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Alabama Montgomery Brawl.....Three Years Later · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Speaker 1: Woo hey, Hey, hey, Hey, what's good. Everybody Happy Wednesday.
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Y'all already know who it is. It's your favorite girl friend,
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the five oh four bring you another episode of Black
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Girl in somebody. You know what, I think I need
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to make that into like a little a little anthem
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or something like that. I think I need to like
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have that like playing or something. I don't know. I'm
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just gonna I'm gonna get real creative with this podcast
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because bad I tell you, the amazing things that are
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about to happen for me, I can't wait. I'm so excited.
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I'm not gonna even talk about it. I'm just gonna
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let y'all see the finished product when it comes to
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fre with Shak Because guess what God said, all I
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need was faith the size of a mustard seed. So
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that's what I'm doing. Oh yes, yes, yes, as you guys,
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Cause see I'm feeling a lot better than what I
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was feeling yesterday. Still some paining my legs, my hips
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and things like that are hurting. But the show must
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go on. If I'm gonna be committed to taking this
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podcast to another level, I gotta be all in. I
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got to be all in. I got to be all gased,
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no breaks, y'all. Look at me, man, I ain't even
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got done on my that's just man, I'm rushing. I
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was trying to her up and finish dinner and everything.
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But I was like, man, I got to her up
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and get up in here because my people waiting on me.
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So hey, hey, hey again, Happy Wednesday, y'all, welcome back
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to another part another episode of Black Girl Interrupted again.
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What's up? It's so great to see y'all again in
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the day again. I just want to take the time
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to say thank y'all for all the love and support
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that y'all give me each and every time I get
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in front of this camera, each and every time this
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the people that have subscribed to the channel, I am
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so grateful. I am so appreciative of that. I wouldn't
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have been able to do this without y'all. So guess
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what again, As I tell y'all, this is our space,
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this is not my space. This is all of our space.
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So yes, yes, yes, hopefully y'all had an amazing day
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to day. It is hump day. We are two days
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away from the weekend. What do y'all got going on?
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How's everybody feeling? Any plans for the weekend? I know,
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excuse me, it's back to school for a lot of parents.
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So I know a lot of parents are excited that
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those kids have gone back to school. My baby goes
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back to school on the eleven, so I'm excited about that.
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My baby will be a junior this year. So yes, baby,
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y'all's little face y'all TikTok Instagram niece.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Baby, she goes back to school Tuesday, and I don't
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think she's looking forward to it, but I have encouraged
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her and I pour into her and I let her
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know that I'm so proud of her. I think she's
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amazing and she's gonna rock out this year. So to
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my parents who children, whose children have gone back to school,
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or who will be returning soon, congratulations parents, wishing you
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and your children a successful school year. Tell them, regardless
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of whatever goes on, never to give up and if
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life gets too heavy, it's okay for them to take
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a step back and relax. So it is okay, it
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is okay, okay, okay. Ah. So anyone that is new
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to Black Girl interrupt the podcast before I get into
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any episode. I always, always, always, always, always do a
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mental health check in. I do not limit mental health
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check ins just a certain days or certain certain months
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of the year. Mental health is every day. Mental health
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is every day. So many people are suffering in silence.
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There are so many people we are losing to suicide.
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So I ask and and let you guys know, it's
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imperative to take care of yourself. It's okay to disconnect
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from the world. It's okay to disconnect and regroup and
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reset and refolk. That is imperative that you take care
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of your mental because we need you. You're needed here,
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you are loved, you're wanted, you are courageous, you're resilient,
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and most importantly, your greatness. So what I like to
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do is I always love to play something that's encouraging,
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something inspirational, something inspiring, because I do want you to
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know that I got your back, that I'm here, I've
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been exactly where you are. If you go back to
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some of my episodes, or even if you start all
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the way at the beginning of Black Girl Interrupted podcast,
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you'll understand why I created this space. Black Girl Interrupted
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came at one of the darkest times of my life,
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and I didn't feel like therapy was good for me.
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So I said, let me create a space where I
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can be open, where I could be vulnerable, where I
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can be free without judgment. That I get a lot
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of backlash about it, Absolutely I did. I've shared a
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lot of things in my life, family secrets. I've been
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very open, been very vocal about a lot of things
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that have happened in my life. So as on mad Day,
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you can't use it against me, because I've already told you.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: On that note, before we jump into tonight's conversation, here's
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something a little inspirational, a little encouraging, a little empowering,
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and then we'll jump into the topic of the night.
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Speaker 3: If the lion is the king of the jungle, how
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can he be the king of the jungle if he's
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not the biggest. The elephant is probably one of the biggest.
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He can't be the fastest because that's a cheetah. He
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can't be the smartest, So He's not the biggest, the fastest,
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or the smartest. So how does the lion become the
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king of the jungle. It's mentality. That's the only difference
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of a lion and an elephant. When a lion walks
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up and sees an elephant, he thinks lunch. An elephant
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thanks running.
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Speaker 4: And it's all mentality.
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Speaker 3: Because when a male lion walks up, he may be
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out numbered by a pack of hyenas. But I'm keen
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of my jungle because of my mentality.
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Speaker 4: What happens when you're gazeled and you're not being pushed,
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you're not being proud of, You're not giving it a reward,
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nobody's encouraging you. What happens when you are a bazel
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and the lion's not chasing anymore.
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Speaker 3: You stop running.
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Speaker 5: But what happens when you're a lion. When you are
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a lion, it does not make a difference. You realize
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that if your family is going to eat that, if
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that pack of lions is to survive, then.
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Speaker 4: You gotta go hunt. A part of being a best
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just ain't eating a gazelle.
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Speaker 5: A part of being a beast is the hunt.
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Speaker 4: It's the hunt that they're excited about.
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Speaker 5: They like to see the gazelles run to improve, they
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take off because real lions like to hunt. They love
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the process just as much as they love the prize.
