WEBVTT - Ep. 309 "This is AmeriKKKa: A Guilty System" with Monique Idlett 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.720 What's up, family, I'm to make a d Mallory and 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:10.720 I might son the general. Welcome to Street Politicians, the 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.680 place where the streets and politics. Me. Yes, yes, yes, 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:19.120 we got us an episode today. It's enough going on. Man. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.200 The world has shifted. It keeps shifting, but it shifted again. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:29.000 If listen to me, I was innb in Atlanta after 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:34.879 the day after we participated and helped the all the 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.239 organizations in Atlanta who was out there doing work to 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:43.519 make sure that we gotta Senate that was actually able 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.640 to help this administration passed some laws from back and 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.760 you know, and we were celebrating that we are so 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.120 that you can't say it because you don't know what 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.320 they're gonna do, but you only we know that, listen, 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:00.600 that's all we know. We know that we our jobs. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.320 We looked, we said, okay, we're gonna put all the 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:09.200 feats on the ground. We went out to Atlanta. The 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.600 boots and the feet snowler. We was on the ground. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.560 We was out there working and we knocked on doors, 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.960 were handed out pamphlets. We do feel like feats on 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:23.039 the ground. It does the ground when you knocking on them. Listen, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:29.759 door knocking, It was cold. Door knocking is very very hard. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.000 People think that going out and knocking this stuff is 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.000 like fun. You'll look like you're having to get Some 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.120 people don't want you to make it look fun. They're 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:44.760 looking at you do guns everything. You know. Georgia they 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.640 got this open carry state. So I knocked on. We 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.560 knocked on one door. A Meal Washington from wote vote 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.400 and I were when we got in teams and he 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.200 and I were walking through this neighborhood. So one door 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.920 that we knocked on. First of all, I think that 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.440 in this particular corridor it's like a dead and like 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.200 a cul de sac. I think that black people called 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.040 each other on the phone and said day out here 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:12.480 again on open the door, because nobody but everybody's cars 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.680 was in the yard. Everybody cars all up on the 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.960 grass and everything that they would have barbecues, but they 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.440 weren't home. But there was this one place that we 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.960 walked up to and it said, um, it's not worth it. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.680 Nothing that we have in this house is worth your 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.240 life because we have several guns in here. And I'm like, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:37.040 and I'm supposed to go here the porch exactly scream 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.760 and say have you voted? That's what not just certain 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.880 certain places you just walk up, you look, you assess 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.200 the situation. So this is dangerous, it's pretty die here. 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.880 So you put you put the little pamphlet on the thing. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.280 You said, hey, make sure you're going to vote. Make 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.560 sure we just you know, just we just we just 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.480 got some literature here to make sure you're going to 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.000 vote if you haven't voted, which is what they did 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:03.120 not do for Brianna's right and Kenny Walker, because we 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.080 know that when you don't know about other people's communities, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.480 but I know in the black community, when you are 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:14.040 going to campus to knock on doors to bring them groceries, 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.560 to you know, provide a service if you are a friend, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:22.400 a visitor yourself, when you approach the area, the more 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.320 noise that you can make, the more that you can 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.919 make it clearness that I'm not here, I'm peace. Yeah, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.200 you can get out or something. You gotta let you 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.640 gotta know who you are, because nobody's more likely we 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.840 ain't gonna shoot the police because we were scared of 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.360 That's why you know, we understand you're going to jail forever. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.600 You shooting the police? Who shooting? And if you're gonna 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.520 shoot at the police. You ain't shooting one shot. The 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.800 person who made the determination that I'm shooting at the police, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.160 it's even gonna killed or died. They ain't saying you 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.520 let me shoot one shot and hope and let them 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.200 catch me and kill me. No, that person has made 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.240 a full asked me that I'm trying to take you 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.640 out or you're gonna take me out. So if somebody 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.800 shot one shot, they did not know no police. What 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:14.600 did Ruby detail Denzel Washington and American gangs? She said, listen, 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.960 I know you don't kill cops. Everybody knows everybody, your 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:24.599 wife knows, your brother, everybody except you. And she said, 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:31.240 she said she I would leave you. She said she 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.440 will leave you too. You're gonna because black people know 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:39.440 you can't kill anything with cops. So anybody that felt 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.920 that these people actually shout the cops on purpose with 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.960 one shot that rick off the ground is out of 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:50.160 the damn mind completely. But anyway, knocking on doors is hard, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.280 and we did that in Georgia. We really days and 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.800 shout out to woke, vote to Wanna Thompson a meal, 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.520 all of their whole team. They've been with us, you know, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.360 Tristan from the whole state of the State of Emergency 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.400 tour until we went to Georgia. You know, the camaraderie 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.400 that we built as a team, it's just dope. So 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.000 my story, I was telling my story, you know, I 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.840 was just we were celebrating. We was happy. He was like, yes, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.680 we just finished the gathering spot. We we've seen the 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.000 votes was in. Everybody was amped up and we went 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.440 to sleep. We woke up, you know, we had a 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.960 long night with but we all knew that there was 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:36.839 going on, and it was like, let's see what the 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.040 fools are doing. And I turned on the TV. And 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.640 by the time I turned on the TV, you know, 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.560 I'm listening, Trump is right, that was you were watching. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:50.520 Watch in his address and what he was saying was 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.840 just I was like, is he really saying that? He said, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.440 We're gonna walk down and I'll be there with you. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:02.640 We're gonna walk down, gonna walk down anyone you want. 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.400 But I think right here, we're gonna walk down to 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:13.080 the capital and we're gonna cheer on our brave senators 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:17.279 and congressmen and women, and we're probably not gonna be 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:23.080 cheering so much for some of them. Because you'll never 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.040 take back our country with weakness. You have to show 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.320 strength and you have to be strong. That sounds like 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.040 he's telling people we're gonna go because I know if 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.760 if he said it's going to take force, it's gonna 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.719 take it. We're gonna take it back with force, and 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:44.280 it can't be weak. You can't be weak. And I'm like, yo, yeah, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.840 what I mean he literally just said that if we 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:53.240 said that, we turned no. But it gives ja Well, 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.200 that's one thing. I mean, let's let's just for that. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.359 Listen to me. For that statement alone is reason let's 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:05.760 talk about complete treason. Will talk about the Black Panthers 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.000 and others who just for the mere statement. We're locked 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.960 up just for the mere statement because they said it 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.480 is inciting violence. That is what we have heard over 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.040 and over again in history. But for us, we know 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.520 that at the point that we would have had that 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.360 kind of energy like we're gonna walk down here, we're 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.280 gonna take back no weakness does as soon as we 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.840 would have turned around, they would have been lined up 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:35.720 in the street with tanks, dogs, shooting tear gas, flash bombs, Like, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.720 what are we talking about? They did that, and we 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.920 was walking down the street to my we shall become 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:45.360 that's it. Holding hands. These people they got guns, they 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.960 got sticks, faces is meaning have painted their skin, they 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.680 got heavy they're walking on a black like this. You 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:56.520 look and tell that they have at them, were walking 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:03.840 down with our hands, were kneeling and y'all, well, whoever 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.200 saying that, But the bottom line is the response to 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.040 us and the response to them. It's just so it 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:16.360 was just so different. I think as I watched those 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.680 people take over that capital building, and I was just 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.160 really an amazement. I said, yo, and I don't care 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.760 what we say about Trump. Trumper is a gangster. Trump. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:35.760 Trump is moving criminal. No, no, it's gangster this he's 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:40.400 a criminal because no, no, because at the end of 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:44.320 the day, he's a criminal. He has the criminality along 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.520 with the gangsterism. Because the bottom line is that man 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:53.760 told his people tear down but listen. If they don't look, 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:58.000 they are threatened our democracies and landslide. They took over. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.439 We gotta take our country back. And he said, just 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.040 people out there, he eve been Trump been doing some gags. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:09.040 I've never seen. The only person I've seen moved like 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.200 him is Al Capone and Gian Gardy, I've never I've 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.960 never seen nobody else move like this. This man is 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.959 literally calling hits from the White House. He has told 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.120 people he told on me, we're gonna take care of him. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.480 If you don't tell on me, we're gonna get you party, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.520 We're gonna part of you like I have never And 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.160 that's what he's been doing the last few weeks. This 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:37.280 man is pardon in criminals. He is calling for violence, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:42.040 he is causing civil unrest. I mean, he is so dangerous. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.160 But as I have said it, I said almost every episode. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:49.959 I'm gonna be saying it forever. It's cute now that 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:55.320 Facebook and Twitter and Lindsy Graham and Mitch McConnell and 0:09:55.440 --> 0:10:00.080 all these people have found somewhere in the sky that 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.840 this can't happen. This is wrong, it's not. But they 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.319 were four years you know what it is. These people 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.480 understand the significant situation. Right now Trump is about to 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:19.559 leave office. Sail said, we're gonna put cases on all you. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.439 They put cases on oh you, We've oh y'all this 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.920 ship is Conspiracy'll listen to me. This man is running 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:33.800 an organized and they realized they're like, you know what, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.080 when he get out, ain't nobody to protect us because 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.400 he told us he could partner us when he ain't 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.440 the president of more and these people come down with them, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.520 charges them, conspiracy charges. I don't need nothing to do 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.000 with it. They're like, you know. I looked at Lindsay 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.360 Lindsey Graham the other day. Lindsey Graham was smacked. He 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:56.160 was I wanted to wanted you to win. I wanted 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.760 you to win. I wanted everything. We gotta stop, no, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.040 and then he said we got people said we got 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.280 to stop. At this point, it's nothing here for us. 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.240 I wanted you please. It's Lindsey Graham looks like he's drunk, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.480 like he's had a few. I was sitting there having 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.600 me a few, like Lindsay, me and you together. This 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:18.319 is too much. It is. It's just and a woman. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.880 The woman got shot these people. The lady had the 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.120 Trump flag and the Americans. Did you see the video 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.520 that she made before she cursed out Kamala average And 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.439 you still feel bad and you don't because you don't 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:36.880 want nobody to die. We listen to me, if if 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.480 it was one of us, that there are many people, 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.280 many white folks, just gotta say what I gotta say. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.520 They would say you deserved it because you shouldn't have 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.680 been at smoking. That's what they say. With us, we say, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.679 oh my god, I'm still still I feel so bad. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.559 You know that this could happen to her, This woman 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.920 was killed. You know what I just said. I was 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.200 very bad. I just when I've seen it. I just 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:04.640 said to Brianna Taylor, you know because I really understood. No, 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.360 I know what you're saying, because it was really bad. 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.559 Because when you look at that situation, I think at 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.720 that point, right, you understood. So imagine you sleeping in 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.120 your home and the police kill you. You just walked 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.360 in the door, you unarmed, and police killed you, and 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:27.840 people are sad, and I don't know what she was offers. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.719 It seemed to me like the black officer in one situation, 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.000 the one I don't know if he was a FBI, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.800 you know whatever, he was the military and not military, 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.320 like a secret service or something like that. But that 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.839 officer and then um, the other officer that we saw 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.280 being chased up the stairs trying to stop the mob 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.720 that was coming in the building, saying like the black 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.440 officers were taking on the responsibility. The man was at 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.440 the door with. How did they leave that black man 0:12:56.480 --> 0:13:00.520 at the door with a stick he was run No, 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.280 he had a as I saw it, but he didn't 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.880 he know better, he saw a gun on his way. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.680 I would have pulled up what he knew better about 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:17.600 he go back to the shoot you. They didn't. They weren't. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:25.920 But see the thing is, it wasn't worth dying or 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.400 even ruining your career and everything else for shooting those 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.040 people all. But I'm fulk building because it's not about 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:37.240 shooting him down. That's the building. You're not getting it 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.040 what I would have did right, I'm not swinging those 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:44.360 sticks as they welcome, trying to do his job. Back up, 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.959 going where you're going, don't walk up to me because 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.280 the check me, I'm pulling it at you, like listening 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.680 where you're going go, don't walkoume to me. I don't 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.520 want to shoot you, but I'm gonna check my life. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.640 It didn't seem to me, and I think they did 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.760 it on purpose. I think it was strategic that for 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.000 the most part they were holding their hands up. They 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.360 were trying to show that I'm not trying to hurt you, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.520 I'm not even thinking about you, but you're gonna let 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.840 me go where it. The thing is this you're running 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:25.600 up and you're not stopping him. You wasn't like this 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.560 walking your dad. You're swinging a stick there like this. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.040 It's too much to have to analyze because you can't 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.360 get into the minds of these people. But it brings 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.200 me to my thoughts to day, because I was thinking 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.960 that perhaps there needs to be an education when we 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:49.200 say white supremacy and when we talk about the social 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:54.600 constructs of you know, racism and white privilege. It seems 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.880 like even though we say it all the time, there 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.600 still needs to be an education that we're not talking 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.640 about individual white people. I think that makes sense. That's 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.640 a good thought to have. Yeah, like perhaps siouness, because 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.760 I still in fact, I wrote on my social media 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.640 when this all first happened, like you said, we all 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.080 met downstairs, um in the living room, and we began 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.480 to watch this craziness that's going on in the news, 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.520 and I immediately ran to pick up my cell phone 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.040 and to tweet out black people stand back and stand 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.120 by today. You don't you don't need to go to work, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.440 if you live in d C. You don't need to 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.680 be running around town. And definitely Do not go out 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.920 there getting yourself involved in white folks tantrum that they're 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.880 having with the America that has promised them something that 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.120 they feel is slipping out of their palms. Do not 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.840 go out there with that because it's not our fight. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.440 It doesn't mean that there is not a fight that 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.400 we are engaged in every single day, and we don't 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.960 have to fight for our lives. But it is not 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:07.200 our fight to go and get in the middle of 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.560 white people fighting white people about white privilege. We shouldn't 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.240 be in that. And there were people. One of my 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.160 family members says, she shared it because she knows what 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.760 I'm saying is a accurate and she talks. She got 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.520 a lot of white friends, um, and she said that 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.120 they started calling her and they were very upset because 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.120 they were saying, are you speaking about me and my family? 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.520 And I'm white and I didn't do this, and you 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.120 know why, why are you coming at us like this? 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:42.600 It's us. It's not saying about you, Becky, this saint 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.160 about you. See the problem with this is that you 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.720 don't want to listen. Because we have to say it 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.080 a million times, We have to continue to clarify when 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.480 we talk about white supremacy. It's not white people. There's 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.920 a white construct. America is built on a construct that white. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:06.280 This and any proximity to whiteness is power. It is 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.919 it gives you an opportunity to have justice, to be 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.399 treated like human beings. You watch the officer see an 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.720 old woman, and I wasn't mad at this. There was 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.840 a white officer and this white old lady who had 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.439 just stormed the capital, and he walked her down the stairs. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.320 He grabbed her hand because he looked at her and 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.600 he's seen humanity. He looked at her and said, this 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.320 is could be my grandmother. And even though I might, 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.720 even though I might not agree with this, or even 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:35.240 if I do agree with this, I don't want to 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.760 see this old woman who identify as someone that I 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:42.600 should take care of harm. That's what humanity is. Well, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.120 what happens to us. You walk into an old woman 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.280 house named deb Danna, who is mentally ill, who is 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.280 sixty seven years old, and she has a pair of scissors, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.119 and you shoot her two times in her abdomen. You 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.840 know why, because you don't see humanity. White supremacy makes 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.440 you not see the humanity in black people. So it's 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:07.080 not about white people because black people can participate in 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.239 white supremacy because they are black people who have been 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.960 taught that they are less than. So they so when 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.320 they are around other white people who practice white supremacy, 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.199 they believe in order to move up, they have to 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.080 look down on their own people, they have to look 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.560 at them like they're not human. So don't just take it, Becky. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.680 It's not about you. That's nothing to do with you, 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:35.800 know what I'm saying. It's not individually. And if you 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:40.360 don't identify that your whiteness gives you a lot more privilege, 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:45.119 it doesn't. It gives you more powerful. Lebron James moved 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.440 into a neighborhood as an almost billionaire and they wrote 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.480 nigga on his home. You don't have to experience that, 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.639 you know why, Because it doesn't matter how much money 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.040 we have, like jay Z said, we are still nigga 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:01.479 in the eyes of those people who this white supremacist right, 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.520 who live in and and and and The thing is 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:08.560 when you say it's not about you, Becky, it is 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:13.320 about individual Becky's. Although we're not saying that every single 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:19.119 white person agrees with it, and again practices every day 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:25.639 white person. But every single white person absolutely benefits from 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.520 white privilege. Every single white person benefits from it. And 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.840 if you are not anti racist, I'm not talking about 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.280 being nice. And I have black friends and we all 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.199 cool and I don't go out and hurt people. And 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.280 my daddy didn't have slaves, and my grandfather helped to 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.000 get some of the slaves free at some point. I 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.679 mean this things. I hear the things they were, I listen. 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.200 I I found a document in my house that shows 0:19:54.280 --> 0:20:01.160 that my great grandfather actually helped to get miss Sally free. Okay, 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.840 that's wonderful, But we're talking about you individually, and what 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.560 we're saying is that being anti racist means that you're 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.399 not just a good ally, but that you are also 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.560 an accomplice in this work, and that you are as 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:20.119 invested to the point where you make daily sacrifices in 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.520 order to ensure that nothing about the privilege that you 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:28.200 will afforded as a birthright is present in your workplace. 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:32.240 As a human resources director, as an educator, you have 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.560 to make sure that you literally sacrifice. So that means 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:39.720 that you might be getting uninvited from the barbecue right 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.840 at your family's house, because when they start talking about 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.960 those niggers, you say, they're not niggers. And I will 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.240 not be here and participate or even here or allow 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.720 any type of conversation that happens around me or my 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:58.919 children that degrades a group of people. It means that 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:03.720 your girlfriend who talk down against other black women, or 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.200 you know, make fun of our hair, make friends fun 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:08.440 of our nose, make fun of the ways in which 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.440 our children look. That you are constant, that you are 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.680 known as a person who draws the line. So just 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.200 going along to get along and being a nice person, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:21.840 and you don't do these things to people, and you 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:25.520 pay folks that work for you properly and you treat 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.120 them nice. That's cool. But we have to actually do 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:35.560 work that is that is painful, that is sacrificial, and 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:39.760 that there is a true commitment to helping, to your point, 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:44.320 dismantle and unravel the systems that you benefit from. So 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:48.640 it is about Becky, because Becky has to be at 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.560 the table. But we are not talking about you specifically 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:57.760 when we are speaking about white privilege, white supremacy, and 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.760 and and and what those individuals was all those folks 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:02.919 somebody said to me, well, they were black and brown 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.760 people out there also, Okay that that may be true. 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.440 We saw we saw a few fools. There's always a fool. 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:11.560 There was one guy, we've seen him. He was But 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:15.840 did you notice that. I didn't. You didn't look at 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:20.200 He looked like he was coming there to see if 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.000 somebody said to make it. I don't know what he 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.000 was doing, but a lot of people said he was 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:29.159 there to get his people who had the T shirts 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.040 on and said they were for Trump. Um, And you know, 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:34.760 I don't know how many of them stormed the capital 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:36.919 and we're doing the things that they would do. But 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.439 I will say no. But but just because they are 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.760 a black person for Trump doesn't mean that they were 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:47.040 a part of those who committed the crime of going 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.320 inside the capital and doing all those things. So so yeah, 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.920 of course they were. But the majority of people that 0:22:54.000 --> 0:23:00.000 we saw, the majority, the overwhelming majority, we're white people. 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:02.960 That's just a fact. Like why do people get upset 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:05.919 when you tell the truth? It is the truth. That 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:10.239 is so Now, as another white person who sees what 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:14.640 went on as being bad, right, it's terrible. I can't 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:17.479 believe this happened. I can't believe Trump. Don't put this 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:21.800 on Trump by himself. We almost should stop talking about 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:26.000 Donald Trump's involvement. You can't because you can't separate him 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:30.600 from the incidet. But to focus on Donald Trump specifically 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:33.360 and to like put all your focus there and your 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.919 eggs in the Trump basket, it's really you don't have 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:41.760 a good analysis on what took place because the same behavior, 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:48.320 the same type of um uh, animalistic behavior that we 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:52.080 saw take place on that day, the tantrum that was thrown, 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.600 it's it's happens all the time, but it's been happening 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:57.679 for over four hundred years. Because how the hell you 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:00.440 think they got us here? How you think that they 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:05.040 got us on chips? Okay, you think none, none of 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:09.240 our people tried to fight. How do you think they 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:13.159 took the Native Americans land? That's exactly how they took it, 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:17.000 the same way, with the same type of evil intent, 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:20.239 the same criminal behavior, and they continue to do it. 0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:22.960 And it might not look like climbing up walls, but 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:25.840 it looks like building walls, and it looks like supporting 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:28.320 a man who said he was gonna build walls, and 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:31.400 it looks like building prison walls, and it looks like 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:35.000 putting products in prison and having prisoners in there making 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:39.160 your stuff. It looks like it looks like judges locking 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:41.879 people up, locking black people up for crimes that they 0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:45.040 would never put a white boy in prison for. Okay, 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:48.320 it looks like a whole lot of things that happens 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:51.320 in our community. Looks like trapping us in public housing. 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:55.600 It looks like not properly educating our children. Okay, it 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:58.120 looks like a whole lot of the stuff that we see. 0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:01.360 It's just at this time we actually got to see 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:03.280 the animals on the side of the walls. You know, 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:05.320 I've been talking about the wall. That was the best 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:08.679 part of my day. How you do it? I call 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:12.080 him spider Man, you know. But for me, Chuck, when 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:15.080 you when you understand when you talk about white privilege 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:18.600 and white supremacy, and if you really don't get it right, 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:22.920 I want you to just look at these videotapes, right, 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:27.119 these are white people who are coming to cameras and 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:37.160 announcing crimes. No, no, just think about it. And they 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:41.280 came to the camera and said we were we were storming. 