WEBVTT - PowHERful Women with Mona Scott- Young 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.120 What's up? Can we is your girl to make a 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.719 d Mallory and it's your boy my son in general. 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.000 And we are your host of street politicians, the place 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:18.160 where the streets and politics meet. What's up? What's going on? Man? 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.040 We have a good show today. Women's History Month is 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:28.000 so big, big, big, big, big yeah. And there's you know, 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:32.960 there's great things about celebrating women that I love, but 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.440 also we cannot forget to make sure we talk about 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.479 the challenges that women face as well, because people, you know, 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.680 love the celebration, but they don't always like to look 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.199 at some of the like critical issues that's happening in 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.640 our society. And there's one thing that's happening right now 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.400 that I'm happy to be a supporter of, which is 0:00:54.480 --> 0:01:00.760 this finding to maka Um documentary that Kevin hard Lamina. God, 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.880 you were doing. A woman who went missing in South 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:09.120 Carolina many years ago didn't get enough attention. UM. And 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.920 they're you know, basically breaking down the story about what 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:17.120 happened to her. Erica Alexander, who we love, UH, narrates 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:23.080 the entire show. UM. And you know, black girls and 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.760 women going missing is a real serious problem in this country. UM. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.399 And so you know the fact that it's this show 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.319 is being launched during Black History Month. I was about 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.080 to say Christmas, you see where my head is at, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.080 but any of the Women's History Month, right it's just 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.760 you know, this is when it's happening right now. And um, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.520 I think that is a testament to the point that 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.920 we can focus on the celebration International Women's Day, everyone 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.800 was celebrating how amids and women are but there are 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:57.000 still really really serious challenges that particularly Black women and 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:02.400 girls face, and one of them is this abduction, trafficking, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.040 and just people going missing in general. So I just 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.320 want to make sure the onset that people watch Finding Tamika, 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.840 that they go and they listen, because I think it's 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.400 on audible, so you're not watching, you're listening, um to 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:22.160 Erica narrate a story about what happened to this young lady. Uh. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:23.760 And I just want to make sure that people go 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.160 and listen to it. In fact, some folks have already 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:31.799 been telling me, including our partner Angelo Pinto, attorney Angelo Pinto, 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.200 that it's really really heavy and powerful. I gotta listen 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.040 to it. I've seen I've seen you posted, I've seen 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.160 a few people posted, and I didn't really know what 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.000 it was. I was dealing with a lot of different things. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.480 But I'm definitely gon gonna listen to Yeah. Well, I 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.799 know now you can't be you can't be left out. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:50.760 You always want to be in. Then, so let's see 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.120 what else is happening, man. I mean, first of all, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:58.000 today we're we're going to be changing sort of the 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.639 format of our show as we start to sit down 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:06.240 with incredible people. Right now focusing on women, but there 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.480 will be many other folks to come along that we 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.520 want to sit down with and and really do more 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.880 of a sort of full form interview. You know, we 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.639 often talk to people in these twenty thirty minutes and 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.480 it never feels like we got enough, Like we gotta 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.280 bring shine back. You know. There's so many people that 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.560 I want to sit with and talk more about, you know, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.240 their full journey, and today we're doing it with an 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:38.720 incredible woman that I'm excited to talk to. Controversial, she is, um, 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.720 but yet she is a friend. She's legendary for sure. Um. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.720 But there's other stuff happening in the world and we 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:52.080 can never, unfortunately, just enjoy one thing without having to 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.960 be backslaped by other stuff that's happening. And one one 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:03.000 thing for me is just watching the terra that is 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.880 associated with people calling the police on black folks. It's trauma. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.280 It's it's so traumaful, just you know, and I know 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:16.400 what you're getting into. Especially I think it's traumatizing, traumatized. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.200 But maybe I could invent trauma for because it's full 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:25.840 of trauma. You know, Jackson invented words. It's trauma forul 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:31.040 because you know. But you know, I'm glad we could laugh. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.520 But in the reality of the situation, when I was 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.720 listening to the whole Ryan Coogler fiasco, you know, and 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.080 him walking into what is the Bank of America, I 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.040 don't even know what. I think it's Bank of America 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:47.040 and requesting, like giving a letter of requesting that he 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.039 we have to withdraw twelve thousand dollars of his own 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:56.039 money right discreetly, because you know, he's Atlanta. He doesn't 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.880 know somebody will knock him over his head, like he 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.120 don't want people to see it. So he hands the 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.440 letter and when you read it, they showed a letter 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.480 when you read it and said, hey, I'm like, that's 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.839 the keyword my account. Discreetly she said, gave him the idea. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.039 He did all the necessary things, and she still felt 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.080 that there was something, you know, that that was weird 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.919 or sketchy about him. He didn't it didn't match up. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.000 Rather than just going through the process, that said, let 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:27.440 me run his account and see that's the identification matched. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.760 The name was doing the necessary things that you're supposed 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.440 to do as a bank teller, you know. Unfortunately, she 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.440 was scared and decided to quote the police. And then 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.160 when you listen to the conversation, I heard the officers said, well, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.080 the dispatch basically said, well, he could just want to 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.960 be discreet, but you know, the officers because basically she 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.280 she was letting her know that I don't really know 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:54.000 if he did anything that there was no way like 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.279 he could just want to be discreet, but if you want, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:01.080 we have dispatch, we have officers there. And unfortunately, you know, 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.560 when he approached him, he was dealing with levels of 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.920 trauma to where he had a panic attack. And yes, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.560 he said he he asked him, please could remove my glasses. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.920 I'm having a panic attack, and I know that, so 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.760 I remember the first time that I was ever arrested, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.440 I had a panic It I literally fainted, like fainting. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.960 They grabbed me, put handcuffed on, like, oh, so what 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.640 don't I being arrested for it? Like you know, when 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.360 they're throwing me and everything just started getting My heads 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.840 got light. I feending in the back of the car. 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.280 Woke up probably about two minutes later. I really had 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.760 a panic attack. So I was really I put myself 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.920 in his position. I realized what he was going through. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.560 You know. Fortunate enough he didn't fall out, but I 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:46.240 know he was dealing with this anxiety that show was happening. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.200 You know, you suck sweating, Everything starts getting blurry to you. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.359 It's a harsh feeling. But here's the part that really 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.640 troubles me. Right, these are the people that they don't 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.400 want us to defund. They wanted to give more money 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.200 to the post lease and whatever. So now you show 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.920 up and you're an officer, right, and and someone is 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.560 telling you this man gave me a note. Do you 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.280 read the note? Do you say, man, did you check 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.440 his account? Or you just arrest somebody just because it's 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.840 a black person, Because I have in my life and 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.040 I know you have as well. Then places where white 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:27.520 folks are screaming yelling, fighting, hollering, acting, cutting up, acting 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.040 a complete fool. And yet when the police show up, 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.040 they will try to deescalate and figure out what's going 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.520 on before they just arrest white people. I'm telling you 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.640 that's what they do. But it comes to a black man, 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.760 nobody takes the time to say, hole on a second, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.040 is the money in his account? Does the bank card 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:55.080 and the identification match? At some point? I wonder like 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.960 at one point it sounds like this woman was a 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.920 black girl, Okay, So I didn't know that that's verified, okay, 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.840 And so it's not really a racism thing. Although we 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.400 as even people of color, even black, we uphope we 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:15.600 can uphold racist white right, white supremacy, and so that's 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.679 one thing. But maybe it's just that people are stupid 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.200 even But the thing is this, why don't we give 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:25.000 our people grace and due diligence right? Why why we 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.440 look at why didn't she do that necessarily? Then this 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.160 is another black man I don't want to call. Let 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.520 me make sure before I call the police, because I'm 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.120 behind this this wall. He can't get to me, has 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.360 a show me any weapon, He hasn't done anything to 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.079 threaten me. Maybe the way that he's addressing me, maybe 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.920 a little different. You might, I might feel a little 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.079 a little bit. But let me make sure before I 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.319 put the authorities on this man. Let me run his account, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.280 Let me do the due diligence, Let me do that. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.640 Why why don't we feel like that? Why because unfortunately 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.320 every ethnic group outside of us feels like that they're 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.040 gonna do things to protect. They're gonna go above and beyond. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.800 Even if it would have been somebody, a white person 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.280 be like, come on, man, get out here for you 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.599 go to jail. But sometimes, but more more often than not, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.480 I watched them protect each other. We just like, why 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.599 wouldn't you say to yourself, then this is this is 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.960 a black man. Let me just let me give him 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:20.880 a little grace. Let me say okay, let me run 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.400 this account, let me just go get my man, Just 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.280 say hey, let me run it. Why would the authorities 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.160 be the first line that you like? Sitting here cracking 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.480 up because I'm thinking about the video that was just 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.280 on social media a few days of like maybe a 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.360 week or so ago, where the person went to the 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.079 bank and I think she asked or they asked for 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.360 something and maybe gave a check or whatever, and then 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.320 the perse and tell her whatever to tell her said 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.320 it was's gonna work, and you jumped over the flexiglass 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.120 or when you say that she couldn't get over. I 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:00.600 don't know because this person's going to you jumped over 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:05.719 the coundar and that was it and was back there like, 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:10.200 no today, y'all what I need? I think you try 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:14.440 to put the check in and they said she right, 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:19.400 so then money, and yo, I'm not gonna lie. While 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.520 I would never jump over the plexiglass and no one 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.240 else ever ever should do that. I've been in those 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:30.920 situations where I deposit a check and I need everything 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:37.440 actually need, and when they tell you that they're taking 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.599 an overdraft fee and this and that, and you're like what. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:47.240 So I'm just laughing about that. The Ryan Coogler situation 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.400 is not funny. That trauma of being arrested, even when 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.240 I have been arrested, knowing that I'm about to be 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.880 you know, I will have all kinds of issues and 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:02.080 panic attacks and anxiety and all of that. So that's 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.960 that's not cool here. This man is trying to be discreet. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:10.200 First of all. Unfortunately he's outside in the street in Atlanta. Okay, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:15.520 he is like, yo, don't come over here with your money, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.400 like with my money. Don't be don't win all of this. 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.439 Go over there, get it together, and then give my 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.800 money so I can put it right here and go 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.400 by my business because these people will help me to 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.599 knock me over my head and I'm trying not to 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.680 get killed. But it's twelve thou dollars. And what makes 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.439 me so mad is the black people on the internet 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.040 that I see talking about. Oh well, why was he 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.880 taking twelve thousand. I was like, he might want to 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:41.760 go home and put it over his bed and lay 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.400 on it and eat yogurt. That's his money. He used 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.000 to do that. The next thing they said was, well, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.520 if you give a note to a teller, the note 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:54.120 is very clear, specific, very clear, specific my money. I 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.600 would like to withdraw twelve thou dollars of my money 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.520 out of my account. This is not hard. And she 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:06.199 didn't say that, just that. She never said out of 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.520 my account, never said that when she's speaking to the 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.839 dispatch it and you know, so we just got to 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.959 do better, man, we gotta do better. Shout out, you know, 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.839 my apologies for to cool. You know you should never 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.800 have had to go through that. But unfortunately, as black men, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.760 we go through things that we should never have had 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.160 to go on through every day. Yeah, well, you know, 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.560 and it also keeps us understanding what the world is like. Right, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.600 So no matter how high you get, you gotta always 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.400 know that when you black, you just black. And what 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:42.480 jay Z saying, still niggat Still you know what I 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.760 really want to ask you, why do you talk to 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.520 people on the internet? I just don't understand it. Now. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.320 I know I have to ask myself the same question, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.719 but I could just ask you today and put it 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.079 on you. Why do you talk to people on internet? You? 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.720 I saw you post that the immage till bill passed 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.880 unanimously through the Senate and the whole Congress, right, and 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.360 you posted it and then the people on your page 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:13.760 said you work for the Democrats and something because doesn't 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.520 mean anything, blah blah, and you going back and forth 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.400 with the troll because for me, right, it's just so 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.840 contradicted and it's stupid, right because for the last year 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:29.400 since Biden has been in office two years, right, I 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:35.800 think it's a little overd okay my brain, yeah, lit, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.120 But um, I've been hearing everything about what he's not 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.120 doing this and that you told us to vote for him, 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.400 this and all of this, and one of the main 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.800 things they were saying that there was an Asian hate 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.800 bill that was passed and then nobody passed the MUTIL. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.000 I had a million meals in my d M. Yeah, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.560 they won't give us this. We can't get the mutil, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.120 but your president did this, and it's like this, ain't 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.480 this is the president man that we got. You know 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:03.520 what I'm saying, keeping did you keep talking about my president? 