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What Is White Privilege?? · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? Y'all? It's
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your favorite girl friend of five Oh fo, excuse me
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bringing you another beautiful episode of Black Girl Interrupted Podcast. Hey, everybody,
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Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone is having an amazing day.
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I hope everyone had a great weekend. I hope mothers
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and fathers. I know y'all are excited and ecstatic that
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these babies have gone back to school, because I know
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I am. My babies went back to school today. Y'all.
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We have a junior. We have a junior in high school.
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She is the last of the Mohicans and baby I
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am so excited. Oh but again, I want to say
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to all the parents, the aunts, the uncles, the cousins,
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wishing your children an amazing school year. Keep encouraging them,
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keep pouring into them, keep loving on them, and letting
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them know that the sky is a limit and whatever
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they put their mind to, they will always be a winner. Yes, yes, yes,
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and wait a minute, let me see. Yeah we're getting
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some clapping, some round of applause going on. But any who, again, y'all,
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welcome back to another episode of Black Girl Interrupted Podcast.
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What's your Favorite Girl? Ash And tonight's come sation. I
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might run for some feathers tonight with this conversation. I
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may lose followers. I don't know, but it is what
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it is. But it's long, do long overdue for us
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to have this conversation. So before we get started, anyone
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that knows how I start my show, I always do
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a mental health check in because I have to check
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the temperature. Mental health is so imperative and it is
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so important not only in the world but to me
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as a person that has dealt and continues to deal
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with depression and anxiety. As I stated before, I'm fully
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committed to showing up not just for me, but for
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you as well, because I know there are a lot
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of people out here that are struggling. I know there
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are people out here that don't have a safe space,
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that don't have a place to go to unpack, to decompress.
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And so why I created Black Girl Interrupted podcast. So
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before we get started, I always play something inspirational, something encouraging,
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something uplifting, because I want you to know I need
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you to keep going. I want you to know how
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resilient you are. I want you to know that I'm
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so proud that you did not give up. And that's
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a beautiful thing about Black Girl Interrupted podcast. So here
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we go and then we'll jump into tonight's conversation.
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Speaker 2: Commit you yourself to stretch, to get outside of your
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comfort zone and not be concerned about what people think
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about you, because they're thinking it anyhow. Don't worry about
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what they will say. They already saying it, So what
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do you care.
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Speaker 3: I hate Plan B because we have so many doubters.
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We have so many of those people that's in no,
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and you can't do it. That's impossible. That is okay
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because we just turn off, as I said earlier, and
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we listen and we hear the no being a yes,
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you can't do it, do it, you can't do it,
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and all that, so that that is possible to do
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that amongst all the negative people around you. But when
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you start doubting yourself, that's very dangerous because now what
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you're basically saying is is that if my plan doesn't work,
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I have a fallback plan. I have a Plan B.
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And that means that you start thinking about Plan B,
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and every thought that you put into Plan B you're
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taking away now that thought and that energy from Plan A.
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Speaker 2: Decide that that your life has so much meaning to
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the planet. Decide that you have something to give, That's
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why you're here.
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Speaker 3: So you don't just show up.
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Speaker 2: You brought something here. You're a journey. You have a destiny,
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mission to achieve, to do, to implement, to.
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Speaker 3: Perform, to experience.
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Speaker 2: Decide to commit yourself to be an.
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Speaker 4: Adventure in life.
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Speaker 2: Look out on life around you, look within yourself and say,
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where is it in my life that I need to
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make a commitment right now? Where is it that it
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might be for your health, it might be to be
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a happier person, It might be to make a difference
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in your community, it.
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Speaker 3: Might be there. Where is it I.
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Speaker 2: Say that commitment shows up? And the man or woman
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who has some ideas, some dream that they've been nurturing
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within themselves, and no one believed it, No one sought
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for them. That they weren't masters at it, they weren't
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experts at it. No one would build a statue and
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never call their name and recognize, and they never made
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it to the front page of the newspaper. But they
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had something that was there, something that was their baby,
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something that they loved and they believed in, and they
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just did what they could with what God gave them
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with their dream.
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Speaker 3: It is very important to understand that we function better
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if there is no safety net, because fland becomes a
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safety net. It says that if I fail, then I
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fall and I get picked up and I have something
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else there that will protect me.
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Speaker 1: M That one hit a little close to home for
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me today simply because this is the second year in
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a row that I have won an award for my podcast.
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Let me let that soak in for a moment. So
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i'mone year number two winning an award for my podcast,
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and I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunity me
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winning that award is way beyond the award. It's more
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so about the hard work and the dedication and the
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reward you get for your hard work and dedication. As
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I tell y'all every episode Black Girl Interrupted, the podcast
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is my baby, and I have to keep pouring into
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my baby. I have to keep feeding my baby. I
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have to keep nurturing if I want to see it grow.
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This is why you are seeing me show up faithfully
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because I want Black Girl Interrupted to go beyond just
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streaming on Facebook and YouTube. I want Black Girl Interrupted
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to be a household name. I want Black Girl Interrupted
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to be a space people say, oh man, I can
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go in there and I can relax and I don't
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have to worry about people judging me. I don't have
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to worry about people talking or using things against me
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on mad day because I've already told you everything you
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needed to know about me. So that's why I made
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the commitment again, not just to show up for you,
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but not just I'm sorry. Let me say that again,
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not just a show for me, but to show up
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for you, because I don't see a lot of spaces
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like this, you know. And that's not to say that
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they're not out there, the spaces that I've seen, and
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maybe I need to switch up things that I've view
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on on my for you page, but I see spaces
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where they're bashing black men and black women, black women.
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Ain't this black man? Ain't that? I'm so sick of
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seeing that. When are we gonna start having spaces where
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people come in and they hold themselves accountable but feel
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safe in the process of doing that. When are we
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gonna start seeing more spaces, excuse me, that promote mental
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health and provide resources for mental health, particularly in the
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black community. When are we gonna start seeing spaces where
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they're helping to remove the stigma of black men and
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black women going to therapy. I want to see more
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of those. I want my podcast to be in that,
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in that top range. I want to hear people say,
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oh man, she has some of the dopest conversations. She
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has conversations where she's holding not only men, but women accountable,
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Black men and black women accountable. She's having some of
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the most uncomfortable conversations that others will shy away from.
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I want to be in that conversation. I want Black
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Girl interrup that to be a part of that conversation. Again,
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I'm gonna I'm gonna keep showing up because somebody's watching me.
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There's somebody out there that's saying, oh man, what this
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girl is doing is dope. I'm not worried about the
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quality the quantity. I'm focused on the quality of work
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that I put out. I'm focused on the quality of
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conversations that we have. I'm focused on the quality of
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guests that I'm gonna start bringing on. Black Girl interrupted
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the podcast. So I'm not worried about who doesn't support me.
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Now I'm looking ahead. You understand because you may not
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support not but you may support later. I don't know,
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but I know whether you support or not, I'm still
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gonna keep showing up. I'm gonna still consistently keep showing
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up with Black Girl Interrupted the podcast period. Now enough
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of my little random, my little tangent. I'm so sorry.
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But again, my name is Ashley and I am the
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creator of Black Girl Interrupted podcast. And again, others may
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not know, but at the start of my show, I
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always do a mental health check in, always, always, always,
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as you see, I did play a video, just something encouraging,
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just something inspiring to let y'all know. Keep going, you know,
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stop worrying about who's supporting, stop worrying about who's doing this,
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and focus on you. Focus on the quality that you're
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putting out. Focus on your niche target, your audience, the
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target audience. Appease to the ones that you gravitate to,
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and stop trying to appease to everybody because not everybody's
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gonna like what you do, and just be okay with that.
