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Speaker 1: Chronicles podcast. And of course I'm with my homeboys. Jill,

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Speaker 1: you have mama booing the studio with us, Yes we do.

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Speaker 1: Hey tell the people where are you from? Um Los

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Speaker 1: means if I tell them something, they can come on it.

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00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: If I tell them, hey, we're gonna go to the

427
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 1: park this day and do this. So I always kind of,

428
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 1: I think something in some cases, kind of overly tried

429
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: to be that perfect father just because of the way

430
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 1: my my dad was, you know what I mean. I

431
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 1: never even looked at it, like because my mom's in around.

432
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't look at I didn't have them episodes.

433
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 1: So like, remember, dad ain't around. I'm like, sure my

434
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,879
Speaker 1: mom was there. She did every fucking thing. I didn't.

435
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,479
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't like you see people say like, well,

436
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 1: my father wasn't around. So it kind of sucked me up,

437
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 1: and I used to wait for him. I used to

438
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: be like that nick coming, don't get a twisted, don't

439
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 1: get twisted. I'm taking me the football practice. You know,

440
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: mom's taking me to school. I mean, I get what

441
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: you're saying, because you you you you loaned for that,

442
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 1: like my dad. But I never had that feeling, you

443
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: know what. I don't even know if it was longing

444
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 1: for him, dog. I just know I saw other kids

445
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: doing ship with their dad. I saw that my cus

446
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 1: and father was in the home. My my other cousin

447
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 1: father was But I'm gonna tell you what, but my

448
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,959
Speaker 1: saving grace was I was walking down the street one

449
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,120
Speaker 1: day and I was always taller and bigger than everybody,

450
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,479
Speaker 1: and there was a dude out there. He was like, hey, man,

451
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: you play football, and I was like, no, I want

452
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 1: to them. So he said, okay, come to this park

453
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 1: this day. So I go up there. Man, they're getting

454
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 1: my equipment. Ain't know you know this the seventies. Ain't there,

455
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: ain't nobody's signing, no permissions, live or nothing. They just

456
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: know we got this tall dude. And I was out

457
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: there just getting broke off. The first day. I didn't

458
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 1: know what was going on. But then he started teaching

459
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 1: me stuff right, and I actually was pretty good, but

460
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 1: it used to like really hurt me. I see all

461
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 1: these parents and the stands coming to get their kids,

462
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: and I was just out there by myself. To this day,

463
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how I played the whole season. I

464
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 1: ain't never pay no money, ain't never you're nothing. I'm

465
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 1: just at the games. Coach, come pick me up, meet

466
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: me off here. Nobody asked no questions, and I wind

467
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: up going to colleagues like that, you know, off of

468
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: football because somebody took an interest in me, which is

469
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: why later on I started my youth program just to

470
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: try to get back. I think, like eight said, dog,

471
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, black women women period, they make the

472
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 1: hood go around. They are the strongest in most cases

473
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Because the thing is this, you you

474
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,360
Speaker 1: always hear about daddy's leaving, but when you hear about

475
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: the mama leaving, it's like, oh, for real, you know,

476
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: that's just not natural. Mothers are just like our mothers

477
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: in the hood, go through some stuff. They raised, you figure,

478
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: they're raising the hard head and they got home. They're

479
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: raising the hard heare in most cases right, and they're

480
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: making it happen when they're own. They're paying the bills

481
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: when they're own. Stuff like that. Sometimes I'll be wondering,

482
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 1: how did these women, like, how do they do that?

483
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: Like it's almost impossible, because y'all make the impossible happen.

484
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: So I gotta applaud all y'all black women out there.

485
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: It is taking care of kids on your own, because

486
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,959
Speaker 1: it's hard. Oh yes, it is. They gotta ply out

487
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: the ones who come from the struggle though, because you

488
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: got you got some who have have advantages or advantue

489
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: know parents, both parents home, They don't live in the

490
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: funked up environments. They get this college scholarship and they

491
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: get to go off. And then some of these mama's

492
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 1: come from where we come from, gang banging and drug

493
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 1: selling and nigga's going to the pin and getting killed off.

494
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: Now I'm left with two kids. Ain't got no baby

495
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: daddy around, or he just took off and wanted to

496
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: go funk with somebody else, or or motherfucker. Was just

497
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,959
Speaker 1: a lot of us had kids young, and the sisters

498
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 1: in the hood that's go get it, girls that already

499
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: had that background and hustling and telling that I can't

500
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 1: give up because I want something. And you had something

501
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: that chip care of yourself better than the chip care

502
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: of the kids. Didn't you have those that you know

503
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,479
Speaker 1: how when you when you when you get to get

504
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: nold and to get to like a little yeah, I'm

505
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: waiting out to the end of time and ship because

506
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 1: I got to flip this for the kids or whatever.

507
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: So like I said, when you come from where we

508
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: come from, and you're on the woman's status, you know

509
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because you gotta deal with a whole

510
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: lot of yeah. Yeah, yeah, And that's what and that's

511
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: what I want to get back to. Mama Boom. You're

512
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: going through all this stuff, right, you got a kid

513
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: right now? Did you graduate in high school? Yes, so

514
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: you gradualate to high school. What did you do after

515
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: you graduate in high school? Oh? That a little year

516
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: after high school. I was turned all the way up.

517
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 1: I was doing a whole lot, That's all I'm saying

518
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: about that. I was turned to the max back in

519
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: the hood. Yeah, yeah, why, I mean, I was still

520
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: in eighteen nineteen, so you know, I was still turned up.

521
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: That was before my daughter, So I mean I was

522
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: like out of state. I was. I was doing a

523
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: whole lot of stuff. I was doing the equal to

524
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: a boy, to a male like all that. And then

525
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: people be thinking that most chicks that grew up in

526
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: the hood, they have like a sexual background with the

527
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: knicks in the hood. Not all of us. It's very few.

528
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: It's maybe like two or three of us per hood,

529
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: but not all of us went that route. So you know,

530
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: it's like, I mean, I was just turned to answer

531
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: your question, and I was just turned all the way

532
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: to the max. No, we go go into what you've

533
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: got going on today, which is incredible, But I got

534
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: I want the people out there to see the transgression.

535
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: What happened in the hood to make you say, I'm

536
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: done with this ship. I'm about to go get my

537
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: life together and just get it going. Was it one

538
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: incident that was a series of incidents. Um, it's one

539
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: in particular that I'm going to speak around and I'll

540
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: be specific, but um, it was just the see that

541
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: how the hood don't take care of you when you

542
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: do something and now you in need and they don't

543
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: take care of you. Have a friend that's something like

544
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: that happened to and they just didn't step up to

545
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: take care of the situation. And it's like, Okay, we're

546
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: we're females. And the thing about the females, my opinion,

547
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: is not only are we fighting for the guys to

548
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: respect as we're fighting for the following females to respect

549
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: us to something that you guys don't have to do.

