WEBVTT - Power of the Platform 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:07.080 What's your family, is your girl to meet A D. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.440 Mallory and it's your boy my son in general, and 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.520 we are your host of street politicians the place with 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:19.680 and politics going on, my son Lennon oh Man, long day, 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:24.239 long nights, all types of craziness for weekend too. Just 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.440 so much that's been going on the internet is over. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.760 I want to know, it's not. It's really it is. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:32.879 It's gonna We're gonna have to it's gonna have to 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:37.879 be something new developed as a communication mechanism. I think 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.400 we gotta put some sage on the internet. It's it's 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.800 what they say when y'all well, I can't say y'all 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.520 because I don't want to put you in this category. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.120 But some men when like a woman has what like 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:56.320 when they'll say a woman is she's she's like um, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.280 like like you know, she's she's she's done, like she's 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.520 been too many people are some stupid thing that y'all 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.600 say or not you. But people say there's a word 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:11.320 that they use. They say it's um. It's no, I 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.400 can't think of it. But there's a word that I've 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.319 heard that I would like to reapply to this and 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.600 take off of women um. But I've heard it be 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.840 said like she's done or done for or something like that. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.199 Something something like that. That shouldn't be said again about women. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.039 But we applies to the Internet. The Internet is used 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.800 and abused. It's a rat it has bubbled, it's out 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.920 of control, it's unsafe. Um. The Internet is really actually 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.000 a very violent place. But it's a major distraction for 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:41.920 your life, Like if you're supposed to be working on 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.840 something and really building, especially if you are in a 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:51.040 social space, you can find your mind being consumed with 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:57.360 people's thoughts and conversations versus being able to accomplish whatever 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.760 your goals are. And I think folks really have to 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.520 be careful about that because it's dangerous on the net. 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.400 It really it's at one time, No, you're right, and 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.400 I think I think it's it gives us access to 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.400 information at such a fast rate. But I think that 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.840 the danger, the biggest danger for me on the Internet 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:22.600 is misinformation and people who have big platforms who constantly 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:28.160 spell misinformation right. And I think the danger in that 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.280 is when there's nobody a challenge or correct the misinformation. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:37.240 Because unfortunately, we live in the town where most of 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.160 these people get their information from the internet. Right, there 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.440 are people who because they follow a star or something 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.520 that has twenty million view I mean followers, and the 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.839 star says something, they take it as law, They take 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.800 it as it got to be true because this person 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.680 said it right. And if there's nobody to combat that ship, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.079 it becomes it gets so dangerous and it's it's it's 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.200 it shows in the way that the youth moved right, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.040 because the youth again information and they follow the biggest 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.040 stars and they follow people have these big platforms, and 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.520 a lot of them are sending off the wrong messages. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.960 You know what, what they what they glorified. What they 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.519 only focus on is how much you have? What you have? 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.800 How do all the things that and you can see 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.320 that transformed into our babies. So for me, as much 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.320 as I hate the Internet and and I see it, 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.040 I'm gonna always speak truth to problem. I'm you're not 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.760 gonna get over on on me like I'm gonna use 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.200 my little files when it does and followers and I'm 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.920 gonna tell them the truth and hopefully they can, you know, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.000 spread the truth to somebody else. But I'm just not 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.240 gonna I can't sit back and allow people to just 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.920 make up ship and lie and spread misinformation on my watch, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.680 I just can't. I try to too. I mean, I 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.280 think it's all about balance, you know, And that's all 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.400 I'm gonna saying. It's all about balance. You know. You 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.040 lean in, but you also gotta figure out how to 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.040 lean out, and not just lean out a few times 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.920 a day, but actually lean out on some days completely 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.800 and really focus on building whatever else it is that 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.520 you're supposed to be doing that The internet is uh uh, 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.120 the Internet becomes a place to in my judgment, it 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:28.720 becomes a place to showcase a finished product. But there's 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.760 a lot of things that you have to do. But 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:36.640 I go back, social media becomes a place to showcase 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.839 a finished product, maybe pick up a few tips along 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:44.080 the way. But there are other ways on the Internet 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.080 that you can build what you're trying to accomplish. And 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.320 I think we have to focus on one, you know, 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.280 not so much on social media, just as people in general, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.360 because it's becoming accessable. But anyway, I was saying though 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:02.359 that this weekend, Yeah, the past weekend, it was really 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.000 busy with a lot of things that happened, you know, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.159 one just Jeezy who we must make sure we get 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.359 him on our show. Uh. He was actually ready to 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.159 do it in the past and we just for whatever reason, 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:19.200 it never was confirmed. But he had his annual Snowball, 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.080 which is his gala for his foundation, which is also 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:28.440 also coincides with his birthday. UH. And the foundation UM 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.680 does a lot of great work with youth. They're focused 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:37.359 on young people from impoverished communities. UH. And you know, 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:42.920 it was a great event. A lot of UM people, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.440 but celebrities and business in the you know, business folks, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.279 just different types of people came out to support him. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.200 And I think, you know, my thing with with Jeezy 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:58.880 is that he's such a solid or authentic person, Like 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.360 every time I speak to him, the same he reached 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.080 out to me to say, hey, I want you guys 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:10.560 to be there. You know, it's not a through his assistant. UM. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.480 You know, you call him and you can't get him 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.719 on the phone, and he not he's not really trying 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.120 to engage. No, he's like and and several times we've 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.400 called him and he's shown up at things. So I 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:26.000 don't feel you know, I I uh invested at the event, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.080 I donated, and I don't and I feel good about 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.840 that investment because I know that whatever he's trying to do, 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.960 he's gonna authentically do it. And of course Genie mine 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.080 my girl was there, who I love so so much 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.680 now it was it was a beautiful event. Man, Just 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:47.640 Jeezy is the definition of evolution, Like just watching somebody 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:52.440 evolved from pretty much the bottom and go to that 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.719 next level. You know, he's one of He's one of 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:57.720 the interviews that I want to do for my sit 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.200 down with the stand up you know, serio is that 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.560 I want to do because he's pretty much like a 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.919 poster boy for that. Like somebody came from nothing, you 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.840 know that literally he came from backyards a bunch of people. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.520 That's route like he tells that story. So watching him 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.480 evolved into this, you know, this man that's doing business, 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.160 was focused on helping kids and evolved even involving his 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.200 message in his music. Right, you know, he is not stagnated. Yeah, 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.040 you know, we know where you come from. He still 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.960 speaks to the realities and the row, the royal things 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.600 in the street. But there's so much music about black 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.920 empowerment and and and and move into the next level 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.880 and you know all of those things. So this is 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.200 watching him you know, I've always been a fan of 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.880 his music. But when you meet it's very few, it's 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.120 very seldomly that you actually meet a lot of these 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.960 artists and then who that you thought there was, you know, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.760 and Jeez is one of those individuals. Man, So shout 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:57.760 out to Jeezy man. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh So, then we 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.720 went to the b ET Awards at Joe who was 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:08.080 our brother. He's hilarious. He was the host, and I 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.040 think Joe did a good job. You know what. The 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.240 funny thing about it is, as I was watching him 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.400 up there, and you know, I have the same thing 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.040 where I have these moments when my brain just freezes 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:18.680 and I'm like, wait a minute, which I'll say I'm 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.840 supposed to say what huh? And I realized me just 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.040 getting older, right like, so at this point you're doing 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:31.240 the best, give me the line, huh. Joe just be 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.000 having a good time. Man. It's crazy that at this 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.840 age and the stage in his career, you could tell 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.520 that he's probably having more fun than ever. He's enjoying himself, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.800 he's telling his stories, he's around people, he's he's getting acknowledgement, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.760 and he's actually he's actually increasing like as a lot 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.959 of artists, you know. And that's what I told people. 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.000 Hip hop started out in the seventies, a lot of 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:59.440 people before it wasn't an older person's game, Like people are, oh, 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.040 you old, you out of hipp No. Now, the people, 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.120 the pioneers of hip hop, they weren't able to really, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:11.280 you know, be celebrated because hip hop was so young. Right, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:16.320 But now hip hop has sixty and seventy year old fans, right, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.400 it's it's six fifty year old people who grew up 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.520 on hip hop. So as you mature in hip hop, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.280 there's an audience for you, right, and and and as 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.079 you mature, and you still stay connected to the youth, 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.200 you you you like the balance you and so you 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.920 get the best of both worlds. So Joe is one 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.080 of those people that personifies what that looks like. Right 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.520 when you watch him, he's growing gracefully, he's enjoying life. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.320 He's able to mingle with the youth and able to 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.240 go to the main the you know, the adult events 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.040 and and just merge those two worlds. So just watching 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.880 Joe Man, seeing him up there doing hip hop awards, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.320 knowing how much he enjoyed it and how much he 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.840 was honored to do. It was dope. And then my 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.920 boy Nori got his first Simple Up award. Man, it's 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.800 my brother. Man. I just I was happy, you know, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.240 and to be there in the building to shake his 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.240 hand and telling my love him after you know, always 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.240 been my guy. Man. It's like one of the first 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.679 people in this industry from the beginning. I tell always 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.360 tell people about the battle with me and Sean and 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.960 Normy was right there. Man. He was always one of 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.880 those people who supported me and showed genuine love man 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:30.199 throughout my career. So well. Shout out to Connie Orlando 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:35.920 and her team, um even uh our brother Jesse for 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.200 a great show because it actually was a really good show. