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Money On My Mind- The Importance of Financial Literacy · TMI

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  Speaker 1: What's up, family, I'm Tamika D. Mallory's your general and
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  Speaker 1: we are your host of street Politicians, the place where
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  Speaker 1: the pics me. What's good? It's been a week all week.
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  Speaker 1: Every week is a week. Every week is a week
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  Speaker 1: in our lives. Every week is a week. A week
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  Speaker 1: is a week. A week is like a year. It
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  Speaker 1: is it is the days a week. But that's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. That means we're pretty productive. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we do what we do, you know, and we unapologetically
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  Speaker 1: do what we do. Absolutely. I feel good, Actually, I
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  Speaker 1: feel really good. You know. One the Grammy performance I phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to actually thank you very much, so thank
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  Speaker 1: you for supporting me and being there. You, Linda, Angelo, Yandy,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Diddy, all of you who were there, Um, you know, IRV,
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  Speaker 1: just everybody who came together. You did you did my
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  Speaker 1: little bullhorn, but everybody came together to support making sure
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  Speaker 1: that moment was done properly. Lad Um was there, Me,
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  Speaker 1: me, me me, I mean so many people were there to
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  Speaker 1: deal with all my emotions because I definitely was emotional.
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  Speaker 1: I did everything from yell to cry to sleep to
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  Speaker 1: practice a million times. Uh, And I realized how hard
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  Speaker 1: it is. I mean, what you guys do as artists
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  Speaker 1: and entertainers is very different from a person like me
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  Speaker 1: who when I'm speaking, you know, I pretty much know
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  Speaker 1: I have a framework of what I need to say,
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  Speaker 1: but since I've been doing it for so long, I
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  Speaker 1: just kind of take what I know, put it in
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  Speaker 1: my home words, and I just go. But in this
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  Speaker 1: particular situation, I had to say the same thing each time.
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  Speaker 1: And the amazing for team of Robinson, who I did
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  Speaker 1: not know. I didn't know Fatima Um. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: had heard that there was this incredible black woman who
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  Speaker 1: was in the space of choreography and creative development. I
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  Speaker 1: had heard about her, but I never had the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to work with her. And we got the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: see what she's got. Amazing and she's dope, and I think,
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  Speaker 1: I think the way that she just embraces you right,
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  Speaker 1: she makes you just feel so comfortable. She doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: you feel like she's worked with the biggest artists in
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  Speaker 1: the world like I've heard she's worked with right now,
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  Speaker 1: she actually produced was the creative director for Rock the
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  Speaker 1: book The Baddest Videos Ever. So when you when you
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  Speaker 1: meet her, right, she's so she didn't treat you like
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  Speaker 1: he was supposed to know, Like, you know, she she
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  Speaker 1: was warm, she was like very humility. I mean, she
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  Speaker 1: has so much. He was like, I can't. She like
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  Speaker 1: you got it's fine everything. And then she came to
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  Speaker 1: and she talked nice and she came to me or
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  Speaker 1: you were right, like the way that she just does.
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  Speaker 1: She's just such a professional. And she was not the
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  Speaker 1: creative director just for Little Baby's performance. She was the
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  Speaker 1: creative director for much of what we saw. Um in
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  Speaker 1: the entire Grammy show. Now you know, I recognize and
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  Speaker 1: also shout out to our sister Felicia Butterfield Jones, who
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  Speaker 1: is the chief Diversity officer at the Grammys. Um, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like the Grammys are they're trying to make changes.
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  Speaker 1: Army Mason who is now running. Uh he's a black
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  Speaker 1: man who is over the Grammys. Um, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like they're trying to turn the tide. But they're
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  Speaker 1: still kings, and they're serious kings. Like you know, there
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  Speaker 1: were an even Little Baby in the song that I
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  Speaker 1: was a part of the bigger picture that should have
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  Speaker 1: been nominated, And it seems that many people felt like
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  Speaker 1: they should have been in different categories. I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm everything black, We're everything black, so I think the
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  Speaker 1: whole show should be black. But that's, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: whole different conversation. UM. And I think for me, I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably a little jaded because beyond Say and Meg, the
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  Speaker 1: stallion for me is like, whoa, that's amazing and yeah
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  Speaker 1: they I mean they Meg cleaned up and broke the
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  Speaker 1: record and she looked amazing and Jay, her husband, was
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  Speaker 1: there holding her down. They now have I think over
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  Speaker 1: fifty Grammys in their household, including Blue Ivy. They're amazing, incredible.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that Beyonce won her Grammy that night
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  Speaker 1: for Black Parade, which I'm also in, so you know
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  Speaker 1: night and all the folks who are like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: why why why? You know? I think that it's important
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  Speaker 1: for us to use some of these major opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: continue to spread awareness. I know that I understand white
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  Speaker 1: institutions and how we don't need them, right. We have
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  Speaker 1: our own platforms. We have the b ET Awards, which
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  Speaker 1: by the way, bt is owned by white institution as well,
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  Speaker 1: which is io UM and so all of these and
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  Speaker 1: we should be developing spaces where we're able to honor
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  Speaker 1: our own people with large numbers, and I'm sure, and
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  Speaker 1: that's something that Puff has been talking about. It's something
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  Speaker 1: that he's trying to create with Revolt. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: number of people. I mean, you look at News One,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the Image Awards, which I've also been
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  Speaker 1: nominated for one of the categories, they're gonna hate you.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to turn into a whole another thing
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  Speaker 1: because people hate to see you winning, like if you
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  Speaker 1: was losing. Oh my god. I was going to post
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  Speaker 1: that today, but I didn't have a chance to actually
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  Speaker 1: post the video. But there was a young woman and
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  Speaker 1: she's someone that I can't I mean, everyone someone, but
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  Speaker 1: she's a person that, um I think she's she's well
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  Speaker 1: known and I just I can't remember her name at
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  Speaker 1: this moment. But she does this whole video where she
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  Speaker 1: talks about how people will be with you when you down,
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  Speaker 1: but when God starts blessing you, some of the people
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  Speaker 1: that you expect will leave your side and they can't
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  Speaker 1: deal with it. It's why are you doing good? You
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  Speaker 1: ain't got no job. You're doing good. You are here eating,
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  Speaker 1: you are here flying around the world. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: You'll have no job what do you what do you
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  Speaker 1: do here? Fail rapper? That's that's the that's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: You're a fail rapper. What you're doing flying around and
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  Speaker 1: joint flying around places. But it's interesting that people say
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  Speaker 1: you're a failed rapper, right, It's like it's like who
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  Speaker 1: gets to determine failure? Right? Because in my opinion, what
