Speaker 1: What's up, family, I'm your girl to meet A D.
Speaker 1: Mallory and it's your boy my song in general, and
Speaker 1: we're your hosts of Street Politicians, the Places in the
Speaker 1: Street and me. We've got a great show today. Um.
Speaker 1: Two individuals that are going to be coming up to
Speaker 1: talk about their experiences. UM. One is a woman that
Speaker 1: I'm really really excited about having on. I haven't actually
Speaker 1: had a platform. I love Street Politicians because we now
Speaker 1: have a platform to be able to highlight Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: our friends and so many different things. And so I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about giving a moment to my friends to
Speaker 1: have her come on and talk about her struggle and
Speaker 1: her story. But then also men deal with cancer man,
Speaker 1: you know black men, especially in our community, cancer is
Speaker 1: one of the leads leading causes of death amulti black people.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's a very important show. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, we we I wanna.
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to be a part of the second
Speaker 1: interview that we're gonna have today with our brothers, um
Speaker 1: that when you had them on before, so we get
Speaker 1: a chance to have him back today and again just
Speaker 1: using Street Politicians as a place where people can come
Speaker 1: and really kind of tie everything together that we fight
Speaker 1: for because we don't have our health, we don't have wealth,
Speaker 1: we can't fight for in the streets, um, you know,
Speaker 1: for our political stability and our lives and not also
Speaker 1: be really fighting for our lives by making sure that
Speaker 1: we're physically found. So, um, you know that work has
Speaker 1: to be done, and certainly during this month is an
Speaker 1: important time to hone in and focus on it. I
Speaker 1: was looking at the rundown that was created today, you
Speaker 1: know by our production team led by being sister Janets
Speaker 1: and um, they sent us some some really important points
Speaker 1: that I thought we should really make sure to mention
Speaker 1: today because I'm not sure that people really get how
Speaker 1: serious cancer is. And of course we focused on breath cancer,
Speaker 1: but all types of cancer uh impact in our communities.
Speaker 1: And so the first thing, it says that breath cancer
Speaker 1: continues to be the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the
Speaker 1: second leading cause of cancer death among US women, that
Speaker 1: all women. So the breath cancer being the most commonly diagnosed,
Speaker 1: but then also the the leading cause of death among women,
Speaker 1: and they're saying that is higher among black women compared
Speaker 1: to one right, right, right, I wonder and that's something
Speaker 1: I would like to dig deeper into, is like, is
Speaker 1: it more detection, more early prevention, or is it just
Speaker 1: cases in general, because that would be crazy that we
Speaker 1: would get more more breast cancer. Wow. Then it says
Speaker 1: that about one in three Black men and women will
Speaker 1: be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime and one in
Speaker 1: five will die from the disease. Now that is scary
Speaker 1: as hell. That's that's that is incredible. That is the
Speaker 1: craziest that I've ever seen. Like you, if five people
Speaker 1: is in the room, that means one person it's gonna
Speaker 1: die from cancers and and one in three one in
Speaker 1: three in general, madam. And then it says among African
Speaker 1: American women, there are three cancer types breast, lung, and
Speaker 1: colon cancer make up more than have of all new
Speaker 1: cancer cases. Wow, in colon cancers, nothing else we're gonna
Speaker 1: be focused on today. That's one of the main for
Speaker 1: many Black men are guy from coal cancer at alarming rates, right,
Speaker 1: and if they're in there. For black women, it's one
Speaker 1: of three. With breath lung, which we know long has
Speaker 1: been I've been hearing more and more about lung cancer. Um,
Speaker 1: you know that that long breath and Colon are the
Speaker 1: three most new cases. So I'm ready to bring the
Speaker 1: guests on. But before we do that, I want to
Speaker 1: kind of veer off a little bit talk about something
Speaker 1: that I saw the last couple of days sort of
Speaker 1: bubbling up on social media. And it's a part of
Speaker 1: my thought of the day because you know, I've been thinking,
Speaker 1: I mean, think you good, um, and it kind of
Speaker 1: just it hit homes so much, uh, for a lot
Speaker 1: of different reasons that I really lay still one day
Speaker 1: really deeply thinking about and processing this particular post. So
Speaker 1: Cardi b somebody said they tweeted that Cardy and he said,
Speaker 1: what happened? You used to speak on political issues all
Speaker 1: the time, and she responded and said, I stopped because, Um,
Speaker 1: I was tired of getting bullied or bashed. That's no, no,
Speaker 1: the things she said, bullied something like that by the Republicans,
Speaker 1: but then also being bashed by the folks that I
Speaker 1: was standing up for. And it was on the shade room,
Speaker 1: and I sat and I really really contemplated it. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it hit me from a deep place because
Speaker 1: number one, Cardi being in the foreword of my book.
Speaker 1: I know how just a little over a year ago
Speaker 1: when I was talking with her working on the forwards,
Speaker 1: how passionate she was, and I'm sure she still is today,
Speaker 1: but she was just in a different place, you know,
Speaker 1: she was in a in a in a space of
Speaker 1: being like, yeah, you know we we we really together
Speaker 1: have to fight. But then the other part of it
Speaker 1: is that I've seen where the transition happened for her
Speaker 1: because it's happened within me several times over these rocky
Speaker 1: twenty five years of my career that I had these
Speaker 1: moments of being like, you know what, I'm fighting for
Speaker 1: my life literally, like I'm literally fighting against people who
Speaker 1: want me day because of our outspokenness. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: because we're going up against the system, you know, as
Speaker 1: you know, we're we're out here under our real names
Speaker 1: in this struggle for real, for real dealing with being
Speaker 1: blocked from being able to go to events. I had
Speaker 1: a friend of mine just took on a big political
Speaker 1: position in in the in the country, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: they mentioned to me that I wasn't that they that
Speaker 1: that that I was on the list of those being
Speaker 1: blocked from even going to the events of you know,
Speaker 1: their celebration event because you know, of course those people
Speaker 1: that we fight against. And mind you, these are people
Speaker 1: who are supposed to be with us, but even they're
Speaker 1: afraid to have me in the room because they don't
Speaker 1: want the back last that comes along with it from
Speaker 1: the you know, the the negative press and what have you.
Speaker 1: But meanwhile, there are people who really think that I'm
Speaker 1: just like this succested person within the movement. And the
Speaker 1: thing that really struck me was I wrote a comment
Speaker 1: on the post where are I wrote it somewhere where
Speaker 1: I said that, you know, I understood what CARDI was
Speaker 1: going through and I and I often feel that way.
Speaker 1: And somebody said, oh, you're not real, because if you
Speaker 1: are a real activist, you be dead. They kill people
Speaker 1: that are real, like true bona fide leaders, And I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, Wow, I'm not even forget about that
Speaker 1: ignorant person who made that comment. But it's sad that
Speaker 1: we actually that there are people out here that identify
Speaker 1: you being a real leader with you dying at an
Speaker 1: early age. And I just said to myself, Wow, I
Speaker 1: can imagine that there are a lot of people out
Speaker 1: here who want to get into the worst. They want
Speaker 1: to be leaders, they want to fight, they want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the struggle, and they're not forget
Speaker 1: about because people are gonna talk about you and all
Speaker 1: of that. We already know that, but that comment had
Speaker 1: me thinking that people might not want to be a
Speaker 1: part of the work because they believe that they have
Speaker 1: to be willing and we do. We do have to
Speaker 1: be willing to accept that we could die, but that
Speaker 1: the only way that they will ever be able to
Speaker 1: prove themselves as a real leader is that their life
Speaker 1: would have to be taken so that the world will
Speaker 1: acknowledge them. And that's my issue around us waiting to
Speaker 1: give people their flowers until they're dead, rather than recognizing
Speaker 1: their sacrifices while they are actually alive. As so well
Speaker 1: stated what you just said, And I think that brings
Speaker 1: me to the situation that I'm watching Kyrie Irban deal with.
Speaker 1: And whether you a pro vaccine, anti vaccine, wanted or
Speaker 1: anything that is has nothing to do well what I'm
Speaker 1: about to say right now. You know, when you watch
Speaker 1: your men like Kyrie, who has been vocal throughout his
Speaker 1: whole career about issues that marginalized communities deal with. He's
Speaker 1: donated his time, his money, he's built, he's giving resources
Speaker 1: he's been someone who has been civil rights savvy and
Speaker 1: and connected his whole career. You know, and when you
Speaker 1: when you decided the man who's been in the league
Speaker 1: and you you you accumulated wealth, stature, you know, fame,
Speaker 1: and you decide that you want to utilize that fame
Speaker 1: for something other than just basketball. You know, there comes
Speaker 1: a time like even when you're that talent, some people
Speaker 1: have a different calling on their life with this my
Speaker 1: skills that when God's gifted me with this, but maybe
Speaker 1: the gift that he gave me to do this was
Speaker 1: so I can have the ability to help people over
Speaker 1: here and shot like on that. So when a man
Speaker 1: makes a decision that he's watching hundreds of thousand people
Speaker 1: be mandated to do something that's against their own will
Speaker 1: and lose their livelihoods, and some of them and pay
Speaker 1: their family because of their personal beliefs or religious beliefs,
Speaker 1: or whatever it is that they personally believe, and he
Speaker 1: decides that he wants to speak up and say that
Speaker 1: that's not right. You know that you shouldn't be forced
Speaker 1: to do anything that you shouldn't be forced if you
Speaker 1: want to do it, if you believe that it's best
Speaker 1: for your help. But people should have the right to
Speaker 1: be able to discern information and take information and make
Speaker 1: guests and hypothesis and decisions for themselves. And when that
Speaker 1: man said that, that's what he stood up for. And
Speaker 1: see the way he's crucified by his own brothers, you know,
Speaker 1: from people from the same people that he will go
Speaker 1: out here in support and been helping for years and
Speaker 1: being crusiveized by people that look like him, that the
Speaker 1: people that are supposed to Even if you don't agree
Speaker 1: with whatever it is, but you have to respect the
Speaker 1: man for want to take a stand, because everybody doesn't
Speaker 1: want to take a snare. So it's not about whether
Speaker 1: you agree with what he's taking a stand for, but
Speaker 1: the fact that he's taking a stand, you should probably
Speaker 1: just mind your business. If you don't agree, you're to
Speaker 1: said what I'm saying, and that's what it is for me.
