1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrities join the breakfast Yep, Charlomagne and 2 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: Guardia Angelie. We are to Breakfast Club. We got some 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: special guests in the building. I don't want to say that. 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Vy always says that, Yeah, I got my folks in 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: the building. My man, my son, you know what I'm saying. 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: In the Justice League and we're talking about the March 7 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: to Justice, all right, so let's get into what that is. 8 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: This is actually right on time. We just had another 9 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: copy killer killer on black Man and now yes, at 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: least he got charged though, so this is right on time. 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: What is what is the watch about? So? The March 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: to Justice is an initiative, excuse me, of the Justice 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: League where we'll be walking from New York City beginning 14 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: April thirteenth to Washington, DC over eight days, staying at 15 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: churches and community centers and colleges along the route, registering 16 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: voters and connecting with organizers and young people, particularly on 17 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: the road to deal with the issue of police accountability 18 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: and looking at criminal justice reform in general. When we 19 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: get to Washington, DC, will be delivering something called the 20 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: Justice Package that has three pieces of federal legislation in 21 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: it that deal with the criminalization of our communities, ending 22 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: the militarization of law enforcement. When you look at what's 23 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: happening in Ferguson. Every time any issue jumps off there, 24 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: the police come in with tanks and all types of 25 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: heavy artillery to deal with people human acting like we're 26 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: in Iraq. And then there's the Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act. 27 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who want to talk about 28 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: gun violence and all of that, which is certainly an issue, 29 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: but the young people in our communities have not been 30 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: invested in. They've been taking more and more community centers 31 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: and all the things that young people need to be 32 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: whole out of the community. Yet they want the kids 33 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: somehow to survive and be the best that they can be. 34 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: So when we get to DC, we're asking Congress to 35 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: do things. But the reason why we're walking all through 36 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: all of these cities is because our people have to 37 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: do something as well. We can't just wait on Congress. 38 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: We have a responsibility to be involved in an issue. 39 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: So eight days April thirteen, we need people to support us. 40 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: Donations are necessary and you can find us on March 41 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: to the number two Justice dot com. What are some 42 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: of the things that's outlined that we're asking support specifically 43 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: when you get to PC. So we're going to be 44 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: meeting with Congress, and I think oftentimes we do work 45 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: and we organize around in our local communities, but we're 46 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 1: going to be asking them to actually support these three bills. 47 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: And one of the ones that Tamika left out is 48 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: ending racial profiling. And so we know that these three bills, 49 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: they some of them need to be introduced, some of 50 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: them also need bipartisans support, but they also need to 51 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: sign on themselves to really elevate our communities at this moment, 52 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: especially with all these police killings and also the disproportionate 53 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: amount of black, amount of black and latinos in the 54 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: incarceration system. Now, now, Mice, what are you doing here? 55 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: You are you an x fell and you're a rapper. 56 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 1: Rappers gonna get involved in this kind of stuff. And 57 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: that's that's exactly the myth that I wanted to, you know, 58 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: to dispel. I think that as a rapper coming from 59 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 1: these communities, this is our fight. You know what I'm saying. 60 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: We grew up in this. We grew up in police brutality, 61 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: We grew up in violence and negativity and watching us 62 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: being racially profiled, and if as an artist being able 63 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: to see that and being able to articulate having a 64 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: fan base and knowing these things, if we don't utilize 65 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: our gifts to fight against the injustices that we've suffered, 66 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: then our kids are doing to have the same thing. 67 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: So it's like, why I'm gonna sit here and rap 68 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: and I'm talking about reality, And the reality is that 69 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: we're getting killed, you know what I'm saying. The reality 70 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: is that the kids don't have parks, and they don't 71 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: have communities sets like they did when we were growing up. 72 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: They don't have the boxing, they don't have the somebody 73 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: to take them off and give them a different path. 74 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: So when we take these things out of our neighborhoods 75 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: and our our communities, all we do is give them 76 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: a road to a prison. And this is the reality 77 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,119 Speaker 1: is a situation. So as an artist, it was when 78 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: I seen Mike Brown killed, when I seen every gonna 79 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: being choked in the Middle Street, and it was like, 80 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: this is here, this is now, you know what I'm saying. 