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Justice League NYC Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrities join the breakfast Yep, Charlomagne and
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Speaker 1: Guardia Angelie. We are to Breakfast Club. We got some
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Speaker 1: special guests in the building. I don't want to say that.
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Speaker 1: Vy always says that, Yeah, I got my folks in
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Speaker 1: the building. My man, my son, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: In the Justice League and we're talking about the March
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Speaker 1: to Justice, all right, so let's get into what that is.
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Speaker 1: This is actually right on time. We just had another
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Speaker 1: copy killer killer on black Man and now yes, at
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Speaker 1: least he got charged though, so this is right on time.
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Speaker 1: What is what is the watch about? So? The March
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Speaker 1: to Justice is an initiative, excuse me, of the Justice
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Speaker 1: League where we'll be walking from New York City beginning
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Speaker 1: April thirteenth to Washington, DC over eight days, staying at
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Speaker 1: churches and community centers and colleges along the route, registering
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Speaker 1: voters and connecting with organizers and young people, particularly on
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Speaker 1: the road to deal with the issue of police accountability
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Speaker 1: and looking at criminal justice reform in general. When we
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Speaker 1: get to Washington, DC, will be delivering something called the
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Speaker 1: Justice Package that has three pieces of federal legislation in
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Speaker 1: it that deal with the criminalization of our communities, ending
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Speaker 1: the militarization of law enforcement. When you look at what's
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Speaker 1: happening in Ferguson. Every time any issue jumps off there,
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Speaker 1: the police come in with tanks and all types of
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Speaker 1: heavy artillery to deal with people human acting like we're
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Speaker 1: in Iraq. And then there's the Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who want to talk about
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Speaker 1: gun violence and all of that, which is certainly an issue,
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Speaker 1: but the young people in our communities have not been
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Speaker 1: invested in. They've been taking more and more community centers
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Speaker 1: and all the things that young people need to be
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Speaker 1: whole out of the community. Yet they want the kids
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Speaker 1: somehow to survive and be the best that they can be.
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Speaker 1: So when we get to DC, we're asking Congress to
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Speaker 1: do things. But the reason why we're walking all through
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Speaker 1: all of these cities is because our people have to
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Speaker 1: do something as well. We can't just wait on Congress.
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Speaker 1: We have a responsibility to be involved in an issue.
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Speaker 1: So eight days April thirteen, we need people to support us.
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Speaker 1: Donations are necessary and you can find us on March
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Speaker 1: to the number two Justice dot com. What are some
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Speaker 1: of the things that's outlined that we're asking support specifically
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Speaker 1: when you get to PC. So we're going to be
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Speaker 1: meeting with Congress, and I think oftentimes we do work
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Speaker 1: and we organize around in our local communities, but we're
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Speaker 1: going to be asking them to actually support these three bills.
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Speaker 1: And one of the ones that Tamika left out is
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Speaker 1: ending racial profiling. And so we know that these three bills,
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Speaker 1: they some of them need to be introduced, some of
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Speaker 1: them also need bipartisans support, but they also need to
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Speaker 1: sign on themselves to really elevate our communities at this moment,
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Speaker 1: especially with all these police killings and also the disproportionate
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Speaker 1: amount of black, amount of black and latinos in the
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Speaker 1: incarceration system. Now, now, Mice, what are you doing here?
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Speaker 1: You are you an x fell and you're a rapper.
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Speaker 1: Rappers gonna get involved in this kind of stuff. And
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Speaker 1: that's that's exactly the myth that I wanted to, you know,
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Speaker 1: to dispel. I think that as a rapper coming from
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Speaker 1: these communities, this is our fight. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: We grew up in this. We grew up in police brutality,
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Speaker 1: We grew up in violence and negativity and watching us
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Speaker 1: being racially profiled, and if as an artist being able
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Speaker 1: to see that and being able to articulate having a
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Speaker 1: fan base and knowing these things, if we don't utilize
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Speaker 1: our gifts to fight against the injustices that we've suffered,
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Speaker 1: then our kids are doing to have the same thing.