Speaker 1: It's like people will criticize you, they have destroyed you.
Speaker 1: They're trying to tear you down because they might not
Speaker 1: agree with your position. You know, they might not agree
Speaker 1: with something you say, but the bottom line is mean
Speaker 1: there are very few people who are willing to stand
Speaker 1: up and be willing to be villainized and vilified and
Speaker 1: crucified and deal with what comes for the greater good
Speaker 1: of the masses. So, man, what you said it means
Speaker 1: a lot, man, because Cardi B was a voice. Cardi
Speaker 1: B wasn't chanting the most politically savvy person. She she
Speaker 1: she she exactly she, but she made a decision like
Speaker 1: you know what, I know that's wrong. So I want
Speaker 1: to say it, you know, I want to say that.
Speaker 1: That's where I don't know the best worlds. I don't
Speaker 1: know all the big words. I don't know none of that.
Speaker 1: I just know that right there is not right. And
Speaker 1: you know, and when people stand on that, you know,
Speaker 1: like we we realize that you're gonna be crucified, You're
Speaker 1: gonna be attacked because nobody wants you to stand that strong.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants you to speak the truth to power. You know,
Speaker 1: there's against especially against the status quo. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean I so first of all, I support Kyrie
Speaker 1: not because again I think that he should or should
Speaker 1: not be vaccinated. In fact, I think that New York
Speaker 1: the NBA, and which we know it's not the NBA
Speaker 1: and totality, but the Brooklyn Nets. I think they have
Speaker 1: a right to set whatever standards they believe are in
Speaker 1: the best interests of their team. Right, and therefore, and
Speaker 1: you have you have to decide whether you accept those
Speaker 1: things or not. What I would what I would say,
Speaker 1: is this right and this and this is what I
Speaker 1: would ask when when you said the government supported people
Speaker 1: by the people. Right, And if you say that, you're
Speaker 1: you're making a decision for the best for the team.
Speaker 1: If you're not asking the team what's best for them, right,
Speaker 1: If if you're in New York and you're just saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we want to do a consensus. How many people who
Speaker 1: think there should be a man? Well, let's see, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't remember. First of all, I was in
Speaker 1: the process of speaking of your people. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's how medicine and pandemics work, right.
Speaker 1: Maybe it should change. Maybe they are people who should
Speaker 1: get together and decide on some new ways of seeing
Speaker 1: the world and the government operate. But that's not how
Speaker 1: pandemics have ever worked. It's not how any um you know,
Speaker 1: situation in terms of a disease or a virus that
Speaker 1: has gotten out had worked. The government supposedly works alongside
Speaker 1: scientists and medical people who decide whether or not there
Speaker 1: should be something for smallpox and for all all measles, months,
Speaker 1: chicken pox, all of these things. And they make mandates
Speaker 1: on schools, they make mandates on health, hair workers, they
Speaker 1: make mandates on you know, law enforcement, which we see
Speaker 1: that there have some issues there, and I think we
Speaker 1: should definitely do a show where we delve into how
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who don't actually have
Speaker 1: to follow this mandate and what does that mean for
Speaker 1: other people who are being forced to write? So so,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be honest, somebody said to me or
Speaker 1: you just you just bouncing back and forth. How can
Speaker 1: you support Kyrie and then at the same time say
Speaker 1: you want people to be six feet away and then
Speaker 1: also say that you support those who have been vaccinated,
Speaker 1: and you know and and and um and that I'm
Speaker 1: not against the vaccination. Right. So, so, because I'm human,
Speaker 1: and as a human, I can have multiple things and
Speaker 1: thoughts and understanding happening all that once, and I can
Speaker 1: reconcile all those things and and use them to make
Speaker 1: decisions for myself. And sometimes we just don't know. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we could just say I don't know, I think this
Speaker 1: might be good. I don't know. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I still have a voice that I should be able
Speaker 1: to speak to what it is that I believe and
Speaker 1: what's impacted me. I'm saying that since the beginning of time,
Speaker 1: the way that or that or not not time forever,
Speaker 1: but the time I know, the way that mandate and
Speaker 1: especially like I said, viruses that aren't that impacts a
Speaker 1: greater society not you know, you as one person who
Speaker 1: can choose whether or not you're going to smoke, or
Speaker 1: have unprotected sex or whatever. Those are things that you
Speaker 1: can say, I'm not gonna smoke, so more than likely
Speaker 1: I can save myself. And the vaccine individual and individual
Speaker 1: not an individual choice. And the reason why I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about I'm not talking about and not talking about
Speaker 1: whether what the taking a vaccine for it the individual
Speaker 1: choices that I have to I don't have to smoke
Speaker 1: a cigarette, right, which can ultimately give me x y
Speaker 1: z things as an individual. A cyrus, which a pyrus
Speaker 1: that is that is is very um uh, it's easily transmissible.
Speaker 1: You can't choose if you get it and if you
Speaker 1: give it to your mother, if you choose to. I
Speaker 1: don't under why you don't understand is because you're speaking
Speaker 1: over me and trying to insert also rather than listening
Speaker 1: to my full thought. So therefore you can't understand, because
Speaker 1: we can't understand nobody that we don't listen to. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is that I'm talking about how things have
Speaker 1: operated for all of this time. I'm saying, maybe it's
Speaker 1: something know that needs to happen. But what has happened
Speaker 1: in our society is that when there is a virus
Speaker 1: or a disease that can spread, that people can sit
Speaker 1: here and say I'm healthy, I'm this, I'm that, and
Speaker 1: the third thing. And so if I believe that if
Speaker 1: I get it, I can fight it, all right, that's
Speaker 1: your personal thing. But when you're in the room with
Speaker 1: twenty people and there are other people in that room
Speaker 1: that could potentially catch it from your healthy self, and
Speaker 1: their unhealthy self could die. There have been processes in
Speaker 1: the past to try to vaccinate and or give people
Speaker 1: things that they need to stop it or slow it down,
Speaker 1: because there's no such thing as stopping it, which is
Speaker 1: one thing that you've constantly said that I agree with.
Speaker 1: But there have been mandates in our society that says
Speaker 1: we have to bring it down the issue. What I'm
Speaker 1: saying is that the NBA or the New York Nets
Speaker 1: have the right to say, we've got too many different
Speaker 1: people around here with different issues in unal compromise. We've
Speaker 1: got people who have this, that, and the third is
Speaker 1: all different things, and this virus is something that concerns us.
Speaker 1: We gotta shut down the team playing if we get
Speaker 1: six people that have six this Senate third. So we've
Speaker 1: decided that we believe it is in the best interests
Speaker 1: of US as a as as a company to follow
Speaker 1: what the government is saying and what this vaccine is
Speaker 1: supposed to do. Individual people have the right to look
Speaker 1: and say I don't want it, and therefore I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna work there, just like people have quit their jobs,
Speaker 1: their schools or whatever. But I do believe that they
Speaker 1: have the right to say it. You have a right
Speaker 1: to say I'm going home school my kids because I
Speaker 1: don't want my child to take X, y Z vaccines.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what has happened so far. And I'm
Speaker 1: saying that if I in my house, if everybody coming
Speaker 1: into this house has to be vaccinated, you have to
Speaker 1: decide whether you're coming in my house or not. That's
Speaker 1: a fact. And those people who are the ones that
Speaker 1: are the boss of the of the of the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks, they have a right to say, this is
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in our house. We, to your point,
Speaker 1: have to say, do we want to start our own league?
Speaker 1: Do we want to do other things that give us
Speaker 1: the ability to have our own rules. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: in So now now can I respond? Please? And I
Speaker 1: would not interrupt you. So, based on what you're saying,
Speaker 1: the individuals right, Right, If you have a virus that
Speaker 1: affects everyone and spreads, the vaccine is supposed to protect
Speaker 1: the person who takes the vaccine. The individual takes the vaccine.
Speaker 1: The reason why you take the vaccine is so that
Speaker 1: it does the virus does not affect you, right, So
Speaker 1: tell me what I understand about the vaccine standing from
Speaker 1: the medical professionals that I have heard. And I first
Speaker 1: of all, if I'm interrupting you, I don't want to know.
Speaker 1: I want What I've understood about the vaccine is that one,
Speaker 1: it is supposed to reduce the person's mortality and or
Speaker 1: definitely illness or very sickness. But it also it's supposed
Speaker 1: to help bring down the mutation of the virus because
Speaker 1: so many people are getting so so let me just
Speaker 1: give you this one understanding that I had. I studied
Speaker 1: this about HIV because I used to believe that if
Speaker 1: I have HIV and you have HIV, we can have
Speaker 1: sex with each other without a condom, because why not, right, Like,
Speaker 1: we've both got it, so we just But what I
Speaker 1: learned is that when two people, especially if they have
Speaker 1: different strength ends of HIV or whatever, when they are
Speaker 1: passing bodily fluid, it makes it stronger, which means it
Speaker 1: can kill both people quicker, and it also can mutate
Speaker 1: into a new form of it because of the fact
Speaker 1: that you've got two different bloods that have a sickness
Speaker 1: that are its basically combined. And it's not a good NIX.
