Latest / Black Girl Interrupted Podcast / Are Black Women REALLY Being Protected...Femicide, An Unspoken Epidemic!! Pt. 1
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- 0:11Black Girls Rusty, y'all already know how it's gonna Erupty, y'all already know
- 0:27how he's got it girls Rusty. Mmmmmmm, what's up? Y'all? Y'all
- 0:43already know who it is? Yeah? IM back, Oh, y'all.
- 0:49Y'all just had to understand last week, I was feeling so horrible, y'all.
- 0:54I had COVID, But I'm better that day other than the fact that,
- 0:58like my legs are still her But I had to pull up tonight,
- 1:02you know, because I've been listened to doing my show. Like y'all don't
- 1:07understand like I'd be feeling like so out of place when I don't jump on
- 1:10and do my show. I'd be like, I got to check in with
- 1:12my people. I got to make sure my people are good. But AnyWho,
- 1:17y'all, welcome back to another episode of Black Girl Interrupted. Excuse me,
- 1:23uh, y'all already know how I get my show started. Y'all know,
- 1:26before I jump into any conversation, I always have to do my mental
- 1:30health check in. I always have to make sure that my people are good.
- 1:34I have to make sure that everyone's doing mentally good, physically good,
- 1:38emotionally good, like I have to know. I have to check in on
- 1:41y'all, make sure y'all are doing good. So y'all Happy Tuesday, Happy
- 1:47Taco Tuesday. But before I even do all of that, let me address
- 1:51something very quickly. So let me say this. Yes, number one,
- 1:57I am a diehard scenes fan. You can never take that away from me.
- 2:00But what I'm not gonna do is I'm not gonna stop criticizing my team
- 2:04and pointing out the error in their ways. That's not what I'm gonna start
- 2:07doing. So all that tussling y'all love to do with me in my comments,
- 2:12that's not gonna stop me from saying what I need to say. Okay,
- 2:15on that note, who that? Who that? Who that? I
- 2:17just want to put that out there for the ones that want to keep tussling
- 2:21with me and my comments over my opinion. But I don't jump on yours
- 2:24when you say foolish shit either, So let me be and be blessed,
- 2:30sweetheart. But anyway, but on a positive note, again, I always
- 2:35like to do my mental health check ins. I always have to check on
- 2:38you again. I need to make sure that everyone is doing good physically,
- 2:42mentally, emotionally because we're definitely in some trying times right now, and I
- 2:46know it's starting to take a toll on everyone's mental anyway, but it feels
- 2:53good to be back. But before I even jump into tonight's conversation, y'all
- 2:57already know what I do. I always play something inspire ing, inspirational,
- 3:00motion, motivational, just something to keep you encourage and empowered and uplifted.
- 3:06So before we jump into its a nice conversation. Here it goes, here
- 3:09we go, Here we go, Here we go. Is what I'm about
- 3:12to see is what I'm trying to see. Life is not easy at all.
- 3:21There's going to be challenges, You're gonna get beat down. That's the
- 3:29way life is. So just sort of put a mask on your face and
- 3:34you go home and lay in your bed when no one's looking at you,
- 3:38when you don't have to impress anybody and you're yourself, and fear comes in.
- 3:44Maybe you don't know for sure what's going to be happening in the future,
- 3:46and it scares you. Just that fear paralyzes you. And I just
- 3:51want to ask you today, do you think you have hope? At some
- 3:54point everything's going to go south on you. Everything's going to go south,
- 3:59and you're gonna say this is it, this is how I end Now.
- 4:02You can either accept that or you can get to work. That's all it
- 4:09is. You just begin, you do the math. You solve one problem
- 4:15and you solve the next one. And it doesn't matter how you get knocked
- 4:19down in life, because that's gonna happen. All the managers that you gotta
- 4:24get up. You have to get up. Whatever experience you're having right now,
- 4:29it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. Sometimes
- 4:33you have to just back up and go within yourself and try and meditate and
- 4:38recharge your batteries, go away, clear your head, and then come back
- 4:42and look at it from a different vantage point. Don't operate while you are
- 4:46under the spell or the effect of what's going on. Don't allow your emotions
- 4:50to control you. We are emotional, but when you want to begin to
- 4:54discipline your emotion. If you don't discipline and contain your emotions, they won't
- 5:00use you. You don't have to force yourself or motivate yourself to think negatively,
- 5:04to be depressed, to beat yourself up over the head, to feel
- 5:09loaded with guilt. You don't have to make any effort to do that.
- 5:13Your mind is on automatic, it will do that by itself. But if
- 5:16you want to begin to move into your own personal greatness, you've got to
- 5:19be willing to go against the tide. You've got to be willing to harness
- 5:23your will. I'm saying, in spite of this, I'm in control here.
- 5:28I'm not gonna let this get me down. I'm not gonna let this
- 5:30destroy me. I'm coming back. Do you have support? What do you
- 5:35want? Man? I want to be down and tell me something. I
- 5:38don't know. Everybody wants it, but the war reality of it is everybody
- 5:42don't get it. And the crazy thing is, if you want it,
- 5:45you can get it. It's not like somebody you stop you, holding the
- 5:47goods yead and telling you you can't get it. It's a matter of will.
- 5:51It's a matter hard one. It's a matter of sacrifice. It's a
- 5:54matter of dedication. It's a matter of how commit it. The difference is
- 5:57not the genetic code potential. It's a guy that's willing to get knocked down,
- 6:01finally tested on fortune, stand again, the burst of merris to see
- 6:05it through, the never say die attitude. We know the battle ahead We
- 6:10know the journey. Your head's gonna get tough. We know we're gonna face
- 6:13opposite. We know it's gonna be some discomfort. We know they're gonna try
- 6:15to break up. We know they're coming forth. We know that's gonna happen.
- 6:18All right, So let's pick up in our mind before the battle that
- 6:23we're gonna be victorious. Don't cry to give up, cry to keep going,
- 6:27don't cry to quits. You already in pain, you already hurt,
- 6:30Get a reward from it at the end of paying a success. You're not
- 6:34gonna die because you're feeling a little Hey, you can tell yourself, I
- 6:39won't give up. When that depression hits you come out of nowhere, you
- 6:42tell yourself, I won't give up. There's no guarantee that to touch somebody
- 6:46knock down on their luck, they can never come back. Cooking guarantee that
- 6:49you can't be that, you can't have your teeth, hooking guarantee that you
- 6:55can't do what you want to do. No one can do back, no
- 6:59one can predict. You don't know what the possibilities are for your life.
- 7:02Because if you're wanting to go through all the battle, you gotta go through
- 7:05to get to where you want to get. Who's got the right to stop
- 7:08you. There's your right to listen to your gut, and it ain't nobody's
- 7:11right to say no. If you earn right, it could be where you
- 7:13want to be and through what you want to do. All we need to
- 7:15do is we look at our dreams as we get ready to hit the Flying
- 7:18Vested probably favorite. I don't care if you're sick. I don't care what
- 7:21you're going through. If you're not dead, he ain't through with you yet.
- 7:27As long as you make it up, you're still in the game.
- 7:30As long as you are up, you can still make it happy. As
- 7:32long as they right and you're not st booth, he's still in the game.
- 7:38You're still can't win it, can I get your butt off? Alright?
- 8:05Alright, alright, y'all. Like I say, I'm doing my mental
- 8:07health checking. I need to make sure everyone is good. Make sure you're
- 8:11feeling good mentally, physically, emotionally. You already know. If you're ever
- 8:15need anybody, that's all too hit me up. You know I'm always here.
- 8:22Even though some days I do take my own mental breaks away from everybody.