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:45.919 She said, I was storming in the capitol. Like what 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:49.439 kind of stupid questions? One guy was told how they 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:51.879 broke the windows. He had blood on his hands and 0:25:51.880 --> 0:25:54.400 he was explaining it, and I'm just sitting mere saying 0:25:55.119 --> 0:25:59.080 what the hell is going on? Meanwhile, on a serious note, 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:02.320 we know people died, which is awful. People were killed. 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:05.920 Let's just say people were murdered. Okay, so we know that, 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:10.080 so that's bad. But there were also congressional members and 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:15.399 staff members with families locked in their offices. My friend's father, 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:18.360 Because I don't know what he has said publicly, I'm 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:21.399 not going to mention his name, but my friend's father 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:25.200 was barricaded in his office with his staff and did 0:26:25.240 --> 0:26:27.080 not know if that if this was the end of 0:26:27.119 --> 0:26:29.880 their lives. They had no idea what these people were doing. 0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:34.280 This was some really really serious stuff. And the fact 0:26:34.359 --> 0:26:37.959 that they did not because guess what. We have been arrested, 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:40.880 and several of our people have been arrested in sweeps 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:45.439 right where when the police come out, they surround the 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:48.760 entire corridor in a way that there's no you can't 0:26:48.760 --> 0:26:50.600 go anywhere, you can't get out. So if you're in 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:53.280 the middle, and you know that, you know, we tell 0:26:53.320 --> 0:26:56.879 people and I organizing all the time. At a certain 0:26:56.920 --> 0:27:00.800 point within this protest, if you are not trying to 0:27:00.840 --> 0:27:04.160 get arrested. When they start saying certain things or moving 0:27:04.240 --> 0:27:07.199 certain ways, it is time for you to get out 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:10.280 of the perimeter because at that point you're gonna get 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:14.959 swept up. So when so my thing is the brothers 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:19.280 and sisters or people people. These people was on top 0:27:19.400 --> 0:27:22.320 of buildings. By the time they got down, they should 0:27:22.320 --> 0:27:24.560 have been getting arrested. It should have been a sweep 0:27:24.640 --> 0:27:27.400 and they should have put those orange with's the orange 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:29.560 things that they bring out. Don't get us started. What's 0:27:29.600 --> 0:27:33.000 the orange barricades? The little barricade, old plastic barricades where 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:35.120 they take it and wrap it around an entire group 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:38.040 of people a bunch of times, you know, And it's 0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:40.920 just because, like I said, they were working with them. 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:44.480 Now you realize that they were actually working with the police. 0:27:44.840 --> 0:27:47.720 They opened the barricades, they walked them in. You've seen 0:27:47.760 --> 0:27:52.040 them walk the lady down. So there was a joint effort. 0:27:52.400 --> 0:27:56.040 There was an organized effort for these people to work together. 0:27:56.480 --> 0:28:00.480 And the privilege in that the privilege, like I watched 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:04.719 numerous people walk to the camera. This man had Nancy 0:28:04.760 --> 0:28:11.480 Pelosi's mail. Another serious like like black people know when 0:28:11.480 --> 0:28:14.480 we commit the crime, we ain't taking it. We're running 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:17.840 front of you. Jojo would be like Jojo would have 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:21.399 been like, actually probably wanted to Nah, that's that's a 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:26.120 big listen. That's another episode. But they are Actually we've 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:30.760 talked about it before on politicians. Some it may look different, mind, 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:35.160 but some of us they get away shown and they're 0:28:35.160 --> 0:28:37.680 showing the money that they we're getting away because you 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:40.960 you swiping with somebody else's credit card with your face 0:28:41.080 --> 0:28:43.720 on the camera at the GUCI. I mean, it's not smart. 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:48.880 We do the same that you just walk you standing 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:51.880 on the Capitol steps and yeah, we just stoing the steps. 0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:55.680 It's a revolution. We were knocked out the windows and 0:28:55.720 --> 0:28:58.120 we're coming back. We're taking over our country and with it. 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:01.880 Victoria Panel, one of our young mentors. Men, she's a 0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:05.280 she's a mentee. Excuse me, but shoot, Victoria's is a 0:29:05.360 --> 0:29:10.120 leader in her own right. Um. She had her tweet 0:29:10.200 --> 0:29:14.320 that she uh tweeted the other day that said, you're 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:19.000 asking the question, why haven't the cops shot these people 0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:22.040 who they're not gonna shoot me? Ma and Paul Paul 0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:25.600 like these are people that they know, and like you said, 0:29:25.640 --> 0:29:29.600 they see themselves in these individuals. They know for sure 0:29:29.960 --> 0:29:33.600 that there were law enforcement officers mixed in. I just 0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:36.040 I was debating someone who tried to tell me or 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:38.720 these a trailer park. People know the woman who was killed, 0:29:39.040 --> 0:29:42.640 she was worked for the air Force, not the airport, 0:29:43.000 --> 0:29:47.560 the air Force. These people are influential, They sit in 0:29:47.720 --> 0:29:50.640 high positions. And the fact that some of us still 0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:54.360 believe that they are just trail apart trash folks. They 0:29:54.480 --> 0:29:56.640 you know which I listen. I have family members that 0:29:56.680 --> 0:29:58.480 live in the trailer park and they're not trash. But 0:29:58.600 --> 0:30:01.920 that's the language that is you sometimes to describe certain 0:30:01.960 --> 0:30:06.480 types of people. They are not trail apart folks. They 0:30:06.680 --> 0:30:11.200 work in schools, they are on board, they are doctors, 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:15.040 they are lawyers, they are police officers. So we need 0:30:15.080 --> 0:30:17.480 to It's it's like it's almost like we're punch drunk, 0:30:17.520 --> 0:30:20.440 like we still keep having the same conversation. And that's 0:30:20.440 --> 0:30:24.320 exactly what the streets are talking. It's called domestic terrorists. 0:30:25.200 --> 0:30:29.080 That's what it is. It's home grown terrorists. America has 0:30:29.120 --> 0:30:34.400 an America problem. You don't have nobody else America, and 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:37.400 they're talking about the American problem. When Joe Biden said 0:30:37.440 --> 0:30:41.160 this is not America, he was lying. America is not 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:44.000 better than this, Joe body, this is what America has been. 0:30:44.360 --> 0:30:47.080 And we're glad that you actually can see it because 0:30:47.120 --> 0:30:49.280 this is what we've been telling you America has been 0:30:49.360 --> 0:30:52.240 for years. Welcome like you said that the Women's March, 0:30:52.560 --> 0:30:55.000 Welcome to our work. You know, this is what this 0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:57.880 is what we've been experienced for our whole lives. America 0:30:58.000 --> 0:31:02.920 has has looted Native American America looted us what we got, like, 0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:05.440 this is what America is. So when Joe Biden made 0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:08.480 that speech and and everybody said, no, no, no, Joe, 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:12.560 jojo Jo Jo Jojo, no, no, no, this is exactly 0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:15.920 who America is. And we've known that and it's sad 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:19.040 that we actually have to see it in this and 0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:22.320 you know, in three D and my children are watching. 0:31:22.480 --> 0:31:25.400 But the thing is change is gonna come. We are 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:29.120 at the stage right now with change definitely has to happen, 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:32.120 you know, so hopefully Joe Biden, Joe Biden, excuse me, 0:31:32.120 --> 0:31:34.760 he said, sometimes he says things, and then he said, 0:31:35.080 --> 0:31:37.560 you know, if this had been Black Lives Matter, you know, 0:31:37.680 --> 0:31:40.440 they would have been police differently. But you know, but 0:31:40.480 --> 0:31:45.000 the reason why he scares me is because the moment 0:31:45.120 --> 0:31:48.360 that Joe Biden is in and the responsibility that he 0:31:48.440 --> 0:31:53.120 has right like, the order of the day is justice 0:31:53.640 --> 0:31:57.560 and equality. We say equity, which is even more important. 0:31:58.240 --> 0:32:02.000 In order to address those issues, you have to be 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:06.240 prepared for this moment. You gotta be ready to get 0:32:06.280 --> 0:32:09.080 in the ring and know who, first of all, your 0:32:09.120 --> 0:32:12.720 opponent is. These people are not our friends. He keeps 0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:14.840 saying over and over there we and us. It's no 0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:19.240 we and us. It needs to be an identification at 0:32:19.280 --> 0:32:23.440 this point that there is a line of demarcation between us, 0:32:23.480 --> 0:32:28.000 and let me finish understand what I'm saying. Then you 0:32:28.000 --> 0:32:31.040 could take it. It's not no we and I get it. 0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:33.640 You keep talking about this middle of the road thing. 0:32:34.600 --> 0:32:39.880 But for you to stand before America and make the 0:32:39.960 --> 0:32:42.320 same state and the statement that if it had been 0:32:42.360 --> 0:32:45.600 black people it would have been done differently, that means 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:48.560 you have some knowledge of history and what happens to us, 0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:50.840 and then stand there and try to say this is 0:32:50.840 --> 0:32:53.360 not America, this is not who we are. And I'm 0:32:53.360 --> 0:32:55.040 not saying that he should get up there and be like, 0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:57.000 this is exactly who we are, but maybe just leave 0:32:57.080 --> 0:33:01.920 that out because it's actually offensive and It's scary because 0:33:01.920 --> 0:33:05.160 it tells me that you may not understand what you 0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:08.720 are up against. Right now, Okay, this is this is 0:33:08.800 --> 0:33:12.040 this is actually the soil of the nation. What I'm 0:33:12.040 --> 0:33:15.040 trying to say is this, I think he understands exactly 0:33:15.080 --> 0:33:18.560 what he's up against, and I think that he's running 0:33:18.560 --> 0:33:22.440 the system and the structure that is racist. In the 0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:25.680 bottom line, and it is core America is racist. Right, 0:33:25.920 --> 0:33:28.400 So to be to say that I'm going to take 0:33:28.440 --> 0:33:32.200 over the reins of America means that I have to 0:33:32.320 --> 0:33:36.240 acknowledge the racism and participate to a certain degree. Every 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:38.280 now and then I get an opportunity to where I 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:40.680 can shoot some men to let you know that I 0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:43.440 get it. But I still want my job, right, I 0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:46.680 want my job because but that's the bottom line. We 0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:50.040 we were asking America to change who it is, right, 0:33:50.160 --> 0:33:53.640 We're asking a president. We voting the president. There's no president. 0:33:53.680 --> 0:33:56.280 We watched Obama sit up there. He couldn't say half 0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:58.800 the ship that Joe Biden could say, right, he couldn't 0:33:58.800 --> 0:34:01.600 say that. He couldn't say it because he understood the 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:03.880 black list. For me saying I black, this would have 0:34:03.880 --> 0:34:05.400 been black people. They would have tried to kill me. 0:34:05.480 --> 0:34:10.400 But he didn't say that he was. He was very 0:34:10.400 --> 0:34:15.080 going on next time, very lightly tread you and I 0:34:15.160 --> 0:34:19.120 are not about to get into this debate today. President. 0:34:19.200 --> 0:34:23.319 The one thing President Obama did, if he didn't do 0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:27.640 anything else, he said some ship. While he was the president, 0:34:28.120 --> 0:34:31.800 he made some of the most impactful speeches he always 0:34:31.920 --> 0:34:36.560 made any president, saying he identified and said when he 0:34:36.680 --> 0:34:39.279 stood up and said that Trayvon Martin could have been 0:34:39.320 --> 0:34:43.000 my son, that changed the entire way you listened to me. 