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Speaker 1: So it's like, why I'm gonna sit here and rap
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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about reality, And the reality is that
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Speaker 1: we're getting killed, you know what I'm saying. The reality
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Speaker 1: is that the kids don't have parks, and they don't
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Speaker 1: have communities sets like they did when we were growing up.
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Speaker 1: They don't have the boxing, they don't have the somebody
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Speaker 1: to take them off and give them a different path.
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Speaker 1: So when we take these things out of our neighborhoods
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Speaker 1: and our our communities, all we do is give them
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Speaker 1: a road to a prison. And this is the reality
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Speaker 1: is a situation. So as an artist, it was when
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Speaker 1: I seen Mike Brown killed, when I seen every gonna
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Speaker 1: being choked in the Middle Street, and it was like,
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Speaker 1: this is here, this is now, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Like we watched Martin Luther King March and we've seen
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Speaker 1: Marcal mix and this is our this is our struggle.
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Speaker 1: So if none of us don't step up to the
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Speaker 1: plate to fight for it, then what are we saying?
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Speaker 1: And a lot of these cases, these cops, uh you know,
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Speaker 1: kill people and they still keep their job. They don't
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Speaker 1: get turns, they still have a job. You know, they
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Speaker 1: might get suspended for a minute and then they're back
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Speaker 1: at work. Well, when you look at what happened with
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Speaker 1: Walter Scott, he had lied, this happened Saturday. This is
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Speaker 1: the police officer that shot the young man on Saturday
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Speaker 1: in the back eight times in South Carolina. If it
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Speaker 1: had not been for a video in that particular case,
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Speaker 1: we would not have seen any of this happen. He
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Speaker 1: put that taser down, we believe, next to Walter Scott's body,
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Speaker 1: on purpose to be able to prove some or to
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Speaker 1: least lie about his lie that that you know, there
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Speaker 1: was an altercation and that the taser was a part
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Speaker 1: of it. Um And so if we didn't have a
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Speaker 1: video there, what would you say? Like would be and
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Speaker 1: they would have said like the cop was right because
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Speaker 1: he was doing what he was supposed to do. It
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Speaker 1: makes you think about the Darren Wilson case right, right,
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Speaker 1: and there's no real video that shows you what happened
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Speaker 1: in that case. But even with Eric Garner, we saw
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Speaker 1: a video. We know that this man was choked to
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Speaker 1: death and that it was illegal and it was wrong.
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Speaker 1: He couldn't breathe. But so that's why people have to
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Speaker 1: stay vigilant. That's why we're marching, That's why we keep
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Speaker 1: movements alive, because what happens is we get comfortable and say, oh,
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Speaker 1: we know they're gonna take care of that, and then
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Speaker 1: you don't get an indictment. You get an indictment, but
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Speaker 1: you don't get an actual conviction. So this police officer,
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Speaker 1: just because he's been indicted for murder doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: they're not gonna come up with the trick bag of
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Speaker 1: excuses because you don't get to see what happens before
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Speaker 1: the shooting. You know why, why do you think there's
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Speaker 1: a lack of leadership, not just in the hood, but
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Speaker 1: in like hip hop coach people that like you to say,
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Speaker 1: people who could have influence choose not to be leaders.
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Speaker 1: I think because the focus is wrong. I think when
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Speaker 1: we started doing hip hop, it was about artistry. It
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Speaker 1: was about a level of expression. It was about being
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Speaker 1: able to communicate something different than everybody else. Was about
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Speaker 1: showing your views, and I think now the focus is
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Speaker 1: just about money and what you have. So the artists
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Speaker 1: that we have today, they don't even have the knowledge
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Speaker 1: or the conscience to even be able to focus on that.
