Speaker 1: I'm Tamika D. Mallory and it's.
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Speaker 2: So what's going on to mek A D. Malory? How
Speaker 2: you feeling today?
Speaker 1: Doing all right? At the Pull Up for Peace conference
Speaker 1: in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, yes, you have a live ta lia.
Speaker 4: What's up y'all? This is your girl, doctor Jamelle T. Davis,
Speaker 4: and this is Star Wallace and this is I Love
Speaker 4: me More.
Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, hey, how are you girl? It's been a weekend.
Speaker 6: I can only imagine I have to ask you what
Speaker 6: are you doing to try to stay calm and balance
Speaker 6: throughout all of this?
Speaker 4: How can you stay calm when you're doing a conference
Speaker 4: that you never dreamed the thought that you could do before.
Speaker 5: So we live and direct at pull Up.
Speaker 7: For a Peace that is say do who did the
Speaker 7: walk today?
Speaker 5: And hold up y'all. We got a live audience.
Speaker 4: Let's give it a full love audience.
Speaker 7: That is so dope, so many young faces.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 4: That's right, So pull Up for Peace, y'all. It's all
Speaker 4: about organizing and galvanizing people from all across the country.
Speaker 4: And y'all see I lost my voice, right. So we've
Speaker 4: been dancing, we've been talking, we've been healing, we've been praying.
Speaker 5: It's been everything here.
Speaker 4: And what's so dope about this particular conference is that
Speaker 4: it's young people, it's old the people, it's everyone.
Speaker 7: It's everyone in one room.
Speaker 6: I don't think I've seen that in a long time.
Speaker 6: I wish I had been here for the entire thing
Speaker 6: to just really absorb it.
Speaker 7: Are y'all having a good time? Are y'all learning stuff?
Speaker 7: That's so dope.
Speaker 6: I remember as a kid, we always had to be
Speaker 6: in these rooms where we're learning, you know.
Speaker 7: The kids did their thing. We always had to be.
Speaker 6: In the room where the adults are leading and teaching
Speaker 6: us things. So I think it's so dope, and I
Speaker 6: don't think you guys should take that for granted.
Speaker 5: That's right. So pull up for peace, y'all. Is a movement.
Speaker 4: It's a movement all across this nation to let people
Speaker 4: know it's to put the guns down and put the
Speaker 4: healing up. And what do we mean by healing? It
Speaker 4: means to take care of our minds, our bodies, and
Speaker 4: our souls and to really emerge into our greater self.
Speaker 4: So today, y'all, we got something different. Not only do
Speaker 4: we have our podcast I Love Me More, today we're
Speaker 4: doing a remix with tm I. So we got tm
Speaker 4: I in the building and they doing they thing, and
Speaker 4: we're gonna do our thing together.
Speaker 5: So guys, get ready for some fun.
Speaker 3: We're definitely in Atlantic City for the Pull Up for
Speaker 3: Peace conference, which has been nothing short of amazing.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: I never thought I would be at a conference like this,
Speaker 3: Like I've been to so many different conferences, but when
Speaker 3: you put these type of credible messages and you put
Speaker 3: this type of energy in this type of love in
Speaker 3: the building, it's just way different. So I just want
Speaker 3: to shout all of the organizers of this amazing conference
Speaker 3: out for doing a great job.
Speaker 1: It has been really, really beautiful to see all of
Speaker 1: us come together for something so impactful. I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone or that we can depend on anyone to do
Speaker 1: this type of work for us and for our communities.
Speaker 1: And I often hear, you know, people, when we're talking
Speaker 1: about the political dynamics of America. People will say, well,
Speaker 1: we have to just figure out ways to do for
Speaker 1: our own, you know, and we know that right like,
Speaker 1: because we understand that no matter who's in white in
Speaker 1: the White House, the state House, the city house, or
Speaker 1: any level of government, they're never going to be as
Speaker 1: invested in our communities as we are on the ground.
Speaker 1: And I think that this conference is an example of that,
Speaker 1: of us pulling ourselves together to figure out what are
Speaker 1: the strategies, and more importantly, meeting people from across the country.
Speaker 1: I was talking to a woman in the hallway yesterday
Speaker 1: and I asked her, you know, what has been the
Speaker 1: best part of this conference, and she said that I
Speaker 1: get to meet other people who are doing what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: who may be feeling the stress that I feel or
Speaker 1: you know, and it's not always stressed, because she made
Speaker 1: sure to tell me it's not all bad days. But
Speaker 1: it feels good to have other folks that I can say, Hey,
Speaker 1: what about your experience in this area? She said, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been sharing with so many people. I have new friends,
Speaker 1: I have new collaborators, new thought partners, which is important.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was it has to be exactly
Speaker 1: what this conference was designed to do, to bring people
Speaker 1: together so that they can feel stronger and so that
Speaker 1: they can feel like they have a network of other
Speaker 1: people across the country who are striving for the same goals.
