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Speaker 1: your mind. Yeah, and that deep throating. This is for
Speaker 1: the streets, the real, the relroading, the distant franchise, the
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Speaker 1: the truth, so they ain't quoted because we wrote it.
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Speaker 1: for keeping your head bobbing, and it ain't no stopper
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Speaker 1: system is so corrupted they threw the rock out of
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Speaker 1: episode of information and instructions to help you navigate through
Speaker 1: this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, Doctor Candice,
Speaker 1: you know what. Everybody should know your name by now,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go ahead and say it anyway. Make
Speaker 1: sure you put some respect on it from me. Doctor Kenneth.
Speaker 1: Doctor Kenneth Matthews is in the house. You know you
Speaker 1: have been doing some phenomenal work. Phenomenal work I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: like you've been putting it on the line. You've been
Speaker 1: doing this for a long time, but more recently you've
Speaker 1: gained a lot of notoriety for holding our elected officials
Speaker 1: feet to the fire. Where'd you get your sense of community? Well,
Speaker 1: I got it directly from my parents, actually, because I
Speaker 1: grew up around politics, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: my mom and dad was cool with Mickey Leland. Mickey
Speaker 1: Leland used to come in gumbo, fried shrump and fish
Speaker 1: at our house. You sleep on the couch at our house.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like I was kind of always
Speaker 1: around it. But then I was pushed into it when
Speaker 1: I became a business owner. So I owned a foster
Speaker 1: adoption agency, and the stuff is tied in to federal
Speaker 1: legislation as well as state legislation. So when I got
Speaker 1: into a lajam when I first got started, because I
Speaker 1: had the wrong people working for me who clearly didn't
Speaker 1: have your best interests, and so I had to get
Speaker 1: a team to come in to come help me get
Speaker 1: everything in order, and so had state reps of Fronya
Speaker 1: Thompson had stepped in the gap and came in and
Speaker 1: helped me out to where we got everything on a
Speaker 1: level playing field and so then I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, this business is tied into politics because these
Speaker 1: state people go hard on your first until they realized
Speaker 1: that you connected with certain politicians. Right, So I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's something more to this. Right. So then I was
Speaker 1: invited to the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats meeting first
Speaker 1: time going never knew none of these people in my life,
Speaker 1: and so they were doing an endorsement screening at this
Speaker 1: specific time. Now I'm on the outside looking in, and
Speaker 1: I have education sense and also street sense. So I'm
Speaker 1: listening to these politicians telling everybody what they want to hear,
Speaker 1: but it's nothing in place to hold them accountable. Right,
Speaker 1: So before I became a member, I listened a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then before the meeting was over, I said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give my opinion, but I'm gonna pay my dues
Speaker 1: first before i give my opinion. And then when I
Speaker 1: turned around and I gave my opinion, I paid my
Speaker 1: dues and I said, first of all, everybody in here
Speaker 1: that's doing this endorsement shit is fake. It's fake, I said,
Speaker 1: because I come from the child welfare background, and the
Speaker 1: state comes in our office every month or sometime every
Speaker 1: other month, and we have to have records to show
Speaker 1: what is it that we're doing that we're staying on benchmark.
Speaker 1: So my question is, y'all don't have anything in place
Speaker 1: to show what is it that y'all have when they
Speaker 1: come in here to come in here in line stuff?
Speaker 1: What is it that you have to hold them accountable?
Speaker 1: So then I was presented that charge that night, why
Speaker 1: don't you create an accountability program? I say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you show you on that. The's like yeah. So I
Speaker 1: created the accountability program where it had all the evaluation
Speaker 1: tools for every level of government. Okay, then I created
Speaker 1: a spreadsheet where we can go in to see when
Speaker 1: you're dealing with your congressional or your state legislators, to
Speaker 1: see what they voted on, what they didn't vote on.
Speaker 1: Because what I noticed was that people in the community
Speaker 1: that look like us, we really didn't know who the
Speaker 1: for because the only thing that we did was just
Speaker 1: name recognition. You know what I'm saying. But now it's
Speaker 1: something in place to show if you come in here
Speaker 1: telling us one thing, but you didn't voted another way,
Speaker 1: we got records to show that if you run around
Speaker 1: here on your Texas Ethics Commission report. Receiving funds from
Speaker 1: donors who will utilize you as a puppet, We're gonna
Speaker 1: know about it. So now by me creating that program,
Speaker 1: it expanded to where they wanted me to do it
Speaker 1: for the entire state. So I did it for the
Speaker 1: entire state. So I'm all around, you know, Texas, laying
Speaker 1: a him on everybody, because one I'll go through legislative
Speaker 1: session and if I see that you're voting for something
Speaker 1: that's not in the best interest of black people, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell your hands up. And nine times out of ten,
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna bring all the media
Speaker 1: stations out there and i'm gonna light you up. Then
Speaker 1: if you're going to any community meetings and you over
Speaker 1: here line of these people, I'm gonna coming, then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna aggivate that whole meeting and I'm gonna get these
Speaker 1: people to proof on your line tail. And so that's
Speaker 1: how I just went, you know, from there, and throughout
Speaker 1: the whole process, it was like majority of my hats
Speaker 1: was men. I ain't had no women. It was all men.
Speaker 1: You know what, And it's to be honest, it's the
Speaker 1: darkness of me right now to even fathom, well, we
Speaker 1: got something in common though, because the majority of my
Speaker 1: hate is a man. Also, what's up with that? I
Speaker 1: don't know? And it's kind of like, but my thing is,
Speaker 1: I don't feel that I'm manly, but I feel no.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that hating on for a man, to hate
Speaker 1: on a woman or a man is unmanly, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, And it's like, what I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, bro, what I didn't understand.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, who are these people? Like?
Speaker 1: Who are you to say something about me? And you
Speaker 1: don't even know me? You know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: you don't know nothing about me? And you over here
Speaker 1: running your mouth and really low key while you over
Speaker 1: here running your mouth, and let me find out who
Speaker 1: you are, you donna get your ass wood. But see
Speaker 1: I had to bring that Northeast and put it in
Speaker 1: the back pocket, you know, because see it wouldn't turned
Speaker 1: to small other stuff, you know. But um, but when
Speaker 1: I got into more in the cracks and crevices and
Speaker 1: in the valleys, the highs and lows, I started to
Speaker 1: see a lot of fake stuff that was actually happening. Too,
Speaker 1: and a lot of fake stuff that the average person
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to see. I wanna be able to notice,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. That was the first time
Speaker 1: I was able to see when they put this smoke
Speaker 1: screen type theatrics out there. So now you know, damn well,
Speaker 1: you voted for this, but then you coming back to
Speaker 1: the community like you're fighting against it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So that was the purpose of having that
Speaker 1: accountability system where you hold them accountable and you hold
Speaker 1: them to Hey, this is what you said, but this
Speaker 1: is not what you're doing. And then when you bring
Speaker 1: it to the community and then the community have trust
Speaker 1: in you, then they're gonna ride with you, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And so me, I've always had a
Speaker 1: good reputation in the community because I come from a
Speaker 1: good home. Let's talk about that good home. You grew
Speaker 1: up on the northeast side of Houston. But fun would
Speaker 1: ye you know, went to C King and all that
Speaker 1: good stuff and L bcl More you know my old
Speaker 1: stomping grounds. Uh you know, I'm assuming you played at
Speaker 1: and see the gas park at some point. Who did? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So your roots on the northeast side of Houston, you
Speaker 1: grew up in the household with who, with my mom
Speaker 1: and my dad. And that was interesting enough because I've
Speaker 1: always grew up around my aunts, uncles. They're married, they
Speaker 1: have their children, you know, my grandpa, grandma, they married.
