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Speaker 1: this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, Doctor Candice,

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Speaker 1: you know what. Everybody should know your name by now,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go ahead and say it anyway. Make

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Speaker 1: Doctor Kenneth Matthews is in the house. You know you

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Speaker 1: have been doing some phenomenal work. Phenomenal work I'm talking about,

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Speaker 1: me how to write press releases. This brother showed me

427
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: how to send out press releases. This brother showed me

428
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: how to play the media on certain instances, as far

429
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: as like, you don't want to make yourself too common,

430
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,360
Speaker 1: because then if you turn around and do so many

431
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: press conferences, they're not gonna come out. So he showed

432
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 1: me the game on how to deal with certain media

433
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: outlets to give them the exclusive and then make them

434
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: fight for the next exclusive and things like So he

435
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 1: just taught me the whole entire game on how to

436
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: do it, and also even how to conduct an actual

437
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: press conference and how to navigate through a press conference

438
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: to the fact where you don't be liable, you know.

439
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 1: And me and him worked on several several cases together,

440
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: and some of the stuff what I found interest in.

441
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: He'll turn around and I'm like, brother Cornell, you're on

442
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 1: your way and he'll be like, now you got it,

443
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: and I'm like, did this joke? Could just leave me

444
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 1: up here to do this? And I turned around and

445
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: rocked it. And to this day right now, I'm the

446
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 1: only person that can speak on his behalf if he's

447
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: not there, because he told me, he said, you got something,

448
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: you gotta light that's in you. You have something, and

449
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna get bigger. And he said that I'm gonna

450
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 1: perpetuate it. So at what point did he give you

451
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: that role that you have with and what exactly is

452
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: your role in the New Black Panther Nation? And you

453
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: know what, And I'm glad you asked that question because

454
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: I didn't all the way jump into the New Black

455
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: Panthers at all, because I still kept the Rainbow Push

456
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: Coalition with Revend Jesse Jackson and also the Black Caucus,

457
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: which is a text coalition of Black Democrats, and so

458
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: we would do things. It'll be joint organizations that we

459
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: would do. And so I got to send you know

460
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: how they move what they do because I'm all about

461
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: black people at the end of the day, and when

462
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: I saw seeing that they actually out here doing things

463
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: for black people and about black people. I was like,

464
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 1: you know what I say, brother Cornell, I'm gonna come

465
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: on and join. I'm gonna join. And he said, well

466
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: you join. I want you to be my national Minister

467
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: of Politics because you already in the politic realm. Already

468
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: you know how to navigate through that. And sometimes he'll

469
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: call me to ask me to reach out to a

470
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: politician on certain things, or if he need to phone

471
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: number and things like that. Because I'm in that arena,

472
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: I want to pause for a moment to recognize what

473
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: Quannelle saw, what the insight that he had to to

474
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: bring you in. He saw that light in you, and

475
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: he saw that blood, that new blood that we have

476
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: to have to keep the movements going. Like this is

477
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: how they're able to throughout so many movements. You have

478
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: one person at the helm and they feel like it

479
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: when they stop that person, the movement stops. But if

480
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:21,959
Speaker 1: you have a quantels and a doctor Kennis Matthews teaming up,

481
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 1: which nobody saw coming. I didn't see it coming and

482
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm on the streets. You know what I'm saying. I

483
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: got my pulse on the community. I see what's happening,

484
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: and I didn't see that when coming when I was like, oh,

485
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: I know this is going down. I'm like, it's gonna

486
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: go down. And I'm talking about here, I'm talking about Bama,

487
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: like you go to Bam Bam. You know the funny part,

488
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: this is what he told me to he said. He said,

489
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you the female meeting, because no nation

490
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: is stronger than it's black woman. And what I like

491
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: about him is that he's not a male chauvinistic type guy.

492
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: You know, he's not misogynistic at all. He believed in

493
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: a woman having a voice. You have a lot of

494
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: these jack legs suckers around here that don't believe in

495
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: women having a voice at all. They want to try

496
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: to solid you, you know. And I actually had that

497
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: happen to me, you know, before I joined the nation.

498
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: I had that happened to me when I was at

499
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: the Capitol doing a legislative session, right And I ain't

500
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: gonna say the politician name, but that joke will know

501
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: who he is if you're watching, you know what it is, sucker.

502
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: So what happened. We were man, say that chump name.

