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cares about who the president is? What matters a lot because over the period of him becoming president, there's been over a hundred federal judges put in place by his administration, and that's where it matters, like in the courts, you know, so you know, and that's where our young people are sort of shuttling through going into the court system. So, uh, it really does matter. And obviously you have the Supreme Court that he now has a majority, um, you know

of the court with people that are conservative. And so when you think about the types of decisions that are being made, they're not decisions that are are generally in favor. We know that people who don't look like us get less time for the same crime is that's being committed by you know, a white person, and so in many scenarios, UM, and so we should definitely know what's going on in non society. And one of those big cases or big issues that came up last week, UM was the Rodney

Reads situation and can talk about help us understand Rodney Read? Okay, well, Ronnie read if you have you haven't paid ben and paying attention on Ronnie Reid was a man who was on death row for the last twenty years for the rape and murder of what's her name, uh, Stacy Sites, Stacy Sites or sit. So he was on death row for the murder of this woman and over the last couple of weeks people have petition to stop his execution

and there was newly discovered evidence. There were witnesses that came forward that UM pretty much strong song doubt that he even committed this crime. And UM, through the work yea, through all of this work he was, they gave him a stay of execution. Well, I just want to say that the work was really done by the Innocence Project. Project had been monitoring the case for the last eighteen years.

And Stacy Sites is her name. We make make sure we call the name of the woman who lost her life because regardless of who did it, there is a woman who was dead a family that has been grieving for many, many years. But the Innocence Project has been on this case for eighteen years. And then we saw Lee Merritt, Attorney Lee Merritt and Shaun king Um picked it up and really brought it to our attention and started a campaign that a lot of people, millions of

people got involved with, millid with and UM. So after he was gave him this stay of execution, there are a lot of the back his back history and other crimes that he's been accused of came up. And then there was this online UM grievance saying that which was you know, understandable that he had been accused of six sitions. I think it was too prior to this. And then there was three two more two or three more after this case happened that he was accused of Two of

them he's been um right. Two of them he was found not guilty guilty UM. One of them was just thrown out, one was he was found out good he

one was just thrown away without even prosecution. And then there was I think three more that never even went to trial based on the fact that he was already sentenced to capital punishment, so they didn't even bring the other three to trial, and a lot of people were angry saying had they known this information prior, they wouldn't assigned the petition, and you know, that caused a big

outrage online. And then it was back and forth between the Seals and it wasn't it was just she made she and he remonded and you know, and I think there may have been one of two statements, but I don't. I don't want to say back and forth because you know, yeah, but there was just you know, she she stated that if she had known that he was um accused of this multiple times, that she wouldn't have leended her voice.

She made no, I don't think she said man. I think she was pretty adamant about saying she wouldn't have. For me, it was, you know, here's a black man that's on trial for his life. I mean, that's facing the death penerty and the case that he's been accused of. They have evidence that shows that there's a very strong possibility that he did not almost that what they're saying is that it's almost like impossible for him to have been to for him to have committed this crime because

he wasn't in the area. You know, a lot of things. There's a list that people should go and read, but there's a lot. And I don't want us to try to get into recalling the legal details because sometimes the legal details and the stories online merge and then you

start repeating things. We weren't on the legal team, obviously, but definitely from reading what we saw and from the information that was being presented from the Innocence Project, it looks it seems to all of us that this man was not guilty, that the Supreme Court seen evidence and decided that it was enough to give him a state of exact right, and and also that there is a uh, there is a another person who was her fiance DNA was present, who could have been there based upon the timeline,

and who's also made statements that implicates himself, who's saying that they've heard him saying that he you know, he admitted to So there was definitely enough evidence to at least get this man to stay of executing second trial. And it's kind of disheartening to me that the accusations,

because they are merely accusations at this point. There's been no no, he hasn't been convicted of anything, and that people seeing that these accusations was enough to say, I wouldn't lend my voice to stopping this man from being murdered for something that it almost seems impossible that he did, you know, and and and and it's it's kind of weird to me, like, you know, and it's not even about the death penalty or me being against it. It's

just being right a wrong. Like, if if I'm guilty of something, and you know I'm guilty of it, then let me deal with the consequence of that. But if I'm sentenced to life or to death in prison for something that everybody can see that I'm not guilty of, but because there's a possibility that I may be guilty of something else, you wouldn't lend your voice to stop me from being killed. You know. That's kind of that's

