Speaker 1: What's up? Family, it's your girl to meet the d
Speaker 1: Mallory and it's your boy, my son, and where your
Speaker 1: host of street politicians, the place which politics me? What's up? What?
Speaker 1: I was literally on my phone, minding my business on
Speaker 1: my vacation. You see, there is such thing in this
Speaker 1: world as a baction, and I'm on it right now.
Speaker 1: But you know I'm doing. I'm committed to one thing,
Speaker 1: which is that we take our show no matter what.
Speaker 1: But I'm on vacation and I've been trying to stay
Speaker 1: off the damn Internet with the damn American crisis that
Speaker 1: is of every damn thing, because it's it's a crisis
Speaker 1: over here and over here and over here and over
Speaker 1: haren over here, over here, over here, over here. But
Speaker 1: I couldn't help but notice that Jackson, Mississippi has no water.
Speaker 1: So you know, when you get to the point where
Speaker 1: there's no water, right and we know for years the
Speaker 1: mayor Chokwe Lamamba, who we love, that's our brother, has
Speaker 1: been sounding the alarm about infrastructure needs. He's been denied
Speaker 1: funding to deal with some real serious infrastructure problems. There.
Speaker 1: There's some new I think it might be a congresswoman.
Speaker 1: I have to look it up, and she's either congresswoman
Speaker 1: or a senator. Uh that is there also who voted
Speaker 1: against the Build Back Better plan and infrastructure. So she's
Speaker 1: just one of those people who's anti everything. I haven't
Speaker 1: even looked her up, but I promise you she's a Republican.
Speaker 1: I promise you, all right, No, I mean, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look it up because you know, maybe I'm wrong, but
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it speaks to your theory what you've
Speaker 1: been talking about week after week that we want. This
Speaker 1: is why we have to build our own party and
Speaker 1: run our own candidates, because at this point you got
Speaker 1: one party of people who at least they'll vote for
Speaker 1: the right things, but a lot of times too many
Speaker 1: of them are two week to push for transformative change.
Speaker 1: They just want to keep patching stuff up. And then
Speaker 1: you've got another side of people who will just obstruction
Speaker 1: is completely. So it's just a disaster. But they have
Speaker 1: been but chokwe Um, Mayor Lamamba and others have been
Speaker 1: fighting for funding to deal with pipes, to deal with waterlines,
Speaker 1: sewage lines. All of that has not been dealt with,
Speaker 1: and so it's gone from a little bit of water
Speaker 1: water issues to know running water at all. You can't
Speaker 1: drink it, you can't wash with it, nothing. The schools
Speaker 1: have been closed, government buildings, businesses have been Now we
Speaker 1: just came out of COVID. The businesses cannot a full
Speaker 1: word to be shut down. People in their homes have
Speaker 1: no water. This is a disaster. How does this happen
Speaker 1: in a Madika? We had Flint, the Flint water crisis
Speaker 1: in Newark. At some point, there was infrastructure issues at
Speaker 1: different places around the country. I think even at St. Louis.
Speaker 1: So it's not just in the two places we've heard of.
Speaker 1: But now Jackson, Mississippi, has lost all of their water.
Speaker 1: What is the coach's name, um Dion. So he's the
Speaker 1: coach of the college, right, he has to move his
Speaker 1: students off, you know, outside of Jackson somewhere, the the
Speaker 1: the athletes, because they don't have water to take a shower,
Speaker 1: they have no water at all, not to eat with,
Speaker 1: not to brush their teeth or anything in the city
Speaker 1: of Jackson. This is outrageous. That is unbelievable to me
Speaker 1: that in the twenty first century that we have we
Speaker 1: don't have water, running water in the in the state.
Speaker 1: It's like it just doesn't even make sense to me,
Speaker 1: and and and there's no real understanding of it. There's
Speaker 1: no real understand It's just that, you know, we live
Speaker 1: in this capitalist society where everything course money, and you're
Speaker 1: paying for this and people can't get the basic necessities
Speaker 1: of running water, but the people are paying. Because today
Speaker 1: I haven't had the out because I'm on vacation, but
Speaker 1: I am going to go do some more research because
Speaker 1: now you know, until Freedom Wote vote and others are
Speaker 1: starting to get together to see what we can do
Speaker 1: to help. And in my research to stud small little
Speaker 1: bit of research I did today before coming on the show,
Speaker 1: people's water bills are super high, so folks have been
Speaker 1: paying their bills. Some people haven't because they weren't getting
Speaker 1: the proper water treatment, but most people are paying their
Speaker 1: water bills. And for what like it should never get
Speaker 1: to the point where the system has to be shut
Speaker 1: down completely. And of course the governor and other officials
Speaker 1: have water tanks outside their house, trucks out there feeding
Speaker 1: the water. The fire department does not have water to
Speaker 1: fight a fire like this is very serious and you
Speaker 1: know what really just shook me today and this and
Speaker 1: actually I was so busy reading and trying to understand,
Speaker 1: and I was getting into little details and what it
Speaker 1: just kind of like struck me was the the the
Speaker 1: the idea of what the hell is happening in Parchment prison.
Speaker 1: In other places where we already have had to help them,
Speaker 1: the incarcerated individuals fight for their rights to clean food,
Speaker 1: to you know, uh, toilets that work, to all of
Speaker 1: the inhumane things that they were fighting against. Now they
Speaker 1: don't have water, what so what does that to? They
Speaker 1: don't take bass, They have their their commos that they
Speaker 1: have to be in the same room with are full
Speaker 1: of feces. It's not like anybody's gonna bring them cases
Speaker 1: of water and packed and put poland spring in the
Speaker 1: in the world just water because I support just water
Speaker 1: by my little brother Jaden Smith, you know, Jada Pinket
Speaker 1: and Will Smith's son um. But anyway, no one's gonna
Speaker 1: bring cases of just one. Well, Jaden actually would bring
Speaker 1: cases of just water, but they won't even let it
Speaker 1: in to the jails because it's not authorized. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just so many things about the system that's all
Speaker 1: over the place. I don't know some days, I just
Speaker 1: don't know. And you probably never will man. My grandmother said,
Speaker 1: the realer ship up. She said, she said, some things
Speaker 1: you'll never is whole. My mother toler one day she said,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't understand, and she said,
Speaker 1: you think it build the whole world of for things
Speaker 1: you don't understand. And I realize right now this is
Speaker 1: the world they built because I don't see none of this,
Speaker 1: because it just makes no sense whatsoever. So anyway, anyone
Speaker 1: who's listening and watching, find some organizations, particularly folks in Jackson, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: local groups that are doing um, you know, relief work
Speaker 1: to get of course I haven't heard. Maybe maybe by
Speaker 1: the time I get we get off of here and
Speaker 1: we check out the news, female will be there or
Speaker 1: some government entity that will be there to help people.
Speaker 1: But um, that wasn't the case earlier this today. So
Speaker 1: you know, find people to plug in with and make
Speaker 1: sure you support them and help them in any way
Speaker 1: that you can kill. A mamba who works who is
Speaker 1: the mayor's sister, but she works on her own as
Speaker 1: an organizer in the city of Jackson. She's someone that
Speaker 1: folks should tap it Rukia lamamba checking her and help her,
Speaker 1: you know, help them to do what it is that
Speaker 1: they need to do. The Mississippi uh, what is it
Speaker 1: called the Mississippi Prison Reform Coalition, even though they work
Speaker 1: specifically with the prisons, and I'm sure they're going to
Speaker 1: be looking at relief measures for Parchment and other prisons.
Speaker 1: But those individuals are activists and organizes leading in Jackson
Speaker 1: all over and you should tap in with them and
Speaker 1: see how you can support groups that are working to
Speaker 1: get water to the residents of Jackson. Definitely. So I
Speaker 1: was looking in the news, and you know, this business
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Ever since Young Thug and other guys
Speaker 1: been down with this indictment, the prosecutor to leave prosecutor
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, UM, I believe she made another um sweep
Speaker 1: of arrests about six team more individuals that she said
Speaker 1: is getting affiliated and they're responsible for home invasions and
Speaker 1: robberies and all types of things. And they asked some
Speaker 1: of them actually are rappers, and she said that they
Speaker 1: will be using the lyrics in the songs that they
Speaker 1: made to prosecute them. And a lot of people are
Speaker 1: angry saying hip hop is under attack and that you
Speaker 1: can't use lyrics, and she said one of the most
Speaker 1: symbolish in the world. She said, you know, hip hop
Speaker 1: is not under attack. If you are doing crimes and
Speaker 1: we investigating you for the crimes, and you put said
Speaker 1: crimes into raps describing that you've done them, we are
Speaker 1: going to see it as a confession you're telling on yourself.
Speaker 1: We're going to utilize that along with your case. Now,
Speaker 1: if you don't want to do it, then don't rap
Speaker 1: about it. And if you do want to rap about it,
Speaker 1: you don't want it to to be prosecuted and to
Speaker 1: be utilized against you, then you should probably leave my county.
Speaker 1: And that was the relationship. To me. It's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, we've all been young, we've been dumb, and
Speaker 1: I try not to be critical because I'm a child
Speaker 1: of hip hop. I was one of the most hard
Speaker 1: rappers and the late nineties, you know, most of my
Speaker 1: lyrics were so hardcore, and because because that was my
Speaker 1: reality and most of us had our reality. But what
Speaker 1: we understood was you can't talk about crimes that's actually
Speaker 1: being committed or being committed right, especially when you're involved
Speaker 1: in them, and if you do, they're going to utilize it,
Speaker 1: you know, So I try not to be critical, but
Speaker 1: I just think that it's it's as nine, you know,
Speaker 1: and the district accounty, I mean, the district attorney's name
Speaker 1: is Fanny Willis in Forton County. But I think it's
Speaker 1: assinine to think that you can literally rap about crimes
Speaker 1: and the police are not going to do their job.
