WEBVTT - Navigating Political Manipulation with Trump's Return 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:00.920 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.279 Mallory and it shit Boy, my son in general. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.479 We are your host of TM. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.280 I Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and Inspiration. 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:15.840 New Name, New Energy. What's going on, my son, Lennon. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.200 It's been a long day, but it's I'm here. I'm 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.840 Blessed Black and Holly Favor and I woke up this morning. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:29.320 Along we along several months, not just yeah, yeah, well, 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.760 I guess so I wouldn't say it's been rough as 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:39.400 much as I would say it's been long, Like it 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:44.080 felt long to me, just the the traveling, the heat, 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:49.879 the constant arguments, who agrees, who doesn't agree, who likes who, 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:51.919 who doesn't like. It just seemed like it went on 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.360 and on and on, and I just wanted it to 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:54.960 be over. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:57.960 I wanted the election to be over. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.120 Yeah, the election was a lot, you know what I'm saying. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.440 It was heavy because a lot of us worked hard 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:05.640 and you know, put a lot of effort into it. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.639 I think for me, it's just been the last probably 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.679 like a couple of weeks. So many people that I 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.319 know or love have lost their life. Yeah, you know, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.320 so that's that's like kind of heavy for me. I 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.680 got friends who's lost parents, you know, just literally just 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.920 this morning, one of my friends lost his life in 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.440 the club, you know, two days ago, Chubby Baby with 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.120 somebody that's loved throughout the industry, like was such a 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.760 good dude, lost his life. You know, we got ca 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:38.000 can It's just it's just constant people just losing their life. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.840 And so I'm just I'm blessed to still be alive. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.319 So I can't complain about any of that, you know, 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.600 but it doesn't feel all the way good to just 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.560 constantly keep seeing death around you. So you know, I'm 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.680 just I'm wrestling with that. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:58.160 I think that's what it makes for the conversation around 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.760 how much we allow ourselves to be like divided by 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:08.640 issues and politics and whatever whatever conflicts we find ourselves in, 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.000 because life goes by so fast, like you think you 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.840 have time, but you really really don't, because you just 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.240 don't know, you don't know what can happen. I was 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.600 just driving the other day and this person did something 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.160 that was absolutely like could have got everybody killed, and 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.680 I was thinking to myself, wow, today could be it 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.560 like over not even me. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.480 It's not something that I'm doing. I'm not drinking and driving. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.000 I wasn't texting, I wasn't any of those things, so 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.560 I could get to you know. I think about the 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.840 movies where they're like you get to the pearly gates 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.639 and it's like why me, Like I did everything right 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.400 in this situation this day, but this other person was 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.760 being irresponsible and therefore my life, you know, was taken. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.519 And I was thinking, Wow, it's so quick, it's so short, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.079 like you just never know and you really you can control, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.360 but so much of your destiny because it's not in 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:06.400 your hands, you know. 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.400 Although you can control. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.040 The choices that we make, that make that can have 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.600 you know, a what do you call it. I don't 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.600 want to say a quick ending, but can make you 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:23.200 make your time shorter. But you can't necessarily control when 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.119 life will be when it'll just be over. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.520 And I'm blessed to be here and have you know, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.600 had made mends with a lot of my friends, like 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.880 even you know RP to to my man pers you know, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.680 we had gotten into argument over Trump online, like we 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.160 was arguing back and forth over Trump, you know, and 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:43.800 we've seen each other and it was always love when 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:45.600 you've seen each other. We hug each other, we laughed 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.440 about it, you know what I'm saying. And then I 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.000 went to his birthday party, brought him a bottle of champagne, 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.600 took pictures, like, showed him loved and then to wake 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.400 up five o'clock in the morning people calling you saying 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.520 that he ain't here, man, And you just never know, 0:03:58.760 --> 0:03:58.880 you know. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:03:59.320 What I'm saying. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.720 So a lot of the the little things and the 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.280 tedious and the menial things that arguments and discrepancies that 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.000 you have with your friends, Man, they don't even be 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.280 worth it, you know what I'm saying. I would definitely 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.840 give it all just to have my friend back. So 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:12.840 it's just it's. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:13.920 A lot, man. Chubby Baby. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.840 I literally just seen Chubby Baby in Atlanta a couple 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.599 of weeks ago. Was sitting there laughing and he was 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.200 talking to me. Were talking about all types of things, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.799 just because we came up in this game. Just watching 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.320 him from the beginning, you know, early in the early 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.560 nineteen late ninety nine and ninety eight, you know, and 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.600 just watching him grow into what he was. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.520 And just that's you know, my friend Prophet that I 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.480 grew up with, that's his cousin. So yeah, so that's 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.680 so you know, a sad thing too. And then of 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:41.560 course Clark Kent. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.520 Was the first people that I wrapped to in late 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.640 ninety nine. It was like ninety eight. I mean it 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.599 was like, yo, I loved you and was telling people 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.000 about me. So it's just like it's just hitting home 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:53.800 and it was really just sorry. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.919 No, you know, you have so many especially men like 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.200 man gotta gotta gotta gotta, got. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:01.279 To take care of yourself. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.640 Guys have to take care of yourself mentally and physically. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:11.080 You know, it's not only bad habits, but also the 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.400 depression that can create situations. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.599 You know, depression can turn into sickness. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.479 Not having a place to go to place your frustrations 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.800 and your feelings. I was thinking about how we were 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:31.359 doing the podcast for Icewear Vesso and he you know, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.159 I was saying when we were talking about why people 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.680 may not like Kamla Harris so much, and I said, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.960 some of it and some men has to do with 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:45.160 trauma deths been unaddressed, and how a lot of times 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.520 men don't have a place to go to like bring 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.200 their stuff because every space that you all have to 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:55.760 show up in it's all about like manly being manly, macho, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.680 even when you're at home, like a woman doesn't want 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.240 a man in the house that's whining and whimpering. It's 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.560 like you want your man to show up strong, but 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.040 trying to show up strong all the time can turn 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.920 into internal sickness that you know, therefore the alcohol becomes 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.520 the thing. Therefore the drugs or the permit, whatever it is. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.160 And so you know, I just think that it's an 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.120 important message for us to be out here preaching and 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:25.440 teaching that you all as men and we also as women, 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.720 but need to be really really taking care of ourselves. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.480 Y'all need to be taking care of yourself. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:30.760 You know. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.840 I was thinking about Clark Kent and that was one 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.800 of his messages, like in the last few years of 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.479 his life when we would see him, like his message was, man, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.720 take care of yourself, you know, check your health, make 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.680 sure you're good. It's not that he could control his 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.560 situation again, right, but I'm sure through what he went 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.880 through he knew that it is important for you to 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.280 be on top of your health. And you know, I 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.479 was looking at messages between the two of us back 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.040 and forth where I said to him, listen, I ain't 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.960 gonna ask you the specifics of what's going on or 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:06.640 how you're doing, but I just wanted to tell you 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.800 that I care. And he wrote back and said, you know, 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:14.360 that's just the simplicity of this message means so much 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.120 to me. And he said, and you keep doing what 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.720 you're doing and don't ever stop ever. And that's something 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.400 that'll stick with me for the rest of my life. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:22.680 You know. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:23.600 That was cluk Man. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.160 Clark was one of those people that when it came 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.400 to hip hop, he wanted he had all of the knowledge. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.240 He would give you all the types of the background. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.920 He would debate you about lyricists. But his energy was 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.000 always beautiful. It was never never a negative energy. You 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.800 walk into a Cluck Kim party. He was one of 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.080 the top DJs in the world. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.600 If you've seen him just in the club, he would 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.400 look at you, he'd give you this love hug like 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.040 you're good to see you, you know what I'm saying. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.120 So and much love to his wife Keisha. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.760 She just beautiful, just amazing, and it just was a 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:59.240 beautiful They are a beautiful group couple. She will continue 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.320 on with his leg see with his family. So Clark 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.280 Kent and your friend Percy, and the number of individuals 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.160 that just keep I mean, I see it, and perhaps 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:14.040 the Internet has just made it more real and we 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.360 see it a lot. But there's a lot, a lot, 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.640 a lot, a lot, a lot of death that is taken. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.120 That's why we got to live life. Man. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.320 I'm telling you, if you don't listen to nothing else, 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.800 so I said, you could debate me about anything, but 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:25.520 live life. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:26.920 Enjoy yourself. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:31.520 Surround yourself around people that have positive energy, do things 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:36.000 in love peace. We are at this age and when 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.360 you get to the forties and almost fifties, you have 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.160 to surround yourself by nothing but love and positivity. Anything 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.520 else is causing stress, is weighing down on your body, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.280 is taken away from your health. You got to make 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.000 and make sure that you take care of your health. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.000 Go and get regular checkups, make sure you eating properly, exercise, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.880 do all the things necessary, man, and surround yourself by 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.600 good and positive energy. I don't want to be nowhere 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.160 around nothing that I gotta force that I gotta worry 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.200 about if somebody gonna shoot me or kill me. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.240 I don't want, I don't want. I'm past that. When 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.160 you when you was twenty, you thought that was cool. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.160 I want to go to the club. We might have beef, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.720 and for some reason it gave you some a drenaline rush. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.080 I don't know what we thought was so cool about that, 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.920 but you realize now that that was the dumbest I 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.400 want to go. When I look or think there's somebody 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.280 that might have a problem, I don't even want to 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.640 be there now. I don't want nothing to do with that. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.320 I want blues music. I want slow gems. I want 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.720 R and B like. I don't want nothing that's gonna 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.520 cause any type of drum. I want to leave at 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.720 the end of the night tipsy after a drink on 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.280 a little wine, a little whatever, and I want to 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:41.880 go to sleep and wake up and say how much 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:42.480 of a good time? 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:43.960 That's it. That's what I want to do. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:45.240 Now, that's the end of that. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:45.880 I said. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:51.040 If somebody says, well, Tomik Mallory, you a dirty two bit, 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.000 no good so and so I'm gonna say, you know 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.400 you're right. I was thinking the same thing about myself. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:03.360 Have a nice day, don't care. Not interested in turning 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.480 everything into a fight, because what we're fighting on the outside, 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.000 the things like I keep going back to the person 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.679 in the comments section that said, to whatever these young men, 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.920 I ain't gonna go back over the story. If we 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:21.640 only knew who the real enemy is was I say, is, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.320 then we would focus so much more of our time 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.080 on that. And I truly do believe that over the 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.240 next several years we will be. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.240 Meeting and I don't want to say it as if 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:35.040 the enemy. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.600 Hasn't always been around, but we'll be meeting the enemy 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:42.680 in reform and have to stand up to that. Let 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.600 me tell you my thought of the day. So you know, 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:54.200 yesterday a video of Donald Trump talking about some of 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.480 his policies and some of the first one hundred days 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.200 like things he intends to do, was released, and one 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.800 of the things that he touched on was that he 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:12.280 will be immediately addressing the gender affirming care and stopping it. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:18.640 Only two genders that will be acknowledged is male and female. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:23.400 And you know, there will be no more puberty blocking medicine. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:29.280 Any doctor who is found to be administering and prescribing 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.200 those types of medications for minors, they will not be 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:38.360 eligible for Medicaid, and medicare to go to their medical 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.480 facilities and they'll be placed on different lists or whatever, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.840 so they will not be allowed to care for minors 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:51.120 who have any kind of you know, that they're transitioning 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.920 in any way. And you know, in the caption of 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.800 the person who posted the video I saw, they said 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:05.200 that zero point zero zero six people, like some very 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:12.000 very small number of kids identify as transgender at a 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:16.520 very you know, minor kids. Now, you know, throughout the campaign, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:22.440 there was this whole thing about there being a youth 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.880 or kids that go to school and then when they 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:29.520 get back from school they're either And I'm really literally 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.200 trying to paraphrase it because I think for me to 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.400 sit here and even repeat the stupid that I saw 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.199 that people leave home, go to school, and come back 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:40.880 