1 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:10,559 Speaker 1: Don't want to ask your question real good, Let's just 2 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: keep it real straight shot with no chasing. I'm gonna 3 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 1: get a little bit rough. 4 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,319 Speaker 2: I'm here for it. Those who really believe in the 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 2: American process, all of us Street Shot No Chase with 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: your girl, testlim figure Out on the Black Effect Podcast Network. 7 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: At work, what's having everybody? 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 2: This is Tesla and figure Out with a straight Shot 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: No Chase, a podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network. 10 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 2: Happy New Year, everybody. This is the first podcast episode 11 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 2: that I have had. I am doing this live on 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 2: Twitter right now. Hopefully my Instagram family will join me. 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 2: I typically record my podcast on Instagram because I love 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 2: the interaction with folks. You guys know, I love talking 15 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: to you. But the thing about Instagram is people don't 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 2: really have an opportunity to chime in the way they 17 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: want to. One reason is because a lot of folks 18 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 2: don't want to turn their camera on. They prefer to 19 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: hide behind uh, you know their nickname and not have 20 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 2: to expose themselves, which I get. Everybody don't want to 21 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 2: be on camera. Twitter does allow us an opportunity to 22 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 2: be able to engage with you, For you to be 23 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 2: able to have interaction with me and I wanted to 24 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 2: take a moment to do that. This week has been 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 2: so overwhelming with the news. This is for those who 26 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 2: if we ended up rolling this out a little bit 27 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 2: later on our podcast. Today is January twelfth. A lot 28 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 2: has happened of this week, air strikes yesterday, so much 29 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 2: has went on Trump and his civil trial. Next Monday 30 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: on Martin Luther King Day that I will caucuses all 31 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 2: pop off. Am looking forward to seeing how many of 32 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: you who have been tweeting and tweeting and tweeting about 33 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 2: your candidate. I'm looking forward to see what them boat's 34 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 2: looking like on Monday. So Monday is time to put 35 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 2: up a shut up and we don't see what candidate 36 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: is who is who when it comes to the Republican nomination, 37 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 2: because let me remind you again, the races are not 38 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: one on Twitter. I'm going to shut up. I want 39 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: to take some of your calls today. Let's just do 40 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 2: what they call on the Breakfast Club and get it 41 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 2: off your chest. I have two co hosts who are 42 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 2: joining me today, Line Crowns and Marcellus. They will be 43 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 2: here helping me navigate. They're a little bit more familiar 44 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,679 Speaker 2: with who likes control on Twitter and who does it? 45 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 2: And I'm here for the smoke. So if you do 46 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 2: want a troll, let's give a little bit of entertainment. 47 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 2: But ultimately we will be moving you and shipping you 48 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 2: right on out of here because we do want to 49 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 2: make sure we get quality content. Just in case you're 50 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 2: not familiar. The Black Podcast Network is a network that 51 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: is on iHeartRadio, the largest audio platform in the country, 52 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 2: started by Charlemagne and gotta have a podcast there, and 53 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 2: this recording will be on the podcast over three hundred 54 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 2: episodes that you can download. Please take a moment subscribe 55 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: to the podcast and go back and listen to old 56 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: content or stay in touch with me for the new 57 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get right to it. Looks like we have Okay, 58 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 2: look like we have Dwayne. 59 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: Is that Dwayne or Duane? 60 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 2: I think that's Dwayne. Apologies about mispronounced your name, but 61 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 2: let's go ahead and get right to it. Let's get 62 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 2: to it, and let me invite you good happy New Year. 63 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 2: And we also have Lola on this stage with her 64 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 2: hand up. Okay, let me let you take it from here. 65 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 2: Let me just fall back whoever you need to put 66 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 2: up next, let's let's get it, let's get it going. 67 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 2: I want I don't want two of us trying to 68 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 2: hit the button at the same time because I don't 69 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 2: want to mess stuff up. 70 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: So Hi Tess, Oh my god, Hi Tess, how are you? 71 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: How are you? Happy? Happy New Year to you. Thank 72 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: you for allowing me to speak in your space. Hello 73 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 1: to your co host Lioness and Marcel. This is such 74 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: a privilege. I follow you. I've never gotten a chance 75 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: to speak to you. I support you. I think you 76 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: do amazing work. I just love your Uh let me 77 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: just start out, Okay, my question. 78 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 3: So thank you. 79 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I love thank you. I appreciate the flowers. 80 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 2: We all can use a little bit of encouragement. So 81 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 2: thank you so much. I appreciate it. Yes, I love you. 82 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: This is my question to you. I know that you've 83 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: been noticing a lot of are people leaning towards the 84 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: Republican vote. You have a lot of people who are 85 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: on the front line is trying to turn different states red, right, 86 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,839 Speaker 1: So my thing is this, how do you feel about that? 87 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: And should immigration be at the front line, and if 88 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: we're going red for just because of immigration, if we 89 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 1: get these people at the table. What else should we 90 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 1: have at the table that immediately affects the lives of 91 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: black people? 92 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: Thank you for your question. In my training push the 93 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 2: line that we did, and Marcello's and j both attended that, 94 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 2: and I see some other folks in the room and 95 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 2: also attended that. One of the sessions that I did there, 96 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 2: Lola was it starts It's not about we, It starts 97 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 2: with me. And the reason why I say that is 98 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 2: because actually voting should be self interest. First, it is 99 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 2: about your self interest, and then it is about community. Now, 100 00:04:53,480 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 2: there are some folks like myself who may self unself obviously, 101 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 2: if you will put the community before myself because of 102 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 2: you know what I do in this space in this world. 