We are not outraged enough!

what it's all about right now, is loving ourselves. You know. When when I was at the Billboard Music Awards, Mary had a powerful speech, so you know, of course there's much to be said about what happened to me. Yes, she was celebrated. Did he give you what? We talk about that? Before we talk about that? Um. Mary was speaking and and I was gonna say that Mary and Janet Jackson in the same place blew my mind. I

mean I was totally starstruck. But anyway, so Mary was saying that, you know, she finally found her true love, and she said, my true love is me. She said. People ask, you know, who's managing Mary now? And she was like, you know, I'm managing Mary, you know, and I thought that was just such a powerful message, you know that just like we've had other trends, you know, now there's the trend of people trying to take better care of their mental health because you know, of course

that's not something that we did in the past. It was looked at as a stigma to go to the you know, a therapist and all of that. But there's a trend that has happened where people are, you know, starting to take care of themselves and think more about their mental well being. And I think the new trend that I would love for us to be on is just this idea of loving ourselves and building ourselves up.

And you know, because this world is like trying to tear every single thing around us down, and you know, I think we have to be encouraging ourselves and our children to love yourself, as my auntie would say, love yourself. So happy birthday to you. You look young, but you old. Listen, man, You're only as old as you feel. Man. I'm seasoned. I'm a seasoned young vetman. So and I'm feeling good, man, I'm feeling real good and God bless man. So that's

back to your Billboard Awards. Crazy, you had a beautiful honor. Crazy. It was just it was crazy how it happened, Like you mice, I'm about to do this, and I'm like, what's going on? I need I gotta do this. Did he want me to come here and like all of this stuff? Man? But it was well deserved. Man. You

looked up then, you look marvelous. You said would needed to be said in and out, you know, and and he said real powerful words about you know, giving your flowers and you know you always showing up and being on the front lines and you know, and you're our leaders, so we already know that you know the world. I'm glad that the world gets to see for us until freedom. You know, we we we witness every day. So congratulations to that. Thank you. It was really a heart like

a touching moment for me. Um. You know backstage, I cried hard. I almost cried on the stage and Tarak, my son, he says, um, oh yeah, Mom, I could I saw him in your face and you were gonna cry. You know, he knows me. I was like holding back to it because that good old makeup that I had from my home girls that got me together in twenty

four hour. It was less than twenty four hours. They got me together in Vegas, shout out to my girl, breathe, and um, you know I I wanted to really like in that moment, I was like wow, like not tears of sadness, but tears of like pride. I think I was also proud that he was able to do it, you know what I'm saying, Like like the fact that Puff was able to use the Billboard Awards and just basically go off script and give me a Revolt Award, which is his own network, during the show in front

of millions of international viewers. It just was it was like so powerful, and like you said, I was in San Francisco speaking to a group of black women, which was also super powerful, and I got a call from him saying I need you to be in Vegas. And the thing is, it wasn't like I could just get there,

you know the next day. You had to get tested COVID tested within a certain amount of time, and in order for me to get that test, I had to actually leave San Francisco immediately, get on the flight go to Vegas. I mean, it was just it was a lot and those kinds of experience. And then oh and I didn't have anything in my suitcase to wear, so all of that stuff I had to figure out. But those types of experiences are the ones you never forget.

And I'm so grateful to my brother Puff for one being a partner in a fight, but also for using such a big platform to give me my flowers. It's just something I'll never ever ever forget. It's a beautiful moment. And it's just so crazy, Mice, because it's like, it's your birthday. You're trying to enjoy, you know, your time. I received this powerful award, and yet hanging over our heads is the darkness of our people being massacreed in Buffalo, New York. H oh going, you know, and it's just

like you can't even celebrate without something terrible happening. Even to the point where in trying to celebrate the award also in you know, wanting to celebrate you and your birthday, I was I struggled with the right post, you know, the right things to say at a time when people are so hurt and broken. It is really really I don't know, like I don't know, Mice, I just don't know what to say. I mean, it's it's a lot, man.

