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Speaker 1: with them, or they should have been, I would like

431
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: it more if they were protesting, you know, and doing

432
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,119
Speaker 1: this for reparations. I get that, I feel that. I

433
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: get that. I understand the frustration of the you know,

434
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,719
Speaker 1: hold your own nuts campaign that you know, hey, if

435
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 1: you're if you're not advocating for the things that I

436
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 1: believe in, to hell with you cool. I respect that.

437
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 1: I also understand the other side of the coin, like

438
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: Tammy Sawyer, who is also here, and again I'm just

439
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: kind of what prompting me to do this is the

440
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: shame between you and myself. I understand Tammy Sawyer's position

441
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: of actually being elected in Memphis, actually working with these folks,

442
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: knowing what she knows behind the scenes, knowing these individuals personally,

443
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: and being very familiar with Tennessee politics to the point

444
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 1: that she herself has had to deal with white men

445
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,439
Speaker 1: harassing her and sending her death threats. So when I

446
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: look at and I'm putting on my mediator had here

447
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: for a second, when I look at Marcell's frustration as

448
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: a candidate who is working really hard to you know,

449
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: push reparations in a in a state that he feels

450
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: oftentimes by himself, uh in regards to either support or

451
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: other candidates who are willing to put their their their

452
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 1: you know, their name on the line. And I look

453
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 1: at that passion, Marcel, that you have with Hey, if

454
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 1: they weren't doing a reparations, fuck them basically, And I'm paraphrasing.

455
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 1: You didn't say that, but that's you know, that's what

456
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,719
Speaker 1: I that's that's that's the energy it was given. And

457
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 1: then I look at Tammy, who has accomplished, you know,

458
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: the task, the hard task that we ask people to do,

459
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 1: which is go run, go, put your name out there,

460
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 1: make it happen. And then heard knowing a lot of

461
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: behind the scenes that we may not be privy to.

462
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: And I appreciate you saying you saying, hey, if they

463
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 1: were advocating for these things, you know, then I you know,

464
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 1: I correct myself if the record is what it is.

465
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 1: But I just want to bring some balance to this quickly,

466
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: and you guys, when I get done, if you want

467
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: to say some things, that would be great. I just

468
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 1: did revot news on this today. And I want to

469
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 1: be clear. This is not about Pierson as an individual

470
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: or Jones as an individual. If we make this about

471
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: Pearson and Jones, then the argument is going to be

472
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: very similar to the debate that you guys have, Well

473
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: what did Pearson do? And then Tammy says, well, Pierson

474
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: did this or Jones did this, and Marcella says, well,

475
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 1: Pearson didn't do this or Jones didn't do this. If

476
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 1: we make this about policy, which is well, to hell

477
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 1: with them. If they should have been doing reparations or

478
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 1: somebody else may say they should have been doing Medicare

479
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: for all, or they should have been doing gun control

480
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 1: or whatever. To hell with them. They weren't doing what

481
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: I believe, then hold your own notes nuts. And then

482
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: there's the argument that says, you know, I don't like

483
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 1: the Democrats, so good for them. And then there's the

484
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,439
Speaker 1: argument that said, he hear they go again, Democrats just

485
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: trying to be against Republican. I want to remind everybody

486
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: this is not about the politician personally, although I do

487
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: understand Tammy them being people that you actually know, you're

488
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: going to correct any information as you should. This is

489
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: not about if they were advocating for the policy that

490
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: you feel should always be put first, which is reparations.

491
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: And I've told you guys many times, everybody's not motivated

492
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: by the same thing. Just because somebody else's family member

493
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: die of healthcare reform and they want to advocate for

494
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: healthcare form doesn't mean they're anti reparations. I've said that many, many,

495
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: many times. To be an elected official, you have to

496
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: talk about all issues, not single issue. If you want

497
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: to be single issue, then being an advocate for single

498
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: issue and only talk about that single issue. But to

499
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: be elected, you have to talk about multiple issues. And

500
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: I understand that a black agenda should be first, and

501
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: things that affect us should be first. But health care

502
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: affects US, prison reform affects US, reparations affects US, the

503
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: judicial system affects us. All policies affect black people. That's

504
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: a conversation for another day. But I understand the ideology

505
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: that if it is not, if they weren't doing it

506
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: for black issues, fuck them all. And I get that,

507
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: and you can certainly say fuck them all. But what

508
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: I need people to understand this, This is about the

509
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: twelve hundred two thousand people that actually voted these people

510
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:53,719
Speaker 1: in to go represent their issue. I am not concerned

511
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: on how this affects Pearson our Jones as an individual.

512
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: I am not concerned with if you agree should be

513
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: gun control or not gun control, or we should have

514
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: more guns or less have guns. That is a policy conversation.

515
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: I'm not concerned with if you believe that they shouldn't

516
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: be the representative and they should do this or that.

517
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 1: What I am concerned about is is that the people

518
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: that elected this person in elected them to do what

519
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: they ask them to do. That is what Republicans and

520
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: conservatives get quite well meaning. If I say, Marcella, I

521
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: want you to advocate for me that everybody should wear

522
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: purple shirts on Tuesday, and I send you to the

523
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: House of Representatives to advocate for people should wear purple

524
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: shirts on Tuesday. That is what you're supposed to do.

525
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: And any time that is taken away from an elected official,

526
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: whether you agree with them or not, I will be

527
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: saying the same thing if it was a conservative. If

528
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: you agree with them or not, that is unconstitutional. Period.

529
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: You can argue about gun control later. You can argue

530
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: about it if you don't think the right representative later.

531
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: The main thing is they were sent to serve their people.

532
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: And if you guys think that your voice is important

533
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: enough to go give right now, many of you are

534
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: giving testimony for the task Force Study, the California Task

535
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: Force Study, which is a study by the way, just

536
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: like HR forty, you guys are sitting up giving testimony

537
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: believing that your voice should be heard. So why do

538
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: you not understand that the people that sent these representatives

539
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: voice should be heard. Even if you disagree with that voice,

540
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: it still should be heard because they actually got elected

541
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: to do that job. The people in that community actually

542
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: got they ask all social media went down and put

543
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: these people in office to represent their issue. And if

544
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: you don't like the issue that they stand for, then

545
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: I would say that a special election is coming up

546
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: in the great state of to See and maybe you

547
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: should be running a candidate against them. How about that?

548
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: If you don't like what Pearson and Jones is standing for,

549
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: then how many of you are going to select a

550
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: candidate to run against Pearson and Jones? Because the special

551
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,479
Speaker 1: election is coming up and a general election is coming up.

552
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: So everybody that got something to say about I don't

553
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: like Pearson and Jones, Well I ask again, are you

554
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: going to send somebody to run against Pearson and Jones?

555
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: Are you going to only talk from the Twitter space

556
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: environment about a city or town that you literally have

557
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: no power in because you have no vote? Or are

558
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: you gonna say, hey, don't vote at all and not

559
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: have no candidate and send no candida. See, that's where

560
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: the real work comes into play. And that's why you know.

561
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: I love y'all in the reparation of space. I love

562
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: y'all in the Twitter space, But once again, I'm gonna

563
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: ask again, what city, what state rep? Are you sending

564
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,959
Speaker 1: to California right now? At you get done doing all

565
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: the testimony after you get done saying do the testimony,

566
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: after you get done doing the hash tags. Who in

567
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: California is actually going to vote on the recommendations for

568
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,719
Speaker 1: the California Reparations Task Force? Because I got news for you.

569
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: Whether you like HR forty or not. And I know

570
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: there's some conversation about if HR forty is good and

571
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: not good, but I got news for you. The California

572
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: Reparations Task Force is a study. It is a study,

573
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, no different than HR forty is a

574
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: study that means they're gonna make recommendations. They're gonna give

575
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: it to the state representatives, the state level representatives, not Congress,

576
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: the state level representatives, and they are going to decide

577
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: if they implement those recommendations. At the end of the day,

578
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: it comes down to an elected official voting on reparations.

