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Speaker 1: Get it off your chests. I just don't understand about

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Speaker 1: Now do my kids believe in Santa? Yes, they do,

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Speaker 1: absolutely positively. Well, what's the benefits it? I love that

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Megan, Good morning. What are the benefits of

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Speaker 1: thought it was horrible as a financial thing for you

421
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Speaker 1: if you have been in the financial thing. For everybody,

422
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,959
Speaker 1: it's a believing thing. They got him, all right, Well, listen,

423
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,639
Speaker 1: all you poor kids out there. I want y'all to

424
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Speaker 1: believe that y'all gonna get that Xbox this Christmas, and

425
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: when you don't get it, I want y'all to still

426
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 1: believe by sitting in front of a TV if you

427
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 1: got one, playing imaginary Xbox imaginary call of duty. Bun's

428
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,680
Speaker 1: your little kids like this point in the TV what

429
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,360
Speaker 1: they fingered? Stop you, man, It's crue to teach kids

430
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,880
Speaker 1: about Santa Claus if you can't afford to be Santa,

431
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,959
Speaker 1: and you got this kid expecting all this stuff on

432
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Speaker 1: this list, knowing you can't afford it, but you're still

433
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,880
Speaker 1: telling them about Santa. You are checking your kids up

434
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,360
Speaker 1: for failure and you're doing them a grave dis service.

435
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 1: That'd be good. I believe in Santa. I'm doing okay.

436
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: How do you tell a little poor kid that they

437
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: didn't get what they want on they list? For this

438
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 1: little boy sitting right next to them in class got

439
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 1: everything you wanted just because his parents doing a little

440
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 1: bit better in life. How? How that's not fair? Life?

441
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 1: Stop fair? You know? Well, you know, I bet you did.

442
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 1: It's a black Sand, it's a white Santa. If the

443
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Speaker 1: white Sander bring you everything you want, black Sand always

444
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: let you down. The black Santa looks like your daddy

445
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Speaker 1: looking at the bit. All right, we got more all

446
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Speaker 1: coming up next with a breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club Morning.

447
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne, the guy we

448
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: are the breakfast club. We got a special guests in

449
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 1: the buildings. Indeed, Bishop the Drip Jakes, I'm gonna tell

450
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 1: you something. There's nobody I would rather talk to this

451
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 1: morning other than you. Thank you, like like like hearts

452
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: are heavy? You know why the tragic acts accident that

453
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,639
Speaker 1: happened to mister Kobe Bryant, his daughter and all the

454
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: other folks on the plane. Hell, how do you make

455
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: the helicopter? How do you make sense of that? Like?

456
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Speaker 1: How could that have been God's plan? You don't make

457
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Speaker 1: sense of it. You endure it, you survive it, you grieve,

458
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Speaker 1: you go through the process. I think where we get

459
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Speaker 1: in trouble it's when we try to explain and understand

460
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,120
Speaker 1: things that are unexplainable. Right now, we got to survive

461
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 1: it because our whole nation has taken a blow. The

462
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Speaker 1: family and particular sports fans, other athletes are are grieving

463
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Speaker 1: right now. And I think that to try to explain

464
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 1: something like you know more than you know, we don't know.

465
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: They're still investigating what happened, whether it's human error or

466
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: whether it was the weather or the climate, all of

467
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: those play a factor, and that we look for somebody

468
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Speaker 1: to blame. How could God allow that to happen? Or

469
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 1: this or that or the other? But right now, tragic

470
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: things happen in life every day. But this is a

471
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Speaker 1: person that we knew and loved and a part of

472
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Speaker 1: our community. It's okay to be sad, It's okay to grieve,

473
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Speaker 1: It's okay to go through those range of emotions anger

474
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 1: and being upset and what have you. But at the

475
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Speaker 1: end of the day, we're in a survival mode right now. Now,

476
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Speaker 1: what do you tell somebody who's on a fence with

477
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Speaker 1: religion and believing and they see something like this and

478
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Speaker 1: they say, wow, you know, he had a thirteen year

479
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Speaker 1: old that died, and there was other tweens on that

480
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: plane that died. What do you tell that person for

481
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Speaker 1: faith and how they can continue to believe? Yeah, I

482
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 1: think it is your faith that gets you through those

483
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: unexplainable moments. And I think you'll have to realize it's

484
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: terrible and as tragic as it was. We're grateful his

485
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Speaker 1: wife wasn't on board. We're grateful the whole family wasn't

486
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Speaker 1: on board. I look for things that are positive in

487
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Speaker 1: the midst of the pain. Not denying the pain, but

488
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Speaker 1: I look for things that are positive. As for trying

489
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Speaker 1: to get somebody to believe who doesn't believe you, really,

490
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Speaker 1: you really can't do that because God can't be explaining.

491
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Speaker 1: He must be revealed and you have to have an

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Speaker 1: open heart to allow that to happen in your life. Yeah,

493
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Speaker 1: and if you believe God does everything for a reason,

494
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Speaker 1: you can't only believe that when the positive things happen, right, absolutely,

495
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: because many times the positive things come out of the

496
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Speaker 1: most horrific things in our lives. I mean, you look

497
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Speaker 1: at your own life. Sometimes the worst tragedies brought you

498
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Speaker 1: into an awareness or sensibility over years that if this

499
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Speaker 1: hadn't happened, that hadn't happened, Time will judge the validity

500
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Speaker 1: of the situation. Right now, we have to endure, and

501
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: you still have to lift up the family members of

502
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Speaker 1: who have lost somebody right now, and the daughters and

503
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Speaker 1: his wife and all the family members of the other

504
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: people who are on the helicopter too, and they lost

505
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Speaker 1: somebody completely different from who we know. When you're famous,

506
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 1: people know you from what you do, but your family

507
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: knows you from who you are, and it's a much

508
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: deeper loss. It's a it's a greater kind of pain,

509
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Speaker 1: and it's very difficult to get through. I listen to

510
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Speaker 1: a sermon you gave on us at Timber twenty second

511
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Speaker 1: title keep it Moving, and it almost seems like keeping

512
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Speaker 1: it moving after death seems insensitive. So how do you

513
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: keep it moving? You have to keep it moving because

514
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: life keeps moving, because bills keep moving, because illnesses keep moving,

515
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: threats keep moving, problems don't stop because you're in pain,

516
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: and so sometimes the therapy is in keeping it moving.

517
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Speaker 1: But of course when you're the family, you have to

518
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Speaker 1: shut down for a minute and breathe and recalibrate. And

519
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: it may be over the next two years or twenty

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Speaker 1: years that you feel that pain. My mother died in

521
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Speaker 1: ninety nine, and if I think about it hard now,

522
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: I'll get emotional. I mean because and I don't even

523
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Speaker 1: want that to go away. I don't even want that

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Speaker 1: to go away. Because sometimes the sadness validates the value

525
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Speaker 1: of what you lost. Explain that a little more. With

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Speaker 1: the sadness, the sadness, the greater the sadness, it's an

527
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 1: indication that the greater the love. Some people don't feel

528
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: sadness because they don't feel love. Then if you're a

529
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 1: great lover. You have great pain when people leave your life,

530
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: and to the degree that we miss and we feel

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Speaker 1: that pain, and that pain in many ways is a

532
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Speaker 1: tribute to the significance of that individual in your life.

533
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Speaker 1: Are there times that you question your own faith? And

534
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Speaker 1: is that a common thing for people to do, to

535
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Speaker 1: just question. I used to answer that question and say no,

536
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 1: and then I went through something in said you, and

537
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: I have to say yes. I have gone through those

538
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,479
Speaker 1: moments where I was in grief and wondered, you know,

539
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: why did you allow this to happen. I was a

540
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: little bit angry with God. I healed, I got over it,

541
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: I was okay. But I have had those moments of challenge.

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Speaker 1: We have to remember that faith does not mean the

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00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: absence of doubt. Faith and doubt cohabitated in the same space.

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Speaker 1: And to be completely honest about it, that faith is

545
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: something we believe, but what we like to do is no,

546
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: and you cannot know. You have to believed. That's the

547
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,199
Speaker 1: whole premise of being a believer is to believe that

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Speaker 1: which you cannot see. And you have to do that

549
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: in the presence of voices of doubt who are telling

550
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: you it's not worth it. It's just like going to work.

