Speaker 1: What's the family. Is your girl to make a d mallory,
Speaker 1: that's your boy, my son in general, and we are
Speaker 1: your hosts of street politicians the place with politics. There
Speaker 1: is the most heat wave ever going on in New York,
Speaker 1: the most heat waves ever. Like I had to. I
Speaker 1: called my parents and told them aboard mission, don't go
Speaker 1: outside at all. Get where they're planning on going. It's
Speaker 1: too hot. Yeah, God got the heat on Hell. The
Speaker 1: heat is on Hell, and it's everywhere. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's so funny because, uh, all of these folks and
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say which party they belong to, which
Speaker 1: political party they belong to, that there are many people
Speaker 1: in a particular political party that do not believe that
Speaker 1: climate change is a thing. Right, They don't believe in
Speaker 1: it and global warming if you will. And it's crazy
Speaker 1: because the other day I was traveling from New York
Speaker 1: City to New Jersey, um, and the rain came like
Speaker 1: as I was leaving the house. I noticed, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I noticed that it was about to rain. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a good driver, so I wasn't worried about it.
Speaker 1: So I get in the car, started driving, and eventually
Speaker 1: the rain starts coming down. When I tell you, the
Speaker 1: storm was like nothing I have been in and I
Speaker 1: have been driving now for who however many years, twenty years,
Speaker 1: I have been through we you know, storms, traveling everything.
Speaker 1: I've never in my life drove through a storm the
Speaker 1: way that this one was. Water was coming on the bridge.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I mentioned I was going from
Speaker 1: New York to New Jersey. You know, you got across
Speaker 1: to George Washington Bridge unless you take other outs, but
Speaker 1: George Washington Bridge the major artery, and the water was
Speaker 1: coming off the sides of the bridge onto the cars.
Speaker 1: So that means that the tide was so high. The
Speaker 1: water was up so high that it was able to
Speaker 1: splash back and forth on each side. Then getting through,
Speaker 1: like through the bridge, you know, you go through a tunnel.
Speaker 1: So when you get in the tunnel, obviously the tunnel
Speaker 1: was all the water around it. There must be holes.
Speaker 1: I don't know what was going on. The water was splashing,
Speaker 1: was coming, It was pouring out of the tunnel and
Speaker 1: out of the walls onto the vehicles, so that the
Speaker 1: water was coming like in from the sides. And in
Speaker 1: order to get to the George Washington Bridge, there's this
Speaker 1: particular area in the city. It's like in Washington Heights,
Speaker 1: you know the area. I guess that is where Columbia
Speaker 1: Hospital is, and it's like under the George Washington kind of.
Speaker 1: The water was up so high there that I was
Speaker 1: driving my car, which is like a mini suv through
Speaker 1: like a flood that had the water almost at the
Speaker 1: windows on the side of the car. It was stuffed
Speaker 1: dirty ass New York City rats going through the water swimming.
Speaker 1: It was really really crazy outside and so for people.
Speaker 1: And then you turn around and you have that storm
Speaker 1: two days ago and then this heat wave happening. Now
Speaker 1: you can't in some way they sat across the country.
Speaker 1: There was an ice storm that happened in the last
Speaker 1: few days. You can't tell me that something is not
Speaker 1: happening with the ozone like there is a problem. It's definitely.
Speaker 1: It's definitely the weather is different. Like you know, been
Speaker 1: around a long time and I haven't seen the shifts
Speaker 1: in whether you know this way. One day is at nighttime,
Speaker 1: it was dim there, like sixty degrees, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It was it was mad cool. It's like
Speaker 1: ninety degrees and it was getting sixty degrees and night
Speaker 1: it was just weird. It was it was that's it
Speaker 1: was like fall kind of like full was approaching. It's
Speaker 1: just the beginning to assume. So it's definitely been a
Speaker 1: lot of changes with the weather. Anybody who doesn't notice that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's crazy. And that rain that day though
Speaker 1: I was I didn't leave my house. I looked out
Speaker 1: the window. It was like nine going out there. And
Speaker 1: you know in this and in the Bronx there was
Speaker 1: a there was a it was so much water right
Speaker 1: that it made a sinkhole, a big sinkhole, and the
Speaker 1: sinkhole was there, and then all of a sudden a
Speaker 1: van fell into the hole. Isn't it crazy? Don't they should?
Speaker 1: We should really make sure that the clip of this
Speaker 1: situation gets into the show for those who are watching
Speaker 1: it visually, because there's a car that is right in
Speaker 1: front of the dam and in the bottom of the
Speaker 1: car falls down, but the car somehow is like hanging on.
Speaker 1: I'm like, and I looked at it us. It ain't
Speaker 1: that life like you every thing falling out from behind
Speaker 1: underneath you. But you still that was me, that one
Speaker 1: call was me man pafted will is in the whole
Speaker 1: wind in the whole. We know, we know, but we
Speaker 1: didn't know. Yo. Crazy, So let's get into our news stories. Um,
Speaker 1: I found this thing online that was this crazy. This
Speaker 1: protest was happening in China, and you know, there's so
Speaker 1: much going on, there's so much trauma, you know, before
Speaker 1: I even tell the story about China today, I opened
Speaker 1: up my social media in the bed, as we all
Speaker 1: probably do, check into Instagram before getting out of bed
Speaker 1: early this morning, and the first thing that popped up
Speaker 1: on my timeline, not the second or the third, I
Speaker 1: mean scroll, it was the first image I saw was
Speaker 1: a man bloody like like he the police had beaten
Speaker 1: him to the point where he was bloody all over everything,
Speaker 1: just his sockets were all busted out. And I said, yo,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't, like I cannot, I cannot start
Speaker 1: my day every day with this. So it's like that's
Speaker 1: was when you get into it's like you can't even
Speaker 1: you can't even open Instagram, you can't even open social
Speaker 1: media because it's traumatizing. So the day I'm I saw
Speaker 1: all these people protesting, and I was like and then
Speaker 1: and of course I saw that they were um Asian,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, let me see let me watch this
Speaker 1: and see what's going on. What are they protesting? And
Speaker 1: then I read the story and basically, the banks froze
Speaker 1: or one bank froze these people's money. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I still haven't figured out what happened, but they frozen
Speaker 1: to the people's assets, and the people can't get their money,
Speaker 1: their life savings, so they went to go protests. A
Speaker 1: lot of Chinese people were standing there and probably you know,
Speaker 1: thousands of them, or maybe it was hundreds, they looked
Speaker 1: like thousands, and the police whooped on their behinds like
Speaker 1: they're wrong for protesting about their money. Listen, the institution
Speaker 1: of police around this world, it's crazy, man. These people
Speaker 1: that took these people money, their money been held up
Speaker 1: in this bank for long long time. They life saved,
Speaker 1: like imagine your life savings in the bank, and they
Speaker 1: just ain't giving it too. And you on, you peacefully
Speaker 1: protest and the police cover your ass for peace process
Speaker 1: to get your money. It's crazy. It just don't make
Speaker 1: no sense, man. But in China, that's how they roll. Listen.
Speaker 1: They ain't looked too much different than what we seeing
Speaker 1: out here. The polic unless you are unless you are
Speaker 1: insurrectionists at the Capitol. Yeah, then they opened the door
Speaker 1: for you. They tell you, they give you directions and everything.
Speaker 1: Michael said, the police been whooping heads on over here,
Speaker 1: and they whooped some heads down there, man, police whooping
Speaker 1: heads all over the plate. M We just are a
Speaker 1: week away from the birthday, the twenty six birthday of
Speaker 1: Jalen Walker. It's so sad. It's like, poor Jalen. Does
Speaker 1: the world even remember Jalen Walker anymore? We You know,
Speaker 1: people have moved on to the next thing and the
Speaker 1: next thing and the next thing, and it takes so
Speaker 1: much work nowadays to make sure you keep um, you
Speaker 1: know these folks, these unfortunate that which have become sort
Speaker 1: of hashtags in the storyline, and keep them on TV
Speaker 1: and keep them as part of the dialogue. And folks
Speaker 1: get mad. Oh oh, what y'all do when y'all using
Speaker 1: the cameras. Imagine if we didn't find ways to bring
Speaker 1: Yandy with the Love and Hip Hop cameras and then
Speaker 1: Poorshe with the Real Housewives cameras and all the other
Speaker 1: stuff that we did to keep Brianna Tip, they would
Speaker 1: it would There's no way that Brianna Taylor would have
Speaker 1: stayed in the news, especially since we know with black
Speaker 1: women that black men their stories starts to sort of
Speaker 1: push ours out, Like when black women are killed by
Speaker 1: the state stay sanctioned violence, It's like, doesn't that those
Speaker 1: stories don't last at all if they make it at
Speaker 1: all black men, of course, it's still a struggle, but
Speaker 1: it's definitely more attention pay to black men. So what
Speaker 1: would you what would we have done if we were
Speaker 1: not able to create our own media and bring people around.
Speaker 1: Brianna Taylor And now that's how I feel about Jaylen Walker.
