1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's don't want to ask you a question. Let's 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: just keep a real straight shot with no cha. I'm 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: gonna get a little bit roughly. I'm here for it. 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: Those who really believe in the American process, all of 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: us straight shot, No chase, what's your girl? Tessel figuring 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: on the Black Effect podcastn't work? You got a few 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: folks is gonna join us tonight? I got a few 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: folks is gonna join us? And and uh, come on 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: up here, and let's get this conversation started. Such an 10 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: important conversation we're trying to have tonight, and it is 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: critical that we all get on the same page. Critical 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: we get on the same page because much is at stake. 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: Much is at stake. The Biden administration was putting out 14 00:00:53,320 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: a Americans Safe America Plan, the Safe America Plan that 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: was going to add or proposed thirty seven billion dollars 16 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: uh to address the violent crime issue in this country. 17 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: And many of us got wind of that and try 18 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: to get more information, and uh and and and not 19 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: before we could even get further, uh, we started to 20 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: hear that the Democrats, UM and House Republicans are trying 21 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: to rush a vote this week to UH move elements 22 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: of this American Safer Plan across the finish line before 23 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: any of us can get an opportunity to weigh in 24 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: on it. UM, and so we feel like this is 25 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: the Biden crime Bill UH two point oh. At least 26 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: that's what I feel like. It's just a crime bill 27 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: two point oh. This thirty seven billion dollars proposal with 28 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: proposed to add one hundred thousand police officers over the 29 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,559 Speaker 1: next five years at a price tag of thirteen billion dollars. 30 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: It would propose to include UH five billion dollars, which 31 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: we advocated for UM, not as a part of this package, 32 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: but on a stand alone break the cycle of violence 33 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: piece of legislation that many of us have been working 34 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: hard to pull together. But they're trying to couple all 35 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,559 Speaker 1: these bills together. Five billion dollars for community violence intervention. 36 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: There's another part of this bill that is proposing fourteen 37 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: billion dollars for UH a description of UM public health 38 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: interventions for non violent crime. None of us know exactly 39 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: what that means. And then another nine billion dollars I 40 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: believe to address backlogs in court. We believe there is 41 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: no circumstance where we can in this moment signed on 42 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: support or endorse any proposal that will introduce a hundred 43 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: thousand police officers in our communities over the next five years. 44 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: And there's so many folks who are trying to figure 45 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: out what is going on. I got this of swine 46 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 1: here jump on in here, doctors. I know we've been 47 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: trying to figure this out the last couple of days. 48 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: It's just it's outrageous. God listen, uh, it's it's deja 49 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: vu all over again. Some of us are old enough, 50 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: you know, to remember. I was full grown. I'm not 51 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: gonna tell y'all how old I am when the ninety 52 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: four Crime Bill, um, you know, came into existence. But 53 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: you know I was grown, married with kids, um. And 54 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: that was devising to the black. Um. You did incentivize 55 00:03:52,960 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: states to promulgate um draconian um laws against cocaine uh Um. 56 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: It gave them billions of dollars to build prisons, and 57 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: within ten years the incarceration rate had doubled, and most 58 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: of those were folks who looked like us. UM. And 59 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: this is deja vu because you see some of the 60 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: same elements in this crime bill, like what you just mentioned, 61 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: a hundred thousand new police officers on the streets, billions 62 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: of dollars to pay for that. And we understand the 63 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: research is clear, Uh, more police does not equate to 64 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: a reduction in crime. But what it does equate to 65 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: is an increase in police brutality um and increase in 66 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: the mass incarceration of black folks. Um it it equates 67 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: to an increase in the extra judicial murder of our people. Uh. 68 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: And in the middle of this whole defunded police movement, 69 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party and in particular not the Cinema and Mansion, 70 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: but Joe Biden has thrown shade on that movement, you know, 71 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: with his whole fund the police. And he meant that thing, 72 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: and this crime bill is evidence that he meant every 73 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: word he said. You know when when when when he 74 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,919 Speaker 1: first told people to take moneys that were earmarking COVID relief, 75 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: told states to take that money and spend it on police. Um. 76 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: And now he's turning around, uh and right on the 77 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 1: heels of going into their legislative break, and we know 78 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 1: when they come back from break, his full blown campaign season, 79 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: uh election season. And this is what you proposed, This 80 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: is what you proposed on the heels of Buffalo, you know, 81 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: on on the heels of Jalen Walker, on on the 82 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: heels of of rapid police brutality against our people, on 83 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: the failure of the Justice and Police Act. By the way, UM, 84 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: the National Urban League UH came out with a statement 85 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: after it failed and said, UH that it was a betrayal. 86 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: The failure of the Justice and Police and Act was 87 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: a betrayal to to Black America. And now Biden is 88 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: proposing this crime bill, and they're trying to push this 89 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: through Congress. They know they would have the support of 90 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: Republicans because anything that puts police on the streets is 91 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: gonna get their support. And so you know when people 92 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: who criticize us for critiquing the Republicans, excuse me if 93 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: I can't really tell the difference right now, Well, I'm 94 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: I'm one of these people who who believe that, UM, 95 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: we have to describe our conditions in ways that not 96 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: that you're box us into this reality that the only 97 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: response to our worst conditions has to be flooding our 98 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: community to war police. UM. And and I don't understand 99 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: what kind of advocates we have out here who only 100 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: feel like politically pragmatically UH, functionally. Police is the only 101 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: response worthy of ah inordinate amount of investment and money. 