Speaker 1: Then you have your other grandparents and your other aunts
Speaker 1: and uncles, so you never really seen a single parent.
Speaker 1: I never seen that, and so you know how I
Speaker 1: was introduced to that when I entered school, because my
Speaker 1: whole complete lifestyle was for me to see the mama,
Speaker 1: the daddy and the kids. You go on to church,
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't go to church, family reunions, graduations, parties.
Speaker 1: I mean, stuff that was normal. It's like normalized stuff
Speaker 1: in your traditional black families. That's what I grew up with.
Speaker 1: But then when I came into meeting other people from school,
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about foster kill. I didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about kids being adopted, you know, I didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about Oh, yeah that's my mama boy friend, but
Speaker 1: my daddy live over here. You know. Oh that's my
Speaker 1: daddy girlfriend and I don't like her, but my mama,
Speaker 1: you know, she over here. And then for me to
Speaker 1: be that friend that your friend had come to you
Speaker 1: and tell you that I don't like my daddy, but
Speaker 1: I want to stay with him. But then I got
Speaker 1: to stay over here with my mama because she got
Speaker 1: to get the child spool for my daddy. I've never
Speaker 1: knew anything of that caliber until I started going to
Speaker 1: school with kids who experienced that. And so our house
Speaker 1: stayed full of kids, Like my mama had everybody over that.
Speaker 1: We had everybody kids was over there. My mom took
Speaker 1: care everybody kids. That's why everybody loved to today right now.
Speaker 1: And so they were come to the house and they
Speaker 1: would share their stories and everything at the house, and
Speaker 1: then they were always would tell me it was like, Kennis,
Speaker 1: you lucky, like you got both of your parents, like
Speaker 1: you got your mom or you got your daddy. And
Speaker 1: then on top of that, like you become the school
Speaker 1: fresh you know what I'm saying, Like you be up
Speaker 1: on the latest stuff and everything. And I was like,
Speaker 1: but that's what your parents supposed to do, though, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And it was just a different
Speaker 1: ball game, Like I never dealt with having a sister,
Speaker 1: and we didn't have the same mom and daddy, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It was just interesting, Like I
Speaker 1: just wasn't used to it, you know, right, And I
Speaker 1: guess that's why you have the family dynamic that you
Speaker 1: have to day. You're a married woman. How many kids? Yet?
Speaker 1: For kids? Now? How is it that you were able
Speaker 1: to this is tricky, y'all get ready for this. How
Speaker 1: is it that you're able to be this opinionated woman
Speaker 1: who is not docile, firm, fair, loving, generous, but also
Speaker 1: a woman who can be aggressive when need be. How
Speaker 1: is it that you can be that and still be
Speaker 1: all the things you need to be to your man,
Speaker 1: It's all about balance because first of all, you can't
Speaker 1: be married with or any kind of man. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: you saw that also you saw some examples in that
Speaker 1: with your mother, Yeah, because it's kind of pigy on
Speaker 1: that my mom and dad's relationships here. My dad was
Speaker 1: always the man of the house, right. My mom made
Speaker 1: sure that he was the man of the house. But
Speaker 1: my dad was not that type of man to put
Speaker 1: down his wife. I think he made sure that he
Speaker 1: was the man of house and your mom accepted it. Nah.
Speaker 1: I think it was kind of mutual type thing. Because
Speaker 1: you gotta keep mind they both come from a background
Speaker 1: with a hand Both of their pas Why I say
Speaker 1: it up, Here's why I say that. Because here's why
Speaker 1: I say that, because I don't care who a woman is.
Speaker 1: No woman made a woman can make me assume my
Speaker 1: role as a man, like no woman gives me a
Speaker 1: permission to be a man. I'm a man by essence,
Speaker 1: just like somebody was saying, what he allowed her to
Speaker 1: be the woman? No, she is the woman, you know, No,
Speaker 1: he is the man. But I think they kind of
Speaker 1: jailed because you gotta keep mind they both came from
Speaker 1: a family structure that was there, that was already in
Speaker 1: place like that, you know what I mean. And so
Speaker 1: and what I've noticed also is that the reason why
Speaker 1: we have a lot of families that are broken up
Speaker 1: like that, because a lot of them do not come
Speaker 1: from that find that that that that foundation family structure,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Because in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but this is my take, you
Speaker 1: have some females that out here that I don't need
Speaker 1: a man. You know, I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do it how I do it. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? That you have men out here? Well, look,
Speaker 1: I ain't a female gonna do what I say and
Speaker 1: gonna do it how I do it, or if not this,
Speaker 1: she can roll you know what I mean. And those
Speaker 1: are two toxic type ideologists, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And so like in my household, because I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: transparent in my household. See, I'm married to a real man.
Speaker 1: See my husband used to be a street nigga back
Speaker 1: in the day with much respect still in the streets.
Speaker 1: But we have a relationship where we respect each other. Right,
Speaker 1: Nah do I sometimes go off phone that joker. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I go off phone him if it's something that I
Speaker 1: don't like, right, But what I noticed about him, he
Speaker 1: don't ague with me. You know that, he don't ague
Speaker 1: with me at all. He'll turn around me like you're right,
Speaker 1: you're right, And that makes me even more matter, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You know why he know why
Speaker 1: he does that because he understands that women oftentimes do
Speaker 1: not care about being right. They just want you to
Speaker 1: agree with them. You just say, you know what, you're right,
Speaker 1: You got, That's how it is. But you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like and so like with me. You know,
Speaker 1: I can be like if I feel disrespected or if
Speaker 1: I feel and it's not even as him being disrespectful.
Speaker 1: It could be people that's around him that could be
Speaker 1: possibly disrespectful. Then I turn around and check this shit,
Speaker 1: you know, I check it, and then I'm gonna turn
Speaker 1: around and I check him too, you know, and then
Speaker 1: he'll turn out be like wait, man, hold up, hold
Speaker 1: up now, wait wait wait, let's talk about this. Or
Speaker 1: if he's not, let's talk about it. Then he'll be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, you're right, we're moving on because seeing
Speaker 1: you're going to Pettyville, and see I'm about to deal
Speaker 1: with you when you're in Pettyville. Now when you're talking
Speaker 1: about this checking, I'm assuming this is a private conversation.