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Speaker 1: They don't even most of them don't even have. Their
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Speaker 1: vocabulary is so limited that they can't even articulate these things,
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Speaker 1: so they shy away from that. You know, you've heard
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Speaker 1: certain artists get up there and be like, yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1: yeah whatever I want to talk about that. I want
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Speaker 1: to talk about money. Yeah yeah, heard about Ergona doing
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Speaker 1: all that, but yeah, we ain't talking on we get
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Speaker 1: money over here. Like that is the mind state that
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Speaker 1: they've put these people in. So it's like, you can't
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Speaker 1: you can't expect somebody that knows doesn't have any knowledge
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Speaker 1: or even have the ability to articulate something, to give
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Speaker 1: you anything meaningful. And that's why I'm happy to see
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Speaker 1: Ken Drigg and you see the j Coles and you
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Speaker 1: see them starting to get some light because they're actually
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Speaker 1: focusing on social issues and social and real issues that
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Speaker 1: we are being plagued with in our neighborhoods and our
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Speaker 1: communities and oftentimes those that own the label don't necessarily
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Speaker 1: want that type of controversy, right, so people aren't necessarily
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Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice money or any type of relationship because
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Speaker 1: of that are The founder of our organization is Harry Bellafonte,
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Speaker 1: And when you talk about doctor King, he was really
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Speaker 1: able to elevate Doctor King's platform based on his own platform.
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Speaker 1: He came out, he talked to you know, the Kennedy's.
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Speaker 1: He brought King along, and that's why when we built
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Speaker 1: Justice League, it was important for us to have artists
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Speaker 1: in the space to be able to amplify our message
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Speaker 1: to communities that maybe we don't necessarily reach. I think
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Speaker 1: that labeled thing is a cop out too, because I
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Speaker 1: mean we saw a public academy. We saw full righteous teachers,
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Speaker 1: Charist One. They had songs like self destruction, all in
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Speaker 1: the same game. Like I think it's up to the
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Speaker 1: artist to make that kind of us. But then the
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Speaker 1: question is where are they now? See that's what they
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Speaker 1: worry about as an artist, they recognize if just just
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Speaker 1: move out of artistry and look at Michael Jordan for example,
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Speaker 1: he makes billions of dollars off of us, and people
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Speaker 1: pay him to stay away from our community. He'll tell
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Speaker 1: you quick, I don't do that Black Lives Matter stuf.
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Speaker 1: That's not what he's into. And so even though it's
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Speaker 1: you can, you know, public enemy, all these people did
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Speaker 1: what they did. But where are they now that's the question. Yes,
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Speaker 1: for us, it's a legacy, but they don't have the
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Speaker 1: multimillions of dollars that are paid to people who they
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Speaker 1: really pay to stay disconnected from our silenced and silenced.
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Speaker 1: Right thinking about it, I wonder if they out the
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Speaker 1: hood for millions of dollars, you see out the hood? Now,
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Speaker 1: what about for people who say marches aren't effective? Marches
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Speaker 1: don't help anything. So for us, I think it's very different.
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Speaker 1: We have three pieces of federal legislation, we have policy
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Speaker 1: that we're marching with, and I think you know, we're
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Speaker 1: putting two hundred and fifty miles on our bodies. We
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Speaker 1: start April thirteenth, we're gonna be stepping off in state
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Speaker 1: an Island. And for us, that's symbolic. But we know
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Speaker 1: right now, at this moment, that people are dying every
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Speaker 1: twenty eight hours, of black person is being killed at
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Speaker 1: the hands of police. And so for us, we're willing
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Speaker 1: to risk ourselves, our bodies to make a real statement.
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Speaker 1: And so I think for some of the things that
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Speaker 1: we've done differently, or we view some of the methodologies
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Speaker 1: from the past, but we're adding our own flavor. And
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Speaker 1: that's for us to protest with the purpose and to
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Speaker 1: march with the purpose. And that's so so far, we
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Speaker 1: have what are called Justice Champions, and we have a
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Speaker 1: hundred people that are that are going to be marching
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Speaker 1: from New York to DC, and we're going to be
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Speaker 1: actually gathering other folks along the way in the key
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Speaker 1: cities that we stop in. No, it's some of the
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Speaker 1: biggest obstacles y'all are facing. We need money. We need
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Speaker 1: money to marche dot com and donate to our crowd
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Speaker 1: rise every dall accounts is you know, That's what it
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Speaker 1: is about. We're marching. We're not getting paid all of
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Speaker 1: us a valance. Everybody's we are brother. Rob Mean is
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Speaker 1: here right now documenting all of our efforts. But we
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Speaker 1: do need money. Listen, freedom ain't free, you know, no
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Speaker 1: movement we talk about Harry b one of the things
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Speaker 1: that that can't listen, she said I left out something.