550
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: Y'all just fighting for each other to know. You know,

551
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: I'll nigga, i am who I am, and I'm the

552
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: big nigga or whatever. But the women are fighting both battles,

553
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: the men to prove that point to them as well

554
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: as the female too. So it's just it was just

555
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: a lot going on. And then then not too much

556
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: after that, I got pregnant. So I'm like, okay with

557
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: that happened with my home girl. And the only reason

558
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: I wasn't there is because I was doing something else

559
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: that day. Not because I said no, because I wouldn't

560
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: have been the same situation because we very clear. But

561
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: to see how that fan out and how the support

562
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: wasn't there, and we're talking about a female that did

563
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: something for the hood and for the hood, not to

564
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: you know, help, I just was like, no, this is

565
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: not it's not gonna work. And you in your biborhood,

566
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: you was kind of considered to go to home girl,

567
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: like something needs that. You know, you was looked at

568
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: as a person that wasn't no winning of course. Yeah, yeah,

569
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: So okay, y'all just want to put that out there,

570
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: and so what did you do? What did you decide

571
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: to do after this? Like what was your next step?

572
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: Did you just say that I'm done with this ship,

573
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to college somebody? You know what I did?

574
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: Was I started working really actually once I got pregnant

575
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: with my daughter, then I just stopped going to the

576
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: herd so much. And UM, once I had her, I

577
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: actually taught myself to read by reading to her when

578
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: she was like months old, and in my mind is like,

579
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: she don't know if I'm saying this correctly or not.

580
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: So I just started reading to her because I was

581
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: going to school for medical assistant. And then I started

582
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: reading Donald Goin's books, and I've read all fifteen books

583
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: of his, but I was reading them to her, and

584
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: I just taught myself how to read and just kept

585
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: going from what I was doing and started working UM

586
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: and assistant living with elders with all times in dementia.

587
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: So that's what I've done for like fifteen years. We're

588
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: working with elders with all times in dementia. A little

589
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: bit it with going back to the who my foot

590
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: in there, like the first couple of years of course,

591
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: fighting and all that stuff, tearing up, terrorizing the hood,

592
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: but not on ten, maybe like on seven maybe eight,

593
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: without ten, and just gradually just came into who I

594
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: am now. But it took different stumbles. It took heartbreak,

595
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: it took me not understanding why is this happening for

596
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: me to get to where I'm at now. I mean,

597
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: it's been a long road. I'm there and I'm still

598
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm still getting it. Like I said, some of us,

599
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: it just takes that extra climb, especially where we come from,

600
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: it takes us a little extra climb to get And

601
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: then sometimes that's good for you to to witness some

602
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: of the pitfalls and ship because then that makes you

603
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: a better motherfuckering a long run, because then you know

604
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: what not to get into, you know what not to

605
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: get involved in. Then you've got lessons to tell other motherfuckers.

606
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: You give me follow this path that I followed, and

607
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: you might. You might make it out of the bullshit

608
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: that you you end. So, like I said, everybody go

609
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: through fucking transitions. It's it's more than the transition, because

610
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: this is something. It's a cycle. You're in the hood

611
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: and you put your life on the line for the hood.

612
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: You do things for the hood, and then at the

613
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: end of the day when you need it, they're not there.

614
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: You might have certain individuals that's gonna pop up, but

615
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: the hood has one Because if I go out and

616
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: do something for for the homie, I did it for

617
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: the hood. I ain't do it just for one individual.

618
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people out there just like

619
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: she said that. But now you gotta see my book,

620
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: go to jail. What happens you and jail ain't nobody

621
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: said that, you know, snaps and no money. The average

622
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: chat that dies on the street of Compton or l A.

623
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: They're gonna celebrate that birthday for the first year, and

624
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: then you forgot about just the homie though, And that's

625
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: what people don't know, understand. And once you break from that,

626
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: then they don't like you because you broke from that.

627
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: That's the crazy part because most people that break from it,

628
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: they break from it for a reason, you know, something

629
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: that's from with them selves. And it's like, I never

630
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: said forget the hood. I never said that. I never

631
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: felt like I don't funk with y'all no more. I

632
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: still funk with y'all from the heart, but just not

633
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: in physical like I'm around you, right, And it's like,

634
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: just by you changing, they feel like you don't you're

635
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: not the same person. No, I'm not. I'm growing. I'm growing.

636
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: This is my way of growing. I'm not saying the

637
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: way that I'm growing. You should do it. And I'm

638
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: trying to pressure you to be like me. No do you,

639
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: But I'm stepping in a different path, right What should say, James? Like?

640
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: It's motherfucker's who you like right now? Still stuck like

641
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: a motherfucker the drinking. You know. One thing that tricks

642
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: me out though, is um And this is just noth

643
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: in l A. This is all over the country. They

644
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: used to just shovel us through school. She said, she

645
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:05,479
Speaker 1: couldn't read, and you just got passed one. You show up,

646
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: you don't cast. No fucking rookies. They like, hey, they

647
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: got her. They make sure she passed. The body here

648
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: this was the little cast. Don't understand. And I want

649
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: you to listen to me. My my nephew, Duty was

650
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: going to school. He was going to Wayley and they

651
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: kept letting him pass every grade. What the fun? What

652
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: did you do? Let me? I swear to God, were

653
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: in the little council meeting because he was bad as

654
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: a motherfuckers. She said, just pass him so we can

655
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: get rid of and then grade just to get rid

656
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: of me. So they're not thinking about you, right, your education? Right,

657
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: those folks are in the wrong place because they don't

658
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: give a fuck. They're coming to get that check. Go home.

659
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: You got some good teachers out there though, Yes, that

660
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: that that wanted you get your education. But if you

661
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 1: have more im the ones that want to ship, you're good.

662
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: But you don't have it, so it's up to you.

663
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: Didn't get it like you got that change that changed

664
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: the psycho though. If you get a motherfucker who really is,

665
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: If you get a motherfucker that just go let this

666
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: motherfucker go pass, you're gonna be wondering in two years.

667
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 1: While I think it just shot up everybody on the block.

668
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: Whatever you're gonna be like, Damn, he was just in

669
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: my classroom. I figured that was gonna go to path.

670
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta reach that type of mom you do.

