WEBVTT - Fighting For Our Civil Rights with Attorney Benjamin Crump 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.320 What's good. Family, it's your girl to make a d 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:11.200 Mallory and it's your boy my son in general, and 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:20.880 we are your host of street politicians the place with streets. Listen, Listen, listen, listen, Leanda, 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:25.439 I cannot go back outside for at least the next 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:31.280 two years. After all the partying and being out and 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:36.120 talking and strategizing in the corner with people at major 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:41.560 parties of v ET weekend. It was Black Folks Black 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:46.200 Excellence the week of June tenth at the highest level, 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:57.480 successful black folks, activists, organ Nazis, leaders, elected officials, businesspeople, entertainers, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.840 regular folks, everybody to get up in so many spaces. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.880 It was really really the best b et weekend I've 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.800 ever been to. Yeah man, And it started out the 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.400 reason why we actually even were here because our sister 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.039 Miss Diddy honored Until Freedom and her Toast to Black 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.280 Hollywood event which was which kicked it off. Dope. You know, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.520 the ambiance, it was a vibe like it was. It 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.840 was a dope vibe shoutout to Ditty Man and the 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.440 work that she always does. But um, we want to 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.520 just say thank you for honoring us and recognizing the 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.840 work that Until freedom does. And we just want to 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.679 say the work that you do. You know, the way 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.320 that she brand coordinates and connects and is able to 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:48.640 navigate and strategize and put together different brands and different 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.120 people in rooms, it's just amazing, you know. And she 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.800 just has a skill set that is needed and and 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:59.200 and it represents black excellence and it it elevates Black culture. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:04.480 So about yeah, you know, she she is a marketing 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:10.040 and branding expert. Um. The way her brain connects with 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:15.200 brands and people is so powerful. Not everybody can do it. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.080 It's a whole lot of people out here that claim 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.480 to be in branding. They want to put them in 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.600 your budget for in there in your in your budget 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:29.519 for marketing and promotions. And they don't be doing nothing. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:34.040 I know because doing anything. I know because I've hired 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.640 some of them. But I know for sure that every 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:43.480 time Miss Ditty touches a brand, their value increases and 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:49.040 their ability to reach the targeted market it increases. And 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.040 I see also her own growth. And we should actually 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.640 have Miss Diddy to come on and and she some 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.440 of the things that she's doing. So we have to 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.679 put a you know, a pin there. But that's our 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.600 friend and our sister. You know she was she was 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.240 honoring us, but because of the prices of the flights 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.400 and so many challenges, she was totally like, you guys 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.320 don't have to come, And I'm so glad we were 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.240 able to make it happen to be here. You and 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.400 Angelo Attorney, Angelo Pinto and I attended her event, and 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:24.720 there was so many other important passionate black folks um 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.720 acknowledged there as well. Uh Trade of Truth, our brother 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.280 he was one of the honorees. Velicia Butterfield Jones, and 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.600 the list goes on. I'm not gonna get myself in trouble, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.160 but that's just two of the people. Cynthia Bailey, who 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.720 I just I just love and admire so much. So 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.400 it's a really powerful kickoff. And then as you said, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.400 I mean, there's just so much we did after that, 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.360 Rock Nation had an event. We went to Club Quarantine 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.240 with d Nice and and H Kenny Burns. That was 0:03:54.280 --> 0:04:01.240 one of the brothers. Don't listen Club Quarantine like it 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.560 started online, right, but when you were in that room 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.840 in Club Quarantine, and it's the same vibe, like it 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.000 brought me back to being in the pandemic in my 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.479 living room stressed and this saying, look, I gotta go 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.840 to D Nice page and then lasting the music and 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.960 you're getting that vibe and you get your little wine 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.920 and champagne. It was that vibe in the room. And 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.200 what what D Nice has been able to do with 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:33.560 Club Quarantine. It's nothing short of amazing, just watching his brand, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.880 like his brand explode and and it and it was due, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.159 you know, because D Nice has always been one of 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.320 the best DJs in the world. And I know D 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.800 Knights as the rapper you know, from b DP. You 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.440 know what I'm saying. So I always my name is 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.960 D Knight, So I always and from the Bronx you 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.400 understand I'm saying. So I always had this love for 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:58.000 D Knights. But watching him elevate from positivity right doing 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.480 something to unite the world and and give people level 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.600 a level of joy at one of the most hardest 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:11.160 times in history, you know, was most hardest, one of 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:16.560 the most hardest, the hardest or the most one of 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.200 the hardest times in history, Yes, sir, one