WEBVTT - Beating the Ban on Black Studies 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.680 What's up? Family? Is your girl? To Mika d Mallory, 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:13.040 this your boy, and we are your hosts of street politicians, 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.600 the places, the streets and politics. Me. What's going on, 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:23.560 mister lenin our society? Oh man, lord, And I'll tell 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.840 you it's a lot, lot, lot, lot, lot a lot happening. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:32.840 But I spent time today with little four year olds 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.600 and five year olds and I was like, you know, 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:37.920 this is where I need to be, Like I think 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.400 that this is my next life. I need to be 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.920 with them because the first of all, they're hilarious and 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:48.080 they're you know, they like still in their terrible twos, 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:53.120 but they're so sweet. They said such nice things to me. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.080 The girls were like, you're pretty. And then the boys 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.160 were like, well tell me what you do, and they 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.320 were very in quick positive and it was just a 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:07.880 great space. And I was actually with our family at 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:12.040 gb n Y, which is an athletics store in Queens. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.760 They sell sneakers and they always get the like top whatever, 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.040 the freshest flyers whoever sneakers come out. You know, I 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.240 don't know much about that, but they get them. And 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.480 a lot of celebrities, including Jim Jones, who was there 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:30.399 today with me at this event. They they are like 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.800 a real exclusive place that a lot of celebrities go 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.560 to and therefore they know they have a big responsibility. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.000 And today g the owner was talking about how much 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.120 no matter where he goes or what he does, he 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.960 wants to give things away. So they teamed up with 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.240 Adidas and gave away one hundred thousand dollars worth of 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.720 sneakers to families and kids today in a school in 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:56.560 Harlem PS one seventy nine. Super cool our guy, big brother, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.600 mister Footwork brought me into and had me to be there, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.520 and I was just like, these kids, this is I 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.880 have to be with the kids because the adults, the 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.840 adults is dropping. Adult team is different. But you know, 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.520 we gotta protect the kids too, man, because it's crazy. 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:21.200 Oh yeah, speaking of crazy things going on with kids, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:27.839 um in Florida. In Miami, your Florida is literally off 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.760 the chain. It's like, you know, they got the senses 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.480 out there, man, crazy, but it's always been crazy, and 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:40.360 it's just crazier. Um. They had a daycare center and 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.400 a bunch of white kids in the daycare center there 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.920 with other children as well, black kids, you know, diverse 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.320 group of people, the two year olds for Black History Month, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.560 the teachers decided to paint their faces black face, and 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:58.880 then they took the photos from they didn't follow shot 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.200 of the little two your old white kids with the 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.359 black face, and put it on their social media accounts, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.840 and of course the black folks lost it. I'm telling you, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:13.359 I was on the internet scrolling yesterday and I saw 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.639 a story about daycare and black people pulling their kids out, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.440 and you know what I did, scrolled on past it 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.040 as fast as I could, because I just didn't even know. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.880 I was thinking it was gonna be something, you know, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.760 something else, and I just couldn't deal with it. It's 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.520 just too much. I don't even understand. I'm thinking maybe 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.480 they didn't know they were doing something wrong. I don't 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.560 know how. You don't know in this era, in this 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.560 day and age, that black face, that black people don't 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.440 want it. We don't want it. It ain't no sign 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:47.160 of you know, celebrate, We don't it ain't It's not okay. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.400 No black person wants you in black face. We don't 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.360 want to say that. Some black people might. No, No, 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.160 I don't know. Nobody wants it. We don't want it, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.960 don't want it. It ain't gonna work for you. Man. 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.000 Y'all don't want to give y'all don't want to teach, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.440 you know, black history, but you want to play paint 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.400 black faces. It's so crazy. But that's why I said, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:17.000 I have to start changing my mindset, because if I 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.000 sit with everything that's going on, that's just one boom 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.600 boom boomom this that over everything, I lose my mind. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.960 And I'm not trying to lose my mind. And people 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.160 really do lose their minds, like this is a thing, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.600 like you know, as we start to get older, Alzheimers 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.800 and all these things start to become a problem, as 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.839 they call it, the all timers in our community, the 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.280 all timers, and the and the dementia and all that stuff. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.799 You cannot be out here stressing yourself out every day 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.279 with what's going on in this world. And I'm convinced 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.320 that they just have stuff bang bang bang bang bang 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.479 all day long, so that you're so all over the 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.080 place that you can't even focus on one particular thing. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.560 So therefore I have to believe that maybe they just 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.159 I don't know, maybe they didn't know. Maybe they thought 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.920 they were honoring or teaching the white kids what it 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:10.400 feels like to be black. And I don't think it's right. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.880 Of course, I'm being sort of sarcastic and even facetious, 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.440 if you will, But I'm still just trying to see 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.640 where the ribbon and the sky is that perhaps because 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.040 if you don't want it, but we don't want it, 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.080 but if you took pictures of it and you post it, 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.640 you couldn't have thought it was wrong. Right, you don't 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:33.880 want it, but we don't want it, Like that's the 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.760 black mind. And and it's been proven because every time 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:41.080 somebody does it, they get the same reaction. So if 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.159 you're doing this as a teacher, you know, and you 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.400 you and you're a grown person in twenty twenty three, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.440 then you're not paying it. You're not reading the room, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.240 you're not paying attention to anything that's going on. You 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.520 don't get it, you know what I'm saying. And and 0:05:54.520 --> 0:06:00.520 and in ignorance is not an excuse for for what 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.479 it is. At this point, you're supposed to know, you know. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.120 And that's just pretty much that it's weird though, vibes 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.000 like totally weird though, And it's like, like you said, 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.839 they don't want us to learn our history. And it 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.320 seems that there's such a fascination still though with us, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.200 like they want to cast it out of society. Basically, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.560 they don't want you to learn about yourself. They want 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.360 to kill you. They don't want anybody to fight or 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.520 stand up for you. They don't want you to stand 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.040 up for yourself. They don't want to treat your kids right. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.479 They want to lock you up. They want to do 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.160 all this, and yet and still they won't leave us alone. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.120 It like, you want, why are you painting these shows? 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.920 You should never do that because you don't want them 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.280 to be black. You don't even really want them to 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.560 have an experience or understanding of what it is that 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:50.360 we as black people are beyond enslavement and oppression, like 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.000 we have so many other great things, and for some reason, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.320 y'all just won't leave us alone. It's very weird to me, 0:06:55.760 --> 0:07:01.440 very very speaking of Bida, Florida and education, though, I'm 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.320 really proud of something that we started working on recently. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.840 We've talked on the show a few times about the 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:11.600 band on the African American Studies Class the AP course 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.280 in Florida, where they put out a curriculum that I 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.360 found to be strong, show it has holes. We talked 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.240 about some of the things that I wish it had 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.480 more titles addressing black men. You know, we talked about 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.960 some of the things. But what they teach now is 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.480 damn there nothing. So the curriculum that has been built 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:34.720 that teaches about prior to enslavement all the way through 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.920 the Transatlantic slave trade and talks about the reparations movement, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.800 the movement for justice and the black lives not a movement, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.040 I mean it is extensive in terms of all the 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:51.440 things that the new curriculum was proposing. Then it was banned, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:56.640 of course by the I think it was the board, 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.120 the curriculum board, or the education. There wasn't the or 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.800 the education though, but there's a department that looks at curriculum. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.960 They were the first ones to strike it and say 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:11.280 that the information was it went too far, and you know, 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.400 they didn't feel that it was necessary curriculum and that 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.400 you know, much of the information was not appropriate for 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.640 these high school students. And of course Governor Desantest used 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.520 that he was he was like, yep, they're with me. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.160 You know, I want to thank them for seeing the issues. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.880 He talked about the stay woke movement. There's actually actual 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:39.319 legislation in Florida to ban stay Woke and that whole 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:45.640 concept of teachers and workplaces and others focusing on the 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.480 woke movement, if you will. In fact, Governor Desantest said 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:55.320 that woke Florida is the place that woke comes to die. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.079 Like he said that, So those are his words. So 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.480 there's a real attack, and you know, he was very 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.559 excited and making sure that as governor, he doubled down 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:10.280 on banning the curriculum. So it went back to the 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.600 committee that helped to design it, and they watered it 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.920 down and now it's like, you know, it's cool, still 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.800 better than it was, but it doesn't have the elements 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.679 in it, especially when you're trying to teach black kids, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.080 African kids, and teach other communities about our struggles about 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.800 you know, who we are and how we come into 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.120 relationship with this country. So we decided because when I 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.559 was posting about it and talking about it, people were like, well, 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.040 I would love to learn that stuff. I would love 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.720 to take those classes. Do you know where we can 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.959 get the information? Is this curriculum somewhere that we can 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.640 download it? And a lot of people were asking. So 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.600 people asked and we listened. We heard that we understand 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.280 the necessity to make sure this information gets out there, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.200 and that one of the ways we combat in addition 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.480 to protests and all of that, but one of the 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.640 ways that we have to fight back against the the 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:09.160 the UH, the intention to whitewash history is by providing 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:13.040 it and teaching it ourselves. And so Until Freedom has 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.920 announced in this week tomorrow actually will be the first 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.520 day that folks will get an opportunity to participate in 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.560 a six weeks, six week course where we're going to 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:29.120 actually be having instructors and professors to come in and 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.720 teach much of the material that was in the ap 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.720 course and also just material that even goes beyond that. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.640 So nope, dope, dope. What is it called. It's called 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.760 You're gonna learn today, not today. Yeah, you're gonna learn 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:51.880 today from Until Freedom's Academy and throughout Academy. Just for 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.880 folks who may not know, it is an area within 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.280 Until Freedom Out organization where we teach people about a 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.240 lot of things. We teach them about protests and you know, 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.880 help train folksman. We were in Louisville, Kentucky, living, we 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.079 trained hundreds of people to get ready for a protest 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.680 and civil disobedience. Um, you know, we really try to 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:18.120 focus on helping people to educating them on protest movements 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.640 and the strategies and also the safety measures that have 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.480 to be taken into account and then what happens after 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:29.000 a protest. And so our academy is fully functional. We 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.040 do a lot of work with it. But this is 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:35.440 a new area where we're going to be specifically focusing 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:40.959 on African and African American history. Six classes. You can 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.760 sign up where you would pay two hundred and forty 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.800 nine dollars for all six classes, or you can get 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:51.240 individual classes for sixty five dollars and instructors are amazing. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.640 So yes, that's what I'm looking for. I'm gonna learn. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:12:02.480 I'm gonna learn that, ain't you know? On a much 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:08.560 more painful and just a sad, sad, sad, sad terrible. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.640 Every time it happens is more terrible than the last time. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.559 And we just are living in a place, in a society, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.720 in a time where anything can happen at any moment, 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.720 and you know, you say why me when the bad 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.280 things happened, But the question then becomes why not you, 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.240 because if it can happen to somebody else, it can 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.959 certainly happen to you. And the tragic shooting that happened 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.120 at Michigan State, and we're talking about education, people in 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.840 a classroom trying to get their education. Students were killed 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.280 by a man, a black man by the way. I 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.319 think he was forty three years old, went into to 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.640 the school. They still have not been able to find 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:53.000 any connection between him and Michigan State. He went into 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.080 this school shot at least eight people, or at least 0:12:56.080 --> 0:13:00.440 they say that eight people were injured in the shooting, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.199 so that could be that somebody fell down the stairs 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.360 or broke their leg or whatever. So we haven't heard 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.800 all the details of the injuries to each individual person. However, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:18.280 to see that, you know, when the doctors were on 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:24.400 the news speaking about the incident, the doctor started crying, 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:31.160 so God only knows what they saw and just the emotion. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.120 It's just too much. It's too much for everybody first responded, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:38.480 first of all, the people in the shooting, then the 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.440 people watching it on the news, the students in the 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:46.560 windows watching and running, the first responders, the doctors. It's 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:51.160 too much trauma all around. But there were three fatalities 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.320 so far, hopefully no more. A young brother by the 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:00.800 name of Brian Frasier, young lady Alexandria Werner, and then 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:06.720 Ariel Anderson. Ariel Anderson is the niece of a friend 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:11.960 to us and until freedom and that is reality star Delicious. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:17.800 And you know again, fifty thousand plus students on a campus. 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.480 Ariel gets killed and all these three, these three individuals 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.480 get killed by this man. And your family has to 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.400 be saying, why my child? You know, why my child? 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.440 But then the answer is why not your child? Because 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.800 it could be anybody. It's just so crazy, man, that 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.840 you're sending your kid to college as a as a 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.040 black person. You know what I'm saying, You work hard, 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.800 whatever you have to do. You want to provide your 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.640 children with an opportunity to have a better life than 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:54.120 you did, right, so you know, just just knowing how 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:58.240 that just trying just identifying with that in itself. You 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.960 know that you you think I didn't send my kid 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.920 to college. She's good, she's in good hands, she's a 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:09.000 good person. And you get a call there's some psycho 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.920 person then took this little baby's life. Man, these kids 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.640 life and it's just it's it's it pains my heart 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.720 to even think about that. You know, our kids are 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.920 just not safe anywhere. Nowhere can we go that these 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.040 babies are safe, man, And you know, it's it's my 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.800 heart goes out to the family. You know, it really 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.480 pains me to even just just fathom that. Man, I 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.200 don't I don't even know what that looks like. And 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:40.160 you know, when we've seen um delicious trying to find 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.520 a young girl that was even worse the whole world got, 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.520 you know, like trying to find like did anybody here 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.800 from anybody? It didn't to find out that she lost 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.360 a life. Man. You know, my my candoless goes out 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.240 to the family. It's tough. It's really tough. And you know, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.000 I know, obviously we would not take away from any 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.000 one of these people who have been harmed, injured, and 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.080 those who are deceased at all of the matter, they 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.600 equally matter. It's terrible no matter who it is. And 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.360 we want to make sure that people know that Ariel 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.720 hurts because we know her family, you know, obviously we 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.320 know her aunt, and of course it is for that, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.280 but it also hurts. We can't ignore it. We can't 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:25.040 not talk about it. It hurts because it was a 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.560 black man who went into that school and shot this 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.400 young black girl studying to be a pediatrician in her classroom, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.000 trying to do the right thing, and we can't act 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.480 like that does not have a particular sting it is. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.240 He shouldn't have, because every time there is a mass shooting, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:45.080 no matter who is the perpetrator of it, I'm hurt, bleeding, 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.040 can't believe it. It takes me into trauma and depression 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.480 because it's terrible, and it just so happens that this 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:59.080 week we went from the shooting in Michigan State grieving 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.880 with our sister Delicious and her family and of course 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:08.040 these other families, and then watching in the same week 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:14.240 the Buffalo shooter be sentenced after he shot our elderly 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.600 people and other family, other black folks, and by the way, 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.720 didn't shoot the white man that he pointed his gun towards, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.639 right He did that, and we had to watch those 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.600 families stand in and address him and try to pour 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.639 out their hearts about how much it hurt. And he 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.600 had the audacity to say, I wish I could take 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.320 it back, but I can't. I wish I didn't do it. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.280 It was a terrible thing. And the and the families 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.119 just like, are you fucking kidding me? Are you fucking 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.560 kidding me? And they should have let the man that 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.960 was trying to charge at him whoop his ass. They 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.920 should have just got out the way and let that happen. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.520 Didn't get a little whoop whoop ass man, Listen, I 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.680 would have paid put some money on his books. Man, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.679 whoop his ass. And I'd to put some money on 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.879 the man's books. Man. I mean, I'm gonna be honest 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.919 with you. There's people like, well, that's not the answer. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.000 That's the answer. Man should be a to whoop somebody's 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:14.560 ass that takes a life of love, innocent person that 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.479 he at least could get an ass. So that's not 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.400 the answer. What are you talking about? It's too much, 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.920 it's too much. And I it just was. It was 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.960 a rough week watching all of that happen in one 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:32.240 week and knowing that, you know, it used to be 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:38.240 an area that we weren't as much of, we weren't 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:42.480 victims of, even though you know, we think about like 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.800 the Sandy Hook, the young lady from Sandy Hoo, it's 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.800 a young white girl. She was a Sandy Hook as 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:53.160 a kid and survived that. And now she's a student 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.760 at Michigan State and has now survived this. So even if, 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:02.119 even if, even though she maybe a lot breathing physically 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.119 well mentally, she never even got over the first trauma. 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:07.920 But she was so little and now here we took 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.240 about twenty whatever years later, and now you're in college 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.760 and it happens again. She's never going to be right. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.440 And so we greed as a society, all of us 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:23.000 greed about Sandy Hook, and you know Columbine, and the 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.880 list goes on in so many lists I can't even 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:31.080 bring them up. But now our own people are participating 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.919 in and becoming victims of this, and that goes to 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:39.040 show you, which is why we've always said the gun 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.040 violence fight is not a fight for one community or 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.439 one group of people, because it happens to us. We 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:50.879 see the LGBTQI a community suffering. Just recently the Asian community. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.600 There was a shooting that happened there where people died. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:20:00.360 This thing is spreading and moving into every community. When 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.960 black folks, who may who we may not have as 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.119 many people dying at one time in a school in 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.800 a building in one place, right, At one point, you 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.359 didn't have that. But we were saying that mass shootings 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.680 was twelve people getting shot in Chicago and one night 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.080 in Harlem, a shooting that took the lives of three 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:24.200 people on one summer night. For us, that was mass shootings. 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.760 And we were saying the world needed to rally together 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.960 and stand up and fight against it, and provide resources 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:32.720 and deal with mental health and deal with these issues. 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.280 Nobody listened to us when we said that. People didn't 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.359 see it as being a big wire, just thugs and 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:44.040 just you know. And now every community is dealing with 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:48.320 its own form of mass shootings and violence that's out 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.639 of control, and I just I don't want to live 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:55.760 in that world. It's it's crazy, right because we see 0:20:55.760 --> 0:21:00.000 how how guns are just rampidly affecting every like you said, 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.960 every community. And the fact that there are still people 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.320 who don't even want background checks on guns, right, the 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.800 fact that they're not even afraid that the gun can 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.480 get into the hands of the wrong person who would 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.600 take kids lives. They don't even want no level of accountability. 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:19.560 It's crazy to me. I've seen now that they're they're 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:25.919 proposing to enter a bill where guns will have trackers on, 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:28.560 you know what I'm saying, and things like that makes 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.399 sense to me, Like, it's no way because I mean 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.120 because if if the gun is not tracked, if you're 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.280 giving people's licenses and all that shit, anyway, you're tracking 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.919 everybody else doing everything else. You can't walk outside without 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:45.000 your eyes is being take face to recognition and everything. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.639 So why not putting on guns that's taking more lives 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:49.639 than anything in this world? That's a face where you 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:51.919 should be the most responsible as you've ever been in 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.520 your life, as exactly. And people should be held accountable, 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:57.800 and people should be able to be monitored they have guns. 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.800 People should have mental health checks. Type of shit need 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:04.719 to go into when you're when you're putting a weapon, 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.359 allowing to want to have a weapon, there should be 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:14.159 a level of accountability, a level of um research, you know, 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:16.800 a level of mental all these things. We need to 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.320 be sure that the person that you've given this gun 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:22.159 to it's not going to go out the engine shoot people. Man. 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:25.280 So I don't know, I don't know why anybody would 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:27.800 keep pushing back on that. Yeah, I mean, you know, 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.160 I don't even want to talk about the legislative piece, 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:35.840 because they we always get the prayers and well wishes 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.800 and everybody is so sad, but they don't move on it. 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:42.320 And I, you know, I believe that they're there. I 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:45.159 believe in the conspiracy theory that I don't think is 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.120 a conspiracy. I think it's a theory that there are 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:51.280 people in this country that are afraid to put their 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:55.200 guns down and to have true gun control because they 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:58.600 want to be able to have access to weapons in 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:04.240 the event that they are part of insurrection type of behavior. Right, 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:07.880 they have a war plan, and a part of their 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:13.000 war plan is their weapons. Every army needs its weapons 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:16.440 to be able to fight, right, and they have an 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:21.640 army that the NRA, the gun companies and others are 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:25.960 part of. And if there's too many regulations, those regulations 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:29.920 also will affect them because you can't have black people 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:32.879 having to do get background checks Latino people, and then 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:34.960 you don't have to do it for rifles, so they 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:37.280 need to leave it open. The other part of it 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.520 is they know, as long as they can get access 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:42.040 to guns in our hands, will do most of the 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:47.840 killing against ourselves unfortunately, So there's a whole war plan. 