Speaker 1: This checking is not public. No, I wouldn't say that
Speaker 1: it's public, and I really, to be honest, let me
Speaker 1: rephrase that. I wouldn't necessarily say checking towards my man.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna check those outside influences. If I feel
Speaker 1: that it's something that's that comes from an outside influence,
Speaker 1: then yeah, I'm going all the way ten thousand on you.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I'm gonna turn from Candice
Speaker 1: until a whole King Cobra, because you know, King Cobra's
Speaker 1: eat snakes okay, and if you're doing some snake shit,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come after you, huh. Which brings me to
Speaker 1: Austin County. Oh, Lloyd, same man. The folks in Austin
Speaker 1: County is living in a bubble. Give us an update
Speaker 1: on miss Betty Smith's case. Well, right now, this is
Speaker 1: the black woman. For those who don't know, this is
Speaker 1: sixty five year old grandmother who was beaten by three
Speaker 1: white employees at a store after she found a fifty
Speaker 1: dollars bill on the floor. They felt like she didn't
Speaker 1: deserve that fifty dollars bill, so they wanted to take
Speaker 1: it back from her, and she was literally fighting for
Speaker 1: her life. They actually kidnapped Hilda against the wheel inside
Speaker 1: of the store. They locked the doors on it, and
Speaker 1: the police and ended up sending her to jail, right
Speaker 1: and her daughter and her granddaughter and the daughter. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Austin County. Y'all are you y'all deplorable? Man? Y'all your
Speaker 1: mama should be embarrassed in your dad and should have
Speaker 1: pulled that Go ahead, Kenna, Well, what's going on right
Speaker 1: now is that they have legal representation and so that
Speaker 1: process is going on right now. As far as dealing
Speaker 1: with her civil rights being violated, and even with her
Speaker 1: daughter as well as the granddaughter. So that's in process
Speaker 1: right now, and I can't really, you know, properly divulge
Speaker 1: a lot of it because it's in process. But what
Speaker 1: was interesting to me when we end up dealing with
Speaker 1: this case, the granddaughter sent me the video to my
Speaker 1: inbox on Facebook, you know, and sometimes I really don't
Speaker 1: take you know, people inboxes if I don't know you,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so I just so
Speaker 1: happened to take a look at it. And then I
Speaker 1: didn't even know brother Cornell looked at it. So being here,
Speaker 1: I'm calling each other about this situation. So we was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to move on this because that's that's just
Speaker 1: not right. Like we looked at the video, We looked
Speaker 1: at what happened, how it happened, and those people had
Speaker 1: their audacity, nobody at the temerity to say we was
Speaker 1: restraining her baby. I am trained to teach restraints. That
Speaker 1: wasn't a restraint, that was an assault, you know. And
Speaker 1: you locked this lady in that store, violating her civil rights.
Speaker 1: And then the fifty dollars did even below need one
Speaker 1: of you jokers, you don't need the fifty dollars actually
Speaker 1: belonged to a customer who was their prior, and they
Speaker 1: didn't even know it. They didn't find out who that
Speaker 1: customer was. Well, yes they did, because when they went
Speaker 1: back and looked at the actual video, the video showed
Speaker 1: that it fell out of his pocket. Okay, but the
Speaker 1: fifty dollars was not in the cash register. The fifty
Speaker 1: dollars was not on the floor behind the cash register.
Speaker 1: The fifty dollars was on the floor in front way
Speaker 1: to the other side of the cash register. So in
Speaker 1: the state of Texas, if you find something that no
Speaker 1: one has claimed as yours, right, So what happened to
Speaker 1: the fifty dollars? Did the guy ever get the fifty dollars?
Speaker 1: You know what, I really don't know if the guy
Speaker 1: got the fifty dollars or not, because no, because what
Speaker 1: they tried to do. The owner of the store, because
Speaker 1: he was so just just upset about what actually happened,
Speaker 1: and he fired those employees. He offered to give the
Speaker 1: grandmother fifty dollars back, and the grandma was like, nah,
Speaker 1: I don't want the fifty dollars. And then the cold
Speaker 1: think about that situation was that all she was doing
Speaker 1: was going into the store to get her special needs
Speaker 1: son to ice cream. The special needs son was in
Speaker 1: the car, you know what I mean. And so this
Speaker 1: fifty dollars in below, and neither one of y'all that
Speaker 1: was in that store. The grandmother even said, well, look
Speaker 1: called the owner. I'll give the fifty dollars to the
Speaker 1: owner if you know, if need be, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So she wasn't really just like tripping. She
Speaker 1: was more and less like, hey, this is my lucky
Speaker 1: day out of five fifty dollars. And then y'all go over.
Speaker 1: He ain't just go straight gorilla on this grandma, and
Speaker 1: don't thank You're not going to get some consequences behind it.
Speaker 1: So what ended up happening. We end up going to
Speaker 1: Austin out of Belleville, me, Brother Quarnell, some of the
Speaker 1: Black Panthers, some of the pastors, community members, families, all
Speaker 1: of us was there the first time, and we made
Speaker 1: a demand that that DA in Austin Countar you need
Speaker 1: to make sure you look at this video correctly, and
Speaker 1: you need to make sure that charges need to be
Speaker 1: made on all three of them. And then brother Quannell
Speaker 1: was very adamant about that man putting his hand on
Speaker 1: that grandmother because brother Quardell was like, I'm about to
Speaker 1: bring all these black panthers to this boy Highs and
Speaker 1: we're gonna get some straightening going on. Right. So without
Speaker 1: that process we heard, we hardly hear anything. Then probably
Speaker 1: about a month later, no charges. So and who determined this,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming the clan jury, yeah, the supposed Yeah, the
Speaker 1: clan jury, like you said, the jury, yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: the clan clan Because by the way, for everybody out there, Uh,
Speaker 1: that was a phrase that I coined. So when y'all
Speaker 1: start hearing it everywhere else, like all the other stuff
Speaker 1: that I'd be saying, people be picking up and not
Speaker 1: be giving me my credit for, you know, so you
Speaker 1: know I would use that one. So, um, it was
Speaker 1: interesting because we did bring up about the the ethnic
Speaker 1: the the ethnic makeup of that specific jury because so
Speaker 1: y'all telling us and some of these people have prior histories,
Speaker 1: you know, prior criminal histories and things like that, and
Speaker 1: so you're telling us that this video we've seen the
Speaker 1: same video that you looked at. So you tell telling
Speaker 1: me that you didn't see no charges whatsoever. And we've
Speaker 1: seen the same damn video, right, So that's when we
Speaker 1: surrounded that uh DA's office and it went viral, of course,
Speaker 1: and we sent a message. And what I like with
Speaker 1: Brother Cornell did. He said, and I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: something better. We're gonna start a New Black Panther Nation
Speaker 1: chapter right here. I'm gonna give you something that you need,
Speaker 1: something that you don't want, but I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: what you need. And so that's how we end up
Speaker 1: establishing another chapter in Belleville. Now, when did y'all do that?
Speaker 1: Uh that actually happened that day? So and who is
Speaker 1: the leader of that chapter? I think it's that pastor
Speaker 1: I forgot his actual name right off, but um, but
Speaker 1: it is a chapter theretos Loaded podcast, we'll keep right
Speaker 1: back after the spot. Let's get into the New Black
Speaker 1: Panther Party and how you mean the nation, because it's two.
Speaker 1: You got the New Black Panther Party that's not us,
Speaker 1: and then you got the New Black Panther Nation, which
Speaker 1: is us. Okay, I'm glad you clarified that the New
Speaker 1: Black Panther Nation correct led by Brother Cornel X. Correct,
Speaker 1: Good Brother Cornel X. How did you in Coinnell and
Speaker 1: meet in the first place? And what brought about this? Uh,
Speaker 1: this relationship? Did you guys have, um, you know with
Speaker 1: working together to better society? You know what? Me and him, Uh,
Speaker 1: we linked up on one case and this was a
Speaker 1: case I think that we all was kind of had
Speaker 1: some interest with. I can't remember exactly which case was
Speaker 1: because we worked on so many and me and him
Speaker 1: hit it off, you know from there. And I'm the
Speaker 1: type of person. I'm a straight up person, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I like to judge people for myself
Speaker 1: and who you are and for me to know if
Speaker 1: you're a snake or not. Right, Because I had so
Speaker 1: many people saying bad stuff about this brother, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, saying stuff like he takes people money
Speaker 1: and he'd do all this and he do all that right.
Speaker 1: And this brother was very transparent with me. This brother
Speaker 1: showed me straight lawsuits that he won on these people
Speaker 1: who saying this stuff about him, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Then on top of that, when me and him work together,
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I need you to teach
Speaker 1: me the game on how to deal with the media,
Speaker 1: because you gotta keep him out. I already had a
Speaker 1: platform too before me and him linked up, and my
Speaker 1: platform was with the Democratic Party for the Black Caucus.
