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Speaker 2: Well, hello, there, it's a Tims Somethinger Thursday. I'm just
Speaker 2: wondering is there enough good news to share now? Last
Speaker 2: time I was here, I said, hey, the next time
Speaker 2: you see me live, you hear me live or you
Speaker 2: hear me on't repeat because you're listening to the podcast.
Speaker 1: Well, you're going to have a new president. And for
Speaker 1: many it was a.
Speaker 2: Somber day, and I'm sure for some it was a
Speaker 2: great day. So I said, I figured, I want to
Speaker 2: make sure on this show today that I want to
Speaker 2: hear from you. I want to open up the phone
Speaker 2: lines to strengthly have a conversation about the election results. Yes,
Speaker 2: Donald J. Trump has been announced as the forty seventh president.
Speaker 2: Now many have had mixed reviews. Many feel like their
Speaker 2: rights are being abused.
Speaker 1: What say you, you.
Speaker 2: Know I have to stretch it there, But no, these
Speaker 2: are the times of conversations that I want to assure
Speaker 2: to express and direct strictly from the people about how
Speaker 2: they feel with this new type of leadership. And what
Speaker 2: I've realized too, is that in this discussion, I want
Speaker 2: to make sure it's a safe space so that people
Speaker 2: can really express because this is not going to just
Speaker 2: affect one person. This is not going to just impact
Speaker 2: one community, one country. This is essentially going to impact
Speaker 2: the lives around the world. And I know that sounds dramatic.
Speaker 2: You're like, Dawn, he is the president of the United States,
Speaker 2: are soon to be. But still there's a lot of
Speaker 2: talk about the tariffs we're talking about certain individuals or
Speaker 2: groups immigrants being deported. This is the thing that's the
Speaker 2: biggest thing ever, on top of the fact people have
Speaker 2: talked about Project twenty five. What does this mean for women?
Speaker 2: And if you are not a woman, do you have
Speaker 2: a daughter, a sibling, an aunt. This is a tille
Speaker 2: that's going to be three sixty five on a three
Speaker 2: sixty a round. So this is the show that today
Speaker 2: I said, I'm not starting off with a Vitamin D.
Speaker 1: I'm not starting off with a Vitamin.
Speaker 2: D advice letter. I want to get straight into the pocket.
Speaker 2: I made sure that I made time to pull up
Speaker 2: and now let's talk about it. What does this mean?
Speaker 1: Are you mad? Are you sad? Or are you glad?
Speaker 2: That Donald Trump has now been announced as the forty
Speaker 2: seventh president. Again, this is strictly with the conversation. So
Speaker 2: I want to say, right now, call me, call me
Speaker 2: in the studio right now eight one eight four six '
Speaker 2: one fifty four thirty two. I am actually putting the
Speaker 2: number in the chat. I need you to call me
Speaker 2: right now. I even had someone at here at the station,
Speaker 2: the studio and before the last time we had the
Speaker 2: conversation on Halloween. Last week Thursday, I was in a
Speaker 2: debate with a personal friend that has been in front
Speaker 2: of the show Elle and was like.
Speaker 1: Yo, I'm in between, like I see the good and
Speaker 1: Donald and you know, I see some stuff in Kamala.
Speaker 1: Oh Kamala Lord? Did I just leant out her name
Speaker 1: Lord Kamala? And here's the thing. My friend was like, wait,
Speaker 1: what how could you support this? But then I called
Speaker 1: him because I was coming in the studio today and
Speaker 1: he said, you know what, I got to talk to
Speaker 1: you about something. Who was at your sister on the phone.
Speaker 1: I said, well, that's my sister. Friend.
Speaker 2: He was like, you know, it's unfortunate that the votes
Speaker 2: didn't go in the favor of majority of the people.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, well what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: He was like, well, I had to do some extensive,
Speaker 2: extensive research and I had to really think about it.
Speaker 2: And he was like, I have to think about my
Speaker 2: daughters and what this means to them. And I said, wow,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: Very impressive, because you know, sometimes people can be on
Speaker 1: they stubborn, stool, you know, just don't want to bunge,
Speaker 1: don't want to have open hearts, open minds.
Speaker 2: But he said, hold up, wait a minute, Dawn. I
Speaker 2: want to share something with you. I had a chance
Speaker 2: to think about it.
Speaker 1: So we've had what we had about a good forty
Speaker 1: eight hours to think about what this selection means. So
Speaker 1: the phone lines are open. I'm waiting for you to
Speaker 1: call me.
Speaker 2: Tell me something good, tell me something not so good,
Speaker 2: but just talk to me. I pulled up specifically for us,
Speaker 2: for us to engage in dialogue, because there are some
Speaker 2: good things and maybe some not so good things.
Speaker 1: Hey, Joe, Joe called me. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: ever heard your voice call me in a studio, Joe
Speaker 1: pulling up on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Joe, I want you to call me right now. I
Speaker 2: will pull up on you and call you, but I
Speaker 2: don't have your number. Call me right now. Eight one
Speaker 2: eight four six one fifty four to thirty two. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the phone right now, Joe, is that you?
Speaker 2: And good evening as well, because in a minut I'm
Speaker 2: about to start calling people. Don't just sit here and
Speaker 2: look at me, because I feel like, honestly, truth be told,
Speaker 2: we've been sitting around looking around too long, because now
Speaker 2: it's time to to start action. Joe said, no, okay,
Speaker 2: Joe caught the memo. Joe, well, I want to welcome
Speaker 2: anyone else that would like to call for real. This
Speaker 2: is a real conversation. And if we can't have this
Speaker 2: conversation amongst ourselves, then.
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Bear? Can you call me? I
Speaker 1: want to hear from you Bear.
Speaker 2: In fact, if none, I'm about to call Miss Mayan
Speaker 2: because I just want to hear some thoughts using opinion
Speaker 2: and also beer.
Speaker 1: Since you're on I was thinking about this too.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of rhetoric going around talking about
Speaker 2: how black men aren't trusting women, or how come of
Speaker 2: black men aren't supporting Kamala and how they're going to polls.
Speaker 1: Then you know, the results came in. I believe it
Speaker 1: was over seventy percent of black men that actually voted,
Speaker 1: and they voted in Kamala Harris's favor. So what does
Speaker 1: that mean now? What they did show on the polls.
Speaker 2: I believe it was white men, white women, and also
Speaker 2: Latino men, if I'm not mistaken, who did majority of
Speaker 2: the vote when it came down to Donald Trump. So
Speaker 2: the question stands, how do you feel about it? You
Speaker 2: gotta have some type of view, thoughts or opinions and
Speaker 2: let me just be clear. We are not here to bash.
Speaker 2: We are not here to bash. We're here to have
Speaker 2: a conversation because just like anything, you eat the meat
Speaker 2: and you spit out the balls. Right, Can I share
Speaker 2: something with you? Is this a safe space? Because when
Speaker 2: I'm about to say, I don't know how I was
Speaker 2: gonna be received. But all I know how to do
Speaker 2: is keep it real, so you know the dam So one.
Speaker 1: Of the things that I was thinking about.
Speaker 2: And again I can't say that I'm deeply well versed
Speaker 2: when it comes to politics, but.
Speaker 1: One thing I don't know to the extent of what
Speaker 1: it means.
Speaker 2: But when it comes down to people who are not
Speaker 2: legal citizens and whether or not should they stay, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to say no. I think the same opportunities
Speaker 2: should come about for everyone to do your research, to
Speaker 2: file your paperwork to become a citizen.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I see anything wrong.
Speaker 2: Let me be mindful of my words, because once it's
Speaker 2: out there, it's out there about how it feels whether
Speaker 2: or not those who are not legal citizens should be deported.
Speaker 2: I mean, think about it this way. If you just
Speaker 2: think about the economy overall, Yes, you have people who
Speaker 2: perhaps will work for a lower rage to do work.
Speaker 2: But what does that mean for the people that are
Speaker 2: living in society, in the community, because now those jobs
Speaker 2: are being taken away.
Speaker 1: Think of it like this.
Speaker 2: If you are a baby boomer, you've been at a job, okay,
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden they hiring some young buck
Speaker 2: to come through that they are paying twenty dollars less. Right,
Speaker 2: you can imagine the duress that a lot of people experience. Well,
Speaker 2: why wouldn't that be the same thing or the same
Speaker 2: case when it comes to people who are not legal
Speaker 2: citizens of the United States. We are taking jobs away
Speaker 2: from people that reside here, the people that are paying
Speaker 2: taxes here.
Speaker 1: So my thing is is.
Speaker 2: That not that they should not be here, but you
Speaker 2: should be here under the same uh, I want to say,
Speaker 2: under the same context of everybody else got to be
Speaker 2: a citizen.
Speaker 1: You gotta apply. You need to learn what it is
Speaker 1: that we do.
Speaker 2: So all right, Latasha's and ows, this's how you want
Speaker 2: to call me or IM about to call Miss Maya.
Speaker 2: What we about to do? Because I want to hear
Speaker 2: your thoughts and you were at the polls. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Dale? Dale?
Speaker 2: What's going I saw Dale last Saturday over at black
Speaker 2: Man's wellness day and Miss Felicia, his wife. Now, this
Speaker 2: is what I'm gonna do. I'm about to pull up
Speaker 2: on Miss Maya because she specifically send me her number
Speaker 2: and I took it.
Speaker 1: She wanted me to call it.
Speaker 2: Let's see what happened, Miss Latasha, you might be up next.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, sare Miss Maya?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Oh so, so, how you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good. You know I've made an in on a
Speaker 1: live Are you tuning in?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just about to jump on right now,
Speaker 4: just fishing clean up my kitchen. Hat I didn't get it.
