WEBVTT - Whats Going On In Hati? 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:00.840 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.159 Mallory and its your boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.640 We are your host of Tami. 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:10.160 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, motivation and Inspiration, New. 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:16.160 Name, New Energy. 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So if you're 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.720 sitting here right now like, oh yeah, damn, I love 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.280 this hat, you should go and get love. But there 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.240 are others. They have freedom, they have different words quotes 0:01:59.320 --> 0:01:59.840 on them. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:01.480 It is his trucker hat. You know. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.400 Plauz is known for his truck of hats. He's also 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:13.320 becoming increasingly known for his political dialogue and his political 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.560 understanding and the political gems that he has been dropping 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.400 on socials. You know, I think it comes a time 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.000 in everyone's life. Doesn't matter who you are, if you 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.160 in tune what's going on in the world. You could 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.320 be an entertainer, you could be a stripper, you could 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.000 be a baker, you could be a teacher or whatever. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.480 But if you have a platform, you become responsible for 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.919 educating yourself. And then at the point that you feel 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.280 you're properly educated, you should do what you. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.679 Can to make sure that truth is in the atmosphere. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.560 I love it, I love applause. Does is what we 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:50.239 call entertainment. You know, it's education and it's entertainment. We 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:51.720 should try to get Plaza. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:53.600 Say. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:59.000 He sent me all the flavors, several colors of these hats, 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:00.760 and so I've been rocking him. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.560 And today I was like, oh, let me throw this on. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:02.959 Yeh. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.200 Shut off the flies and stole a couple from me 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.240 because it's about ten of them. So I took one 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:12.160 of two of them. Yeah, to support, to support none beloved, 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:13.960 make sure you. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.919 Send me a little kid package. You know what I'm saying. 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.120 But we love you, plies. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.120 Keep doing what you're doing. It's making a different I 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.000 wrote a comment on his page. They tore me up, 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.600 but you know, I said, you know when it became 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.760 a preacher the man on there saying he hit the 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:31.359 specific thing, and. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:32.639 I saw you reshared it. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.520 Uh. The specific thing he said was that they do 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.120 all these things to us, right like they banned the books. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.600 They hurt us and harm us in so many ways 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.640 I can't remember, but he had a list of all 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:51.280 the things that folks are doing to us elected officials 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:56.160 and otherwise they talked about us, They treat us like nothing. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.880 And then they turn around and sit back while we 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:01.760 fight one another. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.000 We love fighting each other, but when it comes time 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.560 to fight the powers that be, we're not always that good. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.800 Sometimes we are, most times we are, but we could 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.800 do better. We could do better, and we could spend 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:18.000 a little less time fighting each other, fighting one another, 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.960 tearing one another down, and put a lot more of 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.800 our energy and pushing back against the system and the 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.240 things that we claim we want to see change. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.000 So yeah, I think I think that that comes with growth. 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.839 A lot of us don't even understand that we've been 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.080 trained to fight against each other in these situation and 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.039 it keeps us distracted, right, you know, and we're not 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.200 really focusing on the real issues. You know, some people 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.600 are some people. But I realized what I do say 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.120 and we say this all the time, old skin folk 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.720 and kin folk, and the reality is a lot of 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.960 people are intentionally misinforming us. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.240 Oh yeah, right there, Like I just put I. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.479 Posted something from the Riza and it was talking about 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.480 but you know, growing up in the hood, it was 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.920 always the five percent. And you know, I used to listen, 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.160 and I just started to get in tune with mathematics, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.400 and he broke down what mathematics was, and he was 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.120 talking about and they always talked about the five percent, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.080 the five percent nation, and I just used to hear it, 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:17.760 and I just thought they was cool and they knew 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.720 all the big words, and they knew about the atmosphere 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.240 and the sun and all these things. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:23.480 So I like that. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.400 But when I was really listening to what he said, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.800 it's what I feel like I'm experiencing right now. And 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.039 he said, the five percent of the people who have 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.960 the knowledge and understand what's going on, and they're righteous, 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.320 they want to give the people the knowledge, they want 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.800 to help people. They do it out of the kindness 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.719 of their heart. Then there's ten percent of people who 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.640 have the knowledge, but they utilize it to game and 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.839 scam people. Right, they know all of the things, and 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.360 they know how to say the good words, and they 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.480 know how to utilize you because they want to benefit 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.320 off you. They want to play on you. And then 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.800 the rest of the eighty five people just don't who 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.360 don't know you. As a five percenter, you're fighting against 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.640 the ten percent, and it's more of them than you, 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.360 and then you're fighting to try to educate and help 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:07.000 the eighty five. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.680 So your fight is really ninety five. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.719 You're fighting against ninety five percent of people because a 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.480 lot of the people don't know what they're being misinformed, right, and. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.320 A lot of Harriet said I I could have freed 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.120 a few more. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.159 Yeah, especially so. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:25.839 They say Harriet said. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.000 Yeah, Well, I believe she said because it makes sense 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.400 to say, because I definitely believe that. And she said 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.360 that I should have shot some of you niggas, And 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.920 I believe she said that too, because a lot of 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.400 these people, unfortunately, we got to get rid of them 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.520 because they're going to they're going to be to the 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:41.880 detriment of us. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.160 Absolutely, I agree with you, So again shout out to 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:51.080 our brother flies. My thought of the day today. The 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:55.200 last two months, I have spent a lot of time 0:06:55.480 --> 0:07:04.760 trying to just eat, be, see, live, support black businesses, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:10.200 small businesses, and you know, and not just anybody small businesses, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.160 pretty much our businesses. And my thought of the day 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.160 is asking a person like me, a person who has 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:22.960 a platform, how do we critique black businesses? 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:24.080 Right? 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.840 How do we and let me, well, I do guess 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.960 how it has to be done because we have to 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.720 make sure that we call our people to our greatst 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:38.880 self right. And you know, I think about last year, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.600 I ordered a coke from Macage. I was out of 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.680 town for a few days. When I got back, the 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.320 coke came, like you know, it arrived early. They give you, 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.920 I don't know, exit whatever days. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:53.000 I don't know. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.560 Let's just say ten days. Probably it's more than that 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.400 to make any alterations, changes or whatever, especially to get 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.360 a refund. I didn't want to refund. I thought it 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.680 was three days. In fact, when I posted about this, 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.880 I thought I was three days late, but once they 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.400 went through my transaction with me, I was actually two 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.320 days late. To get an exchange. I did not want. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.360 This was a fourteen hundred dollars coade. I did not 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.560 want a refund. I just wanted the smaller size because 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.520 it was too big. Now I know for a fact, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.680 no matter which business you're in, even with policies, policies 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:36.040 are meant to be altered, broken changed, depending on grass 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.720 depending on how much you are, how you're depending on 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.440 your customer service acumen, and how much you want to 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.840 satisfy and please the customer. Make sure the customer experience 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.240 is good, especially when someone someone is not coming to you. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.040 I believe that if you request a refund outside of 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.600 thirty days, fourteen days, ten days, whatever the time period is, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.559 you should not be allowed to get a refund because 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.640 that is a business model that you cannot. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.439 Want to keep. We just want to make sure you're 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:08.760 not just getting your money exactly. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.160 You can't be coming back whatever. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.240 It's just I think that's true. But if someone says, hey, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.280 you know, I just had a little situation. I was 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.160 out of town. I'm just back. I saw it arrived early. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.840 I would like to just get the smaller sides, and 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.520 you have the smaller size sitting there with you. There's 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.040 no way that a business should not say, let me 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.480 make sure I get this to you so that when 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.400 someone sees you looking good and your smaller size, they 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.480 can go say to oh, yeah, of course, and I 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.440 tell you that customer service was amazing. 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.240 They took care of me. Of course. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:42.920 There were some people in my This went on for 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.280 days and days, and it was a huge dialogue in 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.640 my comments section where people were like, oh, well, whether 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.440 it was some people it was very very rare, but 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.280 there was a few that were like you know. They 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.880 was like, hey, you didn't make the timeline and that's it, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.120 and you got You know, I'm a stickler for the rules. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:00.440 The rules are the listen. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:05.000 Rules are broken in this world every single day. And 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:10.040 there is no such thing as a good customer customer 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.839 service process that does not have room for flexibility so 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.000 that you can accommodate, you. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.040 Know, because nobody wants. Nobody wants. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.360 Nobody wants to be with a company where you're spending 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.040 a bunch of money that isn't willing to try to accompany. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:24.920 And it's not just. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.400 So I put it on social media, people started tagging them, 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.160 which I didn't even ask for foksed to tag them. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.280 I just basically said, this is what I went through. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:35.959 So I'm just letting y'all know when y'all go to 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.120 buy something from this particular company, you need to know 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.800 what will happen. And of course people start tagging them. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.640 And then they contacted me, which is a whole different thing, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.079 and they sent this this small They told me they 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.360 wouldn't send the biggest size until I sent I mean 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.480 the smallest size until I sent the code. I did that, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.040 they got it back. They issued me the new coat. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:55.520 That's it. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:56.440 It was a simple thing. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:01.720 But you know, unfortunately the exposure them being embarrassed. 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.800 But that's what it comes down, well, the fact that 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.400 you have proximity to a level of. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.880 I had actually follows, you know what I'm saying, because. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:16.000 If you was just a regular individual, then it wouldn't happen. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.760 Well, sometimes sometimes it does because no, especially on X normally, 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:25.200 Oh yeah, sometimes it does. Sometimes just tagging a business 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.200 in general will get you a response, even if you 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:29.199 have two followers. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:30.240 I've never seen that. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:34.680 Oh no, I've yes, it works for people. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.560 It doesn't work all the time, and you might not 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.360 get the type of response that you would when you 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.880 have a platform. But it does not matter if you 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.559 use your social media and you just tag a business, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.680 especially a business that they really monitor social media see 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.600 some of them they don't, and so when they start 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.640 getting hundreds of people tagging, and then that's when it's 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.679 like oh, red alert, red alert. But if they're if 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.880 they are a business like a Verizon. I remember when 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:01.840 I did not have a lot of followers at all 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.000 and I tagged Verizon about something and they were on 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.760 my line. But I will say a part of it 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:12.280 is also who's running your customer service, who's running your business, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.840 who's handling your your you know, your back office. Because 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.960 I bet you that there was some senior level person 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.439 who's not involved in the mundane day to day operations 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.160 of the macas shipping and handling, who learned about it 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.320 because somebody probably said, Hey, I need to flag for you. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.480 There's a big conversation about us going on on a 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.880 person's page that has over a million followers. And then 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.200 they probably said, what like this tour to get the 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.040 cold for the girl? Like, what are we doing now? 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.760 It brings me to my point. I spent I've been 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.280 spending a lot of time. I'm going to the restaurants, 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.120 I'm doing the things because I realized that, you know, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.760 I am slightly bougie. I'm not going to you know, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.840 I'm bougetto very much so, and I do go to places, 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.880 eat places, and go to places where I feel like 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.200 I'm gonna get the best, the quality customer service, the 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.280 best experience. I do do that, so I have to 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.400 constantly challenge myself. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.120 That is a part of growth. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.320 I have to check myself and say, yo, have you 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.080 supported enough black businesses this week? And I literally will 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:21.440 count like actually supporting our people mixing it in. We 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:28.280 have got to do better as black business owners. Okay, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:34.600 restaurants with dirty dishes, you know, customer service issues, people's 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.920 sucking teeth. They it ain't got oh lord, they didn't 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.480 have no hot sauce at a restaurant last week, a 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.240 black owned restaurant with fried chicken. And I was with 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.440 some older, older, older women and they lost it. They 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.760 lost it what And they said they were gonna go 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.520 out and report it and say it. And I had 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.240 to stop them, stop and say, we can't do that. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.040 And that's the question that I have today as a 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.120 person with influence right here, I am. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.040 I have all of these follows. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.080 And by the way, I find dirty dishes in the 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.800 big brand in the big restaurants too. Let me just 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.079 make sure to say that I'm just saying that over 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.600 the last several weeks that I've been out, I've seen 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.880 it a few times in our spots, you know. And 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.920 it's not just dishes, it's other things again, it's people's attitudes. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.640 It's the response, the customer service time, the way people 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.360 are shout out to miss blame Miami. This is somebody 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.800 who when I've reached out to them with some issues 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.560 with some clothes that they sent and I wanted to 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:34.400 make some changes. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:35.320 They was on it. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.360 They emailing you back day and night. We have to 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.960 upgrade the ways in which some people will say here, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.400 tell me, well, it's the resources. We don't have the resources. Man, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.160 Your attitude has nothing to do with the resources. If 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.080 I tell you I'm gonna be at your restaurant with 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.960 a party of twenty at six o'clock and at six 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.320 forty five you still cleaning the bar and getting the 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.080 situation together, we got to do better. And I've I 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.560 respect the fact that we do need a lot more grace, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:07.640 that we need to be more understanding of the situation, 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.120 and that we also have to be very careful about 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.040 how we expose our own people in the type of 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.000 harm that we could bring to a business that is 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.640 employing our folks, and that's a staple in our community. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.880 I get that, But I also feel a way about 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.160 me putting my money down and I'm trying to have 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.760 parties and events and bring people into these spaces. And 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.760 here I am bringing my resources, my time, my attention, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.440 and then when things go wrong or when people give 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.520 me attitude or they act like they don't feel like 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.120 being bothered when I'm telling them, Hey, this glass, I 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.800 can feel food on it, I can see lip marks, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.280 like I don't want to eat behind the person who 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.200 had this glass before me. I don't think that's fair. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.600 I don't think that anybody should have to pay for that. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.080 You're not giving me anything free. But here I am 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.640 finding myself not willing to or not wanting to go 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.360 out there and say anything about it because I'm trying 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:00.240 to do the right thing. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.840 But then where is the reciprocation of that. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:08.600 But especially in the service world, it has to get better. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:13.880 It has to because as we encourage people to patronize 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.400 our businesses. You know, my mama is who she don't play, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:18.640 So you take her somewhere. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.120 She looking around. She want to see what's going on. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.520 She wants to make sure that it's a place that 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.520 it lives up to the standard. And no, I do 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.640 not feel that just because you're black or anything else, 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.520 or Latino or whatever, that I should be okay. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.240 With getting subpar service. No, I don't think so. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.960 And now with that said, brings me to my music spotlight. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:48.840 In this time of music, where they celebrate people killing 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.040 and drilling and spinning and they got the blick and 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.720 all that and they're killing everybody. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.640 We want to highlight some positive music, and today's. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.360 Highlight is a song that I found on Instagram that 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.760 I hope it's going viral. I've got thousands of comments 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.040 on people seem to love the song. It's called the 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:11.040 Honor Roll and it's about five or six kids on there, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.960 and they talk about positivity, about how they own the 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.560 Honor Roll and how they got a's and how they're 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.719 being celebrated for doing good stuff in school. Ain't nobody 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.119 killed and it has the same energy as the drill 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.840 music and get up. Please support these young kids. They're 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.879 on my page, but it's pretty much going viral. You 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.000 can go. You can find it anywhere. I think it 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.040 started on TikTok the Boss that Daddy and this is 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:40.160 why I first seen it. I found it on Lovely 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.080 seven three two nine. That's that I've seen it Lovely, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.120 but it's on my page. Yeah, you can find it there, 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.960 but just go support those because we do not support 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.119 positivity in that type of energy and those young kids, 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.760 like they got young kids that's ten and nine out here. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.480 With guns and videos somewhere they're gonna shoot it, they're 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:01.960 gonna have sex, all type of ship. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.560 But get support. They literally got a lot of comment. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.119 They get a lot of support. 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.320 They got record deal like, they're signed by big artists 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.040 who are actually in the videos with them while they 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.359 talked this kind of nonsense. So shout out to these 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.639 young kids who did something positive. They still dripped up 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.840 and they still risen up. It's not corny, it's not outdated, 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.399 it's not you know, something that's just positive. So we 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.680 just say, oh, we just want to celebrate positive. I 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.359 don't I don't want that. I want good music, I 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.679 want quality messages, I want I want good visuals. I 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.959 want things that can actually compete with the culture right now. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.200 I want you to make positive music that's actually dope. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.320 And these kids did that, So shout them out. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:44.080 That's what's up. 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:44.919 That's what's up. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.480 All right, Well, let's get into our guests. So you know, 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:53.200 for the last five months, we've been heavily engaged in 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:57.040 the conversation around what's happened in to the Palestinian people 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:01.280 in Gaza. We have been calling for or a ceasefire, 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.480 which we will continue to do. We've taken a very, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:10.320 very what I believe will be historic position that some 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.959 people have, you know, certainly found fault with us in that, 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.440 but I know that we're standing on the right side 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.480 of history. And one of the things that has continued 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:23.359 to be a part of the dialogue is the issue 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.520 around Haiti and other places, the Congo and so many 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:29.240 places where. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.040 People of super dark skin. 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:39.840 Are also experiencing genocide and or you know, extreme poverty, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:45.119 extreme depression, oppression and suppression. And folks have been saying, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.200 why haven't you know, why aren't you talking about these things? 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.360 And of course violence, And they said, you know, why 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:51.919 aren't you talking about these things? 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:53.919 I don't think that that it is. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:57.080 You know it well, certainly, I know that it's not 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.200 a lack of care, but sometimes a lack of information. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.240 I know I'm learning a lot about the Congo. And 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.200 the reason why I can speak so well, the reason 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.200 why we can speak so well to what is happening 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:13.040 to the Palestinian people, is because we've actually walked the grounds. 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:17.159 We've been there, we visited Palestine, we visited Israel, and 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:22.720 we understand the issue. We understand the occupation. We are 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.760 very clear about what has taken place there because we 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:30.520 were there firsthand, and in the Congos specifically, we have 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.879 not been there, and so it is a process of 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:37.760 learning and trying to bring people credible information, credible messengers, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.480