WEBVTT - Vitamin D Live - 10.17.24 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.480 I have a prayer for you that you find a 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:08.200 good thing and make that good thing be within yourself, 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.959 so that you can believe in yourself and know that 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:17.599 anything is possible. Put one foot in front of the other. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.040 I ask for a prayer over you, a covering over you, 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.640 so that you will do away with fear and realize 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:32.159 that your dreams don't work unless you do. Overstand that 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.680 you can't fail if you don't quit, and if you 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:41.680 fall down seven times, get up eight. Recognize the power 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:46.600 that's inside of you. You have the power to change 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:52.800 your life. Wicker everybody, no one will sleeping in bed. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:53.800 Well. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.280 I want to hope that you stop sleeping on yourself. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:05.240 Stop couning yourself out versus it's impossible, Realize that I'm possible. Listen, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:11.479 Prayer changes things, and prayer and change it starts with you. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.000 All right, y'all know what time it is. It's that 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.160 damn dawn like the break of day, and right now 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.480 it's time to give with Vitamin D live. Good morning, 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.640 good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in to the 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.440 Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I am your host, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.920 Dawn Day, here to get you excited about your life 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:31.760 so that you can live life on purpose and for 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.160 a purpose. If this is your first time tuning in 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.240 and welcome Vitamin D, it's upon off. My name. My 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.520 name is Dawn, and you get Vitamin D from the sun. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.760 So I'm here shed light into your life. And I 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.640 do this with inspirational insights and conversations with celebrities and 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.240 everyday people like you and me, because if you want 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.560 to be better and you want to do better, then 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.680 you're going to have to be able to see better. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.680 So join me on this journey of living our best 0:01:55.720 --> 0:02:01.120 lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest sassay, get. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:06.120 Your viting indeed right with me, and get excited about 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:07.120 your life. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:14.560 It's a good day to be alive. Happy thirs day, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.519 Oh man, another day to do it again. They say 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.399 gratitude is everything. The more grateful you are, the more 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.520 things you have to be grateful for. You know, I 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.360 have to start out the Vitamin D with Wake up everybody. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.840 The ain't no more sleeping in bed. You know, always 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:39.440 talk about dreams and making dreams come true. But I 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.079 gotta challenge you to dream while you're still awake, because 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:48.360 we know faith with our works is dead and that 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.200 goes for anything and another thing. Don't count yourself out 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:58.040 of the power of your mind. You ever realized you 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:02.200 can visualize things and manifest them in the real life. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.400 You are a spiritual being having a human experience. That's 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.360 what I got to say. Listen, I got some news 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.280 and information. You know, I'm gonna give you some resources, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.880 and I got a Vitamin D advice letter. I'm talking 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.360 about a young lady that lives at home with her mom, 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.600 or doesn't live at home with her mom, but debating 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.360 us too should she move back home with mom? Plus, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.760 you heard the news about Ananda Luis right? Did you 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:32.000 hear that there is a new Jim cro cast system 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:37.680 and would you believe how it's affecting us today? Stores 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.960 are closing. It is a lot going on on this 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.440 show today. I am going to definitely give on some resources, 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.960 some information, some news, but also I want to encourage 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.240 if you are watching, whether it be on Facebook, whether 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.400 you're on LinkedIn, whether you're on YouTube, to call me 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.920 up here in the studio because I would love to 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.640 hear from you, because I want to make sure that 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.200 this is an ongoing conversation. Okay, the number to call 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.560 me in the studio is eight one ant four six 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:09.880 one fifty four thirty two. It's eight one at four 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:15.520 six one fifty four thirty two. I want to give 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.599 a special shout out to miss Mayan. How you doing? Yes, 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.719 Miss Mayan is an US faithful Okay from the FM's 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.960 out to Vitamin D Live shows up each time, and 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.560 I want to let you know I appreciate you, and 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:33.040 I see you and thank you for seeing me. Now, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.039 since we're talking about seeing and observing things, I got 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.960 to ask you a question. When it goes down to 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:46.679 our homeless population, do you think that changes being made, 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.880 all of the money that's invested, what we got going 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.039 on our community? I want to know because I just 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.280 saw a story on KTLA talking about how much we 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.080 spend on those who are unhoused in our community. Now, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.680 believe it or not, California has invested twenty four billion 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.159 dollars of the fast five fiscal years to address homelessness. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.119 You know, it underscores the state's urgent effort to curb 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.720 the intractable crises. As people are saying, now, there's an 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.640 estimated of one hundred and eighty one thousand people experienced 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.400 homelessness in California, and that was in twenty twenty three, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.440 an increase of sixty three thousand individuals in the past 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.520 ten years. I mean, if you look at the fiscal 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.560 year of twenty twenty one to twenty two alone, when 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.320 the homeless population was estimated to be one hundred and 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:39.440 seventy two thousand, California spent two point I'm sorry, seven 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:44.200 point two billion dollars, which equated to nearly forty two 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:49.520 thousand dollars per homeless individual. Now, these spending efforts, they 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.840 include housing and rental assistance, physical and mental health outreach, 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.719 case management, and funds to purchase motels and other types 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.800 of temporary housing. The question is is this money well spent? 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:02.120 Now? 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:06.960 My brother proverb over there down in the LBC was 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.600 like kick me up. When I was on the FM 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:15.839 down was like dawn. There's rumored that these motels and 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.920 hotels that were getting funding to house those who were 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:24.160 un housed, that the funds weren't used correctly. Now, at 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.720 the time, I was waiting on to hear from the mayor, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.760 from community officials to say, well, what is going on? 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.600 What is there to be talking about? Now this comes 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.560 on the heels of after twenty twenty two, when Governor 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.239 Gavin Newsom threatened to withhold one billion dollars in funds 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:48.240 from cities and counties, criticizing their homelessness plans as inadequate 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.599 this summer. In fact, he directed local governments to clear 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.480 encampments or risk losing out on state funding next year. 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.120 And I quote he stated, I want to see results. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.280 I don't want to read about them. I don't want 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.800 to see the data. I want to see it because 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.719 we don't see it as believing right now. This skating 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.560 report was released in April, and the California Auditor determined 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.520 that the state has done a poor job accounting for 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.440 homelessness spending and tracking adults. In fact, it was stated 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.200 in our quote, we believe that the state's policymakers and 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.800 the public need up to date information to evaluate the 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:31.400 efficacy and effectiveness of billions of dollars in state spending. Now, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.760 our own Mayor Karen Bass declared homelessness as a state 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.480 of emergency and launched her two hundred and fifty dollars 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.640 two hundred and fifty million dollar inside Safe program on 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.840 her first day in office. And this is back in 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.080 December twenty twenty twenty two. The initiative directs tens of 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:52.080 millions of dollars annually towards programs that transitions homeless homeless 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:57.040 individuals into temporary and eventually permanent housing. Now, according to 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.400 a city website that tracks results, says that more than 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.200 twenty one thousand people have been moved indoors since twenty 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.600 twenty two and more than five thousand have found permanent housing. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.679 As with the state wide homelessness programs and grants, however, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.560 critics question if the money is reducing is alt reproducing results, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.760 and is being properly tracked. So I guess I want 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.920 to hear from you. Pull up on me right now. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.000 I would love for you to call me and let 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.080 me know. Are you staying in the area that is 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.920 fluent with those who are unhoused? Do you feel that 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.960 the City of la has done a job when it 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.800 comes to housing individuals who in house? And furthermore, how 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.840 can you stop individuals who actually choose to live on 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.520 the streets because they don't want to be controlled. They 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.080 don't want to be told what time they have to 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.920 come in, when they're supposed to eat, and how they're 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.240 supposed to live their life. And furthermore, quite frankly, people 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:49.400 find it a less stress to perhaps live out on 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.440 the street whether than to be housed. Now, we know 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.760 that we are on the cusp of but the twenty 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.480 twenty six Olympics. So the city has been doing a 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.439 major job as far as clearing people out. But the 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.320 question is what happens the next day when they come back, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.160 or when you hear stories about individuals that own houses 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.840 and you got squatters in your house. I mean, you 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.679 think about it. This is what we are putting our 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.720 own self at risk if you think about them when 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.880 we talk about cleaning up our streets. If people aren't housed, 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.160 who's cleaning up the streets that is being left behind. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.120 I'm just saying these are the questions to be asked, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.960 and you know, we can't do anything about it unless 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.000 we start to have the dialogue. So my thing is this, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.800 don't sit there and talk about you got an issue, oh, 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.440 twenty twenty eight Olympics. Don't sit there talking about we 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.440 got an issue? About what's happening. If you aren't speaking up, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.880 if you aren't trying to talk about it and find 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:50.800 out a resolution. I'm just saying, let's just be quite honest. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.800 Was that a who? Just somebody just called it a 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.600 pump fake? Look, I mustn't turned off. Well, miss Jacket, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:09:59.520 you got questions? 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:00.200 Oh? 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:09.040 Hello, talk to me? Oh miss Pellisia. Hello? Oh it's 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.760 so loud what you're doing? Can you hear me? 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:13.520 I can't hear you. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.000 I can hear you. Can you hear me? Now? 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:16.920 Yeah? 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.400 That cand Okay? How you doing on the air? You 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:26.920 live on the air right now in DC? I just 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.000 got done talking about the story about our homelessness population 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.920 and can you hear me? Okay, because it sounds like 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.600 your background is loud. Okay, I just got done talking 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.360 about the story of the unhoused population and how much 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.320 money we're getting stud Did you want to comment on 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.680 that or what you got going on? No. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.600 I was calling in because I knew it was eight 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.120 o'clock and I'm on the bus headed back to my airbnb, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.400 and I just wanted to let you know. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.640 And I just saw the picture that I just sent you. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.280 I said, well, man, I think she's on the air. 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:05.200 I showed off your pictures last week. I sure did 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.840 not last week on Tuesday. Oh, they saw you out 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.040 of Howard they saw you by the monument, they saw 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.920 you with Miss Howard University. Yes, we ragged on you. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.600 I was hoping you could call in, but I know 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.240 that because of the time difference. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.520 Yeah, I couldn't because I was in that gym and 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:25.160 the and the it was loud. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:26.680 And then when I got. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.720 Out, I said, it's probably too late. And I didn't 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.959 even bother to try. But I thought about you just now. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.679 Did you see the homecoming pictures that I just sent 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:35.840 a little while ago. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.079 No, because I've been prepping to be on air. So 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.880 we got to talk like we're talking to everybody because 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:42.760 everybody's hearing you. So you want us to give us 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.120 some updates on what's going on. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.880 Yes, we spent time having so much fun. Oh yeah, 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.040 I'm having so much fun. Well, yesterday and the day 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.199 before I spent two days in the Afo American Museum 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.000 and oh, that is just an awesome museum. I'm going 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.000 to go back on Monday before I leave to come back. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.280 They're a just to kind of take it in again 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.360 because it is fabulous. Uh, it's one of the best 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.960 museums beside Detroit. Detroit is one of my favorite museums, 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.760 believe it's not gone. 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.840 I mean it wouldn't because I'm from Detroit, would it be? No? 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.360 Uh uh hagnaw. That was before I met you. I 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.480 enjoyed that museum that was across the street from where 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:27.800 Rosa Parks lived at the time. So uh and then 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.559 my my next favorite museum is the museum down in 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:39.280 Alabama and uh uh no, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis Museum. I 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:43.080 had the chance to tour it before they got the 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.719 new one and the old one, and that's the fabulous 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.600 museum as well. But the one in DC, the new 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:57.199 African American Museum, which is three levels. It's the first 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.840 the first two levels to make you. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.839 Cry, Oh, just how far we you know what. I'm 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.840 glad that you're talking about this because it's emotional because 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.400 of what we came from as people, right and that's 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.400 what we got to encourage people to get out and go. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.880 In fact, mister Levonn is tuning in from Facebook right now, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.240 says this day, please explain to the brothers why they 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.720 need to get out and vote for VP Harris for president. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.800 I mean, we got miss Jackie above and beyond mobile 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.080 signing service down in Texas says voting matters Can you 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.120 talk to us real quick why you want to encourage 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.560 the young people? You want to encourage our black brothers 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:34.520 while they need to vote. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:40.240 Boy, I tell you if our young black brothers will 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:46.880 go to one of these museums and see the things 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:54.520 that we have gone through since what what was it fourteen? 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.920 I think it started at fourteen seventy something with my 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.400 I'm about to get off the bus. Then let me 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.680 get off and get into my place that I'll call 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:05.360 you right back. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:11.000 Okay, we're not on another call. Okay, okay, okay. Where 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.520 the phone line is back open for individuals to call in? 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.920 But that was miss Felicia, Miss Felicia Richard calling in. 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.680 She's in DC right now. She was just saying how 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.240 she went to the museum out there, and she said 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.680 it brought her off to tears. You know, what is it? 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.520 The African American Museum out in DC. But it just 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.520 came to go on the heels of we're talking about 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.880 the importance of voting. In fact, y'all just made me 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.000 think of a new story that I pulled up. Can 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.040 I tell y'all something now? I'm also going to be 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.320 playing a video clip. No, we haven't done that I 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.120 told you. I'm coming back and full of fact now 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.040 to give you a little idea why we need to 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.760 talk about while voting is so important, because there are changes, 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.720 or I shouldn't say changes, things happening in our world 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.880 and our community that are affecting people that look like 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.640 you and me. Now, I'm not trying to get serious, listen, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.280 I'm just keeping it real so you know the da 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.680 about how we make change, because if we don't, the 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.080 change is going to be made for us. And I 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.000 came across this one story Black Information Network and it 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:15.520 dealt with an author and scholar, Michelle Alexander. She's here 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.480 to explain how the new Jim Crow legal cast system 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.360 operates in much of the same way as slavery did 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.320 more than a century ago, utilizing the criminal legal system 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:32.520 in other social, political, and economic systems and American society 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:39.400 to discriminate against and mass incarcerate people of color. Y'all 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.120 want to take a listen, all right, check this out. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:47.520 Mass incarceration of poor people of color now operates as 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:53.479 a fully comprehensive and well disguised system of racial control 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.720 analogous to Jim Crow. I state my basic thesis in 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.440 the introduction, where I write what has changed since the 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.360 collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.440 basic structure of our society than the language we use 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.440 to justify it. In the air of color blindness. It's 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.840 no longer socially permissible to use race explicitly as a 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:18.080 justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt, so we don't. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.720 Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.480 system to label people of color criminals and then engage 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.800 in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Today it 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.280 is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.240 the ways it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.920 Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination, 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:46.480 employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial, the right to vote, exclusion 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:50.680 from jury service are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.640 have scarcely more rights and arguably less respect than a 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.600 black man living in Alabama. At the height of Jim Crow, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.600 we have not ended racial cast in America. We have 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.720 merely redesigned it. More African American adults are under correctional 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.520 control today, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.840 than we're enslaved in eighteen fifty, a decade before the 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:13.800 Civil War began. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:19.000 Oh, how do you feel about that? Since we were 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.840 talking about the importance of voting, why people need to 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.520 get out, we see the advancement of how the new 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.000 racial justice system is that of reflected of the Jim 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:32.560 Crow cast system. Yet when it comes back to pushing 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.640 people in color, a lot of people of color incarcerating founds. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.359 You don't have any right except for I guess if 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.679 you're Donald Trump and you're running for president. Yet there 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.199 are so many people who don't understand the importance of 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.640 getting registered to vote, why it's so important to get 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.040 out there and vote. And when you have systems like 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.520 this in place where at one time, when you're talking 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.520 about marijuana people were being locked up. You're getting locked 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.840 up or even keeled. If you're whistling for somebody, your 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.080 life is being taken. If you're jogging, your life is 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.639 being taken. If you're just sitting there watching TV in 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.160 your own dang gone house. And yet people don't understand 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.000 why it's important to vote, why you have to make 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.960 your voice get come be heard. Change has to start 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.639 with us. And when you talk about the rights of 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.280 the community. When you talk about your family, when you 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.520 talk about your livelihood, what are you doing to step up? 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.920 I'm open enough the conversation because I would love to 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.240 hear from you and your thoughts about that. Does it 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.560 scare you, doesn't make you nervous, or perhaps you sit 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.400 on the other end and you might just say right 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:38.200 in fact, I'm still going for Trump. Now, we got 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.240 miss Jackie in from Texas, says registrating for registration for 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:48.719 voting in Texas closed last week on October sixth. Now 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.359 there are some places, I believe in the state of 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.440 California you can register and vote up until the day 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:58.359 of election. Now the question is are you taking advantage 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.080 of it? Do you have any comments about the video 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.320 that I just play more poorly? What does it mean 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.760 to you as a people? Now, there's so many people 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:09.840 that stand on one end that got so much to say. 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.720 But when it's time to pull up the show up 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:21.520 or call me up, it's crickets. Well, this is your 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.000 opportunity right now. You can call me in the studio 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:25.680 so we can talk about at eight one, eight four 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.120 six one fifty four thirty two. That's eight one, eight 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:33.040 four six one fifty four thirty two. We are talking 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.560 about a vast array of topics that are affect in 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:37.919 our community, things that we know that we need to 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.080 take a part of, and things we know that we 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:44.600 want to influx change. I mean, we are finding for 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.000 the change for our lives. And if we don't step 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.560 up as people to seek out that change, to be 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.320 that change, to vote for that change, well heck, we 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.600 gonna be doing the same dog one thing. And it's 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.320 going to require people just like you who are watching, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.760 people that are listening, to show up and let their 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.120 voice be hearned. Even mister Levan, I want to challenge you. 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:06.760 Call me and you tell me why as a black man, 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.960 if you are still tuned in why it's important to 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:14.439 get out involved. Because I can only state my piece, 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.719 But what does it mean for a black man If 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.840 we're coming down to the point they talking about, we 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.919 are actually I reflective of the Jim Crow cast system, 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.359 how it's now used as our justice system, because so 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.560 many people are incarcerated based on the color of the skin. 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.439 What needs to happen within what kind of change does 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.800 that look like? Call me in the studio and let 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.440 me know. Otherwise, let me tell you about a couple 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:45.000 changes that's happening in our nation. Stores are continuing to close. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.920 I was just on KTLA and I saw that Walgreens 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:54.040 is to close twelve hundred stores across America. Are you concerned? 