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Speaker 1: Mallory and it's your boy, my son the general and
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Speaker 1: what's going on? My song? Letting how you doing, how
Speaker 1: you're doing, how you're doing, and blessing Holly favorite you know.
Speaker 1: So you've got that bron shirt and I got my Bronx.
Speaker 1: Haven't represented to be X today, shout out to Bronx
Speaker 1: logo logo X Logo, that's our friend. If people know
Speaker 1: Bronx Logo is the funniest person I've really ever met
Speaker 1: in my life. He's is he Puerto Rican? Is Puerto Rican.
Speaker 1: He is a typical hilarious Puerto Rican guy from the
Speaker 1: Bronx who says anything he wants to say and just
Speaker 1: keeps me laughing all the time. I love Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: man from the Bronx. Yes, it's it's a it's an
Speaker 1: authenticity just from the Bronx and with the Puerto Ricans
Speaker 1: for the Bronze just have a whole different statistic. That's
Speaker 1: that's my brother when the purest hard working brothers. And
Speaker 1: it was to shout out to be at slogo whatever
Speaker 1: whatever Y'll be saying, y'all make up these words. So
Speaker 1: I'm dragging today. I'm tired so much and you haven't
Speaker 1: even been traveling as much as I have. This time
Speaker 1: I went to the a k A Boulet, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, I got my painting drink pinking drink, thinking right,
Speaker 1: don't get them started. They love to say we parted,
Speaker 1: Oh you're with Boulet, you with the booge's and whatever.
Speaker 1: And you know what, the atk ain't gonna lie. It's
Speaker 1: some boogie women up and there. We are certainly the
Speaker 1: pretty girls, and it is some boogie women in the
Speaker 1: a case, But there's a lot of women within the
Speaker 1: sorority that the very supportive of our work and they
Speaker 1: do their own work. And you know, I was thinking
Speaker 1: that every you know, we're so unfortunately like in this
Speaker 1: we're in this situation where most of us want to
Speaker 1: see people really working on like the smoking gun issues. Right,
Speaker 1: so somebody's getting shot and killed and this happened, and
Speaker 1: that happened, and you want to see folks really working
Speaker 1: on those things because that's like at the heart of
Speaker 1: you know, what is harming our community and and it's
Speaker 1: and it's very visible and it's very painful, it's traumatic,
Speaker 1: and those things are important and certainly we work on that,
Speaker 1: you know, every day. But there's also a need to
Speaker 1: keep our kids going to college if they want to
Speaker 1: go to college, right. There's also a need to make
Speaker 1: sure people have good housing, clean food, people you know,
Speaker 1: get medical their medical needs met, their mental health met,
Speaker 1: that their voting rights are protected. And so I'm trying
Speaker 1: to as I'm getting older, understand that there's so many
Speaker 1: different roles that have to be played that it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that just because an entity is not like marching
Speaker 1: with us, you know, and and out there, you know
Speaker 1: whatever out there and and by the way, and by
Speaker 1: the way, many a k AI's are many deltas, are
Speaker 1: many zatas are I mean, we think about Natasha Williams,
Speaker 1: a council you know, she's our councilwoman now and queens,
Speaker 1: that's our little sister. She's a delta. She's in the street,
Speaker 1: you know, she's always out there engaged in um, you know,
Speaker 1: fighting for justice. So I think people have the wrong impression,
Speaker 1: and some of it is because of the sororities and
Speaker 1: fraternities and some of the positions they take or don't
Speaker 1: take so some of it is certainly their fault. However,
Speaker 1: when I'm really now that I'm inside and I'm getting
Speaker 1: to meet more people, I'm actually learning like, oh wait
Speaker 1: a minute, you're you know, you're a K I didn't
Speaker 1: even know that, and it would be somebody like, for instance,
Speaker 1: attorney Lanita Baker. This is a woman who was the
Speaker 1: lawyer for Brianna Taylor's family. She also was in the
Speaker 1: street with us when we lived in in Louisville. She
Speaker 1: she was our lawyer, our legal counsel, but she also
Speaker 1: was a protester. She's an activist. She is a a
Speaker 1: lawyer who works on social justice cases. She's in a
Speaker 1: k A. So I think we have to give people, um,
Speaker 1: you know, more and to go back to the original point,
Speaker 1: which is what I was thinking about while I was
Speaker 1: on the plane leaving the a k A convention, that
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many when you look at all
Speaker 1: the work that's being done within the sorority, there's so
Speaker 1: much happening that also helps our community. And it's something
Speaker 1: fortunate because we are so so so traumatized by the
Speaker 1: brutality that we don't realize all the time that some
Speaker 1: of what keeps us going. It's our things that people
Speaker 1: are involved in that you may never hear about, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So anyway, that was just my experience.
Speaker 1: Well it sounds like a good experience, you know. I
Speaker 1: just think that everybody has a purpose, everybody has a role,
Speaker 1: you know, and we all do different things. And I
Speaker 1: don't expect you know, everybody to do what I do,
Speaker 1: you know, being outside, being on the front line, you know,
Speaker 1: being visible, being vocal, you know, standing up against certain
Speaker 1: things publicly. It's not everybody's position, you know, And and
Speaker 1: we can't expect that. And I think, I think people's
Speaker 1: expectations are just are not realistic all the time. So
Speaker 1: I think, you know, shout out to all of you know,
Speaker 1: fraternities and sororities who do what they do and different
Speaker 1: individuals who play different roles. Some spport the movement publicly,
Speaker 1: some supported from behind the scenes, some supported financially, and
Speaker 1: some just do their own thing. Everybody and some don't
Speaker 1: do ship exactly know what I'm saying. We can't, we can't,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like I wish I think
Speaker 1: that the fact that the a k As brought me in,
Speaker 1: which is kind of yes, there are, like you know, uh,
Speaker 1: there are other civil rights leaders that are part of
Speaker 1: sororities and fraternities and all of that. So we're not
Speaker 1: saying that it's unheard of, but you know, with us,
Speaker 1: we often looked at as like we're way too radical,
Speaker 1: we you know whatever. And the fact that they brought
Speaker 1: me in, I think that's my role, right, Like I'm
Speaker 1: not supposed to be then just just blend in with
Speaker 1: everybody else and be quiet. But I have to bring
Speaker 1: things like Brittany Grinder and you know, a Jalen Walk
Speaker 1: of Brianna Taylor Tunisia Chappelle to the attention of the
Speaker 1: sorority so that they can find a way to take
Speaker 1: a position and get more involved, even if it is
Speaker 1: just raising money for bail funds and to give money
Speaker 1: to people on the ground who are doing grassroots work.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the role that is and and it
Speaker 1: is and it is incumbent upon me to find other
Speaker 1: like minded individuals within the sorority and get them with
Speaker 1: me on the same page about helping to move the
Speaker 1: sorority more into how they can be uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a backbone if you will, for people who are out
Speaker 1: there on the ground. So that's that's that's what I
Speaker 1: sort of took away from. You know, as I was leaving,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, Wow, this is an incredible resource. We
Speaker 1: have thirty six thousand members. Twelve thousand of them were
Speaker 1: at the Boulet, which is a conference for people who
Speaker 1: might not know what the Bulay is. Shoot. We to
Speaker 1: be able to if we get a dollar from each
Speaker 1: one of those organizations every month, I mean each one
Speaker 1: of those individuals every month, that's a that can help
Speaker 1: fund some of the work that's going on out here.
Speaker 1: Definitely can so hint. But um, you know I was
Speaker 1: while I was on the plane, I had I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, I had so many plane rides um this time.
Speaker 1: And I will say, because you know, we beat up
Speaker 1: on the airlines when they're messing up, so we have
Speaker 1: to say that Delta us they slowly but surely trying
Speaker 1: to get it together. Because I took six flights in
Speaker 1: the last five days or four or four or four
Speaker 1: or five days, I can't even remember, and not one
Speaker 1: was delayed or nor was it. Um it wasn't delayed
Speaker 1: or canceled, and my luggage made it on each connection.
Speaker 1: So it all went well, So that means that something
Speaker 1: is happening where they're trying to get better. They sent
Speaker 1: out an email from Delta saying that they apologize to
Speaker 1: all their customers because they know that their ship has
Speaker 1: been all over the place. But I was sitting there thinking,
Speaker 1: and I should know this, but who the hell controls
Speaker 1: the airlines? Like? Who isn't? Because guess what the plane
Speaker 1: tickets though? Whall like the price of plane tickets. Those
Speaker 1: six flights, one of them was paid for by another entity,
Speaker 1: but every other flight either we had to pay for
Speaker 1: it as an organization or I paid for it personally.
Speaker 1: I know that it was in excess of five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars and I didn't even pay for I think one
Speaker 1: flight I paid for first class. All the rest of
Speaker 1: them I paid for like comfort. And then of course,
Speaker 1: you know got an upgrade because of uh out your
Speaker 1: and mind. We both have diamond status, yo, bro, Like
Speaker 1: that's a lot of mine, and I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who's in charge. Thirty thousand bags All right, We're
Speaker 1: in London, somewhere where people couldn't get their luggage. Our
Speaker 1: friend Jennifer Williams ten days she couldn't get her luggage.
Speaker 1: Who is in charge? Like, who is the boss of
Speaker 1: the airport work the airline? The boss is the boss man,
Speaker 1: and it's making the man behind the scenes is making
Speaker 1: the money man. So they just make the decisions. That's it.
