WEBVTT - The Consequences of Political Apathy 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:07.920 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.240 Mallory and this shit boy my son in general. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.680 We are your host of TMI. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:17.360 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, motivation and inspiration. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:23.600 New energy. What's going on, my son, Lennon, I am. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.919 Blessed in Holly Favor. How you doing today, Tamika D. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:31.040 Mallory, I'm doing really good. I am feeling a little 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:33.600 reallye I'll tell you I am. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.199 And why are you feeling relieved too? 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.440 For the last few days since the rally that took 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:45.440 place in Madison Square Garden on this past Sunday, I 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.600 received a lot of messages from people, and I've also 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.560 been watching some of the social media profiles or pages 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:59.920 where they have a lot of people, not just black people, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.400 but just people in general with who have expressed their 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.320 either support for Trump or just their desire to stay home. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.560 It's probably probably been more people who have expressed that 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.360 they're not going to vote at all. And the last 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.600 few days I really have been watching that turnaround. I 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.080 received a number of text messages. By the time I 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.440 woke up on Monday morning, there were at least three 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.400 people that text me saying, Hey, you know this is crazy, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.760 Like I was thinking about voting for Trump. Now I'm 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.679 not and or I'm definitely going to the polls. And 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.640 then I saw on a few people's pages in the comments, 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.839 they were like, you know, I wasn't going to vote. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.440 I'm tired of it all. You know, the same things 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.560 and by the way, things we agree with, you know, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.280 things that people just feeling like this whole thing is 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.640 a clown show. They just don't feel, they don't feel 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.440 or see how it will impact their lives, and even 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.640 though we know it will, and they weren't planning on voting, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.960 and now they're like, yeah, we can't let these people 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:07.040 take control back of the country. And so I think 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.519 I feel good about that. I had said to you 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.000 from you know, months and months ago when we were 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.400 it was during the Joe Biden time, I think it 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.040 was Joe Biden was still the nominee, and I remember 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.320 saying to you. You were like, I just don't know 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.359 what's going to happen, And I said, one of the 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.920 best things that could happen in this election, or that 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.560 happens every time, is Trump speaking. When he talks, when 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.400 he talks, when his sarrogates talk, when he has people 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.000 around him talking because they talk their way out of 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.440 people having any sort of you know, feeling of I 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.880 don't want to say affinity, but people seeing them as 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.079 anything other than what they are, which is raging racist. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:54.200 And so you know, I as an organizer for thirty 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:59.400 years of my life, I am always incredibly grateful when 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.200 the opponent gives me something to work with that I 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.360 don't have to try to figure out on my own 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.320 or try to clip everything together to show people what 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.320 we're talking about. It's just all right there. The media, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.120 everybody every day has been talking about what happened at 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:15.680 that rally. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.440 It's been it's been very interesting. You know. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.680 The Trumpers were trumping this weekend, as I say, and 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.160 it was really just mind boggling, you know, it was. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.839 It was so mind boggling. First of all, I had 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.200 heard about this rally, like probably the day before it 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:34.680 was happening. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:35.840 They said it. I didn't even know. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.040 And then to see a lot of people down there, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.240 so and I seen it on a black guy's face. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.440 He was like bragging he was outside. So when you 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.880 listen to just the rhetoric that was going on in there, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.520 just in the last couple, like the last couple rallies 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.360 that he had. You've seen the doctor phil statement, the 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.840 other guy's statement about Americas for America, and then they 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.400 compared it to you know, the statement that was made 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.600 by Hitler, you know, the Germany is for Germans, so 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.160 and then it was comparing it to the actual meeting 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:09.080 and rally that it had in the garden in. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.800 The thirties, in the thirties. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.960 So it's like it was reminiscent, and it really felt 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.520 the same kind of energy. You know, I just I 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.240 sat there and I said to myself, this is just 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.040 really wild. Yeah, you know, it was just so wild 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.320 just to hear those sentiments and just hear the even 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.880 the crowd like agree with certain things. It's like, damn, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.960 how do we live in America? Excuse me? The current 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.800 day of America. There are people that have this mind state, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.880 like how do you how do you still share that 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.760 type of mind state as we've grown, like you you 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.640 would believe that. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:46.839 America should have grown, right, you should. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.960 We know there are pockets, right, we know there are 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.680 pockets of racism, but racism was so prevalent in that 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.440 room and in that space. The energy of it was 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:01.919 just like it's like unhinged, it's un bridged, is unhidden 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.080 KKK with no robes. It was just crazy to me 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.800 that a person that was running for presidency in a 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.280 race that people were saying is so close, that would 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.320 utilize that time for rally to cause that level of 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:18.359 dissension and division. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.120 It just didn't make any sense to me. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.880 Well, you know, I would say that one of the 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.120 things that was really disturbing for me was that during 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:34.360 these speeches where people are saying the most vile, disrespectful, racist, 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:40.120 ignorant lies by the way stating lies, you didn't see 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.000 a mass exodus of people leaving either, by the way, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.000 if you're even in the room, if you're even in 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.800 the room, if you even take the time to go 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:53.000 to the rallies understanding who Trump is. You know, that 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.520 for me is problematic. But I still keep trying to 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.920 give people the benefit of the doubt that perhaps they 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.240 just you know, I don't know, maybe they're misinformation disinformation, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.640 Maybe they're confused, you know, maybe they just think it's funny. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.280 I still try to give people some benefit of doubt. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.880 I know I shouldn't, but nonetheless, something has to give 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.520 you the ability to coexist in the society where people 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.400 standing to your left and right that might be a 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.560 supporter of Trump or have been to a rally, and 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.520 you still got to like walk around through the world. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.720 So I try to say to myself, they just ignorant 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.240 or whatever. But you didn't see a mass exodus of 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:34.560 people walking out the building once those words were being stated, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:39.040 and what Well, no, but it's not them, because remember, 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.720 the media is not just Fox News. Okay, it's all 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.120 media in these spaces like right, If there was a 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.520 mass exodus of people leaving, it would have been reported 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.279 because you have every media outlet in the press pool, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.799 So it's not just a Fox News network. Now. Fox 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.560 might have the best spot, they might be able to 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.520 get all the interviews afterwards and all of that, but 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.760 you have a lot of media outlets that are in 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.600 the presspool that are able to report, and there is 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.800 there was no mass exodus. There are not people online 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.600 today saying we left, we left, we left, we left, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.640 or at least I haven't. I've not witnessed that, right, 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.320 But this is what I want to say. I don't 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.360 know how many people. I guess Madison Square Garden probably 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.800 holds like thirty five thousand people or something like that. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.320 I probably all the way off on the numbers, but 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:33.320 they hold tens of thousands of people. Then they say 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.320 that there was another ten thousand people outside waiting to 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.640 get in. I just want people to know. These folks 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.920 are on the restaurants that cook food, They are teachers, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.880 they are doctors, They are people who you see every 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.120 single day. So the folks who were at that rally, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.880 the maybe fifty thousand people that were down there at 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.800 Madison Square Garden on last Sunday, those are people who 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:04.040 provide service for you. They're bankers, they are not These 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.120 are not people who live in the bottom of a 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.920 barrow somewhere. These are folks who are walking around every 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:16.040 single day with you. Again, doctors, lawyers, teachers, people educating 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.880 your children, people providing you services, people cooking your food, 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.360 people who absolutely hate you. And so I just, you know, 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.400 just want to make sure that that's out there for folks, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.440 so that people are not confused what you're looking at. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:33.000 You are looking at fellow citizens who believe things about us, 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.480 things about our communities, things about people of color. That 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.240 it's vile and it fuels the hate that allows us 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.080 to oh, oh, oh, I left out a major category. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.720 Some of them are police officers. So let's be clear 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:52.199 that when we're saying, oh, we're being killed disproportionately, or 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.400 we're being mistreated, or when we get to the hospital 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.840 we can't get the type of care that we're supposed 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.600 to have, that black infant mortality is an issue, that 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.920 there are other health concerns that our communities are people 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.080 are not being treated properly. The folks at the store 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.120 treat you disrespectfully. All of that is in the hearts 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.440 and mind of folks who went to that rally. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:18.680 So just know that, I mean, I'm very clear of that. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.480 I just don't understand why people haven't been knowing these, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.760 you know, and it's sad that it's taking this time 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.079 and some people still, you know, they're gonna drink the 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.000 kool aid man. I said it on my Instagram page 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:34.120 yesterday that I really believe that this is an experiment. 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.400 You know, me and me and the producer. I'm not 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.760 always having this conversation. A few minutes ago that somebody said, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.199 I can prove to you that we can pick the 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:49.640 violenst lowest vibrational individual and put them out here disrespect 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.320 do everything and people still following both absolutely and because 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.880 there's no there's no other common sense answer for what 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.040 we're dealing with right now. There is absolutely, Like I 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.559 I'm so perplexed that the things that's happened, and it's 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.160 like it has to be this has to be an experiment. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.000 Somebody's gonna have to come out and say punk or something. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.400 Because it does not America. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.160 America is is no way that America is just bad 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.000 in twenty twenty four. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.640 It's just can't it is, And to some degree it's 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:26.040 gotten worse. And I think that President Obama's presidency was 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:31.160 like the beginning of a all out war on people 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.320 of color. That you know, we are still dealing with 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:38.560 the backlash of President Obama being elected to office and 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:43.080 having that black, strong black woman and those black daughters 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.120 and a black mother in law in the White House. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.000 We are still dealing with the backlasher that I saw. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:54.240 Eric Holder was at a rally for Kamala Harris the 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:59.000 other day, the black Attorney General who started and still 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.840 to this day talks about, uh, the issues of police 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:07.400 accountability and police violence in this country, dealing with criminal 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.640 justice reform. I mean, these are these are things that 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.199 they never wanted to see happen, and they were asleep 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:20.200 at the wheel. They believed that they had unmitigated power 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.040 and control, and then all of a sudden they woke up, like, oh, ship, 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.040 we let this hope and this we let this hope 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.000 and this energy get into our youth. This is why 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.160 they're targeting. And this is not just by the way, 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.880 Let's be clear, this is not just about Democrats and Republicans. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.679 This is white supremacy which exists in both parties, but 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:48.839 one party has it upfront out and it's it's the 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:55.840 exactly and it does not have space for any balance. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.880 It is just what it is. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.439 Started out, it started out in that form. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.760 Like people always want to talk about the history of 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.920 the Republican Party, how it started out, the history, you know, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.920 the party of Abraham Lincoln that was for civil rights, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.640 and we know all of that, but people actually act 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.560 like they forget when the parties flipped. They act like 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.520 they forgot when they decided that we're no longer going 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.840 to focus on civil rights anymore, and they started to 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.640 be way more conservative and started to fight against civil 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.000 rights and advancement of blacks, and therefore blacks shifted away 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.720 from that party. They pretty much pushed us out of 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.559 the Republican Party and we've rebuilt ourselves inside the Democratic 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.800 Party on our principal started electing our own government officials. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.760 Now we have over two and three hundred elected officials 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.599 inside of a party that we've put into Like a 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.440 lot of us have literally been on the ground putting 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:47.840 these people into office. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:48.959 We voted. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.160 We know people that's been on the front line with us, 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.040 that have started out as activists, being in the same 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.800 trenches with us, that fought against that we've actually been 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.280 able to vote into power that we actually can go 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.840 to the office say these things are going on our communities. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.240 It ain't know what's going on communities, and it's still. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.360 A lot of work to get what should be happening 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.880 from those individuals to become realized. I mean, even our 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.040 guest today is someone who uh you know, because of 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:20.800 the pushback on him speaking about issues, Uh, he lost 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:25.040 his election. Also, Corey Bush lost her re election. Bid. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:30.640 You have the pressure, the the the unfortunate. What's the 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:36.600 word that I'm looking for, the the violence against threats 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.800 there you go to threats against people like aoc Rashida. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.200 I mean, the list goes on and on right, and 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.800 so we know that there are people. There are good 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.680 people and people even before the squad, when you think 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:54.520 about Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Uh, these are people, Evett Clark, 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:59.880 these are people what's our brother's name from Indiana, good brother. Uh, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.960 Congressman Andre Carson, these are good people. And I'm sure 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.600 I'm missing a bunch of folks. Jasmine Crockett, these are 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.160 people who are They take fighting for black people and 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:18.200 brown people and marginalized communities very serious, but they are 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:23.080 often fighting against the wind because white supremacy has a 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:28.480 hold in all of these political parties, including the Green 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:33.200 Party right. And so as a result of you of 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:38.320 being or having this kind of like trifecta of you know, 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.280 it's not just in politics, but it's just like the society, 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:47.360 the politics, every little area, everywhere you go, everywhere you 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.320 time great, you're fighting against white supremacy, and that makes 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.160 it really difficult to get things done. We have to 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.040 figure out what it looks like to respond to this 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.800 stuff and really fight and tear down the these walls 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:05.720 that have been built around us that are literally choking 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.480 the life out of our communities. And that brings me 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.360 to my thought of the day. So, you know, over 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.200 these last few days, the big takeaway up from the 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:21.760 rally is that three individuals endorsed Kamala Harris. So it's 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.880 Bad Bunny, j Loo and Ricky Martin. Now, Bad Bunny 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.280 has forty five million followers, Jalo has two hundred and 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.280 fifty million followers, and Ricky Martin has let's see, eighteen 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.240 million follows. This is a lot of people that they 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.440 have now you know, come forward to try to influence 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.480 to vote for Kamala Harris. I have a serious problem 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:50.400 with that. Well, for one, I'm trying. I get that 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.080 in the last days that's when you really really win elections, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.200 like right, and that final stretch, those last two to 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.360 three weeks and those last days, that's when the pressure 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.520 is really on. All the ads are on TV, people 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.880 are endorsing, rallies are happening, right, And that's why it's 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.920 so good that this MAGA rally took place when it did, 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.560 because it's the last few days and as people make 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.560 those final decisions or people who were like, oh I 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.080 ain't even I ain't even thinking about oh shoot, oh 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.800 that's right, I gotta go vote. So it's always good. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:29.840 But there has been misinformation, disrespect, racism, vileness, and every 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:34.800 hate happening for a long time, and these three individuals 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.480 have now decided that they want to come forward. And 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.520 my issue is that I don't like the fact that 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.280 we can sit back and only make a move when 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.360 something happens to our people, when we don't see the 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:53.240 humanity in other people enough to say, well, I don't 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.680 like it when they was talking about black women, so 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.200 I was going, I'm gonna make an endorsement. Now, I 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.160 don't like the fact that they're run around on Kamala 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:05.359 Harris names, saying that she's a whore, that she's a count. 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.320 All of this stuff was going on prior prior. Just 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:14.119 so we're clear, this stuff was happening prior to the 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:18.119 moment when Puerto Rico became an issue, which for me 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.919 that like, it really hurt me to hear them speak 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:26.240 about the people of Puerto Rico and the island of 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.800 Puerto Rico the way that they did. That hurt me. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.800 But just like, I stand up for the Palestinian people 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.520 because as we see they're being demonized, there was a 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.440 target put on their back in this same rally. As 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.679 we see that for us, our humanity tells us that 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:47.480 I'm there for every single community that is being mistreated, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.600 or if people are speaking about these people in a 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.240 way that puts a target on them, I feel it's 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.320 an issue for me. I may not be a member 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.560 of the lgbtqi A community, but guess what, I still 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:04.200 hear and feel and understand when people are targeting them immigrants. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.600 I see that. So I'm just trying to understand what 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.080 was happening for the last several months as we saw 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.960 these people pick off the Haitians, was eating dogs. I mean, 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.720 there's been so many things and I just feel like 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.520 we need to be more responsible. Sure, I'm glad that 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.280 they endorse. I'm of course i am. I'm so glad. 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.680 It was so good to see. Okay, these are powerful 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.879 individuals in a community that really needs the information, and 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.880 I know that these are people they follow, So I'm 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.240 glad that they did. That's not the point. But my 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.480 thing is we got to stop waiting until our name 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.160 is called specifically and not seeing the humanity of the 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.480 other person sitting right next to you who's being demonized. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.000 Because the one thing that we know is that white 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:52.000 supremacy does not have limits and bounds. It is only 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.600 for white men for the most part. Right it is 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.720 to uphold the power of white men. So guess what, 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.600 white women who are losing their rights in terms of 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.760 their physical autonomy to make just decisions about their body, 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.520 guess what, Ricky Martin and bad Bunny, I need you 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.399 to care about that. Now. Perhaps I didn't hear before 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.600 that they had already said things for Kamala. Perhaps you 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.800 know I missed it, But it seems that after the 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.560 statement about the Puerto Rican people and the island of 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.840 Puerto Rico, now the whole world is seeing what black 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.680 women have been saying. We've been on the top of 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:36.240 buildings going yo, yo, check them out. The racists. They're dangerous. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.639 They coming for all of us. So I just hope 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.239 that we can find a way to say when I 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:47.320 see you disrespect my sign, then I'm not gonna let 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.440 you get to me. You're not even gonna get to me. 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.600 And I just wanna say one thing. It's very similar 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.760 to the whole thing that happened with us at American Airlines. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.840 Right then I see all these people being like, oh, 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.840 American analyzes is the worst They did this to me? 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.640 They did that to me. Well, guess what we told y'all, 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.879 what they did to us, We told you, and you 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.680 ran on over there act ignoring what we went through 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.600 and just going on about your business. We told you 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.679 Gucci was out here being racist with that sweater that 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.639 they put out there. We done told you that Nike 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:27.800 had they severed their relationship with Kyrie Irvin and for 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.840 no reason at all, just disrespected this black man. For 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.120 no reason at all, We told you these things, and 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.879 guess what people be like. That's not my problem. I 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:39.879 got nothing to do with that. And you keep on 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.159 until eventually the pendulum swings in your direction. 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.639 And that's that's just a reality that we deal with. 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.040 You know, I was having a conversation with some I 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.600 don't want to bring up the individual's name, but individual 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.000 was talking about how they came forward and said that 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:58.280 they were supporting Kamala Harris, Kamala Kamala Lah and the 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.359 individual came forward until how they was taught they was 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.840 going to support Kamala Harris and when they said it, 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:11.720 they lost five to six thousand followers instantly. And the 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.639 person said, they just got quiet because you know, I 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.080 didn't want to deal with that, and then they was like, 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.040 I commend you for being able to do that. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:20.040 And I've lost followers. 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.080 I've lost probably about eight nine thousand followers, and that 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:24.440 made me more. 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:25.959 That made me. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.400 I love it because now I just I don't want 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.520 you all to follow me anyway. Whoever, everybody who unfollowed 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.560 me because I was I was ten toes down for 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:37.480 a black woman. I said, this is who I stand for. 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.199 Everybody who un follow me, you wasn't supposed to be 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.880 it anyway, because obviously you thought I stood for something 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.119 that I didn't stand for anyway, So you was actually 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:47.720 following the wrong person. So that was perfect for me. 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:50.280 But everybody's not willing to do that to me because 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.040 you know, when we're talking about they said, Michael Jordan said, 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:54.920 you know, when he was they was asking about things, 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:58.080 he said, well, Republicans buy shoes too, right, So this 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.240 is how people feel. And a lot of these people, look, 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:05.080 you said, one hundred million followers, their publicists is telling them, 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:05.600 don't get. 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.080 Involved in politics, stay away from politics. 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.719 And because at the end of this is a reality 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.200 of situation. So what happens is it becomes when it 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:16.960 starts to get personal. For them when they see the 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:19.600 direct attack on them, even if they was on the 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:21.600 edge before, they were sitting there and saying I didn't 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:22.120 want to do it. 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:24.000 Now they personalize it. 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:27.120 Unfortunately, that's the world we live in, you know, And 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.240 and we have to I say all the time, don't 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:31.399 wait till somebody do something to your kids to be 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:33.880 out here protested in Marshall and say something that because 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:35.920 you gonna want us, because there's a lot of people 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:38.639 that say, you know, I don't do those politics, this 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:43.040 and that. Unfortunately we talk about we're talking about young thug, 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:45.439 Young Doug is facing the system right now, right and 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:48.200 he's and everybody saying yo, this and that Young Doug. God, 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.440