WEBVTT - Get Informed 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:10.840 That's how that's what's up. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.000 Family. Is your girl, Tamika D. Mallory, and it's your boy, 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.800 my son and general and we are your host of 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.120 street politicians, the players, streets and politics. Me what's up 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:21.640 my story? 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.640 Oh man, I'm blessed the Holy Favorite on this beautiful day. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:31.120 You know, over here, I'm alive, blood flowing. You know, 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.720 I'm feeling good, are you? I'm good? 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.839 You know, it's been a real whirlwind for It's been 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.120 a whirlwind for several years. Honestly, Like I can't really 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.600 point to a time when I was like not feeling 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:53.360 the pressure of like life in years. I don't know, 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.920 like I think about it, you know, because I went 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.920 from as you know, working for the National Action Net 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.400 fourteen years to build my own business to going into 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.000 the Women's March, and before that it was Justice League 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:12.039 and gathering for justice, and then of course the Women's March, 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.800 and after the Women's March until freedom and in all 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.039 the stuff in between that happened. So I just feel like, 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.560 you know, I'm blessed also, But it just seems like 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:26.120 we have these big peaks and of course some low valley, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:31.800 so you know, it's good to be alive for sure, 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.399 and to you know, feel blessed, and I don't feel 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.319 depressed or anything. So I thank God for that. This 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.679 has been a good week when I haven't been feeling depression. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.520 Well actually it's just the middle of the week, but hey, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.760 two or three days blessed you not feel depression? 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.960 Well, that's you know what it is. I always have 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.280 the conversation with people when people talk about depression on 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.440 and I don't really know if I ever had pressure, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.920 right because I don't I don't think I know how identify. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.240 I know I've been through then without feel stressed. I know, 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.480 you know, I've been confused and all I've been through. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.440 But I don't know if I would ever say that 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.919 I've experienced what depression is, you know, and there'd be 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.560 times like you know, during this week just you know, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.760 this week has been kind of a lot. You know. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.280 That's why I say I'm blessed because I've seen so 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.519 much death this week and you know, and and just 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.200 been in taking a lot of that. You know, I 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.680 intake a lot. I think like I'm more of an impath, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.919 Like I found myself randomly being tough for me. I 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.480 found myself randomly in the house is in teared, like 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.040 seeing shit that just you know, disturbs my peace, you know. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.320 And but I don't know if I've ever experienced depression. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.400 I don't know, you know, I don't. I am not 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.280 really the person who who deals with mental health in 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.799 the capacity that you know it's been projected lately. You know, 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.440 I'm not a person who has a therapists and other things, 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.960 So I don't know. I talked to one or two 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.520 people that have talked to that are feel comfortable talking 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.840 about certain things. But for the most part, you know, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.040 I've just been dealing with life on life turn taking 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.840 bumps and buz cry, get up, move, wipe your knee, 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.320 you know, just do live like that way. So you know, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.400 when I hear people sneaking depression, and I'd be like, 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.320 I don't know if I've ever been depressed. I know 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.440 I've felt pained. I know I felt stressed. I know 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.760 I felt trauma. I know I'm dealing with things that 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.960 having trauma for me in my life, you know, being 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:39.560 formally incarcerated, going through that process, losing you like walking 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.720 into your house and your father's dead on the couch 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.960 at twelve with drug overdose, like you know, experiencing your 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.360 mother on drugs and just having to go through that 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.240 and then going to jail. Lif I know, I'm dealing 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.280 with trauma, and I don't know how I deal with it. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.400 I don't know if it's made me depressed. I don't know, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.480 so I can't really sneak to that. I was, you know, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:04.360 a type of the conversation the other day, and I 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.280 was actually who was I speaking to talking about this? 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.000 I was talking about who was I come, stay sure. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.480 I don't know what who it was, but I know 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.160 I was talking about sports, right, And I used to 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.880 play basketball all through like junior high school, all the 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.280 way through high school, like that was my thing. And 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.880 and I'm and I never really thought about this, but 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.719 my mother knowing my father, ever came to any basketball 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.440 game I ever played in my life. Never was there 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.320 one time that they ever came to see me play 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.200 basketball at a tournament anything. I never seen them on 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:48.120 the side. It just never happened, you know. And I 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:49.960 and I say to my I say that and say 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.800 that I make sure, and I don't know, and I 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.320 don't know if it just any time that I can, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.200 like I do everything possible to make sure I met 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.840 all of my sons they play soccer game that I 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.600 made sure my son was playing basketball, that I was 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.360 at every one in his basketball games. So I don't 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:10.080 know if it was subconsciously I did it because I understood, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:12.840 you know, I never had it for me, But this 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.640 was the first time I ever actually recognized that, you know, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.960 And that was just the other day. That's a forty push, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.920 you old man say to itself, Yop, you never had that. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.640 So you know, we deal with trial love and you know, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.480 but I just say that mistake. I don't even know 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.160 if I ever had depression. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.480 Yeah, I mean, I don't know how to tell anybody 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.360 else how to identify it, because obviously I'm not a 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:41.040 medical person doctor, not medically trained, and so if you 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.640 have never experienced it, God blessed, like that's a beautiful 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.039 thing to be able to claim that. But I could 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:53.360 tell you that from my perspective, depression has been crippling 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.000 to me more than once throughout my life, you know, 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:03.520 especially starting out probably mainly when I had my son 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.520 at a very very young age. That was a really 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.599 really difficult time because I just I'm talking about even 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.800 before his father died, just in trying to figure out 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.720 what to do with this new life that I had, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.359 you know. And then when his father and I separated, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.520 which was before he died, it just was so many things. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.440 And that's what the first time in my life when 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.400 I knew I was going through something that made me 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.760 feel not so much. I wasn't crying or any of that, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.240 but I felt I felt weird, very weird, and I 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.520 didn't know exactly how to explain it. As time has 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.800 gone on, though, I've learned through therapy and just through conversations, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.599 through listening, the more that mental health becomes a part 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.480 of the daily discords. I learned that depression is something 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.919 It goes up and down, It comes in different shapes, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.160 and for some people get it for you know, various reasons. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.680 And I certainly certainly have experienced it in some real, 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.280 real rough times and some real, real real difference kuw 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.160 waves and it. You know, I've never wanted I've never 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.680 wanted to die by suicide, but I will say that 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.840 I have at least thought to myself, maybe once I 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.960 take these pills or whatever, I won't wake up, you know, 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.480 doing things like you're taking the pill with the alcoholic beverage, 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.320 knowing like I'm drinking alcohol to take down the pill 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.880 instead of the water. And I didn't think I was. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.400 I didn't, you know, I didn't ever think, oh, I'm 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.960 trying to do this to die. But I certainly have 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.560 thought maybe today I just won't wake up with to 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.160 have to continue to deal with all this craziness. But 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.480 I'm so glad. I'm grateful to God for my experiences. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.560 I tell you, because now that I've gone through a 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:47.640 lot of different things, I'm beginning to realize what really like, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.320 I understand what matters today more than ever before. So 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.920 that's you know, just where I am with that. But so, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:57.800 you know, a lot of a lot of things happening. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.440 When you talked about seeing death, you know, I felt 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.680 like a chill up my spine because the last week 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:10.480 I have been extremely focused on two projects that I've 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.560 been working on, and I had to get through these 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.360 things and not be distracted and not have my. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:21.880 Words or my. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:29.840 Words, my position, my whatever be a distraction for positive 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.599 things that I was doing for black women, that I 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.000 was doing for our community, and just also doing for 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.040 myself and my friends. I've been working on these projects 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:46.280 for a minute and it's particularly one, and I had 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:51.040 to be disciplined enough to really step back from the 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.959 discourse of what's happening in the media, and not just 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.840 in the media, but in the world, like real life stuff, 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:02.240 and remember that even though yes, these things are important, 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.599 so are the other things that I'm working on. And 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:10.280 there was no void of voices people out there speaking 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:18.040 to specifically the devastating crisis that it's happening in Israel Palestine. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:25.199 And I felt my heart was heavy because I wanted, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.240 you know, I'm so used to being out there and 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.640 being in the conversation around important issues, and I wanted 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.920 to do that. But I was so I was, I was, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.599 I was. My heart was warm that I'm trying. I was. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.520 I won't even say content, but I certainly felt some 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:48.880 level of stylish, if you will. And I don't even 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.559 know if that's the right word, but you get my 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:57.240 point by watching all of you, including of course Linda 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.959 of including Mark lemont Hill, Angela I mean, excuse me, 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:08.160 a man, the Seals, Uh, Sean King, and the list 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:13.240 goes on. Jamal Briant, Freddie Haynes. You know, as I said, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.960 you already really speak truth to power, Uh and get 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.080 out there and make sure that the story is being 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:26.240 told in a balanced way. I've watched the news and 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.480 I see I see several things at once. I see 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:36.319 one where there is certainly some truth, like you know 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:43.520 there is, there is there is a very real and 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:52.400 very raw attempt to honor is really lives that were 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.959 lost and the hostages who are held or being held 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:04.079 right now, and that's happening, and you see it. But 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.840 I also see an imbalance and information and I see 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.839 lies flat out lies being told at times depending on 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:20.959 which network, and all of them have selective storytelling and 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.760 the way in which they speak. And that's why I 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.680 said earlier that I'm so glad that I've been through 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.839 the things that I have gone through because throughout the 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.120 Women's March and other situations and issues that have come 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.240 up in my life which were truly controversial where the 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:42.120 media was involved, I got to see how they play 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:46.480 games with words. I got to see how they will 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:51.240 present some information and they'll present some facts and it 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.760 will be embedded. It's even in the context and the direction, 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.120 it's in the imagery. It's in so many things that 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:03.640 they intentionally misinformed people or try to force people to 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:10.160 only see one way, and in this particular moment, I 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:18.280 feel like it is better because we have forced you all. Really, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.880 I mean, obviously people already know where I stand right 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:27.280 and so, but you all, and the marchers, the protesters, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.440 the people who are rising up, the Jews that are 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:36.640 rising up around the world, to say, not in my 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:41.400 name will you slaughter babies? Will you slaughter babies? Continuously 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.640 we don't want our babies slaughter, which is the right 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.360 thing to say, because it is heart wrenching to know 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:55.400 that people, families, men, women and children died on October 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.600 seventh in the attack against them. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:12:59.920 It is all. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.679 It is horrible. I am not and I said this 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.080 before and I'll say it again. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:06.760 I refuse. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.520 If you are looking for me as an ally to 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:15.600 be someone who either celebrates and or lacks the empathy 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:20.760 or the ability to acknowledge all death, all deaths, all murder, 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.280 all of that, then you got the wrong person. And 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.079 I'm okay with that because I can go home to 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:31.240 my Savior knowing that I'm standing in the right in 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.280 my right mind and in the right shoes. When I 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.480 can look around and say I don't want you to die, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.439 and I don't want you to die, and we do 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.600 that every day because even in the gun violence prevention 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.839 work that we do, we look at the person who's 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.240 the shooter and the person on the other end of 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.160 the gun as being equally important, because both sides of 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.439 the gun have a story. And I think that, to 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:02.559 me is what informs our passion and our defiance and 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:07.960 our calling for there to be an absolute cease fire 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.160 and an end not just the ceasefire, but an end 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.800 to the brutality that it's happening in the Middle East, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.120 and of course, which we've been calling for even before 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.040 October seventh, is the end to the occupation of the 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:30.040 Palestinian people, which I believe will ultimately keep Israeli citizens, 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:36.280 or it's the citizens of Israel as well as Palestinians safe. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:41.040 I think that the focus on Hamas and trying to 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.440 take them out by bombing and shooting people is the 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:49.160 wrong Killing people, killing babies and allowing those images to 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.440 be out there, I think it is the wrong strategy. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.680 I'm not saying that I don't know good and damn 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.960 well that if there is an attack against you, they're 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.120 will be a response that violence begets violence. I am 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.640 not ignorant to that, but I do understand that a 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.960 cycle must be broken, and in order for the cycle 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.720 to be broken, because we could make an excuse for 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.360 one side, this side, this side, that side, back and forth. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.280 We can keep doing this for forever until more and 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.280 more people and more and more bloodshed, or we could 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.320 go back to the root of the problem and deal 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.920 with it so that there will be a really so 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:35.720 that the citizens, the people themselves, will have a will 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.240 have a lack of interest, a lack of need, a 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:44.200 lack of vulnerability for any type of terrorism, whether it 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.720 be from the IDF or harmon, it won't need any 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:53.200 of it. People will understand, and it will people will 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:59.240 feel free to move about and feel true security in 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.680 their birth place, in there on their land. And that's 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.480 that's just it. So any news outlet that it's not 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:11.280 speaking to that, that's not talking about it straightforward as 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:15.360 far as I'm concerned. I quote Linda Sarsaw, our sister, 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:20.240 our Palestinian sister from Brooklyn, our partner. I quote her, 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.720 and I stand one hundred percent by that. If you 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.600 don't tell the truth about what's going on in this 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.880 moment and support an ending to the occupation of Palestinian people. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.720 Then you cannot possibly care about Jews and the people 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.720 of Israel or anybody else, because the only way I 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.520 see to go forward is to end this occupation and 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.120 to make sure that people feel safe and free to 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.560 exist all over the Middle East. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:54.960 My whole mold compass was shifted through this, just watching, 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.360 you know, the death of babys to me, you know, 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.400 just see it, literally see it bathing die under rubble, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:05.200 just father's holding their children, mother's holding their children, fathers. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.680 My father had the remains of his children's in bag. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.760 You know, there was rubble. They was digging babies out 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.560 of rubble like these were this or really happened, you know. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.520 And I don't know, I don't know what type of 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:25.199 human being, right, And because I consider myself a warrior, right, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.280 I consider myself a warrior, and I'm willing to die 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.359 for what I believe in. I'm staying for my family 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:34.280 this and that I personally couldn't be involved with another 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:40.360 human being and savagely murdered their kids and their thing 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:45.040 and feel some type of some type of success or 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.560 feel like I have a complished my moral compass would 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.760 be okay with me? As a warrior, and somebody I 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.080 believe I'm a warrior. I don't think any real warriors 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.440 soldier for willing to die for its country as people's life, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.920 would look at a baby dying and feel like he accomplished. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.359 So if you don't have a level of empathy or 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.159 regard for that type of life, or just understanding that 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.800 that's not okay to you, then there's something that you 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.199 have to do. Right. The fact that people are angry 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:20.160 with people who have the humanitarian mold combers to look 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:25.720 at himan beings, mainly babies and women dying. You know, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.560 a quote unquote war that is supposed to be had 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:32.719 with soldiers, right, so when nobody said and there are 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.840 people who were able to justify it and feel as 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.280 if it's really like an eye for either and for 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.600 me it's that I don't want to see none of it. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.800 And anyone who would kill innocent people and kill children 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.680 is wrong. It's horrible, it's terrific, and I do not 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.160 stand by it, and I understand anyone who will speak 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.800 against it. But if you can see that I have 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.800 and on one side and and vehemently and adamantly speak 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.359 up against it, and then you can see it happen 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.040 on the other side and remain silent. To me, it's 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.320 just wrong. It means that you're you're you're you're okay 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.040 with certain people being murdered and certain children being murdered. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.720 You're just not okay with others, or you're too weak 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.040 or scared to say that you're not okay with it. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.680 And that's to me, it's just not it's not it's 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:31.840 not humane, you know. And it really pains me to 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.960 watch black leaders and black people in positions of power 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.639 who can take the position to say that I stand 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.439 with Israel and if you should, you should stand against 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.920 what moster is done. You should, you should absolutely stand against. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.200 But if you can't use that same breath to say, 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.280 what is happening to the Palestinians in all, and I 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.920 stand for them to be free, then I don't understand 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.879 where your moral compasses. I can't, of good nature be 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.920 able to see things they've been done every day for 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:07.119 the last eighteen days, just dying every day and not 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:07.960 say anything. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:16.840 And it's here's all, sorry, oh dare a. But here's 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.360 here's one point that I keep hearing people say, right, 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.840 they keep saying and not my friends who are Jewish. 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.479 I was having a conversation with one of my very 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:29.840 very close Jewish friends who said, they said, it was 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:34.359 so soon, you know, where people expected Jews and the 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:40.960 world to just immediately turn their attention to the Palestinian 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:46.479 people and begin, you know, automatically fighting for other rights 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.840 and protecting other individuals. And she said, it was so soon, 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:52.959 and it just felt so raw, and it's like they 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:57.840 didn't have time to grieve properly, and they wanted the 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:02.040 world to grieve with them. And I sat with that. 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.240 It hit me so hard at length because that I 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.080 feel that, I feel like when you know, that's a 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.840 real thing that we didn't get to greed. And so 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:13.760 it took me a few days or maybe overnight to 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.680 respond to her, and then I said, here's the thing. 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:22.359 Black folks have been doing that bad bum Like, I 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:28.359 understand what you're saying, because we have to constantly. 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:29.840 Harmed. 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:34.960 We're harmed and tell people don't bomb the buildings, so 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:37.840 you the families be out there. How many times li 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:42.040 you'll talk about it? How many times have we been 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.440 at a George Boord or somebody is shot to death, 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.280 they killed, the blood is still on the streets. The 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.440 people are angry, and as soon as folks get ready 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:53.840 to go tear up the buildings and the preset the 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:57.840 next day or the night of we have no choice. 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:03.119 The lawyers, the family members, saw ask the people, the organizes, and. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.440 That's just but that's that's just property though, right, because 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:08.879 it ain't it ain't like it's it's it's not like 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.840 we we have to you know that we have to 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.240 deal with the cartage of it. And did we have 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:16.600 to just tell people not to deal with We gotta 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.840 be so we gotta watch blood be spilled. And then 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.800 we have to protect property. We told about protecting light, right, 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.359 that's just the next level. We we can't even say, yo, 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:28.880 fuck that that building. Can't you know what they done? 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:30.840 Kill this man in that building, don't deserve to be 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.840 in the more fucking We don't even have that right. 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:35.879 We don't even have that. So when it comes to 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.320 them like we would, we would never even say take 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:41.680 innocent people clouds, Okay, they shot somebody, so you know what, 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:45.399 we're gonna go bomb the whole building in Milwaukee because 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.160 the police shot somebody in the WORL. That wouldn't even 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.920 make sense. That that's not something that I can fathom 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:54.920 in my mind right if my if this is just 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:58.480 me and and because I don't deal with hate and vengeance, 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:00.560 I don't deal with that. I don't even know what 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:03.359 that looks like. If you took of a life of 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:06.280 my take, if somebody shot and killed one of my 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:11.920 family members, I couldnot sit there and be happy to 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:14.440 see a baby get killed because they shot one of 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:17.080 my things. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't be silent. 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:19.760 I like, I don't know. I don't know what that is. 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:22.199 And that's other people's things. I'm just saying there are 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:24.240 people who feel that way and some people that say 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.920 fuck that, you're killed as some period. I don't have 0:23:27.119 --> 0:23:30.040 that that type of moral compass. That's not who I am. 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:33.520 I don't think that's what any warrior who warriors is. 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:35.800 I can understand the medias of ben who sitting here, 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:38.600 and if you lost your your your loved one, maybe 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.520 you maybe you do. Look, maybe there is a level 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.600 of vengeance, But I don't see how that vengeance, you know, 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:48.560 equates to babies a woman and I just don't see 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:51.640 how that vengeance equates it. I don't I personally don't 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:54.680 see that, and I can't. There's nothing that nobody could 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:58.000 tell me that makes me feel like I should be 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:02.040 quiet or I should understan there why people feel like 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:06.960 the depth of one side is it's horrific, but the 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:08.800 death of the other one is something to be solid 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:11.160 and well, I just don't understand it, and I never will. 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:14.920 A nonoether of it is just that none of it 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:19.360 is None of it is right, None of it is right, 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:24.280 None of it is right. All the killing is bad. 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:28.840 All the killing is terrible. All the killing is horrible. 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:37.720 And you must acknowledge that even before October seventh, Palestinians 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:41.159 were dying. We know we were there, we saw what happened, 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:47.320 so we must we must say knowledge brutality before October seventh. 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:51.080 So how do you in the cycle? That's the question. 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:54.520 It's the only question, you know. President Obama wrote a 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:58.880 letter and you and I and others spent some time 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:03.760 really reading yesterday, and there's still some stuff in it 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:07.720 that I still consider parts of the letter to be propaganda. 