You know, like you said, my birthday, the massacre of you know, these ten people, and then today you wake up and they killed a little girl in the rox shout out and stommaking, and and it's like, you know, and I just put a post up, like at what point do we wake up? Man? Like you see, we realize that white supremacy wants us dead, so they you know, you have white supremacists that come in our neighborhoods, it's killing us. We got pull least that that dress up.

We got white supremacists dressed up as police that's trying to kill us. And then we in our own communities taking out our own soldiers and our own babies. Like this is overwhelming, man, It's over woman. And you know what, I realized that hurt people, hurt people. You know, then you've got people attacking everybody because they confused, they don't

know what to do. And it's just like we just we just we really lead a moment to really just just just think and take it all in man, because I I can't process it, Like I don't have the problem. Just last week I had to go a kid was shot in my neighborhood, you know. And I had to go in front of the store that I go to, that me and my kids go to on a daily

you know what I'm saying. So there and and and there's actual video, the video that I'm trying to put back into his body, and it's just like it's just too much, like we are really dealing this is the pandemic, this is the pandemic and epidemic, and it's it's so much, you know, We're overwhelmed. Man. So I don't even know the right words to say. I don't know what to do,

but I know we have to do something. I know that we really have to be strategic and intentional about doing something to try to stop to believe it begin to being intentional. Uh. We have our our brother from Buffalo coming up as a guest today and really just want to take this show and just do a special today where we're not talking about all the things that we generally do, you know, UM, and just focus on what the people the local community in Buffalo with is needed. UM.

I think we should bring him on. So for all the guests who are tuned in, listening in and watching UM. First of all, Jamale Cruise is our brother. Um. You guys know we have a running thing on this show about having our friends. We've got friends all across the country doing amazing things, amazing work. And Jamal Cruise is an organizer, UM an activists and also a businessman. They're in Buffalo, in the community where this terrible massacre took place.

Um and Jamal, I just first of all, I can't imagine your own mental health like where you are in this moment, living in a community and being there all the time, and having an office that is right there in the vicinity for where this shooting took place, having a wife and a brand new baby who could have been at the at the office that day and just needed to run across the street to the store. You

just don't know. And I know you probably are thinking about all the scenarios of one of the folks who died, but also how you could have been one of them, your staff members. And I just want to say to you that my heart like is so broken and I'm just I don't know the right words to say to you and the community there, but just know that you have love and support from people around the nation so well, certainly appreciate that, UM, as you guys can imagine. UM,

it's a mixed bag of emotions right now. We went through you know, I know me personally, just went through an entire range of emotions, you know, shock, um anger, frustration, you know, questioning how this happened in our community. We see this stuff happening all the time right across the country, but you never think, you know, you never think that it had happened in your community, in your backyard. And the fact that again that it happened right outside of office.

I have an office space right next door to where this where this incident happened, and like you said, I could have been there. I usually work on Saturdays. You know, my people from my team were in the office at the time when it happened. You know, I had one of one one of my guys who was who was there. You know, I was talking to him throughout the day on Saturday, and he told me he was, like one

of the guys who was in the office. There's a corner store, like right across the street from where this incident happened. One of the young men who was there, he went across the street to that store. Um, just to grab something to drink, and as he's coming out, he's hearing the gunshots and he's seeing bodies laying on the ground, you know. So and again that could have been me. I was actually supposed to be going to my office on that Saturday because I had to drop

offs from stuff there. But you know, unfortunately, you know, my wife was sick at the time and I was you know, tending to her, so that's why I wasn't there, you know. But again that me, I really I literally arrived moments after the situation happened. Wow. Know when when you look at it on the news, you know, we we we unfortunately this is we have to deal with

this work all the time. One of my closest friends is from Buffalo, and he was telling me how, you know, he this is the regular supermarket most of the people in that area to go to, and it's frequently by mainly black people. So I just want to get a kind of feel like, what are people feeling? Is it

really dreary time out there? Power the people responded, you know, again it's it's still uh large, the level of shock that's like that's taking place right now, because again, you don't think that this is going to happen in your community. You know, as you stated, you know, the neighborhood that this this supermarket is in might of the people that live there are black people, right, So this is uh,

this is a large uh. And we have a huge black population here in the city of Buffalo Train to what a lot of people might think or feel about the city. We have a huge concentration of people of color here in the city is actually a majority minority city, you know. So, um, but for that particular area, you know, and for that to happen, First of all, that supermarket is the only one in the entire neighborhood. If that supermarket wasn't there, that that neighborhood would be a food desert.