103 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 2: For example, I advocate heavy for mass incarceration. I've never 104 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 2: been arrested, I've never been to jail. It does not 105 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 2: affect me personally, but that is an issue. As I 106 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 2: said on Netflix that I'm willing to die for the calls. 107 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 2: So there are people that will put community over themselves. 108 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 2: But really, when you go to the polls, it really 109 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 2: should be about your self interest. So when I hear 110 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 2: the word we, and I get it. I know we 111 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 2: talk in these spaces collectively, what we need to do 112 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 2: and what we should be doing, and what our community 113 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 2: should be doing, the reality of it is black people 114 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 2: are not an entity. We're not an organization. There is 115 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 2: no you know, the years say monolithic, they wear that 116 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 2: in over and over and over. But really, how you 117 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 2: should be voting, particularly when you look at local and state, 118 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: you should be voting what is important for you. And 119 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 2: so normally, if you follow me, if anybody follows me, 120 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,559 Speaker 2: they know that I push heavy for local and state. 121 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 2: That is the most effective, the most change that you're 122 00:05:58,160 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 2: going to see, and the most influence that you have, 123 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 2: because these are folks that you're going to run into 124 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 2: at the community, at the community grocery store. These are 125 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 2: the folks that every Tuesday you can go stand before 126 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 2: is probably going to be five people at best in 127 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 2: the room that you can actually have a conversation with them. 128 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 2: At a city council meeting, these are the people that 129 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 2: I'm using Orlando, Florida for an example. The city commissioner 130 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 2: is literally six people, so you really only need to 131 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 2: convince three of them to move something your way. This 132 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 2: is the level where the most resources actually go in 133 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 2: your hand. This is where they decide how much goes 134 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 2: to your school. This is how to decide how much 135 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 2: goes to your neighborhood. This is how much they decide. 136 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 2: How you know, how much goals to fixing potholes and 137 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 2: all of that thing, all of that. So when we 138 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: talk about we, when we talk about collective, especially in 139 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 2: these national platforms like Twitter, where everybody is in different 140 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 2: cities and all of these different places, a lot of 141 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 2: those conversations are centered on federal the federal level. So 142 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 2: when someone asked me about immigration, I ask, in your 143 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 2: particular city, does it affect you? Yes, we know the 144 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 2: numbers and how it affects black people, and yes, there 145 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 2: should be space for people to have conversations on the 146 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 2: black collective issue. But when it comes down to going 147 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 2: to the polls and voting for those issues that matter 148 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 2: most to you, which is on the local and state level, 149 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,119 Speaker 2: which is typically nonpartisan. By the way, most city commissioner seats, 150 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 2: most mayor seats, most county seats are nonpartisan seats. You 151 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 2: really should be voting on what makes sense in your district. 152 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 2: If you live within a district that has ten or 153 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 2: fifteen thousand people, that is the weed that you're talking 154 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: about that's where you pay your home, your taxes. That's 155 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: where you decide, you know how much money goes to 156 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 2: your school. That's where you decide are the police extra 157 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 2: heavy in my neighborhood. By the way, most shared positions 158 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 2: are elected positions. So really it's to start with that. 159 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 2: And I say that because a lot of black people 160 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 2: don't realize that they're moderate and lean conservative on a 161 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 2: lot of issues. I talked to my grandmother, and grandmother's 162 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 2: ninety two years old, and when I talk to her 163 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 2: about issue line by line, she swears she's a democrat. 164 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 2: But Grandma, nothing about you is a democrat, literally everything 165 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 2: across the board. She came out of the depression. She's 166 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 2: never worked for you anybody in her life. My grandfather's 167 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: never worked for anybody in her life. She owned a 168 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,119 Speaker 2: beauty supply, a beauty salon in the back of her house. 169 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 2: My grandfather owned a mechanic shop all of his life. 170 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 2: They've never worked for anybody. She doesn't believe in same 171 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 2: sex marriage. She loves everybody and everything, but she never 172 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 2: gave me a dollar. She always believed is sit on 173 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 2: your own bottom. She believes in charity, but she is 174 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 2: the epitome of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps. She 175 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 2: can's food, she grows her food. She doesn't believe in 176 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: going out to eat. She lives a very conservative like 177 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 2: one reason why she's still ninety three and in perfect health, 178 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 2: well almost pretty much perfect, no major diseases. She believes 179 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: in She's she's a Christian to the core. She is 180 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: literally Jesus' cousin. I know that as long as she 181 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 2: wakes up every day, the rapture has not been back, 182 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 2: because I'm certain know that she will be the first 183 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 2: one to go back. So when I look at her 184 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 2: issues line by line, but then I look at well, 185 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 2: what about Medicaid, what about Medicare? She doesn't qualify for Medicaid. 186 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: She paid her taxes. She qualifies for Medicare. So where 187 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 2: you'll see on the conservative side or the Republican side, 188 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: they talk about Medicare for those that don't know, that's 189 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 2: the money that you actually put into it and you're 190 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 2: getting it back. Medicaid is for low income. So when 191 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 2: she lines up and votes Democrats straight down the ticket, 192 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 2: none of those issues affect her, literally none of them 193 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 2: affect her. But because she has seen the polarization of 194 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 2: the Republican Party, of the Conservative Party, the polarization of 195 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 2: not having black leaders at the forefront, not having black 196 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 2: leaders at least that she can trust, that she feels 197 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 2: good about, and the hatefulness that they spew that is 198 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 2: not in line with her Christian beliefs. So when people 199 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 2: say what should we be doing? I ask what is 200 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 2: most important in your community? If you live in Texas 201 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 2: and immigration is a problem in Texas, then that is 202 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 2: where you should be talking about immigration. If you live 203 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 2: in a city where that is not a problem, yes 204 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 2: you can keep that as your secondary issue. But your 205 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 2: primary issue should be what affects you and your community. 