Speaker 1: What's her family. It's your girl to mek A D. Mallory,
Speaker 1: and it's your boys in general. And we are your
Speaker 1: hosts of street politicians the place with the streets and politics. Me,
Speaker 1: what's going on, mister Lennon, mister Myson Lennin. It's been
Speaker 1: a rough week, man, But you know, we take a
Speaker 1: looking and keep on ticket don't Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I really do believe that the energy in
Speaker 1: the air, like something is off in the society, in
Speaker 1: the world. It's a little weird. There's so many things
Speaker 1: going on. I was just reading something this morning about
Speaker 1: the amount of people dying by fentonol like but not
Speaker 1: not like um fentonol what do you call it, Like
Speaker 1: where they are um accidentally being poisoned, like you know,
Speaker 1: like like like like you know how sometimes they make
Speaker 1: drugs and they put things in it so you don't
Speaker 1: know what you're taking. But these are people who are
Speaker 1: intentionally using fentanol. And I'm just like, Yeah, the world
Speaker 1: is a little weird. It's weird, but that is the
Speaker 1: fact that they're looking for. That's like heroin in the eighties,
Speaker 1: especially in the eighties, like I told you before, people
Speaker 1: wanted to try the heroine that kill people. Like if
Speaker 1: they say, yo, these people odd on it, they'd be like,
Speaker 1: where are they going to find that bad? Because there's
Speaker 1: a level of high that a drug addict is trying
Speaker 1: to reach. They're trying to reach the level of high
Speaker 1: right before death, like they want they want it's the
Speaker 1: weirdest shit in the world. They don't want to die.
Speaker 1: They want to experience this level of how that reaches
Speaker 1: this level of euphoria that that completely controls them to
Speaker 1: where they almost die but they don't. Yeah. But then
Speaker 1: the question that I have about that, right is, I mean,
Speaker 1: did a lot of people die on heroin? I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, a lot of people the way that they're
Speaker 1: dying with fence at all. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: numbers are the same, but I know there was a
Speaker 1: lot of heroin addicts that od That was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things. Most of them were old. It's very, very,
Speaker 1: very strange. And it's not one race or like like
Speaker 1: like uh, it's not in silos or subjective for like
Speaker 1: one community or one group of people. It's like a
Speaker 1: wide ranging problem. It's very it's just very strange. So
Speaker 1: I but you know, I'm never, you know, engaged, so
Speaker 1: I don't know with the the feeling is or the thrillers.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, obviously, group they don't. I
Speaker 1: an't mean to cut you up, but I know this. This,
Speaker 1: this is what skied me when they said the urge
Speaker 1: for drugs for crack or some of these us even heroin,
Speaker 1: was a hundred times the urge for sex. I said,
Speaker 1: I don't want it. He was freaking. I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you that something is a hundred times the urge for sex.
Speaker 1: You are nuts. I don't want nothing to do with
Speaker 1: something like that. That ain't for me. I'm gonna listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the biggest attic in the world. I'm
Speaker 1: never I'm staying far away from that ship as possible.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen. I have used drugs. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it ever ever tampered with my urge for sex,
Speaker 1: but I do know that you are always, which is
Speaker 1: why I went from taking a half a pill to
Speaker 1: taking five pills each time, Because as time goes on
Speaker 1: and your body gets used to the drug, you're looking
Speaker 1: for an original feeling. So I get that, but I'm
Speaker 1: saying that the fencing all specifically it's killing people left
Speaker 1: and right, like fencing as just knocking people down. I
Speaker 1: don't remember if Heroin killed a lot of people. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it did, but I mean I don't anyway,
Speaker 1: it just seems but everything is weird. Everything is weird. So,
Speaker 1: speaking of weird things, I wanted to talk about blue
Speaker 1: Face and Christian you know, Chrishan, I'm sorry I posted
Speaker 1: and a truly I was looking at the young lady
Speaker 1: the other day and she's really just a pretty little
Speaker 1: a pretty young girl. And I posted a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago that the show that they have on some TV
Speaker 1: I don't even know the name of the TV network, whatever,
Speaker 1: the TV network is a black man owns it and
Speaker 1: they have this show, and it is to me, it's
Speaker 1: like it should be banned from TV. The craziness that
Speaker 1: goes on between these two very young people. I don't
Speaker 1: think it should be exploited by them or anyone else,
Speaker 1: because it actually shows a lot of mental health issues,
Speaker 1: a lot of self esteem issues, mental health issues, like
Speaker 1: you put it all under one umbrella and it really
Speaker 1: is not a good look at all. I get that
Speaker 1: all reality TV has an element of the fighting and
Speaker 1: the carrying on and all the things that we see.
Speaker 1: But to me, it just feels so inappropriate for these
Speaker 1: two very very young people to be, you know, on
Speaker 1: TV displaying, you know, going to counseling, drinking liquor. I
Speaker 1: know for sure that that is not something that's supposed
Speaker 1: to happen. Like I get that a therapist may come
Speaker 1: and meet you where you are in the midst of
Speaker 1: all your challenges, but it's also very TV that you
Speaker 1: could go to a therapist or a psychiatrist's office and
Speaker 1: drink out of a bottle in Hennessey. So when I
Speaker 1: saw that, I was like, I just I just want
Speaker 1: to know, is this supposed to be funny? And I
Speaker 1: posted it and of course a lot of people said no.
Speaker 1: And actually it gets deeper at a bunch of people
Speaker 1: DM and me telling me more about real stories of abuse.
Speaker 1: Some people were trying to say they thought it was
Speaker 1: just for TV, but it's become clear that it's not.
Speaker 1: And then it's the young man, God bless him, he
Speaker 1: has a mom and the mom has drama, and it's
Speaker 1: just so much drama that's going on with this one family.
Speaker 1: So then this week I saw that the young girl
Speaker 1: is pregnant, which bless God, bless the Lord, like God,
Speaker 1: bless like. I was not even in this type the
Speaker 1: type of shape that they're in, but it was pretty
Speaker 1: bad and it was not a good time for me
Speaker 1: to even have a child. So I can only imagine
Speaker 1: that this is like wow, but you know whatever, Bless
Speaker 1: their herd. But I noticed that she said something about
Speaker 1: getting an abortion, and then he said do it, which
Speaker 1: you know, young people back and forth on the internet.
Speaker 1: But since then, and he made another statement, which is
Speaker 1: that he wanted to he's going to continue to push
Speaker 1: the issue until she gets an abortion. Do you think
Speaker 1: there's anybody around that's letting blue face know that bullying
Speaker 1: a woman into an abortion is actually not cool, Like
Speaker 1: that's not like you, that's not something that you write
Speaker 1: on social media or anywhere else. Like that's actually bullying
Speaker 1: somebody into making a decision with their body. And it's
Speaker 1: not it's not okay. You know, I've been watching it.
Speaker 1: It's very toxic to me just watching the way they
Speaker 1: deal with each other. You know, the way that media,
Speaker 1: social media and everybody else is exploiting these people's dysfunction.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. And you know, and you tell
Speaker 1: young kids that they can make money, even at their
Speaker 1: own demands. They're gonna do it. That's and people will say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: they're making a choice. In a lot of times, when
Speaker 1: you make a choice, choices are based on option, right,
Speaker 1: So when you give people very little options and people
Speaker 1: come from nothing, you could you look at both of them,
Speaker 1: like even Blue Face they got with When you look
Speaker 1: at Kashan's she's been through so she's been through hell
Speaker 1: when you look at her family life and everything she's
Speaker 1: going through. So you give an opportunity to where she's
Speaker 1: making thousands and hundreds thousands of dollars, even if it's
Speaker 1: at the demands, I mean, even if it's at the
Speaker 1: extent and you know, to her detriment, she doesn't care.
Speaker 1: You know, So whoever's around him, you know, I know
Speaker 1: some people that's around Blue Face, So you know, I
Speaker 1: would say, man, you know, they got to be a
Speaker 1: little bit of goddance, Like it's grown adult people like
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying I don't know what you're saying,
Speaker 1: and he's still a grown man, but I do think
Speaker 1: that there has to be a better guidance and understanding
Speaker 1: of what's going on. And as far as what you
Speaker 1: just said, you know, I don't know what they say
Speaker 1: to her. I hope he understands ends what he's doing.
Speaker 1: I hope he understands that trying to bully a woman
Speaker 1: into an abortion is not cool because you you you
Speaker 1: you consciously you've been with this woman. It's a woman
Speaker 1: that you've been claiming that you've been with and you
Speaker 1: made a baby with her. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: so stressing, I wouldn't doing things mentally to de short
Speaker 1: like that's not that's not grown man shit. It's actually
Speaker 1: coward coward cultures. And you know, I don't know blue Face,
Speaker 1: but I know that that statement alone is not some
Speaker 1: shit that a man should be happy saying. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just I just feel like as young people, I
Speaker 1: am trying to be much more understanding of young people,
Speaker 1: because as I have, as I'm getting older, I see
Speaker 1: so much that's like completely ridiculous, like just I can't
Speaker 1: believe it's happening. And then I have to put myself
Speaker 1: back at the time when there were people who couldn't
Speaker 1: believe I was doing some of the things that I was.