579
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: Whether it is the city level, the state level, the

580
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: county level. Somebody's gonna have to vote right now. When

581
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: these men on Monday decide if they get sent back

582
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: to their seats. Guess who's voting on that. The city elect,

583
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: the city commissioner, and the county commissioner. They are the

584
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: ones that are deciding if they go back to their seat,

585
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: not us on Twitter. And what I want I hope

586
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,479
Speaker 1: that you get from what I'm saying is if you

587
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: could just remove yourself from a moment from the frustration

588
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: of having piss poor candidates, because I understand the frustration

589
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: of not having candidates that push the black agenda. But

590
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: Marcel Brother, I would do the same thing for you

591
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: if somebody wanted to discount your voice. I would do

592
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: the same thing for black conservatives that if you send

593
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: somebody to go represent you and you are pro life,

594
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: and you send somebody to go represent you and they

595
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: expel your representative, I would do the same thing. I

596
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: would have the same position. I need you, guys to

597
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: understand what is happening. They are taking away your voice,

598
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: the voice that y'all like to use in the comments

599
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: that you'll feel like y'all can make comments and make

600
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: recommendations and go to meetings and get put on. You know,

601
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: I got something to say, y'all. Y'all sit up and

602
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: have Twitter spaces and say, oh no, no, no, you're

603
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: gonna hear me. I'm a mute. Let me get the mute,

604
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: but let me you know me, but let me you

605
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: know me, but and I got something to say. So

606
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: if you feel like you got something to say in

607
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: a Twitter space, don't you think that the people that

608
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: elected these brothers got something to say. And I understand

609
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: the frustration of saying, hey, to hell with them, but

610
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: I need you to understand that somebody can also do

611
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: that to you. Somebody's doing that to you. Somebody's doing

612
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: that to you, Marcelle. Now they saying to hell with

613
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: you in South Carolina. That's why even when they say

614
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: with Marcelle, go too far. He shouldn't be out there

615
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: with a bullhorn, you did the exact same thing. You

616
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: took the bullhorn brother and went off from Jim Corburn,

617
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: and people were rooting you on, saying that's right, Marcelle.

618
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: Tell them, y'all can't have it both ways. These brothers

619
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: literally did the same thing Marcelle. They used their bullhorn.

620
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: But Marcelle get to say, but he can't say it

621
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: only because y'all like marceilling what he's staying for. Come on, y'all,

622
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: that ain't that ain't what it is. I'll fight for

623
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: the rights to you, for you to be able to

624
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: have the bullhorn, even if I don't like what you're

625
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: saying on the bullhorn, that right has been taken away

626
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: from them. And I ain't saying you gotta advocate for them,

627
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: don't jump out in front of the bus. But you

628
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:29,760
Speaker 1: also don't have to counter be counterproductive as well, because

629
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: being counterproductive is only hurting you. It's only allowing somebody

630
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: else to tell you you don't have the right to

631
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: be on the bullhorn when you get ready to be

632
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 1: on the bullhorn for reparations or whatever else you believe in.

633
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: And I also want to be clear about something as well.

634
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: When it comes to black people, the crime should fit

635
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: the time. So even if you believe that they could

636
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: have did it a different way, you can do right ups,

637
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: You can do reprimands. They should not have been expelled.

638
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: Marcelle brother, you know I love you. You went down

639
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: with a bullhorn, went off on all them people, You

640
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: stood up and they expelled you from their event. You

641
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: remember that, y'all put the thumbs up, and you remember

642
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: how many times Marcelle have been put out events. Just

643
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: last week you went off on. Two weeks ago, you

644
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: went off one of Mary and Williamson. That's no different

645
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: hunting than what these two brothers are doing. And I

646
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: understand of you mad to damn push represent well, get on,

647
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: they asked about that, but right now, let's talk about

648
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: the people that sent them down there with the bull morning.

649
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: I'm just asking, can we just do that just for

650
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: a moment, can we just agree that this is less

651
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: about them and more about the right that the people

652
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: that voted them in have a safe I've said in

653
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: defense for you, Marcella, when they say, well, only a

654
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: couple thousand people voted for you, so what That's a

655
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: couple of thousand people that wanted you to, that wanted

656
00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 1: Marcelle to represent their interests. And I believe everyone it

657
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: should be heard. Even if you don't like how marcell

658
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: get out of his politics, he's still representing some damn body.

659
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: Somebody there wants him to advocate the way marcell advocates,

660
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: So I would do I would do the same thing

661
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: for you and as black people, even if you think

662
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: they whatever you think that they are, it can't be

663
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: that black people go to jail five times more than

664
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 1: everybody else and get five times more time than everybody else.

665
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: And I know everybody, and I can folk I get that,

666
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: but this is so much bigger especially when I said,

667
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: you're talking about the Southern strategy all the time. This

668
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: is so much bigger than just Tennessee, what we see

669
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: in Florida, what we see in Mississippi, what we're seeing

670
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: in the South. This is so much bigger than just

671
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:58,959
Speaker 1: Pearson and Jones as individuals. This is about them having

672
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: the audacity to speak up for something they believed in

673
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: and being expelled And it didn't happen to the white girl.

674
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: That's all that I'm trying to get y'all. That's the

675
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: only main thing now. If y'all want to debate what

676
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: they should have been doing it for. This should have

677
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: been doing it for that, or to hell with them,

678
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: they should have been all I'm saying is that's gonna

679
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: boomerang and come back around. It's already came back around

680
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: on many when when Marian will J. Williamson tried to

681
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: shut you down, Marcella, you said, no, I got every

682
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: right to speak on this. That's all that they did.

683
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: And there's people that disagree with you, Marcelle, But I say, hey,

684
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: if this how you feel, is this how you feel?

685
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: I bring you up. I see you requested. So I'm

686
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: just wondering, can we be fair. Can we be fair

687
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 1: about that just a little bit about what happened in

688
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: tendency only because I don't think people who are in

689
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: government should elected officials shouldn't be able to vote out

690
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: other officials that people voted to elect. So that's only

691
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: the very dangerous thing. And there's a long, long history

692
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: of that happening to black people in office. I mean,

693
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: that's one of the things they did during reconstruction. And like,

694
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: the frustration with me is that people we know what

695
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: black Americans and I'm not a fan of just because

696
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: the way something is is the way it needs to be.

697
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,479
Speaker 1: And I'm definitely not a fan of because the way

698
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: something is, we should continue perpetuating the way it is. No,

699
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna say that these two young men,

700
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: you know, should have known better, because I don't believe

701
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: in that. I believe that we are to stand in

702
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: our truth and act like we are the people who

703
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: built this nation have every right. I just what my

704
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: frustration is, Like you already talked about it, we get

705
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: tired to see our people put ourselves on the line

706
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: or every issue except issue specific to us. Now. People

707
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: have said to me in the comments that you know

708
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: gun violence is definitely an issue that impacts Black Americans.

709
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: I know it is, and you know, those who have

710
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: actually looked at my profile, I am more on there

711
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: than reparations. I mean, I am the reparations guy, but

712
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: if people look on my profile, I have quite a

713
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: few other things on me. I talk a lot about

714
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,959
Speaker 1: rural transportation because that is something that's a big issue

715
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: in my area. I talk a lot about schools being

716
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: equitably funded because I went to the Lord's Performing School

717
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: in South Carolina and it is also one of the

718
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: Lord's funded schools in South Carolina. Because I'm in a

719
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: very impartished area. So I'm not knocking up for advocate

720
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: for other issues. The frustration with me was it's not

721
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: necessarily even dumb. It sees white liberals to be very

722
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: honest with you, who may or may not be their supporters.

723
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: On some short are, but some are not. Everyone's invoking

724
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: doctor Marktin, Luther King Junior. Everyone's invoking racism, which we

725
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: know that's the heart of it, anti black racism. They

726
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: want to always use our pains as the story as promotion,

727
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: but never what to do things specifically to address our pain.

728
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: So when I said about those two, um, the two

729
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: black men. Is not that I don't think it's awful.

730
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: It is. And the reason I think it's awful because

731
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: they can do it to me if I get to Congress.