Speaker 1: It's like, now his twenty six birthday has passed, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's way too soon for him to just
Speaker 1: be a storyline that happened. You know, he needs to
Speaker 1: be consistently indepressed. I know that on his birthday. Um
Speaker 1: the attorneys called for the Department of Justice to get involved,
Speaker 1: you know, and they should because the police will their excuse.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be that there was a gun that he
Speaker 1: had and they saw a shot fired, and you keep asking,
Speaker 1: where's the ballistic report and all of the stuff. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's there, you know, It's it's so much. And my
Speaker 1: aunt lives in akron Um and some other family members
Speaker 1: and listening to them talk about the story they're they're
Speaker 1: getting information locally and from local news. It's very different
Speaker 1: from what we're hearing nationally, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's very, very different. So the story is even worse
Speaker 1: when you listen to the local side. Well, I know
Speaker 1: that a man was shot over forty sometimes that's what
Speaker 1: they're saying. I still think sixty. I know there was
Speaker 1: ninety round shot at the man. And for us not
Speaker 1: to continue to talk about that, for that not to
Speaker 1: be in the news cycle, it's crazy to me. And
Speaker 1: that's why people talk about, like you said, they say, oh,
Speaker 1: y'all doing this for news. If we don't do it,
Speaker 1: you know, if we if we don't really take that
Speaker 1: responsibility and we don't get in front of these cameras
Speaker 1: and and and say these names and make sure that
Speaker 1: these families and situations are highlighted, then it swept into
Speaker 1: the rug. There's so many people that you don't hear about,
Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of people say, oh y'all
Speaker 1: go for the know we we we we we try
Speaker 1: to do is bring attention, We try to bring awaitness,
Speaker 1: We understand, you know, the injustices that are happening, and
Speaker 1: families don't have the proper recourse, recourse or the problem platforms.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't have to me, they don't have
Speaker 1: something someone to elevate their voices. So when we come in,
Speaker 1: that's always what we try to do. Man. And it's
Speaker 1: it's sad, like you said, to see that on his
Speaker 1: twenty six birthday, you know, is he's basically not even
Speaker 1: in the news cycle anymore. Nobody's talking about it. Not enough.
Speaker 1: It's like it's common like it's it's just okay, it's
Speaker 1: not enough, you know, it's not enough outraged, Like we say,
Speaker 1: we're not We're not outraged enough. We're not. That's our brother,
Speaker 1: Angelo's attorney, Angelo Penzel, I always have to correct myself. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the statement that he made, and we're not.
Speaker 1: We're not outraged enough. So it's our job to keep
Speaker 1: saying Jalen Walker's name and we will do that and
Speaker 1: we are. We think the Department of Justice absolutely needs
Speaker 1: to pick up this case and investigated the actually um
Speaker 1: to really see what went on. The attorney Robert di Cello,
Speaker 1: he he says, after the funeral, we did the press conference,
Speaker 1: he said something that was very interesting that I never
Speaker 1: even thought about. He said, the officers got a chance
Speaker 1: to go home right and watched They weren't No statements
Speaker 1: were taken there on the scene from all of these officers,
Speaker 1: at least thirteen of them. They got a chance to
Speaker 1: go home and watch the news, which is where the
Speaker 1: press conference was done from the police department telling the
Speaker 1: world their side of the story. So now they listen
Speaker 1: to that, they understand how to collaborate around it, and
Speaker 1: they're all gonna say the same thing that the department
Speaker 1: has put out there as an official statement. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's so evident, it's so clear the cover up. So
Speaker 1: you know, definitely the Department of Justice needs to get
Speaker 1: involved in that. And I my heart goes out to um,
Speaker 1: you know, Kristin Clark, who is the the head of
Speaker 1: the Civil Rights Division for the Department of Justice, because
Speaker 1: even though she's a friend and I love Kristen Clark,
Speaker 1: but I still have to also apply pressure on her,
Speaker 1: which we've done. We're doing it on Brianna Taylor. We
Speaker 1: went and did a protest there and and you know,
Speaker 1: went to her office and demanded to UH to serve
Speaker 1: them with our petitions that people all over the country
Speaker 1: signed saying that the d J needs to get involved,
Speaker 1: and there's been a number of other cases where we've
Speaker 1: done the same. We unfortunately cannot give that sister, uh
Speaker 1: you know, an easy time while she's in office. But
Speaker 1: it's a lot of a burden to carry as a
Speaker 1: black woman to be the head of a department that
Speaker 1: has so many issues coming in the door every day
Speaker 1: and trying to make the right decisions about which cases
Speaker 1: you're going to go after, which cases you're gonna investigate.
Speaker 1: It's hard work, but it's work that she wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And there now y'all at the whole tel responsible exactly. Man,
Speaker 1: That's why she got in the office. You know. We
Speaker 1: we've seen something in her that identified with our struggle.
Speaker 1: That she had been on these front lines. She had
Speaker 1: understood a lot of what we were dealing with, and
Speaker 1: that's why people put in office now. So you know,
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna be tough, you know, because and
Speaker 1: this is why people like hey, you need to run
Speaker 1: for all, I know, one of their vocals because I
Speaker 1: don't want to be bound by any politics. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be bound by any system that you know
Speaker 1: pretty much. I have to deal with what I know
Speaker 1: is right, and then I know what the system is
Speaker 1: saying to do. So she's in there trying to balance
Speaker 1: this and be as fair as possible, but then go
Speaker 1: within the system that she's in. So it's it's a
Speaker 1: lot in the system working for Marrik Garland, who's another person.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the the Attorney General. And I believe
Speaker 1: that Mary Garland wants to do some of the right things.
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, we have to be real
Speaker 1: clear and make sure that we say that they have
Speaker 1: been filing cases. They were filing cases in the parts
Speaker 1: in prison situation where we called for, along with brock
Speaker 1: Nation and a bunch of other people, Yo Gotti, what
Speaker 1: we call for Parchment to be investigated. The Department of
Speaker 1: Justice came out saying that the civil rights of incarcerated
Speaker 1: individuals in that prison were being violated. So there's been cases,
Speaker 1: there's been situations where we see the Department of Justice
Speaker 1: stepping in. It's not enough though, It's not enough, right
Speaker 1: and and I don't know when it ever will be enough, um,
Speaker 1: But again to your point, hey, and and she actually
Speaker 1: was appointed by Merritt Garland to be the head of
Speaker 1: the Civil Rights Division, and she had to go through
Speaker 1: a whole lot of um questioning in order to get
Speaker 1: confirmed by the Senate. UH. And one of the things
Speaker 1: they asked her about, what's her relationship with me? It
Speaker 1: was it was on the record that they challenged her
Speaker 1: about signing a letter on my behalf to support me
Speaker 1: during the time when I was under attack. Um, you
Speaker 1: know with Women's March, so they really, you know, they're
Speaker 1: gonna kick everybody, all sides are kicking the doors, and
Speaker 1: you know it's important at the department just to stay
Speaker 1: focused and they need to do their jobs. So that's
Speaker 1: that on that. Next is the street renaming for Eric
Speaker 1: Garner in Statn Island. They named renamed the street for him.
Speaker 1: I saw miss Carr Gwen carr Um, you know, looking
Speaker 1: like she was just so proud, you know that something
Speaker 1: happened to always put a steak acclaim, if you will,
Speaker 1: put a steak in the ground right there in that
Speaker 1: space for her son. UH. And I saw somebody online like,
Speaker 1: why do we choose these symbolic gestures or why do
Speaker 1: we settle for symbolic justice. It's not a settling that
Speaker 1: lady fought for justice and her son, I mean her grandson,
Speaker 1: Eric Garner Jr. He also is a part of this.
Speaker 1: He fought. They fought right there. Thought that they're his sister.
Speaker 1: What's her name, Erica Garner. She died fighting for her father.
Speaker 1: They did all that they could do. So the street renaming,
Speaker 1: while yes, it's only symbolic, it's not gonna bring back
Speaker 1: Eric and it certainly doesn't give him justice. They deserve
Speaker 1: that also. They deserve the streets to be renamed. They
Speaker 1: deserve the money they want from the lawsuit. They deserve
Speaker 1: guilty uh, they deserve convictions. They deserve all of that.
Speaker 1: And we, unfortunately we can't control getting each one of
Speaker 1: those things as we would like for it to be.
Speaker 1: But when we do get certain things, it's important that
Speaker 1: people when they especially on Staton Island where all those
Speaker 1: cops live, because you know Staton Island is heavy police,
Speaker 1: the fact that they have to drive down a street
Speaker 1: named after a black man that they killed and disregarded
Speaker 1: right and smeared his name, even though that may not
Speaker 1: be real true justice, but it at least is something.
Speaker 1: It's a gesture that those individuals would not be comfortable
Speaker 1: just living. When they go to Google when they tell
Speaker 1: their family where to how to find their homes, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to say Eric garn Away as a part
Speaker 1: of you know, and I'm not saying again that I
Speaker 1: think it's the best thing in the world. But those
Speaker 1: folks they didn't just settle. They fought and they continue
Speaker 1: to fight. And Ms. Gardner is everywhere around this country
Speaker 1: fighting for other families as well. And that's the truth. Man.
Speaker 1: Like you said, you know it's not I'm sure that
Speaker 1: we would definitely rather have Ergarden right instead of the
Speaker 1: name on the street. We would rather have justice for
Speaker 1: fire Daniel Pantela. We would rather have him inside of prison.
