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What's up? Tip? Yeah you know she read shout towns on speaking to the grown a second, We're gonna last kind of kicking and at the end we leave it with just a lift dispiritcepect you want to revisit, so your first like a listen, young folks, old folks that we take it to. No this do you do? No do what you do? No kiss, do what I do? Nome Hello Lauren Hogan, Well, good afternoon, Flame Monroe. How
are you. I'm pretty good? Hello, Flame. It's welcome to the Laughing Line with Flame Monroe and my gorgeous partner Lauren Hogan. As you can see, we are dressed in all black. We're not ready to the battle, but we're ready to talk about it. And we're feeling our blackness today. Yes, indeed, to hey, I'm feeling very black. So if y'all hear me a little a b W A b he we yeah to abe he we come angry black, angry black
because I'm sinking a bull of ship. But we want you to come on there, Lauren, what you've been You've been gone now I'm tired. I was in Atlanta travels picking up. I just got back yesterday, and you know, I traveled all the time. I'm used to it, but this this trip kind of kicked my butt a little bit. So I'm trying to get acclimated again on West Coast
time because my body is in between. Let me ask your question, because about traveling, do you think it's because you're not consistently travel because your other job usually have as you consistently travel, you think the breaks in between make you be like, oh, I forget what to do because you ain't traveling as much. Maybe, but it's picking back up again. I had a little break because I canceled a couple of trips, so I didn't, you know, travel for like a whole month. And maybe maybe that's
what it is. I don't know, because who the travel schedule is getting a little real. Yeah, yeah, I traveled this week too. I went to Oakland, Hey, Oakland, back Oakland. Thank you. Victavian Jackson for a wonderful time. He had a great party. But baby Oakland and meeting I'm good good, Baby Oakness. It's a nice place to visit, but that can't go. Listen. Mom was born and raised in New York. New York is my second home. All families there we know all about the can't go and thank you for acknowledge.
It's fully a label hole. Let me just she is a full don't let me go and get the biggest I did not call your I said a label hope. Really distinct difference, not even h o E a label hole. Were glad to be back, though kid our boy Kid was here saying he lokendo we even kid the money. I ain't been working two weeks. Last week I went out with a showcase for Netflix and then I had to do Seeing the End with Pamela Brown, which was great, But right after that I had to go do a
comedy show. I was sick with the cold. Guess what I did. Took my U glass to work and made it work and get a part to stand ovation. I think I have about ninety six percent of the room on their feet with the code. Voice was so deep you thought I was very white and a dressed what was it? It was shocking a couple of times because that said, that's a lot of base. I had a code, you know that code didn't care, but no, damn have picture on the low pictures like I'm here to stay.
But I bustled through because let me tell you something. My name was on the my key and on the bal board. And if you cancel on white people, white people will cancel you. All I can think about was because you don't want to get canceled you and you got started yet. So we made it. We made it work because I am a professional sometimes and yeah, well I went to work. But now we are here, We are here. I wanted to start off talking about in
the news. We're gonna get to the to the heavy stuff, but let's start off and say, didn't I tell you all that that Elon mus ship was a smoke screen. Listen, there's the dealers on hold. The dealers on hold because they got they got too many recalls on TESTA. He to fix that with those investors before he can come up with that forty four billion. I'm wondering. I'm like, what's going on? Because all of a sudden, it's like,
are the funds not there. He's we know that he's a billionaire, we know that he's rich, but what's going on that all of a sudden, the deals on being rich on paper and having and being cash rich. It's called being a house poor and cash now house rich and cash poor, which means that it may look rich on paper, but you might not have that tangible forty four billion dollars in cash. Saying that you have the forty four being with assets and everything. Ain't like having
forty four billion dollars in your hand, you know. That is so I think what the smoke screen was. I think the overplay for the other play was that he put that out there so he can get other investors to jump in on this with him, because the the ultimate play was to get Marjorie Taylor Green and Trump back on Twitter so the division and this country can get greater for the two and four elections that are right upon us. Listen, are we talking about that? Yeah?
Just the just the election. I was watching you know, MSNBC because you know, it feels like now I had a break, I felt comfortable. Now I'm back to watching MSNBC every day, and the polls are just terrible. You know, Democrats aren't doing well. Republicans really aren't doing well either. They're doing about five percent better than Democrats. But I'm
concerned about all these seats. You know, Ohio just you know, elected that Republican front runner who you know, it's just a racist, was talking about shooting Mexicans and his um ads. Dr oz is the front runner for the primary in um Pennsylvania. And you know, there's also elections happening in North Carolina. You know, l A. We have our first mayoral election in the middle of an election cycle in June, and Rick Caruso has spent you know, over twenty four
million dollars in TV ads. So you can't watch any type of news in l A without seeing a Rick Caruso ad. And he's anti abortion, pro Trump the whole thing, but is running as like a Democrat. Well that that is the new overplay for the underplay. A lot of the Republicans are running under the Democratic Party ticket, but they still have the Republican values of Joe Mansion for one, Yeah, who not? What's the one name from West Virginia is Yeah, so you look at me. I ain't even had one. Yeah,
I'm feeling it. I think my week too tight? Uh, it is it? Girl? How are we gonna win? How? How are we going to win? Long with people tell the other people the whold they vote, and I love what you always say. If the vote was not so important, if the black vote and the brown vote was not so important, why would they keep trying to implement new voting laws. I'm telling you all your votes, mad at
your vote counts, and you need to do it. Yeah, and honestly, with you know, them closing down certain polling places in you know, black neighborhoods, it's a scary time to say the least. You know, there's a lot of seats that are up on Democratic and G O P side, and um one is a state a state Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Yeah, the Democrat and that seat is actually retiring. So it's uh. I don't think the Democrats should be allowed to retire. I think we need to die in
offense now. I think they need to retire. We need some fresh blood because they don't understand what's going on. Got a lot of old white men that are sitting in Congress, that are sitting in the Senate, and they need to go they need to go. Well, since we're talking about what's his name from Kentucky Turkey nick oh, um, that's not what's his name? Mitch McConnell needs to go. Yeah, I'll give me that to go. Well. M McConnell just
got reelected, Linda Graham just got re elected. Um, I think Ted cruise Is seat is up in two years, so they've got some time. And I find it interesting too that all of these previous pro Trumpers like Liz Cheney, and all of a sudden, she's calling the GOP white supremacists and that they need to renounce white supremacy and all these other things and anti semitism. So it's interesting. It's an interesting time. Since we are you didn't open
up the door, that's gonna be the whole show any day. Way, Lauren opened Lauren Hogan and opened up the door to the white supremacy. Speaking of white supremacies, white supremacists Saturday, I don't even know the nigga's name. And I said just what I said, the nigga's name, the white man, the white man, because you'll want to say he a boy, and now y'all want to say he mentally served the white man who was born in the house of racism, who was grew up growing raised by racists. I don't
give a funk. What did nobody else say that y'all want to say that he was mentally challenged, that he drove four hours, two hundred miles with an assault rifle, planned it, plotted it out, wrote a whole manifesto of what he was going to do. Y'all had him up under your radar a year ago when he wanted to shoot up the school. Nothing transpired from that. Y'all could have stopped this long before it happened. And on the other side, he drove to a nice black neighborhood, nice calm,
older black people, affluent neighborhood. And it was a poor neighborhood, but it was just nice working class people. He went up in the grocery store on a Saturday afternoon and shot and killed. I think he shot eleven people and ten died. Yeah, And before y'all get to Holland, he was mentally challenged, and he grew up in a broken home. Got damnit look in the mirror, so did I. And before you come at me an argument where he was broken up here, grew up in a home. Both of
his parents are engineers. He grew up in a full on home. And if any kids are gonna be messed up in this country, let me start with man. They grew up with a father that's transgendered. I got titties. I walk around with women's clothes on to make money, and I dressed up as a woman, and my children have known this. So my children are racist. I didn't raise those children to be racist. I didn't raise my