732
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: If all they gotta do is say, well, you know what,

733
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: he broke this rule, let's blot them out. That's a

734
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: very dangerous precedent, extremely dangerous. And what I know, it's

735
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: like Marjorie Cheller Green. I know that's federal and this

736
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: thing in Tennessee on the state level, but I know

737
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: in Marjoriecheller Green, she's been she's been censored before, she's

738
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 1: been moved from committees before. They've done that to Stephen

739
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: King too, and I I don't know. I forgot where

740
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: he was from. So I was thinking voting someone out,

741
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: removing them for their seat is yeah, it's an extremely

742
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: dangerous precedent, and I'm all upset that something like that

743
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: is even allowed, Like I feel right, But I'm just saying,

744
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: if if we, if we, what I guess what I'm

745
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 1: saying is there's levels to this conversation. And if I'm

746
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: just asking, or at least let me let me not

747
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: say ask, what I am trying to focus on is

748
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: the main thing, which is being expelled. If I start

749
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: getting into the issues, like I understand your point where

750
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: they try to use us and you know, want us

751
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: to all every issue is other than us. I get it.

752
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: But what I see what happened with Tennessee, and I

753
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: know people are making it about gun violence, but what

754
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: I find with that is it gets people into a

755
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: water hole to go down the water hole to start

756
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: arguing about gun violence when it's not about If they

757
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: were standing up there saying we think everybody should have

758
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: purple shirts on Sunday and they got expelled, that is

759
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: that is the main thing. And so if we follow

760
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: their argument and start getting into should it be for

761
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: gun violence or not gun violence or a black eglor,

762
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: that's not the issue. The issue is getting expelled for

763
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: them speaking up. You know that that's the issue. That

764
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: it's not about them or necessarily what they were advocating for,

765
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: And we should be on their ass or anybody else's

766
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: ass you're around for not you know, doing the things

767
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: that we want them to do. But I just had

768
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: to recenter it based upon we don't live in Tennessee.

769
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 1: The people that sent them there, they're doing the things

770
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: that they sent them there. We get confused about us

771
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred miles away talking about what somebody need to

772
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: be doing. This is why you and I agree we

773
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: always talking about we need to have people that we

774
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: send to run for office because they are doing exactly

775
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: what their constituents sent them there to do, and it's

776
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: not for us a thousand miles away to be talking.

777
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: And so we just have to say, Okay, So if

778
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: we don't like, if we can feel like this person

779
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: ain't ain't pushing for issues that matter to us, then

780
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: where's our candidate then that we're gonna send, you know,

781
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: to vote to run against that person. And I just

782
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: feel the messages getting lost. Our voice should never not.

783
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: When I say our, I'm talking about any American and

784
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: that includes even conservatives, even things that I may not

785
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: agree with. Nobody should be able to send their elected

786
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: representative to any house and be expelled just because they

787
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,439
Speaker 1: didn't like what it was, you know, that they were doing.

788
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: And that's what that's what I'm seeing. I'm seeing the

789
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: conversation getting loss on gun issues or black agen and

790
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 1: all those are very important issues. But I just think

791
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: the main issue is should somebody take their bullhorn away

792
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: because they don't like what they say it. I'm gonna

793
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: bring up Tammy as well, but go ahead myself. No,

794
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: I absolutely agree. It is a very dangerous thing that

795
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 1: at any time elected officials can just vote out an

796
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: official that they don't like. Now, I don't know if

797
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 1: this is something that happens or these are the laws

798
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: in all state houses, through state, in Congress, state Congress,

799
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: throughout the nation. I don't know it is how it works,

800
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 1: but it is that definitely needs to be changed. Souse.

801
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: That's dangerous. That's very dangerous. That means even if we

802
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 1: do get enough and I don't like to say black representatives,

803
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: if we get enough people in office who are going

804
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 1: to actually advocate for Black American issues, if that means

805
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: that at any point, if they're not the majority, they

806
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: can simply be voted out. So that is very dangerous

807
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: and it is scary. As far as the unal reparations,

808
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: I can get people not mentoring reparations on the state

809
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: level because I'm in South Carolina. You know, I'm working

810
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: with these Republicans and I don't ever mentored reparations to them,

811
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: only because I know that politically right now, it's just

812
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: not going to go anywhere. So what I do work

813
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: with them on is a black agenda, doing things specifically

814
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: to help Black Americans. So I do understand that in

815
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: Tennessee is not nearly as black as South Carolina, so

816
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: I could imagine the environment if even more hostile. But

817
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: that was my frustration there, not necessarily with them, but

818
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: with just in general. As you already mentioned, and this

819
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: is not the mean issue, but how we sometimes as

820
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 1: black people who are activists or in politics, will put

821
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: ourselves out there for issues that are worth about, issues,

822
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: but not issues that I merely attacked our people. But

823
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: the main problem, like you said, is whatever an issue

824
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 1: of person's advocating for other elected officials to not decide

825
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: whether that person stays in office or not. Un awhelm right.

826
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: But then what I'm also and which why we always

827
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: have to keep again, you know, politically educating doing education.

828
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: We keep saying we sending people they are representing what

829
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: their constituents want them to do. And then you know,

830
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: that's how it works. And although I would love everybody

831
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: to be concerned about nationally, you know, I talk to you,

832
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: I've said this privately and publicly. You know, people try

833
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 1: to tell you what to do on Twitter, But how

834
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: many of them actually can live in your city to

835
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: actually get you elected. At the end of the day,

836
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: the people that actually elect you have a voice with you,

837
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: are power with you. That's how it should work. That's

838
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 1: why I tell people, if you don't like the way

839
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: somebody rocking, find somebody in that city to run against

840
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 1: that person. So although we think we have this this

841
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: voice to tell somebody fifteen hundred miles away what to do,

842
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: those gentlemen are doing what their constituents want them to do.

843
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: That's how it works. And so if we don't like it,

844
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: then okay, who are you running or who are whoever running?

845
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: And whatever state that that supports the issues that you

846
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: that you feel are important. And again I keep putting

847
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: this challenge out again, and I ask every time I

848
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: do this Twitter space, who is running in California that

849
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: is going to actually hear the recommendations for the California

850
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: Task Force to vote it in? Who? Because I yet

851
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: to see that unless I'm missing something on Twitter, where's

852
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: the California person? Because it ain't Marcella because Marcella lived

853
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,280
Speaker 1: in South Carolina. So so who is in who's running

854
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: in California? It's gonna vote this in anybody, any names anybody,

855
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: Marcella is that? Am I missing somebody? I have no

856
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:06,720
Speaker 1: I see Prince Ramsey's indeed, and he's been thinking about running, okay,

857
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,959
Speaker 1: when we need him to run, then see thinking about

858
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: it and doing it. It's two different things. So this

859
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 1: is where this is where the political This is where

860
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: the political part comes in. You know, it's all great

861
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: to you know, sign petitions and show up at meetings

862
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,800
Speaker 1: and yell and scream and you know, say this is

863
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: what it' supposed to be done. But at the end

864
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: of the day, I can assure you that anybody that's

865
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: sitting listening to that on the task force, and all

866
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: of those elected representatives that are already in office, they

867
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 1: already had a mind made up. I do think you

868
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: need to make comments. I do think you need to

869
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: tweet posts. All of that is very much a part

870
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: of it, protests, rally, whatever you want to call it.

871
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, those state representatives

872
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: in California, they already know if they're gonna vote up

873
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: or down regardless of the recommendations. So that means that

874
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: you need to have people prepared to run for those

875
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: seats to vote up on the issue that matters, And

876
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: that to me is what's missing in the conversation. When

877
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: somebody he said, well, what are you doing talking at

878
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: the reparations rally, Well, I talk politics, baby, And if

879
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: you want to understand anything about any policy, it starts

880
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: and ends with politics. Nothing happens without a vote in

881
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:16,479
Speaker 1: this country. Nothing happens without somebody voting it into law.