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Speaker 4: And some of y'all just want to score. You don't
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like the process. You're not in love with the process.
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Speaker 5: A true hunter's Oh, it's not the prize. A true
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hunter's go. It's to hunt. That's what they live for.
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They live to hunt. They don't just live to catch it.
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It's the whole process. When you are a true hunter,
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you don't go by time you go buy the gazelle.
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When you are a true hunter, you hunt until you
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get a gazelle, and you don't stop until you get one,
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and then you get another, and then you get another,
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and you get another.
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Speaker 4: If you're gonna do what you say you're gonna do,
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be what you say you're gonna be, You're gonna have
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to lie in me out. You are gazel.
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Speaker 6: You're gonna come up short.
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Speaker 4: You are gazel. You're gonna have an average experience. You're
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a student that needs you. In lion mold, you allow entrepreneur,
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I need you. In lyon mode, you try to lose
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woright lion mode, you can't do nothing significant in Gazel mode.
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Nothing nothing impressive happened in Gazel mode. Nothing happened in
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run mode, dive up mode, quit mode, scared mode, fearful more,
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nothing happened. Everything happened in lion mode like I'm coming
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to get you, o.
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Speaker 1: Man, man, Man, man man. So I want everyone in
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the comments or everyone that is watching, drop in the
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comments in lemon, know how you feeling the day? Like
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I said, today is Wednesday, it's hum day. Were a
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couple of days away from the weekend. Again, as I stated,
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I know a lot of children have gone back to
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school this week. A lot of children are gonna make
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the school next week. So I am wishing your children
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a successful school year and never give up and to
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stay focused and stay grounded into the parents. Baby, I
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know y'all are happy. I could just imagine what y'all
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were looking like on that first yesterday. Today, I can't
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imagine what the faces were looking like with no kids
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walked out that dough this morning and headed out to school.
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Because guess what food stays in the refrigerator. That light
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bill goes down everything. It's a beautiful thing. So anyway,
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but again I'm wishing everyone a prosperous school I'm wishing
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all the children a prosperous school year. And to the
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class of twenty twenty seven, whether you're graduating from high school,
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whether it's elementary, middle school, or college, congratulations and advance.
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I'm so proud of you. And just know, keep going,
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keep going, keep going, and don't forget to keep reaching
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for the stars. You understand you can do this. You
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absolutely have this. Ah, so so so so so tonight tonight, tonight, tonight,
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tonight is not gonna be a very long episode. But ah,
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does anyone know what happened three years ago today? So man,
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let me tell you. I remember this day like it
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was yesterday. When I tell you, this was all over
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the news, this was all over social media. I was
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seeing sales go up in the lawn chairs and everything.
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So tonight I just want to revisit the Montgomery, Alabama
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brawl three years later. Man, I remember. Let me tell y'all,
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I remember when that story broke. What was I doing
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that day? I'm trying to remember what I was doing
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that day, But anyway, I remember when that story broke,
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and I was like, what not Montgomery, Alabama? Not when
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my daddy was residing at so I you know, me,
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me little miss nosy, me, miss little crime seeing investigator,
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me miss private investigator. I go and I'm all, I'm
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scrolling off Facebook, I'm on Instagram, TikTok, I'm seeing all
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the videos and I'm like, bah blah blah. I tell you,
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I think that was the proudest day in all of history,
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because how dare you attack this man for doing his job.
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This man asked you politely, He wasn't rule, he wasn't aggressive.
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He basically said, hey, you have to move your boat
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because we have this other boat that's trying to come
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in and dock. So you have a Caucasian man that
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runs up to him and attacks him. Then you see
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two more and then all of a sudden, baby it's
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all our wwe SmackDown in Montgomery, Alabama, because baby it
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went up. When I tell you, I was so proud
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to be black that day. I mean it's not that
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I'm not proud to be black every day, but I
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was extra extra proud to be black that day because
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I said, bab it in my people. Then you saw
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the sixteen year old young man that was on the
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boat jump off and swim. They called him the black
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ocor man.
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Speaker 2: I say, what.
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Speaker 1: Sixteen years old? He said, I did what I had
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to do. He got out soaking wet. He was it's
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an a shoe. It looked like when he got out
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of the water, he took the other shoe off, and baby,
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hats want the flying chairs went, The swinging cameras was
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pulled out. Baby, we was getting it from all angles.
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But when I tell you, I'm so proud of the
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man that stood up for himself, because how dare you?
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How dare you get upset at a man that was
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just doing his job. And then you have the captain
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that was on the boat even told you you needed
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to move, you needed to move your boat. And from
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my understanding, they had issues with this. These people before
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that had docked their boat in that space. So just
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to kind of jog your memory a little bit, a
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let's take a walk back down memory lane.
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Speaker 7: Video that has gone viral. Take a look at your
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s green right there. Three men now charged after a
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brawl captured on camera along the riverfront in Montgomery, Alabama.
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It happened Saturday, As police say, a group of white
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men attacked a black dock worker at a news conference
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Montgomery's police chief tuesday, announcing assault charges against three men
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and said more charges here are expected. Christa Owen witnessed
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the attack and took this video that's been circulating all
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over social media and different news outlets. She joined us
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now to talk more about what she saw. Thank you
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so much for taking the time to be here, My pleasure.
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So first off, just kind of break down for me
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how this played out, what you saw, and why you
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started recording.
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Speaker 2: So we were just finishing a lovely dinner cruise on
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the river and we were headed back to the dock,
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and so my husband and my twelve year old daughter
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and I were just up against the railing, you know,
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watching as we approached the dock, and suddenly you heard
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the captain over the intercom say, black pontoon boat, move
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your boat, you know, And he said that a few times.
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And so we're watching and there were a couple of
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women and a few men just getting off of this
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black pontoon boat, and they seemed to be disregarding his request.
