Speaker 1: I'm Tamika D.
Speaker 2: Mallory and the ship Boy my Son in general.
Speaker 3: We are your host of TMI.
Speaker 2: Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and Inspiration, New
Speaker 2: Energy US. So what's going on TMI. We are here
Speaker 2: on the ground in Michigan. Tamika is not available right
Speaker 2: now because she's knocking doors, literally knocking doors. Today is
Speaker 2: election day, so by the time you hear we will
Speaker 2: already have had probably no you know, the results of
Speaker 2: this election. It's been a very very tedious, very exhilarating,
Speaker 2: very energetic, you know, going out into these streets and
Speaker 2: feeling energy that there could be really be the first
Speaker 2: female black woman president in history, and then it could
Speaker 2: be a change and just the shift and just the
Speaker 2: energy in America. You know. I've been very vocal about
Speaker 2: who it is that I support, you know, and I've
Speaker 2: been vocal about why I support that individual, and hopefully
Speaker 2: by the time you hear this, you know, the prayers
Speaker 2: of many those who really actually believe in democracy will
Speaker 2: have been heard. So we've been going, Like I said,
Speaker 2: we've been on a gt O B tour get out
Speaker 2: to I mean go OTV tour, get out to Vote tour,
Speaker 2: for the last couple of weeks, just going to different states,
Speaker 2: mainly the swing states where we know that the vote
Speaker 2: can shift, you know, the in different years, you know,
Speaker 2: Republicans controlled certain states, or they won by the skin
Speaker 2: of their teeth, or they took states that used to
Speaker 2: be you know, more liberal and democratic. So those are
Speaker 2: the swing states that we've been hitting, mainly North Carolina,
Speaker 2: Philadelphia in Michigan, those are the main three states, and
Speaker 2: Atlanta as well. So we've been on this g O
Speaker 2: TV tour that we've done. We met up with a
Speaker 2: lot of different artists, you know, we met up with
Speaker 2: a lot of different influencers, you know, and it just
Speaker 2: seems like everyone is ready for change. No. Shout out
Speaker 2: to Michael Vick, Shout out to Beanie Siegal, Shout out
Speaker 2: to Icewear Vessel. No, just a lot, just a whole
Speaker 2: lot of people that was on tour freeway you know
Speaker 2: who else? Could I tell you who was there that
Speaker 2: you would know? Shout out to Black Sam you know,
Speaker 2: he was also on the tour. Shout out to Woody
Speaker 2: my man came from Power and it's just it's just
Speaker 2: we we had very in depth conversations. Black male conversations.
Speaker 2: You know that took place because you know, there's been
Speaker 2: this whole narrative that black men aren't supporting Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: and that's just not true. So we have conversations, but
Speaker 2: there is there are a certain demographic who feel left behind,
Speaker 2: but the majority of us definitely support her. You know,
Speaker 2: she wanted to make that clip, but we wanted to
Speaker 2: sit down with those who don't, or those who are
Speaker 2: on the fence, or those who have serious grievouses, or
Speaker 2: those who had misinformation and was and believed certain things,
Speaker 2: you know, and we got to the bottom in the
Speaker 2: route of a lot of you know, the negative energy
Speaker 2: that we were hearing in those regards. So, you know,
Speaker 2: shout out to everybody who participated in those conversations. Shout
Speaker 2: out to my brother Marvin Bean and the voter else.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Pastor McBride, you know, the partners who
Speaker 2: were on the ground with us on the g TV
Speaker 2: work that we did. You know, we wouldn't have had
Speaker 2: these panel discussions and we went to knock on doors
Speaker 2: just to make sure people were register. These were pretty
Speaker 2: much non partisan events where nobody was telling you who
Speaker 2: to vote for, how to vote just wanted to make
Speaker 2: sure that you were registered to vote, and just wanted
Speaker 2: to make sure that if you were registered to vote,
Speaker 2: then you knew how to go about voting. Do you
Speaker 2: know where your early voting sites are? What do you
Speaker 2: know that if your your voter's registration is up to date?
