Speaker 1: My league Buds has how the knowledge you want. My
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Speaker 1: they have out the works that the whole wild world
Speaker 1: want to read. My League Buds. Welcome to me Leak's
Speaker 1: bookshel episode number twenty eight. This is a serious episode
Speaker 1: but yet necessary. Also got a little comedy on this episode.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be talking about some of the funniest books
Speaker 1: out there on the market for kids, authored by yours truly,
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart. In my community, this is a subject, It's
Speaker 1: always a topic. I'm gonna open up on this one.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to delve into something that's relevant and
Speaker 1: current and what a subject matter did a lot of
Speaker 1: people just talking about. It's not a comfortable conversation. It's
Speaker 1: not a comfortable topic. But all for my thoughts as
Speaker 1: an other branch to address this particular subf jake matter.
Speaker 1: This all over the news and all over the TV.
Speaker 1: I named this episode your Bible or Your Gun, So
Speaker 1: enjoy episode Your Bible or Your Guns. Malik's bookshelf is
Speaker 1: finding its way. You know, there's a saying that you
Speaker 1: should just throw ideas on the wall and the one
Speaker 1: that sticks maybe is the one that you should pick
Speaker 1: up and run with. Right well, Melik's bookshelf is built
Speaker 1: in the world with books, culture, and community. So I
Speaker 1: need to dove into more community issues that affect our community.
Speaker 1: Right now. The headlines for the last week has been
Speaker 1: those mass shooting that have taken place in this country Texas.
Speaker 1: I believe one happened back east, and I just heard
Speaker 1: today another one happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the place where
Speaker 1: the TUSA massacre happened, where the first city where bombs
Speaker 1: was dropped on black people because they were progressive, and
Speaker 1: they used to create this riot. They used this black
Speaker 1: man rumor about him assaulting some white woman, and that
Speaker 1: got the town all round up. And it's the answer,
Speaker 1: even if he did as a white woman, is the
Speaker 1: answer to murder and burned down a whole city that's
Speaker 1: taking place now. Personally, I don't think Keith did assault
Speaker 1: this white woman. But let me tell you something. There
Speaker 1: were times when just looking at a white person that
Speaker 1: was considered a crime, and people were hung and related
Speaker 1: and castrated and lynch just for looking at a right woman.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you something that's not that long
Speaker 1: ago that this was happening, and it's still happening in
Speaker 1: many respects all across this nation with police brutality, which
Speaker 1: is another hot topic in the community about police brutality.
Speaker 1: But let me rewind back to this again, the shooting,
Speaker 1: these mash shootings, because a lot of people have a
Speaker 1: lot to say, Well, Malik is gonna go on record
Speaker 1: and put his thoughts on this mass shooting because this
Speaker 1: one just hopping in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The other one that
Speaker 1: happened in Texas. We're talking about babies, we're talking about kids.
Speaker 1: We're talking about walking into a school in murdering innocent children,
Speaker 1: and that don't feel good and that don't sit well
Speaker 1: with many of us, most of us. It's horrific, it's horrifying,
Speaker 1: it's wicked, and it's evil. But let me say this
Speaker 1: the answer, you know, because it seemed like the minute
Speaker 1: a mass should't he take place. The minute and that's
Speaker 1: all they've been talking about in the media is what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do about gun control Second Amendment and people
Speaker 1: like oh, they want to make it a political issue
Speaker 1: on the heels and death of babies on the hills
Speaker 1: and death of these innocent people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which
Speaker 1: is the Black Wall Street, the place where black people
Speaker 1: thrived in the twenties and and owned blocks and blocks
Speaker 1: and streets of businesses as well as homes, and got
Speaker 1: bombs dropped on them from planes first city in America
Speaker 1: to get bombs dropping. They dropped these white people dropped
Speaker 1: them on innocent black people. That's coming up the anniversary
Speaker 1: of Tulsa, Oklahoma, MASCA. Now we're here about a shooting
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma, and I can guarantee I can get that
Speaker 1: just happened today. I can guarantee this is all gonna
Speaker 1: turn into gun control and political It always do because
Speaker 1: many think that the answer to issues like this is
Speaker 1: just eliminate people. The Second Amendment in remove all the
Speaker 1: guns out the home, all the rifles out the home.
Speaker 1: You know, they play with our mind and what they
Speaker 1: play word games. You know, there's no such thing as
Speaker 1: a sault When you walk in there, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: say assault weapon. But when you hear assault rifle, when
Speaker 1: you hear something like that, what happens? What did you
Speaker 1: do you think something deadly? Offensive? Um harmful? There's no
Speaker 1: such thing as an assault rifle. There's a rifle, and
Speaker 1: they all have names. Here's the thing. They are unqualified
Speaker 1: people that have guns. They are unqualified people didn't know
Speaker 1: how to the gun. Even if they don't qualify under
Speaker 1: the protocol to buy a gun, a gun or a rifle,
Speaker 1: there's always gonna be bad apples and bad people who
Speaker 1: want to sell you a product on the black market
Speaker 1: even when you don't qualify. And there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people out here a getting access guns that don't
Speaker 1: have the proper background and don't go through the proper channel.