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And so I think all of us that were standing
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there on the boat gave them the benefit of the
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doubt that maybe they didn't hear him. So we all
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in unison said move your boat, move your boat, and
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they shrugged their shoulders, you know, they were looking at us.
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They made some gestures and they left. They left the boat,
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they left the dock, and next thing, you know, a
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small blue faery which is the beginning of my video,
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shows up to take our captain's first mate off the
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ship and ferry him to shore. He gets off at
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the dock and goes over to the black pontoon boat
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to move it himself. That's when I start video recording,
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because that was nuts that the gentlemen wouldn't move their
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pontoon boat two feet forward so we could part. So
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I'm recording just to show my family at home, you know,
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the crazy situation that ended Mary's birthday night. And then
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when the first punches were thrown, I thought, oh, I
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have to keep recording. This is gone mad.
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Speaker 7: Are you surprised at how fast it all escalated and
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how far it went? And really now at this point
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that this video has gone viral, circulating everywhere and people
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across the country are talking about it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I was incredibly shocked at how fast there was.
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Punches were not necessary, you just needed to move your boat.
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Two feet forward, and it was clear that the men
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who were on the boat and the man who owned
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the boat were simply angry that anyone had the audacity
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to touch their boat and move it. But what did
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they think was going to happen when a three story
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river boat with two hundred people couldn't come to shore? Like,
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what did they think was going to happen? We needed
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it to move, and we were cheering on our crewman
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when he was doing this. In my audio as I'm
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narrating it in the original clips, I'm talking through that,
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and I think it's funny that we're going to move
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their boat for them. But yeah, to turn this into
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a physical altercation was completely unnecessary, and it did escalate
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very quickly.
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Speaker 7: We know right now that at least three people have
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been charged facing some misdemeanor assault charges. Is that something
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you expected to come from this as you were watching
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it happen?
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Speaker 2: Oh goodness, Yes. When I saw the first two punches
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and then another guy come off from the side, I
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was like, that's selling the assault? What on earth? And
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I made sure before we left the boat ourselves that
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the two gentlemen I saw throw the punches were handcuffed
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I needed to see them detained before I felt comfortable
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leaving the area because I showed my video quickly to
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a police officer. Because they were very confused, they didn't
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know what was going on, and I had seen everything
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and I had it on video, you know what started it.
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And I did see the men in handcuffs sitting on
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the ground when we left. I was shocked to hear
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they weren't arrested at that time, but I did just
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hear from the news press conference that they were. There
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was a warrant for their arrest, and that that pleased
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to me. I thought, that's exactly what should have happened.
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Speaker 7: And a lot of people have been as you have
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in a situation like this, posting memes all over social
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media and making the joke of it. But from your
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perspective having seen it unfold, of course, as you're there
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to celebrate a birthday of all things, it was a
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very serious situation and I'm sure fairly scary as it
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was happening.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the scary part was the brawl that ensued after.
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This part was so disheartening. You know, when this poor
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man is just doing his job and and all of
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us on the boat were helpless, and he's helpless. But
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we can't We can't do anything. We're four spectators, and
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it was really difficult. I understood, you know, the anger
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that was brewing and the people watching this, because I'm
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watching it too, this poor man. None of us can
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do anything. But then I saw one of our crewmen
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jump off and swim to shore. I'm like, Okay, there's
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our hero. He's doing something to help. But it was
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It was very disheartening, and I felt so bad for
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the gentleman just trying to do his job. He did
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not need to be assaulted.
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Speaker 7: Reflecting on it now, it's been a few days since
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all of this unfolded, does it seem a little bit
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more real? Because I imagine as you're watching it, you're
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really trying to process it, and it probably didn't seem
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like it was really happening. But now have you had
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a chance to kind of process what's happened, I would.
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Speaker 2: Say the opposite. It was pretty real feeling when we
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were watching it. You know, you're kind of in shock,
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like I cannot believe this is happening. But I knew.
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I mean, that was a real thing in my brain.
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I'm recording, but my brain is my daughter's on this boat?
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Are we going to be able to get off this
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boat safely?
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Speaker 1: Now?
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Speaker 2: It's when I watched the video, it's more like, Wow,
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I'm so glad this was caught on tape. I'm so
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glad the authorities can see what I saw.
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Speaker 7: And in a sense, I mean, you've helped the investigation
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because it could have been a he said, he said
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type situation. But do you almost feel like, I don't
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know if hero is the right word. I don't know
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if you'd call yourself pH oh gosh no, But do
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you almost feel like you have helped in the investigation
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and made sure that folks are charged for this by,
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you know, taking out that that phone and hitting record.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's been my goal since the very moment I
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got off the boat. Was the police officers going to
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see this video. I'm going to call a news agency
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to see this video. I'm going to send it to
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the to the police. They're going to see where this started.
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I don't have the brawl on video. I only have
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what started it, and to me, that was all that mattered.
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I wasn't going to arrest and kill. It got out,
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and that's why I've been so generous as my time
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to just to say, hey, I'll interview with anybody who
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wants to hear what we saw.
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Speaker 7: I mean, a first hand account always helped. So the
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fact that you were rolling definitely did help in the investigation.
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I'm sure police have probably told you that they are
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very grateful. What did you say to your daughter as
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you know all of this was unfolding. I'm sure you're
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also thinking about her as well.
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Speaker 2: We had her close between my husband and I and
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I'm I have the video camera, so i'm, you know,
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on the phone, I'm recordings. He's kind of got good
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hold of her, and I'm sure he's assessing the situation
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like a good dad and a protector does. I really
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just felt my mission at that moment was to capture
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everything I could to defend this man who is just
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trying to do his job.
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Speaker 7: And again, I'm sure police are very grateful for you
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getting that video. Christa Ohen, thank you so much for
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taking the time to join us here. Is there anything
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else that you want to add about all of this
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before I let you go.