206 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 2: And far too many people get on this space and 207 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 2: talk about what we need to be doing. And I 208 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 2: always ask that same we how many racests have have 209 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 2: you ran and won? I got about fifty under my belt. 210 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 2: Have you ever been a successful candidate? Anybody can be 211 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 2: a candidate, but how you ever won? I also asked, 212 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 2: have you ever been an operative? Tell me the racist 213 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 2: that you've worked on. Have you ever been a director 214 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 2: of colm? Have you ever been a campaign manager? Have 215 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 2: you ever worked at the local, the state, in the 216 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 2: federal level. I've done all three and been successful in 217 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 2: all three. This is not about talk, It's just about walk. 218 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 2: At the end of the day, receipts really, really, really 219 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 2: do matter. Do they know what a win number is? 220 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 2: Do you know what that looks like? So when people 221 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 2: get on talking about we we we we we and 222 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 2: can't get fifty people to show up in the room 223 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 2: in their own community, that doesn't have a lot of 224 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 2: credibility to me. We has to be we. The we 225 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 2: that need to be talking are those that can actually motivate. Oh, 226 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 2: I can't do that because I don't have a budget. Wrong, 227 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 2: nice night song, that's not gonna work. I didn't have 228 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 2: a budget either to get the three hundred people to 229 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 2: come to Atlanta to come to that training. Nobody paid 230 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 2: these people to come to that training. They came from 231 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 2: all over the country on their own dimes. Some of 232 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 2: them are in this room now. We had to pay 233 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 2: for the food, I paid for the hotel, but nobody 234 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 2: paid them to come to training. So how is it 235 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 2: that Jay came from DC on her own dime? How 236 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 2: is it that the lady came from LA on her 237 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 2: own dime? How is it that they came from New 238 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: York on their own dime. How is it that they 239 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 2: came from Ohio on their own dime? How is it 240 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 2: that they came from all over the country, Dallas, Houston, 241 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 2: you name it. How did they do Toaurant? I want 242 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 2: to know how they did it? So if three hundred 243 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 2: people did it, If three hundred people did it, well, 244 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 2: by the way, I text every single one, literally every 245 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 2: single one. If they did it, then what do you 246 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 2: mean you can't get fifty people to show up in 247 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: your community to support you. I say that maybe you're 248 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 2: not the leader that you think you are, Maybe you 249 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 2: don't know how to organize. Maybe just maybe you're not 250 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 2: inspiring someone. So when you're listening to people talking about 251 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 2: what we need to be doing and what we need 252 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 2: to be doing, and what we need to be doing, no, sis, 253 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 2: what you need to be doing is thinking about how 254 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,439 Speaker 2: are you and your family affected? 255 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: Number one? 256 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 2: And number two, how does that affect my overall community? Now, 257 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 2: I'm never going to vote against my overall collective community, 258 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 2: but I will vote for my own self interest if 259 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 2: that makes sense. This should be about the relationship that 260 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 2: you have with your city council, not what somebody think 261 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 2: telling you what to do. On Twitter, because they don't 262 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 2: live by you, they don't pay the same taxes as you, 263 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 2: they have no interest in what you're doing. And more 264 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 2: than likely a lot of these people talking can't get 265 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 2: fifty people in the room. I'm just let me just 266 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 2: call it for what it is. And if you can't 267 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 2: get fifty people in the room, then that means you 268 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 2: are not muscle. That means you are not pressure. That 269 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 2: means that nobody fears you, which means you cannot move 270 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 2: the needle. I hope I answered your question. 271 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 1: Yes you did, And I so appreciate it that that 272 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: resonated and spoke volumes. It really did. I appreciate that 273 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: so much. 274 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 2: No problem, And let me just say this at the 275 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 2: piggyback on and we'll take the next caller. You know, 276 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 2: it's nothing wrong with talking about you know what's gonna 277 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 2: benefit us all, but none of us are the same. 278 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 2: That's just like me talking about my man up the street, 279 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 2: my man, I'm talking about your man up the street. 280 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:57,559 Speaker 2: With what your man need to be doing and what 281 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 2: you see, we're designed to do that already on social media. 282 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 2: Y'all love sitting and talking about what somebody man need 283 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 2: to be doing and what they need to be and 284 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 2: all in the comments lying your ass off, they man 285 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 2: need to be this and child, it couldn't be me. 286 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 1: It wouldn't be me. All girl is you? It's you. 287 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: It's you. 288 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 2: All day long, You're putting up with something. This is 289 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 2: why I don't talk about my private relationship. I wish 290 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 2: I would let y'all sit up here and tell me 291 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 2: what y'all be doing. You ain't gonna be doing nothing, 292 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 2: gotta do it. I'm be doing this, my man. We 293 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 2: gonna handle this how we do it over here. I 294 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,319 Speaker 2: don't need you to chime in. I don't need your feedback. 