WEBVTT - Taking Our Civic Duty Seriously with Jamaal Bowman 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:00.840 I'm Tamika d. 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.520 Mallory and the ship Boy my Son in general, we 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:05.559 are your host of TMI. 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.960 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:16.200 Inspiration name New Energy. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:16.560 But how good. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.400 We got a big show today. It's a lot to discuss. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:25.080 So our guest is a friend, A friend, a friend. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.640 That's one thing we brought over from street politicians to TMI. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.240 That's still we keep our friends. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.720 Our friends are doing really powerful things, you know. And 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.120 so a friend is coming in. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.440 But it's a friend who's in a very powerful position 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:44.879 in our society, and so I look forward to interviewing him. 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.080 And because we have so much to discuss, I think 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.519 it would do us some good to just kind of 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.879 get into the show and not have an argument at 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.920 the onset, Like, I mean, what. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.320 Does that mean. I don't really create arguments. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.640 I just I defend myself because for the most part, 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.720 I'm always being attacked. Yeah, I don't know that this 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.160 this is a room for the eye women. TV is 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.720 full with women, and they are attacking me. They beat 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.240 on me every time. Everything I do wrong physically to me, 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:20.319 not physically, not physically. Not physically, there's no physical there 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.280 is a mental and emotional lashing that I deal with Tamika, 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.280 it becomes my mother on here. She tells me how 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.200 to say the words, how to pronounce them. She stops me. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.360 There. You don't see that. You don't see the stuff 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:34.760 that I gotta do with. That's what I do. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.119 It's for your I guess you know. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.360 That's why I don't really, you know, quit, That's why 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.679 I'm still here, because you know, if I thought it 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:45.960 was for my betterment, I would quit. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:47.920 I would just say, you know what, I'm not gonna 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:48.120 do this. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:57.040 Wow, we should quit. No, I'm serious, tradition. 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.760 The reason why I thought about that is because the 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:05.560 weather is literally going to kill us, like seriously, it's 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.960 really going to kill us. Every single day, the weather 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.440 changes so drastically that you don't know exactly what you're 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:13.440 supposed to be wearing. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.880 And it is freezing cold. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.880 It seems like everywhere else across the country that I'm 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.120 talking to family members and friends, they are in almost 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:22.880 summer condition. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:24.800 They got on like a sweat suit and. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.639 That's it we are deal I literally the last few 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.160 days have had. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.760 On full winter clothes and I. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.680 Would have put a scarf on my neck if it 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.639 were not for the fact that, like I didn't want 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.760 to look crazy, right, so I was like cold trying 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.320 to be cool. Thank you shout out to the Black 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.399 Effect for sending us those jackets, because at least it's 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.640 like a real almost winter cold. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:50.000 It's like. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:56.679 I've been wearing I've been wearing that jacket every day, 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.880 every day, no matter what what I have, because it's 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.400 like a little thick and I'm just trying to figure 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.840 out Groundhog Day, right, this is really my thought of 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:12.880 the day. The groundhog be missing a lot, not all 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.560 the time, but the groundhog it don't always work. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.000 Why do we even like it's just because. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.600 You don't realize we just have symbol a lot of 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.280 symbolism in America, a lot of the ship that they 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.840 told me it don't work. It never really works. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.720 And it's just like the weather man is off. He's 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.400 gotten better. He's gotten better over the years, the weather man. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:36.600 Because there was times. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.920 When you go outside and the weather man that said 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.880 something and we don't I done stayed home from school 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.880 for storms that never came. That you be looking out 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.840 the window like it used to be crazy and it 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:48.680 never came or just missed us. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.880 Like two inches it was supposed to come. And you 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:52.440 know what I'm saying. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.040 So there's a lot of symbolism shit in America that 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.240 just don't make sense and it really doesn't add up. 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.440 And I think the groundhog is one of those things 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.320 that the good white people in America who who've seen 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.040 his ground hog, he somebody obviously has some level of. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:10.560 Work at one point, don't want to look at it. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.320 Probably well, yeah, because I mean I can remember times 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.080 when the groundhog did work, and it's true, true, it's true. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.520 We should really look at the history. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:26.320 Look how the groundhog started and try to understand it, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.400 because it doesn't always work. Nothing is one hundred percent. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.000 We already know that. But this is why I'm saying 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.840 that we should quit the groundhog. Right, this is this 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:35.839 is truly my thought. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:36.600 The groundhog. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.760 I don't think you have anything against us quitting him. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.039 I don't think he wants people just looking at him 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.480 and he come on this little hole. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.760 And off want to deal with but being captured to 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.480 be hell, he don't want to have to see if 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:49.599 he sees the shadow. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.920 The animal cruet, right, I wonder, I mean, we really 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.080 do need so. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.400 Listen, man, what they doing to that poor groundhog. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:04:59.560 I don't think it's the same. 