Speaker 1: And so when me and him linked up and I
Speaker 1: told him, I said, I'm gonna be a student, and
Speaker 1: I want you to be the teacher to show me
Speaker 1: how to navigate with this media part. This brother showed
Speaker 1: me how to write press releases. This brother showed me
Speaker 1: how to send out press releases. This brother showed me
Speaker 1: how to play the media on certain instances, as far
Speaker 1: as like, you don't want to make yourself too common,
Speaker 1: because then if you turn around and do so many
Speaker 1: press conferences, they're not gonna come out. So he showed
Speaker 1: me the game on how to deal with certain media
Speaker 1: outlets to give them the exclusive and then make them
Speaker 1: fight for the next exclusive and things like So he
Speaker 1: just taught me the whole entire game on how to
Speaker 1: do it, and also even how to conduct an actual
Speaker 1: press conference and how to navigate through a press conference
Speaker 1: to the fact where you don't be liable, you know.
Speaker 1: And me and him worked on several several cases together,
Speaker 1: and some of the stuff what I found interest in.
Speaker 1: He'll turn around and I'm like, brother Cornell, you're on
Speaker 1: your way and he'll be like, now you got it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, did this joke? Could just leave me
Speaker 1: up here to do this? And I turned around and
Speaker 1: rocked it. And to this day right now, I'm the
Speaker 1: only person that can speak on his behalf if he's
Speaker 1: not there, because he told me, he said, you got something,
Speaker 1: you gotta light that's in you. You have something, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna get bigger. And he said that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: perpetuate it. So at what point did he give you
Speaker 1: that role that you have with and what exactly is
Speaker 1: your role in the New Black Panther Nation? And you
Speaker 1: know what, And I'm glad you asked that question because
Speaker 1: I didn't all the way jump into the New Black
Speaker 1: Panthers at all, because I still kept the Rainbow Push
Speaker 1: Coalition with Revend Jesse Jackson and also the Black Caucus,
Speaker 1: which is a text coalition of Black Democrats, and so
Speaker 1: we would do things. It'll be joint organizations that we
Speaker 1: would do. And so I got to send you know
Speaker 1: how they move what they do because I'm all about
Speaker 1: black people at the end of the day, and when
Speaker 1: I saw seeing that they actually out here doing things
Speaker 1: for black people and about black people. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what I say, brother Cornell, I'm gonna come
Speaker 1: on and join. I'm gonna join. And he said, well
Speaker 1: you join. I want you to be my national Minister
Speaker 1: of Politics because you already in the politic realm. Already
Speaker 1: you know how to navigate through that. And sometimes he'll
Speaker 1: call me to ask me to reach out to a
Speaker 1: politician on certain things, or if he need to phone
Speaker 1: number and things like that. Because I'm in that arena,
Speaker 1: I want to pause for a moment to recognize what
Speaker 1: Quannelle saw, what the insight that he had to to
Speaker 1: bring you in. He saw that light in you, and
Speaker 1: he saw that blood, that new blood that we have
Speaker 1: to have to keep the movements going. Like this is
Speaker 1: how they're able to throughout so many movements. You have
Speaker 1: one person at the helm and they feel like it
Speaker 1: when they stop that person, the movement stops. But if
Speaker 1: you have a quantels and a doctor Kennis Matthews teaming up,
Speaker 1: which nobody saw coming. I didn't see it coming and
Speaker 1: I'm on the streets. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: got my pulse on the community. I see what's happening,
Speaker 1: and I didn't see that when coming when I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I know this is going down. I'm like, it's gonna
Speaker 1: go down. And I'm talking about here, I'm talking about Bama,
Speaker 1: like you go to Bam Bam. You know the funny part,
Speaker 1: this is what he told me to he said. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you the female meeting, because no nation
Speaker 1: is stronger than it's black woman. And what I like
Speaker 1: about him is that he's not a male chauvinistic type guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not misogynistic at all. He believed in
Speaker 1: a woman having a voice. You have a lot of
Speaker 1: these jack legs suckers around here that don't believe in
Speaker 1: women having a voice at all. They want to try
Speaker 1: to solid you, you know. And I actually had that
Speaker 1: happen to me, you know, before I joined the nation.
Speaker 1: I had that happened to me when I was at
Speaker 1: the Capitol doing a legislative session, right And I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna say the politician name, but that joke will know
Speaker 1: who he is if you're watching, you know what it is, sucker.
Speaker 1: So what happened. We were man, say that chump name.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's his name. Let me get
Speaker 1: the scenario. So he turned around and um, we were
Speaker 1: doing a press conference with you know, all the passes
Speaker 1: and things like that. And so by me being the
Speaker 1: accountability person and the vice chair of the entire Black
Speaker 1: Caucus for the state, they was like doctor Matthews, make
Speaker 1: show you know you that Rep Ron Reynolds, all the
Speaker 1: may show. I was in the building. Even Garrett Bledsoe
Speaker 1: with NAACP that's over Texas. All of them made sure
Speaker 1: I was in the build. This joker trying to cut
Speaker 1: me bro he turned around and try to get me
Speaker 1: cut out of the press conference. Okay, And so one
Speaker 1: of the people that was helping organize this ran it
Speaker 1: by me and told me to play on what was
Speaker 1: going on, right, say, I'm the wrong person to tell
Speaker 1: me that some snake stuff going on, because I'm the
Speaker 1: kind of person I'm gonna go straight to the snake
Speaker 1: who did it right, And they didn't think that's what
Speaker 1: I was going to do. And I did. And I
Speaker 1: told Garret Blesso, I say, you might want to turn
Speaker 1: your head because this ain't gonna have nothing to do
Speaker 1: with you, all right. So I went over there, I say, say,
Speaker 1: it was brought to my attention you went over here
Speaker 1: doing some snake shit. Bro. He told me, Well, I say, man,
Speaker 1: don't play the fake stuff for me. Doc, I say,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. I have full niggas from
Speaker 1: homestead up here in two hours. So I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you this, and I'm gonna say this again. What you're
Speaker 1: not gonna do is try to silence me. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I say, are we clear? Because when I walk away
Speaker 1: from here and I make a phone call, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a problem for you. We had the whole press conference.
Speaker 1: So what happened since put it this way? Me and
Speaker 1: this individual, we got into it again. And this was
Speaker 1: with a situation I don't know, if I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know about it that happened in Lubbock, Love
Speaker 1: but Texas, and there was some racist stuff where they
Speaker 1: were calling the children monkeys and yelling nigga and then
Speaker 1: one of the young ladies tried to kill herself in
Speaker 1: that process. And so when Reverend Jesse Jackson daughter called me, yes,
Speaker 1: and so we didn't we in Texas, we didn't even
Speaker 1: knew about the story. But Reverend Jesse Jackson daughter saw
Speaker 1: the story in Chicago, and so she reached out to me,
Speaker 1: and she reached out to another politician you know that
Speaker 1: was here, and so then that's where the alliance had
Speaker 1: came in. And so me and this person was an
Speaker 1: alliance together. And so I'm the kind of person I
Speaker 1: don't do well with people who try to run the show,
Speaker 1: don't I don't do well with that, right, And so
Speaker 1: when this person tried to run the show, it made
Speaker 1: it very uncomfortable for some of those families that were
Speaker 1: there because they shared the concern like, well, how are
Speaker 1: you gonna set up what we're gonna do this press conference?
