We Need A Christmas Miracle

some stuff from them. I need to sit down. And the quality on these sweatsuits and these hats is crazy. Like the leather, you know, some leopard skin going on. Good. It does look nice. It does look nice. I need to told him I was going to purchase some things from them, and I will. But I'm actually in my for whatever reason, the last the last several years, especially since um Minnister farica On led the uh the the boycott during Black Friday several years ago, when the police

brutality incidents were, um you know, very visible. Because I'm not gonna say that they've calmed down. We know that's not the case because we're seeing cases pop up around the country every single day. But during that time, um you know there was redistribute the pain and it was the boycott. Um. You know, of any of the holiday shopping, I didn't. I never really went back. I get a few things for different individuals who are really special to me, people who I'm close to. Um, you know, but but

the but but I'm I don't. I don't do what I used to do prior to that. Christmas has always from when I was a young girl. Even though we celebrate kwanza I already my parents never maybe the first few years of my life, they was doing the saying a thing. But we was out of that quick, totally out of the sand of these First of all, we lived in the project exactly, so we got out of it. I don't remember. That was when I was like a little girl. But we didn't do Santa um. But we

did do gift giving. Because you know, all these holidays, I think we know the history of them, or ually should be teaching the truth to your family members and then saying that, as I say all the time, we all walk in contradictions because on one hand we can say we don't we understand the holidays, but it does give you time off work, time to get together with family, time you could travel and different things that you can do,

eat good food. Um. And so I used to spend ridiculous money on Christmas gifts and now I don't do that anymore. I just don't well let's say this, let me say it this way. I don't buy a lot of gifts, but I still buy quality gifts for individuals that I love. So I'm actually in my don't spend money period right now. However, I am going to support black owned businesses. What I did do last year, I started just picking people randomly from my Instagram comments and

paying their rent um. I paid I think like three or four people's rent last time last year Christmas, and then from a lot of my friends joined in and picked people as well. And I got that from Miss Miami Bling's page. I'll miss Bling Miami her page. She was doing it. So then myself and another sister I can't remember her name right now, we all just sort of picked it up and started doing that. So I probably would do that again this year, and then we

you know, have some other stuff coming up. So I'm going to purchase something from actively Black, but I am trying to let hold on to my money during the season Yeah, I got to hold onto that coin because it's tough of him. Man, we in recession. Money is you know what they say, are we really in a recession? You can just see that money is not going as long. Yeah, inflation is is definitely, you know, money is definitely not going as far as it used to go. The dollar

don't mean as much as it used to. So going on to your coin, definitely, don't go out there and buying no Nike fuck nick dim own Niket fuck Naket. Yeah, I'm like, things are really expensive, you know I and I am fortunate that, you know, I have resources, I have the means, but I'm looking at things and I'm like, wow, this is really expensive. Like there's a lot of things,

especially with flights. I'm like usually I'm like, if I want to go somewhere, if I need to be somewhere, I'm out like, there's no you know, I'm gonna pay for my flight and go. I also have points, I got different things, but but I am even sitting back like this is too expensive. And I'm definitely not just outright trying to buy first class tickets on most flights where I used to fly first class at any time I got on the plane and you know that I'm

definitely was like, I'm a purchase, but I don't. I don't do that. I think everybody has to cut back, no matter how much money you have. And I was talking to a friend of mine who has lots of money, at a lot of money, and she was like, even in our house, like with money, we're not spending like that. You know, we're being very very careful about how we spend because money goes so fast that you've got a lot lot today and you can have a little little tonight,

not even tomorrow tonight. It's tough man. So me, my money go to everybody else. I think I'm like the bank. Everybody thinks something to bank a couple of little fragments. I get. I get, you know, I gotta I don't

get to enjoyed nothing. But I don't really need much to me, you know, I think with this whole Nike boycott thing, to me, it's made me detach because you know, I'm a big sneaker person, Like I love sneakers, and even though I'm still getting sneak, but I don't feel a touched to it right because I used to have to go out and get the new Jordans and a new this and that when it came out and now I don't. So it's it's making me feel like I don't really need none of this ship. So you know,

I'm being a lot more frugal. I'm just paying attention to money. I'm seeing myself saved more money. You know it's working for me. Yeah, Mr Mr Footwork who I saw today. Shout out to Mr Footwork. If you don't know him, you're looking for any sneaker period, you go to Mr Footwork on inst work and he will help you to find it. Not just sneakers, jackets, chains, anything that you want. Mr Footwork is on his speak and

about that business. So he um is now looking for sneakers that have the purple that matches until Freedom but that but obviously not Nike. He's doing that work for us, that research because I was like, bro, I need sneakers with purple in it because I wear that with my so Freedom gear. Anyway, a lot of little things, crazy things going on around this country. And I promised I was gonna say I swear, but I promised, Um, I'm committed to some new things going into the new year.

And one of them is, of course, on the finance side. Now I've gotten better with what I spend on and how I spend. Now I'm getting better on my paperwork, organizing myself and making sure that I, um, you know, have all of my documents and paperwork and all of that, and trying to get my taxes straighten out. I had several years of just taxes being crazy, but now I'm trying to tighten all the things. So that's my commitment

to myself. Um. But the other thing is what I'm eating right Like eating out, Dude, we gotta be massive careful. You already have changed your eating habits, but we still you will still get a piece of fish anywhere like your little spots, you'll be going to the ground. And we have to be really careful because part of our health is not just the food we eat, but the cleanliness of it. And so I the last few weeks I have been cooking meals in my house. Part of it is I want to cook for my family, with

my grand baby and everybody together. But beyond that, even for myself, I cannot eat out at these restaurants every single meal of the day. It's just too much Now we saw in Detroit at Popeye's all over the takeout orders, roaches was crawling everywhere. Or roaches wasn't just on takeout orders, it was they were in the straws, the door dash um delivery person caught pictures or video or whatever of these roaches crawling everywhere. Now, cock roaches or the big

water bug type of roaches, that's one thing. Those are nasty too, But you can have an infestation of them and not be dirty. So, for instance, there was an infestation of of the water bugs that came into my house. My house is not dirty at all, but the water bugs came in and they kept, you know, you kept seeing them dead. And it was because there was water and a leak and the thing and whatever, and it

had to be fixed and it got under control. But once one comes you can see six or seven, because in in our house there was like ten or twelve of them dead at the same time. When I came back from a trip, then I wasn't home. So that that's that's an infestation and as nasty as hell. But it did not happen because of things because of the house being nasty. It happened because there was water that they were able to feed on roaches. Roaches, they come,

they come for the disgusted. That's nasty. It's nasty. It's terrible. And they and and the thing is they the way they multiplied, the speed that they to ply, and they once they get in, they lay eggs and they keep on laying eggs. And the poper eyes think. And the thing was running out the little hole in the pop Eyes box. It was disgusting, like disgusting, disgusting. And and y'all and and and on some real we be ordering stuff for what we Eats. You don't even know what

the restaurant looks like that you're ordering from. So you're just going online looking for the And by the way, me, when I go to What we Eats, I always go to the Department of Health for that state and look up the restaurant as well. Yeah, y'all don't know. Y'all listened to me. But she is a dirt germ of fold and she cannot stand roaches, rats, dirt. She can't stand none of this stuff. It drives her crazy. She's calling the mayor about the rats. She's taking pictures wherever

she sees. She is not for it at all so these more more. Every time these things come on, it drives her crazy. Now she's gonna be like, I'm never going to Popeye'es, no eat Popeyees no more. After the rats was running up the wall, Yo, Popeyes. The only way I'm gonna eat Popeye's is if I'm drinking, and you know, they bring a box of chicken in the house. It's like, okay, but I'm getting to the point, Mice where I will go to to pick up something and just like I can't, I just can't eat it. I can't.