671
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: I'm a proud to that, Gus. When the person learns

672
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,919
Speaker 1: how to read, When the individual learns how to read,

673
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: it's almost like you give them freedom, though, because you

674
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: open up the whole world up to them. When the

675
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: people learn how to read, you open up a whole

676
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: another world to them. And so did you eventually move

677
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: out the neighborhood. I moved away when I was with

678
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 1: their dad, but I moved back and I'm still back

679
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. But I mean, I just like you

680
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: say when you open a book to where you open

681
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: your mind to read. Hell, I put myself back in

682
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: college and you know, I graduated with my business degree.

683
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: What it is the two thousand nineteen, the same year

684
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: my daughter graduated from the twelfth grade. So you know,

685
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: thank you. So it's like one of those things like

686
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: what people don't understand if you read and research, and

687
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: I don't understand why people are still stuck being stupid

688
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: when you got the Google at your fingertips, Like it's

689
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: so easy now, like back in the day we have

690
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: to go to the library and shiftle through books. Now

691
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: you just google it, and it's like, y'all still stupid.

692
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 1: That's a choice, yeah, exactly, because you can self educate yourself.

693
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: Because some of the most brilliant people I know. I

694
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: got a partner that's a billionaire, didn't graduate from my school,

695
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: but it had a desire to learn. He hesyched out

696
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: here from New York, not a dude on damn every

697
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: piece of property. It is because he learned how to read,

698
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: and he learned how to speak, and he learned how

699
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: to ask questions. He needed to know you know, he

700
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: just was curious about it. Took him a while, but

701
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: this dude, this empire, working the goals gym, selling goals

702
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: gym membership. Still eventually you know, buying his first apartment unit,

703
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: buying the second one. Now he in a bigg ass house.

704
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: This dude don't got high school to plumber, but he

705
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,399
Speaker 1: taught itself. He didn't let the world dictate to him

706
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: that you're just gonna be. This is who you are, right,

707
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 1: you know, So I'm gonna let you continue on with

708
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: your story because this is really like I want to do. So.

709
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: So you graduated with your degree in business, right, what

710
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: you do after that just just Whatn't you know what

711
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: that right there? That was like two years ago, and

712
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: that was like another moment in my life where I

713
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: was going through stuff. There was a lot going on

714
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: at that time, and I got my heart broke. So

715
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: I just backed away from guys. You know what I'm

716
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: say not, I don't think no, no like girls that

717
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: you know, you bunch of woman. You know, I don't

718
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: don't be in my deal with that. You know, I

719
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: think that we are very beautiful. Now, don't get me wrong,

720
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,479
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm the one that will compliment another woman.

721
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: I don't care about that, you know what I'm saying.

722
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: But I don't want y'all like that who broke your

723
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: her because now we want you going into that all

724
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 1: want you to find because I ain't your mom. But

725
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: lady'all gonna see Mama's fine. Mama ain't going that round

726
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: to why she chose not to? You asked the question

727
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 1: why she chose not to deal with that? So I graduated. Actually,

728
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: when I walked the stage, it was like a turner

729
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: point for me. We meet my kids and two of

730
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: my friends. We drove to Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona for me

731
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: to graduate out there because I graduate from the University

732
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: of Phoenix, and so we drove out there and it

733
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: was just so much going on, a lot of narcissistic acting,

734
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, from the other person. It was just so much.

735
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: And once I walked to stay age, I'm like, I

736
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: did this. Even though I was going through a lot

737
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: in my personal life, I still made sure my last

738
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: three grades on my my last three what is what

739
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: do they call it? Um? Y'all supposed to help me?

740
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: Y'all last three year and it's thank you. So the

741
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: last three years I had b pluses in the A.

742
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: So in the midst of all of this, so I'm like,

743
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: I just really thought to myself, like, girl, you could

744
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: do this. Its like, what is your problem? Why are

745
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 1: you still scared of yourself? Because I've been scared myself

746
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: for many because back and Down used to wrap and

747
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: have flows. Don't get it twisted, you know. And I've

748
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: done a lot of different things where people just be like,

749
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: that's what you should do, that should gift, and I'll

750
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: just be scared to show other people who I really am,

751
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: just depressing myself, suppressing myself. I mean. So after that

752
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: I walk into stage, it was like I can do this, Like,

753
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: you know, then my daughter graduated, then my son graduated

754
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: from fifth grade, and it's like, you know what, let

755
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: me step away from men because I'm letting this relationship

756
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: go and let me reflect and figure out who am I,

757
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: what do I want to do? And that's how the

758
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,720
Speaker 1: nonprofit came about. That's how the motorcycle club came about.

759
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: That I have my own little motorcycle club. So I

760
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 1: just started creating different stuff until were like two years

761
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: later and I'm still not dealing with men, you know what,

762
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but I'm saying that to speak to women

763
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: that think that every time you break up from something,

764
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: you go move into something else. Don't do that. Give

765
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: yourself time and space to be clearing your head with

766
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: who you are opposed outside the pin you know, a

767
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: pillow talk, be who you are. Sure you don't have

768
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: to validate shelf by saying I got a man now,

769
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: because it's a lot of things that I've done. Not

770
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: to cut you off, sorry, it's a lot of things

771
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: I've done in this two years. It's me. This is

772
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: what I've done. This is not no me and him

773
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: or he helped or this is me everything now. Of

774
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: course I was on the rail station eight eight point

775
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: nine with DJ e Man, so that's like a piece

776
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 1: of one of my plugs with some of my interviews

777
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 1: and then other people, so I made like three people

778
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: that helped me. But other than that, this is me

779
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: these two years, my nonprofit, my motorcycle club. I did

780
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: an interview with a Sweden lady about a year ago,

781
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: so I have an article over in Sweden. Um. I

782
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: actually did like a little small soundtrack for the UK.

783
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: That's a movie soundtrack that's in the UK. This is

784
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: me everything that I'm doing, me talking, sit down and interviews.

785
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: This is what I want to do. I'm at the

786
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: point where I'm gonna be me and that's a period.

787
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: And what is this Because you've got some big stuff

788
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:36,959
Speaker 1: going on? Yeah, and I'm excited. Can we break the news? Yes? Yes, yes, yes.

789
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: So with everything that's been going on in my community,

790
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: I'll break it down real fast. Within the last two years,

791
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: within the apartment buildings that I grew up in South

792
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: Bayville apartments, has been four murders within two years. It

793
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 1: started out with the murder with them with the police

794
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: killing the guy named Ryan. It started out with that,

795
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 1: and a week later I believe they was at his

796
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: visual and one of our homeboys got killed. Then okay,

797
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: move it to the end of last year. Another one

798
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,919
Speaker 1: at home where he's got killed in the apartments. Then

799
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: February fifteen, friend of mine, she got killed in apartments.