503
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's his name. Let me get

504
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: the scenario. So he turned around and um, we were

505
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: doing a press conference with you know, all the passes

506
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: and things like that. And so by me being the

507
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: accountability person and the vice chair of the entire Black

508
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: Caucus for the state, they was like doctor Matthews, make

509
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: show you know you that Rep Ron Reynolds, all the

510
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: may show. I was in the building. Even Garrett Bledsoe

511
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,479
Speaker 1: with NAACP that's over Texas. All of them made sure

512
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: I was in the build. This joker trying to cut

513
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: me bro he turned around and try to get me

514
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: cut out of the press conference. Okay, And so one

515
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: of the people that was helping organize this ran it

516
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: by me and told me to play on what was

517
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: going on, right, say, I'm the wrong person to tell

518
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: me that some snake stuff going on, because I'm the

519
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: kind of person I'm gonna go straight to the snake

520
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: who did it right, And they didn't think that's what

521
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: I was going to do. And I did. And I

522
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: told Garret Blesso, I say, you might want to turn

523
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: your head because this ain't gonna have nothing to do

524
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: with you, all right. So I went over there, I say, say,

525
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: it was brought to my attention you went over here

526
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: doing some snake shit. Bro. He told me, Well, I say, man,

527
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: don't play the fake stuff for me. Doc, I say,

528
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. I have full niggas from

529
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: homestead up here in two hours. So I'm gonna tell

530
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: you this, and I'm gonna say this again. What you're

531
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: not gonna do is try to silence me. Okay, So

532
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: I say, are we clear? Because when I walk away

533
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: from here and I make a phone call, it's gonna

534
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: be a problem for you. We had the whole press conference.

535
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: So what happened since put it this way? Me and

536
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: this individual, we got into it again. And this was

537
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: with a situation I don't know, if I don't know

538
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: if you know about it that happened in Lubbock, Love

539
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: but Texas, and there was some racist stuff where they

540
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: were calling the children monkeys and yelling nigga and then

541
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: one of the young ladies tried to kill herself in

542
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: that process. And so when Reverend Jesse Jackson daughter called me, yes,

543
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: and so we didn't we in Texas, we didn't even

544
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: knew about the story. But Reverend Jesse Jackson daughter saw

545
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: the story in Chicago, and so she reached out to me,

546
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: and she reached out to another politician you know that

547
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: was here, and so then that's where the alliance had

548
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: came in. And so me and this person was an

549
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: alliance together. And so I'm the kind of person I

550
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: don't do well with people who try to run the show,

551
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: don't I don't do well with that, right, And so

552
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: when this person tried to run the show, it made

553
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: it very uncomfortable for some of those families that were

554
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,719
Speaker 1: there because they shared the concern like, well, how are

555
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: you gonna set up what we're gonna do this press conference?

556
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: And you didn't even ask us, you know what our

557
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: religious preference is, you know how we feel about it,

558
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: and then you're doing zoom calls and you're not even

559
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: involving us, you know, in it, right. And so when

560
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: that happened, we all in the group text together. I

561
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: turn around and I put it in that group text,

562
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: say why did you not invite us and the families

563
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: to this zoom call? I got a problem with you,

564
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: and that all of us was at that test. Because

565
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: I'm kind of person I'm gonna hit you right there.

566
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: And then I turn around and son a personal text

567
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, you need to call me because

568
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: we got something to discuss right, Okay, I'm at the

569
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: beauty shop get my hat done, you know, and I

570
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: get a call. Hey, cannis, um, all right, what problem

571
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: you have? I say, Okay, so the problem that I

572
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: have is this one. You did not invite us on

573
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: this zoom call, you know what I mean, Me, the families,

574
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: none of us, So we really don't know what you passed.

575
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: This got going on, you know what I mean. If

576
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: we're all supposed to be in a joint effort, then

577
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: it goes from we're trying to get our flights, we're

578
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: trying to get everything together so we can plan appropriately,

579
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: but you're not answering your phone right then, I said,

580
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: Then one of the other elected officials was trying to

581
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: call you and you didn't even answer his phone either.

582
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. That's a lie. That's a lie.

583
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: I say, Look, nigga, who are you talking to? Who

584
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: are you talking to? Chump? You know what I'm saying,

585
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: Because I don't like that snake shit that you did.

586
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: And I said, and first of all, you're not gonna

587
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: be talking to me like that, like one like I'm

588
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: your wife, or if I'm like one of your kids

589
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: or one of the members that you're jack led Church

590
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: South like, to me, all of them got it bad

591
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: if he talks to them like that, That's what I'm saying.

592
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: And so that male toxic molest toxic um misogynistic behavior

593
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: was a problem, you know what I mean. And so

594
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: then I got the other elected officials because they heard

595
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: about it. There's like, now, look, y'all need to just

596
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: squash that. You know what I'm saying, y'all need to

597
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,439
Speaker 1: just go and y'all just go and help the people

598
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Y'all just keep y'all beef aside.

