Conversation Inspired by Juneteenth

about just regular basketball. Ship We're talking about the Bucks and against the Hawks, and I had epiphany. I was like, man, Yannice, we're asking Yannice to win right without I don't remember the last time. I take that back. The last player who won with the lease of mint of talent was the Houston Rockets from four because there was spotty with the All Stars, very few. Was that a Clyde team or is that a not yet? That's so ninety four, which is crazy because Janice also as an m VP

of the Defensive Player of the Year. Now, he's not the scoring threat as a La Juan right, He's not as skilled of a score, but he's like so athletic he's like shock mixed with like Vince Carter or some ship. I don't know, but what I was thinking right now. So I made a bet with a brother on there about it, and I was like, yeah, he was talking about the Hawks, and I'm like, the Hawks don't have the defense, so you know, pray honest, don't get hurt, and you know he finally gets it done because I

feel like people have been tough on his legacy. So it ended up being his dragout conversation and Lebron is sets a polarizing figure. So anytime you reference Lebron, even my homies, bro, they're going too automatic, feel like they need to defend his legacy. More funniest is all your people from l A thirty six months ago or motherfucker was fuck him up and down and now it's He's the greatest thing of all time and you can see it coming. I was like, you can you can see

that one coming a mile away. It's it's just very bizarre. And I guess it's not that bizarre because I mean, you're gonna be a fan of your team, fan your team, but yeah, it's it's tough. It's well for me, it's not really like, I don't have a problem with Lebron. Um, I think I don't know him to have a problem with him. I wonder about him controlling the narrative and always feeling like he needs to have positive spins on everything,

but I guess that's a sign of the times. So people it comes across like I don't like Lebron, but in reality, I recognized Lebron is the best small forward, as the greatest small forward of all time at this point, which is tough because Larry Bird had that spot for years, but um, you know, Lebron has accomplished more rightfully. So I hate his fans. His fans are the worst fans in the history of stars to have fans. Yeah, that's um true. Like Rihanna's navy is pretty bad, the bee

Hive is bad, um pretty bad. Eminem's group is pretty bad. But Lebrons group. So you spend those fans who are man got some fans and fans lots of fans their Mothercker's are gonna cut your throat. Yeah that's yeah, they're Yeah, they're a passionate the group. I can see that, but I just from like, who, like, what type of parts are going to be. I don't know. They're all there.

The Bakersfield, California's, the Tulsa, Oklahoma's the all that training park, all that, and then the hip hop like the like the like the people who who like drive around at night with M F. Doom playing in the car eat Sleeping Ship lyricism. Yeah yeah, m is tough though, but yeah, so long story short, that was the thing. How was our weekend? Though? It was whatever? There wasn't anything to it down. Didn't do shift. I don't I wouldn't have done it anyway. So I'm coming home right, I'm in

the mirrow. Right, we're coming through the Murt Park. Oh man, it's yesterday. Bro. You weren't coming through the right park. You were going up to a point in Lamr Park, stopping and then circumventing an area much archer than Lamert Park. No sailings, g L. Peter Bias feel me. We're here a little late, but we're here getting it done. It's gonna get real done. We'll get it done. This June teenth ship is fucked up. It is. It's it's interesting like it stands on three pillars to me, and I

don't like two of them. So two thirds of June tenth. What it is right now, I don't like. The element that I like is the historical element, the actual literal historical element. Everything beyond that, to me is a lot of bullshit. I'll be very honesty. What's the bullshit part of it? The bullshit part of it is it's kind

of like multi pronged, but you have one. It disappoints like it's it's ridiculous that here we are yet again with a whole lot of politicians glad handing, Oh, you know, we're gonna do We're gonna do something to that, We're gonna give something to put a smile on black people's face. Don't cost us a red fucking sense. There's that, and then there's all the black people who are just like

fuck yeah. It's like, god, damn it, could it be like could you just I mean just gosh, they know what's gonna work and and do nothing but prove it, right. And I hate that you're a white person acknowledging that because you know, right, And that's the funk up part, like you know what, I'm so do nine other white senators. No, Okay, yeah that's true. But but that's the thing like they understand when somebody is so broken, when the community is

so broken, all they have is hope. So when all you have is hope, symbols is all you need to give somebody. It's why the Black Church is probably the most successful business in the Hood. The Black Church is more successful for me than the Dope Spot. The Black

