WEBVTT - Unite And Take Action 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.080 What's up. Family, it's your girl to Mika d Mallory. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.960 Is your boy, my son general and we are your. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.920 Hosts of street politicians the place with politics. I'm supposed 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.279 to be being on a little bit of a No, 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.439 I don't know. I guess it is a vacation. Anytime 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.240 you leave the country and you are at a birthday, 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.759 it's supposed to be vacation, right, y'all. Don't y'all don't 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:27.760 believe in vacation. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.360 No, I don't believe in vacation. They believe that you're 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:39.600 will to get them a show. Oh, based yeah, based 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.800 on what we call contractual obligations. We're gonna go and 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:45.959 put this good old yeah. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.600 Yeah, and we actually get shows off. But it's funny 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:55.080 how when you're competitive and you also strive for excellence, 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.320 even though they give you a certain amount of shows 0:00:58.360 --> 0:00:59.880 you don't have to do, we still be. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.360 Still try to do them all. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.560 You definitely, I'll be the one to be like, it's 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.119 no show today, and you'll be like, no, no, no, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:11.520 gotta do it. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:17.240 You gotta do it, because it's the truth. With the 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.039 number one show in the world. When you're the number 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:20.040 one show in the world. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:26.080 Continue to oh, please anyway as I sit in my 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.880 little vacation spot, which sometimes it might be a little noisy, 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:36.080 so please excuse me. I wanted to just start out 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:43.440 by sending a lot of love and support and sadness 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:48.240 and just everything all you could think of to the 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:55.400 family of Imani Robertson last week, her family reached out 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.200 to me asking if I could help them to raise 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.680 the profile of her being missing, the case of her 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.080 being missing. She had gone missing, and then I believe 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.160 that it sort of all happened at the same time 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:17.000 where her car was found torched, and you know, I 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.799 think that kind of really put a damper on the 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.800 search efforts. Like every you know, a lot of people 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.320 didn't say it, but I'm sure folks were thinking, damn, 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.400 if her car was found torched, more than likely her 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.840 life was taken, and that was sort of like a 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:37.800 cover up of evidence or whatnot. It's pretty sad. And 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.200 so she you know, has four children, four beautiful children, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:49.320 including a newborn who was with the person of interest 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.480 or the person who has now been arrested, which is 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:57.840 his father, slashed her husband, Imani's husband. He's been arrested. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.560 The police believed that he is responsible for her murder, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:07.560 and he had the baby with him, this infant baby, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.680 very small, small baby. I'm not sure exactly how old 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.320 the baby is. And her family member sent me a 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:19.840 picture of the reunification of the children and the baby, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.680 and it just, you know, so sad. Just looking at 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.840 the kids, you could tell that, you know, they have 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:31.800 been traumatized by probably the separation from their mom. And 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.200 also I don't know whether they had been told exactly 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.240 what was going on, but they looked like they knew 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.480 something really bad happened to their mother in this picture. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.360 And I sat there and looked at it for a 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.440 while and was just thinking, you know, if you really 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.720 get down to the nitty gritty, as they say, of 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:55.440 what happened to Imani and why if he did kill her, 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.880 which it looks like all roads lead to him. But 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:00.760 if you look at if you you know, really try 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.960 to get to the nitty gritty of it and understand why, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.400 I bet you it's just the most ridiculous foolishness, you know, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:14.680 probably an attempt to control, an attempt to you know, 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.039 silence her voice or what have you. You know, even 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.120 if she did something to him, even if she anything 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.760 short of her, you know, obviously taking the life of 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.919 her children or sexually assaulting the children, which even in 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.640 that case, I still don't believe that, you know, murdering 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.440 her was the right thing to do. However, I feel 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:41.839 like it's probably so foolish. Whatever the reason is for 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.400 why this woman was murdered. So that's just you know, 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:47.600 just my thoughts on it. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.000 Now. It's really sad, man. I was looking at it, 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:51.719 and it's like. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:59.679 It's like an overload of situations with you know, woman 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:05.359 to be killed, mothers are being killed, you know, for 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.080 some reason. It seems like relationships are going bad, and 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.640 even kids are like it's I don't know, I think 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.520 I say all the time, man, we in a like 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:14.880 a war for our souls. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.760 Like this ship is very it's like a demonic time. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.760 When you look at all of the stuff that's happening, 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.080 it'd be like it's coming from a dark place, you know. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.080 And that's why a lot of people it's mad at 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.240 you know, the colleague the college Russell's situation, and they 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.560 were like, you know, there's too much things going on 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.080 and that's why she can't be doing these things. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.040 And I agree with it, but at the same time. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.680 We still every time situations like this arise, I don't 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.320 know if it's if it's. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.880 A false alarm, I don't know if somebody is lying. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.840 But every time that I think that one of our 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.920 women are in trouble, I'm going to utilize my platform, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.600 my voice to try to figure out because there's situations 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.680 like this, you know that we see happen way more 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.599 often than somebody who's not actually telling the truth. So 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.680 my you know, my condolences goes out to the family, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.920 you know, and it's really it's just really sad man. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.120 It's really sad man. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.320 And I don't I don't know what the mindsetate of 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.440 the individual is that that commits this type of prim 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.040 like I just I don't know. I just I've never 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.080 been that angry in a relationship on mad. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:24.520 I don't know what. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.640 I don't know what it looks like to be that 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:32.880 mad with someone that you supposedly once and are in 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.440 love with that you just want to take their life. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.000 I just don't know what. I don't know what that 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.760 looks like. You know that that's that has I don't 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.920 want my mother used to say. My mother used to 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.760 always say, I don't want nobody loved me to death. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.279 You know, don't love me to death, man, because that's 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.080 that's very strange. They love me to life man, love life, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:51.960 and you know what. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:53.279 Too much. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.480 And I love me so much that I don't want 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.760 to go to jail for the rest of my life 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.599 for taking your life or doing something that causes me. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.200 You know, while I'm trying to harm you, I end 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:08.800 up harming myself. I don't want that. 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.560 Yeah, yeah, and nobody should want that. Like I say 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.600 that old time. Like I've had conversations where I've heard 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.360 you know, and it's more often and not saying because 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:26.040 it doesn't happen, but I've I've had conversations with women. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:33.080 Who are detrimental, want to be detrimental to themselves because 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.600 relationship is not going right, and they say, oh, everything's 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.560 going bad, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:39.880 I'm like you doing all. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.000 That that ain't gonna change whatever the dick out there doing, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.280 he ain't gonna When you think because you you, you 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.920 make yourself worse, you hurt yourself, you know, you destroy 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.559 your body, You do all of this shit that's gonna 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:54.520 make him want you more. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.480 Well, he's still gonna be up there with Susan, you know. 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.120 So I don't know. I don't understan And. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.960 I'm not saying it's men that and now men who 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.360 have the same mindset. I just you know, you know, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:08.360 unfortunately or. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:09.760 Fortunately understand it. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.600 Yeah, I don't come in content, but I still don't 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.640 understand it. And I'm never going to understand. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:14.920 I don't. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:15.720 You know, it hurts. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.360 You should be hurt. You in a relationship, things don't 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.200 go right. There should be a level of pain. There 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.400 should be disappointment, and I'm not saying that, but it 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.240 should never reach the point to where you when you 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:32.439 want to alive yourself or somebody else, or you want 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.040 to be detrimental. I just I just don't see it. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.080 I just don't see it. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.600 And you mentioned Charlie Russell, and I'm thinking, you know, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.720 the same thing with her. It's like her boyfriend or 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.880 ex boyfriend. Who if this is true, Like we still 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.320 haven't heard the reason why she did what she did. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.520 But if what the Internet says is true was that 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.640 she was attempting to get the attention of him, then 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.880 he's at the club this weekend, this past weekend, you know, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.959 talking about he's looking to find love, So no matter 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.320 whether you could do all this jump up and down. 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.400 And I'm and you know, we're using Carly as an example, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.800 but this is just in general that you know, we 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:19.120 end up, especially as women, almost killing ourselves attempting to 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.200 be with people that have already shown us that they 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.000 don't want us, you know. And I think there's a 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:30.680 saying that I've heard many times, which is that you 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.920 can't try to keep somebody by giving them something more 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.760 of what they already don't want. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:38.400 Uh. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.960 And so you know, it's like save yourself, sist. But 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.560 speaking of Carly Russell, one of the things that I 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.560 was talking about or of during the week last week 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:52.920 on My Life was this new found energy that the 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:59.560 Alabama Legislature has to start discussing making false reporting a felony. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.840 And you know, it's one of the reasons why, you know, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.640 just being in this movement and in this work and 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.400 being a conscious of society, because there's certainly the difference 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.240 between being conscious and being unconscious. Not that you're not 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.880 alive or that you're not progressive and doing positive things 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.800 every day, but consciousness means that you are in tune 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:27.720 and tap into what is happening racially, politically, socially, that 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.280 you're conscious on those levels, which means that you have 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.160 an opinion, that you understand, and that you are engaged 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.080 in some way, shape or form, and not so much 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:41.200 a movement, but just engaged at the table understanding, making moves, 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:45.160 making discussions or creating discussions, and then being involved in 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.840 discussions and especially in your professional spaces, making sure that 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.920 if you have power, that you are looking at how 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.920 to help shift the power dynamics towards people who are 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.640 most marginalized. So that's what consciousness looks like, and being 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.480 a conscious member of society ready for thirty plus years 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.840 of my life, as my parents started me in the movement, 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.400 I'm always very cautious about how much I jump on 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:14.840 the bandwagon to support the vilification and you know, villainizing 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.440 and tearing down and just whatever of other black folks, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.360 especially black people who are just regular folks, you know, 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.960 just just regular people making it happen every day, who 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.640 do dumb shit, make bad decisions, you know, and just 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.559 you know, and whatever. So people like that, I'm always 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.680 very cautious of it. And with Carly, I also had 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.559 a level of grace because I thought about my own situations, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.559 about my own life, and I know what it looks 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.240 like to do really dumb, dumb, stupid, super dumb stuff. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.800 And so I've said that a million times. But what 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:55.720 I also realized is that white folks love to use 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.080 the voice of black people and the energy of black 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:05.760 folks too condemn, correct, assault, and ultimately lynch black people. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:06.160 Right. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.120 And so what's an example of that. Just let's go 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:15.160 back and think about what happened with the crime build 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.360 the nineties, right. You think about how they explain it 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.680 and how they talk about it now that they know 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.199 it was catastrophic for the black community. The first thing 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.720 you hear them say was other black people wanted it. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:32.840 Black pastors, black community leaders, just everyday black people were 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.559 looking for a way to deal with crack. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:36.000 Right. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.640 And you know, I push back on that all the 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.560 time because they bring that up right now around this 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.080 whole idea of more policing in our communities. They're using 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.679 oh well, the black seniors, the elders in the community, 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.400 the church folks or whatever they are the ones calling 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.720 for more police. No, what black people want is safety. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.319 They want to feel safe, and safety does not mean policing. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:03.840 The problem with that is, unfortunately, our community doesn't understand, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.440 not not just our community especially, it's our elderly community. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:07.719 Like you. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.679 If you think about older people in our community, what 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.240 safety looks like to them is police. They've been taught 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.040 that you call the police. Something go wrong, you call 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.119 the police, right, And a lot of them either were unified. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.880 So what happened was when they see when they don't 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.800 see unity unity within the community, they don't they don't 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.160 see it like they used to when. 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:27.720 They were younger. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.160 We took care of each other, We fought side by 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.920 side with each other. They see these young kids outside 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.600 beefing with each other, gunshots, people getting killed. So in 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.400 their mind, there's no real unity, right, there's no real unity. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.520 So the only course of safety is in their perception 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.960 is that the police can come save them and and 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.200 the reality is that's not the reality. Right, So they've 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.280 been able to sell that, and then you have a 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.320 lot of older politicians that keep selling that, and they're 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.400 engaged in the process of voting. They engage in the 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.360 government because they understand their points, They understand what it 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.240 took to get to voter, so they fully engaged. So 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.439 when they hear politicians, and they talk about safety, and 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:11.880 the only thing they talk about safety is how the 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.120 police have to do this, and if we need police 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.000 presidence here and we need police presidence there, And they said, well, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.440 if that's the safety, then we need to get that done. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.280 You know, they're not right. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.720 But they've never seen yeah, they've never they've never been 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.960 presented with other options for what safety truly looks like. 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.560 They've not been presented with that, So they therefore lean 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:40.360 towards what a white supremacist society teaches versus what we 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.160 have always known as a people, which is to take 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.960 care of your own and to do in your own 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:52.200 communities what's needed for there to be wholeness. Because if 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:57.200 people are whole, they can also ensure safety exactly. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.040 And the reality is you can't. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:04.280 You can't ensure safety because police don't prevent. You know 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.080 that they're not they're not skilled or trained or even 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:13.280 actually their focus is not to come before the crime 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:17.280 is committed or before you know, to make sure that 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.080 the community it's like your household. You have to you 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.640 got a baby in your household. You gotta make sure 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.080 that the debate is baby proof. You gotta put foam 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.480 here you gotta make sure the socas is closed. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:28.720 Right. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.920 You're only gonna call the police after something happened to 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.640 the baby. So the police is not gonna give the safety. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.360 Is you that's actually presenting the safety. Just like that's 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.600 how we have to have guardrails in our communities. We 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.160 got to put things in our communities that are sure 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.080 that the atmosphere is safe so we don't have to 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.480 call the police. And then they gotta come and arrest somebody, 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.520 or gotta come and pick up the carnage, or gotta 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.400 come try to rectify a situation before after this already 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.040 you know out of hand, no. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.240 Yeah, And so now the Alabama legislature is into hating 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:07.040 any idea of making false reporting a federal crime. And 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.119 I'm thinking to myself making it a felony rather a felanine. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.640 And I was thinking to myself, Wow, what they will use, 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.200 how they will use us against us, is that now 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:21.560 that a black woman has made a false report, they 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:26.800 want to change the laws. And yet Alabama, Alabama is 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:32.320 the state of where white women have done false reporting. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.480 I'm just thinking about the movie Oh My God, and 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.480 it's about a real story, but in Alabama, in the 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:45.200 city where my mother is from, in Monroeville, Alabama. The 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:50.400 Killermockenburg and other stories that have come out of that 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.520 area just by itself is the home of white women 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.920 doing false reporting, and they never wanted a felony assigned 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.240 to those cases, but now that a black woman does 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.280 it here, they want to change the laws. So I 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.239 just think that means that we just have to be 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.320 really careful, and we got away from the main reason 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.040 why I brought up you know, Imiani, of course, is 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.560 a really really sad ending to a story that we 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.720 were hoping would just turn out to be different, turnout 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.720 to just be, you know, a woman being found rather 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:26.040 than a woman being found dead. But I think these 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.680 stats are really important because people need to know, especially 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.639 since you know, unfortunately or fortunately, Carli bought a lot 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.960 of people's attention to missing black women. A lot of 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:39.919 folks knew what was happening, But I don't know if 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.159 people are aware of the statistics and so early earlier today, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:49.000 Anastasia on our team share these stats with me that 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:54.040 black women and black girls make up eighteen percent of 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.919 all missing persons cases, but yet we are only seven 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:04.560 percent of the population. Five hundred and fifty six thousand 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:09.840 people have been reported missing, and of that number, two 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.639 hundred and seventy one thousand of them are women, and 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:18.440 of that number, one hundred thousand are black women. So 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:25.359 eighteen percent of the population of missing person cases in 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.320 this country are black women and black girl but we're 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.240 only seven percent of the population. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:41.200 Logic triple percentage of those who are being abducted and kidnapped. 