WEBVTT - Fed Up and Fired Up: Ice Cube’s Bold Plan for Black America 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.720 Hey, fam I'm Jada Pinkett Smith and this is the 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:06.120 Red Table Pop podcast, all your favorite episodes from the 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:10.280 Facebook watch show in audio produced by Westbrook Audio and 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.360 I Heart Radio. Please don't forget to rate and review 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.440 on Apple podcast on this RTT. What you've done here 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.880 is really groundbreaking. There's nothing like this that's been done. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.599 We should be asking for that and we should be 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.760 doing that. Ice Cube and his demands for Black America. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.960 Politicians should never think I got you. They should always 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.839 think I gotta do more to get this vote. This 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.720 is an important conversation to have. We just can't say, well, 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.520 nobody's doing anything for us. What is it that we want. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.920 We've been putting dignity before dollars. Now it's time for 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.400 us to put them dollars up there with the dignity. 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.840 Van Jones. We love to compete on an even playing field. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.600 There's something wrong with the NFL superstar Brandon Marshall. The 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.040 first time I'm voted, it was like pop Quinns for 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.960 me that I wasn't prepared for. The first time I 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:02.320 voted was hands down stressful day and a new family 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.320 face joins the table as a black woman. Just want 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.560 to say, it is just so awesome to sit here 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:19.440 with three black men who are so intelligent. All right, well, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:25.200 let's bring Tyler out. Y Tyler well beautiful, so much 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:31.080 brighter than it looks on TV. Tyler is a talented musician, filmmaker, actor, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:36.520 and a close family friend. And he's extremely passionate about 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.479 today's our t T So we had to have him 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.640 at the table. What you're going to hear at this 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.479 red table effects all of our lives in a big, 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.319 big way. It's historic and has an impact on every 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.480 single one of us, and we cannot wait to talk 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.440 to the man behind it. So let's welcome the one 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:59.120 and only Ice to He's an icon, spread out, a trump, 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.800 a movie star, dominant and a successful business on that 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.239 I want to welcome everybody to the launch of Big 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:13.280 Three Now. Legendary rapper Ice Cube has created a brilliant 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.320 contract with Black America. Shortly after the death of George Floyd, 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.440 Cube assembled a team of experts and wrote a twenty 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.160 two page plan to right the wrongs of the past. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.440 Fed Up with the lack of progress, Cuba's insisting laws 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.840 must be changed in all areas of inequality. His goal 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:35.519 everything from better schools, higher paying jobs, and healthcare to 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:40.720 major police reform, Cuba's demanding politicians signed the contract to 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:46.000 earn the black vote. How y'all doing good, Cube, I 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.359 know that you decided that you wanted to do this 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:54.200 contract once George Floyd was murdered. Of course, after I've 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.320 seen that with George Floyd, it kind of shook me 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.680 to my core, you know, seeing a man face down 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.320 on the ground like that, you know, with this white officer, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:08.160 you know, looking into the camera, just taking a black 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.280 man's life, having a man screamed for his mama. It 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:17.040 just reminded me of stories I heard of when a 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.600 slave or somebody would get out of line and they 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:24.400 would pull everybody around, just show the discipline and made 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:29.560 everybody watched and lived that horror. So I canceled everything. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.440 You know. I was supposed to go on Good Morning 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.760 America that day, and I just canceled that. I was 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.640 promoting a movie with Tracy Ellis Ross called High Note, 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:45.240 which is actually a good movie. But thank you, thank you, 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.240 but I couldn't take it no more. I just was 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.560 so mad and so hurt. But then I was like, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.040 something needs to change, something needs to be done. And 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.560 we need to get some experts together, and we need 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.200 to put together something that's concrete that we all, no 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.080 matter who you are, can grab ahold of and say, damn, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.680 it's gonna help my people. Voting is great, but voting 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.600 with a purpose is better. Like we're gonna get something 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.360 from this. You tweeted recently, que I've turned into a 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.159 single issue voter. My single issue is whoever does the 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.960 most for Black Americans will get my vote. If you 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:28.240 leave us blank, I will leave you blank. I feel like, Yo, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.599 it's somebody that I'm not digging. I'm not gonna vote 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.520 for you. I love all minorities, but we need to 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:40.080 specifically deal with what's happening with black Americans because we're 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.719 the ones who have really suffered from slavery all the 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.560 way back in the day. When you start looking around, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.880 you say, damn, everything needs to be fixed. So I said, well, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.120 you know, what are we asking for as black people? 