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Speaker 1: We are here with Senator. Senator Dwight Bullet is here.
Speaker 4: What's up? Happy to be here. Thanks for the invite, Nah.
Speaker 1: For sure, Roy Mokas and the cut too, what's up
Speaker 1: with you? Salute?
Speaker 3: You know, so we wanted to have a round table
Speaker 3: chat and definitely talk about we are a little bit
Speaker 3: over a week away from the presidential election and the
Speaker 3: election and we know it's a lot at stake, and
Speaker 3: I guess it's just talking about not necessarily you know,
Speaker 3: choosing the side of who to vote for and all that.
Speaker 3: That's not the purpose it is, but letting everybody know
Speaker 3: the importance of exercising their right to vote. So y'all
Speaker 3: can just kind of elaborate and you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: get the vibes going so we can have that discussion. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I'm glad you framed it in that way, right,
Speaker 5: because a lot of people who really kind of get
Speaker 5: caught up in these personalities, you know, the individuals who
Speaker 5: run for these offices, people start developing opinions, you know,
Speaker 5: they start going down these rabbit holes about who's who.
Speaker 5: And part of the function for the work that I
Speaker 5: do is just reminding people that your vote, although critical,
Speaker 5: doesn't have to be this thing that is monumental. And
Speaker 5: I think too often times, especially folks who look like
Speaker 5: me from the black community, get kind of caught up
Speaker 5: in this, in this information loop around voting, you know.
Speaker 5: And you know, I'm not gonna run away from the
Speaker 5: fact that people literally died to get the right. We
Speaker 5: get that, but I also want people to just be
Speaker 5: habitual about the function of doing it. You know, I
Speaker 5: was sharing with some folks the other day. There was
Speaker 5: a study done that says we spend about three days
Speaker 5: waiting on stuff in lines right like drive through, you know,
Speaker 5: at the store, et cetera. Yet people kind of get
Speaker 5: caught up in this I can't go vote right, and
Speaker 5: it's just like, give me the excuse because you're about
Speaker 5: to spend the same amount of time getting that cup
Speaker 5: of coffee.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you some and will cut you out
Speaker 2: to ask you this, like, do our vote really really matter?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 5: A thousand percent a thousand percent. But it's also a
Speaker 5: matter of collectivism, right. What I mean by that is
Speaker 5: what ends up happening is someone will will absorb something
Speaker 5: and be like, well, my vote doesn't count, and then
Speaker 5: that accumulates. So let's say you got a place like
Speaker 5: eas you know, like South Fulton or one of these
Speaker 5: newer cities around Atlanta that kind of popped up that
Speaker 5: aren't the city itself. You have these city council races
Speaker 5: being won by one hundred votes fifty you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like, that's the direct democracy. You got these
Speaker 5: school board races, you know, when I when when I
Speaker 5: was an active state senator, we actually had a race
Speaker 5: that came down to fourteen people.
Speaker 4: Well, you know what I'm saying, that's the church bus.
Speaker 5: Like literally, had you had a church bus full of
Speaker 5: people in that district, you could have done the outcome differently.
Speaker 5: I'll take it even step further. We had a member
Speaker 5: of Congress won their seat by five votes. M that's
Speaker 5: not even a church, but that's a car. And just
Speaker 5: imagine how many and this this is a black part
Speaker 5: of southern Miami Fort Lauderdale area, where you could have
Speaker 5: easily put five people in the car and literally determined
Speaker 5: who's going to be the congress person for the.
Speaker 4: Next two years.
Speaker 6: Let me add something to that too, though, And I'm
Speaker 6: not a politician, but I you know, we support a
Speaker 6: show and you know, trying to make sure he's out
Speaker 6: and everything we do is about the community for the community.
Speaker 6: But I'll say this to you because I used to
Speaker 6: ask the same question. It doesn't matter till it affects you. Yeah,
Speaker 6: fix your community. Now it's like, hey, wait, wait, why
Speaker 6: didn't I get why is my child? Why did this
Speaker 6: happen to my child or my family? It matters when
Speaker 6: it affects you. And so a lot of times we think,
Speaker 6: especially as black Foot, my vote don't matter because it
Speaker 6: ain't I don't feel it, I don't see it, I
Speaker 6: don't touch it. But when that hits your community, now
Speaker 6: that vote really matters. That it doesn't matter before, but
Speaker 6: it matters, It starts to matter more to you.
Speaker 3: So what do we do with the people, because this
Speaker 3: is the biggest thing with a core of people that's
Speaker 3: in my phone.
Speaker 1: They're frustrated because a lot.
Speaker 3: Of them did vote for the first time last election
Speaker 3: and they felt like certain things didn't get accomplished. You
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, cannabis reform, prison reform, police reform,
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. I mean, what do you say
Speaker 3: as the antidote to that, just keep voting or what.
Speaker 5: I would say is this, and I use I'll use
Speaker 5: a football analogy. Right, A lot of people make this
Speaker 5: assumption that the vote is you going to the pros.
Speaker 4: The vote is the fact you played football. So this
Speaker 4: is what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: The analogy is that everybody in the NFL right now
Speaker 5: played football, Pop Warner, high school college.
Speaker 4: People make the assumption that the vote is you getting drafted.
Speaker 4: It's not.
Speaker 5: It's you picking up the ball for the first time.
Speaker 5: What you choose to do with it at that moment
Speaker 5: is the bigger impact. Are you gonna throw it? Are
Speaker 5: you gonna run it? Are you gonna catch it? How
Speaker 5: have you developed those skills? And so this is what
Speaker 5: I mean is like a lot of people will be like,
Speaker 5: I cast my ballot, nothing changed. Well, the question is
Speaker 5: clothes mobs don't get fed. So for what you needed
Speaker 5: did you ask for it?
Speaker 2: What about the people that come with all those promises,
Speaker 2: the politician that cade all those promises and then do.
Speaker 5: But again going back to the football annalogy, right, how
Speaker 5: many coaches promise kids starting time? How many coaches promise
Speaker 5: kids that you're gonna you're gonna go through the pro
Speaker 5: you come to my program, you're gonna go to the pros.
Speaker 5: It don't matter if you're not actually putting in the skill,
Speaker 5: in the work to get it done. For people who
Speaker 5: end up actually getting drafted and then going into the
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame and all those things, they're the ones
Speaker 5: who took the time to do the thing.
Speaker 4: And this is where I want.
