My thought of the day is, as I look at many people who have reached out, even some of them are advocates themselves, and they are helping with this situation, why do people feel like the right way to address me or us and other leaders is to try to either shame us and disrespect us in order to make us pay attention to an issue. So people were tagging me in the comments. Are your trash because you're not helping this girl? You haven't done your job? Where are you?
How dare you? You only get involved in cases when something you know benefits you, which, by the way, that's the biggest line has ever been told, because most of the people that have have come to us for support are people who have no name. No one really knows what's going on. Maybe their child was killed or some incident happening. Maybe there's some talk on mine, but there's no organization
around them. They don't have really the resources, the financial resources which we have to often raise and bring to the families, and beyond that, they had no international name the way that we ultimately did for Brianna Taylor. And I've been involved in many cases for my career. Over my career twenty five plus years I have been helping to take cases and families from one space to the next. We got involved in Trayvon Martin, same thing. Trayvon had
been dead. People were kind of talking about it. But when we got there and we put that extra work on in Trayvon became an international name. His mother Sabrina folks who will tell him that okay, And again, like I said, same thing with Brianna Taylor. So I'm trying to figure out why people feel like they need to shame you and talk down on you to make you get involved in something when they don't know who you're talking to, they don't know what's happening behind the scenes.
And also they don't understand the process that it takes before people like us can go and get involved in certain situations. And I think, and I'll let you respond. Then one of the problems that folks deal with is not understanding that they're they're the fact that they have five hundred followers or two thousand followers, and even five
thousand followers. They don't understand that when they go out and say something, the risk is not the same as someone like me and like us who have a million plus people and major platforms, because guess what we will get sued if we have not done the due diligence
of having our attorneys get involved in these situations. Imagine us going out there and calling this family rapists, kidnappers, all kinds of words that we need to we would be using or at least implying in order to bring attention to a situation without giving our legal team the ability to look at the law and what we can say and what we can't say. And also the woman
that's telling the story, we don't know her. I believe she's doing the right thing and I want to support her, but we don't know her, so we can't say a hundred percent that what she's telling us is absolutely true. All of this has to be dealt with, and there are people out there in the world who don't seem to know understand that there is a process that we have to go through before we get involved. It doesn't mean that we won't take on situations that's difficult because
guess what they told us. Brianna Taylor's boyfriend was a drug deal Our ex boyfriend was a drug dealer. They told us, Oh, Kenny Walker, he might have something over here. Brianna's actual boyfriend. They told us, well, uh, what's his name? Eric Garner? He was selling Lucy's cigarettes. Nicole Bell's man. They tried to put off the sparaged them with all types of things that Joe Guselan Trump benefield their arrest
records from the past. Every case we get involved in, Mike Brown, Oh, he attacked the man at the store. Every case we get involved with, there's a story. There's always a bad story. I got a bad story. There's some ship. You can come right now and say you're gonna help to meet it, and it's gonna be some ship. Right. Everybody got a story, But it takes a process so that you can know what your risks are and how
you intend to approach a situation. So my thought of the day is like, what the hell are y'all talking about? And why do people who have never been in our positions have so much to say about things that they don't have to assume the risk for Well, my assessment of the situation is that there are two types of people. There are people who actually just don't know right, and then there's the type of people who just want to hate right. They just want to do anything to to
make you look negative and vilify you. Right, So the people who don't know, they make statements say why are you hiring doing anything? Why don't you doing this? And what's going on with this? And they don't understand exactly high works. And then there are people who have unrealistic expectations. Right, they expect you to talk about everything that's going on
in the world. There's so many different things that people were able to see our d m s and our emails and see how they're flooded with so many different individuals who have an issue, right, and and and they will understand that we don't have the capacity as organization, let alone individuals, to bring to like every issue, every situation that somebody brings to us. And everybody feels that the situation that they think is important, it is equally
as important. There's nobody who doesn't think that the boy who was running down the block and he got hit with somebody throw a rocket at him doesn't think that's more important than the police that shot him, or that the kid that show. Everybody thinks that their issue is paramount to everything else, so they're gonna come at you. So that's that's why I've taken that. But then there's just those people who are actually agent provocateurs, right, They sent to try to, you know, to defame you and
