WEBVTT - Happy Birthday Mysonne 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:07.440 What's that family, I'm your girl to make a d. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:09.920 Mallory and it's your boy might star in the general 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.840 and we are the host of street politicians, the place 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:18.319 where the st and politics meet's good. Oh you know 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.840 it was good. A lot happening, you know, all at 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.360 one time. That's how our lives are. Whenever we whenever 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.200 stuff starts happening, it's just like six things at once. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.720 Forget all that. No, but it is no, I mean 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.400 that's what this is. This is its number one. State 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.880 of Emergency has hit the stands. It is the number 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.519 one book. It is the best number one book. Just 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.560 like I can't say that because we don't want people 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:46.680 to think, oh, they are already number one, and so 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.120 we don't need That's what I'm trying to say. Look, no, no, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.519 you need you a personally, I'm trying to people want 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.200 to purchase what's number one? This is the number one. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.320 But listen to me. This right here, Look this book 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.600 right here, State of Emergency How we Win in the 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.760 country we built, is the number one book on the stands. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.679 I'm not just talking about the ratings. I'm not talking 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.520 about what you know somebody said it was. I'm talking 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.399 about this is the number one book. If you do 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.480 not have this book, you're wasting your time. If you 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.560 are reading, you do not have this book, you are 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.280 wasting your time. If you are not a reader, you 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.640 can get state of emergency because because I'm just about 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.720 to say, I had a whole thing. If you like 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.039 to listen to books and you do not have this book, 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.400 you're wasting your time. The audio version which I got 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.840 my little part that I didn't said my thing, and 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:40.080 it's awesome. This book right here. Listen. My family members 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.000 sat down and read the book together. They read all 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.800 of it. You know, obviously we talked about all the time. 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.840 My mom's stroke has caused, you know, but she can read. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.880 Of course she can read, but it's not the same 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.840 her attentions then, you know, so she's like she needs 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.200 that encouragement. So they decided they were going to all 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.160 focus on the book together, and they all came to 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.080 the same conclusion that your part was. They didn't say 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.240 my part was as good as your part. Actually, that's 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:10.359 kind of funny. I'm that kind of guy. I want 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:11.760 to read some of you know what I'm saying. No, 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:13.560 I don't want to read. I want to I want 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.519 you to read a little bit, but I'm gonna find it. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.079 While you're talking about bottom life. The book is awesome, 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.520 you know what I'm saying. What she did to get 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.160 to the book is awesome. The work that she's done, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.280 it's awesome. You know, all of the work that she's 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.520 been doing for twenty plus years is awesome, and that's 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.200 what led to this book. So I just want to 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.200 congratulate you, thank you very much. You know. The thing 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:42.320 about it is that the timeline was so aggressive and 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.640 a lot of people don't know because if they're probably 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.240 not thinking about it. I mean, if I was someone 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:48.959 that heard, Okay, you have a book coming out, I 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.280 want to assume you've been working on this for a while, right, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.400 because that's how I know books to be done. People 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.760 work and they do a lot of stuff in this situation. 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.560 From you know, I made did the speech. I said 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.360 the speech at what I don't know if if you 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.560 said it, if you did it, if you delivered that's 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:13.480 what you did. You delivered. So I delivered a speech 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.960 um which was the day after George Floyd had been 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.400 murdered when we went to Minneapolis, and maybe a month 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.919 or so later there were people calling agents saying hey, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:29.000 especially um Ashley Antwinette is a young a black sister 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.080 who was a writer herself, Um, and she had the 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.920 idea to say hey. She went to her partner, a 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.480 gentleman by the name of Mark, and she said, hey, 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.280 you know, I think we should work with Tamika Mallory 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.560 and they got in touch with us and they were like, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.120 you need to write down everything that was in that 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.120 speech plus more all you know, the references from where 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.440 it comes from when you talk about the history, what 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.600 is the history? And we went through this whole thing. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.080 And I still at that point because people have been 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.120 telling me I needed to write a book even before 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.000 that speech, and I still was kind of like, I 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.440 don't know. I knew it would be time consuming. We 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.760 run so much. I also knew that, you know, and 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.120 I also don't always like the attention. So I was 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.040 kind of like, I don't think this is a good idea. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.240 But with our management, Toya and others, they were like, 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.640 you need to do it. And so when I learned 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.840 of the timeline that they wanted it out now, which 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.560 is less than a year, right, and so you think 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.719 about it didn't happen the day that I made this speech. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.360 This happened a month or two later. There's contracts, there 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.320 is this, there is that. So let's just say we 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.560 started writing somewhere around August, and Ashley and I wrote together, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.200 and I had to sit and do zoom calls while 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.320 getting my hair done, zoom calls in the airport, zoom 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.160 calls while we were out of town at different places. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.640 If everybody else is going out to dinner having a 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.000 good time, and I'm like, I can't, I gotta stay. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.359 That commitment was very humbling and very necessary because what 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.640 it taught me is that I can actually do it. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:01.680 And there's an actual hard all book. But I still 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.880 got to find your parts. You can read like a liner. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.039 You know, I don't. I'm not going to say no, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.599 but we want to celebrate you. This. This is a 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:17.719 beautiful commentation. Let's get see the emergency. Yeah, listen, go 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.919 get the book right now, like, don't wait, do not 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.400 Paul School, Get the book right right right, because while 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.640 it is number one in our hearts, it's number one, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:37.680 number one on the charts. You like that that it's 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.360 number one in our arts. It needs to be number 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.159 one on the charts, So go out and purchase it. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.600 Support and also the other reason to support. It's not 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.040 just me, but you know that our podcast Street Politicians 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.560 is on the Black Effect Network. The Black Effect Podcast 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.599 Network with is Charlemagne's new podcast network where he has 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.839 a lot of great our testers and shows. Um. But 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.799 also he has his imprint, a brand new imprint, black published, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.240 Black Privilege Publishing, Black Privilege Publishing. I'm always like black 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.840 off Black Privilege because you know, Charlene is black back, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.240 so everything is so black that sometimes I get them confused. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.280 But my book is actually the first release on his imprint. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.080 So we're making black history. And people don't think that 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.680 we will buy books that we that we like to read, 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.960 but we actually do. And I know we love to 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.360 be into sort of the relationship books and you know, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.960 the mind, body and soul and those things are great. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.960 But how we get free in the country that we 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.960 built is also a part of what I think we 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.400 need to be reading, educating ourselves on and similar to 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.839 working with my mom making sure she can sit and focus, 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.680 we can do that with our families in general, and 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.760 to use this as an opportunity to help educate and 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.440 just bring people along. Um. You know, and I'm not 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.480 just saying it because it's my book, as I think 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.479 I'm meant to say before that when I was talking 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.880 to t T Torres our Home Girl from Hot ninety seven, 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.120 one of the hottest stations in New York, I guess um. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.240 She and I were talking and she said it was 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.880 a fast read, that she was reading it and getting 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.920 through it. And really that's when you can read good. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.520 I mean, that's when it's something that you want to 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.200 want to read, or it's something that's keeping you, you know, engaged. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.240 So that's one of those it is. It is one 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.400 of those books. Men. Look, we got advanced praise by 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:38.920 Tamika Palmer, Jada Pinkett Smith. That's Brianna Taylor's mother, Marco 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.160 Lamont Hill like this to me, good d. Mattery speaks 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.200 the truth that often things but needs to be told 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.920 that as black people in America, any one of us, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.560 at any moment, can be a victim of the injustice system. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.600 State of Emergency gives us the words and the tools 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.040 to fight for the justice our families deserve, and vows 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.720 to create a world when no one has to lose 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.360 their beloved child at the hands of the state. Justice 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.040 for my daughter, Brianna Taylor. My heart is broken, but 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:13.440 my fight is strong. That's tough. This book right here, 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.720 listen to me. It's a dope book, not just because 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.120 I'm in it and I have something that's you know, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.640 not just because not just because you're part of my 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.160 team and I'm in a book is good, not just 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:30.480 because you helped me, because you did not. I didn't 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:39.320 write nine there, okay, and I made it my own, 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.440 so that is not quite writing. Whatever you say, but 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.680 not just because you know I did what I did, 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.160 but because it is what it is. And I'm just 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:54.160 trying to say, man like, I'm just trying what is that? 