Speaker 1: Hold up, hold up the Football Alert show. It's the
Speaker 1: kid Ferrari Simmons. I have your favorite Ethiopian sol La
Speaker 1: La La La La la La. You know it's half
Speaker 1: produced by me O c T what they do baby. Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: y'all Thanksgiving. I hope you guys have been talking about
Speaker 1: your dinner men news because I have, and I am
Speaker 1: excited to not actually eat thanks Gonna because I don't
Speaker 1: think we're gonna have a big Thanksgiving things this year,
Speaker 1: So you're not excited to eat because it's not going
Speaker 1: to be big. Yeah. We it's Tuesday, uh and Thanksgivings
Speaker 1: on Thursday, and we haven't discussed um anything. So you
Speaker 1: know what, guys, I'm just gonna chalk it up as
Speaker 1: we're probably gonna do something light, keep the smooth, you know,
Speaker 1: no social distancing, and we kind of staying apart from people.
Speaker 1: So we're probably just keeping a small Thanksgiving that the
Speaker 1: house and fam gonna be on the zoom. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: probably do something on the zoom or I live or FaceTime.
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize that my family didn't even discuss
Speaker 1: the holiday until two days ago. I went and took
Speaker 1: my brother some in Jata as store and he was like, yo, sue, um,
Speaker 1: you should just make steak for Thanksgiving, and I was
Speaker 1: like steam, like yeah, Honestly, like in our house we
Speaker 1: usually have Ethiopian food and American food, but we always
Speaker 1: have way too much leftovers. Like the Ethopian food goes
Speaker 1: hell of aass. The American food is always left for
Speaker 1: do with it. But even on top of that, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out a way to not celebrate the
Speaker 1: holiday per se because I don't think it's a holiday
Speaker 1: for me. But I do want to still take advantage
Speaker 1: of the fact that, like everybody's gonna be cooking and
Speaker 1: playing games and hanging out, you know, these European holidays,
Speaker 1: but still take advantage of the fact that everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: be together. Mind you, it's not a holiday for me either.
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, participating, okay, But you know, for me,
Speaker 1: I don't eat meter or anything like that. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a vegan Thanksgiving for myself. Bless your heart.
Speaker 1: But it's not bad. It's not bad though, I like,
Speaker 1: I gotta have met some oxtails, man, oh, I had
Speaker 1: to coming up a plate. Listen, the whole point is
Speaker 1: to just make sure that you, you know, give people
Speaker 1: their flowers while they're here to receive them. Make sure
Speaker 1: you keep your loved ones close when your mama call,
Speaker 1: answer the phone. Trust me, I know. I think that's
Speaker 1: really what has just kind of made me realize, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have these holidays and moments that we wait for,
Speaker 1: but honestly, celebrate your people every chance you get. Big facts.
Speaker 1: All right, you're all ready to get this show started.
Speaker 1: Let's jump into it. And you know, since we're talking
Speaker 1: about celebrating your loved ones, we do have to send
Speaker 1: a lot of love and like to Atlanta rapper twenty
Speaker 1: one Savage. Um, he actually shared that he lost his
Speaker 1: brother to rail to a senseless act of violence back
Speaker 1: in London. Did you guys hear about that? It is
Speaker 1: really sad. The worst part about it is it seems
Speaker 1: like it was totally random. Um. The family is saying,
Speaker 1: family and friends are saying that he didn't have any
Speaker 1: known enemies. He was actually on his own recently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh I didn't. I thought I thought I saw the post.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't pay attention on all the way.
Speaker 1: I thought it was something that happened when he was younger,
Speaker 1: because he posted a picture of him and his brother
Speaker 1: when they were kid. Correct. Yeah, So basically what happened
Speaker 1: was the brother, Terrell, was on his way back home
Speaker 1: from running errands for his grandmother and he ran into
Speaker 1: an old friend. Him and the old friends start to
Speaker 1: talk and they end up into our getting into an
Speaker 1: argument meant, and they set out of nowhere. The old
Speaker 1: friends stabbed him and that caused him to die, which
Speaker 1: is so sad and so senseless. UM, listen to you, guys,
Speaker 1: life is so random. You literally don't know what could
Speaker 1: happen the very next second. So condolences to twenty one
Speaker 1: Savage and his his loved ones. Definitely sending you guys
Speaker 1: living life. I can only imagine what it feels like.
Speaker 1: So make sure you guys sending that man and his
Speaker 1: family some love. And he was just in the news
Speaker 1: for buying King Vaughn's sister Ranger over and he felt
Speaker 1: that he had to, you know, explain himself, which I
Speaker 1: didn't think he did. He explained himself about, you know,
Speaker 1: saying that that's what Vaughn was King Vonn was going
Speaker 1: to do that for his sister, and then he ended
Speaker 1: up doing it for her since he wasn't alive of
Speaker 1: course to make it happen. Um. So yeah, that that's
Speaker 1: that's just a terrible thing to witness and and hear about.
