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Speaker 1: Piece of the planet. I go by the name of Charlot,
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Speaker 1: men to God and Uncle Sharlot Lenard, whatever you want
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Speaker 1: to call me. Santa Claus isn't real, but I am
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Speaker 1: and I gotta get for you. It's a brand new
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Speaker 1: podcast from the Black Effect Podcast Network. With the holidays here,
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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club is gonna take a little break, but
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Speaker 1: we've got something for you. Okay. Check out this new
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Speaker 1: podcast from my loved ones, my leader activists, Tamica Mallory
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Speaker 1: and the good brother King my son the general host
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Speaker 1: the Street Politicians podcast, a show that takes an uninhibited
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Speaker 1: look at social and civil rights issues, pop culture, and politics.
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Speaker 1: Make sure you check out Street Politicians podcast on the
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Speaker 1: Black Effect wherever you get your podcasts. That's what's going on.
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Speaker 1: And I'm Tamika Danalory. Welcome to Street Politicians, to the
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Speaker 1: place where the streets and politics there is so much happening.
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Speaker 1: It's so good to always get back here every single week.
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Speaker 1: When to thank you all for following us and being
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Speaker 1: with us every week to hear about what's happening in
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Speaker 1: the streets, in politics, in our world, in society. I've
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Speaker 1: been saying over and over again that if Black people
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Speaker 1: don't tell our stories for us by us. Other people
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Speaker 1: will determine the narratives that our children here, and we
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Speaker 1: can't allow that to happen. You know, as a black woman,
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Speaker 1: I tell you this election cycle, as we have been
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Speaker 1: talking about every week, really it's like a decompressing people
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Speaker 1: actually need, That's what I'm saying. Well, you know, some
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Speaker 1: days I feel good. In other days I don't because
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, but I just want you to know
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Speaker 1: that we acknowledge the work that you black queens have
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Speaker 1: been put in yeah, and you know, and you all
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Speaker 1: we want to just celebrate you. You know, I noticed
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Speaker 1: because I know that black women don't under attack, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I want to be the
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Speaker 1: one to say as I sit next to black queens
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Speaker 1: that I know fights for our people wholeheardly every day.
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Speaker 1: I just want you to know that I see you
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Speaker 1: and I'm here for you. Do you do mice you?
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Speaker 1: You really do pour into the Black women around you.
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Speaker 1: When I think about the work that we did, everything
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Speaker 1: from Brianna Taylor her family, to all of our comrades
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Speaker 1: that have been with us on the road, the Leslie
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Speaker 1: Redman's of NAACP Wisconsin to Tiffany Lofting, nab ACP Youth
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Speaker 1: in College Director. I mean, I don't even want to
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Speaker 1: get myself in trouble. Lnita Baker, the amazing attorney for
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Speaker 1: Brianna Taylor's family, and the list goes on and on
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Speaker 1: of black women who are around us that you support
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Speaker 1: and you do a lot of great things. But I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna tell you that, not just black women, but
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Speaker 1: I think black people in general need a detox and
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Speaker 1: some therapy, like some real counseling after this election, because
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Speaker 1: not only do we go through the stress and strain
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Speaker 1: of that if the administration at the time continues to
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Speaker 1: be in office, we already know what that means, but
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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that a new administration was going to
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Speaker 1: change anything either. So it's like the stress of what
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Speaker 1: do we choose? Which way do we go? So we
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Speaker 1: had to deal with all of that, and then we
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Speaker 1: had to deal with knowing that whatever happens is on
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Speaker 1: our backs as black women. Of course black men second place,
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Speaker 1: we have to continue to say that, but you know,
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Speaker 1: with eighty percent of black men also well more than
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Speaker 1: that showing up at the polls, and so it's just
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Speaker 1: a lot, and I feel like I've been called out
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Speaker 1: my name, I've been accused, I've been threatened and all
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Speaker 1: of that, and it feels really heavy to be a
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Speaker 1: black woman who is carrying the load was so much,
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Speaker 1: you know, for our community. And the thing that I
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Speaker 1: think I struggle with, which is my thought of the
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Speaker 1: day today, is whether or not we should be going
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Speaker 1: to social media or any other form that is public
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Speaker 1: right around people, where people can see and hear it,
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Speaker 1: to talk to black men about how we feel. It's
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Speaker 1: almost like perhaps we should be keeping our pain just
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Speaker 1: in our homes or keeping it quiet. So I guess
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Speaker 1: a simple way of asking the question and the thought
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Speaker 1: of the day, it should we be airing out our
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Speaker 1: dirty laundry in terms of the relationship between black men
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Speaker 1: and black women. If you don't discuss it, it continues.
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Speaker 1: But if we do discuss it, it gives other people
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to use our vulnerabilities and our weaknesses against us.
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Speaker 1: And we know that that happened in this election cycle.
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Speaker 1: We know that marketing campaigns are created based upon people
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Speaker 1: watching the division in our communities and they use it
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Speaker 1: and they and they they what's the word? They expand
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Speaker 1: upon it or they that's not the word I'm looking for.
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Speaker 1: They exploit it, They exploit it for their interests. So
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Speaker 1: it's like, do we talk about it or do we
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Speaker 1: keep it to ourselves? Well, I think I think it's
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Speaker 1: like you said, it's a very slippery slope. You know,
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Speaker 1: I think as a black man, for me, when I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about my own issues, you know, I want I
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Speaker 1: want to be held accountable. You know, I'm not calling
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Speaker 1: out black women and say your black woman, you're not
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Speaker 1: doing this, and that I think that's dangerous. I think
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Speaker 1: that showed a division between black women and black man.
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Speaker 1: I think if like you've always said, y'all need to
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Speaker 1: go with and deal with, y'all don't tell black women
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Speaker 1: who we need to do, or white people don't tell
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Speaker 1: us who we need to do. You need to go
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Speaker 1: talk to your cousins and uncles. And I think I
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Speaker 1: started it started to resonate with me, like the thing,
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Speaker 1: the toxicity that we're dealing with in our communities. It
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Speaker 1: is black men things that we're dealing with and that
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Speaker 1: we're not addressing, that we continue to play out and
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Speaker 1: that's not changing within our communities, within the way we
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Speaker 1: deal with our women and the way we did with
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Speaker 1: each other. It's something that we gotta be held accountable
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Speaker 1: and we gotta we gotta utilize all forums that have
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Speaker 1: this conversation. It's easy to do it behind doors, but
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Speaker 1: when you publicly take responsibility for something that's going wrong
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Speaker 1: and saying you're as black men, you know, I don't
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Speaker 1: think we're doing all we can, and the brothers get mad, like,
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Speaker 1: don't say that you give an enemy. No, I'm older myself.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you, I'm saying we. I'm telling you
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Speaker 1: that even though I feel that I'm doing good, but
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm not the majority. I don't represent
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Speaker 1: the majority. Was going on. I'm hearing black women talk
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Speaker 1: about how they feel around most black men. They're not
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Speaker 1: They don't feel safety, they don't feel like they always protected.
