Not so Friendly Neighbors at Sesame Place

heat is on Hell, and it's everywhere. But you know, it's so funny because, uh, all of these folks and I'm not gonna say which party they belong to, which political party they belong to, that there are many people in a particular political party that do not believe that climate change is a thing. Right, They don't believe in it and global warming if you will. And it's crazy because the other day I was traveling from New York City to New Jersey, um, and the rain came like

as I was leaving the house. I noticed, Yeah, no, I noticed that it was about to rain. But you know, I'm a good driver, so I wasn't worried about it. So I get in the car, started driving, and eventually the rain starts coming down. When I tell you, the storm was like nothing I have been in and I have been driving now for who however many years, twenty years, I have been through we you know, storms, traveling everything. I've never in my life drove through a storm the

way that this one was. Water was coming on the bridge. And the reason why I mentioned I was going from New York to New Jersey. You know, you got across to George Washington Bridge unless you take other outs, but George Washington Bridge the major artery, and the water was coming off the sides of the bridge onto the cars. So that means that the tide was so high. The water was up so high that it was able to

splash back and forth on each side. Then getting through, like through the bridge, you know, you go through a tunnel. So when you get in the tunnel, obviously the tunnel was all the water around it. There must be holes. I don't know what was going on. The water was splashing, was coming, It was pouring out of the tunnel and out of the walls onto the vehicles, so that the water was coming like in from the sides. And in order to get to the George Washington Bridge, there's this

particular area in the city. It's like in Washington Heights, you know the area. I guess that is where Columbia Hospital is, and it's like under the George Washington kind of. The water was up so high there that I was driving my car, which is like a mini suv through like a flood that had the water almost at the windows on the side of the car. It was stuffed dirty ass New York City rats going through the water swimming. It was really really crazy outside and so for people.

And then you turn around and you have that storm two days ago and then this heat wave happening. Now you can't in some way they sat across the country. There was an ice storm that happened in the last few days. You can't tell me that something is not happening with the ozone like there is a problem. It's definitely. It's definitely the weather is different. Like you know, been around a long time and I haven't seen the shifts

in whether you know this way. One day is at nighttime, it was dim there, like sixty degrees, you know what I'm saying. It was it was mad cool. It's like ninety degrees and it was getting sixty degrees and night it was just weird. It was it was that's it was like fall kind of like full was approaching. It's just the beginning to assume. So it's definitely been a lot of changes with the weather. Anybody who doesn't notice that, you know, it's crazy. And that rain that day though

I was I didn't leave my house. I looked out the window. It was like nine going out there. And you know in this and in the Bronx there was a there was a it was so much water right that it made a sinkhole, a big sinkhole, and the sinkhole was there, and then all of a sudden a van fell into the hole. Isn't it crazy? Don't they should?

We should really make sure that the clip of this situation gets into the show for those who are watching it visually, because there's a car that is right in front of the dam and in the bottom of the car falls down, but the car somehow is like hanging on. I'm like, and I looked at it us. It ain't that life like you every thing falling out from behind underneath you. But you still that was me, that one call was me man pafted will is in the whole wind in the whole. We know, we know, but we

didn't know. Yo. Crazy, So let's get into our news stories. Um,

I found this thing online that was this crazy. This protest was happening in China, and you know, there's so much going on, there's so much trauma, you know, before I even tell the story about China today, I opened up my social media in the bed, as we all probably do, check into Instagram before getting out of bed early this morning, and the first thing that popped up on my timeline, not the second or the third, I mean scroll, it was the first image I saw was

a man bloody like like he the police had beaten him to the point where he was bloody all over everything, just his sockets were all busted out. And I said, yo, I can't. I can't, like I cannot, I cannot start my day every day with this. So it's like that's was when you get into it's like you can't even you can't even open Instagram, you can't even open social

media because it's traumatizing. So the day I'm I saw all these people protesting, and I was like and then and of course I saw that they were um Asian, So I'm like, let me see let me watch this and see what's going on. What are they protesting? And then I read the story and basically, the banks froze or one bank froze these people's money. I don't know why. I still haven't figured out what happened, but they frozen to the people's assets, and the people can't get their money,

their life savings, so they went to go protests. A lot of Chinese people were standing there and probably you know, thousands of them, or maybe it was hundreds, they looked like thousands, and the police whooped on their behinds like they're wrong for protesting about their money. Listen, the institution of police around this world, it's crazy, man. These people that took these people money, their money been held up

in this bank for long long time. They life saved, like imagine your life savings in the bank, and they just ain't giving it too. And you on, you peacefully protest and the police cover your ass for peace process to get your money. It's crazy. It just don't make no sense, man. But in China, that's how they roll. Listen. They ain't looked too much different than what we seeing out here. The polic unless you are unless you are insurrectionists at the Capitol. Yeah, then they opened the door

for you. They tell you, they give you directions and everything. Michael said, the police been whooping heads on over here, and they whooped some heads down there, man, police whooping heads all over the plate. M We just are a week away from the birthday, the twenty six birthday of Jalen Walker. It's so sad. It's like, poor Jalen. Does

the world even remember Jalen Walker anymore? We You know, people have moved on to the next thing and the next thing and the next thing, and it takes so much work nowadays to make sure you keep um, you know these folks, these unfortunate that which have become sort of hashtags in the storyline, and keep them on TV and keep them as part of the dialogue. And folks get mad. Oh oh, what y'all do when y'all using

the cameras. Imagine if we didn't find ways to bring Yandy with the Love and Hip Hop cameras and then Poorshe with the Real Housewives cameras and all the other stuff that we did to keep Brianna Tip, they would it would There's no way that Brianna Taylor would have stayed in the news, especially since we know with black women that black men their stories starts to sort of push ours out, Like when black women are killed by the state stay sanctioned violence, It's like, doesn't that those

stories don't last at all if they make it at all black men, of course, it's still a struggle, but it's definitely more attention pay to black men. So what would you what would we have done if we were not able to create our own media and bring people around. Brianna Taylor And now that's how I feel about Jaylen Walker. It's like, now his twenty six birthday has passed, and you know, it's way too soon for him to just be a storyline that happened. You know, he needs to

be consistently indepressed. I know that on his birthday. Um the attorneys called for the Department of Justice to get involved, you know, and they should because the police will their excuse. It's gonna be that there was a gun that he had and they saw a shot fired, and you keep asking, where's the ballistic report and all of the stuff. Maybe

it's there, you know, It's it's so much. And my aunt lives in akron Um and some other family members and listening to them talk about the story they're they're getting information locally and from local news. It's very different from what we're hearing nationally, you know what I'm saying. It's very, very different. So the story is even worse when you listen to the local side. Well, I know that a man was shot over forty sometimes that's what they're saying. I still think sixty. I know there was

ninety round shot at the man. And for us not to continue to talk about that, for that not to be in the news cycle, it's crazy to me. And that's why people talk about, like you said, they say, oh, y'all doing this for news. If we don't do it, you know, if we if we don't really take that responsibility and we don't get in front of these cameras and and and say these names and make sure that these families and situations are highlighted, then it swept into

the rug. There's so many people that you don't hear about, you know, and a lot of people say, oh y'all go for the know we we we we we try to do is bring attention, We try to bring awaitness, We understand, you know, the injustices that are happening, and families don't have the proper recourse, recourse or the problem platforms. You know, they don't have to me, they don't have something someone to elevate their voices. So when we come in,

that's always what we try to do. Man. And it's it's sad, like you said, to see that on his twenty six birthday, you know, is he's basically not even in the news cycle anymore. Nobody's talking about it. Not enough. It's like it's common like it's it's just okay, it's not enough, you know, it's not enough outraged, Like we say, we're not We're not outraged enough. We're not. That's our brother,