kind of that's kind of dangerous for me. That's especially and especially in the climate that we are in America as black people and black men, we understand that's one of the most the biggest you know, um, the biggest accusations that have killed black man thought you know, historical and we go all the way back to Emmett till just whistling at a white woman got you killed. So when we understand I mean that, they say, you know I'm saying so when when you and then now she says,

he never even did that. So when we when the woman I forgot the name, the woman who accused, When we look at this situation and we understand how rape of white women has been weaponized against black men throughout history to kill us, and we don't and we lend our voice to continue to heighten that without any real evidence, it's well, let me just say so. I think it's important in this situation, and particularly when you think about

what a man that stated. She said, I wish I had known that the information was not presented as far as she's concerned in the top line of issues that people needed to know about Rodney Reid Um and and

actually she I talked. She and I talked about this, and I agree with her that people should know and it and it seems that the legal team and Shaun King and others who have been leading this uh this campaign, they also knew that the information should be made readily available to folks, which is why you can find where

there have been lives done by Lee merrit Um. You know, obviously those lives disappear after twenty four hours, but the alive was definitely done at least two lives where they talked about on Instagram, where they talked about these other allegations. Dr Phil included it as part of the interview that he did with Rodney Read directly where he asked him

specifically about these allegations. Um, you know, and the Innocence Project has talked about it, and Sean has also posted things about this, specifically this twelve year old girl, which I think is a really important piece for us to like pay attention to, because anytime someone says that there's allegations that someone may have raped a twelve year old,

it's important. One thing I think is important for us to know about that incident is that at the time, because the way the visual of it is that this older man raped this young twelve year old girl. You're looking at Rodney Read's picture and you see him as the rapist of a child, when the truth of the matter is this happened so long ago that he would have been in high school and she was twelve at

the time. So not that that makes it right, but it's important to put these things in the proper in the proper perspective, right, um, and uh, the the DNA evidence came back that he may have been one of more than ten people a category because DNA evidence at that time was not the same as it is today today they can be more conclusive with the new technology, but at the time it was sort of put you in a category of you know, of of others that

it could be. So clearly several black men probably could you know, could have been the ones to commit this rate and the young girl's family as well as the girl stated that she knew who her who her rapists was and never mentioned or never named Rodney Reed. So

you know that's important, yeh. But but when I hear that someone has had multiple allegations of rape, including from people that are actually you know, who were his who he had personal relationships with, like you know, a significant other, you know, people he was in past relationships with, that does cause it's a it's a cause for concern for me.

It would not have stopped me from promoting the petition, telling people to sign it, and from you know, supporting this particular situation because I understand clearly that um, you know, killing someone for a crime that we're not sure they committed is first of all, let's be clear. I don't think that we as human beings have the right to take the life of another individual anyway. Execution for me, is wrong, and I think we need to abolish the

death penalty period. I don't know. I don't know. I mean when I think if doing clear cut facts of rape and you know, child station, I'm I'm all for, Like those are two words crimes in the world. To me, if if the facts if the problem for me with this situation was that a man just a sister, like you know, she's our sister, but listening to a live and I understood her points like she wanted to know, like she should have been given that information prior to

her voice or something. She was right, But when she started to state the crimes that the man was I mean accused of, they were inaccurate. There was there weren't. She weren't in factual about what she stated and and using inaccurate statements further incriminated that man because she has a very big follow so she utilized her voice to talk about crimes that he was he was accused of. Another another murder another murder. But she since said, I mean, we who are we to judge when you call someone

a rapist. I'm not gonna say that we need to be careful because I didn't hear her ever say that the man was a rapist. She said he had been accused. You said that he was accused of and then when you say it they murdered someone else and and accused and and then and you say it with like man of fact, nonus and you say it with the level of anger. You weren't saying like, hey, well he did this and this. She was like, he did this too. No, no, no, no, no.

She didn't say he did that. He was accused of this, and I'm concerned, and you know, and it sounds like this and it could be different. But she never said when you look at everyone, I've never said she didn't say he did it. But sorry, what I'm trying to say. What she said he was accused of and this is what he was accused of. And when she said it, there was a certain level of passion. I'm watching you.