Speaker 2: Those are a lot of things that they use for
Speaker 2: voter disenfranchisement. Right you show up to the polls and
Speaker 2: they tell you that your registration has expired, or they
Speaker 2: didn't know you was living somewhere they thought they couldn't
Speaker 2: fight you with an address. You know, It's just certain things.
Speaker 2: So we wanted to make sure that everybody knew their status,
Speaker 2: they knew that they were up to date, and we
Speaker 2: knocked on these doors. A lot of people were invigorated
Speaker 2: to see us, happy that we were coming and knocking
Speaker 2: on the doors. Then there was a lot of people
Speaker 2: who were scared, you know, like we gotta win, you know,
Speaker 2: And I see a level of seriousness, Like I know,
Speaker 2: every time it's voting time, there's a level of energy
Speaker 2: and sometimes it's serious. Sometimes people say you vote to die.
Speaker 2: Had We've had all type of campaigns and I'm not
Speaker 2: taking anything from any of it. Because they all are important.
Speaker 2: You know, when people try to tell you that it's
Speaker 2: not important that you vote for the president of the
Speaker 2: United States, it's just mind bothering to me. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm not shooting at anybody individual. I just don't understand
Speaker 2: the mind state that you wouldn't have a say in
Speaker 2: the person who has the strongest office in the land,
Speaker 2: who's able to, you know, dictate policy, who's able to
Speaker 2: push policy, who's able to influence policy, you know, who's
Speaker 2: able to just pretty much guide the direction of where
Speaker 2: our country goes. And if you live in this country
Speaker 2: and you don't want to have a say on how
Speaker 2: the country is being guided, you know, what are the
Speaker 2: morals of that individual? If you're not looking and saying
Speaker 2: to yourself, damn, is this person a good person? Is
Speaker 2: this person a strong person? Is this somebody who believes
Speaker 2: in the rights all of us? You know? Is this
Speaker 2: person gonna enact laws that are going to be detrimental
Speaker 2: to me in my community? Like, if we're not having
Speaker 2: those conversations, then what conversations are we really having? And
Speaker 2: if we're not involved in the process of actually voting,
Speaker 2: I don't see how we plan to make any real
Speaker 2: change because the people will get into these offices and
Speaker 2: as you go in the down by valley that you
Speaker 2: have to, they're gonna be senate racist, They're gonna be
Speaker 2: congressional racist. And these things are key for the president,
Speaker 2: right because if he doesn't have, well, she doesn't have
Speaker 2: the support needed when she wants to dictate and pass
Speaker 2: a lot of these laws. If she doesn't have the
Speaker 2: support needed because we don't have the House, the Senate,
Speaker 2: then it's pretty much what they call layin duckkan Rubbert,
Speaker 2: you know, Robert Stamping somebody. You know, they're gonna do
Speaker 2: everything they can to undermine what I leave. I believe
Speaker 2: she's strong enough. I believe she's that with adversity her
Speaker 2: whole life. I believe nothing on none of this is
Speaker 2: new to her. I believe every time that I watch
Speaker 2: her that she has to overcome and you know, be
Speaker 2: looked down upon and have to be you know, prove
Speaker 2: herself all the time. And I think this is just
Speaker 2: another example of the resilience black women. Yes, black women.
Speaker 2: Black women are resilient. I tell people all the time.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a more resilient person than my grandmother
Speaker 2: than my mother. Right, So when we talk about leadership,
Speaker 2: and they say women shouldn't be lead. I heard I
Speaker 2: heard somebody that I don't really want a name to
Speaker 2: give them that level of energy talking about you know,
Speaker 2: she was she's traditional and a woman don't supposed to
Speaker 2: sit in these seas. The woman not supposed to be
Speaker 2: in charge of this and that, and she know her place,
Speaker 2: and it was just kind of disheartened because I believe
Speaker 2: a woman's place is wherever she wants it to be.