81 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: Like we watched Martin Luther King March and we've seen 82 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: Marcal mix and this is our this is our struggle. 83 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: So if none of us don't step up to the 84 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: plate to fight for it, then what are we saying? 85 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: And a lot of these cases, these cops, uh you know, 86 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: kill people and they still keep their job. They don't 87 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: get turns, they still have a job. You know, they 88 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: might get suspended for a minute and then they're back 89 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: at work. Well, when you look at what happened with 90 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: Walter Scott, he had lied, this happened Saturday. This is 91 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: the police officer that shot the young man on Saturday 92 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: in the back eight times in South Carolina. If it 93 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: had not been for a video in that particular case, 94 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: we would not have seen any of this happen. He 95 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: put that taser down, we believe, next to Walter Scott's body, 96 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: on purpose to be able to prove some or to 97 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: least lie about his lie that that you know, there 98 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: was an altercation and that the taser was a part 99 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: of it. Um And so if we didn't have a 100 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: video there, what would you say? Like would be and 101 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: they would have said like the cop was right because 102 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: he was doing what he was supposed to do. It 103 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: makes you think about the Darren Wilson case right, right, 104 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: and there's no real video that shows you what happened 105 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: in that case. But even with Eric Garner, we saw 106 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: a video. We know that this man was choked to 107 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: death and that it was illegal and it was wrong. 108 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: He couldn't breathe. But so that's why people have to 109 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: stay vigilant. That's why we're marching, That's why we keep 110 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: movements alive, because what happens is we get comfortable and say, oh, 111 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: we know they're gonna take care of that, and then 112 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: you don't get an indictment. You get an indictment, but 113 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: you don't get an actual conviction. So this police officer, 114 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: just because he's been indicted for murder doesn't mean that 115 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: they're not gonna come up with the trick bag of 116 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: excuses because you don't get to see what happens before 117 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: the shooting. You know why, why do you think there's 118 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 1: a lack of leadership, not just in the hood, but 119 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: in like hip hop coach people that like you to say, 120 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: people who could have influence choose not to be leaders. 121 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: I think because the focus is wrong. I think when 122 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: we started doing hip hop, it was about artistry. It 123 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: was about a level of expression. It was about being 124 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: able to communicate something different than everybody else. Was about 125 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: showing your views, and I think now the focus is 126 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: just about money and what you have. So the artists 127 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: that we have today, they don't even have the knowledge 128 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: or the conscience to even be able to focus on that. 129 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: They don't even most of them don't even have. Their 130 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: vocabulary is so limited that they can't even articulate these things, 131 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: so they shy away from that. You know, you've heard 132 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: certain artists get up there and be like, yeah, all right, 133 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: yeah whatever I want to talk about that. I want 134 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: to talk about money. Yeah yeah, heard about Ergona doing 135 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: all that, but yeah, we ain't talking on we get 136 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: money over here. Like that is the mind state that 137 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,119 Speaker 1: they've put these people in. So it's like, you can't 138 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: you can't expect somebody that knows doesn't have any knowledge 139 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: or even have the ability to articulate something, to give 140 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: you anything meaningful. And that's why I'm happy to see 141 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: Ken Drigg and you see the j Coles and you 142 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 1: see them starting to get some light because they're actually 143 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: focusing on social issues and social and real issues that 144 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: we are being plagued with in our neighborhoods and our 145 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 1: communities and oftentimes those that own the label don't necessarily 146 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: want that type of controversy, right, so people aren't necessarily 147 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice money or any type of relationship because 148 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: of that are The founder of our organization is Harry Bellafonte, 149 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: And when you talk about doctor King, he was really 150 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: able to elevate Doctor King's platform based on his own platform. 