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Speaker 1: One of the things she left out was that Harry
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Speaker 1: Be funded Doctor King like he pay for his homes
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Speaker 1: and made sure the Doctor King had what he needs.
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Speaker 1: And there right now, we don't have anywhere to stay
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Speaker 1: in Baltimore, but we're walking and we might have to
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Speaker 1: stay outside. But if people know of churches um in
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Speaker 1: the Baltimore area, we need that, we need water, we
10:12
Speaker 1: have to eat every day. And at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, if you say marches don't matter, then why
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Speaker 1: the heck did people turn out in the streets after
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Speaker 1: the Eric Ghana verdict and also in Ferguson. If people
10:23
Speaker 1: didn't hit the street, no one would know that the
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Speaker 1: issue is there. Marches don't change things. Marches put sean
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Speaker 1: a light on an issue. Yes, and you get in
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Speaker 1: the media's light to these issues. Now, y'all gonna use
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Speaker 1: this money to buy Jordan's to walk in. No, we work.
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Speaker 1: We all have real jobs and we work. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: they actually cost us a lot of money, but we
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Speaker 1: we really Every single person in the Justice League is
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Speaker 1: a volunteer. There are twenty five of us that are
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Speaker 1: the core group of organizers. We work twenty four hours
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Speaker 1: a day plus our regular jobs, and we take our
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Speaker 1: personal money and put it into the work. But that's
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Speaker 1: not I don't think that that's a model that we
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Speaker 1: need to People need to be okay with. Folks should
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Speaker 1: be able to eat if they're going to do the
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Speaker 1: work of the people. Right now, you know, people gonna
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Speaker 1: watch this video and they're gonna be like Mice up
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Speaker 1: here talking all of this. But he was charged with
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Speaker 1: two counts on arm Robert, and that's the reality of
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Speaker 1: the situation. We can have that conversation because I've always
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Speaker 1: maintained my innocent throughout that situation. But that's also what
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Speaker 1: I love about the Justice League is that they invite
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Speaker 1: you no matter what your pass is, whatever it is,
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Speaker 1: because you have a level of knowledge that you can
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Speaker 1: bring into this space that you can educate someone else with.
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Speaker 1: If I even if I had been a criminal and
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Speaker 1: I changed my life around, and I'm giving somebody else
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Speaker 1: a different perspective, or giving letting these youth know, Look,
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Speaker 1: I've been through what you've been through, and I know
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Speaker 1: where the road is to that you know something that's
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Speaker 1: very important. That's that's amazing because I never listened to
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Speaker 1: when the preacher came up the church and said do
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Speaker 1: all listen. I didn't listen to him. I talked to
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Speaker 1: the ex drug dealers that wanted to see me do
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Speaker 1: better is the one who I modeled myself. Family. But
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Speaker 1: you know, I think another thing that's really important that
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Speaker 1: my soign needs to talk about is the fact that
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Speaker 1: Justice League is not a pop up operation like he's
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Speaker 1: been in the detention centers with the with the Justice
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Speaker 1: League prior to Eric Garner even happening, right, we have
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Speaker 1: programming and detention centers under the Gathering for Justice, and
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Speaker 1: so my son, myself and folks like Immortal Technique go
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Speaker 1: in there and offer young people hope and use music,
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Speaker 1: film critical thinking as a tool for transformation and helping
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Speaker 1: young people get back into society have actually a feeling
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Speaker 1: of a sense of self right and loving themselves because
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Speaker 1: oftentimes when we look at violence, we're killing each other
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Speaker 1: and it's because we there's so much hate that has
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Speaker 1: been perpetuated in our communities that we begin to think
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Speaker 1: that we're not worth anything. And so he's done this
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Speaker 1: work along with us, and what he says, I think
