Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what's going on, y'all. And I'm Tamika D.
Speaker 1: Mallory and this is Street Politicians, the place where the
Speaker 1: streets and politics meet. I am so, so, so so
Speaker 1: excited that today is our first day, our launch for
Speaker 1: Street Politicians on the Black Effect Network. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Solomon Guards our black black black black black black. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's ought boss. He's a partner. Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: It's a partner. He's kind of boss. We respected. Listen
Speaker 1: to me. I don't mind working for another black man.
Speaker 1: A black man gonna work for me eventually, because they
Speaker 1: all kim folks ain't just I mean, excuse me, all
Speaker 1: skin folks. Ain't your kim folks. That's so Listen, we're
Speaker 1: celebrating this our first episode. We got we got our champagne.
Speaker 1: Weren't promoting who it is because they didn't give us
Speaker 1: no check yet. But we're gonna pop this. Look, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be with people's eyes and you know, look, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get this together. Look, we don't got no champagne glasses.
Speaker 1: Week from the Hood. From the Hood. We got a
Speaker 1: little little red cups that you probably he brought these,
Speaker 1: say't even the real red cups. These is the coffee cups.
Speaker 1: But we're good with it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We got that's all it is. It's about a drink man.
Speaker 1: We're gonna toast for our first episode on the Black
Speaker 1: Effect Network Heart Radio. Charlomagne and Guard thank you for
Speaker 1: having us playing the beat in the Hall of Fame soon.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna toast that. Let's toast the Hold of Fame, Bobs,
Speaker 1: Hold of Fame, Bobs Tree Politicians, Let's go cheers. You
Speaker 1: know you have to think about or it has been
Speaker 1: your journey that I've kind of just been going along
Speaker 1: with because nobody has that podcast. We're gonna be really
Speaker 1: really but three four years and you said we need
Speaker 1: to start something. We came up with the name Street Politicians.
Speaker 1: I think I came up with this name you came
Speaker 1: up with until you cameians. Definitely came definitely. Listen, no man,
Speaker 1: she came up with the logo we have, but the
Speaker 1: name was no way I came with definitely. I know
Speaker 1: I came up with it, but he says he came
Speaker 1: up with it definitely. But anyway, Street Politicians is a
Speaker 1: baby of my songs where a few years back, you
Speaker 1: were like, Yo, podcasts are gonna be the thing. It's
Speaker 1: going to be how we get information to our communities.
Speaker 1: It's it's a trend. It's something that we need to
Speaker 1: jump on. And you know, I don't really like cameras,
Speaker 1: as you know, it's not my thing. People see me
Speaker 1: on cameras all the time. I probably think I'm super
Speaker 1: duper comfortable, but I'm not. I'm pretty much like to
Speaker 1: just be easy and not have all of the attention.
Speaker 1: But you know, I didn't really necessarily see it at
Speaker 1: the time. But then as time has gone on and
Speaker 1: I listened to other really important podcasts, and it actually
Speaker 1: helps to inform a lot of our strategy and thought
Speaker 1: processes about what's going on in the movement. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, you're right, and there were a lot
Speaker 1: of people who believed in us that we need to
Speaker 1: give a lot of credit to. One is our producer,
Speaker 1: the executive executive put the executive Kathleen Trigger. If you
Speaker 1: don't know where, you need to look her up. She
Speaker 1: is the founder of cat Scape Productions also I Woman TV.
Speaker 1: She works with an incredible team that is led by
Speaker 1: the creative director Janice Rodriguez. She's a legend. They are
Speaker 1: a legend, legend, legend, and they really did believe in
Speaker 1: street politicians and helped us to get started. That's when
Speaker 1: we took from day one and we had we used
Speaker 1: to just argue all the time to a good argument, definitely,
Speaker 1: because right in fact, our first promo was I don't agree.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with you, I don't agree. We said
Speaker 1: it so many times that they were able to capture
Speaker 1: it and put it in a promo. A fact, but
Speaker 1: I think we found we find a common ground, you know,
Speaker 1: and we're growing in our you know, into our voices,
Speaker 1: into our platform. So you know, once again, let's toast again,
Speaker 1: Toast again Politicians episode. So it's so much going on
Speaker 1: in the world, Like, what are we talking about today?
Speaker 1: What's our topic today? There's a lot to talk about.
Speaker 1: But the first thing we're gonna do is get rid
Speaker 1: of the hood remix situation you've got going on here
Speaker 1: with the rare cuffs. It was no I was cute,
Speaker 1: but I can't stay Sorry, sorry can I was having
Speaker 1: a good time. I'm ratchet, Like nobody says you can't
Speaker 1: just good time. But we're not. First of all, you said,
Speaker 1: it's a celebration. It is a selling Christian but it'll
Speaker 1: be done in a different way at a different time.
Speaker 1: But then and we have to have Charlemagne to come
Speaker 1: up here and something definitely got to celebrate with us.
Speaker 1: We gotta interview him, We gotta pick his mind, the
Speaker 1: mind of the genius. What was his vision behind the
Speaker 1: black what I'm saying, we even talking so much about
Speaker 1: black Andy Black, and you know, I think this year
Speaker 1: with the whole Black Lives Matter, everyone is interested in
Speaker 1: what's going on black dogs, and I think it was
Speaker 1: so genius of him to just capture this moment and
Speaker 1: create a network that really speaks our voice and talks
Speaker 1: about our culture and has different representation of us in
Speaker 1: all facets and oil it does. So you have like
Speaker 1: Teslin Black, what is it with no chaser or straight
Speaker 1: no chase, straight no chaser, And that's exactly who she is, absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and so many other voices on the network that's given,
Speaker 1: like you said, different perspectives to what it means to
Speaker 1: be black, Andy Black, Black and different friend but also
Speaker 1: everyone dealing with serious issues in their own way, even
Speaker 1: the comedic side of the network where you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear different people. I mean, what's her name, jes hilarious.
Speaker 1: She's hilarious, but she does talk about important issues. Um,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's just the place that black
Speaker 1: folks are going to finally find our voices again because
Speaker 1: we've lost so much of black media, We've lost so
Speaker 1: many opportunities to tell our own narratives, to share our
Speaker 1: own stories. And I think that the Black Effect Network
Speaker 1: gives us that ability again. I am super, super humble
Speaker 1: and honored to be a part of it. So, you know,
Speaker 1: thinking ling Lane, now, you said, what's going on? So
Speaker 1: what's going on in the world. There's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: We had an election. We just you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: we got a whole new thing right now. We we
Speaker 1: hope listen, we are hopeful. You know. We believe that
Speaker 1: different means something that's gonna push us forward. That's that's
Speaker 1: how we go. Well. I produced a catch. Rig who
Speaker 1: used to work with Joe Biden, believes that something different
Speaker 1: it's going to happen. Believe that cats amen, she said
Speaker 1: amen amen. That was a black woman's amen. Amen. It's
Speaker 1: not like amen amen amen. So you know, um, I
Speaker 1: hope it it's a new day. I think it's a
Speaker 1: new day in terms of getting rid of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: for sure, because that just wasn't gonna work. For the
Speaker 1: four years we had was such so atrocious to me,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just so I think just when you
Speaker 1: look at this election, for me, right, I think I
Speaker 1: was so just disappointed in the amount of people who
Speaker 1: voted for him, you know, to notice that after the
Speaker 1: four years that he did for this country and the
Speaker 1: poor fashion in which she represented, Like, I just think,
Speaker 1: for me, there has to be some level of presidentialness,
Speaker 1: you know, some decorum, some class, some tact you know,
Speaker 1: and he lacked all of those things or so many
Speaker 1: different levels. And it's just like, it wasn't the representation
Speaker 1: that you like, he shouldn't even be the president of
Speaker 1: a junior high school class, let alone in free world.
Speaker 1: He just wasn't. He just he bought the worst out
Speaker 1: of us as a nation. I think the worst of
Speaker 1: us was on display, and he gave people who sort
Speaker 1: of live in that dark space an opportunity to come forward.
Speaker 1: It's not that racism didn't exist. We know racism exists,
Speaker 1: it always will. But what he did was emboldened people
Speaker 1: and gave them the opportunity to come out and say hey,
Speaker 1: I'm here, whereas before we had them where they had
Speaker 1: to be closeted racist. Now I get that there are
Speaker 1: some who say, we would prefer to know who an
Speaker 1: individual is, like we want to be able to see
Speaker 1: them and say, okay, I have identified that you're my enemy.
Speaker 1: And that makes sense except that these individuals are actually
Speaker 1: killing people. They're actually in charge of, you know, human
Speaker 1: resources departments. They might be your dentists, they might be
Speaker 1: your child's teacher, and so they need to have to
Speaker 1: be closeted with their behavior. We should not allow it
Speaker 1: to just be full fledged. Just everybody go out and
Speaker 1: be as racist as we want to be. Racism should
Speaker 1: never feel comfortable, not think. For me, which I continuously say,
Speaker 1: is that it was more than racism. For me, it
Speaker 1: was white supremacy. It was it was and it was
Speaker 1: implementation and embolderness and and you know, and just pretty
Speaker 1: much normalizing white supremacy. It wasn't just because racism exists,
Speaker 1: Like I don't believe that most people that come from different,
Speaker 1: you know, backgrounds, there is either bias and we call
Speaker 1: it bias in our communities because we don't have the
Speaker 1: power to impose racism to affect your bottom line, you know.
Speaker 1: So we know that because we've heard different things, we
Speaker 1: have different experiences. I don't believe that not out of
Speaker 1: ten seventy year old white men don't have a level
Speaker 1: of racism. Even with Joe Biden, I believe there's racing.
Speaker 1: If you heard things he said. There's ignorance and racism
Speaker 1: that just comes from the upbringing that you have, you know,
Speaker 1: but there's also a willingness to try to identifying and
Speaker 1: understand why it's racist, to listen and sit down with
Speaker 1: other people from different ethnicities and say, okay, I understand why.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize what I was saying was racist. I
Speaker 1: just was told us something. But Donald Trump was living
Speaker 1: in that. He was he was he was doubling and
Speaker 1: tripling down on that. He was making people who normally
Speaker 1: didn't even feel comfortable saying, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk as crazy as to you as possible. Karen's were
Speaker 1: at an all time high. Kins were at a whole
Speaker 1: time high. It just was at it was just that,
Speaker 1: you know, they had their four years. If you were
Speaker 1: one of those people that's like, I need to learn
Speaker 1: who the races are around me. I want everybody to
Speaker 1: be exposed. They're exposed. You learned. Now you know, you've
Speaker 1: been able to identify them. It's time for us to
Speaker 1: get in a place where we could go back to
Speaker 1: fighting without having to also fight fascism and dictatorship, because
Speaker 1: that's the thing that's that's that's actually the larger framework.
Speaker 1: We've always been fighting the oppression of black and brown people.
Speaker 1: We've always been fighting institutions that have you know that
Speaker 1: white supremacy is ingrained in the way in which they operate.