Speaker 4: I was just like, okay, I'm gonna go pit the
Speaker 4: track away. I'm talking about cleaning up my kitchen now,
Speaker 4: I'm not not talking you know you guys right?
Speaker 1: So I called you live on the air right now?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Do you want me to call you back?
Speaker 2: I was calling because I wanted to know what your
Speaker 2: thoughts were with the results of the election.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm really heartbroken because I did not vote
Speaker 4: for him. I didn't want him to win, you know,
Speaker 4: because of how he is. Look at what he did,
Speaker 4: and you know, it's just too much. How could they
Speaker 4: let somebody like that in the White House?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: It's like, I don't know. I just think that I
Speaker 4: wouldn't say that the election was rigged, but I think
Speaker 4: something may have gone on inside that we don't know
Speaker 4: about yet, because if it would have been him, if
Speaker 4: he would have lost, oh man, blowing up stuff girl
Speaker 4: like he did last.
Speaker 2: Time, and what he did, he made a village player
Speaker 2: of what could happen, or that there could be a
Speaker 2: major issue if he didn't win.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, that's I'm just still heartbroken over it. I
Speaker 4: don't even know what to say right about now.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: I got to try to get myself together because I
Speaker 4: want to give myself sick over this man, because if
Speaker 4: I do, what is he gonna do? He ain't gonna
Speaker 4: do nothing, don't even know me, and ain't even gonna care.
Speaker 4: He's just happy that he won and he has power now,
Speaker 4: you know. But it is what it is, you know,
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: One of the things how be honest and true about
Speaker 2: it is that he's never went into hiding about who
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 1: He's came forth since they won.
Speaker 2: And I feel as though a lot of people were
Speaker 2: attracted to that, to the fact that he is he is.
Speaker 1: It's very clear who he is.
Speaker 2: And you know, while some people say, oh, was it rigged,
Speaker 2: President Biden came forth and say the electoral votes are
Speaker 2: as transparent as they can get. And I think, if anything,
Speaker 2: we ought to take a look around and say, hey,
Speaker 2: this is what America wanted truly, And so then it
Speaker 2: becomes well, what does that say about America?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Don I'm just like, oh, man, I have a daughter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, today's her birthday too. I'll tell her. I think
Speaker 4: she went in there to go and take a chute.
Speaker 4: She's gonna she Dominia Hills and she just signed out.
Speaker 4: She she she wants to be a KA. So they
Speaker 4: have like these meetings every day. Girl, And I'm like,
Speaker 4: why you want to do all that? She she's gonna
Speaker 4: finish in May of next year. So but yeah, so yes,
Speaker 4: I have a daughter. But yeah, it's it's bad. How
Speaker 4: how Trump want to do for women. You know, it's bad.
Speaker 1: That is bad.
Speaker 4: I don't want, you know. And I and I told
Speaker 4: my daughter, I said, make sure you gonna vote. She
Speaker 4: said she did. And I know, and my son and
Speaker 4: my husband, I'll see it. But we went together, you know.
Speaker 4: So hmm, yeah, we did. But my daughter she said
Speaker 4: she did vote, so she said she did. She didn't
Speaker 4: vote Trump. You know, all of us is for Kamala.
Speaker 4: But girl, I don't know. Don I'm just like a lot.
Speaker 1: Of people saying they getting not a dodge. That's what
Speaker 1: they said. They said, they're getting not a dodge.
Speaker 2: I think I think right now is that we have
Speaker 2: to uplift the conversation about what does this mean as
Speaker 2: what we need to do as a people because it
Speaker 2: is what it is now.
Speaker 1: We can't cry over spilled milk, But how do we
Speaker 1: move forward?
Speaker 2: In fact, Dale Cornelie, he says on Facebook, California showed
Speaker 2: up for Kamala but dropped the ball on the propositions
Speaker 2: that matter. Can't cry over spilled milk, So now it's
Speaker 2: time to educate our people and move forward as one.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm yeah, Okay, I guess that's the only thing.
Speaker 2: We can do is move forward because the past is
Speaker 2: behind us and we're not going that way. But the
Speaker 2: thing about it is what's happening with Project twenty five.
Speaker 1: The past could be right here in the present.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we just think about it all the way,
Speaker 2: that he's talking about the police officers.
Speaker 1: Has they have immunity? Now we know what is being
Speaker 1: done without the immunity with being sue. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: having free reign to do whatever however whenever you want,
Speaker 1: regardless of.
Speaker 2: Who the American president is. The good Lord oversees the
Speaker 2: final decision.
Speaker 1: Amen. Okay, well, miss mine, I just want to see
Speaker 1: that if you have some of you.
Speaker 2: Want to specially say a shout out or anything, just
Speaker 2: in this conversation, because you made sure, you said you
Speaker 2: got my number, lock me in?
Speaker 1: I said, I got it.
Speaker 4: I know, No, you know, may keep my number. No, No,
Speaker 4: I've been with.
Speaker 1: Her long time, since day one.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm gonna keep with her, conversation, relations
Speaker 4: point with her, you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well I got another call coming in. Okay, call
Speaker 2: me back, and you didn't coming out?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I'm saying login right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, okay, okay, talk to me.
Speaker 7: Hello, Hello, Hey, who's this?
Speaker 6: This is brother? First? How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Oh? Proverb? What's the word?
Speaker 6: Yeah? How you was doing?
Speaker 2: I think it's a lot of still digestion and what's
Speaker 2: going on. I ain't gonna hold you. I was anxious.
Speaker 2: I was anxious leading up to what the results are.
Speaker 2: The fact of the matter, we have to realize this
Speaker 2: is what the people wanted. Oh, I think you know.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this lightly because I want to make
Speaker 2: sure I, you know, say it. But I was just
Speaker 2: saying on the start of the show. One of the
Speaker 2: things that make room for me, y'all, as I get
Speaker 2: this out of my mouth and let me clear it
Speaker 2: up if it sounds sideways, is that I'm not mad
Speaker 2: at the whole idea of Trump saying he wants to
Speaker 2: deport illegal immigrants. Okay, And I say that because I
Speaker 2: do think it's a little bit unfair to have those
Speaker 2: who basically you're essentially taking jobs away from people that
Speaker 2: do live in the US.
Speaker 1: And I get it.
Speaker 2: You know, on one end, you have somebody that may
Speaker 2: do better work, you can play them, pay them less.
Speaker 1: But if you can't empathize from how I just stated that, it's.
Speaker 2: No different if you're a baby boomer and you're in
Speaker 2: the workflorce and you got all these young people you know,
Speaker 2: coming in when you're paying them twenty dollars less with
Speaker 2: less experience, and you out of the job.
Speaker 1: Well, aren't we knocking our own people out of jobs.
Speaker 6: So true, man, that's true.
Speaker 8: That is true. I just you know what, I had
Speaker 8: a very interesting conversation with your nephew, my son, and
Speaker 8: he doesn't you know, how he thought about the election.
Speaker 8: I told him I wasn't gonna put him on blast
Speaker 8: about anything he did or how he voted, but it
Speaker 8: was really interesting hearing what he thought about it, and
Speaker 8: he basically kind of went old school. He said, you know,
Speaker 8: it's everything is based upon our movement on how we do.
Speaker 8: The president is always gonna be put out there, but
Speaker 8: it's always up to us to make sure that we
Speaker 8: provide and we make sure that everybody understands. The truth
Speaker 8: of the matter is we're here. We've always been here
Speaker 8: dealing with whether it's good or bad. But the question
Speaker 8: is when are as a as a people, When are
Speaker 8: we gonna start getting together on what we believe in?
Speaker 8: That's the question, you know, because it's so much stuff
Speaker 8: that the undertow is about to happen. There's so much
Speaker 8: stuff that people aren't ready for, but they think they're
Speaker 8: ready for it, and it's it's it's it's strangely enough,
Speaker 8: when you have a profession like what I'm doing, and
Speaker 8: they tell you, guess what, We're gonna replace you with
Speaker 8: a computer robot, a AI that's going to drive around
Speaker 8: the city and we just want you to sit there
Speaker 8: and watch it. That's kind of crazy in a sense.
Speaker 8: So I'm looking at a lot of things differently now.
Speaker 8: It's just preparation and understanding that truly, you go to
Speaker 8: college to get these degrees, but your degree really ain't
Speaker 8: gonna be worth too much of anything when they don't
Speaker 8: even want to pay you what you do.
Speaker 6: So it's it's crazy. I feel I.
Speaker 8: Feel like we're gonna learn a lot for these four years,
Speaker 8: so just get ready for it. That's that's pretty much
Speaker 8: what it is.
Speaker 6: And then learn y'all.
Speaker 8: Learn about your local systems, learn about the judges, learn
Speaker 8: about the court systems, because courts can control a lot
Speaker 8: of stuff that we weren't we weren't familiar with.
Speaker 1: So that's it.
Speaker 8: You've got to be We gotta start being good to ourselves.
Speaker 8: We're not.
Speaker 6: We treat that.
Speaker 8: We treat each other so badly out.
Speaker 6: Here in these streets.
Speaker 8: It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6: So that's it. That's it. That's all I have to say.
Speaker 8: Much love, piece says, keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 8: I don't never want to see you.
Speaker 6: Just stop.
Speaker 8: Just keep going. That's all I'm gonna keep saying.