Speaker 5: We are the remedy Tamika.
Speaker 4: I watched you guys help to organize Target boycott, and
Speaker 4: we saw with our own eyes how quickly stocks plummeted. Right,
Speaker 4: So with this conference, we see and know that if
Speaker 4: we galvanize, stocks can go up. But it's our stocks.
Speaker 4: We must invest in us. And too often we are
Speaker 4: divided because we're taught only one organization can shine, only
Speaker 4: one queen could be in the building. But when we
Speaker 4: come together, nothing is impossible. Nothing is and we need
Speaker 4: each other's resources.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: You might have one thing, but I got the other,
Speaker 4: and you struggling waiting on your one thing.
Speaker 5: But if I got the other, we could put that
Speaker 5: together and we could go. Chinese people come together, the Vietnam.
Speaker 4: The Vietnamese people come together and get nails laws across
Speaker 4: the country and all these things. Why not the violence,
Speaker 4: the people that are stopping by community orgs? Why not
Speaker 4: we come together while we waiting for the White House
Speaker 4: to fund us. Now we need their resources, so we
Speaker 4: want them, right, But if they say no.
Speaker 5: What do we do?
Speaker 1: I still want to be able to say, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can't stop just because you know, as people change
Speaker 1: face in different positions, different positions of power. When they
Speaker 1: change faces, then all of a sudden, our communities are
Speaker 1: no longer able.
Speaker 5: To move forward Shample.
Speaker 1: And that has never been our reality. We've always been
Speaker 1: a resourceful people. And when you think about all these
Speaker 1: young people who are here today, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that's what we want to teach, right. We want you
Speaker 1: all to be able to see that there are people
Speaker 1: in our communities who actually care and we're coming together
Speaker 1: with solutions for the issues that you're dealing with and
Speaker 1: not pointing fingers at other people. Yes, though, we are
Speaker 1: are going to make sure that we advocate for ourselves
Speaker 1: because the resources that we want from the government, the
Speaker 1: resources that we demand from people who are in positions
Speaker 1: of influence and power and corporations and all of that,
Speaker 1: that is our money. It is our money. It is
Speaker 1: our tax dollars that we're asking. We're not begging anyone.
Speaker 1: If you ever hear people say, oh, they're just looking
Speaker 1: for a handout, no, we're looking for our tax dollars
Speaker 1: to circulate back into our communities to address the concerns
Speaker 1: like we're putting money in the government. When you pay
Speaker 1: your taxes on your job. How many of you have
Speaker 1: a job. You have a job and you see little
Speaker 1: taxes come out your check, right, and it kind of hurts,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. It's like over here the grown people are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the young people might not really pay too close of attention,
Speaker 1: but those little taxes, that's serious, right, Like you've given
Speaker 1: somebody your money, So when you put your money out
Speaker 1: into the world.
Speaker 5: You want to see that.
Speaker 1: Because the whole point of them collecting taxes is that
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be taking care of.
Speaker 5: The needs of the people.
Speaker 1: But it seems that when it comes to the needs
Speaker 1: of black folks and brown folks and underserved communities, we
Speaker 1: are always the last ones to get back the resources
Speaker 1: that we need. Our communities don't look like the communities
Speaker 1: where the rich people live. And guess what, they don't
Speaker 1: pay as much tax They don't pay as many taxes
Speaker 1: as we do.
Speaker 4: Isn't that crazy? Oh no, because the system is designed
Speaker 4: for them to win. So now this new system that
Speaker 4: we're going to create is designed for us to win,
Speaker 4: and it starts.
Speaker 5: With you, young people. I've dedicated my.
Speaker 4: Life now to teaching financial literacy to teens. We gotta
Speaker 4: start with y'all. Y'all gotta understand and know what credit is.
Speaker 4: Y'all gotta understand and know what budgeting is. You gotta
Speaker 4: understand how to use your money and make your money grow.
Speaker 4: You cannot wait for a handout because the handout might
Speaker 4: not be available to you, right, So you got to
Speaker 4: know how to make your money, make money. I want
Speaker 4: to teach you god side hussuits. I want to teach
Speaker 4: you guys how to flip money, how to take but
Speaker 4: we ain't gonna do it like they do it on
Speaker 4: the block. We ain't gonna buy that other stuff. We're
Speaker 4: gonna learn how to buy merchandise, how to sell things,
Speaker 4: how to sustain yourself when others won't sustain you.
Speaker 5: So I think that's really the.
Speaker 4: Key, y'all, is to teach our people how to collect
Speaker 4: and remember the susu back in the days, all that
Speaker 4: kind of stuff our parents.
