Is America’s Healthcare Killing Us?

But I'm on vacation and I've been trying to stay off the damn Internet with the damn American crisis that is of every damn thing, because it's it's a crisis over here and over here and over here and over haren over here, over here, over here, over here. But I couldn't help but notice that Jackson, Mississippi has no water. So you know, when you get to the point where there's no water, right and we know for years the mayor Chokwe Lamamba, who we love, that's our brother, has

been sounding the alarm about infrastructure needs. He's been denied funding to deal with some real serious infrastructure problems. There. There's some new I think it might be a congresswoman. I have to look it up, and she's either congresswoman or a senator. Uh that is there also who voted against the Build Back Better plan and infrastructure. So she's just one of those people who's anti everything. I haven't even looked her up, but I promise you she's a Republican.

I promise you, all right, No, I mean, I'm gonna look it up because you know, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm just saying it speaks to your theory what you've been talking about week after week that we want. This is why we have to build our own party and run our own candidates, because at this point you got one party of people who at least they'll vote for the right things, but a lot of times too many of them are two week to push for transformative change.

They just want to keep patching stuff up. And then you've got another side of people who will just obstruction is completely. So it's just a disaster. But they have been but chokwe Um, Mayor Lamamba and others have been fighting for funding to deal with pipes, to deal with waterlines, sewage lines. All of that has not been dealt with, and so it's gone from a little bit of water water issues to know running water at all. You can't

drink it, you can't wash with it, nothing. The schools have been closed, government buildings, businesses have been Now we just came out of COVID. The businesses cannot a full word to be shut down. People in their homes have no water. This is a disaster. How does this happen in a Madika? We had Flint, the Flint water crisis in Newark. At some point, there was infrastructure issues at different places around the country. I think even at St. Louis.

So it's not just in the two places we've heard of. But now Jackson, Mississippi, has lost all of their water. What is the coach's name, um Dion. So he's the coach of the college, right, he has to move his students off, you know, outside of Jackson somewhere, the the the athletes, because they don't have water to take a shower, they have no water at all, not to eat with, not to brush their teeth or anything in the city

of Jackson. This is outrageous. That is unbelievable to me that in the twenty first century that we have we don't have water, running water in the in the state. It's like it just doesn't even make sense to me, and and and there's no real understanding of it. There's no real understand It's just that, you know, we live in this capitalist society where everything course money, and you're paying for this and people can't get the basic necessities

of running water, but the people are paying. Because today I haven't had the out because I'm on vacation, but I am going to go do some more research because now you know, until Freedom Wote vote and others are starting to get together to see what we can do to help. And in my research to stud small little bit of research I did today before coming on the show, people's water bills are super high, so folks have been

paying their bills. Some people haven't because they weren't getting the proper water treatment, but most people are paying their water bills. And for what like it should never get to the point where the system has to be shut down completely. And of course the governor and other officials have water tanks outside their house, trucks out there feeding

the water. The fire department does not have water to fight a fire like this is very serious and you know what really just shook me today and this and actually I was so busy reading and trying to understand, and I was getting into little details and what it just kind of like struck me was the the the the idea of what the hell is happening in Parchment prison.

In other places where we already have had to help them, the incarcerated individuals fight for their rights to clean food, to you know, uh, toilets that work, to all of the inhumane things that they were fighting against. Now they don't have water, what so what does that to? They don't take bass, They have their their commos that they have to be in the same room with are full

of feces. It's not like anybody's gonna bring them cases of water and packed and put poland spring in the in the world just water because I support just water by my little brother Jaden Smith, you know, Jada Pinket and Will Smith's son um. But anyway, no one's gonna bring cases of just one. Well, Jaden actually would bring cases of just water, but they won't even let it in to the jails because it's not authorized. I mean, it's just so many things about the system that's all

over the place. I don't know some days, I just don't know. And you probably never will man. My grandmother said, the realer ship up. She said, she said, some things you'll never is whole. My mother toler one day she said, I don't get it. I don't understand, and she said, you think it build the whole world of for things you don't understand. And I realize right now this is the world they built because I don't see none of this,

because it just makes no sense whatsoever. So anyway, anyone who's listening and watching, find some organizations, particularly folks in Jackson, Mississippi, local groups that are doing um, you know, relief work to get of course I haven't heard. Maybe maybe by the time I get we get off of here and we check out the news, female will be there or some government entity that will be there to help people.

But um, that wasn't the case earlier this today. So you know, find people to plug in with and make sure you support them and help them in any way that you can kill. A mamba who works who is the mayor's sister, but she works on her own as an organizer in the city of Jackson. She's someone that folks should tap it Rukia lamamba checking her and help her, you know, help them to do what it is that

they need to do. The Mississippi uh, what is it called the Mississippi Prison Reform Coalition, even though they work specifically with the prisons, and I'm sure they're going to be looking at relief measures for Parchment and other prisons. But those individuals are activists and organizes leading in Jackson all over and you should tap in with them and see how you can support groups that are working to

get water to the residents of Jackson. Definitely. So I was looking in the news, and you know, this business the whole thing. Ever since Young Thug and other guys been down with this indictment, the prosecutor to leave prosecutor in Atlanta, UM, I believe she made another um sweep of arrests about six team more individuals that she said is getting affiliated and they're responsible for home invasions and

robberies and all types of things. And they asked some of them actually are rappers, and she said that they will be using the lyrics in the songs that they made to prosecute them. And a lot of people are angry saying hip hop is under attack and that you can't use lyrics, and she said one of the most symbolish in the world. She said, you know, hip hop

is not under attack. If you are doing crimes and we investigating you for the crimes, and you put said crimes into raps describing that you've done them, we are going to see it as a confession you're telling on yourself. We're going to utilize that along with your case. Now, if you don't want to do it, then don't rap about it. And if you do want to rap about it, you don't want it to to be prosecuted and to be utilized against you, then you should probably leave my county.

And that was the relationship. To me. It's just like, you know, we've all been young, we've been dumb, and I try not to be critical because I'm a child of hip hop. I was one of the most hard rappers and the late nineties, you know, most of my lyrics were so hardcore, and because because that was my

reality and most of us had our reality. But what we understood was you can't talk about crimes that's actually being committed or being committed right, especially when you're involved in them, and if you do, they're going to utilize it, you know, So I try not to be critical, but I just think that it's it's as nine, you know, and the district accounty, I mean, the district attorney's name

is Fanny Willis in Forton County. But I think it's assinine to think that you can literally rap about crimes and the police are not going to do their job. Have whole task force that they utilize for Instagram and Facebook and all of that, Like they have whole units inside police stations. Now that uh, that's the gives strictly for to decode, you know, the words, the slaying, inside

of the hip hop, all of these things. So I'm definitely against, you know, the silence of the um first Amendment right, the right the speech, and in all those things freedom of speech. But if you freedom of speech says you can say what you want. It doesn't say that if you say what you if you admit to a crime, that they're not going to utilize that freedom of speech against you. You can say whatever you are,

you can you you can say whatever. You go outside and say, yo, I killed such and such eighty five, right, you know, the Constitution does not protect that statement from connecting you to the body that somebody lost the eighty five that they can connect you to. It does not protect you against So I think it's asking on that we have these conversations. You know, I wish a lot of our young youth and hip hop artists just get

away from it. Man. You know, I think you know the time of really promoting violence, not not just having entertainment, because sometimes it's a balance negative and positive. Sometimes you talk about negative things. Sometimes we have negative realities. Some songs, you know, have negative um situations in them. We talked about things you would do to your worst enemies, hypothetical situation, but put in real life beefs in in ways that people have been harmed, lives have been taken into songs.