there was a boy when they left, and they come 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.840 back a girl, I can't even repeat that and make 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.679 sense of it. So I'm gonna say that what they 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.160 probably meant is that the kid would go to school 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.760 and say, you know, I feel this way, and then 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.120 they come back talking about changing their sex, because I 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.560 just can't process the other thought because there's no way 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.600 that that can happen. There are not doctors in America 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:09.840 giving children sex changes or changing their gender. That is 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.760 not a thing, right, it is not a thing. But 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:18.800 the gender affirming care that is something that people have 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:23.760 had to get and had to consult with medical professionals about. Now, 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.320 first of all, let's just be clear the percentage, and 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.800 I've actually wrote this down that there is little to 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:40.160 no utilization of gender affirming surgeries by kids miners who 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:41.760 identify as transgender. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:43.360 Little to none. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.280 Also, I couldn't find the exact percentage, but I know 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.400 that everything I read said that it is almost like 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:57.559 no kids using gender affirming medication except in extreme circumstances. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.520 So let me tell you when I read what an 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:04.400 extreme circumstance may be. It's not all about changing your 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.040 sex to something different, right, It's not all about gender 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.640 changing your gender. It could be that you are a 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:16.400 child who was born as a male assigned or a male, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:21.360 and you have male genitilia, but then you also are 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:25.200 growing breast at the same time, right, and so a 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.400 doctor will prescribe something that is a puberty blocker that 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.760 basically will stop the breast from growing so that you're 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.600 not walking around in society, especially as mean as kids are. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.280 When you go to school, you in the boys' bathroom, 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.080 or you are playing sports with boys and you are 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.200 a boy, but you also have breast because that's growing. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.480 That is a thing, Okay, It is also a thing 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.120 that a little girl could have her. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:57.320 Female genitalia and then be growing a beard and having 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.560 hair growing in places because there is something chemical imbalance 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.800 or whatever that's happening within her. I don't know if 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.080 that's the correct word, but I would assume it's a 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.280 chemical imbalance when you have two different things going on 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:09.800 at once. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.920 When I was a kid, I grew up. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.320 I had a jaj and the vejj and the breast 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.240 grew at the same time. I never was in a 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.280 situation where all of a sudden certain things made me 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:21.000 feel like I. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.200 Was boy and then. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.080 Yeah, like whatever, whatever, whatever can be the I don't 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.920 want to misspeak about it because it's too serious. Right, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.040 And so you have doctors that see these things. You 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.840 might have a child who is extremely depressed, who is 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.800 suffering with, you know, issues, looking at themselves. They're very confused, 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.640 and there are doctors out here who know what to do. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:49.680 Now are there doctors that might be actually working with 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.720 and supporting a child who's saying I am not a girl. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.720 I feel like I'm something else and I want to transition. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:01.240 Maybe they are, but the statistics, the data shows that 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:02.720 that is happening at. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.360 The low, super super super super low rate. So it's not. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.280 As someone else said to me, someone we both love 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.600 and care for said to me, it's not important at 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.160 all that it should not be happening at all, because 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.480 it's not important to give children gender affirm and care. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.400 I don't agree with that, but here's what I say 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.240 to all the people that I'm watching online who have 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.480 so much to say about this topic. It is true 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.200 that this is a very very minute issue that is 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.480 not happening at large rates to a bunch of kids 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.880 everywhere you go, because I've asked you, I've asked other 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.400 friends of ours, I've asked family members how many of 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.840 y'all the kids in the class are transgender? Or your 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.240 kids went to school, came back and said, I feel 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.360 like I should be something else, and most people are 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:50.440 telling me that didn't happen. 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.040 But you know what is at high rates mass school shootings. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.160 You know what else is a high at high rates 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:01.119 fenton all deaths among young people. So it is interesting 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:05.159 to me right that this person who people think is 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.160 the big bad wolf. He's the big bad Trump that's 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.040 coming in to deal with this thing that is this small. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.320 Is this small, and. 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.000 Yet these other things are this big. And his top 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:20.080 priority is to address this. You know why, because what 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.639 he's not getting ready to do is go tell the 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.720 NRA and the gun companies that they have to do 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.160 something to stop guns from getting into the hands of kids. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.919 That's what he's not gonna do. What he's not gonna 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.200 do because he didn't do it while he was president 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.359 before and he had no intention of doing it now. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.720 To address the issues that Congress has laid before the 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.120 Republican Party to say, sign on to this that will 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.960 help us to deal with people who have access to 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.240 guns with mental health, who have access to guns, as 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.120 they say the Beltway or whatever they call it, where 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.120 there's guns that's being traffic up and down our community. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.959 And by the way, this is before are the quote 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.680 end quote border crisis, because what about the fact that 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.840 there are companies that profit they make money off of 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.040 So you can't blame this on the immigrants. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.600 You gotta look at the people. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.840 It's like they say, drugs aren't being made in the 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.760 black community, so why is it that only people in 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.200 the community are being held accountable for the drugs. Why 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.600 are you not You should be out immediately talking about 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.280 finding ways to crack down on these gun companies and 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:29.800 the NRA. 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.200 You know what else he's gonna do. Oh, he said he's. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.800 Gonna target Big Farmer to make sure that they stop 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.320 with gender affirming drugs. Will he also deal with the 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:42.320 fact that they have profited off of and marketed opioids 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.040 and fentanol and other drugs to our community. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.000 Are they gonna do anything about that? 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:47.720 No? 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.200 You know why because those are his boys, those are 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.320 his donors, those are his people. So it's interesting to 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.800 me that people feel, which is true, that the issue 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.639 of gender affirm and care is something that it's small, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.760 it's not something that should be significant, We shouldn't be 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.480 focused on it. Okay, If that is in fact the truth, 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:10.639 then why in the first days of his announcements did 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.320 he not say I'm gonna get to this because I 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.919 have an issue with this, and it seems that a 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.760 bunch of Americans also have an issue with this because 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.600 we know black folks, we know people of all races 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.200 that have an issue with the agenda affirming thing. But This 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.600 is not as significant as the fact that your child 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.439 and my child are more likely to go to a school, 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.760 a mall, a skating rink, or somewhere and get shot 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.040 by somebody who happens to be a person that has 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:39.960 a gun in their hand because they probably have some 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:44.680 mental health issue, right, or to get drugs out of 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:45.800 the hands of our kids. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.159 Everything you said is on point, you know, And I 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.400 tell people all the time. Donald Trump is a master manipulator, right, 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.600 He's figured out and now he lined hisself with Elon Musk, 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.320 you know, and he's figured out how to target certain 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.240 things that he know triggers people like as a man, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.920 like as an alpha male, you want you you you, 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.600 especially when you're young. In the black community, we've been 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:15.439 taught we've been taught a lot of things about that 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.720 they're trying to demasculate. They're trying to emasculate us, and 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:23.440 they want us emasculate us, and they want to feminize. 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:23.680 Us and all those things. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.920 So those are fears that we have, right, So you 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.320 fear everything. You're like, no, we're not. We're in a way, 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.640 We're not gonna let our kids be emasculate. We don't 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.400 want that for our kids. So he stokes that fear, 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.800 even though as you grow older, you know, when I 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.080 was twenty and all that those things were prevalent. In 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:40.560 my mind, I ain't gonna be around a gay person. 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:42.119 I'm gonna stay it worth for this. And as you 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.199 grow older you're like, well, that's their part, that's their issue, 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.960 that's the that's their reality, that's how they live their lives. Right, 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.280 They're not bothering me. They're not imposing anything on me. 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.160 It doesn't it's not rubbing off on me. I'm who 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.800 I am and they who are, and everybody is an individual, 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.680 and you start to realize, well, that person, that's the individual. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.159 He's not doing nothing to me. She's not doing anything 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:05.280