Speaker 1: You know, we we fought for all those things. But
Speaker 1: as we get something, some level of acknowledgement, you know,
Speaker 1: to make sure that he didn't die in vain, that
Speaker 1: he's immortalized, that the story of Rigando will be told,
Speaker 1: that that block will send relies what it is that
Speaker 1: they lost, and what it is that he represented to
Speaker 1: this world, and how he ignited fires would through this
Speaker 1: city and got people to really fight for justice. You know,
Speaker 1: we we we don't want to take that away. You
Speaker 1: don't want to see when you see a mother smiling
Speaker 1: that her child's name is somewhere, knowing that she hadn't
Speaker 1: smiled for years, knowing that we we normally see in
Speaker 1: miss car on the front of the newspaper. Because she
Speaker 1: said about the situation, you know, she's receiving bad news
Speaker 1: that they're not going to fight the offers, that they're
Speaker 1: not going to prosecute. Right. So when you when you're
Speaker 1: able to see some level of comfort, let that lady
Speaker 1: enjoy that. You know, it's not about you, It ain't
Speaker 1: about what you think, right you maybe you don't want that,
Speaker 1: but this family gets to enjoy the little things that
Speaker 1: they do because they've been to so much trauma. So
Speaker 1: you know, congratulations on that. You know, our heart goes
Speaker 1: out to that family and we still want justice and
Speaker 1: we still went to or of us are locked up
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll get you know, a district attorn Ernie
Speaker 1: in New York City that we can look and reopen
Speaker 1: this case and actually get some justice for Erghana, because
Speaker 1: that's still still to go. That's right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: I don't know is that possible, Like we should really
Speaker 1: really look into that because there are new district attorneys,
Speaker 1: Like what could they do. I don't know. Maybe they can't,
Speaker 1: but that's a good question. We should find that out
Speaker 1: for my legal experts, like what can be done. There's
Speaker 1: no statue of libertation on because the Department of Justice
Speaker 1: said they weren't gonna do anything. They never filed any charges.
Speaker 1: So it's not like double jeopardy if you look. If
Speaker 1: they look and say that they reviewed it and they
Speaker 1: decided that they want to file charges, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: I doubt that anybody is going to. We're saying we
Speaker 1: told them to open up all the cases that certain
Speaker 1: lawyers have done. The that was for the Central Park five.
Speaker 1: We said that the new Attorney General, I mean, excuse me,
Speaker 1: the new District Attorney, Alvin Braggen York City needs to
Speaker 1: open up the files of the previous administrations to see
Speaker 1: whether or not what happened to the Central Park five
Speaker 1: has happened to other people, um, you know, in in
Speaker 1: New York. And we know that it has because there's
Speaker 1: one guy in jail who basically reported that the same
Speaker 1: cohercing and threatening that happened to the Central Park five
Speaker 1: happened to him and that's why he, you know, was
Speaker 1: was serving time in prison. So that's that anyway, Um,
Speaker 1: the Sesame Streets case, and we should talk about this
Speaker 1: today because there's a lot happening, and over the last
Speaker 1: few days, I think the bombshell has dropped them. You know,
Speaker 1: folks who don't know about what took place at Sesame Place,
Speaker 1: pretty much a family, a black woman was there with
Speaker 1: her niece and her daughter, both of them six year old,
Speaker 1: cute little girls, beautiful little princesses. And they were on
Speaker 1: the line the parade waiting for the characters to come
Speaker 1: down the and and this character high five as a
Speaker 1: white woman. You see Rosida Rosita, you see her. It's her, well,
Speaker 1: I guess it's her because she is the character, but
Speaker 1: we don't know who's behind the character. Nonetheless, Rosita is
Speaker 1: interacting with different people, and all of them appear to
Speaker 1: be white folks. Like right in that very short period
Speaker 1: of time, once she gets to these two little black girls,
Speaker 1: she says no to them and like shuns them off
Speaker 1: and avoids them all together and walks past them. What
Speaker 1: we now know is that she went right directly after
Speaker 1: the family to a white person and hugged them right,
Speaker 1: So it's very clear the discrimination that took place however,
Speaker 1: and it's unfortunate that we're in a time where we
Speaker 1: need video footage that pretty much shows every single thing.
Speaker 1: Because the mother said, Jodie said that the character went
Speaker 1: Rosita went to a white family. People say, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true. I can't say for sure
Speaker 1: if that you don't have video. Okay, so now there's
Speaker 1: footage other but even before that, just the experience, I
Speaker 1: didn't need to see what takes place. After all I
Speaker 1: needed was just right there that that interaction. It was
Speaker 1: just dead wrong. And so until Freedom we got involved,
Speaker 1: and we issued a warning telling other families, black families particularly,
Speaker 1: but also our allies to be careful when considering where
Speaker 1: you want to take your children this summer, your vacation time,
Speaker 1: and make sure you know that the Sessa me place
Speaker 1: they are discriminating against black kids. And of course all
Speaker 1: these other videos have come out where you see the
Speaker 1: same thing happening with the same character and some other
Speaker 1: characters and other situations. It's really really unfortunate. UM, And
Speaker 1: we're standing with Jody and the family. We have our
Speaker 1: press conference together last week. UM. Like I said, this
Speaker 1: new information is out there. Uh, and you know I'm
Speaker 1: just and and and you know, and then we're and
Speaker 1: we're talking about racism today on the show that I'll
Speaker 1: say this last thing. I saw a couple of people
Speaker 1: in the comments section like, well, I went there with
Speaker 1: my family and it didn't happen to me. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. And it's like, what is why do
Speaker 1: black people always feel the me just to not all
Speaker 1: black people, but some black people feel the need to
Speaker 1: try to explain away massive problems like why let massa
Speaker 1: is not even willing to apologize and deal with their
Speaker 1: own problems? Right? And I say massive being very very
Speaker 1: very very sarcastic, because you ain't nobody's massive hours. But
Speaker 1: the point is the mindset is is like we just
Speaker 1: want to defend them so quick, and it's just crazy.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy because you know, there are so many
Speaker 1: people right who are either blind or ignorant to the
Speaker 1: fact of what racism is. Right, you have some people
Speaker 1: would tell us that that's not that serious and that
Speaker 1: we're overreacting, right, And when you when when you deal
Speaker 1: with those situations, when when you when we talk to
Speaker 1: Jody and her response as she watched her niece and
Speaker 1: her daughter being discriminated against being in that situation. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't get to tell somebody what they're experiencing, you know,
Speaker 1: like you we we have so many different black people,
Speaker 1: Like you heard the comment Little Ways someone he's never
Speaker 1: experienced racism in America, you know when you hear Kanye
Speaker 1: told my slavery was a choice that we and we
Speaker 1: get people who have different realities, right, some of them
Speaker 1: have more money. They you know, they're they're they're idolized
Speaker 1: in certain regards, so they don't deal or just choose
Speaker 1: not to acknowledge what common black people are dealing with,
Speaker 1: just regular black folks every day, and they are. You
Speaker 1: have people like Lebron James where they write and nigger
Speaker 1: on his gate. You know what I'm saying, Racism is
Speaker 1: a serious thing, and it's not something that just oh,
Speaker 1: get over it, you know, y'all just overreacting. It's not
Speaker 1: that serious. No, it is that serious, you know, because
Speaker 1: other people don't experience that. Other people aren't discriminated against
Speaker 1: by just because the color of their skin, or because
Speaker 1: of the where they live, or because of how they look,
Speaker 1: you know. And just watching that video, man, it really
Speaker 1: pained me. And then seeing a little girl, you know,
Speaker 1: at the press conference and me and Jody and just
Speaker 1: seeing how they are just seemed like good people. You know,
Speaker 1: people are trying to say that we use racism as
Speaker 1: a shield or you know, we um what what they
Speaker 1: what is it that they say? I do embrace baiting,
Speaker 1: race baiting. You're a race bader. And it's like, how
Speaker 1: could I base something that ain't thing? How I'm don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not the person dealing with these situations. I'm not
Speaker 1: when I do. You're not. I'm not the perpetrator of it.
Speaker 1: So how am I I'm exposing it. I'm showing you
Speaker 1: what we deal with on a regular basis every day.
Speaker 1: And people want it rather willing willful ignorance is a thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it is. And the family is saying they
Speaker 1: don't even they're not even trying to follow lawsuit, right,
Speaker 1: They're not filing a lawsuit for a million dollars to
Speaker 1: million dollars. They're saying, yes, they should be compensated by
Speaker 1: the park. The park should be willing to just give
Speaker 1: them something that covers the mental health support and some
Speaker 1: of the pain and suffering of the children. And you know,
Speaker 1: and what they and their mom and your aunt mom
Speaker 1: and what she experienced. But they're not even looking to
Speaker 1: follow lawsuit. They want people fired and they want changes
Speaker 1: within the policies within the company. And and from what
Speaker 1: I can see, hopefully we'll get to talk to our
Speaker 1: guests today about this. They need a new PR specialists,
Speaker 1: they need training from the top of Sesame Place all
Speaker 1: the way to whoever works, you know, wherever, every single
Speaker 1: part of the business needs to go through some type
Speaker 1: of training and assessment because yo, like the statement y'all
Speaker 1: put out has has has caused additional harm. So it
Speaker 1: was like it was already to insult and now there's
Speaker 1: injury beyond that, or there was already the injury and
Speaker 1: now there's insult on top of it. It's just crazy. Um,
Speaker 1: we should talk about the history of Sesame Place because
Speaker 1: what we know is this is a show that started
Speaker 1: in Harlem, right or it was about Harlem. It's so
Speaker 1: many things that we know about the history of this
Speaker 1: of this some business that we need to talk about.
Speaker 1: But our guess is joining us. So you know we
Speaker 1: have this saying um on street politicians that our guests,
Speaker 1: so many of them are our friends because every single
Speaker 1: week we talk to people who are doing incredible things
Speaker 1: all around the nation, people who are so important to
Speaker 1: our movement and our culture. Um. And and it just
Speaker 1: so happens that there are friends, there are people we love. No,
Speaker 1: and in this situation, it's not You're not just a friend.
Speaker 1: We're being joined by our sister, somebody that we love
Speaker 1: and admire. Friend. Yes, yes, yes, somebody we love and
Speaker 1: a Maya so much. You all may have heard of her.
Speaker 1: You certainly if you follow either one of us on
Speaker 1: social me, you get a chance to see the beauty
Speaker 1: and the brilliance of Miss Diddy every single day. And
Speaker 1: Miss Diddy is not because of the other Diddy. She
Speaker 1: just did he on her own. Uh, you just did he. Um.
