WEBVTT - Not so Friendly Neighbors at Sesame Place 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.920 What's the family. Is your girl to make a d mallory, 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.240 that's your boy, my son in general, and we are 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:16.279 your hosts of street politicians the place with politics. There 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.759 is the most heat wave ever going on in New York, 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.840 the most heat waves ever. Like I had to. I 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.200 called my parents and told them aboard mission, don't go 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.480 outside at all. Get where they're planning on going. It's 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:37.479 too hot. Yeah, God got the heat on Hell. The 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.680 heat is on Hell, and it's everywhere. But you know, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:45.040 it's so funny because, uh, all of these folks and 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.440 I'm not gonna say which party they belong to, which 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:52.000 political party they belong to, that there are many people 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:56.200 in a particular political party that do not believe that 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.200 climate change is a thing. Right, They don't believe in 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.920 it and global warming if you will. And it's crazy 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.040 because the other day I was traveling from New York 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:14.200 City to New Jersey, um, and the rain came like 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.880 as I was leaving the house. I noticed, Yeah, no, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.000 I noticed that it was about to rain. But you know, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.480 I'm a good driver, so I wasn't worried about it. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.760 So I get in the car, started driving, and eventually 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.920 the rain starts coming down. When I tell you, the 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.880 storm was like nothing I have been in and I 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:38.600 have been driving now for who however many years, twenty years, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.320 I have been through we you know, storms, traveling everything. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:49.080 I've never in my life drove through a storm the 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:53.280 way that this one was. Water was coming on the bridge. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:54.760 And the reason why I mentioned I was going from 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.440 New York to New Jersey. You know, you got across 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.960 to George Washington Bridge unless you take other outs, but 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.920 George Washington Bridge the major artery, and the water was 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:08.000 coming off the sides of the bridge onto the cars. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.280 So that means that the tide was so high. The 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.640 water was up so high that it was able to 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.640 splash back and forth on each side. Then getting through, 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.720 like through the bridge, you know, you go through a tunnel. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.920 So when you get in the tunnel, obviously the tunnel 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.800 was all the water around it. There must be holes. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.600 I don't know what was going on. The water was splashing, 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.400 was coming, It was pouring out of the tunnel and 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.960 out of the walls onto the vehicles, so that the 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:43.520 water was coming like in from the sides. And in 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.320 order to get to the George Washington Bridge, there's this 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.720 particular area in the city. It's like in Washington Heights, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.359 you know the area. I guess that is where Columbia 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.320 Hospital is, and it's like under the George Washington kind of. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.200 The water was up so high there that I was 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.120 driving my car, which is like a mini suv through 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.360 like a flood that had the water almost at the 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.600 windows on the side of the car. It was stuffed 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:17.680 dirty ass New York City rats going through the water swimming. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.080 It was really really crazy outside and so for people. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.760 And then you turn around and you have that storm 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.959 two days ago and then this heat wave happening. Now 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.680 you can't in some way they sat across the country. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.520 There was an ice storm that happened in the last 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.120 few days. You can't tell me that something is not 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.520 happening with the ozone like there is a problem. It's definitely. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:45.360 It's definitely the weather is different. Like you know, been 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.320 around a long time and I haven't seen the shifts 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.640 in whether you know this way. One day is at nighttime, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.800 it was dim there, like sixty degrees, you know what 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.560 I'm saying. It was it was mad cool. It's like 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.000 ninety degrees and it was getting sixty degrees and night 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.160 it was just weird. It was it was that's it 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.400 was like fall kind of like full was approaching. It's 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.600 just the beginning to assume. So it's definitely been a 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.680 lot of changes with the weather. Anybody who doesn't notice that, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.160 you know, it's crazy. And that rain that day though 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.280 I was I didn't leave my house. I looked out 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.159 the window. It was like nine going out there. And 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.560 you know in this and in the Bronx there was 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.240 a there was a it was so much water right 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.680 that it made a sinkhole, a big sinkhole, and the 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.159 sinkhole was there, and then all of a sudden a 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.520 van fell into the hole. Isn't it crazy? Don't they should? 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.479 We should really make sure that the clip of this 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.440 situation gets into the show for those who are watching 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.960 it visually, because there's a car that is right in 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.760 front of the dam and in the bottom of the 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:56.039 car falls down, but the car somehow is like hanging on. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.080 I'm like, and I looked at it us. It ain't 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.480 that life like you every thing falling out from behind 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.680 underneath you. But you still that was me, that one 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.760 call was me man pafted will is in the whole 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.240 wind in the whole. We know, we know, but we 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:20.080 didn't know. Yo. Crazy, So let's get into our news stories. Um, 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.800 I found this thing online that was this crazy. This 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.040 protest was happening in China, and you know, there's so 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.640 much going on, there's so much trauma, you know, before 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.000 I even tell the story about China today, I opened 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.880 up my social media in the bed, as we all 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.920 probably do, check into Instagram before getting out of bed 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.160 early this morning, and the first thing that popped up 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.440 on my timeline, not the second or the third, I 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.040 mean scroll, it was the first image I saw was 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.800 a man bloody like like he the police had beaten 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.240 him to the point where he was bloody all over everything, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.000 just his sockets were all busted out. And I said, yo, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.400 I can't. I can't, like I cannot, I cannot start 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.480 my day every day with this. So it's like that's 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.120 was when you get into it's like you can't even 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.400 you can't even open Instagram, you can't even open social 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.760 media because it's traumatizing. So the day I'm I saw 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.440 all these people protesting, and I was like and then 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.480 and of course I saw that they were um Asian, 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.479 So I'm like, let me see let me watch this 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.000 and see what's going on. What are they protesting? And 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.240 then I read the story and basically, the banks froze 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.479 or one bank froze these people's money. I don't know why. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.200 I still haven't figured out what happened, but they frozen 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.960 to the people's assets, and the people can't get their money, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.160 their life savings, so they went to go protests. A 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.000 lot of Chinese people were standing there and probably you know, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.720 thousands of them, or maybe it was hundreds, they looked 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.120 like thousands, and the police whooped on their behinds like 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:59.120 they're wrong for protesting about their money. Listen, the institution 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.359 of police around this world, it's crazy, man. These people 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.440 that took these people money, their money been held up 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.040 in this bank for long long time. They life saved, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.200 like imagine your life savings in the bank, and they 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.320 just ain't giving it too. And you on, you peacefully 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:20.080 protest and the police cover your ass for peace process 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.200 to get your money. It's crazy. It just don't make 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.760 no sense, man. But in China, that's how they roll. Listen. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.760 They ain't looked too much different than what we seeing 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.720 out here. The polic unless you are unless you are 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.560 insurrectionists at the Capitol. Yeah, then they opened the door 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.320 for you. They tell you, they give you directions and everything. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.560 Michael said, the police been whooping heads on over here, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.840 and they whooped some heads down there, man, police whooping 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:52.280 heads all over the plate. M We just are a 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.840 week away from the birthday, the twenty six birthday of 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.280 Jalen Walker. It's so sad. It's like, poor Jalen. Does 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.040 the world even remember Jalen Walker anymore? We You know, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.720 people have moved on to the next thing and the 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.680 next thing and the next thing, and it takes so 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.880 much work nowadays to make sure you keep um, you 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:17.320 know these folks, these unfortunate that which have become sort 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.400 of hashtags in the storyline, and keep them on TV 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.400 and keep them as part of the dialogue. And folks 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.400 get mad. Oh oh, what y'all do when y'all using 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:32.160 the cameras. Imagine if we didn't find ways to bring 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.640 Yandy with the Love and Hip Hop cameras and then 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.280 Poorshe with the Real Housewives cameras and all the other 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.640 stuff that we did to keep Brianna Tip, they would 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.520 it would There's no way that Brianna Taylor would have 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.880 stayed in the news, especially since we know with black 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:54.440 women that black men their stories starts to sort of 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.920 push ours out, Like when black women are killed by 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.920 the state stay sanctioned violence, It's like, doesn't that those 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.760 stories don't last at all if they make it at 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.760 all black men, of course, it's still a struggle, but 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:11.920 it's definitely more attention pay to black men. So what 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.800 would you what would we have done if we were 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.160 not able to create our own media and bring people around. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.320 Brianna Taylor And now that's how I feel about Jaylen Walker. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.360 It's like, now his twenty six birthday has passed, and 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.640 you know, it's way too soon for him to just 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.760 be a storyline that happened. You know, he needs to 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.800 be consistently indepressed. I know that on his birthday. Um 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:38.679 the attorneys called for the Department of Justice to get involved, 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:44.160 you know, and they should because the police will their excuse. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.080 It's gonna be that there was a gun that he 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.559 had and they saw a shot fired, and you keep asking, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.640 where's the ballistic report and all of the stuff. Maybe 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.960 it's there, you know, It's it's so much. And my 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.880 aunt lives in akron Um and some other family members 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.360 and listening to them talk about the story they're they're 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.800 getting information locally and from local news. It's very different 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.040 from what we're hearing nationally, you know what I'm saying. 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.160 It's very, very different. So the story is even worse 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.440 when you listen to the local side. Well, I know 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:25.200 that a man was shot over forty sometimes that's what 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.560 they're saying. I still think sixty. I know there was 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.640 ninety round shot at the man. And for us not 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.360 to continue to talk about that, for that not to 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.840 be in the news cycle, it's crazy to me. And 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.480 that's why people talk about, like you said, they say, oh, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.280 y'all doing this for news. If we don't do it, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.520 you know, if we if we don't really take that 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.720 responsibility and we don't get in front of these cameras 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.160 and and and say these names and make sure that 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.920 these families and situations are highlighted, then it swept into 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.360 the rug. There's so many people that you don't hear about, 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.520 you know, and a lot of people say, oh y'all 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.320 go for the know we we we we we try 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.040 to do is bring attention, We try to bring awaitness, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.240 We understand, you know, the injustices that are happening, and 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.839 families don't have the proper recourse, recourse or the problem platforms. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:13.719 You know, they don't have to me, they don't have 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.480 something someone to elevate their voices. So when we come in, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.600 that's always what we try to do. Man. And it's 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.240 it's sad, like you said, to see that on his 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:27.000 twenty six birthday, you know, is he's basically not even 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.520 in the news cycle anymore. Nobody's talking about it. Not enough. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.640 It's like it's common like it's it's just okay, it's 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.880 not enough, you know, it's not enough outraged, Like we say, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.839 we're not We're not outraged enough. We're not. That's our brother, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:45.520 Angelo's attorney, Angelo Penzel, I always have to correct myself. Um, 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.959 you know, that's the statement that he made, and we're not. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.719 We're not outraged enough. So it's our job to keep 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.880 saying Jalen Walker's name and we will do that and 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.280 we are. We think the Department of Justice absolutely needs 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.920 to pick up this case and investigated the actually um 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.839 to really see what went on. The attorney Robert di Cello, 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.800 he he says, after the funeral, we did the press conference, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.440 he said something that was very interesting that I never 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.680 even thought about. He said, the officers got a chance 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:21.640 to go home right and watched They weren't No statements 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.680 were taken there on the scene from all of these officers, 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.640 at least thirteen of them. They got a chance to 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.560 go home and watch the news, which is where the 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.800 press conference was done from the police department telling the 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.280 world their side of the story. So now they listen 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.400 to that, they understand how to collaborate around it, and 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.000 they're all gonna say the same thing that the department 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.880 has put out there as an official statement. I mean, 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.120 it's so evident, it's so clear the cover up. So 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.640 you know, definitely the Department of Justice needs to get 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:57.360 involved in that. And I my heart goes out to um, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:01.160 you know, Kristin Clark, who is the the head of 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:05.480 the Civil Rights Division for the Department of Justice, because 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.520 even though she's a friend and I love Kristen Clark, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.520 but I still have to also apply pressure on her, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.959 which we've done. We're doing it on Brianna Taylor. We 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.000 went and did a protest there and and you know, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.640 went to her office and demanded to UH to serve 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.319 them with our petitions that people all over the country 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.559 signed saying that the d J needs to get involved, 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.679 and there's been a number of other cases where we've 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.959 done the same. We unfortunately cannot give that sister, uh 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.480 you know, an easy time while she's in office. But 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.440 it's a lot of a burden to carry as a 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.240 black woman to be the head of a department that 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.720 has so many issues coming in the door every day 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.800 and trying to make the right decisions about which cases 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.199 you're going to go after, which cases you're gonna investigate. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.199 It's hard work, but it's work that she wanted to do. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.920 And there now y'all at the whole tel responsible exactly. Man, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.480 That's why she got in the office. You know. We 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.679 we've seen something in her that identified with our struggle. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.839 That she had been on these front lines. She had 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.520 understood a lot of what we were dealing with, and 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.560 that's why people put in office now. So you know, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.000 I know it's gonna be tough, you know, because and 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:19.880 this is why people like hey, you need to run 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.080 for all, I know, one of their vocals because I 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.240 don't want to be bound by any politics. I don't 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.240 want to be bound by any system that you know 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.640 pretty much. I have to deal with what I know 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.640 is right, and then I know what the system is 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.320 saying to do. So she's in there trying to balance 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.000 this and be as fair as possible, but then go 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.600 within the system that she's in. So it's it's a 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:45.720 lot in the system working for Marrik Garland, who's another person. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.920 You know, he's the the Attorney General. And I believe 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.480 that Mary Garland wants to do some of the right things. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:53.800 I mean, first of all, we have to be real 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.960 clear and make sure that we say that they have 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.880 been filing cases. They were filing cases in the parts 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.880 in prison situation where we called for, along with brock 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.600 Nation and a bunch of other people, Yo Gotti, what 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.040 we call for Parchment to be investigated. The Department of 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.720 Justice came out saying that the civil rights of incarcerated 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.960 individuals in that prison were being violated. So there's been cases, 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.560 there's been situations where we see the Department of Justice 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.080 stepping in. It's not enough though, It's not enough, right 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.800 and and I don't know when it ever will be enough, um, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.520 But again to your point, hey, and and she actually 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:38.000 was appointed by Merritt Garland to be the head of 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.360 the Civil Rights Division, and she had to go through 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:46.080 a whole lot of um questioning in order to get 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:50.320 confirmed by the Senate. UH. And one of the things 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.280 they asked her about, what's her relationship with me? It 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.240 was it was on the record that they challenged her 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:00.120 about signing a letter on my behalf to support me 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.520 during the time when I was under attack. Um, you 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.760 know with Women's March, so they really, you know, they're 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.600 gonna kick everybody, all sides are kicking the doors, and 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.880 you know it's important at the department just to stay 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.240 focused and they need to do their jobs. So that's 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.080 that on that. Next is the street renaming for Eric 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:24.480 Garner in Statn Island. They named renamed the street for him. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.480 I saw miss Carr Gwen carr Um, you know, looking 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.080 like she was just so proud, you know that something 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:36.920 happened to always put a steak acclaim, if you will, 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.160 put a steak in the ground right there in that 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.800 space for her son. UH. And I saw somebody online like, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.560 why do we choose these symbolic gestures or why do 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.480 we settle for symbolic justice. It's not a settling that 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.520 lady fought for justice and her son, I mean her grandson, 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.360 Eric Garner Jr. He also is a part of this. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.440 He fought. They fought right there. Thought that they're his sister. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:07.320 What's her name, Erica Garner. She died fighting for her father. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.480 They did all that they could do. So the street renaming, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.560 while yes, it's only symbolic, it's not gonna bring back 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.680 Eric and it certainly doesn't give him justice. They deserve 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.080 that also. They deserve the streets to be renamed. They 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.000 deserve the money they want from the lawsuit. They deserve 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.200 guilty uh, they deserve convictions. They deserve all of that. 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.840 And we, unfortunately we can't control getting each one of 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.119 those things as we would like for it to be. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.120 But when we do get certain things, it's important that 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.399 people when they especially on Staton Island where all those 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.600 cops live, because you know Staton Island is heavy police, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.439 the fact that they have to drive down a street 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.520 named after a black man that they killed and disregarded 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.159 right and smeared his name, even though that may not 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.119 be real true justice, but it at least is something. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:07.240 It's a gesture that those individuals would not be comfortable 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.440 just living. When they go to Google when they tell 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.800 their family where to how to find their homes, they're 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.240 gonna have to say Eric garn Away as a part 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.040 of you know, and I'm not saying again that I 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.280 think it's the best thing in the world. But those 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.440 folks they didn't just settle. They fought and they continue 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.320 to fight. And Ms. Gardner is everywhere around this country 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.440 fighting for other families as well. And that's the truth. Man. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.200 Like you said, you know it's not I'm sure that 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.199 we would definitely rather have Ergarden right instead of the 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.439 name on the street. We would rather have justice for 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.359 fire Daniel Pantela. We would rather have him inside of prison. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.480 You know, we we fought for all those things. But 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.359 as we get something, some level of acknowledgement, you know, 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.679 to make sure that he didn't die in vain, that 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.439 he's immortalized, that the story of Rigando will be told, 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.560 that that block will send relies what it is that 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.040 they lost, and what it is that he represented to 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.840 this world, and how he ignited fires would through this 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.159 city and got people to really fight for justice. You know, 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:13.960 we we we don't want to take that away. You 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.680 don't want to see when you see a mother smiling 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.800 that her child's name is somewhere, knowing that she hadn't 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.080 smiled for years, knowing that we we normally see in 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.119 miss car on the front of the newspaper. Because she 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.280 said about the situation, you know, she's receiving bad news 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.760 that they're not going to fight the offers, that they're 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.560 not going to prosecute. Right. So when you when you're 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.280 able to see some level of comfort, let that lady 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.720 enjoy that. You know, it's not about you, It ain't 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.640 about what you think, right you maybe you don't want that, 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.199 but this family gets to enjoy the little things that 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.520 they do because they've been to so much trauma. So 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.000 you know, congratulations on that. You know, our heart goes 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.359 out to that family and we still want justice and 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.280 we still went to or of us are locked up 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.280 and hopefully we'll get you know, a district attorn Ernie 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.920 in New York City that we can look and reopen 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.040 this case and actually get some justice for Erghana, because 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.960 that's still still to go. That's right, that's right, that's right. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:12.800 I don't know is that possible, Like we should really 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.480 really look into that because there are new district attorneys, 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.359 Like what could they do. I don't know. Maybe they can't, 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.520 but that's a good question. We should find that out 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:25.000 for my legal experts, like what can be done. There's 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.960 no statue of libertation on because the Department of Justice 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.720 said they weren't gonna do anything. They never filed any charges. 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.280 So it's not like double jeopardy if you look. If 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.440 they look and say that they reviewed it and they 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:43.040 decided that they want to file charges, you know, hey, 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.000 I doubt that anybody is going to. We're saying we 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.719 told them to open up all the cases that certain 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:52.920 lawyers have done. The that was for the Central Park five. 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:57.359 We said that the new Attorney General, I mean, excuse me, 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.399 the new District Attorney, Alvin Braggen York City needs to 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:06.240 open up the files of the previous administrations to see 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.440 whether or not what happened to the Central Park five 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:13.040 has happened to other people, um, you know, in in 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:14.920 New York. And we know that it has because there's 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.280 one guy in jail who basically reported that the same 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:23.680 cohercing and threatening that happened to the Central Park five 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.960 happened to him and that's why he, you know, was 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:31.800 was serving time in prison. So that's that anyway, Um, 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.480 the Sesame Streets case, and we should talk about this 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:39.000 today because there's a lot happening, and over the last 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.240 few days, I think the bombshell has dropped them. You know, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.160 folks who don't know about what took place at Sesame Place, 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:51.040 pretty much a family, a black woman was there with 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.760 her niece and her daughter, both of them six year old, 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:59.200 cute little girls, beautiful little princesses. And they were on 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:03.800 the line the parade waiting for the characters to come 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:08.159 down the and and this character high five as a 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:14.520 white woman. You see Rosida Rosita, you see her. It's her, well, 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:18.879 I guess it's her because she is the character, but 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:23.520 we don't know who's behind the character. Nonetheless, Rosita is 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.720 interacting with different people, and all of them appear to 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.800 be white folks. Like right in that very short period 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:35.640 of time, once she gets to these two little black girls, 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.560 she says no to them and like shuns them off 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.920 and avoids them all together and walks past them. What 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:48.200 we now know is that she went right directly after 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:52.920 the family to a white person and hugged them right, 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:59.200 So it's very clear the discrimination that took place however, 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:03.240 and it's unfortunate that we're in a time where we 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:08.360 need video footage that pretty much shows every single thing. 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:12.920 Because the mother said, Jodie said that the character went 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:16.119 Rosita went to a white family. People say, oh, I 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:18.920 don't know if that's true. I can't say for sure 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.240 if that you don't have video. Okay, so now there's 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:26.399 footage other but even before that, just the experience, I 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:30.320 didn't need to see what takes place. After all I 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:35.600 needed was just right there that that interaction. It was 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:38.960 just dead wrong. And so until Freedom we got involved, 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:43.440 and we issued a warning telling other families, black families particularly, 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:47.720 but also our allies to be careful when considering where 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:51.680 you want to take your children this summer, your vacation time, 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:53.880 and make sure you know that the Sessa me place 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.800 they are discriminating against black kids. And of course all 0:23:56.800 --> 0:23:59.320 these other videos have come out where you see the 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:02.240 same thing happening with the same character and some other 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:06.679 characters and other situations. It's really really unfortunate. UM, And 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:09.280 we're standing with Jody and the family. We have our 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:12.600 press conference together last week. UM. Like I said, this 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:15.680 new information is out there. Uh, and you know I'm 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:18.399 just and and and you know, and then we're and 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:21.960 we're talking about racism today on the show that I'll 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:24.640 say this last thing. I saw a couple of people 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:26.960 in the comments section like, well, I went there with 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:29.399 my family and it didn't happen to me. You know, 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:32.199 I don't know. And it's like, what is why do 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:37.080 black people always feel the me just to not all 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.199 black people, but some black people feel the need to 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:46.280 try to explain away massive problems like why let massa 0:24:46.520 --> 0:24:50.960 is not even willing to apologize and deal with their 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:54.640 own problems? Right? And I say massive being very very 0:24:54.800 --> 0:24:59.040 very very sarcastic, because you ain't nobody's massive hours. But 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:02.080 the point is the mindset is is like we just 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:06.080 want to defend them so quick, and it's just crazy. 