Speaker 1: I'm Tamika D. Mallory and the ship Boy my Son
Speaker 1: in general.
Speaker 2: We are your host of TMI.
Speaker 1: Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and.
Speaker 2: Inspiration, New Energy.
Speaker 1: So what's going on TMI. We are here on the
Speaker 1: ground in Michigan. Tamika is not available right now because
Speaker 1: she's knocking doors, literally knocking doors. Today is election day,
Speaker 1: so by the time you hear we will already have
Speaker 1: had probably no you know, the results of this election.
Speaker 1: It's been a very very tedious, very exhilarating, very energetic,
Speaker 1: you know, going out into these streets and feeling energy
Speaker 1: that there could be really be the first female black
Speaker 1: woman president in history, and then it could be a
Speaker 1: change and just the shift and just the energy in America.
Speaker 1: You know. I've been very vocal about who it is
Speaker 1: that I support, you know, and I've been vocal about
Speaker 1: why I support that individual, and hopefully by the time
Speaker 1: you hear this, you know, the prayers of many those
Speaker 1: who really actually believe in democracy will have been heard.
Speaker 1: So we've been going, like I said, we've been on
Speaker 1: a gto B tour, get out to I mean GOTV tour,
Speaker 1: get out to vote tour for the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks just going to different states, mainly the swing states
Speaker 1: where we know that the vote can shift, you know,
Speaker 1: the in different years, you know, Republicans controlled certain states,
Speaker 1: or they won by the skin of their teeth, or
Speaker 1: they took states that used to be you know, more
Speaker 1: liberal and democratic. So those are the swing states that
Speaker 1: we've been hitting, mainly North Carolina, Philadelphia in Michigan, those
Speaker 1: are the main three states, and Atlanta as well. So
Speaker 1: we've been on this g O TV tour that we've done.
Speaker 1: We met up with a lot of different artists, you know,
Speaker 1: we met up with a lot of different influencers, you know,
Speaker 1: and it just seems like everyone is ready for a change. No.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Michael Vick, Shout out to Beanie Siegal,
Speaker 1: Shout out to Icewear Vessel. No, just a lot, just
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people that was on the tour
Speaker 1: freeway you know, who else? Could I tell you who
Speaker 1: was there that you would know? Shout out to Black Sam,
Speaker 1: you know, he was also on the tour. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Woody my man came from Power and it's just
Speaker 1: it's just we we had very in depth conversations. Black
Speaker 1: male conversations. You know that took place because you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's been this whole narrative that black men aren't
Speaker 1: supporting Kamala Harris and that's just not true. So we
Speaker 1: have conversations, but there is there are a certain demographic
Speaker 1: who feel left behind, but the majority of us definitely
Speaker 1: support her. You know, she wanted to make to that clip,
Speaker 1: but we wanted to sit down with those who don't,
Speaker 1: or those who are on the fence, or those who
Speaker 1: had serious grievouses, or those who had misinformation and was
Speaker 1: and believed certain things, you know, and we and we
Speaker 1: got to the bottom in the route of a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, the negative energy that we were hearing
Speaker 1: in those regards. So, you know, shout out to everybody
Speaker 1: who participated in those conversations. Shout out to my brother
Speaker 1: Marvin Bean and the voter elves. Shout out to Pastor McBride,
Speaker 1: you know, the partners who were on the ground with
Speaker 1: us on the g TV work that we did. You know,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have these panel discussions and we went to
Speaker 1: knock on doors just to make sure people were register.
Speaker 1: These were pretty much non partisan events where nobody was
Speaker 1: telling you who to vote for how to vote. Just
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that you were registered to vote,
Speaker 1: and just wanted to make sure that if you were
Speaker 1: registered to vote, then you knew how to go about voting.