Speaker 1: Have whole task force that they utilize for Instagram and
Speaker 1: Facebook and all of that, Like they have whole units
Speaker 1: inside police stations. Now that uh, that's the gives strictly
Speaker 1: for to decode, you know, the words, the slaying, inside
Speaker 1: of the hip hop, all of these things. So I'm
Speaker 1: definitely against, you know, the silence of the um first
Speaker 1: Amendment right, the right the speech, and in all those
Speaker 1: things freedom of speech. But if you freedom of speech
Speaker 1: says you can say what you want. It doesn't say
Speaker 1: that if you say what you if you admit to
Speaker 1: a crime, that they're not going to utilize that freedom
Speaker 1: of speech against you. You can say whatever you are,
Speaker 1: you can you you can say whatever. You go outside
Speaker 1: and say, yo, I killed such and such eighty five, right,
Speaker 1: you know, the Constitution does not protect that statement from
Speaker 1: connecting you to the body that somebody lost the eighty
Speaker 1: five that they can connect you to. It does not
Speaker 1: protect you against So I think it's asking on that
Speaker 1: we have these conversations. You know, I wish a lot
Speaker 1: of our young youth and hip hop artists just get
Speaker 1: away from it. Man. You know, I think you know
Speaker 1: the time of really promoting violence, not not just having entertainment,
Speaker 1: because sometimes it's a balance negative and positive. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: talk about negative things. Sometimes we have negative realities. Some songs,
Speaker 1: you know, have negative um situations in them. We talked
Speaker 1: about things you would do to your worst enemies, hypothetical situation,
Speaker 1: but put in real life beefs in in ways that
Speaker 1: people have been harmed, lives have been taken into songs.
Speaker 1: At this point, it's pointless and it's gonna get you
Speaker 1: locked up. You know, I wouldn't know this question. How
Speaker 1: would you respond to somebody who says, oh, my son
Speaker 1: not And I also heard U, DJ Envy and Charlemagne
Speaker 1: talking about the same thing. How would you respond to
Speaker 1: artists or people who are listening to you speaking right
Speaker 1: now and they're like, oh, so you're saying that I
Speaker 1: committed the crime just because I spoke. You know, I
Speaker 1: said something in my lyrics, so you you support in
Speaker 1: you know, the the octs that the costs coming for us.
Speaker 1: How would you respond to that? How would you respond
Speaker 1: to somebody who's even gonna say that, You know, you're you're, you're,
Speaker 1: you are um CO signing arresting these big entertainers, little
Speaker 1: guys whatever they are under because of their lyrics. Are
Speaker 1: you saying you agree with her that everybody who's saying
Speaker 1: it is doing it as well? You know what what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, I'm totally against you taken someone's lyrics
Speaker 1: as as evidence in chief, meaning the only evidence you
Speaker 1: have is that I wrapped about a situation that you
Speaker 1: can't even prove happened. Right, That's the only evidence you have.
Speaker 1: There's no other connections, So that right there is just
Speaker 1: utilizing lyrics against me. But if I'm in the streets,
Speaker 1: you have a video of me coming out of a
Speaker 1: building right with somebody just got a shot. I got
Speaker 1: an old black I jump into a black car. I
Speaker 1: drive off mom. They come in and do the investigation.
Speaker 1: People seeing me. Some of the intel says that I
Speaker 1: was a person and I make a song to a year.
Speaker 1: I ran in the building, I shot him, jumped in
Speaker 1: my black cheep and I drove off niggas, don't want
Speaker 1: to beef with me if you did that, right, I
Speaker 1: think that's the dumbestip in the world. Even if you
Speaker 1: didn't do that crime, I'm not even talking about that crime,
Speaker 1: even if I witnessed that crime, even if I was
Speaker 1: just there witnessed it, I was around that situation to
Speaker 1: talk about the crime that I can actually be connected
Speaker 1: to that actually happened. That they have other evidence that
Speaker 1: connects me to the people who admitted those crimes. It's
Speaker 1: the dumbst shitted world. It makes no sense to me,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But if you just if
Speaker 1: you're just trying to convict me purely on lyrics that
Speaker 1: I said, but you don't got no other evidence that
Speaker 1: even puts me near to seeing the crime, that connects
Speaker 1: me to anything that has to do with it, then
Speaker 1: that's that doesn't make sense. Now you just prosecute me
Speaker 1: based on entertainment, based on words that I said. But
Speaker 1: when you understand that you are connected. If you if
Speaker 1: you're a man caught a body or your man shot
Speaker 1: somebody and you were standing there, you watched it, and
Speaker 1: you rapped about it, now it's a at that point
Speaker 1: you we already seen you there at the scene in
Speaker 1: the crown, We got you on the camera, we see
Speaker 1: you sitting right there. We got four or five witnesses
Speaker 1: that says such and such a right there, and and
Speaker 1: you talk about that, and you described the whole scenario
Speaker 1: the way it exactly happened. Then you gotta deal with that.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's just the reality of what's happening. So
Speaker 1: let me say the reason why I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1: And and I asked the question as Devil's advocates, I
Speaker 1: know you're not saying go lock up anybody because of
Speaker 1: their lyrics, but that's what something I wanna say. But
Speaker 1: that's not the point. I was um talking to someone
Speaker 1: I loved. I won't say who they are because I
Speaker 1: don't want to expose that person. And they said, you know,
Speaker 1: they loved jury duty. They just love to go to
Speaker 1: juluty and they love the grand jury. That's their soft
Speaker 1: spot of what they You know, they are okay with
Speaker 1: being because this particular person was on a grand jury
Speaker 1: impanelment or in panel something. He was impaneled for a
Speaker 1: grand jury for over a year because they were just
Speaker 1: seeing cases. One behind the next, one behind the next,
Speaker 1: handing down indictments or not. And one day he told
Speaker 1: me that, you know, he said, I go to jury
Speaker 1: duty because in the movement he heard people say, make
Speaker 1: sure you go to jury every duty if you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, be a steward of the movement and make
Speaker 1: sure you're protecting the rights of young black and brown people.
Speaker 1: And he said, I want to see justice. He was
Speaker 1: going to jury duty to make sure that they bought
Speaker 1: some bullshit. He would be the one person in the
Speaker 1: room that said, hell, no, we won't go. He was great.
Speaker 1: That was his thing. He said. The Facebook and the
Speaker 1: Instagram was the number one thing that they would bring
Speaker 1: in and show you the word, what people, the messages,
Speaker 1: the fights back and forth, the words they were using,
Speaker 1: the um you know, the the the guys or girls.
Speaker 1: They became artists some kind of way in the process.
Speaker 1: And he couldn't even help. He could not even stand
Speaker 1: in the way because the situations was so clear as
Speaker 1: day that when the and and these were federal indictments,
Speaker 1: that when they were bringing these cases, he couldn't even say,
Speaker 1: you don't know, I see something here, discrepancy here, or
Speaker 1: bring nothing. It was it wrote about it. They took
Speaker 1: pictures of it. They showed where they was, how they was,
Speaker 1: everything they did. The girls was talking on social media
Speaker 1: with their friends about how he my man getting money
Speaker 1: and this is going on, and that's going on. He
Speaker 1: said it was very you know, he was able to
Speaker 1: help with a few, but more than likely or more
Speaker 1: likely than not, and in more times than few, they
Speaker 1: sent people to prison. And it's it's it's self incrimination. Man.
Speaker 1: So I listen, I'm old for justice and I don't want.
Speaker 1: I literally hate to see people go jail. I spent
Speaker 1: seven years of my life in prison. I know some
Speaker 1: of my friends who were not never coming home for
Speaker 1: ten dollar crimes who then twenty something years or ten
Speaker 1: dollar crimes and things like that. So I'm I'm well
Speaker 1: aware of the injustice that this system does. But I cannot,
Speaker 1: as a man of honor and principle and integrity, act
Speaker 1: like you tell them on yourself and putting you know, um,
Speaker 1: putting pertinent information from crimes that you know we're committed
Speaker 1: or that you're engaged in or involved in or or
Speaker 1: no people that have evolved into music makes sense, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and you think that and you and you
Speaker 1: blaming anybody but yourself. If if you're blaming anybody but yourself,
Speaker 1: I can't help you. I can't help you with that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's there's nothing I can do for you.
Speaker 1: I want to be the advocate. I'm anti prison. I
Speaker 1: want to be forget the system. The system is all broke.
Speaker 1: I want to make your all this. But when you
Speaker 1: self incriminate yourself and you give these people evidence and
Speaker 1: in all of the things they have to put you
Speaker 1: in prison and to take away your freedom, then you
Speaker 1: have to figure out how you deal with that. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a conscious decision as a man. You we
Speaker 1: we watch numerous cases and numerous situations with social media
Speaker 1: and people in putting out their business in situations and
Speaker 1: they talk about real situations in music and we see
Speaker 1: has been used against them. And if you continue to
Speaker 1: do that, then you've made a conju decision that you
Speaker 1: want to go to jail. And respectfully, I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta respect your decision as a man or a woman.
Speaker 1: I hear that. I mean, it's a fine line because
Speaker 1: we want to make sure though that um, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever Mrs Fanny Willis is doing is right. And we
Speaker 1: don't know. You know, we have no idea of knowing.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're doing, but I know what
Speaker 1: she said made a hundred percent sense. I don't know
Speaker 1: exactly what's going on, but when she says, if you're
Speaker 1: rapping about crimes that actually happened, and we have evidence
Speaker 1: that shows that these crimes happen, and we can put
Speaker 1: you involved in those problems and you're rapping about it,
Speaker 1: we are definitely going to utilize those songs as evidence.
Speaker 1: And that made a hundred percent says to me, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: God bless it's a lot, and I mean some of
Speaker 1: the charges and the time that of these people are
Speaker 1: looking at is real serious. So you know, my prayers
Speaker 1: and I don't once again, I don't wish jail on anybody,
Speaker 1: but I cannot. I cannot sit here and act like
Speaker 1: I'm going to support ignorance and stupidity. I'm going to
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like you don't know when when
Speaker 1: they're telling you what you're constantly doing it that that
Speaker 1: means you made a conscious decision that you just don't care,
Speaker 1: you're willing to deal with those consequences. Well, speaking of
Speaker 1: ignorance and stupidity, let's get into our topics. We got
Speaker 1: to bring our guests on UM and my thought of
Speaker 1: the day is directly connected. So I'm just gonna merge
Speaker 1: it all together. I was reading on one of our
Speaker 1: blog sites, one of the blog sites that the woman
Speaker 1: in California who drove our car into the gas station
Speaker 1: and I guess ninety miles an hour speed and killed
Speaker 1: I think five people and injured others. Um that she
Speaker 1: may have lost consciousness while driving. There seems to have
Speaker 1: been well. At some point there was a report, and
Speaker 1: you gotta be real careful because a lot of times
Speaker 1: you read comments online and didn't start repeating it as fact, right,
Speaker 1: And that's very dangerous, and we're all guilty, of all
Speaker 1: guilty of it. Because at some point they said that
Speaker 1: she had had twelve or thirteen other accidents before this
Speaker 1: incident took place that day, and UM, so I started
Speaker 1: digging and looking. I couldn't find anywhere where that was substantiated.