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:11.240 It's just crazy because you know, there are so many 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:15.760 people right who are either blind or ignorant to the 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:19.040 fact of what racism is. Right, you have some people 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:22.320 would tell us that that's not that serious and that 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:25.880 we're overreacting, right, And when you when when you deal 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:28.240 with those situations, when when you when we talk to 0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:33.080 Jody and her response as she watched her niece and 0:25:33.119 --> 0:25:37.879 her daughter being discriminated against being in that situation. You know, 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:41.600 you don't get to tell somebody what they're experiencing, you know, 0:25:41.720 --> 0:25:43.720 like you we we have so many different black people, 0:25:43.760 --> 0:25:46.560 Like you heard the comment Little Ways someone he's never 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:49.640 experienced racism in America, you know when you hear Kanye 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:51.600 told my slavery was a choice that we and we 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:55.680 get people who have different realities, right, some of them 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:58.600 have more money. They you know, they're they're they're idolized 0:25:58.600 --> 0:26:02.439 in certain regards, so they don't deal or just choose 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:05.960 not to acknowledge what common black people are dealing with, 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:09.400 just regular black folks every day, and they are. You 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:12.080 have people like Lebron James where they write and nigger 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:15.040 on his gate. You know what I'm saying, Racism is 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:18.120 a serious thing, and it's not something that just oh, 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:21.760 get over it, you know, y'all just overreacting. It's not 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:24.560 that serious. No, it is that serious, you know, because 0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:28.000 other people don't experience that. Other people aren't discriminated against 0:26:28.240 --> 0:26:31.320 by just because the color of their skin, or because 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:33.200 of the where they live, or because of how they look, 0:26:33.480 --> 0:26:36.560 you know. And just watching that video, man, it really 0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:39.119 pained me. And then seeing a little girl, you know, 0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:41.879 at the press conference and me and Jody and just 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:45.479 seeing how they are just seemed like good people. You know, 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:49.160 people are trying to say that we use racism as 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:52.480 a shield or you know, we um what what they 0:26:52.520 --> 0:26:55.800 what is it that they say? I do embrace baiting, 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:58.640 race baiting. You're a race bader. And it's like, how 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:01.640 could I base something that ain't thing? How I'm don't. 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:04.840 I'm not the person dealing with these situations. I'm not 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:09.720 when I do. You're not. I'm not the perpetrator of it. 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:12.919 So how am I I'm exposing it. I'm showing you 0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:16.080 what we deal with on a regular basis every day. 0:27:16.320 --> 0:27:20.920 And people want it rather willing willful ignorance is a thing. Yeah, 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:23.919 you know it is. And the family is saying they 0:27:23.920 --> 0:27:26.359 don't even they're not even trying to follow lawsuit, right, 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:29.359 They're not filing a lawsuit for a million dollars to 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:32.720 million dollars. They're saying, yes, they should be compensated by 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:35.560 the park. The park should be willing to just give 0:27:35.600 --> 0:27:39.920 them something that covers the mental health support and some 0:27:40.040 --> 0:27:43.520 of the pain and suffering of the children. And you know, 0:27:43.640 --> 0:27:46.359 and what they and their mom and your aunt mom 0:27:46.680 --> 0:27:49.359 and what she experienced. But they're not even looking to 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:52.960 follow lawsuit. They want people fired and they want changes 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:57.480 within the policies within the company. And and from what 0:27:57.560 --> 0:27:59.880 I can see, hopefully we'll get to talk to our 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:03.640 guests today about this. They need a new PR specialists, 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:07.160 they need training from the top of Sesame Place all 0:28:07.200 --> 0:28:11.080 the way to whoever works, you know, wherever, every single 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:16.040 part of the business needs to go through some type 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:20.200 of training and assessment because yo, like the statement y'all 0:28:20.240 --> 0:28:24.199 put out has has has caused additional harm. So it 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:26.640 was like it was already to insult and now there's 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:29.679 injury beyond that, or there was already the injury and 0:28:29.680 --> 0:28:33.080 now there's insult on top of it. It's just crazy. Um, 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:36.320 we should talk about the history of Sesame Place because 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:39.480 what we know is this is a show that started 0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:43.080 in Harlem, right or it was about Harlem. It's so 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:45.160 many things that we know about the history of this 0:28:45.360 --> 0:28:47.680 of this some business that we need to talk about. 0:28:47.760 --> 0:28:55.400 But our guess is joining us. So you know we 0:28:55.480 --> 0:29:01.040 have this saying um on street politicians that our guests, 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:04.840 so many of them are our friends because every single 0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:08.959 week we talk to people who are doing incredible things 0:29:09.120 --> 0:29:12.440 all around the nation, people who are so important to 0:29:12.480 --> 0:29:16.719 our movement and our culture. Um. And and it just 0:29:16.760 --> 0:29:20.360 so happens that there are friends, there are people we love. No, 0:29:21.000 --> 0:29:24.520 and in this situation, it's not You're not just a friend. 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:28.280 We're being joined by our sister, somebody that we love 0:29:28.480 --> 0:29:33.160 and admire. Friend. Yes, yes, yes, somebody we love and 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:36.400 a Maya so much. You all may have heard of her. 0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:39.360 You certainly if you follow either one of us on 0:29:39.440 --> 0:29:43.959 social me, you get a chance to see the beauty 0:29:44.040 --> 0:29:48.600 and the brilliance of Miss Diddy every single day. And 0:29:48.680 --> 0:29:51.880 Miss Diddy is not because of the other Diddy. She 0:29:52.000 --> 0:29:56.880 just did he on her own. Uh, you just did he. Um. 0:29:57.080 --> 0:30:01.520 And she is a master mar could turn uh, someone 0:30:01.640 --> 0:30:06.520 that the influencers and the artists of our time and 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:12.960 corporations and the light turned to for expert advice, expert 0:30:13.120 --> 0:30:18.280 organization and also activations. And her company, the Brand Group, 0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:22.360 is really a cutting edge marketing firm that is doing 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:24.840 amazing work, not just in l A, which is her 0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:27.280 home base, and she surely will tell you that she 0:30:27.440 --> 0:30:31.440 is from l A, but it also does great work 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:36.120 internationally and nationally and so welcome to Street politicians for 0:30:36.160 --> 0:30:43.000 the first time. Idea doing a little lady, you should 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:47.040 have been here about two months ago, you know, not 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:53.480 the heart, Yes I would, Yes, thanks, I'm so odd 0:30:53.640 --> 0:30:56.000 to be here with y'all. I mean, I'm gonna take 0:30:56.080 --> 0:30:59.560 that recording and that's gonna be my introduction across the 0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:04.240 way in the world. Okay, but yes, she do. Now 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:08.560 that lady, now that lad good, The ladies good, the 0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:13.160 ladies good. I'm honored to be here with both of you, guys. Definitely. 0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:16.440 Family is a word that can't be thrown around as 0:31:16.480 --> 0:31:20.200 it relates to us on this on this zoom right now. Um, 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:23.000 we all take it very seriously with each other. And 0:31:23.600 --> 0:31:26.600 beside me being extremely honored to be here with you guys, 0:31:26.640 --> 0:31:29.600 I respect you guys so much. I admire you, um, 0:31:29.640 --> 0:31:33.360 and I'm inspired by you guys personally, business wise, day 0:31:33.400 --> 0:31:37.080 to day, month to month, and so UM, I love 0:31:37.080 --> 0:31:39.280 you guys so much. And that's a that's a world 0:31:39.320 --> 0:31:41.680 word word coming from me to you guys, and I 0:31:41.720 --> 0:31:43.760 know it's the same on the other side. First of all, 0:31:43.840 --> 0:31:45.200 we want to say that we love you and we 0:31:45.240 --> 0:31:49.200 appreciate you. You know, you honored us a few weeks back. 0:31:50.440 --> 0:31:54.840 You know, and it was amazing. The whole event was dope. 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:57.640 Oh you know, how to shut it down. That's probably 0:31:57.680 --> 0:32:01.400 the favorite event of the BT weekend hosted most to 0:32:01.760 --> 0:32:05.760 Black Hollywood, most Black Hollywood, was the top of event 0:32:05.840 --> 0:32:08.200 that I've been through, No Shade and nobody else, everything was, 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:13.080 but did he had the best event and that's just 0:32:13.480 --> 0:32:16.520 his down to for me to you. Um, so we 0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:19.320 want to celebrate you. We know all the work you do. 0:32:19.440 --> 0:32:21.680 I just want to know, for the people, where did 0:32:21.680 --> 0:32:26.080 you get this name? You know what it's. They've called 0:32:26.120 --> 0:32:29.160 me Diddy and diddy Bob since high school, so it's 0:32:29.200 --> 0:32:32.840 like a very aged name for me. I won't give 0:32:32.920 --> 0:32:37.200 up full long details on those years back then, but yeah, 0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:39.800 it's it's been that way for so many years. And 0:32:39.840 --> 0:32:42.800 then it was, um, it just kind of worked out 0:32:42.880 --> 0:32:44.880 to you know. Of course, people like she's like the 0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:47.760 female pub or something like that. So it just kind 0:32:47.800 --> 0:32:49.880 of worked out. And thank god, because I mean, they 0:32:49.960 --> 0:32:52.360 gotta do really good work because he would have completely 0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:56.240 shut it down of course, but like, ain't no other Diddies, 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.920 ain't no other in this world. So yeah, I'm very 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:03.880 for that. I've actually, you know, with help the name 0:33:04.040 --> 0:33:06.760 and you know the integrity behind it. So that's pretty 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:08.920 dope because it could have went it could have went 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:12.640 left early on, you know, did he don't if it 0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:15.080 don't work, he didn't like who that actually can't use 0:33:15.080 --> 0:33:19.360 that name and shut it down. He knows he knows 0:33:19.480 --> 0:33:24.000 how to help market you and help not market you 0:33:25.200 --> 0:33:29.560 either way. And actually I was important half And actually 0:33:29.600 --> 0:33:34.240 you worked with rock Um and yeah, for sure, Yeah, 0:33:34.360 --> 0:33:38.880 sir Rod Dallion Um. I've actually worked with star Rock 0:33:39.080 --> 0:33:43.920 on multiple on multiple facets since for probably like ten 0:33:44.000 --> 0:33:46.280 years or so, because there was other people that worked 0:33:46.280 --> 0:33:49.520 in the company and Um Nathan worked with Puff for 0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:52.520 a long long time, and I would do I've always 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:56.800 worked with um Um brands, liquor brands, and spirits because 0:33:56.800 --> 0:33:59.280 of doing so many events and being a promoter and 0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:01.360 things like that. So I just always had really great 0:34:01.360 --> 0:34:04.720 relationships across the boards. I've worked with all of them, 0:34:04.760 --> 0:34:07.040 but I've definitely worked with Stock for a very long time. 0:34:07.280 --> 0:34:11.800 And I just want to say one thing that yes, 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:17.920 you had the number one event uh during b ET Weekend. However, 0:34:18.239 --> 0:34:21.160 have to give you a close second. You were like 0:34:21.480 --> 0:34:23.680 one A and then there was a one BAT and 0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:27.320 that was that damn club quarantine because it was popping. 0:34:27.400 --> 0:34:30.040 Oh yeah, I know it was popping. Y'all was there, 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:36.680 the folks, was there, the six It was amazing. Tired. 