Angelo's attorney, Angelo Penzel, I always have to correct myself. Um, you know, that's the statement that he made, and we're not. We're not outraged enough. So it's our job to keep saying Jalen Walker's name and we will do that and we are. We think the Department of Justice absolutely needs to pick up this case and investigated the actually um

to really see what went on. The attorney Robert di Cello, he he says, after the funeral, we did the press conference, he said something that was very interesting that I never even thought about. He said, the officers got a chance to go home right and watched They weren't No statements were taken there on the scene from all of these officers,

at least thirteen of them. They got a chance to go home and watch the news, which is where the press conference was done from the police department telling the world their side of the story. So now they listen to that, they understand how to collaborate around it, and they're all gonna say the same thing that the department has put out there as an official statement. I mean, it's so evident, it's so clear the cover up. So you know, definitely the Department of Justice needs to get

involved in that. And I my heart goes out to um, you know, Kristin Clark, who is the the head of the Civil Rights Division for the Department of Justice, because even though she's a friend and I love Kristen Clark, but I still have to also apply pressure on her,

which we've done. We're doing it on Brianna Taylor. We went and did a protest there and and you know, went to her office and demanded to UH to serve them with our petitions that people all over the country signed saying that the d J needs to get involved, and there's been a number of other cases where we've done the same. We unfortunately cannot give that sister, uh

you know, an easy time while she's in office. But it's a lot of a burden to carry as a black woman to be the head of a department that has so many issues coming in the door every day and trying to make the right decisions about which cases you're going to go after, which cases you're gonna investigate. It's hard work, but it's work that she wanted to do. And there now y'all at the whole tel responsible exactly. Man,

That's why she got in the office. You know. We we've seen something in her that identified with our struggle. That she had been on these front lines. She had understood a lot of what we were dealing with, and that's why people put in office now. So you know, I know it's gonna be tough, you know, because and this is why people like hey, you need to run for all, I know, one of their vocals because I don't want to be bound by any politics. I don't want to be bound by any system that you know

pretty much. I have to deal with what I know is right, and then I know what the system is saying to do. So she's in there trying to balance this and be as fair as possible, but then go within the system that she's in. So it's it's a lot in the system working for Marrik Garland, who's another person. You know, he's the the Attorney General. And I believe that Mary Garland wants to do some of the right things. I mean, first of all, we have to be real clear and make sure that we say that they have

been filing cases. They were filing cases in the parts in prison situation where we called for, along with brock Nation and a bunch of other people, Yo Gotti, what we call for Parchment to be investigated. The Department of Justice came out saying that the civil rights of incarcerated individuals in that prison were being violated. So there's been cases, there's been situations where we see the Department of Justice

stepping in. It's not enough though, It's not enough, right and and I don't know when it ever will be enough, um, But again to your point, hey, and and she actually was appointed by Merritt Garland to be the head of the Civil Rights Division, and she had to go through a whole lot of um questioning in order to get confirmed by the Senate. UH. And one of the things

they asked her about, what's her relationship with me? It was it was on the record that they challenged her about signing a letter on my behalf to support me during the time when I was under attack. Um, you know with Women's March, so they really, you know, they're gonna kick everybody, all sides are kicking the doors, and you know it's important at the department just to stay focused and they need to do their jobs. So that's that on that. Next is the street renaming for Eric

Garner in Statn Island. They named renamed the street for him. I saw miss Carr Gwen carr Um, you know, looking like she was just so proud, you know that something happened to always put a steak acclaim, if you will, put a steak in the ground right there in that space for her son. UH. And I saw somebody online like, why do we choose these symbolic gestures or why do

we settle for symbolic justice. It's not a settling that lady fought for justice and her son, I mean her grandson, Eric Garner Jr. He also is a part of this. He fought. They fought right there. Thought that they're his sister. What's her name, Erica Garner. She died fighting for her father. They did all that they could do. So the street renaming, while yes, it's only symbolic, it's not gonna bring back Eric and it certainly doesn't give him justice. They deserve

that also. They deserve the streets to be renamed. They deserve the money they want from the lawsuit. They deserve guilty uh, they deserve convictions. They deserve all of that. And we, unfortunately we can't control getting each one of those things as we would like for it to be.

But when we do get certain things, it's important that people when they especially on Staton Island where all those cops live, because you know Staton Island is heavy police, the fact that they have to drive down a street named after a black man that they killed and disregarded right and smeared his name, even though that may not be real true justice, but it at least is something. It's a gesture that those individuals would not be comfortable

just living. When they go to Google when they tell their family where to how to find their homes, they're gonna have to say Eric garn Away as a part of you know, and I'm not saying again that I think it's the best thing in the world. But those folks they didn't just settle. They fought and they continue to fight. And Ms. Gardner is everywhere around this country fighting for other families as well. And that's the truth. Man.

Like you said, you know it's not I'm sure that we would definitely rather have Ergarden right instead of the name on the street. We would rather have justice for fire Daniel Pantela. We would rather have him inside of prison.