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Speaker 1: That's a problem for me, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Even if every black woman around me is like, now,
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Speaker 1: you make us feel safe, but it's other people. I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna say, well, I'm good. Don't put that on me. No,
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Speaker 1: because I'm a reflection. I don't see people want to
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Speaker 1: win with the team, but they don't want to lose
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Speaker 1: with the team. You know, people want to say, well,
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Speaker 1: don't tell me I had thirty five. And again, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, even though we lost thirty five,
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Speaker 1: and when you win the championship and you only had
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Speaker 1: two points, you'd be like, I don't care. We won
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Speaker 1: a championship, so they gotta be we when we went
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Speaker 1: in and we're losing. So that's what I say as
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Speaker 1: me For me, as black men, my duty is when
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Speaker 1: I see that we're lacking in something or I feel
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Speaker 1: like we can be doing better in something, to call
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Speaker 1: it out, to being held accountable, to say, hey, we
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Speaker 1: can be doing better, not saying that we all. We're
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Speaker 1: not all. There's no mono if we're not all doing anything,
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Speaker 1: but if we if we want to say black men,
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Speaker 1: this is black men are strong or black men are
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Speaker 1: strong and put ourselves in that category. Didn't say what
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Speaker 1: black men are doing something wrong too? Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: that there is this this is challenge that we deal
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Speaker 1: with where a lot of black men and maybe black
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Speaker 1: women as well, when we talk about protecting black women,
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Speaker 1: we think about it from the perspective of I'm good
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Speaker 1: to my wife or my husband, or my brother or sister,
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Speaker 1: or people that are in my immediate circle, or people
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Speaker 1: may say you're not good to your white husband or
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Speaker 1: you know, people again in your immediate circle. But I
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Speaker 1: don't think that that's what we mean when we say
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Speaker 1: protect black women. That's this episode of Street Politicians is
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Speaker 1: called Protect Black Women, and we're kind of unpacking what
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Speaker 1: that means. Yes, we should be good to all of us,
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Speaker 1: should be good to everyone, but we're human, and in
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Speaker 1: relationships and other situations families, you have challenges, you have debate,
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Speaker 1: you have circumstances. But what we're talking about is as
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Speaker 1: a community, as a whole, how do we really make
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Speaker 1: ensure that we are not inflicting more damage and harm
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Speaker 1: systemically on our people too? Yeah? Individually absolutely, But for
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Speaker 1: me it's like if I see young boys sitting by
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Speaker 1: watching while a girl is being beat up and either
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Speaker 1: by their friend or by someone else, and they're not
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Speaker 1: intervening enough to say, hey, you know this is not right,
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Speaker 1: because this is what I hear, This is what I hear,
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Speaker 1: especially when I'm watching these videos on social media and
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Speaker 1: you see a girl and she's being attacked by you know,
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Speaker 1: by a black man or by any man, Well, what
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Speaker 1: does she do to cause that? On herself. That's what
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Speaker 1: I mean. That's like, it's a it's a it's a
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Speaker 1: twisted systemic mindset that if the black woman is being harmed,
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Speaker 1: she caused it somehow. That's very different from me saying, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, my mother and I don't get along, you know,
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Speaker 1: like my son and I have our challenges at time. Yes,
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Speaker 1: those are relationship things that have to be solved, but
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Speaker 1: we're talking about how we as a community really wrap
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Speaker 1: our arms around black women. And perhaps both things go
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Speaker 1: hand in hand. That you can't treat your community well
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Speaker 1: if you don't have good relationships with your own family members.
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Speaker 1: But it feels like we're in a place where people
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Speaker 1: people remove themselves from being a part of the weed
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Speaker 1: because their personal life is together. So and then it's
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Speaker 1: like when you're saying it, they're like, oh, I protect
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Speaker 1: black women. You know, I fight for mine. It's not
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Speaker 1: you fighting for yours, it's us fighting for one another.
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Speaker 1: And black women have continuously shown up for black men,
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Speaker 1: and I think I think for me. You know, this
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Speaker 1: whole Megda Stallion and Tory Lanes thing right really put
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Speaker 1: it in a different perspective. You know. I was always like,
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Speaker 1: we need to protect black women and we need to
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Speaker 1: stand up, you know. Yeah, but you and I had
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Speaker 1: a number because I was one of the people that
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Speaker 1: felt like, don't say me because it's not me. And
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Speaker 1: then I started to realize it's a collective. We all.
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Speaker 1: We can't say black people. This is black people that
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Speaker 1: didn't want to separate ourselves when it's not conducive every time,
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Speaker 1: you know, So I started to acknowledge it. I give
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Speaker 1: you a little props for just a little bit, but
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Speaker 1: not too much, not too much corner. I got a
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Speaker 1: little crazy crazy, like she really did. But the reality
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Speaker 1: is when I watch the situation, will make the stallion
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Speaker 1: and seeing how many people would just come out of
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Speaker 1: nowhere saying that be is lying, she's a liar, He
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Speaker 1: didn't do this to her. And it just was like why,
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Speaker 1: like why, why would you just assume that a woman
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Speaker 1: who got bullet fragments in her foot and done that
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Speaker 1: he didn't shoot. Why would you think that she would
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Speaker 1: just create a whole story? What what about your reality
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Speaker 1: or your upbringing or your understanding of a black woman.
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Speaker 1: What has she done prior to this to make you
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Speaker 1: just instantly call her liar? Well, it's because so much
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Speaker 1: of how we are viewed as black women is based
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Speaker 1: upon and I think it's on both sides. The few
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Speaker 1: who are liars who lie on black man who you know,
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Speaker 1: say that he beat me when he didn't. You know,
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Speaker 1: she's a she's a tramp, she's a this, you know whatever,
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Speaker 1: all of those things, the negativity. I think that there
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Speaker 1: are some that have had those interactions and and even
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Speaker 1: have had mothers that were not really good to them,
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Speaker 1: or mothers that they just hate for whatever reason, and
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Speaker 1: therefore they translate that onto the whole. But what we
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Speaker 1: know is that nine times out of ten, no I
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Speaker 1: don't even know of a man, period, but I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna say nine times out of ten, Black women or
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Speaker 1: women in general, are not gonna just say somebody shot them,
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Speaker 1: that did shoot. You might say he hit me and
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Speaker 1: he didn't, or he choked me, or he you know whatever,
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Speaker 1: those things. We can go back and forth. But he
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Speaker 1: shot me and he didn't shoot me, like it doesn't
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Speaker 1: even you shot and you shot well no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: they said she wasn't really even shot. Got a doctor,
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Speaker 1: She paid the doctor. You don't know, why why would
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Speaker 1: she paid the doctor? Why would she pay the doctor?
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Speaker 1: Put the bullet frames in her foot, all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: so she can lie on that and then people Then
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Speaker 1: there was a guy who had no face, know nothing,
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Speaker 1: and he said he was the security and he was there.
