Conversations About Transients

whole story. So I went to the store and I just like throwing something to the store, store to the amp m ampm right, getting some blunts, which is what you were trying not to say. Ship. You don't want to come across like who gets over so people could judge you. It's okay, yeah, I want to go get some. So as I'm walking in, there's a guy sitting outside in the front and he's sitting there and so I'm

walking and he's like, are you my mommy? And so like I'm looking at him, and it's crazy because I wanted to be like, hell night, your motherfucking mommy, but I just looked at him, looked he looked to me like he was like in his like twenties, he's huge, but I didn't realize it. Yeah what what what? What? It was like? It might have been like Mexican white, Yeah, like yellow here, yeah, blind here. It was curly though. He was kind of like he was mixed. He has

some black in him. That's why he thought I was with his mommy. I guess stupid. Yeah, So I'm like no, you know, I'm thinking, well, I didn't say no, but I'm looking at I just looked at him and kept walking in the store. So whatever. So I'm at the counter like literally getting ready to pay for my ship and he comes in and he's like he's got his head all. He thought she was his mom because you didn't tell him I'm not your motherfucking mama. I see. I guess that's what I should have did. So he

like he thought you was his mom. So always coming for a hug first, I'm like, okay, this nig is tripping whatever. I'm like, didn't hug you. I'm gonna hug my fellow brother. You're not gonna I will for sure hug my fellow brother if he comes out like hug doing for sure with huge. If he needed a hug out with huggie. I know how tough it is to be a black man in America. Boy, Okay, keep going

on doing all that at the counter, you know. So he's coming in and he's like asking for a hug, like coming over, and I'm like move like you know, I'm like back up, you know, and he's like yeah, I'm like back up. So every time he like because he would back up, and then he's spinning hit some ship. What was that? What was the intendant doing at the register? Nothing? And it was a guy in there too, right, So so it was another customer that's a guy, and it was a guy that was at the register. No, it

was just one guy in the um. It was a girl as she was, I could imagine. So he's spinning around and so I'm just trying to pay for my stuff. I can get out of there. So then he comes over more and he and I'm like back the funk up, and then he just like starts walking towards me and I'm like move, like move and he's just coming and so I'm getting ready to like hit him, and then he's like do it, do it? Do it? Do it? And I'm like run that back. So he's walking up

to you. Just give me that one more time. So he's walking, so he spins around. So he's spinning around, hands out. He's like when I tell him, like back up, and he's like, oh, his mom didn't get my hook, not this niggers mother. You know. I'm just saying I'm trying to think it was okay. I'm trying to say what's in his mom? So he backs up, he spends, and then he comes towards me more and I'm like back up, like you know, move, I can't remember exactly,

but I'm just like move. And so he comes in and so now I'm backing away from the register and it has the row of like the chips and the drinks and stuff. So now I'm round on the outside, but I'm not turning my back because I'm like, so he chasing. He's you're backing around me? Did Yeah? I did. I didn't pay for him yet. I didn't get a chance to if I I kept trying to right anyway, he kept pushing up, like coming closer. So I'm like, oh, no, i gotta get out of here. So um, he's he's coming.

He's coming at me, and so I'm like move, like I think, I said, like, I'm like something like because or he's seen my fist, because next thing I know, he's like do it, do it? Do it? Do it? Do it? And yeah, and he's like coming and come in and he's and he's steady, and I'm just like going back because I'm like, I don't want to turn around. Nik is gonna do. Then I wanted to hit him, but then I was like, what if he grabbed me and he's strong, like he's huge. They're not doing that

the dude, Yeah, yeah, what if anything? What was the dude doing the other customer in the store, the dude, I'm wanting there's another reason why I was like, let me not look like watching him. He's backing out of the store while I'm on this side. So then the guy, the dude, the transient chases me outside, and I parked on the side and I didn't want to like go to my car because I didn't know if he was

gonna chase me over there something. So I started backing out towards the pump, and then he's coming and he trips and falls and and that's when I just run to the car. He rolls over and he's like just tripping. Everybody's like looking. So I guess, um because I called my dude, but I guess people called the police. So I called him and get up here. Now. Yeah, it was. It was. It was crazy. That sounds unbelievable the video. So the m so they gave me. She's like, are