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:45.080 Tradevonmart could have been my son. Of course you're a 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:47.960 black man. They but listen, what I'm trying to tell 0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:51.759 you is Trayvon Nobody called for the rest of the 0:34:51.760 --> 0:34:56.520 people that killed Trayvonmon, right, because that's but no, listen 0:34:56.560 --> 0:34:59.279 to me when when when Joe Biden said and said 0:34:59.280 --> 0:35:02.200 the people will happen to Brianna Taylor was wrong and 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:05.440 people should be held accountable. Right, What I'm trying to 0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:10.000 say Obama has never said that he the most he 0:35:10.080 --> 0:35:14.560 said about that because I was the most he said 0:35:14.560 --> 0:35:16.600 that he could have been my son. There was no 0:35:16.680 --> 0:35:20.120 time that he called for accountability for those acts, all 0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:23.040 those black people that got killed, even Mike Brown He 0:35:23.160 --> 0:35:25.959 always said, you know, it's a bad situation. He need 0:35:26.040 --> 0:35:29.680 let the system do it. Exactly. He has always that 0:35:29.800 --> 0:35:32.520 the system a job in truest in the process and 0:35:33.160 --> 0:35:36.920 should just be clear. Let's just be clear, we're in 0:35:37.000 --> 0:35:41.640 a different time. What I'm saying takes. It takes the 0:35:41.680 --> 0:35:47.120 statements that Obama made in order to give Biden the 0:35:47.160 --> 0:35:54.920 ability to go even further. I'm not saying my statement 0:35:55.040 --> 0:35:58.880 was never to discredit Barack Obama. My statement was to 0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:04.720 acknowledge that Obama understood his position. I don't gotta Obama 0:36:04.760 --> 0:36:07.319 because I love Obama too, but you understood It's just 0:36:07.360 --> 0:36:10.160 like what your what M Jay Cole said. You know, 0:36:10.200 --> 0:36:13.239 they gave the man the um the ship and didn't 0:36:13.239 --> 0:36:15.400 tell him he couldn't do nothing with it. They tell 0:36:15.480 --> 0:36:18.880 him they made him the um, the captain of the ship, 0:36:19.120 --> 0:36:20.759 but didn't tell him that it was it was no 0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:23.319 way to navigate it. So the bottom line is he 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:25.960 understood the position he was in. Joe Biden is in 0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:28.200 a different position. He can say something here and then 0:36:28.280 --> 0:36:31.520 throw it in, but ultimately he understand that we've run 0:36:31.719 --> 0:36:36.960 America is a capitalist, racist, white supremacist organization. Is an organization. 0:36:37.080 --> 0:36:39.400 It ain't even it's an organization and he understands what 0:36:39.480 --> 0:36:42.440 he's dealing with. So we gotta we gotta, we gotta 0:36:42.880 --> 0:36:46.920 politely but sternly make him do the ship that we 0:36:46.960 --> 0:36:49.960 need him to do. I don't know about so much polite, politely, 0:36:50.080 --> 0:36:55.720 respect respectfully and stern So you know, I mean, I'm 0:36:55.760 --> 0:36:59.080 I'm extremely critical, especially if old white man. I'm definitely 0:36:59.120 --> 0:37:01.239 gonna be critical that to bottom line, people could say 0:37:01.280 --> 0:37:04.239 whatever they want, but I will say especially I saw 0:37:04.320 --> 0:37:07.600 my my, my, my girl, someone who I support so 0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:10.640 much get appointed over the Civil Rights Division of the 0:37:10.680 --> 0:37:14.920 Department of Justice, Um Kristin Clark, and uh, it's it's 0:37:14.960 --> 0:37:17.839 a diverse cabinet. I want to see more black men 0:37:18.400 --> 0:37:20.960 put in positions of power. I would like to see 0:37:20.960 --> 0:37:23.320 a black man be the head of edge of the 0:37:23.360 --> 0:37:26.120 Secretary of Education. I would really like to see that 0:37:26.160 --> 0:37:28.920 because I know the challenge that our young black boys 0:37:29.000 --> 0:37:32.439 have and I think it's a strong black man who 0:37:32.520 --> 0:37:36.080 has worked in public education to go in and really 0:37:36.160 --> 0:37:39.080 help to, you know, bring our kids up and get 0:37:39.080 --> 0:37:42.080 our kids excited about learning. As I want to see 0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:46.520 more more black men. It does not mean okay, because 0:37:46.560 --> 0:37:50.040 you know, Gary Chambers our boy who's running for congress 0:37:50.040 --> 0:37:54.480 in UH in Louisiana and bat Rouge, Louisiana. He has 0:37:54.560 --> 0:37:57.600 made some that we've had Gary on the show. He's made, 0:37:57.680 --> 0:38:00.759 you know, statements about seeing that boy he had. Yeah, 0:38:01.080 --> 0:38:05.000 he's made statements about seeing more black men in UH, 0:38:05.000 --> 0:38:08.439 in the cabinet um and in positions of leadership within 0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:12.040 the administration. And people get so upset, like, oh, so 0:38:12.160 --> 0:38:14.400 are you saying that you don't believe in and you 0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:17.600 don't support the black women's lee Merit I was watching 0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:19.919 on social media the other day he said he wanted 0:38:19.920 --> 0:38:23.000 to see a black man, particularly Ben Crump, to become 0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:26.600 the solicitor General, which is a person who goes out 0:38:26.600 --> 0:38:30.520 and actually argues cases before the government. Um, you know, 0:38:30.880 --> 0:38:33.239 and and and people were like, oh, you know, what 0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:35.080 are you trying to say that you don't believe in 0:38:35.120 --> 0:38:38.000 black women. It's not that we're saying if black people 0:38:38.000 --> 0:38:41.319 put you in in office, then maybe you should not 0:38:41.440 --> 0:38:44.319 make as many appointments for white people to be the 0:38:44.360 --> 0:38:47.160 director and have the black and brown people being the 0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:50.640 deputy and the deputy deputy and associate deputy and all 0:38:50.680 --> 0:38:53.120 of that, and move some of them white folks flipped 0:38:53.160 --> 0:38:56.160 the table, if that's and then put some black men 0:38:56.560 --> 0:38:59.040 in there as well. But you're not gonna get everything 0:38:59.120 --> 0:39:01.600 you want. And you do see the diversity. You do 0:39:01.719 --> 0:39:05.320 see women being put in very serious positions of power, 0:39:05.600 --> 0:39:08.759 and I'm excited to see where this goes. But I 0:39:08.880 --> 0:39:11.160 also know that the work that will have to do 0:39:11.280 --> 0:39:14.440 to ensure that we pushed them all because everybody, when 0:39:14.520 --> 0:39:17.480 you go inside of a corrupt system and there has 0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:20.239 not been an overhaul of that system, people get a 0:39:20.239 --> 0:39:23.640 little comfortable. People get afraid. They get afraid to speak 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:25.919 out as much as they did when they were out 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:28.600 here protesting with us. Look at Build the Blasio, the 0:39:28.680 --> 0:39:30.279 mayor of New York City. I don't know what the 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:33.120 hell happened to him. We used to be protesting together. 0:39:33.160 --> 0:39:35.360 He was talking big ship and then all of a sudden, 0:39:35.520 --> 0:39:38.000 I don't know what happened to Build the Blasio. So 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:42.360 you know, we have to fight and structure. It's easy, 0:39:42.680 --> 0:39:44.960 like I tell people all the time, it's easy to, 0:39:45.920 --> 0:39:49.080 you know, criticize the system from outside and say what 0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:52.880 I'm gonna do, But when you askally, you got the 0:39:52.920 --> 0:39:58.480 man with the gun anyway, you don't cut me off. 0:39:59.640 --> 0:40:03.840 Some peop go back. So listen. What I was saying 0:40:04.360 --> 0:40:09.279 was before I was interrupted a game, right that when 0:40:09.280 --> 0:40:11.880 you get into the structure that is not meant for you, 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:16.200 it is very hard to change it. So this administration, 0:40:16.719 --> 0:40:20.480 m hm, the next administration, none of these administrations are 0:40:20.480 --> 0:40:24.680 going to do everything needed to give black people power 0:40:24.960 --> 0:40:29.080 in equity in this country. We have to utilize this administration. 0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:32.279 We have to utilize every piece that we have. We 0:40:32.360 --> 0:40:36.120 have people inside and like we said, representation doesn't always 0:40:36.120 --> 0:40:38.520 mean that it's the best for us, but representation gives 0:40:38.560 --> 0:40:43.000 us the opportunity and a better chance. Speaking of representation 0:40:43.160 --> 0:40:48.280 in Georgia, we just want two important Senate seats. Reverend 0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:51.080 Raphael Warnock, who is a dear friend of mine, and 0:40:51.200 --> 0:40:56.319 John Osoft have been able to be too incumbents, which 0:40:56.400 --> 0:40:59.960 is very difficult to do, and incumbents with a lot 0:41:00.000 --> 0:41:03.359 out of money, which is very difficult to do. And 0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:05.640 one of them's last name is Perdue. And I never 0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:07.520 did take the time to go back and look at 0:41:07.600 --> 0:41:09.520 why his name is Perdue. Is he part of the 0:41:09.560 --> 0:41:13.840 Perdue family? I don't know, but he probably is um 0:41:13.960 --> 0:41:17.759 And you know it feels good you are a part 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:25.800 of it. A little bit. Anyway, we're going to bring 0:41:25.880 --> 0:41:31.160 our next guests right now. I'm super dupereruper duper. I 0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:35.560 don't know if that's excited about who we will be 0:41:35.680 --> 0:41:39.760 hearing from today on Street Politicians. We have some good guests. 0:41:40.040 --> 0:41:45.000 We always have a good guests things always. Before we 0:41:45.040 --> 0:41:47.600 go to the next segment and have our special guests joint, 0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:51.239 we're gonna take a quick break for our sponsors of 0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:54.600 all the guests that we've had on Street Politicians, and 0:41:54.600 --> 0:41:56.839 there will be many, many more on the number one, 0:41:57.280 --> 0:42:01.000 the best podcast in the world. We're gonna have all 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:06.920 the everything is number one. We're number one, so you 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:11.720 know we're speaking it into existence. And our guests now 0:42:12.000 --> 0:42:15.480 is someone who, Um, you know, I will not get 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:18.680 into the personal story that I tell everybody. I probably 0:42:18.680 --> 0:42:20.440 tell a story so much that you know at this 0:42:20.480 --> 0:42:23.600 point most people already know. But at a real dark 0:42:23.640 --> 0:42:26.879 time in my life, UM, this woman stood up and 0:42:27.000 --> 0:42:29.279 stood next to me and you know, didn't judge me 0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:32.040 and supported me and helped me financially, which is really 0:42:32.040 --> 0:42:35.880 really important. UM. And you know she went on to 0:42:36.000 --> 0:42:38.360 be such a good friend to all of us. She 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:41.960 invited us until freedom at the very very beginning into 0:42:42.000 --> 0:42:46.480 her home helped us to get organized to also find 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:49.880 ourselves as for co founders trying to come together and 0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:53.600 be a strong group. Uh you so many of her skills, 0:42:53.960 --> 0:42:56.799 her staff, and and just poured into us so much 0:42:57.080 --> 0:43:01.880 that eventually we asked her to be chairwoman of Until Freedom, 0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:04.759 in which she has taken that on um as a 0:43:04.880 --> 0:43:08.480 very serious, serious job. And the care that she's taken 0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:12.359 specifically for Until Freedom is because she clearly cares about 0:43:12.360 --> 0:43:14.600 the work and the people and kids about what we're doing. 0:43:14.640 --> 0:43:18.680 And so UM, having Monique Idlet to come and join 0:43:18.880 --> 0:43:22.320 us today on Street Politicians, to me is a great honor. 0:43:22.760 --> 0:43:26.600 I'm proud to have her to be in the presence 0:43:26.640 --> 0:43:32.960 of such awesomeness greatness Monique, I miss you both. I 0:43:33.000 --> 0:43:36.560 can't wait to see you. Yeah, Mika, I need that 0:43:36.640 --> 0:43:41.640 intro everywhere I go, take me on the road. So 0:43:41.920 --> 0:43:46.440 it's such an honor, honestly, Um, you know, to be 0:43:46.600 --> 0:43:49.600 here with the two of you, to to see everything 0:43:49.640 --> 0:43:52.040 that you all are doing, but then to see that 0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:54.719 you get to actually sit down for a moment and 0:43:54.719 --> 0:43:58.600 then have a conversation UM, to help continue the education 0:43:58.640 --> 0:44:01.920 to people. It's just it's such a blessing. It's so amazing. 0:44:02.280 --> 0:44:05.560 And then you invited little on me on Yeah, little 0:44:05.600 --> 0:44:11.160 old years, a little old about Monique. She is a 0:44:11.160 --> 0:44:15.400 wealth builder, she is an entrepreneur, she is a visionary. 0:44:15.600 --> 0:44:19.799 She sits on the boards of fortune companies. She just 0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:23.040 does so many things that we can't It's extensive with 0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:26.480 the person she is is even bigger than that. So 0:44:26.640 --> 0:44:29.040 when you talk about little old you, we're just trying 0:44:29.080 --> 0:44:32.200 to We're just trying to We're trying to be like, 0:44:32.960 --> 0:44:35.680 get to where you is. So there's so much that 0:44:35.719 --> 0:44:37.880 we could talk about today. You know, we call you 0:44:37.960 --> 0:44:41.359 mo um and and most of the people who love 0:44:41.440 --> 0:44:43.799 you call you MO. There's so much that we could 0:44:43.840 --> 0:44:47.160 talk about Um. It's it's almost hard to find the 0:44:47.239 --> 0:44:50.919 place to begin, because we could go back and talk 0:44:50.960 --> 0:44:54.480 about your career in the music industry and how you 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:57.800 were able to build an empire and then to unite 0:44:57.840 --> 0:45:02.600 with another very strong man within the industry, your ex husband, 0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:05.239 Tim Berland, who is your friend, a very good friend. 