WEBVTT - Working Yourself to Death, Literally 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.800 That's how we owned it. What's her Family's your girl 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.039 to make a d mallory and it's your board in general, 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.560 and we are your hosts of street politicians, the places 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:20.000 in the streets and politics. Me, what's going on? I'm like, 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.800 I'm like glued glued glued to the TV today. Actually, 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.160 what's happening now has to do with Steve Bannon, um, 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.640 which is a whole different set of circumstances. But the 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.960 Kyle Rittenhouse trial is happening. Obviously, folks know, we tape 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.239 a couple of days before the episode actually airs, and 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.880 so today, um, the information maybe a little bit different 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.040 and maybe a little delayed from what was actually taking 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.480 place at the time that we uh take this episode. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.440 But we watched as uh the weapons charges, most of 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.800 the weapons charges were thrown out of the caves, and 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:04.600 so some how another decision was made that the weapons 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:09.520 that Kyle Rittenhouse had with him were inadmissible in this 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.160 in the in the trial, but particularly in the closing 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.080 arguments and in terms of what the jury instructions are 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:22.280 for what they can take back with them after closing arguments. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.480 I do not understand, and I know I'm not a lawyer, 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.320 and I haven't had a chance today to have a 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:34.080 conversation with lawyers and understand. But I'm on text threads 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.880 with a number of legal professionals and and lawyers, and 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.640 I don't see anybody given an explanation that makes sense 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.759 about this at all, because it doesn't make sense, man, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.840 because you know, it's the same old and what we 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.559 call the kangaroo court man that we we We've seen, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.920 We've witnessed it. We I've been involved in it. I've 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.720 been a victim of these kangaroo courts, and it always 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.120 seems that, you know, some people have the complexion for 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.480 the protection and it does. It just really makes no 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.840 sense that we even have to have these conversations and 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:12.640 constantly keep seeing these injustices you know, occur, you know, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.560 and people get mad when we say we don't have 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.200 faith in the system, like when when people just don't 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.560 care about the system and we want to we want 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.639 to believe that there's a system that works, that there's 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.200 a system of accountability, there's a system with fan and 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:30.640 equal treatment, that everyone is created equally and all these things, 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:32.959 but it just doesn't happen that way. And this is 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.440 a classic example. You we've seen it writing on the 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:40.120 war from the beginning with this situation, how a majority 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:46.160 of white America has supported this man and embrastim well, 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.720 listen to me. He had he had a go fund 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.359 me that raised how much money, I don't know, but 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.360 it was a lot. There was a lot of money. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.200 So you understand I'm saying, and you won't see what left. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.040 There have been a black man, they would have threw 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.320 him under the jail go fund me. They would have 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.760 funded his ass into jail, and he would have still 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.200 been in jailed. You probably would have got killed because 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.200 he would have never made it back home at all anywhere. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:11.760 So at the end of the day, this is the 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.320 things that we're dealing with, and once again another attrocity man. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.919 So you know, let's just hope again. By the time 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:23.120 this episode airs, Um, I hope that the closing arguments 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.280 are finished and that the jury has made a decision 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:32.000 to convict Um Kyle Rittenhouse of murder. I don't even 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.000 know what all his charges are, but I know he 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.160 shouldn't walk free Um. And I think his mother should 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.920 also face some charges because she had her son in 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.720 the car bringing him across state lines with weapons that 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.120 she knew he was not supposed to have and then 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.320 he goes out and kills Now in our situation, right, 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.720 first of all, if you put your child in the 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.600 school that is outside the school district, you can do 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:05.120 five years. Like our sister Crystal Mason. Um, it's something. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:10.640 It's someone that that was accountable for her actions right 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.280 related to her child going to school somewhere that she 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.559 should not have gone and in fact, her father lived 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:21.240 in the district. Right, you have situations where because of 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:26.480 a child's truancy, parents are picked up and arrested. I 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.800 just would love to see the numbers. Some people will argue, old, 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.720 you know, Tamika, you know it happens to everybody. It's 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.599 not just okay, We'll show me the numbers. Show me 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:42.479 how many white families where their children cut school have 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.640 been arrested for the truancy of their child. I want 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.559 to see it. If it's if it compares. Maybe I'm wrong, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.280 but I don't think so. I don't think so. Even man, 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.719 I look at my my case. You know, I got 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.719 convicted of a gun that I never had, that nobody 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.440 else found, never seen. I got convicted of a weapons 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.400 and sentenced to to two to four years for a 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.080 weapon that was never found or even seen ever anything. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.440 Four years we were talking about two to four. Yeah, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.719 that was part. That was you know, there was one 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.600 of the charges, but the robbery charges superseded that because 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.640 it was the highest count. So it was it was 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.200 four to eight, and then it was three, three to six, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.880 and and then under the underneath charges with weapons possessions 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.400 two to four years for weapons possession and it's two 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.800 to four. So the highest counts they add those two together, 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:35.560 the three to six and for the eight to get 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.320 my sentence to hide. The lower counts were superseded, but 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.239 I was sentenced to two to four years for weapons 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:47.600 possession that never never had and nobody ever saw, never anything. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.320 Well that's kind of that. Well, you don't see not 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.680 understanding you have to understand the legal system, because I'm 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.320 sure going into it you had no idea about this 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.920 and this layer and that and the judge and all 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.600 the things that happen with your attorney. And so I'm 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.080 just saying that in in in in these situations, it 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.760 seems like to your point that they that white people 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.480 have a complexion for protection, Like you said, that's it. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.200 I mean, that's That's that's my thought. But tell me 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.880 what this sweatshirt means that you have on to that. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.600 It means, it means fuck it. If you don't care, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:25.680 if I don't you know, if you've got a problem 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.719 with me, fuck you, fuck it, fuck you, fuck it. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.120 You know what I'm saying, anybody, So everybody that has 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:36.240 the problem with you is you put a post s 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.720 up yesterday right that resonated. You know, I'm very stubborn, 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.279 very stubborn, a very prideful, have a lot of ego. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.040 I hate to, you know, my name to be talked about. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.800 I hate to be discredited. I hate somebody allowing me 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.320 a lot of things that I have, certain things that 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.000 you know, I take pride. And then you know, the 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.240 post that you put up yesterday just resonated with me, 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.840 and I wanna what did it say? It's said this, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.080 and it really just made me think, you know, after 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.680 you always say it, you know, I'm I'm kind of 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.720 hard headed. I don't listen to ship most of the time. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.640 Sometimes I'd be like, man, I don't do what I 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.280 want to do, and I'm gonna do what I want 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.440 to do most of the time. But when you said 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.040 I stopped beating with people when I realized they felt 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.600 important being an enemy. That was like the realest thing. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:31.240 I realized that there are people who just you acknowledging 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:36.160 them as an adversary, not even saying their name, but 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.160 just the fact that they feel that you acknowledge them 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.640 as someone who is even equal to be adversary or 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.880 accounter anything to what is that you do gives them 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.440 some level of power. And I said, you know what, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.360 at this point, I've done, I've exhausted. I've done whatever 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.000 I had to do in anybody that's not on my 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.640 my own wavelength, that's not about progression, that's not doing 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.000 any work that's I can't benefit from, I can't even 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.560 allow to have space in my mind, you know. So 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.120 you know, I'm turning over a new leaf. I'm not 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:15.080 engaging in discourse with people that I don't even deserve discourse, 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.960 you know. I'm not engaging in anything with somebody that's 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.160 not helping me grow or I'm not helping grow. So 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.160 you know, this shirt symbolizes where I'm at, fucking fuck you, 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.000 fuck it, you know. And my hat my new hat honorable, 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.360 you know, because that's that's what it is. I believe 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.600 I am. So this represents my whole moved right now, 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:41.959 fuck you because I'm honorable. Listen, I have nothing to say, 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:46.640 and today the course protect black people. Yeah, that's right, 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.440 I have my mind. Well, I put this on today 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:54.199 because when I woke up, I realized then with two 0:08:54.280 --> 0:09:00.360 trials happening in two different places across this damn country, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:05.240 and both of them are incredibly painful for black people 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.600 in the Kyle ritten House matter. And someone said this 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.880 to me, Reverend Stephen Green said today, And it really 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:19.800 struck me when I said, I don't know that people 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:27.520 will respond and be as upset and and impacted by 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:35.319 Kyle Rittenhouse being um exonerated as other situations that we've 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.560 seen where people really have been emotional and hurt, and 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.320 we has impacted especially white people, to see how bad 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:47.960 it is because his victims were white, right, And Stephen's 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.240 response to me was the original victim, he didn't say 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.760 Kyle Rittenhouses, but the original victim was Jacob Blake, a 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:01.920 black man who was shot and paralyzed in Kenosha. And 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:08.120 that is what precipitated the response, the outrage that bought 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:14.080 Kyle Rittenhouse to that town. Why he killed other people 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:19.840 who were there protecting black lives. The other situation is 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:25.760 in Brunswick, New Brunswick, Georgia, where a mother has to 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.640 sit and listen to people talking about all this other 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:35.200 stuff except the fact that these men, the McMichael's, were 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.559 not and plus their other whatever the other guy's name is. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:43.199 They were not the police, They were not in any 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.679 way authorized, They were not the owners of the home. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:53.200 They were in no way authorized to take their funky asses, 0:10:54.000 --> 0:11:02.120 their racists, uh, evil callous asses out there to hunt 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.400 down a man who they they saw him, They saw him, 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.720 they saw a mod are very going in that house 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:15.600 checking it out, and and and and similar to George Zimmerman, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.840 hunting black people is a sport to some white folks, 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:27.560 particularly to some white men. Putting black people's lives in 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:32.640 danger with their tears is a specific thing that white 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.920 women do, some white women, too many of them. But 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:47.679 hunting negroes, President Biden, hunting negroes is something that white 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:53.920 men specifically get off on. And so when they saw Ahmad, 0:11:54.559 --> 0:12:01.440 they said he didn't know, he was oblivious, believing that 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:06.280 he could run in America and just dream about this 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:11.199 new project, this new house, looking at it coming together 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.960 the same way that white people were able, kids were 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:20.079 able to dream going in that house over and over again. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.720 They had the footage to show it. But they saw 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:27.800 a black boy, healthy, running and they love it. It 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:33.200 literally brings them to goddamn or gas to see a 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:40.040 black attractive strong man and they cannot keep their nasty, 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:45.680 filthy hands off of black men, and so they hunted 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.720 him down. And here's a black woman having to sit 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:53.320 there and listen and then further watch the video that 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.600 if it had not the people all Shaun King this 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.840 and leave married that, guess what if it had not, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.200 I've been for the work that Shaun King lead married, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.559 and or Chris Stewart and others, all of these attorneys 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:11.160 and and activists and advocates that got together and kept 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.720 pressure in the system, kept pressure in the system, kept 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.200 bringing us up to speed and keeping us in the loop, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.800 if it were not for the work that they did. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:24.120 When first of all, they created out of what they believed, 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.600 having some visuals to bring us to the moment. And 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.320 then the video comes out and we see Ahmad are 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:36.560 Very being hunted and then blown away. Damn there, shot 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:41.400 to death. The mother sitting there watching that, and it's 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.840 too many of us that are trying to go to work, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.840 go to travel, do this, do that, all this other 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.680 ship And meanwhile, in the back of our minds, we 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.600 know that black people are not protected. So that's why 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.600 today I wore this. I guess that's kind of like 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.520 my thought of the day. I had other things because 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:10.280 I was gonna ask they didn't want the weapons conversation. 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.520 They were they were, they were, they were uh lifting 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.480 the weapons charge. And as they were talking about late 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:23.280 r during the prosecutors closing statements, he was he mentioned 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:28.840 the weapons again and it caused more dialogue in the 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.120 court that the judge had to speak to about whether 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.000 it was okay for the weapon to even be mentioned 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.440 at all. Right, And so in the midst of this 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.680 conversation the judges him and in Han can't get his 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.240 words out straight and our and and it seemed to 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:52.400 me that he was prepared in his mind to protect 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.720 Kyle Rittenhouse. That's how it's been throughout this entire trial, 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.160 throughout the whole process. And I was thinking to myself, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.600 the white people have like a phone, a back phone 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.800 that they call each other on, Like how do they 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:12.720 transmit the message that we protect them. There's no other messages. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.080 They see a white boy walk into the room and 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.720 they empathize, right, the same empathy and the same you know, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.320 grace that we want them to give our children and 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.280 understanding that we want to give young black kids that 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.920 come from nothing, that commit crimes that they believe or 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.720 or detrimental, heinous, and we want we don't want to 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.720 be put on death rowd for crimes that you commit, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.920 you know, very young, and we don't want to be 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.880 have life imprisonment, and we want to be able to 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.960 have opportunities after these things. They look at their own 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.520 people as human beings. They don't look at us that way. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.400 So it's not about there's no sign to sign. Is 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.400 that white boy walking here? And we we And it 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.080 was against some ship that the niggers had going on anyway. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.760 It was based on some nigger that we already said 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.240 he shouldn't those people shouldn't have been out there protesting 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.320 for that nigga anyway. So those are nigger lovers, and 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.560 we're gonna make sure that the man who protect the 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.600 nigger lovers is safe and he's and he's protected because 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.880 he's the man that protect the nigga or the man 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.200 who was willing to kill was killed. The man who 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.040 killed the nigga lovers is protecting, so you know, and 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:22.760 and this is what it comes down to it and 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.320 it's not hard, and people want to act like that 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.640 those ain't the facts and that's not the reality, but 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.120 it's it sure is, and you know, and it's in 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:36.480 this same scenario place over every time it does. And 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.640 I guess the larger question that we will not get 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:44.720 into today because we've got too incredible guests that we've 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.920 got to bring on talking about mental health and still 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.840 trying to deal with this thing. And we got to 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:55.400 keep going there, man, we gotta keep getting into the 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.360 heart of this mental health crisis. Um. And then as 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.600 we go into as the holidays, you know, people getting 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.320 they're starting to spend that money, spend that money. You know. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.000 It's like what they say that corporations is like nigger 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.320 dance dance, dance, dance dance, bring that money in. Um, 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.159 We're gonna be talking about that with two incredible people, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.679 one being Precious of R. C. Lea, who is a 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.840 licensed psychotherapist, and then the other being Shakira Green, who 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.280 is a financial activist and so with those two coming on, 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.399 we want to keep it short even though I'm running 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:35.920 my mouth, But it just begs the question, do we 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.439 as black people have a bad phone? You know, do 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.040 we have a bad phone to call one another and 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.200 say I'm with you? You know, I don't know if 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.520 I want to live in the world mice where just 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.080 because a person is black, they could do anything, they 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:57.160 could kill innocent people. And I support that, but I'm 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.120 also being very honest and saying that I'm tired of 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.600 us always being the ones that have to do right, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.600 that have to be right, and yet we are up 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:12.320 against a diabolical enemy that doesn't have the same moral compense. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:18.280 I just don't know, you know. So that's just yes, man, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.760 it's it's a it's a very it's a very um 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:26.679 convoluted and fucked up place to be right. You you 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:31.200 want justice, but you watch your people experience never get 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.680 justice for so long that you even start to root 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.760 for the villain, you know, you start to root for 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.800 things that you normally you probably you think they should 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.120 be held accountable, but you like any nobody else being 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:46.080 held accountable, No like you. I want to see us. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.520 I want to see us beat the system once in 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.760 a while, and it's it's a fund up, it's a 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.399 place to be in where that's the mindset that we 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.560 have to have, or we we not really have to, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.040 we feel like we have to have. So, you know, 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:04.800 the this whole the whole theory of justice, it's just 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:10.800 a theory for me right now. And it's sad. That's 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.879 so Now another friend joins us on the show. We 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:22.200 talked earlier today about this UM fire brand, brilliant young 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.359 woman that I can't to know through BBM, which is 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:32.760 the Bond Brand Management Agency where LaToya Bond manages both 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:37.040 of us, me more so than you because you are unmanageable, UM. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.040 But that's for a different days conversation. And UM, you know, 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:45.359 one of the great things about having small agencies that 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:50.280 specifically focus on black folks UM and understanding all the 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:56.000 issues that we have within us, is having an agency 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.720 that knows that it's not just pr it's not just UM, 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.720 you know of marketing and all the work that has 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.600 to get done, but it's also having people around who 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.679 tap into the spiritual realm, who tap into the mental 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:13.480 health realm. And Precious has been that and I always 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.960 am so afraid to say her name, but as she 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.160 would say, you always, I always get it right. So 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:24.000 precious of work, Leia again, a friend of ours, of 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.800 friends to street politicians, and I'm so happy to have 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.840 this young woman on and just to re iterate who 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:35.760 she is and her great great accomplishes accomplishments. She is 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:41.240 a licensed psychotherapist, she is an author, and she is 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.800 a mental health advocate and activists in her own right. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.080 So Precious, thank you so much for joining the street 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:51.280 politicians today. Thank you you guys for having me. I 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:54.720 am thoroughly enjoying the work that you guys are doing. 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.640 The commentary, you guys are spot on every time I'm 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:03.119 in the back whooping y'all on and everything, So we 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:05.800 appreciate you. Man. So how's it been going? Like, what 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:07.840 what are you doing right now? What have you been 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:12.159 focusing on? So, as you guys may know, um, you know, 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.040 I've been in the mental health industry for quite some 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:19.040 time now, for well over ten years, and I started 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.399 out with a group practice and several years ago I 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:26.359 decided to open my own practice, Modern Therapy now, which 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.639 we've been open now and thriving for about four years. 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.240 And my intention behind that was because I wanted to 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:37.280 tailor make my approaches to the black and brown community. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.960 You know, as a psychotherapist, traditionally, you're really trained to 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.200 be you know, a blank slate, right, don't say too much, 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.080 don't be too much, don't take up too much space 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.320 in the room. But as you guys may know, that 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.720 really marginalizes a lot of people. You can't tell many 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.879 people about their deep seated truths if they don't have 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:57.520 a sense of who you are. So I decided I 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.200 was going to take a different approach. I was gonna 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:01.479 be transparent, I was gonna be my whole self. I 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.000 was wanting to be you know all of the hay 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:08.359 girl hay as well as you know, the clinical jargon 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.080 and so on and so forth. So right now I'm 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:13.439 really thriving with working with a lot of black and 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:18.720 brown individuals and it's been doing great. Yeah, So what 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:22.639 you just decided to go to school to be a psychotherapist? 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.560 Like what was the process? What's the journey towards that? 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:29.239 Because there may be other people out here who were like, 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.200 this is what I think I should be doing, Like, 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.040 what is the thing that comes up in you that 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.080 says this is the field that I should be in, 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.119 and just as a point of reference in Little f 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:42.400 Y I. As I mentioned earlier in the show, I'm 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:47.240 glued to the TV because the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is happening, 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.800 and so I haven't running. Usually we don't, but today 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:53.800 is a day that I think it's important for us 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.320 all to be tuned in. So excuse me for that. 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:59.320 It's not a distraction, hopefully, but I just wanted to 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:03.280 say that absolutely, I totally understand. I've been, you know, 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.920 checking in here and there in between sessions as well. UM. 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:09.320 So you know, I think of one of those rare 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:12.919 stories where I really did set out to impact individuals 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:15.040 in some kind of way. I didn't really know what 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:16.840 to call it early on, but I knew that was 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:20.040 really interested and intrigued by human behavior and all of 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.760 people's complexities, you know what I mean. I've seen mental 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:27.840 health concerns throughout my family. I've been personally impacted by it. 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:31.040 I know many people have, UM and I just noticed 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:33.399 that I had a way with connecting with people and 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.480 being able to support them, UM and help them move 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:40.720 towards their goals. UM. Right now, I've taken a special 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:45.560 interest in work life balance. Um, I've been I've had 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:49.600 so many conversations with women in particular, but you know, 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:55.320 women and men alike where the greatest strain is trying 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:58.960 to figure out how to be everything that they want 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:02.960 to be for others, and um, just finding that it's 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:06.480 the expectation itself that really throws a lot of people 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:10.919 off off balance. Uh So, really approaching work life balance 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:14.320 from a place of let's, you know, understand what our 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:17.399 individual needs and strengths are and then help that match 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:21.400 our the way we're experiencing the world. Mm hmm. That's 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:24.679 that's crazy, because I think that's one of the hardest 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:27.320 thing to do, is just have a work life balance. 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:30.399 You know, especially when you're trying to be successful, you know, 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:34.320 when you um embarking on new endeavors, when you're a 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:38.320 creative person, you know, when you're entrepreneur, Like, how do 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:41.399 you what is the key? Like, give us some keys 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:44.400 that you think it is to balance and work in 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:47.600 life and being comfortable and not driving yourself crazy and 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:50.679 working yourself to death. I think the first thing is 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:54.480 just to shift your ideology about what balance is. You know, 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:57.760 first and foremost, balance does not mean equal a lot 0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:00.679 of times, we expect ourselves to be to give to 0:25:00.880 --> 0:25:04.320 every you know, person in our life, every area of 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:08.040 our life, in the same way, at the same level, 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:11.720