you okay? Did the police get the guy? So the police yeah, so um they got him down the street because my dude went back up there and so he ran and so he was running it. So so you fin that you're due killer trans I wasn't. No, I wasn't, but I respect because I had to be scared. I just called him like I'm like in tears, like you know, because you don't know what are you thinking. I got into like a fight with like some bitches at the store or something, you know, and I'm like, no, trying

to grab me. It's like now, it's really good man. So it was. It was crazy. So he um they had to do down the street. One of his homeboys happened to drive past, like, hey, you know you straight, and he told him what happened. He said, you know what, I'm gonna drive down there and see what's going on. So he came back and he was like, they're having a hard time putting him in the car because we kept seeing all these police cars like go by and so um. Yeah. And so they were supposed to come

to the house so I could follow a report. They never came to that because they really can't arrest him like that. I can't because he didn't do anything right, So you gotta wait into that to be like intoxicated like that. Like he had a knife, He had a knife? What kind of knife? A pocket knife? Did you have it out on you? He didn't pull it out on me. He hadn't won him. Yeah, but you could have a pocket knife, a pocket knife and legal. They sell him at the store. This nigga, who else what he was

gonna try to do to me? You can't arrest nobody because of what they might could do. See, that's why I don't likes you like that, because if you don't do something, if they might do something, then if you do something before they do something, you're exactly. I just want to make outlaw life so great because I wouldn't have gave a just bust his ass, like drove off

like nothing happened. But if you but if you if you are a law abiding person, then yeah, I guess that thing about the law though I was scared, like I was sure, Yeah, I mean like a huge due like what if he what if he ate that punch, just grab and not want to let me go? Where everybody was acting, he could have did anything like yeah, nobody's helping me now. So I was like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, m hm no ceilings g l Red. Who's getting chased

by transient? Hey Red, Hey it's not Bread who didn't do anything while she was getting chased by a trend? What's happening, Bread? What you would have did if you was there? Be that nigger? Be that they get to talk about what you No, I don't think so. Not the way he was, not the way he was like seemed like he was peaceful and he was coming to get a hug and jas. It was just he didn't realize that. You just didn't realize he was a straight tantrum in the story because his mother, what if he

really thought you was his mother. She's not not my I'm not his mother. You high that you don't know that that's not your mama. You don't need play exactly why are you here? You need to go find your mother because I'm not hurt. No, no, I'm no, sir. The reason that story to me is important. So all on the news and ship, all on the news. It's been new the article at the dudes, Brandy watched the news. So I watched the news a lot. But um, everybody's

running like politics, you know. It's all the politicians getting voted and all everybody's campaigning right now, and a lot of people are campaigning on homelessness. And I stayed downtown right forever, and the only thing it made me was sad. I was never scared. But I am a guy. I'm six three, a gang member, kind of familiar with violence to some degree, fightings and ship, you know, so it's not as scary to see somebody I might have to whip.

They ass that's okay. But I guess to a regular person who's not super vested in it, it probably looked crazy. But I noticed it was a lot of politicians running with cleaning up the homeless, you know issue in Los Angeles. And I know there's different people on Twitter, they all saying the same thing. Oh man, you know, l A got this horrible homeless population. But I know every state has a homeless population, a huge one because housing in

America is out of control. But what I think makes California special, especially Southern California, is it's so close to money. Mm hmmm, Like all of those homeless encampments. All the encampments are close to like money. It's like if you went downtown like the loftice three thousand dollars and across the street is homeless people. That's why I couldn't get

with that. Like I'm not about to pay No. Three thousand to come downstairs to smell pistons ship when I have a bomb mass like penthouse upstairs somewhere and I come down to that, that's not gonna I'm not That's not a feeling, and I wouldn't want to see that. It's some I've seen um encampments like over going towards UM like Santa Monica, Covert City type area, like just in yeah everywhere. Oh and then over there off the

one on one freeway. Yeah, right over there, that's a whole little the whole little thing that remember when they had that fire, seeing all them damn homents people come up out of there, and they had that fire right there them. That's because the rent is so high in California. These big businesses, these big property management, these big companies, they're raising the rent. They're driving to me homeless homelessness. Well, it's tricky to me because I don't think everybody is

homeless because they can't afford housing. I think some people and and the reason I noticed. Let me stop saying, I think I've so when I stayed downtown, I stayed on six and may like right close to skined Row, not far, but as soon as you cross Los Angeles, people sleeping on the streets. You walk one block over to where the studio is that still on Maple, and it's pretty much that's where Scared Roll start. You see all these tents and makeshift homes and everything like that.