I would rather go to a good Jamaican restaurant and get me some fried chicken out the the you know, when they're be having it under the light. Now I'm not even And by the way, I don't even want to consider how clean some of those restaurants are either, So let's just be clear. But what I do know is in New York City we have many, many, many cultural restaurants, and you can tell they are very clean,

like they are trying. They're trying their best any to keep it clean, especially like the Golden Crust brand and the ones that I've been to, I can see where they really are trying to do their job of keeping things clean. But anytime you eat out, you're taking a risk. So my boys in Detroit, I don't even know that. You know, y'all can look it up. They have roaches now. They've had to close their doors because they have roaches crawling over everything is bad enough. Some of them got rats.

Probably they got rats and roaches. Do rats and roaches have in the same space. I don't know, but I am going to They definitely coexist. Or is it mice and roaches because rats they do the same. They all in the same places. Well, well, no, rats and rats and mice don't cohabitate. Rats mice, right, so they don't cohabitate. So I anyway, I'm getting ready to join the New York City Task Force for rats and clean and something that got to do with cleanliness. Speaking of asked the

something that needs to be uh. I want rats to be exterminated, and I also want individuals who prey on and rape young people or anybody rapist in general to be exterminated. And I mean, I really do mean that, Like, if you are out here sleeping with kids and messing with people and their children, we put somewhere they need to be put down. I guess we can't really say put you down because we don't really support I don't

support the defenitalty. So yeah, I know, but it's like you can't have one thing and not the other because I don't know. I mean, it's again, it's a it's a difficult thing. But the archdioces in Baltimore. I wonder if it was Maryland or Baltimore. It's five Baltimore, it's not even Baltimore anyway. I know this happened in Baltimore, but it could have been the archdioces of mary and I don't know how that works anyway. They failed to report um over. No, they failed to report sexual assault

against many victims. Now there's a criminal investigation that has uncovered six hundred people saying that they were victims over eighty years. So over eighty years, there are at least six hundred people who were young girl young at the time growing up in the church and the archdiocese they claimed they did their own investigation and then they they are banned these priests and others. I'm sure it was priests, but there's maybe other members of the church leadership that

were involved in this. They banned them from being around kids. Now, the only way you could be banned from being around kids becau Oh but you can be locked up, you have to be away, you can you can't be around kids. What are we talking about? You going to stay away from? So I just don't understand why does why does this church constantly have this issue with these kids? Like what is going on? But I just never understood, like what what is it is? It is? It is something that's

part of like what is going on? Well, and and and so a part of me. It's considering what it means to be a part of a village. Right, and so if we were in an African village and we and it should be the case even in our own communities, we don't call the police, we would not call the police to deal with our issues, right, I mean that's kind of the theory. I'm still but okay, but then

what is the process? I need to hear it. I need the Pope himselves or some damn body to tell me what is the process for multiple victims of sexual assault? If we're not using the criminal justice system, fine, I could even accept that there has to be a mechanism for public safety, community safety in your own village. We we all need that right, we need that if you're a murderer, a dangerous right. So there has to be some level of something to address the sickness. I don't

think it's just a crime. I think it's it's definitely a sickness, especially when you look at it because a lot of them pray. They they don't just do it one time or something like that. It's it's a sickness, is a cycle. So I don't know, Like you said, I want to know what the process is of you addressing it and you know you're doing something because there's no accountability, like what what? What are you really doing that you're holding these people accountable. That's what I'm saying.

That's what I'm trying to ask you. It's what I don't. I don't have a clue. I don't. I don't. I don't know what it is there out here doing because it ain't working because every we keep hearing the same thing in the church, in this cadutry, and I don't understand where it's coming from. I don't understand what it is that that's something that's prevalent in those churches. So then the question becomes is it a sickness or is

it cultural? Or is it both? I think it might be both because we've seen this culture within the same church over and over again. It's been so I don't understand, you know, is it something that's supposedly accepted in it within this church. But I don't understand. Well, I think at some point it was like we need to stop

playing with this conversation. Yeah, I don't know. That's something I've never really got into in depth with it and understood exactly why, you know, and why why it isn't totally frowned upon, you know, and it's constantly happened within the church. So I don't I don't understand that. I've never got to understand. I just know it was crazy and it always a year they said this person was doing this in the capulture and fred person was doing this to kids, and we just keep hearing it and

it's like it's not changing. It should has six over six hundred victims um a hundred and fifteen abusers, and it's all happened over eighty years. So this is going on for eighty years. So if you maybe if the village dealt with two or three, four, five, and it keeps happening. At what point is it a systemic problem that has to be addressed on a larger level. I don't know, and I think I think it always. I think it needs to be addressed on the hut. I just think, like I said, rate to me is one

of those crimes where it should be punishable. But I would say death. You're raping kids, But it has to be punishing by some level inconceerration, some level of you know, punitive. It has to have punitive you know. And when you're doing something and you and you're not treating like yourselfing to have a punitive, you know, response, then I think you're dropping the ball on it and you and you're allowing it's a forester and continue to grow because there's

no real consequence. I'm with you. I don't know. I don't have nothing else I could. This ain't right. That's all I can say is that this is wrong. It is wrong. It's wrong, and I saw it. I posted the story on my page or in my story since somebody wrote back to me like, oh well that never happened to me. Yeah, if you know what, I never God knock on wood or whatever, and please God bless me. But I never got struck by lightning. That never happened

to me. But there's other people that they're struck by lightning. So stop trying to make it seem like just because the priest in your church did not rape you or or molest you or something, that that means it didn't happen to first of all, other people in your church, but also that it couldn't be maybe just not your priests. No nothing, There is no one of anything. So we know that there's not a hundred percent of priests that

have had or abused children. So maybe it missed you, and God bless you that it missed you, and and maybe you didn't even know what it looked like if it did happen to you. But nonetheless, there are many people that it has happened to. And this is crazy. So I really am trying to understand. For me, I'm trying to understand what is their process because I don't get it. I don't get it. And they said, oh, so they said it's a hundred and fifteen priests, but

then they said they've been credibly accused. So we're not even saying, like ash slashing and half bring only ten per or three percent or two percent we're talking about. They're saying that these people are credibly abute accusing uh individuals. And by the way, forty three more priests have been accused as well. But they but they didn't make it to the official hundred and fifteen that have received some type of reprimand from the church. The reprimand ain't working.