- 8:28That's well deserved. And I say that to everybody. You don't get
- 8:31out there and take care of yourself. Put yourself first, don't worry about
- 8:35what other people say. If you need a break from everybody to take a
- 8:39break, you owe that to nobody but yourself. And that's why I always
- 8:43do my mental health checkings. That's why I always take a moment just to
- 8:46stop and make sure everyone is doing good mentally, because I gotta say,
- 8:50right now, we're in some very trying times and I know it can get
- 8:54difficult, but keep your head up. It will get better. It will
- 8:58absolutely get better. So anyway, but y'all, let me know when I
- 9:03comments, how you're feeling mentally, how you're feeling emotionally, how are you
- 9:05feeling spiritually, how you're feeling physically. I decided to put the shirt on
- 9:11today. Let me show, y'all, Let me move this out the way
- 9:15I decided to put it on, because that's the mentality I need to start
- 9:18taking. I need to wake up every day and start acknowledging the effect that
- 9:20I'm blessed. I'm blessed to be where I am. I'm blessed to still
- 9:24have a roof over my head, clothes on my back, food on my
- 9:28table, and still be employed. So and I'm blessed in the direction that
- 9:31my podcast is going in. I'm starting to see that all the hard work
- 9:37that I am consistently putting in is now starting to pay off. People are
- 9:41now starting to see and acknowledge black girl interrupt this. So I'm definitely excited
- 9:46to see where it goes for twenty twenty four. So y'all stay tuned for
- 9:50that. I do want to I'll save that for the end. But anyway,
- 9:56but tonight's conversation, let me just jump right on in. There is
- 10:00going to be a part two of this because this is happening a little,
- 10:05far too often in America right now. So tonight's conversation is our black women
- 10:11really being protected? Femicide and unspoken epidemic. I chose this particular topic not
- 10:20because I have personally experienced it, but it just seems that every time I
- 10:24turn on the news, every time I get on social media, I'm always
- 10:28seeing a black woman being un alive, that's been un alive, and it
- 10:35started happening far too often. These are conversations that we tend to stray away
- 10:43from, but these are the conversations that I'm gonna continue to put on the
- 10:46forefront again. As many of you know, my niece was un alive by
- 10:52a register sex offender back in twenty twenty one, and she got little to
- 10:58no media with regards to it. Unfortunately, not only did he un alive
- 11:03my niece, but there was another young lady that he un alive as well,
- 11:07and that's how we were able to find out. Well, actually that's
- 11:13how we were able to recover my niece's remains is because after he on alive
- 11:18the second young lady, he had buried the young lady in the same spot
- 11:22he had buried my niece. So this, this topic, this conversation is
- 11:28very near and dear to me because again we're seeing this far too often where
- 11:31we're losing Black women at alarming rates. I really don't understand what the disdain
- 11:37is for black women and why black women are being taken as well as the
- 11:43disdain for black men or people of color. Let me say that, but
- 11:48I really really, really really really want to kick it off with h Zeyla
- 11:58Bronson. Zela Bronson is a young lady. I can't remember the city she
- 12:05was from, but she was nineteen years old, who was unalived by her
- 12:09boyfriend. She was pregnant at the time. She was strangled and stuffed in
- 12:16the trunk of a car by her baby daddy, baby's father. So here's
- 12:24the story, and they we're gonna jump back into the conversation. The capital
- 12:28murder charges are filed against Alexander Lewis for the death of Zela Bronson and an
- 12:33unborn child. Police found her body in the trunk of a car during a
- 12:35welfare check on Saturday. Bronson's family talked with Causen Zina Taher. Zela grew
- 12:43up just outside of Kansas City, moving to which taught two years ago to
- 12:46attend WUSU. Her mom and godmother tell me her death has left them shocked
- 12:52and devastated. They say they saw no warning signs she was in trouble.
- 12:58Zela Bronson is remembered most for the kindness she showed to everyone. Her compassion
- 13:05for others just helped her through whatever she may have been going through. That
- 13:11boys, that smile, that happiness, that joy, that pure love,
- 13:16that she had a life and everybody else. Zela's mom, Ronzo Roe Bronson,
- 13:22says they talked on the phone nearly every day, we were, like
- 13:31I say, obviously not close enough because I don't know if it what led
- 13:35to this, What was the signs? Blind sighted? Zela's godmother, Don
- 13:39Wilson, says Zela's boyfriend is the man charged with her murder. Wilson is
- 13:46a survivor of domestic violence. Not everybody make it out, And to see
- 13:50my baby girl not make it out, it's just like, how did we
- 13:56miss the signs? The executive director at the Which Crisis Center says, sometimes
- 14:01friends and family don't know when someone is a victim of domestic violence. I've
- 14:05seen plenty of situations in which the abuser seems so likable, so amiable,
- 14:11and he's you know, very kind to the family as well. There's just
- 14:16no blame other than on the perpetrator. An act of violence that ripped a
- 14:20daughter away from her mother. But I missed her, her voice, her
- 14:26poll It will be her voice. Sailor's family has a go fund me to
- 14:33help pay for funeral expenses. We have resources available if you or someone you
- 14:39know is a victim of domestic violence that will be in this story on Kasen
- 14:43dot com. Here for using a taher kase and these three let me let
- 14:52me just really kind of take a deep breath and breathe on this one for
- 14:58a moment, because again, we're seeing this far too often. We're seeing
- 15:05an increase in domestic violence cases, not just against women, but against men
- 15:09as well. And I've addressed that, but when it comes to being in
- 15:20domestic violence situations, it's not always easy to leave those situations as It's not
- 15:24as easy as people think. And I can only speak from experience being a
- 15:30domestic abuse survivor. Thank god I was able to leave alive, but I
- 15:35don't believe that if I would have stayed, I would be here today to
- 15:39talk to you. So I say that to say, ladies and gentlemen,
- 15:46if you are experiencing or if you're in a domestic violence situation, please please
- 15:52please try to find the easiest way to get out. I know a lot
- 16:00of us as women that have experienced domestic violence situations. We hope that the
- 16:07men will change. And one of the things that I do want to address
- 16:11is that when it comes to domestic violence, it's not always physical. I
- 16:17know that's what they put out and say, oh, domestic violence, they
- 16:21automatically attach it to being physical. It's not always physical. It could be
- 16:26mental, it could be emotional, it could be verbal. Either way,
- 16:30it's not good either way it goes. But again, but I look at
- 16:34the increase in these cases, you know. I even pulled up some statistics
- 16:41and it says the US ranks thirty four for the intentional female homicides at a
- 16:49rate of two point six killings per one hundred thousand women. That's a lot
- 16:56of homicide cases, a lot of female homicide cases, and ninety five percent
- 17:06of them. And I should have posted that, and I should have posted
- 17:07that statistic ninety five percent, let me correct myself, sixty five. I
- 17:12believe it's sixty five or seventy percent of the female homicides I read the hands
- 17:18of a boyfriend or a husband, a significant other, and that's a lot.
- 17:29That's a lot. So for the US to rank thirty four for intentional
- 17:36female homicides at a rate of two point six killings per one hundred thousand women,
- 17:42that's a lot a women that are being unallied at the hands of a
- 17:48spouse, significant other, whatever you wanna call it. And that could be
- 17:53male or female. But I go back and like I said, when I
- 18:00first saw this young lady's case. It was very heartbreaking because she was nineteen
- 18:03years old, she was pregnant, and for this man to unalive her,
- 18:11not only her, but you're unborn child. And then you stuffed her in
- 18:15the trunk of your car like she was nothing. You're discarded of her,
- 18:19like she was nothing, and she meant the world to a lot of people,
- 18:26and you discarded her like she was trashed. Again, I see these
- 18:32stories. I see these cases every day, and it's like, when is
- 18:38it's gonna stop? The same way I see these cases when I see black
- 18:44men being unlive not only by each other, but at the hands of police
- 18:48officers, when is this gonna stop? So again, all black women really
- 18:55being protected? Are we really truly being protected? Because femicide is on the
- 19:02rise. We saw the Shankula Robinson situation, We saw the ka Jenkin situation.
- 19:11Still these cases remain unsolved, Still no justices brought for these families.
- 19:18What can we do? And I asked this on every show, what can
- 19:23we do as a community to curtell these femicide rates? Police aren't doing anything.
- 19:37It's almost like y'all don't care. But I want to jump into another
- 19:44one. But I still want to pick back up and continue on. So
- 19:48I want to jump on to Alicia Watts. Alicia Watts was the young lady
- 19:53that had been missing in South Carolina whose body was just recovered a little one
- 20:00month ago and was unallied at the hands of her boyfriend. Here we go
- 20:07and we are also continuing to follow breaking news this evening after the body of
- 20:10Alicia Watts was found in Montgomery County today. Thanks for joining us here at
- 20:14eleven o'clock a big day in news in the Charlotte area. I'm Molly Grantham,
- 20:18Montgomery County Sheriff's deputy say Alicia's body was found in Montgomery County behind a
- 20:23cemetery. This is seventy miles from where she was last seen in Charlotte.
- 20:29You might remember Watts was last seen July sixteenth in northeast Charlotte at the home
- 20:33of her boyfriend, James Dunmore. Her vehicle was later found two days later
- 20:37at an Anson County DMV. Now the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office says Dunmore has
- 20:44now been arrested and charged with murder. This is video we did get of
- 20:48him being led in handcuffs into the police Department. This was this big moment
- 20:53Dune Moore being walked into the jail, in fact, in handcuffs. And
- 20:56tonight we're continuing our team coverage of the discovery of Alicia's body, from the
- 21:00latest from investigators, to the family's reaction, to digging deeper with domestic violence
- 21:07experts. But first, let's start with Carly Haynes, who was in Montgomery
- 21:10County tonight where Alicia's body was discovered. I'm okay of flowers marks the spot
- 21:17Alicia Watts was found today. Now we still don't know what led deputies to
- 21:21search this area. Now, family and friends are holding out for justice.