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I'm cool with that. Some people don't like what I say.
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I see posts where people say, oh, they just keep
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giving people microphones. Maybe if you're stop and give it
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a listen. You might get some information from the podcast.
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You might get something conducive, you know, to your energy.
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But I'm gonna respectfully digress. But AnyWho, but dropping a comment,
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y'all let me know how you're feeling tonight again. Today
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is Tuesday, August the eleventh. I know a lot of
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parents are ecstatic that their children are now going back
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to school. So I know a lot of parents are overwhelmed.
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Some have kids that are just starting school, some have
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children that are graduating this year class of twenty twenty seven.
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So again, salute to you parents and a great job
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that you continue to do. Salute to the children. Just
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go be great, Just go be great? All right? All right,
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all right, So as we get into tonight's conversation, I'm
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gonna ruffle some feathers, brother says, another day above ground
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with my lovely family. Absolutely, I am so glad brother.
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I need to get with you after the show. I
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have a proposition for you that I need you to that.
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Let me not say I want you and would love
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for you to be a part of you always show
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up for me. So I know you're gonna show up
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for this one. Once I talk to you and tell
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you what it is. I already know you're gonna be
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down like full flats on a Cadillac. I'm not worried
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about that, So I'm gonna hit you up after the show.
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That is my brother, Marcus oh Man. What can I
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say about this dude, Like he's so awesome? He has
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a podcast? Brother? Why is my mind is so blank?
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But he talks about sports? He has He does his show,
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I know on Mondays and I've seen him on Thursdays.
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But please post in the comments and name me a
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podcast so that way I can get people to come over.
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I'm gonna so that way people can come and support
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you as well, because man, YouTube guys, man boy, y'all
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have an amazing show. And I love the conversation and
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I love the dialogue that I see amongst three outstanding
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black men that do it so eloquently without all the
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over talking and oh you did it. I love it.
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I love it. I love it. So Tonight's conversation again,
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I may ruffle some feathers with this, but Tonight's conversation
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is white privilege and what is it? Yeah? Yeah, I'm
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starting to see a lot of content on social media
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where you'll see things happening to black people, but you
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don't see it happening to whites. So I wanna discuss
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that there are a couple of cases that I wanna
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speak to simply because we're seeing the white get a
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slap on the wrist while our black men and black
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women and black boys and black girls are consistently well
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rooted by the system, same crime, just different outcomes. We
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got a couple of comments, let's see, alright. So my
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brother Marcus, it is called Two Sides to an Opinion
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is his first podcast and then Tuplex City the City.
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Please follow Marcus on all social media platforms, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok.
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He's everywhere, and when I tell you, he is dope,
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he is dope. He is dope. He's dope. He's dope.
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He's dope. When I tell you, I love popping in
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on his chats and listening to them talk sports. I
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love it. I may not be big into wrestling, but
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I know enough because my son is diehard wrestling fan,
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so I pick up a lot of stuff from him.
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But again, Two Sides to an Opinion and Suplex City
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to City are the two podcasts. Please please please go love,
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go support, go comment, like, share, subscribe because it takes
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zero dollars and it takes zero away from you to like,
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to comment, to share. Let's start supporting one another. But
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that'll be a whole different conversation for a different day.
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So white privilege, what is it again? I may ruffle
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some feathers with this conversation, People may unfollow, people may
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call me racist, whatever they want to do, and that's fine.
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But we cannot say that white privilege does not exist.
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We see this happening far too often nowadays. What is
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white privilege? Hm, let's get into it, and then let's
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jump back into the conversation.
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Speaker 5: Taxa, have you or anyone that you know ever had
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trouble hailing a cab? If your answer is no, then
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you might have white privilege. Here's how it works.
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Speaker 1: You may see your child.
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Speaker 5: When you look at him, Oka say, from the moment
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a white person is born, there afforded certain privileges. While
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the extent and nature of their privilege varies from country
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to country, one thing's consistent. If you're a white society,
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be like you out here? When it so, what's white privilege?
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In the words of Peggy Macintosh, A white scholar who
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started studying white privilege in the nineteen eighties. White privilege
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is an invisible package of unearned assets that I can
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count on cashing in each day, but about which I
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was meant to remain oblivious. In her essay White Privilege,
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Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Macintosh even details dozens of examples
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of white privilege that she experiences in day to day life.
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For examples, white folks are able to turn on the
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television and see someone who looks just like them. She
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even details things like being able to find band aids
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that match her skin. And it works in three distinct ways. First,
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white privilege provides white people with perks. Some perks go
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on notice, like being able to actually use complimentary shampoo
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and conditioner at a hotel. These parks lead to a
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sense of entitlement because whiteness is the standard. Imagine how
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white women would react if hotels only carried shape boys strip.
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White privilege also creates measurable advantages. A white person is
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more likely to be approved for loans than black folks,
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and that's part of what has led to disparities in
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home ownership. Under forty two percent of black folks are
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homeowners compared to seventy two percent of white folks. And
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what about jobs. With the exception of Asian men, all
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groups make less than white men when we talk about
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median hourly earnings. This especially impacts black women. Black women
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make sixty two cents for every dollar that white men make,
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and we also make seventy nine cents for every dollar
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that white women make.
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Speaker 1: Not to mention that white people are able to.
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Speaker 5: Profit off of industries that have historically penalized black folks.
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Speaker 1: Just look at marijuana.
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Speaker 5: According to the ACLU, the use of weed is pretty
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much the same among black and white people, yet black
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folks are nearly four times as likely to be arrested
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for possession. When it comes to banking off of the
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billion dollar our industry, black folks.
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Speaker 1: Sir shut out.
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Speaker 5: About one percent of dispensary owners in the US are black.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 5: That has white privilege written all over it. And folks,
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we're only talking about weed here. The fact that there
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are major disparities and incarceration rates based on race is
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no surprise. Finally, white privilege has pretty much come to
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shape everyone's view of history. Everything we've ever learned in schools,
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every face on our cash money. Damn Near every page
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in textbook centers white people and has been written from
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the white perspective. These are the faces of our nation's heroes.
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Why does this matter, you say, Well, white privilege literally
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affects everything income, education, employment, incarceration, standing, housing, and even
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assembling real talk. So we think that a black person
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can protest while being armed and live to see the
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next step. These unearned handouts afforded to white folks are
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completely real and the effects of white privilege are measurable.
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And the words of dam And Young, editor in chief
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of Very Smart Brothers, what white privilege means for white
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people is that their whiteness hasn't been a social, political, professional, financial,
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or legal hindemance. They have the privilege of the benefit
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of the doubt, which manifests as the privilege to just
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be so now that you know, are we gonna destand
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as a white privilege or not? Real talk, real talk,
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real talk, real talk, real talk, real talk.
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Speaker 1: That video will not ever, will never not be funny
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to me. But what she said she made a lot
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of valid points. I was reading a post maybe about
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a month ago on Facebook where white men was degrading
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black people and he said black people were the highest
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welfare recipients until I had to go and dismantle his
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whole point of the post because white people receive more
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welfare because they're the largest population. I believe what I
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was looking at. Let me go back, let me pull
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this one back up. I'm gonna tell you, all right,
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So I should have had this pulled up, so I
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do apologize. So according to the USDA, which is the
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United States Department of Agriculture, when it comes to the
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racial breakdown of food stamp recipients, Whites thirty five to
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thirty six percent, African Americans, Black or African American twenty
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five to twenty six percent, Hispanic or Latino sixteen to
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seventeen percent, Asians three to four percent, and then your
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Native Americans one to one point five percent. Then he
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continues on to say black people don't want to work,
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black people don't take Black men don't take care of
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their children, according to the CDC. Because again, one thing
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for sure, two things for certain. You could argue with
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me all day, but you can't argue with stats and numbers.
