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Cyrus Carmack-Belton...Another unarmed black male killed · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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  What's up? What's up? What's up? Y'all? Welcome to another episode
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  of Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all already know what's your girl ash? Y'all already
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  know who it is. Bring y'all another episode, But tonight, I think
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  it's gonna get a little spicy. You know. I think I'm gonna trigger
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  a lot of people. But you know, I don't care. You know,
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  I come here to shake the table. I come here to bring awareness
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  of things that are going on in the world. I come to talk about
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  conversations that a lot of y'all afraid to have. But it is what it
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  is. But anyway, it is June first, y'all. It is the
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  first, first, first of a month. What's good, everybody. I
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  hope June brings you, guys, an abundance and abundance of love and abundance
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  of blessings. I'm hoping and praying that June is better to you than what
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  it was and made again because I don't know what you're going through. Y'all
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  already know. So hold up, wait, wait to go. My sisty
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  hastis happy Thursday. Yeah, today, Thursday, y'all. I'm really trying
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  to push it back, but a happy Thursday and happy June. First again,
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  y'all, welcome to another episode of Black Girl Interrupted tonight. Tonight,
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  Tonight, I want to address some things I saw where a fourteen year old
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  boy was killed in South Carolina by a Korean store owner that accused the young
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  boy of stealing water out of a store, and him and the sun proceeded
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  to chase this young man and they shot him and killed them. So I
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  might trigger some people tonight, but it is whatever the fuck it is tonight
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  because I'm tired of this shit happening. You know, we recall this happening
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  back in nineteen ninety one with Natasha with Latasha Harlans, who was killed by
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  a store owner who was accused of stealing orange juice, and she shot the
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  young lady in the back of the head and the woman did no time.
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  So we're seeing this shit happened all over again in twenty twenty three. The
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  ship is not gonna stop. The only way it's gonna stop we have to
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  stop brattnizing these businesses, stop going into these businesses that don't celebrate us,
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  they only tolerate us. They put these particular stores in these communities because they
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  notice where black people gonna go. You know, we'll pass up railways,
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  stole down the street, and we're gonna go to child young fat store.
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  What they follow us around the store. They treat us like we're less than
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  them. But we'll get into that. So Brandon says, I would love
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  to come on your showing. Let me know. I'm always looking for guests.
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  Whatever the topic you want it to be, whatever it is you want
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  to talk about, if it's something that I haven't addressed, if it's something
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  that you want me to address, something that you feel like I'm the only
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  person that could bring it to the table, let me know whatever it is.
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  I'll keep you posted. I do have a couple of guests that are
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  coming on. We're actually gonna be talking about relationships this month. But let
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  me know, sis, I got you and no he wasn't stealing. But
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  y'all already know before I start any one of my shows, y'all already know
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  I do my mental health check ins. So y'all drop in the comments,
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  let me know how you're feeling. I know today it's just the first,
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  but what do you hope to change for this month that didn't happen for your
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  last month. How are you feeling today than what you did yesterday? You
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  know, I can honestly say this for me. I like my job,
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  y'all. Don't get me wrong, I do. I'm blessed to be employed.
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  I'm blessed to have a roof over my head, food on my table,
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  clothes on my back. But I'm gonna be honest with y'all, like
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  I'm really over doing customer service, Like I'm really over talking to people on
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  the phone, Like I'd rather chat with people, you know. But it's
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  not even about me. But y'all dropping a comments, let me know how
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  y'all are feeling mentally? How are you feeling mentally? How are you feeling
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  physically? You know? Again, what changes do you want to see for
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  yourself of the month of June. What are some accomplishments you want to achieve
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  for the month of June and so on and so forth that you're haven't achieved
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  thus spot So dropping a comments, let me know how y'all are feeling.
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  Y'all already know before I get started with anything, you're already always play something
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  positive, something motivating, something in power. Let me know, boo,
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  and we're sure, can we absolutely can, but y'all already know. I
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  always play something that's inspirational, something in powering, because again, I don't
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  know what anyone is going through. I don't know how you're feeling in this
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  moment. I don't know how these last five months have been for you.
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  But I do want y'all to know. I do not want y'all to suffer
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  in silence. If you are in an oppressed state of mind or you feel
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  like you're wanting to take your life, let me go ahead and post this
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  right now, because I do not want to see another another hashtag. You
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  know, mental illness is real. Those are conversations that people tend to straight
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  away from, especially in a Black community. But I do want you to
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  know that black mental health does matter, you know, whether you believe it
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  or not. Therapy does work. Therapy helps, you know, in coalition
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  with medication. But here, I want to see everyone in a beautiful,
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  healthy space. I want to see you doing positive things, you know,
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  I want to see I want to see you post about positive things, whatever
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  it is that you're doing in life. I want to come and I want
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  to celebrate you, you know. I want to cheer you on. I
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  want to walk with you on your journey and let you know you're not alone.
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  You're definitely, definitely not alone. You know, your guys that have
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  followed me from the beginning all the way to now here. We are almost
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  three years later, and y'all have seen me. You know my ups,
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  my downs, my highs, my lows, the good, the bad.
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  Y'all have seen it all with me. Because I want mental health conversations to
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  become normal. You know that it's okay to have those conversations. It's who
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  you know if you need to vent. But one of the biggest things I
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  want to say that is if a person comes to you and they want to
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  bend, don't turn that into gossip. Okay, I respectfully. I'm asking
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  that. So if a person comes to you and they need to vent,
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  please don't let that be the topic of another conversation with someone else, okay,
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  respectfully. And and I'm asking that so respectfully because that has happened to
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  me and I'm only speaking from experience. So if you're going through something right
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  now, just know that I love you, I'm praying for you. I
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  wish and and send peace and love and blessings your weight and healing over your
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  heart, and just know that trouble does not last. Always in the dark
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  does come light. I promise you. I'm living witness y'all already know.
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  You know. I have been on antidepressants, I've suffered with depression. I
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  still deal with my anxiety. So I just want you to know you're not
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  alone, You're not by yourself. I'm not here to judge. I'm not
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  here to point fingers. I'm here to love. I'm here to encourage,
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  I'm here to empower, and I'm here to uplift you as you go on
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  you're healing journey, because it does get batter, you know. And that's
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  for my black men and my black women. Okay, because I'm gonna always
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  take care of who looks like me first. Okay, I don't care who
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  doesn't like it, but I'm always take care of who takes care of me.
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  Okay. So I got a couple of comments, and then I want
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  to jump into that is so black mental health does matter. And then I
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  want to go ahead and roll this video and it does this and absolutely,
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  you know, I don't know what anybody's going through. And in any time
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  that I do a show, I always do a mental health checking because I
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  want to know where you are, where is your mental What can I do
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  to help you? What resources can I give you to get over that hill?
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  You'll get what I'm saying. So I want to make mental health conversations
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  normal. I want to remove the stigma, and I will continue to fight
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  for that to happen. So before we even get into tonight's show again,
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  y'all already know I always play something motivating, encouraging, uplifting is for anyone
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  that may be going through something or it's coming through something. But just know
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  that I do love you and this is for you. I don't care how
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  good you are, don't care how talented you are, I don't care how
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  much you work on yourself. There are some times when things aren't gonna go
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  right. There are times when anything that can happen will happen. Life happens
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  the unexpected, the uncalled for, the unintentional. We've been damaged, emotional,
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  damaged spirits. It may be your business, it may be your heart
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  that is broken today. It may be the number in your bank account that
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  is screaming you are broken. You can break physically, you can break mentally.
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  You can break your heart. You can break your spirit, and all
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  of those are gonna leave a mark. But the mark that they leave can
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  be the mark of victory or it can be the mark of defeat. It
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  is staying with the breaking that produces the blessing. That is not what you
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  go through that determines where you end up. It's who you listen to.
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  Because I think right now you are walking through a valley between two voices.
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  One is wisdom, one is worth, one is gratitude, one is grumbling,
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  one is blamed, one is faith. Because every time you break in
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  in every way that you break, Wow, it's a chance for you to
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  give up and for you to fall apart. But there's also opportunity to get
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  stronger and get smarter, and get faster, and get tougher and get more
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  or staple and get more resilient and get better. What I need you to
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  do is I need you to find a reason to keep going. And if
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  you can find a reason to keep going, I know you're strong enough to
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  do it because you aim it. And every human has what it takes to
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  get past whatever they're going through if they decide to but strow it bus throw
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  its tragedy and trials come to everybody. Only a strong survive. The fight
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  isn't over, the fight is just beginning. You have the opportunity to show
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  the world what you are really made up. I need you to look at
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  that sickness that's going on in your life right now, whatever it is,
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  I want you to say, I can't beat it. I can't beat it.
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  I will beat it. I must. I got a family live for.
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  I ain't through yet. My life ain't over yet. That's some things
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  in life you don't even a degree for. You don't even money for it.
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  You don't need no support for that. Something like you're just gonna get
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  through when you tell yourself, I'm gonna get through this. But also what
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  ask to your life? We'll see the bod opposition, relations, none get
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  something, the only thing that can supping and you no situation, no suple
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  this, no people back first, can't run. You're like, now,
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  what the supples? The fine? And I'm not retreating. I'm not running.