102 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: We got, we got this wonderful their sister Tesla figure, Oh, 103 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: jump on in here. I know you you got a 104 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: lot to say. Uh. We we were trying to make 105 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: sense of this because we we literally have less than 106 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: twenty four hours to weigh in and make sure that 107 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: at the very least we don't go quietly into the 108 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: night on this issue. What save you? Yeah, well, first 109 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: of all, thank you for having me let me point out, 110 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: and I'm so excited to be here. One reason in 111 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: particular is because a lot of my followers have heard 112 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: me and I don't want to say followers because I'm 113 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: not the Christ, but a lot of folks that that 114 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: try mento my page has heard me be very critical 115 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: of pastors. So I want to pin this quickly so 116 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: that folks understand what I am talking about pastors who 117 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: passify the church. I am not talking about men such 118 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: as yourself. So one reason I jumped on with hate 119 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: is so that folks can understand that there are pastors, 120 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: there are bishops, there are men of God that truly 121 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: understand what it means to be a man of God. 122 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: Quoting Bishops Dixon in Houston, Texas that says, it's not 123 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: about being on cruise ships, but being on battleships. So 124 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: I first want to make the point that this is 125 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: what leadership looks like. And it's no disrespect to pastors 126 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: and bishops that decide to take another route. But it 127 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: is important that I highlight you, gentlemen, for having the 128 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: courage to also know what the Old Testament is about. 129 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: With somebody understood the Book of Judges, but knew what 130 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: the Old Testament was about as well as forgiveness. With 131 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 1: that said, we also know in the word it talks about, uh, 132 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: there will be warning before destruction. So there was no 133 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: confusion uh for us. And I know, particularly my friend 134 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 1: Bishop Swan and I we were talking about the warning 135 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:23,719 Speaker 1: for destruction when President Biden was running for office. We 136 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: talked about many of us, but I'm just speaking in 137 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: particular life in the proficient Swan, many of us were 138 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 1: crystal clear to warn folks of destruction. I was crystal 139 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: clear of my friends who won. That's joining me right now. 140 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: Clipper Johnson has served seventeen years first time non violent 141 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: offender under the Crime Bill in nineteen ninety four. I 142 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: was clear with the poem that I put out called 143 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: Blackout two thousand sixteen. I was clear in poetry, like 144 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: in Psalms. I was clear with my voice, like Deborah 145 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: in the book and Judges. I was clear writing it 146 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: down on the scroll that this is what we were 147 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: going to see. So there should be no confusion, no misunderstanding, 148 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: no wondering how this came to pass. Joe Biden has 149 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: a history, a history of this type of legislation. Let's 150 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: just keep it real. So when someone runs a campaign 151 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: based upon healing America, when you are not willing to 152 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 1: heal the pain that you yourself has called under the 153 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: night field, we already got in a boat that was 154 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: full of holes. Let me say it again, we already 155 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: got in a vote for the what that we're full 156 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: of holes? So now what do we do with that? Now? 157 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: What we do is continue to educate our community to 158 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: be able to know what it is that we see, 159 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: to understand that faith we all know what that works 160 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: is dead, to understand that we must call a thing 161 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: a thing, and to continue to organize to demand more. 162 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: President Biden is the president for the next two years. 163 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: Aread end of discussion? So what do we do between 164 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: now and the next two years. What I've been nadvocating for, 165 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 1: what I've been doing myself. It's training folks to run 166 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: for office, training folks to be operatives on campaigns, training 167 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: folks to be organizers. They are not gonna change. The 168 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: days of begging is over with. It's time to do 169 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: some Boston. It's time to start replacing folks on the 170 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: local level. It's time to start being disruptors in the 171 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: in the political space. So I encourage folks to do that. 172 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: Although panels are good and conversations are good, what are 173 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: we doing to put skin in the game. Come on, Well, 174 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: she's the amen quarter over all, right, and everybody needs 175 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: an a man Corners. That's right. I'm running. I'm running 176 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: from their call and I'm a bootleg preacher. So part 177 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: of me while I take a little bit of silk 178 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: of my community, while I mean I I think part 179 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: of what we needed, we wanted to do tonight is 180 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: to make sure that people know that between now and 181 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: tomorrow evening, UM, the votes are going to take place 182 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: in the House. UM. This is not a done deal 183 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: as of yet. UM. We are told that, uh, there 184 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: are members in the Congressional Black Focus and others who 185 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: are trying to push back on making this accou to 186 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: fruition tomorrow UH. And so part of what we're trying 187 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: to sound the alarm tonight is we need everyone to 188 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: help us take action. Call your congress person tonight, send 189 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: them an email tonight. UM. Let us lift up our 190 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: voice and raise our voice tonight and tomorrow morning and 191 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: make sure that people know in Washington, d c UH 192 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: that we are not in favor of an increase in 193 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: police spending that would indeed bring a hundred thousand more 194 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: police officers into our community according to the Americans Safer 195 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: Plan that has been architect did by UH President Joe Biden. 196 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 1: I see the great Erica Ford, who was one of 197 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: the co founders of our Blackground Peace Consort Team. Erica 198 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: and myself been about twelve other individuals have been working 199 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: in the neighborhoods, in the streets for a long long time, 200 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: really perfecting community based vimys prevention work. We got this administration, 201 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: to their credit, to come out very early and support 202 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: five billion dollars UH in principle and theory, they've been 203 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: adding hundreds of millions of dollars in their budget requests. 