The reprimand ain't working. And I don't know, this might be going too far because I would never see here and say that the Muslims should you know, not where he jobs. I don't. I think they should have choice, right. I would never say that the Christians shouldn't have baptism, right. I would never say that these things are cultural parts of what makes up their religion and our religion. But maybe not having sex as a priest is not a good thing. I don't really think. I don't think it's

a natural thing. And I think, you know what I'm saying. I think sex. Sex is a part of life, and it's it's a process. I don't think telling priests to abstain is is all the way realistic, you know, for for the majority of them, the majority of people don't abstain from sex their whole life. It's just not it's not a really a thing. So why go to change because those are the people that they're around, most of

the most wonderful you know, they're around. They don't they're trying to figure out what to do with this sexual energy. It's just it's a lot. It's a lot to unpack. Makeup that be wrong, but it's definitely a lot to unpack. It is. I mean, I just, yeah, I need to learn more. And I'm not in the Catholic church, but I went to Catholic school, and I need to understand because I'm not any time a bunch of kids. No,

it's not right. So anyway, speaking of abuse, women, attorney Ben Crump has offering he has filed the lawsuit against the Department of Corrections in New York because there are a number of women who claimed that they have been

impregnated by correctional officers over several years. Impregnated rates you know, great basically sexually because they don't have power to really you know, when you exercise and power, they can't really say yes, yeah, I mean, you know, and some of them might have acted like they was cool with it. It helps them probably get some privileges. And but the thing is that is elite atomatically automatically rate whenever whenever a CEO or officer has sex with a prisoner, it's right.

There's no consensual sex in that situation, is always right. So that's it. So the women are suing again. I know that one of the leading cases is around actually being impregnated by these officers. And you know what has the Department of Correction is done about that. There's so many things in our society is just out of control, Like everything is just out of control. People just doing whatever the hell they want to do. And now you have this, you know coming out, which we already know

that the officers we have. I mean, I hope people don't think that some of these officers don't have sex with their with the incarcerated individuals. It definitely is. Yeah, it's happening. It's definitely, trust me. I know, I'm just saying. So that's another thing going on. So last week I attended UH court, the Tory Lanes trial. Um I went because I wanted to. I send people ask to me, why did I go? Like why did you go? I said?

Two reasons. So what's the two reasons? Because I felt like it, and I go anywhere I want, any time I want, and so that's why I went, and too, I went because I wanted to see and hear for myself. I didn't want to because of the fact if if court, if the trial was playing on tv UM or you know, if there was actual clips and audio coming out from

inside the courtroom, I probably would not have gone. Not because I still wouldn't have wanted to be there, but I had so much going on, Like I literally did not sleep all week because I was flying overnight to l A, going to the trial, then leaving the trial, having to fly out overnight again to get to Orlando for the Conference of National Black Churches. They had UM their conference going on, and I went there to present on a panel about addiction and mental health issues in

the Black church. Then I left there had to be in d C because we were honored by the National Coalition of Black Civic Participation and Melanie Campbell. So I was literally going crazy. So if I could watch it on TV, I would have again because it would have worked better for my schedule. But because that was not the case, and the only news I was hearing was coming from the Instagram reporters, the one you know, the

Instagram reporters. I was like, I ain't. I want to hear exactly what Megan says word for word myself so that I can understand more about the nuances. And a lot of stuff was uncovered, you know what. I what we already discussed the fact that an guil King interview, she said she didn't have sex with him. I didn't believe that. I didn't believe it just's just the truth. And I you know, I love and support Meg, but I didn't believe that. And she said she lied about it.

You know, I know why. And I when she said she didn't do it, I know why. I knew why she was doing that. You know, it's not an unusual thing, especially for women, even women and men to try to deny someone they have sex because they don't want their business. And I think one of the things about Megan that she's going to have to work on is feeling like she needs to um uh present a certain way for the the the internet, you know, for what people are

saying about you or what they think. At this point, it doesn't matter anymore, you know, we all have come to our own conclusions in our head, which is not court, about what we think happened. Right, We've come to our own conclusions and um and and it, and it really doesn't matter, Like you don't have to like, oh, I didn't do this, not to sleep with this when it doesn't really matter, like f who don't like who you

slept with? So what it's better to just go ahead and be straightforward about whatever the issue is so you can just you know, in this situation. I'm not saying anybody should just be out telling in their business. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying when it comes to a situation that you have to deal with it in court, and you got the court of public opinion, the court, the actual court is at that point trying to do

the wiggle thing. It doesn't it doesn't work. But it's still whether she slept with Tory, Pory, Poopy and Tuopy doesn't matter because it's gonna come down to who shot her and what does the jury believe. And in listening, you know, and in sitting there and listening to her and my thought of the day, what came to me as I was sitting and listening to the very the nuances and the details and what they brought up. Everything she tweeted, everything she said, every interview she did, every

Instagram post, every uh, you know, all the whatever. Everything they have it and they bring it up. Sometimes it was brought up to support her, right because she has a very her story was very consistent about certain things, very consistent, and so they brought it up to say, this is what she said. Then this is still what she's saying now, but they brought up inconsistencies. So any So, my thing is, you know, we have to be real

careful what we do on social media. I tell you all the time, emotional response on social because we all get emotional. You meet anybody, you get upset, something pisces you off, something makes you angry. Sometimes you want to kick somebody's ass. All of that stuff. Those things, those

those are emotions and they happen to us. But Instagram and Twitter and Facebook, in any form of social media is not the place to go to express that because later on it will don't be used either against you or sometimes it can work, but more than likely it is being used against you. And I think people just need to be real careful what they write and what they say, especially after they are triggered by something from an emotional perspective. I mean, I definitely agree with that.

And that's why it's called Instagram, because you instantly, you know, a lot of times I've had to just you know, suspend your first reaction. Right. A lot of times you see ship and you mad, you want to and you have to. And a lot of times what I do is I write some ship and just delete it because I wrote it, and you know, and and it gives

me some level level of therapy. But yeah, definitely when you're looking, especially in this situation that you know, I think, what what's what's going on is there's a court and then there's court of public opinion, right, so, and people tie you into anything you say. You know what I'm saying, and don't matter what you say, and if if, if it's anything that conflicts a little, they used that to

try to destroy your character anything. Oh but you said this, They come on my page, Oh, how are you gonna be this? But you said this, Well, you said this, Oh this is contradicting. Huh. Listen, your your perception of what I say or what I do is your perception, you know what I'm saying. So people try to tie you in to something the reason why you did it or you only did this because of that, well you

you know, and that's what social media does. And you find yourself trying to punch yourself out of a situation

that you can't. You can't change people's perspectively, you right, you just only thing you can do is be who you are, understand your understanding and you you you you can utilize social media as something that you you promoting things that sometimes you express thoughts that you think you know the world should you know before you express them, make sure that these thoughts are something that you know you want the whole world and know right that after

the emotions is gone and all that ship, it doesn't come back to you. And you're like, damn, I should have never said that, because a lot of this is what I see. A lot. It's people that I've seen on Instagram say ship and be like and I'd be like, wow, why would they like why would they say that on Instagram?

You know, like about their personal life and personal friends and this and that you know, and I think you know for me, like I've seen I've seen a post today and it was, um, it was about twitch and it was little Romeo and he said something and you know, it was directed to his father and I'm like, damn, I didn't know none of this was going on, you know.