882
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: That means politics. So if you want reparations voted in

883
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: the law, state level, local level, the states, the city level,

884
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: San Francisco five million not five million, Well who you're

885
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: running in San Francisco. If you want to vote it

886
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: on California to the state level, well who are you

887
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: running in California? If you want to vote it on

888
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 1: the federal level, who are you running in besides marcell

889
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to at the end of

890
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: the day. At the end of the day, this is

891
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. Can I hope in real quick? Yes, ma'am,

892
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: thank you, worries Hey everybody. First of all, Marcella, let

893
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: me say, hey, I don't believe we've interacted before. So

894
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: when I saw your tweet, I tried my best not

895
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: to because I'm not gonna be for the black man

896
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: over a black man, you know, like it's all love

897
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: for me. But I know both of these brothers and

898
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: I'm I'm bona fide. Let me be clear, like I'm

899
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: not paid because will tell you this shit, I've been

900
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: through my life. I had to walk around with security guards,

901
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: black men's security guards for months on end and fundraise

902
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: to be safe because of the threat that my work

903
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: was to white supremacy. So let me just you know,

904
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: share that and to everybody listening. But when I saw that,

905
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: you know, it just made me sad because I know

906
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: the work that Justice and Justin have done. You know,

907
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: somebody retweeted my tweet to you saying that they searched

908
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:44,919
Speaker 1: one of the justice's name and didn't see him say

909
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: anything on reparations on Twitter. And I get that you

910
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: might not find reparations in my name. I don't know,

911
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: I'd have to look, you know, But that doesn't mean

912
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: I don't believe in it. You know, as when I

913
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: was a county commissioner here in Shelby County, representing the

914
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: largest black one in Tennessee. You know, I talked about

915
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: reparations all the time I was the one who put

916
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: funding towards you know, racism as an epidemic, making sure

917
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: that money was getting to the parts of the community

918
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: that were underfunded and underresourced, and making sure that our

919
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:20,439
Speaker 1: people had a fighting chance. You know, so often we

920
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: do get people. The funny thing about it is, it's

921
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: a lot of negroes in Tennessee. The had you tweeted that,

922
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 1: I would have retweeted with a ha ha ha. I

923
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: ain't the one who said it. You know, I would

924
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: have been right there with you. So I ain't just

925
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: jumping up to support Justin and Justin just because they're

926
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: Tennessee Ins or their black Tennesseeans, Because, let me tell you,

927
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: it's I don't know how y'all feel about the N word.

928
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,959
Speaker 1: It's n words up there who are performative. Yes, but

929
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: I did share some of like what I know about them.

930
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,720
Speaker 1: I know both of them were on the ground. Justin

931
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: Jones has been arrested so many times by the state

932
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 1: of Tennessee. So everything that happened today comes from And

933
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:11,720
Speaker 1: this is what I've been saying some of the interviews

934
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: I've been in. That's why I actually have to pop

935
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: in a minute to do another one but everything like

936
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,720
Speaker 1: that led today. They didn't want Justin Jones on the floor.

937
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,840
Speaker 1: They never wanted to seat him because he was following

938
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: Bill Lee, the governor, around with signs, you know, calling

939
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: him a racist and asking him what he was going

940
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: to do for black Tennessee. You know, Justin Pearson from

941
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:41,800
Speaker 1: Shelby County, from Memphis. You know, I had to vote

942
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: on my former body today because they were saying they

943
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: weren't gonna reappoint him because they're upset because he called

944
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: a lot of them out when they were supporting they

945
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: were going against the South Memphis black community, almost all

946
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: black South Memphis community, because they were getting fried chicken

947
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: dinners from the Behalia pipeline. So they were trying to

948
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 1: run an oil pipeline of course through the backyards of

949
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: elderly black folks. Or they were buying up the houses

950
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: that we reparations that we that got redlined away from us,

951
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: or we don't get to keep because we don't have money,

952
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: we don't have credit, so when our grandparents died, we

953
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: lose those homes, right yo. So justin single hand that

954
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: we co ordinated this movement to keep Behalia from being

955
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: able to run the pipeline, and they didn't want Justin

956
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. But by Hellia brought

957
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: out black elected. But Justin got the movement going and

958
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: got the attention going, and they won. They kept the

959
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: pipeline from going through South Memphis, you know, and so

960
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: these are the things. So for me, it was a

961
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: passionate response because I was like, I know what these

962
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: guys have done, you know what I mean, And so

963
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm glad, thank you tes because I think this is

964
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: what we need to do. Right. We talk all the time, like, God,

965
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: how much more could we get done if we like

966
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,280
Speaker 1: if me and marself walked away from this exchange today

967
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: and we never spoke to each other again, right, because

968
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 1: he says something about my boys, and then I clapped back.

969
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,720
Speaker 1: And now I don't have a colleague or a friend

970
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: or somebody I can work with in South Carolina. I

971
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,919
Speaker 1: can't learn from ourselves because of this exchange versus Test

972
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: pulls us in here and we can have this talk.

973
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: And I know we're not able to like talk talk,

974
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. Right Anyway, all of

975
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 1: that to say, I just hope that you know, I

976
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: see people saying somebody said on one of your threats.

977
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: They're paid actors. Y'all. These guys have had death threats.

978
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, you pull up Justin Jones or rust record.

979
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm surprised they didn't try to expel him off of

980
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: that alone. And so so they have. They've got real

981
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: blood sweat equity in the game for black folks. And

982
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: I think what's happening with them is the Tennessee Democrats

983
00:53:55,120 --> 00:54:00,399
Speaker 1: are so weak. And test will tell you I ran

984
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 1: as a Democrat. If I run again, I'll have to

985
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:07,439
Speaker 1: run as a Democrat. But fuck the Democrats. Okay, that's

986
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: how I feel about it. I'm gonna use them until

987
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: I can lose them. But all of that to say,

988
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: most of the Democrats get up there and they were like,

989
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,240
Speaker 1: we gotta work across the aisle. There are twenty six

990
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: Dems in the state House and almost seventies something Republicans.

991
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:32,240
Speaker 1: There's nowhere near close to a parody. And those twenty

992
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: six Dems represent Nashville and Memphis, where most black people live.

993
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:37,720
Speaker 1: Most of the black people in Tennessee are in Nashville

994
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: or Memphis, right, so those are the only Democratic parts

995
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: of the state. They get up there and they're like well,

996
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: I got to be nice to the Republicans. I'm gonna

997
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: have lunch with this man who's who does Confederate reenactments

998
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: on the weekend because I'm if I'm nice to him,

999
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 1: you know, I'll get a good committee assignment. And then

1000
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: they sit there for a decade and nothing happens. They

1001
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: still don't get no money for their district. They still

1002
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: don't get shit done. They just get to keep running unopposed.

1003
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 1: Or you know, they get invited. Instead of a fried

1004
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 1: chicken dinner, now they get a steak dinner. Now they

1005
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,320
Speaker 1: get wine with they stay dinner instead of sweet teath

1006
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: in the church basement. Now they get to eat at

1007
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: the Hilton instead of at First Baptist. Right. Now they

1008
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: get Italian bread instead of corn bread. And so what

1009
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 1: happened with Justin and Justin as they did what I

1010
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 1: would have done, y'all if I had never run. I

1011
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: ran for a state office, and if I got into

1012
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: letter to state office, I said I was gonna go

1013
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: up there every day, get on my mic and use

1014
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,399
Speaker 1: my three minutes. And I was ended every every day

1015
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 1: that I spoke with Thank you, speaker, Black Lives Matter.

1016
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna do every day. Thank you, speaker,

1017
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:48,280
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter, Thank you speaker, Black Lives Matter. Because

1018
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna have a voting power. It wasn't gonna

1019
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: pass ship I was going to do, but I was

1020
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:55,719
Speaker 1: gonna use that pull pit to bully them just as

1021
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: much as they bully us. And I think that's what

1022
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: we see. So it isn't performative. There's some performance there,

1023
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: but it is performative I think for a good reason,

1024
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,840
Speaker 1: because that's really all you can do in a seat

1025
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: like that, You know what I mean? Okay, and so

1026
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: let me time in. I mean again, just for clarity.

1027
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: You know, I don't I don't know these gentlemen, and

1028
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, because I know the folks in

1029
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: this Twitter space and I know how they rock, at

1030
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: least the majority of them, and they don't give a

1031
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: damn back, justin, And I do appreciate, you know, because

1032
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 1: you know them person so you should, you know, you

1033
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: should speak up for them. I know these people to Twitter,

1034
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: but they don't give a damn And so that's why

1035
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: I wanted to have this. You don't have this conversation.

