WEBVTT - Replay* The Fight Is Still Not Over 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:00.920 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.279 Mallory and the ship Boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.640 We are your host of TMI. 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:10.800 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and Inspiration, New 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:17.599 Energy US. So what's going on TMI. We are here 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:23.160 on the ground in Michigan. Tamika is not available right 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.640 now because she's knocking doors, literally knocking doors. Today is 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.080 election day, so by the time you hear we will 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:34.599 already have had probably no you know, the results of 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:40.559 this election. It's been a very very tedious, very exhilarating, 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.520 very energetic, you know, going out into these streets and 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.800 feeling energy that there could be really be the first 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:55.040 female black woman president in history, and then it could 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.080 be a change and just the shift and just the 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.160 energy in America. You know. I've been very vocal about 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.360 who it is that I support, you know, and I've 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:11.480 been vocal about why I support that individual, and hopefully 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.240 by the time you hear this, you know, the prayers 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:19.000 of many those who really actually believe in democracy will 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.480 have been heard. So we've been going, Like I said, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.600 we've been on a gt O B tour get out 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.759 to I mean go OTV tour, get out to Vote tour, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.840 for the last couple of weeks, just going to different states, 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.240 mainly the swing states where we know that the vote 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:42.720 can shift, you know, the in different years, you know, 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.800 Republicans controlled certain states, or they won by the skin 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.320 of their teeth, or they took states that used to 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:54.880 be you know, more liberal and democratic. So those are 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.120 the swing states that we've been hitting, mainly North Carolina, 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:03.680 Philadelphia in Michigan, those are the main three states, and 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.440 Atlanta as well. So we've been on this g O 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.600 TV tour that we've done. We met up with a 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.120 lot of different artists, you know, we met up with 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.280 a lot of different influencers, you know, and it just 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:20.720 seems like everyone is ready for change. No. Shout out 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.040 to Michael Vick, Shout out to Beanie Siegal, Shout out 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:30.440 to Icewear Vessel. No, just a lot, just a whole 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.760 lot of people that was on tour freeway you know 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.839 who else? Could I tell you who was there that 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.600 you would know? Shout out to Black Sam you know, 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.840 he was also on the tour. Shout out to Woody 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:53.760 my man came from Power and it's just it's just 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:58.040 we we had very in depth conversations. Black male conversations. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.920 You know that took place because you know, there's been 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:05.040 this whole narrative that black men aren't supporting Kamala Harris 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.240 and that's just not true. So we have conversations, but 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.840 there is there are a certain demographic who feel left behind, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.600 but the majority of us definitely support her. You know, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.280 she wanted to make that clip, but we wanted to 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.520 sit down with those who don't, or those who are 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:27.000 on the fence, or those who have serious grievouses, or 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.880 those who had misinformation and was and believed certain things, 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.800 you know, and we got to the bottom in the 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:38.960 route of a lot of you know, the negative energy 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.680 that we were hearing in those regards. So, you know, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.200 shout out to everybody who participated in those conversations. Shout 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.760 out to my brother Marvin Bean and the voter else. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.440 Shout out to Pastor McBride, you know, the partners who 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.520 were on the ground with us on the g TV 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.560 work that we did. You know, we wouldn't have had 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.840 these panel discussions and we went to knock on doors 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.360 just to make sure people were register. These were pretty 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:09.160 much non partisan events where nobody was telling you who 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.600 to vote for, how to vote just wanted to make 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.560 sure that you were registered to vote, and just wanted 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.760 to make sure that if you were registered to vote, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.919 then you knew how to go about voting. Do you 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:23.560 know where your early voting sites are? What do you 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.840 know that if your your voter's registration is up to date? 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.840 Those are a lot of things that they use for 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.919 voter disenfranchisement. Right you show up to the polls and 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:38.520 they tell you that your registration has expired, or they 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.600 didn't know you was living somewhere they thought they couldn't 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.559 fight you with an address. You know, It's just certain things. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.279 So we wanted to make sure that everybody knew their status, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.200 they knew that they were up to date, and we 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.360 knocked on these doors. A lot of people were invigorated 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.200 to see us, happy that we were coming and knocking 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:57.800 on the doors. Then there was a lot of people 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.640 who were scared, you know, like we gotta win, you know, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.320 And I see a level of seriousness, Like I know, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:09.600 every time it's voting time, there's a level of energy 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.280 and sometimes it's serious. Sometimes people say you vote to die. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:17.040 Had We've had all type of campaigns and I'm not 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:21.040 taking anything from any of it. Because they all are important. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.719 You know, when people try to tell you that it's 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.920 not important that you vote for the president of the 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.400 United States, it's just mind bothering to me. You know, 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.800 I'm not shooting at anybody individual. I just don't understand 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.240 the mind state that you wouldn't have a say in 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.159 the person who has the strongest office in the land, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.200 who's able to, you know, dictate policy, who's able to 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.080 push policy, who's able to influence policy, you know, who's 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.679 able to just pretty much guide the direction of where 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.200 our country goes. And if you live in this country 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.800 and you don't want to have a say on how 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.520 the country is being guided, you know, what are the 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.880 morals of that individual? If you're not looking and saying 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.359 to yourself, damn, is this person a good person? Is 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.880 this person a strong person? Is this somebody who believes 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.120 in the rights all of us? You know? Is this 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:17.560 person gonna enact laws that are going to be detrimental 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.120 to me in my community? Like, if we're not having 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.320 those conversations, then what conversations are we really having? And 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.360 if we're not involved in the process of actually voting, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.960 I don't see how we plan to make any real 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.760 change because the people will get into these offices and 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.240 as you go in the down by valley that you 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.960 have to, they're gonna be senate racist, They're gonna be 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:44.640 congressional racist. And these things are key for the president, 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.240 right because if he doesn't have, well, she doesn't have 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:55.080 the support needed when she wants to dictate and pass 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.560 a lot of these laws. If she doesn't have the 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.520 support needed because we don't have the House, the Senate, 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.920 then it's pretty much what they call layin duckkan Rubbert, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.440 you know, Robert Stamping somebody. You know, they're gonna do 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.760 everything they can to undermine what I leave. I believe 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.320 she's strong enough. I believe she's that with adversity her 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.920 whole life. I believe nothing on none of this is 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.119 new to her. I believe every time that I watch 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.080 her that she has to overcome and you know, be 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.240 looked down upon and have to be you know, prove 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.720 herself all the time. And I think this is just 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.840 another example of the resilience black women. Yes, black women. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.440 Black women are resilient. I tell people all the time. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.640 I've never seen a more resilient person than my grandmother 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.640 than my mother. Right, So when we talk about leadership, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.040 and they say women shouldn't be lead. I heard I 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:54.040 heard somebody that I don't really want a name to 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.160 give them that level of energy talking about you know, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.320 she was she's traditional and a woman don't supposed to 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.560 sit in these seas. The woman not supposed to be 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.160 in charge of this and that, and she know her place, 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.120 and it was just kind of disheartened because I believe 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.800 a woman's place is wherever she wants it to be. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.640 I believe she should have autonomy. I should believe she 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.280 should have the opportunity to lead. I believe that she 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.720 has the ability to lead. You know, I believe that 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.520 a woman understand what it is that they can and 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.480 can't do. You know, we're talking about the physical aspect 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.520 of certain things. I believe a woman should understand that 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.800 men of it is for security and safety and protection, 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.600 and they should be in those positions to make sure 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.400 that they protect you, right, but not against your own 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.679 will you know Trump talking about that we're going to 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.520 protect the woman whether they like it or not. You 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.160 can't tell that's what does that even mean? How do 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:57.480 you protect somebody that doesn't want you to protect, that's 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.960 imposing your will upon someone who in hell is going 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.240 to authorize somebody to protect them even though they don't 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.560 want to be protected. Who says that that's a good ideology, 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.360 that's a good strategy. You know, that's something when you 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.360 when you're having a conversation with a kid, your child, right, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.679 I said, I say that all the time, that like 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.920 the first five years of a child's life, they trying 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.800 to kill theirself and you got to stop them from 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.880 trying to kill yourself. So that ideology makes sense when 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.520 you're talking to a kid or about your child, about 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.960 you know, somebody that a young person that you're taken 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.480 care of, it makes sense that you're gonna protect them 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.559 despite themselves. But that's not for no grown adult women, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:44.480 educated women. You know, a brilliant woman, a strong, resilient woman, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.320 a woman's who's proven that they have the ability, the 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.400 mentality and the fortitude to lead. That's not a conversation 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.240 you have for those type of individuals. So you know, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.400 we we actually do, like she said, it's time to 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:05.000 turn the page. I am energetic. I am very hopeful. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.440 I feel like an energy that's gonna shift. I feel 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:16.439 that the world rejects this notion of division. They don't 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.360 want a president who is for some of the people, 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.560 who feels like he has to take away the rights 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:28.760 of people. You know, he has to the fame, people, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.360 disrespect people, he has to target people. I don't think. 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.600 I don't think that's what America is. I think, yes, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.000 we've been built on racism, and America is a racist country. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.560 But I believe that we are growing more united. I 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.480 believe that the old white supremacists are dying out. And 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.120 that's what that's what Donald Trump represents to me. The 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.360 old white supremacists with the white supremacists my state. They 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.280 remember when the slavery, remember when black people had to 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.720 stay in their place, and wasn't all these immigrants and 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.600 in latinos here who don't speak to languish that they 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.319 want so they don't think they belong here, and they're 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.560 not patriotic all the bullshit. Those white men are dying out. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.640 And this is white supremacy's last dance. So when we 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.560 would white supremacies ass today, it's going to charge a 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.720 new way forward. We're going to see the beloved commit 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.760 at some point the beloved community because we're breaking that 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.640 all the batteries right, because if you. After you break 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.800 down all the batteries, it's nothing else to constrain you. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.360 It's nothing else but freedom after we break down all 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.760 the the barriers. And no, and no, Kamala Harris is 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.680 not going to save black people. She ain't supposed to be. Well. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.360 She's going to do is save the soul and just 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.160 the energy and the democracy of America. Right, that's what 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.840 That's what America has always stood for. A democracy that 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.000 you have an opinion, and you have a view, and 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.360 your view is just as value as somebody else's. And 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.760 just because it differs from someone else, just because your lifestyle, 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.240 your mentality, the peap proachs and you love whatever differs 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.600 from somebody else's doesn't make you less valuable. Right, And 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:06.640 nobody should be able to hinder your personal preference. Nobody 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.720 should be able to do that. People should be responsible 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.400 for themselves, whether they like what you do or not. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.839 It doesn't give them the ability. It doesn't give them 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:19.720 the right to impede upon your happiness, to impede upon 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.839 your satisfaction, to impede upon the way that you want 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:27.960 to live your life. That's within the laws, right, that's 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:32.160 within the boundaries of laws of integrity and honor. Right 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.680 that as long as you're not violated someone else's rights, 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.120 people shouldn't be able to tell you how you live. No, 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:42.040 And I think that's what's that stake in this election, 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:47.280 you know, and anybody who doesn't see that, I'm confused. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.040 You know, people say, oh, Donald Trump was in over 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:51.640 the floor or he ain't doing none of this stuff. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.720 He ain't. Did he puts Supreme Court justices that pretty 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:59.920 much roll back civil rights. He constantly he executed more 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.720 people than anybody. Like when you look at the overall 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:10.760 message that Donald Trump has said, it's my way in 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.920 the highway. And that's not how you rule for the 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.880 people by the people, right. You can't. You can't completely 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:23.280 impose your will on the whole country. Right. And the 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:29.200 thing is if somebody thinks that, right, the person that 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.600 thinks like that is dangerous. So you can't give that 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:37.719 person access to power. You just can't. You know. It's 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:43.120 it's really like when you talk about the Avengers, you know, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.960 and you see what they was fighting against. There was 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.360 one man who decided that there's too many people in 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.199 the world and he needed to get the five stones 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:58.480 so that he can go cut the population and people 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.400 can live comfortably and they can live happened, but there's 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:02.800 no way that they was going to do it with 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.079 all these people. So he felt it was his destiny 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.880 to save the world by getting rid of people that 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:16.640 he deemed weren't valuable enough, you know. And and that's 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.880 that's pretty much the mind state that we have here. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.960 You know, you have a dictator who decides, you know 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.720 what these immigrants he we're not from here. They don't 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.560 deserve to be here. They're not really human. They come here, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.120 they violators, the rapists and kill us all of the 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.960 negative things, you know, Puerto Rico. You know, Haiti's a 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.440 shipthold all type of everything he could think of to 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.680 the mean anything that's non white, you know. And that's 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.760 that's just not presidential to me. It's not strong. It's 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:55.600 not somebody who deserves the highest highest title of this life. So, 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.600 like I said, we were on the campaign trail, and 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.520 while we were out there, we talked too many people. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.920 You know what we're gonna do right now, I'm gonna 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.720 bring you to an interview that pretty much Tamika. Did 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.600 you know with our brother killer Mike along this campaign 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.600 trail and he took us through Atlanta, and he showed 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.360 us the thriving economy in Atlanta, and he took us 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.000 to his restaurant, and he took us to a place 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:28.720 where he supports these young youths. You're gonna hear about 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.480 everything that happened. But Tamika has this interview, and I 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.360 want you to tune into this interview real quick. Tell 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:34.960 me what you think. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.520 Well, I'm the guy. How y'all doing this? 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:43.680 Long time? 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.520 Welcome to the West Side and our brother killer Mike. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:51.640 But I listen, let them know about Atlanta, please, Ivanda, Georgia. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.800 Is this an amazing place of opportunity for everyone, especially 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.600 African America. Where we're standing right now is fast you 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.320 know as the West Side. The bluff is over there. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.560 Rollo's from there, Able Mabel Thomas, one of my greatest 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.120 politicians in there. But this strip is where everybody's from. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.560 Me t I shot and old Young Grove, all of 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.680 us up it down here, and lots of black business, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.240 whether it was black business like you ball, black business 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.000 like the Caato family, a black business like Russell family. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.600 This is where opportunity abound. I'm from the car of Heights, Damnsville, 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.440 sent you right here. We're on the back head the 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.960 north Side drive. But this is where you come. This 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.520 is where you open disneys, This where you recycle the 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.400 black dollar. This is where black political power when the 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.240 district of firing name is right now, the amazing city 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.800 council person. So when you come to Atlanta, don't just 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.080 go to Buckhead and don't just go to the suburbs. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.080 Friend your ass to the westside and get some food. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.000 If we had time, I take everybody to the froom 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:45.480 plan right now you can ask a question. 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.720 So so many people come to me and they say, 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:51.960 you know, kill a mic. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.240 We don't really know where he stands politically. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:54.480 Yeah. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.800 And I hear you saying that I gotta talk to everybody. 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:57.720 Yeah. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.800 And then after I'm gonna talk. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.320 There, going to and after. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.320 Being out here with you and seeing all the stuff 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.119 that you own, I get that can't And you and 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.480 Paul kids, So you a board member and a big 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.200 financial donor to or at least you bring a lot 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:19.560 of rest to us, to Paul Kids. And therefore you 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:26.080 every election and every. 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:25.680 Pressure on everybody. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.639 What I just seeing all the things that you're doing, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.000 you anti rether It's not with us. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.439 But y'all are buying up stuff everywhere. Why don't you 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:35.439 talk about your. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.040 Political position and why it's important for you to be 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:40.520 working with everybody, or. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.280 At least putting pressure on everybody that. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:43.080 Helped you to get it. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.760 My political position is I grew up in an all 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.479 black world. This all the way to pulling industrials all 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.280 black nouvel child. So all my heroes and billings looked 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.119 like me. The Democrats looked like me. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.520 They was black. The Republicans looked like me, they were black. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.640 They have arguments that at the end of the day, 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.639 if it was to feed the homeless campaign, they were 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.600 right there there to each other being a homies right now, 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.080 to the opel wiggers doing it, and then when they 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.520 in the campaign, that's right there together. So first and foremost, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.720 I'm a black man. I'm fighting on behalf of this 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.520 black community. I want to see the black dollars circulating. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.800 I want to see black business ownership and black opportunity 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.240 to abound. So you say you don't know my political side. 