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And that's what I'm gonna always bring you anytime I
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have these conversations is I'm gonna always bring your stats,
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I'm gonna always bring your facts. I'm not gonna bring
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you anything. Of course, I'm gonna always give enerject my opinion,
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but when it comes to specifics, I'm gonna give your stats.
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Because you can argue all day with me, and I
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don't have a problem with that, but you can't argue
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with the stats, and you can't argue with the numbers.
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White men rink. Let me let me correct this. Black
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men rink. I wanna see during the time that I
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look at this, forty six or forty seven percent higher
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than Whites, Asians and Latinos when it comes to taking
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care of their children. So stop saying that black men
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don't take care of their children, or they're not they're
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not in the household. Yes they are, Yes they are.
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They are. It's just the media just doesn't want you
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to see that. The media wants you to keep believing
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that black men don't take care of their children. The
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media wants you to keep believing that black people are
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the highest when it comes to being welfare recipients. Again,
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you can argue with me, but you can't argue with
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the numbers. Can you can't argue with the facts. I
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believe white people make up sixty seven or sixty eight
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percent of the people in the world, so of course
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there's going to be a bigger number. We're not even
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close to being sixty or seventy percent make up in
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the population black Americans are. When you look at jobs,
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I really wish they would remove race off those job applications.
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Does it matter what if I'm yellow with zebra stripes,
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as long as I could do the job, what color
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I am should shouldn't matter, So I don't check it.
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I don't check it. And then when you start talking
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about DEEI who the DEI benefit not the blacks. Again,
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Argue with me all you want, but you can't argue
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with the facts. Affirmative action. A lot of y'all wouldn't
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be over here if it weren't for the civil rights movement.
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Y'all benefited from us. But yet we're disrespected every day.
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We're disregarded every day. But yet when things go awry,
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you're calling for us to come help. No, we're resting.
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We're resting. Now we're on dude. I let me just
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say for me, I'm gonna do not disturb I'm gonna
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do not disturb. And then if we look at how
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the judicial system works, we have all these black boys
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that are turning up there and deaths are being ruled
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as suicides or no foul play. I was looking at
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a case here in Texas and hey, cousin, it's good
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to see your baby. So I'm looking at this case
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because I want to still continue to spotlight Carmelo Anthony
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despite how some of you may feel. Carmelo Anthony got
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into altercation with Austin Metcalf, a white teenager here in Texas.
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Austin Metcalf lost his life. Carmelo Anthony went to try
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and was sentenced to thirty five years first defense. This
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baby's never been in trouble. Was convicted of murder because
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the judicial system didn't feel or warranted as self defense.
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But then you have case and Allison Caucasian was about
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the same age as Carmelo when he committed murder, but
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was sentenced to ten years. Initially he was facing had
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he have been convicted of murder, he was facing anywhere
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from five to ninety nine years. Okay, So I went
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down the rabbit hole with this case. Him and Joe
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Ramirez got into an altercation at a off school event.
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I believe it was a homecoming party or a prompt party.
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There was a gun that was fired someone. Case and
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Allison thought it was Joe Ramirez. Come to find out
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it was not him that fired the gun. So a
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few days later, there's a altercation at the school. Joe
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Ramirez is stabbed four times and dies. Case and Allison
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left and went home, but claimed self defense. Again. I
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went down the rabbit hole with this case. There were
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snapchat messages that were recovered that Case and Allison was
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having with his friends about fighting Joe at school. Case
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and Allison brought a weapon to school. Okay, he brought
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a weapon to school. There were some exchanges between the
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two boys. They fought in the bathroom. Joe didn't have
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a weapon, but Case and Allison did. Joe would stabbed
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four times four but y'all say their self defense. Carmelo
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Anthony was bullied by five to six individuals. Now, let's
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look at Carmelo Anthony. Carmelo Anthony's he's five to five,
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one hundred and thirty five, one hundred and forty pounds,
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and you have five to six big people hovering over you.
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He stabbed Austin one time and stayed. But y'all say
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that's murder. Negligent homicide wasn't on the table. Manslaughter, None
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of that was afforded to Carmela Anthony, a young black
31:33
male in Texas. But you have caseon Allison, a white
31:39
boy who was only facing five to ninety nine years.
31:43
He was initially sentenced to two years, but the family
31:48
of Joe Ramirez pushed for the deadly weapon enhancement, so
31:52
he was only charging He was only given ten years
31:54
for negligent homicide. Let me run that back for you.
32:04
You stabbed someone four times? How was that self defense?
32:08
And then you left? There were snapchat messages between Cason
32:15
and some of his other friends stating what he was
32:19
gonna do to Joe when they got to school. You
32:23
intentionally brought a weapon to school intentionally, So can we
32:29
take self defense off the table? Can we stop saying
32:33
that that was self defense because you knew you were
32:36
going to fight Joe, you brought a weapon. Joe did
32:39
not have a weapon on him, So how was that
32:41
self defense when you stabbed him four times and left. Carmelo,
32:51
on the other hand, again, wasn't afforded that opportunity. Carmelo
32:57
Anthony was sending to thirty five year first offense. You
33:06
can't tell me that that's not white privilege. You cannot
33:10
tell me that. Let's look at this case and then
33:18
we're going to get back into the conversation because you're
33:21
not going to convince me that white privilege is not
33:23
a real thing.
33:25
Speaker 4: Here we go, and he was sentenced to nearly eighty
33:30
years behind bars. But now there's Oklahoma teenage baseball prodigy
33:34
is avoiding prison altogether, and his victims loved ones say
33:38
the justice system failed them. Brooke Taylor is following in
33:41
the story She's live in Dallas. Brook tell us all
33:43
about it. How did it happen?
33:46
Speaker 6: A Hi?
33:47
Speaker 3: John?
33:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.
33:47
Speaker 6: We spoke to the mother of one of the victims
33:50
who says that their heart is just broken here and
33:53
the family feels like there is really just zero justice
33:56
in this case because the suspect avoided jail time and
34:01
he was able to essentially just walk free. Jesse Butler here.
34:05
He is now eighteen years old. He was originally charged
34:08
as an adult. In March, he pled no contest to
34:11
a laundry list of violent sex charges, including first degree rape,
34:16
domestic assault, battery by strangulation, and also violation of a
34:23
protective order.
34:24
Speaker 1: Now, according to.
34:24
Speaker 6: Police affidavits, both victims were sixteen year old students also
34:29
at Stillwater High School in Oklahoma, and they were his
34:32
girlfriends at the time. They described being repeatedly raped and strangled.
34:37
The details in these court documents are extremely disturbing. Here,
34:41
Butler was seventeen when these crimes happened and reached a
34:45
deal with the District Attorney's office that had his status
34:48
changed from adult to youthful offender. Now, the court found
34:52
him guilty and sentenced him to seventy eight years in prison,
34:56
but because he's now considered a youthful offender, he got
35:00
to avoid prison time and was put on a rehabilitation plan.
35:04
The victims family says the DA's office should not have
35:08
signed off on this deal, but this is a small town.
35:11
Football runs the show, and the families point to Butler's
35:14
father's influence because he's the former director of football operations
35:19
at Oklahoma State University.