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.960 I'm telling you cute. Put in something like this together 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.880 really help me get more educated. You think you know 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.640 and you understand, but it really enlightened me on on 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.440 a lot of things. I was just gonna say in 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.359 this contract is so important because there's so many Black 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.279 Americans in particular that are dissatisfied with both the Republican 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.640 and the Democratic Party and they feel like the parties 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.680 aren't doing anything for them. But we have to have 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.560 an ask. We have to come to the table. We 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.200 just can't come out and say, well, nobody's doing anything 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.400 for us. What is it that we want? And we 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.360 also have to understand that people kind of treat us 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.000 like all black people think alike. That is not true. 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.200 We are individuals just like everybody else, and we have 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.000 different opinions on how things have to run. I think 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.839 a lot of people think I don't I say, don't vote, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.680 but that's not true. My thing is politicians should never 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.760 think I got you or he's gonna vote for me. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.840 They should always think I gotta do more to get 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.760 this vote, and they will do more. All parties have 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.960 to pay attention to our needs. Parties have to pay 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.920 attention to what we need done. We gotta let them know, hey, 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.120 with y'all, I gotta do more, or we gotta we 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.120 gotta start doing something different because what's happening is one 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.920 party is putting us in their pocket, and one party 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.560 is not paying attention to us at all, and so 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.880 we're not getting anything. So we gotta break loose of that. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.040 But we gotta say, hey, you want this, you gotta 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.000 work for it. I don't care what part do you 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.640 come from. So that's how we're gonna get more things done. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.200 We're gonna have to shake the trees a little bit. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.240 We're gonna have to turn these politicians over and shake 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.480 their pockets out. I gotta do it right. Hey, let 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.080 them cruise right. I feel you on that. Now we're 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.760 gonna go through the Contract for Black America and bring 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.160 on best selling author attorney and seeing them political contributor 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:57.600 Mr Van Joe. It is so nice to have some 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:03.040 black men at the table. Black man, I've been begging 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:08.400 to come every time. I'm like please, please. First, I 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.880 want to say I'm mad at ice Cube because he 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.120 had come and messed up the whole game politically. Everybody 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.680 was trying to do it the sneaky way you might try. No, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.480 we want some stuff. We didn't even know you can 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:27.080 do that. We could actually ask the stuff. That's that's 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.960 so let me tell you that, man. This really gave 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.800 me an opportunity to really break down and go like 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.360 hell yeah, we should be asking for that, and hell yeah, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.360 we should be doing that for me. It was a 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.520 real education. But let's start with some proposals in the 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.960 contract that jumped out at me. Um que. You want 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:50.120 to change the way schools are funded, that's so important, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.000 Oh my goodness. Right now it's based on local taxes, 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.360 you know, property taxes, and that that just can't be 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.880 I think that's crazy because you're gonna have better taxes 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.520 revenue in the in the better neighborhoods, and you're gonna 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.920 have poor tax revenue in the poor neighborhoods. And what 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.240 it should be done is the state should look at 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.640 all the students and divide the money up evenly. And 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.000 that would make our schools better overnight because they would 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.880 be better funded. Yeah that if you look at other countries, 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.680 that's how they do it. You know, they have one 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:31.480 pot and then it's per student, and that way schools 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.079 that need a boost get it overnight. And some schools 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.000 they'll live with a little less money going to them. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.120 You know, maybe you're not able to get a new 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.600 gym this year, or you might not able to get 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:47.000 a new artificial turf, But it's really important to give 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:51.280 students a chance in poor neighborhoods. This is a major thing. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.760 You got kids going to school now, thirty three kids 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:59.480 in the classroom, six books, no talk, and then literally 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.880 you can get in a car in fifteen minutes later 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.760 you can be in the school where everything is electronic, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.199 everything is a screen. Like I don't mean different neighbors, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.240 like different centuries. Some of the stuff that the Cube 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.600 is talking about. Uh, it may strike people who don't 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.840 understand the problem as extreme or whatever, but you're dealing 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.640 with extreme inequality. If they want us to be able 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.480 to compete, fine, listen, we love to compete on an 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.880 even playing field. But if you've got to give my 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.280 kids a two strikes in your our policy and your 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.520 kid has a twenty strikes policy, don't point to the scoreboard. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.840 There's something wrong with the game, and it starts with education. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:39.240 When we found out that the HBC, HBC used the 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.080 disparity in the endowments that they're getting, Like there's a 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:48.840 hundred two HBC use and between all of them, they're 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.600 getting two point one billion dollars between all of between yes, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.079 two point one billion dollars to spread amongst the hundred 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:01.600 to HBCUs by the same token Harbor. It gets forty 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:06.319 billion dollars just for that one school. That's crazy. That's 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.040 what we're dealing with it, you know, we're dealing with 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.680 a situation of total inequality. There was another point in 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.280 the contract that I've just loved. It was the mandatory 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:22.640 civil rights and anti racism classes. We gotta teach our history. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.240 It's important for us to not sit back and let 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.679 um Texas or whoever come up with these books, Uh, 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:35.800 teach our kids history. But we also need help economically. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.280 You know, we all come from something, you know what 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.480 I mean, And we know how we was treated when 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.959 we didn't have money, and we know how we treat 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.120 it now. So if we could get a little more 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.840 money into our communities, I guarantee you the treatment would 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.720 start to get better. So, you know, we've been putting 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.679 dignity before dollars. I think now it's time for us 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.400 to put them dollars up there. Here with the dignity, 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.280 we have to close the wealth gap, you know, with 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.120 thirteen point five percent of the country, So why are 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.240 we only getting three percent of loans? Some of these 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.000 things that I was looking into, I was like, damn 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.520 this isn't already in place, you know what I mean? 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.880 This seems like it's common sense that you know, we 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.120 should get more than three percent of loans that's giving 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.120 out in America. And when you really look deep into 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.760 what's going on, there's no way for us to ever 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.679 get on our feet, you know. So we gotta do 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.400 something different because we can't keep playing the same game. 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.520 Speaking of loans, you know, there's a point in the 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.959 contract when you talk about interest rates on black loans 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.199 to be the same average rates as whites. They charge 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.400 us more to get the money, and charges more to 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.600 even get the money. And I think there's a lot 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.600 of things the government could do. There's a lot of 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.960 things the private sector can do. Right now, we're focused 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.240 on the government because of an election is about to happen. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.360 They try to make us think America is a household 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.839 that's broke and we don't have the money to get 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.559 the new Jordan's this year because we broke. That's how 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.720 they make us think we ain't got enough money for 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:19.800 y'all because we broke. But America creates currency. It's a 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:24.760 currency creator. That's why I whenever there's a war, they 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.280 go click click click, and then the billions are there. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.559 Whenever the you know, this pandemic click click, click, three 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.480 trillion is there. They always say inflation is gonna run 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:40.120 high if you print money, but inflation hasn't moved. So 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.160 the money is there to help the communities. We just 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:48.240 got to push the politicians to do it. The thing 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:49.960 about it is, I mean, you just saw it happened. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:55.040 They You just saw the government fire three separate trillion 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.400 dollar cannons at the economy and didn't hit a poor 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.559 person the whole time. So you know, I remember when 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.880 a trillion dollars with a lot of money. Now it 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.600 doesn't say like a lot of money. This regime has 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.560 fired three trillion, and they might do another trillion before Thanksgiving. 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:17.200 So what he's talking about is true. It's really it's reality, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.600 and the FED has leaned in so far to make 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.280 sure the stock market stays up. Look, you see people 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.679 don't have jobs. People walking around here don't know. People 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.400 getting evicted by the gazillions right now while we're talking, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.720 don't have healthcare. I can't see a doctor. But the 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.160 stock markets through the roof. Why because of the black 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.920 people never talk about the FED cube is causing a 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.640 whole bunch of problems. I'm telling you, if you have 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.240 to start glitching right now, if you start glitching, it's 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:47.880 not your computer. I always be saying stuff like that 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.840 and people be looking at me like no, and I'm 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.560 like no, this is real, Like they're just and people 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.040 think that, people think that that's not how it works, 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.000 but it does, and it's a real issue. The whole 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.079 thing is, we can't be really looking out for too 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:08.480 many other people because we are pretty raggedy right now. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.000 It's time for us to get it together. We gotta 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:16.719 understand we're living in a capitalistic society that only respects money. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.600 This society, money is their god. It's not our god, 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.320 but it's their god, and we have to respect it 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.200 as such. They don't care about people as much as 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.160 they care about money. And until we get a hold 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.840 of some of that, we're gonna be treated like we 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.760 have none of it. And that's what's happening. They've made 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.200 us the weakest link in the change. So you gotta 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:42.280 typen up the weakest link. And you know it's systematic. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.600 I wanted to talk a little bit about the importance 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.120 of black banks. I'll talked to a leader of a 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:53.240 black bank, and I said, well, what if we got 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:57.520 government to pump more money into your bank so you 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.880 can lend more money to black people. He's said, we 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.640 don't really want government money because they're gonna put so 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:09.840 many regulations on it. Our customers can't jump through all 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.560 these thresholds that they have to meet to get the loans, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:18.040 and nobody really meets all these crazy requirements. So the 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.640 key is to go in there and try to break 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.360 down those regulations in a way and say, look, black 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.120 money to a black bank. We gotta do things the 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.320 black way, you know, we gotta be able to tailor 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:34.680 make something for our customers. So those things are mucking 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.440 up the system where you know, the money can't float 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.800 like it should. Correct if you go to the government 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.440 and how the government do it, they're gonna put in 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.360 so much red taper whatever, you're gonna wish you would 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.440 even not have the conversation half the time. Yeah, I 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.440 talked to a guy at JP Morgan who who they 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.880 did an experiment where they lent money to over four 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.960 hundred people who normally couldn't get a loan at a 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.800 regular bank. They kind of ease off the restrictions and 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.760 let these people get along. He said, do you know 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.600 how many people did not pay their loan back? I 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:13.400 said how many? He said too? Wow. Two. So when 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.800 we get money and we're responsible, we pay it back 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.520 because we know if we don't, they're gonna give it 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:24.760 to us. So we we are trustworthy if we can 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:29.080 actually get along. You want police reform in the contract, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.800 So give us the top line on this qualified immunity. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.920 That's the key. You know, when people can do stuff 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.240 to you and they know they're gonna get off um, 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.760 then what's stopping them. It gives them the go ahead 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:48.120 to harmon. So qualified immunity gotta go. I also think 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.880 police should have, you know, liability insurance. If they miss 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.680 use their gun or whatever their power, they lose their license. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:01.000 A taxi driver needs a license, said, your taxi cab, 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.920 you take your license away? You can't, you can't dry 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.080 your cab. You mess up as a cop, take your license, 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.919 suspend your license. So do you hate me more than 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.919 indeed your family? Do you want to be racist more 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.080 than you want to be a cop? You know, we 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.680 pay for them to be police, and then we pay 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.879 for them when they whoop us. And we got to 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.760 sue them, taxpayers pay again to settle the lawsuit, identifying 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.160 that what's called the bad apples and getting them off 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.720 the force. Don't let them go to another police force 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.760 down the road. Kick them off. It needs to be 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.520 the nationwide database so we can see who these bad 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.920 cops are and what they've done. I love what que 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.560 was saying about. You know, do you want to kill 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.600 this black man more than you want to feed your family. 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.600 I just think that extra step and make a guy 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:52.720 think twice before he hurt somebody for nothing, especially right now, 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.119 because you see time and time again that the police 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.600 officers are getting off when they're getting charged, they're not 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.600 getting convicted for the crime that they're committing. So it 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.879 just keeps perpetuating the same thing. Oh we're not going 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.040 to get in trouble for this, so I can I 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:11.840 can kill. The term is called impunity. Uh, you can 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.919 do something with impunity with where nothing happens to you. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.199 If you have eight hundred thousand people, which is how 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.000 many police officers were blessed to have. I'm from a 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:19.920 law enforcement family, so I know a little bit about 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.760 this besides being an attorney. If you have eight hundred 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:28.040 thousand people, and you give them all guns, badges, batons, 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:34.680 fast cars, tasers, pepper spray, helicopters, dogs, the whole deal, 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.760 and if they go out and keep the peace. But 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.679 we we we respect you so much, We like you 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.440 so much. No matter what you do. You will never 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:51.000 be disciplined, demoted, fired, sued, or jailed no matter what 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.720 you do. The Police Officers Union to have set up 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.600 when you can't be easily disciplined, demoted, or fired, even 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.520 if everybody knows you're a cowboy. I