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.280 We should fight out because I would be ignorant. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:04.360 Leave him alone. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:05.719 But this is the real question. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.760 House. He probably got to use the all type of ship. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:09.800 Y'all just grabbing him. 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.080 Talk about his house. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.839 He got a house. It's a little cubby. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.320 That is created for the experience. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:21.159 No way, they took him from somewhere in the wild. Yeah, house, 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.080 that's where they live at. That's the reason. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.720 Why, Michael, he's a bathuum in the house. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.640 My issue with the groundhog situation is how much money 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.920 do we spend to produce that little thing that they do. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.080 I just want to know, like how much does it cost? 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.960 It's in Pennsylvania, and I just want to know what 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.760 goes into it, how many people are paid? 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:44.680 What is what are the structures? 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.159 Like what's the budget for producing the groundhog moment? That 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.599 fails often? And people do not really know whether or 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.720 not the weather is going to be determined by what 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:57.800 the groundhog sees. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:02.159 What's probably it's probably like a holiday in Pennsylvania, right, 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.640 so groundhog gets probably something that people pay to come 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.800 to be a party. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:08.600 They might. 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.039 So you all know that our show is called TMI, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.279 which a lot of people when they first hear it, 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.560 they're like, oh TM, I like too much information, But no, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:23.159 it's t making myissan's information. However, one of our segments 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:27.200 is called too Much, And for the too Much segment today, 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.800 I want to talk about this swatting issue. Right, A 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:35.039 lot of people don't understand what swatting is, except I 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.240 watched a show about it. I don't know if it 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.120 was a documentary, but it certainly was a movie and 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:43.159 it's definitely on one of these platforms, might have been Netflix. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.599 And it happened to Cardi B recently where her home 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:52.120 she was swatted, which means that someone knows your address 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.760 and they call the police and tell them that you have. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.840 You know, you're just you dealing drugs, or. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.839 Is a body in your house there was a murder 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:07.560 or something which will which will pretty much summons the 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:12.040 swat team to your home. Now, anybody that's ever seen 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.640 a swat team, if you know anything about what that 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.280 looks like, it is no joke. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:18.960 Like a swat team. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.440 When they run down on you. They come in with trucks, 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:28.520 guns out, people moving into your space. Look, it looks 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.480 very similar to what folks saw at Diddy's house recently, 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:37.160 same thing at Puff's house. So our homes, that's what 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.440 it looks like when a swat team comes. Sometimes there 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:46.400 are a helicopters, there's certainly all types of technical devices 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.480 they come in, and by the way, most of them 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.520 come with no knock warrants where they busting through your door. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.040 They're not giving you time to think, to do or whatever. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.480 They running up in your shit and they tearing up 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.000 everything until they get to a conclusion. You could be 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:05.080 sitting there saying, as Carti said, she was like, I'm 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.960 Cardi B. They was making her get naked, basically almost 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.160 stripping her while she's explaining to them, I'm Cardi B. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.000 Sometimes these offices, especially depending on where you live, you're 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.120 dealing with a bunch of white officers or a bunch 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.600 of officers that don't know shit, don't care, and even 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.160 if they know who you are, they don't care. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.360 They have no consideration or. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.400 Understanding about who you are and what you do, and 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.679 that you're an entertainer. Somebody said you're doing drugs, gun 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.679 dealing whatever out this house. They do not care, and 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.959 they go through your shit and tear your house up. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.080 The question that I think it it. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.600 Oh, and let me go back. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.719 So in the SWAT, I don't know if you ever 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:51.440 saw this the SWAT documentary or movie. They there were 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.840 some young people, mainly young white kids, boys, young men, 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.880 young white men, who were doing it all the time 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.920 to their neighbors, to other people that they're playing video games. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.200 But I think that's kind of how it started. That 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.920 they would be doing video playing video games, and if 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.000 they lose or if they get upset in the midst 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.680 of the game, and they knew the address of the person, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.160 the virtual person, you know, the person on the other 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:22.480 side of this virtual experience, they would call and do 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.920 a SWAT call on them, and then the police show 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.400 up in the middle of the person playing the game. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.240 And this was like real life and they'd be sitting 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:31.960 there playing the game and all of a sudden, the 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.280 police is like boom, boom, boom, or they coming straight 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.920 through the door. So they did this so many times 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.760 that several of them were arrested. It became an addiction, 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:44.000 and several people were arrested for it. One guy he 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.320 got he was arrested. His parents was like, what the hell. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.080 His grandmother, I believe began to realize that he was 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.520 doing some weird shit in the basement, because you know, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.960 they'd be in the basement doing weird stuff. So she 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.120 was doing she was doing some weird stuff, and the 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.120 grandmother was like, you know, she thought she figured he 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.720 had something to do with this. The boy went to jail, 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:12.200 spent time in prison for swatting people. I don't know 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:13.760 if that's really what it's called, but I'm gonna call 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.480 the swatten people. And then he got out of jail 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.480 and did it again, like he could not stop. But 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.319 the last time that he did it a man. When 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.600 the police showed up at some brown people's home, it 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.680 wasn't there wasn't a white family. It was some brown 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:35.400 people's home. They showed up the father or the son whatever, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.120 a man in the house. I guess the way in 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.199 which he approached the police, so how he probably was like, yo, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:41.880 what the fuck? 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:43.240 They killed him? 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:48.160 And the young man who sent the police there, he 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.439 was charged with exactly. He was charged with like some 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.160 serious crimes. And it's probably gonna spend a. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.400 Long, long, long long because in the commission of a felony, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.720 a life was lost because you committed a felony by 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.600 falsely calling that person, so you actually responsible for the 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.640 death of the person. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:11.400 And it's so crazy and it's like bruh, like that's 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:17.000 just it's just too much much, like you way too much. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:22.800 So but then then the larger conversation here is it's 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.360 law enforcement doing too much. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.240 But then what if some what if someone. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.920 Knows that you or I are kidnapped or we're somewhere 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.200 and someone tries to report it and then they don't 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.480 take it seriously and they approach it with soft gloves 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.560 like let me, oh, hey, do you have a body 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.640 in the house because somebody. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.280 Called and that, and then you're like, well, no, I 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:43.360 don't have a body in here. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.560 I mean, the thing is, I don't I don't blame 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.080 I don't blame the officers because they're doing their job. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.360 Because exactly if somebody makes a call with that level 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.760 of you know, haineus talking about something a murder or 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.360 somebody being kidnapped or something to that degree that we 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.200 need that level of action. But the fact the accountability 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.840 has to be very strong. The accountability when you find 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.760 out somebody's lying and they sending that type of you know, date, 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.920 they're making us send out that level of military to 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:17.520 people's homes. That's taking away, that's taxpayers money, like thousands 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.440 of dollars that people are going out. People's lives are 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.480 at risk. So if they find that you lying about that, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.800 I think it should be some very steep consequences. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.200 I agree, I think it should be steep consequences one 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:30.920 hundred percent. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.000 And I want so bad to find a way to 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:35.559 say that. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.560 Law enforcement could do X, Y or Z right, Like, 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.839 I want to find a way that they can. If 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.800 they got to knock down a door and and and 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.240 you know, and and go in, cool, But I need 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.960 them to say, let's not go in and start tearing 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:59.160 the walls out without understanding who we're dealing with. Unfortunately, 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.000 there might be somebody behind a door with a weapon, 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.600 and they do have to protect themselves. But I wish 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.520 there was some type of balance now that we know 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.680 that swatting is a thing, because then what like now 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.400 this man is dead. The man was killed because first 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.160 of all, when law enforcement approaches people of color, they 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.280 come with a level of aggression that they do not 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.920 have when they're dealing with their own or not their own. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:31.000 Because the blacks, the black officers have the order somehow 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.280 they find a way to calm down. 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.800 There's a training inside these a lot of these institutions 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.720 that train you that black people are dangerous, and they 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:42.840 even train you as. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.560 A blacker seper and black. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.040 And brown people are dangerous, so they train. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.840 That's how they train who when they're showing images of 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.439 the criminals, right, those images. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.000 Have done that. They have done that. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:58.319 I mean that is supposed to be changing within police departments, 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.320 like within their training, they are supposed to, you know, 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:07.400 not show pictures of black folks and brown folks. But 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.840 that was at one point that was a really big issue, 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.680 and so it certainly criminalizes folks who like off the back, 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.920 you're criminalized, even if you're wearing a suit. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:17.640 It doesn't matter. 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.800 It's the color of your skin, it's the neighborhood you 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.160 come from, it's all of those things. Of course, you 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.320 know the zip code that you're in and so you know, those. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.120 Who are making the phone calls need to know. And 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:29.920 I hope that this. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.360 Is not a thing that young black kids pick up 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.720 on and start doing it, because you going under the 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.200 jail for sure. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:37.120 For show. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.720 So today's music Spotlight comes from a young girl from 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.840 Hobridge from my hood. See, and I actually happened to 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:48.720 be in the video. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:49.920 You know. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.440 Yes, I grew up with her mother and her uncle 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:58.280 like day from the hood. She remixed a boogies did 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:03.080 Me Wrong and it's called Noble Shout out to Embroidery Kings. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.600 They provided the hats and the gear for the video. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.320 It's a dope video. It's a really dope video. Her 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.040 name is Princess Ariah Princess. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:14.280 How old is she? 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:19.000 She did she's probably about eight or nine. She's a baby. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.680 And the energy is just like her talking about she 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.000 got so much swag with it. But she's talking about 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.760 how you know you tried to bully me. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.760 We could have been cool and you was trying to 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:28.720 bully me and we don't. 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.480 This is no bullies on. We don't want to be 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.000 around bullies. It's people that love each other here. So 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.280 it's energy. And then it's her talking about her hot bridge, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.800 got all the swag and how we the best. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.160 So I love it. It's a person. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.080 She's a rapper. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:42.280 She's a young rapper. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.440 I think I'm not saying she's a rapper, but she 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.800 got a song, okay, so she's rapping in the song 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.920 I think she's more into modeling, but I think she 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.280 found the laying with this song and probably do more 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.600 music's most but if you watch her, she moves like 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:00.480 a model. If you go to her Instagram following on 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.320 Instagram Princess Soarriat, you'll see she does modeling all the time. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.840 And the song took off on the internet. So I 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.720 just want to give her shout out for some positive music. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:14.800 Princess Soriah. Yes, So next up we're gonna hear from 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.880 our guests. Like I said, I'm I'm quite excited to 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:18.440 have our. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:25.520 Boy Brox finance a congressman in the United States, these 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.840 United States of America, and it's a lot for us 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:28.320 to talk about. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:29.160 We're covering everything. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.720 We're talking about the TikTok band, We're talking about the 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.600 Naga influence over our country, and what will happen with 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:42.160 the Republican Party. We're talking about DEI. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:42.920 I mean, there's so. 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.200 Many issues on the table right now, and it is 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.440 so good to have in studios someone who can take 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.400 us through the ins and outs of what's happening with 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:52.200 our government. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:53.480 Sure is. 0:16:55.400 --> 0:17:00.040 So we are privileged honor today, Yes to be joined. 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:01.440 By Oh we got the bro in the building. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.920 You know, he's the bro to us, but to a 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.480 lot of people across this country, and particularly my parents 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.080 who live in his district and co Op City in 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:14.560 the Bronx. You know, you are actually very important and 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.119 a lot of people depend on you to make good decisions, uh, 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.760 and to be a an advocate for the people and 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.240 not just for yourself. And so I'm grateful we have 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.000 now become really good friends. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:27.680 We talk all the time. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.639 And I think, you know, there's something to be said 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:36.440 about people like you, a congressman or a congressional person, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.080 a person who has been elected to public office, who 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:45.520 picks up the phone like when people are calling, because both. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.760 Of us are right not picking up the phone as 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:49.120 a thing. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.200 You and I have actually had to have that conversation 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.480 about different people. I'm like, well, I called congressmen or 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.800 woman so and so or Senator such and such, and 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.280 you got to track them down and call fifteen times 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.840 and then start threatening the protests and sending letters and 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:04.119 doing that. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:05.919 And it's like, oh, wait, I didn't I missed it. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.359 You don't miss it too much, because you know you 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.240 could call a person back at least. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.959 But you are a like in real time. Yo, Yo, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:15.720 what's up? 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.960 Taught me to issue or let me break it down 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:19.679 for you and explain to you what you don't know. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.879 And I think that's pretty powerful. And you had that 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.160 relationship before I even Yeah. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:28.119 Man, the congressman, you know, I have actually met him. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:29.960 I went to the school where he was the principal 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:31.960 at and there was an issue in one of the 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.680 teachers have brought me in and I talked to the 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.399 young boys. We had a round table me and and 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.480 because in that area there are just different communities that 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.840 have been beefing for years, and those beefs carried into 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.199 the school, so they and we were sat at the 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.040 table and a lot of them didn't even know why 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.000 they was beefing. They just know this side over here, 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.000 don't mess with this side. That's just what it is. 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.560 And they even heroded these beefs. So you know, I 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.679 went in there to facilitate and sit down with the 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.160 young boys, and we came to you know, a lot 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.040 of agreements. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.680 I understand. Been a wow long time. 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:06.680 So we've been outside. We've been outside. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:10.360 And so you've been elected to Congress since twenty twenty, 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.399 sworn in in twenty twenty one. You served the sixteenth 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.200 Congressional district, which is the Bronx and Westchester. So tell 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:19.679 us more about your background. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:25.520 Yeah, who is Jamal Bowman? Black Man in America, Pauline 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:31.800 Bowman's son, educator, father, husband, just trying to do good work. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:32.280 You know. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.800 I was blessed to work in education for twenty years 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.520 before I ran for Congress. Started my career in the 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:41.080 South Bronx as an elementary school teacher before becoming a 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.680 high school Diana students at the High School for Arts 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.760 and Technology in the MLK campus. 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:47.639 I was there for three years. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.840 And it was there that I, you know, pursued school leadership, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.440 wrote my own proposals, submitted to the city, and opened 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.000 up KASA where we met and I was there for 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.680