Speaker 1: Man man our condolences to Amy Savage to be clear
Speaker 1: on that. You know, he wanted to just make a
Speaker 1: good gesture, you know, for King Von's sister and her
Speaker 1: birthday because she lives in Atlanta. Yeah, she lives in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Like you said, that was something that King Vaughan, I guess,
Speaker 1: was telling plenty one Savage that he had planned to
Speaker 1: do for his sister anyway, And I think I think
Speaker 1: he just wanted to show he just wanted to do
Speaker 1: a good d you know, he just wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that that this young woman has something to smile about,
Speaker 1: you know, during a tragic time. And it's so sad
Speaker 1: that we as people, as a culture or whatever just
Speaker 1: have to take that and try to manipulate it as
Speaker 1: if you know, he was trying to get at her.
Speaker 1: They've been messing around. He just wanted to do something nice,
Speaker 1: you guys, And sometimes people do that with no strings attached. Okay, uh, well,
Speaker 1: speaking of us other sad news, It's not all the
Speaker 1: way sad, but it's sad. The Undertaker retires as a
Speaker 1: wrestler over thirty years. I was a wrestling fan. I
Speaker 1: thought it was real for a significant part of my
Speaker 1: child myself as well. When he the Undertaker put the
Speaker 1: Ultimate Warrior in the casket, I cried like a little
Speaker 1: girl because I thought he died. I was like, because
Speaker 1: you know, he put somebody in the casket there did
Speaker 1: and I remember, and then come to find out they
Speaker 1: in the back smoking cigars and having drinks together the
Speaker 1: whole time. This is all. I didn't know that wrestling
Speaker 1: was acting. But yeah, Undertake has been wrestling for over
Speaker 1: thirty years. That's the majority of my life. I mean
Speaker 1: thirty six. I mean he's been restless as I was
Speaker 1: six years old. Right, It's crazy. He deserves it, notably
Speaker 1: happy to put his man. Okay, let him go. Now,
Speaker 1: who's this person? That's who's this person? About the host
Speaker 1: of the Grammys, y'all, Trevor Noah, you know, late night
Speaker 1: talk show host Trevor Noah. Shout out, he's is he
Speaker 1: the eat you up in? Or he's African? He's definitely
Speaker 1: not you fee up? And I was like, let me
Speaker 1: find that he Oh, he's definitely he's definitely African, though.
Speaker 1: We'll take him. Let me google real quick, let me
Speaker 1: pull up his instagram. Let me google real South Africa,
Speaker 1: South African. Okay, I'll take it. Okay, listen, mother Africa.
Speaker 1: Mother looks like um. He looks like that. He looks
Speaker 1: like um. Put your hands in the He looks like
Speaker 1: Bruno Mars a little bit. No, no, okay, okay, I
Speaker 1: was just trying. I was trying to say what he
Speaker 1: looks like. Guys, and he looks like Bruno Mars a
Speaker 1: little bit. I can give you that a little bit.
Speaker 1: Rob I've got you that looks like Bruno Mars without
Speaker 1: of course, not the funky hair that Bruno Mars has.
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like Bruno Mars. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: There's him a little bit. I got you, Okay. He
Speaker 1: looks like Maxwell right here. Okay, he just looked like
Speaker 1: he come in, you know. Okay. I hope you do
Speaker 1: a good job, big dog, and I hope you stay
Speaker 1: your unique self, and I hope you take your opportunity
Speaker 1: in your platform to say something that means something to
Speaker 1: people who look like you. TV that man does it
Speaker 1: every time. I'm super excited. The Grammys are different. The
Speaker 1: Grammys are very washed. We hope everybody will get a
Speaker 1: chance to check it out January UM at the Staples
Speaker 1: Center in Los Angeles. Some of the nominations that are
Speaker 1: um at the top right now is Taylor Swift, The
Speaker 1: Weekend and Meghandi Stallion. That's gonna be big for meg.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, if we're talking about hoping that Trevor
Speaker 1: uses his platform, which he always does, I okay, I
Speaker 1: am hoping and praying that the Weekend Abel the Weekend
Speaker 1: please say something, even if you don't verbally say it,
Speaker 1: like have a message or something. Please, because there are
Speaker 1: so many of us who literally cannot reach our family members.
Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to my mother. I have absolutely no
Speaker 1: way of contacting her. The region of tig Right has
Speaker 1: no power, no access to water. It's really really bad.