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:41.920 I was want to see the show because we did. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.520 We watched the show there, but I haven't seen which 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.439 meant it was two damn long. It was. It was 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.480 a lot was going on. Man. You did honor tren 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.160 that she got her you know, her flowers, you know, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.360 the young girl Glo Rilla. She was probably like the 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.800 star of the the night. Everybody was loving her. She got 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.040 her five old statement when people were trying to say 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.959 he was robbed, and he put out a statement that said, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.079 I wasn't robbed that Glorilla one because she deserved it 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:11.840 and I'm proud of her and I support her. And 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.800 I thought that was very very just dope man. And 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.160 I love Favo and and I wanted to see five 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.200 yo win that award. I stayed. I'm like, yeah, I 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.920 think Fabo, but he didn't. And as like a true 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.080 g you know New York individual who put his work in, 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.959 he you know, he accepted it, and I know great 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.720 things coming for five year old man. He continues to 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.040 work hard. I love him as and he's like one 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:35.920 of my little brothers. Man. Every time I've seen me, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.000 like big bro, we give me Hub is real genuine 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.480 love and he's a good person, you know, so shout 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.640 out to him. It was it was just so I've 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.760 seen so many different people I hadn't seen a while. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.680 It was just it was a dope vibe. Man. It 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.880 was a good good It was a good man. I mean, 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.280 it was you know, I have things that I wanted 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.400 to say, So I'm going to meet with Connie so 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.480 I could talk to her about some stuff that I 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:03.360 think could help make it even better. Um, because you know, again, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.720 I have no critique to say this was terrible or 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.079 how could this be? But I can't say that are 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:17.880 stronger deliberate and intentional focus on some of the educational 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.080 pieces that we need has to be, you know, should 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.679 be rather built into the show. Shout out some joyy 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.040 bad ass who had one of my favorite performances. Man, 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:32.600 and all of them, young Jesus, all of them, all 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.760 of them. Even though I'm in the hip hop era, 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.440 you can put me in the blues and the and 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.400 the the R and B and whatever is before R 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.560 and B because I like that kind of music. So 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:50.920 I'm more to play with little thing MP came out 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.120 there that was one of like, huk, I ain't gonna 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.120 lie on man, I grew up on gangs to rap. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:00.319 How about I'm more of a soul train of words, 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:05.640 uh person. But I still enjoyed this show, you know 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.000 what it's if there's so many things happened. It was 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.120 hard to pick things to talk about today that you know, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.640 I know our folks wanna hear about, you know, and 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.440 I don't have any intention on talking about Jeffrey Dahma, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.199 but just watching between Jeffrey Dahma and this and that 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.000 and dad and this and this and that it was 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.360 just so much happening this week again, you could really 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.880 you can't focus if you understood on social media or 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.079 that you can't do no work, you can't make no 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.880 no money on doing what you're supposed to be doing. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.080 If all you if you read in comments and following 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.400 the Shave Room and ball Alert and Jasmine Brand and 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.679 all hip hop and this one and that one, and 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.400 then my song is breaking it down and helping people 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.520 understand that you want to go over this you could 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.160 get some authentic information maybe to meet and Mallory jumps 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.960 in the chat Tesla and Figure Road got something going on. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.960 Breakfast Club is dropping their perspective. That's a lot of information. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:02.880 It's an overload of in for mate shown. But there 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.560 was a few There was a few things that I 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:09.679 thought we should mention, And one is how devastating Hurricane 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:16.760 iron Um has been in Florida and other places that hurricane. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.520 But you know, and I thought because I saw on 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.320 the news. I don't know which student. We were somewhere 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.240 and the news was on, and I remember you saying, well, 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.440 how can there be a tropical storm if it's doing 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.000 this much damage? And then I saw later on that 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:36.120 it had been upgraded to a or it was being 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:41.320 re established as a category one hurricane. But when I 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.000 was talking to Trade Trade, the truth I was explained, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.880 you know, asking him about it, and he said, no, 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.280 it hit landfall at some point, and it was a hurricane. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.200 It was a category four. And he said that it 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.720 went out wherever into the water and came back and 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:02.400 basically did more damage. So this was a real serious hurricane. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.200 And it seems that there were a lot of people black, white, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.200 up down left right, poor rich that were not necessarily 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.320 prepared for it. And then all the boats, Like when 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.400 I saw the boats, I knew right there that we 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.720 were Like when I saw the boats piled up on 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.040 top of each other, on top of one another, pushed 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.160 into buildings on the grass, I knew right then, like, 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.080 oh no, they're black folks that must have been hit 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:35.480 hard if the rich people's stuff was gone in that way. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.760 And you know, some of these people worked their entire 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.080 life to get those boats, their entire life. That's the 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.280 one thing they're gonna retire with a boat. I know, man, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.360 it was, it was. It was real devastating and just 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.560 looking at the news seeing people go through what they 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.080 went through. Man, I pray for them once again. Trade 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.120 was out there man doing what he did. That's what 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.960 it's him in the relief game, you know, shout out 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.920 to Trade and Elite Shapiro, who was a woman that 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.280 we met during the Women's March. She went out into 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.400 her own community in Naples, Flarida, which is a place 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.400 where a lot of rich people. A lot of rich 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.720 people live in Naples, um and I mean it's a 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:18.080 rich town. But she went out and tried to find 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.560 the shadows. Really, that's what that was the language she 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.440 used that if okay, if this we were in this 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.760 rich area, but there's gotta be pockets somewhere where there 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.600 are people who have been hard. And of course she 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:36.240 found some housing developments, housing projects as we always have 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.360 called them. And she found some other areas where black 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:44.240 people and brown people live, garbage piled up, cars, ruined, 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.280 medicine being thrown out because there's been no power for days, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.720 no elected officials going to their areas, no real relief 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.760 services coming in. And she set up shop there. And 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.640 so Alitia and now some of my other friends is 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.880 the Vanessa and others. They are, you know, working in 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:06.639 this particular community. It's a lot. It's a lot. My 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.119 prayers go out to everyone who was effective. Man. I 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:13.600 hope you know they get the relief they need. Families 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:20.000 who lost loved ones, My condolences, man. These these are hurricanes. Man, Like, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.840 that's that's one thing for me. Like I love to 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.080 visit Miami. I love all of these beautiful places, but 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.040 I don't want to live there, like I don't really 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.600 Like you were telling me about Hurricanes Sandy, and don't 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.560 that they did this to you. I don't recall New 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.840 York ever having I just don't. It was one. I 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.720 don't know if this has ever happened before, but you 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.440 should look it up because Hurricane Sandy was very devastating 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.480 in New York, especially of course in the Rockaways because 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.240 that's where the water is. But people who live in 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:56.040 housing developments lost power. There was flooding in certain But 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:00.199 in fact, I used to be a consultant for UM 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:06.520 East Coal uh Heating Company and well they basically installed boilers. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.840 So East Cole Boiling Company, a boiler company something like that. 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.680 But anyway, East Cole was that was the name he 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:16.280 called at all the time. UM and they they were 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.800 because of Sandy. They had to go out and like 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:24.359 installed boilers all over the place because the water had 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:29.520 ruined boilers in many of the Nightsia housing developments across 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.040 the city, and of course in some of the homes. 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:37.280 So it was like a real devastating situation. People lost property, people, 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.679 I think people died. I can't remember how many. But 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.800 it wasn't it wasn't a good thing. The global warming 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.040 is a real issue, you know, climate change. You know 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.119 things that some of the folks that people ask us, well, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.280 why did you vote for Stall and so, Well, we 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:58.760 would like to see that someone invests in trying infrastructure 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.680 and other things that try to help us save lives 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.600 in these moments when you have hurricanes. I mean, there's 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:10.679 so many issues. Anyway, that's a whole other conversation, a 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:15.200 whole different thing. Louisiana Senator John Kennedy. I don't think 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.960 he's um related to the Kennedy's he but you know, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.680 I can't say for sure if I was just saying 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.760 I don't think so. He made a statement in an 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:29.040 ad that was released that if you hate cops and 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:33.120 you need help, call a crackhead. So since you don't, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:37.280 you don't call the cops call a crackhead, and I 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:42.760 don't even understand what a crackhead like. I wasn't the 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:48.880 I am trying to draw the connection between the police 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:55.159 to crackheads. Wow, No, I mean I am too, just wild, 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.000 That's all I can said. As well. And I was 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.440 watching it. When I watched it, there was a lady 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.679 who was a covering crack at it. It was it 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.000 was offensive, like, you know how, like this is somebody 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:11.399 in leadership and you use that to the mean people 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:16.640 who have real addiction issues there. Okay, I can see 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.800 if you say, if you want, and why do you say, 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.399 called an opioid user, right, because I bet you they 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:27.000 have more people using opioids today than there are people 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.280 using crack, right, I would I would have. I mean, 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.000 I'm pretty sure because a lot of people have turned 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.600 away from pipes and all of that and they're taking pills. 