Speaker 5: To remind from no no, no, no, but but follow me
Speaker 5: on this one, right, follow me on this one.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: What I'm what I'm trying to tell folks around the
Speaker 5: notion specific engagement is someone's gonna come to you and
Speaker 5: make a promise one because they're trying to get your vote,
Speaker 5: undoubted doubtedly.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: So here's the thing. When are you going to then
Speaker 5: go back to them to demand that promise or is
Speaker 5: it just you're going to make the expectation that because
Speaker 5: they said it once.
Speaker 2: Said hold account you said hold them account, hold accountable collectively,
Speaker 2: collectively or individual.
Speaker 7: I think I think too.
Speaker 8: Not to cut you off, I'm sorry, but I think
Speaker 8: too Like another misconception or a misunderstanding about that whole
Speaker 8: process is.
Speaker 7: Using the presidency.
Speaker 8: For example, a lot of the promise is that these
Speaker 8: candidates are making about the presidency and about what they
Speaker 8: will and won't do and what they can and can't
Speaker 8: do when they I mean, well, what they will and
Speaker 8: won't do when they get into office. They don't even
Speaker 8: have the authority to make those decisions because a lot
Speaker 8: of the things that they are promising, the responsibility of
Speaker 8: that primarily lies on the Senate and not them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Senate or the House. I mean, it's absolutely true.
Speaker 5: I mean CIVICX one oh one is that if you
Speaker 5: want to move money at the federal government state level,
Speaker 5: you got to engage your legislature.
Speaker 4: A lot of folks don't even know who they state
Speaker 4: legislator is.
Speaker 5: Right right, let's start there, right right, Regardless of who
Speaker 5: made the promise, people don't know who's actually functioning. To me,
Speaker 5: I serve in the state legislature in Florida, and I
Speaker 5: would tell people like, do you know who the Speaker
Speaker 5: of the House is?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: Like, because there's a person who individually can move millions, right,
Speaker 5: do you know who the Senate president is? There's a
Speaker 5: person who individually can move meaning its more importantly, what
Speaker 5: happens is focus.
Speaker 4: People get focused on where they live.
Speaker 5: So they're like, I'm went to my state representative because
Speaker 5: I live in Atlanta, But the speaker might be from
Speaker 5: making speaker might.
Speaker 4: Be from you know, anywhere. Right, you have every right
Speaker 4: to engage those folks too, right.
Speaker 8: You know, because they're representing the state and not just
Speaker 8: your area.
Speaker 4: And even boil down. The city council might be a
Speaker 4: school board. Same thing.
Speaker 5: It's a rule of numbers, right, If you're trying to
Speaker 5: move money on a body that consists of seven people,
Speaker 5: simple math, how many people you need to move the money?
Speaker 4: Four a majority.
Speaker 5: So if you're over here talking to one every day,
Speaker 5: you're beating down that door, you in the office, you
Speaker 5: ringing their phone, congratulations, you convince one person.
Speaker 6: Well, but I think to her point, to your point,
Speaker 6: sometimes when the vote's not pass it's more than just
Speaker 6: that person saying I'm gonna pass this and get this pass.
Speaker 6: There's other people that are involved in that vote that
Speaker 6: can and say no, we're not going to pass that vote.
Speaker 9: But that's not like they feel like a scam to
Speaker 9: a voter.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's necessary scam, but because I
Speaker 6: think what happens is I'm just I'm gonna keep it real.
Speaker 6: I think what happens with us as black volk, we
Speaker 6: think because we vote one time.
Speaker 10: That vote is supposed to be passed.
Speaker 6: No, we don't do enough of our homework sometimes, like
Speaker 6: and it's not an emotional thing, right, not sure you
Speaker 6: know what I mean. So, so what I see sometimes
Speaker 6: is we make we vote because it's from an emotional.
Speaker 10: Perspective versus there's time that needs to be taken.
Speaker 6: It's intelligent you take the time to keep going through
Speaker 6: the process of that vote to get passed.
Speaker 10: It's not just a one and done thing.
Speaker 9: For sure.
Speaker 2: We know that as adults. But I'm saying that's not
Speaker 2: what the campaigns say though. So that's what made people
Speaker 2: be be scari.
Speaker 3: Like voter well listen, voter voter morale and voter fatigue
Speaker 3: because there's some people that I know that have voted
Speaker 3: since Obama and midterm elections and they want to see
Speaker 3: a change with the police situation, they haven't seen anything.
Speaker 3: If anything, they've seen it get worse. So if you
Speaker 3: have voter fatigue and you don't have that voter them around.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it because personally, my parents, I mean,
Speaker 3: my people and Salema got holes down and bit by dolls.
Speaker 3: So I'm always just vote some assets or type stuff.
Speaker 3: Right For other people who've been voting since twenty two
Speaker 3: thousand and eight to try to change something that had
Speaker 3: the needle hasn't moved any at all, I'm just trying
Speaker 3: to get motivate them to do it.
Speaker 5: And I totally appreciate two things I want to make
Speaker 5: sure are concrete, especially for black folks. We've already experienced
Speaker 5: what it's like to not be able to vote. Yeah, right,
Speaker 5: we know, like we can go into history book and
Speaker 5: be like when was it that black folks couldn't vote, right,
Speaker 5: and what were they experiencing when they couldn't vote? And
Speaker 5: so this idea that withholding my vote or not voting
Speaker 5: is going to get me something, you know, Like that's
Speaker 5: a mischaracterization of what of how voting works.
Speaker 9: Right, I get you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And my thing is like just on a pure apples
Speaker 5: the apples kind of comparison. Right, you have this thing
Speaker 5: the vote, where you may get something for it, versus
Speaker 5: not voting where you're definitely.
Speaker 1: Not going to get something.
Speaker 2: And anything about it. I ain't saying like I'm against voting.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just speaking at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: before we could vote, who ran the votes? Okay, so
Speaker 2: once they let us allowed us to vote, do you
Speaker 2: think they're gonna allow it to count.
Speaker 9: That's how niggas think. Y'all was over some ship and
Speaker 9: y'all gotta let us in. Y'all gonna let us in.
Speaker 2: So far that's what electorian all that ship come in, right,
Speaker 2: So I will say college.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So it's like, really, I'm just speaking from what
Speaker 9: I hear people say.
Speaker 5: But what I'm saying is, if you're just taking on
Speaker 5: the presidential level, they are clear cut examples of just
Speaker 5: the threat of black people voting. The most overwhelming election
Speaker 5: in the history of our manorittor our country was nineteen
Speaker 5: sixty four, before the Voting Rights Act was even passed. Right,
Speaker 5: this is where Lyndon Johnson ends up I think getting
Speaker 5: over three hund you know, the electoral votes you got
Speaker 5: to get the two seventy. He ends up getting like
Speaker 5: three twenty.