children to be hateful. I raised them to meet people where they were and don't like nobody that don't like you. So don't come at me sideways with no excuse about what he did not have, because then I'm a tell you what my children did not have. But what they did have was a responsible parent. Those are irresponsible parents. Y'all need to go out to the parents, stop take their home, take everything from them. Because he ain't learned the nigger word from the Jefferson is a good times
all in the family. They don't show that numb moore, he said at the Denter table, and learn that word all. They hate that he knows he learned eighteen years old. And you hate like that. Oh, I agree, and The interesting thing is yesterday, like I said, I just got back from Atlanta and I went out, me and my dad went to go have sushi together, and we were sitting at the table. There was this white family who
directly across from us. There was this little girl that was sitting in her hot chair and she kept turning around and smiling at me and looking at me and waving, and you could tell, not that the parents were uncomfortable, but you could just tell it was like, oh, like, you know, there was some apprehension to make sure it was okay, you know, and then you know if she kept looking at us, but she was so sweet, you know, and she was laughing and wanting to play and interact,
and it was just that's the prime example of how racism is just to learn behavior. Because you got these babies that are is happy, they want to engage with you. They're not looking at the color of your skin, They're looking at you as a person. But racism is truly a learned behavior. And I hope wholeheartedly agree. There was
three different incidents actually this weekend. There was also an incident in Orange County in California, Laguna um Woods, and then there was I forgot what city had happened in, but three Koreans were killed. Three Korean women were killed too, So that was a bad black man too. Well, it is it is just marching and protesting, ain't doing nothing. They killed ten black people and in the y'all keep holland we don't want y'all in that neighborhood. They were
in their own neighborhood. This man drove all these mouths to this neighborhood because in his head he was fucked up. He was an empty, broken person. He's an ignorant nigger. I see what I said. And if he got this much hate and he's eighteen, this thing just starting the researching this, and I've been researching that he was only Internet up under all of these militant girls. And yeah, he watched Tego cossing every day. He also was a
huge Trump supporter. Trump did not release the racist, but he let made all the roaches and rats come out the crevices. They were in their own corner of the world, living their life, doing what they were doing. But he has made it so open. And this is the man that y'all think about trying to put back in the office. He was also the same president as that said he wasn't leaving when he lost and did not leave for
what a month? Well, he he left when he had to leave, yes, But but the mere fact that he said that and he stayed longer than he was supposed to and then all these missing documents are coming up that he took all these legal documents that he was supposed to turn in and now they're missing. Supposed that Mara lago. But this is the man you'll want to put back in the office. Y'all got to do better
as a people by voting. Y'all got to make sure that all your ads are died and all your teas across and again with Laurence said that was a great example of that kids are not born racist. Racism is a learned behavior because little kids just see other people. They wore human contact and human cut touch. Just like the little six year ol white boy. Did you see that that went bamming on the people? He is not I would have belt and took him to his mom
and daddy house and say this ain't what y'all. Y'all ain't doing your job, so he won't do this to my house. And well, I whooped his ask, well, that father was well, the father was arrested and for like criminal conduct, but that father was arrested. You know the thing that trips me up about white people. They always get mad and try to say that, you know, go back where you came from. I wonder if they really like, grasp or fathom the fact that y'all weren't born here.
Maybe y'all should take your own advice because your ancestors were not here. Y'all were not Native Americans. So the fact that you'll keep telling us to go back to where we are and they need to y'all were not born here. Y'all immigrated here. My response for telling us to go back to where we came from. Show up with a bill of sale and we out of here, because the only person who takes you back without a receipt is Northern reck and y'all didn't get us from
Northern y'all care to Africans stole us? You cannot return stolen goods one more time. Show me the bill of sale and I go back. You purchased my ancests because
you ain't purchased it, you stole. It's just baffling to me, honestly, It's really baffling to me, the just the sense of entitlement and the fact that, oh, I'm supposed to be here, and y'all was, you know, escaping religious persecution and came over here, but you brought diseases, you know, famine, everything else and destroyed this country and then couldn't build upon
it and couldn't create an economy. So you went and stole us because you couldn't do what your damnselves and got the nerve to have an attitude talk about go back where you came from. We initially don't want to come here in the first damn place, but we're here now, and I ain't going nowhere, honey, I got welfare, Section A E B T. I ain't going No, it is, it is. It's so scary loring. And then this man come out with the gun that I'm just talking about,
the NaIO dad, and shoot the gun. I'm gonna shot his own kid. The daughter was gone. Your daughter was like behind a gun and children Because I'm telling you right now, it's just ridiculous. That's why he got arrested. But the little look at the what now, so what is this little boy gonna become at eighteen. He's now now like this, what will he do at a team at sixteen? America? Keep sending the wrong message, even we're written how shooting up the people? Y'all sent the wrong message.
So now all the copycat killers. And that is my biggest fear, the copycat killers, because I've seen this guy shoot ten black people? Can I do more? What can I do to make the news? You know what I mean? A long and we as black people, we are keep oh another one. We're not We're not making it a big deal. We have to make it a big deal. I don't know if it is that we're just tired.
I'm tired. I'm tired of waking up. I'm tired of protesting, but seeing us get killed, like mentally, physically, emotionally, I'm exhausted. And that's the thing that bothers me too, is like, you know, any type of hate is unacceptable. But we've been doing this for so long, and it's like every time something happens, we're expected to just galvanize and to just show up and be present. It's tiring. It's so tiring. It says our sound is in and out? Is it the are you on your WiFi. So I'm just saying
I hear that. But at the same time, there's just we're just expected to keep the wheels turning into just keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on, and it's it's it's unfair sometimes to just set that expectation because out of everybody, we've been fighting the longest, we really have, and sometimes we're just tired. We need a moment, we
really do. And every time some type of hate comes up, whether it's eight and um, you know, people being anti Asian or anti Semitic, the black people are expected to show up because you know, we have the blueprint, we know what we're supposed to do. But if the tables are turned, the same thing doesn't apply. You know what was the most ironic part of that whole situation that
happened in uh Buffalo, New York. And shout out to the people of Buffalo, New York, to the city into all the victims and all the victims families because it was so tragic and we want to give their names, acknowledging all the victims because this coward because what it was was a coward ass move. You went to a neighborhood, Hey, tweinaky bird. You went to a neighborhood where it's a bunch of elderly people. You went to a neighborhood where
these were just upstanding existed. You ain't went to Compton, n You ain't went the Bronx. You didn't go to the West Side or the South side of Chicago. You didn't go to Detroit of Baltimore. That's when you want to prove your man who there's a white person, show up in the neighborhoods and see what they give your ass. And so the victims names here and long you read it because your your your addiction is better than man. Celestine Cheney, ROBERTA. Drury to the ages, please okay. Celestine
Cheney sixty five, ROBERTA. Drury thirty two, Andre McNeil fifty three, Katherine Macy seventy two, Marguts D. Morrison fifty two, Hayward Patterson sixty seven, Aaron Salter Jr. Who's also retired police officer. When there was a feature, Yes, Geraldine Tally sixty two, Ruth Whitfield eighty six, and Pearl Young seventy seven. Rest in peace to all the victims and shout out to all their families, because when you kill one person, you
don't just kill that one person. It affects so many others, so many others, And this was this was a coward ass move. It was cowardly to me because cowards where it don't take courage to pull a trigger. It takes courage to not pull a trigger. You need to be at a reason and talk to people. But that's not who you all are, because that's not what you can do.