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:54.320 Nothing that is happening that is happening in society is 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:59.159 just because just you know what, you call it random. No, 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:03.600 it's all very strategic, and we just better know that. 0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:06.119 We better know that. I was going to talk about 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:09.320 something else today, and we're gonna be having our guests 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:12.440 come on soon. Then I'm gonna do a whole lot 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:19.320 on an experience that I recently had with and I 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:22.239 kind of you know, it's been a month now, a 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:25.600 little less than a month, but I haven't really talked 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:27.600 about it one because we've been busy and so much 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:29.560 was going on, and it was vacation and a lot 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:33.040 of things going on. But I want to talk about 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:36.879 these apps. Airbnb was the one that I had a 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:39.560 particular issue with, but I want to talk about the 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:44.040 ass the ubers and all these apps and how now 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:48.120 that these acts have been created to provide quicker ways 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:52.840 to make reservations, to eat, you know, to get deliveries 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:56.840 and all of that, the customer service aspect of it 0:24:56.920 --> 0:25:02.159 is going away completely right, there's no customer service being 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:08.840 upheld or or or or actually being um If there's 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:14.359 no customers, yea mandated, but I'm looking forward that. In 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:18.679 other words, there there is there's no attempt, no intention 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:23.639 at true customer service because the app is taking the 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:27.240 place of human interaction. And the problem with that is 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:31.000 that on one side, right, many of these apps, they're 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:40.280 making incredible money, incredible money. Over is making incredible money, right, 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:43.120 all who eats, they got all these things, you have, 0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:47.879 all these different delivery services, Airbnb is making money, and 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:51.360 the people who are spending money are not getting the 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:54.640 service that they need in terms of the customer service 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:58.240 that's necessary so that they have a good experience. And 0:25:58.280 --> 0:26:01.119 that is something I was on the phone doing something 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:06.600 with my remote control and my cable company, and by 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:09.560 the time I went through a few prompts and what 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:12.040 they're asking me to do, I already did. I changed 0:26:12.080 --> 0:26:15.920 the batteries, I did this, I did all of that. 0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:17.880 I need somebody to get on the phone to hear 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:19.560 one of this. And I'm going through and by the 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:22.280 time I wasn't able to select any of the things 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:25.920 that they only specifically want to talk about. It cut 0:26:25.960 --> 0:26:29.480 me off. It just that was it. And that type 0:26:29.480 --> 0:26:34.320 of behavior is happening in multiple areas, you know, with 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:37.280 scum today and they was doing the same thing to me. 0:26:37.600 --> 0:26:39.840 They tell you what you want to talk about you 0:26:39.880 --> 0:26:41.479 try to talk to them, and then they said, all right, 0:26:41.520 --> 0:26:44.280 well call back later and just disconnect you. And then 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:46.840 you're on the phone for four and five hours. Last week, 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:50.880 I got a fucking boot on my car for registration, 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:53.280 and they telling me all of these steps to go through. 0:26:53.320 --> 0:26:56.040 I finally get the steps, I go through all of them, 0:26:56.480 --> 0:27:00.159 and it's like there's a setup because they tell me 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:02.120 somewhere on my registrations. So by the time I get 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:04.480 the registration field, they won't give me the copy of 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:07.800 the registration to send. Then they wait twenty four hours 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:09.720 and then they know by the time they send you 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:13.360 the copy of to send to them that they can 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:17.879 tow your car. So five minutes before they sent me 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:21.640 the copy of the registration, the people don't told my car. 0:27:21.720 --> 0:27:23.520 So that's another one hundred and fifty dollars that you 0:27:23.600 --> 0:27:25.680 got to go to get you to your car from 0:27:25.680 --> 0:27:27.960 the total. Like this ship is all a game they wanted. 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:31.040 They have a strategic plan to figure out how to 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:35.080 inconvence you and how to keep getting your money. Absolutely, 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:38.560 so you know, I want to tell my story about 0:27:38.560 --> 0:27:43.080 what happened at Airbnb or with Airbnb and a particular 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:48.000 company that I rented from and stayed in this particular property, 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:55.320 this property management's space or whatever. But I think that 0:27:55.480 --> 0:27:58.800 more needs to be Like I actually want to dedicate 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:03.280 ten minutes of my life because that's about all I 0:28:03.359 --> 0:28:08.800 have every week to focusing on customer service and how 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:12.400 much of it we are losing and the problems that's 0:28:12.440 --> 0:28:16.160 happening with different companies. And I'm going to solicit friends 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:18.840 and other people so that they can tell their stories 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:21.240 as well, because I think we're being taking advantage of 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:23.320 and you know, I don't like to be taking advantage 0:28:23.320 --> 0:28:25.359 of it. I don't mind spending money on a product 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:27.320 that I love or a service that I love, because 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:30.960 you know, I believe in luxury. I want I want 0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:34.600 everybody to live a luxurious of luxurious life, and I 0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:36.560 know I try to do everything. It may not be, 0:28:36.960 --> 0:28:40.440 you know, I don't know whoever's life. It ain't Michelle 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:44.480 Obama luxury, but it's Tamke Mallory's luxury the way I 0:28:44.520 --> 0:28:47.320 can create it for myself. And I want services. I 0:28:47.360 --> 0:28:51.280 want things to be clean, I want people to be kind, 0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:54.960 I want things to be done on time. I want 0:28:55.000 --> 0:28:56.920 there to be a phone number to call, or at 0:28:57.000 --> 0:29:00.520 least a quick response to things when you're having aallenges. 0:29:00.960 --> 0:29:03.600 I just and I don't think what I'm asking for 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:06.360 is something that first of all, most people are not 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:10.440 asking for as well or desiring. And I also don't 0:29:10.440 --> 0:29:13.160 think that it's something difficult. I think the problem is 0:29:13.200 --> 0:29:16.640 that we as a as a society are allowing this 0:29:16.720 --> 0:29:20.120 to happen because we want convenience and we're just frustrated 0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:23.920 by ourselves. But we actually could organize, you know, we 0:29:23.960 --> 0:29:27.960 could actually come together and organize so that people start 0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:30.560 knowing that they can't just do us any kind of way. 0:29:30.640 --> 0:29:35.240 So I plan to do a full thing. My experience 0:29:35.720 --> 0:29:39.240 with air being you do want it right, you want 0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:42.880 to discover right, absolutely, so it's time for us and 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:45.800 and oh oh wait, well I gotta give my thought 0:29:45.800 --> 0:29:53.680 of the day on that. My thought of the day is, 0:29:54.520 --> 0:30:00.120 don't never underestimate a woman that has been frustrated it 0:30:00.160 --> 0:30:03.360 by something and then has a plan. Because I promise 0:30:03.480 --> 0:30:06.960 you that this intention that I plan to put into 0:30:07.040 --> 0:30:11.160 this particular part of my advocacy is going to move 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:13.080 from point A to point B because I'm not going 0:30:13.160 --> 0:30:15.560 to stop, because I just am not going to allow 0:30:16.080 --> 0:30:19.960 people to rob me, people to you know, just step 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:22.320 on on me and not just me. Let me say something, 0:30:23.040 --> 0:30:27.400 my son to me. Yeah, I can fight for myself. 0:30:27.840 --> 0:30:30.880 But I know there are people out here that are 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:34.200 intimidated about writing the email or in the chat to 0:30:34.280 --> 0:30:37.160 try to get somebody to respond to them right. They 0:30:37.160 --> 0:30:41.440 don't feel like they're able to articulate the problem right 0:30:41.600 --> 0:30:44.280 the way that you and I may be able to do. 0:30:44.360 --> 0:30:46.880 There are people out here that are working and don't 0:30:46.880 --> 0:30:49.000 even have the time. They just need to get somebody 0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:51.760 on the phone to give them information about whatever they're 0:30:51.800 --> 0:30:56.680 looking for. There are people out here, elderly people, elderly 0:30:56.800 --> 0:31:00.320 people that are being abused and taken advantage of because 0:31:00.320 --> 0:31:04.040 they don't have the skills necessary to go and get 0:31:04.080 --> 0:31:07.000 online and fill out a thing and click a thing 0:31:07.040 --> 0:31:09.200 and wait for a thing and set up an appointment 0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:11.760 for a time to speak to so and so, and 0:31:11.800 --> 0:31:14.840 then you know have the type of situation like the 0:31:14.840 --> 0:31:17.520 one that I have with Airbnb. So you know, my 0:31:17.640 --> 0:31:20.240 thought of the day is how long will we allow 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:23.080 this to happen and how far are we going to 0:31:23.120 --> 0:31:26.040 allow it to go before we say nah, these companies, 0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:29.400 If we're going to continue to invest in you. You 0:31:29.480 --> 0:31:31.960 have to make sure you have the necessary things in 0:31:32.040 --> 0:31:35.200 place to take care of the people that's keeping you 0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:37.960 in business. So that's my thought in the day. Well 0:31:37.960 --> 0:31:42.479 that's the thought and that's the word. So in some 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:46.280 positive news, you know, I was I went to do 0:31:46.320 --> 0:31:50.400 a panel, a Black History panel in your church. Back 0:31:50.440 --> 0:31:55.880 to church Mount Vernon, didn't. I did a Black History 0:31:56.000 --> 0:32:00.080 Day panel with my brother used to salam And and 0:32:00.600 --> 0:32:05.000 William Wagstaff, excellent civil rights attorney out there and we 0:32:05.040 --> 0:32:11.160 did a beautiful, beautiful um conversation and uh it was. 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:17.840 It was hosted or moderated by Priscilla Etchi, who's always 0:32:17.880 --> 0:32:20.080 doing a lot of positive things in the community. If 0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:22.440 you don't know who she is, you definitely need to 0:32:22.440 --> 0:32:27.080 tune in with her. The wonderful Mayor Sean Patterson was 0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:30.720 there and I love her to death. And I was honored. 0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:35.200 You know, they gave me, they gave me some citations, 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:39.840 they gave me some proclamations, and I also got a 0:32:39.960 --> 0:32:48.920 national day February thirteen. Well it's my own day. It 0:32:49.040 --> 0:32:53.760 west Chester County February thirteenth. It's my song Lanning Day. Man. 0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:57.240 So I was really honored. Yes, I love it. Man. 0:32:57.280 --> 0:33:00.520 Thanks everybody you know who was there. You know, it's 0:33:00.600 --> 0:33:03.320 my first one, first day. I'm moving on up. Let 0:33:03.320 --> 0:33:07.360 me just say it has to be something prophetic about 0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:13.640 you getting an award, you being you, receiving a day, 0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:16.160 the National Day. I love it. I don't care. We're 0:33:16.200 --> 0:33:19.560 going with it. It's a national day Mount National Mount 0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:23.440 vernon Um, New York. That you receive. You got that 0:33:23.600 --> 0:33:26.960 at my church, and my church is a place that 0:33:27.800 --> 0:33:30.240 the spirit of the Lord is in that church. The 0:33:30.320 --> 0:33:32.600 work that has been done on me and so many 0:33:32.680 --> 0:33:35.880 lives across the Tristate area, and the work they do. 0:33:35.920 --> 0:33:39.520 It's a social justice ministry. So this church is not 0:33:39.600 --> 0:33:44.160 a church that is you know, just on Sundays. It's 0:33:44.200 --> 0:33:48.080 open seven days a week. They feed the community, they're 0:33:48.200 --> 0:33:54.680 marching in protests, they have panels, they have young people active, 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:59.320 they have college scholarships. Our church is a five star church. 