204 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,959 Speaker 1: So we feel like the administration has been very responsive 205 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: to this particular point, which is why we're a bit 206 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: stunned to see that a hundred thousand police officers added 207 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 1: over five years. It's kind of being snuck in here, 208 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: and we feel like which is which is also why 209 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: they wrapped it up, uh in in in in that, 210 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: because that's the trick that they always do. Now you 211 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: gotta remember that and test you worked for for burning 212 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: um when when when they'll tell you that the reason 213 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: why some of them voted for the crime bill in 214 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: ninety four was because of other things that were wrapped 215 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: up in the legislation. That's an old trick um that 216 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: they do to bring people on board to feel like 217 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 1: they're gonna lose something valuable if they don't embrace and 218 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: and and support what's being placed before us. So part 219 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: of what were part of what that's that's totally right. 220 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: Part of what we feel like we're calling for is 221 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: number one, let's let's raise our voice and saying the 222 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: hundred thousand police officer for five years is a non 223 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: starter for us. It is a devastating development. We acknowledge 224 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: that crime violence issues are of concern to a large 225 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: wise of folks in our communities, including us, but history 226 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: has shown us this is not the way for what 227 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: say you air before the Queen from Queen New York, 228 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: piece piece and piece speace peace. Um. I think this 229 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: is a there's a lot to say. UM. I think 230 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: first and foremost that a hundred thousand more police on 231 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: the streets it's not an option. UM. I think one 232 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: good thing is that they're not putting the two bills together. Um, 233 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: as it relates to you know, some of the other stuff. 234 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: But people really, and I just want to be frank, right, 235 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: it is mostly our community that is calling for more police, 236 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: right because they feel unsafe, they feel un fear And 237 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: so although we are strong and and and who we 238 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: are a lot of people are weak in in this 239 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: question of safety and who we should turn to. And 240 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: we need to let people know that there are things 241 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: out there that work, and that police in our community 242 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: historically does not be equivalent to safety. Right. I know 243 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: people who have gotten killed and the police were standing 244 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: right there. They almost got shot too. Right. And so 245 00:15:53,800 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: if we believe in our what we do works, what 246 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: we do works, Like we came into a neighborhood and 247 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: there was four people killed a year, eleven people shot 248 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: a year, and we were able to go five to 249 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: two days with nobody being shot. We went up to 250 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: four years with nobody being killed in New York City. 251 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: We were able to make New York the safest big 252 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: city in America. And it is and we are the 253 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: new additive police existed for over a hundred years. Right. 254 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: And so if you invest in in other things, and 255 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: invest doesn't mean just say we're allocating money, but invest 256 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: means to make sure that the people on the ground 257 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: get the money and the resources when they need it. 258 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: And so for me, for example, I just received last 259 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: year's budget July of last year to June of this year. 260 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: I just received the budget last month. So that means 261 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: I was working a whole year without the resources that 262 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: we were allocated to do the work. But you still 263 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 1: are holding me to the accountability factor of producing safety. Right. 264 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: And so if we stop fooling ourselves, and we is 265 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: not us, We is the people who are governing in 266 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: our community. Right, these same elected officials who feel that 267 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: the only thing to do is to increase police, we say, 268 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 1: take another look at the reality of our streets in 269 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 1: our community and that the brothers and sisters who are 270 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: doing great work need to be supported and the police 271 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: that who are there now let them do their job. Right, 272 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: But we don't need a hundred thousand more police running 273 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: around with these jump out boys, with these illegal stops, 274 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: with the shootings and killings that we've seen on videos 275 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: night after night after night across America. People are still 276 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: not in a space where we have a trust in 277 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: or an accountability factor, or a belief or nothing but 278 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: fear in the police in our community because they don't 279 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 1: show up like they show up in white communities. Right. 280 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 1: If if we were talking about how they show up 281 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: in white communities where they're all want and jolly and 282 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: how did that's a different thing, and we still don't 283 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: need a hundred thousand more police, but they don't show 284 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: up like that in our community and our young men. 285 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: You know, they said, this is the first time in 286 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: history that that the conceration of black men have decreased 287 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 1: to this tremendous rate, and that is a significant reason 288 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: probably why they want to put more police. Because prison 289 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 1: is a business, and we know that where the counting 290 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: father for that business, and so we don't want to 291 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: be the Canton farther for that business. We want our 292 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 1: young men and women to have access to the freedom 293 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 1: of living in a safe community without being inconcerated and 294 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: terrorized and so on and so forth. I mean the reality, uh, 295 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 1: since Eric and you you put it so eloquently, the 296 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: the heaviest police communities are not the safest communities. The 297 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: heaviest resourced communities are the safest communities, and they they 298 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: have the least amount of police. Yeah. This this, this 299 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 1: isn't rocket science. This has proven to work. And so 300 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: why we are stepping back in time twenty eight years 301 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: and going back to this notion that we have to 302 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:53,959 Speaker 1: add a hundred thousand new police officers uh to America's 303 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: streets is mind bodling. Other than other than the fact 304 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: that we're in the middle of election season. Democrats are 305 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: desperate and they're trying to They know that they have 306 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 1: lost a significant portion of black voters because