And you was going to throwing hands. One of them old women that you shot and kill probably would have beat your ass because old black ladies do not play at all. But it's it's let's talk about the trauma that happens afterwards. Like we have these isolated incidents, but then there's no conversation about the trauma that happens afterwards. So we have situations where a black man is pulled over. You have to teach your young black kids and black you know, females at this point what you do when
you get pulled over by the police officer. So now it's black folks going into a grocery store, we gotta be on our p's and Q going into a restaurant, going into a church. It's traumatic. It's trauma, and nobody talks about the fact that mental health is such a big contributing factor when we have to go through all of these, you know, tragic events and we are suffering from mental health. So before y'all come at me sideways and say he had mental health, he didn't have mental health.
He was a racist who was taught to be to be hateful. He was an empty big he was. He was an empty person who had nothing. And it's so fucking saying and so tragic. And for all you celebrities that kept running around holland'all was traumatized because Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. That wasn't traumatizing. This is this situation is trauma because I didn't heard none of y'all say none y'all quiet a church house mouth. I ain't heard
nobody said it was traumatazed behind this nobody. And if you think I'm talking to you, yes, I'm talking to you. I just honestly need um. I don't know what needs to happen, but it just seems like we're on this hamster wheel and this perpetual ongoing cycle. Nothing's getting better because every time something like this happens. Congress was like, oh, we need to have a gun reformed, you know, conversation which we have these conversations and nothing ever changes. So
I just I can't. I'm not going to promote violence. I'm not for that. But I am on on that self preservation is the first love of nature. You have to protect you, your first priority, to protect you and your loved ones. That is not telling me to tell you to do anything out of sorts, but hear me when I tell you that I would rather be with some protection than without some protection. Because now they keep saying, well, y'all need to stay in your own neighborhood, stay where
you're safe. Safe. They were in a grocery store where people were in the church. They prayed with him, for him, and around him and over him, and he still killed on none of those people. Uh, Brianna Taylor was safe in her bed sleeping. Where can you be saving with a lockdoor? They keep the doing and shout and killed this woman, the Amber Gaga's victim, I can't think of his name. She went in the wrong apartment trying to get some dick from somebody else and shot the wrong man.
Where are we safe? That you are safe when you get some safety on you, because guess what, you can only that once. But that's what I'm saying. There's so much trauma related to all of these isolated incidents, and I feel like nobody talks about that. It's just that, oh, we're so sad. You see a post on Twitter prayers a breast in peace. This is so it's in the news cycle for a little bit. But then what about after that, the trauma that you're constantly experiencing. Nobody's talking
about that. Yeah, we need some black leaders that will help form We need to form some kind of coalition or something. And I'm not saying that I'm ready to go to war, but I ain't scared of the fight. I'm telling you, I'm not scared of the fight because listen, if I got to do what I got to do to protect me a man, that's exactly what I'm going to do. I ain't know gangster, I ain't no hardcore thug, but I am a human being. And what I am
as an American, I'm a fucking American. Whatever you think I am not, I am an American, born, raised and made in America. Because these cities and ass wasn't for free. Uh huh. But y'all, some of y'all not, some of y'all. Just I don't know why you think that in all this we want a pure race. We want a pure Arean race. First of all, that that doesn't exist. We would have had a pure Area race. Y'all would have had a pure Avery race. If you're a great, great,
great great grass As could have stayed there. Nancy. Nancy asses out the slave quarters and the white women want to breastfeed their own babies. You do know that there is blood and breast milk. There is nothing pure in this country. Nothing. Everything is mixed, and everything is mostly mixed with African. We are the originators. Everything is mostly mixed with Africa. And if you want your white daughters to stop sleeping with black men, tell them stop going
to the sports games. Because all you need to have on a jersey, basketball, football, baseball, soccer, hockey ship lacross they're gonna give it up. Cassie. Hello, how's how's every thing? Everything is wonderful, Everything was wonderful. It brings me my heart pain to hear you read off um everyone who was murdered. He just thirty eight to eighty six. I believe,
I mean, and then I just yeah, and tragically. I have the video and I would share and show the video because they took it down, but I have the actual video where he taped it and everything. But it's so disheardening for people to see, and I don't want to put that in people's psyche. Hey, Terry, my darling, I don't want to put that in people's psyche because everybody hasn't seen it, and some people can't deal with it. It is. It's a lot. I had some nightmares last night.
I saw the video. He said. I usually don't watch that kind of stuff, but I watched it, and I just my heart, My heart was grieving. It's just like I'm thinking of my grandma. I'm thinking of my aunt, I'm thinking of my sister's my you know, everyone that was murdered by this sense was killing like straight up. He was groomed up, racist. It's it's kind of surreal to watch it because it looks like a video game.
It doesn't look real. And now, you know, even though I know it was very real, and I'm not giving this man a pass. That all fun this clown, but I'm wondering if if, if that played a part in his psyche, that in his head, that he thought that it was an actual video game and he lived it out because some of these kids we have no, I don't think it was that. I know he was complete on racist because even the guns said, this is your reparations, niggers.
The end of his gun said that. But then the office, the arresting officer, the officer with the handcuff him, had all kind of swatskas and shipped on his arm, So how can we win? Was that confirmed? If you looked at the news, you can see the ship on his arm when he put his arm out. Okay, because I know people were asking, like they were saying, we would love to see what was actually on his arms. So were those tattoos confirmed? Yeah, they had the tattoos on
his arm? Hello, gorgeous twinky, How are you hello? Mclan Put the mica over here, I mean the headphones over here. I can hear over there. How are you? Twin keys? Are? I am? I would have greater days, better days, better spirits. I'm I'm angry, I'm frustrated, I'm mad. I want to retaliate, and I don't want to be stopped by the police because I do not think that it will end well for me. Let me be very honest and very transparent right now, because they won't see my transgender, they won't
see my LGBT. All they're gonna see is that I'm black. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. This man was arrested without incident. He videotaped his his whole debacle. That it was methodical, he plotted and playing in skiing and put this out and then y'all allow him to come to court and plead not guilty. What the funk are we even having a trial for I'm still wondering why he's alive, right, because how did that even? How did that even happen?