Speaker 1: He just decided. You never see him, you ever see
Speaker 1: I think it's I'm gonna get you suthing' is a
Speaker 1: is a movie where you know, they're talking about the
Speaker 1: man and they're all trying to see the man. He's
Speaker 1: just a white dude. And at the end, it's just
Speaker 1: a regular white dude and he just controlling everything. And
Speaker 1: back in the days is to always say the man,
Speaker 1: the man is in control, is the man. That's who's
Speaker 1: controlling the airports. The man, the man got grip on
Speaker 1: the airlines. Buddy, I don't understand it. He can he
Speaker 1: get a pretty penny. Well, they say it's gas prices,
Speaker 1: but yo, not like yo to go from New York
Speaker 1: to Kentucky the price of a ticket being a thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in coach? What the hell? That's that's that's like,
Speaker 1: what are we talking about? And in our situation, this
Speaker 1: is why when people trying to say, oh, why are
Speaker 1: we uh, you know, raising money, you got your cash
Speaker 1: app and you buy a which we never did talk
Speaker 1: about that, you know, when people were questioning you about
Speaker 1: the cash app and the buyer. But oh, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, y'all out here trying to get money for people,
Speaker 1: for people in our organs. And that's just for mind you.
Speaker 1: We still have other members of our team, Jewels, Stephen Green,
Speaker 1: different individuals that also need to be in certain places
Speaker 1: with us for certain reasons. But if you just start
Speaker 1: with us four, that's four thousand dollars coach automatically, hotel,
Speaker 1: get there. Depending on the whatever's going on, it might
Speaker 1: have to be security and a driver. But in some
Speaker 1: situations we either rent a car or we uber but
Speaker 1: but a lot of times we can't do that just
Speaker 1: because of the nature of what it is that we're
Speaker 1: dealing with. How do people think that ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: that's food everything? How do you get paid? I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything, you know, osmosis. They think that,
Speaker 1: you know, falls out the sky, you know, and the
Speaker 1: work we do is just irrelevant. It's not worth it anything,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't I stopped trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what people think because the reality is when you're not
Speaker 1: involved in this work and you know this is not
Speaker 1: your purpose or your passion, your your vision and your
Speaker 1: view of it really doesn't matter, right because the families
Speaker 1: that we help that call us and need us to
Speaker 1: be there and be on call and be at these
Speaker 1: meetings and be at rallies and press conferences and just
Speaker 1: just holding their hand period. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They don't. They're grateful. You know that they're they're very
Speaker 1: much grateful for us in the in the work that
Speaker 1: we put in, you know, and how we support them
Speaker 1: and uplift them and make sure that their family members
Speaker 1: situations don't go unnoticed. So whatever that, whatever that comes with,
Speaker 1: you know, the negativity of people who don't value us
Speaker 1: or don't see what it is would come That's that's
Speaker 1: part of That's what it is man. They where I say,
Speaker 1: they crucified Jesus Christ Man, that's it or what makes it?
Speaker 1: So we're near Jesus so you know what they're gonna
Speaker 1: do that, So I'm all for it. So no stories. Um.
Speaker 1: One that was super disturbing was the Brazilian doctor. They
Speaker 1: don't kick you off the Instagram, damn there all the
Speaker 1: way yeah, Instagram, Ye, I gotta talk to me about
Speaker 1: this because I don't understand. I've seen the video. You
Speaker 1: showed me the video two days ago, and I didn't
Speaker 1: post it up because I'm like, all right, But then
Speaker 1: there was an edited version that was a deal usual
Speaker 1: proc because I showed you the raw, uncut, uncutting footage,
Speaker 1: somebody sent it to me and then when I see
Speaker 1: earthquake posted, the deal is on every blog site in
Speaker 1: the world, and they took it off my page and
Speaker 1: suspended my lives, you know, and so I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is for them to check what's going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: something that's going on. It's not making sense because immediately
Speaker 1: because what happened is I put it up twice. The
Speaker 1: first time I thought it didn't post because it's on
Speaker 1: the page and there wasn't no comments for like thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking like this doesn't make sense. So I
Speaker 1: took it down and then reposted it, and then I
Speaker 1: want my thing and it was like, oh this you know,
Speaker 1: um New Nature sexual content and it's like there's no
Speaker 1: sexual content. You you you you infer based on the
Speaker 1: title what's going on? You could see him moving around,
Speaker 1: but you don't see any woman. You don't see any genitalia,
Speaker 1: you don't see anything, so you know, I don't know what.
Speaker 1: But then you said the man should be castrated. But
Speaker 1: I said, in situations like this, I said, for a
Speaker 1: frustration any man, my thing is this man when you willingly?
Speaker 1: But do we even tell people what happened with the
Speaker 1: Brazilian the Resilian doctor who was performing um Now he
Speaker 1: wasn't he was in then he was on the medical team. Oh,
Speaker 1: he was on the medical team for a woman who
Speaker 1: was beginning a C section. She was under anesthesia, and
Speaker 1: I think he was the anesthe geologist. Yeah he was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was. He was. That's his job, his job because
Speaker 1: when people people are like, why is he on this
Speaker 1: side of the sheet, he was there because he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be monitoring the patient and making sure she doesn't
Speaker 1: wake up in the middle of i UM a C section.
Speaker 1: So what they had they said that prior there were
Speaker 1: other victims that have been getting too much anesthesia, and
Speaker 1: so they started to pay attention because they wanted to
Speaker 1: see what was going on. And this is how they
Speaker 1: called him on camera, actually putting his penis inside the
Speaker 1: mouth of the woman while she was, you know, under
Speaker 1: and he was doing all types of things with her,
Speaker 1: and I think he actually even ejaculated and wiped her
Speaker 1: mouth off and all this. It was, you know, pretty disgusting.
Speaker 1: So I said to myself, any man who would do
Speaker 1: some ship like that, I support castration, Like I really,
Speaker 1: I don't think you deserve a penis at that point
Speaker 1: certain ship that a man do, especially sexual crimes of
Speaker 1: that nature, and that that discussing that you violated women
Speaker 1: and that regard, then you you lose the privilege of
Speaker 1: your penis. Oh my god. That I mean. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I don't disagree, but that's you. It's a different
Speaker 1: country that you have to live in where that would
Speaker 1: be the answer. I think. I think if that was
Speaker 1: the as, I think people would stop. I think I
Speaker 1: think people would stop, forcibly in doing things like that
Speaker 1: rape of woman if they knew that at the end
Speaker 1: of it, it would whoa that deter you from certain things, right,
Speaker 1: the rape and women and children. Because in certain countries,
Speaker 1: right they give you the the medicine that stops your
Speaker 1: you from even having the urge to have sex. So
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. Well, let me just tell you
Speaker 1: this real quick in New York and across the country
Speaker 1: has happened to people a number of times. Andrew Yane
Speaker 1: he his wife said that a doctor m had done
Speaker 1: the same thing to her. She felt like when she
Speaker 1: woke up from UM, I think O B G y
Speaker 1: N appointment that you know, a visit, that she knew
Speaker 1: that she that that um, she knew basically that the
Speaker 1: doctor has sex with her. Right he numbed her some
Speaker 1: kind of way where she was laying there, couldn't do anything,
Speaker 1: couldn't move, but she felt it. Side thence the district
Speaker 1: attorney in New York City, the most recent he's former
Speaker 1: now that he was just a district attorney. This is
Speaker 1: the same guy that after it came out that the
Speaker 1: prosecutor for the Central Park five that she had been
Speaker 1: involved in you know, in in in basically uh what
Speaker 1: you call a prosecutorial prosecutorial misconduct. And we said that
Speaker 1: he needed to go back and open the books and
Speaker 1: look through all of her cases or many of her
Speaker 1: cases to see whether there were other people like the
Speaker 1: Central Park five who were in prison for and and
Speaker 1: they had and their and their cases had been tampered
Speaker 1: with based upon her being um A criminal, a damned crook.
Speaker 1: As the prosecutor right, he didn't want to do that.
Speaker 1: He also did not want to investigate and charge the
Speaker 1: the doctor who Andrew Yang's wife accused. Didn't take long
Speaker 1: before all of these women aim forward to say that
Speaker 1: the same doctor did it to them. And then, of
Speaker 1: course at that point he had no choice but to prosecute.
Speaker 1: But he didn't believe Andrew Yane's wife. After after we
Speaker 1: learn this, women from all over the country started coming
Speaker 1: forward to say that the same thing is happening to them.
Speaker 1: So can you imagine And of course this woman, she's
Speaker 1: a darker skinned woman in Brazil, so looks like a
Speaker 1: you know, a black Brazilian woman. Imagine what's happening to
Speaker 1: black women. We already are not being properly treated when
Speaker 1: we go to medical facilities. We're not getting things that
Speaker 1: we need. We don't get the proper pain medicine. Imagine
Speaker 1: if it's happening to all women, Imagine what's happening to
Speaker 1: black women when they go to the doctor, or you
Speaker 1: have to be under anesthesia and there's no one from
Speaker 1: your family or anyone in there to watch what's going on.
Speaker 1: It's probably so out of control that we would be, like,
Speaker 1: be devastated if we knew the stats. Yeah, it probably is. Man,
Speaker 1: It's it's disgusting, man, just hearing it, thinking it, trying
Speaker 1: to figure out the mind state that comes with some
Speaker 1: bullshit like that. Man, I'm praying for women. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping they catch all these sick individuals and you know,
Speaker 1: and then punishing rooms. Yeah, at some point because this
Speaker 1: is too much. It's you know, when you when you
Speaker 1: commit and permit them to put you on the anesthesia,
Speaker 1: like you pretty much putting your life into somebody's hands.
Speaker 1: So what's to protect you? Right? Who's to be able
Speaker 1: to say what happens to you while you're under innstegia.
Speaker 1: So I think that's something that people should look into
Speaker 1: after when you under anesthesia, there should be cameras in
Speaker 1: the rooms where you're under innsthegia to make sure that
Speaker 1: the doctors and whoever are doing what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's something that really needs to come
Speaker 1: out of this situation as like a policy, you know,
Speaker 1: for real. Um okay, so styles P speaking of cameras
Speaker 1: and that's your guy, Yeah, shut up. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you know I spoke to his wife and she's like,
Speaker 1: she didn't say much, but just like because that's scary
Speaker 1: when you see your husband and the police having an encounter.
