WEBVTT - Election Season Pt 1 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.520 What's up, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Gangster 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:07.760 Chronicles today. I got two special people here. I got 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:11.520 people here. I have a young lady here. I think 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:16.200 she's gonna make a difference in our city. UM, I'm 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.799 gonna let her explain herself. Introduce yourself to everybody out there. Hello, 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.439 thank you for having me. First of all, my name 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.520 is Priscilla Lenadis. I am from Fontana, California, and I'm 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.040 running for city council for District to UM, it's a 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.680 municipal level election. It's a local election, so it doesn't 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.120 get that much coverage. But UM, that's why we're out 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:37.959 here today to see what we're gonna try to get 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:43.800 you all the coverage you need. I'mna choose to rialto's finest. Um. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.960 We're here showing our support, just trying to form the people, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.559 educate the people that voting does matter, especially when we're 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.120 talking about local and municipal elections that directly affects your 0:00:55.160 --> 0:01:00.560 city and your schools. Okay, that's cool, So tell me, uh, 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.400 how did you tell me? So? The way we met 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.240 was really interesting. UM. So, as you know, I'm really 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.480 involved in the protesting and the activism for the black community, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.319 especially in light of the George Floyd protesting. So there's 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.920 an interesting group out of Fontana, California, Liberate the i E. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.800 And they were doing a protest. So, UM, I was 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.360 invited to come down do a few different things, and UM, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.080 one of the things that they told me to speak. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:26.720 So I did a few different things. So one of 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.240 the things we did would start up and making sure 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.440 all the people introduced themselves, and UM, that's when I 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.600 met for Scilla. She said a little bit about you know, 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.720 what she likes to do, why she's involved, why she 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.280 thinks she needs to be out here protesting, different things 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.560 like that. And so after the protest, it was just 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.400 really coincidental that we like basically parked right next to 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.600 each other, like everybody else parked somewhere else, and we 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.760 were the only two who parked over here. So I 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.280 basically walked her to her car. We were talking about 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.040 different stuff. We had each other's Instagram. So a few 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.200 days went by, a few weeks went by, you know, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.400 and I just checked in on and I was like, Hey, 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.160 you know, what's up. Are you gonna go to this protest? 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.280 What are you doing? She's like yeah, I'm down. You know, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:08.679 She's like, I really want to talk to you about 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.040 running for city council. This is all the information that 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.040 I found out. I found out, this is all you 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.080 need to do. So actually, if you could help me 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.519 with what I got going on, that would be dope. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.960 And then that and then the rest is like history. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:24.920 So so for sure, what you think or how do 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:30.839 you feel you can have San Bernardino your community. I 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:37.680 feel that it takes a person that knows what it's 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.160 like to live on these streets to run for the 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.040 positions of these elected officials, because, um, who knows you 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.560 better than your neighbor, right, Like who knows you better 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.920 than like, you know, the person that you meet up 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.800 with at the park, like your friends. Somebody that actually 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.560 knows what it's like to grow up in San Berdarnto County, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.919 you know, transition from child to teenager to adult there, 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.120 you know, And I get that a lot, like you 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.320 don't have experience, you're too young. But I'm a product 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.200 of Summerdino County. Right, So what made you think about running? 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.240 I mean, what made you feel like you wanted to 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.920 get into this. Well, it all started, Honestly, I have 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.000 to pay my respects um to the BLM and the 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:25.280 George Floyd incident, which was very very tragic. Um. Sorry, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:31.640 it's really hot in here. I don't know. Um. So yeah, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.160 the it all started with the George Floyd incident, which 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.720 was a very very tragic murder. And UM, I saw 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.680 it on Twitter because I'm I'm on Twitter a lot, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.480 and I just it didn't sit right with me. It 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.960 didn't feel right that nobody in my city was doing 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.360 anything about it, because I live in Fontana, California. So 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.920 I felt like we should speak up no matter where 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.120 we are. We shouldn't um wait till l A does it, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.840 or wait till San Francisco does it. These bigger cities, 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.720 we should always speak up for what we don't believe 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.400 is right. And I don't believe what happened to George 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.360 Floyd Rest in peace was right in any aspect. I 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.920 don't think anybody should be murdered, um with the knee 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.200 to the neck. I don't think anybody should ever have 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.400 to get to that circumstance with the police enforcement, right, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.760 So you just feel like I need to make a difference. Yeah, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.200 I just I couldn't sleep one day and I was 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:26.640 just like, you know what, I have to say something, 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.480 I have to do something. And I just went to Michael's. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.520 I got posters and I was like, Okay, let's do 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.919 a Black Lives Matter movement here in Fontana. Let's just 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.560 get up. Let's just go six pm Fontana City Hall 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.720 and meet me there. If you're about the movement, if 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.120 you're about this, if you're mad about this, if you're outraged, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:46.920 let's go. Let's do it today. Yeah. So, um so 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.760 my organization, I got a few organizations work. I'm working 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.039 with so BLM Inland Empire b l M, i E. 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.440 We were working with them in the very beginning of this, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.000 you know, even before George Floyd with you know, Timmy 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.279 or Rice, a little boy that was gunned down. You know, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.560 so there's there's so many different names, even with a 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.680 Philando Castillo, the guy who was uh he had a 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.479 CCW the cops that let me see your you know, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.840 let me see it, and he shot the guy. So 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.760 we've been working on this for a long time with 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.760 Black Lives Matter in an empire. But what I think 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.920 a lot of people don't understand is that Black Lives 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.840 Matter as an organization and as a movement are two 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:29.040 totally different things. Okay, So now you have the organization 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.039 that was founded by a few people. We're not gonna 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.280 get into the two specifics of those people, but there 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.360 were two women, one black, one white, or one Okay, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:42.400 so that's where the actual organization was founded. But the 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.600 actual movement of black lives matter, the movement of the 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.039 people taking to the streets, the movement of people who 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.920 are saying, you know what, because my life does matter, 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.279 I'm willing to do what I need to do. I e. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.640 Run for city council. I have another guy we're working with, 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.359 Mr Eugene Wiens. We have other groups that we're working with, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.400 and people are trying to do what they need to 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.919 do in order to prove and show that our lives 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.440 do matter. One of the main things that Priscilla said 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.760 to me that got to me was the youth, her advocation, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.480 her advocacy for the youth, that she wants to do 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.680 something in her city, specifically for the youth. And in 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.640 light of Corona, all the different things we got, most 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.600 people don't even talk about the kids. The kids aren't 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.479 going to school. It's almost like we forgot about those people. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.640 Right now, you know. So one of the things that 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.560 she said was, you know, we need to make sure 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.360 the kids have something besides to aspire to grow up 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.880 to work at Walmart forever. I mean, there's nothing wrong 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.080 with starting there, but if that's the only thing that 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.479 you can inspire to do is work at Walmart, work 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.640 at McDonald's, well we need better options for the youth 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.160 so we don't have a lot of the economic issues 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:53.919 that we're having right now. That's that's I really don't know. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:55.800 I really don't know what to say because I really 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.720 don't try to get into it like understandable, because I 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.200 actually believe that you can. You could cry your heart 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:06.479 out to certain people, people in power, and your voice 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:11.560 is unheard. And when people like yourself, running for a 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.400 position is a certain way you have to be, is 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.880 a certain look you gotta uphold or they don't look 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.720 at you at all. You know what I'm saying. Do 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:26.160 that bother you that something's in your life you have 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:31.040 to change to run for offers? It does bother me. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:32.880 And I think that's the main reason I want to 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.160 run is because people need to realize that anybody can 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.720 do it. Like I'm not a better person or a 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.960 hero for doing this. I just decided to step up. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.160 And if nobody's stepping up, and the odds are me 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.920 against no one. So if you win, do you do 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.880 you think you can make change? Almost definitely. Um, A 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.440 lot of people don't understand that city council has a 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.360 lot of power, and a lot of people don't understand 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.360 that municipal, local level elections affect us more than these 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.600 big Congress decisions, these big headlines, these big Trump headlines, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.840 all these huge headlines that distract us from the local 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:15.360 is not good because the general local level decisions that 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.960 people are making every day for us, we have no clue. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.920 We have no clue what's going on. You tell the 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.960 like even me, like me as an example, a couple 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.000 of months ago, a year ago, I didn't know what 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.280 the city council did. I don't know who they were, 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.280 what people were running my city, you know, like, what 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.320 were they about, what decisions were they making, how much 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.440 power they have they I feel like we're put in 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.559 this position to not know this information, so we won't 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.280 create change. But as soon as you know how easy 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.440 it is to run and how easy it is to 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.080 be elected, how easy it is to just step up 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.000 and try to do it, then you're not that discouraged. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:57.680 But winning is one thing, losing is another thing. Um, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.400 I think you got to start some weird to get 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.200 where you want to go. If it don't work this time, 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.040 I knew what I can do, what I have to do, 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.559 and I learned from the first time. Do you apply 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.280 yourself to that? Do you think that if I if 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.840 I don't, if I don't win this selection, I'll be 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:19.559 back definitely. And I don't think it's about winning or losing. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.920 I think it's about, um, just creating this. I want 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.520 to say this scandal, you know, like, oh she's running, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.959 Oh you can run for city council. Oh you can 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.400 do this. How old is she? Twenty four? A lot 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.520 of younger people like myself, and even people younger than me, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.960 like Generation Z, they don't know that it's very very 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.560 simple to run. All you have to do is be eighteen, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.040 registered to vote, and be a resident of your city. 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.800 And this is this goes for every city and nobody 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.600 and nobody knows this information. Nobody tells you this information 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.040 because they don't want us to know. So it won't 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.199 be that easy for us to take these people out 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.720 of their position of powers. So you have to have 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.120 some kind of degree though no, not at all. You 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:02.520 don't even have to need You don't need a degree 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.320 to be president. You don't have to go to school, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.120 you don't need anything. You need to be a certain age. 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.360 There's a few criterion that that you have to meet, 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.199 and most people were just not privy to this information. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.679 We just don't know it. So, you know, when they 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.800 say we the people, that's really what they meant by this, 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.640 We the people, meaning that we are the government. Once 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.400 you're a teen, once you can vote, you are the government. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.280 If you choose to be, should you choose to be? 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.880 And a lot of what happened in and the black 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.160 and the Brown community is is we just didn't choose 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.480 to be. You know, as growing up, we all play 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:38.120 cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians. But because police got 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.520 a negative stigmatism, we don't want to be cops. Nobody 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.520 wants to talk to the police. You know, I'd rather 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:49.320 be exactly you know. So, but here's the thing, will 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.760 never stop what's happening in our police departments if, like 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.240 she said, at a local level, we're not telling our 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.800 kids to be the police officers, be the fireman, you know, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.439 we have to be these things on all levels, all 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.920 facets of life. I think more black we need more 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:11.800 black officers because especially that grew up and and say 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.520 Sam Bernard, you know, grew up in l A. Because 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.600 if you know the people you're working with, you're dealing with, 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.959 you're not gonna have that much resentment from the people 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.319 that you pull over. If people know who they're dealing with, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.079 people of their own kind of whatever, however they want 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.120 to choose to word it, it would be a better thing. 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.200 You know, you and I grew up as white boys 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.400 police in Compton, and and these guys are coming in 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.160 to go home, they come to work, and they're gonna 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.240 they do what they do. We were just talking about it, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.520 and it's by enemies necessary, I think, so that puts 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.720 them on edge already. But if we had our own 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.920 people just say, if we we wanted to police our neighborhoods, 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.840 we ain't gonna do it. But you couldn't even if 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:02.280 you try it. Yeah we couldn't know we actually can. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.280 So we have to stop saying what is impossible? I mean, 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.720 I mean we couldn't be I say we could we 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.320 can't only because most of the police officers working in 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.120 our own cities don't live there. So you know, so 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.760 what we can do is so for instance, you look 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.840 at certain cities, certain municipal levels, they've already started to 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:27.319 locally elect to defund the police. Okay, so you have 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.000 some cities. It was good. I do. I do believe 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.600 that's good because let me get a better definition and 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:38.680 better definition defund. So let's break first. Let's break down 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:43.080 just defund. To defund means to take away and reallocate 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:47.760 funds of direct direct So it doesn't mean that you 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.080 will not be funded at all. It just means that 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.760 I'm going to defund you. Means I'm going to take 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.640 away some of your funds. Now how much that's subjective. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.640 We haven't got there yet. Defund does not mean abolish. Basically, 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.560 give regicun reg gun, get out there and go to 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.840 work pretty much sort of speak basically. But but the 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.360 difference in this is so um, we we and we're 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.559 working on a lot of different frameworks and we're working 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.280 with a lot of different people on this. So coming up, 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.760 what I believe is is uh, like we, like you 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.760 just said, growing up in Compton, it was always the 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.320 white boys who came in there, and they already had 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.880 a certain type of mentality. So I believe that in 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.559 part of this defundment of the police, what we really 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.640 need to do is is make the demographic of your city. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.960 Your police department should look something similar to that. So 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.960 if let's say Fontana, it's almost like seventy eight percent Latino, well, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.640 then seventy eight percent of the police department needs to 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.400 be Latino. Okay, So we need to start implementing these 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.520 things in our cities. We can do. It's gonna first 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.520 start out at the municipal level. A lot of people thinking, oh, 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.360 it's gonna start at Trump, it's gonna start at to 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.640 send it at Congress. No it's not. It's gonna start 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.720 in our local communities first. This is where the steam 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.040 is going to be drawn from. And like she said, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.160 even if she doesn't win this alection right now, which 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.520 we're gonna win this election, but she brings awareness, like 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.720 she said, there's so many other young girls, young boys, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.480 young Latina girls that can get in power that could feel, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.280 you know what should I'm eighteen, I could be city council, 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.640 could be this seeing you do it you're taking the 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.440 first step, it's gonna be a whole lot behind you 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.960 that's gonna try. We really believe so exactly. And that's 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.760 what happened with the first protest, that very first protest 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.720 that I organized, and I don't even want to say organized, 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.640 because I'm not part of an organization. I'm not part 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.360 of a group. It's just me and so I just 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.680 that day, I tweeted to everybody, like, let's go out, 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.080 let's make traction. Let's show our city elected officials that 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.400 were not okay with what happened to George Floyd. We're 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.600 not okay with how the black community is treated. We 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.560 have to be allies, brown and black. After Unite and 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.600 we went out there and we created traction, and we 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.760 got the news out there and we got like, like 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.400 the word rolling. So it was a domino effect. And 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.680 I had a lot of messages like, hey, I saw 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.400 what you did in Fontana, I want to do it 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.440 in on terr I saw you did over there, I 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.400 want to do it here in Orange County, And like 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:08.160 it was traction. It was a domino effect. That's good. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.480 So we got some strategies that were implementing some that 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.760 we're not going to talk about because there are strategies, 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.560 you know, but we got a few good strategies that 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.880 we're working with. And one of the things she said, 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.200 you know, like, so I work with organizations. Even though 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.880 I work directly with Priscilla, She's not a part of 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.680 my organization. She is a she's a voice for the people, 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.000 and that's the main thing she wants to emphasize, like 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.320 the manager or something like um so like the mentor Yeah, 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.160 I'm an integral part in her campaign. And what I 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.480 do is so I help a lot of candidates people 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.920 who want to run. So she's one of my main 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.640 ones right now, and and because of her passion. So 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.320 for instance, up once we talked about a few different things, 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.520 and will fast forward to like two weeks of us 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.240 knowing each other. Basically I met up with her and 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.480 her brother. She was like, look, I'm short, like x 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.640 amount of signatures. I gotta go out here and get 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.320 these signatures. I need to go door to door. Are 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.520 you willing to come out and help me? Like you know, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.720 hell yeah, I'll come out there. So we literally walked 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:10.200 up and down Fontana apartment complexus talking to people, letting 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.440 them know like hey, she's running for city council. Are 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.120 you registered to vote? Can we get a couple of 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.440 minutes of your time? Like, she really took the time 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.760 to do that. You know, I'm like, and you know 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.960 me unc so I'm like, if she's really willing to 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.120 do this, you know, I'm a rock with you. Boy. 