Speaker 1: Can you bring that down a little bit too? The
Speaker 1: electoral college so people.
Speaker 7: Could between the electoral college vote in the popular.
Speaker 5: Vote, right, So you know we'll jump in there. I
Speaker 5: just want to cite this example is like he won
Speaker 5: overwhelming numbers of states, especially states where there were significant
Speaker 5: black populations that he had never anticipated winning before. This
Speaker 5: is states like Michigan, states like Pennsylvania, states like.
Speaker 4: You know, Illinois.
Speaker 7: States.
Speaker 5: Well, they're considered swing states now, but you got to
Speaker 5: remember in nineteen sixty four, the South couldn't vote, right,
Speaker 5: but there were these black populations in Chicago, in Philadelphia
Speaker 5: who are now saying, this dude's passing civil rights legislation.
Speaker 5: I'm rocking with him. So I'm voting for him because
Speaker 5: he's delivering on the things that I need him to
Speaker 5: deliver on. And so that's where you get overwhelming. Prime
Speaker 5: example again two thousand and eight, Obama's first go around,
Speaker 5: when people got excited, got motivated, got into the idea
Speaker 5: of hope and change, Boom, you get overwhelming. He was
Speaker 5: right under lynnon Johnson in terms of level.
Speaker 4: Of overwhelming support.
Speaker 5: But to your electoral college question, it's a vestage of slavery.
Speaker 5: Let's be clear, right, what I mean by vestas of
Speaker 5: slavery is that's where it comes from it was white
Speaker 5: slave owners concocting away so that certain states with bigger
Speaker 5: populations would not have outside power over smaller states. Right,
Speaker 5: So you calculate these electoral votes to kind of do it.
Speaker 5: So now it gives Wyoming an outside advantage over California,
Speaker 5: even though California is considerably bigger, right. And so that's
Speaker 5: something you always have to be be hyper aware of
Speaker 5: in these things. And I think a lot of people
Speaker 5: are like, well, you know, Georgia's red or Florida's read,
Speaker 5: why should I vote in a presidential And it is
Speaker 5: the importance of a the popular vote be the potential
Speaker 5: to shift the electoral vote because in most states, whoever
Speaker 5: wins the popular vote gets all the electoral votes. You know,
Speaker 5: there's a couple where you get like a split, but
Speaker 5: the overwhelming number of states say, if you win the
Speaker 5: popular vote, you win all the electoral votes, no problem.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: So, and there's only been four examples where that's been
Speaker 5: thrown off, and it's been recent. So a lot of
Speaker 5: people get.
Speaker 2: A I always as politician, just like just off camera,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna ask you on camera.
Speaker 9: Do you I'm here for it?
Speaker 2: Like politicians really come in with a good heart and
Speaker 2: go and just get turnt when they get in. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Damn, I really I thought I
Speaker 2: could make a change, but I can't. Damn, Damn, damn,
Speaker 2: and they just become.
Speaker 5: I will break it down in a couple different ways,
Speaker 5: and I'll be very, very very blunt about it. Right,
Speaker 5: politicians are regular people. Insecurities falls in the whole nine yards.
Speaker 5: I remember when I first got elected. I think I
Speaker 5: went into the cafeteria and this lady out the blue
Speaker 5: is like, hey, represented a bullet. Now, I ain't never
Speaker 5: met you, right yet you know my title and you
Speaker 5: know my name. For a lot of people that's intoxicated
Speaker 5: like a drug, this idea that somebody's treating me with
Speaker 5: a higher level of respect than I've ever had, and
Speaker 5: so they get kind of caught up in the titles,
Speaker 5: get caught up in the prestige. You know, That's all
Speaker 5: it was. She was Magga spaghetti, so there's nothing to it.
Speaker 5: But I would also be mindful of the holding people fountable, right.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of times, especially in our community,
Speaker 5: we get somebody who had the same hard look story
Speaker 5: that we had, came up went to the same high school.
Speaker 4: It was just like, oh, they know me. They got it.
Speaker 4: Now you got to check in with those folks.
Speaker 5: And the other example I would give is that in
Speaker 5: the state of Florida, I'll use an example, there are
Speaker 5: three thousand registered lobbyists in the state of Florida just
Speaker 5: for state legislative stuff. Really, we only have one hundred
Speaker 5: and sixty legislators, so that is.
Speaker 7: Almost as a lobbyists after register.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean actual lobbyists. You can advocate for free,
Speaker 5: but if you're gonna lobby the state, you have to register.
Speaker 5: So think about that. That means thirty people for every
Speaker 5: one person who's getting a vote, our lobbyists, right, And
Speaker 5: then take it a step further of that, you have
Speaker 5: less than one hundred black lobbyists out of three thousand.
Speaker 8: So explained, So this is what I wanted to know
Speaker 8: about that too, Like always, Okay, So when it comes
Speaker 8: to the whole like lobbying thing, what part of lobbying
Speaker 8: is legal and what part is illegal?
Speaker 5: Well a very state to state, but like I use
Speaker 5: Florida as an example, we have what's called a gift
Speaker 5: law ban, right, so you can't accept anything over twenty
Speaker 5: five work over valued over twenty five dollars as a
Speaker 5: gift in the state of Florida, which means and they
Speaker 5: pass that because they don't want people just actively briden,
Speaker 5: you know, people for their vote. But the flip side
Speaker 5: is you can contribute to my campaign right.
Speaker 7: As a lobbyition.
Speaker 4: But again it husbands how you angle it right.
Speaker 5: And so this is what I mean by the balancing
Speaker 5: out voting versus money, you know, an activist work, which
Speaker 5: I do. Now, we say that power is organize people
Speaker 5: are organized money. So you got to move one of
Speaker 5: those two to activate anybody. Folks up in these up
Speaker 5: in the state legislature, folks up in the city council
Speaker 5: see organized money all the time, special interests, different things.
Speaker 5: Falcons want to build a new stadium, you know. So
Speaker 5: the question is what is the organized people? Because if
Speaker 5: organize money is motivating people, because that's what there's it's tangible,
Speaker 5: then that means that you also got to be able
Speaker 5: to mobilize three hundred people to the city hall, you know,
Speaker 5: or use a platform like the one you have here
Speaker 5: to say, all right, these politicians ain't about shit. Let's
Speaker 5: call them out and let's hold them accountable until they
Speaker 5: get it, Until they knock on my door saying, stop
Speaker 5: stop dogging me out on the radio. But like, I'll
Speaker 5: stop dogging you out when you stop dogging out the community.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: And so that's the kind of agitation that we need.