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Speaker 1: He told a whole story about it, and people actually
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Speaker 1: believe what he said. They don't know who it was.
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Speaker 1: They made up a whole story, said her best friend
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Speaker 1: says she was there. That never happened. It's just it's
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Speaker 1: just so much stuff. Man, I don't think it really.
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Speaker 1: It disheartened me. It just it really shows us. It
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Speaker 1: is disheart to name it is. It was disheartening. It
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Speaker 1: is disheartening for me. So it's really, you know, protecting
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Speaker 1: black women is the order of the day, and we
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Speaker 1: have to keep talking about it. And I know people
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Speaker 1: probably tired it, but they feel like we always but
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Speaker 1: if we continue to exactly if we don't, if nothing changes,
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Speaker 1: nothing changes, and talk about it. But somehow or another,
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Speaker 1: we still got to figure out when it's the right moment.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's a fact. And speaking of Mega Stallion,
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Speaker 1: first of all, she had me in that incredible, incredible
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Speaker 1: performance on Saturday Night Live, which I didn't even know
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Speaker 1: when someone text me and told me about it. Attorney
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Speaker 1: Linita Baker. I was like, oh, that's big, as if
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Speaker 1: it was about someone else, because I just couldn't even
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Speaker 1: wrap my head around you know how powerful that moment
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Speaker 1: was for her to include my voice in her performance
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Speaker 1: and shout out to Kevin Laws who is our board
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Speaker 1: member until freedom and making that happen, and you know,
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Speaker 1: mag like anytime right like coming up, listen. You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't I believe that. You know, you have a
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Speaker 1: lot going on. We just want you to know that
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Speaker 1: anything you need from us, you know, you can utilize
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Speaker 1: our platform if you need us individually as unique whatever man,
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Speaker 1: we want to protect black women. I believe you. I
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Speaker 1: don't believe you made up no story about somebody shooting you.
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Speaker 1: So I don't want to. I know, I see the
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Speaker 1: trolls and I just wondered to myself, what is this
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Speaker 1: woman dealing with? How does she feel after she was
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Speaker 1: shot and she has to explain and have to defend
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Speaker 1: herself about somebody hurting hers. So, you know, I just
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Speaker 1: want you to know that we are with you and
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Speaker 1: you politicians, and you know I've had dinner with meg Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, unless she's completely like a psychopath who was
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Speaker 1: able to change personalities right before your eyes. I personally
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Speaker 1: do not believe that the young woman that I sat
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Speaker 1: and talked to and spent time with just made up
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Speaker 1: a story about who shot. That's just me. But that's
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Speaker 1: not what we're here for to deliberate a legal matter.
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Speaker 1: It ain't even legal. It's ethical for me. Like the
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Speaker 1: legal part is whether he go to jail or whether
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Speaker 1: they say he did it. The ethic part is me
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Speaker 1: knowing that a man harmed a woman and trying to
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Speaker 1: lie in act like he did. That's just ethics for me,
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Speaker 1: and every other man should hold that man accountable. Like,
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Speaker 1: don't let no nigga around you sit around doing no
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Speaker 1: sucker shit and you ain't checking. Okay, well, don't letting
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Speaker 1: no black man, no brother, green anything sit around you.
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Speaker 1: You're still say no colored people, no colored people sit
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Speaker 1: around you and doing supper ship to women and getting
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Speaker 1: away with it. Man, if you condone suching ship that
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Speaker 1: you are suffer to, yeah, for real. That brings us
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Speaker 1: to one of my brothers brother that I think is
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Speaker 1: a dope comedian slash actor. You know, he put out
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Speaker 1: this dope video about black women. He didn't talking about
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Speaker 1: how he loves black women. And it touched our souls.
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Speaker 1: So we was like, we gotta bring him up here,
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Speaker 1: especially when we're talking about this topic. And that is
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Speaker 1: none other than my brother Afion Crockett. So he's going
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Speaker 1: to be with us in a minute to join us
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Speaker 1: and expound on this topic about protecting black women and
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Speaker 1: loving black women and what it means to him. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And in our activist segments today, speaking of protecting black women,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be hearing from a young lady who we
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Speaker 1: affectionately called kJ. You all saw her in the viral
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Speaker 1: video where she is standing before the Board of Police
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Speaker 1: Commissioners in Kansas City. Uh, and she's really speaking truth
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Speaker 1: to power in the raw it's way. She said she
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Speaker 1: ain't nice, which we get into ain't nice. She says
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Speaker 1: that she's she ain't nice, which we will get into
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Speaker 1: and talk to her about because that was that's a
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Speaker 1: ball though. She's like, I didn't come here to be
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Speaker 1: politically direct. That's not what I came to do, and
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Speaker 1: that's just what it has to be at this time.
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Speaker 1: A young black woman, Caasia Brooks, who was an activist
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Speaker 1: in Kansas City, So we're gonna be talking to her
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Speaker 1: as well. So before we go to the next segment
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Speaker 1: and have our special guests joint. We're gonna take a
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Speaker 1: quick break for our sponsors. But before you ask this question,
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Speaker 1: don't let my presence affect you, all right, What question is,
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Speaker 1: what'd you date a black girl? I like black girls
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Speaker 1: to an extent. The next time, let's say that the
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Speaker 1: skin tone. Yeah, okay, we're kind of black guys, either
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Speaker 1: my complexion or lighter. I'm doca. So you want to
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Speaker 1: talk to me? No, wow? I remember when you thought
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Speaker 1: I was crazy when I used to tell you that,
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Speaker 1: you know, darker skinned girls, even at my complexion, are
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Speaker 1: just not as desirable, if you will, to some men.
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Speaker 1: And and and what's painful is that sometimes it's black men.
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Speaker 1: A lot of times it's black men who sort of
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Speaker 1: look at us and say that the darker we are,
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Speaker 1: as you saw in the video, We're mean we are,
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Speaker 1: you know, just not as cute and attractive to our
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Speaker 1: own men. So it's really the sentiment is really painful
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Speaker 1: to hear. And I think that the young woman in
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Speaker 1: this video knew the answers already. That's why she went
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Speaker 1: out to do this experiment, because she could probably feel herself. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I get it, and I've learned a lot lately.
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Speaker 1: I think growing up for me, I don't think I
18:56
Speaker 1: think there was a stigma like, oh you wanted to
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Speaker 1: get the poor Rikan girl or light skin girl used
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Speaker 1: to say it, But I don't think people was like
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Speaker 1: they just didn't like dark skin girls. Like now I'm
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Speaker 1: hearing that I'm just not attracted to dark skin girls.