295 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 2: I don't need because none of it applies. I'm gonna 296 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 2: have to deal with that, not you, And that is 297 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 2: exactly how boting works. You're gonna have to deal with that, 298 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 2: not the neighbor up the street. And we can sit 299 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 2: up here all day long and talk about what the 300 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 2: neighbor need to be doing and not doing. But the 301 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 2: reality of it is, this comes down to your house. 302 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 2: And I just truly believe if black people are voting 303 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 2: for what's best for black people, that is going to 304 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 2: affect the community overall. And let me say this because 305 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 2: I always say this why I'm on Twitter, because there's 306 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 2: a lot of what y'all call reparation. It's on Twitter, 307 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 2: and I have to say that again every chance time 308 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 2: I get up here. 309 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it every time. 310 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 2: Just because somebody's not only talking about reparation does not 311 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: mean that they are not looking out for the black community. 312 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 2: Everything that gets you involved in politics should be what 313 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 2: resonates with your soul and spirit. I lost both my 314 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 2: parents due to ill health care. My grand my mother 315 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 2: died due to cancer. She did not go to the 316 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 2: hospital the night before because she did not want to 317 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 2: build even though she worked for the state. She said, 318 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go home. I begged her to stay 319 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 2: in the hospital just one more day, mom, until they 320 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 2: check you out. She said, no, I'm gonna go home. 321 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 2: The next day her lung collapsed. So can't none of 322 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 2: y'all tell me that I can't advocate for health care reform. 323 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 2: My daddy the same way, was supposed to go to 324 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 2: the hospital. He had a seizure that day. Daddy wants 325 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: you to go to the hospital. No, that's all right, 326 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 2: I don't want the bill. I'll be going home in 327 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 2: the morning. Well, he went home literally and figuratively. So 328 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 2: not none of y'all can tell me about the importance 329 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 2: of health care, not one of you. I'm self employed. 330 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 2: I had to have a procedure a couple of weeks 331 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 2: ago that I was not expecting, that did not align 332 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 2: with my age, that did not align with is. Hey, 333 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 2: you gonna tell me that I can't talk about health care, 334 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 2: You better go to hell. That makes me not black 335 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 2: because I can't talk about healthcare. No, I'm self employed. 336 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 2: I understand health care right now. Shout out to my 337 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 2: best friend in the whole world. You know I talk 338 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 2: about him all the time. For those of you that 339 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 2: follow me on Instagram, he's texting me now having a 340 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 2: rough day. He was shot in paralyzed January twelfth, five 341 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 2: years ago to this date. Had it not been for 342 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 2: LA Care, that y'all talking about what the immigrants are 343 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: getting for free, which I feel you on that, But 344 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 2: can I tell you about LA Care? Can I tell 345 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 2: you how valuable it's been to him. Had it not 346 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 2: been for him not having insurance, he would not be 347 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 2: in the position that he's in right now. He would 348 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 2: not be able to take care of himself. He was 349 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 2: shot in paralyzed in a random drive by shooting that 350 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 2: had nothing to do with him, nothing at all in town, 351 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: went to a barbecue, random got shot one bullet. He's 352 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 2: texting me, now I'm having a rough day. I gotta 353 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 2: do my live and I'll circle back and get back 354 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 2: to you. See, that's the reality of what reality is 355 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 2: for health care for me, going sitting by his bedside 356 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 2: in Rancho Rehabilitation Center, that accepted LA Care, that taught 357 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 2: him how to take care of himself, that taught him 358 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 2: how to wipe hisself, that taught him how to pick 359 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 2: his legs up. A man who was six ' four, 360 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 2: who has been defending me my whole life since nineteen 361 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 2: ninety four, two hundred and eighty six pounds. All he's 362 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 2: ever known is his strength to teach him how to 363 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 2: pick up his legs and still have life. That's what 364 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 2: health care mean to me. So can't nobody tell me 365 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 2: about your reparation. Now, if you talking about healthcare, you 366 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 2: ain't talking about black people. 367 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: No, you go to hell. Because what I know and 368 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: what health care. 369 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 2: Has done for me and my family and what it 370 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 2: has not done, I cannot omit that because it's affected 371 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 2: black people in my life and black people are affected 372 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 2: by health care. And let me just give you some 373 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 2: breaking news reparations. Because I tell you this all the time. 374 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 2: They can write every last one of you a check 375 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 2: for twenty million dollars million is not enough to start 376 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 2: a health care industry. You will not be the pharmaceutical community. 377 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 2: He hasn't had his blood pressure medication in over a month. 378 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 2: This is real life sheet that I'm telling y'all. Twenty 379 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 2: million ain't gonna get you. You can put all your 380 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 2: money together, and you still ain't gonna be the US Treasury. 381 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 2: You can put all your were still gonna have to 382 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 2: deal with banking while black. You can put all your 383 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,719 Speaker 2: money together, and you still are not gonna be the police, uh, 384 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 2: the judicial system. You're still not gonna be the court system. 385 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 2: You're still not gonna be the healthcare system. You're still 386 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 2: gonna have to work within these systems. No matter how 387 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 2: much money you have. Does money give you access to 388 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 2: things that others don't have? Absolutely, But you are not 389 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 2: gonna start or we can get a black bank, what 390 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 2: you're gonna You're gonna be the Department of Treasury? 391 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: Are you crazy or nuts? Which one? 392 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,199 Speaker 3: Is it? So? 393 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 2: Again? You should be talking about all things politics. For 394 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 2: those of you that say, uh, I don't know why 395 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 2: the guy tells and up there she talking about politics, Well, 396 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 2: I got breaking news for you, dumb dumb everything about 397 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 2: reparations is proberly. 