You know, we we fought for all those things. But as we get something, some level of acknowledgement, you know, to make sure that he didn't die in vain, that he's immortalized, that the story of Rigando will be told, that that block will send relies what it is that they lost, and what it is that he represented to this world, and how he ignited fires would through this city and got people to really fight for justice. You know,

we we we don't want to take that away. You don't want to see when you see a mother smiling that her child's name is somewhere, knowing that she hadn't smiled for years, knowing that we we normally see in miss car on the front of the newspaper. Because she said about the situation, you know, she's receiving bad news that they're not going to fight the offers, that they're not going to prosecute. Right. So when you when you're able to see some level of comfort, let that lady

enjoy that. You know, it's not about you, It ain't about what you think, right you maybe you don't want that, but this family gets to enjoy the little things that they do because they've been to so much trauma. So

you know, congratulations on that. You know, our heart goes out to that family and we still want justice and we still went to or of us are locked up and hopefully we'll get you know, a district attorn Ernie in New York City that we can look and reopen this case and actually get some justice for Erghana, because that's still still to go. That's right, that's right, that's right. I don't know is that possible, Like we should really really look into that because there are new district attorneys,

Like what could they do. I don't know. Maybe they can't, but that's a good question. We should find that out for my legal experts, like what can be done. There's no statue of libertation on because the Department of Justice said they weren't gonna do anything. They never filed any charges. So it's not like double jeopardy if you look. If they look and say that they reviewed it and they decided that they want to file charges, you know, hey,

I doubt that anybody is going to. We're saying we told them to open up all the cases that certain lawyers have done. The that was for the Central Park five. We said that the new Attorney General, I mean, excuse me, the new District Attorney, Alvin Braggen York City needs to open up the files of the previous administrations to see whether or not what happened to the Central Park five has happened to other people, um, you know, in in

New York. And we know that it has because there's one guy in jail who basically reported that the same cohercing and threatening that happened to the Central Park five happened to him and that's why he, you know, was was serving time in prison. So that's that anyway, Um, the Sesame Streets case, and we should talk about this today because there's a lot happening, and over the last

few days, I think the bombshell has dropped them. You know, folks who don't know about what took place at Sesame Place, pretty much a family, a black woman was there with her niece and her daughter, both of them six year old, cute little girls, beautiful little princesses. And they were on the line the parade waiting for the characters to come down the and and this character high five as a

white woman. You see Rosida Rosita, you see her. It's her, well, I guess it's her because she is the character, but we don't know who's behind the character. Nonetheless, Rosita is interacting with different people, and all of them appear to be white folks. Like right in that very short period of time, once she gets to these two little black girls, she says no to them and like shuns them off

and avoids them all together and walks past them. What we now know is that she went right directly after the family to a white person and hugged them right, So it's very clear the discrimination that took place however, and it's unfortunate that we're in a time where we need video footage that pretty much shows every single thing. Because the mother said, Jodie said that the character went Rosita went to a white family. People say, oh, I don't know if that's true. I can't say for sure

if that you don't have video. Okay, so now there's footage other but even before that, just the experience, I didn't need to see what takes place. After all I needed was just right there that that interaction. It was

just dead wrong. And so until Freedom we got involved, and we issued a warning telling other families, black families particularly, but also our allies to be careful when considering where you want to take your children this summer, your vacation time, and make sure you know that the Sessa me place they are discriminating against black kids. And of course all these other videos have come out where you see the same thing happening with the same character and some other

characters and other situations. It's really really unfortunate. UM, And we're standing with Jody and the family. We have our press conference together last week. UM. Like I said, this new information is out there. Uh, and you know I'm just and and and you know, and then we're and we're talking about racism today on the show that I'll say this last thing. I saw a couple of people in the comments section like, well, I went there with my family and it didn't happen to me. You know,

I don't know. And it's like, what is why do black people always feel the me just to not all black people, but some black people feel the need to try to explain away massive problems like why let massa is not even willing to apologize and deal with their own problems? Right? And I say massive being very very very very sarcastic, because you ain't nobody's massive hours. But the point is the mindset is is like we just want to defend them so quick, and it's just crazy.

It's just crazy because you know, there are so many people right who are either blind or ignorant to the fact of what racism is. Right, you have some people would tell us that that's not that serious and that we're overreacting, right, And when you when when you deal with those situations, when when you when we talk to Jody and her response as she watched her niece and

her daughter being discriminated against being in that situation. You know, you don't get to tell somebody what they're experiencing, you know, like you we we have so many different black people, Like you heard the comment Little Ways someone he's never experienced racism in America, you know when you hear Kanye told my slavery was a choice that we and we get people who have different realities, right, some of them

have more money. They you know, they're they're they're idolized in certain regards, so they don't deal or just choose not to acknowledge what common black people are dealing with, just regular black folks every day, and they are. You have people like Lebron James where they write and nigger on his gate. You know what I'm saying, Racism is a serious thing, and it's not something that just oh, get over it, you know, y'all just overreacting. It's not

that serious. No, it is that serious, you know, because other people don't experience that. Other people aren't discriminated against by just because the color of their skin, or because of the where they live, or because of how they look, you know. And just watching that video, man, it really pained me. And then seeing a little girl, you know, at the press conference and me and Jody and just

seeing how they are just seemed like good people. You know, people are trying to say that we use racism as a shield or you know, we um what what they what is it that they say? I do embrace baiting, race baiting. You're a race bader. And it's like, how could I base something that ain't thing? How I'm don't. I'm not the person dealing with these situations. I'm not when I do. You're not. I'm not the perpetrator of it.

So how am I I'm exposing it. I'm showing you what we deal with on a regular basis every day. And people want it rather willing willful ignorance is a thing. Yeah, you know it is. And the family is saying they don't even they're not even trying to follow lawsuit, right, They're not filing a lawsuit for a million dollars to million dollars. They're saying, yes, they should be compensated by

the park. The park should be willing to just give them something that covers the mental health support and some of the pain and suffering of the children. And you know, and what they and their mom and your aunt mom and what she experienced. But they're not even looking to follow lawsuit. They want people fired and they want changes within the policies within the company. And and from what I can see, hopefully we'll get to talk to our

guests today about this. They need a new PR specialists, they need training from the top of Sesame Place all the way to whoever works, you know, wherever, every single part of the business needs to go through some type of training and assessment because yo, like the statement y'all put out has has has caused additional harm. So it was like it was already to insult and now there's injury beyond that, or there was already the injury and

now there's insult on top of it. It's just crazy. Um, we should talk about the history of Sesame Place because what we know is this is a show that started in Harlem, right or it was about Harlem. It's so many things that we know about the history of this of this some business that we need to talk about.

But our guess is joining us. So you know we have this saying um on street politicians that our guests, so many of them are our friends because every single week we talk to people who are doing incredible things all around the nation, people who are so important to our movement and our culture. Um. And and it just so happens that there are friends, there are people we love. No, and in this situation, it's not You're not just a friend. We're being joined by our sister, somebody that we love

and admire. Friend. Yes, yes, yes, somebody we love and a Maya so much. You all may have heard of her. You certainly if you follow either one of us on social me, you get a chance to see the beauty and the brilliance of Miss Diddy every single day. And Miss Diddy is not because of the other Diddy. She

just did he on her own. Uh, you just did he. Um. And she is a master mar could turn uh, someone that the influencers and the artists of our time and corporations and the light turned to for expert advice, expert

organization and also activations. And her company, the Brand Group, is really a cutting edge marketing firm that is doing amazing work, not just in l A, which is her home base, and she surely will tell you that she is from l A, but it also does great work internationally and nationally and so welcome to Street politicians for the first time. Idea doing a little lady, you should have been here about two months ago, you know, not the heart, Yes I would, Yes, thanks, I'm so odd

to be here with y'all. I mean, I'm gonna take that recording and that's gonna be my introduction across the way in the world. Okay, but yes, she do. Now that lady, now that lad good, The ladies good, the ladies good. I'm honored to be here with both of you, guys. Definitely. Family is a word that can't be thrown around as it relates to us on this on this zoom right now. Um, we all take it very seriously with each other. And beside me being extremely honored to be here with you guys,

I respect you guys so much. I admire you, um, and I'm inspired by you guys personally, business wise, day to day, month to month, and so UM, I love you guys so much. And that's a that's a world word word coming from me to you guys, and I know it's the same on the other side. First of all, we want to say that we love you and we appreciate you. You know, you honored us a few weeks back. You know, and it was amazing. The whole event was dope.

