WEBVTT - Flip The Stimy 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.720 What's up, family, I'm to make a d. Mallory's your 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.600 general and we are your hosts of street politicians, the 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:17.959 place where the streets and politics meet. God, what's going on? See? 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:23.480 How did it first? This time? Every freedom I do 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.040 have my good famous plug, you know, I wear mine, 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.200 go go go to until freedom dot can't get your 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.720 little sweatsuit hat. Yeah, support the movement and I wear 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:38.440 my sweatsuit as fashion and they feel good. People love 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:42.680 these sweatsuits. The screen time is coming. There's new colors, 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:47.280 hot pinks and pretty blues and purples. Good stuff. Go 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.880 down until freedom dot com. I have allergies and it's 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.960 really really bad. It's bad. Yeah, you've been finish and 0:00:54.960 --> 0:01:00.960 at first over again yesterday we took it to taking 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:06.840 tests every two times in the last Yes, don't have 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.520 But people should get the antibody test, because I took 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.440 antibody test yesterday with you chickened out and didn't take 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.679 that got a little negative. They pricking fingers, They prick 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.600 your fingers and they picked hers twice, Oh my god, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.840 because she couldn't get the blood out of one thing. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.199 That should have go prick another one. And my finger 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.280 is still like there's a lot of it's sensitive in 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.840 that spot. This is a real prick. You know, there's 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.040 pricks for some things, but then this one has like 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.960 some kind of plastic and they literally pushed something down 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.200 and it's a thick, little prick into your fingers. It hurts. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.040 But what the reason why I was so adamant about 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.080 getting it done. And it's funny because in New York, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.440 everyone that I know that has to hook up with 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.320 COVID testing, none of them know where to get an 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.800 antibody test. It's one place that I know to get 0:01:55.840 --> 0:02:00.280 an antibody test is in Kentucky and little a Book 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.160 and we get at every time we go. Every time 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.040 we go to Kentucky, a black woman. She tests us 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.160 on our way in and on our way out, sometimes 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.440 in different events we have going on. She tests us 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.320 and um from the Hope Wellness Center. The Hope Wellness Center, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.600 So if you in Louisville, Kentucky, check out the Whope 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.520 Wellness Center. You have to call to schedule an appointment, 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.560 and if you don't have insurance, you have to pay 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.680 your thirty dollars. I think per person to get tested 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.280 is very important that we support black folks and that 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.680 you don't ask them to like cut you a deal, 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.800 go then pay, or you can go stand online at 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.880 the other places where it was wrapped around the corner 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.200 and you just wait until it's your turn. That's life. 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.919 But anyway, she did the antibody test, and the last 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.919 time we took it, it was like a talk of 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.880 the whole office because they said my antibodies were so 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.760 high that they were like, wow, this is it wasn't 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.359 the mother, it was the grandmother something like. It was 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.640 a real, real strong level of antibodies. And all of 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.560 the medical professionals were in communication about how high the 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.400 levels were. So that was a while because the last 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.680 time we just got COVID, I didn't get an antibody's test. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.160 So now we're talking about a few months. So now 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.359 I'm like, dang, you know, let me get it again, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.359 because I'm sure that the antibody sort of died down. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.800 And then yesterday they were like still very strong. And 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.120 I had COVID in September and still my antibody. I 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.440 really must have. I told y'all I was sick. Nobody believed. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.640 I mean, some people's bodies just react different, like I don't. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.040 I've taken the antibody test and never had it. So 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.240 I never had no antibody, so maybe it didn't take it. Yea, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.280 it was several couple of months after. But anyway, you know, 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.960 speaking of tests and things like that, r X, Yeah, man, 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.960 you know, we lost one of the great man. It's 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.680 not just for me, it's it's personal. DMX was a friend, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.640 personal friend of mine, one of the first people when 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.240 I started to rapping and I was signed who like 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.280 kind of took me under his wing, you know, DMX. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.880 I was in Vegas with DMX. The only time I 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.800 ever smoked weed in my life, I tell his story 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.200 is with DMX and we were just in the hotel room, 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.680 meet him and my manager, and we're just chilling and 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.360 we're drinking Hennessey. I'm twenty one years old, and he's 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.640 just telling me stories and he's telling me how to 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.920 rhyme and how to have this level of my melody 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.520 and how to change flows. And I'm just listening to him. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.920 And then he's telling me about the game. How the 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.160 songs he put up now he wrote ten years ago, 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.159 Like all the songs that was on his album he 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.919 wrote ten years ago, and he did it specifically to 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.840 prove to people that he'd been though. You know, he 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.040 didn't change the songs and nothing. He wrote these songs 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.520 ten years ago and came to the industry and just 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.320 got new beats and put out and came out with 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.200 five times platinum. So he's telling me five times platinum 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.919 first album, you know, so when he's telling me this 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.200 one album went five times platinum, had two albums that way, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.400 I think both of them were five or I think 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.040 one of them were five and one with three. So 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.120 he so like he so somewhere between eight and ten 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.359 million back to back albums within six months he released them, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.320 and I think I think nobody has ever done in 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.479 a history. He was a musical genius. So he taught 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.919 me a lot about music. He gave me a lot 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.839 of life lessons. You know. He's somebody that I really 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.679 looked up to, and he had a lot of um, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.440 a lot of respect for me as well. You know, 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.200 he put he used to tell people he's the truth, 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.680 you know. So he one of the first people that 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.960 really motivated me in this game. So you're hearing that 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.000 he passed was really difficult man. So shout out to 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.680 his family, My respects to my regards to his family, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:48.120 sleeping peace, to the goat, the dog. The greatest entertainer 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.479 I've ever seen. D Mix was the only entertainer that 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.320 I've ever seen performed for an hour with new hype man. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.719 And you know how hype his songs are. So there's 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.880 nobody else on the stage with him going inside the side, 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.640 it's just him and the mic jumping around getting the 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.880 crowd or hype. I watched him perform to where he 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.560 came off and he almost fell out and they had 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.279 to wrap him in the blanket. He was completely exhausted, 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.040 but he would leave every inch of itself on that stage, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.720 you know. So you'll never get another DMX. There will 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.320 never be another one like him. The authenticity that he faced. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.840 I watched that man go to projects literally reported he 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.040 would say, let's go to projects. Where's the projects that 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.800 and go to the projects in any hood in America, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.799 no security enough, and everybody coming outside hugging him like family. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.360 He's nervous, he and nothing. They just loved that man 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.560 because they sensed that authenticity him. So, man, it's so 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.880 funny because as you know, we've been discussing, it wasn't 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.880 long ago that actually saw him talking to people. People 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.160 were like hugging him and they were all around him, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.400 and I was like, you know, kind of like sliding past, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.520 but as you know black, and it was all folks 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.520 that were trying to talk to him. They were taking pictures, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.280 and you know when black people see each other, we'd 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.440 be like, what's up. And so he saw me over 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.480 white folks like hey, and I was like, almost gonna 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.360 just wave and keep moving, but something in my spirit 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.640 said go back. And I told him that you and 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.000 what's our Noriega was together somewhere and he said okay. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.720 He said, well tell me the address, and he just 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.080 left and went there and met y'all. Was so cool. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.320 But if I had that's the last time, just a 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.120 couple of months ago. But if I had just kept 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.720 it moving, it would never have y'all wouldn't have connected 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.000 that day. And it was and I just something in 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.080 my spirit said, don't just keep running, because we always 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.320 just keep running. You see people, you're like, what's up? 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.880 This love and that's it. But this day something said, no, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.560 I need to go back. And I don't think I 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.040 was hit the mall, hanging out with my girlfriends, and 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.440 but something in my spirit said you go back and 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.120 talk to him, and I did, and I told him 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:56.760 to go and meet y'all, and y'all were able to 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.560 hang out. And that was the last time I see him. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.240 He drove his home Lord speed Demon. I ain't never 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:09.240 seen the white drug to the King. That's all I 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.080 could say. Man, Like, you know, it's a lot when 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.400 you listen to his music, you realize he was in 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.640 term more and he was in pain. He was constantly 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.560 fighting this good and evil fight, you know, but and 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.720 he everybody fights, everybody fights, but he was so vocal 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.080 about it. And that's why I think you were so 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.600 able to connect because he actually spoke what we was 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.040 thinking and what we was feeling. And he wasn't afraid 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.400 to admit his faults, his weaknesses, you know, the things 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.720 he done wrong. He wasn't afraid to be transparent, you know. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.760 And it's that's a very rare trait, you know, when 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.679 you come just people in general, but when you have musicians, 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.000 you know, like that have that level of connection to 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.400 their fan base is just different. Man. A lot of 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.480 people love dmx SO and and you know, I have 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.440 to say that to Shara, his wife. I'm not sure 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:01.480 if they are married or divorced. They were definitely separated, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.360 but I know her very well well. Someone said, and 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.320 you told me that he was engaged, So I guess 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.240 that means that they are divorced or let me be clear, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.079 because you know folks, they listen and they take everything 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.000 and make it something that is not um. But anyway, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.120 to Shara is a great woman that I have come 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:24.800 to know. She's God fearing positive. She's given me a 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.760 lot of encouragement. I watched her story and the progress 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.480 of growth, you know, um, from everything that they went 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.319 through together, building up from you know, wherever he started, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.880 and her being there on the journey taking care of 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.240 they had children. I mean, she's just a beautiful woman. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.360 So to your point, we want to say to uh, 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.280 to d m X is family that we love all 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.640 of you, sending our blessings. I have to say that 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.520 my brother and sister, UM Swiss Beats and Alicia Keys, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.880 I've watched them love up on d MX in a real, solid, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.559 solid solid way. Swiss was really appreciative. You can tell 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:09.320 to DMX for helping him along the way in his career, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.000 helping to get him started, you know, and and and 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.080 and you could tell that the two of them were 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.600 his real friends, you know. And and it's hard to 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.000 find people that when you come to them, you could 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.240 come to them in any kind of condition. You could 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.360 come as your natural self and they are they are 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.040 there to pick you up. Most of the time, when 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.440 we have friends, we don't show back up around until 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.760 we get it a little bit together. You know. In 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.760 the dusty busty time period, you kind of like stay 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:40.959 away from everybody. You don't want people to judge, you 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.280 don't want people to see. But you know that there 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.760 were moments when DMX was going through a lie, he 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.760 was broken, and you would still see Swiss like right 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.320 there by his side, like being with him and being 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.640 like we're coming back from any situation and circumstance. And 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.520 I know, you know all of rough riders and why 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.800 and all of them did that. And so he has 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.200 some good people that loved him definitely. Man, he was 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.760 he was one of a kid. And I watched DMX 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.080 go through so many different phases, but it was always 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.240 an authenticity man always. And the people around him, my 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.160 brother's d and Wad, these are two of the most 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.800 solid people that I've ever known. You know, and they've 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.719 always been by his side and always you know, it's 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.600 dead with guidance and and everything for him. So I 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.440 know their feeling is lost a lot right now. So 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.280 when setting out my love to them too, man, the 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.680 whole Rough Writers camp, they embraced me like families since 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.040 we was kids. Man. It's just it's it's a um 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:34.880 like a lot of people. I've been reading a lot 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.000 of means that people are saying. You know that he's 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.920 his soul is in peace now, soul is in rest. Man. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.120 You know, he's one of God's angels. Man, so God 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.120 had to bring him back home with him, Man, to 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:50.560 celebrate both the living and the dead, because as I 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.480 saw on one of our other brother nineteen Keys page, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:58.640 he said that there is no life without death, and 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.760 there's no death without life. You can't understand the moment 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.920 you're in without knowing what the other side looks like, 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.120 you know. And so definitely that peace. Sometimes at fifty, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.200 he was fifty, and sometimes at fifty you've lived more 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.760 than people that seventy eight years old. Um, And so 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:24.000 again peace like a sleeping angel. So my thought of 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:31.520 the day today, you know, every now and then I 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.040 get in my comments and I go with my d 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.680 M s and I read because you know these are 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.400 sometimes which I'm beginning to find out, my son. There 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:46.600 are a lot of fake people online, like you know, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.960 they exist. They have three, four or five accounts. Didn't 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.800 you show me something the other day? You said they 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.920 got a new thing. What is it? How? How does 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:59.920 it go? The new thing is the scammers. See now 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.560 that I'm talking about you said if a person started, yeah, 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.800 so what it is? Yeah, they're gonna um when you 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.439 can block on Instagram now right, So when you block 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.440 somebody we love because that's my new thing. I don't 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:17.960 even before you out of here. So now when you 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.400 block somebody, you block them in any page that they 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.120 may create. So when they they gotta go with a 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:28.040 whole new everything different in order they got it ain't 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.319 just in five minutes. I'm just gonna put another note. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.120 You gotta get another email, you gotta get maybe I 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.679 have to get a whole another phone number because it 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.600 picks up that it's a page that's from somebody that 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.720 you already blocked. So shout out to Instagram that they're 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.400 making it so much easier. That's but so now, because 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.880 sometimes I start going back and forth with people and 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.640 then and a lot of times I do it not 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.320 because I care who's on the other side. They can 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.280 have two followers, no followers, be a troll or whatever. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.520 But some of the things that they say, I've heard 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.080 it more than one time, and I think it's important 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.080 not to leave their comments without there being a response, 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.560 because people do get educated in the comments. Like sometimes 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.920 when I see something on Instagram that I don't understand, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.679 I go and start reading the comments and then I'm like, oh, 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.320 that's what happened, or that's who died, or this and 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.160 that in the third So sometimes the education needs to 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.520 be there. But um, and so I found out it's 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.120 a lot of trolls, but I do read and there 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.200 are real people who have real thoughts and real feelings. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.680 And I noticed that during certain times I get attacked 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:43.520 by men. You know. Often often there are women who, 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.760 of course come on my page and they have things 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.080 to say, um and mostly you know, and sometimes they 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.720 might be a little rude and disrespectful, but the men 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.120 are blatantly. They call me witches, they call me bitches, 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.160 they um, you know, I mean, they say just really 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.120 really bad things to me. And I noticed that I 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.400 had a spike again after the Cadillac commercial came out 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:12.480 um in men saying that I was um participating in 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.360 the divide between the black man and the black woman. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.640 And my thought of the day or the question I 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.240 have for you, because you be out there like you, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.680 you be out there with the hoteps, you be out 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.840 there with the street dudes, you be out there with 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:31.040 the bourgeoise, the black bourgeoise e. So you know, and 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.800 I've had people that's the other thing, from different walks 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.600 of life. It's all different types. Asked me, Well, I 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:44.120 don't understand why there had to be something where was 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.560 just you as and other women? So my question is 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.520 do men not think that we should celebrate women's his 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.880 three months? Like? Is that is it? Should we? Do? 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.440 You do? Do men feel like get rid of women's 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:02.400 his three months and like the celebration we shouldn't have that? Well? 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:08.480 I think there is uh, you know, a level of fear, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.560 you know, until you start to get a level of 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.080 comfort in yourself. You know, Um, black men are dealing 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.120 so much right now. We we realize that the enemy 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.920 has an agenda to get rid of us, you know, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.400 And I don't and I don't agree with the fact 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.000 that elevating black women is diminishing black man. I do 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.840 not believe that at all. I think that narrative is false. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.840 I think it's a skewed mindsett I think Black women 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.520 are the backbone of civilization, you know, who have been 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.480 taken the back seat for so long. So to have 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.880 them being elevated and acknowledge them in their strength, beauty 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.640 and all of those things at one time and say 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.960 and call them lead, let them lead, or allow them 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.000 to lead, or you know, give them the space to 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.800 lead as they do what they naturally do. I don't 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.000 think it's anything wrong with that, But I think what happened, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.560 just like anything when when men have been so used 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.200 to being you know, revered and talked about in the 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.560 front row and in the family is based on the 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.480 man and all those things. And when you start to say, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.960 well the woman, my mother was just as strong as 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.440 my father was. You know, my father, my mother actually 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.280 ran the household because she did all these things. My 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.520 father went to work, he paid the bills and all that, 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:22.159 but she made sure all these things. And when you 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.960 start acknowledging that, some people feel they have a fear 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.000 they fear that it diminishes them. And I and I'll 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.199 hear you saying that a lot of black men, but 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.360 they are black women who share this same thing. I've 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:39.200 listened to someone I'm not that is communicated to me. Yeah, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.160 And I think and I think it's out of fear. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.040 I think it's out of fear. I think when black men, 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.199 look how we've been you know, we're being assassinated, you know, 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.760 how we're being incarcerated, all of those things at the 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.720 highest rates of any other race is the black man. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.320 And then we see our women being elevated. You know, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.560 it's it's a fierce like damn, you know, and some 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.280 people they have to get over there. You have to 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.280 get over that fear. And there's a level of, you know, 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.280 just fear. Some men are just actually scared and ain't 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:12.159 just feel they're just scared because a lot of times, unfortunately, 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.360 that's the only place that black men are in control. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.200 They go to work, they're working for some people, some 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.280 black men, not all that, you know, most of them 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.640 are working for somebody. They're being beat down by the man, 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.280 they being incarcerated, and in their household, they feel like 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.760 Daddy's the king. He runs this. So when you start 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.879 seeing commercials that say women are gonna black women are 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.360 gonna lead this nation there and there's there aren't no men, 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.520 they just immediately equated with something that's wrong, not even 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.320 they don't look at the back story and say, well, 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.080 this is black, this is women's history, and Black women 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.080 are beautiful women. Let's let them be elevated, let them 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.639 acknowledge their time, let them have their time. But then 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.480 they say, oh, we don't got a black we don't 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.040 got a man's mouth, and we don't and it's just 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.879 it's a counter mentality. Men have been celebrated, men have 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.000 throughout history, men have led things. So when you when 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.040 you look at it from the perspective, just basic perspective, 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.080 you say, it doesn't make sense. But when you look 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.920 at the history of what black men have dealt with 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:16.760 on separation of our families, UM, I understand that I do. 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.640 But I think the challenge for me is something that 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:26.480 um Sojourny Truth said a long time ago, and I 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.840 would add a little bit to it when she was 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:34.320 standing before UM a group of white women at a conference. 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.040 The biggest line that we know from sojourn the truth 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.440 is ain't I woman, And the thing that I would 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.480 say is, ain't I a black woman? Do I not 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:49.920 have the right to celebrate black women because I am one? 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.240 So I hear people say all this feminism thing first 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.879 of all, and and lendus also explains it in the 0:19:55.960 --> 0:20:01.600 way that it's best. My feminism is not nected to politics. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:07.080 My feminism is connected to my own spirituality and faith. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.960 And that means that I believe in the power of women. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.760 And I understand the abuse that has been done to 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.440 us by the world, of course, and by our men 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.920 at times. Right, I understand that just like we are 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.600 in a position where we're breaking through the chains of racism, 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.480 we also are breaking through the chains of sexism. But 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:35.440 even as I sat as one of the highest ranking 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:40.600 if you will, uh people, black women within the Women's March, 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.720 my role there was to always make sure that the 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:49.200 agenda covered the entire black family. And y'all know that 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:53.720 because not just you, but I bought several black men 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.600 along with me and forced them at that table to 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:01.240 allow black men's voices to be heard. And I said 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.639 over and over again, and I said it in speeches. 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:06.639 I mean, if you go back and listen to some 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.240 of my words, which is another thing. People talk and 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:12.480 they don't listen. They don't do research, they just talk. 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.159 If you listen to some of my speeches, I have said, 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:21.359 my feminism also includes my black son. It includes the 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.840 black man that I am. I don't have the luxury 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:29.280 of leaving the black man behind. But I also understand 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:33.040 that I have an obligation to my own womanhood, not 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.679 even to the greater collective, that's one thing, but my 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:41.360 own womanhood that I recognize my greatness, the power of 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:45.000 my grandmother and my great grandmother, and my aunties and 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:48.920 my own mother, who are staples in society. And the 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.640 problem that we have, the problem that we have, brethren 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:58.040 who may be listening, is that women have always been leading. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.439 We are now just being pro vided with platforms to 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:06.080 actually talk about it. But we've always been leading. In fact, 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:10.040 there was not. Even when you think about the speech 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:13.760 that Dr King gave um the the I have a 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:18.200