I believe that you believe or you like, okay, he had to do something to a certain degree, and that's what we have to be careful about because I don't want to let my voice to harmon someone or putting someone in predicament to what it whether it could be you know, um killed or even accused of the worst problem that's on nature. Like, we have to really be careful being a black man, understanding the times that we

live in, understand the times we've always lived in. We are easily escape, but we are easily vilified and monsterized, you know what I'm saying. So when these situations like this, we have to be careful. We do, and I want to make sure we give some facts about the death penalty so folks know what's going on. So as of April first, two thousand and eighteen twenty more than people are on death row. And I think there is a

level of in humanity or something. It's in humane treatment to just have people sitting on death row for years and years and years, not knowing what day is going to come PTSD, that's all types of things. Every day you're just waiting to die. And I wonder how many people on death row look like us, Like I wondered, I want to know the numbers. I'm sure the Innocence Project knows that um and then but more than twenty

states have stopped the death penalty. And it's funny because when attorney to acting Attorney General bar when he came into office and Trump's under Trump's Trump's administration, he began to resume exoneration. So he wanted to go ahead and start getting this list down from hundred or more than twenty five hundred, and go ahead and start executing people again.

And a federal judge just days ago blocked at least four executions across the country, citing that some states are when they when they actually do the execution, they're using inhumane methods of of of basically killing people, and they want to, you know, basically talk about the constitution and and how this may or may not be right, and so, you know, I mean, again, I think it's a it's a slippery slope because there are too many people in prison right now who are accused of crimes that they

did not commit. And even when there's there's evidence, even that is like, whose evidence is it? Is it true? Is it not? So I think the death penalty is something that we might need to. We definitely need to people who have been exonerated after thirty or forty years exactly. And so imagine if those people have years they would put to death, like you know, so you know it's not it's not really a fair situation. No, it's not.

So that's what I said, you got to abolish the death penalty, and you came back and said something I'm just trying to say. I think when it's when it's clear. Yeah, but see that because we can't depend on this system to be clear, or I think certain things are clear. If you kept somebody in the act, if you like, it should be there should be criterias like anything else.

There has to be a standard this guy, you know, I think it should be a standard, Like why shouldn't it be a standard if I if we cut you in the act raping and murdering somebody in the act, and we got you on video came and we know it's you, Okay, you one of those two or three

people that need to go. But if we have if you still fight in your cases, you don't have clear present evidence to show us that it had to be you and there's nobody else, then you know, then we need to So you think this system is going to do that fairly? Anyway we can come onto another topic. But so, what in the world is I don't even know what to say about this Kaepernick situation at this point.

I mean, we've debated it in multiple different ways for a while, but after this past weekend, Um, I don't know. I feel like I'm not going to give my statement on it yet because I'm gonna let you say your side. But I feel like it has caused so much tension and confusion. And you say division, perhaps division is what it is, but there is. So it's almost like white supremacy wins again because you see so many people black folks who are of a particular you know, status in

our community, places that people go to for information. And when you have those folks saying two totally different things on this issue in such a a very it's a passionate and harsh way. It's very very um. I don't even want to say it's dangerous, but it's confusing, it is, and you know, and that's what it was for me. It started out with division, you know, prior prior to

even this workout. You know, I just watched how the whole Kaepernick decision, even when Jay Z got involved, it started to divide us because you know, both of them means so much to our culture. You know what Jay has done in music and entrepreneurship, and you know even his his entry into the movement and how he supported

things people within the movement. Then with Kaepernick, that stand he took that was necessary, that highlighted and brought to light the injustice step blacks and you know, brown people deal with in this commune, in our communities, and how our lives are not valued at the same rate, and

the stands that he took. And to see both of those people pitted against each other, and I don't know exactly which parts each of one of them played, but to see how the media continued to highlight it, continue to perpetuate it, and see how a lot of people just jumped on sides and like, oh this person is a cool or this person did this, and it was like it was It was disheartening to me because I

understood this was Malcolm and Martin all over again. This was two of our greatest cultural you know, icons being pitted against each other, when if you combine both of them, where we could have got anybody knows about this, cal and Captainick, I don't think it was no. Okay, I don't think it was nobody because I've been too u. I don't think there was nobody that was more adamant about being with Cap than I was. Like, you know, for three straight years, our boycotted every NFL program. People

my battle rap, people who went to NFL. Me and them had online beef to where we're seeing each other in the streets. We had to pull each other to the side and talk about it. I called out people who were at halftime shows getting honored civil rights but I've called out everyone for nuts boycott the NFL, you know. And then when NFL, I mean when Kaepernick got his collusion, when he got the settlement and he did the NBA,