Speaker 2: I believe she should have autonomy. I should believe she
Speaker 2: should have the opportunity to lead. I believe that she
Speaker 2: has the ability to lead. You know, I believe that
Speaker 2: a woman understand what it is that they can and
Speaker 2: can't do. You know, we're talking about the physical aspect
Speaker 2: of certain things. I believe a woman should understand that
Speaker 2: men of it is for security and safety and protection,
Speaker 2: and they should be in those positions to make sure
Speaker 2: that they protect you, right, but not against your own
Speaker 2: will you know Trump talking about that we're going to
Speaker 2: protect the woman whether they like it or not. You
Speaker 2: can't tell that's what does that even mean? How do
Speaker 2: you protect somebody that doesn't want you to protect, that's
Speaker 2: imposing your will upon someone who in hell is going
Speaker 2: to authorize somebody to protect them even though they don't
Speaker 2: want to be protected. Who says that that's a good ideology,
Speaker 2: that's a good strategy. You know, that's something when you
Speaker 2: when you're having a conversation with a kid, your child, right,
Speaker 2: I said, I say that all the time, that like
Speaker 2: the first five years of a child's life, they trying
Speaker 2: to kill theirself and you got to stop them from
Speaker 2: trying to kill yourself. So that ideology makes sense when
Speaker 2: you're talking to a kid or about your child, about
Speaker 2: you know, somebody that a young person that you're taken
Speaker 2: care of, it makes sense that you're gonna protect them
Speaker 2: despite themselves. But that's not for no grown adult women,
Speaker 2: educated women. You know, a brilliant woman, a strong, resilient woman,
Speaker 2: a woman's who's proven that they have the ability, the
Speaker 2: mentality and the fortitude to lead. That's not a conversation
Speaker 2: you have for those type of individuals. So you know,
Speaker 2: we we actually do, like she said, it's time to
Speaker 2: turn the page. I am energetic. I am very hopeful.
Speaker 2: I feel like an energy that's gonna shift. I feel
Speaker 2: that the world rejects this notion of division. They don't
Speaker 2: want a president who is for some of the people,
Speaker 2: who feels like he has to take away the rights
Speaker 2: of people. You know, he has to the fame, people,
Speaker 2: disrespect people, he has to target people. I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's what America is. I think, yes,
Speaker 2: we've been built on racism, and America is a racist country.
Speaker 2: But I believe that we are growing more united. I
Speaker 2: believe that the old white supremacists are dying out. And
Speaker 2: that's what that's what Donald Trump represents to me. The
Speaker 2: old white supremacists with the white supremacists my state. They
Speaker 2: remember when the slavery, remember when black people had to
Speaker 2: stay in their place, and wasn't all these immigrants and
Speaker 2: in latinos here who don't speak to languish that they
Speaker 2: want so they don't think they belong here, and they're
Speaker 2: not patriotic all the bullshit. Those white men are dying out.
Speaker 2: And this is white supremacy's last dance. So when we
Speaker 2: would white supremacies ass today, it's going to charge a
Speaker 2: new way forward. We're going to see the beloved commit
Speaker 2: at some point the beloved community because we're breaking that
Speaker 2: all the batteries right, because if you. After you break
Speaker 2: down all the batteries, it's nothing else to constrain you.
Speaker 2: It's nothing else but freedom after we break down all
Speaker 2: the the barriers. And no, and no, Kamala Harris is
Speaker 2: not going to save black people. She ain't supposed to be. Well.
Speaker 2: She's going to do is save the soul and just
Speaker 2: the energy and the democracy of America. Right, that's what
Speaker 2: That's what America has always stood for. A democracy that
Speaker 2: you have an opinion, and you have a view, and
Speaker 2: your view is just as value as somebody else's. And
Speaker 2: just because it differs from someone else, just because your lifestyle,
Speaker 2: your mentality, the peap proachs and you love whatever differs
Speaker 2: from somebody else's doesn't make you less valuable. Right, And
Speaker 2: nobody should be able to hinder your personal preference. Nobody
Speaker 2: should be able to do that. People should be responsible
Speaker 2: for themselves, whether they like what you do or not.