12:44
Speaker 1: those that are most impacted by this issue also need
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Speaker 1: to be a part of the solution. Right people, even
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Speaker 1: the miclones people forgetting Malcolm X was once, Malcolm Little, exactly,
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Speaker 1: And that's the bottom line, Like we have to we
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Speaker 1: have to be able to educate our own, we have
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Speaker 1: to be able to take care of our own. You know,
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Speaker 1: Like I have a different background than a lot of
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Speaker 1: these A lot of these people have been in this
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Speaker 1: space for fifteen sixteen years, but I always had the
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Speaker 1: mind state and I always had the will and the
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Speaker 1: heart to want to see change. You want to see
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Speaker 1: growth and want more for my people. So when I
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Speaker 1: was embraced by the Justice League, you know, it was
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Speaker 1: it was like I was happy. I was able to
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Speaker 1: do something. I was able to give something back to
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Speaker 1: the community. And that's the way it's all about. It's
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Speaker 1: about taking care of our own. You once said that
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Speaker 1: a rappers use guns as a source of entertainment. Why
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Speaker 1: do you think that is because we For some reason,
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Speaker 1: people are attracted to negativity. I don't know why. I
13:37
Speaker 1: don't know why. You can go on any website and
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Speaker 1: you show shar Keisha has more views than a black
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Speaker 1: man graduating from college who has done all types of things.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why people are attracted to that, but
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Speaker 1: it's the reality. So when as an intelligent individual who's
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Speaker 1: trying to survive. You know, we focus on what it
13:56
Speaker 1: is that people are attracted to. I just made a
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Speaker 1: song called Ain't No Loving Pop in which I state, basically,
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Speaker 1: you know, the artist who comes with his pain in
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Speaker 1: his heart, they don't pay attention to. But somebody shoots
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Speaker 1: up a block and then he put it on a
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Speaker 1: world star and then he throws around behind it. He's
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Speaker 1: the next biggest artist. That's a good point. Like when
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Speaker 1: when you see somebody like you see us committing violence online,
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Speaker 1: like he said, somebody shooting the block, it's nothing. But
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Speaker 1: when a cop does at the one of us, then
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Speaker 1: this World War three, that's when we start marching, and
14:24
Speaker 1: that's when we start caring. Why do you think that is?
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Speaker 1: Because I think for me, it is that kid that
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Speaker 1: shoots of the block. He's been educated wrong. He's been
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Speaker 1: educated wrong. This police officer has sworn a duty to
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Speaker 1: protect me. He's getting paid by getting pad, he's getting
14:39
Speaker 1: paid by us to protect us. So at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day, you can't you can't hold the accountable
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Speaker 1: a child who doesn't know no better, who's been taught
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Speaker 1: that violence is the answer to someone who's been sworn
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Speaker 1: who's been taught, who's been sworn, who's getting paid to protect?
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Speaker 1: And go against those all those principles. It's two different
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Speaker 1: you you hold them in two high stands. And also wait, wait,
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Speaker 1: let me say when. And it's also when we killing
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Speaker 1: shoot hours, we go to jail, right absolutely, bottom line,
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Speaker 1: there's no it's no nothing. But when they killing shoot us,
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Speaker 1: there's no even no accountability. You don't even get an
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Speaker 1: indictment for South Carolina. It's set for that. It goes down.
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Speaker 1: They don't have no choice now like they have an indictment,
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Speaker 1: but he still, let's see what happens. So I got indictments,
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Speaker 1: they get and then next to you know, you don't
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Speaker 1: hear a body. You just see a little thing across
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Speaker 1: the stream over it has been non convicted. He's been
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Speaker 1: clear to all charges, you know, And that's how it happens.
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Speaker 1: It's time to tell you about the background, right. They
15:32
Speaker 1: are already trying to tell you he didn't pay his
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Speaker 1: child support. He was trying to get away all of that.
