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Bullying...It's Not OKAY!!! · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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  Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all already know how Stede erupting. Y'all already know how
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  black Girl. Oh, Happy Thursday, everybody, Welcome back to another episode
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  of Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all already know who it is. I don't have
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  to keep introduced to myself, but I don't know. I get a new
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  viewers every week, so I guess I do have the interview, I mean
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  entry, y'all know what I'm trying to say. Hell, it's it's hairs
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  day. I'm tired, but it's one day away from the weekend and two
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  days away from my husband touching down in Houston, Texas. I can't wait.
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  I'm so excited. But anyways, anyways, y'all, look see,
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  I don't even had nothing to organize, Like I let me put my stuff
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  up here. There we go. Then let y'all know that I should have
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  took to day off, but I had to come in and I had to
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  have this conversation a day. Um, it's imperative that we have this discussion.
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  Hello, sir, sir, use a calling Russell Lie. I've been
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  wanting to say this shit all day, y'all. I don't judge me,
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  but I have I feel wanted to just I want somebody just call me and
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  sit and tell me something. Then I want to say, use a caller,
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  Russell, lie, It's all I want to do. I don't know
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  why that girl didn't really drove the hell out of me. Let me just
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  give you, let me just brief, Let touch on this for just a
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  moment, because Carlin Russell did for everyone that knows, that knows the story.
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  Carla Russell is the twenty five year old lady from him Burnmaham, Alabama,
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  who concocted that lie Tooma. She had been kidnapped by a man with
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  orange chair and he was bald in the top, and she saw a white
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  baby walking down the inter state in a diaper. But we already knew that
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  wasn't true. But I just want to get y'all an update. They are
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  looking to file charges against Carl Russell. Carly lie l ie. Oh,
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  but that's all I want to say with regards to her. Whatever the punishment
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  is, I stand behind it ten toes to the ground, because they're really
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  actually black and brown people that go missing, and you decided to lie.
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  You decided to come up with this lie and tell people you have been kidnapped
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  and this then the third. But whatever the consequences are, she absolutely deserves
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  it. I hope they don't try to swing that mental health seeing as you
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  know, because that's that's what they try to do, you know, they
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  oh, she's got mental issues. No, she ain't mental. She knew
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  exactly what she was doing. This girl two three days prior to her this
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  abduction. She was googling how to what's the Asian for amber alerts and stuff
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  like that. But um, I know, charges maybe filed as early as
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  tomorrow, if not Monday. So I just wanted to kind of give y'all
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  that little update. But any who, enough for talking about her, because
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  that girl had my blood pressure up and she really had me trigger. Don't
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  be laughing at missister, because I really do. I want somebody to call
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  me and just talk noise and then I want to tell them there's a Carla
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  russ a lie. That's all I want to see and then hang up.
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  That's all I want to do. But any who, y'all, welcome back
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  to another episode a Black Girl interrupted. Of course, she knows your girl,
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  Ash. I bring y'all all types of topics every week. We talk
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  about everything. But this topic here is very imperative that we have this discussion
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  because the suicide rates are increasing, y'all rapidly, and these children are getting
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  younger and younger and younger by the day. So y'all know, before I
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  even get started, I gotta do my mental health checking. I need to
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  know how y'all are feeling. So, like I say, today is Thursday.
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  We are one day away from the weekend, and I'm two days away
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  from saying my husband, So I can't wait all excite about that. Um,
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  but I will say mentally, um, I'm good. I think I
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  really needed a mental break because we went so hard with the Carl Russell story
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  and then speaking in regards of having experience in that where you know, you
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  lose a love one that went missing and got that got no media coverage.
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  So I think everybody really needed a mental break. I think we all needed
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  to decompress, and I think it really just kind of overloaded me. I
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  had my anxiety up, so I had to just take a break for him
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  on it a minute. You know, I had to really just decompress.
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  I had to stop, and I had to say, you know, let
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  me collectively get myself together because that that was really draining. But um again,
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  happy thirsty. I hope everyone has had a beautiful week thus far.
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  I hope last week was beautiful for you I have. I hope you had
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  a great weekend. Um. I hope you have a upcoming weekend. I
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  hope your weekend is great. UM. So I just you know, I
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  pray for everyone mentally, UM, because mental health. Mental illness is not
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  anything to play with, and I think that's why I go so hard.
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  I think that's why I advocate and I push for UM mental health. You
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  know, as a person that suffers, UM, I really try to advocate.
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  I really try to love on and encourage and empower people. You know,
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  seek therapy. It's nothing wrong with it. UM. It may help
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  you along the way. But what you say, job are she says,
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  I'm going through it. This car accident has really fucked with me with my
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  mentor on top of that, fakeds Absolutely. I will say, uh,
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  I don't know why, girl. You know what, I'm not going to
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  even do this because I'm a I'm in a beautiful space right now. Thank
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  you, will sign, I'm will sign, but girl, I'm praying for
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  you. Baby. At least you got your life. You know, that's
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  be grateful for that, um, that you still have your life. Be
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  grateful that guy woke you up today, UM, because there are a lot
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  of people that did not wake up today. There are people that may not
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  make the wake up list tomorrow. So that's why I say it's imperative that
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  I always check and make sure you guys are doing good mentally, make sure
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  that you guys are doing well emotionally and spiritually, because I do know it's
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  difficult. Those days do get tough, um, and I know there are
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  a lot of days when you want to give up. But I always say,
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  don't give up. The road does get better, it gets easier.
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  You're welcome. You know. I love you baby, UM. But like
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  I said, I know that's the easy way. It's a thrown a talents
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  to give up. But never give up. Never, never, never give
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  up because you have then that means you've allowed depression anxiety PTSD, your bipolars
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  gets a friend, that you've allowed that to win. You've allowed the devil
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  to win. So I do say, keep going, stay encouraged. I
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  know it's easier said than done, but keep going, keep going, and
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  just know God said weapons will be formed, but he said they never shall
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  prosper. So remember that. So before we jump into it, um,
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  I think it's went away. You know what, Let me give you something
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  encouraging, Let me give you something empowering, something uplifting, and then we'll
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  jumping into tonight's conversation. So here we go. I want to encourage somebody
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  out there who's thinking about quitting and giving up, somebody who has been praying
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  for years for things to turn around. You're thinking about quitting, You're thinking
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  about giving up. You are folding, you are caving in. This is
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  for you. You're in this storm and you're down on your knees and you're
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  cold, and you're weak, and you feel like it's just the end.
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  You have a choice to either give up or keep going, give up or
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  get up. Don't give up, don't give up, stay in it,
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  stay focused. When you fail, try again and again and again. You
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  just take one step at a time. It's hard, but it's worth fighting.
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  Is worth believing, it's worth mustering yourself up, standing up inside yourself.
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  It's worth fighting relentlessly, never giving up. I love the sun,
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  but things don't grow because of the sun. You have to have some rain
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  and you've got to stop looking at rain in your life. It's something bad.
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  My greatest moments didn't come from my greatest moments. My greatest moments came
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  for my greatest defeat, because it was doing my defeat that I had to
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  find a way to get back up. You thought for one minute that you
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  broke me, you got me twisted. I am not phenomenally skilled, but
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  phenomenally will. I will not give up. I will not surrender. I
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  will not quit. Don't stop, God, stop cold, stop running toward
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  your dreams. Stay in courage, Stay in courage, keep your head up,
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  stick your chest out, conchee to walk with cly and know if it
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  was easy, everybody would do it. It's not gonna be easy, but
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  we have what it takes. They're rough times gonna come, but they have
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  not come to stay. They have come to pass. Don't say I'm having
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  a bad day, Say I'm having a character building day. Don't look at
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  night darkness, look at knights as a new beginning. All right, y'all,
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  So tonight's conversation, y'all gotta marry me. I am so tired,
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  but I'm determined I'm gonna push through this episode. Tonight, y'all. Just
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  don't understand. I'm tired. I am drained, but that's all right because
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  I'm gonna push through with my episode tonight. So anyway, So tonight I'm
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  addressing bullying, y'all. And it's not okay. Like I've have been seeing
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  all these stories online, whether you kids are being bullied, even of those
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  that are being bullied and they're unliving themselves, Like I was reading a story.
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  This just happened, I want to say last week in Atlanta, a
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  sixteen, I want to say, she was sixteen. I have the story.
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  We're gonna touch on that tonight. But have been bullied, and the
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  saddest part of all of that is that no one has taken it seriously.
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  Not only are you being bullied at school, but you're being bullied on the
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  bus, on the school bus, and people are recording this and they're uploading
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  this ship for lights. I just was and I think I have this story
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  as well about the young man who thought he was talking to some girls and
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  he sent her a picture of his private parts and the girl uploaded it and
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  everybody sawting. His baby got embarrassed and he killed herself. And I want
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  to say, it was like fifteen years old, sixteen years old? So
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  why does this keep happening? What are we going to do as the community
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  to stop this? To put it into this because again, these babies are
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  getting younger and younger by the day. The youngest child I believe that has
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  committed suicide due to bullying I believe was five, five years old, six
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  years old, ten years old, twelve years old, eight years old,
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  all because of bullying. So let me play this story. Hold long,
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  wait, wait, wait, wait, paces I love you. Your brother
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  will be here Saturday, girl. Oh, and guess what I'm gonna put
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  him in a chokehold like Melvin did Jodie on Baby Boy. Just watch because
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  he is really working my damn nerds. But anyway, but back to what
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  I was saying. But so tonight's conversation, we're talking about bullying and it's
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  not okay. Again. We're seeing these babies un alive themselves at such incredibly
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  high rates. These babies aren't even getting a chance to live. Life hasn't
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  even begun for them. And because there's one butthole in the group that's bullying,
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  parents are upholding this behavior. The school district is not helping. Teachers
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  are not helping. We have to take back our children. We have to
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  take back our community. Us babe bad when I tell you, and I'm
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  only and I'm speaking on this not only because I'm seeing this all the time,
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  but I experienced it myself with my son. My son was bullying,
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  but I got some comments. Let me speak to everybody. Jemn rs.
