WEBVTT - ARE WE STILL KNEELING OR NAH? 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to Street Politicians. I and my son and I'm 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.280 Tamika Mallory and we are happy to have you here 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.480 tuning in. Thanks for the support and love, and we 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.079 hope that every time you come to this podcast that 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:17.760 you get a little something that you can leave with 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:22.480 that you enjoy, that you learn a smile or laugh, educational, 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:24.200 So you know, we're happy to have you out here. Man. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.040 Street Politicians is all about us learning together. That's right, 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.960 That's right. So what's going on with you? Well, the 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.800 end of a decade and the beginning of a new one. Right, 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.560 some ship change, some ship hasn't. So it hasn't. But 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.840 you know, but personally, each one of us are actually 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:47.440 posted a meme um that said that living from January 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.559 to December is no joke and thanking God for keeping us, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.760 keeping our minds, keeping our health, our spirits, our families. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.200 So much is happening in the world and the fact 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.960 that we keep living every day with all the challenges 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:06.160 is a blessing. Got Trump being leaving the White House? 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.640 How about that I saw? I mean today, it wasn't 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.559 even a meme, It was a tweet from Mike Huckabee 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.000 ran for president, former governor Mike Now I don't think 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.760 he's still governor. Uh. And he was talking about how 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.520 he's been selected as the whole store the chair of 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:29.480 the committee to had to re elect Trump for a 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:33.240 third term because the Democrats are you know, this is 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.319 illegal what they're doing, and it's wrong, and impeachment is 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.920 you know, it's it's unfair and it was a witch 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.160 hunt and all this stuff, and you know, and we 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.360 have been saying for a while that you know, listen, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.080 Michael Bloomberg did it in New York and this is 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.920 one of the most uh you know, the most powerful 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.800 cities in the world, and he did it here where 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:59.080 he extended his term. His term limits was two terms, 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.360 so that would have been eight years, and when it 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.320 was getting towards the end of the second term, he 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.959 was able to get the city Council to vote for 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.640 a third term, which of course the city council members 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.919 were also able to be in office for a third term. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.359 But he is mayor wanted to stay for a third 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.760 term because he said that, you know, the city needed him, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.360 that he was doing so much economically and turning the 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.600 city around, and you know all that. And by the way, 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.639 I know from council members that I was friends with, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.440 that there was a lot of pain in the decisions 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.000 that they made. There was you know, there were people 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.920 who knew personal background stuff about those folks and was 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.960 like literally coming to them saying, you better vote for uh, 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.880 this extension this, you know, the term limits to be 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.400 lifted if you will based upon that's like putting your 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.280 public your your personal business and public. I'm not gonna 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.240 say that they were black male because well listen, I'm 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:04.160 not trying to be suited by the Bloomberg said people 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.720 were black men exactly. And Trump ain't leaving the White House. Well, 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.480 so you know, you never know. I don't know if 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.440 he's going to leave. The man has for him to 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.240 cool and you're looking at one of posts on my page, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.440 we got to his three fifty seven is making sure 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.200 that nothing happens to Trump. You know, if people try 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.360 to impeach him, he's going to be civil war. And 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.399 you know, and I've been saying that for a long time. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.880 He's running the White House like the mafia, Like he 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.960 really like a mab boss. So it's not pass him. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.120 Like when he doesn't feel like he wants to leave, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.320 I can't see the reason why he would. He has 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:47.840 to Trump is a gangster man. He is going to 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.720 be able because you know what, so is Nancy Pelosi. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.240 Uh and and you know AUNTI Maxine is up in 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:59.840 there like, oh he think he I'm definitely exactly so, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.200 you know. And I'm not a big fan of like 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.400 any of them, Pelosi, I mean, obviously anti Maxine, but 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.360 I'm not a big fan of avideo of them. But 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:13.000 I do know that what Pelosi has done is something 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.080 that Trump tried. He tried everything that he could to 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.400 really be like threaten her without like calling her out 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.599 her name, but damn near, he was really trying to 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.760 intimidate her in the media, even in person, and she 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.120 still went forward with the impeachment because the man is 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.080 a trader. He's a trader. His behavior, his behavior is 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.839 treason us and really he should have been impeached a 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.760 long time ago. But hey, we are where we are, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.479 so that's that we were. I haven't. I really literally 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:49.040 refused to get myself deep into the impeachment proceedings and 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.560 watching everything because what I think is more important than 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.120 the sensationalism of what's happening in this moment is us 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.000 focusing on getting our people ready for to money twenty. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.160 And I'm not even talking about registering the vote. I'm 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:07.080 talking about mentally, like folks need to know how serious 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.280 it is for them to be in the game and 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.039 for them to be able to understand everything that's happening. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.640 So do you do you think is gonna benefit us 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:20.120 or it's gonna be negative? I think you damned if 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.040 you do, damned if you don't. I think that no 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.680 matter what, the people are losing in this moment because 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.800 I don't I don't see anybody running the government like 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.279 the government. I don't even know what the government does 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:37.160 because everything I hear is we lose food stamps, you know, 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:42.120 the children being separated. The young man died in the 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.960 jail just last week. Actually, yandy Um. She sent me 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.479 a piece of like a clip of the young man 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.719 falling out in his cell. He had the flu, and 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.640 there was another person in the cell as well, under 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.080 those like silver blankets or whatever he was. He is 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.039 in there as well. They had they quarantined them, put 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.919 them in the cell, and the boy died. That's he 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.760 fell out and died like a teenager. But those things 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.600 are not they're just so common being formally incarcerated. I 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.440 know so many people who have passed from similar circumstances. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.680 If it wasn't from somebody beating them, it was just 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.800 lack of taking care of their health for them being 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.240 put into the box and then just left isolated, not 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.640 fed properly. So those are common things. I was just 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:33.400 told about one of of the friends I have that incarcerated. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.960 They're supposed to start putting the body cams on the offices. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:41.279 I think they started. I think he said that somebody would. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.160 But they only use it. They only, excuse me, they 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.760 only use it when, like there's an incident, so it's 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.760 not like all day they were in it. But when 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.920 somebody pulls a pain and they says the incident and 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.480 they have to go and deal with one of the prisoners, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.880 they have to show the camera. That's what he was telling. Well, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.440 I mean, because the camera's that's all around, I'm supposed 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.160 to be able to show you what's going on, and 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.040 somehow for years and years and years, that doesn't really work. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.000 But yeah, because they put him in blind. If you 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.680 look at what they put them, they put them right 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.560 outside that you can see in front of the celle 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.360 you can't in yourself unless they have to. Yeah, they 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.080 do it all the time, and nobody gets to see. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.240 Like I've just seen one online the other day where 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.200 a guy was getting processed. They walked him in the 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.160 sale next to you know, he comes out limping, his 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.200 eyes all beat up. Then nobody shows how it happened, 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.320 but they just showed they came beat up. Say that's 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.400 some of the stuff that has not changed, right, definitely 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:40.120 in this new decade. Um, let me see what else 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.080 has happened to Michael Vick. I mean, he's getting this 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.080 opportunity which we were saying is an award, and I 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.080 guess that's no, it's an honor. It's not a reward. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.440 It's um he's been he's been voted as one of 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.480 the captains for the Pro Bowl. So that's like when 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.960 you have legendary status, they choose you as whinning captains. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:09.640 Mike Vic pretty much revolutionary, I mean revolutionized the quarterback position. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:14.120 He was one of the first um multi talented running 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.800 back slash quarterbacks who ran for a bunch of yards. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.880 So he had this kind of you know, multi task 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.560 that he was able to do as a quarterback, which 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:27.160 prior to him wasn't being done. The quarterback was primarily 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.080 the person who threw the ball, handed the ball off. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:35.760 He wasn't a runner, and he revolutionary revolutionized, no revolution. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:43.880 Sometimes the words definitely makes it's not I just know 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:51.640 how to make vocabulary evolved. Whatever you gotta help, you 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.439 gotta make because we can't keep using the same and 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.800 that we gotta we gotta evolve. But I think that 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:01.439 means using words in the English. Yeah, that's the word 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.920 revolutionary word, I know that, but but you know what 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.640 I'm talking about. I would pull one up for you 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.920 when you made up a whole word. It worked though, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:21.720 so usually have the route that's the word anyway. So yeah, 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.600 so there's a there was a petition had over four 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.839 hundred thousand signatures on it from people who said they 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.800 did not want him to be honored. When you're saying 