1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just keep a real straight shot with Jason. 2 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a little bit rougher. I'm here for it. 3 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: Those who really believe in the American process, all of 4 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: us straight Shot No Chasing. What's your Girl? Tesla figuro 5 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: on The Black Effect podcasting that word that work? What's 6 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: happening straight shooter is? This is Teslain figur O. Thank 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: you so much for joining me for another episode of 8 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: Straight Shot No Chaser. Today is very important because we 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: have an opportunity to sit down with two ladies I 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: have had an opportunity to know over the last year. 11 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: When I met them, it was like day one. We 12 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: became family. You have seen them all over the TV, 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: not just these two ladies, but also their family. Due 14 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: to the tragic and unfortunate death of George Floyd. He 15 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: certainly was more than just a name and a hashtag 16 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: to these young ladies. They were actually his cousin. Let 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: me not say young ladies, a full grown women, by 18 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: the way, but certainly more to them than just a cousin, 19 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: just a hashtag, just someone in the news about social justice, 20 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: but a family member, more like a brother, a sibling, 21 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: someone they grew up with and over the last year, 22 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: you've heard a lot of conversation from the family, you know, 23 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: on what it meant to lose George as a person. 24 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: You've also had an opportunity to watch them as they 25 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: went through the trial, which we now know it was 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: a successful conviction, and the ups and downs that they 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: have experienced over the last year. I really can't even 28 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: put into words. Most occasions you see them on TV 29 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: five to seven minutes and we're asking questions and they're 30 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: answering questions, and we kind of move on to the 31 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: next topic. But today I wanted you to have an 32 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: opportunity just to know who they are on a personal 33 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: level and why they started the George Floyd Foundation. So 34 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: welcome my guests, co founders of the George Floyd Foundation, 35 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: Sereda Taate and Tara Brown, my sisters. Hello ladies. Hello. 36 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: Well you cannot see them because obviously it was a podcast. 37 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: But I'm looking at Terror, who is always smiling, and 38 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: we teach her about that all the time. She's just grinning, grinning, grinning. 39 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: If if we if we go out somewhere, everybody makes 40 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: a beeline right to Terror because she has the most 41 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 1: engaging smile and that is what I remember walking into 42 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: walking into Serena's house. This was, I guess, just a 43 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: couple of days um after everything happened, and the first 44 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: thing I thought was Saul was tara smile and and 45 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: the second thing was smelling the food, because these ladies 46 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: can get down on cooking for real, for real. I 47 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: told him, I'm not getting ready play games and the 48 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 1: game and way playing with these women because they cook 49 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: for real so despite and I'm saying that to paint 50 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: the picture that when you walk in and you smell 51 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: the soul food and we know that, so you know, 52 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: soul food takes care of the soul, the aroma, the smell, 53 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: the loving embraced, the smile. I just immediately hugged him 54 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: because not just because of the loss, but you could 55 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: truly feel the family connection. And I started calling them 56 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: cousins because I was like, it's truly like meeting a 57 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: cousin you know that you just never met. And I 58 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: just want to say before we get into this, that 59 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: I have watched these ladies endure so much. And I'm 60 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: not just talking about just the case, because this is 61 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: important to say. What a lot of people don't know 62 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: is when you're working with families. There's a lot that 63 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: goes on with families outside of just the case. So 64 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: when the case happens, and now you have to grieve 65 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: in public and have cameras in your face in public 66 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: and remain dignified and mature and keeping the main thing 67 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: the main thing. I have learned so much from these 68 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: two women, and I want to give them their flowers 69 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: because I've worked with a lot of family members and 70 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: I tell them this all the time. I have learned 71 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: so much from these two women on really being up 72 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: to the task to keep the man anything the main thing. 73 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: So I want to say that first off, meeting Serena 74 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: and Terror, you know, with coming in and saying, you know, 75 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: we want to fight for justice. One of the first 76 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: things that we talked about was how do how do 77 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: we make I don't want to use say count because no, 78 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 1: we we certainly shouldn't have lost George. But it was 79 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 1: always their concern to make sure that it's not in 80 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: vain that we get something out of this, that there's 81 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: more to just saying, you know, we lost him and 82 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: we got a conviction, and you know, how do we 83 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: move forward. So from day one and a lot of 84 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: folks don't know this day one. It was really a 85 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: concern of you two to make it mean something worthwhile 86 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: that you can be proud of. So I want to 87 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: ask you Terror and then Serena, and we're gonna talk 88 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: about George and your relationship with him. But this party 89 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: is so impactful because the media doesn't really spend a 90 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: lot of time talking about the foundation, and I wanted 91 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: to do that. You know today, what was the terror 92 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: that you felt the need or the urgency to do something? 