WEBVTT - Ep. 415 "Racism In The Healthcare System " 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.239 What's Good Family. I'm Tamika d Mallory. This your Boy 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.600 might sell General and we're a host of street politicians. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.520 The place we got a deep show today. I mean, 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.520 you know, it seems like as we start focusing on 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:25.560 certain issues, we travel into these real, real dark spaces, 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.040 and UM, I think the show that we're focusing on 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.640 today is no different. It's like when we got into 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:36.880 the issue around medical kidnapping, which is a new term 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.839 that I'm just learning about, UM, and also just the 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:44.280 unjust removal of children from their homes and from their 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:49.160 families for a variety of reasons. I now we start 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.680 to learn about all these other issues and it's like 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.040 you open up a can of ones. And I think 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.280 the same thing happens in the police accountability movement when 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.040 you start talking about police saying, then mental health issues 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:06.280 come up, people start asking questions about gun violence. Um, 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.559 the issues around guns come up, issues around driving while black. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.559 I mean, there's so many windows and and and rooms 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.720 in the building, and I think that's what we're experiencing 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.920 right now as we sort of focus on racism within 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:29.200 the healthcare industry, because it's racism everywhere, and these particular systems. Uh, 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.760 they have some real horrible ways that they treat black 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.679 and brown folks, particularly black women, Uh, that we're learning 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.840 so much about. So today's show it's pretty it's deepened. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.720 For me, it's haunting because, UM, you know, I know 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:45.920 all about what it is to be a black woman 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:50.920 whose voice is not listened to. Um, you sound like 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.640 you've got a little that. I've been doing a lot 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:58.880 of talking m the last few weeks actually, um, and 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:00.920 so I have lost my voice. But you know, I 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.440 know all about what it is as a as a 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:09.919 black woman to be um, misunderstood, to be mistreated, UM, 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.840 to be ignored, to have my feelings and and and 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.200 other things ignored, And it is painful. So listening to 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.200 these stories what somebody think is a small thing or 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.800 you're being ignored or nobody, but it translates into so 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.880 many places in our lives. And so today's show is 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.040 gonna focus on that. Yeah. And also we also have 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.400 a male black man who who speaks on the same 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.200 thing on how his voice is ignored and how his 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.799 even place, you know, as his story is crazy as 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.080 a father's it's pretty much you know, So there's so 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:49.280 much going on, man, I didn't even never really focused 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:54.000 on the you know, the the medical mortality and things 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.040 of that nature, even though I've heard about it. But 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.400 just you know, just looking at these two individuals who 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.519 we have here and just listening to these stories is 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.400 really deep. So you know, I'm definitely interested and can't 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.640 wait to get into these topics and just inform you know, 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.760 our viewers and our listeners on what's going on. That's 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.160 a and that's the thing I love about what we're 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.960 trying to do with street politicians. It's different. You know, 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.440 there are a lot of people who focus on the entertainers. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.000 Maybe they talk about some issues, but their focus is 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.280 very different from ours. And we watch those shows, right, 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.840 we love those shows, funny, um, you know, entertaining. But 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.520 on this show, while we do you know, we cut up, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.680 we talk stuff, but we are trying to focus on 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.440 serious issues but breaking it down in a way that 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:45.800 can be translated to the every day person. And you know, 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.280 it's a it takes us. It's a skill set that 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.840 is required to be able to translate these big words. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.520 Like today we're learning about the help syndrome, which is 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.920 h G L l P. Obviously, the accre and um 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.720 you know, means helping women and listening to their voices. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.120 But h G l l P is a longer word 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:13.880 that describes a particular syndrome and condition and women go 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.800 through when their blood pressure and other issues happen during 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.120 the latter part of their pregnancy, and you can die 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:25.599 from it. We've learned about uh pre sklenia. Oh lord, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:30.400 I gotta get that right. Hold clan, it's clamp women, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.240 and hold on. We need we need, we need our 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.240 production team to tell us how. I'm gonna tell you 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.800 how to say it. Pre et clamps here there we 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.760 go there and make sure y'all don't take that out. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.080 Keep that in there, and yeah, we need that in there. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.920 That's that's Janice right there, pre claims here her name 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:55.680 is Janet. But pre eclamps fia, that's a new you 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.880 keep saying one more time, Genie said one more time 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:05.120 for pre eclamps See, yeah, that's what I said. That's 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:09.320 exactly so. Um, you know, so that's a new term 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.479 a medical condition that we are We're now learning that 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.960 women are dying and or their babies are dying, um, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:20.320 and they're experiencing a lot of of of unfortunate circumstances 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:25.839 during uh the birth period. So there's it's just there's 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.800 so much to learn. And to your point, not just 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.120 learning it, but now that we know, we got to 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.400 do something with it. Go takes me back to Dick 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.520 Gregory when he said, once you put those glasses on, 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.880 it's like glasses that help you see things that everybody 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.000 else can see. Um and. So as we are learning 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.920 more and more about UH racism and in the health 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.400 care system, um and and and not just racism, but 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:55.159 as you said something on Lash show, classism because they're 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.840 white women who are uh, you know, most of them 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:03.239 don't have means, who are experiencing similar situations, particularly around 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.440 the separation of children from their fans, out from their 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:13.760 from their families. So it's it's a deep dark hole trafficking, sex, trafficking. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.640 We talk with Tony last week, Tony Rivera, it's a 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:22.159 deep dark hole. Yeah, it definitely is. Man just hearing 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.760 these stories that That's one thing I love about this, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.480 you know, our podcast, that it informs me. I learned 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.320 every day, like I'm learning from different individuals. I'm learned 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.240 about things that pretty much a common in our society, 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.480 especially in the black community. That I haven't even been 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.359 privy too. So I know a lot of people, and 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.800 I pride myself on trying to inform myself and reading 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.640 up and being knowledgeable and understand what's going on. So 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.400 I know a lot about people aren't giving getting this 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.320 information prior to even hear an about it. So you know, 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.600 that's I'm proud of that. You know we're actually doing 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.160 a little something good here. Number one ship, number one ship, right, 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.280 we definitely are so my thought of the day because 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:09.440 I've been thinking because as we've been in this new space, 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:16.880 learning more about particularly the Child Protective Services, because that's 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.080 what I've been I've been, I mean really, I've been 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.360 doing a lot of reading and engaging myself in a 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:31.720 real study practice around CPS. And not to demonize all 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.400 CPS workers. We've been saying that every week, right, because 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.840 we know that they're child protective workers out there who 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.040 are doing a damn good job and they have little 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.080 resources to none. In fact, my cousin Raven, who loves 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:49.920 you dearly, um, she worked for Child Protective Services for 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.440 a while and in the state of Georgia, and then 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.840 the stories you know of the things that she went 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.520 through and she is not able to tell you everything 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.240 that's how happening. But you could see the burden on 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.640 her when she would come home from work and she 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.440 would just be like, you know, there's so much happening, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.160 There's so many problems. And I know CPS workers just 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.600 like police officers, just like teachers, just like everybody. They 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.320 out there trying their best, trying to damn this to 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:23.160 save lives. But the systems are so corrupt, the actual system, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.280 to foundation of the way that they're told to do 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.680 their jobs is so corrupt at the core. And as 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:35.040 a result of that, UM, we're seeing a situation where 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.000 families are being and people are being harm and so, 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.880 you know, just recently we got tagged, I know, I've 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.440 been being tagged to the story of a woman that 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.280 a woman is telling about an incident that happened in 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.000 the Costco. Um. In the Costco she happened to see 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.560 a family basically for a white people with children, and 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:00.480 there was a young girl, a young black girl with them. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.440 UM who told this woman this is what the this 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.160 is the woman's account of this story. She told the 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.560 woman that the people that she was with, this white 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.200 family that she's been placed with that they were sexually 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.360 assaulting her, the wife and the husband, and that the 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:24.439 husband held her against her will. And uh, now when 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.560 you when you look at the imagery and even the 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.560 video that the woman is taking this advocate, the woman 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.160 who's speaking up for this young girl. You look at 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.680 the video, it's clear that sounds wrong. So this family, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.240 they're not feeding their adoptive child. She's crying. They're being 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.640 racist towards her daughter. You guys need to we need 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.280 to expose these people, this family. Look at her, she 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.160 looks hungry and they're making her say that she's not hungry. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.160 And these people are just owning her and they're probably 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.040 using her as a slave like they were back in 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.960 the day. So, yes, the sheriffs are on the way. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.160 I called the cause because yes, I'm a Catholice as 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.840 person and I'm not about to watch this go by. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.079 That is very rude and very disgusting of these people. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.040 Maybe maybe to them it's not, but maybe they don't 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.600 even know. Let's just say that they are not actually 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:20.040 engaged in um any type of uh you know, negligence 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.520 or or even worse than that criminal activity. Right, Let's 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.640 just say they're not, but they might not know that 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.320 to have their their children, the white children look, you know, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.719 pretty decent, clean up with their clothes on, and then 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.320 to have this young girl with her hair matted and 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.640 her clothes look like mammy. That's exactly how she was dressed, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.280 like a little mammy, dressed like something from imagery from 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.640 the nineteen sixties. That's how she's dressed with this family. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.200 The wife looks like she's suffering with some type of 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.640 mental issue herself. And of course while this video was 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.240 going on, they're standing around and they look to me 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.640 like they know somebody sees them, right, So of course 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.200 the woman can't stop them from taking the child. But 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.760 she gets to the police. She tells the police about 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.320 the situation, and they go to investigate, and of course 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:11.080 their report is they found no wrong doing, everything is fine, 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.640 and this young girl is off with this family. Someone 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.920 tagged me yesterday to something saying that the family has 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.320 now moved from where they were and they went to 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.280 another state. And this happens often, and so there were 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.280 many people who wanted us to get involved to deal 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.120 with this situation, and it would just so happen that 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.600 I mentioned this in the last and our last week's 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.319 show where we talked with Tony Rivera and we happen 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.000 to mention that this was happening, it was a developing situation, 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.400 and when she said she was dealing with it and 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.640 would get back to me. So my thought of the 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.480 day is, as I look at many people who have 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.920 reached out, even some of them are advocates themselves, and 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:55.000 they are helping with this situation, why do people feel 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.880 like the right way to address me or us and 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.880 other leaders is to try to either shame us and 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.480 disrespect us in order to make us pay attention to 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.880 an issue. So people are tagging me in the comments. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.840 Are your trash because you're not helping this girl? You 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.800 haven't done your job? Where are you? How dare you? 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.920 You only get involved in cases when something you know 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.840 benefits you, which, by the way, that's the biggest line 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.920 has ever been told. Because most of the people that 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.160 come to us for support are people who have no name. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.199 No one really knows what's going on. Maybe their child 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.160 was killed or some incident happened, and maybe there's some 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.880 talk online, but there's no organization around them. They don't 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.960 have really the resources, the financial resources which we have 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.920 to often raise and bring to the families and beyond 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:53.319 that they have no international name the way that we 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.520 ultimately did for Brianna Taylor. And I've been involved in 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.680 many cases for my career. Over my career twenty five 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.200 plus years, I have been helping to take cases and 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.080 families from one space to the next. We got involved 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:11.520 in Trayvon Martin, same thing. Trayvon had been dead. People 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.440 were kind of talking about it. But when we got 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.120 there and we put that extra work on and Traybonn 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.520 became an international name. His mother Sabrina folks who will 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.200 tell him that, okay. And again, like I said, same 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.920 thing with Brianna Taylor. So I'm trying to figure out 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.000 why people feel like they need to shame you and 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.200 talk down on you to make you get involved in 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.400 something when they don't know who you're talking to, they 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.000 don't know what's happening behind the scenes. And also they 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.800 don't understand the process that it takes before people like 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.720 us can go and get involved in certain situations. And 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.640 I think, and I'll let you respond. Then one of 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.960 the problems that folks deal with is not understanding that 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.119 they're they're the fact that they have five hundred followers 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:00.360 or two thousand followers, and even five thousand followers. They 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.800 don't understand that when they go out and say something, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.800 the risk is not the same as someone like me 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.760 and like us who have a million plus people and 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.760 major platforms, because guess what, we will get sued if 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.199 we have not done the due diligence of having our 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.160 attorneys get involved in these situations. Imagine us going out 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:27.160 there and calling this family rapists, kidnappers, all kinds of 