WEBVTT - No Freedom! No Peace! 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:09.200 That's own. Hello everyone, and I'm to make a d. 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.799 Mallory and welcome to Street Politicians, the place where the 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:16.840 streets and politics meet. There's been a lot happening. This 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:21.280 is our second season of Street Politicians. Folks can find 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:27.640 uh episodes from Street Politicians Season one on all platforms. 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:32.640 We're streamed everywhere. We're on Spotify, We're on Apple, We're 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:38.720 everywhere where podcasts are are streaming. And you know, it's 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.199 it's a it's a special occasion for us to be 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.800 coming for a second season because so much has been 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.479 happening that having a platform where our voices can be 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.440 heard and where we can bring you direct information about 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.880 what's happening on the ground is so critically important to 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.960 my son and me. Um, we're in a critical moment. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:08.480 I mean, this country is shifting. Whether or not everyone 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.959 wants to acknowledge it, I don't know, but I know 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.120 that we're in a critical time when the country is 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.920 being changed. Um, there are some who wanted to change 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.520 for reasons that are not good for black and brown people. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.800 But there's a resistance that's happening across this nation which 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:34.000 is pushing back on anything that anyone thinks they're going 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.000 to do to take us back to a time when 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.840 our people weren't free, and we know that true freedom 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.200 we've got a long way to go. But street politicians 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.720 purpose is to be here to help walk through the 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.560 who's what, the who's who, and what's what. Over the 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:56.080 last few weeks, we've been in six cities, UM, over 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:00.280 the past eight days, and unfortunately, while try hale in 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.640 these cities, we're not on tour for a concert. We're 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.480 not on tour having a good time. We're literally going 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:13.040 from city to city dealing with death and murder based 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:18.799 upon police violence. Six cities, eight days, and so today 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.280 we're gonna be talking about a number of issues. You know. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.560 As I was um thinking about what we've been doing, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.360 the places we've been traveling, I put together a little list, 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.880 and I want to read some of the names from 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:39.200 this list, UM, because it's critical that we understand that 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.639 although so many people are engaged in this new moment, 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.680 people are passionate. People want to fight, and we should be. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.600 We have to understand that this fight is not about 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.760 any one person, but it's about all of our people, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.639 all those who have been killed by state violence, UM, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:03.480 and those people who have not received proper justice from 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.720 their city states and from America in general, And so 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.320 I'm just gonna read some names to you. Rodney King 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:19.440 March third, nineteen ninety one, adn and Louima nineteen ninety seven, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:25.600 i'm a du Diallo nineteen ninety nine, Sean Bell two 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:31.360 thousand and six, Oscar Grant two thousand and nine, Ayanna 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:38.120 Stanley Jones two thousand and ten, Trayvon Martin two thousand 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:44.880 and twelve, Camani Gray two thousand and thirteen, Eric Garner 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:50.800 two thousand and fourteen, La Kwon McDonald two thousand and fourteen, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:58.080 Tunisia Anderson two thousand and fourteen, Natasha McKenna two thousand 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:04.320 and fifteen, Freddie Gray two thousand and fifteen, Sandra Bland 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:09.600 two thousand and fifteen, Christian Taylor two thousand and fifteen, 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:17.400 Philando Castill two thousand and sixteen, our Antoine Rose two 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:22.320 thousand and eighteen, A Tatiana Jefferson two thousand and nineteen, 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:28.000 George Floyd two thousand and twenty, Brianna Taylor two thousand 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:33.039 and twenty, A mod Aubrey two thousand and twenty, And 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:37.359 there's so many more names of Debra Dannas to the 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:42.640 Ramallei Grahams. There are so many names, Santra, he said 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.960 a Cod Gurley, there's too many names to mention. Um 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:53.960 and I'm sure we're missing so many many people. So 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.839 the thought of the day that I have, and it's 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:02.440 a scary topic because is so um, you know, it's so, 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:07.680 it's so it's such a hot button issue, but it's real. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.839 And the question I think we have to be asking 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:17.279 ourselves is does it take rioting that includes vandalism and 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:22.560 burning down buildings to get justice? And how do we 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.960 deal with the fact that some of the people, most 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:33.200 of the people who are initiating these acts of vandalism, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.360 looting and violence are folks who are really not even 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.080 a part of our real movement. So does it take 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.800 writing to get things done? I think that's the question 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.479 that we have to ask ourselves today. I think for me, 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:58.000 you know, America has never responded to anything that was 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:05.200 quote unquote petrol. They never responded to any um asked 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.960 that that wasn't followed by a demand that threatened them 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:15.400 to lose The only thing with America respects, unfortunately, is 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.120 the loss of life or the loss of money. You know, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.000 and we we don't. We don't want to take anyone's life. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.600 You know, this is a non violent we most of 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.080 us practice King and aroused us that we practice it, 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.720 and most of our people just are naturally, just innately 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.200 just not violent. So like Dr King said, you know, 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.800 riots are the voice of the unheard, and that seems 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.000 to be how it shapes up. We look back to 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.479 the riots after Dr King passed away. They led to 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.320 the civil rights they led to civil rights laws being 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.480 so we have to ask herself. It's we have to 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.640 ask herself if that's not the only thing they respect, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.039 what else have we ever seen work? You know, we 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.360 we've seen what it is based on. Like America itself, 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.520 it's colonizes, you know what I'm saying. They have every 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.480 thing that they've done, they've violently taken. They go into 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.840 other countries and decide how they run there. You know, 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.600 they run their governments and things through violence, not by 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:23.600 peaceful takeovers, not by peaceful demonstrations. So you can't expect 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.680 anyone who has never gained any power peacefully to give 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.720 up any power peaceful. So that's what happens. I think 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.080 that's what's happened. That's what we've seen throughout history. When 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.600 they realize that, you know, they're gonna lose property, there's 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.360 a possible loss of life, there's a possible loss or something, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.120 then they they're they're prone to make some changes. And 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.520 another thing is when you asked about a lot of 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.920 these people who are out there, you know there aren't 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.320 even with the movement they are. They are also all 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.760 two kinds of schemes. These major corporations, they want to 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.280 be looted, they want to be destroyed. They want to 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.280 be bailed out. You know, they've already been bailed out, 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.440 so they want to get the insurance money and the 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.280 time it takes. Because we've we've been in a three 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.880 months pandemic and if you think about what the pandemic 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:12.760 has done. They are organizations, they are big name organizations 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:18.640 who have had products inside of their myths for three 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.400 and for um night over ninety days that they probably 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.120 can't even sell that the warrantee is it's going on it, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.400 you know what I'm saying, So how do they not 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.440 lose the products? So when you see the provocateurs, when 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.880 you see the people that look like that, you don't 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.320 know what they're doing here and they're setting something on fire. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.959 You know, it's an insurance game. Did they do it 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.920 in the hood? When the car get bad, they pay 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:43.760 somebody in the hood to go further? Like this is 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.719 the insurance game. So they're playing the same game, just 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.000 on a higher level. So we can't act like we're 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.359 stupid to those things. We can't act like these bailouts 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.000 that they give during this COVID nineteen and they're given 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.920 us twelve llar texts and they're giving them hundreds of 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.520 millions of dollars don't coincide with this. So you've got 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.560 a hundred minute dollars now the insurance for all the 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.280 property you lost. You know how much money these major 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.200 corporations are gonna make or for this or for this 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.400 insurance thing because they burnt down and they was able 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.040 to have to close down and theft and loss of 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.920 all these things that they under ensured under. So this 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.320 is a this is a bigger game than just Risese. 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.959 They they welcome the riots, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.400 They welcome them, but at the end of the day, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:24.960 they know that they can't continue and they know they 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.040 have to make some change because they know that the 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.320 people are fed up. So this is a this is 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.960 a carefully strategized pan that I think is by the government. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.719 And it's also they understand that when you get to 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.360 the people to a level where they don't even feel 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.400 like they're being governed by the government, something has to change. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.000 They know, like this point, you see that we are 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.319 no longer willing to be governed by this government. You 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.160 no longer this government right now is not represent the people. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.559 And that's why you're seeing harsh you know, things happening 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.240 like I'm hearing. I don't know, don't quote me, but 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.000 somebody just texts me tell them about either. You know, 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.640 the commissioner has been fired in New York. Maybe it's true, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.120 maybe it's not. He should have been verified, but if 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.640 it is, it shows you the drastic changes that have 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.640 to be made in this time because the people in 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.520 New York are no longer fist respecting law enforcement. They 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.319 don't see them as someone who protects and serves them. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.640 So when you make that painfully clear, they have no 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.439 other choice that but to do something. I mean, I 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.560 disagree about one thing, and that is I'm not sure 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:38.240 that all of these corpetitions are participating in the scandal 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.080 to like burned down their buildings. And I know for 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.280 sure Chanel Shorlette surely didn't want people to run up 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.800 and their joint and steal their bags and lu beton 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.560 their shoes. I don't think that they set it up 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.559 that way. And even Mark Jacobs, um, I think one 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.480 of their source was hit in one city and they 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.360 came out and was like, listen, it's property, it's not 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.360 human beings and human life. So I don't know that 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.800 all of them are bad actors, but I do agree 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.000 that there's an element of this whole movement that has 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.199 always since I mean we're talking back in the Civil 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.280 rights era when Dr King was out there, there's always 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.720 been detractors, and there's always been people who want to 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.680 stir up the confusion because in confusion you could do 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.040 things like get an insurance claim. You can make the 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.600 media change this message from talking about you know, police 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:37.000 accountability to all of a sudden, the protesters are violent. Um, 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.760 it gives police officers another reason to go out and 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.320 kill you. And I think that's what worries me is 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.920 that a lot of our young people, um, they don't 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.520 really realize that, you know, one we need to be 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.880 working towards particular goal. And then the question that we're 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:59.040 charged with today's like it's throwing a brick gonna actually 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:04.400 get whatever we're trying to get done solidified. I don't know, 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.080 maybe it is. I'm just saying that's the thing we 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:11.160 always have to ask ourselves from a strategy perspective. But also, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.920 these people will kill you, and they've been doing it. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.640 They've been There's a woman who died somewhere in this country. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.160 I can't even think of where it is, but she 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.559 was out there protests and a young girl, she was 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.920 a young white girl and she died. Um. You know, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.520 you saw the elderly man and when he hit the ground, 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.880 the blood is coming out of his ear. So it's 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.640 very dangerous. And they have license to kill. They have 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.120 laws that protect them killing people. Now I reckon what 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.920 we would say is well, if people are participating in 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.600 the act of rebellion and they're serious about it, then 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.280 people have to be prepared to lose their lives in 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:56.720 order to to to really um make a difference. Right. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.840 But what I've been you and I have been debating 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.400 or discussing. I can't say for the for for the 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.440 first time ever that you've been really pushing against it. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.440 But we've been debating whether or not our people are 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.920 properly trained for this movement. Like I'm not a hundred 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.640 percent sure. We don't even know our neighbors. So if 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.360 you don't know your neighbor and people come intoe your 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.520 community and they like trying to purge us, are people 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.120 gonna actually come outside and say, I'm willing to take 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:36.040 up arms to fight the McMichael's that killed um Ahmad 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.320 are very like? Are people gonna come out and really 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.520 staying for us? Are these white people who are all 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.560 up in our marches, are they gonna come outside and 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.800 make a citizen's arrest on a police officer or on 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.439 people like the McMichaels who and you know who were 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.040 in the process of killing um Ahmad arevery I don't 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.920 know if we if we could go, if we could 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.400 say we're getting we're gonna at our guns, We're gonna 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.960 protect our communities, and we go back to trade von Martin. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.760 Were people in that community see themselves as being so 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:12.600 much of the community that they would come out and 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:17.360 take up arms and actually shoot, kill, arrest. George immiment 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.720 I don't. I don't know if that is even really 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.240 what what it is that that even matters. I think 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.760 that will. The issue for me is the people who 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.920 would come out don't have the guns. You understand I'm saying. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.160 So we know that everybody is not gonna do it 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.720 is everybody go for everything. But there are people who 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.400 will protect, who want to be able to protect, who 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.000 want to be prepared enough to go outside and if 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.240 something they see something, they want to have the right. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.200 They want to have a legal right. They don't want 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.400 to be beyond the law. They don't want to do, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.680 you know, things that are illegal. Just some people that don't. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.360 They want to be within the realms of the law. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.760 And it is within the realms of the law for 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.640 you to have a fire you know, but is it 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.160 within the realm of the law, mice to actually shoot 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:10.720 your firearms? Because the bottom line is in order for 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.680 you have you do the reason why you have a 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.600 firearm is to protect you, your family, your homes. You know, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.040 when you are in threat, when you're being threatened, you are, 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.680 and you have a legal firearm, you have the right 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.200 to fire that fire all. But it's not working. It 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.320 is It's the thing is this We're not we's not 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.480 working that way. We are not firing a firearm to 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.560 protect us. So where's that have will? We have a 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.520 legal firearms and we're firing and to protect ourselves and 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.840 it's not working. Okay, So Kenny Walker talking about that. Yeah, 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:47.920 obviously now, um he's been able to get off. But 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.960 that's also because so many people stood up for him. 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.400 And that's what we have to do. Mrs Marissa Alexander. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.920 We know because we met fighting for Moliss to Alexander, 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.520 this woman fired a one and shot ended up being 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.200 in jail for many years. So when you're saying that 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:12.360 we have the right, it's that right. It's only becoming 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:17.480 or being realized either after major struggle or not at all. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.720 How many people you think are locked up right now 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:24.000 that fired one and shot or shot someone and rightfully so, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.280 but because they're a person of color, the law is 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.440 not working for them. But that's the thing we have 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.040 to do. We have to gradually because we understand they're 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.000 not gonna just give us all right, so we have 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.120 to gradually go the steps. So we gotta say, okay, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.120 first we're gonna all our brothers and then we're gonna 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.400 fight the fact that they did. They legally have a 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.240 fire arm and they have a legal right to protect themselves. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.320 So that's it's a two pronged situation. But first we 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.880 got to make sure that they prepared because even with 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.680 the bottom line is, even if you gotta fight for 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.560 your freedom, you're not gonna die. So this is to me, 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.920 you rather I'd rather take my freedom, link send jail 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.400 for some years and have to fight to get my 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.680 freedom back to set there that you shoot me and 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.520 kill me in the street, because I'm not I don't 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.119 have a fight on so choices I've got. I'm taking 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.160 the ladder. All I'm saying is you're a different breed. 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.240 And I know a lot of people. I know people 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.040 that right now without rather die than shoot some money 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.440 and go to jail. No I know, I'm saying that 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:25.280 on the streets on videotape. Obviously it ain't been that 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.000 much over this pandemic because people have been moving around. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.560 A woman could be standing there being beaten by any man, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.320 police officer or not. And I see I see brothers 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.040 all the time. They just look at it and they 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.840 don't do ship. And I'm and you're right, I'm not saying, 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.560 but I'm just saying there are those who would and 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.640 his sisters too. Is we're not just trying to am 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:51.280 the brothers. The sisters need fire arms too, the whole family. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.920 Because if somebody being you or you pull that gud 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.800 out of this conversation changed it, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.440 So these women definitely need to be all yeah, I agree. 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:07.600 So Trump threatened to put military on us, more military 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.520 on protesters because he said that the governors weren't doing 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:20.760 a good job of controlling protests. Um this weekend amazing, amazing, amazing. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:27.439 In Washington, d C. Where Mary Muriel Browser is the mayor, 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:33.320 she decided to change the street that leads to sixteen 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:37.960 hundred Pennsylvania Avenue and one of the actual street names, 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.960 and she put black Lives Matter. He's the Black Lives 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.119 matterway on the street, and then black Lives Matter was 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.600 painted where every time Trump has to look out the window, 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:53.040 that's what he sees. So people are doing some bold 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.960 things across the country. And I feel like this idea 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.480 that all we're gonna send the military and least have 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:09.600 been militarized. They've been militarized exactly in in the militarization 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:13.960 of police. That is an actual demand that we have 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.840 been a part of with many groups and led by 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:21.200 the Gathering for Justice and Justice League in terms of pushing. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.440 In fact, we marched two hundred and fifty miles from 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:29.160 New York City to Washington, d C. Around the ending 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.680 the militarization of police. So just sending out more troops, 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.479 that's really all you're doing. And I bet you he 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.320 was pissed to see that some of the truths were 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.360 actually dancing in the street to the electric slide with 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.880 the people, because even they know this is a bunch 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.359 of bullshit. The bottom line is, man, when you have 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.159 your moral compass, tells you the truth, you know, and 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.640 I don't care where you were, I don't care. At 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.119 some point where you're just a good person, you just 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.080 can't do evil, and you know in things that a 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.680 little quarter to your nature. So that's what happens. We're 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.879 seeing officers, we've seen all mean people. We're seeing people 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.199 in different fields of government and law seeing to themself 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.879 like this is the time that I realized what's going on, 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.199 and I'm not going to allow my job, you know, 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.760 all my career to affect or go against my moral compass. 