So a lot of nights for ten years, I would just walk and clear my head. So I would just walk through Scared Row. I mean, it's not I'm from watching Confident watch my whole life, so it's not, as you know, homeless. It's not scary to me. So I will walk and I would talk to people sometimes, you know, just to holler at them, to check on them. Sometimes I knew people, and people just gave up on the

challenge that's life. Don't have family, don't have anybody. Yeah that was I met two people that was like that, but most people I met that just gave up on the challenge of life. It's like, y'all will come down here. They never said I was gonna do drugs, but I could tell at that point they was doing some type of drugs for me, and they was like, I'm just giving up, Like as long as I could find a way to get some food, I had somewhere to sleep.

Like the challenges of everyday life, of maintaining you know, rent family, all of these things, these pressures. A lot of people go down there. And then different people I noticed when I talked to them too, also came here to be homeless, Like they left cold places where they were homeless because of the tough situations and it was like, let me go to l A where it's better weather. So I met a lot of different people, um, and one thing I realized was people how people gave up.

And it's easy to say, oh, you can't give up. You know, you can't give up, but it's like life is tough and and you know, I know, we programmed to keep going, and we programmed and make it easy, and really life is really really tough. Some some people, some of us make it look easier than it is, but it is tough. There has been multiple times that I feel like I almost cracked. I stayed in the shelter. Did you have what was that about? I definitely want

to hear this ship. It's so crazy. Yeah, I stayed in a UM like a dirty day emergency shelter. Um, it was fighting with somebody. No, did I fight win anywhere? Or why did you leave somebody? And then said you needed to go to a shelter, the fine temporary housing you just fight with somebody? Um, I wasn't fighting with anyone. I just really didn't like I didn't have anywhere to go as far as like UM where I could call

my own. So I wanted to try to up the campaign of getting your own place, even though you wasn't financially what I mean I was. I didn't have I wasn't working, I had my son. UM. I could have went and stayed with my grandmother, but my mom and my UM sister, my stepdad was staying there. My mom was finishing up school, Like I just felt like, Okay, you know what I need to take this. I need to do what I need to do to try to

better myself. So I went and stayed in them, in the homeless shelter so that I'm able to UM get like a transitional apartment. So I had did that, and I mean, honestly, it was one of the best things I did. Once I transferred to the transitional home. It was like a place for like UM women, like young women with children, like one child. I think you had to be like between the ages of eighteen and twenty four.

They had like programs like parents and programs. They had like a like a hall where you know, you eat with your kids, had a daycare like it was like a whole like structure type of thing. So like it worked for me, I think a lot of people, UM. I guess when you stay from there, then you're able to get like permanent Section eight. I couldn't just stay there to do that, but I used the resources to be able to UM to move, you know, to move you know, end up moving like to Guardina and end

up working. So I didn't do the section eight. But when I was in the shelter, UM I had to share a bed like with my son, and a lot of the women did. But there was a woman like she would be tripping like every night, like schizzo or whatever. So eventually it was like the second night they ended up UM taking her like taking her away or whatever. And I don't know what happened to her, kid, but she was like just really like she was going through

it like she really was. So I know that a lot of times people are not just homeless because they can't pay the rent, like it's just so issue or like you said, they've given up where they don't know where to start. Yeah, you know, so that's crazy. I never know you went through all that red. That's deep. Go ahead, Bread, tell me your story. Let me hear yourself, Let me hear your story. It was like I was younger, honestly.

It was around the time that my um at one time, I know a lot of people don't know this, but a one time both parents UM both one was in incarcerated, UM one was like dealing with UM no drug issues

or whatever. So at one point, UM we were living like like hotel motel people's houses ship until one point my mom was just like, you know what, Um, I stayed with She's not really my god mom per se, but you know, she ended up being like the person that my mom trusted with us being there, So that's what gave us, you know a little bit of It

was a lot, especially being youngest. I think I was like maybe like and my brother was like six or something like that, if I'm not mistaken, And just to see that like all the homeless ship crackheads, all this ship and you're just like watching all this stuff and you're not knowing what it is, but you you know, it's a particular smell or you you know, it's just a lot of different things and you're like, what the fuck and you don't know, like what's going on? So

that ship was scary. But um, luckily, like I said, she got it together and we were able to stay with someone that she trusted or whatnot. But yeahs is not at all. So y'all were both homeless. Yeah, so I don't know if this quite qualifies as me being homeless.