151 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: He came out, he talked to you know, the Kennedy's. 152 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: He brought King along, and that's why when we built 153 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: Justice League, it was important for us to have artists 154 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: in the space to be able to amplify our message 155 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: to communities that maybe we don't necessarily reach. I think 156 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: that labeled thing is a cop out too, because I 157 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: mean we saw a public academy. We saw full righteous teachers, 158 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: Charist One. They had songs like self destruction, all in 159 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: the same game. Like I think it's up to the 160 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: artist to make that kind of us. But then the 161 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: question is where are they now? See that's what they 162 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: worry about as an artist, they recognize if just just 163 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: move out of artistry and look at Michael Jordan for example, 164 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: he makes billions of dollars off of us, and people 165 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: pay him to stay away from our community. He'll tell 166 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: you quick, I don't do that Black Lives Matter stuf. 167 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: That's not what he's into. And so even though it's 168 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: you can, you know, public enemy, all these people did 169 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: what they did. But where are they now that's the question. Yes, 170 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: for us, it's a legacy, but they don't have the 171 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: multimillions of dollars that are paid to people who they 172 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: really pay to stay disconnected from our silenced and silenced. 173 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: Right thinking about it, I wonder if they out the 174 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: hood for millions of dollars, you see out the hood? Now, 175 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: what about for people who say marches aren't effective? Marches 176 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: don't help anything. So for us, I think it's very different. 177 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: We have three pieces of federal legislation, we have policy 178 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: that we're marching with, and I think you know, we're 179 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: putting two hundred and fifty miles on our bodies. We 180 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 1: start April thirteenth, we're gonna be stepping off in state 181 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: an Island. And for us, that's symbolic. But we know 182 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: right now, at this moment, that people are dying every 183 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,679 Speaker 1: twenty eight hours, of black person is being killed at 184 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: the hands of police. And so for us, we're willing 185 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: to risk ourselves, our bodies to make a real statement. 186 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: And so I think for some of the things that 187 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: we've done differently, or we view some of the methodologies 188 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: from the past, but we're adding our own flavor. And 189 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: that's for us to protest with the purpose and to 190 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: march with the purpose. And that's so so far, we 191 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 1: have what are called Justice Champions, and we have a 192 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: hundred people that are that are going to be marching 193 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: from New York to DC, and we're going to be 194 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: actually gathering other folks along the way in the key 195 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 1: cities that we stop in. No, it's some of the 196 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: biggest obstacles y'all are facing. We need money. We need 197 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 1: money to marche dot com and donate to our crowd 198 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: rise every dall accounts is you know, That's what it 199 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: is about. We're marching. We're not getting paid all of 200 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: us a valance. Everybody's we are brother. Rob Mean is 201 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: here right now documenting all of our efforts. But we 202 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: do need money. Listen, freedom ain't free, you know, no 203 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: movement we talk about Harry b one of the things 204 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: that that can't listen, she said I left out something. 205 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: One of the things she left out was that Harry 206 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: Be funded Doctor King like he pay for his homes 207 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: and made sure the Doctor King had what he needs. 208 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: And there right now, we don't have anywhere to stay 209 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: in Baltimore, but we're walking and we might have to 210 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: stay outside. But if people know of churches um in 211 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: the Baltimore area, we need that, we need water, we 212 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: have to eat every day. And at the end of 213 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: the day, if you say marches don't matter, then why 214 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: the heck did people turn out in the streets after 215 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: the Eric Ghana verdict and also in Ferguson. If people 216 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: didn't hit the street, no one would know that the 217 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: issue is there. Marches don't change things. Marches put sean 218 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: a light on an issue. Yes, and you get in 219 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 1: the media's light to these issues. Now, y'all gonna use 220 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: this money to buy Jordan's to walk in. No, we work. 221 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: We all have real jobs and we work. Yeah, and 222 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: they actually cost us a lot of money, but we 223 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 1: we really Every single person in the Justice League is 224 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: a volunteer. There are twenty five of us that are 225 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: the core group of organizers. We work twenty four hours 226 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: a day plus our regular jobs, and we take our 227 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: personal money and put it into the work. But that's 228 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: not I don't think that that's a model that we 229 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: need to People need to be okay with. Folks should 230 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: be able to eat if they're going to do the 231 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: work of the people. Right now, you know, people gonna 232 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: watch this video and they're gonna be like Mice up 233 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: here talking all of this. But he was charged with 234 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: two counts on arm Robert, and that's the reality of 235 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,680 Speaker 1: the situation. We can have that conversation because I've always 236 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 1: maintained my innocent throughout that situation. But that's also what 237 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 1: I love about the Justice League is that they invite 238 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: you no matter what your pass is, whatever it is, 239 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,719 Speaker 1: because you have a level of knowledge that you can 240 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: bring into this space that you can educate someone else with. 241 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: If I even if I had been a criminal and 242 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: I changed my life around, and I'm giving somebody else 243 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: a different perspective, or giving letting these youth know, Look, 244 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: I've been through what you've been through, and I know 245 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: where the road is to that you know something that's 246 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: very important. That's that's amazing because I never listened to 247 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: when the preacher came up the church and said do 248 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: all listen. I didn't listen to him. I talked to 249 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: the ex drug dealers that wanted to see me do 250 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: better is the one who I modeled myself. Family. But 251 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 1: you know, I think another thing that's really important that 252 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: my soign needs to talk about is the fact that 253 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: Justice League is not a pop up operation like he's 254 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: been in the detention centers with the with the Justice 255 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: League prior to Eric Garner even happening, right, we have 256 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: programming and detention centers under the Gathering for Justice, and 257 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: so my son, myself and folks like Immortal Technique go 258 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: in there and offer young people hope and use music, 259 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: film critical thinking as a tool for transformation and helping 260 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: young people get back into society have actually a feeling 261 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: of a sense of self right and loving themselves because 262 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 1: oftentimes when we look at violence, we're killing each other 263 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: and it's because we there's so much hate that has 264 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: been perpetuated in our communities that we begin to think 265 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: that we're not worth anything. And so he's done this 266 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: work along with us, and what he says, I think 267 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: those that are most impacted by this issue also need 268 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: to be a part of the solution. Right people, even 269 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: the miclones people forgetting Malcolm X was once, Malcolm Little, exactly, 270 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: And that's the bottom line, Like we have to we 271 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: have to be able to educate our own, we have 272 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: to be able to take care of our own. You know, 273 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: Like I have a different background than a lot of 274 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: these A lot of these people have been in this 275 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: space for fifteen sixteen years, but I always had the 276 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: mind state and I always had the will and the 277 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: heart to want to see change. You want to see 278 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: growth and want more for my people. So when I 279 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: was embraced by the Justice League, you know, it was 280 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: it was like I was happy. I was able to 281 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: do something. I was able to give something back to 282 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 1: the community. And that's the way it's all about. It's 283 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: about taking care of our own. You once said that 284 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: a rappers use guns as a source of entertainment. Why 285 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: do you think that is because we For some reason, 286 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: people are attracted to negativity. I don't know why. I 287 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: don't know why. You can go on any website and 288 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 1: you show shar Keisha has more views than a black 289 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: man graduating from college who has done all types of things. 290 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: I don't know why people are attracted to that, but 291 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: it's the reality. So when as an intelligent individual who's 292 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: trying to survive. You know, we focus on what it 293 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: is that people are attracted to. I just made a 294 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: song called Ain't No Loving Pop in which I state, basically, 295 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: you know, the artist who comes with his pain in 296 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: his heart, they don't pay attention to. But somebody shoots 297 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 1: up a block and then he put it on a 298 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: world star and then he throws around behind it. He's 299 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: the next biggest artist. That's a good point. Like when 300 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: when you see somebody like you see us committing violence online, 301 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: like he said, somebody