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Speaker 1: You hadn't actually dark skinned dudes this Midnight Black talking
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Speaker 1: about they don't want no dark skinned girls. So it's like,
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's a it's a product of slavery,
19:17
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's trauma. It's a thing that
19:20
Speaker 1: we've been taught that darker we are, that the less
19:24
Speaker 1: we are that, you know. So I think, yeah, we're
19:26
Speaker 1: actually feeding into it. You don't remember it, but and
19:29
Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe our next guests can talk about
19:31
Speaker 1: it a little a little bit. But even in school days, right,
19:36
Speaker 1: there was clearly in that movie that we love, right,
19:40
Speaker 1: everybody's on school days. But if you think about the
19:42
Speaker 1: colorism issues in that movie and the split between the
19:47
Speaker 1: lighter skinned girls who would look at as being cool,
19:49
Speaker 1: and that was t Sha Campbell and Jasmine Guy and
19:52
Speaker 1: then you had the darker skinned girls who were so
19:54
Speaker 1: who they called You're just a jiggaboo and no, the jiggaboos,
19:59
Speaker 1: I think the lighting girls. You know, the jiggaboos was
20:03
Speaker 1: the dark skin and the one of these was the
20:04
Speaker 1: light skin. Oh oh, okay, right, you just don't want
20:07
Speaker 1: to be you want to be white, okay, exactly. So
20:09
Speaker 1: see you remember that. Remember that was Spike Lee's whole thing.
20:13
Speaker 1: I grew up around in a multi culture in front
20:16
Speaker 1: of Bronx. It was so multi cultural, and a lot
20:19
Speaker 1: of my family members with dark skin, you know, or
20:21
Speaker 1: a light skin or brown skin. The first girl that
20:24
Speaker 1: I ever was attracted to in elementary school was really
20:28
Speaker 1: dark skinned. So you know, for me, I don't I
20:30
Speaker 1: don't think I really paid that much attention. A lot
20:32
Speaker 1: of my dudes actually liked the same girl that I
20:34
Speaker 1: was attracted too. She was like the prettiest dark skin
20:37
Speaker 1: chick that you ever see in the same So I
20:39
Speaker 1: understand now, I see that it's happening now, So we're
20:42
Speaker 1: gonna bring my brother, you know, comedian actor extraordinaire, you know,
20:47
Speaker 1: one of the funniest guys that I know. You know,
20:51
Speaker 1: every time I see him play a role or do
20:54
Speaker 1: some type of characters like this hilarious man. He put
20:58
Speaker 1: out this video just talking about how much he loves
21:01
Speaker 1: black women. So we're gonna bring if on Crockett on
21:04
Speaker 1: here to have this conversation with us. What's up, King,
21:06
Speaker 1: How are you doing today? Fuck? King and Queen? How
21:08
Speaker 1: y'all going on? Thanks for joining. Look, I'm honored when
21:13
Speaker 1: when your names came across my email and my publicists,
21:17
Speaker 1: you know, feel feel different requests or whatever. I was like, immediately,
21:22
Speaker 1: those my people right there, let's go. I can't imagine
21:31
Speaker 1: what this country would be like without black women. I
21:33
Speaker 1: mean they've been on the front line. They set the stage,
21:36
Speaker 1: they cried to tears, they fought the fights of everything
21:40
Speaker 1: that was right. You're our mothers, our sisters, our wives
21:43
Speaker 1: and daughters. Black woman. I loved Black Room. I loved
21:49
Speaker 1: so much. So what made you do the video? I
21:52
Speaker 1: mean we needed it. Let me just tell you it
21:55
Speaker 1: was really appreciated. I know I needed to hear, um,
21:58
Speaker 1: black men's actually the little black boy who I saw
22:02
Speaker 1: in the video. I needed to hear that you all
22:05
Speaker 1: love black women and we know it. Of course we
22:08
Speaker 1: know black men love us, but if you let the
22:10
Speaker 1: media tell it. There's such a stigma and there's so
22:13
Speaker 1: much division between us, and so it's great that you
22:16
Speaker 1: use media to dispel the myth. Yeah. I mean, look,
22:19
Speaker 1: that's a long conversation, but I mean, let's start it
22:23
Speaker 1: for me. I just it's just so blatant how we
22:27
Speaker 1: are depicted in the news, the media and movies and TV.
22:31
Speaker 1: And you know, it's always slaved this and oppressed version
22:36
Speaker 1: of that. And I'm as an artist, I'm tired of it. Right,
22:40
Speaker 1: but in our society. Right, there was a video by
22:43
Speaker 1: my Black is Beautiful years ago of all these beautiful
22:48
Speaker 1: black women saying I love you black man, and it
22:52
Speaker 1: was amazing. I was watching that Journe I felt love.
22:55
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, that's that's amazing to hear. And
22:57
Speaker 1: in the back of my mind, I was like, oh,
22:59
Speaker 1: they gotta have a male version of this too, right,
23:02
Speaker 1: And about a year when by and I never saw
23:04
Speaker 1: the video, So I was like, yo, I just felt compelled.
23:08
Speaker 1: I have a lot of black friends. They got sisters,
23:11
Speaker 1: you know, and I know how these sisters feel that
23:17
Speaker 1: black men overlooked them. So I was like, let me
23:19
Speaker 1: get all the black men together that I know. So
23:22
Speaker 1: that we can actually voice it. Because it's one thing
23:25
Speaker 1: to think it and to be in your own bubble
23:28
Speaker 1: and to just know what you know, but to verbalize
23:31
Speaker 1: something as powerful as saying I love you black woman,
23:33
Speaker 1: you just never know how far that can go. Yeah,
23:37
Speaker 1: we appreciate it. Man. I was having an argument, but
23:40
Speaker 1: a guy like you said that there are stigmas, and
23:43
Speaker 1: there is a lot of people who don't even understand
23:47
Speaker 1: the reality we're dealing with. You know, there's a lot
23:49
Speaker 1: of black men who are blind to the fact that
23:52
Speaker 1: what they believe is loving a black women, or the
23:54
Speaker 1: way that they loving a black woman is not sometimes
23:57
Speaker 1: not the way that they want to be loved, you know,
23:59
Speaker 1: And we gotta so having those conversations too. So while
24:02
Speaker 1: seeing you put out this video just empowered me. It
24:05
Speaker 1: made me feel like, you know, they're all other brothers
24:07
Speaker 1: who understand the need to make our sisters and you know,
24:11
Speaker 1: our mothers and our women, just black women in general
24:13
Speaker 1: just feel loved. Man. So I think it was really timely.
24:16
Speaker 1: I remember one day my song was arguing with the
24:20
Speaker 1: guy they were debating, and the guy started to say
24:24
Speaker 1: what And the whole point was Mice was saying, we
24:27
Speaker 1: need to protect black women. We've got to do better.
24:30
Speaker 1: And you know, there were so many men who came
24:33
Speaker 1: at him like, you know, we do protect our women.