- 21:26A month and a half's long search for Alicia Wants coming to an end on
- 21:30Thursday. It wasn't the ending family and friends wanted. You know, I'm
- 21:34bringing non deserved is at all at all. She was such a good,
- 21:42good person, and she did so much for this community, and I just
- 21:49don't understand the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department says they found Wants's body. They're a
- 21:56cemetery in the small town of Norman, just twenty minutes away from where Watts
- 22:00lived in Moore County. This follows weeks of community vigils aiming to drum up
- 22:06awareness and get law enforcement to remain vigilant in their search. No, we
- 22:10tried, We tried. We did not give up. We didn't give up.
- 22:15The co founder of the Black and Missing Foundation said that outreach helped sound
- 22:18the alarm for a case that could have gone cold. Sadly, when people
- 22:22are color go missing, their cases are really not taken as seriously by law
- 22:29enforcement as they should be. Now attention turns to the suspect in custody.
- 22:33Watts's boyfriend and a person of interest in the case, James Dunmore, was
- 22:37arrested for murder at his home in Charlotte. He's currently being held at Montgomery
- 22:42County Jail. Dunmore has a violent past, with convictions for kidnapping just three
- 22:48months ago. He'll make his first court appearance Monday morning in Montgomery County.
- 22:52Carly Haynes WBTB on your side, Carley, thank you. As this missing
- 22:57person case and as now turned into a murder investigation. We had been following
- 23:02this story every step of the way. Our Nicky Houser is outside the home
- 23:04in Charlotte where family members last saw Alicia now More than a month ago,
- 23:10NICKI. This is where police arrested James Dunn Moore after investigators found Alicia Watts's
- 23:15body more than fifty miles away behind a cemetery in Montgomery County. In the
- 23:22meantime, it's certainly been an emotional night for the family who's now learning to
- 23:26transition their feelings of uncertainty to loss. Hours after the family learned Alicia Watts's
- 23:33body had been found, you could see her boyfriend, James Dunn Moore,
- 23:37handcuffed and escorted to jail in Montgomery County. Police arrested dune More thurs Day
- 23:44at the same home where Alicia's family members last saw her in Charlotte. After
- 23:48a month long search. Montgomery County officials say she was found behind a cemetery
- 23:53an hour and a half away from Charlotte home. Sawar okay Thursday's news,
- 24:03igniting a painful mix of emotions for Alicia Watt's family. You didn't have to
- 24:08do this, It was nothing, no cause to walk away. It's weird,
- 24:15it's very weird, but hopefully this is the closure that we've been looking
- 24:21for. Heartbreaking for family and for the community that rallied behind the search.
- 24:26For Alicia and folded hands to find answers, and of course our hope was
- 24:32that shell we found alive, the frantic search for a woman so loved,
- 24:37now settling into a fight for justice. There's no way that you're going to
- 24:41take your girlfriend on a date to a cemetery. So I don't know how
- 24:45he even chose the spot that he chose. That was really cowardly of you
- 24:51to drag it out this long, to make us wait this long, to
- 24:56put us through all of this for over a month. Done. Moore is
- 25:03now in the Montgomery County jail. We'll be on your side following this case
- 25:07as he faces charges in the courtroom, and Charlotte I Mnikki Howser WBTV on
- 25:11your side. Every time I do one of these shows, it just seems
- 25:21to get heavier and heavier for me. So I have to take a deep
- 25:23breath before I even just jump back into the conversation, before I even respond.
- 25:30Because these murderers, you don't realize what you take away from families,
- 25:45when you take their loved ones away from them. You don't realize the pain
- 25:48and the heartache that we go through of the not knowing what happened. Where
- 25:56they are, the why, the how? You know? I go back
- 26:03to when my niece was n alive and it was where is she? What
- 26:11happened to? Why did you do this to her? What does she do
- 26:17to you that would warrant you to want to take her life? Some of
- 26:27these men out here have a sick and twisted way of thinking. You don't
- 26:34know when to let go, and y'all have this mentality is if I can't
- 26:40have you, no one else can have you. That's sick because when you
- 26:45take that person away from you, that person is gone. You go to
- 26:49prison, So you lose either way. Just accept the fact that the relationship
- 26:56is over, let go and move on. But that doesn't seem to be
- 27:00the case in these situations. A lot of these men they want to be
- 27:06in control. They're manipulative, they're narcissistic. The gas light and someone loses
- 27:15their life. Again, this situation, this subject is very near and dear
- 27:22to me because I've experienced it and I'm still dealing with it. So Mischi
- 27:32Alanna, you've never called me, but we'll get on that later. Miss
- 27:36Alanna says, people that are supposed to love and care about them, right,
- 27:41and this is who they're losing their lives behind, someone that vowed to
- 27:44love you, vowed to take care of you, vow to protect you,
- 27:48and they're the very same person that takes takes your life all because they can't
- 27:55let go, or because they didn't like what you say, or because they
- 28:00don't like the fact that you've moved on and you're in a new relationship and
- 28:03they don't want to see you happy. But in the situation of Alicia Watts,
- 28:08the man that she was dating was married, was married, so you
- 28:15had a whole wife. Sir, why would you take hers? Excuse me,
- 28:27what did she do that? But warrant you to say, I want
- 28:30to take her life? And then you took her out and you did the
- 28:36same way Zeyla Bronson was discarded. You discarded this woman off in the woods
- 28:41like nothing. You threw her away like trash. And the saddest part of
- 28:48all of that is the family never gets the answers that they're looking for.
- 28:56We wanna know, why why did you do this? Why didn't you just
- 29:06break off the relationship go back home to your wife? And then the wife
- 29:11went to court. I really just don't understand for the life of me,
- 29:19and I may never ever get that answer. I may never ever get a
- 29:26response. But why, what was going through your head? What would I
- 29:36just I don't know. Maybe that's the wrong question for me to ask,
- 29:40but I don't understand. Alicia Watts a beautiful woman. You have Zeyla Bronson,
- 29:49beautiful young lady who had a whole life ahead of them, whose lives
- 29:56were taken at the hands of cowards, At the hands of cowards, all
- 30:03because you could no longer be in control anymore, all because you didn't want
- 30:08her to have the baby, or she was ready to break the relationship off
- 30:14with you and was relinquishing the power back to themselves. And some of these
- 30:18men can't handle it, some of these women too. I was reading about
- 30:25a story and this happened here in Houston. A young lady was dating another
- 30:27young woman. She broke up with her, went back to her husband and
- 30:34wanted to work it out, and the gay lover hired a hit man to
- 30:41kill the ex girlfriend, the husband and the child for what but what?
- 30:53Another story in Atlanta, uh Let being coupled, the girlfriend broke up with
- 31:06her. They had altercations. The girlfriend had set the other girl had set
- 31:11the girlfriend's car on fire, she had a restrain. In order they get
- 31:15back together, the girlfriend says, next time, I'm gonna I'm gonna kill
- 31:18you. This girl had four children. Do y'all really ever stop to think
- 31:27of the people that y'all are hurting along the way in the process of you
- 31:32taking their loved and away from them, y'all, don't y'all are so selfish,
- 31:37you'll only think about yourself. You're only concerned with you in the moment.
- 31:41And that's unfair because the families and the loved ones and friends of the
- 31:45people you take are left to suffer again. I can only speak, y'all
- 31:52forgive me. I can only speak from experience. I know what these families
- 31:57are going through. To drag it on and on and on, to make
- 32:05the families suffer, and that's so unfair. I'm experiencing it now. The
- 32:15person that unlived my niece has been sending me messages on Instagram sick, and
- 32:22this man is doing two life sentences. So where is the justice in all
- 32:29of this? We're still and this is not just for me, but any
- 32:36person that's lost a loved one to a homicide. Where does that leave us?
- 32:44How are we able to pick up and put the pieces back together.
- 32:47If the person that took your love on away from you, it's still contacting
- 32:52you. What are y'all gonna do to protect the families? Where's the justice
- 33:00and all of that? Yeah, they go away, but is that really
- 33:07true justice? Is that really truly justice served? Because they get thirty years,
- 33:14forty years, some of them don't even get the full Some of them
- 33:17get off with man slot whether it's voluntary and voluntary. And to me,
- 33:22I really feel like that's a slap in the face. It's almost seeing as
- 33:28your love one that was taken away by this person is only worth them doing
- 33:31five years in prison or maybe a ten years in prison. Yes, I
- 33:37understand, I get it. Time will never bring your love on back.