Speaker 6: Just keep going.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. Emotional there pulled a cord there, you know,
Speaker 2: just truth be told. I said, I, you know, I
Speaker 2: got my show coming up at the grownds. I got
Speaker 2: my shirt and I was like, I gotta finish up
Speaker 2: my script. I was like, but I told everybody that
Speaker 2: I was gonna be live, and I'm like, is it
Speaker 2: foolish for me to come up here? And my friend
Speaker 2: was like, no, Dawn, you know you're building your audience
Speaker 2: and your fan base. You gotta stand by your and
Speaker 2: your integrity and pull up. So you calling me, I
Speaker 2: didn't have to call you. I appreciate that, so thank you.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it was funny because Tuesday had came and gone,
Speaker 8: and I was like, I'm not gonna miss Thursday. I
Speaker 8: had announced that Tuesday Thursday because I knew we was
Speaker 8: gonna have plenty to talk about it after the selection.
Speaker 8: I was like, oh, yeah, we're gonna talk'na talk. So yeah,
Speaker 8: it's very interesting. Just keep your im I'm keeping you
Speaker 8: prayed up and just like, just be caringfied in these
Speaker 8: streets and enjoy life. Keep that smile on your face.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, big brother.
Speaker 8: Have no problem, big right, going to the gym though.
Speaker 8: I'm breaking this down.
Speaker 6: I'm baking it.
Speaker 1: Did you see my IG story? I'm outside?
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 8: I think I seen you in the jail mistake.
Speaker 6: You're out there, you outside?
Speaker 1: I feel it, Honey said, it's about to be crazy.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8: All right, well, I will just reach out to me.
Speaker 8: I'm off this week.
Speaker 1: So all right, I'll call you. All right. I loved you. Bye.
Speaker 1: What does this mean?
Speaker 2: I almost but he said he didn't want to put
Speaker 2: his son on blast. But I am interested to see
Speaker 2: what the young people are talking about, because honestly, we
Speaker 2: do have to shift our mindset. Now. The thing that's
Speaker 2: interesting is that, you know, we're looking on a one
Speaker 2: lens about how the controlling of women's bodies and so forth.
Speaker 2: How can we not having more control of what's happening
Speaker 2: with AI that's really impacting our economy in the world,
Speaker 2: Because I guess, just like Elon mus said, you know,
Speaker 2: the people that's certainly gonna struggle is the middle class now,
Speaker 2: I was just looking at a post somebody had put up,
Speaker 2: and he says, black folk. With Republicans controlling the House, Senate,
Speaker 2: and Supreme Court, Trump could push his qualified immunity law,
Speaker 2: which will turn America spelled a m me r I
Speaker 2: kkka into hunting season for us. Stay vigilant and get active.
Speaker 2: What does that mean to you? What does that mean
Speaker 2: to you? Does it scare you? What do you think
Speaker 2: we need to do?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: One thing, Brother POVERB made very clear. He said, you
Speaker 2: know what, we need to get more involved of what's
Speaker 2: happening locally when it comes to voting and knowing who
Speaker 2: our judges are, because those are the things that closely
Speaker 2: impact us. And I realized that a lot of people
Speaker 2: really get hyped up for election for the presidential election,
Speaker 2: But what about the local elections, the people that are
Speaker 2: amplifying our voice before it gets to the White House
Speaker 2: or gets up into the whole political atmosphere.
Speaker 1: What does that look like? So I want y'all to
Speaker 1: call me.
Speaker 2: We're talking about after the election has been announced.
Speaker 1: Are you mad? Are you sad? Are you glad that
Speaker 1: Donald J?
Speaker 2: Trump has been elected as the forty seventh president? Let's
Speaker 2: talk about it. I pulled up specifically so we can
Speaker 2: talk about it.
Speaker 1: Now. Latasha, where you at?
Speaker 9: Girl?
Speaker 1: Do I need to call you?
Speaker 2: Because I think I feel as though you have a
Speaker 2: different lens amongst everybody else, because you actually said that
Speaker 2: you were out at the polls, you saw what was
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 1: What how do you feel?
Speaker 2: What does this mean to our community? What does this
Speaker 2: mean for our community? I want to hear from y'all.
Speaker 2: Call me in the studio, or we can cut it short.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying. I mean, I'm here for a conversation, Natasha.
Speaker 1: Call me, girl. I'm looking for your number right now,
Speaker 1: call me right now? What you mean? What's sad about this?
Speaker 1: Why are you so sad about it? Let's vocalize this.
Speaker 2: Have we really thought what this means for us, for
Speaker 2: our future, for our community?
Speaker 1: H all right, let me call Natasha.
Speaker 9: I are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm grateful to be alive.
Speaker 4: How you do, I'm blessed in Holly favor.
Speaker 1: Amen. So the results have been announced. Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump is president. How do you feel about it?
Speaker 4: It's sad. It's very sad because now we're at a
Speaker 4: stage for the next few years, the unknown. What can
Speaker 4: possibly be a disadvantage for us as African Americans black
Speaker 4: however we may want to call ourselves but it's very
Speaker 4: fad because we don't know now and he's not really
Speaker 4: for US African Americans at all. And when I was
Speaker 4: working the polls, I was really, I'm gonna be honest,
Speaker 4: I was really surprised that a lot of people were
Speaker 4: voting for Trump that were African Americans and Hispanic. My
Speaker 4: attitude was, you know, knye. I was like, oh, okay, Hanna,
Speaker 4: you know, compose myself. But at the same time, I'm saying,
Speaker 4: why do you not see what this man is going
Speaker 4: to do? Do you not see what's ahead of us?
Speaker 4: Do you have grandchildren? Do you have children? I mean,
Speaker 4: what's going on? I mean, do you not see it?
Speaker 4: Or or am I just blind? I don't know. That's
Speaker 4: to cut one thing about me. Don Whenever I get
Speaker 4: ready to do my voting, I always play that song
Speaker 4: by Teddy Pinograd so loving in the blue notes. I
Speaker 4: don't remember, but it's called wake Up Everybody. It's no
Speaker 4: sleeping in bed sleeping Yes, Yes, that is my number
Speaker 4: one song that I always play when it's time to
Speaker 4: get ready to vote. And it's very important. It's very
Speaker 4: important that we get us as African Americans out to
Speaker 4: get out and vote. But it's sad who's in office.
Speaker 4: I'm also sad because the DA gasking, as you know,
Speaker 4: I work for La County, get his seat.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: So then what about the ones who have the loved
Speaker 4: ones that are incarcerated. What's gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: You know, he was not for the big punishment being
Speaker 4: locked up in jail. He was more for the treatment program.
Speaker 4: And this new guy he's offered the big punishment. But
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, like I always say,
Speaker 4: by me working in the jail, four walls, bars around you,
Speaker 4: what are you doing. You're not solving the situation. You're
Speaker 4: not solving anything. All he's doing is bringing up more
Speaker 4: mental health issues. Right now, I'm sorry, Don, I'm watching
Speaker 4: on the news of pursuit of a shooting that's going on,
Speaker 4: and I know this young lady will be at my
Speaker 4: jail tomorrow morning for some valley and I'm gonna have
Speaker 4: to evaluate her. What US African Americans?
Speaker 1: What do you mean that?
Speaker 6: Wait?
Speaker 1: Wait, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 2: Back up to say, you're watching a pursuit, and you
Speaker 2: know that this woman is going to end up at
Speaker 2: your jail.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's going to be there tomorrow morning, because what
Speaker 4: happens is she would get arrested. It's on the notes
Speaker 4: right now. I mean, as you know, we all in California.
Speaker 4: So I'm watching take Cow news and it's a high
Speaker 4: speed tase going on a pursuit shooting of a suspect.
Speaker 4: And so it's a young lady. They're African American inside
Speaker 4: the car, and normally once they get pulled over with
Speaker 4: both end, they end up at the women's jail. So
Speaker 4: when I go to work tomorrow, guess who's going to
Speaker 4: be evaluating her. Whether she's going through mental health issues
Speaker 4: or if it's substance. I don't know, just shit, but
Speaker 4: there's something going on.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this. You don't feel like
Speaker 1: she should go to jail?
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't even really get the whole I'm so
Speaker 4: focusing you. At the same time, I didn't really understand
Speaker 4: why is the pursuit, what's really going on behind it?
Speaker 4: You know how the news can put anything up, so
Speaker 4: we don't really know and to you know the next day,
Speaker 4: what really happened. I think she should if she committed
Speaker 4: that type of crime. She didn't, then I have an
Speaker 4: issue with that because as I'm working in the jails,
Speaker 4: I have well, I'm one of the people that on
Speaker 4: the panel that makes a decision if we're going to
Speaker 4: send you to prison, if we're going to release you
Speaker 4: or put you on a treatment program. Me personally, I
Speaker 4: hear your case, I hear everything out, I look at
Speaker 4: your past history, and I feel that jail is not
Speaker 4: always the solution. Prison is not always the solution. Now,
Speaker 4: I do have some young ladies. They do let me
Speaker 4: know I would like to go to prison, Okay, why,
Speaker 4: And then I have to understand are you afraid of
Speaker 4: society or society afraid of you? Which one is it?
Speaker 4: And then once I dig a little bit deeper, as
Speaker 4: they call it folks, the bear, then they end up
Speaker 4: telling me why they want to.
Speaker 2: Go and what are some of the uncommon reasons or
Speaker 2: that people would be to find out.
Speaker 4: I'm just shocked, period. But now some of the reasons
Speaker 4: they may say, I don't want to be here at
Speaker 4: the county jail prison. We get more food, we get
Speaker 4: more activities, we get more wreck or whatever may be
Speaker 4: the case.
Speaker 1: Then you never know.
Speaker 4: They may have been a witness of something, or they
Speaker 4: may have been a part of something.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: That's one reason why. Because people know when people are
Speaker 4: getting transported, even though we're at the women's jail, from
Speaker 4: the time you leave us, get on the bus, go
Speaker 4: wherever you're going. People know because they they're able to
Speaker 4: keep track just like we are. They're able to go
Speaker 4: inside the system just like we are, but they can't
Speaker 4: go as deep. But they can go on LASD which
Speaker 4: is the La County Sheriff Department Booking Sheet, and it
Speaker 4: can let you know this person was released here, this
Speaker 4: person went here, so you know where they're at. But
Speaker 4: if they went to a treatment program or of course,
Speaker 4: you don't know where they're at.
