WEBVTT - The Fight Is Still Not Over 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.720 I'm Tamika D. Mallory and the ship Boy my Son 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:03.320 in general. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.720 We are your host of TMI. 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.040 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:13.080 Inspiration, New Energy. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:18.919 So what's going on TMI. We are here on the 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:23.680 ground in Michigan. Tamika is not available right now because 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:28.480 she's knocking doors, literally knocking doors. Today is election day, 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.720 so by the time you hear we will already have 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.160 had probably no you know, the results of this election. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:42.080 It's been a very very tedious, very exhilarating, very energetic, 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.760 you know, going out into these streets and feeling energy 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:51.360 that there could be really be the first female black 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.279 woman president in history, and then it could be a 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.880 change and just the shift and just the energy in America. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.000 You know. I've been very vocal about who it is 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.160 that I support, you know, and I've been vocal about 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:12.399 why I support that individual, and hopefully by the time 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.080 you hear this, you know, the prayers of many those 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.040 who really actually believe in democracy will have been heard. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.039 So we've been going, like I said, we've been on 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:28.679 a gto B tour, get out to I mean GOTV tour, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.840 get out to vote tour for the last couple of 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.280 weeks just going to different states, mainly the swing states 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.480 where we know that the vote can shift, you know, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:44.720 the in different years, you know, Republicans controlled certain states, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.480 or they won by the skin of their teeth, or 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.000 they took states that used to be you know, more 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:55.720 liberal and democratic. So those are the swing states that 0:01:55.720 --> 0:02:01.880 we've been hitting, mainly North Carolina, Philadelphia in Michigan, those 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.240 are the main three states, and Atlanta as well. So 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.359 we've been on this g O TV tour that we've done. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.440 We met up with a lot of different artists, you know, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.720 we met up with a lot of different influencers, you know, 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:20.200 and it just seems like everyone is ready for a change. No. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:24.360 Shout out to Michael Vick, Shout out to Beanie Siegal, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:30.040 Shout out to Icewear Vessel. No, just a lot, just 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.080 a whole lot of people that was on the tour 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.760 freeway you know, who else? Could I tell you who 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.720 was there that you would know? Shout out to Black Sam, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.359 you know, he was also on the tour. Shout out 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:53.400 to Woody my man came from Power and it's just 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.840 it's just we we had very in depth conversations. Black 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.240 male conversations. You know that took place because you know, 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.320 there's there's been this whole narrative that black men aren't 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:08.280 supporting Kamala Harris and that's just not true. So we 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.560 have conversations, but there is there are a certain demographic 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.320 who feel left behind, but the majority of us definitely 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.800 support her. You know, she wanted to make to that clip, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.480 but we wanted to sit down with those who don't, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.080 or those who are on the fence, or those who 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:29.360 had serious grievouses, or those who had misinformation and was 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.880 and believed certain things, you know, and we and we 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.040 got to the bottom in the route of a lot 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.960 of you know, the negative energy that we were hearing 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.640 in those regards. So, you know, shout out to everybody 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.800 who participated in those conversations. Shout out to my brother 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.320 Marvin Bean and the voter elves. Shout out to Pastor McBride, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.520 you know, the partners who were on the ground with 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.880 us on the g TV work that we did. You know, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.000 we wouldn't have these panel discussions and we went to 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.320 knock on doors just to make sure people were register. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:08.680 These were pretty much non partisan events where nobody was 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.160 telling you who to vote for how to vote. Just 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.040 wanted to make sure that you were registered to vote, 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:14.760 and just wanted to make sure that if you were 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.560 registered to vote, then you knew how to go about voting. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.039 Do you know where your early voting sites are? What 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:27.320 do you know that if your your voter's registration is 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:28.960 up to date? Those are a lot of things that 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.400 they use for voter disenfranchisement. Right you show up to 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:37.800 the polls and they tell you that your registration has expired, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.680 or they didn't know you was living somewhere. They thought 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.760 they couldn't fight you with an address. You know, It's 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.640 just certain things. So we wanted to make sure that 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.160 everybody knew their status, they knew that they were up 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.120 to date, and we knocked on these doors. A lot 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:55.080 of people were invigorated to see us, happy that we 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.080 were coming and knocking on the doors. Then there was 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.279 