WEBVTT - What Are We Voting For? 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.240 What's good family, it's your girl to make a d 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.760 mallory and it's your boy my son in general. And 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.880 we are your host of street politicians, the place with 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.840 the streets and politics. Me going on, Mr Lennon, I 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.279 am blessing a Holly favorite on this Tuesday morning. Her youth. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.000 It is another day is too. That's why we're taping 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.520 on a Tuesday. I want a Tuesday. It is another 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:35.600 day of being alive. Thank god we above above ground man, 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.080 because a lot of people won't make it man. And 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.480 speaking of being above ground, also need to be making 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.240 sure we are taking care of ourselves. And I um 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.839 am on my way to get my annual physical today 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.159 and I realized that so many of us are not. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.440 In fact, it's been two years. I hated my doctor. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.360 I'm not gonna lie like, I just have to tell 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.400 the truth. She just didn't get me, and she just 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.280 didn't spare time, like she just didn't care. Really, she 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.320 just didn't um And so I was very very unhappy. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.360 And it takes time to find a good doctor, to 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.240 find a different doctor. And I really wanted to be 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.920 with a black woman. Now that's not to say that 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:22.120 I'm I'm against other races being your doctor. Because prior 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.720 to the doctor that I don't, I don't love. I 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.080 had another woman doctor who was a white woman that 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.080 I love so much. She was amazing, amazing, but she 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:33.959 moved to a different thing and out of the network 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.560 and that, you know, and so I ended up with 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.479 this woman, and you know, and I don't like her. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.320 So now I have a new doctor. I'm starting all 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.920 over and today is the beginning. And I'm you know, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.160 people just need we all need to be taking care 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.400 of ourselves, right because you know, all the stress and 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.680 what not that we're under. Like I was saying that 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.440 I feel extremely exhausted. Yes, I do run a lot 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.600 and all of that, but I also know that some 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.600 of the things that I'm consuming is slowing me down. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.000 So you know, I'm gonna today, i'mna be using all 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.560 the benefits. I want the nutritionist information and anything so 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.600 I could take care of myself. I'm up here to 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.799 the bottom of my people. I mean, that's a good thing. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.040 I gotta get on. You know, Black men we don't 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.520 like doctor's period. I don't care what doctor you got, 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.799 we just don't like it. It ain't something that we're 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.920 into and you know, we have to change that cycle 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.480 because a lot of us find out we're sick late. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.680 You know, we feel like we're just invincible. You know, 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.519 we don't want to like I remember just being I 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.200 always wanted one of those people. I don't want to 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.799 hear bad news, like I don't need to go there, 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.480 and then you tell me something wrong with me, and 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.240 and from in my perspective, you know, and there's a 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.600 lot of us as men, we feel like the minute 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.960 that you start telling people that they sick, they get sick, right, 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.880 because it would be like for years, you'll be good, 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.760 and did you go to doctor? And then like, hey 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.080 you got two days to live? They could be like, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.720 what the funk you're talking about? I was good, I 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.240 ain't got no next you know, he's losing weight, hairfalling 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.600 out all of the ship. Because a lot of sickness 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.160 is mental. You know, a lot of body physically thinks 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.480 it's physical things, the ailments that definitely affect us. So 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:16.200 I'm not saying that, but nine I think fifty uh, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.600 sickness is inside the mind. Right when your mind is defeated, 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.000 your body don't fight right when your mind tells you 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.880 that you're not well, when you're sick. You watch people 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.680 who ain't even sick mentally think they sick and they 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.200 start to look sick. So, you know, I think it's 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:37.240 because it's stress. Stress causes you know, damage to your body. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.040 So I think as black men, we have to get 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.400 over that hurt. I think that's a hurt. A lot 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.040 of black men be like, yo, I'm just gonna deal 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.920 with it all. Hear A no bad dude, I'm gonna 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.360 go along. So you know I'm moving forward and that 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.680 I'm working on my physical and getting my stuff together, 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.000 you know, making sure a part of it, a part 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.640 of it. I will say this on we we have 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:05.240 to always be mindful that a lot of our behavioral 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.960 patterns are not just things that oh, you know, you're saying, well, 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.040 we're nervous about the doctor. We don't like the doctor 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.680 because it makes us feel It's not just that, it's 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.200 that we've been taught from childhood, I mean, excuse me, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:22.920 from childhood, from from from being enslaved that we were 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.719 super strong and we didn't have any medical care. We 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.200 had to figure out how to hustle up a little 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.120 bit or whatever, you know, use the live off the 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.960 land in order to deal with some of our ailments. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.039 Now that made us extremely great. You know physicians, if 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.359 you will, that we created all the things that you 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.920 could think of to heal problems. But nonetheless, we never 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.120 had a culture of going to the doctor or being 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.280 taken care of a certain way because the doctor in 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.120 the community wasn't for us. They didn't give a ship 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.000 if we die in the fields. So I think a 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.400 lot of what you know, these issues are things that 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.120 have we have to be depro ran from from being enslaved. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.479 So that's my thoughts on that. But sday we are 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:10.560 moving UM and accordingly to accommodate the fact that I 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:15.479 have to go to the doctor. Actually today I have 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:20.000 to go to UUM rally. You know, there there's a 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.320 there was a building in the Bronx with these elderly 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.000 ladies and men were talking my how teenagers are beating 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.560 up on them, hitting them with sticks, robbing um just 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.400 pretty much terrorizing the community. And it actually brought tears 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.080 in my heart and I have posted it and a 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.080 couple of my guys that worked within the UM the 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.640 Cure Violence Network, have reached out to me because they 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.680 found the address and they were already you know, saying 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.080 that they're gonna go over there around four o'clock, so 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.640 you know, we're gonna rally over it. But just it 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.640 just really broke my heart to hear what's going on, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.880 and I don't as a young man, you know, I 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.760 always retorted spect and take care of the elderly and 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.360 make sure they was comfortable, and don't let them carry 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.520 bags upstairs, and hold the door open and make sure 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.120 that you straighten up, you know. So to hear that 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.800 teenagers are terrorizing elderly, I don't even know how we 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.120 got here. I don't know what in the hell is 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.520 going on, but I know it can't stay like that. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.680 So you know, a lot of us, concerned individuals and 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.960 people from the community are gonna be over there doing 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.360 what we have to do in that community. And next 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.440 week I'll give an update on what happened. You know, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.200 hopefully we'll be able to bring the you know, some 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.520 clarity and some unity to the community. A lot of 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.240 these young kids are really just being misinformed man and 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.720 being and being taught a culture of violence and a 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.280 coach I call a coward culture that doesn't do anything 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.840 for them, and it's because they've learned it They're not 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.640 naturally like this. It's what they've been taught and what's 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.760 been being insensivized in today's society. So you know we're 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.520 gonna do that. Well, you know, I think that it 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.840 is true that there is a changing culture. But I 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.560 will say that even when I was young, while there 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.240 was much more protection for elders and children there we 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.520 have always been. There's always been an element of our 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:20.120 community that terrorized everybody, right they robbed the elders. I remember, 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.520 um it was a thing going on in the projects 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.640 where they was throwing old people down the stairs, trying 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.040 to rob them first to the mind. In fact, I 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.120 had a neighbor who, between her own children who were 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:36.160 addicted to crack and other people you know, that was 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.480 like out there hunting at the first of the month. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.840 She used to give all of her money to my parents. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.280 It was more than one person in our building that 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.440 did that. They had to give their money to other 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.920 people that they think, you know, thought would protect them. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.960 So there's always been an element of it. But it 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.240 seems like it's become cool, because that wasn't cool if 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.200 you got caught doing it. Just like you guys are 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.520 going to the community today, people really approach you and 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.200 it could be a real, real serious situation. By the way, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.160 you don't know who's grandmother or mama or a friend 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.520 or whatever you are offending or harming, and people add 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.360 to deal with that like seriously when we were young. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.400 So you know, I'm glad to see that you guys 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:22.640 are going out there making sure you find a way 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.400 to figure out what is wrong with these kids, Like 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.640 what exactly is the issue? What is it that you need? 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.680 Or do you think this is fun? Because if you 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.199 think it's fun, we're gonna let you know it's not fun. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.679 It's not gonna happen. But if you have a need, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.679 if something is wrong, then let's try to figure out. 