I was kind of disappointed. I'm not gonna lie. I was means, he cannot disclose what you know around the lawsuits. So when he when he took when he made the deal, which he should have got paid for, but the NBA just kind of like silenced him on to me because it was no more vocality about the situation. Nobody was talking about. You know what I'm say, it might be a world I mean, look look it up. But anyway, so when when he took the deal and and there

was not much talk. A lot of people was like, okay, so we can go back to washingtonot Wall. I didn't know. You know, I had a conversation with you. We had all we just like, what's going on? So what do we do? What do what is the movement? Where we boy kind were not is good is he? And there was no talk about it. So until jay Z announced his partnership, you know, then it became all his talk.

So now we bring brings us here to this workout. Now, when I heard about the workout, okay, this makes sense if if he really wants to play, because he's been adamant, he's got three or four commercials that you see, he's been denied. He still wants to play. He shows himself working out. He wants to play football. You know, I said, okay, j is in there now, maybe said, whyn't you give him my opportunity? Man? He wants Maybe this is just

what I'm thinking. I'm thinking. It makes sense. You're in there. You've been supporting him before before all of this controversy. You was wearing the cap jersey, the interviews, talking about how what he did with Heroic, how you loved what he did. Every show you was talking about Kabinick taking a knee. You you you denied yourself away from the super Bowl. You didn't even do the super Bowl because you sit with him, So you you were definitely supporting

this man. Nobody can't say you wasn't. So now that you're in these rooms with these people, I would assume why wouldn't you say, well, why don't you give him? Why don't you just give him, let him try to let him see, like, give him a workout something. So this workout that everybody's like, oh, why is it on Saturday? Because this whole situation has never happened before. You know, we've never seen a situation with somebody sued the NFL and then went back to them after collusion. You know,

we haven't. These are these are these All of these times are different. So somebody he set up, they set up the NFL set up a workout on the Saturday. So everybody was skeptical. Wise it on Saturday? Okay, cool, Kaepernick ask some questions what is this about? He went online and said, I can't wait to see the NFL on sadd So cool. I'm all right, so this should be good. Then there goes into you know, the problem with the contracts that we hear by the crowning where

he can't bring his cameraman. He they weren't open it to the public, and then to the ass and then then then ultimately it fell through and ultimately Cabinet ended up doing his own workout in a school um about an hour away from the original place. The owners and representatives from the teams that were supposed to show up ultimately did eight of them did. Now, my issue with the whole thing was this, I didn't know. First of all, I don't even know why you want to play for

the NFL at this point. What they've done to you. They've showed you that they don't have your best interest, and they showed you that you can't really trust them. They showed you that they really don't want you there. For three whole years, like you said, you've been denied that. People in front offices, people, all these people have figured

out how to stop you. Right. So now you go to a situation and they give you a contract that you say, I'm not signing this because a waiver, and you say I'm not signing because it gives away my rights. But at the end of the day, they have to make you sign because they gotta protect themselves. And you know, you in bed with the devil, but you still want to get in bed with them. They're not gonna give you a car Okay, Look, you can come in here and you can try out, and if we don't like you,

then you can see us. Hey, we're gonna let you do that. And you're not gonna go in in and say I can't sue you, because if you don't, then I still need to have records. So there's no way that this situation can work at all, and everybody knows this. The only way it could work is if you're willing to have manage some of your right. The NFL is not going to give you car blanche. They're not gonna allow you to walk into their facilities and still be

able to suit them if they don't. It doesn't make sense. But no businessman is gonna do that. I think what doesn't make sense is not I think that's starting at the middle or the end. I think that what doesn't make sense is what they did to Colin, and that at this point it now means that if you're willing to come to the table. Then you got to come

to the table, humble. You can't you as the perpetrator of something that ended up hurting this man, taking away his ability to play the game that he loves because he stood up for black and brown people. I heard D. L. Huge Ley's explanation for how he feels about the whole thing, which was obviously very you know, it was different from Stephen A. Smith's, and I love what DL huge Ley said. Colin Kaepernick is not a rapist, He is not a UH,