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Speaker 1: They already starting smoke weed in high school. They're gonna
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Speaker 1: tell you that somebody in the back. I don't give
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Speaker 1: a damn. They're gonna have a reason though, have you
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Speaker 1: guys gotten any resistance um for this march as far
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Speaker 1: as you know, police department or anything. Yeah, we already well,
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Speaker 1: right now we're having a problem with stat Nolan. They're
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Speaker 1: telling us they don't want us to go across particular bridges.
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Speaker 1: They want us to drive. We're trying to walk, so
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Speaker 1: we may be in jail on Monday even start the march. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and there are others towns because we're going through some
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Speaker 1: towns with folk that don't look like us walking, and
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Speaker 1: you know, we are receiving resistance. But what hurts more
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Speaker 1: than that is the resistance that we've been receiving from
16:11
Speaker 1: other organizers that are in this space, people who just
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Speaker 1: don't want to march work with us for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: and are using the fact that some of us are
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Speaker 1: connected to other people that they don't like as a
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Speaker 1: reason for us not to stand together about justice. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, and that's always been an issue when I
16:27
Speaker 1: look at why we haven't been able. I've been in
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Speaker 1: this space for sixteen years. I work for rebnow Sharpton
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Speaker 1: for fourteen years of my career. I was his executive
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Speaker 1: director for four years, and there many of people I
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Speaker 1: don't like Sharpton. Don't like his head. I don't like this,
16:41
Speaker 1: I don't like that. But we all come to we
16:43
Speaker 1: come together to fight for a common goal, and somehow
16:47
Speaker 1: we allow personalities to get in the way of us
16:49
Speaker 1: being able to do stuff. But all it is is
16:51
Speaker 1: a cop out. It's a cop out because we don't
16:53
Speaker 1: want to do real work. People don't want to actually
16:55
Speaker 1: get down dirty and do the real work because we're
16:58
Speaker 1: sleeping on the floor in churches two hundred and fifty miles.
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Speaker 1: And I like to call myself the diva the movement.
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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm, I'm. I like to be cute and
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Speaker 1: do all that. I ain't got time to be sleeping
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Speaker 1: on the floor, But I got a sixteen year old
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Speaker 1: son at home, so I'm gonna sleep on the floor
17:11
Speaker 1: so that he could walk. But you know, I also
17:13
Speaker 1: want to add something to that. Tamika brings up a
17:15
Speaker 1: great point is the fact that we're not necessarily focusing
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Speaker 1: on why we're Other people aren't necessarily focusing on why
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Speaker 1: we're marching. There's a man that was killed this past weekend,
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Speaker 1: and we're marching for him. We're marching for all the
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Speaker 1: people who have lost their lives to police brutality, and
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Speaker 1: the children and the men and women that are locked up,
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Speaker 1: and our prisons in America who can't march with us
17:37
Speaker 1: because they're locked up. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: one of the things that mister Bellefonte, who's my mentor
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Speaker 1: and boss, says, you know, there's there's a quote that
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Speaker 1: he shared with me recently and he says, you know,
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Speaker 1: those that are working for the liberation of our people
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Speaker 1: are only a target for friendship and support. Those that
17:54
Speaker 1: are trying to create a divisive narrative are only playing
17:57
Speaker 1: the enemy's game. And so I think we really need
17:59
Speaker 1: to think about that. And so I'm learning a lot
18:02
Speaker 1: through working with Tamika, who I find to be an
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Speaker 1: amazing young woman, and my son and all the people
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Speaker 1: within Justice League and for us, we're keeping our eyes
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Speaker 1: on the prize and that's to create the buloved community
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Speaker 1: that doctor King talked about. Yeah, so y'all don't stay
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Speaker 1: in hotels, y'all. No, we're staying in churches, community center
18:18
Speaker 1: and maybe outside in Maryland. Y'all, it's gonna be hundreds
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Speaker 1: of us marching, So we gotta be there with the people.