So people rely on that supermarket, you know, going there to get fresh fruits and vegetables, you know, to being able to do those things. If not, they will be having to get their their their their groceries from the corner store. Right. So that's why it is so important that we you know, that that that that supermarket was over there, you know, so and you know, and there was a political like struggle to get that supermarket open, right I think absolutely. Yeah, So people really fought to

make sure that the supermarket was in the community. Yeah, I mean, and and that, and I think you know, and this the supermarket open back like two thousand to two thousand and three, And you gotta think during that time, you know, on Buffalo, you know, we weren't as as much of a progressive city as we are now, right, you know, they were still I mean, it's it's still very much so heavily segregated city. Um you know, I'm one of the most segregated cities in the country actually,

you know so. Um So at that time though, you know, you had that the power structure in place, wanting to keep things, wanting to keep that status quo in place, so they wanted to keep the black people down and you know, and and other people elevated, you know. So so yeah, there was there was a collective effort at the time with the without current mayor, who was a city councilman in that district at the time, to to

bring that grocery store in the area. You know. So that's why I was really important because again when I tell you guys, it's literally like no supermarkets within a several mile radius. I mean, it's actually the only supermarket on the East side of Buffalo, the only one, and if you know anything about Buffalo, the east side is

predominantly African American unpopulated, you know. So and it's like you gotta wonder, you know, maybe I'm being a conspiracy theorist or whatever they however they say it, but you gotta wonder whether or not he as the shooter really targeted, not just like oh yeah, I think I'm gonna go to this store, but like whether he knew some of what you're talking about, and then who else did he communicate with that potentially helped him choose where to go,

Like I'm I'm I'm unwilling to let these be stand off issues, stand alone issues where oh, just some crazy person went out and did I believe it is an attack that is coordinated happening, you know, somewhere, and it's it's being organized because it's just too it's too much of a sweet spot for him to live three hours away and just happened to come to Buffalo and choose this particular store to make it. It's not a it's not a conspiracy theory whatsoever, he actually stated, you know.

And and and there are being reports that have come out where he actually stated that he studied the census map in that area. He studied the sense didn't read the manifesto. So okay, this is this is a well coordinated attack that took place at Wow. I really want to know what. I really want to know what level of poison a mind has to be fed to to have this level of coordination, to do this level of evil, Like to really coordinate this level of evil? How does the mind?

What do they feed into these kids? These are kids like literally eighteen, Like, what do they feed into these kids that they literally have poisoned them to the point where they commit atrocities. Listen, this is not this is not something that um like you said it was a one off. This is this isn't something that you know, you had this one person who just was maybe saw some stuff online and just was indoctrinated. No, this stuff

was taught at home. Man, This stuff was thought at home and and it was taught about and it was in his theory that I did read. The white replacement theory is being taught on Fox News by Tucker Carlson on a regular basis. The Great Replacement, the replacement of legacy American strategy is to change the demographics of the country, and you disempower the people who live here, you take their votes away. Democratic Party is trying to replace the

current electorate. How precisely is diversity our strength? Since you've made this our new national motto, please be specific as you explain it. Can you think, for example, of other institutions such as I don't know, marriage or military units in which the less people have in common, the more cohesive are Do you get along better with your neighbors or your co workers if you can't understand each other or share no common values. So he to your point,

this is being ingrained in his mind. Yes, yes, you know. So again this is not a one off situation. You know, with all of the media around, Like you said, you you just referenced Tucker Carlson. You know he had over four hundred references of this replacement theory over the last couple of years, you know what I mean? So between that and this the stuff you're finding out online, and I promise you know this stuff is self taught, and this stuff is learned at home. These are learned behaviors,