He's not a h. He hasn't committed any crimes. He has not been even committing crimes outside of football, right, Like, he has a pretty stellar background and record, And what happened to him in terms of him being blackball for kneeling uh to bring awareness to the injustice committed against black and brown people is outrageous and and and the fact that he is not able to play. The NFL did that they're responsible for. They committed a crime in

my judgment again, this man and against our communities. So if you're going to bring him in for a workout, then you need to bring him in Trying to do business the way you do business all the time. That's what the hell you in trouble for in the first place, trying to play games to blackball this man and concluding

to stop him from being able to play football. So now if all of a sudden you bring him in for a workout and you're doing the same ship, which means you provided him with a waiver that does not look like the waiver that other individuals received, you are still not being honest. You are the problems you got.

But the issue is that as an institution, as an institution, they don't have the right to be that, and we have we have to deal with life on life, and we don't have to do that because then then every day that we get up and do this work, when we get out and drive to d C at four and five o'clock in the morning to protest this thing, this issue of that issue, to stand up for the things that concerned us, we should stop doing that because life on life, because life let me finish, because life

on life turns would mean that it is what it is, that the whole damn system is guilty as hell, and we just stuck having to deal with that. And instead we have a vision and we dream for something that is beyond that, and we have to go up against the system every single day and every single turn. We have to go up against the system to make it, to break it down, to break it down to work for us. So I think that what Colin Kaepernick represents and what it is that he has been doing is

exactly his role. Do I think that he could do things different? Do I think he could do things better? Do I think that there should have been a better coordinating strategy around his movement and how we keep it going even after he was he got his deal or has won his lawsuit or you know, they settled his his his case. Yes, absolutely I could critique it. I can see it. I know that where the issues and the holes were, and if somebody would asked me, I

would tell them. But that let's put that to the side. The bottom line here is that the actor, the bad actor, is the NFL, and they don't get to just sit around and operate as business as usual and continue right in front of our faces to do the same ship that they've been doing against this man and other individuals. So I think he did the right thing exposing their hypocrisy. But with the bottom line is you have divided. What happened is this, You've divided your own supporters. The NFL

never had no supporters in this situation. Nobody was ever with the NFL. Everybody was against the NFL. They said, what you did to Kellen Kaepernick. Everybody, all the people who are in everybody's in this conversation now, from Stephen A. Smith, the Shannon's shop to all of these people to um everybody, everybody was like, what they did the Kaebernick is wrong.

They need to give him an opportunity. What you did now was you gave the NFL opportunity to make no. No, no, no. Listen, I'm telling you don't agree, but you cannot agree with me when okay, no, no, no, what people no? Because the bottom line is if you just would have said from the beginning, I don't want that. I don't want what. I don't want what you that cartract you sent me right there right it does not work for me, and you try to make me sign against my rights. I'm

not No, you didn't do that. What you did was that the day two hour before you went and change the thing. You made it look like you were not for you. You change the venue, you change the location. You didn't notify people. It made it look like you were unprofessional. Then you said you called out the NFL and called them for running. What you did was divide your own supporters. You didn't. You didn't. You didn't hurt

the NFL with that, because nobody they are hurt. Because see the problem is that there are some folks who have used this as an opportunity to go back and say, oh, well, now what happens. But here's the bottom line. My song history will record later on, much later, won't we are gray here? Oh, if God gives us life that long, will record that the that the NFL is a racist has always been a it's always recording. They're starting out. They wouldn't even let people it's never been, but it is.

But it is more clear at this point because of Colin Kaepernick's work and because of him exposing them for what they are. At the end of the day, the people who are responsible for what is happening in this moment, it's not Colin Kaepernet. He is doing the best that he can within the situation he's dealing with, and he should be able to play football. He should be able

to play football. I don't agree with you, but I don't agree with and I can You cannot know, but you cannot agree with the fact to the same situation. Cannot agree, You cannot agree with me, but you cannot agree with the facts. You cannot agree that that. Now, prior to to this suation, with this World Cup, there was not one black person that were probably one. There wasn't nobody that would publicly say they didn't understand or cat just messed up. You can, but that's that has

a lot to do with the media. We have to continue to talk about with the media. With the media was with him before. The media never been with him. They never be They poitted, they have Most people in the media have exploited this situation for clicks, likes and views. Nobody You know why we know that they're not with him because if they were with him, they would have shut down even covering what's happened to because Edry still plays in the NFL and that's his best friend that