800
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 1: So I went to the council. What are y'all gonna do?

801
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: Because I'm like I told them, y'all have two options.

802
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: You're either gonna help me help my community, or you're

803
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: gonna help me help my community. No, it's not an

804
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: option no more. It's too much going on, and I

805
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 1: don't never see y'all. What about the counseling for these

806
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: babies over here? You got babies in these apartments that

807
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: got PTSD from this violence that's going on over here,

808
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: And ain't nobody talking about counseling. Now we know us

809
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: as people, we don't do counseling. I think that's one

810
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: of the dumbest things that we think, because we should.

811
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: Sometimes we need an outlet, sometimes we need somebody else

812
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: perspective to change our mindset sometime. But I went to

813
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: the council and I was just, you know, on their

814
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: head about you need to help my community. I'm still here.

815
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: I talked to the parents with my nonprofit Live Your Life,

816
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: our mentor and council team Girls and Young Women at Risk.

817
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: So I'm hearing what's going on on top of my

818
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: mother still lives in those apartments, so I'm hearing what's

819
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: going on, and it's like, y're not doing nothing. So

820
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, let me stop talking

821
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: about it, because we've been talking and we've been marching

822
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: since before Marl Luke King, we've been running since before

823
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: Harriet Tubman do something about it. So yes, let your

824
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: eyes know that I am on the city council or

825
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: running for the city council for a community outreach, a

826
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: representative man, let's give use. Yeah, we need coming from

827
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: coming from there the same environment ships stepping up and

828
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: trying to improve the environment. Especially when you know you've

829
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: got people dropping like flies in the same spot that

830
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a hot spot, when you got children

831
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: growing up over there. It just seems to be just

832
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: fucked up that nobody's stepping in and trying to solve

833
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: the problem with what's going on in this particular area.

834
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 1: We got we got solved this ship. But you gotta

835
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: look at it too, like this, what she doing is

836
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: important because she from the hood. You know what's going

837
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: on in the hood. And that's how we police our

838
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 1: own ship. We gotta get people that that came from here,

839
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: because now I can counsel him, I can tell you

840
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: why you fucked up? Came nobody from Beverly Hills coming

841
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: tell me a mother, it don't happen, So I mean

842
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: dismissed me. When when you want to put all these

843
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: white people that come from from uh Orange Grove and

844
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: on these other different places and they part of the

845
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: Council of the city, the mayor and all that. Omar Burley,

846
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: Omar Bradley was a cool motherfucking mayor because he knew

847
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: the people and he made ship work. But then you

848
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,720
Speaker 1: you find people that didn't want him there and found

849
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,479
Speaker 1: petty ship to funk with him. But we need black

850
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: men and black women from the neighborhood to grow the

851
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: funk up. Let's get that education and let's take some

852
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: of these positions. Yeah, that's what I say to a

853
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: lot of people. And I've had people like, why do

854
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,280
Speaker 1: you want your darter in the military, And you know, everybody,

855
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: we got the statistic thing going on that like everybody

856
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: wants the military getting murdered and all listen, No they

857
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: don't like who told you all that? But my thing is,

858
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: like I sat down my dart and let's let's talk

859
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: about pros and cons of everything. You know what I'm saying, Like,

860
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: if you stay here and you find you a job, like,

861
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: what what is your job experience? Right now? You fresh

862
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: out of high school, your Honora kid, you play basketball,

863
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: You was a captain of the basketball team. You know

864
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: you are a real treasure. So what are you gonna

865
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: do with yourself? What you're gonna be making boxes or

866
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:47,919
Speaker 1: something like that. So yeah, but my thing was, Okay,

867
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: you don't have a scholarship to go to college, so therefore,

868
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: if you go to college, you're gonna have to pay

869
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: that back. They're not talking about that. That's not about

870
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: find that your financial aid goes on to pay it back.

871
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: Account money like it go there. So if you don't

872
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: have financial aid, I'm not rich. I cannot see you

873
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: to college. I'm still in the mud trying to get

874
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: it out. The mundy. The military it's a way for

875
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: her to see different ships that a lot of people

876
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: are scared of, the military ship. I was about to

877
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: take the military route. I mean until I started motherfucking

878
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,760
Speaker 1: wrapping and was blessed with the gift to start writing

879
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: and pinning ship down. It's not a lot of choices

880
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,439
Speaker 1: for when you in that motherfucking route. So we don't

881
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: even talk about it. It's like we don't even bring

882
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 1: the military to the tail because that we were taught

883
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,879
Speaker 1: as as black people. That's that white men and ship.

884
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: You don't go to the military. Funk, that ship Nigga's gone.

885
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: It's always that with with with the way we were

886
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: talking and then you see in the movies when they

887
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 1: paint the pictures, soon as you step on the motherfuck

888
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: boom is over with about it. But if you think

889
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: about it, you have uncles. Are are people you know

890
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: have been to the military. They have a decent life,

891
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: the ones that wasn't at war. And then that's another thing.

892
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: If you're not trying to be g I George, g

893
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: I Jane, then you can go and you can make

894
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: a life out of this. You could be a barber,

895
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: you could be the maintenance man. You don't have to

896
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: go and be in combat. How would you feel if

897
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,240
Speaker 1: you wanted to be a police officer, I would applaud

898
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: them be it, because I need you in position to

899
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: make change. What were we talking about? You know what

900
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm said. We outside doing all this yelling and talking

901
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: about this is what I want you to do, but

902
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: nobody is either putting themselves in position or teaching theirs

903
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: to be to be at the table to talk about

904
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: these issues. I've said the same ship when it comes

905
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: to the police and people who police the neighborhoods, you

906
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: should have motherfucker's who know the neighborhood. You know the

907
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: people you're dealing with. Why are you gonna send uh

908
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: the dude who went to school and bird Bank and

909
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: ship and then you want to send him down mother

910
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: to his Motherfucking attitude and mentality is already fuck it

911
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: as opposed to a nigger who grew up here and

912
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: and know the streets, know the niggas, know what the

913
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,919
Speaker 1: position is, and so that way you have a better

914
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: relationship to deal with the niggas who are still on

915
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: the block banging or whatever. You feel like how Reggie

916
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: Wright Singer was. But the thing is, this is how

917
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: I feel about the military. Right. There are limited opportunities

918
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: for our young people out there. It's like, you know,

919
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: you tell somebody and this is what I fromtly believe.

920
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: I believe some jobs or traps. Yeah, like you know

921
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: you tell a kid, they go to McDonald's to make

922
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: you some money. Right, so they ain't nothing wrong with working.