At this point, it's pointless and it's gonna get you locked up. You know, I wouldn't know this question. How would you respond to somebody who says, oh, my son not And I also heard U, DJ Envy and Charlemagne talking about the same thing. How would you respond to artists or people who are listening to you speaking right now and they're like, oh, so you're saying that I

committed the crime just because I spoke. You know, I said something in my lyrics, so you you support in you know, the the octs that the costs coming for us. How would you respond to that? How would you respond to somebody who's even gonna say that, You know, you're you're, you're, you are um CO signing arresting these big entertainers, little guys whatever they are under because of their lyrics. Are you saying you agree with her that everybody who's saying

it is doing it as well? You know what what I'm saying is, I'm totally against you taken someone's lyrics as as evidence in chief, meaning the only evidence you have is that I wrapped about a situation that you can't even prove happened. Right, That's the only evidence you have. There's no other connections, So that right there is just utilizing lyrics against me. But if I'm in the streets, you have a video of me coming out of a building right with somebody just got a shot. I got

an old black I jump into a black car. I drive off mom. They come in and do the investigation. People seeing me. Some of the intel says that I was a person and I make a song to a year. I ran in the building, I shot him, jumped in my black cheep and I drove off niggas, don't want to beef with me if you did that, right, I

think that's the dumbestip in the world. Even if you didn't do that crime, I'm not even talking about that crime, even if I witnessed that crime, even if I was just there witnessed it, I was around that situation to talk about the crime that I can actually be connected to that actually happened. That they have other evidence that connects me to the people who admitted those crimes. It's the dumbst shitted world. It makes no sense to me,

you know what I'm saying. But if you just if you're just trying to convict me purely on lyrics that I said, but you don't got no other evidence that even puts me near to seeing the crime, that connects me to anything that has to do with it, then that's that doesn't make sense. Now you just prosecute me based on entertainment, based on words that I said. But

when you understand that you are connected. If you if you're a man caught a body or your man shot somebody and you were standing there, you watched it, and you rapped about it, now it's a at that point you we already seen you there at the scene in the crown, We got you on the camera, we see you sitting right there. We got four or five witnesses that says such and such a right there, and and you talk about that, and you described the whole scenario

the way it exactly happened. Then you gotta deal with that. That's that's that's just the reality of what's happening. So let me say the reason why I hear what you're saying. And and I asked the question as Devil's advocates, I know you're not saying go lock up anybody because of their lyrics, but that's what something I wanna say. But that's not the point. I was um talking to someone I loved. I won't say who they are because I don't want to expose that person. And they said, you know,

they loved jury duty. They just love to go to juluty and they love the grand jury. That's their soft spot of what they You know, they are okay with being because this particular person was on a grand jury impanelment or in panel something. He was impaneled for a grand jury for over a year because they were just seeing cases. One behind the next, one behind the next,

handing down indictments or not. And one day he told me that, you know, he said, I go to jury duty because in the movement he heard people say, make sure you go to jury every duty if you want to, you know, be a steward of the movement and make sure you're protecting the rights of young black and brown people. And he said, I want to see justice. He was going to jury duty to make sure that they bought some bullshit. He would be the one person in the

room that said, hell, no, we won't go. He was great. That was his thing. He said. The Facebook and the Instagram was the number one thing that they would bring in and show you the word, what people, the messages, the fights back and forth, the words they were using, the um you know, the the the guys or girls. They became artists some kind of way in the process.

And he couldn't even help. He could not even stand in the way because the situations was so clear as day that when the and and these were federal indictments, that when they were bringing these cases, he couldn't even say, you don't know, I see something here, discrepancy here, or bring nothing. It was it wrote about it. They took pictures of it. They showed where they was, how they was,

everything they did. The girls was talking on social media with their friends about how he my man getting money and this is going on, and that's going on. He said it was very you know, he was able to help with a few, but more than likely or more likely than not, and in more times than few, they sent people to prison. And it's it's it's self incrimination. Man. So I listen, I'm old for justice and I don't want. I literally hate to see people go jail. I spent

seven years of my life in prison. I know some of my friends who were not never coming home for ten dollar crimes who then twenty something years or ten dollar crimes and things like that. So I'm I'm well

aware of the injustice that this system does. But I cannot, as a man of honor and principle and integrity, act like you tell them on yourself and putting you know, um, putting pertinent information from crimes that you know we're committed or that you're engaged in or involved in or or no people that have evolved into music makes sense, you know, and and and you think that and you and you blaming anybody but yourself. If if you're blaming anybody but yourself,

I can't help you. I can't help you with that. You know, it's there's nothing I can do for you. I want to be the advocate. I'm anti prison. I want to be forget the system. The system is all broke. I want to make your all this. But when you self incriminate yourself and you give these people evidence and in all of the things they have to put you in prison and to take away your freedom, then you have to figure out how you deal with that. That's

a that's a conscious decision as a man. You we we watch numerous cases and numerous situations with social media and people in putting out their business in situations and they talk about real situations in music and we see has been used against them. And if you continue to do that, then you've made a conju decision that you want to go to jail. And respectfully, I gotta I gotta respect your decision as a man or a woman.

I hear that. I mean, it's a fine line because we want to make sure though that um, you know, whatever Mrs Fanny Willis is doing is right. And we don't know. You know, we have no idea of knowing. I don't know what you're doing, but I know what

she said made a hundred percent sense. I don't know exactly what's going on, but when she says, if you're rapping about crimes that actually happened, and we have evidence that shows that these crimes happen, and we can put you involved in those problems and you're rapping about it, we are definitely going to utilize those songs as evidence. And that made a hundred percent says to me, Yeah, well, God bless it's a lot, and I mean some of the charges and the time that of these people are

looking at is real serious. So you know, my prayers and I don't once again, I don't wish jail on anybody, but I cannot. I cannot sit here and act like I'm going to support ignorance and stupidity. I'm going to you know, it's not like you don't know when when they're telling you what you're constantly doing it that that means you made a conscious decision that you just don't care, you're willing to deal with those consequences. Well, speaking of

ignorance and stupidity, let's get into our topics. We got to bring our guests on UM and my thought of the day is directly connected. So I'm just gonna merge it all together. I was reading on one of our blog sites, one of the blog sites that the woman in California who drove our car into the gas station and I guess ninety miles an hour speed and killed I think five people and injured others. Um that she may have lost consciousness while driving. There seems to have

been well. At some point there was a report, and you gotta be real careful because a lot of times you read comments online and didn't start repeating it as fact, right, And that's very dangerous, and we're all guilty, of all guilty of it. Because at some point they said that she had had twelve or thirteen other accidents before this incident took place that day, and UM, so I started digging and looking. I couldn't find anywhere where that was substantiated.

And in fact, I saw people debating back and forth where someone was saying that's a not true. So it may be, it may not be, but let's just isolate that, right if we find out that that's absolutely the truth, that she had seen other traffic violations, moving violations. We're gonna have to reintroduce that and and discuss this again.