he's supposed to be able to play. So the people commentators, the commentators, that's their job because everybody to keep this is everybody's point of view. Oh, he went to school for this. This is his passion. He wants to play, and he should be okay. So the commentators who went to school to be commentators and they got their their job, they should have gave up their job when the foot your best friend who's a football player can still play

where they don't even let you. Everybody's supposed to give up their own livelihood. I don't care I ever ever defend. I'm not. I would have never went back to the ship. I'm saying, bottom line, I'm not gonna play for you. You can't give me that. You send that back. I'm a man first, I'm not gonna you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna call my own workout. If you want to see me, I'm gonna be here. I'm gonna

say that before. I'm not gonna get on social media and say hey, I'm okay with being there and didn't give them the opportunity to make it seem like that's what That's what you do. If they feed you and they don't have to treat you equals. As long as your enemy for you, Barracus is all time. As long as you allow your enemy to feed you, they would never treat you equal. I am I'm gonna say this and we can definitely move on. The only people responsible

for what has happened here are is the NFL. Those folks, those people are responsible. What's for what's happening? You're not responsible. I'm not responsible, But I'm responsible for how I react. No no one no responsible. No one who is a football player or an entertainer started out being the perfect activists. And so there are mishaps. There's things that happened that people can't necessarily understand. We don't know all the details. You know when you redefine print things that his lawyers

and others may have done. But here's the bottom line for me. I support Colin Kaepernick until the end because I support Colin Kaepernick until the end because what the situation he finds himself. It was done to him by racist system. And you know, we can agree. We can agree to that. With the rest of it we don't agree on at all because I'm not going away. Don't want me. That's like me trying to force myself in

the relationship. You locking the door, you don't change the locks, and you say, oh, you could come at Yeah, That's what I'm trying to tell you. I'm not the man to do that, So that's why I can't identify with that. That's fine, but you know, we could get into that and make them and draw some parallels too. But anyway, anyway, UM, you know, this missing girl's situation hasn't really been It's not that I don't know that girls are missing. I mean I've heard it. I've had to help a few

families who were in need of support reposting things. Um. You know, I helped the family get an attorney, um, because you know, they they felt that they knew where their child was and they couldn't get help to you know, figure out if this particular person in in in their local community had in fact abducted their child. And I helped them to it an attorney and um, you know, and and in fact that the child was not there, which is really unfortunate. But nonetheless, I know that missing

girls is an issue. It's a it's been a problem. It's not a new phenomenon, but there is definitely a new there's spotlight on it because particularly in Atlanta and Alabama, there's been a lot more cases that have come for you know, people who have come forward, a lot more cases that have happened, and because of social media. Just like the police brutality, Police brutality did not start with

Mike Brown. It didn't start with Eric Ghana to me and Rice, it didn't start with these later names that we call our new the hashtag um era that we're in. It didn't start there. Police brutality has been going on forever, whether it's the lynching of black people, um you know,

all the way again until modern day. So we know that the issues have occurred, but social media has given us a new way of seeing it, really literally being able to see a woman jumping out of a trunk literally literally you can see that now where we were never able to see it before. And they say that somewhere around sixty five thousand women are missing, and largely black and brown girls. And I think the thing that is really upsetting my soul is that it is not

a national suppress story. It's not a national media emergency. There's nobody you know there. I don't even see elected officials who we know, love and trust out there speaking up enough about this issue. It's kind of it's very disheartening. Man.

I've seen I think it was Egypt. There's um a little video with Egypt talking about it and you know radio the radio post, and she was talking about how nobody's talking about it and how it's you know, it's really getting dangerous, and how the numbers like you said, sixty five thousand. They said, there's estimated about two hundred fifty minorities, and sixty of them are black women. That people of color, the people of color that have been

kidnapped or or missing. And they said, like you said, sixty In other words, the other pool is it's diverse, but it's it's a smaller pool, and the majority of the people who have been abducted or are missing in general, um, sixty thousand of them are black. And it's just like I'm saying, like we have to do something, Like I'm really want to call like black men, like we have to do something to protect Like they've just taken our