923
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: So this ain't it? Not that somebody you know they're

924
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: doing it. But I believe people need to try to achieve,

925
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: you know, they needed in the house. Yeah, because I've

926
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: known homeboys that the left home that was funck ups.

927
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: When did the military come back home with different people?

928
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 1: They got structure in their life Some people just need

929
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: a program. Some people just gotta have a program. They

930
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: gotta have Okay, I'm gonna be here at eight o'clock

931
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: in the morning before I'm gonna go do this. And

932
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: you get people to go the military, they come home

933
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 1: and have great careers. They go. When I was playing ball,

934
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 1: the dorms I was living in when I was going

935
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: to do Mexico State, had a couple of guys that

936
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: just came up the desert storm and they was going

937
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: to school. Now the government was paying for them to

938
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: go to school. One of them runs a hotel in

939
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 1: Las Vegas now the other ones and you talk doing

940
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: these things. So there are opportunities out there for people.

941
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: And one thing that we got to stop doing is

942
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 1: making our keys, especially our black kids, feel limited to

943
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: what their choices are. Yeah, yeah, we need more black

944
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: police officers from the hood. You've got you and that

945
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: comes from the neighborhood. Why do you want to be

946
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: a police Why you don't want to do that? You

947
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: you can call if he was in the academy. Here'd

948
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: be worse than a snitch. Here'll be worse than anything else.

949
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: Why do you want to be a guy named police officer?

950
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: It's your career. Why you want to be a nurse,

951
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 1: and why do you want to come on? We we

952
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: we break each other down and post it, live at

953
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: each other exactly. We believe we can't be in that building.

954
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: We can't work in that building. Why because mother others

955
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,479
Speaker 1: we can't. That's why I'll be in my house telling

956
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: my kids the total opposite. I'll be in their brain

957
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: watching my kids. Now. People be like when I say

958
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 1: if you like you, yeah, because if you say the

959
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: same thing over and over and over from childhood all

960
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: the way to a teenager, this is embedded in their brain.

961
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: Like like I tell my daughter, you're not gonna be

962
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: a stupid smart kid. They don't even make sense for

963
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: you to be smart. But at he's stupid. We're not

964
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: gonna do that. No difference than my son right here

965
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: now he's very well, very good and building things. He

966
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,439
Speaker 1: can build a drone almost from scratch. You know, he's

967
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 1: very good now. But my thing is to empower him

968
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: to let him know just because you're not doing the

969
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,439
Speaker 1: typical guys are doing, then that don't mean you week.

970
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: That means you you're stronger mentally than they are because

971
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: you're doing what they're not doing what people say, the

972
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: opposite of a post of monkey see monkey do. So

973
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: I just believe people just got to empower their kids

974
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 1: in the house. It starts. Everything starts in the house.

975
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: My insecurities started in the house. My not being able

976
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: to talk and get support started in the house. Now

977
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: Here it is people like, why she's so angry? How

978
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 1: ab I been bad since seven, eight, nine years old?

979
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: Because it was me figuring this out, you know. Now,

980
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: my mom went a bad Mama wouldn't say that she

981
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: was on drug. It was never went from pillow to post.

982
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: She was just in the house. She never supported anything

983
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: I done, you know. So it was just like me

984
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: and if by my side, fighting and getting into it.

985
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:31,880
Speaker 1: My mama would come outside and make me come in.

986
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: How she wouldn't come outside and take up for me

987
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: and I see what's going on. So I got to

988
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 1: the point where I could be fighting right outside of

989
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: my mama bad gate and wouldn't make a sound, which

990
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: was support system down. Though you know what, I really

991
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: don't have one because I don't deal with my family.

992
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 1: So it's me literally, this ship is me. Well, you

993
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: gotta support system, No, you gottaus Yeah, you got us.

994
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: I have about three people, Like I said, three people,

995
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 1: that's my support, sy and you're running for this position,

996
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 1: you gotta have somebody that got you. I'm gonna put

997
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: on social media because I haven't I haven't posted it yet.

998
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: I've been waiting to drop it here. So but I

999
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: have people as far as in people to support me

1000
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: that mostly the people don't even know me, you know.

1001
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: But as I would say, like a somebody that like

1002
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 1: a group of people that's around me, like you know,

1003
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: then weekly or whatever like that, and now I don't

1004
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: have that, get some of your girls over there in

1005
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: the neighborhood to to help you out and give them

1006
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: that a little record. I'm going to put the information.

1007
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to put the information out there and if

1008
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: they want to help, then they will let me know.

1009
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: Because when people don't understand our local office, our local

1010
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,399
Speaker 1: government is the one of them packs us the most.

1011
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: So when people be making a big deal about who

1012
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: the president of the United States is gonna be, that

1013
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: really don't hear us. You don't have no effect on

1014
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: don't have no impact on our communities. If the your

1015
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: local city council person, your person is there, that's gonna

1016
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: make that media impact in your community that you can see.

1017
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: So it's definitely they definitely we need to support you.

1018
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: We need for you to win because you're actually from

1019
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: the community that you're going out there to represent. And

1020
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:14,399
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of seeing folks come from other places. Yes, stakeholders.

1021
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: They want to be like like put to put it

1022
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: out there. We might be the media. We're going to

1023
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: vote if Chris Rocking win. She damn yeah, yeah, that

1024
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: was the ship right there. We need to her girl

1025
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: with Tesla, Yeah, Tesla for girl, got home, girl testing

1026
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: for girl shout out to test. But Tess is a

1027
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 1: political analyst and she knows all about that world and

1028
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: she tells us about all importance because she keeps telling

1029
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: somebody at this table that's with us. She wants him.

1030
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: She got me watching and you know the way, but

1031
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: the way she she breaks down politics because a lot

1032
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: of people don't get involved in politics because they don't

1033
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,240
Speaker 1: know it's I don't know. But once they learned ain't

1034
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: doing a gangsterism and you know what, all you can

1035
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: do politics in the hood, then you can do. You

1036
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,760
Speaker 1: just got to educate yourself on certain terminology and certain

1037
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: things that that's the same thing. If people saw are

1038
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: sisters up today, come from from the mud to now

1039
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: trying and doing shit. It's a big statement. I was

1040
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: I was telling you about Cynthia. Oh yeah, that's my boot.

1041
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 1: There's so many women out of here, such as yourself,

1042
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: mama Boot. That's that's ready for change. We gotta get

1043
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: them all together and then just go. Man, that's what

1044
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: we need to do, because like I said, they're the

1045
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: backbone of our communities. The black woman is the backbone

1046
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: of the neighborhood. And they go through so much stuff.