398 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: You don't know. 399 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 2: You don't realize that somebody got to vote it in. 400 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 2: If nothing else on the city or the state level, 401 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 2: you're reading your books and quoting page twenty five and 402 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 2: twenty six don't mean a damn thing because you can't 403 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 2: get nobody to run. 404 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 1: Y'all got one candidate, y'all talk about. 405 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 2: Yes, I'm gonna do some straightening every time I come 406 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 2: on here because I got to give you some of 407 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 2: this reality. I love you, I believe in you. 408 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: I believe you all can do it. 409 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 2: But where's the candidate on the state level? Taur and 410 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 2: I'm still waiting, where's the candidate on the city level. 411 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 2: You gonna see reparations fast on the city in the 412 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 2: state than you are on the federal Do you realize 413 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 2: that they do what the state and the city do. 414 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 2: That's why California have motion, That's why San Francisco have 415 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 2: motion on reparations. Whether it went through or not, whether 416 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 2: you liked what they the proposal or not, it had 417 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 2: more motion than it had on the federal level. And 418 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 2: any if you ever worked the race, you would understand 419 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 2: that that the federal level's gonna do what the elected 420 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 2: officials tell you to do. On the state level, that's 421 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 2: why you're at Conservatives always say let's leave it to 422 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 2: state rights. Let's let the state decide. 423 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: That's what that. 424 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 2: Means, reparationists that was sitting around there trolling me all day. 425 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 2: Every day I see the message you got me about 426 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 2: somebody who was trolling me non stop. I'm still waiting 427 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 2: on them, and I don't have no problem. I all 428 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 2: on block whoever I'm block. I'm for the smoke for 429 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,199 Speaker 2: it all longs. You don't come over and get disrespectful. 430 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 2: And if you do that, I got an answer for 431 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 2: that too, because I like talking about people's mamas and 432 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 2: daddy's too. But at the end of the day, I'm 433 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 2: five hundred candidates saying deep since by the time you 434 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,239 Speaker 2: was trolling me, you're still up here talking. So at 435 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 2: the end the day, it's about this talking for me. 436 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 2: Touring on on Monday, we get to see you that talk. 437 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 2: All of y'all black folks are set up and did 438 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 2: all them videos about me. I want to see what 439 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 2: them numbers looking like on Monday, since y'all was pushing 440 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 2: so hard for ramasamme, let's see what them numbers look like. 441 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 2: I ain't never lost a local race that I was 442 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 2: a part of. 443 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 1: We can go to the next person day. Yes, let's 444 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: go with Dwan B. 445 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,479 Speaker 3: I appreciate that. I appreciate that tendiment because it is 446 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 3: multiple issues, you know. And I know same with the 447 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 3: health insurance. To me, I had to walk around the 448 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 3: Torranney for five years because they dropped me when they 449 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 3: found out I was about to get surgery with my 450 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 3: independent health care before the Obamacare. And so now I 451 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 3: have health care and I was able to get my 452 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 3: knee surgery, and you know, that means a lot to me. 453 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 3: And I look at politics is politics, and even the reparations. 454 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 3: I'm all for reparations. But even if you do get it, 455 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 3: politics is a steady, steady drum beat, and it's something 456 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 3: that you never stopped doing. Even if you get what 457 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 3: you want. If a particular politician gives you what you want, 458 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 3: it's like, okay, they are now give me more, you know. 459 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 3: So what do you think about, Like, correct, I'm in 460 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 3: LA born and raised. Yeah, I'm here in LA and 461 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 3: you know, yes, I'm against a lot of things Obama did, 462 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 3: but I'm never not going to give him credit for 463 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 3: that health care thing because you know, I experienced not 464 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 3: having it in California, being able to drop me just 465 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 3: because they wanted to drop me to a company. You know, 466 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 3: I have all independent health insurance. I was spend six 467 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 3: hundred dollars a month for at the time they dropped 468 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 3: me the day before my knee surgery, you know. And 469 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 3: so you know, there's a way there's a certain political 470 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 3: maturity I think we have to get to as a 471 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 3: people to where it's like, Okay, you're not all you 472 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 3: know on anyone, you know, all against people. It's all 473 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 3: about what can you give me now and what can 474 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,919 Speaker 3: you give me next? So with that being said, you know, 475 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 3: what do you think about as far as Okay, you 476 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 3: don't have a politician in your local area, you don't 477 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 3: have the organization yet to run anybody. But there's a 478 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 3: handful of people running and one or two are addressing 479 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 3: your issue. How do you feel about, uh, just you 480 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 3: wrinting politicians at the time until we get one and 481 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 3: see that. 482 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 2: And that's and let me just pull up because I'm 483 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 2: gonna pull up something while we're talking. You know, there 484 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 2: takes no It doesn't take an organization to run somebody. 485 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 2: You know, these are real facts that have we talked about. 486 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 2: I pushed the line training, I've ran candidates locally. I 487 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 2: always refer to this and I tell you guys, go 488 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 2: look her up. Her name is Commissioner Regina Hills. She 489 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 2: literally was arrested twenty one times in Orlando, Florida with 490 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 2: two felons. We beat out six people. She's ran every time. 491 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 2: Not much, dad, two thousand dollars, literally two thousand dollars. 