of what 307 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: they've done over the last year and a half. And 308 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: so where are we going to pick up that slack? Well, 309 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: if we can appeal to some moderates and others uh independence, um, 310 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: then we may be able uh to to save our skin. 311 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,479 Speaker 1: And so how can we do that, we're gonna be 312 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: pro police. You know, we're gonna do all kinds of 313 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: other things that to complete betrayal to the community and 314 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: the voters that put us in office, because I thought 315 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: I heard somebody say that I'm gonna have your back, 316 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: and right now it really feels like we got a 317 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,479 Speaker 1: knife in our back. Well, I I want not let me, 318 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: let me just let me start this in and and 319 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 1: and I'll come to you. But I'm also it's also 320 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 1: important to just at that we're hearing that mayors, obviously, 321 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: police chiefs and law enforcement departments are all saying crime 322 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: is up and they need more polices. So I was 323 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: told today that part of this is a response to 324 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: the mayors in our city, your mayor, my mayor, mayors 325 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: all that country what they called the wanted to ask 326 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: for more police. And so so I think part of 327 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: what our our task is, even while we're seeking a 328 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 1: hold the federal government responsible for their responses, we must 329 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: build power locally to make sure that mayors, city councils 330 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: are taking the money that is already available and infusing 331 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: these organizations these efforts with the needed resources to scale 332 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: up the interventions to the level that meets the kind 333 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: of violence and trauma and pain we're seeing our communities. 334 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 1: And so yes, we should call out the crime deal 335 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: two point old redo, but we also need to make 336 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 1: sure that we don't let mayors off the hook, city 337 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,719 Speaker 1: council members off the hook. They are the ones who 338 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 1: are also feeding into this narrative that this is the 339 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: only political solution. Thank you for having me. I only 340 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: have about maybe Tim Minison and I'm gonna hop off, 341 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: but I'm I'm gonna say this comment and this Nobody 342 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: is responsible for what I'm about to say. These are 343 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: my own independent comments and not a reflection of anybody 344 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: on this panel. But I refuse and I appreciate the 345 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: work that you're doing. Uh in Queens, New York, and 346 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: I was listening to the sister saying that this is 347 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: a business and saying, you know, we gotta get an understanding. 348 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: They gotta get an understand They already know exactly what 349 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 1: they're doing. They have the same facts that we have 350 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 1: access to. They have the same information that we have. 351 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: People in the comments, Oh maybe if they just get it, 352 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: maybe no, they get it. They get it. They made 353 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: a decision and it's time for consequence. And repercussions. It 354 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 1: is important to raise your voice tomorrow. But let me 355 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: tell you the deal is already done. And I'm not 356 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: saying that for people not to raise your voice. People 357 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: need to understand that two things can be done at 358 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 1: the same time. Raise your voice to put it on 359 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: the record. Like the body will said, once we get 360 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: a butt, once we get to to the in front 361 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: of the elders, the question is gonna be every what 362 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: did you do? So do what you're supposed to do 363 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: to protect the lease of these But at the same time, 364 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 1: where is the consequences and repercussions? So I refused being 365 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: in politics over twenty years. I refused to believe that 366 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: they don't have access to this information. I refused to 367 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: believe that the folks that call themselves the smartest in 368 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: the room, all of a sudden, we're giving them new 369 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: information tomorrow on the phone are yesterday. I refused to 370 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: believe that they don't understand that we under that they 371 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 1: know damn well that crime is not prevented through a gun. 372 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 1: I refused to sit up here and continue to play 373 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 1: the game, because then we too are enabling our abused 374 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: us to keep abusing us. It is not my fault 375 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 1: what I had on when I came home and got 376 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 1: sucked in my eye. I see when he got sucked 377 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: in my eye because I'm living with an abuser. So 378 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: time has come that it is time for consequences and repercustoms. 379 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: The Bible said that Devil told General Rupper Rocks, either 380 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,159 Speaker 1: you go forth and deliver my people through poverty, or 381 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: he will deliver it through the hands of a woman, 382 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: meaning that it is time for some soldiers to get 383 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: on the front line and say, if you do not 384 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: do this, you or else will lose your position at 385 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: the local level, at the state level, come at the 386 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 1: national level. So if you are calling Congress tomorrow, make 387 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 1: sure that instead of your singing a song and singing 388 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 1: an old Negro spiritual, make your voice heard. But before 389 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: you hang up that phone, say I want you to 390 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: know that if you don't get it, because you're gonna 391 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: have to see me. If you don't understand, you're gonna 392 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: see me at the local meeting. If you don't understand, 393 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna organized around you. If you don't understand, I'm 394 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: not gonna chase something, I'm gonna replace them. If we 395 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,479 Speaker 1: don't have that kind of tone. Then this leadership, this 396 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: youth will not follow us because there's nobody follow when 397 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: nobody weak up. No hell, young, older, in different We 398 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: are looking for soldiers, not allies, not accompasses. The compasses 399 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: allies get to change their mind too much for me. 400 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: I'm looking for some soldiers to put their fingerprints and 401 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,880 Speaker 1: put down for the crime. So alright, we're gonna do that. 402 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: Raise your voice, yes, yes, yes, raised raising. But after 403 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: you get the raising it, what's gonna come next? Um? 404 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: Just for clarity, just just for Clarity's safe. The people 405 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: who I was talking about and don't have the information 406 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: is our grandmothers and people in our community for calling 407 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: the police instead of calling up. I know that, But 408 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: if they don't, if they don't give you the resources 409 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: for people to know to call you. See, you need 410 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: your resources for grandma need to know to call you. 411 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 1: My job to be on Instagram training folks when they 412 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: got hundreds and millions of dollars to invest in you. 413 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: I'm training people on September Tess by my damn self. 414 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 1: And I'm not elective. I don't have a nonprofit. Ain't 415 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: nobody giving me on no donation? It ain't for us 416 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 1: to tell them Grillohm, y'all better call Erica. No, I'm sorry. 