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.760 And I'm glad you're violence will be out there with you. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.440 What exactly is it that you are trying to accomplish. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:50.000 So anyway, so I have been for the last several 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:54.160 hours in a long debate with a number of individuals, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:59.800 um you know, privately about an incident that happened in 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:04.280 that Atlanta just yesterday. So by the time people here, uh, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:08.440 this podcast will be on Wednesday, so Monday. A woman 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.040 in Atlanta. In Atlanta sounds like she she's from the Islands. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.480 I don't know which one, but she certainly sounds like 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.520 she maybe of Caribbean descent, but a black woman. Um. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:25.720 She uh killed two individuals and injured one person shot them. Um. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.720 And of course, you know, at first, the speculation was 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.160 just kind of like what happened, Like everybody's like, oh 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.680 my god, you know, the woman just goes wild and 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:38.160 just shoots people. But then, uh, it became clear that 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:43.560 she actually targeted these individuals after going to the police 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.560 to report that the two people she killed, one a 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.880 building manager and second, uh, the engineer in the building 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.520 she lived in, that they broke into her apartment and 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.920 they broke into her safe and took some of the 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.080 things that she needed for a lawsuit that she had 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.080 been very public. I'm hearing that on LinkedIn. She was 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.839 talking about this lawsuit and um, you know, she had 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:13.240 been out there pretty much saying that she had she 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.840 was a whistleblower and was reporting some individuals, and she 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.800 had all of this stuff on a hard drive. Sounds 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.840 like some of it may have been connected to the 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.480 same building. I don't know, but nonetheless, she had been 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.040 you know, she tried to go get the police. Two 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.200 first of all, take her situation seriously with the robbery 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:38.120 of her home, but also to change the police report 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.880 from just you know, a dispute to a robbery to 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:47.679 an actual robbery. The officer that she so she videos 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.640 this encounter with the officer. I don't know if you 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:55.400 had a chance to see this, but so she she 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.119 she videos the encounter with the officer, but she's anxiously 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.480 trying to exp playing to the office, and the officer 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:07.240 very very passive aggressive, is like, you know, you uh, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.959 you just have to you know. But basically, one thing 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.160 that the officer is saying that I completely understand is 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.280 that she can't just go change the report. It doesn't 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.400 work like that. Again, it's what we've been saying. These 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:24.520 officers also are caught up in a system where they 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.400 are they are the way in which they are told 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.720 to handle things is dangerous. Like it doesn't it's not 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.160 helpful for them, it's not helpful for the civilians or anybody. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.880 Because they're telling her that she needs to go call 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.760 a phone number for the burglary department, and we already 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.400 know what that looks like to try to get somebody 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.760 to listen to her to potentially fix the you know, 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.520 come and investigate the situation and determine whether or not 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.360 a survivory. They said, well, we didn't. The lady said, well, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.680 i'm you know, the report doesn't say they was breaking 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.120 an entry. She's like, but they have keys. It's the 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.720 building manager and the engineer, so they have keys to 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.160 my apartment. There's no breaking an entry. So she's explaining 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.760 this and anxiously going on. The officer takes a phone 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.680 call right in the middle of her talking. Then the 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.840 officer is frustrated because the lady is cutting her off 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.880 trying to explain herself, and the officer basically you know, 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.120 starts writing on her paper and and you know, finally 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.760 she responds to the lady and she's like, you know, listen, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.240 I'm gonna say to you one more time. I get it. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:28.960 She don't told the lady the same thing over and 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.160 over again. This is just what it is. You gotta 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.240 talk to the burglary department. The woman turns around then, 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.479 so there's another lady there, Mike who she is. Obviously 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.040 this woman had been trying to talk to first, and 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.520 they went and got this sergeant. So she turns around 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.720 and I see the lady behind the desk say to 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.679 the sergeant, thank you, like you know, let's get this 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.960 lady out of here. But it's one thing that the 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:57.000 woman said, she said, I will um what did she say? 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:01.240 She said? I She said, I'm gonna go talk to 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:05.760 the burglary department, and whatever happens happens. So she says 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.359 to the woman. The officer goes on about her business. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.439 It's done. As far as she concerned. This lady left 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:17.439 and became the law, which is completely wrong, outrageous, there's 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.880 no excuse for it. But she went and shot and 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:30.160 killed these individuals and injured another person. From my perspective, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.160 and I think, you know, for today, my thought of 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.719 the day is why do we Why are we so 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.600 insane that we keep doing the same thing over and 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:45.280 over and over again. It is very clear that this woman, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.960 either because of other things in her past and or 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:55.319 the stress of the current situation was aggravated and she 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.679 is not in her mental complete stability because she went 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.360 to the airport with the same clothe is on with 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.120 the gun, so obviously she's not right. This officer is 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:08.920 unable to either identify it or doesn't care, but the 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.480 woman is with her trying to solve the problem and 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:19.320 nothing happens. America is crazy because now people are dead, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.240 either because they went in her house or not. She 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.480 still did not have the right to kill them. But 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.160 this is what people are going to do if they 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.800 feel like they can't get help, especially with the mental 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.720 health crisis that we're dealing with in our society. I 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.280 don't know, I don't know what we are going to do, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.880 because that woman could kill any one of us if she, 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.000 you know, whatever the situation, and it's not just her, 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.440 but people are going to the police and not one 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.920 one is not the place, unfortunately, to get help for 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.880 too many things, and certainly if you have a mental 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.680 health crisis going on at the same time while you're 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.600 trying to deal with somebody potentially breaking in your heart. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.200 I mean, it's a lot people, you know, you get 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.120 the more it's it's it's like pretty much, we'll happen more, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.000 O Jack like, but he didn't kill the people, like 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.200 those people stole stuff from him and had his stuff 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.400 and he wanted to get his stuff back, like people 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.760 are at some point, right, human nature kicks in, right, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.640 people are their emotionally, they're not trained to deal with 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.520 certain ships. They don't, you know, they just figure out, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.840 I gotta protect myself. Somebody belong to me. This is 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.400 why we live and we live in where we have 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.120 to have law and we have to have things to 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.440 establish things because we know that human nature that if 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.240 you're not giving a boundary that the average person will 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.760 cross it. If if there was no if there was 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.440 no penalties for violence and all that, it'll be a 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.680 lot more people getting stabbed and killed. A lot of 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.960 people just don't want to deal with the consequences. So 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.640 what happens when you deal with individuals who don't give 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.160 a funk about a consequence, who had made up in 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:57.960 their mind that you've done something wrong with it and 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:02.680 they're not able to either discern or understand, or mental 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.520 health gets to a point where they they you know, 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.840 they've blacked out, they've they've left and in absent the consequences, 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.960 then you have these situations, right, So what happens is 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.680 the police and all of these people have to be 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:20.560 skilled enough to understand that I have to make each 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.000 individual level of priority because when somebody's losing their things, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.120 their lives, you know, women come in saying they've been hurt, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.640 this and that when they don't see that you take 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:34.160 them seriously or you you prioritize their situation, then at 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:38.040 that point they take matters into their own hands. This 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.880 is this is not anything new. This will can consistently happen. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.440 And I think police officers have to do a lot 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:49.520 better job and understanding the situation and looking and and 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.200 prioritize and looking and making people feel like because you're 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.800 supposed to protect and serve and when you're not doing 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.160 either one of those things. But yet and still you 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.480 wanted the highest pay entity in the world. It doesn't 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.560 make sense. It doesn't make because why do I have 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.760 to call the burglary department. I'm standing here, right here, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.200 right now, and you might and she might have said 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.200 to her, you know what, ma'am, Right at this moment, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.000 we don't have anybody that can deal with it. But 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.080 if you go back to your partner within twenty four hours, 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.800 we're going to send somebody there, or don't vote to 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.560 your apartment, so you don't have fingerprints to whatever it is. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.679 But it wasn't taken seriously. So your point is a 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.919 hundred percent right. So you know, as we come up 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.320 on our topic today, there was another news story that 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.000 you know that pretty much made me think about it, right, 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.720 because I always get a lot of flak about voting 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.679 in all these things. Who's this lesson tweets and Trump 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:46.880 and buying all this bullshit that we we we hear 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:51.320 old top and I understand, I kind of get it. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.879 You can't say it's bullshit. Bullshit. The reason why I 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.880 say it it's bullshit because I think in the situation 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.240 that we would talking about, it was clear what we 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.680 were saying, right, And I think when we were talking 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.600 about Biden and Trump, there was a clear understanding of 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.200 why we said we were voting against Trump, that we 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.520 we made it clear that we were voting for a 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.960 better opponent. We made it clear that we didn't trust anything, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.560 but we we just didn't feel that Trump we had 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.600 anything positive for us at all. We made it clear 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.000 that we wasn't the biggest Biden fans, we wasn't on 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.560 the Biden but we made all of those things clear. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.080 But people just wanted to just have something to say afterwards. 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.800 So I think that's why I says bullshit. So now 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.560 there of two former judges who sent kids to jail 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:47.280 for kickbacks. They were getting paid two block kids up 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.240 for low level crimes and send them to these private prisons. 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.920 And this was in form. It was in Pennsylvania, and 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.080 they were ordered to pay over two million, two million 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:03.159 to two hundred million, two hundreds of people that they victimized, 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:08.000 you know. And and I'm saying to myself, and these 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:16.880 were democratic elected judges, they were elected by Yes, So 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.359 the FAGA continues because this is something we knew about 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.040 the pay what was the kids for cash? Yeah, this 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.760 is this is this was this was just this was 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.719 just this decision was just handed down where they had 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.359 to pay over two million, you know, on the eighteen 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.919 so and it made me think, you know, a lot 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:42.560 of people are saying, doesn't even make sense to vote. 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.480 Should we be voting? You know? And if we're saying 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.080 we should, why should we write? And I have a perspective, 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.280 And I'm not mad at anybody at this point, right, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.560 I'm not And I still share my thing. At this point, 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.520 I'm not mad at anyone who's completely be fed up 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.320 with the system. Right. We look at everything and there 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:09.399 are you know, everywhere you look, it doesn't seem like 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.920 anybody's doing anything for black people. You know, I understand 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.520 why black people saying fun a vote, I'm just out 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.119 here doing this. But then again, for me, you know, 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:23.639 when I when I look at the situation, I always say, 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.720 we have to live in America, right, and if you're 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:32.480 somebody who actually pays taxes, has a job, are going 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.719 to be affected by the laws that are handed down 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:40.840 by these government officials, right, then you will want to 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.199 be able to say, Okay. It's like for me, I 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:47.280 want to be able to say, all right, this, this 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.080 policy that this one candidate has is something that I 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.160 know can benefit me and my family and my people, right, 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.720 so I'm willing to vote for this because of that, 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.320 I'm gonna look at both candidates to say how many 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:06.120 policies are they um are trying to pass that can 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:10.440 accurately and positively affect me and my people, and then 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.440 I can weigh both of them. It's not about I'm 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:17.520 not choosing my best friends. I'm not choosing allies, you know. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.320 And I think that's where a lot of people don't understand. 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.560 It's like when you do business and in personal is different. 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.359 Right when I go into a business situation, I'm not 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:28.919 doing business with the person that I want to go 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.840 out and hang out with at the ball the person 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.280 that I think is cool. When I'm sitting down and 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:37.199 I'm doing business with somebody, I'm saying, what is the 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:41.040 person going to do to accurately affect me? And I think, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.760 you know, I think that's what people miss inside voting 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.320 and whether or not to vote, because you're going to 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.399 be affected anyway, You're going to be So if you 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.080 don't like either one of the candidates, then you got 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:57.840 to find something that the candidate is passing or proposing 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:01.560 the past that you like it, or the push for it, 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:03.640 or you have you have to push, and you and 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:05.520 and then you have to find a candidate that you 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:09.159 feel that you have the better opportunity to push to 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.600 do the things you want. Right. But some of them, 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:16.600 sometimes both candidates are complete trash, right, And I get that, 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:21.719 and and my thing is that I also understand. But 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.240 there are people, and there's some of them are our 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:29.000 friends who believe that they are living outside of the system, 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:34.439 especially in the sort of finance space. Um and you know, 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.560 in some of ours, some of the pockets of our movement, 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.160 they're like, none of that stuff matters. I'm not I'm 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:45.560