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.200 Maybe I'm wrong that it's not a majority, but hey, 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.240 if you're going to zero in on something, why not 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.600 zero in on a drug that too many people using. 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.080 By the way, white folks use crack as well. So 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.840 cut the ship, cut the ship. But I do. But 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.720 here's what I will say, is what I will say, 0:20:55.600 --> 0:21:00.320 the fact that from policing, I could go to call 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:05.520 a criminal, call a murderer, call but the crackhead piece, 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.679 it's very intentional and I don't have a real answer. 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.120 But I'm trying to figure out what made that come 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:13.360 to life for him. Well, I think when it may 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.960 come to life for him, was that he was stupid. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:22.160 Stupid ship. Yeah, sometimes we we just we can't really 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.160 give the answer to stupid ship because it's stupid ship. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.600 And when we try to answer stupid ship, we sound stupid. 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.000 Sometimes I just don't want to, nor do I have 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:35.280 the capacity to make sense out of, as you said, 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:40.640 ignorant stupid ship and moreover, that extreme racism that exists 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.119 within so many. But when I think about it, it 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.200 kind of brings me to my thought of the day 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:52.920 because talking about connections and drawing sort of lines and 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.879 and and and being able to understand things, it's really 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:07.320 troubling to me. M It's troubling to me that people 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:22.200 are either intentionally or mistakenly trying to allow this idea 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:28.320 around Black Lives Matter movement versus organization to be misconstrued. 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:32.639 That for me is I see people who I thought 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:40.199 or think um are intelligent, thoughtful individuals who claim to 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:45.520 love black people, who claimed to be about black lives, 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:50.240 who claimed to believe that black lives do in fact matter. 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:55.760 And when I see people say that you know or 0:22:55.920 --> 0:23:01.399 or lean into this concept that black lives matter is 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:07.640 a scam, it really is troubling to me. It also 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:14.760 also in every organization that I've ever been a part of, right, 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:20.240 there's always an internal conflict, especially when it comes to 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:24.399 an influx of money coming in the door. There is 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:28.840 internal conflict, always has been, always will be. That does 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:32.960 not mean, and what that means is that sometimes you 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:35.720 get it right, sometimes you get it wrong. You gotta 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.000 go back to the drawing board. You gotta try to 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:40.879 figure out how to correct some of the things. You 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:43.439 make decisions and think back while maybe we shouldn't have 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:50.399 done this, we should do that. That happens in businesses, organizations, households, families, 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:54.240 anything you do. You even walk out your house sometimes 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:59.200 and say I'm going ten blocks away and get distracted, 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:02.560 and somehow I'll end up doing something over here and 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:05.320 not where you were supposed to be. And then you say, oh, 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.360 ship man, I gotta turn around, and I was supposed 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:13.199 to be over here, there's resets, there's room room for 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:17.280 mistakes and what what have you along the way, Right, 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:21.320 that's the way that I feel every organization has had 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:26.760 internal conflict. Some internal conflict has come down to the 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:31.560 point where people have actually accused one another of real crimes. 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:35.480 So when I hear people say even this, this idea 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:40.080 that Black Lives Matter as an organization is a scam, 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:47.399 I'm still trying to identify who are the individuals that 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:52.119 declared that. Where did it come from? Mhm? How was 0:24:52.200 --> 0:24:57.040 it declared that? Go ahead, you were gonna say something, No, 0:24:57.119 --> 0:24:59.760 I mean, And that's a good question. And you know 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:02.879 how I was declared? Right? It was declared by people 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:08.960 who clearly have an interest in dismantling and discrediting a 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:14.320 movement that was so powerful that it shook the core 0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:18.920 of this nation, just like the you know what they 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:21.520 did with the Women's March, that has been proven right 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:24.840 when we when they did the New York Times article. 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:28.000 If you haven't read the New York Times article where 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:32.600 they showed how Russian bots had intentionally targeted one of 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.399 our co founders, Come Until Freedom, which was one of 0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:38.640 the four coaches of the Women's March. Then to start sault, 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:43.199 which eventually just branched off into the dismantling of the 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:47.440 Women's March. It's intentional, right, so they once they see 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:51.120 power in something, when you know, the movement of Black 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:54.160 Lives Matter had people in the street every day saying, 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:55.800 we're not gonna stand for this. You're gonna have to 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:58.120 give us equity. You're gonna have to give us justice. 0:25:58.600 --> 0:26:01.520 Were tied to being this and and and it shifted 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:04.879 this country, shifted the consciousness of this country, the world, 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:08.120 the world, I mean the world is shifted into where 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:11.479 every corporation realized that we we can't just have a 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:15.600 diversity inclusion. We have to put black people in leadership, 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:18.720 in power, right. Blacks are not just gonna be comfortable 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:21.359 just being in buildings, right. And everybody wanted to do 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:25.160 the right thing because for the first time they were 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:27.639 able to see what we were talking about, and they 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:31.399 were able to feel the anger of the nation. And 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:33.959 that's not something that people wanted to do. And the 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:37.080 and the and and and this is my but it 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:43.200 was very and I know that I know that there 0:26:43.200 --> 0:26:48.520 are people even among our close teams that will say 0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:54.280 to Mika, stop, you know, explaining about an organization that 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:56.720 you're not a part of. You don't get money from 0:26:56.760 --> 0:26:59.560 Black Lives Matter, You're not a part of the organization. 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:02.760 You have nothing to do with that organization, So stop 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:06.520 speaking on it because you are putting yourself in the 0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:08.280 midst of something that you have nothing to do with. 0:27:08.680 --> 0:27:12.080 But see to the point that you made. You have 0:27:12.240 --> 0:27:15.320 made several times that we have to be careful with 0:27:15.400 --> 0:27:20.560 how information gets out there, because once information begins to spread, 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:24.800 it does not It's like having cancer in your stomach. 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:28.600 If it is not addressed, the cancer will move into 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:31.800 a woman's reproductive system and the next thing you know, 0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:35.000 it's all over your body. So you can't sit back 0:27:35.280 --> 0:27:40.720 and allow lies to be told on an organization, a movement, 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:43.760 or anybody that is in close proximity to what you do. 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:49.280 And beyond that, my son, I am becoming an elder 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:52.040 in this movement, believe it or not. When you think 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:59.280 about Mary pat Hector, Nyla and Chelsea Miller and Tiffany Loften, 0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:03.600 Steve even Green, all of these younger people that we 0:28:03.680 --> 0:28:07.920 work with, they are coming into the movement and and 0:28:08.000 --> 0:28:12.120 really becoming leaders in their own right. And us forty 0:28:12.280 --> 0:28:16.440 something and beyond we're moving towards fifty, We're moving towards 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:19.560 our own level of being sort of an elder in 0:28:19.600 --> 0:28:22.480 this movement, especially for someone like me who's been doing 0:28:22.480 --> 0:28:25.399 this work for thirty years. So I can speak to 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:29.719 what I see happening around. It's not so much defending 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:32.520 or not, but we need to be honest in what 0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:36.199 we say. So when you have people out there who 0:28:36.280 --> 0:28:39.800 are using words like it was a scam and it 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:42.560 did terrible things to us and all of that, I 0:28:42.640 --> 0:28:45.800 want to know who's determining that. How is that? And 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:48.200 I'm not saying I'm not saying that I can change 0:28:48.200 --> 0:28:54.560 anyone's mind. There are people who have fundamental ide ideological 0:28:55.280 --> 0:29:01.120 issues with BLM, the organization, how it got started, and 0:29:01.320 --> 0:29:05.560 what the women who led the organization stood for, and 0:29:05.680 --> 0:29:10.120 what they were pretty much proponents of. But you but 0:29:10.240 --> 0:29:12.760 I I feel and and and what I would say 0:29:12.880 --> 0:29:17.560 is there are people who feel that way about almost 0:29:17.640 --> 0:29:21.520 every organization and movement. They feel the same way. There's 0:29:21.600 --> 0:29:26.400 ideo ideological issues, right, people didn't like the dr King 0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:32.800 was trying to integrate black people into American society. They 0:29:32.800 --> 0:29:37.479 didn't like that, so there was conflict about that issue. 0:29:38.120 --> 0:29:41.640 There has always been confidict. But what you cannot do 0:29:41.880 --> 0:29:45.240 and what I just can't sit by and allowed to 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:47.920 happen on my watch while I'm alive and I have 0:29:48.120 --> 0:29:51.920 influence and amount. It's for people to erase the fact 0:29:51.960 --> 0:29:55.720 that three women came up with a slogan that they 0:29:55.760 --> 0:29:58.720 came up with this is their slogan. You can say 0:29:58.760 --> 0:30:01.200 whatever the hell you want, Oh, I don't like this 0:30:01.200 --> 0:30:03.840 one and that one. And they came up with a 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:09.120 slogan that helped us to communicate to the world our 0:30:09.200 --> 0:30:13.600 affirmation of self. Which is a slogan, which is which 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:18.200 is the child Black Lives Matter is the child of 0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:22.160 I'm Black and I'm proud. It is the child of 0:30:22.520 --> 0:30:28.080 the Black Power movement. These are in direct connection, one 0:30:28.240 --> 0:30:33.160 after the next. We have always had powerful slogans. Now 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:38.080 perhaps they may have. Maybe in another life, the organization 0:30:38.160 --> 0:30:42.240 could have been named you know something else to separate 0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:46.000 the two. But it wasn't. And I am hoping that 0:30:46.200 --> 0:30:54.040 people who claim to be intellectual, intelligent individuals, that they 0:30:54.080 --> 0:30:58.440 would not sit and uh and and and and denigrate 0:30:59.120 --> 0:31:06.840 an entire movement because they are either too egotistical, too 0:31:06.960 --> 0:31:10.680 lazy to learn, or are part of the same damned 0:31:10.720 --> 0:31:13.479 system that's trying to oppress us. To be quite honest, 0:31:13.480 --> 0:31:17.800 because co and Tell pro operates in all levels of 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:22.120 this movement, that we would not be able to clearly 0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:26.520 state the difference between the two things and the importance 0:31:26.720 --> 0:31:33.440 of upholding something of such value like black Lives Matter, 0:31:33.520 --> 0:31:36.560 that has meant so much to so many. So that's 0:31:36.560 --> 0:31:39.680 what I that's my rant for the day, you know. 0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:41.800 And and I said I was done with my rent, 0:31:41.880 --> 0:31:45.520 but I'm not. I'm gonna take it to my own 0:31:45.600 --> 0:31:51.120 live later today. But you know, the same tactics of 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:54.200 divide and conqueror is happening to us right before our eyes. 0:31:55.320 --> 0:31:58.240 We are falling into the same track. And there are 0:31:58.320 --> 0:32:02.720 individuals who believe they have the answers. They believe that 0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:06.440 they have the answers for what needs to be done. 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:09.440 See I've never said that, right, I've never said I 0:32:09.520 --> 0:32:12.719 have all the answers. What I've said is we're playing 0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:17.640 our role, We're putting forth our effort, and this is 0:32:17.680 --> 0:32:20.920 the way in which we choose to show up. And 0:32:21.000 --> 0:32:23.880 this is what is This is our passion and what 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:27.240 God has given given us the strengths and talents to 0:32:27.360 --> 0:32:31.720 do well. Right, But I've never said we have the answers, 0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:35.000 because if I had the answers, if I knew everything 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:39.200 and I was the smartest, the brightest, the best, and 0:32:39.400 --> 0:32:43.080 the most knowledgeable, and and everybody else stuff is fake 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:45.840 or not whatever. If that was mine, if that was 0:32:45.880 --> 0:32:47.840 the situation, I would have fixed it, because I've been 0:32:47.880 --> 0:32:51.680 doing it for long enough. None of us have all 0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:55.239 the answers to any of this stuff. None of us 0:32:55.640 --> 0:32:58.600 we are. We are a work in progress, and we 0:32:58.720 --> 0:33:03.400 are best in my judgment, when we unify and figure 0:33:03.440 --> 0:33:11.920 out ways to push multiple ideas, concepts, thought processes, tactics 0:33:12.400 --> 0:33:15.360 all at the same time, and that we respect one 0:33:15.360 --> 0:33:20.240 another and go offline to have conversations about what we 0:33:20.280 --> 0:33:23.320 could be doing better and ways that we can find 0:33:23.440 --> 0:33:27.920 tune the process, but to just go out and feed 0:33:28.080 --> 0:33:30.920 into what these people want from us anyway, And we 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:33.440 sit there and say we don't want to feed into it, 0:33:33.520 --> 0:33:36.360 but all of us are feeding into it. So it's 0:33:36.400 --> 0:33:38.840 are we not or are we? Which one are we 0:33:38.880 --> 0:33:45.360 gonna do? So? I am very disappointed and discouraged by 0:33:45.560 --> 0:33:49.520 some of what I have seen in the aftermath of 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:54.120 Kanye because the only reason why Kanye West matters is 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:59.440 because he has an international, a global, a super a 0:33:59.600 --> 0:34:06.000 super powerful platform. Anybody else, it's a damn right. People 0:34:06.040 --> 0:34:10.880 can wear white lives, green lives, all lives, whatever they want. 0:34:11.560 --> 0:34:15.440 But when you have the attention of our youth and 0:34:15.480 --> 0:34:20.040 our people and you do it, it means something. And 0:34:20.120 --> 0:34:24.560 for him to go put to Mika Palmer's name, Brianna 0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:30.160 Tailor's mother in the midst of some attention seeking menstrual 0:34:30.360 --> 0:34:35.759 show bullshit. It shows you even more how he will 0:34:35.920 --> 0:34:39.600 use anybody and anything when he feels that his back 0:34:39.760 --> 0:34:44.279 is up against the wall. We people say. We had 0:34:44.320 --> 0:34:47.759 people say white lives matter to us with guns in 0:34:47.800 --> 0:34:51.840 their hands while we were protesting. It's not a little thing. 