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  What's up, brother, It's good to see you. I'm so glad to
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  see you up there. Go my boy. Let's get it g a uh.
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  Shout out to my two Falcons brothers. Uh, we'll see y'all.
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  It's a black and gold season, baby, It's it's black and gold.
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  Love y'all. Though I appreciate y'all coming in to support anybody that's on YouTube.
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  Man, y'all, if y'all like NBA simulations, if you like NBA
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  Live, any of the NBA basketball games that are played on UM the various
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  play platforms like PlayStation, Xbox, tap in with my brother. Let's get
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  it ga Uh. He uploads some amazing videos on YouTube. Again it's under
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  the same name. Let's get a ga. Go talk to him anything basketball
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  and uh, tell him I sent him. You're tell tell him I sent
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  you his way, um, and you could always disregard the fact that he
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  is the Falcons fan. It's okay, just he he don't know no better.
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  It's okay, he's all right. Jule says, leave my brother alone.
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  Gert, you tell him to leave me alone, keepen bothering me.
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  I'm the innocent one. So anyway, But I UM, but thank y'all
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  again for tuning in tonight. I love y'all so much. Again, I
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  appreciate all the support. But again, tonight's conversation, we are talking about
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  bullying. It's not okay, stop bullying people. You know her. People
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  hurt people, and I think that's what bullets are. I think they're they're
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  hurt people or hurt kids, adults because you have adults that bullet too.
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  Um. But again, this is an apparative conversation that needs to be had
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  again tonight we're talking about bullying and why I say it's not okay, it's
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  not okay leave people alone. So UM, I do want to address again,
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  I believe the young lady was sixteen years old this year. Happened in
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  Atlanta a few days ago where a young lady was bullied, and I want
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  to say, it was like right before her birthday, right after her birthday,
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  she committed suicide. So here we're going, we're jumping back into It's
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  a nice conversation all knew. At six Tonight in Atlanta, mother is planning
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  the funeral for her sixteen year old daughter. She says her daughter died by
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  suicide on Friday after being bullied online. This is a horrible situation. E
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  Love on Life's Tracy Emmy Paris spoke with mental health experts and the mom today
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  about what happened and what parents need to know and Tracy, this is a
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  nightmare for any parent out there. It is, and unfortunately, both a
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  suicide and cyber bullying are becoming much more common. But there are signs to
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  watch for in steps you can take to help keep your kids safe. I
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  will never see her walk across the stage, go to the prom, get
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  married, have children, any of those things. Linita Ruglass says it's been
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  six days since she lost her daughter, sixteen year old Zaria White, and
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  I just kept pushing the door, and I'm like, what's you got bad
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  at door? It was my baby. White was a sophomore last year at
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  a public school in Atlanta. But Ruglass says she was having issues. No
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  one wanted to sit with her in a lunch room and it made her feel
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  really bad and she didn't want to go to school, so then we took
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  her out. She switched to virtual learning in January. Now after her death,
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  her mother says she is sure cyber bullying pushed Azaria over the edge after
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  finding her message history on her phone. Multiple messages of people saying mean things
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  to my daughter, harassing her, telling her to go kill her son.
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  They said forty six percent of teens. Britney Walters as a counselor at Chris
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  one eighty, a mental health organization helping students in Atlanta. Walter says cyber
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  bullying is a huge issue, with half their students reporting being the victim and
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  the last three years everything from horrific name calling to spreading rumors to sharing explicit
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  photography without being prompted, and with more kids using technology, there are more
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  opportunities for cyber bullies to find a mark. What makes cyber bullying so dangerous
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  is it can be twenty four hours a day, it's always there, and
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  it can follow a person. But Walter says there are signs you can watch
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  for, including depression, anxiety, avoiding certain spaces, lower self esteem,
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  and self harm. Ruggless says now she wants to warn other parents please be
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  aware of social media. There are so many ones that I wasn't awareware of,
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  and she wishes she could go back in time and just take away Azaria's
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  phone. I didn't know it was this bad. Walter says, if your
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  child is ever experiencing a mental health crisis, you can pick up the phone
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  and call nine eight eight to reach immediate help. There's also an online fundraiser
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  to help Azaria's family bury her. Who yo, when I tell you that
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  takes Just listening to that mother speak about her daughter is very It's what are
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  the I'm speechless because this is what's happening. Telling someone to kill themselves,
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  you have to be a sick person to go tell that, to say that
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  to somebody looking at the text messages. I remember the time, when I
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  tell you, when I was coming up, we didn't have social media.
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  We actually had to go outside and play. And back when I was coming
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  up, when kids bullied other children, parents got involved. Parents didn't stand
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  by and allow their children to be little monsters. This day and age.
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  You got parents that co signed the behavior of their children. You have parents
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  that no far a fact their children are in the wrong and will stand ten
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  toes down behind their wrongdoings. I was looking at a video where and I
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  should have I'm gonna find that video and I'm gonna play that for y'all.
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  This happened last week, I want to say, maybe last week week before
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  last. But a little girl, two girls got into it with a girl
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  on the playground, and so the girl went and told her mother. So
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  the two girls that were being bullying the girl that was bullying them, her
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  mother gave her some type of ascid and she threw it on one of these
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  little girls. And that's what I mean when I see parents who signed on
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  this, they're part of it. Julee, let's get it. Say,
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  let's get a ga say, how are you doing? Sist much love?
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  And your brother, uh, jul your brother both your brothers say, what's
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  up? Exists? So let's get a ga says, well, we know
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  the ain't ain't it sists? Love you, but I don't care for a
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  bullying and it's a very serious subject. Absolutely, because what I don't know
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  if everyone saw the video that went viral on TikTok where the little boy knocked
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  on the door and was looking for friends, and it broke my heart because
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  it reminded me so much of my son, and it was imperative that I
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  bring this to the forefront. Jamarius As brings me back when I was bullied,
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  and this was before social media, right, And I think the saddest
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  part of all of this is it still happening. There are no consequences behind
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  these actions. I remember the case. Javert says, Oh yeah, I
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  saw that baby girl is having a hard time walking and everything absolutely and what
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  happened because she ran back to get up. I think she dropped her purse
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  or her color backpack something and she went back to go grab it. And
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  that's when she said she felt like this, this burning sensation. And the
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  mother is who gave her child the assid to throw on the other child.
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  Hey, babe, I hope you're having a good night at work. I
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  love you, but this is happening far too often, and what are we
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  gonna do to stop it. Let me tell you what two of the things
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  that we could do. Your parents, you need to start checking your children's
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  social media's, checking those cell phones. Then we need to take it to
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  a higher level. We need to go and we need to vote for these
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  things. And the reason I say this is because my son was in that
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  La Entry school. I was trying to get my son to come on and
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  tell his story, but I didn't want to push because I believe it's still
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  difficult. And my son is twenty two years old now it's difficult for him
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  to talk about. But I can tell you I went to that school consistently.
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  I was back and forth at the school. It had gotten so bad,
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  y'all. My son didn't want to go to school. So one day
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  we were at Walmart and we saw the little boy that was bullying my son.
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  So me, being the mama that I am, I politely went and
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  hurried up and put my groceries in that car. And I went back into
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  Walmart and found a little boy. He was with his mama, and I
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  told the mom, you better tell your son to keep his hands to itself
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  or we're gonna see about him at the bus stop period. And this woman
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  told me why would I accuse her son? Out of all? I said,
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  why would I? Why? What? Because your son is bullying my
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  son. That's what's going on. But if your son doesn't keep his hands
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  to itself, we're gonna see about him at the bus stop period. Then
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  it trickled into the school. Teachers didn't do anything. So I reached out
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  to the superintendent. The superintendent told me, why do not I just move
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  my son to another school? That's what they told me. And I live
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  in Fort Ben County, Fort Ben, Sugarland, Texas, and that's what
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  the superintendent told me. So I said, so, you mean to tell
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  me I should move my child to another school. He's the one being bullied,
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  okay, but you want me to move him to another school, so
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  this little monster here could be here to terrorize somebody else. That's your solution,
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  that say less? Because I was done talking at that point. So
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  I reached out to news stations because this is an anti bullying zone. That's
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  what they have posted up around the schools here and Ford Ben County. So
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  a couple other parents reached out to me their children being bullied, Teachers not
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  doing anything. Your request meetings with parents, but teachers to tell for the
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  principle to say, oh, I'm not we can't make them come to the
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  school. Soul. In other words, you're allowing this bullying behavior to continue.
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  But yet you got these anti bullying stickers around the school say less okay.
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  Other parents reached out to me. I said, cool, don't worry.
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  We're gonna reach out to the news stations and we'll see what they're gonna
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  do. Then Channel two, Channel thirteen, Channel eleven. Hell. I
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  even reached out to telemon though, and that's the Spanish station down here.
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  Once the school got were that news stations were gonna pull up to the school
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  or they politely called, they were ready to have a resolution. No,
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  because when I wanted to talk to y'all then you didn't want to have a
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  conversation with me. You taught me just move my son to another school.