35:22
Speaker 1: Now.
35:22
Speaker 6: The mother of one of the victims told me quote,
35:25
this was the first time we needed the justice system.
35:29
We placed our trust in it. Sadly, we feel the
35:32
system has failed the victims. State Representative J. G. Humphrey
35:36
is now calling for an investigation.
35:41
Speaker 4: We need an investigation into what's actually going on.
35:45
Speaker 1: And get evidence to prove that this core is corrupt
35:50
and that they are letting sex spenders go.
35:55
Speaker 6: And we asked the Payne County DA why they agreed
35:58
to this plea deal. They shared a lengthy statement, in
36:01
part quote because the two counts of attempted rape were
36:04
the only alleged crimes among the eleven charge that even
36:08
qualified the case for filing an adult court. And additionally,
36:12
existing laws strongly favors providing offenders under eighteen an opportunity
36:18
for rehabilitation. Now Butler is going to have daily check ins.
36:22
He's also going to have weekly therapy sessions in order
36:26
to avoid that jail time. But if he violates anything
36:30
then he could be reclassified as an adult and could
36:33
face that prison time.
36:34
Speaker 4: John Football runs the show. I haven't heard that one before,
36:38
brit Taylor, Forrest Brook, thank you.
36:40
Speaker 6: Hey everyone, I'm Emily Campano. Catch me and my co hosts,
36:44
Harris Faulkner and Kaylee Mcanenni on.
36:47
Speaker 1: So I want to get into this case. Jesse Butler,
36:55
you can't tell me that is not white privilege. You
37:00
have a seventeen year old monster, because I'm gonna call
37:03
it what it is. He's not mental. And that's another thing.
37:10
Stop saying that this is a mental illness when these
37:13
are demonic spirits. Okay, let's stop saying that. Let's stop saying, oh,
37:20
he needs therapy. No he doesn't, because he this young
37:25
man great two girls, one of which had to have
37:31
neck surgery because he strangled this girl almost to the
37:35
point of killing her. He was facing almost eighty years
37:42
in prison. You understand eighty eighty years and you're Scott free,
37:56
record sealed, and you're off to college while these two
38:01
young ladies are left to deal with being violated. Yet again,
38:10
you can't tell me that it's not white privilege. I'm
38:15
so sick of y'all saying that, Oh, it's not it's not.
38:17
Yes it is. We just saw it right now with
38:22
Jesse Butler. I just told y'all about Case and Allison,
38:25
same state, same situation. Carmelo Anthony was in Case and Allison,
38:36
different cities, same thing. Carmelo got thirty five years Case
38:42
and Allison got ten. And again, the only reason he
38:45
got the additional eight years on top of the two
38:47
year sentence was for the deadly weapon enhancement. That's the
38:54
only reason. But now he is fouled in a which
39:01
he has every right to. Again, I'm not an attorney,
39:03
I'm not a lawyer, but he has ever right. But
39:06
you want this ten year sentence to be overturned due
39:10
to y'all saying y'all want the deadly weapon finding removed.
39:14
Are you serious you intentionally brought a weapon to school
39:19
to fight? If your intent was not to bring was
39:24
not to kill Joe Ramirez, what was the purpose of
39:27
you bringing this knife to school? Because see, I'm gonna
39:31
go back and forth with y'all all day because y'all
39:33
kept saying, Old Carmelo, he shouldn't have had this, he
39:36
shouldn't have had that. Cason Allison shouldn't have brought a
39:39
knife to school either. Then, and he stabbed a young
39:45
man four times and left again. Snapchat messages were recovered.
39:58
But see a lot of y'all not ready to have
39:59
that conversation. A lot of y'all are not really ready
40:02
to sit down and let's compare apples to oranges. Some
40:04
of y'all not ready to do that some of y'all
40:07
just say, oh, Carmelo Anthony, Oh he deserves Oh he
40:10
deserved life in prison. He took a life. Keithon Allison
40:13
took a life, and you only got ten years for
40:14
neglige and homicide. And again, he would have only been
40:23
given two years had the family not a thought for
40:26
the daily weapon enhancement. That's why that's white privileged for you.
40:35
I see these videos of white men and white women
40:40
getting into it with police officers, and then if you
40:44
look further down the road, they're laughing and having conversations
40:48
with them. Hey, yo, she I love you too, boutiful,
40:58
I love you too. God just girl, But you can't
41:03
tell me that white privilege doesn't exist. I look at
41:08
the former OnlyFans model who was charged with second degree murder,
41:16
who just pleaded to manslaughter and was only given six
41:20
years for stabbing her boyfriend, of which she's gonna get
41:25
credit for time, sir. So in other words, she'll be
41:27
out in maybe two years, eighteen months. And the sad
41:32
part about this is the man's family signed off for
41:35
y'all agree to this. I do know that any sentence
41:43
that a person is given is not gonna bring your
41:45
loved one back, but at least fight to have justice
41:49
for them. Fight for the justice. If something were to
41:53
happen to one of my children, I'm a fight for justice.
41:57
I'm gonna fight it, toothennail, I'm gonna fight it all
41:59
the way to so my child can get justice. No,
42:05
there's no sentence in the world that would bring your
42:08
loved one back. But stop allowing these people to play
42:12
in your face when it comes to justice for the
42:15
death of your loved one. We see this far too often.
42:19
I understand the stress and the anxiety of going through
42:24
the trial. I get it, but I'm not settling just
42:31
to get it a conviction. I'm not agreeing to that
42:36
you take one of my children's lives. I want to
42:39
see you punish to the extent, to the highest extent
42:41
of the law. I'm not no, no, and you can't
42:48
make me feel otherwise. I'm gonna shore up for every
42:53
court date, every day that I have to be there,
42:55
I'm gonna show up. But we have to stop allowing
42:59
these people a playing out face. Stop agreeing to the
43:04
person that took your child's life or your loved one's life,
43:08
and be okay with them doing three years in prison.
43:10
Are you serious? No, because see I'm doing a life sentence.
43:18
You understand we're doing a life sentence, but y'all agree
43:24
to this. I look at the Dylan Rooth case. That's
43:32
the story of the monster that walked into a church
43:37
and sat and praised and worship with these parishioners, only
43:41
to execute nine of them. And he was taking four
43:45
meal after the after it was done. I'm looking at
43:54
the Nolan Wells case and how they're moving. It's weird
44:01
to me, My sister, say, a life for a life?
44:05
Ain't there what the Bible say? I for an eye?
44:12
When are we gonna start fighting back? When are we
44:14
gonna stop settling? Because how dare you get a slap
44:22
on the wrist for taking someone's life. Someone sent me
44:28
a message earlier and was talking about the George Floyd case.
44:31
I said, I believe the only reason they convicted Derek
44:35
Chauvin is because they were about to burn Minnesota down
44:38
to the ground if they didn't get a conviction. I
44:45
look at the case of Sandra Massey, Sonya Massy. I'm
44:51
so sorry. I'm thinking Sandra Blanc. She is on my heart,
44:54
in my mind and day this police officer want special
45:00
privileges because you have cancer. I should feel sorry, but
45:06
I don't, because you took that woman's life for what.
45:14
So we should show compassion for you because you have cancer.
45:19
You knew that when you at the time you come
45:21
into the crime, you knew you had cancer. So I'm
45:24
supposed to feel sorry if you know. I'm so sorry
45:29
because you took you you robbed this family so evily.
45:38
I look at the I look at Tamir Rice, I
45:40
look at the Philander Castilee, I look at the Oscar Grants,
45:46
I look at the Trayvon Martin. So you can't sit
45:51
and tell me that white privilege doesn't exist. I see
45:59
these care in videos that they approach a black person.