Speaker 1: And we know from watching the video the officer just
Speaker 1: wished the camera wasn't there because he was holding his gun.
Speaker 1: He wanted to he wanted to do something. He's smirking,
Speaker 1: he wanted to do something. Tell people exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: Does anybody know what what was what the woman was
Speaker 1: being arrested. Well, I I've seen I've actually seen the
Speaker 1: full footage, right, and what happened was the young lady
Speaker 1: was doing door dash and she was on a vehicle.
Speaker 1: I don't know if she had the proper license for
Speaker 1: the vehicle. She had the registration for the vehicle, so
Speaker 1: they pulled the police walked up and seeing the vehicle
Speaker 1: and did her need another Yeah, that's not vehicle. It's
Speaker 1: like a little mopad or something like that. I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what it is. So um so her and
Speaker 1: another young lady came outside and the officer asked for
Speaker 1: her license, and I don't believe she actually had a license.
Speaker 1: So what happened was she was like she was trying
Speaker 1: to find a license office. It was like, well, she's
Speaker 1: like what She's like, I'm just doing my job. I'm
Speaker 1: just giving a delivery, this and that and this and that.
Speaker 1: And she tried to take the bike and run on
Speaker 1: the bike. It was like she grabbed the bike and
Speaker 1: tried to push the but like you you're not gonna
Speaker 1: run the phone on the bike. She could, Yeah, so
Speaker 1: she ran with the bike. They ran right behind. I
Speaker 1: said no, no, no, so she she throws the bike.
Speaker 1: Please don't take my bike. You're taking my bike. So
Speaker 1: what happened at that point the officer grabbed her to
Speaker 1: arrest her, and he was very forceful, and he after
Speaker 1: he already had her as two of them. He didn't
Speaker 1: have to throw the woman to the ground, like you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It was just it was very
Speaker 1: it was excessive wars and and and that's the Stylesie
Speaker 1: styles watched them chase her and watch him pick literally
Speaker 1: grab her my arm and just toss her to the ground.
Speaker 1: And he was saying to himself, like, you didn't have
Speaker 1: to do that, like you already had. It was no
Speaker 1: need for you to throw no woman to the ground
Speaker 1: like that, you know. And and that's where the altercation
Speaker 1: come and and it's it's it's you know, there are
Speaker 1: people gonna say, oh, she should have never ran, and
Speaker 1: that wasn't excessive for us. And I understand what you're saying,
Speaker 1: but the reality to me is like the police and
Speaker 1: the community have to we have to live in unison, right,
Speaker 1: we have to be the police has to have the
Speaker 1: respect of the community. Right. So when you're doing things
Speaker 1: that are excessive for us, when you don't have to
Speaker 1: give you know, throw a woman to the ground, when
Speaker 1: you can grab a women's two of you officers and
Speaker 1: you can literally grab her and just put cups on
Speaker 1: us without throwing to the ground, Like why why isn't
Speaker 1: that something that is taught. Why isn't that something that
Speaker 1: you see to yourself to say, you know what? All right, understand,
Speaker 1: this woman is scared, she's you know, she didn't want
Speaker 1: to lose a vehicle, she didn't try to harm or
Speaker 1: she didn't she's not of a threat to us. Why
Speaker 1: do we need to throw her on her face to
Speaker 1: the ground and put handcuffs? All right? So you know,
Speaker 1: there are people on both sides and say, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: she should have never ran, and this and that and
Speaker 1: and for me, you know, I understand that you know,
Speaker 1: she she violated the law, arrested. I just think that
Speaker 1: we have to we have the way that we police
Speaker 1: our communities, you know, is going to determine the respect
Speaker 1: that the officers get, you know. And then what happens
Speaker 1: in those situations is us as men and styles did
Speaker 1: what I would have did, you know, I would have
Speaker 1: looked and said, yo, why would you throw that woman
Speaker 1: to the ground like that was some real bit ship?
Speaker 1: Like he said, you did some whole whole whole ship,
Speaker 1: like you threw a woman to the ground, and you
Speaker 1: already had that. You didn't have to do that, you know.
Speaker 1: And at that point, and we and we constantly see
Speaker 1: these things, you know, So at some point it is
Speaker 1: the officer's job to repair there were relationship between community
Speaker 1: and officer. It's not our job because we don't have
Speaker 1: you know, most individuals from the community, we're not trained
Speaker 1: in the escalation. We're not paid to do the escalation.
Speaker 1: We're not paid to interact with other people. So you're
Speaker 1: dealing with common people who have no training, who are
Speaker 1: just dealing with emotions, who are angry. So, as the professional,
Speaker 1: the person who was being paid the person who was
Speaker 1: to protect and served. It is your job to create
Speaker 1: the relationship that makes it easier for you to do
Speaker 1: your job in your community, not harder. Yeah, well, I listen,
Speaker 1: here's my opinion, and it's very brief. Two things can
Speaker 1: be true. At the same time, she should not have ran.
Speaker 1: She should probably should have had all the right licensing,
Speaker 1: which is a whole conversation because we can do a
Speaker 1: whole show about vendors who don't have licenses to sell
Speaker 1: things on the street, but they're trying not to sell
Speaker 1: drugs or hurt anybody. And by the way, just for
Speaker 1: anybody who wants to know, the vendors licenses in New York,
Speaker 1: basically the city has given them all out so in
Speaker 1: order to get new vendors licenses, which there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of people on a waiting list to get their license
Speaker 1: to be a vendor, which is in essence entrepreneurship. People
Speaker 1: selling hats, socks, the things that they are purchasing wholesale
Speaker 1: and bringing it to the community and selling it, you know,
Speaker 1: all kinds of things. Oils should that boone be wanting right?
Speaker 1: Like things that you I've seen you say many times, Yo,
Speaker 1: I gotta. I'm we were about to travel to wherever.
Speaker 1: You're like, Yo, I need to get some T shirts.
Speaker 1: Let me run down the block, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and go see whoever. Your people are poppy that you know,
Speaker 1: got white T shirts? Right. So, the vendors their licenses.
Speaker 1: The city has given them all out, and the only
Speaker 1: way to get new licenses is for there to be
Speaker 1: legislation pass so it has to go through whole city
Speaker 1: council process so that the licenses can get opened again
Speaker 1: to be able to distribute to vendors. So now you're
Speaker 1: talking about something that could take to a whole Another
Speaker 1: made a year or two to get finalized because it's
Speaker 1: not a priority. And meanwhile they're throwing vendors. You see
Speaker 1: the women on the train selling their little whatever, the
Speaker 1: little oranges and whatever it is the waters. They throwing
Speaker 1: women in jail, knocking them down, taking their stuff, throwing
Speaker 1: it out. All kinds of crazy shit happens. So we
Speaker 1: could do a whole show just to talk about this
Speaker 1: woman not having the proper license to do door dash.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there were many issues in terms of how
Speaker 1: she could get that license and what it takes and
Speaker 1: who's here to help her? Right were we already know?
Speaker 1: We can imagine. Nonetheless, you need to have a license,
Speaker 1: and if you do get stopped, you can't just go
Speaker 1: running from the police. So we agree with at nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna argue with that. But we can also say that
Speaker 1: the way in which police officers deal with black bodies
Speaker 1: is out of control because they do not I don't.
Speaker 1: You could send me some videos nobody ever does. Where
Speaker 1: do they take white women and take them and throw
Speaker 1: them to the ground. Who's maybe out there? Oh, maybe
Speaker 1: it's because a lot of white women are not doing
Speaker 1: door dash, or maybe it's because many of them have
Speaker 1: their license. Now that's a question of equity. Why is
Speaker 1: that happening? So there's so many things baked in the
Speaker 1: pie here that need to be you know that we
Speaker 1: need to break down. And that means that when you
Speaker 1: start being judgmental and say, well, she shouldn't have done
Speaker 1: this and she shouldn't have done that, you also got
Speaker 1: a question why the system even puts us in certain
Speaker 1: situations where ultimately you're gonna be in contact with police.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think I think you are a
Speaker 1: hundred percent right that Style did the right thing to
Speaker 1: step in and that because what he did do, because
Speaker 1: remember there were two cops on him, so she was
Speaker 1: experiencing even more physical aggression with two officers, and what
Speaker 1: he did do was took the attention of one officer
Speaker 1: off of her. So that gave you know, gives a
Speaker 1: little bit of ease. And he told her lighten up, says,
Speaker 1: you know, don't tend to your body up so that
Speaker 1: they can get arrest you and do what you need
Speaker 1: to do. But he got one officer to focus on him,
Speaker 1: and that officer now is no longer engaged in throwing
Speaker 1: this woman around. So it's a lot to be unpacked
Speaker 1: with that. But moving along, the supermarket in Buffalo has
Speaker 1: reopened UM and you know, I got a lot of
Speaker 1: I got a text message from a young man who
Speaker 1: we had on the show, Jamil Cruise, who who deals
Speaker 1: with a lot of people on Buffalo. You know, he's
Speaker 1: he's a well known UM leader in the Buffalo area,
Speaker 1: in that area, and he is you know, he basically said,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to feel about this. You know,
Speaker 1: we need the supermarket in that community because his office
Speaker 1: is two blocks away. We need a supermarket. But and
Speaker 1: it's been renovated. But the but the idea of it,
Speaker 1: like just going to the supermarket, it's got to be
Speaker 1: traumatizing for those people. It has to be when you
Speaker 1: when you think about, you know, the last image that
Speaker 1: we've seen inside of that supermarket, right, and then they
Speaker 1: are family members who that's the last image that they've
Speaker 1: seen some of their family members alive. Right. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's traumatizing. So you know, that community has a
Speaker 1: lot of just work to do and just getting over that.