Speaker 1: That's something we've always been dealing with, and it's going
Speaker 1: to take us a while. Like it's now four hundred
Speaker 1: plus years. Some people say four hundred and two years
Speaker 1: or four hundred one year, four hundred one years, and
Speaker 1: then there are other people that count other parts of
Speaker 1: our history where we were even captured in Africa, um
Speaker 1: and then the journey towards enslavement, and so they say
Speaker 1: that's about four hundred and sixty five years. So it
Speaker 1: depends on where you are in terms of your understanding
Speaker 1: as a historian. But the bottom line is that for
Speaker 1: more than four hundred years, we've been dealing with these
Speaker 1: oppressive systems, and there's no one president, one organization, one movement,
Speaker 1: one era that will change that and turn back the
Speaker 1: entire clock and just spontaneously we live in this fair
Speaker 1: and equitable world. You know, that's not really the case.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to fight. But we were fighting not
Speaker 1: just the institutional issues, but we were also fighting a fascist,
Speaker 1: someone who wanted to be a dictator and was really
Speaker 1: moving towards creating a government that would allow him to
Speaker 1: be a dictator by doing things like well, first of all,
Speaker 1: controlling the Senate, right which we know every time something
Speaker 1: happened that we wanted our government, the local officials who
Speaker 1: are in the federal government to fight against or to
Speaker 1: stand against. They are unable to win because we're dealing
Speaker 1: with the Senate that backs up the white supremacy that's
Speaker 1: happening within, you know, within our government. Then beyond that,
Speaker 1: they were putting judges over three hundred judges in place
Speaker 1: in the federal courts across this country that are conservative
Speaker 1: judges who you know, Lee married attorney Lee Merrit, who
Speaker 1: we have to have on one days as a guest.
Speaker 1: I called him just to check on him a few
Speaker 1: days ago ahead and talked to him in a while,
Speaker 1: and he answered the phone so frustrated, like, Tamika, you
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on in these courts with these
Speaker 1: conservative judges. Y'all don't get to see that because you're
Speaker 1: not in the court. You're not fighting these cases. But
Speaker 1: as attorneys, we're up against a real serious problem in
Speaker 1: terms of going in these courts and seeing how the
Speaker 1: judges are ruling. So there's stuff that's going on that
Speaker 1: people who were like, Oh, I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump.
Speaker 1: That's your god boding different. That's what they were saying.
Speaker 1: And but those people who say that, they also don't
Speaker 1: understand this man was And then we have to talk
Speaker 1: about the Supreme Court, which pisces me off. But the
Speaker 1: Democrats strategy was basically, well, we just hope Ruth Bedegainsberg
Speaker 1: lives until Trump is out of office. It wasn't a
Speaker 1: successful It was not because she just and and listen,
Speaker 1: shout out. She held She held on as long as
Speaker 1: she could. Days She's held on. She gave me days,
Speaker 1: she gave them years of everything. She fell out in
Speaker 1: her office. She had cancer, she had all kinds of
Speaker 1: medical issues, and she kept bouncing back. She wouldn't even
Speaker 1: sometimes stay out for weeks, like after she was really ill,
Speaker 1: she kept coming back to work. And on her deathbed,
Speaker 1: when asked by her grandchildren, I be what her last
Speaker 1: wishes were, she said she liked to see Donald Trump
Speaker 1: be removed from office before she passed away. And so
Speaker 1: that that may not have happened exactly at the time
Speaker 1: that she passed away or when she passed, but certainly
Speaker 1: we were able to put the work in to give
Speaker 1: her the gift of life in her passing. You know,
Speaker 1: when we look at when we look at the post election,
Speaker 1: and we just look at the tension that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has had by losing, you know now and all it's been,
Speaker 1: you know, official that he's lost in these states and
Speaker 1: he's still unwilling to concede. Just just it's just that's
Speaker 1: just so shows to the character. You know. It's it's
Speaker 1: just like you lost, you lost. You gotta do like
Speaker 1: wi and them when they always tweet back, like girl,
Speaker 1: if you don't sit, it's just like it's over. Like Trump,
Speaker 1: you lost, you know you would there, you lost, man,
Speaker 1: it was you gave a good fight. You actually gets
Speaker 1: he lost, but with the same electoral votes you. You
Speaker 1: ain't want to go to the Supreme Court. You ain't
Speaker 1: want you don't want to talk about none of that
Speaker 1: Russia involved you. You said that people was crazy. So
Speaker 1: it's like you, every time you look at what he does,
Speaker 1: it shows you more and more. You know, we're dealing
Speaker 1: with a global pandemic in which he refused to act
Speaker 1: on that people are dying because we're dealing with, you know,
Speaker 1: health issues and financial issues in this country that he
Speaker 1: pretty much caused, you know, and and to not be
Speaker 1: able to just concede as a man and say lost
Speaker 1: as a man, you know. And then they had this march,
Speaker 1: you know, they had this million Maga marks march that
Speaker 1: you know that people got hurt. People definitely got hurt.
Speaker 1: I hurt, even people got stabbed, I mean, and there,
Speaker 1: and they were so against the marches that black and
Speaker 1: brown folks were holding all summer. They were and not
Speaker 1: just black and brown folks, people are allies supporters, everyone
Speaker 1: who was down with the movement, the Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: movement held marches where some of it did turn violent, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I was watching Fox News the other thing,
Speaker 1: because you know, I watched Fox News. It's a shameless thing,
Speaker 1: but I have to because we gotta know what's going on.
Speaker 1: Um And I was watching the other day and they
Speaker 1: were like, you know, talking about well they were saying basically,
Speaker 1: we can have marches and there won't there will not
Speaker 1: be people there to destroy people who are destructive, which
Speaker 1: we know that that's not true, but that's what they said.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, you know why the destructive
Speaker 1: people are not there because they were read at our
Speaker 1: march destroying you know, the destroying things to try to
Speaker 1: take the storyline away from the Black Lives Matter issue
Speaker 1: and to turn it towards looting and violence. Like we
Speaker 1: know what happens. We know that a lot of times
Speaker 1: the individual wols who come out who are destructive during
Speaker 1: these marches are people who want are you know some
Speaker 1: that you know, the superwolkes. We got the Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: definitely got the Super Bow. Those are people where I
Speaker 1: ain't a lot. There are people they super work. They're
Speaker 1: so mad that they they're they're more upset than the
Speaker 1: families of those people who actually whose lives have actually
Speaker 1: been taken. Those are the superwolkes. So we have to
Speaker 1: work on them all the time, and a lot of
Speaker 1: times they are white people that we have to talk
Speaker 1: to and bring them in, but they are there for
Speaker 1: some of the right reasons. Then you have those those
Speaker 1: coin tel pro folks, and that's an important present. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're and they're dangerous because they get people hurt. And
Speaker 1: again their job is to destroy, to try to shift
Speaker 1: the narrative. So you have all of that stuff going on.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, there is a new administration that will be
Speaker 1: coming in in January. I hope that Donald Trump doesn't
Speaker 1: concede because I want to see the month do. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. Listen, I think I don't care. D push.
Speaker 1: He just gotta go, You gotta go. You gotta go, man,
Speaker 1: pack your bags. Shout out to Michael Rap which told
Speaker 1: pack your bags, pack your ship, get out of here.
Speaker 1: He said, your loss, pack your ship, get out of here. Man.
Speaker 1: I love it's one of my favorite videos. Now that
Speaker 1: brings me to my thought of the day. And you
Speaker 1: want to know what my thought of the day. My
Speaker 1: thought of the day will generally be very thoughtful and serious,
Speaker 1: but on today I have a different type of thought
Speaker 1: of the day, and that is how long do you
Speaker 1: give uh Milania? Do you think she's gonna do over
Speaker 1: six months or under six months before she files for
Speaker 1: divorce and runs for the hills. I think she already did.
Speaker 1: I think they have like a videos memes when they
Speaker 1: show you whole trucks already in front. Also, they showed
Speaker 1: the double the person you know, they found they found
Speaker 1: a person on a plane and it's like literally confirmed
Speaker 1: there was a person on the plane. It was supposed
Speaker 1: to be Millennia with him the woman standing there waving,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't her poor portrait. Oh you feel sorry
Speaker 1: for me because I don't. I mean, he got a wife.
Speaker 1: She just upper leaves over so over me. You know what,
Speaker 1: she's got to be able to go on with her life,
Speaker 1: and she could have left a little while ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what you don't see, and that's here. Listen,
Speaker 1: show topics. Write it down. What happens when the wife
Speaker 1: of a successful person, or the wife of a president
Speaker 1: or some some you know leader right in whatever field
Speaker 1: feels oppressed but can't leave because it's not the status quo.
Speaker 1: And you know there's there's some people who will say, man,
Speaker 1: she's just as bad as he is. We heard some
Speaker 1: of Milannia's comments the jacket that she wore. I think
Speaker 1: it says I'm like I don't care or who cares
Speaker 1: or something like that. You know, we heard her in
Speaker 1: the leak taps that her friend put out there where
Speaker 1: she is speaking terribly about the children separated at the borders.
Speaker 1: She cleared and like Christmas, and then, you know, we
Speaker 1: don't really celebrate Christmas. But you can't say you don't
Speaker 1: like Christmas because you know, black folks don't like. If
Speaker 1: you don't like, if you don't like Christmas, you don't
Speaker 1: like christ because Christ is Christmas is christ Christ. So
Speaker 1: you can't you can't like ignorant. But it is what
Speaker 1: it is. But it's I think for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Although again I don't celebrate Christmas, um, you know, because
Speaker 1: I don't think that we should be spending our money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've pretty much given it up. Yeah, it's just not
Speaker 1: it's before Christmas and that's right. So you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just it like where we are now,
Speaker 1: hopefully we're going to turn over a new leaf. But
Speaker 1: all of it is going to happen based upon how
Speaker 1: much work we put it, Like, we gotta put in
Speaker 1: real work because we have an opportunity in this moment
Speaker 1: to make a real change. We have a real opportunity, man,
Speaker 1: you know, and we've seen how united and when we
Speaker 1: push on all cylinders you know, have different levels from celebrities,
Speaker 1: grassroots organizations, you know, social media platforms, television platforms, and
Speaker 1: when we push one message, we've seen how we're able
Speaker 1: to push and shift. That's what it's all about, man,
Speaker 1: that's all. It's about. The unity. We do it together.
Speaker 1: No not. I don't want uniformity. I don't want nobody
Speaker 1: looking sound and doing everything I do. I want you
Speaker 1: to do what you do for the same cause that
Speaker 1: I do it, and we do it together, and we
Speaker 1: do it different ways. But still so speaking of that,
Speaker 1: the Georgia sent the Senate seats that are up for
Speaker 1: grabs in Georgia. Listen, here's the reality. What's the reality.
Speaker 1: Even if you have a Joe Biden Kamala Harris presidency,
Speaker 1: they can't get shipped done if they don't control Congress,
Speaker 1: right the Congress. So you know, that's another thing. We
Speaker 1: have to have experts come on this show to break
Speaker 1: down to people what is the Congress versus Congress and
Speaker 1: the Senate? Right there? Is there is a difference, right,
Speaker 1: and the Congress is the full body of those who
Speaker 1: vote on our issues. You need to have both branches
Speaker 1: of government, the Senate and the Congress, to come together,
Speaker 1: right and make decisions that will support the Democratic president
Speaker 1: or whomever it is whatever, even if in this case
Speaker 1: President Trump had Republican control in the Senate. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things that the Democratic Congress did block.
Speaker 1: They did their best. They fought or not they didn't
Speaker 1: take Yeah, I'm no, no, no, no, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they blocked. I take back that they did their best,
Speaker 1: because there's a whole lot of s h I t
Speaker 1: that Chuck Schuma and Nancy Pelosi, as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: could have done better. Like you know, if somebody had
Speaker 1: me laughed at the day, Lindas our source says, when
Speaker 1: they were fighting to block Amy Barrett from becoming a
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice, Uh, we were like dam they didn't
Speaker 1: even like pull an alarm in the building or like
Speaker 1: set a file do something. You can't really certifire it,
Speaker 1: but you know what I'm saying, something to delay it.
Speaker 1: We went to the cabinet. Here is they got arrested.