492 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 2: You guys are listening to people that ain't never ran 493 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 2: no race. 494 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:22,199 Speaker 1: No dispect you. 495 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 2: But I'm just saying that who don't have the numbers, 496 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 2: they don't know win numbers, they don't know how to win. 497 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 2: They got an excuse for everything. I don't have a meeting, 498 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 2: I don't had it, we didn't have none of that. 499 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 2: Everything before. I've worked on Bernie Sanders campaign, and I 500 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 2: can give you all receipts on that. What I did 501 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 2: in Michigan with that upset, It does not take It 502 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 2: takes a candidate being able to get out on your 503 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 2: ass and knock on them doors, not sitting up here 504 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 2: on Twitter raising money on Twitter. Yes, you need money, 505 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 2: but I have ran and won too many campaigns without it. 506 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 2: When you look at Compton, California, and you look at 507 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 2: I'm just doing this just by example, ninety five thousand residents, 508 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 2: how many people you actually show up to vote? Just 509 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 2: let's just throw out some numbers. 510 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 3: Sign thousand, No, No at bed, three thousand. 511 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 2: Probably at bez so when somebody assists. So when I 512 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 2: told mca hey, wytn't you run for Compton mayor what 513 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 2: you mean? What you mean we can't get three thousand people. 514 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 2: We can't get three thousand people. Shiit two thousand? You 515 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 2: get two thousand just off the hip hop. Let's go 516 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 2: get all the bloods of the curt That's what we 517 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 2: did with Regina Hill. It don't take no organiz It 518 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 2: take people getting out knocking on the damn door. I'm 519 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 2: looking at the city of Compton. Forty nine thousand people 520 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 2: were registered in that city. Guess how many voted? Seven thousand, 521 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: seven hundred and nineteen, seven thousand, seven hundred and nineteen. 522 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 2: These are the real numbers. This is it ain't no 523 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 2: take no organization. These people line. They bamboozling y'all. 524 00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: City clerk. 525 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 2: Elected by three thousand, seven hundred and thirty one votes 526 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:06,199 Speaker 2: the mayor. 527 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: Guess how many of the mayor. Let me put this 528 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: up in the in the. 529 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 2: At the bottom so y'all can see it, so you 530 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 2: can think so that way, because you know y'all say 531 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 2: everything is an agenda. Let me text it to you, Jay, 532 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 2: because for some reason it's not a. 533 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,360 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, let's look here here, Guardina. 534 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 3: About ten years ago we got Mayored Tanacho correupt ass 535 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 3: up out of here after his brother, the under sheriff, 536 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,679 Speaker 3: got caught with a lot of things. He got caught 537 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 3: undermining the sheriff department. We started looking at him as 538 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,199 Speaker 3: the mayor here in Guardena and it was just a 539 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 3: handful of people that looked at him and got him 540 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 3: ab out of here. 541 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 2: You're right about that, right, I mean, we're looking at 542 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,360 Speaker 2: the numbers. Jay's gonna put it up in a jumbo try. 543 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 2: Let's look at the numbers. When we look at the 544 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 2: numbers on who on who ran City of Compton primary mayor. Okay, 545 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 2: we're talking about Christina got twenty three hundred votes, Emma 546 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 2: got fourteen hundred votes, James got three thirteen hundred. This 547 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 2: is nothing like that. Literally, it's just you getting up 548 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,959 Speaker 2: off your ass, not you. But I'm just saying in 549 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 2: general all of. 550 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: This, we don't have a media. None of my racers 551 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: we didn't even know. 552 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 2: Damn media. Everything to me, and I can show you 553 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 2: all the links. Everything in the media was us responsing because, 554 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 2: by the way, my candidate in Virginia Hill was kind 555 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 2: of with the shits and she spit on somebody, so 556 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 2: we did have to handle that in the media. I 557 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 2: did have to go to the media and say it 558 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 2: is what it is. So not only that, man, I'm 559 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 2: telling you how to ran race. So people way more backgrounds, 560 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 2: waiting more. That's gonna talk about it so much. I 561 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 2: know what can be done. You're listening to people on 562 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 2: this app and I'm just gonna say, sitting on this 563 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 2: app that ain't never ran no race, so they don't 564 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,640 Speaker 2: know what da hell they talking about, and they're comparing 565 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,919 Speaker 2: it to federal I got to have the money, we 566 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 2: got to have a media. Chessel you got a platform, 567 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 2: what are you talk about. I've been in the game 568 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 2: twenty years. This ain't got nothing to do with no 569 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 2: damn breakfast club. But nobody. I don't even talk about 570 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 2: candidates on breakfast club. I don't give behind nobody, so 571 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,440 Speaker 2: they don't have nothing to do with nothing. It's actually 572 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 2: knowing how to organize and even on the federal level. 573 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 2: I was on the Bernie Sanders campaign in twenty fifteen 574 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 2: when nobody knew who the hell he was. Went to Flint. 575 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 2: This is a true story, asked Senator Turner, asked killer 576 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 2: Mike asked the people that was there. I was the 577 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 2: only black person on the ground. On the national level, 578 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 2: I knew had enough foresight to say, well, Hillary Clinton 579 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 2: thinks she got Detroit already on lock. She ain't came 580 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 2: at all the Flint. This was in the middle of 581 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,439 Speaker 2: a Flint crisis. So let me go on and go 582 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 2: over here to let me go on over here and 583 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 2: reach on out to Flint. By the way, Spud helped 584 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:30,919 Speaker 2: me do that. To the guy that I told you 585 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 2: about this paralyze, let me go on and call some 586 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 2: people and let me go to the barbershop. Let me 587 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 2: go to the hood. I found five people. Somebody said 588 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 2: with me in church five people. Bernie Sanders in his 589 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 2: life never met five black people in his whole life. 590 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 2: In life, I will say in life, I'm willing to 591 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 2: say in life. When it got time for him to 592 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 2: come to Flint, and he had to figure out, how 593 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 2: do I make it look like I know some black 594 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 2: people with her? Hey, Bernie Sanders, higo, five black people 595 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 2: you can meet. That picture that he took with her 596 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 2: name was Danielle Green. That picture that he took, and 597 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 2: it showed empathy of Bernie Sanders's face. He was hugging her. 598 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 2: People never saw Bernie Sanders look that way. That man 599 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 2: took that and they circulated that on every commercial in 600 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 2: Michigan and showed that he really did give a damn. 601 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 2: He went to Flint. We did a town hall. I 602 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 2: had Danielle Green speaking of it. Oh yeah, Danielle Green 603 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:28,199 Speaker 2: was the bride of the what they call the what 604 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 2: do you call it, the ball of the the what 605 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:31,959 Speaker 2: is it? The bride of the ball or whatever they 606 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about. But she was she 607 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 2: was everything. Yeah, the bell of the ball. Danielle, Danielle. 