Oh you know, how to shut it down. That's probably the favorite event of the BT weekend hosted most to Black Hollywood, most Black Hollywood, was the top of event that I've been through, No Shade and nobody else, everything was, but did he had the best event and that's just his down to for me to you. Um, so we want to celebrate you. We know all the work you do. I just want to know, for the people, where did

you get this name? You know what it's. They've called me Diddy and diddy Bob since high school, so it's like a very aged name for me. I won't give up full long details on those years back then, but yeah, it's it's been that way for so many years. And then it was, um, it just kind of worked out to you know. Of course, people like she's like the female pub or something like that. So it just kind

of worked out. And thank god, because I mean, they gotta do really good work because he would have completely shut it down of course, but like, ain't no other Diddies, ain't no other in this world. So yeah, I'm very for that. I've actually, you know, with help the name and you know the integrity behind it. So that's pretty dope because it could have went it could have went left early on, you know, did he don't if it don't work, he didn't like who that actually can't use

that name and shut it down. He knows he knows how to help market you and help not market you either way. And actually I was important half And actually you worked with rock Um and yeah, for sure, Yeah,

sir Rod Dallion Um. I've actually worked with star Rock on multiple on multiple facets since for probably like ten years or so, because there was other people that worked in the company and Um Nathan worked with Puff for a long long time, and I would do I've always worked with um Um brands, liquor brands, and spirits because of doing so many events and being a promoter and things like that. So I just always had really great

relationships across the boards. I've worked with all of them, but I've definitely worked with Stock for a very long time. And I just want to say one thing that yes, you had the number one event uh during b ET Weekend. However, have to give you a close second. You were like one A and then there was a one BAT and that was that damn club quarantine because it was popping. Oh yeah, I know it was popping. Y'all was there, the folks, was there, the six It was amazing. Tired.

Now you can't, no, you got to stay yep, Mike. And that's the thing I couldn't. I said, y'all listen, Okay, I gotta stand this here bad. I try to make it out in my mind. And did you work out? And you have a wonderful relationship with d Nice as well? Uh so you know you you you, you know every damn body who doesn't about everybody? Everybody? But you know what, being a promoter early on in my career allowed me to have really dope relationships with a lot of people

in different times in their careers. Do you know what I mean, like early on in their careers or later or whatever. You know. Jazz Prince has always been a really great friend of mine. So when we've had direct early early on, he's like, you gotta mean my artists, like everyone is like that. So if I'm cool and we're cool and we have a good relationship, we just get their relationship. So like, I know, people be like even't know everybody, but it comes from all different sides

of the world, you know what I mean. So a promoter, Yeah, I was a promoter in the beginning of my well I was. I actually worked with ya first we went well Well Good Music when Kaine started Good Music, so I did like the West Coast promotions over there, and then that kind of segued me into promoting UM and it just I just because I always had a marketing mind or like I could see things, you know, kind of on a grand scale UM and I've always been

a visionary. It made me in promoting really important UM and really uh kind of irreplaceable in nightlife because of the way I took looked at it. You know, I wasn't a guy promoted. I wasn't trying to give the girls or drink or anything like that. There's a lot of great guy promoters. But my brain and it was like, I want to make a movie. Every single time I

do a party. I wanted to be like this. It needs to be this big, it needs to feel like this, like I knew media, Like I was really the first promoter to really bring in UM blog awareness and blogs to nightlife that didn't really exist back then. And also like a camera you didn't really bringthe cameras into the clubs. Back then, that's not that wasn't like a thing, you know, like you didn't really do that, you know. It was like you felt underground in the club, right, So like

I put cameras in the clubs. I wanted it. I wanted to shoot promo videos that look like rap videos like that wasn't done before I started promoting back in the day. And so it's took on the life of owning everyone kind of markets in that way now. Um so I'm glad to see the evolution of it. My life is important. So you know, I was about to ask you, so, as a woman promoter and a woman ambassador of brand, do you feel like it's harder do you see like sexism within the industry or yeah, that's sure,

I mean a hundred percent, you know. And and the thing about my career and my personality, like you guys know you're extremely well, So you know, my certainness really led in a lot of areas. You know, I'm I'm really sweet and I'm really grateful, but my certainness leading areas and it really it helps kind of shut down things, you know, because the thing about I say this and

people don't like this, but it's true. A man can never like and understand the word respect what I'm saying, like view a woman or respect a woman the way he'll respect another man. It's just it's I don't think biologically a man can do it. And it's not that they feel disrespectful to a woman. It's just that to a man to if they're a man to woman, there's no threat of violence. There's stead of violence man to man.

You see what I'm saying. So there there's a level of respect that's gonna be with hell a man to man, and biologically where hell in a different like where a woman, you know. So for me, my personality lad and my respect. And I was grateful and able to work and building and become successful in the city that I'm from, you know. And sometimes that doesn't happen that way when people people Eiven moved to how he moved to New York, moves to whatever and try to become what they're trying to become.

But I became successful in the city that I found, So my ties and all my different areas of my ties also protecting me, you know what I'm saying. And I was like not on mess my city. We already know what you know, what I'm saying, what she tales were playing with that, you know, and so it worked out. But it's a lot of sexism. And you know, women and asked me, you know what, would you because they want to take on the what I've done in my career, and it's like, I don't encourage it all the time.

I'm like, you gotta be realistic about this thing, you know what I'm saying, Like I could check I could check a man, you know, in a way, and that is clear. But a lot of women can't do that. So I feel comfortable. But do you feel like it's

harden you? Like sometimes I feel that I remembering with you at a pool party that was your event, uh in Miami, and I think all of us, everybody was all listen together, um, and I remember a man like trying not to let you get into your own space or do something, and you got into with the man.