Speaker 1: We wanted people to knowing. But you know, with the
Speaker 1: COVID situation and not being able to have people inside
Speaker 1: the buildings protesting and all of that, it deaf finally
Speaker 1: has created some real challenges, but nonetheless, to go back
Speaker 1: to the original point, right, the Democrats were unable to
Speaker 1: get the things done that we needed to be done.
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing when President Obama was in
Speaker 1: office and we've lost the mid term elections and allowed
Speaker 1: the Republicans to take control. They now have power over
Speaker 1: a particular branch of government that is responsible for how
Speaker 1: decisions are made. So it doesn't matter who's in the
Speaker 1: president in the White House. It matters also down the
Speaker 1: ballot who control every single branch of our government. So
Speaker 1: there are two seats up for grabs in Georgia, two
Speaker 1: Senate seats, which would basically take all of this power
Speaker 1: out of Mitch McConnell's hands. Mitch McConnell has the power
Speaker 1: of a king where he controls government and how things move.
Speaker 1: There are bills uh the George four Bills on his
Speaker 1: desk right now that includes things like Brianna Taylor's Law,
Speaker 1: which would be a ban on no knock laarrants. All
Speaker 1: of these things are in that bill, and he's not
Speaker 1: even looking at it. It's just on his desk, right um,
Speaker 1: figuratively and literally. And so when you are able to
Speaker 1: take these two Senate seats in Georgia, it will put
Speaker 1: us in a position of power where we can now
Speaker 1: really demand that the that that the Biden administration gets
Speaker 1: some stuff done because they don't have the excuse that
Speaker 1: the Republicans wouldn't help us do it. So there's a runoff,
Speaker 1: right They First of all, John Osoft and Raphael Warnock,
Speaker 1: they were both in the election that just happened on
Speaker 1: November three, but they came. They didn't come, Uh that
Speaker 1: excuse me. They did not reach the threshold in terms
Speaker 1: of the percentage of votes that you need to be
Speaker 1: able to capture in order to claim victory, and so
Speaker 1: they have to go to a run off with It's
Speaker 1: I mean it's like sports, right, you know about it's
Speaker 1: a sudden death, you know, it's like overtime, it's like
Speaker 1: over time they gotta go. Well, not really, it would
Speaker 1: be more like the playoffs when it comes down to
Speaker 1: the final two. Because I think Raphael one Knock was
Speaker 1: like number eight or nine on the ballot, especially because
Speaker 1: his last name is w um and so because of
Speaker 1: the percentage that he came in, you know, he came
Speaker 1: to a certain level. There's another candidate who also came
Speaker 1: to that level, and the two of them are going
Speaker 1: to have to battle it out. So isn't that like
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Because you know, I know about sports, if
Speaker 1: I guess the playoff competition, because yeah, you've got two
Speaker 1: different records and one of them is like seven to
Speaker 1: eight spot and y'all got a battle to continue to see,
Speaker 1: so I guess, I guess. But the only difference is
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. You know, after you win, you gotta
Speaker 1: battle somebody else, you know, so it's a little different.
Speaker 1: I think it's a fun playoff finals. He back, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the playoffs is longer, but he one
Speaker 1: out of many that he was up against. Case now, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's like the final the playoffs. Fin told you
Speaker 1: got to teach me. But we're gonna be talking, all right.
Speaker 1: So let me just read the information for the Georgia
Speaker 1: Senate runoff dates so that people understand that even if
Speaker 1: you're not registered to vote, you still have time. So
Speaker 1: you can, uh, first of all, begin requesting your absentee
Speaker 1: ballot right now, right now, right now, you can quite
Speaker 1: or go online. You can go to vote dot wote,
Speaker 1: vote dot us. That's vote dot wote, vote dot us,
Speaker 1: or I will vote dot com and get information on
Speaker 1: where you can how you can request an absentee ballot.
Speaker 1: So that's for big Mom and Mre Like I can't
Speaker 1: go to the polls. I'm immunal compromise with the COVID crisis.
Speaker 1: We don't want to put people in harms where But
Speaker 1: you know our suggestion, the work ain't done. We got
Speaker 1: we got it, we need it, we need this. Our
Speaker 1: suggestion to most folks is go to the polls if
Speaker 1: you can. But you has mad suit on with your
Speaker 1: gloves on, do you think whatever, you gotta do it.
Speaker 1: Like we've seen the last election, though they ain't make
Speaker 1: it to them with the ballot. They came like the
Speaker 1: black panther. But if you can go to the polls,
Speaker 1: you should. If you can't get your absentee ballot. Now,
Speaker 1: December seven is the last day to register to vote.
Speaker 1: That is for vote A registration start it already started.
Speaker 1: Voter registration happens every day, even on December eight. You
Speaker 1: can still register the vote, you just won't be able
Speaker 1: to vote in the election exactly. December fourteenth begins early
Speaker 1: voting for most counties in Georgia. Now there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some you know, some some issues there, but December four
Speaker 1: teen it's a good day to hold. And then January
Speaker 1: five is the last day. Okay, that's the election day,
Speaker 1: January five, which is election day. So every day up
Speaker 1: until January you can vote. We do early voting. Now
Speaker 1: we're gonna need you to go back over that again
Speaker 1: because December four you said, de Sember four team is
Speaker 1: the first day of early vote. So every day from
Speaker 1: December four until January you can early vote. So yes, technically,
Speaker 1: but the only little caveat to that that I'm not
Speaker 1: sure of, but I know from New York City, some
Speaker 1: days it's not open, like on a Sunday it might
Speaker 1: not be open. But basically most days and Saturdays, of course,
Speaker 1: it is open to early vote. And so people should
Speaker 1: go to I will vote dot com or vote dot wote,
Speaker 1: vote dot US, vote dot wote vote us and you
Speaker 1: can get all the information that you need about where
Speaker 1: to go, how to register, what to do, everything you
Speaker 1: need to know. Okay, sounds like you're playing I got it, Georgia, Georgia.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot happening. You got guest today. You've
Speaker 1: got guests that excellent guests that I can't wait to
Speaker 1: hear from. Man Congresswoman Yvette Clark, who has found she's
Speaker 1: found for real, man, Like, That's that's one thing I
Speaker 1: just love about black people, Like we when they say
Speaker 1: black don't crack. And you look at congresswomen, even Clark,
Speaker 1: and you see her skin. It's flawless. She's got amazing
Speaker 1: you know, it's flawless, man. So and and what she
Speaker 1: does for our communities and how she's always ripped our communities,
Speaker 1: has always been a voice, you know, for our communities
Speaker 1: and someone that we look up to that we can
Speaker 1: call and get educated on certain issues. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just unmatched. Man. I'm just she's amazing. I am happy
Speaker 1: to have on the show. And then we have Tawuanna
Speaker 1: Noblesend a new friend. She is the president of the
Speaker 1: Tacoma Washington Urban League and is the newly elected state
Speaker 1: senator there in Tacoma, and so we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: to her. Listen, we gotta we have to celebrate it
Speaker 1: when it's supposed to be celebrated every day, every minute, different,
Speaker 1: different and then there's Gary Chambers. One of the things
Speaker 1: that we're doing on street politicians is our political activists
Speaker 1: or i'll just activists, organize a moment when we highlight
Speaker 1: activists in different cities who are doing the work that
Speaker 1: we know is doing the work that yeah, exactly, people
Speaker 1: we know are really doing the work because there is
Speaker 1: some kind of there's some activists, there's activists that you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know, We have no idea what no one
Speaker 1: in their community knows them before. But what you didn't
Speaker 1: hear from me, right, but you know, I thought that
Speaker 1: it was really important, and you were like, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we went through many different iterations of what
Speaker 1: we think thought it should be. It was like, should
Speaker 1: we highlight cases and then bring the activists that's working
Speaker 1: on the case. But one of the things that I
Speaker 1: think we figured out is like we don't know what
Speaker 1: they're working on because we don't know their local community issues.
Speaker 1: So we just need to highlight the individuals who are
Speaker 1: doing the work so that they can get the donations
Speaker 1: that they need. Investments. You know, I hate the word
Speaker 1: please invest investment. We like investments. We love investments so
Speaker 1: that they can get the type of attention, support and
Speaker 1: respect that they deserve. And so I love the activists
Speaker 1: moment or the organizing moment. Depends on where you are
Speaker 1: in life and what you want to call yourself or
Speaker 1: you know, what type of work you do, and we
Speaker 1: should have show on what's the difference between an activist
Speaker 1: and an organizer. Definitely, Oh, there's an extreme difference because
Speaker 1: what you do is organized, you know, And I'm more
Speaker 1: of an activist, but I'm growing into you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but I when I watch what you and
Speaker 1: Linda do, the way that you organize, the way that
Speaker 1: you strategize, and say, Okay, boom boom boom, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do this, we need to do this, and this is
Speaker 1: how we got to go and we need to call
Speaker 1: these people. We need to set it up here. That's
Speaker 1: more than just being somebody that says I'm mad, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out and I'm willing to put my body
Speaker 1: on the line and I have a voice. With the
Speaker 1: way that you is the strategy. Part of the organized
Speaker 1: is the strategy for your street politicians. Street politicians. Let's
Speaker 1: go Episode one WHOA. Before we go to the next
Speaker 1: segment and have our special guests joint, we're going to
Speaker 1: take a quick break for our sponsors. So I don't
Speaker 1: think we can discuss it enough about how women have
Speaker 1: pretty much taken over politics to me, you know, and
Speaker 1: when you look at especially in this day, you know,
Speaker 1: and I attribute that to what the work that you've
Speaker 1: done at the Women's March that a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't really want to give the credit for, but it
Speaker 1: was very monumental. And to see how many women have
Speaker 1: been elected lately and basically seeing how women have pretty much,
Speaker 1: firstly Black women have put these elections on their back.
Speaker 1: They've been carrying it. We talked we come from, we
Speaker 1: talked about even Clark. You see that aspect of it,
Speaker 1: and then you continue to see and dissent it and
Speaker 1: just all around, black women have been getting voted into
Speaker 1: different offices. You know, we have our first female vice
Speaker 1: president elect who is a black woman. You know, that's
Speaker 1: a whole that's a whole different conversation for a different
Speaker 1: day that people are actually trying to debate whether or
Speaker 1: not Mamma Harris is a black woman. If she's not black,
Speaker 1: I don't know what a black woman looks like. And
Speaker 1: I happen to be a black woman, and she looks really, really,
Speaker 1: really close to the black women that I know. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to figure it out. I'm no longer even
Speaker 1: shocked at you know, we had Obama and he wasn't black.