But my mom when she first went to the fence the first time, and they gave her a year and they took her, you know, our house, all our belongings, and we stayed in the motel for like a year and my dad came and got us, and she was like that, yeah, but my stepdad was there, and I think it and I got a lot of respect for my step pops. Clarence was like a trooper, but I

think that was just a lot. He didn't have any kids and then to have this lady's kids and they have been together probably about a year or two maybe if that long, you know what I'm saying. So we were standing in the motel on Long Beach Boulevard, um in competent and the mob actually, and it's called the Royal ind it's right used to be a gun store on Long Bease Boulevard. Stayed there for a whole year and then my dad came and got us. But it

was crazy. Um. One thing I always tripped about when I stayed downtown is the more people you talk to, you hear all of these diverse stories. And one thing got tripped off of more than anything is it wasn't a simple solution. It's not a simple fix. And sometimes I worry that this country has a real fear of homeless people. And that's really a scary thing to hear. You're saying like they just I don't want to deal with them. They're scared, like they just are really scared

in a sense, or I just think people. You know, it's funny, man, I think every day, this particularly this country, becomes more and more inhumane, Like the concept of humanity is fleeing. It's going to these bare minimums of existence to whereas as long as you're breathing, and that's cool. You know, it's like they want to prolong like an

agony or something. But I've been looking at different solutions that politicians been talking about on the news because and they've been saying ship like they wanted to build like a like a guy that owned this huge building and like near Boil Heights or like in that area, and he was like, Okay, we want to turn this huge building into like a like a dorm for transient and then but all of the community, you know, they were on the news protesting it, like we don't want them here. Yeah,

I seen. I remember they were talking about taking the little the little tiny houses, like making a little like encampment and doing all the little tiny houses. But yeah, people don't want them in there? Should people? And I was weird because it's like these are human beings. Like I was watching people that was doing well for themselves and making a living complain about homeless people having like a place to like to stay. They didn't want them to be there because it was in their community, and

they were like protesting it. And you know, the news was running a story and everybody I could tell was just looking at it. But it didn't. I thought I was the only person that a hit like, damn y'all protesting homeless people having a place to stay like a dorm. It's in your neighborhood because you have a fear of what they could become. They can bring the property value down or I mean maybe they're looking at like that.

It probably won't. But what I'm saying is that really like it, But you think about how fucked up as a human being because you have to be to where I don't want you to have nowhere to live because you're gonna bring the value of my property down. But that's how unfortunately, I don't know it's if I don't think it's set up that way. I think there's an issue in humanity, like that's something wrong, Like my money is worth more than some other person having a home.

I mean, but we're at the point where people can just record a situation they're not even thinking to help. Like there was an issue where a girl was getting raped on the subway in Philly and people were have watched. It wasn't until like the fourth exit that someone that worked there saw what was going on and intervened or whatever. So people are just becoming very disillusion and it's and it's funny because the Internet plays such a role in it to where we don't just call each other like

it's art. It off with simple texting. Text like voices already disconnect from seeing and touching, So the voices really a strong thing because it comes from somebody, But then that's being reduced down to texting, and now texting it were from phone to phone to now. I'll just say something on social media and everybody can see it, and then that way you could judge if somebody's okay based off of their posts or who the fund is actually

posting what's going on in their life. Right, Well, that's crazy because the person one of the one of my friends hit me up because I hadn't been posted in a while. It was like you're good, and I'm like yeah, I'm good. Oh, I ain't seen you posting a while, and I'm like, you got my phone number just like you just text me today, Like, I mean, but that's valid though if you're always posting and like, well, let me check on you. You got my phone number two,

so just check in. Yeah. But but again it goes into census tap in, babe, it goes into census of convenience. It's so like right, like humane, like a loose idea of humane. It's quality of life, like a greater quality of life. That's the point of being humane, caring about other folks, other humans, other people. So all of these tools really reduced the quality of life. I mean, like like fast food reduced the quality of food, you know,

social media reduced the quality of communication. Quality is the killer of excuse me, Convenience is the killer of quality. So as we have things that are super convenient, we lose quality. McDonald's, you know, the burger that McDonald's versus your old lady or your mom or somebody making your own burger. Yeah, but it's like in and out burger ain't nowhere near as good as a burger made it home. Remember if you were stuck red with the fixing the

