WEBVTT - Buying Black with Ray J and activist Natasha Williams 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.000 What's up, y'all. I'm your girl to meet A D. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.720 Mallory and it's your boy my son in general, and 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.200 welcome to Street Politicians, the place where the streets and 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:19.040 politics meet. We're covering all types of issues, New week, 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:25.400 new show, new issues, lots happening, the same old authentic 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:27.680 you and me. You know, keeping it real, you know 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.120 how we do it. Real is red baby. Real is 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:36.080 definitely rare, and there's a lot happening as always across 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:42.840 the nation. People are dealing with holidays, they're dealing with COVID, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.800 they're dealing with a new administration, um, and just our 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.480 regular everyday issues that we're gonna be talking about all 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.519 of that, all of it, all of it. So that 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.720 brings me to my thought of the day. That was 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.880 kind of cool, right, I thought of the day? You 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.360 like that, Right, it's something. It's a nice little listen. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.200 That's what I'm trying to say. Everything that has to 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.839 do with something that's Brandon and you know that's dope. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.440 I usually have some type of input. I'm just saying. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.520 I'm just well, look, you know, you know, with this 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:25.560 holiday situation, everybody's buying everything and we're encouraging people to 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:31.360 buy black. I struggle with this one issue. Are we 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:36.400 just buying black and not worrying about black excellence? Like 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:42.759 is it okay for us to support businesses and not 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.360 require of them that they be excellent in the ways 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.360 in which they operate? I mean, I think I think 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.360 that's a good question. But I think there has to 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.920 be a real conversation about what we call excellence and 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.200 whether we hold them to a standard of somebody who 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.000 has a million dollar company who has, you know, resources 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.520 that they don't have, or whether we walk into a 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.320 place that we know it's owned by somebody black and 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.080 understand that they might not have those resources and we 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.800 can push them to that. We can you know, we 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.679 can elevate them and say hey, give them tips and 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.760 say hey, or invest in it, you know, invest in 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.880 that that company or that organization and say, I see 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:30.720 what you're doing, it could be better if you did this. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.119 I'm wanting to invest in that. You know. I think 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.280 a lot of times, you know, we we we hold 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.320 our people to a stand it. We don't hold nobody 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.600 else too. We don't ask where is the money going 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.840 and what did you do with this? So why am 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.120 I invested in that we go. We we support other 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:51.680 organizations and other you know, ethnicities without any level of scrutiny. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.760 You know, so of course we want we h But 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.600 what I'm talking about is something dealer. So what do 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.560 you talk Even within our organization until freedom, we had 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:08.040 a bit which you told us, don't start selling merchandise 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.640 until you can actually push out the orders, because you 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.040 were saying, I've experienced this, I had trial and error. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.560 I know how much of a job it is. And 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.679 we on the road in Kentucky and Georgia and all 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.120 these other places, and we're not able to sit still 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.400 and focus on this job. Now we've hired a person 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.640 who is going to man who is managing it and 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.639 doing a really good job of getting all of the 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.120 orders out and all of that. So we figured it out. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.720 And so there is a trial and error part, but 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.760 we recognized that there was a problem and we are 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.600 rectifying it. And by the way, we're rectifying it, and 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.840 we hired someone that we hope to make enough money 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:53.920 to be able to pay them. So we're doing like 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.160 the the three card Molly game right now. We really 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.800 got the salary in the bank, but we think them 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.640 are Randice will sell enough to be able to pay 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.760 this person, right, that's the deal. So I get you. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.760 The resources are not there to just open up the 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.680 Amacy's or you know whatever and sell our clothes, our 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:18.040 our our merchandise and and all of our branded until 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.560 freedom stuff. But there is something to be said about 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.280 one people who don't want to change. They think it 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.640 should already find the way it is. And they use 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.960 that excuse my son that well, we don't have the 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.040 same money that everybody else has. It's not so what. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.280 It still should be customer service. This thing should still 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.760 be clean, your facility should be clean, You should be 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.880 on time. That's another big problem, especially for somebody like me. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.480 When you're talking about hair and you know the services 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.640 that we need. People complain all the time, well you 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.120 should go to black owned businesses and I do my 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:58.880 hair style. It's you know, all of them, and they 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:03.719 and because I'm so busy, and because they are business 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.080 people themselves, they understand the importance of getting me in 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.120 and out of coming to the house or meeting me 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.080 on the side of the road, and you know, whatever 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.880 they have to do. But I have worked with people 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.840 who are chronically late, who are chronically just disrespectful. They 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:23.039 act like they're paying you to do a service for you, 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.919 and I'm challenged with on my social media and other things. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.920 I never want to talk about this issue because I'm 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.520 not trying to hurt black business. But at the same time, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.960 there has to be somebody to call our attention and 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.839 we've got to raise the level of excellence with how 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.160 we put products in the world. Well, I think for me, 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.719 I understand exactly what you're saying, and I'm not saying 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.520 that we should expect less from black people who are 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.080 in business. What I'm saying is you have to look 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.520 at the individual. You have to look at the organization. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.200 You have to look at the company, and you're able 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.719 to tell while they have more recoil since they'd probably 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.840 be bigger, you know, probably when you looked at even 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:08.000 with the Nipsey Hustle's brand, right, he had never sold 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.480 as many things. So when he passed away, the organization 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.400 took months to get people their thing because they weren't capable. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.440 It wasn't that they were just you know, they were 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.479 um incompetent exactly, It's just that they weren't They didn't 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.200 have the bandwidth to actually supply the orders, so they 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.760 it was something new. So when you look at things 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.520 in that aspect, cool, I'm saying if you if you 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.159 have somebody who who does your head that you give 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.640 thousands of dollars to on a regular basis and they're 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.039 constantly late, that means that that person is just not professional. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.920 The individual is not professional. So no, but you can't 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:49.520 say that no, because that means if you make if 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.400 I tell you say, hey, you know, I know that 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.919 you're a little busy sometimes this and that, but I 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.240 have a schedule, you know, and and it's customary when 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.279 you're a customer that you reach out and give somebody 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.320 a courtesy and I'm not gonna make it on time. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.960 Or you're honest about this. When you said a day 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.480 and you said it's that, that's that's professionalism, you understand. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.080 I'm saying, so you it's nothing wrong with expecting a 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.200 level of professionalism and understanding and and and coming to 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.520 a mutual agreement about somebody who are you're paying your 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.200 money to. You know, of course you will want. But 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:24.840 the thing is, I'm not saying that because that one 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.760 black person doesn't fit, you're gonna say, well, I'm just 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.640 gonna go back to the to the the regular. Do 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.520 you know the people who have been doing whatever for 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.760 me because it was this way, No, find you another 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.679 black person that's professional because they are professional Black people 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.000 that do it. So if if we're saying buy black, 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.520 find you a professional black, don't just support any black 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.080 business that doesn't, you know, fit up to your standards 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.520 because they don't want to, or they're not cable or 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.320 doing things like I'm not gonna buy I'm not gonna 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.000 buy less quality something from black person because they're black. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.520 No I will. I would support a movie, a company 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.360 that's on the upbroads that's growing, and I see the potentially. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.560 You know, if you know me, you know I've been 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:11.560 through many different hairstylists, makeup artists, regular style clothing stylists, 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.480 nail technicians like, I've been through many and I continuously 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.960 support black people. I am really grateful that at this 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.280 point I found a team of individuals that really they 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.560 first of all, they want to see me win. So 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.440 that makes a big difference, right, they want to see 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.880 me win, and so they're showing up knowing that they 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.040 are a part of this movement that we're in and 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.439 their job is to help me be a little bit 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.800 more comfortable and look better. So I have to say 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.160 that about my team because they are the bomb. But 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.200 at the end of the day, what I find, to 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.720 your point about less quality, it's the people who have them. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.840 They know how to do hair really well. They don't 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.400 want that, don't want to show up on time. They're 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.439 the ones that have an attitude that they are the 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.120 star of the of the chair, like it's not you 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.560 are supposed to be working for people, you know where 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.760 else I've had issues black contractors and by the way, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.199 I found many trash contractors, and I'm talking about contractors, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.040 not I'm talking about like for your home, for renovations 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.240 or whatever, construction workers. I have found that there's like 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:23.840 some issues there, especially with women hiring car dealership car dealers, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:29.960 like you just get treated unprofessionally. Well, I understand what 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.040 you're saying, but I think it happens with white when 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.040 black women hire white men to do the same thing, 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.160 they treat you unprofessionally. So well, But but it's it's 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.840 a different Yeah, that's true. And I'm not gonna say white. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.440 What I'm saying other I'm saying, well, not just what 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.439 I'm saying outside of the black race, because I've going 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.560 I'm going to get services outside of black race and 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.800 felt like somebody just then they'll ask you, you shure 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.280 you can afford this? They ask you question, so you 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.600 so you gotta acts? What is it? What professionalism are 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.880 you looking for? Are you are you comfortable with being 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.840 marginalized or treated like you're not even supposed to be there? 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.960 Buy somebody that's not your race, or you want to 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.640 deal with some of the level of inconfidence to where 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.640 you know they're not doing certain things that you want 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.960 to do this because you know me, I'm not gonna 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:27.240 deal with any that's everybody that I spent my money with. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:33.079 It's it's pretty much like the worst. You just want 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:37.720 to hide your face because she'll sit there and the 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.720 civil War is not clean, and the ladies walking by 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.760 don't don't not hear her the first time because she says, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.160 excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. This this civil is 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.199 not she know she does it's not it's very it's 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:54.800 just the octaves. It's very raised. Excuse me, excuse me, 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.120 excuse me. This civil war is not clean. And this 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.160 table is not clear, and the table is not clo. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.280 I don't understand what it's not. But the thing is 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.520 this now and then she'll eat the food and say 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.880 this food what I'm not gonna take it back with? 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.200 The food was cold? You know, I asked for a 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.400 certain thing. It didn't get that. But don't worry about it. 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.120 Or did you say you know what? I'm just trying 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.000 to I'm trying to help them be great. And then 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.559 she'll she'll get something and like, no, I don't. This 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.520 is not done properly. I asked you for I asked 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.560 you for a drink and I said no salt, and 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.760 it tastes like you poured it back in and with 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.840 the salt on it. I don't want you to pour 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.760 it back in with the salt on it. I wanted 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.920 to have no salt. I want a new drink. I 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.360 don't want this one poured into like everyone, this is 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.640 what she does, but I don't. But what a good 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.760 point that you made is that I do not ask 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.679 for a discount or that just because I didn't love it, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.200 that I now don't want to pay. I don't do that. 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.719 I just tell them listen, I ate the food, or 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:57.439 I did you know I participated I partake or whatever, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.440 but I don't appreciate these things that happened, and hopefully 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.760 they will make changes and sometimes I go back. But see, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:09.120 I learned the service business, specifically from going to Sylvia's 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.840 restaurant in Harlem since I was a kid. I'm not 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.760 saying it's perfect. Nothing is perfect, okay, because my son 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:16.840 was a bus boy there and I used to have 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.880 to get on him like, uh, move it, move it. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.400 But he knows how hard he worked and how much 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.439 they worked towards excellence. Sylvia the owner of the restaurant, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.200 God let rest her soul. And you know, the family 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.920 runs and operates every single level of the business, from 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:37.200 the chefs to the administration to the event planning and 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.440 all of that. I learned from them. One touch and 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.880 feel your customers. Miss Sylvia, as I said, God rest 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.280 her soul. She used to go to every single table 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.280 in that restaurant herself, not the manager, not the whomever. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.120 She went and walked around and made sure that people 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.360 were good at the tables, touching field, talk to them, 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.160 how did you like it? It wasn't hot? Oh no, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:00.920 you're not gonna eat that. And it's not hot we 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.679 put throwing that out, we're getting you something else. Her 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.760 children learned that, and her all her grandchildren, which you know, 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.600 there are many of my three GW cousins and they 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.120 love you and love us and and and and and 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:18.160 his family. When you go there as a cousin who 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.320 might be coming from out of town, and you think 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.320 you're gonna sit down at the bar, when they get busy, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.360 they get up from eating with their own friends. They 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.800 could be in a meeting doing something that is not 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.240 working for the restaurant. They're not all on the payroll. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.800 They get up, they start moving tables, busting things down, 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.880 taking care of business, because that's how they were trained 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.160 that the only way this business will sustain itself. Where 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.680 they have now purchased half the block, more than half 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.359 the block, um is because we all have to participate 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.520 in the excellence, the movement for excellence for the black 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.000 rais And that's what I want to see. I appreciate that, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.000 and I agree, but you know, and it started with 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.840 no money, no resources. She was frying chicken in a 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.199 with a little a little counter. I think I think 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.200 that's a loss art. You know, I think customer service 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.640 is really a loss or a lot of most people 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.199 are so frustrated that they have a job. Most people 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.880 aren't working in professions and in places where they actually 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.480 enjoy doing it, so they're mad that they there. You 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.440 walk up to me like, okay, what you want? You know, 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.080 there's no trying to I think when she started her business, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.360 it was her passion, you know, it was her love. 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.360 She like, this is my I'm gonna cook my food. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.080 I'm gonna have my people in here. So it's different, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:31.800 and I think we have to get back to that. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.400 You know, we have to expect excellence. We want people 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.520 to get into jobs that they enjoy, that they love doing. 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.320 You know, customer service is very important if you have 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:46.600 a service business, Customer service is very important. I'm trying 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:51.520 to explain to you. They just don't do good because 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.520 it's the worst thing nobody wants to do Jenkie business. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.080 Nobody wants to you say you're gonna do something, you 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.320 don't do it, or you don't call they gotta call 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.840 you a thousand times. It's not done properly. Like, I 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.400 just want to get back to us doing business properly. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.920 There was a time where you can expect that if 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.720 somebody said they was gonna do something. They did it. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.160 So let's get back to good customer service, good business, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.240 good business. I'm telling you that's a that is like 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.280 that should be a movement by itself and doing good business. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.840 You can learn, We all can learn, we all can 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.760 do better. I know for me, I certainly am learning 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.120 and growing and the experience. And you know, I do 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:34.000 not like mess associated with my name and the issue 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.520 that we have with the until freedom merch taught me 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.920 a lesson of one. Sometimes we might want to listen 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:46.960 to my song. It's all knows what he's talking. Mom 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:48.480 might know a little bit about a little I mean, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.200 I know a thing too, about a thing or two. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.200 It taught me is the whole which we know that 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:59.960 preparation is key, and so being prepared preparation prevents poor performance. Okay, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.520 well that's good. What else is going on the streets 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.960 is talking, always talking. I tell you every week the 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.800 streets talk to damn much. That's the fact. That's why 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.280 so many people going to jail. And that brings me 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:19.600 into the streets talking because it's too much talking, so scamming, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.360 you know, holidays, people trying to figure out how they're 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.640 gonna get PS five, you know, they're trying to get 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:31.920 the new jacket, you know, the new fashion. Kids want 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.120 all types of toys, and a lot of people are 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.240 focusing on scamming. It's a it's a new thing. It's 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.120 like a trend. You know, somebody knows somebody to get 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.800 it for cheap, that to swipe it if you give 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.080 them this and that, you know, and I'm hoping that 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:50.880 our kids understand that this right here, it's one of 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.640 the biggest ways that they get you. You know, this 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.080 is this is why I say that poverty is violence, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:00.080 you know, because when you don't have you try to 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.920 figure out ways to cut corners, and you get caught 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.760 up in certain things. And what we do through this 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.840 holiday season. You know, if you out here scamming, it's 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.920 going about three or four months, you're gonna be in 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.280 the prison. Sw It's real dangerous because first of all, 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.439 you're we're talking about the holiday season. But actually this 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:25.120 scamming issue has been going on for a little bit longer, 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.680 which is throughout this whole time when with the with 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:34.240 those the loans, the the stimulus money. I know that 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.200 there have been people applying for unemployment that that actually 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.080 didn't have a job. I seen more money in the 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:45.560 hood than I've ever seen. And that's why some people 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.320 were like, oh, we like Trump. They don't know it 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.640 takes Congress to actually help, you know it, to get 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.840 to put a stimulus package forward. Um. And of course 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.840 other branches of government and the president and all those 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.879 individuals have to come together and agree on it. But 