Church is more successful than Louisiana Fried Chicken, Popeye's Put Together. Um, So it's easy to give people, you know, the Brothers hope instead of actual tangible good like, okay, do you want to Black President ran on hope, on hope, change, but hope first, and they know it. I get mad at a lot of my rap counterparts because I feel like they sell hope. Like one of the worst lines in the world to me is self made, Like how then can anybody be self made? Yeah? Like your mom

at best, making at worst makes you. Yeah, self made is challenging. It's it's impossible. It's a very interesting term. I mean, it's very very relative, it's very very contextual. It's more relative than contextual. Yeah, But back to the point. So I just hate the fact that again they just

deliver hope. Yeah, and you know what they're delivering hope on the front end, while all that I'm doing for the past hundred and twenty days is is backdoor manipulating the complete eradication of school choice and urban neighborhoods with black dance population communities from coast to motherfucking coast. All you're talking about howaday controlling what they can teach? Now,

not even that. I'm talking about the stranglehold that the public sector teachers unions have over the d n C at the at the local, state and federal level, where you can't provide subsidized school choice for a kid in a parent to go to a private school or a charter school or god knows whatever else. It's like, we're just gonna stick these guys out here on an island. You can only go to Jordan High School. What about the charter school right over there? No no, no no, no, no, no,

no, no no no no, they don't contribute to our campaign. Yeah, and it's like that is unbelievably damaging. But guess what you can celebrate on Saturday for free? Funk out of here, so funk out of here. Oh look feel this though, No, how does how does slavers get a day off? So if you make it a federal so like, so all the descendants of the slaver's get a day off. Yeah, what was the day off? It was on Saturday? For

fox sake. It was like the fucking It was like the joke about Black history about being the shortest month of the year. Then we're gonna give you a holiday on Saturday. I mean, what the like? You can't write it up any better? The first year? How many years did it take to vote it down before nineteen came up on a Saturday? They voted down the previous six years to make sure that they got the Saturday on the first one day off as the holiday. There wasn't Friday,

wasn't a close nothing closed on Friday. Nothing's closing tomorrow. It was a Saturday holiday. God damn. It was like college football out of here, Like, what the funk are we talking about? Bro? Who writes these jokes? People were just happier and ship to have a Saturday. It's like, dude, there's a food like, there's a farmer's market, creshaw, like

every Saturday. It was just Saturday, Bro, what's crazy? Is Ive seen a lady on the news and she was crying because they opened up the Merd Park and she was like, we could finally come back home. And I was like, damn, we're so happy that they opened the park. They opened the park on Wednesday. They didn't open the park on Saturday. But who the funk cares? Like, And this is my problem. We've talked about this and the van late and shout out to nmy van. He's still

mad at me. But that's my problem with symbolism and and conversations about you know, we're spending so much time, right, my my community is spending so much time trying to get you know, like symbolic victories. Right. So the elite right it is all talking about police brutality because they saw what happened to George Floyd Recipes on the news.

So they're like, oh, you know, police brutality. We need to get justice and police brutality and and and and what's that word they call it when you move the money out defund the police and blah blah blah. And I'm like, bro, y'all don't see all of these people that's poor every day, Like and I'm starting to realize the media doesn't show how poor people are. Like they will do it if white people is involved. So like, right,

they'll go to what's that park? Park? So it was a park where everybody stayed at where the lake is that off the Uh what's that the five O the one on one, Yeah, the one to remember they had all intents they shut all that ship down and like that was on the news. But it's like all the elite from my community don't see that the problem with the community. Right, I'm listening to people talk about gang bang and they're like, oh man, you know the problem

with the bad community is gangbanging. Well, people on the gang bang where they pour red like black people don't know. But that's not that's not even that's poor, even even though as that's Los Angeles poor. Yeah, right, so what I'm saying, that's a state of mind. But even the ass, it's not as bad as when you go to the dark. So the ass, that's the forty Avenue as my point

or not my point, but that's a point. It's not I don't think particular, and I'm a little tor on it's because I I will understand, like, if you're the black community, you want to put your center of congregation somewhere that's that's pretty cool, you know, Like, I think it's unfortunate that like the Black Each is like right underneath the runway of l a X. Every beach is public, and it was like, for some reason, the shittiest beach you can find in southern California's the Black Beach unless

you were like jumping off of the Yeah I could, I was trying to stall. But the like the convenience for l as a media city, the media in l a always defers you hear about like like like Watts is a is a is an idea. It's not a place the media goes to crash all. The nicest place Lamurt Park should be Magic Johnson Park. Sure, I agree,