Speaker 1: So what I'm gonna do when I'm understanding about what
Speaker 1: they're saying about COVID, is that when people are all
Speaker 1: around each other and they're passing it around, maybe you
Speaker 1: might not die yourself from it. But what we're doing
Speaker 1: is increasing the chance where a new mutation of the
Speaker 1: virus can continue to live and keep going. So they're
Speaker 1: trying to bring down the because they say that if
Speaker 1: you have code, if you have if you are vaccinated,
Speaker 1: it's not that you can't give it to anybody, but
Speaker 1: the chance which has much less. So it's all about
Speaker 1: so two people who have the last name both catch
Speaker 1: um COVID and the and it too together Kenny music. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't so. First of all, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: a medical professional, and I always say that neither one
Speaker 1: of us are medical profession that defination. And I'm what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say is I do not believe. I do
Speaker 1: not believe, but I have not studied it. And maybe
Speaker 1: somebody who's listening to the production side wants to chime in.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that two people who are vaccinated are
Speaker 1: passing COVID back and forth. I think that more than understand.
Speaker 1: In other words, what in other words, what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is it is if I'm vaccinated, if I'm vaccinated in January,
Speaker 1: more than likely me and Janice are not gonna give
Speaker 1: it to each other. That most so these two people
Speaker 1: that don't wait, let me say so, two people who
Speaker 1: don't have COVID, I mean, who don't have the vaccine
Speaker 1: who have COVID can give it to each other. But
Speaker 1: two people have vaccinated that we can't give it to
Speaker 1: people who are anything. That's what you just said. You said,
Speaker 1: if I'm vaccinating, you're vaccinating. We can't tactly back and forth.
Speaker 1: I'm just I want to understand what you're you're understanding
Speaker 1: it because I think two people who are vaccinated can
Speaker 1: pass it back and forth. Things I'm saying one person
Speaker 1: who is not vaccinated had I'm from what I hear
Speaker 1: I hear, and I could be completely wrong because I
Speaker 1: can really careful about that because I do respect medical
Speaker 1: professionals who have actually study so but you know what,
Speaker 1: the slimmer chances listen to me more every day, the
Speaker 1: rising of people who actually vaccinated catching COVID and spreading
Speaker 1: COVID is raised in every day. And that was those
Speaker 1: odds that they had was based on smaller tests. So
Speaker 1: every day there's more people who have the vaccine, let's
Speaker 1: getting the virus. This is the fact everything that we
Speaker 1: know people that have our vaccine that have gotten COVID.
Speaker 1: But what what I'm suggesting, I'm suggesting to you is
Speaker 1: again I think that things are not about elimination, it's
Speaker 1: about reduction. Pretty much what I was what I was
Speaker 1: saying is there's so many different different researchers, there's so
Speaker 1: many different scientists, so many different doctors. That people were
Speaker 1: telling you that the antibodies are created when you get
Speaker 1: to that when you don't have the vaccine, and which
Speaker 1: protects you after you after you've already had, it makes
Speaker 1: you a lot less likely to get their studies that
Speaker 1: show that that your antibody is alone even stronger than
Speaker 1: the vaccines that people who say it's not. There's so
Speaker 1: many different things, right, So when you make a mandate
Speaker 1: and it's fifty one state in two or three, you
Speaker 1: only make those mandates, right, then you have to say
Speaker 1: the other you you're making a decision about somebody's life
Speaker 1: who did twenty years in school, right their nurses and
Speaker 1: doctors who refused to to get the vaccine because the
Speaker 1: medical healthcare people with their whole life, they're medical health
Speaker 1: care people that speak to every day that said that
Speaker 1: they're not getting the vaccine. They study science their whole life.
Speaker 1: So you made a decision based on something that you
Speaker 1: studied probably the last year. That's gonna affect somebody who's
Speaker 1: been the hand of profession for twenty and thirty years,
Speaker 1: they decided that they're willing to lose their professions right
Speaker 1: because they're not sure about them. To me, that's just
Speaker 1: not fair. That's just unfatiously I think. I think in
Speaker 1: the in the effort to move through the conversation, we're
Speaker 1: saying stuff in that neither one of us a hundred
Speaker 1: per st clear. I don't think somebody just started studying
Speaker 1: for the last year and a half. I think this
Speaker 1: thing has only been here a year in the half.
Speaker 1: So there's no way you can study something that wasn't
Speaker 1: here before that. You said, these people do their nurses
Speaker 1: or you know, people health care specially been studying all
Speaker 1: their life. Everybody, it's either everybody has just been studying
Speaker 1: this for a year or so, or people locks them different.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm saying. Let me let me break
Speaker 1: it up. And the clarity I want you to say
Speaker 1: is they are doctors who have been studying their whole life,
Speaker 1: who have been studying medicine their whole life, right exactly now,
Speaker 1: the doctors who have been studying COVID have could have
Speaker 1: never been studying COVID. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying or you're not listen. There's no you
Speaker 1: can't study that ain't been here. My sign, my sign,
Speaker 1: my sign. That's why I'm saying, so we have to
Speaker 1: be responsible. Right, it's a it's a novice virus. It's
Speaker 1: just but my song, my sign. Just like you and
Speaker 1: others may be willing to rely on people who have
Speaker 1: been studying science their old lies, and they believe that's
Speaker 1: your own antibodies, that your own healthy data, that all
Speaker 1: those things can help you fight viruses. They also haven't
Speaker 1: studied COVID for more than two years because they only
Speaker 1: knew about it at that time. And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Our doctors studying viruses their whole lives and they and
Speaker 1: they believe the not not necessarily that they couldieve the opposite,
Speaker 1: but they believe some some different set of what when
Speaker 1: I'm saying it, So when I'm saying that, so that
Speaker 1: we cannot because we don't know you and you listen
Speaker 1: to what I'm saying, so it looks what I want
Speaker 1: you to get clear when you don't know who can't
Speaker 1: you're not listening to what I'm saying. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stop because you're not what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. If what you don't know, if you can,
Speaker 1: if people could clearly call us the novices every day
Speaker 1: they said, well, then you're trying to figure out they
Speaker 1: don't know. In the last two years, they're figuring out
Speaker 1: things that're learning different. Sometimes you probably if you can
Speaker 1: make a decision based on what you figured out or
Speaker 1: don't know or think you know in two years, that
Speaker 1: can affect somebody who's been doing their life, their lovelies, books,
Speaker 1: who pay their bread, who supports their kids for the
Speaker 1: last thirty years, who had took they went to school,
Speaker 1: they did something, they pay their mortgage, they do oh ya,
Speaker 1: none of us. They don't know science. So I'm sure
Speaker 1: they explain to you, right because this man they can
Speaker 1: change next year. Next lit to me, Listen to listen
Speaker 1: to what I'm saying. The man, the man they can
Speaker 1: change next year. And you perfected hundreds of thousand, not
Speaker 1: millions of people's livelies. But who can't survive right now
Speaker 1: because you whoever answer you with that they have the
Speaker 1: right to choose the set adoptors that they believed might happen.
Speaker 1: But if they okay, so if I'm making this, if
Speaker 1: I wake up right, and so I'll wake up today, right,
Speaker 1: I wake up today. Thirty people on my roster right
Speaker 1: heaven studied to come work for me for thirty years.
Speaker 1: They've been in this. This is how they pay their bills,
Speaker 1: this is how they do all this ship right my
Speaker 1: The belief is that this right here needs to happen.
Speaker 1: So based on that the contract you signed, everything you've done,
Speaker 1: I decided that you can't come back here no more.
Speaker 1: And you let me tell you how that works. So
Speaker 1: I'm saying to you, is that for you and others
Speaker 1: like you who feel that there should be some changes
Speaker 1: to that, then there's the movement that needs to be
Speaker 1: created with real lawyers and others who can get in
Speaker 1: and figure out how we deal with mandate because pandemic
Speaker 1: allows for mandate. That's what I'm saying. So you know
Speaker 1: we're running themes is that we have a friend um
Speaker 1: who is joining us today. And you know when people
Speaker 1: say that there's no one doing anything and nobody's speaking out,
Speaker 1: no one's organizing around the issues, and we don't hear
Speaker 1: we defied that because we have so many people who
Speaker 1: are doing incredible work in so many different areas and
Speaker 1: I always tell folk, um, I know you and I
Speaker 1: talked about it all the time life that everyone can't
Speaker 1: and shouldn't do the same exact thing that we need
Speaker 1: to ask people in different areas who are focused on
Speaker 1: the entire circumstance, if you will, of black life and
Speaker 1: black culture. And this young lady who's joining us today
Speaker 1: is somebody that I'm really really proud of. Um. She
Speaker 1: is known as the Warrior Coach uh thus CEO of
Speaker 1: a tech company that's focused on mental health called you
Speaker 1: Are a Warrior, So that's you the letters you are
Speaker 1: a area. She's you know, definitely creative and always finds
Speaker 1: a really sexy and saffy and savvy way um to
Speaker 1: uh make folks pay attention to all that she does.
Speaker 1: She's also a TV personality, one of the cast members
Speaker 1: of Real House Wise of New York. I've been watching
Speaker 1: the show here and there. Some of my friends are
Speaker 1: on different shows, as you know, Mice and I I
Speaker 1: watched them and Chine and on all that's happening, um,
Speaker 1: you know, across the border on on reality TV. UM.