But let's just since we don't know, we're isolating it to what happened that day when watching that video, and again, I don't like watching videos of tragedy, but this particular situation could have been any one of us at that intersection, going to the gas station, driving pulled, over coming through whatever,

and walking walking to the store. This lady, when I saw it, I had to keep watching it because I was literally trying to get in the car and understand what in the hell was going on in the moments before this. Someone else that I do trust, but I still have not verified it, said that she was at work earlier that day and was not doing well mentally, and so they let her go home for something like

mental health, break her job. Right, They released her that day and let her go home, and she has this terrible, horrific moment where she took people's lives. When I saw that, it's possible that she lost consciousness. Right, and again, there are black people that she killed. So folks can't say, oh, you don't care because it wasn't your people, and you know, I think the whole thing is terrible, horrific, awful, the

worst thing. Oh my god. Right, But I'm looking at this woman in the court, this little you know, look like she could have been a sweet little lady. And then this lady writes on on one of these social networks the situation about her getting released to go home, and I'm thinking to myself, something else is going on here that we don't understand something, something this There's got

to be a layer. They said it was. She was nod and a boyfriend, and damn it, I know all about it because I've and so mad in my life at a man that I have done and have thought of doing the craziest ship to try to get the the attention of how something is hurting or bothering me. But that what she did was extreme, extreme, extreme, And so what I was thinking to myself is if the job let her go, even if she had been having previous issues, and if she potentially lost consciousness, what where

is the help? Like, what what are we doing to try to prevent these situations? Yeah, I know that what they say, the devil can just get in you. So I know that can happen, but something more here. And I feel like our healthcare system in this country is failing us so bad that I asked myself every day, is America literally killing us? Like really, I'm not talking about oh, you got into it with the police, I'm

not talking abou. I'm talking about like going like you literally are being neglected for your mind to where you keep your mind and your body maybe counteracting something that's wrong. I feel the same way I've always you know, I've always been critical about the way the health system acts. A couple of weeks ago, you know, I talked about how most men are even like going to the doctor, you know week okay, well was last week? No, yeah,

last week it was like whatever. I know. I spoke about it and I was very yeah, people do your physical And I've been very critical about the way that they handled COVID situation, you know, about the way every

time people going to doctor. My friend, for to God's son, you know, his his um woman explained to me how when he before he went to the hospital he was healthy, that he was when he got there, and how there were many steps that after him getting there that she didn't understand, that didn't even make sense that, you know,

and ultimately his life was lost inside the hospital. There was a lot of people saying, don't go to the hospital because they feel like people was killing There was a lot of things, you know, and I always felt felt like I was gonna fight regardless of my own I was gonna make myself healthy. I was gonna do all those things. And I say that to say, you know, there is in capitalism and in the health system, there

is value in in in us being unhealthy. You know what I'm saying, There's there's value and keeping you unhealthy. There's value in things that literally keep you to be dependent on the drugs that they're selling. Big farming needs people to need these drugs to be here. They need you to write prescriptions, they need you to come in there, and you know, and very critical that I believe that wholehearted.

Just like the jails need to be filled. So they need to continue to have criterias or prims that don't make sense. They need to continue to lock people up. You don't think the same way they have judges who was selling you know, kids for for pay that they have they they're selling our lives to for to these

pharmaceutical companies. You don't think that their doctors and hospitals that are directly in tune with these people saying we're gonna make sure that we we make this many prescriptions a year to make sure that you make this amount of money despite what it is or not, we're just gonna classify and and and it's killing us literally, So that's just my And if you don't have the best health insurance and you're not the best doctors, and and and just think about that, right, Just think about health

in your insurance. In the level of insurance that you have determines the quality of service that you get in a health clanic. This ain't a pair sneakers or I'm gonna get a pay insured and the most expensive I'm gonna get. Still, this is people that you're going to literally that's supposed to be saving your life because they can. And the service that you get in the in the the higher quality of life that you get or they tell you about how to save your life depends on

how much money you have. That is crazy to me. And the fact that I can't go to the regular Hallom hospital and get the service that I can get downtown because I don't have insurance from a millionaire and a billionaire. Insurance that assures that they're gonna try to extend my life. Tells me that the health insurance ain't really about me. It's about how much money you make. You know what. You could go to hallm Hospital and get some good service if you have the right insurance

when you it is there is. Let me tell you the disparities and the racism within the healthcare system. Okay, to be clear, it is blatant, it's bold. You can they tell you stories. We learned stories all the time. People go to the hospital. They put a group over here and a group over there. They deal with some people one way and others a different way. And we know folks who have told us the story of how

their loved ones were treated. Uh. Listen, Michelle Obama in in in one of these shows that you know they reenact her life. It's I think it's The President's Wives or something like that. There's a show that it uh, it covers um Obama, the first first Lady ms Michelle. You know there's obviously it's not her, Viola Davis, but it's Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt and somebody else Betty Ford,

and they cover their lives. There's a whole part that shows how Michelle was trying to help her parents get insurance. That her father died just because he didn't have the necessary insurance to take care of whatever issues. I think he had cancer or something. You know. So this is this is the first lady. Now, now she is, but when she was Michelle growing up in Chicago, she wasn't the first city. They didn't have that type of insurance,

and the system screwed her father and he died. Okay, So I'm just thinking first of all, physically, Look, I keep talking about I went to go to get my physical well, hey, I learned some things when I went that forty two year olds a thirty eight, thirty nine in thirty seven, I'm forty two. There's some things that's different. It's some issues there. I gotta watch certain things that

I'm eating. I gotta look at the levels. I have to make go back in six months to take some more blood, word to check on making sure that my cholesterol is under control. That you know, different things that is happening because of how we eat on the road and whatever. But we do have insurance and we try to take care of ourselves. We're active, we're moving. If you live in a housing projects in the South Bronx and you have and I'm not even gonna say medicaid,

because some people getting some good services with medicaid. If you know how to maneuver the system, you can actually use it, and it does and there's some benefits to it if you know how to use it. And that's the thing. Research matters. You can't sit home and just

go wherever they tell you. You You gotta find out where do people who have medicaid who have done their research goal to get their care because guess what, there's some folks that come from other races and I'm not even gonna just say white, it's a lot of other races that come here and they get Medicaid and they take it and use it in places and pockets and get

themselves services that they need. But if you don't know it, and if you don't have certain things you if you having a if you're having a physical thing, you might be because but if you're having a mental health crisis, gonna help you? What are they gonna do for you? They might you might see a person here it is, but half the time, and this is a thousand percent and I'm done with this point. To be very clear, most of the time, because I know I was on

welfare public assistance. Can nobody tell me about chick because I know I had E v T, I had my picture, I was I was one medical I mean I was going wealfare at the time when there was no picture on your card, all the way to where they put your image on the card. What I know from going inside of these these offices, even going to the doctor's office with insurance from my job later on. Half the time, the people you're talking to they need help something, there

is something wrong with them. Then you're trying to get some help. They grinned, laughing. They got an attitude. They don't like their job, they don't want to deal with you. So a man, for the most part, women we might fight way through. But a man who shows up at the doctor's office and dealing with some idiot that's not even trying to really help them and doesn't even care. But they are going back. They're gonna go home and patch it up and do whatever they're gonna do and

keep it moving. And next thing you know, they stage four. They they this that in the third and on their way out, it's a disaster. They ain't got no water in Jackson. You can't get healthcare where you need to. It's just too many things going on. And I'm just like, yo, I don't know, I don't know. We need something all the way different, all the way different, man. So we want to ask our listeners, do y'all think that the health care system is killing us? Literally? Do you think