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.480 words that we need to We would be using or 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.480 at least implying in order to bring attention to a 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.480 situation without giving our legal team the ability to look 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.480 at the law and what we can say and what 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.480 we can't say. And also, the woman that's telling the story, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.080 we don't know her. I believe she's doing the right thing, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.280 and I want to support her, but we don't know her, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.560 so we can't say a hundred percent that what she's 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.320 telling us is absolutely true. All of this has to 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.360 be dealt with, and there are people out there in 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.600 the world who don't seem to know understand that there 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.200 is a process that we have to go through before 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.080 we get involved. It doesn't mean that we won't take 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.840 on situations. That's difficult because guess what they told us. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.840 Brianna Taylor's boyfriend was a drug deal Our ex boyfriend 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.800 was a drug dealer. They told us, Oh, Kenny Walker, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.960 he might have something over here. Brianna's actual boyfriend. They 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:22.080 told us, well, uh, what's his name? Eric Garner? He 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.840 was selling Lucy's cigarettes. Nicole Bell's man. They tried to 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.640 put off the sparaged up with all types of things 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:33.360 that Joe Guselan Trump benefield their arrest records from the past. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.920 Every case we get involved in, Mike Brown, Oh, he 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.080 attacked the man at the store. Every case we get 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.440 involved with, there's a story. There's always a back story. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.640 I got a backstory. There's some ship. You can come 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.840 right now and say you're gonna help Tamika and it's 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.760 gonna be some ship. Right. Everybody got a story. But 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.920 it takes a process so that you can know what 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.920 your risks are and how you intend to approach a situation. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.640 So my thought the day is like, what the hell 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.360 a y'all talking about? And why do people who have 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.160 never been in our positions have so much to say 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.360 about things that they don't have to assume the risk 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:15.320 for well, my assessment of the situation is that there 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.080 are two types of people. Then people who actually just 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.960 don't know, right. And then there's the type of people 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.520 who just want to hate, right. They just want to 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.200 do anything to to make you look negative and vilify you. Right. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.760 So the people who don't know, they make statements and 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.840 why are you hiring doing anything? And why don't you 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.400 doing this? And what's going on with this? And they 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.000 don't understand exactly high works. And then there are people 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.200 who have unrealistic expectations. Right. They expect you to talk 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.400 about everything that's going on in the world. There's so 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.760 many different things that people were able to see our 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.400 d m s and our emails and see how they're 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.560 flooded with so many different individuals who have an issue, right, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.040 and and and they will understand that we don't have 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:02.680 the capacity as organization, let alone individuals, to bring to 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.880 light every issue, every situation that somebody brings to us. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.359 And everybody feels in the situation that they think is important, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.320 it's equally as important. There's nobody who doesn't think that 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.800 the boy who was running down the block and he 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.639 got hit with somebody threw a rocket at him, doesn't 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.160 think that's more important than the police that shot him, 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.880 or that the kid that show. Everybody thinks that their 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.480 issue is paramount to everything else. So they're gonna come 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.040 at you. So that's that's why I've taken that. But 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:35.239 then there's just those people who are actually agent provocateurs, right, 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.560 they sent to try to you know, to defame you 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.639 and make it seem like you're not doing your world. 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.520 They have a little bit more followers. They utilize social media, 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.639 and it's in a in a different plat or a 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.919 different way in which they utilize it to it the 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.480 message that they have is spread all over the place, 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.320 so starts to become a recurrent theme, theme and the 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.840 narrative that people grab onto. So those are two things. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.920 So what I say is this, we have to continue 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.600 to just do the work right. And I understand how 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.720 it can be demoralizing, and I understand why, like before 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:11.720 I seeple, like you don't understand why a lot of 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.120 celebrities just don't step up, like you've got a platform 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.640 you to do this and they're vilified, right, and this 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.239 is not their everyday work. Some of them step up 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.200 and just want to say, you know what, I don't 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.520 I don't agree with what happened. Man, let me say 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.600 something about it, and people start tearing them down. Oh 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:28.520 you don't do this, what are you doing this for? 