Speaker 5: Used to do it.
Speaker 4: Okay, y'all know you're shaking your head with the susu.
Speaker 4: We gotta figure this thing out like so explain it
Speaker 4: on the susu.
Speaker 3: So the susu was we had everybody in the family
Speaker 3: put a certain amount of money into a pot and
Speaker 3: every week, so it's savings, so a saving and what
Speaker 3: happened was one family member would get that pot every month, right,
Speaker 3: so you as it built up, it just kept going
Speaker 3: around as long as you put the money in. And
Speaker 3: it was like sometimes you get like five ten thousand,
Speaker 3: and but you just keep putting your same amount of
Speaker 3: money and it would grow. The more people that put
Speaker 3: into it, it will grow. And this is how a
Speaker 3: lot of us was able to survive with the suits.
Speaker 2: So that was a big thing. We got to get
Speaker 2: back to that.
Speaker 5: But that's literacy. Do you remember.
Speaker 7: That's so really good?
Speaker 1: Like any end, what is what are the findings?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: If you put into it for so long.
Speaker 5: The findings is you're saving your money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is we spend Oftentimes we spend before we get
Speaker 4: how many of y'all can admit. Sometimes you spend that
Speaker 4: paycheck before that paycheck come. That's not good. So what
Speaker 4: the SUSU does is helped you have a lump sum
Speaker 4: so that it budgets you. It helps you the budget
Speaker 4: and save and be able to really really get your
Speaker 4: money together.
Speaker 5: So it's really.
Speaker 3: These banks, these banks is taking your money. They doing
Speaker 3: the same thing and they giving you like less than
Speaker 3: one percent of your money. So they flipping your money.
Speaker 3: You put money into the bank. That's that's what the
Speaker 3: bank does. They take your money, they invest in stocks
Speaker 3: and all these things, and they make billions and billions
Speaker 3: of dollars and they give you like zero point one
Speaker 3: percent of growth on your money. I'll be looking at
Speaker 3: the bank, I'll be like, you had this amount of
Speaker 3: money and it's only like forty dollars in like two years.
Speaker 5: Growing, Like what the hell is going on? It ain't
Speaker 5: really nothing growing.
Speaker 4: If you're waiting on that, brother, you're gonna be waiting
Speaker 4: for this real time exactly.
Speaker 3: So that's what I'm saying is sousu is at least
Speaker 3: when you get that that lump summer money, you like,
Speaker 3: oh I'm putting my money and I actually see some
Speaker 3: level of return on it. So we got to get
Speaker 3: back to financial literacy. And I think that's what I
Speaker 3: love about this converse, like this, this conversation right here
Speaker 3: is this is what we've been doing. We've been sharing.
Speaker 3: Is nobody gay keeping. It's not somebody little means.
Speaker 2: And big us.
Speaker 3: It's none of that it's us giving you our knowledge,
Speaker 3: our wisdom, our our triumphs our fails and everything so
Speaker 3: that you can learn from it and growth from.
Speaker 6: I also want to say something because you know, this
Speaker 6: just reminds me of when I went to college, and
Speaker 6: the first thing that you do when you go to
Speaker 6: college is almost set up for failure, Like that first
Speaker 6: week of college when you enter the dorm room business conference,
Speaker 6: and that conference is set up for you to get
Speaker 6: your first Discover card for you get your first credit card,
Speaker 6: and it's so easy to get that, but there's not
Speaker 6: one class on how to manage that card, how to
Speaker 6: use this card to build your credit.
Speaker 7: So by the time you get to that five hundred dollars,
Speaker 7: you have.
Speaker 6: The first negative thing on your credit report, on top
Speaker 6: of these student loans that you're taking out that you
Speaker 6: think are going to take.
Speaker 7: Care of themselves that don't go anywhere.
Speaker 6: So I think this is so important because it's financial
Speaker 6: literacy is the tool that unless you're taking finance, there's
Speaker 6: no where to talk about finances and how to manage that.
Speaker 6: You think they're just going to make the money and
Speaker 6: pay it off, and that's not how it works. Like
Speaker 6: you're set up for failure, even in the institutions that
Speaker 6: are that are designed for success.
Speaker 1: You know what, this is such a good conversation because
Speaker 1: when you think about pull Up for Peace, you think
Speaker 1: of a conference that is designed to bring together the
Speaker 1: community that's working to curve violence in our communities. You
Speaker 1: would believe that we're only going to talk about like
Speaker 1: shooting and you know, different strategies to get guns off
Speaker 1: the street. But what we have to understand is that
Speaker 1: violence is a public health crisis. And if violence is
Speaker 1: a public health crisis, that means there has to be
Speaker 1: a public health strategy for addressing violence. And in order
Speaker 1: to do so, you have to look at the root
Speaker 1: causes of an issue. Right, That's what public health does.