Speaker 1: So to see that that can happen and then that
Speaker 1: business goes right back to business a few months later,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it. It says something, but they need
Speaker 1: the super It says two things. It says that that
Speaker 1: community is in such dire needs that they can't even
Speaker 1: grieve properly, right, and then it also says that the
Speaker 1: bodies who are actually lost in that community, you know,
Speaker 1: the community because because that store or whatever that opportunity
Speaker 1: they can open, they can pretty much probably say, you
Speaker 1: know what, we're gonna build something the Crocer Street, you know,
Speaker 1: because we've seen lots out there that weren't being used.
Speaker 1: We're gonna, you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: create something over here courts the street. But it also
Speaker 1: says that you know those bodies. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if certain you know. Edifices and buildings like that
Speaker 1: in the past have been opened as quickly after a
Speaker 1: traumatic situation like this. The usually the schools they closed,
Speaker 1: like they closed your Valdi and other schools. It was
Speaker 1: all at the to the year anyway, But they've basically
Speaker 1: closing down and some of them have been condemned. They're
Speaker 1: not opening them anymore. I think they probably should have
Speaker 1: torn the supermarket down, and like you said, they should
Speaker 1: have built somewhere else, because I think just going like
Speaker 1: I couldn't even walk to the front of the supermarket
Speaker 1: when I was there and we were filming and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I couldn't get my legs, just would not walk to
Speaker 1: where those people like you know, you couldn't You can't
Speaker 1: get exactly to where people were shot, but you could
Speaker 1: get close enough, and I just couldn't do it. And
Speaker 1: I think the other part that's traumatizing is like I've
Speaker 1: been watching the news. Of course, we've watched the news
Speaker 1: every day. I've watched the news all night. I watched
Speaker 1: the news any all all the time. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: the main thing that's on my TV phone. If I'm
Speaker 1: on a plane, I'm watching CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. Right,
Speaker 1: I ain't seen nothing about these people, the families in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: It's like it's this didn't even happen. Don't hear nothing
Speaker 1: about it. I was glad to see that the President
Speaker 1: did have the oldest person killed in Ms. Whitfield killed
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. He did have her, her son, Mr. Whitfield,
Speaker 1: speak at the signing of the the Safer Communities at
Speaker 1: and he and and Mr Whitfield talked about white supremacy.
Speaker 1: So that was a good thing. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, that's supermarket. It might be hard for me
Speaker 1: to go there. It is. It's gonna be hard for
Speaker 1: a lot of people to go there. So you know,
Speaker 1: my prayers go out to the community, to the families,
Speaker 1: you know, and hopefully you know there there's some level
Speaker 1: of you know, ease slowly and tryma gets dealt with
Speaker 1: and they're able to heal from it. And you know,
Speaker 1: that brings us to what our guests is about. Right,
Speaker 1: and when you look at all these things, this recession,
Speaker 1: right when we talk about the door dash situation. We
Speaker 1: talked about people trying to make some money and in
Speaker 1: no situations, people frustrated. They all, you're trying to sell this.
Speaker 1: You talk about the reason why this. We need to
Speaker 1: get the supermarket back open. Right. People are dealing with
Speaker 1: so much, so many financial issues, Like is there really
Speaker 1: it's really a recession? You know, I'm going out and
Speaker 1: when you and when you go out, it's not even
Speaker 1: the same. More people ain't even going out. They're trying
Speaker 1: to save their little coin. Man. It's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a different it's different energy outside. Man. I've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of um um financial analysts friends of always talking
Speaker 1: about you need to brace yourself for this recession and
Speaker 1: and you and you actually see it. You look at
Speaker 1: like you said, you talk about airplane airplane ticket prices,
Speaker 1: we talk about gas prices, like everything is at the
Speaker 1: highest it's pretty much been in my lifetime. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen things just high. You know, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: meme on Instagram now where they said a twenty bills
Speaker 1: a dollar building. So that brings us to our topic
Speaker 1: on inflation recession and how money is just hard to
Speaker 1: come by right now? Is it hard to combine with
Speaker 1: just not so good to spend. I don't know we're
Speaker 1: gonna find both. I think it's a vote. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think certain individuals have access right to
Speaker 1: to be able to do things and do During the pandemic,
Speaker 1: new ways of creating money came about and always dissipated.
Speaker 1: You know, there are a lot of people who was
Speaker 1: making money different ways before that is no longer relevant now.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to complete whole markets disappear whole markets
Speaker 1: and ways and people making money disappeared and the money
Speaker 1: that they're making just completely dried up. So it's somebody
Speaker 1: going on out here. Okay, So let's bring our guests
Speaker 1: in to talk about this today. That's SHE I'm is
Speaker 1: highly recommended. Um and uh, you know us, we'll run
Speaker 1: our mouths the whole time, but we are not the experts.
Speaker 1: So we have star Malone Song uh to come and
Speaker 1: join us. And you know, I love that name. I
Speaker 1: just love it, Malone Song. I need to know we're
Speaker 1: saying that all the time. The personal finance strategist and
Speaker 1: the founder of She Building Her, where they help women
Speaker 1: transition from making money to build and sustainable wealth. That's
Speaker 1: a really really important thing that we can make the money,
Speaker 1: but we need to be wealthy. Uh and so thank
Speaker 1: you so much Starr for joining us today. Absolutely, I'm
Speaker 1: very excited to be here. There's so much to talk about.
Speaker 1: My song. Maybe you want to kick it off because
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out are we in a recession
Speaker 1: or not? Like they say we're going towards one, but
Speaker 1: it feels like we're in one now. So yeah, So
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, Like, what do what do you
Speaker 1: say about our current financial state of the world right now,
Speaker 1: state of America? Like what do you say? Okay, So
Speaker 1: I take a non traditional I have a non traditional
Speaker 1: take on this subject. Okay, So I'm just put that
Speaker 1: out there now, um for me. For me, I feel
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things. So this is kind of
Speaker 1: a loaded question. First of all, when it comes to recession,
Speaker 1: recessions can only be declared in hindsight, like in actuality,
Speaker 1: So they can't say like, oh, we're going into a recession,
Speaker 1: like the economy cannot know if we were experiencing a
Speaker 1: recession until we have come through the recession or have
Speaker 1: been in it for a particular amount of time. The
Speaker 1: other thing is I think a lot of people there's
Speaker 1: a lot of buzzwords going around, so people are kind
Speaker 1: of really blurring the line between recession and inflation. So
Speaker 1: we are definitely feeling the effects of inflation, but I
Speaker 1: don't know that we're necessarily feeling the effects of a recession.
Speaker 1: Right now, what's the difference? Okay, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: So recession, um, So, first of inflation is the easiest.
Speaker 1: Inflation just literally hits your pockets. You feel it when
Speaker 1: you go on the grocery store, when you go to
Speaker 1: the gas tank, when you um try to you know,
Speaker 1: rent a space. You feel it because that means that
Speaker 1: the interest rates have gone up. That means well, not
Speaker 1: that the interest rates have gone up, it means that
Speaker 1: the cost of goods and services are more. Right, and
Speaker 1: so UM, inflation is a natural thing. We've had this
Speaker 1: problem of consistent inflation since like the seventies, right in
Speaker 1: the United States. We understand that it's always been a
Speaker 1: problem because the cost of goods and services are going up,
Speaker 1: yet everything else is remaining stagnant in terms of like
Speaker 1: salaries and things like that. Right, So inflation is not new.
Speaker 1: It is being um exasperated by everything else with the
Speaker 1: gas prices and all the things. So it just feels
Speaker 1: really heavy right now, but it's not new. We've been
Speaker 1: experiencing it forever. That's that's inflation. Recession is when the
Speaker 1: economy domestically and globally look at a few different factors.
Speaker 1: They look at government spending, consumer spending, big business spending,
Speaker 1: and um net exports. Right, so like, are we selling
Speaker 1: as a country, are we selling more than we're buying? Right,
Speaker 1: exporting more than we're importing, and so all of those
Speaker 1: factors combined creates a recession. If you have a constant
Speaker 1: downturn for a couple of cycles or a couple of quarters,
Speaker 1: they say, oh, we're in a recession. My non traditional
Speaker 1: take on that is that a we most marginalized people
Speaker 1: have been left out of the global and really the
Speaker 1: domestic wealth building conversation, and so we don't really fall
Speaker 1: into the categories of government spending, of export of you know,
Speaker 1: big business. When I say big business, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: these trillion dollar businesses. We don't really fall into these categories,
Speaker 1: and so recession has very little effect on us personally.
Speaker 1: It's like one of the times in which we can
Speaker 1: act really just put our head down and be like,
Speaker 1: that's y'all business, because like, are y'all in recession? Or
Speaker 1: are we in a recession? Because you may not be
Speaker 1: in a recession personally, right, even though on a larger
Speaker 1: scale they're saying, oh, we're in a recession. But like
Speaker 1: you know, is eight percent of your wealth wrapped up
Speaker 1: in government contracts or exporting goods or services or even
Speaker 1: the stock market. Probably not to the normal person, So
Speaker 1: you may not actually be experiencing a recession. But what
Speaker 1: but but but but doesn't it impact jobs and you
Speaker 1: know other parts of the industry that that does actually
Speaker 1: impact everyday individuals or am I absolutely? So that falls
Speaker 1: into that big business spending. Are they spending money? They
Speaker 1: spend money on people, right, and they give us our
Speaker 1: health care, they match our four one case, they pay salaries,
Speaker 1: things like that, um. And so they want to know
Speaker 1: if big businesses are spending money and that would fall
Speaker 1: us having jobs would fall in that category. Now the
Speaker 1: only not the only And I want to like because
Speaker 1: you cannot declare any of this beforehand. All of this
Speaker 1: is just predictions and and point of views, right, So
Speaker 1: my point of view is the real only space that
Speaker 1: you would feel a recession. Um as kind of a
Speaker 1: marginalized person is a in job loss. So to prepare
Speaker 1: for a recession, you should have a candid conversation with
Speaker 1: your employer and find out their intentions. Are you all
Speaker 1: planning to lay off period? Right? And then um, if
Speaker 1: your business, if you're an entrepreneur or a small business
Speaker 1: owner or just a business owner in general, if you
Speaker 1: have business to business contracts, or if you have you know,
Speaker 1: if your business relies on government contracts, you might you
Speaker 1: will start to feel it, right. Um, It's very unlikely
Speaker 1: that you'll feel it in a housing market right now,
Speaker 1: as the housing market declines, people are still do on well. Um.