Especially with the weapon here, I mean, come on, like he's full on through thee I mean you should have just took him out, like the double standard is through the roof. And um, it's going to be some time. Uh it's it's time now for us to get uncomfortable because Uh, our ancestors did it. They were uncomfortable for three d and eighty two days and brought down the Montgomery bus system. It's time for us to get uncomfortable. We're playing games now we just think that social we
think social media is actually it's a tool. It is not. It's not an actual boycott. It's not an it's not hitting them where they live financially, it's not. They're playing games with us. They're playing games with us. Don't give me that one more more, not one more trinket. I don't need another trinket. I don't need another person in in front of the camera to represent something. Right now, we need some legislation, we need reparations. We need uh
anti lynching. We need more than an anti lynching bill. We need We needed to go big. It's it's it takes take care of take care of those white supremacist groups and get rid of them, dismantle them. They got rid of our people who were doing good, who were bringing food programs to our neighborhoods, who are educating our youth, who were taking care of our homeless and our women. But these white supremacists that they're everywhere. So either they're doing the job that you want them to do, or
you get rid of them. And and he's such a coward move you you go to a place where most of these people were, there's a food desert so all of them were there shopping for their neighborhoods and for the people, their loved ones, in order they have fresh fruit and vegetables for their own homes, for their own
for their own bodies, for the nourishment of their bodies. Yeah, And in as much as I appreciate the government of New York speaking and saying we're not going to tolerate this and move, I don't want this neign to be charged with a federal hate cramp. I want him to go to a state prison and do state time with state boys and unders. Seeing me, they're gonna they're gonna handle his ass, I would hope. So we're still waiting
on them to handle the other people. I'm angry, and I'm frustrated, and I'm afraid, and I'm my back is to the wall, and I have children that's eighteen and nineteen years old. I'm transgender. I got so many minuses at me. But the plus is, I'm not gonna live my life in fear. I'm not going to live You're not going to intimidate me or shake me or make me afraid. I will retaliate and I will stand up for myself, even if that means my life. And I mean that because I can only that one time. I
think it's really caused me to really be mindful. Like I was at the gym today and I positioned myself so I can see the door, and every time someone came in, I'm looking to see what you're looking like. And so I'm on the treadmill, but I'm looking, Okay, how is this person looking? So you're just really on high and learning because you don't know what kind of you don't know. And this is how we have to in with our heads on a swivel. Yeah, that's how we have to live in defense mode all the time,
always ready, all the time. And what does that do to you? Post traumatic disorder, stress disorder. You're stressed out because you always got your guard up. You're knuckled up all the time. Angry black people are angry black women. We have a right to be angry. We are always on high fucking alert. We are always on high alert.
I don't want to be on highler. I would like to be able to walk down the street and not worry about somebody walking past me and looking at me because of the color of my skin and saying that they hate me, you nigger. You don't know me. He I don't know you. I hate you back, but I'm to retaliate. I'm not gonna try to hurt you. I don't live my life to hurt people. I hope, I'm hoping I'm having people agreed. And you are. You're such a beacon. You are such a beacon of light, saying
thank you. I'll tell you something. I got some beacons with me, and I'm not promoting violent but self preservation is the first live of nature. And if you cross this land, baby, it's with me too. And I'm not leaving home without them. I was at a comedy event on Saturday night, and I was looking at all the exits at a comedy event just because the place was full of black people. That's how I have to live, That's how we have to live there. Well, I can
be honest. I don't like going into movie theaters anymore because I don't feel safe going into a movie theater. I think i'd rather just watch it when it comes out on regular TV, or if I could stream it somewhere. I don't want to go into a movie theater because I always feel like I don't know what's about to happen, is somebody walking in here. Security is not that great,
they're not you know, there's no metal detectors. When you go into a movie theater, it's dark, you know, and the exits aren't always in the most prime spots if you're sitting at the top, like, there's just certain places that I just don't want to go to anymore. Oh yeah, I agree. Sadly. It's sadly when and if, because there will come a day that we will have to get on our hand legs and retaliate to stand up for ourselves. When it kicks off, it's going to be we gotta
stop running as black people. We gotta start running to get labels and Gucci. We gotta go get Ammo and be prepared for whatever's going to happen in this country. It's not like it has not happened before. It will happen again, and it will be it'll be magnanimous because of the weapons that we have now. They didn't have these weapons of destruction back when they had the Civil War. We got weapons of destruction now. And look how easy
it is to get this nigga eighteen years old. They need to strip his mom and dad of everything because that nigga ain't learning the nigger word and hate watching Good Times and the Jeffersons that ship don't come out on the more he set at his dinner table with his parents. They need to take their homes, their livelihood, stripped them of everything, because if you're gonna keep raising hate for racist children, it will never stop. It will never stop. Well, I mean that's how I feel at
this point. I don't think that racism is racism is ever gonna end in this country. It's not. It's just the stain that we have that we're gonna have to constantly live with. And how he was able to get hands on that calibra of a weapon is just beyond me. I know, picking up a shotgun like at like a like a gun show, But that calibrale weapon belongs in the in the military, not in the civiliar. Well, Minnesota sent the wrong message when they gave Kyl Riddenhouse a pass.
See did we keep sending the wrong messages? Even with the ship with Dave Chappelle two weeks ago? They sent the wrong man. They should have charged the young man. They should have charged Cayl Riddinghouse with full on murder. They send the wrong message to say you can do this and get away with it. And the copycat killer is gonna get it hell out of me because he did tear The next person gonna want to do fifteen or twenty because they keep trying to outdo each other.
We just happened to be the collateral damage in the middle until we stand up and shoot back. When we fight back, then we're gonna be looked at your vigilante. Call me whatever the funk you want to, but call me a laugh. We gotta fight back, but we also gotta turning these juries too, like people don't kind of jury that these people are getting our, you know, And so we gotta learn how to work the system on how to be able to get picks to go on
jury duty. I'm very affilionated. I never get picked, so I gotta learn how to just calm down and get picked so I could be able to be there for whatever it may need to happen. That's the thing. We're not on any side of the wain fighting back wing, serving on the jury whatn't and voting serve on the on the jury's voting, and being very focused on the voting. I got a text message about voting for who is this person? In l A. Got a text message They said would you can we count on you to vote?