I agree that makes sense, But that's my point. So I really am starting to blame the elite of of of my community because it's like yo, because like Puff, like if Puff is not screaming about you know, opportunities, reparations, those conversations not necessarily one. But if it's not economic conversations, like I don't want to hear them talking about their

opportunities anymore. Oh man, we need to know these people right who have never experienced I truly believe um when you get a chance to earn or like prosper you gained vision from it. Yeah, Like I had a homie who who I've been knowing him this whole time he rapped. He ain't really had no money, you know, he comes from his neighborhood, ain't really having it. And over the E. D D and all that time PPP stuff, he came up and just to listen to him talk now like

I could tell he's he's witnessed more. It opens door. Meant even in your mind you start believing things exist. Poverty isn't very much. Yeah, yeah, poverty exactly because you have a little bit more freedom. You're not you're not constrained to how my gonna eat or how am I gonna pay my rent? And there's an incentive also to learn. I mean, anybody can just like go study god knows

what at any time. Who's really like it's not all that practical idea, you know when it's like, oh, well I got a stack of money and I would like to not blow it, there's an an instantaneous incentive and time sensitive I need to actually go and then learn some ship and then you realize, whow I've learned this look at all this stuff. You know, like you don't even know it exists, but because you have an impetus to learn that it is. This is different than just

casually just under questions. Um, I got an idea, I'm gonna say before we get back to the point. But I was trying to tell some of my people that because they were under the impression, oh, you go to college and you make money, and I'm like, no, you go to college for education. Yeah. Like, and in my community, right, it's this big fabrication that college means more money, bigger

than your community. Specifically in my community right, because I think like the white communities and white people the elite, it's more or less like parents to show off their kids.

It's a lot of that. I think. I think that there's and there are some kind of lost in transit translation things between like white and Black America, and like the nuance I think white people go to college is a bit of a rite of passage and in a luxury Black people go to college because they figure, well, if it's a rite of passage for them, it must be a rite of passage for me. And it's not quite the same passit And you know, I mean you you can be like like, there's what three and a

half trillion dollars in student debt something like that. That's everybody that's too big to belated. And I again, I have to be for this. As I told you, I I wanted to a whole podcast on the university one time. But to tighten it up, you can be Susie Q from Irvine, you know, and why is the driven snow and go to university and major and whatever the funk like the most like the least monetizeable, biggest ways of time you can find and walk out with a big

old basket of debt, you know. But you did that because it was a luxury. Because when you're done, you're gonna go backpacking in Europe for the summer and whatever the funk it is. That really your parents are gonna be proud that parents gonna give you the business um opportunities. But I told my family, I was like, yeah, it's for education. It's not about to make more money, it's

just to be educated. Specifically, further on the idea, it can be like, for example, like when I lived in Oakland, Uh, this is a lot of years ago, but we had a couple of girls stayed in this house with me and my boy ran track on the pro level and the girls were like Afro studies majors and all their friends came around. It became like a house like people hung out at and it was a lot of you know, it was this this girl, Erica Willis shout out to

her and her um congratulates to her husband. Just passed the LAPD lieutenant test. So do you ever need an officer to come on and talk? But they're watched people. She went, well, she lives in Carson, but her dad was like a coach at Lock, so she went to Lock and um, you know, she was there. And the girl in April was, you know, from Richmond. It was. It was a lot of the Watson and Richmonds in

the world who were there. And I'm like, all you girls are shouldering you know, not a it's not USC level debt money, but you're taking on intents at that probably you know, fifty to walk out of there and all of you, you know, your friends because you're in the same classes and ship like that. But like literally all of you were walking out and an unmonetizable you you can't walk in and be like I know an awful lot about African American studies. I should be your