0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:07.360 I watched the way that the two of you co parent, 0:45:07.800 --> 0:45:11.799 and it's amazing to see the beauty of black love 0:45:11.880 --> 0:45:17.200 that continues beyond marriage, beyond relationships. UM, but you you 0:45:17.280 --> 0:45:20.839 helped him to build his empire. UM, you built your own. 0:45:21.239 --> 0:45:24.319 So many people like Jimmy Iveen and others have you 0:45:24.400 --> 0:45:28.360 to be grateful to for your work, your work ethic, 0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:32.560 your tenacity. UM. Knowing that you went on to say, Okay, 0:45:32.600 --> 0:45:35.560 I'm going to take my wealth and find a way 0:45:35.600 --> 0:45:39.440 to help other people, particularly black folks, brown folks, and 0:45:39.520 --> 0:45:44.240 women become wealthy, and that being your new career. Knowing 0:45:44.320 --> 0:45:47.719 that at one point you worked at USA today as 0:45:47.760 --> 0:45:50.719 a leading executive. I mean, there's so much that we 0:45:50.760 --> 0:45:53.200 could talk about that this show. I don't even know 0:45:53.239 --> 0:45:56.160 that we have the time and space. But the most 0:45:56.280 --> 0:46:01.240 recent thing that you did, um is what me speaks 0:46:01.320 --> 0:46:06.800 to your character and the uniqueness of a black woman 0:46:07.160 --> 0:46:10.040 who has been counted out. We have been counted out 0:46:10.200 --> 0:46:14.000 so many times by everyone. I think that when this 0:46:14.239 --> 0:46:17.200 when Discovery Channel, I don't care what you say, I'm 0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:20.279 saying this that when Discovery Channel asked you to be 0:46:20.320 --> 0:46:25.160 a part of a participant on Undercover Billionaires, I'm sure 0:46:25.719 --> 0:46:29.160 they put the one hundred dollars in your hand just 0:46:29.280 --> 0:46:31.960 being just knowing you would not be able to do it. 0:46:32.239 --> 0:46:34.920 I know there's some people there that probably were rooting 0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:38.040 for you, but there were some who said, we're giving 0:46:38.040 --> 0:46:40.200 you a hundred dollars to go out and build a 0:46:40.239 --> 0:46:43.319 million dollar business, and they didn't believe that you could 0:46:43.320 --> 0:46:47.520 actually accomplish it. And now we're watching the success story 0:46:47.600 --> 0:46:50.600 because we knew that you. If no one else could 0:46:50.600 --> 0:46:53.240 do it, if no one else could do it, Monique 0:46:53.239 --> 0:46:57.120 could do it. Well, you know, I'll tell you Discovery 0:46:57.160 --> 0:47:00.680 has actually been so they've been super super are supportive 0:47:01.280 --> 0:47:05.120 um and really they actually wanted inclusion and diversity because 0:47:05.160 --> 0:47:08.280 they know it matters, It actually matters. It is the difference. 0:47:08.360 --> 0:47:11.840 You know, you can't you can't actually talk about change 0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:15.319 and impact and inclusion if you're not actually showing it 0:47:15.400 --> 0:47:19.040 and helping your audience experience it. And so for them 0:47:19.040 --> 0:47:22.040 it was important. For me, it's important. I'll tell you, 0:47:22.120 --> 0:47:25.440 I think that this was the most difficult thing that 0:47:25.560 --> 0:47:29.440 I have ever ever done. And from day one, before 0:47:29.480 --> 0:47:31.719 I stepped into that city, before I knew where I 0:47:31.760 --> 0:47:34.840 was going, I had one mission, and that was to 0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:39.040 represent black and brown people so that we could actually 0:47:39.120 --> 0:47:42.279 know and that others could know that we're more than 0:47:42.440 --> 0:47:46.359 just you know, an athlete and entertainer. We're business too, 0:47:46.480 --> 0:47:50.400 we're human beings. And for me, that narrative was so important. 0:47:50.680 --> 0:47:53.359 And then I just wanted to represent the underdog. And 0:47:53.400 --> 0:47:56.040 then came I got to represent Tacoma because I fell 0:47:56.080 --> 0:47:59.600 in love with that city. So you went to Tacoma, Washington. 0:47:59.719 --> 0:48:04.120 Tell us more about what happened. What is undercover Billionaire 0:48:04.160 --> 0:48:06.759 for those people who are watching that don't understand what 0:48:06.840 --> 0:48:09.399 you just went through. The worst thing I ever did 0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:11.520 in my life, the most catfult thing I went in 0:48:11.560 --> 0:48:15.080 my life. But the challenge itself was this. They can 0:48:15.120 --> 0:48:17.359 take They take your identity, so they give you a 0:48:17.360 --> 0:48:21.759 fake name alias. They give you a hundred dollars. You're 0:48:21.760 --> 0:48:25.439 allowed to bring one bag of clothes. Um, they take 0:48:25.440 --> 0:48:28.400 your cell phone, they take your computer, they take everything 0:48:28.560 --> 0:48:31.920 your they take your credit card, they take everything, literally 0:48:32.040 --> 0:48:35.439 everything Like they went through my bag to make sure 0:48:35.480 --> 0:48:38.600 I didn't have anything like that was crazy to me. Um, 0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:41.160 they take everything, they take and they give you a 0:48:41.160 --> 0:48:45.080 one dollar bill, They give you a used vehicle, and 0:48:45.120 --> 0:48:47.520 they give you a new cell phone with no contacts 0:48:48.320 --> 0:48:51.040 and so both of you know me. Well, I live 0:48:51.120 --> 0:48:54.200 for my relationships like that is that is how I 0:48:54.280 --> 0:48:57.239 built my career. I believe in it. Relationship networking to 0:48:57.280 --> 0:48:59.920 me is the most important thing, and they took all 0:49:00.040 --> 0:49:02.200 of that from me, and then they dropped me into 0:49:02.200 --> 0:49:04.240 a city that I didn't know where I was going 0:49:04.360 --> 0:49:07.120 and they said, you have ninety days to build a 0:49:07.160 --> 0:49:11.680 million dollar business with. So you are the first black 0:49:11.719 --> 0:49:19.480 woman to ever person period one the network. So on 0:49:19.600 --> 0:49:24.359 this show there have not been other black black women. Well, 0:49:24.440 --> 0:49:28.400 so this is only second season, only second season. Um. 0:49:28.440 --> 0:49:33.520 Glenn Sterns who he is just honestly the most amazing. Yeah, 0:49:33.600 --> 0:49:36.520 he truly is. He has a heart for people and 0:49:37.040 --> 0:49:40.960 everyone understanding each other and understanding that there are different 0:49:41.000 --> 0:49:44.439 journeys and different experiences and we have to understand them all. 0:49:44.800 --> 0:49:47.680 So he created this show, actually has a bet that 0:49:47.719 --> 0:49:50.360 he could be stripped of everything as a self made billionaire, 0:49:50.640 --> 0:49:52.239 and he was the first one to do it. He 0:49:52.239 --> 0:49:56.200 actually got super sick during filming, but he finished it, Um, 0:49:56.239 --> 0:49:58.160 And this is you know, for him, it's about building 0:49:58.200 --> 0:50:01.799 up the underdog cities and helping people understand that. You 0:50:01.840 --> 0:50:04.680 know the concept of community and we all know that 0:50:04.800 --> 0:50:07.120 very well, right like we we as black people, we 0:50:07.200 --> 0:50:10.359 rely on our community, UM for support, and so it's 0:50:10.400 --> 0:50:13.200 he took that concept. He did it first, and then 0:50:13.239 --> 0:50:16.520 this is only the second season. So the second season 0:50:17.000 --> 0:50:21.319 they have this brilliant black woman. You go to Tacoma, Washington, 0:50:21.600 --> 0:50:24.160 where we just found out black people live. I didn't 0:50:24.200 --> 0:50:27.080 even know they have a black mayor they have a 0:50:27.120 --> 0:50:31.160 black I had no idea. So you go there, and 0:50:31.480 --> 0:50:35.000 now it's important not for bragging, although I like to 0:50:35.000 --> 0:50:39.959 brag on you, um, but for context that you live 0:50:40.560 --> 0:50:43.799 very very well. I think you're in your home right now, 0:50:43.840 --> 0:50:45.880 so people can just see a little bit with the 0:50:45.960 --> 0:50:49.320 couch that's behind you. So what kind of building businesses 0:50:49.360 --> 0:50:54.000 you build? So I'll say this because I can't tell everything, 0:50:54.200 --> 0:50:56.600 tune in, tune and tune in, but if you watch 0:50:56.680 --> 0:51:00.600 the first episode, you will see quickly literally really like 0:51:00.760 --> 0:51:03.960 the second day, I'm like, you know what access to 0:51:04.280 --> 0:51:07.840 to health like healthy options and healthier options. It's a 0:51:07.960 --> 0:51:11.360 human right. And we've allowed marketing and you know, the 0:51:11.880 --> 0:51:15.959 constant of the idea of quick inconvenience to be over 0:51:16.040 --> 0:51:19.480 to like where it shouldn't be healthy, And so literally 0:51:19.560 --> 0:51:22.800 immediately I had an instant idea of I'm going to 0:51:22.880 --> 0:51:26.480 start with some healthy juice shots. It's been years since 0:51:26.480 --> 0:51:29.680 you had to grind like that from the bottom, from 0:51:29.680 --> 0:51:32.840 the bottom, like bottom bottom. When you think about what 0:51:32.880 --> 0:51:35.359 you went through, do you appreciate it? Does it make 0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:39.200 you that think about where you are now actually in 0:51:39.239 --> 0:51:41.200 your real life with pose and where you was, do 0:51:41.280 --> 0:51:44.319 you really appreciate it more more? I'll say this, and 0:51:44.360 --> 0:51:46.719 both of you know me, Well, Um, the grind has 0:51:46.760 --> 0:51:50.759 never stopped from me. And that's just a fact. I 0:51:50.840 --> 0:51:55.480 never was. I never not at USA today, not creating 0:51:55.480 --> 0:51:59.400 my own company, not building a label with Tim, not 0:52:00.040 --> 0:52:04.799 know doing this stuff on empire, to owning my own sex. 0:52:05.080 --> 0:52:08.200 I forgot about that. I always pivoted and did those 0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:10.760 things so I could learn more, so I could actually 0:52:10.800 --> 0:52:12.880 help our culture. Yeah, but you didn't have to do 0:52:12.920 --> 0:52:17.440 it with a hundred dollars living in Tacoma, Washington. But 0:52:18.239 --> 0:52:21.040 that's the whole point is is that I did that 0:52:21.160 --> 0:52:23.759 because at the end of the day, if not me, 0:52:23.880 --> 0:52:26.600 who who who is our people? Who are people gonna 0:52:26.640 --> 0:52:30.279 identify with? So did you did you take this as 0:52:30.280 --> 0:52:34.160 a personal you know, challenge because you wanted to really 0:52:34.200 --> 0:52:37.800 represent black people, black women? Did you really see to yourself, 0:52:38.719 --> 0:52:41.080 this has never happened before. They haven't had any black 0:52:41.080 --> 0:52:43.400 people I know I'm gonna be first. Did you accept 0:52:43.560 --> 0:52:45.319 in your mind? Because I know how you are. You 0:52:45.400 --> 0:52:48.279 challenge yourself and you I challenge myself all the time 0:52:48.360 --> 0:52:51.480 all the time, so I know for you, was it like, yo, 0:52:51.520 --> 0:52:53.279 you know what, I'm going to be the first. It's 0:52:53.400 --> 0:52:56.160 no way that I could fail. So it was really 0:52:56.200 --> 0:52:58.880 it was really really deep for me, Like I actually 0:52:58.920 --> 0:53:05.439 said no, um. And then January February March April, may 0:53:05.480 --> 0:53:07.839 like think about that. And then we had all that 0:53:07.880 --> 0:53:12.280 stuff happening. We had all of the murders that were happening, 0:53:12.880 --> 0:53:16.560 um to our black men, to our Brianna Taylor, and 0:53:16.840 --> 0:53:20.200 it was like dang. And then I was delivering food 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:24.239 to our elders in in you know, our communities, and 0:53:24.520 --> 0:53:26.840 the grocery stores weren't open or they didn't have the 0:53:26.880 --> 0:53:30.040 same access for delivery or fresh food. And I was like, 0:53:30.080 --> 0:53:32.920 you know what, this is crazy, this is super crazy. 0:53:33.040 --> 0:53:36.520 We need we need some inspiration. If it takes me 0:53:36.600 --> 0:53:40.200 to sacrifice to help our people with a new mindset, 0:53:40.320 --> 0:53:44.360 it's a mindset for me. I was willing to literally, 0:53:44.400 --> 0:53:47.920 like real talk, I've never left my family like this before. 