551
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't want to go, but there's another voice

552
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: says you got to go, and you're conflicted, and yet

553
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: you keep it moving. And I think a lot of

554
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: times people are trying to get out of the conflict.

555
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 1: But the conflict is a part of life, and we're

556
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: all conflicted from time to time, and yet we find

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00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: a way to keep it moving. That's right. There was

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Speaker 1: a time you said you thought about leaving the ministry. Yes,

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00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: I've absolutely been there and went through when I first

560
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: got in, especially national International ministry. All the things that

561
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: come along with that are hard to manage, notoriety, interviews, bloggers,

562
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: or lastly reports. Mine was the Washington Post article and

563
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: I wasn't used to that, and I come from West Virginia.

564
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: I'm a country boy, and I thought, I don't I

565
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: didn't sign up for this. I don't need that. But

566
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: the reality is this one woman came into a book

567
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: signing and changed my life. She had just gotten out

568
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: the hospital. She'd had a tubal pregnancy and the baby

569
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: was dead and she was living with a dead body

570
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: body inside of her, so it almost killed her. She

571
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: was very weak. She got out of the hospital against

572
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: the doctor's request and came to me as if she

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00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: knew what I was thinking, and said, it's for us

574
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: that you do it, it's not for them. And when

575
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: you go through moments of challenge and pain, you have

576
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: to find purpose, and sometimes you forget why you do

577
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: what you do and why you must endure or what

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Speaker 1: you endure it. And she she moved me like in

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00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: a major way. If it wasn't for that woman coming

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00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: in that day and talking to me, I don't know

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00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: that I would have been in ministry. Now we'll do.

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00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: The righteous always have to suffer. Everybody sufferers. Everybody sufferers.

583
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: The emblem of Christianity is across. That's a big warning

584
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: that if God's spirit not his son, He's not going

585
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: to you. Everybody goes through suffering, no matter how rich

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00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: ye are, no matter how poor year are, no matter

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Speaker 1: how famous you are, no matter whether you're homeless or

588
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: living in a mansion. We were all born and we

589
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: are all going to die. Yeah, death is not discriminated

590
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: at all. It does not discriminated. Would you want to know,

591
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: because that's what we were talking about that this morning.

592
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Speaker 1: I was saying that it's yesterday morning. It was the

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Speaker 1: unexpectedness of death. I think that would you would you

594
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Speaker 1: want to know? No? I wouldn't want to know. No.

595
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to know. Some people feel differently about it,

596
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't want to know. I wanted to surprise me.

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00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to live waiting on a date to leave.

598
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: I want to live every day to the fullest, not

599
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: with the cloud hanging over my head about a date

600
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: that could be twenty years off, for thirty years off,

601
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: and then to adjust my life to dying. I'd rather

602
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: build my life around living and let death find me

603
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: whenever it does. All right, we got more with Bishop

604
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Speaker 1: td Jakes. When we come back, don't move. It's the

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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, Go Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy angela

606
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Speaker 1: Ye Charlomne the god we all the Breakfast Club was

607
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: still kicking it with Bishop td Jakes. What are your

608
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: feelings towards suicide? Because you hear so many different things

609
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: with suicide. If you're suicide, you'll never make it to heaven.

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00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: If you're suicide, God to look at you. What are

611
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: your thoughts on suicide or so many kids are the

612
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: first thing that popped into my mind when you said

613
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: that it's not whether you go to heaven or not.

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00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: I think we should work harder to stop suicide. I

615
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: think that suicide is epidemic, particularly Amongst African American young people,

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00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: in a way that's reprehensible. One of the reasons that

617
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: I started the foundation that we're going to talk about

618
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: is because of mental health. And mental health is a

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Speaker 1: huge issue in our community. And I think you have

620
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: to understand that a lot of people who take their life,

621
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: they really didn't take their life. The sickness did. So

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00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: the person who we say committed suicide is as much

623
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: a victim as if they were a victim of a homicide.

624
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: Because if you have emotional mental health issues, it affects

625
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: your decisions and your judgment and your view of life.

626
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: So to judge that who, I'm not God, so where

627
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: they spend eternity? You, I'm not God. But I do

628
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: think that the person is a victim, and I would

629
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,959
Speaker 1: think that if you're a victim, we just believe that

630
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: they're in a better place. You wanted the first. You know,

631
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: people are the cloth that actually embraced you know, therapy

632
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: and you know, telling people to go out then you know,

633
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: get help for them. Mental health because a lot of

634
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: times we tell a lot of people take it to

635
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: the church, just pray about just pray about it, and

636
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: we don't treat it like it's a sickness. We treat

637
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: it like it's a spiritual issue and it's a health issue.

638
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: And I think you'll have to differentiate one from another. Sure,

639
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: you're going to pray, but you also do everything you

640
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: can do to be at the best that you can be.

641
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: And I do think that prayers are beauty, but it

642
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: is not enough for a lot of people who have

643
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: serious trauma that they've endured and they need to be

644
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: able to talk, they need to be able to heal,

645
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: and sometimes they have chemical imbalances. It causes them to

646
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: be where they are. I got to teach her that says,

647
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: I go to therapy and I pray, absolutely, do it all. Absolutely,

648
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: I take blood pressure medicry to pray over it every day.

649
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: Pray it works, and let it works. Jesus, you are

650
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: not planning to launch on online Jake's Divinity School That yeah, Yeah,

651
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: it has launched. It's up and running. It's everything that

652
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: I'm doing now is about training the next generations. It's

653
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: empowering them to accomplish their dreams to reach their goals.

654
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm leveraging my relationships and academics, and I'm levering my

655
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: relationships with corporate America to create a pipeline because a

656
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,719
Speaker 1: lot of us, the only pipeline we have to the

657
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: world we want to be is the one we see

658
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: on TV. But you'll never watch TV long enough to

659
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: get there. So we have to stop watching our dreams

660
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: and start creating a pathway where we can facilitate our dreams.

661
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: I see more and more young people coming to church.

662
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: Now we see that more or is it slowing down

663
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: a little bit? You know, that's a that's a great question.

664
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: I think it varies from church to church and from

665
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: region to region. I see a lot of young people

666
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: who are really interested in faith. Many of them are

667
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: coming to church. My demos are swinging younger and younger.

668
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: Fifty percent of my church it's millennials. So I'm seeing

669
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: a huge interest in young people coming to church. But

670
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: I also am seeing a deterioration of attendance because a

671
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: lot of young people yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And

672
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: you want to watch what you want to watch it.

673
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: So we stream twenty four hours a day. We scream

674
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: all week long because young people stay up at night

675
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: and I often sleep late in the morning. Nothing like

676
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: what doing your lundry, watching Bishop TV see what I'm saying,

677
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: or working out in the gym, Yeah, but I do.

678
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 1: I mean I ride in the morning. I put one

679
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: of your stormers on. Whether this from YouTube or was

680
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: it the podcast? That's how I consume it. But I've

681
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: been to part of house as well. Yes, your head,

682
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: there's nothing like being a part of house. It's different.

683
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: It is different being there from watching it on TV.

684
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: You can get a perception on TV. But I think

685
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: when I was here before, I talked about the difference

686
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: between a picture and an ultrasound. When you actually go

687
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: in it, you see it from a whole different perspective

688
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: than when you're avoid your own louse. I feel like

689
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: a college basketball game, I'm saying. It had that kind

690
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: of energy, like it feels like a college basketball game.

691
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: Any impact from Kanye doing what he's been doing with

692
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: his Sunday services, you know something, I'm thrill anybody who's

693
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: out there who's doing something positive to help change the world,

694
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled about it. I just hope that while he's

695
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: busy doing that that somebody's taking care of him, because

696
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 1: the problem with being talented and being gifted and being

697
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: good in intention, and sometimes people are so excited about

698
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: your gift that they take your gift and leave you behind.

699
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: And I think it's very very important for him in

700
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: order to remain stable and remain functional, that he's not

701
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: so busy giving to us that nobody's giving to him.

702
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: But I've seen the music. The music is hot. I've

703
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: seen his performances. I think it's absolutely wonderful. But I

704
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: want somebody There's a scripture in the Bible says no

705
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: man cared for my soul. I want us to care

706
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: for his soul as much as we care for his music.