And I remember thinking that I go through this all all the time, Like literally, I get disrespected by men, whether they be security, the the the uber driver, the all around the time, all around the place, all the time, and I find myself having a step out of character so um and I'm trying to learn how to get better, but I find myself like always in a battle, do you feel like that? Y's tough because I feel like decide for what I said about men respect and what

they feel about a man versus a woman. Aside from that, I think the value of women is so depreciated and sell out an all time low that it's hard for men too to look at women for the gracious gifts that we are not all men, because there's some like life like there's I have great humbles, have great relationships with men, great chemistry with men that protect me, and I feel safe around and they don't they do what

they don't handle into that way. But I think as an overall thing in the world, I think women are at a at a very low devalue place right now, and I think that affects the way men deal with women around the world, because I also my environment. If a man knows who I am, I don't got no issues.

But if he doesn't know how I am, we might be have a little que dress on or something like that, and then now I gotta check you on you understanding that I'm not one of it out here that's going on, you know what I'm saying, Like I remember yesterday, yesterday I went to UM to stop the Mookie Betts uh and Nellie's uh all Star after the party or whatever just for a second, and so mean I'm sitting down in the section. Man comes up and he's like, uh, here the party. No, I do business. I'm not. Don't

don't you know, go that way. But don't confuse me. Don't confuse me. But it's hard because men are the value of women. It's low, especially Black women. It's low. Low. Well, I want to say I apologize on behalf of men because you know, I know I see it all the time, like being with y'all, being around women, you know, I find I constantly find myself having to check and get

into situations or you know, intervene. So you know, but it's it's a process because it took me kind of even notice those things were happening, right because you know, um, what do we call it? What? What is the word that you always use to describe patriarchy? Patriarchy is something that we've just been taught, right, We've been taught to, Like you said, there's no threat of violence when you

look at women, there's no threat of anything. And then you look at it woman, especially if she's a pretty woman, then your first instinct is to kind of flirt this or do something right. So it has to we have to get to a level of really just acknowledging and just understanding. And we got to teach these young boys that because because they were were taught wrong a lot of us try a woman from a lesser place to you know, yeah, that's a woman, a man and a

woman is this and separation. So you know, we gotta read, we gotta re teach that and relearn. So I just and I tell you young man black men all the time, it's on the same let it you're saying, I'll tell you I'm black now all the time. If it comes at point like, yo, do you have a black grandmother? You have a black mother? Okay? So like why are you even playing? Like, don't even play that, you know, And and then they checked all yeah exactly like when

you raised by your grandmother, did you Okay? So calling their back to your own so what they understand, like you would lose your mind if somebody disrespects your grandmother, like you don't play those type of games, so like will be back in young man because you're you're you're a nightlife a lot, and so you know, I would imagine that you encounter people who are not just well first of all young people and also some of them who have some money, so they really think that they

have the power to do and say whatever they want. And then at the time that you're dealing with them, they're drinking alcohol, so they're intoxicated or they could be doing that thing. And so it's a lot to to manage. And since you know, talking about working with brands, because you know obviously you know you're working with um many spirits, you've been able to sort of connect the dots of events,

which with the culture. You had us at a toast of Black hollywoods which our activists traded truth also who does great work in Houston and around the country. UM you know, I call I call trade like a human rights leader. You know what I'm saying, that's um And we're in the social justice lane and so you want all of those things together. Talk about that and how you see not just the Ento ten meant world, but also your social justice friends and your activists and others

coming together with brands. You know what? That that was always important to me, important to me because it's who I am. It's a piece of it's all pieces of who I am and every person. Right, So even when I was promoting, like people would just focus on maybe a one person to promote, I'd be like, No, like my and our friends would just as important to come as the celebrity who you think you're inviting or whatever the case may be, because all of these pieces of

people are exactly who I am. Like I'm a church girl. I'm gonna go to girl. I'm gonna go to church on Sunday, honey, but I'm gonna happy in a sidecar, you know what I'm saying. No, And I'm gonna have me a good time. And I'm gonna go to Miami and I'm you know what I mean. And so I don't think that you have to be not be exactly

who you are. And so my friends happened to live in all of those spaces, like I'm close to my pastor, I'm close to my social justice frands, I'm close to my my singers and rappers and artists and the mayor like and all of those worlds coming together. Only that is what we actually are. That's who we really are. You know what I'm saying. Eat Maverick City the biggest

gospel group in the world. And my current friend On is my great friend, you know, and so is you know, not to com compare, but so it's meek meals, So it's you know what I mean. And so those those the world in rooms that I've created in the fifteen plus years of my career are all pieces of exactly who I am. And that was always important to me that people see each of you guys in the rooms together because you're all one. Like so many people are so excited to see my son, like I never even

have to tell you. That sold me. Even rappers like I see the picture doing Simba and like you and Ben in it, which it's like those and and then just see everybody was so excited, and it's like, those are the rooms that are important because it's the people that you may not be able to see on a

normal and you're having real conversations. And that's what I've learned, Like even dealing incorporations, brand spirits, all of that, the real conversations is what moves to need and that's why people are like, how do you get these brand deals or how do you get these partnerships? Because I have real conversations with people, you know what I mean. I just did an event with Ubs the Bank and Mookie Backs. It's like, I have real conversations with Ubs, you know,

about everything that's going on. You know, United Nations is a client of mine at the time that you know, um of of Brianna Taylor's whole the whole thing going on, Like and I'm having real conversations with these people's from all race. I'm not playing nothing of those games. I'm exactly who I am, And so the ruins that are created are always about all the pieces of me, you know, and not and no one being able to be like you can't do that because you should stay and listening

or you're that I don't. I just don't believe in that. Like Black people are magical, you know, and we have so many facets of us, you know what I mean. So the rapper that can also sing but can also act, Like what if ice Q didn't make Friday, What if ice Q didn't create the land where you put comedians and actors and rappers in one movie and we make classics like what did that? Didn't happen? Like it would change the trajectory of our culture as a whole, you

know what I'm saying. So that's always important to me to miss mesh those worlds. It's it's important to me too because being started out as a hip hop artist and then you know, maturing evolving into an active and understanding the importance of both of them, right because hip hop y, it's so it's the culture, right. So if if we an activism, we're not connected to the real, the real meats and potato, what's going on with our people? Then what are we doing? So I've had no conversations

with people like you said. I've been in the club and had DJ coming to meulay, what you're doing it here in the strip club and what you do the same thing you're doing here. Don't give me a what do you mean? I don't know what you think, but you know, I'm of the culture, but I just don't able to make sure that my people are treated properly. I want to make sure we're getting the rights and nobody's killing us. But I'm still gonna and have me some hennessy. You know what I'm saying, and I'm gonna

have a good time. People are so miserable because they're not able to be who they are. You just have to be who you are. Like I've always been high good relations with all my all my castors, like and they follow me and they know and they know and they know because my castor who my son knows. If my whole world opens up when he calls me right like he is, the more he's he is, my everything, my past because and you know, some people might not