Speaker 1: So I have to constantly remind myself of that so
Speaker 1: that I don't get so far detached from the realities
Speaker 1: of what we're dealing with today and what young people
Speaker 1: go through and how society creates, you know, different things
Speaker 1: that become the norm and some things that make you
Speaker 1: cool and all of that. And adults like the black
Speaker 1: man I forgot his name. If I could remember, trust me,
Speaker 1: I would definitely say it, but I don't, but I'm
Speaker 1: probably gonna get it before we finish. But you know,
Speaker 1: these people who are exploiting young folks because this happens, right,
Speaker 1: it happens. I was watching a long order episode, same thing,
Speaker 1: exploiting young people for their own purposes, whatever their issues
Speaker 1: may have been. This particular time, it was the LGBTQIA
Speaker 1: community and older people exploiting younger people for the purpose
Speaker 1: of making a point, right, and then messed up these
Speaker 1: kids heads and messed up their emotions. Same thing here.
Speaker 1: TV guy wants to, you know, make it big in
Speaker 1: TV and have a big show or a big network.
Speaker 1: He exploits these two young people, as you said, their dysfunction.
Speaker 1: We as a people, especially as black people, should be like,
Speaker 1: we're not even putting this, We're not even putting this
Speaker 1: on TV. Think about it. I don't mean to cut off.
Speaker 1: But it started with like Bobby and Whitney, right, people
Speaker 1: people think they were big grown people. They was big people.
Speaker 1: Bobby and Whitney was big people, I guess, but they
Speaker 1: still these are still grown people there, but I mean
Speaker 1: big people different, it's different. It was it was exploiting dysfunction.
Speaker 1: They knew those people and when you watched, because you
Speaker 1: knew that they were high and they were gonna do
Speaker 1: shit that didn't even make sense, and you wanted to
Speaker 1: see that and you liked the love. And sometimes it
Speaker 1: was dysfunction. Sometimes they cuts each other out and people
Speaker 1: enjoyed it and this is this is the this is
Speaker 1: the new version of that. But it was big people, right,
Speaker 1: But to you it was big people. They were big people.
Speaker 1: I mean these were grown These are still growing people,
Speaker 1: you know, so I hear you. But we've we've celebrated
Speaker 1: and exploited I would detriment since the beginning, since we
Speaker 1: was able to do it because and you know, we
Speaker 1: come from poverty, We come through from a lot of
Speaker 1: different situations. So a lot of people come into this,
Speaker 1: you know, this industry or whatever, and they allow themselves
Speaker 1: to be exploited because they don't want to go back
Speaker 1: to being broke. You know, hopefully somebody that's listening today,
Speaker 1: we'll let the young man know that publicly or otherwise,
Speaker 1: but certainly publicly, bullying a woman into having an abortion
Speaker 1: is wrong. It's wrong, it's inappropriate, and it's just something
Speaker 1: that we shouldn't be like, oh, you know, well, I
Speaker 1: get it because they're young. No, somebody needs to actually
Speaker 1: tell him that. So that's that. Let's see what else,
Speaker 1: what else is going on in this world? So I know,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks go or last week, it was
Speaker 1: announced that Tyler Perry and Byron Allen are attempting to
Speaker 1: purchase the majority stake in BEET. Now Puff has joined
Speaker 1: the ranks of those who are trying to buy I
Speaker 1: guess more than fifty one percent of the company, so
Speaker 1: that b ET will be black owned again. Now it's
Speaker 1: not clear to me whether they're all in talks about
Speaker 1: potentially coming together or if each individual person is intending
Speaker 1: to buy the company. And so therefore there will be competition, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, either way it works for me right
Speaker 1: like I think, because you need competition. White folks battle
Speaker 1: one another for businesses all the time, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: make them hate one another because they could be owning
Speaker 1: something together over here, having dinner together over here, and
Speaker 1: still bidding over there for some other business because they're
Speaker 1: keeping it. They're keeping it the competitive nature of it all,
Speaker 1: and keeping it in the family, if you will. That's
Speaker 1: what they do. They go to one another and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you should bid. I'm gonna bid, and you bid, and
Speaker 1: one of the three of us is gonna get it,
Speaker 1: which means we all still got it, so I can
Speaker 1: work with that, or which would be great if the
Speaker 1: three of them were working together to get it. I
Speaker 1: personally know you know, we know Puff and I want
Speaker 1: to see him be able to do this because I
Speaker 1: know from the work that he's put in a Revolte which,
Speaker 1: by the way, Revolte while it is, you know, it
Speaker 1: is a very important news source and especially culturally, it
Speaker 1: has a very important cultural space. A shout out to
Speaker 1: the family over at revolt. It still is not a
Speaker 1: mainstream b ET network. It is not the same so
Speaker 1: I heard people BT has been here for decades, so
Speaker 1: exactly so revote, I don't even think vote is ten
Speaker 1: years old, and revokes again it's still it's not the
Speaker 1: it is not the brand, nor is it a network
Speaker 1: that is like Beet. So what Beet can do? The shows,
Speaker 1: the content, all of that. It's a completely different level.
Speaker 1: And you know, people don't really know what they be
Speaker 1: talking about sometimes because I saw people like, what doesn't
Speaker 1: he own Revote? Why can't he just put more into that?
Speaker 1: Yes you can. It's like saying Byron Allen, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna go well, at least I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: go dump the Grio, right, He's going to build up
Speaker 1: his media portfolio. Right. Why do we don't ask Rupert
Speaker 1: Murdock and all of these white people that own massive
Speaker 1: media entities, why they don't dump some of their smaller
Speaker 1: businesses or stay small instead of being able to play
Speaker 1: on a big level. Why do we have to ask
Speaker 1: them to do that? No, you should be able to
Speaker 1: have Revote and Beet and something else and something else.
Speaker 1: Like that's just what it is. So I support Puff,
Speaker 1: you know, and and I hope that he's able to
Speaker 1: get this done because we know his Like I'm actually
Speaker 1: on a text thread where Puff is on there every
Speaker 1: so often, Like I'm looking for the best and the
Speaker 1: brightest to help build what is next for us as
Speaker 1: black people in terms of black ownership, right, And I'm
Speaker 1: sure the others Tyler Perry and Byron Allen are thinking
Speaker 1: the same way. It's like, what can we do to
Speaker 1: build the next level of black dopeness, telling our own stories,
Speaker 1: having our own narrative shaped by us and told by us.
Speaker 1: So I support him one hundred one hundred hundred thousand, million,
Speaker 1: trillion percent. No, I definitely support. I support to move
Speaker 1: in general. You know, black ownership is the key to
Speaker 1: our liberation. You know, we don't own any thing like perfect.
Speaker 1: I remember him making a statement like, you know, we
Speaker 1: don't own nothing. We do on all the ship, but
Speaker 1: we don't own nothing. So we have to have ownership.
Speaker 1: And what's what's better than BT, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: been the black entertainment, you know, TV for since the
Speaker 1: beginning of time. So to get that ownership back and
Speaker 1: then continue, like you said, to purchase multi multi media
Speaker 1: media controls the world like I see them. Post Media
Speaker 1: controls how you think, It controls what you see, It
Speaker 1: creates a narrative, It creates the culture, It dictates the trends.
Speaker 1: Media controls everything. People live their life by what they
Speaker 1: see in the media. They don't know the information that
Speaker 1: we get about, everything that we don't read about comes
Speaker 1: from media. You know. It's that he who controls the
Speaker 1: media controls the people. And that's why we've been controlled
Speaker 1: by you know, other people for so long, because they
Speaker 1: control what we see and they control what the media is.
Speaker 1: So if we start controlling our media and start controlling
Speaker 1: the media, then we can put our perspectives, we can
Speaker 1: put our dream, we can put all the things that
Speaker 1: we need into our society, man, and we'll have a
Speaker 1: large enough voice, a strong enough voice to be heard
Speaker 1: and have the opportunities that everybody else has. So I'm
Speaker 1: all for the brothers can come together, that be dope.
Speaker 1: But if not, if one of them get it, I
Speaker 1: have faith that any one of them, or any two
Speaker 1: of them, you know, together, any combination, any any combode
Speaker 1: they got, you put that together, you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have some black excidence, right and you know, listen, maybe
Speaker 1: we can stop the oscars and all of this bullshit
Speaker 1: where they snubbing our people. We know what happened with
Speaker 1: Viola Davis not getting an oscar for a woman king
Speaker 1: is disgusting, deplorable, ridiculous. Then you have our dear sister,
Speaker 1: our beautiful sister, Angela Bassett sit there and be disrespected
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, in the room. And then
Speaker 1: white people, white women particularly, had the audacity to go
Speaker 1: online talking about, oh, why didn't Angela Bassett act more
Speaker 1: graceful and she should have done this, and she should
Speaker 1: have smiled, and she should have had stood up to
Speaker 1: clap in the middle of what she knew was a
Speaker 1: moment that she deserved. She's supposed to just hide her feelings.
Speaker 1: And see, that's what they think about black people, especially
Speaker 1: black women. We are not supposed to have feelings at all.
Speaker 1: We'res I can't even say black people because as I'm
Speaker 1: saying it, I mean black women, because as I'm saying it,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about y'all as black men. You're not supposed
Speaker 1: to have any feelings. You're supposed to just be cool
Speaker 1: with whatever people give you and be nice and smile
Speaker 1: about it because and they don't even know that part
Speaker 1: of that mentality comes from enslavement, where you were beaten
Speaker 1: by master, and then you still had to smile or
Speaker 1: do whatever Master said. You still had to go in
Speaker 1: the kitchen and cook and come out and say yes, master,
Speaker 1: and show it and display yourself as being happy about
Speaker 1: the abuse, the beating, the disrespect, and people still have
Speaker 1: that expectation of us today and they don't even know
Speaker 1: where it comes from. It's like sometimes when we think
Speaker 1: about and it brings me right to my next topic.