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Speaker 2: I'm really thankful to that crewman. He took this on,
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you know, and it was courageous on his part. He
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was completely outnumbered, and I'm just thankful he did his
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job and he's really essentially protecting the whole boat.
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Speaker 7: All right, Christph, thank you again for taking the time
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to be here.
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Speaker 2: Of course, thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Man man man. Like I said, the man was just
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doing his jack. The captain told them you needed to
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move your patol, You needed to move because they were
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trying to die. What was so hard about that? Why
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couldn't you just simply just do what was asked? Because
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all the a everything that happened after that was was
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unwarranted and it was very unnecessary. But you gotta quit
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playing with us, because how do you get upset at
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a person doing their job. That's almost like saying if
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I come to your house and I ease something in
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your kitchen or or whatever the situation is, and then
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I don't clean up behind myself. Maybe that wasn't a
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good analogy. Maybe that wasn't I don't know, but y'all
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get what I'm trying to see. But you were upset
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the demand for doing his job. Everything that escalated after
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the fact was very unnecessary, and I'm so glad that
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five people were charged. I hate that the man that hit.
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The woman with the chair was arrested because she hit
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him first. So it's like, at what point, why do
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y'all get upset when we defend ourselves? You agitate the situation,
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you escalate the situation, but then you get upset when
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we defend ourselves. I'm not understanding the math and that,
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but maybe that's not for me to understand.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's why God has never put me in a
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situation like that where I've had to go off and
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defend myself. I don't know. But we're looking back at
25:43
this three years later, how do you feel?
25:47
Speaker 8: What?
25:48
Speaker 1: So do you let me see how I want to
25:54
pose this question because again, this was three years ago
25:59
in Montgomery, Alabama, August the fifth, twenty twenty three, a
26:05
day that we will never forget. But how dare you
26:14
be upset at a situation that you provoked and then
26:22
you want to be the victim? I'm not understanding how
26:27
that works, but hey, I don't know, but I go
26:32
back to that day three years ago and I think
26:39
about us as a people, how we came together in
26:47
a time that our brother needed us. So the question
26:53
I'm asking is why can't we do this all the time.
27:01
Why can't we be like this all the time. We're
27:05
stronger in numbers, the more of us, the more powerful
27:10
we are. So that day I was absolutely proud. I
27:14
was absolutely excited for that day because I was like, oh, man,
27:24
my people, we came together for the greater good. We
27:31
protected that man. Other people protected that man, a hard
27:36
working man that was just out there to do his job.
27:43
And then here you come, thinking your privilege could top that,
27:49
could overrule that. Then you provoked because you never should
27:54
have put your hands on Then your mom and your
27:57
daddy teach you keep your hands to yourself. You can't
28:01
just go around hitting people or slapping people, or putting
28:06
your hands on people because you can't get your way
28:10
because you want to throw a temple tantrum because you
28:12
think because you feel you're bigger than the program. No,
28:19
that's not how that works. Life doesn't work that way.
28:24
It's okay to be told no sometimes, whether you feel
28:28
you're right or wrong and different. In the situation, you
28:33
could have just moved the boat and everyone could have
28:36
went on with their day. But no, you antagonize this man,
28:44
and then you had your buddies ran over there. This
28:46
is a man by himself, and because he was getting
28:52
the best of you, three four more people run over there,
28:56
and they're jumping on this man, a woman included. So
29:06
would he had been so let me ask this question.
29:08
So would he have been wrong? So would the security
29:11
guard have been wrong if he would have smacked a woman.
29:18
Some people say, oh, yeah, he would have He would
29:20
have been wrong if he would have hit her. But
29:23
she hit him first. Because why if you see seven
29:28
men brawling, fighting and everything, why would you, as a
29:31
woman run and try to jump in and then you
29:37
try to play victim. Let's let's let's let's make this
29:41
make sense. That's just like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
29:48
Now that's a good analogy. Now I could use that way,
29:51
you know, but if you see two men fighting, why
29:56
would you, as a woman get involved? Because if you
30:00
get hurt, now, all of a sudden, you're the victim.
30:03
Oh my god, this happened. No, you should have stayed
30:06
on the sideline. You should have stayed on the side,
30:10
because that did not warrant you to run over that man.
30:17
They didn't need you, just like they didn't need the
30:21
five of the men that jumped on this man. Take
30:28
your butt whooping like a man. You started it, you
30:33
escalated it, you antagonized it, so you deserve to get
30:37
your butt beat. And you see this man by himself.
30:46
And so when they saw these five or six men
30:50
plus the woman jumping on this man, everybody got involved.
30:58
Everybody got involved. But then I started to see the
31:05
comments on social media. That was very, very disheartening to me,
31:21
because this man was protected, he was defending himself. He
31:30
woke up that morning and his intent was not to
31:40
fight anybody. He just wanted to go to work and
31:44
do his job. Probably was having an amazing day, Probably
31:50
was having a beautiful day, woke up, probably had a
31:53
wonderful breakfast, probably kissed his wife, children, and went on
31:57
to work like he does have. Then here you go.
32:06
You have to tell some people, hey, I need you
32:07
to move your boat. You see the riverboat trying to dock.
32:13
And then you got this butthole who decided I'm gonna
32:21
do this, this is what I'm gonna do. How dare you?
32:27
How dare you interfere with a man doing his job.
32:36
Then your buddies decide they want to run over one man,
32:42
just one man has five or six men jumping on him.
32:46
All because he was doing his job, all because he
32:50
was doing a job that he gets paid to do.
32:54
Because you didn't want to listen to the captain who
32:56
told you, hey, we need you to move your platoon
32:58
out the way. We got the riverboat that's trying to dock.
33:01
You got people that have probably been on this boat
33:03
two three hours. They ready to get off, they're ready
33:05
to go home. And here you go. I want to
33:10
throw a temple towns from like a toddler. So you
33:18
push the man, you hit the man, so the man
33:22
throws this ball cap in the air and it's up.