Speaker 2: It doesn't give them the ability. It doesn't give them
Speaker 2: the right to impede upon your happiness, to impede upon
Speaker 2: your satisfaction, to impede upon the way that you want
Speaker 2: to live your life. That's within the laws, right, that's
Speaker 2: within the boundaries of laws of integrity and honor. Right
Speaker 2: that as long as you're not violated someone else's rights,
Speaker 2: people shouldn't be able to tell you how you live. No,
Speaker 2: And I think that's what's that stake in this election,
Speaker 2: you know, and anybody who doesn't see that, I'm confused.
Speaker 2: You know, people say, oh, Donald Trump was in over
Speaker 2: the floor or he ain't doing none of this stuff.
Speaker 2: He ain't. Did he puts Supreme Court justices that pretty
Speaker 2: much roll back civil rights. He constantly he executed more
Speaker 2: people than anybody. Like when you look at the overall
Speaker 2: message that Donald Trump has said, it's my way in
Speaker 2: the highway. And that's not how you rule for the
Speaker 2: people by the people, right. You can't. You can't completely
Speaker 2: impose your will on the whole country. Right. And the
Speaker 2: thing is if somebody thinks that, right, the person that
Speaker 2: thinks like that is dangerous. So you can't give that
Speaker 2: person access to power. You just can't. You know. It's
Speaker 2: it's really like when you talk about the Avengers, you know,
Speaker 2: and you see what they was fighting against. There was
Speaker 2: one man who decided that there's too many people in
Speaker 2: the world and he needed to get the five stones
Speaker 2: so that he can go cut the population and people
Speaker 2: can live comfortably and they can live happened, but there's
Speaker 2: no way that they was going to do it with
Speaker 2: all these people. So he felt it was his destiny
Speaker 2: to save the world by getting rid of people that
Speaker 2: he deemed weren't valuable enough, you know. And and that's
Speaker 2: that's pretty much the mind state that we have here.
Speaker 2: You know, you have a dictator who decides, you know
Speaker 2: what these immigrants he we're not from here. They don't
Speaker 2: deserve to be here. They're not really human. They come here,
Speaker 2: they violators, the rapists and kill us all of the
Speaker 2: negative things, you know, Puerto Rico. You know, Haiti's a
Speaker 2: shipthold all type of everything he could think of to
Speaker 2: the mean anything that's non white, you know. And that's
Speaker 2: that's just not presidential to me. It's not strong. It's
Speaker 2: not somebody who deserves the highest highest title of this life. So,
Speaker 2: like I said, we were on the campaign trail, and
Speaker 2: while we were out there, we talked too many people.
Speaker 2: You know what we're gonna do right now, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: bring you to an interview that pretty much Tamika. Did
Speaker 2: you know with our brother killer Mike along this campaign
Speaker 2: trail and he took us through Atlanta, and he showed
Speaker 2: us the thriving economy in Atlanta, and he took us
Speaker 2: to his restaurant, and he took us to a place
Speaker 2: where he supports these young youths. You're gonna hear about
Speaker 2: everything that happened. But Tamika has this interview, and I
Speaker 2: want you to tune into this interview real quick. Tell
Speaker 2: me what you think.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm the guy. How y'all doing this?
Speaker 5: Long time?
Speaker 4: Welcome to the West Side and our brother killer Mike.
Speaker 4: But I listen, let them know about Atlanta, please, Ivanda, Georgia.
Speaker 6: Is this an amazing place of opportunity for everyone, especially
Speaker 6: African America. Where we're standing right now is fast you
Speaker 6: know as the West Side. The bluff is over there.
Speaker 6: Rollo's from there, Able Mabel Thomas, one of my greatest
Speaker 6: politicians in there. But this strip is where everybody's from.
Speaker 6: Me t I shot and old Young Grove, all of
Speaker 6: us up it down here, and lots of black business,
Speaker 6: whether it was black business like you ball, black business
Speaker 6: like the Caato family, a black business like Russell family.