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  But now that I'm about to expose you, now y'all are ready to said
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  I have a conversation. Absolutely that I was done talking. I was done
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  talking. Three two, three, four visits to go, That's what I
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  was done doing. Raphaelis says she's designing a Saint's bathroom for a lady out
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  here in Atlanta. She's working on the toilet seat. Now, let's get
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  it. Ga Jewel says, what's up, bro, She's getting some work
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  done, much love, so let's get it. GA says, well an
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  hour error when I was bullied and the bullet tried me, Well, it
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  didn't turn out for him. Turn out good for him because I stopped his
• 29:22
  ass in it stopped. But we're living in different times now, and we
• 29:26
  are because again, parents are co signing what their children are doing. Parents
• 29:32
  are okay with their children bullying. I saw another video where a parent got
• 29:38
  on the bus and was cussing out the girl that was being bullied. And
• 29:47
  that's what I mean. Your parents are co signing the bullshit that your children
• 29:51
  are doing. But you want to know why, because that's learned behavior,
• 29:53
  because I'm pretty sure that's what goes on in the household. I'm pretty sure
• 29:57
  y'all were bullies, and y'all just pass it on to your children, and
• 30:04
  they're gonna keep doing it. They're gonna keep terrorizing somebody until something bad happens
• 30:08
  to them. That needs to stop, because you're not taking into consideration that
• 30:17
  the words and the actions of your child or children, how they're inflicted on
• 30:22
  another child or someone's children, and how it affects them mental. But y'all
• 30:30
  aren't taking that into consideration. And again, we have to take our children
• 30:41
  back. We have to become the police in our community. We have to
• 30:45
  start protecting our own because the world shows you every day they don't care about
• 30:51
  black They don't care about us and our mental health. They don't care.
• 30:59
  They don't care about the increased rates in suicide. They don't care about that,
• 31:07
  But they care more about taking care of the other countries and not taking
• 31:12
  care of home. Do people realize this mental health crisis is on the rise,
• 31:19
  Suicides are on the rise, cyber bullying, bullying overall period is on
• 31:27
  the rise, and y'all I'm doing anything about it. Y'all are not holding
• 31:34
  these people accountable for their actions. I feel like if a child bullies and
• 31:44
  the parent upholls, I think the parent needs to face some type of assault
• 31:47
  charge or something. That's just how I feel, because again, I'm a
• 31:55
  mother of a child that was bullied and it's affecting my son here he's twenty
• 32:00
  two years old, and my son is so introverted. My son used to
• 32:06
  beg for friends. But where I live, these little black kids, black
• 32:13
  boys and black girls out here where I live, they're not into video games.
• 32:15
  They're not into the Marvel or DC. They're not into comic books,
• 32:20
  they're not into anime, and that's what my son was into. And people
• 32:23
  used to look at my son like he was weird. My son did my
• 32:25
  son used to sit by yourself at lunch when he was in high school.
• 32:32
  That's just how cruel these children are these days. I remember your neighbors was
• 32:42
  like your was like your brother or your sister. That's how close we were.
• 32:45
  But these children now are I don't even know what to say about them.
• 32:53
  I don't even know what to say. And it's sad that we see
• 32:59
  this every day and nothing's being done. The young lady that the story I
• 33:05
  just showed you, the young the little girl and I hate to call her
• 33:07
  a little girl, but the baby girl sixteen years old who just killed herself
• 33:13
  and she was being cyber bully. And I feel like every person that sent
• 33:17
  her a text message needs to have some type of charge filed against them,
• 33:21
  period, because the suicide race and these children is happening far too often,
• 33:29
  too rapidly due to bullying, and the numbers keep increasing. You go tell
• 33:38
  somebody, y'all, don't do anything on the time you want to step in
• 33:46
  is when a child has has taken their life. Now all of a sudden,
• 33:50
  you want to start talking. You need to be proactive, because again,
• 33:55
  these babies that are killing themselves, they're getting younger by the day.
• 34:02
  I want to say again the youngest child that I that I the story that
• 34:06
  I've seen five years old, seven years old, twelve years old, fifteen
• 34:13
  years old. Even adults are being cyber bullying. I can't remember her name.
• 34:21
  She's a comedian, Leslie. I know her name, but she was
• 34:27
  bullied because people talked about how dark she was and she deleted her social media.
• 34:37
  I remember when social media first took off, the only thing you really
• 34:44
  had to worry about them was like catfishing people catfishing you. You may have
• 34:49
  had the bullying, the cyber bullying here and there, but now every day,
• 34:57
  every day, every day, Julee, let's get it, say one
• 35:04
  hundred and gave you the praying hands. Hey sissy, Hey Nat Nat.
• 35:08
  How you doing girl? So Julee says, it's a generation of kids raising
• 35:14
  kids and neither have any structure. These kids and parents are truly clueless and
• 35:17
  lost in today's society. Hashtag or sad truth and not one lie was told
• 35:24
  with that statement, and that's what I mean when I say parents are upholding
• 35:28
  this. We don't have the mamas and the medials anymore. They're all gone,
• 35:36
  this new generation of grandparents forty forty five years old, and you're trying
• 35:42
  to party with your eighteen year old child. But I just, like I
• 35:52
  said, y'all, just thinking about these babies, and even the lady that
• 35:58
  I used to work with when I worked that office people when I lived in
• 36:00
  Atlanta. Her son was eleven and killed himself. This was in two thousand
• 36:08
  and nine, and the mom had been back and I believe this was the
• 36:15
  Cab County. The mother was back and forth at the school and they wouldn't
• 36:22
  do anything. They were telling her son he was gay. They were telling
• 36:27
  her son he was a faggot. They bullied them to One day, this
• 36:32
  baby came home from school, gave mom's report, called he was very smart,
• 36:39
  and y'all when I tell you, he was so adorable. Just as
• 36:42
  soon as he want to be happy, go lucky. Mom didn't think anything
• 36:49
  about He said, Oh, I'm gonna go upstairs and do my homework.
• 36:54
  I want to say maybe an hour later, the mom said the four year
• 37:00
  old daughter upstairs to tell her brother, come on downstairs, it's time to
• 37:04
  eat. And guess what when the sister opened the door, that baby was
• 37:10
  hanging in his closet by his belt at eleven years old. And you can
• 37:22
  look him up. His name is Jaheim Herrera. Eleven years old, y'all.
• 37:30
  And this happened in two thousand and nine, So just imagine what the
• 37:38
  numbers are. And this is two and twenty three. That was fourteen years
• 37:45
  ago. When that baby on alied itself, he would have been twenty five,
• 37:53
  eleven years old. Eleven So got a video. Here's some numbers with
• 38:02
  regards to cyber bullion, and sho is that I can't take yourself back to
• 38:15
  when you were this age. For many kids, the dismissal bell meant freedom
• 38:20
  to go home and relax. But for those who were bullied, it meant
• 38:22
  freedom from torment. They could leave it at school. Now they can't,
• 38:28
  so it's constantly following them. Twenty four to seven. Michelle Carney Ray Yoder
• 38:32
  has seen it from both sides, first as a student, then as a
• 38:37
  parent, but now as the superintendent of the Summers Point School District in New
• 38:40
  Jersey. It starts in school, it goes home, it gets worse with
• 38:45
  all the technology, and then it spills back over into school. So it's
• 38:50
  almost become a twenty four seven job as an administrator to try to get that
• 38:54
  under control. In December, Pew Research released to study showing forty six percent
• 39:00
  of students reported experiencing some form of cyberbullying. It's lower than twenty eighteen's total
• 39:06
  of fifty nine percent, but higher than twenty twenties total of forty percent.
• 39:10
  During the first year of the pandemic, the demographic that has consistently seen the
• 39:15
  most cyber bullying is older teen girls. Just fifty four miles north of Summer's
• 39:20
  Point in Bayville, fourteen year old Adriana Cush took her own life in the
• 39:23
  first week of February after she was bullied online. The Centers for Disease Control
• 39:29
  and Prevention says thirty percent of teenage girls have considered doing the same. I
• 39:34
  really feel very strongly that the combination of COVID and social media has exacerbated what
• 39:42
  we're looking at from a school perspective regarding hib or harassment, intimidation, and
• 39:47
  bullying than we've had in the past. In two thousand and six, Carne
• 39:52
  ray Yoder's school district became a Renaissance School District, a program designed to cultivate
• 39:57
  teacher and student engagement through PEP rallies, energy and Positivity. These are some
• 40:01
  of the pictures from the rallies that show what it's about, as Renaissance is
• 40:06
  just one of many programs set on building positive culture within schools nationwide and watching
• 40:10
  the results trickle down. In the first year of its implementation, Carnie ray
• 40:15
  Yoder says disciplinary referrals went down by thirty three percent. A national study of
• 40:20
  the program from twenty nineteen shows that engagement also boosted straight A students by four
• 40:25
  percent in the districts it's studied. It follows other research that shows more structured
• 40:30
  time reduces bullying since most of it happens during recess, lunch and breaks between
• 40:36
  class when students are less supervised. It's giving them the opportunity to not only
• 40:42
  receive rewards and reinforcement for what they're doing well, which is their job every
• 40:46
  day, but also they have that connection to the school, those relationships with
• 40:52
  the adults in the school and their classmates, and that they feel like they're
• 40:54
  appreciated and that they're seen and heard and ultimately loved. It's just been helping
• 41:00
  kids that have both bullied and been bullied, building a culture of acceptance and
• 41:05
  collaboration. So adversaries turned to peers, Dangressman, Scripts News, sumrs Point
• 41:12
  New Jersey. All right, so listening to those statistics, like I say,
• 41:27
  these children aren't able to leave the bullying in at school. It goes
• 41:30
  home with them. You can't get on social media without somebody trying to bully
• 41:36
  you. I also looked at some other statistics, y'all, and it says
• 41:42
  in the US, and this is as of June one, twenty three,
• 41:46
  it says in the US, twenty percent of K through twelve students are bullied,
• 41:52
  and race is the leading identity factor for students experiencing bullying. They say
• 41:59
  black students are significantly more likely to be bullied than their peers. So black
• 42:07
  students, we are significantly more likely to be bullied than our peers, whether
• 42:15
  they're White, Asian, Latino, black students. And again I'm not saying
• 42:25
  that it doesn't happen in the white community, but black students are more likely
• 42:32
  to be bullied than their peers. So I did find that that video,
• 42:38
  y'all, where the young lady she's twelve years old, twelve or third twelve,
• 42:45
  I believe twelve, who had ascid thrown on her and the mother of
• 42:54
  the child that threw it on it is who gave it to her. So
• 43:00
  y'all check this out and then we're gonna get back into the conversation because,
• 43:06
  oh my goodness, there are calls for more charges in the disturbing case of
• 43:10
  one child allegedly throwing acid on another child at a playground. Detroy Public School's
• 43:16
  Community District. Police arrested a twelve year old over at this playground confrontation.