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:58.359 When we talk about taxation, we talk about inflation. These 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.719 are the things that matter now, I say, well doing. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:04.240 I don't work at Walgreens. But what if you work 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:06.639 at FedEx that ships to Walgreens. What if you are 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.240 the pharmacists at Walgreens. What if you are a patient 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:15.720 that receives their medication from Walgreens? What does that look like? Hey, Joe, 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.160 call me in this studio. I don't know if we've 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.040 ever talked, but let me tell you what's going on. So, 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.760 Walgreens plans to close about twelve hundred locations over the 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:27.960 next three years as the drug store chain seeks to 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:32.720 turn around its struggling US business. The company said Tuesday 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:34.960 that about five hundred store closures will come in the 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:39.600 current fiscal year and should immediately support adjusted earnings and 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:43.120 free cash flow. Walgreens didn't say whether the store closings 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:48.560 would take place, didn't say where the closings would take place. 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.400 Walgreens operates about eighty five hundred stores in the United 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.359 States and a few thousand overseas. All of the stores 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.520 that will be closed will be in the United States. Now, 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:01.320 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. Which are the leaders, said in 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:04.399 late June that they were finalizing a turnaround plan for 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:07.840 its US business and that push could result in the 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:11.880 closing of hundreds of underperforming stores. Now, also, let's take 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:14.720 in consideration. I don't know about you, I shop in 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:17.760 a lot of CVS's. Have you noticed that there are 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:23.639 items such as deodorant, laundry detergent that it's locked because 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:25.879 people are looting the stores. And you talk to the 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:28.480 employees there or the securities there, they say, I'm not 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:30.440 about to risk my life for this. I don't get 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.040 it paid enough for this. But what's happening is is 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:35.879 that individuals are not being able to find jobs to 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:39.240 support their likelihood. So they said they gotta grab it. 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.199 But again, it's a ripple effect that affects each and 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:44.840 every one of us. And if you thought walk Rings 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.440 was the only one closing, I'm just right here reading 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.720 that seven eleven is to close over four hundred locations 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:55.800 in the US. Hundreds of underporn performing seven eleven stores 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:59.399 across North America are closing or closing. The convenience a 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:04.120 new store on Thursday today. Seven and I Holdings, seven 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:08.240 eleven's Japan based parent company revealed in its earnings report 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.800 that four hundred and forty four seven eleven locations are closing. 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:17.320 Slowing sales, declining traffic, inflammationary pressures, and a decrease in 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:21.200 cigarette purchasing are among the reasons why the stores are closing. 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.600 In fact, the chain pointed out that cigarettes, once the 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:28.880 largest sales category for convenience stores, have fallen twenty six 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:32.200 percent since twenty nineteen, and shifting sales to other nicotine 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:34.720 products hasn't been made such a difference. In fact, a 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:39.359 specific list of sorts slated for closure wasn't released. Seven 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.720 eleven has thirteen thousand locations across the US and Canada, 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.000 so that meaning the closures would only impact three percent 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:51.080 of the company's portfolio. Does that concern you? Are we 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:53.840 here to talk about it now, miss Jackie? You up 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:56.960 here writing books and the comments. Why don't you just 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:01.840 call me up and say it? Live on it, Miss 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:05.000 Jaggie says per voting. Some men are saying they will 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:09.639 follow the money, following following the money, you need to 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:11.880 follow the right and the wrong and how it's going 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:15.080 to affect you and your children, your offspring, your mama, 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:18.040 your daddy's education and employment. All right, we got to 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:22.720 call her coming off Misbelie says it's you, Yes, it's me, okay, 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:24.520 really quickly. I just want to make sure we stand 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:26.240 on topic, because I'm not sure if you were able 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:28.680 to catch up with us what we're broadcasting right now. 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:30.919 We just got off the heels of talking about voting. 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:33.480 Then I shared it with the listeners and viewers that 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:36.400 we have stores closing. Seven eleven is closing over five 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:41.200 hundred stores. We got over thirteen hundred stores of Walgreens. 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:41.920 They're closing. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:43.920 Yes, I heard that yesterday. 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:45.840 What you got to say about this? 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:57.199 Oh ah? The birth thing that comes to mind is jobs. 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:03.600 People not having jobs, and if things go automated in 0:25:04.119 --> 0:25:09.600 other areas, that's more jobs lost, and it's not good. 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:12.960 It's not good for the economy. It's not good for 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:17.359 those that don't go on to school and get a 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:22.080 higher degree of education, knowledge and understanding to be prepared 0:25:22.119 --> 0:25:27.280 to work in the workfield that is available for folks, 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:30.639 it's not good. And one thing that we're going to 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:33.480 have to do for ourselves is do for ourselves and 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:36.359 open up our own stores in our own communities in 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:45.120 order to service one another. And so then you'll still 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:48.120 need some training even to do that, because you might 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:50.040 have some ideas of open up a store, but you 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:53.440 need some understanding and knowledge of how to run a business, 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:56.640 how to keep your books and how to keep records, 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:01.639 and how to do those taxes. So for the most part, 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:09.240 you know, we're gonna have to do what we need 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:14.920 to do in order to survive while these stores are 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:21.200 closing in our communities and open up stores as a group, 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:26.280 as a collective, just join in together, come together and say, hey, look, 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:28.280 we're going to open up open up a store like 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:32.879 Walgreens in our community. It's it'll be a mom and 0:26:32.960 --> 0:26:43.320 pop or a community consolidation kind of thing. But those 0:26:43.400 --> 0:26:48.320 are my thoughts. Somebody else to do it for. 0:26:48.400 --> 0:26:52.600 Us, exactly. And it was a point before we had 0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:58.520 desegregation were we had to rely on one another. And 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:01.080 it's amazing how when we look at the economy, how 0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:05.879 people of color, specifically African Americans, are the leading force 0:27:05.960 --> 0:27:09.000 and impact of what's driving this economy because we're so 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:12.600 many consumers that we are the poorest, and we do 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:15.959 not pour the money back in ourselves. And it's not 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:17.840 that we aren't equipped. It doesn't mean that we don't 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:20.200 have the numbers. Why is it that we simply aren't 0:27:20.200 --> 0:27:21.960 doing it? Do you think we don't trust each other? 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:24.200 Why do we always feel like the grass is green 0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:26.200 on the other side? Have we forgotten to talk about 0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:28.280 talked with it and other what's going on? 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:37.280 Oh, it's a lot, it's a lot to digest. It's 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:42.840 a lot, and it's been digest over the and swallowed 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:47.560 and bought back up again in many different ways. But 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:52.280 we just gotta change our mindset. We got to get 0:27:52.280 --> 0:27:52.800 it together. 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:58.119 Wake up, you know everybody know, most sleeping in bed. 0:27:59.320 --> 0:27:59.960 It's time to wait. 0:28:00.119 --> 0:28:04.359 God, we got we got to and and we can't 0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:06.960 find it in a cigarette and in a brown bottle? 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:10.280 Oh snatch? Are you trying to go there? Huh? I 0:28:10.280 --> 0:28:13.440 think sometimes we're trying to use it as escaping or numbing. 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:15.159 But I mean, if you think about it, we've been 0:28:15.200 --> 0:28:18.440 through so much. It's like just looking for a moment 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:20.480 to exhale, to breathe. 