a lot of people who were scared, you know, like 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.200 we gotta win, you know. And I see a level 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:07.560 of seriousness, Like I know, every time it's voting time, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.080 there's a level of energy and sometimes it's serious. Sometimes 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.520 people say you vote to die. Had We've had all 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.240 type of campaigns and I'm not taking anything from any 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.720 of it, because they all are important. You know, when 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.680 people try to tell you that it's not important that 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.920 you vote for the president of the United States, it's 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.520 just mind bothering to me. You know, I'm not shooting 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.440 at anybody individual. I just don't understand the mind state 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.560 that you wouldn't have a say in the person who 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.279 has the strongest office in the land, who's able to, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.240 you know, dictate policy, who's able to push policy, who's 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.719 able to influence policy, you know, who's able to just 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.760 pretty much guide the direction of where our country goes. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.200 And if you live in this country and you don't 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.200 want to have a say on how the country is 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.799 being guided, you know, what are the morals of that individual? 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.920 If you're not looking and saying to yourself, damn, is 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.640 this person a good person? Is this person a strong person? 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.400 Is this somebody who believes in the rights all of us? 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:16.360 You know? Is this person gonna enact laws that are 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.159 going to be detrimental to me in my community? Like, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.040 if we're not having those conversations, then what conversations are 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.920 we really having? And if we're not involved in the 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.600 process of actually voting, I don't see how we plan 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.880 to make any real change because the people will get 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.880 into these offices and as you go in the down 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.520 by ballot that you have to, they're gonna be senate racis, 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.880 they're gonna be congressional racist. And these things are key 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.480 for the president, right because if he doesn't have well, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:52.880 she doesn't have the support needed when she wants to 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.000 dictate and pass a lot of these laws. If she 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.680 doesn't have the support needed because we don't have the 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.560 House of the Senate, then it's pretty much what they 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.400 call Laine Duck and Rubbert, you know, Robert stamping somebody. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.600 You know, they're gonna do everything they can to undermine 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.840 what I leave. I believe she's strong enough. I believe 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.320 she's dealt with adversity her whole life. I believe nothing 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.880 on none of this is new to her. I believe 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.920 every time that I watch her that she has to 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.200 overcome and you know, be looked down upon and have 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:32.880 to be you know, prove herself all the time. And 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.640 I think this is just another example of the resilience 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.360 of black women. Yes, black women. Black women are resilient. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.800 I tell people all the time. I've never seen a 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.480 more resilient person than my grandmother than my mother. Right. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.320 So when we talk about leadership and they say women 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.400 shouldn't be lead, I heard I heard somebody that I 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:55.240 don't really want a name to give them that level 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.440 of energy talking about you know, she was she's traditional 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.200 and a woman don't supposed to sit in these seas 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.200 to the woman not supposed to be in charge of 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.360 this and that, and she know her place, And it 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:14.239 was just kind of disheartened because I believe a woman's 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.360 place is wherever she wants it to be. I believe 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.040 she should have autonomy. I should believe she should have 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.680 the opportunity to lead. I believe that she has the 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:26.080 ability to lead. You know, I believe that a woman 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.120 understand what it is that they can and can't do. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.280 You know, we're talking about the physical aspect of certain things. 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.440 I believe a woman should understand that men it is 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.040 for security and safety and protection, and they should be 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.680 in those positions to make sure that they protect you. Right, 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.840 but not against your own will you know Trump talking 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.800 about that we're going to protect the woman whether they 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.480 like it or not, you can't tell that's what does 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:54.040 that even mean? How do you protect somebody that doesn't 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:59.280 want you to protect. That's imposing your will upon someone 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.040 like who in hell is going to authorize somebody to 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.000 protect them even though they don't want to be protected. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.720 Who says that that's a good ideology, that's a good strategy. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.000 You know, that's something when you when you're having a 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:16.040 conversation with a kid, your child, right, I said, I 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.480 say that all the time that like the first five 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.600 years of a child's life, they trying to kill theirself 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.760 and you got to stop them from trying to kill yourself. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.600 So that ideology makes sense when you're talking to a 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.440 kid or about your child, about you know, somebody that 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.200 a young person that you're taken care of, it makes 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.960 sense that you're gonna protect them despite themselves. But that's 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.600 not for the grown adult women, educated women. You know, 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.880 a brilliant woman, a strong, resilient woman, a woman's who's 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.760 proven that they have the ability, the mentality and the 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.959 fortitude to lead. That's not a conversation you have for 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.920 those type of individuals. So you know, we we actually do. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.040 Like she said, it's time to turn the page. I 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:06.679 am energetic. I am very hopeful. I feel like an 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:12.359 energy that's gonna shift. I feel that the world rejects 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:18.280 this notion of division. They don't want a president who 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.680 is for some of the people, who feels like he 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.200 has to take away the rights of people. You know, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:30.280 he has to the fame people, disrespect people, he has 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.240 to target people. I don't think. I don't think that's 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.960 what America is. I think, yes, we've been built on racism, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.360 and America is a racist country. But I believe that 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.120 we are growing more united. I believe that the old 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.319 white supremacists are dying out. And that's what that's what 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.400 Donald Trump represents to me. The old white supremacists with 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.680 the white supremacists my state. They remember when new slavery, 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.080 Remember when black people had to stay in their place, 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:59.240 and wasn't all these immigrants and in Latinos here who 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.360 don't speak to English that they want so they don't 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:05.080 think they belong here, and they're not patriotic all the bullshit. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.960 Those white men are dying out. And this is white 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.720 supremacy's last dance. So when we would white supremacies ass today, 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.440 it's going to charge a new way forward. We're going 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.679 to see the beloved at some point, the beloved community 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.920 because we're breaking that all the batteries, right, because if 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.880 you after you break down all the batteries, it's nothing 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.640 else to constrain you. It's nothing else but freedom after 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.199 we break down all the the barriers. And no, and no, 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.840 Kamala Harris is not going to save black people. She 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.960 ain't supposed toble. She's going to do it save the 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:42.880 soul and just the energy and the democracy of America. Right, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.080 that's what That's what America has always stood for. A 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.600 democracy that you have an opinion, and you have a view, 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.280 and your view is just as value as somebody else's. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.160 And just because it differs from someone else, just because 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.480 your lifestyle, your mentality, the peap proachs and you love 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:00.480 whatever differs from somebody else's doesn't make you less valuable. Right, 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:05.880 And nobody should be able to hinder your personal preference. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.079 Nobody should be able to do that. People should be 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.400 responsible for themselves, whether they like what you do or not. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.839 It doesn't give them the ability. It doesn't give them 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:19.760 the right to impede upon your happiness, to impede upon 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.880 your satisfaction, to impede upon the way that you want 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:27.960 to live your life. That's within the laws, right, that's 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.360 within the boundaries of laws of integrity and honor. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:32.880 Right, the as long. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.400 As you're not violating someone else's rights, people shouldn't be 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.880 able to tell you how you live. No, And I 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:43.080 think that's what's that state in this election, you know, 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.880 and anybody who doesn't see that, I'm confused. You know, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.480 people say, oh, Donald Trump was in over the floor 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:51.920 or he ain't doing none of this stuff. You ain't 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.760 did he puts Supreme Court justices that pretty much roll 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:01.679 back civil rights. He constantly he executed more people than anybody. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.839 Like when you look at the overall message that Donald 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:12.320 Trump has said, it's my way in the highway. And 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.199 that's not how you rule for the people by the people, right. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:20.240 You can't. You can't completely impose your will on the 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:26.760 whole country. Right. And the thing is, if somebody thinks 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:31.160 that right, the person that thinks like that is dangerous. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.360 So you can't give that person access to power. You 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.920 just can't. You know. It's really like when you talk 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:44.320 about the Avengers, you know, and you see what they 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.160 was fighting against. There was one man who decided that 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.000 there's too many people in the world and he needed 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:55.600 to get the five stones so that he can go 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.640 cut the population and people can live comfortably and they 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.240 can live happened, But there's no way that they was 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:03.760 going to do it with all these people. So he 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:08.600 felt it was his destiny to save the world by 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.959 getting rid of people that he deemed weren't valuable enough, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.960 you know. And and that's that's pretty much the mind 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.520 state that we have here. You know, you have a 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.840 dictator who decides, you know what, these immigrants you we're 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.160 not from here. They don't deserve to be here. They're 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.080 not really human. They come here the violators, the rapists 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.760 and kill us all of the negative things, you know, 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:39.480 Puerto Rico. You know, Haiti's a shipthold all type of 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.640 everything he could think of to the mean anything that's 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.880 non white, you know. And that's that's just not presidential 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.600 to me. It's not strong. It's not somebody who deserves 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:56.280 the highest highest title of this life. So, like I said, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.120 we were on the campaign trail, and while we were 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.600 out there, we talked too many people. You know what 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.160 we're gonna do right now, I'm gonna bring you to 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.040 an interview that pretty much Tamika, did you know with 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.720 our brother killer Mike along this campaign trail, and he 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.360 took us through Atlanta, and he showed us the thriving 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.200 economy in Atlanta, and he took us to his restaurant, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:26.680 and he took us to a place where he supports 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.840 these young youths. You're gonna hear about everything that happened. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.240 But Tamika has this interview, and I want you to 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.000 tune into this interview real quick. Tell me what you think. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:43.680 Well for the last side, how y'all going this time? 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:45.200 Welcome to the West Side. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.400 You and our brother killer Mike with hey, listen, let 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.200 them know about Atlanta. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.680 Please, Avanta, Georgia. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.760 Is this an amazing place of opportunity for everyone, especially 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.560 African America. Where we're standing right now is past be 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.320 known as the West Side. The bluff is over there, 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.640 Rollo's from there, Able Maybel Thomas, one of my greatest 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:05.480 politicians in there. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.200 But this strip is where everybody's from. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.560 Me t I shot and old young droke, all of 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.720 us up it down here and lots of black vinness, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.200 whether it was black business like you Ball, black business 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.000 like the Caato family, a black business likes Russell Fountly. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.080 This is where opportunity abound. I'm from the Calli Heights, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.480 Damnsville section. Right here, we're on the back head the 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.960 north Side Drive. But this is where you come. This 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.520 is where you open disneys, This where you recycle the 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.400 black dollar. This is where black political power. When the 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.920 district of Yering name is right now is an amazing 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.680 city council person. So when you come to Atlanta, don't 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.200 just go to Buckhead and don't just go to the suburbs. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.080 Friend your ass to the westside and get some food. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.080 If we had time, I take everybody to the blue 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:45.440 plane right now. Can I ask a question? 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.720 So so many people come to me and they say, 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:51.960 you know, kill a mic. 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:53.080 We don't really know. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:53.720 Where he stands. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:54.480 Pol Yeah. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.600 And I hear you saying that I gotta talk to everybody. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.760 Yeah. And after I'm gonna. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.680 Talk there going to and I And after being out 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.880 here with you and seeing all the stuff that you own, 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.879 I get that a full And you a Paul Kids. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.560 So you a board member and a big financial donor 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.800 to or at least you bring a lot of resources 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:23.320 into Paul Kids. And therefore you every election and every election. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.640 Official pressure on everybody. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.320 What I have to seeing all the things that you're 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.520 doing you anti, it's not with us, but y'all are 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.280 buying up stuff everywhere. Why don't you talk about your 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.080 political position and why it's important for you to be 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.640 working with everybody, or at least putting pressure on everybody. 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:43.119 That helps people get it. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.800 My political position is I grew up in an all 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.320 black world. This all the way to pulling industrial was 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.679 all black mouse a child, So all my heroes and 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.119 villains looked like me. The Democrats looked like me. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.520 They were black. The Republicans looked like me. They were black. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.640 They have arguments, but at the end of the day, 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.639 if it was to feed the homeless campaign, they were 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.480 right there next to each other, feeding the homies right 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:01.840 now to. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.880 Hope Lil Williams doing it, and then. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.639 When they in the campaign, that's right there together. So 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.159 first and foremost, I'm a black man. I'm fighting on 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.399 behalf of this black community. I want to see the 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.000 black dollar circulating. I want to see black business ownership 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.360 and black opportunity to abound. So you say you don't 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.560 know my political side, which you really said is oh man, 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.199 he's not on my side, or I think he's out 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.080 on my side. I don't know what your side is 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:23.760 because I don't live in your city, but I know 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:24.600 in Atlanta. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.800 If George has been number one in business the. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:28.879 Last ten years, then part of that has to do 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:30.040 with two Republican governments. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:31.240 Make the deal and Kim. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.679 It ain't that I want a kids, ask and love everybody, 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.679 and everybody's gonna be okay. You have some goddamn resources 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.160 that I get on my side of death. Now listen 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.479 to me, man, when our state didn't close during COVID, 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.680 I wasn't the one celebrating the women and men who 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:50.960 working on this court during celebrating because they. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.440 Death and it was over. I'm not talking about yeah. 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.119 So I'm just saying complex as politics can be, it 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:57.320 really is as simple to me. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:02.480 It's who benefits this side of time trail. So now 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.959 what did your ass out and vote? 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:05.359 That's it? 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.160 And demand something today after you vote because you didn't 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.600 you didn't think to have an agenda before that. But 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:14.760 I'll tell you what I like about Cobbler's agenda. She added, marijuana. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.240 Marijuana is not broken over the Georgia in recreation. When 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.399 it breaks open recreationally, I'm bugging our government, tagging on, 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.399 hey man, how do we get in on it. I 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.720 want people who look like us because we spent the 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.480 last fifty years of prohibsion, actually since nineteen thirty seven, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.080 long that we spent, we made the brown work getting 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:32.280 arrested out. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:36.960 The governor Kimp absolutely people think that in his friend. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.560 Yeah, I can be anybody's free, but being your friend 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.000 on stock the stack, I got to ask you for. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.040 Something because you have an office, your. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.600 Office, your office hood forty million dollars roughly something. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:48.080 In trade schools. 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.200 If it wouldn't have been for the progressive candidate Benson 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.600 Fort who ran and lost for mayor, that money wouldn't 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.120 have made it here because he pitched it. He fished 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.320 and raise hell about it doing Nathan deal. When we 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.360 come back around in my relationship with governed the Kimp, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.680 I'm saying, hey, man trades and he in the high school. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:02.560 We need to think about trades. We need to give 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:04.320 me fier in trades. When it came time for him 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.200 to do the whole scholarship bill, he didn't only give 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:07.359 it the academic scholarship. 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:08.320 He gave it the trades. 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.960 Doing well now saw him with debate with Mike calls 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:12.919 that or Mike then calls that, but I know I 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.720 was saying that every step of the way gang enhancement 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.119 bill he signed. I was bidful against that bill, but 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.760 he gave me audiences. He gave me audience with him 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.159 and his administration. He still signed the bill. I let 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:24.960 him know I didn't agree with it, and I say, well, I'm. 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:26.240 A pivot right to the prosecutors. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.760 I'm supporting Fanny Lewis, Finnie Williams in this case. Part 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:31.920 of my supporter hers continued upon me, saying. 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:33.600 Look, I'm gonna support you. We need to get you 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:34.160 back and office. 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:36.720 The witness said, I don't want to see raptors persecuted 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.600 for what the lyrics, and I don't want to see 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.359 gang enhancement hiding for every kid that had no other 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:43.280 friend group. He wasn't good at sports, he didn't join 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:44.960 the boy scouts who had decided. 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:45.840 Maybe be a prip board of blood. 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:48.320 You know, he is as much a victim as a 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.440 thirteen year old girl who gets trying to go coak 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.160 to seduce another thirteen year old room in the prostitution. 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.440 And if we don't give boys that same grace and discretion, we're. 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:57.800 Gonna be locking up our boys in the next thirty 0:20:57.840 --> 0:20:59.840 forty years while women are just out here with no one. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:01.280 Mary Vond and Builder, what. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.040 Do you think about them saying that black men are 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:03.800 not gonna show up? 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:04.880 I think that's bullshit. 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.879 So the black men we've been with today has showing up, 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.000 So you just gotta call bullshit now that. 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:12.480 The thing know is they deserve something. 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.439 They deserve strong reunions, they deserve better paying jobs. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.880 They deserve people opportunities in marijuana. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:20.919 They deserve to know that once I finished with my 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.880