599
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: I say, see death right, there is one thing that

600
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: I can't rock with in politics because if I know

601
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: you're a snake and I know you do snake stuff,

602
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you out. And then once I call

603
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: you out, I'm not gonna fool with you, you know

604
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like, I'm not gonna sit up here

605
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: and laugh in your face like we're cool and we

606
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: really not, you know what I mean, Because I know

607
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: what type of snake you are. No, I want you

608
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: to know. I know what kind of snake you are,

609
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: and you better stay up out of my lane because

610
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: you keep playing with me. I'm gonna blast your ass.

611
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: And that was kind of how I went from Now,

612
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: I mean blast you means that highly criticize and hold

613
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: you accountable. Okay. So that's the that's the the university,

614
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: that's the university definition. I'm giving the straight I'm giving

615
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: the street definition. I'm fire up. Okay. So Candice. Uh,

616
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: often times these problems that that you're you're attacking. Uh,

617
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: these when people bring you these issues, a lot of

618
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 1: these issues are systemic, absolutely, and the people who are

619
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: are often named in the you know who are who

620
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: often are the subjects of the of the of the

621
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 1: criticism of the finger point or white people. Uh. Are

622
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: there any white people that are supportive of you, who

623
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: have who have the power, and who have influence. Oh? Absolutely,

624
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: I have quite a bit of white people who are

625
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: very supportive with what I do and and you're not

626
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: what and and like I always would tell them, I said,

627
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: what you're doing is completely out of the box, and

628
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: I really appreciate what you're doing and that you're not

629
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: falling into the um How did I tell them myself?

630
00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you're not falling into the tunnel of

631
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: white supremacy because you gotta keep in mind, Like I

632
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: always explain to him, See, a lot of black people

633
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: we've been traumatized, broke, like, we've been seriously traumatized, and

634
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: we really don't trust white people, you know what I mean?

635
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: So by you being these white people that stand away

636
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: from that, that is not for the systemic racism, that's

637
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: not for the white supremacy, that's not for anything that's

638
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: you know, dealing with racism. You know, Hey, we're good,

639
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And how do you persuade

640
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: white people who see you often attacking the system that

641
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: includes white people who are running the system that you know,

642
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 1: you're not against white people, you're just against white people

643
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: who are against you. Well, this is what I tell them.

644
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm not against white people. I'm against white supremacist and

645
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: I'm also against agents of white supremacy because you also

646
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: have agents that look like us, you know, the cocon nuts.

647
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: You know Candis owns. I mean, how do you feel

648
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: about Candid's owners? I don't like her. You don't like Okay,

649
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: that's one thing, you know, Like I'm the real Candids,

650
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: that's the real kid. Yeah, I don't know who the

651
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: hell I don't know who the hell it is do

652
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: you ever hear her name and just be like, damn,

653
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: you know, I wish she didn't have my name. No

654
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: what I'd be like, you know what? She just needs

655
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: to shut the hell up, and she better not let

656
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: me see her ass because I'm a light up. I

657
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: think y'all spell your name different. Yeah, I think we do.

658
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: But it's like the stuff that she does is just like, ma'am,

659
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: shut up. I think she spells her name. I think

660
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 1: it's us with an ad, isn't it. Yeah, yeahs her

661
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: name with an ad. Yeah. I don't like them. Yeah,

662
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: I don't like them. She kind of yeah. She was

663
00:38:51,960 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: recently doing some jackabooing about, um, why does black sel lebrities.

664
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: Why don't black celebrities live in black neighborhoods? Why she

665
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: don't stay in the black neighborhood. Yeah, well we know,

666
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: you know, we know what she's about, you know, uh,

667
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: you know. But the trip part about it is the

668
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: people that hear certain things that she's saying, they go like, yeah, yeah, yeah, candids,

669
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right, you know, and people like her,

670
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: they're very good at pointing out the obvious things that

671
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: people know that you know it's true and you can

672
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: agree with. But but then they also, uh what they do,

673
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: They go top heavy. Once they get you, get your

674
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: trust on that obvious thing or whatever that they know

675
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: they can get you with, then they come back with something,

676
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: uh like something assinine, like why don't black celebrities live

677
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,919
Speaker 1: in black neighbors But first of all, that's a true

678
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: definition of a narcissist. Yeah, well it's not. It's not

679
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: even And she's a gass exactly because because she knows,

680
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: she knows that it's about classism, not racism, exactly. She

681
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 1: knows not it's not about racist, about class she knows that.