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:12.000 I think to not be ten toes down for a 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:17.280 ceasefire is trash, period. I don't care who you are, 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:26.080 President Obama, the Queen Mother whoever, President Biden, you name 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:29.400 the people, just put them out on anybody you bring 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:31.959 me anybody. I don't care who it is. My mama, 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:37.680 my mama and daddy, my granddaughter who I love everything, 0:25:37.720 --> 0:25:39.840 I give my life right now if she said, well, 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:43.399 I don't believe in the cease draw so to me, 0:25:44.160 --> 0:25:49.720 his whole letter unfortunately misses the mark, because we must 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:52.960 be calling to in what is happening there and to 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:57.400 stop at least at least for humanitarian aid. But beyond 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:01.560 that this point, a ceasepy is a small thing. There's 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:03.879 much more that needs to be done. So I have 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:08.119 to say that. But I also know and understand that 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:10.920 one he was the president of the United States of America, 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:13.639 and he ain't gonna go but so far against the 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:17.639 position of the new president who he supports, right, and 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:20.359 also the country and the politics and the things we 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:24.480 know and don't know, the things that are seen and unseen. Right, 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:27.520 he's not gonna go much further than that. And I 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:31.800 am I am, I am politically astute enough to understand 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:35.720 that half of it is said, the other half isn't said, 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:38.399 and then there's still some shit that's left out or 0:26:38.720 --> 0:26:42.040 that we don't. We're not We're not pretty too. I 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:46.080 understand how the talks happened. I understand the games that's played. 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:49.480 I understand all of it. So as I read the letter, 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:53.200 I read it knowing that I wasn't gonna get a radical. 0:26:53.880 --> 0:26:57.680 Uh you know, he wasn't gonna be Malcolm X. I 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:01.719 know that, but I am looking for him to include 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:06.679 important things. He said some things that were really important, 0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:08.920 and I wish I had it so I could read 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:10.920 it at this moment, but I don't want to. I 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:13.000 want people to go because that's one of the things 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:15.680 we about to talk about next. It's people don't read 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:19.560 enough from start to finish to understand and then check 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:23.520 the source and do it and get another source for information. Right, 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:28.760 But he talks about how long this conflict, and some 0:27:28.880 --> 0:27:31.280 people don't like the use of the term conflict. So 0:27:31.440 --> 0:27:35.080 for those who don't like that term, we're not gonna 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:39.520 be perfect. And nobody should be looking for, especially people 0:27:39.560 --> 0:27:45.440 who are not either from Israel or Palestine, or Israeli 0:27:45.640 --> 0:27:49.880 or Palestinian, to say it exactly perfect every single word. 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:53.199 That's just not realistic. So I understand some people say, 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:56.119 will stop saying conflict. Well, It is a conflict to 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:59.200 me when people, all kinds of people are dying. But 0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:01.920 I understand, you know, of course, the occupation and all 0:28:01.960 --> 0:28:07.359 of those things. And he talks about the history of 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:10.960 how it happened and how we got to this place. 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:14.480 He talks about the fact that the huge, the the 0:28:14.760 --> 0:28:19.359 the the that Israel needs to follow the guidelines of 0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:23.760 the United Nations and all the other you know, powers 0:28:23.840 --> 0:28:27.760 that be that set the tone for what is a 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:32.800 humanitarian effort and what is violating law like war crimes. 0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:35.440 He talks about that and says that they need to 0:28:35.520 --> 0:28:40.360 be careful not to turn global the global world or 0:28:40.640 --> 0:28:44.880 global society against them, and they need to be you know, 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:48.800 careful about uh, you know, what they do and how 0:28:49.000 --> 0:28:54.200 they go about protecting themselves in this situation. Then he 0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:57.959 talks about the settlements, right, and he talks about how 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:01.600 the settlements are and set learn which are people who 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:06.640 have gone to Israel and the Jews who have shown 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:10.680 up in Israel and in Palestine and decided this is 0:29:10.800 --> 0:29:14.720 my land. And the government backs them, taking people's land, 0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:17.760 throwing them out their homes. He talks about that, and 0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:21.440 he said the settlers have gone unaddressed. They have been. 0:29:21.680 --> 0:29:25.560 The displacement is a problem, and that and and and 0:29:25.720 --> 0:29:28.480 and I thought that was powerful talking about using the 0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:33.440 word the terminology displacement, you know, And and I said 0:29:33.480 --> 0:29:36.920 to myself, it's not that people don't know the truth, 0:29:37.160 --> 0:29:39.000 it's that they're unwilling to say it. 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:44.360 There is this false narrative and people have to deal 0:29:44.440 --> 0:29:47.440 with it, right And there's the false narrative that when 0:29:47.480 --> 0:29:51.080 you speak and you have a different opinion about a 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:55.080 situation like this, you know that somehow this word anti 0:29:55.160 --> 0:29:59.840 semitic is for you. And what it does is it 0:30:00.080 --> 0:30:03.360 scares people from having a conversation and makes people say, 0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:05.080 I don't want to be labeled. That you can have 0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:07.880 a disagreement. And that's one of the things that Obama 0:30:07.960 --> 0:30:11.320 said in his speech that was really really touched me. 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:14.600 In a letter that he said, he said, it is 0:30:14.880 --> 0:30:19.440 possible for people of goodwill to champion Palestinian rights and 0:30:19.520 --> 0:30:23.240 the poll certain Israeli government policies in the West Bank 0:30:23.360 --> 0:30:27.080 and guys are without being anti semitic. Perhaps most of all, 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:30.560 it means we should choose not to always assume the 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:34.160 worst in those who we disagree. In the age of 0:30:34.360 --> 0:30:38.680 constant Ranker troubling in misinformation on social media at a 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:42.120 time when so many politicians and intention seekers see an 0:30:42.160 --> 0:30:45.800 advantage in shedding heat rather than light. It may be 0:30:45.960 --> 0:30:50.840 unrealistic to expect respectful dialogue on any issue, and that 0:30:51.080 --> 0:30:53.600 that's what that's what it comes down to. There's so 0:30:53.720 --> 0:30:56.960 many people who have you watched people just have disagreements 0:30:57.000 --> 0:30:59.479 and you just say, okay, they disagree. It doesn't mean 0:30:59.560 --> 0:31:03.840 that our anti youth. I can be anti oppression, right. 0:31:03.920 --> 0:31:06.440 I can think that what the Israeli government is doing 0:31:06.520 --> 0:31:08.400 in guys that is oppression. And I can say that 0:31:08.920 --> 0:31:11.440 and it doesn't mean that I'm anti Semitic. It doesn't 0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:13.400 mean that I hate Jews or I don't like Jews. 0:31:13.720 --> 0:31:16.640 It can mean that I disagree with something and it's 0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:20.400 it's it's it's actually horrible that we have to do that, 0:31:20.600 --> 0:31:23.280 that that people have to be quiet or don't want 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:24.640 to say it because they don't want to be laid 0:31:24.680 --> 0:31:27.400 with something that they're not right. We have love for 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:30.200 we have love for Jews. We on the front line 0:31:30.240 --> 0:31:32.800 with Jews all the time. In this movie, this movement 0:31:32.920 --> 0:31:37.160 is comprised with mainly Palestinian Jews, Blacks. It's all of us. 0:31:37.280 --> 0:31:41.240 We fighting against oppression people who are pressed. So when people, 0:31:41.440 --> 0:31:44.240 when people have to fear the fact that they say 0:31:44.360 --> 0:31:48.880 something that disagrees with somebody, they can be label something. 0:31:48.920 --> 0:31:52.040 It's just not fair and it's just not fair what 0:31:52.160 --> 0:31:56.120 it does. It doesn't lean space for real dialogue, for 0:31:56.280 --> 0:31:59.760 honest dialogue, for people to honestly express how they might 0:32:00.200 --> 0:32:03.400 about something. Whether you disagree or not. We can disagree 0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:06.400 on something, and I don't think that you anti black 0:32:06.440 --> 0:32:08.560 because you don't agree with what I am. I don't 0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:10.720 think that you're a racist person because you don't agree 0:32:11.000 --> 0:32:13.480 on my position with something. You know, And it's just 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:16.400 not I just don't understand how you know. 0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:19.720 I guess you know, people do label, but people do 0:32:20.040 --> 0:32:27.840 label folks who question, you know, police brutality or whatever. 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:32.080 People do label white folks who have questions or pushback 0:32:32.280 --> 0:32:35.000 or whatever as being anti black, And I think that 0:32:35.160 --> 0:32:39.560 is something that we need to examine, right because sometimes 0:32:39.640 --> 0:32:43.160 they are and sometimes people are straight up anti Semitic, 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:47.840 and there is anti Symthitism. It exists, and it has 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:52.160 existed and people have been harmed as a result of it. 0:32:52.480 --> 0:32:55.600 I don't think anybody can sing here and say different 0:32:55.760 --> 0:32:57.840 that that's not the point of the conversation. 0:32:58.600 --> 0:33:00.600 That's never bring a coil of the car conversation. The 0:33:00.720 --> 0:33:06.200 point is that every every disagreement about a political stance 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:10.240 that that has to do with this situation is not antisemitic, 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:13.760 and it shouldn't be labeled that. You know. It's it's 0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:16.000 just like somebody was saying the other day. So up 0:33:16.080 --> 0:33:18.200 to all this point, the same people that you thought 0:33:18.240 --> 0:33:20.560 were the best leaders in the world, that followed the 0:33:20.640 --> 0:33:23.080 believe in everything that you've been with, that been hand 0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:25.800 in hand with the Jewish community, to be fighting against 0:33:25.840 --> 0:33:28.400 all these things now that they believe, like, you know what, 0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:31.520 I don't think maybe should be dying in God them right. 0:33:31.600 --> 0:33:34.080 I think that that doesn't make sense. I think that 0:33:34.280 --> 0:33:36.080 you know, there should be a ceasefire. I think the 0:33:36.160 --> 0:33:38.240 palace city is you know what, you'd be free. I 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:41.360 don't think they should live in concentration. Came the open 0:33:41.440 --> 0:33:44.640 air prisoners. I don't think anybody should live because you 0:33:44.800 --> 0:33:48.080 have that position. That doesn't that doesn't take back all 0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:50.480 of the ship that you've been doing in community with 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:53.240 the Jewish community for years. So it's it's it's this 0:33:53.560 --> 0:33:56.240 unfair that some people do it, like just like it'll 0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:59.200 be unfair with some people who if a person said, well, 0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:01.719 I think you know this police forwards, that was right. 