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.879 the president Donald Trump, did not give us a dime. Okay, 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.119 it doesn't work like that. Um. But anyway, that's I 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.800 digress from that. The point of the matter is that 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.480 I see it too. Write like I'm not gonna sit 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.639 here and act like we don't see people moving around 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:25.000 with things that and no job because this pandemic there's 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.359 not even now there's some folks who just came up 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.800 because their ideas, Um, you know, some of their innovative 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.280 strategies to make money have actually worked. And I remember 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.600 at the beginning of the pandemic, I saw this post 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:43.399 that said, um, this pandemic will will make this pandemic 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.200 will show you who can make it and who's broken 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.200 basically who couldn't make it right, um, And it basically 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.560 was talking even more in the post about how people 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.520 with innovative ideas would be able to make a lot 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.679 of money during this time, and those people who might 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.400 have had popping businesses that don't know how to pivot right, 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:12.160 they will You'll see them their business will decline. And 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:17.000 that's true one the struggle of this moment. You see 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.800 so many businesses. I mean, it is so heartbreaking. We 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.640 have been away living in Kentucky, which, by the way, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:29.679 even there in Louisville businesses boarded up, you know, struggling. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.359 They're saying that at least in New York, the businesses 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.040 won't even reopen. When we came back to New York 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.119 and I just had to like run downtown for something. 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:46.760 I was looking around, like what everything It's like, yo, 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.160 things are closed and and and some of the places, 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.800 like you're talking about delis and restaurants that are long 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.639 standing like they are, they've become staples. Everybody goes to 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:03.159 these um these establishments, and to have them closing down 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.440 because of a pandemic. But not even just a pandemic. 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.359 It was the Trump demmick because of the way in 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:14.760 which the pandemic was actually being handled and still today 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.480 not being handled exactly. You know, somebody said, I saw 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.760 you know, you know Instagram is like um, like the news. 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:30.400 But I saw someone say say that who was it? 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:34.320 It was somebody important to us. That there has not 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:40.040 even been a day of mourning that this administration has organized, 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:45.560 like when almost three hundred thousand people died the president 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:49.800 of the United States. It's supposed to stop everything and 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:53.880 and and have people come together to pray and mourn 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.760 those who have lost who we have lost. But that 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.240 would take leadership, you know, that would take a double 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.280 of understanding of presidential is m you know, you know, 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:08.000 I create my work presidential ism, you know, which which 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.080 the president? Because is it just leadership or do you 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:13.439 have to have a heart all those things? You know? 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.760 But even if but my thing is this, even if 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.159 you don't have a heart, you have a common sense 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.120 to know, if I really want to have a being 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.160 a leader, then I would have to, you know, let 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.680 the people believe, you know, even just fake even if 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:28.360 you was faking and you don't even need to heart 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:30.760 fake it because you understand it's the right thing to do, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:32.960 even if you didn't even agree to say, you know what, 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.280 these people people are dying. Let's show that we actually care. 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:38.879 Let's have a dead morning, let's you know, let's let's 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.720 celebrate the families who lost. Let's, you know, console the 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.280 families who look this this president has never had and 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:48.879 he doesn't have he doesn't have common sense, he doesn't 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:53.800 have reasonable discernment. There's so many things that Trump lacks 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:58.200 that I don't even We're not going because you know, 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.800 he doesn't want to even. He doesn't want people to 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:07.560 escape that the pandemic exists. That's the real thing. It's 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:11.000 like trying to ignore it. Yes, there, but it's not 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:13.560 that important, and so we're not going to talk about it. 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.359 But again, all of these folks have died, and we 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:19.480 as a country, we as a nation, have not paused 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:24.000 to acknowledge and support people lost their mother, their father, 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.720 their kids, people lost three and the whole families in 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:33.880 one family likes it's terrible and you know, it's just terrible. 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:38.520 So with that being said, the streets better know that 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:43.080 in a few months, to your point, the indictment is 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:45.440 coming down. I see him all the time. We've been 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:50.200 seeing them, you know, like damn, my boycatting over got 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:53.840 caught up in an indictment. Her g herbal caught up 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:59.040 in indictment for actually supposedly swiping credit cards allegedly, you know. 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:02.920 So it's like, this is what happens. You know, these 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:06.960