And I said, where's his record? I went all the way to the record, went all the way through. I said, no, you cannot count on me to vote because he wants more police in Los Angeles and we're black and brown are already being Our police is military. So no, you cannot count on my vote. Oh well, if you change your mind, I will not be changing my mind until he changes his stance. Period. Stop texting me. I do
the same thing. I respond to those people that want me to get to vote for those other uh right wing especially they always get my phone numb and I always respond and say nope, I will be voting for such and such. I would tell you what I respond when I get those, but this is a family show. I sit back horrible ship so they won't keep coming at me. I've been sitting back the worst ship I do. I'm a horrible person. I'm a terrible person. I love it. I want to ask this group of question that we
have here, Twinky. I saw you put some comments in the chat talking about we need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable in essence, and we hear that phrase a lot, but I'm curious to see what that means from your various perspectives. So, Cassie, you, but also Twinkie, what are your thoughts. We're gonna have to pull back. We're gonna have to pull all the way back. It's something that, uh, that we're not comfortable with, but that is something that
our ancestors did. I I wrote a film, co wrote a film with the Reverend Jesse Jackson's daughter Ashley Jackson, and it was called The Counter nineteen sixty and it was about our youth going back in time to sit at the lunch counter in nineteen six because our you think they're different. I am not my ancestors. It won't go down like that. Well you okay, you're you're in their shoes. Now you're in their shoes right now. It is not about your ancestors. Now you're in their shoes
right now. What are you going to do? What are you also going to do without? Can you do without that party? Can you do without those shoes? Can you do without that event? Can you do without that new phone? Can you do without the things? Can you be uncomfortable for a month, six months a year because we can bring them down. But we've got a galvanize and we have got to get uncomfortable. If they've made it so comfortable, now we're so comfortable we think that. You know, activism
is like I hit it. I like what you said. So that was my activism. No, it's going to be an action. It's going to be an activation. It is going to be a stop shopping here, stop eating there, stop using this, stop watching that. It is going to be a blackout, and I need it. I wish we had a call to arms, Twinky Berry where we had somebody standing in a position of power, somebody that looked like us and thought like us and spoke for us because they think like us and look like us, to
make us do that. Because we've been saying that to how much power the black dollar has, but so many people don't take it serious. We have a lot of power with our money. We just need to work it to make it work for us. Done always pushes. If the vote wasn't so important, they wouldn't be trying to take it away from us. This is where I pushed on my children, get your ass up. They got their papers over there, and make them go with me when I vote. They need to know how important it is because,
like you said, I'm paying respect to my ancestors. This is what this is your if I'm dead and gone, this is how you honor me. You get your ass up and you go vote. You can go to a party, you can run to the store, you can go hang out with your friends. You can go vote and respect for me as your dad because I do it, because
my grand of they used to do it. So this is but it is all a learning process, and a lot of people, black people and some brown people don't teach their kids that if you need to learn at home, just like with finances, had I known better as a kid about how to handle money and control money, I would be in a much better position. But nobody taught me. I didn't learn until I got much older about the value and what money can does and the power that
it has. We have to start getting in here when they're young and getting in their minds and then their spirit to teach them. We don't have a leader right now that we look forward to. We're not a male leader, and they just disregard the females, not because they're black,
just because they're females. This country is so damn sexist. Well, I just feel like at this point, we're gonna have to maybe um rethink that because if we look at you know, history, every time we had that person that could speak up for the community, you know, the government made sure that they were either you know, assassinated, murdered, or just died under mysterious circumstances. So we can't rely
on that. I feel like at this point, I don't know if it's a rainbow coalition to get this together or what, but I just feel like the strategy is gonna have to shift because we know those paths, practices, those people are gonna be taken out because they don't want that. So we we're gonna have to do something a little different if we're going to really see some type of difference, because I really feel like that at
this point we are on a perpetual hamster wheel. I'm seeing what my grandfather saw, I'm seeing what my great grandmother saw. She's a hundred and two, She's lived through every major event in this country. Damn there, you know, so we gotta do something a little different. I agree with Twinkie. I'm sorry, miss Twinky. I agree with that, um that we have to get uncomfortable. I mean, we were uncomfortable for a little while, was on quarantine, and now we're out. We're not out of the pandemic, but
we're out of quarantine. And so it's like, no, I don't want to be uncomfortable. Yes, we need to be uncomfortable. We need to stop everything that you said. I come in full agreement. I don't gotta repeat everything that you just said, but I come in full agreement. We need to be uncomfortable. It takes action. It does. We have to move forward and steps backwards. We have to start creating a list. We need to start creating a list.
We need to start pulling back. I mean in a real way on here, actually bank at a black bank, real talk talk, thirty six people on here, right, you know, let me be honest. I don't, right, I do, but I also have other banks, but I'm I need to be it in black bank. Absolutely, You're absolutely right. So I mean we have to be uncomfortable. Yeah, they don't have the same you know, interest rates, but it's a
black own bank. So we're giving back, we're helping we're lifting up, we're voting, we're gift going on jury duty, we're taking time off going. You're like, we're moving, we're making things happen. But we don't want to be uncomfortable. We don't want to walk like our ancestors didn't and boycott the buses and stop spending money and no, because we want to finer things in life. We want to look like we're doing as well as we're really not. Exactly,
it's the trappings. It's the trappings. It's the trappings of success. And there's it's it's the prison. And there's a prison of fame, the prison of fame. No one wants to talk because they're in what a prison? They're famous, so they don't want to Well, I mean, oh, I could say, oh, well, now it's being filmed. That's my activism. I just said on national television. Racism exists, it always has, it's just now being filmed. Huh. That's all You've got to say.
You have this national internationals that's really so. You know, you can't look to you can't look to celebrity to be leaders leaders either. We have got to do it ourselves. We've got to do it ourselves. It is the mirror. That's the person you gotta please, that's the person you gotta that's the person you gotta like. But I hate that these so many big names celebrities would tell people to hold their vote, and we are so easily distracted by that. It is so it's more black millionaires now
then it has ever been. But we can't band together because there's no unity in our community. You know, we all the in fighting. The gaze is fighting against the blacks, of trans is fighting against the black community, the black community fighting against the light skin and dark skin. We got to find a common balance where we all get and create our own lane. But yeah, yeah, that's why I feel like more and more, maybe it's gonna take
a rainbow coalition. Fred Hampton had the right idea. Um, I agree, and we need to get that rainbow coalition. That's the only way this is gonna work. And actually having those other people show up for us for once. We always show up for other people. People start showing up for us at the end. I do that all the time. Every time they asked me, I'm a member
of c S, a casting society organization. They send you emails or we're doing this, and we're gonna march for this, and we're gonna walk for cancer, and we're gonna do And I said, you know what, guys, I will show up as soon as you show up for a Black Lives Matter, as soon as you show up for my community, that's when. That's when I will be there. But until then, you can stop sending me emails because if you're not showing up for my community, I can't show up for you.
I can't. There will be nothing left to my community. I mean, case some point, case some point. If we're gonna talk about it too. You know, Asian hate happened at an astronomically larger rate because of COVID. They got legislation passed in ninety days. Just u MTEL Federal Act passed. Just happened, happenny as after two hundred attempts that just
got passed. We're tired. We're tired that work to do, we've got working because it's constantly in our faces, like more than our ancestors didn't see it as much, they experienced it. Right, Yes, not only are we experience it, but we're seeing it over and over and over and over. And it's like you get. I'm trying to think what
the word is um complacent? It's battle fatigue, you know what you you You had to go back and think about what Harriet Tubman said, but her quote supposed it was she would have freed so many more people had they known they were slaves. We live in the mentality now and just what you said, Twinkie, the fame, the fame, slavery ship. I'm prisoned to that. But that don't mean I don't say what I want to say. But I could have been so much further in my career if
I probably didn't say what I want to say. But I don't think like that because my man is made up. I have to live with me and I have to be happy with the decisions that I make. I'm not worried about somebody else's decisions because I got to look me in the mirror and like that was looking back at me. I don't want to fall privy to that.