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  I don't care what they say on paper. I don't care if you
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  say we outnumbered. We live by this and we die by this. We
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  don't retreat, we don't hunt. We're gonna stand, We're gonna live We're
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  gonna die by what we stand for, and everybody gonna know what we represented
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  and what we're part of. I got stain power. I got stained power
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  being encouraged today that no matter what you walk through, no matter how broken
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  your marriage is, no matter how many times you see, there is within
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  you a spirit that is greater been whatever is going around here. If you
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  will be willing to fight your way through this battle, fight your way through
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  cancer, fight your way through that academic struggle, fight your way through divorce,
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  fight your way through it. If you are willing to fight your way
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  through that singing career, fight your way through boxing, fight your way through
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  football. I'm telling you that the end of the fight is going to come
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  ventory. And as you crawl up and out of that dismal and wretched place,
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  as you rise above what you were, and as you take the form
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  of who you are supposed to be, you will see that in the very
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  act of standing up, in the very act of fighting on, you will
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  become and you will remain unbroken. Y'all. It is always, always,
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  like every time I watch those videos, I just thank God that I'm not
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  where I was yesterday. It gives me the strength every day to get up
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  and keep going and going and going and going and going and going and going.
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  I have three people in this world I have to live for and as
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  me. I'm sorry my three children, and I have to live for me.
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  But in order to be productive to my children, I have to be
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  good to me. So I always encourage someone. Whatever it is you're going
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  through. Push push. It does get easier. I know it may seem
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  hard in the beginning, but it does get easier. So again, you
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  know, I'm still doing my mental health check ins, dropping the comments,
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  let me know how you're feeling. Again, It's the first that I'm much
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  y'all. Shoot, I already know y'all. Bills is due, rents,
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  dude, don't ask me for no money because I'm broke. Okay, I
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  don't have no money, none zero, don't ask me for none. All
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  my bills my check spent and it ain't even been deposit of my account.
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  Shit. So but anyway, but just know that I love you, I'm
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  thinking of you, I'm praying for you. And again, tough times don't
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  last all way, it does get easier, all right, all right,
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  So let's jump into tonight's conversation huh lord ha mercy. I get so tired
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  of have of these conversations, but they're imperative. So we have another unarmed
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  black man killed. When is this going to end? When is it going
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  to end? If we're not killing each other, the police are killing us,
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  other people are killing us. I really, really, really truly believe
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  they're really trying to exterminate the black man. I really wholeheartedly, honestly believe
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  that. But again, that's just my opinion. I can't speak for everybody
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  else. I can only speak for me. But I came across this story
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  two days ago Tuesday night, as a matter of fact, as I wrapped
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  up doing Tuesday Night show, and so I say, well, thank I
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  hadn't heard about this. So I go on, I click on the link,
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  and I'm looking at the video. Fourteen year old killed, murdered or
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  allegedly stealing water from a convenience store. The gentleman that shot this young man,
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  him and the son proceeded to chase the baby out of the store because
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  that's what he was. He was a baby, fourteen years old, and
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  shot him one time. I just want to know, when is this gonna
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  end? Why are these babies not living long enough to live life. Lives
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  are being prematurely taken at the hands of people that want to play god.
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  And the sad part about this story that baby wasn't even stealing. He was
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  not stealing. This is the remnant of what happened in nineteen ninety one to
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  Latasha Harlem again killed or allegedly stealing an orange juice. But I didn't upload
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  the video because it's just too it's I can't watch it. But the young
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  lady, she still had the money in her hand, So how was she
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  stealing if she was walking to the counter with the money in her hands.
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  But we'll get into her story after this story. So the young man that
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  I'm speaking about tonight, his name is Cyrus Carmack Belton, fourteen years old
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  from South Carolina who was killed. I believe it was sadder day, I
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  believe. Let me correct myself for allegedly stealing water. And again the store
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  owner was Korean. Again very remnant of Latasha Holland a Korean store owner.
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  He'll turn. Let me collectively get my thoughts together, because we constantly go
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  and fraternize these we patronize these businesses, and we're treated with the utmost disrespect,
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  but we still go. And if you notice, they put these stores,
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  beautist apply stores, their restaurants in black neighborhoods purposely because you don't see
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  these types of businesses, these Korean owned businesses or Asian owned businesses in white
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  knee. So let me get you guys caught up on the story for those
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  that don't know, and then we're gonna jump back into the conversation live from
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  Columbia. This is wys News ten at six Live Local Now. A Columbia
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  convenience store owner charged with murder tonight after the shooting depth of a fourteen year
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  old boy. Richland County deputy say that Rick Chow, who owns a Shell
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  gas station near Park Lane Road in Columbia, chased Cyrus Carmack Belton from his
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  store last night after suspecting him of shoplifting. That incident happened, according to
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  deputies, at about eight pm on Sunday night. Investigators say Chow shot the
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  boy in the back just down the road off the convenience store property on Spring
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  Trade Drive. Nick Neville's joining us and Nick there had been some protesters out
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  there during the day. Tell us what the scene is now? On Park
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  Lane Road there in front of that convenience store, Dandie and Judy, So
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  community activists and advocates against gun violence hadn't been out here all day, really
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  all afternoon. That crowd has dwindled some. There's also a sign on the
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  door of this gas station that says we're closed for Memorial Day, sorry for
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  the inconvenience. Now throughout the day, multiple people came by. At one
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  point, Richland County Corner Nata Rutherford provided an update to this crowd shortly after
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  three o'clock, and there was loud applause from the crowd when Chao's charge was
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  announced. Is senseless and doesn't make sense, Richley County Sheriff Leon Lott describing
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  the murder of fourteen year old Cyrus Carmack Belton outside a Shell gas station on
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  Park Lane Road Sunday night. The store's owner, Rick Chow, has been
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  charged in the killing. It's just say it that y'all were seeing at that
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  baby's hand, idea, that's all I could see. I don't could see.
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  The owners suspected Cyrus of shoplifting inside the store, which our CSD has
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  said did not happen. Regardless, even if he had shoutlifted full bottles of
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  water, which is what he initially took out the cooler, and then he
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  put him back. Even if he had done that, that's not that's not
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  something you shoot anybody over, much less of fourteen year old. But you
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  just don't do that. At one point, there was a verbal confrontation inside
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  the store, but no indication that things turned physical. Cyrus was running away
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  when he was shot. The Coroner's office says he had one gunshot wound to
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  the right lower back. Deputies recovered a gun believed to belong to the victim
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  near his body. Our CSD says there's no evidence he pointed it at or
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  threatened show. One woman who saw the shooting happen and called nine one one
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  is calling for justice. Do you even want to go in the store now,
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  because anything could happen now any day and everybody and Sugar happy that young
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  man didn't have to die like that, But for me to witness that yesterday,
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  Lie, I'm in fair for my own brother and for any of the
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  kids that's in my neighborhood because these kids they come out out all the time,
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  they come to de store all the time. Now with like now you
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  got to watch your keys. Had the opportunity today briefly to speak with one
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  of Cyrus's brothers. He did not want to go on camera, said his
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  entire family, especially his mother, is torn up. He said Cyrus was
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  a great kid, really smart. He said he taught him everything he knew.
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  Andy said he didn't deserve what happened to him. Reporting in Columbia,
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  Nick Noble, wis this town. Nick, thank you very much. Richland
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  County deputies tell Wis they are reviewing surveillance video as a part of the investigation.
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  Sheriff Watt also says there have been a number of incidents and confrontations between
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  customers and store owners at that Shell gas station before, but nothing that rose
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  to the level of charging chow in relation to any of those incidents. Richland
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  District two also issued a statement this afternoon saying, quote, the Richland two
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  family is devastated to learn of the tragic death of one of our Summit Parkway
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  Middle School students. Our students, teachers, and school staff are grieving,
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  and our district staff will be there tomorrow to support them through it. Our
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  deepest sympathies go out to the Carmack Belton family in their time of loss.
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  Okay, so so so let me get this street. There have been reports
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  that this particular store owner has had altercations with other customers in that school.
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  Then on Sunday night, this fourteen year old baby, like I said,
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  he's a baby, not a romance, but a baby, a fourteen year
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  old child who you thought was stealing four bottles of water, but put them
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  back. This baby pulls no threat to you, so you decide to chase
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  them out of the store, off the property, and you shoot this baby
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  in the back. Make that make sense to me. But these are the
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  stores and the businesses that y'all keep fratnizing. You keep going to these Asian
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  owned businesses. Yes, I'm gonna wake some shit up to date and I'm
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  gonna trigger some people, okay, because y'all keep going to these these these
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  businesses where we are treated with the utmost disrespect. You're going to the beauty
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  supply store that following you're around the store, they're assuming that you're stealing.
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  But you won't go to your homeboys start down the street because he won't give
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  you a discount. But you'll keep you'll continue to go where you're tolerated,
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  but not celebrate. The only way to stop that stop going to these fucking
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  businesses. Starts the point in the people that look like you. And I
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  said it, well, y'all, I'm about to go. I'm about to
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  go hand the date because because this here has to stop. This was a
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  fourteen year old baby who you thought was stealing. You chased him down,
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  You and the sun, not just mister Chipper, mister Chow and his son
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  chased his fourteen year old baby down and you shot him in the back.
