WEBVTT - Justice For Breonna Taylor: 3 Years Later 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:07.920 What's her family. It's your girl to mek A D. Mallory, 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.120 and it's your boys in general. And we are your 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.160 hosts of street politicians the place with the streets and politics. Me, 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.560 what's going on, mister Lennon, mister Myson Lennin. It's been 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:21.799 a rough week, man, But you know, we take a 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.319 looking and keep on ticket don't Yeah, you know, I 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.560 don't know. I really do believe that the energy in 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:33.080 the air, like something is off in the society, in 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.160 the world. It's a little weird. There's so many things 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.800 going on. I was just reading something this morning about 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:44.559 the amount of people dying by fentonol like but not 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:49.120 not like um fentonol what do you call it, Like 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:54.680 where they are um accidentally being poisoned, like you know, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.279 like like like like you know how sometimes they make 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.280 drugs and they put things in it so you don't 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.520 know what you're taking. But these are people who are 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:07.360 intentionally using fentanol. And I'm just like, Yeah, the world 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.720 is a little weird. It's weird, but that is the 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.720 fact that they're looking for. That's like heroin in the eighties, 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.919 especially in the eighties, like I told you before, people 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:22.080 wanted to try the heroine that kill people. Like if 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.640 they say, yo, these people odd on it, they'd be like, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.680 where are they going to find that bad? Because there's 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.400 a level of high that a drug addict is trying 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.240 to reach. They're trying to reach the level of high 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.280 right before death, like they want they want it's the 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.080 weirdest shit in the world. They don't want to die. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.880 They want to experience this level of how that reaches 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:47.840 this level of euphoria that that completely controls them to 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:52.520 where they almost die but they don't. Yeah. But then 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:57.720 the question that I have about that, right is, I mean, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.960 did a lot of people die on heroin? I can't remember. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.800 Hell yeah, a lot of people the way that they're 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.920 dying with fence at all. I don't know if the 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.640 numbers are the same, but I know there was a 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.120 lot of heroin addicts that od That was one of 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.640 the biggest things. Most of them were old. It's very, very, 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:20.079 very strange. And it's not one race or like like 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:25.440 like uh, it's not in silos or subjective for like 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.840 one community or one group of people. It's like a 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.399 wide ranging problem. It's very it's just very strange. So 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:38.720 I but you know, I'm never, you know, engaged, so 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:45.720 I don't know with the the feeling is or the thrillers. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.639 I mean, I get it, obviously, group they don't. I 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.320 an't mean to cut you up, but I know this. This, 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.440 this is what skied me when they said the urge 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:01.120 for drugs for crack or some of these us even heroin, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.799 was a hundred times the urge for sex. I said, 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.040 I don't want it. He was freaking. I'm just telling 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:15.880 you that something is a hundred times the urge for sex. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.800 You are nuts. I don't want nothing to do with 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.040 something like that. That ain't for me. I'm gonna listen, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.400 I'm gonna be the biggest attic in the world. I'm 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.760 never I'm staying far away from that ship as possible. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.280 I mean, listen. I have used drugs. I don't know 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.360 if it ever ever tampered with my urge for sex, 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.840 but I do know that you are always, which is 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.480 why I went from taking a half a pill to 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:48.360 taking five pills each time, Because as time goes on 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.760 and your body gets used to the drug, you're looking 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.760 for an original feeling. So I get that, but I'm 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:58.480 saying that the fencing all specifically it's killing people left 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.600 and right, like fencing as just knocking people down. I 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.560 don't remember if Heroin killed a lot of people. I mean, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.800 I'm sure it did, but I mean I don't anyway, 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.800 it just seems but everything is weird. Everything is weird. So, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.360 speaking of weird things, I wanted to talk about blue 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:23.240 Face and Christian you know, Chrishan, I'm sorry I posted 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.320 and a truly I was looking at the young lady 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.000 the other day and she's really just a pretty little 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:32.159 a pretty young girl. And I posted a few weeks 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.400 ago that the show that they have on some TV 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.560 I don't even know the name of the TV network, whatever, 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.960 the TV network is a black man owns it and 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:48.400 they have this show, and it is to me, it's 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.800 like it should be banned from TV. The craziness that 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.599 goes on between these two very young people. I don't 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.240 think it should be exploited by them or anyone else, 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.640 because it actually shows a lot of mental health issues, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:06.479 a lot of self esteem issues, mental health issues, like 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.960 you put it all under one umbrella and it really 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.920 is not a good look at all. I get that 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.039 all reality TV has an element of the fighting and 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.640 the carrying on and all the things that we see. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.919 But to me, it just feels so inappropriate for these 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:29.200 two very very young people to be, you know, on 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.839 TV displaying, you know, going to counseling, drinking liquor. I 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.440 know for sure that that is not something that's supposed 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.080 to happen. Like I get that a therapist may come 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.960 and meet you where you are in the midst of 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:47.080 all your challenges, but it's also very TV that you 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.440 could go to a therapist or a psychiatrist's office and 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.600 drink out of a bottle in Hennessey. So when I 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.520 saw that, I was like, I just I just want 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.200 to know, is this supposed to be funny? And I 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.600 posted it and of course a lot of people said no. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.480 And actually it gets deeper at a bunch of people 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.800 DM and me telling me more about real stories of abuse. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:07.880 Some people were trying to say they thought it was 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.039 just for TV, but it's become clear that it's not. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.120 And then it's the young man, God bless him, he 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.800 has a mom and the mom has drama, and it's 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.760 just so much drama that's going on with this one family. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.920 So then this week I saw that the young girl 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:32.239 is pregnant, which bless God, bless the Lord, like God, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.560 bless like. I was not even in this type the 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.080 type of shape that they're in, but it was pretty 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.320 bad and it was not a good time for me 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.159 to even have a child. So I can only imagine 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.080 that this is like wow, but you know whatever, Bless 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:51.720 their herd. But I noticed that she said something about 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.560 getting an abortion, and then he said do it, which 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.880 you know, young people back and forth on the internet. 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.800 But since then, and he made another statement, which is 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.880 that he wanted to he's going to continue to push 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.960 the issue until she gets an abortion. Do you think 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.960 there's anybody around that's letting blue face know that bullying 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.760 a woman into an abortion is actually not cool, Like 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.280 that's not like you, that's not something that you write 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.960 on social media or anywhere else. Like that's actually bullying 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.400 somebody into making a decision with their body. And it's 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:33.840 not it's not okay. You know, I've been watching it. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.560 It's very toxic to me just watching the way they 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.240 deal with each other. You know, the way that media, 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.280 social media and everybody else is exploiting these people's dysfunction. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.320 That's what it is. And you know, and you tell 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.960 young kids that they can make money, even at their 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.640 own demands. They're gonna do it. That's and people will say, oh, well, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.560 they're making a choice. In a lot of times, when 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.440 you make a choice, choices are based on option, right, 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.440 So when you give people very little options and people 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.520 come from nothing, you could you look at both of them, 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.240 like even Blue Face they got with When you look 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.800 at Kashan's she's been through so she's been through hell 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.360 when you look at her family life and everything she's 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.080 going through. So you give an opportunity to where she's 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.080 making thousands and hundreds thousands of dollars, even if it's 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.960 at the demands, I mean, even if it's at the 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.800 extent and you know, to her detriment, she doesn't care. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.280 You know, So whoever's around him, you know, I know 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.760 some people that's around Blue Face, So you know, I 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.280 would say, man, you know, they got to be a 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.760 little bit of goddance, Like it's grown adult people like 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.480 and I'm not saying I don't know what you're saying, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.120 and he's still a grown man, but I do think 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.160 that there has to be a better guidance and understanding 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.679 of what's going on. And as far as what you 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.040 just said, you know, I don't know what they say 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.360 to her. I hope he understands ends what he's doing. 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.120 I hope he understands that trying to bully a woman 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.520 into an abortion is not cool because you you you 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.400 you consciously you've been with this woman. It's a woman 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.760 that you've been claiming that you've been with and you 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:15.680 made a baby with her. You know what I'm saying, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.800 so stressing, I wouldn't doing things mentally to de short 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.960 like that's not that's not grown man shit. It's actually 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.760 coward coward cultures. And you know, I don't know blue Face, 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.240 but I know that that statement alone is not some 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.839 shit that a man should be happy saying. Yeah. I mean, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:38.920 I just I just feel like as young people, I 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:43.320 am trying to be much more understanding of young people, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.840 because as I have, as I'm getting older, I see 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.000 so much that's like completely ridiculous, like just I can't 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.960 believe it's happening. And then I have to put myself 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.840 back at the time when there were people who couldn't 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.880 believe I was doing some of the things that I was. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.320 So I have to constantly remind myself of that so 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:09.040 that I don't get so far detached from the realities 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.240 of what we're dealing with today and what young people 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.480 go through and how society creates, you know, different things 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.240 that become the norm and some things that make you 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.680 cool and all of that. And adults like the black 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.400 man I forgot his name. If I could remember, trust me, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.720 I would definitely say it, but I don't, but I'm 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.880 probably gonna get it before we finish. But you know, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.920 these people who are exploiting young folks because this happens, right, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.880 it happens. I was watching a long order episode, same thing, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:43.640 exploiting young people for their own purposes, whatever their issues 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.880 may have been. This particular time, it was the LGBTQIA 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:51.600 community and older people exploiting younger people for the purpose 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.320 of making a point, right, and then messed up these 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.960 kids heads and messed up their emotions. Same thing here. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.240 TV guy wants to, you know, make it big in 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.240 TV and have a big show or a big network. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.280 He exploits these two young people, as you said, their dysfunction. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.800 We as a people, especially as black people, should be like, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.320 we're not even putting this, We're not even putting this 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.160 on TV. Think about it. I don't mean to cut off. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.640 But it started with like Bobby and Whitney, right, people 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.120 people think they were big grown people. They was big people. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.120 Bobby and Whitney was big people, I guess, but they 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.600 still these are still grown people there, but I mean 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:36.400 big people different, it's different. It was it was exploiting dysfunction. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.000 They knew those people and when you watched, because you 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.400 knew that they were high and they were gonna do 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.040 shit that didn't even make sense, and you wanted to 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.839 see that and you liked the love. And sometimes it 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.040 was dysfunction. Sometimes they cuts each other out and people 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.480 enjoyed it and this is this is the this is 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.319 the new version of that. But it was big people, right, 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.960 But to you it was big people. They were big people. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.200 I mean these were grown These are still growing people, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:08.359 you know, so I hear you. But we've we've celebrated 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.760 and exploited I would detriment since the beginning, since we 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.520 was able to do it because and you know, we 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.200 come from poverty, We come through from a lot of 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.240 different situations. So a lot of people come into this, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.760 you know, this industry or whatever, and they allow themselves 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.000 to be exploited because they don't want to go back 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:32.679 to being broke. You know, hopefully somebody that's listening today, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.839 we'll let the young man know that publicly or otherwise, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.439 but certainly publicly, bullying a woman into having an abortion 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:45.559 is wrong. It's wrong, it's inappropriate, and it's just something 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.560 that we shouldn't be like, oh, you know, well, I 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.360 get it because they're young. No, somebody needs to actually 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.840 tell him that. So that's that. Let's see what else, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.720 what else is going on in this world? So I know, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.959 a couple of weeks go or last week, it was 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:07.400 announced that Tyler Perry and Byron Allen are attempting to 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:13.760 purchase the majority stake in BEET. Now Puff has joined 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.480 the ranks of those who are trying to buy I 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.160 guess more than fifty one percent of the company, so 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.640 that b ET will be black owned again. Now it's 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.520 not clear to me whether they're all in talks about 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:33.479 potentially coming together or if each individual person is intending 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:39.720 to buy the company. And so therefore there will be competition, which, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.880 by the way, either way it works for me right 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:47.160 like I think, because you need competition. White folks battle 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.800 one another for businesses all the time, and it doesn't 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.760 make them hate one another because they could be owning 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.520 something together over here, having dinner together over here, and 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:00.600 still bidding over there for some other business because they're 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.640 keeping it. They're keeping it the competitive nature of it all, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.640 and keeping it in the family, if you will. That's 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.640 what they do. They go to one another and say, hey, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.960 you should bid. I'm gonna bid, and you bid, and 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.600 one of the three of us is gonna get it, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.839 which means we all still got it, so I can 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.960 work with that, or which would be great if the 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.440 three of them were working together to get it. I 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.760 personally know you know, we know Puff and I want 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.120 to see him be able to do this because I 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.640 know from the work that he's put in a Revolte which, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.560 by the way, Revolte while it is, you know, it 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:42.040 is a very important news source and especially culturally, it 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.680 has a very important cultural space. A shout out to 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:50.080 the family over at revolt. It still is not a 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:54.240 mainstream b ET network. It is not the same so 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:59.080 I heard people BT has been here for decades, so 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.480 exactly so revote, I don't even think vote is ten 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:07.240 years old, and revokes again it's still it's not the 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.120 it is not the brand, nor is it a network 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.400 that is like Beet. So what Beet can do? The shows, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.800 the content, all of that. It's a completely different level. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.080 And you know, people don't really know what they be 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.400 talking about sometimes because I saw people like, what doesn't 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.440 he own Revote? Why can't he just put more into that? 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.160 Yes you can. It's like saying Byron Allen, it's not 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.320 gonna go well, at least I don't think he's gonna 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.200 go dump the Grio, right, He's going to build up 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.800 his media portfolio. Right. Why do we don't ask Rupert 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.840 Murdock and all of these white people that own massive 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:48.080 media entities, why they don't dump some of their smaller 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:52.440 businesses or stay small instead of being able to play 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.320 on a big level. Why do we have to ask 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.960 them to do that? No, you should be able to 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:02.480 have Revote and Beet and something else and something else. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.840 Like that's just what it is. So I support Puff, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.400 you know, and and I hope that he's able to 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.920 get this done because we know his Like I'm actually 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:16.120 on a text thread where Puff is on there every 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.160 so often, Like I'm looking for the best and the 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.160 brightest to help build what is next for us as 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.200 black people in terms of black ownership, right, And I'm 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.360 sure the others Tyler Perry and Byron Allen are thinking 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.600 the same way. It's like, what can we do to 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:38.520 build the next level of black dopeness, telling our own stories, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.800 having our own narrative shaped by us and told by us. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:47.120 So I support him one hundred one hundred hundred thousand, million, 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:52.600 trillion percent. No, I definitely support. I support to move 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.960 in general. You know, black ownership is the key to 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.840 our liberation. You know, we don't own any thing like perfect. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.320 I remember him making a statement like, you know, we 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.960 don't own nothing. We do on all the ship, but 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.040 we don't own nothing. So we have to have ownership. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.480 And what's what's better than BT, you know, it's it's 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.560 been the black entertainment, you know, TV for since the 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.479 beginning of time. So to get that ownership back and 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:22.840 then continue, like you said, to purchase multi multi media 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.720 media controls the world like I see them. Post Media 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.520 controls how you think, It controls what you see, It 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.280 creates a narrative, It creates the culture, It dictates the trends. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.800 Media controls everything. People live their life by what they 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.080 see in the media. They don't know the information that 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.280 we get about, everything that we don't read about comes 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.080 from media. You know. It's that he who controls the 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.520 media controls the people. And that's why we've been controlled 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.560 by you know, other people for so long, because they 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.359 control what we see and they control what the media is. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.360 So if we start controlling our media and start controlling 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.600 the media, then we can put our perspectives, we can 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.760 put our dream, we can put all the things that 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.919 we need into our society, man, and we'll have a 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.320 large enough voice, a strong enough voice to be heard 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.720 and have the opportunities that everybody else has. So I'm 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.359 all for the brothers can come together, that be dope. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.760 But if not, if one of them get it, I 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.640 have faith that any one of them, or any two 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:28.520 of them, you know, together, any combination, any any combode 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.840 they got, you put that together, you know, we're gonna 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.240 have some black excidence, right and you know, listen, maybe 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:39.000 we can stop the oscars and all of this bullshit 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.360 where they snubbing our people. We know what happened with 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.600 Viola Davis not getting an oscar for a woman king 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:52.480 is disgusting, deplorable, ridiculous. Then you have our dear sister, 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:58.000 our beautiful sister, Angela Bassett sit there and be disrespected 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.960 as far as I'm concerned, in the room. And then 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.359 white people, white women particularly, had the audacity to go 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.400 online talking about, oh, why didn't Angela Bassett act more 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.320 graceful and she should have done this, and she should 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.960 have smiled, and she should have had stood up to 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.320 clap in the middle of what she knew was a 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:20.320 moment that she deserved. She's supposed to just hide her feelings. 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.480 And see, that's what they think about black people, especially 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.360 black women. We are not supposed to have feelings at all. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.440 We'res I can't even say black people because as I'm 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.359 saying it, I mean black women, because as I'm saying it, 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:37.200 I'm thinking about y'all as black men. You're not supposed 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.959 to have any feelings. You're supposed to just be cool 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.879 with whatever people give you and be nice and smile 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.680 about it because and they don't even know that part 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:52.000 of that mentality comes from enslavement, where you were beaten 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:56.359 by master, and then you still had to smile or 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.320 do whatever Master said. You still had to go in 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.960 the kitchen and cook and come out and say yes, master, 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.320 and show it and display yourself as being happy about 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:11.679 the abuse, the beating, the disrespect, and people still have 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:16.200 that expectation of us today and they don't even know 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.960 where it comes from. It's like sometimes when we think 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.760 about and it brings me right to my next topic. 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.520 But sometimes even with our own children, there's things that 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.400 they do, and it's times when you have to remember, 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.200 my mom would have to pull my coattail and say 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:36.840 to me, hey, that attitude you have or those or 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.080 just you know, the mindset that you have, it comes 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.800 from a place. Let me tell you about Auntie someone so, 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.800 or Grandma such and such or whatever. Stories of our 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:50.920 history and how things are passed down through a bloodline. 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.720 Sometimes what you hear in the it's what you see 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.639 and hear in your peripheral things going on around you 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.840 when you're growing up, and you don't even know that 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.680 you're tapping into that and still using those those unfortunate 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:10.720 or still using that unfortunate ideology and moments on people 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.879 who've been oppressed. So you know, I just know she 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:15.960 didn't have to smile. They better be when they say 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.640 she wasn't graceful. The grace was that she didn't cut 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:24.760 you out of the fun out Listen, man, people tie 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:26.880 of y'all playing with us, smith y'all playing in these 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.920 people's face. That lady know what she did. Everybody knew 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.840 what she did, you know, and and it was it's 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.320 just it's just like a disgrace. And she still hasn't 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.919 got the oscar Like that is just crazy to me 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.359 when you look at the actress, the caliber and the 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:46.439 level of what she's done throughout her career, you know, 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.960 and and it goes to show and it's not about racist. 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:55.080 I think that it's it's I think that the Oscars, 0:21:56.119 --> 0:22:02.119 you know, is culturally deaf right to our culture. You know, 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.200 the things that matter to us, the stories that matter 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:09.280 to us, the storylines that matter to us. Sometimes I like, 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.080 because I do, I do homework, right. A lot of 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:17.080 times it be movies and artists who win Oscars that 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:19.560 I don't know of, movies that I've never seen, And 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:21.720 I say, and when they were the best actress or 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:24.520 this and that, I said, let me go look at 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.520 this movie because I just want to see what they 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:30.159 did in this movie. Right, And then I look and 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.119 I'd be, okay that the performance is good. I'm not 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:35.040 mad at the performance, but the storyline and all of 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:37.520 the ship that they talk about, I can't I have 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:40.280 no understanding or I can't relate to it at all. 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:42.959 It is not has nothing to do with my reality, 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:45.639 has nothing to do with just the culture that I 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:48.960 come from. So what happens is when you have people 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.040 on this committee that that's what they relate to, that's 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.919 their culture, that's their storyline, that's the ship that they 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:58.879 identified with. When you show them Women King, when you 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.080 show them, you know, contrafact, when you show them these movies, 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:05.320 it's to them it's foreign, you know, like they don't 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.440 they don't really, they don't understand its significance. They don't 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.520 understand what the actress or actor is actually doing because 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.600 the storyline and all of it doesn't It doesn't appeal 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:20.160 to them. So we have to have awards and ceremonies 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:22.919 to where we have people who identify with our culture, 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:26.520 who identify with our soul, who identify with our reality, 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:29.600 to be the judges of these things. So we're gonna 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.600 keep having these same conversations. We're gonna keep losing to 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:35.920 white actors and white actresses that do storylines and shit 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:40.480 that pertains to the people who's own a committee that's picking. Well, 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:42.680 I want to push back on one thing that you said, 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:45.600 because I don't know if you know, but there was 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:48.919 an article on a pretty reputable from from a pretty 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:53.360 reputable source where they claim that they were able to 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:57.840 get and off the record conversation with one of the 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:02.199 people who votes as an Oscar voter. So you know, 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:06.160 those people are anonymous and it's supposed to be that way, 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:09.120 so that you know, you can't contact them and try 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:11.760 to pressure them into voting for you and whatever, right 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:15.560 or because of a decision, they faced scrutiny, so on 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:19.000 and so forth. Well, the thing that I found that 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:23.200 I found interesting when you said they don't know our culture, 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:27.720 they don't necessarily appreciate or understand what we're doing. Actually, 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:31.960 this person in his statement and they say his, they 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:36.480 use the word his, he says, you know, stop whining, 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:39.520 stop crying about it, that if you didn't win, it's 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:43.280 because it wasn't good, we didn't like it, and that's 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:46.000 why you didn't win, and went on to talk about 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:50.800 the culture and how he's tired of wote culture. So 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:53.800 to me, well, that's that's that's an attack on. What 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:56.280 I'm trying to say is that's an attack on our 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:58.720 coach that even if it's a person that's from the 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:01.600 coacher who doesn't IDENTI far what the culture. I'm not 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:05.119 saying that he's from our culture. I'm saying that he's 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:09.679 more than likely racist. That's what I'm saying. It's not 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.119 that they don't understand. It's that they have been a 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:18.360 conscious decision in performances. You will not get oscars. Didn't 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:21.600 they say Holly Berry got one for uh, make me 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:24.359 feel good? What was that Monster's Ball when she was 0:25:24.560 --> 0:25:26.480 you know, very I mean she was very sexual. I 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:28.600 loved her performance and Monster's Ball, so I wouldn't take 0:25:28.640 --> 0:25:31.040 anything away from it. But there are other films that 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:33.639 she's played, and we know when Hollyberry hit the scene, 0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:37.640 she need an oscar every time. There's not a time 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:46.359 that Viola, uh, Angela Bassett, Holly Berry. Who else do 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:49.920 we have here? I mean the list goes on. Who else? 0:25:50.440 --> 0:26:00.960 This other women? Um, I'm trying to Monique Um, Jada Jada. 