• 43:22
  The victim just eleven years old. Local Force Rob Maloney is live with that
• 43:25
  victim's family and where the investigation the family is hoping goes from here, right
• 43:32
  Nick? You know, first of all, we should say there is a
• 43:34
  gofund me for this family because the child spend three days in children's hospital running
• 43:39
  up some pretty heavy duty bills. But there is also ongoing medical treatment here.
• 43:44
  So that go fund me page we should have linked on clicks on a
• 43:46
  Troy dot com. But this is one of those situations that was really genuinely
• 43:52
  shocking. When you hear it, you go how could this possibly happen?
• 43:54
  And it was a week ago Sunday. Children were out on a playground at
• 43:59
  Verner Elementary School and a fight broke out between a couple of young children.
• 44:02
  And not the girl that was involved in this. She just happened to be
• 44:06
  there and her mother said she even tried to break up the fight, but
• 44:09
  in the end ended up looking like this. I was stream and I was
• 44:15
  when we smoke with eleven year old d Era Summers on Thursday, she said
• 44:19
  she couldn't understand why or how this happened. She just knows. She spent
• 44:22
  three days in children's hospital to mend her wounds after another child throw acid on
• 44:29
  her back. It was like real painful because like Malais was burning. All
• 44:34
  of this coming after her cousin had a playground fight with the girl who told
• 44:37
  the girls bad things could happen if you mess with her. Tierra wasn't even
• 44:42
  involved in the fight. It's is unbelievable that something like this can happen.
• 44:46
  Billy Summers is Diira's grandfather, and while he worked to open his restaurant,
• 44:52
  Roscoe's Greens and Beans in Highland Park on Sunday morning, he had her on
• 44:57
  his mind. It has my heart duty because don't no child, no person,
• 45:06
  for that aspect, deserve nothing like this, I mean eleven child.
• 45:12
  He says he's happy to see an arrest in the case. The arrested child
• 45:15
  now not allowed back on the playground, instead confined to her home wearing a
• 45:20
  tether. Yet Billy wants an adult arrested two because it's alleged the mother of
• 45:23
  that child provided the acid. No, I can't imagine that that's the same
• 45:29
  thing as saying giving them a gun a knife, that's a weapon. I
• 45:32
  mean, what adult would do that. Well, that's something that the Detroit
• 45:39
  Public School District or Community District Police Department is asking and whether the Detroit PD
• 45:45
  might have to get involved. We're still waiting to hear on that. But
• 45:49
  this incident did happen on the Verner Elementary School playground, so that's how they
• 45:52
  ended up involved. But we do know that they are looking into that corner
• 45:57
  of this story and waiting to see what becomes of all of that. In
• 46:00
  the meantime, the Tiguera Summers is going to be going to the doctor on
• 46:06
  Wednesday because it's possible she's gonna need a skin graft to deal with that very
• 46:10
  nasty burn that you saw on her shoulder. Recording Live Rod No Lonely before.
• 46:19
  Oh, let me, let me take a deep breath, because I
• 46:35
  had to find that video because that's how serious this bullying and these little playgrounds
• 46:45
  scuffles, and a sad part about it that baby was not even involved.
• 46:57
  You know, I just the thought that again, mothers, parents uphold this
• 47:10
  type of behavior and contribute to it. How could you, as a mother,
• 47:21
  give your child something to harm somebody else's child. How would you feel
• 47:29
  if that was your baby? How would you feel if the error's mom gave
• 47:35
  her something to throw on your child and your child wasn't even involved in the
• 47:38
  playground scuffle, wasn't even involved, and this baby wound up hurt. Jule
• 47:50
  says they should like her man made a fuck up and give her the maximum
• 47:53
  amount of time allowed. I'm sick of some of these humans. When I
• 47:59
  first saw that video, well, when I first saw the story, and
• 48:07
  when it said the mother is the one that gave heard the ascid and you
• 48:15
  went back and you threw it, you can't tell me that's not learned behavior.
• 48:22
  That's probably how the mamac that child had seen somebody act like that or
• 48:31
  am im act like that? Period. But that's what I mean when I
• 48:37
  say this bullying, it's going entirely too far again, Dave, this baby
• 48:45
  got bad rass are thrown on her. I don't I guess it was bad
• 48:49
  raster. I don't know, some type of assa throwing her on her and
• 48:52
  she wasn't even involved in the scuffle. Then you have another young man who
• 48:58
  was fifteen years old who just committed suicide because he had sent a picture of
• 49:05
  his of his you know, private area too a girl he thought he was
• 49:09
  talking to, and a girl posted it online. This baby got embarrassing,
• 49:13
  he killed herself. You had people that are sending text messages to other children
• 49:21
  telling these children kill theirself. The sixteen year old young lady in Atlanta,
• 49:36
  they're texting her telling her she's an attention seeker, and this baby killed herself.
• 49:45
  I feel like every child again, and I'm gonna say this one more
• 49:49
  time. I feel like every child that texts that baby that message needs to
• 49:52
  have some type of charge or charges filed against them. Cyber bullying period,
• 50:00
  cyber bullying, bullying overall. I feel like there needs to be a law
• 50:06
  for that I feel like they've created a law that you cannot lawfully send unsolicited
• 50:16
  nude pictures or you can be arrested for that. I think bullying these that
• 50:21
  needs to be applied to bullying, cyber bullying, all of it, because
• 50:27
  again, the suicide rates are increasing, and these children are getting younger by
• 50:32
  the day, four, five, seven, eight, twelve, fifteen killing
• 50:39
  themselves. Javert says. The fact that that baby said bad things could happen
• 50:50
  if you mess with me. She knew she could do whatever she wanted to
• 50:52
  do to whomever. And that's sad, but you know, that's learned behavior.
• 50:58
  I don't care what anybody says, the girl mama acts like that,
• 51:01
  or that child has been around somebody that acts like that, that has done
• 51:05
  that. Let's learned behavior. That's that's learn because these children these days soak
• 51:13
  up shit like a sponge, and they mimic what they see and they emulate
• 51:17
  what they see, what they see on TV, what they see at home.
• 51:23
  These children are like little sponges, so they soak it up and they
• 51:27
  emulate that. Javert says, these are little kids. Imagine if she was
• 51:34
  four or five years older. I'm scared for these kids. I'm scared for
• 51:37
  him too, because again you see these cases where these children are being bullied,
• 51:46
  being cyber bullied, and they're killing themselves, and then you see people
• 51:52
  laughing about it. But again, we have to take care of our children.
• 51:59
  We have to protect with children. Us parents stopped upholding up the bullshit
• 52:02
  that your children do. What happened to the discipline? I remember back when
• 52:10
  I was coming up. Baby, you couldn't do nothing without somebody knowing what
• 52:15
  you was doing. And trust and believe your mom and your dad and knew
• 52:17
  before you even made it to the house all this bullying that they're doing,
• 52:23
  all this Oh, I'm gonna beat you up, or you telling people,
• 52:29
  and then you go home and you tell your parents, and then the parents
• 52:30
  go to the school or they go to the other parents. The school does
• 52:35
  nothing about it, because they absolutely didn't do anything for me because they told
• 52:38
  me or that's just boys being boys. And this was after the little boys
• 52:45
  stabbed my son in the hand with a pencil. And then when I went
• 52:50
  and I addressed it, the teacher tells me, oh, I didn't know
• 52:58
  until the end of I don't give a damn when you found out. I
• 53:00
  should have been notified when you found out, because what if my son would
• 53:04
  have gotten led party? But this is the day in times that we're living
• 53:15
  in now, this is the day in times that we're living in. Parents
• 53:21
  are no longer trying to be parents. They too busy trying to be friends
• 53:23
  with their children. And you're letting your little monster run around to bully and
• 53:27
  pick on people. And then when a child kills themselves, then what?
