WEBVTT - Racism In America 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.040 What's up. Family, it's your girl to make a d 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.119 Mallory and it's your boy my saw in the general 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.120 and we are your hosts of Street Politicians, the Place 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:18.440 and politics. Me. We've got a great show today. There's 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.439 so much content that I can't argue with you about, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.480 like the issues that I have that I'm you know, 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.360 not feeling you about in your opinions. So today you 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.880 you actually escaped a good one because I'm like, I 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.080 don't know, I ain't feeling you on some stuff you'd 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.680 be saying. I mean, that's the norm. So you know, 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.440 we we ain't gonna get into our usually back and forth, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.360 you know how we usually get it in. But we're 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.000 gonna talk about that a little later. Maybe next episode. 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.800 I'll tear you up like I usually do. Now, Yeah, no, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.160 we I think we should have we should do a 0:00:54.360 --> 0:01:00.600 specific interview on all the things that we don't. I'll 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.720 tell you up and you upper cuss now. But it's 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:08.000 good to be on listen New Year two. I'm all 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:12.880 about just positivity. Just clear the air, make it make 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.000 it strong. Whatever we're in, let's do it and do 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.880 it well. And we are, you know, really looking at 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.560 how Street politicians as a brand is going to become 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.039 even stronger and become even more of a cultural influence. 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.640 It looks like there are you know, are folks who 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:36.520 are invested in us rebranding UM, and you know we're 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.960 thinking through what that's gonna look like. So I'm happy too. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.560 But it's still no matter what we call it, it's 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.120 still gonna be me and you not agreeing on a 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.160 lot of stuff. Yeah, we don't agree. That might be 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.680 the we don't agree to my son don't agree because 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.880 we agree. We agree a lot. We agree for the 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.640 most problem, but we just don't. We come at it 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:02.360 from two different perspectives. That's it, I think. So. So 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.720 it's a lot happen in Mice. I mean, you know, 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.120 you've got issues like Rikers Island in New York is 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:09.880 a big issue. It's like it's so much for us 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.160 to get back to work on Rikers Island is an issue. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.440 Voting rights is still an issue. No just George Floyd, 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.160 justice and police and act. I mean, there are so 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.680 many different things happening. And I think one of the 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.040 things that we as a as a as a as 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.919 a social justice movement, we have to take a step 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.720 back and look at how we're approaching all of that. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.360 And so today we're talking a lot about racism in 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.760 America is still a real things. Two don't think that 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.799 or we left that in twenty one that we had 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:44.680 some convictions. We know we're still in a society and 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:49.320 a time where racism is alive and well, and we're 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.200 starting to really talk about what steps do we need 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:58.760 to take, like aggressive steps to gather our people and 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:03.280 begin to educate ourselves and do more collectively um to 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.480 make a change. So I'm all, I'm really really optimistic 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.840 and excited. There's an energy about this new time that 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.919 we're in that even though it still might be a 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:17.280 little difficult, I think we're actually people. I hear it, 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.400 and I see the energy within my friends, within our friends, 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.760 the people we work with, where folks are like, let's go, 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.960 let's go, let's go. Yeah. I think we we we 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.000 had a lot of rest, you know, everybody's been resting 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.960 throughout the holidays, and I think people realize we've got 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.400 to get back to work. Like you said, there's so 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.560 many different issues going on out here. Man. My main 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.120 thing is just this violence in the streets that you know, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:47.480 a week ago fourteen fifteen young teenagers just got swept 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:52.560 up in indictments from everything from murder too, bracketeer and 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.480 all these things. And I really do not want to 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.320 continue to see these young boys just throwing their lives away, man. 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.000 So that's really what this world Card Black Murder thing 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.720 is really a focus on minds, man, because I really 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.160 think that we have to impact, and in order to impact, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.440 we have to really go to our community is to 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.080 sit down and iron out and pull the weeds back 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.040 and and be able to have hard conversations and be 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.440 able to tell how the kids cuts us out and 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.560 and come back even after they cuts us out, and 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.600 not to be like, you know what, they don't listen 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.320 like we we can't. We don't have the right or 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.960 the opportunity to sit back and just allowed us continue 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.039 to go on like it is. So you know, that's 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:35.919 where I really want to focus on. Whether it's so 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.720 much so much? It's so much, and um, I think 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.760 we should really be thinking about interviewing some of the 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.480 district attorneys from across the country that are dealing with 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.200 this gun violence issue, and a lot of them are 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.160 trying not to prosecute certain low level offenses so that 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.359 they and and but also shifting these young people into 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.800 programs so that they can deal with at risk youth. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:03.880 So all of that, you know, and how we work unconventional, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:09.200 non traditional ways and methods of saving our young people 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.039 is so important and not and you know, I know 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.680 that that's what boycott Black Murder is all about. So 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.960 there's a lot that can be done with street politicians. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:22.320 And so you know, my my thought of the day today, 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.200 after sitting for the last week, you know, leading up 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:32.520 to January six. Now we're a week later after January six, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.240 and we watched all of this coverage about the insurrection. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.719 Every which way you turned, they were talking insurrection, insurrection, insurrection. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:47.000 And then President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris they 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.080 went somewhere and and and vice the vice president was 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:54.240 the speaker, and they talked about all of these things 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.880 that you know, the criminal acts of those people who 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:03.120 participated in trying to overthrow the government, and you know 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.159 what the insurrection means. And President Barack Obama put out 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.159 a statement, powerful stuff. Why is it? I'm just trying 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.640 to understand or let me not even ask why, because 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.240 I already know why. To me, it is a waste 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:23.479 of time to talk for, especially for elected officials, to 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:28.120 speak about the insurrection and focus just on those, you know, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:33.360 individuals who were there who participated, and not call for 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.400 the prosecution of people who are in government who were 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.960 a part of it. So if you're not taking the 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:44.919 time to when you're standing Vice President Harris, President Obama President, 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:50.159 why not say there are congressional members who opened the 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:55.599 doors of the capital basically gave people tours, knew what 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.919 they were doing. They knew what these people were doing. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:05.400 They need to be prosecuted. So why what is the 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.600 problem with I don't know if it's the Democrats or 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.360 just the way politics work, And maybe I need to 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:17.240 be re educated, but it feels so disingenuous to me 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.800 to listen to these people make powerful speeches and they 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.520 say all these things, but not place to blame squarely 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:30.040 on individuals who are elected. A crazy person who's running 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.640 up the side of the wall, Yeah, that person needs 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.360 to be prosecuted. But what's more important is who powered 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.920 that behavior, who is behind who is responsible for why 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.800 that person thought it was okay? And there are congressional 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.400 members and and people who are in the Senate, and 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.720 no excuse me. They are members of the House who 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.800 are who incited a riot. We already know we have, 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.840 of course Donald Trump, but we've dealt with that. That 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.320 is what it is. But there are others lower hanging 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.200 fruit that I don't even hear what I'm talking about. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.400 So my thought of the day today is like, am 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:14.000 I bugging that? I feel like all the speeches that 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.640 were made, all the statements they put out last week 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:23.680 should have culminated with a call for um accountability for 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.880 people who were elected to office that are basically committing 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.160 treason on this country. When you sit and know that 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.120 there are people who want to destroy the foundation of 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.599 our nation and you do nothing about it and or 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.360 help it, help the aid to make it happen, I mean, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.520 you're not bugging, but that's not the conversation that people 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.800 want to have. You Look, you look at government right 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.440 now and see how it's how it's torn. How does 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.480 bipartisan you know, how the government is trying to be 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.880 ran bipartisan league, you know, and people are comfortable with 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.120 talking about Trump and the old menustration but not talking 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.600 about current people who actually contributed to those things, right, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.120 because they want to get some type of support from them. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.920 They want to make it seem like we're trying to 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.760 do something different. They don't want to call out, you know, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.440 their colleagues right now because we're in the state where 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.960 it's it's damn sill. It's like a standoff. So this 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:24.520 administration strategy for success in tails being cool with those 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:29.240 same people who actually contributed to that reality. So at 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.280 this point they can't even call him out because he 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.240 already got mentioned who don't said fuck y'all. And then 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.880 when when you know he's pretty much on the side, 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:38.679 you know, and you got to send them money. You 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.959 got all these people. So they cannot continue to wage 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.560 all of these wars because they don't even have a 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.480 strategy to do it. They don't have a strategy to 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:52.520 hold anybody accountable. America's not has never been about holding 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.199 white people accountable. You look at the tens of thousand people, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.719 they don't even got tickets. And you know, I've seen 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.080 the thing where they to the guy said he got 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.719 ten years from being a lookout, and these people will 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.800 never spend a day in jail for for crimes that 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.840 we Peterson, that was Marlon Peterson, that's our guy who 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.280 said Marla Peterson. So when you when you when you 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.040 when you look at the reality of that. Right when 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.040 you look at during the George Floyd protests, people are 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.400 out there getting five years and ten years and all 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.000 types of ship for for protesting against injustice. And these 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.320 people who who stormed the Capitol or not even going 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.800 to when you look at that reality, tell of them. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:38.040 But it's a handful. There's a hand literally, not even 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.920 like when you said a handful, it's literally a handful 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.920 of people. It might be it might be twenty people. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:45.640 I don't know. We haven't done in numbers, but it 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:50.560 certainly isn't the thousands exactly that were there exactly. So 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.880 when you understand that reality, then you understand what America 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.280 is built on. Then you understand what this administration said 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:59.880 it can do and what it is trying to do 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.880 in the strategy that is utilizing to try to do it. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.720 Then you understand that, of course they can't do that. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.080 They can't continue to make more enemies the administration is 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.320 they lost right now like then we thought we had 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.360 a little we can't continue to make more and more. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.160 And even though it's on the side of justice, even 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:17.959 though we know it's the right thing to do. We 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.120 gotta try to win some of them over. So politics 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:27.440 is a fucked up thing. The politics, it's fucked up. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.760 Politics itself is a bunch of bullshit. You gotta deal 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.000 with this, you gotta take this, you gotta you gotta 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.680 compromise a bunch of ship. And when you don't know that, right, 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.360 when you're just looking from the outside and you're just 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.360 looking in, you're like, damn, I don't get it. Funk 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.800 all that. But when you start to really realize it 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.360 is not designed for us. Politics is not designed for 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.120 us people of you know color, people who are living 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.160 in poverty, who live in communities of color. It is 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.800 not really designed to benefit us. We are the things 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.400 that are used to fuel it. So we're want us 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.680 go over. But two things can exist at the same time. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.800 It's not designed for us. However, we have to exercise 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.720 our political power because and that's what we have outside 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.000 it's not designed for us. So it's like we have 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.280 to continue to take it over from there. And that's 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.280 why when you know, that's why I understanding how important 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.960 voting is. You know, voting is a point because you 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.960 continue to rip away fibers of it by putting new 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.679 people with new ideas that can challenge old structures and 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:35.120 challenge old laws and old concepts, constantly putting something that says, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.360 you know what, this low don't really make sense. I 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.800 want to implement this. This doesn't really make sense. I 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.920 want to implement this. So that's why voting is a point. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.760 You're not gonna just completely change the structure, but gradually 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.280 what you do is you create something new from the inside. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.520 You're not gonna tear it up because you're yelling at 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.439 the build and say, yo, I don't gonna fox that. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.360 I don't want to know. You have to go in 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.160 and take ship out and say we're gonna throw this away. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.520 We're gonna throw this away, We're gonna build this this infustray, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.480 We're gonna rebuild this room piece by piece. And that's 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.439 what it is. And I think in Minnesota we saw 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.679 an example of that by having um, you know, Keith 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.360 Ellison to be elected as an attorney general. Now you 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.719 have Lee Merit running for attorney general in Texas. We 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.400 gotta put people and and and by the way, those 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.360 are some high level positions. We got Shanique Chal's running 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.800 for Assembly UM in New York City. Uh, in New 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.640 York State, you have Jamanni Williams running for governor. So 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.120 some people it's like, how can he be governor? Why not? 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.560 Why you any be governor? You know? So there is there. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.400 We do have to make sure that while you, like 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.080 you said, you tear down and build up at the 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.680 same time, but you never divest and just completely walk 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.520 away from systems that we actually functioned as part of. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.720 So I think those things, you know, all of these 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.000 things matter, and that's what really kind of we We've 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:04.280 got to stay focused and today you are focused. So 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.040 as promise today we had with us I would resident 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.320 brand expert LaToya Bond. She's gonna be doing a full 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:17.120 recap of some of our best small businesses throughout the year. LaToya, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.240 how are you doing today? I'm doing good? How y'all 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:27.120 doing doing good? Than because they happy? Yeah? Happy? Is that? 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:32.440 Thank you? Black Queen as I am, Yes from That's 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.640 one of the swatter is actually from one of our 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.640 small black businesses, Black Woman's Lost Matter. I'm gonna girl. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.280 Jamility Davis has a lot of bombs shirts. Make sure 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.920 that get one need a black king, one black We 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:55.000 need some many, we need some real energy we need, Toya. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.080 We gotta get some black men, some men up here 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.720 to give us some good products, some small because they 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.760 out did. I agree. That's my goal, my golden years, 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.200 to find more men friendly topics because all y'all run everything, 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.000 y'all got all the clothes, y'all got all the topics. 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.880 You'll be jumping me up here, you know, every week. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:15.360 So I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to make this 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.840 a little more minute up here. Yeah, maybe one of 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.360 the topics could be like, why is it so hard 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.920 to find them in the mail? You know, black old 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.000 male businesses, because the women you're gonna instagram, they're like 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:31.480 boom boom boom boom, how bing bang for the mail 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.720 if you gotta go search them, hashtag them. So, Mike, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.360 she's gonna help us to do better with that in 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.040 twenty two. That's my that's my goal, man. So Toyo, 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.360 we know that you are resident brand experts. Were letting 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.360 people know, like what do you do in totality? Tell 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.440 them how how much of a black queen you actually are? 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.320 I love that. I love that too. Okay. My name's 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:58.800 LaToya Bond. I am brand strategists. Um I help women 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.200 mainly and some men build seven figure brands, UM, whether 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.480 that brand is a tangible brand, or it's a service 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.520 based brand, or it's a person that is a brand. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.160 And I do that through a system that I like 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.520 to call a I S model, which is authority, influence 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.040 and strategies. So we we make a strategy to help 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.280 them build authority in a niche, and then we use 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.160 that authority to build influence, and then you monetize that 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:31.440 influence which helps you build a seventh figure brand. Okay, 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.360 and I smart, he's not smart, And certainly, UM, you 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.600 have worked with me for the last seven years. How 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.720 long have we been working It's been a long time. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:46.120 We've been working together since I think twenty six, like 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.240 officially before the Women's March. Absolutely, and then at some 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.800 point you acquired my son, UM and so many people 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:59.240 around we all come to you for business ideas. For UM, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.720 you to be our layers on to work with people, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.160 because especially for me, I either won't ask or don't 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.840 want to be bothered, like you know, just because I 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.960 have the fear of um, you know, not wanting to 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.399 ask for money, the fear of what people will say 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:20.960 when I demand pay for compensation, for my time, for 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.920 my ideas, for my energy, and working with you. That's 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.639 been one thing that we have conquered together is that no, 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.160 if you're going to be a part of a project 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.920 and there is money in the project, I should actually 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.760 be compensated. Because too many of our black leaders have 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:42.320 died without without resources, without money, And we said, we 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:46.040 do not what you call is subscribe to that model. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:51.879 We do us teacher ship. That's not you're not doing 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.840 exactly and and and being compensated. Well, you know, if 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.760 you're if you're part of a project that's generated millions 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.639 billions of dollars you and you're the main talent or 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.520 even you know, one of the main talents, you should 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.600 be compensated well for that project. And there's nothing wrong 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.240 about that. There's nothing that you should feel guilty about that. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.080 And then the other thing is being able to monetize 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.359 some of your influence and reach and create a business 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.800 for yourself and your family, your mom. You have parents 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.000 that an agent that you're gonna have to take care of. 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:25.119 You need to be able to have an income so 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.080 you can take care of your family. And there's nothing 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.680 that you should feel guilty about ever, I've been trying 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.440 to tell her that for years. I'm glad you've got it. Period, 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.640 like the younger people would say, on period on period. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.320 So tell us about these businesses that we watch this video. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.000 We see all the businesses that you bring to us 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.679 every week. Um, you know, we're soliciting others to send 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.600 us their businesses, and we always say, make sure it's 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.760 a real business. Like if you tell some of our people, 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.520 they say they got a business, but they want you 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:04.159 to cash at them for the we need. You need, 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.880 you need to account, You need all of your information 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.159 in order so you can really you know, so we 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.480 can really actually support So talk about some of these businesses. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:14.800 You have to talk about all of them, but a 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.440 few of the brands that we saw. Okay, So I 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.159 will say, first of all, this this started from you 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.439 and my son as an extension of your activism because 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.040 you wanted to make sure that we highlighted black businesses. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.920 Because when we're talking about a path to black people 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.199 getting the hand, entrepreneurship and building wealth is one of 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.040 the main ways that we're gonna be able to build 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.720 power in this country. And then using your platform to 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.359 be able to highlight some of these small businesses is 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.280 one way that you guys can't give back and that 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.639 you do choose to give back. UM. So we have 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.800 a few businesses that we've highlighted over the years. I'll 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.240 talk about um some of them. UM. One of them 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.480 is called Just Breed. The owner's name is Precious of 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:01.399 Bocleia Evans and UM. That brand is only about mental 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.480 wellness and self care, which is something that we talk 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.320 about a lot and that we all subscribe to. And 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:13.440 it's a it's a box that basically help people, UM meditate, 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.199 you know, it helps you feel comfortable meditating because a 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.240 lot of people think that meditation and and you know, 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.359 crystals and that and that whole realm of things goes 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:28.160 against spirituality, and and it really doesn't. They both they 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.120 really work, Um, they really work hands in hand together. 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.760 And that's what her brand is about, is showing you 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.800 that this is not something that's separate from it is 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.840 something that you can use in conjunction with your spirituality 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:41.879 to just really help you take a mindful moment for 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.800 yourself and just breathe, you know. So it's a it's 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.520 a it's a self care box. It includes the eye pillow, 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.200 that you can heat or cool to kind of help 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.320 you relax. It includes like a starter bag of crystals 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.359 that you can carry with you in your purse. And 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:59.000 really it just helps you deal with like anxiety or 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.600 moments when you're not feeling quite well. You know you 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:03.560 can you you kind of learn what the testimer is doing. 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.320 You take those moments to help round you. There's also 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:07.720 a lot of other things in a box what I 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:09.720 won't go into all enough because we have, but check 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:11.240 it out. We have, we don't have a little bit 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.160 of time, but make sure you guys check it out. 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.600 No Precious, you know we've had her on the show 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.879 and I've actually worked with Precious personally for mental health 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:24.600 issues as well as professionally. She's really the jack of 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:30.520 all trades. But her specific um passion to help us 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.800 be more mindful. It's so important. We just learned that 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.879 a very close friend of ours um that his daughter 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:41.480 committed suicide just in the last few days. And you know, 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:45.120 these these are people who are very progressive, They are 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:50.200 very you know, they are spiritual, they are their activists, 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:54.760 they are smart, they're great family and yet still they 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.159 lost their child to something that folks generally would say, well, no, 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.760 if you have it together, suicide won't be an issue 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.600 in your family, and that's so not true. And Precious 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:07.399 has been trying to help us understand that we have 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:09.960 to be able to to to get rid of these 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:13.600 negative thoughts in our mind that says if you sit 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:17.480 with yourself, if you meditate, if you use your crystals, 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:20.760 if you use your sage, that you're crazy or that 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:27.760 you're weak, crazy, and wicked. Because those are some of yes, wicked, Yes, 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:32.920 shout out to Precious child. Um. One of the other 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:36.240 brands that we have that's been actually one about very 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:40.480 very popular episode is called Candlelucks and it's a smoking 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:45.280 accessories brands, and Um, the owner of this brand, wanted 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:47.560 to find a way to get into the legal cannabis 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:51.320 industry and doing her research her name is Tory owens Um, 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:54.600 and doing her research, she realized that the licenses were 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.600 extremely hard to get from black people, of course, and 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.080 extremely expensive. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:03.800 of investment if you want to do like a dispensary. 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.000 So she figured out a way to get into the 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:09.320 business in a way that was attainable. So she started 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:14.760