think the police 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:04.720 name more services. I think they need more specialists to 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.760 deal with certain things. We don't always need the tough 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.240 guys to be police, you know, we need to need 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:15.280 the common sense guys sometimes. So the funding the police 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.920 became a bad word that, But we just want better 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.160 police and you wouldn't have to defund anything if they 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.880 just treated us right. Next, we have equal health care 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:31.119 facilities in all neighborhoods, regardless of demographics. Yes, mean, that 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.040 just sounds like human rights. Like to me, that just 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:39.160 sounds like that should be basic. If you fix Black America, 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.280 the rest of America is gonna be fine, you know 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.800 what I mean? If you get the people who are 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.120 having real problems, but they do it the opposite. They 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.320 take care of the community that don't need the help first, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.400 then they say they have no money for everybody else. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.520 So it doesn't make sense. You saw it with this pandemic, 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.560 the humor of the impact of our community not having 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:03.600 access to healthcare. This pandemic jumped on us because we 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.399 already had an epidemic of diabetes, already had an epidemic 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.200 of high black pressure, already had an epidemic of obesity. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.320 So we were like a yummy snack for this virus 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.679 that wasn't because of the virus, that was because of 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.000 the racism in the public health care system before the 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.040 virus got here. So some of the stuff that he's 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.520 talking about will help black people, but it also will 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.960 help everybody. A human rights agenda led by black people 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.560 always helped everybody. But I thought it was so interesting 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.879 when you talked about the responsibilities of us as a 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.920 black community. I just don't think we need to give up. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.600 We're kind of giving in to what's what's out there. 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.199 We're falling into the cess pool that they have for 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.600 us to fall into. So we just gotta fight harder 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.960 to to stand up right clean up our communities in 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.240 any way we can. I just don't want us to 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.560 throw our hands up and just say, man, this is 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:56.960 just how it is. We gotta be like this because 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:59.560 our neighborhoods are like that. There's things we could do 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:01.560 to fight the system. There's things we can do to 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.800 fight the power. That's really what that's all about. Our 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.720 condition is from the hundreds of years of a system 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:13.280 that really funneled us into this condition. So we really 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.480 have to fight against that every day, and we can't 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.199 let a day go by where we relax and just 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:21.680 give in and say, man, this is just how it is. 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:26.040 We have to come up with measurable means to hold 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.320 us accountable. Just like we want to hold white America accountable, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:32.960 we have to hold ourselves accountable as well. That's the 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.560 real thing. There's a certain level of importance that we're 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:41.159 not putting on holding ourselves accountable for what we're putting 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.879 out about ourselves. What are we saying about ourselves. I 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.639 feel like a huge dilemma for us as black people 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.840 is that the media in the industry wants to see 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.960 us in a certain light. In the music industry, you're 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.520 taught that, oh, if you're black and you wrap about 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.680 violence and money, that's gonna make you more money. Labels 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:01.760 are going don't want to sign you if you're talking 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:03.800 about violence. More so if you're than if you're a 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:10.400 conscious partist, Yes exactly. But but how do we break 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:14.000 the cycle? Well, you know, it's a complicated role because 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.159 when we first did our music in w A, we 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:21.439 never thought we would be you know, on the radio. 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:24.439 We thought it was just gonna be straight underground music. 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.000 Sometimes you do something for the art of it, and 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:32.359 then a company like viacom and say, hey, this is 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.440 pop and they'll take it to the top. The positive 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.399 music sometimes get pushed to the side, and in the 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:44.720 launchy hardcore stuff gets promoted, published and pushed out there 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.720 and marketed and it puts an indprint and other young 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:50.280 artists coming up to oh this is the way I 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:53.280 must need to do it to get on, and artists 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.320 can't be afraid to show something new, you know. Showing 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:59.560 something new is usually when you break out. I remember, 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:03.639 everybody is doing hardcore gangster nothing could penetrated, and then bam, 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.320 Kanye come out with college Dropout, you know, which is 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:13.000 basically the backpack rappers Bible and you know, so it's 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:17.080 really all about having the courage to break the modes 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:20.560 and your artists and not letting anybody put you on 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.880 the box, not even your own community. Hollywood has been 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:27.320 complacent in in our treatment in this country. You know, 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:29.680