Speaker 1: And in fact, I saw people debating back and forth
Speaker 1: where someone was saying that's a not true. So it
Speaker 1: may be, it may not be, but let's just isolate that,
Speaker 1: right if we find out that that's absolutely the truth,
Speaker 1: that she had seen other traffic violations, moving violations. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to reintroduce that and and discuss this again.
Speaker 1: But let's just since we don't know, we're isolating it
Speaker 1: to what happened that day when watching that video, and again,
Speaker 1: I don't like watching videos of tragedy, but this particular
Speaker 1: situation could have been any one of us at that intersection,
Speaker 1: going to the gas station, driving pulled, over coming through whatever,
Speaker 1: and walking walking to the store. This lady, when I
Speaker 1: saw it, I had to keep watching it because I
Speaker 1: was literally trying to get in the car and understand
Speaker 1: what in the hell was going on in the moments
Speaker 1: before this. Someone else that I do trust, but I
Speaker 1: still have not verified it, said that she was at
Speaker 1: work earlier that day and was not doing well mentally,
Speaker 1: and so they let her go home for something like
Speaker 1: mental health, break her job. Right, They released her that
Speaker 1: day and let her go home, and she has this terrible,
Speaker 1: horrific moment where she took people's lives. When I saw that,
Speaker 1: it's possible that she lost consciousness. Right, and again, there
Speaker 1: are black people that she killed. So folks can't say, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't care because it wasn't your people, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think the whole thing is terrible, horrific, awful, the
Speaker 1: worst thing. Oh my god. Right, But I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this woman in the court, this little you know, look
Speaker 1: like she could have been a sweet little lady. And
Speaker 1: then this lady writes on on one of these social
Speaker 1: networks the situation about her getting released to go home,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, something else is going on
Speaker 1: here that we don't understand something, something this There's got
Speaker 1: to be a layer. They said it was. She was
Speaker 1: nod and a boyfriend, and damn it, I know all
Speaker 1: about it because I've and so mad in my life
Speaker 1: at a man that I have done and have thought
Speaker 1: of doing the craziest ship to try to get the
Speaker 1: the attention of how something is hurting or bothering me.
Speaker 1: But that what she did was extreme, extreme, extreme, And
Speaker 1: so what I was thinking to myself is if the
Speaker 1: job let her go, even if she had been having
Speaker 1: previous issues, and if she potentially lost consciousness, what where
Speaker 1: is the help? Like, what what are we doing to
Speaker 1: try to prevent these situations? Yeah, I know that what
Speaker 1: they say, the devil can just get in you. So
Speaker 1: I know that can happen, but something more here. And
Speaker 1: I feel like our healthcare system in this country is
Speaker 1: failing us so bad that I asked myself every day,
Speaker 1: is America literally killing us? Like really, I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about oh, you got into it with the police, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking abou. I'm talking about like going like you
Speaker 1: literally are being neglected for your mind to where you
Speaker 1: keep your mind and your body maybe counteracting something that's wrong.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way I've always you know, I've
Speaker 1: always been critical about the way the health system acts.
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, you know, I talked about
Speaker 1: how most men are even like going to the doctor,
Speaker 1: you know week okay, well was last week? No, yeah,
Speaker 1: last week it was like whatever. I know. I spoke
Speaker 1: about it and I was very yeah, people do your
Speaker 1: physical And I've been very critical about the way that
Speaker 1: they handled COVID situation, you know, about the way every
Speaker 1: time people going to doctor. My friend, for to God's son,
Speaker 1: you know, his his um woman explained to me how
Speaker 1: when he before he went to the hospital he was healthy,
Speaker 1: that he was when he got there, and how there
Speaker 1: were many steps that after him getting there that she
Speaker 1: didn't understand, that didn't even make sense that, you know,
Speaker 1: and ultimately his life was lost inside the hospital. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of people saying, don't go to the
Speaker 1: hospital because they feel like people was killing There was
Speaker 1: a lot of things, you know, and I always felt
Speaker 1: felt like I was gonna fight regardless of my own
Speaker 1: I was gonna make myself healthy. I was gonna do
Speaker 1: all those things. And I say that to say, you know,
Speaker 1: there is in capitalism and in the health system, there
Speaker 1: is value in in in us being unhealthy. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, There's there's value and keeping you unhealthy.
Speaker 1: There's value in things that literally keep you to be
Speaker 1: dependent on the drugs that they're selling. Big farming needs
Speaker 1: people to need these drugs to be here. They need
Speaker 1: you to write prescriptions, they need you to come in there,
Speaker 1: and you know, and very critical that I believe that wholehearted.
Speaker 1: Just like the jails need to be filled. So they
Speaker 1: need to continue to have criterias or prims that don't
Speaker 1: make sense. They need to continue to lock people up.
Speaker 1: You don't think the same way they have judges who
Speaker 1: was selling you know, kids for for pay that they
Speaker 1: have they they're selling our lives to for to these
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical companies. You don't think that their doctors and hospitals
Speaker 1: that are directly in tune with these people saying we're
Speaker 1: gonna make sure that we we make this many prescriptions
Speaker 1: a year to make sure that you make this amount
Speaker 1: of money despite what it is or not, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna classify and and and it's killing us literally, So
Speaker 1: that's just my And if you don't have the best
Speaker 1: health insurance and you're not the best doctors, and and
Speaker 1: and just think about that, right, Just think about health
Speaker 1: in your insurance. In the level of insurance that you
Speaker 1: have determines the quality of service that you get in
Speaker 1: a health clanic. This ain't a pair sneakers or I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get a pay insured and the most expensive I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get. Still, this is people that you're going to
Speaker 1: literally that's supposed to be saving your life because they can.
Speaker 1: And the service that you get in the in the
Speaker 1: the higher quality of life that you get or they
Speaker 1: tell you about how to save your life depends on
Speaker 1: how much money you have. That is crazy to me.
Speaker 1: And the fact that I can't go to the regular
Speaker 1: Hallom hospital and get the service that I can get
Speaker 1: downtown because I don't have insurance from a millionaire and
Speaker 1: a billionaire. Insurance that assures that they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: extend my life. Tells me that the health insurance ain't
Speaker 1: really about me. It's about how much money you make.
Speaker 1: You know what. You could go to hallm Hospital and
Speaker 1: get some good service if you have the right insurance
Speaker 1: when you it is there is. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: the disparities and the racism within the healthcare system. Okay,
Speaker 1: to be clear, it is blatant, it's bold. You can
Speaker 1: they tell you stories. We learned stories all the time.
Speaker 1: People go to the hospital. They put a group over
Speaker 1: here and a group over there. They deal with some
Speaker 1: people one way and others a different way. And we
Speaker 1: know folks who have told us the story of how
Speaker 1: their loved ones were treated. Uh. Listen, Michelle Obama in
Speaker 1: in in one of these shows that you know they
Speaker 1: reenact her life. It's I think it's The President's Wives
Speaker 1: or something like that. There's a show that it uh,
Speaker 1: it covers um Obama, the first first Lady ms Michelle.
Speaker 1: You know there's obviously it's not her, Viola Davis, but
Speaker 1: it's Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt and somebody else Betty Ford,
Speaker 1: and they cover their lives. There's a whole part that
Speaker 1: shows how Michelle was trying to help her parents get insurance.
Speaker 1: That her father died just because he didn't have the
Speaker 1: necessary insurance to take care of whatever issues. I think
Speaker 1: he had cancer or something. You know. So this is
Speaker 1: this is the first lady. Now, now she is, but
Speaker 1: when she was Michelle growing up in Chicago, she wasn't
Speaker 1: the first city. They didn't have that type of insurance,
Speaker 1: and the system screwed her father and he died. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm just thinking first of all, physically, Look, I
Speaker 1: keep talking about I went to go to get my
Speaker 1: physical well, hey, I learned some things when I went
Speaker 1: that forty two year olds a thirty eight, thirty nine
Speaker 1: in thirty seven, I'm forty two. There's some things that's different.
Speaker 1: It's some issues there. I gotta watch certain things that
Speaker 1: I'm eating. I gotta look at the levels. I have
Speaker 1: to make go back in six months to take some
Speaker 1: more blood, word to check on making sure that my
Speaker 1: cholesterol is under control. That you know, different things that
Speaker 1: is happening because of how we eat on the road
Speaker 1: and whatever. But we do have insurance and we try
Speaker 1: to take care of ourselves. We're active, we're moving. If
Speaker 1: you live in a housing projects in the South Bronx
Speaker 1: and you have and I'm not even gonna say medicaid,
Speaker 1: because some people getting some good services with medicaid. If
Speaker 1: you know how to maneuver the system, you can actually
Speaker 1: use it, and it does and there's some benefits to
Speaker 1: it if you know how to use it. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing. Research matters. You can't sit home and just
Speaker 1: go wherever they tell you. You You gotta find out where
Speaker 1: do people who have medicaid who have done their research
Speaker 1: goal to get their care because guess what, there's some
Speaker 1: folks that come from other races and I'm not even
Speaker 1: gonna just say white, it's a lot of other races
Speaker 1: that come here and they get Medicaid and they take
Speaker 1: it and use it in places and pockets and get
Speaker 1: themselves services that they need. But if you don't know it,
Speaker 1: and if you don't have certain things you if you
Speaker 1: having a if you're having a physical thing, you might
Speaker 1: be because but if you're having a mental health crisis,
Speaker 1: gonna help you? What are they gonna do for you?
Speaker 1: They might you might see a person here it is,
Speaker 1: but half the time, and this is a thousand percent
Speaker 1: and I'm done with this point. To be very clear,
Speaker 1: most of the time, because I know I was on
Speaker 1: welfare public assistance. Can nobody tell me about chick because
Speaker 1: I know I had E v T, I had my picture,
Speaker 1: I was I was one medical I mean I was
Speaker 1: going wealfare at the time when there was no picture
Speaker 1: on your card, all the way to where they put
Speaker 1: your image on the card. What I know from going
Speaker 1: inside of these these offices, even going to the doctor's
Speaker 1: office with insurance from my job later on. Half the time,
Speaker 1: the people you're talking to they need help something, there
Speaker 1: is something wrong with them. Then you're trying to get
Speaker 1: some help. They grinned, laughing. They got an attitude. They
Speaker 1: don't like their job, they don't want to deal with you.
Speaker 1: So a man, for the most part, women we might
Speaker 1: fight way through. But a man who shows up at
Speaker 1: the doctor's office and dealing with some idiot that's not
Speaker 1: even trying to really help them and doesn't even care.
Speaker 1: But they are going back. They're gonna go home and
Speaker 1: patch it up and do whatever they're gonna do and
Speaker 1: keep it moving. And next thing you know, they stage four.