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  Speaker 1: some people may see as failure is God's opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: elevate you and put you in the place where he
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  Speaker 1: actually feels your voice. It's best utilized for his calling. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, you have used your entertainment, your artistry,
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  Speaker 1: your raptivism, your skill and and and by the way, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get to that later. But you have used those skills.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen you use them in detention centers. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: you use them helping to get young people to be
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  Speaker 1: more creative and to be able to express themselves outside
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  Speaker 1: of anger, violence or what have you. You You helped them
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  Speaker 1: put together um music. You've helped them to write lyrics
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  Speaker 1: that really is is an opportunity for them to pour
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  Speaker 1: out onto the page some of the pain that they
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  Speaker 1: are dealing with. Um. You have helped me also to
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  Speaker 1: be able to fit in these spaces like the song
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  Speaker 1: that I did Mercy with Anthony Hamilton, and other other
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  Speaker 1: things that I've been involved in. You've helped me to
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  Speaker 1: be able to do that. You helped me um on
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  Speaker 1: on t I's album. I mean, there's so many things
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  Speaker 1: that we've done together, and you've also of course created
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  Speaker 1: your own music that I see people writing to you,
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  Speaker 1: young people and other men and women saying that your
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  Speaker 1: artistry has helped to change their lives. Of course, we
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  Speaker 1: can't forget the great, amazing historic freestyle that you did
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  Speaker 1: UM with funk Master de Flex on Hot nineties seven,
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  Speaker 1: which wasn't It wasn't just a freestyle, It was a
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  Speaker 1: history lesson. It was teaching that you were doing right.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the reason why you had to go
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  Speaker 1: to prison for seven years, why you had to sort
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  Speaker 1: of be redirected, is because you were not necessarily on
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  Speaker 1: the path that God has chosen for you. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: you to develop the skills I believe right, I believe
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  Speaker 1: the skill set was important, but the skill set was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be used for spoken word that would actually
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  Speaker 1: move the hearts and minds of the people. UM from
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  Speaker 1: a from a political engagement perspective and so when people
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  Speaker 1: say you're a failed rapper, I don't necessarily understand how
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  Speaker 1: they get to determine failure when it's very clear to
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  Speaker 1: me that what you are actually doing in your personal
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  Speaker 1: life has really taken you to the place where you
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  Speaker 1: are in your calling. You're walking in your calling, and
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. You know, that's that's dope that you
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  Speaker 1: feel that way, And for me, I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I never thought I failed that anything. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I went to prison, and you know, unfortunately my career
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  Speaker 1: was cut as an entertainer, but failed wrapper. Like I've said,
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  Speaker 1: some of the dopest bars in the world. I got
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  Speaker 1: people who compared me to to my idols, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I got people that hit me and tell me like
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  Speaker 1: you wasn't in continues in Kentucky last week and this
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  Speaker 1: guy stopped us in the middle of a real conversation
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  Speaker 1: and was like, YO, listen to me. I'm listening to
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  Speaker 1: wrap my whole life. I know everything this and that.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to me, You're the best rap I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: nothing like this, you know, And that's what it is
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  Speaker 1: for me. Like when you say something that moves people
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  Speaker 1: to to that point to where they that enthused and
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  Speaker 1: like your your your rap changed my life. I have
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  Speaker 1: young kids come to me and say, what you said
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  Speaker 1: on funk Flex changed my whole life in perspective on
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  Speaker 1: how I live. So, I mean, everybody has perspective winning
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  Speaker 1: and losing. This in the eye of the behold it
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  Speaker 1: so to me, I've been successful and I'm and I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually able to still make my music and deliver it
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  Speaker 1: in a manner in which it actually changes lives, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and it goes it goes according with my purpose.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I'm happy. And and we want to
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  Speaker 1: use our gifts. You know, they say that your gifts
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  Speaker 1: will make room for you. And then and there are
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  Speaker 1: so many people who question wise to make an these positions. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: Number one, favor ain't fair. I don't know why, right
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  Speaker 1: if if if you, if you look back on my life,
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  Speaker 1: a little girl who grew up in the projects, in
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  Speaker 1: a place where crack cocaine was destroying our community, right
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  Speaker 1: where I had to step over urine and walk upstairs
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  Speaker 1: sometime because walk up twelve flights and stairs to our
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  Speaker 1: our clean but little project compartment. Um, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: with with all that happened, the dope fiends and um,
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  Speaker 1: the violence, all the things that happened. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at that story and think about where I am today
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  Speaker 1: and then all that's happened in between, you one wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: believe that I would have made it here. There could
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  Speaker 1: only be God on our side. And my faith is
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  Speaker 1: very important to me. It leads me in everything that
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  Speaker 1: I do, and so I'm not supposed to be here.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, why me? But the question that I think
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  Speaker 1: we're challenged with in my pastor W. Franklin Richardson always
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  Speaker 1: says why not you? That's the question because they say
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  Speaker 1: God can take a crooked stick and hit a straight lick,
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  Speaker 1: which means that he can take any circumstance, any situation,
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  Speaker 1: and and and yeah, he can take any situation. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's something that the old folks came over with
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  Speaker 1: any situation and use it for good. So that's one.
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  Speaker 1: But it made me think, because you know, I have
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  Speaker 1: to think every week, I'll be thinking not um. And
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  Speaker 1: this has been a week of deep reflection. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that with every challenge, with everything we go through, even
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  Speaker 1: if we know that what is being said about us
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  Speaker 1: or um, you know, whatever attacks were up against even
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  Speaker 1: if we know that they're not true, it's happening for
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  Speaker 1: a reason that calls you to re evaluate and to
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  Speaker 1: sit with self. So a lot of people wanted to
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  Speaker 1: know why I wasn't speaking for days. I had friends,
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  Speaker 1: I had everybody calling me like, you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: not true, like go like this one we got Like
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  Speaker 1: in other situations, we have to sit and try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out how we're gonna maneuver because you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a little difficult. Um you know, what do we say.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to attack anyone in this situation. It really wasn't that.
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  Speaker 1: Because I can defend myself on the accusations that were
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  Speaker 1: thrown at me this in this last week. I could
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  Speaker 1: defend it like this without a problem. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a cause for reflection, especially when it's coming from a mother.
