WEBVTT - Bring Brittney Griner Home 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.000 What's good family, it's your girl to meeke A D. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.479 Mallory and it's your boy my son in general, and 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:17.000 we are your hosts of street politicians the place. What's 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.439 going on, my son learning? How you doing today? A 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:24.440 new city. We've moved on from l A to New 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:32.240 York to now we're in where we are. No. Yes, 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.800 shout out to Nolah, shout out to the Essence Fest. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.160 You know. Um, black people, a bunch of black people 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.199 just out here doing what they do. Man. So it's 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:46.880 always good. Yeah. Today starts the concerts and the convention 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:51.080 center has opened and for the next few days, people 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:57.360 will be actively being black, learning about our culture, eating 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:04.920 food that we like, buying products, supporting black businesses, um, 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:10.640 you know, listening to health conversations, listening to social justice conversations. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:16.560 There's a panel on voting rights, seeing celebrities, um, all that. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.559 It all happens at the Essence Music Festival. The Essence 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.039 Festival is now what they call it. They drop music 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.320 because it's it's in a whole experience. It's a whole experience. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.279 There ain't just no music no more. And going to 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.399 the to the concerts at night, which is a highlight 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.399 this year. I think Janet Jackson is coming back. Um, 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.920 and you know, I know they're gonna have Mary, because 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.040 that's something. If you don't have marry at Essence Fest, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.080 like what are you doing? I think the other thing 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:49.400 that happens is that there is a very um intentional 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:55.160 celebration of black women at the Essence Fest. Blackness magazines 0:01:55.320 --> 0:02:01.520 pretty much this celebration and exaltation a black woman. Well, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.960 I I think I was telling you that. A man 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:05.880 told me. He said, yeah, he was on the plane. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:09.000 I said, you're working this weekend. He said, oh yeah, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.720 I know I was working. If I'm not anymore, he said, 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.320 but I'm a worker, right because I'm gonna give me one, two, 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.040 three women down here at the essence Fast. I said, well, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.680 come on, he gotta he gotta, he gotta go. A 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:26.720 man with a plan man three not to not want three. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.200 So I get it, and I bet you there's three 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.000 that that want to be They want to be with 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:39.440 him to listen, like I said, man, a man with 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:45.320 a plan's a man that's gonna get what he can whatever. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.960 So um, yeah, you know, um, my mother passed away 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.480 and in the next week I've been just going over 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.400 getting his tattoo of her face, and I'm trying to 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.680 find like a really good tattoo artists. I want to 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:06.359 put this tattoo on my arm and underneath his satricious 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.560 son and remembers, but I also want to put my 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.440 grandmother's because I didn't. My grandmother passed away when I 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.280 was locked up, and I always wanted to do it. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.880 So those are pretty much the two most influential people 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.440 in my life, you know, who nurtured me and gave 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.639 me levels of confidence and things that I don't think 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.240 I would have without them. So I've been thinking about 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:27.960 that the last couple of weeks. I wanted to do 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.400 it at first, you know, when she first passed, but 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.320 I was I thought he was too emotional, you know, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.160 it's too most emotional time for me. So that's that's 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.040 what I'm working on. I don't know why, but it's 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.440 something I want to do, like and I don't do. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.400 I got a couple of tattoos. I'm not like a 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.880 tattooed person, so it's not like a normal thing. But 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.120 these tattoos that I really wanted, you know, just really 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.280 make sure that they're done right. They're not tattoo person, 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.600 but you gotta full the whole thing across the top 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:02.280 of your chest. In comparison, I got four tattoos, yeah, 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.440 but they're big, like I got. I'm not a tattooed person. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.320 I have one thing, which is my son's name. Right here, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.920 you add something stretched from one side and your chest 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.120 to the other. Well, Originally I wanted to um. I 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.320 wanted to make my body into a general's uniform. Right. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.200 So what you're talking about is this is the the 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:32.440 um color that goes around the general's uniform. If you 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.600 look on the general's uniform, you'll see d S these 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.240 medals on the top of east side and then on 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.599 I have the seal of the general on east soldier, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.400 I mean on each shoulder. So I was gonna put 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.560 like the badge with all of the purple hearts and 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.640 all those things. I was gonna literally make it into 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.560 a uniform. But I realized I wasn't like really a 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.479 tattooed person at that time, you know, I got That's 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.320 when I realized it, and I was like, you know, 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.320 I don't really want to just be getting tatto whoos 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.040 and tattoo my whole body up. So I stopped, but 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.880 something stopped you from doing that. Yeah, you know what 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.760 I mean. It's I know a lot of people who 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.720 have hundreds of tattoos, Like I got friends they got 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.200 fifty and thirty and forty and hundreds of tattoos. So 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.200 I'm not really a tattooed person, but when it has 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:24.040 some level of value of significance to me, you know, 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.159 I want, like I wanted, I want to see my 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.039 mother's face when I look down. I want to see 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.800 my grandmother's face on right here on my farm. So 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.240 those are things that I mean, you might you know, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.000 it's it's it's gonna be a little bit of pain. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:44.400 But you're old man, and the old man it's different 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.440 when you become an old man. When you when you're older, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.680 you get the heart of your body gets so you 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:57.240 want custom to pain certain things anymore because more custom 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.520 that I'm listening to you, I'm saying, I've I've dealt 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.919 with levels of pain and things that I thought I 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.080 never could survive, and I survived them, So it ain't 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.960 really that much different. While I was sitting on the 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.880 plane yesterday and out of know where, my knees just 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.960 started herd and I'm like I'm sitting down, I'm not 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.920 even walking, like what is wrong with my knees? This 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.560 is just what happens when you get to be over forty, 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.880 so you you are old man now. I don't know, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.400 but I think it's beautiful. I think you picked the 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.000 right pictures. Make sure you get you know exactly what 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.159 you're looking for. And to your point, you need a 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:36.919 good tattoo artist, which is not easy to find because 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.680 everybody thinks stay the best and they're great, and then 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.640 their work looks like stuff just mumbled together, jumbled together. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.119 So I hope you find the right person. You should 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.159 actually put a call out on the graham Um to 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:56.800 find a makeup makeup tattoo artists who can recreate what 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.440 you're looking for. I mean, I've seen a couple so 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.560 in a couple of my friends have tattoos that I've 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.960 seen done and I like the quality and the detail 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.400 of it. So you know, I'm gonna reach out to 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.680 them and get some try to get those connections. Is 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.720 it expensive? I mean, it depends it depends on who 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.840 does it. You know, tattoos, you know they're range in prices, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.960 depends on who does it. Some people sometimes the other 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.360 couple of tattoos I got. I actually never paid for 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.640 a tattoo, right. I tried to artists that were dope 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.640 that wanted, you know, because I had a level of 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.920 a platform and celebrity that they wanted people to to 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.080 see the art that they did on me. So like, YO, 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.440 just let people know I did it. Take a picture, 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.040 you know. So it depends. It all depends. I saw 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.920 one guy. Did you see the guy who tattooed cockroaches 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.400 all over his chest? Stupid? What he must have been 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:58.000 a he was like, made no sense none whatsoever. So 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:02.680 let's get into the news stories. We have a pretty 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.600 uh deep interview that we're doing today with Brittney Brian's 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.440 childhood friend who was like her sister. They actually call 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:13.160 um one another sisters, and she's like one of the 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.640 closest people outside of Sharrell Britten's wife. And so she's 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.120 coming on and we want to give her a lot 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.480 of time because the sister, she's got a lot to say. Um, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.640 And so I want to get into these news stories quickly. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.400 There's two things that happened we get We'll get two 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:34.920 stories from the National News and one from Instagram News. Um. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.880 The two stories unfortunately, and you know, I we were 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.760 really all of the folks who work with us, precious 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.000 who helps us to kind of think through, um, you 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.559 know what our rundown of the show will be. Uh. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.800 And certainly I was doing it trying to find like, 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.880 what are some positive things that have made the press 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.960 this week, things that we want to talk about. And 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.200 it's like, yo, you you can't ignore these stories that 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.080 keep coming out about um, black men being killed by 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.080 the police and you know, or being harmed significantly by 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:15.680 the police. Uh. And it's sad because it's like people, 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.160 it's like you feel like it kind of dies down, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.640 and then we are always back in the situation. And 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.960 it seems like these situations get worse and worse and 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.320 worse because George Floyd, we all know, was one of 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.840 the worst that we've actually seen with our eyes. Now 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.640 you have Jalen Walker, who's in akron Ohio, where by 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.240 the way, my family lives there. Many members of my 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.640 family are in akron Um And I don't even have 