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  He was not facing you. So how was he pausing a threat to you?
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  What warranted you to pull a gun and shoot this baby over some fucking
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  water? Some water again? Doesn't this like trigger you again? Nineteen ninety
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  one, Latasha Harlins was killed by a Korean store owner over some orange juice
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  that she was allegedly stealing. But we're gonna get into her story because this
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  is this is this is nineteen ninety one all over again. So nat hebol
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  So, She says, Okay, So the boy was shot in the back,
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  meaning he was running away and posed no threat. Rick child was going
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  down. He's been charged with murder. But my thing is are those charges
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  gonna stick. It's just it's gonna be served for this baby fourteen years old.
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  He posed no threat. I'm running away from you. So therefore,
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  if my backus to you, how can I pose a threat to you?
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  How can I post harm to you? Explain to me how two plus two
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  equals five? Hey, babe, I hope you're having a good night at
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  work, sugar. I love you, Nat say, girl, you're better
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  preacher. Of course, so he says. And then our people complaining about
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  our prices when they come to our businesses, and that's the thing. You
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  won't pay regular price to you. You know, your homeboy got a business,
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  so your homegirl got a business or black owned business. But you're going
• 28:03
  to these Asian establishments and spend all your damn money. What they talk to
• 28:10
  you like you beneath them. Oh yeah, but that's right. They act
• 28:15
  like that because they got that anti hate building. We're still waiting on one.
• 28:18
  Oh okay, y'all not ready for that conversation. But again, a
• 28:26
  fourteen year old child that you thought was stealing the baby took those waters out
• 28:33
  of the cooler and then put them back like the mad f a appen to
• 28:42
  me why does this shit keep happening? And before y'all get on your soap
• 28:48
  box and say, oh, but black owned businesses, dada that whatever,
• 28:52
  But you keep going in the same establishments that disrespects you. They'll take your
• 28:59
  money but will never treat you equal to them. Make that make sense to
• 29:03
  me? And yes, I said it. See a lot of y'all run
• 29:07
  from these conversations. I don't. I come here to shake the table and
• 29:11
  I ain't and I and I don't make no qualms about it, and I
• 29:14
  do it. Stop going where you're tolerated and start going where you're celebrating.
• 29:23
  You won't go. You won't support your friend who just started a business,
• 29:27
  whether it's catering, makeup, y'all won't. Y'all won't celebrate them. Y'all
• 29:32
  won't go in and patronize their businesses, but you'll go to the other ones.
• 29:38
  Though I buy black, I support anyone that looks like me. I'm
• 29:47
  gonna support you. I don't give it them. If you're selling shoelaces,
• 29:49
  I want them at full price. I don't want to discount. I don't
• 29:55
  care what it is, even if it's a repost or something I'm anna share
• 30:00
  and I'm gonna support your business because I want to see all of us win,
• 30:03
  because the table is big enough for all of us to sit down and
• 30:06
  eat at. But some of y'all too greedy to put food on a table
• 30:15
  for somebody else so they could get ahead too, because we're too busy looking
• 30:19
  at each other as a competition and not as an equal any who. So
• 30:30
  Nat says, we are quick to ask our people if we could get a
• 30:32
  discount, but when we buy culture other none black owned businesses, you'll pay
• 30:36
  full price at the blink of an eye. Shaking my damn head. And
• 30:38
  that's the point I'm trying to make. But then also notice that these businesses,
• 30:45
  like these Korean on liquor stores and nail shops and service stations where they
• 30:49
  at always in the black community. Always put them in the hood. Always.
• 30:56
  You can't roll down mail rolls and see an Asian owned business over there.
• 31:03
  You don't see a Korean a Korean owned liquor stole. You see it
• 31:06
  in the hood. You see them restaurants over there in the hood. Timid
• 31:11
  chance, I could even go as for it's in New Orleans. You got
• 31:15
  man shoes in the hood. But this is where we go and this is
• 31:22
  where we spend our money at though to be treated like that, And before
• 31:29
  y'all jump on your soap box and be like, oh, but black people
• 31:32
  do the same thing, I know we do. But right now I'm talking
• 31:33
  about these foreign owned businesses. That's those are the businesses I'm talking about.
• 31:40
  And I may lose some followers tonight, but I don't care. It's time
• 31:45
  to have some of these uncomfortable conversations. To see a lot of y'all run
• 31:48
  from delts. But I'm not running from that conversation. And I'm not so
• 32:00
  again. This fourteen year old child who had never been in trouble, and
• 32:07
  even if he was, that still didn't warm it this man to chase his
• 32:13
  baby down and kill him. You chase him off the property, off the
• 32:20
  premises, and you shot this baby in the back fourteen years old. He
• 32:28
  didn't even get a chance to live. Fourteen years was all he was,
• 32:32
  was all he was allowed. And didn't this this man, you robbed his
• 32:37
  baby of his life all because your thought he was stealing some water. That
• 32:44
  shit to be replaced. That's material stuff. See that's the problem, y'all.
• 32:50
  Some of y'all value the wrong things. Y'all don't value life anymore.
• 32:52
  You value material over life. And that's sad. So Nash says facts because
• 33:02
  they know we will spend our money there. I'm like you, I support
• 33:06
  black owned businesses. Nah, you already know your husband is from New Orleans.
• 33:09
  When you roll through seven Wall, you go to across the river,
• 33:14
  you go to the West Bank, what do you see them? Asian owned
• 33:16
  businesses in black neighborhoods. And we will bypass a black owned business to go
• 33:27
  get some fucking man choose. That's what we're doing. Will roll past this
• 33:37
  nice black owned business to go eat a fucking timid chance. That's what we
• 33:44
  do. Sad but true, sad but true. She said, he loves
• 33:55
  them too. I can't. You know what, let me tell you.
• 33:58
  I haven't eaten that man choose in so long. I just I ain't eating,
• 34:01
  And forever I don't. Whenever I go home, I don't eat there,
• 34:07
  I don't. I'll go to one of these cute little black gown businesses.
• 34:10
  Something New. A group that I follow on Facebook gives me an update
• 34:15
  on all the black owned restaurants, and I'm may struggle and I hit ever
• 34:19
  last one of them. Because that's the only way to stop this ship from
• 34:22
  happening. Stop going, stop patronizing their businesses because they disrespect us to the
• 34:29
  ultimate, and we and we go right on back into the next stage like,
• 34:31
  ain't nothing. We are the most forgiving people in the world. It's
• 34:35
  sickening to me be bad. You said, a world where Brothers and Danny
• 34:43
  and Clyde. Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, but we will will
• 34:50
  go right past a black owned business to go either the foreign establishment and again
• 34:57
  we are so disrespected, and then we will go right back in there and
• 35:00
  following week like ain't nothing to happen, y'all. We got to stop forgiving.
• 35:06
  I'm gonna be honest with you. I want my knick back. I
• 35:09
  ain't't even lie to y'all I do. I want my lick back. I
• 35:15
  want to go where I'm celebrating. I want to go where I'm appreciated,
• 35:19
  where you appreciate me spending my money and with you. I want to go
• 35:23
  where I'm appreciative that you you you really truly genuinely love my business, not
• 35:32
  just because my money is great, but that's what we do. And you're
• 35:39
  right, baby, we're too forgiven. We forgive and forgive and forgive,
• 35:44
  and we're constantly ship on every day and we forgive. Oh it's okay,
• 35:52
  he didn't mean it. No, no, you meant it. We just
• 36:00
  no, I ain't forgiving. I ain't God. Let God forgive you.
• 36:08
  So now Lyst says, I don't even get my nails done like that anymore
• 36:12
  because I don't see us in there. It's almost always Asian, right,
• 36:15
  And every time you go into one of those nail shops, they in there
• 36:19
  talking about us too. I remember one day I was in the nail shop
• 36:22
  and one of my home girls hit me to this. She say, put
• 36:24
  your translator on and listen to how bad they talk about us, And so
• 36:32
  I cut it on. They weren't talking about me, but they were talking
• 36:35
  about the black lady that were sitting next to me. They were talking about
• 36:37
  how bad her feet were. And then lady she just up there smiling,
• 36:40
  and they're smiling all in the face, and this woman not even knowing,
• 36:43
  they send a pit dragging her ass. But these this is where we go,
• 36:50
  we go and we continue to patronize these businesses. I'm glad to see
• 36:57
  more black women getting into doing nails. At one point, you know,
• 37:00
  black women, y'all were doing else but y'all weren't doing feet. So we
• 37:02
  didn't have a choice but to go until, you know, going to an
• 37:07
  Asian on nail shop or something. But now black people are not y'all are
• 37:13
  now starting to do pedicures. There's they just opened, well it's been open
• 37:16
  for I want to say, almost a year, maybe hearing you soon a
• 37:20
  black on nail salon called Vibes and they do hands and feet. I'm gonna
• 37:25
  go check them out. So Nat says, got into an argument one with
• 37:34
  one of them, almost had to pull out, pull out on her l
• 37:37
  ol pop goals and wheel because the weeezler goals pop, I'm telling you.