Speaker 1: They they this that in the third and on their
Speaker 1: way out, it's a disaster. They ain't got no water
Speaker 1: in Jackson. You can't get healthcare where you need to.
Speaker 1: It's just too many things going on. And I'm just like, yo,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. We need something all
Speaker 1: the way different, all the way different, man. So we
Speaker 1: want to ask our listeners, do y'all think that the
Speaker 1: health care system is killing us? Literally? Do you think
Speaker 1: that it's efficient? Like? What are your experiences give? We
Speaker 1: want to get some feedback from you because from my
Speaker 1: my experience and what I've watched. You know, my mother
Speaker 1: was suffering for cancer for two years, and you know,
Speaker 1: there was periods of time where I thought there was healthcare,
Speaker 1: but then there was periods of time where I figured
Speaker 1: I felt that there was just them giving her medication
Speaker 1: that they know wasn't healing. I felt like that there
Speaker 1: was a time before when she first was diagnosed with cancer,
Speaker 1: she was so healthy still and she was fighting, and
Speaker 1: it's like the more medication, the more services they did,
Speaker 1: it was like they was taking life out of us.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, you know, everybody has a different experience,
Speaker 1: So I want to hear your experience. What do y'all
Speaker 1: think about the America's healthcare system. Well, we got a
Speaker 1: guest coming up who certainly has been in contact with
Speaker 1: healthcare and UM, I want to hear what she has
Speaker 1: to say, So let's bring her on. So you you know,
Speaker 1: the last few weeks, my son see because you know,
Speaker 1: people would say all they do is invite their friends
Speaker 1: come up there and talk. But no, for the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, we've been having guests that are have become
Speaker 1: friends and are joining the street politicians family. And today
Speaker 1: I am particularly fan group because our guest um is
Speaker 1: someone who I admire, uh and someone who as I
Speaker 1: was going down the rabbit hole of looking at Instagram,
Speaker 1: she became a sibling to me. Forget about friends my
Speaker 1: sister because she also loves the Lord. And you know,
Speaker 1: anybody that I can find that loves the Lord like
Speaker 1: I do and understands the power of what God can
Speaker 1: do for me, that that just becomes family. And so
Speaker 1: today we're gonna learn so much about our sister, Kisha
Speaker 1: Green UM and Kisa the amazing Kisha Green. On August
Speaker 1: twenty three, this past August is be nine years of
Speaker 1: her Amp You amp University, UM anti amp universary um,
Speaker 1: which means that she is an amputee after an accident
Speaker 1: that happened nine years ago where she lost her legs. Uh,
Speaker 1: and she is actually celebrating. And that's something we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about right in quote, what does it mean to
Speaker 1: celebrate such a tragedy because there's so many people even
Speaker 1: with less, we can't celebrate. We said, we broke down,
Speaker 1: you know, mentally, emotionally. Um. She has a foundation called
Speaker 1: Loving Legs Foundation, which is helping younger women who are
Speaker 1: amputees to connect with more seasoned women who can help
Speaker 1: them through their journey. But the thing that I know
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this thirty nine year old woman is
Speaker 1: known as the Legless Diva, the Legless Diva. That's her brand. Um,
Speaker 1: And you know I love Diva's on the Street Politician show.
Speaker 1: So let's welcome our sister Keisha Green to comment and
Speaker 1: join us on Street Politicians. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being with us? Is no, thank you all so much
Speaker 1: for having me over here with you guys, because guests,
Speaker 1: for now, I'm your friend, I'm family. I'm here. Um.
Speaker 1: You guys never seen me here before, but I'm here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you and you know, your story is motivating. It's
Speaker 1: amazing looking at you like you know how they say
Speaker 1: you don't look like what you've been through. You know,
Speaker 1: you definitely are diva beautiful Black queen and and we're
Speaker 1: just blessed to have you and just have you in
Speaker 1: this energy and spirit that you're coming. Um you know,
Speaker 1: because I was gonna ask you to talk about the
Speaker 1: beginning and even me, you know, understanding the nuances of
Speaker 1: our lives, you know, specifically as women, as Black women.
Speaker 1: Even in this moment, I almost said, start at the
Speaker 1: beginning with the consideration only for you lose having an
Speaker 1: accident and losing your legs. But actually there's a beginning
Speaker 1: before that, and we I want you to talk about
Speaker 1: the beginning, the Keisha Green who had not been through
Speaker 1: an accident, and then take us all the way to
Speaker 1: the tragedy that occurred. You know when you said that,
Speaker 1: you said that, and I've been through an accident and
Speaker 1: every time I think about this, um, So August two
Speaker 1: thousand and thirteen is when I would say that was
Speaker 1: more of like a rebirth. That's not when God started
Speaker 1: being faithful to me. So I've been from the number
Speaker 1: eight poverty City, Syracuse, New York. I survived so many
Speaker 1: things before this actually took place for me, And the
Speaker 1: biggest thing that God allowed me to survive was that
Speaker 1: I was able to as a single parent with a
Speaker 1: Section eight VOUCHA and EBT, I was able to bring
Speaker 1: my kids out of the Number eight poverty city to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Georgia before this even happened. So that was an escape
Speaker 1: for me right there. That was God doing something major
Speaker 1: for me right there. People when I'm from they don't
Speaker 1: just pick up and take their families and believe that
Speaker 1: God has greater for them. Because it is so poverty
Speaker 1: stricken and there's not really people to impart into you
Speaker 1: that there is more. It could be very difficult. So
Speaker 1: being that guy had already brought me through so many things,
Speaker 1: being UM, like I said, being the Number A poverty city,
Speaker 1: being outside in the streets, and dealing with UM, all
Speaker 1: those types of situations I believe gave me the strength
Speaker 1: to be able to endure August between three because I
Speaker 1: knew the same guy that brought me out of poverty
Speaker 1: would be the same guy that was going to bring
Speaker 1: me this situation. MM. So you have three sons and
Speaker 1: what ages and sixteen. Wow. So they were all alive,
Speaker 1: living and thriving when this situation took place. So tell
Speaker 1: us about that day. On that day, I took my
Speaker 1: son to football practice. I remember it so clearly. He
Speaker 1: was on the field. I was like, boy, come on,
Speaker 1: because I got somewhere to go to night. So I
Speaker 1: remember as we left there, I remember what I was wearing.
Speaker 1: I had lunch from my home girl that day, and
Speaker 1: just really that night everything it was a It was
Speaker 1: a normal, typical night. We went out downtown Atlanta, me,
Speaker 1: my cousin, and another friend of mine at the time.
Speaker 1: We had a good time. We're heading home. My passenger
Speaker 1: thought that I was gonna hit the car in front
Speaker 1: of me. She grabbed the wheel. We went across all
Speaker 1: four lanes. The guard rail came through the engine block
Speaker 1: and severed my legs. So although they called me a
Speaker 1: bilateral amputee, I lost my legs immediately right in front
Speaker 1: of me. What is bilateral mean? Both mm hm? So
Speaker 1: you still, So the girlfriend grabs the wheel because she
Speaker 1: thinks you're gonna hit the car, and you go through
Speaker 1: the guard rail and immediately you seen your legs just
Speaker 1: cut off. That why you like you visualized this. I'm well,
Speaker 1: I'm woke because it wasn't okay. So they say normally
Speaker 1: if it's that severe and that serious, that you don't
Speaker 1: necessarily feel pain. So on the left side, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: above me. On the right side, I'm a below me.
Speaker 1: And if I can give you any visual of it.
Speaker 1: So when the guard rail come through and like her right,
Speaker 1: so I put this one high and that one golf
Speaker 1: right if it goes Diana. So it actually took my
Speaker 1: right leg and painted in the middle. But you don't
Speaker 1: like we're your middle of your car is so it
Speaker 1: painted in the middle. So I had no pain until
Speaker 1: they had to get the guard rail out of my
Speaker 1: right out of my right leg, and when he starts
Speaker 1: to cut it, the medal begin to burn and that's
Speaker 1: not begin to um scream. So that was when I
Speaker 1: first begin to have pain. But originally my cousin was
Speaker 1: in the backseat. I went to turn around to her
Speaker 1: and my right leg, my left leg flew up on
Speaker 1: the steering wheel. That's how I knew I had lost
Speaker 1: the man. Wow, So what was that mentally like? When
Speaker 1: you've seen it? What did it? What did it do
Speaker 1: to you? Don't even remember that like I can remember
Speaker 1: it very like quick. But what I was say is
Speaker 1: the favor of God has been so great upon me
Speaker 1: that I don't really have all of that description um descriptions.
Speaker 1: He really just allowed me to keep it really really
Speaker 1: positive UM nuggets out of it. So what I will
Speaker 1: tell you is that when they was hit in the
Speaker 1: car with the jaws of life to get me out,
Speaker 1: I kept hearing the Lord's say, break every chain piece.
Speaker 1: You don't here to change the fallen. So in that case,
Speaker 1: and then I've never seen anybody. I was blacked out.
Speaker 1: I felt them fireman picked me up. I felt very light,
Speaker 1: so I knew both legs was gone. Um when he
Speaker 1: picked me up, I've never seen him. I've never seen
Speaker 1: the inside of the MT the ambulems. All I remember,
Speaker 1: Harry was them say take cut a grady. I tell
Speaker 1: people that was Holy Spirit saying you're on your way.
Speaker 1: And then after that I heard them say get off
Speaker 1: at this exit. That's Holy Spirit saying you made it.
Speaker 1: I never seen anybody heard anything else outside of that
Speaker 1: the entire time until when I woke up three days later.
Speaker 1: When you woke up three days later, so for three
Speaker 1: days you were out where you unconscious or just out
Speaker 1: they I guess you know, they put me under a
Speaker 1: heavy sedation. So I was under heavy sedation for three days.
Speaker 1: Did anyone else in the car get harmed? Yes, so
Speaker 1: my cousin she u broke up, just broke her collar bone,
Speaker 1: and passenger who grabbed the will nothing happened to Wow.
Speaker 1: So what what was the process like when you woke
Speaker 1: up and you know you you realize what's happening? Was
Speaker 1: there always this positivity or where you sat where you
Speaker 1: did you go through any period of like depression? Like
Speaker 1: like what was your process? Um? I'd love to hear
Speaker 1: other people telling but it was always positive? So from
Speaker 1: the time I woke up, like I told you, one
Speaker 1: thing I did know before they sadating means I already
Speaker 1: knew that both the legs was going because I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. Um. When I woke up, most of my
Speaker 1: family said. I was like, hey, what y'all doing? Crying
Speaker 1: like we can't do this? And honest to god, I
Speaker 1: was like listen. They was like, oh, trying to take
Speaker 1: pictures to me. I was like, man, I look crazy.