Speaker 1: And um, we're actually, we actually are going to talk
Speaker 1: to somebody later on in the show, me as a
Speaker 1: good Day, who is very well informed and she's gonna
Speaker 1: help us all understand what is happening with the crisis
Speaker 1: in Ethiopia, specifically in the tip Right region. So I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about today's show. Super excited. Right, Cardi B
Speaker 1: becomes the first artist to win a m A twice
Speaker 1: for Favorite Song and Wrap hip Hop category. Shout out
Speaker 1: to the A m as that just aired Monday, and
Speaker 1: that was one of the biggest highlights and takeaways. Is
Speaker 1: to be making history. Yeah, she won with Bodak Yellow
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eighteen, and then she just won
Speaker 1: with Wa Whip equals wet asks Vagina. That's not okay.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to say the P words. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: you're wrong. You might have saved the mustache off. You
Speaker 1: looked like a little boy, but you're wrong. Uh, speaking
Speaker 1: of history, guys, what y'all think about this Gucci verse
Speaker 1: Jeezy Battle because Sue you from the A and Rory
Speaker 1: you love the A. What did y'all think about Jeez
Speaker 1: Verse Gucca ahead from Florida? Go head boy, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go after y'all. Well, let me just get my little
Speaker 1: you know, joined off, because you know, I know how
Speaker 1: passionate y'all are about these two right here. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fairly entertaining to me. It was
Speaker 1: kind of like grown man versus adolescent, and I just
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, a man was trying to move
Speaker 1: forward and Google and you know, Gucci was just like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't tell me when to move when this happened
Speaker 1: to me, you know. Um, so he felt like he
Speaker 1: just really wanted to dis Jeezy and they ain't even
Speaker 1: giving a chance. He had, like so many other records,
Speaker 1: but you know, a whole lot of records was dis records,
Speaker 1: and um it really set the party out. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of intense moments, especially when the truth was
Speaker 1: played and Jez said what he wanted to say and
Speaker 1: Gucci wasn't trying to hear it. Put that gas in
Speaker 1: the dirt, smoking on pooking oat tonight since some mom
Speaker 1: and send him the same way. And I boxed back
Speaker 1: to you and I extended the invitation. I did it
Speaker 1: as a real man because I told you. I told
Speaker 1: you I have to drive it. We can't do nothing
Speaker 1: if I ain't screwed, If I can't perform the truth,
Speaker 1: we can't do It's we came from in the street. Dog,
Speaker 1: you've seen it. We've been through it. Dog. I brought
Speaker 1: you here to show you the world care about what
Speaker 1: we got going on because we are the coaches. All
Speaker 1: these kids out here doing what they do because they
Speaker 1: saw what went on with us. Dog you feel what
Speaker 1: I'm saying that about King Vaughan by Doe b Boy,
Speaker 1: Nipsey Hustle by Mo Pop Smoke M three and I'm
Speaker 1: real enough to do because once ain't good body. Things
Speaker 1: for so three things for certain, Allen, but all in all.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, Gucci said he accepted
Speaker 1: the Olive branch, and I'm glad that these brothers can
Speaker 1: come together and show the streets something. It's possible to
Speaker 1: have a twenty year or fifteen year corner Gucci long
Speaker 1: Beef and come out on top. So I am still
Speaker 1: on cloud nine. I'm so happy that this versus happens.
Speaker 1: And I think this is this is just a continuation
Speaker 1: of all the crazy ship going on in I would
Speaker 1: have never thought to see this in my life. To
Speaker 1: be completely honest with you, I am born and raised
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. I remember going to Bouba's Prime Time Club, Chilcolate,
Speaker 1: the Pool Palace, all these places and enjoying the hell
Speaker 1: at a Gucci and jee Z. But I have to
Speaker 1: keep it real. It was as equally loved as they
Speaker 1: both both were at that time. Especially for me, it
Speaker 1: was either I was in a jeezy mood or I
Speaker 1: was in a Gucy mood right Like, I never really
Speaker 1: felt like they necessarily had the same the same vibe
Speaker 1: and music, although it was trapped. I feel like they
Speaker 1: were giving me two different messages, right. Jeez was definitely
Speaker 1: on that thug motivation that showed that that. I always
Speaker 1: felt like, Okay, he had a little elevation to him,
Speaker 1: you know. He he always made me feel like he
Speaker 1: was somebody that I knew was going to elevate into
Speaker 1: the type of person he is today. Whereas Gulcy, it
Speaker 1: was like, shoot, we here we popping next, You're pushing
Speaker 1: the bitches after the car we were going in. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that that's what I got from Gucy,
Speaker 1: and I'm not mad at it, Okay. I loved I
Speaker 1: love them both equally. So when it came down to
Speaker 1: trying to choose who I thought was going to win,
Speaker 1: I could not up until oh it actually happened. I
Speaker 1: could not choose now while I was watching it because
Speaker 1: were in Atlanta. We wide open. I was outside watching
Speaker 1: it with a whole bunch of other people, and the
Speaker 1: energy everything the room was going for g Now, it
Speaker 1: were going back and forth because it was a real battle. Um,
Speaker 1: But when it came down to it, I think Jez
Speaker 1: was able to reach more people. Um. I think Gucci
Speaker 1: reached a very certain demographic in a certain range, where
Speaker 1: Jez may have been able to reach people in a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of different states. And I just think, I
Speaker 1: really think that that was the only difference. I don't
Speaker 1: think it was a matter of who had more music
Speaker 1: or better music. For me, I just think it was
Speaker 1: m what did it mean for you? Like? What did
Speaker 1: it mean for you? And for me? Hit after hit
Speaker 1: after hit after hit, it it was Jez that was
Speaker 1: That was a dope response to UM. I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: keep mind too long because, UM, people always think I'm
Speaker 1: biased because I'm signed to Jez's talent agency, when in reality,
Speaker 1: DJ Holiday and Gucci Man named me Ferrari. A lot
Speaker 1: of people don't know that. Wow, I didn't know the
Speaker 1: name Ferrari came from DJA Holiday and Gucci Man, um
Speaker 1: calling me that they were the first two people to
Speaker 1: start calling me Ferrari. So then I started calling myself Ferrari.