Speaker 6: This is where opportunity abound. I'm from the car of Heights, Damnsville,
Speaker 6: sent you right here. We're on the back head the
Speaker 6: north Side drive. But this is where you come. This
Speaker 6: is where you open disneys, This where you recycle the
Speaker 6: black dollar. This is where black political power when the
Speaker 6: district of firing name is right now, the amazing city
Speaker 6: council person. So when you come to Atlanta, don't just
Speaker 6: go to Buckhead and don't just go to the suburbs.
Speaker 4: Friend your ass to the westside and get some food.
Speaker 6: If we had time, I take everybody to the froom
Speaker 6: plan right now you can ask a question.
Speaker 3: So so many people come to me and they say,
Speaker 3: you know, kill a mic.
Speaker 5: We don't really know where he stands politically.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I hear you saying that I gotta talk to everybody.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then after I'm gonna talk.
Speaker 5: There, going to and after.
Speaker 3: Being out here with you and seeing all the stuff
Speaker 3: that you own, I get that can't And you and
Speaker 3: Paul kids, So you a board member and a big
Speaker 3: financial donor to or at least you bring a lot
Speaker 3: of rest to us, to Paul Kids. And therefore you
Speaker 3: every election and every.
Speaker 5: Pressure on everybody.
Speaker 3: What I just seeing all the things that you're doing,
Speaker 3: you anti rether It's not with us.
Speaker 5: But y'all are buying up stuff everywhere. Why don't you
Speaker 5: talk about your.
Speaker 3: Political position and why it's important for you to be
Speaker 3: working with everybody, or.
Speaker 5: At least putting pressure on everybody that.
Speaker 4: Helped you to get it.
Speaker 6: My political position is I grew up in an all
Speaker 6: black world. This all the way to pulling industrials all
Speaker 6: black nouvel child. So all my heroes and billings looked
Speaker 6: like me. The Democrats looked like me.
Speaker 4: They was black. The Republicans looked like me, they were black.
Speaker 6: They have arguments that at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: if it was to feed the homeless campaign, they were
Speaker 6: right there there to each other being a homies right now,
Speaker 6: to the opel wiggers doing it, and then when they
Speaker 6: in the campaign, that's right there together. So first and foremost,
Speaker 6: I'm a black man. I'm fighting on behalf of this
Speaker 6: black community. I want to see the black dollars circulating.
Speaker 6: I want to see black business ownership and black opportunity
Speaker 6: to abound. So you say you don't know my political side.
Speaker 6: What you really said is, oh, man, he's out on
Speaker 6: my side, or I think he's out on my side.
Speaker 6: I don't know what your side is because I don't
Speaker 6: live in your city, but I know in Atlanta. If
Speaker 6: George has been number one in business the last ten years,
Speaker 6: then part of that has to do with two Republican governments.
Speaker 6: They can deal and him. It ain't that I want
Speaker 6: a kids, ask and love everybody, and everybody's gonna be okay.
Speaker 6: You have some goddamn resources that.
Speaker 4: I get on my side of death.
Speaker 6: Listen to me, man, when our state getn't close during COVID,
Speaker 6: I wasn't the one celebrating the women and men who
Speaker 6: working on this court.
Speaker 4: Dor was celebrating because they death it was over. I'm
Speaker 4: not talking about yeah.
Speaker 6: So I'm just saying complex as politics can be, it
Speaker 6: really is as simple to me.
Speaker 4: It's who benefits this side of time trail. So now
Speaker 4: what we are. Did you ask out in vote?
Speaker 5: That's it?
Speaker 6: And demand something today after you vote because you didn't.
Speaker 6: You didn't think to have an agenda before that. But
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what I like about Cobbler's agenda. She added, marijuana.
Speaker 6: Marijuana is not broken over the Georgia in recreation. When
Speaker 6: it breaks off in recreationally, I'm bugging our government.
Speaker 4: Tagging them, Hey man, how do we get in on it.