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.720 You know how I get down. When you called me 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.520 and told me the story, I was like, let's get 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.600 them showing. Let's see if we can get more votes 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.240 and more signatures or whatever we can do. Uh. I 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:38.960 believe in in in and change. I believe in I 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.800 truly believe that we all can understand each other if 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.720 we wanted to, you know what I'm saying, and in 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.640 the places we can go if if we implement that 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:54.040 in that daily struggle, um, and then what you're doing, 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.800 it shows a lot of women because a lot of 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:01.120 our women blackguard and brown and white are not like 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.640 really showing who who they can be. It's it's nothing 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.920 when you see him as tworking, it's ten pounds of makeup, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.800 is thinking that having a baby by this guy is 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:17.399 the way to go. Uh, they don't see future. And 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.679 and if you see a young woman out there on 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:24.800 that platform, such as yourself. I think it attracts and 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.320 if other women is attracted by that and then see 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.280 that and then want to be just okay, she doing it. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.960 I'm twenty three. Why I can't do it, you know 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.080 what I'm saying. So if you can, if you just 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.240 get people to change their mind on that note, I 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.400 think you want already so and then you know, really 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.080 though so so for us to see it and then 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.520 just just apply yourself to that part, then I think 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.000 it's so good. We're doing every year, and you will 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:00.040 come on the show every year every year. I know 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.200 what I'm saying exactly, We're gonna do it win exactly. 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.120 So we're gonna I mean, And the point you made 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.040 about women is very important. We were just talking about 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:13.919 this the other day. I believe that glorifying sexuality is okay. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.040 Like you said, all these women are working. I don't 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.800 think there's anything wrong with that because we in this 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.520 point in time, for um, women are powerful and we're 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.080 feminist and we're allowed to do what we please with 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.359 our body. So if if female rappers want to open 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.639 these doors for everybody to feel safe and do what 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.399 they want, because they have the right, because we have 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.640 they have the power to. I believe that's okay. If 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.679 if you believe that you want to be a female 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.720 rapper and you want to work on YouTube and that's 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.000 your goal, go ahead, go ahead, do it open heartedly. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:45.920 And if and if that's just not my thing, then 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.160 it's not my thing. But I'm not gonna just just 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.679 like um disregard these women because that's their passion righting writing. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:58.760 What's wrong is listen, listen. I have a daughter. You know, 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.080 whether she listened to your dad, you're not. You know, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.040 at some point you're gonna be your own woman and 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:07.920 then you make your own decisions. But I've always told 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.320 her the way you carry yourself is the way people 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.040 are gonna see you. If you out here tworking and 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.760 getting on the ground shaking your ass, that God is 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.200 looking down at you shaking your ass. He don't see 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:24.400 you as manage material. He see O. She with the business, 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.480 Let me get at her. She's not looking at it 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.080 like that. So the way you carry yourself, whether you're 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:35.320 turken tworking, wrapping or doing whatever you have to have 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.520 that you know what I'm saying that that you have 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.200 to have an esteem or regard about yourself. But there 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.440 you go. So we were having this conversation earlier and 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.359 back to you know, what you were saying is very true. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.080 We do believe that we have to empower women because 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.399 we we do need to empower them. They have a 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:56.720 voice that needs to be heard. You know us too, 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.800 and which will make us rise to the occasion. Everybody 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:00.960 needs to do better. Iron shark and iron short sort 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.919 of speak. But now what we were talking about as 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:08.160 far as there's a difference between glorifying and objectifying, those 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.320 are two different things, and we kind of get those 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.240 misconscrewed a little bit. So, uh, when you when you 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:19.639 objectify gap maybe, yeah, that's a difference between when you 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:24.160 objectify sexuality and when you glorify it. Because our bodies 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.600 are beautiful things. We should glorify our bodies. We should 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.359 glorify our sexuality. There's nothing wrong with that. Now. Tworking, 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.600 in my opinion, does not glorify your sexuality as an 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:39.560 exploitation tool. But like you're saying, if if a young 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.160 woman chooses to twork, now here's the thing. Like you said, 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.359 I have two daughters, so I don't want my daughters 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.200 to be out there t working on the floor. That's 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.600 not what I want for them. However, I'm going to 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.480 take the ownership and the responsibility to number one, teach 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.200 them something different. And if you do decide to work 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.679 on the floor, that's not the only thing you know 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.479