a ten thousand dollar policy, it's just enough
Speaker 1: to carry cover your services, so you won't leave that
Speaker 1: burden on people, on your people, or on your family.
Speaker 1: And a lot of us don't take insurance. Seriously, Oh,
Speaker 1: I ain't going nowhere. Nobody knows. You don't even know.
Speaker 1: Look at I'm sure the people Saturday had no idea
Speaker 1: that they were going to a friendly grocery store run
Speaker 1: and never gonna make it back home. It is so
Speaker 1: fucked up. Who is that? Lauren says some more, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't see ship. So that's all I'm encouraging you
Speaker 1: guys to make sure that you have some kind of
Speaker 1: life insurance policy, whether it's term or whole, but make
Speaker 1: sure that you are covered because we are living in
Speaker 1: some very very strange times and ain't nobody can just
Speaker 1: pay ten thousand dollars out their podcasts that have a
Speaker 1: decent service, So that is only then outside of that,
Speaker 1: if you're going out in public, trying to stay off
Speaker 1: your phones, trying to be aware of your surroundings because
Speaker 1: we're living in a crazy time and if you can
Speaker 1: see it high, get to a safe place. Like I
Speaker 1: tell my kids, turn your ringer off, stay very quiet
Speaker 1: and very still. If you can avoid it, some things
Speaker 1: are unavoidable. So I'm just as I'm just pushing prayer
Speaker 1: over everybody that's within the sound of my voice. Do
Speaker 1: your part, but remember their self preservation is the first
Speaker 1: love of nature. Come on, Lauren, I don't think I
Speaker 1: need to say anything else after that. I think that
Speaker 1: was a good word to end on. But basically a
Speaker 1: synopsis of all of what you're saying is financial literacy.
Speaker 1: So I really just hope people, you know, even though
Speaker 1: we're not necessarily afforded that education and provided you know,
Speaker 1: it's okay to seek knowledge and to seek that out,
Speaker 1: you know. So, and a monthly insurance policy, especially when
Speaker 1: you're a younger agent. And good health is as cheap
Speaker 1: as a pack of cigarettes. It is as cheap as
Speaker 1: a pack of cigarettes. If I have to break it down,
Speaker 1: and then kind of turns for you, it's as cheap
Speaker 1: as a pack of and some of y'all smoke to
Speaker 1: three packs a week. Baby, You can spend twenty and
Speaker 1: have a policy where you are covered. Well, all I'll
Speaker 1: say is today we laughed and we learned a whole
Speaker 1: lot we did. So what we do. We're not trying
Speaker 1: to get anybody to change your mind. We are just
Speaker 1: simply trying to get you to use your mind, because
Speaker 1: in order to use your mind, you have to have
Speaker 1: a mind. And I want you guys to be aware
Speaker 1: that your mind is powerful, your strength is powerful, but
Speaker 1: you need to be have some kind of self insurance
Speaker 1: and some kind of sense of self to know who
Speaker 1: you are. Lost people get caught up with other lost people.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving this young man to pass. God bless him.
Speaker 1: The devil gonna put a pitchfork up his ass, but
Speaker 1: God bless him. That's the Southern way of saying, fuck
Speaker 1: that nigger, because black women down South and said, God
Speaker 1: bless you, God bless your heart. That is a dig
Speaker 1: all day from black folks in the South. Black women
Speaker 1: in South, fuck him. He was a racist, He was
Speaker 1: raised by racist, and I hope it's a pitchfork waiting
Speaker 1: on his ass in Hell when he gets there. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they allowed him to take off his
Speaker 1: tactical gear and then just put him out of his
Speaker 1: misery or he was. He was there, he put the
Speaker 1: gun up on his chin to kill himself. He should
Speaker 1: have did it, and I know I'm not advocating that,
Speaker 1: but he should have did it because now they're gonna
Speaker 1: make him a martyr. All right, that's the angry bitch
Speaker 1: in me. I'm angry black He we ain't the man
Speaker 1: order woman, I'm all the Thank you for joining us
Speaker 1: here at Laugh and Learn. Please download on my heart
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Speaker 1: full of point. It is. It's got more point on
Speaker 1: it today than the head last week because I was
Speaker 1: in the hotel Rold for two days. Okay, y'all, thank
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