1036
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: They don't give damn back that our black lives matter.

1037
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm saying, yeah, no, I get it.

1038
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: But what I'm what I'm trying to say is um,

1039
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:45,879
Speaker 1: this group is very well aware of performative style advocacy

1040
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: because they support Marcella and he does it. You know,

1041
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: marcell knows that in order and not performing meaning he

1042
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: don't give a damn. But marcell knows that when he

1043
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: goes into a room like he did, had Mary and

1044
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: Williamson running across the room and the little feet upset

1045
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: run across the room, Marcelle knew he needed to go

1046
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 1: in there and make some noise. That if one thing

1047
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: this Twitter group understand, they understand that, no question. They

1048
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 1: understand that in order Marcelle and set up print, jumped

1049
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: on boxes, set up print, went to all white events,

1050
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: set up on trucks, hauling and screaming at folks with

1051
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: bullhorns and all of it. So they get it, and

1052
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: they salute marcell for it. They love him for it.

1053
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 1: I love it. Not only do I encourage it, I

1054
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: am very entertained by it. I love it and I

1055
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 1: support it, and I support him having a bullhorn just

1056
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 1: as well as these men. You know. So of course,

1057
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: when you're the only one in the room that's fighting

1058
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: for something. Yeah, you do gotta kick and yell and

1059
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: screaming loud and bullepoint because they're not going to give

1060
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: you an opportunity to speak. That's why marcell does it

1061
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 1: the way he does it. All I'm saying, guys to

1062
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: my Twitter family is these guys did it the same

1063
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: way and that was it for an issue. Do you

1064
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,439
Speaker 1: think they should be doing it for reparations? I'll feel

1065
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: you on that. Nothing wrong with y'all feeling that way.

1066
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: I just want you to be reminded though, that if

1067
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: we start this presidence where every time somebody jump on

1068
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: a bullhorn and every time somebody say something, I just

1069
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: need you to know that's gonna bleed over in to

1070
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: the type of candidates that you support, like a Marcelle.

1071
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 1: That's the thing that I'm talking about. You know, they

1072
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 1: shut Marcelle down all the time. And that's why I

1073
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: say the main thing is the main thing, which is

1074
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: even if Marcelle say it, or Justin said or whatever,

1075
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: y'all can get on them about the policy and what

1076
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: it should or should not be, You're not gonna have

1077
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: no weight with it. Though. Just to keep it real,

1078
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: because you don't vote these people in and the people

1079
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: that got weight to the people that vote the people in.

1080
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: Otherwise it's just talking. So but you certainly can continue

1081
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: to challenge that because I think that's important. I do

1082
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: think that being provocative online and challenging in and straightening

1083
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: and all of the stuff that Twitter space love to do.

1084
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: And open up a room and close a room, and

1085
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: land a plane and open a plane and drive a

1086
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: plane and circle the block. All that's important. But it's

1087
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: not the same is living in a district and voting

1088
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: somebody in a voting somebody out Now to the person

1089
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: in the comments that said, how do you know they're

1090
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 1: doing what they people say do? A lot of them don't, Well,

1091
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: how do you know they're not? So see, talking just

1092
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: to talk is just talking. They said they're doing what

1093
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: they were sent there to do. And until somebody comes

1094
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: up from their district that actually votes them men that

1095
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: says no, they're not doing what we ask them to do,

1096
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: then you're just talking. You're just you know, presenting hypotheticals

1097
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 1: for no damn reason, and it's nothing but being chaos.

1098
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: Respectfully to your brother, whoever you are a male female,

1099
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: I don't know because I don't know these Twitter names.

1100
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: But what I will tell you is it appears that

1101
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: they're doing what the people sending them do because they

1102
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: had a room full and over full of their voters

1103
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: cheering them on in the top and the bottom. They

1104
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 1: got people out on the outside, people on the inside,

1105
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: So it appears that they're doing what the people sent

1106
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: them there to do. Now, if I were to ask

1107
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: if everybody would galvanize up behind whoever it is you

1108
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 1: say you support, according to Marcel's own top that he's

1109
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: admitted many many time, how many people donate, how many

1110
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 1: people phone bank from ourselves, how many people are willing

1111
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 1: to get on the ground. See, when we start talking

1112
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: about that, then that that becomes a different conversation. So

1113
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it appears to me

1114
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: they're doing what they're supposed to be doing. So that's it.

1115
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: That's all. So you don't have a stake in that.

1116
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: I want to know, if you don't like what they're doing,

1117
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 1: who are you going to organize them to run against them?

1118
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: And if the answer is no, then this pretty much

1119
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 1: you don't. It's nothing else you can offer to the conversation.

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01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: I just want to remind you guys that they try

1121
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,920
Speaker 1: to silence you in the same way, and it's the

1122
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: same thing. It's the overall thing, and it's also the

1123
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: thing of black people being the crime not fitting the time.

1124
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense to be expelled for just

1125
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 1: a disagree They could have reprimmended them, rolled them up, warning.

1126
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: I mean so many other things besides telling you to

1127
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: get out. I don't like how I mean they advocate

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01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 1: differently to me, Tammy, you know up there singing and

1129
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: Marley the King and you know, singing hymns. You know,

1130
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:07,919
Speaker 1: I don't like singing, so that's not my style of advocacy.

1131
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: But I still support, you know, them having a bullhorn.

1132
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: I just want people to be able to have a

1133
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: ball and from Marseille to them, and we gotta look

1134
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 1: at that and if we're helping, we'll be careful with

1135
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: you know what what we're what we're condoning here, because

1136
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: I just think that's a boomerang or Tammy, you wanted

1137
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: to say something bad, Yeah, my bad, I didn't know.

1138
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 1: I muted. Yeah, I'm I got a hot Marcel I

1139
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 1: followed you. Let's keep in touch. Test. Thank you, y'all,

1140
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: don't tear me up too bad while I'm going all right,

1141
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: hey by love BLA, thank you Tammy, and yeah. So

1142
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: my thing is this, we asked more of us time

1143
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: to run for off. It's because the reason they were

1144
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: able to get rid of these two black men. And

1145
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: like I said, whether I feel passionately about what they

1146
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: were advocating for or not, is because we were not

1147
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 1: the majority of When I say we, am, I not

1148
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: talk about black people because it's gonna been some black

1149
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 1: people voters to get them out of there too. I'm

1150
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: saying those of us who are on cold and who

1151
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: are for Black Americans getting what we'll do if the

1152
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 1: time comes, will we because y'all, like you said, you

1153
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: see how I go on this species. I go on

1154
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: this spaces and sometimes I have to be quote unquote

1155
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 1: disruptive because if I'm not like that, they're not going

1156
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: to pass the microphote to me because a lot of

1157
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: times they already know what I'm there to say. They

1158
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: already know when I go to these democratic events, they

1159
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 1: already know that I am not there to criticize the Republicans.