that it's efficient? Like? What are your experiences give? We want to get some feedback from you because from my my experience and what I've watched. You know, my mother was suffering for cancer for two years, and you know, there was periods of time where I thought there was healthcare, but then there was periods of time where I figured I felt that there was just them giving her medication

that they know wasn't healing. I felt like that there was a time before when she first was diagnosed with cancer, she was so healthy still and she was fighting, and it's like the more medication, the more services they did, it was like they was taking life out of us. So I don't know, you know, everybody has a different experience, So I want to hear your experience. What do y'all

think about the America's healthcare system. Well, we got a guest coming up who certainly has been in contact with healthcare and UM, I want to hear what she has to say, So let's bring her on. So you you know, the last few weeks, my son see because you know, people would say all they do is invite their friends come up there and talk. But no, for the last few weeks, we've been having guests that are have become

friends and are joining the street politicians family. And today I am particularly fan group because our guest um is someone who I admire, uh and someone who as I was going down the rabbit hole of looking at Instagram, she became a sibling to me. Forget about friends my sister because she also loves the Lord. And you know, anybody that I can find that loves the Lord like I do and understands the power of what God can

do for me, that that just becomes family. And so today we're gonna learn so much about our sister, Kisha Green UM and Kisa the amazing Kisha Green. On August twenty three, this past August is be nine years of her Amp You amp University, UM anti amp universary um, which means that she is an amputee after an accident that happened nine years ago where she lost her legs. Uh,

and she is actually celebrating. And that's something we're gonna talk about right in quote, what does it mean to celebrate such a tragedy because there's so many people even with less, we can't celebrate. We said, we broke down, you know, mentally, emotionally. Um. She has a foundation called Loving Legs Foundation, which is helping younger women who are amputees to connect with more seasoned women who can help

them through their journey. But the thing that I know I'm excited about this thirty nine year old woman is known as the Legless Diva, the Legless Diva. That's her brand. Um, And you know I love Diva's on the Street Politician show. So let's welcome our sister Keisha Green to comment and join us on Street Politicians. Thank you so much for being with us? Is no, thank you all so much for having me over here with you guys, because guests, for now, I'm your friend, I'm family. I'm here. Um.

You guys never seen me here before, but I'm here. Yeah, thank you and you know, your story is motivating. It's amazing looking at you like you know how they say you don't look like what you've been through. You know, you definitely are diva beautiful Black queen and and we're just blessed to have you and just have you in

this energy and spirit that you're coming. Um you know, because I was gonna ask you to talk about the beginning and even me, you know, understanding the nuances of our lives, you know, specifically as women, as Black women. Even in this moment, I almost said, start at the beginning with the consideration only for you lose having an

accident and losing your legs. But actually there's a beginning before that, and we I want you to talk about the beginning, the Keisha Green who had not been through an accident, and then take us all the way to the tragedy that occurred. You know when you said that, you said that, and I've been through an accident and every time I think about this, um, So August two thousand and thirteen is when I would say that was more of like a rebirth. That's not when God started

being faithful to me. So I've been from the number eight poverty City, Syracuse, New York. I survived so many things before this actually took place for me, And the biggest thing that God allowed me to survive was that I was able to as a single parent with a Section eight VOUCHA and EBT, I was able to bring my kids out of the Number eight poverty city to Atlanta, Georgia before this even happened. So that was an escape for me right there. That was God doing something major

for me right there. People when I'm from they don't just pick up and take their families and believe that God has greater for them. Because it is so poverty stricken and there's not really people to impart into you

that there is more. It could be very difficult. So being that guy had already brought me through so many things, being UM, like I said, being the Number A poverty city, being outside in the streets, and dealing with UM, all those types of situations I believe gave me the strength to be able to endure August between three because I knew the same guy that brought me out of poverty would be the same guy that was going to bring me this situation. MM. So you have three sons and

what ages and sixteen. Wow. So they were all alive, living and thriving when this situation took place. So tell us about that day. On that day, I took my son to football practice. I remember it so clearly. He was on the field. I was like, boy, come on, because I got somewhere to go to night. So I remember as we left there, I remember what I was wearing. I had lunch from my home girl that day, and just really that night everything it was a It was

a normal, typical night. We went out downtown Atlanta, me, my cousin, and another friend of mine at the time. We had a good time. We're heading home. My passenger thought that I was gonna hit the car in front of me. She grabbed the wheel. We went across all four lanes. The guard rail came through the engine block and severed my legs. So although they called me a bilateral amputee, I lost my legs immediately right in front

of me. What is bilateral mean? Both mm hm? So you still, So the girlfriend grabs the wheel because she thinks you're gonna hit the car, and you go through the guard rail and immediately you seen your legs just cut off. That why you like you visualized this. I'm well, I'm woke because it wasn't okay. So they say normally if it's that severe and that serious, that you don't necessarily feel pain. So on the left side, I'm gonna above me. On the right side, I'm a below me.

And if I can give you any visual of it. So when the guard rail come through and like her right, so I put this one high and that one golf right if it goes Diana. So it actually took my right leg and painted in the middle. But you don't like we're your middle of your car is so it painted in the middle. So I had no pain until they had to get the guard rail out of my right out of my right leg, and when he starts to cut it, the medal begin to burn and that's not begin to um scream. So that was when I

first begin to have pain. But originally my cousin was in the backseat. I went to turn around to her and my right leg, my left leg flew up on the steering wheel. That's how I knew I had lost the man. Wow, So what was that mentally like? When you've seen it? What did it? What did it do to you? Don't even remember that like I can remember it very like quick. But what I was say is the favor of God has been so great upon me that I don't really have all of that description um descriptions.

He really just allowed me to keep it really really positive UM nuggets out of it. So what I will tell you is that when they was hit in the car with the jaws of life to get me out, I kept hearing the Lord's say, break every chain piece. You don't here to change the fallen. So in that case, and then I've never seen anybody. I was blacked out. I felt them fireman picked me up. I felt very light, so I knew both legs was gone. Um when he picked me up, I've never seen him. I've never seen

the inside of the MT the ambulems. All I remember, Harry was them say take cut a grady. I tell people that was Holy Spirit saying you're on your way. And then after that I heard them say get off at this exit. That's Holy Spirit saying you made it. I never seen anybody heard anything else outside of that the entire time until when I woke up three days later.