And he said, you know it's sad. Was when your father posts something r I Peter a famous person who's going to mental health but stays away from your own family members, who's dealing with the same thing. You know, y'all, you know y'all role models and this and that. And I was like, damn, Like that wasn't for Instagram. That was what you call your father on the phone and be like, yo, Dad, this is some second ship room boom.

I'm feeling this way, like regardless of what, that's your father, Like, we've watched that man give you opportunity to put you in invest positions of your life and you don't have to deal with certain things based only I don't know what the full you know, the full scope or your relationship is, but I just know that you're talking on

your to your father through Instagram. We're talking bad about your father through Instagram, Like that ship don't go away, you know, and the ship that they use against both of your that they'll use to pick you two against each other. And you know, I just think that in those instances, we have to be very very careful about how we use Instagram. Yeah, now I agree with you. I feel that way about Um. I feel that way.

I felt that way too, Like, you know, maybe maybe he feels um that his dad deserved it for some reason. You know, maybe uh, you know, maybe he feels like his dad deserved it for some reason. I mean obviously feels like I'm just saying, but I was going to say, maybe he feels that way, and perhaps he does. Perhaps it's so bad that he does deserve it, But I

personally believe he'll regret writing that on social media. It's just every day I'm learning the more and more people who are starting to step pull back from social media because people are seeing the damage that is causing. And I am one of those individuals that in fact, I was just thinking, like damn, I have so many posts, like we go to so many events, were doing this, We're being honored, we over here, we over there. I

have so much stuff going on. If I posted everything that I'm doing every day, people might be like, she's like crazy, Like this. Something is wrong with the not not crazy bad word. You know, we're not supposed to say crazy, but um, you know, like like they might not they might look at me and be like, it's overkilled, right, because I literally have done in the last week to First of all, for the whole year, I've been working my asshole. I've been here, speaking, here, doing this, doing that.

I don't post, not even not even had a very small portion of my life is on social media. Matter of fact, they hope that they say, my private life is way more exciting than what people actually get to see. And I try to give as much as I can.

But I realized one, um, I need to I realized that number one, I need to protect myself from voters and haters and trolls, because I find myself getting ready to tell somebody to suck stuff, and I had to be careful about that because I know it's not appropriate. But then also I just trying to figure out, like who am I actually talking to? Because the friends that I want to see certain things, some of them are present when I'm enjoying these moments or experiencing whatever, the

ups and the downs and highs and the loads. Then also I could text them, I got group chats. It's like, why am I everybody else doesn't need to see and be a part of everything you're doing all the time. And I just and I know, I know there are people out here that use social media and it benefits them to turn that camera on while they are doing whatever, cooking their foods, doing something with their kids, talking about inspiration.

I know that, And I'm not taking anything away from those individuals, but I just hope that we're using how people are using it properly and and and using it for a benefit, because otherwise it's ways if you regret some of the stuff you post, and I do. I regret some things that I have posted. Now, I think we all have. We regret things every day. We regret things we say, you know what I'm saying, We were great places, We're like, it's a lot of stuff we regret.

We just I think, I think as adults and responsible individuals, learning how to use social media to your advantage and not to let it something that consumes you and you

wasting time. It's something different, but we definitely need to be able to utilize because the amount of people that you're able to reach, you know, in such a short amount of time, you know, so rapidly, and the impact that it can have, right because as as organizers, you know, as activists and leaders, we have to be able to be in tune with the large amount of people at one time to spread messages. You know, the work that we don't we do is because people pay attention to

what we say. So if we don't have, you know, platforms in which we can reach mass amount of people's and organize and inform people everywhere, then it's it's hard. Our work becomes way harder, sure does, it does, so you know, it is what it is. But you know, just we gotta be careful. That's my that's my thought of the day. Be careful on social media, so you know, in the spirit of of of giving. It's holiday time.

I'm always my you know, we've been doing this. We talked about it earlier, how we've been picking people online and trying to be supportive of folks. You clearly are doing so much to try to be supportive of black businesses. I heard from one of the businesses that you have promoted that their sales are up crazy, especially during this holiday time. So it's all I think we can't. We

certainly reject the pagan side of these holidays. We reject the oppression of our people and other communities that has I've been as a result of these holidays. That's all about supporting capitalism and not telling you the true story of like what has you know, what atrocities occurred as a result of these holidays. But what we do want to always focus on is the spirit of giving. And this is our Christmas episode. And I learned that this

story just scrolling on Instagram. You know, Instagram tells you what you're supposed to look at these days, in case people don't know. I know, I know, I'm like so anti certain things on social media, so I'm gonna try to ease up on that. But they do tell you what you're supposed to be looking at. And one day, I guess because so many of my friends were engaged on a particular post of our next guest, um I was I was somehow, you know, it came up on

my feet. I wasn't following her, but this particular day, I saw what looked like a young child in serious distress. Like the imagery of what I saw was sturving. It was very you know, it was pretty much a treatment situation, and you could tell the child was in the hospital and there was things happening to her that, um, you know, just broke my heart. So I started clicking through the page, her mother's page, checking out, like what else is going on?

And I saw previous pictures of her as this beautiful young lady, you know, a young virant kid. And then of course this this complete like all the way to the left difference of her being sick and in the hospital, and so I read up about it. I reached out to her mom to try to figure out, is that, you know, anything that we can do? And you know, obviously they were in the hospital and dealing with a lot.

But when she was released from the hospital and went home, I heard back from her mom saying, hey, you know, quite frankly, I need help. And so today, um, we are in the spirit of giving, we are going to use street politicians as an opportunity to raise money for this family. After she tells her story, hopefully you whatever you are, whether you're sitting, you will feel compelled to

give to help her. No go fund Me is not an insurance policy, but sometimes things happen outside of the scope of what our insurance can handle, what our bank accounts can handle. And we as a village and as a community, we have a responsibility to help our neighbor and our brother or sister, our siblings the same way that we would want to be helped if we were

in a similar situation. And I know I don't have to beg y'all or preach to y'all, because this story is one that if you know, when we get because we see the police shot somebody down, we give millions of dollars. We give when we see people harm, be give when we see compelling stories. This is a compelling story that we need to also support. And so I

would like to welcome today. UM. I don't know if maybe you wanted to say something first before I'm saying we have to pay for And when I heard about this situation, you know, it touched my heart, you know, and I felt for the family, and I think we should do all that we can and wrap our arms around her and her daughter, you know, and and and make sure that the village takes care of its own. So absolutely, um, And so today I want to introduce

you all. Some of you already know because I see there's a lot of people following her, but a lot of you probably don't know. I want to introduce you all to Baily's mother, the young lady and the young girl in the video. Her name is Daily and she's twelve years old, and this is her mother, Nico Taylor. Thank you so much, Nico for joining street politicians and just for being so dope and so humble. Um. And we want to do all that we can is to

support you. Say, thank you guys so much. It's definitely good. A huge struggle. I'm about to cry right now. I'm like, yeah, it's it's I know, I know, it's a lot. I know it's a lot, you know, just having especially your daughter, so young girl doing what she's doing. Quick. Um, so give us a kind of understanding of exactly what happened to Billy. Um, So Bailey went swimming, and so let's just rewind. So Bailey there's really really good in school.