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  Speaker 1: And I sat with myself, and it doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: reflecting is that the determination at the end is that
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong. The determination that I came to within myself
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  Speaker 1: is actually that I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be doing. Now, whether or not we can make adjustments
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  Speaker 1: to address some of the issues that we hear that
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  Speaker 1: is what you do in life. But I know that
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing, so
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  Speaker 1: I feel good about that. But my thought of the day,
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  Speaker 1: because the same conversation has come up in other cities,
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  Speaker 1: has come up in Louisville. Uh, you know, shout out
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  Speaker 1: to our Louisville family, our occupied the family. There are
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  Speaker 1: so many people in Louisville who love, respect and honor us,
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  Speaker 1: and we honor them. We work together. But there are
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  Speaker 1: some who don't like the fact that we were there,
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  Speaker 1: or they don't necessarily like the way that we move,
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  Speaker 1: the way we operate, the way we organize. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the bigger things, one of the biggest things has
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  Speaker 1: come up is this question around us bringing cameras. Why
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  Speaker 1: or or us us being there for the cameras, and
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  Speaker 1: it actually upsets some people, which I I and I
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  Speaker 1: want to say because you know, when people hear you
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  Speaker 1: talking about things and they know you're talking about conversations
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  Speaker 1: you had with them, then they're like, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: don't you know that what're trying to say? I want
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  Speaker 1: to be clear that I respect how people can say
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you or me, Linda, you or I can say
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  Speaker 1: things in a way that feels offensive, right, So that's
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  Speaker 1: one part. But the fundamental issue around cameras is that,
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  Speaker 1: especially with the matter of Brianna Taylor, until we showed up,
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  Speaker 1: there were no cameras. They're literally were no cameras. And
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  Speaker 1: that's I say that there was definitely the work that
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  Speaker 1: was work. There was work. There were people who were organizing,
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  Speaker 1: There were people who were on the ground. They were
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  Speaker 1: they were calling Brianna's name. And by the way, the
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  Speaker 1: main people out there doing that organizing um it was
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  Speaker 1: her family, her aunt Bianca Austin was leading the charge
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  Speaker 1: to get justice for Brianna, and there were other organizers
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  Speaker 1: who were out there and doing the work. But we
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  Speaker 1: when we showed up, we brought cameras with us. Each
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  Speaker 1: and every time we helped to elevate a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit. We would not have
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  Speaker 1: been able to bring the type of spotlight that we
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  Speaker 1: did on the city if it had not been for
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  Speaker 1: people that are out there every single day. Aaron Jordan's
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  Speaker 1: two k R I P to Travis um Sea says
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  Speaker 1: Shamika Paris, Joscelyn Uh, Reverend Finley uh Sadique were Reynolds,
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  Speaker 1: Um and just the names go on and on for
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  Speaker 1: those people who have been out there on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: Hannah Drake and Qatar Haran Uh there're so many, right,
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  Speaker 1: big baby, and and and and and Karen right kJ
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  Speaker 1: there are so many who have been out there. So
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  Speaker 1: once once the cameras came, they don't have anything to
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  Speaker 1: pick up. They don't have footage if they don't got
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  Speaker 1: people that's doing work, So you don't take anything away
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  Speaker 1: from that. But we bought the cameras with us. So
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  Speaker 1: my thought of the day is do people feel like
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  Speaker 1: we should keep the movement quiet and to ourselves? Like
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  Speaker 1: when when when a Brianna Taylor's situation happens, should we
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  Speaker 1: just walk around in circles and just keep it quiet
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  Speaker 1: and only keep it or are we looking for the
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  Speaker 1: world to know what's happening. That's and I have a
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  Speaker 1: two part question for my thoughts of the day. The
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  Speaker 1: second thing is we keep saying that people are not
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  Speaker 1: involved in the movement, and we feel everybody should be
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  Speaker 1: doing their part. So when we look at people like
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  Speaker 1: poor should Well Williams and uh Yandy Smith, Harris and
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  Speaker 1: now men d C's had traveled with us this particular
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  Speaker 1: time for the one year anniversary, UM Young Jock was
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  Speaker 1: with us, carly Red was with us. When people say, well,
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  Speaker 1: these folks are not doing anything, they're not involved in
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  Speaker 1: the work, and yet they have major platforms and they
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  Speaker 1: bring their platforms to a place and helped the spotlight
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  Speaker 1: spotlight an issue. Do we want to turn them away?
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  Speaker 1: And if we? And if we and when we turn
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  Speaker 1: them away? Can we? And I'm starting to see this
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  Speaker 1: as my own profile has evolved. I'm beginning to see
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  Speaker 1: how some people are sitting in their homes, celebrities and
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  Speaker 1: otherwise who actually have the ability to make the type
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  Speaker 1: of noise and bring me awareness we need, but they
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  Speaker 1: are afraid to do so because they've watched other people
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  Speaker 1: be slammed for getting involved. So what are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: You know? And I say that all the time. It's
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  Speaker 1: like it's like heaven when you are artists and you're
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  Speaker 1: up and coming artists, right and you can wrap you dope.
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  Speaker 1: But Drake's wants to get on the song. Right. You
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  Speaker 1: don't tell Drake now you don't get on my this
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  Speaker 1: is my song. No, you want Drake to get on
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  Speaker 1: the song because you know it's gonna get played on
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  Speaker 1: every radio station. You know, this is why you get
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  Speaker 1: the feature. You know what I'm saying. So, what happens
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  Speaker 1: when you have a protest and you have a movement
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  Speaker 1: in your town and you have national people come to
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  Speaker 1: bring the light to you. It gives you an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to be seen. So I think what happens is a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, you know, a lot of people, and
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  Speaker 1: some people have you know, legitimate rights, but there are
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  Speaker 1: other people who feel like they're not doing enough work
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  Speaker 1: to be seen right then, because if you're doing the work,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: nobody can't stop you from shining. Like when we think
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: about you know, homes Up, you know Travis a K. Travis,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Travis was gonna shine right because he was out there
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: doing the work. When you think about brothers like two K,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: when you think about c Tax, he he not mad
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that you come. They embrace you. You know why because
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: they really do this work and when you stand next
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: to them, only thing that's gonna happen is gonna give
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the world an opportunity to see them. Now, his video
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: is going, you know, he's gonna have probably be on television,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: like he understands. And that was a platform because he
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: took advantage of the space too. K took advantage, you know.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: You know, so people have taken advantage to other people
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: who don't take advantage of that moment. They mad at you,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: don't be I've given you you. If you're telling me
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: that you're just big leader and you're just organizing all that,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and I bring cameras to see you, then they see
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: what you're seeing. Like now, Shamika is running for mayor.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Reverend Ton Finley is running for mayor. So they're trying
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to do real things, you know, right, and we and
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: we support that. And there are others. There are a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: lot of people, you know, folks feeding people, brothers two x,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of work that's happening. But I do
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: understand the issue of people feeling like their voices are
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: drowned out once these big machines come in. It's almost
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: like a form of gentrification right where everybody. I don't
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: agree with that. No, No, I'm saying that's how they feel.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm not I don't agree. I'm
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: saying that that's how they feel. They feel like people
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: are coming in and it it's like it takes up
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: so much space and they can't get their voices out there.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And this is not in reference to Kentucky, but I
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: saw someone say the other day, we're upset with people
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: who bring attention to a cause, but yet when those
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: people are quiet, it's all it's dead. Nothing is really exactly,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: So it's I think it's that that's self reflection. Yeah,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: it is, because if we bring attention to the cause,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and you've been at the cause, and we give you
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to highlight it and take the attention we
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: bring someone else and you don't do it, then you
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: have to blame yourself. You have to look and say,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: you know what, I I don't have the ability to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: carry this by myself. You know I can. I'm part
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: of this moment. I want to fight, But you just
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: gotta understand. It's like me being mad at you when
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: we get on the stage and you have a speech
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and people don't don't hear what I say or don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: take the clip from what I say. No, I have
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to admit Tamica is a better speaker to me. Tamka
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: is I our leader. I don't have a problem playing
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a role. So when you understand your role in the situation,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: then I think people get less, you know, they have
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: less of an issue with it. You just have to
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: understand that some people are ordign to do certain things.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: You might you might have all the hard you might