When you woke up three days later, so for three days you were out where you unconscious or just out they I guess you know, they put me under a heavy sedation. So I was under heavy sedation for three days. Did anyone else in the car get harmed? Yes, so my cousin she u broke up, just broke her collar bone, and passenger who grabbed the will nothing happened to Wow. So what what was the process like when you woke

up and you know you you realize what's happening? Was there always this positivity or where you sat where you did you go through any period of like depression? Like like what was your process? Um? I'd love to hear other people telling but it was always positive? So from the time I woke up, like I told you, one thing I did know before they sadating means I already knew that both the legs was going because I didn't know that. Um. When I woke up, most of my

family said. I was like, hey, what y'all doing? Crying like we can't do this? And honest to god, I was like listen. They was like, oh, trying to take pictures to me. I was like, man, I look crazy. Y'all need to bring me a flat on you. Y'all need to bring me some lashes, y'all gonna put me on the end ofnet like this, and so literally that's

how it was. That's just how it woke up. I was like, in the video that I've watched, it seemed like very early on, you know, because you're you're giving a timeline of the nine years in the process, and it seemed like you were saying, which I was seeing it through tears, that this is you. You were smiling even in the beginning when this wasn't. That wasn't the nine years. That was like my first two months, But that's what I'm saying, and that was like my first

yew months. This is your nine year journey, and it's showing you showing the beginning, and you were literally smiling. Weird, and I know, I know there are so many So I believe wholeheartedly that that smiling, that joy of I'm alive, I'm still here, came from your relationship and understanding of how powerful God is. But people that don't know, they like they you know, for them, or they just might

not believe, they don't understand it. To what what conversation are you having with yourself, your family or whatever that's keeping you feeling like, now with no legs, you can still keep going. Listen. I'd like to be transparent real, So I'm not having no conversations with myself. I'm not having no conversation with my family. I never know ampute before me. My family don't know nothing about being an amputy. The only person that could tell me how to do

this thing is Holy Spirit. Nobody know how to do this, Nobody around me to instruct me how to do this. So only God could give me directions on how to do this. So what I won't tell people is what made it a little easy is that the three days that they say, they say I spent on the respirator, have you I spent two of those days with the ring. He told me, the legs that you have was not strong enough to walk into the territory that I have.

So I literally was able and literally like knowing that He's literally like, you're going on a sign because I'm literally at the gates, I'm with the Father, and he's like, you're going on a sign, and the legs you have was not strong enough to walk into the terry. Story that I have for you held that thing because if you really got sad it. It says all you was doing this entire time was standing in your own way to let you have company to take you. Where are

we about to go? But he said the territory m hm, territory. That's huge. That sounds like nations masses. There's people waiting for you right in this circumstance exactly the way you stand right now, that needs you go for So that's that's powerful in itself. You know. So as I as I pay attention to you and just looking at you right like I said before, you don't look like what

you've been through. Nobody you look you have this glow like that's amazing that most people who have never been through what you've been through, even Hals and I know and and just and going through your Instagram, I see a lot of hate. I see some people acting like you shouldn't be this happen, You shouldn't have this much power,

Like how do you take that? But what I've been able to do with that is to understand that people have a way of being able to accept pity from me over power and the power that comes from me. They'd rather it be pity because the power that comes to me actually also convicts them. Right, So there's one or two things that happens when you embrace me. You're either empowered by me and inspired by me. Well, excuse me three things. Either empowered, inspired, or you're convicted. Right.

So those that are convicted, conviction comes forth in anger. So now you're the problem because you're exposing to me the problems within me. And so I'm able to recognize

that's why I know what it is. I'll be like, oh, they believe the m M. You know that it's so powerful because in every situation we can find, if we're true believers, ways in which God shows up the same for for for many of us, and so of me as an as an activist organizer who some people feel as a leader, I think people like the pity side as well. They want me to look beat down, beg for you know, resources, they want to see you know, somebody was upset with my song? And why is your

cash at in your bio? Well, because every day people ask him that actually do want to support him? I support you. And if they can't get to you when they readily give twenty dollars two hundred dollars, five dollars, didn't you know you might miss him until next time. Right there, you can support me, and people actually do it all the time for him, But the same thing with me. It's like the fact that, yeah, God did I'm passionate about the work that I'm doing. But I

also am a great speaker. Sometimes i'm a great speaker, I'm a writer. I have other skill else and people pay me for it. And if I want to dull myself up and get my makeup done and feel good about myself, and I don't want to stay at the Roach Motel because I'm not because I'm not, because I'm not period at all. You know, I'm gonna be as

comfortable as possible as I travel the world. And it's sad because it seems as if the way that people see me as being most authentic is in the most broken state, but the powerful place it's hard for them to digest. So what does does it make you? What does it make you do? Go harder? Or like, how do you Because to have a bold name like the legless Diva in and of itself makes people feel like, oh,

what's that's opposed to me? I hope that make them feel like I'm getting ready to wake up every day and slay without the shoot game because that's what I'm going to do. So that's what they should be expecting when they hear that. But it's funny. Everything what you're saying is so true. So I think I had a post a few weeks ago. The lady was like, Oh, it looked like to me like she um rolling around on charity. I'm like, girl, I disqualify myself from disability.

What are you talking about? Because it wasn't disability was limiting my ability because the ability of my mind is stronger than any disability of my physical body. So that's not gonna stop me. So I think it's mind blown again. It really makes people reflecting and look at theirselves. So what I realized is this, right we talked about early your image, right, this is what God gave me because I battled with that. You know, even people saying, um, you girl, you be fly every day every time I

see you. You know that the human mind can start to take that and we can start to say, well, am I doing too much? Right? They'd be like, every time I see you, and you'll start to like battle with yourself. Am I doing too much? I need to corm down? Let me tell you. I went through that a few weeks to go at Kingdam University, and the Lord spoke these worst to me. He said, daughter, your appearance is a presentation that protects your power and prevents pity.

M hm, prevents city. And when he said that to me, he was like, beef beefly all the time, be fly everywhere you go because you know why, because you know why when people see me rolling up, they already know it's not pity because my appearance is already let you know that my stance is powerful and I'm about me. So I'm just not gonna do that for them. So

we want I want to know. I know, I see that your son's seem like they are your rocks, Like you know, they love you, they take care of you, you know, So are they the main people that take care of you? Or like what is the process of help? Like do you do a lot of things on your own? Do you want to know where? Like how does that happen? Alright, so my boys they helped me out around the house.

They're not They're just regular children. And another thing is that you know, even when you say that, and whoever is listening to this, I'm gonna just put this out here because I feel letting my spirit, um, my situation is not my boy's circumstances for them to carry. I was telling somebody this morning, like, Yo, yeah, gotta stop dating your sons. No, that's not my husband. They're not my husband, They're not my man or anything like that. So I don't place like super heavy burdens on them

like they're responsible for me. I pretty much do my own thing. I drive with hand controls, I run four or five businesses. Um every day I get up. You know, I am called to build affordable accessible housing. That's gonna be my next thing that I'm gonna be breaking ground on and may so I'm able to architecturally get through my house, do everything that I need. UM nothing in a way, So I pretty much take care of myself. I have my team, my staff. They don't take care

of me. They take care of my business. M So you take care of yourself. My mom lost access to the left side, um with lost a lot of mobility with a stroke. And the thing that I realized is that balance of having two hands is something that actually and because she's ready to go, you know, but she's held back a lot by the fact that she doesn't have balance with her arm and her leg on the left side. But you have balance at the top of your body. So I guess that I'm just assuming. I mean,

