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Tamika's Thought of the Day: "Think Before You Accuse" · TMI

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  Speaker 1: My thought of the day is, as I look at
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  Speaker 1: many people who have reached out, even some of them
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  Speaker 1: are advocates themselves, and they are helping with this situation,
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  Speaker 1: why do people feel like the right way to address
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  Speaker 1: me or us and other leaders is to try to
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  Speaker 1: either shame us and disrespect us in order to make
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  Speaker 1: us pay attention to an issue. So people were tagging
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  Speaker 1: me in the comments. Are your trash because you're not
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  Speaker 1: helping this girl? You haven't done your job? Where are you?
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  Speaker 1: How dare you? You only get involved in cases when
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  Speaker 1: something you know benefits you, which, by the way, that's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest line has ever been told, because most of
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  Speaker 1: the people that have have come to us for support are
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  Speaker 1: people who have no name. No one really knows what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. Maybe their child was killed or some incident happening.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe there's some talk on mine, but there's no organization
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  Speaker 1: around them. They don't have really the resources, the financial
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  Speaker 1: resources which we have to often raise and bring to
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  Speaker 1: the families, and beyond that, they had no international name
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  Speaker 1: the way that we ultimately did for Brianna Taylor. And
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  Speaker 1: I've been involved in many cases for my career. Over
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  Speaker 1: my career twenty five plus years I have been helping
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  Speaker 1: to take cases and families from one space to the next.
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  Speaker 1: We got involved in Trayvon Martin, same thing. Trayvon had
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  Speaker 1: been dead. People were kind of talking about it. But
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  Speaker 1: when we got there and we put that extra work
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  Speaker 1: on in Trayvon became an international name. His mother Sabrina
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  Speaker 1: folks who will tell him that okay, And again, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, same thing with Brianna Taylor. So I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out why people feel like they need to
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  Speaker 1: shame you and talk down on you to make you
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  Speaker 1: get involved in something when they don't know who you're
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  Speaker 1: talking to, they don't know what's happening behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: And also they don't understand the process that it takes
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  Speaker 1: before people like us can go and get involved in
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  Speaker 1: certain situations. And I think, and I'll let you respond.
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  Speaker 1: Then one of the problems that folks deal with is
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  Speaker 1: not understanding that they're they're the fact that they have
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  Speaker 1: five hundred followers or two thousand followers, and even five
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  Speaker 1: thousand followers. They don't understand that when they go out
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  Speaker 1: and say something, the risk is not the same as
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  Speaker 1: someone like me and like us who have a million
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  Speaker 1: plus people and major platforms, because guess what we will
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  Speaker 1: get sued if we have not done the due diligence
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  Speaker 1: of having our attorneys get involved in these situations. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: us going out there and calling this family rapists, kidnappers,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of words that we need to we would
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  Speaker 1: be using or at least implying in order to bring
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  Speaker 1: attention to a situation without giving our legal team the
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  Speaker 1: ability to look at the law and what we can
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  Speaker 1: say and what we can't say. And also the woman
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  Speaker 1: that's telling the story, we don't know her. I believe
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  Speaker 1: she's doing the right thing and I want to support her,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't know her, so we can't say a
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent that what she's telling us is absolutely true.
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  Speaker 1: All of this has to be dealt with, and there
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  Speaker 1: are people out there in the world who don't seem
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  Speaker 1: to know understand that there is a process that we
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  Speaker 1: have to go through before we get involved. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that we won't take on situations that's difficult because
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  Speaker 1: guess what they told us. Brianna Taylor's boyfriend was a
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  Speaker 1: drug deal Our ex boyfriend was a drug dealer. They
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  Speaker 1: told us, Oh, Kenny Walker, he might have something over here.
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  Speaker 1: Brianna's actual boyfriend. They told us, well, uh, what's his name?
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  Speaker 1: Eric Garner? He was selling Lucy's cigarettes. Nicole Bell's man.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to put off the sparaged them with all
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  Speaker 1: types of things that Joe Guselan Trump benefield their arrest
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  Speaker 1: records from the past. Every case we get involved in,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Brown, Oh, he attacked the man at the store.