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.800 And just to put based on the percentage of ish, 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:46.600 that's crazy. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.360 That means it's a problem, you know, and it sounds 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.120 it sounds crazy because it sounds similar to you know, 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.520 we talk about the population and prisms, and I think 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:06.880 unfortunately in every major statistic that is terrible, we somehow 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.440 are leading it and I don't and it's and it's 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:11.719 not me, you know what I'm saying, it's not okay, 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:12.960 And we got to figure. 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.480 Out, you know, how do how do. 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:20.159 We we rectify these situations? What is the plan? You know, 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.120 That's what I I'm always solution based when I talk 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:24.760 about the problem. I want to figure out, like, what 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.199 is the plan? What can we do to try to 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.880 bring some level of change to the situation. 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.880 That's crazy? Just just imagine that just imagine. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.600 Or that that you're that in danger when you walk 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.200 outside of not coming home. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.960 Yeah, well that's so true. That's so true, son. I'm 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.000 just going to leave it at that, because we do 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.199 need the solutions, and I think one of them is 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.479 that we got to keep our eyes open and keep 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.720 ourselves focused. You know, we need the buddy system at 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.560 all times. Lady ladies, you know, can't be out here 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.000 going out with people and slipping off with people and 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.720 doing crazy things that you know, nobody knows you're doing. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.719 And it's just not that time because there's a lot happening. 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:07.679 They snatching you off the streets. So you know, if 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.520 you're getting in the car with some man and you 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.280 know you don't really know or you know whatever, these 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:21.120 things can happen. So you're right, the solutions matter. Let's 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:26.920 talk about Jamie Fox and specifically Jennifer Aniston. I did 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:31.639 a live on this and it has a lot, like 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.679 one hundred and nine thousand views at this point, so 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:37.880 people are really into it. I've been seeing a lot 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.320 of shares and I've also been receiving a lot of 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.160 d ms from people who are like wow, and I'm 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.360 talking about white folks and by the way, I'm talking 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:51.879 about white folks who are important people in society have 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.560 been sending me messages saying, you know, I watched this, 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.160 and you know what you said is so deep. And 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.560 first of all, we already have said, which I'm sure 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.520 you will reiterate that we know for sure based upon 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:09.320 what Jamie Fox said, he is not talking about He 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.879 was not talking about in his tweet or wherever he 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.920 put his comment in his post. He was not talking 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.320 about Jewish people. He wasn't talking about a people. He 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:24.800 was talking about person a person, And you know he 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.920 clarified that, which you know, I'm okay with. I don't 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.560 you know, people are like, well, I hate that he apologized. 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.160 You know, I've lived long enough and been through enough 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.479 stuff to realize that people have various reasons for why 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.280 they do things, and some people are just so good 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.320 at heart that whenever they hear that's something they did 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.840 or said impacted another person, they automatically are like, oh 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:47.679 my god, I'm so sorry. You know, so I don't know. 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:51.639 I haven't had obviously a conversation with the brother. But whatever, 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.120 whether he apologized or not, it's neither he nor did 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.919 the fact that if he apologized because he felt he 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:01.120 had to, that's a different thing, and that's something else 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:03.600 we could talk about. But you know, we don't know that. 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:05.720 So I'm just gonna kind of let that go. 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:09.000 I say all the time, each individual is an individual. 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.919 If I say something and you interpret it as it 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:15.119 was wrong, and I feel like, you know, based on 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.720 a relationship or anything that me and you have, you know, 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.680 I want to apologize for making you feel it even 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:25.400 though it wasn't my intentions, and even though you. 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:26.520 Might have misinterpreted. 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:28.560 Some of us have that much selflessness and I don't, 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:30.200 and I don't hold that against I don't. 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:32.000 Think that makes you wrong or sort anything. 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:35.720 If if I feel like I said something or you misinterpreting, 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:37.480 I care enough and I want to apologize. 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:38.119 I apologize. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.200 If I don't, I don't, And I'm a firm believer 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:42.840 in that, you know, I think. I just think in 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:48.480 this situation, right, it wasn't It wasn't Jamie's apology. It 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:53.000 wasn't any for me. It was the interjection of Jennifer 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:57.320 Anderson and utilizing her platform to label man right, a 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.760