understand that. And I wish that folks would have an experience with their pastor the way that I had, because when I was in the darkest moments of my life, and I didn't even talk about recent dark stuff. I'm telling about dark stuff that went on that folks don't know about, because you know, this dark stuff that you tell the world and then the stuff that you don't tell anybody about. And he sat in the middle of that that with you right and was there, no through

with no judgment. Taught me so much, you know, inspired me in so many ways. But he also will call me and be like, I see you on the internet with your booty hanging out, like you know, damn you know you put that to have the halt, like can you put anything? And you know my responses, you know who I am, and he moves right on because he knows he knows who I am being authentically me. And it burns people, burns them. And as I'm always saying, most of those who I've heard from about don't put

your bikini pictures on the internet. Why you gotta do this on your personal page? By the way, until Freedom's page, there's no bikinis on there, until Freedom's page is all about the work. My page where I this is, my my page has all of me on it, right. Gospel is twerking is bikini, it's vacationing, it is every single element, and it's of course the work that I truly believe in. And most of the people who I've heard from that have an issue are men. Most of them are interesting.

I hardly have heard from any women to tell me to put my clothes on, or don't let them change you or you know, and I of course in the comment section it maybe women, men or whatever equal, But I'm talking about people I know who have reached out behind the scenes to say, hey, I'm feeling away about this. It's generally been meant. But anyway, because I know you've got a short time, let's talk about Dorito's. That is

a new, uh you know, adventure for you. I was so happy and Yo, We've done so much work just to just to give people an understanding of how social justice, the civil rights movement, the individuals like yourself, which running marketing firms u PR, folks that are like really about it,

how we're changing culture. Advertising agencies like Global Hue, which which is no longer, but at one point Don Coleman and Global Hue they were a part of those who helped to shift the time they didn't have young black women Compton on God damn Dorrito's commercial. It just didn't happen. Name Diddy name did he tell me when that was happening? Help me help me day? That's crazy, that's true. That's true. Yeah,

that's crazy. That's true. I mean they didn't and you know, and that again it goes to it sounds corny, but it goes to like being exactly who you are, you know what I'm staying like, I wouldn't be able to have got to this place in my career and where I am with these level of partnerships without being who

I am. And the true essence to me is a young girl from the hood from Compon that you know, build my life up by greg didn't have any God as my parents then and set me as they did with I guess they felt they could, but they didn't set me up and no shot to them. But it's just life, you know, and I've had to build that up and to go through all the emotions and all the things that it takes to go through business and life. And as you learn and as you're learning, because you're

learning as you go, there's no I haven't. Even in the Dorito's commercial, I said, there's no real blue parant for life because no one set a book in front of me and said, hey, here's what you do. And even to your point earlier, it's like no one also said here's what happens when you get money, Here's what you could do when you it's who does that? Who

do you become at that point? That's what happens with a lot of young black and brown people that end up getting because no one said, hey, here's what it's gonna feel like when you get money. These things are gonna change, These things are gonna happen, and you're gonna have the weather throw them to the best of your ability and navigate, you know. And so they didn't have the Missditties and the Tunique monities and the min songs

of the world. And I'm so grateful that the world has opened up to whereas those opportunities are so prevalent because we've been a part of their cultures for so long. In my partnership with Dorridos, I'm really excited about because it's a part of their you know, five million dollar pledge, which is one of their pledges to black and brown creators and and black and brown communities and everything like that. And they really have put their money where their mouth is.

And that's people that I truly choose to be in business with. Not one thing that I said needs to happen didn't happen. Everything has happened, you know what I mean. Like even down to the commercial, there's a couple of components that but we shot the major commercial in New York um with Ego Um, who's who's on SNL. She's

an incredible black sketch um comedian. But she's a really great actress and you know, I took they wanted to shoot in Los Angeles, of course, and I'm like, cool, you coming here, I'm taking you to the We're going to South Central and they like that. You know, there was no like, oh, we're not you know, we just

wanna know. They did that came down. You know, they placed twenty five thousand, which is a part of it um to my to my charity that I partner with my foundation and partner with Sola I Can And they really put their money where their mouth is. And Patsico as well. I took the president of Pasico down in South Central. Derrick lewis the black man, you know, the highest ranking black man in Patsico. He's been there over thirty years, you know, and he has been adamant about

being involved in community moves and being president. And he literally took a flight just to come to Los Angeles to go to go to South Central, on the heart of South Center, to go to Solar I Can be High and to see what's going on in the community.

And he took out two hour tour with us there and we talked about everything, and you know, these are the moves that I feel matter, right, we could partner with these with these companies, we can make money with them or whatever the case may be, but there forever, I'm forever in debt to them because of the way they've showed up, you know, and this is in a short amount of time with a lot of people. I understand. The young lady that um I met from Daria, she's

actually on the Freedom lay side. Her name is Kimberly. She's incredible. Kimberly Scott to me and I were actually on vacation the Bahamas in December and that's where I met her and the Bahamas she came Remember I was that she came up to me. She was like, I know what you do? You want to know your work. I'm a huge fan of your work. We should work together. And I'm like bad, Like what's going on? A black woman, Like what's going on? I gotta work at free? Don't

like that up. So we just built there. Tamika flu in the next day we you know, she met Tomika. She's a of course a huge fan of Tomika and you know they've just been She's been a driving for a black woman in that space. She's a mastermind and she um I, So I tipped my hat off to her too, but Passico Derido's and everything that has to do in that organization. I'm gonna forever be a debt too, because I've seen with my two eyes and a sured

amount of time the way they've shown up. And that's that's people I care to be a business before you go nce on to your point, because I just gotta stick one little thing in this two quick things because I know you gotta on. This is just such a

good interview. Um One, the issue of like, so when you talk about PEPSI, right, like, I know them for some great stuff, but I also know them for some areas that they've had serious work on, right, and we don't corrected talk about that, Like, how do you deal with brands knowing that on one hand they may be some real funky stuff going on, but then you mean where they're doing good work at the same time, what

is especially from your perspective. And the last thing I want you to talk about, which ain't got ship to do what we just said, is your fashion. So if you can put that at the very very end, so the people, but we was gonna talk about something serious,

gotta we gotta talk about. I talk about fashion real quick before we go, my son, we're gonna talk about serious because because people want the full they want ashion fashion serious, but you now want to be because I am I have conversations because I am an entrepreneur and I am not and because I serve God and no man, I'm not afraid to have conversations because I'm also clean up. Hey, maybe we should have worked together, I'm not. I'm not driven by an amount, by a status of a person.

I'm not driven by any of that. I didn't talk the best of them. We shouldn't work together, and they whole wait wait wait no, yeah exactly because they're not used to when you become a starting person or in your road or who you are, you're not used to people dealing with you like that. So I have real conversations and I like to understand missteps. Right, I didn't have the full car. I'm actually gonna now have the full conversation about that because I didn't think about that before.

