WEBVTT - Championing Change: Sustainable Lifestyles and Healthy Eating 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:07.800 What's up, family, I'm your girl to make a d. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.240 Mallory and it's your boy, my sell in the general 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.280 and we are the host of street politicians, the place 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:18.279 where the streets and politics meet. How feeling it's a 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.880 good day, good day, I mean, you know, good day, 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:25.800 nervy time, nervy time that's happening. To be very careful 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:30.000 to protect our energy and to know that it is um, 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.160 it's not. It's not our faults, nothing wrong with black people. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.400 That there's something wrong with the world and the way 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.680 it treats us. And we have to protect our energy 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.559 and not allow ourselves to go into a complete depression 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.080 because we could. Yeah, you're right. We were already dealing 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.040 with the Derek Chauvin case for the murder of George Floyd, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.960 and now we have to see a young another young 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:55.200 boy murdered at the hands of police for a traffic like. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.000 I don't understand. How do we constantly find ourselves in 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:04.520 the same situation where officers have excuses and reasons and 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.759 all type of things for why they kill people unarmed 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.240 Black people, unarmed like it's the same situation. I posted 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.640 something on my Instagram the other day where it showed 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.760 how armed white people are arrested. You know, some of 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.280 them are threats, they've murdered people, they've done all type 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.880 of things, but they're actually arrested. They have due process, 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.880 you know, they actually go to court and you know, 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.119 and go through the whole process. But unarmed black people 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.360 never even make it to a chorouse, they never make 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.679 it to a sale to even be trying, like and 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.240 it's just crazy, man, It's a lot too many, too 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.440 many cases. And you know, Dante right just looking at 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.840 I wrote on my page that when I was looking 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.040 at the picture that began circulating of him and his baby, 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.040 it hurt to see him and to know that he 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:59.480 was killed. I was even more traumatized by looking at 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.760 that little baby, knowing that if we don't get this 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.880 thing right, he could be he could fall victim to 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.160 the same exact type of situation. And the world itself 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.320 is just it's just so cold. Our children and what 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.160 they are experiencing and what we are all experiencing. It's 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.560 too much trauma. There were too many black women who 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.680 have black boys who text me after Dante Wright was 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:30.400 shot and killed, murdered, as you said and said to me, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.519 I'm terrified. I'm terrified. I'm terrified for my sons. I'm 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:38.000 terrified for my husband. I'm terrified, Like I'm living in 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.480 a literal state of terror. And that's the thing that 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.760 I have. I have to be really careful because I'm 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.760 already consumed. Every time my child moves, I'm like, where 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.520 did you go, where you at, what you're doing, who 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.480 you talk? Did you wear this? They don't do this, 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.640 don't wear that. Those earphones in your ears, and where 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.800 you can't hear when you're walking down the street in 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.680 case they tell you to freeze or whatever. I'm already 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.280 putting him through all of that, and now I'm he 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.960 wants to I'm scared to let him drive. I mean, 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.320 he can drive, and he drives well, but I'm afraid 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.720 it's too many and and and I think there are 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.160 so many white folks who are now starting to say 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.720 I just don't have these same fears and they and 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.320 they don't because their reality is different. So when we 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.960 look at these cases and we constantly see the same 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.639 thing in the same response, you know, they are actually 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.800 people who say, well, he had a warrant, you know, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.959 he had a he had a warrant. He he tried 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.720 to run from the police, and and those things are 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.480 things that you get arrested for, you know, those are 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.040 things that you get arrested for. Somebody issues a warrant, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.960 you go to arrest, you have your dad court, you 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.320 prove whether you're in it's a guilty, you go through 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.200 the due process. But a warrant is not a warrant 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.120 to be killed. You know, there's no warrant that you 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:56.040 can issue a person that that commands and demand is 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.480 going to be killed. And we and we are constantly 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.320 issue death ones, you know, we are constantly issued as 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.840 a black man, death warrants and sentence. Because this was 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.560 a death warrant, like a warrant that was issued ended 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.480 up in this man being killed, you know, literally killed. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.760 It's way too much as a black man, you know, 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.440 having like you said, having conversations with other young black 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.479 man trying to make them understand. But we get to 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.760 a point where it comes fed up. I was actually 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:25.120 watching the news where the police tried to pull somebody 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:26.920 over and the guy just had a gun shooting and 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.360 these things, like you at some point, right at some point, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.520 it was a black man. He was he pulled up 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.719 on him and he had a shotgun. I don't even 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.200 know what it was, but I was like you, at 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.320 some point, what do you expect people to do it. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.200 I'm not calling for violence, and we're definitely not saying that, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.720 but I'm just trying to say, you cannot continue to 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.520 kill people and expect them to just wait for you 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.160 to kill him. You can't. We can't constantly keep seeing 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.200 these images of us being pulled over for routine check, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.080 you know, traffic violations or traffic stops, and dying and 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.440 expect you to keep pulling us over. You know, we 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.680 got and then not even that, you got the guy 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.720 that was in the army, the yeah, the serviceman, the 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.840 serviceman like you, you sit there and you see that, 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.640 and he did. I found out today that he's the 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.560 nephew of Eric Gana's mother. So miss Carr, that's her nephew. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.880 And she she told the story on on a CNN interview. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.279 She said that her her niece sent her the video, 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.400 and she said, people send her these horrible videos all 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.400 the time and she doesn't really like to watch them, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.719 but this particular day she looked at the video and 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.719 just saw this horror, horrifying event occur, and she was like, 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.920 this is terrible and kind of went on about her life. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.039 What she didn't know was that that was her own 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.720 family member. And then she said that, you know, that 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:50.120 happened in December of two thousand twenties, so this happened 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.120 last year, at the end of last year. So she's 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.599 saying that she saw him February of this year at 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.240 a funeral for another family member, I think the un goal, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.800 and she said he was very different, very quiet. You know, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:09.040 you could tell that he has suffered extreme trauma. It actually, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.359 obviously it changes your life. Look at what a he 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.400 went through. I mean, it's just like you said, it's 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.919 way too much and at some point something has to happen. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.320 And I don't know what that is, but I know 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.680 that when I when when I first got on social media, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.520 it was almost unheard of to hear people saying that 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.360 that it was time to shoot back or you know, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.480 or kill cops and crazy stuff like that. Like it was, 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.520 it was it was almost unheard of to hear that. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.280 But now as time is going on and this years later, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.560 since I've been on socials, there's so much more of 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.800 this of that what is now what I considered to 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.000 be mental illness, because you know, the trauma is making 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:55.320 people sick. Yes, it's PTSD is really watching something happened 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.880 and fearing that it could be you, you know, and 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.880 and that's what the human human nature of self reservation, 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:05.240 you know. And when you think that you're just going 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.200 to continue to kill people and continue to take their lives, 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.600 whether you say it's an accident or whatever, you know, 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.240 at some point it doesn't matter. You know, you know, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.880 the road to hell was paying with good intention. So 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.280 that doesn't that doesn't don't tell us that because we 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.000 don't care about We just want to live. The bottom 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.040 line is we're trying to live. And you know, and 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.080 and and somebody and I tell people all the time, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.360 I'm not gonna sit there. I'm not gonna sit there. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.960 I've seen Dr Cornell West he was doing an interview 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.680 and he was talking about how he could not watch 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.040 what was happening to George Floyd. It's no way he 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.040 would be there to sit there for nine minutes. He says, 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.320 they are black men in this world that are not 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.720 going to watch that. We're gonna have to intervene. We're 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.240 gonna risk all and I'm one of those whitmen, you know. 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.440 So that's another fear. That's another that's another fear because 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.960 I my father, my son, my brothers, they are not 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.800 the type of people that are gonna I mean we 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.280 first of all, we were raised in a revolutionary family. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.920 So they're not the type of people that are gonna 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.960 stand by and watch. But but you don't want people 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.520 who did stand by and watch to feel bad like 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.760 they like like it's the bottom line is that the 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.160 situation we're being put in is not right. You know 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.360 what I'm saying. It's just not right. You should not 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:25.960 have to choose between stepping into and a murder in 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.960 progress and getting yourself killed as well, because believe it, 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.760 believe it, those other police officers that were there who 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.719 did nothing to help George Floyd, oh, they would have 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.880 pulled their guns on another person that ran up on 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.040 them and those and those individuals could have been killed 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.840 as well. And it's like, what what exactly do we do? 