1160
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 1: Why I'm on the criticize the Republican a democratic event,

1161
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: we all already agree that the Republicans suck. I'm here

1162
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 1: as to call y'all or not being any better. I'm

1163
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: here to call y'all out on actually being worse because

1164
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: you're answer abusing your voters who are Black Americans, Black

1165
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:50,760
Speaker 1: Americans voters of Republicans. So sometimes when they try to

1166
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: ignore me, as you mentioned Raphael Warnock, that's when I

1167
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 1: have to make a phone. I have to be disruptive

1168
01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: on purpose if there's if they're like that and I'm

1169
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: not in office. Once I get in office and I

1170
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: can actually have a voice and make a difference, they're

1171
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 1: gonna try to weaponize these same things against me. But

1172
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: if we are the people who can make a vote

1173
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: was to expel me or not, then that's how we

1174
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: protect each other. So it comes down to us, like

1175
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 1: I've been begging us to do, one of us running

1176
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 1: for office, and I know all of us can't run office,

1177
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 1: and all of us don't have to. Both of us

1178
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: won't be able to anyway. Anyway, It's only to be

1179
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 1: a limited about the seats. But we need those who

1180
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: are running fasters, and we know to support those who

1181
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 1: are running fasfice. So that's that's really what this comes

1182
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 1: back down to. And if Tennessee, for example, if there

1183
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 1: were more people in office that we were, like you said,

1184
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: get into candidates in office, we would have people pushing

1185
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: our agenda. And I have the to have to be

1186
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 1: on those two black men, right, because let's let's let's

1187
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: let's make it easy. Since all the reparationists are listening,

1188
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: you know, all the scholars and read all the books

1189
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 1: and told me, let's let's let's ask let's not even

1190
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: talk about Tennessee. Who is running in California? That is

1191
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: where the hottest issue is right now, We're reparations, correct,

1192
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: That's where the most movement is happening. So who's running

1193
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 1: in California? You know, let's forget Tennessee since everybody's so

1194
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 1: motivated and own code about on colde about reparations. I

1195
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 1: ask again, who is running on the state level. It's

1196
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: always crickets when I ask that. So if marcell don't

1197
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: know who running, then that means a whole bunch of

1198
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: y'all don't know, because I trust Marcella to be in

1199
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: the know. So is it Marcella's supposed to move to California?

1200
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: Or what I've been saying this since the rally. Who

1201
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 1: is running in California? Everybody saying that, I say that

1202
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:50,440
Speaker 1: every single The only person I know is Prince one,

1203
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 1: who started the Freeman Party. Like he's been talking about it,

1204
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 1: but nothing's been here that's requested to talk. Let's ask ye, Prince,

1205
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: because let's get past talking. Let's let's get to some resolution.

1206
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 1: So Prince your own are are you running? Prince? Are

1207
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 1: you just been talking about it? I can't hear you, honey,

1208
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: speak of you far away? You sound real far away.

1209
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: That's probably because Twitter does denissism, Eric, and you a

1210
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: mute it. Now, why are you getting to figure out? Tesla?

1211
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: I say that, and you know I've spoken with on

1212
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: your wonderful assistant before, and I told her, you know,

1213
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I was asking you to

1214
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 1: come to South Carolina because I have the four point

1215
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 1: of society here and a lot of them. I'm motivated

1216
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 1: and energetic, but that's not going to and they loved

1217
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 1: my passion and they love the way I don't. But

1218
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 1: I told them nothing that it's going to hate to

1219
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 1: make a difference. When legislation is written and it's time

1220
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:53,040
Speaker 1: for a vote, we have to be the people in power,

1221
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm trying to get them here, because

1222
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 1: I'm not the one to train them. I've been telling people.

1223
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 1: I tell people that I'm blue in the face. We

1224
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 1: need to be running for office, and those of us

1225
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 1: who aren't running, we need to be vigorously supporting those

1226
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 1: running office. I say it until sometimes I'm mentally exhausted,

1227
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: and I almost get better seeing it and says seeming

1228
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 1: like people aren't buiting and like you said too, and

1229
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: I can tell you, I just need to tweet today

1230
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 1: seeing how I need more black men Harry in South

1231
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 1: Carolina to show up. And don't get me wrong, some

1232
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:25,400
Speaker 1: do show up, and I'm a la Eric has his

1233
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 1: handback up. Some do show up, but most of the

1234
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,040
Speaker 1: time testing when I'm on the ground, it's black woman

1235
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 1: who are around me, older black women, younger black woman,

1236
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 1: and I need more black men to be with me.

1237
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 1: I need that. So sometimes I get frustrated because I

1238
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: don't know what more I can do to help people

1239
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 1: where you can't. You can't when I told you can't,

1240
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: get you can't do no more. You know, and I've

1241
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: told you multiple times, you know. I think you spend

1242
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 1: a lot of time a lot of time, you know,

1243
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:55,479
Speaker 1: trying to get folks to get it, and I would

1244
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 1: rather you use that energy, you know, talking to your

1245
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:01,480
Speaker 1: actual voters. Or I think you are an ideal part

1246
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 1: if if I'm not discouraging you from running for office,

1247
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: but I think you would be a fantastic leader of

1248
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: a pack that actually educates and advocates and does that

1249
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 1: on a national level. And that's not discourage you from running.

1250
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: But your passion definitely is in, you know, educating the masses,

1251
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 1: and I think you spend an absorbent amount of time,

1252
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 1: you know, talking to people that can't vote you in

1253
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 1: and and candidates have to be talking to knocking on

1254
01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: doors to people that can both end in. And I'll

1255
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: say this, as far as the training is concerned, I said,

1256
01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: to South Carolina or any other state, I just canceled Chicago,

1257
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 1: and just cancel New York. If people can get fifteen

1258
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 1: people in the room, they do have to pay for

1259
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 1: the fee. I've made it very reasonable, five courses for

1260
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars. Because I can't just take

1261
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 1: money out of my own account to go to every

1262
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 1: single state, you know, I offered it free for three

1263
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:56,959
Speaker 1: hundred plus people in UM in September. I don't want

1264
01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,160
Speaker 1: people donating to me because I don't I'm not to

1265
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:03,600
Speaker 1: get caught up in these griftin conversations. The class is

1266
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars for five courses. You get

1267
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 1: one eight hour course one on one, and then four

1268
01:08:09,840 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: more with your class us all together, just me as

1269
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: the trainer and if people can get and you get

1270
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: a notebook with that, If people can get fifteen people

1271
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 1: in the room, then I'll come. But if people can't

1272
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 1: get fifteen people in the room, then I can't come.

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01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:24,680
Speaker 1: So that's any state, any state. You know. All of

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01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:26,360
Speaker 1: them say they want to come ourselves till the psalm

1275
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: has come. So they all say, but I'm I have

1276
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 1: to direct my energy to people that you know, that

1277
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 1: are interested in and moving the ball. So it's not

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01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 1: that I won't come to South Carolina or ten buck two,

1279
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 1: but if people can't and then when people tell me, well,

1280
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 1: I don't know who to ask, well you got to

1281
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 1: start learning how to organize. That's step step one. Being

1282
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: able to get five people in the room at best.

1283
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:48,880
Speaker 1: If if you can't get two or three people in

1284
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 1: the room, then we a class ain't gonna help you

1285
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: because that means you don't know how to organize. So

1286
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: people got to learn how to organize to get people

1287
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:57,639
Speaker 1: in you know, galvanize to get people in the room.

1288
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 1: So I'm available to go anywhere people want me to go.

1289
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:03,719
Speaker 1: But you get fifteen, I'll get the other fifteen because

1290
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 1: we really need thirty people in the class to be

1291
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 1: able to afford most spaces are a thousand dollars twelve hundred,

1292
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: you know, something like that. And then obviously you know

1293
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: I have to come then and get a hotel. Things

1294
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: like that. Nobody's coming up off anything. Just for clarity,

1295
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:17,720
Speaker 1: my rate is two hundred and fifty dollars an hour

1296
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:21,760
Speaker 1: an hour, so this is certainly not This ain't to

1297
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 1: come up. But I'm willing to do it. But if

1298
01:09:24,439 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: people don't want to do it, then you know, hey,

1299
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: what more can I do? Because I trained people every

1300
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:31,799
Speaker 1: day in my business, I've offered it to the public.

1301
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 1: I tried to do virtual online. That didn't work. We

1302
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: had all types of trolls in the class. And when

1303
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 1: I did do it for free, we had people popping

1304
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 1: up and look in and on aging patrol or patrol

1305
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: or whatever this shit is or whatever, going back and

1306
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 1: I saw this and saw it, you know, and I

1307
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:52,639
Speaker 1: it need to be thirty people in the room that's

1308
01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: serious about wanting the tools that you need. I don't

1309
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 1: push an agenda. I don't tell you to push reparation

1310
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: and self care reform or anything else. I just give

1311
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 1: you the basic framework that you need so that you

1312
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 1: can be a candidate and operative or an organizer. So

1313
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:10,719
Speaker 1: I'll go to any state, Marcelle. But I definitely have fifteen. Um, well,

1314
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 1: you know, I have fifteen who told me that will

1315
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:15,680
Speaker 1: into I was telling them that we were going to

1316
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 1: offer you something, and I gave them, you know, before

1317
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: I actually spoke to you, and I gave them a

1318
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 1: certain amount retire that what you said is just to

1319
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: feed you whatever. And so I can definitely have fifteen

1320
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 1: and we can talk behind the scenes, because I've told

1321
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 1: people who aren't a part of the four point of

1322
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:33,559
Speaker 1: Society about it as well, just to make sure I

1323
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:36,360
Speaker 1: have enough people. It's better to have too many than

1324
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:39,479
Speaker 1: not enough, so we can talk behind the appreciate that.