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:06.680 I put Whoopee in there too, Whoopee too, definitely, Oprah 0:26:06.720 --> 0:26:13.760 Oprah Um. It's probably so many others its people hit 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.760 the screen when they decide that there the other lady 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:20.080 that played in The Help, what's her name? Oh boy? 0:26:20.400 --> 0:26:24.359 Um no, that was It was Viola when that played 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:26.560 with her, the one that fed the lead. Oh my god, 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:29.200 I don't know her name. Would listen, We're gonna look 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:32.760 it up and I'm gonna look up the two things 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:35.480 that you let me see. What's her name? Tim? Yes, 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:42.360 because she's amazing, She's always amazing. That's my girl. That's 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:45.560 my girl. She follows me and actually she participates in 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:51.040 the content. To Octavia Spencer. When these women hit the screen, 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:53.720 when they get that, well, I want to say something 0:26:53.760 --> 0:26:56.600 real quick. Everybody do commented on my post today, So 0:26:56.640 --> 0:27:01.439 I feel like you said that that was her quote, 0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:03.800 So shout out to Erica like she's one of my 0:27:03.840 --> 0:27:07.560 favorite artists in the world. So that's still that's dope. 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:12.040 Like these are women. They need oscars. If they gave us, 0:27:12.200 --> 0:27:15.920 if they gave us as we deserve, what we deserved, 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:22.040 the show would just be And I'm not listening taking 0:27:22.119 --> 0:27:25.400 that from nobody because Jamie Lee Curtis is bad. Now 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:28.320 you didn't get ready, I'm not taking up from Jamie Lee. 0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:31.280 I just don't think I didn't you know what. What 0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:33.520 I'm gonna say is this, I do not think me 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:37.119 Mesy is a great actress like you gotta watch I 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:41.400 don't know if you watch a lot of her stuff. Still, 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:44.760 I mean it's it's listen. There are a few of 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:49.680 them that there are a lot of us. Oh what's 0:27:49.720 --> 0:27:57.080 the scandal? Oh um, Kerry Washington. If they gave us 0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:01.600 I would do the whole it would always be that 0:28:01.680 --> 0:28:05.560 black people would be winning everything. So you know, so 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:07.399 I'm just saying that that man when he spoke, and 0:28:07.520 --> 0:28:09.760 let me know that even if he thought the performance 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:13.080 was incredible, he ain't trying to give us none. Anyway, 0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:21.760 Let's move on to my thought of the day. I 0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:24.240 see people in my common section since I've been posting 0:28:24.240 --> 0:28:27.639 about Puff saying that, oh, you know, he doesn't know 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:29.760 how to manage anything. Look what he did to Mace 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:32.360 and this one and that one, and we recognize that 0:28:32.440 --> 0:28:36.200 something's happening. I nobody is. Listen, if you go back 0:28:36.240 --> 0:28:38.240 in my history, if you go back in your history, 0:28:38.520 --> 0:28:41.160 you go back, and anybody, especially people who are bosses 0:28:41.200 --> 0:28:44.400 and people who run businesses and whatever, for the most part, 0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:47.040 there is a period and error where they made some 0:28:47.200 --> 0:28:50.600 really bad decisions, and they did some really fucked up 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:53.480 things to people. That's a fact. But the question that 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:55.840 we have to ask is how long do we hold it? 0:28:56.200 --> 0:29:00.760 How long? How long does it carry over? And you know, 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:02.960 and just how long I don't know, So anyway, that's 0:29:03.040 --> 0:29:06.400 up for another day's debate. But for my a thought 0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:08.920 of the day today, I wanted to talk about Newark, 0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:11.520 New Jersey, which, by the way, I just love how 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:17.840 black blackety black black. Rossparocca, our mayor in Newark, gotta 0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:21.880 live there, but I still claim him and the entire 0:29:21.960 --> 0:29:27.800 team Kesha Yury, our sister Kylelisia. Is so many super 0:29:27.960 --> 0:29:32.160 black people in Newark that are running that that city, 0:29:32.200 --> 0:29:35.520 that town. They said when they got elected they were 0:29:35.560 --> 0:29:38.320 gonna be black like they always have been. People need 0:29:38.360 --> 0:29:42.400 to check Rosscarocca's background, his parents, his family, where he 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:44.920 comes from, his lineage. This is not new to him. 0:29:44.960 --> 0:29:47.080 Need to just come mayor and just all of a 0:29:47.080 --> 0:29:50.200 sudden get black. This man has always and and and 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:52.560 there is a different you know, yes you could be black, 0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:56.960 but there's there's blackety black, and Rossparoca, mayor Baracca is 0:29:56.960 --> 0:30:00.120 blackety black. So they took down the statue of of 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:04.600 Christopher Columbus, and they put up Harriet Tubman. So I 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:07.080 went online and clicked in the comments because I got 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:09.000 me some popcorn as soon as I saw it out, 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:12.560 So let me give me some popcorn. And getting these comments, 0:30:12.560 --> 0:30:14.480 and I got in my bed, put my first socks 0:30:14.520 --> 0:30:17.680 on and started flicking my toes because I already knew 0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:22.400 that people from all over the country, white folks particularly 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:26.040 and some of our ignorant asked people, we're gonna lose 0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:30.240 their mind about taking down old Christopher boy. And it 0:30:31.760 --> 0:30:37.680 really is crazy that white people especially have the gall 0:30:38.400 --> 0:30:46.160 have the gall upset about Christopher Columbus being held and 0:30:46.320 --> 0:30:50.760 uplifted the colonizing the he's the face of a colonize brother. 0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:55.000 We were there first of all. I already my parents 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:58.320 ain't never if they even hurt. If I had to 0:30:58.320 --> 0:31:03.240 write a report about Christopher Columbus in school, my parents 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:07.600 would say no, they would go speak to right. And 0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:10.320 I believe my sister still does that for my niece. 0:31:10.760 --> 0:31:16.520 We do not at all acknowledge Christopher Columbus. The only 0:31:16.560 --> 0:31:21.360 time we acknowledge him is to talk about his enslavement 0:31:21.480 --> 0:31:26.720 of Native American people, him being a colonizer, as you said, 0:31:27.040 --> 0:31:31.000 his relationship with the Portuguese who happened to be the 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:35.280 first colonizers of the African people. And by the way, 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:37.840 just so that people who are out there like, oh, 0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:41.680 I don't know this, and that let's be clear, Christopher 0:31:41.680 --> 0:31:44.520 Columbus did not. He did not. We already know he 0:31:44.560 --> 0:31:48.240 didn't discover America. But he didn't even get here by himself. 0:31:48.640 --> 0:31:54.120 He had Africans who had already been traveling to America 0:31:54.200 --> 0:31:57.120 on the ship with him, and they helped him to 0:31:57.240 --> 0:32:02.080 navigate his way. That's how he down the Americas because 0:32:02.120 --> 0:32:05.640 he was with Africans who had already been here and 0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:09.920 had been sailing back and forth from Africa to the 0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:13.920 to the America's okay, So he did nothing. He literally 0:32:13.960 --> 0:32:17.920 did nothing. He went and stopped along the route right 0:32:18.000 --> 0:32:21.959 between Africa and America. He stopped along the route and 0:32:22.080 --> 0:32:25.480 met with different kings and queens and broker deals to 0:32:25.720 --> 0:32:31.200 bring more enslaved people to those particular uh whatever they 0:32:31.200 --> 0:32:34.200 want to be, those colonizes. That's what he did. And 0:32:34.240 --> 0:32:37.360 when they found out that the and I hope I'm 0:32:37.360 --> 0:32:42.280 saying it right, the Tyino, the Tino people were unable 0:32:42.360 --> 0:32:45.880 to deal with the heat, and you know, because of 0:32:46.400 --> 0:32:50.320 the skin of their skin, could not deal with the 0:32:50.360 --> 0:32:53.320 heat and the m and the Yeah, they couldn't stay 0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:55.400 outside in the sun right because their skin was not 0:32:55.600 --> 0:32:57.560 it wasn't appropriate. You know, you get red skin and 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:00.280 all of that. We know about Native Americans. The skin 0:33:00.400 --> 0:33:02.960 is a very delicate thing. So when they were not, 0:33:03.480 --> 0:33:07.840 they could not perform a particular task, which was staying 0:33:07.840 --> 0:33:10.560 out in the fields the way that they wanted them to, 0:33:10.640 --> 0:33:13.520 because that's all they wanted. They wanted bodies to go 0:33:13.640 --> 0:33:18.120 out in the fields and do sharecropping and then ultimately 0:33:18.280 --> 0:33:21.840 build buildings and do all the things to create the 0:33:21.880 --> 0:33:25.600 world that they wanted, which they couldn't do for them damnselves. 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:27.920 So they wanted to put other people to work. They 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:31.080 could not use this particular group of people, so his 0:33:31.320 --> 0:33:35.440 idea failed. And then then they started looking at Africans, 0:33:35.560 --> 0:33:39.480 and that's how African people were chosen as the second 0:33:39.960 --> 0:33:43.880 best or strongest or whatever to become enslaved. Like people 0:33:43.920 --> 0:33:46.840 really need to understand. And I'm sure the way that 0:33:46.880 --> 0:33:49.640 I'm telling it, it's probably so many other details and 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:53.520 I'm not saying it exactly as a historian would tell it. 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:56.480 But that's the essence of the story. Christopher Gammas didn't 0:33:56.520 --> 0:33:58.880 do shit, so you know what, they need to take 0:33:58.920 --> 0:34:02.120 his ass down, him and Robert Eaton and all of 0:34:02.160 --> 0:34:06.200 these statues across this country and somebody's damn plate. Who 0:34:06.400 --> 0:34:08.040 I was getting ready to say something that was gonna 0:34:08.080 --> 0:34:11.080 get me in so much trouble. Who I was tell 0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:13.239 the truth, shame the devil. I was getting ready to 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:15.479 say some things about the American flag. But we ain't 0:34:15.480 --> 0:34:21.520 gonna do that today. I'm just saying, damn, Christopher Columbus. 0:34:21.600 --> 0:34:24.120 Don't even just take it down. They should blow it. 0:34:24.920 --> 0:34:28.040 They should blow it up like you know how when 0:34:28.080 --> 0:34:31.520 they blow up the buildings to do demolition and you 0:34:31.560 --> 0:34:35.080 see it, and you you know how they do demolition 0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:37.239 and they blow up the buildings and you see it 0:34:37.280 --> 0:34:40.600 come down like that. That should be christ Love. This 0:34:40.640 --> 0:34:43.560 should be that they should have the rocks, the pieces 0:34:43.920 --> 0:34:48.560 of it. Just drop it from the highest building high 0:34:48.880 --> 0:34:51.160 like get the hell out of here, somebody just dropping 0:34:51.239 --> 0:34:53.640 from the highest buildings. But you know what, no, because 0:34:53.680 --> 0:34:56.359 they're not at the highest place. They're sitting in the 0:34:56.360 --> 0:34:59.920 middle of squares in this country where you can actually 0:35:00.080 --> 0:35:02.200 go up and touch and feel it and kids run 0:35:02.239 --> 0:35:04.799 around it and they see it and guess what. They 0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:09.319 shouldn't blow it up because the residue from all of 0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:13.879 the particles that would come into our system in our 0:35:13.920 --> 0:35:19.279 communities would probably kill us. That's how poisonous Christopher Columbus is. 0:35:19.480 --> 0:35:24.800 Fuck the well. Listen, they put up Harriet Tubman. Though 0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:30.080 you have Tubman's man, I've been waiting for my my tubmans. 