She gets like really good. Great. Um, she's like, well she was in sports. Um, really family orientated, just a spunky young child that you know, it's just a child that's just living her little life. And we've never had no type of health issues. And my family besides my mother, but other than that, nobody else. UM, So don't know that it could have stemmed from actually like family. I don't think that at all. Um. But so once she

went swimming, um in a summer program. She was in a summer program and she went swimming, and so she had been swimming with the Suthern program for about three weeks. Nothing was going on and it was just fine. Um. One day she came home and she was like, Mom, she was like, I really don't feel good. And I'm like okay. She was like, today I can't go to practice. And I'm like okay, I'm like, well, let's just take it off. Let's just take a rest. Maybe doing too much or maybe just a lot on you. And so

she's like okay. So that night she has a fever and I'm like, okay, like you're getting sick. Maybe you're going to swimming too much. So I'm just trying to understand. But I'm trying to understand it on a level that I'm not even thinking that is going to get this far. I mean, I never thought that it was going to be as serious as it was. So she is still having the fever. I'm trying to break it with medicine. I'm trying to break it with just different avenues to

help her and hydrate her, but that's not working. So the next day, the fever is still here, and I'm like, okay. So she stays at home with dad and I go to work. But I'm like kind of like, are you is a fever breaking? He's putting cold towels on her, giving her a bath and cold water. The fever is not breaking. So the next following day, she has a lump on her forehead and it's like in the middle of her forehead, but it's like a slight lump, and I'm like, oh my god, did you get your head

on something or what did you do? Like how did you get this? And so she's just like, mom, I do not feel that. She's like, the fever is still here. She said, I have a massive headache. I'm like okay. So I go to work and um, while I'm at work, I can't even work because I'm just worried about her. So I get home and I'm like, Bailey, I'm like, are you sure you're okay? She's like, Mom, I feel really weak right now. She's like I just I just

can't take it. I'm okay, we're going to spital. So we go to the Before we even go to the hospital, I'm like I'm taking that. I'm like, you know, let me just like relax a little bit. I just had got home from work. So I'm like, Okay, we're gonna go to the hospital tonight in the middle of the night, and we're gonna figure out what's going on. So I take her in the middle of the night. Immediately when I take her, they take her right in. They they're

like doing you know, just similar tests. They're doing the fever test. They're doing they're noticing how she's acting. They've seeing that she's like, you know, jozy and stuff. So then after that, um, after they take her right and she immediately gets a cask in. So they're like, if we see anything on the cask and we're gonna have it um and meet you two children's hospitals. So I'm like okay, And so the doctor comes back and he's like,

you have to meet you tonight at children's hospital. He's like, there's something, but I don't know what it is. She was like, well, we see something on the cask, and so I'm like, okay, So, um, after that, we go to Children's hospital. Oh and we get there at the middle of the night too, so it's like about three four o'clock in the more in the morning, and so um, we're in the emergency room. So they get us and there immediately they put her on five different antibiotics. Leon

as they put it on five different antibiotics. They get us into a room. Soon as they get us into a room, they're trying to stabilize the fever. The fever is so hard that they think she's gonna have a stroke. So they're just like going back and forth, pasting. They're trying their best I think I particular signs to just help. So after that, Um, two days in, she starts having seizures. Now the seizure is a mile seizure in the beginning, and they still don't know what's going on. They're just

saying that it's a brain funk. Is that Um, you know, the texts have come back from the cultures and this is what we're hearing or this is what we're seeing on the cultures, and this is what we're discussing with multiple doctors that are specialists. I'm like okay. So I'm like a brain funk is hard? Can she get that? And I'm explaining to them that she went swimming and stuff. So after that, the fever is not breaking, and then the communication stops because they're kind of scared too. They

don't know what's going on. They're like, you don't know what this is. We've never seen this before, so we're all in like a panic now. So the first season starts and it's about like five minutes. We're in the room and I'm sitting in the window because they give you like a room and you know, in the window it's like where the parents can sit down or you can actually make it into a bed. So we're sitting in the window and so, um, her dad gets up.

My husband get said and he's like, you know, he's like Bailey, He like, um, you know, you're okay and stuff, and then she's not responding. So I'm just listening and I'm like, okay. I'm like he's like Niko, she's not saying nothing, but she's like in a dead stare. She's just like went and she's just staring. So when I get up, I'm like, Bailey, I'm like, are you okay, I'm like, talk to me, talk to me. She's not talking. So after that takeing time. So then after that or whatever,

she was like, so the doctor come. Then even after the doctor I'm in, She's like, she has another tejure. I'm gonna put her on caesure medicine. I'm like, how could you put her own caesure medicine and you don't even know what's going on. So after that, m me and the doctor kind of like discussing really quick. In the midst of us discussing, Bailey has another tuture, but this one is like about ten minutes. So she's like, we have to put her on the sesure medicine. And

I'm like okay. So I feeling like I had no room to kind of do no research. I just had to listen. That's the only thing I could do. So after they put her on seizure medicine, I'm like, um, you know what does this mean? Like, you know what is this all about? And so she's like, we have to do more tests. We have to do more test She's like, I can't give you anything. I can't eat

a commission. So I'm like, okay, so I'll start researching, So I'm knowing that the seizure is coming from the brain being swollen and the brain having inflammation in there. But when they're saying that it's a brain plunkets, they don't know her. It's even that they don't know if it's just in the middle. They don't know nothing because it's still early on. So I'm like, okay, so now I'm starting to do my own research. And so they have her own season mans. So they break the first one,

which is um out of band and capra. So after they give her out of banda capra. Those are two medications medications that they give her. So after that, Bailey is out. I mean, she's like completely as if she just didn't have no like she was just sleep like, but the medicine makes you go to sleep, so you know, I just was still uneased about the situation. I just didn't know. So I had a conversation with Dad and I'm like, listen, I said, they don't know what's going on.

I don't know what's going on, and you don't know what's going on. So right now we're gonna do some research. But when they come in here, we're gonna be on the same page, because I don't want them to tell you one thing, tell me one thing. We're gonna be on the same page about this whole situation. So when they come back, Bailey is completely also it's like the next day and so the next day, UM, we're trying to like feed her. She's not eating, she's just you know,

obviously she has um. She's just using the restroom, but she's not eating. And so they're getting nervous again because the fever is backing out. So now the fever is back to like one oh nine. So now we're back in the limbo, which is trying to figure out what this is. So they're you know, doing more tests or doing blood tests. They're doing all types of tests. Some of the blood test is coming back, you know, really good, so some of some of their positivity is just relying

on this test on these tests that they're doing. So they do UM m R. So they do it m R. I. They're like, okay, you know what we're gonna have to put you guys into um yeah, yes, yes, yes, So we go down there and we're in icy you and so they're monitoring her, their monit turning her and why their monitoring her. UM. You know, it's just like they still just don't know what's going on. So now we're going into like, you know, just a time where it's going into days and Bailey is just knocked out. She's

just sleeping, she's just on the medicine. I'm literally like trying to stuff like food in her mouth. She's just not eating. So they're really really scared at this particular side. So when I see you, they're just watching us and stuff. Um, obviously they're doing more tests. So I'm communicating with them. I'm asking them questions, um, you know, just trying to