And I'm telling you I'm ready to battle stand on the battlefield mark all that marchin ain't doing for me, because sitting at the lunch counter, it's real different now. They used to release the holses on you spend your face in billy clubs. They're pulling out a K fifties and shooting us now and killing us and getting world right now it is, we're still not seeing as humans, but as soon as one of us explodes. Remember that
police officer that was here a few years ago. He was killing the police and they couldn't find his in He was strategic keep playing. They swear they burned him down to the ground and turning. I don't believe they ever caught that babe. I think he was all smart at all the asses oh know you're talking about? This was that was several years ago. They said they found his teeth recause that wasn't him. That was bullshit. He got away from them and he was killing police. And
I'm not promoting killing police. I'm not advocating that at all. But what I'm saying is to get damn and when is enough gonna be enough? Because one day we're gonna have to retaliate, and then they're gonna say all the black people are out of control. No, we just like y'all have been saying, we're fucking tired. I'm tired. I'm tiring the news. Are you killing people we're waiting on legislation. We're waiting on someone to be found guilty. We're waiting
for We're waiting and waiting and waiting. We're waiting our money to get put back into our neighbor, waiting on the money to our education. I mean, we make a whole show about an elementary school with teachers that do everything they can just to teach the kids. It's a comedy, it's brilliantly done. But the base, the base of it, just the foundation of it is, look at what our teachers have to do just for our kids to have
half as much m hm. And teachers are the most underpaid, underrated people on this planet because teachers don't get what they deserve when you send your craziest kids to school, because some of these kids are sucked up. Let me just say it. Oh yeah, time, ain't that around with Little Billy? Little Billy crazy is the role. There's a good guy, but then it really little Billy and the right family and his uncle is a police officer on
the forest. Little Billy gat pool. So you take his craziest and make him a police officer, give him a badge on the gun, and release him to us in our neighborhood. Keep his crazy. That's over there with y'all. Amen to that. I hate that we just don't stand with each other. We might we talk about for each other, but when it comes down to it, we don't stand with each other. I am a loyal person, like to a point where I have lost jobs because of my loyalty and don't care because I still have to face
who I am. So many people are afraid to face who they are. I got some uncomfortable shit about me, and I love what you said, Twinkie. We have to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Ship got to go left for real and you'll be like, you know what, we can push through this. We don't have the same DNA to that ancestor said they had strength. We don't even have courage.
We don't everybody. No, I agree with that because nowadays and I am a millennial, I am, but to go through what my ancestors went through, I can't even say confidently like yes I can do that. I can't. Yeah you can't. You can, you can and you will because you have no choice, just like they did. They could. They did it not because they with any different than us, because they wanted better for us. That strength came from inside, and we disrespect them by saying we are not our ancestors.
Damn right, you're not. You're not ready to get uncomfortable right now. That's how you're not your ancestors. Not the other way around. Not the I'm gonna throw hands You're gonna throw hands at the a case? What is it You're gonna throw hands at that kind of gun? You're throwing hands on me? Nothing you got. We have got to find that strength deep inside of us, and sometimes that strength is absolute silence, absolute complete pulled back. I
have disappeared. He was strategic and his planning. So we need to be strategic and our and strategic and our responses, you know, not just fly by the night. But we really got to be strategic because playing games, we need to quit playing games. Yea, twinky, I really love what you just said, honestly, because just me as a person, I do have my best epiphanies and thoughts when I kind of pulled back and I'm just silent, and in my own company, I probably enjoy my own company a
little too much, let Flames tell it. But maybe that is what needs to happen. You know, we just really need those moments of silence and solitude just to help us kind of rejuvenate and you know, get those creative juices falling maybe and some of these some of these, some of these times when we're together, some of these times like what was happening this weekend? The laugh and love to the something? What was that? And and friends, where we gathered together. We need to gather together. But
that was a whole mess too. Did you hear about that? The backfiring of the of the golf cart. Oh there was a shooting scare. There wasn't water, the backfiring of the golf cart. Yeah, yes, I did hear about that. But when we're together in large in groups, we need to have start having some real conversations or start you know, the old paperway. You don't necessarily have to send everything via text message, the paperway of where we're gonna meet, who we're gonna talk to, how are we gonna talk,
what the what the topic is? What are we what are we going to do? Because we need to gather together. Yeah, I'm heartbroken because I'm so afraid and I know who I am as a black person, not not even just as a black person, but as a person, I know who I am, I know my DNA and I'm telling you my biggest fear is me being put in a terrible situation with a police officer or with an open races and I think that you're gonna hurt me. I don't know. I don't know it is. I don't know what,
and I'm admitting this publicly. I don't know another way, but the way that I know I'm gonna come out of Lie, the way that I know I'm gonna come out of Lie. Hmm. It is very, very scary when you're being policed. Our neighborhoods are policed and militarized. It is when you're afraid of being pulled over and you're driving so slow and you don't know what you can't. Should I go the speed limits? Should I go slower? If I'm going slower, I get pulled over if I go to speed limit. I do I have an air
freshener in my cars. This is a place where air fresheners are not allowed. Like a litany, it is a litany of just out of this world. And we need a meeting. We need to sit down, We need to get to gather our lists and come together because this has got to it's got to stop. It's our elderly. They're taking out our elderly and they are our foundation. Yeah, it's so tragic that one one lady was killed yesterday. I think she was in her eighties and her husband.
They won't even tell her husband. They have been married for like sixty eight years. They won't even tell the husband. What do you mean because he didn't die. She died and they've been married for like six years. Girl. You know when people have been married a long time, when usually when you tell the other partner that they usually they died. Because that was so much more than his wife. That was so much more than just his wife. Yeah, and this coward bastard went to where all these older
people were. He didn't go to no Compton. He ain't went to once. Then they didn't go to the west side of south As. That's what I'm talking. That's the coward ship right there. Yeah, he talk people that really didn't have a chance to be honest with you. They had no camp. You know. He just went in. And something needs to happen. Someone needs to come for his
too much him. Something needs to happen and and and all of these hardcore black doug not the rappers, but all these gangsters and where y'all let when y'all, I'm like you twink Black Panther Party did wonderful things. They helped women, they helped care, they provided services with lunch and free lunch and all. They stay programmed. And they hate when we do well, so they should disappear. They hate when we own, when we stand on our own
and being in a group. And I wish that as a black people, as a black world, we would see how much power we have when we are fist as opposed to being just fingers. Yeah. Well, I'm missa say. The other side to that too, though, is and I'm not going to mention any cases that are happening right now because it's not my b'na stay out of I'm
said of that. But there are situations where there are some of these rappers and you know, young black men that are doing good for their community, but you know, have reco charges being brought against them for criminal activity. And that's also been the history of this country. You go after the people that are doing good in your community, whereas you have the real mobsters, and you know, because Trump's organization, I don't understand what that's not considered in
my organization. What's happening with them. He's still not in jail. They're still investigating January six. Still, if that's the reco I don't know what else would be a regal other than that. Explain to me what a rico is. Please, I'm ignorant in that area. Child. Hold on, let me go, let me go Google. Yes, it is, it's racketeering. Hold on,
let me get the official. Hold on one second. I don't know when I put Trump asked in jail yet, I'm not understanding how y'all thought that Elon must funny looking ass was about to back Twitter for forty four billion dollars which he did not have in cash, which he just opened up a canna where a plethora bullshit because he's trying to get him and Marjorie Tayler Green back on there for the division in his country, for the election that's coming up. It was all a smoke screen.
