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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #96_HOST MINISTER ALMA THOMAS · DA CREW Podcast

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on tonight. We thank you when we praise you, and we give you
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praise every day. Hello, and once again it's me the hostess with the
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Mostess, Minister Alma Thomas. And on tonight, I have a very very
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special guests, one that we came together as Kendrick Spirits because we both have
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lost the son. Even though she lost hers to gon violence, which we're
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gonna talk about tonight, and mine died to natural causes. No matter what
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the group cause is, the hurt for the parents is the same. So
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I want you to join me and celebrating and welcoming this great woman to the
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stage Indiana suiting your guests dropped out or while we wait for Indiana to give
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oh she's back. On a good evening, Indiana, And how are you
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doing on this winning Wednesday where everything attached to us winds? How are you
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doing? I'm doing, I'm doing. I'm a little fine. Yep,
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alright, alright. So we're gonna get right into it tonight, and I
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want you to. I'll tell the audience full Indiana Sweeting is hello everyone,
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and then good evening. My name is Indiana Sweeting Bumpers. I'm a mom.
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First, I'm the CEO of founder of Leak's Path, and I'm an
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author and a grandmother. Okay, Um, what is um Molique's Path?
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And how did you get one? Go on this journey? Um down Malique's
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Path? Um Malik's pot started Malik Um Malik was my youngest child. You
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know, he gets graduated high school, you know, on this way to
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on this was getting ready for college. But on September four, two thousand
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and sixteen, he was shot and killed. Yes, students hear that and
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killed and Um, things were so hectic, you know, I was about
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to lose my mind. A friend of mine suggested, Um, you know
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started something sat something in Elik's name, you know, one of him.
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You know your your end up passion, so I started Malik's Path. Um
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Release Path is a not for profit organization, but a five or one three
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feet you know we Um, Malik was into sports and education. So I
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cooked dinners, I saw books, I saw a T shirt to allow kids
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in my community for allowed me to give a kid in my kid community every
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year a scholarship. Oh that's wonderful. And also I was sport to youth
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to play um football, you know, to keep keep the youth off the
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street. You know, anything for the youth. Okay, okay, So
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that's how I'm the least have started. UM. So you said that,
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UM, well, I know this might be hard for you to talk about.
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It's been hard for you to talk about. I will go on to
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something else. But um, you say, just before Malik was to go
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off to college, he was gunned down to him his own neighborhood. Have
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you found the killer or killers yet? No? And that is what's so
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sad in our community. UM, September four to these seven years and the
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killer is still walking the street. Killer killers. You know, nobody's saying
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anything. Do you think that gun violence is more prevailed, um, more
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persistent and some communities than others. Yes, I noticed, and statistics even
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say that stated that, Um, the black, the more murders are in
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the black and brown community. Right, we're killing were killing over nonsense,
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we're killing ourselves. We're getting Um it's like they don't have to kill us
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anymore because we've been conditioned to kill one another. So, UM, do
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you feel that, um, there should be some kind of restrictions on guns
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that these young people can't get their hands on guns. Um. I don't
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know about the illegal guns, but you know, um, there's laws in
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place that if a person wanted to purchase a gun, you know, they
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should do a background check. I think background check is the way to go
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to eliminated the person have a mental problem in a domestic situation. That's what
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I think is important. But the illegal guns, I don't know what to
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say, right, Um, the illegal guns are one that's doing the killing,
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not the one that the person has to permit or a license to carry
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a gun. Right Because what we yeah, we normally say is that guns
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don't kill people. People do like guns just don't get up and fire themselves.
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But when you talk to young people, do you let them know that
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when they make a decision to pick up a gun. They not only affect
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their lives, but they also affect the life of the parents and the families
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who have lost the loved one. They it affects the life of their parents
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because they might still be alive, but they're in prison. So do you
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talk to young people about making that decision and stop it and thinking for a
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minute about the consequences that they are causing. Yes, I do. When
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I speak, I tell them that you know when you when you pick a
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gun up, you're the story in your life, your family life. That
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think before you pull the triggered thing, you know, And I think also
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do they need education? Education? Gun violence? Like every day, like
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twenty people died, like gun violence in the United States, Right, they
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need the young people, um not only need like you said, your son
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was in sports. Not only do the young people need other constructive activities to
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do, but they need to have methods and ways to deal with their problems
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other than just picking up a gun. We see children, well, now
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there was a child that was as young as six years old that shot his
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teacher. And you know, these kinds of things are happening all the time,
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that kids are just pulling a trigger not caring what innocent bystanders get shot,
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not considering the consequences their actions gonna have on their family. So I
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think that you know, we should start as young as UM three years old,
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UM checking UM, giving children other ways to check their emotions, to
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check their their feelings, because a lot of times they don't think, they
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act impossibly and they don't think about the consequences. They don't think about how
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their own mother is gonna be crying. They don't think about, like,
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over the last seven years, how has Malik's death affected you? UM?