Speaker 1: You know, he wasn't even American. He wasn't enough. You know,
Speaker 1: every time we get something, it ain't what we thought
Speaker 1: it was, you know. So I've become accustomed to the
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories and always want to take away, well, she's
Speaker 1: not really black because she comes from the Jamaican and
Speaker 1: the West Indian. It ain't descending the slaves. And this
Speaker 1: is always something man, I want to celebrate and congratulate
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris on her victory being the first woman and
Speaker 1: I say black woman to be a vice president. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's a big you know. I saw a mean somewhere
Speaker 1: that said, um that if it says put your shoes on,
Speaker 1: because there's glass all over the floor, and that means
Speaker 1: that the ceiling has been broken. She got this close. Now,
Speaker 1: whether or not she can actually be elected as president
Speaker 1: is going to be based upon what work she does,
Speaker 1: because we already know that Joe Biden like baby she
Speaker 1: They had to pull Joe Biden across the finish line,
Speaker 1: and he just rushed up and dust it together every day.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the truth. And I don't know
Speaker 1: who needs to hear this, but most of the people
Speaker 1: I know voted for and that's that's just a fact,
Speaker 1: because I ain't gonna lie, well, I voted for. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say I have disrespect for the president elected,
Speaker 1: but I will say that I will say that I
Speaker 1: have some fundamental issues with Joe Biden still right now,
Speaker 1: we voted against Donald Trump in most cases. And when
Speaker 1: I started trying to figure out what was the motivating factor,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, who has her own issues and her own reckoning,
Speaker 1: and she has to do with the black community, she
Speaker 1: was um part of my decision. You know. I saw
Speaker 1: that Charlemagne posted on his page congratulations to Vice President
Speaker 1: e let Kamala has. But that's how most that's why
Speaker 1: most people in the black community film and they still
Speaker 1: still got like you said, they still have the issues
Speaker 1: with her, but they said, look, I'd rather just make
Speaker 1: sure that this black woman gets in the office, because
Speaker 1: that's something we can celebrate, and we believe that whatever
Speaker 1: issues we had, that she's gonna do the necessary work.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gon, we're gonna fight, We're gonna do it,
Speaker 1: and we feel like we have an opportunity. We feel
Speaker 1: like she's open to try and to make the reckon
Speaker 1: and make I mean, I think I've heard from her
Speaker 1: a number of statements, um and and also the ways
Speaker 1: in which she's able to speak to the intricacies of
Speaker 1: our issues and our movement. It makes me think that
Speaker 1: she understands what this moment calls for. You know. The
Speaker 1: other thing, and we'll have to talk about this at
Speaker 1: another time, but Kamala Harris came up in a different
Speaker 1: moment within our society. Even when you think about Joe
Speaker 1: Biden and and the and the crime Bill and all
Speaker 1: those things which were wrong and they definitely should not
Speaker 1: be pushed on the back burner, but we it was
Speaker 1: a different time. Kamala Harris as someone who was trying
Speaker 1: to rise through the ranks of a male dominated, white,
Speaker 1: male dominated system, she operated in a way that again
Speaker 1: should be challenged. But people have to understand that the
Speaker 1: world has changed. We have we have forced a new
Speaker 1: light and a new movement in in our society that
Speaker 1: you can't go back to business as usual in that
Speaker 1: way if you want to be elected to office, if
Speaker 1: you want to be considered by us to be an ally.
Speaker 1: So I think it's just so much more to be
Speaker 1: discussed as it relates to UH Senator Harris now Vice
Speaker 1: President elect Harris and what the administration is gonna do.
Speaker 1: But I do want to acknowledge and appreciate you stating
Speaker 1: that the Women's March had so much to do with
Speaker 1: where we see ourselves now in terms of women in
Speaker 1: general really taken over across this country. I think that
Speaker 1: women and and corrector Scott King once said that if
Speaker 1: this nation is going to be better, women must become
Speaker 1: the soul of the nation. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: that means that men shouldn't be at the table, because
Speaker 1: I think we can't do anything without men and women
Speaker 1: and are and and the beloved community coming together. But
Speaker 1: there's been too many closed doors where three men sat
Speaker 1: in the room and made decisions on behalf of the
Speaker 1: entire community. And so I am so glad that we're
Speaker 1: joined by a woman who just won an election UM
Speaker 1: States Senate seat in a place that it's like, are
Speaker 1: there black people in Tacoma, Washington? Uh Tuanna Nobles, who
Speaker 1: is also the president of the Tacoma Urban League. And
Speaker 1: let me just say, as you come, you know and
Speaker 1: talk with us to today, Tajuanna. We have had the
Speaker 1: pleasure of meeting a number of bad ass sisters who
Speaker 1: are president of per presidents of Urban League chapters across
Speaker 1: this country, one being Sadique Reynolds, who is the president
Speaker 1: of the Louisville, Kentucky chapter. She is incredible, our dear sister,
Speaker 1: who is a fighter. Then you have Ourvor Rice, our
Speaker 1: sister from New York, who was the president of the
Speaker 1: New York Urban League. I mean, you all are some
Speaker 1: bad sisters. And the fact that you can go from
Speaker 1: being president of the Urban League to now becoming a
Speaker 1: state senator is a testament to what black women and
Speaker 1: black people are doing around the country. So congrat relations
Speaker 1: and welcome the street politicians. Thank you, thanks for having
Speaker 1: me on the show. And I do want to thank
Speaker 1: you all for all of your time and sacrifice and
Speaker 1: just being leading fight for justice in our communities across
Speaker 1: the nation. So thanks for having me. So tell us
Speaker 1: what what's the what's the what was the campaign platform
Speaker 1: that we can now hold you too. What was some
Speaker 1: of the things that you want that you've promised you
Speaker 1: would work on that got you elected. Absolutely definitely, because
Speaker 1: I currently also served as a school board director here
Speaker 1: in University Place, continuing to keep prioritized education. I'm a
Speaker 1: mom and a wife. I have four kids, three of
Speaker 1: them who are remote learning, and so I understand the
Speaker 1: challenges of our families who are crisis schooling, who don't
Speaker 1: have the resources they need from broadband to technology, and
Speaker 1: so hold me accountable for making sure that I'm working
Speaker 1: as hard as I can to provide an equitable education.
Speaker 1: And I hope to champion bills that will allow broadband
Speaker 1: to be a public you aility. So it's not a
Speaker 1: matter of luxury, but a matter of necessity, since we
Speaker 1: need broadband access to the internet to live, to learn,
Speaker 1: and to work. UM and also making sure that we're
Speaker 1: helping our small businesses and community members to get through
Speaker 1: this pandemic getting people back to work. We start UM
Speaker 1: a lockdown UM today through December fourteenth and Washington State
Speaker 1: because of the rise in COVID cases UM, so we
Speaker 1: have to help our our businesses that are closing their doors,
Speaker 1: laying off workers. We have to help the black community,
Speaker 1: who we know will will struggle more and be impacted
Speaker 1: disproportionately to get through this pandemic. So we'll work with
Speaker 1: our our partners and community members to be successful in
Speaker 1: that area, um but also to be just a champion
Speaker 1: for our our working families, and that is around healthcare, housing, education, employment.
Speaker 1: We need to have a voice for our working families
Speaker 1: and recognizing it's hard for all of us out here
Speaker 1: and we need people like me who who know what
Speaker 1: it's like to struggle, know what it's like to live
Speaker 1: paycheck to a check be a part of these key
Speaker 1: decisions that are being made in our state. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you very much for that. And you know we want
Speaker 1: to once again, I want to congratulate you, and I
Speaker 1: just want to say just understanding the reality we were
Speaker 1: and we just want to know. We'll let you know
Speaker 1: that we know that you're a beautiful black woman, smart, intelligent,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna push you, We're gonna fight you just
Speaker 1: like we do everybody else, because that's what we do.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna make sure we're gonna hold you accountable.
Speaker 1: But understanding that do you see a real end to
Speaker 1: this pandemic. Like I've had conversations with people and and
Speaker 1: every time we look, it seems like it's growing. What
Speaker 1: I don't like, can we get back to a level
Speaker 1: of normalcy? Like is is remote learning going to be
Speaker 1: the new thing? Like I have two children that I'm
Speaker 1: teaching from remote learning. I have a six and a
Speaker 1: nine year old, and it's very difficult, Like I'm not
Speaker 1: I don't have the skill set to be a teacher,
Speaker 1: Like I'm sitting there, they on this computer and the
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, they gotta roadblocks on one show
Speaker 1: and then YouTube is on and then I here to
Speaker 1: teach it like pay attention and one is on one
Speaker 1: side of the room and other. It's a very difficult.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with so many difficult times, the trauma that
Speaker 1: these kids that we are dealing with. You know, like
Speaker 1: you said, small businesses, people not at work. It's so
Speaker 1: much going on, Like do what do? What? Do you
Speaker 1: give some advice? Like you you you know you ran
Speaker 1: on this campaign of doing things during the pandemic, like
Speaker 1: helping small businesses in school, and could you like give
Speaker 1: some advice to me as a parent trying to just
Speaker 1: navigate through this situation. Yeah, my best advice is we
Speaker 1: we are going to have to hang in here and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to cling to each other into solutions
Speaker 1: as best as possible. Are we gonna go back to normal?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. We're gonna move forward, and everything
Speaker 1: is going to look different. School and learning is going
Speaker 1: to look different, our community is going to look different.
Speaker 1: Many businesses are not going to survive this next wave
Speaker 1: of a shutdown. You know, maybe we got PPP or
Speaker 1: some other type the small business funding, but they will
Speaker 1: not survive after this next shutdown where they have to
Speaker 1: close their doors. So everything will look different. The trauma
Speaker 1: we are experiencing right now and the the greater need
Speaker 1: for access to mental health sources changes everything for everyone.
Speaker 1: So we will not move back to me. But I
Speaker 1: know that we will survive this. Even when I think
Speaker 1: of my kids and the skills that they are having
Speaker 1: to learn college level skills to independently teach themselves more
Speaker 1: than ever before, be responsible for homework and studying. It
Speaker 1: will make them better human beings. But it's a traumatic
Speaker 1: transition because we weren't prepared for it. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how to transition them and help them to build those muscles.
Speaker 1: But we'll do it, and we'll keep being resilient, and
Speaker 1: we'll keep taking a step back. My number one goal
Speaker 1: for my family, and I advise us for everyone, is
Speaker 1: to to keep our families whole, to keep our communities whold.
Speaker 1: So if that means we're not getting to homework today,
Speaker 1: we're not going to get to homework today, because I
Speaker 1: want to keep my family intact. I want to keep
Speaker 1: my family healthy. And now that we're locked back down
Speaker 1: in our homes and not able to, you know, to
Speaker 1: move through the phases like we were. This is the
Speaker 1: number one thing that I want to make sure sustains
Speaker 1: after this, my family and then my community. So some
Speaker 1: things we're gonna have to let go, but I think
Speaker 1: everything moving forward will be different. I want I see
Speaker 1: your son in the background. I'm assuming that's your son,
Speaker 1: and he's back there doing his homeschool, and he's paying attention,
Speaker 1: and and it just shows where we are right now.
Speaker 1: You you're a state senator and you're on here doing
Speaker 1: a conversation and doing an interview, and you still have
Speaker 1: to be a mother at the same asa time, home
Speaker 1: school in your child. Like you write things are gonna
Speaker 1: change and I think we're gonna learn different skills, you know.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be difficult. It is a difficult transition. Man.