you know, these are learned behaviors. So so this is you know, So this is we've really got to sit back and really think about like that, you know, like how do how do we how what? How do you get to a point when you get that much and doctrinator, you have that much evil in your heart that you wanna and flip this much pain on the community. I had a chance that somebody told me, guys not to watch the not to watch the full video. Right I

saw the full video and it completely broke me. It completely broke me, you know, because these are some of the most vulnerable people that you're talking about. You're talking about elders in our community, seventy plus year old women, people's grandmothers, mothers, uncle's, you know what I mean. Like and to see, you know, the harm he inflicted. I mean I literally when I watched that video that night, I literally cried myself to sleep. I cried myself to sleep.

And I'm not a big emotional person like that, but I couldn't unsee what I saw. It's still to this, to this very moment, I still cannot see what I saw. So, I mean it hurts, it doesn't you know what When I hear you asked the question what level of like coordination and what goes into your mind for you to commit such evil. I think you forget where we just

came from last month. But and I'm saying, and I say that because of that, because that's what I said, you know, when I sat into went too Almina Dungeons, you know, formerly known as castles the most But when I sat in there and we got the history and understood how people have been treated, killed and slaved and and just all the things that were done, That's what

went through my mind. And like I said, I'm I'm never going to not think that because I don't have a soul of that has no empathy or no that doesn't have any kind of remorse. Like my spirit cannot even fathom the level of evil that we'll be talking about, right, And it is normal. This is like you know, every year to years we got man shootings, you know, kids in schools now are supermarkets, churches, you know, And I don't and I want to, and I really be trying

to understand. I'd be like, you know, and and how do you people that much? How do you Because it wasn't because he had empathy for for the white person man, white man, white man, and that's something I don't want people to miss that. I don't know if there's another white man that was shot. And I know there's two white victims, right, but I don't and I know one is a white woman who's deceased. I don't know if the other person, white woman died too, right, But but

there's another white person who was also shot. And I'm not sure if that person is a man or woman and whether they have lived or not. It might have been that that man that he said sorry too, he probably shot him and then said sorry. I don't think so. I think that made me completely spared. But it needs to interview him and just and because I want to know what his what his mind stated, How how does he feel like? Is there some survivors guilt remorse? You know,

I'm sure the problem is it has to be. It has to be because it just like when you see that your life has been been spared the way I mean the dude literally went up to him, pointed the gun at him. He looked and he was like, oh sorry, and then ran away, you know what I mean, Like that's that's just the same because this guy was very intentional about going and trying to inflict harm on as many black people as he possibly could period period and

that period. And that's what I'm saying. It's important for us to know what is the gender of the other white person who was killed or shot injured, because what appears to me is that he or what is a parent to me is that when he saw a white man, he retreated m Because there is also right, which we we're not going to I want to be Cashadow, We're not gonna make that point, but we're gonna point out

the fact. But because because women in general, sexism in general is an issue that these white men had right, so they'll they'll kill their own women men they will spare. Now. The sad part, though, is that when we try to organize with white women to help save even themselves, they will still overwhelmingly support the white overwhelmingly who will kill them with no problem, take away their right to have abortions,

won't pay them equally. All of that, and yet and still that when it's time to vote for their white man, they're who their their white supremacist husband, they stand with them overwhelmingly fifty three. So white women, they're not doing enough work. And that's why I need to know, because when somebody gives me what I think is true, I'm going on every platform I can to talk about the fact that white women, y'all still keep on siding with

your husbands. Meanwhile, homeboys stood right there and looked at a white man and said, oh, I'm so sorry, You're not my target, and I don't care what y'all tell me. There is no way that an eighteen year old child study the max by himself and been has been studying white replacement theory alone. It's not true. So that means that he's a part of a sell it's listen, that's very that's very accurate. Um, we know this to be true, right, but the question is what are we doing to combat it? Right?

