WEBVTT - The Dr. Candace Matthews Episode 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.800 You know boys, it's back and reot it all in 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.440 your mind. Yeah, and that deep throating. This is for 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.119 the streets, the real, the relroading, the distant franchise, the 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.080 truth to escape Golding, and they ain't knowing we speak 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.360 the truth, so they ain't quoted because we wrote it. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.160 The North South against Code is the g be my 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.279 for keeping your head bobbing, and it ain't no stopper 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.200 and wants to be drives head by And then the 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.560 system is so corrupted they threw the rock out of 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.520 their heads and then blame it on us. Don't get 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:33.680 it twisted on Code and me and dance it for 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:39.520 now buttament biscuits, it's Willie d y'all reloaded with another 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.760 episode of information and instructions to help you navigate through 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:48.240 this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, Doctor Candice, 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.520 you know what. Everybody should know your name by now, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.160 but I'm gonna go ahead and say it anyway. Make 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.880 sure you put some respect on it from me. Doctor Kenneth. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:07.160 Doctor Kenneth Matthews is in the house. You know you 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:13.720 have been doing some phenomenal work. Phenomenal work I'm talking about, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:15.759 like you've been putting it on the line. You've been 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.759 doing this for a long time, but more recently you've 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.680 gained a lot of notoriety for holding our elected officials 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.720 feet to the fire. Where'd you get your sense of community? Well, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.399 I got it directly from my parents, actually, because I 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.000 grew up around politics, you know what I mean, Like 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.920 my mom and dad was cool with Mickey Leland. Mickey 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.600 Leland used to come in gumbo, fried shrump and fish 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.280 at our house. You sleep on the couch at our house. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.560 So it's kind of like I was kind of always 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.840 around it. But then I was pushed into it when 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.600 I became a business owner. So I owned a foster 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:59.600 adoption agency, and the stuff is tied in to federal 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.440 legislation as well as state legislation. So when I got 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.640 into a lajam when I first got started, because I 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.919 had the wrong people working for me who clearly didn't 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.320 have your best interests, and so I had to get 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.440 a team to come in to come help me get 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.320 everything in order, and so had state reps of Fronya 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.600 Thompson had stepped in the gap and came in and 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.440 helped me out to where we got everything on a 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.960 level playing field and so then I was like, you 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:36.640 know what, this business is tied into politics because these 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.440 state people go hard on your first until they realized 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.600 that you connected with certain politicians. Right, So I was like, Okay, 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.840 it's something more to this. Right. So then I was 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:56.760 invited to the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats meeting first 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:01.000 time going never knew none of these people in my life, 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.840 and so they were doing an endorsement screening at this 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:09.160 specific time. Now I'm on the outside looking in, and 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:15.240 I have education sense and also street sense. So I'm 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:20.000 listening to these politicians telling everybody what they want to hear, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:26.400 but it's nothing in place to hold them accountable. Right, 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:31.239 So before I became a member, I listened a little bit, 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.360 and then before the meeting was over, I said, I'm 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.280 gonna give my opinion, but I'm gonna pay my dues 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.280 first before i give my opinion. And then when I 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.280 turned around and I gave my opinion, I paid my 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.160 dues and I said, first of all, everybody in here 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:51.119 that's doing this endorsement shit is fake. It's fake, I said, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:55.080 because I come from the child welfare background, and the 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.080 state comes in our office every month or sometime every 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:03.200 other month, and we have to have records to show 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.680 what is it that we're doing that we're staying on benchmark. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.440 So my question is, y'all don't have anything in place 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.520 to show what is it that y'all have when they 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.680 come in here to come in here in line stuff? 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.640 What is it that you have to hold them accountable? 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:24.479 So then I was presented that charge that night, why 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:30.279 don't you create an accountability program? I say, oh, yeah, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.120 you show you on that. The's like yeah. So I 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:39.280 created the accountability program where it had all the evaluation 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:44.279 tools for every level of government. Okay, then I created 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:49.280 a spreadsheet where we can go in to see when 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.520 you're dealing with your congressional or your state legislators, to 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.880 see what they voted on, what they didn't vote on. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.760 Because what I noticed was that people in the community 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.919 that look like us, we really didn't know who the 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.640 for because the only thing that we did was just 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.080 name recognition. You know what I'm saying. But now it's 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.600 something in place to show if you come in here 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.000 telling us one thing, but you didn't voted another way, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:17.119 we got records to show that if you run around 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:22.440 here on your Texas Ethics Commission report. Receiving funds from 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.400 donors who will utilize you as a puppet, We're gonna 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:31.479 know about it. So now by me creating that program, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.640 it expanded to where they wanted me to do it 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.800 for the entire state. So I did it for the 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.680 entire state. So I'm all around, you know, Texas, laying 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:46.240 a him on everybody, because one I'll go through legislative 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.440 session and if I see that you're voting for something 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.600 that's not in the best interest of black people, I'm 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.800 gonna tell your hands up. And nine times out of ten, 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.679 what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna bring all the media 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.280 stations out there and i'm gonna light you up. Then 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.599 if you're going to any community meetings and you over 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.640 here line of these people, I'm gonna coming, then I'm 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:10.160 gonna aggivate that whole meeting and I'm gonna get these 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.560 people to proof on your line tail. And so that's 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.919 how I just went, you know, from there, and throughout 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:23.400 the whole process, it was like majority of my hats 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:29.040 was men. I ain't had no women. It was all men. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.440 You know what, And it's to be honest, it's the 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:40.839 darkness of me right now to even fathom, well, we 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.760 got something in common though, because the majority of my 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.880 hate is a man. Also, what's up with that? I 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.960 don't know? And it's kind of like, but my thing is, 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:53.560 I don't feel that I'm manly, but I feel no. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.359 I'm saying that hating on for a man, to hate 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.520 on a woman or a man is unmanly, That's what 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.640 I'm saying. Yeah, And it's like, what I don't understand. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.040 Let me tell you something, bro, what I didn't understand. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.520 I was like, wait a minute, who are these people? Like? 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.320 Who are you to say something about me? And you 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.320 don't even know me? You know what I mean? Like, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.280 you don't know nothing about me? And you over here 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.520 running your mouth and really low key while you over 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.760 here running your mouth, and let me find out who 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.000 you are, you donna get your ass wood. But see 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.880 I had to bring that Northeast and put it in 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.840 the back pocket, you know, because see it wouldn't turned 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.800 to small other stuff, you know. But um, but when 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.200 I got into more in the cracks and crevices and 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.120 in the valleys, the highs and lows, I started to 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.040 see a lot of fake stuff that was actually happening. Too, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.000 and a lot of fake stuff that the average person 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.400 wouldn't be able to see. I wanna be able to notice, 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.440 you know what I mean. That was the first time 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.960 I was able to see when they put this smoke 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:02.840 screen type theatrics out there. So now you know, damn well, 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.840 you voted for this, but then you coming back to 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.200 the community like you're fighting against it, you know what 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.400 I mean. So that was the purpose of having that 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.440 accountability system where you hold them accountable and you hold 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.200 them to Hey, this is what you said, but this 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.160 is not what you're doing. And then when you bring 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.760 it to the community and then the community have trust 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.800 in you, then they're gonna ride with you, you know 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.560 what I mean. And so me, I've always had a 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.560 good reputation in the community because I come from a 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.840 good home. Let's talk about that good home. You grew 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.400 up on the northeast side of Houston. But fun would 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.080 ye you know, went to C King and all that 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.160 good stuff and L bcl More you know my old 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.760 stomping grounds. Uh you know, I'm assuming you played at 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.960 and see the gas park at some point. Who did? Yeah, 0:08:53.960 --> 0:09:00.640 So your roots on the northeast side of Houston, you 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.720 grew up in the household with who, with my mom 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:10.240 and my dad. And that was interesting enough because I've 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:16.079 always grew up around my aunts, uncles. They're married, they 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.600 have their children, you know, my grandpa, grandma, they married. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.160 Then you have your other grandparents and your other aunts 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.840 and uncles, so you never really seen a single parent. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.880 I never seen that, and so you know how I 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:35.080 was introduced to that when I entered school, because my 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.320 whole complete lifestyle was for me to see the mama, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.920 the daddy and the kids. You go on to church, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:49.199 you know, if you don't go to church, family reunions, graduations, parties. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.280 I mean, stuff that was normal. It's like normalized stuff 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.960 in your traditional black families. That's what I grew up with. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:02.440 But then when I came into meeting other people from school, 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.160 I didn't know anything about foster kill. I didn't know 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.880 anything about kids being adopted, you know, I didn't know 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:16.040 anything about Oh, yeah that's my mama boy friend, but 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.760 my daddy live over here. You know. Oh that's my 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.160 daddy girlfriend and I don't like her, but my mama, 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.200 you know, she over here. And then for me to 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.800 be that friend that your friend had come to you 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:34.000 and tell you that I don't like my daddy, but 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.280 I want to stay with him. But then I got 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.160 to stay over here with my mama because she got 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.199 to get the child spool for my daddy. I've never 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.640 knew anything of that caliber until I started going to 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:50.600 school with kids who experienced that. And so our house 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.439 stayed full of kids, Like my mama had everybody over that. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.600 We had everybody kids was over there. My mom took 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.280 care everybody kids. That's why everybody loved to today right now. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.280 And so they were come to the house and they 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.680 would share their stories and everything at the house, and 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.240 then they were always would tell me it was like, Kennis, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.000 you lucky, like you got both of your parents, like 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.240 you got your mom or you got your daddy. And 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.240 then on top of that, like you become the school 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.280 fresh you know what I'm saying, Like you be up 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.160 on the latest stuff and everything. And I was like, 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.680 but that's what your parents supposed to do, though, you 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.200 know what I mean. And it was just a different 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:27.320 ball game, Like I never dealt with having a sister, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.640 and we didn't have the same mom and daddy, you 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.080 know what I mean. It was just interesting, Like I 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.520 just wasn't used to it, you know, right, And I 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.040 guess that's why you have the family dynamic that you 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.120 have to day. You're a married woman. How many kids? Yet? 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:47.560 For kids? Now? How is it that you were able 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:51.200 to this is tricky, y'all get ready for this. How 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.680 is it that you're able to be this opinionated woman 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:06.360 who is not docile, firm, fair, loving, generous, but also 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:12.640 a woman who can be aggressive when need be. How 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.320 is it that you can be that and still be 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.360 all the things you need to be to your man, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:24.040 It's all about balance because first of all, you can't 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.080 be married with or any kind of man. I'm assuming 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.040 you saw that also you saw some examples in that 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:34.600 with your mother, Yeah, because it's kind of pigy on 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.080 that my mom and dad's relationships here. My dad was 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.400 always the man of the house, right. My mom made 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.320 sure that he was the man of the house. But 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.319 my dad was not that type of man to put 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.360 down his wife. I think he made sure that he 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.920 was the man of house and your mom accepted it. Nah. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.480 I think it was kind of mutual type thing. Because 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.680 you gotta keep mind they both come from a background 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.920 with a hand Both of their pas Why I say 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.600 it up, Here's why I say that. Because here's why 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.760 I say that, because I don't care who a woman is. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.760 No woman made a woman can make me assume my 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.640 role as a man, like no woman gives me a 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.199 permission to be a man. I'm a man by essence, 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.720 just like somebody was saying, what he allowed her to 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.440 be the woman? No, she is the woman, you know, No, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.599 he is the man. But I think they kind of 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:26.040 jailed because you gotta keep mind they both came from 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.200 a family structure that was there, that was already in 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:31.960 place like that, you know what I mean. And so 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.920 and what I've noticed also is that the reason why 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.040 we have a lot of families that are broken up 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.000 like that, because a lot of them do not come 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.320 from that find that that that that foundation family structure, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.800 you know what I mean. Because in my opinion, and 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.520 I could be wrong, but this is my take, you 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.880 have some females that out here that I don't need 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.719 a man. You know, I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.280 and I'm gonna do it how I do it. You 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.240 know what I mean? That you have men out here? Well, look, 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.520 I ain't a female gonna do what I say and 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.439 gonna do it how I do it, or if not this, 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.240 she can roll you know what I mean. And those 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.400 are two toxic type ideologists, you know what I mean? 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.880 And so like in my household, because I'm gonna be 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.520 transparent in my household. See, I'm married to a real man. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.320 See my husband used to be a street nigga back 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.400 in the day with much respect still in the streets. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:24.800 But we have a relationship where we respect each other. Right, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.400 Nah do I sometimes go off phone that joker. Oh yeah, 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.360 I go off phone him if it's something that I 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.960 don't like, right, But what I noticed about him, he 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.800 don't ague with me. You know that, he don't ague 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.800 with me at all. He'll turn around me like you're right, 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.160 you're right, And that makes me even more matter, you 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.520 know what I mean. You know why he know why 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:52.280 he does that because he understands that women oftentimes do 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.720 not care about being right. They just want you to 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:59.480 agree with them. You just say, you know what, you're right, 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:05.640 You got, That's how it is. But you know, yeah, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.000 and it's like and so like with me. You know, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:13.560 I can be like if I feel disrespected or if 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.479 I feel and it's not even as him being disrespectful. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.960 It could be people that's around him that could be 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:23.160 possibly disrespectful. Then I turn around and check this shit, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.320 you know, I check it, and then I'm gonna turn 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.640 around and I check him too, you know, and then 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.320 he'll turn out be like wait, man, hold up, hold 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.480 up now, wait wait wait, let's talk about this. Or 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.640 if he's not, let's talk about it. Then he'll be like, 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.080 you know what, you're right, we're moving on because seeing 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.360 you're going to Pettyville, and see I'm about to deal 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.880 with you when you're in Pettyville. Now when you're talking 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.040 about this checking, I'm assuming this is a private conversation. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.880 This checking is not public. No, I wouldn't say that 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.880 it's public, and I really, to be honest, let me 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.840 rephrase that. I wouldn't necessarily say checking towards my man. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:58.880 But I'm gonna check those outside influences. If I feel 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.480 that it's something that's that comes from an outside influence, 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.280 then yeah, I'm going all the way ten thousand on you. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.880 You know what I mean, I'm gonna turn from Candice 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.200 until a whole King Cobra, because you know, King Cobra's 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.800 eat snakes okay, and if you're doing some snake shit, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.680 I'm gonna come after you, huh. Which brings me to 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:23.360 Austin County. Oh, Lloyd, same man. The folks in Austin 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:28.480 County is living in a bubble. Give us an update 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:33.520 on miss Betty Smith's case. Well, right now, this is 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.960 the black woman. For those who don't know, this is 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.760 sixty five year old grandmother who was beaten by three 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:44.520 white employees at a store after she found a fifty 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.640 dollars bill on the floor. They felt like she didn't 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.520 deserve that fifty dollars bill, so they wanted to take 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.560 it back from her, and she was literally fighting for 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:57.160 her life. They actually kidnapped Hilda against the wheel inside 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.080 of the store. They locked the doors on it, and 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.080 the police and ended up sending her to jail, right 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.800 and her daughter and her granddaughter and the daughter. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.000 Austin County. Y'all are you y'all deplorable? Man? Y'all your 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.080 mama should be embarrassed in your dad and should have 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.760 pulled that Go ahead, Kenna, Well, what's going on right 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.159 now is that they have legal representation and so that 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.680 process is going on right now. As far as dealing 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.600 with her civil rights being violated, and even with her 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.200 daughter as well as the granddaughter. So that's in process 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.240 right now, and I can't really, you know, properly divulge 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.720 a lot of it because it's in process. But what 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.680 was interesting to me when we end up dealing with 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:44.800 this case, the granddaughter sent me the video to my 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.000 inbox on Facebook, you know, and sometimes I really don't 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.600 take you know, people inboxes if I don't know you, 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.240 you know what I mean. And so I just so 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.240 happened to take a look at it. And then I 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.840 didn't even know brother Cornell looked at it. So being here, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:03.200 I'm calling each other about this situation. So we was like, yeah, 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.000 we got to move on this because that's that's just 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.560 not right. Like we looked at the video, We looked 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:13.680 at what happened, how it happened, and those people had 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.560 their audacity, nobody at the temerity to say we was 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:22.520 restraining her baby. I am trained to teach restraints. That 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.639 wasn't a restraint, that was an assault, you know. And 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:30.080 you locked this lady in that store, violating her civil rights. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.399 And then the fifty dollars did even below need one 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.960 of you jokers, you don't need the fifty dollars actually 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.600 belonged to a customer who was their prior, and they 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.080 didn't even know it. They didn't find out who that 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.200 customer was. Well, yes they did, because when they went 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.119 back and looked at the actual video, the video showed 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.119 that it fell out of his pocket. Okay, but the 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.879 fifty dollars was not in the cash register. The fifty 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.000 dollars was not on the floor behind the cash register. 