Speaker 6: I want people who look like us, because we spent
Speaker 6: the last fifty years of prohision, actually since nineteen thirty seven,
Speaker 6: long that we spent, we laid the brown work, getting arrested.
Speaker 3: Were to Governor Kim Absolutely, people think.
Speaker 5: That you just be in his friend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can be anybody's free, but being your friend
Speaker 4: on stock the sack.
Speaker 6: I got to ask you for something because you have
Speaker 6: an office, your office, your office hood forty million dollars
Speaker 6: roughly something in trade schools. If it wouldn't have been
Speaker 6: for the progressive candidate Ben Support who ran and lost
Speaker 6: for mayor, that money wouldn't have made it here because
Speaker 6: he pitched it.
Speaker 4: He fished and raise hell about it doing Nathan deal.
Speaker 6: When we come back around in my relationship with Governor Kimp,
Speaker 6: I'm saying, hey man, trades and the in the high school,
Speaker 6: we need to think about trades. We need thinking center
Speaker 6: in trades. When it came time for him to do
Speaker 6: the whole scholarship bill, he didn't only give it the
Speaker 6: academic scholarship, he gave it the trades.
Speaker 4: Well. That saw him with debate with Mike calls that
Speaker 4: or Mike then caused that.
Speaker 6: But I know I was saying that every step of
Speaker 6: the way gang enhancement bill he signed, I was dividing
Speaker 6: it against that bill, but he gave me audience. He
Speaker 6: gave me audience with him and his administration. He still
Speaker 6: signed the bill. I let him know I didn't agree
Speaker 6: with it, and I said, well, I'm a pivot right
Speaker 6: to the prosecutors. I'm supporting. Finally, Lewis Finnie Williams in
Speaker 6: this game. Part of my supporter hers continued upon me, saying, look,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna support you.
Speaker 4: We need to get you back and office.
Speaker 6: The witness said, I don't want to see raptors persecuted
Speaker 6: for work lyrics, and I don't want to see gang
Speaker 6: enhancement kids. For every kid that had no other friend group,
Speaker 6: he wasn't good at sports, he didn't join the boy
Speaker 6: scouts who had decided maybe to be a crip or blood.
Speaker 6: You know, he is as much a victim as a
Speaker 6: thirteen year old girl who gets trained to go coach
Speaker 6: to seduce another thirteen year old room in the prostitution.
Speaker 6: And if we don't give boys that same grace and discretion,
Speaker 6: we're gonna be locking up our boys in next thirty
Speaker 6: forty years while women are just out here with no one.
Speaker 6: Mary vond the Builder, what do.
Speaker 5: You think about them saying that black men are not
Speaker 5: gonna show up?
Speaker 6: I think that's bullshit. So the black men we mem
Speaker 6: with today is shown up. So you just gotta call
Speaker 6: bullshit now that The thing, though, is they deserve something.
Speaker 6: They deserve strong reunions, they deserve better paying jobs. They
Speaker 6: deserve people opportunities in marijuana. They deserve to know that
Speaker 6: once something is with my probation of Kimmoedy that I
Speaker 6: can't get be resisted to both because it's the big detailer.
Speaker 6: They deserve these things and I'm here to make sure it.
Speaker 5: Happens after it was now laughing.
Speaker 3: You just want to know, because you know, I'm all
Speaker 3: about community empowerment, but I'm now forty four years old,
Speaker 3: and I'm also about how.
Speaker 5: We gonna live and sup money. That's right, money, money, money.
Speaker 4: Money out.
Speaker 1: So I want to know.
Speaker 5: Tell us about what you own, and you ain't gonna
Speaker 5: tell us everything you own?
Speaker 4: Why I just I've ended up. Just why the bus
Speaker 4: decision I made with my wife.
Speaker 6: You can hope her grandmama ran a little house so
Speaker 6: she learned how to do book girls.
Speaker 4: And me and yeah yeah shay.