24:36
Speaker 1: But the conversation with this one particular person boiled down
24:40
Speaker 1: to him believing that if he beats his woman, right,
24:44
Speaker 1: but then he fights someone else who made disrespect her,
24:47
Speaker 1: he is protecting her. And it was so difficult to
24:51
Speaker 1: get him to understand. And of course for us, it's
24:54
Speaker 1: like he just must be some idiot. We don't got
24:56
Speaker 1: to deal with it. But again, his page was full
25:00
Speaker 1: of men who actually supported that stuff. You know, it
25:04
Speaker 1: was like it was it was almost like trendy at
25:07
Speaker 1: the moment. Yeah, we got a lot of work to do. Yeah,
25:11
Speaker 1: as as a community, like it's really it's really a
25:13
Speaker 1: lost mindset to love black women and for black people
25:18
Speaker 1: to love ourselves. And again, I can point to all
25:21
Speaker 1: the reasons why we are conditioned to not love ourselves
25:25
Speaker 1: and how I mean even down to the George Floyd
25:28
Speaker 1: tape and every other tape that we've seen black people
25:30
Speaker 1: getting murdered. Right, that is a clear message, that is
25:33
Speaker 1: a clear statement that they want to send to us.
25:37
Speaker 1: This is how we view you, this is how you
25:39
Speaker 1: should view yourself and so you shouldn't care when y'all
25:42
Speaker 1: killing each other, and when you know a young black
25:45
Speaker 1: dude that is hitting a young black woman in a
25:47
Speaker 1: face with a skateboard, like you shouldn't care, and that
25:51
Speaker 1: that's the stuff that bothers me is knowing how long
25:54
Speaker 1: of a conversation that is to try to get the
25:58
Speaker 1: hope is to get our men, first of all, to
26:00
Speaker 1: understand that concept. We had to love and protect all
26:04
Speaker 1: black women in a real way, not in just you know,
26:07
Speaker 1: four weeks and hashtag about it. Right. And when you
26:10
Speaker 1: when you said George Floyd, what it brought up for
26:14
Speaker 1: me immediately is hearing him call for his black mother, right,
26:18
Speaker 1: Like everybody knows that the black woman gives life, not
26:22
Speaker 1: that all women don't, but we're talking about black people
26:25
Speaker 1: right now. So the black woman gives life, and that
26:27
Speaker 1: we carry everybody struggles on our back. We carry everybody struggles. Right.
26:32
Speaker 1: We're just thinking about this election. We were talking about
26:35
Speaker 1: that earlier, that ninety plus percent of black women continue
26:40
Speaker 1: to show up and save the country and also be
26:45
Speaker 1: major supporters of the Democratic Party. Whether we are being
26:48
Speaker 1: treated fairly and given the resources and attention that we
26:52
Speaker 1: deserve or not, but we keep doing it over and
26:54
Speaker 1: over again. And you were saying, well, black men also, Yeah,
26:59
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. You know, we want to we
27:01
Speaker 1: want to give credit. You know, black women definitely saved
27:04
Speaker 1: the day everything, but we came in second place this time.
27:06
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We definitely came in second place.
27:08
Speaker 1: But for me, it's like, how do how do we
27:11
Speaker 1: find this balance I felt and where we hold ourselves
27:15
Speaker 1: accountable right for what we understand is wrong because I
27:18
Speaker 1: put myself in it, even though I feel like I'm
27:20
Speaker 1: one of the biggest protectors and lovers of black women ever,
27:24
Speaker 1: I say we need to do better, and then there's
27:26
Speaker 1: this pushback from black men that I'm feeding into a
27:30
Speaker 1: narrative that we're not already doing it. And then I'm
27:33
Speaker 1: trying to explain to them that I'm having conversations with
27:36
Speaker 1: black women who don't feel loved, who don't feel like
27:39
Speaker 1: we're protecting them. So how do how do we How
27:41
Speaker 1: do you think it is that we balance between not
27:44
Speaker 1: feeding into a narrative but still holding ourselves accountable. Man,
27:48
Speaker 1: It's about ownership, you know what I mean. It's not
27:51
Speaker 1: enough for me and mice to love our black women
27:55
Speaker 1: and protect and have this mindset. We have to say
27:59
Speaker 1: we we as black men, as the whole, we're all
28:02
Speaker 1: responsible because we haven't been perfect, you know what I mean,
28:05
Speaker 1: Like I've never beat on a woman, but that doesn't
28:07
Speaker 1: mean that I haven't gotten into an argument and caught
28:09
Speaker 1: crazy or you know, gotten mad and whatever. That thing is, right,
28:13
Speaker 1: So we have to first own that we all got
28:16
Speaker 1: to do it, and we got to start having real conversations,
28:19
Speaker 1: if it's forums, if it's if it's meetings of post COVID.
28:23
Speaker 1: Black men got to stop being sold in the ah man,
28:26
Speaker 1: don't tell me what to do. We already doing that,
28:28
Speaker 1: like nah, but you might be doing it, but we
28:32
Speaker 1: collectively are not doing it. So we gotta take our
28:36
Speaker 1: ego aside and be like no, no, no, yeah, I
28:38
Speaker 1: take care of my lady. But you know, the community
28:41
Speaker 1: of black men have failed the black woman. Well we
28:45
Speaker 1: have to. And and by the way, they are young
28:48
Speaker 1: black boys who are coming up behind you. Or I
28:50
Speaker 1: have a young son who's twenty one years old, and
28:53
Speaker 1: sometimes the challenges that we go through, you can see
28:57
Speaker 1: that he has gotten too comfortable. You know, learn from
29:00
Speaker 1: society that it's okay to like go off when you
29:03
Speaker 1: want to on your black mother. And he and I
29:06
Speaker 1: have had many conversations about respecting your mother. But he
29:10
Speaker 1: is not alone. This is a sort of a trend
29:13
Speaker 1: among many of my black women friends where they're talking
29:17
Speaker 1: about the relationships with their son. And of course, my
29:20
Speaker 1: son loves me to death or to life, but it
29:23
Speaker 1: is something that needs to be dealt with now. The
29:25
Speaker 1: next time we talk, we got to deal with how
29:28
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris being on the presidential ticket impacted the amount
29:34
Speaker 1: of black men who voted for Trump and against the
29:38
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. That's another conversation, but we may not have
29:42
Speaker 1: time to talk about that today. Yeah. I mean, look,
29:46
Speaker 1: Joe was a wild boy, but he's smart enough to
29:51
Speaker 1: know when to pick the right running mate, and Kamala
29:55
Speaker 1: was perfect, and that positions her to potentially be the
29:58
Speaker 1: first president. We already had our first black president, of course,
30:03
Speaker 1: and Barack and it also helped that Barrock was on
30:06
Speaker 1: the running trail with them, on the promotional trail, the
30:10
Speaker 1: campaign trail. But yeah, Kamala is gonna be She was
30:14
Speaker 1: the perfect person to increase that support of black voters
30:18
Speaker 1: and black women. Again, we love you black women, you
30:22
Speaker 1: got we ain't got no choice with the love black women.
