WEBVTT - Emmit Till- Lock Her Up with 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.760 What's up. Family. It's your girl to meet you, Mallory, 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.880 and it's your boy and my son in general, and 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.680 we are your host of street politicians, the place and 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:20.040 politics meet well, Mr Lennon, it's a new week. Are 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:25.400 you feeling Timica. I'm feeling good, feeling good. People can't 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:30.400 see me today, but you can surely hear me as always. 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.840 Shut up? What is that supposed to me? You can't 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.400 see me, but you can hear me. Like, what exactly 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.680 would make you say? As always? I'm just trying to 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.879 say that you have a very loud you project yourself. Okay, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.879 So basically I got a big mouth. That's cool. You 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.479 said that, not me, I said you project Yeah, whatever, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.639 you got a big mouth. Uh. Let's see what's going 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.920 on in the world. Let me tell you something. You know, 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.240 something happened other day and it really got me to 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:08.600 understanding how much our privacy is being invaded in our 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.240 in this society, and just how careful people have to 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:18.000 be because, um, when returning to New York from Porsche's wedding, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.120 I found this this It was like a lot of traffic. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:27.360 If you ever been to the Atlanta UH Airport, especially 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:33.720 the Delta terminal. Um, you know how crazy it is 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.040 to be able to when it's apt whenever there is traffic, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.120 especially after a holiday week. Um, you know, people it 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.520 is very difficult to get on the ramp for departures, 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.120 and so a lot of times, uh, some of the 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:50.080 drivers will go downstairs. Uh and then you know, you 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.280 kind of go through and go upstairs through the escalators 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.520 and what have you. It's a little trick, but uh, 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.320 just so happens that there's a new t s a 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:05.920 pre check express area. So it's like an exclusive room 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.760 that if you have t estate pre check, you go 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.520 there and you can uh you know, go quick through 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.639 the process and they check your bag downstairs. It's it's 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.240 really got. It has to be fairly new because we 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.160 go to Atlanta all the time. No one has ever 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.120 even mentioned it space to me. But the crazy thing 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.480 is that when you go inside of the room, you 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.920 walk up to some machines, and at least with like 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.560 the clear machines, you gotta let get your face and 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.520 your eyes right in front of the thing, and it 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.640 tells you that they can't find you several times because 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.320 you need your eyes to be correctly like in the 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.640 square in the box. But this thing, it's a big 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.880 old camera somehow, and it just scans your face and 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.840 all your information pops up and you check your bag 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.880 right there. You don't gotta do nothing, you don't gotta 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.160 scan eyes, you don't do anything, or you just do 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.919 is walk in, you stand there and it's scans your face. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.160 It captures you just standing there and all your information 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.520 comes up. And I'm like, that's got to be the 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:13.520 same type of technology, facial recognition that is really becoming 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.240 a thing all over the world, but certainly even in 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.600 the US it's becoming a thing. Like on American streets 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.760 it's you. You you can't do anything with these people 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.400 where they don't see you. And I've been saying that 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.440 for a long time, and that just proves my point, 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.919 you know, when you're telling but I'm like, you're going 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.600 to people going to jail. Man, Like, I don't know 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.560 what people think is going on in these streets. I 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.480 don't know. If you I tell people all time crime 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.040 is over. If you think you're gonna commit a crime, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.960 especially in New York City in America period, you're not 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.600 getting away with it. They got they got temperature scans, 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.800 they got facial resignition scans, they got retina scans, they 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.440 got um computing. Now they're sitting out what they said, 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:02.600 Now they're sitting out, Oh, robots that can shoot like 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.280 it's we just in a time where you have to 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.080 be very savvy, very intelligent. You have to have a 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.920 lot of discernment, and you gotta make very wise decisions. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.840 You gotta watch every movie you make, because they're watching 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.039 every move you make, you know, So I don't know, man, 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.480 that's that's a very scary thing that you just walk 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.920 into a place and this ship you ain't gonna position 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.360 your face no way of anything, and from any angle 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.200 this machine is able to capture you and and bring 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:35.800 up your whole history. That's crazy. That is I mean, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:41.520 And I think I'm not explaining it properly because it's like, okay, 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.440 so you know it recognized your face, but it's not 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.640 you don't even have to, like you didn't know. It's 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.360 from any angle you walk in and the ship just 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:55.279 immediately scanned and realizes you from the side. You wasn't 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.760 inside the camera. You didn't have to look, you didn't 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.920 have to be stationary, you were just mere moving. Initial 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.320 is coach and even a picture where they showed it. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:10.040 It was like sideways. That's crazy though, like I'm I'm 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:14.520 blown away by I I mean I just seeing that, 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.480 I was like wow, like our privacy is really being invaded. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.960 And but the crazy thing is like they got all 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:25.840 this technology and can't find none of the people that 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.200 kill people or or or uh not none of them 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.800 because some people have been apprehended. But a lot of 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.960 times that's happening because the community is doing its own 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.640 police work by telling where what they think is had 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.520 you know, what happened to an individual or some reason, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.040 um sanction I tell you all the time. A lot 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.800 of it is is state sanction violence. And people are 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.640 getting away because they want them to get away. Yeah, 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.039 And and all of the missing people and the and 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.920 the people who have been sex traffic they don't have 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.120 no they don't have no information or none of that. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.360 But I tell you what they do know is how 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.760 to keep your information and your your your and and 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.920 and and and basically be able to keep you on 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:16.120 record for whatever the American government's pleasure. Maybe it's just 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:20.280 very strange, but anyways, And the bottom line is, as 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.080 you said, crime does not pay. And speaking of crime 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.920 and how it doesn't pay. It's like it's such a 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:34.640 conflicting issue because on one hand, it's like, hey, you know, 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.800 we are out here telling people crime doesn't pay, but 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:44.400 we also have to recognize the realities of how uh 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.360 you know, the moment that we're in, especially when it 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:53.880 comes to the holiday season, creates desperation. And so now 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.680 that I saw that door Dash has laid off and 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.640 fifty employees, and then all types of other companies from Amazon, 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.400 we know Meta Um has laid off a bunch of people. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.560 They've been talking about laying off like a lot of people. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.400 Uh Twitter, we see all the crazy stuff that's going 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.440 on with Twitter, people walking out, you know, people being 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.840 laid off. Then you have HP, which I think that 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.400 HP is Hewlett Packard still but they may be rebranded 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:29.520 to just HP Lift. So these are all companies that 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.960 have laid off individuals, and you know, again especially during 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.720 the holiday time. And I'm just trying to figure out 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.400 so many of these corporations were able to get the 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.400 p p P and the bailouts and everything during COVID 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.200 and D you know, during the pandemic. How is it 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.600 that you do all of that and still lay off 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.400 the employees. And then the folks ain't got no job. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.520 And then we over here telling them crime don't pay. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.120 You know what I'm saying, because crowd could obviously the 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:05.520 job don't pay either. So that's how people saying, Man, 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.200 the job ain't paying because the job is cutting us off, 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.240 so we ain't getting paid. So the only job we 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.560 got his crime. So we we gotta figure this out. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.320 This this economy, just the way that things are going. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.200 And it brings me to something I was looking at. Um. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.840 It's this lawyer that I watched. He does like little 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.120 hip hop lawyer. He always explains like little things. I 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:31.040 forgot his name, but he was talking about Nike and 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:36.720 Adidas and how they they're they're cutting off, they're cutting 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.840 the stopping their distribution by thirty and he was talking 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.880 about how China and Russia ain't buying them air products 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.800 no more and it's actually going down. So that that 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.480 feeds to my boycott Nike. You know what I'm saying. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.520 People are all Nike gonna know, they need they need 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.839 us now more than ever. So that's what I'm trying 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.920 to say. I were consistent about what we do with 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.240 our money, and consistent about making people respect us. Then 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.800 the leverage that we can have, you know, then we 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.880 can we start and if we start just focusing on 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.080 black owned organizations and companies and brands anyway, then we 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.320 can empower and we can employ our own people. You 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.719 understand I'm saying during these seasons, if we own businesses, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.240 if we own corporations, we can make sure that because 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.960 most of the marginalized and people who are gonna suffer 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.320 in these times being cut off or people from our communities, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.040 so we never employ our our own people instead of 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.160 you know, letting these brands do and say and and 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.840 treat us anyway they want to. So I hope that 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.079 gives that's like a lesson to some of