Speaker 1: So then uh so let's go to the thing I think. Uh.
Speaker 1: In my honest opinion, UM, I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it was a tie. And the only
Speaker 1: reason I'm gonna say it was a tie, I think
Speaker 1: jez One in the song selection department, Gucci Man one
Speaker 1: in the energy apartment department. I think Gucci came on
Speaker 1: like ready to like if if if it would have
Speaker 1: been a boxing match, Gucci would have been ready for that.
Speaker 1: Like Gucci just wanted to just he just had all
Speaker 1: this energy and and Snow was real cool and calm
Speaker 1: and left if you can tell that he was a
Speaker 1: little bit more mature, the mature one on the stage.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, Gucci Man came
Speaker 1: with the entourage, he came with the with the whole altfita.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know he's sponsorship that has a partnership
Speaker 1: with Gucci, so of course he got the Gucci outfit
Speaker 1: on UM. Snow came with the BMF, the black bandanna,
Speaker 1: and he had the entourage. So you see one Guyn
Speaker 1: on the stage with his DJ, that's it. Then you
Speaker 1: see the other guy on the stage. You can't see
Speaker 1: his DJ, but he has a whole full entourage, and
Speaker 1: he go ahead, not to not to cut you off,
Speaker 1: but can I just say shout out to j Z DJ,
Speaker 1: who was on the same type of energy that Gucci was.
Speaker 1: DJ and Holiday did their things. But let me tell
Speaker 1: you something about DJ Energy. Honey, you would have thought
Speaker 1: he was the one that happy. Hey said, what's up?
Speaker 1: We were the rule? I said, oh no, you and
Speaker 1: your he was ready. Okay, Hey aces energy, because that's
Speaker 1: that's actually Holiday's energy. But Holiday was quiet in the first,
Speaker 1: like several rounds. I'm over here, like, I send him
Speaker 1: a text like, bro, you can't do that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he read it. I said, boy, you holiday season,
Speaker 1: you gotta get back in your holiday like back when
Speaker 1: y'all was two thousand and nine, two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: And that's that's when it started getting intense, when Holiday
Speaker 1: started talking and ship. But long story short, UM, I
Speaker 1: thought I'd never seen them perform icy. Never thought that
Speaker 1: I would see that. And then the after party, I
Speaker 1: DJ that UM at Compound. I never thought that I'd
Speaker 1: see them in the same club. Nothing happened, nobody got
Speaker 1: hurt before or after. Uh, they played the full song
Speaker 1: in the club, so icy and you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people from Atlanta those if it's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of Gucci people in the building. You don't play snow.
Speaker 1: If there's a whole bunch of you know people in
Speaker 1: the building, don't play googa, you know. Um. And that's
Speaker 1: just how it is in Atlanta, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So um, just to be able to play both of
Speaker 1: them in the same night was just uh and and
Speaker 1: then both being the building because you know, a Gucci
Speaker 1: man is in the building, you can't play it, Jesus,
Speaker 1: That's just how it was. And if Jez was in
Speaker 1: the building, you couldn't play a boccie. That's just how
Speaker 1: it was for the last fifteen years. That's how it
Speaker 1: always was. Last night, Uh, last week when I was DJ,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yo, I could play both right now,
Speaker 1: Like this is great. I just had so much room
Speaker 1: to operate as a DJ because you know, they both
Speaker 1: have big, strong records, especially in Atlanta. So long story short,
Speaker 1: I think it was a win for Atlanta. It was
Speaker 1: a win for Atlanta culture, Atlanta music. Let's everybody know
Speaker 1: that Atlanta's number one in music. We have more views
Speaker 1: than the v m A Awards and all these big
Speaker 1: award shows. Um, everybody watched them tuned into two people
Speaker 1: from Atlanta, I mean Jesus from Hawkinsville, but you know
Speaker 1: he reaped the A two um. It was just a
Speaker 1: great win for Atlanta and it was a magic city,
Speaker 1: the home of the Lemon Pepper. Wayne he did listen,
Speaker 1: Atlanta is undefeated. You know, we appreciate you guys for
Speaker 1: loving us. How y'all do. We love y'all back. But
Speaker 1: we're still full. We're ready for y'all to come down
Speaker 1: here yet. But I did brough it. That was a
Speaker 1: great point. I enjoyed being able to be out the
Speaker 1: rest of the weekend and still here Jeezy and Gucci
Speaker 1: because we was riding that wave all weekend. So shout
Speaker 1: out to a g he is the goat had Gucci
Speaker 1: and Jez in the same building at the same time.