I'm asking a real naive question. Is that what helps you to be able to take care of most things on your own? Well, I will say, because I'm a hundred saying healthy, I don't have no health issues. I'm taking no medication. Like everything about me, I'm gonna have a baby, oh h got the man to have a baby with? Or you guy just don't work. We don't God's business. We got this so literally no everything about

me I could do for myself. Um, I'm a hundred person healthy, I'm strong to God be the glory who's kept me like there's nothing, um that's keeping me from being able to take care of myself. I hop over and literally, you know, I bust my chair. I gotta share that I put in the passenger seat. I got one that I keeping the trunk. But being here gives me a level of humility too. So you ask me, do I have a problem with some people for help? Absolutely not. I gotta chair, I'll put it in a

trump I'll go wherever I want to go. I would you use the prosthetic legs at that time, because you don't really use those. I saw in the video you have them. I haven't used those since two thousand and eighteen. That's not for me. Why you know, I work with mp TEA women, so I understand the use of them and why people care from But for me, I know it would have been a trick of the enemy to blend in, and God said, don't blend in. He need the people to see me for his glory. I don't

want to do that. It's nothing fake about me. I don't want to be a robot. I don't want to be neut So you do it, so you don't. I just love thee Yeah you said, you're a woman is completely who she is. She's unapologetically who she is. You can take up or leave her, and she has no problem. She loved us so much you don't even care what you think. That's what that's what life is. So you don't wear the prosthetic legs, which for people who are listening,

we can't assume that. Folks know it would be art like artificial legs that will have been fit to you and you know and all of that you have them, but you don't wear them so that you can be a beacon of light, Like people can look right at you and see that it's possible without the legs to get around and do what you are. So many people message me, they'd be like, I didn't want to wear that leg and if you the reason why I took it off, like I never wanted to wear that. People

need to be inspired of all different directions. Some people don't want to do that because with that. For me, I didn't want to do it because I come from a family and pain pill addiction, right, So a lot of people who walk in them and come with a lot of pain and come with a lot of endurance. Another thing that was a battle for me is that a lot of people I know that we're them, their their personal limbs up under room. It's like more be

down torn. So another thing I started saying, do you mean to tell me I want to walk around in something artificial all day to the fact where I gotta go home take it off and I can't love me the meat because it's not because I'm real cute. I'm real cute. I'm like, oh, if you lost one leg Of course you want to wear prosthetic, you want to walk. It just makes one of sense, you know, for those who lost one of them. I lost boats, so I could just pretty much sit here and in regards to

your mom, with a stroke. I don't know if you guys noticed, Like when I laugh, I've been struggling with bells PAUSI, so I feel back in April, I thought I had a stroke because I've been struggling with bells pausy. So like it's left side of my um face have really stopped working on me. So that was that was more of a struggle for me. I was like, vote on, guy, now, I already ain't got no legs. Don't play with me. You got to keep me real cute in the face.

So that was really hard for me dealing with that and the healing of it. And it really had strong stroke effects, so like my speech was very slurry, um my face couldn't move. So I definitely get it, and um, I didn't want to go through the therapy party. I just thought that if I did the prosthetics, I felt like that was the giving the enemy too much space. In my mind, me think that that's what I needed. In order to move. So now I gotta go here three times a week. You want me to put these

prosthetics on. So everywhere I go on paying attention to how I'm walking. If I'm a fall, I'm distracted from real life. So I just felt for me, I could do way more with my focus and with my brains face. Then I'll be worried about that. I walked for thirty years. I ain't missing nothing. I already did it. So give us some insights into the businesses. You said you're you're in five businesses. What are those businesses that you and? So I built some last weeks. That's one thing that

I do. When I started doing that because a lot of the services that I was getting before the accident, UM I could no longer go to those places of service. I realized they had steps different things like that. I was like, okay, So I end up doing that. But I also run in Love and Legs Foundation, the Legness and Wild Chair Deeper community where I bring women together. I'm also getting ready to launch the Push Collection, which

is a Amputy influenced um boutique. All the models are beautiful, beautiful black ampute women that are truly doing their thing, and that's absolutely amazing. Um I'm no longer part of that business, but I used to be in network marketing with Total Life Changes. I created the nutro versus vending machines. I was able to to crack their code of it taking a team to do six figures. I was able

to do six figures through vendor machines. UM got strategically gave me that strategy for that, and I'm getting ready to launch Nothing Missing. Nothing Missing is also upon a podcast platform of amputee women and that's caught Nothing Missing. I'm missing both legs, my co host is missing both arms, and my other co host is missing one leg and it's called nothing Missing. M hm. So those are the three women that I saw you and two other women

and a couple of posts. Okay, So so it doesn't seem that the one person is missing a leg, so she must used the prosthetic. Yes, she does. So it works for some and not for others. So the young women that you work with that Loving Legs Foundation, they can call and sign up for free. Yeah. So there's a link in my biot to say sign up for the Loving Legs Foundation is free. It's a meeting platform

we connect, collaborate, inspire each other. UM. It gives you a space to be relatable, but also we give you tools to boss with the ability that you do have. Mm hmmm mm hmmm. We we probably could do this interview all day. We need a whole like we needed like a five. I was sitting down. Just need that before we let you go, because you've been on for a while and we appreciate your candor. Steve Harvey at

some point was introduced to you. Tell us about how that happened and what was his impact in your life. That was major. I called him my uncle. UM, I called him my uncle. That was a major. I still stay in relationship with him. He really changed me and my kid's life. So five months after the accident, I was able to go on to Steve Harvey show. I literally just in the middle of the night. I was led to write like about five sentences, sent two pictures.

They end up calling me like immediately. What they did for me was they gave me and my boys a car because of course I lost the car in the accident, and they connected me to my prosthetics center where I got the prosthesis from UM. But there was something that he said to me, not what he gave me, what he said to me, it's what really changed my life. And he said, it's just been five months. And he just looked at me. He says, been five months. He said, you still got it. M M. That I ate that.

I still eat it now like mena in the morning. Um. And when he said that to me, and me knowing who he is and who I see him to be, it was almost like one of those things where I was like, I don't hear when nobody else saying, because I know what he just said to me. He's like, you know what that is. I was like, man, you see, Harvey said, I still got it. I still got it. Well, you still got it. You got it. I don't know if you had it before, but you got it now.

You know what I'm saying. I wasn't there before, but right now, that's right. So some people say, you still got it, but you caught it. You said now you got it still because I wasn't there. But I know right now you gotta clean and and it's a blessing to just get energy because you know, a lot of times we need few. I said this today, we need feel So when you see somebody that has this level of energy, authenticity and that loves themselves like you tell yourself, look, man,

I gotta this one. Look I'm in competition, Like I gotta love me the way you love you. You know, say that's what it is for me. I don't see it as nothing about anybody that got something negative to say about you. We just gotta send them blessings. Man, say God bless you. Give them a hug. They need a hug. Absolutely, we gotta be able to You know, people are hurting silently in so many different places and

you never know what triggers it. Yeah, so sometimes if you sat for a whole week and felt pitiful about yourself and then you see somebody like me, it makes you feel bad about what you just did. So we just kind of I don't know about that. It's motive.

It's me to see somebody like you. If I was if I was pitiful for a whole week and I got on here and seeing a beautiful woman like you with this energy that's been through what you've been through, thriving, surviving, living and winning, I'm gonna say, listen, I got to get up and go win. So thank you for giving the way we never asked about our topic. Oh yeah, I was topic ahead. You asked before you go, And I know we've said that three times, so my apologies.