Because there have been multiple reports over and over again saying how white supremacy is is the greatest threat to domestic terrorism in this country, but yet we aren't doing anything about it. So we want to know, you know, what's your plan for Like, let's let's talk to the government. What's your plan to combat this issue. What's the budget

look like, what's the staff look like. I mean, you got all this stuff for all these anti terrorism, homeland security stuff, you know, for you know, people outside of the country who don't look like us. But when you when you get on this and and and explicitly state that you know, the greatest threat to democracy here in this country is white supremacy and white terrorism. But you're not doing anything about it. You're part of the problem. Well let me but let me give y'all this is

a point. Right. So this guy had already been in trouble I think a year ago because he um he threatened to shoot up a school. I don't know if it was his school or a school, but yeah, it was his school because some students overheard him talking about it. I think he wrote some stuff online. So he was already arrested. They did some mental health check on him, and they released him right and sent him back to

into the world. Now check this. Let's put a pen right there and look at the nine year old boy who walks across the street to a black family's house. A white boy, a white nine year old child, walks across the street to a black family's house looking for their daughter, their nine year old daughter, and uses a whit hitting their car and the door right, and this lady has to tell him to get the hell out of there. Then the father goes over to the white

family's house. The black father goes to the white family's house, and the white man pulls a gun out on this black man because his child went over to their house threatening this black family. Police, Oh, where they're gonna move soon, don't worry about it. So, now here's the parallel. You've got a boy who threatens to shoot up a school. What do they do? Send him back into society? They do nothing. To your point, what are we going to do?

At what point does a child who even mentioned something about shooting a school become a target that has to be somehow another dealt with. Right, then, you've got a kid nine years old who already he's already the eighteen year old, he's already on his way to being the eighteen year old. What did the police do? Nothing? So I understand when the people of Buffalo say, what the hell are elected officials and and Joe Biden all these people, what are you coming here for? Because you're coming to

do the prayer digil? But the prayer vigil is not enough. We need action on these issues. And to your point, the resources need to be coming down into our community. So that we can protect ourselves. That's a fact. So one of the things that I think that's at our advantage right now is that, you know, we have the the attention of people in power, and people are asking us what do what do we want? What do we need?

And okay, so we're gonna tell them. We're going to give them a plan of action on what we want and what we need and really, you know, you know, hold their feet to the fire, you know, like, are are you going to step up? Because time and time again we've seen them happen over and over again when these mass shootings happen, you know, their thoughts and prayers, their visuals, but when the cameras go away, it's just the energy just dies down and then it's just it's

just on to the next one. Right, So we need to figure out, you know, okay, you know if if first of all, what our plan of vaction is going to be, and we have to be cohesive and in our messaging, and we have to be on one of court without messaging, and then once we do that, you know, we hold we hold these people accountable. Like if you if you say that you're gonna you know that you're there to support us and then you know, and provide

us the resources. Okay, this is exactly what we need, you know, And I think right now again, because we have the attention of everyone, we want to make sure that you know that we're capitalizing on that. You have to man, it's it's it's just like I said, Man, I'm just having lost two words, man, because everybody makes these things political, you know, the leftist, the right, and it's like, how do you support anything right, any organization,

any system or anything that furthest is that perpetuation? Like when you were talking about Fox News and Tucker causin, like it's sometimes me and Tom could watch Fox News just to see how crazy people are literally do later because we have to understand what the open enemy is doing. We have to understand what they're thinking. So when you hear what Tucker Carson says like this, and we'd be like, you're this man is bugged out. They're not taking it

as bugged out. These young kids are taking it and then write it down and they're living their life and then there's somebody else programming them and then and they really actually carrying out mass acts of destruction in massacre against us and we have to be aware like at this point when you you know, unfortunately, when we in our communities before, we used to look at see a white boy, what are you doing the hood? Like we

gotta be real scared now. But the white boy walking into the hood, you gotta be you know, you it gotta it gotta be a whole different reaction. That's how it was the other day. That's how it was the other day when I was there on Saturday and on Sunday, you know, at the scene of this situation that happened, you know, to be honest with you, I'm I'm side and all the white people that's there. Because it's a copy copy. These copycat murders, they happen all the time.