30:24
Speaker 1: I just want to know, you know, when we talk
30:26
Speaker 1: about this subject and I get so much back and forth,
30:30
Speaker 1: like I've done probably I did um Nick Cannon show
30:34
Speaker 1: when we was talking about black women and how we
30:36
Speaker 1: need to protect black women, and I was just owning
30:38
Speaker 1: up for things that I might have done wrong. And
30:41
Speaker 1: it was so many people just beating me up, like
30:43
Speaker 1: black man a y'all nobody want to hear this, and
30:45
Speaker 1: black women done this and black women ain't perfect. You know.
30:48
Speaker 1: We talked about Meg the Stallion and Tory and he
30:51
Speaker 1: like she gotta be lying and Tory didn't do nothing
30:54
Speaker 1: a hug that beast TC And it's like, are we
30:58
Speaker 1: dealing with a trauma? Is there is? Where do you
31:00
Speaker 1: think this anger is coming from? That that you see
31:04
Speaker 1: this especially shows up in this generation, Like where do
31:08
Speaker 1: you think this anger is coming from? From black man?
31:10
Speaker 1: You know, victim shaming comes from, first of all, lack
31:14
Speaker 1: of ownership. And you're right, as trauma, you know, no
31:18
Speaker 1: man who's hurt, who's been hurt, wants to admit that
31:24
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's some healing to be done. So
31:26
Speaker 1: that's Another thing is black man, we don't know that
31:30
Speaker 1: we need to heal, nor do we have the confidence
31:34
Speaker 1: and the security to go heal and go sit with
31:37
Speaker 1: a therapist and really correct your traumas and heal your traumas,
31:42
Speaker 1: because there's always gonna be that conversation. There's always gonna
31:46
Speaker 1: be that backlash every time one of us says we
31:49
Speaker 1: love black women. All they're gonna be able to do
31:51
Speaker 1: is point the finger and be like, yeah, but all
31:52
Speaker 1: the black women I knew did this to me, and
31:55
Speaker 1: and they they aggressive, and they this, and they that.
31:58
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, But that all comes from
32:01
Speaker 1: a pain place. So of all you remember and all
32:04
Speaker 1: you know is the times that a black woman did
32:07
Speaker 1: something to hurt you, as opposed to being a man
32:09
Speaker 1: and manning up and healing yourself and seeking that that forgiveness. Also,
32:15
Speaker 1: all you're gonna do is keep pointing fingers, and when
32:18
Speaker 1: your finger point it's gonna make you not look at
32:20
Speaker 1: all the crazy stuff you did to the black woman.
32:23
Speaker 1: So I think that's where that feedback come from. It's
32:25
Speaker 1: trauma and it's lack of ownership. Ownership is a is
32:29
Speaker 1: a very important concept that a lot of us don't practice.
32:34
Speaker 1: I definitely agree with that. Well, you know, we can
32:37
Speaker 1: have this conversation old day. We probably need to do
32:39
Speaker 1: like a roundtable with just black men and black women
32:42
Speaker 1: and just talk talk through these subjects and just get
32:45
Speaker 1: everybody's perspective and understands. But once again, man, thank you
32:49
Speaker 1: for being here. Thank you for you know, grace and
32:51
Speaker 1: our presidents and street politicians with your knowledge. When we
32:55
Speaker 1: see that video, we like, we definitely got to bring
32:57
Speaker 1: a fian on here, man, And I want to thank
32:59
Speaker 1: you personally for always supporting me, you know, for always
33:02
Speaker 1: being there, always give a showing me love on my
33:04
Speaker 1: page and everything. So continue to do the work, brother man.
33:08
Speaker 1: It's only a few of us out here that really,
33:09
Speaker 1: you know, that aren't afraid to take accountability, aren't afraid
33:13
Speaker 1: to speak truth to power and you know, and deal
33:16
Speaker 1: with whatever comes with that. So once again we want
33:18
Speaker 1: to say thank you for being here. Thanks so much
33:21
Speaker 1: for joining us on street politicians. You know, this is
33:23
Speaker 1: an endeavor for us that we really want to see
33:27
Speaker 1: grow and provide voice for what's happening in the streets
33:30
Speaker 1: and in politics within our communities. So it was so
33:33
Speaker 1: great to have you as one of our first guests. Well,
33:36
Speaker 1: let me say this to both of y'all. I appreciate
33:40
Speaker 1: y'all being front lines. Hands down, y'all are both front lines.
33:45
Speaker 1: Y'all are putting yourselves not you know, you're not pulling
33:50
Speaker 1: other people and putting them in the front. You too,
33:53
Speaker 1: are putting yourselves on the front line. You're getting arrested
33:56
Speaker 1: and saluting my brother trade the truth, that's my brother.
33:59
Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all putting yourselves on the front line for
34:03
Speaker 1: the cause, for the people, and God bless y'all. May
34:06
Speaker 1: y'all stay protected because I know y'all are going back
34:09
Speaker 1: out there whenever something else happens, um, because we all
34:12
Speaker 1: have a position to fight in this in this battle.
34:14
Speaker 1: But you guys are have determined that you guys are
34:16
Speaker 1: gonna be frontline and put your hands to the plow.
34:19
Speaker 1: So I salute y'all. We need y'all and my song
34:23
Speaker 1: you wanted the greatest mcs man. I just want to
34:25
Speaker 1: shout your your bar came up your pocket, your rhythm. Subscribe,
34:30
Speaker 1: he's a scribe, he's ascribed. You know, she looked the
34:34
Speaker 1: black woman. Look, this is what they're talking about. Y'all
34:39
Speaker 1: can't give a black man she knows. She knows what
34:42
Speaker 1: I do, but I appreciate you. If you're on for
34:44
Speaker 1: the Love Man, thank you continue to do the work.
34:46
Speaker 1: We appreciate your love and we look forward to seeing you.
34:52
Speaker 1: So before we go to the next segment and have
34:54
Speaker 1: our special guests joint, we're gonna take a quick break
34:57
Speaker 1: for our sponsors, so a street politicians, activists have a
35:06
Speaker 1: home with us. We want to make sure that on
35:09
Speaker 1: every episode we catch up with activists and organizers around
35:14
Speaker 1: the country who are doing great work on the ground
35:17
Speaker 1: and make sure that we give them an opportunity to
35:20
Speaker 1: tell their stories and to ensure that the narratives around
35:24
Speaker 1: what is happening comes directly from people who are engaged
35:28
Speaker 1: and who are actively working to make change. And so
35:32
Speaker 1: this young sister who we affectionately call kJ you all
35:37
Speaker 1: know her as key Asia Brooks. We saw her at
35:40
Speaker 1: a police council meeting or a police commissioner meeting where
35:46
Speaker 1: the board members who actually control the Kansas City Police
35:51
Speaker 1: Department where they were meeting and the public was able
35:55
Speaker 1: to make statements. And she went before this council of
35:58
Speaker 1: individuals and really spoke truth to power. But he was
36:03
Speaker 1: on a point she was she said, I'm not nice, right,
36:06
Speaker 1: She started out like that, I'm not nice, and I
36:11
Speaker 1: don't seek to be respectable. So I'm not here begging
36:14
Speaker 1: anything of soulless white folks and self preserving black folks.