Speaker 1: And then there are those who do go through the
Speaker 1: proper channel and get guns and get a rifle, and
Speaker 1: they go out and murder people innocently. But let me
Speaker 1: say this, let me say this, let me say this,
Speaker 1: let me say this me personally, I don't think just
Speaker 1: eliminating the Second Amendment is gonna solve this problem. I
Speaker 1: personally don't think having stricter un laws is gonna solve
Speaker 1: this problem. This is a cultural issue, and it's a
Speaker 1: more issue, and there's something wrong and deep rooted in
Speaker 1: this country that's causing this type of thing. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say this. I'm gonna say this, I don't trust
Speaker 1: this government. You might trust this government, but why would
Speaker 1: you as a black man who has not had protection
Speaker 1: from police brutality, from oppression, discrimination, and all the illments
Speaker 1: that has occurred in this country against black men to
Speaker 1: trust a country or yes, I live here absolutely and
Speaker 1: I'm not going nowhere, and I believe that we try,
Speaker 1: we need to make what's wrong right. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I could speak out of gets and a
Speaker 1: reality this will this country has been horrible and horrific
Speaker 1: towards black people. So when it comes to trust, trust
Speaker 1: is not given, trust is earned. It's an insult that
Speaker 1: acts millions of black people to trust that which has
Speaker 1: not earned trust. And that's my position on that. So
Speaker 1: to asks me as a black man to take a
Speaker 1: position to say, hey, let's get rid of guns. What
Speaker 1: you're gonna defend yourself against when this government round you
Speaker 1: up like they did the Indians and put them in
Speaker 1: uh concentration cap What you're gonna do when they round
Speaker 1: up the Asians during World War Two when they thought
Speaker 1: there was a threat and put them in concentration camps.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, what are you gonna defend yourself
Speaker 1: against in your own community? If some white supremacis in
Speaker 1: some group of gains of skinheads run up in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1: The just last ship has sense. It's said that two
Speaker 1: million people in this country and to defend themselves against
Speaker 1: some with a gun because someone assaulted them or trying
Speaker 1: to rob them or or what have you, and they
Speaker 1: needed to have a gun to defend themselves. So this
Speaker 1: is real issue. You asking a group of people who
Speaker 1: have not been protected ever in this nation from evil
Speaker 1: and wickedness, that what give up guns to protect themselves?
Speaker 1: Come on, now, I think we're going too far. We
Speaker 1: shouldn't trust that which has not earned the trust, and
Speaker 1: we certainly shouldn't just say, hey, let me just arm myself,
Speaker 1: because there are bad people out here doing wicked things
Speaker 1: with weapons like guns and rifles that they shouldn't be doing,
Speaker 1: but they're doing. So, you know, I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: that's my position on this gun uh debate and what
Speaker 1: is happening in this country because I personally don't think
Speaker 1: that nothing is gonna change, to be honest, until you
Speaker 1: change yourself. And I think people have to change in
Speaker 1: order for things to change, and I don't see enough
Speaker 1: people doing that. This This this police and police brutality,
Speaker 1: it's a real issue in America. And what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do when the local police run up in your house
Speaker 1: and slaughter you and murder you innestly. Aren't you supposed
Speaker 1: to be able to defend yourself? And many black people
Speaker 1: have done that and have defended themselves out of self defense,
Speaker 1: only to wind up in jail for life for defending
Speaker 1: themselves against this police brutality that has taken place in
Speaker 1: this country. This are every city in this country and
Speaker 1: has been going on for centuries in this country. These
Speaker 1: are real issues and they need to be addressed, and
Speaker 1: they have it, and we need to find a way
Speaker 1: to solve this major issue, this major issue. Black people
Speaker 1: are not protected in this nation. And before you can
Speaker 1: tell me about any other group that need to be protected,
Speaker 1: we need to focus on black people being protected from
Speaker 1: what's taking place in this nation. Because they surely don't
Speaker 1: talk about gun control. When the police run up in
Speaker 1: a black person home or in the neighborhood and inisly
Speaker 1: murder someone, they don't talk about gun control or second amen,
Speaker 1: when that happens, we're not protected, and too many of
Speaker 1: us are dying. And every time a month go by,
Speaker 1: another innocent black person is murdered by police. Justice is
Speaker 1: not equal in this country. And anybody believe that. You
Speaker 1: can believe that all you want, but you ain't fooling
Speaker 1: to me on that justice is not equal. Listen, I
Speaker 1: believe you know. I'm an American, I live in this country.
