WEBVTT - Ice Cube 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.120 Hello, Welcome to another edition of Club Shah, and my 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:09.719 guest today is father, husband, actor, activists, rapper, the Og, 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:15.960 Mister ice Cube himself. All my life, running all my life, sacrifice, 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.880 hustle back, Chris one a slice, got the bron dice 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.640 swathing all my life. I've been running all my life, 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.520 all my life, the running, all my life, sacrifice, hustle back, 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.920 Price one slice got the dice swathing all my life. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.960 I've been running all my life. Cue. How are you 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.880 doing today? Yeah? What's suddenly? Man? How you feeling shading? 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.760 I'm good, bro? I mean, are you getting ready for 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.760 doing Remaker? Tom Hayes The Black cast Away? What's going on? Hey? 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:48.599 You know, you know I had to let it grow. Man. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.199 You know that's that's that wisdom coming through then. You 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.440 know what I'm saying, that's that wisdom coming this wisdom 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.960 coming through the chin right here. Bro, I really appreciate 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.280 if you give me a few moments of your time today. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.600 I really appreciate it. I know you're very busy, but 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.800 to give me a few minute minutes of your time today, 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.000 I really appreciate it. Now. I appreciate you doing it, man, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.440 you know I love you know what you're doing TV. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.000 You know, to meet you one of the best personalities 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:21.679 on TV talking sports and just human. Uh, you know, 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.280 just get down, you know what I mean, just just 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.160 telling it like a t I is and I love 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.600 you on TV. So man, I'm glad you got this show. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.560 Now you can keep it going. Thank y'all really appreciate it. Well, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.440 let's start you we'll get back to where the origins. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.680 But let's start with the basically the hot thing of 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.319 what's going on today, and that was the murder of 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.560 George Floyd and what's the tensions and the uprising the 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.960 emotions that we're starting to see spill out in the 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.960 black communities. And a lot of people I think don't 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.160 realize where you got your start from. You were in 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.520 a group called NWA, and so I think people are 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.960 a little surprised shock because they think you had gotten 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.120 away from that. Talk about your emotions and why you've 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.600 been so active the resurgence of the IQ of the 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.720 original o G. Well, you know, with my music, I 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.040 talk about and I've always talked about, you know, the 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.880 things that's happening in our communities. You know, I call 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.160 it street knowledge, and uh, I've always been kicking that 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.360 from day one. But in my movies, you know, I 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.360 felt like when somebody spends you know, maybe a hundred 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.160 dollars when it comes to them, they want and getting 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.960 something to eat, parking driving, it might want to have 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.480 a good time, and it might not be about just 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.360 the struggles of being black in America. Some of my 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:48.200 movies are usually fun, but I've always had a passion 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.840 for our condition in this country and what needs to 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.720 be done and to do it from you know, my 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.519 bandage point, you know, which is art. But when this happened, 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.320 I felt like it was time for me to step 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.160 up as a OG. You know, I felt like it's 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.920 my generation's turn to take the man on when it 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.480 comes to not just civil rights, but human rights, just 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:19.880 human dignity, economical, uh, you know, freedom. You know, it's 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.240 it's hard time to step up. So I wanted to 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:27.040 step out outside of music in movies and just speak 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.360 as a as a man, as a father, you know 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.080 now grandfather, and I just you know, can't see this 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.640 perpetuate and keep going on another you know whatever years. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.920 Why do you think that George Floyd murder hit her 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.680 so different? Because they're with Eric Gardner. There was Philando Castile. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.000 There was Alton Sterling, there was Walter Scott, there was 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.400 Sandra Bland. There was Tamerror Rights. There was Treyvard Martin. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.320 There've been so many. Why did this resonate so much, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:04:00.640 not only in the black community, but seemed to grip America? Well, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:07.520 you know, we as a people never accepted slavery, correct, 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.600 We never went for that. You know, I don't care 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.080 what they tell you. That was never cool with us, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.760 and we wasn't never down with it. We tolerated it, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.080 we lived under it, but we didn't accept it. No, 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.120 we had to, you know, to survive. And so when 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.000 when one one of us would get out of hand, 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:35.919 they would pull everybody around to watch the discipline take place. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:40.279 And we've seen that in movies countless of times. This 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:48.000 was a replay of that, seeing this man uh begging 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:54.279 for his life, even to his mama, and so to 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.400 have a man on top of him with his hand 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:01.320 in his pocket, looking right at the camera. Let us 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:08.120 all know that our life means nothing, and that's unacceptable 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.800 in twenty twenty. It was unacceptable back then, but we 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.760 couldn't do nothing about it. Now we can do something 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.440 about it and we're not going for it. And you know, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:24.280 I always said the country has got to change, or 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.560 we will change it. And that's what's happening right now. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:32.400 We're in the process of changing it, and it's gonna happen. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.880 And so you know, that's why now is the time. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.920 Why is it so hard for those outside of our 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:46.400 communities to hear our cries to see us as human 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.040 not less? Then why is it so hard for people 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:55.160 to accept that there's something raw in America and we 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.640 won't change it. Why is it so hard for them 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:03.440 to see that? Well, I mean, it's not happening to them. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.599 You know, usually people are really concerned about their own situation, 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:13.840 their own family. It's not easy for the average wide 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:20.920 American today. So he maybe feels or she maybe feels like, hey, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.040 this is part of it, you know, this is part 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.360 of the struggle of pull yourself up by your bootstraps. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.760 But if they realize we've never even had a pair 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:35.240 of boots to pull ourselves up by, so speak as 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:39.200 a as a community, and even when we tried to prosper, 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.080 it was stumped out in uh, you know, different places 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.440 across the country like Tulsa and you know, and other 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:52.440 wood roads, wood other communities that we know about and 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.919 hear about, and the ones that we haven't heard about. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:01.039 So you know, our progress and side avertaged in a 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:08.720 lot of ways. It's a systematically fixed where you know, 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.640 that's why they're so surprised when one of us get 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.240 through and get ahead and and don't count me and 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.960 you we we we go through the path that's at 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:24.080 least resistance, which is entertainment in sports, right, you know, 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.200 we gotta look at you know, how many people you 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.360 know are not Ice Cube and Shannon Sharp and how 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.560 can they get through? So, you know, just to end that, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.160 I just think it's people that just look at their 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.600 own situations and if it's not happening to them, it's 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.680 hard for them to understand. But as you mentioned, is 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.160 that when when people look at you and I and 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.280 they think that all black people, well Cube you made it, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.400 Shannon Sharp, you made it, Oprah, and you got Lebron, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.360 you got Denzil. But we're the only race for people 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.760 that if you can succeed and they say, well you 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.080 did it everybody else. But that's not how White America 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.360 views it. White America doesn't look at and say, well, 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.720 Jeff Bezo has one hundred and eighty three billion, so 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.160 everybody else is good. They say it's not. We need 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.320 to get everybody up to get economic prosperity. You look 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.760 at the Asian community, you look at the Jewish community. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.960 Everybody is about pulling everybody else up. But in the 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.240 Black community, say well, if you feel you get out, 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.320 you good. Yeah, that's that's just not true. And even 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.320 we've had help. You know, I couldn't have made it 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:34.360 without at the time of Record Company just distributing the 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.720 record and putting it out. You know, Easy had the label, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.920 but he had to go through Makola as a distributor. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.920 So you had to you know, play on the broncos. Uh, 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.960 and that don't make you a bad guy, and the 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.640 Ravens to you know, to do your thing, you know 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.400 what I'm saying. So, but you but those organizations were 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.920 still in place. So that's a form of health and 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.560 our community. Of these we got businesses that if they 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.720 could get a loan, if they can get some just 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.320 a little capital, a little help, they can grow that 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.800 business and hire more people and expand and and and 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.640 and have different franchises. And but when we can't get 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:24.080 that initial spot of capital to help us jump start 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.760 even a home loan. You know, we're shut out. We 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.120 only get three percent of all the money in the 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.720 bank loaned out to black people in their businesses. Now 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.560 ninety seven percent go to other communities. Now we're thirteen 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.040 point five percent of the country. If they just bump 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:46.800 that to thirteen point point five percent, loan out and 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.120 you know where guys can borrow, not not unqualified guys. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:57.040 I'm talking about prime lending. No, we we'd all it 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.320 help us catch up, because the gap is what's killing 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:06.360 us right now. Every for every dollar a white person 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.960 is worth, a black person is worth ten percent, and 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.960 that just can't stand right now. We can't survive off 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.840 off of that wealth gap. And it's not getting smaller. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.360 It's grown, it's growing. And the thing is is that 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.559 you know, look, I'm not saying, and I think you're 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.360 echoing is saying the same thing I'm saying. I'm not saying, 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.040 helped me because I'm black, But please don't deny me 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.440 because I'm black, thank you. I mean, just like you know, 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:40.040 three trillion dollars was given to two companies, you know, 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.800 I mean six hundred dollars was given to some Americans, 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.760 but for the most part, they built out all these 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:52.240 different companies and uh and these different you know, billionaires. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.600 But how many black companies were built out with that 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.720 three trillion dollars? With thirteen point five percent of the country. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.720 We should at least got thirteen point five percent of 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.520 that three trillion dollars to help our companies. Forty two 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:11.040 percent of black companies went under during this COVID situation. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.880 And that's that's a shame when they're helping companies. That's 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.080 that's been built out over and over and over and 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.160 over again with the American people money, and thirteen point 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.520 five send me that money's ours. So uh, you know, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.400 of course the numbers shift here and there, but you 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.880 get my drift, You get my point. You have something 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.360 a contract with America. You said you want to address 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:42.600 racial economic inequality. So in your contract, how do you 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:47.120 how does America make it right with black America? Man, 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.320 It's a lot of simple things they could do, you know, 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.520 just take government contracts. If we got thirteen percent of 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.080 the government contracts out there, that would give our communities 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:03.560 a big boots. Like I said, with lending, you know, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.720 lending money, you know other things that we need to do. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:12.120 Of course, we need to reform policing, but also the 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.440 justice system and the prison system. You know, if you 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.440 don't reform all three, what it happened is you reform 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.720 the police and then you know, if you do get arrested, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.760 you get a bad DA or you know prosecutor that 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.600 don't give up the evidence and give up all the 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.240 the the discovery and do all these games. Now they 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.280 don't railroaded to the prison. Prison got their own games 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.839 where if they're not feel to the top, the prison 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.560 have to pay money, so they're gonna make sure they 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.440 feel to the top with guilty and innocent people. So 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.320 it's a thing where this is a business ran on 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.360 off off you know, our pain, not just black people, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:01.800 but brown people. It's off our hand read people off 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:06.720 our pain, and these systems, you know, continue to thrive 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:11.120 and grow and people get big money off them. So 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.160 all these things got to be reformed. If we're treated fair, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.360 you don't have to defund the police. If you just 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:22.840 get good guys and make the bad guys accountable and 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.080 get them off the force, then we would love the 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.760 police like any other community. But when you keep the 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.199 bad guys and they come abuse us and beat our 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.920 head in. Of course we don't want them then, right, 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.359 And the thing if you mentioned bank and finance reform, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.439 is that we play a higher lending. We play a 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.360 higher rate on the loan, but we're quicker to get 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:50.200 floor clothed on all that. You know, every game in 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.480 the book is played off us. We pay more, I mean, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.920 we pay more in taxes, property taxes for the police, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.040 and then they the ones beat our head in. So 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:08.200 all these little games that's being played on our backs, 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.760 that's relegated us to the bottom of this economic pyramid. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.840 We have to sniff them out and cut him out 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.440 and and things would flow and you won't see so 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:30.480 much frustration. You know, people with that cold pay their 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.880 bills and do their thing and and you know know 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:39.160 where their next meal coming from. Don't think about going 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:44.240 out in the street looting. So cute that seems to be. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.520 It seems to me doctor King said, riots is the 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:52.000 language of the unheard, And it seems it seems to 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.920 me that black people say the only time you hear 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.400 is is that when we burning stuff down where we're 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.880 blessing out of windows. We were crying for four hundred years, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:01.840 and it seems to be when you get the sixty 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.480 five or watts right, or you get ninety two, or 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:09.320 you get the Ferguson, or you get Baltimore, or you 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.400 got the uh what we just had George Floyd, he said, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.440 that seems to be the only time that you hear us. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.720 Why can't you hear us before we burn down stuff? 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.800 Why can't you hear us before we look and steal stuff? 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.160 Why does it take that to get your attention? I 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.040 mean that's a good point. I mean, these things that's 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.160 in the Contract with Black America, they're not new concepts. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.280 It's not like we came up with something that you know, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.920 people haven't talked about and studied. People a lot smarter 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.120 than us have put their whole life around some of 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:50.400 these issues. And so it's the political will. It's it's uh, 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.800 you know, people knowing what they need to do, but 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.560 they don't want to rock their own boat, right, So 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.640 we have to force people to have the political will. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:05.800 And it's really all these people are scared to not 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:11.080 get reelected. So if we if we harness that energy 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:18.360 and harnessing our vote and sniffing out people who don't 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.560 want to help us, that's in high places, that's been there, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.360 and get them out of there and replace them with 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.760 people that's better. Well, you know, we'll continue to run 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:32.160 into this problem. We have to use our real power 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:40.480 and you know it's silent, but it's deadly because you 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.800 get somebody out of there and they know you're gonna 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.840 get them out of there, You're not gonna vote unless 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.600 if they unless they support your platform and your agenda. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.520 Then that's that's really real power come from. That's where 0:16:54.520 --> 0:17:00.520 real change in this country come from. The looting, riding 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.280 and all that will only get you so far. Correct 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.520 the end of the day, we got to change policy, legislation, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.800 hearts and minds, you know, and that's that's that's when 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.719 you know, when it's all said and done, that's the 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.679 only thing that really, you know, gets people out of 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.600 this pain. The one thing that we know about power 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.359 Cube is that people in power want to stay in power, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.760 and power Caun sees nothing without demand. Nobody said, you 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.960 know what, I've been in power long enough. I think 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.800 I want to go. You know what, I want to 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.000 be fair about this, You have to demand it and 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.000 you have to take actions. Yes, that's why, you know, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.440 the Contract with Black America was a necessary foundation of 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.840 taking action, of acting for things that we need, you know, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.080 as a whole. You know, I don't hit everything. You know, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.720 there's a section that I believe that we need to 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.520 do on Black women when it comes to the Contract 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.360 with Black America that need to highlight the things that 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.159 you know, our women are going through, you know, when 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.920 it comes to the workplace and in America period. So 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.879 you know, it's room for improvement, and I want suggestions. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.600 You know, I'm not a legislator, so I really want 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.199 the people whose job it is to do this to 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.960 grab this thing and run with it. So to me, 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.840 we have to you know, first of all, spread the word. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:29.359 Make sure everybody going to uh c WB A dot world. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.719 You know, we got a four page version of a contract. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.480 We got a twenty three page longer version of the contract. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:41.080 Make yourself familiar with either version and push forward, because 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.000 this is what we can do to to make these 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:50.560 candidates that's running in November do something and not just 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.560 hold them take our both for granted, and you know, 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.639 leave us. You know, have you ever walk in in 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.240 the club with some people and they supposed to get 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.880 you in, they forget to look back. Yeah, they get 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.680 in themselves, but they leave you standing. Yeah, they get 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.520 to look back and uh they I thought you was 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.960 right behind me. And that's how they've been doing us. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.920 We get them in office and you know, they get 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.400 in and get to look back sometimes. So we're gonna 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.400 make sure we grab them out on them and say 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.040 hey man, we with you. We're going in with you, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.520 and uh, we need you to do the things we 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.680 need done them cut. Why is it is that when 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.920 we say we want this, why does why they're like 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.480 the black community says, Okay, we want our we want 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.639 our voices heard, we want our voting rights. We won't. 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.880 We won't economic equal, we want economic equality, we want 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.159 us racial and social justice. Why does it if we 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.600 feel if a certain demographics feels like if we get 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.640 those things, we take something from from you. It's all right, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.920 we're not taking. It's not like we get you give. 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.480 It's just that it's supposed to be. Well. I mean, 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.120 when you got people who've been taking advantage, they want 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.000 to they want to keep getting their extra you know, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.560 decimals and dividends and whatever. They you know, really like 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.440 get off on you know, not help people. But let 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.919 me tell you this, money don't trickle down, No, it 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.959 doesn't trickle up. The trickle up I mean everybody at 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.479 the bottom of the pyramid. When I say the bottom, 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.760 I mean the bottom of the economic pyramid. If you 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:36.479 gave them money today, they would go buy something right 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:42.639 from somebody rich, right who has it. So the money 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.400 trickles up, it don't. It might not ever trickle down 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.879 to the bottom, but it will trickle up to the top. 