Speaker 5: But a lot of people again conceive power to people
Speaker 5: who they presume to be worth it them.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, so, why do you think is
Speaker 2: separate like Democrat Republicans?
Speaker 9: And why you think it's separate one?
Speaker 5: I mean it could be. I actually think it needs
Speaker 5: to be more than two parties. Let's be clear, because
Speaker 5: you look at all of our other neighbors, Great Britain, Canada,
Speaker 5: you know, Mexico, they all have multi party systems where
Speaker 5: people can find their political identity somewhere and then they
Speaker 5: get what's called coalition governments. So you got ten parties.
Speaker 5: Whoever can get to the fifty percent then controls the government,
Speaker 5: The picks the speaker, does that thing. And I think
Speaker 5: people will be more excited about politics if they knew
Speaker 5: they could do stuff like that. The problem that we
Speaker 5: have with the current two party system is you got
Speaker 5: a lot of people who say I'm not feeling the Democrats,
Speaker 5: a lot of people saying I'm not feeling the Republicans,
Speaker 5: and then you got all these people in the middle
Speaker 5: who are just like, well, I'm not registering for any
Speaker 5: party because I'm just not.
Speaker 4: I'm not caught up.
Speaker 5: And so now we got this polarization happening across the
Speaker 5: country where people making assumptions about these parties and what
Speaker 5: power they hold, or what power they wild, or who
Speaker 5: they represent, which can be some bs.
Speaker 2: So if you blew or red, like just save for instance,
Speaker 2: if you blew a red and you are politician, and
Speaker 2: you and you're a politician and you really really don't
Speaker 2: agree with your side, how does that work?
Speaker 4: You vote no? Listen? I was listen, I was a
Speaker 4: no voting full up in the legislature.
Speaker 9: Right, How does it work afterwards?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 9: Do you gain off?
Speaker 5: You got to be prepared for them. But what I
Speaker 5: would say is, and you know, I won't call out,
Speaker 5: won't call our names, right, but the problem is, like
Speaker 5: the party in power, Let's just say the Republicans were
Speaker 5: in power and up in our state capitol in Tallahassee.
Speaker 5: And of course that being like, all right, I need
Speaker 5: a democratic vote, so it can seem by partisan. So
Speaker 5: they gonna come, They're gonna schmooze you. They're gonna be like,
Speaker 5: let's go to dinner. I promise you this, I promise
Speaker 5: you that. And so those folks end up saying, well,
Speaker 5: they said, I'm get one hundred grand from my community.
Speaker 5: So I got to vote with them on this statement
Speaker 5: that's actually gonna hurt my community. And people hear about
Speaker 5: those stories all the time where it'll be like, you
Speaker 5: just sold up, you sold us out on a vote
Speaker 5: that was just that of the third my you know,
Speaker 5: my notion was you not going to play me, You're
Speaker 5: going to respect me. So my no vote sometimes will
Speaker 5: be more powerful than a yes vote for one of
Speaker 5: my Democratic colleagues, because you know, just put it.
Speaker 4: They gave up the booty too quick, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, that's it.
Speaker 5: I mean, like you let them buy your dinner firsus
Speaker 5: something like, you know, put together a playlist.
Speaker 4: To say, like you know what I'm saying, like that's
Speaker 4: ways to get romance.
Speaker 5: And and the thing about these folks is they'll go
Speaker 5: in there and be like, oh, you said that it is,
Speaker 5: let's go and they'd be like, well, thank you for this.
Speaker 4: I didn't even ask for but you just gonna give
Speaker 4: it to cool.
Speaker 9: What about friends and politics?
Speaker 2: Like do you think they there's like a conspiraence on
Speaker 2: a lot of votes, Like, bro, what you're doing, what
Speaker 2: you're doing?
Speaker 9: What you're doing?
Speaker 4: Like that?
Speaker 2: So ask the question again, like this saving me and
Speaker 2: you friends and both of us was like had our
Speaker 2: votes count together, you know what I'm saying. You think
Speaker 2: it'd be friendly votes? Like I call you the night before, like,
Speaker 2: which are you going?
Speaker 5: You know, we'll be around, We'll be in meetings and
Speaker 5: be like here's our strategy. But sometimes, and that was
Speaker 5: to be the thing that will mess me up is
Speaker 5: I used to be the Democratic lead on many of
Speaker 5: my committees, and I'd be like, we gotta go down
Speaker 5: on this. We got to vote knowing this.
Speaker 4: Ah, you know I can't.
Speaker 5: You know, I got some things going on, just like
Speaker 5: it ain't going It ain't gonna kill you to vote
Speaker 5: no on this bill this time. They you know, I
Speaker 5: got friends of mine now, especially the black women. Shout
Speaker 5: out to black women because y'all really be holding it
Speaker 5: down in these in these spaces, because the brothers be
Speaker 5: out here punking out, you know, just just like you know,
Speaker 5: like some of these folks will say the most slanderous, racist,
Speaker 5: misogynist things to a black woman in their face, like
Speaker 5: on the floor, being like, you know, y'all need to
Speaker 5: go back to cooking and cleaning, like you know, stuff
Speaker 5: like like just real nasty stuff. And you expect in
Speaker 5: that moment that a brother on the floor gonna be
Speaker 5: like whoa, whoa, whoa. That's not what we're gonna do
Speaker 5: right now. You know, I got colleagues friends of mine,
Speaker 5: you know, who are black women who will be like
Speaker 5: them dudes being just shrinking, cut the mic off. My
Speaker 5: name's been and I ain't in it. And she like,
Speaker 5: I'm out here getting slandered on the floor by these people.
Speaker 5: The one person I thought would happen my back you
Speaker 5: over here like, well I don't they promised me to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's what I was asking earlier, Like some
Speaker 2: of them come in with ambition and good. When they
Speaker 2: get in there and get around power, do they think power?
Speaker 2: Then they bitch up, right, But it's also perception of power.
Speaker 2: And this is what I'm saying is like black folks
Speaker 2: don't work too hard too long to get through what
Speaker 2: we got to act like we ain't got no power.
Speaker 4: And that's what I hate about us.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it is like we feel as though white validation
Speaker 5: is power. You know, like if they if they if
Speaker 5: they become my friend, if they tell me I'm smart,
Speaker 5: you know, if they if they congratulate me for this thing,
Speaker 5: and that's and I get it. It's like it's psychological, right,
Speaker 5: you know. We don't come up hard, difficult, this, that
Speaker 5: and the third. But that's the thing about checking our
Speaker 5: people is sometimes you don't know who's getting elected, who's
Speaker 5: operating from a place of all I want is white people.