0:28:20.200 --> 0:28:24.760 And I'm telling you that UH the first once that 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:28.520 elevator in the African American Museum drops to the first floor, 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:31.960 the beginning of time, when we were picked up from 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:36.399 the differing from the west coast of Africa and brought 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:41.960 to the many different countries of North America, South America, 0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:47.800 the Caribbean and made to do what we were made 0:28:47.840 --> 0:28:54.360 to do here in America. It's tearful, it's hurtful, it's 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:58.080 gut Richie. And the one thing that just hurt me 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:02.360 so was to see the number of children that were here, 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:05.920 that came here on buses to tour that museum, how 0:29:05.960 --> 0:29:08.760 they just walked through and didn't look like they were 0:29:08.840 --> 0:29:12.920 digesting anything except for the music part of our culture. 0:29:15.680 --> 0:29:21.080 That that hurt me for to see them not digest 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:27.760 the information from a great people like African Americans of 0:29:27.840 --> 0:29:30.520 this country. And what all we have done in the 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:35.120 many ways, it's all in that one museum. The great now, 0:29:35.160 --> 0:29:38.520 how great we are, how we've been able to take 0:29:38.600 --> 0:29:41.960 something and nothing and make something out of it from 0:29:42.040 --> 0:29:45.160 the time we arrived and look at and look at 0:29:45.400 --> 0:29:49.120 what we have done in the field of of UH, 0:29:50.480 --> 0:29:57.240 of creation, creating better ways to do things, to entertainment, 0:29:58.280 --> 0:30:10.160 to sports, to engineering, to agriculture, science, mathematics, building, It's 0:30:10.240 --> 0:30:15.560 just it's so much to digest. It's just overwhelming. And 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:19.960 I don't know and understand. There is no other museum 0:30:20.080 --> 0:30:23.600 that tells that kind of story about a people. 0:30:25.920 --> 0:30:26.640 But yet. 0:30:28.080 --> 0:30:34.880 We don't have nothing that celebrates us. There's no Chocolate 0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:38.080 city anywhere in America. 0:30:38.880 --> 0:30:43.280 DC is known as the Chocolate City. You taking that away? Well, 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:44.440 I know, but. 0:30:46.200 --> 0:30:46.800 They don't really. 0:30:47.000 --> 0:30:49.000 You know, some people are still call folks still call 0:30:49.040 --> 0:30:50.800 it chocolate City. But I don't hear these young folks 0:30:50.800 --> 0:30:51.840 calling it chocolate city. 0:30:54.520 --> 0:30:56.640 You know, but there's no Africa town. 0:30:56.680 --> 0:31:04.760 There's a Vietnamese town, a Bangladesh town, there's no Africa town. 0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:07.880 We're trying to make le Park in Africa town, but 0:31:08.840 --> 0:31:10.760 you know, there's no sign that says you are in 0:31:10.880 --> 0:31:11.640 Africa town. 0:31:12.760 --> 0:31:16.280 That's true because we got little Ethiopia here in lam 0:31:16.720 --> 0:31:20.320 you got Korea Town where people living. But what about us? 0:31:20.400 --> 0:31:23.600 And you're right for you to talk about how magnificent 0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:26.200 the things that we've done, especially when we came here 0:31:26.200 --> 0:31:29.080 for nothing. It's amazing. How if we can only just 0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:33.200 happen too this power that we got. Yeah, because we 0:31:33.280 --> 0:31:35.920 get we get confused. It's like, do you know that 0:31:35.920 --> 0:31:37.720 we are the toughest of the toughest. 0:31:38.600 --> 0:31:39.200 Yes, we are. 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:42.200 We broke them like it's in your lineage. So how 0:31:42.200 --> 0:31:44.720 could you not even believe in yourself and feel like 0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:48.000 you can't do nothing? Because there is a high probability 0:31:48.880 --> 0:31:54.120 that your ancestors survived thousands, maybe even millions of miles 0:31:54.160 --> 0:31:56.440 to make it here in the US with no food, 0:31:56.720 --> 0:32:01.440 with no water, and still came out to get make 0:32:01.480 --> 0:32:05.160 sure that you was produced. And we are rise. We 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:05.840 will rise. 0:32:05.960 --> 0:32:10.320 We have risen in many fields. But they will not 0:32:10.480 --> 0:32:14.480 acknowledge us, they will not give us our due. 0:32:15.280 --> 0:32:17.200 Now, Miss Jackie just made a point. You said, well, 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:20.320 how come we don't have our own Africa town or 0:32:20.360 --> 0:32:23.719 Africa city. Ms Jackie right here on Facebook says, maybe 0:32:23.720 --> 0:32:26.480 that's something to be brought up with the city council 0:32:27.600 --> 0:32:31.640 and with the city mayor. That's something worth fighting for. 0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:35.840 I mean definitely, I mean we do have to choose 0:32:35.920 --> 0:32:41.000 to be the change that we wish to seek, right, yes, 0:32:41.640 --> 0:32:44.400 And I think it also starts with conversations like you 0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:46.280 and I are having. Shoot, I was just thinking about 0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:49.880 it right now. I'm like, well, I be dog. I mean, 0:32:50.600 --> 0:32:52.880 we are at our humble beginnings. But I'm like, well, 0:32:52.880 --> 0:32:56.880 maybe vitamin D. We need to orchestrate a trip to 0:32:56.920 --> 0:33:00.280 go over to DC and to see this museum to mind, 0:33:00.320 --> 0:33:02.440 because you know, you're talking about these young people. You 0:33:02.440 --> 0:33:04.680 don't feel like they digested it. Is it fair to 0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:08.880 say that the disconnect is there? This form of racism 0:33:08.960 --> 0:33:14.000 that we are experiencing right now is completely different than 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:17.640 that of our ancestors or perhaps your grandparents it was 0:33:17.680 --> 0:33:20.880 probably they're great great great great grandparents. But the thing 0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:23.320 is is that it's almost like they say, a wolf 0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:26.959 in sheep's clothing. It's presented in a different way. It 0:33:27.000 --> 0:33:29.160 comes in a different form where I feel like our 0:33:29.280 --> 0:33:38.520 children and our young people aren't able to really digest. Hello. 0:33:38.560 --> 0:33:43.000 Oh okay, I'm listening to you, and I'm also searching 0:33:43.040 --> 0:33:45.760 through some of the pictures as a reminder of some 0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:54.760 of the things that I saw yesterday. Ah oh, we 0:33:54.800 --> 0:33:57.320 can't depend on our schools to teach our young people 0:33:57.560 --> 0:33:58.160 our history. 0:33:58.160 --> 0:34:00.040 Of course, Well you better not be a s I 0:34:00.160 --> 0:34:02.040 see you in Florida because they're taking it all out 0:34:02.080 --> 0:34:04.200 the books again while we need to get up and 0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:18.080 vote exactly. Hello, I think we just lost Miss Felicia. 0:34:18.360 --> 0:34:24.520 Now Miss Jackie, don't play with me. Miss Jackie out 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:28.719 here writing books and stuff. Yes, I'm calling you out, 0:34:28.719 --> 0:34:41.759 Miss Jackie. She's writing books and stuff. I'm calling her 0:34:41.800 --> 0:34:44.040 because don't be writing no books on the social media's 0:34:44.040 --> 0:34:47.760 and not just call in this. We call them miss Jackie. 0:34:47.800 --> 0:34:50.040 She don't even know. Don't play when me play with yourself? 0:34:52.960 --> 0:34:57.880 I mean, so, what's up? What's up? Miss Jackie? Hi? 0:34:58.000 --> 0:34:58.239 Hone? 0:34:58.280 --> 0:35:02.080 How are you? Everyone? So? 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:04.480 Go ahead? What all this you typing? Go ahead? And 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:06.719 Tallas what you're talking about? Ma'am? 0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:09.560 Well, I'm glad you called. I was gonna call you. 0:35:09.640 --> 0:35:12.279 I'm driving home. What I was saying is, you know 0:35:12.440 --> 0:35:15.759 I don't live there. I am from California, originally born 0:35:15.800 --> 0:35:17.880 and raised, went to the school in the valley. I 0:35:17.920 --> 0:35:20.719 was one of them children that they rode to Big Yellow, this, 0:35:20.719 --> 0:35:22.759 that and the other. And what people are not paying 0:35:22.800 --> 0:35:24.799 attention to is that, you know, we want to make 0:35:24.840 --> 0:35:27.719 a lot of different changes. There's a reparation, there's all 0:35:27.800 --> 0:35:30.239 kinds of different opportunities out there, but it's gonna have 0:35:30.320 --> 0:35:33.480 to take a collective effort for everybody to get involved. 0:35:33.520 --> 0:35:36.080 Because one person is not gonna make no change. And 0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:38.600 Rome damn patrol was not built in a day. 0:35:41.719 --> 0:35:43.480 But what that change is gonna look like and what 0:35:43.520 --> 0:35:44.600 is it going to require? 0:35:46.920 --> 0:35:53.239 It is gonna requires police being pulled up, hard work, research. 0:35:54.120 --> 0:35:56.680 Because when you go for people, go for four people 0:35:56.719 --> 0:35:57.280 you got. 0:36:00.880 --> 0:36:02.720 I'm sorry, go ahead, you said. When you go for people, 0:36:02.719 --> 0:36:04.399 whatn't Now when you. 0:36:04.320 --> 0:36:07.239 Go before individuals, city council that and now you have 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:09.560 to know what you're talking about, because first of all, 0:36:09.600 --> 0:36:11.920 you got to make sure they listen to you. Go 0:36:12.000 --> 0:36:15.759 to some of them meetings and those meetings allow you 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:18.600 two to four minutes to speak. And if you get 0:36:18.600 --> 0:36:22.239 a collective amount of people, they'll bring things before the 0:36:22.320 --> 0:36:24.759 city again that following week and it can be an 0:36:24.760 --> 0:36:28.799 ongoing thing. It may take time. Believe park could be 0:36:28.880 --> 0:36:32.600 changed into a lot of different things. You know, it's 0:36:32.640 --> 0:36:36.560 gonna take time. It's gonna take money, and of course 0:36:36.560 --> 0:36:38.319 they're gonna say they don't have it, But then they 0:36:38.400 --> 0:36:43.360 got these things called grants and people invest in these businesses. 0:36:43.880 --> 0:36:47.560 Silent partners just set the other, you know, to improve 0:36:47.719 --> 0:36:51.080 what's going on, to decrease the bad that's going on. 0:36:54.640 --> 0:36:56.839 So it's gonna take us starting with ourselves and have 0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:59.919 this conversation and to be honest, and like you said, 0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:02.719 it is not gonna stop. It doesn't stop overnight. The 0:37:02.840 --> 0:37:04.880 change is not gonna happen overnight. But that's just like 0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:05.680 any seed that. 0:37:05.680 --> 0:37:12.960 You planned, right, you gotta planet make sure you nurture it. 0:37:16.080 --> 0:37:21.160 Also, I had with it. Go ahead, mister Levaughn. He 0:37:21.400 --> 0:37:23.759 was on and he was like, well, Dawn, can you 0:37:23.800 --> 0:37:27.000 go ahead and spread a word as to why black 0:37:27.160 --> 0:37:31.400 men need to get out and vote for VP Kamala Harris? 0:37:31.680 --> 0:37:33.880 Could you piggyback on that on why it's so important 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:34.440 to vote. 0:37:35.840 --> 0:37:39.680 It's important to vote because this is gonna affect everybody. 0:37:40.080 --> 0:37:43.120 I don't care if you don't vote. It's gonna affect you, 0:37:43.120 --> 0:37:46.120 your mama, your daddy, your sister, your brother, your pet 0:37:46.200 --> 0:37:50.240 in the backyard, that bird that's flying over in your house, 0:37:50.719 --> 0:37:53.480 and the insects and pets that are running around in 0:37:53.520 --> 0:38:00.279 your home that are unwanted. Go expect your dollar bill. 0:38:00.719 --> 0:38:03.480 It's gonna affect how you you know, how you live, 0:38:03.680 --> 0:38:04.600 eat and breathe. 