WEBVTT - Mercy with Anthony Hamilton and activist Aaminah Turabi 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:08.520 What's up everyone. I'm to make a d Mallory, one 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.680 of your hosts of Street Politicians, and this over here, 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:13.920 it's my son the General. Baby. I'm in the house, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.120 number one show, Black and Fed network and I Women 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.439 TV Baby, number one show in the world. You see 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:22.119 what I have to deal with, number one show in 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.760 the world. And this is the place where the streets 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.960 and politics me. Let's get to it. Yeah, you see 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.400 as you can see you today today I'm feeling good man, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:38.280 you know I'm feeling good. Energies on point. I don't 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.760 know how I find myself in these situations. Energy on point. 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.720 Because we're out here man, number one, number one show. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.519 It's gonna be the number one show. We are we 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.400 claiming it. We already Street Politics the numbers one one 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.600 that we have to call the boss man Charlemagne the 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.960 God and ask number one. Are we number one number 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.400 and show? Baby? But I know we're not on Woman 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.320 TV number one, on Women TV too, babys number one. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:13.280 So this is our show today is about Mercy. Mercy 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.520 number one, Mercy about to be number one so in 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:20.520 the world, Anthony Hamilton's Mercy. I'm really excited about being 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:25.240 on Anthony Hamilton's album. You know, there's some people that 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.479 you like, some people that you love, and some people 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.080 that you love. If you really just you don't know 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:36.480 what we're talking about. Tamika Mallory is featured on Anthony 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:42.080 Hamilton's upcoming single Mercies. Yes, and I've been holding this 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.760 one for a long time. And let me just go 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:49.000 ahead and tell everyone that you did se of the 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:56.600 writing line. It wasn't ghosting because ghost writing is supposed 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.280 to me and you don't tell anybody, and you seem 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.160 to just be and everybody, So it really wasn't goes 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:10.200 at all. It was very very clear. No shout out 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.760 to you for the way you delivered that, like when 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:17.079 you hear how she delivered it. They they're loving it. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.399 The people are loving it. So I'm happy about that. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.639 But my thought of the day, because you know, I'll 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.440 be thinking, because that's what I do. I think all 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:35.760 the time. And I heard that um Joe Biden and 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.680 Kamala Harris, the President and Vice president elect, met with 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.760 a number of civil rights organizations that I uh love 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:50.320 and and and believe in and support they have. They 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.680 called themselves legacy organizations, and in fact, I worked for 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:59.119 one for fourteen years. They met with the president electing 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.840 and the vice president and in conversation it's been leaked. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.919 Now who leaked it. I don't know quote unquote leaked. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.960 It's been leaked. I know the individuals from the civil 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.320 rights side who were in the meeting, and I know 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.680 they're not the types of type of individuals to just 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.760 go out leaking information because they're serious about what they're 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.120 trying to get done. UM. And they went in and 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.880 they talked about police reform and other issues. In fact, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.680 I thought that UM, listening to the tape that President 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.280 Johnson of the inn double a CP, that some of 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.000 his points were really really strong. But the leaked tapes 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:44.000 show or allow us to hear that. Joe Biden kept saying, 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.160 don't try to go after us and put too much 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.400 pressure on us around police reform, UM, and even on 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.960 gun control, we have to be careful. And he gave 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.920 some some reasons. I'm not gonna say they're real good reasons, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.720 but reasons for why on gun control you can't make 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:07.080 certain moves. However, on the issue of police reform, he said, 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.200 you know, we're being pummeled on the issue of on 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.120 the title defund police, which you know I think is trash, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.680 but you know, we'll we'll go back to that later. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.440 And he said, the fight around police reform, it's not 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.880 a good thing for us to talk about right now. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.160 We need to hold on that. We're definitely gonna do 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.320 some things. We're not gonna defund anyone. We're just going 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.000 to um hold people accountable. And he goes into a 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:38.120 whole thing, but he continuously says, this is not the 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.119 time to have a big fight around police reform. Let's 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:45.240 hold on that because we need to win the Georgia 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.280 seats for the Senate seats in the runoff. And he says, 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.720 and these people are hitting us hard on on defunding, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.960 and they they're saying we're the party that wants to 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.960 defund police. Um. So he wants people to turn down 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:02.200 in essence. So my thought of the day, what I 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.479 was thinking about is why do people running for office? 