608 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 2: He couldn't stop saying Danielle. Put her on MSNBC Danielle 609 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 2: Danielle Danielle. We won that and I am credited for that. 610 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 2: A two percent upset took that whole state because while 611 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 2: Hillary was focusing on Detroit, I was focusing on Flint. 612 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 2: The other white organizer was focusing on all of the 613 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 2: It wasn't just me, but the white organizers was spoken 614 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 2: on all of the unions, you know, all in Michigan 615 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 2: wanted by two percent. That's the only thing that he 616 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 2: ever really kind of showed up and showed out was 617 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,959 Speaker 2: that one thing from talking to five people, five people 618 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 2: and one hug. But guess what I did after that? 619 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 2: When Bernie Sanders went on about his damn business, I 620 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 2: still still made sure that the people that I met 621 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 2: at Flint were the first people to sign up with 622 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 2: the Turney Binge and Crunb who y'all don't like, and 623 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 2: I love running down the receipts on him, the six 624 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 2: hundred million that the people got in Flint. I made 625 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 2: sure that the people everybody that I met that they 626 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,360 Speaker 2: signed up for that organized another thousand. And I did 627 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 2: it with my broken when I had six crews in 628 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 2: my leg and I went down and I organized those people. 629 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 2: Guess who was in charge of that, Danielle Green. Guess 630 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 2: who got paid for that, Danielle Green. Guess what Danielle 631 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 2: Green did after that? Ran for state, ran for school 632 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 2: board in one Bernie Sanders never talked to her day 633 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 2: after that. They came with there one time her and 634 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 2: when he ran the second time and took a picture 635 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 2: pretending like you know, they've been talking to her the 636 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: whole time. That's why I be on Bernie Sander's as 637 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 2: and I wish somebody and it would challenge me about it. 638 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: But keeping the relationship with daniel Green went from her 639 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 2: just being somebody in the crowd to her leading her 640 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 2: community through the Flint crisis, to her becoming an elected official. 641 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 2: That's what organizing look like. That's what organizing look like. 642 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 2: Staying in touch, doing what you say you're gonna do, 643 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 2: doing when you say you're gonna do it, getting on 644 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 2: the ground, knocking on the door, staying consistent, not being 645 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 2: about talk. It didn't take no damn organization. It didn't 646 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 2: take nobody getting behind me. It didn't take no you 647 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 2: know you've got the hair of meet. It didn't take 648 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 2: none of that. It took grinding to grinding, and if 649 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 2: you can't get one hundred, two hundred people to show 650 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 2: up for you, then it's probably it's probably not for 651 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 2: you because two hundred people, let's just look at the 652 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 2: numbers that should be. Damn fifty people from your high school. 653 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 2: They ain't fucking with you, not even fifty thirty at best. 654 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 2: You can't get thirty people at best, thirty people from 655 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 2: the church, thirty people from your mama's mama, your cousin. 656 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: This is where y'all say. This is y'all say, y'all 657 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: from these cities. 658 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 2: Now, now, how did three hundred people come from Atlanta 659 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 2: come all the way to Atlanta to ride with me? 660 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 2: I mean, make the math make sense. You know why 661 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 2: I did that? The why I needed to show that 662 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 2: it can be done. I've done it multiple times over 663 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 2: in Orlando, Florida, but it had been a while since 664 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 2: I did it, so I had to do the receipts. 665 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 2: Oh well, you did it because you was on the 666 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 2: Breakfast Club bullshit. As anybody who went to that training, 667 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 2: I text every single person a minimum seven times by myself. 668 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 2: I went on the Breakfast Club and talked about it 669 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 2: once everybody signed up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I want 670 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 2: to do it. 671 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: That was in June. 672 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 2: Then people fell off in the first ninety day, first 673 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 2: thirty days. It took me texting and challenging everybody who 674 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 2: say they rocking with me to bring ten people to 675 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 2: this class. As Marcellos he's the co host here. I 676 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 2: told him he's an uber driver. Marcellis, if you can't 677 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 2: get ten people to come from your community, I don't 678 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 2: need you. You ain't the note, you ain't doing nothing. 679 00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 2: You can't you can't come here and learn how to 680 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 2: push the line. You can't get ten people to show up. 681 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 2: Marcella's was pulling up on people running up drive by. 682 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 2: I had to say, okay, Marcella, calm down, now, ain't 683 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 2: this here because when I started challenging now did she 684 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 2: get ripped? Marcella is doing lives saying if you don't 685 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 2: show up, it's so old with don't never call ever again. 