• 37:40
  And then we see these videos where these people where these Asians are holding black
• 37:46
  people hostage in the nail shop because they assumed that you're stealing. And then
• 37:52
  don't tell them that they had messed up your nails or your feet. They're
• 37:55
  really gonna start talking about you. You know, that's what we do,
• 38:05
  though, We let we let people mistreat us and then we forgive them.
• 38:10
  Oh he didn't mean it, Oh he didn't mean it. He was just
• 38:17
  a no. You meant every word because I tell people, whatever you say,
• 38:21
  stand on that. Say it what you'll say it with your chest.
• 38:23
  If that's how you feel, stand on that. Because anything I say anything
• 38:28
  I feel, I'm gonna stand on it and I'm gonna own it. Yes
• 38:31
  I said it, Yes I feel that week we were too forgiving, y'all,
• 38:37
  And we're seeing this happen all the time, all the time. Again,
• 38:44
  this baby, fourteen years old, y'all, alleged, was accused of
• 38:49
  stealing water. They admitted the baby took the water out, took the water.
• 38:55
  He took four bottles of water out the cooler, but put them back.
• 39:01
  And I'm pretty sure mister Child said something to Cyrus and there was an
• 39:08
  argument, and I'm pretty sure as Cyrus got ready to leave, mister Child
• 39:15
  decides he wants to chase this baby out of the store, off the parking
• 39:19
  lot, and you shot this baby in the back. But again, this
• 39:27
  is not the first report of this man having altercations with the black patrons in
• 39:35
  that store. But they still keep going, still keep going. See for
• 39:45
  me where I live there, where I live at in Houston, there's no
• 39:49
  black Own Beautist Apply stores. All the Black Own Beautist Apply stores away on
• 39:52
  the other side of town about forty minutes a week. So the only beautist
• 39:59
  applies that's close to me is Asian On right around the corner. So I
• 40:08
  don't have a choice but to go there. But the nail chaff I stopped
• 40:14
  going because every time I would go there, I would leave with a funcus
• 40:17
  Solus stopped going. Natalie said, well, Vibes need to expand to Georgia
• 40:24
  so I can support. I'm gonna see you there TikTok too, because they
• 40:28
  have a TikTok is Vibes nail salon, check them out black on. So
• 40:37
  Raphael says, some of our people still had their yes masks of mentality,
• 40:42
  and we're looking for validation because we're spending our money with them. Yeah,
• 40:46
  I can't disagree with you on that, Bay, I cannot disagree with you
• 40:51
  on that. But again, I want to go somewhere where you appreciate my
• 40:59
  black dollar, where you appreciate my business. I want to go somewhere where
• 41:07
  I'm treated with respect. Have I been to some black owned businesses that I
• 41:13
  haven't been treated with respect? Absolutely? I have, and I never went
• 41:15
  back. Now, there's a restaurant here in Houston that I went to.
• 41:22
  I was very dissatisfied with the food. And when I sent the food back,
• 41:27
  the owner or whoever he was, came out and had an attitude.
• 41:30
  I said, well, I tell you what, just give me my money
• 41:32
  back and I can go spend my money somewhere else. So I'm not saying
• 41:37
  that we as black business owners that we don't act like that, but not
• 41:42
  all of us are like that. So again, before y'all jump on your
• 41:47
  little soap box and say, but black business owners do that too, y'all
• 41:51
  do that too. I'm not saying we don't, but y'all love to deflect
• 41:55
  in conversation. Y'all love to deflect. N says maybe he needed needed it
• 42:07
  for his family. Mister child should have should have asked him what he was
• 42:09
  going through and maybe even offered him a part time job. There, baby,
• 42:15
  And that's it, And that could be true, that that could be
• 42:19
  very possible. Since I'm gonna go, I'm an arrival at you on that,
• 42:22
  because that could be possible. But the thing about it, he put
• 42:27
  the waters back. Yes, he took the four water the waters out of
• 42:30
  the cooler, but he put him back in the cooler. So he had
• 42:34
  nothing in his hand when he left, and then again they said there was
• 42:39
  a there was a confrontation that that escalated. But what warranted you to chase
• 42:45
  this baby out of the store. That's what I don't understand. I'm I'm,
• 42:51
  I'm I'm really lost, because what could what could this baby have done?
• 42:57
  If he's running from you, he's afraid of you. That's like Trayvon
• 43:02
  Martin and George Zimmerman. You were following this being. He was more afraid
• 43:08
  of you than you are him. You had a weapon, this baby,
• 43:13
  Trayvon didn't have a weapon. If someone's following me, you don't think I'm
• 43:17
  not gonna be afraid or somebody following me, So Trayvon reacted anyway a normal
• 43:24
  human being? What what? What? Red? White, black, yellow,
• 43:28
  purple green with purple polka dots and yellow stripes. If somebody's following you,
• 43:35
  you're gonna be trying to figure out what? Who? Why are you
• 43:37
  following me? You're not gonna leave this person directly to your house or where
• 43:42
  you're stay or wherever it is you're going. But again, what would warrant
• 43:50
  What could this baby have said so bad to you that you had to chase
• 43:55
  him out? Of the store and you shoot it. I just I don't
• 44:00
  understand. I needed to make sense to me, or regardless of you know,
• 44:08
  regardless of what he said to you, what warranted you to chase this
• 44:14
  baby out of the store and shot and shoot this baby in the back.
• 44:16
  I just, for the life of me, I just I don't understand that.
• 44:21
  I don't get it. It just still doesn't make sense to me.
• 44:23
  No matter how much I've said, and I've rewatched this story, I've read
• 44:28
  the articles, listen to the interviews from the people that were at the store
• 44:32
  at the time the incident happened, and even they said he posed no threat
• 44:42
  and then to be chased by not one person, but two. Imagine the
• 44:51
  fear in his baby's heart right now. Imagine what this baby was thinking.
• 44:57
  Was this baby thinking, oh my god, am I gonna die? Who
• 45:01
  knows what was rolling through that baby's head. He was just trying to get
• 45:06
  home, he was he was trying to get away. But mister child,
• 45:09
  you killed him. You killed him for what? Why? You know?
• 45:19
  I want to know why. This right here is Cyrus. This is Cyrus
• 45:25
  Karmack Belton, good student, never been in trouble, no record, no
• 45:34
  juvenile record, no, none of that. And regardless if he did,
• 45:37
  he's still a human at the end of the day. But there's nothing in
• 45:43
  this world that this child, this baby, this young man could have done
• 45:50
  that would have warranted his life to be taken so senselessly, so senselessly.
• 46:00
  And this is mister Chowd, This is mister Chowd. This is the man
• 46:09
  that so viciously robbed Cyrus Carmack Belting of his life over allegedly stealing some water.
• 46:17
  Allegedly, there was no proof they saw him take the waters from the
• 46:27
  cooler, but y'a also saw him put him back. And this baby's life
• 46:35
  is over so innocently, so innocently. This baby's life was taken, Like
• 46:52
  I said, I said, and I really tried to make sense of all
• 46:57
  of this, like what could this baby have done? Did he? You
• 47:00
  know? And I couldn't figure it out. I could not wrap my head
• 47:07
  around the fact that this baby's life is old, fourteen years old. It
• 47:19
  makes me think about my own daughter. My daughter is thirteen, soon to
• 47:22
  be fourteen. But this baby's life gone. A family left to mourn the
• 47:34
  loss of a son, a brother, a cousin, a friend, so
• 47:42
  viciously. So let me roll this video for y'all because I won't try to
• 47:51
  hear what this police officer has to say. July and funeral services are still
• 47:58
  being finalized for fourteen year old Cyrus Carmack Belton, who was shot and killed
• 48:02
  Sunday night. Investigators say the owner of a gas station thought the teenager stole
• 48:07
  a bottle of water from the store, but he didn't. Deputy say the
• 48:12
  man chase the teenager outside the store and shot him in the back. Fifty
• 48:15
  eight year old Ric Chow has now been charged with murder. Chow making his
• 48:20
  first court appearance today, appearing before a magistrate judge at the Richland County Jail.
• 48:25
  Chow and his attorney declined to comment, as did Cyrus's family for today's
• 48:30
  court appearance. Chow's store was vandalized last night. Roy Hall lives near the
• 48:35
  store. She believes the incident was driven by emotion. At any time that
• 48:39
  you respond to anything in life out of emotions, you gotta know that it's
• 48:44
  going to calst you, right. You know, him following this young man
• 48:47
  down the street was him responding out of emotions. You gotta learn some type
• 48:51
  of self control, some type of self discipline. Tonight, richel In deputies
• 48:54
  are patrolling the area to make sure there's no further vandalism there. He will
• 49:00
  Originally, Sheriff leunlost as his department is fine with peaceful protesting, not that
• 49:05
  vandalism or looting that happened last night. Sheriff says those responsible will be identified
• 49:10
  and charged. This case is about a fourteen year old boy who was shot
• 49:15
  and killed. It's also about the person that was arrested, who's being held
• 49:21
  responsible for it and held accountable for it. That's what our job is.