Speaker 1: Y'all need to bring me a flat on you. Y'all
Speaker 1: need to bring me some lashes, y'all gonna put me
Speaker 1: on the end ofnet like this, and so literally that's
Speaker 1: how it was. That's just how it woke up. I
Speaker 1: was like, in the video that I've watched, it seemed
Speaker 1: like very early on, you know, because you're you're giving
Speaker 1: a timeline of the nine years in the process, and
Speaker 1: it seemed like you were saying, which I was seeing
Speaker 1: it through tears, that this is you. You were smiling
Speaker 1: even in the beginning when this wasn't. That wasn't the
Speaker 1: nine years. That was like my first two months, But
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, and that was like my first
Speaker 1: yew months. This is your nine year journey, and it's
Speaker 1: showing you showing the beginning, and you were literally smiling. Weird,
Speaker 1: and I know, I know there are so many So
Speaker 1: I believe wholeheartedly that that smiling, that joy of I'm alive,
Speaker 1: I'm still here, came from your relationship and understanding of
Speaker 1: how powerful God is. But people that don't know, they
Speaker 1: like they you know, for them, or they just might
Speaker 1: not believe, they don't understand it. To what what conversation
Speaker 1: are you having with yourself, your family or whatever that's
Speaker 1: keeping you feeling like, now with no legs, you can
Speaker 1: still keep going. Listen. I'd like to be transparent real,
Speaker 1: So I'm not having no conversations with myself. I'm not
Speaker 1: having no conversation with my family. I never know ampute
Speaker 1: before me. My family don't know nothing about being an amputy.
Speaker 1: The only person that could tell me how to do
Speaker 1: this thing is Holy Spirit. Nobody know how to do this,
Speaker 1: Nobody around me to instruct me how to do this.
Speaker 1: So only God could give me directions on how to
Speaker 1: do this. So what I won't tell people is what
Speaker 1: made it a little easy is that the three days
Speaker 1: that they say, they say I spent on the respirator,
Speaker 1: have you I spent two of those days with the ring.
Speaker 1: He told me, the legs that you have was not
Speaker 1: strong enough to walk into the territory that I have.
Speaker 1: So I literally was able and literally like knowing that
Speaker 1: He's literally like, you're going on a sign because I'm
Speaker 1: literally at the gates, I'm with the Father, and he's like,
Speaker 1: you're going on a sign, and the legs you have
Speaker 1: was not strong enough to walk into the terry. Story
Speaker 1: that I have for you held that thing because if
Speaker 1: you really got sad it. It says all you was
Speaker 1: doing this entire time was standing in your own way
Speaker 1: to let you have company to take you. Where are
Speaker 1: we about to go? But he said the territory m hm, territory.
Speaker 1: That's huge. That sounds like nations masses. There's people waiting
Speaker 1: for you right in this circumstance exactly the way you
Speaker 1: stand right now, that needs you go for So that's
Speaker 1: that's powerful in itself. You know. So as I as
Speaker 1: I pay attention to you and just looking at you
Speaker 1: right like I said before, you don't look like what
Speaker 1: you've been through. Nobody you look you have this glow
Speaker 1: like that's amazing that most people who have never been
Speaker 1: through what you've been through, even Hals and I know
Speaker 1: and and just and going through your Instagram, I see
Speaker 1: a lot of hate. I see some people acting like
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be this happen, You shouldn't have this much power,
Speaker 1: Like how do you take that? But what I've been
Speaker 1: able to do with that is to understand that people
Speaker 1: have a way of being able to accept pity from
Speaker 1: me over power and the power that comes from me.
Speaker 1: They'd rather it be pity because the power that comes
Speaker 1: to me actually also convicts them. Right, So there's one
Speaker 1: or two things that happens when you embrace me. You're
Speaker 1: either empowered by me and inspired by me. Well, excuse
Speaker 1: me three things. Either empowered, inspired, or you're convicted. Right.
Speaker 1: So those that are convicted, conviction comes forth in anger.
Speaker 1: So now you're the problem because you're exposing to me
Speaker 1: the problems within me. And so I'm able to recognize
Speaker 1: that's why I know what it is. I'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: they believe the m M. You know that it's so
Speaker 1: powerful because in every situation we can find, if we're
Speaker 1: true believers, ways in which God shows up the same
Speaker 1: for for for many of us, and so of me
Speaker 1: as an as an activist organizer who some people feel
Speaker 1: as a leader, I think people like the pity side
Speaker 1: as well. They want me to look beat down, beg
Speaker 1: for you know, resources, they want to see you know,
Speaker 1: somebody was upset with my song? And why is your
Speaker 1: cash at in your bio? Well, because every day people
Speaker 1: ask him that actually do want to support him? I
Speaker 1: support you. And if they can't get to you when
Speaker 1: they readily give twenty dollars two hundred dollars, five dollars,
Speaker 1: didn't you know you might miss him until next time.
Speaker 1: Right there, you can support me, and people actually do
Speaker 1: it all the time for him, But the same thing
Speaker 1: with me. It's like the fact that, yeah, God did
Speaker 1: I'm passionate about the work that I'm doing. But I
Speaker 1: also am a great speaker. Sometimes i'm a great speaker,
Speaker 1: I'm a writer. I have other skill else and people
Speaker 1: pay me for it. And if I want to dull
Speaker 1: myself up and get my makeup done and feel good
Speaker 1: about myself, and I don't want to stay at the
Speaker 1: Roach Motel because I'm not because I'm not, because I'm
Speaker 1: not period at all. You know, I'm gonna be as
Speaker 1: comfortable as possible as I travel the world. And it's
Speaker 1: sad because it seems as if the way that people
Speaker 1: see me as being most authentic is in the most
Speaker 1: broken state, but the powerful place it's hard for them
Speaker 1: to digest. So what does does it make you? What
Speaker 1: does it make you do? Go harder? Or like, how
Speaker 1: do you Because to have a bold name like the
Speaker 1: legless Diva in and of itself makes people feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: what's that's opposed to me? I hope that make them
Speaker 1: feel like I'm getting ready to wake up every day
Speaker 1: and slay without the shoot game because that's what I'm
Speaker 1: going to do. So that's what they should be expecting
Speaker 1: when they hear that. But it's funny. Everything what you're
Speaker 1: saying is so true. So I think I had a
Speaker 1: post a few weeks ago. The lady was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it looked like to me like she um rolling around
Speaker 1: on charity. I'm like, girl, I disqualify myself from disability.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Because it wasn't disability was
Speaker 1: limiting my ability because the ability of my mind is
Speaker 1: stronger than any disability of my physical body. So that's
Speaker 1: not gonna stop me. So I think it's mind blown again.
Speaker 1: It really makes people reflecting and look at theirselves. So
Speaker 1: what I realized is this, right we talked about early
Speaker 1: your image, right, this is what God gave me because
Speaker 1: I battled with that. You know, even people saying, um,
Speaker 1: you girl, you be fly every day every time I
Speaker 1: see you. You know that the human mind can start
Speaker 1: to take that and we can start to say, well,
Speaker 1: am I doing too much? Right? They'd be like, every
Speaker 1: time I see you, and you'll start to like battle
Speaker 1: with yourself. Am I doing too much? I need to
Speaker 1: corm down? Let me tell you. I went through that
Speaker 1: a few weeks to go at Kingdam University, and the
Speaker 1: Lord spoke these worst to me. He said, daughter, your
Speaker 1: appearance is a presentation that protects your power and prevents pity.
Speaker 1: M hm, prevents city. And when he said that to me,
Speaker 1: he was like, beef beefly all the time, be fly
Speaker 1: everywhere you go because you know why, because you know
Speaker 1: why when people see me rolling up, they already know
Speaker 1: it's not pity because my appearance is already let you
Speaker 1: know that my stance is powerful and I'm about me.
Speaker 1: So I'm just not gonna do that for them. So
Speaker 1: we want I want to know. I know, I see
Speaker 1: that your son's seem like they are your rocks, Like
Speaker 1: you know, they love you, they take care of you,
Speaker 1: you know, So are they the main people that take
Speaker 1: care of you? Or like what is the process of help?
Speaker 1: Like do you do a lot of things on your own?
Speaker 1: Do you want to know where? Like how does that happen? Alright,
Speaker 1: so my boys they helped me out around the house.
Speaker 1: They're not They're just regular children. And another thing is
Speaker 1: that you know, even when you say that, and whoever
Speaker 1: is listening to this, I'm gonna just put this out
Speaker 1: here because I feel letting my spirit, um, my situation
Speaker 1: is not my boy's circumstances for them to carry. I
Speaker 1: was telling somebody this morning, like, Yo, yeah, gotta stop
Speaker 1: dating your sons. No, that's not my husband. They're not
Speaker 1: my husband, They're not my man or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So I don't place like super heavy burdens on them
Speaker 1: like they're responsible for me. I pretty much do my
Speaker 1: own thing. I drive with hand controls, I run four
Speaker 1: or five businesses. Um every day I get up. You know,
Speaker 1: I am called to build affordable accessible housing. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be my next thing that I'm gonna be breaking ground
Speaker 1: on and may so I'm able to architecturally get through
Speaker 1: my house, do everything that I need. UM nothing in
Speaker 1: a way, So I pretty much take care of myself.
Speaker 1: I have my team, my staff. They don't take care
Speaker 1: of me. They take care of my business. M So
Speaker 1: you take care of yourself. My mom lost access to
Speaker 1: the left side, um with lost a lot of mobility
Speaker 1: with a stroke. And the thing that I realized is
Speaker 1: that balance of having two hands is something that actually
Speaker 1: and because she's ready to go, you know, but she's
Speaker 1: held back a lot by the fact that she doesn't
Speaker 1: have balance with her arm and her leg on the
Speaker 1: left side. But you have balance at the top of
Speaker 1: your body. So I guess that I'm just assuming. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm asking a real naive question. Is that what helps
Speaker 1: you to be able to take care of most things
Speaker 1: on your own? Well, I will say, because I'm a
Speaker 1: hundred saying healthy, I don't have no health issues. I'm
Speaker 1: taking no medication. Like everything about me, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a baby, oh h got the man to have a
Speaker 1: baby with? Or you guy just don't work. We don't
Speaker 1: God's business. We got this so literally no everything about
Speaker 1: me I could do for myself. Um, I'm a hundred
Speaker 1: person healthy, I'm strong to God be the glory who's
Speaker 1: kept me like there's nothing, um that's keeping me from
Speaker 1: being able to take care of myself. I hop over
Speaker 1: and literally, you know, I bust my chair. I gotta
Speaker 1: share that I put in the passenger seat. I got
Speaker 1: one that I keeping the trunk. But being here gives
Speaker 1: me a level of humility too. So you ask me,
Speaker 1: do I have a problem with some people for help?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I gotta chair, I'll put it in a
Speaker 1: trump I'll go wherever I want to go. I would
Speaker 1: you use the prosthetic legs at that time, because you
Speaker 1: don't really use those. I saw in the video you
Speaker 1: have them. I haven't used those since two thousand and eighteen.