0:35:30.080 --> 0:35:33.600 Them tubmans didn't never come out. Man, these were man. 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:37.120 Let's bring our guests on today because we got to 0:35:37.160 --> 0:35:42.360 talk about injustice in America, which is which is America 0:35:42.600 --> 0:35:46.640 every week. Unfortunately, we don't do a show that's gonna 0:35:46.640 --> 0:35:52.480 just be all positive. This is everything positive that's going 0:35:52.560 --> 0:36:06.200 on the Positi. So speaking of American history, this young 0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:12.920 man has become a part of American history. Unfortunately. You know, 0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:18.600 the story is one that is tragic, very very tragic. 0:36:19.000 --> 0:36:20.920 But it's also a story I feel like it's not 0:36:21.000 --> 0:36:25.080 told enough. And you know, because this week is the 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:28.960 week that Brianna Taylor was killed three years ago. Now, 0:36:29.080 --> 0:36:33.319 time is just I don't even know what to say 0:36:33.360 --> 0:36:36.319 about time. It's going by so fast. But it's been 0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:39.520 three years that Brianna Taylor was killed. And we talk 0:36:39.600 --> 0:36:42.600 about Brianna every day. I mean every day of my life. 0:36:42.680 --> 0:36:45.600 I say it, think about it, look at a post, 0:36:45.719 --> 0:36:49.839 read a thing, talk to her mother, Mona, to her 0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:54.720 sister and what Jania is doing something, talk to the lawyers, 0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:58.840 attorney Lanita Baker, somehow or another. I am in touch 0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:04.560 with our love, passion and fight for Brianna Taylor literally 0:37:05.040 --> 0:37:07.640 every single day, seven days a week, three hundred and 0:37:07.640 --> 0:37:09.800 sixty five days a year since the day we met. 0:37:10.160 --> 0:37:13.719 But we don't talk about the other side of the 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:17.439 story enough. And I thought that this week it would 0:37:17.440 --> 0:37:24.360 be a great addition to the Street Politicians podcasts and 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:27.760 to what we do here to talk with Kenny Walker 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:31.480 about his experience and how he's doing. Three days later, 0:37:31.600 --> 0:37:34.920 so let's welcome our brother. He's like we see Kenny 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:40.800 all the time. If any family of Ken Kenny Walker 0:37:42.360 --> 0:37:47.880 fiance and was soon to be baby daddy to Brianna Taylor. 0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:52.520 Thank you for joining us on Street Politicians today. Thanks 0:37:52.520 --> 0:37:56.560 for having me. I'm excited. Kenny. Have you been on 0:37:56.600 --> 0:38:01.080 the show before? No, I have not. First, I felt 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:05.759 like he was up here before. I stayed behind the 0:38:05.800 --> 0:38:07.440 scenes most of the time. I got a bunch of 0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:09.799 good people like y'all, I can you know, speak up 0:38:09.800 --> 0:38:12.320 for me the way I needed to happen or listen 0:38:12.320 --> 0:38:14.640 what we wanted to say. Thank you, and we welcome 0:38:14.680 --> 0:38:16.959 you to our show. You know you are like you said, 0:38:17.719 --> 0:38:21.960 we were family, you know, unfortunately we became family at 0:38:21.960 --> 0:38:25.680 a very traumatic and tragic time in your life. And 0:38:26.080 --> 0:38:28.600 just want to know, like, how have you been? How 0:38:28.640 --> 0:38:32.080 have you been coping this three years since the night 0:38:32.800 --> 0:38:36.480 you know and you actually were engaged and actually right 0:38:36.520 --> 0:38:39.359 there in that situation, like, so how is it? How 0:38:39.400 --> 0:38:42.960 are you feeling? You know, how are you moving forward? 0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:48.480 I know it's hard, but how are you doing these days? Well? Honestly, 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:52.520 I mean it's it's kind of like, especially for me, 0:38:52.560 --> 0:38:55.279 it's a little bit of what Smika just said, like 0:38:55.760 --> 0:38:58.040 I deal with it every day and you know what 0:38:58.080 --> 0:39:00.200 I'm saying. So it doesn't have to be the um 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:01.840 I don't even want to say special because it's not 0:39:01.880 --> 0:39:06.920 a special week, but the the same week as as 0:39:06.960 --> 0:39:09.080 you know, this tragic event occurred. Like, it doesn't have 0:39:09.120 --> 0:39:11.640 to be March thirteenth for me to feel some type 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:13.239 of way or for me to be sad, or for 0:39:13.280 --> 0:39:15.719 me to think of bad Bree. You know, it's it's 0:39:15.880 --> 0:39:19.719 every day and continuous and ongoing struggle, you know for me. 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:24.799 Like so, I've definitely came a long way, you know, 0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:29.480 um since things have happened, but it's it's still tough, 0:39:29.719 --> 0:39:32.920 you know, just like she said, you have to, you know, 0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:35.239 if nothing else, I get on the internet and now 0:39:35.560 --> 0:39:37.480 I see a picture of her, or I see you know, 0:39:37.560 --> 0:39:40.120 somebody saying her name or whatever it may be. And 0:39:40.239 --> 0:39:42.920 no doubt I appreciate that. I love to see that, 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:46.359 you know, and I'm I'm happy and I'm glad that 0:39:46.400 --> 0:39:49.560 people show so much love and compassion, you know, for 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:53.320 for Brianna and our situation. But it's it's just tough. 0:39:54.480 --> 0:39:57.480 It's just tough. I can only imagine, man, you know. 0:39:57.600 --> 0:40:01.880 So it's been three years. You know, what what have 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:06.200 you been doing too, you know, to move forward or 0:40:06.840 --> 0:40:10.040 try to keep you know, we're still fighting for justice 0:40:10.080 --> 0:40:12.719 for Brianna every day, so I know that's part thing. 0:40:12.840 --> 0:40:16.040 So what have you been doing for the last you know, 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:18.840 three years? What have you been trying to do? Really? 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:21.960 Day by day just trying to get my mind together, 0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:26.719 you know, I'm kind of just now getting into a 0:40:26.840 --> 0:40:31.680 space of you know where where I see some type 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:35.440 of positivity, you know, and some type of good in 0:40:35.480 --> 0:40:40.480 the future, you know, like especially with um, you know, 0:40:40.520 --> 0:40:44.000 how these officers are being prosecuted right now and stuff 0:40:44.040 --> 0:40:47.279 that definitely know, that definitely made me feel a little better. 0:40:47.280 --> 0:40:52.320 But also that's bitter sweet because I mean it's actually 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:54.239 like a smack in the face because all this time 0:40:54.280 --> 0:40:56.759 I've been saying all these things and then all of 0:40:56.760 --> 0:41:00.200 a sudden, you know, it's like, hey, Kenny, are right, 0:41:00.239 --> 0:41:03.879 we was wrong. You was right, We're sorry. But that's 0:41:03.960 --> 0:41:07.400 kind of just it. So I'm having to take that 0:41:07.480 --> 0:41:12.240 in and yeah, it's it's tough. But for the last 0:41:12.840 --> 0:41:15.279 for the last three years, literally it's just been all 0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:18.960 about me trying to stay sane. Like that's that's what 0:41:19.000 --> 0:41:21.160 I've been doing. I've been you know, accepting all the 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:24.560 love from my family and my friends and my prayers, 0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:27.600 and I've just been trying to keep pushing for Brianna 0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:30.080 and you know, create a feature for myself and my 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:36.520 family that Brianna would be proud of. That's what it is. 0:41:36.600 --> 0:41:39.319 Makes So, you know, a lot of a lot has 0:41:39.360 --> 0:41:42.520 happened since then. I remember the first time I met 0:41:42.600 --> 0:41:46.719 you and you had ankle brace it though you know 0:41:46.920 --> 0:41:49.640 I met you an ankle brace it and you're actually 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:55.200 being charged for um shooting the warning shot when you 0:41:55.239 --> 0:41:59.440 know the officers just busting in to the apartment, you know, 0:41:59.640 --> 0:42:02.640 and it was it was a tough time. And I 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:06.239 know that since then those charges had been you know, 0:42:06.400 --> 0:42:12.120 dropped with with prejudice or whatever. Um, how how is 0:42:12.200 --> 0:42:14.680 the legal aspect of it going? Is there has there 0:42:14.719 --> 0:42:18.720 been any still ramifications after that or it's just completely 0:42:18.800 --> 0:42:21.719 dropped or you choked to your lawyers, anything changing in 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:24.920 that aspect. Well, I mean I'm in contact with my 0:42:25.000 --> 0:42:29.640 lawyers regularly just just for my safety. But um, I 0:42:29.719 --> 0:42:33.680 mean yeah, all of that is pretty much out out 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:37.320 of the window. You know. They um, they dropped the charges. 0:42:37.719 --> 0:42:41.520 Um first it was I don't don't, I'm gonna get 0:42:41.520 --> 0:42:43.480 the mess it up because it's real confusing in line 0:42:43.520 --> 0:42:47.160 between with prejudice without prejudice. So they dropped Yeah, they 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:53.320 dropped it one way the first time, which was with prejudice, 0:42:53.360 --> 0:42:56.040 and then they come back and then they drop them 0:42:56.080 --> 0:43:01.400 again without prejudice, meaning they going there, which is crazy 0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:04.600 to me because how do you halfway drop the charge. 0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:06.960 It's like we at that point to me, in my mind, 0:43:07.000 --> 0:43:10.279 it's like we halfway believe you. So then they came 0:43:10.280 --> 0:43:12.879 back like, all right, you know, we believe you. You're 0:43:12.920 --> 0:43:15.719 free to go. But it's how you know, that's not 0:43:15.800 --> 0:43:19.640 cool my time, and beat me down and tried to 0:43:19.640 --> 0:43:22.000 assassinate my character all of this time just to come 0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:24.840 back and say, you know, you ain't do anything wrong 0:43:27.760 --> 0:43:29.960 to me. Because when I heard that, I'm like, so 0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:32.320 they dismissed it, and they said, yeah, with prejudice. I'm like, so, 0:43:32.440 --> 0:43:33.799 what the hell does that mean? You know? And then 0:43:33.840 --> 0:43:36.240 I had to look into it, and it means basically, 0:43:36.239 --> 0:43:39.280 we dismissed it for now, but if we decide to, 0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:43.840 we can basically reissue those charges, you know exactly. So 0:43:44.880 --> 0:43:47.360 now you said, I didn't hear about the part without 0:43:47.360 --> 0:43:50.440 the prejudice, So I'm definitely happy that that's, you know, 0:43:50.520 --> 0:43:54.080 something all for your shoulder, for your back, you know. 0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:59.800 So every time I think about how you must have felt, 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:02.440 you know what I'm saying, I think about this all 0:44:02.440 --> 0:44:04.920 the time. We always said, but we try to make 0:44:04.960 --> 0:44:07.759 sure that we lift of your name as well, you know, 0:44:07.880 --> 0:44:10.880 as you you was in a home with the woman 0:44:10.920 --> 0:44:13.680 that you love and being there, and you know I 0:44:13.760 --> 0:44:16.640 and I heard that call, you know, heard the call 0:44:16.680 --> 0:44:18.640 as you called and told somebody to come help, and 0:44:18.640 --> 0:44:21.080 you can hear the pain and you can hear the 0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:24.920 trauma inside of your voice. Man, you know, I know 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:28.440 it's I know it's hard and you want to just 0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:31.080 sometimes just forget about it, but it's it's it's almost 0:44:31.080 --> 0:44:34.600 impossible to forget a night like that, you know, is 0:44:34.600 --> 0:44:37.399 it hard for you? Do you do you we play 0:44:37.480 --> 0:44:39.480 that night or do or you just do you have 0:44:39.520 --> 0:44:42.200 a therapist because I know I would need a therapist. 0:44:42.239 --> 0:44:44.520 I need a therapist now and I haven't been through 0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:46.759 having it. But do you have somebody that you talk 0:44:46.840 --> 0:44:49.600 about and you talk through that or is it just 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:53.440 something that replays or you just naturally just moving forward 0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:56.880 to keep your saying what's the process. I definitely have 0:44:56.960 --> 0:45:01.080 a therapist, you know, and it wouldn't I probably wouldn't 0:45:01.520 --> 0:45:05.560 still be sitting right here, you know, probably without that process. 0:45:05.920 --> 0:45:08.279 You know. So to all my to all my brother 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:11.200 young brothers out there like me, don't you know, ain't 0:45:11.239 --> 0:45:13.600 nothing wrong with going to talk to somebody about how 0:45:13.640 --> 0:45:15.560 you feel, you know, get some things off your chests. 0:45:15.920 --> 0:45:17.879 But also thank guy, you know, I got a lot 0:45:17.920 --> 0:45:20.640 of good family and friends around me that I don't mind, 0:45:21.360 --> 0:45:24.920 you know, talk talking to about things. And especially it's 0:45:24.920 --> 0:45:28.399 a little easier, um talking to them because they know me, 0:45:28.480 --> 0:45:31.319 and they knew Greek, so they knew the seriousness of 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:35.680 our you know, relationship and friendship you know, Um, so 0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:39.760 they get it, you know, to a to a certain extent. 