0:34:01.760 --> 0:34:04.080 In this situation, I don't agree with the way this 0:34:04.200 --> 0:34:07.000 person and you might not agree, but it doesn't mean 0:34:07.040 --> 0:34:09.640 that person is anti black. It doesn't mean that person 0:34:09.760 --> 0:34:12.960 is racist. I've had we've had a conversation and dialogue 0:34:12.960 --> 0:34:15.880 with people who don't agree with us on police's If 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:18.640 black people don't agree with us all or it doesn't 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:20.360 mean you anti black. It means that we have a 0:34:20.400 --> 0:34:23.880 different position in this situation. It means that we don't agree, 0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:26.719 and we might not never agree on a subject, and 0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:28.399 we can still love each other and I can still 0:34:28.440 --> 0:34:30.400 think you a dope person. I can still want you 0:34:30.480 --> 0:34:32.480 to live and fight for your rights every day, but 0:34:32.600 --> 0:34:35.160 I cannot agree with you on a particular issue that 0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:37.080 has to do with Israel and Ganda. 0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:43.480 That's real, what Israel and power sn I just want 0:34:43.520 --> 0:34:46.279 to make sure because one thing that is very very 0:34:46.600 --> 0:34:51.680 very very very important is that we stop allowing the 0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:55.560 media to make this Gaza because it is not just Gaza, 0:34:55.600 --> 0:34:59.000 it's the Palestinian people all over the region and even 0:34:59.040 --> 0:35:01.719 in the West Bink. We are seeing protests we're seeing 0:35:01.760 --> 0:35:05.840 people being brutalized, we're seeing people being arrested. We're seeing 0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:11.920 the internet and the stories the news sources controlled that 0:35:12.080 --> 0:35:15.440 the people can even watch and listen to because they 0:35:15.520 --> 0:35:18.160 don't want ol Jazeera and others that are telling a 0:35:18.280 --> 0:35:22.840 balanced story about the situation to exist in that area. 0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:27.200 So it's important because people are still even in this moment, 0:35:27.360 --> 0:35:30.840 with all that has happened, they're still dealing with a 0:35:31.000 --> 0:35:34.960 level of oppression, and therefore we have to make sure 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:36.640 we call it out. And I, you know, I think 0:35:36.680 --> 0:35:40.799 we can end this just again reviving people that if 0:35:40.880 --> 0:35:44.520 you put a dog in a cage for a certain 0:35:44.560 --> 0:35:47.520 amount of time and you don't feed it, you treat 0:35:47.560 --> 0:35:50.719 it a certain way, you beat it, you brutalize it. 0:35:51.040 --> 0:35:53.800 When you open that cage or if that dog is 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:56.520 able to get out of there, they are going to 0:35:56.960 --> 0:36:01.440 attack whatever is first and foremost, and when they attack it, 0:36:01.640 --> 0:36:03.800 it is not going to be pretty. That's what we 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:06.719 learned about pit bulls. Don't play with them, don't be 0:36:07.000 --> 0:36:09.680 beating them up or making them, you know, or or 0:36:10.160 --> 0:36:14.000 confining them, mistreating them, because when you do that, you 0:36:14.239 --> 0:36:18.320 turn them into animals, You turn them into something that 0:36:18.440 --> 0:36:20.360 you don't. I mean what they already animals, but you 0:36:20.480 --> 0:36:23.600 know what I'm saying, you turn them into something that 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:26.520 you're not prepared to deal with, that they get into 0:36:26.640 --> 0:36:31.399 a situation where they are able to you know, retaliate 0:36:31.560 --> 0:36:35.680 or reactor or initiate or whatever, you know, since you 0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:38.920 want to put it in. And so the best thing 0:36:39.040 --> 0:36:43.120 to do is to treat all people and all and 0:36:43.640 --> 0:36:46.880 all things that have life, that have a heart, that 0:36:47.120 --> 0:36:53.719 is a breathing, living organism, to treat it with respect, 0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:56.960 because the more you respect it, then you have the 0:36:57.120 --> 0:37:01.279 right to demand respect from it. Doesn't mean that terrorism 0:37:01.360 --> 0:37:04.960 won't always exist, because we know that, you know, people 0:37:05.320 --> 0:37:09.160 do bad things to folks and they've done nothing, nothing 0:37:09.280 --> 0:37:13.160 at all. You know that that happened. And of course, 0:37:13.520 --> 0:37:16.680 even in this situation on October seventh, there were people 0:37:16.920 --> 0:37:21.120 who were killed who some of them were actually defenders 0:37:21.280 --> 0:37:24.399 of the Palestinian people. They were folks who at least 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:28.160 this is what I've been told by watching news interviews 0:37:28.239 --> 0:37:31.200 that listening to some things online, that there were people 0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:33.759 who were very liberal, that they were out there and 0:37:33.880 --> 0:37:39.120 they believed in Palestinian rights right. And so there's casualties 0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:41.480 all the time. When there's war. But you got to 0:37:41.520 --> 0:37:43.680 get to the rule of the war so you can 0:37:43.960 --> 0:37:46.760 end that. You can't just think that because you've taken 0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:51.279 out people that you're not actually just developing more of 0:37:51.400 --> 0:37:55.279 the same. They might change the name from Hamas to 0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:58.840 Tou Tou. You don't know what the new and improved 0:37:58.960 --> 0:38:02.719 version will be, but promised but best and believed that 0:38:03.200 --> 0:38:06.120 what will not change is that the images that will 0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:10.120 be in the next generation mind will be that of 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:20.560 a time when blood bodies, piece bits of bodies in bags, mothers, babies, fathers, families, 0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:25.279 blown up their community level. There is no way that 0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:28.839 that brings about the peace you claimed you want. It's 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:32.960 no way. It is no way. And do I understand 0:38:33.239 --> 0:38:37.759 that wars war, absolutely, but they What I know is 0:38:37.840 --> 0:38:43.040 that you have a military that goes out into a 0:38:43.200 --> 0:38:45.759 place where there is other military And maybe this is 0:38:45.880 --> 0:38:48.360 just on the movies, but in the movies, what I 0:38:48.480 --> 0:38:52.480 see is there are military people that's out there in 0:38:52.640 --> 0:38:57.279 the middle of other military space or whatever you wan 0:38:57.280 --> 0:38:59.600 on the lay in or whatever they're fighting for, and 0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:03.280 they shoot and kill one another people who are signed 0:39:03.360 --> 0:39:06.640 up to be there. So nobody should be going and 0:39:06.840 --> 0:39:10.719 taking some innocent life. Nobody should be doing that and 0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:13.160 in order for us to stop it. I don't think 0:39:13.200 --> 0:39:16.200 it's that difficult of an answer. I think if you 0:39:16.320 --> 0:39:19.920 are a person who truly wants peace, it's not that difficult. 0:39:19.960 --> 0:39:24.240 But if you are someone who already who already committed 0:39:24.320 --> 0:39:28.080 war crimes, and who wants land, and who wants power, 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:34.200 unconditional and unending power, then you will use anything as 0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:38.440 an opportunity to continue the plan you already had. And 0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:41.360 we're not gonna see him latelight, that's not the situation. 0:39:42.000 --> 0:39:43.799 How does net and y'allhoo become a hero? 0:39:44.600 --> 0:39:46.160 Who are we serious? 0:39:47.800 --> 0:39:52.600 Always curious? Janni was great during nine to eleven, and 0:39:52.719 --> 0:39:56.000 guess what, he's still a rasist. He was a racist 0:39:56.040 --> 0:39:59.400 then and he's still erasist. And it didn't change my parents' 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:02.839 opinion of him. Even Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New 0:40:02.920 --> 0:40:06.040 York I, was getting in so much trouble online because 0:40:06.120 --> 0:40:08.560 during the pandemic he was up there on TV and 0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:14.040 they all manned. The people love Andrew Cuomo, Baybay. They 0:40:14.160 --> 0:40:17.920 thought he was the best thing walking. They were so 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:20.359 and I was the only one dropping up there. Let 0:40:20.400 --> 0:40:22.800 me tell you the truth about who Andrew Cuomo. Is 0:40:24.200 --> 0:40:28.400 him doing this good thing during the pandemic, is in 0:40:28.520 --> 0:40:32.640 the way that he speaks and how he's charismatically mesmerizing you. 0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:35.719 Has nothing to do with the havoc that has been 0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:41.239 reaped over our communities because of his policies, because he 0:40:41.320 --> 0:40:45.560 has played games and been able to divide the Democrats 0:40:45.640 --> 0:40:47.880 or the Democrats don't have power, so he can allow 0:40:48.160 --> 0:40:51.720 the freaking Republicans to impose their will on a people 0:40:51.960 --> 0:40:57.800 that have voted overwhelmingly for different policies for in a 0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:02.600 different direction. Okay, I know who Andrew Cuomo is, and 0:41:02.680 --> 0:41:06.120 I didn't stop telling the truth about him just because, 0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:10.400 oh now, all of a sudden, he's the dear sweetheart 0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:14.799 of the nation. So you know, that's that's my thing 0:41:14.880 --> 0:41:17.560 about it. And there's more to be seen. I think 0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:19.759 we ought to be out in the streets even more, 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:23.320 and you know, I'm ready to go. 0:41:27.440 --> 0:41:27.480 So. 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:34.200 Also in the news, Revolt TV has announced that Baltimore 0:41:34.360 --> 0:41:39.239 parents are outraged as no high school student passes the 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:44.000 math proficiency test. No high school student in the whole 0:41:44.120 --> 0:41:50.040 city of Baltimore past the math proficiency test. Now there's 0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:51.600 a lot of things with that. I mean, there have 0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:54.240 been a lot of studies that talk about those proficient 0:41:54.440 --> 0:42:02.719 proficiency exams and how they are are not in the 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:08.040 best interests of all children. Her racist has been used, 0:42:08.600 --> 0:42:11.640 but I don't know enough for me to add my 0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:13.919 lend my voice to that, So I would just say 0:42:14.080 --> 0:42:19.600 that there has been absolutely studies and talks about those 0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:23.160 proficiency exams and why they are not in the best 0:42:23.280 --> 0:42:27.560 interests of our you know, of young of young black people, 0:42:27.920 --> 0:42:33.400 you know, especially when you are teaching to test coming 0:42:33.480 --> 0:42:34.520 off of a pandemic. 0:42:34.640 --> 0:42:35.440 However, though. 0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:42.480 We still I'm hearing from educators, especially young black boys, 0:42:43.000 --> 0:42:49.040 have not fully returned to school since the pandemic. We 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:54.480 know that many of these students lost two now almost 0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:59.640 three years of the proper foundation in terms of their 0:42:59.760 --> 0:43:04.520 edgy cation, and so it is not difficult for me 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:09.000 to believe these results. But it can't be that everybody 0:43:09.320 --> 0:43:13.760 failed the test, except that the system is completely broken, 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:19.520 completely broken, because even the kid who who is not studying, 0:43:19.920 --> 0:43:22.279 some of them are brilliant enough to be able to 0:43:22.320 --> 0:43:27.160 take tests and past. So if everybody failed, the system 0:43:27.280 --> 0:43:32.200 is so broken that it's actually very scary because it 0:43:32.440 --> 0:43:36.239 means if we can't handle this, this thing he if 0:43:36.400 --> 0:43:39.719 none of our students can handle it, where we're going 0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:43.120 as a people is a real sad sad sad sad 0:43:43.360 --> 0:43:44.080 sad sad. 0:43:44.239 --> 0:43:47.279 Please, no, it really is. You know when I when 0:43:47.280 --> 0:43:50.799 I heard that story, I'm not surprised. You know, I'm 0:43:50.800 --> 0:43:53.880 really just not surprised because not only is the system, 0:43:54.800 --> 0:43:57.840 you know, just failing our kids in general. And I 0:43:57.920 --> 0:44:00.359 speak about this all the time. You know, a lot 0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:05.320 of curriculums in schools that I there, especially like young boys, 0:44:05.400 --> 0:44:08.919 young men, and we have the lowest Black Black male 0:44:09.680 --> 0:44:13.719 have the lowest graduation in high school. Right, we have 0:44:13.800 --> 0:44:17.520 the highest drop out rate and and and when you 0:44:17.640 --> 0:44:22.000 think about it, it's it's for me. I put myself 0:44:22.040 --> 0:44:24.480 in the position of being a young black male in 0:44:24.640 --> 0:44:27.840 school and I was actually intelligent, right, but there was 0:44:28.120 --> 0:44:33.080 there was very little that kept me engaged. Right, There 0:44:33.160 --> 0:44:35.200 was very little in the curriculum and the style of 0:44:35.280 --> 0:44:38.399 teaching and everything that kept me engaged. I didn't really 0:44:38.440 --> 0:44:40.600 want to be there. I did it because you know, 0:44:40.680 --> 0:44:43.040 I wanted I wanted to be able to say that 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:44.800 I could pass the test. I wanted my mother to 0:44:44.840 --> 0:44:47.360 be proud. I wanted those days have it. So you know, 0:44:47.520 --> 0:44:50.040 I pushed myself to do it, but it wasn't like 0:44:50.520 --> 0:44:54.560 the classes were engaged me. That kept me engaatey. You know, 0:44:54.640 --> 0:44:56.640 I speak about this all the time. I remember my son, 0:44:56.760 --> 0:45:00.719 who was nine or ten as old at the time, 0:45:00.800 --> 0:45:02.560 to start crying when I was taking them to school, 0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:03.600 and it was like, I don't want to go to 0:45:03.680 --> 0:45:07.560 school because you know, it pretty much hinders my creativity. 