- 33:42But give the family the peace and the justice that they deserve instead of giving
- 33:45these killers a slap on the wrist. Again, looking at Alicia Watts,
- 33:54this lady, she was missing for over a month and the boyfriend knew the
- 33:59whole entire time. You knew these people were looking for this young lady,
- 34:04and you went on about your Mary A little wait, you had a whole
- 34:08wife, sir, you had a whole wife. Maybe Alicia was ready to
- 34:15say. Maybe Alicia was like you, it's either you or me, either
- 34:19me or her. Maybe she gave you an ultimatum. Maybe she told you
- 34:22she no longer wanted to be with you, that didn't warrant for you to
- 34:24come and take her life. I think you are a coward for doing so,
- 34:31and I think your wife is even bigger coward to stand beside you knowing
- 34:37what you did. It almost makes me believe the wife may have had something
- 34:45to do with it. That's like the young lady another case, And it's
- 34:53so many cases that we could just go on and on and on it and
- 34:57just consistently talk about this, but we will probably be here till our eyes
- 35:04closed. But another young lady was dating a man who she did not know
- 35:09was married, who was literally beat to death by the wife. And the
- 35:22sad part about it, the young lady called her mother and was on the
- 35:25phone with her mother as these people beat this young lady to death, very
- 35:38very sad. Again, the very same people that say they love you will
- 35:49be the same, very same people to take your life away, all because
- 35:53they're selfish and their cowards. We see the all the time. We see
- 36:01these stories, we see these women that go missing. We see these women
- 36:09that are being killed every day at the hands of the very same people that
- 36:14say, oh, I'm gonna protect you, I love you, I would
- 36:16never do anything to hurt you. And long behold here it comes. I
- 36:25look at another story, law student in California. It never gets easy to
- 36:38tell these stories. She was a law student who was killed by her fiance
- 36:46and dismembered by her boyfriend. Again, y'all, the US ranks thirty fourth
- 37:00intention on female homicides at a rate of two point six killings per one thousand,
- 37:04one hundred thousand women. And it doesn't just stop with your spouse,
- 37:14but you could also die by the hands of the very same people you call
- 37:17your friends. Shankuila Robinson, Kanka Jenkins, Kanika Jenkins was at a party,
- 37:34ended up there, body found in a cooler, a freezer. I'm
- 37:37so sorry, a walk in freezer at the hotel that they were having a
- 37:40party. Yet, this is why I say you have to be mindful with
- 37:45who you call your friends, because you're very same. The very same people
- 37:51you consider your friends could be the very same people that applau in your demise.
- 37:55Shankuila Robinson, Prime example, still no justice for this young lady went
- 38:06on a trip to Mexico with her quote unquote friends and they killed her.
- 38:15Jealousy is real, baby, envy is real. Ride all that is real.
- 38:22And the family is still fighting for justice while the people, the very
- 38:27same people that unlived her are walking free, living their best life. And
- 38:31you have a mother, a father, a sister, cousin's family or other
- 38:37friends that are still grieving the loss of their friends. So miss Yolanda says,
- 38:45the consequences have a ripple effect that goes far beyond the quick satisfaction of
- 38:50revenge that isn't ours to deliver. This world is needing to wake up to
- 38:53the evil that is being unleashed. You couldn't have said it better, because
- 38:59this world is absolutely evil, you know, Michelanda. I look at the
- 39:06teacher and her name just really just left my mind. Who is at a
- 39:10sleepover with her friends? Who was who was found dead the next day?
- 39:16And no one knows anything? And then when you're going your question, no
- 39:27one seems to know. All we don't know what happened. Somebody knows.
- 39:31Please take into consideration the loved ones that are grieving, the children that these
- 39:38women leave behind. Don't you feel these children, their family, their love
- 39:44was deserved, some some answer. They deserved that. Going back to discussing
- 39:53my niece, you took her because she no longer wanted to be with you.
- 40:04You stalked her, You manipulated her into coming back to you for you
- 40:09to kill her. Then the second young lady that you killed, you called
- 40:21her mother and told the mother, I don't know why people think I did
- 40:30something to your daughter. You weren't even on the police's radar, so you
- 40:36told up on yourself. You choked my niece and you throw out. You
- 40:46buried her in the woods behind a shopping plaza. The second young lady that
- 40:52you are alive. You choked her, you shot her, then you turned
- 41:01around and you perform sexual acts on her body as you recorded this, and
- 41:10then you throw out like she was trashed. This is what I mean when
- 41:19I say it is pure evil that walks this earth. Michelanda, you couldn't
- 41:25have said it better with that comment. Let me post this back up again.
- 41:31Michelanda again says the consequences have a ripple effect that goes far beyond the
- 41:37quick satisfaction of revenge. That isn't ours to deliver. This world is needing
- 41:42to wake up to the evil that is being unleashed. And that's exactly what's
- 41:47going on in the world. It's pure evil. We have some evil,
- 41:52demonic spirits that are walking this earth. Because let me let me. Let
- 42:01me show y'all what I mean when I say we have some sick, the
- 42:09ranged, evil people that walk this earth. So let me see if I
- 42:15can make it bigger. Let me hold up, y'all, let me see
- 42:22if I can make this a look bigger so you guys can see. Give
- 42:31me one moment. Hold on, y'all. I'm trying to make it bigger
- 42:34so you guys can actually see. Let me let me make it bigger.
- 42:40So this is what I mean when I say sick, So the the the
- 42:50animal that killed my niece. These are Summer, just a few of the
- 42:54messages that he sent to me. I'm not trim to best. These are
- 43:05his words. These are not mine. So for the listeners, for the
- 43:08people that are not actually watching, these are his words. I'm not trimmed
- 43:14to be disrespectful at all to your nice I guess he was trying to say,
- 43:20I'm not trying to be disrespectful to your niece. I truly apologize for
- 43:23everything. Hey does your sister, y'all chica have an Instagram? First off,
- 43:36why aren't you even contacting me? That that that's first and foremost.
- 43:38Let let's let's let's go into that part. Why are you even contacting me?
- 43:45Then you go on to say content siat which is my niece's name,
- 43:49whole name photo. Then you want to put my sister's name, my niece's
- 43:52name, my sister's ex husband's name. You want that tattooed on you,
- 43:58and you want to talk to me because you need to clear up a lot
- 44:02and mostly apologize. So let me, let me come out of this.
- 44:07And this is what I mean when I say this is sick and this is
- 44:10evil, because there's nothing in the world you could say to me to even
- 44:20remotely remove the pain in my heart to make me understand why you kill my
- 44:23niece. There's no way. So he goes on to send me pictures of
- 44:35her. These are again photos or I'm sorry, screenshots of the conversation that
- 44:49the very same person that killed my niece was sending to me on Instagram.
- 44:53Now, mind you, I have blocked thirteen of his pages. Okay,
- 44:59thirt this is what I mean when I say sick. Then let's move on
- 45:07to the next one. You're sending me pictures of her, So when I
- 45:22say fem aside and the and the very same people, again, this is
- 45:30what he sent to me. The picture at the top is I'm assuming the
- 45:44picture he took the day that he had killed my niece. So the very
- 45:50same day that she went missing was the day that he killed her. So
- 45:55again, these are pictures that he sent to my Instagram. As you can
- 46:04see, I didn't accept any a monster. These are the things that the
- 46:14families are left to deal with after the fact. Again, pictures, you're
- 46:22taunting us. Pictures. That's him laying in the bed, that's my niece
- 46:28sitting on the floor. He's the pictures that he took of her. He's
- 46:37calling her his love bug. But you killed her. You killed her all
- 46:50because my niece was trying to get away from you. You were obsessed with
- 46:55her. This is I guess some type of poem or whatever. I don't
- 47:07know, but this is just a taste of what families are left to deal
- 47:15with after their loved ones are taken. This here pictures that he's sent absolutely
- 47:38disgusting saying I will die for you our love. I guess I don't know,
- 47:52but this is what the families are left to deal with after the fact.
- 47:58It's bad enough that you've taken the family, you've taken the loved one,
- 48:05but now you your taunt the family, and this is what they do
- 48:12again. I go back and I talk about Alicia Watts. You knew this
- 48:19young lady's family was looking for her, You knew that they were looking for
- 48:24her. Instead of being a man and say, you know what, I
- 48:32took her, I killed her. This is where her body is. Give
- 48:37that family the closure that they deserved. You walked around for a whole month
- 48:42before they found her body, very disheartened, very safe. But again they
- 48:52don't care because they're cowards. I go back and I look at again some
- 49:01of the statistics that I've pulled up. Men are murdering black women and girls
- 49:08at a rate almost three times higher than white women. Black people only make
- 49:16up I believe now it's fifteen percent of the population in America. So again,
- 49:29you have these men out here that are murdering black women and girls at
- 49:34a rate almost three times higher than white women. And nothing's being done to
- 49:43could tell that. And again, this is not just happening at the hands
- 49:45of significant others, but also at the hands of friends or people you call
- 49:52your friends and now police Michelanda says, they're all saying with friends like that,
- 50:07who needs enemies? Again, it gets harder and harder every day to
- 50:19have these conversations, It really truly does. It gets hard. But again,
- 50:23these are conversations that we have to keep having because we're seeing this far
- 50:30too often. Femicide is real. Femicide is an unspoken epidemic. Again,
- 50:43you go back to Zela Bronson, nineteen years old, pregnant for our first
- 50:47baby, killed by the father for a child, and was stuffed in the
- 50:52trunk of the part Alicia Watts thrown out in the woods. And the saddest
- 51:04part about the story with Alicia Watts is the search team found her in the
- 51:08very same area that they had already walked through searching for her prior and they
- 51:17couldn't understand, how do we miss this again? The boyfriend who had a
- 51:27whole wife you killed her for what? For? What was it? Because
- 51:37she was ready to leave, because she was tired of being the other woman.