682
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: But the average person may not pick pick up on

683
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: that right because you know, you'll never hear Candide Ones

684
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: ask the question, why don't rich white people live in

685
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: poor neighborhoods? Live in poor white neighborhoods? Why don't rich

686
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: white people live in trailer parks? She'll never ask that question. Well,

687
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: because she's an agent, Well WILLI you already know what

688
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: it is she's she's actually by design to be put

689
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: on that type of platform, you know what I mean?

690
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: Because one, she's a gas lighter, and that's normally what

691
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: they do. And so they try to activate the African

692
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: Americans that are not woke, you know what I mean,

693
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: who actually cannot really see the smoke screen, cannot really

694
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: see the foolishes that she's doing, you know what I mean.

695
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: But see she gets real or real candids come through there,

696
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: She's gonna get the bears, you know what I mean,

697
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: Because you don't know if I'm gonna be on an

698
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: educational tone or if I'm being on a hood tone.

699
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: And see that's what be killing them. Because just because

700
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: I'm educated doesn't mean I have to talk like I'm

701
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: straight out of Harvard. I'm gonna talk like Candice, you

702
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because Candice is the one that

703
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: got me where I am. Not the education Candice did

704
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,240
Speaker 1: because Candids had to go in now and go get it. Okay,

705
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: great point, flip side is just because you got those

706
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: you got your fingernails all done up in all that

707
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,919
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, don't mean that you're gonna talk hood either.

708
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: So you got you can hit them from any angle.

709
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: That's got to be something that you know to have

710
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: that you know to be able to do that, like

711
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: they can't box you in, Nope, Who who is Candice?

712
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: Who is Candice Matthews, not doctor Candice Matthews. Who is

713
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: Candice when she goes home and takes off that cowgirl

714
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: had right for you. I Am just a down the

715
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: earth's sister. I like the chill. I love my family.

716
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes they get on your damn nerves. You

717
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: just be like, man, get out my damn face. Let

718
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: me risk for a little bit. And I like to

719
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: smoke my stogies. You know. I take care of my mama,

720
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: you know, take care of my sisters. You know. Then

721
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 1: I turn around and provide jobs for people besides me

722
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: at doctor Matthews. I provide opportunities for people, you know.

723
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: And I'm just I just regular sister, you know that

724
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: have respect for herself and have the utmost respectful my people.

725
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: That's it, you know, nothing more, nothing less, you know.

726
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: And I just don't like snake shit. And that's what

727
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: the doctor Matthews had on all went out it on.

728
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: You know. I'm just that person, that's it. Like, I'm

729
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 1: not that type of girl that you know when you

730
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: get with a celebrity that you get star struck. You

731
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You pull your pass up just

732
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: like me, you know what I mean. You may have

733
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 1: a little bit more influence, you know, with people because

734
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: of the work and things that you do. But that

735
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 1: don't give you a pass with me, because I'm gonna

736
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: hold you recountable regardless, you know. And and if I

737
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: say hey to you and you don't speak to me,

738
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: all right, well then you don't gotta worried about me

739
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: doing nothing else, but Y'll be jail. So I'm just saying,

740
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 1: you know, and I've been around a lot of celebrities.

741
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: I'd be around a lot of people, and I've always

742
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: had and my mom and my dad always say this,

743
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: I've always had that type of aura that draw people

744
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: to you. You know. People don't not gonna draw to

745
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 1: something that that's just okay. This is something I see

746
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: every day, you know what I mean. They want to

747
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: draw to somebody way man, now, who is that? You

748
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's like anywhere I walk in,

749
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 1: the power gonna come in the room when I walk in,

750
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: and you can be the most powerful person in now.

751
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: But my mentality is I'm the most powerful person in here.

752
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: Girdle spots reloaded podcasts will be right back after the sports.

753
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: How do you maintain your advocacy for children and do

754
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: what you do in the community at large. Right, all

755
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: of those cases that aut there with people being attacked,

756
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: you know, from all kinds of angles, you know, right, political, educational, social,

757
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: How do you do that? Well? The kid thing is

758
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: you got to have good people working for you, you

759
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And like member, I told you

760
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: the beginning, Like when I first got started, I didn't

761
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: have the right people working for me. And so the

762
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: a board of directors that I have all come from

763
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: experience part of working working at Xon, you know, work

764
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: that five Star companies, and then also that was a

765
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: college professor, you know, and we all kind of got

766
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: together and created this is how we need to do

767
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: this portion in reference to who you need to have

768
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: to come in to come work. So my dad, he's dead,

769
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: he died in twenty seventeen, but he was on my

770
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: board and my dad told me, he said, you know,

771
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: when I worked at XON, you know what Xon used

772
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,959
Speaker 1: to do. I'm like what they used to do, he said,

773
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,439
Speaker 1: because you know how you got the state always coming

774
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 1: in here, They always coming in here, and they always

775
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: ardent and everything. You need to get somebody that worked

776
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 1: for the state to come in and be your compliance person.