But it's so much like you're just so full of truth, um and knowledge and how were and I don't know, there's some other stuff, you know, I feel like you're one of those people sometimes when we're talking to our folks that are teaching us about financial literacy and financial freedom, I always say I'm gonna call you when this is over so we could talk to more, because I need some personal help. Uh. And I feel that about you, um, that we need to talk offline just so that I

can be inspire. How is it that I walking around full? You know, I got all my limbs in place, but I need some encouragement from you just about how to keep putting one foot in front of the other, you know, just keep going. Like sometimes you just feel like you just want to sit down and stop because there's so much but there's so much more to um to look to, not so much look forward to, but there's so much to hold onto. You know, you've got your kids, you've

got your life. There's a whole world happening around you, and we're letting this one or two little things just just take everything down. But you, yourself are so amazing. I'm so inspired by you. I think you are so phenomenal, such a pillar UM for the community. And people are watching regardless. I know people are watching you because who you are, but there's people was watching that you don't

even know. And so you said, as far as me encouraging you, I do want to give you this because as you were speaking, I don't know, I think you probably noticed. I was like, look over all the spirits started speaking to me. I started looking over. So I started looking over. One of the things is that caught

me very early on last year. And what I want to give you as an encouragement, and I'm gonna say it right here, is that I want to commit to UM the next time that you go out and you're doing anything, how you're gonna put one ft in front of the others because I'm going to roll next to you one ft and then you roll on. I mean, that's what it takes. You gotta walk it out and I'm gonna roll with it. Mm hmm. Walk it out,

walk it out and walk it out. But I'm telling you to give this out because I would get up and run from one side back to the next. And here, you know, I don't girl, you just how we're gonna do it. We had a topic today, will never ever get you off the here if we don't get to the topic before and after right, we've been we've been talking about I wouldn't say debating, but talking about the health care system in America. And the question that we're

asking is is America killing us as black people? Right before and after your situation? I don't even know. I mean, yes, it's a tragedy, but we gotta find new titles and new ways of describing things we do. What do you think about America's healthcare system? Do you think you got what you needed? Do you feel like, look look at your face? Was it was? Was? It? Was? It like really a disaster and you had the maneuver around and

find ways like talk about your experience. And what would you say to a young amputee that's sitting there right now, like you know, I can't even get the things I need to stay healthy even though I'm I'm fighting this bad out. Well, what I would say is that definitely myself those were some of the things at that point. Um actually pushed me in the beginnings. When I came home, I couldn't get in my bathroom. I still had my house has tons and tons of stairs. They didn't send

me home with a wheelchair, a bedside like. I couldn't get in my bathroom, take a shower like, none of those types of things. So that's another thing that Loving

Lakes Foundation. We provide accessibility items for the Third world countries like wheelchairs, walkers, canes, and different things like that because a lot of people don't notice, but amputees in foreign countries they like build cards, like they get a piece of wood, put some wheels on the bottom of it and may be going to like this like so people have no clue like the lack of resources when it comes to medical So for me, they definitely didn't

do me right. But what I can encourage someone to do is you gotta be your own resource, like you gotta use the ability that you do have because let me tell you, sorrow don't slide you to the front, and empathy is limited mhm. And so with that being said, if you have your right mind and you're in position right now to hear this, you can articulate what I'm saying. I would tell you to grab onto something, get you a coach, get you a book. You gotta get ready

to set up the legacy for yourself. I don't think America cure nothing about us and what we're gonna have and what they want to get to us. Another thing is I remember trying to sign up for an insurance after my accident. It was called a critical health insurance. So it's like for if you get cancer or something like that. Um, you know what they told me, I'm

already critically ill, so so that's it. So that's it, like you know, but that's not what I heard though when they said that, That's not what I heard, because it's all up to the way that you allow your mind to hear and the way that you think. What they said is you gotter ensure yourself. Mm hmm. You better ensure yourself, that's what I heard. So it's all what you decide to allow your eargate to do. It's what you receive from what people are saying. So they

ain't heard my feelings. They told me, girl, you better ensure yourself. M hm. So I would just encourage you to grab mother to something. Just know that all is not lost. And if you have the ability to think, you have the ability to create. And I will encourage you too. Well. With that said, Queen, keep creating, keep inspiring, motivating. The Legless Diva is amazing, you know, Listen. I look forward to continue to build with you, to see the things that you're going to do in the future, because

it just started. Man. Yeah, and then don't forget the words that I spoke, hold onto him. I'm going to DM me my number and this is not the last time that I will see guys. Where can they find you at? What is your website page with Keisha Green dot com and it's I am Keisha Green. I'm Keisha Green on all platforms. You can google the Legs Diva. I should come up as well. I gotta bring me back. Yes, definitely. This has been great. Thank you so much for joining

us today. I'm gonna be walking and you're gonna be rolling next to me, and I'm ready to keep walking because I'm gonna roll with it. You're gonna roll with side, walk it out and walk it out and walk it out. You're gonna be burning calories and I'm gonna be burning the battery. That's right. She got bars put on the track. We we love, admire, and adore you. This is our new friend, our new friend, friends friend. Thank you for joining us. No, thank you guys so much later. Bye.

That's listen. Keisha Green is amazing and she's flying. She find she's a black queen. She got energy, she got all the stuff you're looking for. I don't know how she's sent it, but we're gonna gods well, what she said to me offline was when it's right, it's right. So when it's gonna when it's right, she's gonna be ready. She's getting ready. We shout out to her. Man, amazing, she is. Damn im I got stuff to do. I'm about to work out. I got rhymes do right, I

got like, I got a whole type of ship. I got I got it to do. Man, it's good. It's good when you have people who have energy that's contagious, right, that that inspires you a motivation. As soon as she got on this camera, you know, and I was like, oh this we have amputee. I was thinking that, you know, we gotta deal with you know, it's a lot. She's probably dealing with that lady was. She came in here with is energy, a smile and lit up the room

like all types of stuff. So I just want to say thank you for inspiring and motivating us Keisha today. And you know what, you have people who are stupid, stupid, stupid. You can say I'm still you stupid. If they decide that stupid is something wrong with stupid, I'm just gonna be I'm gonna have to be in trouble with whoever don't like the stupid. Stupid works for me that I love the words stupid. It's the only it's the best because I got other ones, got ms and other things.

So just let me say stupid. So that exactly. But with her, people will sit there who are also in her situation or other things and be mad like, well, why is she being celebrated? Most people don't have this and that, and she just happened to have an opportunity. Instead of being able to look at her and say, let me go harder, let me go harder, let me read more, let me get up and move around and

make decisions. Don't just let these people tell you you got away the leg, you got away, the arm you gotta do this, or maybe if that's what you want to do, but you gotta find ways to push and now. And we have to have that conversation with ourselves every single day. We have to say, hey, let's go, let's go. You know, sitting down, it's not if that ain't gonna get you nowhere. Sitting down, they're gonna get you nowhere, but tired. You're gonna be used to being tired and

sitting down. And she said something that I said, old Tom. People are jealous of you or they hate you because they they you expose their own weakness, right, your power, exposing somebody weakness. So your will to keep going, to never give up, to get up and go, They look and say, damn, I don't have that right, Well, I don't want to utilize that. I haven't found thatself for me. So I'm I hate that you have it. I hate that you won't give up. Won't you just give up

and foll to the waistline like everybody else? Does yourself? Feel sorry for yourself? Be mad? Why you continue to go on in perseven and overcome and and and get and deny all that? They says, why you keep doing that? So? And that's what she and I know she deals with that because we all do. So once again, I just want to say thank her and I appreciate it for the motivation. Man. And now with that said, it brings

me to my I don't get it. So you know, I watched this stool had Stow video on my page today and a guy that I know, actually d M did to me. So I pretty I think I was the first person to post police it's they're they're arresting some guys in Harlem. You know, I found out was one hundred thirty fifth Street, I think it's seventh Avenue, and they're arresting some guys. A bunch of police officers a white shirt, a bunch of black Hispanic police officers,