Speaker 1: And she is a master mar could turn uh, someone
Speaker 1: that the influencers and the artists of our time and
Speaker 1: corporations and the light turned to for expert advice, expert
Speaker 1: organization and also activations. And her company, the Brand Group,
Speaker 1: is really a cutting edge marketing firm that is doing
Speaker 1: amazing work, not just in l A, which is her
Speaker 1: home base, and she surely will tell you that she
Speaker 1: is from l A, but it also does great work
Speaker 1: internationally and nationally and so welcome to Street politicians for
Speaker 1: the first time. Idea doing a little lady, you should
Speaker 1: have been here about two months ago, you know, not
Speaker 1: the heart, Yes I would, Yes, thanks, I'm so odd
Speaker 1: to be here with y'all. I mean, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: that recording and that's gonna be my introduction across the
Speaker 1: way in the world. Okay, but yes, she do. Now
Speaker 1: that lady, now that lad good, The ladies good, the
Speaker 1: ladies good. I'm honored to be here with both of you, guys. Definitely.
Speaker 1: Family is a word that can't be thrown around as
Speaker 1: it relates to us on this on this zoom right now. Um,
Speaker 1: we all take it very seriously with each other. And
Speaker 1: beside me being extremely honored to be here with you guys,
Speaker 1: I respect you guys so much. I admire you, um,
Speaker 1: and I'm inspired by you guys personally, business wise, day
Speaker 1: to day, month to month, and so UM, I love
Speaker 1: you guys so much. And that's a that's a world
Speaker 1: word word coming from me to you guys, and I
Speaker 1: know it's the same on the other side. First of all,
Speaker 1: we want to say that we love you and we
Speaker 1: appreciate you. You know, you honored us a few weeks back.
Speaker 1: You know, and it was amazing. The whole event was dope.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, how to shut it down. That's probably
Speaker 1: the favorite event of the BT weekend hosted most to
Speaker 1: Black Hollywood, most Black Hollywood, was the top of event
Speaker 1: that I've been through, No Shade and nobody else, everything was,
Speaker 1: but did he had the best event and that's just
Speaker 1: his down to for me to you. Um, so we
Speaker 1: want to celebrate you. We know all the work you do.
Speaker 1: I just want to know, for the people, where did
Speaker 1: you get this name? You know what it's. They've called
Speaker 1: me Diddy and diddy Bob since high school, so it's
Speaker 1: like a very aged name for me. I won't give
Speaker 1: up full long details on those years back then, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's been that way for so many years. And
Speaker 1: then it was, um, it just kind of worked out
Speaker 1: to you know. Of course, people like she's like the
Speaker 1: female pub or something like that. So it just kind
Speaker 1: of worked out. And thank god, because I mean, they
Speaker 1: gotta do really good work because he would have completely
Speaker 1: shut it down of course, but like, ain't no other Diddies,
Speaker 1: ain't no other in this world. So yeah, I'm very
Speaker 1: for that. I've actually, you know, with help the name
Speaker 1: and you know the integrity behind it. So that's pretty
Speaker 1: dope because it could have went it could have went
Speaker 1: left early on, you know, did he don't if it
Speaker 1: don't work, he didn't like who that actually can't use
Speaker 1: that name and shut it down. He knows he knows
Speaker 1: how to help market you and help not market you
Speaker 1: either way. And actually I was important half And actually
Speaker 1: you worked with rock Um and yeah, for sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: sir Rod Dallion Um. I've actually worked with star Rock
Speaker 1: on multiple on multiple facets since for probably like ten
Speaker 1: years or so, because there was other people that worked
Speaker 1: in the company and Um Nathan worked with Puff for
Speaker 1: a long long time, and I would do I've always
Speaker 1: worked with um Um brands, liquor brands, and spirits because
Speaker 1: of doing so many events and being a promoter and
Speaker 1: things like that. So I just always had really great
Speaker 1: relationships across the boards. I've worked with all of them,
Speaker 1: but I've definitely worked with Stock for a very long time.
Speaker 1: And I just want to say one thing that yes,
Speaker 1: you had the number one event uh during b ET Weekend. However,
Speaker 1: have to give you a close second. You were like
Speaker 1: one A and then there was a one BAT and
Speaker 1: that was that damn club quarantine because it was popping.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know it was popping. Y'all was there,
Speaker 1: the folks, was there, the six It was amazing. Tired.
Speaker 1: Now you can't, no, you got to stay yep, Mike.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing I couldn't. I said, y'all listen, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta stand this here bad. I try to make
Speaker 1: it out in my mind. And did you work out?
Speaker 1: And you have a wonderful relationship with d Nice as well?
Speaker 1: Uh so you know you you you, you know every
Speaker 1: damn body who doesn't about everybody? Everybody? But you know what,
Speaker 1: being a promoter early on in my career allowed me
Speaker 1: to have really dope relationships with a lot of people
Speaker 1: in different times in their careers. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, like early on in their careers or later
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know. Jazz Prince has always been a
Speaker 1: really great friend of mine. So when we've had direct
Speaker 1: early early on, he's like, you gotta mean my artists,
Speaker 1: like everyone is like that. So if I'm cool and
Speaker 1: we're cool and we have a good relationship, we just
Speaker 1: get their relationship. So like, I know, people be like
Speaker 1: even't know everybody, but it comes from all different sides
Speaker 1: of the world, you know what I mean. So a promoter, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a promoter in the beginning of my well
Speaker 1: I was. I actually worked with ya first we went
Speaker 1: well Well Good Music when Kaine started Good Music, so
Speaker 1: I did like the West Coast promotions over there, and
Speaker 1: then that kind of segued me into promoting UM and
Speaker 1: it just I just because I always had a marketing
Speaker 1: mind or like I could see things, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of on a grand scale UM and I've always been
Speaker 1: a visionary. It made me in promoting really important UM
Speaker 1: and really uh kind of irreplaceable in nightlife because of
Speaker 1: the way I took looked at it. You know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't a guy promoted. I wasn't trying to give the
Speaker 1: girls or drink or anything like that. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of great guy promoters. But my brain and it was like,
Speaker 1: I want to make a movie. Every single time I
Speaker 1: do a party. I wanted to be like this. It
Speaker 1: needs to be this big, it needs to feel like this,
Speaker 1: like I knew media, Like I was really the first
Speaker 1: promoter to really bring in UM blog awareness and blogs
Speaker 1: to nightlife that didn't really exist back then. And also
Speaker 1: like a camera you didn't really bringthe cameras into the clubs.
Speaker 1: Back then, that's not that wasn't like a thing, you know,
Speaker 1: like you didn't really do that, you know. It was
Speaker 1: like you felt underground in the club, right, So like
Speaker 1: I put cameras in the clubs. I wanted it. I
Speaker 1: wanted to shoot promo videos that look like rap videos
Speaker 1: like that wasn't done before I started promoting back in
Speaker 1: the day. And so it's took on the life of
Speaker 1: owning everyone kind of markets in that way now. Um
Speaker 1: so I'm glad to see the evolution of it. My
Speaker 1: life is important. So you know, I was about to
Speaker 1: ask you, so, as a woman promoter and a woman
Speaker 1: ambassador of brand, do you feel like it's harder do
Speaker 1: you see like sexism within the industry or yeah, that's sure,
Speaker 1: I mean a hundred percent, you know. And and the
Speaker 1: thing about my career and my personality, like you guys
Speaker 1: know you're extremely well, So you know, my certainness really
Speaker 1: led in a lot of areas. You know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: really sweet and I'm really grateful, but my certainness leading
Speaker 1: areas and it really it helps kind of shut down things,
Speaker 1: you know, because the thing about I say this and
Speaker 1: people don't like this, but it's true. A man can
Speaker 1: never like and understand the word respect what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like view a woman or respect a woman the way
Speaker 1: he'll respect another man. It's just it's I don't think
Speaker 1: biologically a man can do it. And it's not that
Speaker 1: they feel disrespectful to a woman. It's just that to
Speaker 1: a man to if they're a man to woman, there's
Speaker 1: no threat of violence. There's stead of violence man to man.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. So there there's a level
Speaker 1: of respect that's gonna be with hell a man to man,
Speaker 1: and biologically where hell in a different like where a woman,
Speaker 1: you know. So for me, my personality lad and my respect.
Speaker 1: And I was grateful and able to work and building
Speaker 1: and become successful in the city that I'm from, you know.
Speaker 1: And sometimes that doesn't happen that way when people people
Speaker 1: Eiven moved to how he moved to New York, moves
Speaker 1: to whatever and try to become what they're trying to become.
Speaker 1: But I became successful in the city that I found,
Speaker 1: So my ties and all my different areas of my
Speaker 1: ties also protecting me, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: I was like not on mess my city. We already
Speaker 1: know what you know, what I'm saying, what she tales
Speaker 1: were playing with that, you know, and so it worked out.
Speaker 1: But it's a lot of sexism. And you know, women
Speaker 1: and asked me, you know what, would you because they
Speaker 1: want to take on the what I've done in my career,
Speaker 1: and it's like, I don't encourage it all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you gotta be realistic about this thing, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like I could check I could
Speaker 1: check a man, you know, in a way, and that
Speaker 1: is clear. But a lot of women can't do that.
Speaker 1: So I feel comfortable. But do you feel like it's
Speaker 1: harden you? Like sometimes I feel that I remembering with
Speaker 1: you at a pool party that was your event, uh
Speaker 1: in Miami, and I think all of us, everybody was
Speaker 1: all listen together, um, and I remember a man like
Speaker 1: trying not to let you get into your own space
Speaker 1: or do something, and you got into with the man.