46:06
You interject yourself in something that has nothing to do
46:09
with you, and then all of a sudden, you're the
46:10
victim and the police side with you. I just saw
46:15
a video yesterday. Eighteen year old young lady pulled over
46:20
for quote unquote speeding and was punched in the face
46:24
while she was handcuffed by an Arkansas State trooper. And
46:33
you hear him on camera say, who says, I can't
46:36
punch you in the face, So let's stop acting like this,
46:47
White privilege is not a real thing. Let's stop acting
46:54
like that. Let's take the blindfold off, Let's take the
46:57
blinders off, and let's see the truth for whatever really
47:01
truly is. Because it's out there, it's happening. We're seeing this,
47:08
We're seeing this repeatedly. But yet they tell us you
47:16
need to comply, go fight it out in the court
47:19
of law. For Landocas still complied and he still lost
47:22
his life. I look at Sean Bell. Sean Bell was
47:34
about to get married, was coming out of his bachelor party,
47:38
lost his life in New York. I look at I'm
47:45
gonna do Diallo. A lot of y'all don't remember these names,
47:49
but that's how that goes to I'm not new to this.
47:52
I'm true to this. I see white privilege every day.
48:01
I see some of my black counterparts that I work
48:03
with that have the skills, the education, or do the job,
48:08
and they're passed over for someone that has less experienced,
48:15
no degree and maybe zero to six months of education.
48:24
We see this, We see this in schools. We see this.
48:41
But just to circumvent back to that case that I
48:44
was speaking of with Case and Allison, here we go.
48:53
Speaker 7: Tonight a new development and a former built in high
48:55
teens appeal to overturn his conviction in ten year prison
48:58
sentence just a year after his sentencing six years. Reporter
49:01
Sidney Walker has the latest in case in Allison's legal battle.
49:04
Speaker 1: Sydney.
49:05
Speaker 8: Allison's lawyers are appealing, but the state says none of
49:08
their reasons warn't reversing the conviction, the deadly weapon finding,
49:13
or his ten year sentence case. And Allison's attorneys are
49:16
appealing the former Belton High students criminally negligent homicide verdict
49:21
and ten year prison sentence for stabbing and killing classmate
49:24
Joe Ramirez. They argue three key mistakes happened in his trial. First,
49:29
the appellent outlines jurors were never told they could consider
49:32
self defense for the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. Second,
49:36
Allison's team says prosecutors failed to disprove Allison acted in
49:40
self defense, bringing up details from the trial like Ramirez
49:43
punching Allison first. And Third, the deadly weapon finding. A
49:47
jury never explicitly said a deadly weapon was used in
49:50
their verdict, a judge did, and it wasn't during the trial.
49:53
According to the appellant. Six News spoke with legal analysts
49:56
Liz Mitchell before the deadly weapon enhancement was approved, explained
50:00
the impact it could have.
50:02
Speaker 9: There is an affirmative finding of a deadly weapon, the
50:05
judge cannot give the defendant probation, so whether or not
50:11
there is a deadly weapon finding in this case is
50:15
critically important.
50:17
Speaker 8: The deadly weapon finding took Allison's max sentence from two
50:20
years to ten, but the Bell County DA's office says
50:23
none of it holds up. They argue Allison's lawyers never
50:26
asked for the self defense instruction and say self defense
50:29
isn't compatible with the negligence charge in the first place.
50:32
As for evidence, the state points out several counter details
50:35
like Alison bringing the weapon to school, allegedly planning a fight,
50:38
and stabbing Ramirez multiple times. And on the deadly weapon issue,
50:42
prosecutors say Allison chose to let the judge decide his punishment,
50:46
and Texas law allows that judge to make the finding.
50:50
The defense is asking for a new trial, an acquittal,
50:53
or a new sentence without the deadly weapon finding. The
50:56
Texas Third Court of Appeals has until July twentieth to rule, so.
51:03
Speaker 1: Let's unpack that real quick, because you brought a knife
51:09
to school. Again, If y'all go down the rabbit hole
51:17
and really do your research regarding this case, you'll see
51:23
what I mean when I say that was not self defense,
51:28
because again, there were messages, snapchat messages were he was
51:33
exchanging I'm sorry, Cason was exchanging with his friends saying
51:37
he was gonna fight Joe. Joe didn't have a weapon.
51:43
You claim self defense, but you stabbed him four times.
51:50
You intended to kill him because you thought this through.
51:56
I saw on a post that someone said, oh, that
51:59
sounds like mental No, it's not. That sounds premeditated, because
52:05
you consciously made a decision to bring a knife to
52:08
school to fight. If all you wanted to do was fight,
52:12
what was the knife for? What did you need to
52:14
bring it for? Joe didn't have a weapon. Maybe he
52:19
didn't know Joe didn't have a weapon. I don't know.
52:23
But you stall have this baby four times and then
52:28
you left and went home. But you say self defense,
52:34
and again y'all heard it for yourself. He was only
52:37
sentenced to two years only until the family pushed for
52:44
the daily weapon enhancement. There was legal findings of a
52:48
daily weapon, and that was the knife that Joe that
52:51
I'm so sorry Casen brought to school. The judge ruled
52:54
on that maybe he got that first offense. But why
53:05
wasn't Carmelo Anthony afforded the same thing? Carmelo Anthony was bullied.
53:16
I'm not saying this because Carmelo was black. I'm saying
53:18
I'm standing on the side of right. So why was
53:22
this not afforded to Carmelo Anthony? Why was this young
53:25
man who had never been in trouble, never been arrested,
53:30
never been the jail, was convicted of murder and sentenced
53:34
to thirty five years. Why was manslaughter not offered to him?
53:37
Why was neglige jehomicide not offered to him? Y'all can
53:40
sit up here and say, oh, but he was y'all
53:42
don't know. And from my research and the things that
53:50
I've read, there was nothing even on the table for him.
53:59
Y'all keep saying, Oh, this was an attorney his family hired.
54:02
He was a quarter pointed attorney. Anyone that knows the
54:06
law that has been in trouble know that the quarter
54:08
porn attorneys do not work for you. They work for
54:11
the state. And I know this to be true because
54:17
I was facing twenty years in prison for aggravator for
54:21
felony aggravator to saw with a daily weapon with a
54:27
quarter point of the attorney h But I'll save that
54:38
conversation for another day, so you can't tell me that
54:45
in the case in Allison's case and the Carmelo Anthony,
54:49
same state, two different cities, same issue, only difference. Carmelo
55:00
Anthony didn't bring a weapon on the pretense of knowing
55:05
he was gonna be jumped or harassed or bullied by
55:09
five to six people. But casein Allison, did you knew
55:17
you were gonna fight Joe? You said it, and I
55:22
believe Joe wanted to fight, But I do not believe
55:25
Joe wanted to lose his life either. So again, white
55:32
privilege is not a real thing. You don't believe it is.
55:40
I just gave you two examples. Also gave you another
55:45
one about the young lady in Miami who was charged
55:49
with a second degree murder but was allowed to plead
55:52
guilty to manslaughter and was only given six years with
55:59
credit for time, sir, so should be out in about
56:01
eighteen months to maybe two years. And this was a
56:05
woman that had a history of being violent towards her boyfriend,
56:12
a history. The videos came out where she's slapping and
56:18
punching all them on it in the elevator. But y'all
56:29
are okay with this. Y'all feel like it's fair. Old
56:39
justice was served. And then you have the families that
56:43
agree to this. If you intentionally murder one of my children,
56:52
I'm not agreeing to a plea deal of manslaughter and
56:58
you're only giving five a six year in prison. Absolutely not.