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:55.240 And I think that I think that's what my response 0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:58.320 has been. I think that's the reason why I responded 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:01.120 in the way that i've and in the amount of 0:35:01.120 --> 0:35:04.000 times that I have, because I need clarity on every level. 0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:07.759 Everything that you say right, And I think, you know, 0:35:07.800 --> 0:35:12.000 it's sad. I think Kanye has his own issues. You know, 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:14.000 he's a black man, and I don't want him to 0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:16.480 deal with he's dealing with. But I think that is 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:20.759 dangerous because people are hailing him as a genius right. 0:35:20.800 --> 0:35:23.920 So when you start calling people a genius and the 0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:27.239 average person here is that, then they take what you 0:35:27.360 --> 0:35:29.759 say as some level of law. They take it as 0:35:29.800 --> 0:35:32.319 it has to be correct. So when you when you 0:35:32.440 --> 0:35:36.280 when people are classifying a person as a genius whose 0:35:36.520 --> 0:35:40.719 ideologies they're not just flawed with their wrong right, his 0:35:40.719 --> 0:35:44.040 his his facts are wrong. Right? When when when he 0:35:44.160 --> 0:35:49.440 utilized his his platform to to bring shock value to 0:35:49.560 --> 0:35:52.520 post you know, because that's pretty much what it is, 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:55.000 is shock value, and he wants to get the internet 0:35:55.080 --> 0:35:58.840 talking and it once again, it makes him be more relevant, 0:35:58.880 --> 0:36:00.919 able to sell proud of ups and have a level 0:36:00.920 --> 0:36:04.840 of power over this era. When he does that and 0:36:04.880 --> 0:36:10.160 he s fused misinformation, it's harmful and and and and 0:36:09.840 --> 0:36:12.200 and a lot of times I dis ignore. But when 0:36:12.200 --> 0:36:14.759 you go into the realm in which I live my 0:36:14.840 --> 0:36:17.960 life in right where we put out our lives on 0:36:18.000 --> 0:36:20.640 the front line, when you start talking about activism and 0:36:20.680 --> 0:36:23.640 you start talking about white lives matter, when you do 0:36:23.840 --> 0:36:28.600 what you just said as how white people, white supremacists 0:36:28.640 --> 0:36:31.759 have been and I would miss with guns screaming white 0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:34.399 lives matter. You know, where we had to we had 0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:37.640 threats on our lives and they were talking about white 0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:40.120 lives matter, and he and he kept doing it, right 0:36:40.120 --> 0:36:43.440 when we know how triggering that is and how those 0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:48.920 phrases have been used to perpetuate acts of potential violence 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:52.080 against us. Right, it's not just okay, it's not just 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:54.880 Kanye can wear a T shirt. Right. And then when 0:36:54.920 --> 0:36:58.319 you realize after after that doesn't work in the backlash, 0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:01.480 then you want to attack a whole old movement. Right. 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:03.120 You want to attack a movement and say that it's 0:37:03.120 --> 0:37:06.600 a fake and it's a scam because you want to deflect. 0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:09.640 You want to deflect because you thought you were doing 0:37:09.680 --> 0:37:11.600 something that was gonna be embraced and you was gonna 0:37:11.600 --> 0:37:14.680 get something. And then when when the kitchen gets too hot, 0:37:14.800 --> 0:37:16.440 it goes to, oh, well, you ain't saying that when 0:37:16.440 --> 0:37:19.799 he was taking my kids? Oh yeah, yeah, even what 0:37:19.840 --> 0:37:21.839 about my kids? I went to your offer. Hell, oh 0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:25.080 you know what black Lives matter scam? Even Brianna Taylor's mother. 0:37:25.280 --> 0:37:29.640 You just started saying anything anything you can to get 0:37:29.640 --> 0:37:32.439 the pressure off the bullshit you did. Right. So it's 0:37:32.440 --> 0:37:35.960 a strategy, but it's not okay for us because Brianna 0:37:35.960 --> 0:37:38.879 Taylor's mother is somebody that we call our sister, Right, 0:37:39.040 --> 0:37:40.799 that we cried with that We've been on the front 0:37:40.880 --> 0:37:43.960 line and we understand what it is that she represents right, 0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:46.680 and she wanted to know, does my daughter's black life 0:37:46.680 --> 0:37:50.439 not man exactly? She wanted that's the that's the that 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:57.560 is actually the parameter for which we thought, does Brianna 0:37:57.640 --> 0:38:01.439 tail is black life? Man? When you say white lives matter, 0:38:01.480 --> 0:38:04.160 guess what. All the white people involved in the case, 0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:10.279 they were protected protected them. The black attorney general protected them. 0:38:10.719 --> 0:38:14.279 Some of the people the white supremacists protected them. They 0:38:14.360 --> 0:38:20.200 protected themselves. The system in general protects police all the time. 0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:24.320 So there's no issue about whether or not white lives matter. 0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:26.320 And we don't need to say it to trick this. 0:38:26.520 --> 0:38:29.680 Some ship don't never need to be changed Dr King's 0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:33.839 speeches that he made, speeches that have been made from 0:38:34.320 --> 0:38:37.319 leaders ROSA Parks, and what she was doing when she 0:38:37.400 --> 0:38:40.200 sat on that bus. Those things don't need to be 0:38:40.600 --> 0:38:44.040 changed up by black people who have influence in order 0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:47.879 to make some other type of points. But we need 0:38:47.920 --> 0:38:52.680 to go into our guests today. One thing though, before 0:38:52.760 --> 0:38:54.719 before we go into I just want to I want 0:38:54.719 --> 0:38:57.280 to clarify this because this is this is really important 0:38:57.320 --> 0:39:05.640 man to utilize your voice in your platform to diminish 0:39:05.760 --> 0:39:09.399 the real fights and sacrifices that people made without even 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:12.400 proper education is one of the most dangerous things. You 0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:15.640 can't do. To call yourself a leader, to call yourself 0:39:16.200 --> 0:39:20.279 uh freese mind, to call yourself God, whatever you want 0:39:20.280 --> 0:39:22.960 to call yourself, to call yourself any of these things. 0:39:23.560 --> 0:39:26.520 But to utilize your platform to try to lessen somebody 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:31.279 else's it makes no sense. And we don't have we 0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:34.080 don't have the luxury as black people right now, we 0:39:34.160 --> 0:39:37.200 don't have that luxury. We don't Even when you say 0:39:37.280 --> 0:39:42.000 free thinger, if you're free thought contribute to the demise 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:46.080 of our people, then it's actually free, right, What is 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:49.080 it actually cost him? Because if you're freely thinking and 0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:53.439 you can contribute to the demids of black the black civilization, 0:39:53.800 --> 0:39:57.120 then it's costing way too much, you know. So for me, 0:39:57.800 --> 0:39:59.720 I'm not gonna sit there and allow it. I'm always 0:39:59.760 --> 0:40:03.000 gonna speak truth to power. You know. Hopefully our brothers 0:40:03.040 --> 0:40:07.640 can understand that and stop being attention hors and stop 0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:12.239 seeking to, you know, to have a hit minute and 0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:16.160 say anything to get a viral moment. Hopefully, well we'll 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:18.680 get to that point where that's not more important than 0:40:18.680 --> 0:40:23.560 the liberation and equity of our people facts. I think 0:40:23.600 --> 0:40:26.400 that's great. It takes us right to the business of 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:35.239 street politicians. So let's get into our guests. So, you know, 0:40:35.480 --> 0:40:39.640 I mean, I love how we've really been trying to 0:40:39.680 --> 0:40:42.440 focus on this financial education thing. I mean, I've been 0:40:42.520 --> 0:40:47.680 learning so much from the tax uh what she attacks advising. 0:40:47.760 --> 0:40:50.319 I have some other women in that area that I 0:40:50.440 --> 0:40:54.000 met recently as well that I want to bring on. 0:40:54.480 --> 0:40:56.760 And then just people who have been talking about credit 0:40:56.880 --> 0:41:01.440 like I literally have been applying the strategies, and I 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:04.080 know you have as well to some of my own 0:41:04.160 --> 0:41:07.080 stuff from the credit card like when you're supposed to 0:41:07.080 --> 0:41:11.360 make the payments to UM, you know, the issues around 0:41:11.440 --> 0:41:14.920 taxes and how to deal with your finances and all 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:18.480 of that, and then of course recently a lot around investments. 0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:21.240 And so I hope that people who have been listening 0:41:21.320 --> 0:41:25.600 to the show that they're actually like tactically applying the 0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:27.640 strategies because I think a lot of times what we 0:41:27.719 --> 0:41:31.840 do is we listen and we we hear it, but 0:41:31.880 --> 0:41:34.399 then we don't do anything with it. So I think 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:37.840 that's you know, for me, I'm just telling y'all listening 0:41:37.840 --> 0:41:40.759 out there in the world that I am actually applying 0:41:41.560 --> 0:41:44.719 the strategies based upon all the folks that we've been 0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:50.000 interviewing for the last however longs. Yeah, I have to, 0:41:50.280 --> 0:41:55.520 and I've been very intentional about focusing on finances, investments, 0:41:56.080 --> 0:41:59.840 you know, understanding credit, understanding, you know, crypto, all of 0:41:59.840 --> 0:42:02.200 the things, because I understand this is the future. And 0:42:02.440 --> 0:42:07.280 a lot of times, as activists and artists, we focus 0:42:07.400 --> 0:42:10.480 on just the work we do. Right Like, as artists, 0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:13.279 a lot of times you just focus on making your 0:42:13.360 --> 0:42:16.000 music and putting out the art and and we don't 0:42:16.040 --> 0:42:19.239 focus on the financial aspects of And that's why you 0:42:19.280 --> 0:42:21.560 see a lot of issues with artists now talking about 0:42:21.560 --> 0:42:23.399 people jerked them. A lot of a lot of artists 0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:26.880 didn't get jerked. They just weren't financially a stupid so 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:29.120 they didn't know to do certain business, They didn't know 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:32.000 to make certain investments, they didn't know to put their 0:42:32.040 --> 0:42:35.520 money in certain places. You know. So what we're doing 0:42:35.640 --> 0:42:39.920 right now this you know, financial revolution that we're entering into, 0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:44.880 and we're utilizing and combining the finances with activism and 0:42:44.960 --> 0:42:48.000 making it cool for activists to focus on money and 0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:50.880 being able to be financially stable and being able to 0:42:50.920 --> 0:42:53.560 have wealth. You know, it's just I think any people, 0:42:53.640 --> 0:42:56.239 the people who fight for our people should never be 0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:59.239 destituted broke, and we should not even normalize that. So 0:42:59.560 --> 0:43:03.600 I'm glad that we're taking these steps in focusing on 0:43:03.719 --> 0:43:07.920 finances and utilize that our platform to educate our listeners 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:11.000 on the same thing. Yeah, we're not doing broken destitutes 0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:14.880 not happening. It's a new day. We believe that we 0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:19.240 should have um, we should be plentiful, we should have wealth, 0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:23.120 we should have resources, uh, and that our families should 0:43:23.120 --> 0:43:25.000 be left with something. The one thing that we have 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:28.719 to break down, if you will, is this idea that 0:43:28.760 --> 0:43:32.919 the way Dr King died was you know, honorable. It's 0:43:32.960 --> 0:43:36.719 not honorable even for us as as a people to 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:41.640 be okay with how he left this earth. And so therefore, um, 0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:44.280 you know, we just we just ain't with it. We 0:43:44.280 --> 0:43:48.280 we are one against the idea that being a leader 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:50.560 means that you have to be broke in order to 0:43:50.600 --> 0:43:54.960 be authentic. But anyway, in that same vein today we 0:43:55.000 --> 0:43:58.960 are being joined by two brothers that we love, that 0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:04.000 we trust, um, you know emphatically, we know what they 0:44:04.080 --> 0:44:08.440 do and how much they love and care for the 0:44:08.520 --> 0:44:12.560 black community. UM, and I'm happy to have them here. 0:44:12.800 --> 0:44:15.319 This is the first and we've been talking for months 0:44:15.360 --> 0:44:20.160 about something that they're doing that is revolutionary, UM, and 0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:23.400 today we get an opportunity to bring it before our audience. 0:44:23.440 --> 0:44:26.600 And I'm excited to have on street politicians for the 0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:31.520 first time, but certainly not nearly the last. Uh Fahim 0:44:31.520 --> 0:44:37.280 and Michael of Oasis Investment Group, Thank y'all so much 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:42.720 for joining Street politicians. Thank you Tamika and my sign 0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:46.239 for having us. We we appreciate. We're excited. Like you said, 0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:49.600 it's a long time coming. So uh, we just we're 0:44:49.600 --> 0:44:53.040 ready to get right into it. So yeah, Bridge, where 0:44:53.160 --> 0:44:55.080 this Oasis? Where did you guys come with the name? 0:44:55.560 --> 0:44:57.440 How do we How did you guys say yourself? You know, 0:44:57.800 --> 0:45:00.520 we want to create this investment group and you know 0:45:00.600 --> 0:45:02.920 who is the target market? Like give us give us 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:06.359 the rundown or is that the always his investment group 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:13.320 is okay? I mean started well, uh like you was saying, 0:45:13.640 --> 0:45:17.320 you know, to make a you know, economics is a 0:45:17.480 --> 0:45:20.120 part of the movement. It took a while for us 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:21.680 to get here, and I think we took all the 0:45:21.760 --> 0:45:24.279 necessary steps as a people, we had to go through 0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:26.919 what we had to go through. But as you also 0:45:27.040 --> 0:45:30.840 mentioned Martin, you know, uh Mr Dr King, you know, 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:33.000 towards the end of his life he was getting the 0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:36.120 economics and at a certain point we have to have 0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:39.680 a discussion about economics. Uh. It goes hand in hand 0:45:39.880 --> 0:45:42.279 with the social movement. It goes hand in hand with 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:45.239 the revolution. It has to be financed, and we can't 0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:48.279 rely on others to finance the movement for us. So 0:45:48.400 --> 0:45:51.439 in these conversations that we've always found human I we've 0:45:51.480 --> 0:45:55.760 always been into I guess you can say social justice, 0:45:55.840 --> 0:45:59.759 making our communities a better place to live. And in 0:46:00.040 --> 0:46:02.759 this mission, it just came like, you know, we have 0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:06.359 to buy our communities. These are stuff that these are 0:46:06.520 --> 0:46:09.200 terms that we've been hearing at least a decade, you 0:46:09.280 --> 0:46:11.200 know what I mean. But even more all the way back, 0:46:11.280 --> 0:46:14.120 we got to buy our community. We need ownership, all 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:18.200 these terms, but there's actual steps you have to take that. 0:46:18.680 --> 0:46:21.160 It isn't something that just happens by saying that. You 0:46:21.239 --> 0:46:24.080 can say it for five to twenty years and then 0:46:24.560 --> 0:46:27.759 you know, I walk by my street in l A, 0:46:27.920 --> 0:46:30.320 Manchester and Vermont, the street that I'm very familiar with, 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:32.880 and it's been looking the saying for twenty years. I 0:46:33.000 --> 0:46:35.280 walk by it's like, damn, but we're talking all this stuff, 0:46:35.520 --> 0:46:37.520 but nothing changes so far. Human. I said, you know, 0:46:37.640 --> 0:46:41.839 what is an actual step into buying our community? What's 0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:44.839 an actual step into putting grocery stores? Um? And that's 0:46:44.840 --> 0:46:49.120 where the term oasis come from, because an oasis it's 0:46:49.200 --> 0:46:51.320 a place of refuge in the middle of a desert. 