WEBVTT - "Post Election" 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:08.639 Yeah, that's what's going on, y'all. And I'm Tamika D. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:12.720 Mallory and this is Street Politicians, the place where the 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:17.239 streets and politics meet. I am so, so, so so 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:22.919 excited that today is our first day, our launch for 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.319 Street Politicians on the Black Effect Network. Shout out to 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:34.240 Solomon Guards our black black black black black black. Yeah, 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.920 he's ought boss. He's a partner. Yeah, that's what it is. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.960 It's a partner. He's kind of boss. We respected. Listen 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.159 to me. I don't mind working for another black man. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.920 A black man gonna work for me eventually, because they 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.120 all kim folks ain't just I mean, excuse me, all 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.800 skin folks. Ain't your kim folks. That's so Listen, we're 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.320 celebrating this our first episode. We got we got our champagne. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.040 Weren't promoting who it is because they didn't give us 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.880 no check yet. But we're gonna pop this. Look, we're 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.880 gonna be with people's eyes and you know, look, we're 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:13.520 gonna get this together. Look, we don't got no champagne glasses. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.960 Week from the Hood. From the Hood. We got a 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.959 little little red cups that you probably he brought these, 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.880 say't even the real red cups. These is the coffee cups. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.880 But we're good with it. You know what I'm saying. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.160 We got that's all it is. It's about a drink man. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.039 We're gonna toast for our first episode on the Black 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.720 Effect Network Heart Radio. Charlomagne and Guard thank you for 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.440 having us playing the beat in the Hall of Fame soon. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.120 So we're gonna toast that. Let's toast the Hold of Fame, Bobs, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:50.280 Hold of Fame, Bobs Tree Politicians, Let's go cheers. You 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.440 know you have to think about or it has been 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.960 your journey that I've kind of just been going along 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.520 with because nobody has that podcast. We're gonna be really 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.440 really but three four years and you said we need 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.360 to start something. We came up with the name Street Politicians. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:07.960 I think I came up with this name you came 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:15.040 up with until you cameians. Definitely came definitely. Listen, no man, 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.400 she came up with the logo we have, but the 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:22.440 name was no way I came with definitely. I know 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.800 I came up with it, but he says he came 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.640 up with it definitely. But anyway, Street Politicians is a 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.760 baby of my songs where a few years back, you 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.079 were like, Yo, podcasts are gonna be the thing. It's 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.800 going to be how we get information to our communities. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.720 It's it's a trend. It's something that we need to 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.120 jump on. And you know, I don't really like cameras, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.320 as you know, it's not my thing. People see me 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.320 on cameras all the time. I probably think I'm super 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.640 duper comfortable, but I'm not. I'm pretty much like to 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.960 just be easy and not have all of the attention. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.120 But you know, I didn't really necessarily see it at 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.400 the time. But then as time has gone on and 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.960 I listened to other really important podcasts, and it actually 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.880 helps to inform a lot of our strategy and thought 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.880 processes about what's going on in the movement. I was like, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.960 you know what, you're right, and there were a lot 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.440 of people who believed in us that we need to 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.320 give a lot of credit to. One is our producer, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.760 the executive executive put the executive Kathleen Trigger. If you 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.639 don't know where, you need to look her up. She 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.760 is the founder of cat Scape Productions also I Woman TV. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.880 She works with an incredible team that is led by 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:41.240 the creative director Janice Rodriguez. She's a legend. They are 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:46.840 a legend, legend, legend, and they really did believe in 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.880 street politicians and helped us to get started. That's when 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:54.320 we took from day one and we had we used 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.320 to just argue all the time to a good argument, definitely, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:04.560 because right in fact, our first promo was I don't agree. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.400 I don't agree with you, I don't agree. We said 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.800 it so many times that they were able to capture 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.200 it and put it in a promo. A fact, but 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.440 I think we found we find a common ground, you know, 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.320 and we're growing in our you know, into our voices, 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.280 into our platform. So you know, once again, let's toast again, 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:30.000 Toast again Politicians episode. So it's so much going on 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.359 in the world, Like, what are we talking about today? 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.240 What's our topic today? There's a lot to talk about. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.120 But the first thing we're gonna do is get rid 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.320 of the hood remix situation you've got going on here 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.600 with the rare cuffs. It was no I was cute, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.000 but I can't stay Sorry, sorry can I was having 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.520 a good time. I'm ratchet, Like nobody says you can't 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.480 just good time. But we're not. First of all, you said, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.520 it's a celebration. It is a selling Christian but it'll 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.360 be done in a different way at a different time. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.920 But then and we have to have Charlemagne to come 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.640 up here and something definitely got to celebrate with us. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.960 We gotta interview him, We gotta pick his mind, the 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.000 mind of the genius. What was his vision behind the 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.080 black what I'm saying, we even talking so much about 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.880 black Andy Black, and you know, I think this year 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.560 with the whole Black Lives Matter, everyone is interested in 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.800 what's going on black dogs, and I think it was 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.320 so genius of him to just capture this moment and 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:30.520 create a network that really speaks our voice and talks 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.160 about our culture and has different representation of us in 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.120 all facets and oil it does. So you have like 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.400 Teslin Black, what is it with no chaser or straight 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:48.240 no chase, straight no chaser, And that's exactly who she is, absolutely, absolutely, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.279 and so many other voices on the network that's given, 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:56.080 like you said, different perspectives to what it means to 0:05:56.160 --> 0:06:01.279 be black, Andy Black, Black and different friend but also 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.520 everyone dealing with serious issues in their own way, even 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.440 the comedic side of the network where you know you're 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.880 gonna hear different people. I mean, what's her name, jes hilarious. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:17.039 She's hilarious, but she does talk about important issues. Um, 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.040 and so I think it's just the place that black 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.880 folks are going to finally find our voices again because 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.880 we've lost so much of black media, We've lost so 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.200 many opportunities to tell our own narratives, to share our 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.239 own stories. And I think that the Black Effect Network 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.520 gives us that ability again. I am super, super humble 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.839 and honored to be a part of it. So, you know, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.560 thinking ling Lane, now, you said, what's going on? So 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.080 what's going on in the world. There's a lot going on. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.760 We had an election. We just you know what I'm saying, 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.520 we got a whole new thing right now. We we 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:58.320 hope listen, we are hopeful. You know. We believe that 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.120 different means something that's gonna push us forward. That's that's 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.279 how we go. Well. I produced a catch. Rig who 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.440 used to work with Joe Biden, believes that something different 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:13.480 it's going to happen. Believe that cats amen, she said 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.720 amen amen. That was a black woman's amen. Amen. It's 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:24.000 not like amen amen amen. So you know, um, I 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.440 hope it it's a new day. I think it's a 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.120 new day in terms of getting rid of Donald Trump 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.800 for sure, because that just wasn't gonna work. For the 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.280 four years we had was such so atrocious to me, 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.160 you know, I'm just so I think just when you 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.520 look at this election, for me, right, I think I 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.120 was so just disappointed in the amount of people who 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.320 voted for him, you know, to notice that after the 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:55.360 four years that he did for this country and the 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.840 poor fashion in which she represented, Like, I just think, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.040 for me, there has to be some level of presidentialness, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:09.600 you know, some decorum, some class, some tact you know, 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.520 and he lacked all of those things or so many 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.239 different levels. And it's just like, it wasn't the representation 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.040 that you like, he shouldn't even be the president of 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.840 a junior high school class, let alone in free world. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:27.720 He just wasn't. He just he bought the worst out 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.200 of us as a nation. I think the worst of 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.280 us was on display, and he gave people who sort 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:40.199 of live in that dark space an opportunity to come forward. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.720 It's not that racism didn't exist. We know racism exists, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:50.400 it always will. But what he did was emboldened people 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.079 and gave them the opportunity to come out and say hey, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.199 I'm here, whereas before we had them where they had 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.079 to be closeted racist. Now I get that there are 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:03.280 some who say, we would prefer to know who an 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.640 individual is, like we want to be able to see 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.319 them and say, okay, I have identified that you're my enemy. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.120 And that makes sense except that these individuals are actually 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.760 killing people. They're actually in charge of, you know, human 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.760 resources departments. They might be your dentists, they might be 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.680 your child's teacher, and so they need to have to 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.280 be closeted with their behavior. We should not allow it 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.320 to just be full fledged. Just everybody go out and 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.640 be as racist as we want to be. Racism should 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:39.199 never feel comfortable, not think. For me, which I continuously say, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.559 is that it was more than racism. For me, it 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.600 was white supremacy. It was it was and it was 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:49.600 implementation and embolderness and and you know, and just pretty 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:54.240 much normalizing white supremacy. It wasn't just because racism exists, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.520 Like I don't believe that most people that come from different, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.480 you know, backgrounds, there is either bias and we call 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.800 it bias in our communities because we don't have the 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.840 power to impose racism to affect your bottom line, you know. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.040 So we know that because we've heard different things, we 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:13.120 have different experiences. I don't believe that not out of 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.520 ten seventy year old white men don't have a level 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.840 of racism. Even with Joe Biden, I believe there's racing. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.120 If you heard things he said. There's ignorance and racism 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.480 that just comes from the upbringing that you have, you know, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.719 but there's also a willingness to try to identifying and 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.640 understand why it's racist, to listen and sit down with 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.480 other people from different ethnicities and say, okay, I understand why. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.800 I didn't realize what I was saying was racist. I 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:42.120 just was told us something. But Donald Trump was living 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.200 in that. He was he was he was doubling and 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.679 tripling down on that. He was making people who normally 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.959 didn't even feel comfortable saying, you know what, I'm gonna 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:56.040 talk as crazy as to you as possible. Karen's were 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.840 at an all time high. Kins were at a whole 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:04.360 time high. It just was at it was just that, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.000 you know, they had their four years. If you were 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.000 one of those people that's like, I need to learn 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.120 who the races are around me. I want everybody to 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.559 be exposed. They're exposed. You learned. Now you know, you've 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.880 been able to identify them. It's time for us to 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.800 get in a place where we could go back to 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:27.200 fighting without having to also fight fascism and dictatorship, because 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.199 that's the thing that's that's that's actually the larger framework. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.760 We've always been fighting the oppression of black and brown people. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.720 We've always been fighting institutions that have you know that 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:43.680 white supremacy is ingrained in the way in which they operate. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.160 That's something we've always been dealing with, and it's going 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.440 to take us a while. Like it's now four hundred 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.880 plus years. Some people say four hundred and two years 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.520 or four hundred one year, four hundred one years, and 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.960 then there are other people that count other parts of 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.600 our history where we were even captured in Africa, um 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.000 and then the journey towards enslavement, and so they say 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.080 that's about four hundred and sixty five years. So it 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.880 depends on where you are in terms of your understanding 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.360 as a historian. But the bottom line is that for 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.560 more than four hundred years, we've been dealing with these 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:21.840 oppressive systems, and there's no one president, one organization, one movement, 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.200 one era that will change that and turn back the 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.640 entire clock and just spontaneously we live in this fair 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.600 and equitable world. You know, that's not really the case. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.719 We're gonna have to fight. But we were fighting not 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:40.480 just the institutional issues, but we were also fighting a fascist, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.800 someone who wanted to be a dictator and was really 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:48.440 moving towards creating a government that would allow him to 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.880 be a dictator by doing things like well, first of all, 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.600 controlling the Senate, right which we know every time something 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:00.400 happened that we wanted our government, the local officials who 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.319 are in the federal government to fight against or to 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.720 stand against. They are unable to win because we're dealing 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.120 with the Senate that backs up the white supremacy that's 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.880 happening within, you know, within our government. Then beyond that, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.520 they were putting judges over three hundred judges in place 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.040 in the federal courts across this country that are conservative 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.720 judges who you know, Lee married attorney Lee Merrit, who 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.040 we have to have on one days as a guest. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.160 I called him just to check on him a few 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.679 days ago ahead and talked to him in a while, 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.720 and he answered the phone so frustrated, like, Tamika, you 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.439 don't know what's going on in these courts with these 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.680 conservative judges. Y'all don't get to see that because you're 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.240 not in the court. You're not fighting these cases. But 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.760 as attorneys, we're up against a real serious problem in 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.120 terms of going in these courts and seeing how the 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.280 judges are ruling. So there's stuff that's going on that 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:58.040 people who were like, Oh, I'm with Trump, I'm with Trump. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.360 That's your god boding different. That's what they were saying. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.959 And but those people who say that, they also don't 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:11.520 understand this man was And then we have to talk 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.000 about the Supreme Court, which pisces me off. But the 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:19.240 Democrats strategy was basically, well, we just hope Ruth Bedegainsberg 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:24.400 lives until Trump is out of office. It wasn't a 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.960 successful It was not because she just and and listen, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.280 shout out. She held She held on as long as 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.440 she could. Days She's held on. She gave me days, 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.160 she gave them years of everything. She fell out in 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.840 her office. She had cancer, she had all kinds of 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:49.240 medical issues, and she kept bouncing back. She wouldn't even 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.560 sometimes stay out for weeks, like after she was really ill, 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.920 she kept coming back to work. And on her deathbed, 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.280 when asked by her grandchildren, I be what her last 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.360 wishes were, she said she liked to see Donald Trump 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.520 be removed from office before she passed away. And so 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.640 that that may not have happened exactly at the time 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.240 that she passed away or when she passed, but certainly 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.920 we were able to put the work in to give 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:22.040 her the gift of life in her passing. You know, 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.520 when we look at when we look at the post election, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.240 and we just look at the tension that Donald Trump 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.440 has had by losing, you know now and all it's been, 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.160 you know, official that he's lost in these states and 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:41.160 he's still unwilling to concede. Just just it's just that's 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.960 just so shows to the character. You know. It's it's 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:50.760 just like you lost, you lost. You gotta do like 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.840 wi and them when they always tweet back, like girl, 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.760 if you don't sit, it's just like it's over. Like Trump, 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.640 you lost, you know you would there, you lost, man, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.600 it was you gave a good fight. You actually gets 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:11.560 he lost, but with the same electoral votes you. You 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.120 ain't want to go to the Supreme Court. You ain't 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:15.920 want you don't want to talk about none of that 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.120 Russia involved you. You said that people was crazy. So 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.480 it's like you, every time you look at what he does, 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.560 it shows you more and more. You know, we're dealing 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.040 with a global pandemic in which he refused to act 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.920 on that people are dying because we're dealing with, you know, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.920 health issues and financial issues in this country that he 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.680 pretty much caused, you know, and and to not be 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.680 able to just concede as a man and say lost 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.840 as a man, you know. And then they had this march, 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:52.000 you know, they had this million Maga marks march that 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.800 you know that people got hurt. People definitely got hurt. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.240 I hurt, even people got stabbed, I mean, and there, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.800 and they were so against the marches that black and 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.280 brown folks were holding all summer. They were and not 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.640 just black and brown folks, people are allies supporters, everyone 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.200 who was down with the movement, the Black Lives Matter 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.080 movement held marches where some of it did turn violent, which, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.719 by the way, I was watching Fox News the other thing, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.120 because you know, I watched Fox News. It's a shameless thing, 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.320 but I have to because we gotta know what's going on. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.920 Um And I was watching the other day and they 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:31.080 were like, you know, talking about well they were saying basically, 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.400 we can have marches and there won't there will not 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.120 be people there to destroy people who are destructive, which 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:39.920 we know that that's not true, but that's what they said. 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.440 And I was like, yeah, you know why the destructive 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.439 people are not there because they were read at our 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:49.159 march destroying you know, the destroying things to try to 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.080 take the storyline away from the Black Lives Matter issue 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.919 and to turn it towards looting and violence. Like we 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.280 know what happens. We know that a lot of times 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.600 the individual wols who come out who are destructive during 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.320 these marches are people who want are you know some 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.119 that you know, the superwolkes. We got the Super Bowls, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.520 definitely got the Super Bow. Those are people where I 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.120 ain't a lot. There are people they super work. They're 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.560 so mad that they they're they're more upset than the 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.920 families of those people who actually whose lives have actually 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:21.879 been taken. Those are the superwolkes. So we have to 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.159 work on them all the time, and a lot of 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.920 times they are white people that we have to talk 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:32.440 to and bring them in, but they are there for 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.960 some of the right reasons. Then you have those those 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:41.640 coin tel pro folks, and that's an important present. I mean, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.320 they're and they're dangerous because they get people hurt. And 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.639 again their job is to destroy, to try to shift 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.639 the narrative. So you have all of that stuff going on. 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.879 But nonetheless, there is a new administration that will be 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.200 coming in in January. I hope that Donald Trump doesn't 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.880 concede because I want to see the month do. I'm 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:07.560 not gonna lie. Listen, I think I don't care. D push. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.720 He just gotta go, You gotta go. You gotta go, man, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.520 pack your bags. Shout out to Michael Rap which told 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:18.160 pack your bags, pack your ship, get out of here. 