Speaker 1: It Thank you Atlanta, Thank you vers. That compound bag
Speaker 1: was crazy, man. And then and then listen to y'all.
Speaker 1: A lot of people didn't pay attention to this because
Speaker 1: everybody was looking at Jeez and Gucci. Man, it was
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of known artists in the building. Wife
Speaker 1: and Lucci was there. Trouble. A lot of people from
Speaker 1: Atlanta was there and they weren't need they were just
Speaker 1: there to watch to see, like I out to see this,
Speaker 1: that's what. And I think the we posted the video
Speaker 1: because it was a video of me recording it on Ballerlai.
Speaker 1: Everybody was like, why aint nobody dancing? Because we're all
Speaker 1: shocked that Jez is right there and Gucci Man's right there,
Speaker 1: and and ain't nobody shooting nobody? That's what we're looking at.
Speaker 1: We're just looking at them too, and well what we're
Speaker 1: listening to the song? So I see that y'all don't understand, Like,
Speaker 1: if you ain't from here, you just ain't gonna understand
Speaker 1: why we were just all standing up because I just
Speaker 1: was stuck, like I can't believe this has happening. I
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm recording this. Legendary things happening, and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to prepare everybody for this Saturday, another legendary moment.
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson versus Roy Jones Junior. Fight. Are y'all watching?
Speaker 1: And all, uh no, I'm not watching. I think Roy
Speaker 1: Young Junior is gonna get knocked out. Mike Tyson is
Speaker 1: an animal. He's a beast, he's a dog, he's a wolf,
Speaker 1: he is whatever type of animal you can think at
Speaker 1: is deranged and crazy, and Roy Jones is just an
Speaker 1: old man. No disrespect to Roy Jones. I'm definitely a
Speaker 1: fan of you, But Mike Tyson is an animal. He
Speaker 1: wants to bite your face off, he wants to eat
Speaker 1: your kids. He's still that guy, and he's going to
Speaker 1: destroy you. I don't think you should do. He's not
Speaker 1: biting faces and ears anymore. But the thing is, I
Speaker 1: typically don't even like watching the boxing MMA or whatever
Speaker 1: y'all are doing where y'all punch and kick each other.
Speaker 1: That's just not my vibe. But I feel like this
Speaker 1: is such a legendary moment and it's so fitting for
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have to at least try to
Speaker 1: watch it. Yeah, Rod probably gonna catch the highlights on
Speaker 1: Instagram or something. That's where they're gonna be here. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna definitely be tuned in though, because this is legendary.
Speaker 1: Sun get knocked out, y'all. Okay, that's your prediction. How
Speaker 1: many rounds? Third round, fourth round? He out of that? Okay? Well,
Speaker 1: if you want to check out this frontline battle, Roy
Speaker 1: Jones versus Mike Tye said, make sure y'all check out
Speaker 1: trailer pay per view or f I T dot TV
Speaker 1: and it'll be right there for you, alright, y'all. So
Speaker 1: that wraps it up for in case you miss it
Speaker 1: on the ball Alert Show podcast. Make sure you stick
Speaker 1: around because coming up we will be talking to me
Speaker 1: as a good ay who is a well informed, talented,
Speaker 1: educated woman who's gonna tell us all about the crisis
Speaker 1: in Ethiopia. Make sure you keep it where you got
Speaker 1: it at I hear you, Rob, We'll be right back
Speaker 1: with more of the Bailer Alert Show. The Baller Alert
Speaker 1: Show starting March. Ferrari, Simmons and Sue Solo follow Nation.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Baller Alert Show podcast. UM now
Speaker 1: listen today. I am super excited because I get to
Speaker 1: UM bring someone onto the platform that can really talk
Speaker 1: to us about the crisis happening in Ethiopia and Octavia Ferrari,
Speaker 1: thank you guys for being so open to allowing me
Speaker 1: to bring a piece of my personal life onto our platform. UM.