Speaker 1: Do you know where your early voting sites are? What
Speaker 1: do you know that if your your voter's registration is
Speaker 1: up to date? Those are a lot of things that
Speaker 1: they use for voter disenfranchisement. Right you show up to
Speaker 1: the polls and they tell you that your registration has expired,
Speaker 1: or they didn't know you was living somewhere. They thought
Speaker 1: they couldn't fight you with an address. You know, It's
Speaker 1: just certain things. So we wanted to make sure that
Speaker 1: everybody knew their status, they knew that they were up
Speaker 1: to date, and we knocked on these doors. A lot
Speaker 1: of people were invigorated to see us, happy that we
Speaker 1: were coming and knocking on the doors. Then there was
Speaker 1: a lot of people who were scared, you know, like
Speaker 1: we gotta win, you know. And I see a level
Speaker 1: of seriousness, Like I know, every time it's voting time,
Speaker 1: there's a level of energy and sometimes it's serious. Sometimes
Speaker 1: people say you vote to die. Had We've had all
Speaker 1: type of campaigns and I'm not taking anything from any
Speaker 1: of it, because they all are important. You know, when
Speaker 1: people try to tell you that it's not important that
Speaker 1: you vote for the president of the United States, it's
Speaker 1: just mind bothering to me. You know, I'm not shooting
Speaker 1: at anybody individual. I just don't understand the mind state
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't have a say in the person who
Speaker 1: has the strongest office in the land, who's able to,
Speaker 1: you know, dictate policy, who's able to push policy, who's
Speaker 1: able to influence policy, you know, who's able to just
Speaker 1: pretty much guide the direction of where our country goes.
Speaker 1: And if you live in this country and you don't
Speaker 1: want to have a say on how the country is
Speaker 1: being guided, you know, what are the morals of that individual?
Speaker 1: If you're not looking and saying to yourself, damn, is
Speaker 1: this person a good person? Is this person a strong person?
Speaker 1: Is this somebody who believes in the rights all of us?
Speaker 1: You know? Is this person gonna enact laws that are
Speaker 1: going to be detrimental to me in my community? Like,
Speaker 1: if we're not having those conversations, then what conversations are
Speaker 1: we really having? And if we're not involved in the
Speaker 1: process of actually voting, I don't see how we plan
Speaker 1: to make any real change because the people will get
Speaker 1: into these offices and as you go in the down
Speaker 1: by ballot that you have to, they're gonna be senate racis,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be congressional racist. And these things are key
Speaker 1: for the president, right because if he doesn't have well,
Speaker 1: she doesn't have the support needed when she wants to
Speaker 1: dictate and pass a lot of these laws. If she
Speaker 1: doesn't have the support needed because we don't have the
Speaker 1: House of the Senate, then it's pretty much what they
Speaker 1: call Laine Duck and Rubbert, you know, Robert stamping somebody.
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna do everything they can to undermine
Speaker 1: what I leave. I believe she's strong enough. I believe
Speaker 1: she's dealt with adversity her whole life. I believe nothing
Speaker 1: on none of this is new to her. I believe
Speaker 1: every time that I watch her that she has to
Speaker 1: overcome and you know, be looked down upon and have
Speaker 1: to be you know, prove herself all the time. And
Speaker 1: I think this is just another example of the resilience
Speaker 1: of black women. Yes, black women. Black women are resilient.
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time. I've never seen a
Speaker 1: more resilient person than my grandmother than my mother. Right.
Speaker 1: So when we talk about leadership and they say women
Speaker 1: shouldn't be lead, I heard I heard somebody that I
Speaker 1: don't really want a name to give them that level
Speaker 1: of energy talking about you know, she was she's traditional
Speaker 1: and a woman don't supposed to sit in these seas
Speaker 1: to the woman not supposed to be in charge of
Speaker 1: this and that, and she know her place, And it
Speaker 1: was just kind of disheartened because I believe a woman's
Speaker 1: place is wherever she wants it to be. I believe
Speaker 1: she should have autonomy. I should believe she should have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to lead. I believe that she has the
Speaker 1: ability to lead. You know, I believe that a woman
Speaker 1: understand what it is that they can and can't do.
Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about the physical aspect of certain things.
Speaker 1: I believe a woman should understand that men it is
Speaker 1: for security and safety and protection, and they should be
Speaker 1: in those positions to make sure that they protect you. Right,
Speaker 1: but not against your own will you know Trump talking
Speaker 1: about that we're going to protect the woman whether they
Speaker 1: like it or not, you can't tell that's what does
Speaker 1: that even mean? How do you protect somebody that doesn't
Speaker 1: want you to protect. That's imposing your will upon someone
Speaker 1: like who in hell is going to authorize somebody to
Speaker 1: protect them even though they don't want to be protected.
Speaker 1: Who says that that's a good ideology, that's a good strategy.
Speaker 1: You know, that's something when you when you're having a
Speaker 1: conversation with a kid, your child, right, I said, I
Speaker 1: say that all the time that like the first five
Speaker 1: years of a child's life, they trying to kill theirself
Speaker 1: and you got to stop them from trying to kill yourself.
Speaker 1: So that ideology makes sense when you're talking to a
Speaker 1: kid or about your child, about you know, somebody that
Speaker 1: a young person that you're taken care of, it makes
Speaker 1: sense that you're gonna protect them despite themselves. But that's
Speaker 1: not for the grown adult women, educated women. You know,
Speaker 1: a brilliant woman, a strong, resilient woman, a woman's who's
Speaker 1: proven that they have the ability, the mentality and the
Speaker 1: fortitude to lead. That's not a conversation you have for
Speaker 1: those type of individuals. So you know, we we actually do.
Speaker 1: Like she said, it's time to turn the page. I
Speaker 1: am energetic. I am very hopeful. I feel like an
Speaker 1: energy that's gonna shift. I feel that the world rejects
Speaker 1: this notion of division. They don't want a president who
Speaker 1: is for some of the people, who feels like he
Speaker 1: has to take away the rights of people. You know,
Speaker 1: he has to the fame people, disrespect people, he has
Speaker 1: to target people. I don't think. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: what America is. I think, yes, we've been built on racism,
Speaker 1: and America is a racist country. But I believe that
Speaker 1: we are growing more united. I believe that the old
Speaker 1: white supremacists are dying out. And that's what that's what
Speaker 1: Donald Trump represents to me. The old white supremacists with
Speaker 1: the white supremacists my state. They remember when new slavery,
Speaker 1: Remember when black people had to stay in their place,
Speaker 1: and wasn't all these immigrants and in Latinos here who
Speaker 1: don't speak to English that they want so they don't
Speaker 1: think they belong here, and they're not patriotic all the bullshit.
Speaker 1: Those white men are dying out. And this is white
Speaker 1: supremacy's last dance. So when we would white supremacies ass today,
Speaker 1: it's going to charge a new way forward. We're going
Speaker 1: to see the beloved at some point, the beloved community
Speaker 1: because we're breaking that all the batteries, right, because if
Speaker 1: you after you break down all the batteries, it's nothing
Speaker 1: else to constrain you. It's nothing else but freedom after
Speaker 1: we break down all the the barriers. And no, and no,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is not going to save black people. She
Speaker 1: ain't supposed toble. She's going to do it save the
Speaker 1: soul and just the energy and the democracy of America. Right,
Speaker 1: that's what That's what America has always stood for. A
Speaker 1: democracy that you have an opinion, and you have a view,
Speaker 1: and your view is just as value as somebody else's.
Speaker 1: And just because it differs from someone else, just because
Speaker 1: your lifestyle, your mentality, the peap proachs and you love
Speaker 1: whatever differs from somebody else's doesn't make you less valuable. Right,
Speaker 1: And nobody should be able to hinder your personal preference.
Speaker 1: Nobody should be able to do that. People should be
Speaker 1: responsible for themselves, whether they like what you do or not.