Speaker 2: So what's the possibility that somebody might want to go
Speaker 2: to prison because they want to be locked up with
Speaker 2: somebody else that they may have beef with?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 5: I have not.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. What I'm trying to say is say, like, for instance,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you a Parmy doubles, it was a killing
Speaker 4: out here. Just say La County there was a killing,
Speaker 4: and content I'm just making up something. There was a
Speaker 4: killing and content the girl end up giving twelve years.
Speaker 4: Then she gets shipped to CCW with it a chumpshill
Speaker 4: of prison up there, you know, further out she gets
Speaker 4: shipped there. A lot of girls may know already Okay,
Speaker 4: this is such and such name. She was a part
Speaker 4: of a killing. And you know, either they're going to
Speaker 4: jump you or either they're going to help you. And
Speaker 4: sometimes that does happen. Oh wow, And it's sad, It's
Speaker 4: really really it's sad. I mean, I love my job
Speaker 4: as a social worker, don I do? Because I felt
Speaker 4: that I'm making a difference every day inside the jails
Speaker 4: with the young lady, and I am giving everyone an
Speaker 4: opportunity where to the point that hey we can change
Speaker 4: things around, maybe look at life a little bit different.
Speaker 4: But at some point I had to stay dan down
Speaker 4: to myself. They're constantly an open door. So what am
Speaker 4: I going to do?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 4: Constantly? I let you out, you come back ten or
Speaker 4: twelve days later, I said, what happened? You tell me
Speaker 4: I had the monkey on my back. I had to
Speaker 4: understand what that was because I sure didn't know what
Speaker 4: that meant until someone told me.
Speaker 1: And on drugs, right, yeah, at.
Speaker 4: First I thought they were talking about my rape, so
Speaker 4: I was on prison, but I didn't. I was just like, okay,
Speaker 4: because I thought they were talking about my rage. So
Speaker 4: I took it a different way because they were sending
Speaker 4: a monkey on their backs and I didn't know what
Speaker 4: that meant at the time. And I was just like, what,
Speaker 4: she's talking about my race and they were like, no,
Speaker 4: she's talking about facing the drug. I said, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: now I understand what it was meaning, because my mind
Speaker 4: went somewhere else, like, you're not going to keep on
Speaker 4: telling me this in my faith right? So I had
Speaker 4: to do a lot of you know, reality check within myself,
Speaker 4: and at the end of the day, I ended up
Speaker 4: putting the woman in the treatment program. And she's doing
Speaker 4: well from what I hear.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, thank you so much for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me ask you this, so because you do
Speaker 2: work within the correctional system facility, however you want to
Speaker 2: say it.
Speaker 1: Proposition thirty six.
Speaker 2: I was on the ballot and I believe individuals voted yes,
Speaker 2: and I think it's and I family you watching you
Speaker 2: listen and make rooms if I misspeak on something just
Speaker 2: noted in the comments.
Speaker 1: But essentially with Proposition thirty six. It's a harsher punishment
Speaker 1: for those who keep returning back or keep committing crimes.
Speaker 1: Do you think that the punishment should get more severe
Speaker 1: or you think that's unfair?
Speaker 4: I think it's unfair. What are you doing? I mean,
Speaker 4: what are you?
Speaker 6: What are you?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, y'all, what are you doing? I mean to me,
Speaker 4: you go to jail, we lock you up for thirty
Speaker 4: days or sixty days, then you get out, then you
Speaker 4: come back. I mean there is something going on mentally.
Speaker 4: There is something really going on mentally, but people don't
Speaker 4: think of that. All they see is African American men,
Speaker 4: African American women, or Latino men or women clean, clean,
Speaker 4: That's what they see because that's what's predominantly in our
Speaker 4: jails as we speak now. It's dominantly African American and Latinos.
Speaker 4: Other cultures very little, but it's mainly US.
Speaker 1: You know, interesting, I didn't take your perspective and consideration.
Speaker 2: I ignorantly the first thing I'm thinking about, if you
Speaker 2: keep committing a crime, yes, it's going to get more
Speaker 2: severe because you haven't learned your lesson. And why am
Speaker 2: I still going to keep putting a lot of spanking
Speaker 2: on your wrists because clearly it's like somebody, you keep
Speaker 2: giving them the rope, they gonna soon hang themselves. But
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just saying, why shouldn't it be more severe?
Speaker 2: Like why do you keep doing it? At what point
Speaker 2: do you stop?
Speaker 4: Right? Right? And that's where I come in where I
Speaker 4: want to poke the bear. I want to constantly poke
Speaker 4: the bear because I want to know there's something, there's
Speaker 4: some underlying issues that I'm not aware of in some
Speaker 4: kind of way. I'm gonna try my best to get
Speaker 4: them out of you and then we work through them,
Speaker 4: the underlying issues. Because trauma can start at a young age,
Speaker 4: child can be molested, whatever may be the case, and
Speaker 4: that trauma will carry them for so long gone until
Speaker 4: they become adult, and then they act out with the
Speaker 4: trauma or they go and start drinking or smoking or
Speaker 4: doing activity, you know, going to jail, back and forth,
Speaker 4: back and forth, because they're trying to cover up what
Speaker 4: they're going through trauma, and it brings in PTSZ, it
Speaker 4: brings in anxiety, it brings in depression.
Speaker 2: You made a great point just there now that I
Speaker 2: think about it, Your right, and is this supposed to
Speaker 2: basically take people's lives away or help carve.
Speaker 1: Out a new pathway.
Speaker 2: And I think that's probably like the underlying thing when
Speaker 2: we think about our prison systems, the jails. Is it
Speaker 2: about just taking somebody's opportunity in life or do we
Speaker 2: need to get to the heart of the matter because
Speaker 2: it happens to the.
Speaker 4: Part of the matter. I don't believe that everyone should
Speaker 4: belong in jail just because you committed a crime. I understand,
Speaker 4: but at the end of the day, you're still human.
Speaker 4: You put on your pants just like me, one leg
Speaker 4: and punch. You still got blood flowing through your body
Speaker 4: just like me. You're no different than me. The only
Speaker 4: difference is you committed a crime and I did not.
Speaker 4: But that doesn't mean that you're a bad person to me. No,
Speaker 4: we're gonna find out what's really going on, at least
Speaker 4: I do. I can only speak for me, don I
Speaker 4: can't speak for the other social workers in the jails,
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna tell you one thing about me, and
Speaker 4: they will let you know this one. She's gonna make
Speaker 4: sure she helps you get you out, and if you
Speaker 4: return back again, she's gonna be upset, but she's gonna
Speaker 4: try again. And then after a while, like I said,
Speaker 4: I have to wake up and say what's going on?
Speaker 4: Because I'm giving you to get out of jail free card.
Speaker 4: What are you doing with it? It's something going on
Speaker 4: that I don't know, but I need to get to
Speaker 4: the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for your thoughts.
Speaker 4: Thank you. And when Gas can leave in office, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be hard. It's gonna be It's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Do you think this means for La.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's gonna He got voted out by the
Speaker 4: other guy. I can't think of the other guy's name, Jane.
Speaker 1: What does this mean for La?
Speaker 4: Yes, for La County? No?
Speaker 1: What does it mean for us?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: What do you think? People need to be aware?
Speaker 4: What didn't mean? What it means is that the other
Speaker 4: one is more for the death penalty, putting people behind
Speaker 4: bars for years with no questions that when gast was
Speaker 4: releasing the loved ones, yees, he was doing a snatch
Speaker 4: and grab. Yes, that was wrong, I get that, But
Speaker 4: he believed in some of the people's cases that he
Speaker 4: digged up, you know, that was valid enough that he
Speaker 4: did really seek go back to their families.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 4: But like the menentus voice, but I don't even want
Speaker 4: to speak on that. That's just a story within itself
Speaker 4: that I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: Okay, well all right, well, thank you so much. I
Speaker 1: appreciate as.
Speaker 4: Always, I don't mind getting on the radio and thank
Speaker 4: you for allowing me to have this moment to speak
Speaker 4: to everyone.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just so grateful that you constantly pull up
Speaker 1: and while we're at go ahead and give a shout
Speaker 1: out to your organization and what kind of services that
Speaker 1: you offer for people that are trying to get back
Speaker 1: on the right track or just can eat another hand.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, everyone of My name is miss Jackson. The
Speaker 4: name of my non profit outside of my LA County
Speaker 4: job is called Sunshine Community Resource Organization Center and we're
Speaker 4: based out of Long Beach, Bichtinos. But we will help
Speaker 4: anyone in La County, Orange County, San Berdino County. It's
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Speaker 4: you know, I'm learning now you guys how to marry people.
Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, definitely check them out. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you. I'm about to get back all the
Speaker 4: way yo life. I mean I'm about to go back online.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, sounds great, Okay, thank you. I think
Speaker 1: well there you got it. I mean, wow.
Speaker 2: You know, I know some of our family here have
Speaker 2: been incarcerated, uh and been in different programs to perform
Speaker 2: working for.
Speaker 1: Ways to get their their record expunged.
Speaker 2: So you know, with this new election and Gasconne being
Speaker 2: voted out, what does this mean for the family. Now,
Speaker 2: Dale Cornygay says, Dawn, you need to call Tim, one
Speaker 2: of the corner Gays. Tim has been a very activist
Speaker 2: in the community. So I'm gonna try to give him
Speaker 2: a call and see if I can.