57:01
I want you to stand there because if I have
57:04
to do life without my child, I want you to
57:06
do life in prison. I want you to get thirty
57:08
five to forty years, and I want you to serve
57:10
the max. I would show up to every parole hearing
57:16
to ensure that you do not harm anyone else in
57:19
this world. But this is what we do. We settle.
57:28
And again, as I stated earlier, I understand the stress
57:32
of having to go through a trial, the stress of
57:34
having to look at autopsy photos, the stress of having
57:38
to listen to testimony not only maybe from witnesses, but
57:42
the medical examiner who has to point out this person
57:47
was stabbed here, this person was stabbed there, or this
57:49
person was shot here. We recovered seven bullets from the body.
57:53
I get it. I understand. I'm showing the compassion, I'm
58:03
showing the empathy, but I want the justice also. I
58:10
want the justice for the loss of my loved one.
58:18
I want things to change in the world. I want
58:22
this is and this is my opinion. I want the
58:27
loss to change. The only thing that I've seen so
58:35
far that they got right was the young man that
58:37
they sentenced to those life sentences in Georgia that shot
58:41
up at school, and they held the father accountable for
58:45
him because he purchased the gun. I want more media coverage.
58:56
I made a post a couple of days ago about
59:01
how quiet it has been about the young man that
59:05
went to the in and out in Idaho and shot
59:09
up and shout out the place of business where I
59:11
believe two or three people died. No coverage, But y'all
59:19
strong Carmelo Anthony's trial and case every day. But then
59:27
y'all will turn around and say, oh, he was mental. No,
59:30
he wasn't calling what he was. He was demonic. Look
59:37
at the school shooters that call him by him Sandy hook,
59:43
Santa FEI should I keep going y'all keep saying these
59:51
people are mentally ill. That's the problem. Now, this is
59:54
why there's a stigma around mental health. Stop calling everything
59:58
mental illness, because when y'all start doing your investigation and
1:00:04
you find these manifestos, that's premeditated. To me, that's someone
1:00:09
who clearly sat and thought to write out what they
1:00:13
were going to do. A lot of people who upset
1:00:19
with Rodney Hinton Senior, who in a moment of depression
1:00:29
of losing his son, who was shot by a police officer,
1:00:35
who ran over a police officer charged with murder, and
1:00:41
y'all mad, We're tired, we are fatigued. Do you understand
1:00:52
every day for the last six seven months, we've lost
1:00:59
our black children so violently and it's oh, it was
1:01:04
an accident, no foul play. I'm looking at this Nolan
1:01:10
Wells case. All the all the players in this are
1:01:16
moving so weird and funny to me. Why are y'all
1:01:20
not calling for this medical examiner's job to be taken?
1:01:25
Do you understand how many people have just lost their
1:01:27
lives in Mississippi in less than a month. They just
1:01:33
found a young lady hung in a tree in her
1:01:36
backyard in Mississippi. You got Nolan Wells. They found out
1:01:45
a young lady. I believe she was either either thirteen
1:01:48
or fourteen shot, but ain't nobody made What about the
1:02:00
two hundred and fifteen bodies they found buried behind the
1:02:03
Mississippi prison. No outrage, No outrage about Jesse Butler. No
1:02:20
outrage about the young man in California that walked in
1:02:22
the library and started firing in a library, killing two people.
1:02:30
No coverage. But if someone black comits a crime, oh,
1:02:38
we're gonna talk about that till the end of time.
1:02:41
That's gonna be everywhere. So again, you can't tell me
1:02:50
that white privilege doesn't exist. We see this all the time.
1:02:59
But I want to let them know, oh that you
1:03:01
may have freedom of speech, but you're never free of
1:03:03
consequences because trust and believe karma doesn't miss a person
1:03:11
or forget an address. You keep saying, oh, racism is
1:03:19
not real yet. It is, Yes, fifteen years old, shot
1:03:26
in the face. But y'all keep saying white privilege.
1:03:33
Speaker 7: Is not real.
1:03:33
Speaker 1: It's not real. It's not real. It's not real yet.
1:03:35
It's I've experienced it. I was told I was bitter
1:03:43
because I want a gate keep stuff in our community.
1:03:46
Y'all do it. It's okay if y'all do it, but
1:03:49
it's a problem if we do it. I'm gonna always
1:03:53
be pro black always. I'm gonna always fight for the
1:03:59
ones in the right that looked like me. You understand.
1:04:02
But that doesn't make me racist, because the same way
1:04:06
you protect yours, I'm gonna protect mine. I don't care
1:04:11
how you slice the bread. I don't care how you
1:04:13
cut the pizza. I don't care how what type of
1:04:15
ice and you put on your cake. I'm always gonna
1:04:18
fight for the right of me. My sister says, some
1:04:23
girls allegedly shot her over some boy. Oh lord, that's
1:04:30
so disgusting to me. That is so disgusting over a boy.
1:04:42
That is the most heart breaking, heart wrenching, gut riching
1:04:45
thing ever disgusting. This world is so evil, And then
1:04:55
you have a president that condons this, that incites this,
1:05:02
and y'all can't see that, my sister says, correct, And
1:05:08
y'all can't see this. One thing. I want to let
1:05:12
y'all know we're not our ancestors. Some of y'all that
1:05:20
support this, I believe you would have told on Harriet
1:05:24
Tell me, I believe you would have. But again, white privilege,
1:05:39
it's a real thing. We see it. I have some
1:05:47
white friends that see it too and have told me
1:05:51
about their experiences and have said, white privilege is a
1:05:58
real thing. I've heard them talk about it. I've heard
1:06:09
them scream and shout it from the rooftops. So it
1:06:17
is a real thing. It's a true thing. It's something
1:06:20
we experience every day, whether it's in the workplace, whether
1:06:24
it's excuse me, in the hospitals. We see this consistently.
1:06:34
Black women are treated horribly by white nurses and white doctors.
1:06:43
We see this, see this, and y'all not upset about it.
1:06:55
Y'all keep saying, oh, well, what are we gonna do?
1:06:57
Complaining about it, keep talking about it, keep having this conversation,
1:07:01
keep bringing in to the forefront. Stop being afraid to
1:07:05
shake the table, Stop being afraid to open up the envelope,
1:07:08
Stop being afraid to call a thing what it is.
1:07:11
You understand, that's the problem with y'all, because y'all don't
1:07:13
wanna offend people. I don't have a problem. And I'm
1:07:23
not saying all white people are bad, cause I know
1:07:27
some bad black people. I know some bad Asians, some Hispanic.
1:07:31
I know bad in all races, because that's the first
1:07:36
thing y'all wanna run to. Oh it, it's bad, I
1:07:39
know that. But I wanna talk about the privileges that
1:07:43
are afforded to y'all that we don't get. We can't
1:07:47
walk in a bank with a business plan and a
1:07:53
million dollars or five hundred thousand dollars and open up
1:07:55
a business without the run around, without the red teeth.
1:08:01
We can't do that. We we we're not afforded that opportunity.