Speaker 1: It doesn't give them the ability. It doesn't give them
Speaker 1: the right to impede upon your happiness, to impede upon
Speaker 1: your satisfaction, to impede upon the way that you want
Speaker 1: to live your life. That's within the laws, right, that's
Speaker 1: within the boundaries of laws of integrity and honor.
Speaker 3: Right, the as long.
Speaker 1: As you're not violating someone else's rights, people shouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to tell you how you live. No, And I
Speaker 1: think that's what's that state in this election, you know,
Speaker 1: and anybody who doesn't see that, I'm confused. You know,
Speaker 1: people say, oh, Donald Trump was in over the floor
Speaker 1: or he ain't doing none of this stuff. You ain't
Speaker 1: did he puts Supreme Court justices that pretty much roll
Speaker 1: back civil rights. He constantly he executed more people than anybody.
Speaker 1: Like when you look at the overall message that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has said, it's my way in the highway. And
Speaker 1: that's not how you rule for the people by the people, right.
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't completely impose your will on the
Speaker 1: whole country. Right. And the thing is, if somebody thinks
Speaker 1: that right, the person that thinks like that is dangerous.
Speaker 1: So you can't give that person access to power. You
Speaker 1: just can't. You know. It's really like when you talk
Speaker 1: about the Avengers, you know, and you see what they
Speaker 1: was fighting against. There was one man who decided that
Speaker 1: there's too many people in the world and he needed
Speaker 1: to get the five stones so that he can go
Speaker 1: cut the population and people can live comfortably and they
Speaker 1: can live happened, But there's no way that they was
Speaker 1: going to do it with all these people. So he
Speaker 1: felt it was his destiny to save the world by
Speaker 1: getting rid of people that he deemed weren't valuable enough,
Speaker 1: you know. And and that's that's pretty much the mind
Speaker 1: state that we have here. You know, you have a
Speaker 1: dictator who decides, you know what, these immigrants you we're
Speaker 1: not from here. They don't deserve to be here. They're
Speaker 1: not really human. They come here the violators, the rapists
Speaker 1: and kill us all of the negative things, you know,
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. You know, Haiti's a shipthold all type of
Speaker 1: everything he could think of to the mean anything that's
Speaker 1: non white, you know. And that's that's just not presidential
Speaker 1: to me. It's not strong. It's not somebody who deserves
Speaker 1: the highest highest title of this life. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: we were on the campaign trail, and while we were
Speaker 1: out there, we talked too many people. You know what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do right now, I'm gonna bring you to
Speaker 1: an interview that pretty much Tamika, did you know with
Speaker 1: our brother killer Mike along this campaign trail, and he
Speaker 1: took us through Atlanta, and he showed us the thriving
Speaker 1: economy in Atlanta, and he took us to his restaurant,
Speaker 1: and he took us to a place where he supports
Speaker 1: these young youths. You're gonna hear about everything that happened.
Speaker 1: But Tamika has this interview, and I want you to
Speaker 1: tune into this interview real quick. Tell me what you think.
Speaker 3: Well for the last side, how y'all going this time?
Speaker 3: Welcome to the West Side.
Speaker 1: You and our brother killer Mike with hey, listen, let
Speaker 1: them know about Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Please, Avanta, Georgia.
Speaker 4: Is this an amazing place of opportunity for everyone, especially
Speaker 4: African America. Where we're standing right now is past be
Speaker 4: known as the West Side. The bluff is over there,
Speaker 4: Rollo's from there, Able Maybel Thomas, one of my greatest
Speaker 4: politicians in there.
Speaker 3: But this strip is where everybody's from.
Speaker 4: Me t I shot and old young droke, all of
Speaker 4: us up it down here and lots of black vinness,
Speaker 4: whether it was black business like you Ball, black business
Speaker 4: like the Caato family, a black business likes Russell Fountly.