Speaker 1: On today show, we do have a guest me as
Speaker 1: a Gida So she worked as a project manager for
Speaker 1: the melist and nowI Foundation which is in Adis Ababa. UM. Currently,
Speaker 1: Miasa is a full time student pursuing her master's degree
Speaker 1: in international relations, which is so on point for the
Speaker 1: conversation that we need to have today. UM. Now, a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know there is serious conflicts going
Speaker 1: on in Ethiopia. If you can help us understand what
Speaker 1: is happening in Tigrai, Ethiopia, thank you very much. First
Speaker 1: of all, out like to appreciate you guys for creating
Speaker 1: this opportunity and allowing me to speak on what's happening
Speaker 1: in my home country Ethiopia. UM. As you say, there
Speaker 1: is conflict, it's a civil war. Civil war is happening
Speaker 1: in Ethiopia. The the allegedment Prime Minister a mid wage
Speaker 1: war on the people of to Gray on November three,
Speaker 1: UH and and it has been over twenty days since
Speaker 1: the war started. And there is not any way of
Speaker 1: knowing what exactly is happening to the people of Degrai
Speaker 1: because the communication channels have been shut down by the
Speaker 1: federal government. It has been over twenty days since I
Speaker 1: heard from my family members. Cities across the region have
Speaker 1: been bombed with war planes and jets and drawn from
Speaker 1: uh different actors. The war is being watched not only
Speaker 1: by the federal government, but other international actors have also
Speaker 1: entered the scene. The United Arabian Brates is providing the
Speaker 1: federal government drones and their strong government is also involved
Speaker 1: in the war. Their troops are killing people, mass occurring
Speaker 1: and over fifty people have already fled their homes from
Speaker 1: the Gray and they're now seeking refugee in South and
Speaker 1: sued On. Um. This is just a glimpse of what's
Speaker 1: happening into Gripe, but the situation is getting worse by
Speaker 1: the minute. Now. A lot of people, you know, will
Speaker 1: take what you just said as far as you know
Speaker 1: the err Trean government also being involved. And a lot
Speaker 1: of my personal friends don't understand the difference between Ethiopian
Speaker 1: err Trea, you know. Um, they are so shocked to
Speaker 1: find out that the borders between Ethiopia and Eritrea literally
Speaker 1: just pretty much opened up. Um, So could you give
Speaker 1: people a little history on why it is that the
Speaker 1: err Trean that Ethiopian Eritrea have the conflict that they have. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: First of all, it's important to highlight that ery treate
Speaker 1: of sovereign country. Uh, They're different from Ethiopia. They have
Speaker 1: their own administration and their own country although we used
Speaker 1: to be one country a very long time ago. But
Speaker 1: after the thirty years, after the three thirty years struggle,
Speaker 1: they had uh they got their independence, and I think
Speaker 1: it has been quite some decades ever since airtre became
Speaker 1: an independent country. But after that there was a border
Speaker 1: conflict that arised over twenty five years ago, and then
Speaker 1: after that we have been pretty much on a deadlock
Speaker 1: if you have been Eritre. But after the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: a Vehmed came to office, he tried to bring peace
Speaker 1: between both countries and there was a peace agreement that
Speaker 1: was signed by both leaders of both countries. However, that
Speaker 1: peace agreement didn't settle to the ground. It didn't include
Speaker 1: um itaany group spots from air tra and if you
Speaker 1: that were on the borderlines of both countries, and so
Speaker 1: the peace agreement was made only between the two leaders
Speaker 1: and not people of both countries. Because of that, it
Speaker 1: just only became him a piece only on paper, like
Speaker 1: the peace didn't really trickle down to the communities on
Speaker 1: the ground, and so they're the borders were only briefly closed,
Speaker 1: like maybe for a couple of six or so. En
Speaker 1: After that it went back to how it used to be.
Speaker 1: And there is no way that air trands could travel
Speaker 1: to if you backthrough to Gray, which is the bordering
Speaker 1: region between if you're like that's part of if you
Speaker 1: but it's on the border with Eritrea. If if you
Speaker 1: want to travel to Iobey would have to Eritrea from Ethiobea.
Speaker 1: You would have to fly from the capital city of
Speaker 1: the country. Um. And so the piece agreement was not
Speaker 1: really it wasn't genuine. It was rather a politically motivated
Speaker 1: agreement that both leaders um signed. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: something that a lot of people don't know is you know,
Speaker 1: when Abby decided that, you know, they were going to
Speaker 1: try to work this out or whatever the case was,
Speaker 1: they actually closed off a lot of roads that led
Speaker 1: to the region of Taga. So while they seemed to
Speaker 1: the rest of the world that Ethiopia and Eritrea were
Speaker 1: doing great, there was literally this region of of of
Speaker 1: space and land that she's talking about that they had.
Speaker 1: It seems like they had already planned to do this too.
Speaker 1: You know, they had already started blocking off roads and access. So, um,
Speaker 1: it looked one way, but they had this plan you know,
Speaker 1: all along in the background. At least that's what it
Speaker 1: feels like now a lot of people are torn. Right.
Speaker 1: You have some people that feel like other ethnic groups
Speaker 1: aren't speaking up because they feel like it doesn't affect them.
Speaker 1: But then you also have some of those other ethnic
Speaker 1: groups that are saying, well, where were you guys when
Speaker 1: this was happening to us? Um I can definitely admit
Speaker 1: that I am not as educated, you know, in Ethiopia's
Speaker 1: history as I should be, So as people are bringing
Speaker 1: up these conversations, it is allowing me to do more research.