93 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: Is it because you were in a place of I 94 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: think most people feel defenseless. They feel, you know, I 95 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: can't do anything. I can't bring the person back, I 96 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: can't make the trial go any faster. I can't be 97 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: the jury, I can't be the judge. So a lot 98 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: of times all the family does have is what can 99 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: we do so that I can find, at leasta a 100 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: better way to agree to know that it matters? Can 101 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: you speak on that a little bit, Terror and why 102 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: doing this type of work and the foundation was important 103 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: to you? Absolutely it was important to me because you 104 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: you kind of touched on it. I mean, it's a 105 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: it's very overwhelming, Uh, to have something like this happened 106 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 1: and and nobody on earth could have predicted that, Um, 107 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: the you know, the movement that that was sparked because 108 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: of the way that that George was was killed, would 109 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: would happen the way that it did. I had no flue. 110 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: I just knew that we had to do something, and 111 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: I knew it was time for things to change. Something 112 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: has to change because it was happening too often. And 113 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 1: it still happens, um, which is why it's so important 114 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: for us to have started this foundation in his name. 115 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,799 Speaker 1: And this is one way to honor him for sure. 116 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 1: Other than that, it is a way for us to 117 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: build a legacy. UM. Hopefully we can you know, we're 118 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: gonna be in a position where we can be a 119 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 1: catalyst for the change, will be working directly with the 120 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: folks to change legislation, to pass the bills that will 121 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: you know, change the way police are handling police brutality. 122 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 1: We we want to change those things and so this 123 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: definitely gives us a platform. The other reason is we 124 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: want to help people. We want to be able to 125 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: change lives. And if we can provide opportunities and resources 126 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: for people who are much like him or have the 127 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: kind of background of Upper and that he had. Then 128 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,119 Speaker 1: that's going to make all the difference in the world 129 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: for us. It's all about the legacy. Now, you said 130 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: something there that I want people to know about you 131 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: guys from a personal les. You said, we want to 132 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: help people, and I want to know. I want people 133 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: to know what that beings um as I got a 134 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: chance to know you guys. You know, Serrita Terry, you 135 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: talked a lot about how your family was, you know, 136 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: there for George and growing up like siblings, and you 137 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: talk a lot about Miss Cissy and always having a 138 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: meal for somebody and just when I'm around your family, 139 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: your parents, you know, we've had this conversation. Fact that 140 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: I got kind of emotional the other day when we 141 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: were on the phone because I told Serrita that I 142 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: wanted you to tell your parents how important just them saying, Tesla, 143 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,679 Speaker 1: thanks for what you do because I don't have parents, 144 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: and you guys are still so for those who don't know, 145 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: if I didn't say it against your both sisters and 146 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: I don't have parents, certainly not a mother and a dad, 147 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: you know at the same time that are still together 148 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: and supportive, you know of what you're doing. You know, 149 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: for those who don't know your your mom uh is 150 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: the secretary for the foundation. You know, your dad is 151 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: always It's not a time you don't go. It is 152 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: truly like the movie so Fo, you know, you go 153 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: over and the whole families that are several generations and 154 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: that's such a blessing and it has been, um it, 155 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: it has touched me in a way that I haven't had. 156 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: And and so sereda speak to a little bit about 157 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: when Tera says we want to help people, let the 158 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: people know, like what that really means for your family, 159 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: that this is not just something you started, you know, 160 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: doing yesterday. When it comes when it comes down to, 161 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: you know, taking care of your community. How how is 162 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 1: it that your family did that when they when they 163 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: barely had even enough to take care of themselves? What 164 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: did that mean? In Cuning homes where I think it 165 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: goes even further back than my aunt, that it really 166 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: started with my grandmother and just really establishing, Uh. The 167 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: one thing that we always had plenty plenty of was 168 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: love to give uh for anybody who needed it. And 169 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: also uh we made beans and rice and whatever we 170 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: had stretch out. And let me tell you, uh, it's 171 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: no small feat to have just uh, rice and gravy 172 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: to be the only thing, and you make you make 173 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: you feel like that you have a piece of pork 174 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: chop or a piece of steak there too. But that's 175 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: something that our grandmother taught us how to do with 176 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: very minimum, minimal you'd be able to have a meal. 177 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: And that is to do like a you know, you 178 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: have the bread, you can make a biscuit, and you 179 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: can do a gravy with some rice and beans and 180 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 1: you're good to go. So for us, it comes from 181 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: a place of understanding that basically that we were all 182 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: placed here to be of service to other people. Um. 183 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: And maybe my grandmother didn't articulate it that way, but 184 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: we certainly understood from early on that you know, you 185 