WEBVTT - The Selection Before The Election feat. Rizza Islam 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:38.520 Love flame, he shot, he shooting, he shot flame, he shot. 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.280 If you watch the Coffee Time the baby, you know 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.200 the name Flame, my role also known as my role Flame, 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.600 come in with last and coming with jown love louns. Baby, 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.760 you better catch it when you can't drop a knowledge 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.880 from fatherhood of politics shouting out comics, just paying homics. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.800 What's up? Tim? Yeah? You know? She rained shot towns 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.800 on speaking to the grown a second. We're gonna last 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:04.960 to be kicking and at the end we leave it 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.399 with just a lift, just firs like you want to revisit, 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.319 so your first like a listen to JOm folks like 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.720 it's all folks that we take it. I can't do 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:17.520 what you don't do what you do, I can't do 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:41.800 what I do. Hey, hey, hey, this is comedian Play 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.520 Monroe and welcome to this week's episode of Laugh and 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.120 Learn here with my wonderful producer, mister Aaron. Listen you guys, 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.840 I missed you all last week, but I'm so glad 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.320 I'm back this week. We are going to have an 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.840 amazing time today. I got a conversation I want to 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.360 have with somebody who who piques my interests, And y'all 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:02.200 know I'm not interested in much, but he it's my interests. Uh. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.640 He sparks my few. He makes me think about who 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.800 I am and why I am who I am in 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.160 this country. And I'm not talking about my sexuality. I'm 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.680 talking about this beautiful badge, a body that God bless 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.079 me with, this topic of melody that I love. So 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.160 I'm not gonna even go down the whole list and 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:19.560 all of that. We're not going to do all that. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.800 I just want you, guys, all my flamemts to welcome 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.520 to good brother mister Zard Islam to the show. Ladies, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.440 y'all makes a Nord. I'm a whole proud of myself. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.240 Come on, I'm you know, I'm honored to be here 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:32.880 with you. I know you were there with me, so 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.400 we were foundly. So this is a beautiful thing. And 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:36.880 as soon as you said I need you to come 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.320 on show, I'll say, and you tell me the time 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.720 of the day. And I appreciate you being so so 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:47.359 just Um, what's the word I want to say? Um? Oh, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.639 I can't think of it. I just said a brain. Well, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.240 I appreciate you being so receptive. Well, I want you 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.079 my audience. I understand is that the zon is a 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:01.040 full on Muslim, I full on train as woman. The 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.760 optics are beautiful, the heart is magnificent, the color is 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.880 the same. But we are Americans. Once you guys, to 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.520 always remember that, then whatever your presentation you see, if 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.440 you born an American, you're an American, You're an American. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.440 We had the greatest, dopest conversation yesterday on Reason's platform 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.720 on um, oh, let me get a fight, let me 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.920 get it right. Oh oh, I can't even think of 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.119 it at all. What's the name of an intellectual extremists? 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.600 My job messed up that name three times trying to 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:37.120 sit actual uh. And it was great. It was a 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.360 it was an honest It was not an interview. It 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.880 was an honest conversation between two American black people in 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.240 this country, which is what we're gonna do today because 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:51.520 right now you were so instrumental and so inspirational for 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.280 me during the pandemic when my mind was I was 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.960 teeter tiring on the fits about if I wanted to 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.480 get back toinated, and I just listened to so many 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.000 different peop but when I ran across you, it really 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.400 made me sit down and think of what I wanted 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.840 to do, now what somebody else wanted me to do. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.160 It made me think about what I wanted to do. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.560 And I know you're a couple of years younger to me, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:19.000 I'm only thirty nine, but I wanted to know. And 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.200 this is why I want younger people to understand what 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.400 older people. It's not that we don't listen to that 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.800 we don't want to learn. We just it depends on 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.680 who's coming from and how you are transferring that information. Right, 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.400 We're clear you were genuine and concise them in a 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.720 lot to me, why was this so important for you? 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.479 It's what I want to ask for you to stand 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.240 your ground when it came down to the back thing. Absolutely. 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.480 First thing is my mother's a naturopathic doctor, right, so 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.000 she was a medical nurse first, so she knew the 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.160 ins and outs of what the system was doing. She 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.160 was trained by them, She understood the system. She was 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.039 trained in the system, and she had a problem with 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.960 the system because they started to push nothing but pharmaceut 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.039 of course, so it was natural pathic remedies during no vitamins, minerals, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.039 exercise proper dive. That's how it used to be until 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.520 they switched everything to take a pill. Take a pill, 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.720 take a pill for everything, Take a pill. And so 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.200 she saw that as a problem. So she said, you 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.520 know what, I'm going to switch into naturopathing. So she 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.240 started to pursue the naturopathic remedies and just stayed right there. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.320 And that's how she raised us. We were raised right 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.560 here in Compton, California, probably one of the only families 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.560 who didn't get sick. None of us took shots. Anytime 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.240 we had any kind of sniff or anything we could 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.560 golden seal Alavia like that's we went to that. So 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.200 from that point, just in my childhood, I was always 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.000 raised to be this way. So as a point when 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.520 it came to these shots and people not learning about 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.520 the history, number one, and it's not just Tuskegee. Tuskegee 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.720 actually is one of the small circumstances compared to all 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.320 the rest of the other circumstances. But when I started 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:51.920 to see what they were doing to the people, I said, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.520 I can't sit here knowing that I've been involved in 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.080 this topic for nearly a decade, long before this virus. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.320 In this whole process, Oh, there was there was plenty 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.880 of us, please others that I personally were involved in, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:04.400 and I said, I can't sit here and let the 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.560 people get lied to like this. I just I can't 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.279 do it. I at least I'm going to give you 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.599 information that we can make your own decision. That's what 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.720 it's mean about from the very beginning for me. Get 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.480 the right information so you can make your own decisions. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.960 That's that is. That is fantastic, And I'm telling you 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.560 reason out. I was. I'm I'm not anti vaccine though 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.920 I'm not even a Bac saint, but it was the 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.680 way that it was presented to me. It was warp 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.320 speed and then to sit outside and the sun and 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.120 get to go for three days rest off. It was 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.200 just made me nervous. And I'm like, I got too 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.680 much foreign pronicle in my body. As it is with 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.400 the black market silicone, I got breast in plants, I axios. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.680 What of them to those two different ingredients don't get along. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.120 It ain't let you. I could take a spoon and 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:48.960 stick it in and pull one of them out, right, 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.839 That's true. But the limb or lost my ability to 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.800 see you. No, I just was like I was afraid 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.960 everybody would like saw But I love the fact stood 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.039 on that and I watched you do that because I 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.360 I think for myself, I want to ask you because 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.120 I got a lot of backlash right not taking the 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:10.320 dam and did you You know what, It's not that 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.000 I received backlash because people pretty much knew, like I said, 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.040 they knew me for years before this about other shots, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.200 so they've already known. But the same thing, it's not 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.240 that I was against shots in general period. It's that 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.360 you have to be informed about everything on both ends, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.480 a good and a bad. And that's the problem that 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.920 I noticed, which was, you know, doctors and medical professionals, 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.840 they have something called informed consent. This is what they're 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:35.920 supposed to give the patient. But the sad thing is 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.600 if you don't tell them I want to get informed consent, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.080 then they are not necessarily going to give it to you, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.120 which means they're going to give you the good and 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.440 the bad, the positives and the negatives and the alternatives. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.200 So if I want to take this shot, what are 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:49.720 some of the other things that I could do? They're 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.640 don't give you a naturopathic route, to give you the 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.080 herbalist route, to give you the nutritionist route. That's what 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.920 informed consent is. They're supposed to give you these things. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.480 But because they were not doing that and they were 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.680 attacked and people and all that, I said, well, you 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.520 can attack me, but you're gonna attack me. Just know 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.920 you're gonna get all the smoke with all the facts. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.320 That's all you're gonna get coming from me. And that's 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.000 what they ended up doing. That's why they didn't bring 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.200 you on certain platforms. But the platforms I did go on, 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.720 they got all these facts. And today it stands true 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.720 everything that we said. That's that confident in you, that 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.240 can I ask feel a personal question. Where you raised 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.680 by mom and dad or just a single parent? Most 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.920 of my mother? Let me tell I tell your mother, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.800 I'm taking my head and my wig off to her. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.200 I admire you. You let me tell what I out 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.320 you the most, that you stand on, what you believe. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.120 It is so many whishy watching people out here with 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.000 the masses and don't use their own brain. And I'm 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.200 telling you, because it's the most popular does not always 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.600 make it the most right. And it needs to feel 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.800 right to you. And I love that about it. And 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.360 I watched you take a lot of heat. We watch 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.920 I just watched Pupid think when you get when it 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.640 came out with all the foolishness at the Twitter has 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.520 shut you down and we found that that you were 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.439 on the list of the FBI and everything. How did 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:10.280 that affect your career? I want to know about you 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.320 know what? You you know how it feels to be 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.560 black ball, to be talked about, to have jobs removed 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.400 from you, to have some of your own colleagues not 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.680 respond to you anymore and not pick up the fall. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.720 You know how this feels. But for me again, because 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.920 I'm not necessarily in the commercial world. I'm not in 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.160 the performing arts, you know, for example, and I'm not 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.320 in sports and things like that. It didn't necessarily do 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.880 much in that arena, but it did do certain things 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.480 when it came to speaking engagements, interaction with certain platforms. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.280 People not wanting to be around me, because you know, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.839 when you hear FBI list, you hear in government watch lists, 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.160 some people take that as a badge of honor, which 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.040 I did. I absolutely did. I said, wait a minute, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.719 so you're attacking me because I'm speaking the truth that 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.400 benefits the human family. I'm not just fighting for black folk, 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.520 I'm fighting for everybody right and you attack me because 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.120 of that to that as a badge of honor. Did 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.600 it affect my money? Yes it did. Did they shut 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.079 down my platforms absolutely, because we use social media, you know, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.480 to sell our products and to you know, make the 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.560 things known that we want people to know or to 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.679 promote whatever we're doing. So when they cut my Facebook 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.360 at over one hundred and thirty thousand followers, they cut 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.760 my YouTube at one hundred and forty nine thous subscribers, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.040 they cut my original Instagram at over half a million followers, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:25.920 which two and a half three years ago, I was 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.200 over half a million followers back then. So if they 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.280 didn't shut me down, I'll probably be upwards a four 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.200 or five million, right, So all of that affected me 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.480 financially absolutely, and indeed cause people to kind of shy 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.360 away from me because they got nervous. They got really nervous, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.360 like wait a minute, matter of fact, I'll tell you 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.800 this blame. When that happened, they announced this from the 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.720 White House. From the White House, they said the list 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.520 of twelve people, they said they are called that disinformation. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.120 Does you're talking about? Jen Saki, who was the former 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.400 White House Press secretary, said these people are dangerous. They 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.120 announced this from the White House. Once that happened, I 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.360 had the first two artists. I'm not em gonna say 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.240 their names, but two major artists, celebrities called me asking 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.960 me was I okay, saying that they knew I was 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.520 doing the work. They knew I was helping the people 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.640 fighting for us, they said, but man, I didn't realize 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.920 that it was to this degree that the government is 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.520 really pissed off at you and eleven other people. Man, 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.319 this is crazy, And I said, no, this is really 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.440 what it looks like in modern time when you truly 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.920 standing up on principle against this system. There are levels 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.800 to this thing that says, so now y'all see what 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.560 it really looks like. Who was one of those people, 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:38.160 Nick Cannon we heard from? And I want to ask 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.319 you as a black man, and it just as a man. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.319 This has nothing to do with your faith or your religion. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.560 Did you ever rethink where maybe I should not have 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.160 because I have had that because just like you, I 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.800 was blacklisted. I've lost money from my own community because 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.000 I speak the way I speak and feel how I feel. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.599 But in my head I was like, well, maybe I 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.520 should have rethought, and the maybe and then something took 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.960 over me. It's like no, because then I'm lying to myself. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.000 I can Latin to other people. I can't look far 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.719 and Latin me. It's hop that's right, that's right. I'll 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.640 tell you know it. For I was always raised this way. See, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.719 I was never a conditioned to look up to the 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.320 system in any way. I didn't believe in white Jesus, 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.760 I didn't believe in sounding clause. I didn't. I'm not 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.800 indoctrinated at all. Whatsoever should I say, for the most part, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.800 to my knowledge, So therefore I never had that as 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.079 a mentality. But then again, my reality is different so 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.480 other people like yourself who had that, Because you're like, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.160 wait a minute, this is really messing up my livelihood. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.600 It does cause you, from a responsible viewpoint, like, wait 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.080 a minute, maybe I could up going about that in 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.080 a more wise way. Be could I have said it differently? 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.560 It's natural to think that way. For me, I said, 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.400 I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.360 already knew now that I think they were going to 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.160 move as swiftly as they did. Hell no, I did 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.839 not expect it to move so quick. But when it happened, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.520 I said, you know what, I'm not surprised. I will 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.720 say the other part of it was that it did 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.120 hurt slightly because people who you think really are going 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.680 to stand there next to you be there for and 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:09.840 you said they're gonna, they're gonna be right there, some 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.360 of those people were not. That was the only thing 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.760 I will say, you know, but outside of that, I 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.160 expected everything else. With you being such a religious person, 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.640 would you believe because I'm strong believer in God? Absolutely? 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.680 Did it make you run to your faith more because 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.440 your faith is shaken? Your faith? I ran to God 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.480 on my knees, on my faith down like this didn't 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.360 don't let my mouth, which you gave me as a gift, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.320 also be my confident. I don't want yes critical point. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:43.080 Absolutely absolutely, that's that's definitely, that's where we That's where 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:47.280 my faith goes before and after these trials, before and after. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.080 You know what I mean, we we always say, you know, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:53.040 I seek refuge. I seek refuge, envied all a lot 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.160 from the accursed Satan, you know, I mean, I'll always 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.600 seek a refuge because I know this is a battlefield 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.800 we're going out too. So make sure of me, protect me, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.360 shield me, you know, give me the strength that I 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.520 need the guidance, you know, the motivation to stand on integrity. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.920 A lot of people, you know, they say I'm with 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.240 God and with God. But once the integrity is tested, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.080 like you said, it's a lot of people who don't 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:16.040 make it because your faith starts to go more into money, money, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.720 money versus God. And it's like, okay, how what how 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.280 much does a dollar cost? For real? For some people, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.600 like what he really willing to sacrifice to make it 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.280 to that other side? Because you already know the rich man, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.600 he would give up all of his wealth to have 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.000 another day of life. He tried to get into head. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.480 He tried to pay God to get into head. And 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.440 it's like, yo, he really, you're not gonna that. Don't 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.560 work around there. And there's certain things that we have 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.880 to you know, understand, is that some of us don't 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.640 have a price. And once you get to that, you know, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.080 people who get to that point, they see us and 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.840 they respect us more because they have multimillion dollar companies, 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.400 but they don't have no peace, They don't have people 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.560 that they can trust around them, They don't have a 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.120 sincere group of family members who they can love because 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.080 they don't cut everybody of y'all sacrifice people. They you know, 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:03.880 cut corners just to get to where they are, and 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.840 a lot of them regret it, you know. So so 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.080 making money, it's not a problem. It's how we do it, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.600 you know, It's just how we do it. Now, were 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.720 you raised in the Muslim faith or did you become 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.880 a Muslim after he became a grown up. I was 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.000 actually raised in the nation of this Islam. And I 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.320 mean everything from praying in Arabic, all of that happened. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.960 I was praying Arabic before I knew what I was 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:30.080 saying in English. The brother, my baby brother is a 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.280 practice in Muslim Now he's in there, he's been into 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.600 the faith for a few years. He just breaks out 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.760 in phrase three or four times a day, and it's 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.840 sabbaticals and everything. And so when he knew that I 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.120 was talking with you, and he's like, because my Marcus, 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.680 he said, Mark, you're talking brothers. I said, he said, 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.360 oh my gosh, wow. Yeah. See, I've told you get 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.840 a lot of love speaking to anyone else. But when 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.680 he knew I was talking to you, he almost had 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.160 a belt that wow, because this is what's going to 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.040 blow people's mind. When I was on the Breakfast Club 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.360 the last time I talked about how I listened to 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.040 the teachers of the minister, Minister Rachon and teaching me, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.160 reminding me that I'm a black man, a black person 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.880 in this country, and but my presentation is so different. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.520 And when I got it, I told that as an 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.480 email from one of the brothers of the nation. So 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.200 and when you told me what you told me yesterday, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:23.720 I want you to know that made my heart. My 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.200 heart smile. It really made you, said ba. I told 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:28.960 some of the brothers I was interviewing you, and they 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.040 smiled and then up. You know, that is kind of 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.560 a heard of to me that a would accept a 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.720 person of a transgender experience like you know, not like 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.360 welcome me into the fall, but just to be cool 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.520 to want to listen to me. Come on, I don't 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.400 know what, don't seriously risk. I'm telling you, I'm being 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.680 a woman a long task. I have went over many 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.160 many hurdles and heels and dealt with all types of 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.240 people from even when I was in prison to politics 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.200 everywhere and everybody. Just because they have don't have a 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.840 religious faith, they don't open up to me because my 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.560 presentation is strong, and I stand on who I am. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.840 I'm not going to eat for nobody but guy he 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:18.120 got personally. Yeah, I can't explain these titties. I told you, brothers, 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.480 because you know a lot of people think that the 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.359 Muslim brothers, starting with the leader spell Hey, I never heard. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.520 How is it that you and these brothers can show 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.800 this solidarity towards somebody like me? And I'm asking a 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.840 very honest and genuine question. No, no, I'll said this way. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.040 And see, one thing that a lot of people get 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:41.800 mixed up is the religious dog with the spiritual practice. See, 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.720 we were spiritual people. We have a lifestyle. That's that's 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.240 another thing. We don't really have a religion. We have 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:51.000 a lifestyle, all right. So that means you don't sacrifice 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.600 your people because you think they're not worthy to go 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.840 along with the practice. And now that means you separate. 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:58.479 Now it's like on the hold on. We all came 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.520 about a hill. A lot of us came from families 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.400 who did drugs, soul drugs, was in prison. We came 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.760 out of prison, some of us ourselves that being on 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.560 the street, in the street, around the street, we just 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.480 come on seeing we gotta we gotta keep things real 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.639 for some people out here. That's why when I talk 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.639 to people and I'm like, I'm a black man from Compton. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:17.840 At the end of the day, you can say whatever 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:19.760 you want to say. My family then did it at all? 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.159 From like I said, drugs, game bang and I got bloods, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.119 crips my family. I just had a family gathering because 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.119 you know, I lost my older brother, one of my 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.440 older brothers recent so we had a going away ceremony 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.200 for him. I'm talking about bloods right here, crips right here, 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:36.879 some of them drinking over there, something the smoke it 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.480 over there, and here I am. I'm an active us 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.800 the nation of this law, Bony's family. I don't need 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.360 to judge my family you're talking about. It's like, wait 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.000 a minute, I can be in that grave in two minutes. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:50.280 So why am I gonna waste my time trying to 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.119 judge you knowing that, like you said, you having your experience. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:54.720 But you know, at the end of the day, what 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.760 this system sees you, as sees me, as sees us 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.520 as they don't give it them. We can call ourselves 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.840 with them whatever we want to call ourselves. Yeah, like 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.080 you are expendable and we're gonna get rid of you 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.399 as quickly as we can. That's it, you know. So 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:08.879 we're family at the end of the day. That's all 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.000 I got to say. I love that. And and first 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.560 of all condos is for your brother. Excuse me, but uh, 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.639 And I love that you see people. That is hard. 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.240 I tell people see the people I'm seeing what they 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.160 look like or what what the Nolin nations they are 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.600 to see the pros to see me. I'm so fair 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.000 with that, which is why I'm treated so differently. And 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:36.119 one community it's treated so another way. In my own community, 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:41.960 it's ly to me. But I'm i'm, I'm I'm like 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.680 you were telling me that too yesterday, which um, which 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.239 blew my mind because to be honest with you, like 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.920 you said, Minneso Farcan doesn't spew hate. We don't spew hate. 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.520 It's just the true haters who happen to control a 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.960 large amount of influence in media or banking or sports 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.960 and industry of you know, I perform arts, acting, etc. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.960 When we speak the truth about this system, the people 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:06.880 who run the system don't like the fact that we're 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.200 speaking the truth about the fact that they run the system. 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:12.680 They say we're haters. And it's like, but you don't 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.720