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: have all of the resource, you might have all the knowledge,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: but you might not be the person that can bring likes.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I said that all the time, like you know, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and we have this conversation. I believe that Brittany Packnett
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: cunning Ham is brilliant, right. I believe that Amanda Seals
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: is brilliant. I believe that Angela right, it's brilliant. These
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: are brilliant women. And the list goes on. When I
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: watched them, I'm in awe of how they speak. I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: watched their cadence. I watched I used to watch my X,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: my old boss, not X boss. I hate that old
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: boss do the same thing. He would watch Reverend Jackson,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King and others and their speeches and pick
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: up cadence and study his craft so that when he
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: stepped to the microphone he could do in his own way,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: but he had his own flavor. And I do the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: same with these women. I look at them, and I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: watched them. I'm not envious of them. I'm not angry
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: with them. They know I post them on my page.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I text them and say, listen, that was amazing. You know,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: you guys are saying such great things, and you know,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and and and we all try to support one another.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: But it's always the people who don't necessarily feel like
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: they either look like I look, or speak like I
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: speak or or and and by the way, I'm still
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: working on on perfecting my craft, um, or you know
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: something about me? That's always they have. They have so
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: much to say. Yet there are so many younger people
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and other people who are trying to do the same
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: thing I'm doing. They admire these things about me, and
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: they're working on their craft. Those individuals I never have
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: problems with. In fact, when I hear from them, they're like, yo,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: like that was fired. What can I do? How? How
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: did you? Matter of fact? Um? Aaron Jordan's asked me
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the other day to give him the paper that my
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: speech was on. He was like, I give I need
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: give me that, Like, can I take it? Because I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: need to study the different points here. That's powerful Instead
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and and by the way, there have been moments when
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Aaron has said, yo, y'all left us and I ain't
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: heard from you in weeks, and we've been going through
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: things and I need to talk to you, and and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and and we've had to have conversations, you know. Two
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: K is always challenging me. Oh my god. All a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: lot of people. I mean, I've heard from everybody. And
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: it's not just again in Kentucky, it's across the country.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Once you work in communities, you're gonna hear from people.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just still trying to figure out one. And maybe
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: we you know, we've answered it or we haven't. Like,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: like my last point on this is important. Dr King
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: received the Nobel Peace Prize. Now leading up to him
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: receiving that honor, high honor, and even today the Nobel
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: He's institution has been um exclusionary to black folks to
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: some degree, right, it has not been a place that
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: black folks have been honored and represented in the ways
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: in which we should. However, Dr King still stood there
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and accepted the the the award so that he could
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: carry the message. Right, So we understand that every platform
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: we go on that it's not going to be the best.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: It's not always it's not going to be the best,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and especially when you're dealing with white institutions. But really,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: what I think people should be paying attention to is
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: what's being stated. And in that particular forum of the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Grammys particularly, we were able to stand there and say,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: President Biden, these are the things that we demand from you. Now.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: If I had the time, we would have broke down
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: this and that and got into all the day. But
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: it was a few bars right that I have to
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: say something that also kind of rhymes with the music
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and fits into the song. So it's and I'm not
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I'm still learning, so I'm not the percent the best
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: at it. But we took the opportunity to talk about
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the four hundred year history and bring it all the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: way to the idea that this is not a trend
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and we need not allies but accomplices and and hopefully
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: there are many people who seem like they're satisfied with it.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: With love and hip hop and the cameras that we
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: continue to bring to Kentucky, this is another form that yes,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I challenge. I've challenged Mona, I've challenged yan Dy, I've
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: challenged Viacom, I've challenged their love and hip hop brand
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: right the I've challenged them all about some of the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: behavior that we see on the show and the storyline.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: But what has happened is that because the world changed,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: people need to understand things have changed. We're not in
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the same place that we were in. Things have changed.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: People are paying attention. I don't know how long it's
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: gonna last, but they're paying attention right now. So while
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the doors open, we are using the opportunities to bring
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the message. And so yes, you will see us on
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: love and Hip Hop. You're gonna see me and another
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: thing that's coming up that people really really gonna be
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: mad about. You will see the Grammys. You're gonna see
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: us doing all these things while the doors open. And
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: while we're doing that, we will also be building our
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: own spaces so that we don't have to return to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: institutions that they don't actually appreci us. The gold Man.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: The goal is for us to make sure that people
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: that don't want to hear us hear us, because if
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: we keep talking to the people that want to hear us,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: we're preaching to the question. Absolutely, So just keep doing
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: what you're doing, because we're gonna keep doing We're doing
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: every space that they allow us in that we take
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: space a matter of fact, they don't allow us, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: we're taking space. And every time we get in those spaces,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: were bringing the same message. It's still women's history. Mom. Wow, man,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: we're you know, AND's history. Women's history is black history,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: make no mistake about it. Well, when we think about
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: people like for Team of Robinson, it is. And when
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: we think about people like cat Rigg, who sits on
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the other side of the camera every single week I
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Woman TV. This is actually a labor of love. That's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the other thing. People really think that we just make
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: all this money and that I'm like, yo, you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you know, and I hope that one day they're right.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I hope one day they're right. Right right now, we
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: have to have six, seven, eight different things going on
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: in order to be able to survive and to thrive
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and to live the lives that we want to live
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: for our children, for our families. And I want to
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: say publicly that I Woman TV has been not silent partner,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: but in some ways a silent partner of street politicians.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: From the beginning, when we didn't have a podcast deal
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: with Charlemagne's Black Effect and and you know, I I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Heart Radio, we did not have that and still to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: this day, Cat Trigg and I Woman TV has not
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: received one dime and yet we have one to three
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: four cameras, we have lights, we have space. We have space.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: That's what it's called, man, It's called family, is called
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: building this belief. You know, you can't get anything that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you don't put anything into, you know. So you know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I love Cat Trig. I love our Women TV for
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the investment that they made in us. And you know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: God willing, the investment will pay, yes, yes, promising So Women,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: because we're the number one, we're gonna be the number
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: one podcast. We are the number we're number one already
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in past, number number one, number one. Before we go
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: to the next segment and have our special guests joint,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break for our sponsors. We're
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: talking with our first guest. Yes, I've been a guest
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: on his show, you know, Earn Your Leisure. He's dope
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: each from the error hip hop culture and he makes
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: finances fun. You know, he makes it relatable to the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: hip hop financial literacy. Right. He's teaching people, Yes, he's
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: teaching people. He's learning. He has a of course on it.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: You know, actually seeing him on the Breakfast club, and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I was probably see him because they had interviewed me
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: months ago, you know, so watching their platform grow. They
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: have the number one podcasts on financial literacy. Financial literacy.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: We know we need that. I mean, we were just
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: talking about they think we got I'm trying to get there.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Definitely don't. But we should for all the work that
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: we do, we absolutely should, and so should the rest
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of us. I mean this whole issue with UM, you know,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and a lot of times that's that's what a lot
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: of the bickering and fighting is about the fact that
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: people are are just trying to make ends me and broke. Yeah,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: it's a lot of that. So Rashad but loud. We're
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: about to talk to him. Earn your leisure. What's going
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: on with King Peace? King Peace, King Peace, quaint. Thank
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: you for having me. I appreciate his honor. It's good
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: to have you year. UM. This is the topic of
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: it was the topic of the election, right like. It
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: came down to a lot of people talking about economic
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: empowerment and UM. We all made a lot of commitments
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: that as soon as we could get through stabilizing, if