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you for the work
Speaker 1: and like once again, we're gonna hold you accountable to
Speaker 1: make sure that you do what you said you was
Speaker 1: gonna do. The transition may be difficult, but I think
Speaker 1: there is something to be said about parents learning more
Speaker 1: about what their children are learning, being able to hear
Speaker 1: what teachers are saying, um, you know, and to and
Speaker 1: to really be able to see some of their children
Speaker 1: that don't listen in action so they can help the
Speaker 1: teacher because the teacher has been dealing with the child
Speaker 1: that won't stay still, and now you will get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to see it and you actually have to deal
Speaker 1: with it, because sometimes we don't treat teachers nicely. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm. I'm grateful again for you coming on and
Speaker 1: talking with us today. I know that your journey is
Speaker 1: just beginning, and we have to give the biggest shout
Speaker 1: out to the national President of the Urban League, Mark Muriel,
Speaker 1: who I know is supportive of you and all the
Speaker 1: women who are leading within Urban League, but you're starting
Speaker 1: out on your journey as a state senator. You look confident,
Speaker 1: you look like you're ready for the job. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: going to push you, but we also want you to
Speaker 1: use this as a platform to come back and let
Speaker 1: us know what's going on and and and and also
Speaker 1: to tell us how we can support you. You should
Speaker 1: let us know that right now what we can do
Speaker 1: to support you, and we're gonna have you back. So
Speaker 1: as your journey is developing and you're beginning to learn
Speaker 1: more about the position, we can hear and learn with
Speaker 1: you because we not enough of our people are educated
Speaker 1: on the process. They don't understand what's happening inside the
Speaker 1: walls of the State House, and and that information needs
Speaker 1: to be translated to the ground. Yeah, I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I think the number one thing that I asked folks
Speaker 1: to help me with is to stay engaged. And you
Speaker 1: said this at our gala, that we can't just be
Speaker 1: presidential election organizers, right telling folks thank you for getting
Speaker 1: me elected. That was just part of this journey. And
Speaker 1: we have to keep organizing on the ground, and we
Speaker 1: have to keep now that we get to testify in
Speaker 1: front of our state legislature. Virtually that should provide a
Speaker 1: lot more access. But one of my goals is to
Speaker 1: provide access to this position, to our state legislature, to
Speaker 1: our community. So it doesn't seem like that's something that
Speaker 1: happens in Olympia and our state capital, but it's something
Speaker 1: that happens in our community. And I want to really
Speaker 1: engage people to you know, take stock, to use their voice, UM,
Speaker 1: and to be active. But I know part of my
Speaker 1: job is to be that educator UM, to expose community,
Speaker 1: to invite them in, to go out and find folks
Speaker 1: you know, and not rely on just lobbyists and people
Speaker 1: who know how to navigate the system process, but to
Speaker 1: bring the community who has no clue and doesn't know
Speaker 1: they can just call their state senator. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: for this journey, excited to stay in touch with you
Speaker 1: all as I learn and grow because I'm at step
Speaker 1: one of like, wait, how does the bill become a
Speaker 1: log again? Yeah, we need you to learn this stuff
Speaker 1: real quick because not a lot of time. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much to want to We appreciate you. To Wanna Nobles,
Speaker 1: who is the newly elected state senator in Tacoma, Washington,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and tell your son we said hi,
Speaker 1: we see them, Thank you, bye bye. Before we move
Speaker 1: on and have our special guests joint, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a quick break for our sponsors. So the election, man,
Speaker 1: it's been rough, but you know, it took a joining
Speaker 1: effort by so many different organizations, so many different grassroots,
Speaker 1: so many just disindividuals who are really invested in seeing
Speaker 1: this kind try going a different direction, and ultimately, you know,
Speaker 1: we pulled it out. Yeah. Well, first of all, I
Speaker 1: was on a nonpartisan tour. I have to keep saying that.
Speaker 1: I mean, we didn't not tell anyone on the road
Speaker 1: who they should vote for. We just knew we needed
Speaker 1: something different, that's right, and we encouraged people to make
Speaker 1: sure that they showed up and they showed out. I
Speaker 1: remember I was thinking that somewhere. I think we were
Speaker 1: in Michigan where when we went to the polls on
Speaker 1: election day, no one was there, and I was, really,
Speaker 1: why are people not voting? But they had already been
Speaker 1: to the polls, And we see that early voting and
Speaker 1: also mail in ballots that folks really did do what
Speaker 1: they were supposed to do. They did the damn thing,
Speaker 1: and they showed up and showed out, and you know,
Speaker 1: but I mean we do have to talk about which
Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk about it later in the show.
Speaker 1: That seventy plus million people voted for Donald Trump, So
Speaker 1: we still have an issue. Yeah, we we have a
Speaker 1: real issue in this country. It's so divided, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's strange to me. I think every time I
Speaker 1: think about those numbers, and I think about how his
Speaker 1: he actually got more votes this term, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think, how do we look at the condition of
Speaker 1: this country and be okay with voting for somebody like that?
Speaker 1: And you have to think about the mindset. You got
Speaker 1: to think about, you know, just how the media plays
Speaker 1: a part, because we realized just watching social media, I
Speaker 1: realized how lives have been come, facts people have really
Speaker 1: like he says fake news, but he's he's the master
Speaker 1: of fake news. He just throws out the most you know,
Speaker 1: nonstatements and then people say, this is facts. You know.
Speaker 1: He's he's um pushed conspiracy theories or the weirdest things
Speaker 1: in the world, and you know, and people have gravitated
Speaker 1: to it. So yeah, but you agree with his conspiracy
Speaker 1: theories around coronavirus sometimes, but anyway that could definitely be
Speaker 1: a holding of the company. I'm just trying to say, Man,
Speaker 1: I've heard you say, well, I kind of you know
Speaker 1: on that because at the end of the day, you
Speaker 1: know when you do start doing math, because when you
Speaker 1: look at the news, right, there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: happening that you don't physically see in your own life.
Speaker 1: And that's just true for me, not saying it's not happening.
Speaker 1: We understand corona is very serious, and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's not. There are people who have died from I
Speaker 1: know a person who died from coronavirus. But when I
Speaker 1: look at the overall the numbers and I compared certain things,
Speaker 1: certain things just don't add up. Not saying that it
Speaker 1: is not serious, but you know, we just gotta I
Speaker 1: just need a little more. Well, a person that knows
Speaker 1: a lot about the pandemic UH coronavirus and has been
Speaker 1: working with black folks, particularly in Brooklyn, UH in our
Speaker 1: state UM to help try to you know, get our
Speaker 1: people to be safe, to get our people UH to
Speaker 1: be more educated on the virus. And and you know,
Speaker 1: as she and I were having a conversation recently, and
Speaker 1: she was talking about the educational component of this, and
Speaker 1: that is something at you and I agree on how
Speaker 1: bad it is for our children to have to live
Speaker 1: through this pandemic, the depression, the fact that parents and
Speaker 1: families don't always know exactly how to advocate, you know,
Speaker 1: for their young people in a situation where there's you know,
Speaker 1: virtual learning. Um. And so I am really grateful to have,
Speaker 1: first of all, my sister on the battlefield. This is
Speaker 1: a friend, a sister of ours. She's going to be
Speaker 1: a regular at street politicians because we need somebody that
Speaker 1: knows what's going on in the world. Um. She's a
Speaker 1: congressional member, Congresswoman Evette Clark of the ninth District in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: My sister, Yvette, thank you so much for being with
Speaker 1: us today. Thank you, Miss Queens, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: my sister. To Mika Mallory and to Nissan, congratulations on
Speaker 1: this outstanding platform and program that will educate and uplift
Speaker 1: our people at we navigate through these very difficult troubling
Speaker 1: and and and crisis later in time, I'm excited about
Speaker 1: the opportunity for our people to stand up with courage
Speaker 1: and conviction and press forward as the soldiers that we
Speaker 1: are to make sure that our families are safe, our
Speaker 1: children are educated, and that we come through this pandemic
Speaker 1: more unified and focused on all of the issues that
Speaker 1: we in this generation must confront and must address and
Speaker 1: must be victorious around for a few generations to come.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much for having me. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: good to to hear your voice, because when I see you,
Speaker 1: I know that in our Congress, they are stabilizing factors.
Speaker 1: There are people there who know what's needed on behalf
Speaker 1: of our communities and folks who are fighting for us.
Speaker 1: You've been fighting for us. And congratulations to you on
Speaker 1: winning your recent election. You just had uh an election
Speaker 1: and clills it out as you always do. The people
Speaker 1: of Brooklyn and ninth District they stand with you, and
Speaker 1: so do we um and but but it is a
Speaker 1: real scary time, especially right now while we're still in
Speaker 1: this weeks later, days and days after the election, it's
Speaker 1: very clear what the results are. And still we have
Speaker 1: a man in the White House who's saying he will
Speaker 1: not concede, who is trying to again bring up these
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories as a way to confuse people and to
Speaker 1: hold on to power. And I I don't necessarily feel
Speaker 1: comfortable with what is happening in this moment, not to
Speaker 1: mention that we have heard from the media that if
Speaker 1: there is not a proper transition between a president elects
Speaker 1: administration and of current administration, that there are some national
Speaker 1: security issues there and international security issues. Can you talk
Speaker 1: about what's happening now? And and well, first of all,
Speaker 1: just tell us what's happening, and then we can talk
Speaker 1: about what what should the people be doing. Absolutely well,
Speaker 1: first of all, we should not be shocked nor surprised
Speaker 1: because Donald Trump is being Donald Trump in this moment.
Speaker 1: He's behavior has always he has been infantile. He has
Speaker 1: always been focused only on himself and how he can uh,
Speaker 1: you know, essentially uh work the system into his benefit.
Speaker 1: And so we need to be focused right now. And
Speaker 1: you know, I reject the spirit of scary and fear
Speaker 1: because we have got to be courageous in this moment
Speaker 1: and we need to double down on the courage that
Speaker 1: we have shown throughout the tenure of this gentleman. I'm
Speaker 1: being kind there of Donald's Trump in the office because
Speaker 1: we have been under siege and under attack since he
Speaker 1: came down the Golden escalator. So we should maintain our
Speaker 1: posture of belligerents, indignation, and courage during this period. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is a challenging period for our nation because anything
Speaker 1: can go sideways at any point in time. We are
Speaker 1: living in a sideways moment. We're in the midst of
Speaker 1: a raging, rampaging pandemic right now, and so that is
Speaker 1: the overall context in which we're trying to liberate ourselves.
Speaker 1: Part of that liberation is being focused on being and
Speaker 1: staying well in this moment because without our health, everything
Speaker 1: else that we have been battling over and battling for
Speaker 1: really UH comes to noll because if we're not passing
Speaker 1: on the knowledge, if we're not passing on the strategy
Speaker 1: and the tactics of how we got over to the
Speaker 1: next generation, they will be doomed to repeat. But we
Speaker 1: have been fighting for right now, and so to me
Speaker 1: UH and to many of my colleagues in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: We can't take our eye off the ball and making
Speaker 1: sure that we navigate our people through this pandemic, that
Speaker 1: we embolden them to continue to discipline of wearing masks,
Speaker 1: of staying socially distance, of washing their hands, not touching
Speaker 1: them not touching their face, because all of the science
Speaker 1: indicates that the spread of this virus has not been contained.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it has been allowed under
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to to to spread with reckless abandoned And
Speaker 1: it is such a deceitful virus in that you can
Speaker 1: be asymptomatic and and continue to spread this virus before
Speaker 1: you're even uh show in any signs of of of
Speaker 1: actually having contracted it, or never showing any signs yet
Speaker 1: carrying a viral load that can be passed on to others.
Speaker 1: So we've got work to do in that space. Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: yes he's a menace, Yes he's a dangerous menace, but
Speaker 1: his days are numbered, and so we need to stay
Speaker 1: focused on our agenda for health, well being, economic social
Speaker 1: justice and navigating our people through this crisis to the
Speaker 1: other side where all of our issues I believe will
Speaker 1: be addressed and must be addressed by the incoming Biden
Speaker 1: Harris administration. So I wanted to first of all, I
Speaker 1: want to say thank you for being here, and that's
Speaker 1: that statement was so so real and what we needed
Speaker 1: to hear. And I also want to say we need
Speaker 1: to know the fount in the youth that you found
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to go there. But then that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right, Amen. But I want to ask two questions.
Speaker 1: Basically what you just said, I think for me that
Speaker 1: you heard me and to me having a conversation about
Speaker 1: the coronavirus and my skepticis not saying that I don't.
Speaker 1: I definitely believe. I actually have a friend who passed
Speaker 1: away from it. I have had people who have got
Speaker 1: really sick from it. And for me, I think that
Speaker 1: I think what it is for a lot of us
Speaker 1: is the way that it is being portrayed in the media.
