WEBVTT - Education By Any Means Necessary 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.640 I'm Tamika d. Mallory and it shit boy. My son 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.640 is generally we are your host of TMI. 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.079 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, motivation. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:13.200 And inspiration, new energy. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.200 What's going on, my son, Lennon, How I'm doing good? 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:27.960 Drum road, drum roll. I'm just laughing because I'm so tired, 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.440 so tired that it's just trying to hold it together. Well, 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.800 you know, the season has begun where it's time to 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:40.520 travel around this country and we just sain't got ship 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.320 to work with, like honestly, like it's really really hard 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:49.560 because well, and I think that what we do have 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.840 and the only thing we have is the issues that 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.120 matter to our communities, Like we really have to be 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:03.720 focused on local people, local issues, and then how those 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:08.160 local issues play into the larger narrative in terms of 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.880 what's happening in our communities, because every which way we turn, 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.360 there are I mean, these folks that we fight against 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:24.600 every day are extremely strategic and so every city around 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:28.640 this country there's some type of dynamic where they have 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:33.880 begun to make shifts in the politics on the ground, 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.600 whether it be inserting there is a new it's not 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.960 new in terms of it's never happened before, but there's 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:49.520 a reignited effort to bring black people who don't align 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.960 with our issues and put them in position in communities. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.440 And so what we're dealing with now is combating the 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:02.600 Daniel Cameron effect, that is the Attorney General was the 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:07.080 attorney general of Louis I mean of Kentucky who tried 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.119 to become governor black man, and we had to sit 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.320 him down. And so we have you know, this is 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.120 a situation where all around the nation we're seeing these 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.399 types of black people popping up, and it's it's it's 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:26.200 a trying time because at the same time trying to 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.680 sell people that we still can do this, like we 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.359 still can continue to fight, we have we don't need 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:38.400 to give up that there is in fact so much 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.040 possibility in us like staying together and staying on the 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.480 wall and continuing to do the work. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:45.480 It's really hard right now. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:51.280 People not interested because people, let me not say people, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.880 it's just some people. There's a lot of people who 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.919 are very interested, but there are some who and they 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:58.280 are it's the ones. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.960 That contact with the people that we've seen that have 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.920 really put blood, sweat and tears into trying to fight 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.680 for our people, right, and they just sometimes you just 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:09.440 get deflated. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:09.840 You know. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.440 You see certain things and you feel like you're making 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:14.880 strides and you feel like you're going forward, and then 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.959 there are certain things that just take wind out of yourselves. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.280 And you know, and I say that all the time. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.200 I see what happened to a lot of our elders 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.520 and our ancestors that fought and just got tired. You know, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.960 there were some of them that made history and continued. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:30.520 You know. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:36.080 I was watching Harry Belafonte's one of the movies that 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:40.560 they put out of following Harry and just looking what 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.960 he went through in different generations, right, Like I watched 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.000 him as a young man fighting with Doctor King, right, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.200 and he was there and he was he was funding 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.240 the movement, he was right with him. And then doctor 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.160 King told him, I feared that, you know, I've integrated 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:02.120 our people into a burning building. Hearing Doctor King say that, right, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.640 and then he's still fighting. He's he was confused, like 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.760 what do you mean? And then as he started to continue, 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.720 he started to see that, right. I seen him having 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.080 conversations with you. I see them having a conversation with 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.520 the dream defenders. I see them having conversations with March 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.039 for Our Lives like different generations of freedom fighters, and 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.440 him explaining to what is happening, like this moment is 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.760 for now, what are you gonna do? And each one 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.120 of them like we're gonna fight, We're gonna fight. And 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.599 then you just see another and him constantly explaining to 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.599 you that they're trying to dismantle this, They're gonna do 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.840 everything to dismantle this, and then you see it play 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.240 out in each one. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:40.719 Of those movies. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.040 They're gonna attack you, they're gonna do these things, and 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.840 then watching it continue to play out. So when you 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:50.159 see that and that man died right, still trying to 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.760 give that knowledge and still trying to fight for those things. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.240 But you could tell that there. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:59.440 Was this this this feeling of are we actually gonna 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:00.240 see freedom? 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.800 Like We're still gonna fight. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:04.839 I'm going to fight and I'm going to give you 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.039 this energy and I'm going to talk. But you've seen 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.640 the vigor, right that you've seen it vigor. Now it 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.919 was just an elder who was knowledgeable just giving it 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.080 to you, saying hopefully you could take this information and 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.320 do what we haven't been able to do. Right, you know, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.039 and I understand how that happens, because you just fight 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:26.960 so long and you just feel like, you know what 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.400 I'm saying, you dig in a hole and you don't 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.240 find the bottom, you know, but you when you're a fighter, 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:33.120 you just keep digging. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.479 And that's exactly what we have to spread. But when 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:41.000 you're on is this beginning of the summer, at least 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.360 three days, I've been in a loop of canceled flights 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:50.680 and delays and six hours in this airport and whatever. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.440 And I don't know that people understand the tire tracks 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.800 on your back when you're trying to get this work done, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.640 and then when you're talking to people who are like, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.400 don't come over here with that. I don't want to 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:06.000 hear it, and you want to be frustrated, like man, 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.279 I traveled, you know. I'm trying to really get us 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.920 to be under to be sold not on candidates, not 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.960 even on any of that, but to be sold on 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.720 our possibility that even you could run, like Killer Mike 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.040 said at the BET Awards, if you could run, Like, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.760 how can we use this energy to set it up 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:27.839 for you to run? 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:28.159 You know? 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.560 And and and and then. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.480 You just and you have to deal with people who 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.320 are so frustrated you can't even get upset with them, 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.200 because I understand. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:38.280 I feel that way. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.120 So today is one of those days where I'm just 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.240 like pulling the train along. But tomorrow I'll be back 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:46.880 in there doing what I have to do. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.320 I'm with you, man, you know some days I get 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.600 that and you gotta. That's why we got each other, right, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.320 That's what we got in this movement. We feed off 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.599 each other's energy. Some days you're gonna have more energy 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.640 than I have. Some days I'm gonna have it for you. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.119 So today I'm gonna carry you know, but you shout 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.320 out to my black print. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.240 See what it said, You see what to say. Run 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.280 run us ode reparations. Man, shout out to them for 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.120 the shirt. I got one for you, got one for 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.680 you too. And that's what I feel like. We gotta 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.960 fight for our reparations. We're gonna have to. They're not 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.360 gonna give us our reparations. Every every day is a 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.000 fight for our reparations. And that's what our people got 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.480 to understand. We deserve certain things. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.640 We were denied certain things, and we built this back 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:33.960 this country. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.800 On our back with our for free. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.160 For free, so run uside reparations. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.760 I know that's right. So let's see my thought of 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:43.840 the day today. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:50.640 You know, last week awful, awful, awful, awful debate, and 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:52.960 you know some people that want to jump to awful 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:58.400 debate because Biden his performance was not at all where 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:03.880 it should be. Well, his performance is not where most 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.120 people would want it to be, but it actually is 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.080 where it should be for eighty something year old man 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.960 who has been in public service for a long time, 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:18.920 dealing with extreme stress, and also he has a stuttering disability, 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:24.080 and therefore he has some you know, a trifecta of challenges. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.920 So no, it's not where people want it to be, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.200 but he's actually not that far off from most eighty 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.280 year old people that you put them on the stage 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.800 and tell them that they need to debate and at 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.920 nine o'clock at night. So and I'm not even making 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.000 excuses for it's not my point, let me get to it. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.320 I'm just saying people want to say that that's the 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.800 only reason why the debate was so terrible. But I'm 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:52.360 also not into listening to somebody who's real quick with lies. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.520 So and by the way, there's been some fact checkers, 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.800 even President Biden a few times, some of the things 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.280 they he said it's not one hundred percent accurate. So 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.960 it's not that one person that every that the president 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.280 was this great on this great moral standing, and then 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:16.320 Trump wasn't. Trump just is an habitual liar and a 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.280 very dangerous individual. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.880 And then you have him up against. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.800 A man who I believe there's some issues that President 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.040 Biden has, some blind spots that he has and in 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.320 some areas that he's committed to that I just don't 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.959 agree with and could never ever, ever ever comfortably say like, oh, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.880 I'm for Biden because of some of his decisions and 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.080 the ways in which his administration has carried out their duties. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.040 But in addition to that, I also know he's an 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.520 older man. So what it basically says to me is 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:48.800 the whole shit is a mess. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.199 Like it's a mess. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:55.360 You got, lion, You've got a person who needs rest 0:09:55.720 --> 0:10:00.480 and relaxation. That's what people at eighty years old, people 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:06.000 should be resting from working their entire lives trying to 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.320 get up there, and everybody's putting this pressure on you 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.800 that your responsibility is to save democracy and all of 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.280 this and that, and yet the democracy that you are 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.520 engaged or supposed to be engaged with across the seas 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.880 in the Middle East, you are part of destroying that 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.360 little piece of whatever slither of democracy those folks may 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:26.800 have had. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.040 So it's just all of it is. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:35.079 I can't find super positive things anywhere, right. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.120 But here's what I was going to talk about. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.200 Because then, of course, the first thing that happened, which 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.200 is also disingenuous, All these newspapers and op eds came 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:48.080 out quickly saying that Joe Biden needs to resign. I mean, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.160 he needs to step aside. And I don't know exactly 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.000 what that means. I mean, I've read a few articles. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.640 Some of it means just go to the convention with 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:59.360 a different candidate as the as the nominee for president, 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.320 or allow the process to take place where there is 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.920 another candidate can emerge. Some people want him to he 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.000 that they believe he's in such bad shape at this 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:15.920 moment that he should not even be able to to 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.880 he should not be able to continue to be the president, 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.439 which we know is not going to happen. And also, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.000 you know, we know people that work in a White House. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:31.520 People who have audience with President Biden all the time, 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.880 and they say there's literally nothing wrong with him. And 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.120 I'm talking about people that's my friends that would tell 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:37.480 me girlo lord. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:38.600 They've told me other. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:43.120 Things, but they they say there's literally nothing wrong with him, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.440 like you could sit down and have a conversation with him. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.920 But when a person stutters and they're older, and again 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.800 the stress of the job when they are when they 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.160 are speaking, sometimes they need extra time to process, remember 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.440 and then be able to have the conversation. That's just 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.280 a natural thing that happens to you as you start 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.760 to get older. So so with that being said, no, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.120 he should not be the nominee, not now. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.000 Now we're all the way far down the road before. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.160 With what he said when he ran the first time 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.760 was that he would not run for reelection. And that's 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.319 what they should have stuck to because at that time 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.600 he was a little bit younger. He was a he 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.120 was an older white man up against an older white man, 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.600 which probably was a good man, I mean obviously because 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.560 he won. But now he was he's too he is 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.080 too much in his senior years and it is too 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:43.040 much of a stress on his whole system to try 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.800 to stand up there and have the type of debate 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.320 with a man who is a straight lunatic like you 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.800 gotta be on your lunatic to talk to the lunatic 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.600 for real and not and not for nothing. This this 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.400 is my real thought of the day about what I 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.080 want to say because I'm not you know, I want 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.720 to focus on black folks right and our issues. One 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.760 people are talking about third party candidates. So first of all, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:16.160 the way this system is set up, they have long 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:20.520 time ago rigged it to where trying to get a 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.320 third party candidate elected at this point, they already know 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.520 it's damn there impossible because you have the Democratic Convention 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:28.160 coming up. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:29.559 You also, and I. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.120 Get it, some people will say, well, I'm gonna still 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.600 vote for them. That's fine, But the third party candidate 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.280 nine times out of ten, unless we can move an 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.640 exodus of people, and it ain't just black people, it's 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.480 not just black people. You need people from all races, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.880 everybody to come together. And if we already divided within 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.720 the black community, because you have people who are saying 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.800 we don't want Donald Trump so much that we cannot 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.319 afford to take the shot. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.200 Now I'm with it. I'm with it. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.600 If we had, if cornell Us was. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.319 A real, real, real, real real. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:07.440 Shot for us to win, not only would I be 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.439 behind him. And I'm still willing to listen to somebody 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.640 tell me on what we can do to get Cornell 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:18.079 on the stage at the Democratic Convention and figure out 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.920 how we can support him and move votes in his direction. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:21.920 I'm with it. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.720 But I also sit around and talk to our people, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.800 and I realized that in conversations with us, we still 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.520 need a lot of work to get to the point 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.720 where all of us and then some other folks make 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.840 that shift. And this was done to us, and it's wrong. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.080 It is wrong that we live in America in a 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.040 place where we cannot look at the two top candidates 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.120 and say I don't want them. I mean, right like, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.840 I'm sure we can talk about that later on or 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.600 another day. But here's the thing, the reason why I 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.840 know about the challenge. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:57.720 That we face as a people. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:03.600 Kamala Harris is the vice president, which means that in 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:10.000 the proper world, she would advance because of if the 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.200 president was incapacitated or decides. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.120 That he does not want to run again, she would have. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:22.280 Quite And it's supposed to naturally advance to being at 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:23.320 the head of the ticket. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.760 Here's the issue if. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.520 The Democratic Party and the white folks that's over there, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.600 and the black and brown people and other people that 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.280 go along with white folks who are in charge of 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.040 every damn thing, if they go along with this process 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:41.000 of them needing a new candidate. At first those articles 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.880 was coming out, they weren't even mentioning Kamala as the person. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.200 So what they would attempt to do is find some 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:51.840 other person, which Gavin Newsom couldn't really necessarily be it 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.240 because he's from California and so is Kamala, and that 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.320 never works in any scenario that there's two people at 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.800 the top and second on the ticket from the same state. Right, 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.840 But if they go and find some other person, more 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:09.600 than likely a white person to put over Kamala, black 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.080 people will most a lot of black people, a lot 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:19.359 of large majority of black people would lose our minds 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.120 that you have disrespected a black woman. And again it 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:23.920 would be race. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.040 And then, as I have said a million times, when. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.880 You take race and couple it with sex and sexism, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:35.280 that sexism piece can be even more damning because we 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.760 already had a black president. So we know almost any 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.320 kind of man can win, right, almost any kind of man, 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:48.440 but a woman, any race, number one, definitely black. It 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.960 is very It is very difficult. Do I think that 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.480 she could have debated Donald Trump and kicked his butt? 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:54.080 Absolutely? 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.640 Do I think that she could run the country and 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.040 do the thing and and and and really be a strong, 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.160 powerful voice around this world. 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:02.400 Absolutely. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.439 I think that she's educated, she's talented, she has all 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.679 the things. But do I understand the challenges of a 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.119 black woman being at the top of the ticket? Of course, 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:17.040 and so do they know that within the party, which 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:22.280 is why they would attempt out of sexism also and racism, 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.520 but ultimately just practicality, they would attempt to put somebody 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:27.000 over her. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:28.200 So you know what would happen. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.119 The Black people would be like, this is disrespectful and 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.480 go crazy about how Kamala is being disrespected. But then 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.119 if they did put her at the top of the ticket, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.320 you know what some of them saying, Black people say, 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.600 she's not black enough. She was a prosecutor and she 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.000 put black people in jail. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.679 She did this, she did that, She's not enough of this. 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.600 She don't know how to dance properly, she know, she 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.480 looked like she never danced before. She's married to a 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.080 white man. So no matter which way you start trying 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.280 to go and which way you start shifting, we will 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:07.040 find a reason to try to discredit that black woman's right, 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:14.000 which is why right out of ego they are ill advised. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.879 Some of it is disrespect, other parts of it is 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:24.479 an attempt to preserve the dignity of the current president 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.480 and also the dignity of the United States, because when 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.960 these things happen, it's it's its history. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:30.879 Forever. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.440 People will be saying they had to remove or President 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.120 Biden had to step down or whatever, and out of 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:41.240 their ego, and again some of it being the disrespect 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:45.040 for black women, some of it being just made it 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.159 just ill advised, and they made a bad decision to 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.119 allow him to run for president again. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.639 They I don't believe. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.320 I believe that that makes them feel that they have 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.600 no choice but to take this man all the way 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:03.080 to the end and hell Mary that he wins while 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:08.280 killing babies in Palestine. While people have serious questions over 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.159 especially the marketing of what they have been able to 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.399 accomplish in a time when inflation is killing people, I 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.560 don't care what they say. They keep saying jobs is 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.640 at the highest number I know at least twenty people 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.680 that have been and continue to search for work. They 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.720 are struggling, people are homeless, people are hurting. So you 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.359 got all that happening, and then you got a liar 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.120 who knows how to market and twist and say crazy 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.920 things that makes people feel like, well maybe, and then 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.680 and then people get so frustrated about either one of 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.760 them that they start talking about taking their votes and 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.560 splitting them and going to another place. It's a hot 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.400 ass mess. And I don't care if people could get 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.720 mad at me. They can say whatever they want. But 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.600 part of why we are here is because when Joe 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.679 Biden said he would not run for reelection, that's what 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:57.440 he should have done. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:58.320 We should have. 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.919 Figured this out from four four years ago when he 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.720 became president. They should have decided how they were going 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.160 to make sure that Kamala was able to get to 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:12.280 the end and become the nominee with people really behind her. 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:14.480 That's what we should have done, because that's who they 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.840 chose for vice president. And if they weren't gonna do 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.160 it with Kamala, which by I support one hundred percent, 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:20.120 that a black woman be. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:21.080 At the head of the ticket. 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.119 But if they weren't gonna do it with Kamala, it 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.320 should have been somebody else. This should have been the 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.480 plan since even before he became president, and they did 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.080 not do that. And now we are in a situation 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.320 where we're dealing with a man who has the court 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.840 stack in his favor to be able to do the 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.920 most unconscionable criminal bullshit ever and we're sitting up here 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.879 with another man over here that is in charge, that 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.840 is not in charge of excuse me, that is helping 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:48.280 to fund a genocide. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:49.159 It's too much for me. 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.960 I said from the beginning, we're not choosing, We're not 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.040 picking an ally. Were picking an opponent, right who we 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.320 got to battle against. So our whole mind state with 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.240 this president and she should have been building up for 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.040 the next four years. Who do we actually want to 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:07.199 see a president? When they said he was only going 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.720 to do four years, then we should have been making 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.359 sure that if we wanted Kamala to be the president, 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.760 that people supposed to get behind Kamalin. We're supposed to 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.080 demand that she had more of a president were supposed 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:19.680 to be. You know, we're supposed to demand that she 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.679 she did things that led to people to believe that 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.480 she was prepared to be the president. 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:24.880 Right. 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.360 People see right now, like you see her talking here 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:29.720