0:45:07.719 --> 0:45:10.000 Like I sold to be learning. I learned off life. 0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:13.040 When I'm outside, it's find of learning. I learned things 0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:15.440 and there you just sit there and you take tests 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:18.120 and they just want you to pass the tests, and 0:45:18.200 --> 0:45:21.920 it's not it doesn't really work for me. And he 0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:23.960 was crying, and I thought about this shit. I'm like, 0:45:24.080 --> 0:45:27.400 damn because I remember feeling that way, you know. And 0:45:27.480 --> 0:45:29.880 so when we look at the structure and the system 0:45:30.000 --> 0:45:33.000 that we set up, especially for our children, they're not 0:45:33.120 --> 0:45:35.680 set up for us to be too excel. You know. 0:45:35.800 --> 0:45:37.359 There are some of us who are some of us 0:45:37.719 --> 0:45:42.080 are able to fit within the system. Some of us 0:45:42.280 --> 0:45:46.200 you know, were trained within you know, our households and 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:48.279 the way that we were brought up that they gave 0:45:48.360 --> 0:45:52.200 us this certain level of you know, able to ability 0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:55.480 to adapt to this destructure, it's too and then some 0:45:55.560 --> 0:45:57.960 of us didn't most of us, but for the most part, 0:45:58.040 --> 0:46:00.920 especially in our communities at risk. When you talk about Baltimore, 0:46:01.360 --> 0:46:04.160 you know, you know the demographic. You know most of 0:46:04.200 --> 0:46:05.400 them are living in. 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:08.960 Poverty, strict and communities and situations like that. You know 0:46:09.040 --> 0:46:11.400 what they're dealing with every day, and you know that 0:46:11.480 --> 0:46:16.040 the current curriculum instructure it doesn't engage them. 0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:18.359 You know. So if we, if we, if we, if 0:46:18.400 --> 0:46:21.239 we want to be intentional about giving our kids the 0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:25.800 best opportunities to excel, you know, and and and be 0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:29.560 able to win, we have to we have to say ourselves, yo, 0:46:30.239 --> 0:46:33.839 we got to create the structure that that fits us. 0:46:34.360 --> 0:46:37.080 You know, every culture, when you look at cultural when 0:46:37.120 --> 0:46:40.680 you look at school system throughout the world, they are 0:46:40.760 --> 0:46:44.640 culturally competent, right and and that's why their kids are 0:46:44.680 --> 0:46:47.120 able to accel. Like even if there was once like 0:46:47.640 --> 0:46:50.480 I think last year, they would talk about how in 0:46:50.960 --> 0:46:54.600 New York that the Jewish schools they weren't they weren't 0:46:54.640 --> 0:46:59.359 given they weren't making their kids take these to them, right, 0:46:59.440 --> 0:47:01.279 they were saying that they weren't even giving it to 0:47:01.360 --> 0:47:04.040 them because they didn't like commit We're not giving our 0:47:04.160 --> 0:47:05.960 kids because this shit, First of all, it must have 0:47:06.040 --> 0:47:09.000 not been culturally competent to them. They didn't feel like 0:47:09.040 --> 0:47:11.680 it was relevant to their level of intelligence and the 0:47:11.719 --> 0:47:13.560 ship that they needed to do in their community to 0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:18.440 be successful. You know. So if we're not intentional about 0:47:18.680 --> 0:47:22.760 having that same level of cultural competence in our community, 0:47:23.080 --> 0:47:25.920 in our school to make our kids feel like they 0:47:26.000 --> 0:47:29.680 have they enjoying learning, that they have an opportunity like 0:47:30.200 --> 0:47:33.560 we're not. We're not creating systems that say, hey, this 0:47:33.719 --> 0:47:36.359 is the best way that black and brown people learned 0:47:36.480 --> 0:47:38.799 inside of school. This is the best way for us 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:42.680 to get the best, you know, the highest level out 0:47:42.719 --> 0:47:44.759 of that. And if we're not doing that, we're gonna 0:47:44.840 --> 0:47:48.120 keep having these conversations. We just gonna keep having them. 0:47:48.280 --> 0:47:51.160 I tell them you. I remember I was in seventh grade. 0:47:52.560 --> 0:47:56.120 And my teacher you know, I was in eighth grade actually, 0:47:56.800 --> 0:48:01.920 and we was having standdized tests and we we was 0:48:01.960 --> 0:48:04.280 one of the smartest classes inside the school. 0:48:05.280 --> 0:48:08.600 Uh, one of the smartest classes in the school. And 0:48:09.200 --> 0:48:12.000 we had a teacher and she looked at when she 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:13.640 gave the tests of she was looking through it and 0:48:13.760 --> 0:48:16.480 she realized that none of the ship that we was 0:48:16.600 --> 0:48:20.680 learning was in this test. And what she did was 0:48:21.040 --> 0:48:24.080 the lady, I'll never forget that she went inside the room, 0:48:24.680 --> 0:48:26.800 pulled the curtain down, and started giving us the answers, 0:48:28.360 --> 0:48:30.759 literally started giving and writing the answers on the board 0:48:30.800 --> 0:48:32.960 and the race and looking making sure none of the 0:48:33.080 --> 0:48:36.400 people because she realized that we weren't prepared, that whatever 0:48:36.520 --> 0:48:38.799 they was teaching us didn't prepare us for these tests 0:48:38.840 --> 0:48:42.359 that they was giving us. And I was even though 0:48:42.480 --> 0:48:44.600 I felt like most of the edswer she gave me 0:48:44.719 --> 0:48:46.919 I had anyway, but there was a lot of people 0:48:46.960 --> 0:48:48.640 in the class that was lost, like what the fuck 0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:53.239 he did? You know, we weren't properly prepared, they. 0:48:53.239 --> 0:48:55.800 Weren't giving And I think that, and I think that 0:48:56.080 --> 0:48:59.080 I think that, you know, there's something to be said 0:48:59.120 --> 0:49:03.920 about the fact that we cannot accept mediocrity right and 0:49:04.400 --> 0:49:09.040 we have to succeed, excel and then succeed and excel again. 0:49:09.520 --> 0:49:11.440 So I don't, you know, I don't want to give 0:49:11.520 --> 0:49:15.160 the impression that we think it's just okay, or you know, 0:49:15.440 --> 0:49:20.240 black children should just have something different or be treated differently. 0:49:20.800 --> 0:49:25.239 But I know for a fact that in Baltimore, they're 0:49:25.280 --> 0:49:28.719 from super super super smart kids. Everybody in Baltimore is 0:49:28.840 --> 0:49:35.600 not an uneducated or unable to pass that test. There's 0:49:35.640 --> 0:49:38.160 something else going on, and I hope that they take 0:49:38.200 --> 0:49:39.879 the time to figure it out. And I also hope 0:49:39.920 --> 0:49:42.520 that parents, while they can be upset with the system, 0:49:42.760 --> 0:49:46.120 but that they also look at themselves and to know 0:49:46.600 --> 0:49:50.000 how much are they helping their children to focus so 0:49:50.120 --> 0:49:53.440 that they can be prepared beyond the test, you know, 0:49:53.600 --> 0:49:55.480 beyond tests. I'm not even talking about the test. I'm 0:49:55.480 --> 0:49:58.640 talking about just making sure that our kids are properly prepared. 0:49:58.920 --> 0:50:01.440 But I knew that they would be some ramifications of 0:50:01.600 --> 0:50:03.799 the pandemic, and I think this is one of them 0:50:03.840 --> 0:50:06.360 showing up, and it's going to be even more because 0:50:06.520 --> 0:50:10.600 our ability to compete in the global society is really 0:50:10.760 --> 0:50:14.880 really it's it's a it's a very sensitive topic and 0:50:14.960 --> 0:50:22.520 it's also a uh, it's a gloomy conversation because it's 0:50:22.640 --> 0:50:25.520 not We're not where we should be. But I do 0:50:25.680 --> 0:50:28.080 think that when we speak about Baltimore, we should shift 0:50:28.120 --> 0:50:31.680 to the next conversation quickly. And and I want to 0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:35.279 give my thought of the day and year related to 0:50:36.480 --> 0:50:44.400 the issue that we were just talking about. I'm really 0:50:44.680 --> 0:50:51.440 watching this next topic unfolds, and I'm realizing that reading 0:50:52.320 --> 0:50:57.120 and comprehension is becoming real difficult for folks. I was 0:50:57.280 --> 0:51:00.880 driving the other day and I was gone into a 0:51:01.040 --> 0:51:05.960 place in New Jersey or root for and I've been 0:51:06.080 --> 0:51:09.239 going to this place for several years. I go there 0:51:09.239 --> 0:51:12.000 all the time. I got ready to put on my 0:51:12.960 --> 0:51:18.040 GPS the address, and I said to myself, why are 0:51:18.160 --> 0:51:21.239 you using that GPS to get to somewhere where you 0:51:21.520 --> 0:51:24.360 know how to go? Yeah, I'm sure there's a couple 0:51:25.000 --> 0:51:28.759 turns that you know sometimes you kind of when you're 0:51:28.760 --> 0:51:31.839 going to something. It's not my everyday drive. So when 0:51:31.880 --> 0:51:34.239 you're going it from New York into New Jersey and 0:51:34.360 --> 0:51:36.359 you don't know what you're doing, you could go past 0:51:36.440 --> 0:51:38.160 something and then you gotta go all the way back, 0:51:38.239 --> 0:51:42.840 and that's not always easy. So it's definitely simpler to 0:51:43.000 --> 0:51:45.480 put your GPS on and to take me straight there. 0:51:45.960 --> 0:51:49.279 But I rejected the idea that I can't figure this 0:51:49.440 --> 0:51:51.680 out on my own with my own brain, and I 0:51:51.760 --> 0:51:55.760 don't need the phone, the internet and the lady talking 0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:58.120 to me to tell me exactly how to get to 0:51:58.160 --> 0:51:59.839 where it is. And I'm going I need to open 0:52:00.880 --> 0:52:04.160 pay attention stop talking on the phone so much or 0:52:04.520 --> 0:52:07.200 doing whatever else that I'm doing that's distracting me from 0:52:07.360 --> 0:52:11.719 using my own brain. So I just started driving, and 0:52:11.840 --> 0:52:13.840 you know what, when it was time for me to 0:52:14.000 --> 0:52:17.359 turn into the entrance to where I was going, which, 0:52:17.440 --> 0:52:19.320 by the way, it is a very it's kind of 0:52:19.400 --> 0:52:23.440 dangerous because if you don't big no early enough and 0:52:23.560 --> 0:52:27.400 then turn into the parking lot, you can really you 0:52:27.480 --> 0:52:29.520 could cause an accident because it's people right up on 0:52:29.680 --> 0:52:34.080 you behind. And I wasn't paying attention that well at 0:52:34.160 --> 0:52:37.320 that time, and so I went past it right And 0:52:37.400 --> 0:52:39.960 then I've started for a few seconds being like, damn, 0:52:40.320 --> 0:52:42.239 I went past it. I should have put the GPS on, 0:52:42.960 --> 0:52:46.160 have another conversation with myself, like it's not that serious. 0:52:46.560 --> 0:52:49.680 You need to get off here, either go around the 0:52:49.800 --> 0:52:51.960 back way and come around to it. This ain't ain't 0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:54.040 like I'm in a different community. I'm not in the 0:52:54.160 --> 0:52:57.360 next state. You know, I'm ok here, or just go 0:52:57.640 --> 0:53:00.719 this way, do this, do that. It took me next 0:53:00.760 --> 0:53:03.920 of seven extra minutes to find my way around, and 0:53:04.000 --> 0:53:06.480 the next thing you know, I was at my location 0:53:07.000 --> 0:53:09.920 and I said to myself one of the things about 0:53:10.000 --> 0:53:14.080 this cell phone and the conveniences of information that is 0:53:14.360 --> 0:53:20.560 largely misinformation in some instances and in other instances overloaded 0:53:20.680 --> 0:53:24.520 information is that it is dumbing people down from being 0:53:24.640 --> 0:53:31.400 able to read, discern, and understand underlying context and facts. 0:53:31.840 --> 0:53:34.279 And the reason why this happened is because with all 0:53:34.360 --> 0:53:37.840 of us last week or the week before, when we 0:53:37.960 --> 0:53:45.680 were traveling together to go to our coworkers mother's funeral service. 0:53:46.200 --> 0:53:49.640 As I was driving, I was having issues because the 0:53:49.760 --> 0:53:53.440 GPS wasn't catching up with me to go different turns 0:53:53.560 --> 0:53:57.200 or whatever, and I started and because I was relying 0:53:57.320 --> 0:53:59.600 so much on the GPS to tell me things, the 0:53:59.719 --> 0:54:02.920 style was right there and I wasn't paying attention. So 0:54:03.080 --> 0:54:05.600 I said to myself, when going to Jersey from New 0:54:05.680 --> 0:54:10.080 York City, I'm not going to focus only on this phone, 0:54:10.840 --> 0:54:14.759 because if the phone goes dead or something happened, right. 