Speaker 4: To like me. Damn.
Speaker 7: So let me ask you this.
Speaker 8: How many how many people senate or otherwise in different legislatures,
Speaker 8: settings or whatever have you seen that, like Black said,
Speaker 8: came in with ambition and the best intentions and you know,
Speaker 8: plans to really try to make a difference.
Speaker 7: And then they get in and.
Speaker 8: Continuously get shot down or whatever happens, and they get
Speaker 8: discouraged and just give up on their entire job.
Speaker 5: I mean, it happens all the time. Burnout happens all
Speaker 5: the time. But you know, some of it, we just
Speaker 5: gotta we gotta stand in the paint.
Speaker 4: I use.
Speaker 5: You know, one of my good friends in the Wisconsin legislature,
Speaker 5: there are. At that time, there were five black people
Speaker 5: in the entire legislature, two senators, three representatives.
Speaker 4: All from Milwaukee.
Speaker 5: Right, that was the only black people in the entire
Speaker 5: legislative body. That can feel like overwhelming when you got
Speaker 5: that many white people all the time doing the thing.
Speaker 4: But still, you.
Speaker 5: Know, fuck those five pepeople used to lock horns with
Speaker 5: those folks because what a lot of people don't know
Speaker 5: is the most incarcerated zip code in the country is Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Speaker 9: So you gotta you gotta be.
Speaker 5: A country like disproportionately, like eighty percent of the prisoners
Speaker 5: in Wisconsin come from one zip code in the hood
Speaker 5: in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Damn home girl from Milwaukee. Let me ask you something.
Speaker 2: So you gotta be clean as bleached you goddamn stands
Speaker 2: absolutely not absolutely about be blucket.
Speaker 9: I don't think.
Speaker 5: So here's what you have to be honest with yourself.
Speaker 5: Because here's the problem, like anything in life, right, if
Speaker 5: you are here keeping secrets, somebody gonna come. Fact, don't
Speaker 5: come find out you got a mistress. You gotta you
Speaker 5: got some money you've been holding on to high all
Speaker 5: the things. But one of the things, like people used
Speaker 5: to ask me all the time when I first ran
Speaker 5: for office. You know, you have people who are just like,
Speaker 5: you gotta dress this way, wear these shoes, say these things,
Speaker 5: talk this way. And I was like, I came from
Speaker 5: public school teaching, and I was like, the most honest
Speaker 5: assessment that I ever received was from sixteen year olds too,
Speaker 5: because they're gonna call you out for your bullshit, right,
Speaker 5: and so walking into the legislature.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm not going to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not gonna say so. It was like I'm
Speaker 5: making wu tang references. I'm playing biggie, I'm you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like I get it. We gotta wear
Speaker 5: a tie.
Speaker 2: Type of clean about like clean clean, like you can't
Speaker 2: have no like not record like just say buddies that
Speaker 2: that that may be, you know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 2: certain type of friends, but.
Speaker 5: Curtain back, that's what I'm saying, Like part of the appeal,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, using Trump as example, part
Speaker 5: of the appeal of Trump for a lot of people,
Speaker 5: including some black folks, unfortunately, is the fact that he
Speaker 5: just doesn't care translate that to any other politician. And
Speaker 5: this is what I'm saying, is like, how many baby
Speaker 5: Mammy's you got don't matter at that point if you're
Speaker 5: being honest about the fact you got them. You know,
Speaker 5: being where you're from doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: From the streets. Came from the streets, like you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, Like tangled up, but.
Speaker 5: Don't get tangled up. Like when somebody slides you a
Speaker 5: briefcase with one hundred thousand dollars, you're not supposed to be.
Speaker 4: Like, you know what, this is my briefcase.
Speaker 2: Right, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm saying, so
Speaker 2: that's clean whatever it is. He had to because you're
Speaker 2: going to be up on the microscope with his skin cover.
Speaker 4: So but illegal, you know what I'm saying, Like it's
Speaker 4: wonder Obama, I'm sure that's what I meant.
Speaker 9: You can't get no little money on the side or
Speaker 9: none of.
Speaker 5: That, but this is what I'm saying. And like even
Speaker 5: Obama in his book was like I used to, you know,
Speaker 5: smoke a little weed, little coke. He said, like this
Speaker 5: is what he said. Everyone knew it.
Speaker 1: He got in front of it.
Speaker 4: Everyone knew it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, And so it's just like no one was like, oh, well,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, like and yeah, the person
Speaker 5: we saw presented, you know, was clean to a degree,
Speaker 5: but we're talking about south side Chicago.
Speaker 9: Smoking.
Speaker 5: He said he have a hard time to Yeah, he
Speaker 5: was a say it was a two pack of day
Speaker 5: cat before he ran for office.
Speaker 10: He was just like that ran in DC that Marion
Speaker 10: Barry came back.
Speaker 5: And the thing about you asked anybody in d C
Speaker 5: who the best mayor was, who's over the age of fifty,
Speaker 5: They're gonna say Marion Barry. It being like the dude
Speaker 5: to smoke crack. Mary and barryheads.
Speaker 7: Are some of the best people you've got back. They
Speaker 7: just smoked though the FI.
Speaker 4: They got skilled. Listen, they know math. Really, I mean.
Speaker 10: Listen, So is.
Speaker 2: Uh Kamala the best candidate for the job or she's
Speaker 2: the best look for the job?
Speaker 5: If we're gonna make it a binary choice between her
Speaker 5: and Trump, She's hands down, no, she's the better candidate.
Speaker 4: Let's be clear.
Speaker 5: Like you know, and I'm not saying that felons should
Speaker 5: not be a thing, but we're talking about a dude
Speaker 5: who's been civil case for sexual assault. So he did it, right,
Speaker 5: you done done something that violated you know, some part
Speaker 5: of that woman. Right, we're talking about what eleven bankruptcies.
Speaker 5: He's not allowed to actually run a business in the
Speaker 5: state of New York currently, Like that was part of
Speaker 5: the settlement from the New York trial that he lost.
Speaker 5: So you're talking about a dude who couldn't open a
Speaker 5: lemonade stand in New York. Today we're about to give
Speaker 5: him the nuclear codes and say he's running the economy.
Speaker 5: That's the thing that blows my mind about the whole
Speaker 5: Trump conversation is this notion of his success. Show me
Speaker 5: a Trump company that was successful.
Speaker 1: You can't.
Speaker 8: They can't even show where he has worked to earn
Speaker 8: or build something from scratch outside of his father's inheritance, right.