0:46:51.680 --> 0:46:55.319 It's it's life, it's hope, it's beauty. And our communities 0:46:55.560 --> 0:46:59.960 are deserts. You know, food deserts, educational deserts. Uh, anything 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:01.920 you can think of that we need. We're deprived of 0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:05.600 it with this deserts. So we want to start building hope, uh, 0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:09.880 life in the middle of these deserts. So when we 0:47:10.080 --> 0:47:12.440 looked at it and we said, you know, step by step, 0:47:12.920 --> 0:47:16.080 what is the first step we can do? Um, Fahim 0:47:16.160 --> 0:47:19.359 had the idea of, man, let's just start real estate. 0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:23.080 Let's just put our little money we have businesses. And 0:47:23.320 --> 0:47:25.879 it started were just putting our own money together and saying, 0:47:25.880 --> 0:47:29.120 you know what, let's just buy this property. Um. And 0:47:29.800 --> 0:47:33.440 doing that it grew into for us something that we 0:47:33.520 --> 0:47:37.560 didn't expect because we kept putting our money in, putting 0:47:37.680 --> 0:47:40.080 making the profit, putting the money in, until we bought 0:47:40.160 --> 0:47:44.000 one property, four property, dozen properties, and the portfolio started 0:47:44.040 --> 0:47:47.080 to grow, and we said, you know, look at what 0:47:47.239 --> 0:47:49.799 we can do, and look at we're just we're just two, 0:47:50.000 --> 0:47:52.360 three or four people, you know, and every now and 0:47:52.400 --> 0:47:55.080 then we brought someone else in UM and we've seen 0:47:55.520 --> 0:47:59.040 that this is something we can logically do the steps 0:47:59.239 --> 0:48:01.960 to do it as far as just saying those words, 0:48:02.120 --> 0:48:05.520 if you want, yeah, I think we captured it. You know, 0:48:05.760 --> 0:48:08.759 that was it. It was like we you know, as 0:48:08.840 --> 0:48:11.160 you know, we we we all met, we all connected 0:48:11.200 --> 0:48:13.080 because we wanted to make a difference in our communities. 0:48:13.239 --> 0:48:16.400 So like that's been a driving force behind most of 0:48:16.560 --> 0:48:19.440 what UM you will see us doing, and Oasis was 0:48:19.520 --> 0:48:22.360 no different. We we saw, of course, the opportunity to 0:48:22.480 --> 0:48:25.880 generate money and make money, but then we saw in 0:48:26.040 --> 0:48:29.200 that there was like job creation, there was changing of 0:48:29.280 --> 0:48:31.480 the communities. There was this opportunity to give people a 0:48:31.520 --> 0:48:34.120 place to live that never lived in these type of places. 0:48:34.160 --> 0:48:37.000 So you started seeing all these other results of the 0:48:37.080 --> 0:48:38.719 work that we was doing. It's like, yo, this is 0:48:38.800 --> 0:48:42.359 actually something that's pretty impactful. Um to the point now 0:48:42.440 --> 0:48:45.480 where we've created dozens of jobs, we you know, made 0:48:45.520 --> 0:48:47.520 so many families and gave them opportunities to live in 0:48:47.560 --> 0:48:50.399 these type of environments, and ultimately that changes the way 0:48:50.440 --> 0:48:52.160 people think and live. You know what I mean? When 0:48:52.160 --> 0:48:54.440 you got these little five six year old children in 0:48:54.560 --> 0:48:57.200 Chicago is different, Like, you know, these sisters are still 0:48:57.239 --> 0:48:59.160 having eight babies out there. You know what I'm saying, 0:48:59.200 --> 0:49:01.719 it's a trip. Like so you're seeing all these young 0:49:01.840 --> 0:49:04.840 children and they're coming from the slim lorerd type of 0:49:04.920 --> 0:49:09.440 properties into our properties. Um, it's hard to even call 0:49:09.560 --> 0:49:12.239 it social justice because I look at it like, man, 0:49:12.320 --> 0:49:15.239 if if your cousins or your family or somebody was 0:49:15.280 --> 0:49:17.360 funked up, you want to look out for them, you 0:49:17.400 --> 0:49:19.279 want to take you wouldn't call this nothing. You would 0:49:19.360 --> 0:49:21.160 just do what makes sense and what was right in 0:49:21.239 --> 0:49:24.319 that moment. And I think in the basic sense, that's 0:49:24.400 --> 0:49:26.919 kind of what Oasis is like, it really just makes sense. 0:49:27.000 --> 0:49:29.400 And then we're able to do it on a larger 0:49:29.520 --> 0:49:33.080 scale when there's more people invested in it. So we 0:49:33.400 --> 0:49:35.160 we did what we did, and we could continue to 0:49:35.239 --> 0:49:37.520 do what we're doing, And we said, how would this 0:49:37.600 --> 0:49:40.000 look if there were ten of us, How would it 0:49:40.000 --> 0:49:41.680 looked up there was a hundred of us. How it 0:49:41.760 --> 0:49:45.359 looked there's a thousand of us, all pooling resources, which 0:49:45.400 --> 0:49:48.560 coming back to the group group economics. Then I'm glad 0:49:48.600 --> 0:49:51.359 you guys brought up some of your your your backgrounds, 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:54.480 and you talked a little bit about it. Uh Michael, 0:49:54.520 --> 0:49:56.520 But I would love for you to to tell us 0:49:56.560 --> 0:50:00.160 a little bit more about the inspiration, like how did 0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:03.960 you to grow up and and what does that mean 0:50:04.080 --> 0:50:05.680 in terms of when you got a little bit of 0:50:05.800 --> 0:50:08.040 change you said, oh I want to go and do 0:50:08.280 --> 0:50:11.080 this thing and to make my community better. To talk 0:50:11.120 --> 0:50:13.440 a little bit about that, because you know, people are 0:50:13.520 --> 0:50:17.160 really connected when they learned that you know and understand 0:50:17.239 --> 0:50:21.120 where they come from. And I think we have a problem. 0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:24.040 We face a challenge of folks thinking you've got to 0:50:24.120 --> 0:50:28.440 be you know, some big celebrity, some big rich person, 0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:32.640 somebody who came from wealth in order to start creating 0:50:32.960 --> 0:50:36.520 past um for your community and for your own family. 0:50:36.640 --> 0:50:38.440 So talk a little bit about where you come from. 0:50:39.440 --> 0:50:43.799 Find him and I, um, we've been We pretty much 0:50:43.840 --> 0:50:46.759 grew up together. Our parents knew each other, you know, 0:50:47.320 --> 0:50:50.840 our parents were students of the Honorable minutes to lo 0:50:50.920 --> 0:50:53.839 as far kind together. So when you know we grew up, 0:50:54.560 --> 0:50:58.520 you know, uh, just being around each other. Um, and 0:50:58.640 --> 0:51:03.160 we start we first started doing business together. Um yeah, 0:51:03.200 --> 0:51:06.040 And this is a whole crazy story. But he was 0:51:06.120 --> 0:51:09.839 in college and I was working for Michael Jackson, which 0:51:09.880 --> 0:51:13.319 is a story itself. But I because I know him 0:51:13.360 --> 0:51:16.600 and I trust him, I wanted to put people I 0:51:16.719 --> 0:51:20.960 trust around MJ because he's such a beautiful soul and 0:51:21.160 --> 0:51:24.040 gets taking advantage of man. You know, I called fighting. 0:51:24.280 --> 0:51:26.640 I didn't. I didn't really reach out to a lot 0:51:26.719 --> 0:51:30.200 of people. Um, but I always had a love and 0:51:30.280 --> 0:51:33.759 admiration for him. Just growing up. We've always just been solid. Um. 0:51:34.560 --> 0:51:37.720 We fight sometimes I always win because of my power 0:51:37.800 --> 0:51:40.560 and strength of my will. But outside of that, you 0:51:40.640 --> 0:51:43.520 know me and fighting is just solid. So I called him. 0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:47.360 He left school. He had like one semester left and 0:51:47.440 --> 0:51:50.320 he left school to come work for m J. He 0:51:50.440 --> 0:51:52.520 ended up in his degree for everybody like he left school. 0:51:52.560 --> 0:51:56.080 He wouldn't he got it. But ready to say, wait 0:51:56.160 --> 0:52:02.600 a minute, what happened we were working out. I was 0:52:02.600 --> 0:52:04.200 about to say for him, you was about to go 0:52:04.320 --> 0:52:07.799 back to school next week. So that's all we needed 0:52:09.920 --> 0:52:13.960 that's a whole crazy story too, how like that was 0:52:14.000 --> 0:52:15.759 a that's a whole story. But yeah, it worked out 0:52:15.800 --> 0:52:18.080 where I got with a degree. Um, I was able 0:52:18.120 --> 0:52:21.879 to have that experience working with m J. And Uh, 0:52:22.480 --> 0:52:24.239 I mean ultimately and let us to where we had. Now. 0:52:24.320 --> 0:52:25.880 You know, we grew up. You know, you hear the 0:52:25.960 --> 0:52:29.120 stories of like you know, we grew up no different 0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:32.080 than probably ninety percent of young black people in America. 0:52:32.160 --> 0:52:35.320 You know what I'm saying, fathers incarcerated or fathers and 0:52:35.480 --> 0:52:38.279 you know, and mothers just trying to struggle. His mother 0:52:38.400 --> 0:52:42.239 had three children. My mother had three children. Um, but 0:52:42.320 --> 0:52:44.360 they were friends and they still maintained their friendship to 0:52:44.400 --> 0:52:46.879 this day forty plus years. You know they've been fred 0:52:47.000 --> 0:52:49.880 before we were born. But you know, growing up and 0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:52.760 I grew up in Watts, California, went to high school 0:52:52.800 --> 0:52:55.320 and Watts Inglewood. Just these these areas, you know what 0:52:55.360 --> 0:52:59.760 I'm saying, Where you have these experiences, um, where especially 0:53:00.000 --> 0:53:03.280 a storm being students that are minister you, you develop 0:53:03.320 --> 0:53:06.040 a passion for one to change what's your experience in 0:53:06.360 --> 0:53:08.360 you know what I mean? And UH and I and 0:53:09.280 --> 0:53:12.480 UH I grew up he grew up in South Central 0:53:12.920 --> 0:53:15.360 my mother moved us south to suburbs. So I was 0:53:15.640 --> 0:53:17.640 raised around a lot of Asians, had a lot of 0:53:17.719 --> 0:53:20.920 Asian friends, but on weekends I was with them, so 0:53:21.080 --> 0:53:24.440 I got to see how communities on one end in 0:53:24.480 --> 0:53:27.920 the suburbs were beautiful and build and then I would exit. 0:53:28.080 --> 0:53:30.560 That's why I mentioned Manchester and Vermont. That would be 0:53:30.640 --> 0:53:33.080 the exit we would take. And it would be depressing 0:53:33.360 --> 0:53:35.680 every time I hit that block because I just came 0:53:35.719 --> 0:53:37.840 from the beautiful suburbs and now I'm over here in 0:53:37.920 --> 0:53:40.440 the hood. And that really always stuck with me. And 0:53:40.520 --> 0:53:44.440 like our communities are, They're gross and they never changed 0:53:44.560 --> 0:53:48.759 decade after decade, year after year. UM. So us just 0:53:48.880 --> 0:53:51.359 working together. We've always had that passion of like how 0:53:51.480 --> 0:53:55.600 can we help? And we done different things. We've had 0:53:55.760 --> 0:54:01.840 different careers, built businesses. Um. But I think what's important 0:54:02.160 --> 0:54:06.359 is trust. We trust each other and but we had 0:54:06.440 --> 0:54:09.400 to build that through work. And I think one thing 0:54:09.600 --> 0:54:13.080 our people have to learn how to do is how 0:54:13.120 --> 0:54:15.040 to work with each other. You know, we have to 0:54:15.160 --> 0:54:18.839 sometimes force that work because it's not easy. There's trust issues. Uh, 0:54:18.960 --> 0:54:22.200 there's years and generations of being taken advantage of. So 0:54:22.320 --> 0:54:24.960 by nature, you know, we're a little insecure when it 0:54:25.000 --> 0:54:28.799 comes to working especially with our with our own UM. 0:54:28.960 --> 0:54:32.520 So we had to find a way to make it work. 0:54:32.560 --> 0:54:35.880 But it started with trust, It started with respect, started 0:54:35.920 --> 0:54:39.200 with integrity UM. And what we wanted to do was 0:54:39.320 --> 0:54:42.120 show what two people can do UM. And now we 0:54:42.239 --> 0:54:44.640 have a whole team who works together of people we 0:54:44.760 --> 0:54:47.640 grew up with and then people knew UM. But we 0:54:47.840 --> 0:54:50.560 have to learn how to work together. And that's what 0:54:51.400 --> 0:54:53.879 FA him and I figured out how to do. It's 0:54:53.920 --> 0:54:58.000 been a great team effort, but it starts with with 0:54:58.360 --> 0:55:02.120 with trust, with inte pretty and with just just jumping 0:55:02.160 --> 0:55:04.800 out there and I can imagine YouTube to making my 0:55:04.880 --> 0:55:07.080 side have an idea of what I'm talking about is 0:55:07.280 --> 0:55:16.000 working together and struggling together. When you do that, and 0:55:16.080 --> 0:55:19.560 when and when you do that, you build that camaraderie 0:55:19.640 --> 0:55:24.160 that is needed to UH to be successful UM. And 0:55:24.440 --> 0:55:26.480 that's what we want to encourage people to do as 0:55:26.560 --> 0:55:30.080 far as pull your resources, because what I'm doing I 0:55:30.120 --> 0:55:33.560 couldn't do by myself. Why he's doing he couldn't do 0:55:33.680 --> 0:55:36.160 by himself. You know, we I probably would have made 0:55:36.160 --> 0:55:37.960 it pretty far. I would have did pretty good for 0:55:38.040 --> 0:55:39.800 myself and he would have did good for himself, but 0:55:39.880 --> 0:55:42.359 we can go so much further together, which is why 0:55:42.480 --> 0:55:45.279 we push unity and group of economics. So we're just 0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:49.600 an example of what we want to uh inspire others 0:55:49.719 --> 0:55:52.279 to do. Just listening to what it is that you 0:55:52.400 --> 0:55:55.720 guys established is beautiful, you know, just just the demand 0:55:55.800 --> 0:55:59.160 state right, demand state up saying you know, I want 0:55:59.200 --> 0:56:02.080 to utilize resources that I have. I want to do 0:56:02.200 --> 0:56:05.600 it with somebody that I trust and build for people 0:56:05.680 --> 0:56:07.880 that I know don't have as much, you know, And 0:56:08.200 --> 0:56:10.200 and I think that's what a lot of us want 0:56:10.239 --> 0:56:12.080 to do, you know, but a lot of us are 0:56:12.120 --> 0:56:14.600 scared to do it. I know most people don't. They 0:56:14.640 --> 0:56:17.040 don't like the process. Right. A lot of times people 0:56:17.080 --> 0:56:18.800 be like, yo, I want to do this, but nobody 0:56:18.840 --> 0:56:20.600 wants to go to that process. So at first I 0:56:20.680 --> 0:56:24.000 want to commend you on just doing it, you know. Um, 0:56:24.440 --> 0:56:26.600 so what what would it look like? How? What is 0:56:26.640 --> 0:56:28.160 it that you guys want to do? Do you want 0:56:28.200 --> 0:56:31.440 to bring on a bunch of people? Do you want 0:56:31.440 --> 0:56:34.840 to just have people that you know when you trust, 0:56:35.400 --> 0:56:38.000 to invest with you? Are you looking for ten people? 0:56:38.040 --> 0:56:40.640 Are you looking a hundred people to create like this 0:56:40.920 --> 0:56:44.200 this black oasis that everybody can be involved in, Like 0:56:44.320 --> 0:56:48.520 what is what is the goal? Well, the goal is big, 0:56:48.800 --> 0:56:52.200 the long term vision is big. But like I said 0:56:52.239 --> 0:56:55.160 in the beginning, we are doing it step by step, 0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:58.000 break by break. So in the as of right now, 0:56:58.239 --> 0:57:01.640 before for Human Eye brought this, you all are our 0:57:01.719 --> 0:57:04.239 first park official podcast, by the way, so thank you 0:57:04.600 --> 0:57:07.040 for having us, you know. But before we reached out 0:57:07.200 --> 0:57:11.279 to anyone, we wanted to see like, hey, does this work? 0:57:11.719 --> 0:57:14.479 Can we scale this? So we started with of course 0:57:14.560 --> 0:57:17.920 just me and him, uh, investing our own money, then 0:57:18.000 --> 0:57:21.680 bringing in another person uh and seeing like okay we 0:57:21.760 --> 0:57:24.919 can get ten units. Hey that we have twenty units, 0:57:24.960 --> 0:57:26.600 let's try to get four or five more. Let's bring 0:57:26.720 --> 0:57:30.000 two people. So once we've got a formula that works 0:57:30.480 --> 0:57:33.800 as far as investing, because now we're talking about investing, 0:57:34.040 --> 0:57:36.480 we have different We got the job creation. We have 0:57:36.600 --> 0:57:39.240 to beautify the community. But if we're talking just the 0:57:39.360 --> 0:57:42.320 business side, it's investing with us and what we do. 0:57:42.480 --> 0:57:47.320 We have an entire team who goes to work, purchase property, renovate, 0:57:47.840 --> 0:57:51.920 rent out all all that good stuff. Um, so right now, 0:57:52.040 --> 0:57:55.040 what we're looking for after we tested it for nearly 0:57:55.160 --> 0:58:00.520 three years, built a nice multimillion dollar portfolio has not 0:58:01.640 --> 0:58:04.360 have a nice size uh the nice units on the 0:58:04.400 --> 0:58:06.640 south side of Chicago, and want to mention that right now, 0:58:06.720 --> 0:58:10.760 we're focusing on Chicago UM for several reasons. And I'll 0:58:11.000 --> 0:58:15.280 quickly touch on why Chicago. UM. We know the area. 0:58:15.760 --> 0:58:20.560 It's a great market, UM, business wise and runners wise. UM. 0:58:20.680 --> 0:58:23.640 We have a construction partners out there. UM. So we 0:58:23.880 --> 0:58:28.920 know that we're able to deliver on two investors. You 0:58:29.000 --> 0:58:30.840 know we can give it. We can. We know we're 0:58:30.880 --> 0:58:33.240 confident we can get a return. So that's our first thing. 