Speaker 1: Whenever something is considered to be a public health crisis,
Speaker 1: there are people who study the public health issues that
Speaker 1: lead to the crisis. And poverty is a number of issues.
Speaker 1: It is a number one. How many of you think
Speaker 1: that poverty is a number one issue for problems that
Speaker 1: you see in your community? For the young folks in
Speaker 1: the back, are you listening to me, Yeah, there you go, poverty?
Speaker 5: What do you think? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Do you think that poverty is
Speaker 1: probably one of the biggest challenges in your community. We
Speaker 1: would you say yeah, People are saying yes, absolutely, and.
Speaker 5: I just want to jump in here.
Speaker 4: So the goal is we have to break the thorns
Speaker 4: of poverty, right, and poverty makes people desperate.
Speaker 5: People don't just want to commit crimes. Wow.
Speaker 4: People ain't just saying Hey, today I'm gonna go commit
Speaker 4: a crime. People are saying today, I want to get
Speaker 4: a lick. People are saying today, I want to survive.
Speaker 4: So if you look at crime, crime is generally directly
Speaker 4: related to a financial gain. So if I teach people
Speaker 4: how to get to the back, chances are they're not
Speaker 4: going to get to the back the wrong way. And
Speaker 4: for me to me, I went to jail for a
Speaker 4: thirty million dollar bank for a case. Right, So I
Speaker 4: learned early how to get to the bag, but I
Speaker 4: was getting there the wrong way, and I didn't realize
Speaker 4: when you get to the bag the wrong way, you're
Speaker 4: throwing Brits at the penitentiary system. Okay, cause it's gonna
Speaker 4: come get you. It's all a paper trail, they all
Speaker 4: waiting for you. But I learned when you do it
Speaker 4: the right way, that's how you break the bonds and
Speaker 4: pop and you take your time.
Speaker 5: So my parents did it.
Speaker 4: One of the ways to do it is through education.
Speaker 4: We tell y'all to go to school, and y'all like, uhuh,
Speaker 4: But let me explain to you. When you go to
Speaker 4: school and you get a certain degree, there's a certain
Speaker 4: bottom line level of money that they gotta pay you.
Speaker 5: And we're not even saying, okay, just get the degree.
Speaker 4: Get the information, because some of y'all entrepreneurs. If you
Speaker 4: have the information, you're gonna be able to make more money.
Speaker 4: Now to make that money, you gotta make that money grow.
Speaker 4: So you need to know about real.
Speaker 5: Estate and assets.
Speaker 4: And then my parents came from nothing and they used
Speaker 4: real estate to make them rich. They bought property after
Speaker 4: property after another property. My father owns like maybe fifty
Speaker 4: properties now.
Speaker 1: But the thing about your family that you know. A
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, I needed something that Jamilla couldn't
Speaker 1: get to me physically, so she left it in her
Speaker 1: mom's office and I went to her mother's office to
Speaker 1: go pick up my books, right And while I was
Speaker 1: in there, the thing that I realized is not only
Speaker 1: because they have cornered the marketplace your family, and this
Speaker 1: is you're thinking about two people, just regular folks just
Speaker 1: like us. Yeah, regular people, regular people. And now still
Speaker 1: at this point they're elderly and your mom is still
Speaker 1: whatever her real estate to the company. So what they
Speaker 1: have done is not only do they own properties, they
Speaker 1: sell properties. Right, your mom is like doing transactions selling
Speaker 1: properties and renting to people while also buying properties. And
Speaker 1: it gives you. It's like you have to They say
Speaker 1: that a woman needs seven forms of incomes in order
Speaker 1: for her to be successful, to sustain herself. We need
Speaker 1: seven forms. So imagine they are collecting rinks.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of income. Jesus.
Speaker 5: I mean by how many jobs.
Speaker 2: Do you do? How about ten jobs? Actually?
Speaker 5: But you gotta have it, so mice. That's why y'all.
Speaker 5: We're giving y'all game right now.
Speaker 4: We want you to get it from now to know
Speaker 4: that making money it's not difficult. People make it difficult
Speaker 4: because we see I need twenty dollars. Then you got
Speaker 4: to get away from the twenty dollars people. But you
Speaker 4: need to get around the people who.
Speaker 5: Talking about something. And I learned that too. Poverty.
Speaker 4: How you said it's a public health is you can
Speaker 4: it's a disease and it's o agous. Let me tell you,
Speaker 4: I love my folks, but I don't hang around broke folks.
Speaker 5: Now broke folks.
Speaker 3: Today saying you, if you hang around five people, you're
Speaker 3: gonna be the six.