707
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: Would hold I would definitely consider doing something like that.

708
00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: My focus, however, is everybody's hosting him, who's pastoring him. Yeah,

709
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying. And sometimes I don't want

710
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: to be seen as a gig. I don't want to

711
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: be seen as an opportunity. I want to be an

712
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: year sometimes for people who don't have anybody to talk to.

713
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: So I don't want to be in the crowd that

714
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 1: reaching after him, trying to snatch his gift. I want

715
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: to be the guy who's sitting over in the corner saying, hey,

716
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: are you okay? How are you balanced? How are you emotionally?

717
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: How are you mentally? Because we are seeing too many

718
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: of our artists drift away, be killed, commit suicide. Nobody

719
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: was investing into that mental right, well right, and you

720
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: need somebody around you who doesn't just want you for

721
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: what you do, to say are you okay? Think of

722
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: the culture shock it is to go from being in

723
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: the hood one moment to being a celebrity next moment,

724
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: with no training, no preparation, no therapy, and all of

725
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: a sudden, you step into this world and you can't

726
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: get out. Once you're famous, you can never be anonymous.

727
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: So your success can become your prison. And so if

728
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: you're going to realize that, and you're going to recognize that,

729
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: we have to in our community have to be slow

730
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: to join the bandwagon of stoning people who got into trouble.

731
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: We have to be more on the side of the

732
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: ambulance who rushes to the scene of the crime to

733
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: see what we can do, because we are hurting too.

734
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: We know that you are hurting, and we know how

735
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: to speak the kind of language to get you back

736
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: up one. I like to reduce people to their mistakes

737
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: a lot of time, absolutely, absolutely, while we make our own.

738
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: And so we're all trying to figure out life. In

739
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: the moment you figure it out, it changes. You go

740
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: through stages at different ages, and different ages bring on

741
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: different challenges, and nobody gets it right every turn, because

742
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: every turn is a new experience and you're back to

743
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: one again and you're learning again. As soon as you

744
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: get used to having little kids, they're not little kids.

745
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: As soon as you get used to having teenagers, they've

746
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: left the house. And everything keeps changing on us all

747
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: the time. So you never get to be a master

748
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: at your life because of courses keep changing. You know,

749
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: a ball winning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne

750
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: the God. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking

751
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: it with Bishop TD Jakes. When young people come to church,

752
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: what are they looking for? You know, when my grandmother

753
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: went to church, you wanted to hope, She wanted to

754
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: make sure that her family was okay, and she had

755
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: an opportunity. So what are people coming to church for now?

756
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: Because it's different now my kids are online. They look

757
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 1: for certain things they have more questions and require more answers.

758
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 1: So what are people looking for now when they come

759
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: to church? You know, I think it varies from person

760
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: to person. I think hope has a factor degree and

761
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: it like we're bleeding right now, we're talking about Kobe

762
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 1: right now. It reminds us of how the brevity of life.

763
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: It reminds us that we don't take time for ourselves.

764
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: It reminds us that there is a life after this life.

765
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: And so people start to think about faith differently. But

766
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: I also think that people come to the Black Church

767
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: differently than they do for other people who come to church.

768
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: They look for our leaders to be involved in the

769
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: community in some way. They look for our levels of

770
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: quantifiable results. How does this help me right now? In

771
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: the here and now, not the sweet by and by inspiration?

772
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: The inspiration. And there's one other thing I want to

773
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: bring up. They call these people to come to church.

774
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: If you come to church consistently, church becomes a family.

775
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: And for many of us, that's something we didn't have.

776
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: Right I learned sometimes it's not so much about pastoring

777
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: our young man, it's about fathering them. I got a

778
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: few more questions. How long can you go without tipping

779
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: the water. Even when I watch you sermons, never been

780
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: answer that question. Incidentally, I don't know. I can go

781
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: a pretty good way. I don't think to go for

782
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: the water. Yeah, when I get to speaking or teaching,

783
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: the only thing I'm thinking about is what I'm doing.

784
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: We had a discussion the other day about when you

785
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: go in the confessional, right if they have a responsibility

786
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: when say, someone commits a crime and they go and

787
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: confess that. Now, if someone comes to you and they

788
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: does something, and they've done something illegal and they tell

789
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: you that, is that something that you feel a responsibility

790
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: to report to the authorities or is that something that

791
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: becomes this was a confidential conversation. Well, you have the

792
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: same kind of privilege, said an attorney does when somebody

793
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 1: comes and discloses something to you. And that's important because

794
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: nobody's going to come talk to you about something if

795
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: they feel like they're going to get reported. There are

796
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: some exceptions to that. However, when it comes to child abuse,

797
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: you are legally required that if you know it, you

798
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: absolutely have to report it. There are other issues that

799
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: are kind of on the borderline where you have to

800
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: use your best judgment, but it has to be serious

801
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: for you to violate the confidential learder, Like I said,

802
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: if I came in to you sad, I'm gonna shoot

803
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,839
Speaker 1: Charlamagne tomorrow. That's serious. And the very fact, the very

804
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: God wouldn't like that exactly, the very fact that it's

805
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 1: that it is, and I'm going to I have an

806
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: obligation to prevent that from But if it was already done, yeah,

807
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: then that's what and how long ago was it done?

808
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: And what can be accomplished by exposing that? It's a

809
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: judgment called Have you ever had to do that? I've

810
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: done everything well and sometimes I have claimed my privilege

811
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: as a clergyman not to testify in a trial. And

812
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: that privilege is only held up in court if it

813
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 1: is just you and me in the room. If one

814
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: other person is in the room, or if somebody else

815
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: was on the phone, it violates. I didn't lose that

816
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: privilege and that ability not to speak about the issue.

817
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: I heard you on over Super Soul Conversations to your

818
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: latest one to transform your life, and you spoke about

819
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: how to use transformational thinking and moving beyond your limiting belief?

820
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: What does that look like to you? You know, everything

821
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: is about a change of mind. If I change your

822
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: economics status, but I don't change your mentality, your status

823
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: will fall back down to your mindset. Every change, weight, loss, health, changes,

824
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: whatever it is, starts in the way you think. And

825
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,439
Speaker 1: until you begin to deal with the story you tell

826
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: yourself and are willing to challenge your own truth, you

827
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: can't really help a person to move forward when they

828
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: hold to their old story. Well what about when you're

829
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: not ready for that transformation? Because I was thinking this morning,

830
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: how can transformational thinking help you in matters of grief?

831
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: Because when you look at a situation like you know,

832
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: the Brian family, her whole life has been transformed and

833
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: she has to change the way she thinks moving forward.

834
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: But she didn't ask for that. No, you didn't ask

835
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: for it. Nobody wants that sort of thing to happen,

836
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,240
Speaker 1: and it takes time. You don't change your mind overnight

837
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: about anything, whether it's a tragedy or whether it's a

838
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: decision to go back to school. They're the feeling of misplacement.

839
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: Anytime there's a change, a big change in your life,

840
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 1: and give yourself time to adapt to that change and

841
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: accept that change and then figure out who am I now?

842
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: Without Kobe in my life? Who am I now? Without

843
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: this job? You can have a new year all you

844
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: want to, but until you have a new youth, having

845
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: a new year doesn't matter. I want to tell you too,

846
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: I finally got the worthy man. Really. It hit me

847
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: over the holidays, but I honestly just felt worthy of existing.

848
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: It really did. Yeah, I remember that conversation we had.

849
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: Getting to worthy is difficult when you have been abused

850
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: or traumatized, or be a little degraded, or have some

851
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: issues in your past where you and if you don't

852
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: get to worthy, you self sabotage. You can self sabotage

853
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: opportunities because you say you want them, but then you

854
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 1: sabotage them because you really don't feel worthy of them.

855
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: The hardest thing in the world is to love somebody

856
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: who doesn't love themselves, because they will reject your love.

857
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 1: They'll cancel it out every time because they don't feel

858
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: worthy of being loved. I don't believe that you could

859
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: love me because I don't love me, so how could

860
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: you love me? And that happens more times than not

861
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: in relationships, in life and in business. And when I

862
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: challenge you to get to worthy, it is getting to

863
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,720
Speaker 1: the place that you accept the good things that God

864
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: has done in your life and settling as them being

865
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: your reality rather than living the trauma of where you

866
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: came from. Absolutely, well, we appreciate you for joining us

867
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: this morning. Yeah, and he's got the International Leadership Summit

868
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: in Charlotte April thirty of the May second. Yeah, and

869
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna invite you right on the hear pulling up.