Speaker 1: That's not for me. Why you know, I work with
Speaker 1: mp TEA women, so I understand the use of them
Speaker 1: and why people care from But for me, I know
Speaker 1: it would have been a trick of the enemy to
Speaker 1: blend in, and God said, don't blend in. He need
Speaker 1: the people to see me for his glory. I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. It's nothing fake about me. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be a robot. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be neut So you do it, so you don't. I
Speaker 1: just love thee Yeah you said, you're a woman is
Speaker 1: completely who she is. She's unapologetically who she is. You
Speaker 1: can take up or leave her, and she has no problem.
Speaker 1: She loved us so much you don't even care what
Speaker 1: you think. That's what that's what life is. So you
Speaker 1: don't wear the prosthetic legs, which for people who are listening,
Speaker 1: we can't assume that. Folks know it would be art
Speaker 1: like artificial legs that will have been fit to you
Speaker 1: and you know and all of that you have them,
Speaker 1: but you don't wear them so that you can be
Speaker 1: a beacon of light, Like people can look right at
Speaker 1: you and see that it's possible without the legs to
Speaker 1: get around and do what you are. So many people
Speaker 1: message me, they'd be like, I didn't want to wear
Speaker 1: that leg and if you the reason why I took
Speaker 1: it off, like I never wanted to wear that. People
Speaker 1: need to be inspired of all different directions. Some people
Speaker 1: don't want to do that because with that. For me,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do it because I come from
Speaker 1: a family and pain pill addiction, right, So a lot
Speaker 1: of people who walk in them and come with a
Speaker 1: lot of pain and come with a lot of endurance.
Speaker 1: Another thing that was a battle for me is that
Speaker 1: a lot of people I know that we're them, their
Speaker 1: their personal limbs up under room. It's like more be
Speaker 1: down torn. So another thing I started saying, do you
Speaker 1: mean to tell me I want to walk around in
Speaker 1: something artificial all day to the fact where I gotta
Speaker 1: go home take it off and I can't love me
Speaker 1: the meat because it's not because I'm real cute. I'm
Speaker 1: real cute. I'm like, oh, if you lost one leg
Speaker 1: Of course you want to wear prosthetic, you want to walk.
Speaker 1: It just makes one of sense, you know, for those
Speaker 1: who lost one of them. I lost boats, so I
Speaker 1: could just pretty much sit here and in regards to
Speaker 1: your mom, with a stroke. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys noticed, Like when I laugh, I've been struggling with
Speaker 1: bells PAUSI, so I feel back in April, I thought
Speaker 1: I had a stroke because I've been struggling with bells pausy.
Speaker 1: So like it's left side of my um face have
Speaker 1: really stopped working on me. So that was that was
Speaker 1: more of a struggle for me. I was like, vote on, guy, now,
Speaker 1: I already ain't got no legs. Don't play with me.
Speaker 1: You got to keep me real cute in the face.
Speaker 1: So that was really hard for me dealing with that
Speaker 1: and the healing of it. And it really had strong
Speaker 1: stroke effects, so like my speech was very slurry, um
Speaker 1: my face couldn't move. So I definitely get it, and um,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go through the therapy party. I
Speaker 1: just thought that if I did the prosthetics, I felt
Speaker 1: like that was the giving the enemy too much space.
Speaker 1: In my mind, me think that that's what I needed.
Speaker 1: In order to move. So now I gotta go here
Speaker 1: three times a week. You want me to put these
Speaker 1: prosthetics on. So everywhere I go on paying attention to
Speaker 1: how I'm walking. If I'm a fall, I'm distracted from
Speaker 1: real life. So I just felt for me, I could
Speaker 1: do way more with my focus and with my brains face.
Speaker 1: Then I'll be worried about that. I walked for thirty years.
Speaker 1: I ain't missing nothing. I already did it. So give
Speaker 1: us some insights into the businesses. You said you're you're
Speaker 1: in five businesses. What are those businesses that you and?
Speaker 1: So I built some last weeks. That's one thing that
Speaker 1: I do. When I started doing that because a lot
Speaker 1: of the services that I was getting before the accident,
Speaker 1: UM I could no longer go to those places of service.
Speaker 1: I realized they had steps different things like that. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, So I end up doing that. But
Speaker 1: I also run in Love and Legs Foundation, the Legness
Speaker 1: and Wild Chair Deeper community where I bring women together.
Speaker 1: I'm also getting ready to launch the Push Collection, which
Speaker 1: is a Amputy influenced um boutique. All the models are beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful black ampute women that are truly doing their thing,
Speaker 1: and that's absolutely amazing. Um I'm no longer part of
Speaker 1: that business, but I used to be in network marketing
Speaker 1: with Total Life Changes. I created the nutro versus vending machines.
Speaker 1: I was able to to crack their code of it
Speaker 1: taking a team to do six figures. I was able
Speaker 1: to do six figures through vendor machines. UM got strategically
Speaker 1: gave me that strategy for that, and I'm getting ready
Speaker 1: to launch Nothing Missing. Nothing Missing is also upon a
Speaker 1: podcast platform of amputee women and that's caught Nothing Missing.
Speaker 1: I'm missing both legs, my co host is missing both arms,
Speaker 1: and my other co host is missing one leg and
Speaker 1: it's called nothing Missing. M hm. So those are the
Speaker 1: three women that I saw you and two other women
Speaker 1: and a couple of posts. Okay, So so it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem that the one person is missing a leg, so
Speaker 1: she must used the prosthetic. Yes, she does. So it
Speaker 1: works for some and not for others. So the young
Speaker 1: women that you work with that Loving Legs Foundation, they
Speaker 1: can call and sign up for free. Yeah. So there's
Speaker 1: a link in my biot to say sign up for
Speaker 1: the Loving Legs Foundation is free. It's a meeting platform
Speaker 1: we connect, collaborate, inspire each other. UM. It gives you
Speaker 1: a space to be relatable, but also we give you
Speaker 1: tools to boss with the ability that you do have.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm mm hmmm. We we probably could do this
Speaker 1: interview all day. We need a whole like we needed
Speaker 1: like a five. I was sitting down. Just need that
Speaker 1: before we let you go, because you've been on for
Speaker 1: a while and we appreciate your candor. Steve Harvey at
Speaker 1: some point was introduced to you. Tell us about how
Speaker 1: that happened and what was his impact in your life.
Speaker 1: That was major. I called him my uncle. UM, I
Speaker 1: called him my uncle. That was a major. I still
Speaker 1: stay in relationship with him. He really changed me and
Speaker 1: my kid's life. So five months after the accident, I
Speaker 1: was able to go on to Steve Harvey show. I
Speaker 1: literally just in the middle of the night. I was
Speaker 1: led to write like about five sentences, sent two pictures.
Speaker 1: They end up calling me like immediately. What they did
Speaker 1: for me was they gave me and my boys a
Speaker 1: car because of course I lost the car in the accident,
Speaker 1: and they connected me to my prosthetics center where I
Speaker 1: got the prosthesis from UM. But there was something that
Speaker 1: he said to me, not what he gave me, what
Speaker 1: he said to me, it's what really changed my life.
Speaker 1: And he said, it's just been five months. And he
Speaker 1: just looked at me. He says, been five months. He said,
Speaker 1: you still got it. M M. That I ate that.
Speaker 1: I still eat it now like mena in the morning. Um.
Speaker 1: And when he said that to me, and me knowing
Speaker 1: who he is and who I see him to be,
Speaker 1: it was almost like one of those things where I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't hear when nobody else saying, because
Speaker 1: I know what he just said to me. He's like,
Speaker 1: you know what that is. I was like, man, you see,
Speaker 1: Harvey said, I still got it. I still got it. Well,
Speaker 1: you still got it. You got it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you had it before, but you got it now.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I wasn't there before, but
Speaker 1: right now, that's right. So some people say, you still
Speaker 1: got it, but you caught it. You said now you
Speaker 1: got it still because I wasn't there. But I know
Speaker 1: right now you gotta clean and and it's a blessing
Speaker 1: to just get energy because you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: times we need few. I said this today, we need
Speaker 1: feel So when you see somebody that has this level
Speaker 1: of energy, authenticity and that loves themselves like you tell yourself, look, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta this one. Look I'm in competition, Like I
Speaker 1: gotta love me the way you love you. You know,
Speaker 1: say that's what it is for me. I don't see
Speaker 1: it as nothing about anybody that got something negative to
Speaker 1: say about you. We just gotta send them blessings. Man,
Speaker 1: say God bless you. Give them a hug. They need
Speaker 1: a hug. Absolutely, we gotta be able to You know,
Speaker 1: people are hurting silently in so many different places and
Speaker 1: you never know what triggers it. Yeah, so sometimes if
Speaker 1: you sat for a whole week and felt pitiful about
Speaker 1: yourself and then you see somebody like me, it makes
Speaker 1: you feel bad about what you just did. So we
Speaker 1: just kind of I don't know about that. It's motive.
Speaker 1: It's me to see somebody like you. If I was
Speaker 1: if I was pitiful for a whole week and I
Speaker 1: got on here and seeing a beautiful woman like you
Speaker 1: with this energy that's been through what you've been through, thriving, surviving,
Speaker 1: living and winning, I'm gonna say, listen, I got to
Speaker 1: get up and go win. So thank you for giving
Speaker 1: the way we never asked about our topic. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I was topic ahead. You asked before you go, And
Speaker 1: I know we've said that three times, so my apologies.
Speaker 1: But it's so much like you're just so full of truth,
Speaker 1: um and knowledge and how were and I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's some other stuff, you know, I feel like you're
Speaker 1: one of those people sometimes when we're talking to our
Speaker 1: folks that are teaching us about financial literacy and financial freedom,
Speaker 1: I always say I'm gonna call you when this is
Speaker 1: over so we could talk to more, because I need
Speaker 1: some personal help. Uh. And I feel that about you, um,
Speaker 1: that we need to talk offline just so that I
Speaker 1: can be inspire. How is it that I walking around full?