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  Speaker 1: Every case we get involved with, there's a story. There's
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  Speaker 1: always a bad story. I got a bad story. There's
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  Speaker 1: some ship. You can come right now and say you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna help to meet it, and it's gonna be some ship. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody got a story, But it takes a process so
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  Speaker 1: that you can know what your risks are and how
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  Speaker 1: you intend to approach a situation. So my thought of
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  Speaker 1: the day is like, what the hell are y'all talking about?
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  Speaker 1: And why do people who have never been in our
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  Speaker 1: positions have so much to say about things that they
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  Speaker 1: don't have to assume the risk for Well, my assessment
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  Speaker 1: of the situation is that there are two types of people.
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  Speaker 1: There are people who actually just don't know right, and
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  Speaker 1: then there's the type of people who just want to
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  Speaker 1: hate right. They just want to do anything to to
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  Speaker 1: make you look negative and vilify you. Right, So the
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  Speaker 1: people who don't know, they make statements say why are
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  Speaker 1: you hiring doing anything? Why don't you doing this? And
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with this? And they don't understand exactly
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  Speaker 1: high works. And then there are people who have unrealistic expectations. Right,
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  Speaker 1: they expect you to talk about everything that's going on
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  Speaker 1: in the world. There's so many different things that people
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  Speaker 1: were able to see our d m s and our
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  Speaker 1: emails and see how they're flooded with so many different
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  Speaker 1: individuals who have an issue, right, and and and they
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  Speaker 1: will understand that we don't have the capacity as organization,
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  Speaker 1: let alone individuals, to bring to like every issue, every
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  Speaker 1: situation that somebody brings to us. And everybody feels that
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  Speaker 1: the situation that they think is important, it is equally
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  Speaker 1: as important. There's nobody who doesn't think that the boy
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  Speaker 1: who was running down the block and he got hit
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  Speaker 1: with somebody throw a rocket at him doesn't think that's
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  Speaker 1: more important than the police that shot him, or that
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  Speaker 1: the kid that show. Everybody thinks that their issue is
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  Speaker 1: paramount to everything else, so they're gonna come at you.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's why I've taken that. But then there's
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  Speaker 1: just those people who are actually agent provocateurs, right, They
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  Speaker 1: sent to try to, you know, to defame you and
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  Speaker 1: make it seem like you're not doing your work. They
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  Speaker 1: have a little bit more followers. They utilize social media,
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  Speaker 1: and this in a in a different plat or a
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  Speaker 1: different way in which they utilize it to it the
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  Speaker 1: message that they have is spread all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: so it starts to become a recurrent theme, theme and
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  Speaker 1: the narrative that people grab onto. So those are two things.
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  Speaker 1: So what I say is this, we have to continue
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  Speaker 1: to just do the work right. And I understand how
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  Speaker 1: it can be demoralizing, and I understand why, like before us,
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  Speaker 1: like you don't understand why a lot of celebrities just
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  Speaker 1: don't step up, like you've got a platform you to
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  Speaker 1: do this, and they're vilified, right and this is not
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  Speaker 1: their everyday work. Some of them step up and just
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  Speaker 1: want to say, you know what, I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: agree with what happened, man, let me say something about it.