Speaker 4: So if you around people like a ta meek, a
Speaker 4: mallory of so, because y'all keep me going now, I'm like,
Speaker 4: all right, we're gonna go a little higher.
Speaker 5: We're gonna go.
Speaker 4: You gotta be around people doing things, and then it'll
Speaker 4: show you that you could do it too. They're not
Speaker 4: smarter than you, They not better than you, they're not
Speaker 4: wiser than you.
Speaker 5: The difference between you and dumbest information.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not just information. It's not just information because
Speaker 1: some of these people be dumb as hell and they
Speaker 1: make a lot of money because they have discipline and
Speaker 1: they and they are that's the epation.
Speaker 5: So the information is how to be successful.
Speaker 4: So Stephen Kobe right has the seven steps of being
Speaker 4: an effectual successful person.
Speaker 5: But don't you see no information?
Speaker 1: But don't you think you can have information if you
Speaker 1: don't do anything with what you know.
Speaker 5: You're going biblical right. So faith without works.
Speaker 8: As void rightsibility because I can give you all the
Speaker 8: tools that you need but if you're not going to
Speaker 8: have that mind set and your stuff and believe you
Speaker 8: your stuff to go apply it.
Speaker 4: Then So let's talk about this real quick. Our people
Speaker 4: perish because of lack of knowledge.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna take it to the word. So we
Speaker 5: at the world. Let's go to the world.
Speaker 4: Our people perish because of what even spiritual knowledge. Right,
Speaker 4: we're working in spiritual warfare. Some of us have generational
Speaker 4: curses on.
Speaker 5: Us and all kinds of things.
Speaker 4: Right, So if we lack the knowledge of how to
Speaker 4: pray to break the spiritual curts, we're done.
Speaker 5: If we don't know how you can get money on
Speaker 5: the phone, we got down. Kids are different than us.
Speaker 5: We used to really have to do real work to
Speaker 5: get money. I didn't know you can't can get on.
Speaker 4: The phone, do a shimmy shade, do a front of
Speaker 4: our sell a shirt, and go get to the bag.
Speaker 4: Our people perish because of what lack of knowledge. So
Speaker 4: it's our to show people that it doesn't take a
Speaker 4: lot to get money. We keep acting like, oh, you
Speaker 4: got it, Nah, you can get.
Speaker 5: On TikTok shimmy shak.
Speaker 4: We can figure out the shimmy shak and we can
Speaker 4: get a coin, So we have to figure out different
Speaker 4: ways to get money, and we got to teach our
Speaker 4: kids how to do it so that they know it's
Speaker 4: not as difficult as they think.
Speaker 7: All right, Just no, I just want to add to that.
Speaker 2: She's been preaching all day.
Speaker 5: To day, lady.
Speaker 1: I feel the spirit she been led today.
Speaker 6: Nah No, I just want to say, you know in
Speaker 6: that I you knows as young people, you know the
Speaker 6: confidence level, right, It would be so amazing to see
Speaker 6: the same confidence that I see young people when something
Speaker 6: is bad or when it's time to fight or do
Speaker 6: something crazy, but the lack of confidence when it's time
Speaker 6: to step up and.
Speaker 7: Learn information and apply that information.
Speaker 6: And I really want you guys, as we're sitting here
Speaker 6: having this conversation, to look within and.
Speaker 7: Find those tools, you.
Speaker 6: Know, look within and understand that you are a beautiful person,
Speaker 6: that you are an amazing person, that there's only one
Speaker 6: person in this entire world like you, and apply that
Speaker 6: to what we are saying, to what you identify with.
Speaker 7: We're not saying, you know, uh, there's one lane for you.
Speaker 7: There are multiple lanes for everybody in this room. But
Speaker 7: to have the.
Speaker 6: Confidence to step into it and to know that You
Speaker 6: guys are not in this room by chance, a happenstance,
Speaker 6: but there's somebody who loves you right to bring you,
Speaker 6: to take the time to bring you into this room,
Speaker 6: into these rooms, and that not just take it for granted,
Speaker 6: but to know that you are supposed to be here
Speaker 6: because there's something great in you.
Speaker 5: Baby, we might need to put up a chance.
Speaker 7: I'm telling you, come on up.
Speaker 4: You know you might be the wonder day because God
Speaker 4: the Spirit is moving to Meka. First of all, I
Speaker 4: love you. I might love you too, but to me,
Speaker 4: I love you, and I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 5: You why I love you. I love you because.