Speaker 1: I think when all we see is the amount of
Speaker 1: people having we see depth hos, and we're not hearing
Speaker 1: about how we eat healthier, about the things that we
Speaker 1: need to do with our personal bodies to make sure
Speaker 1: that we don't ensure all we hear is wear a
Speaker 1: mask or don't do these things. We understand that most
Speaker 1: people are not gonna do that, like Unfortunately, we've lived
Speaker 1: in a world that most people, unless they are directly
Speaker 1: affected by something, will not see the reality they of it.
Speaker 1: And that's what I did with every day. I was
Speaker 1: having conversations like in the Bronx, just the regular cult
Speaker 1: in the Bronx. They don't feel like they're affected by it.
Speaker 1: It's nobody elseside with Man's. It's thousands of people in
Speaker 1: the park. They haven't They're going along with their day.
Speaker 1: They don't feel the things, they don't feel the you know,
Speaker 1: the effects of it. So I think, why aren't people saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: we understand that are certain demographic are not paying attention
Speaker 1: to this. So why are we focusing on how do
Speaker 1: we tell them to eat healthier? And why are we
Speaker 1: tell them focus on exercise? Why doesn't the news show
Speaker 1: that aspect of it? And then also I want to
Speaker 1: ask you, and there's a two part question. And then
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Donald Trump. And we
Speaker 1: say that we understand he's Donald Trump? Does it bother you?
Speaker 1: Do you question that the fact that this election he
Speaker 1: actually got more votes doesn't What? What do you think about?
Speaker 1: What do you think that it's saying about America right now? Okay?
Speaker 1: So let me start with the health East because I
Speaker 1: think this is critical. You know, we we can't speak
Speaker 1: to our people in a monolith. Different folks taken information
Speaker 1: differently and until it hits home. Um for some folks,
Speaker 1: as my father would sir. It's say, if you can't listen,
Speaker 1: then you must feel right until some folks begin felonists. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you know they're going to doubt the science. Let me
Speaker 1: say this unequivocally. Yes, we have to deal with the
Speaker 1: fact that our immune systems are compromised, particularly in communities
Speaker 1: of color, where we know we have been denied access
Speaker 1: to quality foods, to food deserts. We have been subjected
Speaker 1: to food deserts. Are eating habits have attributed contributed, uh,
Speaker 1: tremendously to the pre existing conditions we have, like diabetes, hypertension. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we we can go down the road call asthma.
Speaker 1: We can go down the road call of all of
Speaker 1: sort of those preexisting conditions that are predominating the health
Speaker 1: of our people. This is what COVID loves. COVID loves
Speaker 1: those individuals who have compromised immune system And at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, yeah, there will be hundreds of thousands,
Speaker 1: if not millions, of people who will recover from COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: Once we raise this cloud of suspicion that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has fomented through his denial, and I believe his intentional
Speaker 1: allowing this to happen. We will see that having been
Speaker 1: exposed to this virus and recover from it's not the
Speaker 1: end of the virus five, because many of our bodies
Speaker 1: are now dealing with the fact that we had this
Speaker 1: invasive virus in them, and we now become more susceptible
Speaker 1: to other illnesses as a result of the damage that
Speaker 1: the virus has done in our bodies. It's a cardiovascular
Speaker 1: primarily vascular disease, and that this virus will attack any
Speaker 1: part of our body that has uh been that that
Speaker 1: is connected to our bloodstream, so liver damage, lung damage,
Speaker 1: heart damage, all braink We've heard of brain damage. We've
Speaker 1: heard of long haulers individuals who have recovered from COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen but continue to suffer with the symptoms as though
Speaker 1: they are still infected. We've heard about people who have
Speaker 1: been infected more than once or twice. And these are
Speaker 1: not antidotes. These are all uh verified, uh medically verified,
Speaker 1: And so our folks need to ask themselves, UH if
Speaker 1: their questioning what's going on right? What if I'm wrong
Speaker 1: in my assumption? What if that wrong about them? That
Speaker 1: that uh what I'm being told is the truth or not?
Speaker 1: What does it take for us to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: just in case, let me adhere to these public health
Speaker 1: protocols because if I'm if if I'm right and I
Speaker 1: do this, I will be saving the lives of those
Speaker 1: around me and maybe my own life. I think that
Speaker 1: we gotta step out of the space of being about me.
Speaker 1: And that's what the movement is about, right hey, us
Speaker 1: and say us and we and the only way that
Speaker 1: we get through this is if we put aside our synicism,
Speaker 1: put aside our confusion, and and and stand united and
Speaker 1: and and and for those who don't believe in this experiment,
Speaker 1: if you will, and for those who do believe saving
Speaker 1: lives and making sure that we are not in that
Speaker 1: number who are spreading infection and spreading death in many communities.
Speaker 1: On the issue of Donald Trump, you know, I understand
Speaker 1: uh the inclination to to to call this man's name
Speaker 1: in every conversation because he has reached such habit in
Speaker 1: our lives. However, as I stated, his day's a number,
Speaker 1: and yes, what he's doing right now is no different
Speaker 1: than what he's been doing from day one. He is
Speaker 1: again in his he's in his feelings. He's never cared
Speaker 1: about the American people. He's continuing to try to find
Speaker 1: ways to divide us and to uh keep hold of
Speaker 1: those seventy million people, and and and and keep them
Speaker 1: caught up in his cult of personality. You know, these
Speaker 1: are the folks who uh you know, and and again
Speaker 1: I don't generalize who one uh as they as My
Speaker 1: colleague Hockey Jeffrey says, uh, you know, everyone who follows
Speaker 1: Donald Trump may not be a racist, but every racist
Speaker 1: follows Donald Trump and a significant part of the population
Speaker 1: that see him as a utility for the maintenance of
Speaker 1: their philosophy of white supremacy. Then the actors who I
Speaker 1: would never forget through the twenties sixteen campaign season, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump says something I found. First of all, it insulted me,
Speaker 1: but I understood how what a master manipulator this man
Speaker 1: was when he stood up in from the proud instead
Speaker 1: I love the poorly educated. And when someone says something
Speaker 1: like that, he knows he can manipulate back of the
Speaker 1: population into hanging off his every word. So I don't
Speaker 1: want to cut you off, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: get in trouble with your staff for not letting you
Speaker 1: go at the time that we need you to get
Speaker 1: to I know you have somewhere else that you need
Speaker 1: to be and they were so gracious to give us
Speaker 1: time on your calendar today. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: get in trouble because we need to have you back.
Speaker 1: I just want to say that, um, you know, the
Speaker 1: accountability piece that you touched on earlier is gonna be
Speaker 1: so important. How we continue to work together to ensure
Speaker 1: that this administration does the real work. We can't have
Speaker 1: a celebration line dancing on the lawn um with Vice
Speaker 1: President e let Kamala Harris, who knows how to line. Damn.
Speaker 1: It's better than anybody I know except my mama uh
Speaker 1: and your mother uh. And we we don't want to
Speaker 1: have celebration for four years. We need to be serious
Speaker 1: about getting some work done. And I know you're going
Speaker 1: to do that because you always do. And so I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to us working together hand in hand, making
Speaker 1: sure that the streets and the inside of Congress that
Speaker 1: we're together and organizing and coordinating on behalf of our
Speaker 1: people in our rights well submissions. Sister Tamika Mallory. Is
Speaker 1: so important that we recognize the moment that we're in
Speaker 1: and the new way of life that we are establishing
Speaker 1: for this generation and generations to come. The movement that
Speaker 1: has been established is a multi generational and that movement
Speaker 1: doesn't end with electoral politics. It doesn't end or begin
Speaker 1: with the fact that we were successful in and in
Speaker 1: saving our country and shifting. Uh. The narrative now is
Speaker 1: when the work starts, because when we continue to build
Speaker 1: the movement, this is when we continue on the demands
Speaker 1: that the activists in the streets have been uh, you know,
Speaker 1: out there day in day out, um confronting the status
Speaker 1: quo and and and the power dynamics that has to continue.
Speaker 1: That must continue. And I would say that another piece
Speaker 1: of this is the economic piece of this. And one
Speaker 1: of the things that I want to encourage your listeners
Speaker 1: to do right now is make sure they keep the
Speaker 1: pressure on around the Senate passing the Heroes Act, that
Speaker 1: they involve themselves in whatever way they can in supporting
Speaker 1: the people and helping to elect those senators in Georgia
Speaker 1: so that we can have the type of legislative construct
Speaker 1: that gives us the progress we need. We can't sit
Speaker 1: back now and line dance and say Okay, job done
Speaker 1: it and like you know, clap our hands and think
Speaker 1: that it's gonna be okay. This is when we need
Speaker 1: people to step up in this space, all of us
Speaker 1: to step up into this space and keep the pressure
Speaker 1: on and keep it going and build more reinforcements and
Speaker 1: get more young people engaged, and make sure that the
Speaker 1: knowledge and understanding that the strategy and and and development
Speaker 1: tools that you and others have have have worked on
Speaker 1: all of your lives are passed on to the next generation.
Speaker 1: So again, we are not crossing these bridges over and
Speaker 1: over and over again. But the victory is certain because
Speaker 1: the knowledge, the knowledge of our power is regued in
Speaker 1: each and everybody, and the fight is still on. In
Speaker 1: the words of of Owner Clark, your mama, keep the
Speaker 1: pressure on. So thank you for being with us. We
Speaker 1: love you so much, so we'll see you again real soon.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you. Congratulations once again, y'all, thank you for
Speaker 1: your selflessness, your activism and literally putting your bodies on
Speaker 1: the line for our people. I'm grateful and I know
Speaker 1: the people of the ninth District art to thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank youake care. We know we're doing something right. Thank you.
Speaker 1: So yes man, that was a beautiful interview. It's always
Speaker 1: good to hear from someone like congress Women Clark, who
Speaker 1: is always on the front line. It's always always you know,
Speaker 1: she's always on our issue. She's someone that we can
Speaker 1: reach out to, and I'm making sure that she's a
Speaker 1: regular on our show. Yeah, because she has a lot
Speaker 1: of insight. I mean, the congress woman has been uh
Speaker 1: in Congress. I'm not exactly sure how long, but it's
Speaker 1: been a long time. Ever since I have really been
Speaker 1: politically engaged, not just as an activist, but like really
Speaker 1: paying attention to politics. She's been in office, and she
Speaker 1: comes from a family, a long line of individuals who
Speaker 1: are real leaders. Her mother, Una Clark is also a
Speaker 1: like a star worth in the community, UM and has
Speaker 1: brokered many many many political deals help people to get elected. Um.
Speaker 1: She you know, has had The Congresswoman has had a
Speaker 1: few challengers over time, and every time they come up
Speaker 1: short because the people of the ninth District in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: they trust her, they believe in her, you know, and
Speaker 1: she's always as you said, when we call her. I
Speaker 1: remember when we were outside at m d C at
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Detention Center. They didn't have lights, they didn't
Speaker 1: have hot water. Uh, you know, the inmates were calling
Speaker 1: out and banging on the walls trying to get food.