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: never turn away somebody who is hungry or someone who 186 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: needs a place to lay. And so uh, that started 187 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: with my grandmother and it and it was carried on 188 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: with all of our children to include Paris mother and 189 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: my mother so in the Cunning homes uh, even though 190 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: they grew up in a small, roar airing Uh, she 191 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: transferred that right into the heart of the inner city. 192 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: And so people knew Miss Cissy was a place that 193 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: you could always go to and get something to eat 194 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: and if you needed to and they lay down, get 195 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: a nice place to rest for whatever. She was always 196 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: willing to give that of you. And it wasn't a 197 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: big place, it was very small. But if you could 198 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: find a spotting that will lay down, people knew that 199 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: they could come in there. And that's just a kind 200 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: of of of person that she was. That's how my 201 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: mother is and that is the crux of why our 202 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: family is that way. And so to help people, whether 203 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: it is you know, to give them a ride or 204 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,359 Speaker 1: give them, uh, you know, some change to catch the bus, 205 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: whatever it is that we could do to be able 206 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: to help somebody, that's the way we were raised to 207 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: do it. And um it's something that we carried on 208 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: as well. So, UM, I always think about the possibility 209 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: that they could always it could be you. And so 210 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,079 Speaker 1: my thought processes as I'm helping other people is that 211 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: my prayers that never comes to a place that I 212 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: will need that, but if it does, hopefully someone will 213 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: remember that, Um, we were people who are willing to 214 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: help them also. And I just I wanted to uh 215 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: say that because you know I and this is you know, 216 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a shade anybody in my family. 217 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 1: But because I love my family. You know, everybody does 218 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: what they do. But you guys, when when I meet 219 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:29,839 Speaker 1: somebody for the first time who don't know me from 220 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: Adam and it's concerned that I got something to eat 221 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: or my child, you know, if you I just want 222 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: you to know that meant that means something. It touches 223 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: me in a in a real deep way. I don't 224 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: want to get emotional because you know, I'm supposed to 225 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: be hard on TV, so I can't get emotional. Keep 226 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: can't know that because I'm a side. But I just 227 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: want you to know, you know how much you've impacted me, 228 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: you know, in doing this work. You know, they talked 229 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: about the movie just going back to the old movie 230 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: Soul Food, and you know we talk about how it's 231 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: it's more than just feeding somebody. You know, it is 232 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: really a symbolic gesture. I've even told you ladies that 233 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: you need to open up a restaurant, you know, because 234 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: it's not just the food, it's the love that comes 235 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: with the food. And you know, I'm not trying to 236 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: spend a lot of time on that, but because somebody 237 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: as well it's just food, what's the big deal. But 238 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: it's a big deal. You know, when when someone prepares 239 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: something for you, it's a sacrifice in some cultures. I 240 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 1: mean it really and I would even say in the 241 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: black culture, but it truly is a tradition of showing 242 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: love and and humble and humility to prepare a meal 243 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: for somebody. You know, anybody can go out and buy meal, 244 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: but it's different, you know, when you prepare a meal 245 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: and and lay it out the way you ladies do, 246 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: even though terribly late, don't bring it, she's still eventually shows, 247 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: you know, brings, but it's not it's gonna be real good. 248 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 1: But it's not a time I haven't been to your house. 249 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: Even if it's for me and you've got something, you know, 250 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: it's get you a chicken wing or uh cheese or 251 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: something cool laid for sure. I mean it's always you 252 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: make sure that no matter what, that I'm fed. And 253 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: and ladies, you just don't know, I'm telling you, you 254 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: really don't know how impactful that can be to somebody. 255 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 1: So I want to, uh thank you for that encourage 256 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: just let you know, I just want to thank you 257 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: for that, and I want you to know that you 258 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: have encouraged me in a way that no family has 259 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: ever had before, because last year was challenging. And it's 260 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: not just because of George Floyd. It's because of a 261 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: lot of stuff that went on last year, you know, 262 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: pandemic and you're out here and you're fighting, and you 263 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: want to know why, you know, why are you fighting? 264 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: You fight your own you know, I just did alive 265 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: this morning where I'm trying to explain, you know, all 266 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 1: the different sizes of you know, the mcay bryant situation, 267 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: because I can see people attacking our activists. Um, you 268 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: try to bring logic, you know, so that we can 269 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: know how to move forward. Um, you have to deal 270 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: with all of the girls in your life that reminds 271 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: you of pain. Um, you have to fight white supremacy. 