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking that I go through this all
Speaker 1: all the time, Like literally, I get disrespected by men,
Speaker 1: whether they be security, the the the uber driver, the
Speaker 1: all around the time, all around the place, all the time,
Speaker 1: and I find myself having a step out of character
Speaker 1: so um and I'm trying to learn how to get better,
Speaker 1: but I find myself like always in a battle, do
Speaker 1: you feel like that? Y's tough because I feel like
Speaker 1: decide for what I said about men respect and what
Speaker 1: they feel about a man versus a woman. Aside from that,
Speaker 1: I think the value of women is so depreciated and
Speaker 1: sell out an all time low that it's hard for
Speaker 1: men too to look at women for the gracious gifts
Speaker 1: that we are not all men, because there's some like
Speaker 1: life like there's I have great humbles, have great relationships
Speaker 1: with men, great chemistry with men that protect me, and
Speaker 1: I feel safe around and they don't they do what
Speaker 1: they don't handle into that way. But I think as
Speaker 1: an overall thing in the world, I think women are
Speaker 1: at a at a very low devalue place right now,
Speaker 1: and I think that affects the way men deal with
Speaker 1: women around the world, because I also my environment. If
Speaker 1: a man knows who I am, I don't got no issues.
Speaker 1: But if he doesn't know how I am, we might
Speaker 1: be have a little que dress on or something like that,
Speaker 1: and then now I gotta check you on you understanding
Speaker 1: that I'm not one of it out here that's going on,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like I remember yesterday, yesterday
Speaker 1: I went to UM to stop the Mookie Betts uh
Speaker 1: and Nellie's uh all Star after the party or whatever
Speaker 1: just for a second, and so mean I'm sitting down
Speaker 1: in the section. Man comes up and he's like, uh,
Speaker 1: here the party. No, I do business. I'm not. Don't
Speaker 1: don't you know, go that way. But don't confuse me.
Speaker 1: Don't confuse me. But it's hard because men are the
Speaker 1: value of women. It's low, especially Black women. It's low. Low. Well,
Speaker 1: I want to say I apologize on behalf of men
Speaker 1: because you know, I know I see it all the time,
Speaker 1: like being with y'all, being around women, you know, I
Speaker 1: find I constantly find myself having to check and get
Speaker 1: into situations or you know, intervene. So you know, but
Speaker 1: it's it's a process because it took me kind of
Speaker 1: even notice those things were happening, right because you know, um,
Speaker 1: what do we call it? What? What is the word
Speaker 1: that you always use to describe patriarchy? Patriarchy is something
Speaker 1: that we've just been taught, right, We've been taught to,
Speaker 1: Like you said, there's no threat of violence when you
Speaker 1: look at women, there's no threat of anything. And then
Speaker 1: you look at it woman, especially if she's a pretty woman,
Speaker 1: then your first instinct is to kind of flirt this
Speaker 1: or do something right. So it has to we have
Speaker 1: to get to a level of really just acknowledging and
Speaker 1: just understanding. And we got to teach these young boys
Speaker 1: that because because they were were taught wrong a lot
Speaker 1: of us try a woman from a lesser place to
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, that's a woman, a man and a
Speaker 1: woman is this and separation. So you know, we gotta read,
Speaker 1: we gotta re teach that and relearn. So I just
Speaker 1: and I tell you young man black men all the time,
Speaker 1: it's on the same let it you're saying, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you I'm black now all the time. If it comes
Speaker 1: at point like, yo, do you have a black grandmother?
Speaker 1: You have a black mother? Okay? So like why are
Speaker 1: you even playing? Like, don't even play that, you know,
Speaker 1: And and then they checked all yeah exactly like when
Speaker 1: you raised by your grandmother, did you Okay? So calling
Speaker 1: their back to your own so what they understand, like
Speaker 1: you would lose your mind if somebody disrespects your grandmother,
Speaker 1: like you don't play those type of games, so like
Speaker 1: will be back in young man because you're you're you're
Speaker 1: a nightlife a lot, and so you know, I would
Speaker 1: imagine that you encounter people who are not just well
Speaker 1: first of all young people and also some of them
Speaker 1: who have some money, so they really think that they
Speaker 1: have the power to do and say whatever they want.
Speaker 1: And then at the time that you're dealing with them,
Speaker 1: they're drinking alcohol, so they're intoxicated or they could be
Speaker 1: doing that thing. And so it's a lot to to manage.
Speaker 1: And since you know, talking about working with brands, because
Speaker 1: you know obviously you know you're working with um many spirits,
Speaker 1: you've been able to sort of connect the dots of events,
Speaker 1: which with the culture. You had us at a toast
Speaker 1: of Black hollywoods which our activists traded truth also who
Speaker 1: does great work in Houston and around the country. UM
Speaker 1: you know, I call I call trade like a human
Speaker 1: rights leader. You know what I'm saying, that's um And
Speaker 1: we're in the social justice lane and so you want
Speaker 1: all of those things together. Talk about that and how
Speaker 1: you see not just the Ento ten meant world, but
Speaker 1: also your social justice friends and your activists and others
Speaker 1: coming together with brands. You know what? That that was
Speaker 1: always important to me, important to me because it's who
Speaker 1: I am. It's a piece of it's all pieces of
Speaker 1: who I am and every person. Right, So even when
Speaker 1: I was promoting, like people would just focus on maybe
Speaker 1: a one person to promote, I'd be like, No, like
Speaker 1: my and our friends would just as important to come
Speaker 1: as the celebrity who you think you're inviting or whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be, because all of these pieces of
Speaker 1: people are exactly who I am. Like I'm a church girl.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to girl. I'm gonna go to church
Speaker 1: on Sunday, honey, but I'm gonna happy in a sidecar,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. No, And I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: me a good time. And I'm gonna go to Miami
Speaker 1: and I'm you know what I mean. And so I
Speaker 1: don't think that you have to be not be exactly
Speaker 1: who you are. And so my friends happened to live
Speaker 1: in all of those spaces, like I'm close to my pastor,
Speaker 1: I'm close to my social justice frands, I'm close to
Speaker 1: my my singers and rappers and artists and the mayor
Speaker 1: like and all of those worlds coming together. Only that
Speaker 1: is what we actually are. That's who we really are.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Eat Maverick City the biggest
Speaker 1: gospel group in the world. And my current friend On
Speaker 1: is my great friend, you know, and so is you know,
Speaker 1: not to com compare, but so it's meek meals, So
Speaker 1: it's you know what I mean. And so those those
Speaker 1: the world in rooms that I've created in the fifteen
Speaker 1: plus years of my career are all pieces of exactly
Speaker 1: who I am. And that was always important to me
Speaker 1: that people see each of you guys in the rooms
Speaker 1: together because you're all one. Like so many people are
Speaker 1: so excited to see my son, like I never even
Speaker 1: have to tell you. That sold me. Even rappers like
Speaker 1: I see the picture doing Simba and like you and
Speaker 1: Ben in it, which it's like those and and then
Speaker 1: just see everybody was so excited, and it's like, those
Speaker 1: are the rooms that are important because it's the people
Speaker 1: that you may not be able to see on a
Speaker 1: normal and you're having real conversations. And that's what I've learned,
Speaker 1: Like even dealing incorporations, brand spirits, all of that, the
Speaker 1: real conversations is what moves to need and that's why
Speaker 1: people are like, how do you get these brand deals
Speaker 1: or how do you get these partnerships? Because I have
Speaker 1: real conversations with people, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: just did an event with Ubs the Bank and Mookie Backs.
Speaker 1: It's like, I have real conversations with Ubs, you know,
Speaker 1: about everything that's going on. You know, United Nations is
Speaker 1: a client of mine at the time that you know,
Speaker 1: um of of Brianna Taylor's whole the whole thing going on,
Speaker 1: Like and I'm having real conversations with these people's from
Speaker 1: all race. I'm not playing nothing of those games. I'm
Speaker 1: exactly who I am, And so the ruins that are
Speaker 1: created are always about all the pieces of me, you know,
Speaker 1: and not and no one being able to be like
Speaker 1: you can't do that because you should stay and listening
Speaker 1: or you're that I don't. I just don't believe in that.
Speaker 1: Like Black people are magical, you know, and we have
Speaker 1: so many facets of us, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So the rapper that can also sing but can also act,
Speaker 1: Like what if ice Q didn't make Friday, What if
Speaker 1: ice Q didn't create the land where you put comedians
Speaker 1: and actors and rappers in one movie and we make
Speaker 1: classics like what did that? Didn't happen? Like it would
Speaker 1: change the trajectory of our culture as a whole, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So that's always important to me
Speaker 1: to miss mesh those worlds. It's it's important to me
Speaker 1: too because being started out as a hip hop artist
Speaker 1: and then you know, maturing evolving into an active and
Speaker 1: understanding the importance of both of them, right because hip
Speaker 1: hop y, it's so it's the culture, right. So if
Speaker 1: if we an activism, we're not connected to the real,
Speaker 1: the real meats and potato, what's going on with our people?