870
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,959
Speaker 1: I will really, man, I'm pulling up already, had pretty

871
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 1: you don't make me crowd to you show. I'm seriously

872
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: enough if you would come, that would mean everything to

873
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: me because when I'm this is the most amazing event

874
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: I'm bringing together. I've got Denzel Washington coming, I've got

875
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry coming. I've got Dave Stewart coming. Dave Stewart,

876
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: it's one of thirteen black billionaires in the world and

877
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: he's also a believer, and he's going to be coming.

878
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna be having Christian speakers, pastors that are going

879
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: to be speaking. We've got women who are CEOs and

880
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: executives that are going to be mentoring the young women

881
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: at The Leadership Conference is going to be in Charlotte

882
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,919
Speaker 1: at April twenty eighth through the thirty first, and it's

883
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: just a conglomerate of a lot of different things, because

884
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 1: I don't want to just be inspirational and not transformational,

885
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: because if I keep inspiring you and it doesn't happen,

886
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: then you get tired of hearing that he's gonna be

887
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: all right. So I want to put the elements in

888
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: the room that cause us that it's gonna be all

889
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: right to happen in your life. People who pull themselves up,

890
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 1: people who fought back, people who want when you know better,

891
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: you do better. And that's why I'm having the leadership conference.

892
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: But there the mental health and I'm putting myself on it.

893
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: Come right on, OK, I gotta see what day because

894
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: you know, you know so many people heard you and

895
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: I talk about when you did your book and the

896
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: power of your booking, the power of your story. It

897
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: helped a lot of other people to begin to begin

898
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: to be able to talk. You're opening your mouth to

899
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: speak about your life and about your childhood. Became a

900
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: model for many other black men who don't talk enough.

901
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: So I take you very seriously in that spot. I

902
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: admire you very greatly for what you're doing, and having

903
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: the boldness to speak about that, and I look forward

904
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: to doing a lot of things with you that I

905
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: think it's very important. My brother expected Rachel, it's Bishop

906
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: TD Jakes. Thank you for joining us again. It's been

907
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: a real pleasure. Thanks for having me. It's the breakfast Club.

908
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: Go morning. It's don't be a dusty because right now

909
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:42,479
Speaker 1: you want some. It's time for Donkey of the day.

910
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: So if we ever feel I need to be a

911
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: donk man heed with the heat. Did she get any day? Please? Do?

912
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: I had become Donkey of the days, bitching donk. You

913
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: today called to Mega church pastor and tele evangelist Paula

914
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: White king Eve. In the history of life has a

915
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 1: last name been more appropriate for a human. See the

916
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: mayonnaise is heavy on this pale skin sandwich. Okay, I

917
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: mean Paula White Cane is a human jar of helmets

918
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: in the flesh. I'm talking the thickest of cold sauces.

919
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: I mean you can't get more of a mix of oil, egg,

920
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: yolk and an acid either vinegarl lemon juice. Why Charlomagne,

921
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: why do you refer to some white people as mannaise

922
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: flavored mammals? Talk to me. Well, it's just simply because

923
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,479
Speaker 1: too much Manna's ruins every dish. You need just enough

924
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: for tuna, just enough for potato salad. Even if you

925
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: want to put it on a sandwich, just put a

926
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: little bit, one little light layer, Okay, keep it simple.

927
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: Too much mayonnaise than anything ruins the dish, and so

928
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: is the same with whiteness. Listen, white people, my name

929
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: is Charlomagne the God Lana McKelvey. I'm going to tell

930
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: you things that nobody else will tell you. Okay, I

931
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,439
Speaker 1: am your people. Everyone knows when you add too much

932
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: whiteness to something, it ruins it. Okay. That's why everybody

933
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: wants diversity, because if you allow too many white people

934
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: to come together and make decisions for the whole of us,

935
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: it will be a lot of people left with a

936
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: bad taste in their mouth aka too much goddamn an.

937
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: So it's not lost on me that Paula's name is

938
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Speaker 1: Paula White Kane. Kane, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve,

939
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: who killed his brother Abel because he was jealous that

940
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: God liked Abel's offering more than his own. Paula White Kane,

941
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: your name just spells out trouble. White Kane like cocaine.

942
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: What do we call white cocaine? That white girl? Do

943
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: we have to play a game a guess what race

944
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 1: it is? To tell you what Paula White Kane is.

945
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: Have you figured it out already? Okay, now let's proceed.

946
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 1: Paula White Kane delivered a pryance service which was screamed

947
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: on Facebook Live. And what was her prayer about? There

948
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: was an effort to secure one term impeached president, the

949
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: celebrity in chief, Donald J. Trump's reelection. You can't make

950
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff up. God is the best Noah

951
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: and planner and apparently comedy scriptwriter. Would you like to

952
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: hear Paula White Kane calling on the African ancestor to

953
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: deliver Donald Trump a second term in the White House.

954
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 1: Let's go. Angels are being dispatched right now, Hamanda. Her

955
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 1: angels have even depended, dispatched from Africa, right now, Africa,

956
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: right now, Africa, right now, from Africa, right now, They're

957
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: coming here in the name of Jesus, from South America.

958
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: They're coming here. Angelic reinforcement, Angelic reinforcement, angelic reinforcement. I

959
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:27,280
Speaker 1: feel the need to remind y'all. Right, now that Satan

960
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: has a kingdom too, I also feel the need to

961
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: remind y'all I don't like the waste God's time. I

962
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: pray for the basics, good physical and mental health, divine

963
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: protection of myself and those I love, and constant discernment.

964
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,959
Speaker 1: That's all I want, Okay, everything else I can handle.

965
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: And even when things aren't going my way, I look

966
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: for the lesson what God is attempting to show me. Okay,

967
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: not Paula White king. She thinks she can go caring

968
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: on God. Okay, she thinks going caring on God is

969
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: gonna get Trump in the White House. God is not

970
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: the police, Paula, He's the God. Don't have to listen

971
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,720
Speaker 1: to you now, tell listen to wait a minute, one second.

972
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: Is there more to the prayer? Wait? Is there more

973
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: to the actual prayer, not the prayer with the sauce

974
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: on it? Is there more to the actual prayer? Oh

975
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: that ye strike and strike and strike and strike until

976
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: you have victory for every enemy that is aligned that

977
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: can shoot. Let there be that we would strike the

978
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: ground for you will give us victory. God, I hear

979
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: a sound of abundance of rain. I hear a sound

980
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,240
Speaker 1: of victory. I hear a sound of shouting and singing.

981
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: I hear a sound of victory the Lord because it

982
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: is done now, I'm telling you, right now, God, Jesus,

983
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, and Beyonce all think that prayer to

984
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: the spam fold is okay. There's a virus attached to

985
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 1: that prayer, and the virus is called Mayo nineteen. No

986
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 1: math can prevent the transmission of it, and it's literally

987
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: killed millions. There's only one way to keep Mayo nineteen

988
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: from effecting us all, and that's by adding that sauce.