0:38:04.920 --> 0:38:05.080 Hm. 0:38:07.200 --> 0:38:09.560 And what would you say to somebody that says, well, 0:38:09.719 --> 0:38:11.799 my one boy, that vote ain't gonna change. Why are 0:38:11.840 --> 0:38:13.680 you trying to pressure me to vote. 0:38:14.000 --> 0:38:17.560 Well, one your vote, one vote won't may not you 0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:20.880 may feel not feel a ZOUGHI walk change anything. But 0:38:21.280 --> 0:38:25.240 all of them are affected collectively. That's why they have TAMPA. 0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:28.120 They have to tabulate the votes. That's why we have 0:38:28.239 --> 0:38:31.400 the early voting. That's why the opportunity is given as 0:38:31.440 --> 0:38:35.839 a woman speaking woman, a woman without a woman, there 0:38:35.880 --> 0:38:42.880 would be nothing. Period. We say Christ was here and 0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:45.359 mayor and his mama didn't give birth that or that 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:51.400 that okay, Science and loans says a woman go bear 0:38:51.600 --> 0:38:56.600 bear a child. Man ain't bearing nothing without us. Nothing exists, 0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:00.400 start from the beginning. 0:39:03.440 --> 0:39:05.080 Well, thank you for Sharon. And then I saw you 0:39:05.120 --> 0:39:08.560 put another comment. You may mention. You said why these 0:39:08.600 --> 0:39:11.520 young kids aren't paying attention at the museum, And you said, 0:39:11.880 --> 0:39:14.000 a lot of things that are going on in the home. 0:39:14.200 --> 0:39:16.759 A lot of our children are not being taught because 0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:19.799 the parents are not taking the time out. More of 0:39:19.840 --> 0:39:21.799 their time is being spent in front of the PC, 0:39:22.040 --> 0:39:25.680 a laptop, a tablet, a cell phone, or a gaming system, etc. 0:39:26.040 --> 0:39:29.120 But not the textbooks. Well, look at our economy and 0:39:29.160 --> 0:39:31.920 what's going on right now. I can't afford to be 0:39:32.000 --> 0:39:34.360 in the house, because how we're gonna pay these. 0:39:34.200 --> 0:39:37.600 Bills right right? Gotta be working down, so. 0:39:37.640 --> 0:39:39.680 Work What are we supposed to do. 0:39:42.560 --> 0:39:46.080 Well? I believe that you know, with skill training, there's 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:48.440 a lot of free training out here that the state 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:51.600 is giving out. The state's a city, a county that 0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:54.960 you may qualify for whatever reason. If you're a blue 0:39:55.000 --> 0:40:00.239 collar worker or you low income, you know, get get 0:40:00.760 --> 0:40:03.919 some of the skilling together. You get skills. People don't 0:40:03.960 --> 0:40:06.319 teach you what they want you to learn anyway, but 0:40:06.400 --> 0:40:09.080 get skilled so you can revamp and learn something else. 0:40:09.080 --> 0:40:11.720 So you can learn how to do something else. Become 0:40:11.800 --> 0:40:15.359 your own soul provider, how you make the living, how 0:40:15.400 --> 0:40:19.040 you feed yourself, learn a new skill, be open minded. 0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:23.040 For those that are disabled, there's things for them as well. 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:26.480 Get a support advocate. There's so many there's a resource 0:40:26.520 --> 0:40:28.560 out there, but they don't care you how to obtain it. 0:40:29.360 --> 0:40:33.759 Some people don't have common sense, common senses far a 0:40:33.760 --> 0:40:34.880 lot of people are missing that. 0:40:35.239 --> 0:40:37.400 Then a skilled sense you talk on right, because you 0:40:37.520 --> 0:40:39.400 just gotta know how to think and how to move. 0:40:40.400 --> 0:40:42.959 You gotta think. You gotta think for tomorrow. You can't 0:40:42.960 --> 0:40:45.319 think for a minute because a minute already bathed. I 0:40:45.400 --> 0:40:47.120 just talked about it five to day. 0:40:47.280 --> 0:40:52.719 Hello, Well, thank you for that. I appreciate your comments. 0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:54.400 You're welcome. 0:40:54.800 --> 0:40:58.040 Okay, Well, don't be afraid. Save this number and call 0:40:58.160 --> 0:40:59.799 me at this number when we live. 0:40:59.800 --> 0:41:02.680 Alrighty y Will Dollard. 0:41:02.840 --> 0:41:06.120 All right, thank you everybody in LA and everybody that's online. 0:41:06.200 --> 0:41:08.839 I want you all to share this link. Share the link. 0:41:08.920 --> 0:41:11.960 This woman has got information out here that we all need. 0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:14.960 It takes more than us, takes more than her and 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:17.320 I and five brothers on the line to get the 0:41:17.400 --> 0:41:20.080 message across the any and everybody that wants to know 0:41:20.680 --> 0:41:22.720 you got it. If you want to change, make some change, 0:41:22.719 --> 0:41:24.880 you gotta be about to change. You gotta partake in 0:41:24.920 --> 0:41:27.640 the change. Catch you be silent if you say, if 0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:30.680 you see something, say something. I all And at the 0:41:30.760 --> 0:41:33.239 end of the day, everybody gets your ass out there 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:36.719 and damn vote shit, vote for something, but you need 0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:40.239 to vote for the right thing. Okay, child's affected, your 0:41:40.280 --> 0:41:43.279 dog is affected. Jimal and your daddy, your sister, your brother, 0:41:43.320 --> 0:41:46.960 your social security, your check, your car, you driving that car? 0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:47.200 Not? 0:41:47.719 --> 0:41:50.120 Oh wait, don't get me started anyway, You'll have a good. 0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:55.799 Day, love yourself. That was missus. Jacqueline. There were no 0:41:55.920 --> 0:42:00.879 lines being told here listening. Walk up, roll up, pull up, 0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:05.600 get up, speak up for yourself because if you don't 0:42:05.600 --> 0:42:10.279 stand for nothing, you're gonna fall for anything. Right, It's 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:14.080 so interesting we talk about we want this change, people say, 0:42:14.120 --> 0:42:16.759 don we need some vitamin D. But when it's time 0:42:16.800 --> 0:42:18.480 to pull up for the change, to show up for 0:42:18.520 --> 0:42:22.120 the change, sometimes it's nothing but crickets. Then you look 0:42:22.200 --> 0:42:25.719 left or right and you're wondering, well, who's the blame. Well, 0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:29.040 sometimes you got to look in the mirror because you 0:42:29.120 --> 0:42:30.920 got to be the change that you wish to seek. 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:33.600 And if we don't come together as a community to 0:42:33.680 --> 0:42:39.120 share our resources to provide the information, well heck, we 0:42:39.160 --> 0:42:40.640 can go fast a long, but we know that we 0:42:40.640 --> 0:42:43.520 can go further together. And as I report it, there's 0:42:43.520 --> 0:42:47.279 so many stores and businesses that are closing down. What 0:42:47.280 --> 0:42:53.040 does that mean for us? Like Miss Felicia said, why 0:42:53.200 --> 0:42:58.560 are we relying on other communities to support us when 0:42:58.560 --> 0:43:01.279 we've been at the situation we've been put at the 0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:06.600 bottom of this whole social economic society. I don't even 0:43:06.640 --> 0:43:08.720 know if that if I said that right, but pushed 0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:10.959 us down so low. But we've only had to push 0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:12.680 up to even get to where we are right now. 0:43:12.960 --> 0:43:16.200 And when you think about it, we are truly magical 0:43:16.239 --> 0:43:19.839 beings because who else can withstand all of this and 0:43:19.960 --> 0:43:25.000 still be up line at the forefront. It's gonna take 0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:27.920 some change, it's gonna take for people to speak up. 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:31.200 So I just want to remind y'all call me in 0:43:31.239 --> 0:43:33.920 the studio eight one, eight four six one fifty four 0:43:34.080 --> 0:43:36.759 thirty two. I do have an advice letter that I 0:43:36.760 --> 0:43:39.400 want to get to, and I guess I could get 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:41.480 to that now, and because I want to talk about 0:43:42.200 --> 0:43:45.800 breast cancer awareness. I had a guest on Thursday, But 0:43:45.880 --> 0:43:48.960 first let me jump into this Vitamin D advice letter 0:43:50.200 --> 0:43:53.480 subject should I move back in with my mom? 0:43:54.680 --> 0:43:54.799 Now? 0:43:54.840 --> 0:43:57.120 As a preface, we've been talking about this, uh the 0:43:57.200 --> 0:44:00.000 store's closing. We talked about we in a financial situation. 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:02.960 I don't know what your deal is, but pull up 0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:08.399 subject should I move back in with my mom? Dear down. 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:12.759 I'm struggling. I'm twenty three and single and I got 0:44:12.760 --> 0:44:15.360 a good job, but the city I'm in is really expensive. 0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:18.960 After I pay off everything, I only have like eight 0:44:19.000 --> 0:44:22.000 hundred dollars left for the whole month. I want to 0:44:22.000 --> 0:44:23.440 go out and do a lot of stuff and go 0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:26.600 on vacations. But I don't want to get into insane 0:44:26.640 --> 0:44:29.760 credit card debt like most of my friends have done already. 0:44:30.400 --> 0:44:32.399 My mom says that I can come back home, which 0:44:32.440 --> 0:44:34.560 isn't far from from my job, and I can help 0:44:34.560 --> 0:44:37.640 her out too, because she needs the financial help from 0:44:37.680 --> 0:44:41.480 me as well. Dawn. I'd actually be saving about twenty 0:44:41.520 --> 0:44:43.560 five hundred dollars a month if I moved back to 0:44:43.719 --> 0:44:46.120 help her, and that's after me giving my mom a 0:44:46.200 --> 0:44:48.880 thousand bucks a month. Me and my mom have a 0:44:48.920 --> 0:44:52.120 great relationship, Don, and we're super close too, and I 0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:54.120 want her and I want to help her out and 0:44:54.160 --> 0:44:56.440 spend more time with her. But part of me feels 0:44:56.440 --> 0:44:58.520 like if I move back home, I'm somewhat failed in 0:44:58.520 --> 0:45:00.799 the real world and couldn't make it out there on 0:45:00.840 --> 0:45:03.880 my own. Don, What's wrong with me? Why am I 0:45:03.920 --> 0:45:10.680 thinking like this? Signed Pat Kingsley in San Diego, California. Well, Pat, 0:45:10.880 --> 0:45:13.680 hold up, wait a minute. If you've got eight hundred 0:45:13.680 --> 0:45:16.879 dollars after you pay all your bills, I must say 0:45:16.920 --> 0:45:20.799 you probably are a head of most There's so many 0:45:20.800 --> 0:45:25.520 people out here living paycheck to paycheck. Inflation is real. 0:45:27.560 --> 0:45:33.000 The lack of jobs out here is real paying jobs 0:45:33.280 --> 0:45:37.319 where people can afford to live their life. Now we 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:43.120 are in one of the most expensive states in the US, California. 