33:26
Then your buddies run over and they jumping this man.
33:31
Then you have a woman that runs over that jumps
33:35
on this man, and all of a sudden, you're the victim. Ma'am.
33:39
No you're not, because no one told you to go
33:45
jump into a man's fight.
33:50
Speaker 2: I know.
33:50
Speaker 1: We see these videos on social media where oh, I'm
33:53
a ride or die, and you see these women jumping in,
33:56
they fighting with their boyfriends and all of that. If
33:58
you wind up hurt, you can't play victim. I said it.
34:05
I said it. You can't be a victim to circumstances
34:10
that you created. So miss ma'am, you should have just
34:15
stayed to the side. Didn't nobody tell you to run
34:20
over there and help six men that are over there fighting,
34:24
Because if something would have truly, truly, truly happened to you,
34:28
then what.
34:32
Speaker 3: Then?
34:32
Speaker 1: What that's like the insurrection? The lady was up there
34:40
and she wanted to be Billy bad but and her
34:43
life and her life was taken. You can't be a
34:46
victim to circumstances that you create. And I'm gonna say
34:49
that again period. You cannot. Hey, brother, my brother Charles say,
34:57
let's go sist y'all, don't forget, uh, what's happening with
35:00
my brother Charles. He has a podcast coming out called
35:03
It's All Peace over Here, and I am so excited.
35:05
I cannot wait. I am ecstatic for that brother. I'm
35:09
so proud of you. It's God time. Now, it's go time.
35:13
But you ladies have to learn and stay in a
35:18
lady's place. And I'm gonna be the first to say it.
35:23
I may get some flag for what I may be
35:25
called a pick me or pig me shaw, whatever new
35:28
name y'all have for us women, whatever, I don't care.
35:35
But again, that's just like adults getting into altercations when
35:42
two children are arguing. We see this all the time.
35:48
Parents say, oh, I fight kids, okay, and you're gonna
35:51
go to jail. Now. If they're an adult, that's something different,
35:57
you know. Now if they're eighteen nineteen, now that's something different.
36:00
But anything under the under that. Come on, now, we
36:04
have to start making better decisions. You understand, because these decisions,
36:08
these choices, come with consequences. You're not free from consequences. Okay,
36:13
So remember that. So going back and talking about the
36:18
Alabama brawl, then we see the sixteen year old young
36:25
man who jumped off the river boat and swam to
36:36
help his fellow man. Come on, young man, he was ever,
36:43
he was the black aqua man. He was this and man,
36:49
I was so proud. But I was also saying, and
36:58
I'm gonna explain you, Why explain to you why two
37:00
things can be true in this situation? Because I was
37:05
so proud because we came together and we stood for something.
37:11
But then I look at us after, how now we
37:20
can't even come We we come together when it's convenient.
37:26
That's the sad part of this is we come together
37:33
only to fall apart again. Why can't we get together
37:39
and stay together. Why can't we work together? Why can't
37:42
we fight together? You understand it's strength in numbers. I
37:47
don't think you black people really truly understand how powerful
37:51
we are, how strong we are. Do you know how
37:56
many amazing things we could do together? But I don't
38:02
think y'all ready to have that conversation. And maybe I
38:04
need to save that conversation for a different day. But
38:09
I'm just gonna wake it up a little bit because
38:13
I love to see us when we come together. I
38:15
love that for us, You understand. I love to see
38:19
us when we come together and the amazing things that
38:21
we do together. Hence the Montgomery, Alabama braw. I'm so sorry,
38:27
but I just had to throw that back in. But
38:29
I do. I love the things that we do when
38:33
we're together. I love to see the things that we
38:37
do when we're walking side by side, you understand. I
38:41
love that. I just wish we could be consistent in
38:47
doing just that. I really wish we could do. You
38:57
know how many things we could accomplish, how many things
39:00
we could do, how many things we could rebuild if
39:04
we could just stick together. Damn, I just hope before
39:13
my time ends on this side that I get to
39:16
see that. I just hope and pray that I get
39:23
to see us rebuild what was taken away from us.
39:29
I would love to see us move as a unit.
39:33
I would love to see us support each other. I
39:35
would love to see us working together. I would love
39:38
to see us pulling each other up. You understand, the
39:43
same way we pulled up in Montgomery, Alabama, at that
39:47
river boat you wanted to stick at the riverfront. I
39:50
would love that. I'm telling you that day three years
39:55
ago brought so much joy to my heart. And I
39:59
know I've said it, but I'm see it again. That
40:01
was the most beautiful moment in black history. That was
40:07
the talk every day, every news station, every social media outlet.
40:13
You saw two. I believe there was a tube documentary.
40:17
I believe that people made videos. There were reenactments of
40:25
greatness that happened August fifth, twenty three. I remember talking
40:33
about it. I remember discussing it. I remember coming to
40:36
my coming you know what I was about to say,
40:39
my but I remember coming to our podcast, Black Girl
40:43
Interrupted and having this conversation. I remember the messages that
40:50
I received. Some were good, somewhere bad that were like,
40:53
oh you're just trying to create racial division. No, I'm not,
40:58
because that was the greatest day in black history. Everybody
41:02
was celebrating, white, black, purple, yellow, orange, and green. Everybody
41:07
was celebrating. But then, of course you had the little
41:14
stragglers that old you always want to make it about
41:18
rais And you saw it for yourself. Had that been
41:25
a Caucasian man that told them to move the boat,
41:28
would we have got Would that have been the same result,
41:37
because you can't say it was it was a racial
41:39
thing because the captain of the river boat was Caucasian. Hello, somebody,
41:49
he was a Caucasian man. He told them you need
41:52
to move your platoon. We're trying to dock the boat.
41:57
And again, as I staid earlier, I believe that they
42:00
had issues with this family before, with these very same
42:04
people before. So how were you saying that I created
42:13
racial division when again, the captain of the river boat
42:17
was a Caucasian man. He told them they needed to move.