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: you will, UM, the nation, the next thing we needed
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to really seriously focus on of course, you know there's policy,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: there's still criminal justice issues, but we wanted to definitely
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: focus on economic development in our communities. And I think
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: what we're um, you know, attempting to do. We have
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a small business segment that we are, we have integrated
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: into the street politicians brand um and also speaking with
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: individuals like yourself who is keenly aware and teaching, educating
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: people on financial literacy. That's so important. No, I appreciate that,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and yeah, financial literacy is invoked right now. It's it's
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: it's I don't want to call it the wave because
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that makes it seem like it's a trend. It's encouraging
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to see so many people like we just interviewed Jim Jones, UM.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know when it's to come out, but we
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: ain't even announced that. Yeah, so that's exclusive. But to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: him me, somebody who you know, I personally grew up
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: on his music, talk about n f t S, cryptocurrency,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you know, investing, starting companies and like to have that
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: business conversation with somebody that a lot of people might not.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, we'll be able to speak on
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: that level, which is dope for us so it's it's
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: really really dope, um to see so many people like
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: engaged in financial literacy. Now we have to take the
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: next steps and actually implementing these things. We talk about politics,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: we can't talk about politics without talking about economic empowerment
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and finances. They go hand in hand. And um, just
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: like Dr Claude Anderson says um elegantly in his book, UM,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you know, when you have enough resources, then you can
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: really have politicians do whatever you want. But unfortunately, in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: our community, for the vast majority of time, for all
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: of time, we've never had any resources. So we're always
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you know, we're protesting, we're asking, which that's part of
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the process, but we're not demanding anything. You look at
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: other communities in the position to demand things because it's like, okay,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: if you don't give this to us, then we're not
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: gonna fund your campaign. We're gonna take a billion dollars
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: away from you. We're gonna defund this this organization or whatever.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: And with that comes the threat of losing you know,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: their seat, and they do what they want to do.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So that's something that you know, it's bigger than just
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: you know, getting a bag, and that's part of it,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: you know, taking care of yourself, taking care of your family,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that's obviously that's the most important thing. But outside of
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: that now becomes taking care of the community and building
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: a nation, and we have to have economic empowerment to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: do that. So, you know, I've been thinking about that
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: a lot. You know, you brought up a good point
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: about our communities not having the economics and not being
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: able to demand anything, you know, and I've been sitting
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: around saying, you know, I want to organize, I want
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: to go to projects, I want to go to the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: marginalized communities. What would be the steps that you think
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: we would need to take to sit down and organize
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: them to start moving towards economic empowerment. Um, I think
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: it starts with education. Young, It all starts with education,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: It all start, and that's that's what our platform is
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: built on. Just education. So we have to implement financial
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: literacy early on two children. So whether that's in school,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: whether that's in after school programs, whether that's you know,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: community based organizations. But the earlier we learned, you gotta realize,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: you know, you haven't start when you're young. So it's
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: like when you're thirty years old, it's kind of hard
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to just become a vegan all of a sudden. You can,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: if you've been eating fried chicken and pork chops your
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: whole life, you can, But most of the time, your
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: habits will dictate the rest of your life. From the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: ages of five to fifteen, has been proven. So this
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: is the same economically as well. So if you think
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: about it, you know, as soon as we get money,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: when we're ten years old, twelve years or whatever, the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: first thing we do is, byped Jordan's, the first thing
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: we do is buy a fitting hat. The first thing
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: we do is spend money. So those same habits that
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: we then developed as preteens early teenagers carry with us forever.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And you know, we're creatures of habit, so it's hard
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to break that habit when you're twenty five, when you're thirty,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: when you're forty, when you're fifty. So if we can
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: teach kids early on the importance of savings, the importance
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: of investing, how real estate works, how stocks works, now
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: they already have a mind frame where, even if they're
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: not in a position to actually implement these things, it's
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: already kind of embedded in them. So now they'll have
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: a different way of thinking when they actually are twenty
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: five thirty years old. So that's part of it. And
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: then also we have to educate the adults as well,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: because a parent can't teach a child what they don't know.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: So going back to nutrition, it's like a child that's
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: ten years old nine times that ten isn't just gonna
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: choose to be vegan if their parents are eating all
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: kinds of junk food, it's not gonna happen. They're gonna
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: eat whatever their parents eat. So the same thing is
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: true with financial literacy and investing. So once parents actually
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: learned to do better, now that's a trickle down effect
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: on the community. So I mean, I think it starts
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: at home. I think all things starts at home, but
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I think financial literacy, financial empowerment definitely starts at home.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: And I learned that early on. You know, I had
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a different experience. I went to a public school up
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: into eleventh grade, I played basketball, and then I went
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: to private school. I went to one of the most
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: lead private schools in the country. And when I went
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: to private school, that was my first time experiencing people
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: were really wealth and I was, you know, my white
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: counterparts that I was in school with and their parents
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: was teaching them about real estate stocks. Their way knew
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: these things. They knew this because it was in their
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: family conversation, where coming from a working class environment, you know,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: my friends wasn't we wasn't having that conversation with their family.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: They were just trying to just you know, figure out
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: what the next mail was. So I saw that early on,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and that let me know that the household is extremely
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: important and we have to literally take back that conversation
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and rework it. And it also the influence that we
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: have in music. So my son as a musician, your
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: your your your comrades and music, which I'm glad I'm
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: starting to see that with Meek Mill tweeting about cryptocurrency,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Rick Roys talking about even you know, obviously nip R
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I P that's all he talked about a lot of
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: things he talked about with economic empowerment, But that is
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: helping the financial literacy movement right now because it's being
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: championed by the rappers. And you know, rap has a
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: strong influence in our in our culture. So once rappers
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: start to say something that's cool, now, it's not like
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: blowing money fast was you know, eight years ago. Now
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: it's about you know, I'm gonna invest, I'm gonna buy Wingstop,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna do these things. So it's it's it's
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a multiple of different things. What would you say the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: first step is, so if I have a you know,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: in my family, I have a five year old up
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: to fifteen, as you said, and I'm a mother or
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: you know, father parent who does not really have a
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: lot to financial literacy, we don't have the education um
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: to get started. What would you say is the first
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: thing people need to do. The first thing you need
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: to do is educate yourself. And today, fortunately I don't
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: think education is an excuse anymore. If you're not educated,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: it's because you're making a decision not to educate yourself. Obviously,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I'm biased because we have an educational platform with over
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: hundreds of videos on YouTube for free, podcast for free,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Instagram for free. But we're not the only platform. There's
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: literally millions. You can find anything you want to find online.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: So the first thing I would do is to pick
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: a specific area, like okay, start with stocks, and you
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: can literally just google stocks one o one. But should
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: we be at stocks before just learning how to save
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: just learning what to do with your own cash that
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: comes into hand. Yeah, I mean that's yeah. So there's
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: there's basic level that you should know, and yeah, you
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: should know how to save money first, you should know
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: how to pay off debt, you should know how to budget.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: But these are also things that you know are free
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: that on YouTube for free. I mean it's like one
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of these things where you know, previously information was hitting
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: or it was hard to find. The powerful thing with
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: social media and and Google and YouTube is that anything
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: that you want to find in the history of the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: world is available for you. But with that, there's a
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: lot of nonsense that's available as well. So you can