989
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: He as a sauce that black people have that makes

990
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,399
Speaker 1: everything better. Listen to what happens when we add some

991
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: sauce the paula white tongue. Just listen. That's that sauce

992
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: dropping clues b for that black people's sauce. Okay, See,

993
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 1: it's the sauce that black people have that makes the

994
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: canes of the world end be those of us who

995
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 1: are able. Do you hear me? I said? The canes

996
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: of the world are jealous and envy those of us

997
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: who are able to do the things they are not,

998
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: so much so they would rather kill their black brothers

999
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: and sisters by praying to re elect someone who is

1000
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: a direct threat to our very lives. Now, Paula King

1001
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: White understands the sauce. Okay, don't think she doesn't. Because

1002
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 1: Miss Billy Graham Cracker called on the ancestors from Africa

1003
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: to helped Trump. She called on the spirits from Africa

1004
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: and South America to helped. But what she doesn't understand

1005
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: is the spirits I've already intervened. See, there is a message,

1006
00:51:56,560 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: and it signs all around us. Okay, sending the Kamala

1007
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: Harris and Joe Biden. That's how I worried, because I

1008
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:03,919
Speaker 1: voted for sending to Harris, not Joe Biden, but sending

1009
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. It looks like they're

1010
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: gonna flip George. You know why because there is a

1011
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: spirit who is buried in Atlanta, who called Atlanta home,

1012
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: who is already causing good trouble up in heaven, and

1013
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,760
Speaker 1: he has reminded us of the power of the vote,

1014
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 1: even from the grave. Listen to your ancestor mind. Dear friends,

1015
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: your vote is precious, all most sacred. It is the

1016
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: most powerful, non violun tool we have to create a

1017
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: more perfect union. It's not too long ago people stood

1018
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: in unmovable lines. They had to pass a so called

1019
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: literacy tests. He a poll tax. On one occasion, a

1020
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: man was asked to cut the number above us in

1021
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: a law. So on another occasion, one was asked to

1022
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: cut the jelly beans on a job, all to keep

1023
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: down from casting that ballot. Today, it is unbelievable that

1024
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: there are Republican officials are trying I ain't to stop

1025
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 1: some people from voting. Listen, let'sen dropping the clues bombs.

1026
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: John Lewis, you made your ancest to the proud everybody

1027
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 1: who went out there and voted in massive numbers. And listen,

1028
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: it doesn't stop there. He senda to Kamala Harris and

1029
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Looks like they're gonna flip Arizona too, to

1030
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: adopt a home of an American patriot, a man who

1031
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: you said, who you said, it's not a war hero.

1032
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: You said he's not a war hero because he was captured.

1033
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: You said, I like people who weren't captured. What that

1034
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 1: man has a message to you and all your followers.

1035
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: If you don't think this is God talking to you

1036
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 1: right now, Paula Kain White and President Donald Trump. Then

1037
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,760
Speaker 1: you don't know God. Listen, American people did their civic

1038
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: duty and chose a new president. I congratulate the President elect,

1039
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: and I will do all in my power to help

1040
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: him lead us through the many challenges confronting our nation.

1041
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: And I know there are many Americans who were disappointed

1042
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: on election night. The better America is one in which

1043
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 1: we never forget that whatever our differences, we're all America.

1044
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: We must respect our common citizenship by treating each other

1045
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: with respect. That's why I've been so disturbed by reports

1046
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:13,280
Speaker 1: of increased acts of intimidation, harassment, and even violence directed

1047
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: at minority, racial, and religious groups in the aftermath of

1048
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: this election. Sound like he's speaking from that grave. Look here,

1049
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: miss Bishop td Snowflake, and I want you to remember this.

1050
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: When God decided to bless you, God will cause situations

1051
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: to come together in your favor. No matter what does

1052
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,760
Speaker 1: this try to do, God in voters have already blessed

1053
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: this year's election. Things have clearly come together in the

1054
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: favor of the Harris Biden ticket, and there's nothing Miss

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Swagglers can do about it. Please let Chelsea Handler

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Speaker 1: give Paula Kane White the biggest he haw heehaw heehaw.

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Speaker 1: That is way too much, dan Manna Paula White King,

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Speaker 1: Kane White, Paula White King something. It's the solid thing

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Speaker 1: at all. Right, Well, thank you for that. Do okay today? Yes, man,

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Speaker 1: keep it like. We have more coming up next. It's

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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club. You're looking for the best,

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Speaker 1: best of the best. The Breakfast Club is back with

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Speaker 1: another memorable interview. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Angela Yee,

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Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have

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Speaker 1: a special guest in the building. Yes she went to

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Speaker 1: the other h you, but we're got a slide this morning.

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, US, Senator of California field the next President

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Speaker 1: of the United States of America. The run ms Kamala

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Speaker 1: has good boy, I am so happy and honored to

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Speaker 1: be here. You're gonna listen. Let him just Howard like

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Speaker 1: absolutely not so who beat you? N L. V. Hampton

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Speaker 1: or Howard? It was Howard? Thank you? Who has the

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Speaker 1: best homecoming in the world every year? Hampton? Howard Hampton,

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Speaker 1: who produced third Goood Marshall Howard Howard, You got a

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Speaker 1: couple of who produced the Black Panther We did you

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Speaker 1: know we did the costol you know we did the

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Speaker 1: costume black out with you. I'm gonna share the level.

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Speaker 1: I didn't go to college, but if I was, you

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Speaker 1: about to say, well, who was stealing from the financial

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Speaker 1: a department dementall got bad food over that slide? Were welcome?

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Speaker 1: Yes here, not for those who may not know. Let

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Speaker 1: us know a little about yourself. You're from the big area, right.

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Speaker 1: I was born in Oakland, okay Um, and I went

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Speaker 1: to Howard. I went out of Howard to law school

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Speaker 1: in California. I started my career in the DA's office

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Speaker 1: in Oakland, California, and then I was elected the first

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Speaker 1: black woman to be elected a district attorney in the

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Speaker 1: state of California in San Francisco. I was there for

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Speaker 1: two terms, and then I was elected Attorney General of California,

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Speaker 1: making me the first woman and the first African American

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Speaker 1: ever elected as an attorney channel. So did you grew

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Speaker 1: up an Ara the Black Panthers? Yes, the Deviny influence

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Speaker 1: on you are oh absolutely. I mean my parents, look

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Speaker 1: my sister and I joke we grew up surrounded by

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Speaker 1: a bunch of adults have spent full time marching and

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Speaker 1: shouting Wow, justice right. So they my parents actually met

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Speaker 1: when they were active in the civil rights movement. My godmother,

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Speaker 1: my aunt Mary, was one of the founders of the

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Speaker 1: Black Studies department at San Francisco State, which was the

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Speaker 1: first black studies department in the country. So they were

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Speaker 1: active and they were vocal and aking and civil rights activists.

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised you got an inside voice. Howard trains you

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Speaker 1: to do things like that. But what got you into politics?

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Speaker 1: Because you did go to Howard that's a party school,

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Speaker 1: So we figured you, really, what got you into politics?

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Speaker 1: What made you want to say this is the route

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Speaker 1: I want to go. You know, I grew up in

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Speaker 1: a unity of folks, like I said, who are marching

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Speaker 1: and shouting? And I said, you know, yes, there is

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Speaker 1: an important role to play on the outside, banging down

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Speaker 1: the door on bended knee, trying to change the systems.

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Speaker 1: But we also have to be inside the room where

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Speaker 1: the decisions are being made. And I ran for district

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Speaker 1: attorney because I wanted to be the one who was

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Speaker 1: making decisions about what we were going to do with

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Speaker 1: criminal justice policy and In fact, I wrote a book

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand and eight based on my belief

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Speaker 1: about what we need to do to reform the criminal

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Speaker 1: justice system in here and here's how I think about it.

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Speaker 1: Criminal justice policy. We have been offered a false choice,

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Speaker 1: the choice suggesting that you're either soft on crime or

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Speaker 1: you're tough on crime, instead of asking are we smart

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Speaker 1: on crime? Right? And by that I mean recognizing that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the public health model tells us if you

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Speaker 1: want to deal with a health epidemic, smartest, most effective,

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Speaker 1: and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

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Speaker 1: If you're dealing with it in the emergency room or

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Speaker 1: the prison system, it's too late and it's too expensive.

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Speaker 1: So let's be smart on crime. And that means let's

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Speaker 1: be smart in knowing that if we really want to

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Speaker 1: have public safety, let's prevent crime from happening in the

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Speaker 1: first place, which means focusing on communities that we know

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Speaker 1: need more economic support, need more pathways to economic health

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Speaker 1: and success, doing what we need to do to recognize

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Speaker 1: that there is a direct connection between public education and

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Speaker 1: public safety. So let's prioritize public education and instead of

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Speaker 1: just being only concerned about public safety because there's a

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Speaker 1: real connection, and it's actually cheaper to focus on educating

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Speaker 1: young people than it is on incarcerating whole communities of people. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the first things I saw you do

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Speaker 1: that I was extremely impressed with. If it was the

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Speaker 1: Back on Track program, that's right, what's that all about?