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.520 And and it brings me to my thought of the day, 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.720 because you know, now I'm just like thinking and in 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.560 a lot of ways, I feel paralyzed, you know, and 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.760 I haven't really been talking to you guys about it. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.240 What I've been dealing in my own mind with feeling 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.960 paralyzed because I'm tired of doing the same thing over 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.760 and over again and getting no results. Like I'm tired 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.920 of it, you know what I mean. And I have 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.720 conversations with the mothers of the movement, and I see 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:22.640 the pain like the every time the Dante right happens, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.360 every time they run that video back in the courtroom, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.360 even if the mothers are in watching that day. You know, 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.280 your socials, your family members, they're gonna mention, oh my god, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.400 we have to watch it again today. Do you know 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.840 what they go through? The fathers, the fare. I can't 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:42.920 imagine what Tracy Martin, right, Trayvon Martin's father, knowing that 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.640 his son was visiting with him, this happened in his 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.760 community on his watch. You know, his son was murdered 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.800 by somebody that I'm sure he feels like if he 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.440 had known that this was going on outside, he would 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.520 have gone out there and saved his son. And he wasn't. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.000 He wasn't allowed to do that. I mean, you've got 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.080 so many fathers. You've got Mike Brown, you have Oscar 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.520 Oscar Grant's uncle, uncle Bobby. There's father's mother's sisters. You 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.160 look at Dante Wright's family, his aunt, his hont is 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.960 out there screaming out like, how did this happen to 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.720 my nephew? She had to pick up her mother on 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:23.400 like a twelve hour drive from Alabama to Minnesota to 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.000 go pick up the boy's grandmother. Like this is some serious, 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:32.960 serious ship it is. It's really it's really dramatic, traumatic, drastic. 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:38.360 You know, I was watching oh Man, the young lady. 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.840 She was in the middle of the street screaming and crying. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.559 Look what they did to my brother. He didn't deserve this, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.680 you know. And we just a family, and there's a 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.880 baby that doesn't even know what's going on. It's just 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.439 a lot. But anyway, my thought of the day as 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.880 I'm you know, we're all on the edge of our seats. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:58.400 Just so people know, we are taping this episode today. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.520 And therefore, uh, the George Floyd, the verdict for the 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.440 officer who killed George Floyd, the ex officer who killed 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.840 George Floyd. It has not been released yet, um, but 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.600 by the time this airs it may so we will 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.320 have to come back and talk about that and update 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.040 folks at that time, Um, and what I was really 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.800 thinking about, it's like, doesn't make sense to even have 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.600 a trial if what we know, because I was listening 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:30.720 to them today, the the prosecution rested, the defense has rested, 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.640 so now it's about to go into close and arguments, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.960 and I'm sitting there listening to them saying it only 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.920 takes one juror to stop a conviction to throw the 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:47.880 whole situation. I know, it's like, that's funny, that's that's 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:52.600 actually very interesting because even if there's well, well, I mean, 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:57.800 there have been situations which have been hail Mary's right. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.400 But I know for sure from being in jury duty 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.360 and also having family members and friends who go to 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:10.679 jury duty, that they that jurors feel extremely pressured, extremely 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.840 pressured too. Like, so if there's one juror that's holding out, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.440 that juror gets a lot of pressure and a lot 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.240 of talking to and a lot of convincing and working 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.840 on that juror to join the rest of the group 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.800 to convey they do. I mean, people, that's where it works, right, 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.560 But I bet you in this situation, if there's one 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.360 juror who wants to hold out, I bet you it's 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.679 gonna be it won't be due process if we, you know, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.520 put too much pressure on that person or make them 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.480 feel like their decision is being you know, changed based 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.880 upon the opinion of whoever the court, the prosecut or, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.360 whoever it is the judge. I think for me, if you, 0:12:56.480 --> 0:13:00.360 if you've been watching this trial right in there is 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:06.720 a doubt that that I'm George Floyd's life was taken 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.920 by anything other than this man putting his foot on 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:15.360 his name. If you've seen something his knee, his knee, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:22.320 whatever it is. If you watch this trial over and over, 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.960 watching that video, hearing those people say hey, stop, stop, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.520 you're killing this man, watching this man have no remorse, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.280 no empathy, no sympathy, not move from the same spot, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.280 and continuing as a man played for us life. If 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:41.240 you watch this trial where they showed where everyone over 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.880 and over said that this man would have been alive 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.240 had this foot not been on his neck, I don't. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.840 I don't think I think that is the overwhelming consensus. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.640 If you can watch that and come back and say 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.560 that this man is not guilty of killing this man, 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.319 then I don't. I don't know where we go with 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.440 justice in them. I don't know. I don't even know 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.240 what we do. It's not about. But that's the thing, right, 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.400 So so right now, I think the makeup of the 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.160 jury is eight white folks and four people of color 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.640 and probably five five because I think you have to 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.400 have alternate or whatever. But I don't know for sure. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.800 I know there's twelve people for show, and eight of 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.640 them are definitely white. Um. Now, first of all, the 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.160 assumption that people of color are going to side or 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.760 be on the right side of justice and the right 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.720 side of history is not always an assumption that should 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.480 be made. Because we've seen black folks walk into the 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.840 room and say, I'm not gonna I'm I'm not black, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.920 I'm you know, I'm American, I'm I'm fourth, i'mb human. Right, 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.560 We've seen that. So you can't be too sure that 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.320 just because there are a few black, you know, black, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.280 black and brown people on the jury, that they are 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.080 going to just go along with what we know is right. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.720 We're not asking you to go in and do anything illegal. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.920 We're not asking you to lie. We're not asking you 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.800 to choose the movement, uh to feel sorry for George Floyd. 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.480 We're talk about the law, the facts, and what you 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.400 see happening in front of your eyes. Right, But and 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.720 and and and and and there may be many white 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:12.800 people who actually side with our community because we've seen 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.160 that that somebody was telling the story the other day. Yeah, 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.160 somebody was telling me this a story the other day 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.640 of how a white man a white woman lied on 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.480 him and the white husband approached a man in the store. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.400 It was something to do with a mask or whatever, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.120 and the white husband approached him and it was another 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.920 white man that got involved and told the husband, hey, 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.400 your wife is lying. So I you know, I can't 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.880 sit here and say that all the white people are 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.840 going to be wrong. We don't know what's gonna happen, 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.200 but it takes one person. And the thing about what 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.400 you're saying that if you could watch that trial and 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:54.960 go against justice, not against George Floyd, against justice, If 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.360 you could do that, it's something wrong with you. But 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.840 the issue is they could be watching it and no 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.320 damn well that what they see is actually unjustified and 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.840 go along with what they believe is their duty to 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.880 whomever it is that they serve and the people that 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.360 they serve, or the whatever they serve. It is not 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.000 us it's not our communities, it's not black men, it's 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:22.360 not it's none of that. Right, White supremacy is alive 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.520 and well. And it's very possible that one person on 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.000 that jury will say I just can't do it, like 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.040 they got people to come in in and lie on 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.200 the stand, and you know, in terms of of of 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.960 witnesses or whatever experts that try to lie and say 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:45.000 stuff about carbon monoxide and and it wasn't his knee 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.840 wasn't really on the neck and all of this craziness. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.720 So if those people were willing to do that, then 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.200 why is it that a German? You know? And I 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.080 don't want to think negatively, must that's not the thing 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.320 with something I'm trying to do. So I don't want 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.440 people to feel like why I'm my bringing negative energy 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.840 to this situation. I'm just bringing reality because we see 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.520 it happen all the time. And when I heard them today, 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.399 they kept saying, it's almost like the media gets you 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.600 prepared for what they know is coming. And I and 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.920 I was specifically watching Fox News because you know that's 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.439 something I do, and everybody ask me, why do you 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.440 do that to yourself? I have to watch Fox News 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.440 because That's where I learned the lies. I see when 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.199 all of a sudden they put my face up and 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.639 they start talking about terrorism. In the same segment, in 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.920 the same segment with stories about me, Linda's star sore 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:36.280 portreats colors of Black Lives Matter, Sean King like they 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.640 will put us on Fox News, And in the same 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:45.159 same segment, somehow terrorism and and and how BLM or 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.800 Black Lives Matter as a movement, not the organization is 