0:33:59.440 --> 0:34:02.360 My past doctor W. Franklin Richardson is my best friend 0:34:02.360 --> 0:34:05.760 in my heart. And for you to receive that type 0:34:05.760 --> 0:34:08.040 of honor there and I didn't even know you were 0:34:08.080 --> 0:34:10.040 going to be there. You told us afterwards like, oh 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:12.759 I was at your church. That to me is it 0:34:12.800 --> 0:34:15.320 just means so much because I know that they wouldn't 0:34:15.360 --> 0:34:17.880 have given that award to you in that building and 0:34:18.120 --> 0:34:22.840 and and doctor Howard um the mayor, They wouldn't have 0:34:22.880 --> 0:34:24.319 gave it to you if they didn't feel like and 0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:26.720 see the work you do and how hard you really 0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:30.120 really go at it every day for our people. So congratulations, 0:34:30.520 --> 0:34:33.399 Well thank you, thank you man, little old me man 0:34:33.480 --> 0:34:36.960 shout out to use off and and um and um 0:34:37.280 --> 0:34:39.440 William Wagstaff as well. Man. It was. It was a 0:34:39.480 --> 0:34:43.319 dope day. Ah, I same. All right, we got a 0:34:43.360 --> 0:34:45.560 good guest coming up. We're gonna go back and talk 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:49.640 about some Florida issues and what's the struggle for our 0:34:49.760 --> 0:34:55.439 education supposed to look like. So friends again, we bring 0:34:55.480 --> 0:35:00.359 our friends always always right, you know they I bet 0:35:00.400 --> 0:35:02.400 you people Hey they talk about that like, oh they 0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:04.239 always have their friends on their Yeah. But that's what 0:35:04.280 --> 0:35:06.520 we're supposed to. But that's why we gotta show so 0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:08.839 we can interview and talk to the people that's our 0:35:08.920 --> 0:35:11.000 friends that we like. I don't want to interview talking 0:35:11.040 --> 0:35:15.000 people I don't like. You can do that in a difference. 0:35:15.000 --> 0:35:17.320 You don't mind that you get on your Instagram page 0:35:17.320 --> 0:35:19.520 and go live and get the fighting and carrying on 0:35:19.600 --> 0:35:22.120 and talking to people you don't like. I don't have 0:35:22.160 --> 0:35:25.160 a lot of time in my life available for people 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:27.799 I don't like. I need to build with people. That's 0:35:27.840 --> 0:35:30.560 doing something in folks that you know, we can continue 0:35:30.640 --> 0:35:33.720 to express ideas. Don't have to be the same idea, 0:35:33.800 --> 0:35:36.560 but we certainly can can can can you know, spar 0:35:36.719 --> 0:35:39.120 with one another and positivity. I ain't. I ain't trying 0:35:39.160 --> 0:35:40.960 to argue with people all day on the internet. That's 0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:43.080 not my thing unless it's in a comment section. But 0:35:43.120 --> 0:35:45.120 that's a whole other thing. But this friend is not 0:35:45.160 --> 0:35:47.759 just a friend or any friend or the kinds of 0:35:47.840 --> 0:35:50.520 friends we talk about that you know, it's a wide 0:35:50.680 --> 0:35:52.480 group of or a large group of people who we 0:35:52.520 --> 0:35:54.960 consider to be our friends on street politicians. This is 0:35:55.000 --> 0:35:58.400 actually my friend, my brother, my friend, my dear friend, 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:00.760 one of my best friends in the whole wide world. 0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:06.440 We've been on the battlefield and you know, spiritually connected 0:36:06.560 --> 0:36:10.680 for a long time, and you know, and I think, 0:36:10.719 --> 0:36:13.960 what is really really what makes me feel sort of 0:36:13.960 --> 0:36:18.160 like emotional about our friendship, our brotherhood and my relationship 0:36:18.239 --> 0:36:20.560 with him and his wife and his family is that 0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:24.839 they have watched me grow from where I started in 0:36:24.880 --> 0:36:27.839 the movement a while back when I started coming into 0:36:27.840 --> 0:36:30.880 my leadership to now, and I have also watched the 0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:35.080 growth of this family stepping into leadership in Florida, and 0:36:35.120 --> 0:36:38.799 so today I am so so, so, so so excited 0:36:38.960 --> 0:36:43.960 to have with us Bishop Rudolph McKissick. And Bishop McKissick 0:36:44.239 --> 0:36:46.520 is on the board of National Action Network, which is 0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:50.160 where I met him as a board member, and he 0:36:50.360 --> 0:36:56.200 also is the senior pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, 0:36:56.440 --> 0:36:59.560 which I just learned in the last few days happens 0:36:59.640 --> 0:37:03.839 to be the oldest Black church in Florida. Like, this 0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:08.120 is history, historical stuff here, my good friend and brother. 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:12.560 So Bishop mckissa I am stumbling over that because I'm 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:16.560 just so used to calling him Rudy. Thank you so 0:37:16.680 --> 0:37:20.280 much for joining us on street politicians. Welcome, Welcome and welcome. 0:37:21.160 --> 0:37:24.400 What's up? Queen, what's up? King? Call me Rudy. Please 0:37:24.680 --> 0:37:26.759 don't be all this bishop stuff. Don't be doing that 0:37:26.800 --> 0:37:30.440 on here. You do yeah, you know, man, you know, 0:37:30.640 --> 0:37:34.800 she you know, you know, you know a real well 0:37:33.719 --> 0:37:38.239 why do y'all? You know, when your friends talk about you, 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:42.160 they say things that is not actually being stated, But 0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:44.160 basically what they're trying to say is that I'm a 0:37:44.160 --> 0:37:49.640 little off. That's what they're saying, just a little so, 0:37:50.400 --> 0:37:55.880 Rudy Bishop, my brother. We always are in the middle 0:37:55.920 --> 0:38:00.040 of a fighter. It's always a battle happening, and it, 0:38:00.480 --> 0:38:02.520 you know, it hits us in different places. I mean, 0:38:02.800 --> 0:38:05.120 we've got our other brothers and sisters out here. You 0:38:05.200 --> 0:38:08.799 got Freddy Haynes, our brother out in Texas. You got 0:38:08.880 --> 0:38:13.360 Jamal Bryant, our brother who's in Atlanta now, was in Maryland. 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:17.160 You know, We've got family in so many different places 0:38:17.200 --> 0:38:19.040 around the country. We were get in trouble for naming 0:38:19.080 --> 0:38:22.719 them all. But in all of these different spaces, we 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:26.880 find ourselves having to come together to fight against the 0:38:26.960 --> 0:38:30.520 powers that be that are trying to oppress our communities, 0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:34.839 trying to in some way disrupt our peace and put 0:38:34.920 --> 0:38:37.400 us in the midst of struggle. And now we find 0:38:37.400 --> 0:38:42.319 ourselves in Florida having to deal with this attack on 0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:46.719 our education, a whitewashing of our history. They started out 0:38:46.719 --> 0:38:49.799 around critical race theory around this country and bought it 0:38:49.840 --> 0:38:51.960 all the way to the real thing they wanted to 0:38:52.000 --> 0:38:54.880 do was to make sure that in the high schools 0:38:55.600 --> 0:38:59.000 and some of the younger students would not learn about 0:38:59.040 --> 0:39:02.040 the history of our people. And you have been one 0:39:02.400 --> 0:39:06.000 that I saw you immediately Nope, can't have it, got 0:39:06.000 --> 0:39:08.560 to shut it down. You have been telling me for 0:39:08.680 --> 0:39:12.360 the last year or so that Governor the Santist is 0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:15.160 a major problem and that people needed to focus and 0:39:15.280 --> 0:39:19.279 now we are seeing just how bad it is. So 0:39:19.360 --> 0:39:22.440 tell us what exactly is going on in Florida and 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:25.600 then what you all have done something last week? You 0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:29.960 guys had a big rally and what is the purpose 0:39:29.960 --> 0:39:31.839 of that, what's the goals? And you know, just give 0:39:31.920 --> 0:39:34.560 us an update as to what's happening. Yeah. Well, first 0:39:34.560 --> 0:39:38.520 of all, man, I'm glad y'all's podcast is dope, like 0:39:38.640 --> 0:39:40.080 for real to me. I don't even know if I 0:39:40.160 --> 0:39:43.000 told you that before, but I check it out and 0:39:43.040 --> 0:39:45.920 it's really really dope. So I'm just glad to be 0:39:46.000 --> 0:39:48.520 on here, you know, chopping it up with y'all. So, 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:55.359 you know, run the Santist is doing everything he can 0:39:55.440 --> 0:40:00.560 to run for president. So everything that he's doing has 0:40:01.080 --> 0:40:05.839 a bigger, bigger agenda to it, right, and what he's 0:40:05.880 --> 0:40:09.640 doing is real interesting, it's very strategic, and it's slick. 0:40:09.800 --> 0:40:13.800 For instance, you know, he came out with this whole 0:40:13.840 --> 0:40:18.880 thing against the AP course, and he tried to claim 0:40:18.920 --> 0:40:22.880 it was because it had things in there about gays 0:40:22.920 --> 0:40:25.920 that you know, that's his word. And watch how he 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:28.680 got us all focus. So now he's got these black 0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:33.080 folks who are ultra conservative religious over here saying, well, 0:40:33.080 --> 0:40:35.759 you agree with him because you got the gays in there, 0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:39.080 and they're missing the forest for the trees. Because while 0:40:39.120 --> 0:40:42.640 we over here arguing that he's right on this issue, 0:40:43.080 --> 0:40:48.040 he's over here now telling public schools cover up all 0:40:48.080 --> 0:40:53.439 the books. I'm making a list of approved books. I'm 0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:58.600 sending a media specialist in to make sure the books 0:40:58.760 --> 0:41:03.200 follow my criteria. They took out while we over here 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:07.160 focusing on, you know, what we don't like about gays, 0:41:08.000 --> 0:41:11.160 using his word. Again, we're missing what he's really doing 0:41:11.200 --> 0:41:14.880 over here, right, They took out a book on Rosa Parks. 0:41:15.840 --> 0:41:19.439 They took out a book on Hank Aaron. It took 0:41:19.480 --> 0:41:23.719 out a book on Roberto Clemente. So he's not you know, 0:41:23.760 --> 0:41:26.480 while we're focusing on this AP course and all of that, 0:41:27.160 --> 0:41:33.359 he's over here trying to change our history, trying to 0:41:33.400 --> 0:41:38.160 rewrite it. And he claims he doesn't want children to 0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:44.480 feel uncomfortable. And my thought is maybe they need to 0:41:44.520 --> 0:41:48.680 be uncomfortable, so you know, if they're uncomfortable, maybe it'll 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:52.240 lead them to join us in the struggle. And maybe 0:41:52.280 --> 0:41:56.360 they need to be uncomfortable because their comfort is because 0:41:56.400 --> 0:42:01.359 of how our ancestors were uncomfortable for years. So you know, 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:04.919 he's slicked with what he's doing and he's getting He's 0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:09.360 got us, believe it or not, divided because we're fighting 0:42:09.400 --> 0:42:12.480 over something that we shouldn't even be fighting over. First 0:42:12.480 --> 0:42:15.879 of all, you know, and as I said in the 0:42:15.920 --> 0:42:19.120 march on that Wednesday, look, ain't nobody elect you to 0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:23.640 be pastor, you're elected to be the governor. This ain't church, 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:29.920 This is a state. So he's trying to use our 0:42:30.120 --> 0:42:35.320 state as his test lab to see how we respond. 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:38.240 And I said it, you know the Don Limmon on CNN. 0:42:39.400 --> 0:42:42.919 We want the country to see that what they got 0:42:42.960 --> 0:42:45.960 on a micro level in Florida is what they'll get 0:42:46.000 --> 0:42:48.960 on a bigger level if he's allowed to run for 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:53.960 president and become the president. He is, he's vengeful. The 0:42:54.040 --> 0:42:55.799 latest thing he did me tell y'all what he did 0:42:56.800 --> 0:43:00.040 when he got the pushback about the ap course of 0:43:00.160 --> 0:43:03.920 black history. He came out that Monday and said, well, 0:43:03.920 --> 0:43:07.640 I tell you what, We'll just cancel all the AP classes. 0:43:08.000 --> 0:43:11.040 We won't do anything with the college board. He always 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:16.600 responds like a child, you know. And so he's trying 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:20.000 to redact our history. And as I said that the 0:43:20.080 --> 0:43:23.040 mic that day that the talking point they're using is 0:43:23.719 --> 0:43:28.560 they're lying, they're dishonest because they say that we don't 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:31.960 want black history, and I'm saying no, ain't nobody ever 0:43:32.040 --> 0:43:34.600 say that. What we said is we're just not gonna 0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:38.960 let you tell our story your way. Right, that's not 0:43:39.000 --> 0:43:41.600 what we're gonna do. You don't get to tell our 0:43:41.719 --> 0:43:44.840 story your way. And even if we go with what 0:43:44.960 --> 0:43:48.640 he said, I looked it up, only eleven of the 0:43:48.880 --> 0:43:55.160 sixty seven counties in Florida are even enforcing black history, 0:43:55.600 --> 0:43:59.080 and ninety five percent of those eleven that teach it 0:43:59.520 --> 0:44:03.960 only it in February. So it's it's a you know, 0:44:04.280 --> 0:44:06.480 it's a lot that he's doing. But he's doing it 0:44:06.560 --> 0:44:10.640 all to throw red meat to his base so that 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:15.440 he can run for president. And I know that, and 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:19.360 I say this every day, but there are so many 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:23.560 of us who don't get it right, and they're grabbing 0:44:23.719 --> 0:44:27.120 to you know, the gas light and the talking those 0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:30.080 one things. What do you think that was going to 0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:34.719 be effective strategy? Because I have black men every day 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:36.799 that come to me, Oh yeah, that's what they're trying 0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:38.640 to do this and that, And when you're having these 0:44:38.680 --> 0:44:41.440 conversations with them, they don't, like you said, they're not 0:44:41.480 --> 0:44:43.600 looking at the forest from the trees. So what do 0:44:43.640 --> 0:44:46.680 you think it's going to take for our strategies to 0:44:47.320 --> 0:44:51.920 properly inform and strategize and move our people in the 0:44:52.000 --> 0:44:55.440 right direction? Man? I think we've just got to keep 0:44:55.560 --> 0:45:00.000 talking it. We've got to keep reinforcing it until people here, 0:45:00.840 --> 0:45:04.680 and we've got to peep their strategy, I think, and 0:45:04.880 --> 0:45:09.040 dissect it, like, for instance, the whole piece about you know, 0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:12.920 the lbgd q i q i A community. So you 0:45:13.040 --> 0:45:17.879 got these conservative Christians Black who are so distracted by 0:45:18.000 --> 0:45:22.799 their theology over that that they're missing what this is 0:45:22.840 --> 0:45:28.280 really all about, and that is the disenfranchisement of black 0:45:28.520 --> 0:45:35.239 minorities lbgt q i A and the rewriting of our history. 