0:34:37.360 --> 0:34:41.879 Now you can't, no, you got to stay yep, Mike. 0:34:42.120 --> 0:34:45.600 And that's the thing I couldn't. I said, y'all listen, Okay, 0:34:45.640 --> 0:34:48.200 I gotta stand this here bad. I try to make 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:50.040 it out in my mind. And did you work out? 0:34:50.239 --> 0:34:53.359 And you have a wonderful relationship with d Nice as well? 0:34:54.120 --> 0:34:56.840 Uh so you know you you you, you know every 0:34:56.920 --> 0:35:02.680 damn body who doesn't about everybody? Everybody? But you know what, 0:35:02.800 --> 0:35:06.279 being a promoter early on in my career allowed me 0:35:06.360 --> 0:35:10.120 to have really dope relationships with a lot of people 0:35:10.120 --> 0:35:12.120 in different times in their careers. Do you know what 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:14.759 I mean, like early on in their careers or later 0:35:14.920 --> 0:35:17.560 or whatever. You know. Jazz Prince has always been a 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:19.920 really great friend of mine. So when we've had direct 0:35:20.040 --> 0:35:22.440 early early on, he's like, you gotta mean my artists, 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:25.719 like everyone is like that. So if I'm cool and 0:35:25.800 --> 0:35:27.880 we're cool and we have a good relationship, we just 0:35:27.920 --> 0:35:30.480 get their relationship. So like, I know, people be like 0:35:30.560 --> 0:35:34.120 even't know everybody, but it comes from all different sides 0:35:34.160 --> 0:35:40.400 of the world, you know what I mean. So a promoter, Yeah, 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:43.640 I was a promoter in the beginning of my well 0:35:43.680 --> 0:35:46.120 I was. I actually worked with ya first we went 0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:48.840 well Well Good Music when Kaine started Good Music, so 0:35:48.880 --> 0:35:51.440 I did like the West Coast promotions over there, and 0:35:51.480 --> 0:35:56.480 then that kind of segued me into promoting UM and 0:35:56.680 --> 0:35:59.200 it just I just because I always had a marketing 0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:03.080 mind or like I could see things, you know, kind 0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:06.359 of on a grand scale UM and I've always been 0:36:06.360 --> 0:36:11.600 a visionary. It made me in promoting really important UM 0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:15.200 and really uh kind of irreplaceable in nightlife because of 0:36:15.239 --> 0:36:17.239 the way I took looked at it. You know, I 0:36:17.320 --> 0:36:20.080 wasn't a guy promoted. I wasn't trying to give the 0:36:20.200 --> 0:36:22.719 girls or drink or anything like that. There's a lot 0:36:22.719 --> 0:36:25.680 of great guy promoters. But my brain and it was like, 0:36:25.719 --> 0:36:28.160 I want to make a movie. Every single time I 0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:30.319 do a party. I wanted to be like this. It 0:36:30.320 --> 0:36:32.840 needs to be this big, it needs to feel like this, 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:36.040 like I knew media, Like I was really the first 0:36:36.040 --> 0:36:40.400 promoter to really bring in UM blog awareness and blogs 0:36:40.480 --> 0:36:44.000 to nightlife that didn't really exist back then. And also 0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:47.960 like a camera you didn't really bringthe cameras into the clubs. 0:36:48.080 --> 0:36:50.640 Back then, that's not that wasn't like a thing, you know, 0:36:50.760 --> 0:36:52.320 like you didn't really do that, you know. It was 0:36:52.360 --> 0:36:55.400 like you felt underground in the club, right, So like 0:36:55.440 --> 0:36:57.560 I put cameras in the clubs. I wanted it. I 0:36:57.560 --> 0:37:00.960 wanted to shoot promo videos that look like rap videos 0:37:01.000 --> 0:37:03.840 like that wasn't done before I started promoting back in 0:37:03.880 --> 0:37:06.440 the day. And so it's took on the life of 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:10.800 owning everyone kind of markets in that way now. Um 0:37:10.840 --> 0:37:15.040 so I'm glad to see the evolution of it. My 0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:19.640 life is important. So you know, I was about to 0:37:19.680 --> 0:37:22.760 ask you, so, as a woman promoter and a woman 0:37:22.920 --> 0:37:25.799 ambassador of brand, do you feel like it's harder do 0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:29.600 you see like sexism within the industry or yeah, that's sure, 0:37:30.120 --> 0:37:32.440 I mean a hundred percent, you know. And and the 0:37:32.560 --> 0:37:36.040 thing about my career and my personality, like you guys 0:37:36.080 --> 0:37:39.880 know you're extremely well, So you know, my certainness really 0:37:40.040 --> 0:37:42.839 led in a lot of areas. You know, I'm I'm 0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:46.240 really sweet and I'm really grateful, but my certainness leading 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:49.640 areas and it really it helps kind of shut down things, 0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:52.799 you know, because the thing about I say this and 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:56.040 people don't like this, but it's true. A man can 0:37:56.120 --> 0:38:00.319 never like and understand the word respect what I'm saying, 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:03.600 like view a woman or respect a woman the way 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:06.680 he'll respect another man. It's just it's I don't think 0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:08.880 biologically a man can do it. And it's not that 0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:11.960 they feel disrespectful to a woman. It's just that to 0:38:12.120 --> 0:38:14.399 a man to if they're a man to woman, there's 0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:17.040 no threat of violence. There's stead of violence man to man. 0:38:17.120 --> 0:38:19.200 You see what I'm saying. So there there's a level 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:22.359 of respect that's gonna be with hell a man to man, 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:27.839 and biologically where hell in a different like where a woman, 0:38:28.040 --> 0:38:34.600 you know. So for me, my personality lad and my respect. 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:38.280 And I was grateful and able to work and building 0:38:38.360 --> 0:38:41.160 and become successful in the city that I'm from, you know. 0:38:41.239 --> 0:38:44.279 And sometimes that doesn't happen that way when people people 0:38:44.400 --> 0:38:46.560 Eiven moved to how he moved to New York, moves 0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:49.600 to whatever and try to become what they're trying to become. 0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:52.200 But I became successful in the city that I found, 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:54.920 So my ties and all my different areas of my 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:57.880 ties also protecting me, you know what I'm saying. And 0:38:57.960 --> 0:39:00.400 I was like not on mess my city. We already 0:39:00.480 --> 0:39:02.160 know what you know, what I'm saying, what she tales 0:39:02.800 --> 0:39:05.560 were playing with that, you know, and so it worked out. 0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:08.480 But it's a lot of sexism. And you know, women 0:39:08.520 --> 0:39:10.319 and asked me, you know what, would you because they 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:12.480 want to take on the what I've done in my career, 0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:14.719 and it's like, I don't encourage it all the time. 0:39:15.120 --> 0:39:17.360 I'm like, you gotta be realistic about this thing, you 0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:19.879 know what I'm saying, Like I could check I could 0:39:19.960 --> 0:39:22.160 check a man, you know, in a way, and that 0:39:22.440 --> 0:39:25.640 is clear. But a lot of women can't do that. 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:28.200 So I feel comfortable. But do you feel like it's 0:39:28.719 --> 0:39:32.920 harden you? Like sometimes I feel that I remembering with 0:39:33.080 --> 0:39:38.680 you at a pool party that was your event, uh 0:39:38.719 --> 0:39:41.799 in Miami, and I think all of us, everybody was 0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:47.960 all listen together, um, and I remember a man like 0:39:48.080 --> 0:39:50.920 trying not to let you get into your own space 0:39:51.080 --> 0:39:54.200 or do something, and you got into with the man. 0:39:54.480 --> 0:39:57.959 And I remember thinking that I go through this all 0:39:58.480 --> 0:40:04.040 all the time, Like literally, I get disrespected by men, 0:40:04.520 --> 0:40:09.279 whether they be security, the the the uber driver, the 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:13.800 all around the time, all around the place, all the time, 0:40:13.920 --> 0:40:16.920 and I find myself having a step out of character 0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:21.720 so um and I'm trying to learn how to get better, 0:40:21.760 --> 0:40:24.600 but I find myself like always in a battle, do 0:40:24.600 --> 0:40:28.279 you feel like that? Y's tough because I feel like 0:40:28.440 --> 0:40:31.759 decide for what I said about men respect and what 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:34.759 they feel about a man versus a woman. Aside from that, 0:40:35.239 --> 0:40:38.680 I think the value of women is so depreciated and 0:40:38.800 --> 0:40:41.840 sell out an all time low that it's hard for 0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:48.280 men too to look at women for the gracious gifts 0:40:48.320 --> 0:40:50.880 that we are not all men, because there's some like 0:40:51.000 --> 0:40:54.520 life like there's I have great humbles, have great relationships 0:40:54.560 --> 0:40:57.200 with men, great chemistry with men that protect me, and 0:40:57.200 --> 0:40:58.920 I feel safe around and they don't they do what 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:01.319 they don't handle into that way. But I think as 0:41:01.360 --> 0:41:04.680 an overall thing in the world, I think women are 0:41:04.760 --> 0:41:08.759 at a at a very low devalue place right now, 0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:11.560 and I think that affects the way men deal with 0:41:11.600 --> 0:41:15.960 women around the world, because I also my environment. If 0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:18.120 a man knows who I am, I don't got no issues. 0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:20.200 But if he doesn't know how I am, we might 0:41:20.200 --> 0:41:22.560 be have a little que dress on or something like that, 0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:24.880 and then now I gotta check you on you understanding 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:27.120 that I'm not one of it out here that's going on, 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:31.080 you know what I'm saying, Like I remember yesterday, yesterday 0:41:31.120 --> 0:41:34.200 I went to UM to stop the Mookie Betts uh 0:41:34.200 --> 0:41:37.800 and Nellie's uh all Star after the party or whatever 0:41:37.920 --> 0:41:40.080 just for a second, and so mean I'm sitting down 0:41:40.080 --> 0:41:42.480 in the section. Man comes up and he's like, uh, 0:41:42.640 --> 0:41:48.000 here the party. No, I do business. I'm not. Don't 0:41:48.080 --> 0:41:50.719 don't you know, go that way. But don't confuse me. 0:41:51.480 --> 0:41:54.520 Don't confuse me. But it's hard because men are the 0:41:54.640 --> 0:42:00.359 value of women. It's low, especially Black women. It's low. Low. Well, 0:42:00.400 --> 0:42:03.640 I want to say I apologize on behalf of men 0:42:03.920 --> 0:42:07.160 because you know, I know I see it all the time, 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:09.920 like being with y'all, being around women, you know, I 0:42:09.960 --> 0:42:12.640 find I constantly find myself having to check and get 0:42:12.680 --> 0:42:16.759 into situations or you know, intervene. So you know, but 0:42:17.000 --> 0:42:19.719 it's it's a process because it took me kind of 0:42:19.800 --> 0:42:24.720 even notice those things were happening, right because you know, um, 0:42:25.000 --> 0:42:26.719 what do we call it? What? What is the word 0:42:26.760 --> 0:42:32.440 that you always use to describe patriarchy? Patriarchy is something 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:35.040 that we've just been taught, right, We've been taught to, 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:38.000 Like you said, there's no threat of violence when you 0:42:38.000 --> 0:42:40.439 look at women, there's no threat of anything. And then 0:42:40.600 --> 0:42:43.000 you look at it woman, especially if she's a pretty woman, 0:42:43.320 --> 0:42:45.920 then your first instinct is to kind of flirt this 0:42:46.239 --> 0:42:49.200 or do something right. So it has to we have 0:42:49.320 --> 0:42:52.960 to get to a level of really just acknowledging and 0:42:53.040 --> 0:42:55.560 just understanding. And we got to teach these young boys 0:42:55.600 --> 0:42:59.640 that because because they were were taught wrong a lot 0:42:59.719 --> 0:43:03.080 of us try a woman from a lesser place to 0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:05.960 you know, yeah, that's a woman, a man and a 0:43:06.080 --> 0:43:10.080 woman is this and separation. So you know, we gotta read, 0:43:10.320 --> 0:43:13.239 we gotta re teach that and relearn. So I just 0:43:13.480 --> 0:43:15.600 and I tell you young man black men all the time, 0:43:15.719 --> 0:43:18.120 it's on the same let it you're saying, I'll tell 0:43:18.160 --> 0:43:19.640 you I'm black now all the time. If it comes 0:43:19.680 --> 0:43:21.480 at point like, yo, do you have a black grandmother? 0:43:21.800 --> 0:43:24.000 You have a black mother? Okay? So like why are 0:43:24.040 --> 0:43:26.960 you even playing? Like, don't even play that, you know, 0:43:27.120 --> 0:43:30.239 And and then they checked all yeah exactly like when 0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:35.800 you raised by your grandmother, did you Okay? So calling 0:43:35.840 --> 0:43:40.120 their back to your own so what they understand, like 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:43.480 you would lose your mind if somebody disrespects your grandmother, 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:45.480 like you don't play those type of games, so like 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:51.000 will be back in young man because you're you're you're 0:43:51.040 --> 0:43:54.080 a nightlife a lot, and so you know, I would 0:43:54.120 --> 0:43:58.400 imagine that you encounter people who are not just well 0:43:58.480 --> 0:44:01.279 first of all young people and also some of them 0:44:01.360 --> 0:44:04.440 who have some money, so they really think that they 0:44:04.680 --> 0:44:07.480 have the power to do and say whatever they want. 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:10.319 And then at the time that you're dealing with them, 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:14.480 they're drinking alcohol, so they're intoxicated or they could be 0:44:14.600 --> 0:44:17.920 doing that thing. And so it's a lot to to manage. 