1:08:07
Y'all keep saying yes, we are, Yes, we are, Yes,
1:08:10
we are. No, we're not. So again, you cannot tell
1:08:21
me white privilege is not real. They make it hard
1:08:25
for us to get houses. I'm glad that they lord
1:08:29
the credit score now you only need to I believe
1:08:32
now it's a six twenty. I'm grateful for that. But
1:08:43
let's call a thing a thing. Let's stop tap dancing
1:08:48
around these conversations, and let's start opening up. Let's start
1:08:54
peeling these layers back and get down to the root
1:08:57
of it, and again call a thing of thine. Let's
1:09:04
call it what it is. Of course, we're not treated equally,
1:09:12
absolutely not we see this, we hear about it, We've
1:09:19
experienced it, we experience it every day, and y'all keep saying, Oh,
1:09:32
but you gotta keep doing this, you gotta keep doing that.
1:09:34
We're tired, we're tired of being your shields. You run
1:09:45
to us when you need us, but then when you
1:09:49
don't need it, you throw us away and throw us
1:09:51
back in the closet until you need us again. And
1:09:53
here we all, we keep showing up. We keep showing
1:09:59
up for the ones that won't show for us. At
1:10:05
what point do we say, you know what, I'm not
1:10:07
gonna keep doing this. You're not gonna keep using me.
1:10:09
I'm not your punching bag. I'm not your scapegoat. We
1:10:19
see it in movies, we see it in TV shows.
1:10:22
We see these reenactments of how whites use their privilege
1:10:27
to get out of certain situations. I saw a video
1:10:32
of a white man who had an encounter with the
1:10:34
police and he had a baseball bat was swinging and
1:10:39
everything we see this. He wasn't shot, he was tased,
1:10:53
and then it was a conversation that was had. But
1:10:55
what's going on, buddy? Oh really? But with us, we're
1:11:05
questioned to the third degree but whose vehicle is this?
1:11:09
How can you afford something nice like this? Really? Not
1:11:12
all of us are drug dealers and game bangers and
1:11:14
rappers and NBA stars. Why is it so hard to
1:11:20
believe that black people could have nice things and we
1:11:22
could afford nice things. My sister says, you better speak,
1:11:27
and I am. I've seen these routine traffic stops. And
1:11:35
then you hear the white people in the commons say, oh,
1:11:37
you should just comply, you should do this. What's wrong
1:11:40
with us knowing the law? Are we not supposed to
1:11:43
know it? So we're supposed to allow public servants who
1:11:50
are who took an old to serve and protect mistreat
1:11:54
us and we're supposed to be okay with that. No,
1:12:01
because see, for us, a traffic stop warrants one or
1:12:04
two things, death or jailed. One thing that white people
1:12:12
hate is the educated black men or woman. That's what
1:12:22
they fear the most is when we're educated about things
1:12:28
they feel we shouldn't know nothing about, specifically the law,
1:12:38
because see a lot of us don't know and we
1:12:44
just go whatever they tell us. Then they say, oh,
1:12:47
well take it and fight it in court. Let's handle
1:12:51
it right here. Let's talk about how when they pull
1:12:57
us over, they come to the car with their hands
1:13:00
already on the gun. For what we'll get out of
1:13:07
the park For what make it make sense to me?
1:13:19
Help me do understand this, because that'll never sit right
1:13:25
with me. It'll never sit right in my spirit, because again,
1:13:38
I look at all these cases, and I don't when
1:13:43
I see these videos, I don't just go based off
1:13:46
of the little clip that they show, because I need
1:13:49
to know the backstory before I pass judgment, before I
1:13:54
interject my opinion or my thought. So I go down
1:13:58
the rabbit hole and I'll investigate and then draw my
1:14:06
own conclusion from what I find before I form an opinion.
1:14:15
I've heard people when they sit when Trayvon Martin was killed,
1:14:20
Oh he deserved that, he was this. They loved dragging
1:14:23
up their past. But what does that have to do
1:14:28
with the crime in hand. But when you see the
1:14:34
white people, it's oh, he came from a broken home,
1:14:37
his mother was an alcoholic. There was no furthering that
1:14:40
to get on her sympathy. No, because I've seen him
1:14:47
come from two parent households and still turn out to
1:14:49
be murderers. But there's that white privilege again. There It
1:14:58
is see a lot of y'all don't like to have
1:15:04
these conversations because the first thing you say, oh, you're racist.
1:15:11
I told you just because I'm pro black doesn't mean
1:15:14
a man's a white. But I'm here to call a
1:15:18
thing a thing. I'm here to address it. I'm here
1:15:20
to bring it to the table. I'm here to put
1:15:22
it on the forefront because I have white friends that
1:15:27
are real cool, but they still not invited to the cookout.
1:15:38
You still not cause you're not sending to me no
1:15:40
country club invitations. Call me what you want, but I'm
1:15:49
gonna always fight for the justice of the ones that
1:15:52
look like me first, because we're the ones that need
1:15:55
the most protection. We're murdered at higher rates, conviction rates
1:16:07
are higher. White people get a slap on the wrist.
1:16:17
Is that fair? Is that not privilege? I want you
1:16:24
to do your own research. I want you to run
1:16:28
down a rabbit hole yourself and get the information and
1:16:31
find out what I mean when I say there's a
1:16:34
big difference between how whites and blacks are treated. White
1:16:42
privilege is a real thing. The question is how do
1:16:47
we dismantle it. We gotta start fighting, We have to
1:16:55
start protecting our own. We have to We need to
1:16:57
start running to the polls. Put the right people in position.
1:17:07
Go in and be loud. If y'all could be loud
1:17:11
about fighting in Waffa house and and oh I ran
1:17:15
and just got the new pair of Jordans. Be loud
1:17:17
about something that makes sense. I don't give a damn
1:17:20
if you when it stood in line for ten hours
1:17:22
trying to get the newest pair of Jordan's, I don't
1:17:24
care if you want to stood in line for eight
1:17:26
I was trying to get a brand new iPhone. I
1:17:27
don't care because that makes zero sense to me. But
1:17:34
then you say that, and you complain about what's going on.
1:17:39
Go be a part of the change. Oh, my little
1:17:45
brother says, there aren't enough people like you. Truth is spoken,
1:17:49
and not enough people listen to it or act on it.
1:17:54
God bless you. But there's good and bad in all.
1:18:01
You want to see a difference, You want to see change.
1:18:04
Go and be a part of it. Go and be
1:18:08
a part of the change. Start having these conversations, start
1:18:16
opening up. You'll be surprised at some of the stories
1:18:25
that you'll hear from your white friends, your wife, coworkers
1:18:33
that will tell you how they utilize their privilege. There's
1:18:38
one that works with me and she shared with me
1:18:46
and I said, oh, okay, that's cool. And she bragged
1:18:57
about having zero experience, no degree, and how she was
1:19:01
promoted over the black man that had the experience and
1:19:06
the degree. So it's a real thing. One of the
1:19:15
things that I appreciate the most are the ones that
1:19:21
take the time to listen to what I have to
1:19:24
say and don't just brush it off, that are willing
1:19:29
to understand, that are willing to explain as I'm willing
1:19:33
to explain. I appreciative with that. But it happens, and
1:19:43
it's a real thing. But it's up to us to
1:19:50
change that. I may not live long enough to see that,
1:19:56
but I pray that my children and their children, and
1:19:59
the and their children will continue to fight because we're tired.
1:20:08
We're tired of fighting to prove that we're the best.
1:20:11
We're tired of fighting to prove that we are qualified.
1:20:16
We're just downright tired. We are just downright fatigued. We
1:20:24
just downright have no energy left in a soup. Maybe
1:20:30
that's why we're resting. Maybe that's why we're resting. Maybe
1:20:38
we're tired of being your stepping stones. Maybe that's what
1:20:46
we're tired of. Maybe we're tired of the unfair treatment
1:20:52
that we receive in the workplace, in the hospitals, by
1:20:58
law enforcement, by the judicial system. We're tired, same crime,
1:21:06
just different outcomes, same job, same position, just another person selected.