Speaker 1: And you didn't even ask us, you know what our
Speaker 1: religious preference is, you know how we feel about it,
Speaker 1: and then you're doing zoom calls and you're not even
Speaker 1: involving us, you know, in it, right. And so when
Speaker 1: that happened, we all in the group text together. I
Speaker 1: turn around and I put it in that group text,
Speaker 1: say why did you not invite us and the families
Speaker 1: to this zoom call? I got a problem with you,
Speaker 1: and that all of us was at that test. Because
Speaker 1: I'm kind of person I'm gonna hit you right there.
Speaker 1: And then I turn around and son a personal text
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, you need to call me because
Speaker 1: we got something to discuss right, Okay, I'm at the
Speaker 1: beauty shop get my hat done, you know, and I
Speaker 1: get a call. Hey, cannis, um, all right, what problem
Speaker 1: you have? I say, Okay, so the problem that I
Speaker 1: have is this one. You did not invite us on
Speaker 1: this zoom call, you know what I mean, Me, the families,
Speaker 1: none of us, So we really don't know what you passed.
Speaker 1: This got going on, you know what I mean. If
Speaker 1: we're all supposed to be in a joint effort, then
Speaker 1: it goes from we're trying to get our flights, we're
Speaker 1: trying to get everything together so we can plan appropriately,
Speaker 1: but you're not answering your phone right then, I said,
Speaker 1: Then one of the other elected officials was trying to
Speaker 1: call you and you didn't even answer his phone either.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. That's a lie. That's a lie.
Speaker 1: I say, Look, nigga, who are you talking to? Who
Speaker 1: are you talking to? Chump? You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Because I don't like that snake shit that you did.
Speaker 1: And I said, and first of all, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be talking to me like that, like one like I'm
Speaker 1: your wife, or if I'm like one of your kids
Speaker 1: or one of the members that you're jack led Church
Speaker 1: South like, to me, all of them got it bad
Speaker 1: if he talks to them like that, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so that male toxic molest toxic um misogynistic behavior
Speaker 1: was a problem, you know what I mean. And so
Speaker 1: then I got the other elected officials because they heard
Speaker 1: about it. There's like, now, look, y'all need to just
Speaker 1: squash that. You know what I'm saying, y'all need to
Speaker 1: just go and y'all just go and help the people
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Y'all just keep y'all beef aside.
Speaker 1: I say, see death right, there is one thing that
Speaker 1: I can't rock with in politics because if I know
Speaker 1: you're a snake and I know you do snake stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you out. And then once I call
Speaker 1: you out, I'm not gonna fool with you, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like, I'm not gonna sit up here
Speaker 1: and laugh in your face like we're cool and we
Speaker 1: really not, you know what I mean, Because I know
Speaker 1: what type of snake you are. No, I want you
Speaker 1: to know. I know what kind of snake you are,
Speaker 1: and you better stay up out of my lane because
Speaker 1: you keep playing with me. I'm gonna blast your ass.
Speaker 1: And that was kind of how I went from Now,
Speaker 1: I mean blast you means that highly criticize and hold
Speaker 1: you accountable. Okay. So that's the that's the the university,
Speaker 1: that's the university definition. I'm giving the straight I'm giving
Speaker 1: the street definition. I'm fire up. Okay. So Candice. Uh,
Speaker 1: often times these problems that that you're you're attacking. Uh,
Speaker 1: these when people bring you these issues, a lot of
Speaker 1: these issues are systemic, absolutely, and the people who are
Speaker 1: are often named in the you know who are who
Speaker 1: often are the subjects of the of the of the
Speaker 1: criticism of the finger point or white people. Uh. Are
Speaker 1: there any white people that are supportive of you, who
Speaker 1: have who have the power, and who have influence. Oh? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I have quite a bit of white people who are
Speaker 1: very supportive with what I do and and you're not
Speaker 1: what and and like I always would tell them, I said,
Speaker 1: what you're doing is completely out of the box, and
Speaker 1: I really appreciate what you're doing and that you're not
Speaker 1: falling into the um How did I tell them myself?
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you're not falling into the tunnel of
Speaker 1: white supremacy because you gotta keep in mind, Like I
Speaker 1: always explain to him, See, a lot of black people
Speaker 1: we've been traumatized, broke, like, we've been seriously traumatized, and
Speaker 1: we really don't trust white people, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So by you being these white people that stand away
Speaker 1: from that, that is not for the systemic racism, that's
Speaker 1: not for the white supremacy, that's not for anything that's
Speaker 1: you know, dealing with racism. You know, Hey, we're good,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And how do you persuade
Speaker 1: white people who see you often attacking the system that
Speaker 1: includes white people who are running the system that you know,
Speaker 1: you're not against white people, you're just against white people
Speaker 1: who are against you. Well, this is what I tell them.
Speaker 1: I'm not against white people. I'm against white supremacist and
Speaker 1: I'm also against agents of white supremacy because you also
Speaker 1: have agents that look like us, you know, the cocon nuts.
Speaker 1: You know Candis owns. I mean, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about Candid's owners? I don't like her. You don't like Okay,
Speaker 1: that's one thing, you know, Like I'm the real Candids,
Speaker 1: that's the real kid. Yeah, I don't know who the
Speaker 1: hell I don't know who the hell it is do
Speaker 1: you ever hear her name and just be like, damn,
Speaker 1: you know, I wish she didn't have my name. No
Speaker 1: what I'd be like, you know what? She just needs
Speaker 1: to shut the hell up, and she better not let
Speaker 1: me see her ass because I'm a light up. I
Speaker 1: think y'all spell your name different. Yeah, I think we do.
Speaker 1: But it's like the stuff that she does is just like, ma'am,
Speaker 1: shut up. I think she spells her name. I think
Speaker 1: it's us with an ad, isn't it. Yeah, yeahs her
Speaker 1: name with an ad. Yeah. I don't like them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't like them. She kind of yeah. She was
Speaker 1: recently doing some jackabooing about, um, why does black sel lebrities.
Speaker 1: Why don't black celebrities live in black neighborhoods? Why she
Speaker 1: don't stay in the black neighborhood. Yeah, well we know,
Speaker 1: you know, we know what she's about, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know. But the trip part about it is the
Speaker 1: people that hear certain things that she's saying, they go like, yeah, yeah, yeah, candids,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right, you know, and people like her,
Speaker 1: they're very good at pointing out the obvious things that
Speaker 1: people know that you know it's true and you can
Speaker 1: agree with. But but then they also, uh what they do,
Speaker 1: They go top heavy. Once they get you, get your
Speaker 1: trust on that obvious thing or whatever that they know
Speaker 1: they can get you with, then they come back with something,
Speaker 1: uh like something assinine, like why don't black celebrities live
Speaker 1: in black neighbors But first of all, that's a true
Speaker 1: definition of a narcissist. Yeah, well it's not. It's not
Speaker 1: even And she's a gass exactly because because she knows,
Speaker 1: she knows that it's about classism, not racism, exactly. She
Speaker 1: knows not it's not about racist, about class she knows that.
Speaker 1: But the average person may not pick pick up on
Speaker 1: that right because you know, you'll never hear Candide Ones
Speaker 1: ask the question, why don't rich white people live in
Speaker 1: poor neighborhoods? Live in poor white neighborhoods? Why don't rich
Speaker 1: white people live in trailer parks? She'll never ask that question. Well,
Speaker 1: because she's an agent, Well WILLI you already know what
Speaker 1: it is she's she's actually by design to be put
Speaker 1: on that type of platform, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because one, she's a gas lighter, and that's normally what
Speaker 1: they do. And so they try to activate the African
Speaker 1: Americans that are not woke, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: who actually cannot really see the smoke screen, cannot really
Speaker 1: see the foolishes that she's doing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But see she gets real or real candids come through there,
Speaker 1: She's gonna get the bears, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Because you don't know if I'm gonna be on an
Speaker 1: educational tone or if I'm being on a hood tone.