777
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: I say, you know, I ain't never really thought of that,

778
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: And guess what, I have that in place right now,

779
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: And any time that state come up in now, you

780
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: ain't finding new because I got the same person who

781
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: used to come in and regulate us. Right. So that's

782
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: what I mean by having the right people, the right team,

783
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: so you can make sure your business is navigated properly.

784
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: And I also have a management company that I pay

785
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: out of Austin that handle all of my back office. Now,

786
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: one of my employees can tell you that they paycheck

787
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: have been laid. Now, foster parent can tell you that

788
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: they reimbursement has been laid because I run my business

789
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: to a top tier expectation. And see, once you do that,

790
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: the stuff that I do in the community, I'm just

791
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: giving back because I'm not charging nobody to do that.

792
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: I'm giving back because God didn't bless me to where

793
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: I can provide jobs for other people to take care

794
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: of their families. So that's basically like me giving a

795
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: tide to my community by going in and fighting for

796
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: the underdog and standing in the gap for him, and

797
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: I can move the way that I moved too, because

798
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: by you not paying me, I don't have to take

799
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: it o case if I don't want it. What do

800
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: you think about those who do go into the community

801
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:24,240
Speaker 1: and fight for justice for those people who have been wronged.

802
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: Do you think that they deserve monetary compensation? Yeah, if

803
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: that's their only line of work, then absolutely, you know

804
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: what I mean. But seeing my situation, I've been blessed

805
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: because I was already established before I even got into

806
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 1: the activism peace So that's why I can move the

807
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: way that I move. But for that actual activist who

808
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: does not have that luxury, then yeah, I believe that

809
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: you should, you know, be paid because it takes a

810
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: lot of time, It takes a lot of effort, It

811
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: takes a lot of countless hours to do what you

812
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: do to make sure people are being treated fairly and

813
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 1: have a seat at the table. And that's my point

814
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: because those activists, they are the unsung heroes of society.

815
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: These guys go put the work in day, night, seven

816
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 1: days a week, three sixty five. They own the case

817
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: all the time, and sometimes we don't get that. We

818
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: only see the activists. We don't see that the activists

819
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: has a family. You don't see his wife is you

820
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: don't see her husband. You don't see their children, you

821
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: don't see the house that they have to pay the

822
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: mortgage on the cause, you don't see that they have

823
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: a life. And I'm gonna tell you something else about activism.

824
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: It is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.

825
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because you're talking about oftentimes going up against

826
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about specifically the type of social justice advocates.

827
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: You're talking about going up against the machine. You're talking

828
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: about going up against some of the most wicked individuals

829
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: known to man. And they are killers, make no mistake,

830
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: they're killers. They kill They will literally kill you. Some

831
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: of them have it in them to actually kill you.

832
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: And so people don't understand what activists have to go through.

833
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: Activists get threats all the time. They get you know,

834
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: they get stocked, They sometimes people pull up at their homes.

835
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, sometimes their kids get harassed. They go

836
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,879
Speaker 1: through a lot. So say say, this is why I'm

837
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: like this him, this is why I'm like this exactly

838
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: because let's see that thing. So let me let me

839
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: just share this with you before before I pull out.

840
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: This is one a minute, okay, So my thing is

841
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: this bro at the end of the day and trust me,

842
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: I know how to shoot that thing too. What I

843
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: know your muscle. So my thing is this is that

844
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 1: one um, you have to be protected and aware at

845
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: all times because again, just like you said, you're fighting

846
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: against a machine, and they will send people to either

847
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 1: come to disrupt your household. They're sending people to come

848
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: and try to disrupt your business. They're sending people to

849
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: try to come and rattle and shake you up, you

850
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But say you don't have a

851
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: rude awaken them when you come over here, right, what

852
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: I'm saying so, hey, just because I'm doctor Matthews, I

853
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: mean I ain't strapped because I got it on the pattern.

854
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: Say babe, look here, look here. Let me say this.

855
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: I'm Houston strong, but I'm Texas tough. Yeah, fam, you

856
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: know hey, you know what's what's the what's the what's

857
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 1: the Kyle girl had without the scrap? You know what

858
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about, like,

859
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: and that's how you should be yea. And I encouraged.