• 53:37
  Then? What? And then now we have to deal with the mental health
• 53:46
  aspect of this. What does that do to a person's mental because we're still
• 53:57
  trying to balance the mental health crisis, we're trying to curtail the suicide rates,
• 54:07
  but now we have to factor in cyber bullying and out the numbers are
• 54:13
  going back up again. I'm not saying that this just happened, but it's
• 54:19
  increasing. So you ask, how does bullying affect mental health? I can
• 54:28
  tell you the effects of cyber bullying also include mental health issues, increased stress
• 54:36
  and anxiety, depression, acting out violently, and low self esteem. And
• 54:45
  that can potentially drive someone over the edge and kill themselves and no consequences ever
• 55:00
  be or no one's ever reprimanded. Let me say that I believe. I've
• 55:05
  only seen one case where the girl had texted the boy and told the boy
• 55:10
  kill yourself. No one's gonna miss you. I believe she was arrested,
• 55:15
  she was charged. I believe she went to jail, but I don't believe
• 55:17
  she stayed in jail long. I believe she's off approbation. But there's never
• 55:24
  any real consequences. And cyber bullying can also result in long lasting emotional effects.
• 55:35
  Even if the bullying has stopped, even after your child it's finally out
• 55:46
  of the out of the bullying situation, you still have those long term emotional
• 55:52
  effects. I look at my son, and my son has really no friends.
• 56:10
  He sits in his room all day, plays his video games. When
• 56:17
  he goes to events, he goes to events by himself. And I know
• 56:24
  my son wants friends, y'all, and he's twenty two. I'm not ashamed
• 56:30
  to share my story because this could be someone's child that's experiencing this right now,
• 56:39
  even as an adult. Because again the effects of cyber bullying include those
• 56:52
  mental health issues again, the increased stress, the anxiety, the depression,
• 56:58
  your child is acting out violently, and low self esteem. And we are
• 57:02
  ready no body image is at the top of the list because you start to
• 57:13
  believe what people tell you when it's told to you repetitively. So again,
• 57:21
  what are we gonna do to curtail some of the cyber bullying? Your next
• 57:30
  board meeting that you attend at the school or for the I'm sorry, not
• 57:34
  the school, the superintendent when they have the school meetings and stuff like that,
• 57:38
  you need to go up there and you need to address cyber bully.
• 57:45
  Stop being afraid. Let me say this, stop being afraid to fight for
• 57:49
  your child or your children. If the school won't do anything, go to
• 57:57
  the superintendent, the superintendent and doesn't do anything. You go to the top,
• 58:04
  You go to the school board. They don't help. You go above
• 58:08
  them. You keep going. You never stop fighting for your children, because
• 58:15
  again, cyber bullying doesn't just happen at school. There are adults that are
• 58:22
  being cyber bully. I believe, and I want. I cannot think.
• 58:27
  And I just said her name, Leslie. She's a comedian. Y'all,
• 58:31
  um, God, what is her last name? Leslie Johnson something like that,
• 58:37
  But she's she's a comedian. She's on Saturday Night Live. And I
• 58:42
  remember her sharing her story and her scene how she was cyber bully, how
• 58:46
  she was bullied online, and they talked about it because she was very She's
• 58:51
  very, very, very dark skinned, and they told her she was ugly,
• 58:53
  she had nappy hair. That affects a person. And these are adults
• 59:00
  that are doing this, not just children, but you have grown people.
• 59:05
  You have adults that cyber bully people. I see it all up and down
• 59:13
  my timeline on Facebook. Y'all are cyber bullying people. Y'all are talking about
• 59:23
  how people look. Y'all are talking about people's families and some of y'all and
• 59:29
  I'm a gonna see it. Don't have the right to talk about people with
• 59:34
  wide bats if your back is white, So stop doing that, because I'm
• 59:43
  here to tell you, baby Carmen, don't have an inspiration date, nor
• 59:45
  does it forget an address. Y'all don't know what people go through that you're
• 59:54
  interacting with on social media. You don't know if that person is a drink
• 59:58
  away, a pill away, or a gunshot away. Have I had some
• 1:00:08
  Internet beafs, Absolutely, But I'm not gonna put somebody down to make myself
• 1:00:20
  feel good. And that's what I see a lot of y'all do on social
• 1:00:24
  media. These children see this. These children do this because social media has
• 1:00:37
  become a goal to for everybody. You go through a breakup in your crime,
• 1:00:42
  first thing you want to do, you want to get on social media.
• 1:00:47
  Like I said, the fifteen year old boy that just committed suicide,
• 1:00:52
  there was a seventeen year old girl that got beat up in school and guess
• 1:00:57
  what they did. They uploaded it to social media. This girl wouldn't killed
• 1:01:01
  herself. That's the first thing y'all do. Somebody fighting, you want to
• 1:01:09
  upload it and put it on social media. Let's talk about the issue in
• 1:01:16
  Chicago where a lady was at the hot dog place and the man started,
• 1:01:22
  you know, started hitting her. First thing they did they pulled out the
• 1:01:25
  phone and put it up on social media. Why y'all didn't call the police?
• 1:01:32
  Like that song about Childish Gambino, This is America. And if you
• 1:01:37
  look at the video, anytime something happened, everybody pulling out their cell phone.
• 1:01:40
  They want to record because everybody wants to be Everybody wants to be Internet
• 1:01:45
  famous. Everybody wants to be everybody wants to go viral. If you're gonna
• 1:01:50
  go viral, go viral. For some shit that makes sense, y'all.
• 1:01:58
  Uploading fights, y'all, uploading people being shot for lights, that's some sick
• 1:02:05
  that. Now, that's not that. Now, that's some mental stuff.
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  Now. I ain't gonna lie now. I upload pictures of me and my
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  children, you know, or me and my you know, me and big
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  Daddy, or if I'm with family or I'm with friends, oh yet,
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  But if I see somebody being hurt, my first thing is not to pull
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  out my phone to record and upload it on Facebook. It's not the first
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  thing for me to do. Some of y'all are weird, man, y'all,
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  y'all like some of this stuff out here is some weird, old,
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  sick, old shit to me. Since says that's because everyone wants their five
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  minutes a thing, absolutely, and then you get your five minutes of fame.
• 1:02:46
  But you don't stop to think that that five minutes of a theme that
• 1:02:50
  you're getting you're hurting somebody else, because again, you don't know people's mental
• 1:02:54
  state right now, since say, no, that's not mental. These motherfuckers
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  are just pure evil in this day and age. Yeah, now they all
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  demonic, but that you know, but that goes back to what I was
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  saying sis like, if I see a fight, my first thing is not
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  to pull out a phone and record. You see this in school, I
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  saw a video where I believe the little boy was like ten years old,
• 1:03:22
  was being choked on the bus by another student and somebody recorded that instead of
• 1:03:29
  going to the front of the us and telling the bus driver y'all want,
• 1:03:34
  y'all are recorded in this baby they ain't got He's still alive. But the
• 1:03:45
  mother said her son got depressed, he didn't want to go to school.
• 1:03:49
  And that's sad that children are afraid to go to school because y'all refused to
• 1:03:55
  do something about the monster that's tormenting and bullying other children in the school.
• 1:04:03
  The first thing that these babies resort to is suicide, and that should not
• 1:04:08
  be what they resort to. If a child comes to you and tells you
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  that they're being bullied, you need to look into that. You need to
• 1:04:17
  take heed to that. Because I don't care what anybody says. If the
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  bullying happens at school and you, as teachers, superintendent, school boy or
• 1:04:28
  whatever, are made aware of this and y'all don't do anything, I believe
• 1:04:31
  charges should be filed against y'all too, because I believe y'all will complicit in
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  the bullying behavior. I bet you if they start holding some of these people
• 1:04:41
  accountable to the full extent, I bet you some of this was stopped.
• 1:04:47
  I bet you some of this was stopped. But I want to show y'all
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  this video. There is a school district here in Texas that has some very
• 1:05:04
  surprising allegations. But here we go, and then we're going to jump back
• 1:05:10
  into this conversation because I'm not done. When the Kemp family moved to Lubbock,
• 1:05:15
  Texas, two years ago, they knew that sending their son Brady to
• 1:05:18
  a new school might come with some challenges, but nothing prepared him, his
• 1:05:23
  mom Tracy, or stepdad Seth for what they were about to endure. We
• 1:05:28
  feel singled out, We feel the racism here. I just feel like it's
• 1:05:32
  blatant incompetence from the schools. Over the last two school years, Brady Kemp
• 1:05:38
  and at least nine other black children say they have been suffering from constant racial
• 1:05:42
  harassment. They hear classmates call them monkeys. Some students play sounds on their
• 1:05:46
  cell phones that mimic the crack of a whip. I feel like I can't
• 1:05:50
  looked down at it. How often would you say you heard the N word?
• 1:05:54
  It's an everyday thing. Last spring, someone created an instagram featuring the
• 1:05:59
  school's logo, encouraging classmates to send photos of monkeys. His mother was shocked
• 1:06:03
  to see a post of her son. We watched him change, like his
• 1:06:09
  mood now I want to go to school being sad. Parents brought their concerns
• 1:06:14
  to the Lubbock Cooper School District, but eight months later, they say they've
• 1:06:17
  never received an update and that white students keep taunting their kids. Without local
• 1:06:21
  action, they felt they had no choice but to turn to the federal government.
• 1:06:27
  This week, lawyers filed joint complaints alleging that administrators in Lubbock and neighboring
• 1:06:31
  Slaton, Texas, violated the civil rights of their students by failing to prevent
• 1:06:35
  and respond to racial bullying. Attorney Page Duggan's clay represents the families, the
• 1:06:42
  parents, and these complaints and the students. They're not asking for money.