272 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: And it's so many of those things that happened, and 273 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: a lot of times, from my standpoint, we don't get 274 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 1: uh recharged or refield. And I guess that's why I'm 275 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: spending so much time Harper on the meals more than 276 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: just you know, the pork chops is really somebody saying, 277 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: you know, I want to make sure you're good, that 278 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: you're your your field have you eight, you don't have 279 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: your baby eight? Do you want to bring it home 280 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: or plate? Hey, you're welcome to come over. You know, 281 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: we're cooking. That just means something, you know, to me, 282 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: because it takes a lot to stay in this and 283 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: it's not always somebody patting you on the back, you know, 284 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: saying keep doing and keep going, keep going. They just 285 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: assume that you're strong enough. I haven't got so many 286 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: calls in the last since this trial in my entire 287 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: career of people calling saying, damn, how do you do this? 288 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: How do you do this? Because with them it was 289 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: just turning off the TV and they certainly don't know 290 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: from your standpoint of the actual greeding. But people that 291 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: that I talked to every day said how do you 292 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: do this? And I'm like, are you just now paying 293 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: attention to what? Like? This is all the time, back 294 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: to back to back to back trauma and you don't 295 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: get refilled a lot. And you ladies have done that. 296 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: When we talk about the trial and all of the 297 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: things that you had to manage, Serta, you have really 298 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: shown me what a woman of faith is about. And 299 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about just you know, got faith 300 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: because I got faith too, But I'm a little bit 301 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: the Lord working on me and a whole a lot 302 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: of areas the Lord is working on the Lord working 303 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: on terror too. But Serta, when I tell you, this 304 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: is a woman that keeps the main thing, the main thing, 305 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: and it's unbothered. I've never seen nothing like how do you? 306 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: For one, you gotta keep up with baby sisters even 307 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: though she's a full grown woman. So and full grown 308 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: married woman. You gotta keep a baby sister. How tell 309 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: me about the rock that you stand where you know 310 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: tas to be quite honest. And I know I say 311 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: this a lot of this truth I have learned over 312 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: the years because I've had This is a tragedy, but 313 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: I've had a few of them, and the one constant 314 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: thing in my life has been, you know, God in 315 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: my faith has been able to support me through all 316 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: of it. And so I learned, probably from the very 317 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: first one, that's who I can lean on in those 318 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: difficult times. And you know, a lot of times people 319 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: will say that and it becomes like a cliche. But 320 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: as my grandmother used to say, I tried it for myself, 321 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: and when I did that, it made all the difference 322 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: in the world. It it allows me to be able 323 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: to go to a place and to uh, you know, 324 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 1: be relaxed and refuel and be able to get back 325 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: on the horse again whenever I fall off, because trust me, 326 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: there are times when it gets very challenging. But it's 327 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: my relationship with Christ that helps me to be able 328 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: to just keep going because He has shown me time 329 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: and time again that when I place my trust in him, 330 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: that he will never fail me. And so that's what 331 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: I have to do. And I have to do it 332 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: not just for myself. I have to do it for 333 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: my family members and and other people around me because 334 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 1: I know that they're struggling with it. And it's because, um, 335 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: he has delivered for me so many different times. I 336 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 1: know that he doesn't just do it for me. So 337 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: that's that's really what it is. I mean, I have 338 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 1: just seen it and I've tried it, and it's the 339 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: only thing that's consistently worked because I have a strong 340 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: support system, like my mom and dad are always there 341 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: or whatever, but they have their own struggles too, and 342 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: so he is greater than all of us, and he 343 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: can handle my struggles and their struggles and everybody else 344 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: to struggles at the same time. So it's my faith 345 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: that keeps me going. It's my relationship with him, and 346 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: if it requires me to go off into my own 347 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: quiet space, which I often have to do when people 348 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: don't even know that I've gone off, and just kind 349 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: of just me and him to say, Lord, I gotta 350 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 1: I gotta do this. I have to stay strong and 351 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: I have to stay focused, because not everybody can be 352 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: remain laser focused, especially with all the noise that's going 353 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: on around you and all the distractions that try to 354 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: take you away from what the main thing is. And 355 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: so when I when I feel like I'm getting to 356 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: that place, I dip off, try a little Jesus, and 357 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: come back. I'll try a little wine. But I just 358 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: wanted to say that because you know, there's been so 359 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: many interviews about George and I. You know, I'm not 360 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 1: trying to take away from that, but I think it's 361 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: important that people know who you guys are as people 362 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: you've done. I think on last week at least thirty 363 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: plus in or views, and all of them are about 364 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 1: George and and that is important. But I want people 365 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: to know. I wanted to take the time so that 366 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: they know who you guys were, who is carrying on 367 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: his legacy the people that you are. And also to 368 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: give people flowers where they're living. You know, we just 369 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: watch d MX service and Swiss be stood up and said, 370 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: give people that flowers while they're alive. Don't wait till 371 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 