Speaker 1: And see that's what be killing them. Because just because
Speaker 1: I'm educated doesn't mean I have to talk like I'm
Speaker 1: straight out of Harvard. I'm gonna talk like Candice, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because Candice is the one that
Speaker 1: got me where I am. Not the education Candice did
Speaker 1: because Candids had to go in now and go get it. Okay,
Speaker 1: great point, flip side is just because you got those
Speaker 1: you got your fingernails all done up in all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, don't mean that you're gonna talk hood either.
Speaker 1: So you got you can hit them from any angle.
Speaker 1: That's got to be something that you know to have
Speaker 1: that you know to be able to do that, like
Speaker 1: they can't box you in, Nope, Who who is Candice?
Speaker 1: Who is Candice Matthews, not doctor Candice Matthews. Who is
Speaker 1: Candice when she goes home and takes off that cowgirl
Speaker 1: had right for you. I Am just a down the
Speaker 1: earth's sister. I like the chill. I love my family.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes they get on your damn nerves. You
Speaker 1: just be like, man, get out my damn face. Let
Speaker 1: me risk for a little bit. And I like to
Speaker 1: smoke my stogies. You know. I take care of my mama,
Speaker 1: you know, take care of my sisters. You know. Then
Speaker 1: I turn around and provide jobs for people besides me
Speaker 1: at doctor Matthews. I provide opportunities for people, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm just I just regular sister, you know that
Speaker 1: have respect for herself and have the utmost respectful my people.
Speaker 1: That's it, you know, nothing more, nothing less, you know.
Speaker 1: And I just don't like snake shit. And that's what
Speaker 1: the doctor Matthews had on all went out it on.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm just that person, that's it. Like, I'm
Speaker 1: not that type of girl that you know when you
Speaker 1: get with a celebrity that you get star struck. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You pull your pass up just
Speaker 1: like me, you know what I mean. You may have
Speaker 1: a little bit more influence, you know, with people because
Speaker 1: of the work and things that you do. But that
Speaker 1: don't give you a pass with me, because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hold you recountable regardless, you know. And and if I
Speaker 1: say hey to you and you don't speak to me,
Speaker 1: all right, well then you don't gotta worried about me
Speaker 1: doing nothing else, but Y'll be jail. So I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, and I've been around a lot of celebrities.
Speaker 1: I'd be around a lot of people, and I've always
Speaker 1: had and my mom and my dad always say this,
Speaker 1: I've always had that type of aura that draw people
Speaker 1: to you. You know. People don't not gonna draw to
Speaker 1: something that that's just okay. This is something I see
Speaker 1: every day, you know what I mean. They want to
Speaker 1: draw to somebody way man, now, who is that? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's like anywhere I walk in,
Speaker 1: the power gonna come in the room when I walk in,
Speaker 1: and you can be the most powerful person in now.
Speaker 1: But my mentality is I'm the most powerful person in here.
Speaker 1: Girdle spots reloaded podcasts will be right back after the sports.
Speaker 1: How do you maintain your advocacy for children and do
Speaker 1: what you do in the community at large. Right, all
Speaker 1: of those cases that aut there with people being attacked,
Speaker 1: you know, from all kinds of angles, you know, right, political, educational, social,
Speaker 1: How do you do that? Well? The kid thing is
Speaker 1: you got to have good people working for you, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And like member, I told you
Speaker 1: the beginning, Like when I first got started, I didn't
Speaker 1: have the right people working for me. And so the
Speaker 1: a board of directors that I have all come from
Speaker 1: experience part of working working at Xon, you know, work
Speaker 1: that five Star companies, and then also that was a
Speaker 1: college professor, you know, and we all kind of got
Speaker 1: together and created this is how we need to do
Speaker 1: this portion in reference to who you need to have
Speaker 1: to come in to come work. So my dad, he's dead,
Speaker 1: he died in twenty seventeen, but he was on my
Speaker 1: board and my dad told me, he said, you know,
Speaker 1: when I worked at XON, you know what Xon used
Speaker 1: to do. I'm like what they used to do, he said,
Speaker 1: because you know how you got the state always coming
Speaker 1: in here, They always coming in here, and they always
Speaker 1: ardent and everything. You need to get somebody that worked
Speaker 1: for the state to come in and be your compliance person.
Speaker 1: I say, you know, I ain't never really thought of that,
Speaker 1: And guess what, I have that in place right now,
Speaker 1: And any time that state come up in now, you
Speaker 1: ain't finding new because I got the same person who
Speaker 1: used to come in and regulate us. Right. So that's
Speaker 1: what I mean by having the right people, the right team,
Speaker 1: so you can make sure your business is navigated properly.
Speaker 1: And I also have a management company that I pay
Speaker 1: out of Austin that handle all of my back office. Now,
Speaker 1: one of my employees can tell you that they paycheck
Speaker 1: have been laid. Now, foster parent can tell you that
Speaker 1: they reimbursement has been laid because I run my business
Speaker 1: to a top tier expectation. And see, once you do that,
Speaker 1: the stuff that I do in the community, I'm just
Speaker 1: giving back because I'm not charging nobody to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm giving back because God didn't bless me to where
Speaker 1: I can provide jobs for other people to take care
Speaker 1: of their families. So that's basically like me giving a
Speaker 1: tide to my community by going in and fighting for
Speaker 1: the underdog and standing in the gap for him, and
Speaker 1: I can move the way that I moved too, because
Speaker 1: by you not paying me, I don't have to take
Speaker 1: it o case if I don't want it. What do
Speaker 1: you think about those who do go into the community
Speaker 1: and fight for justice for those people who have been wronged.
Speaker 1: Do you think that they deserve monetary compensation? Yeah, if
Speaker 1: that's their only line of work, then absolutely, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But seeing my situation, I've been blessed
Speaker 1: because I was already established before I even got into
Speaker 1: the activism peace So that's why I can move the
Speaker 1: way that I move. But for that actual activist who
Speaker 1: does not have that luxury, then yeah, I believe that
Speaker 1: you should, you know, be paid because it takes a
Speaker 1: lot of time, It takes a lot of effort, It
Speaker 1: takes a lot of countless hours to do what you
Speaker 1: do to make sure people are being treated fairly and
Speaker 1: have a seat at the table. And that's my point
Speaker 1: because those activists, they are the unsung heroes of society.
Speaker 1: These guys go put the work in day, night, seven
Speaker 1: days a week, three sixty five. They own the case
Speaker 1: all the time, and sometimes we don't get that. We
Speaker 1: only see the activists. We don't see that the activists
Speaker 1: has a family. You don't see his wife is you
Speaker 1: don't see her husband. You don't see their children, you
Speaker 1: don't see the house that they have to pay the
Speaker 1: mortgage on the cause, you don't see that they have
Speaker 1: a life. And I'm gonna tell you something else about activism.
Speaker 1: It is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because you're talking about oftentimes going up against
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about specifically the type of social justice advocates.
Speaker 1: You're talking about going up against the machine. You're talking
Speaker 1: about going up against some of the most wicked individuals
Speaker 1: known to man. And they are killers, make no mistake,
Speaker 1: they're killers. They kill They will literally kill you. Some
Speaker 1: of them have it in them to actually kill you.
