WEBVTT - Sexual Expression Sparks Debates 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:07.200 That's what's up. Family. It's your girl to me Ka 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:08.360 d Mallory. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.840 And it's your boy, my son and gentlemen. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.800 And we are your host of street politicians, the place 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:15.760 where the streets and politics me. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.840 Finally, you don't sound like you're not saying it trying 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.760 to copy how well I say it. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.280 I've told you already to what it is, and I'm 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.200 doing that. If you want to keep reiterating the same thing, 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:30.240 then go on there. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:31.720 Copy me. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.559 Okay, that's that's what it is. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:35.959 Yeah. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.720 So I and you were on at different parts of 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.760 the last few weeks. You and others have been on 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.680 the road. We've all been on the road together. But 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:52.000 I was on the road for about three weeks. And 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:56.080 I don't know if I can sustain living in America, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:00.280 Like I might have to move because the call lost 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.720 of survival. And by the way, I tried to do 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.959 one or two fun things too, like when everybody was 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.800 gone and it was just me by myself, you know, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.880 I try to like do a little fun and I 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.520 was trying to just like literally by myself, focus on 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:22.080 a few fun things. And I don't understand how people 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.720 are surviving with these numbers they keep saying there's no inflation, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:31.440 I mean no recession. They keep saying there's no recession. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.560 I don't know why, and I don't hear it usually 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.240 when the Democrats lie, because they lie and they try 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.640 to cover up things. Of course, every political party is 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:49.200 going to try to suppress any negative information because they 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:53.240 don't want when especially when they're coming up on election time, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.880 to have you know, certain dark clouds open. So every 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:01.000 administration does that. Every political part already is gonna speak 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.840 talk up their good side. So but I also don't 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:10.359 hear a counterbalance from the Republicans saying that there is 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.080 a recession. It seems like no one is saying there's 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.000 a recession. Maybe there, of course they are analysts than others. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:22.040 But I a person who am not I'm not struggling. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.600 Am telling you it is way. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.040 Too expensive. 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:37.760 Flights, hotel, car services, just services in general. Three hundred 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:43.800 and fifty dollars for makeup, you know, four hundred dollars, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.880 but there's two hundred dollars. It's a lot of money 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.280 to survive, and it's just it makes me feel very 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:51.919 I don't. I just know, and I know I keep 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.280 ask saying the same thing almost every show. But I'm 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.080 I feel like it's getting worse. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.680 I mean, I definitely agree with you. You know, of 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:05.760 course living is has skyrocketed, and being you know, being 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.840 in a position to actually be able to pay your 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.040 bills out worrying about that and then like you said, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.280 trying to have a good time. You actually see how 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.560 fast when he goes and you it's just like thousand 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.880 dollars here, fifty five hundred dollars here, every this and that, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.760 this and that, just trying just to maintain and the 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.640 average person, you know, has to be dealing with a lot, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.200 you know, I know, case the point, we just see 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:36.520 all these robberies are starting to happen, you know, and 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.960 and I think that's like who who who was it 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.040 that that got robbed? 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.560 We damns and indrests. He's an actor. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.560 And then of course, you know, our our auntie Tina, 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.000 Tina knows our house was also burglarized where an entire 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.480 safe was removed. And listen, that's very triggering to me because, 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.080 as you know, my son's father was murdered over a 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.120 safety and removed from a high house that he was 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.080 living in with some people in Pennsylvania. And the one 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:09.800 thing I know is that whenever somebody physically moves a 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:15.400 whole safe, they have information about where it is, how 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.520 long they're gonna have to get it out, because I'm 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.880 sure and by the way, we haven't even heard Tina 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.200 Knowles confirmed anything about this. So they're saying it's a 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.840 million dollars in the safe. You know, the media that 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.920 they make up anything all the time, So we don't 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.000 know how much money was really in it. But a 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.320 million dollars is a lot of money to move. And 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.039 so if they did move a million and jury in 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.320 a safe, the safe was not light, that means that 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.800 they knew they had time to physically move the safe. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:51.880 And it's funny, Masan because my parents never told the 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.080 neighbors when they were going to be out of town. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:59.400 But in the social media erar you, it's hard for 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.840 people not to know that you're on tour with your 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.120 daughter in Europe. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.320 Yeah, you know what I'm saying. It's hard for people 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:09.720 not to. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:14.039 Know that you're on a yacht with Magic Johnson and 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.440 Cookie Johnson and they, you know, they do their trip 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:16.840 every year. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:17.919 Samuel Jackson. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.200 It's a big trip that I you know, I always 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.039 sit and just fantasize on what it would be like 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.719 to spend time just sitting with them and listening to 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.440 the wisdom and the stories and the funnies. So this 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.360 is stuff that people are watching. So while you're out 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.680 of town, they know how long it's going to be 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:35.520 before you retire. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.440 Yeah, and people are hungry. You know that It goes 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.080 down to that the inflation that they say is not 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.359 happening in the recession, they say, we're not in you know, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.279 people are really like we're talking about that. People are 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.240 really trying to figure out because there's a lifestyle and 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:59.920 I think what happens with social media, it also shows 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.480 shows people really living and enjoying life. Right, And if 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:03.880 you're just. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.640 Somebody, they look like they. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.560 Are, well, they look like they are, but you don't 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.880 really look like you. Are you on a boat, you 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.880 know in the Seven Seeds with with five or six 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.240 millionaires and billionaires, you don't really look like you have 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.800 you at a party surrounded by the top artists or 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.880 you know, And everybody got on and they got a 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:28.560 whole page on how much the watches cost. They had 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.640 fifty people that was in a certain party and they 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.719 were showing the watches that range anywhere from fifty to 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.279 a million dollars. They were just showing the watches that 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.279 each of them had on, So it don't really look 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.320 like you actually can you can pretty much concur that 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.840 these people are living their best life. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.520 And when you but you don't know what people got 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:50.960 going on, you just know you don't. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.880 But I'm just trying to say, it's hard for you 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.279 to believe that they not. You know, when you look 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.240 and you like, you know, I know where I would 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.760 be enjoying myself with that. But you got about fifty 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.640 dollars dollars in your pocket, the bills is coming, the 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.840 kids is hungry, you know, the gas, you got your 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.240 check engine light on. You know, Oh, you're young and 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.560 just impressionable. So it's a lot. It's a lot of 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:17.960 pressures that I realized that this generation deals with that 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:19.680 we didn't have to do. We just had to deal 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.119 with seeing the people from our block have a couple 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.200 of things that we didn't have. But when you go 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.760 to the social media and it looks like everybody in 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.240 the world is doing better than you, you know, it's 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.120 it's a lot. It's a lot of stress. So with 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.200 I say all the time, poverty is violence, man. And 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.320 I'm I'm I'm thankful that there was nobody in those homes. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.040 You know that the only thing it was with some 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.560 property that they probably have and so on. Yeah, they 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.760 probably can ensure and get back whatever it is that 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.400 they lost, but you know, we just had some real 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:52.440 tough times. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.800 No it is, I mean, and and the robber, the burglaries. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.760 Everybody has to be aware because it's like, you know, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.560 in my house, it's a total different situation because there 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.040 are people here all the time, twenty four hours a day, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.880 round the clock. It's somebody in the house, people watching 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.720 my house. You know, we have it set up that way. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.840 But and I'm not saying that there's not in Tina 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:24.440 Knowles's house either. Obviously she didn't have the same you know, resource. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.960 I mean, I don't have the same resources that she has. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.000 But I actually live with other people, you know what 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.040 I'm saying, So it's different. It's a total different situation. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.719 I live with other people, so it's people always around. Nonetheless, 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:43.680 when I say we're going to Kentucky to fight Daniel Cameron, 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:50.840 or we're going to the exact spot where aj Owens 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.280 was murdered, when I say those things, people know that 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.800 you're not around, you're not at home, or at least 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.560 they think that you're not at home. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.959 And just like you said, I'm. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.840 Glad that no one was in those homes that was harmed. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.760 The other side of it is, I'm glad you didn't 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.960 walk into somebody's house trying to steal their stuff and 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.240 they were home and put a bullet all the way 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:17.280 through your behind. So this is a time that people 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.800 are living real dangerous because folks is not gonna let 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.559 you just take their stuff because you going through whatever 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.080 you go through, they're not going to allow it to 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:26.439 have it. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.319 So you're gonna see more people. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.120 Did you ever see I don't know if I ever 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.240 told you, or maybe I did send it to you 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:37.800 when the Uber Eats or one of those delivery services 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:42.280 when he tried to twist the doorknob of a woman 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.600 and the woman pulled a gun on him and held 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:49.080 him at at a gunpoint until the police arrived. Like, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.840 you're gonna mess around and go up in something and 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.400 find out that people are not playing about their stuff. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.800 And you know what I think is so funny. If 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:01.679 it it's true that there was a million dollars in 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.480 Teena Ole's house, right, if it's true. Now, these are 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:10.600 people who had massive resources, massive resources, and yet and 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:16.920 still she still has some cash in. Now, black coats 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.319 gonna put some cash in the house in case anything 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.920 shall have it happened to have That's oh. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.280 That's old school, Manma. We was taught that. Man, the 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.040 banks might close, don't put all your faith in you know, 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.000 technology and all like, have you some money and just 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.839 in case anything go bad. So you know, yeah, Mama Tina, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.520 don't play she from the old. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.880 School at your little cash in the house. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.400 But again, we don't know that that story is exactly 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.280 as it's being told. So on speaking of money, the 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:53.360 family of Tyree Nichols is suing the city of Memphis 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.960 for five hundred million dollars and the audacity and I 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.440 get it. Lawyer's gone lawyer right, any system it is 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.800 going to try to protect itself. But they're trying to 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.200 get the city of Memphis is trying to get the 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.600 lawsuit drop so that they don't have to pay this 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.559 family to five hundred million dollars. I don't I mean, 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.480 I don't know what they're talking about. We saw it, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.560 like everybody saw why it's five hundred million is not 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.320 even enough for the trauma of the whole community. They 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.000 ought to be paying everybody, all of us that had 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:32.679 to watch Tyree Nichols being beat to death by those officers. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.720 So the audacity of them to even try to they 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.800 should be saying, let's just settle it quietly. I do understand. Again, 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.839 lawyers are gonna lawyer, but you know, even even I 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:48.559 don't know, you know, it's just like, okay, yeah, I think. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.079 I think that's a no brainer. I think y'all figure 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.640 out how you can set or if they were five hundred, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.200 give them for ninety nine, man, because I ain't got 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.600 a snowballed chance in hell what they did to that man. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.559 The greediousness, the fact that you know that it even 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.360 happens is you can't you can't. First of all, you 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.680 can't put a price tag on life, you know. And 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.000 the fact that his mother, his parents, and his family 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.599 have to be reminded of the way he was brutally 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.600 and just beat and you know, it seemed like it 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:29.080 was so malicious, you know, And the fact that just 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.560 that that vision, yeah, exactly, and just that vision being 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.560 able to go all over your head. I don't think 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.120 you can put no price. I think, actually you asked me, 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.320 they should be asking for a billion dollars, you know. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.720 But I just think that all of our tax player, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.079 we send money to people that ain't done ship for us, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.199 that don't deserve it. We give millions and billions of 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.480 dollars to other countries and shit, and we always say 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.960 we don't have money. Well, this was to me, this 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.640 would be our tax money going to the right thing, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.360 you know. And then and hopefully we start ending this 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.400 qualified immunity so these officers can have to pay up 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.120 their own pocket, you know, and be dead broke, you know, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.640 we you know, unfortunately the man lost his life and 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.640 he's dead, but we want you to be dead broke while. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:20.280 You live, right because the thing is the way that 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:20.840 you know. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.320 Legislatively, we still are fighting to change the laws, and 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.440 there is a fight against us to get that done. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.800 But economically, you can certainly make sure, as Attorney Crump 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.920 always says, that we make killing a black man or 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:40.200 woman unjustifiably so expensive that the country can't even continue 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:45.840 to pay the fees too, you know, for for this 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.480 immunity of murder. God, you know, it's just we need 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.440 it to be so so expensive that they say we 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.480 got to do something different because we keep on we 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.599 can't keep on paying out this type of money. And 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.320 yes it is taxpayer dollars, there's also some insurance policies 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.880 and other things that play into us. So it's not 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.040 all taxpayer dollars. There's some other pieces that play into 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.120 how the departments have to pay as well, and the 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.880 City of Memphis all of them. And like you said, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.960 the police officers ought to be paying themselves. They should 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:24.800 never ever, ever, ever ever be comfortable anywhere in their lives. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.000 They shouldn't have no money. They should be shamed, they 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.200 should be they should have to move for people doing 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.840 protests outside of their homes. They should just be as 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:40.840 uncomfortable as possible. That's what I think about that. So Essence, 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.840 we just came out of Essence weekend and you know, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.680 over a million black women, specifically more people but black 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:55.720 women getting together in New Orleans in that city. And 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.880 you know something that I was thinking to myself, that 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.280 is really the one place that when I look around, 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.720 I do not see white people. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.440 They don't be there. I don't see him. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.480 I mean, I know they are Orleans. But in terms 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.400 of like, you know, how white folks always find like 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.360 at the rallies and different things, you see white people, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.640 you see we you know we we just finished at 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:23.440 the rally for a j Owens and there was white 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:24.880 there was white people there. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:32.960 White people always aren't But for whatever reason, during essence, people. 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:34.640 Ain't no white people there. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:35.720 People go during that. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.080 I don't know, it's it's not they think. I think 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:41.600 I think, you know. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.280 I mean, I'm not saying they should be there. I'm 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:44.960 just saying. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.040 It's like you might see one or two. I don't 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.840 even know if you see one or two, actually I 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.240 don't know. But you know, there's a couple, it's a couple. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.240 There's a couple of people that come to the cookout 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.360 that you know, you might see here and there. But 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.520 for the most part, like you said, it's really not 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:01.720 many Caucasians there. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.680 But while Jill Scott was singing the star Spangled Banner, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.560 the or the at the black star Spangled Banner, which 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.000 I thought was powerful by the way, I was looking 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:18.720 around because that's heavy, and I was looking around to 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.920 see the discomfort. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:25.040 Of you know, white folks, and it occurred to me 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:25.760 that there were. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.560 There ain't nothing to be discomfort. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.680 Hm hm, well that's interesting. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:35.840 But what bothers me? Okay, forget that work? This is 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.480 no no you no, no, it's not don't work for me. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:45.720 This notion that when we critique America and when we 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:50.360 say things and we bring up history, historical events that 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.960 we know when she talked about all the things that 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.240 she said in that Star Spangled banner, when she she 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.960 reritted rewrote it so. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.480 That if nineteen years old, yes. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.400 So that it fits the narrative of what we actually 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.000 deal with and have dealt with in America, that there 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.200 were so many people with this. Well, if you don't 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.880 like it here, whyon't you just go? And that shit 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.000 bothers me more than anything. You know, the fact that 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.960 we actually live here and we and like she said, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.800 this fucking country is built on our backs. We have 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.320 every right to critique, We have every right to point 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:31.880 our historical events that have been not so favorable that 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.639 we've had to endure, that our ancestors have had to endure. 