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.199 is really more so positioning like him being recognized as 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.439 the captain and the bowl and then him there, so 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.640 pretty much I don't think people knew that. I think 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.959 that the way I think the way the media said 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.320 he's being honored, folks signed it thinking he was about 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.920 to stand up and get some you know, special But 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.400 if that's but if that's what they did, I'm just 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.720 saying that that's what people were reacting. I don't think 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.320 a lot of folks understood exactly what was happening. Common 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.360 sense ain't that comment or more? And people don't even 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.080 They just want to grab onto social media and they 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.480 want to attack things. You know, Michael Vick was did 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.760 his he served his time for his infraction, you know 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.200 with the dog fighting situation, and he did his time, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.319 he paid his fines, he came out, he's been he's 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.880 an apology tour. He's been an advocate against you know, 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.840 animal rights, I mean for against for for animal rights 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.280 like he's been. He's been doing his job. So for 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.240 somebody to make a statement or sign a petition to 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.920 stop him from being anything, getting honored or being an 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.960 honorary captain, it's just ludicrous to me. And it's like 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.800 when when do you pay your debts to society? Like 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.440 what what does rehabilitation look like? So you know jewels, 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.760 you know jewels. How Julianne who works with us, she's 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.280 a white woman and she is one of our allies. 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.840 We rather call her an accomplice. She's more than an 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.960 she's assistant these our sisters. She's down with us, working 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.920 with us in the struggle. So I happen to turn 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:09.559 on Facebook, you know, open up Facebook, and the first 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.680 thing that popped up was that she was up there 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:17.559 with her her her She was basically promoting the petition 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.160 asking people to sign the petition against Michael Vick. Now, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.640 you know, Jules loves her dog, just very serious dog. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:30.480 Like her dog is like the whole person. And I 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.320 understand she loves her dog, but I had to I 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.320 wrote to her, to Jules, the question that I have 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.200 for you right like, you know, being a part of 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.360 our movement, she is often around people, particularly black men 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:50.360 who are formerly incarcerated, who who or who may have 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:54.440 killed someone, who may have hurt another person. I mean, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.440 she's been around all these people, and we support all 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.680 of us together. The idea here that these black men, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.840 black and brown men who are entering society again should 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.920 be that their time is up, they've done their time, 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.000 and that if they're being honored for turning their lives around, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.680 for helping young people for whatever, that you support that, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.160 And I asked, so you support that you support this 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:22.120 These men who may have killed another black man, may 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.680 have hurt someone you support them being acknowledged for turning 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:30.240 their lives around after serving their time. She's and of 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.079 course she agrees with that, and like, you can't be 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.120 okay with that and then say, but you can't be 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.360 honored for killing a dog because that puts more value 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.959 on the dog's life than another black man. And we 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:48.719 specifically support something called the Time Done Campaign, which our 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.920 brother Jay Jordan's is the executive director of an organization 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.440 in California that has this Time Done campaign that really 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.959 talks is specifically designed to deal with at that when 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.240 you come home from prison, when a person comes from 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.520 from prison, there are too many barriers for folks being 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:11.240 able to into society and do work and be productive citizens. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.720 And you support that. And she's a great supporter, I mean, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.520 I think, but she came back just to be clear 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.120 after she thought about it, she said, you know what, 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:26.760 you're right And now she's like the biggest advocate online. 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.439 Because that's the thing about being an airline and accomplice 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.520 and someone who leads in love is that when you 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.640 see when somebody gives you the truth or somebody is 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.760 able to change your mind honestly based on you know, 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.240 facts and and based on really just sitting you down 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.719 and walking you through something and you're able to say, 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.640 you know what, I made a mistake or now I 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.520 see it your way. That's what it is about, you know, 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.760 because we can just argue just for the sake of 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.480 arguing all day. So, like I put out a post 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.160 also about Michael Vick situation, I was just talking about 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.240 the comparison to him and ray Lewis, and a lot 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.560 of people give me flat, you know, and I understand 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.720 he was one of the people. And for me it 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.760 was just like understanding. Like you said, like Michael Vick 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:16.240 killed the dogs. Let me change that Michael Vick was 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.600 was he was found guilty or he pled guilty to 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.600 having um something to do with the dog fighting ring. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.120 I don't think. I don't know, facilitate, facilitated, I don't 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.200 I don't know if he was okay, I don't know what. 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:35.040 I don't know that his father exactly said that this 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.720 is his thing, fighting dogs. But even if it was 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:42.800 in a house that belonged to him, that's still facilitates. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.760 So he facilitated. But what I was saying was ray 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.960 Lewis was involved in a situation which led to the 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:54.200 death of two black men, and he pled guilty to 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:58.320 a lesser charge which was associated with it there for 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.080 the two black men. So I was in, we're okay 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.920 with a black man who kills a black man or 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.000 is responsible or any way has a connection to the 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.120 death of two black men, but we're not okay with 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.240 the black man who is connected to the death of dogs. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.240 And you know, it just shows to me that the 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:21.640 black man's life is less valuable in America's us, you know. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.960 So that was my argument. A lot of people, a 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:25.440 lot of people seen in my way, and a lot 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.320 of people, you know, then there was you know, there 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.640 was this discourse and it's but my only issue was 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.160 that I just felt like I didn't I hate us 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.160 even having to talk about what another black man has 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:40.480 or has not done, when there's so much that white 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.360 folks have done. But I want and if not ever, 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.560 but I get your point. You made me understand your 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.600 position that you know, basically, there's two different black men 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.720 with two different scenarios, but one is responsible for the 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.000 death of dogs and the other one that's responsible potentially 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.480 or involved somehow in the killing of a man. And 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.600 it's the same organization and the hypocrisy because he was 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.400 being just voted was one of the top one hundred 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.760 players two weeks ago, so nobody there was no petition. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.680 If there was, please show me how to see a 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.160 petition at all for somebody to say that he didn't 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.960 deserve it. So you know that this is hypocrisi out 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:24.560 and now he's gonna and that's that's a good thing. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.880 Good looking. The NFL did something good. They did something good. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.560 They got a lot of other stuff, but you know, 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.640 one of the things that is it that I'm verily, 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.880 like really concerned about. So you know, like I'm not 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.080 getting myself caught up into impeachment stuff right because I 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.160 can't take it. You know, I get mad. I saw 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.160 yelling at the TV and calling everybody and saying we 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.280 need a march and a protest. But I am paying 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.320 attention to as I said, nobody doing work in the government. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.320 Most of our cabinet members are acting like none of 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:01.840 them are actually confirmed cabinet members. He really is running, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.440 like you said, the government like the mafia because he 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:11.400 knows that the loophole is having everyone is acting cabinet 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.320 members because he can't get people confirmed, which means that 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.640 there's a vote with the House and then and they 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:23.800 confirmed exactly. You still getting paid for him, so he 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.679 doesn't need confirmed. But but the reason why it's important 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.640 for these people to be confirmed is because it gives 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.560 the American public and opportunity to see through the hearings 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:35.640 and other things, who these individuals. We know what's important 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.359 to us to him, and then and then the people 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.960 that we put an office get an opportunity to vote. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.679 And so he has he has that process and he 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:49.400 has all these people acting. So so this guy William Barr, 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.239 who's the acting Attorney General, which means he is the 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:57.159 top cop in the country. He was speaking to a 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:02.040 group which include law enforcement officers, which included law enforcement 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.879 enforcement officers, and he started talking about how when veterans 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:11.760 come home from war, they are they're acknowledged their parades 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.000 when out. And there's a lot of veterans that would 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.920 disagree with that, let's be clear, but you know, he said, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:21.040 there's so much love for veterans coming home and good 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.000 and he said, but police officers are not treated the same, 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:31.720 and that he we certain communities, certain communities, people need 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:37.720 to start respecting police officers because if not, we may 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:43.080 find ourselves being, you know, left without protection. Our communities 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.920 may be left without protection. That is absolutely crazy. It's 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:52.400 not because the problem with this whole situation with Trump 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.200 and bar and all these things is these people are 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.560 just seeing things that have been happening. You understand I'm saying. 