Speaker 1: But sometimes even with our own children, there's things that
Speaker 1: they do, and it's times when you have to remember,
Speaker 1: my mom would have to pull my coattail and say
Speaker 1: to me, hey, that attitude you have or those or
Speaker 1: just you know, the mindset that you have, it comes
Speaker 1: from a place. Let me tell you about Auntie someone so,
Speaker 1: or Grandma such and such or whatever. Stories of our
Speaker 1: history and how things are passed down through a bloodline.
Speaker 1: Sometimes what you hear in the it's what you see
Speaker 1: and hear in your peripheral things going on around you
Speaker 1: when you're growing up, and you don't even know that
Speaker 1: you're tapping into that and still using those those unfortunate
Speaker 1: or still using that unfortunate ideology and moments on people
Speaker 1: who've been oppressed. So you know, I just know she
Speaker 1: didn't have to smile. They better be when they say
Speaker 1: she wasn't graceful. The grace was that she didn't cut
Speaker 1: you out of the fun out Listen, man, people tie
Speaker 1: of y'all playing with us, smith y'all playing in these
Speaker 1: people's face. That lady know what she did. Everybody knew
Speaker 1: what she did, you know, and and it was it's
Speaker 1: just it's just like a disgrace. And she still hasn't
Speaker 1: got the oscar Like that is just crazy to me
Speaker 1: when you look at the actress, the caliber and the
Speaker 1: level of what she's done throughout her career, you know,
Speaker 1: and and it goes to show and it's not about racist.
Speaker 1: I think that it's it's I think that the Oscars,
Speaker 1: you know, is culturally deaf right to our culture. You know,
Speaker 1: the things that matter to us, the stories that matter
Speaker 1: to us, the storylines that matter to us. Sometimes I like,
Speaker 1: because I do, I do homework, right. A lot of
Speaker 1: times it be movies and artists who win Oscars that
Speaker 1: I don't know of, movies that I've never seen, And
Speaker 1: I say, and when they were the best actress or
Speaker 1: this and that, I said, let me go look at
Speaker 1: this movie because I just want to see what they
Speaker 1: did in this movie. Right, And then I look and
Speaker 1: I'd be, okay that the performance is good. I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at the performance, but the storyline and all of
Speaker 1: the ship that they talk about, I can't I have
Speaker 1: no understanding or I can't relate to it at all.
Speaker 1: It is not has nothing to do with my reality,
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with just the culture that I
Speaker 1: come from. So what happens is when you have people
Speaker 1: on this committee that that's what they relate to, that's
Speaker 1: their culture, that's their storyline, that's the ship that they
Speaker 1: identified with. When you show them Women King, when you
Speaker 1: show them, you know, contrafact, when you show them these movies,
Speaker 1: it's to them it's foreign, you know, like they don't
Speaker 1: they don't really, they don't understand its significance. They don't
Speaker 1: understand what the actress or actor is actually doing because
Speaker 1: the storyline and all of it doesn't It doesn't appeal
Speaker 1: to them. So we have to have awards and ceremonies
Speaker 1: to where we have people who identify with our culture,
Speaker 1: who identify with our soul, who identify with our reality,
Speaker 1: to be the judges of these things. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep having these same conversations. We're gonna keep losing to
Speaker 1: white actors and white actresses that do storylines and shit
Speaker 1: that pertains to the people who's own a committee that's picking. Well,
Speaker 1: I want to push back on one thing that you said,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if you know, but there was
Speaker 1: an article on a pretty reputable from from a pretty
Speaker 1: reputable source where they claim that they were able to
Speaker 1: get and off the record conversation with one of the
Speaker 1: people who votes as an Oscar voter. So you know,
Speaker 1: those people are anonymous and it's supposed to be that way,
Speaker 1: so that you know, you can't contact them and try
Speaker 1: to pressure them into voting for you and whatever, right
Speaker 1: or because of a decision, they faced scrutiny, so on
Speaker 1: and so forth. Well, the thing that I found that
Speaker 1: I found interesting when you said they don't know our culture,
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily appreciate or understand what we're doing. Actually,
Speaker 1: this person in his statement and they say his, they
Speaker 1: use the word his, he says, you know, stop whining,
Speaker 1: stop crying about it, that if you didn't win, it's
Speaker 1: because it wasn't good, we didn't like it, and that's
Speaker 1: why you didn't win, and went on to talk about
Speaker 1: the culture and how he's tired of wote culture. So
Speaker 1: to me, well, that's that's that's an attack on. What
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is that's an attack on our
Speaker 1: coach that even if it's a person that's from the
Speaker 1: coacher who doesn't IDENTI far what the culture. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that he's from our culture. I'm saying that he's
Speaker 1: more than likely racist. That's what I'm saying. It's not
Speaker 1: that they don't understand. It's that they have been a
Speaker 1: conscious decision in performances. You will not get oscars. Didn't
Speaker 1: they say Holly Berry got one for uh, make me
Speaker 1: feel good? What was that Monster's Ball when she was
Speaker 1: you know, very I mean she was very sexual. I
Speaker 1: loved her performance and Monster's Ball, so I wouldn't take
Speaker 1: anything away from it. But there are other films that
Speaker 1: she's played, and we know when Hollyberry hit the scene,
Speaker 1: she need an oscar every time. There's not a time
Speaker 1: that Viola, uh, Angela Bassett, Holly Berry. Who else do
Speaker 1: we have here? I mean the list goes on. Who else?
Speaker 1: This other women? Um, I'm trying to Monique Um, Jada Jada.
Speaker 1: I put Whoopee in there too, Whoopee too, definitely, Oprah
Speaker 1: Oprah Um. It's probably so many others its people hit
Speaker 1: the screen when they decide that there the other lady
Speaker 1: that played in The Help, what's her name? Oh boy?
Speaker 1: Um no, that was It was Viola when that played
Speaker 1: with her, the one that fed the lead. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I don't know her name. Would listen, We're gonna look
Speaker 1: it up and I'm gonna look up the two things
Speaker 1: that you let me see. What's her name? Tim? Yes,
Speaker 1: because she's amazing, She's always amazing. That's my girl. That's
Speaker 1: my girl. She follows me and actually she participates in
Speaker 1: the content. To Octavia Spencer. When these women hit the screen,
Speaker 1: when they get that, well, I want to say something
Speaker 1: real quick. Everybody do commented on my post today, So
Speaker 1: I feel like you said that that was her quote,
Speaker 1: So shout out to Erica like she's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite artists in the world. So that's still that's dope.
Speaker 1: Like these are women. They need oscars. If they gave us,
Speaker 1: if they gave us as we deserve, what we deserved,
Speaker 1: the show would just be And I'm not listening taking
Speaker 1: that from nobody because Jamie Lee Curtis is bad. Now
Speaker 1: you didn't get ready, I'm not taking up from Jamie Lee.
Speaker 1: I just don't think I didn't you know what. What
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say is this, I do not think me
Speaker 1: Mesy is a great actress like you gotta watch I
Speaker 1: don't know if you watch a lot of her stuff. Still,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's listen. There are a few of
Speaker 1: them that there are a lot of us. Oh what's
Speaker 1: the scandal? Oh um, Kerry Washington. If they gave us
Speaker 1: I would do the whole it would always be that
Speaker 1: black people would be winning everything. So you know, so
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that that man when he spoke, and
Speaker 1: let me know that even if he thought the performance
Speaker 1: was incredible, he ain't trying to give us none. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Let's move on to my thought of the day. I
Speaker 1: see people in my common section since I've been posting
Speaker 1: about Puff saying that, oh, you know, he doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to manage anything. Look what he did to Mace
Speaker 1: and this one and that one, and we recognize that
Speaker 1: something's happening. I nobody is. Listen, if you go back
Speaker 1: in my history, if you go back in your history,
Speaker 1: you go back, and anybody, especially people who are bosses
Speaker 1: and people who run businesses and whatever, for the most part,
Speaker 1: there is a period and error where they made some
Speaker 1: really bad decisions, and they did some really fucked up
Speaker 1: things to people. That's a fact. But the question that
Speaker 1: we have to ask is how long do we hold it?
Speaker 1: How long? How long does it carry over? And you know,
Speaker 1: and just how long I don't know, So anyway, that's
Speaker 1: up for another day's debate. But for my a thought
Speaker 1: of the day today, I wanted to talk about Newark,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, which, by the way, I just love how
Speaker 1: black blackety black black. Rossparocca, our mayor in Newark, gotta
Speaker 1: live there, but I still claim him and the entire
Speaker 1: team Kesha Yury, our sister Kylelisia. Is so many super
Speaker 1: black people in Newark that are running that that city,
Speaker 1: that town. They said when they got elected they were
Speaker 1: gonna be black like they always have been. People need
Speaker 1: to check Rosscarocca's background, his parents, his family, where he
Speaker 1: comes from, his lineage. This is not new to him.