0:45:36.440 --> 0:45:41.319 We've got to just keep dissecting what he's doing, see 0:45:41.400 --> 0:45:44.719 his game, and call it out to our people. I 0:45:44.840 --> 0:45:47.400 had I had a conservative black preacher come at me, 0:45:48.120 --> 0:45:50.359 you know, trying to say to me, well, man, how 0:45:50.360 --> 0:45:53.720 are you agreeing with that? You know, when he's trying 0:45:53.760 --> 0:45:57.759 to say that it had homosexuality. And I said to him, 0:45:57.800 --> 0:46:01.680 I said, my brother, let me listen to you everything 0:46:01.760 --> 0:46:04.680 he's done. And by the time I got done, he 0:46:04.840 --> 0:46:07.719 was like, oh, I didn't look at it that way. Yeah, 0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:10.680 you're right. I think that's what we've got to keep doing. 0:46:11.160 --> 0:46:13.000 And then we got to hit them where it hurts. Man. 0:46:13.040 --> 0:46:16.120 I made a comment at the rally, if you don't 0:46:16.120 --> 0:46:19.400 want our story, you don't want our students. And I 0:46:19.880 --> 0:46:23.360 threw a hypothetical, and it's kind of catching with some people. 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:27.560 What if every d one athlete win in the transfer 0:46:27.560 --> 0:46:30.200 a portal and decided they were going to go to 0:46:30.239 --> 0:46:34.680 a school that wants their story. You know, we gotta 0:46:34.760 --> 0:46:37.960 throw some things out there that will get their attention 0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:39.560 because at the end of and I know y'all know this, 0:46:40.040 --> 0:46:43.520 they don't care about us marching. They could care less 0:46:43.560 --> 0:46:46.160 because they know, at the end of the day, what 0:46:46.200 --> 0:46:49.160 we do is march. What we don't do is strategize. 0:46:50.200 --> 0:46:53.440 So even if a march had them say, all right, 0:46:53.520 --> 0:46:56.560 come to the table, what you want. Hell, we don't. 0:46:56.640 --> 0:46:59.640 We don't know what to tell them because we get hyped. 0:47:00.239 --> 0:47:02.879 But we don't sit down and strategize with each other. 0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:05.000 And I think that's what we got to start doing. 0:47:06.040 --> 0:47:09.799 And some do some people, you know, because we make 0:47:09.840 --> 0:47:12.000 sure that when we are in the midst of protest 0:47:12.120 --> 0:47:16.560 movements that we do strategize on what is the larger goal? Right? 0:47:17.000 --> 0:47:19.319 But I get your point that it is not enough 0:47:19.400 --> 0:47:22.319 of it and it's not collective because what happens is 0:47:22.320 --> 0:47:27.839 that you'll have clergy doing what it is doing, which 0:47:27.880 --> 0:47:32.160 is important bringing out folks, trying to have inter faith, 0:47:32.160 --> 0:47:33.920 because that's one of the things great things about the 0:47:34.000 --> 0:47:36.280 rally was diverse. You had a lot of different types 0:47:36.320 --> 0:47:39.319 of people there, So you'll have clergy doing that. You'll 0:47:39.320 --> 0:47:43.600 have the activist community doing its own thing, which is 0:47:43.640 --> 0:47:47.560 also necessary. Then of course you have the education community 0:47:47.640 --> 0:47:51.480 and other elected officials, and we will be sort of splintered. 0:47:51.760 --> 0:47:55.319 And what strategy looks like it's having all of us 0:47:55.719 --> 0:47:59.480 working together and having a collective focus on like what 0:47:59.560 --> 0:48:02.000 are the ship points, how do we support one another, 0:48:02.200 --> 0:48:05.279 and then what is the ultimate end goal? And I 0:48:05.320 --> 0:48:08.600 think that this is because as you to your point, 0:48:10.040 --> 0:48:13.800 one let me say it is not just our history 0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:16.439 that they don't want us to learn. They don't want 0:48:16.520 --> 0:48:19.919 their history to be taught, right, because the history does 0:48:19.960 --> 0:48:23.919 not belong to just one side. In fact, you don't 0:48:24.000 --> 0:48:29.480 get from being kings and queens and having our own 0:48:29.600 --> 0:48:35.640 land and having our own religion, our own culture in 0:48:36.280 --> 0:48:41.960 on another continent to building America unless you tell their 0:48:42.000 --> 0:48:46.319 story too. You have to right that. He says he 0:48:46.360 --> 0:48:49.319 doesn't want kids to be uncomfortable. Well, I'm very uncomfortable 0:48:49.360 --> 0:48:52.520 knowing that my niece who's in high school is learning 0:48:52.600 --> 0:48:57.440 that Christopher Columbus was some type of you know, genius 0:48:57.480 --> 0:49:00.000 and then he was some type of hero. I'm uncomfort 0:49:00.000 --> 0:49:03.080 people with that. And we know that Christopher Columbus was 0:49:03.160 --> 0:49:10.040 actively engaged in enslaving Yes Africans, right, So it's uncomfortable 0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:12.399 all around. If you want to make some changes, let's 0:49:12.440 --> 0:49:14.440 look at the whole history. How can you teach about 0:49:14.520 --> 0:49:19.160 your queen, Queen Elizabeth and her and not tell the 0:49:19.239 --> 0:49:21.319 story of her lineage, But then you don't want to 0:49:21.320 --> 0:49:24.160 teach about our queen Rosa parks like, come on, let's 0:49:24.239 --> 0:49:26.400 let's be serious here, And that's to your point. We 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:28.440 got to talk straight and make sure we break it 0:49:28.480 --> 0:49:31.080 down for our people. But to circle back to the 0:49:31.200 --> 0:49:35.840 lgbt QIA position, First of all, I support I know 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:40.920 you do. We support the lgbt lgbt qi A community, 0:49:41.360 --> 0:49:45.680 and I don't believe that we as black folks can 0:49:45.920 --> 0:49:49.560 participate in trying to hold anybody back or block any 0:49:49.560 --> 0:49:51.759 other community with all that we've been through. I say 0:49:51.800 --> 0:49:55.000 that all the time. However, when you look at the curriculum, 0:49:55.200 --> 0:50:00.000 the curriculum was this wide, and there's this particular piece 0:50:00.600 --> 0:50:05.360 that is specifically in the area about the current state 0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:07.960 of the movement because you gotta read look at the 0:50:08.239 --> 0:50:11.799 how the history builds up. They don't have the part 0:50:11.800 --> 0:50:15.960 about the lgbt qi A community. Even in the earlier 0:50:16.040 --> 0:50:18.840 civil rights movement, where if you want to talk about 0:50:18.960 --> 0:50:22.640 James Bollwing and and all those then at that time 0:50:22.840 --> 0:50:25.640 who were actually a part of that community, you could 0:50:25.760 --> 0:50:28.560 start the story there. They didn't. It is in this 0:50:29.040 --> 0:50:32.600 particular time, this context of what's happened in the movement today. 0:50:32.760 --> 0:50:34.640 You're not telling the true story in the movement if 0:50:34.680 --> 0:50:37.600 you don't include that, because that's a real thing, right, 0:50:38.520 --> 0:50:41.080 we can't do the race, you know what, I'm saying 0:50:41.080 --> 0:50:44.240 to the story of how this whole thing is progressed. 0:50:44.400 --> 0:50:47.600 So we gotta be smarter than to be in our 0:50:47.760 --> 0:50:52.400 emotion about how we feel personally about people and issues 0:50:52.440 --> 0:50:54.640 and whatever. And we have to look at in fact, 0:50:54.680 --> 0:50:58.040 the people who created the curriculum would have been doing 0:50:58.080 --> 0:51:02.440 a disservice not to include pieces of it that exists 0:51:02.520 --> 0:51:06.400 within the struggle of today. That's like talking about the family, 0:51:06.680 --> 0:51:08.920 and because you don't like somebody, you don't say they 0:51:09.040 --> 0:51:12.360 live in the house. You tell the story of the family, 0:51:12.360 --> 0:51:14.440 and now you just leave the one person out. That's 0:51:14.440 --> 0:51:16.799 just not it's not real just because you don't like 0:51:16.880 --> 0:51:18.680 it to agree with it, but none of us might 0:51:18.800 --> 0:51:20.560 like it, but we can't say that the person don't 0:51:20.600 --> 0:51:23.279 lived it. That's just the reality of the situation. That's 0:51:23.680 --> 0:51:26.239 that's what history is, is telling the true story of 0:51:26.320 --> 0:51:29.960 what's going on. Yeah, and for me, you know, we 0:51:30.120 --> 0:51:35.080 gotta stop trying to wrap our activism in our theology. 0:51:35.360 --> 0:51:38.320 Here's what I mean by that. You know, so you've 0:51:38.360 --> 0:51:43.840 got a theological position over here that is anti inclusion, right, 0:51:44.600 --> 0:51:48.680 but this ain't about that. And if this is going 0:51:48.760 --> 0:51:51.160 to be about activism, and if this is going to 0:51:51.239 --> 0:51:55.760 be about personhood and being. That can't be your starting point. 0:51:56.120 --> 0:51:59.399 And that's my argument even to some preachers, that can't 0:51:59.400 --> 0:52:02.560 be your star point. We're not arguing about them about 0:52:02.560 --> 0:52:07.040 people coming to your church. We're arguing about people having 0:52:07.160 --> 0:52:12.080 their right as citizen. And you know, we gotta learn 0:52:12.080 --> 0:52:16.319 how to separate that. And until we do, we're going 0:52:16.360 --> 0:52:19.360 to forever allow something that shouldn't even be on the 0:52:19.400 --> 0:52:26.319 table to be on the menu. That's right devisive, But 0:52:26.440 --> 0:52:28.840 you know, to make the other reasons. Okay, here's the 0:52:28.880 --> 0:52:31.759 real elephant in the room, mysa, And here's the real 0:52:31.840 --> 0:52:35.719 deal why we can't come together because negroes always want 0:52:35.719 --> 0:52:39.600 to get the credit. So the preachers don't get together 0:52:39.680 --> 0:52:43.319 with the activists because we're worrying about credit, or were 0:52:43.320 --> 0:52:45.719 worrying about who church they don't go to, or are 0:52:45.760 --> 0:52:48.839 they with the nation? Are they even a believer at all? 0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:53.520 We you know, we're putting stuff in the mix that's 0:52:53.640 --> 0:52:56.960 keeping us from getting together, and we worrying about whose 0:52:57.080 --> 0:53:01.120 name gonna be on it, you know, especially pre whose 0:53:01.200 --> 0:53:03.879 name's gonna be on it. You know, who's gonna get 0:53:03.920 --> 0:53:06.800 the crack. And we can't come together for our people 0:53:07.360 --> 0:53:10.319 because we are more selfish than we are selfless. I mean, 0:53:10.400 --> 0:53:12.799 let's just keep it real. I mean, let's just keep 0:53:12.800 --> 0:53:20.800 it one hunted, Tamika, You and I know this. Yeah, period, 0:53:21.920 --> 0:53:24.920 It's really unfortunate that they keep using the same playbook 0:53:25.280 --> 0:53:28.239 and we keep falling for it every time. And the 0:53:28.239 --> 0:53:31.359 thing is, we're so powerful united. I watch so many 0:53:31.440 --> 0:53:34.920 different like I'm a fan of just leadership. I'm a 0:53:34.960 --> 0:53:37.359 fan of power, you know what I'm saying. I see 0:53:37.360 --> 0:53:40.560 a bunch of men and women, powerful people that I 0:53:40.640 --> 0:53:43.240 just always be like, why they why we can't always 0:53:43.239 --> 0:53:46.120 be together? Why can't we all move as one? You know? 0:53:46.160 --> 0:53:48.880 And that's the thing that's that's keeping us separated. And 0:53:48.880 --> 0:53:52.600 they don't know that. And in every other culture seems 0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:55.960 to find a way to have their powerful leadership and 0:53:56.560 --> 0:53:59.719 the people who have the resources come together for one 0:54:00.480 --> 0:54:02.080 they seem to figure out how to do it. And 0:54:02.200 --> 0:54:05.600 I just it blows my mind that as Blacks, we 0:54:05.760 --> 0:54:08.799 have not been able to do that. It just really 0:54:08.800 --> 0:54:15.080 blows my mind. Well. Yeah, so, while you know, because 0:54:15.200 --> 0:54:18.719 I agree with you, I agree one hundred percent, but 0:54:18.800 --> 0:54:22.280 I need to push back for this purpose. We do 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:26.400 know when to come together, right or we know how 0:54:26.680 --> 0:54:30.080 for things that matter to us, right, and even if 0:54:30.120 --> 0:54:32.680 you think about the way we use our voting power, 0:54:33.080 --> 0:54:37.920 right because without the black vote, both male and female, 0:54:37.960 --> 0:54:40.319 both women and man, because they can say what they 0:54:40.400 --> 0:54:43.799 want that black men don't show up. Black men are 0:54:43.920 --> 0:54:51.080 number two behind black women in most elections, particularly things 0:54:51.120 --> 0:54:54.000 that impact us on a federal level. Right, we got 0:54:54.000 --> 0:54:56.160 a lot of work to do locally because locally, it's 0:54:56.200 --> 0:55:00.319 a disaster everywhere. And that's not just black men and 0:55:00.360 --> 0:55:03.400 women are just black men, is black women too, because 0:55:03.800 --> 0:55:07.440 we our turnout rate in local races is down to 0:55:07.600 --> 0:55:10.600 so low. People don't even have to campaign to be 0:55:10.680 --> 0:55:12.880 able to get elected. They just show up once or 0:55:12.880 --> 0:55:15.040 two times here it is, and the numbers are going 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:17.520 to be so small they could really literally win by 0:55:17.520 --> 0:55:20.600 two or three people. And so that is that's a disaster. 0:55:21.040 --> 0:55:23.120 We have to do way better there because on a 0:55:23.200 --> 0:55:26.399 local level, a lot of this stuff is where it begins. Right. 