0:53:48.000 --> 0:53:50.640 It was a pandemic that was real. I was like 0:53:50.760 --> 0:53:54.000 every day out in those streets in Tacoma during a pandemic, 0:53:54.280 --> 0:53:56.960 where before that I was at home comfortably. I was 0:53:57.040 --> 0:53:59.680 coming in my pool every day, doing my zoom meetings 0:53:59.719 --> 0:54:02.279 from living room, you know. Um. So at the end 0:54:02.320 --> 0:54:04.640 of the day, it was real to me, it was 0:54:04.719 --> 0:54:08.120 super real. Feeling was not an option. Did you almost 0:54:08.160 --> 0:54:09.600 did you get to a point where you was like, 0:54:09.600 --> 0:54:12.160 you know what, I'm quit, I'm going home. I'm tired 0:54:12.160 --> 0:54:17.640 of the day. One one I called my mom crying, 0:54:17.800 --> 0:54:21.440 like what did I just sign up for? Not your 0:54:21.480 --> 0:54:25.360 mother though, let me tell you, Moniques mother has prayed 0:54:25.400 --> 0:54:28.239 me through my mom stroke. She's prayed me through some 0:54:28.360 --> 0:54:33.680 other mental breakdowns that I almost had. She is such 0:54:33.719 --> 0:54:37.320 a powerful person, and your mom the way I see 0:54:37.360 --> 0:54:39.839 her as someone who will not allow you and your 0:54:39.880 --> 0:54:43.480 sister Shaquira, who we love um so much to fail 0:54:43.680 --> 0:54:45.640 at all, Like it's almost like you can't She's like 0:54:45.680 --> 0:54:48.640 my mom. You can't really call them saying I can't 0:54:48.640 --> 0:54:50.920 do it or I won't do it, because they become 0:54:51.000 --> 0:54:54.040 invested in the same thing that you're invested in the 0:54:54.200 --> 0:54:57.359 history behind it and just knowing that a woman can 0:54:57.400 --> 0:55:01.400 do anything that anyone else can do. I need you 0:55:01.440 --> 0:55:05.719 out to watch this because literally everything you're saying is 0:55:05.920 --> 0:55:09.439 exactly what she said to me. And I even there's 0:55:09.440 --> 0:55:11.239 a quote in there that I'm and I'm talking to 0:55:11.360 --> 0:55:13.520 rain and I say it to her. I'm doing this 0:55:13.600 --> 0:55:16.680 so you know that you can do anything you want 0:55:16.680 --> 0:55:20.120 to do. It's not about you know. My mother always 0:55:20.160 --> 0:55:22.200 taught me, it's not where we are, it's where you 0:55:22.239 --> 0:55:25.600 want to be. I've never used my circumstances. I grew 0:55:25.680 --> 0:55:28.160 up in the projects, but for me, I was on 0:55:28.200 --> 0:55:29.799 top of the world because I was gonna be on 0:55:29.840 --> 0:55:32.759 top of the world. I want my daughter to know that. 0:55:33.000 --> 0:55:34.960 I want your kids to know that. I want all 0:55:34.960 --> 0:55:38.839 of our people to know we're not our circumstances. That's 0:55:38.880 --> 0:55:41.719 why mental health is real. It starts with fine. Well, 0:55:41.800 --> 0:55:47.200 speaking of mental health, in the last few days, we've 0:55:47.320 --> 0:55:50.680 learned that there was a mental health breakdown that happened 0:55:50.719 --> 0:55:54.719 among some of the seventy three million people voted for 0:55:54.920 --> 0:55:59.000 Donald Trump, mainly white folks. There was some of our 0:55:59.040 --> 0:56:02.440 own folks out there. I saw a few who were 0:56:02.520 --> 0:56:06.440 mixed in who really you know, the mental health issue 0:56:06.760 --> 0:56:10.200 that they are dealing with. I believe the diagnosis is 0:56:10.239 --> 0:56:14.120 white supremacy, that white supremacy is a sickness. It's a 0:56:14.200 --> 0:56:18.960 mental health sickness that has to be cured. UM. And unfortunately, 0:56:19.520 --> 0:56:22.480 and I know you and I have discussed this, it 0:56:22.560 --> 0:56:25.400 almost is is if what is happening in this moment, 0:56:25.480 --> 0:56:29.239 this meltdown, has to happen in order for us to 0:56:29.320 --> 0:56:31.920 be able to get to a place where we have 0:56:32.120 --> 0:56:35.359 true equity and justice and all the things that we've 0:56:35.400 --> 0:56:38.799 been fighting for. And that even though it's painful and 0:56:38.880 --> 0:56:42.480 it looks crazy and it's scary, and people are dying. 0:56:42.640 --> 0:56:48.879 People died in the Capital building, UM, because of all 0:56:48.920 --> 0:56:52.080 of the chaos that took place there. But it's almost 0:56:52.120 --> 0:56:55.440 like just like many of our struggles, even though I 0:56:55.480 --> 0:56:57.560 don't know what they're struggling for, but that's a whole 0:56:57.600 --> 0:57:02.160 different days conversation. UM. People have died, right, people had, 0:57:02.200 --> 0:57:06.000 There have been casualties. They are at war, in my opinion, 0:57:06.080 --> 0:57:09.120 with themselves. It's not our fight. There are many that 0:57:09.160 --> 0:57:12.000 are that many things that we do have to fight, 0:57:12.480 --> 0:57:17.160 and we are collateral damage. Every time America gets in 0:57:17.200 --> 0:57:19.640 trouble with this self or anyone else, Black and brown 0:57:19.720 --> 0:57:22.520 people suffer. But there is no reason for us to 0:57:22.600 --> 0:57:25.560 run to the streets to be a part of this 0:57:25.720 --> 0:57:28.880 war that white folks are in with other white people 0:57:28.960 --> 0:57:32.280 because they're all trying to fight for supremacy to hold 0:57:32.360 --> 0:57:35.600 true and black people have begun to recognize our power. 0:57:36.240 --> 0:57:40.280 That's right. You know, Dan rather Um made a very 0:57:40.280 --> 0:57:44.760 important statement for media today. And you know, journalism is 0:57:44.800 --> 0:57:47.960 a real thing. The words that they use are it 0:57:48.000 --> 0:57:51.720 can determine how someone perceives that. And I actually was 0:57:51.880 --> 0:57:56.360 really honored that he actually said, stop calling this protesting. 0:57:57.240 --> 0:58:00.120 Stop it. We have an accountability And that's an g 0:58:00.320 --> 0:58:02.440 saying it because he knew, he knew he needed to 0:58:02.440 --> 0:58:05.880 say that because these are not protests, these are terrorists. 0:58:06.960 --> 0:58:09.280 And you know they want to talk about We couldn't 0:58:09.280 --> 0:58:12.640 say black lives matter because all lives matter and blue 0:58:12.680 --> 0:58:17.280 lives matter. Yet they were out there killing, killing those cops. 0:58:17.640 --> 0:58:21.720 Let's just be honest. You all know, it takes a 0:58:21.760 --> 0:58:27.400 lot of a lot to organize. That wasn't That wasn't 0:58:27.640 --> 0:58:31.960 organized that, okay. And the fact that the fact that 0:58:32.000 --> 0:58:34.960 they were able to penetrate a federal building like that, 0:58:35.320 --> 0:58:38.120 they allowed them to. They were allowed to that was 0:58:38.160 --> 0:58:43.680 part of the organization, understand exactly because they somebody organized 0:58:43.720 --> 0:58:45.920 that they will allow them to have access. If you 0:58:45.960 --> 0:58:49.120 look their films, you know a lot of different clips 0:58:49.160 --> 0:58:51.840 where you see the police saying, come on, come through, 0:58:52.440 --> 0:58:54.640 opening the gate for them to come through. So, you know, 0:58:54.960 --> 0:58:58.720 we realized, and it's just sad that it takes other 0:58:58.720 --> 0:59:01.320 people so long to realize and people are starting to 0:59:01.520 --> 0:59:04.480 visually see things, and you know, you can't continue to 0:59:04.560 --> 0:59:07.400 just act like it's not happening anymore. You know, we're we're, 0:59:07.520 --> 0:59:10.360 like Tamika said, we are definitely in a state of emergency. 0:59:10.840 --> 0:59:13.120 And you know, and as we awaken, when you look 0:59:13.160 --> 0:59:16.000 at the Georgia race and you look at what we've done, 0:59:16.320 --> 0:59:18.760 how we've come together, you know, to make sure that 0:59:18.840 --> 0:59:22.680 we've elected um senators that give this presidency and this 0:59:22.880 --> 0:59:26.720 cabinet opportunity to actually pass some legislation that is gonna 0:59:26.760 --> 0:59:29.560 benefit us. You know, they're seeing that we are what 0:59:29.720 --> 0:59:32.320 we are seeing our power every day because we've been 0:59:32.320 --> 0:59:34.840 taught for so long you don't have a power. Your 0:59:34.880 --> 0:59:37.120 vote doesn't count. What are you doing that for? You 0:59:37.160 --> 0:59:40.600 don't count because and what we realize is if I 0:59:40.640 --> 0:59:43.320 don't vote didn't count, they wouldn't do so much to 0:59:43.360 --> 0:59:46.040 try to suppress it. So we've come to the point 0:59:46.120 --> 0:59:48.720 now where we see our power and they are so 0:59:48.800 --> 0:59:51.720 afraid of us coming into that power. And I wrote 0:59:51.720 --> 0:59:53.400 them on social media other day and I let you 0:59:53.520 --> 0:59:59.920 speak that America has lied to us for so long. 1:00:00.440 --> 1:00:03.240 They've told you that you don't matter. And this is 1:00:03.280 --> 1:00:07.400 what this is. You know, these these quote unquote protests 1:00:07.400 --> 1:00:10.680 as a patriots, which we know are terrorists, are only 1:00:10.800 --> 1:00:16.840 acting because America promised them that white supremacy will always rule, 1:00:17.800 --> 1:00:20.400 you know, and when they and when they see now 1:00:20.720 --> 1:00:24.080 that that is a lie, they are protesting America for 1:00:24.240 --> 1:00:27.120 lying to them. So let them deal with America because 1:00:27.160 --> 1:00:31.120 we never believe that anyway. You know everything that you 1:00:31.200 --> 1:00:33.640 both are saying, And yes to Mika, I loved your 1:00:34.120 --> 1:00:36.720 your statement, and then I love what you said today 1:00:36.760 --> 1:00:39.560 Mice earlier on your social media. The reality is that 1:00:39.600 --> 1:00:43.480 this is a perfect opportunity for, first of all, for 1:00:43.560 --> 1:00:46.240 us to take a step back and allow them to 1:00:46.320 --> 1:00:51.800 behave in the way that they have always behaved with us. 1:00:51.840 --> 1:00:55.680 This whole nation was built by oppressive people, like literally 1:00:55.680 --> 1:00:58.680 like they oppressed us. It was slavery that built this 1:00:58.840 --> 1:01:03.160 like because never have been a good nation. But literally, 1:01:03.520 --> 1:01:06.120 and so the point is that let them. They are 1:01:06.200 --> 1:01:09.640 out there acting a fool on the airplanes and the like. 1:01:09.680 --> 1:01:12.160 They're out of control. And the point is they don't 1:01:12.160 --> 1:01:15.640 even know why. That's the crazy. When they're being interviewed, 1:01:15.840 --> 1:01:19.120 they actually do not even know why. They cannot say 1:01:19.160 --> 1:01:22.160 because people are getting murdered, because you know, they're losing, 1:01:22.440 --> 1:01:25.120 they're not saying anything. They don't even know. All they 1:01:25.240 --> 1:01:30.800 know is that in the end um First of all, 1:01:30.880 --> 1:01:35.120 they're losing their numbers. Their race is decreasing, right, so 1:01:35.160 --> 1:01:40.680 they're having three, four or five babies, trying to ensure 1:01:40.880 --> 1:01:44.400 that white people don't become the minority. But yet and 1:01:44.480 --> 1:01:50.480 still Latinos are quickly becoming the majority. Latinos black and 1:01:50.560 --> 1:01:54.280 brown people. Um, as they say, the country is browning. 1:01:54.680 --> 1:01:56.760 And so that's the first thing is that there is 1:01:56.800 --> 1:02:00.200 a fit. It's a literal fit that's taking place as 1:02:00.240 --> 1:02:03.200 they see their numbers decreasing and feel that they're going 1:02:03.280 --> 1:02:06.200 to lose power. I think it was a bad move 1:02:06.920 --> 1:02:10.280 for them to allow Donald Trump to be president. Not 1:02:10.480 --> 1:02:15.080 that they haven't had racist tyrants in office in the past, 1:02:15.680 --> 1:02:19.960 but they allowed their president to go forth in showing 1:02:20.080 --> 1:02:25.480 us how deeply corrupt and racist this nation is and 1:02:25.600 --> 1:02:29.680 as black folks always do, we respond when our backs 1:02:29.680 --> 1:02:33.480 are up against the wall. And so they allowed Donald 1:02:33.520 --> 1:02:37.280 Trump to go so far for these last four years 1:02:37.320 --> 1:02:40.240 that now the bag, the cat is out the bag, 1:02:40.360 --> 1:02:42.920 the sheet is off the head right, and so we 1:02:43.040 --> 1:02:46.480 see it so clear that people said, Okay, I don't 1:02:46.480 --> 1:02:48.720 even believe. I don't believe in Joe Biden and Kamala 1:02:48.800 --> 1:02:52.600 Harris that much. It's beautiful to see a black woman, um, 1:02:52.640 --> 1:02:55.240 you know, as the VP all those things, but I'm 1:02:55.280 --> 1:02:59.480 not that excited yet. And still my vote against Donald 1:02:59.520 --> 1:03:02.920 Trump is extremely important. And they lost what they believe, 1:03:03.040 --> 1:03:06.800 what they proceed to be power in their minds in 1:03:06.840 --> 1:03:09.560 the last few weeks and it literally has drove them crazy. 1:03:09.800 --> 1:03:12.760 And you spoke about Dan rather than because you, um 1:03:13.440 --> 1:03:18.160 were executive at USA today, Let's talk about how the 1:03:18.240 --> 1:03:23.160 media is covering this incident. Now, it started out that 1:03:23.200 --> 1:03:26.800 they were so upset, Oh my god, we can't believe 1:03:26.840 --> 1:03:29.600 that these things are happening. But as soon as Joe 1:03:29.640 --> 1:03:34.840 Biden stood before the country and said, if this had 1:03:34.880 --> 1:03:39.280 been a Black Lives Matter protests, I know that they 1:03:39.320 --> 1:03:42.280 would have been treated differently. Black people would have been 1:03:42.360 --> 1:03:46.520 treated differently. Than those white folds. I watched the entire 1:03:47.040 --> 1:03:50.640 news cycle shift to people being very uncomfortable. But why 1:03:50.640 --> 1:03:54.080 does he have to be divisive? These folks don't like truth, 1:03:54.840 --> 1:03:59.120 and the media is playing a role in encouraging these 1:03:59.160 --> 1:04:00.960 people and they don't don't think that they are, but 1:04:01.000 --> 1:04:04.520 they're actually a part of the process. I believe that 1:04:04.800 --> 1:04:07.960 all the whole circle we have to fill up with 1:04:08.160 --> 1:04:11.800 equity and equality, not just the the civil rights, not 1:04:11.920 --> 1:04:16.120 just the political side. Financially too. And when we actually 1:04:16.200 --> 1:04:20.000 have a bigger stake financially and we build more successful 1:04:20.040 --> 1:04:24.160 companies and stopped building the Louis Batton so to speak, 1:04:24.160 --> 1:04:26.920 of the world, and we start building, then we build 1:04:26.920 --> 1:04:30.480 bigger media companies, we have more impact. You know, we 1:04:30.600 --> 1:04:34.520 have to start building our wealth. We have to wealth 1:04:34.600 --> 1:04:38.200 is wealth is what runs everything is what runs everything. 1:04:38.880 --> 1:04:41.640 You know, the media can say what they want to 1:04:41.640 --> 1:04:46.760 say because it's look who's yes, and so, you know, 1:04:46.880 --> 1:04:49.560 all of these areas are important, and we do we 1:04:49.600 --> 1:04:52.520 have to make media more accountable. I loved what Charlemagne 1:04:52.520 --> 1:04:55.320 and then did this morning on the Breakfast Club. They 1:04:55.400 --> 1:04:58.680 literally said, oh, the FBI needs help. That's weird because 1:04:58.720 --> 1:05:00.720 all we had to do was Google, well and go 1:05:00.800 --> 1:05:04.080 straight and here. So here's all the names FBI. Right. 1:05:04.480 --> 1:05:07.200 So the reality is that instead of being quiet about it, 1:05:07.440 --> 1:05:10.120 we have to put it out there and we the 1:05:10.120 --> 1:05:12.720 only way to do that is through media. That's why 1:05:13.120 --> 1:05:16.919 like this is important, and you know all the other things. Well, 1:05:16.920 --> 1:05:19.320 you know we like we always do, we sit for 1:05:19.360 --> 1:05:23.680 hours talk about we could do this for hours. Unfortunately 1:05:24.560 --> 1:05:27.320 this show is not that long and they can't even 1:05:27.360 --> 1:05:31.880 take all of the you know, we can give each other. 1:05:31.920 --> 1:05:33.920 But we want to say thank you and want to 1:05:33.960 --> 1:05:36.640 tell you that we appreciate you, not only for what 1:05:36.680 --> 1:05:38.480 you do for us, for what you do just in 1:05:38.560 --> 1:05:41.720 general in this world and which you represent. Tell us 1:05:41.760 --> 1:05:44.080 where can we get this? Watch this show? What time 1:05:44.160 --> 1:05:46.480 it comes on so people can tune in because we 1:05:46.560 --> 1:05:52.640 need them to watch our representatives, our queen. It's Undercover Billionaire. 1:05:53.160 --> 1:05:56.640 It's every Wednesday at eight p m. Eastern Standard Time, 1:05:57.000 --> 1:05:59.680 and it's also streaming on Discovery Plus. The first two 1:05:59.680 --> 1:06:03.080 episodes are up right now on Discovery Plus. Monique I 1:06:03.240 --> 1:06:07.800 let our our chairwomen of Until Freedom, our sister and 1:06:08.200 --> 1:06:13.959 the star of Discovery Channels. Undercover Billionaire. We love you, 1:06:14.320 --> 1:06:23.000 we support you, Thank you go ahead, peace out, Monique Man, 1:06:23.200 --> 1:06:27.960 I mean such an inspirational, dope sister. We have the 1:06:28.000 --> 1:06:31.480 best friends. I was just saying that same thing. We 1:06:31.560 --> 1:06:34.400 have so many dope friends, and we were not making 1:06:34.480 --> 1:06:38.320 up a story like new episodes alone. We're just our friends. 