Speaker 1: Need to just come mayor and just all of a
Speaker 1: sudden get black. This man has always and and and
Speaker 1: there is a different you know, yes you could be black,
Speaker 1: but there's there's blackety black, and Rossparoca, mayor Baracca is
Speaker 1: blackety black. So they took down the statue of of
Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus, and they put up Harriet Tubman. So I
Speaker 1: went online and clicked in the comments because I got
Speaker 1: me some popcorn as soon as I saw it out,
Speaker 1: So let me give me some popcorn. And getting these comments,
Speaker 1: and I got in my bed, put my first socks
Speaker 1: on and started flicking my toes because I already knew
Speaker 1: that people from all over the country, white folks particularly
Speaker 1: and some of our ignorant asked people, we're gonna lose
Speaker 1: their mind about taking down old Christopher boy. And it
Speaker 1: really is crazy that white people especially have the gall
Speaker 1: have the gall upset about Christopher Columbus being held and
Speaker 1: uplifted the colonizing the he's the face of a colonize brother.
Speaker 1: We were there first of all. I already my parents
Speaker 1: ain't never if they even hurt. If I had to
Speaker 1: write a report about Christopher Columbus in school, my parents
Speaker 1: would say no, they would go speak to right. And
Speaker 1: I believe my sister still does that for my niece.
Speaker 1: We do not at all acknowledge Christopher Columbus. The only
Speaker 1: time we acknowledge him is to talk about his enslavement
Speaker 1: of Native American people, him being a colonizer, as you said,
Speaker 1: his relationship with the Portuguese who happened to be the
Speaker 1: first colonizers of the African people. And by the way,
Speaker 1: just so that people who are out there like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know this, and that let's be clear, Christopher
Speaker 1: Columbus did not. He did not. We already know he
Speaker 1: didn't discover America. But he didn't even get here by himself.
Speaker 1: He had Africans who had already been traveling to America
Speaker 1: on the ship with him, and they helped him to
Speaker 1: navigate his way. That's how he down the Americas because
Speaker 1: he was with Africans who had already been here and
Speaker 1: had been sailing back and forth from Africa to the
Speaker 1: to the America's okay, So he did nothing. He literally
Speaker 1: did nothing. He went and stopped along the route right
Speaker 1: between Africa and America. He stopped along the route and
Speaker 1: met with different kings and queens and broker deals to
Speaker 1: bring more enslaved people to those particular uh whatever they
Speaker 1: want to be, those colonizes. That's what he did. And
Speaker 1: when they found out that the and I hope I'm
Speaker 1: saying it right, the Tyino, the Tino people were unable
Speaker 1: to deal with the heat, and you know, because of
Speaker 1: the skin of their skin, could not deal with the
Speaker 1: heat and the m and the Yeah, they couldn't stay
Speaker 1: outside in the sun right because their skin was not
Speaker 1: it wasn't appropriate. You know, you get red skin and
Speaker 1: all of that. We know about Native Americans. The skin
Speaker 1: is a very delicate thing. So when they were not,
Speaker 1: they could not perform a particular task, which was staying
Speaker 1: out in the fields the way that they wanted them to,
Speaker 1: because that's all they wanted. They wanted bodies to go
Speaker 1: out in the fields and do sharecropping and then ultimately
Speaker 1: build buildings and do all the things to create the
Speaker 1: world that they wanted, which they couldn't do for them damnselves.
Speaker 1: So they wanted to put other people to work. They
Speaker 1: could not use this particular group of people, so his
Speaker 1: idea failed. And then then they started looking at Africans,
Speaker 1: and that's how African people were chosen as the second
Speaker 1: best or strongest or whatever to become enslaved. Like people
Speaker 1: really need to understand. And I'm sure the way that
Speaker 1: I'm telling it, it's probably so many other details and
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it exactly as a historian would tell it.
Speaker 1: But that's the essence of the story. Christopher Gammas didn't
Speaker 1: do shit, so you know what, they need to take
Speaker 1: his ass down, him and Robert Eaton and all of
Speaker 1: these statues across this country and somebody's damn plate. Who
Speaker 1: I was getting ready to say something that was gonna
Speaker 1: get me in so much trouble. Who I was tell
Speaker 1: the truth, shame the devil. I was getting ready to
Speaker 1: say some things about the American flag. But we ain't
Speaker 1: gonna do that today. I'm just saying, damn, Christopher Columbus.
Speaker 1: Don't even just take it down. They should blow it.
Speaker 1: They should blow it up like you know how when
Speaker 1: they blow up the buildings to do demolition and you
Speaker 1: see it, and you you know how they do demolition
Speaker 1: and they blow up the buildings and you see it
Speaker 1: come down like that. That should be christ Love. This
Speaker 1: should be that they should have the rocks, the pieces
Speaker 1: of it. Just drop it from the highest building high
Speaker 1: like get the hell out of here, somebody just dropping
Speaker 1: from the highest buildings. But you know what, no, because
Speaker 1: they're not at the highest place. They're sitting in the
Speaker 1: middle of squares in this country where you can actually
Speaker 1: go up and touch and feel it and kids run
Speaker 1: around it and they see it and guess what. They
Speaker 1: shouldn't blow it up because the residue from all of
Speaker 1: the particles that would come into our system in our
Speaker 1: communities would probably kill us. That's how poisonous Christopher Columbus is.
Speaker 1: Fuck the well. Listen, they put up Harriet Tubman. Though
Speaker 1: you have Tubman's man, I've been waiting for my my tubmans.
Speaker 1: Them tubmans didn't never come out. Man, these were man.
Speaker 1: Let's bring our guests on today because we got to
Speaker 1: talk about injustice in America, which is which is America
Speaker 1: every week. Unfortunately, we don't do a show that's gonna
Speaker 1: just be all positive. This is everything positive that's going
Speaker 1: on the Positi. So speaking of American history, this young
Speaker 1: man has become a part of American history. Unfortunately. You know,
Speaker 1: the story is one that is tragic, very very tragic.
Speaker 1: But it's also a story I feel like it's not
Speaker 1: told enough. And you know, because this week is the
Speaker 1: week that Brianna Taylor was killed three years ago. Now,
Speaker 1: time is just I don't even know what to say
Speaker 1: about time. It's going by so fast. But it's been
Speaker 1: three years that Brianna Taylor was killed. And we talk
Speaker 1: about Brianna every day. I mean every day of my life.
Speaker 1: I say it, think about it, look at a post,
Speaker 1: read a thing, talk to her mother, Mona, to her
Speaker 1: sister and what Jania is doing something, talk to the lawyers,
Speaker 1: attorney Lanita Baker, somehow or another. I am in touch
Speaker 1: with our love, passion and fight for Brianna Taylor literally
Speaker 1: every single day, seven days a week, three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five days a year since the day we met.
Speaker 1: But we don't talk about the other side of the
Speaker 1: story enough. And I thought that this week it would
Speaker 1: be a great addition to the Street Politicians podcasts and
Speaker 1: to what we do here to talk with Kenny Walker
Speaker 1: about his experience and how he's doing. Three days later,
Speaker 1: so let's welcome our brother. He's like we see Kenny
Speaker 1: all the time. If any family of Ken Kenny Walker
Speaker 1: fiance and was soon to be baby daddy to Brianna Taylor.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us on Street Politicians today. Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me. I'm excited. Kenny. Have you been on
Speaker 1: the show before? No, I have not. First, I felt
Speaker 1: like he was up here before. I stayed behind the
Speaker 1: scenes most of the time. I got a bunch of
Speaker 1: good people like y'all, I can you know, speak up
Speaker 1: for me the way I needed to happen or listen
Speaker 1: what we wanted to say. Thank you, and we welcome
Speaker 1: you to our show. You know you are like you said,
Speaker 1: we were family, you know, unfortunately we became family at
Speaker 1: a very traumatic and tragic time in your life. And
Speaker 1: just want to know, like, how have you been? How
Speaker 1: have you been coping this three years since the night
Speaker 1: you know and you actually were engaged and actually right
Speaker 1: there in that situation, like, so how is it? How
Speaker 1: are you feeling? You know, how are you moving forward?
Speaker 1: I know it's hard, but how are you doing these days? Well? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's kind of like, especially for me,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of what Smika just said, like
Speaker 1: I deal with it every day and you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it doesn't have to be the um
Speaker 1: I don't even want to say special because it's not
Speaker 1: a special week, but the the same week as as
Speaker 1: you know, this tragic event occurred. Like, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be March thirteenth for me to feel some type
Speaker 1: of way or for me to be sad, or for
Speaker 1: me to think of bad Bree. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: every day and continuous and ongoing struggle, you know for me.
Speaker 1: Like so, I've definitely came a long way, you know,
Speaker 1: um since things have happened, but it's it's still tough,
Speaker 1: you know, just like she said, you have to, you know,
Speaker 1: if nothing else, I get on the internet and now
Speaker 1: I see a picture of her, or I see you know,
Speaker 1: somebody saying her name or whatever it may be. And
Speaker 1: no doubt I appreciate that. I love to see that,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm I'm happy and I'm glad that
Speaker 1: people show so much love and compassion, you know, for
Speaker 1: for Brianna and our situation. But it's it's just tough.
Speaker 1: It's just tough. I can only imagine, man, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's been three years. You know, what what have
Speaker 1: you been doing too, you know, to move forward or
Speaker 1: try to keep you know, we're still fighting for justice
Speaker 1: for Brianna every day, so I know that's part thing.
Speaker 1: So what have you been doing for the last you know,
Speaker 1: three years? What have you been trying to do? Really?