1047
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,320
Speaker 1: It's like you got so many strong women, like you know,

1048
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: you see women they get and they keep a smile

1049
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: on their face, but they don't lost kids, yeah, you know,

1050
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 1: lost loved ones and it's just been a life of losses.

1051
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:10,839
Speaker 1: But they still they're strong and now they're taking care

1052
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: of grand kids and stuff like that. Y'all go through

1053
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: a lot of ship. Yeah, it's a lot of ship.

1054
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: And the only way the world, the world almost is

1055
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: constantly disrespecting the black mam. No, it ain't the world, man,

1056
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: Come on, that's that's the We disrespectus. Petus like someone

1057
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: sisters disrespect us, and I can I can go from

1058
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: from point A to point B. Sister the parliament. If

1059
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: I ain't working, we had this conversation yesterday. If I

1060
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: ain't working and they can't pay that bill, she ain't

1061
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: gonna lift me up. She ain't gonna say I got

1062
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: it babe. This month, she's gonna get your sorry. As

1063
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: something that's talk, that's that that goes back to the

1064
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: grand The grandmother does something no grandmother was was hallever.

1065
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: Grandmama's just died too early. Now when these kids now nowadays,

1066
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: your grandmama at forty three, forty five years old. You

1067
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it's it's totally different. Let's

1068
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: just say we heard ourselves, and we gotta stop blaming

1069
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: motherfucking everybody else. We got to stop blaming the slaves

1070
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: and ship. I ain't no motherfucker because we do words.

1071
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: Games fixed that ship. Since I don't get older even

1072
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: the music and I come from the music industry, you know,

1073
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: you know every other word we call our bitches, holes

1074
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,359
Speaker 1: and stuff. I don't. And the females we out there

1075
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: loving it. And it pissed me off. When I walked

1076
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 1: down the street and I see some young girls walking

1077
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: and they called each other a big short big and

1078
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: it's kind of like like I had to ask these

1079
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: girls one day, why are y'all disrespecting each other? Like that?

1080
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: You just look at and it looked at me and

1081
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: they laugh. H you know whatever. But no, it ain't

1082
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: about being over. We gotta start respecting ourselves before we

1083
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,280
Speaker 1: If we expect the rest of the world to respect

1084
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: us as people, we gotta start respecting ourselves. Yeah, anything,

1085
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 1: I think the start of it is for people to

1086
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: educate themselves. That would be the start of it. Because

1087
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,760
Speaker 1: if you start looking at all these holidays that everybody

1088
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: just sold just geared up to to celebrate, if you

1089
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: look at what it founded on and what years did

1090
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: it start, Like where were we ask people at that time?

1091
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: If you start to understand that, you're starting to stand

1092
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: these holidays are not for us. We have specific holidays.

1093
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: But my thing is, you've see all the Christmas and

1094
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: all of this, and the Fourth of July and all

1095
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 1: of this, everybody out the outfits or whatever. But when

1096
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: Mark Luther King Day come around, it's like you you

1097
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: may see a post here and there, won't you get

1098
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 1: your kids all geared up for Marl Luke King. We

1099
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: actually seen that he actually did exist. We actually have

1100
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: video and his wife and him, his kids, his kids

1101
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: still alive, like he actually exists. But y'all, I'm not

1102
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 1: gonna put that much effort into celebrating him as you

1103
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: would a Santa Claus. Okay, exactly, So what's your examit

1104
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: for when you win this post, when you win this position,

1105
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: what is your first plan of action? My first plan

1106
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: of action is to bring more awareness to my community,

1107
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: um as well as get more youth centers open, you know,

1108
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: because like it's a lot of part the recreations they've

1109
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: been closed for a long time, so I'm pushing that

1110
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: to get that open. These kids need something to do

1111
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: opposed to being stuck. And then you got COVID so

1112
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: they're not going to school. So it's just a lot

1113
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: of boat up energy from these kids that they need

1114
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: to be able to exercise. Play cames. You know, we

1115
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: used to play cames. They don't even know about cameras.

1116
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: The girls don't even know about Devil Dutch. You know.

1117
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: It's just a lot that has been taken from them

1118
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: based off these falls. So my main focus is the

1119
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: kids to get recreations centers open as well as start

1120
00:57:55,840 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 1: to um implement different activities for the elders. You know,

1121
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: you got grandma and grandpa sitting at home all day

1122
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: with nothing to do. I don't know, gets zoom going.

1123
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: My thing is a look out for them because like

1124
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: I said, I've been working with elders with all times

1125
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: in Demensia for fifteen years. So that's the area that

1126
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: I know how to work with the elders with. And

1127
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 1: another thing is get some of these um these counseling

1128
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: facilities within the area open and running, like people need

1129
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: somewhere to go to vent and get something back from it.

1130
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: Some resources funding in the neighborhood. You got these parts

1131
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: that I really don't have too many young boys playing

1132
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: football because the parents can't pay for it. We need

1133
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: to start funding at least like ten of these kids,

1134
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: because you have real good kids that's in a in

1135
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: a neighborhood that that's good as sports. They are active kids,

1136
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: but they mama preferred to not put them in sports

1137
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: because of money issues or whatever issues. So we need

1138
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: to we need to see what's going on with these

1139
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: elders and these kids. Too important, too important units in

1140
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: the community for sure. And let me ask you this

1141
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: and This is what I asked everybody on every show.

1142
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: What would you say to the thirteen through sixteen year

1143
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 1: old girl that's at home, that may be in Compton

1144
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: right now, that may be in Kansas City, Missouri, maybe

1145
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: in Chicago, Illinois of Brooklyn going through the same stuff

1146
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: that you went through. They want to make a change,

1147
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: you want to do better. What what advice would you

1148
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: give them right now? I would give them the advice

1149
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 1: that it's someone out there that's talking to you that

1150
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: you're not listening to, because I have people like teachers

1151
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 1: and different stuff that wanted to talk to me, but

1152
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 1: I was stuck in my head with game banging or

1153
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. I would say for them

1154
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: to under the figure out what do they eat, sleep

1155
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: and breathe every day? Do you like to sing? Do

1156
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: you like the wrap? Do you like the right? Do

1157
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: you like to read? Do you like to dance? Whatever

1158
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: it is that you do, let that be what you do.

1159
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: Do not let nobody else tell you that what you're

1160
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 1: doing is dumb or you shouldn't do that. That would

1161
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: be my main thing. Whatever it is you want to do,

1162
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: do it and stay focused and get as much information

1163
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: as you can on it. She sounds like a counselate.