With with about PepsiCo, where I where missteps happened is us not being in the rooms. It's classic examples of us not being in the rooms. Right, So what we're talking about this whole inclusiveness and all of this. It's it's interesting. I watched I watched some of the interview from the CEO of Essence on UM the Breakfast Club, and she said, I'm not talking about inclusion. I'm talking about black. I keep that inclusion over there. Basically, we're

not talking about that. We're talking about black because inclusion means everyone, but it also means that black is at the bottom of the totem poe in that inclusion. You know, the inclusion means white women because for a long time now it was just the big boys handling it. You see what I'm saying. So I have real conversations where do you sit with things? Where is going on? I remember, even in Dorito's UM, there's a woman named McCallan that

works in there and Robbed. They're both white people and they are incredible, and they had to sit in Zoom meetings where I'm sure, well, they didn't look uncomfortable, but it might have been because my approach, my certainness, my certainty on Hey, if there's this person working on what I've got going on, I need you to understand a couple of things. And they took it, and they took it and they ticket with love, with dignity, and they weren't They didn't away from any of the conversations. They

didn't act like these things don't exist. And they wanted to learn. And that's the importance of conversation in all communities is them wanting to learn, not being defensive and listening to what we got the same, you know. And so I don't mind having those conversations because either way I'm good. God got me. So I'm not pressed either way. I'm not powering down. I'm not shying down. And I think that's where we have to say. I gave my

experiences and racism. I gave my experiences as a young black woman do a marketing on a high scale, on a high level with the young white girls getting the account's not sound like that, but it's just the truth, and then calling me to do the work. Hey, jdny, so we have we want to see if you can't, Oh you want to see if I can because you actually can't, you know. So it's really about those conversations and being honest because trust me, Google is a powerful tool.

So they see all these interviews and how how a certive I am in my my level of communication. And that's not gonna change for whoever I do, whoever I do business with. That's right. And you know what that brings me to my question before you get into this fashion that you know, but the question is we see the sessament. We were talking about the Sesame Street, you know, the situation with you know, the discrimination against the young kids, and and then they put out a statement which didn't

really make sense at all. You know, being someone in marketing, being branding, dealing all these things, you're talking about, what would you have done different? What would you have done in that situation if you was working with Sesame Street? You have Seseme. Here's the thing that, first of all, yet again, who are in these rooms right, who has already witnesses? Who are making these decisions? Who is hiring, who are doing the trainings? Who where are the are

the training even happening? Are training the trainings aren't happening. That's a new thing, by the way, that's a new thing so that people can smooth over. I know pr stunts, I know marketing, so those are the smooth things. Also, the time of people writing, having these pr stunts, these these written things, that's a time of the past, show your face, show your heart, right, because you can also be the president of something, the VP or whatever and

not being agreed. It's with something that your employee did and you and and and so it's not about saving face. It's about showing your hands, showing your face, and showing your heart. Hey, guys, I'm I'm I too, am appalled at what happened, and we're gonna take a deeper look. You can also have language around things that don't implicate someone if you don't know their true intention, because it's all relative. You gotta put your fingers and all of

it is relative. If you don't know someone's true you don't know the character's true intention. They didn't see the kid whatever, Yes you did, but find but show your face and show your heart. So the the typing up a PR letter, we don't want to see that anymore. If that was my client, I would to allow them to do that, And if they chose to still do that, I would show my face and show my heart and

say I don't agree. I do not I don't second this right here, because it's no longer the time to act as if this is not a true thing, and we have to address it, and we gotta get ahead of it, and we really gotta bully it, you know, and bullying it not from a negative connotation, but we have to take our rightful stand. So even with you guys being there at the you know, you guys hop on things right away. And that's why until freedom is so important, um in all the work in our communities

because Martin Luther King is gone, unfortunately, Malcolm X is gone. Fortunately, you know, the roles apart all these leaders that did these amazing things for us to continue to be we have to do that work. So for me, as a marketer, I wouldn't allow that to go out. I would say this bullshit, you know what I mean, Show your face, show your heart. And that's something that we need to really be demanding of people, you know, because we have personal conversations and we say how it feels to us,

but we really gotta it's it's kind of time. We gotta. We gotta a lot of people did a lot of people saying and I'm reading these comments that you know, oh, you're overreacting. You know, it's just about money. It's not racism, you people are you know, you just race baiting and all these things, and racism is not a thing, and this is just something like what do you think, Well, here's the thing. Racism Israel, it's evidence, it's it's it's in his like you can't even talk to those people.

That's pure ignorance. And the thing it's black people, black people, because it's it runs so deep. We've been brainwashed for so long. It's so deep. It's so much deeper than what we could ever really truly unpacked and unpeeled, and that honestly won't happen probably for another three generations after the real full on feeling, because it's so deep. Like the people you you got when you get the chance to go to Africa like we have, you understand how

deep it really really runs. If as a young black girl, as a young intercity black girl, my first look at American history was them teaching me slavery right, which could be where our American history start, but that's not where my history started. So imagine I didn't understand my history until in my thirties when I got a chance to go stand and look at the pyramid. You see what I'm so understand? Yeah, this this ship, the back what here? What we see? It's so deep. I saw a commercial

the other day. It was, um, damn. It was like for Sonics or something. Sonics is like a fast, fool place out here, and everybody in the commercial was a fun commercial and the men had dreadlocks, and I was like, I felt like, damn, I'll never see no men in dreadlocks, not just not talking Jamaican, Like my father wears dreadlocks.

He's a he's a Black American, but he has dreadline fun dress, and I'm like, we don't ever see those type of depictions, Like I'm standing man, he's a good man, he's a clean man, like you know where his dress. And I was thinking about media and what how we really been brainwashed? You know what I'm saying. So those black people, they don't even know themselves. I was talking to one of my African friends and he said, you know what did he said? I felt bad for Black

American women and Black American men. I was like, what do you mean. He's like, because black American men have but insecurity that African men don't have because they don't even know who they are. He said, I'm from Africa like he and he's an americanized Africa, but He's like, I know exactly where I come from. I tried my last name, my five, my in heritage, my war, I know all of it from Black American men. Definitely even know you don't even you think you know what you

want to know, it makes it. It makes a difference because he though we do know, like we were, we obviously didn't go to Africa green right when we arrived. We had a little bit of something with us. Not to mention that Attorney Angelo Pinto, who was also your brother, was with us, and he is brilliant and you know

is a is our historian. So we didn't show up me But still after going to the experience and being there, learning the tribes and getting our name, and going into the river and bathing in the same water which was the last place that folks who were enslaved in that area where they bathed before being sold off, like this was an experience that you can never ever, ever, ever, there's nothing that compares to it. So certainly, I you know,