0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:20.720 And since you know, talking about working with brands, because 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:26.160 you know obviously you know you're working with um many spirits, 0:44:26.560 --> 0:44:30.120 you've been able to sort of connect the dots of events, 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:34.600 which with the culture. You had us at a toast 0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:38.799 of Black hollywoods which our activists traded truth also who 0:44:39.400 --> 0:44:42.719 does great work in Houston and around the country. UM 0:44:42.960 --> 0:44:46.360 you know, I call I call trade like a human 0:44:46.520 --> 0:44:51.040 rights leader. You know what I'm saying, that's um And 0:44:51.160 --> 0:44:54.000 we're in the social justice lane and so you want 0:44:54.120 --> 0:44:57.600 all of those things together. Talk about that and how 0:44:57.880 --> 0:45:01.360 you see not just the Ento ten meant world, but 0:45:01.560 --> 0:45:05.440 also your social justice friends and your activists and others 0:45:05.760 --> 0:45:09.080 coming together with brands. You know what? That that was 0:45:09.160 --> 0:45:11.600 always important to me, important to me because it's who 0:45:11.640 --> 0:45:13.719 I am. It's a piece of it's all pieces of 0:45:13.800 --> 0:45:16.200 who I am and every person. Right, So even when 0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:19.680 I was promoting, like people would just focus on maybe 0:45:19.760 --> 0:45:22.880 a one person to promote, I'd be like, No, like 0:45:23.280 --> 0:45:26.080 my and our friends would just as important to come 0:45:26.440 --> 0:45:29.719 as the celebrity who you think you're inviting or whatever 0:45:29.840 --> 0:45:32.800 the case may be, because all of these pieces of 0:45:32.920 --> 0:45:35.839 people are exactly who I am. Like I'm a church girl. 0:45:35.840 --> 0:45:37.359 I'm gonna go to girl. I'm gonna go to church 0:45:37.400 --> 0:45:40.120 on Sunday, honey, but I'm gonna happy in a sidecar, 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:42.680 you know what I'm saying. No, And I'm gonna have 0:45:42.840 --> 0:45:45.680 me a good time. And I'm gonna go to Miami 0:45:45.800 --> 0:45:47.480 and I'm you know what I mean. And so I 0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:50.600 don't think that you have to be not be exactly 0:45:50.640 --> 0:45:53.839 who you are. And so my friends happened to live 0:45:53.920 --> 0:45:56.680 in all of those spaces, like I'm close to my pastor, 0:45:56.960 --> 0:45:59.480 I'm close to my social justice frands, I'm close to 0:45:59.600 --> 0:46:05.440 my my singers and rappers and artists and the mayor 0:46:05.680 --> 0:46:09.200 like and all of those worlds coming together. Only that 0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:13.439 is what we actually are. That's who we really are. 0:46:13.719 --> 0:46:16.280 You know what I'm saying. Eat Maverick City the biggest 0:46:16.320 --> 0:46:18.480 gospel group in the world. And my current friend On 0:46:18.680 --> 0:46:22.239 is my great friend, you know, and so is you know, 0:46:22.400 --> 0:46:24.880 not to com compare, but so it's meek meals, So 0:46:25.080 --> 0:46:28.000 it's you know what I mean. And so those those 0:46:28.239 --> 0:46:32.760 the world in rooms that I've created in the fifteen 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:35.799 plus years of my career are all pieces of exactly 0:46:35.880 --> 0:46:38.800 who I am. And that was always important to me 0:46:38.960 --> 0:46:42.280 that people see each of you guys in the rooms 0:46:42.840 --> 0:46:45.239 together because you're all one. Like so many people are 0:46:45.280 --> 0:46:47.960 so excited to see my son, like I never even 0:46:48.000 --> 0:46:50.279 have to tell you. That sold me. Even rappers like 0:46:50.280 --> 0:46:52.719 I see the picture doing Simba and like you and 0:46:52.880 --> 0:46:55.040 Ben in it, which it's like those and and then 0:46:55.160 --> 0:46:58.160 just see everybody was so excited, and it's like, those 0:46:58.200 --> 0:47:00.520 are the rooms that are important because it's the people 0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:02.480 that you may not be able to see on a 0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:06.239 normal and you're having real conversations. And that's what I've learned, 0:47:06.280 --> 0:47:09.840 Like even dealing incorporations, brand spirits, all of that, the 0:47:10.000 --> 0:47:13.080 real conversations is what moves to need and that's why 0:47:13.160 --> 0:47:15.399 people are like, how do you get these brand deals 0:47:15.480 --> 0:47:17.000 or how do you get these partnerships? Because I have 0:47:17.080 --> 0:47:19.279 real conversations with people, you know what I mean. I 0:47:19.480 --> 0:47:22.319 just did an event with Ubs the Bank and Mookie Backs. 0:47:22.360 --> 0:47:25.120 It's like, I have real conversations with Ubs, you know, 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:28.800 about everything that's going on. You know, United Nations is 0:47:28.840 --> 0:47:31.080 a client of mine at the time that you know, 0:47:31.440 --> 0:47:35.600 um of of Brianna Taylor's whole the whole thing going on, 0:47:35.880 --> 0:47:39.239 Like and I'm having real conversations with these people's from 0:47:39.400 --> 0:47:42.319 all race. I'm not playing nothing of those games. I'm 0:47:42.360 --> 0:47:45.719 exactly who I am, And so the ruins that are 0:47:45.760 --> 0:47:48.840 created are always about all the pieces of me, you know, 0:47:49.920 --> 0:47:51.560 and not and no one being able to be like 0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:54.400 you can't do that because you should stay and listening 0:47:54.640 --> 0:47:56.840 or you're that I don't. I just don't believe in that. 0:47:57.000 --> 0:48:00.560 Like Black people are magical, you know, and we have 0:48:00.840 --> 0:48:03.680 so many facets of us, you know what I mean. 0:48:03.840 --> 0:48:07.959 So the rapper that can also sing but can also act, 0:48:08.080 --> 0:48:11.200 Like what if ice Q didn't make Friday, What if 0:48:11.239 --> 0:48:15.120 ice Q didn't create the land where you put comedians 0:48:15.600 --> 0:48:18.960 and actors and rappers in one movie and we make 0:48:19.080 --> 0:48:21.919 classics like what did that? Didn't happen? Like it would 0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:26.160 change the trajectory of our culture as a whole, you 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:29.080 know what I'm saying. So that's always important to me 0:48:29.560 --> 0:48:33.200 to miss mesh those worlds. It's it's important to me 0:48:33.320 --> 0:48:36.359 too because being started out as a hip hop artist 0:48:36.440 --> 0:48:40.400 and then you know, maturing evolving into an active and 0:48:40.560 --> 0:48:43.520 understanding the importance of both of them, right because hip 0:48:43.600 --> 0:48:46.839 hop y, it's so it's the culture, right. So if 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:50.200 if we an activism, we're not connected to the real, 0:48:50.800 --> 0:48:53.160 the real meats and potato, what's going on with our people? 0:48:53.239 --> 0:48:55.880 Then what are we doing? So I've had no conversations 0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:58.120 with people like you said. I've been in the club 0:48:58.560 --> 0:49:00.400 and had DJ coming to meulay, what you're doing it 0:49:00.440 --> 0:49:01.920 here in the strip club and what you do the 0:49:02.000 --> 0:49:05.000 same thing you're doing here. Don't give me a what 0:49:05.080 --> 0:49:08.520 do you mean? I don't know what you think, but 0:49:08.680 --> 0:49:10.759 you know, I'm of the culture, but I just don't 0:49:10.920 --> 0:49:13.720 able to make sure that my people are treated properly. 0:49:13.760 --> 0:49:15.440 I want to make sure we're getting the rights and 0:49:15.560 --> 0:49:18.200 nobody's killing us. But I'm still gonna and have me 0:49:18.440 --> 0:49:21.640 some hennessy. You know what I'm saying, and I'm gonna 0:49:21.640 --> 0:49:27.359 have a good time. People are so miserable because they're 0:49:27.400 --> 0:49:29.440 not able to be who they are. You just have 0:49:29.680 --> 0:49:33.359 to be who you are. Like I've always been high 0:49:33.400 --> 0:49:36.320 good relations with all my all my castors, like and 0:49:36.480 --> 0:49:40.360 they follow me and they know and they know and 0:49:40.520 --> 0:49:44.879 they know because my castor who my son knows. If 0:49:45.080 --> 0:49:48.279 my whole world opens up when he calls me right 0:49:48.360 --> 0:49:52.200 like he is, the more he's he is, my everything, 0:49:52.400 --> 0:49:55.080 my past because and you know, some people might not 0:49:55.239 --> 0:49:57.520 understand that. And I wish that folks would have an 0:49:57.600 --> 0:50:00.919 experience with their pastor the way that I had, because 0:50:01.000 --> 0:50:04.520 when I was in the darkest moments of my life, 0:50:04.880 --> 0:50:07.319 and I didn't even talk about recent dark stuff. I'm 0:50:07.360 --> 0:50:10.080 telling about dark stuff that went on that folks don't 0:50:10.120 --> 0:50:13.440 know about, because you know, this dark stuff that you 0:50:13.600 --> 0:50:17.000 tell the world and then the stuff that you don't 0:50:17.080 --> 0:50:20.719 tell anybody about. And he sat in the middle of 0:50:20.920 --> 0:50:24.560 that that with you right and was there, no through 0:50:24.840 --> 0:50:29.520 with no judgment. Taught me so much, you know, inspired 0:50:29.600 --> 0:50:32.560 me in so many ways. But he also will call 0:50:32.680 --> 0:50:35.000 me and be like, I see you on the internet 0:50:35.200 --> 0:50:39.160 with your booty hanging out, like you know, damn you 0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:43.080 know you put that to have the halt, like can 0:50:43.160 --> 0:50:46.279 you put anything? And you know my responses, you know 0:50:46.400 --> 0:50:49.520 who I am, and he moves right on because he 0:50:49.719 --> 0:50:53.520 knows he knows who I am being authentically me. And 0:50:53.760 --> 0:51:00.680 it burns people, burns them. And as I'm always saying, 0:51:01.280 --> 0:51:04.399 most of those who I've heard from about don't put 0:51:04.440 --> 0:51:08.080 your bikini pictures on the internet. Why you gotta do 0:51:08.200 --> 0:51:11.160 this on your personal page? By the way, until Freedom's page, 0:51:11.360 --> 0:51:14.759 there's no bikinis on there, until Freedom's page is all 0:51:14.840 --> 0:51:18.520 about the work. My page where I this is, my 0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:24.040 my page has all of me on it, right. Gospel 0:51:24.680 --> 0:51:30.720 is twerking is bikini, it's vacationing, it is every single element, 0:51:30.800 --> 0:51:33.080 and it's of course the work that I truly believe in. 0:51:33.440 --> 0:51:35.719 And most of the people who I've heard from that 0:51:35.960 --> 0:51:40.520 have an issue are men. Most of them are interesting. 0:51:41.080 --> 0:51:45.040 I hardly have heard from any women to tell me 0:51:45.840 --> 0:51:49.880 to put my clothes on, or don't let them change 0:51:50.000 --> 0:51:53.080 you or you know, and I of course in the 0:51:53.200 --> 0:51:56.600 comment section it maybe women, men or whatever equal, But 0:51:56.680 --> 0:51:59.839 I'm talking about people I know who have reached out 0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:03.320 behind the scenes to say, hey, I'm feeling away about this. 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:06.759 It's generally been meant. But anyway, because I know you've 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:09.960 got a short time, let's talk about Dorito's. That is 0:52:10.040 --> 0:52:13.200 a new, uh you know, adventure for you. I was 0:52:13.400 --> 0:52:18.120 so happy and Yo, We've done so much work just 0:52:18.239 --> 0:52:23.240 to just to give people an understanding of how social justice, 0:52:23.760 --> 0:52:28.200 the civil rights movement, the individuals like yourself, which running 0:52:28.320 --> 0:52:32.880 marketing firms u PR, folks that are like really about it, 0:52:33.239 --> 0:52:38.120 how we're changing culture. Advertising agencies like Global Hue, which 0:52:38.320 --> 0:52:41.320 which is no longer, but at one point Don Coleman 0:52:41.360 --> 0:52:44.440 and Global Hue they were a part of those who 0:52:44.560 --> 0:52:48.600 helped to shift the time they didn't have young black 0:52:48.680 --> 0:52:55.760 women Compton on God damn Dorrito's commercial. It just didn't happen. 0:52:58.960 --> 0:53:04.480 Name Diddy name did he tell me when that was happening? 0:53:04.719 --> 0:53:11.640 Help me help me day? That's crazy, that's true. That's true. Yeah, 0:53:11.920 --> 0:53:14.759 that's crazy. That's true. I mean they didn't and you know, 0:53:15.080 --> 0:53:18.719 and that again it goes to it sounds corny, but 0:53:18.920 --> 0:53:21.719 it goes to like being exactly who you are, you 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:24.640 know what I'm staying like, I wouldn't be able to 0:53:24.840 --> 0:53:28.200 have got to this place in my career and where 0:53:28.239 --> 0:53:31.520 I am with these level of partnerships without being who 0:53:31.600 --> 0:53:34.120 I am. And the true essence to me is a 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:37.520 young girl from the hood from Compon that you know, 0:53:37.760 --> 0:53:40.960 build my life up by greg didn't have any God 0:53:41.000 --> 0:53:42.880 as my parents then and set me as they did 0:53:42.960 --> 0:53:45.000 with I guess they felt they could, but they didn't 0:53:45.000 --> 0:53:47.480 set me up and no shot to them. But it's 0:53:47.560 --> 0:53:49.759 just life, you know, and I've had to build that 0:53:49.920 --> 0:53:52.839 up and to go through all the emotions and all 0:53:52.880 --> 0:53:55.319 the things that it takes to go through business and life. 0:53:55.360 --> 0:53:58.279 And as you learn and as you're learning, because you're 0:53:58.440 --> 0:54:01.840 learning as you go, there's no I haven't. Even in 0:54:01.920 --> 0:54:04.319 the Dorito's commercial, I said, there's no real blue parant 0:54:04.400 --> 0:54:06.359 for life because no one set a book in front 0:54:06.400 --> 0:54:09.320 of me and said, hey, here's what you do. And 0:54:09.440 --> 0:54:11.479 even to your point earlier, it's like no one also 0:54:11.560 --> 0:54:14.440 said here's what happens when you get money, Here's what 0:54:14.560 --> 0:54:17.000 you could do when you it's who does that? Who 0:54:17.080 --> 0:54:19.239 do you become at that point? That's what happens with 0:54:19.320 --> 0:54:21.719 a lot of young black and brown people that end 0:54:21.800 --> 0:54:24.520 up getting because no one said, hey, here's what it's 0:54:24.520 --> 0:54:27.120 gonna feel like when you get money. These things are 0:54:27.160 --> 0:54:29.520 gonna change, These things are gonna happen, and you're gonna 0:54:29.600 --> 0:54:31.600 have the weather throw them to the best of your 0:54:31.600 --> 0:54:34.440 ability and navigate, you know. And so they didn't have 0:54:34.960 --> 0:54:37.640 the Missditties and the Tunique monities and the min songs 0:54:37.719 --> 0:54:40.239 of the world. And I'm so grateful that the world 0:54:40.320 --> 0:54:44.440 has opened up to whereas those opportunities are so prevalent 0:54:44.600 --> 0:54:47.359 because we've been a part of their cultures for so long. 0:54:47.400 --> 0:54:50.160 In my partnership with Dorridos, I'm really excited about because 0:54:50.200 --> 0:54:53.120 it's a part of their you know, five million dollar pledge, 0:54:53.160 --> 0:54:55.120 which is one of their pledges to black and brown 0:54:55.280 --> 0:54:59.080 creators and and black and brown communities and everything like that. 0:54:59.280 --> 0:55:02.000 And they really have put their money where their mouth is. 0:55:02.080 --> 0:55:04.440 And that's people that I truly choose to be in 0:55:04.560 --> 0:55:07.080 business with. Not one thing that I said needs to 0:55:07.200 --> 0:55:10.080 happen didn't happen. Everything has happened, you know what I mean. 0:55:10.239 --> 0:55:12.680 Like even down to the commercial, there's a couple of 0:55:12.840 --> 0:55:15.279 components that but we shot the major commercial in New 0:55:15.360 --> 0:55:19.640 York um with Ego Um, who's who's on SNL. She's 0:55:19.680 --> 0:55:22.879 an incredible black sketch um comedian. But she's a really 0:55:22.960 --> 0:55:27.080 great actress and you know, I took they wanted to 0:55:27.080 --> 0:55:29.160 shoot in Los Angeles, of course, and I'm like, cool, 0:55:29.200 --> 0:55:31.400 you coming here, I'm taking you to the We're going 0:55:31.440 --> 0:55:34.120 to South Central and they like that. You know, there 0:55:34.239 --> 0:55:37.239 was no like, oh, we're not you know, we just 0:55:37.360 --> 0:55:40.200 wanna know. They did that came down. You know, they 0:55:40.320 --> 0:55:42.400 placed twenty five thousand, which is a part of it 0:55:42.880 --> 0:55:45.759 um to my to my charity that I partner with 0:55:45.840 --> 0:55:48.440 my foundation and partner with Sola I Can And they 0:55:48.560 --> 0:55:50.840 really put their money where their mouth is. And Patsico 0:55:50.920 --> 0:55:52.880 as well. I took the president of Pasico down in 0:55:52.920 --> 0:55:55.200 South Central. Derrick lewis the black man, you know, the 0:55:55.280 --> 0:55:58.640 highest ranking black man in Patsico. He's been there over 0:55:58.760 --> 0:56:02.080 thirty years, you know, and he has been adamant about 0:56:02.160 --> 0:56:06.320 being involved in community moves and being president. And he 0:56:06.719 --> 0:56:09.560 literally took a flight just to come to Los Angeles 0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:12.319 to go to go to South Central, on the heart 0:56:12.360 --> 0:56:14.360 of South Center, to go to Solar I Can be 0:56:14.560 --> 0:56:17.040 High and to see what's going on in the community. 