- 51:44And that's typically what happens, or they're pregnant and they want to keep
- 51:47the baby, or they've moved on and they're happy in a new relationship.
- 51:54I was just watching a story about that last night on TV. Went on
- 51:59Fatal Attraction. A young woman in Colorado Springs, had two children, had
- 52:06already had a restrain in order against the baby daddy. She moved on.
- 52:08He was abusive to her, she moved on, got in a new relationship.
- 52:14He lured her over there on the premise with regards to the children,
- 52:17and killed her and then threw her body off in the woods. No,
- 52:22I take that back. He stuffed her in like a little plastic tub and
- 52:27threw her body off and threw her body down at the bottom of a cliff.
- 52:30At one point they thought it was a suicide because the young lady had
- 52:36separate postpartum depression. The father of her two children lying to her family saying,
- 52:40oh, she was on drugs. She was this all the while,
- 52:45you're trying to blame the new boy from when really you're the one that killed
- 52:47her. We're seeing this far too often, ladies and gentlemen, far too
- 52:54often. Every day that I turned on the news every day that I get
- 53:00on social media. A young woman found kill boyfriend, husband, girlfriend,
- 53:09ex girlfriend, ex boyfriend, ex husband. When is this gonna end?
- 53:20When is this gonna stop? Because I'm so tired of seeing it. I'm
- 53:28so tired of having to report on stories like this. But if I don't,
- 53:32who will. If I don't continue to bring stories like that, like
- 53:37these to you, it'd be just another forgotten person. And I do that
- 53:45because I don't want another family to endure what we have endued. I would
- 53:52love to see these families get justice for the murders of their loved ones at
- 53:59the hands of again, the very same people that say they love you,
- 54:01the very same people that say, oh, I'll never do anything to hurt
- 54:04you. Oh, you're my friend, You're my best friend. We're seeing
- 54:08this far too often again, Zela Bronson, Alicia Watts. Then we have
- 54:20another young lady, Beauty Couch. This young lady was a social media influencer
- 54:30from Atlanta who was killed by a guy she had only been dating. A
- 54:37few months. The sad part about it killed her, left her next to
- 54:44her car and set a car on fire, and he fled. Although he
- 54:47has been caught. He has been caught so here's a touch on Beauty Couch
- 54:57and then let's jump back into the conversation. An Instagram influencer is dead and
- 55:02her boyfriend is under arrest. According to authorities, Cobb County Police and Georgia
- 55:07say they found a car belonging to twenty two year old Beauty Couch in flames
- 55:13in a wooded area in the city of Austelle. Her body was found nearby.
- 55:21Couch gained more than one hundred and fifty thousand followers on Instagram with her
- 55:24fashion photos and roller skating dance videos. Two days after her body was found,
- 55:36police say her boyfriend, twenty one year old Eugene Louis Jacques of Florida,
- 55:40was arrested in Louisiana on a warrant for murder, arson, and aggravated
- 55:45assault in connection with her death. He's currently awaiting extradition back to Georgia for
- 55:52Inside Edition Digital, I'm Maramontalbano. Mm hmm, yeah. I have to
- 56:13breathe in between these stories, these young women losing their lives so viciously,
- 56:32so violently, and the sad part, because ever, there's always a sad
- 56:39part with Beauty Couch. Her sister said she always thought something was a little
- 56:47weird about this person. She thought something was awful about about this new boyfriend.
- 57:00Hey, Anthony, her name was Beauty Couch. If you're in Atlanta,
- 57:06it was in Hostel, Georgia. This was just this. We're in
- 57:09September. I want to say, this was like the early part of August.
- 57:14But her name was Beauty Couch. Here, I'll post it back up.
- 57:19There you go. But the sister said something was off about this young
- 57:25man, something didn't seem right with him. You're left her in the woods,
- 57:35set up car on fine, then you left and you went to Louisiana.
- 57:37He was actually arrested in Slidell Slidell, Louisiana's where he was arrested.
- 57:46Ladies, m I know. We want to try to love the red flags
- 58:01out of these men or these women. Whether you're in a straight relationship or
- 58:07you're in a gay relationship, run at the first red flag you see.
- 58:16Don't stick around to try to see if it's gonna get better, because I'm
- 58:22here to tell you, baby, from experience, it only gets worse.
- 58:27It gets worse. They don't change the change, They change victims. That's
- 58:32all they do. Again, I'm only speaking from experience, They change victims.
- 58:45After they beat you and you get away with your life, they just
- 58:50move on to another person and the next person may not be so lucky.
- 59:00And the most heinous part about it is when these men are arrested, they
- 59:05have records and histories of domestic violence or aggravated assault charges. They have a
- 59:12history. So I say that to say, ladies, run at the first
- 59:22red flag that you see, get the hell out of them. Start protecting
- 59:28yourself, ladies, because for some reason, some of these men are showing
- 59:36a disdain for black women. And we're seeing this every day, and it's
- 59:39a sickness. We're seeing this again every time I turn on the news,
- 59:47every time I get on social media, another another black woman killed at the
- 59:53hands of her boyfriend, her husband. I go back and I look at
- 1:00:00a story that really rocked me to the court. Emane Robertson, I have
- 1:00:15to take a deep breath. This story here was absolutely disturbing. This this
- 1:00:30story somehow affected me different. Emane Robertson from Atlanta. I'm sorry, Emonie
- 1:00:45Robertson. My apologies. Emanie Robertson. I don't know why this story hit
- 1:00:55me the hardest. I don't know if it was because this was the third
- 1:01:06child her family lost, the four children that are left, or if it
- 1:01:15was the fact that the husband did it. Hm oh, let me,
- 1:01:39let me breathe through this one, because I gotta say this, this one
- 1:01:45it hit my spirit a little differently. Again. I again, I don't
- 1:01:47know if it's because I believe this is the third child that her family has
- 1:01:52lost, she was the third child that her parents have to bury, the
- 1:01:55fact that this woman had four beauty for children, or the fact that it
- 1:02:02was the husband. M Anthony says, just a sad story, absolutely,
- 1:02:25because all these stories have affected me differently. But when it comes to Amoni
- 1:02:36Robertson again, this I really choked up watching the press conference with this young
- 1:02:44lady's parents. Again, I don't know if it's because this was the third
- 1:02:52child that her parents have are having to bury, the four children that are
- 1:02:54left without a mother, or the fact that it was the husband. It's
- 1:03:04a combination of all three. I really can't even just pimp one out and
- 1:03:07see this is the one, this is the one, this is this is
- 1:03:10what we would the Monie Robertson here we go. I said my goodbyes to
- 1:03:24my daughter yesterday and I told her I promised that when I laid there with
- 1:03:31Royal. Yet we will work with whoever we have to and all people ask
- 1:03:37involved will be held accountable. The father of Amante Robertson, at a news
- 1:03:42conference this morning, reacting to the latest news surrounding his daughter's death. The
- 1:03:46mother of four had been missing for nearly three weeks. Her family says the
- 1:03:50last time they heard from her was on July sixteenth. Police eventually found Robertson's
- 1:03:54car in South Fulton County. The car was burned from the inside out along
- 1:04:00Camp Creek Parkway. Today, authorities announced the arrest of Amani's husband, Danilla
- 1:04:04Anderson. He was arrested and charged in connection with her death. With more
- 1:04:09in the case eleven alives. Mali Oak has more from Rockdale County. The
- 1:04:14unknown now answered. Today is a very difficult day Amani Roberson's mom and dad.
- 1:04:21For our family, especially the mother and the father now know what happened
- 1:04:28to their daughter. When I couldn't reach Amani almost three weeks ago, I
- 1:04:32knew something was wrong. Late last night, my worst fears were confirmed and
- 1:04:43our family is devastated. Amani's mom, Clarine and to her White knew something
- 1:04:47wasn't right when she didn't hear from her daughter. Amani and her four kids
- 1:04:51went to her mom's for dinner and conyers on July sixteenth. Her two oldest
- 1:04:56stayed with Clarine, while Mani took her three year old and one month old
- 1:05:00home with her. But when Clarine didn't hear from her daughter the next day,
- 1:05:02she knew she had to call for help. That's when Rockdale County Sheriff's
- 1:05:08Office started investigating, and it was clear that foul play was evident in the
- 1:05:12disappearance of Amanti. On July nineteenth, three days after she was last seen,
- 1:05:16the Sheriff's office found Amani's car torched in South Fulton County. Yesterday,
- 1:05:21they found Amani's body just a couple of miles from her car, and they
- 1:05:26found the suspect here at City Central Apartments in Atlanta. The Sheriff's office arrested
- 1:05:30and charged Imani's husband, Danelle Anderson, with multiple charges including lany murder,
- 1:05:34malice, murder, and aggravated assault. And I can assure you that another
- 1:05:39arrest will be made. Immani's family knows. The pain isn't over. We
- 1:05:45thank you for your continued prayers and support as we work to care for Emani's
- 1:05:51beautiful boys without a mother. Their daughter is gone. So I said it
- 1:05:59my goodbye to my dad yesterday and I told her I promised that when I
- 1:06:08laid there with Royal that we will work with whoever we have to and all
- 1:06:13people who that's involved will be held accountable. Hand in hand. The family
- 1:06:18tearfully thanked law enforcement for helping them get answers. Thank you, thank you.