y'all. Man, 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:43.040 don't be scared, fight sometimes. Don't be scared fights sometimes, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:49.880 but fight with accurate information. You know, I'll tell you 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:58.080 in my thought of the day. We've been talking a 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.400 lot lately, I said last week on the show, and 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.680 it actually was one of the first clips that was 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.160 put out. Um, you know about about our show from 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.480 last week. Shout out to our brother to Bet, who 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:16.599 is one of the senior Yeah, he one of the 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:22.120 senior strategist for Steve Harvey and you know, we were 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:26.359 talking about how dangerous the internet is, and an example 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.559 of that happened like right after the interview. Has been 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.520 going on for the last few days. You know, first 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.600 of all, at the point that we're taping this, UM, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.600 you know, this information is up to date. But by 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.880 the time the show airs, is very possible uh that 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.560 things have changed, and we'll make sure to report on it. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:53.160 At that time. However, I watched some a blog put 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:58.679 out some information UM about Schankula Robinson, an update to 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.480 the situation with her and getting justice for Shanquala, and 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.520 they said that that the first thing that went out 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:12.360 which was verified and true, that there was a arrest 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:18.760 waarrant uh now active for one of the individuals involved 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.199 in the direct attack. Now we all assume that it 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:27.920 is uh the woman Dejane. However, we don't know that 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.680 because that's not what the FBI stated. They did not 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.600 put that information out, and they also did not tell 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.320 the Robinson family at least. I spoke to shan Quala's 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.160 mother and sister about this, and they did not hear 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:49.880 directly from the FBI who the arrest saarant is for UM, 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.959 but they did receive information that there was in a 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:58.680 restaurant and also at the extradition process, UM was attached 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:04.040 to the warrant. Then I saw a blog post that UM, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:08.120 you know, she was arrested and her family has had 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.840 not has not heard that at this point, her family 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.520 has not heard from the FDR. Now, it could be 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:18.520 two problems. One, I think the Internet they want clicks 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.160 and lights so much that people there are some people 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.240 I used to say, well, it's not intentional, it might 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.640 have been a mistake, and now I'm starting to think, nah, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.800 it's actually very intentional. There are people who report things 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.560 that's untrue on purpose so that they could draw folks 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:39.360 to their pages and you know, and get get more followers. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.360 So one, you know, I'm not about to give them 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.280 because you didn't verify, you can't verify it. I got 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.320 a call from one of the major blogs asking me, Hey, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.760 I'm you know, I want to report on this story, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.120 but I'm looking up the woman's name in the system. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.640 I'm trying to find her. You know, we're doing the 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.040 checks and balances that we have and there's no one 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.760 literally and and also the FBI were calls to them. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.719 No one is confirming that this person has been arrested, 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.719 which would align with the fact that the FBI never 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.080 called her mom to tell her that, um that the 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.280 person has been arrested. So that tells me that people 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.440 just put anything on the internet and we all that 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.880 includes me, It certainly includes you because you know I'm 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.520 always beating up on you. But we have to be 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.240 real careful about information we share that we see, even 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.720 when we see it on someone's page that we actually 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.240 you know that we know and trust. Because this morning 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.319 it was on the Ricky Smiley Show, they put out 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.600 that the young lady was arrested and and that's actually 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.600 not true. Yeah, that we know of I think, I 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.360 think what it happens is a lot of people and 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.600 and we're all guilty of it. Right when when you 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.000 find something that supports the narrative that you want, or 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:58.080 something that feeds into energy that you actually wanted, you 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:02.360 want to believe, you want something to support your own theory, right, 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.240 your own ideology and your own feeling. Like people want 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.840 this girl to be arrested, So soon it's anywhere that 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.520 gets posted, people gonna be like yes, because they want 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.200 that that's actually what they want. Even when when you 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:15.760 see and I tell people that all the time. When 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.040 you when you put the post up negative about somebody, 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.280 that's because you just want to believe that because you 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.160 didn't do any research. You didn't search, you didn't because 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.320 it's easy to dispel myths, right, So I think that's 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.080 what happens. A lot of us post things to support 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.480 our own feelings, our own emotions, our own theories, you know, 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.320 and