1325
01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:41,680
Speaker 1: And some people have said, hey, we'll don't maake x

1326
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,280
Speaker 1: y z oh, no, no, y'all. Enough. It's been making

1327
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 1: YouTube videos about me doing no damn griffin. Oh no

1328
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 1: suck Number one. I have a for profit business. It's

1329
01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: called Teslam Figure Communications Group. I have a master's in

1330
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 1: adult education to teach at the collegiate level. And you

1331
01:10:57,479 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 1: are paying for a class, just like if you went

1332
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:01,680
Speaker 1: down to pay or a cooking class or something like that,

1333
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 1: and you get five courses with that class. So it

1334
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: ain't no grifting. It ain't no come up, it ain't

1335
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 1: no do it because we need to do it, and

1336
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get no. You get a class in return,

1337
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,920
Speaker 1: five classes actually in return, like if you pay for

1338
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: just a community college class. I don't want your damn donations.

1339
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 1: I don't want your hell. I appreciate it, but old no,

1340
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 1: y'all know off its to be making video at the

1341
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:26,280
Speaker 1: video at the video about me doing no damn grifting

1342
01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:28,760
Speaker 1: because I run a four profit. So let's be clear.

1343
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: I pay my taxes, I pay my bid you. Every

1344
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:33,280
Speaker 1: time you give something to me, you're getting something many change.

1345
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:35,519
Speaker 1: If people want to support me, great, buy a T shirt.

1346
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:37,479
Speaker 1: But what you're not gonna do. I don't want no

1347
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 1: donations from y'all because you're not gonna be sitting up

1348
01:11:40,479 --> 01:11:42,840
Speaker 1: doing back to back to back to back videos about

1349
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: who's grifting and who ain't grifting. So that's just what

1350
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 1: it is, and it's no less, no more. The reason

1351
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 1: why I say one hundred and fifty because that's again,

1352
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,960
Speaker 1: you know, five classes and paying thirty some dollars. You

1353
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: don't pay class, but it really should be two fifty

1354
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 1: an hour, just to be clear. And that's just to

1355
01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 1: make sure that I have enough to cover the room,

1356
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 1: you know, and travel or you know, and the notebooks

1357
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 1: and stuff that you get, you know, while while you're there.

1358
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 1: So it's just enough that I'm not going broke, because

1359
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go broke behind y'all, and you

1360
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:19,920
Speaker 1: know that's that. Yeah, I would definitely love to have

1361
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:21,760
Speaker 1: you try to find I could definitely try to put

1362
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 1: together fifteen people and try to have you on it

1363
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 1: with an event. That would be awesome. And then I'm

1364
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 1: in California and I'm right now, I'm applying to be

1365
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 1: on the SF task for US there's a vacancy, and

1366
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:38,760
Speaker 1: then I'm running for either US House or US in

1367
01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:42,920
Speaker 1: it in California. Okay, let's let's stop right there. We

1368
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 1: got enough with US and US and that ain't what

1369
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 1: it is, and I'm not being rude, I'm just being

1370
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 1: what it is. I know people are attracted to these congresses.

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01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 1: I understand that that is where everybody across the board

1372
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: gets federal reparations. Right now, the most movement you have

1373
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:02,439
Speaker 1: is at the state level. So again, at the state level,

1374
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 1: at the state assembly level. Who is going to run

1375
01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:08,080
Speaker 1: in California. This task force that you're talking about, that's

1376
01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:10,599
Speaker 1: not going to US Senate and US Congress. That's going

1377
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 1: to the state Assembly. So if you're thinking about running

1378
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: for Congress, then once again, we don't have nobody who's

1379
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 1: running at the state level. So that's where the Freeman

1380
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: Party comes in. We have and thank you munch of

1381
01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:25,200
Speaker 1: feedback on this when you have some time. We developed

1382
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 1: the candidate boot Camp as well, and part of that

1383
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 1: goal is to have more candidates running on the local,

1384
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: state and federal level in different states and obviously around

1385
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 1: the country. Okay, so so to bottom line it, nobody's

1386
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 1: running on the state level in California. Correct. Actually, I'm sorry, Eric,

1387
01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:49,760
Speaker 1: there's actually a candidate right now, Tezan who's in the room.

1388
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if you see, and I can I

1389
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:55,800
Speaker 1: can vout for him. He's actually in office in California

1390
01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: and he's going to be running again, and he ran

1391
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 1: as a Republican, had a reparation platform. Um, his name

1392
01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 1: is Brian Hawkins. I'm not sure if you see him.

1393
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:08,439
Speaker 1: Is he running on the state level, Yes, he's running

1394
01:14:08,439 --> 01:14:10,560
Speaker 1: on the state level. He's well, he's on he's in

1395
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:14,800
Speaker 1: office right now on the state level as a Democratic Republican.

1396
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: I think he was running as a Republican, but I

1397
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:20,240
Speaker 1: think he's always running as a Republican. Is he gonna

1398
01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 1: be supporting reparations? As he ran on the federal level

1399
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 1: and had a reparations platform, but the Republican Party knows

1400
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:31,520
Speaker 1: he's supports reparations. That caused a little bit of a backlash,

1401
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:33,640
Speaker 1: but he still got the votes from the people. So

1402
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:36,240
Speaker 1: I told him, who cares what the Republican Party thinks,

1403
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:39,719
Speaker 1: It's what the Republican voters think. And they still voted

1404
01:14:39,720 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 1: for you. So that's actually remarkable to me. So I

1405
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:45,679
Speaker 1: think he's trying to come up um. And he also

1406
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:48,640
Speaker 1: is recruiting other people to run as well. And I

1407
01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:51,719
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw that video where some white

1408
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,559
Speaker 1: punk was trying to fight a little black girl and

1409
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,680
Speaker 1: the guy's a black guy like back the ball. But

1410
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:00,240
Speaker 1: that was sim If you saw that video, QUI seeing

1411
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 1: so many, you'd have to send it back for a

1412
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 1: lot of them. But so before we bring them up,

1413
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 1: I just want to just reiterate again for everybody in

1414
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 1: the room, and thank you Prince for speaking up to

1415
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:10,880
Speaker 1: see that's what I'm talking about, Marcella. Every time I

1416
01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 1: say to state and local level, the answer is US

1417
01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: House in US Senate. And again I'm not against that.

1418
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: That is a highest hill to climb. And I'm not

1419
01:15:19,439 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 1: saying that Marcella shouldn't run for Congress and that y'all

1420
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 1: shouldn't run for Congress. But all of this, I'm gonna

1421
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:26,640
Speaker 1: be running for president United States. I haven't lost a

1422
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:29,320
Speaker 1: race less yet that I've been a part of, and

1423
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that to be funny or be voteful.

1424
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 1: At some point somebody got to run for some seats

1425
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: that you can actually win. These two representatives in Tennessee,

1426
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:40,679
Speaker 1: one of them, I believe, got in with twelve hundred votes.

1427
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:43,960
Speaker 1: Most a lot of high school graduating classes are two

1428
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: hundred people, three hundred people. You can get in these

1429
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:48,960
Speaker 1: seats with two or three high schools. At some point,

1430
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: somebody got to run for something that is a little

1431
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 1: bit more attainable then trying to change an entire district

1432
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: of hundreds of thousands of people. It's great to have it,

1433
01:15:57,560 --> 01:15:59,599
Speaker 1: Congress is great, but at the end of the day,

1434
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 1: that is where the most power lines. Yes, the biggest budget.