Speaker 1: And I understand that they feel as though, you know,
Speaker 1: the thing that have happened in the past, this is
Speaker 1: just some people see it as this was just natural,
Speaker 1: This is going to happen. The innocent citizens are just
Speaker 1: collateral damage at this point. This is literally some of
Speaker 1: the things that I have been hearing and reading and
Speaker 1: messages that people have sent to me directly. What is
Speaker 1: it actually what is it going to take for people
Speaker 1: to just stop and and and just be good people?
Speaker 1: When do we realize that, Okay, yes, TPLF may have
Speaker 1: done this in the past, or this this government may
Speaker 1: have done this back then, But when do we come
Speaker 1: to a time where we have to say enough is enough?
Speaker 1: Let's just stop. Yeah. Um, that's a very important thing
Speaker 1: to to look into because the whole everything that's happening,
Speaker 1: it's not just only about to pay Lift. To pay
Speaker 1: Lift is a political party that was elected by the
Speaker 1: people of two right. So even if the central government
Speaker 1: has any kind of ideological difference was to pay Lift,
Speaker 1: it's not up to the central government to remove to
Speaker 1: pay Life because the pen Lift was elected by over
Speaker 1: two point seven million to grants to administer the t
Speaker 1: Gray region. So the people of the Gray have given
Speaker 1: their will to to pay Lift to administer them to
Speaker 1: underminister their region and not Ethiopia. So if to pay
Speaker 1: Lift is indeed as criminal as they tried to paint
Speaker 1: it to be, it's up to the people of Too
Speaker 1: Great to remove it or otherwise. Um. So the central
Speaker 1: government needs to respect the people's will and the war
Speaker 1: is not going to change that. Um. But the other
Speaker 1: thing is this is just a secontinuation of all the
Speaker 1: subjugation attempts that are Viehmad has been trying to impose
Speaker 1: on all ethnic groups and Ethiopia ever since he assumed power.
Speaker 1: He did the same thing to the Somali ethnic group.
Speaker 1: He did the same thing to the Aura almost and
Speaker 1: to other ethnic groups. The only difference why there is
Speaker 1: resistant and there is civil war from the Gray region
Speaker 1: is because we happen to have a very strong government
Speaker 1: compared to other Ethany groups. Unfortunately, other Itchany groups were
Speaker 1: not as organized as that the great community is. They
Speaker 1: didn't have a strong government that could actually defend their
Speaker 1: right self administration. But the whole war, it's not just
Speaker 1: it's not a war only Ontegrance. It's rather whar against
Speaker 1: the ulti national federalism that if you have adherts to
Speaker 1: because as you all might know, if you have as
Speaker 1: a very diverse country, so you cannot impose a uniterroist
Speaker 1: ideology and force people to be administered according to one culture,
Speaker 1: according to one narrative. So I think it's important to
Speaker 1: have this broad understanding of what's happening. But to come
Speaker 1: back to the question you raised, um, the solution lies
Speaker 1: on people understanding that people have the right self administration
Speaker 1: and nobody can impose a certain kind of governance on them.
Speaker 1: Unless people came to this realization, it's going to be
Speaker 1: very difficult for Ethio better see peace. Even if the
Speaker 1: federal government succeeds in eliminating to pay live. I am
Speaker 1: hundred percent sure that the people of the Gray would
Speaker 1: continue to fight for their condestional right of self administration,
Speaker 1: and the other ethnic groups, like for example, the Aroma community,
Speaker 1: they're showing solidarity to the people of the Gray because
Speaker 1: they understand the value of self administration. It's only some
Speaker 1: expansionist elements of them how to elite, not even them
Speaker 1: how to people. It's only them how to elite that
Speaker 1: are supporting the soar and for them, I don't think
Speaker 1: they would ever get this because the ideology that a
Speaker 1: Vehma is trying to impose is something that they had
Speaker 1: heard too. We're being forced, like so many ethiop and
Speaker 1: Itchnic groups, are being forced to um adapt culture now culture, skill,
Speaker 1: uh language and religion that is highly pronounced in the
Speaker 1: Amhara elite community. So as long as their interests is
Speaker 1: not touched, they're not going to have any problem with this.
Speaker 1: But for the rest of the world and for the
Speaker 1: rest of the etheropre and community, the solution lives in
Speaker 1: realizing that people have the right to be who they are.
Speaker 1: People have their right to be respective for their identity,
Speaker 1: and no one can impose any system of governance on
Speaker 1: people unless they agree to it. And this is a
Speaker 1: political problem. It's a political problem, it's an ideological problem,
Speaker 1: and work cannot solve it. The only solution is dialog
Speaker 1: and an inclusive national discussion needs to be held in Ethiopia.