• 1:06:45
  All they're asking is for equal treatment under the law. Keith Bryant, the
• 1:06:48
  district's superintendent, says the school has taken appropriate action and its staff are trained
• 1:06:54
  to report bullying. Do you believe there's racism here in Lubbock, Cooper,
• 1:07:00
  I believe that there is. I think our society is racist, absolutely.
• 1:07:03
  Do I think it spills over in the schools, I will certainly say it
• 1:07:06
  can. We work really hard to try to mitigate that. There is no
• 1:07:10
  place in Lobacupristy for racism in any form or fashion. Bryan says, the
• 1:07:15
  investigation into the racist Instagram account remains open. They talk to hundreds of kids
• 1:07:20
  and never found out exactly who it was. I was frustrated about that.
• 1:07:26
  I sought the help of the FBI behind the scenes. You interviewed hundreds of
• 1:07:31
  people, but none of the black students whose faces were posted on that Instagram
• 1:07:34
  page say that they were interviewed. Well, I can't speak to that,
• 1:07:39
  because the administration at that campus did that. Monday night, families arrived to
• 1:07:44
  a school board meeting wearing all black. We will not quit. We simply
• 1:07:49
  will not go away. Their hope is that the federal government, which can
• 1:07:54
  withhold funds from schools that violate the law, will interview for Brady, he
• 1:07:59
  plans to spend the next few months focused on getting good grades. Next fall,
• 1:08:02
  his family hopes to move to a new town. Still, Brady has
• 1:08:06
  a message for the classmates he'll leave behind. I believe the same blood as
• 1:08:11
  you do. We do the same classes together, and you still see me
• 1:08:14
  differently because I'm darker than you. Why Antonia Hilton, NBC News, Lubbock,
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  Texas. Thanks for watching our YouTube channel. Follow today's top stories and
• 1:08:28
  breaking news by downloading the NBC News app. When I tell y'all that textbook
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  comment that the Superman sending gave me, it really triggered me because that's what
• 1:08:50
  they say, that's what they tell parents, or we're taking all the proper
• 1:08:58
  recourse. We're doing this, we're doing that. And you see how quickly
• 1:09:03
  he deflected when she asked about the twelve black students whose name whose pictures were
• 1:09:09
  on that Instagram page. Were they interviewed? I mean, I'm sorry they
• 1:09:15
  weren't interviewed, And then he says, I can't speak as a superintendent.
• 1:09:19
  You should have ensured that. But that's the textbook, paperback comment that they
• 1:09:26
  give every last parent. In other words, to say, yeah, we
• 1:09:31
  looked into it, we're not worried about it, because that's the pretty much
• 1:09:38
  the same thing they told me was just to move my son to another school.
• 1:09:44
  Why and my son was the victor, so why move him to another
• 1:09:50
  school? Why don't you just address the issue. But that's why I say
• 1:09:59
  to you parents, go to those school board meetings, put your issues out
• 1:10:04
  there on the table, and you keep showing up. If your child is
• 1:10:10
  being bullied, you stand up for your children. If they don't do it,
• 1:10:16
  you go above and beyond them. But just ensure that you follow the
• 1:10:20
  proper chain of command. Whatever you're mail to them, baby, send it
• 1:10:27
  certified so you'll know somebody got it. So that way, when you go
• 1:10:31
  to these board meetings, you could say, hey, I send a certified
• 1:10:36
  letter to this person blah blah, and say the names. Don't ever be
• 1:10:44
  afraid to advocate for your children because mental health is everything, and this is
• 1:10:47
  exactly what bullying is doing to your children. It is affecting their mental health.
• 1:10:56
  Because per the CDC, they said, the incidents of both cyber bullying
• 1:11:01
  and adolescents suicide are rising in the United States, with recent Center for Disease
• 1:11:08
  Control and Prevention data showing that fourteen point nine percent of adolescents have been cyber
• 1:11:15
  bullyed and thirteen point six percent of ad I'm sorry, thirteen point six percent
• 1:11:21
  of adolescents have made a serious suicide attempt. So you have fourteen point nine
• 1:11:29
  percent of adolescents that have been cyber bully, and then you have thirteen point
• 1:11:34
  six percent of the adolescents that have made a serious suicide attempt. That's a
• 1:11:42
  lot of CHIU. That's a lot of adolescents with fourteen point nine fourteen point
• 1:11:49
  nine percent of them being cyber bully versus thirteen point six percent of the adolescents
• 1:11:56
  that have made a serious suicide attempt. That's a big number. That's a
• 1:12:02
  big number. And as you see the school districts, law enforcement, they're
• 1:12:15
  not taking it seriously. They're not taking it seriously. But again, thirteen
• 1:12:26
  point six percent of adolescents that have attempted suicide. Let me take a deep
• 1:12:42
  breath because I look at these stories. I look at these cases, and
• 1:12:51
  I say, what can we do better as parents? What can we do
• 1:12:56
  better as a community to curtel the cyber bully? And a million things popped
• 1:13:05
  up in my head. The number one thing I feel we need to do
• 1:13:12
  as people. We need to become a community. We need to rally around
• 1:13:17
  and protect our children. We need to sit down and we need to have
• 1:13:24
  conversations with our children and letting our children know that if you're being bullied,
• 1:13:30
  you go tell somebody, You keep a record of it, You document it,
• 1:13:40
  and I mean your document. Every time an incident happens and you report
• 1:13:44
  it to an adult and nothing happens, you document that. Then once they
• 1:13:54
  don't do what you need them to do, you go a step above them
• 1:13:58
  and you have your paper trailer number three. If that doesn't work, you
• 1:14:08
  go to law enforcement. But we have to get out here, y'all,
• 1:14:15
  and we have to start advocating and protecting our children's mental health. These babies
• 1:14:24
  are suffering from depression and anxiety because someone has told them that they're stupid.
• 1:14:30
  Someone has told them that they're dumb, someone has told them or if you
• 1:14:34
  die, no one's gonna miss you. And not only are they bringing that
• 1:14:42
  home from school, but again like the pet, like the young ladies said
• 1:14:45
  in the video, they're putting it on social media. I've seen children be
• 1:14:58
  bullied and the first thing people do is they recorded, go report it.
• 1:15:04
  There was a young lady that committed suicide at her school in the bathroom and
• 1:15:12
  she was even this eight and she's eight years she was eight years old,
• 1:15:15
  what's going and was telling the teacher and the principles, I'm being bullied.
• 1:15:18
  I'm being bullied and it's baby on allowed herself in the school bathroom. Another
• 1:15:29
  young lady that I spoke about last year, she was seven, eight years
• 1:15:35
  old, killed herself. She was being bullied, telling her oh, she
• 1:15:46
  was ugly, she stinks teachers used to mistreat. Yeah, it happens.
• 1:16:00
  But again, y'all, we have to come together as a community. We
• 1:16:04
  have to stand up to bullying because bullying it's not okay. It's not okay
• 1:16:14
  to intentionally hurt somebody and didn't laugh about it and then record it and put
• 1:16:18
  it on social media. It's not cool to make fun of somebody, to
• 1:16:21
  bullies somebody because they're different from you. It's not okay to bully somebody with
• 1:16:28
  a disability, and it's not good to bully bully people because they're a different
• 1:16:34
  color. Issue And some of the bullies we see walk around with guns and
• 1:16:43
  badges, but that's a whole another conversation. But again, these children,
• 1:16:58
  these babies, taking their lives because that being bullied, and it's definitely not
• 1:17:13
  okay. What are we gonna do, y'all? What are we gonna do?
• 1:17:25
  Y'all? Drop some of the ideas in the comments. Let me know
• 1:17:28
  what what do you think we could do to help kurtell this bullying issue that
• 1:17:32
  we have that we see that is increasing along with us suicide rates. What
• 1:17:42
  can we do as as a people? I know, like I said,
• 1:17:50
  my baby went through a lot and he's twenty two years old now and still
• 1:18:01
  suffers from the long term effects of being bullied, being teased. He wanted
• 1:18:12
  friends. I remember I posted when my son was still in school, and
• 1:18:19
  I think I told y'all, you know, my son, you know,
• 1:18:23
  tipped by itself at lunch. People thought he was weird because he liked comic
• 1:18:32
  books, he liked Spider Man, he loved playing video games, and it's
• 1:18:42
  still a trigger for him to this day. But I did exactly what I
• 1:18:49
  was supposed to do as a parent. I stood up for my son.
• 1:18:54
  I protected my son because my son is innocent. Children are innocent, and
• 1:19:00
  for a child to be bullied, they big. But if we had more
• 1:19:08
  parents like this, maybe that bullying was stopped. Ya'll check this out.
• 1:19:17
  Where's the letter Act? You're gonna get into the face and do it right,
• 1:19:26
  or you're gonna get embarrassed in front of your whole class. I don't
• 1:19:38
  know exactly who it was who dared her to do it, but I would
• 1:19:42
  appreciate if you, guys, or whoever it was was, do not ask
• 1:19:45
  her or influence her. Although she is her own person and knows how to
• 1:19:48
  say no to something that doesn't make sense or something that is not called for.
• 1:19:55
  You're too old for that, and hurry up. You got two seconds
• 1:19:59
  to find it. Okay, Well, guess what. Stand up and remember
• 1:20:02
  what you wrote. And I remember what you wrote. Darn ya look at
• 1:20:12
  her. Put your hands down, darn put your hands down. Harmon.