Speaker 1: She's also though, and what I where I met her
Speaker 1: and became really really an admirer of this young woman
Speaker 1: is because she's a breast cancer survivor and as we
Speaker 1: are UM in breast cancer wariness months who wanted to
Speaker 1: have a show that focuses on not just people who've
Speaker 1: been through the experience, which is important, but people who
Speaker 1: have turned their pain and their child's and tribulations into
Speaker 1: a passion that's helped others, and certain and a purpose
Speaker 1: and certainly verss on show. International speaker Motivator is one
Speaker 1: of those. So thank you very Shawn, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining us today. Thank you. I'm like, who
Speaker 1: is that girl? Y'all? I love it? Thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. I've been a part of so many
Speaker 1: different shows, and I like for my bio to be short.
Speaker 1: I hate for people to feel like they need to
Speaker 1: go through all my accomplishments, but I do like for
Speaker 1: them to name the incredible things that I've done at
Speaker 1: a mouth zones, you know, sometimes people sitting and read
Speaker 1: along virus like, I don't want you to read all
Speaker 1: of that, but it's good to have people acknowledge and
Speaker 1: take the time to talk about those things that make
Speaker 1: us the brilliant um women and individuals that we are.
Speaker 1: And so we're happy to have you as a guest
Speaker 1: on Street position. You know, you're my girl, So it's
Speaker 1: just like talking to family. Yes, totally, we go back
Speaker 1: a long time. So look at you, look at it.
Speaker 1: I love this podcast. I love everything you're doing. I
Speaker 1: stayed behind it all the time. Every time I see
Speaker 1: your posts, I'm like, yeah, okay, girl, let's give them.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, anything you do, so kudos to you
Speaker 1: and thank you for having me. Thank you well. You know,
Speaker 1: I hate to interrupt this family reunion. You know, you
Speaker 1: guys two amazing melanated queens who do the work who
Speaker 1: you know, impact this world tremendously in both of their perspective,
Speaker 1: you know, Lanes, you know, but today we're interviewing you
Speaker 1: because to me, we always interviewd Tomka and he gets
Speaker 1: a lot of love. But she has so many different friends.
Speaker 1: But the amazing work you do give us, like tell
Speaker 1: us your story, you know, give us a synopsis of
Speaker 1: what's okay? Um, you know my story is um. In
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. UM.
Speaker 1: I did what we should do. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: tell anybody because I didn't want to be known as
Speaker 1: the sick girl. I was young, in New York City,
Speaker 1: you know, embarrassed, a shame so um. I didn't tell
Speaker 1: a soul um and I went through that by myself.
Speaker 1: What you shouldn't do, everybody to get a support do
Speaker 1: not do what I did. But because you know, growing
Speaker 1: up black, we always think, oh we can get through it.
Speaker 1: Push through it, don't cry and make it happen. Don't
Speaker 1: tell anybody because we gotta make it seem like our
Speaker 1: lives are perfect when they're not. Um two years later,
Speaker 1: it was stage four cancer was all over my body,
Speaker 1: I mean hit me. And I remember the day I
Speaker 1: went to the doctor because I couldn't even been down
Speaker 1: like my back. I was like, what's going on? I
Speaker 1: can't pick up anything, I can't move, I can't what
Speaker 1: is going on. I went to every chiropractor, doctor therapist.
Speaker 1: Everybody thought it was a slip this until I went
Speaker 1: to the doctor at Columbia Press Mayteriy. He was like,
Speaker 1: then you need an m R. And I took an
Speaker 1: m RA. And I remember the day I went in
Speaker 1: and I thought I was just gonna go in and
Speaker 1: talk to the doctor and like, you know, slip this,
Speaker 1: here's some medicine. And he said a young lady. I
Speaker 1: think you need to sit down. And I was like,
Speaker 1: let's sit down. He's like, yeah, no, I think you
Speaker 1: gotta sit down. Um. And I remember the day he said,
Speaker 1: you have terminal breast cancer. He said, it's all over
Speaker 1: your body. And I'm telling you to this day. It
Speaker 1: always hits me because you know, you're thinking, like what
Speaker 1: hold on, terminal breast cancer? Hold on? Like I just
Speaker 1: didn't have a I didn't even know what and um,
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, I think there's something we gotta talk through.
Speaker 1: You're not going to lunch right now. And I would
Speaker 1: think I was just stuck on stupid. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to say. You know how you think he
Speaker 1: was great? I was just like, how can this happen
Speaker 1: to me? Why? Mad angry? I wasn't married, I was young,
Speaker 1: no kids. It's just it turned my life upside down.
Speaker 1: So I think when I got staged four kids. So
Speaker 1: I remember that day I went into the hallway and
Speaker 1: I said, I just saw watching out crying. I said, God,
Speaker 1: if you keep me alive, just keep me alive. I
Speaker 1: will do all I can to inspire, motivate and help
Speaker 1: the black race in like realizing that you know, we
Speaker 1: could do anything with you. You know, you know it's possible.
Speaker 1: Just give me hope. And I said, every year, just
Speaker 1: give me hope and I will do my best to motivate, inspire, help, support,
Speaker 1: And I think that became my purpose. And you know
Speaker 1: when you said, um, I turned my pain into my purpose.
Speaker 1: And I was so young I didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: So crazy. I'm still teared about it because I turned
Speaker 1: my business into a big training institute. Right. So I
Speaker 1: speak all over the world India, Africa, Australia, London, Paris,
Speaker 1: but I do leadership coaching, I do business. I do
Speaker 1: life coaching because it was bigger than cancer. It's what's
Speaker 1: the cancer that's happening in your life? You know. I
Speaker 1: I call it the Warrior method now. But then I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I did everything. I was like, look, I
Speaker 1: was like God, just every day you give me something,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I'll tell you my five things
Speaker 1: that I still do to this day that I did then. Um. Affirmation, Right,
Speaker 1: I don't care when nobody say people think they're hockey.
Speaker 1: I do that s h one C. I do that
Speaker 1: ship every day. Affirmation is like, you know, I'm enough,
Speaker 1: I'm smart money, comes to me. My health is everything.
Speaker 1: I live a healthy body. I do manifestations. I write
Speaker 1: in my journal. I'm manifest every day because I wake
Speaker 1: up at six o'clock every day, exercise, I'm on the
Speaker 1: bike or I'm walking or running every day. Um, I
Speaker 1: changed my diet. I do a green juice and green
Speaker 1: tea every single day, and I read something positive every day.
Speaker 1: So when people are like, oh, you're so positive, that'ship fake. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. See. The thing is, I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 1: happy every day. I'm not saying I don't get depressed.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying a guy, ain't you know, did something
Speaker 1: crazy to me. I'm not saying my friends ain't never
Speaker 1: do something crazy. I'm not saying I didn't get a divorce.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, yes I have all the things happened to me,
Speaker 1: almost bank for up, lost a lot of money, all
Speaker 1: of that. But I'm saying when I fall, I get
Speaker 1: back up. That's all I'm saying. And so that's what
Speaker 1: I do every single day. It's not about being happy,
Speaker 1: it's about a choice. I make a choice every day
Speaker 1: because yes, I could be in that room depressed, don't
Speaker 1: want to get out of the bed. I could be
Speaker 1: in the room saying, my father is getting older. He's
Speaker 1: eighty seven. When you see your father who was a boss,
Speaker 1: who was super boss, one of the first millionaires in DC.
Speaker 1: He showed me what entrepreneur is. He showed me he
Speaker 1: walked and marched in something. He walked um um um
Speaker 1: in um d C. He lived in a two bedroom
Speaker 1: with nine kids in the room. You know what I
Speaker 1: mean when you see that, he picked cotton. So he's
Speaker 1: always like, there is no other way to go, do
Speaker 1: it other way. I love your relationship with your father. Um.
Speaker 1: I watched you go through all of his challenges and
Speaker 1: also your happy moments with him, and it reminds me
Speaker 1: so much of my relationship with my dad. My father
Speaker 1: is my everything. He's like, you know, the star of
Speaker 1: my life and and my biggest supporter. And it's nothing
Speaker 1: that I do. Just recently, I did something that I
Speaker 1: know he's not a hundred percent in support of. And
Speaker 1: when I my mom and I were different. That's that's
Speaker 1: my girl. Though you know we rock out, but when
Speaker 1: she she's gonna challenge me. So I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily have to do that thing, and she's
Speaker 1: ready to tell me all the reasons why that's right.
Speaker 1: But my Dad's like, you know, because that's my guy.
Speaker 1: It's a different relationship. So when I think about you
Speaker 1: and your dad, and I also realized they're getting older
Speaker 1: and if things go in the nation of your progression,
Speaker 1: there will come a day when we will have to
Speaker 1: lay them to rest. It's really really tough. That's almost
Speaker 1: like worth than any sickness that could ever be inflicted
Speaker 1: on me. You know my parents, That's how I feel.
Speaker 1: My father is my ride or die and it's bazing.
Speaker 1: That's why I love you, your your relationship because people
Speaker 1: don't know it's just a bond that is unbreakable and
Speaker 1: no one can no one can understand. Right, I'd rather
Speaker 1: take him to a nice dinner or to an event.
Speaker 1: I'd rather come on, let's right, the car. He I'd
Speaker 1: rather be with him because when you have as a
Speaker 1: little girl, somebody supporting you and pushing you, that means everything.
Speaker 1: That support and that like, wow, you can do it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? That means everything to me.
Speaker 1: And so he's been there for me throughout my entire
Speaker 1: but there was your was your family a big part
Speaker 1: of your healing process. Yeah, yeah, and and I and
Speaker 1: I gotta know you how I became the warrior coach
Speaker 1: is my doctor. My doctor was like, for Sean, I
Speaker 1: want you to speak and I was like me, so rumor,
Speaker 1: this is like twelve thirteen years ago. I was like.