Speaker 1: It was actually the coldest winter of the coldest period
Speaker 1: of the winter, right, Um, and it was like ice cold,
Speaker 1: and they had no heat inside the jail. And I
Speaker 1: remember when we called her, she showed up and brought
Speaker 1: a bunch of other congressional members with her because they
Speaker 1: had the right to go in and inspect what was
Speaker 1: happening inside the jail, and she did that, and she
Speaker 1: always comes through for us, and so, you know, just
Speaker 1: glad to have it with us to that definitely. Man,
Speaker 1: That's that's just shows the importance of our vote and
Speaker 1: voting down vallet to get people like Hungress in office,
Speaker 1: people that we can call that can directly, you know,
Speaker 1: impact immediately what we need done. So you know, people
Speaker 1: with this don't vote there. I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: where they get there from. Yeah, No, I mean I
Speaker 1: think a lot more people are beginning to understand the
Speaker 1: local election piece. Um. And speaking of local elections, we're
Speaker 1: being joined by another guests who ran for a local
Speaker 1: seat in Louisiana recently. Um. Even though he was not
Speaker 1: victorious in this in in securing the seat, he still
Speaker 1: was able to transform politics in a large way in
Speaker 1: Baton Rouge, and also to bring attention from many younger
Speaker 1: people to the political process. And so the next time
Speaker 1: he runs, he's definitely gonna win. You know, we all
Speaker 1: have to get our feet wet, put your toes in
Speaker 1: the water, right, Gary Chambers, You put your toes in
Speaker 1: the water, and now you are just a regular face,
Speaker 1: voice and leader in Louisiana, in the entire state. I
Speaker 1: can't say just bat Rouge, because people all over the
Speaker 1: state of Louisiana know you, and now all over the
Speaker 1: country because of so many of your other very viral
Speaker 1: moments when you've been speaking truth to power. So I'm
Speaker 1: happy to welcome my friend Gary Chambers, who again is
Speaker 1: a voice of this generation. Yes, sir, how are you
Speaker 1: doing today, Gary? I'm good. Thank you all for having me.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the opera tune it. Thanks for being here. Man.
Speaker 1: Like she said you, you started out in bad Rouge,
Speaker 1: but you're becoming like a national favorite. I you know,
Speaker 1: I've posted a lot of your videos, man, and it
Speaker 1: motivates us. You know, when you're doing this work and
Speaker 1: you see other people with that same passion, you know,
Speaker 1: it feels good. So we want to thank you for
Speaker 1: being on our show and thank you for the work
Speaker 1: that you don't man, thank you all every time that
Speaker 1: you guys help elevate the voices of people from these communities.
Speaker 1: It helps these stories, you know, because the platforms, all
Speaker 1: of us are growing into these platforms right and and
Speaker 1: it's always been a challenge to try to get the
Speaker 1: conversation to the next level. And so I just thank
Speaker 1: you all for being willing to do that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know, a part of Street Politicians today we are
Speaker 1: This is our first episode that is in partnership with
Speaker 1: My Heart on the Black Effect podcast Network, which is
Speaker 1: Charlemagne's network, and we're so excited about the launch, the relaunch,
Speaker 1: if you will, of our podcast this large way where
Speaker 1: we have uh, you know, more of an opportunity to
Speaker 1: touch more people. It started out with us just being
Speaker 1: on Instagram, uh and then some folks got involved and
Speaker 1: helped us to really develop a show. Um. And one
Speaker 1: of the things that we have said is that we
Speaker 1: want to make sure that at every single episode there
Speaker 1: is a local voice, someone from around this country that
Speaker 1: is dealing with an issue locally, dealing with many issues locally,
Speaker 1: and the one that we wanted to talk about today
Speaker 1: that many over this past weekend have been paying very
Speaker 1: close attention to is Kawan Bobby Charles, h fifteen years
Speaker 1: old found near a field. I believe um and and
Speaker 1: I mean his body, his face dismembered. He looked like
Speaker 1: he may have been burned in some way. I don't
Speaker 1: know all of the details, but I know that when
Speaker 1: I saw this fifteen year old boy uh in that
Speaker 1: body bag, looking the way that he looked, my heart
Speaker 1: was broken. It is broken. But I also can't unsee
Speaker 1: what I saw. So now I know something happened, and
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity, We have an obligation, such as
Speaker 1: with Brianna Taylor, George Floyd, and every other case that
Speaker 1: we deal with, to find out what happened to Bobby
Speaker 1: Um and to give him the same attention. So I'm
Speaker 1: so glad that you are there on the case, But
Speaker 1: I don't you tell us the story of Kawan Bobby
Speaker 1: Charles and what we need to know. So Kawan Bobby
Speaker 1: Charles went missing on October the thirtieth. Uh what we
Speaker 1: know is he was picked up by a white woman
Speaker 1: and her son from near his home. He was taking
Speaker 1: about twenty five miles away from home to another neighboring parish.
Speaker 1: We don't have counties in Louisiana. We have parishes. UM.
Speaker 1: And so he was taken to a neighboring parish. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he was never seen by his family alive again. Uh.
Speaker 1: He turned up in a sugarcane field on November the three,
Speaker 1: UH when Iberia pair of Sharf's deputies finally without to
Speaker 1: search for him. His mother UH called authorities on Friday.
Speaker 1: I told the thirtieth to let them know that her
Speaker 1: son was missing. UM. They attempted to try to get
Speaker 1: an amber alert. UH. No amber alert was sent at
Speaker 1: that time. And he goes through the weekend. We don't
Speaker 1: know what took what took place during that weekend, And
Speaker 1: those are the unanswered questions, right, we don't know uh specifically,
Speaker 1: Uh did he die on October the thirtie? Did he
Speaker 1: die on October thirty one? How long was he in
Speaker 1: this field? We don't have those answers today, uh as
Speaker 1: a as a community, as a state, right and more importantly,
Speaker 1: his family does not have those answers. UM. And I
Speaker 1: think that what what what we're looking at is trying
Speaker 1: to find out how did he end up in that field?
Speaker 1: Why is this family being allowed to be transient at
Speaker 1: this moment and move around the state of Louisiana right
Speaker 1: when we don't know what what role they played in
Speaker 1: the depth of this fifteen year old black child. So
Speaker 1: just hearing it is is disheartening, you know, I just
Speaker 1: I feel for the family. Well, Um, do we know
Speaker 1: about the autopsy? Was the autopsy done and if so,
Speaker 1: was the what is the status of So the autopsy
Speaker 1: done by the Paris said that Kawan drowned um and
Speaker 1: that the injuries to his body were after his death.
Speaker 1: The independent autopsy is going to come out, I believe
Speaker 1: today or tomorrow. The family has done independent autopsy on
Speaker 1: his body and so we're waiting for those results to
Speaker 1: come out from Attorney Ron Haley. Now I heard that
Speaker 1: the water near where the field where Kuan was found
Speaker 1: or Bobby was found because his family, I'm told, calls
Speaker 1: him Bobby. So we want to make sure we honor
Speaker 1: him and them in that way. Um, that the field,
Speaker 1: the water wasn't that high. It wasn't the kind of
Speaker 1: water that you would be completely submerged urged into if
Speaker 1: you fell in a pond. We're talking about a sugarcane
Speaker 1: field and something that that is equal to maybe a
Speaker 1: small ditch, is what they're saying. That he was found
Speaker 1: in or near and this ditch is near the family's house. Correct,
Speaker 1: everything is within proximity to the family who initially picked
Speaker 1: his brother up um on October the thirties. So you know,
Speaker 1: he was not far from them where he was found. Uh,
Speaker 1: we know for a fact that he was with them
Speaker 1: when he left his family. We just don't know what
Speaker 1: happened between the time that these people took him away
Speaker 1: without the consent of his parents. That that that must
Speaker 1: be said, without the consent of his mother or his
Speaker 1: father took him away, and then the next time his
Speaker 1: parents see him, he is deceased. So and he okay,
Speaker 1: And so the family is not supposed to leave town, right,
Speaker 1: That's what we've been That's what I think we heard.
Speaker 1: And so is the rule that they can't leave Louisiana,
Speaker 1: because it seems to me that they've been moving around.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what that's what we heard, that they've
Speaker 1: been moving around. Um, that they've actually relocated. They have,
Speaker 1: so they lived in a trailer in the area. Uh,
Speaker 1: they moved out of the trailer, and they moved to
Speaker 1: an area, uh somewhere else in the state. We're not
Speaker 1: sure uh specifically if the shaff What I don't understand
Speaker 1: is if if I break the law, you know, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna give me the opportunity to be moving all
Speaker 1: around this, right, They're not gonna give me the opportunity,
Speaker 1: uh to be transient after a potential murder, right or
Speaker 1: while a murder investigation is going on. And so you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know to what degree the Shares Department is
Speaker 1: uh taking this extremely serious, and without this national attention,
Speaker 1: we're not sure if we're going to get these kind
Speaker 1: of answers. Because let's be honest, this is rural Louisiana.
Speaker 1: They get to fly under the radar without the microscope
Speaker 1: of public accountability. And so it's in porton that we
Speaker 1: continue to shine the light because we don't know where
Speaker 1: these people are going to go or if they're going
Speaker 1: to move again, and hopefully authorities know where they are
Speaker 1: at this moment. So for for me, I mean, at most,
Speaker 1: I mean, at least we know that that he was kidnapped,
Speaker 1: he was This is abduction. If he was taken without
Speaker 1: the consent of his family by someone else, and they
Speaker 1: admit that that that's a that's a charge legally anyway.
Speaker 1: So what what is the sheriff's department saying? What are
Speaker 1: the police saying? They're gonna say, he willingly went with
Speaker 1: this this family because it seems like he was friends.
Speaker 1: He knew them, and he was friends with one of
Speaker 1: the other kids, right, the kid and he went to
Speaker 1: school with each other. Is what I is what I understand,
Speaker 1: and I gotta say the name Jamal Tailor, Eugene Collins.
Speaker 1: They are the activists that have kind of been on
Speaker 1: the ground in the ball when you're working this um.
Speaker 1: And and what what they've come to understand is that
Speaker 1: they had a friendship. Um. And so these were people
Speaker 1: that he knew. We just don't know what happened once
Speaker 1: he was gone and old Um, it's you can't tell
Speaker 1: me that you find a little black baby in the
Speaker 1: field like that. And if he was white, or if
Speaker 1: he if it was a different name, that we would
Speaker 1: not have these people detained until they get the answers.
Speaker 1: That's right, And it's exactly what you said, my son, right,
Speaker 1: if if I am found to have taken someone else's
Speaker 1: child without their permission. You would detain me on that
Speaker 1: until you can prove what I did on the on
Speaker 1: on the murder, or until they can prove that they
Speaker 1: didn't do something. You know, there would have to be
Speaker 1: some level of evidence. Either way. A man, a young
Speaker 1: boy lost his life. The last person he was seen
Speaker 1: with or known to be with is this adult person
Speaker 1: who picked him up in their car. Nobody knows anything
Speaker 1: after that, and and there is no type of accountability.
Speaker 1: And this is really crazy to me, except the other
Speaker 1: another mother or another person who says she's a mother
Speaker 1: who called uh Kawan's mother, Bobby's mother to tell her
Speaker 1: that there was bleached in the car after you know
Speaker 1: for sure that Bobby had been in the car right
Speaker 1: and she's saying the car had been bleached, that there
Speaker 1: was drugs. I mean, this lady seemed to be very
Speaker 1: confident in the recording that we heard um that you posted.
Speaker 1: And also have to give a shout out to Warriors
Speaker 1: in the Garden UH in New York City and organization
Speaker 1: that has been organizing here. I mean, people have been
Speaker 1: organizing around the country around Bobby's death murder. However, we're
Speaker 1: going to find out at some point um. Uh that
Speaker 1: that that that this this thing happened to him. Um.
Speaker 1: And so it seems like some people know what's going on.
Speaker 1: But but but the idea that time and time again,
Speaker 1: families are not given the respect of receiving the same
Speaker 1: information that officers often know that law enforcement has been involved.
Speaker 1: They understand the details very well because everybody else's talking
Speaker 1: about it except the law enforcement agency speaking to the family.