They don't just happen one, you know, it don't do it's usually another one directly, I think, because somebody wants to copy it. But like we are in dangerous species. Like this ship is really crazy to me, Like I really every time things and it gets closer and closer, you know, you know. Unfortunately, I was locked up in Orleans, which is by Buffalo, so I got a lot of Buffalo friends and a lot of people I know from Buffalo so you know a lot of them. I've seen

a lot of my friends on the internet. You know, my my son's mother's sister lives out there in Buffalo. So you know, it's a concern. And it's just like wow, like it's getting it's getting closer and close. As soon they're gonna pull up in the hood in the Bronx with the same thing, because this is that population is but Buffalo. To what I'm hearing is this community in Buffalo is the hood in the Bronx, right, It's just the hood. It's the same thing. So that's another problem.

It's like we're we we get disconnected from stuff like, oh, that happened over there, what stops them from doing it right here? Yeah, in the city in Alabama. It could

be anywhere, um that these people pop up. And so I think what you said, Jamal is so important that we have to use all of these moments as an opportunity not just to sing and cry about it, which we deserve, that we deserve to sit with and and feel right like even today, it's it's it's hard for us to find the right words because to my son's point, we never need to get to a place where this

is just normal to us. It always needs to to penetrate, right, Um, But we have to be more strategic in terms of how we approach all these people with resources who are coming into the community. And I think that's what's important. It's like, what do the people need? Uh? Past the mic um of Live Free, an organization that also has UH. I think they have an office there in Buffalo as well, UH,

and they do a lot of mental health work. Um. They are sending in mental health specialists for the next couple of months to try to help people in the community process what has happened. I need to connect the two of you. If you don't know pastor Mike Jamil, I would love to connect with them. Yeah. So things like that, like real deliberate action UH needs to happen. And whatever it is that we can do to be supported.

I know you did something yesterday where folks showed up, you know, and whatever we can do, whatever resources we can give, we want to be supportive. We want to be there, um, you know, in any way that we can to support you and the entire community of Buffalo. No. And we've really appreciate that because one one of the things that we realize is that we can't do this work and in our individual sidelows, right, It's gonna take a collaborative effort, you know, amongst people locally, people outside

of the area as well. Right. Why I think what we're doing right now is important because you know, you guys are helping to amplify you know, what we're the challenges that we have right now. I think everybody has a part to play. We can't expect people to all play the same role the same exact way, right, we have to like understand what where people's strengths are and

utilize them for their strength. So, you know, what you guys are doing right now, this is this is really important for us because it's helping us and amplify that message. And hopefully in that amplification, you know, we can start to develop the right um uh collaborations and getting the resources that we need to make sure that things like

this don't happen again. One of the things again I mentioned this earlier about about that that grocery store being um the only one in that in that neighborhood and or the east side of Buffalo. We would love to get the resources that we can put another grocery store in the area, you know what I mean. Like it right now, there is a food issue in terms of getting as you said, fresh fruits and vegetables and other

things to families. And even with the vigil that we did yesterday, it was all about it was okay, we did the visual, but we also did a food distribution as well. You know, we want to make sure that we have a present We did that on Sunday as well, that the day after the after the shooting. We wanted to make sure that we you know, that we do

have a presence in the community. And again I have a vested interest because I have an office over there in that tract, you know, so I'm just as much a part of that community that that every you know, with everybody else. So but we want to make sure that we have the resources that we that we need so we can have long term sustainability. And so this is just not a one off situation, you know, because again, the moment is going to die down. We understand, it

happens all the time. You know. History is often a good indicator and a good predictor of the future. So we know that this is this situation is going to die down. The eyes of the world is not gonna be on Buffalo in a very short period of time. So one, let's take advantage of this opportunity that we

have right now. But also for those listening, let's let's see how we could all collectively come together right to kind of help us make sure that we have some long term sustainability for the folks that live in that community and in that neighborhood. Well, for me, you know, we we we definitely wanted to support you, and we're gonna support you in any way that we possibly can. But I think for me, it deeper is is accountability not just to him, but anybody that fuels that level