Speaker 1: She was like, yeah, because I used to go into
Speaker 1: chemo child with red lipstick, fur coat, you know, and
Speaker 1: some and some hot heels. And I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not wearing a sweatsuit. I'm living. I'm being full faced,
Speaker 1: like literally full face and everything. And uh, this woman
Speaker 1: when I spoke, I was just crying and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I shouldn't be here today. It's so crazy
Speaker 1: that I'm here. And she said you're a warrior. And
Speaker 1: everybody started chanting you are a warrior. And my father
Speaker 1: pull me to the side. You said you can do anything.
Speaker 1: You're a goddamn warrior. How it hit me and and
Speaker 1: it's stuck. So tell us about, um, you are a
Speaker 1: warrior and and how this tech company now comes into
Speaker 1: play with your experience. So so, remember when I was
Speaker 1: going through cancer, my mental health was not right. I
Speaker 1: was depressed every day, crying, lonely, anxiety, waking up in
Speaker 1: the middle of night, I didn't know there was nobody
Speaker 1: to talk to. Right, we as black, we gotta make
Speaker 1: it seem like we're okay. We gotta push through. Remember,
Speaker 1: don't cry girl, get your stof together and get it
Speaker 1: on going for the men and a women, right, you know.
Speaker 1: And I never could talk to anyone. I never felt
Speaker 1: like anybody could help me. Therapy was like, if you
Speaker 1: go to therapy, it's a lot. You're crazy. You know,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to go to therapy because little coaching wasn't
Speaker 1: you know big. It's like, who's spending money on that?
Speaker 1: You know, get yourself together girl? And so I realized
Speaker 1: that my mental health was not good. And so during
Speaker 1: this I was like, you know, what where do people
Speaker 1: go to get help with? Where do we go? Nowhere?
Speaker 1: Where do we feel safe? Not on Facebook? Right, don't
Speaker 1: feel safe on Instagram. Look, they talk about the number
Speaker 1: one way they make money. It's through hate and kkke
Speaker 1: and bullying and suicide. So Instagram and me, every time
Speaker 1: somebody post up, I even see when you say something right,
Speaker 1: somebody like girls shut up you. I mean my damn,
Speaker 1: nobody can post something and you you gotta say, you
Speaker 1: gotta troll and say something evil. Somebody else just post
Speaker 1: up and they were like, you're like you have to
Speaker 1: have thick skin when you go online. You gotta happen.
Speaker 1: You gotta be serious, Like I mean, somebody posted on
Speaker 1: somebody girl go home and die. No, but I mean
Speaker 1: like it's like you're listen to me. The incident is
Speaker 1: like the jungle. You're going up in my comments. Nobody
Speaker 1: goes in my comments I've had I've had everybody DM
Speaker 1: me like yo, it's it's like war instide your comp
Speaker 1: Like I don't even know where these people live bat
Speaker 1: because I've never met people with this type of energy
Speaker 1: like in real life. They only exist in soudal life.
Speaker 1: Just hate. They hate you like that throw oh you
Speaker 1: ain't really happy, you're phony and should come out on
Speaker 1: my face home and sit down with your low vibration.
Speaker 1: If you need a hug, get a hug, girl, don't
Speaker 1: come to me. It's like, I mean, it's just a
Speaker 1: spew hate and so nowhere to go. And you're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out where to pour your in it like
Speaker 1: where where to turn with your story? Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: it was nowhere to turn. So you know, COVID really
Speaker 1: woke me up because my next door neighbor killed himself,
Speaker 1: jumped off the building. Yeah, and he was you would
Speaker 1: never know, wealthy, successful doing it. Now. Meanwhile, he didn't
Speaker 1: have cancer all over his body. Probably right, we don't know,
Speaker 1: but more than likely he didn't have that. And yet
Speaker 1: he turns to suicide. Imagine, like, look at how God
Speaker 1: kept you because there are people who in your situation.
Speaker 1: What is that? It's no way I can Maybe I
Speaker 1: can't beat cancer all over my body exactly exactly. And
Speaker 1: that's why I said, Man, with God, everything is possible.
Speaker 1: You see, we don't want them to use our faith.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, faith is all I got. I
Speaker 1: walked through faith. That's all. That's all I lived by,
Speaker 1: and so and and and that was it. Right, So
Speaker 1: he committed suicide. My nephew, black, young guy, thirty, good looking.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm feeling a little
Speaker 1: depressed and I'm feeling weird. I don't want you to
Speaker 1: talk about it, but you know, I don't like how
Speaker 1: I'm feeling. I don't know how to get out of this.
Speaker 1: And then I read Elon Must say something. Elon Must said,
Speaker 1: I'm at the top of the game. I'm a billionaire.
Speaker 1: I could do anything I want, but there's nowhere to
Speaker 1: go where I feel safe. And you know because and
Speaker 1: then my black gay friend who's married checked this out,
Speaker 1: black gay friend who's married but really lying living undercover,
Speaker 1: and that's when I said, damn, we need a place
Speaker 1: to go. And so I was like, I went to
Speaker 1: talk to the about opers and I said, I wanted uh,
Speaker 1: I wanted a black team, right because I wanted a
Speaker 1: black team. And I was like, I want to put
Speaker 1: together an app for mental health right for us. It's
Speaker 1: for everybody, but especially for us, because I know we
Speaker 1: don't know where to go. Um. And so I put
Speaker 1: my money where my mouth was. I was like, mental
Speaker 1: health is huge, let's get it. So I found some
Speaker 1: black developers. They used to work at Google. I found
Speaker 1: some African American women in tech because I'm all about diversity,
Speaker 1: but I'm all about black people in technology making money
Speaker 1: because you see, you see all of white boys making
Speaker 1: money in Silicone Valley. We're not even in the industry.
Speaker 1: We're not making anything. So I mean, they started the
Speaker 1: whole industry and it's like one person in and so
Speaker 1: that's what I did. So you are a warrior, Go
Speaker 1: sign up www but you get help, like you can
Speaker 1: get on and therapist. So like what's the what's the
Speaker 1: launches and launches in November, um, and so what what
Speaker 1: it's about is you'll be able to express yourself. No bullying,
Speaker 1: no trolley, no negativity. You get kicked off immediately, like
Speaker 1: you get kicked off. Um, we're gonna have like a
Speaker 1: place where you can express yourself. You can be a
Speaker 1: nominous or you don't have to be. We'll have groups
Speaker 1: like anger management, UM, finance, real estate, all these things
Speaker 1: that we need to talk about and like divorce, relationships.
Speaker 1: Then we'll have a place where you can hear experts, celebs, coaches.
Speaker 1: We'll have a chat, a buzz room. It's called a
Speaker 1: buzz room, the Warrior buzz room where you can text
Speaker 1: it through a moderated coach or or celeb or UM
Speaker 1: expert and um, we'll have a forum where it could
Speaker 1: be one to one one at all. So gonna have coaches,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have therapists, gonna have all that. It's like
Speaker 1: a one stop shots. Yeah, how you really feel, tell
Speaker 1: me how y'all feel? They don't gotta say it. How
Speaker 1: do you feel? You don't say the places we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't really play a thing. No you hear, we
Speaker 1: would say, but why don't you? But instead of that,
Speaker 1: I know it's necessary. Mental listen. I talked about it
Speaker 1: all the time because it has I have to, you
Speaker 1: have to. I learned that a part of my healing
Speaker 1: process from what I told you the other day about
Speaker 1: the addiction issues that I suffered, is talking about it
Speaker 1: and just being honest about what happened and the process
Speaker 1: towards getting yourself together, right. I just need to do
Speaker 1: that for me, And there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: and even I when I first came out of rehab it.
Speaker 1: First of all, when I went to rehab, I was
Speaker 1: so concerned about other people there knowing me that I
Speaker 1: had my name changed, I was under an alias, I
Speaker 1: did all the things I did. All of that stressed
Speaker 1: myself out, trying to hide to come out and tell
Speaker 1: people I was addicted to pain fills and any kind
Speaker 1: of fill you would give me. And now I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about it wherever because I realized that it wasn't
Speaker 1: my story to keep. It was actually God's story to
Speaker 1: tell what happened and how I made it over from depression.
Speaker 1: That was really, really serious ninety eight pounds down because
Speaker 1: I was so stressed about what the world and what's
Speaker 1: the internet and the newspapers and white folks and black
Speaker 1: people who were against me and you know, all of that.
Speaker 1: I was worried about that and the fact that I
Speaker 1: had been up until that point, um, you know, protected
Speaker 1: and guarded, and this was the first time in life
Speaker 1: that I had to deal with the attacks and the
Speaker 1: blows by myself, you know. And so I turned to
Speaker 1: what I thought made me comfortable, which ended up being
Speaker 1: a nightmare. And um so when I hear you say
Speaker 1: you you are a worried it's a place to go
Speaker 1: talk about it. I feel like sometimes when I'm speaking
Speaker 1: to people who've never experienced addictions, they really don't get it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it's like, all right, why are you.
Speaker 1: I need a place sometimes to go and speak the
Speaker 1: other individuals in the midst of my day because me
Speaker 1: going to a program to sit down and say, my
Speaker 1: name is Tamika and I'm at that probably won't happen.
Speaker 1: But if I could pick up my phone we get
Speaker 1: some advice that would actually be helpful. See, And that's
Speaker 1: where thank you for that, And that's where I wanted
Speaker 1: it to go like when you pick up your phone
Speaker 1: and you can get some help, or you can see
Speaker 1: and see other people's story because you learn from other
Speaker 1: people's stories. Right, So that's what you said. So just
Speaker 1: like me, hiding depressed, wanted to make it seem like
Speaker 1: I had this perfect life. Everything was going well. No,
Speaker 1: ship wasn't going wrong, didn't the money was funny, um,
Speaker 1: you know, career was funny to right, all this stuff,
Speaker 1: nothing was going right. And then I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: and let me tell you this is why I'm real
Speaker 1: passionate about this. Why I said I want to change
Speaker 1: it because I coach. I mean I coach a lot
Speaker 1: of people, celebs exactly all of this a politicians and
Speaker 1: what when I was going through it, I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I was asking some sisters like you know,
Speaker 1: and so some some black women didn't help me out.