686 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 2: I say, okay, Marcella, calm down. I gave you the challenge, 687 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 2: but I don't want you to run off everybody in 688 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 2: the city. But it had to you had to give 689 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 2: You had to inspire him because it made them think, well, damn, 690 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 2: why can't ten people show up? 691 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: Why can't you can't get ten. 692 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 2: People to show up in your hometown. Okay, DN, Well, 693 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 2: it got to make sense at the end of the day. 694 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 2: And people just don't engage and knock on the doors, 695 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 2: and they don't challenge. They don't challenge them to do 696 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 2: the work. 697 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: That's all it is. 698 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 2: And come down to the goddamn word you again. I'm 699 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 2: a veteran. The air force is critical. You gotta have 700 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 2: the air. Somebody gotta drop bombs. Somebody gotta do it. 701 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 2: That's what I see Twitter spaces the air. Somebody, y'all 702 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 2: stay dropping bombs. Y'all stay landing planes, you stay dropping bombs, 703 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 2: you stay unpacking, you stay cooking, you stay, you say 704 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 2: God blessings and peace and all of y'all. Man, y'all 705 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 2: a phenomenal when it come to that. But guess what, 706 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 2: no military, the United States Armed Forces has to have. 707 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 2: The Marines a few good men. You gotta have somebody 708 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 2: on the ground. The reason why they say the few 709 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 2: good men. It's harder to get in the Marines physically 710 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 2: than it is anything else because they don't want everybody. 711 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 2: That's why I talk to shit that I do. I 712 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 2: don't want everybody. You stay over here and do what 713 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 2: you're doing. When people say, oh, you was an Air Force, 714 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, But I was a n sisty gunner. I 715 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,239 Speaker 2: was a defender. I was under army rigs. Don't get 716 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 2: it twisted. Reason why I couldn't go in the army 717 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 2: because I was too thick, shut out to me and 718 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 2: my military body. 719 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 1: I was real smaller. 720 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 2: We're like a size six, but my hips didn't line up, 721 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 2: you know, with my neck and all that. 722 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: I was curve. You don't believe it. 723 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 2: Go to the Instagram and click on the pin tweet. 724 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 2: Let me just throw that on out there. So I 725 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 2: couldn't tell. I couldn't take to be in the army, 726 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 2: so I had to go to the Air Force. But 727 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 2: I said, okay, the closest thing to getting on the 728 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 2: ground is to be an in sisty gunner twenty three 729 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 2: pound weapon because I want to do the rough shit. 730 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 2: I don't want to do each shit. I don't like 731 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 2: signing up. If I signed to be a firefighter, I 732 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 2: don't want to do paperwork. I'm gonna go straight inside 733 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 2: the fire department. And when I went through basic training, 734 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 2: they let everybody slide. But when it was time to 735 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 2: go to train, they said, right, at the gate. You're 736 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 2: gonna earn this parade. We're trying to run you off. 737 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 2: We ain't trying to keep you over it. We're trying 738 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 2: to run y'all. We want the best of the best. 739 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 2: Somebody got to be on the ground. So you have 740 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 2: the Marines on the ground, you have the Army on 741 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 2: the ground. You have the Navy in the sea, we 742 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 2: have the arm the Air Force in the air. What 743 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 2: I see happening with Twitter, and I say this every time, 744 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 2: y'all do plenty of air talk. Y'all do plenty of podcasts. 745 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 2: Y'all do plenty of youtubes. You do plenty of talk 746 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 2: talk talk talk, talk, talk talk. But if I ask 747 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 2: how many doors have you knocked on this month, it's 748 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 2: usually silenced. And that's why races are not one and 749 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 2: that's why reparations is not talked about on the local level. 750 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 2: And it's not about we don't have nobody to run. 751 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 2: Run your damn self. Well, I got a background, So 752 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 2: what that shit is the federal level, ain't nobody looking 753 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 2: at Ain't got no budget to look into your background, 754 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 2: nor do anybody care. And if they do, to tell 755 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 2: them what I got a background? Because I can relate. 756 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 2: More black men are in prison than those who are 757 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 2: enslaved in eighteen fifty, So somebody need a background because 758 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 2: somebody got to know how to get around this system. 759 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 2: For those of y'all to like to clown me for 760 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,720 Speaker 2: being open with dealing people with backgrounds, I'm not shamed 761 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,439 Speaker 2: at all. I grew up in the era where mass 762 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 2: incarceration completely destroyed everything in my generation. So you ain't 763 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 2: shaming me because I've never been arrested. But I'm gonna 764 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,479 Speaker 2: work with people with backgrounds because if you're gonna work 765 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 2: with anything, they got to do with anybody black. It's 766 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 2: not that we're all criminals. For those that SEMs she 767 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,360 Speaker 2: criminalizing us, No, the system criminalized us. A lot of 768 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 2: people that have backgrounds have nothing to do in the 769 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 2: state of Florida. You can get a background. I'm not 770 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 2: paying child support. It don't mean you rob the bank. 771 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 2: It means that you've been criminalized in a system. So 772 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,400 Speaker 2: to nerve with anybody to sit on here top, but 773 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 2: I ain't gonna work she always as she gonna always 774 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 2: talking about backgrounds. Yeah, always backgrounds. Then I'm gonna talk 775 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 2: about that because I know that we've been criminalizable when 776 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 2: I look at people like desm Me who did time 777 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 2: and became an attarian, came out in Florida and made 778 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 2: it possible for fellows to be able to vote. If 779 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,840 Speaker 2: he can do it, they's soaking you. It's all about organizing. 780 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 2: If you can't get five hundred people to the polls, 781 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 2: then you need to read Think Life. Maybe it ain't 782 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 2: for you. Stop talking about federal and get busy on 783 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 2: the local, on the local level, hope. I answered your 784 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 2: question A question a question. If you like what you 785 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 2: heard on Straight Shot No Chaser, please subscribe and drop 786 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 2: a five star review and. 787 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:27,720 Speaker 1: Tell a friend. 788 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 2: Straight Shot No Chaser is a production of the Black 789 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,239 Speaker 2: Effect podcast Network in iHeart Radio ANTISLM figure Out and 790 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 2: I'd like to thank our producer editor mixer Dwayne Crawford 791 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,279 Speaker 2: and our executive producer Charlotte Magne of God. 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