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.960 you know, it's a terrorist or terrorist group. They say 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.720 the craziest things about us. So I watch Fox News 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.800 to keep up with what the opposition is saying and 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.680 how they're positioning them cells. And by the way, they 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:06.920 are using their media to organize, to organize an arsenal, 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.800 a movement of people who are against us. And I 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.199 noticed today they kept saying it only takes one it 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:17.359 only takes one jury only. What does that mean? It 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.800 means exactly what they said, It only takes one juror, 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.520 you know, to funk it up, you know, And that's 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.399 just the reality. And that's what that's what our justice 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.679 system has and that's why we've been failed. Because the 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.399 one j when you when you're in the minority. You know, 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.320 when you look at the reality of what America is 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:39.119 based on and built on, and how the value of 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.640 black life, like we have to say black lives matter, 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.600 because the value of black life has not mattered to 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.600 the to the majority of this country since its inception. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:52.280 So that's what we face with we they understand that 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.840 all we need is one person to understands that white 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.919 supremacy has to continue to go on to be on 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.920 that jury and say, look, I don't given what happened, 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.840 he ain't guilty. You know, the same way that you 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.320 was having a conversation right about what we were talking 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:11.560 about jury duty. And that's why black people, please, you 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.679 got to go to jerry duty. You got stuff to do. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.840 You don't want to sit there. But black people need you. 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.720 Black people need you, man, because if you don't understand 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.199 what they if you understand what they're facing, you know 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:32.359 you might need them one day. Wow, that's deep. No, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.560 for real, Like as many times as we have figured 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:41.080 out ways to circumvent going to jury duty, you don't 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:42.800 have to go to jury duty because I don't know 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.160 because I have a feeling, but I remember being called 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.119 to jerry duty for years and I'm not doing And 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.200 when I sat there and I watched, because you get 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.800 to see them pick the jury, and they asked them 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.520 certain questions and it was people that was like, yo, 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.800 I just I know him, I've seen him with anything. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:02.760 I see him before. Here a good dude. I ain't 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.240 gonna send him to Jim And okay you dismissed. I'd 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:06.640 be like, why do you have to say that, man, 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:11.040 I need you. What was your experience? My experience for 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:15.359 Jerry was it was it was. It was the worst 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.600 experience I ever had watching my jurry get picked. It 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:24.440 was probably about five white people, three blacks and two 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:31.720 like three Hispanics to its Latinos my fault and in 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:33.560 the way they positioned, and I was just and I 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.000 watched how they they try to set it up. It's 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.040 like a battle, right, and they pick two people who 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.440 are strong willed in both different directions. You got one 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.520 person is that you could tell way more conservative, and 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.960 they're not from your community, and they don't really care, 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:49.720 and you could tell if they're looking at you in 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:51.440 a certain way. Then you've got one person and said, 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:53.879 I'm from the community and I think I could be 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:55.800 feeling this trial and this and that, and it seems 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.159 like they kind of for you. So they set it 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.000 up to where there's this battle with both of them, 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.800 and then everybody else is kind of like a supporting cast. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:05.760 They just fit in here and there and they can 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:09.240 be swayed. So they know exactly what they doing, and 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.160 you don't. You don't get it. You just watch them. 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.960 You don't know what. You don't know what. We have 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.280 to go to jury dude, we have to. We have 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.800 to go to It's so important. If it's nothing else 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.199 that you take from this conversation today and from the 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.959 George Floyd case and so many cases, is that we 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:30.120 have to be the spooks that sat by the door, 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.040 the watchman for our community. Um, we've got to go 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.320 to jury duty and make sure that and not I'm 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.080 not saying go to jury duty and do anything illegal 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.320 or wrong. I'm saying that too many of our people 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:49.640 are being wrongfully convicted because we're unlawfully treated and unprotected 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.639 and we need you and need to bring your perspective 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:56.360 and your understanding of the culture. That So when they're 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:58.320 having these conversations, they said, oh, he had to do 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.359 this because I've done this before and I ain't do 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.240 none of that, So why does that make them guilty? 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.359 When you when you're having a conversation with a novice 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.160