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: spend your whole day just you know, on trending topics
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and you know, who got pregnant? On love and hip hop,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: or you can spend your day educating yourself for free.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: So the first thing I would do is invest in
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: my education, you know, hour day and a a half an
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: hour day and then you can learn. So what what
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: made you start on your allegion? Like what made you
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: start the podcast? It's funny because it's it Actually one
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: of the reasons it started was the Bronx I know
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that's for you from mice M. So my partner, Troy
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: was was a school teacher in the Bronx and I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: was a financial advisor. I had just started my financial
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: advising career. He had just started teaching middle school in
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the Bronx, so he asked me to come. It was
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: like a career day. He asked me to come speak
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: to his kids. And at the time, I was kind
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: of hesitant because I had hated school my whole life
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: and I never wanted to go back to school. I
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: just get like anxiety attacks anytime I go over to school.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Was just like it's nerve racking for me. But um,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: you know, I did it, and I actually enjoyed it.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed the experience and um, the kids was a
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: lot more receptive than I thought that they might be.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: That led to a six week program that we started,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: UM where we took kids that was like too old
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to go to camp but too young to work, so
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: like ninth tenth grade, and we had job in termships
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: for them and they did college tours. But part of
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: that I came in every week for for six weeks
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: and I taught financial literacy. A good friend of mine
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: that we grew up Valencia Clay. She's a school teacher
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: in that that's our family. So um. She inspired me
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: to really because she was putting clips of her classroom
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: on social media and that was dope to me because
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I had never really saw anybody do that. So I
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: kind of copy what she did with the financial literacy.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: So I was teaching the kids about stocks and you know,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: all kinds of different stuff. I would tape it and
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: then put it on Instagram, and then that like became
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: like a thing within itself. And then from there, you know,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I just did like a bunch of like public access
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: shows anybody that would ask me to come on, come on,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: just talking about financial literacy. But I was doing it
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: in a different way because we was doing it like
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: the backstories of sports entertainment, and it was just a
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: little bit more you know, fun than just the average
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: financial literacy conversation. That led to people accent you know me,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: if I had a podcast. They wanted me to have
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: a podcast. So I hit Troy, like, you know, you
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: want to start a podcast. He's like yeah. I'm like
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: you wanna be my partner? He's like yeah, And then
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: the rest is history. And I guess for me, I
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: feel like and I kind of have asked you this already,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: but I'm just thinking that trying to figure out to
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: get some money, so she'd actually real question. I've got
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: a little bit of change. I'm trying to invest. What
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: to do? Yeah, because I'm a jug to do that, man,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: because i know you know about these stocks and I've
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: been really wanting to get into that. You know, I
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: want to invest. No, no, no, please, it's okay, I
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: jumped in. I have been doing um, you know, I
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: have been doing some investing. I picked a few different stocks,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and you know, I've been listening to a few of
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the people who I respect online nineteen Keys and others
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: who have been talking about, you know, different things that
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: we should invest in. And so I've done that, but
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's still, to your point, a need
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: for me to sit and look at the videos and
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: really get a deeper understanding because one of the things
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: that I also understand, as I could go right now
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and say to the Biden administration, we need you know,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: a trillion dollars, doesn't matter you say the number, but
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: when that money trick goes down to our communities, what
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: we do with it is so important. And I feel
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: like in this moment, people don't necessarily know where to
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: even place their money. So I want to give folks
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: ten things of five things if that's what you have
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: that you know are very specific that you feel like
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: black folks particularly need to be doing in this moment,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: you talked about the cryptocurrency PS. What are you know
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: if if you're somebody who has a hundred thousand dollars
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: sitting in your bank account, what do you suggest happen
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: with that? Give us five, five to ten strong things. Yeah,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you some actionable
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: items because that's what our platform is built on, actionable items.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: But before I give you actionable items, I just want
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: to drill down on this education piece because, like you
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: said something that was very um pointing. You said you
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: listen to that's all, brom, But a lot of people
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: are educating themselves or sixty not to say you, but
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are educating themselves of sixty second
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Instagram clips. That's not the best way to go about
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: if you think about it, Like, we go to school
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: our whole entire life. We sit in classroom for eight
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: hours a day. Like you know, if you want to
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: be a doctor, you gotta study for eight years. So
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you have to devote that much
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: time to learning, but you have to be willing to
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: invest in yourself. It's the same thing we're working out,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Like I can't expect to be a world class athlete
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: if I'm only working out five minutes a day. But
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: people do that with financial literacy. They do that with
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: investments all the time, and just invest in things like
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: just because somebody told them like this is a good investment.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: That's when you want to get hurt um. Investing is
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: a game of knowledge. Gambling is a game of chance.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: But you merge the two when you start to invest
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: based off of gambling. So that's something that's extremely important
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: and I want people to this. This is not to
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: get rich quick thing. This is something that if you're
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: interested in business, you have to dedicate the time now
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: to your question, work on developing a savings I don't
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I don't suggest anybody start investing until they have a
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: say so what I what I suggest is that you
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: have three months and minimum. Like, if you're whatever your
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: monthly expenses, all you want to have three months minimum
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: in the savings account. Because you never know what could happen,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and you have to be prepared for anything. Um that's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: like the minimum recommended is actually six months, and in
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the best perfect case scenario, you want to have twelve
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: months of savings and the savings account rainy day, that's
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: just you never touch it, that's just online savings. Leave
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: it there now. Once you're able to do that, of course,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: you want to work on keeping your credit card debt
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: as low as possible. Credit Card debt is crippling not
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: only black and brown communities the whole entire country, but
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: especially black and black community because we are affected by
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: everything more than anybody else. Credit Card debt is extremely
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: dangerous because it has no end date. It's like predatory Lindon.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: If you think about somebody's interest rates, like that's like
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: a loan shark. So live below your means. There. There
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: are a lot of things that we have to We
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: have to have these conversations too, because, like I said,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to the investment part, but we have
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: to take responsibility if we are going to Miami and
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: we can't afford it and we put it on a
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: credit card just because of financial peer pressure. Financial peer
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: pressure is a big thing. Meaning like if all of
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: your friends is going on the trip and you're the
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: one friend that doesn't have it, but you're gonna put
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: on the credit card just because you don't want to
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: be the one friend that's missing out. You're doing something
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: that's irresponsible when you're gonna hurt yourself and you have
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: to learn to live in your means and stay in
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: your lane. Now, going to the investment side, if you
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: have never invested in the stock market ever, um, a
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: good way to start is what's called the index fund.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: So index fund is is a microcosm of the market.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: It makes it like so they have an SMP five hundred,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: which is Standard and Poors five hundred, five hundred companies.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: So whenever you hear the stock market is up and
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: the stock market is down, they're not talking about every
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: single stock on the stock market. That using what's called indexes.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: So there's like three main indexes, the dal Jones, the
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: SMP five hundred, and the Russell two thousand. So you
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: can invest in the SMP five hundred, which is five
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: hundred companies, and it's from companies from all different sectors.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: So it's like the auto industry, the airline industry tech um.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: That is the easiest. That's probably the easiest way to
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: actually invest in the stock market. You're not picking and
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: choosing the stock beer that's one of the hardest things
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: that gives people's like, how do I know which stock
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: to buy? How do I know when to buy it?