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  Speaker 1: And people start tearing them down, or you don't do this,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing this for? Or you you should
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  Speaker 1: have been did this or nobody cares what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: Just shut up and dribble or shut up and wrap
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it is. So it is it is you know, this,
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  Speaker 1: this work that we do is an everyday process. It
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  Speaker 1: has to be God's purpose for you because it is
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  Speaker 1: very painful, especially when you have you know, when you
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  Speaker 1: care about your name, you care about how you are portrayed,
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  Speaker 1: when your reputation is like because for me, my reputation
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  Speaker 1: is all I ever had, you know, prior to getting
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  Speaker 1: involved in this in the I mean this work doing,
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  Speaker 1: prior to WRAP or anything, I was a respected individual
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  Speaker 1: because the way I carried myself, in the way that
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  Speaker 1: I I dealt with integrity. And that's that's one thing
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  Speaker 1: throughout my history of my life that people were always
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  Speaker 1: able to say about me. And this was the first time,
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  Speaker 1: even in hip hop music whatever, my integrity was never
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  Speaker 1: in question. Right it was my talent, my skill level
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  Speaker 1: or did he wash up or nobody cares? And I
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  Speaker 1: went through all of that. But this space people started
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  Speaker 1: to attack my integrity as a man and calling you
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  Speaker 1: scammers and stealers and liars and cloud chases and amble
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  Speaker 1: all of these names. So it takes a lot, and
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  Speaker 1: it really takes a lot. This has to be your caller,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so, and we we deal with it very well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I know that a lot of people, they
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of UM leaders who passed in present
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  Speaker 1: who have just said fuck it. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: doing this like I'm just gonna I'm not saying nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Let them deal with it. They some of them have
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote sold out because of that, because they said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm doing all this fighting for people,
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  Speaker 1: and people don't give a funk about what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: They call them me all types of names, and I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't benefited anywhere, so let me stop benefit. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what nobody thinks now because I've lost so
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  Speaker 1: much and they attack my own people that I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to say, I'm trying to help and I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: do all these things for other ones attacking me. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just so much that goes in that that you know,
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  Speaker 1: that question that you know your thought of to day
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  Speaker 1: is very thought provoking. I just asked people, man, just
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  Speaker 1: to take the time before you write something, before you
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  Speaker 1: to say something, before you attack somebody for your accused somebodyself.
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  Speaker 1: Like somebody wrote today to say you're a scammer, And
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  Speaker 1: I said, just prove it, show me one person I
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  Speaker 1: have a scamed or you have to do. Don't just
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  Speaker 1: don't just go on in and and just write something,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just throw something into the atmosphere that you
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  Speaker 1: have no cluf of, you have no knowledge of. You
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  Speaker 1: just heard a narrative and you grabbed onto it and
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  Speaker 1: then you're spreading it and you're putting it on people
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I just ask you know, as individuals,
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  Speaker 1: as people, as black people, as people in our communities,
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  Speaker 1: before you attack people that are doing work that you've
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  Speaker 1: never done and never will do, and don't even understand
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  Speaker 1: the capacity of which it needs to be done. Just
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself, do I know what I'm saying? Am I
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  Speaker 1: sure about what I'm saying? Am I clear? And I
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense that I do my due diligence,
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  Speaker 1: that I research, that I do all of this. Don't
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  Speaker 1: understand what it takes to do what this individual is doing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just just do that, you know, because we
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  Speaker 1: were still humans, you know, we're we're human beings just
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  Speaker 1: like you. We just happened to have a different calling
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  Speaker 1: on our lives and we're move into different space. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just ask people, please, man, before you
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  Speaker 1: write someone internet, before you attack somebody, before you call somebody.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, many times brothers have cold me
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  Speaker 1: names and just said names. I'm like brother, but why
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  Speaker 1: did you have to say that? And I and I said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: well this was going on on my fault what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: But you didn't even take the time out to know
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  Speaker 1: what you meant. You just got so caught up in
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  Speaker 1: the Internet and and the you know, the moment and
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  Speaker 1: attacking somebody in disrespecting the individual. Luckily for you, I'm
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  Speaker 1: the type of individual who understands where you're coming from,
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  Speaker 1: understand that you come from a place of ignorance, and
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  Speaker 1: not understand it. So I'm not trying to meet you
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  Speaker 1: with the same energy. But imagine if I was. Imagine,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and this is how misunderstands and everything starts.
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  Speaker 1: So I just say, people just need to take the
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  Speaker 1: time out, do some research, do something your due diligence
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  Speaker 1: and research and this, don't attack people and you don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what the hell you're talking about.