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.000 And in this case, I have to say, the Democrats 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:14.240 want us to turn up during election season and then 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.720 turned down when it comes to actually holding them accountable 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.600 for the things that we asked for. I just don't 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:28.279 understand can because it's clearly simple, right the Republicans have 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.760 a party with a clear definition of who they are, right, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.760 and the Democratic Party is comprised of everybody else. So 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.880 what it does is means that you need a little 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:40.680 bit of these people, you need a little bit of 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.719 those people. There's no clear agenda within the Democratic Party. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:49.279 So that's why they don't adhere or focus on one base, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.920 even though constantly it seems that the black people are 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.720 the ones who are bailing them out. But they understand 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.760 that when they get into office that they have to 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:03.320 appeal to somebody else another. They understand, or they think, 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.520 or they believe, they believe, But the thing is they 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.680 have research to actually show this. You know why, because 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.280 we have taken our eyes off the ball so many times. Right, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.359 So what happens is we go to the polls hard, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.640 boom bone, we vote you in, and then what happens 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.120 is they say, you know, if you look at runoff election, 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.080 they said, the numbers show that mostly white people go 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.920 to the run off election. So we're completely like, Okay, 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.000 we got the president, we did our job. We're going 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.039 to sleep, we and doing. We got the people we want. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.040 We're good. They understand, and when they get into office, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.080 what they need to do is appeal to people that 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.040 are gonna follow all the way through. So what we 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.200 have to understand is the Democratic Party Northern Republican Party 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.760 have our best interests in at hand. So what they're 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.000 gonna do is try to figure out how to appease 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.240 you and give you a little bit of So none 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.880 of That's why I said, I've never voted for an ally. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.400 I'm voted for a better opponent. So what he's doing 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.360 is saying, look, I want to be able to do this, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.200 but historically it shows that in order for me able 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.480 to do anything, I have to appeal to these people. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.000 That's why they wanted Joe Biden because he's a moderate liberal. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.280 He's one of those people who can appeal to the 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:21.400 conservatives and appeal to the Democratic Party, so to the 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.920 no to the conservatives and the and the left, the left. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.720 So we understand this is what his strategy is. He's 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.360 clear about his strategy. We were clear when when the 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.040 Democratic Party got him in. They were clear what it 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.920 was gonna take for him to be able to do that. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.040 But but but see, but that's my problem because then 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:46.120 what they believe the actual research shows something different. Number One, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.000 when you think about people like Alexandria Acacia right, and 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.600 she accassio and she has said it many times. She 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:58.040 also believes in and carries the slogan defund police to 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:04.760 the chess. Right. She's saying, we unseated people who are 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:11.560 moderate Democrats, right or or moderate liberals whatever you know, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:16.400 because Kevin Kelly Loffler says they are what are they radicals? Whatever? 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:21.000 Um you know? And so she she says, we unseated 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.840 a number of establishment Dems, people who you know, they 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.600 follow that rule that you were talking about, and we 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.680 put people who are progressive, super duper progressive in office. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:37.040 Corey Bush is an example of that, someone who won 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:42.360 on the platform of changing police, defunding police. She won 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:47.120 her election um with that with using that same rhetoric 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.880 in tone right, So no, I'm I'm saying, though, the 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:56.640 research actually shows that because of the movement that hels 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.640 the defund police, Uh, slow in right, and forget the 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.400 damn slogan, because that's the ship that pisces me off. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.040 It's not about a slogan, it's about the actual plan. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.920 It's a plan. It is a plan. And because of 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.840 people like you and me who say defunding the police 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.079 and mean it. We were the ones that went out 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:24.280 and got young voters to go with Joe Biden and others. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.600 We didn't do that under our organizational efforts, but when 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:31.280 we did our personal work, we went out and we 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.080 were able to to to move people to vote. First 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.000 of all, because people were like, and I'm gonna be 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.640 at my house, okay, But we got them to the 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.960 polls and in many cases, um, we were able to 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.200 get people to say, you know what, I'm actually going 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.200 to go out and vote for Joe Biden because I 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.520 think that that's the best choice at this time. We're 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.280 folks talking about defunding the police. Twenty percent of the 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:59.920 electorate in Georgia, of the electorate in Georgia that hel 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.760 to flip the state from red to blue, were younger 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:07.400 people who absolutely support the defunct police movement. So it 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.800 is a lie. Not it's not even just wrong. You know, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.560 you can say something's wrong. Some things are. You know, 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:20.040 it's a mistake, it's a lie say that. The real 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:24.680 the truth of the matter is that folk are afraid 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.920 to go up against the police unions, and many of 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.520 them do not want to shake up the system. In fact, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.920 I have heard that Joe Biden is saying, rather than 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.920 taking money away from police, he wants to pour more 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.680 hundreds of millions. I think I heard something like three 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:47.000 hundred million dollars into police and talking about training. We 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.320 don't need no more damn training. What we need is 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.760 to be able to model exactly that takes money from 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.400 one place and and really uh and and and reallocates resources. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.920 And so I said a million times, you could call 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.760 it pen the tail on the donkey. Just do it. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.080 That's the bottom line. And you know, I think the 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.120 reason why it's so difficult is because he doesn't share 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.640 the same values, and that's why he is a moderate. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.560 I only want to figure out what these titles. I 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.840 think you're right exactly, and I don't know this because 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.600 he does not share the same values that we shared. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.920 And they know he's right in the middle on the 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.240 cusp of everything. So he's not gonna be all the 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.040 way with us, just like he's not all with them. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.000 So we got what we got and we're just gonna 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.600 keep righting. So what are the streets talking about? Are 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.960 talking about the vaccine? The vaccine that I'm not gonna take. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:45.000 I've seen on my page while ago um artists that 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:50.120 I love, Lupe Fiasco, he wrote and Crazy Together. I 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.120 said that he's so glad that they approved the fights 0:11:55.160 --> 0:12:00.200 of vaccine and that you can't even come to his 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.440 show unless you take the vaccine. M hm, yeah, well 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.320 I won't be gone. It's not that. And I didn't 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:08.920 believe he said it at first, you know, and then 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.320 I got some wouldn't research and people d M he 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.880 said it. You know a lot of people have conversations 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.200 with him and and and this is just you know 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.079 what it's like for me. It's like when you start 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:25.559 really doing research right on vaccines, you realize that there's 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.440 a percentage of people who die from vaccines. You know, 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.079 there's a who have allergic reactions. Their bodies don't agree 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.080 with it, you know. So my thing is, if the 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:42.599 vaccine it's worth worse than the actual sickness, That's what 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.120 I'm saying. I'm gonna take my chance for the signess. Well, 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:51.800 I'm gonna build up my immune system problem, some seed oils, exercise, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.200 you know, I'm gonna do the things necessary to be healthy. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.040 Like why is nobody I hear about this vaccine? The 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.880 vaccine to be here in the world, I have not 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:04.200 seen any major platform, any major social media media anything 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.840 focusing on how do we make ourselves healthy enough to 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.200 build up our immune systems to make sure that we're 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.920 strong enough too. But they definitely don't want you to 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.200 do that when they're shoving burgers down your throat and 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.360 all types of bad foods for your body, and kids 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.199 can't get sleep, and they you know, they promote cereal 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.240 all day and all of these things that are actually 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.800 trashed for your body, the stuff I love to eat. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:32.520 So you know, I agree with you the vitamin piece 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.960 is important, but I also think it's it's it's it's 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.520 necessary for us to be responsible in the ways in 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.080 which we approach these things. Yes, you and me, we 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:48.120 probably don't need it, right and okay, so I'm just 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.320 saying I don't. I don't think we need it. I 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.520 know that I'm not going to run to take anybody vaccine. 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.480 I'm not gonna do that. Um. And that's and this 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:02.440 is something that my family specifically has been saying even before. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:08.080 So prior to coronavirus or to COVID nineteen, my family 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.000 was not into taking vaccines and flu shots and all 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.840 of that. We've never ever done that and we were okay, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.240 we are, we are right. But there are elderly people 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.120 who are locked in their homes who cannot go outside 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.080 and taking you know, uh, what do you call it 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.800 sea moss and all of that stuff. It may or 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.160 may not be good for them in reaction to their 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:38.240 medication and other things. We don't know. But whatine, but well, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.240 I think it has a little bit of the disease, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.520 right or the virus. I think I don't know all 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.240 of the things. And we should definitely get somebody to 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.280 come on and talk to us and help us understand 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.840 this vaccine. So a two hour crew, we definitely need 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.000 to do a show when we break down what's in 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.000 this vaccine because our people want to know more. A 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.960 lot of people have questions. Remember the driver the other 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.640 day said to us, I want to know the ingredients, right, 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.440 and so I think that's important. But I'm but I'm 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.000 going back to an important point. There are elderly people. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.600 There are people who have pre existing conditions who are 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.520 locked in their homes. They can't go out. They're scared 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.840 to death that if they get sick they can die. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.240 We know three hundred thousand people, whether or not they 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:24.280 died because it was COVID specifically, I can't say, but 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:29.680 the complications and or the incompetence of our health care 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.800 system killed three hundred thousand people during this at this 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.600 time period, with where COVID has become a thing, this 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:41.400 pandemic is happening. And so what what worries me and 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.520 I don't know what we do about it, is what 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.920 do people who need it? What do they do? You know, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:53.040 because everybody can't take the position. Everybody is not strong 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.520 and you know, and and pretty healthy and living well 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.720 and working out and whatnot like you and me and 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.440 I work out, but you do some people actually need 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:08.000 this vaccine. And with all vaccines, with all vaccines, there 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.800 are a percentage of people who will get sick. That's 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.120 just the way it is. That's with every single one 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.000 of them. And there's gonna be some trial and error, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.800 but you got to do something. The country can't just 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.400 stay as it is now and we can't lose another 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.560 million people. Well, I just or not that we lost 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.560 a million. I think if we just I just think 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.480 if we look at the percentages or people who can 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.760 die from a vaccine based on the percentage of people 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.720 who have died from the actual sickness, and we look 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.800 at it in comparison. I don't think. I don't. I 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.240 would love to hear those numbers, and we could talk 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:46.560 about it again. On another said, let's focus on those 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:51.560 people who are directly impacted, who are most likely you know, 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.640 but that, but but that's not that's not exactly. And 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.120 again I want to be careful because I'm not. I 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.880 don't know for sure, but I don't believe that that's 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.560 how vaccines work. Vaccines do not work by giving it 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.560 to a small group of people in a population, because 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.280 therefore you can't you have to be able to stop 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:20.960 or bring down, reduce the entire populations, give a vaccine 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.240 to people who are really not at real because it's 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.480 not about one of us, it's about all of us. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.560 It's each one, it's each one protect the other. But anyway, listen, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:34.719 you got it. Whatever, vaccines, whatever, that's just the end 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:39.280 of it. Okay, Well listen, our next guest. Next, it's 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:45.120 somebody who we just I'm so excited to have him. Mercy, mercy, mercy, 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.600 just a little mercy, mercy. We haven't been through so much. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:55.240 Another show. Every day I write down show topics, like 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.080 does mercy mean women are supposed to shut up and 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.360 don't say anything. But anyway, so whole another show. We're 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:08.159 gonna come back to that. Oh lord, listen before we 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.760 go to the next segment and have our special guests joint, 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:15.600 we're gonna take a quick break for our sponsors. We 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:24.720 have none other than the legendary, the infamous, the iconic. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:30.879 Anthony Hamilton's joining us today, the great Hey, what's up people? 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.159 How you doing? What's happening? King? How are you doing it? 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:35.679 I'm good man, It's good to be on here. What 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.920 you got so good to have you join the street politicians. 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:43.760 You know, this is our new show, our new podcast 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:48.200 on the Black Effect Network, which is Charlemagne's new baby. 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:52.440 You know, he came to us and said, I want 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.520 you all to join my podcast network where we could 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.359 be blackly black black, black, black and black. We're in 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.840 anything black and black, Andy black, black, black, Andy black. Definitely, 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:06.560 that's how we own it, man, So thank you for 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.680 joining us. Man, Like you know, we've both been big 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:15.000 fans of yours forever. You know, so when Tamika got 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.760 an opportunity to work with you, and then she reached 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.919 out for my expertise. You know what I'm saying. You 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:22.679 know what I'm saying. I gotta get my partner. You know, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.240 she reached something. You know. She called me like, yo, 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.639 Anthony Hamilton wants me to get on this song. I 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.000 need some words, you know. So I'm like, let me 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.639 just calm down, you know, let me see, let me 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.320 see what I can put together. Supposed to hold you down. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.960 You did because you added the spice. You added only 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.240 the things that Tamika Mallory can put you know, that energy. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.120 You added just little pieces of things because I wasn't 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.800 gonna say certain things that you was gonna say from 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.639 a woman's perspective. But it was magic. Man, when I 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.720 heard when I first heard the beat and I heard 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.000 the way you had attacked it, it was like, now 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.000 this song right here is gonna do something special special. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.480 Thank you. Thank you for you know, allowing her to 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.560 allow me to be a part of something that's gonna 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:14.359 be part of his Thank you for thank you for 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.440 being a co writer my sid and and and and 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.720 putting that thing, you know, putting it where it needed 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.879 to be, and allowing her to to to have whatever 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.879 it needed to set the song up. Man, it's incredible 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.840 piece that is about mercy. Tell us about it. Well, 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.560 mercy is a song um and and it's it's the 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:39.080 voice of a man um. It stands vulnerable and and 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:43.400 and in his walk and in in his struggles and 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:46.480 not not not weak at all, not a weak man 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.679 at all, but a man who's who's not afraid to 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.399 be vulnerable. And Um, I think a lot of times 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.199 man I looked at as seamen still and that we 0:20:55.240 --> 0:21:01.359 don't feel anything other than then then that UM preach. 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:05.200 You know, yeah, we we we cried, we we we worried, 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:11.399 we love um, we get afraid. And so it's it's 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:16.880 speaking from that from that perspective as as a man um, 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.680 you know, allowing people to see like, hey, you may 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.119 judge me, you may not understand why I haven't written 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:27.600 to the occasion that you UM see fit for me, 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.159 but they're they're bumps and bruises along the way. Have 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.840 a little mercy for me and uh, just know that 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:38.280 I'm doing my best, and you know, just love on 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.119 me and don't ridicule me. I think the whole world 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.000 takes a stab at the black man um and have 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:48.040 for for for years and years. Amen. Yeah, we we 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.239 do get a lot of the brunt of the you know, 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:54.800 the the stabbings, and and sometimes I call us out, 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.240 like we have to call ourselves out when we don't 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.800 you know what I'm saying, When we don't live up 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.360 to potential, don't do things that we're supposed to do. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.640 But we also need a little bit of mercy at times. Man, 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.119 because we were carrying a heavy load. Man, So this 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.280 is all right here, spoke spoke to me on a 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:14.320 different level man, for real. Yeah, I mean I think that, um, 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:16.560 you know, as the mother of a young black boy, 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:19.720 he's not a boy anymore. Actually, he's a grown man. 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:22.359 He's twenty one, he'll be twenty two years old soon. 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:25.560 You know. I have my black father and uncles who 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.320 are very much so in my life. And uh, two 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.440 of the co founders of our organization until Freedom being 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:35.000 my son and Attorney Angelo Pinto are all are black men. 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:38.640 In my entire life, I've worked for and with black men, 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.720 and so I have a special place in my heart 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:45.080 for my brothers because I see the pain, I see 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:49.080 the trauma, and I also see the intentional as far 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:53.560 as I'm concerned, misrepresentation of who you are really are, 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:58.560 and so and asked to UM, put my beautiful voice 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:02.760 and you know, my my excellence. UM. You know, on 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:07.439 this song, I wanted to say something that speaks to 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:12.040 especially this idea that we're not enemies. You know, we're 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:14.320 not enemies, that the black woman and the black man 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.400 can't be enemies. And just because we challenge one another 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:20.480 does not mean that we hate one another, and that 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:22.879 there's no room for us to grow and be together. 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:27.520 I think actually the family cannot be strong without us 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:32.680 being together. Yeah. Yeah, because that's a disconnection. And when 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:37.159 there's a disconnect, you're subject to any attack and to 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:41.560 be weakened. UM. In that in that type of environment. UM, 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:44.480 A lot of times they try to portray that we're enemies, 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:47.040 and I think a lot of people bite bight debate 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:52.280 and it's created in some black women just super independence 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:55.160 that they may not need a man, may not need 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:58.399 a black man, uh, and that that's not true. I 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:01.240 think every every woman needs a man who could feel 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:04.399 her soul and feel who she is and what she represents, 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:08.760 to be able to to express to her his appreciation 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:12.880 for for UM, I don't think someone outside about race 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:15.520 could really truly do that. I mean, you can love someone, 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:18.840 but I think when we love together, we love each 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:21.680 other together, there's a whole different vibration and I think 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.840 that's a whole different power in that. And some people 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:27.000