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: So if you if you don't know that you can
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: invest in the S and P five hundred, Russells two
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: thousand you can invest in, then ask that and you
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: just put the money in and just let it and
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: just let it sit, and then put money in continuously
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: over the course of time as well. That's another thing
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: people think like you have to have a large sum
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: of money. One of the things that people are familiar
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: with it's a four one K plan because a lot
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: of people have it at their job. The good thing
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: with the four one K is that it forces you
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: to what's called dollar course average. That's when you're putting
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: money in consistently every single time you get paid, even
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: if it's a small amount. There's a thing called compounding interest,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: So what over the course of time you'll build up money.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: It's like a snowball effect. So if you put a
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars in every single pay check. That might not
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: seem like a lot of money, but you know, in
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: ten years, twenty years now you have a hundred thousand dollars.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Like it builds up over time, and then of course
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: if you could put more money and then you'll have
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: more money. So that's one way. Another way, um that
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: we you know, talk about investing in the stock market
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: is what's called e t F. So e t F
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: is similar to an index fund, but it's it's a
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: little bit more specific. E t F stands for exchange
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: traded fund, so at e t F covers one particular industry.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: So like if you want if you want to invest
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: in like chip companies chips as far as like the
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: chips for computers, right, there's an e t F called
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: s MH so like in videos in their A m D,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: these are the companies that actually make the chip processes
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: for the actual computers. Or like if you want to
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: invest in marijuana, right, like you might not know which
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: marijuana um company that you want to invest in, but
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: there's different ETFs like Yolo, right or m J is
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: another one as well where they have like let's say
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: twenty different marijuana companies inside of that e t F.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: So the benefit with that is that it's a safer
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: play than just picking one stock. It's like having an
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: all star team, like you know what I mean, You're
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: not You're not just drafting one player. Like if Kyrie
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: has a bad year, but you got the Eastern Conference
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: All Star team, then you're still gonna be good because
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: you're balancing it out. So those those are two easy
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: ways for beginners to start investing in the stock market.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: As far as I think, I gotta go back and
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: become a beginner again, I'm going back to the beginning.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Although actually the stocks that I chose are doing really
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: really well. Um, and so that's kind of good. Like
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: I can I can say that, Um, I don't know why.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know how. I just know I heard people saying,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: particularly that Airbnb was doing well, and I was like, okay,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: and I jumped in and so now but now I
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: want to go back to the beginning. I wish that
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: we had time to sit with you and like we
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: really should have canceled everything on the show. Um, but
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: what we can do, I know, what I can commit
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: to doing is sharing more kind intent from earn your
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: leisure so that people get an opportunity to hear um
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about. I think that our movement, as
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: you said, UM, has to include this conversation. The time
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: is right, it's right, you know, my son. One of
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: the things that you and I debated, and we had
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: lots of debates on the road while we were getting
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: people to the polls during the most recent election to elections.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: In fact, UM, black men are really ready to have
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: the conversation around sort of not separating from this system,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: but just having control of our own. Now, black women
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: are the fastest growing UM entrepreneurs in the nation, and
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: so UM we all we always understood it was important
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: to have our own, but I think that the context
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: that black men are moving in is actually broader in
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: terms of us really being able to sustain ourselves. And
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: that's gonna have a lot to do with how we
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: spend our money, how we save our money, and how
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: we invest it. So I'm looking forward to being and
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: earned your leisure of subscribers and get membership and university program.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: We're gonna we gotta sign up to that now. I
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: appreciate I appreciate you all, and thank you for for
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: spreading the good word and doing the the good work.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Most importantly, Um, you guys have been trailblazers and on
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: the ground and everybody notices what you have done, and UM,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: we appreciate it because I think we all have a
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: different part to play in the movement, and um, what
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: you guys are doing is different from what we're doing.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: But we look at what you're doing for inspiration and
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: we appreciate what you're doing. So keep up the great work.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Appreciate Thank you so much. Definitely gonna have you back
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: on man. Thanks for coming. Keep doing the work that
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: you're doing. Man, I'd love to see this the show
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: just blowing up and people paying attention man, because you've
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: got a lot to say. Man, so keep it up,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: earn your leisure, Thank you, thank you, Thank you so
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: much for being with us. All right, man, that was
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: really informative. It wasn't enough time. I need to learn
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: everything these tips, man. We have to start really. I mean,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: your kids are small enough that you could really start
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: working with them. What you already have said, you are, Um,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: but the but like you're now, you have a grandson,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: right and he's like a little button and it's like
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: starting there. You're a g pop. You know, I have
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: lots to say about that, because my dad's name and
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: for his grandchildren is Papa, and I'm like, what happens
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: to grandpa was regular grandpa? Grand We need grandpa's in
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: the world. Well, Gepoppop better be teaching his grand baby
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: some real financial literacy skills. And I think that what
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  Speaker 1: below is what Richard excuse me is saying. It's so
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  Speaker 1: important that it starts really really young, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: something that we never had an opportunity need to learn,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're trying to learn ourselves. Yeah, they didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, most of our parents, especially
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  Speaker 1: if they're sixty and better, they were raised by people
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  Speaker 1: who were coming out of the enslavement era, like they
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  Speaker 1: were raised by older people who were very close, very
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  Speaker 1: close to being enslaved at least their parents, if not enslaved,
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  Speaker 1: And so there is a there certainly is who the
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  Speaker 1: hell was teaching. They wouldn't even let us learn how
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  Speaker 1: to read, let alone financial literacy. So we're now this generation,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, everything is changing, so that we got
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  Speaker 1: to bring him back and others like him brings me
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  Speaker 1: to something. I don't think you don't get that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't get a lot of things. You know, I just
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  Speaker 1: don't think. I think we just live in a world
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  Speaker 1: that's very strange. Says things that just go through my mind,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: you know, watching the news and the Asian communities in
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  Speaker 1: morning right now in Atlanta, you know, when a white
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  Speaker 1: man walked into establishment in open fire and I think
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  Speaker 1: he killed about eight people people, six women, six women
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  Speaker 1: in particularly, and you know, and they had a press
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  Speaker 1: conference in which the sheriff gave a statement, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and he said that the young man was having a
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  Speaker 1: bad day. Terrorist. This is what he said. He said,
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  Speaker 1: the man was having a bad day and he got
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  Speaker 1: fed up. This is what he said. He a person
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  Speaker 1: like homegrown terrorist walks in. Because we already understand the
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  Speaker 1: biggest threat to our society is white supremacy. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: a known fact. But this share spoke life. He humanized
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  Speaker 1: this terrorist like I've never heard anyone humanize before. He
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  Speaker 1: said he was having a bad day, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: he got he just got fed up. And when you
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  Speaker 1: say things in that manner, that means that that's something
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  Speaker 1: that you can identify. Because if I'm having a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with you and I'm like, what he just was having
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  Speaker 1: a bad day, you know, he just got fed up.