Speaker 6: Me, me and t I invested in. We bought a
Speaker 6: fifty old just one of his restaurants. We bought a
Speaker 6: fifty old restaurant down the street from a woman named
Speaker 6: Is telling Hard. He's eighty five years old. Have the
Speaker 6: longest standing restaurant on bank Head Highway. And I bought
Speaker 6: it with we some rappers, eggs, No boy, he bought it.
Speaker 6: We didn't know what to do and what Shade and
Speaker 6: Crystal Peterson, Doug Peters, like Doug who wants to track
Speaker 6: me to me them what they've been able to do
Speaker 6: over the last four years is fight tooth and neil
Speaker 6: getting a restaurant open. We need to get us licensed
Speaker 6: and get the right contractors in there to get the
Speaker 6: dinsit homes that we know we deserved. And they're the
Speaker 6: typic of sphere. Much like Michael Jordan's mother, march Is asked, man,
Speaker 6: so you're gonna get these Jordans. We ain't gonna wait
Speaker 6: for addas do the right thing. They marched in. They
Speaker 6: went and got the loans and when we got the
Speaker 6: constructed before they hired, we had an all black instructed team.
Speaker 6: We have the two brothers own had two amazing black
Speaker 6: women in the tipulus here, and they've done it. So
Speaker 6: my business endeavors on this hours. I did what I
Speaker 6: saw Joe boys do when I was flying, I mean
Speaker 6: when they were alive. The guys that I looked up to,
Speaker 6: like Bat Steve Jones, guys like Tony be As, guys
Speaker 6: like slip Money, they bought all along here. They fought
Speaker 6: all along here. And you've learned by example what's good business.
Speaker 6: Before I ever owned one of these skyscrapers, I should
Speaker 6: own a rental house. And that's what I learned from
Speaker 6: my heroes I looked up to, both legitimate and illegitimate.
Speaker 6: So all me and T I doing dope man business.
Speaker 6: That's what you're supposed to do. You supposed to buy
Speaker 6: the neighborhood that you live in. You're supposed to refurbish
Speaker 6: the housing till one hundred and forty three affordable housing
Speaker 6: units down the street by wife and our own apartment
Speaker 6: building right down the street, where about turning into twenty units.
Speaker 6: That's why they're by myself, no damon or no course
Speaker 6: yet what just doing what you're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: You know, that's being best parking kids that why do
Speaker 1: that You're doing all this other stuff because so many
Speaker 1: kids suffer from lack of confidence.
Speaker 4: If my speakers are dirty, if I don't smell.
Speaker 6: Clean, if I'm not confident about my hair or haircut,
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be confident to know that I'm competent
Speaker 6: in school. What LaToya Latanya's doing is absolutely, absolutely amazing
Speaker 6: because she gives kids the confidence.
Speaker 4: She gives them a quiet, safe place to do their work.
Speaker 6: She gives them a pantry to come pick up stuff
Speaker 6: from question whether that's hygiene items, whether that's the items.
Speaker 4: Of foods and stuff they need.
Speaker 5: She's doing what Jesus would have done, tracking count right
Speaker 5: up and down.
Speaker 4: And that was at.
Speaker 5: First that story, how do you smell?
Speaker 4: You want to?
Speaker 5: And I'm not asking for I'm asking.
Speaker 6: You about what you want to see back if you
Speaker 6: listen to my song Sopping for Junkies off the Grammy
Speaker 6: Award winning out of Michael Shopping for Junkies, the second
Speaker 6: verse tells you when I say, you know, I walk
Speaker 6: up straight trap with great count and my money. Had
Speaker 6: a quick convo with my auntie the junkie. She said, baby,
Speaker 6: I said, baby, you've been going too hard like for
Speaker 6: you like sixty, baby, But you've been looking eighty, she said,
Speaker 6: She Michael, I've been smoking since eighty. The photo shoots
Speaker 6: back when they still called the Free Basis. She closed
Speaker 6: the eyes, fantasized by better time when she was beautiful
Speaker 6: mind and still snorting lines. She told me stories the
Speaker 6: GLORI I was saying, suit Atlanta, not like rich black
Speaker 6: black Clama Klamba Boosie ah man. If I wouldn't have
Speaker 6: been a little dope boy thinking I had made some
Speaker 6: money because I had made ten thousand dollars and my
Speaker 6: auntie hadn't got a chance to sit out and tell me, nigga,
Speaker 6: I used to fuck out my niggas.