Speaker 1: You know, it's basically like what the Black lives Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter movement he is here in the States. You know,
Speaker 1: black people are saying, Hey, we are black, this is
Speaker 1: what our culture is. We don't want to conform to
Speaker 1: how you want us to be. Um. And it is
Speaker 1: exactly what's happening in Ethiopia. However, it's happening amongst Ethiopians,
Speaker 1: you know, just just in different ethnic groups. Um. The
Speaker 1: unfortunate thing is what the other countries getting involved. We
Speaker 1: all know that Africa ideally and naturally is the richest
Speaker 1: continent in the world. However it's deemed to be the
Speaker 1: poorest because we're getting rocked every single day. You know,
Speaker 1: Europeans have come in and have really divided Africa so badly,
Speaker 1: um to the point that you have now Ethiopia on
Speaker 1: the genocide watch list. You know, Um, it is very unfortunate.
Speaker 1: You know how how Africa has dealt with trauma year
Speaker 1: after year after year after year and division. And what
Speaker 1: I will say is I think has been eye opening
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, and people are starting to
Speaker 1: pay more attention to Africa. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: this particular topic, we need more, you know, we we
Speaker 1: need help. We need people to use the hashtags, UM,
Speaker 1: the proper hashtags, do your resource, your research, UM, Communicate
Speaker 1: within your communities. If you have friends that are of
Speaker 1: Habish had descent, whether they are Ethiopian or Eritrean, try
Speaker 1: to learn a little history on on what's going on
Speaker 1: with that. UM. You know, my friends are actually dumbfounded
Speaker 1: that I cannot get ahold of my mom. Every day
Speaker 1: someone's asking did you talk to your mom yet? As
Speaker 1: if as if there's not a civil war going on
Speaker 1: and she lives in a region that doesn't have power.
Speaker 1: I literally have no idea where she is. So I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for taking the time out to
Speaker 1: help us understand what is going on back home. UM.
Speaker 1: And also you have been loud and proud on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the updates. I love just
Speaker 1: going through and feeling like, you know, we have these
Speaker 1: warriors here UM in the States that can really speak
Speaker 1: for our family members back home that that cannot So
Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time. Is there anything
Speaker 1: that you want to let people know, any organizations that
Speaker 1: you want us to pay attention to, particular hashtags use
Speaker 1: and where can we value on social media? Yeah, thank
Speaker 1: you so much again. UM, just one thing before I
Speaker 1: go to the hashtags. Uh. You encouraged people to do
Speaker 1: their research and to learn more about what's happening. But
Speaker 1: I want them to understand that this is a war
Speaker 1: that is wodaged against ethnic minority, a minority that has
Speaker 1: been subjucated and marginalized for such a long time. So
Speaker 1: they may not necessarily find articles are our news outlets
Speaker 1: that would necessarily amplify our applights. So I I encourage
Speaker 1: everyone to follow hashtags UM mainly stop war on TI
Speaker 1: Gray and to follow to Gray and activists because everything
Speaker 1: you see on on on the on the conventional media
Speaker 1: seems to amplify government propaganda and so our voices are
Speaker 1: not heard. And the fact that there is no there
Speaker 1: is communication block outcoming from Tigray, Ethiopia, it makes it
Speaker 1: very difficult to find a personal account of what the
Speaker 1: grand people are going through right now. UM, And so
Speaker 1: it seems like everyone is ganging upon us, including Amnesty International.
Speaker 1: They're they're publishing very based reports, so if people try
Speaker 1: to research more, they may not necessarily find the truth.
Speaker 1: So I just want them to know that. But in
Speaker 1: order to avoid this kind of misunderstanding, it would be
Speaker 1: better for them to follow to Grant activists and at
Speaker 1: the same time follow the hashtag so war on Tigray UM.
Speaker 1: But generally what's happening Integra is not any different than
Speaker 1: what happened to the Jews. UM. So the stakes are
Speaker 1: very high and it's important that the international community speaks
Speaker 1: up right now. UM. The UN Security Council is having
Speaker 1: a meeting right now as we speak. There are discussions
Speaker 1: whether to inter to have international intervention or not. African
Speaker 1: You need seems to say this is an African problem
Speaker 1: and it needs to be solved through Africans. But we
Speaker 1: all know African Union is too slow as they don't
Speaker 1: have the power, and so that's why we need an
Speaker 1: international intervention. And to your followers and listeners, I would
Speaker 1: I want to beg them and urge them to contact
Speaker 1: their representatives, local representatives, congress people, send it people and
Speaker 1: just ask them to put pressure on the Trump administration
Speaker 1: not just not support this crime, this wire that's happening
Speaker 1: in Ethiopia, and just help us to bring bos war
Speaker 1: in parts to the negotiation table. Yeah, as I good it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for speaking so eloquently and really
Speaker 1: helping us understand what's going on. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to stop you on Twitter and
Speaker 1: I am probably going to bug you every day as
Speaker 1: we try to figure out a solution to helping our
Speaker 1: family back home and all the refugees who traveled by
Speaker 1: foot with nothing but the items on their backs. So
Speaker 1: we were gonna do everything we can to make sure
Speaker 1: that we spread awareness and put an end to this.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Thank you. I have a great day.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We'll be right back with more of the
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