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  Speaker 1: That means that I might have felt the same way
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  Speaker 1: at the time, you know, I might have looked at
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  Speaker 1: those same exact people and got fed up and had
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  Speaker 1: a bad day, and we just need to chalk it
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  Speaker 1: up to that. Well well, well, but but he does
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  Speaker 1: feel that way because you know how people do. Soon
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: as you say something crazy, they go back with the
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: tapes and they roll back, especially in social media, and
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: pull up everything that they can find, what you know,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: as a sidebar. That's what pisces me off about people
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  Speaker 1: when they say things about us and they know it's
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: not there because would have brought it, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: they but they don't. They can't find it. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: this particular sheriff, they found some type of T shirt
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  Speaker 1: and slogan on his page where he was mocking the
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  Speaker 1: coronavirus calling it China, which is something that they're the
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  Speaker 1: white supremacist leader Donald Trump has said, of course that
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  Speaker 1: was the title that he used for the coronavirus, and
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  Speaker 1: it was spelled c h y dash n A. So
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  Speaker 1: this was mockery that he was making and and of
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  Speaker 1: of the Chinese people, right and Therefore, it makes perfect
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  Speaker 1: sense that he would say that this young man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was he was having a bad day. That's to them,
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  Speaker 1: that's really literally what they think. But what I also
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  Speaker 1: don't get if it's okay for me to be in
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: a little bit in your segments today is I posted
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  Speaker 1: about it, right, And I usually I will either silence
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  Speaker 1: my comments, especially like if I post something about the
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  Speaker 1: trans community. I always turned my comments off because I
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: this is not it's not up for debate. I support
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: the trans community, period, that's my personal feeling. And if
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: if if when they have a holiday, or if someone
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  Speaker 1: is killed or something tragic happens, or they asked me
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  Speaker 1: to uplift something, I use my page to speak to
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  Speaker 1: what I believe in. So sometimes I will turn the
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  Speaker 1: comments off because I don't want the abuse. If you will,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: because sometimes it's abusive. It happens to me, right like
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: even in this moment, I could go to certain pages
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  Speaker 1: and people are just polling on. They don't care about humanity,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: they don't care about people's feelings, so I will turn
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  Speaker 1: the comments off. But in this particular situation, I didn't
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: turn my comments off after posting Nina Turners her her
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  Speaker 1: comments and you know, calling for an into Asian hate. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't turn the comments or if I left them,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: for two reasons. The first reason is because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to silence black people, because black folks have a
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  Speaker 1: very valid concern with the Asian community, so I didn't
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: want to do that. But the other thing is I
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: wanted people to read how vile it is in the
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  Speaker 1: comments section as well. UM I wanted people to see
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  Speaker 1: I'm not upset again with black folks who say aid
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  Speaker 1: the Asian community has not overwhelmingly supported us in our movements.
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  Speaker 1: They have not overwhelmingly been there for us. We feel
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: they've been missing and there has to be before you
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  Speaker 1: can ask us to help you. We need help. We're
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: tired of helping everybody. We are tired of it. We
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: lead every movement for everyone, and meanwhile we still haven't
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: got justice for ourselves. I'm with that a thousand percent.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: But then people started attacking me, and I want to
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: know why it's for you. It's okay to try to
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: tell me that I can't care about six women getting shot.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: It's not okay. But it comes back to trumpa right,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: It comes back to us understanding what we're dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's also been when they posted that, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, when they posted time the first time I've
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: seen it on a lot of people's pagients. People. I've
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: seen a lot of people people DM me like, yo,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: we need to mind our business, this and that. And
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: then they posted a picture of the Asian police officer
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  Speaker 1: who stood right by watched at Shauvin you know, killed,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: and they said, where was the Asians when this happened? Community?
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Asian community when this happened. So even though my humanity
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: wants me to say, it's going to allow me and
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: make sure that I say that this is wrong and
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna speak up against it. But I understand people
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: have a concern, and sometimes that concerned fosters into a
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: level of trauma and and anger. You know, it comes
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: into anger. So when they see somebody that they believe
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: is one of the biggest black voices in this country
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  Speaker 1: right now speaking on behalf of people that they don't
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: believe have spoken on their we have, they become angered
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  Speaker 1: with you. They think that because a lot of them
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: said they think this is a time for you to say, hey,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: we understand this and we don't like it. But y'all
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: need to show up, They said, to put that you're
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: angry about this happening, but not say that they need
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: to show up for us the same way that we are.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Our leaders are showing up for them. They feel like
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: that's your issue. But I think that there is a
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: time and place for everything. And on the night when
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: eight people and particularly six women have been shot to
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: death by the same person that would kill us, See,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: that's the other thing. We have a common enemy, because
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: the enemy here is white supremacy and terrorism. That's what
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: we're dealing, homegrown terror, domestic terrorism. So on the night
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: that that happens, I don't feel and I will never
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: use it as an opportunity to chastise people who just
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: lost lives within their community. Now, as we begin to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: have more conversations, and those conversations will happen because there
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: is the in Asian hate campaign and there's gonna be
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: panel discussions and and and people are going to be
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: bringing it up. At that point, I will find the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: appropriate way to describe our pain. And by the way,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: people should check out State of Emergency, my book that
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: is being released on May eleventh, because I deal with
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: the issues around the Asian community and other communities who
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: have not stepped up for black lives in the ways
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: that we should. And what I always say is that
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: if you don't deal with our issues, if you don't
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: deal with black people's issues, is coming to your community next.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: And that's what we see, and that's what we see happening.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: That's what happened in in in Georgia, is that the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: issues that have been unaddressed by too many communities showed
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: up at a spa or at a massage parlor against
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: another community, which means that all of us are being
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: forced to have to look at one another and see
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: our our common causes. So I am very well versed
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  Speaker 1: on what to say. I know what to say, but
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  Speaker 1: I because of my humanity and my morality that you
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  Speaker 1: will not change just because you are angry or you're traumatized.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: I'm also so traumatized that I that my big mama,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: my grandmama, my mama have taught me that you always
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: have to have humiliate humility for the slain. And that's
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: a fact, man. So once again we want to send
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  Speaker 1: our condolencens to the aging community, to the families who
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: lost their loved ones, you know, and and we stand
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: in solidarity with you, you know, black people. We definitely
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: understand your sentiments. Right now. We need to be bending
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: together because, like she said, we have a common enemy
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: and that's white supremacy. And on that note, I want
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• 1:02:08
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• 1:02:11
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• 1:02:14
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• 1:02:17
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