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:44.640 But I definitely replay that that night and stuff like 0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:47.360 all the time. Like, but it's uncontrollable, like you know, 0:45:47.400 --> 0:45:51.520 it's certain Me and Brianna like hung out a lot. 0:45:51.920 --> 0:45:54.560 You know, that was my best friends. So it's a 0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:56.399 lot of things that remind me of her. It could 0:45:56.440 --> 0:46:00.680 be you know, songs, smells, foods, shoot clothes and shoes. 0:46:00.760 --> 0:46:02.400 You know, we like to get fly, you know what 0:46:02.440 --> 0:46:04.759 I'm saying. So George's coming out that I know we 0:46:05.400 --> 0:46:08.160 had a couple of years ago. Now I'm over in 0:46:08.200 --> 0:46:09.560 my feelings, you know what I'm saying. Just so I've 0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:15.120 seen the press shoes. But March thirteenth, it is not 0:46:15.400 --> 0:46:20.640 necessarily a day that you just like, you know, it's 0:46:20.640 --> 0:46:24.200 not the day for you. That's the focals, the central 0:46:24.239 --> 0:46:27.920 focal point of this horrible moment it's almost it's like 0:46:28.000 --> 0:46:29.719 every day it could be when you said that to me, 0:46:29.760 --> 0:46:35.279 it could be anytime. Hm. So I think Brianna's moms, 0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:38.560 Miss Timika Palmer said before, like every every day feels 0:46:38.600 --> 0:46:42.200 like March thirteenth. Yeah, I'm saying so, and really in 0:46:42.239 --> 0:46:44.799 my mind, I don't think anybody's ever thought of it 0:46:44.840 --> 0:46:47.840 this way. With March fourteenth, you know, might be a 0:46:47.840 --> 0:46:50.879 little bit worse on my mental because that's when I realized, 0:46:51.480 --> 0:46:53.080 you know, that's when I was sitting in jail on 0:46:53.160 --> 0:46:57.359 my bunk, realizing what really just took place. That's when 0:46:57.400 --> 0:47:00.560 I kind of got to soak it in. All right, 0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:03.200 you know this, this really just happened. I'm really in jail. 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:05.839 I'm probably not getting out, you know, That's what I 0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:07.360 was thinking at the time. I didn't think I was 0:47:07.400 --> 0:47:12.560 ever gonna get out. Um. But yeah, so she was 0:47:12.640 --> 0:47:16.600 gone because you found that album to be right, yes, yes, 0:47:16.840 --> 0:47:19.759 So that's what I want, I aint Goes said. I 0:47:19.760 --> 0:47:22.879 want people to imagine, but just you know, just take 0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:26.320 of that, like how that feeling is worse than anything. 0:47:27.160 --> 0:47:34.160 Definitely feeling of helplessness, hopelessness and just just being lost period. 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:37.399 And there's nobody right there for me, and I can't 0:47:37.400 --> 0:47:40.560 even express my feelings completely because I'm in I'm in 0:47:40.560 --> 0:47:42.880 a new environment where you can't No, I can't be 0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:46.080 sitting on this onek in this room full of thirty 0:47:46.080 --> 0:47:48.400 grown man whatever just crying and boo hoo and or 0:47:48.400 --> 0:47:50.600 whatever it may be, even though I did do that 0:47:50.640 --> 0:47:53.920 because I'm me. I mean, but you know, it's it's 0:47:53.960 --> 0:47:56.080 a lot to take on. So not only did I 0:47:56.160 --> 0:47:59.360 just have to you know, soaking and taking everything to 0:47:59.400 --> 0:48:02.000 just happened to me, I'm also having a soaking and 0:48:02.040 --> 0:48:06.440 taking this new situation environment that I mean also because 0:48:06.480 --> 0:48:09.400 I've never been to jail, you know before before that, 0:48:09.480 --> 0:48:13.560 and especially I have, I have been, but it wasn't 0:48:13.560 --> 0:48:19.880 for the long com you know what I'm saying, So like, yeah, 0:48:20.080 --> 0:48:24.399 it's stressful. I can only imagine, man, you know, just 0:48:24.480 --> 0:48:27.280 being around you and just I just want to commend 0:48:27.320 --> 0:48:30.759 you because I watch you cope, you know, I watch 0:48:30.880 --> 0:48:35.760 you in situations and for a while, you know, based 0:48:35.800 --> 0:48:38.640 on what you were going through with your legal situation, 0:48:39.400 --> 0:48:41.600 you know, you weren't really able to speak out, and 0:48:41.680 --> 0:48:45.440 you know, I remember, I remember, I think it was 0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:50.040 last year at south By Southwest and he was like, man, 0:48:50.120 --> 0:48:52.600 I'm y'all of finding hearing me talk a lot more now, 0:48:53.000 --> 0:48:56.200 you know, you know, the energy is off. You know, 0:48:56.280 --> 0:48:59.800 I'm through with the being quiet. You know, briannay justice. 0:48:59.800 --> 0:49:01.920 So I'm gonna talk up and whatever I got to 0:49:01.960 --> 0:49:04.200 say to make sure that she get that justice, man. 0:49:04.280 --> 0:49:06.840 And you've been doing that ever since. Man, So I 0:49:06.880 --> 0:49:09.960 want to commend you on just taking those steps and 0:49:10.520 --> 0:49:14.799 stepping into your voice and advocating and making sure that 0:49:14.840 --> 0:49:20.040 the story in the narrative is set straight, stepping into 0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:22.399 what you are supposed to be doing in this one. 0:49:24.040 --> 0:49:28.279 And then, um, that was easier said than done, because 0:49:28.280 --> 0:49:29.879 it takes a lot to even do what we're doing 0:49:30.000 --> 0:49:33.040 right now. But like you know, every time I talk 0:49:33.080 --> 0:49:34.880 about it and her a little bit, but also I 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:37.160 know this needs to be done, you know, and I won't. 0:49:38.360 --> 0:49:41.160 I was so you know, heldman on, you know, gating 0:49:41.239 --> 0:49:44.640 my voice out there, because like, who who better to 0:49:44.640 --> 0:49:49.759 tell the truth than me? You know, I was there exactly, 0:49:49.760 --> 0:49:52.839 and I'm just glad that these people aren't gonna get 0:49:52.880 --> 0:49:55.840 away with it. Yes, right, well some of them have, 0:49:57.000 --> 0:50:01.640 because the people who actually shot at you are not 0:50:01.680 --> 0:50:05.440 the ones that have been indicted it's the people responsible 0:50:05.560 --> 0:50:08.560 for the We haven't yet, we're still in the ass. 0:50:10.640 --> 0:50:15.680 I'm just saying no, I'm just saying this. I got you, 0:50:15.719 --> 0:50:18.480 But I'm cool with that, just like God, and you know, 0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:21.560 he's been making things right, slowly but surely every since this. 0:50:22.080 --> 0:50:25.120 So I'm very confident that they'll have their day too, 0:50:25.560 --> 0:50:27.200 we know, and it won't come out of hand to me, 0:50:27.360 --> 0:50:29.320 you know what I'm standing. I ain't gonna get on 0:50:29.400 --> 0:50:30.960 here and get the you know, doing all of that. 0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:33.719 But those people, they really feel some type of way 0:50:33.760 --> 0:50:36.360 about me. They've done nothing but bash me and assassinate 0:50:36.440 --> 0:50:38.799 my character from day one. But I never still to 0:50:38.840 --> 0:50:40.960 the same little bit level and do the same thing. So, 0:50:41.560 --> 0:50:44.560 but I think it's important. The reason why I'm bringing 0:50:44.680 --> 0:50:49.279 up the current legal situation is because people need to know. 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:52.719 Like from the beginning, I have tried to be a 0:50:52.920 --> 0:50:57.759 very steadfast fact checker for our community because even we 0:50:57.840 --> 0:51:00.920 say things that's just not accurate. Taylor was in the 0:51:00.960 --> 0:51:04.319 bedsleep when she was shot to death. That's actually not 0:51:04.400 --> 0:51:07.520 what happened. Although she was in the bed sleep, but 0:51:07.600 --> 0:51:09.640 she wasn't in the bed at the time that she 0:51:09.800 --> 0:51:13.239 was shot. Right, So these are things because whenever they 0:51:13.239 --> 0:51:16.520 can catch you where you don't really know the facts 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:19.240 or you're saying something that is off from the facts, 0:51:19.440 --> 0:51:22.200 then they use that as a tool to be like, see, 0:51:22.239 --> 0:51:24.840 they're trying to change the story to make people, you know, 0:51:25.000 --> 0:51:28.960 feel more sympathy. It doesn't matter. They should have never 0:51:29.000 --> 0:51:31.799 been shooting into the house. And so I think it's 0:51:31.880 --> 0:51:36.359 important that people know that in this moment, those individuals 0:51:36.400 --> 0:51:40.120 who have been indicted are not the people who actually 0:51:40.160 --> 0:51:42.400 or at least the one person we know for sure 0:51:42.719 --> 0:51:47.320 that whoa that we believe his bullets actually killed Brianna. 0:51:47.480 --> 0:51:50.600 He is not the person that's been indicted at this 0:51:50.680 --> 0:51:54.680 moment by the federal government right now. All the folks 0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:57.840 who play the role, people who lied on warrants, people 0:51:57.920 --> 0:52:02.200 who all of the nonsense that they did, those individuals 0:52:02.520 --> 0:52:07.040 are are the ones facing charges. And it's important to 0:52:07.080 --> 0:52:11.279 say that because they are the ones that put everybody 0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:14.480 in the position that they were in that day. Nonetheless, 0:52:14.719 --> 0:52:19.279 those officers did not follow the standards and the guidelines 0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:21.640 that they were supposed to follow. And that's what I 0:52:21.680 --> 0:52:24.839 want to ask you now looking at the report that 0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:29.880 came out from the Department of Justice, where they have 0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:37.040 done an extensive, extensive job at researching and examining the 0:52:37.080 --> 0:52:43.040 practices of the Louisville Metro Police Department. It seems to me, 0:52:43.320 --> 0:52:49.320 Kenny that the report that they put out almost mirrors 0:52:49.800 --> 0:52:56.680 the things that happened that night. No knock entry right, 0:52:56.880 --> 0:52:59.640 not telling people who's on the outside of the door, 0:53:00.760 --> 0:53:07.160 falsifying documents to be able to gain entry, right, uh, 0:53:07.200 --> 0:53:13.399 all kinds of things of the dogs. Um, they said 0:53:13.400 --> 0:53:15.279 miss proper used to the dog. That was all. You know, 0:53:15.280 --> 0:53:17.600 there's videos of them doing all of those things above 0:53:17.680 --> 0:53:21.319 to me. So I spoke about that, nobody believe me, 0:53:21.360 --> 0:53:24.040 and then here we are three years later and everything 0:53:24.080 --> 0:53:26.120 I said is set in stone. So I mean, so 0:53:26.200 --> 0:53:30.640 the Republicans came out and said and the the union, 0:53:30.680 --> 0:53:35.600 the police union said, oh, it's exaggerated, but the we're 0:53:35.640 --> 0:53:39.720 looking at there, I don't want to hear that. There's videos, 0:53:40.200 --> 0:53:43.200 there's you know, there's audios, or there's you know, I 0:53:43.239 --> 0:53:45.719 could go on and on and on or several cases 0:53:46.239 --> 0:53:50.360 in Louisville that you know, our police system is corrupt. 0:53:50.680 --> 0:53:52.600 And I can say that because that's not my opinion, 0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:54.399 that's a fact. You know. It was just on seeing 0:53:54.400 --> 0:53:56.879 any other day that this this is what's going on. 0:53:57.040 --> 0:53:59.520 So it didn't start with me, it doesn't end with me, 0:54:00.200 --> 0:54:03.080 but I was able to, I guess, shed some light 0:54:03.160 --> 0:54:06.200 on how these people aren't and not operating by the 0:54:06.239 --> 0:54:10.759 book as they should. They not honoring those those those 0:54:10.800 --> 0:54:14.080 codes that they you know, that they agreed to m 0:54:15.680 --> 0:54:18.560 you know. The other thing I wanted to ask you, 0:54:18.880 --> 0:54:21.680 and I know it's a tough question. I thought. I 0:54:21.719 --> 0:54:23.799 debated whether I should ask you this question, but I 0:54:23.800 --> 0:54:27.680 think it's important for people to know what is the 0:54:27.880 --> 0:54:32.200 impact on you every day that you lived and Brianna 0:54:32.760 --> 0:54:36.040 did not like how does that make you? What do 0:54:36.160 --> 0:54:40.960 you go through dealing with that emotion? It's terrible And 0:54:41.000 --> 0:54:43.399 I love myself. I never I would never harm myself none. 0:54:43.400 --> 0:54:45.040 I don't, you know, I don't want to die or anything, 0:54:45.200 --> 0:54:49.560 but I definitely, you know, at some point throughout the 0:54:49.600 --> 0:54:51.759 week or maybe throughout the day, I just feel like 0:54:51.800 --> 0:54:54.880 I wish I could have traded, you know, like I 0:54:54.960 --> 0:54:58.000 would I would have definitely rather been the one that 0:54:58.120 --> 0:54:59.880 didn't make it out and you know, let her make 0:54:59.880 --> 0:55:08.560 it out. Then yes, And I don't like feel of course, 0:55:08.680 --> 0:55:10.800 not guilty and not the thing that I didn't do anything. 0:55:10.960 --> 0:55:15.280 I exercise my my lag you know, my my rights. 0:55:16.000 --> 0:55:20.280 But it's just it's just very unfortunate. It's just sad, 0:55:20.320 --> 0:55:22.160 and it hurts my heart every day that that happened 0:55:22.160 --> 0:55:26.160 to her because she didn't deserve that. So and it's 0:55:26.200 --> 0:55:28.640 even worse and it hurts even more, and it makes 0:55:28.640 --> 0:55:31.319 me feel some type of way even more to see 0:55:31.360 --> 0:55:34.360 people out her still just walking around like they didn't 0:55:34.360 --> 0:55:37.480 do what they did and writing books and going on 0:55:37.520 --> 0:55:41.279 TV and making um, you know, ill comments about me 0:55:41.960 --> 0:55:43.759 and stuff like that, you know, calling me out of 0:55:43.760 --> 0:55:46.600 my name and stuff, especially coming from somebody I never 0:55:46.640 --> 0:55:49.200 met before, I never had a conversation with, don't know anything, 0:55:49.200 --> 0:55:51.359 and definitely wouldn't say it to my face if we 0:55:51.360 --> 0:55:55.440 were sitting right across from each other, So you know 0:55:55.440 --> 0:56:03.000 what I'm saying, Like, it's the Internet gives a lot 0:56:03.040 --> 0:56:06.399 of clowns, you know, and I hate that so much, 0:56:06.440 --> 0:56:09.680 which is which is why, like I know, I probably 0:56:09.719 --> 0:56:12.360 should have a bigger Internet presence, but I don't because 0:56:12.440 --> 0:56:14.640 you know, I'm me and I'm just in real life, 0:56:14.719 --> 0:56:17.319 so I don't. I just can't be something else on 0:56:17.320 --> 0:56:19.520 the internet or I can't stud to anybody else's level. 