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:45.440 the capacity to sit and read the details of what 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.040 the police say. I don't know, and I'm sure I 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.119 other that be posted and I'm gonna have to understand 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.040 it at some point. But today, what I do know 0:09:55.559 --> 0:10:00.079 it's sixty shots were fired at Jalen Walker that it 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.280 him in his face and all over his body. That's 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.640 what I know. And the reason why I said I 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.640 don't know the story is because you know, I know 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.200 enough I'm able to pick up in enough places if 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.559 he was shooting at somebody, or if he had robbed 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:21.000 a bank and had an old lady you know, excuse me, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:26.120 an elderly woman hell hostage, or if he had a 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.440 child dangling over a bridge, like I know, I would 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.960 have seen that. I would have seen that. I'm I'm, I'm, I'm, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.520 I'm like a hundred percent shore And I could be wrong, 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.320 you might know, and somebody else been, but I'm I'm 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.679 pretty sure he did not do anything that call for 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.560 sixty shots that hit that boy all over his face, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:51.240 his his his face, and his body mutilated him. No, 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.520 did you hear? There's never there's never a justification for that, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.480 you know what I'm saying, especially when there's no weapon found, right, 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.920 especially when you're running from the police, and and and 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.400 we and yet we always try to find people that 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.880 want to justify and say, well, I need to know 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.800 the other part of the story, and I need to 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:13.680 know what happened before this happened. That's always, well, what 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.760 happened before this, y'all. You're only showing us this piece 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.680 of the thing. And it's always the same, same sad song, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.680 you know, And and it ultimately ends in the death 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.160 or you know, the severe injury of one of our people. Man, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.160 So my my prayers go out to them. Hopefully he 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.800 gets justice. Hopefully those officers are brought to justice. You know, 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.360 I know what, they're on unpaid leave right now or 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:48.680 paid administratively, administratively probably old same old too. And so 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:53.040 now the city has canceled some of their festivals and 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.200 other things that you know, are supposed to you know, 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.320 things that they do in the summer and acuring and 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.839 all over the country. They've had to cancel those occasions 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:08.280 because they are concerned about um uprisings. And I'm just 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.360 so tired of it. Then, you know, we learned uh 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.480 last week while we were interviewing being prompt and now 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.560 I've I've actually talked to him about it. Randy Cox 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.880 in Connecticut. Basically the police did the same thing to 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.880 him that they did to Freddy Gray. They put him 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.680 in the car without strapping him in with his seatbelt, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.400 with his hands behind his back, and basically he broke 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.840 I think they say he broke his neck, but certainly 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.080 he's you know, he's paralyzed for um from his neck 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.559 down for the rest of his life. Um. They there's 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.760 video footage of the officers asking him, Hey, what's going 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.560 on with you? You know what's happened. He's like, I 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.280 can't feel my body. I can't feel my legs. I 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.440 can't feel And they're like, yeah, you know, okay, we'll 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.960 just kind of like sit up, You'll be okay. But 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.480 they took him on what's that with the way ride? 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:07.560 On the rough rough ride, and so now this this 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:12.720 this man, um, you know, it's paralyzed. And again I 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:17.160 don't know because I just, you know, between us going traveling, 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.680 we've been dealing with Brittney Grinder, we've been engaged in 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.040 another thing that we can't talk about right now. People 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:27.079 don't I saw somebody on the internet today, Um, oh 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.600 you look cute, because you know, I posted a picture 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.839 of me at the BET Awards and he said, oh, 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:36.120 you look. But do you even do activism anymore? Or 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.280 are you a socialite. Now you're trying to be a socialite. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.400 I'm like, if people knew, you know, because you know 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.840 how you know? Last week was a tough week, Like 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.960 I was busting my behind before the b ET Awards 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.920 the next day afterwards, working on stuff, playing in a 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.920 prayer vigil for Brittney Griner, handling proposals for other big things. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.679 Is that we have that we're working on. Um, it's 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.920 just so much and people just don't know. And I 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.400 think that folks believe that if they don't see you 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.760 sitting there on your computer or look like you're crying 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.120 and beat down, they don't believe that anything is happening. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.240 But we actually have so much, so with everything with 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:22.560 me research and Grinder reading up on Russian laws, talking 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.040 to lawyers about what they think and how we should 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.160 approach getting in this fight, the you know, calling Silla 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.560 Jackson Lee, the congresswoman from Texas, doing all of that, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.400 I didn't feel like reading the space of more black 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:40.440 men kill, but I looked enough not seeing them scape. Oh, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.440 Randy Cox drove his car into a senior citizen center 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:49.400 and therefore they nabbed him and this happened. It's not there. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.600 I don't believe it's there either. I very rarely see it. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.960 Sometimes there's justification before the most part, I think that 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.760 police have decided that their emotions and there and how 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.480 they feel about situation superseed justice, and we see it 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.440 often enough. And the fact that they're able to say 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.760 or I felt this was happening, or or I was 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.840 scared or this and that and I didn't know in 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.720 those things or defenses, it means that it's going to 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.920 continue to happen, right, So until we until we have 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.840 something a system set in place that makes you accountable, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.320 fully accountable for when you do things that are completely wrong, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.840 when people lose their lives and people are paralyzed, then 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.720 we're gonna keep seeing the same things. Yeah, it's got 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.800 to be a better way. It just it does. And 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.440 we say that all the time. And I don't think 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.320 that we're giving it today the full attention, but you 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.240 know that over the coming days we will, UM well, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.760 we'll have more to say and of course will follow 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.960 the lead of those people who are on the ground 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.800 in Akron, Ohio and in Connecticut. Leaders. I know Scott 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.720 Esdale is in Connecticut, UM and you know he's president 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.880 of the New haven. I think chapter maybe it's not 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.120 NAVE and I might be wrong of the N double 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.480 A C p UM and you know, and also the 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:12.040 Regional UM president, I mean regional leader. I forget the 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.880 exact titles, but he has a lot of influence there 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.120 in Connecticut. And we're gonna take everyone's lead, and you know, 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.640 we'll have more to say to break down the details. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.360 But I'm like trauma wipped. I really am. I'm trauma 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.280 with Like I feel like there's just so many cases, 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.680 so much that's happening that people don't again, you don't 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.840 think about the totality, and that's what everyone's worked. We 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.840 don't always think of the totality of what the government 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.160 is dealing with or what you know, different individuals. They 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.320 have a lot to deal with every day. And you know, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.440 just sitting thinking about uh, Stanley David just the third 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.840 Stanley Davis, third teen year old boy deserve justice. He 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.360 hit the officer to him, Staling has a job still 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.840 hasn't been fired in Boyton Beach, Florida, kill by a 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:06.119 rogue officer with a rat sheet, a rap sheet of times, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.880 including two other times where he performed high speed chases, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.960 and another child and another individual were killed, right, and 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.120 he still has a job. So that is something that 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:21.159 requires our work and attention. I got a text message 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:26.280 today from Tennisia Chappelle's family asking can until Freedom be 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.480 there for the anniversary of their sister being killed basically 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:35.080 by police, I mean by by jail officials, by the 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.400 CEO is not giving them her medical attention and who 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.200 even knows how she got sick. And that's in in 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.119 in where they live in Kentucky, but it happened in Indiana. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.679 There's just too much trauma. It just is. And you know, 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.680 I hope people are mentally taking care of themselves, uh 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.240 and doing whatever they can to kind of separate from 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.080 the trauma at times, but not to separate so much 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.720 that we're not fighting because we have obligation to fight. 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.959 And speaking of obligation brings me to I said we 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.520 would do our national news story and then our Instagram 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:15.040 news story. Uh. Last week a big thing broke out 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.960 that has been going on all week on or yeah 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:25.480 on uh whether or not the father of one child 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.520 in a house with three other children was wrong for 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.280 bringing McDonald's only to his child and not the other 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.800 kids in the house. They it was a whole thing. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.119 You know, was he wrong and what was really probably disturbing. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.159 I know it was disturbing to me. And again I 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.520 didn't even watch the video, but I heard enough about 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:49.320 what was being stated, um that I know that what 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:53.120 took place was not appropriate. For a mother to go 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:59.000 online and basically degrade the man, throw the food on 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.120 the ground, put it on video, and send it out 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.800 to the world. That to me is completely inappropriate and 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.240 there's no excuse for it, none. And I'm not gonna 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.440 sit here and say, well, but you know, I get 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.679 that she's frustrated. It doesn't matter. It's wrong, it should 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:17.119 not happen. We got enough issues with black men even 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.440 showing up to be with their children, and the barriers 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.440 in that sometimes are created um by the world and 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:29.800 then also sometimes by mothers where they are putting all 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.000 of these different obstacles in the way for fathers to 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.760 be able to see their children. So the fact that 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:41.840 the father even showed up right is even there is important. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.159 And I have to say that. I want to make 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.240 sure I say that from the beginning. But I was 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.720 going to weigh in as my thought of the day 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.800 on the specific question of whether or not a man 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.720 uh should bring or if he is obligated to bring 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.879 food to all the children in the house when he 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.320 comes to to feed his own, and I think he should. 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:08.040 I think my uh if I had to give my vote, 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.520 because it certainly is a split conversation. I happened to 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.440 be on the phone with my sister, my God's sister, 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.640 and they were arguing back and forth about who's right 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.960 and who's wrong. But I do believe that uh if you, 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.800 especially because we later learned that I did see this 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.840 video popped up on my feed where the same mother 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:32.760 was talking about, um, you know, how this man had 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.160 been there with her children in the past, that these 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:39.200 three children are his, her first children, that he knew 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.199 when he met her, and he had been involved in 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.840 taking care of those kids and doing things for them 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.840 and feeding them and whatnot in the past. And I 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:54.160 think that, UM, my perspective is that when when when 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.760 we used the use of the word and I saw 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.240 people saying, oh, he doesn't have an obligation, I think 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.159 that's one of the problems with our society is that 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:07.000 we don't feel obligated. We don't feel obligated when a 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:09.399 woman is being beat down on the street by a 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.200 man or you know, being robbed or whatever, and we're 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:17.120 just standing there watching. We don't feel obligated. When police are, 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.959 you know, arresting somebody, you don't feel obligated to stand 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.240 by and film what's going on. And we certainly and 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:27.680 those situations are people you don't know, but you certainly 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.800 should feel obligated to do what you can for the 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:35.560 children who are the siblings of your child. And it 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.040 is not to say buy them all fancy things or 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.720 give them a bunch of stuff. But in the black family, 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:46.200 in the black community, it has always been very clear 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.160 that when you show up with food, you don't come 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:50.919 to a house to feed you. You don't come to 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.800 the house with food just for yourself and not make 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:56.040 sure that everyone else eats. And I think as a man, 0:21:56.200 --> 0:22:00.560 as a father, um, if I personally believe that if 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.119 you come to bring food for your child, you should 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:05.879 bring it for all, or you should take your child 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.080 out of the house, take them on the little trip 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.159 to McDonald's, do what you're gonna do, and bring your 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:12.960 child back, but never let your child eat what other 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:17.480 children are not. And I'm pretty much I don't have 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.200 any real disagreement with what you're saying, because I would 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.520 never do me personally, I would never do it. But 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:29.840 my only issue with the conversation was the word obligation. Right. 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:36.399 In the world, obligation is something it's difficult for a 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:38.440 lot of people, right, because a lot of men be like, yeah, 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:40.680 I'll do it, but I'm not obligated. It's like you're 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.480 helping somebody's Like, if I have enough money to help 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.960 my friend, right, people, your friend will called you right 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.199 and feel out of yod. You got money, why you 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:52.760 don't give me to pay my rent? You know you're 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:54.760 my friend. You've got money, you you you should be 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:56.800 able to give it to me. You should make sure 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.440 I'm good. You should make sure I'm doing this. It's 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:03.240 a lettable entitlement, right. The word obligation means that somebody 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:07.439 else is entitled to something that you have, right. And 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:12.440 in my in my opinion, if I didn't make these children, right, 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.800 you're not entitled to anything for me. Right. What I 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:18.960 what I do for those children is at the kindness 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:22.080 of my heart, because I'm a man of a certain caliber, 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.200 and the reality is every man is not of that caliber. 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:27.879 And if you decide that you're dealing with men that 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:30.359 I'm not of that caliber, and you have expectations of 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:34.280 them that is beyond the caliber of that individual. Whose 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:37.199 fault is that at that point, right, Whose fault is 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:40.000 that there's a bunch of friends, like I see a 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:42.640 bunch of famous people, rich people all the time talk 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:45.680 about how their family feel like they obligated to pay 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:48.840