property in Los Angeles. We need to have a politician come on the talk. That's what we need to do. What we could expand on this conversation because I think no matter what they say, they're gonna have bad answers. But if you were looking out when I moved out here, um, there wasn't a lot of homeless people. Yeah, I didn't really see homeless people because it was cheap to live. Yeah, and it just changed, yeah, slowly become a Los Angeles There there's a lot. There's a lot out here now

and it's crazy because it's like, um, they're young. It's a lot of young, um, homeless people. It's a lot of um, a lot lot of people on drugs. It's a lot of I think has to do with it too, where they're just like they give up their brothers. The drug has them, so they want to spend the money on that. They don't want to spend the money on quality life, right, But ship is it? Is it? You drug get a hold of you, boy, and it really just know that's how y'all be smoking weeds. I watch

y'all boat all the time. I'm jes podcast glasses always talking about is that smoke. I know some weed smokers didn't know for real, they smoke stomach aches. My brother K got hooked on moon rocks. He was on Really I did it before. I've done it before, and that's why I can't do it. So we're releasing our own

strain of joints. Like it's called ops um and it's like meant to put you down, like it's a it's no, it's just weeds, quality weed, but it's doctored up really well, you know what I mean with T A s, A lot of t s to make sure it is super You're looking about seventy that's a couch. That's a couch deadlock. With the funniers, it come five in the pack like the little so they like, uh, each one is like uh a little over, like a little short of a gram,

so like point seven point seven each one. But it's just meant to be like when you come home from work. So it's like the whole idea of ops is like instead of like going out in the streets and sucking your life off getting into something that this is the

op you should smoke. I guess to push kind of an agenda of like you go use somewhere, Bro, you don't stop to I mean, so you could smoke them all of these now these things gone like that baby daddy, the baby daddy, You wouldn't be a mother if it wasn't for because why would you want to kill him? You must don't appreciate being a mother so much so then how would you be mad at the nigger that made your mother. It's just I wasn't thinking money thing.

But I guess smoking is you know, smoke your baby dad. I don't. I'd never understood how y'all safe y'all baby daddy? If you love unless you really just be lying about being women out here that may want to say the baby daddy and smoked that baby daddy like joint? Would you look at your friend crazy if you want to kill her baby and she says she loved being a mother, and then this is the man that actually gave her her greatest it would kill me. What treat me out?

Is this? When you look at people's I g and like their greatest achievement and be like being my mom and I'm like, you still hate your baby daddy? Be somebody lying. She ain't gotta like the baby dad eats to love her, But then how could you not like the person that made you your greatest accomplishment. You don't have to like him, you don't love like him. You can still you could be like they don't have to

like him. I love, but you could. How could you dislike him if he gave you the thing that you're the most proudest of you about him? You can care, but how could you How could you not love the person that gave you the things? You can love him, but you don't have to like them. I don't mean you gotta like him, but I got into an argument of one on one day, right and he was tripping on you know about the kid. I want that joint so I can go like this baby dad, I can't

stock him. I can't do ship to him. Let me let me smoke the baby dad. Let me go sit down, Let me go, let me stop, Let me go sit down. Y'all about the sickest motherfucker's in the world. Let me get this nick up out of here. Let me get take it up. You don't get this nick. So it's crazy because we don't call them joints like it's called.

They called soldiers soldiers, So it's like, yeah, we got we got the Domo pack, we got the key Way pack, we got the Cops pack, we got the Rebels pack, which is like the Confederate Army for certain times, we got a special thing going for like the British soldiers for the fourth of July in the Boston two party. Okay, we put one of those in there, which one. I don't know something something. Why does it have to Why are you against the male species? What are you talking about?

I'm not against the species. I'm just saying just in case you're you're not putting anything in there for the people that want that something else that they in. You know about that crippen life we got. I'm saying there's other things, but that it has to be a greater problem than you just laid down with the wrong person. Like it had to be somebody that tried to keep you in slaves, that's targeted your community for years, not the first thing. You not the person you gave a

ginta two and then you got it wrong. So now you're upset it yourself. I should give you a you pack so that way you can smoke the right person because you so upset with yourself for sleeping with this. I'm saying, I'm talking. I'm giving it for the people. The people may want this, so Red, if you had to solve the homeless problem in Los Angeles, this ain't enough time to come up with this. Obviously we have to we have to call Sticks and get some people

in here. But if you had to come up with a solution, yeah, shout out to watch Sticks because he he always come up with these bad ideas about the homeless people and not be like Sticks, that's a bad idea. But it's easy for nigger to be I'm gonna tell you why. It's easy for a sideline nigger such as myself at times, especially in that fight, to to really comment on what Sticks is doing. Sticks is doing a