• 49:25
  Our job is not now to guard this store, and that's what we have
• 49:30
  to do. I'm not gonna dentify anybody right now. I want them to
• 49:35
  sit. I want them to watch this, and we're about when I'm gonna
• 49:37
  come knocking on their door at four o'clock in the morning, when the chriffs
• 49:42
  Dippy knocks on their door and puts handcuffs on them. Go ahead, drink
• 49:45
  that beer and enjoy it right now, Becca, Are you gonna pay for
• 49:47
  it later? Also tonight, sixth District Congressman Jim Clabern weighing in on the
• 49:52
  shooting death of Cyrus Carmack Belton, saying he's horrified and saddened clabr as a
• 50:00
  criminalization of black men and boys and the historic trend of painting them as aggressors
• 50:06
  has led to deadly and heartbreaking circumstances. So let me say this, y'all.
• 50:15
  So when when I watched that, I was like, are you serious
• 50:24
  what he said? Let me let me see this. We really have as
• 50:30
  black people, really have a difficult time trusting law, the law because we've
• 50:37
  seen how they handle us. Yeah, you may have arrested them, and
• 50:43
  you may have charged him with murder, but will he be punished to the
• 50:49
  fullest extent of the law. With everything that's been going on in the world,
• 50:55
  our faith and law enforcement is slim to none because we've seen it.
• 51:02
  We've seen how y'all protect us. We've seen how things happen, what the
• 51:10
  end result is of traffic stops. We've seen this George Floyd Pilandoca still most
• 51:22
  recently Tyree Nichols. So our faith in the judicial system and law enforcement,
• 51:32
  it's real slim. At least I can only speak for me. I can't
• 51:36
  speak for everybody else, But we really don't have a lot of faith.
• 51:42
  Look at the police officer that only spent but sixteen months in prison for killing
• 51:46
  Dante right, she was just released. So our faith is it's a little
• 51:53
  slim. And every time you try to rest for our faith in the law
• 52:01
  and law enforcement and the judicial system, here comes something to knock your right
• 52:07
  on back down. We see it all the time. We're dying get rapid
• 52:13
  raised at the hands of law enforcement. We see this. We see this
• 52:19
  all the time. So our faith it's wavering. Let me say that.
• 52:29
  But you're worried about a business being looted and destroyed. That could be replaced,
• 52:37
  but a life cannot. Once the life is gone and over, that's
• 52:40
  it. There's no duovers, there's no rewind. But we can't rewind and
• 52:50
  give this baby his life back. We can't do that. It should be
• 52:54
  to protect us. I understand you want to protect people's businesses. I get
• 52:58
  it. I understand that's people's little that's how people eat. I get it.
• 53:01
  I respect it wholehearted. But that could have waited. Y'all knew that's
• 53:10
  what was gonna happen. They killed an unarmed fourteen year old child who posed
• 53:22
  no threat whatsoever to miss the child over some water to the point where you
• 53:35
  chased this baby down the streets. Like the young ladies said in the video,
• 53:45
  we gotta stop acting off of the emotion. We gotta have some type
• 53:49
  of self restraints, some type of self control, because these are the end
• 53:53
  result when we start acting off of emotions, This is the end result.
• 54:01
  We see this all the time. You see altercations, people fighting, person
• 54:10
  gets beat up, they running, they go get a gun because now they're
• 54:14
  their emotions, their feelings are hurt, so now they got to get paid
• 54:16
  back. We see this all the time. When are we gonna learn some
• 54:24
  type of self restraint? When are we gonna learn some type of self control?
• 54:29
  When are we gonna learn to stop reacting off based off of your emotions.
• 54:32
  When are we gonna start saying, you know what, let me let
• 54:36
  me stop, let me chill out, let me cool down a little bit,
• 54:39
  and then revisit this situation. When are we gonna start doing that?
• 54:45
  Because this is always the end result, always the end result. Nothing good
• 54:51
  ever comes to situations like that when you're acting off of emotions. Sad to
• 54:57
  say, but it's true, So sad to say what it's true? And
• 55:05
  again, we have this baby here whose life was prematurely taken off of someone
• 55:15
  that had no self control, from a person that had no restraint, from
• 55:24
  my person that was acting off of emotions, and you took this baby's life.
• 55:34
  Now you have a family grieving, you have a community grieving, you
• 55:37
  have a school grieving at the loss. That is bab so innocent, so
• 55:52
  sad, so so so sad, Which takes me into a story that happened
• 56:02
  back in nineteen ninety one for a lot of you know, three weeks after
• 56:07
  the Rodney King riots. I mean, I'm sorry, after the verdict in
• 56:12
  the Rodney King beating. In the beating of Rodney King, Latasha Harllans March
• 56:22
  sixteenth, nineteen ninety one, Latasha Hollins killed Los Angeles, California, allegedly
• 56:34
  stealing in orange juice. I did not upload the video of her being shot.
• 56:40
  I did not because that was very triggering for me. So I wouldn't
• 56:46
  dare post that for something for that to be triggering for someone else. But
• 56:52
  Latasha Harllans March sixteen, nineteen ninety one, killed over allegedly stealing some orange
• 57:05
  juice. For those that want to see the video, you could go.
• 57:08
  It's on YouTube, but on the footage. You see the girl walk to
• 57:16
  the counter with the money in her hand, the orange juice in one the
• 57:22
  money in another hand. So how was she trying to steal? And even
• 57:24
  when she was killed, she still had the two dollars in her hand.
• 57:29
  The orange juice came to a dollar seventy nine, she still had the two
• 57:34
  dollars in her hand. This is who Tupac was talking about, Latasha Harlans.
• 57:43
  This is the story on life on I'm Sorry. On Netflix, there's
• 57:46
  a story about her on Netflix. They even named the part that she used
• 57:53
  to go play basketball in after her. For those that don't know, this
• 58:04
  is Latasha Harlans. That's Latasha Harland, fifteen years old, fifteen killed nineteen
• 58:21
  ninety one by a Korean store owner who accused her of trying to steal an
• 58:27
  orange juice. But you see the woman. Again. I did not upload
• 58:37
  the video because it's too triggering, but again you could google it the videos
• 58:43
  on YouTube. But in the video, you see the woman attacked this girl.
• 58:46
  First, she snatches the girl's backpack and in defense the girl, Latasha
• 58:55
  let me let me correct myself, Latasha fought back and then you see the
• 59:00
  woman pulled the gun as Latasha is walking away and shoots this baby in the
• 59:06
  back of the head over some orange juice. Again. This happened three weeks
• 59:19
  after the Rodney King Verdi the beating of Rodney king Di Verdic. Hence that's
• 59:27
  what prompted the la riots. The woman that killed Latasha Harlans soon Jadu was
• 59:39
  sentenced to sixteen years. She was charged with involuntary manslaughter. She was sentenced
• 59:45
  to sixteen years, and the judge that presided over this case suspended the sentence,
• 59:53
  stating that she didn't feel like soon Jadu would reoffend. She posed no
• 1:00:01
  threat to the community. So this woman basically got away with murder, got
• 1:00:10
  away with murder. So I say all of that to say, that's my
• 1:00:16
  fear for Cyrus Carmack Belton. That's my fear is that mister child will do
• 1:00:28
  no time again. Y'all. My faith in the judicial system is a little
• 1:00:38
  skeptical. It's a little shaky because we saw this in nineteen ninety one with
• 1:00:47
  Natasha Harlans. We've seen it since then where these people are getting away with
• 1:00:58
  murder again. For those that are not familiar with the story of Latasha Harlans,
• 1:01:08
  here we go with the thirtieth anniversary this week of the nineteen ninety two
• 1:01:15
  LA Riots. Fox eleven is taking a look back the seeds of unrest even
• 1:01:19
  before the beating of Rodney King. There's a name that is also synonymous with
• 1:01:23
  that uprising. That's Latasha Harlans. Our Christine, Divine has her story.
• 1:01:32
  To understand the La Riots of nineteen ninety two is to know it's backstory.
• 1:01:37
  I just want to say, you know, can we can we all get
• 1:01:42
  along? Can we can we get along? Video of the nineteen ninety one
• 1:01:45
  beating of Rodney King by LAPD officers is infamous. But two weeks after this,
• 1:01:51
  there was a case that would also shake south central LA to its core.
• 1:01:55
  It was like immatial, everybody just ready to go to war, everybody
• 1:02:01
  ready to fight. Latasha Harlans was fifteen, but she was shot and killed
• 1:02:07
  by a liquor store owner, a Korean immigrant, who accused the team of
• 1:02:12
  trying to steal a bottle of orange juice. We grew up together. We
• 1:02:15
  were only four months apart, so we grew up together in the same house
• 1:02:19
  all the way from birth till the day she passed away. So my sister
• 1:02:24
  Nie Harlan's Kilgore is Latasha's younger cousin. You lived how far from this market,
• 1:02:30
  oh, roughly half a black away and the normal to come here,
• 1:02:34
  normal to come here here is now a Numero uno market. Back in nineteen
• 1:02:38
  ninety one on Figaroa and ninety first it was Empire Liquor. I can still
• 1:02:43
  see her right there where she dropped at in the front of the camera,
• 1:02:45
  you know from the video, So no, I don't go in here.