Speaker 1: And so people don't understand what activists have to go through.
Speaker 1: Activists get threats all the time. They get you know,
Speaker 1: they get stocked, They sometimes people pull up at their homes.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, sometimes their kids get harassed. They go
Speaker 1: through a lot. So say say, this is why I'm
Speaker 1: like this him, this is why I'm like this exactly
Speaker 1: because let's see that thing. So let me let me
Speaker 1: just share this with you before before I pull out.
Speaker 1: This is one a minute, okay, So my thing is
Speaker 1: this bro at the end of the day and trust me,
Speaker 1: I know how to shoot that thing too. What I
Speaker 1: know your muscle. So my thing is this is that
Speaker 1: one um, you have to be protected and aware at
Speaker 1: all times because again, just like you said, you're fighting
Speaker 1: against a machine, and they will send people to either
Speaker 1: come to disrupt your household. They're sending people to come
Speaker 1: and try to disrupt your business. They're sending people to
Speaker 1: try to come and rattle and shake you up, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But say you don't have a
Speaker 1: rude awaken them when you come over here, right, what
Speaker 1: I'm saying so, hey, just because I'm doctor Matthews, I
Speaker 1: mean I ain't strapped because I got it on the pattern.
Speaker 1: Say babe, look here, look here. Let me say this.
Speaker 1: I'm Houston strong, but I'm Texas tough. Yeah, fam, you
Speaker 1: know hey, you know what's what's the what's the what's
Speaker 1: the Kyle girl had without the scrap? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about, like,
Speaker 1: and that's how you should be yea. And I encouraged.
Speaker 1: I encouraged that for anybody out there who are really
Speaker 1: I encourage that for anybody to protect yourself first and foremost,
Speaker 1: especially a lot of the ladies that are out there,
Speaker 1: because a lot of times people roll up on women
Speaker 1: and thinking they're sweet, thinking they're sweet, you know, and
Speaker 1: I kind of I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 1: Every time I see a dude trying to take advantage
Speaker 1: of a woman, beating on the woman or whatever, and
Speaker 1: she pulled that thing out and light them up. I
Speaker 1: kind of chuckle. I chuckle a little bit. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's amusing to me. I ain't gonna front because
Speaker 1: I think people should keep that heads to themselves. Everybody leave,
Speaker 1: keep your hands to yourself, Leave people alone, and you
Speaker 1: won't have those problems exactly, and know when to walk away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like see and and see. That's what I catch
Speaker 1: a lot of sea. My husband, don't be worried about
Speaker 1: me too much, because you know I can handle man.
Speaker 1: So but the average person that don't know me, you
Speaker 1: don't even know. I got a whole she probably got
Speaker 1: about three of a Moment's what I'm saying. So you're
Speaker 1: feeling froggish, I'm gonna make you jump right. I'm saying
Speaker 1: you res the old cash. Yeah, I said, you know,
Speaker 1: we used to say you're feeling froggy jump. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make you. You're gonna make you jump. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get you out with me shooting. So I mean and
Speaker 1: and and at the end of the day, bro, it's like,
Speaker 1: regardless of the fact, you have to make sure that
Speaker 1: you are safe and what you do at all times
Speaker 1: because you don't know where these ops coming from, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, So you have to be very
Speaker 1: vigilant with everything that you do. And so just like
Speaker 1: when you wrote that video with me at Houston Community College,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You think I was worried
Speaker 1: about somebody? Think you about to come run up on me? Right,
Speaker 1: They're gonna be worried about you because I'm gonna light
Speaker 1: your ass up because somebody puts something on your comment
Speaker 1: one time, UM saying that protect her at all calls
Speaker 1: uh because something It was something that was along those lines.
Speaker 1: And I like when you said then she stay strapped.
Speaker 1: You best believe she got out of an owner, she
Speaker 1: got owner, and she got back and got back up.
Speaker 1: That believe that. How do people who want to get
Speaker 1: involved with your foundation, how do they get involved as
Speaker 1: far as they want to become parent? Can you can
Speaker 1: you Can you volunteer? Can you volunteer without joining as
Speaker 1: far as uh are you talking about? Because you know
Speaker 1: I wear so many So are you talking about the
Speaker 1: actual foster care agency? Are? Because that's that's another deal
Speaker 1: and we definitely need foster parents for that. So let
Speaker 1: me let me just go this way. Okay, if you
Speaker 1: want to join or volunteer with the Texas Coalition of
Speaker 1: Black Democrats, you can definitely do that. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I give you my my email, which is
Speaker 1: doctor which is Dr Candice c A N D I
Speaker 1: c E not a ce i CE Matthews with the
Speaker 1: s then tcb D which is Texas Coalition of Black
Speaker 1: Democrats at gmail dot com. So if you want to
Speaker 1: get in, no, what if what if you're a Republican?
Speaker 1: You got some relic They can't. They can't because it's
Speaker 1: a democratic organization. Other than that organization, another organization got
Speaker 1: something for the Black Republican, anything for the black Republican
Speaker 1: when it comes dealing with a chair, because we all
Speaker 1: kind of agree a little bit on certain instances when
Speaker 1: it comes dealing with kids. So if they want to
Speaker 1: help with foster children, my agency name is Children of
Speaker 1: Diversity and so you can go to the website which
Speaker 1: is www dot children, dash of dash diversity dot org.
Speaker 1: So even if you want to become a foster parent,
Speaker 1: or if you want to be a resting provider, or
Speaker 1: let's say that you CPS, then play some kids in
Speaker 1: your house, but you got to be in the Texas
Speaker 1: Houston area of course. And if they place children, then
Speaker 1: you come through us so we can license you, so
Speaker 1: you can receive funding to take care of your relatives
Speaker 1: if you are a transfer family. So let's say that
Speaker 1: you already have kids in your home, you already licensed,
Speaker 1: but you had another agency. And if you don't like
Speaker 1: how the agency is treating you, then come on to
Speaker 1: the protection of the hammer. Because when the state come
Speaker 1: over that missed with you, they mean they messed with me.
Speaker 1: Come to death that's right, come on death row. But
Speaker 1: that's that's one thing that they can actually help with
Speaker 1: as well. So I mean, it's it's rewarding because, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, willing I used to be a false
Speaker 1: sparing you know, you know I knew that right, Oh
Speaker 1: see that now he's been fosparing and I had over
Speaker 1: thirty kids graduate under me. Wow, graduate, I had over
Speaker 1: thirty kids graduate high school under me, and I had
Speaker 1: about maybe twelve to thirteen they graduated college under me
Speaker 1: because CPS pays for their school for free until they
Speaker 1: are six or five years old when they go through
Speaker 1: the PALS program and that shows them how to write checks,
Speaker 1: bank accounts, you know, things like that, and that's designed
Speaker 1: in the CPS system. But that's part of it before
Speaker 1: they can receive the benefits as far as what their
Speaker 1: college being paid for. And they have to go to
Speaker 1: a public university, not private. When you was a foster
Speaker 1: paring how many kids were living under the roof at
Speaker 1: that time? I had nine. But see now they can't
Speaker 1: do it like that no more. You can only have
Speaker 1: no more than six. And so my mom was retired
Speaker 1: from being a registered nurse. So I called my man. Now,
Speaker 1: I say, mommaa, come out, girl, I need you to
Speaker 1: come and help me over here with the young uns.
Speaker 1: And so she was like, okay, I come in help
Speaker 1: And I put my MoMA on the payroll. I was
Speaker 1: paying mama too, you know what I mean. And then
Speaker 1: I was the only young lady when I was working. Uh,
Speaker 1: what was the name of that place I worked for?