Speaker 1: They didn't look out whether it was for like hey
Speaker 1: can you recommend me as a coach or hey can
Speaker 1: you do this? Hey? And I was like, damn, you know,
Speaker 1: why is it that we can't support each other one
Speaker 1: of those systems? Why can't we say you know what,
Speaker 1: hey girl, let me say, Tamika, you need to meet her,
Speaker 1: meet Lisa, let me put her on. And you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, because we have this crab and the
Speaker 1: bart barrel, it can only be us, it can only
Speaker 1: be one. And that's not true. That's living on a
Speaker 1: low viperation. So I said, I'm gonna get this app.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start a foundation, a mental health, mental wellness
Speaker 1: foundation I want to get. I want to start a
Speaker 1: movement and show what we support each other and show
Speaker 1: that we give back, and show that it's not just
Speaker 1: about us. Because I heard it from some white people
Speaker 1: that oh, yeah, you know what, you guys are so fragmented,
Speaker 1: you're broke, you're never help each other. And I wanted
Speaker 1: to show this. So that's why I said, no, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be clear. I want black developers, I want black women.
Speaker 1: In fact, I want this, so I was clear to
Speaker 1: show the technology world that we can do it well.
Speaker 1: That is you know, Rashaun, I just wanted to say
Speaker 1: that you're very inspirational. You know, I'm currently dealing with
Speaker 1: a situation with my mother who was fighting against cancer
Speaker 1: right now and she's pretty much overcame. She she has
Speaker 1: no cancer. Inside of what she's dealing with a lot
Speaker 1: of complications through through you know, from radiation and keymore else.
Speaker 1: She's dealing with that, and the other day was like
Speaker 1: a real scary day for me. You know, she was
Speaker 1: her energy was gone and I was the only person
Speaker 1: they're trying to give her that energy. So you know,
Speaker 1: so I'll be needing that, you know, and she needs that.
Speaker 1: So I hope one day, one day I might want
Speaker 1: to call you with her. You used to give her
Speaker 1: this energy because she might really need that because you know,
Speaker 1: she's currently in the hospital right now. You know, she's
Speaker 1: dealing because she had she had stage three lunkheads, you know,
Speaker 1: so she's dealing with a lot of different adverse things
Speaker 1: that come from little surgeries with her sophoks and her
Speaker 1: win for a lot of different things. So right now
Speaker 1: she needs that energy. You know. Me and we've been
Speaker 1: trying to get everybody's been trying to give her this energy,
Speaker 1: you know, with your energy. Just gave me energy, so
Speaker 1: you know I would love it. I can get on
Speaker 1: the phone with you, but I don't want my son
Speaker 1: to get in trouble. So you learned by yourself. Your
Speaker 1: brother and your sister was there with you. Because yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean everybody's trying to get because you know, brother
Speaker 1: to be like you wouldn't spent. Yeah, that's why I
Speaker 1: said the word we we we know, but but look
Speaker 1: by let me tell you. You don't know how many
Speaker 1: d ms got get a day. I'm probably about three
Speaker 1: hundred a day. I've hired a whole social media team
Speaker 1: because I want to talk to them because I know
Speaker 1: how it is when no one knows how you're feeling
Speaker 1: and you feel alone and you can't do it. Believe me,
Speaker 1: I want people like I give out my recipes what
Speaker 1: I did, so I really that's a passion of mine.
Speaker 1: I advocate for that. Like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: people don't You don't even understand when you have cancer
Speaker 1: and you feel like you're by yourself, who's there? You're
Speaker 1: gonna die? Like nobody can understand it. And I do that, Like,
Speaker 1: so that's my it's my heart, it's my passion. My
Speaker 1: father prostate cancer, lung cancer, beat it. I mean, my
Speaker 1: mother unfortunately didn't make it. You know, she didn't beat it.
Speaker 1: But I think that's why I'm hearing. My dad is
Speaker 1: here to show you know that it is possible. For
Speaker 1: first on show the word man, Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: continue to inspire and motivating, be great. ERGI is amazing.
Speaker 1: People need that. Thank you all, and please www dot
Speaker 1: the letters are a warrior w A R R I
Speaker 1: R dot com sign up. It's a landing page now
Speaker 1: in launch is in November. We're gonna upgrade the stander page.
Speaker 1: But I just really, I really fight for mental health
Speaker 1: because we are black. We need it. We need it,
Speaker 1: need it. We needed were definitely. We're actually on the
Speaker 1: Black Effect Network, which is UM, which was founded by
Speaker 1: Charlemagne the God. You and I talked about him the
Speaker 1: other day when you talked about making those connections. That's
Speaker 1: what my son and not do all the time. We
Speaker 1: have to make sure that you and Charlomagne get together
Speaker 1: because he is so INTI mental health. So please, it's
Speaker 1: so please, please introduced me. It's so needed because I
Speaker 1: talked to people. Let me just tell you real quick.
Speaker 1: And then I talked to a woman. She's, she's, she's.
Speaker 1: She said, I'm calling you girl because I heard you
Speaker 1: on so many podcasts and this is it. I'm tired,
Speaker 1: I'm depressed. I hate myself. I'm a seventh figure woman,
Speaker 1: I'm an executive, but I date below me. I don't
Speaker 1: love who I am. I'm pretty as a bad bug.
Speaker 1: I tried to hurt my boyfriend. I got so many
Speaker 1: issues because I don't love my soul. To help me.
Speaker 1: I need help now. It took me listening to everybody
Speaker 1: to know I got issues and my boyfriend had so
Speaker 1: many issues together too, And she said I want to
Speaker 1: come and get help. I was like, thank you God
Speaker 1: that we're starting to stand up and speak up. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm want because I need help too. My girl called
Speaker 1: me girl, I got you so yeah, yeah, no, thank
Speaker 1: you you guys, thank you. Um, I want to help
Speaker 1: your mom out. Please call me, She'll connect. Yeah. Thanks
Speaker 1: for Sean. Love, take care, baby, have a good one.
Speaker 1: For Sean is incredible. And I remember I was there,
Speaker 1: you know, not when she was experiencing the initial part
Speaker 1: of her cancer diagnosis, but very soon after watching her,
Speaker 1: you know, fight through the struggles. Um. And she's always
Speaker 1: been so inspired. It. It's crazy because the people who
Speaker 1: are often most her harns um and and going through
Speaker 1: it can sometimes be those that are the most inspiring
Speaker 1: because I don't remember a time when her depression shows
Speaker 1: and you know, people say, well, I don't know it
Speaker 1: just it does something to me to hear her say
Speaker 1: that people online or people in general would say that
Speaker 1: she's fake when she's smiling and and and and expressing
Speaker 1: the happiness and the joy of like fighting her way
Speaker 1: through and just being able to wake up every day.
Speaker 1: People who have never experienced what she's been through. It's like, yo,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with people? You know what? You know I've
Speaker 1: been saying. Luckily, we just you know, just on on
Speaker 1: and just talking about things like that. And it's two
Speaker 1: stands that I have, you know, One is people hate
Speaker 1: your strength because it reminds them of their own weaknesses.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of people like that, right
Speaker 1: They look at you and they're so mad that you're
Speaker 1: able to be strong when the time they feel like
Speaker 1: they would be weak. So rather than just to be
Speaker 1: motivated by that or say, you know what, let me
Speaker 1: use this this person, I can be strong, they are
Speaker 1: angry with you. They don't because they don't even want
Speaker 1: to try to be strong. They rather just continue to say, no,
Speaker 1: this is I don't want to be strong. I want
Speaker 1: to just widing my weakness, and you shouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to be strong either. And then I also said that
Speaker 1: courage looks like insanity to a coward, right, So when
Speaker 1: you it's the same same premise when you have courage
Speaker 1: and you will going to stand up, and someone who
Speaker 1: doesn't have that courage, someone who is not as brave
Speaker 1: as you, thinks that you're crazy. So they gotta find
Speaker 1: everything else. They gotta find ways to diminish what it
Speaker 1: is that you do, try to devalue you, try to
Speaker 1: make it seem like what you're doing is crazy because
Speaker 1: they don't have the strength of the So that's what
Speaker 1: That's what I think we live, especially in this cybal world,
Speaker 1: you know, with these people that come on in and
Speaker 1: it's really sad that somebody that inspirational, someone who beat
Speaker 1: stage four cancer, Like that's not even a story that
Speaker 1: you really that's very rarely heard of that someone reverses
Speaker 1: stage four cancer when they tell you have three months
Speaker 1: to live. I've seen people who who you know, excelled
Speaker 1: and being able to live for a year to after,
Speaker 1: but just to completely live five and sixty and be
Speaker 1: just what I'm trying to say, twelve years after you've
Speaker 1: been like, that's not something that I've ever heard of.
Speaker 1: So why will we not congratulate somebody and celebrate somebody
Speaker 1: that she still has a story, that she's still happy,
Speaker 1: that she doesn't look like what she's been through. And
Speaker 1: some people are just miserable so much, they're so miserable
Speaker 1: and so easy with the world that, like you said,
Speaker 1: they can't stand to see you smiling and and and
Speaker 1: and trying to, you know, push through in a way
Speaker 1: that even though I'm going through something, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: just walk around with my head hanging down. And you know,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately, I just gotta say it. It's like, black
Speaker 1: folks have to do better. We have to do better,
Speaker 1: you know, because as I was saying earlier about the
Speaker 1: whole issue around Cardy Be saying, she now you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't want to speak as much on issues. It's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: I get that once we've become public figures, we have
Speaker 1: to deal with what goes along with that, which is
Speaker 1: people's trauma and people's paying people hate and all of that.