• 1:02:49
  Security video captured a scuffle between clerk and customer. Sun Jadu shot the team
• 1:02:54
  in the back of the head, killing her. Witnesses said Harlans had cash
• 1:02:59
  in her hand. To die with two dollars in your hand, that lets
• 1:03:01
  you know that she was not that person that the media or whomever say so
• 1:03:09
  is what she is due. Was convicted a voluntary manslaughter, but given probation.
• 1:03:15
  Then came April twenty ninth, nineteen ninety two, the not guilty verdicts
• 1:03:20
  in the beating of Rodney King. Four Laput officers acquitted, writers took to
• 1:03:25
  the streets, and after years of cultural tensions, half the businesses burned or
• 1:03:30
  looted, two thousand of them were Korean owned. This fifteen year old child
• 1:03:37
  who got her brains shot and blown out over distrute of a bout of orange
• 1:03:43
  juice was the precursor to the civil unrest in ninety two, after the jurists
• 1:03:47
  found the LPD cops not guilty for beating Rodney King. That was activist Najelli.
• 1:03:53
  Last year, we will never forget Latasha Harlans. It was at a
• 1:04:00
  playground dedication and a mural of Latasha Harlans at Algin Sutton Recreation Center. There's
• 1:04:06
  really I'm really beautiful. There's a whole generation that may not know the story
• 1:04:13
  of Latasha Harlans, but there is a movie in the works and last year
• 1:04:16
  a Netflix documentary got an Oscar nomination. When you come to this park as
• 1:04:20
  a child every day, every day, every day, so it means what
• 1:04:24
  to have that artwork, priceless, lots of emotion, the rate King beating.
• 1:04:30
  I was a young anchor during this era, reporting live during the nineteen
• 1:04:33
  ninety two civil unrest. This picture ending up in a university textbook to the
• 1:04:40
  Harlans family, documenting history matters just so that this generation can know about what
• 1:04:46
  happened thirty years ago, because they don't know, if you ask an eighteen
• 1:04:51
  year old, nineteen ear old, it's not taught in school, it's not
• 1:04:55
  taught in their household, or it's just it needs to be relevant right now.
• 1:05:00
  That was Christine Devine reporting mmmmmm again it's nineteen ninety one all over again,
• 1:05:20
  just a different name, Cyrus Carmack Belton. But again Latasha Harlans,
• 1:05:30
  fifteen years old, nineteen ninety one. And let me correct myself. This
• 1:05:35
  was right after the Rodney King beating, before the Verdi So let me correct
• 1:05:40
  myself on that. This baby was killed. Again. If you want to
• 1:05:51
  see the video, the videos on YouTube. I refused to upload it.
• 1:05:55
  I refused to show it. Again. If it's triggering for me, I
• 1:06:00
  was triggering for us. So I refused to even show that. And even
• 1:06:03
  out of respect for the family, I would never put that up there.
• 1:06:08
  But again, if you want to see it, it's on YouTube. You
• 1:06:10
  can look at it at your own leisure. I just was not I was
• 1:06:13
  not gonna play it. But Latasha Harlans again, you know, for those
• 1:06:23
  that don't that that don't know the story may not have been you know,
• 1:06:26
  may not have been born at the time that this happened. But I remember
• 1:06:29
  this. I was in the eighth grade when it's happened, seventh or eighth
• 1:06:35
  grade when it's happened, and I remember I was like, damn me and
• 1:06:46
  her about the same age. That could have been me, That could have
• 1:06:55
  been my soss. So that could have been anybody, you know. But
• 1:07:00
  the baby had the two dollars in her hand, So again that showed you
• 1:07:08
  that she wasn't trying to steal. And then for the woman too snatch her
• 1:07:15
  backpack, you became the aggressor. You were the aggressor in the situation.
• 1:07:30
  Again, what warranted you to pull out a gun? Natasha Harlin's back was
• 1:07:39
  turned, she was not, She did not pose a threat to you,
• 1:07:42
  and you shot her in the back of the head. Again, cyrus Karmack
• 1:07:47
  Belton, here we are twenty at twenty three. This baby here posed no
• 1:07:51
  threat, was running away from Rick Chow and was shot in the back.
• 1:08:01
  Was shot in the back over some water and Latasha Harlan's over and orange juice,
• 1:08:15
  a dollar seventy nine orange juice, and the baby head the two dollars
• 1:08:20
  in our hand. So how was she trying to steal? Make it make
• 1:08:30
  sense to me? I guess so furious when I see these stories, when
• 1:08:43
  I see unarmed black men, unarmed black women, girls, boys prematurely robbed
• 1:08:50
  at their lives because you got someone acting off of emotions. Again, ladies
• 1:09:00
  and gentlemen, we have to have some type of restraint, some type of
• 1:09:08
  self control. We have to learn how to get our emotions and check and
• 1:09:12
  stop reacting based off of emotions. That's got to stop. When is that
• 1:09:21
  gonna happen? I'm really not understanding when is this gonna end? We saw
• 1:09:36
  this in nineteen ninety one, we see it again here in twenty twenty three,
• 1:09:41
  and we've seen it in between. When is this gonna end? Again?
• 1:09:51
  Y'all help me to understand? What is warretine? I just I don't
• 1:10:04
  know. I think you know that that's something I'll never understand. But again,
• 1:10:14
  you have Latasha Harlans. That's her, fifteen years old, was killed
• 1:10:30
  over some orange shoes. Soon jah Do was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, was
• 1:10:43
  sixteen sentenced I'm sorry to sixteen years, but was given probation. The jury
• 1:10:51
  found her guilty, but the judge said she didn't feel like this woman pulls
• 1:11:00
  the threat and didn't feel like she would reoffend again. So she served no
• 1:11:05
  jail time for killing Natasha Harlans over a dollar seventy nine bottle of orange juice.
• 1:11:19
  Present day, we have Cyrus Carmack Belton that fourteen years old, accused
• 1:11:38
  of stealing water, was running away and was shot in the back. Yes,
• 1:11:54
  sir, like I remember when that happen. When Latasha Harlins was killed,
• 1:12:00
  Like I said, I was in like the seventh and eighth grade.
• 1:12:04
  I think I was in the seventh grade because I went to high school in
• 1:12:09
  ninety two. Yeah, I started ninth grade in ninety two, so I
• 1:12:13
  was in like the eighth grade, seventh grade, getting ready to go into
• 1:12:16
  the eighth grade. When Natasha Harlans was killed, she was fifteen years old,
• 1:12:30
  fifteen years old south central LA. And the woman that killed her again
• 1:12:36
  no jail time, although a jury found her guilty of voluntary man slaughter,
• 1:12:43
  y'all, she was found guilty and served no jail time, served not a
• 1:12:48
  day in jail. So my biggest fear is that this man here, Rick
• 1:13:00
  Chow, I feel like he will get no jail time. I feel like
• 1:13:12
  the same thing that happened with Latasha Harlins is gonna happen to Cyrus Karmack Belton.
• 1:13:15
  That's my biggest fear. That's my fear that justice will not be served
• 1:13:25
  for this young man's family. I really honestly feel that way. And if
• 1:13:31
  he is convicted, I don't believe he'll be given a whole lot of time.
• 1:13:35
  I believe me. Let me tell you what I believe. I believe
• 1:13:40
  in the murder of Cyrus Karmack Belton. I feel like he'll plead down to
• 1:13:45
  a lesser charge and I'll probably get minimum jail time. That's just the way
• 1:13:53
  I feel, because we've seen it happen. Absolutely, they need to be
• 1:13:59
  the order. I really feel that way. I honestly feel like he'll plead
• 1:14:11
  guilty to a lesser charge because right now he's been charged with he's been charged
• 1:14:15
  with a murder. Okay, he's been charged with murder. But I really
• 1:14:18
  honestly feel like he's gonna he'll plead to something lesser, like maybe voluntary or
• 1:14:25
  involuntary manslaughter, and he'll get minimum jail time and the rest of he served
• 1:14:30
  on probation. We saw that with Dante, right, Kim Potter only did
• 1:14:34
  what sixteen months in prison and now she's home for those that don't know,
• 1:14:42
  that's the police officer that shot uh Dante right in Many in Minnesota. She's
• 1:14:48
  home. So I really feel like this is what's gonna happen, but I
• 1:14:56
  pray that it doesn't. I pray that they'll get it right this time.
• 1:15:01
  I pray that justice will be served for Cyrus Karmack Belton. I pray for
• 1:15:08
  that. I pray that justice will be will prevail because this baby was taken
• 1:15:15
  prematurely. He was taken so innocently over some water, over some water.