next accountant, you know, so you can. But but again it's the same thing. So even if you're going to be in the county, is to get further education on the county exactly. So I think we just look at the paper like, oh, well, if a person has a degree and a person doesn't have an agree. I'm like, well, if you go to McDonald's, well that person probably can be an assistant manager. And I was telling there like, so you're gonna go get like fifty dollars worth of

debt to be an assistant manager. If you had worked there for four years, you're gonna be an assistant manager. Yeah, Like, you might as well work there too and just put the work in. But so shout out to to my cousin Nikki. I was telling her that, um, but she thought I was crazy because you know, again black people, that's what we taught. Oh man, you go to college,

get a better job. Um. My. My big issue with June teeth it is my same issue with Luther King to day as a federal holiday, you can't be responsible for the act and didn't get to celebrate it too. Like June teeth should be like the word nigger, like nigga. Yeah, like you like Pete, you shouldn't be able to celebrate, bro, it's your fucking fun. Yeah, not your fault because I had I didn't have any friends. But you missed a good point, right, it's your fault. Yeah, why the fuck?

Like I was looking at some ship on the news where they was having a a thing that this Manhattan park. I guess the context was it was belonged to a black family. They took it and now they were trying to give it back. Sure, I don't know about it, whatever it is, but they were all performing and these white folks was just laid all up in the grass and ship watching them like it's June teeth now, bitch,

it's your fault. What like Martin Luther King, Like you can't knock off the person, you can't be responsible for knocking off the person, and to celebrate his life. Well, that brings up two very interesting points I think our existential bedrock points in this conversation bigger than like the Juneteenth discussion. First being it's like, just like just because you play for the Lakers today doesn't mean you you know, like Larry Bird and walking through that door like rape Pettino.

You know that's different players from a different era. So just because you're a Celtic today doesn't mean that you want the rings Celtic. You a Celtic, but you don't have If you don't have no eighteen rings, you're part of the tradition. You stretched it because I should have chose a different team, got a Celtic hot hot wires fair.

But there's that element too, And and then the second one being like there's not and obviously like again, and it just kind of goes to my first point, Like the black community today is like forty million people over the hundred some years. That's a quarter of a billion people who have lived and died or whatever over you know, to make that number possible. So what is it? It's not clearly, de fine, you can't clear to find something where one person feels one way, another person feels the

other way. We will lump them all together by color. It's not really how I get down. What is it that the goal or the desire is, Like do you want the separation? Do you want the assimilation? What is it that you want? Do you want to have support? From white America, do you not. So the tricky part for me is is like, obviously, no one black person can speak for all black people, right, So my particular thing is the economic portion. I don't even want to

get into conversations. Don't think nobody should have to live next to people if they don't want to, Like I'm not necessarily for I don't want segregation, but separation is not bad. Like, if you don't want to live next to some black family, I don't think you should have to. I don't think I mean, you shouldn't block that person. But I don't like the fact that we want to move in certain neighborhoods where they're in the first place. But I understand the economic gang of that, you know,

buying property somewhere that's gonna have good value. And that's one of my big old issues sure is like I think it's tragic and incredibly damaging longer term bigger picture that I mean, name a neighborhood anywhere, and I mean anywhere that is a that is a or was a has become a black quote unquote black neighborhood that got comparatively better, you know. And there's two elements to that one of us is because anybody who wants to make their place better us and make it better there, they

just bounce. Yeah, you know. But on the other side of it, the fact that you do bounce because you know, I'm gonna be the only idiot who just invested two thousand dollars to put a second story in a pool or whatever on my house. I'm not gonna get the rye. There's no one else in my block is gonna do it. So there's a lack of kind of structure stood confidence in your neighbors there and that and that bleeds net worth and that's a big problem. But but not even

just net worth, but morale. Yeah, like where I'm from and Watson Content, my mom was a nurse, so I knew a nurse. Even though she was thugging and kind of did her thing with crime, she was a nurse. Um, it's not a lot of doctors that live where we're from, you know. Even even where my mom house was at, in a in the in the Richling farms in County, I don't remember any doctors how they live. And that's the Richling Farms, you know, that's eight nine dollars right

now in Compton. Yeah, they're they'll commute in the King Drew or whatever the heppen and I know it was a teacher, but I didn't know where they lived if they live right there. So the Richling farms was a little special. So let's go to my dad's right and watch the only person driving nice cars was the dope dealers, was the hustlers, was the pimps, right, So I think that's a big problem. But it's a tough problem to put on like my community too, because it's like, am

I asking you to stay in Watts you know? Am I asking you to stand wats? Am I saying, Okay, if you become a doctor at King Drew, should you live right on the outskirts of the PJSA, Should you live on the seven? Should you live in the lot you know the niggasent guards and body on ut for me? Should you live you know, near to Jordan Downs. Like it's almost unfair and I think we're picking out liars though.