417 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 1: That's putting in the money to tell him to call 418 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: you that. That's not job. I just did the thing earlier. 419 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: Black votus have done more than enough. Yes, we can 420 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: do more, but we are the only race that is 421 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: we are the only race that for the vote. We're 422 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,199 Speaker 1: the only race that got one of the holes for 423 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 1: the vote. Black people have done more than enough. It's 424 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: time for you to do something. If you think we 425 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: got to educate something, you know I did when they 426 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: got millions of dollars for budget. They got the budgets 427 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: and market everything else they want. Let's start marketing and 428 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 1: crazy right, take it after you claim budget. I'm all 429 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: about education, folks. I got a mask and adult education. 430 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: I trained folks year around. But that ain't my job. 431 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: I do it because I want to do it. I 432 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 1: do it because I feel like do it. But let's 433 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 1: not get a twist. It's not my job. It's the 434 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: elected official job to send people to you, not me. 435 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: So anything I do is a favor. Let's redirected back 436 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,360 Speaker 1: to these mayors and these governors and tell them where 437 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: they should be sending their money. Where ain't not for 438 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: us to tell grandma what to do? Tell them what 439 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: to do. They told him what to do when they 440 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 1: organized to get folks to vote. They told we do 441 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: when they said we got our back. They told him 442 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,919 Speaker 1: what to do when they say you ain't black if 443 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: you don't vote for me. They told him what to 444 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: do when they organized all over this country so they 445 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: can damn well, I'm telling what to do when it's caught, 446 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 1: when it's time to call Erica, and I'm gonna be 447 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,719 Speaker 1: done and shut on up. My time is up. Let 448 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: the doors the doors of the church. No, you know 449 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: that's that's real. It's real. They this was by design. Uh, 450 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: they know exactly what they're doing. And and you know, 451 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: we we've got decisions to make as a community. We're 452 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: gonna you know, I love that analogy you use. It's 453 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: not your fault when you walk in because what you 454 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,880 Speaker 1: got on that you've got a black guy. I said 455 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: this the other day that that Black America is in 456 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: an abusive relationship with this party that we give to 457 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: of our votes too. And what happens over and over 458 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:18,959 Speaker 1: again is we're running around wearing sunglasses to hide the 459 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 1: black eye. That's right about how we broke our leg 460 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: and our arm because we're running out to defend these 461 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: folks because we're more afraid of the other folks. But 462 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: we're trying to defend the folks who continue to neglect 463 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: and abuse us and take us for granted. And and 464 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,679 Speaker 1: we can fight crime too. We got to say this 465 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: for the clowns in the communist wh're gonna say, well, 466 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 1: what about crying? Well, guess what Two things can be 467 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: done at the same time. We understand that the violence 468 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: is how we understand we're coming out of a pandemic. 469 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: We understand that folks are robbing folks, is stilling and 470 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: all of that. We get all of that. We're talking 471 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: about how to reduce it by creating the prime I 472 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: wish I had around the crime, by creating a crime 473 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: and its criminal. To lock up more black men than 474 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: those who are enslaved in eighteen fifty, that is criminal behavior. 475 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: So we can't do both. We got to decide which 476 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,239 Speaker 1: one we're gonna do. Two things can be done at 477 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: the same time. Preventing crime also is an investment in 478 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: our community, that's right. And poverty right, Poverty is if 479 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 1: you look at all of the communities where this crime 480 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: is happening, quote unquote, it's totally under resource. It's totally 481 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: like they've got us living like fucking savages. You know, 482 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: so that education and economic and yeah, but but we've 483 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: been there. We're doing plan what I need everybody to do. 484 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: I know many of y'all was involved in the Sesame Street. 485 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: I need somebody to tell me how to get the 486 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: sixteen hundred Pennsylvania. Can you tell me how to get 487 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: how to get the Pennsylvania Avenue? Where are we're gonna 488 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: call out sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue? I appreciate the what 489 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: we pushed the Sesseme Street. Shout out to my sister 490 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: in the building to meet God, see you. We need 491 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: to call that Big Bird. But who among us gonna 492 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: call that Joe Bank? We need to call out count 493 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: But who among us gonna call out Mansion? It's something 494 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: and some other folks were some costumes around this piece, 495 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: and it ain't just Rosetta. So I want to know 496 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: who's gonna line up to call out six hundred Pennsylvania 497 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: the same way we do Sesame Street and Rosetta and 498 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: Big Bird and Captain Dracula and Ernie and let's call 499 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: him all out. Anybody can get it all, y'all. Anybody 500 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: can get it so so so are are we agree 501 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: with everything you're saying. I think our task is clear. 502 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: It is indeed the case that this is a betrayal. 503 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: It is. It is certainly a reversal of everything that 504 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: we had imagined and thought um And I think it's 505 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: very important for us to be unified. I think part 506 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: of why we thought it was importantly at least come 507 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: on line to right. Number one. We don't want folks 508 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: to think that all pastors across the country are supported this, 509 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: we're not. We don't want folks to think there are 510 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: no alternatives and or solutions that we can't immediately scale up. 511 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: There are, if it, dozens of cities across the country. 