WEBVTT - Aging - The Real After 40 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:00.840 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.119 Mallory and the ship Boy my son in general. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.440 We are your host of t M I. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.240 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and inspiration. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.160 Name New Energy. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.160 What's going on? My Son Lennon and Blessed. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.200 Black and Holly Favored, Amika D Married. How are you 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:21.000 doing today? 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.680 I am doing just fine. This is gonna be maybe 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.200 kind of like a holiday week for me. I am 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.600 in the Great State of Tennessee with the people, the Memphians, 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.159 I think is what they call them, and all I'm 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.760 going to do is eat, which is my problem in 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:39.880 life is food. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.400 I'm actually hungry right now. I haven't really ate much, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.159 but yeah, Memphis does have good food. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.239 It's just too good. And that's all I want to 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:56.720 do is eat. So I thought that I I booked 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.240 my hotel. I came to check one a loved one 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:04.200 who fell ill, and I thought that I booked my 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.679 hotel right next to this restaurant that I loved. But 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.080 obviously this is a different hotel from the one that 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.840 I stayed at before. And so when I went to 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.559 go eat, because I was so excited. After I left 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.600 the hospital, I found out that I was twenty minutes 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:26.399 away from where the restaurant is located. And I was 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.319 literally devastated that I had to eat the hotel food, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.800 which is basically the same menu. As we always say, 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.960 every single hotel just takes a carbon copy of the 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.040 menu of the other hotels and that's it. So I 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.160 was pretty devastated. But it won't catch me today. I 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.080 bet you that you're gonna get. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.320 Them twenty minutes. You won't hike going up there and 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:50.480 get that food, huh. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.480 And I gotta go there first. I have a whole plan, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.280 a whole schedule. But anyway, I don't understand last night 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.200 while we were talking to the Public Advocate of New 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.080 York City on the telephone, and the two of you 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.040 were talking about what happened with the NIXT game. After 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.640 First of all, he called to talk to us about 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.920 some really serious stuff in New York City, in New 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:17.600 York City politics. But then somehow the conversation turned into 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:23.400 both of y'all needed life support and needed so he 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:28.760 had to put on his jersey, his his good luck chain, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:34.200 something else, bring out the Bible and everything about these 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.840 nick games. I y'all understand why y'all put y'allselves do this. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.640 Y'all already know what the Knicks do. Y'all already know. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.200 So if they win, great, If they lose, it's okay 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:45.200 because that's what they do. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.120 Sometimes I think, is were you in New York? Like, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.919 I'm not even gonna I'm never I had stopped being 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.280 a Knicks fan right because the heartache. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.560 Look, I stopped being a Knicks fan ever since step 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.240 ever since Mello left. I'm like, you know what y'all got, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.160 mellows down teen, I'm not with the Knicks, but when 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.920 you were New Yorker, you're a Nick at heart. So 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.840 watching them play, watching Jalen Bronson and watching how he plays, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.880 like he plays the game the way I was taught 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.880 to play. He has he has that fire. He's brought 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.160 something back to the garden. So since my team, who was, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.800 you know, the Dallas Mavericks, Kyrie's not playing all this, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.280 I just started watching the Knicks, and I just started 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.840 growing like, oh here we go again. I'm back into 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.799 this Knicks frenzy. So watching them play and watching it 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.440 and then seeing that it's like they gotta be down 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.520 twenty something for them to come back and play, and 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:38.080 it's just like. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.400 It's it's it's heartbreaking. It's really heartbreaking. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.720 Just watch them and you from New York and you 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.320 see the energy, like when you're watching the news and 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.720 you see you walk downtown, like during my birthday, the 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.600 whole city was full of everybody going to the Nick game. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.560 The whole city was just everybody was outside and that energy. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.000 If you just from New York, you love to see 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.720 that energy. So that's what it is. They grabbed me 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.000 back with the energy. I'm feeling it. I like the 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.640 chemistry of the team, but when they start losing or 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.840 they lose games, like they lost a game up by 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.640 fifteen with two minutes left in the game, and how the. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.600 Fuck does that happen? Like it it doesn't make sense, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.960 but it makes sense for the Knicks, and we just 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.200 got to deal with it as being New Yorkers. Yes 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:19.080 I don't. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.960 I'm like, what is the problem? Y'all already know what happens. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.159 That's why I can't be invested in because I already know. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.400 First of all, you know, I'm not really that into sports, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.680 although I do. I used to go to the Nick 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:36.239 game almost every game, so I completely understand the love 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.040 that we have for the team for the New York culture, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.960 for you know, the whole thing. Absolutely. However, I never 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:48.800 once we decided to give up the Knicks season tickets. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.440 We didn't pick up the Brooklyn Nets because it's too 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.520 much stress, Like you physically get stressed out, people screaming 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.360 and throwing things. I'm like, what in the world y'all 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:01.480 love it? So hey? 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.400 I mean, I just love the sport and I love 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.120 when you see teams play hard. You know, this year, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.919 New York actually has a team that has the capabilities 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.880 to win. If you know, if everybody's playing the way 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.440 they're supposed to, they actually can win. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.800 So you know, we just got to see what happens. Man. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.080 Well I'm here for it. But lord bless you. I 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.080 was listening to two of you, like I can't even 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.479 jump in to say, well, yeah, I felt because y'all 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.320 was talking about life support machines. I mean, it was sky. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:37.279 I'm like, Jemia is a Nick fan to the blood, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.320 Like he is literally fanatic. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.160 It's like like it's not just a fan, he's a fanatic. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.240 But anyway, that brings me to my thought of the day. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.280 My thought of the day is really buried in a 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:57.040 question I want to know why we as a people 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:07.560 do not listen to other people's experiences with corporations and 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.600 allow it to be a warning, like a telltale sign 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.960 that we should start to step away, back up, don't 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:21.760 go into these places. These places. Now, someone told me 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:27.279 that it is possible that every that you think people 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.640 know and they don't know. So just because an incident happened, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.359 it doesn't mean that everyone else knows about it. But 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.880 I know people who will say, well, that didn't happen 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:44.160 to me in that place, that restaurant, that airline, that whatever, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.760 and so therefore, since it didn't happen to me, I 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.919 don't see it as being, you know, so much of 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.200 a problem, and I'm still gonna go over there, or 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.760 I'm still going to be a part of it. I 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.400 think the part of the issue is that people don't 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:06.360 necessarily value the way in which our society in terms 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:11.840 of corporations, like how they treat some black folks, And 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.920 I think that we feel like, as long as it 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.200 doesn't happen to us, it's just that person, it's just 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.560 those people they did something. So the reason why I'm 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.760 bringing this up is because I've been told that a 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:29.320 number of waffle house employees. It started in Georgia, but 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.760 it is now spreading to different places across the country. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:38.800 They are on strike and the reason why they're on 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:44.280 strike is because they say it's unsafe. The conditions are 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.920 not again safe for employees. There have been issues where 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.480 police have been called to deal with incidents and it 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.000 takes twenty minutes or more for the police officers to 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.920 show up. They say that the conditions that there were 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:05.160 working in our hazardous. They're mistreated, and therefore these people 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.800 are now striking and it's been going on for a while. 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.120 And in fact, I want to read because they're working 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.920 with a labor union, which is the Union of Southern 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:20.080 Service Workers. So the Union of Southern Service Workers have 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:26.480 come together with these people, these employees, which are mainly 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.280 of course black and brown folks, and they are supporting 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.840 them in their strike against waffle House. Now, we told 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.840 folks a long time ago in the I think spring 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:44.680 of twenty eighteen, Shakisha Clemens was abused in a waffle 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:51.200 house in Sarahland, Alabama, because a white employee attempted to 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:57.000 force her to pay for plastic spoon and fork right 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:03.840 and whatever plastic utensils this particular employee asked her to pay. 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.280 Shaqisha says, what are you talking about? You know, I 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.679 don't want the silverware. I want plastic, which I do 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.600 all the time. And there is no place ever, not 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.160 even in the places where I feel kind of like 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.120 they were a little rude. And never ever in the 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.559 history of ever have I been asked to pay for 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.120 plastic silverware if I did not want to, or plastic 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:33.440 utensils if I did not want to use the silverware 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.439 on the table. This employee starts telling her it's x 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.559 y Z since per piece. Da da da da da. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.560 They get into it. The next thing you know, the 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.600 woman calls the police on Shakisha Clements and when the 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:53.800 police get there, they derobe, abuse, attack, humiliate, and again 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.959 abuse this woman. Now you all know this story because 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.960 every now and then we have to bring it up. 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.319 We have to talk about it in order for people 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.440 to be reminded of the sincerity, the severity of the 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.760 severity of what took place that day to Shakisha Clemens, 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.360 which she still has not all the way recovered from. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:20.000 And they said that she was resistant arrest and then 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.040 came back arrested her and charged her Okay, this is 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:28.640 how severe this situation was. We told people, let's just 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.280 shut waffle House down because first of all, it is 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.959 not treating and this was all the stuff that we said, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.840 they are not treating their employees properly. When we went 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.880 to waffle House to get a statement from them and 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.200 to get them to say that what took place in 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.400 that restaurant was wrong, because first of all, they do 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.400 not charge We know now the policy that they do 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.760 not charge for plastic utensils, So that's number one. Number two, 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:59.200 they knew that what took place in that restaurant their 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.120 employee was the cause of how Shakisha Clements ended up 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.440 being abused by sarah Land police. They knew that they 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:11.040 understood the connection, but they refuse to speak against the police. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.280 They refused to say anything that would make them even 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.120 just have some sympathy and compassion towards this young woman 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.200 for what she went through. I'm not even talking about 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.360 a money grab. I'm talking about just people saying you 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.440 could at least say we're sorry that this happened. They 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:32.320 were stone cold. No, I'm not talking about oh they 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.480 could say, oh, she just wanted some money from us, 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.120 or people out here because you know how we do. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:40.880 Even though she would have been justly due, the type 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.520 of settlement from waffle House that could have that would 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.480 have uh would have provided for her family for a 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.520 long time. Why because her children which she now has 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:54.320 three children, and her daughter was in the mix of 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.200 this and saw this experience of her mother's body exposed 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.560 and she's down on the floor with full white police 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.160 officers on top of her body and smashing her head 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:10.720 down to the ground of a waffle house restaurant, a nasty, filthy, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:15.160 dirty waffle house restaurant. She was humiliated and everything else 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.600 you could think of. And her oldest daughter knows it 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.520 because she lived through it, and now her other two 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.960 children would have to experience it. So y'all will say 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.520 money grab, I'm saying she was due. And I think 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.760 whatever the settlement ended up being, it was so small 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.480 that Ben Crump, her attorney at the time, was just like, 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.480 take your resources and go. You know, they did all 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.840 they could. They fought for years and years and years 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:42.040 and years. The local attorneys, the national attorneys, the organizations 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:46.240 that was out there, and Takisha Clements was never ever, ever, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.440 ever truly made good. There was no justice for her. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:50.800 So what I just. 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.480 Asked myself is, as a thought of the day, why 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.280 in the world would people not say, Okay, we already 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.000 know from going in waffle that this place is basically 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.400 a shithole country. Like, if you want to name something shithold, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.000 it would be the waffle House. 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:09.440 Right. 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:14.200 They mistreat their employees. They you know, they don't in 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.800 any way act like they're trying to provide a safe 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:22.360 environment for employees and or the customers that are coming there. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.400 The food is no good, it is unhealthy, it's greasy, 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.200 it is dirty, everything else you could think of, and 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.520 they have the audacity to abuse this young woman who 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.240 was doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand with us why 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.640 waffle house just becomes bammed off the list. That's a 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.320 place we're not going. It's not like the all the 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.440 employees that are working there, they're making so much money 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.360 that it's going to interrupt their lives. That's actually not 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.720 the case. And now you see the employees are striking 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:55.200 because they are saying, we don't feel safe, We're not 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.280 in an environment that is healthy for us. So I 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.520 just don't understand why we didn't end waffle house some 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.079 time ago. So that because it just felt like Shaqisha 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.320 Clements wasn't a good enough victim for us to say 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.920 this is the end of my support for waffle house. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.720 Well, that's pretty much what it is. People don't identify 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.280 with certain individuals, right. It's certain they see they well, 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.920 that's not my experience, like you said, and and they 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.840 do that to our own detriment, right when we when 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.360 we don't look at it's like they says, a wise 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.160 man learns from somebody else's mistakes. A smart man learns 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.160 from his own. So we don't deal with wisdom. We 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.880 want to go through it ourselves, or we want to 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.720 see what our experience is. And by the time is 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.120 your experience, it might be way worse. You know, you 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.800 might lose your life inside of a waffle house, you know, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.880 because you know, we didn't look at the signs, we 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.160 didn't take the advice, We didn't look and say, damn, 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.840 that was just wrong. So in order for us to 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.760 make things right, we have to sacrifice. And a lot 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.040 of people don't want to sacrifice. I've heard people say, well, 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.280 not my wiffle house. My wiffle house is different. I 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.000 go to my wiffele any time in the morning. It's convenient. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.480 It's killing you. It's all the things like we have 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:10.040 embraced our own detriment, our own demands. We embrace everything 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.720 we want to eat the food that's killing us. We're 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.680 gonna make sure we go to McDonald's. We're gonna make 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.320 sure we go to every fast food restaurant we can, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.720 and we're gonna keep eating the same food. We're gonna 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.000 eat from the places that don't respect us. We're gonna 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.080 do the ship to violate us. It's like it's some 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.840 people that's still going to Target. Shout out to Jamaal Bryant. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.760 I just watched the video where they were praying outside 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.640 of the Target continuing the boycott. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:31.680 You know, we're. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.840 Still on Target with the boycott. And that's what it's 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.400 going to take in this moment. It's gonna take us 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.600 to be on the same page, to look at situations 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:45.240 and say, you know, it's not nothing. It's worth the disrespect. Right, 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.160 it's nothing that I don't need to spend my money 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.000 with people who don't respect me. I do not need 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.560 to go to stores where people don't don't see the 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.520 the value of black people inside their stores. Right, So 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.920 and we have to get to that stage, you know, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.440 so when you talk about what's going on in the 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.960 waffle house, yeah, we've been telling people, but all the time, 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.200 you know, people have to see on their own. And 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:12.560 hopefully this situation alone, coupled with what happened to Shakeisha Klemens, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.200 it actually brings people to awareness about you know what, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.200 First of all, Waiffle House ain't even good for us now, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.280 they ain't good to us, right, So when we know 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.000 they're not good for us and good to us, then 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.400 we don't need them at all. So hopefully, you know this, 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:28.120 this garners the level of attention, and it gets attraction 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.600 to people start saying I don't need waffle House. And 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.040 then what it would do is not only make waffle 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.480 House step up us where they treat us, right, then 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.720 maybe they start serving us some food that's actually healthy. Right, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.480 we should really, like, we should be boycotting all of 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.520 these restaurants because this shit is literally killing us. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.440 You know, I'm not gonna sit here and say all 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.640 of them because I know that after a night where 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.520 I may come from hanging out or whatever, a good 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.440 greasy cheese burger might be just what I need to 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:05.600 get me through the night, not killing you them up 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.720 one hundred percent, right, And so because I want to 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:14.640 not be hypocritical number one and two also to make 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.879 sure that I'm acknowledging the needs of the people. So 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:23.600 that's why when folks say boycott walmart't target Amazon, did 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.520 that and all those things, I know that that's not 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.800 realistic because folks are going to be left feeling like 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.879 they have no options for where they can go. So 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:35.080 this is why we try to zero in on a 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.679 particular thing. You know, the Montgomery bus boycott was the 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.920 bus boycott. They focused on one thing and they shut 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.359 the system down, and then those people had to come back, 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:50.000 the leadership of the bus system had to come back 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:54.080 and say, okay, let's renegotiate the terms. And it is 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:59.199 the same in this particular moment where target these people. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.679 Now when you talk about Pastor Jamal Bryant and Pastor 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.120 Carrie Brian and they were outside of a target in Georgia, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.440 but there were people in fifty locations around the country 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:16.639 outside of targets, praying down saying that I love that. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.560 Carrie Bryant, her particular prayer was that we want to 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.720 cast out racism and oppression and division and all those 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:29.240 things that are keeping our country separated and divided, but 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.760 also things that are suppressing us and suppressing our rights. 