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.639 The fifty dollars was on the floor in front way 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.159 to the other side of the cash register. So in 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.080 the state of Texas, if you find something that no 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.840 one has claimed as yours, right, So what happened to 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.399 the fifty dollars? Did the guy ever get the fifty dollars? 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:17.399 You know what, I really don't know if the guy 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:19.680 got the fifty dollars or not, because no, because what 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.080 they tried to do. The owner of the store, because 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.600 he was so just just upset about what actually happened, 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.240 and he fired those employees. He offered to give the 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:34.440 grandmother fifty dollars back, and the grandma was like, nah, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.560 I don't want the fifty dollars. And then the cold 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.920 think about that situation was that all she was doing 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.480 was going into the store to get her special needs 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.960 son to ice cream. The special needs son was in 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.000 the car, you know what I mean. And so this 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.440 fifty dollars in below, and neither one of y'all that 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.080 was in that store. The grandmother even said, well, look 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.119 called the owner. I'll give the fifty dollars to the 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.480 owner if you know, if need be, you know what 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.840 I mean. So she wasn't really just like tripping. She 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:00.760 was more and less like, hey, this is my lucky 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.240 day out of five fifty dollars. And then y'all go over. 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.560 He ain't just go straight gorilla on this grandma, and 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.000 don't thank You're not going to get some consequences behind it. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.080 So what ended up happening. We end up going to 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:18.320 Austin out of Belleville, me, Brother Quarnell, some of the 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:22.440 Black Panthers, some of the pastors, community members, families, all 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:26.600 of us was there the first time, and we made 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.960 a demand that that DA in Austin Countar you need 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:32.920 to make sure you look at this video correctly, and 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:34.720 you need to make sure that charges need to be 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.160 made on all three of them. And then brother Quannell 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.200 was very adamant about that man putting his hand on 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.879 that grandmother because brother Quardell was like, I'm about to 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:48.960 bring all these black panthers to this boy Highs and 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:53.320 we're gonna get some straightening going on. Right. So without 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:58.399 that process we heard, we hardly hear anything. Then probably 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:05.840 about a month later, no charges. So and who determined this, 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:10.600 I'm assuming the clan jury, yeah, the supposed Yeah, the 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.720 clan jury, like you said, the jury, yeah, but it's 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:18.199 the clan clan Because by the way, for everybody out there, Uh, 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.400 that was a phrase that I coined. So when y'all 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.119 start hearing it everywhere else, like all the other stuff 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.359 that I'd be saying, people be picking up and not 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.040 be giving me my credit for, you know, so you 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:37.399 know I would use that one. So, um, it was 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:42.080 interesting because we did bring up about the the ethnic 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:48.159 the the ethnic makeup of that specific jury because so 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:52.119 y'all telling us and some of these people have prior histories, 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.560 you know, prior criminal histories and things like that, and 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.600 so you're telling us that this video we've seen the 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:00.160 same video that you looked at. So you tell telling 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.880 me that you didn't see no charges whatsoever. And we've 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:06.800 seen the same damn video, right, So that's when we 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:12.680 surrounded that uh DA's office and it went viral, of course, 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:16.320 and we sent a message. And what I like with 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:18.520 Brother Cornell did. He said, and I'm gonna give you 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.600 something better. We're gonna start a New Black Panther Nation 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:25.040 chapter right here. I'm gonna give you something that you need, 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:27.200 something that you don't want, but I'm gonna give you 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.919 what you need. And so that's how we end up 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:36.240 establishing another chapter in Belleville. Now, when did y'all do that? 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:41.960 Uh that actually happened that day? So and who is 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:46.240 the leader of that chapter? I think it's that pastor 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:51.720 I forgot his actual name right off, but um, but 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:57.760 it is a chapter theretos Loaded podcast, we'll keep right 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:08.160 back after the spot. Let's get into the New Black 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:11.000 Panther Party and how you mean the nation, because it's two. 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:13.840 You got the New Black Panther Party that's not us, 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:16.400 and then you got the New Black Panther Nation, which 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:19.880 is us. Okay, I'm glad you clarified that the New 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:24.080 Black Panther Nation correct led by Brother Cornel X. Correct, 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:26.720 Good Brother Cornel X. How did you in Coinnell and 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:30.800 meet in the first place? And what brought about this? Uh, 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:35.359 this relationship? Did you guys have, um, you know with 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:40.520 working together to better society? You know what? Me and him, Uh, 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:46.960