Speaker 4: You have power, and with your power, you're willing to
Speaker 4: lend that power to others. So I think one of
Speaker 4: the call of actions is teaching not just our youth,
Speaker 4: but our people are skilled. I want to share one
Speaker 4: of the things we're doing in Birmingham and one of
Speaker 4: the things we do in New York City. I make
Speaker 4: sure that they give us discretion every funding to give
Speaker 4: each of our kids five hundred dollars to start their
Speaker 4: own businesses. Juneteenth, we had over one hundred teen entrepreneurs
Speaker 4: vending at their city complex. Right we're going to Birmingham
Speaker 4: with it. And now we do a program for gods
Speaker 4: called Flipping the Game where we give them two thousand
Speaker 4: dollars to start their own business. And people don't understand
Speaker 4: that resources and information is a game changer because one
Speaker 4: of two things are going to happen. Even if my
Speaker 4: kids don't pursue the career that we give them or
Speaker 4: show them how to do, guess what happens. Their confidence
Speaker 4: is boost they know what success looks like, they can
Speaker 4: feel once you could feel it, baby, That's how the
Speaker 4: battle because you got to have the faith to be
Speaker 4: So if we speak light to them, we give them resources,
Speaker 4: we give them information, and.
Speaker 5: We charge our people to do the same.
Speaker 4: So one of the things I want us to do
Speaker 4: through this podcast, through this platform, we know so many
Speaker 4: people that get to the bag. First of all, Black
Speaker 4: women right are the number one entrepreneurs in the country.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: And one thing about black women, black women love who
Speaker 4: that to meeke a dem allery?
Speaker 5: Date who they love her?
Speaker 7: Yesterday?
Speaker 4: Do black women love to make a dem allery? So
Speaker 4: one of the things I want you to make a
Speaker 4: pledge for us for pull up for because baby, I
Speaker 4: have an ass That's another thing y'all gonna learn right.
Speaker 5: You have not because you what ah.
Speaker 4: So I want you to learn how to ask people
Speaker 4: for things because all they can tell you is no.
Speaker 5: And I don't think my sister's gonna say no. So
Speaker 5: my ask for the.
Speaker 4: Pull Up for Peace pledge is that you ask all
Speaker 4: of those black women and all those incredible, amazing black
Speaker 4: men that you guys know that are affluent, to come
Speaker 4: into our community and teach a skill to our people
Speaker 4: about how to get money.
Speaker 5: I want people that are who are looking.
Speaker 4: Like them, been where they've been, sleep where they slept,
Speaker 4: who are successful to come drop gems.
Speaker 5: See that's the other thing we get kicked. We don't
Speaker 5: want to give up the information.
Speaker 4: But if we create the community that cultivates the information
Speaker 4: and we roll it.
Speaker 5: Out to our people, that's how we break the bonds
Speaker 5: apart it.
Speaker 3: Come on, now, create the community so we not only
Speaker 3: pull up for peace, we pull up for a piece
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 5: Power because it's our time. Come on now. I got
Speaker 5: a little.
Speaker 2: Preacher in me too. Now. But this is what it's about. Man.
Speaker 3: Energy, Just give yourself around reports everybody in the end. Man,
Speaker 3: because the energy for these last three days has just
Speaker 3: been off the Chaine.
Speaker 5: Hold on, we're gonna through the plans, y'all gonna do now?
Speaker 5: I don't know, y'all. I don't want to commitment on
Speaker 5: the carriage.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm definitely down for that, definitely, no.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I just was I just I've been just praising this
Speaker 3: this conference for the last three days, like just and
Speaker 3: I just want to praise you, Jamila, because.
Speaker 5: Praise God because he's using us.
Speaker 4: I'm a best fool and he's using me. But I
Speaker 4: know the people with the power. So that's why I
Speaker 4: was so grateful for y'all to walk through the door,
Speaker 4: because sometimes we don't even know how to use our power,
Speaker 4: right we you know, we do what we do, but
Speaker 4: I want you to use your power for the people
Speaker 4: that are going through poverty, because mentors ship what we
Speaker 4: do know and you not. I learned that in your book, baby,
Speaker 4: you have some good mentor did y'all read Micky Demailoris
Speaker 4: I left.
Speaker 5: To tell a story.
Speaker 4: That never if y'all ain't get that man, oh baby,
Speaker 4: but to get that thing.
Speaker 5: And I learned you had some incredible mentors.
Speaker 1: So success and the part of why I have such
Speaker 1: important contributions in my life is because I understood since
Speaker 1: I was a little girl, the importance of sitting with elders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my parents took me around elders all the time. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't really they weren't doing it intentionally. It's just
Speaker 1: that they I was a kid who went wherever they went.