fantastic job. I am tough on him because he's a super intelligent, smart person, but sometimes he had like these two dollar ideas and I'll be like, that's just crazy, But then reality, I'm like, it's I would hate to be the press. I wouldn't want to be the president. I only could be a dictator like in l A. Like if I had to clean up the homeless thing, like I'm asking you, like immediately the first thing, I

wouldn't care what no community thought. So you're moving into whatever community the first building or first three buildings, that's big enough. I don't care about what happens to your property value. I don't care if we have to hire a little bit more police security, you know, for the neighborhood. I don't care. What's important is how we treat a society, a community, A society, a race is judged by their worst.

People come to Los Angeles right now and see homeless people and be like and the only reason they could plain because you would think they've never seen a homeless person a bump. I don't know if that's like a slur, but you would think they've never seen a bump because the way they talk about it. But what I'm realizing is the bum is right at Staples Center. The bum is right where the rent is four thousand dollars. Wait a minute, So artists who live downtown, they'll be like

as homeless people right here. But it's like I always like l a And compared to Godtham City because it's like literally it's poverty and wealth exists within one simple border, especially in downtown town. So and I love downtown. I love the homeless. I love the fact that it's homeless people there. You know, not I like the factor's homeless people, but I love the fact that's homeless people right there

because it always kept me grounded. Like my biggest fear is becoming you know, Kanye or jay Z or somebody who kind of and I don't want to say like Kanye, who doesn't carry the burdening condamn it, somebody who carried the burden of community, but also Jay to where economically I get disconnected from what people find themselves connected to. That's super important to stay with the struggle, stay with the streets if it means not being having twenty million

dollars or two hundred million dollars. Who needs more than two million dollars anyway? Who needs more than five bedrooms? Anyway? Who needs? Why would any human being needs? Who the funk got enough? There's nobody with ten kids with ten bedrooms. Every last person who got ten bedrooms don't don't have ten kids. And I know entirely too many people with

ten kids that got two bedrooms. So the only way it could work for me, like this whole situation is even as any type of leader, like even states who different people king different homies. They be like, oh, you should get into politics, even my O G Homy mugs from families. She said, I can't because I wouldn't. I'm not trying to make people feel better. I'm trying to make it better and policies politics is all about making

people feel better. I'm about making it better. And I don't want to argue with you, like y'all in people was in boil Heights protest and I'm like you, motherfucker's it is homeless people sleeping on the fucking streets and you don't want them in your community inside of a building that's big enough to have homeless people so they can have a home. That made me like those people.

I wanted to shoot them up. You don't like how lights like how old boy in in uh rest his soul in Northern Africa eat, I mean not eaty Um the brother that created all the gold builders on island light skiing dude. Yeah, he's he's a he's a North African brother. He got killed too, but he's super dope. I don't know why I'm drawing up black, but like I would have to rule like that because that type

of thing. That's why I get dictators. I get people like Kim Jong, people like you know, the the guy in China, the guys that really because I can't agree with y'all who is human beings and death or something. But no, no, no, no, all of you men women, But I don't think so because we all can't be the same thing. Somehow, we can't be all the same thing because how do I think? So fucking crazy and y'all make me feel crazy, and I'm like, just might be it ain't that much deep in the world, and

there's a lot of people out there. You're just very logical. But isn't that like everybody? Everybody? But they were protesting, like pick it side, like they well, what was the purpose of it though? Was it because it was like a lot of like crime or something over there? That crime comes with homeless people, which is they're homeless, okay, and a lot of them aren't, so I guess. But they're saying a lot of them are. Big did not say that whatever, you know how she got that all

because they don't most of them. She said, most of them are bad. She tried to say it real low big, she's like sucking hit. He's like hitting it to the homeless people. Just put them all into gas, kill them all. You don't want to say for a certain area where it's just them, not just them, but maybe like a mobile home park. Not a mobile home park, but you

know how they create mobile home parks. But I'm saying, I know, I say, look right here and said that they were trying to do that with the tiny homes and the I guess the and that's little it's it says, I mean, but it's like their tents, so they're used to I've been watching a lot of people build like it's funny. People are building complete structures. I've seen the dude on the news because had a two bad like a two story homeless and Captain crazy ye through like