• 1:15:28
  I just don't understand. I really don't. And again it is as much
• 1:15:34
  as as as many times as I watched this video, read the articles,
• 1:15:42
  looked at some of the interviews, I still don't understand why you chase this
• 1:15:49
  baby out of the store and you shot him in the back. He was
• 1:15:55
  wondering that he was running away from you, So he no longer was a
• 1:16:00
  threat to you, no threat. So I said, my love and my
• 1:16:10
  prayers not only to the Karmate Belt and family, but to the city of
• 1:16:14
  Columbia, South Carolina, because that was somebody's brother, that was somebody's cousin,
• 1:16:19
  that was somebody's son, that was somebody's friend, and to the people
• 1:16:29
  that witnessed it, that saw this, I sent peace and blessings and nothing
• 1:16:33
  but prayers your way, because this is something you'll never forget. You'll always
• 1:16:39
  remember this. Whenever you roll past that store. That's that's what's gonna be
• 1:16:45
  the first thing that pops up in your mind. Is this baby lost his
• 1:16:49
  life here fourteen years old. I don't get it. I really, I
• 1:17:03
  just I don't understand, you know. I look at my children, I
• 1:17:09
  look at the you know, the children of my friends. I look at
• 1:17:13
  everybody and say, that could have been your baby, that could have been
• 1:17:16
  my child. You know, But what can we do? We have to
• 1:17:27
  stop this from happening, like it just it's a cycle that we gotta stop.
• 1:17:36
  I just don't understand, and I don't think I ever will understand,
• 1:17:41
  you know. My heart just can't in my mind just can't wrap around the
• 1:17:46
  thought of what this baby was feeling in that moment, the fear that this
• 1:17:56
  baby felt running away and you know, you got a person running behind you
• 1:18:00
  with a gun. What the shower was thinking, the fear and then the
• 1:18:13
  mom that's left to greet. I don't get it. I just I really
• 1:18:23
  don't like I just I don't understand it. But I really Maybe that's something
• 1:18:35
  I'll never understand. Maybe that's something the world will never understand. You know,
• 1:18:41
  why do they hate us so much? Why why do they despise our
• 1:18:50
  black men and black women? If they're not killing us in the streets,
• 1:18:58
  they're killing us in the prison sense. Look at the young man in Atlanta
• 1:19:04
  who died in Fulton Counting jail. Why do they hate us so much?
• 1:19:17
  I'm not even gonna stress myself out trying to figure out why, because at
• 1:19:20
  this point I really don't I can't say I don't care, but I just
• 1:19:30
  I don't understand his baby's life again, fourteen years old? Take him because
• 1:19:41
  you thought your song him stealing water from me. It's like Tamir Rights.
• 1:19:47
  Your thought this maybe had a gun in his hand and it was a little
• 1:19:51
  toy gun. Twelve years old killed. Let's go back to Emmett Till who
• 1:19:59
  your thought whistled at this white woman and y'all killed it. Latasha Harlans fifteen
• 1:20:09
  years old. You thought she was stealing some orange juice. Killed, Still
• 1:20:17
  had the money in her hand, still had the two dollars in her hand
• 1:20:20
  as she dropped to the floor. Again, I was not uploading the video.
• 1:20:27
  I was not playing it again. If you want to see the video,
• 1:20:32
  google Latasha Harland. It's on YouTube. But I refused to watch it.
• 1:20:36
  I've watched it once and one time was enough for me because it literally
• 1:20:43
  made me sick in my stomach. So I could just imagine how these people
• 1:20:48
  in Columbia, South Carolina felt when they saw Cyrus Karmack Belton fall to the
• 1:20:56
  ground after being shot in the back. I can only understand. I can
• 1:21:04
  empathize with them, but I just I want to know why are we not
• 1:21:23
  supporting more black owned businesses. Why are we Why are we so quick to
• 1:21:34
  pass up this person started to go down here where we're consistently disrespected, because
• 1:21:46
  again there have been reports that mister child has had previous altercations with other black
• 1:21:54
  patrons in his store. So again, why do we keep going to these
• 1:22:00
  Why do we keep patronizing in these businesses? Why do we keep spending our
• 1:22:02
  dollars in these businesses? And we're not respected? I just I don't understand,
• 1:22:18
  that, says Then she tells the true decades later, had not even
• 1:22:23
  a slap on her hand for that right and for those that are wanted.
• 1:22:28
  We're talking about Carolyn Bryant, the lady, the white woman that lied and
• 1:22:33
  said Emmett Till whistled at her, who just recently died. Why y'all the
• 1:22:42
  limited when the second line was for that? Y'all down bad for that.
• 1:22:45
  I want to know when the cookout was because I was coming, because that
• 1:22:49
  was a celebration. H But I just don't understand. Yes, you find
• 1:23:00
  good and bad in all businesses, black, White, Asian, Latino,
• 1:23:04
  Jewish, whatever, you find good and bad and all, But why are
• 1:23:10
  we so quick to when we have one bad experience with a black owned business,
• 1:23:15
  It's like we cancel all black owned businesses out, But we don't do
• 1:23:20
  that for these Asian owned businesses. We don't do this for the Jewish owned
• 1:23:25
  businesses. We don't do it for the Latino owned businesses. Why make me
• 1:23:32
  understand y'all have multiple bad experiences with these foreign owned businesses, but you constantly
• 1:23:44
  keep going back. But you have one bad experience at a black owned business,
• 1:23:48
  now all of a sudden, you don't want to go back normal.
• 1:23:49
  It's fuck black owned businesses, and you can't say you don't because I see
• 1:23:54
  it all up and down my timeline on Facebook. I see the comments.
• 1:24:05
  Hey, han, I have to drop off because I have to be comcat
• 1:24:08
  g you know what. We need to talk because I need to g O
• 1:24:15
  Comcast Experis Council days. Y'all better be looking at it. They'd my only
• 1:24:20
  provide over here because Baby, if I can go anywhere else, I would.
• 1:24:25
  But I love you, honey. Thank you for tuning in tonight.
• 1:24:28
  I appreciate the comments to support the love. I love you, honey.
• 1:24:30
  It's good to see you. I missed you. But again, I just
• 1:24:36
  I don't understand. You have one bad experience with a black owned business and
• 1:24:43
  again it's like to hell with all these black owned businesses, but you don't
• 1:24:47
  and you drag these black owned businesses, you dragged them for the filth hell,
• 1:24:51
  but you don't do this. You don't keep that same energy for these
• 1:24:57
  foreign owned businesses. Y'all do not. Y'all do not. And I see
• 1:25:03
  it all the time. I'm in a lot of these groups a black owned
• 1:25:08
  businesses and y'all have a bad experience, and baby, y'all are dragon them.
• 1:25:13
  And then I see y'all go to these foreign owned businesses and not a
• 1:25:19
  peace and then you go right on back. You'll go right on back,
• 1:25:26
  right on back, you run back to these businesses. We gotta catch up,
• 1:25:31
  girl, We definitely got to catch up a sissy. It's good to
• 1:25:36
  see if I love you, But we do that. We are our own
• 1:25:44
  worst enemy. I just just because I've had a bad experience at black owned
• 1:25:49
  businesses or whatever it is, black owned, I'm not canceling all of them
• 1:25:54
  out. I may cancel that one out, but I'm not canceling the rest
• 1:25:57
  of them out. But again, y'all go to these foreign owned businesses where
• 1:26:02
  you're disrespected. They follow you around the store and swear you're trying to steal
• 1:26:08
  something. You talk about it, you may post a little review about the
• 1:26:14
  business, but guess what you're back into the next day. You're back into
• 1:26:18
  the next day. Stop stop, patron, stop spending your dollars in these
• 1:26:25
  businesses. Then, because again they put these businesses in black and black neighborhoods.
• 1:26:32
  Again, you don't go through these white neighborhoods and see these Korean owned
• 1:26:36
  businesses. You don't see these little uh you buy we fry restaurants in Hollywood.
• 1:26:45
  You don't see that ship there. You see it in the hood door.
• 1:26:49
  Like I said, go to the West Bank, go to the seven
• 1:26:53
  ward Man, choose read seafood occasions here in Houston. You got tim a
• 1:27:01
  chance. And they all in the hood. The Korean on liquor stores in
• 1:27:09
  the hood, the Korean on nail shots in the hood. They put them
• 1:27:15
  there because they know we're gonna go there. But again, your bypass this
• 1:27:25
  store. Excuse me for this store. That's what y'all do. And then
• 1:27:35
  we end up with situations like Cyrus karmack Beltic, who was fourteen years old,
• 1:27:42
  who was accused of stealing water from a store, which he really didn't
• 1:27:53
  and then was chased out of the store, off the property and was shot
• 1:27:57
  in the back fourteen years old. Then we saw this again. We saw
• 1:28:00
  this in nineteen ninety one with Latasha Harleans who was accused of stealing a bottle
• 1:28:05
  of orange juice, whose back was turned and was shot in the back of
• 1:28:12
  the head. And the woman got no jail time. So now maybe you'll
• 1:28:20
  understand when I say my faith in the judicial system and in law enforcement is
• 1:28:28
  a little shaken because we've seen this before. We see this all the time.
• 1:28:31
  It's repetitive. We saw the Rodney King beating and we saw thus four
• 1:28:39
  police officers get off and it was and there was footage, video tapes.