Speaker 1: Dale, I hope you to a call. He probably like,
Speaker 1: what number is this? Who calling me?
Speaker 7: Mm hmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm uh.
Speaker 1: Telephone number three.
Speaker 2: Don't want to do that again, all right, So we
Speaker 2: tried to Tall, We tried to call Tim Cornegay.
Speaker 1: Dale, do you want to say? Do you want me
Speaker 1: to call you? Dale? What you got to say? Let
Speaker 1: me see if Dale is still here.
Speaker 6: M h.
Speaker 4: I'm not even gonna do it while I'm driving.
Speaker 1: Wait, can you talk? Are you safe to talk?
Speaker 6: Not right now? Nah? Not right now?
Speaker 8: I want this twelve five a bumper?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, don't talk, Okay, thank you for.
Speaker 6: Being Let me hear him up. He might be on
Speaker 6: a phone call, okay, but we did holler him.
Speaker 8: He got, I.
Speaker 1: Know, he got. I just called him. I was like,
Speaker 1: he probably didn't recognize the number.
Speaker 4: All right, yeah, all right, all right.
Speaker 2: So yes, we are helping up the conversation talking about
Speaker 2: how people are you mad, sad or glad that now
Speaker 2: Donald J. Trump has been elected the forty seventh president,
Speaker 2: and more importantly, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: I understand that many people are looking at it as
Speaker 2: a negative way, But if we could just be real,
Speaker 2: we could just be honest everything Trump is talking about.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's all bad? Do you think some
Speaker 2: parts are good? Some parts are effective? And I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: because we're basically speaking, if everything was all bad how
Speaker 2: we feel that it is, would America be voting? Would
Speaker 2: you still see people that look like you, sound like you,
Speaker 2: walk like you, talk like you grew up in the
Speaker 2: same neighborhoods as you, and still say that they are
Speaker 2: voting for presidents Donald or Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump. I don't know why. Why was that hesitant for
Speaker 1: me to say?
Speaker 2: I don't know why because he's not president right now,
Speaker 2: but I guess after your president, you're always referred to
Speaker 2: as the president. But nevertheless, that's the conversation that we
Speaker 2: are having, and I want to welcome you to call
Speaker 2: me in the studio right now eight one a four
Speaker 2: six one fifty four to thirty two eight one eight
Speaker 2: four six one fifty four thirty two. We are talking
Speaker 2: about our thoughts, our views, and sharing our opinions that
Speaker 2: has been post election. What does it mean? How do
Speaker 2: people feel? More importantly, how are you preparing yourself? There
Speaker 2: are some people saying, I'm getting out of Dodge Dawn.
Speaker 2: I want to move out of the country. Some people
Speaker 2: are concerned with the fact of, oh my gosh, are
Speaker 2: my rights being totally taken away now Natasha, she says,
Speaker 2: I have always heard.
Speaker 1: When you white, you're right, and when you're black you
Speaker 1: stand back, ooh, when you're right white, when you white,
Speaker 1: you're right.
Speaker 2: When you're black you stand back ooh. That resonated in
Speaker 2: a way. You know, it's just unfortunate. You know, different
Speaker 2: things that from my understanding. Again, I'm working as not
Speaker 2: a news expert, but a commentator. So this is an
Speaker 2: open dialogue for if anything is misconstrued, let's have a
Speaker 2: conversation about it.
Speaker 1: But what is the old idea?
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of our welfare programs being demolished. We're
Speaker 2: talking about EBT, We're talking about some healthcare. What does
Speaker 2: that mean for people? How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: And these are the things that I'm talking about we
Speaker 2: need to talk about. Does it mean that everybody that
Speaker 2: is on the welfare system are they taking advantage of it?
Speaker 2: Is there any reason why today's age somebody must be
Speaker 2: on welfare. Does it mean that you're not working hard enough? Now,
Speaker 2: here's the thing. All of us stand on a different
Speaker 2: kind of life. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 2: that if you've had generations and generations that have helped up.
Speaker 1: Level your platform.
Speaker 2: Of course you can see over the fence, but what
Speaker 2: about somebody that had to dig themselves out, they had
Speaker 2: to dig a tunnel, Especially if you are a person
Speaker 2: of color, your platform isn't that high.
Speaker 1: So is it unfair what you say to be held
Speaker 1: to the same standard.
Speaker 2: Again, we're just having a conversation again, We're just trying
Speaker 2: to get to the heart of the matter again. If
Speaker 2: you have some thoughts that you want to share, this
Speaker 2: is your time right now. Please put us on some
Speaker 2: new ideas and ways of thinking how we should move
Speaker 2: or perhaps the different things that we should do.
Speaker 1: Now. I haven't heard anybody say how they're preparing for
Speaker 1: these next upcoming four years. What does it look like?
Speaker 1: Does anybody have any suggestions of the things that we
Speaker 1: need to put in place, things that we need to
Speaker 1: keep in mind, ways that we should guard our hearts
Speaker 1: in our minds. I want to hear from you. Call
Speaker 1: me right now.
Speaker 2: In the studio eight one eight four six one fifty
Speaker 2: four thirty two. That's eight one eight one fifty four
Speaker 2: thirty two. I want to hear from you. I want
Speaker 2: to know what this election was meaning to you. What
Speaker 2: does it mean for your family? Are there many What
Speaker 2: message would you say to the countless of people of
Speaker 2: color who you feel as though this election will negatively
Speaker 2: affect If you had something that you could say to them,
Speaker 2: if you had some words of wisdom you would share
Speaker 2: with them.
Speaker 1: What would you say?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: You can call me or you can put it in
Speaker 1: a chat. But either way I want to hear from
Speaker 1: you because if we don't get comfortable with having these
Speaker 1: conversations and I don't know what's gonna happen, we can't
Speaker 1: just keep sitting there on the sidelines waiting to see
Speaker 1: what everybody is talking about, because it very well could
Speaker 1: be your voice that can make a change. Now you
Speaker 1: heard it's scared of money, don't make money with scared
Speaker 1: of change. Don't make change. You're gonna have to be
Speaker 1: the change. And sometimes it just starts with a discussion.
Speaker 1: But don't sit here.
Speaker 2: On the sidelines murmuring under your breath, say oh, they
Speaker 2: should have did this, because now you the opportunity right
Speaker 2: now to talk about it, because you never know who
Speaker 2: knows who you don't know who this can reach, that
Speaker 2: can spark a different idea, that can get people march
Speaker 2: into a different tune, singing a different song. But if
Speaker 2: we're not talking about then what I'm just saying, I
Speaker 2: want to hear from you. I intentionally said let me
Speaker 2: make room. It is after the election. Folks are having misreviews.
Speaker 2: Some people said that the city in la was just quiet,
Speaker 2: it was just somber. But I'm like, it's interesting because
Speaker 2: if you look at the polls. Overall, this is what
Speaker 2: the country wanted. So when it's time to talk about something,
Speaker 2: and when it's time to stand up, I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to say, where you at. I can't see you because
Speaker 2: I can't hear you, and for many people, they can't
Speaker 2: be you. So what's up? How are we going to
Speaker 2: make the change? How do you suggest that we move forward?
Speaker 2: What does it look like? Please enlighten me. I'm coming
Speaker 2: in a space. Teach me something I did not know.
Speaker 2: Shed some light. Cause again, they can't all be bad.
Speaker 1: Some people say they want better food, better health coverage,
Speaker 1: they want to have higher wages. Why is it that
Speaker 1: folks feelings over with Trump? Those types of things will change.
Speaker 2: And how come Biden and Kamala Harris didn't make it happen.
Speaker 2: It's interesting a lot of people I shouldn't say a lot,
Speaker 2: but you know, common rhetoric that I would hear is like,
Speaker 2: you know, before, when we thought that a lot of
Speaker 2: black men weren't supporting Kamala Harris, it was like, well, she.
Speaker 1: Ain't spoke to us in the past four years.
Speaker 2: Why all of a sudden, you know, ninety days are
Speaker 2: having many days from the election, she got so much
Speaker 2: to say, Well, what did Trump ever say to you?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm just thinking back on the last rally
Speaker 2: that was up in New York. He had a whole
Speaker 2: comedian talking about was it the black neighbor? But something
Speaker 2: about carving up watermelon and putting it on their head?
Speaker 2: Talking about Puerto Rico is like an island floating with trash.
Speaker 2: So are we getting ahead of ourselves feeling though, as
Speaker 2: black descendants that we have been picked on? Because I mean,
Speaker 2: has he not been calling everybody out? Is that something
Speaker 2: we can appreciate now? Immediately I wanted to compare this
Speaker 2: to a comedy, he said, but there's nothing funny about this.
Speaker 2: But you know, just like a comedian, they sit there
Speaker 2: and poke fun at everybody, they calling everybody out. But
Speaker 2: the truth is unveiling, and so what does this truth
Speaker 2: say about you? What does this truth say to you? Again,
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to have a conversation again, I just
Speaker 2: feel like it's something as a people we need to
Speaker 2: talk more about. So I'm gonna go over here and
Speaker 2: try to get a couple more calls in. But I
Speaker 2: guess it's time to wrap it up because the purpose
Speaker 2: of this conversation today is to hear from you, to
Speaker 2: tell me what you think, to enlighten us with some
Speaker 2: vitamin D on how we need to move forward. Let
Speaker 2: me see if Miss Felicia is around, because I know
Speaker 2: she got something to say.
Speaker 7: Huh, looked like she might be busy.
Speaker 1: Your call has been forwarded to voicemail.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna try to call Miss Wanda. I
Speaker 2: know she has been extremely active when it comes down
Speaker 2: to us invited.