Speaker 1: So I would go to rallies and other organized spaces,
Speaker 1: and while being there, you know, the elders did not
Speaker 1: just look over me. That's good, right, And that's something
Speaker 1: that we have to so lindful of as older people
Speaker 1: in the room. Sometimes we'll see a young person and
Speaker 1: kind of little kid them and not and it's aggravating
Speaker 1: that they're even there. But they didn't do that to
Speaker 1: me as a young kid. The elders would sit with me,
Speaker 1: they would talk to me. Sometimes i'd get to the
Speaker 1: rally on a Saturday morning. We had rallies every Saturday
Speaker 1: that my parents took me to, and somebody would have
Speaker 1: like books for me, kids books with ribbons on it,
Speaker 1: and they would give it to me and then they
Speaker 1: asked me, what did you read the book? Because I
Speaker 1: was one of maybe four kids that's always around, and
Speaker 1: so they found ways to work with me and talk
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 5: So I always had this thing.
Speaker 1: For elderly people, and.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Actually, you know, it was like a blessing from God
Speaker 1: that I had the taste in my mouth or the
Speaker 1: space in my heart to sit with the eighty year
Speaker 1: old and just listen to them. Not everyone does that, right,
Speaker 1: And in my book, when you talk about my memoir,
Speaker 1: everywhere I've been on tour, people have asked me, what's
Speaker 1: the one thing that I want young people to take
Speaker 1: away from this book? And you guys should get the book.
Speaker 1: It's a really good book. And I'm not saying it
Speaker 1: just because it's my book. It is a really good
Speaker 1: book for development in your life and just to hear
Speaker 1: the story of someone else who came from exactly where
Speaker 1: you all are are coming from, right. And so my
Speaker 1: answer to the one thing I want kids to take
Speaker 1: away is listen to your parents, right. And I know
Speaker 1: that's like corny, like you know what I mean, listen
Speaker 1: to your parents. People like, okay, you know, But what
Speaker 1: I realized. What I realized is that every single thing
Speaker 1: my mother told me everything, I mean, every single thing
Speaker 1: she said, eventually I found out that she was right.
Speaker 1: She may not have known in the moment exactly what
Speaker 1: she was talking about, but her wisdom was actually the
Speaker 1: navigation tool for my life. And I bring that up
Speaker 1: because these elders that I talked to, that I sit
Speaker 1: at the feet of, throughout my entire life, they have
Speaker 1: helped me. And even if in the moment whatever they
Speaker 1: was saying to me didn't make sense, there was some
Speaker 1: place that I was out in the wild and this
Speaker 1: out on the boardwalk, as they say, trying to figure
Speaker 1: out my life, and the words that they told me
Speaker 1: would come back to me. It does not mean that
Speaker 1: my friends who look like me and the people who
Speaker 1: are sitting next to you are not important. But it
Speaker 1: is the wisdom of people who've already gone passed you
Speaker 1: that can help you. You don't make the same so
Speaker 1: you don't make the same mistake all.
Speaker 3: The time, that we are cheat sheets to life. Yeah right,
Speaker 3: because my son, my son didn't realize this till he
Speaker 3: was twenty years old.
Speaker 2: I never forget it.
Speaker 3: Like I've been talking to him and you think you're
Speaker 3: not listening. But if you're talk enough, if you talk enough,
Speaker 3: they listen, you know. And that's what we gotta do.
Speaker 3: We gotta we gotta understand as elders that our kids
Speaker 3: are taking in information.
Speaker 2: We think they not listening. But I remember I woke.
Speaker 3: I think it was like his twentieth birthday, and I
Speaker 3: went to his Facebook, and on his Facebook he wrote,
Speaker 3: I just now realized that my dad never told me
Speaker 3: nothing wrong. Everything that he ever said to me was
Speaker 3: one hundred percent correct. And we find that out. And
Speaker 3: I found the same thing else. I remember I used
Speaker 3: to tell my mother. I remember I had a girlfriend.
Speaker 3: I'm marrying this girl. My mother said, you're not married.
Speaker 2: I love her.
Speaker 3: Mami together, I said, you're not gonna marry.
Speaker 2: Just relax.
Speaker 3: And then when we broke up, and then I said,
Speaker 3: how you knew, she said, because I know because I'm
Speaker 3: your mother, because I lived life and I've had that
Speaker 3: same stage, in the same phase, and all the stuff
Speaker 3: that you're thinking, I've already thought. I'm and you're a
Speaker 3: product of me, So I know exactly what you're going through.
Speaker 3: So just understand that we have levels of wisdom and
Speaker 3: things that prevent you from making the mistakes that we made.
Speaker 3: Don't You don't have to do it when you're around
Speaker 3: people who have wisdom and you have elders that pour
Speaker 3: into you.