and sometimes we don't check them because we already 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.960 in our mind believe it's true anyway. So we just 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.800 feel like somebody just confirmed what we already know. When 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.840 you know, on all actuality, especially when you have huge 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.160 platforms and you have people who follow you for information 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.280 and they believe that the information you give is accurate, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.320 you have to do to due diligence. You have to 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.480 do the research. Because I've seen you. As soon as 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.280 you see that post, you wanted to post it. But 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.320 he was like, well, I ain't see this nowhere. Let 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.440 me let me start looking around, let me make some 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.680 cool let me call you know what I'm saying, because 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.360 you understand that you have a responsibility. You understand that 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.360 people actually believe what you say. So if you want 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.000 to remain credible, you know what I'm saying, you have 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.400 to do the work to remain credible. So all these sites, man, 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.080 you ain't got to rush to be first. Sometimes if 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.200 you last, and you gotta right and you get the 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.200 story right exactly like getting the story right. It's so 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.400 helpful and the families and other people will come to 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.480 you with exclusive information when they see that you have 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.840 integrity in terms of what you posted. And I got 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.160 into it on a blog and it's the same blog, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.920 well I don't think so. In fact, it was in 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.600 And I don't know why I'm even calling these pages 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.640 blogs because we need to get that straight to blogs. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:55.360 Some blogs, many blogs are actually reputable sources that do 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.880 try their best to you know, look into the story 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.760 ease and put out accurate information. So when I say blogs, 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.160 I need to be very very careful with that. Some 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:12.360 of them is just pages, just uh Instagram page where 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.080 somebody is talking running names. They call a blog. Now 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.200 mostly I'm telling you these people who have give their 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.400 themselves names and titles, and all they do is got 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.240 a YouTube page that anybody could get or Instagram page 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.720 and they call it a blog and then they get 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.240 enough people to follow and believe it. That's that's what 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.680 it's turned into. It's no, there's no fact check, there's 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.880 no credibility, there's no resonme. People don't even know who 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.200 you are. But they followed you, and you said a 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.280 couple of words that resonated. Wouldn't want to twice and 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.400 now you would come to their source of information. So well, yeah, 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.840 and and and so on this particular thing, they were 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:54.160 still they were running the narrative that dejan Ay, which 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.640 which is believed to be the woman who was attacking 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:04.800 chicuag chant Quala, that she is a trans woman. So 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.120 that narrative started somewhere and as soon as I saw it, 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.960 because I wanted to be you know, very I wanted 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.240 to make sure that if it's true, you know, and 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.679 and it it's true, it's true, it is what it is. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.080 It's being stated of just nothing anyone could do about 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.840 it because if it's true, it's true. But if it 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.560 is not true, we do not need to um, you know, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.679 increase or let me not say increase, but exploit a 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:36.639 narrative that can be dangerous for anybody. So for instance, 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.320 it's not good for uh, someone to say, oh, there 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.399 was a robbery downtown uh and and I bet you 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.800 was black people that did it, right or a black 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.919 man that did it. We don't want to do that 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.960 because we know what those types of narratives, what it 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.240 does to our community, what it does to any particular community. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.080 I don't even want to say, oh, I bet you 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.960 a white a white man. Uh, you know it did 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.320 X y Z thing. We all have those biases that 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.200 exist within us, but we have to be really careful 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.399 about that. So when people start saying, oh, what it 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.200 was a transperson, I'm like, let me call and check 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.199 and you know, and and found out about this, And 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.960 of course I called and spoke to she han't quillas sister. 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.560 She and Quila not wonderfol she ain't quill us so 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:25.200 bad because her sister's name is Quila, um uh to Quila. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.240 So I called her and I'm asking her, you know, hey, 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.399 this is what I've heard. Can you confirm to you know? 