Speaker 1: Oh, here she go, Hi, sister girl, Hello, Hello, Hi
Speaker 1: Miss Felicia. Hey.
Speaker 2: I was calling because you know, I had put up
Speaker 2: a conversation. I said, the podcast will we gonna be
Speaker 2: talking about today? Is our people mad? Sad or glad.
Speaker 1: That Trump won? And I was just wondering, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts? How do you feel?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Numb? Numb for the most part. I'm I know we're
Speaker 5: on a roller coaster ride. Come January sixth. I don't
Speaker 5: want to really hear that man's voice. I don't turn
Speaker 5: my television off. I don't want to hear anything about
Speaker 5: his winnings. I know there's some scandal behind it somewhere
Speaker 5: in this country. I'm just tired and I'm just trying
Speaker 5: to relax by meditating and being creative in order to
Speaker 5: get my mind off this craziness. And let me ask
Speaker 5: you that, and what are just going to put my
Speaker 5: energy and trying to help Cornell West with that third party,
Speaker 5: with that third party going, because we need to change.
Speaker 1: We need to change so enlighten those who may not
Speaker 1: know what is Cornell doctor Cornell West talking about.
Speaker 6: Right now.
Speaker 5: He's talking about just moving forward, trying to get the
Speaker 5: Justice for All Party created so that they can be
Speaker 5: in the running or the party itself can be in
Speaker 5: the running and in their future. And you know, just
Speaker 5: getting involved, getting organized, to move.
Speaker 6: Forward and to be able to you know, just to.
Speaker 5: Be able to cope with whatever it is that we're
Speaker 5: going to be faced to deal with as in these
Speaker 5: next four years, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Now that's gonna sound absolutely insane what I'm about to say,
Speaker 1: but make wrong, because it just came to me, what,
Speaker 1: in fact, if this election Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump happens to be the best thing for let's just
Speaker 2: talk about black people right now in general. And well
Speaker 2: let's think of it like this, because right now we
Speaker 2: are forced to have to rely on each other, right,
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to depend on each other. And you know,
Speaker 2: before desegregation, while we may have experienced a lot of
Speaker 2: backlash outside of our community, we were stronger than ever.
Speaker 2: We bought for ourselves, much stronger. So is this a
Speaker 2: situation where now we're forced to look at our sisters
Speaker 2: and brothers to are left in the right and see
Speaker 2: who got us in our front in our back?
Speaker 1: Because clearly, if this is the case, it's time for
Speaker 1: us to rely on one another. Right.
Speaker 5: I agree with you, and I don't think that sounds
Speaker 5: asinine whatsoever. I think this is a it's gonna be
Speaker 5: a wake up call for a lot of folks. And
Speaker 5: like I said last week, you know, our educational system
Speaker 5: has spelled a lot of people, and a lot of
Speaker 5: folks can't think their way out of the box. And
Speaker 5: I'm glad to see that the numbers of black voters
Speaker 5: was as high as it was for both men and women,
Speaker 5: and there was only about eighteen to twenty percent of
Speaker 5: men that did not vote for Kamala. The people that
Speaker 5: failed us was white folks and Latino men.
Speaker 6: Those were those were the.
Speaker 1: Three groups that voted for Trump.
Speaker 5: And we need to see these people for who.
Speaker 1: They are and stop all that Kumbai yah, Well what
Speaker 1: that mean? What does that mean?
Speaker 5: It means opening our arms and doors to everybody else,
Speaker 5: take care of ourselves, just like you said. You know,
Speaker 5: I think the one thing that messed us up as
Speaker 5: a people was probably desegregating. And we did better when
Speaker 5: we had our own stores in our own communities.
Speaker 1: And thriving makes.
Speaker 2: You think of how brilliant the psychological mind.
Speaker 1: F uck if I.
Speaker 2: Could say it, it is because for some reason, and
Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna be transparent, you know, I get older,
Speaker 2: I get wiser, But it has been sometimes we feel
Speaker 2: like if we go outside of us, or we reach
Speaker 2: somewhere else, that we got a better product, the better opportunity,
Speaker 2: a better situation.
Speaker 5: We have been psychologically damaged to believe that other people's
Speaker 5: I guess you know, other people's situation is better than
Speaker 5: what we have and.
Speaker 6: We just need to.
Speaker 5: Well it's a lot, well, it's a lot of damage,
Speaker 5: you know, that we have to deal with. And the
Speaker 5: question is are people willing to deal with that technological
Speaker 5: damage that has been plaguing us for in our DNA
Speaker 5: for years and years and generations?
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, and that just brings it back to
Speaker 2: Miss Latasha. She was saying, especially we were just talking
Speaker 2: about the prison systems and so forth, and.
Speaker 1: Even with proposition thirty six.
Speaker 2: About you know, upping the crime if you've been convicted
Speaker 2: more than once. And she's like, well, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: because now that Gascon's out and he had.
Speaker 1: Ideas and ways to actually help people and not just
Speaker 1: you know, keeping people incarcerated forever.
Speaker 2: It just makes you think about, like the fact of
Speaker 2: what is this going to mean for the people? I
Speaker 2: lost my thought because the phone rang. My apologies, but
Speaker 2: what does this mean when we talk about our people
Speaker 2: being locked up if we not get into the heart
Speaker 2: of the matter about what people are dealing with mentally.
Speaker 6: We got a lot of self reflection we got to do.
Speaker 5: But with people being so mentally out there on a
Speaker 5: negative kind of way, you know, they don't even know.
Speaker 6: They damn much.
Speaker 5: I guess we first gotta figure I know that you
Speaker 5: are damaged before you can do something about it. Then
Speaker 5: once you figure that out, you gotta want to do
Speaker 5: something about it.
Speaker 6: Do the people want to fix.
Speaker 5: Themselves and their issues and their problems?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's almost like I feel like with some people, Uh,
Speaker 2: it's like being in a room with the lights.
Speaker 1: Off and you don't even know that they loft.
Speaker 6: M.
Speaker 1: Miss Taja said, mental health is real. Okay, well, thank you,
Speaker 1: Miss Felicia.
Speaker 2: And we got on the seventeenth, we celebrating the birthday
Speaker 2: in the house.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, We're pulling up over some sound bath,
Speaker 1: some yoga. I'm gonna hit one of them days.
Speaker 2: It's a little crazy right now because I'm in class
Speaker 2: and I gotta pause.
Speaker 1: I was coming up.
Speaker 4: There by myself yesterday.
Speaker 2: I saw it last minute. I'm gonna look at the
Speaker 2: dates again. I'm gonna pull up on you. We're gonna
Speaker 2: celebrate and do some yoga, sound bath, all that stuff.
Speaker 5: And it was good seeing that to be her film
Speaker 5: festival is going on that week.
Speaker 6: Yeah too.
Speaker 10: Down there at LA Live November fifteen, sixteenth, and seventeen,
Speaker 10: So I'll be down there as well, looking at some
Speaker 10: short films and movies done by up and coming.
Speaker 5: Directors and producers of African American descent and.
Speaker 6: Of the diaspora.
Speaker 1: All right now, So.
Speaker 5: That's available to your listeners if they want to come
Speaker 5: out and check out some good movies.
Speaker 6: Go over there to LA.
Speaker 5: Live on November fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeen, there's a black
Speaker 5: Them festival going on.
Speaker 6: Go to be her?
Speaker 5: Okay, well hl Shandra Manley Film Festival.
Speaker 1: B h e r okay, Well, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Miss Felicia. I'll be talking to you soon. Sure. All right,
Speaker 1: bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 2: I love what she'd be like show now. Okay, Tim
Speaker 2: Cornergay call. So let's see what Tim talking about. You
Speaker 2: know we up leveling. Listen, make before the whole conversation
Speaker 2: was I was at home. I said, I got to
Speaker 2: get back in the studio. I was trying to rig
Speaker 2: it to where I can have y'all call in in
Speaker 2: the studio line. I was hoping for multiple lines. But listen,
Speaker 2: we make your room because you see it, you see it.
Speaker 2: Soon I'm gonna have a produce up in here, okay,
Speaker 2: And soon we'll be having multiple calls and lines. And
Speaker 2: soon I ain't gonna be out here having to call
Speaker 2: each and every one of ya because y're gonna be
Speaker 2: blowing me up. Okay, So let me call mister corner gaye,
Speaker 2: Tim Corner Gay. Let's see what he got to say.
Speaker 1: This is doing like the break of day. Hey, Dode,
Speaker 1: are you I'm doing good? I'm doing good. I got
Speaker 1: you live on the podcast. Yeah right now, that's why
Speaker 1: I said, let me tell you right.
Speaker 11: With Okay, Dell was telling me that I need to
Speaker 11: be war You've been warned, I've been warned.
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear your thoughts. Are you mad? Are
Speaker 1: you glad? Are you sad that Trump won? What does
Speaker 1: this mean? And what do we need to do as
Speaker 1: a people to engage and move forward?
Speaker 6: For one, I'm neither mad, glad, nor sad. I'm inspired
Speaker 6: to go to work that you know. I know anytime
Speaker 6: in elections situations.
Speaker 9: Like that, the election is over on Tuesday and it's
Speaker 9: time to go to work, are gonna.
Speaker 6: Win the Uh?
Speaker 9: The Trump situation just proves that in the country we
Speaker 9: live in, anything can happen at any time to anybody.
Speaker 9: And uh a culture of misbehavior, a culture of racism,
Speaker 9: a culture of disrespecting women. Uh no pun intended, but
Speaker 9: its trumps information in common sense. So it puts us
Speaker 9: in the position where we really have to understand that,
Speaker 9: you know, a lot hasn't changed in this country.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 2: So why are we trying to act all surprise? What
Speaker 2: do you think that's about?