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.400 Just look at it. I mean, I'm just trying to understand. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.040 I don't know where that came from. I don't get 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.160 nothing that's worth slow. I know you don't think I 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.360 didn't know. I'm just telling you that you see the 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.440 video would have to say, no, this is not what 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:12.920 it's something. Look, look, you're gonna blame me. I don't 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.360 blame somebody, Sloan. I'm gonna find your parts so you 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.800 can tell people a little bit about anyway. Audio version though, 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.480 has your you're you're reading, um, we have two of 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.240 my young sisters who are reading on behalf of Cardi 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.680 B and Angela Davis is forward. They're reading it and 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.920 they love it. They're so excited that I chose to 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.920 have them to be a part of it, you know, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.720 locking down Cardi after she already spent a lot of 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.840 time writing what she wanted to say, and then you know, 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.280 working with me to make sure that she's like, hey, 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.440 I want to be real, Like okay, we want we 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.560 want you to be real. Say what you want to say. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.199 She wrote it, we talked about it. You know, she's very, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.440 very thoughtful and creative. Cardi is not the kind of 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.920 individual that's just gonna throw some ship together and throw 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.080 in the world. That's not what she knows. She's going 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.520 to be overly critiqued, so make sure that her message 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.400 is properly shut out to Hybridge just find this carty party. B. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:14.640 And so she's very very particular. And Angela Davis, of course, 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.439 Dr Angela Davis is not going to write her part 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.800 until she sees what Cardi has to say. Since y'all 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.000 told me you want me to respond to the young uns, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:23.719 I'm willing to do it. Let me see what the 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.560 young and has. So we're waiting for Cardi to finish 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.880 her part and then go get Dr Davis to work 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.200 on her part and then let'sten check this out. This 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.320 is what she said to me. I was like, okay, Cardis, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.000 you know her piece is done. You know it's time 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.480 for us to talk about your piece, and you know, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.360 start working on that. She says, oh, but where's the 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.120 rest of the book. I said, well, I'm still working 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.880 on She said, when you finish, hi at me because 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.760 I ain't gonna put nothing on nothing that I don't 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.920 know about Zak. You just want to see the whole package. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.360 So I had to send it the book and then 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.480 she said, oh, and I need some time to read it. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.120 So I'm like, okay, cool. So when it was time 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.120 to record the audio version, I wasn't getting trapped and 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.000 going back to them to ask them again do their 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.600 things so that one KI need to listen to the US. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.920 I got something for y'all. The young guns will read 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.800 your parts in the book. They were ready, they were excited. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:22.000 They're both too amazing activists, you know Mary pat obviously 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.680 and new paul Um and they were and I put 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.480 them in the in the places that they belong because 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.920 New Paul she is the Cardi B Strong actress with 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.160 the Angela Davis. And then Mary pat hides her Cardi B. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.800 What we know she has it, and she she leans 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.440 towards Dr Davis. So they are in their parts. And 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.079 then you have your piece, which is great. Linda tells 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.760 the story of the Women's March for me because you know, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.720 I still struggle with being able to describe all of that. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.439 And then um, you know Angelo is and there doing 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.160 what he does, talking about policy and talking about our 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.560 way forward. And Angelo, as y'all know, is Lynda first 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.079 of all, is Linda's a sort of Palestines co founder. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.440 She's actually gonna be joining, that's right. We gotten. And 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.319 then Angelo is Attorney Angelo Pintel. They are We are 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:15.200 the four co chairs of the four co founders, coaches, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:20.640 co founders of Until Freedom. And everybody has a little 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.439 role in this book. So the book is not a me, 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.960 it's not I, it's a weed. It's to us, it's 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.880 for us, about us, and it's about how we move 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.319 forward together. That's right, man. So stay tuned. We have guests, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.560 We're gonna have people calling in from everywhere. We're gonna 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.040 have our co founders here with us. This is gonna 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:43.760 be a dope show. It's not like you know, the god, 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.480 the god another year around on the earth. You know, 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.800 thank God for making it head man. So I'm blessed. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.679 We just went through a pandemic and a panademic. What's that? 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:58.280 A plandemic? A pandemic, a panademic? They said, well whatever, um, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.839 people die and this really and we made it here, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.000 and I made it here another year. So I am 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:12.800 blessed in holly favor. What's that nothing your granddad? You boys? Look, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:18.480 these these young boys could never That's probably true. Ain't 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:23.040 gonna say. You know, it's your birthday. Drink water and 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:27.439 mind your business, man, drink water and mind your business. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.480 I didn't mind my business a few days ago, and 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.720 I got myself in a whole big mester. I don't 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.240 even know how it happened to me going on somebody's page, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.840 writing comments, and then I was in big trouble. Us 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.000 to see, when you mind your business, you won't have 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.400 these problems. I don't go on people page and just right, well, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.880 you know what, I don't know what I happened to 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.840 see something that I thought was great. Is my friend 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.720 I thought it was great. It was not a big deal, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.320 and I didn't really read it because that's my friends, 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.120 so I must speak to you tomorrow. But I see 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.640 you and you pretty, so I liked it. And I 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.400 see you and you're happy, so I liked it. And 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.400 then I found out there was It was a whole thing, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.679 the whole situation. You know, I'm trying to stay out 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:13.040 of situations. But listen, stay tuned. State of Emergency out now, 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:19.120 Street Politicians number one podcast, State of Emergency, number one book. Yeah, 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.400 make it number one. You don't thought of the debt, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:31.480 thought of the debt. State of Emergency makes me reflect. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.360 And you know another thing that you have to do 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:34.880 when you write a book. You wrote a book, so 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.720 you know about these things. Um, you have to read 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:42.400 it a thousand times because remember what you said, and 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.440 and and and not just remember what you said, because obviously, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:46.960 if you put a mic in front of my face, 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.160 I'll talk about the exact same things that's in this book, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.560 because that's my life. That's what I talked about every 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.120 single day. But when you write a book, you have 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:01.200 to and your right people want to talk about specific 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.120 quotes and things you said. And this and that this 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.360 young man Philip Paris, he was the one who sat 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.520 with me and really worked through line by line everything 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:15.920 I thought. He said, mm hmm, yeah, that's true. But 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.880 there's this other part of the history that you need 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.760 to focus on. So I was educating myself trying to 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.800 educate the people all at the same time. And so 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.640 as I'm reading it every day, I'm like, Yeah, we've 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.000 been through all of this and we're still going through it. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.160 We're still going through and they've shaped everything that we've 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.440 We don't pass laws now, we're trying to pass more 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.000 laws and and and hopefully the things that we're working 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.760 on now will reshape um, you know, or I don't 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.600 know if it will reshape, because you know, the George 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.520 Floyd Justice and Policing Act has some really good components, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.720 I think the most important pieces to forty two. Remember, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.600 we just had a conversation with some brilliant minds. So 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.240 Ben Crump is to police accountability, Monique Presley, these two 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.400 attorneys Tesla and Figaro, just know we're sitting having a 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.560 real deep conversation about what's in the bill. Because the 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.800 qualified immunity piece, as it um, was falling apart and 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.600 all the issues that we saw happening there. We started 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.520 to look at the bill and try to figure out 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.480 what are some of the other things that we need 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.240 to protect, and they raised that to forty two was 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.120 a very important component. That I knew it was there 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.920 because I always um was interested in the idea that 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.520 it would change the threshold, lower the threshold so that 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.920 now you don't have to be at uh, it doesn't 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.920 have to be intentional that the police officer intended that 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:38.560 he came outside that day. It was like, I'm going 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.480 to kill me a nigger, you know what I'm saying. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.720 That he doesn't have to have that mentality, but still 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.400 if he is reckless, then that can get him charge. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.200 Before you had to prove that I'm gonna go kill 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.560 me one concept, you know what I'm saying that that 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.360 was very difficult. It's almost impossible when you give somebody 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.200 the title that they protected and servant exactly, so they 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.160 automatically get the benefit of the death exactly and they say, 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.960 you know, I was afraid for my life. That the 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.760 that's it so and that's that's that's subjective right. Each 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.680 person has the right to say that you can't tell 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.680 me that I didn't feel fear, So you know now 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.840 that it's reckless. Like even if you felt fear, you 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.960 have this training one to you're not supposed to draw 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:21.320 your gun. You're not supposed to do this. You're not 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.439 supposed to do that, And therefore that threshold will allow 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.160 for criminality, for there to be charges. And so I 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.880 was like, you know that that's an actual good part. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.159 I'm still qualified immunity one hundred thousand percent because I 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:41.119 still believe that police officers should be responsible personally for 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.600 violating other human beings. It's a major deterrent. I think, 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.360 like people say all the time, this system and white 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.600 supremacy itself is not affected unless there is loss of 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.080 life or there's lots of money, and we're not We're 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.680 not trying to hurt anybody. So when people accountable and 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.560 they have to pay their money, yeah, you know what 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.200 I'm saying, they're gonna say, you know what, whoa we 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.880 gotta do something different when it was coming out their 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.000 own pockets and they still saying, you know, with my pension, 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.480 I can't feed my kids. I'm gonna think before I 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.720 just shoot, and you know, I'm gonna make real solid 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.080 decisions because I understand that when I do this is 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.920 going to affect my life, you know, So I think 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:24.000 to forty two and qualified immunity go hand in hand, 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.119 and we want both of them so they know we're 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.400 trying to take no Wooden Nickels roum. Yeah, I mean, 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.440 so you know that. Yeah, that's exactly two forty That 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:38.320 was my position that two forty two and qualified immunity 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.160 will work hand in hand because if you can lower 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.600 the threshold and get them charged criminally, then you should 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.520 be able to also sue them civilly. And you know, 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.640 you're never gonna get these people to do everything you want. 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.680 That's just not where we are as a society. But 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.160 you do have to understand and be sensitive to people 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:01.480 who are just tired of us constantly having to give, give, give, give, give, 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:07.760 having to um, you know, always be compromising and they 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.199 don't have to compromise, but we have to compromise, and 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.639 that for me is really really difficult. So I was 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:17.080 just you know, reading and studying and going through material 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.159 and you know, also just working and thinking in the 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.040 back of my mind, what is it going to take 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.320 to really get what it is that we know we deserve. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.560 We have a few days before this bill is supposed 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.080 to be past the George Floyd Justice and Police and Act. 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.400 That's good, but it's still not what we really need. 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.040 We really need to be leaning more towards the Breath Act, 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:42.680 which is legislation that movement for black lives as well 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.080 as Corey Bush, Congresswoman Corey Bush, who I love, she's 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.800 one of the co sponsors. This is legislation that would 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:53.440 be more radical. I believe in radical transformation, and I 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:58.400 like and I my politics. Our politics are more aligned 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.520 with the Breath Act, and that's what would like to 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.440 see happen. But it's huge, and so it's incremental. You 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:05.560 gotta move a little piece and a little piece, and 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.520 qualified immunity is a part of it, so you know, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.120 to have that as a part of this legislation would 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.560 be really important in a step towards where it is 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.199 that we're trying to go and that whole You know, 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:22.159 there's so much that's happening to try to prevent real progress, 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.240 and it just makes you wonder, like what will it 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:28.000 ever take. It's gonna it's gonna take a joint effort 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.040 on all fronts. You know, they're gonna be people like 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:35.240 us who are going to demand everything right right, and 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.280 then there's gonna be some people that said we're getting 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.120 a little bit. It's got to be people like us 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.959 that always demand everything. You know what I'm saying. Like 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.760 when you when you're going if you've got to manage you, 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.320 you've got somebody, and you in a business, you want 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.520 your manager to go in there and say, look, my 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:54.120 client deserves all of that, all the things. Now, if 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.399 the client decides, you know, we're gonna negotiate for a 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.280 little less or whatever. But we need people like us 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:01.720 that's always gonna demand that we get all the things 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:05.359 that we necessarily deserve. So we're going to push the 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.600 envelope every time, every time. It's no comfortability right now 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.200 when you're governing the United States of America, when you 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:16.240 govern everybody, when you have the lives and livelihoods and 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.680 you know, everything of people in this country in your hand, 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.160 and they're saying that they want some things, even if 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.560 even if you think it's outlandish to you, if the 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.080 people say that's what they want, then they're gonna fight 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:30.680 for it. And we are going to be those people 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.639 that's gonna always push the envelope. We're not gonna be quiet. 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.280 I'm sorry. You can look like us, you can sound 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.399 like us, and we're gonna help you. We're gonna do 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.080