1:06:38.360 --> 1:06:41.600 That would be like the best episodes. I mean, it happened. 1:06:41.800 --> 1:06:44.040 And you know, we have a lot of friends, which 1:06:44.080 --> 1:06:46.480 you know, not a lot of people do. It is 1:06:46.480 --> 1:06:49.280 a blessing. A lot of people say to me, no 1:06:49.440 --> 1:06:53.240 new friends. You know, I don't. Women have never done 1:06:53.240 --> 1:06:56.480 anything for me um. And I've had some challenges with 1:06:56.480 --> 1:06:59.720 women along my career, and so I understand some of 1:07:00.000 --> 1:07:03.919 what black women and other women go through, especially when 1:07:03.920 --> 1:07:08.640 we're all sort of fighting for the very limited leadership 1:07:08.680 --> 1:07:12.120 opportunities and budgets and uh, you know, and and and 1:07:12.160 --> 1:07:15.240 things of that nature. But I have been blessed to 1:07:15.360 --> 1:07:20.080 be wrapped with black women who are my friends, they 1:07:20.120 --> 1:07:23.160 are my sisters. I do trust them. Cat Trig is 1:07:23.200 --> 1:07:27.520 one of those individuals, the producer for UM for Street 1:07:27.520 --> 1:07:31.000 Politicians for this show, also the head of Eye Woman 1:07:31.080 --> 1:07:36.560 TV UM. I have I have been black love Cat. 1:07:37.040 --> 1:07:41.200 I have been blessed. And but Monique is very special 1:07:41.560 --> 1:07:46.400 she's she is, she's she stands out by herself because 1:07:46.440 --> 1:07:49.320 of all that she's been able to accomplish. And she 1:07:49.520 --> 1:07:53.840 walks around regardless of what maybe happening, with a mission, 1:07:53.880 --> 1:07:56.760 a goal, and a purpose at all. She confidence that 1:07:56.880 --> 1:07:59.200 you just don't like. She walks into a room and 1:07:59.280 --> 1:08:03.520 she knows, she knows what she possesses. You can't talk like. 1:08:03.600 --> 1:08:07.240 She walks inconfident, she's aware of what she talks about. 1:08:07.320 --> 1:08:10.920 She always brings something to any situation that she's in, 1:08:11.040 --> 1:08:14.000 and that's just she's just a blessing old. She was 1:08:14.040 --> 1:08:16.640 a part of along with my other friend who we 1:08:16.680 --> 1:08:20.360 have to get on, Marvette Britto, um and Uh and 1:08:20.479 --> 1:08:25.439 of course latoy Von my manager, um Our the manager 1:08:25.520 --> 1:08:30.360 for this show. Um Monique worked with them to get 1:08:30.400 --> 1:08:34.679 my book deal together. So she knew so much about 1:08:34.680 --> 1:08:37.479 the book industry and just because she's just a smart 1:08:37.560 --> 1:08:43.160 business person and just to watch her navigate UM in 1:08:43.240 --> 1:08:45.840 a space where I had I didn't know anything. I 1:08:45.840 --> 1:08:47.320 don't know what else was to do. Somebody told me 1:08:47.360 --> 1:08:48.960 they're gonna give me a few dollars and I was like, 1:08:48.960 --> 1:08:50.840 all right, let me write the book and they were like, no, 1:08:51.080 --> 1:08:53.600 doesn't work like that. You actually have to negotiate. You 1:08:53.640 --> 1:08:56.400 need to talk to a number of publishers um and 1:08:56.560 --> 1:08:59.800 have her as a friend in business for our work 1:08:59.840 --> 1:09:02.439 and zation for until freedom. It feels good. It's like 1:09:02.520 --> 1:09:05.400 you know that she is going to ensure that the 1:09:05.439 --> 1:09:09.000 best product is constantly birth. So I love her. I'm 1:09:09.040 --> 1:09:12.280 proud to have my life. And she's such a dope person. 1:09:12.360 --> 1:09:14.080 And it's so sad that I have to go to 1:09:14.160 --> 1:09:16.240 my eye. Don't get it after we talk about so 1:09:16.320 --> 1:09:20.679 many people. What don't you get today, sir? I don't 1:09:20.800 --> 1:09:24.880 get Are you yelling? Yeah? Because you know what's sad? 1:09:24.920 --> 1:09:27.240 Because we're just talking about this beautiful woman and we 1:09:27.280 --> 1:09:30.800 have to that's the way back to dumb sh that's 1:09:30.800 --> 1:09:33.360 how we do, you know. I just really don't. But 1:09:33.400 --> 1:09:37.120 at least we have the moments, monique moments, and then 1:09:37.200 --> 1:09:39.040 we have don't yeah, because I think that's like the 1:09:39.080 --> 1:09:41.920 balance negative in the positive, just the balance of life. 1:09:42.280 --> 1:09:44.000 So we gotta deal with it. But what I don't 1:09:44.040 --> 1:09:49.960 get is how anyone, like anyone in the world, white, black, green, purple, 1:09:51.240 --> 1:09:56.240 kind of red, whatever color you are in this moment, 1:09:57.560 --> 1:10:01.160 after all we've been through, you still you don't understand 1:10:02.520 --> 1:10:07.400 the difference in the way that black people are policed. 1:10:08.400 --> 1:10:11.280 You still don't understand what our play is. How can 1:10:11.320 --> 1:10:14.719 you look at what happened at this capital where police 1:10:14.840 --> 1:10:19.919 actually ushered, you know, criminals and terrorists into the building, 1:10:21.080 --> 1:10:24.320 when Black Lives Matter who were protesting, who literally were 1:10:24.320 --> 1:10:28.599 protesting because they just wanted charges brought against officers who 1:10:28.640 --> 1:10:32.680 actually killed people, peacefully walked up to the front of 1:10:32.720 --> 1:10:38.920 the steps and they had hundreds of army, geared, federal agents, 1:10:39.400 --> 1:10:45.040 national guards, everything. But these people who had planned, strategically planned, 1:10:45.200 --> 1:10:48.559 they had seen them violently go to different states and 1:10:48.680 --> 1:10:52.960 take over buildings, pushed. They knew this. People, these proud boys, 1:10:53.000 --> 1:10:55.439 had been doing this all over the world, and they 1:10:55.560 --> 1:11:01.040 planned this situation and there was no level security. And 1:11:01.080 --> 1:11:04.080 the reason why there was no level of security because 1:11:04.080 --> 1:11:07.719 the security was working with them. And anybody that says 1:11:07.880 --> 1:11:11.160 anything else is lying to yourself. So I don't get 1:11:11.560 --> 1:11:14.080 how people continue to turn the blind on and act like, 1:11:14.320 --> 1:11:16.719 you know, no, police brutality is not a thing against 1:11:16.760 --> 1:11:20.200 black people, you know, the way that police are dealing 1:11:20.240 --> 1:11:21.880 with black people, it happens to all of us. I 1:11:22.320 --> 1:11:25.360 go to my social media page every day and there's 1:11:25.360 --> 1:11:27.040 one or two people that tell me you're just a 1:11:27.120 --> 1:11:30.000 race bader. You just want to point out things, talk 1:11:30.040 --> 1:11:33.000 about what happens to white people. White people get arrested too, 1:11:33.240 --> 1:11:35.280 white people get shot too, all right, And I asked 1:11:35.320 --> 1:11:38.320 them all the time, just show me where this happens 1:11:38.479 --> 1:11:41.160 in the same magnitude that it happens to black people. 1:11:41.360 --> 1:11:43.960 And I have no problem posting if you show me 1:11:44.320 --> 1:11:48.120 police brutalizing white people who have no weapons, killing them 1:11:48.120 --> 1:11:51.000 and shooting them and taking their rights and you know, 1:11:51.120 --> 1:11:53.800 violating their rights on a regular basis. I would love 1:11:53.840 --> 1:11:55.800 to promote that because I want to show how the 1:11:55.880 --> 1:11:58.240 system is not working for everybody. So we can so 1:11:58.360 --> 1:12:01.120 we can just over and what we say all the time, 1:12:01.840 --> 1:12:06.280 especially in this situation, is we don't want the police 1:12:06.479 --> 1:12:12.280 to shoot to kill anybody, anybody, including including us. We 1:12:12.320 --> 1:12:15.200 don't want you to shoot and killing harm the white people. 1:12:15.640 --> 1:12:19.080 We just want you not to shoot and kill us 1:12:19.120 --> 1:12:21.559 the same way you don't shoot and kill them. Yeah, 1:12:21.680 --> 1:12:23.080 you know, and that's and that's what it is. So 1:12:23.120 --> 1:12:25.920 I still don't get it. Hopefully I won't have to 1:12:25.920 --> 1:12:29.080 get it. Hopefully at this situation we can look and say, 1:12:29.120 --> 1:12:32.440 you know what, I ain't that you know, I ain't crazy. 1:12:32.680 --> 1:12:34.880 I could see what's going on. We we you know, 1:12:35.280 --> 1:12:38.960 the President said, you know, if this had been a 1:12:39.000 --> 1:12:42.360 Black Lives Matter situation, it would have been police difference. 1:12:42.439 --> 1:12:44.519 Well we know that and they and they know it also. 1:12:44.600 --> 1:12:47.639 But you know what the media again, as we were saying, 1:12:47.840 --> 1:12:51.880 uh with Monique, um, the media plays a role in 1:12:51.880 --> 1:12:57.040 that because whenever protests Black Lives Matter protests happened and 1:12:57.080 --> 1:13:00.960 there's you know, anything a brick thrown own, you know, 1:13:01.200 --> 1:13:04.080 if there's a building that burns, all of those things, 1:13:04.160 --> 1:13:07.799 which we totally don't support. But when those things happened, 1:13:08.160 --> 1:13:11.320 they low it up. They highlighted so much and try 1:13:11.400 --> 1:13:15.479 to discredit the entire movement and say that we're thugs, 1:13:15.560 --> 1:13:19.320 were violent. Um, And they are immediately So it seems 1:13:19.360 --> 1:13:23.639 like they're excited to shift the narrative away from the 1:13:23.720 --> 1:13:28.000 reason why people are protesting and to call out the 1:13:28.080 --> 1:13:31.160 reason why some of these buildings are burning. And by 1:13:31.240 --> 1:13:35.720 the way, to be clear, in the summer of tw 1:13:37.320 --> 1:13:41.240 we learned that many of the people burning down the 1:13:41.280 --> 1:13:44.960 buildings and causing the chaos were the same people that 1:13:45.080 --> 1:13:47.080 was out there running up the walls at the State 1:13:47.120 --> 1:13:49.639 Capitol building at the you know at the Capitol Building 1:13:49.720 --> 1:13:53.960 in DC, the same people they call them, We saw them, 1:13:54.000 --> 1:13:57.240 They caught them. They found a woman who burned down 1:13:57.280 --> 1:14:00.600 the Windy's that was a white woman, broke through the 1:14:01.800 --> 1:14:04.600 breaking and target in the order zone. They fact that 1:14:04.840 --> 1:14:08.479 that guy, they specifically went back into his history and 1:14:08.520 --> 1:14:11.040 found out how much he was not a Black Lives 1:14:11.040 --> 1:14:15.800 Matter activists or loyalist. So the same fault to be 1:14:15.960 --> 1:14:20.320 clear on on both sides there on both sides. So 1:14:20.400 --> 1:14:22.760 for me, you know, before we end the show, I 1:14:22.800 --> 1:14:25.720 just want to point out a clear distinction. You know, 1:14:25.760 --> 1:14:29.479 we we protested for Brianna Taylor, and we sat on 1:14:29.520 --> 1:14:33.320 the lawn and then you came into just sat down. 1:14:33.720 --> 1:14:38.040 There was no weapons, there was no force, didn't break anything, 1:14:38.320 --> 1:14:40.719 We didn't knock on the door, We didn't do anything. 1:14:41.160 --> 1:14:45.599 And eight seven of us went to prison, went to jail. 1:14:46.840 --> 1:14:48.840 Well I keep saying prison because I guess because I've 1:14:48.840 --> 1:14:50.840 been to prison. I always say that. But we went 1:14:50.880 --> 1:14:56.120 to jail and people died in the Capital, people were injured. 1:14:56.160 --> 1:15:00.439 There was violence, They broke down windows, they pushed through 1:15:01.680 --> 1:15:06.439 the pretty much backed offices down. They did all before 1:15:06.479 --> 1:15:10.760 you before you go out on that now, is it 1:15:10.840 --> 1:15:15.120 not true that there are black folks who are in 1:15:15.280 --> 1:15:20.479 jail right now because they happened to be somewhere when 1:15:20.520 --> 1:15:26.760 another person was killed and they are charged with association. 1:15:27.240 --> 1:15:29.559 They didn't pull a trigger, but because you were there 1:15:29.600 --> 1:15:33.599 and you were a part of causing why this felony murder? 1:15:33.720 --> 1:15:38.519 If someone is murdered in the act of you committing 1:15:38.520 --> 1:15:43.200 a felony, then that murder goes to you. Everyone who 1:15:43.479 --> 1:15:47.920 was involved in committing that felony is charged with that. Okay, 1:15:47.960 --> 1:15:52.200 So you know, and that's that's a law that has 1:15:52.560 --> 1:15:55.479 a lot of our young kids who locked up, locked 1:15:55.560 --> 1:15:57.799 up who are doing fifty and sixty years in prison 1:15:57.920 --> 1:16:00.240 right now. You know, I know a young boy who 1:16:00.240 --> 1:16:02.680 I've been fighting for and continue to fight for. He 1:16:02.800 --> 1:16:04.439 went to jail. He's not a young boy now, he's 1:16:04.439 --> 1:16:06.639 actually forty one years old, but he went to jail 1:16:06.680 --> 1:16:10.360 at seventeen and for robbing and McDonald's and he's shot 1:16:10.400 --> 1:16:12.880 in the ceiling and he told the people to get 1:16:12.920 --> 1:16:14.880 in the back while he ran off with the money. 1:16:14.880 --> 1:16:18.240 Didn't hurt anybody, didn't kill anybody, no one was injured 1:16:18.280 --> 1:16:20.400 a harm, and they sentenced that were the thirty five 1:16:20.520 --> 1:16:23.080 or fifty years at the age of seventeen, and he's 1:16:23.120 --> 1:16:25.240 done twenty four years right now, and he's still sitting 1:16:25.240 --> 1:16:28.840 in the prison. So if we can continue to over 1:16:29.520 --> 1:16:32.880 you know, incriminate our children, our young boys, and these 1:16:32.920 --> 1:16:36.759 grown people who publicly announced the crimes that they committed 1:16:36.800 --> 1:16:41.040 on TV, who took lives, who injured people, who were 1:16:41.040 --> 1:16:44.200 responsible for the way people died. An officer actually lost 1:16:44.240 --> 1:16:46.640 his life because he was hitting the head with a 1:16:46.720 --> 1:16:50.120 fire extinguisher. So if, if, if we don't see the 1:16:50.200 --> 1:16:54.840 same type of sentences and charges handed down to these 1:16:54.920 --> 1:16:57.360 only fifty this, this was what I was trying to say, 1:16:57.439 --> 1:17:00.800 Only fifty three people have been arrested. Eighty seven of 1:17:00.880 --> 1:17:03.240 us was arrested for sitting on the law. We've seen 1:17:03.840 --> 1:17:08.439 hundreds of people inside of that Capitol building and only 1:17:08.479 --> 1:17:10.920 fifty three people who have been arrested. If you don't 1:17:10.920 --> 1:17:15.280 realize that there's a different police, there's a different America, 1:17:15.360 --> 1:17:18.599 there's two different Americas, then I don't know what you realize. 1:17:19.000 --> 1:17:22.439 And on that note, I might not always be right, 1:17:23.600 --> 1:17:26.280 and I'm always right to me, it might not always 1:17:26.280 --> 1:17:31.400 be wrong, but we will both always be that's a fact. 1:17:31.760 --> 1:17:36.320 Peace out. Thanks for joining street politicians. That's how we 1:17:36.400 --> 1:17:36.639 own