Speaker 5: I mean, if I listen, if anybody here got thirteen
Speaker 5: million dollars given to them, I'm sure you can make
Speaker 5: some magic.
Speaker 7: You can start.
Speaker 8: And then another thing too, I how to cut you off,
Speaker 8: just to speak back to what you were saying about
Speaker 8: the period, the period in time, the period of time
Speaker 8: like before we were able to vote. A lot of
Speaker 8: people don't even understand the scope or the magnitude of
Speaker 8: the twenty twenty five plan that Trump is trying to implement,
Speaker 8: which is going to take us direct back to those
Speaker 8: times as soon as he is elected into office.
Speaker 7: God forbid if that.
Speaker 4: Should happen right straight rollback.
Speaker 5: You have people who are just who've gotten on TV
Speaker 5: and be like women should not be able to vote,
Speaker 5: like doubts. Who's who are actively saying like that was
Speaker 5: the worst thing to ever happen, was women getting the
Speaker 5: right to vote, like in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: But you would But this is where we are.
Speaker 6: I will say, I think I think the problem Trump
Speaker 6: is the world saw him when he did The Apprentice,
Speaker 6: and I think that's what they think that they're getting.
Speaker 4: They equate the name with the success the world.
Speaker 10: That doesn't mean you can run the country.
Speaker 3: But I will give him from a marketing standpoint from.
Speaker 9: Hentro trolling, he's p T.
Speaker 1: Burnham.
Speaker 5: But but just to give credit, you know, I don't
Speaker 5: want to make it all about his downfalls for for
Speaker 5: VP Harris, people don't give you know, and we already
Speaker 5: know that misogyny is a thing and women kind of
Speaker 5: get downgraded. But we're talking about from an experience standpoint.
Speaker 5: She's been a district attorney, like elected district attorney in
Speaker 5: San Francisco, State Attorney General of California, which a lot
Speaker 5: of people. The only department of justice bigger than the
Speaker 5: State of California's Department of Justice is the federal government,
Speaker 5: So she was in charge of the second largest department
Speaker 5: of justice in the country.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like basically not such off again in Layman's terms,
Speaker 8: for people that don't understand what you're trying to say.
Speaker 8: If we're comparing the presidency and the government and what
Speaker 8: you're saying to like a fast food chain, if the
Speaker 8: government where she's worked is being compared to like McDonald's.
Speaker 8: She's run the register, she's run the fry machine, she's
Speaker 8: flipped the burgers, she's made the fucking breakfast Sam.
Speaker 9: Just exactly.
Speaker 7: Trump, It's just Ronald McDonald exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: You just I just I just I feel like with
Speaker 2: this election me personally, I just feel like it's more
Speaker 2: about I don't see. They touch on sometime what they're
Speaker 2: gonna do their policies, but I just see it's like
Speaker 2: a fight, like what they don't vote for her because
Speaker 2: it's a don't vote for him because it is I
Speaker 2: don't see like what y'all actually saying y'all gonna do.
Speaker 5: For the votes what I mean and This goes back
Speaker 5: to the educating thing. Like everyone wants the president to
Speaker 5: be like, I'm gonna do this, and this is what's
Speaker 5: gonna gonna be done. Most presidencies don't work that way.
Speaker 5: You know, the president can do an executive order, series
Speaker 5: of executive orders that might give you something, but in
Speaker 5: terms of moving money, Like even when people talk about
Speaker 5: the stimulus check, that wasn't the president's call. He didn't
Speaker 5: snap his fingers and be like, get this sixty hundred
Speaker 5: dollars out the folks.
Speaker 4: It was Congress. He put his name on it. Real.
Speaker 8: The only reason he put it marketing, because market marketing Trump.
Speaker 9: If I got it, it looked like Trump gave it money, right,
Speaker 9: And the.
Speaker 5: Thing about it is was it President Obama got out there,
Speaker 5: He's like, I sent y'all money too, but I sent
Speaker 5: an electronic transfer.
Speaker 4: But I was because because I put it directly in
Speaker 4: your account.
Speaker 7: Because you didn't have contact.
Speaker 5: You're gonna find me because I did you. I gave
Speaker 5: you direct deposit. This dude sends you a paper check.
Speaker 5: And I was like, whoa, look what he did for us.
Speaker 2: You think January one hundred percent It was a modified
Speaker 2: clan rally because and people down.
Speaker 5: People down play it. Uh my brother's in the Capitol police.
Speaker 5: He was there, right, and he was like, nah, bro,
Speaker 5: like if he's like understand, had they kept coming, we
Speaker 5: was gonna we was gonna have to give them all
Speaker 5: the smoke if they if they kept doing it. The
Speaker 5: only thing that kept us from going, you know, full
Speaker 5: deaf Con three was the fact that the President of
Speaker 5: the United States wasn't giving authorization. But they were like,
Speaker 5: we were fighting for our lives. Like he was like,
Speaker 5: we had to move people, and we had explicit instruction
Speaker 5: that if they crossed a particular line, they're gonna have
Speaker 5: to get it. So we're lucky more people didn't die.
Speaker 5: But let's be clear. If you look at the documentary
Speaker 5: about January sixth, there were armed folks trying to enter
Speaker 5: the Capitol, trying to find individual members of government, including
Speaker 5: the Vice President of the United States, and we're threatening
Speaker 5: to kill him, like and we out here like ah,
Speaker 5: it was just they were just marching pleasantly. Don't equate
Speaker 5: the march on Washington with doctor King where we're having
Speaker 5: January sixth.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 9: That how you think it is, how you think it's
Speaker 9: gonna go. If it go the other way.
Speaker 5: I mean, folks gonna be upset. Folks gonna be upset.
Speaker 5: But what I want to remind, especially black folks, you
Speaker 5: know we stay ready, so we don't have to get ready, right,
Speaker 5: We've we've done this before, good battering different whoever gets elected,
Speaker 5: were gonna survive. We're gonna try and make it do
Speaker 5: what it does. But I don't want us to be
Speaker 5: active participants in our own demise. To your point around
Speaker 5: Project between twenty five. That's a nine hundred page playbook
Speaker 5: of what they want to do because they understand that
Speaker 5: America is becoming browner, that black and brown people are
Speaker 5: getting more power, and we got to do something to
Speaker 5: stop it, to make sure we get control back.
Speaker 4: That is what project is.
Speaker 8: The most mind blowing part about the shit is that
Speaker 8: this nine hundred page playbook that you're speaking on is
Speaker 8: publicly available.