1: somebody move on, you know, and and go on to 372 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: give their flowers, and and and that's why I'm really 373 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: trying to get down to that. People know, um who 374 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: you are. And I wanted to say that against Serrida, 375 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 1: I have you have really challenged me in ways, you know, 376 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: to make sure as professionals, I think I am as 377 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: together as I think I am. I have certainly learned 378 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,719 Speaker 1: um from you in that way I have you are 379 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 1: truly a rock. With that said, let's talk a little 380 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: bit about the trial and our remaining time on what 381 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: that was like hearing that victory or do you do 382 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: you think it was a victory. We know we have 383 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 1: more work to do, but just for a moment in 384 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 1: celebrating that victory, what did that mean to you? I 385 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: absolutely think it is a victory. You know. I believe 386 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: in celebrating victories big and small, uh, and in the 387 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: big scheme of things. You know it. For me, it 388 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: wasn't just about George like it. You know, this trial 389 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: was certainly about Derek Chauvin and him and him murdering George. 390 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: But I saw it as something that was like, Uh, 391 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: it was a victory for everybody else who had gone 392 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: before and and uh, on the other side, we just 393 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 1: end up with the if the cops just didn't get 394 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 1: didn't get charged, or they weren't convicted, or if they did, 395 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: they gotta slap on the wrist, or whatever the case 396 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: may be. To For me, it was so significant because 397 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: it was almost like validated what everybody else was saying 398 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: all along, is that, you know, now people can actually 399 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 1: see us, they see what we're contending with. UM is 400 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: as easy as it should have been for everybody to 401 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: be able to see what happened to George. That wasn't 402 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion that we would get a conviction. It's 403 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: very difficult to get twelve people to do anything, much 404 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: led for all of them to agree on, you know, 405 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: without having any reasonable doubt. UM. I certainly felt like 406 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: it was a victory and I and I celebrated as 407 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: I was watching UM. And I don't know, somebody somewhere 408 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: probably has this on on footage, uh, because I wasn't 409 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: even focused in on what was going on around me. 410 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 1: But I remember when I heard the first conviction and 411 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: the tears started to roll. At the time the third 412 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 1: one came along, I was a mess. I was a mess, 413 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: My daughter was a mess. I think everybody was. We 414 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: were just kind of all crying. And it really really 415 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: was a release because I think I shared with somebody. 416 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: I didn't even realize the weight that was was that 417 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: I was carrying until after that, because suddenly it was 418 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: just like I was able to release and I felt 419 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: lighter afterwards. So I certainly felt like, you know, we're 420 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: gonna celebrate this win, but when I gonna get stuck 421 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 1: there because you know, often times, you know, people will 422 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: become complacent after you know, you you get this one, 423 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,160 Speaker 1: but number one, we have three other murderers that need 424 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: to be convicted and then this this movement is something 425 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: that I think it's important for us to take the 426 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: advantage of. Right now, the momentum is good for I 427 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: think people are listening, you know, eyes are open, the 428 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: world is um, you know, focus in on what happens next. 429 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: And I believe that there are people who have certainly 430 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: demonstrated that they have an interest in helping at this point, 431 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: and so it would be uh, it would be sad 432 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: if we didn't capitalize on the fact that there are 433 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: people who see us and who are interested in seeing 434 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 1: the social justice movement move forward. So I'm excited about 435 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: what lies ahead. I know it's a lot of hard work, 436 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: but I think this gives us, in a sort of 437 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: a little joke, if you will, a little bit of 438 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: energy to keep going forward, you know. Like, So that's 439 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: I think it's important to celebrate this win. But then 440 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 1: we gotta stay focused on the big picture and know 441 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: that there's still a lot enough to be done. Terry, 442 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 1: you know, we're all women of faith, but there's always 443 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: a time where you ask the Lord why me? You know, 444 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 1: why why did you choose my family? Why it could 445 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: have happened to any family when you ask yourself that question, 446 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: Because I'm sure you did. But all of the things 447 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: that come with this, this is what people don't understand. 448 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: The documentary is coming out later this year of Attorney 449 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: Crump showing not just this family, but all of the 450 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,479 Speaker 1: things that he does. People have no idea um behind 451 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: the scenes, the pressure, the ugly things that you hear 452 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: um from the public, the messages, all of those negative 453 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,160 Speaker 1: messages over and over and over. When you add it's 454 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 1: got that question Terror, what did he say? Did he 455 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: answer you? Um, I'm I'm gonna say, you're absolutely right. 456 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:11,400 Speaker 1: I did ask myself that a few times, Um, and 457 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 1: I had to remind myself that, you know, God gives 458 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: his toughest battles to his his toughest soldiers, and so 459 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:25,679 Speaker 1: I had to tell myself, why not me? Why not me? Um? 460 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: You know, and I have my moments where I feel weak, 461 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,639 Speaker 1: but I understand that He doesn't make mistakes. So I 462 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 1: realized once once we were placed in this position, we 463 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: had to move like, we had to do what it takes. 