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.800 Or you you should have been did this? Or nobody 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.080 cares what you're saying. Just shut up and dribble or 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.560 shut up and and wrap or whatever it is. So 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.239 it is it is. You know this, this work that 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.800 we do is an everyday process. It has to be 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:47.040 God's purpose for you because it is very painful, especially 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.280 when you have you know, when you care about your name, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.679 you care about how you are portrayed, when your reputation 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.080 is like because for me, my reputation is all I 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.560 ever had, you know, prior to getting involved in this 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.320 in the I mean this work doing a client to 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.399 wrap or anything, I was a respected individual because the 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.800 way I carried myself, in the way that I I 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.600 dealt with integrity. And that's that's one thing throughout my 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.000 history of my life that people were always able to 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.640 say about me. And this was the first time, even 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.399 in hip hop music whatever, my integrity was never in question, right, 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.920 it was my talent, my skill level or did he 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.439 wassh up or nobody kids, and I went through all 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.199 of that, but this space people started to attack my 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.119 integrity as a man and calling you scammers and stealers 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.439 and liars and cloud chases and and all of these names. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.400 So it takes a lot, and it really takes a lot. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.879 This has to be your caller, you know, so we 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.240 and we we deal with it very well. You know, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:43.600 I know that a lot of people, there are a 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:49.000 lot of UM leaders who passed in present who just said, 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.600 fuck it. You know, I'm not doing this, but I'm 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.720 just gonna I'm not saying nothing will let them deal 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.080 with it. They some of them have quote unquote sold 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.000 out because of that, because they said, you know what, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.400 I'm doing all this fighting for people, and people don't 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.040 give a funk about what I'm doing. They call them 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.000 me all types of names, and I'm not. I haven't 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.960 benefited anywhere, so let me stop benefit. I don't care 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.520 what nobody thinks now because I've lost so much, and 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.840 they attack my own people that I'm trying to say, 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:14.800 I'm trying to help and I'm trying to do all 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.360 these things for are the ones attacking me. So it's 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.359 just so much that goes in that that you know, 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.840 that question that you know your thought of the day 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.520 is very thought provoking. I just asked people, man, just 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.240 to take the time before you write something, before you 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.320 to say something, before you attack somebody for your accused 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.040 somebody solf like somebody wrote today to say you're a scammer, 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.320 And I said, just prove it, show me one person 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:36.920 I have a scamed or you have to do. Don't 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.879 just don't just go on the internet and just write something, 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.760 you know, just throw something into the atmosphere that you 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.639 have no cluefro you have no knowledge of. You just 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.680 heard a narrative and you grabbed onto it and then 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.480 you're spreading it and you're putting it on people you know. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.679 And I just asked you know, as individuals, as people, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.320 as black people, as people in our communities, before you 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.000 attack people that are doing work that you've never done 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.840 and it never will do and don't even understand the 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.600 capacity of which it needs to be done. Just ask yourself, 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.560 do I know what I'm saying? Am I sure about 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.960 what I'm saying? Am I clear? And I it doesn't 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.080 make sense that I do my due diligence, that I 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:18.840 research that I do all of this. Don't understand what 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.879 it takes to do what this individual is doing. You know, 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.000 just just do that, you know, because we were still humans, 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.399 you know, we're we're human beings just like you. We 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:29.880 just happened to have a different calling on our lives 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.040 and we move into different space. So you know, I 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:35.080 just ask people, please, man, before you write someone the internet, 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.119 before you attack somebody, before you call somebody. And you 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.879 know what, many times brothers have called me names and 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:42.119 just said names. I'm like, brother, why did you have 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:44.000 to say that? And I and I said, hey, well 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.160 this what's going on on my fault what I mean? 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:48.639 But you didn't even take the time out to know 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.600 what you meant. You just got so caught up in 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:54.320 the Internet and and the you know, the moment and 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:59.280 attacking somebody and disrespecting the individual. Luckily for you, I'm 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.480 the type of individ you who understand where you're coming from, 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:04.800 understand that you come from a place of ignorance and 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.000 not understand it. So I'm not trying to meet you 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.160 with the same energy. But imagine if I was. Imagine, 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:12.680 you know, and this is how misunderstands and everything starts. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.480 So I just say people just need to take the 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.040 time out, do some research, do some your due diligence 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.240