Speaker 7: Like they're not trying to hide it. They don't give
Speaker 7: a fuck.
Speaker 5: No, They're like, we don't do it. And the thing
Speaker 5: about it is that a lot of people don't. It's
Speaker 5: not even about Trump. At the end of the day,
Speaker 5: they gonna find some new pawn Trump loses, he doesn't
Speaker 5: run again, they gonna find Jdvance, they gonna find somebody
Speaker 5: else to.
Speaker 8: Be like he let's not even talk about him and
Speaker 8: how fucking despicable he is.
Speaker 9: Like so basica, the vote not at all.
Speaker 6: But you see how she's informed. That's how every voter
Speaker 6: should be in front. That's why you go back to
Speaker 6: say why shouldn't I vote? She's the reason why she's
Speaker 6: taking the time to educate herself and understand what does
Speaker 6: this vote mean? How does this affect me? How does
Speaker 6: this affect my community?
Speaker 8: But I feel like if if if a lot more
Speaker 8: people just took like a little bit of time to
Speaker 8: kind of just understand what's really going on, then they
Speaker 8: would understand and without a shadow of a doubt, like
Speaker 8: do whatever needs to be done to get themselves, along
Speaker 8: with whoever's around them, to the polls so that we
Speaker 8: can at least start trying to make some kind of
Speaker 8: change or prevent some of this ship that they're trying
Speaker 8: to put for from happening.
Speaker 5: And I'll take it a step further because what I
Speaker 5: love about us and I hate about us at the
Speaker 5: same time is when Kendrick and uh and Drake was
Speaker 5: going through they thing folks could tell me what Drake
Speaker 5: ate on a Tuesday, like they had that kind of detail,
Speaker 5: like you know, he can't come back because he had
Speaker 5: a filet mignon last night, and that there was giving
Speaker 5: me all kinds of detailed understanding about why these peoples
Speaker 5: going so deep. Nine hundred page document been online for
Speaker 5: not one year, probably twenty twelve has been out for
Speaker 5: two years. That means that if folks wanted to just
Speaker 5: pick it apart twenty pages at a time, they had
Speaker 5: nothing but time.
Speaker 3: Every indict right come out on rappers or anybody that
Speaker 3: got an indictmingd read the whole thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know they found in the YSL case, like
Speaker 5: what's happening with Slim that we got to know. Here's
Speaker 5: a man who just got hit with thirty four felonies
Speaker 5: and people are like, well, you know, gotta give him
Speaker 5: a chance.
Speaker 4: Wait, wait, wait, I must I'm confused. You got me confused.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You got the da, you got you got da Willis
Speaker 5: on the stand, you know, for what she was doing
Speaker 5: and who she was sleeping with all.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, But we're giving a.
Speaker 5: Man a pass. He out here talking about other man's
Speaker 5: penises dead man's penises. Oh oh, you must have missed
Speaker 5: that part.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump was up here talking about the golfer, the
Speaker 5: dead golfer, Arnold Palmers. Since you play golf, right, the
Speaker 5: legend the goat Arnold Palmer, not.
Speaker 7: The lemonade and sweet tea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the actual person talking about. Yeah, when he was
Speaker 5: in the locker room, people were in awe. When they
Speaker 5: would stepping the shower and.
Speaker 4: See people like what are you? He said.
Speaker 9: They were in a speech during one of these rallies.
Speaker 5: Man, the man is losing it on live TV, and
Speaker 5: people out here like, let's give him the presidency again.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Latino thing took me up.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna tell you what it is. Nigga in real
Speaker 9: in real time, bro, Niggas just don't give a fuck
Speaker 9: for real, that's real.
Speaker 2: That's just all it. Niggas like Project twenty five. And
Speaker 2: they showed me that.
Speaker 9: They kind of made me cant. Well, I ain't gonna
Speaker 9: say count.
Speaker 2: It made me give a fuck, especially because I got
Speaker 2: a lot of people that need metal care. I got
Speaker 2: a lot of people that a lot of stuff that
Speaker 2: was in there. They explaining it to me, I'm like, damn.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's fucked up.
Speaker 9: But other than that, I didn't give a fuck.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 5: I just want to remind black people America is they
Speaker 5: fuck around and find out country and we have.
Speaker 9: We don't funk around and found that already.
Speaker 4: But clearly memories that got short. And what I'm saying
Speaker 4: is right.
Speaker 5: But I don't think people get it because you know,
Speaker 5: we come up in a generation when we went to
Speaker 5: school white folks. We you know, like so a lot
Speaker 5: of folks don't get it, get it right in terms
Speaker 5: of what it was like when you had to go
Speaker 5: to a different bathroom when you had to you couldn't
Speaker 5: look a white person in the highes.
Speaker 4: They didn't.
Speaker 5: Get lynched, and people people think that's like people think
Speaker 5: that's some distant history. I was telling somebody literally yesterday,
Speaker 5: my dad when he graduated from high school didn't have
Speaker 5: the right to vote.
Speaker 1: Right, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: Like my dad, like the guy, like I can call
Speaker 5: him now, call into the show and be like, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But people out here just like like it's always been
Speaker 5: this way.
Speaker 4: And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: Man. When this ship was separate. It was better when we.
Speaker 2: Started trying to do all that. Let vote and go
Speaker 2: to school with them. Nigga death when it got worse,
Speaker 2: people money and it was on play of time.
Speaker 9: Man. I mean, this ship was totally different.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: My grandma had listen, my grandmother had had a beauty
Speaker 2: Scelana Auburn.
Speaker 4: Auburn was like sweet.
Speaker 2: That ship was like Rodeo for black people. Like I'm
Speaker 2: telling it was different.
Speaker 9: Bro.
Speaker 2: Now when you start trying to get over here, doctor
Speaker 2: King did all that, like niggas one. Really I hate
Speaker 2: to say that, but niggas won with that shit with
Speaker 2: doctor King Witt in Atlanta and on Auburn and shit like, Bro,
Speaker 2: we ain't trying to get into that.
Speaker 9: We with you, but we ain't trying to be with them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I feel like I feel like just to
Speaker 8: speak on that, I feel like you're absolutely right with
Speaker 8: what you're saying. But I feel like two things. Okay,
Speaker 8: you know how they say, like you what am I
Speaker 8: trying to say? Like you can never understand heartbreak until
Speaker 8: after you've been in love. Like basically like Auburn was
Speaker 8: booming and sweet Auburn was sweet Auburn because you know
Speaker 8: it was separated and it wasn't integrated or whatever. But
Speaker 8: at the end of the day, those people at that
Speaker 8: time that were on Sweet Auburn thought it was sweet
Speaker 8: because they didn't know any better. They didn't know anything else.