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Speaker 1: So Back on Track is a program that I started

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Speaker 1: years ago. I focused on the eighteenth through twenty four

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Speaker 1: year old young you know, drug sales offender. And the

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Speaker 1: reason I focused on that population is because they're just

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Speaker 1: a lot of them. And I also focused on that

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Speaker 1: population because whether we were at Hampton or Howard when

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Speaker 1: we were in college, we were eighteen through twenty four,

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Speaker 1: and we were called college kids. When you turn eighteen

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Speaker 1: and you're in the system, you're considered an adult, period,

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Speaker 1: regardless of the fact that we know that's the very

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Speaker 1: phase of life in which we have invested billions of

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Speaker 1: dollars in this world, in these places called colleges and universities,

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Speaker 1: knowing that that's the prime phase of life where you

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Speaker 1: can mold somebody to be a productive, an accomplished adult.

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Speaker 1: And so I focused on that population also understanding that

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Speaker 1: when they pick up that first offense, they will be

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Speaker 1: designated a felon for life. And so what we did

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Speaker 1: is essentially I created a program focused on them and

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Speaker 1: basically getting them job counseling. A lot of the young

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Speaker 1: men are fathers, getting them support for what they naturally

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Speaker 1: want to do, which is parent their children, but may

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Speaker 1: not have the skills or the resources. We focused on

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Speaker 1: what to do around housing and a just wrap around,

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Speaker 1: and we ended up as a result of doing that

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Speaker 1: and then when they would graduate the program dismissed their charges.

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Speaker 1: But what we also ended up doing is reducing their

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Speaker 1: likelihood of reoffending by a huge percentage. And that was

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Speaker 1: a model of what ended up later by the Justice

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Speaker 1: Department being designated as a model of innovation and law

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Speaker 1: enforcement in the country. What do we do with so

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Speaker 1: many with drugs being legalized, I should say, marijuana being

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Speaker 1: legalized in so many different states, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: these kids, like you said, are in jail for that

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Speaker 1: same legalized crime. Now we need to decriminalize marijuana. We

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Speaker 1: have a problem with the mass incarceration in our country.

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Speaker 1: And let's be clear, the war on drugs was a

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Speaker 1: failed war. It was misdirected in essence, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we're now more people are understanding when we talk about

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Speaker 1: the opioid epidemic that when you're talking about substancecies, that's

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Speaker 1: a public health matter that should not be thought of

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Speaker 1: as a criminal justice matter. And so what we need

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Speaker 1: to do is recognize that we have to get people

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Speaker 1: into treatment where that is appropriate. But as it relates

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Speaker 1: to incarcerating people well for marijuana, I think it is

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Speaker 1: long overdue that we recognize we need to change the

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Speaker 1: system absolutely. Or I want to go back to the

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Speaker 1: Oakland days for a minute, because you said the Black

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Speaker 1: Panthers had an influence on you, and it's this whole

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Speaker 1: conversation we've been having about how do we improve relations

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Speaker 1: between police and the communities, and Black Panthers were an

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Speaker 1: organization that actually policed the police. Do you think that

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Speaker 1: an organization like that could exist now in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: I think that one of the greatest advances in the

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Speaker 1: fight for civil rights has been the smartphone. Oh okay.

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Speaker 1: People would come out to me coma, what all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden is going on with all these cases of

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Speaker 1: police misconduct? What's going on? And I'd look at people

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Speaker 1: and say, you know, you sound like a colonist. You know,

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Speaker 1: are you calling him a coloni? Right? Right, right, right,

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Speaker 1: fair enow. But the point being, you know what colonists do.

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Speaker 1: They go to a place that's been existing that way

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Speaker 1: for thousands of years, and because they're seeing it for

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Speaker 1: the first time, they think they've discovered. So the great

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Speaker 1: thing about the smartphone has been that now it is

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Speaker 1: undeniable when it happens, there is evidence sometimes playing for

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Speaker 1: us in real time as we know. It is audio,

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Speaker 1: it is visual, and it is highlighting a need to

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Speaker 1: reform the criminal justice system about around recognizing that we

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Speaker 1: need to do a better job of training police officers,

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Speaker 1: around bias, around use of force, around the necessity to

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Speaker 1: de escalate a situation instead of using force as the

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Speaker 1: first option as though it is the only option. And

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Speaker 1: more people are now involved in this discussion than ever

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Speaker 1: before because it is not just us who is experiencing it.

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Speaker 1: Now everyone is experiencing it, at least in terms of

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Speaker 1: seeing it happen. And I think this is part of

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Speaker 1: what has led to the reforms that are starting to

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Speaker 1: take place, But there's still a lot more to do

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Speaker 1: on the pather is Remember, one of the biggest contributions

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Speaker 1: that the Panthers made was their breakfast program. Absolutely, they

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Speaker 1: were feeding the community and protecting the community in that way.

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Speaker 1: All right, we have more we Senator Kamala Harris, when

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Speaker 1: we come back, don't move. It's to breakfast club. Good morning, wipe.

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Speaker 1: But I don't won't never sell my soul and I

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Speaker 1: could take that and I ain't wanna know morning. Everybody

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Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We all

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Speaker 1: the breakfast club. We have Kamala Harris in the building.

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Speaker 1: But let's talk about these schools and these shootings. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's scary. Well, first of all, you know, we

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Speaker 1: have many, many communities where our six and seven year

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Speaker 1: olds are going to sleep at night here in gunfire.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely they are experiencing such trauma that is undiagnosed and untreated.

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Speaker 1: Babies of our community who have regularly attended funerals of

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Speaker 1: somebody who was killed as a result of gun violence,

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Speaker 1: having families members. It may have even happened in front

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Speaker 1: of them. So we have enough trauma in our community

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Speaker 1: that we need to deal with without expecting that our

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Speaker 1: second grader is going to now go to school and

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Speaker 1: look up in the front of the class of their

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Speaker 1: teacher and she's strapping a gun. That doesn't make any

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Speaker 1: sense when we're talking about school safety. There are things

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Speaker 1: that we need to address that include thinking about why

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01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: is this an issue? And part of it is that

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Speaker 1: we have not passed meaningful smart gun safety laws in

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Speaker 1: this country. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about how

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Speaker 1: the NRA has grabbed people by that there they and

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Speaker 1: and has has has caused people to have a lack

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Speaker 1: of courage to address the fact. Again another false choice.

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Speaker 1: I'm in favor of the Second Amendment, and I also

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01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 1: want I want smart on safety laws. Assault weapons shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be walking the streets of a civilized country. We should

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Speaker 1: have universal background checks. It makes sense. It's just practical

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Speaker 1: that you might want to know before someone can buy

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01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: a gun that they've been found by a court to

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01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 1: be mentally unstable. You just might want to know that.

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Speaker 1: That's smart about The missing ingredient to get something done

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01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:28,360
Speaker 1: is for Congress to have the courage to act. Bottom line,

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Speaker 1: And that's where I would say, Okay, so then what

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Speaker 1: can we as people who want to encourage Congress to

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Speaker 1: act do? What can we do? Let's focus on the

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen elections. Let's focus on electing people who will

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Speaker 1: have the courage and getting rid of people who don't. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, even with that said, you know, when everybody

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Speaker 1: saw the police shootings happening, Barack Obama was in office,

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Speaker 1: why didn't he have the courage to act to implement

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Speaker 1: something to where a police ye weren't so gun hole. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that it's one of his big regrets that

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Speaker 1: he was not able to get smart gun safety laws passed.

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Speaker 1: In terms of the reforms, listen, Eric Holder, who was

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Speaker 1: appointed by Barack Obama to be the US Attorney General

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Speaker 1: and the United States Department of Justice under Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: did some really good work. They started opening pattern and

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Speaker 1: practice investigations investigating various police departments around the country who

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Speaker 1: had a pattern and practice of racial discrimination and excessive force.

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Speaker 1: And you know what's going on now under this guy,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions. You've been on his ass, by the way, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And under him, they're closing those pattern and practice investigations.

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Speaker 1: Under the previous administration, there were consent decrees where there

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Speaker 1: had been a finding of misconduct. The court kicked in

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Speaker 1: and said you have to act a certain way, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna watch that. They're shutting down all of those,

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Speaker 1: they're reviving the war on drugs, they're reviving mandatory minimum sentences.