464 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 1: And so, yeah, we had difficult times, but he definitely 465 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: answered me, and and that was my That was my answer. 466 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 1: That was my answer. What was the verdict like for you? Terror? 467 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 1: The verdict was for me? There was so much build 468 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 1: up and it's kind of like Sharida described, we were 469 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 1: carrying around this bird and that we didn't even know 470 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: we had because when I got the phone call from 471 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:09,479 Speaker 1: Ben saying that the verdict was in, I literally started shaking, 472 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:15,239 Speaker 1: and I had a feeling that we were going to 473 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: get the conviction, but you know, having to trust the 474 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: system that we have seen fail as time and time again. 475 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: I was nervous. I was very nervous about it. And 476 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: so um after hearing the first you know, um first 477 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: guilty on the first account, Um, yeah, I did have tears. 478 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: But it was kind of like by the time we 479 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: reached the third one, the floodgates opened up and I 480 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: thought they were never gonna close. Um, But it was 481 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 1: definitely it was. It was a feeling like I've never 482 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: had before in my life, and I will tell you 483 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 1: it felt so good. But um, I agree with Sharia. 484 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 1: You know, we enjoyed that moment, but it I knew 485 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: immediately that that you know, this is not it like 486 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,159 Speaker 1: we can celebrate this right now, be in this moment, 487 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,439 Speaker 1: but there's work to be done. So yeah, it was, 488 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: it was. It was definitely a good feeling. At least 489 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: it gave us the sense that, you know, what we 490 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: already knew is that somebody needed to be held accountable, 491 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: and those jurors got it. They got it, so that 492 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: was good. If the other officers, let's say they don't 493 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: get convicted, you know, for aiding at a betting, and 494 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: and and they get away with that. I think there's 495 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: a strong possibility that they will, because you know, obviously 496 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: he was convicted, and so if you're if you're saying 497 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 1: he was convicted of a felony and murder and somebody 498 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 1: else was aiding at a betting, he was already been 499 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: convicted of murder. So it's pretty much said that it 500 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 1: was a murder. But each case is different. How the 501 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 1: prosecutor presents that case is different. If it does not 502 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 1: go on our favor and we want to think positive, 503 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 1: but if it does not go on favor, do you think, 504 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: um Serena, it would take away from the justice we 505 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,199 Speaker 1: received or do you really look at it as you know, 506 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: the weight of this was on Derek Shavin. So no 507 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: matter what, you know, we've accomplished something. But how how 508 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: much are you depending on those other, you know, three 509 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 1: officers to to also be convicted. I'm not really depending 510 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: on it. I think you kind of said it stated 511 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 1: it well. I certainly feel like that Derek cholvin Uh 512 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: conviction was the one that we really wanted to see happening. 513 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 1: I think the judge probably viewed it the same way, 514 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 1: which is why Chauvin was tried separate from the other three. 515 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: Um uh and I and I still have a strong 516 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: belief that they will probably end up with a conviction. 517 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: But for me, it really isn't going to change anything, 518 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: uh in terms of my commitment to doing the work 519 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: and to trying to make sure that we see truth change. 520 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 1: It won't change that for me. Of course, we would 521 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 1: like to see everybody convicted, but at the same time, 522 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: I think the major one was Derek Chardon And so 523 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 1: for me, I won't say that, you know, I'll be 524 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 1: happy with the other people getting off, but I can 525 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: say that at least it's something that will still give 526 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: me uh enough energy to say we can we can 527 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: still move forward and continue to fight. You know. Terror 528 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people say, oh, you know, George would 529 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 1: be happy now he will see the justice is done. 530 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: And you know, I'm always quick to say, George want 531 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 1: to be alive. You know, let's first again, I'm sure 532 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 1: George you want to see be alive. I'm sure he 533 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: would want to walk his daughter Gianna down the aisle. 534 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 1: I'm sure you know that would be something that he 535 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: would want. But through the grieving process. You you have 536 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: to tell yourself you know that your loved one. I 537 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 1: don't say tell you. You You have to believe, you know 538 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: that your loved one is at rest and at peace. 539 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: Do you believe that now that this conviction has happened, 540 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: that his soul can rest? Or do you think it 541 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: was resting before this? Because we we as women of faith, 542 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: we know that to be absent with the body is 543 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: what the Lord, that's it. So it was never depending 544 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: up on a on a conviction or not. But do 545 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: you think, you know, at least for his spirit or 546 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: you know, or just knowing okay, because we got him, 547 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: you know, do you do you do you feel that 548 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: energy as well? I definitely feel like he can rest 549 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: now knowing him, you know, the way that I did. 550 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: After he lost his mom, he really struggled a lot 551 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: with with you know, just being okay, you know, because 552 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: he was, you know, very much attached to his mother 553 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: the same way we are toime mother, you know, we 554 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: we have that connection. And so for him it was 555 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: the kind of loss that I don't think he was 556 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: ever fully gonna recover from. So he he was struggling 557 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: with that and and probably among other things, he he 558 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: was trying to accomplish, you know, and he struggled with that. 559 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: So I know that being alive is what we all want. Selfishly, 560 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: I I know that I would prefer to have him here, 561 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,239 Speaker 1: but I do understand you know again that you know, 562 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: being our faith have will have us to believe that 563 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: you know, this was not a mistake. So he's where 564 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: he needs to be. And I'm sure that he's somewhere 565 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: wrapped in his mother's arms. And so if he could 566 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: be proud, I know that I know that he would be. 567 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: I know that he would be happy with with the outcome. 568 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: And and just to clarify that because everybody who's listening 569 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: may not be a believer. So I want to clarify 570 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: that when she says not a mistake, we're not saying 571 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: that Chauvren did not make a mistake, that he did 572 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: did not commit murder, that he should not be held liable. Well, 573 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,239 Speaker 1: we're speaking too because I always I don't ever want 574 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: people to assume that they know when we're coming from faith, 575 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: you know what they're talking about, because everybody has different faiths. 576 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: So when Tara is saying not a mistake, is saying 577 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: that we trust God in all things, um, even the 578 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: things that hurt us. Oh yeah, because they're you know, 579 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: they like to twist, they like to twist it. And 580 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: it's just because we all have different faiths, you know, 581 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: and I don't know. I don't want to assume. Um, 582 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: you know that my listeners understand. You know what you 583 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: meant when you said that. So before we get out 584 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: of here, tell us something about George. We know he 585 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: loved the ladies, so tell us so and they loved 586 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: and they loved him back because he was so tall 587 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: and a big man and all the men and your 588 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: family of that way tall big guys. Tell us something 589 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: about George Serta that you can recall before we get 590 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: out of here. Well, this is probably something I don't 591 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: know that nobody, probably with only the folks who knew 592 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: him really really close. That he was a nail biter. 593 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 1: Uh this it used to I don't know how he 594 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: could do it and not like actually draw blood from him. 595 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: I mean, it was amazing to me to watch him. 596 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: It was something that really I was it really got 597 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: on my nerves to see him doing it. But he 598 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: was a nail body. But beyond beyond that and a 599 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: lot of people. He was somebody who just really liked 600 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,719 Speaker 1: to have fun like he had. It's a playful spirit, 601 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 1: like to dance around and just kind of you know, uh, 602 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: just a playful joy for a person to be around. Uh, 603 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 1: you know, kind of like you always talked about terror 604 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: in her in the room and she she's smiling. You know. 605 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: He was the same way he was. He always had 606 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 1: a smile on his face. And for the ladies in 607 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: the family especially, we knew he was gonna get a 608 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: pinch on the cheeks and our big bear hood. Um, 609 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: something that I will miss. I knew no matter how 610 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: long of a time span it was between when I 611 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: saw him, and I knew that I could count on 612 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 1: getting uh, one or both of those things whenever I 613 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: saw him. And so I definitely will miss that, Terry. 614 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: Anything you want to say before we clone, Um, we 615 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: just have so many, you know, childhood memories and and 616 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: you know, she she's at it best. He was. He 617 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: was full of life. He was just that person that 618 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: you know, would do anything to make you smile. And um, 619 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: you know, one of my favorite memories of when we 620 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 1: were growing up in it in the Third Ward area, 621 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: it's his mom would make beanie wheenies, you know, for 622 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: people who don't know what that is. That's the pooling 623 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 1: beans and the can well she would always add like 624 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: the hot dogs and and brown shoogar too, and you 625 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: know love. Oh you remember that street. So he would 626 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: always be excited about when we had that. So he 627 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: would run and come get me, you know, come on, 628 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 1: we can be the winners today. So I just that 629 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: was just popped in my head just now when you 630 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 1: was asking about memories of him. That was one of 631 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: my favorite members. You know, I still oh you do, okay, 632 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 1: you gotta, but I ain't nothing like some beanie when 633 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: he come back to the food with the floor, y'all. 634 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: You No matter what, I always do and always it 635 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 1: stars and ends with the this is one soulful family. 