Speaker 8: They didn't know like.
Speaker 7: The other opportunities and the things.
Speaker 2: That were It ain't no opportunity, bro, growing We were
Speaker 2: black people growing their own food.
Speaker 9: We were doing everything independently. Bro. Now okay, what about
Speaker 9: mister Jordan.
Speaker 7: Were still getting beaten.
Speaker 2: Not really like that, bro, not really nigga, buddy. I
Speaker 2: think we just be seeing the ship we see on news,
Speaker 2: some nigga with bucket when going for that?
Speaker 9: Am I right wrong?
Speaker 4: To a degree?
Speaker 9: Way, y'all stay out of our way?
Speaker 4: Yes and no. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 5: So the Sweet Auburn equivalent in Miami was Third Avenue
Speaker 5: are Black Wall Street. The Klan will walk down Black
Speaker 5: Wall Street, bold black neighborhood. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: because they could at that point. And this is what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, is like the degradation, the disrespect, the dehumanization.
Speaker 5: Although we were getting money, although we had black wealth
Speaker 5: all the way, we had black banks.
Speaker 4: It's the fact. It's the it's they.
Speaker 5: It's the psychological trip, the idea that you thought your
Speaker 5: lemonade wasn't sweet enough, and that's the problem that we had.
Speaker 2: But you just said earlier, bro, it's just like we
Speaker 2: trying to adapt everything they do straight hell from the
Speaker 2: lady was sexist, fucking them fro to me when I
Speaker 2: look back, like everything we try to adapt to them
Speaker 2: is what making us lose us and we.
Speaker 9: The special ones.
Speaker 4: But now that's just shifted into a self love show.
Speaker 4: And that's.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but that's say Is that what you what
Speaker 3: you're saying? I received, but what is their way? Because
Speaker 3: the first example was Black Wall Street and Black Wall
Speaker 3: Street was exactly what she was talking about, and they
Speaker 3: burnt it down literally.
Speaker 2: Apologetically somebody while we don't go charged. It's so many
Speaker 2: two survivors can't get no reparations. It's so many black
Speaker 2: wealthy people. We just got behind the right man that
Speaker 2: can do it, a black man. If the black votes matter,
Speaker 2: they push us somebody up through.
Speaker 3: Them, They will try, They will try.
Speaker 8: That is like you're saying, shit, we got to convince
Speaker 8: the niggas that got the money.
Speaker 4: That's number one, but out, But I get more basic
Speaker 4: and I'll use the Atlanta as an example, and people
Speaker 4: can say.
Speaker 7: What they people can say what they want.
Speaker 4: People say they want about Mayor Jackson. Right.
Speaker 5: But when if anybody's ever seen the documentary Mainard, the
Speaker 5: thing that stuck out for me was when he decided
Speaker 5: to build the airport, to expand the airport, and the
Speaker 5: white folks is coming to him saying, we can't find
Speaker 5: black contractors to do X y Z.
Speaker 4: He asked a simple question.
Speaker 5: You're telling me you can't find a black person that
Speaker 5: can cut grass. He's like, because the airport needs grass cut, right,
Speaker 5: So you're telling me you can't find a single black
Speaker 5: person that cuts grass in all of Atlanta. And they
Speaker 5: were like, well, when you put it that way, and
Speaker 5: that's the problem is that we could still have a
Speaker 5: sweet Auburn, We can still have multiple sweet Arborns.
Speaker 4: We can also get black Wall Street.
Speaker 5: But a lot of folks can't get out their own
Speaker 5: way right and can't ask the simple question.
Speaker 4: Instead, people will sit.
Speaker 5: There and use legal ease and all these other languages
Speaker 5: to spend the whole thing and be like, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: I need a restaurant here is there's somebody who cooks
Speaker 5: chicken that can go in this in this vacant space
Speaker 5: to become a.
Speaker 8: Restaurant, wash dishes color that can bust the tables.
Speaker 4: Like we're talking about black economics.
Speaker 5: What do you do well? I want to put you
Speaker 5: here to do that thing well, and you do that
Speaker 5: thing well. But because we've gotten so far away now
Speaker 5: we want to be we want to be crypto raiders
Speaker 5: and we want to do this and we want to
Speaker 5: be tech bros.
Speaker 4: And it's like we already got it.
Speaker 5: We see the example over and over again. Atlantas duplicated
Speaker 5: it more times than you can think of the face
Speaker 5: so so deaf record like you've taken this thing and
Speaker 5: blown it up. And there's constant examples of our of
Speaker 5: our self sustainability. We just got to get out of
Speaker 5: our own way and stop thinking that the grass is
Speaker 5: green on the other side.
Speaker 9: That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Stop chasing
Speaker 9: their dreaming and chase our own.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I ain't trying to turn into the civil right meaning
Speaker 2: or nothing. I'm just saying I don't. I don't get it, bro,
Speaker 2: I'm trying.
Speaker 10: Is I had a I had an old boss.
Speaker 6: Stop me one time white guy, He said, Roy, do
Speaker 6: you realize the average kid that's between the age of
Speaker 6: twelve and twenty five want to be black?
Speaker 4: Fact?
Speaker 10: When we realized.
Speaker 6: That, that's when we're walking on in facts man like, Well,
Speaker 6: I don't taking my call to the white folk.
Speaker 9: I ain't let any nigga look on my.
Speaker 5: First shout out to the Shade Tree Mechanics. Still putting
Speaker 5: it down for it's in a six pack of beer.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you pulling up man. Let everybody know about
Speaker 3: your company, how they could tap in. What y'all you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, and you're welcome back on the
Speaker 3: platform anytime.
Speaker 5: I certainly appreciate thank y'all for for letting me cross
Speaker 5: the border from Florida into Georgia. Florida Rising is a
Speaker 5: state based nonprofit in florida're trying to do the work
Speaker 5: to remind people that they have their own power. We
Speaker 5: got other organizations here in Georgia and across the country
Speaker 5: trying to build that same level of power.
Speaker 4: So I would definitely encourage people to tap in.
Speaker 5: It's not about political parties, it's not about culture, personality
Speaker 5: or these individuals. You have real people doing grassroots work.
Speaker 5: You know five, ten, fifteen minutes from where you live
Speaker 5: that are trying to get people organized and mobilized.
Speaker 4: So checking with them so we can build.
Speaker 1: Appreciate y'all brothers, Thank you. Check them out any bank,
Speaker 1: crazy
Speaker 9: Extra, it's big fact, don't cap bitch,