512 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: We are kept into a network of folks who are 513 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: literally every day, some volunteering, some doing it part time, pay, 514 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: some doing it full time. Pay interrupted violence on the 515 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 1: streets and the schools and even in the jails. And 516 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: so we need the resources to flow to our community unabated, 517 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: the same way they are trying to put resources into 518 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: the police departments. And it's also worth saying the police 519 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: departments have vacancies right now. They can't even feel, can't 520 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: feel because people don't believe in the profession of policing 521 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: as he currently stands, for sure, and it is incumbent 522 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: upon us to not relent on this point. We are 523 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: not accepting this idea that a hundred thousand police officers 524 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: need to be in our communities. And we can't let 525 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: civil rights organizations, we can't let faith leaders, we can't 526 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: let politicians, we can't let even our owner, Frank loved Ones. 527 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: Kind of makes us think that this is a necessary 528 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: concession or step. It is not rejected. Listen what you 529 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: just said. It's critical because what's gonna happen is we're 530 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 1: gonna find out who's behind the scenes, you know, because 531 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 1: there there are there are people that we know of 532 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: that that are telling the powers that be home Pennsylvania 533 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 1: Avenue Um that that black people are for this. Don't 534 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: don't say, you know to folks like Bishop Swan and 535 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: Pastor Mike and since the Testen syster Erica, don't don't 536 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 1: listen to them. The community wants these police that there 537 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: are black people with faces that look like us that 538 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: are in their ear telling them that this kind of thing. 539 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: And we need for them to understand, uh, that they 540 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 1: can get the smoke too, because what I'm sick and 541 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 1: tired of is us selling out each other, tired of us. 542 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: Whenever we come out and advocate for our community, they 543 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: can march out in front of us. Uh, some other 544 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: black folks, we will say no masters, okay uh. And 545 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: and then they got plenty of smoke for me, They 546 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: got smoke for Tess, but they ain't got no smoke 547 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 1: for Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer or any of those other 548 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: folks because they're in their hip hope. And there was 549 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: something Malcolm said back in the day. He said, you 550 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: know when China turned around. He said, China went and 551 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: rounded up all the uppertime Chinese, and when they got 552 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: rid of all the uppertime Chinese, everybody else fell into line. 553 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: We we we got to round up some folks in 554 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: our community in order for us to call into line. 555 00:33:54,600 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 1: That's really in other words, in other words, somebody lying 556 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,919 Speaker 1: on Grandma. Everybody Grandma ain't saying that because Grandma got 557 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,959 Speaker 1: somebody that did time under this nighting for a crime, 558 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: you can better livet So we can't just buy into 559 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: the fact oh, when they say the community, who was 560 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,399 Speaker 1: the community raise their hand. That's why I was putting 561 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: give put the boat on the floor. Let's see it 562 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: for ourselves. I can't take your word for it. Let's 563 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: see it, but let's see it for ourselves. And that's 564 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: why it's important, like bishops said echoing, we have to 565 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 1: raise our voices publicly, not just on the phone. I 566 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 1: appreciate pastor and Bishop y'all coming forward because again, too 567 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 1: many of these pastors, they raised their voice when it's 568 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,400 Speaker 1: time for offering, but I don't see them offering no 569 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 1: smoke for somebody. I wish I had a witness I was. 570 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: Let me say it again, they praised the votes, when 571 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: the voice when it's time for offering, but I don't 572 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 1: see them offering no smoke. So it's important that we 573 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,840 Speaker 1: see this type of leadership as well in the church 574 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: outside of the outside of church, like senators like me, 575 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 1: because I'm a sinner, I've been called the preacher, I'm 576 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,799 Speaker 1: gonna stay the seasons side. Somebody got to organize the Heathens. 577 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 1: So we need everybody from from all corners, from the 578 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 1: Athens to the church to say that we are here 579 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: and we all want a court. And yes we are unified. 580 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,399 Speaker 1: But guess what if you ain't with us, that's all 581 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 1: right too, because I remember getting his army only needed 582 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 1: a few three hundred. We ain't got to have ten thousand, 583 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: and we just need we don't need. I can't wait 584 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: on everybody to get unified. We were moving over forward 585 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: with the three hundred. We got it. Three we love it, 586 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 1: and and and so two things we're asking me to 587 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: do tonight. There's the link that we pen. This is 588 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 1: an open letter that's going to UH the Biden administration 589 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,479 Speaker 1: and two members of the House tomorrow literally pretty much 590 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: saying everything that's just been said. We also need to 591 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 1: appreciate that come August, every elected official who votes on 592 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,879 Speaker 1: this bill will be in your district the whole month 593 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,080 Speaker 1: of August. So we need to get to send is 594 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 1: that the Saints, the hood, and the and the sanctuary, 595 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 1: We need to get the streets and and everybody else. 596 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 1: Everybody needs to come together, and we need to make 597 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 1: these individuals answer for their vote. They must answer for 598 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,240 Speaker 1: their vote face to face while they're home in district 599 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,800 Speaker 1: in August. Call them tonight, call them in the morning, 600 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,479 Speaker 1: tell them we plan to see you when you come 601 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 1: home in the August recess and you must answer for 602 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,440 Speaker 1: your vote. And then that's to your points is to teach. 603 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 1: Let those folks who are supporting more cops, let them 604 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 1: come out too. Let's let everybody come out, and let's 605 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,040 Speaker 1: see how many people really ask them for more cops, 606 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,359 Speaker 1: and how many people are saying, we want safety. That's 607 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 1: what we're asking for people, more safety. And when we 608 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 1: don't give them alternatives to police, and that's all they 609 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 1: will ask for, is pa. It's like saying, we need 610 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,359 Speaker 1: to give them some water, something that brings life to them, 611 00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,839 Speaker 1: and we need to make sure that's a public conversation. 