636 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: My main goal of this was just people to at 637 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: least know who you are. Um you know, who is 638 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,959 Speaker 1: carrying on his legacy, who wants to make sure that 639 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 1: the work is done. I encourage people to google or 640 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: go online the George Floyd Foundation dot com. Look at 641 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: the programs UH in youth services, in social justice and 642 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,279 Speaker 1: advocacy in workforce development. There are so so much that 643 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,319 Speaker 1: I know that you guys are working on have been 644 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: working on, in fact, over seven seven different you know 645 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: program events you guys did just you know, just this 646 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: year alone. So even despite going through everything you've been 647 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: going through, still been doing the work. And I know 648 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:43,719 Speaker 1: you have so much more that you want to do, 649 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,759 Speaker 1: uh in workforce developments, pretty particularly when we started talking 650 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: about young men and men who uh may not want 651 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,960 Speaker 1: to go to college, you know, and have different options 652 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: like George, you know, driving trucks or blue college jobs, 653 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 1: or and still giving people access to scholarships and colleges 654 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 1: and so forth. In fact, when of the first things 655 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:05,399 Speaker 1: that you guys did was a partner with the Eddie Robinson, Yes, 656 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: Eddie Robinson Foundation to get a scholarship. That was the 657 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,080 Speaker 1: first thing that you guys did. And that's the type 658 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,760 Speaker 1: of stuff even though we had it in the media, 659 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: that's the type of stuff that people don't see, you know, 660 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: that's not the story that you hear back to back 661 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: to back. You know, they love talking about George's background. 662 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,439 Speaker 1: We'll talk about what what you're doing now in his name. 663 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 1: You know, let's talk about the scholarship. Let's talk about 664 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,360 Speaker 1: your partner with a hundred black men. You know, to 665 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,399 Speaker 1: assist young young people. Let's talk about, you know, all 666 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 1: the things with working with the Urban League and so 667 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: forth of actually trying to do something positive. So I 668 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: wanted to use my platform, you know, as an opportunity 669 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 1: to do that because I don't expect mainstream media to 670 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: do it. It's not their job, you know, It's it's 671 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: all about the sensationalism let's talk about now. But I 672 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 1: want to make sure that we always use at least 673 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: my platform, my my space, you know, as an opportunity 674 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: to move forward. You have an event coming up, I 675 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,920 Speaker 1: know that you're working on in Houston for a celebrating 676 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 1: one year life. Is that correct, though those details available 677 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:04,880 Speaker 1: to share or will they be able to go to 678 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 1: the website to find out moving closer to would that 679 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,319 Speaker 1: be or will that be open to the public. We 680 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: are working on finalizing some things, but May the twenty 681 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,680 Speaker 1: nine is the date we're looking at doing this celebration. 682 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,839 Speaker 1: We're really excited about it. I think having this this 683 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,919 Speaker 1: uh victory, if you will, just gets it even more 684 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,360 Speaker 1: cause for celebration because we'll be moving looking at the 685 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 1: anniversary and then we'll be able to you know, bring 686 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,760 Speaker 1: in on the fact that energy from UH Derek Schouwding 687 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 1: being convicted as well, and then after that, I know 688 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,759 Speaker 1: you have an aggressive agenda this year with things you 689 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,719 Speaker 1: want to do on the program in addition to while 690 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 1: you while both of you ladies still work, just so 691 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,200 Speaker 1: people know you guys work full time jobs and do 692 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 1: this and have kids. It's just so much. I am 693 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,839 Speaker 1: so honored UH to have been able to have an 694 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 1: opportunity to meet you guys, work with you guys, learn 695 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,400 Speaker 1: from you guys, love on you guys. And I'm so 696 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 1: grateful that you have, UM, you know, spent this time 697 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: with me and not again, not just for this interview, 698 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 1: but for the last year, almost daily or every other 699 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,080 Speaker 1: day are we I mean just constant interaction and I 700 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,200 Speaker 1: have learned so much and you've made me a stronger 701 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,840 Speaker 1: and better woman and advocate, UM, and I hope you 702 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: know we can continue to keep growing and loving on 703 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 1: each other. So I want to thank you for coming 704 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,960 Speaker 1: by again. Everybody, please make sure you check out George 705 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,560 Speaker 1: Foy Foundation dot com. They will be back as we 706 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 1: continue this conversation. Because once the cameras go away, once 707 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,839 Speaker 1: the hype goes down, the work must continue. And that 708 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,840 Speaker 1: is usually when the family needs the most support, you 709 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 1: go on to the next case, You go on to 710 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,879 Speaker 1: the next issue, you go on to the next thing. 711 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,359 Speaker 1: But the main thing is keeping the main thing the 712 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,239 Speaker 1: main thing. When Reverend Al Sharpton met Serena, he called 713 00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 1: her about Slate general right at the gate, because she 714 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: brings that type of energy, that spirit of true leadership, 715 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,680 Speaker 1: and I have learned from her. I consider myself a leader, 716 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,319 Speaker 1: but real leaders always learned. Real leaders are always open 717 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,040 Speaker 1: to grow, get better. How can I do this better? 718 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,359 Speaker 1: How can I say things better? How can I walk 719 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,160 Speaker 1: in a better spirit? How can I be the person 720 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 1: that I need to be in order to make this 721 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 1: movement count? And so I have learned that from these ladies, 722 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,400 Speaker 1: and particularly I've worked with the family, but I've had 723 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 1: an opportunity to work one on one with these two women, 724 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 1: and they have truly blessed my life. So thank you again, 725 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,239 Speaker 1: Sereda Tate and Teara Brown, the co founders of the 726 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,279 Speaker 1: George Floyd Foundation. You can visit at www dot to 727 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,520 Speaker 1: George Floyd Foundation dot com. Thank you for listen. If 728 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: you like what you heard on Straight Shot No Chaser, 729 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,520 Speaker 1: please subscribe and drop. 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