WEBVTT - Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:08.360 What's good. Family, I'm your girl to make a d 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.880 Mallory and your boy my son in general, and we 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.239 are your hosts of street politicians the place where the 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:21.320 street me. What's going on? My son Lennen. We had 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.160 a good week, relaxed a little bit. The weather ain't 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.400 completely freezing. It could be better, but it ain't freezing. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:35.840 It's freezing. I don't know about completely absolutely freezing. Forty 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.120 and fifty is good. I take forty and fifty or 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.560 thirty and twenty is freezing because at night it's thirty. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:44.760 And you know, I've been going out at night here 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.680 and there. Okay, I just wanted to be I just 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:52.280 want the record outside with it. I've been going out. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.800 I've been looking cute and doing something because sitting in 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.880 the house is not going to accomplish any other thing 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.160 that I need to get done there. You can't make 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:08.600 no money in the house. People are yeah. But the 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.240 thing is, in order to get the position in the house, 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.160 you got to go outside, find the people, get the 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.839 relationships set up. Then you can bring the work inside 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.520 the house and make it happen. But you're not getting 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.679 ready to sit all day long on the internet and 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:30.959 never um with network with other individuals and then just 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.520 come up with a million dollar thing. It's not gonna happen. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.160 Even if you have a new product. You might be 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.320 making it in your basement, but at some point you 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.080 got to go selling it to somebody. Well, you got 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.920 enough resources. At this point, you've got enough resources relationships. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.720 If you come there, you can sit there because you've 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.040 done it, and get on that computer and say let's 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.440 figure this out. Because I've been your way. I've been 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.080 telling you get outside of you where you've got to 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.559 go outside. I don't need to be outside. My bid 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.080 is perfect. I got my com you I'm working a sudden, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.440 I still have to go outside. I still have to 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.400 go outside. I still have to be at events. I 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.560 still have to Now we're opening back up. You know, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.800 students don't want to necessarily be on virtual so I 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.680 have to go to states and meet people. COVID is 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.680 becoming a thing again where all of a sudden, folks 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.119 are starting to get infected with COVID and in large groups. Um, 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.160 I just had Actually, my makeup artist was just telling 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.480 me that a group of her friends were together recently. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.799 They've been getting together for a while, but just this 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.400 time that they got together, several people within the group 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.520 got COVID. Hopefully all of them will be fine and 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.960 it won't, you know, be life threatening. But that's also 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.040 a thing. So you know, there's a lot of stuff 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.840 happening as always. But I do think that unfortunately we 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.640 have to I don't think we should ever return to 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.960 a time where people have to work every day outside 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.800 of their homes. I do not think that that is 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.280 um productive. I think we are. I don't know if 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.280 that's really true. I just I think there has to 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.320 be a balance of anything. That's what I'm saying. I said, 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.880 That's why I said every day, Well, because I love 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.919 that you have. Right. You can't sweep You can't sweep 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.480 the floors from your house, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.880 You can't. You can't manage the story that's down a 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.160 block from your home. But what you can do, though, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.960 is set it up where people have a work schedule 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:35.040 that allows coverage of individuals, so that one person is 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.560 not sweeping the floors for you know, forty hours a week, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.560 but instead they get a certain amount of hours a 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:47.440 pay increase, so they're still making the same amount of money, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.680 but they don't really, they don't really. How you getting pad? 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.360 You want somebody getting paid? Let's work. No. No, that means, 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.040 first of all, because first of all, people should to 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.680 be allowed time to be able to take a class, 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:07.080 learn some other. If we're if America is going to 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.440 at any point ever in life, in my lifetime, in 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.000 your lifetime, accomplish what it says and and rise to 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.960 its greatest place, then we would give people tools that 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.240 they need so that they can make more money and 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.920 be more successful. Right, But if you're a person who's 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.320 working all day, maybe two or three jobs, you might 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.440 not have time to take a class. Also while you're 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.280 trying to take care of your kids so you can 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.360 get that promotion or what have you. The whole problem 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.760 is that people who are sweeping floors are getting paid 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:45.760 below the wage that it is required for them to 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.560 be able to take care of their families. So if 