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.240 So they're speaking up and they're standing with the people. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.560 I appreciate you. Yeah, I do too, you know. And 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.040 then a lot of stuff has been happening, like the 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:33.440 Minneapolis Police Department is now they they actually voted today 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.320 and released that they're going to defund police. We've got 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:41.600 a problem. Like the craziest shit I've ever heard is 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:47.879 that the City of New York it's planning to um 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:52.520 disband or at least, uh, not so much reduced what's 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:56.440 the word I'm looking for. They are going to suspend 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:02.600 summer youth jobs. But the budget for police has been 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:10.040 maintained and in some instances increase. Like you, I'm trying 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.000 to tell you how it works. This is what the 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:13.919 government does. Because when you when you look at this 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.080 pandemic and you look at how it's paid dollars, you 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.960 look at that they give us twelve dollars. Right when 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.159 you get offered this pandemic in another two months, in 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.879 two weeks, you're going to realize to yourself that you 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.920 do not have enough money to sustain because the twelve 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.280 dollars was good. They suspended most of your bills. So 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:36.200 you know, they pushed it all. Okay, you don't gotta 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:38.640 pay for two, do it once you good. So what's 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.040 gonna happen is people have lost their jobs. We had 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:48.560 the highest you know, unemployment rate in almost history, matter 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.840 of fact, in history. And when in three months people 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.560 gonna realize what's happening because the bills don't come back, 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:57.879 then you know, they're they're not pushing it back and 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.520 crime is going to go up. And they nderstand that. 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:03.119 They understand that it's gonna be a higher level of crime. 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:05.199 So they're like, we can't just really just get all 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:07.840 the way with the police, you know, because we if 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:10.040 you cut some of you with were these kids gonna 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.280 get some money? You know? This is this is how 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.159 these kids survived. They go to some of youth, they 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:16.480 get their little checks by a little closed you know, 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:18.760 having a little fun. So now what they're supposed to 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.360 do to survive. So this is a plain situation here, 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:23.320 Like we know that crime is about the rise of 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:27.520 you know, when all of those those pushbacks and you 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:30.320 can hold off for three months until you pay. Now, 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:33.240 when that third moe coming, people ain't gonna income. It's 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.280 gonna be serious. Yeah, that's why I kept paying my 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:40.679 bills and struggling to do it, but I did because 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:44.000 our we get our money from speaking, like we get 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:48.000 our money from going across the country speaking on different programs, 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:54.720 and somehow another people decided that zooms we're like free, yeah, 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:59.560 which there was ninety percent free from me, so you 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:02.320 got were eighty percent free from me. I had twenty 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:09.320 percent of people actually paying something for Zoom conversation. But 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:13.840 basically we didn't make any money over these last three months, 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.520 and so I don't know how I did it, but 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:19.639 I was committed to paying my bills because that whole 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:25.480 suspension of your bills is not real it in most cases, 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.920 it just put the rest of the bill in three months, 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:33.800 like you still had to pay. So you're right, people 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:38.800 are gonna be out here in Trumble and they're gonna 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:44.800 need the police, and they need but it depends, right, 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:49.520 because I don't know. I feel like, on one hand, yes, 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:51.880 they need the police, but I also think what they 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:57.080 need and I think that's my frustration with America, whatever 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:00.320 that is. It's like, no, actually, you don't necessar certainly 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.080 need police. What you need to do is have balance 0:24:03.359 --> 0:24:06.000 because they and they talk about looting. And what we 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:08.560 I saw a Daily d S post that's like the 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:12.720 biggest looting scheme that has ever happened, is that fifty 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:16.840 billion dollars went to corporations in a similars package, and 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:20.520 as you just talked about, twelve hundred dollars went to individuals. 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:23.919 So if it was balanced where the corporations had to 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:27.000 take less, so that the people, the American public could 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:30.480 actually get more than maybe people wouldn't be in such 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:34.640 and a place of such desperation. So I feel like 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:37.520 you said in the march that you did in the 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.360 Bronx with thousands of people showed up, and these are 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:45.440 our march t shirts that say we all, we got well, 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:49.920 we need you, we got we all, we need um. 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:53.240 Thousands of people coming together. It's like, Yo, we don't 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:55.200