Speaker 4: D'all buy y'all dope, so you ain't nobody special, and
Speaker 4: the only reason we fuck with you is because you
Speaker 4: treat us like. She said that to me.
Speaker 6: I understood and't want no glory. I understood that I
Speaker 6: was just doing something that I thought was cool and
Speaker 6: made it easier to survive because I could it when
Speaker 6: he got a bullshit job six flag, I didn't want
Speaker 6: to do that. I understood in that moment that me
Speaker 6: recognizing her humanity, what's the most valuable thing I could do.
Speaker 6: So what I'm doing in my my elder statesmanship is
Speaker 6: recognizing that humanity, recognizing the sins I've made as a child,
Speaker 6: and correcting those sins by now coming back with the
Speaker 6: dope and investing in those people. I hire people that
Speaker 6: have just gotten out of jail. I hire people that
Speaker 6: are recovering from addiction. We use those community of people
Speaker 6: to strength and want anohing to make sure that each
Speaker 6: everybody to keep their head up in the game, even
Speaker 6: if it seems.
Speaker 4: Like you lose it.
Speaker 6: And like I say, man, not only did we bring
Speaker 6: a restaurant back, we brought thirty and forty job that
Speaker 6: with it.
Speaker 4: And that's what we continue to money have you lost
Speaker 4: in the pride?
Speaker 2: I lost time.
Speaker 4: I lost lots of money.
Speaker 2: Buses.
Speaker 4: You don't take more losses than win.
Speaker 5: How much money would you say, if somebody got ten
Speaker 5: thousand dollars, can they get into on too?
Speaker 4: I don't know. This is what I know.
Speaker 6: I know if you got ten grand that you should
Speaker 6: save someone, you should put something away from the vestage.
Speaker 6: But you got grand that you you you probably shouldn't
Speaker 6: blow it at the buzz. You probably should put your
Speaker 6: ten grand into some pipe of real estate, vent your stock.
Speaker 6: So if you want to buy, say a piece of
Speaker 6: property for one hundred thousand.
Speaker 4: Bucks, you know ten grand, basically ten percent of that.
Speaker 6: Get somebody else With ten grand, y'all got twenty percent.
Speaker 6: Y'all get a rental home, get a duplex or something
Speaker 6: to stay on one side, fix it up, rnt out
Speaker 6: the other side. Start very simple and small and don't
Speaker 6: put your job your job.
Speaker 3: That that was the biggest special right And listen, you're
Speaker 3: making me want to cry on tax thread.
Speaker 5: We share have special mode. I'm gad and I love you.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you, and you're a leader. I appreciate I know
Speaker 4: you do. But what I saw, I know it.
Speaker 5: I heard us a live So we're coming back.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna be with us?
Speaker 6: And ultimately what people needed the opportunity south Foldson County.
Speaker 6: So over here on the west side, this is this
Speaker 6: is movie.
Speaker 4: We called the Wan.
Speaker 6: He's he's running for post three. He's one of the
Speaker 6: people we're gonna be voting for because he's one of us.
Speaker 6: Now he's from Boring Home housing project. That's what setan
Speaker 6: nooid from one of the most Tori's housing projects, South Fullerton.
Speaker 4: Now looks like going home Houston.
Speaker 6: But now it's flipp because now what they've done and
Speaker 6: they've gentrified the West Side, they're pushing poor people out.
Speaker 6: And before I'm going to tell you, before he said
Speaker 6: it's a black thing, it's a black city. They did
Speaker 6: the white folks first over Cabintown like ninety six. They
Speaker 6: pushed the white phones out of Clayton County. Doc martybus
Speaker 6: is coming.
Speaker 2: What