Speaker 1: But I just wonder sometimes, you know, why are we
Speaker 1: okay with tearing folks down, even though a person may
Speaker 1: not be doing it perfectly for a lot of us
Speaker 1: or a lot of people, they're not willing to do
Speaker 1: half of what you will do the same thing. You know,
Speaker 1: I listened to Tesla and all the time shout out
Speaker 1: to our tad go said, what do you say? Figure out? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, uh uh what is this straight shot no chaser.
Speaker 1: She's also a podcaster on UM the Black Effect Network,
Speaker 1: but also always on Fox News Channel, and you know,
Speaker 1: also making her own news on her home on her
Speaker 1: Instagram page. And she always talks about the fact that
Speaker 1: a lot of people have the nerves to challenge someone
Speaker 1: else who's not doing it exactly as you want them
Speaker 1: to advocate and be a leader. But yes, you're not
Speaker 1: being a leader at all, Like you're you, you're scared
Speaker 1: to say boots and yet and still you want to
Speaker 1: challenge somebody else, and you hiding under a faith name
Speaker 1: on social media going on then trying to tell other
Speaker 1: people down. And it's like yo, people their mental health
Speaker 1: becomes affected by the constant ridicule and live and ensuing
Speaker 1: of hate. And fortunately it's like for us, we can
Speaker 1: fight the demons of those people who are opposition because
Speaker 1: we already know that that's those are the people we're
Speaker 1: going after. But I mean, I'm saying a bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff all over again that the reality is that fighting
Speaker 1: your own people can get to be even more difficult. However,
Speaker 1: you have to build up a shell around you that says,
Speaker 1: even even those people who I'm trying to help that
Speaker 1: harm me, I still despite you have to support you
Speaker 1: and and and be there to you know, fight the
Speaker 1: battle that God has chosen me to fight. I know
Speaker 1: I said the same thing again, but it was first.
Speaker 1: But sometimes you sometimes people need to hear it in
Speaker 1: different ways. You gotta come back, You gotta reiterated, because
Speaker 1: they're only hearing man, you know. And we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: with the themes about cancer, you know, and it's more
Speaker 1: things that are killing us in birth cancer, you know. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: so many people my friendly have died from so many
Speaker 1: different kinds of cancers. I've watched and I believe if
Speaker 1: it's not the number one, probably the number one killer
Speaker 1: or two killer of black people just worldwide, you know.
Speaker 1: So you know, um, I want to send some respect
Speaker 1: the love about to chat with who you know who
Speaker 1: actually and he wanted the people and we cohen cancer
Speaker 1: is something that we we don't focus on a lot
Speaker 1: of black man, you know. I think it's time for
Speaker 1: me to go get my cold and check, like your
Speaker 1: black man in your forties, maybe even late thirties. Just
Speaker 1: get you some check up, just to make sure, man,
Speaker 1: because you don't never want to wait till it's too
Speaker 1: late to find out what's going on with your body. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, Um much love to the brother can go
Speaker 1: from U TFO Crew you know, can't go kids. Um,
Speaker 1: I had did an interview with him and he was
Speaker 1: going he had been diagnosed with coen cancer and he
Speaker 1: was preparing to go get an operation, you know, So
Speaker 1: I just want to send out some love to him
Speaker 1: on with us today. Um. But you know has been
Speaker 1: de with you know all that unfortunately cancer presents and
Speaker 1: you know, we want to send him some love and
Speaker 1: strength where he is. I wasn't able to be with
Speaker 1: you for the interview that you did with him the
Speaker 1: day that he came on. And some people may not
Speaker 1: know who can Go is or what U TFO is
Speaker 1: from the eighties. Man eighties one of the pioneers originated
Speaker 1: and the hip hop originated U TFCO Crew. Can't go kids,
Speaker 1: do your research. Man, you don't know that you ain't
Speaker 1: know real hip hop. Yeah, but you don't got to
Speaker 1: not be real hip hop because you don't know do
Speaker 1: some research, man, do some research, you know. I feel
Speaker 1: like for me when hip hop is is doing a
Speaker 1: little bit of research, you gotta know the pioneers. And
Speaker 1: when people ask you who is some of the top
Speaker 1: first ten hip hop looser all the time like you
Speaker 1: should be able to look in and said, okay, but
Speaker 1: it depends on where you look because different people have
Speaker 1: a top ten that some folks now say top ten.
Speaker 1: I said, first time. Okay, Now you can't change the
Speaker 1: first people who did so that's true, that's true. Well,
Speaker 1: these do a little history, a little history history revisionists
Speaker 1: on the internet or have it looking like, you know,
Speaker 1: some of us have never done the things we did
Speaker 1: so but anyway, that's a whole different days show. Shout
Speaker 1: out to our brother Can't Go, you know, who is
Speaker 1: experiencing challenges and just fighting the fight and we want
Speaker 1: to send him love. He is obviously welcome to come
Speaker 1: to Street Politicians whenever we wanted to happen with us
Speaker 1: today and Um, I think that our production team would
Speaker 1: like to insert um in our interview today and remind
Speaker 1: folks of some of the things that he said a
Speaker 1: few months ago when he was on Street Politicians with
Speaker 1: you so yeah, I'm you know if I'm humbled and
Speaker 1: blessed to see you. Man, thank you, you know, knowing
Speaker 1: what it is that you mean to this game. Man,
Speaker 1: what's been going on with you? Man? Well, look I
Speaker 1: stopped by here. Um, I know how you reached the
Speaker 1: fellas you know, I mean, your reach is incredible. I
Speaker 1: I salute you to congratulate you on how you reach,
Speaker 1: but UM, I needed to get to you so that
Speaker 1: you can get to them on something that's taken place
Speaker 1: with me. I've been an advocate for the fight against
Speaker 1: breast cancer. I had hip Hop coming together and do
Speaker 1: that and I won an award from the American Cancer
Speaker 1: Society for doing this. Um then Cool Hirk, when Cool
Speaker 1: Hirk was going through his health issues, I UM partnered
Speaker 1: with h HC to get hip hop healthcare. And so
Speaker 1: I've always been that dude behind the scenes trying to
Speaker 1: make it happen, you know, for for the underdogs in
Speaker 1: terms of health. And funny enough, at the top of
Speaker 1: the month, UM, I find myself on the other side
Speaker 1: of that fence. And so what's happening is I've been
Speaker 1: diagnosed with colvid cancer and you know I can say it,
Speaker 1: you know, verbally right now with you. Two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: when I was hit with this, it crushed me. I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe how myn on the other side and how
Speaker 1: does one go through it? Neglect? It's just that simple.
Speaker 1: Us fellas. You know everyone for that matter, but us
Speaker 1: fellas need to get ourselves checked properly. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, on on a on a regular basis, if
Speaker 1: it's yearly or however, it goes down, especially when you
Speaker 1: reach a certain age and you know my neglect, I
Speaker 1: had issues in terms of insurance, so I had to
Speaker 1: make sure I had my insurance set up in Jimbo
Speaker 1: played a role in, you know, making that happen for
Speaker 1: me as well, and so once I got all that
Speaker 1: locked in, UM, I definitely need to get myself checked.
Speaker 1: But there were signs prior to that that UM led
Speaker 1: me to say, Yo, I need to get you know,
Speaker 1: see what's going on with this? And UM, you know
Speaker 1: I'm be a little graphic right now, but I need
Speaker 1: to be for everyone. Need I need to understand. So UM.
Speaker 1: One of the early things that would take place is
Speaker 1: when I would use the bathroom and I'm wiping, I'd
Speaker 1: see blood. You start thinking, what could that be, you know,
Speaker 1: is that prostate? Is that so so so many things
Speaker 1: that it can be, but it's definitely a sign that
Speaker 1: something needs to be addressed. That would continue and then
Speaker 1: after a while it would stop. So I'm figuring, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm good now. You know that graduated from from that too.
Speaker 1: Now it's in my stool and uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: the coloring is different, and uh, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: producing the log that I once produced and it's coming
Speaker 1: out different now. And so that the actual thing that
Speaker 1: took place that made me go, can' stop playing? Is
Speaker 1: I'm in the privacy of my own room and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to fart, but it came out
Speaker 1: with substance, so I'm like, yo. Then I just shot,
Speaker 1: like what the hellse I ran in the bathroom to
Speaker 1: go check this, to clean this up or see what
Speaker 1: it was, and it was a bloody mucus. I said,
Speaker 1: all right, can't stop playing, bro, go get yourself checked.
Speaker 1: I got my colonoscopy and they they found a mass
Speaker 1: and um, they said, you know, luckily they called it.
Speaker 1: Or it's gonna be a long run here. It's not
Speaker 1: just gonna be an adwater and stir operation and you know,
Speaker 1: back to normal. From what I'm told, I'm going to
Speaker 1: have a two month recovery period. They'll determine what exactly
Speaker 1: will take place in post treatment after they've taken the
Speaker 1: mass out and analyze it and see what the deal is.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if I'm looking forward to radiation
Speaker 1: or key mode or neither. I hope that they grab
Speaker 1: what they need to grab in I'm good. You know
Speaker 1: that that's that's the crossing the fingers. They described it
Speaker 1: like putting pipes together, So they're gonna take a piece
Speaker 1: of the pipe out and it takes the remaining and
Speaker 1: do that. You know, I'd be lying to you right
Speaker 1: now if I told you I wasn't, you know, afraid
Speaker 1: or scared and reflex man. We have the right to
Speaker 1: have the right to be you know, the fact that
Speaker 1: we're facing off is is what makes us man. You know,
Speaker 1: we're taught to be strong and not expressed us and
Speaker 1: brush it off and don't show people that you're vone boy.