Speaker 4: This is where opportunity abound. I'm from the Calli Heights,
Speaker 4: Damnsville section. Right here, we're on the back head the
Speaker 4: north Side Drive. But this is where you come. This
Speaker 4: is where you open disneys, This where you recycle the
Speaker 4: black dollar. This is where black political power. When the
Speaker 4: district of Yering name is right now is an amazing
Speaker 4: city council person. So when you come to Atlanta, don't
Speaker 4: just go to Buckhead and don't just go to the suburbs.
Speaker 4: Friend your ass to the westside and get some food.
Speaker 4: If we had time, I take everybody to the blue
Speaker 4: plane right now. Can I ask a question?
Speaker 2: So so many people come to me and they say,
Speaker 2: you know, kill a mic.
Speaker 3: We don't really know.
Speaker 2: Where he stands.
Speaker 3: Pol Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I hear you saying that I gotta talk to everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And after I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Talk there going to and I And after being out
Speaker 2: here with you and seeing all the stuff that you own,
Speaker 2: I get that a full And you a Paul Kids.
Speaker 2: So you a board member and a big financial donor
Speaker 2: to or at least you bring a lot of resources
Speaker 2: into Paul Kids. And therefore you every election and every election.
Speaker 1: Official pressure on everybody.
Speaker 2: What I have to seeing all the things that you're
Speaker 2: doing you anti, it's not with us, but y'all are
Speaker 2: buying up stuff everywhere. Why don't you talk about your
Speaker 2: political position and why it's important for you to be
Speaker 2: working with everybody, or at least putting pressure on everybody.
Speaker 3: That helps people get it.
Speaker 4: My political position is I grew up in an all
Speaker 4: black world. This all the way to pulling industrial was
Speaker 4: all black mouse a child, So all my heroes and
Speaker 4: villains looked like me. The Democrats looked like me.
Speaker 3: They were black. The Republicans looked like me. They were black.
Speaker 4: They have arguments, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: if it was to feed the homeless campaign, they were
Speaker 4: right there next to each other, feeding the homies right
Speaker 4: now to.
Speaker 3: Hope Lil Williams doing it, and then.
Speaker 4: When they in the campaign, that's right there together. So
Speaker 4: first and foremost, I'm a black man. I'm fighting on
Speaker 4: behalf of this black community. I want to see the
Speaker 4: black dollar circulating. I want to see black business ownership
Speaker 4: and black opportunity to abound. So you say you don't
Speaker 4: know my political side, which you really said is oh man,
Speaker 4: he's not on my side, or I think he's out
Speaker 4: on my side. I don't know what your side is
Speaker 4: because I don't live in your city, but I know
Speaker 4: in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: If George has been number one in business the.
Speaker 4: Last ten years, then part of that has to do
Speaker 4: with two Republican governments.
Speaker 3: Make the deal and Kim.
Speaker 4: It ain't that I want a kids, ask and love everybody,
Speaker 4: and everybody's gonna be okay. You have some goddamn resources
Speaker 4: that I get on my side of death. Now listen
Speaker 4: to me, man, when our state didn't close during COVID,
Speaker 4: I wasn't the one celebrating the women and men who
Speaker 4: working on this court during celebrating because they.
Speaker 3: Death and it was over. I'm not talking about yeah.
Speaker 4: So I'm just saying complex as politics can be, it
Speaker 4: really is as simple to me.
Speaker 3: It's who benefits this side of time trail. So now
Speaker 3: what did your ass out and vote?
Speaker 1: That's it?
Speaker 4: And demand something today after you vote because you didn't
Speaker 4: you didn't think to have an agenda before that. But
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what I like about Cobbler's agenda. She added, marijuana.
Speaker 4: Marijuana is not broken over the Georgia in recreation. When
Speaker 4: it breaks open recreationally, I'm bugging our government, tagging on,
Speaker 4: hey man, how do we get in on it. I
Speaker 4: want people who look like us because we spent the
Speaker 4: last fifty years of prohibsion, actually since nineteen thirty seven,
Speaker 4: long that we spent, we made the brown work getting
Speaker 4: arrested out.