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.359 So when you hear Trump spewards rhetoric and people like yo, 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.760 you heard what he said, this is what America has been. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.679 This is what they've been thinking. When you hear William 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.720 Barr said what he says, it's what the police been doing. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.760 They either over police our communities to where they make 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.359 us just um criminals. They don't come in there to 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.760 help and really say protect and serve. They've never done that. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.000 So ultimately, this is why the king stopped killing King's 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.399 model and raising King's model that I've created. It's something 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.480 that is going to be needed in our society. We 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.040 have to get back to police, to um community police, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.159 and we have to get back to the men in 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.159 the community and the women in the community coming to 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.640 hand in hand and being in unison and being able 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.600 to dictate what goes on the community so we don't 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.960 have to call police because we see what having when 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.760 the police come to our communities. They either harm someone 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.680 who called for help. Um, you know, mentally ill people 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.400 being shot down in their own homes that call when 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.520 somebody calls to help them, they're being killed, you know police. 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.679 I mean kids are being handcuffed and beat up on 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.600 the corners for walking down the block because they quote 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.439 unquote fit descriptions. So the bottom line is we have 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.560 to get back to that mine. Anyway. We have to 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.919 tell Mr Ball thank you, because what that's going to 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.240 do is call us to start commute. I mean, police 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.000 in our own community is gonna call us to be 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.399 a lot more responsible. It's gonna call us to be 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:23.840 a lot more unified and look to each other for 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:26.600 solutions before we call these people into our communities that 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.359 are just throwing our kids in jail or hurting and 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.960 killing them. So I say thank you. Let's like I 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.280 said thank you the Trump. I told you these people 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.480 were needed. I didn't I knew that any other president 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.159 but Trump was gonna have us sit around for a 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.960 few years and be like, look we did something. Oh 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.879 look Hillary is here, the first woman. While we did something. 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.200 Something that's happened. Ain't nothing happening in America? And Trump 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.040 just lets you see that America has been racist, It's 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.920 been directed at us. White supremacy has always been the 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.280 mantra of America, and now you get to see it. 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.640 So when you hear these people say the things, and 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.280 you hear the people talk them out. If Trump is impeach, 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.920 is gonna be civil war, and you hear the bars saying, hey, 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.600 the police are gonna stop doing if certain communities don't 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.720 respect them. It gives you the reality and the route 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.840 awakening that people in our communities, the people in our 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.879 communities need to wake up and start governing their themselves. 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.680 Well yeah, okay, first of all, I think that yes, 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:27.640 there are problems with police and community, absolutely, but generally 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.880 police officers go to work, to do their job, go home. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:35.040 They don't want to have issues. There are the bad cops, 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:36.639 if you will, and the good cops that there and 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.640 watch it happen, so we can classify them all together. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.359 Because unless you are and Edwin Raymond or one of 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.240 the you know, or the officers who are considered whistle 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.119 blowers or people who really stand up within the department, 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.840 you are part of the problem. But most police officers 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.800 do try to do their job every day, and unfortunately, 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:00.960 they work within a system that if they they facilitate 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:03.119 their job the ways in which they're being trained, it 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.040 means they're either over policing or under police and our people. 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.560 I agree with you about that thousand percent. I don't. 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.119 I still think when you are in they uh not 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:17.760 an elected official. But when you are representing the country, right, 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.159 you're you're you're the top cop, You're the person that 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:23.800 is setting the tone for what happens in the country. 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.600 You cannot say things like that. It incites tension on 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:31.679 both sides of the owl. It puts police in danger, 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:35.160 and it puts communities in danger because now you basically 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:37.600 are telling us that if we hold the protest then 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:39.600 and then the police can just come in and do 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:41.719 whatever they want to us, or they can hurt us. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.679 Then our response to that is going to be a 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:47.400 visceral response. It's not good. So I just I think 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.479 it's wrong. I think the rhetoric is extremely dangerous. I 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:52.400 do agree with you that there has to be a 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.560 movement to take care of our own communities. And I 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:57.960 don't know that we can use the words police. I 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:00.560 think we do need different languages or Yeah, I think 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.159