Speaker 1: Let people know what's hurting you. And when you do
Speaker 1: show it, like oh man, he weak looking at him,
Speaker 1: it's like, but you can't win, but we gotta win,
Speaker 1: you know. But the bottom line is that you're doing
Speaker 1: right now is heroic, man, you know, because what you
Speaker 1: just said, I never had any conversation like I've heard Cohen.
Speaker 1: I've never had a conversation with anybody who told me
Speaker 1: what the symptoms were. You know, I've heard people to
Speaker 1: say I was diagnosed to coin cancer. You know, the
Speaker 1: fact that you just gave somebody symptoms that they can
Speaker 1: pay attention to and say, whoa, this sounds like what
Speaker 1: King was going through. Yeah, you know this is something
Speaker 1: you know, and we don't even want to get it
Speaker 1: to that stage which we want to do. You want
Speaker 1: to take care of it before I get that. Don't
Speaker 1: don't do don't be me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You want to get that's regularly, start just checking, you know.
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of stigmas that go with that.
Speaker 1: You don't want people in your calling, You don't want
Speaker 1: people and you know it's if there's so many things
Speaker 1: that we're dealing with. But the bottom line is our
Speaker 1: health is important. It really is, man, especially if you
Speaker 1: are a family man, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: me not taking care of myself is selfish to my family,
Speaker 1: That's right. You know what I mean so well, I
Speaker 1: just want you to know we're with you, man, We
Speaker 1: support you. You know, we want to just commend you,
Speaker 1: just commend you on the bravery, you know, the honesty,
Speaker 1: you know, the wherewithal to say. You know, this is
Speaker 1: something that I don't want to keep to myself, you know,
Speaker 1: and one and coming over here to street politicians and
Speaker 1: having this conversation with me, you know, I was just
Speaker 1: happy to celebrate, to see you as one of the
Speaker 1: one of the pioneers and idols that I grew up on,
Speaker 1: you know, and and to here you come with this,
Speaker 1: you know, even know it's something that I wish we
Speaker 1: didn't have to deal with. Right But don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm happy to come here and heroism
Speaker 1: and bravery that you know that I have to commend
Speaker 1: you further. You know, it goes deeper than hip hop. Now,
Speaker 1: I commend you just as a man. Just understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, you have an obligation and the duty for
Speaker 1: people who look up to you to dedicate them, you know,
Speaker 1: and m and inform them about things, especially us as
Speaker 1: black man dealing with so who want you to know
Speaker 1: that our prayers to what you brother, thank you bro.
Speaker 1: You know from our moms to guards is everything will
Speaker 1: be fine. He'll move through this fun and you know,
Speaker 1: and and other brothers will be will take precautions. Please.
Speaker 1: If I saved one life with this, it was worth it,
Speaker 1: you know. So you know what I mean, Will you
Speaker 1: definitely will? Man? I just wanted you know. It just
Speaker 1: brings me to my own situation, man, Like I told
Speaker 1: for Shan. You know, my mother's situation had me a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago just having me really you know,
Speaker 1: nervous just watching her go through it. And a lot
Speaker 1: of times people don't have energy and they don't have
Speaker 1: the energy to fight, you know, especially with just the
Speaker 1: way cancer is killing out our course. Like I told
Speaker 1: you before, you know, I've watched all of my aunts,
Speaker 1: nine out of I probably have two aunts left, and
Speaker 1: all of them died from cancer. Uncles of my grandmother,
Speaker 1: had nonsenses and brothers, and with the exception of probably
Speaker 1: two or three of them that's left, all of them
Speaker 1: passed away from cancer. My grandmother passion cancer, my grandfam
Speaker 1: my father's father, and my mother's life. So it's like
Speaker 1: a curse in my family. Man. So you know, I
Speaker 1: have to be real attentional about making sure that we
Speaker 1: get screamed, you know, and that brings me to my
Speaker 1: I don't get it right now, you know, I really
Speaker 1: don't get why black especially black people are so scared
Speaker 1: to get tested or don't see the real need or
Speaker 1: don't be it's not intentional about something that is killing
Speaker 1: us a higher rag than anything else. You know. We
Speaker 1: talked about COVID, and it's a big thing, and yes,
Speaker 1: get your COVID screen and make sure you're tested, do
Speaker 1: whatever you need to do to make sure you know
Speaker 1: that you fight COVID. But cancer is something that's killing
Speaker 1: us by the millions daily, you know, daily, hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of us, especially black people, are dying from cancer.
Speaker 1: So I don't get while this isn't this big emphasis,
Speaker 1: especially by our culture, to make sure that we focus
Speaker 1: on them, you know. And so it's a lot, man.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I'm personalizing because of what I've
Speaker 1: been dealing with my mother's lakey man, you know, you
Speaker 1: know I think that, and we talked about it on
Speaker 1: on our last show. Just that it's it's all about design,
Speaker 1: like none of this is happening just because black folks
Speaker 1: woke up one day and said, Oh, we don't care
Speaker 1: about our health and we don't care about cancer. That's
Speaker 1: really not it um. I think there, first of all,
Speaker 1: the disparities within the healthcare industry leaves us vulnerable and
Speaker 1: unprotected most of the time when we go to the
Speaker 1: doctor to complain of pain. Just think about what Brushawn
Speaker 1: was saying. She was saying, like, I can't lean down,
Speaker 1: something's happened, and she's going to different doctors. The first
Speaker 1: thing they did was Misside noted her as having a
Speaker 1: flip disc and she kept going to doctors until she
Speaker 1: ended up in Columbia Presbyterian and where somebody decided to
Speaker 1: give her an m r R. But if it would
Speaker 1: have continued without her getting the type of support that
Speaker 1: she needed, she may have not been able to turn
Speaker 1: around having cancer spread all throughout her body. And if
Speaker 1: you don't have advocates, especially so it's it's it's you.
Speaker 1: There's one step that you need a doctor who cares
Speaker 1: about you, who cares about black folks, who cares about humans,
Speaker 1: and it's really trying to do their job. But then
Speaker 1: you need family members and friends and a community that's
Speaker 1: willing to support to be there watching what you all
Speaker 1: are doing in your family, you know, with your mom
Speaker 1: and seeing up close how y'all are really like in
Speaker 1: there fighting for and with her watching you know my story,
Speaker 1: you go, you all, all of my friends, all of
Speaker 1: y'all were there. My mom didn't have cancer, but you
Speaker 1: know when she dealt with her stroke, it was the
Speaker 1: same thing that they had to be advocates in that
Speaker 1: hospital building, letting the doctors and the nurses know that listen,
Speaker 1: this lady needs to live like you know, we were
Speaker 1: here to support our loved one. Because when people don't
Speaker 1: have that type of support, they get caught in the system,
Speaker 1: and and and the stories go on and on. You know,
Speaker 1: those that get the most care are those people who
Speaker 1: have the strongest support system around them. And so you know,
Speaker 1: when we think about black folks in general, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things I've been I've been
Speaker 1: really trying to process as a leader is this idea
Speaker 1: that we are I there are things within the education
Speaker 1: system and the health system and this and you know,
Speaker 1: health care and all kinds of systems around us that
Speaker 1: I want to see get better, right, And I want
Speaker 1: to think and dream of what would it look like
Speaker 1: to have equitable systems that work for us, that include us,
Speaker 1: that that that really are there to ensure that our
Speaker 1: communities UM have what we need to succeed. But we're
Speaker 1: still it's in the process of trying to get things
Speaker 1: like anti lynsion bills past. We're still trying to get
Speaker 1: UM the George Floyd Justice and Police and Act pass,
Speaker 1: which is just a second, third, fifth tense iteration of
Speaker 1: other bills that have come before. They just have to
Speaker 1: keep us from being killed. So we're still in the
Speaker 1: process of trying to stop the bleeding. And then on
Speaker 1: top of that, we have all these health disparities and
Speaker 1: other issues that we need to fight as well. And
Speaker 1: I think that that's why so many people in our communities,
Speaker 1: and particularly black men, don't necessarily want to go to
Speaker 1: the doctors. They don't feel like it's a place of
Speaker 1: safe place. Now I will say that, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: we also have to talk about not just the disparities,
Speaker 1: but like real danger that has been done. When we
Speaker 1: think about the vaccine and how hard it is to
Speaker 1: get people UM to to to believe in and to
Speaker 1: to a agree to get vaccinated because of what we
Speaker 1: have experienced in terms of literal criminality, against our communities
Speaker 1: within the health care system. So you've got all of
Speaker 1: that happening at once, and yet we're dying and we
Speaker 1: need to get the help. So I think that what
Speaker 1: you're talking about and being an advocate and having people
Speaker 1: like Roshawn and using street politicians as a way to
Speaker 1: get this information out there that has to happen, we
Speaker 1: all have a responsibility to toge with definitely doing what
Speaker 1: that said. You know, um, I need everybody. If you haven't,
Speaker 1: if you know that you're in the age group, or
Speaker 1: you're feeling sing wrong with your body, go get checked up,
Speaker 1: don't sit around, don't wait, don't be scared, you know,
Speaker 1: because early detection is key to survival. It is definitely
Speaker 1: key to survival. So what that said, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: always be right, SMIK is not gonna always be wrong.
Speaker 1: We will both always be authentic, authentic early detection. Pie.
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