Speaker 9: Well, you know, some people want to believe a beautiful
Speaker 9: lie and the beautiful.
Speaker 6: Life, that race doesn't exist in this country at the
Speaker 6: highest level, that is being.
Speaker 9: Minimized by the opportunities that's been given to some, and that.
Speaker 6: If you work hard enough, you study hard enough, you.
Speaker 9: May be able to access what they call the American dream,
Speaker 9: when the truth of the matter is the struggle is
Speaker 9: real for most And if Tuesday didn't prove that white
Speaker 9: privileged reign supreme, then we in trouble.
Speaker 6: So now, so you know, for me, local.
Speaker 9: Has to take care of itself. Can't spend too much
Speaker 9: time worrying about what's what's taking place nationally and not
Speaker 9: focused the intention on what's going on locally.
Speaker 6: Because while.
Speaker 9: The country was electing a president with thirty four felony conventions,
Speaker 9: in the state of California was.
Speaker 6: Our communities were busy.
Speaker 9: Not passing Proposition six and eliminating force servitude in the
Speaker 9: California apartment all corrections and not necessarily rehabilitation. We didn't
Speaker 9: overturn cost the Hawkins to deliver a degree of rent
Speaker 9: control to folks who might needed, nor did we pass
Speaker 9: a mandatory minimum wage, which that part right there might
Speaker 9: be unbelievable, especially considering how much it costs lived in
Speaker 9: most parts of California. But last, and certainly not least
Speaker 9: and maybe the most wicked is voters passed Prop thirty six.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about it, because here's the thing. I
Speaker 2: would think that if you okay, y'all, this is what
Speaker 2: I was talking about with Miss Tatasha, and I was
Speaker 2: talking about how essentially like if you're committed a crime,
Speaker 2: and if you commit a crime repeatedly, the punishment gets
Speaker 2: more severe.
Speaker 1: Is that correct him? Or can you share with me?
Speaker 9: You don't need newer You don't need newer laws to
Speaker 9: address the issues.
Speaker 6: That you know, they have been highlighting. And for one,
Speaker 6: in terms of.
Speaker 9: Smashing grab, smashing grab is not is not legally considered
Speaker 9: to be paid to them, because anytime you enter a
Speaker 9: business and deliver what legally they turn as threat of
Speaker 9: forcing violent then your crime automatically become serious and a felony.
Speaker 9: So so to say that they needed new legislation to
Speaker 9: impact you know, the smashing graunds that have been taking
Speaker 9: place across California is just you know, pure narrative manipulation,
Speaker 9: because there's already laws on the books to address that
Speaker 9: and to recriminalize drug uses in drug possession to mandate
Speaker 9: force rehab or prison for individuals that you know they
Speaker 9: know need help.
Speaker 6: That that doesn't make sense at all. It doesn't make
Speaker 6: physical sense.
Speaker 9: But it doesn't make make physical sense either, because it's
Speaker 9: going to cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 9: to actually implement the things.
Speaker 12: That are going to be needed as result the Prop
Speaker 12: thirty six.
Speaker 2: So you're saying, because I'm just trying to think of
Speaker 2: some of the things that I saw when I was
Speaker 2: reading on voting for it. So you're saying that if
Speaker 2: an individual is caught with a hard drugs such as fentanyl.
Speaker 6: And they are mandatory present, you.
Speaker 1: Don't think that that should be the case.
Speaker 6: But here's the thing. If an individual is inadvertently.
Speaker 9: In possession of fentanyl, the law is still applicable.
Speaker 2: When you say inadvertently, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 9: That that means a lot of these drugs that are
Speaker 9: being passed around nowadays or cut with fentanyl and.
Speaker 6: The people who are in possession of it don't know it.
Speaker 6: But you should you even.
Speaker 1: Be doing the drug in the first place?
Speaker 6: Should people?
Speaker 9: Well, you know, I think drug gives us a personal
Speaker 9: decision that if you want to infuse your body with
Speaker 9: some kind of toxic substance. That's a personal decision. You
Speaker 9: need help, you don't need handcuffs.
Speaker 1: Hmm hmm.
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like and maybe because I'm not
Speaker 2: as well versed, because I mean, I'm trying to I
Speaker 2: hear what you're saying, but it's like, we can't make
Speaker 2: it okay. I don't think necessarily we should put people
Speaker 2: as an example, but I don't think it should be
Speaker 2: overlooked to the fact that you should not be in
Speaker 2: possession of fence and all. I don't know because I
Speaker 2: think I think I did vote yes on this because
Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself, well, how do we stop it?
Speaker 1: I was looking at a post, a social media post.
Speaker 2: This girl was in Japan or something like that, and
Speaker 2: she said she couldn't find no marijuana at all. She
Speaker 2: was like, people have CBD, but it's an absolute hard no.
Speaker 2: And how do we get to the heart of the
Speaker 2: matter to stop because if we get enough people hypothetically,
Speaker 2: if they're incarcerated, are people scared enough? Isn't this gonna
Speaker 2: essentially save our community?
Speaker 9: But the I mean, you know, the increase of penalties
Speaker 9: has never been determined to actual commission of crime, and
Speaker 9: that's that's that's one thing. But how about investing in
Speaker 9: the root cause of why things are the way they are?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: Locking up?
Speaker 9: Locking folks up to address a problem doesn't cure the problem.
Speaker 6: It just prolongs the problem.
Speaker 2: Oh, so what's the cure if you got some people
Speaker 2: that don't even want to get help what you're supposed
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 9: When you have folks who don't want who don't want
Speaker 9: to be help, then there may be some kind of
Speaker 9: mental deficiency or some kind of mental challenges that they're
Speaker 9: suffering from.
Speaker 1: And so why we aren't and why aren't we investing
Speaker 1: in that?
Speaker 6: Huh exactly?
Speaker 2: It's almost like you know and partnering how this may
Speaker 2: come off. But it's like, well, is this a situation
Speaker 2: where we're trying to fix broken people?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: And is it a way that there comes to a
Speaker 2: point there's nothing you can do, Like, if somebody is
Speaker 2: out of their mind, how are you able to talk
Speaker 2: sentence in them?
Speaker 1: How can real change take place because you can't even
Speaker 1: hear me?
Speaker 6: Or is that I'm the same token.
Speaker 9: If somebody's out of their mind, how does locking them
Speaker 9: up address it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 13: So, so where where where is the middle road, where's
Speaker 13: the opportunity to develop an understanding the model on how
Speaker 13: to deal with this as opposed to just throwing your
Speaker 13: hands up and saying that I just want to spend
Speaker 13: a bunch of taxpayers' money to hide you from a society,
Speaker 13: to make it look like we're dealing with the problem,
Speaker 13: which is all that's being done, and just putting individuals
Speaker 13: in stations where society doesn't have to see it, but
Speaker 13: the problem still exists.
Speaker 1: Natasha Missatasha said, it's called a broken mirror.
Speaker 6: So then I would not disagree.
Speaker 1: What did you say we need to do and what
Speaker 1: do we do?
Speaker 6: Then it's going to generate a long conversation. But we
Speaker 6: need to invest in humanity.
Speaker 9: We need to invest in healing. We need to invest
Speaker 9: in trauma and form care. We need to invest in
Speaker 9: the researching in thatalysis that it takes to get to
Speaker 9: the root.
Speaker 6: Cause of why all of a sudden, there are.
Speaker 13: So many people who choose homelessness as a way a lot.
Speaker 12: There are so many people that want to escape from
Speaker 12: the harsh reality that their life presenting with to a
Speaker 12: such a drug.
Speaker 1: Hm hmm, I'm here for.
Speaker 12: It that that you know, that would be my take
Speaker 12: on it.
Speaker 1: Amor well, thank you so much. Is there any last
Speaker 1: things you want to say to the people.
Speaker 2: About how to encourage people to forward or things we
Speaker 2: should focus on, anything at all?
Speaker 9: Lastly, I would say, folks, if you know it's to
Speaker 9: take care of yourself, think in terms of you know,
Speaker 9: being healthy as you possibly can, and learn how to
Speaker 9: love yourself, because when you love yourself, it's easier to
Speaker 9: love someone else.
Speaker 12: Come on, that's that would be my closing statement.
Speaker 1: All right, mister corner gay, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: pulling up on me.
Speaker 6: Oh you are so welcome, and thank you for calling.
Speaker 6: Appreciate the opportunity. Stay blessed you too.
Speaker 2: All right, peace, I ain't gonna hold you. I agree
Speaker 2: when do we get to the healing? But the healing
Speaker 2: is gonna require some feeling. It's gonna call, it's gonna
Speaker 2: require conversation, and it's gonna be something we gotta work through.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to massage this. This is not a
Speaker 2: hitting and credit. We gotta figure out what the pressure
Speaker 2: points are with anger and also how much pressure to apply,
Speaker 2: because you're right, essentially it is putting the band aid
Speaker 2: over or hiding and you know, vitamin Dick is all
Speaker 2: about shutting the light on the good and the bad.
Speaker 2: Because what do I say, if you want to be
Speaker 2: better and you want to do better, well, you're going
Speaker 2: to have to be able to see better. And just
Speaker 2: having you out of sight meaning having you incarcon rated
Speaker 2: putting you in it does not mean that we're getting
Speaker 2: to the heart of the matter. And just like Mistatasha
Speaker 2: was saying, right, a lot of people have been traumatized
Speaker 2: victimized in so many ways that they forgot or we
Speaker 2: as society are not even treating them as humanized individual I.
Speaker 1: Was riding on the rhyme there in case you didn't
Speaker 1: catch it, but no, essentially, yeah, how do we invest
Speaker 1: in humanity?