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.040 What you really said is, oh, man, he's out on 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.960 my side, or I think he's out on my side. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:22.560 I don't know what your side is because I don't 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.840 live in your city, but I know in Atlanta. If 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.520 George has been number one in business the last ten years, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.959 then part of that has to do with two Republican governments. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.280 They can deal and him. It ain't that I want 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.760 a kids, ask and love everybody, and everybody's gonna be okay. 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.840 You have some goddamn resources that. 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.080 I get on my side of death. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.479 Listen to me, man, when our state getn't close during COVID, 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.600 I wasn't the one celebrating the women and men who 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:46.600 working on this court. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.960 Dor was celebrating because they death it was over. I'm 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.440 not talking about yeah. 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.119 So I'm just saying complex as politics can be, it 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:57.320 really is as simple to me. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:02.480 It's who benefits this side of time trail. So now 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.960 what we are. Did you ask out in vote? 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:05.399 That's it? 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.120 And demand something today after you vote because you didn't. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.600 You didn't think to have an agenda before that. But 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.679 I'll tell you what I like about Cobbler's agenda. She added, marijuana. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.240 Marijuana is not broken over the Georgia in recreation. When 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.320 it breaks off in recreationally, I'm bugging our government. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.199 Tagging them, Hey man, how do we get in on it. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.600 I want people who look like us, because we spent 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.480 the last fifty years of prohision, actually since nineteen thirty seven, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.479 long that we spent, we laid the brown work, getting arrested. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.840 Were to Governor Kim Absolutely, people think. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:36.960 That you just be in his friend. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.520 Yeah, I can be anybody's free, but being your friend 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:40.120 on stock the sack. 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:41.600 I got to ask you for something because you have 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:46.760 an office, your office, your office hood forty million dollars 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:48.840 roughly something in trade schools. If it wouldn't have been 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.200 for the progressive candidate Ben Support who ran and lost 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.160 for mayor, that money wouldn't have made it here because 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:53.639 he pitched it. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.640 He fished and raise hell about it doing Nathan deal. 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.320 When we come back around in my relationship with Governor Kimp, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.679 I'm saying, hey man, trades and the in the high school, 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:02.840 we need to think about trades. We need thinking center 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:04.520 in trades. When it came time for him to do 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.359 the whole scholarship bill, he didn't only give it the 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.320 academic scholarship, he gave it the trades. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.080 Well. That saw him with debate with Mike calls that 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:12.159 or Mike then caused that. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:14.240 But I know I was saying that every step of 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.159 the way gang enhancement bill he signed, I was dividing 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.439 it against that bill, but he gave me audience. He 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.359 gave me audience with him and his administration. He still 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:23.880 signed the bill. I let him know I didn't agree 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:25.399 with it, and I said, well, I'm a pivot right 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.879 to the prosecutors. I'm supporting. Finally, Lewis Finnie Williams in 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.920 this game. Part of my supporter hers continued upon me, saying, look, 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:32.960 I'm gonna support you. 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:34.160 We need to get you back and office. 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:36.720 The witness said, I don't want to see raptors persecuted 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.880 for work lyrics, and I don't want to see gang 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.880 enhancement kids. For every kid that had no other friend group, 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:43.560 he wasn't good at sports, he didn't join the boy 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.800 scouts who had decided maybe to be a crip or blood. 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:48.320 You know, he is as much a victim as a 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.400 thirteen year old girl who gets trained to go coach 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.160 to seduce another thirteen year old room in the prostitution. 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:55.800 And if we don't give boys that same grace and discretion, 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:57.800 we're gonna be locking up our boys in next thirty 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.800 forty years while women are just out here with no one. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:01.360 Mary vond the Builder, what do. 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.159 You think about them saying that black men are not 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:03.760 gonna show up? 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.919 I think that's bullshit. So the black men we mem 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:08.639 with today is shown up. So you just gotta call 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:12.440 bullshit now that The thing, though, is they deserve something. 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.840 They deserve strong reunions, they deserve better paying jobs. They 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.960 deserve people opportunities in marijuana. They deserve to know that 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.439 once something is with my probation of Kimmoedy that I 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.000 can't get be resisted to both because it's the big detailer. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.400 They deserve these things and I'm here to make sure it. 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:28.960 Happens after it was now laughing. 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.160 You just want to know, because you know, I'm all 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.840