shooting the block, it's nothing. But 302 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: when a cop does at the one of us, then 303 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: this World War three, that's when we start marching, and 304 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: that's when we start caring. Why do you think that is? 305 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: Because I think for me, it is that kid that 306 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: shoots of the block. He's been educated wrong. He's been 307 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: educated wrong. This police officer has sworn a duty to 308 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: protect me. He's getting paid by getting pad, he's getting 309 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: paid by us to protect us. So at the end 310 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: of the day, you can't you can't hold the accountable 311 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: a child who doesn't know no better, who's been taught 312 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: that violence is the answer to someone who's been sworn 313 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: who's been taught, who's been sworn, who's getting paid to protect? 314 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: And go against those all those principles. It's two different 315 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: you you hold them in two high stands. And also wait, wait, 316 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: let me say when. And it's also when we killing 317 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: shoot hours, we go to jail, right absolutely, bottom line, 318 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: there's no it's no nothing. But when they killing shoot us, 319 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: there's no even no accountability. You don't even get an 320 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: indictment for South Carolina. It's set for that. It goes down. 321 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: They don't have no choice now like they have an indictment, 322 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: but he still, let's see what happens. So I got indictments, 323 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 1: they get and then next to you know, you don't 324 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: hear a body. You just see a little thing across 325 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: the stream over it has been non convicted. He's been 326 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: clear to all charges, you know, And that's how it happens. 327 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: It's time to tell you about the background, right. They 328 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: are already trying to tell you he didn't pay his 329 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: child support. He was trying to get away all of that. 330 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: They already starting smoke weed in high school. They're gonna 331 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: tell you that somebody in the back. I don't give 332 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: a damn. They're gonna have a reason though, have you 333 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: guys gotten any resistance um for this march as far 334 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: as you know, police department or anything. Yeah, we already well, 335 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: right now we're having a problem with stat Nolan. They're 336 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: telling us they don't want us to go across particular bridges. 337 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: They want us to drive. We're trying to walk, so 338 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: we may be in jail on Monday even start the march. Yeah, 339 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: and there are others towns because we're going through some 340 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: towns with folk that don't look like us walking, and 341 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: you know, we are receiving resistance. But what hurts more 342 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: than that is the resistance that we've been receiving from 343 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: other organizers that are in this space, people who just 344 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: don't want to march work with us for whatever reason, 345 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: and are using the fact that some of us are 346 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: connected to other people that they don't like as a 347 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: reason for us not to stand together about justice. So, 348 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: you know, and that's always been an issue when I 349 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: look at why we haven't been able. I've been in 350 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: this space for sixteen years. I work for rebnow Sharpton 351 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: for fourteen years of my career. I was his executive 352 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: director for four years, and there many of people I 353 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: don't like Sharpton. Don't like his head. I don't like this, 354 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: I don't like that. But we all come to we 355 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: come together to fight for a common goal, and somehow 356 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: we allow personalities to get in the way of us 357 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: being able to do stuff. But all it is is 358 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: a cop out. It's a cop out because we don't 359 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: want to do real work. People don't want to actually 360 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: get down dirty and do the real work because we're 361 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: sleeping on the floor in churches two hundred and fifty miles. 362 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: And I like to call myself the diva the movement. 363 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: So I'm I'm, I'm. I like to be cute and 364 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: do all that. I ain't got time to be sleeping 365 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: on the floor, But I got a sixteen year old 366 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: son at home, so I'm gonna sleep on the floor 367 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: so that he could walk. But you know, I also 368 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: want to add something to that. Tamika brings up a 369 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: great point is the fact that we're not necessarily focusing 370 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: on why we're Other people aren't necessarily focusing on why 371 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: we're marching. There's a man that was killed this past weekend, 372 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: and we're marching for him. We're marching for all the 373 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: people who have lost their lives to police brutality, and 374 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: the children and the men and women that are locked up, 375 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: and our prisons in America who can't march with us 376 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 1: because they're locked up. But