0:56:17.120 --> 0:56:20.319 And he took out two hour tour with us there 0:56:20.440 --> 0:56:23.719 and we talked about everything, and you know, these are 0:56:23.840 --> 0:56:26.840 the moves that I feel matter, right, we could partner 0:56:26.960 --> 0:56:30.000 with these with these companies, we can make money with 0:56:30.160 --> 0:56:33.000 them or whatever the case may be, but there forever, 0:56:33.160 --> 0:56:35.560 I'm forever in debt to them because of the way 0:56:35.640 --> 0:56:38.160 they've showed up, you know, and this is in a 0:56:38.200 --> 0:56:40.400 short amount of time with a lot of people. I understand. 0:56:40.920 --> 0:56:44.960 The young lady that um I met from Daria, she's 0:56:44.960 --> 0:56:47.640 actually on the Freedom lay side. Her name is Kimberly. 0:56:47.800 --> 0:56:50.720 She's incredible. Kimberly Scott to me and I were actually 0:56:50.960 --> 0:56:54.480 on vacation the Bahamas in December and that's where I 0:56:54.680 --> 0:56:57.640 met her and the Bahamas she came Remember I was 0:56:57.680 --> 0:56:59.360 that she came up to me. She was like, I 0:56:59.440 --> 0:57:00.759 know what you do? You want to know your work. 0:57:00.840 --> 0:57:03.200 I'm a huge fan of your work. We should work together. 0:57:03.239 --> 0:57:05.200 And I'm like bad, Like what's going on? A black woman, 0:57:05.239 --> 0:57:07.719 Like what's going on? I gotta work at free? Don't 0:57:07.760 --> 0:57:10.040 like that up. So we just built there. Tamika flu 0:57:10.120 --> 0:57:12.600 in the next day we you know, she met Tomika. 0:57:12.680 --> 0:57:15.320 She's a of course a huge fan of Tomika and 0:57:15.760 --> 0:57:18.480 you know they've just been She's been a driving for 0:57:18.760 --> 0:57:22.840 a black woman in that space. She's a mastermind and 0:57:23.080 --> 0:57:26.200 she um I, So I tipped my hat off to 0:57:26.360 --> 0:57:30.120 her too, but Passico Derido's and everything that has to 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:32.800 do in that organization. I'm gonna forever be a debt too, 0:57:32.840 --> 0:57:36.000 because I've seen with my two eyes and a sured 0:57:36.040 --> 0:57:38.720 amount of time the way they've shown up. And that's 0:57:38.840 --> 0:57:40.960 that's people I care to be a business before you 0:57:41.200 --> 0:57:43.680 go nce on to your point, because I just gotta 0:57:43.960 --> 0:57:47.479 stick one little thing in this two quick things because 0:57:47.480 --> 0:57:49.040 I know you gotta on. This is just such a 0:57:49.120 --> 0:57:55.960 good interview. Um One, the issue of like, so when 0:57:55.960 --> 0:57:59.400 you talk about PEPSI, right, like, I know them for 0:57:59.600 --> 0:58:02.360 some great stuff, but I also know them for some 0:58:02.600 --> 0:58:05.480 areas that they've had serious work on, right, and we 0:58:05.560 --> 0:58:10.600 don't corrected talk about that, Like, how do you deal 0:58:10.720 --> 0:58:14.920 with brands knowing that on one hand they may be 0:58:15.120 --> 0:58:18.200 some real funky stuff going on, but then you mean 0:58:18.280 --> 0:58:20.680 where they're doing good work at the same time, what 0:58:20.880 --> 0:58:23.680 is especially from your perspective. And the last thing I 0:58:23.720 --> 0:58:25.160 want you to talk about, which ain't got ship to 0:58:25.200 --> 0:58:28.880 do what we just said, is your fashion. So if 0:58:29.000 --> 0:58:31.080 you can put that at the very very end, so 0:58:31.280 --> 0:58:33.600 the people, but we was gonna talk about something serious, 0:58:33.640 --> 0:58:36.840 gotta we gotta talk about. I talk about fashion real 0:58:36.960 --> 0:58:41.000 quick before we go, my son, we're gonna talk about 0:58:41.080 --> 0:58:45.000 serious because because people want the full they want ashion 0:58:47.000 --> 0:58:50.280 fashion serious, but you now want to be because I 0:58:50.440 --> 0:58:56.600 am I have conversations because I am an entrepreneur and 0:58:56.840 --> 0:58:59.520 I am not and because I serve God and no man, 0:58:59.840 --> 0:59:04.120 I'm not afraid to have conversations because I'm also clean up. Hey, 0:59:04.200 --> 0:59:07.520 maybe we should have worked together, I'm not. I'm not 0:59:07.880 --> 0:59:12.960 driven by an amount, by a status of a person. 0:59:13.160 --> 0:59:15.120 I'm not driven by any of that. I didn't talk 0:59:15.160 --> 0:59:17.720 the best of them. We shouldn't work together, and they 0:59:18.080 --> 0:59:21.120 whole wait wait wait no, yeah exactly because they're not 0:59:21.320 --> 0:59:23.760 used to when you become a starting person or in 0:59:23.840 --> 0:59:25.880 your road or who you are, you're not used to 0:59:25.960 --> 0:59:28.280 people dealing with you like that. So I have real 0:59:28.400 --> 0:59:32.040 conversations and I like to understand missteps. Right, I didn't 0:59:32.080 --> 0:59:34.160 have the full car. I'm actually gonna now have the 0:59:34.240 --> 0:59:38.040 full conversation about that because I didn't think about that before. 0:59:38.520 --> 0:59:42.400 With with about PepsiCo, where I where missteps happened is 0:59:42.520 --> 0:59:47.680 us not being in the rooms. It's classic examples of 0:59:48.000 --> 0:59:50.720 us not being in the rooms. Right, So what we're 0:59:50.760 --> 0:59:54.760 talking about this whole inclusiveness and all of this. It's 0:59:55.000 --> 0:59:57.520 it's interesting. I watched I watched some of the interview 0:59:57.680 --> 1:00:01.600 from the CEO of Essence on UM the Breakfast Club, 1:00:02.080 --> 1:00:04.840 and she said, I'm not talking about inclusion. I'm talking 1:00:04.880 --> 1:00:08.800 about black. I keep that inclusion over there. Basically, we're 1:00:08.840 --> 1:00:11.960 not talking about that. We're talking about black because inclusion 1:00:12.200 --> 1:00:16.160 means everyone, but it also means that black is at 1:00:16.200 --> 1:00:19.640 the bottom of the totem poe in that inclusion. You know, 1:00:20.040 --> 1:00:23.200 the inclusion means white women because for a long time 1:00:23.240 --> 1:00:25.480 now it was just the big boys handling it. You 1:00:25.520 --> 1:00:30.360 see what I'm saying. So I have real conversations where 1:00:30.400 --> 1:00:32.960 do you sit with things? Where is going on? I remember, 1:00:33.240 --> 1:00:36.560 even in Dorito's UM, there's a woman named McCallan that 1:00:36.680 --> 1:00:39.360 works in there and Robbed. They're both white people and 1:00:39.560 --> 1:00:42.640 they are incredible, and they had to sit in Zoom 1:00:42.720 --> 1:00:46.280 meetings where I'm sure, well, they didn't look uncomfortable, but 1:00:46.400 --> 1:00:49.800 it might have been because my approach, my certainness, my 1:00:50.000 --> 1:00:53.640 certainty on Hey, if there's this person working on what 1:00:53.960 --> 1:00:56.320 I've got going on, I need you to understand a 1:00:56.360 --> 1:00:58.720 couple of things. And they took it, and they took 1:00:58.800 --> 1:01:02.400 it and they ticket with love, with dignity, and they 1:01:02.560 --> 1:01:06.000 weren't They didn't away from any of the conversations. They 1:01:06.080 --> 1:01:09.280 didn't act like these things don't exist. And they wanted 1:01:09.320 --> 1:01:12.920 to learn. And that's the importance of conversation in all 1:01:13.040 --> 1:01:18.080 communities is them wanting to learn, not being defensive and 1:01:18.320 --> 1:01:21.280 listening to what we got the same, you know. And 1:01:21.520 --> 1:01:24.880 so I don't mind having those conversations because either way 1:01:25.560 --> 1:01:28.440 I'm good. God got me. So I'm not pressed either way. 1:01:28.480 --> 1:01:31.560 I'm not powering down. I'm not shying down. And I 1:01:31.720 --> 1:01:33.840 think that's where we have to say. I gave my 1:01:34.040 --> 1:01:37.160 experiences and racism. I gave my experiences as a young 1:01:37.200 --> 1:01:40.240 black woman do a marketing on a high scale, on 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:43.240 a high level with the young white girls getting the 1:01:43.320 --> 1:01:45.560 account's not sound like that, but it's just the truth, 1:01:45.640 --> 1:01:49.320 and then calling me to do the work. Hey, jdny, 1:01:49.400 --> 1:01:51.320 so we have we want to see if you can't, 1:01:51.760 --> 1:01:54.320 Oh you want to see if I can because you 1:01:54.400 --> 1:01:59.280 actually can't, you know. So it's really about those conversations 1:01:59.320 --> 1:02:02.840 and being honest because trust me, Google is a powerful tool. 1:02:03.000 --> 1:02:05.600 So they see all these interviews and how how a 1:02:05.720 --> 1:02:08.720 certive I am in my my level of communication. And 1:02:08.840 --> 1:02:11.400 that's not gonna change for whoever I do, whoever I 1:02:11.520 --> 1:02:13.760 do business with. That's right. And you know what that 1:02:13.880 --> 1:02:16.320 brings me to my question before you get into this 1:02:16.480 --> 1:02:22.040 fashion that you know, but the question is we see 1:02:22.080 --> 1:02:24.800 the sessament. We were talking about the Sesame Street, you know, 1:02:24.880 --> 1:02:29.040 the situation with you know, the discrimination against the young kids, 1:02:29.280 --> 1:02:32.520 and and then they put out a statement which didn't 1:02:32.560 --> 1:02:36.600 really make sense at all. You know, being someone in marketing, 1:02:36.800 --> 1:02:42.120 being branding, dealing all these things, you're talking about, what 1:02:42.360 --> 1:02:44.920 would you have done different? What would you have done 1:02:44.960 --> 1:02:47.560 in that situation if you was working with Sesame Street? 1:02:48.360 --> 1:02:54.320 You have Seseme. Here's the thing that, first of all, 1:02:54.800 --> 1:02:58.560 yet again, who are in these rooms right, who has 1:02:58.600 --> 1:03:01.800 already witnesses? Who are making these decisions? Who is hiring, 1:03:02.600 --> 1:03:07.160 who are doing the trainings? Who where are the are 1:03:07.200 --> 1:03:10.720 the training even happening? Are training the trainings aren't happening. 1:03:10.880 --> 1:03:12.800 That's a new thing, by the way, that's a new 1:03:12.880 --> 1:03:16.160 thing so that people can smooth over. I know pr stunts, 1:03:16.200 --> 1:03:19.400 I know marketing, so those are the smooth things. Also, 1:03:19.960 --> 1:03:25.280 the time of people writing, having these pr stunts, these 1:03:25.440 --> 1:03:28.360 these written things, that's a time of the past, show 1:03:28.440 --> 1:03:33.440 your face, show your heart, right, because you can also 1:03:33.560 --> 1:03:36.880 be the president of something, the VP or whatever and 1:03:37.000 --> 1:03:39.440 not being agreed. It's with something that your employee did 1:03:40.000 --> 1:03:42.600 and you and and and so it's not about saving face. 1:03:42.680 --> 1:03:45.360 It's about showing your hands, showing your face, and showing 1:03:45.400 --> 1:03:50.320 your heart. Hey, guys, I'm I'm I too, am appalled 1:03:50.440 --> 1:03:52.960 at what happened, and we're gonna take a deeper look. 1:03:53.040 --> 1:03:57.360 You can also have language around things that don't implicate 1:03:57.800 --> 1:04:00.640 someone if you don't know their true intention, because it's 1:04:00.640 --> 1:04:02.720 all relative. You gotta put your fingers and all of 1:04:02.760 --> 1:04:05.160 it is relative. If you don't know someone's true you 1:04:05.200 --> 1:04:08.600 don't know the character's true intention. They didn't see the 1:04:08.720 --> 1:04:11.960 kid whatever, Yes you did, but find but show your 1:04:12.000 --> 1:04:16.400 face and show your heart. So the the typing up 1:04:16.480 --> 1:04:19.640 a PR letter, we don't want to see that anymore. 1:04:20.040 --> 1:04:22.200 If that was my client, I would to allow them 1:04:22.240 --> 1:04:24.840 to do that, And if they chose to still do that, 1:04:25.080 --> 1:04:27.120 I would show my face and show my heart and 1:04:27.200 --> 1:04:31.120 say I don't agree. I do not I don't second 1:04:31.640 --> 1:04:34.280 this right here, because it's no longer the time to 1:04:34.520 --> 1:04:37.600 act as if this is not a true thing, and 1:04:37.720 --> 1:04:39.640 we have to address it, and we gotta get ahead 1:04:39.640 --> 1:04:41.800 of it, and we really gotta bully it, you know, 1:04:41.960 --> 1:04:44.680 and bullying it not from a negative connotation, but we 1:04:44.800 --> 1:04:47.200 have to take our rightful stand. So even with you 1:04:47.320 --> 1:04:50.200 guys being there at the you know, you guys hop 1:04:50.280 --> 1:04:52.800 on things right away. And that's why until freedom is 1:04:52.920 --> 1:04:56.080 so important, um in all the work in our communities 1:04:56.120 --> 1:05:00.480 because Martin Luther King is gone, unfortunately, Malcolm X is gone. Fortunately, 1:05:00.680 --> 1:05:03.360 you know, the roles apart all these leaders that did 1:05:03.480 --> 1:05:06.600 these amazing things for us to continue to be we 1:05:06.800 --> 1:05:09.640 have to do that work. So for me, as a marketer, 1:05:09.760 --> 1:05:11.640 I wouldn't allow that to go out. I would say 1:05:11.680 --> 1:05:14.520 this bullshit, you know what I mean, Show your face, 1:05:14.560 --> 1:05:16.440 show your heart. And that's something that we need to 1:05:16.600 --> 1:05:20.440 really be demanding of people, you know, because we have 1:05:20.600 --> 1:05:23.200 personal conversations and we say how it feels to us, 1:05:23.560 --> 1:05:26.800 but we really gotta it's it's kind of time. We gotta. 1:05:26.840 --> 1:05:29.720 We gotta a lot of people did a lot of 1:05:29.760 --> 1:05:33.240 people saying and I'm reading these comments that you know, oh, 1:05:33.360 --> 1:05:37.320 you're overreacting. You know, it's just about money. It's not racism, 1:05:37.640 --> 1:05:40.760 you people are you know, you just race baiting and 1:05:40.840 --> 1:05:43.200 all these things, and racism is not a thing, and 1:05:43.520 --> 1:05:47.080 this is just something like what do you think, Well, 1:05:47.120 --> 1:05:50.440 here's the thing. Racism Israel, it's evidence, it's it's it's 1:05:50.480 --> 1:05:55.120 in his like you can't even talk to those people. 1:05:55.240 --> 1:05:58.439 That's pure ignorance. And the thing it's black people, black people, 1:06:00.360 --> 1:06:03.360 because it's it runs so deep. We've been brainwashed for 1:06:03.640 --> 1:06:07.200 so long. It's so deep. It's so much deeper than 1:06:07.280 --> 1:06:11.040 what we could ever really truly unpacked and unpeeled, and 1:06:11.200 --> 1:06:14.760 that honestly won't happen probably for another three generations after 1:06:15.240 --> 1:06:19.080 the real full on feeling, because it's so deep. Like 1:06:19.240 --> 1:06:21.200 the people you you got when you get the chance 1:06:21.240 --> 1:06:25.080 to go to Africa like we have, you understand how 1:06:25.400 --> 1:06:29.640 deep it really really runs. If as a young black girl, 1:06:29.840 --> 1:06:32.480 as a young intercity black girl, my first look at 1:06:32.480 --> 1:06:36.800 American history was them teaching me slavery right, which could 1:06:36.840 --> 1:06:39.280 be where our American history start, but that's not where 1:06:39.400 --> 1:06:44.080 my history started. So imagine I didn't understand my history 1:06:44.320 --> 1:06:46.560 until in my thirties when I got a chance to 1:06:46.680 --> 1:06:50.520 go stand and look at the pyramid. You see what 1:06:50.560 --> 1:06:54.680 I'm so understand? Yeah, this this ship, the back what here? 1:06:54.840 --> 1:06:59.160 What we see? It's so deep. I saw a commercial 1:06:59.240 --> 1:07:02.440 the other day. It was, um, damn. It was like 1:07:02.520 --> 1:07:05.439 for Sonics or something. Sonics is like a fast, fool 1:07:05.440 --> 1:07:07.680 place out here, and everybody in the commercial was a 1:07:07.680 --> 1:07:11.280 fun commercial and the men had dreadlocks, and I was like, 1:07:11.880 --> 1:07:15.480 I felt like, damn, I'll never see no men in dreadlocks, 1:07:15.840 --> 1:07:19.560 not just not talking Jamaican, Like my father wears dreadlocks. 