- 1:06:26It's not the news that we wanted. Well, I'm happy that we
- 1:06:31can hold them accountable, knowing now what they most feared in Rockdale County,
- 1:06:39Mayo. Eleven Alive News. The latest information on this awful story can be
- 1:06:44found on eleven alive dot com. Ooh, and in regards to the other
- 1:07:06the second person that was arrested was actually her husband's brother. H I realigious
- 1:07:20gonna have to breathe through this one. Mm hmm. That's when Anthony says
- 1:07:40it really doesn't matter. He said, that is just wrong on so many
- 1:07:44levels. And absolutely it is because these some of these men these days hate
- 1:07:53rejection. Some of these men and I'm not gonna say, oh, but
- 1:07:57some of these men don't like for you to tell them. No, whatever
- 1:08:02the situation was, you've left. You've left four children without a mother for
- 1:08:12your own selfishness. You've left a void in the hearts of a mother and
- 1:08:20father that will never be filled, all because you wanted to be a coward.
- 1:08:27Because you are a coward. I don't care what the situation was,
- 1:08:32I don't care. But these these men and these women that again, these
- 1:08:44domestic violent situations that end in death. You don't stop to consider the families,
- 1:08:53the luck, the friends, the children that are left hurt because of
- 1:09:00your actions. And the icing on the cake is the audacity and the golf
- 1:09:08for them to have an attitude when families get up to read the victim impact
- 1:09:14statements, no regards again, Emani Robertson, beautiful mother off, just thrown
- 1:09:31out in the woods like trash, and you walk away like nothing. You
- 1:09:43go home and you carry on about your day. Why, you know what,
- 1:09:55Let me stop asking why. Let me stop asking why, because we'll
- 1:09:59never get a real true answer with regards to why these monsters do what they
- 1:10:03do. We'll never get a real true answer. Never will never get that.
- 1:10:14And it's like, despite being murdered at higher rates. Black and brown
- 1:10:26murdered and missing women are not receiving the same media attention and resources as white
- 1:10:31women. Hell, we're still hearing about Gabby Pratito. Then they've made a
- 1:10:41lifetime movie. Hell, they've made what I think like two toolby movies.
- 1:10:53We don't get the same media attention and resources as white women do when they
- 1:10:56go missing and when they're murdered. All black and brown are being murdered.
- 1:11:03Black and brown women, I'm sorry, are being murdered at higher rates,
- 1:11:13being murdered at higher rates, and we don't receive the same media attention.
- 1:11:23And that's what I mean when I see y'all, we have to come together.
- 1:11:29We have to come together. We have to start putting these cases on
- 1:11:32the forefront. We have to start lighting fire under their asses to seek justice,
- 1:11:43to help us find our loved ones. Yes, I do understand that
- 1:11:48the manpower, it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of
- 1:11:51money, it takes a lot of effort. But for the same energy that
- 1:11:56you put in when white women go missing should be the same energy that you
- 1:12:02put into when black and brown women go missing as well, those very same
- 1:12:06resources that you utilize for them to be utilized for us too, And I'm
- 1:12:14gonna stand on that. I'm gonna stand on that because again, you can't
- 1:12:24tell me, oh, we don't have the manpower, we don't have the
- 1:12:26resources. Yes, you do, because you you utilize it for what really
- 1:12:30matters, but never for black and brown people. And again, we're being
- 1:12:38murdered at higher rates than white women. The same news, the same resources
- 1:12:47can be utilized, but they're not. When it comes to black and brown
- 1:12:55women that are murdered and missing, we never received the media coverage that we
- 1:13:00deserve. Hell, the same energy that y'all put in trying to find Carlile
- 1:13:05Russell, utilize those same resources to go and find black and brown women that
- 1:13:14go missing every day. Hell, help us create an app to what we
- 1:13:21could send out to people that live in different states about black and brown women
- 1:13:28that go missing. I just don't understand why those same resources are not utilized
- 1:13:34for us. I'll never understand that y'all don't value us. And that's the
- 1:13:45disheartening part of this, whole of this and its entirety. Y'all don't value
- 1:13:54us Black and brown women. We matter, We matter just as much as
- 1:13:59the next person. But you don't care. Same with regards to black men
- 1:14:08that go missing. I look at Gilanni Day. We still don't know what
- 1:14:14happened to Gilanni Day. We still haven't gotten justice for Kendrick Johnson. I
- 1:14:21don't understand, and it's sickening to me. It's so it really saddens my
- 1:14:30heart. Anthony says, they think we are less than absolutely and they've always
- 1:14:40made us feel this way, and they continue to make us feel this weak
- 1:14:45again. There were countless black and brown women that go missing every day and
- 1:14:49get no media coverage. Hell, they still talking about Natalie Holloway and Natalie
- 1:14:56Holloway was went missing what twenty something years? But you have these black and
- 1:15:02brown women that go missing every day nothing. Anytime I see a post on
- 1:15:09social media about a black or brown person missing, I'm gonna repost it all
- 1:15:14it take you. Imagine if all if social media is a breeding ground for
- 1:15:19the devil, just imagine the good that social media could do if we allow
- 1:15:24it to do good for us. Anytime I see a post about a black
- 1:15:28or brown person that goes missing, I'm sharing. I'm reposting because if that's
- 1:15:32my child, I would want you to do the same for me. I
- 1:15:36would want you to be the voice for me. I would want you to
- 1:15:42help me get the word out if one of my children were to ever go
- 1:15:45missing, or if one of my children was to ever be murdered, I
- 1:15:48would want your help. But again, the same media attention and resources that
- 1:15:58they have for white women can be utilized for black and brown women also.
- 1:16:03So I miss me with oh what we can, Yeah, we can,
- 1:16:08we can make a difference. We just really have to collectively come together.
- 1:16:12Like I said, get up and let's go to these meetings. Y'all advocate
- 1:16:15for what you want. Like y'all don't see anything. Nobody says anything.
- 1:16:28Again, they're still talking about Gean Berene Ramsey and Jean Bree Ramsey was killed
- 1:16:32twenty thirty years ago. And again, you have black and brown women that
- 1:16:36go missing every day and we get no coverage. I remember, y'all when
- 1:16:41my niece was murdered, When my niece was missing and the other young lady
- 1:16:46was missing too, But prior to their bodies being found, do you know
- 1:16:51that they got a thirty second forty second segment that was cut because a white
- 1:16:58lady and her dog were killed. To pe my part that was pushed to
- 1:17:04the side. Another young lady that was killed and pe my part. Another
- 1:17:11a black young lady. Her story got no coverage. And by no means,
- 1:17:17you know, let me, let me, let me, let me
- 1:17:19put this out here. By no means am I being racist? But I'm
- 1:17:25just stating the facts because I'm gonna always give you a fact over feelings.
- 1:17:32There's no media coverage. I watched these stories every day. You'll see it,
- 1:17:39and again it's onto something else. You really have families out here that
- 1:17:45are begging and pleading for help some type of coverage, and this is the
- 1:17:54this is what I utilize my platform for to help get these family stories out.
- 1:18:04The media doesn't do it, So why not utilize my platform for the
- 1:18:08good? Because again, I would ask for someone to do the same for
- 1:18:11me. I would ask somebody to do the same for me if it came
- 1:18:19down to a matter of fact. I did when my niece was missing.
- 1:18:26I shared it and I begged people, anybody in the Atlanta area, please
- 1:18:30share it, please help. And I can count on one hand the number
- 1:18:35of people that assisted in helping to find my needs. But those very same
- 1:18:44people turn around and want me to put a story out for them. Let
- 1:18:54me say this. I do this because this is my purpose, This is
- 1:18:59my passion. Michelande says, right, fucking say something. But I do
- 1:19:09this because this is my passion and this is my purpose. I don't do
- 1:19:15this for likes. I don't do this for views. I utilize my platform
- 1:19:19for the good, to bring about conversations that are missed, that are lost
- 1:19:26in the translation. Because y'all are so concerned with what's going on in these
- 1:19:30celebrities lives when you have stuff that's going on in your own backyard that you
- 1:19:36could care to talk about. That's why I do what I do. This
- 1:19:45is why I do this. I do it because maybe this could help somebody.
