WEBVTT - Replay* You Have a Fraud Alert 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.120 That's what's up. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:07.720 Family. It's your girl Tamika D. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:11.480 Mallory and it's your boy Mike Son, a general, and 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:12.000 we are. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.320 Your hosts of street politicians. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.360 The place place where the streets and politics meet. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:18.160 What's going on? 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.080 Happy New Year, my son, Happy New Year, twenty twenty 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:23.280 two is upon us. 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:24.240 I'm feeling great. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:29.000 I've already spoke this best number one podcast into existence. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.360 We're gonna have so much money. We're gonna have so 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.000 much wealth. We're gonna have so much success, so much justice. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.760 We're gonna get justice. We're gonna get everything we're looking 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:38.880 for in twenty twenty two. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:46.879 You know, we ended last year twenty twenty one with significant. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:53.519 A criminal justice wins. Right, that's not wins for our community. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.000 You know, you got to cut the trolls. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.360 Can't wait what wins wins means they'll stop killing us. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:04.120 That's what we're fighting for. We ultimately want not to 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.960 be killed. But when we think about the steps that 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.959 it will take to get us to a place where 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:17.039 people know, if I shoot harm, violate the civil rights, 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.759 the human rights of a black, brown or any other person, 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.240 I'm going to have to face the system. And it's 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.800 possible that a jury and particularly juries with white women, 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.880 we got we gotta talk about it because the last 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.200 few juries have been full of white women that not 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.000 all white women, but many white women have been dominating 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:47.720 these juries. Have been finding police officers and other vigilantes responsible, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:52.560 criminals responsible for the murder and the trauma and the 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.960 violations that they've caused on young black men and black 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.280 men in general. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.040 And I think that, you know, that's a good sign 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.440 for how we enter twenty twenty two. That we continue 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.200 to fight in the courts, but even outside of the courts, 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.400 there's a cultural fight that's ahead of us, and I 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.080 think we have a responsibility to stay. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:16.400 On the ground. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.800 In every one of the cases that we have one, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:25.720 so to speak, there were movements that existed on the ground. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.080 There were people involved, there were protests, there was awareness, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:34.760 there was communities speaking out parents that work very closely 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.880 with some of our stellar civil rights attorneys so that 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:44.160 they could go and help to inform the district attorneys, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.880 right because you know, it's always important for us to 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.360 make that separation. The district attorneys have been fighting the cases, 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.800 but they do at times listen to the feedback of 0:02:54.880 --> 0:03:00.800 the family civil attorneys who are giving them strategy. These 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.519 things are happening, and I think that to your point, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.440 we're gonna work this year to ensure that we continue 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.480 to get justice in those places, while it's a small 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.680 form of justice, but that we also set the precedent, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.040 set the tone across this country that if you kill, 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:22.880 you harm, you brutalize, you violate our rights, that you 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.640 will be found guilty of a crime and have to 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:31.560 face actual jail time for you know, for your actions. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.440 It's right, you know, that's that's the always the goal. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.960 Like you said, it's not justice and totality, you know, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.080 but there is periods and there are pieces of justice 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.800 that we need to add to the puzzle, you know, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.000 And a lot of people want to. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.040 Discredit the work that's. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.280 Being done because they don't understand the full process, or 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.280 because they just want to have something to say. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.559 But you know, being on the front lines in this movement. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.600 And actually seeing what it takes to get even those 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.080 small pieces of justice, man, and just understand what it's 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.080 gonna take for us to act actually get the level 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.960 of justice and equity that we deserve and you are 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.960 entitled to in this country. We understand the work, the 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.000 work that we're gonna need to do. We're not even 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:16.880 going to see it in our lifetime, but we're just 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.880 going to contribute to it and continue to fight. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:20.120 Man. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.000 So I want to say thank you to everybody who's 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.520 been a part of it, those small grassroots organizations, those 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.760 who made phone calls, those who donated to organizations, those 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.599 who set in front of these courthouses, those who family 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.080 members who despite all the trauma and pain they went through, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.680 they got up every day and they fought on behalf 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.800 of their family members. And they still fight, and they 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.240 still cry, and they still deal with the trauma even 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.919 after the cases are gone, after the cameras have disappeared, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.880 after everyone has gone off, after the verdict has been delivered. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.200 Even though there's been guilty verdicts, there have been people 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.880 who've lost loved ones. So we just want to say 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.240 thank you for all of the pain that you've endured 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.719 so that justice can be served, even the smallest, smallest 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:07.760 minute way. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.360 And you know that we will continue to do our part. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:16.320 And I'm not sure that George Floyd's family, Dante Right, 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:23.360 Ahmad Aubrey, and even Julius Jones, which was different because 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.840 Julius Jones needs to be at home with his family, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.240 but he was removed from death row and his life 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.480 was spared with hours left. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:37.080 Before his before they would have executed him. And that 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.400 was because of a grass room's movement. And to your point, 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:45.520 Terrence Crutcher, who was also killed by the police, his 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:50.159 sister Tiffany Crutcher, was out there while holding her own pain, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.560 she was out there as one of the leaders fighting 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.320 for Julius Jones' life. And there are so. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:02.280 Many people who have gone from advocate who from survivors 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.080 if you will, you know, some of us say victims, 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.479 but they are they're really truly survivors and have turned 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:13.520 that into becoming warriors within this movement. And I'm not 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.320 sure that they would say it's minute. I think we 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:23.560 have conditioned ourselves because we understand the larger context of 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.480 the movement, right, and so since we know that justice 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.599 is so much bigger, we condition ourselves to. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.080 Minimize it so that. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.480 We don't have to fight with folks who want to say, oh, 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.160 y'all didn't do anything, because he should have got fifty years, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.240 and now you know you didn't do anything, because all 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.440 of them should be guilty but it's not minute because 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.440 the work that went into standing with Wanda Cooper and 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.719 Lee Merit, and also the work that Sean King did 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.440 you know for Ahmad Rby and the protests that we 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.359 went out for, and the people like you said, Queenya 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:09.200 Nostah in Atlanta, Gerald Griggs, the local NAACP there in 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.720 that part of Georgia, they worked hard. We supported them, 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:20.600 but we were actually living in Kentucky fighting for Breonna Taylor, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.240 and we still took our time to support and stand 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.680 with Wanda Cooper and the family of Amaud Rvey. So 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.760 you had that movement happening that kept attention on them 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.280 every single day. Then you turn around and you look 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.480 at you know, what was done even with Dante Wright. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.240 Yeah, totally, you know. And by the way, Dante Wright's 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.000 situation moved fast from the day that he was killed 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.560 until there was a conviction. It was very clear in 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:55.040 the state of Minnesota that people were not going to 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.640 sit back and allow them to slip back with justice 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.880 because there was all ready a conviction on George Floyd. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.960 And I think what some folks may not understand, they 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.640 may not be aware of how much work went into 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:18.400 electing Keith Ellison, who is the attorney general. They're in Minnesota. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.640 I don't think people understand how much work and what 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.880 the battle was to get him elected so that he 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.880 can fight for real and. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.600 True justice in that state. There is so much more 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.360 work to be done, but it's not minute. You think 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:38.280 about Brionna Taylor. Yeah, the trying to get actual convictions 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.120 and to get people arrested in charged. It's an uphill battle. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.840 We hope that the FEDS will come in and file 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:51.000 federal charges against the officers, particularly the four officers, but 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:55.319 even more folks than that were involved in murdering Breonna Taylor. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.360 But yet those officers have been removed from the force. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.880 For us, While it is not the end all be all, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.440 it is significant that they have been disgraced and sent 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.640 home from their jobs. Now we have to fight to 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.600 make sure that we get actual legislation put in place 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.679 that monitors them so that they cannot just go get 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.239 another job in a different city and commit the same crimes. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.640 So to your point, there is a lot of work 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.880 to be done. There's an incredible amount of work to 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:33.360 be done. But I refuse not to appreciate all the 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:38.240 people who have work to do what has happened within 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.319 the year of twenty twenty one that we hope to 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.280 keep into twenty twenty two. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.160 You're right, you know, I apologize, do you know it's 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:47.520 to apologize? 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.240 It's no when I get it, it's not. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.520 Because it's not just our work, right, it's other people 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.480 who are out there working, and as I applaud them, 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.040 you know, I don't want to minimize, you know, the 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.200 losses of people who actually were invested in this work, 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:07.040 because a lot of people lost sleep, they gained trauma, 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.400 they lost money, they lost family, they lost so many 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.880 different things in this fight for justice. So it's beneath 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.720 me to even try to minimize with people lost in this. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.520 But I do want us to understand that there's so 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:22.080 much to go. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:23.880 We still have a lot to fight for. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.080 But those victories that we did get, they weren't they're 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.240 not minute, they're definitely major victories, you know, So continue 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.360 to fight with that and knowing that you have gained 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:35.959 victories when we still got a lot to go. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:44.520 And so that brings me to my thought of the day. Now. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.720 You know, I've been really on vacation. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:52.280 I literally have done absolutely nothing and for you and 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:53.680 other people who called me. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:11:00.640 I've been sitting in a dark room relaxing for the 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.640 entire holiday, with the exception of moving around a little 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.360 bit here and there. Number One, I ain't trying to 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.600 get the COVID. Number two, I just needed a break 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.640 and I really needed to get focused. So, you know, 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.520 TV was a thing, like I was watching shows. First 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.559 of all, we start the holiday with Insecure going off 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.120 the air, so their last show. I haven't even watched 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:26.000 it because I'm like heartbroken and I know a little 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.760 bit about what happened, because social media is such a spoiler, 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:33.200 like they just tell you everything, but you know that's gone. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.880 Then the other day I was watching TV. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.240 I was really excited about Blackish and I learned that 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.000 it was their last episode as well. I'm just trying 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.840 to figure out, what in the heck is happening. Is 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.200 it the ratings? Are we not watching the shows? 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.280 You know? What is the issue? Is it advertising? What 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.200 are we going to do to keep content on TV 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.360 that helps to show us in not just a positive light, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.280 but in our true form. I have no issue with. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.720 Fifty cent and his uh, you know, his portfolio, because 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:15.000 we all like a little crime and Hustler's TV every 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:20.040 every if you say entertainment, whatever, right, we all we 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:20.880 all like that. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.520 By the way, it's every other. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.280 Culture has the same, So we're not gonna see him 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.160 act like that. White folks are not killing each other 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.079 and shooting up and everything on TV. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:37.760 The Asian community there and everybody has entertainment. To your point, 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:44.600 that's criminal through a criminal lens. Lets me say it's 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:45.120 like that. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:52.040 But the fundamentals of their every day for their children 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:56.800 is not just focusing on power and BMF and things 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.960 like that. They also have Grays and Gnat, they have 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.120 I don't know you name the shows right they I 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.040 don't even know them, but I know that they have 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.600 a bunch of shows that shows sort of a myriad if. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.920 You will, of images to their young people. You turn 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.920 on the TV for us and we're losing everything. And 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.880 Blackish was such an important show since we had the 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.559 Cosby Show, then you have Blackish. I don't know, maybe 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.080 there was something in between, but to lose Blackish and 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.920 I'm gonna literally call both Tracy Ellis and Anthony Anderson 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.800 and ask why is it that they were ready to 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.319 move on with their careers? Like I just don't get it. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.840 I'm really trying to understand how we keep content that 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.280 is for your children and my niece and other kids 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:47.079 that are growing up. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.160 I mean, we got to continue to create it. Man, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.080 we have lean away. If we have so many different 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:58.160 black producers and you know that understand the need, you know, 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.240 maybe maybe I think what happens it becomes hard to 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.480 create content right after a certain amount of seasons, or 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:06.760 maybe the ratings. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:07.160 I don't know. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.800 I can't really imagine that black Ish not having good ratings, 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.960 but TV in itself, the ratings for TV and itself 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.080 has been going low. But I do believe that Blackish 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.360 was definitely something that was needed in our community. Was 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.000 something that you look to. You know, it showed us 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.640 in a very positive light. It showed us in so 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:31.960 many different real life situations that happened in black homes 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.760 right in right, whether it's just black homes that come 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.400 from wealth or just poor. It was just those same 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.880 understandings of just black culture that they talked about was 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.560 something that really happened in most homes that people can 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.360 identify with, right and then it gave you something to 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.840 reach for, to have a mother and father that was 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.520 that successful right to be a mother and father that 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.000 was that successful. So it was so it represented so 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.520 many different things for our culture. And I just I 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.960 hope that we have the next production right in the hostel, 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:06.800 right like in the pipeline. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.120 And now I think we have grown Ish and which 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.760 i'm Yaa Shahiti is. I think she's one of the 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.080 executive producers and she's also on the show. We have 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.840 to support these folks like we have to. I know, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.000 we think people are watching, they must have good ratings, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.760 but actually they don't. They don't have the type of 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:32.640 ratings that's necessary to generate consistent advertising dollars. And that's 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.080 the problem. You have to actually have millions of people 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.600 watching your show in order to make sure that you 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.600 can get those ad dollars, or you get pushed to 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.920 some cable networks, and then when you're on those networks, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.240 not everyone can see it because not everyone has cable. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.600 So it's like a tricky thing of trying to figure 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.840 out how do we keep content out there that's forward 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.680 facing for our young people to be able to your point, 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:05.720 it's not that not even just young right, even young adults. Right, Listen, 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.200 we got kids and we need shows like Blackish, Grownish 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.840 and other things for them. But I'm just thinking of 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.880 when you talk about Insecure, this is for young adults. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.200 You have a situation where Issa, when the show originally 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.160 comes on, she has no job. She hustling trying to 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.200 figure it out. It gives you a depiction of what 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.000 it's like when people are like, you know, sleeping with 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.240 this person and you fall in love and then you 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.160 get your heart broke, how you get out of it, 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.280 what your girlfriends can do to support you, how your 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.880 girlfriends can tear you down, The different types of personalities, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.760 people who are you know they are. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:45.760 What do you call it? Plus size? 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.400 Other people like It's so many different things that when 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.520 you're sitting there watching these shows. I remember when I 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.560 used to watch a Different World, the Cosy showing other 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.480 things I saw like, okay, I could do that and 0:16:58.520 --> 0:16:59.440 take a little bit of this. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.280 I like them, little bit of whit Lee, I like 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.320 a little bit of you know this person that like 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.960 what in the hell we like? You said, there has 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.959 to be a consistent pipeline because while we love Tyler Perry, 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.360 while we love fifty cent and all of these shows, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:21.600 that's not exactly what we're talking about those things are entertainment, 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.320 but though just a regular family and or people who 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.560 are existing every day working through life and they're not 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:34.080 so much stereotypical. We need that. We need that. So 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.240 that's my thought of the day. Bring it back. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:39.280 It's definitely a good thought. Man. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.680 We need y'all producers, Black producers get out there and 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.800 make us these shows that show us in highlight and 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.639 give us that energy, to give us that will to 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.720 you know, to aspire to be more. We're looking forward 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.960 to that, man, make sure y'all do it. So usually 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.159 at this time we would have our resident brand expert, 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.119 LaToya Baun with our small Business of the Week, but 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.000 we're not going to do that this week. But next 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.840 week we're going to look back at all of the 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.439 small business that we've showcased throughout the last year and 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.440 we're going to add a couple more. We definitely need 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.840 you to tune in and make sure that you give 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:15.960 us your small business. Make sure that you are a 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.680 small business that have a real business. Make sure you're 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.919 a real business, because we want to showcase and we 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.439 want to be able to give you opportunity to promote 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.560 your services or your product on our platform. 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:30.200 That's how we all need. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:35.160 So the term knowing your status has generally been used 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.880 to talk about your status for your health, to talk 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.679 about whether or not you know if you're HIV positive 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.399 or carrying some other type of disease. And of course, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.920 now that we're in the time of COVID, knowing your 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.480 status has a lot to do with being tested to 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:55.159 see whether you're positive or not. But knowing your status 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.560 means a lot of things, and it should for us, 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:02.560 particularly black folks in this world and specifically in America, 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.760 it should mean knowing what's happening with our credit, checking 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.080 our records, and knowing what's happening with our name, our 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.560 social security numbers. And oftentimes we don't like to see 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.120 things that are not right in. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:16.200 Front of our faces. 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.800 We don't want to deal with it, we don't want 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.080 the stress, and we certainly don't want to have to 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.840 do the work of repairing the credit that we may 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.679 have ruined from when we were younger. But you know, 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.080 fraud is a thing, and we're actually doing a show here. 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.439 We are the first week coming back from the holidays, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.040 where so many people have spent money. Maybe you haven't 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.720 checked your bank account. Maybe you haven't checked your credit 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.480 card statements, but fraud was a real thing going into 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.240 the holidays and it still is. And so we're talking 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.840 with some folks today who are real professional experts on 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.679 how to address your credit and also how to be 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.240 to ensure that you are not a victim of fraud. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:04.840 First guest is Shiwana King. She is a credit repair expert, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.880 the author of a book called Swipe, a motivational speaker, 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.760 and she was just featured on the VH one series 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.480 My True Crime Story. She's also a friend to street 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:21.160 politicians and we're happy to have you with us today. Shwana, 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:22.800 you got to put us on and tell us what 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:23.480 we don't know. 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.960 Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.680 to be here. Thank you, my son, thank you everyone. 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.280 I'm excited this episode is. It means a lot to 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.760 me because you know my background, where I came from. 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:42.200 Financial freedom, like financial literacy, we did not know about, 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.440 you know, growing up, I did not know anything about 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.600 financial literacy at all. You know, I only knew what 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.919 was around me, you know, so growing up, you know, 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.600 me going to prison, me being incosrated was for identity, 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.720 that for a credit card for it, you. 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.920 Know, and that's where it stopped. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.040 Well, that's all I knew was going into the store 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.640 using somebody else's credit card, but I did not know 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:05.080 how it. 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:09.320 Affected that person and the people cards I was using. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.800 I was just using it. They weren't. They didn't even notice. 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.320 They didn't realize that I was using their card, you 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:15.920 know what I mean. 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:20.480 So it's like, now that I know better, I'm like, Wow, 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.880 it's a lot of people out here who really don't 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:28.160 check their credit, who don't even utilize their credit, who 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.439 don't really know anything about credit. And now that I 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:35.960 do credit card credit credit repair, it's like I speak 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:38.320 to a lot of people and I try to, you know, 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:42.080 educate them on how important credit is. You know, what 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.240 you can do with your credit. But if you don't 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.119 know growing up, it's hard. 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:50.400 So how you doing? 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.280 You want a nice how you doing so, you know, 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:57.440 just being formally incarcerated, you know, as well as understanding 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:02.960 what was howl you introduced to credit, like to credit cards, 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:04.119 Like what was the process? 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:05.880 You know, a lot of people don't know it, so. 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:07.760 We got to give them a little education so they 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:11.040 can understand, like what to look out for, you know, 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:13.879 how you pay attention to see if these things are. 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:14.359 Happening to you. 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.160 So okay, so how I was introduced and I'm gonna 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:22.080 bring it from before into now. So do you know 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:24.560 right now, like when you get those alerts that say 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:29.240 your password has been compromised on the dark web or 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:34.440 change your password immediately because it has been the detected 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.680 in certain websites, that's a real thing. 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.480 Like it's real because before, you. 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:45.560 Know, prior to my incarseration, I was basically paying a 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:49.520 hacker to hack into the bank systems or hacking to 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.160 let's just say American Express, and they will basically get 0:22:54.240 --> 0:23:00.000 your account password, email password, and they would try out 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:04.480 pay for that information. And now like I even get 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.760