Speaker 1: Then what are we doing? So I've had no conversations
Speaker 1: with people like you said. I've been in the club
Speaker 1: and had DJ coming to meulay, what you're doing it
Speaker 1: here in the strip club and what you do the
Speaker 1: same thing you're doing here. Don't give me a what
Speaker 1: do you mean? I don't know what you think, but
Speaker 1: you know, I'm of the culture, but I just don't
Speaker 1: able to make sure that my people are treated properly.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure we're getting the rights and
Speaker 1: nobody's killing us. But I'm still gonna and have me
Speaker 1: some hennessy. You know what I'm saying, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have a good time. People are so miserable because they're
Speaker 1: not able to be who they are. You just have
Speaker 1: to be who you are. Like I've always been high
Speaker 1: good relations with all my all my castors, like and
Speaker 1: they follow me and they know and they know and
Speaker 1: they know because my castor who my son knows. If
Speaker 1: my whole world opens up when he calls me right
Speaker 1: like he is, the more he's he is, my everything,
Speaker 1: my past because and you know, some people might not
Speaker 1: understand that. And I wish that folks would have an
Speaker 1: experience with their pastor the way that I had, because
Speaker 1: when I was in the darkest moments of my life,
Speaker 1: and I didn't even talk about recent dark stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: telling about dark stuff that went on that folks don't
Speaker 1: know about, because you know, this dark stuff that you
Speaker 1: tell the world and then the stuff that you don't
Speaker 1: tell anybody about. And he sat in the middle of
Speaker 1: that that with you right and was there, no through
Speaker 1: with no judgment. Taught me so much, you know, inspired
Speaker 1: me in so many ways. But he also will call
Speaker 1: me and be like, I see you on the internet
Speaker 1: with your booty hanging out, like you know, damn you
Speaker 1: know you put that to have the halt, like can
Speaker 1: you put anything? And you know my responses, you know
Speaker 1: who I am, and he moves right on because he
Speaker 1: knows he knows who I am being authentically me. And
Speaker 1: it burns people, burns them. And as I'm always saying,
Speaker 1: most of those who I've heard from about don't put
Speaker 1: your bikini pictures on the internet. Why you gotta do
Speaker 1: this on your personal page? By the way, until Freedom's page,
Speaker 1: there's no bikinis on there, until Freedom's page is all
Speaker 1: about the work. My page where I this is, my
Speaker 1: my page has all of me on it, right. Gospel
Speaker 1: is twerking is bikini, it's vacationing, it is every single element,
Speaker 1: and it's of course the work that I truly believe in.
Speaker 1: And most of the people who I've heard from that
Speaker 1: have an issue are men. Most of them are interesting.
Speaker 1: I hardly have heard from any women to tell me
Speaker 1: to put my clothes on, or don't let them change
Speaker 1: you or you know, and I of course in the
Speaker 1: comment section it maybe women, men or whatever equal, But
Speaker 1: I'm talking about people I know who have reached out
Speaker 1: behind the scenes to say, hey, I'm feeling away about this.
Speaker 1: It's generally been meant. But anyway, because I know you've
Speaker 1: got a short time, let's talk about Dorito's. That is
Speaker 1: a new, uh you know, adventure for you. I was
Speaker 1: so happy and Yo, We've done so much work just
Speaker 1: to just to give people an understanding of how social justice,
Speaker 1: the civil rights movement, the individuals like yourself, which running
Speaker 1: marketing firms u PR, folks that are like really about it,
Speaker 1: how we're changing culture. Advertising agencies like Global Hue, which
Speaker 1: which is no longer, but at one point Don Coleman
Speaker 1: and Global Hue they were a part of those who
Speaker 1: helped to shift the time they didn't have young black
Speaker 1: women Compton on God damn Dorrito's commercial. It just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Name Diddy name did he tell me when that was happening?
Speaker 1: Help me help me day? That's crazy, that's true. That's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. That's true. I mean they didn't and you know,
Speaker 1: and that again it goes to it sounds corny, but
Speaker 1: it goes to like being exactly who you are, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm staying like, I wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: have got to this place in my career and where
Speaker 1: I am with these level of partnerships without being who
Speaker 1: I am. And the true essence to me is a
Speaker 1: young girl from the hood from Compon that you know,
Speaker 1: build my life up by greg didn't have any God
Speaker 1: as my parents then and set me as they did
Speaker 1: with I guess they felt they could, but they didn't
Speaker 1: set me up and no shot to them. But it's
Speaker 1: just life, you know, and I've had to build that
Speaker 1: up and to go through all the emotions and all
Speaker 1: the things that it takes to go through business and life.
Speaker 1: And as you learn and as you're learning, because you're
Speaker 1: learning as you go, there's no I haven't. Even in
Speaker 1: the Dorito's commercial, I said, there's no real blue parant
Speaker 1: for life because no one set a book in front
Speaker 1: of me and said, hey, here's what you do. And
Speaker 1: even to your point earlier, it's like no one also
Speaker 1: said here's what happens when you get money, Here's what
Speaker 1: you could do when you it's who does that? Who
Speaker 1: do you become at that point? That's what happens with
Speaker 1: a lot of young black and brown people that end
Speaker 1: up getting because no one said, hey, here's what it's
Speaker 1: gonna feel like when you get money. These things are
Speaker 1: gonna change, These things are gonna happen, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have the weather throw them to the best of your
Speaker 1: ability and navigate, you know. And so they didn't have
Speaker 1: the Missditties and the Tunique monities and the min songs
Speaker 1: of the world. And I'm so grateful that the world
Speaker 1: has opened up to whereas those opportunities are so prevalent
Speaker 1: because we've been a part of their cultures for so long.
Speaker 1: In my partnership with Dorridos, I'm really excited about because
Speaker 1: it's a part of their you know, five million dollar pledge,
Speaker 1: which is one of their pledges to black and brown
Speaker 1: creators and and black and brown communities and everything like that.
Speaker 1: And they really have put their money where their mouth is.
Speaker 1: And that's people that I truly choose to be in
Speaker 1: business with. Not one thing that I said needs to
Speaker 1: happen didn't happen. Everything has happened, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like even down to the commercial, there's a couple of
Speaker 1: components that but we shot the major commercial in New
Speaker 1: York um with Ego Um, who's who's on SNL. She's
Speaker 1: an incredible black sketch um comedian. But she's a really
Speaker 1: great actress and you know, I took they wanted to
Speaker 1: shoot in Los Angeles, of course, and I'm like, cool,
Speaker 1: you coming here, I'm taking you to the We're going
Speaker 1: to South Central and they like that. You know, there
Speaker 1: was no like, oh, we're not you know, we just
Speaker 1: wanna know. They did that came down. You know, they
Speaker 1: placed twenty five thousand, which is a part of it
Speaker 1: um to my to my charity that I partner with
Speaker 1: my foundation and partner with Sola I Can And they
Speaker 1: really put their money where their mouth is. And Patsico
Speaker 1: as well. I took the president of Pasico down in
Speaker 1: South Central. Derrick lewis the black man, you know, the
Speaker 1: highest ranking black man in Patsico. He's been there over
Speaker 1: thirty years, you know, and he has been adamant about
Speaker 1: being involved in community moves and being president. And he
Speaker 1: literally took a flight just to come to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: to go to go to South Central, on the heart
Speaker 1: of South Center, to go to Solar I Can be
Speaker 1: High and to see what's going on in the community.
Speaker 1: And he took out two hour tour with us there
Speaker 1: and we talked about everything, and you know, these are
Speaker 1: the moves that I feel matter, right, we could partner
Speaker 1: with these with these companies, we can make money with
Speaker 1: them or whatever the case may be, but there forever,
Speaker 1: I'm forever in debt to them because of the way
Speaker 1: they've showed up, you know, and this is in a
Speaker 1: short amount of time with a lot of people. I understand.
Speaker 1: The young lady that um I met from Daria, she's
Speaker 1: actually on the Freedom lay side. Her name is Kimberly.
Speaker 1: She's incredible. Kimberly Scott to me and I were actually
Speaker 1: on vacation the Bahamas in December and that's where I
Speaker 1: met her and the Bahamas she came Remember I was
Speaker 1: that she came up to me. She was like, I
Speaker 1: know what you do? You want to know your work.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of your work. We should work together.
Speaker 1: And I'm like bad, Like what's going on? A black woman,
Speaker 1: Like what's going on? I gotta work at free? Don't
Speaker 1: like that up. So we just built there. Tamika flu
Speaker 1: in the next day we you know, she met Tomika.
Speaker 1: She's a of course a huge fan of Tomika and
Speaker 1: you know they've just been She's been a driving for
Speaker 1: a black woman in that space. She's a mastermind and
Speaker 1: she um I, So I tipped my hat off to
Speaker 1: her too, but Passico Derido's and everything that has to
Speaker 1: do in that organization. I'm gonna forever be a debt too,
Speaker 1: because I've seen with my two eyes and a sured
Speaker 1: amount of time the way they've shown up. And that's
Speaker 1: that's people I care to be a business before you
Speaker 1: go nce on to your point, because I just gotta
Speaker 1: stick one little thing in this two quick things because
Speaker 1: I know you gotta on. This is just such a
Speaker 1: good interview. Um One, the issue of like, so when
Speaker 1: you talk about PEPSI, right, like, I know them for
Speaker 1: some great stuff, but I also know them for some
Speaker 1: areas that they've had serious work on, right, and we
Speaker 1: don't corrected talk about that, Like, how do you deal
Speaker 1: with brands knowing that on one hand they may be
Speaker 1: some real funky stuff going on, but then you mean
Speaker 1: where they're doing good work at the same time, what
Speaker 1: is especially from your perspective. And the last thing I
Speaker 1: want you to talk about, which ain't got ship to
Speaker 1: do what we just said, is your fashion. So if
Speaker 1: you can put that at the very very end, so
Speaker 1: the people, but we was gonna talk about something serious,
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta talk about. I talk about fashion real
Speaker 1: quick before we go, my son, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: serious because because people want the full they want ashion
Speaker 1: fashion serious, but you now want to be because I
Speaker 1: am I have conversations because I am an entrepreneur and
Speaker 1: I am not and because I serve God and no man,
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to have conversations because I'm also clean up. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe we should have worked together, I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: driven by an amount, by a status of a person.