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.359 And she said, I don't believe that that's true. She said, 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.800 we saw it online as well, but they actually met 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.879 the woman. Uh and you know they you know know, 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.400 several friends and people around and they said that they 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.119 don't believe that that is true. So I got tagged 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.080 on a video where someone is like, oh, you know, 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.680 Tamika Mallory's not gonna say anything about this. I bet 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.960 you she's too scared to speak on this issue. And 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.520 I'm like, what are you? Like? What? I well, I 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.240 don't even understand what that means and why people are 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.239 so ignorant. So I and and they'd love to go 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.359 back and forth with me and tell me, you know 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.400 all the reasons why I'm wrong. So I asked, Hey, 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.919 this person, because this is a person commenting on a 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.720 page which they probably call themselves a blog, I asked, 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.000 you know, do you know that this person that posted 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:24.960 this do you know them? And do you know for 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.560 sure that they are in touch with uh dejaney or 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:33.160 someone connected to her that has confirmed this information? How 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.280 do they know? Did they get it from the internet? 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.440 Have you questioned them about why they're posting this type 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.159 of the information? And I said, and why would you 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.720 think that? As a person who has a I'm trying 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.800 my best to have an authentic brand and authentic voice. 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.680 Although I'm not perfect, but I try. If I put 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.040 out inaccurate information like what does that say about me 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.240 that I wouldn't need? They go I'm gonna target a 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.879 community that's already dealing with. I hold, you know a 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.040 lot of things, and and and being marginalized, and I'm 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:08.200 gonna go target that community because the Internet says something, 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.400 and not because I know for sure that this information 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.840 that's being put out there is truth. Why would I 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.520 do that? And you know what crickets I've heard because 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.520 people can't. They just people just want to find a 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.640 reason to find fault. Right. People say, oh, you won't 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:26.879 speak on that. We get that all the time. You're 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:29.480 gonna be quiet on this. You you you pick and choose. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.280 You're did right now, pick and choose. I pick and 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.440 choose the issues that I believe in. Right. I can't 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.160 fight on the issue or talk about something first of all, 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.560 that I'm either not knowledgeable of or I don't have 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.800 any real energy for some ship. It doesn't it doesn't 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.480 like I see it, and I'm like, damn, okay, but 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.560 I don't. That's not my forte. Certain things that go 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.000 on in the world that even affect black people. There's 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.520 certain things that I'm not that knowledgeable of, so I 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:55.760 don't speak on them. I might say that I think 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.639 it's wrong, but when I'm adamant about something, it's because 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.600 I'm learned in it, I've studied it, our understand the 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.360 dynamics of it. I believe it to be more than 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:09.960 likely accurate, not ninety nine point nine percent accurate about 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:11.960 things that I speak up. And I come from a 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:16.040 perspective where I have some level of understanding or expertise 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.520 in the field that I speak on. So those are 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:20.480 the things that I like to speak on. You. So 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:22.560 when they say you pick at you or I bet 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.000 you won't say no, why don't you say? But obviously 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.480 you feel very strongly about the issue. You seem knowledgeable, 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:30.760 you seem like you know some things. You've got a 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.760 lot of energy. So that's why that's why we all 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.239 do our part in this world. We do especially in 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.399 this movement, so we have different you know, everybody has 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.040 a different entry point of movement. You believe in these things. 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.520 You you are adamant about this. You want to hear 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:46.960 those things talk about, So go talk about it. Don't 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.480 come at my d m s trying to pressure me 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:53.120 and force me and bully me into talking about ship 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:56.120 that you want to talk about. That's why you gotta page, 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.720 you gotta voide. You got all the right in the 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.480 world to speak on things that you want to talk about, 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.000 just like I have all the right not to speak 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:05.600 on the things that I don't want to talk about. 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.760 So if you'll understand that, then the world will be 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:11.800 a better place. Man, go to your own page. I 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.280 don't care how many followers you or tell them why 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:16.800 you're mad, tell them that you want to get off 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:19.520 your chest, tell when people should be doing, and you 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:24.240 build your own following. That's where, yeah, it's not it's 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:27.359 not that one side of it you said that's a 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.280 hundred percent right, is that it may not be something 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:34.080 that we understand. Clearly, we may not. You know, sometimes 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.440 things miss you. You You don't even know what happened, or 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.119 if you do know, you're trying to figure out the 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.240 different pieces and understand it, or maybe you don't have 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:45.159 time to do that. But here's what I will say. 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:50.640 We nobody is capable of getting on every issue all 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:54.040 the time. That is a failed it's a failed strategy. 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:56.960 You actually have to stick with the things you think 0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:01.600