0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:49.880 Now here's what I want to say, Pat, if you 0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:51.759 are debating whether or not you should go home, I 0:45:51.800 --> 0:45:54.759 want to say that you are very fortunate that you 0:45:54.840 --> 0:45:57.279 have a loving and supporting family member that you can 0:45:57.320 --> 0:46:01.279 go to when you need help and love. There's a 0:46:01.320 --> 0:46:02.719 lot of people who don't even have that. Like I 0:46:02.760 --> 0:46:04.879 just think about myself, and you know, this is really 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:07.719 personal for me. I went ahead and I left home 0:46:07.800 --> 0:46:10.560 after college or even after high school to go to 0:46:10.560 --> 0:46:12.960 college in Washington, d C. And from there I went 0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:15.040 straight up to New York. And at that point, that's 0:46:15.040 --> 0:46:18.520 when my mom transitioned. So that wasn't a moment where 0:46:18.520 --> 0:46:21.040 I felt like I had a home to go back to. Yes, 0:46:21.040 --> 0:46:23.160 the rest of my family there, but if you are 0:46:23.239 --> 0:46:26.839 someone who has lost a parent or parent figure, that's 0:46:26.880 --> 0:46:29.840 a different kind of home. Since so the whole idea 0:46:29.880 --> 0:46:32.680 of going back and having that reliance or that reassurance, 0:46:32.760 --> 0:46:36.680 that's not a choice for me. And I'm feel as 0:46:36.680 --> 0:46:40.600 though it probably worked in my favor because that's why 0:46:40.640 --> 0:46:42.319 I have been so gun holed to go about my 0:46:42.400 --> 0:46:46.120 dreams and to live my dreams wide away. But you, Pat, 0:46:48.040 --> 0:46:49.960 you have an opportunity to up level the quality of 0:46:50.000 --> 0:46:54.000 your life. Sometimes we can let our ego get in 0:46:54.000 --> 0:46:56.200 the way of being in a situation. But it's not 0:46:56.239 --> 0:47:00.000 that you're not capable. It's saying, hey, let's be honest, 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:03.320 I don't know how old your mother is, but time 0:47:05.040 --> 0:47:09.279 isn't stopping. And if you know that you have the 0:47:09.320 --> 0:47:12.520 ability to go home right now and still live your life, 0:47:12.680 --> 0:47:16.880 perhaps it's something to consider. We know that stress is 0:47:16.880 --> 0:47:19.440 the number one killer. There are so many people stressed 0:47:19.440 --> 0:47:20.879 out right now, trying to figure out how to pay 0:47:20.880 --> 0:47:22.160 their bills, trying to figure how they going to do 0:47:22.200 --> 0:47:24.760 the next thing because they simply don't have the money, 0:47:24.800 --> 0:47:28.880 and guess what, then they get sick. Then it's like, 0:47:28.920 --> 0:47:34.440 well what do you do? So Pat, my choice on 0:47:34.480 --> 0:47:37.440 this ends is say go ahead and move in with 0:47:37.480 --> 0:47:39.879 your mom, but don't get out there and get too 0:47:39.920 --> 0:47:42.280 buck wold and going on all these trips and drinking, 0:47:42.280 --> 0:47:44.360 because let's face it, twenty three is a party in 0:47:44.400 --> 0:47:47.960 age and not realizing the responsibilities that you have at 0:47:48.000 --> 0:47:51.040 home and the things that you need to do. Okay, 0:47:51.400 --> 0:47:55.319 but remember we're here for a good time, not a 0:47:55.360 --> 0:47:58.279 long time, so make it count. Go ahead, I say, 0:47:58.320 --> 0:47:59.600 go ahead, and move back in your mouth. It's not 0:47:59.640 --> 0:48:01.440 like you don't have a job. Shoo. If you were 0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:04.879 able to afford twenty five one hundred dollars a month 0:48:04.880 --> 0:48:08.520 on your rent and you still got over access and 0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:11.120 amount waiting for you after you pay your mom one 0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:13.719 thousand dollars, go ahead and take advantage of that. I 0:48:13.719 --> 0:48:15.160 think you would be a fool if you didn't, not 0:48:15.120 --> 0:48:17.160 if you said you ain't handle job, and you at 0:48:17.160 --> 0:48:18.959 home sitting on the couch, and I'm like, wait a minute, 0:48:19.000 --> 0:48:23.320 baby girl, but you do so use your olive branch wisely. 0:48:23.640 --> 0:48:29.080 You know, in some communities the child is unable to 0:48:29.120 --> 0:48:31.200 move off the phone home or not allowed or it's 0:48:31.239 --> 0:48:36.480 not condoned, rather until they are married with children, until 0:48:36.560 --> 0:48:39.799 they have a good supportive But I don't know what 0:48:39.800 --> 0:48:41.480 it is. I don't know if it's our community, and 0:48:41.800 --> 0:48:44.440 check me if I'm wrong. But oftentimes it's like, well 0:48:44.440 --> 0:48:46.160 you eighten and grown, it's time for you to get 0:48:46.160 --> 0:48:50.440 out the house. Sometimes I feel like maybe perhaps in 0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:52.520 the African American community, we can do more with our 0:48:52.560 --> 0:48:55.920 foundation about supporting making sure we have things in place, 0:48:55.960 --> 0:48:58.600 having these conversations on how to invest your money, why 0:48:58.680 --> 0:49:01.480 life insurance is important. He we know last month, September 0:49:01.600 --> 0:49:06.480 was Life Insurance Awareness Month. We have several of yours subscribers, 0:49:06.920 --> 0:49:09.759 followers of Vitamin D who work in the tax or 0:49:09.800 --> 0:49:12.919 life insurance industry that can show us how to appropriately 0:49:13.120 --> 0:49:17.479 use our fund. So while we're gonna stop here for why, 0:49:18.480 --> 0:49:21.200 and since we talked about how last month was life 0:49:21.239 --> 0:49:24.279 Insurance Awareness Month, well we know that this month is 0:49:24.320 --> 0:49:26.640 Breast cancer Awareness Month. Now. I don't know if you 0:49:26.680 --> 0:49:28.759 had a chance to tune into the last episode, and 0:49:28.840 --> 0:49:31.960 if not, you can listen to it on all platforms 0:49:31.960 --> 0:49:34.279 when you listen to your favorite podcast. But it was 0:49:34.320 --> 0:49:38.000 all about breast cancer awareness. I had Jan Austin as 0:49:38.040 --> 0:49:42.720 well as Chandra Fitzpatrick on to talk about Miss Chandra 0:49:42.800 --> 0:49:45.719 being a three time cancer survivor and Miss Jan she 0:49:45.760 --> 0:49:50.120 walks over at UCLA, she works over at UCLA, and 0:49:50.160 --> 0:49:53.840 she talks about how she is a valuable resource for 0:49:53.920 --> 0:49:56.560 information and all the things that we can see that's 0:49:56.560 --> 0:50:00.640 going on in our lives. These are the people you 0:50:00.719 --> 0:50:02.400 need to reach out with. Well, here's the thing that 0:50:02.440 --> 0:50:05.200 I thought was interesting. They called me after the conversation. 0:50:05.280 --> 0:50:08.480 They were like, Dawn, you did not mention the whole idea. 0:50:08.560 --> 0:50:11.720 What happened with Ananda Luis? Now you remember a former 0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:16.799 MTV VJ Ananda Luis right, Well, she came about just 0:50:16.840 --> 0:50:19.640 a couple days ago and revealed that her breast cancer 0:50:19.680 --> 0:50:25.040 has metastasized after she decided to keep her tumor. Ananda, 0:50:25.120 --> 0:50:27.560 she's fifty one. She announced back in twenty twenty that 0:50:27.600 --> 0:50:30.960 she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer, noting that 0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:34.640 she had declined to get a mammograms for years due 0:50:34.640 --> 0:50:37.319 to the fear of radiation and exposure. Now do a 0:50:37.360 --> 0:50:41.560 recent roundtable discussion on cancer with CNN, Ananda revealed that 0:50:41.600 --> 0:50:44.400 she went against her doctor's recommendation to have a double 0:50:44.520 --> 0:50:49.319 misectomy following her diagnosis. She says, and I quote my 0:50:49.400 --> 0:50:52.160 plan at first was to get out excessive toxins in 0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:55.120 my body. I felt like my body's intelligent. I know 0:50:55.200 --> 0:50:59.279 that to be true. Our bodies are brilliantly made. She 0:50:59.400 --> 0:51:02.319 continues on, I decided to keep my tumor and try 0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:04.200 to work it out of my body in a different way. 0:51:04.719 --> 0:51:09.400 Looking back on that, I go you know what maybe 0:51:09.440 --> 0:51:18.960 I should have. What do you think about that? You know, 0:51:19.040 --> 0:51:21.080 there are some people who don't like going to the doctor. 0:51:22.239 --> 0:51:25.200 Feeling is though if I disclose some information, you gonna 0:51:25.200 --> 0:51:31.000 find something that's wrong with me. There are some people 0:51:31.000 --> 0:51:34.239 who figure if I don't know, it won't hurt me. 0:51:35.360 --> 0:51:37.759 And then you have others which I probably go into 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:43.760 this bucket, who are here for herbs, vitamins for healing. 0:51:44.560 --> 0:51:46.960 But at what point do you trust your doctor's orders now, 0:51:47.200 --> 0:51:49.400 believe it or not. I actually had a non to 0:51:49.560 --> 0:51:53.759 on vitamin D. This is vitamin D oh a few 0:51:53.800 --> 0:51:57.840 stages ago. How about that a few seasons ago where 0:51:57.960 --> 0:52:01.400 we were not in the studio and she talked about 0:52:01.400 --> 0:52:04.800 the importance of getting mammograms. Take a listen. 0:52:05.480 --> 0:52:09.680 We need to do rammograms even though there is this 0:52:10.120 --> 0:52:15.200 small amount of exposure to radiation, because the risk out 0:52:15.480 --> 0:52:17.280 or the reward outweighs the risk. 0:52:17.400 --> 0:52:17.600 Right. 0:52:17.680 --> 0:52:21.360 The risk of that little bit of radiation is nothing 0:52:21.400 --> 0:52:23.600 compared to the reward of finding out what's going on 0:52:23.680 --> 0:52:26.920 in your body so that you can be proactive, maintain 0:52:27.040 --> 0:52:30.239 more control, and not find out about something when it's 0:52:30.400 --> 0:52:32.720 further down the line. Now, I'm lucky in the sense 0:52:32.800 --> 0:52:36.600 that I didn't wait until it was a stage four, right, 0:52:37.360 --> 0:52:40.320 because that's a harder process to deal with in the body. 0:52:40.680 --> 0:52:43.440 A stage three isn't great, so it's in my limbs, 0:52:43.440 --> 0:52:45.359 and that does make it more difficult. There are more 0:52:45.400 --> 0:52:48.600 things you have to do. There's a deeper dig and 0:52:49.400 --> 0:52:51.719 I wish I had found it earlier. I would have 0:52:51.800 --> 0:52:53.840 if I've been doing mammograms. And that's the part I 0:52:53.880 --> 0:52:57.439 needed women to understand. Yeah, there's a risk, but there's 0:52:57.480 --> 0:52:58.440 a way bigger reward. 0:52:58.520 --> 0:53:01.480 The greater the risk, the greater the reward. Lord, you've 0:53:01.520 --> 0:53:04.120 heard me say this quote countless of times. You know 0:53:04.200 --> 0:53:07.719 that I personally have been affected by breast cancer. My 0:53:07.760 --> 0:53:11.520 mother transitioned from stage four breast cancer. So I myself 0:53:11.520 --> 0:53:14.799 had started my mammograms when I was still in my twenties, 0:53:15.560 --> 0:53:18.480 just because of how rampant it goes in my family. 0:53:19.920 --> 0:53:22.600 The question is are you looking after your health? Have 0:53:22.640 --> 0:53:27.280 you decided to show up for yourself? I think sometimes 0:53:27.320 --> 0:53:30.279 we believe that if we don't know, it won't hurt us. 0:53:30.320 --> 0:53:33.400 But just like Ananda stated, sometimes this whole thing that 0:53:33.480 --> 0:53:36.480 we operate in fear of not wanting to do something 0:53:36.800 --> 0:53:38.960 or because we don't know how to do something well, 0:53:39.120 --> 0:53:42.359 we stay stagnant. And in this situation, she says, well, 0:53:42.400 --> 0:53:45.719 there was a fear about being exposed to the radiation 0:53:46.239 --> 0:53:49.160 that it will cause cancer. And she said, perhaps I 0:53:49.200 --> 0:53:49.880 would have caught it. 0:53:49.920 --> 0:53:50.040 Now. 0:53:50.080 --> 0:53:53.919 That was Ananda back in twenty twenty one talking about 0:53:53.960 --> 0:53:58.680 her stage three diagnoses. Here we are fast forward three 0:53:58.800 --> 0:54:02.640 years later and now she's at stage four. I don't 0:54:02.680 --> 0:54:05.240 know if you or somebody you love has been affected 0:54:05.239 --> 0:54:08.680 by breast cancer, but if we don't know about our 0:54:08.719 --> 0:54:12.040 health and taking better care of ourselves, we won't be 0:54:12.120 --> 0:54:15.560 here to enjoy our families, to enjoy our loved ones, 0:54:15.920 --> 0:54:19.240 to really live our life in abundance, exceedingly and beyond, 0:54:20.040 --> 0:54:22.359 because if you don't check yourself, you may end up 0:54:22.360 --> 0:54:24.759 wrecking yourself. And I guess it was just kind of 0:54:24.760 --> 0:54:26.560 hard for me to even pull up that clip and 0:54:26.560 --> 0:54:28.960 to listen to it because at that time she was 0:54:29.000 --> 0:54:33.960 stage three and I didn't see her current clip of 0:54:34.000 --> 0:54:37.080 her discussing her stage for breast cancer. But I do 0:54:37.160 --> 0:54:41.240 remember how optimistic she was about how it could dissolve 0:54:41.440 --> 0:54:45.760 or to go away. And don't get it twisted. Prayer 0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:52.040 changes things. Prayer changes things, indeed, But guess what faith 0:54:52.120 --> 0:54:55.920 without works is dead. Perhaps there is a way, or 0:54:55.960 --> 0:54:59.440 how about the consideration that God places doctors and medical 0:54:59.480 --> 0:55:03.360 professions here for us, for us to take advantage of 0:55:03.360 --> 0:55:07.160 those services of these people, these skilled professionals, to support 0:55:07.280 --> 0:55:11.120 us in healing. I feel as though sometimes as people 0:55:11.160 --> 0:55:12.879 we get so caught up on the left and right, 0:55:12.920 --> 0:55:15.320 the white and the black, the yin and the yang, 0:55:15.600 --> 0:55:18.880 and not realizing how they're one and the same. What 0:55:18.960 --> 0:55:22.120 are these things work together so that we can be 0:55:22.160 --> 0:55:25.919 a better people, a better society, a better community. Miss 0:55:26.040 --> 0:55:29.280 Jackie just commented on she put colon cancer. I presume 0:55:29.360 --> 0:55:32.400 that somebody in her family or she has been affected 0:55:32.440 --> 0:55:35.279 by somebody close with colon cancer. I don't know what 0:55:35.400 --> 0:55:38.520 your thing is, but you got to check up on yourself, 0:55:38.520 --> 0:55:42.000 which reminds me. I've told you guys that I may 0:55:42.120 --> 0:55:45.520 mention of this before, but Black Men's Wellness Day, right, 0:55:45.840 --> 0:55:48.800 you heard me talk about this over and over again. 