Speaker 1: Day by day just trying to get my mind together,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of just now getting into a
Speaker 1: space of you know where where I see some type
Speaker 1: of positivity, you know, and some type of good in
Speaker 1: the future, you know, like especially with um, you know,
Speaker 1: how these officers are being prosecuted right now and stuff
Speaker 1: that definitely know, that definitely made me feel a little better.
Speaker 1: But also that's bitter sweet because I mean it's actually
Speaker 1: like a smack in the face because all this time
Speaker 1: I've been saying all these things and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, it's like, hey, Kenny, are right,
Speaker 1: we was wrong. You was right, We're sorry. But that's
Speaker 1: kind of just it. So I'm having to take that
Speaker 1: in and yeah, it's it's tough. But for the last
Speaker 1: for the last three years, literally it's just been all
Speaker 1: about me trying to stay sane. Like that's that's what
Speaker 1: I've been doing. I've been you know, accepting all the
Speaker 1: love from my family and my friends and my prayers,
Speaker 1: and I've just been trying to keep pushing for Brianna
Speaker 1: and you know, create a feature for myself and my
Speaker 1: family that Brianna would be proud of. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Makes So, you know, a lot of a lot has
Speaker 1: happened since then. I remember the first time I met
Speaker 1: you and you had ankle brace it though you know
Speaker 1: I met you an ankle brace it and you're actually
Speaker 1: being charged for um shooting the warning shot when you
Speaker 1: know the officers just busting in to the apartment, you know,
Speaker 1: and it was it was a tough time. And I
Speaker 1: know that since then those charges had been you know,
Speaker 1: dropped with with prejudice or whatever. Um, how how is
Speaker 1: the legal aspect of it going? Is there has there
Speaker 1: been any still ramifications after that or it's just completely
Speaker 1: dropped or you choked to your lawyers, anything changing in
Speaker 1: that aspect. Well, I mean I'm in contact with my
Speaker 1: lawyers regularly just just for my safety. But um, I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, all of that is pretty much out out
Speaker 1: of the window. You know. They um, they dropped the charges.
Speaker 1: Um first it was I don't don't, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: the mess it up because it's real confusing in line
Speaker 1: between with prejudice without prejudice. So they dropped Yeah, they
Speaker 1: dropped it one way the first time, which was with prejudice,
Speaker 1: and then they come back and then they drop them
Speaker 1: again without prejudice, meaning they going there, which is crazy
Speaker 1: to me because how do you halfway drop the charge.
Speaker 1: It's like we at that point to me, in my mind,
Speaker 1: it's like we halfway believe you. So then they came
Speaker 1: back like, all right, you know, we believe you. You're
Speaker 1: free to go. But it's how you know, that's not
Speaker 1: cool my time, and beat me down and tried to
Speaker 1: assassinate my character all of this time just to come
Speaker 1: back and say, you know, you ain't do anything wrong
Speaker 1: to me. Because when I heard that, I'm like, so
Speaker 1: they dismissed it, and they said, yeah, with prejudice. I'm like, so,
Speaker 1: what the hell does that mean? You know? And then
Speaker 1: I had to look into it, and it means basically,
Speaker 1: we dismissed it for now, but if we decide to,
Speaker 1: we can basically reissue those charges, you know exactly. So
Speaker 1: now you said, I didn't hear about the part without
Speaker 1: the prejudice, So I'm definitely happy that that's, you know,
Speaker 1: something all for your shoulder, for your back, you know.
Speaker 1: So every time I think about how you must have felt,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I think about this all
Speaker 1: the time. We always said, but we try to make
Speaker 1: sure that we lift of your name as well, you know,
Speaker 1: as you you was in a home with the woman
Speaker 1: that you love and being there, and you know I
Speaker 1: and I heard that call, you know, heard the call
Speaker 1: as you called and told somebody to come help, and
Speaker 1: you can hear the pain and you can hear the
Speaker 1: trauma inside of your voice. Man, you know, I know
Speaker 1: it's I know it's hard and you want to just
Speaker 1: sometimes just forget about it, but it's it's it's almost
Speaker 1: impossible to forget a night like that, you know, is
Speaker 1: it hard for you? Do you do you we play
Speaker 1: that night or do or you just do you have
Speaker 1: a therapist because I know I would need a therapist.
Speaker 1: I need a therapist now and I haven't been through
Speaker 1: having it. But do you have somebody that you talk
Speaker 1: about and you talk through that or is it just
Speaker 1: something that replays or you just naturally just moving forward
Speaker 1: to keep your saying what's the process. I definitely have
Speaker 1: a therapist, you know, and it wouldn't I probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: still be sitting right here, you know, probably without that process.
Speaker 1: You know. So to all my to all my brother
Speaker 1: young brothers out there like me, don't you know, ain't
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with going to talk to somebody about how
Speaker 1: you feel, you know, get some things off your chests.
Speaker 1: But also thank guy, you know, I got a lot
Speaker 1: of good family and friends around me that I don't mind,
Speaker 1: you know, talk talking to about things. And especially it's
Speaker 1: a little easier, um talking to them because they know me,
Speaker 1: and they knew Greek, so they knew the seriousness of
Speaker 1: our you know, relationship and friendship you know, Um, so
Speaker 1: they get it, you know, to a to a certain extent.
Speaker 1: But I definitely replay that that night and stuff like
Speaker 1: all the time. Like, but it's uncontrollable, like you know,
Speaker 1: it's certain Me and Brianna like hung out a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, that was my best friends. So it's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that remind me of her. It could
Speaker 1: be you know, songs, smells, foods, shoot clothes and shoes.
Speaker 1: You know, we like to get fly, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So George's coming out that I know we
Speaker 1: had a couple of years ago. Now I'm over in
Speaker 1: my feelings, you know what I'm saying. Just so I've
Speaker 1: seen the press shoes. But March thirteenth, it is not
Speaker 1: necessarily a day that you just like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: not the day for you. That's the focals, the central
Speaker 1: focal point of this horrible moment it's almost it's like
Speaker 1: every day it could be when you said that to me,
Speaker 1: it could be anytime. Hm. So I think Brianna's moms,
Speaker 1: Miss Timika Palmer said before, like every every day feels
Speaker 1: like March thirteenth. Yeah, I'm saying so, and really in
Speaker 1: my mind, I don't think anybody's ever thought of it
Speaker 1: this way. With March fourteenth, you know, might be a
Speaker 1: little bit worse on my mental because that's when I realized,
Speaker 1: you know, that's when I was sitting in jail on
Speaker 1: my bunk, realizing what really just took place. That's when
Speaker 1: I kind of got to soak it in. All right,
Speaker 1: you know this, this really just happened. I'm really in jail.
Speaker 1: I'm probably not getting out, you know, That's what I
Speaker 1: was thinking at the time. I didn't think I was
Speaker 1: ever gonna get out. Um. But yeah, so she was
Speaker 1: gone because you found that album to be right, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: So that's what I want, I aint Goes said. I
Speaker 1: want people to imagine, but just you know, just take
Speaker 1: of that, like how that feeling is worse than anything.
Speaker 1: Definitely feeling of helplessness, hopelessness and just just being lost period.
Speaker 1: And there's nobody right there for me, and I can't
Speaker 1: even express my feelings completely because I'm in I'm in
Speaker 1: a new environment where you can't No, I can't be
Speaker 1: sitting on this onek in this room full of thirty
Speaker 1: grown man whatever just crying and boo hoo and or
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, even though I did do that
Speaker 1: because I'm me. I mean, but you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot to take on. So not only did I
Speaker 1: just have to you know, soaking and taking everything to
Speaker 1: just happened to me, I'm also having a soaking and
Speaker 1: taking this new situation environment that I mean also because
Speaker 1: I've never been to jail, you know before before that,
Speaker 1: and especially I have, I have been, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: for the long com you know what I'm saying, So like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's stressful. I can only imagine, man, you know, just
Speaker 1: being around you and just I just want to commend
Speaker 1: you because I watch you cope, you know, I watch
Speaker 1: you in situations and for a while, you know, based
Speaker 1: on what you were going through with your legal situation,
Speaker 1: you know, you weren't really able to speak out, and
Speaker 1: you know, I remember, I remember, I think it was
Speaker 1: last year at south By Southwest and he was like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm y'all of finding hearing me talk a lot more now,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, the energy is off. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm through with the being quiet. You know, briannay justice.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna talk up and whatever I got to
Speaker 1: say to make sure that she get that justice, man.
Speaker 1: And you've been doing that ever since. Man, So I
Speaker 1: want to commend you on just taking those steps and
Speaker 1: stepping into your voice and advocating and making sure that
Speaker 1: the story in the narrative is set straight, stepping into
Speaker 1: what you are supposed to be doing in this one.
Speaker 1: And then, um, that was easier said than done, because
Speaker 1: it takes a lot to even do what we're doing
Speaker 1: right now. But like you know, every time I talk
Speaker 1: about it and her a little bit, but also I
Speaker 1: know this needs to be done, you know, and I won't.
Speaker 1: I was so you know, heldman on, you know, gating
Speaker 1: my voice out there, because like, who who better to
Speaker 1: tell the truth than me? You know, I was there exactly,
Speaker 1: and I'm just glad that these people aren't gonna get
Speaker 1: away with it. Yes, right, well some of them have,
Speaker 1: because the people who actually shot at you are not
Speaker 1: the ones that have been indicted it's the people responsible
Speaker 1: for the We haven't yet, we're still in the ass.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying no, I'm just saying this. I got you,
Speaker 1: But I'm cool with that, just like God, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's been making things right, slowly but surely every since this.