Speaker 1: And so it's only like those two areas that personally
Speaker 1: people will likely feel a recession losing a job, which
Speaker 1: we don't know because it hasn't The huge layoffs has
Speaker 1: haven't happened. Right, we had the great resignation, but the
Speaker 1: huge layoff situation hasn't happened, and COVID prepared us for that.
Speaker 1: We're still in survival mode. So when people got laid
Speaker 1: off during COVID, a lot of people turned the entrepreneurship
Speaker 1: and things like that, and so COVID kind of prepared
Speaker 1: us for this moment, and so it's not going to
Speaker 1: be such a slap in the face as you know
Speaker 1: it would have been if you know, pre COVID era.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Okay, So what I want to figure out
Speaker 1: is this, So inflation is pretty much harming people of color, right,
Speaker 1: Obsession is not really our think, that's big business. That's
Speaker 1: you know, those people who goods and import and exports.
Speaker 1: So okay, so that makes a lot of sense. So
Speaker 1: what can the average person do during and during this
Speaker 1: inflation time to kind of prepare kind of offset, Like,
Speaker 1: what are some strategies that you would recommend? So I
Speaker 1: think the first thing, and I know no one ever
Speaker 1: wants to hear about mindset because they like that horses beat,
Speaker 1: but I really feel like everyone needs to just take
Speaker 1: a moment, right, breathe and get your mindset in order
Speaker 1: and make sure that your mindset is in alignment and
Speaker 1: you have intentions. What am I trying to get out
Speaker 1: of this particular period in in our life or in
Speaker 1: this economy? Right? And so you stop, you get your
Speaker 1: mindset together. Let's not give into the fear that they
Speaker 1: are pushing on us, right, because there's marketing in everything,
Speaker 1: and including economics and things like that. So on the internet,
Speaker 1: on everywhere that you see, they are beating us with fear.
Speaker 1: Do not give into it, right, Just stop for a
Speaker 1: second and understand and assess yourself personally. The next thing
Speaker 1: you do is when you need to be responsible or
Speaker 1: accountable to your money, create a spending plan. A spending
Speaker 1: plan is a budget. We as she building her. Don't
Speaker 1: use the word budget anymore because the women said it
Speaker 1: feels too restrictive. So we create spending plans. Okay, not budgets,
Speaker 1: but you create a spending plan. Look, do you have
Speaker 1: your emergency fund in order? Right? Where are you holding
Speaker 1: your emergency fund? Get you a high yield savings account?
Speaker 1: Right because as if as the fans want inflation to
Speaker 1: come down, they raised the interest rates. When the interest
Speaker 1: rates are raised, that means money is more expensive to borrow. Right.
Speaker 1: So if you have your money inside of a high
Speaker 1: yield savings account with a bank, that bank's interest rates
Speaker 1: are going up, so you're getting paid more on the
Speaker 1: money that you're leaving in there. Right. So you want
Speaker 1: an emergency phone, but not just that, you want to
Speaker 1: emergency fund. You want to sit it inside of a
Speaker 1: high yield savings account. Right, you want to how much
Speaker 1: how much would you say that the average person, average
Speaker 1: woman since we're talking on she building her and my
Speaker 1: son said she building him too, But how much would
Speaker 1: you say a woman needs to have in the emergency
Speaker 1: from Okay, So do you have this like ideal number
Speaker 1: of like six to nine months? But then you also
Speaker 1: see that like in New York, rent for the first
Speaker 1: time is on average of five thousand dollars. Do people
Speaker 1: have six months worth five thousand dollars just in rent,
Speaker 1: not including utilities, card note, insurance, groceries, all these things.
Speaker 1: Is it possible, like if it's ideal to have six months,
Speaker 1: if you cannot have six months, like started two months, right,
Speaker 1: and during those two months work you'll ask work, your
Speaker 1: boy ask everything. Another month in there, you know, just
Speaker 1: start where you are with what you have. Don't get
Speaker 1: wrapped up in the I should have this, because when
Speaker 1: you get wrapped up in that, you feel incompetent and
Speaker 1: then you just you like, you know what, yogot, I
Speaker 1: don't got nothing, and that's just it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Outcross that bridge when I get there. We don't want
Speaker 1: that just start with where you are, so ideally six months.
Speaker 1: If that's not possible, just whatever you have start putting
Speaker 1: into the side and saving it. You were giving some
Speaker 1: more tips on things that people should do. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: create your spinning plan. Make sure you have an emergency fund,
Speaker 1: some sort of emergency fund set up. Make sure your
Speaker 1: credit is okay, just in case you need to get
Speaker 1: some um, you need to get some help and and
Speaker 1: start borrowing some money or credit card or something like
Speaker 1: that to float you. Um, you should put it inside
Speaker 1: of how your savings account. Have a conversation with your
Speaker 1: employer to see if layoffs are coming right, and then
Speaker 1: understand like opportunities in terms of like double down on
Speaker 1: your skill set because inflation cannot just like we would
Speaker 1: like to just be like let the gas prices go
Speaker 1: back to the where they were, Let the you know,
Speaker 1: food prices and housing prices go back to what they were.
Speaker 1: But sometimes deflation is just as detrimental as inflation, so
Speaker 1: that you do not just drop everything because we will
Speaker 1: still be in a bad situation. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: like this perfect storm happening. So really the bottom line
Speaker 1: is like keep your head down and work, just go
Speaker 1: and like stay focused on what you've been doing to
Speaker 1: generate money and income. Double down on your skill set.
Speaker 1: If you have a business, like just make sure you're
Speaker 1: over delivering retaining clients because you may not get new
Speaker 1: clients at the moment. You know, um, just you just
Speaker 1: stay keep your mindset aligned with wealth building. That is
Speaker 1: just the bottom line, right. So if you're like a
Speaker 1: hair stylist, make sure you on time, taking care of
Speaker 1: your clients, properly, learning new skills so that you can
Speaker 1: keep your people happy because you may not be able.
Speaker 1: You know, other people might be like, I'm wearing braids
Speaker 1: for the next six months because I'm you know, I
Speaker 1: can't afford to be going back and forth to the
Speaker 1: hair salon. My son is laughing because you know, I'm
Speaker 1: he knows. But even that right, put PayPal after pay
Speaker 1: on your website and let your client's book that way.
Speaker 1: Put them on a payment client. If you know that
Speaker 1: your client typically gets braids every six months, put that
Speaker 1: woman on a payment plan to pay you for every
Speaker 1: single month for twelve months. You can do or here
Speaker 1: twice in a year. Like you need to get innovative.
Speaker 1: You need to start understanding your client and your customer
Speaker 1: and meeting them where they're where they are. We got
Speaker 1: into this like false sense of like you need me,
Speaker 1: I don't need you as business owners, which is kind
Speaker 1: of like that crazy, But the reality is you need
Speaker 1: to meet your client or your customer where he or
Speaker 1: she is, and so whatever you can do to accommodate them,
Speaker 1: because they want your goods or services. But whatever you
Speaker 1: can do to accommodate them, you need to get innovative
Speaker 1: and start implementing that. Now, you know, because now you're
Speaker 1: providing then the security of knowing my lifestyle doesn't have
Speaker 1: to just drop out, and you're providing yourself the financial
Speaker 1: security of knowing you're gonna retain that client long term.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm sounds so. So this is a question that
Speaker 1: I actual time right now, So since we're dealing with
Speaker 1: inflation and also the quote uncover session that really doesn't
Speaker 1: affect us. What do you think, like would be good
Speaker 1: investments right what would be right now in this time?
Speaker 1: What businesship should we be looking to start and and
Speaker 1: things of that nature. What's the opportunities? Yeah, recession definitely
Speaker 1: creates financial opportunities. Right was declared a recession. It was
Speaker 1: the shortest recession in history. But in like the number
Speaker 1: like one percent of American adults became millionaires for the
Speaker 1: first time, right, and the number of millionaires went from
Speaker 1: like five million people to fifty six million people, right
Speaker 1: in the height of all the crazy. Right. So recession
Speaker 1: and really just unfavorable situations create points of opportunity period
Speaker 1: in most industries. But um, i'd say this, there's a
Speaker 1: list so that me personally, I would say you need
Speaker 1: to be looking into stocks, bonds, crypto, real estate, which
Speaker 1: real estate is not my lane, so I don't really
Speaker 1: go into that, but real estate and in terms of
Speaker 1: businesses to start that is like a thousand percent not
Speaker 1: my lane, so I wouldn't even give any suggestions there.
Speaker 1: But in terms of UM investing, I think you need
Speaker 1: to take advantage of stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrency. We know
Speaker 1: as talk about bonds. Okay, So stocks are equity, right,
Speaker 1: So you buy a stock, you own a little piece
Speaker 1: of a company that's doing well. So when that company
Speaker 1: makes money, you make money. It's equity, it's ownership. Bonds
Speaker 1: is debt. It's basically I owe you. You put your
Speaker 1: money here. It could be given to a corporation, that
Speaker 1: could be given to the government, there are different kinds
Speaker 1: of bonds. You put your money into this bond, you're
Speaker 1: basically saying, hey, I'm willing to lock my money here
Speaker 1: for a given amount of time if you give me
Speaker 1: my money back plus interests on this specific date. Right.