0:54:15.480 --> 0:54:18.279 No, the phone, we can focus on that fall work. 0:54:19.120 --> 0:54:22.160 That's what I'm saying. It is become the endoor be all, 0:54:22.400 --> 0:54:24.439 and it just can't be that way. It just can't 0:54:24.480 --> 0:54:26.879 be that way. So you know, there's some people who 0:54:26.880 --> 0:54:29.080 will probably say, whatever, do what you want to do, 0:54:29.200 --> 0:54:32.359 and that's fine. I respect that too, but I personally 0:54:33.400 --> 0:54:36.040 have decided that I have to do a lot more 0:54:37.040 --> 0:54:41.040 without the cell phone guiding my every move because it 0:54:41.200 --> 0:54:45.960 is truly taken away from I remember before my parents 0:54:46.000 --> 0:54:49.440 had cell phones, they used to read books all day long, 0:54:49.560 --> 0:54:51.680 that's what they love. Then be reading three books at 0:54:51.680 --> 0:54:53.919 the same time, both of them sitting there either reading 0:54:53.960 --> 0:54:56.640 the same book and discussing it or reading one read 0:54:56.680 --> 0:54:58.239 one book and pass it to the other one the 0:54:58.280 --> 0:55:00.600 other word like they used to read all the time. 0:55:00.840 --> 0:55:02.920 And I'll never forget my father saying that since he 0:55:03.040 --> 0:55:05.399 picked up the cell phone, because they didn't have cell phone, 0:55:05.600 --> 0:55:07.640 they waited maybe a year and a half or so, 0:55:07.840 --> 0:55:11.080 two years after people or everybody had a phone, they 0:55:11.160 --> 0:55:14.080 still was on the back end of that. I remember 0:55:14.160 --> 0:55:16.680 my father saying to me, since he picked up the 0:55:16.800 --> 0:55:20.280 cell phone, has it has cut back on the amount 0:55:20.360 --> 0:55:24.080 of reading because he can't necessarily focus on reading as 0:55:24.160 --> 0:55:27.200 much as he used to. And I realized that that's 0:55:27.440 --> 0:55:30.600 part of the problem with this generation, is that we 0:55:30.760 --> 0:55:34.080 are so focused on the cell phone and focused on 0:55:34.200 --> 0:55:37.480 the information coming through the line coming through the You 0:55:37.560 --> 0:55:41.799 know everything, you see everything, you know your full understanding. 0:55:41.840 --> 0:55:44.680 It's based upon a post or something that you read 0:55:45.120 --> 0:55:48.120 on the Internet, which is through two sentences and maybe 0:55:48.200 --> 0:55:52.680 a caption, maybe a caption, maybe even ten words that 0:55:52.840 --> 0:55:59.800 somebody said when the extra part is in word eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 0:55:59.840 --> 0:56:02.080 and fifteen. But all you heard is up to ten 0:56:02.200 --> 0:56:05.200 and therefore you make a full assumption. You're not even 0:56:05.239 --> 0:56:07.960 a person to sit back and say, well, let me 0:56:08.080 --> 0:56:10.040 go see a little bit more about that. And it 0:56:10.160 --> 0:56:14.719 brings me to my thoughts on Jada Pinkett and this book. 0:56:14.800 --> 0:56:18.160 I've already put a statement out there and you know, 0:56:18.239 --> 0:56:21.200 and talked about it. But now this week we had 0:56:21.239 --> 0:56:25.120 a beautiful, amazing event. I just want to thank you, 0:56:26.200 --> 0:56:32.040 my son, and James Bond and Angelo Pinto and all 0:56:32.120 --> 0:56:34.840 the other brothers who were there to assist the women 0:56:35.239 --> 0:56:38.120 and make sure that our event went well. All the 0:56:38.239 --> 0:56:40.440 help that you all were putting in, and the hands 0:56:40.520 --> 0:56:43.240 and the drinks and this and that and just everything 0:56:43.320 --> 0:56:47.000 y'all did to accommodate us holding phones, taking pictures, you know, 0:56:47.200 --> 0:56:50.040 making sure that we had everything that we needed as 0:56:50.120 --> 0:56:56.680 a team. But it's interesting to me that I see 0:56:56.800 --> 0:57:04.600 so many people making comments about the posts have been 0:57:04.680 --> 0:57:08.319 going up for the last two days where people are 0:57:08.440 --> 0:57:13.480 saying positive, beautiful, things about the energy, about Jada, about 0:57:13.520 --> 0:57:17.000 the book, about what they learned. There are still people, 0:57:17.080 --> 0:57:18.720 there's a few that I'm like that I see this, 0:57:18.920 --> 0:57:21.160 like really, like that's your impression, because I was thinking 0:57:21.240 --> 0:57:23.439 something different. Even people who came to the event said, 0:57:24.120 --> 0:57:26.320 you know, outside eye on y'all because I ain't even 0:57:26.400 --> 0:57:28.680 understand it. But I can't because my girls invited me. 0:57:28.960 --> 0:57:33.040 And now I'm leaving well totally different understanding a totally 0:57:33.200 --> 0:57:38.080 different feeling. And I after sitting with that and looking 0:57:38.240 --> 0:57:41.680 at how there were people and there are people in 0:57:41.800 --> 0:57:46.840 the comment sections that even though I or someone else 0:57:47.120 --> 0:57:51.800 is saying, Wow, you can't judge a book by its cover. Wow, 0:57:52.240 --> 0:57:53.560 I heard some powerful things. 0:57:53.640 --> 0:57:53.880 Wow. 0:57:54.160 --> 0:57:57.640 I was so glad to hear Jada's story and to read, 0:57:57.720 --> 0:57:59.600 you know, to hear things in a book or wow, 0:58:00.120 --> 0:58:03.400 read the book and it's amazing. And I got to 0:58:03.520 --> 0:58:05.760 see the energy. I feel this, and that they're still 0:58:05.800 --> 0:58:08.080 in there, Like, no, I can't believe you would say that, 0:58:08.680 --> 0:58:11.000 Oh my god, this world is going, Oh my god, 0:58:11.040 --> 0:58:14.040 how can you support you this? And that the third meanwhile, 0:58:14.080 --> 0:58:15.880 you ain't read the book. You've never been in a 0:58:16.040 --> 0:58:19.000 room with the woman and we had and you telling 0:58:19.120 --> 0:58:23.120 us based upon a social media post. You're giving us 0:58:23.520 --> 0:58:26.800 your opinion based upon a social media post or seven 0:58:26.920 --> 0:58:28.880 or eight words that you heard the sisters say. And 0:58:28.960 --> 0:58:31.160 we're telling you that we sat there for hours and 0:58:31.280 --> 0:58:33.400 heard all of it. And people have read the book 0:58:33.480 --> 0:58:37.400 and listened to long form two three hour podcasts where 0:58:37.480 --> 0:58:40.600 she is speaking in fall sentences, where the book you 0:58:40.720 --> 0:58:44.560 can read the paragraphs to know the story. They're like, oh, 0:58:44.760 --> 0:58:47.680 she's changing the story now, No, the story in the 0:58:47.760 --> 0:58:50.520 book is exactly what she is saying. But you are 0:58:50.640 --> 0:58:54.520 hearing a clip or somebody's impression of it and making 0:58:54.600 --> 0:58:58.480 a determination and telling folks who are actually doing due 0:58:59.000 --> 0:59:02.560 diligence about a black woman. Here, you are a black 0:59:02.640 --> 0:59:06.520 woman tailing down somebody you don't know, never sat down with, 0:59:06.680 --> 0:59:09.320 having read the book, having listened to a long form 0:59:09.480 --> 0:59:13.440 interview of any sort. I haven't heard anything past a 0:59:13.560 --> 0:59:16.040 few words. And you got the nerve as a black 0:59:16.080 --> 0:59:18.680 woman and even a black man to sit up there 0:59:18.760 --> 0:59:21.320 and try to tell somebody who didn't do all of 0:59:21.440 --> 0:59:24.800 that that they are crazy or they are wrong, or Jada, 0:59:24.840 --> 0:59:26.360 ain't this or that and the third And you ain't 0:59:26.400 --> 0:59:29.160 spent more than six minutes listening to what she's saying. 0:59:30.400 --> 0:59:34.000 This to me is the most ridiculous thing ever, And 0:59:34.120 --> 0:59:38.360 it's telling me that the cell phone is dumbing people 0:59:38.520 --> 0:59:45.480 down because the cell phone helps you form opinions about things. Meanwhile, meanwhile, 0:59:45.680 --> 0:59:49.920 the in person interaction that we had with Jada and 0:59:50.040 --> 0:59:54.560 Will and their family for years says something completely opposite 0:59:54.840 --> 0:59:58.840 of the shit that you see online. And yet you think, 0:59:59.160 --> 1:00:02.160 because you read it in a clip, that you know 1:00:02.320 --> 1:00:02.920 more than we know. 1:00:04.840 --> 1:00:10.120 I think, for me, right, it's it's the hypocrisy. It's 1:00:11.120 --> 1:00:14.600 it's this, you know, I get. I get called the 1:00:14.680 --> 1:00:18.480 sympth every day. Oh, you're not the whole black woman accountable? 1:00:18.640 --> 1:00:22.240 Why you never do this? And in my my my 1:00:23.040 --> 1:00:26.560 reaction and reply to that, it's simple. I've never been 1:00:26.600 --> 1:00:28.920 a black woman my whole life. I've never been a 1:00:28.960 --> 1:00:31.000 black woman. I've been a black man in my whole life. 1:00:31.640 --> 1:00:33.920 And I was raised on what men should do. I 1:00:34.040 --> 1:00:36.520 was raised by other men, and they say, hey, men 1:00:36.560 --> 1:00:39.200 should be carrying themself like me, and men should be 1:00:39.320 --> 1:00:41.440 doing this, and men should be doing this, and this 1:00:41.560 --> 1:00:44.919 is what a man does. Well, I wasn't. I wasn't 1:00:45.000 --> 1:00:46.760 taught about what a woman should be doing and what 1:00:46.840 --> 1:00:48.760 a woman should do. I know what the woman that 1:00:48.880 --> 1:00:51.480 I want you right, so I can I'm able to 1:00:51.560 --> 1:00:54.840 pick that woman. That doesn't mean that they're what my 1:00:55.160 --> 1:00:57.680 my expectation of what a woman should do for me, 1:00:58.200 --> 1:01:01.960 it's what a woman should be all together. That I 1:01:02.000 --> 1:01:05.000 don't want to put my expotensions on all women, but 1:01:05.160 --> 1:01:08.640 I do believe that there are certain activities and certain 1:01:08.680 --> 1:01:11.240 shit as men that we should be doing in ways 1:01:11.280 --> 1:01:13.520 that we should be carrying ourselves. And I'm going to 1:01:13.560 --> 1:01:16.520 always be vocal about those things. So when we talk 1:01:16.560 --> 1:01:19.440 about this situation, the fact that to me that there 1:01:19.480 --> 1:01:22.880 are so many men that someone has to say about 1:01:23.440 --> 1:01:28.280 with Jada done what Jada saying right, and they are 1:01:28.360 --> 1:01:32.520 ignoring the fact that her husband, the man that she's with, 1:01:34.120 --> 1:01:37.040 hasn't said many of the ship that you're saying, isn't 1:01:37.080 --> 1:01:40.400 angry about the shit that you anger by. You are 1:01:40.480 --> 1:01:43.480 sure because you have a criteria and expetition for your 1:01:43.560 --> 1:01:46.120 woman to be a certain way, and that's why you're 1:01:46.240 --> 1:01:49.480 not in the relationship with Jada Pinjin. That's why your 1:01:49.560 --> 1:01:52.560 relationship is not their relationship. They've been walked together for 1:01:52.720 --> 1:01:55.880 over twenty seven years in a relationship, in a marriage 1:01:56.320 --> 1:02:00.240 for all these years and it's working for them because 1:02:00.240 --> 1:02:01.920 of the thing that you might not he be like, 1:02:01.960 --> 1:02:03.680 you know what, I could never do that I can 1:02:03.760 --> 1:02:07.280 never Oh man, it is y'all of y'all is in relationship. 1:02:07.920 --> 1:02:10.640 Were women the nigga that got four or five baby 1:02:10.720 --> 1:02:13.240 ruppers and had baby white y'all. A lot of y'all 1:02:13.480 --> 1:02:16.720 is when women that that got babies woined you. A 1:02:16.760 --> 1:02:18.440 lot of y'all have been a lot of y'all are 1:02:18.600 --> 1:02:21.120 products of those relationships. A lot of y'all just come 1:02:21.160 --> 1:02:23.880 from this more high ground ship that y'all be talking 1:02:24.200 --> 1:02:27.280 because it's the Internet. Because you don't think nobody knows 1:02:27.360 --> 1:02:29.440 what you've been dealing with or what you put up with, 1:02:30.480 --> 1:02:34.000 and if it was okay for you, that was your relationship, 1:02:34.080 --> 1:02:36.320 the ship that you you you probably put up in 1:02:36.400 --> 1:02:39.600 your relationship. Jada and Will probably wouldn't do what they 1:02:39.720 --> 1:02:41.720 put up with what they put up in their relationship. 1:02:41.760 --> 1:02:44.440 You don't understand the dynamics of someone else in the 1:02:44.520 --> 1:02:47.920 relationship to be able to have such full judgment on it. 1:02:48.200 --> 1:02:50.800 It is actually corny to me that I watched men 1:02:51.080 --> 1:02:53.160 always do the oh j I watch a lot of 1:02:53.280 --> 1:02:55.880 men talking about with Jada's this, and she's this and that, 1:02:56.240 --> 1:02:57.840 and I watched niggas all of like, I had this 1:02:57.920 --> 1:03:00.640 conversation the other day and I'm like, Yo, the ship 1:03:00.680 --> 1:03:02.479 that I re seeing blue faith due to them girls. 1:03:02.600 --> 1:03:04.640 That shit is crazy. Ain't no man gonna be like 1:03:04.840 --> 1:03:07.720 that shit is whack, bro, Like those are your being mothers. 1:03:07.760 --> 1:03:11.600 But have a level of respect or you know, fuck it, 1:03:11.640 --> 1:03:13.520 I wonture for what you go through. Just talk this 1:03:13.720 --> 1:03:16.400 like we watch it, Like they say, YO, will respect 1:03:16.560 --> 1:03:19.760 Jada enough to not say even if you whatever you 1:03:19.880 --> 1:03:21.800 think is going on, you know, there's a level of 1:03:21.920 --> 1:03:25.560 respect for that that will let right that a man has. 1:03:25.880 --> 1:03:29.280 He's killing himself like a man in every situation. When 1:03:29.320 --> 1:03:31.080 we look at the situation that he was gonna do, 1:03:31.160 --> 1:03:32.640 and when the reason why they had to be a 1:03:32.680 --> 1:03:35.520 red told you know why, because it was a sucker 1:03:35.600 --> 1:03:40.200 ass nigga that would disposed what he had to talk 1:03:40.280 --> 1:03:43.520 about in their family. He want, he want. He He 1:03:43.880 --> 1:03:47.600 opened his mouth about a relationship with another woman that 1:03:47.760 --> 1:03:49.840 she never said to the body, and that man decided 1:03:50.000 --> 1:03:52.600 I'm gonna go public about me and me in a relationship. 