Speaker 2: The governor Kimp absolutely people think that in his friend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can be anybody's free, but being your friend
Speaker 4: on stock the stack, I got to ask you for.
Speaker 3: Something because you have an office, your.
Speaker 4: Office, your office hood forty million dollars roughly something.
Speaker 3: In trade schools.
Speaker 4: If it wouldn't have been for the progressive candidate Benson
Speaker 4: Fort who ran and lost for mayor, that money wouldn't
Speaker 4: have made it here because he pitched it. He fished
Speaker 4: and raise hell about it doing Nathan deal. When we
Speaker 4: come back around in my relationship with governed the Kimp,
Speaker 4: I'm saying, hey, man trades and he in the high school.
Speaker 4: We need to think about trades. We need to give
Speaker 4: me fier in trades. When it came time for him
Speaker 4: to do the whole scholarship bill, he didn't only give
Speaker 4: it the academic scholarship.
Speaker 3: He gave it the trades.
Speaker 4: Doing well now saw him with debate with Mike calls
Speaker 4: that or Mike then calls that, but I know I
Speaker 4: was saying that every step of the way gang enhancement
Speaker 4: bill he signed. I was bidful against that bill, but
Speaker 4: he gave me audiences. He gave me audience with him
Speaker 4: and his administration. He still signed the bill. I let
Speaker 4: him know I didn't agree with it, and I say, well, I'm.
Speaker 3: A pivot right to the prosecutors.
Speaker 4: I'm supporting Fanny Lewis, Finnie Williams in this case. Part
Speaker 4: of my supporter hers continued upon me, saying.
Speaker 3: Look, I'm gonna support you. We need to get you
Speaker 3: back and office.
Speaker 4: The witness said, I don't want to see raptors persecuted
Speaker 4: for what the lyrics, and I don't want to see
Speaker 4: gang enhancement hiding for every kid that had no other
Speaker 4: friend group. He wasn't good at sports, he didn't join
Speaker 4: the boy scouts who had decided.
Speaker 3: Maybe be a prip board of blood.
Speaker 4: You know, he is as much a victim as a
Speaker 4: thirteen year old girl who gets trying to go coak
Speaker 4: to seduce another thirteen year old room in the prostitution.
Speaker 3: And if we don't give boys that same grace and discretion, we're.
Speaker 4: Gonna be locking up our boys in the next thirty
Speaker 4: forty years while women are just out here with no one.
Speaker 3: Mary Vond and Builder, what.
Speaker 2: Do you think about them saying that black men are
Speaker 2: not gonna show up?
Speaker 3: I think that's bullshit.
Speaker 4: So the black men we've been with today has showing up,
Speaker 4: So you just gotta call bullshit now that.
Speaker 3: The thing know is they deserve something.
Speaker 4: They deserve strong reunions, they deserve better paying jobs.
Speaker 3: They deserve people opportunities in marijuana.
Speaker 4: They deserve to know that once I finished with my
Speaker 4: probation to Kennedy, that I can get reregistered to both
Speaker 4: of you has a big detailer. They deserve these things
Speaker 4: and I'm here to make sure it happens.
Speaker 2: After now laughing, You just want to know because you know,
Speaker 2: I'm all about community empowerment, but I'm now forty four
Speaker 2: years old and I'm also about how we gonna live.
Speaker 2: It's a guy money, that's money, money, money, money, So
Speaker 2: I want to know tell us about what you own,
Speaker 2: and you're not tell us everything you own?
Speaker 3: Why I just I've ended up this why bus decision
Speaker 3: I made with my wife.
Speaker 4: You can her grandmama ran to look a house, so
Speaker 4: she learned how to do book earl and me and
Speaker 4: yeah yeah, Sha me, me and t I invested in.
Speaker 4: We bought a fifty old just one of his restaurants.
Speaker 4: We bought a fifty old restaurant down the street from
Speaker 4: a woman named Is telling Hard She's eighty five years old.