and they got this black guy. Young girl you could tell she's young, real slim, runs out there and she's trying to see what's going on. So I guess she knows the guy and he's telling her something, probably tell her with my stuff because he's on the floor. So she looks down and you can't really see what transpires much after that, but you can tell that she's pushed back because you see her go back son when she's

pushed back. You know. Her immediate reaction, she swings like she hits the orbs on arm like, pushes him back. And after this pushback, I don't know if the fish was closed. I don't know if it's open. But all I know is that this officer hit her one of the hardest hits I probably. I don't think I hit a man that hard in my life. And this lady hits falls and young girl because I found out now that she's nineteen years old, falls and hits her head

on the ground. She's laying there. Everybody is confused, screaming why would you do that? And this officers, who's a black man, you know, just looks around and then proceeds to arrest the lady, you know. And I just don't, you know, and we I'm gonna constantly have this issue. I just don't get how we have public servants who was supposed to protect and serve us that seemed to be initiating levels of violence and anger that even the

civilians aren't. I just don't get, and and I don't get how people are able to justify or well, she shouldn't have been talking to the police, who she should have never got involved in those things. And the more that I heard that, it really I'm so much confused. Man. I've been a man my whole life. I've been around women, you know, I've been around I understand the law of studied law. You know. I used to go to John

Jay with it for a year. I studied, I was incarcerated, I was in the law library a lot of my bid So I studied law, understand the legal system, and I understand that the jaw ab in the duties of these public services and police officers are to not only uphold the law, is to protect and serve civilians. They pretty much work for us, right, So when I watched them abused this authority over and over and see how the community has become numb to it and starts to

accept it, and then it's just continue. It's like it's sanctioned by the state and constantly over and over, I'm just really confused that what are we trying to do? Because I know, as a man, as a son, as a brother, as a father, a husband, if you put your hands on any woman that's affiliated with me in that manner, I don't care if you're the police at that point, you you become the enemy to me, and I'm going to react in that manner. You know what

I'm saying. I'm going to react in that manner. And and if that's what the police are trying to do, if you're trying to get complete, you know, division between the community and the police, keep doing it. I know it's not gonna work. I know that it's gonna be men that don't stand for I know there's gonna be your retaliations. And I don't know if they're paying attention

to that. I don't know if the humanity in the you know, the public service office is gone, or they really think that this is okay and it's gonna continue to move like this. I don't understand what they're trying to cover. So I really just don't get it at this point. I had another little like when I was I watched the video and actually made my stomach her. This is why I don't watch the videos, or I

try not to as often as as possible. But I think my perspective came in when I think about how people are like, we need more cops right and and Joe Biden, President Biden just recently announced I think the night before he announced these one hundred thousand new cops that they are um adding to the police force. And what I saw in that video was a whole bunch of cops. I didn't see uh police force that was scarce where there was only two offices out there dealing

with fifty people or a hundred people. I didn't see a situation where they're so understaff that they didn't have enough people to help them contain the situation. And I promise you, because I when you said you can't really tell what happens before, I saw very clearly her body jerked back and she reached in like hit the officer, Like why did you hit me? Okay, there'll be people. There will be some people who would say she shouldn't have hit him, He shouldn't have hit her. It wasn't necessary.

I bet you. I bet you if he would have turned around and said to her with respect, you gotta you know, man, you gotta move out the way because we're coming this way. You gotta move back. You gotta move back because you can. One thing you know from the video watching, you don't hear a ruckets in commotion between that officer. It happens in seconds, which tells me only because you know none of us know, but only because I have been in these situations too many times.

I've watched what happens. They don't give you in a lot of situations. I'm not saying all, because to say all would be untrue, but in a lot of situations, they don't give you the respect of, hey, you know, can you back up because I'm coming this way. Get whatever you're gonna get. You gotta back up, You gotta

back up. Seems to me like he's aggressive off the back no matter what though, even if she's nineteen or nine nine, that woman's or physique, Okay, it's too small for that big man to hit her the way that he did. Could have never happened. It should have never happened. And I see different organizations calling for them to deal with it. I'm sure they're trying to figure out a way to explain, well, and then this happened, and that in the third if they wanted to secure the perimeter,

they should have done that. They should have done that, They should have had officers there back up secure the perimeter. But instead, and this is another problem that I noticed with these officers from even situations that I have personally been involved in. They get involved in the melee like you know, like they with the regular people. They don't necessarily maintain discipline enough to step back and try to get a view of what's going on and help everybody,

including the public, to conduct themselves in a way. These people are arresting folks being arresting. You see mamas coming out with they roll on. You know, people gonna be all yelling, screaming, where are the where is the tactical side of policing? Where is the tactical side? Or too often they lose it with that, everybody's lost it. So what do you need to pay the police? If I'm paying you to have the same reaction that men, untrained citizen have, why are you getting all this money? Why

do we keep it? When you say the fund the police? People don't understand that mentality. Obviously, there are situations that these police officers are not qualified to engage in. There are I want to be a black office. Now I don't want to see this actually, but metaphorically, just to make the point, I would like to see a black officer, not a white nineteen year old girl in an affluent community where the eight fight cops, because I have seen them doing more than what was going on in that video.

I have seen where I have I have watched videos of people throwing, fighting, yelling, screaming, complete chaos, and I have never, ever, ever, ever, nobody, not even my trolls, because the trolls love to tell me, you know, we race, what you call it race, and then not, Okay, send us the video. This is the this is what I want today. That's what I want to that. This is

what we're gonna open up the floor. So first you already said we want to open it up for people to tell us about their experiences with the health care system and you know what they what they feel, do they feel like they rather try to figure out how to take care of themselves at home or what they say, especially after COVID, because some things which we talked about are working a little bit better. It's funny like after

COVID there's some stuff up. The time that you could be in a doctor's office and in other places got cut down so you don't got people waiting. You know, all of this stuff that we already discussed when they go to the to the hospital or to the doctor's office. How do they feel about the system. We we also need to open it up for people to send us videos.

We want videos. We want footage prove us wrong where black officers and others are hitting black women, I mean white women, arresting them, knocking them down to the floor, uh, hitting them in the way in which what we saw happen, shooting and killing unarmed white men and boys, teenagers. I want to see it. There's been a few cases, of course, because the attorney been crumping. Others have cases where there

have been some um white victims. But we know overwhelming we were unjust killings happen, and we want to see because y'all saying we race. So send us the videos to show us similar incidents where we can find the types of things that happen in our community happen in the white folks and other communities, by the way, another community. I listen because I want to be educated. If I'm wrong, I'm saying you know what I was wrong. So please send those videos, man and and prove us wrong. We

can't wait. I can't wait to be wrong. And with that said, that brings us to the end of another amazing episode. Shout out to Keisha Green for her testimony, her energy, her glow that illuminated this show today. Make sure you follow her, support her and everything she does. If you need a little energy, get some from a because she got it. You know, like Steve Harvey said, she's still got it. I said, I don't know what she still got it. I know she got it now.

They thank you to her and thank you to our listeners. Who makes us number one man podcast in the world. Politicians, Baby, we got ways to go to be number one. Listen, listen, you listen see Keisha Keisha that you ain't listening to Keisha. He's just said he's already there. Don't, please God, stay out of God's business. This God business. Gods don't already made this in number one podcast. So we want to thank you in advance for making us in number one

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