860
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 1: I encouraged that for anybody out there who are really

861
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: I encourage that for anybody to protect yourself first and foremost,

862
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,359
Speaker 1: especially a lot of the ladies that are out there,

863
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: because a lot of times people roll up on women

864
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: and thinking they're sweet, thinking they're sweet, you know, and

865
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: I kind of I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie.

866
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 1: Every time I see a dude trying to take advantage

867
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: of a woman, beating on the woman or whatever, and

868
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: she pulled that thing out and light them up. I

869
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,879
Speaker 1: kind of chuckle. I chuckle a little bit. Uh, it's

870
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,720
Speaker 1: it's it's amusing to me. I ain't gonna front because

871
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: I think people should keep that heads to themselves. Everybody leave,

872
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: keep your hands to yourself, Leave people alone, and you

873
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: won't have those problems exactly, and know when to walk away. Yeah,

874
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: and like see and and see. That's what I catch

875
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: a lot of sea. My husband, don't be worried about

876
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: me too much, because you know I can handle man.

877
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: So but the average person that don't know me, you

878
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: don't even know. I got a whole she probably got

879
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: about three of a Moment's what I'm saying. So you're

880
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: feeling froggish, I'm gonna make you jump right. I'm saying

881
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: you res the old cash. Yeah, I said, you know,

882
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: we used to say you're feeling froggy jump. Yeah, I'm

883
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:01,919
Speaker 1: gonna make you. You're gonna make you jump. I'm gonna

884
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: get you out with me shooting. So I mean and

885
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: and and at the end of the day, bro, it's like,

886
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: regardless of the fact, you have to make sure that

887
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: you are safe and what you do at all times

888
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 1: because you don't know where these ops coming from, you

889
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: know what I mean, So you have to be very

890
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: vigilant with everything that you do. And so just like

891
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: when you wrote that video with me at Houston Community College,

892
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You think I was worried

893
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: about somebody? Think you about to come run up on me? Right,

894
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: They're gonna be worried about you because I'm gonna light

895
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: your ass up because somebody puts something on your comment

896
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: one time, UM saying that protect her at all calls

897
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: uh because something It was something that was along those lines.

898
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: And I like when you said then she stay strapped.

899
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: You best believe she got out of an owner, she

900
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: got owner, and she got back and got back up.

901
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: That believe that. How do people who want to get

902
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 1: involved with your foundation, how do they get involved as

903
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,359
Speaker 1: far as they want to become parent? Can you can

904
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: you Can you volunteer? Can you volunteer without joining as

905
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: far as uh are you talking about? Because you know

906
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: I wear so many So are you talking about the

907
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: actual foster care agency? Are? Because that's that's another deal

908
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,839
Speaker 1: and we definitely need foster parents for that. So let

909
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: me let me just go this way. Okay, if you

910
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: want to join or volunteer with the Texas Coalition of

911
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: Black Democrats, you can definitely do that. You know what

912
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: I mean. I give you my my email, which is

913
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: doctor which is Dr Candice c A N D I

914
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: c E not a ce i CE Matthews with the

915
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: s then tcb D which is Texas Coalition of Black

916
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: Democrats at gmail dot com. So if you want to

917
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: get in, no, what if what if you're a Republican?

918
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: You got some relic They can't. They can't because it's

919
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 1: a democratic organization. Other than that organization, another organization got

920
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: something for the Black Republican, anything for the black Republican

921
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: when it comes dealing with a chair, because we all

922
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: kind of agree a little bit on certain instances when

923
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 1: it comes dealing with kids. So if they want to

924
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: help with foster children, my agency name is Children of

925
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: Diversity and so you can go to the website which

926
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: is www dot children, dash of dash diversity dot org.

927
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: So even if you want to become a foster parent,

928
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: or if you want to be a resting provider, or

929
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: let's say that you CPS, then play some kids in

930
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: your house, but you got to be in the Texas

931
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 1: Houston area of course. And if they place children, then

932
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: you come through us so we can license you, so

933
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,280
Speaker 1: you can receive funding to take care of your relatives

934
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: if you are a transfer family. So let's say that

935
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: you already have kids in your home, you already licensed,

936
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: but you had another agency. And if you don't like

937
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: how the agency is treating you, then come on to

938
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: the protection of the hammer. Because when the state come

939
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 1: over that missed with you, they mean they messed with me.