Speaker 4: Have the longest standing restaurant on bank Head Highway. And
Speaker 4: I bought it with we some rappers and eggs. No, boy,
Speaker 4: we bought it.
Speaker 3: We didn't know what to do and what Shade and
Speaker 3: Crystal Peterson.
Speaker 4: Doug Peterson, like Doug who wants to track me to
Speaker 4: me them what they've been able to do over the
Speaker 4: last four years.
Speaker 3: Is fight tooth and Neil getting a restaurant opened, to.
Speaker 4: Get us license and get the right contractors in there,
Speaker 4: to get the visit homes that we know we deserve.
Speaker 3: And they're the tiple of Spare.
Speaker 4: Much like Michael Jordan's mother, march is ass then so
Speaker 4: you're gonna get these Jordans. We ain't gonna wait for
Speaker 4: adetas do the right thing. They marched in, They went
Speaker 4: and got the loans. They wouldn't got the constructors before
Speaker 4: they hired. We had an all black instructed team. We
Speaker 4: have the two brothers on We had two amazing black
Speaker 4: women in the tiple sphere, and they've done it. So
Speaker 4: my business endeavors on this hours. I did what I
Speaker 4: saw don't boys do when I was live, I mean
Speaker 4: when they were alive. The guys that I looked up to,
Speaker 4: like bast Steve Jones, guys like Tony Bevan's, guys like
Speaker 4: slip Money, they bought all along here, they fought all
Speaker 4: along here.
Speaker 3: And you've learned by example what's good business.
Speaker 4: Before I ever owned one of these skyscrapers, I should
Speaker 4: own a rental hat. And that's what I learned from
Speaker 4: my heroes I looked up to, both legitimate and illegitimate.
Speaker 4: So all me and T I doing dope man business.
Speaker 4: That's what you're supposed to do. You supposed to buy
Speaker 4: the neighborhood that you live in. You're supposed to refurbish
Speaker 4: the housing till one hundred and forty three affordable housing
Speaker 4: units down the street by wife and our own apartment
Speaker 4: building right down the street, who're about turn into twenty units.
Speaker 4: That's why they're by myself, no demon or no course yet,
Speaker 4: but just doing what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: That's being best parking kids that why do that you're
Speaker 2: doing all this other stuff.
Speaker 4: Because so many kids suffer from lack of confidence. If
Speaker 4: my sneakers are dirty, if I don't smell clean, if
Speaker 4: I'm not confident about my hair or haircut, I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna be confident to know that.
Speaker 3: I'm confident in school.
Speaker 4: What LaToya Latania's doing is absolutely, absolutely amazing because she
Speaker 4: gives kids the confidence. She gives them a quiet, safe
Speaker 4: place to do their work. She gives them a pantry
Speaker 4: to come pick up stuff from question whether that's hygiene items,
Speaker 4: whether that's items.
Speaker 3: Foods, and stuff they need. She's doing what Jesus would.
Speaker 2: Have been, tracking count right up and down.
Speaker 3: And that was at.
Speaker 2: First story.
Speaker 3: How do you smell?
Speaker 2: It's one and I'm not asking for I'm asking you
Speaker 2: about when.
Speaker 4: You want to see if you listen to my song
Speaker 4: Something for Junkies off the Grammy Award winning album Michael
Speaker 4: Shopping for Junkies, The second verse tells you and I said,
Speaker 4: you know, I walk up straight trap with great count
Speaker 4: and my money. Had a quick convo with my auntie
Speaker 4: the junkie. She said, Baby, I said, baby, you've been
Speaker 4: going too hard, like for you like sixty baby, but
Speaker 4: you've been looking eighty, she said, She Michael, I've been
Speaker 4: smoking since eighty the photo shooters back when they still
Speaker 4: call the free basis. She closed the eyes, fantasized by
Speaker 4: bellter Tine. When she was beautiful, fine and still snorting lines.
Speaker 3: She told me.