Speaker 1: The family knows nothing. We have to we have to
Speaker 1: make sure that we put a quotation on black families.
Speaker 1: It's not just black families are not giving the courtesy
Speaker 1: and respect in the legal obligation that comes with the
Speaker 1: law to be notified exactly what's called. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: were saying, and I know your time is shortened today
Speaker 1: and again we want to thank you for joining street politicians,
Speaker 1: but I know that you're also working on other cases,
Speaker 1: other working with other families. It hurts me. It pains
Speaker 1: me that we can't just talk about Bobby and solve
Speaker 1: this problem by itself. We have other issues that's happening
Speaker 1: all over the nation. But you just told us that
Speaker 1: right there in Baton Rouge. There is another situation that
Speaker 1: you are now working on tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: about that. Kobe bow Champ. Kobe bow Champion is a
Speaker 1: brother who, um, we don't know the exact day that
Speaker 1: he was he was shot and killed. But on November
Speaker 1: the first, there was a shootout in a white neighborhood.
Speaker 1: He was shot at, he runs from the scene, His
Speaker 1: family calls and the tells authorities that, you know, they
Speaker 1: can't find him. For thirteen days, nobody searches for him.
Speaker 1: Eugene Collins, the president of the n double A CP here,
Speaker 1: goes on social media after being reached out to by
Speaker 1: the family. They're going to do a search, which was
Speaker 1: supposed to take place on yesterday, Sunday UM. And once
Speaker 1: they go public and say that they're going to do
Speaker 1: a search for this brother, the sheriff's department goes out
Speaker 1: and searches for him, and they find him and he's
Speaker 1: been dead for thirteen days. And so now we're trying
Speaker 1: to find out why didn't you go investigate you find
Speaker 1: out where he was. Is it because he's black? Is
Speaker 1: it because you want to keep it under wraps that
Speaker 1: he was shot and killed in a white neighborhood. We
Speaker 1: don't know, and our young black men and what what
Speaker 1: what it is is a total disregard for our humanity
Speaker 1: as people, for for us as as human beings deceased
Speaker 1: laying in fields but where whether we're talking about Bobby
Speaker 1: Charles where we don't know how long he laid in
Speaker 1: that field there, or whether we're talking about uh Kobe
Speaker 1: bro Champ here and Baton Rouge. What we know is
Speaker 1: law enforcement is just taking a position that, oh, we
Speaker 1: can wait and so how long does evidence get tampered with?
Speaker 1: And how much we could take for all of these things.
Speaker 1: And so it's just if if these were white people
Speaker 1: in this state that we're dying like this, or that
Speaker 1: these internets they said they were missing, they would go
Speaker 1: after them with the full power of the government. And
Speaker 1: we know it and we know that's right, We know
Speaker 1: it to be true. Gary, Thank you so much, Thank
Speaker 1: you for being with us. We want to make sure
Speaker 1: that you, you know, know Street Politicians is available to
Speaker 1: you at any time that you need to come on
Speaker 1: to talk about the issues that's happening um there in Louisiana.
Speaker 1: We really really respect your grind and see what you're
Speaker 1: doing on the ground. And soon and very soon, our
Speaker 1: organization Until Freedom will be on the ground with you
Speaker 1: in Louisiana to help uplift the local local voices UM
Speaker 1: and the local work that's happening there around, not just
Speaker 1: these two situations, but any other matter that you feel
Speaker 1: we should be paying attention to. Continue to do the work. Man.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you and respect you man, and like like
Speaker 1: she said, we'll be here for you. Whatever you need
Speaker 1: from us. We just to call away and let us
Speaker 1: know when we need to start raising money for your
Speaker 1: next election. That's right, let's start now, keep pushing, y'all.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you Chambers. So and then you know, Gary,
Speaker 1: I'm being funny about raising money for him, but this
Speaker 1: guy really should be an elected office like those at
Speaker 1: people were trying to send to everywhere, because he does
Speaker 1: the work when nobody's looking right the way I found
Speaker 1: him online just reading, reading like he was what He
Speaker 1: walked into building. He made the lady walk out, Remember
Speaker 1: that she walked out. He was reading her so like
Speaker 1: some type of council He was the councilman. He just
Speaker 1: walked in and she he broke her down so much
Speaker 1: that she just got up from the table and just left,
Speaker 1: you know. And he and the thing is he's so
Speaker 1: deeply embedded in his community that he knows the names
Speaker 1: of the individuals who sit on these councils and other
Speaker 1: things that control aspects of the community. Uh, he knows
Speaker 1: them by name. So when he was speaking in this
Speaker 1: video to the young lady or to the woman whoever
Speaker 1: she was, I don't remember, she felt bad because she
Speaker 1: knows Gary, because he's calling them by our first name.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a different type, you know. So
Speaker 1: shut again to Gary Chambers man and the work he's doing,
Speaker 1: and please support him investing his fellow guy. We you know,
Speaker 1: we've been good grassroots and we've had nothing and had
Speaker 1: to figure out how we're going to do the work
Speaker 1: and survive, you know. And people, for some reason, they
Speaker 1: think that when you're activists or organized, that you know,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to start. We don't not subscribe to that.
Speaker 1: We believe that when you're doing Guard's work, and you
Speaker 1: really are, you put in your life, and this is
Speaker 1: you investing in the people and trying to make things better,
Speaker 1: that you should at least be able to support your
Speaker 1: family and be able to eat, you know, So please
Speaker 1: look look into supporting Gary Chambers And that brings me two,
Speaker 1: our final segment of the show, which happens to be
Speaker 1: it just happens, and it's called I don't get it.
Speaker 1: And as you know why it's called I don't get it.
Speaker 1: You really were like, no, I need to segment that
Speaker 1: because it's so much shit that I just don't get. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's that's that I just don't get. And today's episode,
Speaker 1: since we talk about the election, I really don't get
Speaker 1: how people still voted for Donald Trump. How more people
Speaker 1: like I think I think because when I when I
Speaker 1: when I looked at the numbers of people that voted
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump, I was really in dismay, you know,
Speaker 1: And when I went on my page and I was
Speaker 1: saying we had to get rid of Donald Trump, and
Speaker 1: amount of people which not even said them probably bought controls.
Speaker 1: But there are ten percent of those people that were
Speaker 1: actual people that were all it was people that I
Speaker 1: actually knew that was trying to explain to me how
Speaker 1: it makes sense for somebody to vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And either I'm on Mars right or it's the dumbest
Speaker 1: shit I've ever heard. You know, I just don't understand
Speaker 1: how people that come from our communities, that come from
Speaker 1: my walk alive, our walk of life, and understand what
Speaker 1: it is that we go through. And who have watched
Speaker 1: this man, who have heard and seen what he's promoting,
Speaker 1: what he's in voting, who have watched how he's completely
Speaker 1: divided this nation, not just the United States, he's divided
Speaker 1: the nation in general, the world, like the world is split.
Speaker 1: When he lost, they were leaders from all over the
Speaker 1: world congratulate. They were saying, welcome back America. You understand
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So when when I see that seventy thousand plus,
Speaker 1: seventy million plus people voted for Donald Trump, which increased
Speaker 1: and so increasing so many different areas, it was just like, wow,
Speaker 1: we have so far to go, man, you know, and
Speaker 1: I really just don't get and I just want people
Speaker 1: to search their souls, you know, even the people that
Speaker 1: wanted to endorse Donald Trump. And and then it was
Speaker 1: and it was about you know, taxes, you know, tax breaks.
Speaker 1: They were grown people that I want respected that told
Speaker 1: my well, you know, I'm gonna vote for Trump because
Speaker 1: I don't want abody to take my money. And you
Speaker 1: mean to tell me that the money was worth You're
Speaker 1: selling out the people the money that you was getting
Speaker 1: from some tax breaks or some PP loan or whatever
Speaker 1: you got was worth stimulus checks was worth really jeopardized
Speaker 1: in the lives of our people. You know, this man
Speaker 1: has empowered and emboldened straight racist man and people were
Speaker 1: they're setting up for like a race war. We look,
Speaker 1: we see how this world is divided. And if you
Speaker 1: voted for that, I want you to serve don't. It's
Speaker 1: not about me. I want you to ask yourself what
Speaker 1: what was on your mind? I ask yourself, what what
Speaker 1: what did you value? You know, did you think about
Speaker 1: the country, did you think about those who don't have
Speaker 1: what you have? Did you think about the kids getting
Speaker 1: snatched at the border? You know, did you really think
Speaker 1: about those things or did they even matter? You know?
Speaker 1: So for me, you know, it's a little more serious man.
Speaker 1: So I really don't get that at all. Well, I
Speaker 1: won't be labored the point because I think you said
Speaker 1: it properly. Children separated at the boarder, um, you know,
Speaker 1: the racist not undertones they were. Um. You know, the
Speaker 1: things that he said, the way in which he operated.
Speaker 1: I'm just glad to see him go. I would love
Speaker 1: to get to a place where we don't even as
Speaker 1: congress Woman Clark said, um, where we don't even need
Speaker 1: to bring them up anymore, where the world has just changed. Um.
Speaker 1: And I know there's a lot of work that we
Speaker 1: have to do, and I think Street Politicians is going
Speaker 1: to be an organizing space as well as a place
Speaker 1: to break down critical thoughts about a lot of issues,
Speaker 1: because I think everything happening in our community, whether it
Speaker 1: be how to chicken spot operates, to who owns the bodega,
Speaker 1: to obviously gun violence that's happening in our community. Saying
Speaker 1: that mom, things that Mama used to say. You know,
Speaker 1: all of those things means something to our culture, the
Speaker 1: way we operate, And so we don't have to just
Speaker 1: talk about politics. We can also talk about the politics
Speaker 1: of the streets, because the streets has its own politics.
Speaker 1: You know. The other day I was having a conversation
Speaker 1: with my hairstylus and we were talking about growing up
Speaker 1: in the projects and how the projects is super political,
Speaker 1: like super duper political and all that. You learn everything
Speaker 1: from the way in which buildings operate, the you know,
Speaker 1: the top of the hill versus the bottom of the hill. Um,
Speaker 1: you know who runs the little community rooms inside of
Speaker 1: each building, the community center. If you're lucky enough to
Speaker 1: have it. The benches, who's outside of what times a day?
Speaker 1: You know, the drugs, the drug industry, that happens. It's
Speaker 1: so many things going on in the projects. And the
Speaker 1: one thing that we sort of ended on. First of all,
Speaker 1: we said you had to be there. You wouldn't know
Speaker 1: if you if you weren't there. And I have a
Speaker 1: book called State of Emergency that's coming out really, really,
Speaker 1: really soon, and you know, the book delves into that
Speaker 1: because it's difficult to understand our struggle if you don't
Speaker 1: understand the places that we've been confined and where we
Speaker 1: learned everything that we know, the politics of how we operate,
Speaker 1: because that controls the way that we operate in a
Speaker 1: larger political system. So it's so much to be talked
Speaker 1: about on street politicians, and I'm glad to be doing
Speaker 1: it with you, my brother. Let's make history, man, and
Speaker 1: we appreciate you all for this first episode. Tuning in.
Speaker 1: We're going to be the voice of the culture. We're
Speaker 1: going to be your voice. We want you to give
Speaker 1: us your ideas. We want to take your critiques. You
Speaker 1: want to tell you that is whacked, is dope? Whatever
Speaker 1: we want to hear it, you know, because the reality
Speaker 1: of the situation is we're nothing without you. So I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna always be right. Tamika is not gonna always
Speaker 1: be wrong. She'll be wrong what's of the town, But
Speaker 1: we will both always be authentic. That's how we own it.