42:24
It just so happened to be a black man that
42:29
came to enforce exactly what the captain was telling him
42:31
to do. So you had your pantings and your boxes
42:39
and a bunch for what you saw it just like
42:43
I did. I just plaged all the video of the
42:45
witness who said what happened, who regarded it, who said
42:52
she wanted to get justice for this man. She felt
42:54
bad for the man because the man was just only
42:56
doing his job. That's all he was doing. He was
43:01
just doing a shop. And y'all mad, you upset because
43:10
your privilege didn't work that day. And you, miss ma'am,
43:19
who came in and jumped in when you see six
43:22
seven men fighting, You didn't think you were going to
43:25
be held accountable, miss ma'am, because five people were charged.
43:34
Five people. Then y'all were upset at the man that
43:44
hit the woman in the head with a chair. She
43:47
was beating on the man. What was he supposed to do?
43:53
So that's what I say, you know, that's what I
43:54
mean when I say women, stay out of stay out
43:57
of men's business, because again, you can't be a victim
44:03
to your own circumstances that you created. You escalated it.
44:08
You didn't need to go over there and fight. You
44:10
didn't need to put your hands on this man for
44:12
what There was a celebration. That was a beautiful moment
44:22
in Black history. Do I want to see other beautiful
44:28
moments in black history. Absolutely, but August fifth, twenty twenty
44:34
three will forever ever be etched in our minds and
44:39
in our hearts. So here we go. Here's a little
44:44
more information from the mayor about that brawl that day.
44:52
Speaker 9: Back here now, the mayor of Montgomery, Alabama is promising
44:55
justice after an ugly brawl at the city's riverfront Park.
44:59
Video of the enc and it appears to show that
45:01
a group of boaters had docked in a spot reserved
45:03
for a riverboat, and when a crew member tried to
45:05
move their boat, things turned physical, others jumping into help.
45:09
Here's ABC's Steve osen saw me.
45:13
Speaker 8: The fight that broke out here in Montgomery, Alabama is
45:15
being celebrated tonight all over the internet for the way
45:18
police responded and for the way that black eyewitnesses came
45:22
to this dock workers rescued those guys.
45:25
Speaker 2: The park there were told not to leave it there,
45:27
and they left it there.
45:29
Speaker 8: Witnesses say it started when this crew member in the
45:31
white uniform tried moving a boat that the owners had
45:34
parked in this spot. He was trying to make room
45:36
for a riverboat that was on the way in. That's
45:39
when a shirtless man came to confront the dock worker,
45:42
and then his friends came out, and then one of
45:44
them got violent, beating the crew member. In seconds. There
45:47
were several people outnumbering him, and this woman even seen
45:51
kicking him while he was down.
45:53
Speaker 1: When the first punches were thrown. We all you just
45:56
felt so helpless for that man. There's six them on.
46:01
Speaker 8: Him, but all of a sudden, black eye witnesses who
46:03
were watching decided it was time to help the man
46:06
who was being beaten, running even swimming up to the scene,
46:10
beating back on the people who attacked the man. Police
46:13
came in minutes and, according to Montgomery's mayor, detained several
46:16
reckless individuals for attacking a man who was doing his job.
46:21
Police say they have four active warrants out so far
46:24
and that there could be more once they finished looking
46:26
at this videotape. They also say that the fighting, and
46:29
they mean all of the fighting, was intolerable.
46:32
Speaker 9: Mary, Yeah, hard to watch, Steve.
46:34
Speaker 10: Thank you, Hi everyone, Georg stefanopplis here. Thanks for checking
46:38
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46:40
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46:48
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46:53
Speaker 1: So there you have it. What was the purpose that
46:59
you pushing? What warranted you to put your hands on
47:04
this man who was just doing his job? They had
47:08
already told you, I want to say it was like
47:11
two or three times. They had told them they needed
47:13
to move the boat because that river boat was on
47:15
its way in and was trying to dock. So you
47:19
get upset because he started unrolling the boat to make
47:23
space for a boat that was technically supposed to be
47:27
in that spot. You get physical, and then you have
47:34
men and women that are jumping on this one man.
47:40
I remember looking at some of those Facebook comments and
47:44
Instagram and TikTok comments where we were called monkeys and animals,
47:51
So how are we the animals? And we didn't provoke
47:55
this again on that day, I was really trying to
48:03
figure out how was the mathmathing? That's what I want
48:08
to know is how was this math math in make
48:13
this make sense to me? You go and you the
48:18
man never touched you. The man never laid his hands
48:21
on you. Maybe he said some words to you that
48:23
you didn't like. Okay, but the man never put his
48:27
hands on you, so why did you feel it was
48:30
just for you to do that to him? And then
48:34
you have Mary Sue and Jenny and whomever else that
48:41
ran over there and inserted themselves into a situation that
48:49
didn't even concern them. Oh that's right, I forgot. They
48:52
were trying to help their husbands out. Okay, got it,
48:56
thumbs up. But at the end of the day, people,
49:03
keep your hands to yourself. Stop inserting yourself into situations
49:07
that don't even involve you. You understand. Stop it. Stop
49:15
that to my black people. If we could come if
49:22
the way we came together on August fifth, can we
49:26
do that again? That's all I want to I just
49:30
wanted them. Can we do this again? Can we come
49:34
together and unite like that again, but for a positive cast,
49:42
for a positive cast. Can we get together and rebuild
49:47
and and build businesses? That's what I want for us.