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:53.080 So I don't understand why it's so hard to understand 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:58.399 that if they supply our community with the capital that 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:03.639 it's that that old just a fair share of the 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:08.560 money we put into the kiddy, then the money was 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.879 still making its way up to the Bezos and the 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.080 these and the day you know, it would still make 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.720 it up to them. It just might take a little longer, 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.520 and it might make people a little happier. I mean, 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.719 what's wrong with that. There's a reason why Jeff Bezos 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.640 and I don't begrudge him. I happened. I've made him annoying. 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:29.639 There's a reason why he made seventy seven billion dollars 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.840 in five months because the stimulus money that you were 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:36.600 getting you needed things. You needed cleaning supplies, you needed things. 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.879 So that twelve hundred bucks that they were sending you, 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:40.960 guess what. As soon as you got it, guess what 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:42.959 you had to do. You had to go buy something, 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.119 You had to go grocery shopping, you had to buy products. 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:48.360 So guess what. The money that you got it went 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.440 right back to him, Thank you, And but you still 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.359 got your product that you needed to sustain your family. 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.440 So you don't mind that, you know. If but if 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:01.120 you never see nothing at the bottom and he just 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:06.840 making seventy eight billion at the top, and you haven't 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.200 gotten what you need and you what your family needs, 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:13.720 you're pretty upset that somebody can get all that and 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:18.520 you have nothing. In a place like America, it just 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.160 shouldn't happen this way. As you mentioned to you, people 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:23.800 at the bottom don't have what they call disposable income 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.960 where you can invest. When people say the economy is good, 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.520 it's good for people that can invest in the economy. 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:31.560 If I don't have any money in stocks and bonds, 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:35.160 what DoD is the economy roaring? Does me? I'm trying 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:37.800 to make is is me? I gotta pay rent, I 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:39.879 gotta put food on the table, if I got a 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:41.800 car payment, if I got if I got to catch 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.240 the bus. So how does the economy benefit me if 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:49.720 I can't if I can't read the benefits from it. Hey, 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:55.399 you know, it's a thing where you know, some people 0:22:55.440 --> 0:23:02.080 are are at the bottom and they're not gonna starve. 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:06.960 They're not gonna go hungry, No, let go provive. They're 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:12.600 gonna survive. And hopefully they don't survive off somebody who 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:17.840 has investment in something or has you know, it's like 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:23.520 these you have to help. You know what I call 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:28.480 our you know, weakest link. You know what I mean, 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:32.520 the weakest link in our chain is our people in 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:39.440 poverty because they are hurting and frustrated and they can't 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:45.080 get the basic things they need to thriving this society. 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:51.359 And there's plenty to go around, but the greed that's 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:56.600 going on is keeping people from thriving in this society. 0:23:56.960 --> 0:24:01.760 And it causes riots, it causes fresh stations because it's looting, 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:05.360 because it's things like that. And you know, you can 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:08.479 call the black community all kinds of names for the 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:13.000 things that they have to do to survive, but I mean, 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:15.680 you would do the same thing if you were in 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:20.040 our shoes or the same thing. Q. There have been 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:24.399 a lot of the monuments have been coming down Stonewall Jackson, Robert, 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.160 if you leave, they're taken down, the Confederate flag. What's 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:30.080 your thought on those? Do they go far enough? I say, Look, 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:34.040 symbolic gestures are fine, but tell me get down to 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:36.520 the meat, get down to the nitty gritty. What are 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:40.280 you going to do to help the minority community these times? 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:42.040 I don't care about I don't care now about no statue. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.040 I don't care no about no flag. Yeah that's fine, 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:45.600 take it down. But I'm saying, at the end of 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:47.919 the day, if you take that flag down, if you 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:51.120 take those monuments down, and blacks are in the same position, 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:57.439 what have you done? You know, I think every gesture 0:24:57.480 --> 0:25:01.240 in this situation count you know, would take the small 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:05.320 victories and the big ones. I don't think you should 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:10.720 promote traders of of you know what this country is 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:13.560 and what has grown to be. You know, we don't 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:20.280 have any you know, German soldiers or you know, we 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:24.560 don't have any that I know of, no Japanese soldiers 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:29.760 from World War Two who fought against us around Maybe 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:34.720