Speaker 1: So I'm very confident that they'll have their day too,
Speaker 1: we know, and it won't come out of hand to me,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm standing. I ain't gonna get on
Speaker 1: here and get the you know, doing all of that.
Speaker 1: But those people, they really feel some type of way
Speaker 1: about me. They've done nothing but bash me and assassinate
Speaker 1: my character from day one. But I never still to
Speaker 1: the same little bit level and do the same thing. So,
Speaker 1: but I think it's important. The reason why I'm bringing
Speaker 1: up the current legal situation is because people need to know.
Speaker 1: Like from the beginning, I have tried to be a
Speaker 1: very steadfast fact checker for our community because even we
Speaker 1: say things that's just not accurate. Taylor was in the
Speaker 1: bedsleep when she was shot to death. That's actually not
Speaker 1: what happened. Although she was in the bed sleep, but
Speaker 1: she wasn't in the bed at the time that she
Speaker 1: was shot. Right, So these are things because whenever they
Speaker 1: can catch you where you don't really know the facts
Speaker 1: or you're saying something that is off from the facts,
Speaker 1: then they use that as a tool to be like, see,
Speaker 1: they're trying to change the story to make people, you know,
Speaker 1: feel more sympathy. It doesn't matter. They should have never
Speaker 1: been shooting into the house. And so I think it's
Speaker 1: important that people know that in this moment, those individuals
Speaker 1: who have been indicted are not the people who actually
Speaker 1: or at least the one person we know for sure
Speaker 1: that whoa that we believe his bullets actually killed Brianna.
Speaker 1: He is not the person that's been indicted at this
Speaker 1: moment by the federal government right now. All the folks
Speaker 1: who play the role, people who lied on warrants, people
Speaker 1: who all of the nonsense that they did, those individuals
Speaker 1: are are the ones facing charges. And it's important to
Speaker 1: say that because they are the ones that put everybody
Speaker 1: in the position that they were in that day. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: those officers did not follow the standards and the guidelines
Speaker 1: that they were supposed to follow. And that's what I
Speaker 1: want to ask you now looking at the report that
Speaker 1: came out from the Department of Justice, where they have
Speaker 1: done an extensive, extensive job at researching and examining the
Speaker 1: practices of the Louisville Metro Police Department. It seems to me,
Speaker 1: Kenny that the report that they put out almost mirrors
Speaker 1: the things that happened that night. No knock entry right,
Speaker 1: not telling people who's on the outside of the door,
Speaker 1: falsifying documents to be able to gain entry, right, uh,
Speaker 1: all kinds of things of the dogs. Um, they said
Speaker 1: miss proper used to the dog. That was all. You know,
Speaker 1: there's videos of them doing all of those things above
Speaker 1: to me. So I spoke about that, nobody believe me,
Speaker 1: and then here we are three years later and everything
Speaker 1: I said is set in stone. So I mean, so
Speaker 1: the Republicans came out and said and the the union,
Speaker 1: the police union said, oh, it's exaggerated, but the we're
Speaker 1: looking at there, I don't want to hear that. There's videos,
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's audios, or there's you know, I
Speaker 1: could go on and on and on or several cases
Speaker 1: in Louisville that you know, our police system is corrupt.
Speaker 1: And I can say that because that's not my opinion,
Speaker 1: that's a fact. You know. It was just on seeing
Speaker 1: any other day that this this is what's going on.
Speaker 1: So it didn't start with me, it doesn't end with me,
Speaker 1: but I was able to, I guess, shed some light
Speaker 1: on how these people aren't and not operating by the
Speaker 1: book as they should. They not honoring those those those
Speaker 1: codes that they you know, that they agreed to m
Speaker 1: you know. The other thing I wanted to ask you,
Speaker 1: and I know it's a tough question. I thought. I
Speaker 1: debated whether I should ask you this question, but I
Speaker 1: think it's important for people to know what is the
Speaker 1: impact on you every day that you lived and Brianna
Speaker 1: did not like how does that make you? What do
Speaker 1: you go through dealing with that emotion? It's terrible And
Speaker 1: I love myself. I never I would never harm myself none.
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, I don't want to die or anything,
Speaker 1: but I definitely, you know, at some point throughout the
Speaker 1: week or maybe throughout the day, I just feel like
Speaker 1: I wish I could have traded, you know, like I
Speaker 1: would I would have definitely rather been the one that
Speaker 1: didn't make it out and you know, let her make
Speaker 1: it out. Then yes, And I don't like feel of course,
Speaker 1: not guilty and not the thing that I didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: I exercise my my lag you know, my my rights.
Speaker 1: But it's just it's just very unfortunate. It's just sad,
Speaker 1: and it hurts my heart every day that that happened
Speaker 1: to her because she didn't deserve that. So and it's
Speaker 1: even worse and it hurts even more, and it makes
Speaker 1: me feel some type of way even more to see
Speaker 1: people out her still just walking around like they didn't
Speaker 1: do what they did and writing books and going on
Speaker 1: TV and making um, you know, ill comments about me
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, you know, calling me out of
Speaker 1: my name and stuff, especially coming from somebody I never
Speaker 1: met before, I never had a conversation with, don't know anything,
Speaker 1: and definitely wouldn't say it to my face if we
Speaker 1: were sitting right across from each other, So you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, it's the Internet gives a lot
Speaker 1: of clowns, you know, and I hate that so much,
Speaker 1: which is which is why, like I know, I probably
Speaker 1: should have a bigger Internet presence, but I don't because
Speaker 1: you know, I'm me and I'm just in real life,
Speaker 1: so I don't. I just can't be something else on
Speaker 1: the internet or I can't stud to anybody else's level.
Speaker 1: So it's tough. I hate the Internet, by the way,
Speaker 1: I hate it. Yeah, you have to protect your energy, yes, literally,
Speaker 1: And the internet is a stressful place and as crazy
Speaker 1: as I come there to laugh and stuff, but all
Speaker 1: the all the trolls and all the just negative energy
Speaker 1: and the I just can't. I just can't. It's no
Speaker 1: way that you can respond, right, because that's what it is.
Speaker 1: It's a response to the hurt, right, and the the
Speaker 1: horror of what took place. They want you to retaliate
Speaker 1: because they know that, you know, they want to be
Speaker 1: able to build a story, a narrative around you yelling
Speaker 1: in the street or trying to fight one of them,
Speaker 1: or showing up, you know, somewhere or whatever. They want that.
Speaker 1: And you know, first of all, you come from such
Speaker 1: amazing clough your family, your mom and dad, the way
Speaker 1: that they love you and protect you and have been
Speaker 1: there to stand by you. And you know this happened
Speaker 1: to you. And that's the thing that people need to
Speaker 1: constantly remember is that this happened to you, and whatever
Speaker 1: reaction you had throughout this process, it's fair game because
Speaker 1: this is something that happened to you. So I just
Speaker 1: want you to know though that we are definitely proud
Speaker 1: of you, because it's a lot of people that either
Speaker 1: would melt down and just couldn't stand up to the moment.
Speaker 1: And then there's a lot of other people who would
Speaker 1: feel like, why I'm alive, I'm here but you. But
Speaker 1: everybody keeps focusing on Brianna and there's not enough attention
Speaker 1: to you and your story. And yet you're saying, I'm
Speaker 1: joining those who was fighting for Brianna Taylor. Yes, I
Speaker 1: think that would be a real weird thought if I
Speaker 1: felt like that. She's not even here, so I'm still here,
Speaker 1: So how is that fair? You know, she definitely didn't
Speaker 1: deserve to lose her life. So if I did anything
Speaker 1: else besides tell everybody that every day, I'd be weird
Speaker 1: of And I'm not going for that. My love for
Speaker 1: her is way stronger than that. I'm talking about beyond
Speaker 1: like relationship type. Look like it was my best friend,
Speaker 1: like my dog. So you know, all I could do
Speaker 1: is just red for her and just make sure that
Speaker 1: everybody knows that she didn't deserve that, and those people's
Speaker 1: terrible for doing that to her and to me. But
Speaker 1: like I said, I lived, I'm still here. I'm talking
Speaker 1: to y'all. So I can't feel that that bad for myself,
Speaker 1: you know, self pity over here, like they was dead. Wrong,
Speaker 1: stuff happened, but like guy made me make it through it.
Speaker 1: So I don't like to sit and dwell on what happened.
Speaker 1: The only thing I'm dwelling on it's her not being here.
Speaker 1: That's right. Well, you know, a man, stuff happens to
Speaker 1: men every day, you know what I'm saying all day
Speaker 1: every day, and we just gotta I gotta fight through it,
Speaker 1: just like every other black man out here that goes
Speaker 1: through things. So I mean, they don't make it right.
Speaker 1: You know, we have you know, we have our right
Speaker 1: you know, to feel how we're feeling, you know, express
Speaker 1: our emotions and go through what we go through too.
Speaker 1: But also and just like all those other situations, but
Speaker 1: sometimes so black man, we also have to pick ourselves
Speaker 1: up and keep pushing. That's right, That's what we do.