of the 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.320 hardest times in history. You know, it was nothing short 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.359 of amazing. And watching him evolved into the premant the 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.440 world's DJ is just a good title for him, the 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.839 World's DJ, because he surely is. He He is my family, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.520 like we are actually family. We're not blood related, but 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.839 we might as well be, you know. And I have 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.440 a lot of respect for him, like you you guys 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.880 know him on you know, from the from the community, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.680 from him being, like you said, a rapper, being in 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.520 the music game long time ago. But I know him 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.040 from watching him with his daughters, watching him with his family, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.920 watching him with his mother and his auntie, UM and 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.800 d is. He's a special guy. And that's why this 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.480 has happened. And it's not, you know, just by chance. 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.560 It's because he really did sit and think intentionally about 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.840 like how can he give something to the world that 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:22.360 was also pouring into him. Uh during the pandemic and 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.320 Club quarantine was definitely one of the highlights of my 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:32.880 whole weekend. So that brother Kenny, Kenny Burns, Kenny Burns 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.320 is my dude. I love Kenny Burns, man, I really do. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:41.240 Kenny Burns is a super authentic dude. Every time used 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.800 to see him, you get the same person. You know, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.560 He's not the the corny dude that act like he's 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.360 too fly to speak like you know all of that 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.400 because some of these people I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I'm 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.160 not gonna tell you what I wouldn't do, but I 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:01.560 wouldn't do it if they was on fire. But but Kenny, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.120 since I've known him, always nothing but love, so as 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:11.040 he can love around the entire weekend um, and that 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.360 for me, it was like it was super powerful. And 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:14.960 first of all, let's give the shout out to all 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.280 the black folks up in b Et, from Scott Mills, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:23.200 the President and CEO, to Connie Orlando, to Janine Library, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.920 to Louis Carr. I mean again, another place where I 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.160 could get in trouble, but all of these black folks 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.120 that are around trying to create an experience where other 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.560 black people can meet up and be together. And I 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.000 really do mean that in every single thing we went 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.400 to Hennessey event we went to which was at the 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.960 Gathering Spot, So shout out to our brothers that run 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.520 the gathering spot. Um, Ryan, I forget Ryan's last name sometime, 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:56.960 but our brother Ryan. Um. Then we went to what 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:58.640 else did we go to? My song? I mean so 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.800 much stuff, so many different things that happened in every 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:07.080 single room. I was over. I saw you talking to people. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.920 I was in the corner speaking to mega celebrities and 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:16.480 door influences in their own right, just about like what's 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.000 the steps that we take? Because of course the Roe 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.680 v Way decision came down right as v Et weekend began, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.680 and so you had people, which which that happens all 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.760 the time anyway, because there's always some ship going on 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.320 with us. But there were folks who are like, listen, 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.720 I'm really concerned about the violence in our communities. What 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.640 can we do on that front? They were like, you know, 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.160 and now women's rights, we see they're gonna come for more. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.920 What can we do? So, you know, a lot of powerful, powerful, 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.320 powerful conversations. And then you know, of course did he 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:53.679 being uh I call him puff, but him being honored 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.040 and his speech and you know, of course talking about 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.440 his mom and all of that was great. But the 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.000 part that was very very touching for me is when, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.000 as somebody on Twitter said, he became Diddy Luther King 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.920 last last night, Um, which is so funny, but you 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.120 know they do that to us, but you gotta laugh 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.600 at yourself. So anyway, um, he was talking about this 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.520 dream that black people will be together and it was 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.839 that type of spirit all around b et weekend, people 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.959 trying to figure out what can they do? So we 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:29.800 just gotta keep it up, like, don't stop. Yeah. I 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.920 think I think we had a very pivotal point in history, 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.320 and it's going to be recorded, you know, where we stood, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.240 what we did, what we didn't do, you know. And 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.679 I think Puff being in this industry so long, right, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.920 being having a level of successful long being in different 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:51.200 rooms and noticing, you know, the trends, noticing that most 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.880 people that look like him are not in a lot 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.679 of those faces don't have the same resources, don't have 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.640 the same opportunities, you know, and him having personal investment 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.480 in wanting to see that change where I've been hearing 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.440 them for a while now. That's one of the main things. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:12.760 He wants equity, he wants black you know, into generational wealth. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.560 He when he wants us to create something that is sustainable, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:21.000 something that that we own, you know, he wants black excellence. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.480 And I think we're at a time where it's actually possible, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.960 you know. I think that merge is about to happen 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.440 between the activists, the artists, all of the people who 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.480 have the ability to make change. And I think it 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.439 is when we at our lowest point where we look 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:41.960 at the violence in America, Black violence, and how you 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.600 know it's affecting our communities. I think people are realizing 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.800 that we need unity more than anything right now. So 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.560 you know, I'm I'm eager to start the process of 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:57.200 the change and the evolution of our culture and the 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:03.080 unity of our culture. So hopefully it starts to resonate. Yeah, 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.040 and there's so much happening in the news, it certainly 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.199 should push us to, you know, want to get more 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.240 involved and really understand how serious all of this stuff is. 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.720 I mean, even just thinking about the Roe v. Wade 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.080 decision that came down from the Supreme Court. You've got 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.480 a lot of people that's upset. And I saw a 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:26.280 bunch of white women marching out in the streets in California, UM, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.079 and you know, people really out there, and and and 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.520 not enough of our people, I don't think are I 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.360 think we're paying attention. We certainly know what's happening, but 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.840 I'm not sure that we understand that we need to 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:45.199 be out physically fighting back against this. It's not gonna 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:49.360 happen on internet. It's not. And it's actually time for 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.400 us to do something that is really really strong and 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.839 extreme because what's happening to us is extreme. We are 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.480 at war. There is an actual war and people are 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.200 playing their role in it. And I don't think we've 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.360 put our gear on to say, Okay, we're we're in 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.359 a you know this, we gotta go to battle like seriously. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.920 So hopefully we can. But but it always is better 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:19.479 when you think about James Brown and um, Reverend Jackson 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:25.120 and others who were sort of moving at the same time, right, 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:30.120 you got you have Dr King and Mahilia Jackson and others, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:36.199 So that means you have entertainment, Harry Belafonte being um, 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.040 you know, an entertainer. But also if you if we're 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.440 using the term influencer, he certainly was an influencer you know, 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:48.040 in his time, and all of them merging to move culture. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.080 And that's what I hear you talking about. So you know, 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:56.080 Roe v. Wade is is super serious, um, because not 0:12:56.160 --> 0:13:00.600 because people are for abortion or against it, but what 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.240 we are for as a woman's right to choose that 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.040 it's my body and I should be able to make 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.000 a decision with my doctor. That has nothing to do 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.200 with an elected official who is able to determine my 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.120 medical care. So, uh so this is a real serious thing. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.640 But what is even more important is that it has 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.480 set the tone for what is to come. And by 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.400 the time the Supreme Court, because you know they meet, 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.520 you don't know what the hell is going on. It's 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.920 not like watching hearings, um you know on TV. You 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.760 sometimes you can watch Senate hearings. You know what's on 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.400 the floor. You understand politically what's out there. And we 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.319 always knew Roe v. Wade what's going to come up 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.440 as a major issue. And we know just several weeks 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.600 ago it was leaked by an an employee or somebody 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.840 within the the the Supreme Court that got the documents 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.800 and put it out there. So that's how we knew 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.720 what they were even thinking. But you don't know. So 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:04.000 when the Supreme Court reconvenes and they're meeting again and 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.440 getting ready to put forth more decisions, it could be 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.320 all kinds of things that you know happen and rites 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.640 that we lose. So that's why we have to really 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.440 seriously get um m hmm in front of it, and 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.400 also why we cannot sit by and allow Joe Biden 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.560 President Biden to make us feel like voting is the 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:29.440 only thing. You know that he has to do some stuff. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.120 He has to do some stuff. You have to also 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.880 put yourself out there and start a fight, a real fight. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.440 You know, I want her listen. He needs to start 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.120 a fight. So you have that going on, and then 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.440 this Brittney Grinder situation is super serious. Now they're saying 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.080 that her court date will be July first, or her 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:54.040 trial begins July first. I spoke with her wife, who 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.640 basically gave me an understanding of what's happening. First of all, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.960 it's not even like her trial is happening consecutive days. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.480 Like you know, when you go to trial, you're in 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.680 there every day. Of course, there's moments when they made 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.440 um recess or a journ or whatever for a day 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.720 or two, but for the most part, every day you 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.560 go to trial until it's over every weekday. Her trial 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.640 is set up where it's like July one, and then 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.800 maybe and don't quote me on these dates, but then 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:26.160 maybe like July seven, and then July uh eleven, and 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.120 then July twenty something like it's all over the place. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.320 And the other thing she said was that um in 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.880 in in Russia, their courts have like a nineties seven 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:42.120 percent conviction rate. A ninety seven percent conviction rate. That 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.880 means it's a kangaroo court. You go to court, basically 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.920 everybody is together. They've already made a decision that you're 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:54.440 guilty of whatever they say. They're talking about large what 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.760 are they The charge I saw today was like large 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:02.720 transport of rugs like what they said that she had 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.560 no cousin, and that was kind of weird for me. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.960 So but they may they may say, first of all, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.920 her family, they at this point they have not even 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.720 seen or understand anything about what she may or may 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.400 not have had, Okay, so that in and of itself 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.400 is questionable. And her lawyers saying the bottom line is 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.640 that she is innocent, period. And and our position is 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.680 even if she had what they say some vapor or 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:35.800 whatever thing de vape and whatever, still our country should 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.360 be fighting to get her out. You don't leave an 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.280 American citizen, especially a woman. This woman is not. She 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.880 wasn't over there causing nahim or doing anything illegal to 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.640 where people's lives were in danger, or participating in some 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.920 type of you know, uh, something against the government or 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.280 or something or anything like that to where she was 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.240 a danger against to society in Russia that we should 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:08.400 allow her to be in that in prison there at 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.080 a time of war when we're also engaged in trying 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.320 to stop Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I mean, this is 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.760 we don't have to even get into all the details, 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.919 because if a person doesn't understand it, to hell with you. 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.280 If you don't understand why we care about Brittany Grinder 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.960 being locked up in in in in in in Russia 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.520 and the kangaroo court situation where you don't even there's 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.440 no way that we see that she will actually get 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.480 a fair trial, then that's on you. But we're gonna 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.080 fight for and in fact, today there will be a 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.399 prayer visual excuse me, and today there will be a 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:51.000 prayer vigil for her where you know, we're asking people 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.840 to show up outside of the Russian embassy in New York, 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.159 um and and let's pray for her, Let's pray for 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.439 the Russians and their hearts all also to open up 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.119 so that our sister can get out. So that's the 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:08.280 deal with that. It's a real crazy situation and my 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.600 prayers are definitely were her, you know, just just trying 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.879 to even imagine being formally incarcerated, you know, and and 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:20.880 being inconcerated here. It was tough, and just noting knowing that, 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.280 you know, the trajectory of her life, she did not 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.600 see anywhere that this would be happening to hers, So 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.639 there has to be a level of trauma that she's experienced. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.280 So I'm definitely praying for her, her family, you know, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.840 and hopefully the US gets on his job, yeah, and 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.679 get and get something done. Man. So they say that 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.000 they're working behind the scenes, and you know, you want 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.639 to believe it, but you also you know, it's just 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.159 I don't know. That brings me to my thought of 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:57.480 the day, going back to this Roby Wade stuff, right, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.720 because you do not be thinking but and going back 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.600 to the rov Wade issue, and then also even thinking 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:09.640 about Brittany Grinder, right and knowing that there are so 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.920 many people who could be involved, particularly white folks with 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.760 power and influence that could be standing up for her. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.080 But they're like, oh, well, they said she had drugs, 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.600 Like we just we we just said that that Putin 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.680 was crazy, he's a liar, he's dangerous, But now we 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:32.160 believe that quick that a black woman did whatever they say, right, 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:36.040 So the same people who we just said they're crazy, 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:40.320 they you know, they're they're they're, they're there whatever. I 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.040 don't I mean, I can't even think of the words 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.800 that people used to describe putin. But it's some serious ship, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.840 a maniac, a madman, they say all of that. They say, 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:53.840 it's it's it's corrupt. But then oh for the black 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.760 woman or she did what? They said that anyway, And 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.080 I see a lot of white folks, Um, you know, 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.520 I'm just happen to be in white Twitter, and I 