36:19
Speaker 1: You get one life, and you all in this room
36:22
Speaker 1: have chosen profits over people and not pathetic. So let's
36:25
Speaker 1: have kJ to come and let's talk to her and
36:28
Speaker 1: learn a little bit about why she made that riveting speech.
36:33
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even call it a speech. She just basically
36:35
Speaker 1: told it like it was like it is directly right,
36:39
Speaker 1: directly to the to the people who needed to hear it. Well, Hi, kJ,
36:44
Speaker 1: ting me on here, how are you? I'm nice today?
36:49
Speaker 1: Y'all you're nice today? That's good. Who was your motivation
36:54
Speaker 1: behind what you said? Um? I woke up that morning
36:57
Speaker 1: just feeling really motivated, feeling really angry. I heard the
37:01
Speaker 1: gospel song don't Forget to Remember, so that just kind
37:06
Speaker 1: of got me excited. I'm like, they forgot to remember
37:09
Speaker 1: where they paychecks came from. So I wrote that speech
37:14
Speaker 1: as I was sitting in the crowd, partially directed at
37:16
Speaker 1: a lot of the people who came who weren't really
37:18
Speaker 1: speaking their truth. They were seeing what they thought would
37:21
Speaker 1: sound the best. So I wrote that partially and direct
37:24
Speaker 1: to the people who came with us, and partially indirect
37:26
Speaker 1: to the police board who we barely get a chance
37:29
Speaker 1: to see here in Kansas City. My main motivation was
37:33
Speaker 1: just and I won't say anger, but you know, just
37:37
Speaker 1: y'all gonna get had you been engaged in your local
37:42
Speaker 1: community and fighting against police brutality prior to this day,
37:46
Speaker 1: like I've been in every facet of activism. I've been
37:50
Speaker 1: with the young protesters, I've been with the like kind
37:53
Speaker 1: of middle aged concerned parent activists, and then I've been
37:56
Speaker 1: with the older civil rights leaders. Tell us about what's
38:00
Speaker 1: been happening to you since the day when you spoke
38:04
Speaker 1: at the council meeting or the commissioners meeting. I left
38:07
Speaker 1: the friends Halloween party and I was just sitting in
38:09
Speaker 1: my apartment complex parking lot at like eleven o'clock at night,
38:12
Speaker 1: like I normally do to like decompress, and I saw
38:16
Speaker 1: their cards just coming through, and how my apartment complex
38:19
Speaker 1: is that up You really wouldn't need to come back
38:21
Speaker 1: there unless you were living there. They've been kind of
38:25
Speaker 1: just trailing around, and my security sees them all the time,
38:29
Speaker 1: but now that I draw national attention to them, they're
38:31
Speaker 1: definitely angry, and I could see that manifesting itself in
38:37
Speaker 1: various ways. You're not you're not alone. So we've experienced
38:41
Speaker 1: the same type of intimidation. It's a playbook that they use.
38:44
Speaker 1: But you also have to protect yourself. I'm glad to
38:47
Speaker 1: hear you have security. You need to be safe, and
38:50
Speaker 1: I guess the question would be what can people do
38:52
Speaker 1: to help. I do have a cash op for security.
38:56
Speaker 1: I'm paying security, which I'm paying taxes on at KCPD.
39:00
Speaker 1: You with great power comes great responsibility. So I want
39:03
Speaker 1: to be able to dive into this work without having
39:05
Speaker 1: to worry about whether or not you know, someone on
39:07
Speaker 1: the street could get me or someone in an organization. Right,
39:12
Speaker 1: what is the organization and what is it that you
39:14
Speaker 1: specialize in? What is you know? What is it that
39:16
Speaker 1: you're you're expertiseing. Yeah, I have an organization that's co
39:21
Speaker 1: founded by my comrade um Maria. Now it's called the
39:25
Speaker 1: Chingana Collective. Chinona is a Spanish word for badass women,
39:29
Speaker 1: so it could apply to anyone in any race. But
39:32
Speaker 1: we're made up of black Latins and indigenous women. UM,
39:36
Speaker 1: so we just work together. But you know, I'm black.
39:38
Speaker 1: I want to work on black issues, but you know
39:40
Speaker 1: I want to be there to support my sisters. Okay,
39:43
Speaker 1: so what is your cash? You want to definitely make
39:45
Speaker 1: sure that people are supporting you and make sure that
39:48
Speaker 1: you are secure, and make sure that your grassroots organizations
39:52
Speaker 1: even you drive and you continue to do your work.
39:54
Speaker 1: Ka Gabriel, it's my first name and my little name.
39:57
Speaker 1: It is on my Instagram at kgj k jg dot
40:03
Speaker 1: b r ks UM. It's a link in there. There's
40:05
Speaker 1: been a few fake pages popping up, but if you
40:07
Speaker 1: just go to my instagram, like, yeah, well thanks for
40:11
Speaker 1: being nice to us today. Yes, we appreciate you, even
40:15
Speaker 1: though we love the stipiary but it's good to see
40:17
Speaker 1: that smile. And we're glad that you have security and
40:20
Speaker 1: people protected you. So whatever we can do, you know
40:22
Speaker 1: you got us on your side. Yeah, you call us
40:25
Speaker 1: anytime and be safe. Okay, take care of yourself so
40:29
Speaker 1: much good, be good to you. Take care. kJ is funny,
40:34
Speaker 1: like I mean, and I know she's not trying to
40:36
Speaker 1: be funny, but she's funny and I like her. UM,
40:39
Speaker 1: and I think we need to do all we can
40:41
Speaker 1: to support her and make sure you know, yes, I
40:43
Speaker 1: go to her cash app for support her. I went
40:47
Speaker 1: to her I DM tell the other day and sold
40:49
Speaker 1: her that I wanted to It was just a cold DM.
40:52
Speaker 1: I didn't know her, but I said, you know, I
40:54
Speaker 1: want to give you some cash App. I want to
40:57
Speaker 1: deposits in your cash app. You know how we all
41:00
Speaker 1: ways try to pay forward whatever has been donated to us.
41:03
Speaker 1: We always try to give others that we know are
41:06
Speaker 1: out here that don't have the same access and platform
41:09
Speaker 1: um some of the resources that we're able to pull together.
41:13
Speaker 1: And so I sent her that message and she responded,
41:16
Speaker 1: of course she gave me that cash act because that's
41:18
Speaker 1: what I asked for, and you know, she's about her business.
41:20
Speaker 1: But she also said she wanted to have more conversations
41:23
Speaker 1: about the national work, and I think her voice is needed.