• 1:20:18
  I'm mean, my agent, how you think she felt when you walked up
• 1:20:21
  and slapped her? Do any of y'all want somebody to just walk up and
• 1:20:26
  slap y'all? That is not cool? And dar y'all, don't laugh.
• 1:20:30
  And you know every single one of your parents feels the same way that she
• 1:20:35
  does, So don't act. Don't act like you don't get in trouble like
• 1:20:40
  this. I don't want nobody walking up to her slapping her, and I
• 1:20:43
  don't appreciate her slapping nobody else now got on Friday, God, and just
• 1:21:00
  say what's on what you need to say. You don't have to say a
• 1:21:03
  word from words say I say, apologize sincerely. I don't put your hands
• 1:21:11
  down. I'm apologize from happened on Friday and let that happen again. And
• 1:21:18
  for me talking from my hands on you, my mom put her hands told
• 1:21:21
  me? What else? Act? Or do she accept your apology? Do
• 1:21:29
  you? Yes? I apologize as her mother for her doing that. This
• 1:21:38
  will not happen again. Now, I'm not telling her. She can't hear
• 1:21:41
  nobody. Now, if y'all hear her, ain't telling me, I ain't
• 1:21:43
  tell y'all. She can't get y'all back. But she's not gonna walk up
• 1:21:45
  to nobody and just slap nobody because I don't want nobody doing that to her.
• 1:21:50
  So I don't want her doing that to nobody else's shop, because that's
• 1:21:55
  not right. Bullying is not right. You don't know what somebody's going through
• 1:22:00
  at home, do you understand? And if that not happened in him,
• 1:22:11
  give her a hood? Thank you. Now, that's what I'm talking about
• 1:22:27
  right there, that's the parenting that I'm used to. Right there, that
• 1:22:32
  girl slapped another. So the story behind the video, um, so her
• 1:22:38
  daughter the eight deary, I think think that I can't remember the baby name
• 1:22:44
  just that quick. Anyway, So she went up and she slapped the other
• 1:22:48
  girl in the face. So they notified the mother. So the mother made
• 1:22:56
  the daughter, the young lady y'all step saw standing up in in front of
• 1:23:00
  the classroom. The mother made her write a letter apologizing to the girl.
• 1:23:04
  Where she left the letter at home. And so the mama was like,
• 1:23:08
  I don't care if you let the letter not. You're gonna get up there
• 1:23:10
  and you're gonna apologize, and this is the apology. Her giving the apology
• 1:23:15
  for slapping a girl in the face. Uh that again, let me see,
• 1:23:21
  that's the type of parents that I'm used to. That's how you do
• 1:23:26
  that. That's how you nip that in the booth. The mama was not
• 1:23:30
  disrespectful to her baby. She wasn't calling the child out of her name.
• 1:23:36
  She made that girl get up there and tell her I'm sorry, I shouldn't
• 1:23:43
  have slapped you in the face, you know, or I'm sorry for what
• 1:23:45
  happened last Friday. Because I haven't seen some videos where parents are brating their
• 1:23:54
  children where parents are bullying their children, let me say this to your parents.
• 1:24:05
  The behavior that these children see at home is exactly what they take with
• 1:24:10
  them outside your door. So if your child goals to school is out in
• 1:24:16
  public acting like that, just know where they got it from. Because you
• 1:24:23
  are the foundation. You're supposed to teach your children right from wrong. You
• 1:24:27
  are supposed to teach your children how they are supposed to ask when they're with
• 1:24:30
  you and when they're not with you. You're supposed to teach your children not
• 1:24:36
  to bully other people because people are different. So if you are co signing
• 1:24:45
  this type of behavior and something happens to your child, you can't blame nobody
• 1:24:51
  but you, because your parents need to hold yourself accountable and how your children
• 1:24:59
  are. Some of y'all may agree, some of y'all may disagree, but
• 1:25:03
  children are a reflection of their parents. Again, stop co signing the foolishness
• 1:25:15
  and the bs that your children do. Bullying, and I'm gonna say it
• 1:25:20
  again, bullying, it's not okay. It's not cool because you have people
• 1:25:26
  out here that are out here killing themselves behind being bullied. To your parents,
• 1:25:34
  you fight for the rights of your children, follow the chain of command.
• 1:25:41
  If that don't work, you go to law enforcement. You get law
• 1:25:45
  enforcement involved, you take legal action, if you gotta get an attorney,
• 1:25:51
  whatever it is you have to do, you protect your children, your fight
• 1:25:56
  for the rights of your children, because these children can no longer be children.
• 1:26:02
  These children can no longer have fun playing on social media without the fear
• 1:26:06
  of being bullied. They can't upload a picture without the fear of being bullied.
• 1:26:15
  I've seen people, grown people go as far as to attack people's children.
• 1:26:25
  If that ain't no demonic shit, I don't know what it is.
• 1:26:30
  But like that mother said, you don't know what a person is going through.
• 1:26:39
  Try to turn the negative into a positive. But at the end of
• 1:26:45
  the day, it falls on the shoulders of the parents. And I feel
• 1:26:50
  like, if you want to curtail this bullying and again you've been to the
• 1:26:57
  school, you've been to the school board, you've got law enforcement involved,
• 1:27:00
  and it's still going on, and you've even tried to talk to the parents,
• 1:27:02
  you pursue legal action against the parents because they're complicit in this bullying behavior
• 1:27:16
  that these children are out here doing. Again, I've seen videos where parents
• 1:27:21
  have jumped on the bus and you're cussing out the child. I'm gonna tell
• 1:27:30
  you right now because I told my neighbor you out here cussing out these kids.
• 1:27:35
  I told the baby, you better be glad it ain't want to mine
• 1:27:38
  because you would have had a well with fast by the time I was done.
• 1:27:45
  But you're taking up with the parents, and you document I spoke with
• 1:27:49
  mister Johnson or missus Johnson on this day with regards to the incident that happened
• 1:27:55
  on this day. She didn't do anything. You keep your records, baby.
• 1:27:59
  You make sure your eyes dotted than your tears across. So when you're
• 1:28:01
  going you pursue legal action. You got the receipts. You got the receipts.
• 1:28:12
  Joy say fact Sis, absolutely, But we are a reflection of our
• 1:28:17
  parents. Get out there and act like you got some home training, because
• 1:28:25
  some of these kids out here these days ain't got got zero home training.
• 1:28:29
  And then when I see who their mama's and their daddies are, I'm like,
• 1:28:31
  I see why they mimic what they see. Y'all glorify bullying and picking
• 1:28:41
  on people. That's what your child and your children are gonna do, because
• 1:28:44
  guess what you glorify but I want you to keep that same energy when it's
• 1:28:54
  your child, because turnaround and fair play. While you're child is out here
• 1:29:00
  bullying somebody, somebody could turn around a bully your child, and I want
• 1:29:03
  you to keep that same energy you had when your child was bullying somebody else.
• 1:29:14
  But bullying is not okay, and bullying needs to be stopped. I
• 1:29:16
  feel like that needs to be a law that's implemented. Anybody that has been
• 1:29:21
  found guilty of bullying, cyber bullying, text bullying, whatever it is that
• 1:29:27
  you're doing, I believe you need to be held accountable. I believe some
• 1:29:30
  charges need to be filed against you, and I feel like you should be
• 1:29:34
  punished to the fullest extent of the law. I feel like the way they
• 1:29:45
  like how they did Michael Vick behind those dogs, he's got to donate to
• 1:29:47
  Peter. I mean, I'm so sorry, not Peter, but the Humane
• 1:29:53
  Society. He had to go speak. I believe that's what parents or people
• 1:29:57
  that have been found guilty a bullying somebody. I think you need to take
• 1:30:00
  a bullying class, and I think you need to go school to school or
• 1:30:03
  wherever, and you need to advocate for it. And I believe you to
• 1:30:06
  start financially contributing to the bullying fund. I bet you that should have stopped
• 1:30:15
  in. I bet you would have stopped in. But I need y'all to
• 1:30:21
  really start taking this bullying thing serious. You know, all games and all
• 1:30:27
  jokes to the side, I guess, I guess you could say I'm rolling
• 1:30:30
  into my final thoughts. But we have to start taking this serious. All
• 1:30:39
  games and all jokes to the side, y'all. I'm serious now. But
• 1:30:45
  the way that suicide raid is increasing, what are we gonna do? These
• 1:30:56
  children that are killing themselves behind being bullied, haven't even yet experienced life,
• 1:31:10
  haven't even gotten the taste of adulthood. Are being a teenager being a childish
• 1:31:20
  stressfully enough and then if you add bullying on top, that's enough to drive
• 1:31:31
  a person over the edge. But it's up to us as parents, not
• 1:31:39
  only as parents, but as a community, that we step up and we
• 1:31:46
  protect these children. We go and we advocate and we fight for these children.
• 1:31:56
  Start going to these meetings the time, I'm so sorry, the schoolboy
• 1:32:00
  meetings. Start going to your local officials, the town hall meetings. Put
• 1:32:09
  that on, put that on their on their minds, put that in the
• 1:32:13
  universe, put that in the atmosphere and say we need to stop the bullying
• 1:32:25
  again. We're already trying to tackle these children and their hormones. We're trying
• 1:32:30
  to come to the realization of that. We're trying to battle with that,
• 1:32:34
  but now we have to battle with the mental health that has come from the
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  children being bullied. My heart goes out to these babies who feel like death
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  is the only way out. My heart goes out to these babies when they
• 1:33:02
  reach out for help and their voices become unheard. My heart goes out to
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  these babies who beg and plead for help and it's pushed to the side.