Speaker 1: I'm not driven by any of that. I didn't talk
Speaker 1: the best of them. We shouldn't work together, and they
Speaker 1: whole wait wait wait no, yeah exactly because they're not
Speaker 1: used to when you become a starting person or in
Speaker 1: your road or who you are, you're not used to
Speaker 1: people dealing with you like that. So I have real
Speaker 1: conversations and I like to understand missteps. Right, I didn't
Speaker 1: have the full car. I'm actually gonna now have the
Speaker 1: full conversation about that because I didn't think about that before.
Speaker 1: With with about PepsiCo, where I where missteps happened is
Speaker 1: us not being in the rooms. It's classic examples of
Speaker 1: us not being in the rooms. Right, So what we're
Speaker 1: talking about this whole inclusiveness and all of this. It's
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I watched I watched some of the interview
Speaker 1: from the CEO of Essence on UM the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: and she said, I'm not talking about inclusion. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about black. I keep that inclusion over there. Basically, we're
Speaker 1: not talking about that. We're talking about black because inclusion
Speaker 1: means everyone, but it also means that black is at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the totem poe in that inclusion. You know,
Speaker 1: the inclusion means white women because for a long time
Speaker 1: now it was just the big boys handling it. You
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. So I have real conversations where
Speaker 1: do you sit with things? Where is going on? I remember,
Speaker 1: even in Dorito's UM, there's a woman named McCallan that
Speaker 1: works in there and Robbed. They're both white people and
Speaker 1: they are incredible, and they had to sit in Zoom
Speaker 1: meetings where I'm sure, well, they didn't look uncomfortable, but
Speaker 1: it might have been because my approach, my certainness, my
Speaker 1: certainty on Hey, if there's this person working on what
Speaker 1: I've got going on, I need you to understand a
Speaker 1: couple of things. And they took it, and they took
Speaker 1: it and they ticket with love, with dignity, and they
Speaker 1: weren't They didn't away from any of the conversations. They
Speaker 1: didn't act like these things don't exist. And they wanted
Speaker 1: to learn. And that's the importance of conversation in all
Speaker 1: communities is them wanting to learn, not being defensive and
Speaker 1: listening to what we got the same, you know. And
Speaker 1: so I don't mind having those conversations because either way
Speaker 1: I'm good. God got me. So I'm not pressed either way.
Speaker 1: I'm not powering down. I'm not shying down. And I
Speaker 1: think that's where we have to say. I gave my
Speaker 1: experiences and racism. I gave my experiences as a young
Speaker 1: black woman do a marketing on a high scale, on
Speaker 1: a high level with the young white girls getting the
Speaker 1: account's not sound like that, but it's just the truth,
Speaker 1: and then calling me to do the work. Hey, jdny,
Speaker 1: so we have we want to see if you can't,
Speaker 1: Oh you want to see if I can because you
Speaker 1: actually can't, you know. So it's really about those conversations
Speaker 1: and being honest because trust me, Google is a powerful tool.
Speaker 1: So they see all these interviews and how how a
Speaker 1: certive I am in my my level of communication. And
Speaker 1: that's not gonna change for whoever I do, whoever I
Speaker 1: do business with. That's right. And you know what that
Speaker 1: brings me to my question before you get into this
Speaker 1: fashion that you know, but the question is we see
Speaker 1: the sessament. We were talking about the Sesame Street, you know,
Speaker 1: the situation with you know, the discrimination against the young kids,
Speaker 1: and and then they put out a statement which didn't
Speaker 1: really make sense at all. You know, being someone in marketing,
Speaker 1: being branding, dealing all these things, you're talking about, what
Speaker 1: would you have done different? What would you have done
Speaker 1: in that situation if you was working with Sesame Street?
Speaker 1: You have Seseme. Here's the thing that, first of all,
Speaker 1: yet again, who are in these rooms right, who has
Speaker 1: already witnesses? Who are making these decisions? Who is hiring,
Speaker 1: who are doing the trainings? Who where are the are
Speaker 1: the training even happening? Are training the trainings aren't happening.
Speaker 1: That's a new thing, by the way, that's a new
Speaker 1: thing so that people can smooth over. I know pr stunts,
Speaker 1: I know marketing, so those are the smooth things. Also,
Speaker 1: the time of people writing, having these pr stunts, these
Speaker 1: these written things, that's a time of the past, show
Speaker 1: your face, show your heart, right, because you can also
Speaker 1: be the president of something, the VP or whatever and
Speaker 1: not being agreed. It's with something that your employee did
Speaker 1: and you and and and so it's not about saving face.
Speaker 1: It's about showing your hands, showing your face, and showing
Speaker 1: your heart. Hey, guys, I'm I'm I too, am appalled
Speaker 1: at what happened, and we're gonna take a deeper look.
Speaker 1: You can also have language around things that don't implicate
Speaker 1: someone if you don't know their true intention, because it's
Speaker 1: all relative. You gotta put your fingers and all of
Speaker 1: it is relative. If you don't know someone's true you
Speaker 1: don't know the character's true intention. They didn't see the
Speaker 1: kid whatever, Yes you did, but find but show your
Speaker 1: face and show your heart. So the the typing up
Speaker 1: a PR letter, we don't want to see that anymore.
Speaker 1: If that was my client, I would to allow them
Speaker 1: to do that, And if they chose to still do that,
Speaker 1: I would show my face and show my heart and
Speaker 1: say I don't agree. I do not I don't second
Speaker 1: this right here, because it's no longer the time to
Speaker 1: act as if this is not a true thing, and
Speaker 1: we have to address it, and we gotta get ahead
Speaker 1: of it, and we really gotta bully it, you know,
Speaker 1: and bullying it not from a negative connotation, but we
Speaker 1: have to take our rightful stand. So even with you
Speaker 1: guys being there at the you know, you guys hop
Speaker 1: on things right away. And that's why until freedom is
Speaker 1: so important, um in all the work in our communities
Speaker 1: because Martin Luther King is gone, unfortunately, Malcolm X is gone. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: you know, the roles apart all these leaders that did
Speaker 1: these amazing things for us to continue to be we
Speaker 1: have to do that work. So for me, as a marketer,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't allow that to go out. I would say
Speaker 1: this bullshit, you know what I mean, Show your face,
Speaker 1: show your heart. And that's something that we need to
Speaker 1: really be demanding of people, you know, because we have
Speaker 1: personal conversations and we say how it feels to us,
Speaker 1: but we really gotta it's it's kind of time. We gotta.
Speaker 1: We gotta a lot of people did a lot of
Speaker 1: people saying and I'm reading these comments that you know, oh,
Speaker 1: you're overreacting. You know, it's just about money. It's not racism,
Speaker 1: you people are you know, you just race baiting and
Speaker 1: all these things, and racism is not a thing, and
Speaker 1: this is just something like what do you think, Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Racism Israel, it's evidence, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: in his like you can't even talk to those people.
Speaker 1: That's pure ignorance. And the thing it's black people, black people,
Speaker 1: because it's it runs so deep. We've been brainwashed for
Speaker 1: so long. It's so deep. It's so much deeper than
Speaker 1: what we could ever really truly unpacked and unpeeled, and
Speaker 1: that honestly won't happen probably for another three generations after
Speaker 1: the real full on feeling, because it's so deep. Like
Speaker 1: the people you you got when you get the chance
Speaker 1: to go to Africa like we have, you understand how
Speaker 1: deep it really really runs. If as a young black girl,
Speaker 1: as a young intercity black girl, my first look at
Speaker 1: American history was them teaching me slavery right, which could
Speaker 1: be where our American history start, but that's not where
Speaker 1: my history started. So imagine I didn't understand my history
Speaker 1: until in my thirties when I got a chance to
Speaker 1: go stand and look at the pyramid. You see what
Speaker 1: I'm so understand? Yeah, this this ship, the back what here?
Speaker 1: What we see? It's so deep. I saw a commercial
Speaker 1: the other day. It was, um, damn. It was like
Speaker 1: for Sonics or something. Sonics is like a fast, fool
Speaker 1: place out here, and everybody in the commercial was a
Speaker 1: fun commercial and the men had dreadlocks, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I felt like, damn, I'll never see no men in dreadlocks,
Speaker 1: not just not talking Jamaican, Like my father wears dreadlocks.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a Black American, but he has dreadline
Speaker 1: fun dress, and I'm like, we don't ever see those
Speaker 1: type of depictions, Like I'm standing man, he's a good man,
Speaker 1: he's a clean man, like you know where his dress.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about media and what how we
Speaker 1: really been brainwashed? You know what I'm saying. So those
Speaker 1: black people, they don't even know themselves. I was talking
Speaker 1: to one of my African friends and he said, you
Speaker 1: know what did he said? I felt bad for Black
Speaker 1: American women and Black American men. I was like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean. He's like, because black American men have
Speaker 1: but insecurity that African men don't have because they don't
Speaker 1: even know who they are. He said, I'm from Africa
Speaker 1: like he and he's an americanized Africa, but He's like,
Speaker 1: I know exactly where I come from. I tried my
Speaker 1: last name, my five, my in heritage, my war, I
Speaker 1: know all of it from Black American men. Definitely even
Speaker 1: know you don't even you think you know what you
Speaker 1: want to know, it makes it. It makes a difference
Speaker 1: because he though we do know, like we were, we
Speaker 1: obviously didn't go to Africa green right when we arrived.