women out of our commune. These in Atlanta, Alabama, Like these are places that they're taking black women from and they're just not showing up anymore. So like we have to I think there has to be a cult action, you know, Bob, black men to to start on surveilling our communities, to start checking doing checking you know, we have to have some level of system to which we know that our women are protected, because this is completely our end. The fact that it's not being talked about

it even worse. And there are black women who I have seen, like you know a few people, we see their shots. They've been arrested because they were caught, you know, trafficking women or abducting a woman or a child. Um. And particularly in Alabama. I think it was in Montgomery, Alabama, where the little three year old girl, Cupcake, her body was found in a garbage dumpster after she was abducted

just playing outside of a house with another little kid. Um. There was a man and woman rested for it and

have been you know, charged with with her murder. Um. And I wonder I want to be able to say, not that I don't think that there are horrible women out here as well that do crazy things, um awful things, but I wonder whether or not some of the women who are involved in these abductions are also victims of sex trafficking, you know, if they're if this is the job that they are now they are tasked with because of the fact that they also are have been traffic they are living as a you know, as a part

a person who has been abducted. It's a very dangerous situation. And I'm almost to the point where I want to I want to sit down with some of these abductors and find out what the hell is going on here. Now, I know I'm going too far on the limb, but you know, me and my little conspiracies when I think about the child separation, um, and you know, I've been saying that the children who were separated from their partment's parents trying to get into the s, particularly on the

Trump's administration. Now, let's be clear, even during Obama, there were definitely UM people deported, many people deported, a lot of people deported. The family separation situation has been extremely, extremely hard to watch. Um. We know that there are folks and you see it's not in the media as much, so people are not talking about it. But there are people in camps right now and children in Harlem in New York City living in shelters and in buildings with

these different programs. The question that we have to keep asking ourselves is when they say they lost some kids, they lost some paperwork, they sent families back home without a way to connect with their child. Who's here in the US. Who is checking that? Who is checking that? And what is happening with these children? Are they being as we know in history? You know, throughout our history we've seen children being stolen, sold, become child child slaves

in different homes, moved to other countries. We know what Jeff Epstein, this man who they were literally just about to really come down on him, who's one of Trump's homeboys. That was one of the main charges is that he was involved in sex trafficking. So that worries me. So now when I think about that and then these girls are missing, there's got to be It's not a coincidence. There has to be a relationship between the two things. That people are missing, women are missing, girls are missing,

and body parts are missing. That's crazy, Like, I don't because that's another thing they say they're selling organs. You know. It's just so we just live in really dangerous times man, And and I just I ask you just pay attention, man, do checkens, especially these young ladies. You got to be very careful. If you have daughters, you have sisters, you know, make sure that you are you keep your eyes on them, protect your communities. Man like we already see that we

were dealing with in our community. So we have to do our own public police, and we gotta police our own community. We gotta make sure that we are safe because we cannot depend on anyone else to make No one is more important in terms of the defense of our community. We are the first line of defense. We know when there's someone in our community that doesn't look right. We know when we see young women who look like they're in distress, and we should pay attention. We can't

depend on outside characters. The police will do what they can do, but we've never had fair and balance justice and safety in our communities, and so we have to be the ones to do the work. The issue of missing black girls has to be on the top of our list of priorities of something that we focus on every day as a community, because we have to let

those who are perpetrators of it know. And I'm convinced that there are people working for people who are in higher, higher places that we may not know, but we have to let those characters that are working for those folks know that it will not happen in our community. Somebody needs to ask what actually a lot. And that's what I say, brothers, we gotta definitely police our own communities and make sure you pay attention. Man. If you see a young girl walking by herself, pay attention. You don't

know where she's from. You see it walking with somebody, she doesn't look like she's comfortable. Ask some questions, man like. That's that's our duty as men to protect our community. So make sure we do it. Man. So that concludes street politicians with the streets and the politics meet. The streets and the politics meet. Thank you all for tuning in. This is this is only our second show. You know, we're gonna have some guests. We have a lot of

people coming through. But we want people to get acquainted with us. You know, you know, we got friends, we have people can call. I'm hanging out. Would make the Stallion the other night, Oh my god. And she put me on her stories and I'm just like, I can't believe it. And trade songs too, and he is so fine. Anyway, it's a real dude summer hot girl, a real dude winning hot girl. Summer is over. Man with hot girls are always whatever. Anyway, Just remember one thing we not.

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