Speaker 1: I want to see things change. But the reality is
Speaker 1: is the reality. So I'm not gonna be a fool
Speaker 1: and and walk around here and walk on acts and
Speaker 1: act like these things don't. It is an elephant in
Speaker 1: the room and then needs to be dealt with. And
Speaker 1: the reality is that, um, you can't have your cake
Speaker 1: and eaty too. You can't want to change, and then
Speaker 1: you want things as they are. Come on now, but
Speaker 1: this cling is taking place, gonna hot, and it needs
Speaker 1: to be shut down. I don't have all the answer,
Speaker 1: but I don't think the answer is say, hey, let's
Speaker 1: disarm America. That's unrealistic and it's not gonna happen, all right,
Speaker 1: And these people all vote people out there on listen,
Speaker 1: we gotta stop wasting energy on things that's just not
Speaker 1: gonna happen, all right. There are too many people in
Speaker 1: this nation. There's not never gonna give up them guns never,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna fight, and they'll fight for their liberty,
Speaker 1: their freedom, in their in their and their and their
Speaker 1: beliefs before they disarmed, because too many people in this
Speaker 1: nation are dissatisfied and they're not gonna let only the
Speaker 1: government have weapons they can they can they can um
Speaker 1: they can use in order to you know, impose their will.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. You have too many trained veterans,
Speaker 1: You've got too many people this in the military, this
Speaker 1: trained civilliance. Now they're not giving up those weapons, whether
Speaker 1: you like it or not. This is their belief and
Speaker 1: they're gonna go down in flames if you try to
Speaker 1: force them to do something that they don't want to do.
Speaker 1: So that ain't the answer. The answer is to find,
Speaker 1: oh what we can do to stop people for having
Speaker 1: that kind of hate, trick that kind of hatred. That's
Speaker 1: what we gotta figure out because these are innocent people
Speaker 1: that's getting slaughtered. But every time something wicked like this happened,
Speaker 1: it becomes a political issue. And do rid the circummitment,
Speaker 1: get rid of old rifles, get rid of guns. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: that ain't gonna happen. Y'all being unrealistic, And then that
Speaker 1: bottle cry, yeah, I believe the master people say we
Speaker 1: should do something. I think something should be done, But
Speaker 1: what what The extreme extreme is not gonna happen, and
Speaker 1: the masses of the people are not gonna give up
Speaker 1: their Bible and their guns. Their Bible and their guns.
Speaker 1: I think that's a perfect title for this segment that
Speaker 1: I just done. Bible or the Gun. See what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: They're not gonna give up the Bible or their guns.
Speaker 1: I think that's the perfect title for this second. Well
Speaker 1: that's all. That's my thoughts. Now that I've talked about
Speaker 1: something serious, relevant and current that's in the community, now
Speaker 1: I want to turn the page. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about a couple of books. Do a book with you,
Speaker 1: liven up the atmosphere. You know. I was serious and
Speaker 1: it's a serious topic. But now it's time to have
Speaker 1: a little fun. Get to know a few uh books
Speaker 1: that I think that are nice for the children, nice
Speaker 1: good reads, fund reads, and they will put out by
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart. You know he's the war running actor and comedian. Well,
Speaker 1: he has a couple of books out now. The first
Speaker 1: book is called Marcus Makes a Movie and the second book,
Speaker 1: which just came out the other day, called Marcus makes
Speaker 1: it big. And so these two books, and you need
Speaker 1: to read the first one because he has no money,
Speaker 1: he has no credit, but he wants to make a movie.
Speaker 1: And the main character is Toothpick. And it's a funny book.
Speaker 1: It's a good read, and it's for the kids between
Speaker 1: the ages of I would say, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: chopter book, so between the ages of seven to thirteen,
Speaker 1: somewhere in that range. Basically comes down to your level
Speaker 1: of reading because it's a chapter book, so you give
Speaker 1: a large age range, but it also comes down to
Speaker 1: you know, where you ad in terms of your reading.
Speaker 1: But it's a fun book. And Kevin are the Phony,
Speaker 1: the funniest comedian in the whole wild world is movies
Speaker 1: and made billions of dollars. What these two books are
Speaker 1: funny to get towards kids. It's a good read. It's
Speaker 1: about this character. He's a superhero's name is Toothpick, and
Speaker 1: he had no money, so he's trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: figure out how how do I make this movie? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, on a true a shoe string budget. So
Speaker 1: then the second book comes out and the second book
Speaker 1: is all about you know, market has made it big,
Speaker 1: but the question of how you stay on top. You know,
Speaker 1: he has to think about, you know, keeping the audience.
Speaker 1: He needs to make another movie. He's also deal with
Speaker 1: fame come other issues and problems, and he's having issues
Speaker 1: with his friends and how to keep them all together
Speaker 1: and how not you know, the air, the dirty laundry,
Speaker 1: the problems that they're having and facing. So the character,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's it's a it's a superhero's name
Speaker 1: is Toothpick and he makes a movie. He figures out
Speaker 1: how to produce the movie. But then when he gets
Speaker 1: um and when the book two comes out, it's all
Speaker 1: about the issues that adolescens go through, um when they
Speaker 1: hit fame. Hell uh, you know adults go through this
Speaker 1: as well. But kids, you know, they have to learn
Speaker 1: that very today. They have to overcome challenges. They have
Speaker 1: to overcome their circumstances and uh and then continue to
Speaker 1: grow and to be successful. So pick up both copies.
Speaker 1: Marcus makes a movie and Marcus Makes it Big by
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart, available everywhere. Thank you for listening to Malik's
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