I think if you look at the Bell curve, that's on the horizontal threshold of the Bell curve and not the vertical threshold of the Bell curve, And I think that there's probably more potential in the vertical threshold of the bell curve in the neighborhood like that to say, like, you know, and I'll pick on some nameless, faceless entities here, but like you know, in Compton, there's a lot of guys who were like longshoreman or whatever. The hell. Yeah,

I know some of them now live around away. There's a lot and they're in like the bike, the bike cruise. So it's been a lot of more It would be better for everybody if you spent the money on the house instead of the bike. Am I saying I can't. I'm a free choice. But that's tricky though, because they do spend money on houses like like they do, like Mo. You know my boy Mexican Mo So Mo lives in Long Beach. He builds up his house like, um, I

know some guys that do. But it's it's it's more exceptional. But but well it's it's kind of common for the longshoreman's. I don't know why, because they get a fucking ton of money. But I'm saying they do do that. But it's not just that. It's not just raising the value up per house, right, that's one thing, right to create

more taxes, more better education, blah blah blah. But you can borrow ability all kinds of things because the circumstances and and in that community, in our communities and the underserving, underprivileged places. You know, people mom on drugs, things not right, you know, worrying about eating parent. You already lack vision.

You can't see beyond what's outside because you're trying to just you know, you're trying to, like you're fighting so many regular simple problems that no human being, you know, you would like to be. Yeah, yeah, right, you count exactly. Like the movie that, like the Justin Timberlake movie in Time, you gotta really see it as dope because it's really that concept that ship is fired. Bro, it's like one

of my favorite films. Um, that's the thing. So but if I genuinely believe, like so right, like you have people aspiring the community, right, but it's still a far grasp, right you got so, like you know, inspiring aspire is different, right to aspire, right, So the rappers are inspiring, they're not inspiring the aspiring right there, Like we're gonna live this life and you look at us, we come for where you come from? Maybe you could live it not

necessarily giving you tips. That's interesting. Like obviously, like in more recent years, I've become a lot more like I'm not I'm not an intellectual, but I'm more like intellectually interested. So like one of the things that always bothered me. This is obviously back in the day because it's an older song, like, uh, Jadakis is a song called like twenty one questions, right? Is that fifty? He did a song about a number of questions. Is that that's not? Yeah,

that's right. Came around the time. Dope. Yeah. They're both songs, a great songs, and one of them, just the Jadakis song, it asked a lot of questions. I'm like, that's nice, but some of these questions. I can't need to be a song about answers. You know, more songs about answers and questions. I need to make that what should that the answers? Because you know what, this is a double ontic for you. You can call a song because okay and then just say these things are happening because because

because of that's RT, I would do that. I'm gonna do that for you that I'm gonna do that for you. Um But back to the point is if there were more teachers, doctors. You have black teachers, black doctors, black lawyers, h you have black people in all walks of life, but if they lived in said community, the aspirational point of it all would change. Yeah, totally. The tangible pathway

becomes a lot clear. There you go. I like that, the tangible pathway, And but then again, I don't want to like, I can't you know, I can't drive it because it's like, yeah, absolutely, yo, I'm not asking you

to stay, you know, in the motherfucking pot. That's That's why I think the only real, not say, the only maybe the most viable answer to that like quandary is for you know, the guy who goes from being along shorts until like now you're a union delegate or whatever the hell are you know, the the top ten percent, the ones that are gonna just fucking leave, you know, just sure, ship, I want to do this because I

want to leave. If the rest of the community wants to benefit from them staying, they have to do a better job of incentivizing them to stay. That's tough, It is very tough. But I think like there are probably some controllables in that list of variables that are more that that are manageable enough to maybe make a little bit of a difference there. I think it's tough because like the community lacks so there's a sense of togetherness in the face of true adversity. Like, right, so if

the police kill somebody, um, somebody shoot a little kid. Um, that's short and it's easy and whatever, and not even that thought of it's easy as much as you feel like no choice, yeah, you're not missing out on something else because of that. Yeah, this becomes the paramount thing.