Speaker 2: And it just makes me think of brother Poverb, one
Speaker 2: of the first individuals we had on the line that
Speaker 2: calls in and basically stated, you know, Dawn.
Speaker 1: This is the change that we need to see. Dawn.
Speaker 2: How are we gonna get together to be that change?
Speaker 2: At what point do we decide to be the change?
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, we having a conversation, MISTERA. Tasha says
Speaker 2: it's gonna take blood, sweat and tears. Hollright, I want
Speaker 2: to walcome into one else. I wants to call in
Speaker 2: with some thoughts, some views and opinions. Eight one, eight
Speaker 2: four six one fifty four thirty two. That's eight one,
Speaker 2: eight four six, one fifty four to thirty two. We
Speaker 2: are having a conversation about what it means the selection.
Speaker 2: What is it going to mean for us as a society,
Speaker 2: as a community, and most importantly as a people. Now
Speaker 2: I had introduced the notion to Miss Felicia, I said, well,
Speaker 2: what if this is the best thing that could ever
Speaker 2: happen to us, because for some reason, maybe we had
Speaker 2: our sunglasses too and too long. Maybe we've been hiding
Speaker 2: under the rock, behind a bush, behind the building, somewhere
Speaker 2: in the shadows, that we forgot to see America for
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 1: They say, you do not fear what you can see,
Speaker 1: it is what you do not see. So now that
Speaker 1: in case we had our shades on too long, in
Speaker 1: case our vision was blurred, it's crystal clear now. So
Speaker 1: beyond the time before when we had to before desegregation,
Speaker 1: we had to rely on ourselves, we are in a
Speaker 1: situation we are going to have to require for us
Speaker 1: to look to our left and our right have somebody's
Speaker 1: front and have somebody's back. This is a three sixty
Speaker 1: ordeal that we're going to have to address. And like
Speaker 1: brother Prover was saying, I had lost it, I got
Speaker 1: it back. Now? Is that what happened when you get older?
Speaker 1: Hush your mouth? Uh, just like how he was saying,
Speaker 1: even with the jobs before, he's you know, working for Metro.
Speaker 1: Now he may be sitting there watching a robot operate
Speaker 1: the Metro. When do we get back to investing in
Speaker 1: ourselves and when do we draw the line when it
Speaker 1: comes down to some of these technology and advances that
Speaker 1: we are now cutting our own self off the pie.
Speaker 1: And I'll be damn because everybody's trying to get a
Speaker 1: slice of postle. How is it working to our advantage
Speaker 1: to cut ourselves off? So again, to bring it right back?
Speaker 1: Maybe this could be the best thing to happen for us,
Speaker 1: not to us, I said for us, because now we
Speaker 1: got to rely on each other. Now we need to
Speaker 1: uplovel the conversation. Now, if we see somebody doing something
Speaker 1: they ain't got no business doing, we pull them to
Speaker 1: the side, we offer those resources, we start these organizations,
Speaker 1: we start back to talking to one another. WACA everybody. No,
Speaker 1: I'm more sleeping in Ben.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, we having a real conversation with puerile
Speaker 2: people right now, Vitamin D. And I'm so glad that
Speaker 2: you can join me. Now we are closing it up.
Speaker 2: I want to welcome once again if you want to
Speaker 2: call in. It's not too late to share some thoughts,
Speaker 2: some views and opinions. We have said a lot today.
Speaker 2: You know, I just got a different understanding what's happening
Speaker 2: on with proposition thirty six? Is anybody going to be
Speaker 2: impacted by what's happening with the rent control? I mean,
Speaker 2: at what point do we have to realize not make
Speaker 2: room for what I'm about to say? Is there a
Speaker 2: point well we need to take in consideration that maybe
Speaker 2: we do not need to rely on welfare as much.
Speaker 1: Is that a thing? Is that such a thing?
Speaker 2: Now, Bearra says, I'm tired of hearing our skin colored
Speaker 2: folks talking about Yeah, now I can get to another
Speaker 2: stimulus check. I look at them with disgust, and they
Speaker 2: have the nerves to be so happy about it. All
Speaker 2: I can think of is you want of them? And
Speaker 2: have to distance myself from you. Not in those exact words,
Speaker 2: but hey, people that are leaning for a handout, is
Speaker 2: that what you're saying? These are conversations. I understand what
Speaker 2: you're saying, not even myself. Here's the thing too, And
Speaker 2: I don't agree with people that will rely on it,
Speaker 2: but I do think that when we've all worked a
Speaker 2: job and we've all had to rely on it, it
Speaker 2: should be the and we should use it. I don't
Speaker 2: think it makes you less than I think it should
Speaker 2: be what it's used for. But now we're going to
Speaker 2: strip away from people have an opportunity. But then your
Speaker 2: white beer. How do we draw the line of people
Speaker 2: that's just getting the free money?
Speaker 1: Again?
Speaker 2: A lot of people are experience and trauma. Again, some
Speaker 2: people just don't have that common sense, like miss Latasha
Speaker 2: was saying. So that's what we're talking about, all right, y'all?
Speaker 2: Will I guess it's about that time. I don't have
Speaker 2: anybody else on the line that's calling through. I don't
Speaker 2: have anybody else that I'm about to call to speak to.
Speaker 2: So I want to thank you so much for pulling
Speaker 2: up on me. Thank you so much for this conversation.
Speaker 2: I appreciate each and every one of you pulling up
Speaker 2: to show your thoughts, your views and opinions about what
Speaker 2: this means for us. I hope it's highlighted that we
Speaker 2: need to make sure we stand on the local stands
Speaker 2: and get to know one another, to help one another,
Speaker 2: because all we got is one another and what's happening
Speaker 2: around us. Yes, I understand that we ought to be
Speaker 2: concerned about what's happening on the national level. But what's
Speaker 2: happening in your neighborhood, what's happening right down the block? Heck,
Speaker 2: what's happening right next door where you can reach out to.
Speaker 1: So I'm off of my solf bucks.
Speaker 2: Yes, Misstatasha, you will see me in December for the
Speaker 2: toy drive. We are gonna have ourselves a good time. Yes,
Speaker 2: Sunshine Resource Center out there in Long Beach. I want
Speaker 2: to thank all of you once again for pulling up.
Speaker 2: I am going to keep you.
Speaker 1: Guys posted on Facebook about next week.
Speaker 2: Bear says, I love it here. Keep doing your things,
Speaker 2: says love It. You are truly needed for us. Oh,
Speaker 2: thank you. You're gonna make me get a emotion now, y'all.
Speaker 2: You can't fail if you don't quit. Okay, keep pushing,
Speaker 2: keep pressing. I press myself back in the studio.
Speaker 1: Do you all remember when I was talking about this?
Speaker 1: Oh God, and I just thank you all for for
Speaker 1: sticking by me. I start to get in more when
Speaker 1: people say.
Speaker 2: You gotta be out of your mind for your dreams
Speaker 2: because it is not gonna make sense every logical reason.
Speaker 1: You're like, what, But you gotta have heart and you
Speaker 1: gotta stay in ten toes now.
Speaker 2: So it's maybe steps, but we've progressing because you see it,
Speaker 2: you see it. It's Latasha, miss Mayan is asking what's
Speaker 2: the address for the toy drive? Can you comment and
Speaker 2: put the information? So as always about to say, excuse me,
Speaker 2: give myself together. I have a huge show coming up.
Speaker 2: It's one of my dreams too. I got a show
Speaker 2: on Monday, November eighteenth, and I'm gonna have multiple scripts
Speaker 2: to memorize to get ready for this performance.
Speaker 1: And yes, I love this here. I love what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna try to figure out I can balance
Speaker 2: the time with next week being the right preparation for
Speaker 2: the show if I'm gonna be a live So there
Speaker 2: is a possibility that vitamin D will be off next week,
Speaker 2: just because I want to make sure I'm able to
Speaker 2: focus and hone in for my performance, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be back after that, cousin, Yes you do. I'm Brenda
Speaker 2: Kane last year and now I'm on the next level.
Speaker 2: So I got a performance on Monday the eighteenth and November,
Speaker 2: and then I have one in January, so maybe you
Speaker 2: can come into January if November eighteenth is too soon.
Speaker 2: But AnyWho, I want to thank all of you. Thank
Speaker 2: you for pulling up on me. Thankful for standing by me.
Speaker 2: Be sure to check out misstatashash comment and the comments
Speaker 2: about how to reach out to it for the toy
Speaker 2: job that I will be at on December twentieth to
Speaker 2: pass out the kids, and we're gonna really do the
Speaker 2: promotion going and we're gonna have you on a couple
Speaker 2: times to really promote the great work you are doing.
Speaker 2: So thank you, thank you, and thank you. Okay, all right, y'all,
Speaker 2: I love you and I appreciate you, and I see
Speaker 2: you and make sure you see yourself.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: If you love this podcast, make sure you share it
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Speaker 2: Dawn Day got a podcast and it's called Vitamin D
Speaker 2: all right. Also, you know I take advice letters, or
Speaker 2: if you would like to recommend somebody to be a guest,
Speaker 2: send me an email. Vitamin D at Dawn Dai speaks
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Speaker 1: Vitamin D Dawn d Ai. And then, of.
Speaker 2: Course, as always, if you want your own personal Vitamin D, that.
Speaker 1: Be me, baby, I love doing that. Follow me on
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Speaker 2: Media at dawn Dai speaks dot com. You know, I
Speaker 2: always say I'm in the business of making dreams come
Speaker 2: true and I damn sure ain't gonna forget about mind.
Speaker 2: So until next time, family, always remember you are your
Speaker 2: great assassin.
Speaker 3: Get your item Indy right here with me, and get
Speaker 3: excited about your