0:58:33.280 --> 0:58:35.200 We have to build up trust in our community. So 0:58:35.320 --> 0:58:37.320 people who are investing with us, we want them to 0:58:37.360 --> 0:58:40.240 have a great experience as far as getting what we 0:58:40.320 --> 0:58:42.040 said we would give them as far as a return. 0:58:42.360 --> 0:58:44.000 But to answer your question, my son now is a 0:58:44.040 --> 0:58:48.080 long way of pretty much saying, UM, we are open 0:58:48.440 --> 0:58:52.960 for the mass majority to invest. We did the groundwork 0:58:53.320 --> 0:58:58.000 with a few people, dozens of people UH investing. We 0:58:58.120 --> 0:58:59.840 got them to return and we said, you know what, 0:59:00.160 --> 0:59:02.360 let's build this up so we can open it up 0:59:02.360 --> 0:59:05.160 to the public. So we qualified with the SEC. That 0:59:05.360 --> 0:59:09.479 was a heck of a process, you know, UM, going 0:59:09.600 --> 0:59:12.440 back and forth, and they tightened it up over the years. 0:59:12.760 --> 0:59:15.520 But we have a great team, great lawyer team, great 0:59:15.640 --> 0:59:18.160 legal team, great business team, was able to push that through. 0:59:18.600 --> 0:59:21.920 And shout out to Jay Morrison. We're the He's the 0:59:21.960 --> 0:59:24.280 only one that we know, someone black was able to 0:59:24.360 --> 0:59:27.360 accomplish such a feat. Uh see why a lot of 0:59:27.760 --> 0:59:31.080 black old companies don't do it. It's very difficult, but 0:59:31.680 --> 0:59:35.680 but we did it. We qualified and we're actually ready 0:59:35.720 --> 0:59:40.920 to accept investments. So we are accepting investments UM as 0:59:41.000 --> 0:59:43.800 they come. We're capable to accept them by the hundreds 0:59:43.840 --> 0:59:47.600 and by the thousands UM based off building this foundation 0:59:48.000 --> 0:59:52.880 for the past few years UM and I think so 0:59:53.040 --> 0:59:54.640 that that's and that's where we're at right now. So 0:59:54.760 --> 0:59:58.040 we have what they called regulation, a fund that's open 0:59:58.320 --> 1:00:00.440 people can go to always just dot build. They can 1:00:00.520 --> 1:00:03.680 invest in the fund. UM. Short term, we want to 1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:08.560 acquire ten thousand units doors apartments between single family homes 1:00:08.640 --> 1:00:11.640 multi family homes in the Chicago area. That's our short term. 1:00:11.720 --> 1:00:15.400 That's like UM one of our goals, big long term 1:00:15.560 --> 1:00:19.360 vision is to take this formula and apply it into 1:00:20.000 --> 1:00:23.520 down trotten neighborhoods across America. So take the same away 1:00:23.560 --> 1:00:25.760 to the formula and bring it to New York, Bring 1:00:25.840 --> 1:00:28.800 it to Los Angeles, bring it to Atlanta, bring it 1:00:28.840 --> 1:00:32.640 to the areas where job creation will decrease the violence 1:00:32.680 --> 1:00:37.000 that's going on the streets. Um changing the way people 1:00:37.400 --> 1:00:40.000 are living will change their mentality. You know what I mean. 1:00:40.040 --> 1:00:42.600 When these young brothers right now, when they're living in 1:00:42.760 --> 1:00:45.240 Chicago or from Chicago, they come, they get a chance 1:00:45.280 --> 1:00:47.560 to work on these houses and we teach them about equity, 1:00:47.760 --> 1:00:50.640 teaching them about land ownership and the value of that. 1:00:51.040 --> 1:00:53.400 It changes the mentality. And we're just doing it by 1:00:53.520 --> 1:00:56.400 fuse right now. So as the program, you know, ten 1:00:56.480 --> 1:00:59.560 thousand our homes, that's a lot of renovation work, you know. 1:00:59.640 --> 1:01:01.560 So that's on the thousands of jobs. So now you've 1:01:01.560 --> 1:01:03.240 got a lot of people eating and a lot of 1:01:03.320 --> 1:01:05.960 people that are physically invested in the community. Like not 1:01:06.120 --> 1:01:08.840 hold long. We're not shooting here because we live here. 1:01:08.920 --> 1:01:11.120 We built that. We just painted that, bro, Why would 1:01:11.120 --> 1:01:13.120 you shoot that? You know what I'm saying. So we're 1:01:13.200 --> 1:01:17.080 we're looking to it's a multi tiered approach. Well how 1:01:17.160 --> 1:01:19.720 this this is gonna affect people. But long term we 1:01:19.760 --> 1:01:22.720 want to take awaysis and bring these homes into the 1:01:22.800 --> 1:01:26.520 communities across America that need it. And then we have 1:01:26.640 --> 1:01:29.400 another piece that we're rolling out UM and we're working 1:01:29.440 --> 1:01:32.080 with a couple of major Chicago organizations. We don't mention 1:01:32.080 --> 1:01:35.160 them now for someone government whatever, but we're gonna be 1:01:35.320 --> 1:01:37.960 helping these people get into home ownership. So some of 1:01:38.040 --> 1:01:41.120 these same tenants, we have a program where now we'll 1:01:41.160 --> 1:01:42.920 be taking people who have been on Section eight for 1:01:43.000 --> 1:01:45.480 ten twenty years and we'll be able to roll them 1:01:45.520 --> 1:01:47.920 into home ownership, which is a whole another topic. And 1:01:48.000 --> 1:01:50.360 it's like there's a lot going on right now in 1:01:50.440 --> 1:01:51.760 the house of market. I mean, there's a lot of 1:01:51.920 --> 1:01:54.680 them that you see as far as interest rates UM, 1:01:54.840 --> 1:01:57.560 as far as UM what's happening. But there's a lot 1:01:57.640 --> 1:02:01.160 of major funds that have been school been up, particularly 1:02:01.240 --> 1:02:03.880 single family houses like the thousands. You know, there's some 1:02:04.240 --> 1:02:06.880 major companies and this is a big difference between like 1:02:07.040 --> 1:02:08.760 what was happening in the two thousand and eight and 1:02:08.800 --> 1:02:11.760 what's happening now. Single family homes are considered an asset 1:02:11.840 --> 1:02:15.400 class for big money for hedge funds UM, so people 1:02:15.440 --> 1:02:18.240 are these companies are buying them up by the thousands, 1:02:18.640 --> 1:02:21.800 which means these homes are not going to be available. 1:02:22.040 --> 1:02:24.760 So like right now you know, you can still get home. 1:02:24.840 --> 1:02:28.000 But in ten years, twenty years, this may look completely different. 1:02:28.200 --> 1:02:30.080 If things continues to go as they are. When you 1:02:30.160 --> 1:02:32.680 start having funds that are backed by billions of dollars 1:02:32.760 --> 1:02:35.600 on the single family homes, yes, but you're not going bankrupt, 1:02:35.640 --> 1:02:37.360 you know what I'm saying. They're not They're not getting 1:02:37.440 --> 1:02:40.160 rid of that inventory. So that inventory when it's not available, 1:02:40.240 --> 1:02:44.160 particularly in the black community, Now you don't have homeownership 1:02:44.480 --> 1:02:48.320 on a on a high level. And as we were talking, 1:02:48.680 --> 1:02:51.560 there's this thing going on called the Great Transfer of Wealth. 1:02:51.600 --> 1:02:53.000 I don't remember the number. I think it was like 1:02:53.600 --> 1:02:57.840 seventy killion dollars. It was like a astronomber, Yeah, astronomical number. 1:02:58.400 --> 1:03:00.600 Most of it is tied in the real estate. Um, 1:03:00.720 --> 1:03:04.200 that's gonna be happening because the the baby boomers who 1:03:04.280 --> 1:03:06.600 are sixties, seventies, and eighties are going to be dying off. 1:03:06.920 --> 1:03:09.200 They have all this real estate they own, and it's 1:03:09.200 --> 1:03:13.280 going to be transferring down into our generational generations below us. 1:03:13.680 --> 1:03:17.360 So there's this opportunity here for Black people to level up. 1:03:17.440 --> 1:03:20.400 And if we're aware, um, if we're united, um, if 1:03:20.440 --> 1:03:23.160 we snatch this stuff up, particularly with something like a 1:03:23.280 --> 1:03:25.320 fun like when we have where we could raise up 1:03:25.320 --> 1:03:28.440 the seventy five million and it's one fund which could 1:03:28.480 --> 1:03:31.480 represent tens of thousands of homes, UM and then do 1:03:31.560 --> 1:03:34.320 it again, duplicate the process and then release the inventory 1:03:34.600 --> 1:03:38.320 back into our communities. Um. You know it's a great thing. 1:03:38.440 --> 1:03:40.760 I mean, I could go into what being a homeowner 1:03:40.840 --> 1:03:43.920 has done on a personal level, how access to that 1:03:44.160 --> 1:03:47.200 homeline equity line of credit has helped me scale up 1:03:47.240 --> 1:03:49.800 other businesses. Um, have an access to be able to 1:03:49.880 --> 1:03:51.960 just go and get liquid when you need it, you 1:03:52.000 --> 1:03:54.160 know what I mean? You know, cash flow is keen 1:03:54.280 --> 1:03:56.479 in these businesses, and there's a lot of little things 1:03:56.520 --> 1:03:59.200 that just having a property, owning the property can do 1:03:59.400 --> 1:04:01.440 for you on a personal level, to allow you to 1:04:01.480 --> 1:04:05.120 grow your wealth. But once that opportunity is gone and 1:04:05.200 --> 1:04:08.520 there's nothing available for purchase for our people which is coming, 1:04:08.880 --> 1:04:11.160 then how will we be able to do some of 1:04:11.240 --> 1:04:13.640 the other things that have an access to that equity 1:04:13.680 --> 1:04:16.680 would allow us to do. So we're attacking this. It 1:04:16.760 --> 1:04:19.880 really is a war. It's a financial war because we're 1:04:19.960 --> 1:04:21.680 being attacked. Don't even know what A lot of us 1:04:21.720 --> 1:04:25.160 are just asleep, UM, not understanding what's happening on the 1:04:25.240 --> 1:04:27.720 back end, and what's happening with this big money that's 1:04:27.760 --> 1:04:31.280 all in our communities already? Is we speaking? I love it. 1:04:31.400 --> 1:04:34.040 I love it, you know, I mean it sounds it's 1:04:34.160 --> 1:04:37.760 very clear. It's not you know, to me, I'm very 1:04:38.320 --> 1:04:41.320 clear as to what you're saying. And I don't know 1:04:41.400 --> 1:04:45.400 if you mentioned this earlier. Um, but how will this 1:04:45.720 --> 1:04:50.880 impact those people who are formally incarcerated and specifically people 1:04:50.920 --> 1:04:54.360 who may have felony convictions? Haven't thought about that in 1:04:54.440 --> 1:04:58.880 our data? Yeah? Definitely. Yeah, Well we'll we'll jump right 1:04:58.920 --> 1:05:03.080 into a program that we have, the build programs. So 1:05:03.480 --> 1:05:08.040 one thing that finally mentioned is job creation. And it's 1:05:08.080 --> 1:05:11.200 one thing to say, and I know, you know, uh, 1:05:11.520 --> 1:05:14.520 we're fighting on different fronts. You know, we were asking 1:05:14.560 --> 1:05:17.280 the government to pass bills and some jobs happy they 1:05:17.360 --> 1:05:20.800 created through that, um uh. And this is a different 1:05:20.840 --> 1:05:23.640 angle as far as Okay, while we're fright fighting over here, 1:05:23.960 --> 1:05:26.680 because they owe its jobs, they should create jobs, how 1:05:26.760 --> 1:05:29.680 can we also create jobs ourselves? So one thing that 1:05:29.800 --> 1:05:34.560 we found was renovations of these properties. Now there's tens 1:05:34.640 --> 1:05:41.400 of thousands of properties in Chicago alone, fifty vacant properties 1:05:41.680 --> 1:05:45.080 and This isn't vacant cities. These are properties on nice 1:05:45.160 --> 1:05:48.560 streets here and there where we're able to buy them 1:05:48.840 --> 1:05:51.480 and renovate them. So someone coming out of prison, you 1:05:51.560 --> 1:05:53.440 may have a felity, it may be difficult to get 1:05:53.520 --> 1:05:57.120 difficult to get a job. However, we partnered with one 1:05:57.200 --> 1:06:00.600 of the best training schools in the country, Genesis Construction 1:06:00.640 --> 1:06:04.360 Training Center, and what they do is they accept students. 1:06:04.800 --> 1:06:08.880 You learned all the trades from carpentry to h VAC 1:06:09.040 --> 1:06:12.280 to lighting and too. Uh I can't name them all, 1:06:12.400 --> 1:06:15.120 but you know they're training. You can certify you in 1:06:15.200 --> 1:06:19.200 these and you get paid to fix our properties, so 1:06:19.360 --> 1:06:23.080 you're actually learning and not only learning, you're getting certified. 1:06:23.160 --> 1:06:25.320 So now you're a skilled worker. So now you can 1:06:25.360 --> 1:06:29.160 actually get uh work elsewhere. But you can build our properties. 1:06:29.400 --> 1:06:31.880 Every property we buy, we try to buy them dilapidated 1:06:32.200 --> 1:06:35.440 so we can fix them up. So we're creating jobs. 1:06:35.520 --> 1:06:38.120 And you know, one property may create five six shots, 1:06:38.480 --> 1:06:41.920 so imagine what tens of thousands of property. And that's 1:06:41.920 --> 1:06:44.480 just one aspect, because then you've got the management aspect, 1:06:44.800 --> 1:06:47.880 you got the administrative aspects, You've got all these aspects 1:06:47.960 --> 1:06:50.880 to what it takes to fix these homes. Now, this 1:06:50.960 --> 1:06:54.320 is just one angle, but it's angle that works, you know. Um, 1:06:54.800 --> 1:06:58.920 And we actually have already started um and you know, 1:06:58.960 --> 1:07:00.840 I think it'd be different than to try on what 1:07:01.040 --> 1:07:03.080 we've done with the bill program, because it's not just 1:07:04.240 --> 1:07:07.760 that's one thing. Our brothers and sisters incarcerated who are 1:07:07.840 --> 1:07:11.360 coming home and need work. That is, you know, we're 1:07:11.400 --> 1:07:13.840 able to help accommodate that the more we're able to buy, 1:07:14.240 --> 1:07:18.080 but also our students who are coming out of high school, 1:07:18.960 --> 1:07:22.880 who who may not uh go to college or don't 1:07:22.920 --> 1:07:25.040 feel like they're able to go to college. So we 1:07:25.160 --> 1:07:28.560 experimented with the program called the Build program. Yeah, and 1:07:28.720 --> 1:07:31.400 I just on the incarcerated piece. I'll touch on the 1:07:31.520 --> 1:07:34.560 real quick. So we have two brothers now forming incarcerated 1:07:34.560 --> 1:07:37.320 who wouldn't otherwise probably be working, that are on the 1:07:37.400 --> 1:07:40.520 team that work daily, um, and actually living in some 1:07:40.640 --> 1:07:42.880 of our property. So we're gonna attack that from a 1:07:42.880 --> 1:07:45.440 couple of different agles. That's probably another twelve to eighteen 1:07:45.480 --> 1:07:47.720 months out, but we're gonna be opening up what they 1:07:47.800 --> 1:07:50.440 call halfway houses. And we've already been in touch with 1:07:50.520 --> 1:07:53.000 some of the prison ministries in Chicago who are ready, 1:07:53.160 --> 1:07:55.080 you know, what I mean. So they have these pipelines 1:07:55.520 --> 1:07:58.520 people who need housing, need job, need these different things 1:07:58.560 --> 1:08:01.640 that will will be able to offer. But what what 1:08:01.840 --> 1:08:05.440 we did UM as a start the build program, we 1:08:05.520 --> 1:08:08.480 started with high school students, students that we knew who 1:08:08.640 --> 1:08:11.160 may otherwise you know that it's such a weird window, 1:08:11.320 --> 1:08:13.960 you know what I'm saying, like that seventeen two twenty 1:08:14.120 --> 1:08:16.599 something where especially if you don't go to college, that's 1:08:16.600 --> 1:08:18.240 where you get caught, you know what I mean. So, 1:08:18.840 --> 1:08:21.840 knowing what we knew, UM, and then knowing that we 1:08:21.960 --> 1:08:23.599 had all of these young brothers that we have been 1:08:23.600 --> 1:08:26.960 in their lives since they was thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, UM, 1:08:27.160 --> 1:08:30.000 we wanted to have something for them, especially the ones 1:08:30.040 --> 1:08:32.479 that weren't like on a college type of trajectory. So 1:08:32.720 --> 1:08:35.679 we we created the BILD program and UH, we bought 1:08:35.720 --> 1:08:38.720 a house, we renovated it, We moved them, some of 1:08:38.760 --> 1:08:42.360 them from different parts of the country Los Angeles, UM, Oakland. 1:08:43.080 --> 1:08:45.200 We moved them into that house and put them in 1:08:45.240 --> 1:08:48.040 that program. UM a year ago. So the program has 1:08:48.080 --> 1:08:50.680 been going for a year. It's six of them and 1:08:50.800 --> 1:08:53.040 us in there right now. UM. It's a five there 1:08:53.080 --> 1:08:55.880 room house. They all got their own space. But to 1:08:56.040 --> 1:08:57.720 see the growth and if you go to our I 1:08:57.920 --> 1:09:00.920 g H. You'll see some of the young brothers on 1:09:00.960 --> 1:09:02.760 that page and to see where they grow. Like I 1:09:02.920 --> 1:09:05.200 go out there here, we're learning from them now one 1:09:05.280 --> 1:09:07.160 year and he's a young man. I'm not going to 1:09:07.240 --> 1:09:11.400 say that we're gonna necessarily downward or negative trajectory, but 1:09:11.479 --> 1:09:13.760 who knows. You know, you know what them years can 1:09:13.840 --> 1:09:15.960 do when you just out there and you've got time 1:09:16.080 --> 1:09:19.000 and you're not on nothing in particular, Um, it could 1:09:19.040 --> 1:09:20.640 it could just cause a whole lot of trauma in 1:09:20.680 --> 1:09:24.080 your life. So we want to scale that as well. Um, 1:09:24.200 --> 1:09:26.960 not just for the young men in our community, but 1:09:27.040 --> 1:09:29.400 for the young men in these communities that were operating 1:09:29.400 --> 1:09:31.960 in and uh and and catch them ones is eighteen 1:09:32.120 --> 1:09:35.840 nineteen not doing nothing, give them something to do. But man, 1:09:35.920 --> 1:09:38.679 the thing about that I learned, and I'm learning more. 1:09:39.080 --> 1:09:41.120 Our young brothers are not lazy, you know what I mean. 1:09:41.160 --> 1:09:44.600 They're not bad people. They're not negative people. They're not 1:09:45.160 --> 1:09:48.360 violent people. They're just in violent situations there and then 1:09:48.560 --> 1:09:50.400 you know, and they're fearless. And you know what I'm saying, 1:09:50.439 --> 1:09:52.720 They just stuff happens, you know what I mean? You know, 1:09:52.760 --> 1:09:55.320 I'm sure we could all attest to that. So when 1:09:55.360 --> 1:09:57.720 you give them something productive to do, like the young 1:09:57.800 --> 1:10:00.720 brothers that are with us, they wake up at five am. Um, 1:10:00.800 --> 1:10:04.160 they're out the door five fifteen and they're working until 1:10:04.280 --> 1:10:07.240 four o'clock, five o'clocks, six o'clock. It's not a lot 1:10:07.280 --> 1:10:09.439 of time for foolishness, you know what I mean. On weekends, 1:10:09.800 --> 1:10:11.600 I go out there sometimes we go to Chiclogo, just 1:10:11.640 --> 1:10:13.800 a kicking with them. They don't even want to kick it, 1:10:13.960 --> 1:10:15.840 like we're gonna rest up. We got a busy week, 1:10:16.040 --> 1:10:18.719 we got this renovation, we this, we started this new project. 