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Speaker 1: We gotta show the sacrifice. We can't just say we're
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Speaker 1: gonna go to the hotel when we see y'all y'all
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Speaker 1: sleeping like at the end of the day. We got
18:32
Speaker 1: to figure it out and we just gotta march and
18:34
Speaker 1: we just gotta continue to do what we gotta do.
18:36
Speaker 1: And when y'all get to where y'all going DC, what
18:38
Speaker 1: are y'all gonna do that? Um? Well, again, we sleep
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Speaker 1: in another church and then the next day, on the
18:43
Speaker 1: twenty second, we get up and what is this shower? Shower,
18:45
Speaker 1: shampoo and shine and we put her No, no, none
18:50
Speaker 1: of that, none of that. Y'all know. My son has
18:54
Speaker 1: a wife for her name is Angelie Glennon, and she
18:56
Speaker 1: ain't with it. So no, we're gonna be you know,
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Speaker 1: having meeting congressional visits. We're gonna have informational sessions with
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Speaker 1: Congress and let them know about the three pieces of
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Speaker 1: federal legislation. We've already done some of that organizing work,
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Speaker 1: pre organizing work last Wednesday where we met with the
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Speaker 1: different congressional caucuses. But we're gonna be suiting up we
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Speaker 1: on the twenty first, we're gonna have a rally as
19:18
Speaker 1: well as you know, some performances. Anybody who wants to
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Speaker 1: join us in DC and perform, show up, show some support,
19:24
Speaker 1: come meet us. And you could always find more information
19:27
Speaker 1: on March number two Justice dot com. And so the
19:30
Speaker 1: route will be available to folks and also our crowd
19:34
Speaker 1: rice campaign please give to us. Yeah, yeah, I want
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Speaker 1: people to meet y'all on the way. I'll meet yall
19:38
Speaker 1: at the starting point whatever you can get. The starting
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Speaker 1: point is instat nilinsta nilin. We're leaving instat nilin out
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Speaker 1: of the metro what is it, Richmond Valley Metro Station.
19:49
Speaker 1: Richmond Valley Metro Station on Amboy Street. That's where we're
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Speaker 1: leaving from. We'll be gathering at that point at nine
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Speaker 1: am on Monday morning. But if you can't be there
19:57
Speaker 1: because you have to work, the next place to meet
19:59
Speaker 1: us is in Newark at the willing Heart Community Center.
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Speaker 1: We'll be staying there overnight and rallying. That's at seven
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Speaker 1: o'clock in Newark, New Jersey, fifty five Martin Luther King Boulevard,
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Speaker 1: willing Heart Community Center. And that's March to Justice and
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Speaker 1: number two dot com. Yes, all right, that's everything, because
20:16
Speaker 1: I want to make sure people donate this bread. We
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Speaker 1: need you how to donate. Make sure you're doing that.
20:21
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say happy birthday too. I want our Justice
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Speaker 1: League members, carlenean, but we definitely need you how to donate.
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Speaker 1: Every dall accounts if you if you can't march with us,
20:33
Speaker 1: walk to work one day, you know, sacrifice anything, anything
20:37
Speaker 1: counts for us, and also donate. Yeah yeah, and follow
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Speaker 1: us on Twitter. We're ny Justice League. Um. We're also
20:44
Speaker 1: we have a crowd rice campaign www dot crowd rise
20:48
Speaker 1: dot com backslash March number two Justice. So there's different
20:52
Speaker 1: ways in which people could get involved, and we appreciate
20:54
Speaker 1: y'all for having us to be Charlotte Man is gonna
20:57
Speaker 1: donate to my crowd rise as soon as we get over.
20:59
Speaker 1: I am. I absolutely am. My son is my guy,
21:01
Speaker 1: been my guy for a long time. Very thorough dude,
21:05
Speaker 1: always standing up for us, right you know, so I'm
21:07
Speaker 1: absolutely going to doing it. Appreciate so um Marster Justice
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Speaker 1: dot com. Yes, all right, thank y'all for joining us.
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Speaker 1: April thirteenth is to march y'all my son in the
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Speaker 1: Justice League. Ye