612 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 1: And I was just saying that, you know, the police 613 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: don't provide safety. They come after a crime or situation 614 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,720 Speaker 1: is done and they arrest somebody or they beat somebody 615 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,440 Speaker 1: up who was involved. They don't provide safety, right, so 616 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 1: we need to what she said, you know, So there's 617 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 1: a question, there's a question in the chat that that 618 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,400 Speaker 1: I think it is worth responded to. What can we 619 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: do besides call your California senators, your California or representative, 620 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,600 Speaker 1: We think you should also call your mayor tomorrow. You 621 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,759 Speaker 1: should call your police chief tomorrow. You should call your 622 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 1: city council members tomorrow and weigh in with them. We 623 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,359 Speaker 1: must touch every part of this system, from the from 624 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,280 Speaker 1: the local to the federal, because they all are using 625 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,280 Speaker 1: the same argument that people are crying out for more police. 626 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:01,400 Speaker 1: There in I of the upticks at not not just 627 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,360 Speaker 1: using the same argument. Let's be clear. They all work together. 628 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,920 Speaker 1: These folks talk to each other, they work together. Everything 629 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: trickles from the bottom up. They're not just sitting back 630 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 1: just using the argument. They're using an argument because they 631 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,320 Speaker 1: work together. They're all in cahoots. Your mayor, your city 632 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 1: council is who is in charge of your police department. 633 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,120 Speaker 1: So if you don't have a relationship with them now, 634 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 1: you should all you should be having one with them 635 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 1: moving forward. Because they determine who was appointed to police chief, 636 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,440 Speaker 1: They determine who is gonna be what. So they should 637 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,800 Speaker 1: be your first point of contact on anything, period because 638 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,720 Speaker 1: they regulate that body and don't think for a second, 639 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,439 Speaker 1: just like in game banging, just like in anything else. 640 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,879 Speaker 1: These senators, US senators, US commiss people. They don't come 641 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: to cities without checking in in the hood. They call 642 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 1: it checking in. They gotta check in with their mayor. 643 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,120 Speaker 1: They gotta check in with the city council person, they 644 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 1: gotta check in with their local state rep. These people 645 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: have relationships, they know each other. Don't think for one 646 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,920 Speaker 1: second that they're not all connected. Because when that money 647 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,640 Speaker 1: is dropped, it is dropped from the bottom, all the 648 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: way down, from the top, all the way up. So 649 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,319 Speaker 1: do not make no mistake when they tell you, oh, 650 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,719 Speaker 1: that's Congress, that's on the federal level. The devil is 651 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,919 Speaker 1: a lot the same bag get spread all the way 652 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,960 Speaker 1: out from the bottom to the top, and it's our bags, 653 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 1: it's our tack. Let's not forget that part. All that 654 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,400 Speaker 1: money belongs to the people. We're not asking for our 655 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: hand that we're asking for us our money, and we 656 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,400 Speaker 1: want to investigate it the right way. Findal words. We 657 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: getting ready to wrap up because we'll be about to 658 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,040 Speaker 1: hop on an organizing call the next you minutes that 659 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 1: hopefully tomorrow. Give a big crescendo of of of pushback, 660 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,680 Speaker 1: critique and demands. Any final words of anyone wants to 661 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,759 Speaker 1: say before we uh, before we tap out, Listen, contact 662 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 1: your Congress people, lift your voice. We do not need 663 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: a hundred thousand new police officers. Hold your mayor's accountable 664 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 1: for the resources they already have. To make sure that 665 00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,880 Speaker 1: those organizations in your community are getting what they need 666 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,920 Speaker 1: to provide the services that they need to provide to 667 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:08,560 Speaker 1: our community. Stay involved and listen, listen, let's not continue 668 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:14,239 Speaker 1: this this abusive relationship. Uh listen, here's here's my thing, 669 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:20,080 Speaker 1: Pastor Mike. Black folks have been through everything, all right. 670 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,279 Speaker 1: We've been through the horrible crucible of slavery. We've been 671 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 1: through redlining, segregation, extra judicial murder, We've we've been through 672 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:34,040 Speaker 1: substandard housing, bad schools. We've been There's nothing either party 673 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,640 Speaker 1: can do to us that we have not already had 674 00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,400 Speaker 1: the resilience to go through. So we all to stop 675 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:43,719 Speaker 1: being afraid and people put fear into us about who 676 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,120 Speaker 1: to vote for, because if you don't vote for them, 677 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 1: then you're gonna get them over there. Listen. I don't 678 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:53,000 Speaker 1: care what direction white supremacy comes from, whether it has 679 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,800 Speaker 1: a D attached to their name or an our attached 680 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,600 Speaker 1: to their name, it's the same animal, it's the same monster. 681 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,359 Speaker 1: So listen, we need to vote our interests instead of 682 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:09,960 Speaker 1: being tied to a particular party. Understand, or Erican, you 683 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,920 Speaker 1: found of words? I just say, I mean what we 684 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,680 Speaker 1: do works. You know, UM, we gotta stop looking through 685 00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,400 Speaker 1: one lens. You know that's not been, never been an 686 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:26,680 Speaker 1: answer for us in our community. UM, and resources is 687 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,160 Speaker 1: an answer. So it's it's not just about stopping these 688 00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,480 Speaker 1: hundred thousand police from coming. It is about calling the 689 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,520 Speaker 1: mans and the city council. Because in the black community 690 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,560 Speaker 1: across America all looks the same. There's no resources. People 691 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,680 Speaker 1: are being oppressed and racism is a leading cause of 692 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,800 Speaker 1: gun violence, and UM, I need to violence in our community, 693 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:54,640 Speaker 1: so we need to resolve it. Wonderful wonderful movie. Well, 694 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,080 Speaker 1: when you make that call tomorrow and you make your 695 00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 1: voice heard, be crystal clear about what you want them 696 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,359 Speaker 1: to hear. Number One, if you are in Queens, New York, 697 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 1: ask them why they why I don't know about here? 698 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,680 Speaker 1: Because they know about eric So let's not get confused. 