940
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: Come to death that's right, come on death row. But

941
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: that's that's one thing that they can actually help with

942
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: as well. So I mean, it's it's rewarding because, believe

943
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: it or not, willing I used to be a false

944
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: sparing you know, you know I knew that right, Oh

945
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: see that now he's been fosparing and I had over

946
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: thirty kids graduate under me. Wow, graduate, I had over

947
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: thirty kids graduate high school under me, and I had

948
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:41,800
Speaker 1: about maybe twelve to thirteen they graduated college under me

949
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: because CPS pays for their school for free until they

950
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: are six or five years old when they go through

951
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,760
Speaker 1: the PALS program and that shows them how to write checks,

952
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,240
Speaker 1: bank accounts, you know, things like that, and that's designed

953
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: in the CPS system. But that's part of it before

954
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 1: they can receive the benefits as far as what their

955
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: college being paid for. And they have to go to

956
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: a public university, not private. When you was a foster

957
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: paring how many kids were living under the roof at

958
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: that time? I had nine. But see now they can't

959
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: do it like that no more. You can only have

960
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 1: no more than six. And so my mom was retired

961
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: from being a registered nurse. So I called my man. Now,

962
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 1: I say, mommaa, come out, girl, I need you to

963
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 1: come and help me over here with the young uns.

964
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: And so she was like, okay, I come in help

965
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 1: And I put my MoMA on the payroll. I was

966
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: paying mama too, you know what I mean. And then

967
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:39,359
Speaker 1: I was the only young lady when I was working. Uh,

968
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 1: what was the name of that place I worked for?

969
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: It was what was the name of that place. It

970
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: was singular. It was a wireless place where you do

971
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 1: your cell phones and stuff. Was it what was T

972
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: Mobile before it was T Mobile? I forgot the name

973
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 1: of Well anyway, it used to be T Mobile. I

974
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: used to work there, and I was the only one

975
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,359
Speaker 1: at that job with a range rover, and they were

976
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: trying to figure that out. You know what I mean,

977
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:10,439
Speaker 1: because when I had like nine kids in that house,

978
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: the state pays you so many thousands of dollars per kid, right,

979
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: so even though I'm collecting my check from my job,

980
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: which I can utilize whatever that I need to utilize

981
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: it for to build me together. And then the funds

982
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: that I received from the state, I would utilize it

983
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: on the kids and also to keep a roof over

984
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: our head. And so that's when I moved into, you know,

985
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: moving on up to the east side with the wifeo

986
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: you know, living in a house bigger than them. And

987
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: they didn't understand, like what does she do? Like she

988
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 1: got all these children and they all different colors and stuff,

989
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: and every last one of them chere to cut your asside,

990
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: because they'll tell you that I've named mama, you know

991
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: what I mean? Because I and my family. We accepted

992
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: all of them kids, and we showed them love. You

993
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: know what I mean, What do you do with your

994
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: agency to avoid children being in the house with parents

995
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: who are that just for the check. So this is

996
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: how we do this first thing when they come to

997
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: actually apply to be a foster parent. If you don't

998
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: have no job, you have to have a job. You

999
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 1: don't have a job, then you can't foster with us

1000
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 1: unless it's like kinship that they didn't place you and

1001
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: these are your relatives and you're just seeking to get

1002
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: a license so you can be able to take care

1003
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: of them. That's different. But we have things in place

1004
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: for people like that because they do have people that

1005
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: are out there who are about the money. And like

1006
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: when I fostered, I worked still, and that's why I

1007
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: had my mom to come in as my RESCPIE person

1008
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: so I can work, you know what I mean, Because

1009
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I didn't feel right

1010
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: me personally. I didn't feel right because I like to

1011
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: make my own money. I felt like that money that

1012
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: I use that the state page, which is actually your reimbursement,

1013
00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: but I use it on the kids, like we'll take

1014
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: on vacations you know, we would do a lot of

1015
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: things with those children. They would not going to school

1016
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: looking halfway half dress. You didn't even know that they

1017
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: were Falster kids, you know what I mean. And then

1018
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 1: what I loved about my crew is that if I

1019
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: was to get another kid to come through there, they'll

1020
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: like that. They'll lace that new kid up, like, yo,

1021
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: we like what we say. So don't come up in

1022
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: here with they're lying, you know, because they have foster

1023
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: children that when they get upset, they allowing the Falster

1024
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: parent and then to create a whole investigation to the

1025
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: fact where they removed the kids to go through the investigation,

1026
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: and then they'll try to bring the kids back. See,

1027
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: the kids knew the system too, just like how I

1028
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:41,439
Speaker 1: knew the system. So like what I would do, It's

1029
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: like my kids. I took them to like restaurants, like

1030
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: they went to Popados. You know. They was like out

1031
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: guard and teach our fridays all that, and I would

1032
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: actually have I would always keep the receipts and I

1033
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: have everybody's signature on the back of every seat. So

1034
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: if these state people come up in here, I'm gonna

1035
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: share everything down grocery lists, everybody's signing the grocery list,

1036
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: because you can't say that you're not eating. You can't

1037
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: say that you don't have a roof overhead, you can't.