1:10:18.920 --> 1:10:20.439 These are eighteen year olds, you know what I mean 1:10:20.520 --> 1:10:23.120 that I'm thinking like this. We started them their own LLFC. 1:10:23.720 --> 1:10:26.120 They got tens of thousands of dollars saved in their LLC. 1:10:26.600 --> 1:10:29.080 We're buying them their first property that they're going to 1:10:29.160 --> 1:10:31.840 own before this year. Is how we We may do 1:10:32.000 --> 1:10:34.120 it earlier in the next year, just because we're looking 1:10:34.160 --> 1:10:36.679 at the rates and everything that's happening depending on the deals. 1:10:36.760 --> 1:10:40.000 But nevertheless, we put them in position with an LC 1:10:40.120 --> 1:10:41.960 today owned to buy their own property, and we're going 1:10:42.000 --> 1:10:44.879 to continue to do that. We're teaching them ownership. We're 1:10:44.920 --> 1:10:47.640 giving them what no one was able to give to us, 1:10:48.080 --> 1:10:50.240 like the game, Like this is the game. This is 1:10:50.280 --> 1:10:52.200 how you do it. It's how you leverage it. It's 1:10:52.240 --> 1:10:53.760 how you put the money out. This is what you 1:10:53.840 --> 1:10:55.320 do with the money when you get the money out. 1:10:55.360 --> 1:10:57.799 We're not even buying them with We're not buying jewelry, 1:10:57.880 --> 1:10:59.600 none of that. We're gonna get another property and then 1:10:59.640 --> 1:11:01.080 we're gonna do that again, and I'm gonna show you 1:11:01.160 --> 1:11:03.960 how to continue to leverage it where you're not over leverage. 1:11:04.200 --> 1:11:06.400 You know, you're under seventy for sent anything ever happens 1:11:06.439 --> 1:11:09.400 with the market, you in position to sell or whatever 1:11:09.560 --> 1:11:12.360 whatever you want to do. We would like to be 1:11:12.400 --> 1:11:14.040 able to put these brothers in position and do that. 1:11:14.160 --> 1:11:16.960 And if we had that at nineteen, where we got 1:11:17.080 --> 1:11:18.760 at thirty, where will we be at you know what 1:11:18.840 --> 1:11:21.800 I'm saying. So our sons, we got sons, they'll have 1:11:22.000 --> 1:11:26.559 this at fifteen sixteen. It's just information and information is power, 1:11:26.640 --> 1:11:29.000 as we know. So that's that's our plan. That's our 1:11:29.040 --> 1:11:32.439 plan for our incarcerated brothers. That's our plan for you know, 1:11:32.600 --> 1:11:35.360 our young brothers coming up in our communities. There's trillions 1:11:35.360 --> 1:11:37.639 of dollars in this industry alone. We're not even talking 1:11:37.680 --> 1:11:40.040 about all the other industries. And one of the things 1:11:40.080 --> 1:11:42.479 that we talked about, particularly for the young dudes, is this, 1:11:43.520 --> 1:11:45.360 you can still go and be what you want to be. 1:11:45.600 --> 1:11:48.720 Like give us, like I was telling them, look, give 1:11:48.840 --> 1:11:51.559 us seventeen to twenty give us eighteen to twenty one. 1:11:51.800 --> 1:11:53.760 And then if you choose to go and do something 1:11:53.800 --> 1:11:56.000 totally different, You've got a couple of properties that you 1:11:56.080 --> 1:11:58.800 own so you financially stable. You've got the knowledge base 1:11:58.920 --> 1:12:01.040 that you gain from learning the trades and doing these 1:12:01.080 --> 1:12:04.400 different things, so you know you can always do hustling. 1:12:04.520 --> 1:12:07.439 Doing something negative doesn't even look like a Bible option. Now, 1:12:07.520 --> 1:12:09.719 why would I do that when I got five dollars 1:12:09.760 --> 1:12:12.120 a month. Brother in there, I'm free to think. I'm 1:12:12.160 --> 1:12:14.400 not in survival mode. I don't have to take these 1:12:14.439 --> 1:12:16.320 type of risks to be up. I can give my 1:12:16.400 --> 1:12:18.920 mom's money if she needed. There's no pressure, you know 1:12:18.960 --> 1:12:20.960 what I'm saying, to go and do something illegal or 1:12:21.080 --> 1:12:24.080 something that catchs you up. So, um, you know that's 1:12:24.160 --> 1:12:27.840 kind of that's that's our game. Well, I love it, man. 1:12:27.920 --> 1:12:29.800 It sounds so much aligned with what it is that 1:12:29.920 --> 1:12:33.160 I do. And you know in the Boycutt Black Murder, 1:12:33.600 --> 1:12:36.680 you know initiative that I'm I want to utilize and 1:12:36.720 --> 1:12:39.280 bring around the world because we need those type of 1:12:39.680 --> 1:12:42.280 outlets and we need those opportunities for them boys. Just 1:12:42.400 --> 1:12:44.639 like you said, you know a lot of them don't 1:12:44.680 --> 1:12:47.080 want to do nothing negative. They just that's all they've 1:12:47.080 --> 1:12:50.120 been given. So when you have those type of opportunities, 1:12:50.520 --> 1:12:53.200 brothers like yourself, with stand up individuals that they can 1:12:53.240 --> 1:12:56.200 look like that look like them, understand the language with 1:12:56.360 --> 1:12:59.360 the uniform, then you know, are able to speak the 1:12:59.479 --> 1:13:02.439 language of the people. That's what we need for especially 1:13:02.479 --> 1:13:04.640 when it comes to our youth and and and a 1:13:04.840 --> 1:13:07.840 returning citizens. You know. So I just once again, I 1:13:07.920 --> 1:13:10.200 just want to commend you, brothers, because this is the 1:13:10.240 --> 1:13:12.559 work like this is the work that we talk about. 1:13:12.960 --> 1:13:15.800 This is what what it looks like when you transform 1:13:15.840 --> 1:13:17.920 in your community and you're buying back the hood and 1:13:17.960 --> 1:13:21.040 you're utilizing everything, and you're teaching one you know, the 1:13:21.080 --> 1:13:24.360 whole concept of giving me two to three years and 1:13:24.439 --> 1:13:26.720 then I could teach you how to fish. Now if 1:13:26.760 --> 1:13:29.800 you don't want to fish, after I teach you, you 1:13:29.960 --> 1:13:31.560 know how to fish. Your worst come to worst and 1:13:31.600 --> 1:13:33.600 you gotta hold another thing you want to do, but 1:13:33.720 --> 1:13:37.040 you always know how to fish, you know, So that's 1:13:37.320 --> 1:13:40.960 that's just that that mindset in itself is you know, 1:13:41.080 --> 1:13:43.320 it's just amazing man. You and I know your brothers, 1:13:43.360 --> 1:13:46.600 so you very detailed and very thorough. So I know 1:13:46.760 --> 1:13:50.320 that you took the tie and went through this very organized. 1:13:50.360 --> 1:13:52.840 So that's why I'm I'm gonna invest. I need to 1:13:52.880 --> 1:13:55.600 be involved in this, you know what I'm saying. I 1:13:55.720 --> 1:13:57.800 definitely want to be involved in this, and I just 1:13:57.880 --> 1:14:01.080 want to commend you. So how can people get involved? 1:14:01.160 --> 1:14:03.280 What is what is the steps for people to get involved? 1:14:03.479 --> 1:14:06.160 We have an app and the app you can uh 1:14:06.760 --> 1:14:10.280 search in the App Store or Google play Store. O 1:14:10.360 --> 1:14:14.120 Wastis Investments. You can download our app. That's the easiest way. 1:14:14.200 --> 1:14:16.680 You also can go to our website O Wastis dot 1:14:16.760 --> 1:14:20.320 build and you just click get started. And because we 1:14:20.479 --> 1:14:27.519 are an SEC qualified complying company. Um as you all know, 1:14:27.640 --> 1:14:30.160 because you know, I'm sure you've you've done something like 1:14:30.240 --> 1:14:34.080 this before. It's not it's not a cash app or 1:14:34.439 --> 1:14:36.640 a quick you know, send me something to help me 1:14:36.720 --> 1:14:39.479 some bread. You know, we gotta get we gotta note 1:14:39.520 --> 1:14:42.720 have know your customer laws and moneyline at time money 1:14:42.800 --> 1:14:46.679 lundering laws. So we need people's information. And the reason 1:14:46.760 --> 1:14:49.760 we did it like this is because you know, I 1:14:49.840 --> 1:14:51.960 think there's a lot of trust issues in our community 1:14:52.120 --> 1:14:54.840 and we wanted to make sure that we built this 1:14:55.080 --> 1:14:58.559 company um as by the book as possible, and there 1:14:58.640 --> 1:15:02.000 was no further way the you know, uh qualifying with 1:15:02.080 --> 1:15:05.320 the SEC. So you gotta enter your information. Of course 1:15:05.360 --> 1:15:08.560 everything's gonna secure server um and then you invest. We 1:15:08.680 --> 1:15:13.240 have the minimum investment at a thousand dollars. And the 1:15:13.320 --> 1:15:17.280 reason we did that is you know, we know everyone 1:15:18.160 --> 1:15:21.559 kink uh it may not be in a position to invest, 1:15:21.680 --> 1:15:24.560 and that's okay. We want people to get in the 1:15:24.680 --> 1:15:28.160 mindset of starting to save and uh, this is something 1:15:28.280 --> 1:15:31.280 that's valuable. You know, this is something to work towards. 1:15:31.760 --> 1:15:34.960 And it's perfect time because as you mentioned earlier, this 1:15:35.160 --> 1:15:39.040 is a financial movement that's going on economic revolution UM. 1:15:39.120 --> 1:15:41.120 So a lot of education. You've got a lot of 1:15:41.240 --> 1:15:45.360 great people um from earn your Leisure and all these 1:15:45.479 --> 1:15:48.559 brothers who are doing for a part of this financial movement. 1:15:48.800 --> 1:15:52.679 Like you said, credit and financial literacy. So we're encouraging 1:15:52.760 --> 1:16:00.599 everyone to learn more and the sisters and man, thank 1:16:00.680 --> 1:16:05.040 you powerful systems. You know, Um, it's a whole movement 1:16:05.160 --> 1:16:08.439 that's going on. It's it's it's unity. It's beautiful to see. 1:16:08.840 --> 1:16:11.160 You know, I have to revote summit to make you 1:16:11.200 --> 1:16:13.040 did a great job. By the way, if to revote summit, 1:16:13.320 --> 1:16:15.880 and you know, and when one of the key things 1:16:16.160 --> 1:16:20.640 was for me, you know, unity over uniformity and at 1:16:20.680 --> 1:16:22.560 the end of the day, let's all come together. No 1:16:22.640 --> 1:16:25.360 matter what you're doing. You could invest. And one of 1:16:25.439 --> 1:16:31.120 the reasons we wanted it investments instead of the you know, 1:16:31.520 --> 1:16:35.200 normal donation or or some different ways for people to 1:16:35.320 --> 1:16:38.920 understand that, you know, this isn't just you doing something 1:16:38.960 --> 1:16:41.320 out the kindness of your heart. You this is something 1:16:41.360 --> 1:16:43.360 you're gonna get a return on. This is this is 1:16:43.520 --> 1:16:46.360 business as well. This is how we should we want 1:16:46.400 --> 1:16:49.560 to start eating our communities to think like this, to 1:16:49.720 --> 1:16:53.240 think down the line. Um, it's not an overnight investment. 1:16:53.680 --> 1:16:55.960 It's not the stock market where you can check tomorrow 1:16:56.080 --> 1:16:59.040 and you may have made fifty dollars or and we 1:16:59.280 --> 1:17:02.759 and we let people know clearly, that's not how wealth works. 1:17:03.160 --> 1:17:07.920 That's not how change works. Change takes time, you know, um, 1:17:08.080 --> 1:17:11.160 and we got to start learning these things as a community. 1:17:11.680 --> 1:17:16.720 As far as delayed gratification over instant gratification, UM, these 1:17:16.760 --> 1:17:19.000 are It all goes into why we picked a thousand 1:17:19.080 --> 1:17:21.599 dollars was very we we we thought about that, why 1:17:21.720 --> 1:17:24.560 we want to do that, um And everyone may not 1:17:24.680 --> 1:17:26.760 be able to make it right now, but eventually you 1:17:26.880 --> 1:17:28.640 may be able to. This is for those who are 1:17:28.680 --> 1:17:31.200 in a position where you have a few thousand dollars 1:17:31.360 --> 1:17:33.559 and instead of letting it sitt in the bank doing nothing, 1:17:34.200 --> 1:17:36.840 you invested and we put it to work. You see, 1:17:37.280 --> 1:17:40.280 you know, you see buildings transformed. You know. That's why 1:17:40.360 --> 1:17:42.880 we document everything. Our production team is very heavy in 1:17:42.960 --> 1:17:46.400 our company because we like showing you the tenants were 1:17:46.439 --> 1:17:50.040 like showing you the brothers and sisters working. We like 1:17:50.160 --> 1:17:52.840 the actual show the progress to see what your money 1:17:52.920 --> 1:17:55.760 is doing, whether it's besides sitting in bank of America Chase, 1:17:56.080 --> 1:17:59.280 it's actually working, it's going to work. And the thing look, 1:18:00.200 --> 1:18:03.000 American Chase are doing what your money what we want 1:18:03.040 --> 1:18:07.160 to do there doing the same thing you just yeah, 1:18:07.320 --> 1:18:10.200 so it's like your money's working for somebody, let it 1:18:10.280 --> 1:18:12.519 work for you and let us let like you know, 1:18:12.840 --> 1:18:15.000 and we know that there's a thing with trust in 1:18:15.080 --> 1:18:18.519 our community, and we overstand that. That's why I mean 1:18:18.640 --> 1:18:23.600 initially hated Yeah, I know, I know, you know, but 1:18:23.840 --> 1:18:27.240 but look, it took us years. You know. Itpects me 1:18:27.439 --> 1:18:30.200 like like I don't even you know, I never have 1:18:30.320 --> 1:18:33.040 done anything like this, but I'm passionate about it and 1:18:33.120 --> 1:18:35.400 it's real, and it took us years of like really 1:18:35.479 --> 1:18:38.559 build it up, being confident about it, seeing like all right, 1:18:38.640 --> 1:18:40.640 this is not something that we're guessing that we're not 1:18:40.800 --> 1:18:42.880 like trying to feed. We do this, this is what 1:18:43.040 --> 1:18:45.439 we do. This is what we've done. Track record speaks 1:18:45.479 --> 1:18:48.200 for itself, and now we're comfortable bringing other people to it. 1:18:48.360 --> 1:18:50.920 So like, um, we we want to we want to 1:18:50.960 --> 1:18:53.960 earn our people's trust. We don't expect it to be given, 1:18:54.600 --> 1:18:56.720 but we want the opportunity to do that because we 1:18:56.840 --> 1:18:59.680 have we believe we have a good formula. We've been 1:18:59.800 --> 1:19:02.160 on the ground doing this work and this is no 1:19:02.320 --> 1:19:04.559 different than the work we were doing six seven, eight 1:19:04.640 --> 1:19:07.160 years ago with you all. This is the same approach, 1:19:07.320 --> 1:19:10.760 same mentality. It's a solution to problems that exist in 1:19:10.800 --> 1:19:12.920 the community, and that's all that we're doing, you know 1:19:12.920 --> 1:19:15.040 what I mean. Of course, it's even better that we 1:19:15.120 --> 1:19:17.280 make money while doing it. It's even better that will 1:19:17.600 --> 1:19:19.639 be willing to help other people make money while they're 1:19:19.680 --> 1:19:22.479 doing All of those things are added botuses, But overall, 1:19:22.960 --> 1:19:26.360 our mission has always been to change the condition of 1:19:26.400 --> 1:19:28.040 our people. You know what I mean? I think I 1:19:28.160 --> 1:19:30.400 think for me right, just knowing you individuals you and 1:19:30.800 --> 1:19:34.960 knowing your personally and knowing how practical you are, right, 1:19:35.040 --> 1:19:38.519 like you ain't chasing no dreams. This ain't trying to 1:19:38.640 --> 1:19:41.200 like for y'all to be here and said that we 1:19:41.360 --> 1:19:43.280 come on podcasts and we're gonna put our name on 1:19:43.439 --> 1:19:46.800 something like y'all did the research, like you know, you 1:19:46.920 --> 1:19:49.200 ain't going out there there's some money. Three called Molly 1:19:49.320 --> 1:19:52.080 you and say put your money, not like this is 1:19:52.439 --> 1:19:55.360 something that y'all you're putting your name behind. So and 1:19:55.439 --> 1:19:57.840 I know that you both individuals are stand up or 1:19:57.960 --> 1:20:02.160 practical individuals. So I'm and I would I would advise 1:20:02.800 --> 1:20:05.200 anybody to you know, to get behind it because it 1:20:05.280 --> 1:20:09.120 sounds like what our people need. Man so appreciates say 1:20:09.200 --> 1:20:12.760 the the app again. And before you do that, let 1:20:12.840 --> 1:20:16.040 me just say I'm very proud, you know, because even 1:20:16.080 --> 1:20:20.320 though I'm probably I don't know if I'm older than 1:20:20.360 --> 1:20:22.600 y'all or not, but it feels like my brothers, my 1:20:22.720 --> 1:20:28.480 little brothers, are doing something really big. And I appreciate 1:20:28.640 --> 1:20:33.200 the fact that we're not looking at one another saying, well, 1:20:34.040 --> 1:20:37.200 this is the right way to get our people towards 1:20:37.320 --> 1:20:41.240 freedom and your way is wrong. Right. I think fall 1:20:41.320 --> 1:20:45.040 into a trap when we start looking at one another 1:20:45.200 --> 1:20:50.000 and judging and or trying to discredit and tear people down, 1:20:50.479 --> 1:20:53.960 and instead there are lanes for everyone. If we don't 1:20:54.000 --> 1:20:56.800 make noise in the streets, we would not even be 1:20:56.920 --> 1:20:59.840 able to get the type of attention necessary to push 1:21:00.040 --> 1:21:04.000 people in your direction. Right, Because folks that are protests 1:21:04.040 --> 1:21:09.720 and marching, frustrated, organizing, they're out there raising their concerns, 1:21:09.920 --> 1:21:14.200 voicing their opinion, and then they're looking for solutions. What 1:21:14.320 --> 1:21:16.800 do we do next? And there's a number of things. 1:21:16.880 --> 1:21:19.280 We've got black folks that are an elected office that 1:21:20.040 --> 1:21:22.720 it's important to have people on the front lines from 1:21:22.800 --> 1:21:28.280 that perspective that can vote for laws that that keep 1:21:28.360 --> 1:21:32.479 your community safe and clean and functioning. But then also 1:21:33.000 --> 1:21:36.000 there is a point that comes where legislators have to 1:21:36.080 --> 1:21:39.200 sit down and do work that is directly in line 1:21:39.240 --> 1:21:42.080 with what you all are doing because we could have 1:21:42.240 --> 1:21:45.799 people pass legislation that blocks us out of the system 1:21:45.920 --> 1:21:49.920 completely that red minds us again, or people have people 1:21:50.320 --> 1:21:55.080 passing legislation that will help to ensure that the policies 1:21:55.120 --> 1:21:58.720 put in place provide access for folks who would not 1:21:58.880 --> 1:22:02.320 generally have acts us. So there are multiple lanes to 1:22:02.479 --> 1:22:05.160 this movement. And I'm just proud to see you all 1:22:05.320 --> 1:22:08.640 in yours and still understanding the importance of collaborating with 1:22:08.800 --> 1:22:12.560 people like us and others. So tell us the website, 1:22:12.920 --> 1:22:17.759 Thank you brothers, thank y'all so much for him, Michael 1:22:18.320 --> 1:22:22.200 come back again, and we're gonna be investors. We've already 1:22:22.240 --> 1:22:24.599 talked about it, and we need to just follow up 1:22:24.640 --> 1:22:27.040 and figure out what we can do to get started 1:22:27.120 --> 1:22:32.200 right away. Yes, yes, man, Uh, I have to say 1:22:32.400 --> 1:22:34.439 I can't leave. I'm gonna go over the app. But 1:22:34.560 --> 1:22:37.760 I have to commence you to on the work you're doing, UM, 1:22:37.840 --> 1:22:39.840 And I'm glad you said that this is a war. 1:22:39.960 --> 1:22:42.640 We're fighting on multiple fronts and it's gonna take all 1:22:42.680 --> 1:22:44.960 of us together attacking from different angles. But what you 1:22:45.040 --> 1:22:49.800 all did, specifically the work you put in for our 1:22:50.120 --> 1:22:56.360 dear sister Um, who was murdered Brianna Taylor. The work 1:22:56.520 --> 1:23:00.120 you all did and the results you did prove that 1:23:00.680 --> 1:23:05.920 different avenues are necessary, different aspects are necessary. Um, and 1:23:06.240 --> 1:23:09.800 we want to and we're and we are honors to 1:23:10.760 --> 1:23:14.360 work and fight alongside of you all in this lane 1:23:14.640 --> 1:23:17.920 that can compliment your lane as your lane compliments this lane. 1:23:18.040 --> 1:23:21.080 But it's all the same struggle. So with that, thank 1:23:21.160 --> 1:23:27.080 you all. Appreciate both of you. The app is Oasis Investments. 