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Speaker 1: And you know, again, that's why we have got to

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Speaker 1: be vigilant at this moment in time, because we are

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Speaker 1: looking at an administration that is rolling back the clock

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Speaker 1: in a profound, profound way. Why is Jeff Sessions doing

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01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: that though? Like, is it really just uh, Donald Trump

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01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:19,560
Speaker 1: trying to erase everything Barack Obama did? Or is that

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Speaker 1: what they really really want, like they want to take

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Speaker 1: take us backwards, so to speak. Listen, I think this

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01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: has been on Jeff sessions agenda for a very long time.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget Kreta. Scott King spoke out against Jeff Sessions

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01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:35,639
Speaker 1: when he was up years and years and years ago

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Speaker 1: for an appointment. This is part of who he is.

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Speaker 1: This is his history, this is his mission. He is

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Speaker 1: silently and maybe not so silently, carrying it out right

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Speaker 1: before us. Why aren't you afraid to speak out against him?

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Speaker 1: I do speak. You're afraid because we have to speak truth, Charlemagne,

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01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: We have to speak truth. You know what, this is

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01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:03,720
Speaker 1: a moment in time that's actually requiring all of us

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01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: to check ourselves about whether we're gonna have the courage

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01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:11,880
Speaker 1: to speak and to speak truth, no matter how uncomfortable

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01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:14,720
Speaker 1: it makes some people feel, no matter how much it

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01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: may visit upon us criticism or expose us to attacks,

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01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:22,519
Speaker 1: We've got to speak truth. We've got to speak truth

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01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: about what is happening with this administration. Also because as leaders,

1309
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 1: the people know, they know, they know in their hearts,

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01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,600
Speaker 1: they know intuitively, instinctively that things are wrong, and we

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01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: need to put the label on it when we see

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Speaker 1: what it's actually happening from the inside. And so that's

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Speaker 1: part of why I do it, because I believe that

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Speaker 1: people have a right to know what their government is

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Speaker 1: doing for them and to them. And you know, come

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01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:51,280
Speaker 1: what may, in terms of any response, how do we

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01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: get our country back in order? Though it just seems

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01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: like ever since Trump came in office, it just seems

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01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 1: like it's just been an outspurt of racism going on,

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01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: and it seems like it's her our kids more than

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01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 1: anything else out there. So I travel around the country

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01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 1: and I will tell you that I'm not buying the

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Speaker 1: suggestion that we are divided as a country. And here's

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Speaker 1: why I say that. You know, when you wake up

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01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night with that thought that's

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01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 1: been weighing on you. Maybe you know some people call

1327
01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:21,760
Speaker 1: it the witching hour at three o'clock in the morning,

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01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 1: when you wake up in a close sleet with that

1329
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 1: thing that's been worrying you. It is never through the

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01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:29,920
Speaker 1: lens of the party with which you're registered to vote,

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01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: or you know, the demographic upholster put you in. And

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01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 1: for the vast majority of us, that thought has to

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01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 1: do with one of just a very few things our

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01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: personal health, the health of our children or our parents.

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01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:43,519
Speaker 1: Can I get a job, keep a job, pay the

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01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 1: bills by the end of the month. For so many

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01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:46,640
Speaker 1: of our students, can I pay off their students? Can

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01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:48,840
Speaker 1: they pay off their student loans? The vast majority of

1339
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:51,240
Speaker 1: us have so much more uncommon than what separates us.

1340
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 1: And we've got to hold on to that in this

1341
01:10:55,439 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: fight right now, and then look to twenty eighteen, frankly,

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01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 1: and the elections that are coming up in almost two

1343
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 1: hundred days as an opportunity to act. What I love

1344
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: about this moment with this administration and power is people

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01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: are acting. Look back to the Women's March, look it too,

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01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:18,639
Speaker 1: the March for our lives, the March for science because

1347
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 1: also this administration is putting forward policies that basically say

1348
01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 1: science should not be the basis of public policy, which

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01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. But people are taken to the streets in

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01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 1: a way they never have and in that way, our

1351
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 1: democracy is working. Now. We just got to take to

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01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: the streets and then walk those streets to the polling

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01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 1: place and vote. Because they used to say we couldn't vote. Legally,

1354
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,759
Speaker 1: we weren't allowed to vote. Now they say we won't.

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01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: We need to get out and vote because voting. US

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01:11:54,360 --> 01:11:57,160
Speaker 1: voting is connected to every one of the other issues.

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01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 1: US voting is connected to who's going to be in

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01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:03,639
Speaker 1: office and how they think about criminal justice policy. Who's

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01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: going to be office and pay attention to something like

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01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 1: the rate of black babies and infant mortality. Who's going

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01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:12,760
Speaker 1: to pay attention to the fact that young black men

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01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:16,320
Speaker 1: are are still at the bottom of the economic ladder

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01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:19,800
Speaker 1: in terms of opportunity, much less success in the economic health.

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Speaker 1: Who's in office is going to make a difference. All right,

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Speaker 1: we have more with Senator Kamala Harris when we come back,

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01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:28,560
Speaker 1: don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning, the Breakfast

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Speaker 1: Club A shoot and I know the fun I tell

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Speaker 1: you morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy.

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Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We have sent it a

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Speaker 1: kamala Harris, still in the building, Charlemagne, And I know,

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Speaker 1: of course you just mentioned me too in Times of

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Speaker 1: your big supporter today. But you're also a too short fan.

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01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 1: Yes I am too short, Yes, Harris, what's my favorite?

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. I'm not

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01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 1: doing that. Two shorts right from Oakland. But you can,

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01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 1: you can, you can? You can like both? Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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01:13:12,800 --> 01:13:14,800
Speaker 1: of course I love music. Now they call you the

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Speaker 1: female Barack Obama. That's what I've seen when I got on.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Now, now are you are you considering

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01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,040
Speaker 1: and do or do you see yourself possibly running for president?

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01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 1: Is that right now? I'm just focused on what's in

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01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:29,760
Speaker 1: front of me. You know, I've seen too many people

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01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 1: focus on that thing out there and they trip over

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01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:35,680
Speaker 1: the thing right in front of them. So I was

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01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:39,760
Speaker 1: just in Detroit last weekend campaigning and talking to folks

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01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: about the need to get out and vote. Um, I'll

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01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 1: be all over this, all over many states, I'm gonna

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01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 1: be in Chicago, I'm gonna be in Wisconsin, I'll be

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01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 1: in Florida, probably go to Philly. We really have to

1390
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,599
Speaker 1: turn out it. Look what happened in Alabama. Everybody should

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01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 1: really see and remember what happened just in a recent

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01:13:56,640 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 1: election where Doug Jones, a white dumb mcrat The math

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01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 1: is that a white Democrat one in the South because

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01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:11,600
Speaker 1: of black women. So our boat really matters when we

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01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:13,760
Speaker 1: get out. It was over ninety percent of black men

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Speaker 1: two week we came out of this. Yeah, and that's right,

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01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: And that's right, that's true, that's exactly right, that's exactly right.

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01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:20,960
Speaker 1: You was on the debate team in college. I was

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01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:23,280
Speaker 1: how does that help you on your line of work?

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01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: First of all, it taught you how to um, to

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01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:29,479
Speaker 1: come back from an argument. You know. It teaches you

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01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,880
Speaker 1: how to stand in front of a room of people

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01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: and express your point and then and then when your

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01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:40,599
Speaker 1: point is being attacked, to come back and respond. Um.

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01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 1: It teaches you how to think quickly, and it gives

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01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: you confidence in the fact that you can stand in

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01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:46,639
Speaker 1: front of a room of people in state a position

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01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 1: and defend it because sometimes for so many of us

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01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 1: we're the only one who is like us in a room.