0:56:19.719 --> 0:56:22.440 So it's tough. I hate the Internet, by the way, 0:56:22.480 --> 0:56:27.120 I hate it. Yeah, you have to protect your energy, yes, literally, 0:56:27.160 --> 0:56:29.760 And the internet is a stressful place and as crazy 0:56:29.800 --> 0:56:32.120 as I come there to laugh and stuff, but all 0:56:32.160 --> 0:56:35.480 the all the trolls and all the just negative energy 0:56:35.640 --> 0:56:38.560 and the I just can't. I just can't. It's no 0:56:38.640 --> 0:56:43.239 way that you can respond, right, because that's what it is. 0:56:43.320 --> 0:56:49.320 It's a response to the hurt, right, and the the 0:56:49.360 --> 0:56:53.760 horror of what took place. They want you to retaliate 0:56:53.880 --> 0:56:55.799 because they know that, you know, they want to be 0:56:55.880 --> 0:56:59.120 able to build a story, a narrative around you yelling 0:56:59.200 --> 0:57:02.440 in the street or trying to fight one of them, 0:57:02.560 --> 0:57:05.560 or showing up, you know, somewhere or whatever. They want that. 0:57:06.080 --> 0:57:09.760 And you know, first of all, you come from such 0:57:11.960 --> 0:57:18.040 amazing clough your family, your mom and dad, the way 0:57:18.080 --> 0:57:20.400 that they love you and protect you and have been 0:57:20.440 --> 0:57:24.000 there to stand by you. And you know this happened 0:57:24.040 --> 0:57:26.200 to you. And that's the thing that people need to 0:57:26.280 --> 0:57:29.600 constantly remember is that this happened to you, and whatever 0:57:29.640 --> 0:57:35.960 reaction you had throughout this process, it's fair game because 0:57:36.000 --> 0:57:38.680 this is something that happened to you. So I just 0:57:38.720 --> 0:57:41.440 want you to know though that we are definitely proud 0:57:41.480 --> 0:57:43.360 of you, because it's a lot of people that either 0:57:43.400 --> 0:57:48.200 would melt down and just couldn't stand up to the moment. 0:57:48.520 --> 0:57:51.000 And then there's a lot of other people who would 0:57:51.040 --> 0:57:55.760 feel like, why I'm alive, I'm here but you. But 0:57:55.880 --> 0:58:00.680 everybody keeps focusing on Brianna and there's not enough attention 0:58:00.840 --> 0:58:03.360 to you and your story. And yet you're saying, I'm 0:58:03.480 --> 0:58:08.760 joining those who was fighting for Brianna Taylor. Yes, I 0:58:08.800 --> 0:58:11.240 think that would be a real weird thought if I 0:58:11.280 --> 0:58:15.600 felt like that. She's not even here, so I'm still here, 0:58:15.640 --> 0:58:17.840 So how is that fair? You know, she definitely didn't 0:58:17.920 --> 0:58:20.840 deserve to lose her life. So if I did anything 0:58:20.880 --> 0:58:23.919 else besides tell everybody that every day, I'd be weird 0:58:23.960 --> 0:58:26.520 of And I'm not going for that. My love for 0:58:26.560 --> 0:58:29.000 her is way stronger than that. I'm talking about beyond 0:58:29.080 --> 0:58:31.440 like relationship type. Look like it was my best friend, 0:58:31.520 --> 0:58:34.560 like my dog. So you know, all I could do 0:58:34.640 --> 0:58:36.120 is just red for her and just make sure that 0:58:36.120 --> 0:58:38.640 everybody knows that she didn't deserve that, and those people's 0:58:38.680 --> 0:58:41.760 terrible for doing that to her and to me. But 0:58:42.480 --> 0:58:46.280 like I said, I lived, I'm still here. I'm talking 0:58:46.320 --> 0:58:49.200 to y'all. So I can't feel that that bad for myself, 0:58:49.640 --> 0:58:53.640 you know, self pity over here, like they was dead. Wrong, 0:58:53.920 --> 0:58:56.640 stuff happened, but like guy made me make it through it. 0:58:56.720 --> 0:59:00.400 So I don't like to sit and dwell on what happened. 0:59:00.400 --> 0:59:02.640 The only thing I'm dwelling on it's her not being here. 0:59:03.200 --> 0:59:06.880 That's right. Well, you know, a man, stuff happens to 0:59:06.920 --> 0:59:10.680 men every day, you know what I'm saying all day 0:59:10.720 --> 0:59:13.240 every day, and we just gotta I gotta fight through it, 0:59:13.280 --> 0:59:15.240 just like every other black man out here that goes 0:59:15.280 --> 0:59:17.080 through things. So I mean, they don't make it right. 0:59:17.200 --> 0:59:19.560 You know, we have you know, we have our right 0:59:19.760 --> 0:59:22.200 you know, to feel how we're feeling, you know, express 0:59:22.280 --> 0:59:24.160 our emotions and go through what we go through too. 0:59:24.600 --> 0:59:27.480 But also and just like all those other situations, but 0:59:27.600 --> 0:59:30.320 sometimes so black man, we also have to pick ourselves 0:59:30.400 --> 0:59:34.160 up and keep pushing. That's right, That's what we do. 0:59:34.280 --> 0:59:37.440 That's man. So in the spirit of that, you know, 0:59:37.640 --> 0:59:41.200 three years since you know, we've lost Brianna, you know, 0:59:41.720 --> 0:59:43.880 and we know as black man, we gotta keep on 0:59:44.040 --> 0:59:47.120 going like what is next with like you know, because 0:59:47.320 --> 0:59:50.080 for me, the fact that you you your life has 0:59:50.120 --> 0:59:53.840 to make a lot of sense, right, I know, even 0:59:53.920 --> 0:59:57.160 with understanding that you were here, she she wasn't. She 0:59:57.280 --> 1:00:00.520 wasn't didn't making you here. You knew that your life 1:00:00.880 --> 1:00:02.640 you have to live your life. That's how you would 1:00:02.640 --> 1:00:06.960 pay her. Living your life productively, you know, and making 1:00:07.040 --> 1:00:10.600 sure that every time that you do something positive or whatever, 1:00:10.760 --> 1:00:14.360 it reflects her and it's an honor. So what is 1:00:14.440 --> 1:00:17.920 next for Kenny Walks? What is next for you? Honestly, 1:00:18.000 --> 1:00:20.640 the disguise the limit. There's a lot of things that's next, 1:00:20.920 --> 1:00:22.800 Like I could, I could go down the whole list, 1:00:22.920 --> 1:00:28.120 but mainly the main goal is just to reflect you know, 1:00:28.240 --> 1:00:36.200 positivity and shared some light on on my situation and 1:00:36.240 --> 1:00:39.760 brief situation, but also make sure that stuff like this 1:00:39.880 --> 1:00:44.080 can't happen to people all the time all over the world. 1:00:44.120 --> 1:00:46.880 You know, from her own out things should change because 1:00:47.160 --> 1:00:49.880 and a lot of things have changed, you know. I 1:00:50.000 --> 1:00:55.320 just recently um one my civil suit, you know. But 1:00:55.680 --> 1:00:58.960 within my civil suit there's several things that the city 1:00:59.000 --> 1:01:01.720 has to abide to as far as like rules and regulations. 1:01:01.720 --> 1:01:03.360 I don't want to get the line same exactly what 1:01:03.400 --> 1:01:06.280 they are right now, but there's several like things that 1:01:06.360 --> 1:01:09.520 that you know, and along with UM with Tamika Palmer's 1:01:09.920 --> 1:01:13.000 um civil So you know, so we already made several 1:01:13.120 --> 1:01:18.480 changes within the city and basically striving towards these people 1:01:18.520 --> 1:01:21.120 not being being able to do this to us, you know, 1:01:21.160 --> 1:01:24.439 in the future. So I think, um, that's a big 1:01:24.480 --> 1:01:26.960 part of what's next to me, whether I wanted to 1:01:27.040 --> 1:01:30.280 be or not. And I'm been thrust into this, you know, 1:01:30.320 --> 1:01:36.440 this opportunity or this situation, and my voice matters, um, 1:01:37.080 --> 1:01:40.080 So basically what's next is me, you know, getting my 1:01:40.160 --> 1:01:42.920 voice out there, and I guess is as much as 1:01:42.920 --> 1:01:44.400 I can to the best of my ability to make 1:01:44.440 --> 1:01:47.080 sure if this doesn't happen to other people or doesn't 1:01:47.080 --> 1:01:51.880 continue to happen to other people. So the fight for 1:01:51.960 --> 1:01:59.040 justice continues, and like we just second go, like we 1:01:59.120 --> 1:02:02.680 ain't even got all the people that we're going after yet, 1:02:02.720 --> 1:02:05.120 we didn't made some progress. We've got a couple of them, 1:02:05.120 --> 1:02:06.919 but you know, it's just some people at home sitting 1:02:06.960 --> 1:02:09.920 on account, you know, drinking coffee right the other you know, 1:02:10.240 --> 1:02:14.320 they shouldn't be fact, that's right. Well, the fight for 1:02:14.480 --> 1:02:19.600 justice is a noble one and you are certainly one 1:02:19.720 --> 1:02:23.000 that has a real story that you know you you 1:02:23.120 --> 1:02:27.400 live to do something and to my son's point, you know, 1:02:27.480 --> 1:02:29.800 your life has to make sense. It's just it just 1:02:29.880 --> 1:02:32.439 has to like it would, you know, for you not 1:02:32.520 --> 1:02:35.960 to be in this fight would be you know, a 1:02:36.080 --> 1:02:40.200 miscarriage of justice in and of itself. Right, everybody has 1:02:40.240 --> 1:02:44.840 to acknowledge that your first hand account of all the 1:02:44.880 --> 1:02:48.640 things that goes wrong with a rough police department, like 1:02:48.800 --> 1:02:53.080 everything that could go wrong went wrong in this situation 1:02:53.720 --> 1:02:59.960 lies deceit, improper use of force, improper use of a tactics, 1:03:01.280 --> 1:03:08.960 you know, attempting to corrupt witnesses, someone was murdered. I mean, 1:03:09.200 --> 1:03:13.840 everything that you could think of that a bad department 1:03:13.880 --> 1:03:17.320 could do, framing everything you could think of, it all 1:03:17.400 --> 1:03:20.640 happened to you and Brianna Taylor. And so I'm just 1:03:20.720 --> 1:03:24.480 proud to be one, you know, who had good sense 1:03:24.640 --> 1:03:27.440 enough to know all of us that until freedom, that 1:03:27.480 --> 1:03:29.600 we needed to be there to support you. Because we 1:03:29.680 --> 1:03:34.480 are together, we're making history, We're shaping a new society. 1:03:34.520 --> 1:03:37.080 It takes a long time to do, but I truly 1:03:37.120 --> 1:03:39.400 do believe that the work that we put in is 1:03:39.440 --> 1:03:42.720 going to have It's gonna bear fruit at some point. 1:03:42.840 --> 1:03:46.480 So thank you Kenny and I want to thank you 1:03:46.520 --> 1:03:48.840 all for your work. And really, I don't know if 1:03:48.840 --> 1:03:50.480 I've ever told you I I just want to say 1:03:50.520 --> 1:03:52.800 thank you for fighting for greed and for me, like 1:03:52.880 --> 1:03:54.560 I never forget when we all came on my house, 1:03:54.600 --> 1:03:56.760 like my son said he met me and I had 1:03:56.800 --> 1:03:59.280 an ankle bright stung. I'm I'm like, who are these 1:03:59.280 --> 1:04:01.200 people in my mom in this living room? Like what's 1:04:01.240 --> 1:04:03.959 doing on right now? Like this is this is really real? 1:04:04.520 --> 1:04:06.520 You know what I'm saying. But y'all took time out 1:04:06.560 --> 1:04:08.560 of out of y'all day, you know, and away from 1:04:08.600 --> 1:04:11.120 your families and stuff. Just so I realized all of 1:04:11.200 --> 1:04:12.760 that too. Also, you know what I'm saying, It takes 1:04:12.800 --> 1:04:14.080 a lot to do what you all do. So I 1:04:14.080 --> 1:04:15.440 just want to say thank you. I don't know if 1:04:15.440 --> 1:04:21.000 I ever told y'all before you told him, I really 1:04:21.040 --> 1:04:23.520 appreciate so. So I'm probably gonna keep telling y'all every 1:04:23.560 --> 1:04:25.600 time I get around. I got my safe, and we'll 1:04:25.680 --> 1:04:29.120 keep telling you too, because guess what America's telling us. 1:04:29.160 --> 1:04:32.720 We are unworthy. We do you know, we're doing too much. 1:04:32.760 --> 1:04:36.280 We're race vedas, So we have to edify one another, 1:04:36.360 --> 1:04:40.320 and we edify you today, King King, Kenny, we love 1:04:40.360 --> 1:04:42.480 you very much. Keep your head up, keep doing what 1:04:42.560 --> 1:04:46.200 you're doing. Three years later, Brianna Taylor is not here 1:04:46.240 --> 1:04:49.400 with us, but you know, her spirit lives on and 1:04:49.440 --> 1:04:53.160 the fight for justice. She is forever as a black woman, 1:04:53.240 --> 1:04:56.960 going to be one of the leading voices and figures 1:04:57.000 --> 1:05:02.440 that we lean on for our inspiration. That's right, and 1:05:02.840 --> 1:05:05.280 that works for me. Well, we appreciate you. I want 1:05:05.320 --> 1:05:07.800 to thank you for allowing us to fight with you, 1:05:08.000 --> 1:05:10.280 you know, to stand with you, and and and and 1:05:10.560 --> 1:05:13.520 trusting and in us. You know, you when you when 1:05:13.520 --> 1:05:17.080 you your love, you lost the love of your life, 1:05:17.120 --> 1:05:20.880 and you allowed us, you know, and respected us enough 1:05:20.920 --> 1:05:23.840 to come and stand alongside of you and fight and 1:05:23.840 --> 1:05:25.720 and we didn't take that lightly. So I just want 1:05:25.760 --> 1:05:28.040 to say thank you for having the faith in us 1:05:28.120 --> 1:05:34.600 to allow us to be there. Dan Hey, so you 1:05:34.760 --> 1:05:39.560 suing man, be safe, freeway, have a good one, all right. 1:05:44.040 --> 1:05:47.160 Shout out to Kenny Walker Man. Just watching him grow 1:05:47.800 --> 1:05:50.080 into you know, it's like I said, I met him 1:05:50.080 --> 1:05:52.920 with ankle braced it on. He was a young, scared 1:05:52.960 --> 1:05:54.960 young man just like damn. I don't know what happened. 1:05:55.000 --> 1:05:57.080 I just got out of jail. They told him by 1:05:57.160 --> 1:06:00.600 locking me up my girlfriend that I was about to 1:06:00.640 --> 1:06:02.720 marry his dad like he was. He was in shock. 1:06:03.640 --> 1:06:07.280 And also they left the ankle bracelet on his leg 1:06:08.040 --> 1:06:11.280 that day when we know, the day before when we 1:06:11.320 --> 1:06:13.920 got there. I think that was a Saturday, the day 1:06:13.960 --> 1:06:18.920 before they ruled that the ankle bracelet needed to come 1:06:18.960 --> 1:06:22.680 off his leg. But it was a male. It was 1:06:22.760 --> 1:06:26.560 Memorial weekend, right, it was Memorial Day because it was 1:06:26.600 --> 1:06:29.880 a holiday weekend, right, So it was Friday when they 1:06:29.960 --> 1:06:32.840 ruled that they needed to take the ankle bracelet off. 1:06:33.480 --> 1:06:36.760 But because it was a holiday weekend, no one was 1:06:36.840 --> 1:06:40.080 there to take it off Saturday, Sunday and Monday on 1:06:40.200 --> 1:06:43.520 Memorial Day, so he was at home still with the 1:06:43.560 --> 1:06:47.480 bracelet on. Now, the fact that Monday, I mean Friday 1:06:48.080 --> 1:06:51.360 was the end of him wearing the ankle bracelet. He 1:06:51.360 --> 1:06:54.480 should have been able to move about on Monday and 1:06:54.560 --> 1:06:56.480 do whatever he wanted to do as a part of 1:06:56.520 --> 1:06:59.080 you know, Memorial Day, get out, visit people. But he 1:06:59.160 --> 1:07:02.880 was afraid to move around because he didn't know whether 1:07:02.960 --> 1:07:05.320 the ankle bracelet was gonna go off and able to 1:07:05.320 --> 1:07:08.080 come and arrest him. So he had no clarity for 1:07:08.160 --> 1:07:16.360 a whole three more days. It's so he went through 1:07:16.400 --> 1:07:19.080 a lot. Man. I'm just I'm happy that, um, he's 1:07:19.480 --> 1:07:22.520 finding his voice, he's finding his space, you know, and 1:07:23.080 --> 1:07:27.040 fight for bre for Brianna Taylor still continues. So shout 1:07:27.040 --> 1:07:31.080 out to Kenny Man. So, you know, from I don't 1:07:31.120 --> 1:07:35.400 get it. You know, of it's been a situation that 1:07:35.440 --> 1:07:42.400 happened on the train. You know, it was a young 1:07:42.480 --> 1:07:47.120 boy that they say is an autistic young man. Um, 1:07:47.160 --> 1:07:49.920 you see this young girl just walking him through the train, 1:07:50.880 --> 1:07:55.880 walking him through the train, and then eventually they beat 1:07:55.960 --> 1:07:59.040 up on a himple and you know, and it's been 1:07:59.080 --> 1:08:03.440 conflict and I don't know what the issue is. But 1:08:03.560 --> 1:08:07.960 what I really just don't get is why we constantly 1:08:08.000 --> 1:08:12.680 have these issues with kids, Like I don't understand how 1:08:13.080 --> 1:08:16.439 this bullying thing has got to this level. It's it's 1:08:16.439 --> 1:08:18.439 not the first time I'm seeing it. It's not the 1:08:18.520 --> 1:08:21.920 last time we're gonna see it. But this bullying like 1:08:22.080 --> 1:08:24.679 really like they really are taking off on this kid. 1:08:25.000 --> 1:08:28.840 And and there's a the conflict is that they're saying 1:08:28.840 --> 1:08:31.680 that this kid had bullied someone else before. You know, 1:08:31.680 --> 1:08:34.320 if they there's a video that's going around, I can't 1:08:34.320 --> 1:08:37.200 tell if it's him or not. I don't know. Nobody 1:08:37.280 --> 1:08:40.320 knows if it's him. Nobody has been confirmed able to 1:08:40.400 --> 1:08:43.639 confirm or deny it. And that's another thing I don't get. 1:08:44.680 --> 1:08:47.479 If you're this big bully, how do you let a 1:08:47.520 --> 1:08:50.759 girl drag you through the train right to this big bully? 