Speaker 1: We had a little bit of something with us. Not
Speaker 1: to mention that Attorney Angelo Pinto, who was also your brother,
Speaker 1: was with us, and he is brilliant and you know
Speaker 1: is a is our historian. So we didn't show up
Speaker 1: me But still after going to the experience and being there,
Speaker 1: learning the tribes and getting our name, and going into
Speaker 1: the river and bathing in the same water which was
Speaker 1: the last place that folks who were enslaved in that
Speaker 1: area where they bathed before being sold off, like this
Speaker 1: was an experience that you can never ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that compares to it. So certainly, I you know,
Speaker 1: I totally agree, understand and appreciate it. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the show today because you've
Speaker 1: given us so much in there's probably we probably could
Speaker 1: break down. Every little piece um and build shows out
Speaker 1: on the different things that you've done. But one thing
Speaker 1: I know is that my grandmother always said to me,
Speaker 1: no matter what you do and how you feeling, you
Speaker 1: get up, get yourself together to pull it together, patties together.
Speaker 1: Put some lipstick on. That's exactly what she said. Put
Speaker 1: some lipstick on, get dressed and show up. And we
Speaker 1: I know, because you're my friend and you're very fashionable
Speaker 1: young lady, And I wonder over time has that come.
Speaker 1: Part of what gives you joy's is being able to
Speaker 1: make sure that when you're showing up and you're a
Speaker 1: high low person, because you'll be like, you do not
Speaker 1: need a two hundred dollar sweater. You could go right
Speaker 1: over here and get the ninety five sweater. And then
Speaker 1: I see you in sweater and I'm like, yo, that
Speaker 1: looks so damn good. So it's not about which you
Speaker 1: also got a bunch of fly stuff that you know,
Speaker 1: you got it all. You're high low, but you you
Speaker 1: show up in a certain type of way, and I
Speaker 1: just want to know where did that come from? As
Speaker 1: we go out of here today, and what does it
Speaker 1: mean to you? You know, I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: part of my joy. I think it's a part of
Speaker 1: who I am. My grandparents were very very clean cut
Speaker 1: um people. And while all my grandparents are deceased now
Speaker 1: um who they are and their souls like like who
Speaker 1: they are actually hit me skipped like it's not my
Speaker 1: parents as much as it is like my grandparents, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think a some of my soul lives in
Speaker 1: that era where you know, you do take showing up
Speaker 1: and get addressed and presentation serious. As a young black
Speaker 1: girl doing business, presentation is everything to me. It's everything
Speaker 1: for my team, for what I look like, being on time,
Speaker 1: all of those, all of those things. So I take
Speaker 1: everything serious and in that presenting, in the way I present,
Speaker 1: I take serious too because I have to. You know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be as it's you know, I believe in
Speaker 1: being buttoned up and looking buttoned up and presenting buttoned up.
Speaker 1: I think there's a there's a there's a power in that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like when you when you
Speaker 1: are buttoned up, when you show up the things that
Speaker 1: I demand as a business person, I can only demand,
Speaker 1: which showing up looking a certain way. There's no way
Speaker 1: I could demand what I demand expect what I expect
Speaker 1: and not take no for an answer without checking off
Speaker 1: all my boxes when it comes to showing up. So
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a part of my joy as
Speaker 1: much as a part of who I am and and
Speaker 1: and what I value um in president and presenting in
Speaker 1: the way I show up. Did he Do you have
Speaker 1: a boyfriend? Did he? Yeah? You got up for me
Speaker 1: because you have no boyfriend. I'm not even dating anyone.
Speaker 1: And that's the crazy part, is it? Do you think
Speaker 1: that working so far? That's your focus? Like? Are you focused?
Speaker 1: Are you like Mary? To my world? But I would
Speaker 1: welcome in some real ship. But I don't like none
Speaker 1: of that other stuff, because then that's because I don't
Speaker 1: like waste of my time. Now I'm thinking about a
Speaker 1: waste of my time. But you're not to be making
Speaker 1: some now mad. Now we are. We are dating. We
Speaker 1: all did, but wen along time we go together real
Speaker 1: bad because we've been together. And it's and it's many
Speaker 1: sisters out here like that. It's so many of our
Speaker 1: sisters who don't have it, who are not even dating.
Speaker 1: So it's not just don't have a boyfriend, but I'm
Speaker 1: also and dating, and it's it's unfortunate that there's something
Speaker 1: about successful black women who are assertive. UM, that is
Speaker 1: very difficult for us to find the right people to
Speaker 1: engage with us and for us they engage with. And
Speaker 1: I know that there's so much of a conversation around
Speaker 1: submission and we don't have the time to talk about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to come back on and talk about for admitting.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you know, any of us have
Speaker 1: an issue with that because I certain no, I wanna
Speaker 1: be I wanna be submissive and I'm wanna be taken
Speaker 1: care of. I'm wanna They said, what's the new thing?
Speaker 1: The soft life? I want to live off life, but
Speaker 1: it's not easy. No, And our souls, but our souls hey,
Speaker 1: something else. That's why the soft life is tough for
Speaker 1: you about because our souls pray something else. We could
Speaker 1: want a soft life, but our souls be like girl,
Speaker 1: go to them. But yeah, I'm coming back to talking
Speaker 1: to you about that. Thank you, We love you. The
Speaker 1: brilliant Miss Diddy, the greatness. She is the best brand ambassador.
Speaker 1: She is everything. If you don't know Miss Diddy, please
Speaker 1: look up Miss Diddy, follow her. She has done such
Speaker 1: amazing work and continues to evolve into this pudding butterfly
Speaker 1: that she is. Thank you, miss Diddy the brand so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being to see you soon. Yeah, that Diddy.
Speaker 1: I love Diddy. I call her Dittiness, you know, I
Speaker 1: just love her energy. She is. This is who she is.
Speaker 1: That right there that interview, he has exactly who she
Speaker 1: is all the time. She's always looking to laugh, She's
Speaker 1: always gonna say some real ship at the same time.
Speaker 1: And you know, and she's professional. So she's one of
Speaker 1: our friends that is really top tier in times of
Speaker 1: what she does with her big business. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't know because you know, they a lot
Speaker 1: of times women are just discounting anyway and things in
Speaker 1: the work that we do. But you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot more that she does every day
Speaker 1: that never makes it to socials, right, But we get
Speaker 1: a chance to see her work. And one of the
Speaker 1: things that I appreciate about her being my friend is
Speaker 1: that she's extremely helpful and caring um and she always
Speaker 1: is willing to step in to try to, you know,
Speaker 1: assist and provide opportunities and resources and ways that she
Speaker 1: can you know, build up other folks and so love her,
Speaker 1: and I think I think it was a great interview
Speaker 1: as well. So what don't you get this week? You know,
Speaker 1: we've been talking about racism, you know, and and I
Speaker 1: really just don't get how we're at this stage. All right,
Speaker 1: we're at this time, We've been to George Floyd, We're
Speaker 1: constantly go into this that there are people who still
Speaker 1: exhibit this type of behavior. They are organizations there, people
Speaker 1: like Sesame Street that will try to tell us that
Speaker 1: we don't see what we see, you know, they're trying
Speaker 1: to tell us that this ain't racist, or this ain't that,
Speaker 1: or you know, I really just don't get how people
Speaker 1: want us to just be quiet, you know, how they
Speaker 1: just want us to just go and be quiet and
Speaker 1: allowed to disrespect, allowed, allowed the discrimination, allow all these
Speaker 1: things to happen to us. When history has shown what
Speaker 1: we've been dealing with. Why do the people expect us
Speaker 1: to just deal with you know, why why do people
Speaker 1: just expect us to be quiet and just continue to
Speaker 1: tolerate this level of behavior. And it's just you know
Speaker 1: the fact that we constantly the fact that me and
Speaker 1: you have a job an organization called Until Freedom. It's
Speaker 1: just terrible. We shouldn't even have to have that. It's terrible,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's really terrible like that we still got
Speaker 1: to fight for equality in the country that we damned
Speaker 1: it built that we're pretty much built man every day man.
Speaker 1: So I really don't get that. And hopefully somebody can
Speaker 1: give me some thoughts on this, if you if you
Speaker 1: know why people think that we're supposed to just take
Speaker 1: racism laying down right energy. Yeah, we're wasting your energy
Speaker 1: because you're gonna get a bunch of nuts. I want
Speaker 1: to know, because I really want to hear, like we're
Speaker 1: supposed to just jail jailer Walker. You know, he deserved
Speaker 1: to get shot a bunch of times with no weapon, right,
Speaker 1: We were just supposed to just be was in the
Speaker 1: car at one point, and that was in the car
Speaker 1: that he got shot at while he was outside running,
Speaker 1: you know, completely, and we and we're supposed and we're overreacting.
Speaker 1: We're bugged out, you know, we're just trying to race bait.
Speaker 1: It's not about race, you know, we we we we
Speaker 1: watch you know, Rosita just walked by these two little
Speaker 1: black girls and and now we see the clear other
Speaker 1: side of the video that we can see her walk
Speaker 1: by the two black girls and go to the white girl,
Speaker 1: and we're just supposed to be okay with it, you know,
Speaker 1: we we just want some money. No, we want these
Speaker 1: things not to happen, you know, that's all. We want
Speaker 1: these things not to happen. So you know, hopefully, man,
Speaker 1: y'all can give me some insight, you know about what
Speaker 1: what do you think do y'all think racism exists? Do
Speaker 1: you think that we just race bathing? Do you think
Speaker 1: that we just need to get over it? And you know,
Speaker 1: these these things just happen. It's just osmosis. This happens
Speaker 1: like give we want to get some of your input
Speaker 1: on this, this today's topic. And once again we've come
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