0:55:26.640 --> 0:55:30.920 Governor DeSantis is a local elected official, whether you want 0:55:30.920 --> 0:55:33.200 to believe it or not, because he's in Florida and 0:55:33.280 --> 0:55:35.800 he probably I don't know his history, but I'm sure 0:55:36.080 --> 0:55:38.399 he went through steps he was he must have been 0:55:38.480 --> 0:55:41.160 something before he became governor. He just run for governor 0:55:41.200 --> 0:55:43.680 and become governor. So there's a history, and there are 0:55:43.719 --> 0:55:47.040 other people in the pipeline that will help him to 0:55:47.160 --> 0:55:50.440 lay out and carry out his mission because he's got 0:55:50.480 --> 0:55:54.560 council members and he's got other you know, elected offices 0:55:54.600 --> 0:55:57.320 and people in positions of power who are helping to 0:55:57.400 --> 0:56:01.240 push his agenda. So locally we gotta do much better. 0:56:01.520 --> 0:56:04.360 But we do show up and we know how to vote. 0:56:04.640 --> 0:56:07.720 What we have a problem with is what you are saying, 0:56:07.800 --> 0:56:12.040 my son, and also Rudy, is this idea of what 0:56:12.120 --> 0:56:15.440 you do after you voted. That's where we gotta get 0:56:15.480 --> 0:56:18.720 We gotta come together on that point because depending on 0:56:19.080 --> 0:56:23.720 who the elected official favors, we will either check out 0:56:24.719 --> 0:56:28.400 or we start fighting with the person. Oh so and 0:56:28.440 --> 0:56:30.279 so went to the White House, or so and so 0:56:30.480 --> 0:56:32.480 got invited to this, and they was in the meeting, 0:56:32.520 --> 0:56:35.560 and my son's talking to the mayor and this and that. 0:56:35.840 --> 0:56:38.600 Then it ain't nothing. They in the system instead of 0:56:38.680 --> 0:56:41.560 us coming up with strategy for some of us are 0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:44.520 getting invited to some places. So we got to go 0:56:44.600 --> 0:56:47.480 in there with the right talking points. If we don't, 0:56:47.560 --> 0:56:50.319 then you challenge us. Then there are people on the 0:56:50.400 --> 0:56:52.920 outside pushing as well. And I think that is what 0:56:53.000 --> 0:56:55.479 we have to focus on more. We know how to move, 0:56:56.560 --> 0:57:00.560 but we don't know how to maintain and sustain. I 0:57:00.600 --> 0:57:05.520 think that's in Florida that's going to be critical, you know, 0:57:05.760 --> 0:57:09.160 and and a and a big What we've learned, and 0:57:09.200 --> 0:57:11.560 I have to tell you Rudy, because you've been doing 0:57:11.680 --> 0:57:14.520 this stuff for a long time, but what we've learned 0:57:14.600 --> 0:57:19.520 is that the relationship building, the community building, Yeah, it's 0:57:19.680 --> 0:57:24.600 almost more important than fighting the target right right, Because 0:57:24.640 --> 0:57:27.080 when you think about the Brianna Taylor movement, and my 0:57:27.120 --> 0:57:32.240 son can attest to this. Yes, we had our you know, 0:57:32.400 --> 0:57:36.600 strategy for Daniel Cameron, and we had our struggle with 0:57:36.760 --> 0:57:39.320 the city and the police department and all of that, 0:57:39.600 --> 0:57:42.240 but if we did not invest the type of time 0:57:42.320 --> 0:57:45.120 that we put into building with that community, we could 0:57:45.160 --> 0:57:48.720 have done any of the Yeah. Yeah, that's where we 0:57:49.320 --> 0:57:53.560 where we lack is in relationships building community you know. 0:57:54.200 --> 0:57:56.320 And you know, one of the things I said the 0:57:56.400 --> 0:57:59.160 rev after we finished the march and we went to 0:57:59.280 --> 0:58:02.880 chill and I sat next thing, I said, Okay, what's next, 0:58:03.920 --> 0:58:08.200 like because we we we gotta, we gotta, we gotta 0:58:08.240 --> 0:58:11.640 come up what our next thing is to move towards 0:58:11.720 --> 0:58:15.440 our goal. This can't just be the march and we 0:58:15.600 --> 0:58:18.320 in the media because the way the media works now, 0:58:18.360 --> 0:58:20.959 in twenty four hours, they on to the next episode. 0:58:21.040 --> 0:58:27.320 In the words of you know of it's gotta be 0:58:27.400 --> 0:58:30.600 more than just a news cycle. Well, because because you 0:58:30.680 --> 0:58:34.840 gotta march and the shooting at Michigan State and another 0:58:34.880 --> 0:58:38.400 shooting that happened after that, you think so much. Even 0:58:38.480 --> 0:58:41.360 the media, you know why, we have to hold them accountable. 0:58:41.600 --> 0:58:44.720 Even they can't keep up. They an't gotta have hours 0:58:44.720 --> 0:58:46.919 in the day to talk about all the stuff that's 0:58:46.920 --> 0:58:51.520 happening across this country, not to mention our foreign uh, 0:58:52.320 --> 0:58:56.600 the things that's happening from a foreign perspective. Right, it's great, 0:58:56.680 --> 0:58:59.880 like we people are not even focused on the fight 0:59:00.200 --> 0:59:04.280 that's happening all across the world that's impacting us here. 0:59:04.600 --> 0:59:09.280 Inflation is not just because we're trying to recover from COVID. 0:59:09.360 --> 0:59:12.400 We are also fighting wars and in battles and in 0:59:12.520 --> 0:59:17.320 situations that's causing goods to rise, causing travel to rise, 0:59:17.440 --> 0:59:22.600 oil to rise. This is some serious shit. So sorry, 0:59:23.920 --> 0:59:26.800 it's some serious stuff, you know. Anyway, I know I'm 0:59:26.840 --> 0:59:29.000 running my mouth. But I just I just feel like 0:59:29.080 --> 0:59:31.360 we better have, we better be, we better be. And 0:59:31.400 --> 0:59:34.959 I'm not talking about we as in mister Johnny who 0:59:35.000 --> 0:59:39.120 lives in Jacksonville on a on a nice street somewhere, 0:59:39.160 --> 0:59:40.920 because that's too much for him to bear to have 0:59:41.040 --> 0:59:43.240 to think about all these things. We talk about leaders, 0:59:43.280 --> 0:59:47.720 people who have the wherewithal, that have engagement and access. 0:59:47.960 --> 0:59:50.320 We gotta think bigger than Oh, it is a part 0:59:50.320 --> 0:59:53.360 of the curriculum that has something about lgbt QIA. I mean, 0:59:53.360 --> 0:59:57.440 that's that's little for us. The focus, Dame, right, and 0:59:58.080 --> 1:00:01.720 it's got to be multiple strategies, you know, like you said, 1:00:02.120 --> 1:00:04.520 there's some people who get to the table. Somebody asked 1:00:04.520 --> 1:00:07.360 me today, you know, we know the governor heard the 1:00:07.520 --> 1:00:11.000 comments yesterday. Would you meet with him? And I say, hell, yes, 1:00:12.160 --> 1:00:14.240 I will go sit right in his face and talk 1:00:14.320 --> 1:00:18.040 to him. We gotta be smart, you know, and we've 1:00:18.040 --> 1:00:22.240 got to We've got to realize it's gonna take multiple weapons. 1:00:22.240 --> 1:00:25.680 If I could use that term, you know, multiple methodologies. 1:00:25.760 --> 1:00:28.960 Let me use that word, multiple methodologies for us to 1:00:29.000 --> 1:00:32.560 affect change that we're trying to affect. And it's got 1:00:32.560 --> 1:00:34.200 to start. Let me tell you, it's got to start 1:00:34.240 --> 1:00:39.280 in Florida because there are other governors who are watching 1:00:39.320 --> 1:00:43.760 what's happening in Florida, ready to replicate in their state 1:00:44.640 --> 1:00:47.280 what he passes here. So if we don't stop it, 1:00:47.720 --> 1:00:51.080 and if and if we don't develop a blueprint so 1:00:51.200 --> 1:00:53.880 that leaders in these other states we can say, yo, 1:00:54.120 --> 1:00:57.080 this is what we did try to affect this change. 1:00:57.120 --> 1:01:00.320 We gotta think bigger than Florida. You know, you got 1:01:00.320 --> 1:01:03.960 to think bigger um than just as you said, the 1:01:04.000 --> 1:01:08.960 black community, because he's he's after any and everybody that's 1:01:09.000 --> 1:01:13.160 a minority, any and everybody that's not on his side. 1:01:13.760 --> 1:01:17.680 And we got to come together, even beyond Florida. We 1:01:17.800 --> 1:01:20.160 need all of y'all. You know, I may need until 1:01:20.160 --> 1:01:23.320 freedom to come down here and rock the mic, you 1:01:23.360 --> 1:01:26.800 know what I mean, until we get their attention. We've 1:01:26.840 --> 1:01:30.080 got to get their attention. And I I don't believe 1:01:30.080 --> 1:01:33.720 a march gets their attention absolutely because they know that 1:01:35.120 --> 1:01:39.480 it does. You think, so attention It just doesn't, like 1:01:39.560 --> 1:01:43.480 you said it, when you gather hundreds of thousands of 1:01:43.480 --> 1:01:47.520 people anywhere for one cause, people got to pay attention. Now, 1:01:47.560 --> 1:01:50.240 it's what you do with that attention, right, It's how 1:01:50.280 --> 1:01:52.680 you sustain that attention. What you do after the attention 1:01:52.760 --> 1:01:56.040 is the people that you have and and the you know, 1:01:56.200 --> 1:01:59.800 the demands that you have with that attention that it brings. 1:02:00.000 --> 1:02:03.640 It's like watching you guys, the rally you have. It 1:02:03.760 --> 1:02:06.560 got our attention listening to you, so there's no way 1:02:06.960 --> 1:02:10.280 listening to our passion and how thoughtful and how how 1:02:10.360 --> 1:02:12.680 sharp you were what you were saying that like they said, 1:02:12.680 --> 1:02:14.959 the government sold what you said. You know what I'm saying. 1:02:15.120 --> 1:02:17.320 Now they want you. They're asking you do you want 1:02:17.320 --> 1:02:19.760 to sit down with them? It's because you got his attention. 1:02:20.000 --> 1:02:21.439 You know what I'm saying. So when you sit down, 1:02:21.680 --> 1:02:23.560 you know what you you know exactly what it is 1:02:23.560 --> 1:02:25.720 that you want, you know what you don't want, you 1:02:25.760 --> 1:02:28.040 know how to go about it, and you're willing to 1:02:28.080 --> 1:02:30.960 move and continue to put the pressure on. So I 1:02:31.440 --> 1:02:33.600 think I understand what you're saying, but I definitely think 1:02:33.760 --> 1:02:35.520 that it gone as attention. It just got to you 1:02:35.560 --> 1:02:38.680 just have to utilize that attention problem you do and listen. 1:02:39.200 --> 1:02:42.080 Five people, my son said, hundreds of thousands yesterday, you 1:02:42.120 --> 1:02:45.880 guys had over a thousand. Five people can make a 1:02:45.920 --> 1:02:50.440 difference by coming together because unity at any level causes 1:02:50.480 --> 1:02:53.520 people to notice, to pay attention, and to have to listen. 1:02:53.920 --> 1:02:56.800 To the point is how you push that forward. It's 1:02:56.880 --> 1:03:00.560 going to be what makes them stay into So right 1:03:00.600 --> 1:03:02.520 now they're looking to see was it a march and 1:03:02.560 --> 1:03:05.840 it's over, this is what you say, or is it 1:03:06.040 --> 1:03:08.760 going to be other steps and other things happen, and 1:03:08.960 --> 1:03:11.080 that keeps this movement alive. And that's what we have 1:03:11.160 --> 1:03:13.919 to do. I mean, Until Freedom just announced our six 1:03:13.960 --> 1:03:19.000 week course on African American studies, and you know we're 1:03:19.120 --> 1:03:23.760 focusing on teaching with instructors. I'm not teaching, I'm actually learning. 1:03:24.520 --> 1:03:31.560 We're focusing on learning from early before enslavement to the 1:03:31.600 --> 1:03:35.760 Transatlantic slave trade through the reparations movement and looking at 1:03:35.800 --> 1:03:38.920 when that actually started because it wasn't just recent history. 1:03:39.240 --> 1:03:43.080 Reparations is something that started the conversations about it while 1:03:43.400 --> 1:03:47.920 enslavement was actually happening, because as our brother, Attorney Angelo 1:03:47.960 --> 1:03:51.440 Pinto says, it's about repairing the harm. So there's always 1:03:51.440 --> 1:03:54.200 been a conversation on that. And then we are into 1:03:54.320 --> 1:03:57.880 we're going to be into in late March talking about 1:03:57.920 --> 1:04:00.600 the US Constitution and how it into sex. You know, 1:04:00.680 --> 1:04:03.600 us as African Americans, where we see ourselves within the 1:04:04.320 --> 1:04:07.920 Constitution and then finally the movement that has happening today. 1:04:08.480 --> 1:04:12.040 So that's another part of our resistance struggle. It's educating 1:04:12.080 --> 1:04:14.120 ourselves and making sure that if they try to ban it, 1:04:14.200 --> 1:04:17.120 we still have it available somewhere to teach it and 1:04:17.160 --> 1:04:19.240 to learn it. But there still has to be boots 1:04:19.240 --> 1:04:22.240 on the ground. So I appreciate what you all did yesterday. 1:04:22.480 --> 1:04:26.200 I do not want you because you're like me. We 1:04:26.280 --> 1:04:28.400 have this thing where even though we did one thing, 1:04:28.440 --> 1:04:31.320 it's not enough. We need to do ten fifteen. You 1:04:31.400 --> 1:04:34.080 want to do it strong, and that's just the way 1:04:34.200 --> 1:04:36.760 we are. But you have to sit back and realize 1:04:37.080 --> 1:04:41.360 prior to you all deciding to do something, nothing was happening. 