1:21:18
We're just downright exhausted. We're tired. We are when I
1:21:21
tell you, I am so fatigued that I see these
1:21:27
videos and read these cases, and hear about these cases,
1:21:31
and investigate these cases. Or justice is not being served
1:21:39
where they're just giving a slap on the wrist and
1:21:41
sent home these police officers. Maybe police brutality will stop
1:21:50
if you start taking their pensions. Maybe that'll stop. Maybe
1:21:58
it'll stop if we take it to the highest extent
1:22:02
of the law with them, soothe them civilly. Maybe if
1:22:09
the immunity for the boys in blue is removed, maybe
1:22:12
we'll really see some true justice. Laws need to be changed.
1:22:20
Had a conversation with my boy about stricter gun laws.
1:22:28
I want more coverage for these school shootings. Maybe that'll
1:22:34
convince someone to have stricter gun laws. Maybe that will
1:22:37
remove the stigma. As I stated, around mental health again,
1:22:41
because anytime things like this happen. They always say, Oh,
1:22:43
it's mental illness, or he was beat as a child,
1:22:46
he was this, he was that. Okay, well, let's talk
1:22:49
about the ones that weren't abused. Let's talk about the
1:22:51
ones that come from well to do families, two parents' households,
1:22:54
live in the suburbs, went to some of the best
1:22:56
schools and commit murder or go out and commit crimes.
1:23:06
Because it's always that rhetoric, fair or unfair. I just
1:23:16
know I'm tired. I need a mental break us to
1:23:23
see all these stories in these cases. Maybe because I'm
1:23:28
an EmPATH, maybe that's the problem. But I want to fight.
1:23:36
I have it in me. I have the voice, I
1:23:38
have the platform. I want to fight, and I'm gonna
1:23:42
keep fighting. You can't silence me. You can't take away
1:23:47
a gift that God gave me. I'm gonna always advocate
1:23:54
first for the ones that look like me because everyone says, oh,
1:24:02
you're just a bitter, racist black woman. Call me what
1:24:05
you want. I've been called worse. Call me whatever makes
1:24:10
you sleep good at night. Call me whatever you want
1:24:13
that keeps the the your sheets cold at night. I
1:24:17
don't know, but I'm pro black before anything. I'm pro black,
1:24:26
I'm pro equality for my people. I'm pro that. I'm
1:24:34
pro for fair treatment. I'm pro for better treatment when
1:24:39
it comes to not just healthcare in the workplace. Because
1:24:48
some of y'all see it, some of y'all just turn
1:24:50
a blind eye to it. But here's your reminder. I'm
1:24:57
not turning a blind eye to it. I'm gonna always
1:25:02
stand on the side of right, though. When my people
1:25:06
do bad, I call them out. When we're right, we're right.
1:25:16
But let's stop using that insane White Brothers doesn't exist
1:25:23
because we know it does. Another show in the bag
1:25:31
for the book, Spade Man, I just want to say
1:25:37
I love y'all so much. I appreciate all the love
1:25:40
and the support that y'all give me each and every
1:25:43
time I'm in front of this camera, each and every
1:25:45
time I'm behind this microphone. I posted me winning two years.
1:25:55
Speaker 7: In a row.
1:25:58
Speaker 1: An award for my part. But I couldn't have done
1:26:02
it without y'all. I get up here and I do
1:26:06
this each and every day, each and every week to
1:26:11
open the door to have these conversations. That's why I
1:26:15
do this. But I also do to show y'all what
1:26:20
hard work and dedication looks like even on the days
1:26:26
that I don't feel good, I get up here and
1:26:29
I push through because I made a commitment, because I
1:26:34
have a vision for a black girl interrupt the podcast.
1:26:40
This is my heart and my soul, this is my baby,
1:26:47
That's what this is. I love doing this. I love
1:26:52
having these thought provoking conversations. I love having conversations about
1:26:57
topics that most people will shy away from it because
1:27:00
they don't want to offend people. I love that because
1:27:05
not only do I not only am I trying to
1:27:08
teach you, but y'all teach me to look at both
1:27:12
sides of the coin. Y'all teach me that there's good
1:27:17
and bad in everybody. But y'all also teach me to
1:27:23
be unapologetic. Y'all teach me how to just keep being
1:27:28
Ashley and to keep doing it is what I do,
1:27:35
and I appreciate that because it's good to learn from others.
1:27:40
You understand and said it instead of just having a
1:27:43
one sided opinion. I'm open to hearing anything anyone has
1:27:47
to say. That's called conversation, that's called dialogue, and I'm
1:27:56
here for that. So anyway, So shout out to your
1:28:02
girlfriend women two years in a row for women who podcast, Yeah, baby,
1:28:07
I want two years in a row. I love it.
1:28:10
I'm grateful. Shout out to women who podcast for affording
1:28:13
me the opportunity to even submit my work, for them
1:28:16
to even take the time to listen to my work,
1:28:19
and to encourage me to keep going. Shout out to
1:28:24
women who podcast again for teaching me that it's quality
1:28:29
over quantity, because they told many said, as long as
1:28:33
you give quality work, the quantity will come. So I
1:28:37
say that to anyone that is an entrepreneur, a business owner,
1:28:41
someone that's getting started, whatever it may be, keep going,
1:28:47
Stop focusing so much on whose support, stop focusing on
1:28:50
the numbers, and focus on the quality of work that
1:28:53
you want to put out. Regardless of how many times
1:28:57
you fall down, get back up. It's out there and
1:29:02
it could be done. I do this to show y'all
1:29:07
that if I could do what you could do it.
1:29:09
Whatever you put your mind to, whatever you put your
1:29:11
heart into, you can make it work. You could succeed.
1:29:18
Keep going, Keep going, keep going. So I want to
1:29:24
say to y'all, Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone has had
1:29:29
an amazing day. Oh my brother Joshua says congrats Ash
1:29:35
and to Bgi, keep up the great work and purpose. Absolutely,
1:29:40
thank you for the love and the support. Thank you
1:29:44
for those thought provoking conversations and your input. Whether we
1:29:50
agree or disagree, I appreciate it because you challenge me
1:29:54
to think about things. You challenge me to look at
1:29:57
things in a different way. You challenge me to do
1:30:01
my research, You challenge me to always bring facts and
1:30:05
not just opinions. So I appreciate you for that. Love
1:30:10
bug I do, I do. But I also want to
1:30:16
say to y'all, Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone has had
1:30:20
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1:31:23
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1:31:28
do wellness Wednesday this Wednesday, if I want to wait
1:31:31
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1:32:01
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1:32:09
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1:32:13
don't care what kind of business owner you are, if
1:32:16
if you're selling shoelaces, if you're making cakes, whatever it is.
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I want to talk to you. I want the world
1:32:21
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1:33:15
I love you, I love you, I love you, I
1:33:17
love you, I love you. I hope everyone has an
1:33:19
amazing rest of their night. I hope everyone has a
1:33:23
beautiful day at work tomorrow. Again. Salute to all the
1:33:26
parents who send their children back to school today. Wishing
1:33:30
your children a successful school year. And parents, listen to
1:33:34
your children, you understand, take the time and listen to them.
1:33:37
Don't just hear them, but really truly listen to them
1:33:40
because a lot of them have a lot to say.
1:33:42
So on that note, I love you, I will see
1:33:44
you tomorrow night. God bless you, Hollor.
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