- 1:19:54Maybe if I get a story out, this could help bring some type
- 1:19:57of closure, maybe somebody else tune in and watch to replay and say,
- 1:20:00oh my god, hey I know her, Oh my god, I saw
- 1:20:03her the other day. This is why I do what I do, and
- 1:20:09I do it for free. I don't ask for nothing financially. I do
- 1:20:14this all for free because again, I've been in a similar situation and all
- 1:20:24we as the families won't it's just to get the story out. You could
- 1:20:30be potentially helping somebody. That's why I do this. That's why I do
- 1:20:36these shows. That's why I do this episode. That's why I do it.
- 1:20:40Let me say, not this episode, but this is why I do
- 1:20:42episodes like this. It's because I would want someone to do this for me,
- 1:20:55because again, we get little to no media coverage, and then with
- 1:21:00the situation with carl Russell, you very well may have set us back.
- 1:21:09And the very same day that Carly Russell allegedly went missing, two women went
- 1:21:15missing that very same day that were really truly missing and have yet to be
- 1:21:19found. So this is why I do episodes like this to bring about awareness.
- 1:21:30Demicide is real and it's on the rise. And again it's not just
- 1:21:34happening at the hands of in domestic relationships, but friends, we see this
- 1:21:45all the time. And to you ladies, stop trying to love the red
- 1:21:54flag out of these animals, cause David, when I tell you, they're
- 1:21:57monsters, they're animals, and they never changed, they just changed victims.
- 1:22:09Unfortunately, these young ladies didn't make it out. Maybe this episode will saved
- 1:22:18the next person. I just feel like when my sister went to the police
- 1:22:30and told the police who to look for who to look into. You may
- 1:22:39not have been able to save my niece, but you may have been able
- 1:22:41to save the other young lady that was killed along with my niece. So
- 1:22:47again, this is why I do these shows. It's to bring about awareness.
- 1:22:56It's to help a family. Is to have a story out for a
- 1:22:59family who are getting no media coverage, and maybe little O Me get helped
- 1:23:08push potentially push your story to the forefront. Maybe somebody will see this episode
- 1:23:14or any other episode that I've done and say, hey, wait a minute,
- 1:23:17I know her. I saw her. She was with this guy.
- 1:23:23Oh, I know where the guy lives. And maybe you could potentially save
- 1:23:30the next victim or victims, maybe just maybe. Michelanda says, treat others
- 1:23:46as you wish to wish to be treated. Love one another. Jesus said,
- 1:23:49it is the most important thing. I agree. I agree, But
- 1:23:57we definitely need him down here to come and help with these evil demon experience
- 1:24:02that are walking this earth because it is some demons, it is absolutely some
- 1:24:10sick individuals that are unliving these women at alarming rates. I don't know what
- 1:24:19it is. We may never know, We may never know why these men
- 1:24:27are unliving these women the way that they are. We may never understand who
- 1:24:34knows, But all I ask is share the post, share the video.
- 1:24:46If you see a post come across somebody missing, sharing because you could be
- 1:24:51helping to save a life. You may not have been able to save this
- 1:24:56particular person's life, but you may be potentially saving someone else's life from this
- 1:25:00very same person. That's all I ask. You know something, you see
- 1:25:09something, say something, because this could be you sitting on the other side
- 1:25:17having to experience exactly what these very same families are going through. And that's
- 1:25:25very dishearted. Michelinda says, Amen, very dishearted. But these these stories.
- 1:25:42Again, it never gets easier to tell these stories. But I have
- 1:25:47to. I have to because I could be this this show tonight, could
- 1:26:00be potentially saving someone's daughter, someone's son, someone's sister, someone's niece,
- 1:26:06someone's mother. Because we're seeing it far too often, and these women are
- 1:26:15getting younger and younger by the day. Sometimes I just have to breathe.
- 1:26:32Sometimes I have to pray before I do these episodes, because these are all
- 1:26:43personal stories to me. These are all things that I've experienced, you know.
- 1:26:53Anthony says, Yes, let's band together because Anthony, you could be
- 1:26:59a father, they're a brother, a cousin and uncle, and this could
- 1:27:01be your your female loved one that's gonna missing, and you need me to
- 1:27:06get her story out. You need to get the word out because you're not
- 1:27:10getting any headway with law enforcement. This is why I do what I do.
- 1:27:17Michelina says, don't hide these creatures in your silence, Michelin, and
- 1:27:21we see this, and the and and the disheartening part is you have families
- 1:27:30that co sign and hide and take up for these very same monsters that you
- 1:27:35know for a fact have killed somebody. This is why I bring these types
- 1:27:47of topics to the forefront. This is the very same reason again, and
- 1:27:54I'm gonna say it again and again and again. This is the very same
- 1:27:56reason why I do shows like this. This is the very same episode I
- 1:28:00do these real topics because y'all act like y'all are scared. I have children,
- 1:28:15I have a mother, I have sisters, I have brothers, I
- 1:28:19have nieces, I have nephews, I have cousins. And I would love,
- 1:28:28love, love for someone that has a platform or the ability to potentially
- 1:28:36get my story out to the press to do just so. I would love
- 1:28:44that. So that's why I do this. This is why I get up
- 1:28:50here and I do this weekend and week in, week out, because I
- 1:28:57would love for y'all to do this for me. I would love if something
- 1:29:02happened to my child and I knew someone had a platform, I most definitely
- 1:29:10would ask please help me, help me to get the story out, help
- 1:29:14me to get the word out. This is why I do what I do.
- 1:29:20This is my passion, y'all. I really I don't think y'all understand
- 1:29:27what a joy this brings to me when I sit in front of these cameras,
- 1:29:31this camera, these cameras and speak into this microphone and potentially be helping
- 1:29:39a family or a friend, anybody. This is why I do what I
- 1:29:46do. This is my passion, this is my purpose. I do it
- 1:29:59to help people. I do it to hold people accountable. I do this
- 1:30:10so we could become better as people, man or woman. That's why I
- 1:30:16do what I do. Henglo Bro, my brother says, speak the real
- 1:30:25sist. He says, one hundred sists. This is why I do what
- 1:30:30I do. This is why I get on this platform. I don't care
- 1:30:35if it's one person I don't care if it's a hundred people. Somebody's listening,
- 1:30:43somebody's watching, somebody's sharing, someone's getting this over to a family and
- 1:30:53saying, hey, this is who you need to talk to right here.
- 1:30:58I get those messages. I guess I'm rolling into my final thoughts. I'm
- 1:31:05absolutely a freedom fighter. I'm blessed. Brother, Oh let me go this
- 1:31:12way. I'm blessed. I was going backwards, but I'm blessed. But
- 1:31:17I guess I'm I am going into my final thoughts. I guess that's the
- 1:31:21way I just rolled into. Of course, that's not I wanted to end
- 1:31:25it, but hey, that that's what I'm rolling into. But I do
- 1:31:30this because again, I would definitely love for someone to do this for me.
- 1:31:41I get messages from people daily that's saying thank you, we watched your
- 1:31:48show and that hit home for me, or we watched your show and that
- 1:31:56helped me. That's why I sit here and I do what I do.
- 1:32:02Like I tell y'all, I don't care if one person shows up. I
- 1:32:05don't care if one hundred people, I don't care if five people show up,
- 1:32:09five hundred people show up, fifty people show up. You can't silence
- 1:32:14me. I'm gonna always bring those conversations that y'all run from back to the
- 1:32:23forefront and again when it comes to femicide again, men are murdering black women
- 1:32:33and girls that are rate almost three times higher than white women. Yeah,
- 1:32:45that's what's happening. We get little to no media coverage, no media at
- 1:32:53tension. The same resources that are utilized to look for a white woman you
- 1:33:00don't use for black or brown people. You'll see a post y'all reposted.
- 1:33:13If y'all can repost World Star fights, if we could sit and have conversations
- 1:33:19about celebrities that are being cheated on, utilize your platform for something good as
- 1:33:27well, brother says the Lol. That's right, and I do. Anytime
- 1:33:35I see a post about somebody missing, I don't care if white, black,
- 1:33:39purple green, I share because apparently they're not getting the help that they
- 1:33:47need on ground, So why not turn on social media? Utilize social media
- 1:33:55what it could be good for. If we could sit and laughing, joking,
- 1:34:00play and post memes all day, we could also utilize it for something
- 1:34:05good. I utilize my platform for both. I'm gonna laugh with you.
- 1:34:10I'm a joke with you. I'm a post memes. I'm gonna talk about
- 1:34:14football whatever, but I also come right here to a black girl interrupt that
- 1:34:18podcast and bring your real life conversations as well. I know you're tired of
- 1:34:27hearing it. I know y'all are, but we're tired of seeing it happen.
- 1:34:34We're tired of seeing our black and brown girls being murdered or go missing
- 1:34:40and get no coverage. We're tired too. We're tired of seeing these demonic
- 1:34:48experience and these animals that walk amongst us, that act like nothing has happened.
- 1:35:00We're tired too. We're absolutely disgusted. But I'm gonna keep utilizing on
- 1:35:09my platform for the good. I'm gonna keep utilized on my platform to bring
- 1:35:15those important and imperative stories to the forefront. That's what I'm gonna do.