1038
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I just made it to where everything was transparent.

1039
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: So the kids they felt safe because you got you

1040
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: got a mom that who's stepping up to take kid

1041
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: of you. It's gonna make sure that nobody's gonna come

1042
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: in here and mess with you. So when a new

1043
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: kid would come then turned around, it kind of reminded me,

1044
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. It kind of reminded me of prison,

1045
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like when the dude fish

1046
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: come over the yard and you thank you for the

1047
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: coming here with that man's they gonna jam me up.

1048
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: That's how those kids were because they protected where they

1049
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: lived because that was the best how they ever lived.

1050
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 1: They never lived in a sixty five hundred square foot

1051
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: house where everybody got their own room, their own space,

1052
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: you know, their own closet, you know, and they never

1053
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: lived like that. These kids came from poverty, you know,

1054
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: and they felt like, I'm in a position now that

1055
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 1: I can make it so I'm nothing letting nobody think

1056
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna come in here, because you got a chip

1057
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: on your shoulder and try to miss up where we live.

1058
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: And that was what I really love about those kids.

1059
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Speaker 1: And you know what, to this day, any holiday or

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Speaker 1: anything that we have is full of cheering. And I

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Speaker 1: was a fosi pairer before I became a real mother.

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Speaker 1: You know that that's crazy. So when I got my

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Speaker 1: own kids, I was already season. You know, I knew

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Speaker 1: I had changed the dippers. I knew when a child

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Speaker 1: got highs. I knew when like my teenage daughter, I

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Speaker 1: know all the tricks of the trade. You know, She'll

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Speaker 1: try to do some little slick stuff and I'd be like, girl,

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Speaker 1: you already know I'm only U six, don't do that one. No,

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Speaker 1: try again, because I already had the experience, and I

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Speaker 1: had different ages of kids, you know, but the tough,

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Speaker 1: the tough group that I had was those teenagers. They

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Speaker 1: were tough. And so the foster agencies really couldn't understand

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Speaker 1: how this little old woman got control of these kids,

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Speaker 1: because these were kids that came from other placements that

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Speaker 1: disrupted those placelets. But then when they came to me,

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Speaker 1: I just kept it. I kept a stream with them,

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Speaker 1: you know, I say, look, I want to know who

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Speaker 1: you are as a person. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you make it, but I can bring

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Speaker 1: it to the water, but I can't make you drink it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: But what you're not gonna do. You're not gonna come

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Speaker 1: in my house and you're not gonna disrupt nothing because

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Speaker 1: I'm the parrot. You I'm saying, I'm the parrot, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna respect you, and you're gonna respect me. Now

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Speaker 1: you feel like you want to get a little gangster

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Speaker 1: around here, then I'm gonna have these sheriffs in here

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Speaker 1: and somebody gonna be going to the psych hospital tonight. Huh, Well,

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Speaker 1: you disrupted a whole lot of things these day. You

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Speaker 1: got these politicians around here running scared to death. The

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Speaker 1: trip part about it is that if they're doing what

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to be doing, they ain't got nothing to

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Speaker 1: worry about it nothing. I'll support you exactly, but we

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Speaker 1: support you and everything you do, and we really appreciate

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Speaker 1: all the work that you do. We appreciate the work

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Speaker 1: that the Black Path Nation is doing, the New Black

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Speaker 1: Path and Nation is doing, the Black Pathers are doing,

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Speaker 1: all of the other organizations and the activists that out there,

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Speaker 1: you guys putting in the work. Man. You know we

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Speaker 1: can't thank you enough. I want to get you on

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Speaker 1: the show again, very very soon. Love talking to you.

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Speaker 1: We got so much more to talk about, but right

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Speaker 1: now we're out of time. Ladies and gentlemen, Doctor Candice

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Speaker 1: Matthews appreciate your baby, girl, I appreciate so much. All Right, y'all,

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Speaker 1: y'all be seeing me next time. So y'all, and remember

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Speaker 1: she got that thing on show. Dude, you want to

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Speaker 1: put it out again, No more talk. This episode was

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Speaker 1: produced by a King and brought to you by the

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