at the end of the day, 377 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 1: one of the things that mister Bellefonte, who's my mentor 378 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 1: and boss, says, you know, there's there's a quote that 379 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 1: he shared with me recently and he says, you know, 380 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: those that are working for the liberation of our people 381 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: are only a target for friendship and support. Those that 382 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: are trying to create a divisive narrative are only playing 383 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 1: the enemy's game. And so I think we really need 384 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: to think about that. And so I'm learning a lot 385 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: through working with Tamika, who I find to be an 386 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: amazing young woman, and my son and all the people 387 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 1: within Justice League and for us, we're keeping our eyes 388 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: on the prize and that's to create the buloved community 389 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: that doctor King talked about. Yeah, so y'all don't stay 390 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: in hotels, y'all. No, we're staying in churches, community center 391 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: and maybe outside in Maryland. Y'all, it's gonna be hundreds 392 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: of us marching, So we gotta be there with the people. 393 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 1: We gotta show the sacrifice. We can't just say we're 394 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: gonna go to the hotel when we see y'all y'all 395 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: sleeping like at the end of the day. We got 396 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: to figure it out and we just gotta march and 397 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,199 Speaker 1: we just gotta continue to do what we gotta do. 398 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: And when y'all get to where y'all going DC, what 399 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: are y'all gonna do that? Um? Well, again, we sleep 400 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 1: in another church and then the next day, on the 401 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 1: twenty second, we get up and what is this shower? Shower, 402 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: shampoo and shine and we put her No, no, none 403 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: of that, none of that. Y'all know. My son has 404 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: a wife for her name is Angelie Glennon, and she 405 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: ain't with it. So no, we're gonna be you know, 406 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: having meeting congressional visits. We're gonna have informational sessions with 407 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: Congress and let them know about the three pieces of 408 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 1: federal legislation. We've already done some of that organizing work, 409 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: pre organizing work last Wednesday where we met with the 410 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: different congressional caucuses. But we're gonna be suiting up we 411 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 1: on the twenty first, we're gonna have a rally as 412 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 1: well as you know, some performances. Anybody who wants to 413 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: join us in DC and perform, show up, show some support, 414 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: come meet us. And you could always find more information 415 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: on March number two Justice dot com. And so the 416 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: route will be available to folks and also our crowd 417 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:37,399 Speaker 1: rice campaign please give to us. Yeah, yeah, I want 418 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: people to meet y'all on the way. I'll meet yall 419 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: at the starting point whatever you can get. The starting 420 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: point is instat nilinsta nilin. We're leaving instat nilin out 421 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: of the metro what is it, Richmond Valley Metro Station. 422 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: Richmond Valley Metro Station on Amboy Street. That's where we're 423 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: leaving from. We'll be gathering at that point at nine 424 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: am on Monday morning. But if you can't be there 425 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: because you have to work, the next place to meet 426 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 1: us is in Newark at the willing Heart Community Center. 427 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: We'll be staying there overnight and rallying. That's at seven 428 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 1: o'clock in Newark, New Jersey, fifty five Martin Luther King Boulevard, 429 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: willing Heart Community Center. And that's March to Justice and 430 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: number two dot com. Yes, all right, that's everything, because 431 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: I want to make sure people donate this bread. We 432 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: need you how to donate. Make sure you're doing that. 433 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: I wouldn't say happy birthday too. I want our Justice 434 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 1: League members, carlenean, but we definitely need you how to donate. 435 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 1: Every dall accounts if you if you can't march with us, 436 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: walk to work one day, you know, sacrifice anything, anything 437 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: counts for us, and also donate. Yeah yeah, and follow 438 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: us on Twitter. We're ny Justice League. Um. We're also 439 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: we have a crowd rice campaign www dot crowd rise 440 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 1: dot com backslash March number two Justice. So there's different 441 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: ways in which people could get involved, and we appreciate 442 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 1: y'all for having us to be Charlotte Man is gonna 443 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: donate to my crowd rise as soon as we get over. 444 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: I am. I absolutely am. My son is my guy, 445 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: been my guy for a long time. Very thorough dude, 446 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: always standing up for us, right you know, so I'm 447 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 1: absolutely going to doing it. Appreciate so um Marster Justice 448 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: dot com. Yes, all right, thank y'all for joining us. 449 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: April thirteenth is to march y'all my son in the 450 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: Justice League. Ye