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.880 He said, your loss, pack your ship, get out of here. Man. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.720 I love it's one of my favorite videos. Now that 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.359 brings me to my thought of the day. And you 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.760 want to know what my thought of the day. My 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:36.280 thought of the day will generally be very thoughtful and serious, 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.960 but on today I have a different type of thought 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:44.920 of the day, and that is how long do you 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:50.560 give uh Milania? Do you think she's gonna do over 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:55.359 six months or under six months before she files for 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.320 divorce and runs for the hills. I think she already did. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.600 I think they have like a videos memes when they 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.960 show you whole trucks already in front. Also, they showed 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.720 the double the person you know, they found they found 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.280 a person on a plane and it's like literally confirmed 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.719 there was a person on the plane. It was supposed 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.480 to be Millennia with him the woman standing there waving, 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:23.960 and it wasn't her poor portrait. Oh you feel sorry 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.800 for me because I don't. I mean, he got a wife. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:31.280 She just upper leaves over so over me. You know what, 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.000 she's got to be able to go on with her life, 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.400 and she could have left a little while ago. Yeah, 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.359 but you know what you don't see, and that's here. Listen, 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:45.280 show topics. Write it down. What happens when the wife 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:49.560 of a successful person, or the wife of a president 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:53.479 or some some you know leader right in whatever field 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:59.520 feels oppressed but can't leave because it's not the status quo. 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.120 And you know there's there's some people who will say, man, 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.639 she's just as bad as he is. We heard some 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.480 of Milannia's comments the jacket that she wore. I think 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:11.919 it says I'm like I don't care or who cares 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.199 or something like that. You know, we heard her in 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.359 the leak taps that her friend put out there where 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:22.080 she is speaking terribly about the children separated at the borders. 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.119 She cleared and like Christmas, and then, you know, we 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.520 don't really celebrate Christmas. But you can't say you don't 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.920 like Christmas because you know, black folks don't like. If 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:30.880 you don't like, if you don't like Christmas, you don't 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.200 like christ because Christ is Christmas is christ Christ. So 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:38.000 you can't you can't like ignorant. But it is what 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:42.600 it is. But it's I think for a lot of people. 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:46.639 Although again I don't celebrate Christmas, um, you know, because 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:50.080 I don't think that we should be spending our money. Yeah, 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:52.640 I've pretty much given it up. Yeah, it's just not 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:59.040 it's before Christmas and that's right. So you know, I 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:01.240 don't know. I just it like where we are now, 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:03.359 hopefully we're going to turn over a new leaf. But 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.239 all of it is going to happen based upon how 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:08.919 much work we put it, Like, we gotta put in 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.159 real work because we have an opportunity in this moment 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.920 to make a real change. We have a real opportunity, man, 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:20.560 you know, and we've seen how united and when we 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:26.480 push on all cylinders you know, have different levels from celebrities, 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:33.720 grassroots organizations, you know, social media platforms, television platforms, and 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:36.280 when we push one message, we've seen how we're able 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:40.640 to push and shift. That's what it's all about, man, 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.640 that's all. It's about. The unity. We do it together. 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:47.080 No not. I don't want uniformity. I don't want nobody 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:49.359 looking sound and doing everything I do. I want you 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.800 to do what you do for the same cause that 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:54.520 I do it, and we do it together, and we 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.199 do it different ways. But still so speaking of that, 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:02.840 the Georgia sent the Senate seats that are up for 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:07.880 grabs in Georgia. Listen, here's the reality. What's the reality. 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:13.680 Even if you have a Joe Biden Kamala Harris presidency, 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:19.160 they can't get shipped done if they don't control Congress, 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:21.960 right the Congress. So you know, that's another thing. We 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.960 have to have experts come on this show to break 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:31.000 down to people what is the Congress versus Congress and 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:33.359 the Senate? Right there? Is there is a difference, right, 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:37.120 and the Congress is the full body of those who 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:41.280 vote on our issues. You need to have both branches 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:47.280 of government, the Senate and the Congress, to come together, 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:56.520 right and make decisions that will support the Democratic president 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.480 or whomever it is whatever, even if in this case 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:04.960 President Trump had Republican control in the Senate. So there's 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:09.320 a lot of things that the Democratic Congress did block. 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:12.600 They did their best. They fought or not they didn't 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:16.000 take Yeah, I'm no, no, no, no, I'm not saying 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:19.480