49:54
Can we stop gatekeeping information? Can we stop charging people
50:02
one hundred dollars for a twenty five minute session or
50:07
a thirty minute session in which fifteen of them is
50:13
wasted trying to get on their zoom meeting. I'm just asking,
50:21
that's all no harm, no foul, just asking a question,
50:28
but being it at that Man, I just I remember
50:32
talking to my people out there in Montgomery and they say, man,
50:36
the city was on fire. They say that was everybody
50:42
you passed was talking about it. Everybody that was in
50:44
a bar and a restaurant or at work, people talking
50:48
about it. Then we saw T shirts being printed, We
50:55
saw means circulating, we saw reenact, we saw celebrities speaking
51:02
on this, we saw interviews. Man, when I tell you,
51:10
on that day, I woke up extra the next day,
51:14
August the sixth, Baby, I think I woke up extra
51:18
black the next day.
51:20
Speaker 11: I don't know, but man, it was beautiful to see
51:29
it's just all together for a just cause.
51:34
Speaker 1: It was beautiful to see them come and protect their
51:38
fellow man that needed help. Thank you to not only
51:47
the celebrities and people that lived in different states, but
51:52
to the city of Montgomery, Alabama that stood with this
51:55
doc worker. I'm I'm in a group by Montgomery, Alabama,
52:03
and the most beautiful things that people were seeing to
52:10
this dock worker. That were saluting him, they were uplifting him,
52:15
they were congratulating him, they were telling him, we got
52:18
your back. It was whites, blacks, everybody came and rallied
52:26
and supported this man. Can we do that all the time.
52:33
I'm just asking a question. That's all. You don't have
52:35
to answer right now, if you need some time to
52:37
think about it, if you need some time to process
52:39
the question that I just asked. That's all I want
52:45
is to see us come together, see us unified, to
52:49
see us move as a unit. I would love to
52:51
see us rebuild Black Wall Street. I would love to
52:54
see black schools black, more black doctors and lawyers and
52:59
firefight and attorneys, more therapists, more psychiatrists, psychologists, more chefs.
53:10
I would love that. Who I would love that. That
53:15
brings me so much joy, almost made me feel like
53:19
when I went to dream Con a couple of weekends
53:21
ago and just seeing the beautiful blackness in a space
53:31
where there was no fighting, no arguing, nothing. I would
53:37
love to see that. I mean, of course, you know, now,
53:42
if we have to get down like in the Montgomery brawl,
53:44
you know, hey, I would like to see that too.
53:47
But I would love to see us move together as
53:51
a unit in a positive form and fashion.
53:56
Speaker 2: I would.
53:59
Speaker 1: I would love that so much. That would bring great
54:03
joy and I'm gonna keep saying it, because baby, that
54:06
would bring great joy to my heart to see greatness.
54:16
It would, it would, it absolutely would bring joy to
54:24
my heart. Man, drop in the comments. Let me know
54:32
where were you the day of that brawl. What was
54:36
your reaction when you first heard about it? What was
54:38
your reaction when you first saw the video? Because I'm
54:41
telling you, when I saw it, I was like, oh,
54:46
and then when I saw the young man jump off
54:48
the boat, the riverboat and swim to the dock, I
54:52
was like, oh, yeah, this is serious, this is serious.
54:56
I mean, you saw everybody, everybody tearing it down, old
55:03
young middle age man. What a time?
55:10
Speaker 2: What a time.
55:13
Speaker 1: Three years later, the Montgomery, Alabama bro. Man Man, Man, man, man,
55:21
you know what, I'm gonna have to repost the video
55:24
when I first talked about you know, that's what I
55:27
should have done. I should have pulled some of those clips.
55:30
But I'm gonna repost that video on my page from
55:33
three years later. I'm gonna repost that, uh, from when
55:37
the Montgomery bro first happened. I'm gonna repost that because, man, boy,
55:44
I tell you, I was like, what are we doing
55:48
over here? What is going on? My brother says. I
55:52
laughed my ass. Oh man, when I tell you, I
55:55
did too. I was too tickled because I was like, what,
55:59
wait a minute, hold on the Alabama brawl because I
56:04
was like, you know, when I heard about it, I
56:08
was like, people like, I said, I saw it on
56:12
on I think I want to I think I want
56:13
to say I saw it on Facebook first, and so
56:16
I went back and uh, I was like, let me,
56:21
let me go on YouTube, because you know, YouTube got everything,
56:24
you know. So I went and pulled up the videos
56:26
of the different angles. Baby people had put mute, they
56:31
had their voiceovers, baby people had put music to the videos.
56:35
I was like, bo. So I got on Instagram and
56:41
somebody that I follow on Instagram was actually there. So
56:46
they posted the angle from where they were, and man,
56:51
when I tell you they were active out there, I
56:54
was like what. And when I say they got active,
56:59
they got active out there, I was like whoa because
57:05
I saw from the angle that they posted, I saw
57:10
where uh the man ran from down the up from
57:14
down the ramp that was the I may have to
57:17
go back and just kind of like play the video
57:19
again and just stop it. But you see, if you
57:23
go back and you pull the video up on YouTube.
57:24
You see the black man run down the ramp. Well,
57:27
I saw it from the other side, like from okay,
57:31
So there were two ramps for this river, for the
57:35
river boat. One that was like in front of you
57:39
right here, and then there was like one right here
57:40
where you could come from either the right or the left.
57:44
I'm trying to just get so. I saw the angle
57:49
from where they came from this side, like say, I'm
57:52
standing in line right here, okay. I saw the angle
57:55
from the people that were behind where they all ran,
57:59
and I mean they were like pushing people out the way.
58:02
Speaker 7: Man.
58:02
Speaker 1: People were jumping over banisters because they were like, oh no,
58:07
this is not how it's gonna go down this now,
58:09
we're not having this. And I was like, then somebody
58:13
did almost like a three sixty tight where you could
58:17
see it from. I was just like what. But it
58:20
was the music, the background music that they had put
58:24
over it, and some of y'all may remember, So do
58:29
y'all remember, okay, So let me say this. Do y'all
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remember the scene and set it off? What's the song
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that was playing? Oh, gosh'all, I'm trying to remember. We
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let me weah, let me find that. Let me tell y'all,
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but AnyWho, it was it was the scene was it
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where Queen Latifa? I want to say that was it? Oh?