1164
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: The lady we talked to that same exact same thing

1165
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: she said, exactly, find something you're into, find something that

1166
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: you like doing that sky is the limit on. I

1167
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: got a cold question for you, being a single mom

1168
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: raising two boys and a daughter. What do you tell

1169
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: your sons? What's the key things that you tell your

1170
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: son not to do? My key thing that I tell

1171
01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 1: my sons is don't follow nobody. Follow your own head.

1172
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: That's what God gave you a brain for. Be who

1173
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 1: you are. That's what the key thing I tell them,

1174
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: And go do your damn homework. M That's it right there.

1175
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: You can't know how can people find you to support you?

1176
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,120
Speaker 1: What can people go see your exenda if they want

1177
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: to get that Mama Booth. Somebody out there listening. We

1178
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: got a few people to listen to this show, and

1179
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 1: they want to get in contact books you and they

1180
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: want to you know what I'm saying. They want to

1181
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: hilight you, not like you know I'm talk They want

1182
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: to support your movement. How can they get that? They

1183
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 1: can get at me? My I g is Mama boo

1184
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: one three two m O m A b O one

1185
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: three two or my YouTube channel. Mama Boo boo m

1186
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: O m A B double o B double o. Yall

1187
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: heard it right there. That's easy. That's easy, and we

1188
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 1: really appreciate you coming on the show to day. You

1189
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: know what I want to talk to you about. You

1190
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 1: got a motorcycle club too, Yes, what's name of the

1191
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 1: motorcycle club? No? Anti venom? No anti venom. That's a

1192
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: hard right there, that's a hard talked about it. So

1193
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: you actually ride the yes, So don't let me ask

1194
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: you this though, this one I always want to know

1195
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: because me and shames. You know, we got some stuff

1196
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: going on right now with another show that we're doing.

1197
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: I'm talk about a little bit later on to break

1198
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: that news. I don't want to chinx it. But so

1199
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: let's say you meet to dude and you ride your bike.

1200
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: You look your man right in the back of your

1201
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: bike down. I'm just asking so that would never happen. No,

1202
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 1: that's dumb because I saw a duke right in the

1203
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: back of the bike with a girl before. He's about

1204
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:18,320
Speaker 1: the sorry cat right now, I'm I let my my

1205
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 1: youngest right with me now. He's getting a little taller,

1206
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 1: but he loved riding with me. But other than that,

1207
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: don't let me ask you this. I got to ask

1208
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 1: you this because you know you're about to be a

1209
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: future city councilwoman and all this. You've got all this

1210
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: incredible stuff going on. What kind of guy? Because I

1211
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: know you said you don't think about no dudes right now,

1212
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: But what kind of guy is Mama but looking for?

1213
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell y'all right now, she ain't in

1214
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: the play with so don'na be coming to her DM

1215
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: What kind of what qualified? Just like anyway, what kind

1216
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: of man qualifies to call himself mama booze? Man? Oh,

1217
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: I don't give out cheat sheets. They got to figure

1218
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, because if you tell us somebody I'm

1219
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 1: looking for x y Z, they're gonna be x y

1220
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: Z and today take a minute until they take the Yeah,

1221
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: let me tell you what they gotta do for number

1222
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: one day. Y'all gotta look at their sons and then

1223
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: go to their sons and say, man, can I date

1224
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: your mama? Your mama's a cute woman. I want to

1225
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 1: be friends with your mother. I mean, that's just respecting

1226
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 1: the home front, you know what I'm saying. We don't

1227
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: know if I was a single man and getting the

1228
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: one with kids. I would definitely talk the son first,

1229
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 1: because boys are very protective for their mama. Boys are

1230
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: super protect one of sons from baby mama's from from friends.

1231
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: Women I've been with for seven years, women I've been

1232
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: with for five years, and their kids still call me pops.

1233
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, my birthday Saturday before last, one

1234
01:03:56,480 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 1: of one of my ex her daughter, Toya. That's my baby.

1235
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: She she made a picture for me with my brother

1236
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: and my mom's So you know, I still a little

1237
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: more on the death. So it is what it is.

1238
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: But get at the sun and then maybe you got

1239
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: a that mama, I can't be you can't come with

1240
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 1: that crazy ship because you know that should beat you up. Yeah,

1241
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: she looked like and I just like, now, I just

1242
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 1: don't play with people at oh, I have no toylerance

1243
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: or man with nobody. So a guy that don't come

1244
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 1: from the back, mus I know you probably don't like

1245
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: no square as dudes. I'm not telling you anything to

1246
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: that I don't give out cheese. She didn't give no

1247
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: cheese or nothing, because it might be the perfect dude

1248
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: out there thinking like I really like her, and he

1249
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: got a job. He got this stuff going on, he

1250
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: good man, So you ain't gonna give no hints something.

1251
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: He just gotta figure it out. He shouldn't h if

1252
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: he if he, if he listened to hook me up.

1253
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 1: I got the cheat sheet right now. All you gotta

1254
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: do money is being man. When you when you were approach,

1255
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: all you got to do is say I heard your

1256
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 1: voice on you know, against the chronicles, and wo man,

1257
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: I would love to just take you off for a

1258
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 1: five minutes of a conversation. That five minutes turns into

1259
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: twenty that the next time we chalk is thirty. You

1260
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: just gotta have conversations, No nonsense. I do not play

1261
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 1: with people at all. I don't have time to play

1262
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 1: with people. That's right. I have things to do and

1263
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: kids to look after and all that plan. I'm not

1264
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:32,800
Speaker 1: playing no games. I don't have no baggage that's coming

1265
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:35,080
Speaker 1: with me that's gonna jump out and start playing. I

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Speaker 1: don't have none of that. I'm like, good to go

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Speaker 1: when everybody get ready to go. We applied you on

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Speaker 1: being a good mother. I applied you on coming from

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Speaker 1: where you started to where you're at now and and

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Speaker 1: raising three good kids, all of us are not blessed.

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Speaker 1: All of us are not blessed. Exactly exactly. I know.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I I want to let

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Speaker 1: you know is that you do have a support system

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Speaker 1: here better. I don't know if we're the biggest show

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Speaker 1: in the world, but we got some you know, we've

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01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:08,840
Speaker 1: got some people that listen to us and stuff. So

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Speaker 1: we definitely go be helping you push your extenda. This

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01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: ain't the one time thing. We don't look just anybody

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01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: coming sit in these seats and here with us. We don't.