see what's going on, and they don't really know. So at this particular side, I started according to conversations because I don't know what's going on, and I'm like, listen, you know, like I'm gonna be in a world full of trouble and I'm not gonna know how to handle this whole situation, and I'm going to need to get some help where I'm going to need some type of outside help. So I reached out to UM. One of

my friends. Her mother is UM. She's an l v N. So I reached out to her, and so she reaches out to another doctor, and so he's trying to explain to me they need to do a spinal test, they need to these amount of tests. So now I'm reformed. I'm um, you know, giving the doctors all the information that I have. So they're trying to do more tests, but they're saying like, no, we don't think that tests a word. Okay, well we could do this test, but we've done this test. So we're all kind of going

back and forth about this all along. Bailey still have these seizures. So now the seizures have sped up to forty five minutes, So the next one that she has every forty five minutes, she would have a seizure or their daily. But it's like, let's say today she had a seizure, be forty five minutes. So now they have her on capra, they have her on at a band, but they're overly medicating her. They're they're putting a lot

of medication into her. So she's out. So now she has a seizure and I called my pastor and I'm talking to my pastor, and my pastor is praying a whole entire time. She's just praying her behind off like it was just really intense. Like so, but these seizures that she's now having, it's two hour long there two hours now they really can't breaking to where they're overly

medicating Mary. When I say that, I'm saying she's on Bempact, she's on Capra, and she's on the um Capra Bempact and she's on at a band, but there's medicating her so much that she just falls asleep out of the seizure. So now they're putting the kgs on her head because now I need to monitor when the seizures are coming. When they put these on her head, they still are not mond turning like as fast as rapid. And I'm not lee sure why because it's like, you know, I

can see the monitor. They can see the monitor too, but it's like when the seizure happens, it's like almost out of their control, like they just don't know. Okay, wait, let me just because you said a lot of things that that I know, I would have been beyond terrified. Beyond terrified. It is not a good word, Like that's not an adequate word to describe what I feel sitting here right now. And it's not even my situation you know wow, who wow, I don't know what it looks like.

What does a two hour seizure look like? So she doesn't have these seizures where she is you know, shaking or um showing a lot of emotion in the seizure. She doesn't have that. Bailey's having the seizure where the whole body is limp and she can hear you, but she can't say anything. So if you raise her hand, her hand is just dropped. And if you're talking to her, if you're trying to shake her, she just can't say nothing.

She's just like in a dance, they're like just she's just there, like she can hear, but she just that's it. So when she wakes up off the seazure and your accedent questions, all she can say is I can hear you, but I cannot do anything. I don't even I mean an accident like okay, do you feel when the teacher is about to happen. She's saying no, like, Mama, just can hear you guys, but I can't do anything. So she's just there. Wow, this is so so so what's

happening now? What? What? What? What stages like? Did have they fully done. Mostly do they know exactly they haven't fully diagnosed. I just found out yesterday that UM, in order to go to another hospital, we have to find some insurance that can cover that hospital because at the time we have insurance. So UM I've applied for insurance, and the insurance that we have it's not their only

contracted with this one children's hospital. So in order for me to get a second opinion, I only can go to them, which is you know, obviously not something that is okay for us to do when we know that they don't know what's going on. Every paper that has come to the house I said something different. UM. It was a paper that came in and it said like she had a party pot tumor. I researched it, like

seventeen people in the world have this. The next paper that comes in and saying that she has a sinus infection. The next paperwork it says no diagnosis, And the the next one that comes in it says brain infection. It's just like all this type of stuff, but they just don't know. The next one that's coming and says the brain bacteria. It's honestly all over the place, and we still don't know what really has When I saw the tube in

her forehead, what were they doing? So she went through surgery and they cut the forehead to drain it, to drain um from the brain. So they went in through her nostrils, and so our guess when they went in, because that's still unclear. So but they're saying when they went in, they went inside, they cleaned out the forehead and then they put the drain in there to drain out whatever else was in there. But it wasn't just right there. It was it's on the last side of

her brain. It's in the middle of her brain, and it's um. It's on the last side of her brain, in the middle of her brain, and then it's like in the like on the sides of her brain. Basically, you all are living your life, you and your husband and your daughter, UM, you have a son to um. You all living regular lives. She's going to school, playing sports,

doing all her activities. She started swimming. Next thing, you know, gets this fungus or something happens where we believe as a fungus or you believe is some kind of fungus or something like that, and then this nightmare of hers and over in just like a week's time, from day to day to day, getting worse and worse and worse and worse, to the point that she ended up in the hospital again to your point with the blank stare,

with her brain having to be drained. Um, you know, with all of this, all of this stuff that's going on, so obviously expenses are mounting because the insurance that you have, even I don't, they don't have insurance anymore. Used to be that you get really good insurance. Um most people anyway, it used to be that you get some really good insurance that will cover a lot of things. But today they're doing everything they can to say, well, we can't cover this, and we can't cover that, and you're not

able to work anymore. At this point, right while this is going on, you have to stop working completely. Yes, so it happened in July. Um we're in December and I am trying to pick back up work. Um, Bailey is homeschool. She cannot be in school right now. Um, so right now I'm trying to but I just can't. So initially, I'm a hair stylus, and so all the clients that I've had and I don't I don't you know.

I'm not concerned that they have left their they have party ways on me or anything, but it's just gonna be hard to pick back up life in so many different aspects. Well you know, um since July, you know, just listening to it, I don't you know, being a I don't even know how I would deal with this. How How was your husband taking this? How was he was taking it extremely hard? He was crying with me. It was It's like we were yelling. It was so

much going on that we just couldn't believe it. And it's like, yeah, we just never expected something like this, Like honestly, like I can't even tell you how we got to that because I'm not gonna like you. It was death was on the line. It was letting us know there was like okay, listen, you know, it's out of our control, and you know she might you know, and I'm like nah, like m m hmm. I just kept thinking, like camp Be can't be because she why she gonna lead us the world because she wanted to

slimen not. So she was released from the hospital, which is a good thing. Yes, all your family were there. How did you get to that point? Mm? Hmm. So Bailey started progressing, and so she started progressing. I started cooking in the hospital and stuff, and I started making natural foods. I just started doing a whole lot of research that could put everything, all the nutrients back in her body so that it couldn't help fight the disease too. Instead of us just eating at the hospital, I was

really trying different methods. So she really really started progressing. UM. I started giving her sea moss every day. I started a lot of great things that I still do for her today. She still has to eat a certain kind of way. She cannot just go on and be like I'm just gonna eat whatever, Like, no, you cannot, because

her condition it's still unknown. And I don't want to be in a situation where I'm just letting her get right back into like and there's something that kicks it back up, because she'd be left with the infectionate so she still has the infection. UM. She once she started progressing, you know, we spoke with the doctors and stuff, and they're like, okay, listen, we're gonna you know, release you guys, and you know, if anything happens, you guys can come back.