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But AnyWho? And it was the song that was playing.
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Somebody put that music over that video and I screamed,
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sol loud. I was like, yep, Jesus gonna take me now,
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gone tape me, just taven to the upper room.
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Speaker 2: God.
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Speaker 1: But it was hilarious. But it was just like I said,
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it was so much that happened that day that I
59:34
get it really brought us closer. But then it's like,
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you know, like I said, you know before earlier, I
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was happy and said all at the same time because
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I said, will we ever see a moment like this
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again where we move in unison in a positive manner?
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When we see that, I'm gonna be honest with you,
1:00:01
I would truly, truly, truly, truly, truly love to see that.
1:00:10
I would love to see us where we are in
1:00:14
a space like that, where we're moving as a unit
1:00:18
in a positive fashion. That's not to say the Montgomery
1:00:21
bro wasn't positive because we did what we had to
1:00:23
do that day. You know, again, we saw our fellow
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men being jumped by five or six Caucasian men, and
1:00:32
you got two or three women that jumped in. So
1:00:35
we did exactly what we needed to do. But I
1:00:37
would love to see us do more outside of that too.
1:00:42
I would love to see us do that. I would
1:00:46
love that. That would bring me so much joy if
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we could just really truly do that. So y'all let
1:00:56
that so again, let that process a little bit. Let that,
1:00:58
you know, kind of smaronnad in your spirit. But again,
1:01:06
like I said, tonight was not going to be a
1:01:07
very long episode. I just wanted to kind of jump
1:01:10
in and you know, just kind of relive that Montgomery,
1:01:14
Alabama brawl three years later. But I do want to say,
1:01:19
as we bring this episode to a close up, black
1:01:23
Girl interrupted my final thoughts for today, I would love
1:01:39
let me say this, we as black people, we are
1:01:44
so strong and amazing. We can do so many great
1:01:51
things if only we will stick together. I'm gonna leave
1:02:02
you with this tonight. Be conducive, not only to yourself
1:02:10
but to your people. Stop bashing your fellow man, fellow woman.
1:02:19
Stop viewing your fellow man and fellow woman as a competition.
1:02:22
Because I want us all to win. I would love
1:02:28
to see us moving Unison. I would love to see
1:02:34
Black Wall Street rebuilt. I would love to see more
1:02:39
black owned businesses, more grocery stores, more everything black. But
1:02:52
let me also say this, just because I'm pro black
1:02:54
doesn't mean I'm anti white. So let me make that
1:02:58
very plain and clear. I will always root and cheer
1:03:06
for the ones that look like me. I will always
1:03:13
try to pull up you know what, Let me rephrase that,
1:03:16
I will always pull up the ones that look like
1:03:20
me first, because we're the most disrespected people in this world.
1:03:37
So for my fellow black man, I love you, and
1:03:41
I'm proud of you, and I think you're doing an
1:03:43
amazing job. I say this all the time. I don't
1:03:47
care what the world says. I love you. To my
1:03:52
black women, my sisters, my queens, I love you sis,
1:03:57
and I'm proud of you. I know the world feels
1:04:03
heavy right now on your shoulders, put it down and
1:04:08
get back to you. Doubling back to my black men.
1:04:18
We got you. Take care of you. Regardless of what
1:04:26
the world thinks and says about black men. I think
1:04:31
you're everything. I think you're phenomenal, I think you're great.
1:04:37
I think you're amazing. I look at you s as success.
1:04:43
I look at you as kings. You got this man
1:04:53
and you got this woman. We need each other. Remember that.
1:05:04
My brother says, good job, says keep pushing, nothing but love.
1:05:09
I love your back. And again, Charles Blackbird, please go
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follow him on Facebook. He has a podcast coming out
1:05:16
called All It's All Peace over here. Go check him out.
1:05:22
He's got some amazing, amazing things that he's gonna be
1:05:26
doing on his podcast. We have some amazing things that
1:05:31
we're cooking in the background, so stay tuned for that.
1:05:38
Because I can vouch for this man. I've seen where
1:05:42
he started, and I've seen how far he's coming. I've
1:05:45
seen his growth. So I will always support, always support,
1:05:55
even if it's like a share, a comment, I will
1:06:01
always support whatever business it is that you have, I
1:06:03
will always support. I don't want discounts, I don't want handouts.
1:06:09
I genuinely want to support. So on that note again,
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Today is Wednesday, August the fifth, twenty six. Three years later,
1:06:21
the Montgomery, Alabama bral Black Girl Interrupted is streaming live
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1:07:03
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1:07:06
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1:07:12
be talking about. Oh, there's a story that I want
1:07:19
to discuss about a woman whose husband was murdered due
1:07:31
to her recklessness. So that would be Tuesday's conversation on
1:07:40
August the let me pull my So August August the nineteenth,
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1:07:51
those that are not familiar with the Wellness Wednesday, those
1:07:53
are the day Wednesday. We do that one Wednesday a
1:07:56
month where you're come in and kick your shoes off,
1:08:00
your flip flops off, whatever shoes you're wearing, your kick off,
1:08:02
you bring your favorite drink, and we just pour into
1:08:06
each other. We help each other mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically.
1:08:12
That is our day of wellness. That is our day
1:08:14
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1:08:19
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1:09:01
you stay respectful of other people's opinions as well. Those
1:09:06
are the households my brother says, you better know it.
1:09:13
So on that note, Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone has
1:09:17
an amazing rest of the week. If your children are
1:09:21
going back to school this week, next week, this week,
1:09:24
or next week, I'm wishing your children so much success.
1:09:30
God bless you. I love you, and guess what I'll
1:09:34
see you next Tuesday.
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Speaker 6: Hollo did you think
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Speaker 2: H