see that kind of person. To me, it's gonna take care. But probably it's not that we just we we they just wanted what used to say, live off the land. They just they just want to live out the land. They might not want to pay this high ass rent, these high ass utilities. They don't want to do nothing like that, especially if they can't. I mean, I think

mental illness comes to mind. Mental illness is definitely a problem, But that don't change that still, regardless, right, the goal have to the goal has to be taking care of our worst people that are in the worst positions, and if we can't, Like this guy was looking to use his building, this huge building, huge building. I wish I knew all that, you should look it up, but he

was looking to have this huge building. Huge. I mean, they probably could have fit a thousand plus people if they just put cots up in this right, probably could have took most people off a skilled roll and put it. Was it a temporary situation or was it a permanent thing? Well, I think it's all temporary. I think the goal is to try to move people into homes. I mean, I don't know how possible that is with l A prices, but I think the goal is to move people into homes.

So they're so it's basically they wanted to build another shelter, like another mega shelter. Oh yes, neighbors protests proposal to turn serious building building into homeless housing. Well it's homeless housing, but why would the funk would you? Protests Protesters are continued their fights to stop that what they claim its power over their community. That's crazy, Like we don't want that, Like who the fund is? What the fund is wrong with human beings to where they don't want to take

care of homeless people. It's a huge center to it says yes, like it sits six acres. I'm telling you, man, Brandy watched the news. I see this ship all the fucking time. I'll be like, and I'll be sitting right there looking at the fucking news because that's what killed me. Bro. I'll be sitting right there listening to what they're saying and like looking at the like I was looking at

that the boy has. I'm like, so this is this huge building with a bunch of homeless people, and the people who live in the community like don't want them over here. We don't want them over here. These people it ain't like I could see if they were like sex offenders and you were scared of your daughters. I mean, but there's already probably homeless people outside of their um community right now. Now they're just be in one place. I'm sure they go to the store, there's homeless people.

I'm sure behind the stores, there's camps. There's homeless people everywhere. So you know, I just don't understand, why will we not take this huge building and create a place where people have somewhere to sleep under a roof. But they're gonna put that huge building in like Beverly Hills or in uh, Brentwood, They're not. I don't give a funk where they put that. I'm just saying they're not there. They're not going to do that. I don't know why, and I'm saying I'm saying I don't give a funk

where My issue is with human beings. So I don't get from Brentwood. I don't they from Lynnwood, any Wood, Lakewood, any of the wood us. If they have a space where you can put the human beings under a roof so they don't have to sleep outside, I get it. It comes with crime because it's people that are suffering

from poverty. But again, unless we as a complete society start to deal with why people are committing crimes, I guess there are always these occasional people who just just commit crimes because they just exist, right, But at the end of the day, we still can't give up on human beings, and that's what we try to do. And this is what I was saying to you a couple of weeks ago. About like drill music, Like I listened to people who care about drill music, right, and like

they'll be like, oh, this music is murdered music. I'm watching a lot of adult black people that came from the community turning to see the Lord's Tucker, Like they're like, oh, you know the music, And I'm like, Okay, are these rappers in Chicago rapping about something that's not happening? Like why would you stop at the rapper? Why would you not walk right past him and then change what he like? What he can rabby He's not making this ship up.

So that's how I feel to some degree, like about humanity, where we just at a lost place to where there is a building that's twenty six something crazy acres or huge, huge building, right, that could fit thousands of people under the roof, yeah, right, all these people mental health and other services. Yes, right, so you can fit all these people, right, and you could do that, and then there's people who

live there. They should be fucking ashamed of themselves. We don't want to Okay, if you're worried about crime, Hey, if you're gonna put this build here, we need an increase police president, We need to leave this going. The

neighborhood came together and said, hey, we need extreme police. President, maybe y'all give us some extra money because y'all know we got to deal with more crimes, your opecivities, windows getting busted, like you do things, but you still think to take care of these people, just not just say no, we don't want this. There's no other they're picketing, like if you look at the picture, they're picketing like they're putting on their Sign's not even a detention center, but

that's what I'm saying, like it's jail. So maybe it's the way that they rolled it out the stops. It's just people don't care. They have the same fear that most people have of homeless people. There's a natural fear. Could you fill that with some of your water? They have a natural fear of homeless people. People think. You know, obviously they called it. They said they want to call

a life rebuilding center. But they got on their picket signs again because they want to make other people, other human beings think like they have some kind of valid point and why they shouldn't take care of homeless people. All right, that's crazy. It starts with housing people. Why the fuck would we not how other human beings? Ship