Speaker 1: That's man. So in the spirit of that, you know,
Speaker 1: three years since you know, we've lost Brianna, you know,
Speaker 1: and we know as black man, we gotta keep on
Speaker 1: going like what is next with like you know, because
Speaker 1: for me, the fact that you you your life has
Speaker 1: to make a lot of sense, right, I know, even
Speaker 1: with understanding that you were here, she she wasn't. She
Speaker 1: wasn't didn't making you here. You knew that your life
Speaker 1: you have to live your life. That's how you would
Speaker 1: pay her. Living your life productively, you know, and making
Speaker 1: sure that every time that you do something positive or whatever,
Speaker 1: it reflects her and it's an honor. So what is
Speaker 1: next for Kenny Walks? What is next for you? Honestly,
Speaker 1: the disguise the limit. There's a lot of things that's next,
Speaker 1: Like I could, I could go down the whole list,
Speaker 1: but mainly the main goal is just to reflect you know,
Speaker 1: positivity and shared some light on on my situation and
Speaker 1: brief situation, but also make sure that stuff like this
Speaker 1: can't happen to people all the time all over the world.
Speaker 1: You know, from her own out things should change because
Speaker 1: and a lot of things have changed, you know. I
Speaker 1: just recently um one my civil suit, you know. But
Speaker 1: within my civil suit there's several things that the city
Speaker 1: has to abide to as far as like rules and regulations.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get the line same exactly what
Speaker 1: they are right now, but there's several like things that
Speaker 1: that you know, and along with UM with Tamika Palmer's
Speaker 1: um civil So you know, so we already made several
Speaker 1: changes within the city and basically striving towards these people
Speaker 1: not being being able to do this to us, you know,
Speaker 1: in the future. So I think, um, that's a big
Speaker 1: part of what's next to me, whether I wanted to
Speaker 1: be or not. And I'm been thrust into this, you know,
Speaker 1: this opportunity or this situation, and my voice matters, um,
Speaker 1: So basically what's next is me, you know, getting my
Speaker 1: voice out there, and I guess is as much as
Speaker 1: I can to the best of my ability to make
Speaker 1: sure if this doesn't happen to other people or doesn't
Speaker 1: continue to happen to other people. So the fight for
Speaker 1: justice continues, and like we just second go, like we
Speaker 1: ain't even got all the people that we're going after yet,
Speaker 1: we didn't made some progress. We've got a couple of them,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's just some people at home sitting
Speaker 1: on account, you know, drinking coffee right the other you know,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be fact, that's right. Well, the fight for
Speaker 1: justice is a noble one and you are certainly one
Speaker 1: that has a real story that you know you you
Speaker 1: live to do something and to my son's point, you know,
Speaker 1: your life has to make sense. It's just it just
Speaker 1: has to like it would, you know, for you not
Speaker 1: to be in this fight would be you know, a
Speaker 1: miscarriage of justice in and of itself. Right, everybody has
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that your first hand account of all the
Speaker 1: things that goes wrong with a rough police department, like
Speaker 1: everything that could go wrong went wrong in this situation
Speaker 1: lies deceit, improper use of force, improper use of a tactics,
Speaker 1: you know, attempting to corrupt witnesses, someone was murdered. I mean,
Speaker 1: everything that you could think of that a bad department
Speaker 1: could do, framing everything you could think of, it all
Speaker 1: happened to you and Brianna Taylor. And so I'm just
Speaker 1: proud to be one, you know, who had good sense
Speaker 1: enough to know all of us that until freedom, that
Speaker 1: we needed to be there to support you. Because we
Speaker 1: are together, we're making history, We're shaping a new society.
Speaker 1: It takes a long time to do, but I truly
Speaker 1: do believe that the work that we put in is
Speaker 1: going to have It's gonna bear fruit at some point.
Speaker 1: So thank you Kenny and I want to thank you
Speaker 1: all for your work. And really, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've ever told you I I just want to say
Speaker 1: thank you for fighting for greed and for me, like
Speaker 1: I never forget when we all came on my house,
Speaker 1: like my son said he met me and I had
Speaker 1: an ankle bright stung. I'm I'm like, who are these
Speaker 1: people in my mom in this living room? Like what's
Speaker 1: doing on right now? Like this is this is really real?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But y'all took time out
Speaker 1: of out of y'all day, you know, and away from
Speaker 1: your families and stuff. Just so I realized all of
Speaker 1: that too. Also, you know what I'm saying, It takes
Speaker 1: a lot to do what you all do. So I
Speaker 1: just want to say thank you. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I ever told y'all before you told him, I really
Speaker 1: appreciate so. So I'm probably gonna keep telling y'all every
Speaker 1: time I get around. I got my safe, and we'll
Speaker 1: keep telling you too, because guess what America's telling us.
Speaker 1: We are unworthy. We do you know, we're doing too much.
Speaker 1: We're race vedas, So we have to edify one another,
Speaker 1: and we edify you today, King King, Kenny, we love
Speaker 1: you very much. Keep your head up, keep doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing. Three years later, Brianna Taylor is not here
Speaker 1: with us, but you know, her spirit lives on and
Speaker 1: the fight for justice. She is forever as a black woman,
Speaker 1: going to be one of the leading voices and figures
Speaker 1: that we lean on for our inspiration. That's right, and
Speaker 1: that works for me. Well, we appreciate you. I want
Speaker 1: to thank you for allowing us to fight with you,
Speaker 1: you know, to stand with you, and and and and
Speaker 1: trusting and in us. You know, you when you when
Speaker 1: you your love, you lost the love of your life,
Speaker 1: and you allowed us, you know, and respected us enough
Speaker 1: to come and stand alongside of you and fight and
Speaker 1: and we didn't take that lightly. So I just want
Speaker 1: to say thank you for having the faith in us
Speaker 1: to allow us to be there. Dan Hey, so you
Speaker 1: suing man, be safe, freeway, have a good one, all right.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Kenny Walker Man. Just watching him grow
Speaker 1: into you know, it's like I said, I met him
Speaker 1: with ankle braced it on. He was a young, scared
Speaker 1: young man just like damn. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I just got out of jail. They told him by
Speaker 1: locking me up my girlfriend that I was about to
Speaker 1: marry his dad like he was. He was in shock.
Speaker 1: And also they left the ankle bracelet on his leg
Speaker 1: that day when we know, the day before when we
Speaker 1: got there. I think that was a Saturday, the day
Speaker 1: before they ruled that the ankle bracelet needed to come
Speaker 1: off his leg. But it was a male. It was
Speaker 1: Memorial weekend, right, it was Memorial Day because it was
Speaker 1: a holiday weekend, right, So it was Friday when they
Speaker 1: ruled that they needed to take the ankle bracelet off.
Speaker 1: But because it was a holiday weekend, no one was
Speaker 1: there to take it off Saturday, Sunday and Monday on
Speaker 1: Memorial Day, so he was at home still with the
Speaker 1: bracelet on. Now, the fact that Monday, I mean Friday
Speaker 1: was the end of him wearing the ankle bracelet. He
Speaker 1: should have been able to move about on Monday and
Speaker 1: do whatever he wanted to do as a part of
Speaker 1: you know, Memorial Day, get out, visit people. But he
Speaker 1: was afraid to move around because he didn't know whether
Speaker 1: the ankle bracelet was gonna go off and able to
Speaker 1: come and arrest him. So he had no clarity for
Speaker 1: a whole three more days. It's so he went through
Speaker 1: a lot. Man. I'm just I'm happy that, um, he's
Speaker 1: finding his voice, he's finding his space, you know, and
Speaker 1: fight for bre for Brianna Taylor still continues. So shout
Speaker 1: out to Kenny Man. So, you know, from I don't
Speaker 1: get it. You know, of it's been a situation that
Speaker 1: happened on the train. You know, it was a young
Speaker 1: boy that they say is an autistic young man. Um,
Speaker 1: you see this young girl just walking him through the train,
Speaker 1: walking him through the train, and then eventually they beat
Speaker 1: up on a himple and you know, and it's been
Speaker 1: conflict and I don't know what the issue is. But
Speaker 1: what I really just don't get is why we constantly
Speaker 1: have these issues with kids, Like I don't understand how
Speaker 1: this bullying thing has got to this level. It's it's
Speaker 1: not the first time I'm seeing it. It's not the
Speaker 1: last time we're gonna see it. But this bullying like
Speaker 1: really like they really are taking off on this kid.
Speaker 1: And and there's a the conflict is that they're saying
Speaker 1: that this kid had bullied someone else before. You know,
Speaker 1: if they there's a video that's going around, I can't
Speaker 1: tell if it's him or not. I don't know. Nobody
Speaker 1: knows if it's him. Nobody has been confirmed able to
Speaker 1: confirm or deny it. And that's another thing I don't get.
Speaker 1: If you're this big bully, how do you let a
Speaker 1: girl drag you through the train right to this big bully?