41:26
Speaker 1: There's so many out here who are not speaking truth
41:30
Speaker 1: to power. I don't know what the hell they are doing,
41:31
Speaker 1: and I just want to continue to help and support
41:35
Speaker 1: the young sister. And that brings me like this is
41:42
Speaker 1: this really bothers? Why do people think that people who
41:47
Speaker 1: do work on the front lines, who are activists supposed
41:50
Speaker 1: to be poor, oh man, But well, what do you
41:55
Speaker 1: think that we're supposed to run around here fight risk
41:58
Speaker 1: our freedom and we're not supposed to have will pay
42:00
Speaker 1: a nice shoes who are not supposed to be able
42:02
Speaker 1: to pay our rent. Why do y'all want the people
42:04
Speaker 1: that's willing to risk their lives on these front lines
42:07
Speaker 1: to have nothing. People tell me you're you're selling a
42:09
Speaker 1: book online, You're trying to capitalize on the movement. You're
42:12
Speaker 1: a poverty pimp because you're selling a book, Well, I
42:16
Speaker 1: think or you're selling a hat, so you're a poverty pimp. Well.
42:19
Speaker 1: I believe that people should have as much as they
42:22
Speaker 1: can get. Of course, I'm you know, I believe in
42:25
Speaker 1: Bernie saying this theory that people only need but so
42:28
Speaker 1: much money. But I do think that whether you're an
42:31
Speaker 1: activist or whatever, you are, a school teacher, you know,
42:37
Speaker 1: a dancer, whatever you are, I think people should live
42:41
Speaker 1: comfortably and that not only should we be able to
42:45
Speaker 1: be supported by the community and people who we entertain,
42:48
Speaker 1: people who we fight for, people who we work with.
42:51
Speaker 1: That's one part of it. But I also think that
42:53
Speaker 1: this country should ensure that people are not living in
42:58
Speaker 1: poverty just because of this code or the color of
43:01
Speaker 1: the skin. So I totally don't support that theory. I'm
43:04
Speaker 1: aware of me a cute boot. I'm gonna have me
43:06
Speaker 1: a nice bag, and I'm gonna make sure that I
43:10
Speaker 1: have a home and that my family is stable. That's
43:14
Speaker 1: something that I'm going to do, and I will work
43:16
Speaker 1: for mine. It's not like I'm sitting at home expecting
43:19
Speaker 1: people to give. But I also I also understand that
43:23
Speaker 1: the media has created this narrative and it's been used
43:27
Speaker 1: to to try to to try to, you know, pretty
43:34
Speaker 1: much challenge the leadership of black people in this movement.
43:40
Speaker 1: You know, it's been used as an opportunity to deflect
43:44
Speaker 1: from the real issues and to try to destroy the
43:48
Speaker 1: character of an individual who is trying to do work
43:53
Speaker 1: so that we don't have to talk about the issues
43:55
Speaker 1: of social justice. And I think that what happens is
43:59
Speaker 1: because the mere as Malcolm X says, it's a powerful
44:02
Speaker 1: tool and it's dangerous, right. It is so ingrained in
44:07
Speaker 1: your mind that you start to question the black leader
44:11
Speaker 1: who's doing whatever work locally, and but then you are
44:14
Speaker 1: willing to give your money to something like the Red Cross,
44:17
Speaker 1: who really also takes people's money, and most of the
44:21
Speaker 1: money that goes into the Red Cross is going towards
44:24
Speaker 1: the salaries of those people who work for the company,
44:28
Speaker 1: the leadership, or the organization, and not nearly as much
44:33
Speaker 1: of the individual dollars are going to the ground to
44:36
Speaker 1: deal with relief. I mean, we know in New Orleans
44:39
Speaker 1: still to this day, the city, the town has not
44:44
Speaker 1: been properly rebuilt. Yet the Red Cross received probably you know,
44:48
Speaker 1: I know it was millions, but it could have been
44:51
Speaker 1: even more than millions of dollars during Hurricane Katrina. But
44:55
Speaker 1: yet somebody like Traded Truth, who is our family, He's
44:59
Speaker 1: out there doing the work every single day on the ground,
45:02
Speaker 1: doing real relief work, going into the hood, buying trucks
45:06
Speaker 1: and other things, Hurricane Tornado, doing it all. And they'll
45:12
Speaker 1: ask why we just I just think, you know, we
45:17
Speaker 1: gotta do better. Man, Like, why are we questioning people
45:20
Speaker 1: that's willing to risk the lives for us people? Why
45:23
Speaker 1: why do you want to see people that you know
45:25
Speaker 1: come for when you come from that doing work, real work.
45:29
Speaker 1: Why do you have a problem with seeing them having
45:32
Speaker 1: some level of success, being able to survive, being able
45:34
Speaker 1: to have something nice, or just not being broken, not
45:37
Speaker 1: living day to day like that mentality to me is
45:40
Speaker 1: so warm, But it's an enslaved mentality. It's a war,
45:44
Speaker 1: and it was it was done to us on purpose
45:47
Speaker 1: because the entire theory um or at least one that
45:51
Speaker 1: I think has been extremely beneficial to our oppressors, has
45:57
Speaker 1: been to use chaos and also to divide us based
46:02
Speaker 1: upon jealousy, based upon some having and others not having.
46:07
Speaker 1: So it's like, what do you call a deprivation? Like
46:10
Speaker 1: all of these things have been used against us, and
46:14
Speaker 1: it worked because it's ingrained in our psyche that we
46:18
Speaker 1: start to want to know why or what kind of
46:21
Speaker 1: car do you drive, rather than having a conversation about
46:24
Speaker 1: the issue that I'm bringing to your attention. But you know,
46:28
Speaker 1: I think you have to and I've learned from some
46:31
Speaker 1: of my mentors and leaders that you just have to
46:33
Speaker 1: keep going and not really stop to focus too much
46:38
Speaker 1: of your attention on that sometimes, like I was questioned
46:42
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago about how much money we make
46:45
Speaker 1: and you know, do how is all of this happening?
46:48
Speaker 1: And of course then they started asking me it was
46:50
Speaker 1: supposed to be about me, and the next thing I know,
46:52
Speaker 1: it became well, how come my son doesn't tell us
46:55
Speaker 1: where he's making Listen, the president of the United States
46:58
Speaker 1: wouldn't show his taxes. And when they finally found in
47:01
Speaker 1: which they had to crack the code over four years,
47:04
Speaker 1: and when they finally was able to find some information
47:08
Speaker 1: seven So did you fight him? Yeah? Did you, Kim?
47:15
Speaker 1: Was you on that five million more people were not
47:17
Speaker 1: out of voted for him? Actually, five million more people
47:19
Speaker 1: did go out and voting. The numbers went up in many,
47:23
Speaker 1: many situations that you know tells us a lot about
47:27
Speaker 1: this country a lot. Yeah. Well, listen, once again, we
47:32
Speaker 1: don't always agree. We're not gonna always be wrong, We're
47:37
Speaker 1: not always gonna be wrong, and we're not always be right,
47:39
Speaker 1: but we can guarantee you that we will always be
47:43
Speaker 1: authentic street politicians. P