But you know, like she had like a fever or anything. So, um, we got released. We have to go to the hotel because she couldn't be around no family, like nobody. So we were in a hotel for about a month since we had been released. So we got released. That's what we have to do. After that. Um, we just allowed like her immediate family to see her. She still hasn't had like contact with a lot of people, and it's not because I don't want her to, but I think

mentally she cannot handle the conversation. I think mentally it's a lot on her. She's definitely expressed that to us. Um, she's still worries about like when she's in the hospital. She doesn't want to hear about it. So to avoid all of it, I just keep her really really close, and that's the best thing we could do. But I do invite people to church. So I'm like, if you guys want to see her, guys to come to church

on Sunday or something. But we're not gonna have like a welcome home party or anything like that because this is such a serious situation that we can't risk her so and anything could be risked at this with sicure time, So we just keep her close and when she's seen her family with that's her aunties, her grandmother and her uncle and just her cousins. That literally we lived really

close and we're close knitted as a family. Well, well you're in my prayers, Billies, in my prayers, the whole families in my pres and hopefully we can do something, you know, amplify your voice and then and let the world know the situation. And hopefully, you know, the world pour into and help you with these fees and you know, and and she'll get back to where she should be. Man. So I just want you to know that so much, like seriously, it's a struggle, and it's still a struggle. Yeah.

I just try to be strong as possible. Sometimes I'm always tune like dang, like how do you stare strength in their face? Like you just gotta just you just gotta be shocked. You just gotta figure it out. Yeah, I mean, your strength is her strength, and you give up, she gives up. So your strength is her strength. Dad, strength is her strength. Um And and and I agree with my son, I know that there are you and you didn't ask me to help you from a financial perspective.

You said you wanted to look into what was happening at the hospital to see if you were you know, if things were if things were going right. You just wanted to have a support system of people to help I think through what is going on and make sure that all your legal options, your hospital optionally you want to send her somewhere else. Trying to get the instruments

to cooperate. And then I started asking you about how you were financially surviving, and you were like, Oh, that's like a real that's not a good situation right now. Like it's it's hard. You know, your husband is working and he's trying to do what he's got to do. Right,

did you taught me at you? So during this whole time, he wasn't working either, so he was going to school for real estate, and so he eventually passed the test, but during the whole entire time, he was like trying to go you know, like let's say Bailey was toping to day He's like, Okay, I'm gonna trying to schedule my test and I'm gonna trying to take it. But he felt the test most of the times because of

their pressure. So he recently just got the license but it's still a struggle because they haven't even set the license out or anything like that. So right now at this was a good time. It's just as just figuring it out and trying to just wiggle through life. Honestly, Well, listen, man, we're gonna do all we can try to help you figure it out and just try to amplify you know. I'm definitely gonna donate and try to get everybody that

I know for doing it, because this is serious. Man. Listen, listen, folks who are listening. In five dollars is a lot. Five dollars is a lot to go find. The information is in our bio as street politicians pod, it's in my bio at t make a de mallory it is. You can see it here. We're going to share it as much as possible during this holiday season. You've heard the story, and I told you all, once you heard the story, there was no question to what this is.

This is not well, how do he get arrested? And what did she do? And it's none of those things where we're now questioning. Your young baby got sick. Her parents have been doing all that they can to support her and to work through this. You, and I know, and I understand that there are probably people out here who say, well, I might, I would still have to

go to work. You're lying. If your baby was in the situation like this, you your life would probably be a complete disaster because it's impossible to just leave your child at the hospital and try to go focus on a job when your baby doesn't. If it's cancer and it's a certain time, you've got bukemia, you've got this, you've got that, maybe you can figure it because at this point you have a regiment, you understand what's going on, you know what to look forward to, even though it's traumatizing.

But in this situation, they don't even know. Y'all don't even know anything, don't know what's going on on, how she got it, don't know what. However, I want I want to started to um, excuse me, UM, I mean to interrupt, but UM, I want to bring light to this too. I want people to do a lot of research when your child is in the situation, or yourself is in a situation, or your family, or your husband, or your grandmother. Because they tried to force surgery on

this multiple times. Um. And when I say they try to enforce it. I'm saying in a sense of some surgeries are mixed, you how to have them. So I understand that. But in this particular situation, if you do not know what's going on, the doctors cannot tell you what's going on. Please do not just listen to what

the situation may look like. Because it definitely was an ugly situation, and for them, they felt like, if we do this surgery right now, they wanted to cut my daughter ear to ear, pull down her skin, saw down the brain, open up, I mean, saw down the skull, open up the skull, just to rents her brain off. My daughter would have had way more complications than when

we discussing today. It had I been in there, been a young parent and said, you know what, okay, fine, they said, surgery right now, we have to do it right now. No, I want people to do research. I want people to understand that, yes, the situation may look ugly, it may not look to your liking, but if you do a little bit of research and you actually try your best to get some second opinions, please do that. Please do not just allow yourself to be in a

situation and just make it impostive. Decision. I do want to like bring light to that when when you are afraid, when you're afraid and you think you're not an expert, you don't know right, and you think other people have to know better than you, you will listen to what you're being told. Sometimes it's a gamble. You might need to listen. But to your point, you have to do research and eating well, eating better is what we're learning, especially as African people, because we forget that we are

African people. We are not um we are we have been Americanized, but we come from a place where as my son and I we talked about all the time while we were in Ghana, we learned that every single thing you need to survive, every illness you have, every ailment problem, there there is literal things off the ground that you can take that helps to heal those things. So we learned, I mean everything, anesthesia in the plant, everything you need, it was right there. And with that

being said, we're gonna let you go. But again, I just want to make the appeal that to deal with this situation is it's gonna take support, and we as a village need to be here. Of course, I'm going to give my own resources. This is my holiday focus, and I'm asking all of you five dollars, two dollars, ten dollars. As my son always says, all you have is all we need. All you got is ten dollars

that you can offer to this family. Please please please click the link give and support baby Bailey twelve years old. She's doing better, but she's not out of the woods and still needs help. She still has infection in her body and she still needs to get to us a different hospital, which we need to work on. But beyond that, her family needs food, water, just like all of the rest of us. Whatever we can do to be helpful.

I'm asking you as a personal not favor to me, but as a personal solidarity moment with us, my son and me, and street politicians and our entire family. Please support Bailey through her mom and her dad. Um. We want you to be we want you to be made hold Nko in any way that we can. Yeah, thank you guys so much. Thank you. Oh man, that that

was touching. You know, you know I've seen the video and heard the story, but hear and Nico break that down and just describe how it just went from zero to a hundred one day her daughter was fine, healthy, you know, Joe, real young child, and then next thing you know, she's just in the hospital with tumors and having seizures. Like I don't even know how you you deal with something like that. It wasn't and it wasn't like a gradual city. It just was like boom, boom boom.