Speaker 1: And so the higher amount of the bond, the more
Speaker 1: money you put in there for a corporation to pull
Speaker 1: and use at their discretion or the government to pool
Speaker 1: and use at their discretion, the higher the interest rate
Speaker 1: is going to be on it, right as the more
Speaker 1: you know, money makes money, right, um, And so in
Speaker 1: times like this when interest rates are going up to
Speaker 1: bring inflation down, if you put your money in a
Speaker 1: bond and interest rates are going up, you're just gonna
Speaker 1: like be making more and more money on that I
Speaker 1: owe you that you gave to a government or two
Speaker 1: corporation to use. And so it's really like I said,
Speaker 1: keep your mindset aligned and with intention and no like, hey,
Speaker 1: can I do without this five ten thousand dollars for three,
Speaker 1: five years, ten years. The long the more money and
Speaker 1: the longer you let us sit, the more money you're
Speaker 1: gonna make on it. Exactly. Yeah, No, I mean, like
Speaker 1: all of these illegal activities, the inspiration came behind from
Speaker 1: legal activities. The legal activities came from the legal activities. Actually,
Speaker 1: you never know, just like we look at we look
Speaker 1: at bootlegging liquor back in the days, right, they wasn't
Speaker 1: selling liquor. First people started making it and selling it,
Speaker 1: and then the legal people say, you know what we
Speaker 1: could do. That just's like weed, the weed in the street.
Speaker 1: It was founded in the hood. They were selling weed
Speaker 1: before they had these dispensaries. So don't listen. I'm just
Speaker 1: keeping it the world to know how to negro the situation.
Speaker 1: But I've been outside. Although they were selling cocaine before
Speaker 1: the streets were selling cocaine, Okay, yeah, they was, that's
Speaker 1: that's the first thing. They definitely was selling that first.
Speaker 1: So I know that just took a left lest She
Speaker 1: looked at us like I was getting ready to safe
Speaker 1: because you think about poppy seeds and all of that stuff, like,
Speaker 1: so they were all they always had a way to
Speaker 1: get high or you know, a way to huh, yes,
Speaker 1: oh yeah you were Okay, I thought you were saying
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. No, So yeah, like they always had some
Speaker 1: kind of way to get high. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: even know because I want to, like, I need to
Speaker 1: find out what we talked to our friends in Africa.
Speaker 1: What were we using for the euphoric feeling. I'm sure
Speaker 1: something mushrooms mushroom, Oh my god, we were using the
Speaker 1: mushrooms girl trooms disguise. I'm just merely telling you the street.
Speaker 1: So anyway, let's get back track here. We are trying
Speaker 1: to educate folks on what we need to be doing
Speaker 1: in this moment. So let me just recap. Inflation is
Speaker 1: what hurts. So so we're hurting right now because people
Speaker 1: are definitely hurt and you can't travel with your family,
Speaker 1: you go to the grocery store, that because your your
Speaker 1: paycheck is the same, and in some situations, because of
Speaker 1: COVID and whatnot, it might even be less because you
Speaker 1: may not even have the same Like you said my song,
Speaker 1: whole industries have been gutted basically, things that people were
Speaker 1: doing in the past. There's not even a need for us.
Speaker 1: So even I just think about, like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: probably some we don't know the numbers, but there's got
Speaker 1: to be some decline in transportation like ubers and all
Speaker 1: of that because people are working from home, you know,
Speaker 1: so you got that situation, you're trying to balance it out.
Speaker 1: And then and then probably way more people that want
Speaker 1: to be Uber's. Right before they used to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you get an Uber, you make this amount of money.
Speaker 1: Now it's so much many more Ubers out there, money
Speaker 1: to be made. You know, the number the number one
Speaker 1: place of inflation is new and used car sales. Wow,
Speaker 1: new and used car salves. So people, a lot of
Speaker 1: people are forced to use things like Uber and lift
Speaker 1: and stuff like that because it's hell expensive. Like, I
Speaker 1: know y'all are both y'all in New York and parking cars, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we do, actually like but gu's what but guess what?
Speaker 1: Parking is trash in New York. Like the cost of
Speaker 1: parking at the studio where we shoot. When we're able
Speaker 1: to go into studio for this show. The parking lot
Speaker 1: used to be like what was it my song, like
Speaker 1: fifty dollars or something, which is ridiculous, and now it's
Speaker 1: like eighty dollars to park for a few hours. So
Speaker 1: I just read an article about in New York they
Speaker 1: are converting um structures to parking structures and they're selling
Speaker 1: a spot for a million dollars each spot for a
Speaker 1: million dollars. But and people were like, that is so crazy,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, but when you really think about it,
Speaker 1: it's really not that crazy because if you can get
Speaker 1: a mortgage or something on that million dollars spot, you
Speaker 1: then own it, and so you can it's kind of
Speaker 1: like airbnb. You could airbnb it out right, not like
Speaker 1: you know, but it's not that crazy when you think
Speaker 1: about annually how much you spend to park there and
Speaker 1: versus how much you spend in transportation costs or or
Speaker 1: other short term parking, like, it sounds crazy, but a
Speaker 1: million dollars for a lifetime parking spot is not crazy. Well,
Speaker 1: this is this is what you're saying is a fact
Speaker 1: because when I lived on Park Avenue and thirty seventh
Speaker 1: Street for like ten years, and the building had a
Speaker 1: parking lot, and we had the means, so it's not
Speaker 1: like we couldn't but I but at the time or
Speaker 1: the person that I lived with, which um um, he
Speaker 1: he was what's the word I'm trying to look for.
Speaker 1: He was very financially stable, that's the point. But he
Speaker 1: also was a person who didn't want to spend money
Speaker 1: on in so the building's parking spot was like three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the spot every year,
Speaker 1: and he's like, nah, I'm going across the street. We're
Speaker 1: gonna walk three blocks or whatever for the other thing.
Speaker 1: But the other spot was, you know, ridiculous, like some
Speaker 1: six thousand into something dollars a monk. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's in the end, it's still is way too much
Speaker 1: money for a person like you, like not you, but me.
Speaker 1: I can't afford it. So this is why you get
Speaker 1: priced out of living in certain communities because there's no
Speaker 1: way that you can afford to keep up your car,
Speaker 1: to keep up the mortgage or rent or whatever payments.
Speaker 1: The food prices are super high. Just buying a sandwich
Speaker 1: down the street is a fifteen dollar purchase. A sandwich,
Speaker 1: a juice, and a baggage trips fifteen dollars on the
Speaker 1: corner of where I used in the Chinese restaurant seven dollars.
Speaker 1: I was. I was in the hood, in the hood,
Speaker 1: so believe they told me that it seven knowledge for
Speaker 1: four chicken wings? Are you kidding? We spend twenty dollars
Speaker 1: or we were spend twenty dollars. We just figured this out.
Speaker 1: We spent twenty dollars a day on me and my
Speaker 1: husband a cup of coffee in the morning, one cup
Speaker 1: or two, well, one cup for me, one cup for him,
Speaker 1: So two cups is twenty dollars total. To know, No,
Speaker 1: it's Dutch bros. You know, it's so inflation to recap
Speaker 1: is what hits us in recession. There are some things,
Speaker 1: but overall, when the country is going through a recession,
Speaker 1: people are pretty much stable. Like they're just you know,
Speaker 1: marginalized folks in our communities. It's just like we've been
Speaker 1: doing this. We're gonna keep on doing the same things
Speaker 1: we've been doing and making stuff right as long as
Speaker 1: you keep your job and as long as you keep
Speaker 1: your job. And it's like one of those things where
Speaker 1: it's kind of like when I hear may media talk
Speaker 1: about recession, I'm like, oh, welcome to the club. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the club. I'm glad you guys are feeling it.
Speaker 1: You guys like when y'all are going through it, it's
Speaker 1: a damn recession. When we're going through it is laziness,
Speaker 1: like make it makes sense that when the math a math,
Speaker 1: and for y'all it's a damn global crisis. But the
Speaker 1: math have not been math and for us for a
Speaker 1: long time, and we've been stuck in the survival mode.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna make it do what to do regardless
Speaker 1: because we have no options. You know, we're gonna stay
Speaker 1: in that you We're gonna stay thriving our version of thriving,
Speaker 1: whatever our version of thriving is, We're going to stay
Speaker 1: there while they are up in arms and trying to
Speaker 1: push their fear on us. Let them have they fear,
Speaker 1: and we're just gonna just continue to do what we've
Speaker 1: been doing. Well, I think that's a great way. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's like just don't spend excess money. Basically, that's the
Speaker 1: whole point is m spend on your area of opportunity
Speaker 1: that you're going to dominate during this recession. If it's stocks,
Speaker 1: if it's crypto, if it's real estate, whatever, you're going
Speaker 1: to step into and dominate because opportunity is going to arise,
Speaker 1: right whatever it is. You need to just say, all right,
Speaker 1: you know what, I can't afford to really take on
Speaker 1: real estate right now. All right, stocks are much cheaper
Speaker 1: to get into, right, especially with all these splits happening.
Speaker 1: Stocks are much cheaper to get into. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go in and I'm gonna go heavy into my investing
Speaker 1: in the stock market because I'm going to pick one
Speaker 1: of these areas to dominate because three years, five years
Speaker 1: from now, I'm not gonna be left here saying I
Speaker 1: just tightened up the ropes and refused to spend anything.
Speaker 1: You are going to have to spend in order to
Speaker 1: triple your net worth within the next five years as
Speaker 1: we come out of this recession season, like you gotta spend,
Speaker 1: just spend on the right things. Spend on the right
Speaker 1: things like my bags and shoes is not exactly going
Speaker 1: to help me, So I need to spend on something different. Um,
Speaker 1: you think let me just think of my question real quick.