Speaker 2: Please take that out.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think this conversation is so important
Speaker 1: because you can get money. Like you talked about, we
Speaker 1: could teach you how to make money. I need you
Speaker 1: mill to continue to teach me how to make money
Speaker 1: because I am a service oriented person, so I give
Speaker 1: more than I take right And that's changing now because
Speaker 1: now I'm forty five years old. And so it was
Speaker 1: cute from whatever age to forty five, but now at
Speaker 1: forty five, I'm beginning to think about the rest of
Speaker 1: my life and what I will leave behind for my granddaughter,
Speaker 1: who's my bestie, my broke three year old almost three
Speaker 1: years old bestie. But she's not gonna be broke because
Speaker 1: she's going to control and my life. All of my
Speaker 1: resources will be signed over to her at some point.
Speaker 1: If my son was here, he'd be like, word, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: thank you for giving me my best friend, my sweetheart, Blair.
Speaker 1: And so you can make money, because I've made lots
Speaker 1: of money in my life, millions of dollars. But how
Speaker 1: you not only keep the money but value the money
Speaker 1: and value what to do with the money comes from
Speaker 1: your character and the other influences that you have around.
Speaker 5: You and financial literacy.
Speaker 4: So again information. Our people perish because of what. So
Speaker 4: as we continue to cultivate this community, I know we
Speaker 4: come into a close This is good stuff. We gotta
Speaker 4: stay in touch, we gotta give back, we gotta do more.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Most of y'all young people. Where you're from? Atlantic City?
Speaker 5: How many y'all from Atlantic City? Okay? I see a lot.
Speaker 5: How many of y'all from New York City? Okay? Few?
Speaker 4: How many organizations? So we are representing a few organizations.
Speaker 4: So one of the things I'm gonna do, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: practice what I preach. All of y'all promise you this
Speaker 4: book I Live to Tell a Story is amazing. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna donate a copy to every single person because I
Speaker 4: bought my copy.
Speaker 5: Shall that's my sister buying right, Yes, So.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get y'all a copy of the book, and
Speaker 4: we're gonna start talking to your cities about contributions.
Speaker 5: I'm doing some.
Speaker 4: Work in Atlantic City, so I'm gonna ask your mayor
Speaker 4: about out our earn and learn program.
Speaker 5: Let's give y'all. How many of y'all like to get
Speaker 5: five hundred dollars to start your own business in here? Okay?
Speaker 4: You see them? Hans is out. My kids want that money.
Speaker 4: So we're going through Marty. Marty's well, we're gonna talk
Speaker 4: to you all right, so we're gonna figure out how
Speaker 4: to create more programs like that SYS.
Speaker 5: We want y'all, y'all to come.
Speaker 4: In the community, you know Institute or Research for Social
Speaker 4: Justice and Action that was created by myself and your
Speaker 4: brother Angelo Pinto.
Speaker 5: We created the institute to be the church in action. Right.
Speaker 4: It's okay to go to a place and be filled
Speaker 4: up or spiritual house, right, but some of us need
Speaker 4: other things like information, resources, stuff that applies to the natural.
Speaker 4: So we got the spiritual, then we got the practical.
Speaker 4: So the Institute was created to give the people the practical.
Speaker 4: How do I get money right now? How do I
Speaker 4: level up right now? How do our professionalize right now?
Speaker 4: To take my idea, because many of us have dreams.
Speaker 4: God talks to us through our hearts and our dreams.
Speaker 4: But if we don't know how to make our dreams
Speaker 4: of reality, then we stock right. The Institute gives some information,
Speaker 4: So I'm looking for y'all to come on down and
Speaker 4: to the Institute and give us all lot of information
Speaker 4: and resources.
Speaker 1: Y'all can love that.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 6: So you know, before we go, I just want to
Speaker 6: say that, you know, it's about taking these little bits
Speaker 6: and pieces of information right that build your life.
Speaker 7: It's not one mapped out it's not one mapped out.
Speaker 6: Lane the yellow big road that you follow, but it's
Speaker 6: in these places that you get information. So please y'all
Speaker 6: take this information, do the follow up, follow up, make
Speaker 6: sure you get your book, make sure you read your
Speaker 6: book right, and make sure you follow up with the
Speaker 6: people that you need to follow up to make sure
Speaker 6: that we're doing what we need to do and what
Speaker 6: we have promised you. Because we're in this room for
Speaker 6: a reason, but we have a lot of stuff going on,
Speaker 6: but ideally we want to be accountable for everything we
Speaker 6: have said that we're going.
Speaker 5: To hold us accountable absolutely, all right, So thank y'all
Speaker 5: so much, Thank you so much. Tune into an episode
Speaker 5: of I Love Me.
Speaker 7: More and your Ma.
Speaker 4: And you already know what it is.
Speaker 5: It's cool.
Speaker 3: We'll holliful peace pollif peace.
Speaker 5: Pull up a peace
Speaker 2: That's