1435
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 1: Yes you can make change, but you will be up

1436
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 1: there fighting two hundred and something people versus city commissioner.

1437
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:10,160
Speaker 1: The power that's happening next week to decide if these

1438
01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 1: brothers go back to their seat, that's gonna be among

1439
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 1: less than ten people. So I'm asking where is the

1440
01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: power on the local and the state level, And if

1441
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: the answer is always US Congress and US Senate, you're

1442
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:24,760
Speaker 1: that's far removed from the state level, where the reparations

1443
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 1: movement that you're seeing is happening on the city and

1444
01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 1: the state level. That's what's happened in San Francisco, that's

1445
01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 1: what's happening in California, That's what's happening in all of

1446
01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 1: these states that I see y'all charming in on talking

1447
01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:37,559
Speaker 1: about if the plan is good, if the plan ain't good,

1448
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:39,479
Speaker 1: if they should that this that that's all on the

1449
01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:42,680
Speaker 1: state and local level, And the answer is still who

1450
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 1: is running on the state and local level? And Marcella

1451
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: want to run for Congress, that's fine, but some of

1452
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 1: y'all need to run for some of these states that

1453
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 1: you know that actually that I look at all the

1454
01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:59,320
Speaker 1: energy on Twitter, all the money raised on Twitter, all

1455
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:02,519
Speaker 1: of the the new black media, all of this. Where

1456
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:05,120
Speaker 1: is all of that synergy behind one person is running

1457
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:07,639
Speaker 1: for the state assembly? For all of these comments y'all

1458
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: been putting at the task force, Where where is behind

1459
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: that one candidate that you know has your vote on

1460
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 1: the state level, not then to do it, gonna do it,

1461
01:17:18,240 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: thinking about doing it, who is actually doing it? Yeah,

1462
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:26,639
Speaker 1: you're making a great point, becausin during reconstruction, there's two

1463
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 1: thousand freeman intellected office, so not all of them were

1464
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: in Congress or anything like that. Right, So people are

1465
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:38,679
Speaker 1: on the local state level, people are sharfives, you know, judges,

1466
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:41,640
Speaker 1: things like that. Well, that's what the most power is.

1467
01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:45,640
Speaker 1: And so I'm the federal level. I'm over it. You know.

1468
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: It's great for conversation, it's grateful. I do think people

1469
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: need to do stuff on Congress. But what I know

1470
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:53,759
Speaker 1: about Congress people they got to listen to their state reps.

1471
01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: They have to listen to their state senator on Tomba US.

1472
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 1: They got to listen to their city commissioner. That is

1473
01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 1: where the power is, the bag is at the local level.

1474
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:03,439
Speaker 1: I do want to encourage y'all to go back I

1475
01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 1: enter when I interview Eric Mays. I mean, if y'all

1476
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:08,759
Speaker 1: have been sharing a lot of Eric Mays Flint councilman,

1477
01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 1: go listen to the interview that I did with him

1478
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and how he's been able

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Speaker 1: to stay in that seat raising all that hell for

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Speaker 1: the last decade, and the amount of money, billions of

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Speaker 1: dollars that he's been able to give out in his city.

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Speaker 1: You can make change on the local level, so until

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Speaker 1: the federal government figures it out, until the federal government

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Speaker 1: decide what they're gonna do for reparations, how about somebody

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Speaker 1: run for the city commissioner and you still got about

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Speaker 1: thirty million that you can still give to the hood,

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Speaker 1: that you can still take care of somebody's housing, that

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Speaker 1: you can still if you want to wrap it in

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Speaker 1: a bowl and not call a reparations, call a reparation,

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Speaker 1: will pass out a check whatever you want to when

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Speaker 1: Kemp when Governor Kimp. One reason he was able to

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Speaker 1: beat Stacey Abram's, contrary to popular belief, is because he

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Speaker 1: passed out a KIMP card all throughout the state of

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Speaker 1: Georgia when everybody else was struggling. He passed out a

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Speaker 1: debit card with money on that card, and every time

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Speaker 1: people went to make a payment, they swiped the Kimp card.

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Speaker 1: If you want to, if you want to, go run

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Speaker 1: the local office and call it the figural card, where

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Speaker 1: everybody get X amount and let it be whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to rename it. That is where power is at

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Speaker 1: the local level. You don't have to beg two hundred

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01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 1: people to get in line. At best, maybe your mayor

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Speaker 1: or two or three other people. That's where the power is.

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Speaker 1: So while you're waiting on the federal government get together,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot that you could be doing to change

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Speaker 1: your community right now. And the issues that people talk

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Speaker 1: about housing, criminal justice, people being able to afford rent,

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01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 1: people being able to afford gas, all of those things

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Speaker 1: happen at the state and local level, and that's being

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Speaker 1: missed in this larger federal conversation. I know federal is

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Speaker 1: much more sexy, but that's not where the power is, guys.

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Speaker 1: It's just not That's not where the power is. It's

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Speaker 1: on the state and local level. You just don't get

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Speaker 1: to shine and the attention. But that's where the power is. Danny.

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Speaker 1: I see you on to come up and then and

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Speaker 1: then let me say this before you say speak. Danny.

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Speaker 1: You know I say this and I have to say it,

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Speaker 1: you know, every time I get in Twitter space, because again,

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Speaker 1: I know so many of you are passionate about reparations.

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Speaker 1: You know, cut the check, cut the check, cut the check,

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Speaker 1: cut the check. And I want to remind you that

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Speaker 1: even if somebody cut you a check tomorrow for five

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Speaker 1: million dollars and I support that, cut the check, the

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Speaker 1: check can't get no higher. I'm all with that. I

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Speaker 1: want to remind you that no matter how big the

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Speaker 1: check is, you're not going to become the pharmaceutical company

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01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: and we still get charged more for diabetes. You're not

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Speaker 1: going to become the healthcare industry. Five million dollars. It's

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Speaker 1: not gonna buy you a healthcare industry. Even if we

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Speaker 1: pulled all of our five million of dollars five million together,

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Speaker 1: you're still gonna have to operate within the healthcare system

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Speaker 1: that discriminates against black people. You're not going to become

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Speaker 1: the criminal justice system. So we're still gonna have to

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Speaker 1: have judges who are elected by the way, sharers who

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01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:08,759
Speaker 1: are elected in most cities by the way, state attorneys

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Speaker 1: that are elected everywhere by the way, district attorneys by

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Speaker 1: the way. They give us more time and make us

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Speaker 1: take plea deals. You're not going to become the criminal

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Speaker 1: justice system. You're not going to become the banking system.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to become the treasury system, the US

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Speaker 1: Department of Treasury. You are still going to have to

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Speaker 1: operate within this system. If you take your five million

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Speaker 1: and you say I'm just gonna do for self and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get a business, well, guess what. In

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Speaker 1: order to get a business, you're going to have to

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Speaker 1: deal with the property appraiser that is an elected position

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01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:38,719
Speaker 1: in order to know where you can get that business

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01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 1: put up in the zoning. Guess what. The city commissioner,

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Speaker 1: the county commissioner decide what business goes where. They decide

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Speaker 1: what the taxes will be. They decide if you can

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Speaker 1: have a nail shop next to a a restaurant, because

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Speaker 1: maybe the zoning is not accurate. Guess what else you

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Speaker 1: came by with the chech You came by a school system, Chael,

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna have self to still operate within the

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Speaker 1: school system. You are going to have to operate within

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Speaker 1: this system. I'm all about due for self. I'm all

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Speaker 1: about fuck the government. We don't need them. But at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, the government is still going

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01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,920
Speaker 1: to be there. And I want you to have stake

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01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 1: in the game. And money is not going to buy

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01:22:19,280 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: a system. So it's two fold. Get the check and

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Speaker 1: also how do you play the game in the system

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01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:29,280
Speaker 1: in the cars that we've been dealt And the only

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01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 1: way to do that is to get power in the

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Speaker 1: system on every level, on every level, every level. If

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Speaker 1: you like what you heard on Straight Shot No Chaser,

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01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:41,120
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01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:43,439
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