1:04:41.560 --> 1:04:47.960 That's acts Yeah, that's the clergy community was talking about it. 1:04:48.160 --> 1:04:50.520 Knew something needed to happen, but you all were bold 1:04:50.640 --> 1:04:53.560 enough to call it and people came. Yeah, no, they 1:04:53.640 --> 1:04:56.680 came in love. I mean it blew my mic Man. 1:04:56.800 --> 1:05:01.520 Clergy came from as far as Miami, South Carolina. You know, 1:05:01.680 --> 1:05:05.640 they really came together. And as you said earlier, it 1:05:05.840 --> 1:05:10.000 was so diverse. You know, Black white students UM the 1:05:10.240 --> 1:05:12.840 lbgt Q I a community. I mean you name it 1:05:13.680 --> 1:05:16.880 it was. It was a representation of the very thing 1:05:17.240 --> 1:05:22.320 the Santists is against inclusion and diversity. You know, it's 1:05:22.360 --> 1:05:26.080 really weird because I said it at the rally. He 1:05:26.120 --> 1:05:29.880 ain't a Native American, which means the very fact he 1:05:30.200 --> 1:05:34.680 is the governor is because diversity worked, right, So how 1:05:34.800 --> 1:05:38.040 you gonna cut out the very thing that helped you 1:05:38.520 --> 1:05:41.760 become the governor? But but that's what But you know, 1:05:41.840 --> 1:05:44.640 that's what white folks do. They use the rules for 1:05:44.800 --> 1:05:47.960 themselves and then try to flip the script when we 1:05:48.120 --> 1:05:52.960 learned the game. Well, that's a whole lot of game 1:05:53.080 --> 1:05:57.320 right there. That's a whole lot of game. Bro. Yes, sir, well, 1:05:57.360 --> 1:05:59.920 we appreciate you for joining us. We want to do 1:06:00.240 --> 1:06:03.000 this regularly as we are into this fight. To keep 1:06:03.080 --> 1:06:05.840 people abreast of what's going on. We need to be 1:06:05.960 --> 1:06:09.280 on one another's lives, be in communication, because that's what 1:06:09.560 --> 1:06:11.840 most people. It's not that they don't want change, it's 1:06:11.880 --> 1:06:14.040 not that they're not trying to fight. Instead, it takes 1:06:14.040 --> 1:06:16.080 a lot of work. It's hard, and it keeps you 1:06:16.240 --> 1:06:18.440 up every day every night. You gotta stay committed, You 1:06:18.520 --> 1:06:21.200 got to be invested, and once you start something, you 1:06:21.280 --> 1:06:23.720 can't just drop it in the middle. You gotta see 1:06:23.800 --> 1:06:25.960 that thing all the way through. And that's that is 1:06:26.080 --> 1:06:30.520 what really becomes the biggest struggle that most people have 1:06:30.840 --> 1:06:32.720 is that they don't know which way to turn. But 1:06:32.840 --> 1:06:35.560 we always say, just keep moving. So that's what we 1:06:35.640 --> 1:06:37.960 have to do, is just keep moving. What's happening in 1:06:38.040 --> 1:06:42.440 Florida is happening across this country, y'all. We cannot sit by. 1:06:42.840 --> 1:06:45.720 We cannot sit by. If they are allowed to teach 1:06:45.800 --> 1:06:48.480 their history, then we need to be allowed to ensure 1:06:48.560 --> 1:06:52.040 that ours is being taught as well. You cannot say, well, 1:06:52.480 --> 1:06:55.000 we don't need them to teach our They have access 1:06:55.120 --> 1:06:59.120 to our children all day long, right, and what they 1:06:59.280 --> 1:07:03.520 put into their minds and hearts, what they and to 1:07:03.640 --> 1:07:06.880 their own children all day long. It does matter. And 1:07:07.040 --> 1:07:09.160 yes we should teach our own, but we should also 1:07:09.240 --> 1:07:11.680 force them to have to tell the stories and confront 1:07:11.720 --> 1:07:15.400 the true history theirs and hours as well. So thank you, 1:07:15.600 --> 1:07:18.440 Bishop Nan kisses my shne. I gotta come so we can. 1:07:18.560 --> 1:07:20.160 We're gonna lead to mek a home, and I gotta 1:07:20.160 --> 1:07:22.840 come to New York so we can hang out. Listen, man, look, 1:07:22.840 --> 1:07:25.320 you ain't said them, but the word we're gonna leave 1:07:25.320 --> 1:07:28.760 our home home for me needs my bed. So I'm 1:07:28.880 --> 1:07:41.520 all good. Wa love you man, love you peace. Rudy 1:07:41.880 --> 1:07:46.880 dropping them jewels. Man, he's really he really he takes 1:07:47.160 --> 1:07:49.560 seriously like when he's doing something. So he's like, we 1:07:49.680 --> 1:07:52.760 gotta be united, we gotta just one march. Ain't nothing. 1:07:53.040 --> 1:07:56.560 But we have to always remind ourselves to stop and 1:07:56.640 --> 1:08:00.200 acknowledge what we're able to accomplish, you know. I mean 1:08:00.600 --> 1:08:02.880 that's the thing. That's the thing, especially in this work. 1:08:03.520 --> 1:08:06.960 You know, um, you you you feel like you're taking 1:08:07.440 --> 1:08:10.320 two steps forwards and five steps backwards. Man. You save 1:08:10.360 --> 1:08:13.479 a life and you lose two. You get some rights, 1:08:13.520 --> 1:08:16.639 they take three four from you. So it always feels 1:08:16.680 --> 1:08:18.960 like that. But you know, I guess those of us 1:08:19.240 --> 1:08:21.679 who've been called to do this work, man, that's that's 1:08:21.720 --> 1:08:24.200 just the cross we got to bed man. So shout 1:08:24.240 --> 1:08:27.080 out to Rudy, Shout out to everybody who crazy enough 1:08:27.520 --> 1:08:31.479 coalition of people that got together, um in Florida last week, 1:08:31.560 --> 1:08:35.800 but more more to come. Yep, definitely man. So, Um 1:08:35.920 --> 1:08:40.519 that brings me a little off topic. It's always a 1:08:40.600 --> 1:08:44.040 little always a little topic. But um, so you know 1:08:44.120 --> 1:08:48.000 it's been on the news this fan lady whoever she was, 1:08:48.800 --> 1:08:55.000 she reached and grabbed Busta Rhyme's butt, and he responded 1:08:55.080 --> 1:08:58.080 by throwing water on them. And you know, and there 1:08:58.120 --> 1:09:00.680 were people who was acting like he did something wrong. 1:09:00.680 --> 1:09:03.400 I've seen somebody saying, oh, he shouldn't have did this, 1:09:03.640 --> 1:09:06.240 and he should have did that, And he could have 1:09:06.360 --> 1:09:09.760 done anything right. He could have been, he could have 1:09:09.920 --> 1:09:12.360 could have been, he could have he could have been kind, 1:09:12.920 --> 1:09:16.200 He could have threw the water bottle at the lady right. 1:09:16.280 --> 1:09:18.920 He could have had a security or somebody grabbed her 1:09:19.040 --> 1:09:22.560 physically done something, because that's assault. If if if a 1:09:22.680 --> 1:09:26.040 woman was walking by and a man reached in and 1:09:26.160 --> 1:09:29.080 grabbed her ass, he would get the beat down of 1:09:29.200 --> 1:09:33.479 all beat down. The security would be listen. I mean 1:09:33.640 --> 1:09:36.439 if if it was if a celebrity woman was walking 1:09:36.520 --> 1:09:40.639 by in a fan and she had her people's alongside her, 1:09:41.040 --> 1:09:45.639 her security and her friends, and and he grabbed her butt, 1:09:46.120 --> 1:09:50.519 the possibility of him not getting physically assaulted in harm 1:09:51.280 --> 1:09:55.400 is very small. If I'm walking with a female, a 1:09:55.479 --> 1:09:57.439 woman that I don't even If I'm walking next to 1:09:57.479 --> 1:10:00.600 a woman and the nigga grabbed her butt, the possibility 1:10:00.640 --> 1:10:04.559 that he ain't getting his ass. Whoops, it's probably zero, right, 1:10:04.640 --> 1:10:08.080 So I don't understand why. I just I don't get 1:10:08.479 --> 1:10:12.200 why people were mad at him just throwing water, right. 1:10:12.280 --> 1:10:14.719 He could have pressed charges, he could have done anything, 1:10:15.160 --> 1:10:18.120 you know what I'm saying. The response I saw from 1:10:18.160 --> 1:10:20.000 her was that she just wanted to take a picture, 1:10:20.760 --> 1:10:22.800 but you can't grab Nobody asked to take a pack, 1:10:22.920 --> 1:10:24.760 because the question is would you trying to take a 1:10:24.800 --> 1:10:29.439 picture with his ass like a picture would be like, hey, 1:10:29.520 --> 1:10:32.519 can I take a picture? Buster not reaching in, it's 1:10:32.560 --> 1:10:35.519 grabbing his button, smiling like you think you did something good. 1:10:36.600 --> 1:10:39.360 You know, and Buster, we know him. Buster is not 1:10:39.560 --> 1:10:42.640 trying to have a fight or nothing with nobody. He 1:10:42.760 --> 1:10:45.960 ain't trying. He's focused and serious about what he's trying 1:10:46.000 --> 1:10:49.200 to do. He might not be chitty chatty and playful 1:10:49.280 --> 1:10:52.320 or whatever, but at the same time, this is not 1:10:52.520 --> 1:10:55.680 somebody that's out here trying to fight women. That's not 1:10:55.800 --> 1:10:58.439 a thing. So let's not even start that because you 1:10:58.520 --> 1:11:00.400 know they'll be like, oh and man, you know they 1:11:00.400 --> 1:11:02.599 don't pull up something to happen. Ten years are gonna 1:11:02.600 --> 1:11:04.519 be like seed, this is the kind of thing that 1:11:04.880 --> 1:11:08.320 is not in the situation here. You cannot be touching 1:11:08.360 --> 1:11:11.240 people on their person. I don't even understand why we 1:11:12.040 --> 1:11:14.640 It's so much touching and people getting close to you 1:11:14.720 --> 1:11:16.920 and bumping you and talking in your face and this 1:11:17.080 --> 1:11:20.320 and that. People feel like they're supposed to be able 1:11:20.360 --> 1:11:22.960 to touch you. I deal with it all the time, 1:11:23.479 --> 1:11:25.560 Like people walk up to me and they'd be in 1:11:25.680 --> 1:11:29.680 my personal space. Dude walked up to me the other 1:11:29.800 --> 1:11:34.400 day and asked me, did Jada kiss insta his DMS. 1:11:34.560 --> 1:11:38.720 I'm like, you gotta ask Jada kiss. I don't like, 1:11:38.760 --> 1:11:41.040 I'm not in Jada. He was in my face. He 1:11:41.160 --> 1:11:43.280 was He had a couple of drinks, you know what, 1:11:43.439 --> 1:11:45.439 so you could tell he was a little drunk and 1:11:45.520 --> 1:11:47.800 he was mad. You know what I'm saying, And you know, 1:11:48.000 --> 1:11:50.559 And I'm good at that because I understand. I come from, 1:11:51.080 --> 1:11:53.800 you know, the streets, so I know how to dis 1:11:53.960 --> 1:11:56.760 on those situations and not engageing and turn them into more. 1:11:56.840 --> 1:12:00.360 But I think a lot of people feel like, you know, 1:12:00.479 --> 1:12:04.200 the thing, are inclines that you inclined to do something 1:12:04.280 --> 1:12:06.560 for them, or you inclined they inclined to be in 1:12:06.640 --> 1:12:09.880 in personal space, and you inclined to do certain things 1:12:09.920 --> 1:12:14.360 to them. I was out a few nights ago in 1:12:14.560 --> 1:12:20.920 a loud place, loud, and this beautiful woman came over 1:12:21.040 --> 1:12:25.200 to me and started showing me pictures of her loved ones. 1:12:25.800 --> 1:12:30.160 Two sons are two twins, that was shot and something happened. 1:12:31.160 --> 1:12:34.120 And to your point, I'm like the man that wants 1:12:34.160 --> 1:12:36.439 to know about Jada kiss DMS. I didn't had a 1:12:36.520 --> 1:12:40.040 few drinks. I've been hanging out. I'm with my friends, 1:12:40.320 --> 1:12:43.479 everybody's having a good time. And this beautiful lady, because 1:12:43.479 --> 1:12:46.040 she was beautiful, she was a beautiful woman, and she 1:12:46.200 --> 1:12:49.040 was sweet, and she said she loved me and said 1:12:49.080 --> 1:12:53.320 such positive things to me. However, she wanted, at two 1:12:53.360 --> 1:12:56.800 o'clock in the morning on a night that I'm hanging out, 1:12:57.200 --> 1:13:02.360 to tell me a full story about what happened with 1:13:02.560 --> 1:13:06.519 the kids. The phone number can she called, the sister, 1:13:07.080 --> 1:13:10.280 yelling over the music and trying to explain to me. Now, 1:13:10.400 --> 1:13:13.320 I've been in those situations several times, because people when 1:13:13.360 --> 1:13:15.240 they see you and they need to try to explain 1:13:15.360 --> 1:13:17.640 to you what's going on, they don't know if you 1:13:17.760 --> 1:13:20.200 they're gonna have a chance to talk to you again. 1:13:21.000 --> 1:13:23.160 So I get it. I'm used to it. I deal 1:13:23.200 --> 1:13:25.840 with it all the time. But the part that really 1:13:26.200 --> 1:13:30.720 that I was trying to understand and express to her 1:13:30.840 --> 1:13:35.600 without being rude, is that she's talking to me directly 1:13:35.800 --> 1:13:39.880 in my face to where I can her air. It's coming, 1:13:40.080 --> 1:13:43.240 and I'm trying to turn my head and telling her 1:13:43.720 --> 1:13:47.120 talking my ear so we're not passing germs back and forth, 1:13:47.280 --> 1:13:49.599 and she's and then when I turn up, she's coming 1:13:49.720 --> 1:13:53.960 over here, and I'm like, people are not even conscious. 1:13:54.920 --> 1:13:59.760 I'm like, we don't even have a personal space way 1:14:00.120 --> 1:14:05.479 of like protecting ourselves and like not being in people's 1:14:05.560 --> 1:14:09.400 personal spaces. It ain't no more to people don't feel 1:14:11.280 --> 1:14:13.880 now those days it's gone. Your personal is no more 1:14:13.960 --> 1:14:20.320 personal space. People think that, especially if you are known, 1:14:20.479 --> 1:14:23.920 you have some level of notoriety. People feel as if 1:14:25.080 --> 1:14:27.920 he's supposed to just be able to engage you, and 1:14:28.000 --> 1:14:30.880 you're supposed to be happy you. You're supposed to have 1:14:31.120 --> 1:14:35.240 full conversations with him, and you're supposed to touch you 1:14:35.479 --> 1:14:38.360 and hug you and all types of stuff. And sometimes 1:14:38.400 --> 1:14:41.080 I'm about to die because I'm holding my breath the 1:14:41.160 --> 1:14:44.720 whole time, signing up so that I don't breathe any 1:14:44.800 --> 1:14:48.320 of it in, and that to try to hold my 1:14:48.400 --> 1:14:51.000 breath like I'm gonna die, you know, So you know 1:14:51.080 --> 1:14:54.120 it's funny about this. You actually do shit like that 1:14:55.000 --> 1:14:57.120 that you joke it and you just say that, boy Joe, 1:15:01.479 --> 1:15:04.600 what you know she hold up if you got to 1:15:04.640 --> 1:15:10.240 see her, if somebody you gotta see it. I actually 1:15:10.320 --> 1:15:13.680 have a pole this week. I have a cold, so 1:15:13.920 --> 1:15:20.080 I don't want to even you. Yeah, when the air 1:15:20.360 --> 1:15:25.920 is moving across my face. Bro, bro, nah, we can't 1:15:25.960 --> 1:15:28.360 do it anyway to me. I don't want you in 1:15:28.439 --> 1:15:30.880 a space. She don't want to breathe your air. She 1:15:31.040 --> 1:15:35.160 gonna hold up breath. Please give people some personal space, man, 1:15:35.800 --> 1:15:39.160 busted man, we know, we know you're heart man. You 1:15:39.240 --> 1:15:41.160 got a couple of drops of water. Man, you know 1:15:41.360 --> 1:15:44.280 she she'll learned next she learned it a backup off. 1:15:44.360 --> 1:15:48.479 People don't be touching no man's buttocks, especially no Jamaican man. 1:15:48.560 --> 1:15:51.320 You can't touch no Jamaican man's buttocks. So do you 1:15:51.439 --> 1:15:53.519 know for sure that she touched his button? That's what 1:15:53.600 --> 1:15:56.120 he said. They said, he tested what like you want 1:15:57.479 --> 1:15:59.519 you if you you had to see it, because when 1:15:59.560 --> 1:16:02.160 you look, you can see to there was nowhere else 1:16:02.240 --> 1:16:06.120 she could have touched. She reached down and butt and 1:16:06.240 --> 1:16:08.839 he turned around start because it's not like somebody touches 1:16:08.920 --> 1:16:11.880 back or anything. If he would have felt somebody touches back, 1:16:11.920 --> 1:16:16.880 he felt, you can't do that. You can't do it, period, 1:16:17.200 --> 1:16:21.559 And the water was a reaction just like I bet 1:16:21.640 --> 1:16:28.920 you it was a reaction. Don't touch your man's buttocks. Boundaries, 1:16:29.479 --> 1:16:35.960 boundaries leave demand, Buttoclon, you don't touch demand buttocks. Yeah, 1:16:36.600 --> 1:16:38.759 shout out to my old shout out to Boom Boom. 1:16:39.000 --> 1:16:43.800 Saved the brand. You know what I'm saying, Man, Oh 1:16:43.880 --> 1:16:49.519 the young people that that's Bronx logo. Son, we has 1:16:49.640 --> 1:16:52.840 the Bronx logo. You know what I'm saying. We got 1:16:52.960 --> 1:16:56.439 saved the brand and Bronx logo. Man. Finally, finally, hip Hop, 1:16:56.760 --> 1:17:00.200 save your truck over there in the Bronx man through 1:17:00.240 --> 1:17:02.519 the Bronx Man. Keep doing what you do man. So, 1:17:02.720 --> 1:17:08.760 with that said, thank you for another beautiful episode. Street Politicians. 1:17:09.280 --> 1:17:11.479 Thank y'all for supporting us, making us the number one 1:17:11.560 --> 1:17:15.160 podcast in the world. We truly appreciate that. You know, 1:17:15.320 --> 1:17:18.960 give us all of your feedback. 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