0:55:49.280 --> 0:55:51.319 Because we are on this topic. I just want to 0:55:51.320 --> 0:55:56.400 remind you that on November second, Black Men's Wellness Day 0:55:56.440 --> 0:56:00.279 will be taking place in Los Angeles, California, and it's 0:56:00.320 --> 0:56:03.680 a walk to save black men's lives. They will have 0:56:03.920 --> 0:56:08.799 free health screenings with professionals with your interest at her 0:56:08.920 --> 0:56:11.759 I'm talking about people with color. I'm telling you the 0:56:11.800 --> 0:56:16.200 information you need is right at this event. We're talking 0:56:16.239 --> 0:56:20.400 about std we're talking about blood pasture, we're talking about cholesterol. 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:23.400 We're talking about simply knowing your numbers because when you 0:56:23.480 --> 0:56:25.799 know better, you can do better. So therefore you can 0:56:25.840 --> 0:56:28.720 be better. And since we're talking about the African American 0:56:28.719 --> 0:56:31.200 Male Wellness Agency, i'd let you know right now what's 0:56:31.200 --> 0:56:34.000 happening at Crenshaw mal If you know somebody that's over 0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:36.560 here in the area that's a black man that needs 0:56:36.560 --> 0:56:39.200 to talk, well, will man, real talk is taking place 0:56:39.680 --> 0:56:43.960 right now at the Museum of African American Art. It's 0:56:44.000 --> 0:56:47.360 located in Suite two eighty three, that's the second floor. 0:56:48.520 --> 0:56:51.399 Go see Jade and tell them that Dawnlight the break 0:56:51.400 --> 0:56:53.880 of day told you about the organization and told you 0:56:53.920 --> 0:56:56.480 about the event. It doesn't end to eight o'clock, so 0:56:56.520 --> 0:56:59.400 you still have time. I opted not to be available 0:56:59.440 --> 0:57:01.640 to take kind there because I had to make sure 0:57:01.680 --> 0:57:04.040 that I was here with you, me and you to 0:57:04.080 --> 0:57:07.319 talk about the things that we go through. So if 0:57:07.320 --> 0:57:09.919 you know a young man, a young person that could 0:57:09.960 --> 0:57:13.160 benefit or older men that has been going through some things, 0:57:13.200 --> 0:57:15.959 because black men are known to be suffering what twenty 0:57:16.040 --> 0:57:19.160 to thirty percent higher of some type of emotional distress 0:57:19.200 --> 0:57:22.600 in their counterparts. Simply because we aren't talking, simply because 0:57:22.600 --> 0:57:24.920 we aren't talking about the pressures that are going on 0:57:25.000 --> 0:57:27.560 in society. Well, this is a safe haven. This is 0:57:27.600 --> 0:57:29.640 a circle. I've been talking about this for a while, 0:57:29.680 --> 0:57:32.439 how we need to get together and have these conversations 0:57:32.440 --> 0:57:35.640 that are going on in our community. So whether it's 0:57:35.680 --> 0:57:39.360 our mental health or our physical health, check up on 0:57:39.400 --> 0:57:44.640 your wellness and as h Miss Jaggie said, you get 0:57:44.640 --> 0:57:47.760 your breast check this month, please do it. All you 0:57:47.840 --> 0:57:50.040 gotta do is call and make the black doctor apponement. 0:57:50.280 --> 0:57:52.400 And I understand if you are scared, you being scared 0:57:52.520 --> 0:57:55.240 is not gonna change the results you and being scared 0:57:55.360 --> 0:57:58.200 is not gonna make it dissolve you being scared, it's 0:57:58.240 --> 0:58:01.320 gonna keep you stuck in the same place. Each one 0:58:01.440 --> 0:58:06.640 reach one, each one teach one, and it starts with ourselves. 0:58:06.800 --> 0:58:08.960 So I want to open up the phone lines so 0:58:09.000 --> 0:58:12.200 we can get this conversation going. Otherwise we might can 0:58:12.280 --> 0:58:14.000 cut it short so that we can continue to talk 0:58:14.000 --> 0:58:15.560 about the things that are the heart of the matter, 0:58:15.840 --> 0:58:19.440 things that are important to us. So if you are 0:58:19.480 --> 0:58:21.400 tuning in right now, I want to encourage you to 0:58:21.440 --> 0:58:23.840 call me. Call me in the studio eight one, eight 0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:26.480 four six, one fifty four to thirty two eight one, 0:58:26.560 --> 0:58:30.680 eight four six one fifty four thirty two because I'd 0:58:30.680 --> 0:58:33.040 love to hear from you. If there's anything that's going 0:58:33.080 --> 0:58:34.840 on in your mind, if you got a praise report 0:58:34.880 --> 0:58:37.080 about some great things that are going on in the community, 0:58:37.320 --> 0:58:39.640 pull up on me, okay. I want to hear from 0:58:39.680 --> 0:58:42.640 you and owns another great thing that's going on this Saturday? 0:58:42.880 --> 0:58:45.560 Is there anybody going on today's the Soul Well I 0:58:45.640 --> 0:58:50.000 will be there along with the African American Male Wellness Agency. Yes, 0:58:50.000 --> 0:58:52.640 the organization I just discussed about about the Real Men 0:58:52.720 --> 0:58:54.680 Real Talk and the Black Men's Wellness Day. Well, we're 0:58:54.720 --> 0:58:56.840 going to be out there spreading a word about what's 0:58:56.840 --> 0:58:58.919 going on in our community. So I have to see 0:58:58.920 --> 0:59:01.200 somebody up there, and if so, pull up on me. 0:59:01.600 --> 0:59:03.680 Make sure you say hi, make sure you say hello, 0:59:04.800 --> 0:59:06.480 so that I can meet you and that we can talk. 0:59:06.680 --> 0:59:09.360 I know several individuals have came up and said, Hey, Dawln, 0:59:09.360 --> 0:59:11.280 I want to meet with you and I. Sometimes I 0:59:11.320 --> 0:59:13.480 don't have time just on location and times that are 0:59:13.520 --> 0:59:16.400 available to meet with everyone end Sometimes it's better just 0:59:16.400 --> 0:59:18.680 to be in a comfortable with some environment. Now, there 0:59:18.680 --> 0:59:21.640 are some listeners and viewers that I had met up with. 0:59:21.640 --> 0:59:26.120 In fact, I was just talking about last Tuesday, Miss 0:59:26.240 --> 0:59:29.680 Jackie was in town, so we had grabbed coffee earlier 0:59:29.720 --> 0:59:32.720 in the day. But this is a great space, a 0:59:32.800 --> 0:59:35.240 great place for us to pull up and meet. So 0:59:36.560 --> 0:59:40.760 that's what I'm gonna be on Saturday, okay. And also 0:59:41.320 --> 0:59:43.920 I would love if you can get the opportunity to 0:59:43.920 --> 0:59:46.840 make sure that you share this podcast with somebody. I 0:59:46.880 --> 0:59:50.400 am working on diligently coming in every Tuesdays and Thursdays 0:59:50.440 --> 0:59:53.240 to give you some resources, some information to keep you 0:59:53.320 --> 0:59:56.880 excited about your life. But we gotta spread the word 0:59:57.320 --> 0:59:59.000 so we can keep this good thing going. Because when 0:59:59.000 --> 1:00:02.280 I'm here, I'm mess necessarily making the money that's gonna 1:00:02.280 --> 1:00:04.760 put the dollar dollar bills y'all in my pocket. But 1:00:04.800 --> 1:00:08.040 I'm hoping I'm sowing seeds right now because the vision 1:00:08.080 --> 1:00:10.160 is to keep building with this and make this of 1:00:10.160 --> 1:00:12.200 a network of my own. But I need to hear 1:00:12.240 --> 1:00:15.520 from you. I need to hear from you. It's not 1:00:15.600 --> 1:00:17.640 gonna just be enough to say, oh, Dawn, I was there. 1:00:17.720 --> 1:00:19.480 I'll listen to the playback. I need to hear you 1:00:19.600 --> 1:00:22.000 live and full effect, to know that my words are 1:00:22.000 --> 1:00:25.920 not falling on deaf ears. I want Vitamin D to 1:00:25.960 --> 1:00:30.640 be the hub where we're shedding light on resources and information. Okay, 1:00:32.040 --> 1:00:34.080 so I want to leave this open. If nobody's calling in, 1:00:34.120 --> 1:00:37.320 well honey, it's time to get out the door. Now 1:00:37.400 --> 1:00:43.600 is miss Latasha. Here is Miss Tatasha. Now, thank you, 1:00:43.600 --> 1:00:48.160 Miss Jacquelin. I really appreciate you. Thank you. Yes, as 1:00:48.160 --> 1:00:52.280 Miss Jaqueline said, we're talking about sponsor shit, this is 1:00:52.320 --> 1:00:55.720 what listen, ask, you shall receive, seeking you shall find. 1:00:55.720 --> 1:00:57.640 And let me just say another thing when Miss Jaqueline, 1:00:57.640 --> 1:00:59.320 it really meant a lot that we did meet up. 1:01:00.040 --> 1:01:02.000 She reminds me, because I know, like sometimes you just 1:01:02.040 --> 1:01:03.840 feel like you don't know what's happening, you don't know 1:01:03.880 --> 1:01:06.400 which direction you're going. She was like, dn you did 1:01:06.400 --> 1:01:09.919 what you said that you were gonna do. She said, Dawn, 1:01:09.920 --> 1:01:11.240 you said that you were going to get back in 1:01:11.320 --> 1:01:12.920 the studio. You said that you were going to get 1:01:12.960 --> 1:01:15.200 up the phone calls. Yes, I did you know? I 1:01:15.200 --> 1:01:20.280 don't have life tattered in my mouth for nothing. As 1:01:20.280 --> 1:01:22.040 we know, life and death are in the power of 1:01:22.040 --> 1:01:24.000 the tongue. So we have to choose to speak life 1:01:24.040 --> 1:01:28.000 over ourselves, through us and for us, and more importantly 1:01:28.040 --> 1:01:30.600 by us our brothers and sisters that we are sitting 1:01:30.640 --> 1:01:33.880 in left and right. We gotta choose to speak life 1:01:34.080 --> 1:01:35.840 so that we can create the life that we want. 1:01:36.920 --> 1:01:38.360 And I said, well, well, let me be a shining 1:01:38.400 --> 1:01:40.560 example by no means of my saying that I'm perfect, 1:01:40.560 --> 1:01:44.080 but I'm a firm believer of speaking and creating the 1:01:44.200 --> 1:01:48.200 life that you want. And I'm just happy to say, 1:01:48.200 --> 1:01:50.440 you know what, I need to go back into archives 1:01:50.480 --> 1:01:52.520 and pull up the clip, cause that would be an 1:01:52.560 --> 1:01:54.800 awesome moment. I said, Okay, this is the vision to 1:01:54.800 --> 1:01:57.040 get back in the studio and then come back present 1:01:57.080 --> 1:02:01.120 of myself in the studio. Right, Yeah, that's that's that's 1:02:01.120 --> 1:02:04.480 the way I want to do it. I don't know 1:02:04.520 --> 1:02:07.200 if anybody wants to call in with any stories or 1:02:07.240 --> 1:02:10.160 any information. Are there any resources that we need to 1:02:10.160 --> 1:02:12.880 go ahead and move along to share with the community. Well, 1:02:13.000 --> 1:02:15.040 now's your time to pull up on me so we 1:02:15.040 --> 1:02:17.120 can get this good word out. Call me in the 1:02:17.120 --> 1:02:19.840 studio eight one, eight four six one fifty four to 1:02:19.960 --> 1:02:22.560 thirty two. Again that's eight one, eight four six one 1:02:22.880 --> 1:02:26.160 fifty four thirty two. I'd love to hear from you 1:02:27.040 --> 1:02:37.080 right here, right now, okay, And if not, I guess 1:02:37.080 --> 1:02:38.240 we gotta be out of here. I want to thank 1:02:38.280 --> 1:02:40.280 you each and every one of you so much for 1:02:40.400 --> 1:02:44.160 pulling up on me, showing me some love, those who 1:02:44.200 --> 1:02:47.480 called in, and of course those who commented. And I 1:02:47.600 --> 1:02:49.120 just want to say as a reminder to get out 1:02:49.120 --> 1:02:56.000 there involved shooting about what sixteen days from today, in 1:02:56.080 --> 1:02:59.440 just a couple of weeks, we will have the verdict 1:02:59.600 --> 1:03:04.400 of who our next president is. Are you gonna be 1:03:04.400 --> 1:03:08.960 about of that change? Are you gonna walk up, drive up, 1:03:10.480 --> 1:03:14.880 speak up for the change that you wish to see? Listen, 1:03:14.920 --> 1:03:16.040 you ain't got to tell me, and you ain't got 1:03:16.120 --> 1:03:19.479 to prove it to me, show me, say it loud 1:03:19.520 --> 1:03:22.200 and praus, do it with your chest, put some chests 1:03:22.280 --> 1:03:24.680 in it, put some funk on it. That's what we 1:03:24.760 --> 1:03:30.600 need to do. Okay. Well, all right, well listen. Subscribe 1:03:30.640 --> 1:03:34.720 to the podcast. It's available wherever you get your favorite podcast. 1:03:35.600 --> 1:03:37.760 You know that we're all on all social media at 1:03:38.200 --> 1:03:41.560 Vitamin D Dawn Day and oh for good. 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