But for me, the choices, like like, the reality is the elite, and it's hard to tell another motherfucker what to do with their money because it's not really their job somebody like the people like me, because it's I take that back, it's my it's my responsibility at this point, it's not even tireef responsibility. It's not even um, you know,

the the wealthy, and it's not their responsibility. I'm coming to that conclusion that is my responsibility to focus because I'm still in a place in this purgatory where I'm not wealthy and I'm not poor. Right, I'm cool, I ain't missing no mills, you know, I mean, every bill get paid. If I want the crab every day, I could. I could take a trip to any place around the world that's like in the Middle Um. But I have the time. People in my position have the time and

still have the bond with the community to help. I think once you become an elite, no matter what you say, you either get too much information and your bond just becomes broken and it's tough. So when I look at wats particularly, right, I look at all of them factories, and I'm like, I just want to run in all of those factories and be like, yo, y'all all gotta leave. If you don't live in this community, you can't work here.

That's not gonna work. But that's really the solution. The solution is these people from this same community should be working here because this was built for these people. It was built. Not take that back, because that's like I hate when people that's like rappers saying radio was built community. It's not community radio. It's for profit. But the problem is when they built them businesses, they did build them

to employ the people. Instead. Community were usually to make money. No, but I'm sure history would suggest the factories built first the homes are built. Second, Yes, so the homes were built there to occupy people to work. Same But that's a good point though, like Hershey's like Hershey, Pennsylvania. You build the factories, you built their home bam. So I think when that part broke, that's it was dead. That's what killed it, because that is that's what makes Compton

or Watts urban communities. That's the way you can work. Because Compton a suburb if we're honest, comptent, what you know, what's as urban community. But it was always built to be an urban community. Like the sub the suburban parts of Compton would probably be Paramount No, or is the Lakewood maybe paramount of Lakewood? I mean those are all suburbs of Los Angeles. I mean the reality is I mean those were neighbors that were built to commute workers

to the Port order Vernon. That's why it's the hub at the time they were built. That's a good point. I mean, nobody moved to Compton because there was stuff to do in Compton. It was just near other things to do. Yeah, but that's it's live, work and play, right, So so I think that's the problem though, I think genuinely the opportunities right to earn a living for the average man, because listen, we're talking about the average man. That's the place, right and without those places being available

for said citizens, there's no job, there's no careers. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, it's just limited, there's no But but this is a problem across America, or it's not just That's why Trump's campaign was so successful, you know what I mean, because that's who he spoke to. He spoke to the average American, Like, Yo, you used to have a job. Why doesn't the average guy has

a job. So his promises was we need to get steel mills open back up, we need to get all this stuff because that's when America was great as far as Yah, we're gonna deregulate domestically and we're gonna make it very expensive to export human capital, which which I agree. I thought that was brilliant. Yeah. I mean, you're the president of the citizens the United States America. That's who's that. You're not the president of the corporations in the United

States of Marriage. So again that's the problem. I think. That's I think, which is crazy when you think about it. Again, it's the same trickle down effect. Always had this issue, right, Like I used to always make this reference to my dad, um when white people, when white men are doing bad in America, you know, we fucked up. You know it's

fucked up. We don't got no action, right, And I compared it to be in the yard right where if it's a yard right with with a fence built around it and it's all these fruit trees, you could sneak in that yard. It's that enough fruit to feed your family forever long as that yard has you know, it's for the fruit trees. But as that yard, you know, that white man's yard thin out and it's one tree left with a couple of feuds. You jumped that gate,

you get your punk ass shot. Yeah, So America is a much more profitable place for my community when white men are profity. Not a conversation becomes, oh can you can the brother get their own yard? And the problem is it's tough because like right now, we're having more action and we're still not getting it done, you know, because it's all a revolutionary perspective, right, just the industrial revolution and goal revolution, goal rush, the technology. We're still

not at the top of enough of them. So revolutions is when America changes. Is that fair to say, yeah, at least the face of it. Right. Um So I think again this same June Teeth conversation, We've missed out on multiple revolutions, right. We don't have the economics, you know, historically to be a part of them truly, you know.