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.520 saw that they were like, well, you know, it's a 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.760 little little different because she was carrying drugs. How do 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.199 you know? Did you see it? Like? What are you 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:15.240 talking about? Right? So I was thinking that we really 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:19.640 don't necessarily need a bunch of white folks marching up 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:23.880 and down the streets. We really don't. We really need 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:27.160 white women to go march in their communities. We need 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:31.040 them to go to their communities today, family barbecues. We 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.520 need them to go march over the mama's house and 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.960 put up put a tent outside of the lawn of 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:40.199 your mama's house and sit there, sit there, go to 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:47.760 the country club, protests there go to these establishments where 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.720 some of your your your family, because you know, for 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.560 black folks, whether we related or not, when we see 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:58.280 other black people, we like they it's family, right, it's 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.800 it's it's all of us. When we see black people 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:05.639 out here in the world hurting or doing crazy things, 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:10.320 we feel responsible enough to call them in and say, hey, man, 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.480 this is not good for our people. Or we celebrate 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:17.280 when as a people we're winning, right, and when some 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:21.600 of our ore are you know, best and brightest, are 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:27.200 making strides. So take responsibility in the same way white folks. 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:32.359 The margin is cool, we get it, that's that's you 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.320 know great. But what is more, what I think would 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:39.200 be more powerful in this moment is to start organizing 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:45.480 within your own families, sometimes in your house because you 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.040 and your husband are not even on the same page. 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:53.800 You need to go deal with aunties that are in 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:57.320 your family that you know, help vote for Trump so 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.840 that he could put three just the sys on the 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.080 court in the court and then take away your right 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:08.520 to choose. These are decisions that have been made by 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:12.960 fifty three percent of white women who went to the polls. 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.040 Fifty three percent of white women who went to the 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.479 polls voted for Donald Trump. And now we're in the 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:22.600 street and we're protesting, and we're screaming and shouting and 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:24.720 this and that, and all of that's cool, but it 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:28.480 doesn't mean as much as it would if you could 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:32.280 turn around the minds and hearts of people who look 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.479 like you. More white people are going to have to 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.639 understand that this is your fight because you need to 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:45.000 correct your people. You need to correct your people, right 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:48.399 The white folks need to not be invited to the 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:52.240 cookout the same way that Clarence Thomas is not invited 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:55.320 to the cookout. He is not invited to the cookout. 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.000 And that's what white people need to be doing right now. 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:01.200 I think white people need to be getting Hella uncomfortable 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:06.280 in their own communities, with their own people. You know, 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:08.439 it makes it makes a lot of sense, man. And 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:13.040 speaking to Clarence Thomas, you know, just his his you know, 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:16.600 take on the things that they need to do. He 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:21.359 wants to do pretty much an overhaul of presidents, presidents 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:25.879 cases in a lot of different places. That would change 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:30.400 the complete dynamics of this culture right now. Like it's 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:34.320 really dangerous. It's not the culture, it's the country. I mean, 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:37.359 the country, and the and and the culture everything. It 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:39.680 would just change the way that we live. And to 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:43.760 see that these people have this mindset, to me, it's 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:47.560 so dangerous, Like why would you want to impose your 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:52.120 personal feelings on somebody's life? Like why why do you 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.359 think that's okay? Why why do you think that because 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:58.080 you think that somebody's life or the or the choice 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:02.640 they make isn't okay for you, that you want to 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:05.240 impose that they live the way that you want them 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.240 to live like that, that mindsety to me is one 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:10.960 of the weirdest things I've ever experienced in my life, 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:14.480 you know, And watching this this role v way thing 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:18.280 is like a wake up call. It has to be 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:21.440 a wake up call when you see that a fifty 0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:26.600 year you know case that said presidents that moved women forward, 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:30.399 they gave them the human rights that they deserved. Anyway, 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:32.760 you know, nobody should be able to tell anybody what 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:36.760 to do with their body, their mental, physical, emotional health. 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:40.440 You know, carrying a child in itself does a lot, 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:44.040 you know, to a woman, and if you're not prepared 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:47.560 or want to do it is even more damaging to 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:51.159 your to your psyche, to your physical to everything, you know, 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:56.160 So for someone to make a ruling about that, you know, 0:24:56.440 --> 0:24:59.879 and and and men making white men making rule a 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:02.639