699 00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,120 Speaker 1: And I've been on the news too many times. You 700 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,880 Speaker 1: don't talk to the folks too many times. They know 701 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,759 Speaker 1: about Erica, So ask them why I don't know more 702 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,279 Speaker 1: about Erica and other services like that. Why are you 703 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:20,439 Speaker 1: keeping that from me? Intentionally making a decision to not 704 00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,080 Speaker 1: have access to the things that I know that will 705 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,120 Speaker 1: better my community. The next thing you need to remind 706 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,919 Speaker 1: them is there's gonna be some consequences and some repercussions. 707 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,680 Speaker 1: Let me say it one more time. It's time for 708 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,120 Speaker 1: consequence and repercussions. What do you mean by that? That 709 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,319 Speaker 1: means that if you don't do right by me, right 710 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,399 Speaker 1: by my community, it's time to start replat that's right. 711 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:47,600 Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to get you with the seiling. When 712 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,720 Speaker 1: I'm met the side, No, when I met Danny Glover 713 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,640 Speaker 1: for the first time on the Brunie Savis Camp, I 714 00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,680 Speaker 1: may take that scene. Now, that's a serious thing about 715 00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,200 Speaker 1: that scene. If you don't do right by me, everything 716 00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,960 Speaker 1: you do is gonna fail. And guess what, it's already fair. 717 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,719 Speaker 1: And it's called clim to change. Until you do right 718 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,960 Speaker 1: by black people, it's called climb to change more. We 719 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,960 Speaker 1: can change to happen if we ain't waiting no glory, 720 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,359 Speaker 1: were donna get some glory right here on this land. 721 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,359 Speaker 1: We're gonna see a little bit of that preparations. We're 722 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,120 Speaker 1: gonna see a little bit of that forty acres in 723 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:16,880 Speaker 1: the meal. We're gonna see a little bit of what 724 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,040 Speaker 1: you owe us right here on this land. And literally 725 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,839 Speaker 1: said this the folks and I get on out of here. 726 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,600 Speaker 1: Two things, and y'all know this because y'all know I'm 727 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,960 Speaker 1: a bootleg pastor. And the end of it all. They 728 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,359 Speaker 1: say that they're gonna divide the goats from the sheep. 729 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,480 Speaker 1: They say the weak from the chair, but the new 730 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,000 Speaker 1: international version says the goat from the sheep. I like 731 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,080 Speaker 1: to use that because people say, oh, you the goat, 732 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,320 Speaker 1: You're the greatest all time, the greatest all time. But 733 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,319 Speaker 1: let me give you some news. The greatest all time 734 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,480 Speaker 1: don't mean nothing when we go up there, because the 735 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,000 Speaker 1: goat will be divided from the sheep, and the sheep. 736 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,880 Speaker 1: Bishop are the ones who are about the shepherd's business. 737 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,920 Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about to go along to get 738 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: along sheep. I'm talking at those who are about the 739 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,640 Speaker 1: shepherd's business. So if you don't do what you've been 740 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,759 Speaker 1: told to do tonight, do not be confused. You have 741 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,239 Speaker 1: been warned, you have been given clear instruction. If you 742 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,600 Speaker 1: don't move forward on the instruction that has been planted 743 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,440 Speaker 1: in your life right now, you will be held account. 744 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,640 Speaker 1: And what that means is somebody gonna ask the question, 745 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:11,520 Speaker 1: if you're not a believe it then don't worry about it. 746 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,640 Speaker 1: But if you are believe, the question is gonna be asked, 747 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,239 Speaker 1: what did you do for the least of these? What 748 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,400 Speaker 1: did you do for those who were imprisoned? Did you 749 00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,719 Speaker 1: come see me? And the answer ain't gonna be well, 750 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,120 Speaker 1: I've hit up Bishop in his DM he never got 751 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,520 Speaker 1: back to me. I'll pass them. Mike never got back 752 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: to all. The state didn't let me know about Erica. No, 753 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,440 Speaker 1: you're gonna be held account because if you're listening to 754 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,080 Speaker 1: this live right now, we are pouring in your life 755 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,040 Speaker 1: right now. You ain't even got to give an offering. 756 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,280 Speaker 1: The question is what will you do for the least 757 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,680 Speaker 1: of these? Time out with the excuses. I don't know 758 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,080 Speaker 1: what to do. I'm so confused. Like the kids say, 759 00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,000 Speaker 1: go outside. All you gotta do is go outside and 760 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,279 Speaker 1: look around and see what you don't like. Anything you 761 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,560 Speaker 1: don't like is regulated by the government. If you want 762 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,920 Speaker 1: a better part, go down the parking recreations. If you 763 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,320 Speaker 1: want better water, talk to the Soul and Water department. 764 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,440 Speaker 1: If you want better street light, talk to the traffic 765 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,120 Speaker 1: depart Let us not be confused. You'll find everything else 766 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,480 Speaker 1: you find. Leak photos on Twitter I've wish I had 767 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,879 Speaker 1: a week. I know I got this just but they 768 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,640 Speaker 1: find the leak photo on Twitter. They know how to 769 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,640 Speaker 1: find with Big Sean dropping on Twitter. I need somebody 770 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,920 Speaker 1: to know how to find this paperwork. Y'all know how 771 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,239 Speaker 1: to find the latest gossip. You know how to find 772 00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:15,360 Speaker 1: the V I P tickets, you know how to find 773 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,319 Speaker 1: everything else. Let us not be confused when it comes 774 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,799 Speaker 1: down to how to find things for your community. We 775 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,359 Speaker 1: ain't got to educate nobody about Erica. We don't do it. 776 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,560 Speaker 1: But let's not get con filed. Y'all find everything else. 777 00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,080 Speaker 1: Then let's start looking for these resources and let's start 778 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,399 Speaker 1: pushing the line politics until something happens. Let's do it 779 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,320 Speaker 1: all right, y'all got marching orders. We're gonna do a 780 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,239 Speaker 1: to real soon, give you an updates, but let's start 781 00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,480 Speaker 1: getting ourselves together. August is coming. Every electing fishal to 782 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 1: hit your city in August. You ought to be consequences. 783 00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:53,600 Speaker 1: Let what you did stop back on for for tuning 784 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,880 Speaker 1: in tonight. We're gonna be back in touch. Thank you godless. 785 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,280 Speaker 1: If you like what you heard on Straight Shot No Chaser, 786 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,919 Speaker 1: please subscribe and drop a five star review and tell 787 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,279 Speaker 1: a friend. Straight Shot No Chaser is a production of 788 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,880 Speaker 1: The Black Effect Podcast Network and I Heart Radio, a 789 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,279 Speaker 1: Tesla figure out, and I'd like to thank our producer 790 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:15,520 Speaker 1: editor mixer Dwayne Crawford and our executive producer Charlemagne Nagott. 791 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,440 Speaker 1: For more podcast from I Heart Radio, visit the I 792 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:22,319 Speaker 1: heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.