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.520 And nobody gets to keep telling us that we don't 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.639 we shouldn't be here if we're not okay with the 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.879 fact that our people were enslaved. It's like the dumbest 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.600 shit ever, you know, And I hate that. I hate that, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.360 you know, somebody who's on my page. It's this one 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.159 person on my page that said that shit, and I 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:56.280 think it's over a thousand people that's underneath him calling 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.199 him that every dumb mother effort that they can, as 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.200 we think of. And it's just sad that there are 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.400 people who think that we're supposed to be silent about 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:13.159 a pinion, a historical one of the most egregious, the 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.320 most egregious event in history in American history, that we 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.320 should be silent, especially after we see the remnants and 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.560 the remembrance of what has happened to our people. You know, 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.480 when we look and see the conditions that our people 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.760 are faced today, they are direct, you know, results of 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:36.080 what we talk about. So all of y'all with the 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.959 if we don't like it, leave, if you can't see it, 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.280 then my middle fingers up. 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.000 Well, there's a lot of people that if you don't 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.000 like it, leave, because that was a big part of 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.760 the whole essence debate. You know, several nights of a 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.639 concert and of course Janelle Monnee I was there for 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.880 her performance while waiting for Lauren Hill to come out. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.280 And then I think the next night, or maybe the 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.200 last night, which I wasn't there for Meg, the Stallion 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.879 performed and there was some we don't like it, so 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.159 either we're leaving or we really what they What I 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:19.640 heard people saying was they wanted Meg and Janelle Monet 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.080 to either tongue down in or don't be in the show. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:28.480 And you know, I thought to myself, first of all, 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:35.920 Joanel Monne and Meg in her own way, they are 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.760 a special cup of tea that you have to want, right, 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:44.719 like you It's not regular lifting, right, this is whatever 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.560 whatever thing. It's got spice and all that in it. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.040 But sure I'm not gonna take that. I understand. I 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:57.480 also understand that we live in a highly sexually charged 0:19:58.040 --> 0:19:59.720 time so right. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.879 Now sex sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex sex. 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:08.880 I get it. Totally understand that there are people who feel, 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:13.119 like you know, every time they turn on their cell phone, 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.480 every time they, you know, anything they do, they're seeing 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.120 this sex being pushed in their faces, and therefore their 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:23.720 children are impacted by it. 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.520 I do not disagree or not understand it. 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:33.080 I don't, But what I would say to offer a 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:37.440 balanced approach, right, And I guess it's very much so 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:45.200 the thought of the day for me. The first night 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:50.320 of the concert, Lauryn Hill had on about full outfits. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:54.160 In one thing, she had on some big feathers thing 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:58.280 covering up everything she had. Her full body was covered. 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.600 She didn't work, not one time, right, So Larren Hill 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:05.760 came on, I mean Janelle came on before she pulled 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.240 out the nipple. I don't really understand. I was there, 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.879 but I don't think I was paying attention close enough 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.760 to understand the context of what happened in that moment, 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.679 which nipple was covered by the way, but still she 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.440 pulled her breast out. So that was one thing. Then 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:24.119 you had Lauryn Hill right Then after Lauren, the next 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.720 night you had Missy Elliott, who we know is fully 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.480 dressed with the shimmerie and even the baggy clothes, and 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.040 she's Missy doing what Missy does right. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.480 A little bit of sexy, but she's not overly sexy. 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:43.200 The last night you had Meg the Stallion and some twerkers. 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:49.840 My thing is everything you wanted was there? There's people women? 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:54.480 When you got a million women, a million women going 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:58.919 to a show, participating in a conference. It is true 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:01.800 that they are going to be different types of women 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:04.920 who are interested in different things. 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:07.040 And I think from my. 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:11.240 Perspective, right one, you don't have to participate in the 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.080 parts you don't want to see what I do. Every year, 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.840 I get the Essence schedule. I don't like to go 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.360 out every night. That's not my thing. So I look 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:23.280 at the schedule and I see who I am interested in. 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:24.920 Lauren was somebody. 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.520 I was there, my homegirl and I and we sat 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:31.240 for hours on end while Essence. 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:33.679 For whatever reason the schedule I don't know, but it 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:35.960 was late before Lauren came out, and it was not 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:38.760 her fault because she came right out once. 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:41.359 You know her people was doing their set while Kenny 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:45.199 Burns and DJ Clark Kent was doing their thing. The 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.160 set was being built, and as soon as the set 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.639 was finished, Lauren was on the stage. So we're not 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:51.679 gonna do the lauryn Hi'll be late thing. I know 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:53.959