I totally agree, understand and appreciate it. And I'm gonna thank you for coming on the show today because you've given us so much in there's probably we probably could break down. Every little piece um and build shows out on the different things that you've done. But one thing I know is that my grandmother always said to me, no matter what you do and how you feeling, you get up, get yourself together to pull it together, patties together. Put some lipstick on. That's exactly what she said. Put

some lipstick on, get dressed and show up. And we I know, because you're my friend and you're very fashionable young lady, And I wonder over time has that come. Part of what gives you joy's is being able to make sure that when you're showing up and you're a high low person, because you'll be like, you do not need a two hundred dollar sweater. You could go right over here and get the ninety five sweater. And then I see you in sweater and I'm like, yo, that

looks so damn good. So it's not about which you also got a bunch of fly stuff that you know, you got it all. You're high low, but you you show up in a certain type of way, and I just want to know where did that come from? As we go out of here today, and what does it mean to you? You know, I don't think it's a part of my joy. I think it's a part of who I am. My grandparents were very very clean cut

um people. And while all my grandparents are deceased now um who they are and their souls like like who they are actually hit me skipped like it's not my parents as much as it is like my grandparents, you know. And I think a some of my soul lives in that era where you know, you do take showing up and get addressed and presentation serious. As a young black girl doing business, presentation is everything to me. It's everything for my team, for what I look like, being on time,

all of those, all of those things. So I take everything serious and in that presenting, in the way I present, I take serious too because I have to. You know, I wouldn't be as it's you know, I believe in being buttoned up and looking buttoned up and presenting buttoned up. I think there's a there's a there's a power in that, you know what I mean, Like when you when you are buttoned up, when you show up the things that I demand as a business person, I can only demand,

which showing up looking a certain way. There's no way I could demand what I demand expect what I expect and not take no for an answer without checking off all my boxes when it comes to showing up. So I don't think it's a part of my joy as much as a part of who I am and and and what I value um in president and presenting in the way I show up. Did he Do you have a boyfriend? Did he? Yeah? You got up for me because you have no boyfriend. I'm not even dating anyone.

And that's the crazy part, is it? Do you think that working so far? That's your focus? Like? Are you focused? Are you like Mary? To my world? But I would welcome in some real ship. But I don't like none of that other stuff, because then that's because I don't like waste of my time. Now I'm thinking about a waste of my time. But you're not to be making some now mad. Now we are. We are dating. We all did, but wen along time we go together real

bad because we've been together. And it's and it's many sisters out here like that. It's so many of our sisters who don't have it, who are not even dating. So it's not just don't have a boyfriend, but I'm also and dating, and it's it's unfortunate that there's something about successful black women who are assertive. UM, that is very difficult for us to find the right people to engage with us and for us they engage with. And I know that there's so much of a conversation around

submission and we don't have the time to talk about it. Yeah, I need to come back on and talk about for admitting. And I don't think you know, any of us have an issue with that because I certain no, I wanna be I wanna be submissive and I'm wanna be taken care of. I'm wanna They said, what's the new thing? The soft life? I want to live off life, but it's not easy. No, And our souls, but our souls hey, something else. That's why the soft life is tough for

you about because our souls pray something else. We could want a soft life, but our souls be like girl, go to them. But yeah, I'm coming back to talking to you about that. Thank you, We love you. The brilliant Miss Diddy, the greatness. She is the best brand ambassador. She is everything. If you don't know Miss Diddy, please look up Miss Diddy, follow her. She has done such amazing work and continues to evolve into this pudding butterfly that she is. Thank you, miss Diddy the brand so much.

Thank you for being to see you soon. Yeah, that Diddy. I love Diddy. I call her Dittiness, you know, I just love her energy. She is. This is who she is. That right there that interview, he has exactly who she is all the time. She's always looking to laugh, She's always gonna say some real ship at the same time. And you know, and she's professional. So she's one of our friends that is really top tier in times of

what she does with her big business. And a lot of people don't know because you know, they a lot of times women are just discounting anyway and things in the work that we do. But you know, I'm sure there's there's a lot more that she does every day that never makes it to socials, right, But we get

a chance to see her work. And one of the things that I appreciate about her being my friend is that she's extremely helpful and caring um and she always is willing to step in to try to, you know, assist and provide opportunities and resources and ways that she can you know, build up other folks and so love her, and I think I think it was a great interview as well. So what don't you get this week? You know, we've been talking about racism, you know, and and I

really just don't get how we're at this stage. All right, we're at this time, We've been to George Floyd, We're constantly go into this that there are people who still

exhibit this type of behavior. They are organizations there, people like Sesame Street that will try to tell us that we don't see what we see, you know, they're trying to tell us that this ain't racist, or this ain't that, or you know, I really just don't get how people want us to just be quiet, you know, how they just want us to just go and be quiet and allowed to disrespect, allowed, allowed the discrimination, allow all these things to happen to us. When history has shown what

we've been dealing with. Why do the people expect us to just deal with you know, why why do people just expect us to be quiet and just continue to tolerate this level of behavior. And it's just you know the fact that we constantly the fact that me and you have a job an organization called Until Freedom. It's

just terrible. We shouldn't even have to have that. It's terrible, it's it's it's really terrible like that we still got to fight for equality in the country that we damned it built that we're pretty much built man every day man. So I really don't get that. And hopefully somebody can give me some thoughts on this, if you if you know why people think that we're supposed to just take racism laying down right energy. Yeah, we're wasting your energy

because you're gonna get a bunch of nuts. I want to know, because I really want to hear, like we're supposed to just jail jailer Walker. You know, he deserved to get shot a bunch of times with no weapon, right, We were just supposed to just be was in the car at one point, and that was in the car that he got shot at while he was outside running, you know, completely, and we and we're supposed and we're overreacting. We're bugged out, you know, we're just trying to race bait.

It's not about race, you know, we we we we watch you know, Rosita just walked by these two little black girls and and now we see the clear other side of the video that we can see her walk by the two black girls and go to the white girl, and we're just supposed to be okay with it, you know, we we just want some money. No, we want these things not to happen, you know, that's all. We want these things not to happen. So you know, hopefully, man, y'all can give me some insight, you know about what

what do you think do y'all think racism exists? Do you think that we just race bathing? Do you think that we just need to get over it? And you know, these these things just happen. It's just osmosis. This happens like give we want to get some of your input on this, this today's topic. And once again we've come to the end of another amazing show. Shout out to Miss Diddy for her excellent interview. Make sure you follow

Miss Diddy. She's doing amazing things. She is continuing to evolve into one of the best best branding experts in the world. And that's the end of the show. Tamika Malory is not gonna always be wrong, my song is not gonna always be right, but we will both always and I mean always be authentic. Blue Street Politicians Number

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