But we're getting closer, right, and it's up to people like me in my position to to to really get with it, you know, I mean to really figure it out and create those opportunities for that community from my community, because obviously they're not gonna give us nothing but a symbol. Yeah, June tenth. And what I'm saying, which is like, I'm looking at all these people celebrate, like because the federal government it was people who always celebrated June team, but

this year it was just out of hand. I don't know if it's just because this is the first weekend California back up or yeah, part of it things. So it's these huge celebrations for something and I'm like, yo, break bread, and I'm just every day I'm coming further to the conversation that we're not going to get the elite of my community to understand that that's the important

part because it had cost them money. Yeah, I think that there's also a couple of like to go back to the point about WATS, it's like, do you want What's to be a better place, or do you want Wat's to be or do you want the people and

WATS to be better off? I want the people in wants to be better off because I don't think that there's an issue, Like I think really like what um like like public housing, for example, what's supposed to be somewhat temporary, you know, So like if WATTS was to turn into like a transient type of community, it's it's it's a lot of apartment abilities down there. There's public housing projects down there, and be like, yeah, this is

a three year stop and go you know. But you go there and can you figure out a way to leave? But you go there with like that in mind, and and and and there, and there's not really a WATS per se generation like intergenerational community, transnational community. It's just like, yeah, it's it's it's cheap over there. I can slide in there for a few years after high school or after college or after whatever. The fun, get someoney together, go someplace else and kind of like launch pad myself out

of there. You know, that's one way to look at it. And there's like also, I'm like the reality kind of unfortunately is like most of the like of the per square mile high per capita, like black populations in the country as far as areas go, aren't usually the nicest areas. So there's like kind of two ways to skin a cat.

Do you want to make those areas nicer or do you want to make the people in those areas more potentially mobile, you know, like so that you can move to un Irvine easier, you can move to a wherever easier and kind of distribute the population a little bit more, you know. You know, evenly, I don't think that's ever going to be the solution because I think that just picks out exceptional people. Um. I always tell sticks Watts is the people, because I'm not gonna give two ships

about Watts. Once they finished gentrifying, it'll be something that's the memory of the past. It will never be what it was. Like. Gangs ain't the street sign, it ain't the actual neighborhood. People think you're fighting no the property, and it's not. You're fighting over your friends. Yeah, you know you're fighting over things. You feel a disrespect to you and your friends. So territory becomes a conversation. But if they move you into somewhere else, you don't got

to live in your hood. If you live in another house, your trip on a person the same way. So I think the focus, Like I tell sticks, sticks got the key to watch too yesterday, so that was go shout out the sticks. Um, we need to focus on the people. See, the spirit is the people and that's the focus. So as they're moving them out, if we were able to go create opportunities for all of those people to have careers excuse me for the average man, you know, that's

that's the that's the solution. The solution is a couple of things. It's not just that. But you gotta breathe more togetherness. You gotta be able to give opportunities to the adults. You gotta breathe togetherness. And the kids, you gotta strip them with identities that make them going to set for places and feel like this is their only place,

versus having a pride of a whole community. That's what's supposed to be the Black Church, pride of a whole community, but without without the careers for the average man to go out and make a living and buy home and you know, make sure they can, you know, afford their children's in life. I mean, it's a tough it's a tough sale. It's gonna always be a tough seale without that, because it's always a mental stress and strain that if you don't have intellect or break, you know, it's not

gonna work out for you. It's tough. So if we're not thinking for each other, if I'm not thinking for him, or if STICKS not thinking for him, we're in trouble. And I'm saying that's the truth. We were so far behind the eight ball at this point, like we way back in the government is not gonna do nothing. That

I've came to that conclusion. And I don't want to sound like I'm not a hopeful person anyway, Like I'm a truthful person and I'm a factual person, and I'm looking down at everything and I know these people are not going to do right and do the right things economically. Any time that you're waiting on someone else to do something for you in life, no matter what the circumstances, grab yourself a Snicker's Bar is going to be a very long wait.