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.720 And I'm just saying that Shakeisha Clemens, for me, became 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:41.680 our little sister because we saw ourselves in her immediately 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.200 when I saw her down in that ground. And I know, 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:51.520 I know how much for me, not just being a germaphobe, 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.560 but just the lack of respect in general, the way 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.879 these men seem like they were just getting off on 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.800 having this black woman slammed down to the ground over 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.479 some plastic utensils and some words that went back and forth. 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.200 The police were not able to come into. That's because 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.199 they don't have respect for people that are inside the 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.640 waffle house. They don't give a damn. They already don't 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.520 care nothing about us when we on the street. We 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.159 could be in a rich Carlton and if they want to, 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.120 they'll come in with some of that behavior. But there 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.480 is a company standard where the rich Carlton might have 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.000 the type of posture that if something happens with an employee, 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.879 with an employee and a resident, you know, a hotel guest, 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.120 you know, when you approach, let's try to de escalate 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.399 because they don't want the environment to turn chaotic, for 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.080 people to feel unsafe and to feel like when you're 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.439 if a police officer has to come in here, this 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:51.760 is the way. How far it escalates versus being de escalated. 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.200 That's a company policy that the company policy of waffle 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.240 House is all all bets are off, just come in, 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.000 throw people down, do whatever you want. Because some white 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.120 woman called from behind the desk to say I don't 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.160 even know what she said, which was probably a lie 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.680 because we've watched all the video tapes, that is outrageous 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.959 to me. The company was responsible, but we as black people, 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.320 should have said you won't catch meat and another waffle house. 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.080 And the sad part about it is that celebrities who 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:24.440 knew about the situation continue to go into waffle House 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.080 and was posting about it as if it was cool. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.360 We have a problem saying we're going to stand together 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:36.400 on something where we see that there's clearly clearly been 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:40.159 an abusive power mistreatment of our people and we're going 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.159 to actually do something about this. That is something that 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.280 we have to work on because we cannot call on 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:51.320 or demand respect from anybody if we do not ensure 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.000 that we respect ourselves enough to see someone like Shakisha 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.280 Clements as being our own, our own dear sistant. So 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:02.960 I just pray that people now, maybe now, Shakisha Clemens 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:07.320 was not the ideal victim for some of y'all. She 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:09.600 was for us, but for some of y'all, y'all didn't 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:15.040 see her as being an ideal abused individual within the 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:19.679 waffle House space. Well, maybe now that the employees around 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.120 the country and particularly in Georgia are saying that they 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.360 are also unsafe, and now they are uniting with a union, 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:32.440 the Union for Southern Service Workers, perhaps at this point 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:36.199 you will see these workers as being important enough for 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.280 you to say, I'm staying away from waffle House and 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.320 I will not cross the picket line and go into 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.160 a business that I know, for too many years has 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.639 not respected our people and they also don't respect our health. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.120 Well, that's the hope we have. Hopefully, you know, this 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:56.439 is this is the proper you know time, and like 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.439 I said, couple what happened to Shakisha Clemens. If you 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:01.800 look at both these things, hopefully people will wake up 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.560 and realize that, you know, waffle House, ain't it all right? 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.919 So let's go on to the TMI. So Little Mo 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:14.399 released the video where she's talking about how she's paying 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:18.359 for expedited shipping and finding out that, you know a 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.960 lot of companies are not even sending the they don't 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.000 even please They just take the expedite shipping and probably 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.359 still send it regular shipping or they expedited when they 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.680 get around to it. So you ask for exodited shipping today, 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:34.800 thinking that maybe within a day or two your product 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:36.159 is at least going to go out to you and 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.080 you'll receive it in a reasonable time. But most of 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.320 a lot of times, a lot of times these companies 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.960 will say, well, you know, it'll take them five, six, 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:50.000 seven days to get to the point that they expedite shipping. 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.800 And she was saying that it's a problem because you know, 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:58.440 she's noticing that this is happening with many different companies, 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.240 and I was just thinking, for the team my some 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:06.280 people might say, well, hey, you know they're getting to 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:08.480 it when they can get to it, give them a break, 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:13.640 right like that, We the people who expect good customer service, 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:17.440