Speaker 1: But this girl's about five one yea. She literally just
Speaker 1: grabbing you by the colla. I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who's how is he to bully that's getting bullied by
Speaker 1: the girl. I've never I've been listening to it. I've
Speaker 1: seen bullies in my lifetime, right, and I've seen tough girls,
Speaker 1: but I never seen a tough girl that was five
Speaker 1: to one bully, a bully that was damn me at
Speaker 1: six feet. I'm that'sked him. This is new. I don't
Speaker 1: get what's going on here. This is a whole new
Speaker 1: thing for me. So I don't know what the story is,
Speaker 1: but I know I know that the racial slurs that
Speaker 1: they were using, screaming, calling the man this, look at
Speaker 1: the nigga, and all of this wasn't okay. I know
Speaker 1: even if he had bullies somebody else, then all of
Speaker 1: those people punching and beating on him wasn't okay, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's it's just it's unfortunate. Man. We gotta really
Speaker 1: protect our kids. There's so many different things, you know,
Speaker 1: And I used this term coward culture so much. You know,
Speaker 1: I use this term coward culture so much, and I
Speaker 1: I want people to really, really really just look at it.
Speaker 1: You know. The culture of coward is that people want
Speaker 1: to pick on the weaker. You know, people want to
Speaker 1: pick on who they perceived to be weaker. People want
Speaker 1: to do things when they feel like they have an advantage.
Speaker 1: You know. I've also seen a lady walking and they
Speaker 1: robbed the lady, Asian lady for I think she took
Speaker 1: four thousand dollars out of the bank and this this
Speaker 1: coward grabs her up and pretty much had the lady paralyzed.
Speaker 1: He those are to the ground. The ladies now paralyzed.
Speaker 1: They have to teach her how to walk again. Like
Speaker 1: I'm just I just think we just live in some
Speaker 1: dangerous times. Man, We're just living dangerous times. And a
Speaker 1: lot of people get mad at me because I always
Speaker 1: advocate for integrity and accountability and men just being able
Speaker 1: to stand whatever they do. You know, I don't I
Speaker 1: am so against the criminal culture. And that's why I'm
Speaker 1: for accountability, you know, And people be mad at me
Speaker 1: and like, oh, you waded about snitches destitches. Getting people
Speaker 1: to know the snitches is avoiding accountability. If the sniche
Speaker 1: tells on somebody else that did a crime, the snitch
Speaker 1: gets away, right, who who's where's the accountability for you
Speaker 1: for the crime you did. So it's it's a false
Speaker 1: sense of reality, right. What you're doing is rewarding somebody
Speaker 1: for being a coward so they escape the consequences. So
Speaker 1: this whole color culture that we're living in now, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just I don't really get none of this shit.
Speaker 1: I put a post up yesterday, you know, that said
Speaker 1: y'all got it. Everything I learned was wrong. You know.
Speaker 1: My mama told me, like you know, like most of
Speaker 1: us that I told my mother, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: understand that. She said, my son, they could build a
Speaker 1: whole new world or for the ship, you don't understand.
Speaker 1: And I said, this is and I realized in this
Speaker 1: moment that this is the world she was talking about. Man,
Speaker 1: So this I don't get it. It's easy for me
Speaker 1: because every day I could come here and have the ship,
Speaker 1: did I see? I just don't get well. I only
Speaker 1: had one point on this, and they ain't much more
Speaker 1: to say. Where were the big bad police that the trains? Remember,
Speaker 1: the mayor and a bunch of people, the mayor, the
Speaker 1: police chief, even some city council members in New York,
Speaker 1: they say, we gotta have cops on the train. They
Speaker 1: put budgets into it to put more police on the train.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to They're supposed to be on the train.
Speaker 1: Where are they at? Where were they? It was all
Speaker 1: those people, especially after school. Where are the cops that's
Speaker 1: supposed to be there? Nobody saw anything to stop the situation.
Speaker 1: Maybe they did. I don't know. I'm not saying they didn't,
Speaker 1: but I know what I saw in that video was
Speaker 1: a whole lot of beaten up on somebody. And I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't see before the video cut off that
Speaker 1: the police, the big bad cops that's supposed to do
Speaker 1: so much preventing crime, didn't see them. So, you know,
Speaker 1: but they'll say when we say that, oh no, you know,
Speaker 1: it'll always be some other reason for why the cops
Speaker 1: were not there. We're not present the ones that they
Speaker 1: have all the money, you know those I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what we deal with. We I'm just so confused with
Speaker 1: half this shiit to me because like I don't know
Speaker 1: nothing that's going on, Like I really wake up some
Speaker 1: days and the ship that I that I have to endure,
Speaker 1: the things that I have to hear every day, it's
Speaker 1: just it's like bizarre work. Like the shit that that's
Speaker 1: being that some of the shit that I can't even
Speaker 1: say that I want to say that I for you know,
Speaker 1: just because for my understanding the reality we live, and
Speaker 1: I can't say half the ship that I wanted to
Speaker 1: say all the time. But I say a lot of
Speaker 1: shit that I I'm very I very really just don't
Speaker 1: say so. But the things that I that I just
Speaker 1: think the way that I see, you know, I just
Speaker 1: tell you protect your energy, man. You know, I'm really
Speaker 1: focused on trying to save these babies. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people call what I do, you know, contradicting and
Speaker 1: all of these things, and I think they don't understand
Speaker 1: what my goal is. You know. I haven't separated myself
Speaker 1: from this culture. I haven't separated myself from my community.
Speaker 1: I haven't separated myself from the kid on the corner
Speaker 1: from the one who's hustling, from the ones who who
Speaker 1: thinks he's a shooter, from the ones just just engaged
Speaker 1: inside this. I haven't separated myself, right, I've evolved past that,
Speaker 1: but I haven't separated myself. My goal is to save
Speaker 1: those people. I'm not here to be with y'all and
Speaker 1: coexist and all of y'all do gooders that know crime
Speaker 1: is wrong? Just why don't you just tell people crime
Speaker 1: is wrong? Why do you have to say this? Co
Speaker 1: wouldn't because the people that I'm speaking too, they don't
Speaker 1: speak that language. They don't give a fuck about what
Speaker 1: you think is wrong, because you can't change their reality.
Speaker 1: Because when you tried to talk to me about what
Speaker 1: was wrong and right and all that shit, you you
Speaker 1: wasn't putting no food on my table. You wasn't the
Speaker 1: ones that I need a validation from. You wasn't in
Speaker 1: my community. You wasn't the girl that I like that,
Speaker 1: like the dudes that was doing that. None of that
Speaker 1: shit that you're talking about then't doesn't relate to my reality.
Speaker 1: So this good tell them it's writing crimin dolledge. That
Speaker 1: shit don't work where I'm from. So understand that we
Speaker 1: speak in two different language. You speak in a language
Speaker 1: that don't compute where I'm from. So the language I'm speaking,
Speaker 1: although it confuses you, it is contradicting and hypothe critical
Speaker 1: whatever you think. I know who I'm trying to save,
Speaker 1: and I know in order to save me, this is
Speaker 1: how you had to speak to me. This is the
Speaker 1: way that you had to come to me. So you know,
Speaker 1: I understand that I understand that my method might not
Speaker 1: be for you, and I you know, what I say
Speaker 1: is you probably shouldn't follow me. You know you should
Speaker 1: you probably it's nothing wrong and followed. You know it's
Speaker 1: people that I followed. I'm like, you know what your
Speaker 1: this message don't fit for me or this individual is
Speaker 1: not from me, but the people I'm trying to save,
Speaker 1: the people who come from where I come from, the
Speaker 1: people who've who've got who've survived through what it is
Speaker 1: that I've survived through, who's going through these trenches, the goods,
Speaker 1: the bads who've been in pretty much every predicament in life,
Speaker 1: who've been around, people who've been the you know, drug
Speaker 1: addicts and lived on the street, who I have friends
Speaker 1: who are who have who lived on the streets, and
Speaker 1: I have friends who are billionaires and millionaires. I've seen
Speaker 1: every every angle of the spectrum, you know, and I
Speaker 1: speak from reality, I speak from experience, you know. And
Speaker 1: it's just it's just hard sometimes, you know, just knowing
Speaker 1: that there are people who really are intentionally trying to
Speaker 1: mislead these babies and misguid them, you know. And it's
Speaker 1: hard waking up every day seeing that shit and knowing,
Speaker 1: like Pup said, the media dictates the reality and in
Speaker 1: the media is it's hell been on miss guy. Man,
Speaker 1: So I'm fighting, but sometimes you get a little wearied. Man, Well,
Speaker 1: that's the realities of the work. Now now you are
Speaker 1: actually stepping into true leadership. Before you were being led
Speaker 1: and trying to find your way to your own leadership.
Speaker 1: Now that you have that feeling of despair at times
Speaker 1: and feeling like, you know, what are we doing and
Speaker 1: what's happening and are people actually getting it? And watching
Speaker 1: how the narrative or the society pulls in the opposite direction,
Speaker 1: that's real leadership because that's when you get really, really uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and then you have to drill down on your faith
Speaker 1: and you're understanding in so many different areas those dark
Speaker 1: pockets to find the light, like you have to actually
Speaker 1: find the light in the dark pockets, and it's it's
Speaker 1: quite challenging. Trust me, I go through it every single day,
Speaker 1: so well, I ain't got no choice, right, you know,
Speaker 1: you got to go through it to get through it.
Speaker 1: That said man. Shout out to Kitty Walker being out
Speaker 1: with guests. Shout out to all of y'all for constantly
Speaker 1: and always supporting street politicians. Man, the number one podcast roll,
Speaker 1: we give it you. M r r ip to Brianna
Speaker 1: Taylor Man three years she's when was wrongfully taken for us,
Speaker 1: you know, and shout out to her mother and her sister,
Speaker 1: Tamika Palmer and Jenia. We love y'all. We with you,
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