Speaker 4: Stories the glory the I'm saying, Susane Atlanta, not like
Speaker 4: rich black black Klama Klamba Boozie ah man. If I
Speaker 4: wouldn't have been a little dope boy thinking I had
Speaker 4: made some money because I had made ten thousand dollars
Speaker 4: and my auntie hadn't got a chance to sit out
Speaker 4: and tell me nigga, I used to suck out, nigga,
Speaker 4: D'll buy y'all dope for so you ain't nobody special
Speaker 4: and the only reason we fuck.
Speaker 3: With you is because you treat us like She said
Speaker 3: that to me. I understood and want no glory.
Speaker 4: I understood that I was just doing something that I
Speaker 4: thought was cool and made it easier to survive because
Speaker 4: I put it when he got a bullshit job at
Speaker 4: six Flag, I didn't want to do that. I understood
Speaker 4: in that moment that me recognizing her humanity, what's the
Speaker 4: most valuable thing I could do? So what I'm doing
Speaker 4: in my my elder statesmanship is recognizing that humanity, recognizing
Speaker 4: the sins I've made of a child, and correcting those
Speaker 4: sins by now coming back and with dope and investing
Speaker 4: in those people. I hire people that have just gotten
Speaker 4: out of jail. I hire people that are recovering from addiction.
Speaker 4: We use those community of people to strength and want
Speaker 4: a nothing to make sure that each everybody to keep
Speaker 4: their head up in the game, even if it seems
Speaker 4: like we lose it. And like I say, man, not
Speaker 4: only did we bring a restaurant back, we brought thirty
Speaker 4: and forty jobs that with it.
Speaker 3: And that's what we continue.
Speaker 2: Money have you lost with the pride?
Speaker 3: I lost it. I've lost lots of money in your business.
Speaker 3: You don't take no losses and win.
Speaker 2: How much money would you say, if somebody got ten
Speaker 2: thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Can they get into onto I don't know. This is
Speaker 3: what I know.
Speaker 4: I know if you got ten grand that you should
Speaker 4: save someone. You should put something away from the vestedge.
Speaker 2: But you got grand that you got you you probably
Speaker 2: shouldn't blow it at the buzz.
Speaker 3: You probably should put your ten grand into some pipe
Speaker 3: of real estate. Vent your stock.
Speaker 4: So if you want to buy, say a piece of
Speaker 4: property for one hundred thousand bucks, you know ten grand
Speaker 4: baking cham per cent of that, get somebody else with
Speaker 4: ten grand, y'all got twenty percent. Y'all get a rental home,
Speaker 4: get a duplex or something to stay on one side,
Speaker 4: fix it up, rnt out the other side. Start very
Speaker 4: simple and small and don't put your job job and say.
Speaker 2: That was the biggest special And listen, you're making me
Speaker 2: want to cry on text thread. We shouldn't have special moment.
Speaker 3: I'm get and I love you and appreciate you, and
Speaker 3: you're a leader. I appreciate I know you do. But
Speaker 3: what I saw, I know it. He heard us a lot.
Speaker 3: So we're coming back and you're gonna be up.
Speaker 4: And ultimately what people needed the opportunity South Fulton County.
Speaker 4: So over here on the west side, this is this
Speaker 4: is movie we called the Wan. He's he's running for
Speaker 4: post three. He's one of the people we're going to
Speaker 4: be voting for because he's one of us. Now he's
Speaker 4: from boring Home housing project. That's what setan NOI from
Speaker 4: one of the most Torrian's housing projects. South Fullerton now
Speaker 4: looks like going home Houston. But now it's flipp because
Speaker 4: now what they've done and they gentrified the West Side,
Speaker 4: they're pushing poor people out. And before I'm gonna tell you,
Speaker 4: before you said it's a black thing, it's a black city.
Speaker 4: They did the white folks first over in Cambrigetown, like
Speaker 4: ninety six. They pushed the white homes out of Clayton County.
Speaker 4: Stop martybus is coming.
Speaker 1: What