• 1:28:47
  We see this all the time. You see these police officers killing unarmed black
• 1:28:55
  men and black women. We see it on video, and they're never they're
• 1:28:59
  never held account but we continue to support this behavior. Again, I'm gonna
• 1:29:06
  say it again. We are the most forgiving people in this world, which
• 1:29:11
  I'm tired of forgiving. I'm tired of turning the other cheek. I'm tired.
• 1:29:17
  At what point do we come together as a community and say enough is
• 1:29:20
  enough? When are we gonna start standing together and start shutting these businesses down
• 1:29:25
  in our communities and start supporting our own businesses. But some of y'all not
• 1:29:30
  ready to have that conversation. Some of y'all ready to just jump on your
• 1:29:32
  soul box and say, old assists, I hadn't been to some black owned
• 1:29:35
  businesses, and I hear it all the time, But just because you've had
• 1:29:42
  a bad experience at one, don't cancel out all black owned businesses, because
• 1:29:45
  a lot of y'all do that. But again, you're disrespected at these other
• 1:29:53
  stores, and you constantly take your ass there every day. Every day you
• 1:29:57
  go there, you're followed around the store. I've even heard people say,
• 1:30:03
  oh yeah, girl, they thought I stole something out that store, but
• 1:30:05
  you got your ass right back in that the next day. So when are
• 1:30:14
  we gonna start supporting more of black owned businesses? That's all I want to
• 1:30:15
  know. I told y'all, I told y'all I was gonna shake this table
• 1:30:20
  to day because I want to make me understand. Help me to understand.
• 1:30:29
  It's a reason they put these types of businesses and black owned communities. It's
• 1:30:33
  a reason. It's a reason why they do that. And for you,
• 1:30:42
  quote unquote walk people. Let me know, let me know if you knew
• 1:30:47
  the answer. Again, you can't go on Hollywood. They don't have this
• 1:30:54
  type of shit in Hollywood. But there we are. Another child killed prematurely
• 1:31:10
  over allegedly selling a bottle of water yep, fourteen years old. A family
• 1:31:23
  is left breathing, a community is left breathing. But your police officer in
• 1:31:32
  Richland County is more concerned with because they vandalized mister Child's store. That could
• 1:31:38
  be fixed, That could be fixed. Cyrus's life can't be brought back.
• 1:31:46
  He can't be brought back his life can't be given back, he can't be
• 1:31:50
  returned back to his mother. But again, y'all always show me y'all care
• 1:31:58
  more about materials shit than that. Y'all a human life, y'all upset at
• 1:32:03
  the very same businesses and buildings that we built through. But y'are not ready
• 1:32:08
  for that conversation. Y're not ready for that. Y'all are more upset about
• 1:32:14
  that. It's looting, it's rioting. But I'm gonna say that for a
• 1:32:21
  whole other conversation. I'm gonna say that for something different, because this conversation
• 1:32:30
  is not over. It will come back around again. Like I said,
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  I don't mind shaking a table. I don't mind scratching the surface. I
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  don't mind snatching the pulling the tape off the envelope, or snatching the band
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  DAIDs off of I don't mind. But all I want to say in regards
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  to that is start going where you're celebrated and not tolerated. Start going where
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  your money is appreciated, Start going where you're respected. Again, we see
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  it all the time, and y'all go back and back and back and back
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  and back and back. It's almost like y'all love to disrespect. It's almost
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  like you don't even care the fact that they belittle you in these businesses.
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  Again, I hear it in these nail shots. But y'all, y'all consistently
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  keep going back and back and back and back and back. I know what
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  I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna keep going where I'm celebrated and not tolerated.
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  I'm gonna continue to support businesses that like my that love my black dollars,
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  and not just because it it's tolerated. Because I can name a list
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  of businesses that are frequent here in using that are black owned, that are
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  very appreciative of me every time I come in their door. Can't say so
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  much about some of these foreign doing businesses. But again, some of y'all
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  gonna hop on your soul bohox and be like, oh you just na whatever
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  I said it, and I'm saying it with my whole chest, and I
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  stand ten toes down and everything that I see, period, it is what
• 1:34:30
  it is, yep. So it is what it is. Whatever. But
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  anyway, let me roll off into these final thoughts for tonight y'all. On
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  Sunday, Cyrus Carmack Belton was taken from us so viciously over accusation, allegations,
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  assumptions. He was killed off of emotion by a man that had no
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  self control, no self restraints, that decided on Sunday he wanted to play
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  god. You thought this boy was stealing from you, so you and your
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  son chase this baby out of the store, off the property, and you
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  shoot him in the back one time and he dies. When is this going
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  to end? We need to really, really, really truly start being the
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  change, y'all. We had to start talking about it. We gotta start
• 1:35:57
  walking the walk and stop talking to talk. We gotta walk the walk.
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  I hear a lot of people that say, oh, I'm down for the
• 1:36:02
  calls, y'all. Some of y'all just be talking to your own self.
• 1:36:05
  Talk y'all. Ain't really about about the calls. Y'all just say this shit
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  because it sounds good to you, because it sounds good coming out of your
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  mouth, because it sounds cool in the moment. But you're not walking the
• 1:36:17
  walk. And I'm not saying that for everybody, because I know some of
• 1:36:24
  y'all are really making moves behind the scenes. Some of y'all are just talking.
• 1:36:30
  And then as soon as this dies down, you're not talking about it
• 1:36:33
  again until something else happens again, and then oh yeah, I'm gonna do.
• 1:36:40
  Stop talking to talk if you're not walking the walk, period, if
• 1:36:46
  you're not gonna be a part of the solution, keep your mouth flues,
• 1:36:50
  just be quiet, just don't say anything. I'm here for the change.
• 1:36:58
  I talk about it, walk the walk. I do exactly what I say
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  I'm gonna do, and some of y'all say the same, and I'm gonna
• 1:37:12
  let y'all marinate on that part. But anyway, thank y'all for another episode
• 1:37:19
  of a Black Girl Interrupted. But again, y'all already know upcoming episodes for
• 1:37:27
  Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all, I'm being talking about relationships this month. But
• 1:37:33
  before I even jump into relationships, there is one topic that I do want
• 1:37:36
  to bring to the forefront for Tuesday. I want to first send my thoughts
• 1:37:43
  to my prayers to Young DC, Young Fly, who lost his Beyonce,
• 1:37:47
  the mother of his children today. She was thirty two years old. And
• 1:37:55
  I just want to say this, Ladies, love who you are, Love
• 1:38:03
  your flaws, love your imperfections, because God created you imperfectly perfect and the
• 1:38:09
  way he envisioned you. We see this far too often, we hear about
• 1:38:15
  it far too often, these young ladies who are going under and having these
• 1:38:21
  these medical procedures and are not making it back home. So I want to
• 1:38:30
  bring that conversation back around to the forefront on Tuesday. I want to talk
• 1:38:33
  about self esteem because we're seeing again, y'all. We're seeing this far too
• 1:38:40
  often. Women are going and getting these cosmetic procedures done and are passing away.
• 1:38:47
  So I want to bring that back around on Tuesday. I want to
• 1:38:49
  bring that conversation back around to the forefront. And I definitely, definitely,
• 1:38:55
  definitely would love my ladies to tap in and join in on the conversation because
• 1:39:00
  I want to know your thoughts on this, you know, UM, I
• 1:39:02
  want if anyone out there, I want you to share your story. UM.
• 1:39:06
  We want to hear about it. Um, because we have to start
• 1:39:15
  loving ourselves, ladies. I get it. There are things about ourselves we
• 1:39:18
  don't like. There are things about ourselves we want to change, but a
• 1:39:23
  lot of us are dying. We're taking the risks every time we lay on
• 1:39:28
  these tables. I see these women that go to Mexico and Colombia and they
• 1:39:33
  have these uh weight loss surgery and pass away even passing away here in the
• 1:39:42
  States. So I want to bring that conversation back and around, on back
• 1:39:48
  around on Tuesday. So I want to I want to dress self esteem.
• 1:39:50
  I want to talk about it and what and what can we do to encourage
• 1:40:01
  old and young women to love who they are, to love and accept those
• 1:40:06
  flaws. I want to bring that conversation back around on Tuesday. I also
• 1:40:12
  want to say to Julia Easton, who was the four year old in the
• 1:40:17
  Bronx that they found beaten allegedly by her mother who passed away, and then
• 1:40:25
  her siblings also displayed signs of abuse as well. I want to bring that
• 1:40:29
  conversation around. So Tuesday, I want to talk about self esteem, and
• 1:40:34
  then Thursday I want to talk about child abuse. Y'all. It just,
• 1:40:47
  I just it's just so disheartening whenever I hear these stories. But they're uncomfortable
• 1:40:56
  conversations that we have to have. So Tuesday night again, self esteem and
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• 1:42:36
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• 1:42:43
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• 1:42:51
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• 1:42:57
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• 1:43:32
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• 1:43:35
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• 1:43:41
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• 1:43:44
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• 1:43:45
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• 1:43:51
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• 1:44:09
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• 1:44:12
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• 1:44:15
  everyone has a beautiful night and have a great weekend, and I'll see you
• 1:44:19
  Tuesday. Hi,