Speaker 1: It was that you were saying, spend on them. Oh,
Speaker 1: and I think spending sometimes what we don't understand or
Speaker 1: we don't consider, is that training courses and you know,
Speaker 1: sessions to learn more about the industry that you want
Speaker 1: to be in. That's a part of the spending, making
Speaker 1: sure you educate. It's an investment in yourself unless you
Speaker 1: go further faster, And we need to get there faster
Speaker 1: because we're getting left in this whole wealth wealth race
Speaker 1: right now. So you need to go further faster. So
Speaker 1: if you find someone that you align with that can
Speaker 1: teach you a skill set or um, you know, a
Speaker 1: strategy that's gonna help you go further faster. Invest mm
Speaker 1: hmm invest. I love that. Thank you so much, Star.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much for coming on Street Politicians,
Speaker 1: and we've got to have We always have men on
Speaker 1: the show who talked about you know, financial wealth and um,
Speaker 1: you know, this is an area that a lot of
Speaker 1: our brothers really are excelling. They really are in the
Speaker 1: investment space. You know, We've had some great shows that
Speaker 1: have done well in terms of the number of people listening,
Speaker 1: but I'm always saying, where are the women that know
Speaker 1: this work as well? And here we have you today,
Speaker 1: um from she building her and so thank you so
Speaker 1: much for coming on. We've got to have bet. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Can I just drop just a little strategy right at
Speaker 1: the end here, So I know we've been talking about
Speaker 1: the mindset around investing and stuff, but just like the
Speaker 1: strategic stuff, if you're listening, get out of pen I
Speaker 1: gave you to diversify your assets, right, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: buy stocks we're gonna buy bobs, We're gonna buy cryptocurrency,
Speaker 1: we're gonna buy real estate. When it comes to stocks,
Speaker 1: I need you to make sure that the stocks that
Speaker 1: you're purchasing are good long term stocks. Right. There's a
Speaker 1: handful of strategies out there that will help you gain
Speaker 1: or generate income from the stock market. But if you
Speaker 1: are literally looking to place your money in there, allow
Speaker 1: it to build while you work on the other thing
Speaker 1: that you are passionate about. Make sure they're long term stocks.
Speaker 1: Make sure you're put getting some blue chip stocks, right,
Speaker 1: so those are super stable, cash heavy companies, Visa Home Depot, Apple,
Speaker 1: things like that. UM, make sure you're buying some dividend pairs.
Speaker 1: We need extra income. Make sure you are investing in
Speaker 1: some of these companies that are dividend payers. You google um, um,
Speaker 1: dividend kings and dividend aristocrats, and you will find the
Speaker 1: best dividend companies to invest in on the SMP five.
Speaker 1: I know this is a lot that I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: but go to Google. The other thing is you also
Speaker 1: want to make sure that UM that you either google
Speaker 1: or ask somebody about the tax implications of your investing. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if you are making or declaring as a couple
Speaker 1: less than two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars a year,
Speaker 1: put that stuff inside of a roth ira so that
Speaker 1: you don't experience this massive growth but then end up
Speaker 1: with this massive tax bill. You want things to grow
Speaker 1: without taxes, Okay, And then when it comes to cryptocurrency,
Speaker 1: there's a ton of scams, right, but everything is not
Speaker 1: a scam, and we as the people, cannot think that
Speaker 1: everything is a scam. So you go do your research.
Speaker 1: The best thing that you can do is just invest
Speaker 1: in like the top five points bitcoin, you know, ethereum,
Speaker 1: the top five coins, and do a dollar cost average
Speaker 1: strategy of investing in crypto. That means it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how much the crypto is it. It only matters how
Speaker 1: much you are willing to put in to crypto every
Speaker 1: given amount of time. So if it's you know, two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month, it doesn't matter how much a
Speaker 1: bitcoin is. It just matters that you are going to
Speaker 1: buy two hundred dollars per month worth of bitcoin. That
Speaker 1: will get you a very long long way when it
Speaker 1: comes to investments. So we need to find you so
Speaker 1: people can take your classes and listen to you know,
Speaker 1: your sessions on all of this, because everything you just
Speaker 1: said sounds good, but it seems like as soon as
Speaker 1: we finished hearing it this fast, it's just it just dissipates.
Speaker 1: It's like what just what what you know? Like, dude, aritheum,
Speaker 1: the ECA things, Google, dividends aristocrats, So I didn't remember.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's hard to keep up with it
Speaker 1: when as soon as you finished listening to this one class,
Speaker 1: then you got your baby crying in the background. You
Speaker 1: need to cook dinner, you gotta make it to work.
Speaker 1: Maybe you study in for you know whatever, you're trying
Speaker 1: to pass a class, your husband wants loving your you know,
Speaker 1: whatever is going on. It's a lot. So to keep
Speaker 1: up with this, you do have to stay in school
Speaker 1: if you will, and keep educating yourself. So tell folks
Speaker 1: hot I can find you. You can find me. I'm
Speaker 1: most active in terms of social media on Instagram and
Speaker 1: it's she building her underscore ce A So she building
Speaker 1: her underscore ce a UM and then you can always
Speaker 1: find me on my website, she building her dot com.
Speaker 1: You can text me at five one zero three to
Speaker 1: seven eight seven four or seven um. Just text the
Speaker 1: word money and then like it's actually me, we can
Speaker 1: exchange the conversation. UM, And I just want to make
Speaker 1: a point. Everything that you just said in terms of
Speaker 1: how it feels overwhelming is what I identify with. And
Speaker 1: it's also why I strictly teach women because I understand
Speaker 1: the struggle and I'm able to meet my client where
Speaker 1: she is because I've been there, done that, kids, husband,
Speaker 1: in the household, the whole thing. So yes, she building
Speaker 1: her So thank you so much, both of you. This
Speaker 1: was an amazing conversation. UM. I really appreciate it you
Speaker 1: having me here. Thank you for your expertise and everything
Speaker 1: that you do. Man, we appreciate you, my pleasure. That's
Speaker 1: how we are. Yeah, she gave us some dope information,
Speaker 1: real good you know, especially the way she ended it.
Speaker 1: That's people need that, right, you know. In these times
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that have a couple
Speaker 1: of dollars that want to figure out what do I
Speaker 1: do with these couple of dollars? You know, I want
Speaker 1: to make a dollar turn a dollar out of fifteen sins,
Speaker 1: you know, And and she gave us some good information.
Speaker 1: So strategies, Yeah, we need strategies, We need real strategies
Speaker 1: at these times because that coin ain't going as far
Speaker 1: as you used to. Man before during the pandemic, it
Speaker 1: was getting p p P loans and everybody was in this.
Speaker 1: And then listen, because the p p P is no longer,
Speaker 1: everybody on e and the streets is dry, you better
Speaker 1: figure out how to make a couple of dollars because
Speaker 1: we're saying, want his money back, you know. And that
Speaker 1: brings me to a night. I was just looking at
Speaker 1: the news where the um District Attorney in Atlanta says,
Speaker 1: within the next sixty days she has two more major indictments.
Speaker 1: You know, so local Georgians, you know, have to because
Speaker 1: because she's a she's a state, you know, so it's
Speaker 1: not a federal case. So you know, it's it's tough
Speaker 1: out here. Man. I'm saying, listen, the streets is gone.
Speaker 1: They're gonna take you down. Everything is a rico charge.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna let you get away with it. They
Speaker 1: catch you with a gun, they catt they're gonna roof you.
Speaker 1: They won't send you to the up A rude people
Speaker 1: ain't playing with you. Man, It's no because my I
Speaker 1: forget my anems get it. Because this is important, man,
Speaker 1: Like you know, when you think about the amount of
Speaker 1: people who are going to be in jail in the
Speaker 1: next couple of years or probably within the next year,
Speaker 1: actually based off things that happened during this recession and
Speaker 1: during this inflation, and because of this inflation. It's serious.
Speaker 1: So we have to be you know, honest and be
Speaker 1: informative to these young kids and whoever is paying attention,
Speaker 1: who can get the message to let them know that
Speaker 1: they're really gonna take you down, like they're gonna take
Speaker 1: you down. Hopefully people understand that they get on your ass,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, you know, my my prayers go out
Speaker 1: to young Thug and Gonna and all of those those
Speaker 1: brothers dealing with that situation. I don't know, you know
Speaker 1: the details. I just know what I hear from the news,
Speaker 1: but I know that it has to be, you know,
Speaker 1: traumatizing to go from being a millionaire one day, being
Speaker 1: able to have everything you want to the next day
Speaker 1: you're fighting federal, federal and state reco charges which can
Speaker 1: land you in jail for the rest of your life,
Speaker 1: you know. And and I see, you know, I've seen
Speaker 1: another um brother that I know I don't want to
Speaker 1: say his name, because I don't know if the information
Speaker 1: is correct, but I've seen, yeah, I saw, I saw,
Speaker 1: I saw that they're looking for him for attempted murder,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's so many different things that's
Speaker 1: going on, especially within the hip hop community. And that's
Speaker 1: why for me, this boycott Black Murder campaign and you know,
Speaker 1: initiative that we're launching, you know, it's going to be
Speaker 1: something that's important. It's education, is cultural, is getting the
Speaker 1: young individuals that's in golfed in this culture, you know,
Speaker 1: who have been following the culture of negativity and violence,
Speaker 1: to rethink what that looks like, right, to rethink how
Speaker 1: do we have the same culture, how do we enjoy
Speaker 1: the same fun, How do we wear the same clothes
Speaker 1: and enjoy the same things without violence, without negativity, without
Speaker 1: those things that can either lose our lives or lose
Speaker 1: our freedoms. Right, how do we retrain the culture to
Speaker 1: make being nonviolent and being someone who who intervenes and
Speaker 1: and de escalate situations someone who we celebrate, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's what it is for me, you know, because
Speaker 1: I'm tired of seeing people that look like me, that
Speaker 1: come from the same culture go to jail. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got k flock. One day he's a hot rapper,
Speaker 1: next day he's fighting murder charges. Like that's that can't
Speaker 1: just be it. It can't be we get hot as
Speaker 1: a rapper for one minute and then next you know,
Speaker 1: you're fighting attempted murder charges and reco charges and you
Speaker 1: and you don't you're just a name that somebody was
Speaker 1: on the T shirt and free my man while you're
Speaker 1: sitting in jail for a hundred years. Like that can't
Speaker 1: be with all the same time, can't normalize, that can't
Speaker 1: be what it is. So you know, you know, my
Speaker 1: my own my respect goes out to everybody. But I
Speaker 1: just I'm going to be on the front line of
Speaker 1: changing that narrative and changing that reality. You know. So
Speaker 1: that says hold another topic, Um, I don't get it.