Speaker 1: It was what was the name of that place. It
Speaker 1: was singular. It was a wireless place where you do
Speaker 1: your cell phones and stuff. Was it what was T
Speaker 1: Mobile before it was T Mobile? I forgot the name
Speaker 1: of Well anyway, it used to be T Mobile. I
Speaker 1: used to work there, and I was the only one
Speaker 1: at that job with a range rover, and they were
Speaker 1: trying to figure that out. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because when I had like nine kids in that house,
Speaker 1: the state pays you so many thousands of dollars per kid, right,
Speaker 1: so even though I'm collecting my check from my job,
Speaker 1: which I can utilize whatever that I need to utilize
Speaker 1: it for to build me together. And then the funds
Speaker 1: that I received from the state, I would utilize it
Speaker 1: on the kids and also to keep a roof over
Speaker 1: our head. And so that's when I moved into, you know,
Speaker 1: moving on up to the east side with the wifeo
Speaker 1: you know, living in a house bigger than them. And
Speaker 1: they didn't understand, like what does she do? Like she
Speaker 1: got all these children and they all different colors and stuff,
Speaker 1: and every last one of them chere to cut your asside,
Speaker 1: because they'll tell you that I've named mama, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Because I and my family. We accepted
Speaker 1: all of them kids, and we showed them love. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, What do you do with your
Speaker 1: agency to avoid children being in the house with parents
Speaker 1: who are that just for the check. So this is
Speaker 1: how we do this first thing when they come to
Speaker 1: actually apply to be a foster parent. If you don't
Speaker 1: have no job, you have to have a job. You
Speaker 1: don't have a job, then you can't foster with us
Speaker 1: unless it's like kinship that they didn't place you and
Speaker 1: these are your relatives and you're just seeking to get
Speaker 1: a license so you can be able to take care
Speaker 1: of them. That's different. But we have things in place
Speaker 1: for people like that because they do have people that
Speaker 1: are out there who are about the money. And like
Speaker 1: when I fostered, I worked still, and that's why I
Speaker 1: had my mom to come in as my RESCPIE person
Speaker 1: so I can work, you know what I mean, Because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I didn't feel right
Speaker 1: me personally. I didn't feel right because I like to
Speaker 1: make my own money. I felt like that money that
Speaker 1: I use that the state page, which is actually your reimbursement,
Speaker 1: but I use it on the kids, like we'll take
Speaker 1: on vacations you know, we would do a lot of
Speaker 1: things with those children. They would not going to school
Speaker 1: looking halfway half dress. You didn't even know that they
Speaker 1: were Falster kids, you know what I mean. And then
Speaker 1: what I loved about my crew is that if I
Speaker 1: was to get another kid to come through there, they'll
Speaker 1: like that. They'll lace that new kid up, like, yo,
Speaker 1: we like what we say. So don't come up in
Speaker 1: here with they're lying, you know, because they have foster
Speaker 1: children that when they get upset, they allowing the Falster
Speaker 1: parent and then to create a whole investigation to the
Speaker 1: fact where they removed the kids to go through the investigation,
Speaker 1: and then they'll try to bring the kids back. See,
Speaker 1: the kids knew the system too, just like how I
Speaker 1: knew the system. So like what I would do, It's
Speaker 1: like my kids. I took them to like restaurants, like
Speaker 1: they went to Popados. You know. They was like out
Speaker 1: guard and teach our fridays all that, and I would
Speaker 1: actually have I would always keep the receipts and I
Speaker 1: have everybody's signature on the back of every seat. So
Speaker 1: if these state people come up in here, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: share everything down grocery lists, everybody's signing the grocery list,
Speaker 1: because you can't say that you're not eating. You can't
Speaker 1: say that you don't have a roof overhead, you can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just made it to where everything was transparent.
Speaker 1: So the kids they felt safe because you got you
Speaker 1: got a mom that who's stepping up to take kid
Speaker 1: of you. It's gonna make sure that nobody's gonna come
Speaker 1: in here and mess with you. So when a new
Speaker 1: kid would come then turned around, it kind of reminded me,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. It kind of reminded me of prison,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like when the dude fish
Speaker 1: come over the yard and you thank you for the
Speaker 1: coming here with that man's they gonna jam me up.
Speaker 1: That's how those kids were because they protected where they
Speaker 1: lived because that was the best how they ever lived.
Speaker 1: They never lived in a sixty five hundred square foot
Speaker 1: house where everybody got their own room, their own space,
Speaker 1: you know, their own closet, you know, and they never
Speaker 1: lived like that. These kids came from poverty, you know,
Speaker 1: and they felt like, I'm in a position now that
Speaker 1: I can make it so I'm nothing letting nobody think
Speaker 1: they're gonna come in here, because you got a chip
Speaker 1: on your shoulder and try to miss up where we live.
Speaker 1: And that was what I really love about those kids.
Speaker 1: And you know what, to this day, any holiday or
Speaker 1: anything that we have is full of cheering. And I
Speaker 1: was a fosi pairer before I became a real mother.
Speaker 1: You know that that's crazy. So when I got my
Speaker 1: own kids, I was already season. You know, I knew
Speaker 1: I had changed the dippers. I knew when a child
Speaker 1: got highs. I knew when like my teenage daughter, I
Speaker 1: know all the tricks of the trade. You know, She'll
Speaker 1: try to do some little slick stuff and I'd be like, girl,
Speaker 1: you already know I'm only U six, don't do that one. No,
Speaker 1: try again, because I already had the experience, and I
Speaker 1: had different ages of kids, you know, but the tough,
Speaker 1: the tough group that I had was those teenagers. They
Speaker 1: were tough. And so the foster agencies really couldn't understand
Speaker 1: how this little old woman got control of these kids,
Speaker 1: because these were kids that came from other placements that
Speaker 1: disrupted those placelets. But then when they came to me,
Speaker 1: I just kept it. I kept a stream with them,
Speaker 1: you know, I say, look, I want to know who
Speaker 1: you are as a person. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you make it, but I can bring
Speaker 1: it to the water, but I can't make you drink it. Okay,
Speaker 1: But what you're not gonna do. You're not gonna come
Speaker 1: in my house and you're not gonna disrupt nothing because
Speaker 1: I'm the parrot. You I'm saying, I'm the parrot, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna respect you, and you're gonna respect me. Now
Speaker 1: you feel like you want to get a little gangster
Speaker 1: around here, then I'm gonna have these sheriffs in here
Speaker 1: and somebody gonna be going to the psych hospital tonight. Huh, Well,
Speaker 1: you disrupted a whole lot of things these day. You
Speaker 1: got these politicians around here running scared to death. The
Speaker 1: trip part about it is that if they're doing what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be doing, they ain't got nothing to
Speaker 1: worry about it nothing. I'll support you exactly, but we
Speaker 1: support you and everything you do, and we really appreciate
Speaker 1: all the work that you do. We appreciate the work
Speaker 1: that the Black Path Nation is doing, the New Black
Speaker 1: Path and Nation is doing, the Black Pathers are doing,
Speaker 1: all of the other organizations and the activists that out there,
Speaker 1: you guys putting in the work. Man. You know we
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough. I want to get you on
Speaker 1: the show again, very very soon. Love talking to you.
Speaker 1: We got so much more to talk about, but right
Speaker 1: now we're out of time. Ladies and gentlemen, Doctor Candice
Speaker 1: Matthews appreciate your baby, girl, I appreciate so much. All Right, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all be seeing me next time. So y'all, and remember
Speaker 1: she got that thing on show. Dude, you want to
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