of hate. Anybody who's used that level of hey, like that has to be intention People like Tucker Carston and Fox News and and others that we know have fueled that. Like when we look at the insurrection, things like these things are fueled by things by people who who know what they're doing, you know. So I think for us, we have to we have to focus on the fuel. We gotta focus on and target those people who are are directly these are the people, like they said, with

this with this dulkness still be sin. But the guilty one is not the one who can miss. The sinner is he who creates the dulkness. So we gotta start getting people that's creating the dulness. Absolutely, that's the fact. On that note, Jamale, thank you for being with us. You know we in touch anyway on the five. We've been that way and that won't change, um, and we need to figure out how we can really help to continue to elevate your voice. You didn't just pop up,

you know as a leader. You've been Buffalo all the way. We all know it. You brought us to Buffalo. Um, and we'll be back to be, you know, standing hand in hand with you to figure out what we can do to help the community. Much love you. Yeah, we appreciate you guys, And thank you guys for this platform to help us elevate and amplify you know, our messes up here. Really appreciate it. You want to send up PRIs.

I want to send out PRIs and condolences to the families and those who lost their loved ones and just the whole community of of a little and and just saying that we were with you, man, I noticed is I know it's tough times. Uh, it's overwhelming for me, Like I'm just tired of seeing black people dying. Like I'm tired. There's so much death, you know that it's just becoming an overwelming. So I just want to I know that if you feel like I feel, Man, just

take a deep breath. Man, tell somebody you love him. You know. The only thing that could stop paid his love. Man. So yeah, we gotta we gotta love ourselves a lot.

Man appreciate. Yeah, And I've said this last thing. The one thing that kind of keeps me going is the fact that I did just have my first child, right so my my my new warm my son, my son's side, my prince sire and being able to go home and see him and to hug him and to know that, uh, you know, I'm gonna unfortunately have to raise him in the world where I have to teach him that his

his skin color might be a threat. But knowing that, you know, he's going to be able to carry on the legacy of what we what we're doing right now, that's that's I feel. So I'm doing I'm doing this not only just for my people, for my son as well well. Doing a good job than you appreciate. I appreciate you all, thank you all. So you know, I mean,

it's not a lot of words to say. You know, I think Jamal he is, you know, such a important UM leader, and you know, these things happen in certain places and at certain times that we have to recognize also like God's hand right, because Jamal is an incredible organizer. So the fact that this happens in the community that he's in makes me feel like people, for whatever it's worth, they're gonna be all right, right because I know what

he's gonna do. I know the work he's gonna put in, and and I want us not to because we we we talk about these issues, and like you said, it becomes political the left, the right, that this and that. But they are actual families, they are actual names that need to be called and people that have to be remembered. Um. And so I think for us today, since there's not much left to be said, we should really acknowledge these actual individuals and not just talk about them as if

it's just you know, it was just a shooting. No, our grandmothers and grandfathers and our brothers and sisters. They were killed by someone who targeted them, and they could have targeted any one of us. So these are fallen soldiers. So ROBERTA. A. Drury, she's thirty two years old. Marcus D. Morris, you're fifty two years old. Andre McNeil fifty three years old.

Aaron Salts hifty five years old, Geraldine Tally sixty two years old, Celestine Cheney sixty five years old, Hayward Patterson sixty seven years old, Catherine Massey seventy two years old, Pearl Young seventies seven years old, Ruth Whitfield eighty six years mhm. Zire Goodman twenty years old. Uh she was treated and released from the hospital. Also Jennifer Warrington, she was treated and released from the hospital. And Christopher Branden

fifty five years old. He had non life threatening injuries. The souls rest in peace. Man the painted, their families be found some level of relief at some point. M hm, God bless thank you for joining Street Politicians. Listen to Street Politicians on the Black Effect Network on I Heart Radio catch us every single Wednesday. The video version of Street Politicians on I Woman Dot TV