make it seem like you're not doing your work. They have a little bit more followers. They utilize social media, and this in a in a different plat or a different way in which they utilize it to it the message that they have is spread all over the place, so it starts to become a recurrent theme, theme and the narrative that people grab onto. So those are two things. So what I say is this, we have to continue
to just do the work right. And I understand how it can be demoralizing, and I understand why, like before us, like you don't understand why a lot of celebrities just don't step up, like you've got a platform you to do this, and they're vilified, right and this is not their everyday work. Some of them step up and just want to say, you know what, I don't I don't agree with what happened, man, let me say something about it. And people start tearing them down, or you don't do this,
what are you doing this for? Or you you should have been did this or nobody cares what you're saying. Just shut up and dribble or shut up and wrap or whatever it is. So it is it is you know, this,
this work that we do is an everyday process. It has to be God's purpose for you because it is very painful, especially when you have you know, when you care about your name, you care about how you are portrayed, when your reputation is like because for me, my reputation is all I ever had, you know, prior to getting involved in this in the I mean this work doing, prior to WRAP or anything, I was a respected individual because the way I carried myself, in the way that
I I dealt with integrity. And that's that's one thing throughout my history of my life that people were always able to say about me. And this was the first time, even in hip hop music whatever, my integrity was never in question. Right it was my talent, my skill level or did he wash up or nobody cares? And I went through all of that. But this space people started to attack my integrity as a man and calling you scammers and stealers and liars and cloud chases and amble
all of these names. So it takes a lot, and it really takes a lot. This has to be your caller, you know, so, and we we deal with it very well. You know, I know that a lot of people, they are a lot of UM leaders who passed in present who have just said fuck it. You know, I'm not doing this like I'm just gonna I'm not saying nothing.
Let them deal with it. They some of them have quote unquote sold out because of that, because they said, you know what, I'm doing all this fighting for people, and people don't give a funk about what I'm doing. They call them me all types of names, and I'm not. I haven't benefited anywhere, so let me stop benefit. I don't care what nobody thinks now because I've lost so much and they attack my own people that I'm trying to say, I'm trying to help and I'm trying to
do all these things for other ones attacking me. So it's just so much that goes in that that you know, that question that you know your thought of to day is very thought provoking. I just asked people, man, just to take the time before you write something, before you to say something, before you attack somebody for your accused somebodyself. Like somebody wrote today to say you're a scammer, And I said, just prove it, show me one person I
have a scamed or you have to do. Don't just don't just go on in and and just write something, you know, just throw something into the atmosphere that you have no cluf of, you have no knowledge of. You just heard a narrative and you grabbed onto it and then you're spreading it and you're putting it on people
you know. And I just ask you know, as individuals, as people, as black people, as people in our communities, before you attack people that are doing work that you've never done and never will do, and don't even understand the capacity of which it needs to be done. Just ask yourself, do I know what I'm saying? Am I sure about what I'm saying? Am I clear? And I it doesn't make sense that I do my due diligence,
that I research, that I do all of this. Don't understand what it takes to do what this individual is doing, you know, just just do that, you know, because we were still humans, you know, we're we're human beings just like you. We just happened to have a different calling on our lives and we're move into different space. So you know, I just ask people, please, man, before you write someone internet, before you attack somebody, before you call somebody.
And you know what, many times brothers have cold me names and just said names. I'm like brother, but why did you have to say that? And I and I said, hey, well this was going on on my fault what I mean. But you didn't even take the time out to know what you meant. You just got so caught up in the Internet and and the you know, the moment and
attacking somebody in disrespecting the individual. Luckily for you, I'm the type of individual who understands where you're coming from, understand that you come from a place of ignorance, and not understand it. So I'm not trying to meet you with the same energy. But imagine if I was. Imagine, you know, and this is how misunderstands and everything starts.
So I just say, people just need to take the time out, do some research, do something your due diligence and research and this, don't attack people and you don't even know what the hell you're talking about.