I said when he first said he always and he said, oh, I'm not trying to put anybody back on Twitter. I knew what it was when he went down with his funny looking ass. I said it. So here's official definition. So RICO stands for a racketeer, influenced and corrupt organization. The official definition it is a crime for any person, through a pattern of racketeering activity, to acquire or maintain any interest in or control of any type of property
or business under the law. I think that describes Trump's family, right. Listen to the lord cutting up, twinking lord is reading over here. I love it. I'm just saying that that's the prime definition for what we see with these certain high fluting white I'll even go Italian families. We see that. But it's not them that the government's going after. It's us. We're the target. We're the target. So at the end of the day, one are again, one one again. Self
preservation is the first law of nature. I'm not telling nobody to do anything, but I'm telling you, if you own in their plane, they tell you strap yourself in first, before you strap in the person next to you. Take care of yourself and whatever that means to you, Because I know what it means to me. Take care of yourself when you're going into these stories. Because they keep saying what we gotta gonna say, basis, what is the safe space. The young man in Texas was in his
own house, Uh philandral Castro. They said, they won't shoot you in front of your wife and kids. Tell that to Castro's mistress, because he did. They shot him in front of his baby and in front of his woman. That's bullshit. Sometimes we're gonna have to take that the low road for all the harrowd. We're gonna have to take the low road and meet them where they're at. We're not going with Michelle. You know my my joke on stages get back, you know what sucked. But we're
gonna say that. We got to if we don't show them that we are not afraid, because that's what they think. They think we're afraid. They think we have no courage, because they think we're not gonna stand together, which is what detected that they have used for four hundred years. Divide them, take separate their children, tell them that they're black men are no good, discredit their black women together
as a fist with monsters. But as fingers were useless, and we keep being fingers, we get to get together. We gotta quit doing this though. We gotta quit talking about it and be about it. Many people are whooping and not got no action like our ancests because they put action, they spoke, and then they put work in. So we just people put spilling and let's get busy, let's get let's get to working. But I think that's the issue to Cassie, is that we're in such a scramble.
It's almost like we don't even know where to start. And that's the sad part is where is the starting point that we can come together? And I just don't think that collectively we can establish that. And that's why it was a great point being like chaos. That's what it's gonna be. So I ain't go ahead to give me a great act, think give me a great TV show. I'm about muscle up my money and I'm taking my kids. We're going to Germany or somewhere. I'm going somewhere else
where they like black people ship. I'm tired twinking. You saw that shameless plug, right oh, I didn't even think about that. That feel like that. That's Lauren Man, that's that business manager man that I heard it. I heard it. I heard it is a casting director. But I didn't even think about that. Right now, I was just saying, because I've been saying I would get the hell out of here. Lauren did that? You see she trying to
get you, got to make her money. I'm going as a black man in this country because you know, I'm very comfortable with my sexuality and who the funk I am? I don't care who's watching in this and black women are the saving grace for us as a black people right now and have been for such a long time. If we started giving honor to that and started respecting black women for the power that they hold and have and the way that they can segue into spaces that black men cannot seem to be able to get into,
I promise you as a people, we would thrive. We got some great black women out here that speak for us, for us and for us, but y'all don't respect or acknowledges. Black women are always looking for help from a black man. Black men will turn on you, not all of them, because Tim Scott is a black man. Tim Scott ain't for us, But Staycy Arams is a black woman, and she's not only for us. She's a groundbreaking woman that's for us. But because she don't fit into this mold,
which I'll think she should look like. She don't need to look Listen to her. Man here the content that comes out of her heart. That's what you need to hear. Stop looking for these pretty six bitches that can't tell you nothing but what shoes the right shoes the back m hm. I don't need you to look like what I need you to look. I need you to teach me and help me and show me so I can do do better for myself and my children and my grandchild.
Staycy Avams is the money ticket for us. And I'm telling you all right now, y'all need to respect that woman when Georgia goes to vote, because y'all better show up like they're given away some free butter and cheese and a ship. My thing is I just wish I want people to care about us. You know, nobody's talking about nine thousand you know black women and young children that were missing, Black women and young females that we're missing at the end of one. Nobody's talking about that,
and nobody cares. I need people to care. I care. That's why I'm I'm team I'm team pro life, I'm team uh IF, pro choice, I am pro life too. I mean when I say pro life, I would like for people to have their kids and raise it. But if you feel like you can and you're in a situation you don't want to do it, I'm all for that's your body, your body, your choice. Because once they tell women what they can't do trans women, they're gonna start telling us you can't wear weeks, you can't wear makeup.
In the sixties, you had to have on three articles of male clothing or they put you in jail because they were a transvestite. If you did not have on three articles of male clothing, we wearing makeup and weeks and they put you in jail. We're going back to basics. Trans women need to stay with biological women and all people need to stay with this a boy right, because I'm telling you it will open up a plethora of bullshit. They're gonna take away this one. They're gonna go back
to Jim Crow's segregation gay. It is the gateway, Yeah, agreed, it is. It is the gateway. And you're right about Stacy Abrams, and it is not about a look. I believe she's beautiful. She's a beautiful woman and her and
it's beautiful. Her body is beautiful, she is strong, she is awesome, she's she's amazing, and we have many many others and we do need to because behind that civil rights movement, behind the movement that I love so much, all women including Bear Arrusted, Oh yeah, yes, that women die.
Diane was behind that, snick Diane Nash was. They were amazing, amazing women at the forefront and behind the scenes who were doing all of the work, all of the brain storming, all of the planning, all of the gathering, all of everything. And we can do it again. We can. We can learn from them. Some of them are still here with us, and we need to sit at the feet of the elders and and get those pearls. That's what we need to be doing. Go back and get it saying kofa
go back and get it back. That's my favorite way to learn. It always has been. It ain't been in a textbook, it ain't been on no TV show, it ain't been on no Google. But sitting and listen to my grandmother's and my aunties around the table and a bunch of old women and even older me and my uncle's when they were to that was always my learning mechanism, cause those life lessons that they teach you the value in that you came back nowhere and you can't read
no book. Oh god, the experience of what they would tell you, and if you took the time to be that sponge and suck that ship up, you would come out of that room ten times smarter than anybody they got any degree from any Ivy League school that you thought you wanted to go to, because they don't be still having now. I might not be, but I damn show showed you how to get to the other side
of the street. I was gonna say, you didn't open up another door because a lot of these you know, white parents are realizing that education at historically black college is the same thing that you get at these Ivy League schools. That's a whole another conversation though, because you know, I'm a spelling graduate, so anyway, it's not But I didn't have the right sexual equipment. No, I'm very proud of her, and I love that she puts you to HB and she's so proud of her, and I want
somebody on my team that could be opposite for me. Huh. It's an amazing, amazing place. And that's why we should be we should attend. That is why those of us that have elders need to go because I keep hearing young people say, well, nobody taught me this, well, nobody said that to me. Well I didn't know about this, well I didn't know about Gather them, right, Gather them.