1:07:19.600 --> 1:07:21.800 He's a he's a Black American, but he has dreadline 1:07:21.800 --> 1:07:25.040 fun dress, and I'm like, we don't ever see those 1:07:25.200 --> 1:07:28.680 type of depictions, Like I'm standing man, he's a good man, 1:07:28.760 --> 1:07:31.080 he's a clean man, like you know where his dress. 1:07:31.440 --> 1:07:34.680 And I was thinking about media and what how we 1:07:34.960 --> 1:07:38.000 really been brainwashed? You know what I'm saying. So those 1:07:38.080 --> 1:07:41.280 black people, they don't even know themselves. I was talking 1:07:41.360 --> 1:07:44.360 to one of my African friends and he said, you 1:07:44.440 --> 1:07:47.240 know what did he said? I felt bad for Black 1:07:48.000 --> 1:07:51.320 American women and Black American men. I was like, what 1:07:51.400 --> 1:07:54.480 do you mean. He's like, because black American men have 1:07:54.680 --> 1:07:58.040 but insecurity that African men don't have because they don't 1:07:58.080 --> 1:08:02.320 even know who they are. He said, I'm from Africa 1:08:02.680 --> 1:08:05.200 like he and he's an americanized Africa, but He's like, 1:08:06.360 --> 1:08:08.800 I know exactly where I come from. I tried my 1:08:09.000 --> 1:08:12.320 last name, my five, my in heritage, my war, I 1:08:12.400 --> 1:08:16.000 know all of it from Black American men. Definitely even 1:08:16.080 --> 1:08:19.160 know you don't even you think you know what you 1:08:19.280 --> 1:08:23.080 want to know, it makes it. It makes a difference 1:08:23.680 --> 1:08:26.000 because he though we do know, like we were, we 1:08:26.120 --> 1:08:29.400 obviously didn't go to Africa green right when we arrived. 1:08:29.560 --> 1:08:31.600 We had a little bit of something with us. Not 1:08:31.760 --> 1:08:35.439 to mention that Attorney Angelo Pinto, who was also your brother, 1:08:35.640 --> 1:08:39.280 was with us, and he is brilliant and you know 1:08:39.560 --> 1:08:42.200 is a is our historian. So we didn't show up 1:08:42.360 --> 1:08:47.040 me But still after going to the experience and being there, 1:08:47.360 --> 1:08:52.160 learning the tribes and getting our name, and going into 1:08:52.439 --> 1:08:56.040 the river and bathing in the same water which was 1:08:56.160 --> 1:08:59.560 the last place that folks who were enslaved in that 1:08:59.800 --> 1:09:04.400 area where they bathed before being sold off, like this 1:09:04.840 --> 1:09:09.400 was an experience that you can never ever, ever, ever, 1:09:10.360 --> 1:09:14.479 there's nothing that compares to it. So certainly, I you know, 1:09:14.520 --> 1:09:18.960 I totally agree, understand and appreciate it. And I'm gonna 1:09:19.080 --> 1:09:22.800 thank you for coming on the show today because you've 1:09:22.840 --> 1:09:24.960 given us so much in there's probably we probably could 1:09:24.960 --> 1:09:29.200 break down. Every little piece um and build shows out 1:09:29.720 --> 1:09:32.080 on the different things that you've done. But one thing 1:09:32.120 --> 1:09:34.680 I know is that my grandmother always said to me, 1:09:35.680 --> 1:09:38.439 no matter what you do and how you feeling, you 1:09:38.520 --> 1:09:44.200 get up, get yourself together to pull it together, patties together. 1:09:44.520 --> 1:09:47.400 Put some lipstick on. That's exactly what she said. Put 1:09:47.600 --> 1:09:52.080 some lipstick on, get dressed and show up. And we 1:09:52.560 --> 1:09:55.360 I know, because you're my friend and you're very fashionable 1:09:55.479 --> 1:10:00.320 young lady, And I wonder over time has that come. 1:10:00.520 --> 1:10:04.080 Part of what gives you joy's is being able to 1:10:05.120 --> 1:10:07.840 make sure that when you're showing up and you're a 1:10:07.960 --> 1:10:11.280 high low person, because you'll be like, you do not 1:10:11.560 --> 1:10:14.320 need a two hundred dollar sweater. You could go right 1:10:14.400 --> 1:10:18.040 over here and get the ninety five sweater. And then 1:10:18.120 --> 1:10:21.360 I see you in sweater and I'm like, yo, that 1:10:21.479 --> 1:10:25.280 looks so damn good. So it's not about which you 1:10:25.439 --> 1:10:27.519 also got a bunch of fly stuff that you know, 1:10:27.680 --> 1:10:30.640 you got it all. You're high low, but you you 1:10:30.800 --> 1:10:32.560 show up in a certain type of way, and I 1:10:32.640 --> 1:10:34.639 just want to know where did that come from? As 1:10:34.720 --> 1:10:36.400 we go out of here today, and what does it 1:10:36.520 --> 1:10:38.960 mean to you? You know, I don't think it's a 1:10:39.000 --> 1:10:40.640 part of my joy. I think it's a part of 1:10:40.720 --> 1:10:43.960 who I am. My grandparents were very very clean cut 1:10:44.760 --> 1:10:48.960 um people. And while all my grandparents are deceased now 1:10:49.600 --> 1:10:52.599 um who they are and their souls like like who 1:10:52.680 --> 1:10:55.479 they are actually hit me skipped like it's not my 1:10:55.640 --> 1:10:58.360 parents as much as it is like my grandparents, you know. 1:10:58.960 --> 1:11:01.240 And I think a some of my soul lives in 1:11:01.360 --> 1:11:05.040 that era where you know, you do take showing up 1:11:05.160 --> 1:11:08.840 and get addressed and presentation serious. As a young black 1:11:08.880 --> 1:11:13.120 girl doing business, presentation is everything to me. It's everything 1:11:13.200 --> 1:11:16.519 for my team, for what I look like, being on time, 1:11:16.640 --> 1:11:19.559 all of those, all of those things. So I take 1:11:19.640 --> 1:11:23.719 everything serious and in that presenting, in the way I present, 1:11:23.840 --> 1:11:26.800 I take serious too because I have to. You know, 1:11:27.120 --> 1:11:30.960 I wouldn't be as it's you know, I believe in 1:11:31.040 --> 1:11:34.040 being buttoned up and looking buttoned up and presenting buttoned up. 1:11:34.080 --> 1:11:36.600 I think there's a there's a there's a power in that, 1:11:37.000 --> 1:11:39.040 you know what I mean, Like when you when you 1:11:39.160 --> 1:11:41.920 are buttoned up, when you show up the things that 1:11:42.120 --> 1:11:45.000 I demand as a business person, I can only demand, 1:11:45.080 --> 1:11:47.920 which showing up looking a certain way. There's no way 1:11:47.960 --> 1:11:50.639 I could demand what I demand expect what I expect 1:11:51.000 --> 1:11:54.280 and not take no for an answer without checking off 1:11:54.360 --> 1:11:56.600 all my boxes when it comes to showing up. So 1:11:56.640 --> 1:11:58.320 I don't think it's a part of my joy as 1:11:58.439 --> 1:12:00.280 much as a part of who I am and and 1:12:01.160 --> 1:12:05.680 and what I value um in president and presenting in 1:12:06.000 --> 1:12:08.200 the way I show up. Did he Do you have 1:12:08.240 --> 1:12:10.760 a boyfriend? Did he? Yeah? You got up for me 1:12:11.080 --> 1:12:18.799 because you have no boyfriend. I'm not even dating anyone. 1:12:18.880 --> 1:12:21.080 And that's the crazy part, is it? Do you think 1:12:21.160 --> 1:12:24.879 that working so far? That's your focus? Like? Are you focused? 1:12:24.880 --> 1:12:28.880 Are you like Mary? To my world? But I would 1:12:28.960 --> 1:12:31.400 welcome in some real ship. But I don't like none 1:12:31.400 --> 1:12:33.599 of that other stuff, because then that's because I don't 1:12:33.640 --> 1:12:35.400 like waste of my time. Now I'm thinking about a 1:12:35.479 --> 1:12:37.120 waste of my time. But you're not to be making 1:12:37.200 --> 1:12:42.960 some now mad. Now we are. We are dating. We 1:12:43.120 --> 1:12:47.360 all did, but wen along time we go together real 1:12:47.640 --> 1:12:52.200 bad because we've been together. And it's and it's many 1:12:52.280 --> 1:12:54.840 sisters out here like that. It's so many of our 1:12:54.960 --> 1:12:58.639 sisters who don't have it, who are not even dating. 1:12:58.880 --> 1:13:01.639 So it's not just don't have a boyfriend, but I'm 1:13:01.680 --> 1:13:06.200 also and dating, and it's it's unfortunate that there's something 1:13:06.320 --> 1:13:11.560 about successful black women who are assertive. UM, that is 1:13:11.680 --> 1:13:14.360 very difficult for us to find the right people to 1:13:14.520 --> 1:13:17.000 engage with us and for us they engage with. And 1:13:17.120 --> 1:13:19.320 I know that there's so much of a conversation around 1:13:19.360 --> 1:13:21.599 submission and we don't have the time to talk about it. Yeah, 1:13:21.600 --> 1:13:24.879 I need to come back on and talk about for admitting. 1:13:25.360 --> 1:13:27.240 And I don't think you know, any of us have 1:13:27.320 --> 1:13:29.920 an issue with that because I certain no, I wanna 1:13:30.120 --> 1:13:32.920 be I wanna be submissive and I'm wanna be taken 1:13:33.000 --> 1:13:35.599 care of. I'm wanna They said, what's the new thing? 1:13:35.680 --> 1:13:39.120 The soft life? I want to live off life, but 1:13:39.240 --> 1:13:45.000 it's not easy. No, And our souls, but our souls hey, 1:13:45.200 --> 1:13:47.680 something else. That's why the soft life is tough for 1:13:47.880 --> 1:13:51.320 you about because our souls pray something else. We could 1:13:51.360 --> 1:13:54.040 want a soft life, but our souls be like girl, 1:13:54.120 --> 1:13:57.360 go to them. But yeah, I'm coming back to talking 1:13:57.360 --> 1:14:01.960 to you about that. Thank you, We love you. The 1:14:02.120 --> 1:14:07.960 brilliant Miss Diddy, the greatness. She is the best brand ambassador. 1:14:08.040 --> 1:14:11.080 She is everything. If you don't know Miss Diddy, please 1:14:11.160 --> 1:14:14.120 look up Miss Diddy, follow her. She has done such 1:14:14.160 --> 1:14:18.599 amazing work and continues to evolve into this pudding butterfly 1:14:18.840 --> 1:14:23.599 that she is. Thank you, miss Diddy the brand so much. 1:14:23.720 --> 1:14:34.880 Thank you for being to see you soon. Yeah, that Diddy. 1:14:34.960 --> 1:14:38.200 I love Diddy. I call her Dittiness, you know, I 1:14:38.360 --> 1:14:42.000 just love her energy. She is. This is who she is. 1:14:42.120 --> 1:14:44.479 That right there that interview, he has exactly who she 1:14:44.640 --> 1:14:47.840 is all the time. She's always looking to laugh, She's 1:14:48.280 --> 1:14:51.040 always gonna say some real ship at the same time. 1:14:51.680 --> 1:14:55.800 And you know, and she's professional. So she's one of 1:14:55.880 --> 1:14:58.960 our friends that is really top tier in times of 1:14:59.040 --> 1:15:00.559 what she does with her big business. And a lot 1:15:00.600 --> 1:15:04.200 of people don't know because you know, they a lot 1:15:04.240 --> 1:15:06.680 of times women are just discounting anyway and things in 1:15:06.760 --> 1:15:09.200 the work that we do. But you know, I'm sure 1:15:09.280 --> 1:15:12.200 there's there's a lot more that she does every day 1:15:12.920 --> 1:15:15.559 that never makes it to socials, right, But we get 1:15:15.600 --> 1:15:17.560 a chance to see her work. And one of the 1:15:17.600 --> 1:15:19.720 things that I appreciate about her being my friend is 1:15:19.760 --> 1:15:23.880 that she's extremely helpful and caring um and she always 1:15:23.960 --> 1:15:26.080 is willing to step in to try to, you know, 1:15:26.320 --> 1:15:30.720 assist and provide opportunities and resources and ways that she 1:15:30.880 --> 1:15:33.960 can you know, build up other folks and so love her, 1:15:34.000 --> 1:15:35.759 and I think I think it was a great interview 1:15:35.840 --> 1:15:43.840 as well. So what don't you get this week? You know, 1:15:43.880 --> 1:15:47.880 we've been talking about racism, you know, and and I 1:15:48.000 --> 1:15:54.200 really just don't get how we're at this stage. All right, 1:15:54.240 --> 1:15:57.960 we're at this time, We've been to George Floyd, We're 1:15:58.080 --> 1:16:03.160 constantly go into this that there are people who still 1:16:03.439 --> 1:16:07.240 exhibit this type of behavior. They are organizations there, people 1:16:07.439 --> 1:16:11.160 like Sesame Street that will try to tell us that 1:16:11.360 --> 1:16:13.920 we don't see what we see, you know, they're trying 1:16:13.920 --> 1:16:16.120 to tell us that this ain't racist, or this ain't that, 1:16:16.439 --> 1:16:19.599 or you know, I really just don't get how people 1:16:19.760 --> 1:16:23.200 want us to just be quiet, you know, how they 1:16:23.280 --> 1:16:25.240 just want us to just go and be quiet and 1:16:25.320 --> 1:16:30.680 allowed to disrespect, allowed, allowed the discrimination, allow all these 1:16:30.720 --> 1:16:34.280 things to happen to us. When history has shown what 1:16:34.400 --> 1:16:36.840 we've been dealing with. Why do the people expect us 1:16:36.880 --> 1:16:39.280 to just deal with you know, why why do people 1:16:39.360 --> 1:16:42.160 just expect us to be quiet and just continue to 1:16:42.439 --> 1:16:44.920 tolerate this level of behavior. And it's just you know 1:16:45.040 --> 1:16:47.160 the fact that we constantly the fact that me and 1:16:47.280 --> 1:16:51.080 you have a job an organization called Until Freedom. It's 1:16:51.120 --> 1:16:55.120 just terrible. We shouldn't even have to have that. It's terrible, 1:16:55.200 --> 1:16:57.920 it's it's it's really terrible like that we still got 1:16:58.040 --> 1:17:01.080 to fight for equality in the country that we damned 1:17:01.120 --> 1:17:04.280 it built that we're pretty much built man every day man. 1:17:04.400 --> 1:17:08.240 So I really don't get that. And hopefully somebody can 1:17:08.280 --> 1:17:11.400 give me some thoughts on this, if you if you 1:17:11.560 --> 1:17:15.320 know why people think that we're supposed to just take 1:17:15.840 --> 1:17:21.080 racism laying down right energy. Yeah, we're wasting your energy 1:17:21.080 --> 1:17:23.280 because you're gonna get a bunch of nuts. I want 1:17:23.320 --> 1:17:24.800 to know, because I really want to hear, like we're 1:17:24.800 --> 1:17:27.879 supposed to just jail jailer Walker. You know, he deserved 1:17:27.920 --> 1:17:30.160 to get shot a bunch of times with no weapon, right, 1:17:30.200 --> 1:17:33.240 We were just supposed to just be was in the 1:17:33.320 --> 1:17:35.160 car at one point, and that was in the car 1:17:35.640 --> 1:17:38.559 that he got shot at while he was outside running, 1:17:39.080 --> 1:17:45.280 you know, completely, and we and we're supposed and we're overreacting. 1:17:45.400 --> 1:17:48.960 We're bugged out, you know, we're just trying to race bait. 1:17:49.360 --> 1:17:51.360 It's not about race, you know, we we we we 1:17:51.640 --> 1:17:55.439 watch you know, Rosita just walked by these two little 1:17:55.479 --> 1:17:59.320 black girls and and now we see the clear other 1:17:59.439 --> 1:18:01.360 side of the video that we can see her walk 1:18:01.479 --> 1:18:03.439 by the two black girls and go to the white girl, 1:18:03.479 --> 1:18:05.600 and we're just supposed to be okay with it, you know, 1:18:05.720 --> 1:18:08.280 we we just want some money. No, we want these 1:18:08.360 --> 1:18:11.320 things not to happen, you know, that's all. We want 1:18:11.400 --> 1:18:14.960 these things not to happen. So you know, hopefully, man, 1:18:15.280 --> 1:18:18.000 y'all can give me some insight, you know about what 1:18:18.160 --> 1:18:20.479 what do you think do y'all think racism exists? Do 1:18:20.600 --> 1:18:23.080 you think that we just race bathing? Do you think 1:18:23.280 --> 1:18:25.680 that we just need to get over it? And you know, 1:18:25.880 --> 1:18:29.679 these these things just happen. It's just osmosis. This happens 1:18:29.720 --> 1:18:31.639 like give we want to get some of your input 1:18:31.960 --> 1:18:35.439 on this, this today's topic. And once again we've come 1:18:35.520 --> 1:18:39.120 to the end of another amazing show. Shout out to 1:18:39.200 --> 1:18:43.160 Miss Diddy for her excellent interview. Make sure you follow 1:18:43.240 --> 1:18:47.040 Miss Diddy. She's doing amazing things. 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