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Some days? In the beginning, it was real hard. It took me
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almost like almost four years that I could stand up and speak his name without
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crying. But it's gotten a little better with me speaking, but it's hard.
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That's how we connected because I understand the pain that you're going into.
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I remember reading the story in the newspaper and immediately began to pray for you
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because I knew the journey that you were beginning to block on the club that
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nobody wants to be a member of, the person who lost the child,
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and you go through so many emotions, like people think that they are helping
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you and they tell you things like he's in a better place, and you're
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thinking in your mind, if it's such a better place, why don't you
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let your child go there and tell me how you feel about the place?
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Give me back my child. And you know, you eventually come to the
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accept that you know, to be absent from the body is to be present
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with the Lord. But sometimes we are a little selfish because we want to
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hold on to our loved ones. We don't want them to go to the
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better place, and we have such a maage of emotions, especially when you
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live in the same community that your sudden was gunned down in and the killer
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or killers might be coming to your house on Sunday for dinner, right,
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you don't know because we've heard of cases where best friends have shot their best
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friends and was Paul Barriers at the friend and get all the crying too,
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crying all emotions and everybody and they're crying, and you know you're having You're
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going through your emotions, but you're feeling bad for them, not knowing that
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they want to core your son's death. So what are the police? Um?
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We know that the Guilgo Beach murders um is prevalent on Long Island,
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Are they still looking for your son's killer or killers. Yes, well,
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I've spoken to the detectives. I'm spoken, I've spoken to the DA.
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They told me they still looking into it. I told him they need to
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look harder because the guilt that they like you said the Gilgo case, how
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long that's been My son is just seven years. But they're telling me the
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community is the one not speaking. Nobody in the community is speaking right because
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the community and hands the time because of the community. Yes, the community
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has this um no stitch code, but when it comes to losing a loved
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one, it's okay to say something if you know something, because you don't
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know the mental anguish that the mom is going through, not knowing what exactly
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happened. And I still haven't nobody still I still don't know what happened that
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day. All I know is my son is dead, and all and all
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the other boys that were there still alive, going over their lives like nothing
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happened, trying to avoid me. You know, I try to avoid them
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too. I pretend I don't see them, but they still live in their
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lives. Some finished schools, some didn't, right, And you know that
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that is a hard tilled us swallow um. Well, right now, we
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are going to go to a brief commercial break, and then we'll be right
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back with our guests, Indiana suiting and she'll tell you how you can get
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They got to go after. I'm gonna to run a flip the scene to
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retront with not with a little touch of late first first Place, First First
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who said Hello, Hello, Hello, welcome back to Live Again Prodcast,
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where we encourage our audience to live again, no matter what loss you have
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gone through in your life, that you can live again. And we're speaking
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with Indiana Sweden, who lost her son Malisks to gun violence, and we're
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talking about gun violence and the effect that it has on parents a month old.
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The King said, by our readiness to allow alms to be purchased at
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well and by it at whim, we have created an atmosphere and which violence
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and hatred have become popular pastimes. Do you agree with M Martin Luther King
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that because we've made a gun so avail available and violence. Um, like
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guys feel like they made it when they have a body on their belt,
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they feel like they have cloud. When I used to be when Martin Luke
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the King was around that, UM, you got cloud by how much education
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you had, how much work you did in the community. But now you
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get cloud by how many bodies you have, how many years are you spend
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in prison? So do you think that the climate in this country has created
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them the climate for gun violence? Um? Yes, I believe that.
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I believe that. And also the Second Amendment, it's telling you, it's
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telling you you know you have to write to bear on, but bear on
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for what? Or two for what? What do you need on for?
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We don't need to bear on for but to protect your whole maybe, but
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then pick somebody's life. No, right, right? So, Um,
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we've UM discussed briefly for a few moments, beliefs have and this game.
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Can you tell us what UM fundraisers you have coming up to raise funds for
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UM youth in the community. Yes, well, on September twenty nine,
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I'm having my street name in his name, so from Arlington to Doe will
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be called LAK's fat. Yeah, that's awesome. And in September thirty is
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the seventy year UM annual dinner fundraiser for our scholarship. That's that's awesome.