They're waiting for you to ask them. Yep. They're not trying to push their way into your life because y'all keep saying, I don't need to, I don't need I got this, I know what I'm doing, I'm here, I'm I got it, Okay, but now you need to know Gather them, Miss Twinkie. I think that would be a great organization for you to start a website called Gathering where you can bring people in It's called gathering and
they can talk about that. That girl just saying it, I say it, and your hat like it's a bang girl, girl, that ain't. This is my band, it's my bank. I love that at least it ain't blind. Thank you for sister, for being a sister. I love it. That would be a great That would be a great push. Gather them because it made me think about the movie. But love it when the old lady and Jorney was be somebody. She's an actress and she was in the woods and she gathered all the black people to tell them what
would happened that that that would be it. That's good, you know. I like that though, because it's an action. It's an action. Yeah. Wow, y'all have made you said, y'all have taught me today. I'm not that smart, but I learned something today. I've learned something today to thank you. Thank you for teaching me. And what RICO I did not know. I've seen it. I saw the acronym around, but I was not aware of what it actually meant.
So thank you for teaching me. And it's interesting too to see how the government uses those certain um i'll call them laws to uh further, just to press our community. It's very interesting, just the tactics involved. So yeah, this has been a good one. I think I'm the oldest person on his lab right now. No, and I'm not saying that to be funny. I'm saying that in my lifetime I would like to see not just the one person like Dr King or Malcolm X to come and be the voice for us, to gather us up, to
get us going in the right direction. But I'd like to see a collage of black leaders. I'd like to see being Crump and Stacy Abrams and and and powerful people come voices to speak, for even a trans person to come and say, hey, we are still black. Because the light, the driver, i mean, the bird certificate can say only saying sex male black or sex female black. Anything else that you become in this life, you become. But goddamnit, it starts with being black. With being black.
We remind ourselves that we are black people in this America, in this America. Because I'm American before anything else, I'm still American. I was born and raised here. I was made here. These titties and asks weren't free. They gave them to me in America. So Davin, I'm made in America because they always hollowed everything made. We were made in America. You brought us here. We were created here.
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Her first book, Miss Twinky, she just wrot her first book. Congratulations? What is it? Oh? Please do tell called Identity Crisis, A Journey to Homeless. It's available on Amazon. Thank you, thank you all right. I will be making a purchase right now, Identity Crisis. Thank you so much for joining Tweak. Thank you, Cassie. We appreciate man. Thank you guys for joining Lord. I ain't touching up because everything I touched him, I'm not at all. That's very true. I'm gonna call
you girl girl because you owe me. I owe you accustomed out because you were supposed to came to tell me at Caroline is on Broadway and you didn't even got had your neighbors to doing everything we're talking about. I remember what you sent me a message, you said, we're talking about it. That's true, actly right. I love how calm you was like, oh yeah, absolutely right. You gave my word no, no, what had There is no excuse,
and I apologize. Let me be clear on that my project fell through and I was supposed to be in New York that week, and my project fell through when I stayed home, So it had nothing to do with you. It had to do with the project I was working on. So I apologize. Okay, I give because I was ready to put my girl. I don't want you to be mad at I'm just cut up. Thank you for joining in the conversation. We appreciate you absolutely. We appreciate you all too, because we could not have a show with
you all this. It's so smart sometimes y'all sometimes right, sometimes right? But were you here? And we hope that you guys please pay attention to your surroundings. If you have to go out in public, and we have to go out in public, try not to live your life in fear. Please stay prayed up. I'm gonna say this, and I know this is gonna sound up, but please make sure that you get some kind of life insurance policy because nobody knows when it's gonna happen, where it's
gonna happen, or how it's gonna happen. We all do know that someday we are going to leave here, and insurance is very important. Don't leave that burden on your family. It don't need to be no major policy. If you can get a ten thousand dollar policy, it's just enough to carry cover your services, so you won't leave that burden on people, on your people, or on your family. And a lot of us don't take insurance. Seriously, Oh, I ain't going nowhere. Nobody knows. You don't even know.
Look at I'm sure the people Saturday had no idea that they were going to a friendly grocery store run and never gonna make it back home. It is so fucked up. Who is that? Lauren says some more, you know,
I can't see ship. So that's all I'm encouraging you guys to make sure that you have some kind of life insurance policy, whether it's term or whole, but make sure that you are covered because we are living in some very very strange times and ain't nobody can just pay ten thousand dollars out their podcasts that have a decent service, So that is only then outside of that, if you're going out in public, trying to stay off your phones, trying to be aware of your surroundings because
we're living in a crazy time and if you can see it high, get to a safe place. Like I tell my kids, turn your ringer off, stay very quiet and very still. If you can avoid it, some things are unavoidable. So I'm just as I'm just pushing prayer over everybody that's within the sound of my voice. Do your part, but remember their self preservation is the first love of nature. Come on, Lauren, I don't think I need to say anything else after that. I think that
was a good word to end on. But basically a synopsis of all of what you're saying is financial literacy. So I really just hope people, you know, even though we're not necessarily afforded that education and provided you know, it's okay to seek knowledge and to seek that out, you know. So, and a monthly insurance policy, especially when you're a younger agent. And good health is as cheap as a pack of cigarettes. It is as cheap as
a pack of cigarettes. If I have to break it down, and then kind of turns for you, it's as cheap as a pack of and some of y'all smoke to three packs a week. Baby, You can spend twenty and have a policy where you are covered. Well, all I'll say is today we laughed and we learned a whole lot we did. So what we do. We're not trying to get anybody to change your mind. We are just simply trying to get you to use your mind, because in order to use your mind, you have to have
a mind. And I want you guys to be aware that your mind is powerful, your strength is powerful, but you need to be have some kind of self insurance and some kind of sense of self to know who you are. Lost people get caught up with other lost people. I'm not giving this young man to pass. God bless him. The devil gonna put a pitchfork up his ass, but God bless him. That's the Southern way of saying, fuck that nigger, because black women down South and said, God
bless you, God bless your heart. That is a dig all day from black folks in the South. Black women in South, fuck him. He was a racist, He was raised by racist, and I hope it's a pitchfork waiting on his ass in Hell when he gets there. I don't know why they allowed him to take off his tactical gear and then just put him out of his misery or he was. He was there, he put the
gun up on his chin to kill himself. He should have did it, and I know I'm not advocating that, but he should have did it because now they're gonna make him a martyr. All right, that's the angry bitch in me. I'm angry black He we ain't the man order woman, I'm all the Thank you for joining us here at Laugh and Learn. Please download on my heart under the Black Effect Network. Oh I coudn't get the words out this episode as far as well as I heard,
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