1:03:52.640 --> 1:03:54.959 This is what's sucker. This is the something shit that y'all, 1:03:55.360 --> 1:03:57.640 don't say nothing about nobody ain't saying that stuff, and 1:03:57.840 --> 1:03:59.800 that that brings me to my eye. Don't get it. 1:04:01.040 --> 1:04:03.200 You know, we can continue over, but it's this is 1:04:03.280 --> 1:04:07.120 just a perfect segue from me. I don't get It's 1:04:07.520 --> 1:04:09.960 like even when I would listening to Blueface talk about 1:04:10.160 --> 1:04:12.200 he has sex with Megan and this other person talking 1:04:12.200 --> 1:04:15.240 about who they has, when did men start doing this 1:04:15.440 --> 1:04:18.440 clown shit? Like? When did men just start saying yo, 1:04:19.040 --> 1:04:20.880 I had said to the woman and I need to 1:04:20.960 --> 1:04:24.520 publicly talk about it. That shit is so corny to me, 1:04:24.640 --> 1:04:27.560 Like to me, like the men, yo, we never did 1:04:27.640 --> 1:04:31.120 shit like that. Women wanted to talk about them having 1:04:31.160 --> 1:04:33.640 sex with it. I never wanted to to brag and 1:04:34.520 --> 1:04:37.600 publicly talk about who I had sext with because they 1:04:37.640 --> 1:04:40.520 were something like this shit is so corny. When did 1:04:40.600 --> 1:04:43.360 niggas get this corny like it used to be real 1:04:43.440 --> 1:04:46.000 men and be like, nah, that me me with me 1:04:46.120 --> 1:04:48.560 and that woman did it personal to us? You know, 1:04:48.680 --> 1:04:50.919 I'm not gonna devote the information if that's not something 1:04:50.960 --> 1:04:54.320 that's public knowledge already. I'm not publicly going up and 1:04:54.440 --> 1:04:57.160 devote a private situation I had with a woman. Y'all, 1:04:57.240 --> 1:05:00.440 niggas the fuck the game. But when did y'all get 1:05:00.480 --> 1:05:03.560 this week? Intended that you y'all need to get props 1:05:03.560 --> 1:05:05.760 for having a woman so wants to give props for 1:05:05.800 --> 1:05:08.720 having sex with you. When your niggas got this week, man, 1:05:09.240 --> 1:05:12.000 when your mouth start opening up and talking about shit 1:05:12.160 --> 1:05:14.480 like that. So we look at this whole situation that 1:05:14.640 --> 1:05:17.120 brought us to a red table talk. It was a nigga. 1:05:18.080 --> 1:05:20.200 It was a nigga that decided, oh, you know what, 1:05:20.640 --> 1:05:22.760 my feeling is so hurt, and I'm going to go 1:05:22.920 --> 1:05:25.480 on public TV and I'm gonna talk about how this 1:05:25.600 --> 1:05:27.840 woman did me bad when when we're in a relationship 1:05:28.080 --> 1:05:30.680 and now she decided to talk and she explained to 1:05:30.840 --> 1:05:33.520 y'all what was going on in her marriage on how 1:05:33.600 --> 1:05:35.959 they were separated, and y'all didn't want to hear that part. 1:05:36.840 --> 1:05:38.840 Y'all just want to villainize that woman. And just to 1:05:38.960 --> 1:05:41.720 me and just watching men like I don't, I don't 1:05:41.760 --> 1:05:43.760 really talk about when women say the other women. That's 1:05:43.800 --> 1:05:46.360 your decision, y'all, y'all know what y'all going through. Y'all 1:05:46.400 --> 1:05:48.920 can have y'all dialogue, that's your thing. But to me, 1:05:49.120 --> 1:05:52.040 this kid constantly watching men have something to say about 1:05:52.120 --> 1:05:54.080 Jada when her man ain't saying nothing about it. It's 1:05:54.120 --> 1:05:56.280 just corny and nigga read to get a life, bro, 1:05:56.680 --> 1:05:58.640 I know it shit that we you dealing with in 1:05:58.760 --> 1:06:00.960 your household. That of an no nigga like that, I 1:06:01.000 --> 1:06:03.120 probably ain't gonna deal with that. We all have, We 1:06:03.200 --> 1:06:06.200 all dealt with other people. They gonna deal with any 1:06:06.320 --> 1:06:08.560 old relationship. And you have just to mind your mother 1:06:08.640 --> 1:06:09.720 fucking business man. 1:06:09.720 --> 1:06:11.680 On the thing that, well, you know what, I don't. 1:06:11.840 --> 1:06:16.440 I don't why that's what said. This whole mind your 1:06:16.480 --> 1:06:19.320 business thing, because when people put their business out there, 1:06:19.840 --> 1:06:22.040 then folks are gonna speak on it. So I'm cool 1:06:22.040 --> 1:06:22.200 with that. 1:06:22.400 --> 1:06:24.320 If you're going to say, when they put their business 1:06:24.360 --> 1:06:27.960 out there, say the right business, right, don't. 1:06:27.880 --> 1:06:29.440 You don't even know because. 1:06:32.440 --> 1:06:34.680 If you if you're not informed, if you just making 1:06:34.680 --> 1:06:36.560 it just like I don't what I don't do right 1:06:36.640 --> 1:06:38.800 right when I said your group Faith said that he 1:06:38.880 --> 1:06:41.360 had sex with mag this, I didn't get that off 1:06:41.400 --> 1:06:44.360 a blogs I watched. I watched the interview and I 1:06:44.440 --> 1:06:46.880 heard him say that his mouth right, I didn't say 1:06:47.640 --> 1:06:50.040 this person said that this is going on and saying 1:06:50.080 --> 1:06:52.160 it was all new they said it was all. Now, 1:06:52.480 --> 1:06:53.960 this is what I'm trying to say. So when I 1:06:54.120 --> 1:06:57.400 when I make this, uh, when I make my opinion 1:06:57.560 --> 1:07:01.840 on something, it's something that that individual personally said they 1:07:01.960 --> 1:07:04.960 did and personally and literally, and then I can I'm 1:07:05.000 --> 1:07:08.040 basing it off that alonee I'm not basing it off. 1:07:08.160 --> 1:07:11.080 Oh she cheated or real she did this. He ain't 1:07:11.160 --> 1:07:13.760 say that. He ain't never said that. 1:07:13.960 --> 1:07:16.440 Well, he never said that. He never said that. I mean, 1:07:17.000 --> 1:07:20.160 you know, she admits, which, by the way, no one 1:07:20.280 --> 1:07:23.680 is perfect and no situation is gonna be perfect, right, 1:07:23.760 --> 1:07:27.240 So she admits that the whole thing, the whole red 1:07:27.320 --> 1:07:29.120 table talk people that don't want them to do it, 1:07:29.240 --> 1:07:32.760 because as they were getting ready for it, the only 1:07:32.960 --> 1:07:35.080 right thing to do would have been to tell people 1:07:35.200 --> 1:07:37.600 at that time that they were separated. And she says, 1:07:38.000 --> 1:07:40.400 Will wanted to go to the table with her. He 1:07:40.440 --> 1:07:42.720 didn't want her to go by herself. So she went 1:07:42.800 --> 1:07:46.440 to the table. They sat together, and then she knew, 1:07:46.720 --> 1:07:49.120 based upon the way in which you know, the communication 1:07:49.320 --> 1:07:52.160 was going, he wasn't ready. He wasn't ready to tell 1:07:52.240 --> 1:07:53.960 people that they weren't together. And it's a lot of 1:07:54.040 --> 1:07:56.840 things about that. It's a lot of things about that 1:07:57.200 --> 1:07:59.640 we could sing it analyze, but we won't. But you 1:07:59.720 --> 1:08:03.320 can rea between the lines. Number One, when people say, oh, 1:08:03.440 --> 1:08:06.480 he looks so hurt and this and that, I know. 1:08:07.160 --> 1:08:11.240 I know from living life, not from being their friend 1:08:11.480 --> 1:08:15.200 or knowing Jada and being around and seeing them, because 1:08:15.200 --> 1:08:19.120 I've never seen anything other than honorable behavior and them 1:08:19.400 --> 1:08:22.560 being so loving towards one another. But me being a 1:08:22.680 --> 1:08:26.800 woman and living life, we know that Jada and Will 1:08:26.920 --> 1:08:29.920 didn't just separate in twenty sixteen because they woke up 1:08:29.960 --> 1:08:33.000 the sin Oh I don't like shit happened. Some things 1:08:33.120 --> 1:08:36.000 went on, right, and I'm sure some things went on 1:08:36.200 --> 1:08:38.519 that he did. Like she said, he ain't perfect noise 1:08:38.560 --> 1:08:42.240 she so wherever they ended up, whatever they came to 1:08:42.600 --> 1:08:44.559 when they got to the red table. When you start 1:08:44.640 --> 1:08:47.280 talking about exposing to the world that we're not really 1:08:47.600 --> 1:08:50.280 we've been separated for a while, people have to really 1:08:50.360 --> 1:08:53.280 think about the fact that Will Smith has in many 1:08:53.400 --> 1:08:58.400 ways lived a perfect life publicly a perfect life. You 1:08:58.479 --> 1:09:01.960 don't know much about anything that he has going on. 1:09:02.200 --> 1:09:05.720 It has been publicly pretty much perfect. Everything else is 1:09:05.960 --> 1:09:10.160 hearsay and salacious headlines and whatnot, but it's been pretty 1:09:10.240 --> 1:09:14.799 much perfect. So when people start unveiling and pulling apart 1:09:14.920 --> 1:09:18.640 that perfection, it's not easy for everyone to deal with 1:09:18.880 --> 1:09:22.880 for many different reasons. So she says that people didn't 1:09:22.880 --> 1:09:24.800 want her to do the Red Table, but she was ready, 1:09:24.880 --> 1:09:27.280 she was ready to talk. She was ready. And sometimes 1:09:27.360 --> 1:09:30.680 our egos drive us in a lot of ways to 1:09:30.800 --> 1:09:34.320 be like y'all. Like she said, I wasn't gonna be emotional, 1:09:34.520 --> 1:09:39.160 held hostage emotionally. I wasn't gonna let people know something 1:09:39.240 --> 1:09:41.639 about me and try to hold it over my head 1:09:41.800 --> 1:09:44.320 or use it and talk about me as it. No, 1:09:44.439 --> 1:09:46.519 I'm not doing that. I'm gonna tell my own story. 1:09:46.920 --> 1:09:49.200 And I think the story is powerful. But I appreciate 1:09:49.320 --> 1:09:51.679 the one thing she said that is the best part. 1:09:51.760 --> 1:09:54.080 I mean, she said a lot of things at that event, 1:09:54.439 --> 1:09:56.920 a lot of things that were so powerful, and it 1:09:57.080 --> 1:09:59.280 was so moving all the way to your stomach. You 1:09:59.360 --> 1:10:01.960 could feel it because she's so dope. But it was 1:10:02.040 --> 1:10:05.360 the one thing that I think sums up this conversation, 1:10:06.320 --> 1:10:09.880 and that is when that woman said, me and will 1:10:09.960 --> 1:10:14.400 be laughing at everybody together. And she said, she said, 1:10:14.560 --> 1:10:18.000 and because the question that Kim Blackwell, who was an 1:10:18.080 --> 1:10:25.040 incredible moderator, conversationalist with Jada, Kim Blackwell did an awesome job. 1:10:25.520 --> 1:10:29.680 And the question Kim asked her was, how do you 1:10:31.880 --> 1:10:34.439 you know, how are the kids and how is all 1:10:34.520 --> 1:10:37.040 of this working out for the kids and with all 1:10:37.120 --> 1:10:41.880 the noise and whatever, And Jada said, one, this is 1:10:42.000 --> 1:10:45.639 old folks problem because my children, for the most part, 1:10:45.680 --> 1:10:48.200 when I'm talking to them, they don't even know. They're 1:10:48.240 --> 1:10:51.640 not even they in a whole different world. They don't know, 1:10:52.160 --> 1:10:55.280 they're not seeing this every day. This is not something 1:10:55.320 --> 1:10:58.439 that's coming up on their timeline all the time. But 1:10:58.640 --> 1:11:02.920 beyond that, my family has been through this. I'm telling 1:11:03.000 --> 1:11:06.680 y'all the story on the back end, they already been 1:11:06.800 --> 1:11:09.040 through it with me, so they know the deal. They 1:11:09.200 --> 1:11:12.479 understand the dynamics of the relationship between their father and 1:11:12.640 --> 1:11:14.680 me and this and that they know all of that. 1:11:15.160 --> 1:11:19.000 And she said, if my family wasn't good, I would 1:11:19.120 --> 1:11:22.200 not have written this book. I wouldn't even be doing 1:11:22.360 --> 1:11:25.280 this if my family wasn't good. But we're in such 1:11:25.320 --> 1:11:28.200 a solid place as a family that it gives me 1:11:28.360 --> 1:11:31.240 the freedom to speak and to tell my story. 1:11:31.280 --> 1:11:32.559 And I thought that was beautiful. 1:11:32.800 --> 1:11:35.400 And we know even at the times when they may 1:11:35.479 --> 1:11:37.640 have been going through things that we didn't know. We 1:11:37.760 --> 1:11:42.000 were in space with them, and we can honestly attest 1:11:42.760 --> 1:11:45.519 and anybody who doesn't believe it or this and that 1:11:45.680 --> 1:11:49.160 that's on you. We can honestly attest that the Smith 1:11:49.360 --> 1:11:53.040 family is one of the most solid, down to earth, 1:11:53.439 --> 1:11:57.800 beautiful and loving families that I've ever experienced in terms 1:11:57.880 --> 1:12:03.240 of these Hollywood relationships. Those people are solid and whatever 1:12:03.320 --> 1:12:07.320 they but they solid and real, so real shit has happened, 1:12:07.720 --> 1:12:10.200 and I think that Jada and the way of which 1:12:10.240 --> 1:12:13.000 she's telling her story and all that it means, I 1:12:13.280 --> 1:12:16.920 just feel sorry for anyone that's so foolish that they're 1:12:17.000 --> 1:12:19.880 caught up in the headlines and they missed the opportunity 1:12:20.240 --> 1:12:24.200 to learn something and to experience what this woman is 1:12:24.320 --> 1:12:27.280 offering to us in this time, because we know. We 1:12:27.360 --> 1:12:29.559 had a conversation with one of our friends who said, 1:12:29.560 --> 1:12:32.240 I came here and thinking y'all was all crazy. I 1:12:32.320 --> 1:12:36.520 can't believe it. But now I'm leaving here feeling inspired, 1:12:36.880 --> 1:12:41.240 feeling empowered, feeling like wow, like damn, like what can 1:12:41.320 --> 1:12:43.840 we do to make sure how truth is really out there? 1:12:43.880 --> 1:12:46.840 Because this stuff that's out there that ain't that's not 1:12:47.080 --> 1:12:50.360 matching up with what is actually in the book. That's 1:12:50.439 --> 1:12:52.880 that with me, and that's pretty much it. 1:12:53.080 --> 1:12:54.679 Man. You know, that's on period. 1:12:54.760 --> 1:12:54.920 Man. 1:12:54.960 --> 1:12:57.200 Shout out to Jada, shout out to will tell her 1:12:57.280 --> 1:12:59.439 to the Smith family. You know, I look forward to 1:12:59.520 --> 1:13:02.479 reading the book, is you know, because I, you know, 1:13:02.760 --> 1:13:05.200 just having a relationship with both of them and just 1:13:05.280 --> 1:13:08.519 want to get correct right, just not just want to 1:13:08.560 --> 1:13:10.519 expul shit like people just be on the end of 1:13:10.560 --> 1:13:13.880 the internet, just such a cesspool for dumb shit. People 1:13:14.040 --> 1:13:17.160 just spew anything and say whatever they think. They don't 1:13:17.240 --> 1:13:19.639 have no facts to back it up. They just throw 1:13:19.680 --> 1:13:23.599 all type of random bullshit out. Read the book, understand 1:13:23.680 --> 1:13:25.760 exactly what's going on. And then if you make a 1:13:25.960 --> 1:13:28.880 decision that you don't like Ja, you you think she 1:13:29.000 --> 1:13:31.080 did all the ship baits on the fact and cool, 1:13:31.520 --> 1:13:33.479 then that's your opinion. That's good. 1:13:33.800 --> 1:13:36.439 But I just I don't want to read the book. 1:13:36.479 --> 1:13:37.920 They're gonna say, I don't want to read book. If 1:13:37.960 --> 1:13:39.679 you don't want to read the book and you don't 1:13:39.680 --> 1:13:42.880 want to get the real owner leadership, quiet. 1:13:44.479 --> 1:13:48.200 You should just be quiet. And that's how we go 1:13:48.439 --> 1:13:51.280 end this show. Man. Once again, we appreciate y'all for 1:13:51.360 --> 1:13:56.120 support and Street Politicians Man, it's been three seasons, three 1:13:56.200 --> 1:13:59.280 seasons the Street Politician Man. We love y'all. Keep on 1:13:59.439 --> 1:14:03.720 this us number one podcast in the world. Shout out 1:14:03.720 --> 1:14:06.200 to our heart, shut out to Black Effect Network for 1:14:06.360 --> 1:14:09.880 all the love and support. You know, we really appreciate y'all. 1:14:10.000 --> 1:14:13.360 Keep on giving us ideas. Man. 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