Speaker 1: You know, I got all my limbs in place, but
Speaker 1: I need some encouragement from you just about how to
Speaker 1: keep putting one foot in front of the other, you know,
Speaker 1: just keep going. Like sometimes you just feel like you
Speaker 1: just want to sit down and stop because there's so
Speaker 1: much but there's so much more to um to look to,
Speaker 1: not so much look forward to, but there's so much
Speaker 1: to hold onto. You know, you've got your kids, you've
Speaker 1: got your life. There's a whole world happening around you,
Speaker 1: and we're letting this one or two little things just
Speaker 1: just take everything down. But you, yourself are so amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm so inspired by you. I think you are so phenomenal,
Speaker 1: such a pillar UM for the community. And people are
Speaker 1: watching regardless. I know people are watching you because who
Speaker 1: you are, but there's people was watching that you don't
Speaker 1: even know. And so you said, as far as me
Speaker 1: encouraging you, I do want to give you this because
Speaker 1: as you were speaking, I don't know, I think you
Speaker 1: probably noticed. I was like, look over all the spirits
Speaker 1: started speaking to me. I started looking over. So I
Speaker 1: started looking over. One of the things is that caught
Speaker 1: me very early on last year. And what I want
Speaker 1: to give you as an encouragement, and I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it right here, is that I want to commit to
Speaker 1: UM the next time that you go out and you're
Speaker 1: doing anything, how you're gonna put one ft in front
Speaker 1: of the others because I'm going to roll next to
Speaker 1: you one ft and then you roll on. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what it takes. You gotta walk it out and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll with it. Mm hmm. Walk it out,
Speaker 1: walk it out and walk it out. But I'm telling
Speaker 1: you to give this out because I would get up
Speaker 1: and run from one side back to the next. And here,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't girl, you just how we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it. We had a topic today, will never ever
Speaker 1: get you off the here if we don't get to
Speaker 1: the topic before and after right, we've been we've been
Speaker 1: talking about I wouldn't say debating, but talking about the
Speaker 1: health care system in America. And the question that we're
Speaker 1: asking is is America killing us as black people? Right
Speaker 1: before and after your situation? I don't even know. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: it's a tragedy, but we gotta find new titles and
Speaker 1: new ways of describing things we do. What do you
Speaker 1: think about America's healthcare system? Do you think you got
Speaker 1: what you needed? Do you feel like, look look at
Speaker 1: your face? Was it was? Was? It? Was? It like
Speaker 1: really a disaster and you had the maneuver around and
Speaker 1: find ways like talk about your experience. And what would
Speaker 1: you say to a young amputee that's sitting there right now,
Speaker 1: like you know, I can't even get the things I
Speaker 1: need to stay healthy even though I'm I'm fighting this
Speaker 1: bad out. Well, what I would say is that definitely
Speaker 1: myself those were some of the things at that point.
Speaker 1: Um actually pushed me in the beginnings. When I came home,
Speaker 1: I couldn't get in my bathroom. I still had my
Speaker 1: house has tons and tons of stairs. They didn't send
Speaker 1: me home with a wheelchair, a bedside like. I couldn't
Speaker 1: get in my bathroom, take a shower like, none of
Speaker 1: those types of things. So that's another thing that Loving
Speaker 1: Lakes Foundation. We provide accessibility items for the Third world
Speaker 1: countries like wheelchairs, walkers, canes, and different things like that
Speaker 1: because a lot of people don't notice, but amputees in
Speaker 1: foreign countries they like build cards, like they get a
Speaker 1: piece of wood, put some wheels on the bottom of
Speaker 1: it and may be going to like this like so
Speaker 1: people have no clue like the lack of resources when
Speaker 1: it comes to medical So for me, they definitely didn't
Speaker 1: do me right. But what I can encourage someone to
Speaker 1: do is you gotta be your own resource, like you
Speaker 1: gotta use the ability that you do have because let
Speaker 1: me tell you, sorrow don't slide you to the front,
Speaker 1: and empathy is limited mhm. And so with that being said,
Speaker 1: if you have your right mind and you're in position
Speaker 1: right now to hear this, you can articulate what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I would tell you to grab onto something, get you
Speaker 1: a coach, get you a book. You gotta get ready
Speaker 1: to set up the legacy for yourself. I don't think
Speaker 1: America cure nothing about us and what we're gonna have
Speaker 1: and what they want to get to us. Another thing
Speaker 1: is I remember trying to sign up for an insurance
Speaker 1: after my accident. It was called a critical health insurance.
Speaker 1: So it's like for if you get cancer or something
Speaker 1: like that. Um, you know what they told me, I'm
Speaker 1: already critically ill, so so that's it. So that's it,
Speaker 1: like you know, but that's not what I heard though
Speaker 1: when they said that, That's not what I heard, because
Speaker 1: it's all up to the way that you allow your
Speaker 1: mind to hear and the way that you think. What
Speaker 1: they said is you gotter ensure yourself. Mm hmm. You
Speaker 1: better ensure yourself, that's what I heard. So it's all
Speaker 1: what you decide to allow your eargate to do. It's
Speaker 1: what you receive from what people are saying. So they
Speaker 1: ain't heard my feelings. They told me, girl, you better
Speaker 1: ensure yourself. M hm. So I would just encourage you
Speaker 1: to grab mother to something. Just know that all is
Speaker 1: not lost. And if you have the ability to think,
Speaker 1: you have the ability to create. And I will encourage
Speaker 1: you too. Well. With that said, Queen, keep creating, keep inspiring, motivating.
Speaker 1: The Legless Diva is amazing, you know, Listen. I look
Speaker 1: forward to continue to build with you, to see the
Speaker 1: things that you're going to do in the future, because
Speaker 1: it just started. Man. Yeah, and then don't forget the
Speaker 1: words that I spoke, hold onto him. I'm going to
Speaker 1: DM me my number and this is not the last
Speaker 1: time that I will see guys. Where can they find
Speaker 1: you at? What is your website page with Keisha Green
Speaker 1: dot com and it's I am Keisha Green. I'm Keisha
Speaker 1: Green on all platforms. You can google the Legs Diva.
Speaker 1: I should come up as well. I gotta bring me back. Yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: This has been great. Thank you so much for joining
Speaker 1: us today. I'm gonna be walking and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: rolling next to me, and I'm ready to keep walking
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna roll with it. You're gonna roll with side,
Speaker 1: walk it out and walk it out and walk it out.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be burning calories and I'm gonna be burning
Speaker 1: the battery. That's right. She got bars put on the track.
Speaker 1: We we love, admire, and adore you. This is our
Speaker 1: new friend, our new friend, friends friend. Thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us. No, thank you guys so much later. Bye.
Speaker 1: That's listen. Keisha Green is amazing and she's flying. She
Speaker 1: find she's a black queen. She got energy, she got
Speaker 1: all the stuff you're looking for. I don't know how
Speaker 1: she's sent it, but we're gonna gods well, what she
Speaker 1: said to me offline was when it's right, it's right.
Speaker 1: So when it's gonna when it's right, she's gonna be ready.
Speaker 1: She's getting ready. We shout out to her. Man, amazing,
Speaker 1: she is. Damn im I got stuff to do. I'm
Speaker 1: about to work out. I got rhymes do right, I
Speaker 1: got like, I got a whole type of ship. I
Speaker 1: got I got it to do. Man, it's good. It's
Speaker 1: good when you have people who have energy that's contagious, right,
Speaker 1: that that inspires you a motivation. As soon as she
Speaker 1: got on this camera, you know, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh this we have amputee. I was thinking that, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta deal with you know, it's a lot. She's
Speaker 1: probably dealing with that lady was. She came in here
Speaker 1: with is energy, a smile and lit up the room
Speaker 1: like all types of stuff. So I just want to
Speaker 1: say thank you for inspiring and motivating us Keisha today.
Speaker 1: And you know what, you have people who are stupid, stupid, stupid.
Speaker 1: You can say I'm still you stupid. If they decide
Speaker 1: that stupid is something wrong with stupid, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: be I'm gonna have to be in trouble with whoever
Speaker 1: don't like the stupid. Stupid works for me that I
Speaker 1: love the words stupid. It's the only it's the best
Speaker 1: because I got other ones, got ms and other things.
Speaker 1: So just let me say stupid. So that exactly. But
Speaker 1: with her, people will sit there who are also in
Speaker 1: her situation or other things and be mad like, well,
Speaker 1: why is she being celebrated? Most people don't have this
Speaker 1: and that, and she just happened to have an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Instead of being able to look at her and say,
Speaker 1: let me go harder, let me go harder, let me
Speaker 1: read more, let me get up and move around and
Speaker 1: make decisions. Don't just let these people tell you you
Speaker 1: got away the leg, you got away, the arm you
Speaker 1: gotta do this, or maybe if that's what you want
Speaker 1: to do, but you gotta find ways to push and now.
Speaker 1: And we have to have that conversation with ourselves every
Speaker 1: single day. We have to say, hey, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1: You know, sitting down, it's not if that ain't gonna
Speaker 1: get you nowhere. Sitting down, they're gonna get you nowhere,
Speaker 1: but tired. You're gonna be used to being tired and
Speaker 1: sitting down. And she said something that I said, old Tom.
Speaker 1: People are jealous of you or they hate you because
Speaker 1: they they you expose their own weakness, right, your power,
Speaker 1: exposing somebody weakness. So your will to keep going, to
Speaker 1: never give up, to get up and go, They look
Speaker 1: and say, damn, I don't have that right, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't want to utilize that. I haven't found thatself for me.
Speaker 1: So I'm I hate that you have it. I hate
Speaker 1: that you won't give up. Won't you just give up
Speaker 1: and foll to the waistline like everybody else? Does yourself?
Speaker 1: Feel sorry for yourself? Be mad? Why you continue to
Speaker 1: go on in perseven and overcome and and and get
Speaker 1: and deny all that? They says, why you keep doing that? So?
Speaker 1: And that's what she and I know she deals with
Speaker 1: that because we all do. So once again, I just
Speaker 1: want to say thank her and I appreciate it for
Speaker 1: the motivation. Man. And now with that said, it brings
Speaker 1: me to my I don't get it. So you know,
Speaker 1: I watched this stool had Stow video on my page
Speaker 1: today and a guy that I know, actually d M
Speaker 1: did to me. So I pretty I think I was
Speaker 1: the first person to post police it's they're they're arresting
Speaker 1: some guys in Harlem. You know, I found out was
Speaker 1: one hundred thirty fifth Street, I think it's seventh Avenue,
Speaker 1: and they're arresting some guys. A bunch of police officers
Speaker 1: a white shirt, a bunch of black Hispanic police officers,
Speaker 1: and they got this black guy. Young girl you could
Speaker 1: tell she's young, real slim, runs out there and she's
Speaker 1: trying to see what's going on. So I guess she
Speaker 1: knows the guy and he's telling her something, probably tell
Speaker 1: her with my stuff because he's on the floor. So
Speaker 1: she looks down and you can't really see what transpires
Speaker 1: much after that, but you can tell that she's pushed
Speaker 1: back because you see her go back son when she's
Speaker 1: pushed back. You know. Her immediate reaction, she swings like
Speaker 1: she hits the orbs on arm like, pushes him back.