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.160 This ain't None of these people is my president. My 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.319 president is somebody completely different, you understand saying. But the 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.560 reality situation is everybody kept putting this mean you got 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.440 the Asian hate bill nobody passed in Matil. They don't 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.520 want to say that Lenchion is a there's a hate crime. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.080 You know, I've seen a thousand times. So when it 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.880 was passed, I thought it made sense to inform the 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:29.040 people was past. Oh you were planned you noticed, don't 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.760 mean nothing. Well, what y'all keep trying to compare it 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:33.960 to something if it don't mean nothing, But why y'all 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.320 keep saying it ain't passed? Telling me why they won't 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.280 pass it, and then when they passed it, it don't 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.960 mean nothing. You don't get it, I don't get it. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:47.440 Say something about I just want them to get that 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.080 I know it. You just say I knew that. I 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.240 knew that. Don't matter what happened, you ain't gonna be 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.040 satisfied because you're looking for a problem for me. I 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.040 do get how it is, because like one of the 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.000 people said, listen, they're gonna say that there wasn't lynching 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.560 and they hung themselves. They're gonna always figure that way. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.480 So what I'm trying to say is we have to 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.800 understand the realities of what we live in, right And 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.920 when you said it before that you can't just pass 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.560 one lord to stop black people if you want to. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:19.800 And that's what I'm trying to say. And when you 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.800 say things like that, they said, oh but they passed this. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:23.640 So when you say what they passed this, and you 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.320 said he passed this, and then you say it don't 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.240 mean nothing, then you know exactly what we say. That's 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.160 exactly what we were trying to You were trying to 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.360 say when you said it, like I know that, okay, 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.320 pass that. Now they're gonna they're gonna find a way 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.200 to sircumvented. So the reality and situation is that we 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.880 have to acknowledge the full scope of what we're dealing 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.880 with in America, right, But at the same time, when 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.560 we see things that we can utilize, that we can 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.760 leverage to our manage, we have to figure out how 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.560 do we leverage and we have to call them out 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.000 every time, Like when somebody is hung and we know 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.040 there was a lynching, we gotta and they try to 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.320 tell us somebody hung themselves. We gotta say, no, no, no, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.200 that was lynching, and we gotta Now we have the 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.000 back end to be able to say we're gonna prove 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.760 it was mentioned, and then once we prove it, we 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.400 want you to che somebody exactly. So that's what it is. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.400 It's not saying that this is gonna stop them from 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.800 doing anything. We ain't nothing gonna they're gonna. They've been 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.560 doing the same ship to us for years, no matter 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.080 how many laws we passed. But now what we know 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.720 is that we have legal backing, that we have foundation, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.000 that we understand the games they play, We understand the 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.800 jargon that they keep running on us. So if we 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:30.280 understand that and we utilize our brains along with the 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.520 laws that they pass them, then we can get further 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.840 and further. It's a process, and that's what it is 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:36.240 for me. It's like, I don't think none of this 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.120 ship is gonna cha. I don't think the president gonna 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.080 change me. I don't think none of these politicians. I 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.600 don't think the laws that govern us was ever set 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.000 up to govern us properly. They're set up to make 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.680 sure that we stayed at a lower class. I understand that, 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.480 and I'm not trying to tell you that no politician 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.040 or no law they passed is gonna change that reality. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.680 But what I am saying is I'm going to hold 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.280 you accountable to the laws that you passed. I'm going 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.440 to hold you accountable, make sure that laws have passed 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.480 that that say that we're equal, even if we know 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.800 that you don't think we're equal, even though we're gonna're 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.400 gonna try to circumvent that, I'm going to make sure 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.080 that you are held accountable. So now, I'm always fighting 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.560 for what's right, just whether it's a law or not, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.720 because to me just doesn't have to do with laws. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.000 It's right or wrong. I'm a fight for what's right. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.560 But now what I know is right, is backed by law. Now, 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.840 we got all the things on our side, So we 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.000 just gotta stop fighting against each other and understand that 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.479 we all fight in the same wall. And sometimes you've 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.359 got a different strategy and you gotta go through the 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.119 back door and I gotta go through this way. But 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.280 we're all trying to get to the same place. Yeah. No, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.520 and you know where. I haven't had um an opportunity 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.720 to read everything about the MTIL bill and like what 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.600 was the final version that actually passed. But what I 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.879 will say is one, people have been working on that 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.560 bill for a long, long, long long time, and so 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:58.040 making having it passed is historic in nature. It took 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.000 way too long, but it did happen. Um. I also 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.400 think that what we have to sort of keep in mind, 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.639 and this goes for those people who are saying it 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.960 doesn't mean much. Again, I haven't read the final version, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.560 but what I do know is that the Asian Hate 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.480 Bill came with a lot of resources. There was a 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:23.239 lot behind it, money to protect the Asian community, uh, 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.359 mental health support for them and things like that. And 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.760 so I would assume that people who don't see all 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:34.040 of that about the Emmett till Bill may feel like, well, 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.720 you know, it's not the same, and that is a 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:43.600 very very important statement, and we should absolutely continue, to 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.440 your point, to fight to make sure that these things 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.000 are equitable across the board. And so I get it. 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:51.879 But you know, at the end of the day, it 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.600 is important to note that there have been some of us, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.680 we marched UM from from Staten Island, New York all 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.920 the way to why Washington, d C. Talking about racial equity, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.439 trying to get um you know, racial justice bills passed 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.000 and I guess that was two thousand and fourteen. And 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.400 so for these things to happen now, it does mean 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.359 something because there have been people putting their lives on 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.560 the line for a long time to try to make 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.320 these things actually come to fruition in some way, shape 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.320 or form. Knowing that there again, it's still so much 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.720 work to be done. There's so much work to be done. 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:29.679 So we just got to keep on work, that's right. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.000 But we're talking about working today. We're talking to a 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:40.200 woman is an absolute boss. She is um. She comes 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.520 from Haitian parents. So you know, I think it is 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:47.359 a very true statement that people who come to this 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:53.080 country from other places really take advantage of what America 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.800 has to offer. And you know, this woman is an 0:19:55.840 --> 0:20:00.680 example of that, coming from parents who who's started here 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.200 and then raised her. She was born in Manhattan. Some 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.879 people somewhere online it keeps saying queens, but she actually 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.440 was born in Manhattan, and so her parents, you know, 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:15.240 found the way, made sure that she um was successful. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:17.440 And look at it. First of all, I didn't even 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.920 know she is not a college graduate. Many times I've 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.200 sat in rooms, I'm thinking, this is a Harvard educated woman. 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.600 So that just goes to show you that that path 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.320 is not for everyone. But it doesn't mean that because 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.760 you didn't go to Harvard you can't be a major businesswoman. 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.640 She started her own and she has her own entertainment 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:40.080 company now that's doing big things. But was the co 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:44.639 founder of Violator Management with artists that she helped to 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.800 launch their careers, from nas to Missy Elliott, too jar 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:53.000 Rule to so many people that you know, just bust 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:57.520 the rhyns um. And I'm really excited about this interview 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.880 today with the great your friend you have my friend 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.600 man I was. I had the pleasure of being signed 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:07.360 the violated records, you know, in which her and Chris 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.720 Lady had worked together on and just watch him owner 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.399 just evolved into what she is today, and just always 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.840 knowing that she had that ability, like you know, the 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.680 way she was able to manage a case slow, just 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.560 seeing artists walk into offices every five minutes and her 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:25.920 just having the same face. And I'm just sitting down 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.119 and her giving that energy and working so hard for 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.800 artists and then you know, unfortunately being incarcerated and then 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:37.240 coming home to watch her transform into the next level 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:41.000 of phase of her career as a producer, and you know, 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.639 just watching him, man, I am just honored to be 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:49.879 able to interview the great, great um, you know. And 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:52.000 I guess the last thing that I would say what 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.200 makes Mona so special to me even though we now 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:59.359 have our own relationship, but watching her, uh, you know, 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:02.920 give Andy a platform and knowing that Yandy worked for 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.560 her at a time when she was just like, you know, 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.960 being an assistant in the office and now Yandy is 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:16.000 running multimillion dollar projects and campaigns and businesses. That's pretty 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.080 powerful as a legacy for any black woman to be 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:22.240 able to say, look around at the fruit of my labor. 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:25.680 So I'm excited about talking to moment, Let's get to it. 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:33.119