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  My heart goes out to the parents who are left to deal with the grief
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  of not only being let down by the school, the superintendent, law enforcement.
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  So now they have to juggle the grief they're left to deal with that.
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  They're left with this voy that if one person would have listened, you
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  probably could have saved a child's life. We have to start being proactive again.
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  We're seeing so many of our adolescents that are killing themselves behind bullying slash
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  cyber bullying. When is it gonna stop? When are we gonna take our
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  stance to fight for this again, y'all were still trying to get a grasp
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  on the numerous mental health issues, trying to grip you know, I'm so
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  sorry, y'all, trying to bring the suicide rates down, and then we're
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  dealing with a child with the region hormones over here, and then we're recovering
• 1:35:15
  from this pandemic. People are recovering financially only to be that's a lot.
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  That's a lot for a parent and a family, a family, let me
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  say that, to tackle to battle, to have to deal with that,
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  you did everything for your child and you were still let down in the end.
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  I get it, y'all. Mental health is real. That's why I
• 1:36:00
  push and I advocate so hard for it. But you look at again the
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  suicide rates and the ages they're getting younger. Again, you have adults bullying
• 1:36:27
  other adults. You have adults that are bullying people's children. Then you have
• 1:36:33
  children that are bullying other children. You have parents that are upholding the behavior
• 1:36:39
  that their children are displaying by bullying, and someone else's child sick, pure
• 1:36:46
  evil, pure demondic. What do we do? What do we do?
• 1:37:02
  Y'all? Y'all? Y'all. Y'all, y'all. I hope y'all enjoyed tonight's
• 1:37:09
  episode. Up Black Girl interrupting, but I do got to talk about tomorrow
• 1:37:15
  night's episode, y'all. Let me say this. You know what, I
• 1:37:19
  may push this back till I may't do this when Sunday, when Big Daddy
• 1:37:25
  is hell, I may do it Sunday. You know what, I think
• 1:37:28
  I'm gonna do tomorrow Night's episode for Sunday. Big Daddy. I'll be hell
• 1:37:31
  because I definitely want his input on this. Um. With regards to Girl,
• 1:37:41
  you don't want that man, but you don't want nobody else to have
• 1:37:44
  him either. That is gonna be I'm gonna push that episode to Sunday because
• 1:37:48
  I want Big dadda. I'll be hill because I really want his input on
• 1:37:53
  this topic. Just hop be the first time we ever do a show together.
• 1:37:57
  So uh, y'all bear with him. He ain't camera shot nothing like
• 1:38:00
  that. He's funny looking though, but no, but seriously, UM,
• 1:38:06
  I definitely yeah, I think that. I think, y'all, I want
• 1:38:11
  to do this episode Sunday, So Sunday we're gonna be talking about relationships and
• 1:38:14
  I'm gonna be addressing you women, because I want to know if you don't
• 1:38:18
  want the man, let him go? Why you holding that man hot?
• 1:38:25
  You don't want it, but you don't want nobody else to have it,
• 1:38:27
  and that's not foul. But I'm gonna push that episode the Sunday. I'm
• 1:38:31
  yeah, we're gonna do this Sunday. I'm yeah, we're gonna do this
• 1:38:33
  Sunday. This is gonna be interesting because I want to hear what he has
• 1:38:38
  to say on that one. So yeah, So this Sunday, y'all,
• 1:38:43
  this is gonna be a special episode. Uh yeah, So this Sunday,
• 1:38:47
  Yeah, Sunday, I'm gonna move the episode to Sunday. So Sunday night
• 1:38:50
  at Um, I think I want to do this one early. So I
• 1:38:55
  think let's I want to shoot for like maybe it's six o'clock six, six
• 1:39:00
  or seven. We'll do an early episode because bab I gotta get this input
• 1:39:04
  on this one. So again, um, tomorrow night's episode. I was
• 1:39:09
  gonna do it tomorrow night, but I want to push it till Sunday.
• 1:39:12
  And it's gonna be about girl. If you don't want that man, you
• 1:39:15
  don't want that, it's gonna be girl. You don't want that man,
• 1:39:17
  but you don't want nobody else say having or why why are you holding that
• 1:39:21
  man hostage? Let that man go? Girl. So that's gonna be Sunday
• 1:39:25
  night's conversation. Like I said, Big Daddy over here, I'm curious to
• 1:39:30
  get his uh is being put on this week. Oh so we'll see.
• 1:39:35
  We're definitely gonna seep. But um so I'm gonna do that for Sunday.
• 1:39:41
  Um. But I do want to say thank y'all so much for tuning in
• 1:39:45
  to another episode up Black Girl Interrupted again. I'm so looking forward to Sunday's
• 1:39:49
  episode. Um. I think that was gonna be a lot of fun.
• 1:39:55
  Um. I do want to say I love y'all. I appreciate y'all and
• 1:39:58
  all the support that y'all give me each and every episode that y'all tune in.
• 1:40:01
  I'm very humbled to still be having great things that are going on.
• 1:40:06
  I'm not giving up on my dream because Black Girl Interrupted will become a household
• 1:40:11
  name. I'm putting that into the universe atmosphere. Whatever I'm putting it out
• 1:40:15
  there, y'all gonna know. Uh, Jules say, shit, why are
• 1:40:19
  you sick of me? I can't wait till Sunday, So don't forget sis.
• 1:40:25
  We're gonna do that episode early, So Sunday that's what we're gonna be
• 1:40:28
  talking about. And don't be sick of me, prepared of it, sick
• 1:40:30
  of me Saturday. Oh but anyway, but I am absolutely humbled by all
• 1:40:35
  the great achievements that I have accomplished us far. My journey is not over.
• 1:40:41
  It is not done. I really feel like I'm just now getting started.
• 1:40:45
  Um, but I am. I'm never gonna give up on my dream.
• 1:40:49
  Black Girl Interrupted will definitely become a household name. Uh and I can't
• 1:40:56
  wait, I'm speaking at I'm speaking at. But again, don't forget y'all.
• 1:41:00
  Black Girl Interrupted is expanding. And for the new people that have not
• 1:41:05
  seen the trailer with the promo, let me say that, oh for the
• 1:41:13
  expansion, here we go, and then I want to come back and give
• 1:41:15
  y'all some love, some kisses, and uh, definitely pourant to y'all before
• 1:41:18
  we close for the night. So are the ones that have not seen it,
• 1:41:23
  hold on, let me take the banner out the way. Hold up,
• 1:41:25
  because y'all gotta get the full of facts. But let me see if
• 1:41:28
  I can just do it this a way. Let me see if I could
• 1:41:31
  just do it this way, y'all bear with me, and uh, don't
• 1:41:45
  forget. I am gonna do my um encouragement. So that's gonna be Tuesday
• 1:41:49
  night's episode. So Tuesday night, Uh, that's gonna be my empower our
• 1:41:55
  word. That's gonna be a testimonial Tuesday. Uh. I gotta encourage y'all.
• 1:42:01
  I gotta empower y'all. Remember I told y'all I did it last month.
• 1:42:04
  I said I gotta do it this month. So I definitely have to
• 1:42:06
  comme. I had to love on y'all. I have to encourage you.
• 1:42:09
  I had to empower you. So that will be Tuesday night. But again,
• 1:42:13
  Black Girl Interrupted is expanding. For those that are just tuning in,
• 1:42:17
  y'all, check your girl out. I can't wait for the launch. It
• 1:42:21
  will be in September, and I have narrowed it down to either the sixteenth
• 1:42:28
  of September or the twenty third of September, but either way it goes here
• 1:42:31
  we go la la la la. But yes, Black Girl Interrupted is expanded
• 1:43:17
  again. I've narrowed it down to either September sixteenth or September twenty third,
• 1:43:24
  but I will let you guys know, uh the definitive date um, because
• 1:43:29
  I am gonna scale back on doing Black Girl Interrupted, the podcast UM and
• 1:43:33
  really get um the Black Carpet experience up and running. UM. So once
• 1:43:40
  I get that up and running, I'll have to juggle both and I can't
• 1:43:43
  wait. I'm so excited. Um. I ask for this blessing and God
• 1:43:46
  has given it to me, So guess what, I'm gonna carry on the
• 1:43:50
  torch and keep it moving. But on that note, I do want to
• 1:43:55
  say I love you guys, thank you so much again for all the support.
• 1:43:58
  Um. You guys really keep me humbold. I appreciate all the love.
• 1:44:03
  I appreciate the shares, the comments, abuts everything. I love it
• 1:44:06
  all. And again, Black Girl Interrupted would not be elevating to the height
• 1:44:11
  that is going without you guys, so I definitely appreciate it. Again.
• 1:44:16
  Y'all could be anywhere on a Thursday night at eight thirty pm Central time,
• 1:44:20
  not thirty Eastern time, but y'all came to hang out with your girl,
• 1:44:24
  and I again absolutely appreciate. I love you guys. Happy Thursday, Eve,
• 1:44:30
  Happy Friday. I hope everyone has a beautiful weekend and don't forget.
• 1:44:33
  I will see y'all Sunday for that episode because I'm curious to know what he
• 1:44:40
  has to say in regards to that. But I love you guys again.
• 1:44:45
  Sleep well, have a great night. Pray before you late and say your
• 1:44:48
  affirmation. Speak positive over yourself. But I love you, guys, and
• 1:44:53
  I see y'all Sunday in my chase face.