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Speaker 1: We don't do that because I'm gonna tell you, these

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01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,800
Speaker 1: two niggas right here is hard on people. I tell

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Speaker 1: they they asked me who the fund is that? So

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Speaker 1: if some of y'all, y'all everybody called me all the time,

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Speaker 1: who who the hell is that? And if somebody they

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Speaker 1: want they usually hitting me and say holler this, probably

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Speaker 1: they wanted to get somebody on the show with your

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01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: show just like mine. They say no, because you made

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01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: sure you called Mama Book. I said, yes, I did.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure sure I don't want no beef

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Speaker 1: with Mama Bo. Right, I'm on my team, my team,

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Speaker 1: and when we really appreciate you coming on with us today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate being I'll just appreciate the opportunities.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you all right now, y'all go

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Speaker 1: see you in the video. She has a very nice smile,

1295
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: but you could tell she's not bullsh and your mama

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01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:59,919
Speaker 1: hard ain't she your mama? What that asked before? When

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Speaker 1: your times are right, that's what it is, and that's

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Speaker 1: why you give your man right now? Why you good

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Speaker 1: man right now? So thank you. And I wanted to

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Speaker 1: say for you guys that no nonprofits in your area.

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Speaker 1: To support your nonprofit because I don't know what you'll

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01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 1: be thinking. I don't know if you think the food

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01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 1: and picking up the food just falls out the sky. Uh,

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Speaker 1: support your local nonprofit because right now, like I say,

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01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm getting it out the mud and I'm feeding the

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01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 1: homeless within my community. But you'll have to understand this

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01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: is coming out of my pocket, which I'm not saying

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01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 1: that a negative because I'm going to do it. I'm

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01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:35,040
Speaker 1: getting it out the mud and feed my community. At

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Speaker 1: the same range, what's of your nonprofit? To live your life?

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Speaker 1: Live your life, y'all support this sister right here, that's

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Speaker 1: one thing. And I always tell people every show, we

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01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: can't sit up all the time, and you know, wine

1314
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 1: and cry for change, and then when somebody comes and

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01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 1: tries to present that change to us, we turn a

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01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 1: blind eye to it and we give each other the

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Speaker 1: hardest time. Sometimes. Whenever you see a brother and sister

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Speaker 1: that got a nonprofit, you're the people all. I ain't

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Speaker 1: giving no money. I don't know what they're doing with it.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, because y'all want to spend money

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01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: on plenty of dumb ship and yeah, and if any

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Speaker 1: nonprofit that's actually doing something, believe that majority of that

1323
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 1: money is coming out of their pockets, eat leave that

1324
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 1: now unless they didn't hit it big and got a

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Speaker 1: huge sponsor for the most part. No different than with

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Speaker 1: Cynthia None. I was over there with her and shout

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Speaker 1: out to my girls sent but with me watching her,

1328
01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:27,639
Speaker 1: majority of that was coming out of her pocket from

1329
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 1: the easter baskets and everything. So you guys have this

1330
01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:35,120
Speaker 1: misperception at It's just like we have donors and people

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Speaker 1: donating or whatever. No, right now, I am getting out

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01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 1: the mundy and I'm still passing out these hygiene products

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Speaker 1: every other week, and I already know because I had

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Speaker 1: a youth football program me and my wife did. I

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Speaker 1: can't just say me because it was people to help

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Speaker 1: me run it. Me and my wife Rest in peace

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Speaker 1: to my homeboy, Big Bruce from Compton. But a lot

1338
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Speaker 1: of that was coming out in my pocket, you know,

1339
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Speaker 1: the uniform kids. Because it's expensive to run of youth

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Speaker 1: football program. It's expensive to even to run a basketball programs.

1341
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 1: You've got kids that don't have parents. So you wind

1342
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 1: up becoming a sere mother and father. Because if I

1343
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Speaker 1: had kids on my team and we in Vegas and

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Speaker 1: they can't eat, I'm not gonna let you start. I

1345
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Speaker 1: ain't gona go for my kids. So it's like, come on,

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Speaker 1: I would train my kids like, hey, today when we

1347
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Speaker 1: go to this McDonald's, I don't need you ordering the

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Speaker 1: double corter pounders and shipped now. I can't get you

1349
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Speaker 1: that you order this right here in the You know

1350
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 1: what I mean? You know, because I got a story

1351
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Speaker 1: really before we go. I always believe in taking some

1352
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 1: of the younger kids and the team, you know, the

1353
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 1: little young black a Mexican kids on the team, taking

1354
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 1: the place they ain't been before. I wanted to learn

1355
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Speaker 1: how to use the property, learn how to use civil

1356
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: wear and stuff like that, because some of them have

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Speaker 1: never been to a restaurant before, not a real restaurant

1358
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Speaker 1: like McDonalds and tackle Bill, not a restaurant. I took

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Speaker 1: this one kid for a restaurant one day, right and uh,

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Speaker 1: they asked me if you wanted sparkling and steal water,

1361
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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't paying attention to it. This dude said sparkling.

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01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 1: So they studied coming out to the table. Point is

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Speaker 1: water out the bottle and stuff and I'm kind of looking.

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01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: I get the bill in my of here two day one,

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Speaker 1: I said, man, don't order a damn thing. And I've

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Speaker 1: told myself to work with this partner. I said, you

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01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 1: didn't charge some twohunther dollars some water. We could have

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Speaker 1: bought some champagneers of ship, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: And so Mama Blue, I appreciate you. What you're doing

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Speaker 1: is very very important for our community. But I'm doing

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Speaker 1: it because I want to do it. This is what

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Speaker 1: I want to do. I want to help my community.

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01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 1: Is like my biggest thing is to be to someone

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Speaker 1: that I needed to be to me. So that's where

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01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,639
Speaker 1: I met with these young girls like all this twerking

1376
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 1: and thinking that you have to sell your body and

1377
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 1: dealing with all these different men and not getting the

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Speaker 1: appropriate education. That is not where it's at because I mean,

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Speaker 1: with all the game banging that I did, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what's the what's the most I'm gonna get out of

1381
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get retirement or pension, so I'm get

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01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 1: a big funeral. But in between what what am I

1383
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 1: really gaining out of that? Exactly? And you know, one

1384
01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: thing I want to tell you all young people out

1385
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: there is HIV and AIDS to steal out there. Yeah,

1386
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:07,720
Speaker 1: so be careful, strap up, strap up. And that's it.

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Speaker 1: I'm done with enough preaching right now. We'd like to

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Speaker 1: thank you guys for tuning in with us, sitting in

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Speaker 1: with us again. Thank our lovely guest, Mama Boom. We

1390
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: appreciate you falling through. You know what I'm saying. Make

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01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,360
Speaker 1: sure y'all tapped back in with us. Next week we'll

1392
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Speaker 1: be back with more of this good ship we got here.

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Speaker 1: Those he's rushing by that, podcasting every word