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01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:56,040
Speaker 1: And when you're the only one like you in a room,

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01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,760
Speaker 1: there is a natural tendency to want to just kind

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01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 1: of blend in. But what you learn during debate, or

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01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,600
Speaker 1: what you learn at an HBCU, or if you have

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01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: the blessing of having a family or a community that

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01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 1: teaches you, um, you learn instead that when you're in

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01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: that room, you got to speak up, and you've got

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01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 1: to acquire the skills to know how to do that

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01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,200
Speaker 1: and to have the confidence to do it. You know,

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01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:25,439
Speaker 1: I mentor a lot of people, and I always tell

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01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: them your entire life, you will have many experiences where

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01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:29,760
Speaker 1: you're the only one like you in that room, the

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01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:31,720
Speaker 1: only one looks like you, the only one who's had

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01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:34,519
Speaker 1: the experiences you've had. And when you sit in that room,

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01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: you have to remember we are all in that room

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01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: with you. There was the Minangelo quote, I'm not alone

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01:15:41,120 --> 01:15:45,719
Speaker 1: because I stand with ten. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny because

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01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:47,600
Speaker 1: I put my kids in debate class because of that,

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01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: to be able to use their words to fight back

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01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: and not have to use their hands and still hurt

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01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: just the same. And you got to objectively see both

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01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:57,080
Speaker 1: sides right. And also and to your point, also, the

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01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: great thing about learning debate is that you learn there

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01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 1: are rules of debate, right, you know, because also to

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01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 1: your point, when you argue, some people would suggest that's

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01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:08,839
Speaker 1: pure emotion and that if you're getting in an argument

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01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:13,400
Speaker 1: with somebody, you're just emotional and unreasonable. What debate teaches

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01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:16,920
Speaker 1: you is no, it's actually quite civilized to stand up

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01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:19,680
Speaker 1: and disagree with someone, and there are rules about how

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01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: you do it, because that is what is done among

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01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:25,840
Speaker 1: thinking people. You do debate. I mean, you can go

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01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: back to history in different forms of debate the dozens. Yes,

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01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:32,880
Speaker 1: that doesn't tell you didn't like what they said and

1443
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:38,519
Speaker 1: you just keep it right. But that's that was debate.

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01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:41,080
Speaker 1: Your question, you know, you mentioned, of course we went

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01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: to HBCUs. How important is the HBCU because we got

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01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:46,680
Speaker 1: away from it a couple of years ago and I'm

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01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:48,600
Speaker 1: looking at a lot of the colleges and attendance and

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01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:51,640
Speaker 1: enrollment is low. So how important is HBCU to you

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01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 1: and especially black families? Let me tell you, I am

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01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 1: who I am today for two reasons because of my

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01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 1: mother and the family I was raising, and Howard University

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01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:04,880
Speaker 1: an HBCU. What you and I know when we walked

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01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:07,760
Speaker 1: onto that campus for the first time, we were surrounded

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01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: by people that look like us all everywhere. Everybody you

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01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: walk onto and I'll just speak about Howard, but I

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01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 1: know Hampton is the same. You walk onto that campus,

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01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 1: you can look over on one area and you will

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01:17:20,479 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: see a bunch of young African Americans who are students

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01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:25,800
Speaker 1: who are in the business school walking around with briefcases.

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01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 1: You look over at another area and they're walking around

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01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 1: in leotards because they're in the School of Fine Arts.

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01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: The football captain and star, and the homecoming queen and

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01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 1: the debate team, and there are sororities and fraternity and

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01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: what you learn at an HBCU is you do not

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01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:47,840
Speaker 1: have to fit into somebody's limited prospective on what it

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01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:51,120
Speaker 1: means to be young, gifted, in black. You can be

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Speaker 1: all those things. When I was at Howard, I pledged

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01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 1: a sorority, I was on the debate team, I was

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01:17:56,640 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: the chair of the Economic Society when to my share

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01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:04,240
Speaker 1: parties too, And you didn't have to choose. You could

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Speaker 1: be fully actualized. And there was such beauty to that

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Speaker 1: because this country still has such a limited view of

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Speaker 1: what it means for a person to be young and

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Speaker 1: smart and black. And so at those years when you're

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Speaker 1: learning your identity to be in that environment where basically

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Speaker 1: everybody just says to you can be whatever you want

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Speaker 1: to be, and by the way, and if you don't,

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Speaker 1: it's because you need to work harder, right, Because that's

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Speaker 1: the other thing that happens. You can't walk away and say, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's because of my skin color that I didn't get that. Nope, Nope,

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Speaker 1: that's not it. So it's a wonderful it's a wonderful

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01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:48,639
Speaker 1: place to learn who you are and to be proud

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01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:51,240
Speaker 1: of who you are and to leave them with the

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01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:54,800
Speaker 1: confidence of walking into the world also knowing one other thing.

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01:18:55,160 --> 01:18:56,960
Speaker 1: You know, people from time to time will come up

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01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 1: to you and they'll say, oh, you're special, you're unique.

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Speaker 1: And I tell people, don't let it, don't let anybody

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Speaker 1: tell you that, because there is there is something about

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01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 1: being told that that also suggests you're the only one

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01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: like you, which means you're alone. And what an HBCU

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01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:16,760
Speaker 1: SEU reminds us of. No, we come with people, We

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01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: got people. There are a lot of us. We're not alone. Right,

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Speaker 1: Well made, you want to go to HBCU with a

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01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:26,759
Speaker 1: different world. No, I have family members that went to Howard.

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01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:29,760
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to Howard. Yeah, gots she has

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Speaker 1: to go. So one last one, brother, I saw you

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Speaker 1: talking about corporate donations. Yeah, and you said you would

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Speaker 1: depend It depends whether you would take them or not.

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Speaker 1: I think that money has had such an outside influence

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Speaker 1: on politics, and especially with the Supreme Court determining Citizens United,

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01:19:49,760 --> 01:19:54,639
Speaker 1: which basically means that big corporations can spend unlimited amounts

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Speaker 1: of money influencing a campaign. Right, We're all supposed to

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01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:00,439
Speaker 1: have an equal vote, but money has now really tip

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01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: the balance between an individual having equal power in an

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01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: election to a corporation. So I've actually made a decision

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Speaker 1: since I had that conversation that I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: accept corporate pack checks. Wow, Um, I just I'm not.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna raise money for campaigns and stuff? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've raised so far this year three million dollars for

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Speaker 1: my colleagues for the twenty eighteen election cycle, and most

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01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: of that money has been like an eighteen dollars twenty

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Speaker 1: dollars increments. People are turning out. What's the website? Yeah? Um,

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Speaker 1: go to Kamala Harris dot org and you will find it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: a m La Harris h. If you decide to run

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Speaker 1: for president in twenty twenty, we'll do a fundraiser before you,

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Speaker 1: right here on the radio. Noah, we definitely will. We

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01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,920
Speaker 1: did one last year for Harry Belafonte's organization, Change for Change.

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Speaker 1: We can get you a million of two. Okay, if

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01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 1: you decide, Have I ever been a dream of yours?

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01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:57,400
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about it? I had so many dreams,

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01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: I had so many I do, I really do. I

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01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:05,439
Speaker 1: do see the beauty of you know, everything that you

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01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 1: raised in terms of the reaction and the other side

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01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 1: of the tragedy of what's happening, and that gives me

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01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:17,560
Speaker 1: a great sense of optimism about our future. And in

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Speaker 1: the history of our people. We march, we shout, we sing,

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01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: we dance. Right, look at who just got the pulletzer prise,

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01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:36,080
Speaker 1: but look at that. We look at Beyonce and what

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01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:39,599
Speaker 1: she did at coach Alla. Right. It has always been

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01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 1: as part of our history that our artists, everybody is

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01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 1: part of the movement. Everyone understands that it's about the

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01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: expression of feeling and and we can do that with

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01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:55,680
Speaker 1: joy and with with conviction and with purpose. Great. I

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Speaker 1: think God is setting us up for a woman of

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Speaker 1: color president in Mala Harris. I think she's our future president.

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Speaker 1: And I hope she hope God puts his hands on

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Speaker 1: her and says, you know what, I want you to do.

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Speaker 1: This as God's plan. Put that on your playlist. Two

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Speaker 1: by Drill. We thank you for joining us. Thank you guys,

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Speaker 1: it's honor to be with you. Thank you for coming.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody

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Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all

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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. It's time for your positive note gives

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01:22:24,600 --> 01:22:27,519
Speaker 1: some positivity. Positive note for this beautiful Christmas day. Man

1545
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:29,920
Speaker 1: is always to remember that the best of all gifts

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01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family,

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Speaker 1: all wrapped up in each other. Breakfast Club. You don't

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Speaker 1: finish her, y'all dumb