1:23:27.640 --> 1:23:30.479 Check that in the app store, Google play Store again 1:23:30.600 --> 1:23:36.160 typing Oasis Investments, or go to our website Oasis dot 1:23:36.280 --> 1:23:39.599 build and we have dot build because that's what we're doing. 1:23:39.720 --> 1:23:43.040 We building, We're working. Uh, it's time for us to 1:23:43.080 --> 1:23:45.120 get busy, so we're gonna continue to get busy. We 1:23:45.160 --> 1:23:48.080 appreciate YouTube, um and like this is, but this is 1:23:48.160 --> 1:23:50.800 the beginning we're saying. We're saying, buy off the Zoom. 1:23:50.800 --> 1:23:52.760 But we're gonna get to work after this and we're 1:23:52.760 --> 1:23:56.040 gonna stay in touch. You know, we appreciate you and 1:23:56.280 --> 1:23:59.600 keep doing the work. Man can't wait. We want to 1:23:59.640 --> 1:24:02.160 We want to advice both of y'all to Chicago too, 1:24:02.360 --> 1:24:04.320 you know, so we want you to invest. Of course, 1:24:04.640 --> 1:24:06.160 we want you to come and see what we're doing. 1:24:06.240 --> 1:24:08.400 Meet the team, meet the brothers, get to understanding or 1:24:08.439 --> 1:24:10.560 what it is we're doing, how we're doing it. We 1:24:10.600 --> 1:24:12.840 would love to make that happen also, so we'll got 1:24:12.880 --> 1:24:24.200 that out. It's done, all right, all right? Man shout 1:24:24.240 --> 1:24:27.120 out to our brothers for he and Michael Man. Just 1:24:27.240 --> 1:24:30.439 watching these brothers evolve into this, you know, knowing them 1:24:31.280 --> 1:24:33.760 from being on the front lines and doing a lot 1:24:33.840 --> 1:24:37.480 of different works. Seeing this, like I said, this financial 1:24:37.560 --> 1:24:42.400 revolution and seeing your entry point different entry points and movement. 1:24:42.560 --> 1:24:45.479 You know, it's like you said, it's not uniformity, is 1:24:45.640 --> 1:24:48.360 unity and connecting what it is that we do, what 1:24:48.520 --> 1:24:51.519 you do. You know. I'm just in a good space. 1:24:52.040 --> 1:24:54.240 You know. I have to have to invest best. My 1:24:54.360 --> 1:24:57.280 mind just started to transform because I've seen a lot 1:24:57.320 --> 1:24:59.280 of people saying and doing things that I know I 1:24:59.320 --> 1:25:02.960 could do, but for some reason, we feel like we 1:25:03.080 --> 1:25:04.960 got this hold on us that we can't do and 1:25:05.080 --> 1:25:08.559 the process is too on And it's like anything else 1:25:08.600 --> 1:25:10.320 I'd say all the time, like when you got a 1:25:10.360 --> 1:25:13.160 dirty room. You walk into the room and everything's all 1:25:13.240 --> 1:25:15.400 over and you look like, yo, you just gotta pick 1:25:15.479 --> 1:25:18.040 some up, right. Just the thing is you just gotta 1:25:18.080 --> 1:25:19.760 pick some up and then you start put it away 1:25:19.880 --> 1:25:22.120 next to you know, it's getting clean. And I think 1:25:22.200 --> 1:25:24.880 that's what it is in this financial space. Man. You 1:25:25.000 --> 1:25:27.800 gotta just get involved. You gotta do your research. And 1:25:27.840 --> 1:25:30.080 I just jump in, But you gotta do your research. 1:25:30.120 --> 1:25:31.640 You gotta say, Okay, I want to do this. Let 1:25:31.720 --> 1:25:33.439 me find out what it takes to do this. Let 1:25:33.479 --> 1:25:35.880 me talk to people who know. Let me utilize my 1:25:36.040 --> 1:25:38.920 common sense along with knowledge that I'm learning, and say 1:25:39.160 --> 1:25:41.439 what is best for me? Where should I be investing? 1:25:41.840 --> 1:25:44.439 You know, what do I able to understand? You know, 1:25:44.760 --> 1:25:47.120 make sure that you're invest in things with people that 1:25:47.240 --> 1:25:50.599 you trust and also things that you can understand, right, 1:25:50.680 --> 1:25:54.040 because you want to understand the process of what you're doing. 1:25:54.160 --> 1:25:56.840 So I think what they just said to me broke 1:25:56.920 --> 1:25:59.880 it down so eloquently. It was good. It was really good. 1:26:00.000 --> 1:26:03.240 It was very very clear, and I feel like I 1:26:03.400 --> 1:26:08.519 walked away knowing exactly you know, what they're doing and 1:26:08.680 --> 1:26:11.720 how you can get involved. And then how people not 1:26:11.960 --> 1:26:14.720 just from a financial like you know, not just from 1:26:14.760 --> 1:26:18.839 a like ownership perspective, but how other people on the fringes, 1:26:18.960 --> 1:26:23.080 people all around the formerly incarcerated community, people getting jobs 1:26:23.360 --> 1:26:26.080 people from different perspectives. I mean, you know, I'm sure 1:26:26.120 --> 1:26:28.120 they didn't. We didn't have enough time to really cover it. 1:26:28.200 --> 1:26:32.799 But insurance right now, there can be black insurance agents 1:26:32.920 --> 1:26:34.560 that can get involved. And of course that I do 1:26:34.760 --> 1:26:38.200 know that they have black contractors and you know others 1:26:38.240 --> 1:26:40.439 who work in the space. So anything that has to 1:26:40.560 --> 1:26:45.400 do with purchasing land and a home or renting homes, 1:26:45.600 --> 1:26:49.280 renting apartments, so what have you, from nuts to boats, 1:26:49.640 --> 1:26:53.960 from all the different aspects, you can learn and and 1:26:54.080 --> 1:26:57.479 get a trade in those things and then go work 1:26:57.560 --> 1:27:01.040 with Oasis Investment Group and other people. And I love 1:27:01.120 --> 1:27:04.600 the fact that they mentioned Jay Morrison, right because oftentimes 1:27:04.720 --> 1:27:07.840 once we start something, we try to act like it's 1:27:07.880 --> 1:27:10.800 the first time it ever happened. And I'm sure you know, 1:27:11.000 --> 1:27:14.720 Jay knows of other models prior to his where a 1:27:14.800 --> 1:27:20.320 collective came together to purchase property or purchase land, um 1:27:20.640 --> 1:27:24.720 you know. And so I I am I'm happy to 1:27:24.880 --> 1:27:27.559 see and we just know them to be those types 1:27:27.640 --> 1:27:31.320 of individuals that will always sort of pay homage to 1:27:31.439 --> 1:27:34.120 people who have already tried to figure out the model, 1:27:34.800 --> 1:27:37.360 um you know, and just and and that's it. So 1:27:37.520 --> 1:27:41.840 just good people. So that stand up individuals man, you know, 1:27:41.920 --> 1:27:46.200 and I woant to stay no shade to anybody, there's 1:27:46.240 --> 1:27:50.240 no shade. But Jay Morrison was the first person that 1:27:50.640 --> 1:27:55.560 I've seen doing financial literacy. Every I love all of 1:27:55.760 --> 1:27:58.200 I love, you know, I love the whole earner a Leisia. 1:27:58.439 --> 1:28:00.799 I love all of them, him, all of the brothers. 1:28:00.840 --> 1:28:03.960 I've watched them and they are dope. But what Jay 1:28:04.120 --> 1:28:06.680 was doing was revolutionary. He was going to he was 1:28:06.760 --> 1:28:10.519 given financial literacy and real estate literacy on the corners 1:28:10.640 --> 1:28:14.120 in the hoods, and he was and he utilized that model, 1:28:14.160 --> 1:28:16.400 and it was for us. And I had never seen 1:28:16.960 --> 1:28:20.120 or even understood any of that until Jay was doing it. 1:28:20.200 --> 1:28:23.680 So and I and and I appreciate that when we 1:28:23.760 --> 1:28:27.880 were at Arni Aalisia, we saw Jay there in the space. 1:28:28.080 --> 1:28:32.639 If we fall into the same traps that have been 1:28:32.880 --> 1:28:37.240 used and that has been imposed upon us by um, 1:28:37.560 --> 1:28:44.120 you know, uh, a racist society, white supremacy, and the 1:28:44.840 --> 1:28:47.800 tool of divide and conquer. In fact, I'm gonna be 1:28:47.880 --> 1:28:50.760 talking about this um for a few days on my 1:28:50.920 --> 1:28:56.559 live right because this idea of divide and conquer has 1:28:56.680 --> 1:29:01.680 been being used against us since any movement you you name, 1:29:01.760 --> 1:29:05.639 the movement, and it's always happened. And so people who 1:29:05.840 --> 1:29:08.680 think in this moment that they are the brightest and 1:29:08.760 --> 1:29:11.920 the best and the realist and everything else is fake 1:29:12.080 --> 1:29:16.040 and this and that and the third, the same tools 1:29:16.600 --> 1:29:19.800 that have been used to destroy us will be used again, 1:29:19.960 --> 1:29:22.519 even in this moment, and even what they are trying 1:29:22.600 --> 1:29:26.840 to do will be destroyed, because there is no community 1:29:27.200 --> 1:29:30.920 that can be great when people within it who claim 1:29:31.040 --> 1:29:35.200 to be leaders spend time trying to tear down and 1:29:35.400 --> 1:29:39.160 destroy other people. So when you talk about Jay Morrison, 1:29:39.240 --> 1:29:42.080 it's important for us to uplift his name and make 1:29:42.120 --> 1:29:45.240 sure that the that the Tulsa Real Estate Fund is 1:29:45.320 --> 1:29:49.040 a part of the conversation around how people started thinking 1:29:49.080 --> 1:29:52.360 about sort of putting their resources together to buy these 1:29:52.479 --> 1:29:54.640 properties and do some of these things doesn't mean it's 1:29:54.680 --> 1:29:56.800 the first time it was done. It just means Jay 1:29:57.080 --> 1:30:00.600 was bring He was really pushing us to per anticipate 1:30:00.800 --> 1:30:04.840 in that in this generation some time ago, and of 1:30:04.960 --> 1:30:10.479 course they the tools always work. The SEC and the 1:30:10.600 --> 1:30:14.639 FBI launched an investigation against him, and I can remember 1:30:15.000 --> 1:30:19.160 friends people who I know have also been through their 1:30:19.320 --> 1:30:24.080 own investigations and they want people to side with them 1:30:24.439 --> 1:30:27.920 and understand that the system is just working against them. 1:30:28.200 --> 1:30:31.960 These same people said, oh yeah, I knew something was wrong. 1:30:32.240 --> 1:30:34.880 It was a scam. I knew it wasn't right. And 1:30:34.960 --> 1:30:37.960 of course both the SEC and the damn FBI came 1:30:37.960 --> 1:30:39.920 out and said they didn't find anything and for them 1:30:39.920 --> 1:30:42.679 folks to go ahead and continue to do their work. 1:30:43.280 --> 1:30:47.160 So with that being said, my only advice in this moment, 1:30:47.240 --> 1:30:49.360 and you know this is my second time talking about 1:30:49.400 --> 1:30:51.000 this in the show. Already know, but I have to 1:30:51.040 --> 1:30:55.000 say it again because you know, repetition maps. We cannot 1:30:55.120 --> 1:31:00.240 be so cocky and our approach that we think we're 1:31:00.280 --> 1:31:02.200 the only ones that had the answer, because guess what 1:31:02.760 --> 1:31:08.479 if you got the answer, fix it by yourself. Fix it. 1:31:09.080 --> 1:31:12.840 I think, I think what happens is in everything, the 1:31:12.920 --> 1:31:16.120 ego plays a part. And I think as you grow 1:31:16.240 --> 1:31:18.880 you start to realize that, as you get older, you 1:31:18.920 --> 1:31:21.800 start realizing that when people when people start to get 1:31:21.840 --> 1:31:26.920 a level of success and notoriety and they get celebrated, 1:31:27.040 --> 1:31:31.240 what happens is you start to believe your own height. 1:31:31.600 --> 1:31:35.600 Moving along brings me to my I don't get it. 1:31:39.479 --> 1:31:42.559 The internet has had some crazy things that I haven't 1:31:42.680 --> 1:31:46.760 even chose to discuss, didn't want to discuss, But this 1:31:47.000 --> 1:31:50.080 right here took the cake being the father, you know, 1:31:50.280 --> 1:31:55.760 being someone interested in helping the youth evolved and giving 1:31:55.800 --> 1:32:00.439 them Jews and all those things. When I found out 1:32:01.920 --> 1:32:11.519 that the alleged shooter of pnb Rock was actually driven 1:32:14.240 --> 1:32:19.120 two the robbery by his father and the father drove 1:32:19.200 --> 1:32:22.360 him to get away, I think that was one of 1:32:22.439 --> 1:32:26.679 the boasts biggest confusions I've been in a long time, 1:32:27.240 --> 1:32:30.880 Like what father? They said that the father was there 1:32:31.800 --> 1:32:35.280 and pnb Rock came, the father drove to go get 1:32:35.400 --> 1:32:40.080 his seventeen year old son to commit a robbery. After 1:32:40.200 --> 1:32:43.559 the son did shot pnb Rock and left for the chain, 1:32:43.680 --> 1:32:47.600 the father then was the getaway dropped. And I'm so 1:32:47.840 --> 1:32:52.120 confused as to what what part of fatherhood is that 1:32:52.240 --> 1:32:55.640 I don't know the father just shoot him himself. But 1:32:55.720 --> 1:32:58.080 this is what I'm trying to see, my things. If 1:32:58.160 --> 1:33:00.840 you thought you you was one to throw your life away, 1:33:00.960 --> 1:33:03.719 you was this tough guy. You want why you didn't 1:33:03.760 --> 1:33:07.200 just completely throw your life? Why would you take your offspring, 1:33:07.720 --> 1:33:09.720 the person that you brought into this world, that you 1:33:09.840 --> 1:33:11.960 want to have a better life than you, that you 1:33:12.080 --> 1:33:15.439 want to be successful, Why would you bring him in 1:33:15.600 --> 1:33:19.800 complete chaos to destroy his life. It was gangster, he 1:33:19.920 --> 1:33:22.759 was all at What made you go get your child, 1:33:23.520 --> 1:33:27.120 your seventeen year old child, to throw his life away. 1:33:27.439 --> 1:33:28.840 I mean, I don't know, but I think it's a 1:33:28.920 --> 1:33:32.280 real serious question. It's it's it's it's it's what I 1:33:32.400 --> 1:33:36.160 call coward culture, right, because you wanted to be you 1:33:36.320 --> 1:33:38.599 wanted to do all this. You was tough. I think 1:33:38.640 --> 1:33:40.800 it's a dumbishi in the world. But if you make 1:33:40.840 --> 1:33:43.760 a conde decision as a man, adult man, that you're 1:33:43.800 --> 1:33:46.040 willing to take that risk and do some dumb ship, 1:33:46.439 --> 1:33:49.320 why you didn't do it? Why would you involve your 1:33:49.520 --> 1:33:53.000 child in some bullshit like that? You know what I'm saying. 1:33:53.080 --> 1:33:56.160 And then people like your's, people that grow like anybody 1:33:56.200 --> 1:34:01.519 that grows up like that, it's being this. That's child abuse. 1:34:02.000 --> 1:34:06.160 It's complete. And this is why I'm for the right 1:34:06.240 --> 1:34:10.000 to choose, because everybody shouldn't doesn't supposed to be a parent. 1:34:10.080 --> 1:34:12.960 They're just not supposed to. And it's a classic example. 1:34:13.240 --> 1:34:16.200 I would definitely rather someone to board the fetus then 1:34:16.360 --> 1:34:18.960 bring a child into this world where you throw his 1:34:19.120 --> 1:34:20.680 life and put him in prison for the rest of 1:34:20.760 --> 1:34:23.960 his life. I just that's just my personal opinion. Everybody's 1:34:24.000 --> 1:34:28.000 not gonna gree but everybody has to understand that everybody 1:34:28.160 --> 1:34:30.640 is supposed to be parents, and this man it's not 1:34:30.760 --> 1:34:32.439 supposed to be a parent. Man. It's the it's the 1:34:32.600 --> 1:34:38.240 biggest miscarriage of manhood and misdirection and just or everything 1:34:38.360 --> 1:34:42.400 wrong was in how society happened that day, Everything that 1:34:42.560 --> 1:34:45.200 that I call us wrong and I will never get it. 1:34:45.360 --> 1:34:49.599 And anybody who condones this is stupid. You're not a man, 1:34:51.000 --> 1:34:53.240 you know. Anybody who thinks this is a culture that 1:34:53.360 --> 1:34:55.880 people should live by and take my son and do 1:34:56.040 --> 1:34:59.200 some negative ship to destroy his life is it's not 1:34:59.280 --> 1:35:03.880 even a man's Well here, here's the deal. It's not 1:35:04.080 --> 1:35:08.599 just a man bringing his son right. There's there are 1:35:09.320 --> 1:35:14.479 mothers that have their daughters out, you know, basically pimping 1:35:14.520 --> 1:35:19.599 them to make money and to attract uh certain types 1:35:19.680 --> 1:35:23.639 of men. I mean, I think that. And you've got 1:35:23.800 --> 1:35:28.160 people who will, um you know, get their kids involved 1:35:28.200 --> 1:35:32.040 in drug dealing. In fact, that happened within my own family. 1:35:32.880 --> 1:35:37.000 UM So I think you know, I don't have much 1:35:37.080 --> 1:35:40.559 to say about it other than to make the point. 1:35:41.600 --> 1:35:45.880 Then we just as a people, we just have to 1:35:46.000 --> 1:35:51.840 find a way to move closer to consciousness because we're 1:35:51.880 --> 1:35:54.000 so you know right now is just it's just such 1:35:54.080 --> 1:35:58.559 a level of m just dis joining to your point, 1:35:58.960 --> 1:36:02.280 a lack of kind justness. And not to say that 1:36:02.520 --> 1:36:05.720 these things weren't always happening, but when you see it 1:36:06.400 --> 1:36:09.080 in the side in the light of the PM but 1:36:09.360 --> 1:36:13.599 PM b Rock situation, it just really makes it's sad. 1:36:14.280 --> 1:36:17.800 And as a community of people, just as black folks 1:36:17.880 --> 1:36:20.160 in general, you know, we have to look at that 1:36:20.320 --> 1:36:23.000 and say, where are we going wrong? And look to 1:36:23.120 --> 1:36:27.160 your family and neighbors and others and really do a 1:36:27.240 --> 1:36:29.479 gut check on whether or not this is the type 1:36:29.520 --> 1:36:33.679 of behavior that exists around you. I was too young 1:36:33.800 --> 1:36:36.000 to deal with the fact that, you know, I had 1:36:36.040 --> 1:36:39.679 a family member who was allowing their children to get 1:36:39.760 --> 1:36:42.560 in the drug game, one by one by one. And 1:36:42.640 --> 1:36:46.240 I'm talking about maybe five or six kids, including something 1:36:46.280 --> 1:36:49.519 that are in prison right now and their dad has 1:36:49.640 --> 1:36:53.839 gone on UM. But I was too young to do anything, 1:36:53.960 --> 1:36:57.880 if you will, about that. However, I know that it exists, 1:36:58.000 --> 1:37:05.960 this pipeline to incarceration, death failure, uh that exists within families, 1:37:06.000 --> 1:37:07.519 and I think we just have to call it out. 1:37:09.920 --> 1:37:13.040 I think we do, man, And with that said brings 1:37:13.120 --> 1:37:18.800 us to another episode of Street Politicians. Shout out to 1:37:19.520 --> 1:37:22.840 fa him and Michael. You know, make sure that you 1:37:22.960 --> 1:37:25.519 invest in our a system brothers. They got it all 1:37:25.600 --> 1:37:27.639 set up and I can't wait to put my money 1:37:27.680 --> 1:37:30.320 in it. And a lot of issues that we talked 1:37:30.320 --> 1:37:33.800 about today. 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