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That's UM such a way UM to remember the legacy of Malik and what he
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stood for. So the people of the Wye Dance community will never ever beg
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He'll never be forgotten his name because the street is named that to him.
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So every time you go down that street, you remember Malik and what he
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stood for. And hopefully one day soon we will be able to UM bring
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the killer or killers to justice, so you can just have a little bit
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of closure. Won't bring Malif bag, but it will give you a bit
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of closure. Yeah. It is not knowing, not knowing, not knowing,
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you know, it's like you know right, not knowing, Like I
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have a little bit of comfort of knowing that my son died uh natural causes.
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But when someone else causes the harm to your child and you they're walking
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around free, you don't have that closure. Even though you went through UM
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the funeral process and the morning and the grief process, you still don't have
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that complete closure because somebody's walking around living their life like it's golden, but
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you're suffering and silence. It's like when the casket is closed on our child,
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a part of us dies. And even though people say it gets better,
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we're able to live with it a little better as times goes on,
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but it doesn't get better because I'm sure that like I do at the anniversary
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of his death, the date of his birth, all those days of very
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emotional days for me, And it's been twelve years since I buried my son,
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but those wounds become a fresh every time those memory dates come. So
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how can we be a part of Maligue's path? And um, can you
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um show us the book that you dedicated to Maligue's life and tell the audience
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how they can get that book and they could be part. That's a they
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can have just a little bit of a part of the legacy of Malik.
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So as we never never want to forget, we always want to remember and
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keep his legacy alive alive. Yeah, yeah, this is the book Malik's
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Fast. If you could purchase the book on Amazon, and you could also
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get in contacting with me on Facebook, Indiana bumpers on Facebook could purchase the
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book for me and the book. I also autographed the book if you purchased
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The True Me. Okay, okay, so um, what's next for Indiana
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Sweden? Where do you see your life going? Um after this? We
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know you're gonna continue to fight for justice for your not only your son,
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but every um child that's gunned down in cold blood buy a coward. But
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in the future, I'm looking for like a building, so I could because
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you know, I can bring somebody in like maybe like the council, the
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mom, the youth and speak more on violence to education. So that's great.
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That's great. So now a building, so I more everybody, UM,
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get the book. Look on her website and check out the t shirts.
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And if you're in the wand Dance New York area, buy a ticket
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to the galah And even if you're not in the area, buy a ticket
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and sponsor a young person to go to this great value of galler where they'll
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learn about gun violence and see up post and personal what gun violence does to
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a family, what gun violence does to the community. And we would like
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to congratulate Indiana Sueting on her various projects that she's working on in the community.
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We want to celebrate her for her tenacity and making sure that the Suffer
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County's detectives don't never forget Milik's name, don't let it, never let it
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become a full phase. The Keith is upfront and personal, and we want
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to thank her for her transparency and sharing what it's like to lose a child,
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but not only just lose a child, but lose that child at the
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hands of some coward. So we want to celebrate her and congratulate her for
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being able. A lot of people don't make it on this journey. We
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get placed on this journey against our will, and a lot of people don't
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make it in this club for parents who lost kids, a club that you
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never never want to be part of, but you find yourself a part of
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it, and as you go on this journey, you have so many emotions.
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But we just want to thank her for tonight, for being transparent and
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sharing a little bit of who Maligue was and what Maligue stood for. And
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as she continue news to educate youth on gun violence, we stand with her
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and this endeavor. So we thank you. We thank you for coming on
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the show tonight. The Devil tried, but how many people know that the
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devil has no power here and the name of Jesus. So we thank you
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on tonight for rocking out with Live Again podcasts and my special guests Indiana Suiting,
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and we will definitely definitely invite her bag to update us on the case
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and the progress that she's making in the wide dance community. So we thank
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we thank you again for coming on the show. We thank the audience.
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So do me a favor like this and share it and comment and gold uh
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like and share and comment. Everybody, have a wonderful, wonderful women Wednesday,
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and remember that everything attached to you wins you tonight. You are welcome.
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You're welcome for accepting the invitation. Have a blessed, blessed night,
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and we will see you again in two weeks. We'll see you again in
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two weeks. Will I have another special guest. Good night and God bless
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us, Thank you and podcast show with your host Amma Thomas. For God
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so loved the world that it gave his only begotten son, that who shall
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ever shall believe shall not perish, but half never last team