Speaker 1: And after this pushback, I don't know if the fish
Speaker 1: was closed. I don't know if it's open. But all
Speaker 1: I know is that this officer hit her one of
Speaker 1: the hardest hits I probably. I don't think I hit
Speaker 1: a man that hard in my life. And this lady
Speaker 1: hits falls and young girl because I found out now
Speaker 1: that she's nineteen years old, falls and hits her head
Speaker 1: on the ground. She's laying there. Everybody is confused, screaming
Speaker 1: why would you do that? And this officers, who's a
Speaker 1: black man, you know, just looks around and then proceeds
Speaker 1: to arrest the lady, you know. And I just don't,
Speaker 1: you know, and we I'm gonna constantly have this issue.
Speaker 1: I just don't get how we have public servants who
Speaker 1: was supposed to protect and serve us that seemed to
Speaker 1: be initiating levels of violence and anger that even the
Speaker 1: civilians aren't. I just don't get, and and I don't
Speaker 1: get how people are able to justify or well, she
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been talking to the police, who she should
Speaker 1: have never got involved in those things. And the more
Speaker 1: that I heard that, it really I'm so much confused. Man.
Speaker 1: I've been a man my whole life. I've been around women,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been around I understand the law of
Speaker 1: studied law. You know. I used to go to John
Speaker 1: Jay with it for a year. I studied, I was incarcerated,
Speaker 1: I was in the law library a lot of my
Speaker 1: bid So I studied law, understand the legal system, and
Speaker 1: I understand that the jaw ab in the duties of
Speaker 1: these public services and police officers are to not only
Speaker 1: uphold the law, is to protect and serve civilians. They
Speaker 1: pretty much work for us, right, So when I watched
Speaker 1: them abused this authority over and over and see how
Speaker 1: the community has become numb to it and starts to
Speaker 1: accept it, and then it's just continue. It's like it's
Speaker 1: sanctioned by the state and constantly over and over, I'm
Speaker 1: just really confused that what are we trying to do?
Speaker 1: Because I know, as a man, as a son, as
Speaker 1: a brother, as a father, a husband, if you put
Speaker 1: your hands on any woman that's affiliated with me in
Speaker 1: that manner, I don't care if you're the police at
Speaker 1: that point, you you become the enemy to me, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to react in that manner. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm going to react in that manner. And
Speaker 1: and if that's what the police are trying to do,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to get complete, you know, division between
Speaker 1: the community and the police, keep doing it. I know
Speaker 1: it's not gonna work. I know that it's gonna be
Speaker 1: men that don't stand for I know there's gonna be
Speaker 1: your retaliations. And I don't know if they're paying attention
Speaker 1: to that. I don't know if the humanity in the
Speaker 1: you know, the public service office is gone, or they
Speaker 1: really think that this is okay and it's gonna continue
Speaker 1: to move like this. I don't understand what they're trying
Speaker 1: to cover. So I really just don't get it at
Speaker 1: this point. I had another little like when I was
Speaker 1: I watched the video and actually made my stomach her.
Speaker 1: This is why I don't watch the videos, or I
Speaker 1: try not to as often as as possible. But I
Speaker 1: think my perspective came in when I think about how
Speaker 1: people are like, we need more cops right and and
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, President Biden just recently announced I think the
Speaker 1: night before he announced these one hundred thousand new cops
Speaker 1: that they are um adding to the police force. And
Speaker 1: what I saw in that video was a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of cops. I didn't see uh police force that was
Speaker 1: scarce where there was only two offices out there dealing
Speaker 1: with fifty people or a hundred people. I didn't see
Speaker 1: a situation where they're so understaff that they didn't have
Speaker 1: enough people to help them contain the situation. And I
Speaker 1: promise you, because I when you said you can't really
Speaker 1: tell what happens before, I saw very clearly her body
Speaker 1: jerked back and she reached in like hit the officer,
Speaker 1: Like why did you hit me? Okay, there'll be people.
Speaker 1: There will be some people who would say she shouldn't
Speaker 1: have hit him, He shouldn't have hit her. It wasn't necessary.
Speaker 1: I bet you. I bet you if he would have
Speaker 1: turned around and said to her with respect, you gotta
Speaker 1: you know, man, you gotta move out the way because
Speaker 1: we're coming this way. You gotta move back. You gotta
Speaker 1: move back because you can. One thing you know from
Speaker 1: the video watching, you don't hear a ruckets in commotion
Speaker 1: between that officer. It happens in seconds, which tells me
Speaker 1: only because you know none of us know, but only
Speaker 1: because I have been in these situations too many times.
Speaker 1: I've watched what happens. They don't give you in a
Speaker 1: lot of situations. I'm not saying all, because to say
Speaker 1: all would be untrue, but in a lot of situations,
Speaker 1: they don't give you the respect of, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: can you back up because I'm coming this way. Get
Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna get. You gotta back up, You gotta
Speaker 1: back up. Seems to me like he's aggressive off the
Speaker 1: back no matter what though, even if she's nineteen or
Speaker 1: nine nine, that woman's or physique, Okay, it's too small
Speaker 1: for that big man to hit her the way that
Speaker 1: he did. Could have never happened. It should have never happened.
Speaker 1: And I see different organizations calling for them to deal
Speaker 1: with it. I'm sure they're trying to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to explain, well, and then this happened, and that
Speaker 1: in the third if they wanted to secure the perimeter,
Speaker 1: they should have done that. They should have done that,
Speaker 1: They should have had officers there back up secure the perimeter.
Speaker 1: But instead, and this is another problem that I noticed
Speaker 1: with these officers from even situations that I have personally
Speaker 1: been involved in. They get involved in the melee like
Speaker 1: you know, like they with the regular people. They don't
Speaker 1: necessarily maintain discipline enough to step back and try to
Speaker 1: get a view of what's going on and help everybody,
Speaker 1: including the public, to conduct themselves in a way. These
Speaker 1: people are arresting folks being arresting. You see mamas coming
Speaker 1: out with they roll on. You know, people gonna be
Speaker 1: all yelling, screaming, where are the where is the tactical
Speaker 1: side of policing? Where is the tactical side? Or too
Speaker 1: often they lose it with that, everybody's lost it. So
Speaker 1: what do you need to pay the police? If I'm
Speaker 1: paying you to have the same reaction that men, untrained
Speaker 1: citizen have, why are you getting all this money? Why
Speaker 1: do we keep it? When you say the fund the police?
Speaker 1: People don't understand that mentality. Obviously, there are situations that
Speaker 1: these police officers are not qualified to engage in. There
Speaker 1: are I want to be a black office. Now I
Speaker 1: don't want to see this actually, but metaphorically, just to
Speaker 1: make the point, I would like to see a black officer,
Speaker 1: not a white nineteen year old girl in an affluent
Speaker 1: community where the eight fight cops, because I have seen
Speaker 1: them doing more than what was going on in that video.
Speaker 1: I have seen where I have I have watched videos
Speaker 1: of people throwing, fighting, yelling, screaming, complete chaos, and I
Speaker 1: have never, ever, ever, ever, nobody, not even my trolls,
Speaker 1: because the trolls love to tell me, you know, we race,
Speaker 1: what you call it race, and then not, Okay, send
Speaker 1: us the video. This is the this is what I
Speaker 1: want today. That's what I want to that. This is
Speaker 1: what we're gonna open up the floor. So first you
Speaker 1: already said we want to open it up for people
Speaker 1: to tell us about their experiences with the health care
Speaker 1: system and you know what they what they feel, do
Speaker 1: they feel like they rather try to figure out how
Speaker 1: to take care of themselves at home or what they say,
Speaker 1: especially after COVID, because some things which we talked about
Speaker 1: are working a little bit better. It's funny like after
Speaker 1: COVID there's some stuff up. The time that you could
Speaker 1: be in a doctor's office and in other places got
Speaker 1: cut down so you don't got people waiting. You know,
Speaker 1: all of this stuff that we already discussed when they
Speaker 1: go to the to the hospital or to the doctor's office.
Speaker 1: How do they feel about the system. We we also
Speaker 1: need to open it up for people to send us videos.
Speaker 1: We want videos. We want footage prove us wrong where
Speaker 1: black officers and others are hitting black women, I mean
Speaker 1: white women, arresting them, knocking them down to the floor, uh,
Speaker 1: hitting them in the way in which what we saw happen,
Speaker 1: shooting and killing unarmed white men and boys, teenagers. I
Speaker 1: want to see it. There's been a few cases, of course,
Speaker 1: because the attorney been crumping. Others have cases where there
Speaker 1: have been some um white victims. But we know overwhelming
Speaker 1: we were unjust killings happen, and we want to see
Speaker 1: because y'all saying we race. So send us the videos
Speaker 1: to show us similar incidents where we can find the
Speaker 1: types of things that happen in our community happen in
Speaker 1: the white folks and other communities, by the way, another community.
Speaker 1: I listen because I want to be educated. If I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm saying you know what I was wrong. So please
Speaker 1: send those videos, man and and prove us wrong. We
Speaker 1: can't wait. I can't wait to be wrong. And with
Speaker 1: that said, that brings us to the end of another
Speaker 1: amazing episode. Shout out to Keisha Green for her testimony,
Speaker 1: her energy, her glow that illuminated this show today. Make
Speaker 1: sure you follow her, support her and everything she does.
Speaker 1: If you need a little energy, get some from a
Speaker 1: because she got it. You know, like Steve Harvey said,
Speaker 1: she's still got it. I said, I don't know what
Speaker 1: she still got it. I know she got it now.
Speaker 1: They thank you to her and thank you to our listeners.
Speaker 1: Who makes us number one man podcast in the world. Politicians, Baby,
Speaker 1: we got ways to go to be number one. Listen, listen,
Speaker 1: you listen see Keisha Keisha that you ain't listening to Keisha.
Speaker 1: He's just said he's already there. Don't, please God, stay
Speaker 1: out of God's business. This God business. Gods don't already
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Speaker 1: thank you in advance for making us in number one
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