That must that must have been the trauma and the stress that as a parent, you know, knowing being being a parent, knowing that you can't do something to help your child, because that's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to take care of your children, and you're supposed to be able to help them. You're supposed to have the answers. And watching your child suffered to that degree and not being able to help them must be. It must be the most stressful and most traumatizing thing you

can actually ever deal with. Because I know what, my son has a little fever, and you know, just watching him and his little sickness and make it gives me this feeling like I'm helpless. So that must have been watching your daughter have a two hour seizure, like, Lord, have mercy, I don't, I don't even know, man, but there in my prayers, and once again, anybody please reach out to them, help them. She needs resources. You know, she wants to be helped, she wants to help, she

wants knowledge, she wants to give knowledge. So please, Yeah, she wants to help people. She's starting a podcast. Now, we didn't have a chance to get into more of their personal story. I think we ought to bring them back. Um, you know, want to acknowledge those people who have supported because I know everybody is gonna do it, but you know, beyond that, oh God, like you said, I can't imagine. I can't Oh man, I mean just out of nowhere,

out of no where. If you you know, you find out your child has a sickness and then there's a process. But this right here is crazy. And I know they probably I saw where she was holding back from saying that they were come into them saying it's possible. She's not gonna make it. That's that's tough. It's really tough. So we should have a bag to talk about some of the things that they're doing. But she is building a podcast with her husband where they're going to talk

about the experience, what the research looked like. But the natural foods have done on on and on. So that's great. Uh, it's great. We can continue on their journey with him. But thank god Bailey is from yes, thank god, and she's doing a lot better man. So so on another note, you know, my my don't get it. Today is on a lighter note than that, but it's still serious. Last week sometimes Gonna Donna Donna Gunna was released from prison. Um, he was in jail, right, Yeah, he was in the

hold of silly So, yeah, he was. He's not he's not actually in prison. He was released from jail because he's he's still fighting this case. So he was released from jail the other day, excuse me. And immediately when he was released, he put out a statement and said, I did not make a statement against anything. I did not make any statements at all. So this that in the third five minutes later they had a a video

of him giving the state. So I'm so confused now, you know, being being from the streets, being knowing some legalities, understanding criminal law, understanding and there's a lot of people throwing out the term rat and snitching all that. So I don't know, I don't actually know, you know, the details of all of their cases. They might there might be a situation where they've all decided, Okay, you take this,

I'm gonna take this, we're gonna do this. That might be something that's happened, right, So I can't say that the man snitch. I don't know what what the you know, what their agreement is. But what I do know is when you make a statement, because what they what they wanted to do with Ysel is classified as a game. Right. It has always been a hip hop and a group that they used to wrap, but they wanted to classify

as a game. And knowing that young thug is facing you know, a rico which is serious, you know that has everything for racketeering and murdered or everything. If his right hand person that's with him saying that he acknowledges as a game. Right, and then there's they found a car with a gun and all that and he acknowledges that it's not his. He says that it wasn't his.

There's only one other person in the car. So I don't know if that because that was a question earlier I saw people saying was there one person in the car? Was there more? Well? I don't The thing is this are more, were they more what the thing is? Once you whatever it is, Once you eliminate, eliminate what is you, you make it seem like they they gotta narrow it down to whoever it is, and you take yourself out.

And there's a lot easier to prove the less people that we're trying to put one gun on right if if nobody is taking in case, they can't put it on anybody, So that that that that makes it, it makes it a lot harder. I know from a perspective, if I'm not copying out, and I don't plan to cop out, and I'm fighting these things, I understand that what the statement that was made is not in the best interest of young Doug. I know that for a fact, unless young Thug might feel like it. There's too much

I'm dealing with this. I don't want you to do this. You take this, you can just say what you want. I'm gonna take this. I'm gonna hold onto that. And that might be the agreement, but I'm definitely that is definitely a statement, and and and the government can definitely utilize that statement too to piece together and and and pretty much identified and determine that this is a game, and if they could determine it as a gang and Young Thug was the either of that gag, then that's

where they get the rico charge. So I don't know. I mean, I just didn't really get what you for him to come on and say I didn't make a statement, and then five minutes later, all over the internet there's a statement. It just didn't really didn't make sense at old to me. So so I went and I did some reading on this because I saw a lot of people talking about it. And you know, I've been interested in this case since the beginning, but I don't know enough.

So I have to be, you know, be careful because I don't really know right and so but I've listened and I've heard people, and I watched folks saying free Gunna, free gunna, free gunner. And I watched people say free gunner who never said free young Thugs. So that also, to me is a sim as a sign of something. I don't know what it means again, not that close to it, but I do know that today Young Thugs sister posted a video where she says, y'all please stop calling that man a rat or a snitch. None of

this is making it any better for my brother. So the snitching part like that in and of itself creates a whole bunch of other issues, like him being him being classified in that way. But beyond that, to your point, the statement that he made it definitely incriminates y a sell as a game, period point blank. I think that you and we don't know ship because we can't talk to these people. We don't know them or anything. But

I think you're right. And I was talking to some of our other friends who are a little closer to the situation, and they said, it seems like there's an agreement, and the agreement was we I don't I don't see any situation or any circumstance where young Thug is gonna be cleared up all the charges because even because by the way, even Gunna has not been cleared of all the charges, he still had to eat something, right, so

he's gonna have these charges on him. This is this is so I don't see a situation where he's gonna be young Thug will be free of all charges. How bad it can get, whatever, we'll see. But this statement certainly classifies it as a game. And to be quite honest, I think that they probably knew this already, right, I don't know, I can I cannot confirm nor tod not. You know what I'm saying, I don't know anything about the agreement. I don't know what's known. I haven't seen

their paperwork. I don't I don't haven't seen it. I don't know any of these things. But I know my my understanding being incocerated before, you know, dealing with jail house lawyers and actually studying lawyer, trying to figure out my own appeals and all of these things. Um, I understand about statements. Understand how the government utilizes something to connect you know, they they're able to They're able to say, okay, we we we gotta find a way to make this

a game. Nobody don't say it's a game. They could keep saying that it's just a probable and it's never been, you know, identified as a game. Nobody has has given clear indication to say yes, it's a game. That's the first step to establish an RICO. That's the first step to being able to establish that RICA. So, you know, we just gotta see what happened. And I don't use the term snitch unless I know, you know, unless paperwork.

We watch you sit up there and tell somebody you know, and and the other person has to identify and said, yeah, that wasn't part of our agreement, you know, because a lot of times sometimes you eat the charge. You'll be like, yo, now I'm gonna take that because that's mines. You know, that's my already know, I already know what it is.

We gotta see what that is, so right, and and I and I did see someone say that, like there were some legal experts talking about how you have to admit to something, so it seems like they figured out what that admittance is. And he's saying that he doesn't intend to go to court to say like, oh I saw him with a gun, and I saw this one

killed this one and that one. The question also, these are very you gotta really be very your discernment has to be very, very good, because they asked, are you aware of crimes that have been committed by yr cell members? And he says yes, well, of course yes, because there are other people who probably have been arrested and convicted

of ship that was associated with Y herself. That does not mean that he is saying that young thug did something or that he's about to tell of new crimes or crimes that have not been confirmed and people haven't been indicted and convicted of or convicted of. But but it's like saying, do I know that in my family people have committed crimes? Yeah, it was Ole Tommy, because people I might be able to say, Timmy jail exactly.

You already know Uncle Tommy, shot Lee Roy. We know about it already, so you know, so you know, discernment. But we'll see, will see. You definitely got to see. Well, that wraps up another show. Um. Prayers go out to Bailly, healing energy to b and her family, Nicole and father. We didn't even get the father's name, but we were sending all our prayers out to that family and healing energy. Make sure that you'll donate to their go fund me

because they definitely need those resources. Billy is she's doing a lot better, but she's not all the way out the woods, and she needs a specialist to really identify what's going on. So that brings us to the end of our Christmas episode. You know, criminal, Criminal. I don't really celebrate criminal, but it's a criminal episode. So you enjoy your holidays with your family. We appreciate you for

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