1:08:53.200 --> 1:08:59.000 But this girl's about five one yea. She literally just 1:08:59.080 --> 1:09:02.320 grabbing you by the colla. I'm trying to figure out 1:09:02.320 --> 1:09:05.240 who's how is he to bully that's getting bullied by 1:09:05.240 --> 1:09:09.200 the girl. I've never I've been listening to it. I've 1:09:09.200 --> 1:09:14.200 seen bullies in my lifetime, right, and I've seen tough girls, 1:09:14.840 --> 1:09:18.120 but I never seen a tough girl that was five 1:09:18.120 --> 1:09:21.200 to one bully, a bully that was damn me at 1:09:21.200 --> 1:09:23.840 six feet. I'm that'sked him. This is new. I don't 1:09:23.880 --> 1:09:26.479 get what's going on here. This is a whole new 1:09:26.560 --> 1:09:29.240 thing for me. So I don't know what the story is, 1:09:29.280 --> 1:09:31.960 but I know I know that the racial slurs that 1:09:32.000 --> 1:09:35.160 they were using, screaming, calling the man this, look at 1:09:35.160 --> 1:09:37.920 the nigga, and all of this wasn't okay. I know 1:09:38.000 --> 1:09:41.200 even if he had bullies somebody else, then all of 1:09:41.200 --> 1:09:44.559 those people punching and beating on him wasn't okay, you know. 1:09:44.640 --> 1:09:47.679 So it's it's just it's unfortunate. Man. We gotta really 1:09:47.680 --> 1:09:50.960 protect our kids. There's so many different things, you know, 1:09:51.000 --> 1:09:55.479 And I used this term coward culture so much. You know, 1:09:55.520 --> 1:10:00.080 I use this term coward culture so much, and I 1:10:00.000 --> 1:10:04.000 I want people to really, really really just look at it. 1:10:04.120 --> 1:10:07.800 You know. The culture of coward is that people want 1:10:07.800 --> 1:10:11.040 to pick on the weaker. You know, people want to 1:10:11.200 --> 1:10:14.240 pick on who they perceived to be weaker. People want 1:10:14.240 --> 1:10:17.400 to do things when they feel like they have an advantage. 1:10:17.520 --> 1:10:21.240 You know. I've also seen a lady walking and they 1:10:21.320 --> 1:10:24.880 robbed the lady, Asian lady for I think she took 1:10:24.880 --> 1:10:29.479 four thousand dollars out of the bank and this this 1:10:29.560 --> 1:10:34.240 coward grabs her up and pretty much had the lady paralyzed. 1:10:34.320 --> 1:10:36.880 He those are to the ground. The ladies now paralyzed. 1:10:37.320 --> 1:10:39.120 They have to teach her how to walk again. Like 1:10:39.840 --> 1:10:41.559 I'm just I just think we just live in some 1:10:41.680 --> 1:10:45.479 dangerous times. Man, We're just living dangerous times. And a 1:10:45.560 --> 1:10:47.519 lot of people get mad at me because I always 1:10:47.560 --> 1:10:52.679 advocate for integrity and accountability and men just being able 1:10:52.720 --> 1:10:55.360 to stand whatever they do. You know, I don't I 1:10:55.360 --> 1:10:58.680 am so against the criminal culture. And that's why I'm 1:10:58.720 --> 1:11:02.040 for accountability, you know, And people be mad at me 1:11:02.120 --> 1:11:04.719 and like, oh, you waded about snitches destitches. Getting people 1:11:04.840 --> 1:11:09.759 to know the snitches is avoiding accountability. If the sniche 1:11:09.760 --> 1:11:12.559 tells on somebody else that did a crime, the snitch 1:11:12.680 --> 1:11:16.720 gets away, right, who who's where's the accountability for you 1:11:16.840 --> 1:11:19.599 for the crime you did. So it's it's a false 1:11:19.640 --> 1:11:23.440 sense of reality, right. What you're doing is rewarding somebody 1:11:23.880 --> 1:11:27.040 for being a coward so they escape the consequences. So 1:11:27.360 --> 1:11:29.680 this whole color culture that we're living in now, it's 1:11:29.720 --> 1:11:32.280 just it's just I don't really get none of this shit. 1:11:32.360 --> 1:11:35.240 I put a post up yesterday, you know, that said 1:11:35.280 --> 1:11:38.040 y'all got it. Everything I learned was wrong. You know. 1:11:38.160 --> 1:11:40.720 My mama told me, like you know, like most of 1:11:40.800 --> 1:11:43.880 us that I told my mother, you know, I don't 1:11:43.960 --> 1:11:46.680 understand that. She said, my son, they could build a 1:11:46.720 --> 1:11:49.559 whole new world or for the ship, you don't understand. 1:11:49.600 --> 1:11:53.080 And I said, this is and I realized in this 1:11:53.160 --> 1:11:55.679 moment that this is the world she was talking about. Man, 1:11:55.720 --> 1:11:59.200 So this I don't get it. It's easy for me 1:11:59.240 --> 1:12:01.559 because every day I could come here and have the ship, 1:12:01.640 --> 1:12:04.000 did I see? I just don't get well. I only 1:12:04.000 --> 1:12:06.760 had one point on this, and they ain't much more 1:12:06.800 --> 1:12:11.960 to say. Where were the big bad police that the trains? Remember, 1:12:12.520 --> 1:12:16.080 the mayor and a bunch of people, the mayor, the 1:12:16.160 --> 1:12:20.479 police chief, even some city council members in New York, 1:12:21.040 --> 1:12:24.439 they say, we gotta have cops on the train. They 1:12:24.520 --> 1:12:27.479 put budgets into it to put more police on the train. 1:12:27.640 --> 1:12:31.439 They're supposed to They're supposed to be on the train. 1:12:31.880 --> 1:12:35.160 Where are they at? Where were they? It was all 1:12:35.160 --> 1:12:39.160 those people, especially after school. Where are the cops that's 1:12:39.200 --> 1:12:43.040 supposed to be there? Nobody saw anything to stop the situation. 1:12:43.560 --> 1:12:46.280 Maybe they did. I don't know. I'm not saying they didn't, 1:12:46.280 --> 1:12:48.000 but I know what I saw in that video was 1:12:48.040 --> 1:12:50.400 a whole lot of beaten up on somebody. And I 1:12:50.520 --> 1:12:52.840 didn't I didn't see before the video cut off that 1:12:52.920 --> 1:12:55.479 the police, the big bad cops that's supposed to do 1:12:55.560 --> 1:12:59.559 so much preventing crime, didn't see them. So, you know, 1:12:59.720 --> 1:13:03.360 but they'll say when we say that, oh no, you know, 1:13:03.520 --> 1:13:06.479 it'll always be some other reason for why the cops 1:13:06.520 --> 1:13:08.800 were not there. We're not present the ones that they 1:13:08.840 --> 1:13:13.080 have all the money, you know those I mean, that's 1:13:13.080 --> 1:13:16.200 what we deal with. We I'm just so confused with 1:13:16.439 --> 1:13:18.479 half this shiit to me because like I don't know 1:13:18.760 --> 1:13:21.280 nothing that's going on, Like I really wake up some 1:13:21.400 --> 1:13:24.400 days and the ship that I that I have to endure, 1:13:25.080 --> 1:13:27.320 the things that I have to hear every day, it's 1:13:27.360 --> 1:13:31.559 just it's like bizarre work. Like the shit that that's 1:13:31.680 --> 1:13:34.519 being that some of the shit that I can't even 1:13:34.600 --> 1:13:38.080 say that I want to say that I for you know, 1:13:38.160 --> 1:13:40.680 just because for my understanding the reality we live, and 1:13:40.680 --> 1:13:42.240 I can't say half the ship that I wanted to 1:13:42.240 --> 1:13:43.600 say all the time. But I say a lot of 1:13:43.640 --> 1:13:48.320 shit that I I'm very I very really just don't 1:13:48.320 --> 1:13:50.439 say so. But the things that I that I just 1:13:50.520 --> 1:13:53.280 think the way that I see, you know, I just 1:13:53.320 --> 1:13:56.080 tell you protect your energy, man. You know, I'm really 1:13:56.120 --> 1:13:59.240 focused on trying to save these babies. And a lot 1:13:59.280 --> 1:14:04.040 of people call what I do, you know, contradicting and 1:14:04.080 --> 1:14:08.120 all of these things, and I think they don't understand 1:14:08.160 --> 1:14:14.200 what my goal is. You know. I haven't separated myself 1:14:14.240 --> 1:14:17.280 from this culture. I haven't separated myself from my community. 1:14:17.280 --> 1:14:20.160 I haven't separated myself from the kid on the corner 1:14:20.320 --> 1:14:23.000 from the one who's hustling, from the ones who who 1:14:23.040 --> 1:14:26.440 thinks he's a shooter, from the ones just just engaged 1:14:26.760 --> 1:14:30.720 inside this. I haven't separated myself, right, I've evolved past that, 1:14:30.840 --> 1:14:33.800 but I haven't separated myself. My goal is to save 1:14:33.920 --> 1:14:37.600 those people. I'm not here to be with y'all and 1:14:37.720 --> 1:14:41.559 coexist and all of y'all do gooders that know crime 1:14:41.640 --> 1:14:43.960 is wrong? Just why don't you just tell people crime 1:14:44.040 --> 1:14:45.960 is wrong? Why do you have to say this? Co 1:14:46.120 --> 1:14:48.920 wouldn't because the people that I'm speaking too, they don't 1:14:48.960 --> 1:14:51.400 speak that language. They don't give a fuck about what 1:14:51.479 --> 1:14:54.160 you think is wrong, because you can't change their reality. 1:14:54.439 --> 1:14:56.439 Because when you tried to talk to me about what 1:14:56.560 --> 1:14:58.840 was wrong and right and all that shit, you you 1:14:58.960 --> 1:15:01.519 wasn't putting no food on my table. You wasn't the 1:15:01.560 --> 1:15:04.320 ones that I need a validation from. You wasn't in 1:15:04.400 --> 1:15:07.559 my community. You wasn't the girl that I like that, 1:15:07.720 --> 1:15:09.560 like the dudes that was doing that. None of that 1:15:09.600 --> 1:15:13.360 shit that you're talking about then't doesn't relate to my reality. 1:15:13.560 --> 1:15:16.920 So this good tell them it's writing crimin dolledge. That 1:15:17.000 --> 1:15:20.320 shit don't work where I'm from. So understand that we 1:15:20.479 --> 1:15:23.040 speak in two different language. You speak in a language 1:15:23.080 --> 1:15:26.679 that don't compute where I'm from. So the language I'm speaking, 1:15:26.800 --> 1:15:31.000 although it confuses you, it is contradicting and hypothe critical 1:15:31.080 --> 1:15:33.840 whatever you think. I know who I'm trying to save, 1:15:34.320 --> 1:15:36.160 and I know in order to save me, this is 1:15:36.160 --> 1:15:38.120 how you had to speak to me. This is the 1:15:38.640 --> 1:15:41.360 way that you had to come to me. So you know, 1:15:41.920 --> 1:15:45.200 I understand that I understand that my method might not 1:15:45.280 --> 1:15:48.360 be for you, and I you know, what I say 1:15:48.479 --> 1:15:51.400 is you probably shouldn't follow me. You know you should 1:15:51.439 --> 1:15:54.120 you probably it's nothing wrong and followed. You know it's 1:15:54.120 --> 1:15:55.880 people that I followed. I'm like, you know what your 1:15:55.960 --> 1:15:58.360 this message don't fit for me or this individual is 1:15:58.400 --> 1:16:00.680 not from me, but the people I'm trying to save, 1:16:00.840 --> 1:16:02.680 the people who come from where I come from, the 1:16:02.720 --> 1:16:06.120 people who've who've got who've survived through what it is 1:16:06.160 --> 1:16:09.400 that I've survived through, who's going through these trenches, the goods, 1:16:09.400 --> 1:16:12.519 the bads who've been in pretty much every predicament in life, 1:16:12.560 --> 1:16:16.479 who've been around, people who've been the you know, drug 1:16:16.520 --> 1:16:20.400 addicts and lived on the street, who I have friends 1:16:20.840 --> 1:16:24.679 who are who have who lived on the streets, and 1:16:24.720 --> 1:16:28.120 I have friends who are billionaires and millionaires. I've seen 1:16:28.280 --> 1:16:32.840 every every angle of the spectrum, you know, and I 1:16:32.880 --> 1:16:36.600 speak from reality, I speak from experience, you know. And 1:16:36.880 --> 1:16:40.360 it's just it's just hard sometimes, you know, just knowing 1:16:40.960 --> 1:16:45.280 that there are people who really are intentionally trying to 1:16:45.320 --> 1:16:49.080 mislead these babies and misguid them, you know. And it's 1:16:49.160 --> 1:16:51.519 hard waking up every day seeing that shit and knowing, 1:16:52.040 --> 1:16:55.960 like Pup said, the media dictates the reality and in 1:16:56.000 --> 1:17:01.000 the media is it's hell been on miss guy. Man, 1:17:01.160 --> 1:17:06.080 So I'm fighting, but sometimes you get a little wearied. Man, Well, 1:17:06.120 --> 1:17:10.040 that's the realities of the work. Now now you are 1:17:10.120 --> 1:17:16.759 actually stepping into true leadership. Before you were being led 1:17:17.200 --> 1:17:21.320 and trying to find your way to your own leadership. 1:17:21.520 --> 1:17:25.599 Now that you have that feeling of despair at times 1:17:25.680 --> 1:17:30.320 and feeling like, you know, what are we doing and 1:17:30.520 --> 1:17:34.360 what's happening and are people actually getting it? And watching 1:17:34.400 --> 1:17:38.799 how the narrative or the society pulls in the opposite direction, 1:17:39.120 --> 1:17:42.600 that's real leadership because that's when you get really, really uncomfortable, 1:17:42.600 --> 1:17:45.679 and then you have to drill down on your faith 1:17:45.720 --> 1:17:49.519 and you're understanding in so many different areas those dark 1:17:49.560 --> 1:17:53.000 pockets to find the light, like you have to actually 1:17:53.040 --> 1:17:56.160 find the light in the dark pockets, and it's it's 1:17:56.200 --> 1:17:59.320 quite challenging. Trust me, I go through it every single day, 1:17:59.400 --> 1:18:04.880 so well, I ain't got no choice, right, you know, 1:18:05.360 --> 1:18:06.880 you got to go through it to get through it. 1:18:08.200 --> 1:18:11.040 That said man. Shout out to Kitty Walker being out 1:18:11.080 --> 1:18:13.840 with guests. Shout out to all of y'all for constantly 1:18:14.280 --> 1:18:20.960 and always supporting street politicians. Man, the number one podcast roll, 1:18:21.120 --> 1:18:25.439 we give it you. M r r ip to Brianna 1:18:25.520 --> 1:18:32.080 Taylor Man three years she's when was wrongfully taken for us, 1:18:32.560 --> 1:18:35.320 you know, and shout out to her mother and her sister, 1:18:35.560 --> 1:18:39.200 Tamika Palmer and Jenia. We love y'all. We with you, 1:18:39.360 --> 1:18:42.360 Kenny Walker, We with you, Breeway, the whole Breeway, and 1:18:42.439 --> 1:18:46.479 anybody who's been standing with and for Brianna Taylor. 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