- 1:35:24That's what I'm gonna do. And I guess you could say that's my final
- 1:35:30fault, my final thought. I'm sorry, y'all. I guess you could
- 1:35:33say this's my final thought. Although this episode was supposed to be two parts,
- 1:35:40I was able to get all the stories then in one episode, so
- 1:35:42I'm happy about that. So tomorrow night, I have not done miss Yolanda
- 1:35:53says, you had me so lost. But what does he say on your
- 1:35:58chat? Dull football? Oh yeah, I'm gonna talk about some football.
- 1:36:03Absolutely again. Although this was supposed to have been a two part episode because
- 1:36:10I thought it was gonna kind of go a little longer than what I thought,
- 1:36:13but I was able to get all my stories in tonight, so,
- 1:36:17uh, tomorrow night, I'm actually gonna change it. Tomorrow night we're gonna
- 1:36:20do in Power Hour, so Wednesday up, so it's gonna be not necessarily
- 1:36:26wild out Wednesday, but wind out Wednesday. I guess maybe something like that
- 1:36:30in Power Tomorrow night we're gonna do in Power Hour, So Tomorrow night will
- 1:36:32just be strictly about empowering you know. You know what, No, I'm
- 1:36:42gonna switch that up. I'm gonna do that next week. Tomorrow. I'm
- 1:36:47gonna make it spicy. I'm gonna make it spicy tomorrow, you know what.
- 1:36:51Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna switch these episodes.
- 1:36:56I'm gonna just swap the days on the episode. So next week we'll
- 1:36:59do the Empower Hour, but tomorrow I'm gonna be talking to the ladies and
- 1:37:08then y'all might get a little offended. Y'all ladies might get a little offended.
- 1:37:15Let me, I'm gonna swap it up because again, this was actually
- 1:37:19supposed to be a two part episode, and again I didn't think I was
- 1:37:25gonna get all the stories in in one night. So I broke it down.
- 1:37:30I was like, Okay, well, let's do two parts. But
- 1:37:31since I was able to, uh, you know what, I still can't
- 1:37:36pick up You don't, No, I can't. Let's I'm gonna switch it
- 1:37:44up. Let's let's do empower Hour tomorrow. So tomorrow night is gonna be
- 1:37:49about empowerment. That's that's what we're gonna discuss. Tomorrow night is empowerment.
- 1:37:55Y'all dropped me dropping a chat. Let me know, uh, what type
- 1:38:01of encouragement do you need? What? What do you need me to do
- 1:38:04for you? Do you need me to pray with you? Do you need
- 1:38:08me to pray for you? Do you just need some empowering words? Do
- 1:38:12you just need to be uplifted? Do you just need to be encouraged?
- 1:38:15What do you need? And that's what we're gonna do tomorrow because I haven't
- 1:38:18been able to do it because I've been re arranging episodes because people are like,
- 1:38:24no, actually, you gotta talk about this, you gotta address this.
- 1:38:27So again, as I stated last week, I was not on because
- 1:38:31I did have COVID, but the week prior, I did say I will
- 1:38:34no longer be rearranging episodes. Whatever episodes I put out, that's what I
- 1:38:40will do. My episodes are completed for the rest of the month, but
- 1:38:45I do have some updates that I do have to bring to you guys,
- 1:38:50So look look forward to those upcoming episodes. With the updates with regards to
- 1:38:57the try the case of Try Try Nickels, there has been some developments in
- 1:39:04that case. I believe the trial has started or is starting soon, but
- 1:39:09I want to definitely reach back on touch back on that episode and bring you
- 1:39:14the updates on that. So that's what I'm gonna be doing. I'm also
- 1:39:19gonna end the month with doing a panel with just men. I do not
- 1:39:26want your women on the panel because I'm this is only going to be a
- 1:39:30safe space for men with regards to their mental health because this is suicide Awareness
- 1:39:38month, So I want to end the month with that. I already have
- 1:39:42two men that are going to actually join me and I just need to touch
- 1:39:46back with the therapist and then the third guest that's gonna come on. So
- 1:39:50I'm ending the month again, this is suicide excuse me, prevention month,
- 1:39:56So I'm gonna end the month with that, and then the start of our
- 1:40:00October, I'm gonna be bringing you the updates with some of the cases that
- 1:40:03we've touched on that have now started to have developments that I need to keep
- 1:40:08your guys abreast on. There was a story that was presenting to me today.
- 1:40:12I don't have a definitive date on that one, but I will keep
- 1:40:15your guys updated on that. Also some of the changes with Black Girl Interrupted
- 1:40:24podcast as of I need to go back and look at the date because I
- 1:40:30have it on my calendar. But effective October, I will own on Tuesdays,
- 1:40:38I will be streaming live to Facebook as well as YouTube, but on
- 1:40:43Wednesdays, my episodes I will be streaming only on Instagram and TikTok, so
- 1:40:50those episodes will not be recorded, so you will not be able to catch
- 1:40:56the replays because unfortunately, I don't believe TikTok. I know Instagram does not
- 1:41:00does not do replace. I think TikTok does, so I'm gonna see how
- 1:41:06that works so I can potentially upload them to YouTube. If not, you'll
- 1:41:12just miss out on that show. But I'm I'm going taking Black Girl Interrupt
- 1:41:17the podcast in a different directions, so again effective October. Let me look
- 1:41:24at my calendar, give me a second, shall but it will be in
- 1:41:28October that I will only on Tuesdays be streaming to Facebook and YouTube, and
- 1:41:35then on Wednesdays you will have to catch the episodes on Instagram or TikTok.
- 1:41:42Again, it is under the same name black Girl Interrupted, but those are
- 1:41:48the upcoming Those are the updates coming for Black Girl Interrupted. I have had
- 1:41:53to push the Black Carpet Experience back to mid October to roll out mid October
- 1:42:01because I have some things that are coming up that I have to work on
- 1:42:06and get etched in Stone because I am working on collaborations with University of Houston,
- 1:42:15Texas Southern University as well as Rice University, so trying to get some
- 1:42:19dates solidified with them. Hopefully that will come to forefront by where I'm looking
- 1:42:27for December, if not sometime after the first of the years. So I'm
- 1:42:30taking Black Girl Interrupted podcasts in a different direction just to gain a little more
- 1:42:36traction. So I'm not totally leaving everybody out, but I do have to
- 1:42:45start utilizing alternate avenues to continue pushing Black Girl Interrupted the podcast in a bigger
- 1:42:53on a bigger stage, bigger platform, and in a more positive direction.
- 1:43:00Malcolm Jamal Lewis farakon King it's Robinson Junior. Hey, let us see your
- 1:43:05brother. Thank you, Yes, I'm I'm anyway, I'm blessed, and
- 1:43:14thank you for the prayers and thank you for praying for me. But yeah,
- 1:43:17so those are the upcoming changes for a Black Girl Interrupted. I will
- 1:43:20post an itinerary so you guys can know, so you guys are not left
- 1:43:25out of the loop. But again tomorrow and night. Again, this was
- 1:43:29supposed to be a two part episode, but again I was able to get
- 1:43:33all the story squeezed in tonight. So Tomorrow night will be the empowered hour,
- 1:43:40and then I will give y'all a sneak peek of next Tuesday's episode.
- 1:43:45And then again I'm gonna end a month doing my mental health. Uh where
- 1:43:50it's just a men. I'm only speaking to the men. I always talk
- 1:43:54to you ladies, but I want to create a safe space for just men
- 1:43:58to be able to come in and talk with regards to sharing their stories when
- 1:44:02it comes to their mental health. So I just I'm gonna solidify the date
- 1:44:06on that. That will be the end of September, So that will be
- 1:44:14Wednesday, next next Wednesday. So y'all look to that. Thank you,
- 1:44:20thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. But on that
- 1:44:24note, I do want to say thank y'all so much for joining and tuning
- 1:44:28into another beautiful episode of Black Girl Interrupted. Again, y'all, I am
- 1:44:32always humbled when you guys show up and and love on me and support on
- 1:44:39me and encourage me to keep shooting for the stars. I've fully recovered from
- 1:44:47COVID. I'm so happy about that, because, Baby, when I tell
- 1:44:50y'all last week, it was I'm telling y'all, I was ready for them
- 1:44:54to just gonna take me, take me down. I called Jesus and told
- 1:44:57him just come on. But again, and I do appreciate you guys.
- 1:45:00I love you guys again for showing up, for coming in and pouring into
- 1:45:04me and loving on me the way that you guys do. It is absolutely
- 1:45:08appreciated. It is very a very umbling experience. And on that note,
- 1:45:14I'm gonna go ahead and close it up. But I love you guys,
- 1:45:16and I will see you guys tomorrow night again. Don't forget eight thirty pm
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- 1:45:46Y'all have a good night, and I'll see you tomorrow night, same time,
- 1:45:49same place. I good night