Speaker 1: State representative. I've seen State representative lady and she was twirking,
Speaker 1: just tworking. She was on her handstand. She was twirking
Speaker 1: on the handstand, you know. But I was fully out
Speaker 1: twirking and she was saying she can twerk. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm not really mad that she right. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out is this the new thing,
Speaker 1: like it's it is everything like sexually overly sexual an
Speaker 1: explicit is that the only thing that we do to
Speaker 1: captivate each other. I was watching Karisias Show and I
Speaker 1: was listening to Kevin Gates and he was just saying
Speaker 1: the most volgar ship that you could possibly say, right,
Speaker 1: and it's just like and people just in tune with it.
Speaker 1: It's just like, so that's the new thing, just to
Speaker 1: be completely sexual all the ways vogar like, because I mean,
Speaker 1: if if it is, I just don't get it. I
Speaker 1: just don't get because there has to be like they
Speaker 1: has you know, they say a separation of church and state. Right,
Speaker 1: There's there's certain things that go in certain categories rights,
Speaker 1: certain things. If when I I'm I'm multifaceted, right, I
Speaker 1: do many things. I'm I know I'm well versed in
Speaker 1: street life or understand that the dynamics in the streets.
Speaker 1: I also understand, you know, to level politics and understand
Speaker 1: how to bridge gaps in certain things. And sometimes you
Speaker 1: play different arenas different ways. But for me, is this
Speaker 1: going to be the new thing that the new senators
Speaker 1: and when you're running for office, it's gonna be some
Speaker 1: sexual thing that makes you pay attention to you. Like everyone,
Speaker 1: she got elected without the sexual stuff, and and and
Speaker 1: and had an overwhelming had overwhelming support from her community.
Speaker 1: I think that there's always been people who were different, Right.
Speaker 1: If you watch Um American Gangster, you learn how Adam
Speaker 1: Clayton Powell as a congressman, he was just different from
Speaker 1: the others, right, And we see people like that now.
Speaker 1: She that's just who she is. Like even though Ada
Speaker 1: Adam claiming power was a street dude who understood politics.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, but I'm saying, he's still He's still
Speaker 1: in the ways in which he worked, right, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of other congressional members that would have never
Speaker 1: been engaged with the relationship. Um. You know with Malcolm
Speaker 1: X people he cursed, but he was gangster the way
Speaker 1: he handled things. He was definitely different. I'm not saying.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying she is a woman who was in
Speaker 1: her you know, wherever her private time she was working,
Speaker 1: and she basically was just like, hey, vote for me,
Speaker 1: and that's that's it. It's not that I'm not saying
Speaker 1: I'm just not the trend that everybody else has to
Speaker 1: do it, or what I'm just trying to figure out.
Speaker 1: It's like, right, this is what it is, Cardi b
Speaker 1: Mega Stallion, Right, they got what m hm right? And
Speaker 1: they have different songs. I think that you have to
Speaker 1: read the room, right. I think when you're doing certain things,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna go to the White House
Speaker 1: and the phone walk And she didn't go to she
Speaker 1: she wasn't on the campaign. What are you saying, Are
Speaker 1: you not on a campaign trail when you saying vote
Speaker 1: for me after you you were? Honestly, I literally, first
Speaker 1: of all, it was not a campaign ad. She just
Speaker 1: said vote for me, and they made it a big deal.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is that I'm sure that that woman
Speaker 1: when she goes to her campaign events, when she's in
Speaker 1: her community, she like she was on vacation or somewhere relaxing,
Speaker 1: and as she was doing her twork, she was like,
Speaker 1: vote for me, Okay, cool. What I'm saying is I'm
Speaker 1: sure that when she goes to work, she puts the
Speaker 1: suit on or whatever she wears, and she does whatever
Speaker 1: she's doing. And I'm saying, why would you attach your
Speaker 1: job if you just if she was just out there tworking.
Speaker 1: And maybe some people that don't vote for her, then
Speaker 1: maybe some people who do. The reason why I can't,
Speaker 1: the first of all for me is there are more
Speaker 1: important things folks to be worried about. That's my opinion.
Speaker 1: But also in my situation, I have a number of people,
Speaker 1: and basically, just so you know, most of them, most
Speaker 1: of the folks, almost ninety nine ain't nine percent. I literally,
Speaker 1: I think I can say a hundred percent because I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking, thinking, really, up of those individuals who have
Speaker 1: contacted me about of bikini um um picture online or
Speaker 1: some sexy picture that I posted have been men. It's
Speaker 1: been a hundred percent of those who have something to
Speaker 1: say about how I present, or what I should wear,
Speaker 1: or how sexy I should have should not be, have
Speaker 1: been men. I literally rarely, ever I think I might.
Speaker 1: I'm just and I'm making it up because I cannot
Speaker 1: see the face of the person or even though one woman.
Speaker 1: Now they may say it's behind the scenes or whatever,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying what, but I'm just telling you, not
Speaker 1: one woman that I know that knows me. Also, because
Speaker 1: most of the women who know me and they're around
Speaker 1: me outside of the movement, they say, you know, that's
Speaker 1: to me that's that's That's what I'm trying to say,
Speaker 1: is this, and and and I go through the same thing, right,
Speaker 1: like I haven't hear you don't you don't you're a man,
Speaker 1: and like like for me to say it's not about sexual,
Speaker 1: it's not about sexual. But I'm just trying to tell you,
Speaker 1: like it's to your point, it's people who know you.
Speaker 1: Right When people who know you, then they know there's
Speaker 1: a certain dynamic of you that exists right there. Knows
Speaker 1: that when you go out and you on the beach,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have on the babysit, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: nice baby and suit on. When you're in the party,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have on a sexy dress. They know this
Speaker 1: is to me, this has always been new to mek It.
Speaker 1: So people who are just being introduced to you because
Speaker 1: you've done speeches and you've been at political events and
Speaker 1: you you gain and garnered attention and garnered a level
Speaker 1: of leadership in the space, and that's all they know of.
Speaker 1: You might be surprised by certain things you said that,
Speaker 1: but I'm just trying to take when in but that
Speaker 1: was so surprised that I'm not saying you wrong I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it at all, right, And when I was saying,
Speaker 1: is I deal with the same thing because there's aspects
Speaker 1: of my song that people will see on the end.
Speaker 1: And if the old no, I followed you because I
Speaker 1: like you did this, and I know that always been me.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's never been a man that knows
Speaker 1: me to call him like because they know that's who
Speaker 1: my son is. Right, There's always been women that called me.
Speaker 1: More often than not. They are women who say, yo,
Speaker 1: you need to not do this, because they don't. That's
Speaker 1: just different the dynamic that they haven't been about me.
Speaker 1: So what I'm trying to explain to you is not
Speaker 1: saying she's wrong for what it is. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: everything has a place, right, I just know what are
Speaker 1: you talking about. What I'm trying to say is I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go to church, but I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: saying at the beach right, I'm not gonna, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go knowing that I'm a pastor of a
Speaker 1: church right right, and I'm not a church and I'm
Speaker 1: being on the beach right and say around about shooting somebody,
Speaker 1: and say and and and make sure you're cut to
Speaker 1: my church tomorrow, right, I'm I'm gonna listen to me
Speaker 1: because I still represent that church, right, I represent that church.
Speaker 1: And and even though I'm on my free time and
Speaker 1: I'm doing whatever and I wron and I like snoop
Speaker 1: dogs wrong, right, I'm not gonna do that. And then
Speaker 1: connected to my space in my work that I have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with that. I don't do that. I
Speaker 1: don't disagree that connecting it my is problematic for folks
Speaker 1: like they can't get past that. I understand it. All
Speaker 1: I'm saying to you is that there are many people,
Speaker 1: there are many pastors out here who have large congregations
Speaker 1: that talk about all kinds of ships, okay, and they
Speaker 1: use it as a marketing tool to draw people into
Speaker 1: their into their congregation. I'm just saying that the woman
Speaker 1: was tworking, and in the midst of her tworking, she
Speaker 1: said vote for me, and it became a thing I
Speaker 1: do not believe that I don't personally get. And the
Speaker 1: way I feel about it is like I don't care.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. It's not so much whether I
Speaker 1: get it or not. I just don't care. What I
Speaker 1: do care about, though, is is she on the issues, housing, healthcare.
Speaker 1: I need to know that, because if she's not on
Speaker 1: the issues, and that's all what's going on here is
Speaker 1: just working, then she definitely is not qualified to be
Speaker 1: a state representative. But if qualifications is not even my thing,
Speaker 1: I'm just talking. I'm just I'm telling you the way
Speaker 1: that I look at it, the way that I the
Speaker 1: way that I approached it. When I saw it, I
Speaker 1: wanted to know, is this somebody who's on the issue.
Speaker 1: So I went on her website. I see she's on
Speaker 1: the issues. You know what I'm saying. So I'm just
Speaker 1: less concerned about this work. I just don't care. My
Speaker 1: thing is this is there. You don't have to convince me.
Speaker 1: You don't get it. And I told you my point is,
Speaker 1: I don't care. Why we gotta keep going back and
Speaker 1: forth about it. And with that said, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: always be right to me. It's not gonna always be wrong.
Speaker 1: Actually we're wrong a lot of times, like right now,
Speaker 1: but we will both always and I mean always, always,
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