is crazy and it's life. But the thing is they're shelters though, but a lot of well some homeless people, they don't like to go to the shelters because it's dangerous in those shelters, where I can't imagine it's more dangerous in the shelters than being outside. No, I've really heard situation, and I think there's some people that will turn it down. But the fact that that's not available,

it's unbelievable because that's just crazy. Like that, This is how far we are away from simple humane ideas to where we're like, oh, we need to go past just making sure they got a place now. Once you get them in a place, now we can start to figure out how to help people. But how the funk are you sleeping outside outside, outside, outside under the freeways right now? A lot of people have noticed and that they got to what you call it, but the trailer homes of

the trailers. Yeah, like if you go over thereby isn't will and hills to um the summits right there? Oh you know what? All right on the side, you know we're talking about jetter. Put my little nephew poop. He bought a home over there and was going to turn it into a studio and it was like a homeless It wasn't one of hills. Yeah, like I think he's been like one point four million dollars or it's more time million dollar houses in this community and right around

the corner as homeless people. And my issue is is not as homeless people. My my my issue is why is people sleeping outside in California? Like in this society, you have to want to. If I met one person who said they didn't want to and was that's a problem that they didn't want to sleep out? It was some people I did me days like, gee, this is just how I'm living. I don't want to go inside. I don't want to sleep inside, you know, I want to be outside. That's a different argument. I mean, however

we deal with that is separate. But it's entirely too many people that have to sleep outside. These kids. I was watching something, Um what is that? One thing it comes on like YouTube is the black and whitey talks to the prostitutes. He talks to um Damn, I can't think of it. But it was really good. So this this one girl. She was like ten and she was

lived outside and um in the tent. It was like a tent and she had like a bedroom and it was another tent attached and they had that's where like they ate, and you know, she was cool with all the people that lived out there. She said that they you know, they all look after her and stuff like that. You know, like that's crazy, that is sober. And I think she was in school, which is crazy because I remember on the paperwork, like they asked, like, do you have a place to stay? Do you have the hotel?

Are you? She probably didn't. She probably didn't tell the truth. She was with her mom though, they So can we agree with that? That even? Can we agree? Right because I know y'all rarely ever agree with me. Can we agree that that is crazy? I think it's crazy. I think the protests and oil heights, I think that is crazy. I mean if it's like I could see people saying, Okay, we don't want these people here because you know, it's going to bring down our neighborhood, it's gonna decrease our

property value. But then when you look at it, like you said, like why are we stopping someone from having a place to sleep, like a place to stay, like why, Like this has nothing to do with you at all, And I can understand it could and I can understand if it affects your community. But these are the struggles we took on the day we were born to care for other human beings. It's actually the verb of being a human being is to look after others, not yourself.

To look after others. That's what human sin is that I know what they think, and they think, that's a lot of homeless people in work in my neighborhood. I gotta walk my kids or whatever. My kids gotta be outside already. Know it's they're thinking, Oh, they're not thinking like how they should. They're just thinking about themselves. How yeah, how will affect them? And that's the problem. That's my

issue with society. There's a thousand other demands you can make, but the first thing you'd be like, you know what, this building couldn't fit them. Okay, this is how we're rocking in association. We need these other things to happen to make sure that our kids are still safety these neighborhoods and everything is still you know, cop aesthetic. But that should be a part of the demands outside of it shouldn't even be an argument about what are these

people coming into the community. They should not be picking, you know, other human beings having a roof to sleep under ship crazy, It's sad. So what would you do Britain? Would you move them in with you if you were if you had all the power? Definitely, man, I just I wouldn't. I don't like to see people hungry or all these multi billion dollar businesses and motherfucker's star. I

just never understood that. Like I never did like get that, so honestly I would, um, I do, I do get I do get it, but I don't agree with it, like why they're saying the things that they're saying or why they're picketing. But I mean, like if you have a gun, if you know what it's supposed to be, you know, you're supposed to care. And if you don't care about a person's like living on the street, that's just black. Like I would never want to see I mean,

are the homeless population is crazy in California. So it's clear that people don't care about people living on the street because I don't see anybody. I mean, there's a lot of people that are helping, but definitely. I mean, I'm not over here offering homeless people places to stay, and I might have somewhere for him to stay, but that's true. You wouldn't even give a homeless person to fucking home. We're looking out for tuning into the No

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