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.760 you're making eight dollars an hour, that should not be 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:56.039 a thing anymore in our society, people, the minimum wage 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:00.000 increase at fifteen dollars should be the norm, and fifteen 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.920 dollars ain't ship. So the thing about this, let's say 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.719 I got a little mom and pop store, right, I'm 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.719 paying five thousand dollars a month for the rent. I'm 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:16.200 paying each employee fifteen fifteen dollars. I need about five 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.760 or six employees, and I don't make the amount of 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.880 money to pay none of these people. So those those 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.840 things are realistic. So if if you have, if you're 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.760 saying that people have to have a minimum amount of things, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.760 then there's less employees that I have. So if it's 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.680 less employees that I've had able to pay fifteen dollars, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.279 and it's less people that's able to work throughout forty 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.520 our day. So if I only got if I gotta 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.960 pay everybody fifteen hours, I've only got two people I 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.320 could pay, right, because I can't afford to pay nobody 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.360 else because I'm not making enough money. That the rent 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.760 is too high, especially when you look at inflation, the 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.640 rent and every the rent is too damn how everything 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.880 is going all the way up. So to be able 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.320 to do what you're talking about, it's very hard. I 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:05.920 have to say two points on this. The first thing 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.080 is that our government should be given better subsidies to 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.479 small businesses, right, so that these small businesses can access 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.960 capital to keep them afloat where they have two pools 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.120 of money, the money that they're bringing in from their 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.039 products and services and the money that the government is 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.280 supposed to give and does give to some some businesses. Right, 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:33.000 Because if you are an m WBE in New York 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.039 and I don't know about other cities, I know that 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.919 there are m w b E programs other places, but 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.719 certainly in New York State, which is a minority woman 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.680 owned business, right, and you apply for all of this 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.400 stuff that takes of course, it's like it's like it's 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.120 it's almost like laying yourself on a slab and telling 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.719 somebody to stab you a thousand times in order for 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:00.280 you to actually get the certification. But if you're able 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.839 to get it one, you get in the pipeline for 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:07.040 more contracts. And that's everything from food services, cleaning services, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.440 so that's the little sweeping the floor jobs you're talking about, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.640 all the way up to you know, big contracts for 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.960 the airport and the build things and what have you. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.320 You're supposed to be in line and sometimes front of 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.760 the line to be able to put r FPS into 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.640 get those programs. But then there are also subsidies that 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.640 come down from the state that should go to these 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.840 small businesses so that you can stay afloat, so that 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.679 you can especially in times of like you've got COVID 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.280 and you have other things that happen that will help 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.880 you to be able to pay your bills. The problem 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.480 is that m w b S black folks try to 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.200 apply for you know how difficult it is for us 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.480 with application processes. But what they say is women owned businesses. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:55.120 So guess what happens. White women go get the licenses 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.920 and the certification and then they become the owner of 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.600 the businesses that their white husbands are running. So again, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:10.200 every area there is at the system, use the system 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.640 as it currently stands. But then the second thing is 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:19.720 it's corporate greed, right, because a part of being able 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:24.240 to level out things in our society is that corporations 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:28.200 are taking so much. They have employees that are not 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.839 being paid properly. Uh, they are not giving the appropriate benefits, 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.920 and they're not paying their do share of taxes and 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.640 other things to our society. And so therefore we're living 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:45.080 in an unbalanced network if you will, or reality, and 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.160 that's one of our biggest challenges. So everything that I'm 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.839 talking about, yeah, that's like vision for the future. That's 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.320 hoping one they will find a president. One day, there 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.960 will be a president that will come forward that will 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.079 have Donald Trump's balls. But excuse me, I don't know 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.840 if I'm supposed to say that, Hey, I said it, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:12.280 I don't try. Um testicular fortitude, but testicular fortitude, but 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:17.160 but but but um the moral standing of someone who 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.640 actually wants to do right by society where they will say, 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.840 I don't care if I don't get elected for another 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.319 four years, but this is the ship that I'm gonna 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.160 put in place, and I'm going to hold to my 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.760 word regardless of whether people like me or not. I 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.120 don't know when that's ever gonna happen because everybody is 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.920 out here so much for elections, but I would hope that, yeah, 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.360 that's that's gonna I don't see that really happening. I 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.959 don't see. But just understanding the justice system, in the 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.240 legal system and all of this system and government, now, 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.400 I just understand that it's it's it's all a game. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.320 So the game. So we just got to figure out 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.640 how we could play the best we can and how 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:00.640 do we exist within it and build structures, small structures 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.520 that we can build infrastructures within this that eventually take 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:09.280 over that I guess when you really think about it, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:14.439 is certain businesses essential businesses. That definitely And to my point, 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.600 if those people have to go to work for forty 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.480 hours a week, they damn sure should be being paid 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:25.560 essential wage right um. But at the same time, I 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:30.400 feel like people who work from home, or or excuse me, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.880 people who have jobs that are able to be conducted 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.800 from home, they should be able to be on a 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.559 schedule that provides opportunity for them to be with their kids, 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.520 for them to uh, you know, go to a class, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.880 take care of themselves, and still be able to work. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.800 But then, yes, I think we all should absolutely be 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:58.280 outside around other individuals, talking, networking and connecting with people, 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:03.520 because there is there is is one ent a problem 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.920 with folks sitting at home and really starting to suffer 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.280 from mental health issues, you know, as a result of 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.200 them not being around other people. So I agree with 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.040 you about that. Speaking of people being at home, can 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.480 we talk about what's happening with public safety and schools. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.040 I mean, you've been getting calls every day from interview 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.120 It's unbelievable. Like you know, first of all, there's always 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.920 somebody getting shot man or repeat to the four kids 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:37.360 that just got killed in ten people got shot. Another 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.480 vigilante is like, how does how does that continue? That? 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.240 You know, Like, I really just I'm not saying vigilante. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.599 I wanted to say school shooting, not vigilante because it 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:50.959 wasn't virginated. But how does it constantly? Are these kids 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:55.000 able to walk into schools with guns and kill people? 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.240 It's just to me, it just makes no sense. You know. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.680 But Ray Ray is walking into school with a gun too, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.480 But I'm not saying he's not. But and I'm saying, 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.120 how is he doing it right? How is it? You 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:13.240 want more metal detectives, what you want? What I want 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:18.559 is more not metal detectives. I want more school probing. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.880 I want more school being attentive to the children. And 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.319 and maybe I don't know if it's metal detectives per se, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.320 but I think that there has to be something set 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.880 up to what kids aren't able to walk into school 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.760 with guys, you know, like the only thing is that 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.800 means law enforcement. So we have to And I'm glad 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.559 we're having this conversation because we really do need to 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:47.160 talk through what is the next level? Right We there 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:57.800 is law enforcement is what people can people immediately go towards. Now, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.440 we could say, well, we need to put more anti 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.920 violence experts in the school, right, brothers like Shan Duke 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:10.320 mcvadda and others who A C. Mitchell and and I mean, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.680 I could get in trouble because the list is so 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.840 long of those people who do that work. And we 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.760 can say let's put them in the school. But then 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.319 if something happens and they are not accredited or have 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:27.720 some type of specific certificate from the state or the city, 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.040 they put themselves in danger that if something happens is 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:35.680 blamed or placed at the feet of the anti violence expert. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.520 But then you have law enforcements in the in the school, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:43.040 and clearly with metal detectives and everything else, that's not working. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:48.640 So I don't know. I think I think there has 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.440 to be assistance. I just think that at this point, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:56.319 I think that definitely needs to be different gun lawers. Um. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.400 I think there should be some systems set up. I 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.280 don't know if he's medal detectives per se, but I 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:08.040 think schools should have some type of structure which when 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.160 you're just not allowed in school with guns, Like I 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.480 just think there should be similar And I don't not 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.640 allowed in school with guns now, but they're constantly getting 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.760 in there with and killing people. So there has to 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:24.880 be something, you know, I don't I'm all against over policing, 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.040 but I do think in these kids, our kids should 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.480 be able to go to school and be safe, like 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.840 kids should not have to you know, like you said 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.440 that the bullying and the way the kids are being 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.160 the lack of real protection in school for kids is detrimental, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.120 like you you're, we're I've literally watched, you know. I 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.560 even think about when I was in school. They were 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.600 kids able to come to school from different schools and 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.560 just walk in and jump people. And you know, back 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.080 in the days, we had um um gangs called the 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.240 Deceptive Cons who used to literally get on trains and 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:04.000 come to school, jump people, slashed them, robbed them, like 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.000 do all these things. And that was happening back in 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.800 the nineties, you know, in in the late eighties, So 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.920 that was happening in our high school. They was able 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.040 to get into school and roll people, you know, at 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.920 gun point, at night point. So I think there has 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:23.680 to be a more robust strategy to protect kids, especially 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.120 when you start getting high school. Like bullying in high 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.840 school and not as much as junior, but high school 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.600 is a big thing. You know, there's a it's a 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.760 real big thing. And I have friends, we both have 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.560 friends who are reaching out saying that they're having issues. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.600 I remember my son was going to school in in 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.640 um Washington Heights and he's like kids were trying to 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.720 jump them. Like I literally had to go to school. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.000 It was kids. It was all out bras. I remember 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.360 we used to have bras and people brought guns to school. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.360 And it's like, there has to be a strategy to which, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.880 oh you have people, like you said, violence interruptors who 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:03.080 are in those streets and you know, in those communities, 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:07.400 in those schools who probably kids who graduated from school 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.440 and still have some notoriety in the schools. They just 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.280 don't want to go to college or whatever, and they 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.680 have a job and they're like monitors kind of like 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.400 we remember we had whole monitors back in the days, 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.880 Like we should have advanced monitor whole monitors who who 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.560 go to the schools, who in the school yards, who 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.600 had lunch rooms, hearing such such because it's always a 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.600 gossip on such such as defense, they're gonna they're gonna 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.480 fight after school and we're gonna jump them, like and 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.800 they are able to get in front of those things 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.840 because it's a serious thing, Like it's not like little 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.480 kids fighting in the school. At that point, it turns 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.560 to with guns and knives and people are losing their 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.440 lives in schools. Yeah no, I mean, listen, you're not 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.040 gonna get a debate out of me. Something has to 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.560 be done. I know, and and and and I think 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.960 it starts with the top because the administration in many 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.920 of these schools is not doing enough, either because they 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.600 don't want to touch it or they don't want their 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:03.600 school ranked as being violent, um you know on there 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:08.640 in the stats. Also because privacy and protection becomes a thing, 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:13.199 especially when you have ignorant parents like the parents of 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:17.040 the young man who just killed those folks in whatever 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.359 state that was in the white parents that told his 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.880 uh you know that, told him don't get caught next time. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.879 In the text messages. You either have ignorant parents like 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.280 that like Kyle Rittenhouse's mother who's an evil criminal that 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.280 took her son somewhere with guns that she knew he 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.240 wasn't supposed to have, or you have ignorant parents like 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:45.040 Titia or you know Lisa in our community, who is 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.080 talking about leave my son alone, don't say shipped to 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.720 my son, you know, or my daughter whatever outcome of thing, 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.560 do x y Z. And that's right, it's on. So 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.560 like you, on all sides, you've got parents that become 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.600 big part of the problem, a big part. And we 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.880 don't like to talk about that. We love to sit 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:10.480 by and watch a racist white person do something crazy 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.320 and then we talked about them. We love to sit 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.879 by and watch you know, uh, somebody who is you know, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.520 a serial killer that we can identify all the things 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.040 that happened, and how to parents with no good and 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.119 this and that the third. But we don't like to 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.000 also sit down and talk to regular folks that look 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.639 like me and you in our communities and say this, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.680 cut it out. We need to be involved too. You do, 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.000 you definitely do so. I don't you know, I don't know. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.119 I don't know how you stop a person from bringing 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.320 guns and me, we just saw that a kid in 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.040 New York a couple of weeks ago had a gun. 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.480 He got caught with a gun and thirty thou dollars 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.440 and then once they did more investigation. There were more 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.000 guns in the school. Whether or not they were connected 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.400 to him. I didn't follow the story enough to find out, 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.760 but I know that there were guns in that school. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.080 So we know that this is a problem that's happening. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:05.960 And to your point, it's got to be dealt with 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.439 because people. History has shown when we don't address it 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:14.760 as an institution, the school, the parents, people die, people 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.240 commit suicide, people drop out of school. You want to 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.880 know why your kid isn't paying attention, Probably because they're depressed. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.480 They might be being bullied, they may just be tied 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.919 in the bullshit. Can't even focus in class. I know 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.080 when I was in school sometimes I could not focus 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.560 in class for all the outbursts and the yelling and 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.480 screaming that went on. We're all types of kids. So 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.080 you can't say, well, let's go to the white schools 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.240 because you've got kids that's showing up. They have piste 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.680 off about whatever their problems are, out of their parents basement, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.600 shooting up the building. You can't say, okay, well let's 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.919 go to the school with the Latino kids because guess what, 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.280 they slice your face. You can't say let's go to 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.639 the school with the black kids, because there's game wars everywhere. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:01.720 Are people turned everywhere, We turned their problems and discrimination 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.159 and ways that you could try to escape the system, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:09.920 and you can't. You cannot can't. System. This system is 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.720 is well, is well designed for failure and when you 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.359 get out. That's why I celebrate anybody that gets out 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.240 of the system. And because it's set up, like I 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:20.960 tell people all the time, when I look at the 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:25.159 school system and the structure and being incarcerated, it's pretty 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.280 much the same thing. It pretty much mirrors the average school, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.679 pretty much mirrors the way that the prison is designed. 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.399 In the coloring, the way it looks all of these 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.080 mess hall looks like the lunch room. The gym looks 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.560 like the same gym. Like. The only thing that's not 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.760 in the classrooms is there. The only thing that the 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.000 classrooms imitate the sales, because the way it's lined up 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.600 door to door. The only thing that the schools don't 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.360 have it sells. So you know, when you think about it, man, 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.800 I don't know, man, we we thing you want more 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.679 metal sectors or some kind of way, I do, because 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.399 that's the way that they protect you into jails, right 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.520 because you gotta walk through metal detectives. So a lot 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.280 of times they catch you when you got a knife. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.719 That person they're gonna bring a knife to certain places, 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.400 or they figured out how to do it because they 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.680 know that metal tech, they're gonna go off. Right, it's 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.160 a lot more safer, and unfortunately we we I don't 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.240 know if it's metal text is the answer, like I said, 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.520 but I know there has to be something that makes 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:28.520 it impossible, you know, or highly unlikely or hard as 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.960 hell for you to get in school with a gun 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.160 and kill somebody. Well, I'm sure there are some people 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.840 and at anti violence space that would say no more. 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:42.359 You know, it's not about police surveillance, not about metal detectives. 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:44.960 I guess that's what they would say. I don't know. 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.920 I'm with you, we don't know, but we're gonna find out. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.239 I was just thinking about this, right and you know, 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:01.920 I'm on social media on certain platforms um for different reasons. 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:06.560 Facebook specifically, I go there because my family members and 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:10.480 friends are there, and when I post to Instagram, which 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:13.080 is where I am most of the time, it shares 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.119 over the Facebook, and I often forget the days to 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.720 go on there and check out the comments. But my 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.520 cousin's my parents. Shout out to my father who just 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:25.960 turned seven, me five years old two days ago. Man 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.959 at seventy five years a good man too. It's a 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.879 lot that a lot of brothers can learn from, stand Mallory. 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:36.119 But anyway, but he would say it took him seventy 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:42.360 five years to learn it. Also, um but I go there, 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:44.600 You know, I try to keep up with Facebook, and 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:47.639 so there is this. It happens on Instagram too, but 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:51.160 it's very different. But on Facebook, there's a group of 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:57.360 maybe four people that come to my page every single 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:03.440 time I post something and say this is not important. 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.520 You should be talking about this. This how you know 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:11.240 this don't make sense? Um or or you're wrong on 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.199 this issue. You need to be stick with. One of 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:19.400 their main things is cash reparations, cash reparations. Who says 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:21.159 I don't support cash reporace? And then you know what 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:23.960 they do is they take clips of things you said 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:27.360 and they try to make a narrative like, oh, Tamika 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:31.840