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on the award-winning 101.7 The Truth before we went to break.

We were talking about the fact that our babies, just us, hell, as black people overall, right?

Do we know how to hunt, right?

Do we know how to fish?

I know a lot of us, I love fishing.

I love going fishing.

I try to get my two oldest to do it.

They're not really into it, but I did teach my youngest how to fish.

But I believe that agriculture and teaching them these things especially given the stance of this country of this world where we are currently the climate These are things that we have to start having more conversations around right so Maybe preparing black children for the future has to become larger than test scores, right?

So we know the basics when it comes to education literacy Entrepreneurship absolutely

Absolutely, those things need to be taught hands down, right?

But we also need to teach them how to survive.

We also need to be realistic when it comes to the politics and the things that's happening in this country.

Are we setting them up for failure?

Are we setting our babies up for failure?

And I understand that there is some concerns when it comes to the thought or the idea of our children having a weapon in their hand given the amount of violence that we have, not just in the city, but just when it comes to our people overall.

But the reality of the matter is that's not the issue.

The issue is they are not properly trained.

This is something that has, is not typically introduced to us.

A, because a lot of us don't even know how to obtain a hunting license.

B, because a lot of us have beliefs, whether it's religion, whether it's a fear of guns, whatever the case may be.

So much to the point where we will limit ourselves or limit our children from learning.

And I get it.

I promise I do.

I get it.

But I also, again, want to be realistic and be an advocate here because as bad as I want the youth not to have weapons in their hands, I do believe that surviving is something completely different, right?

And it don't necessarily mean that we have to teach them hunting with a weapon, right?

They can grab some fish or whatever the case may be with a bare hand, right?

They can do all of these things, but at the end of the day, if the whole world was to shut down, how will you eat?

How will you feed your family?

What skill says do you have to survive?

And I'm not talking about the survival, the type of survival that we as oppressed people are used to.

That's a different type of survival.

That survival includes us being against each other by any means necessary.

Whether it's physically, whether it's for netting somebody, nothing is off limits.

When we're talking about surviving in case the electrical grid goes down, surviving because if y'all haven't been paying attention to how many recalls, they are currently producing in the media when it comes to the food that we eat.

So much to the point where everybody is scared to eat eggs, rice, meat, everything is being recalled.

Even the food that's not being recalled, we know that there's problems with that as well.

So we know that they've been attacking our food, but they are doing it double the times than history has shown us.

They are doing it more frequently, right?

So much to the point to where, and then if you pay attention to it, it's always food that we eat.

It's always food that is less expensive, something that is easy to make a quick meal.

Every black person you know probably got so much rice inside of their house now because when mama don't feel like cooking baby, I'm gonna fry some chicken and I'm gonna make me some rice.

And throw a little piece of bread right there on top of it.

But when it comes to our food, they are continuously attacking the quality of our food, right?

So I'm not, again, I'm not saying this in a manner where it's about a conspiracy or a conspiracy theories.

It's in our faces.

Everything that I am speaking of is in our faces.

They are attempting to take control over the water system, the data centers.

There are so many recalls when it comes to our food.

They are gaining control over every single thing.

Trump.

Keep going out, starting all of these wars and beefs with all of these countries, so much to the point where it'll be pretty soon is going to be impossible for us to even travel.

And I know you all have heard about martial law and things like that, things like that throughout the years, but I just want us again to be realistic and pay attention to what is happening.

Pay attention to what is happening.

What happens when all of those kangas that you've been stacking for so many years run out?

Especially if you have more than three or four children or if there's more than three children who are a part of your household or family How will you survive?

And I know we talk about buying land and all of these things in which we should But what happens if the entire government system shuts down?

where there is no, nobody owned no land, nobody owned this house, nobody owned nothing.

You just all over the place.

I seen something this past weekend where they were talking about, you know, our banking accounts and we've seen that multiple times too.

But not saying that is true, but in the event the government did have access to your banking account and drained all of your money, what will you do?

How will you be able to survive?

Right?

So again,

I don't want our children inheriting a world they know perfectly how to consume, but have absolutely no idea on how to produce inside of it.

We are teaching them how to constantly go out to eat.

We are teaching them to depend on the government, to depend on parents, to depend on somebody when it comes to being able to survive.

We are not.

properly teaching them how to survive.

And again, I'm not referring to the survival tactics that we all learned growing up because our parents were affected by the war on drugs or crack or the hair on all of those epidemics.

I'm not talking about that type of survival.

I am referring to a survival that requires a village, a community, right?

And there are a lot of great programs out there that currently teaches our youth and our people how to hunt, how to fish, and do all of these different things, how to preserve food.

But what are we doing about it as a community?

Are we teaching this inside of our home?

Are we having these discussions on social media?

Are we having these discussions on radio?

I promise you, there is a lot of things that's happening in this world that is very entertaining.

And we're going to talk about one of them when we come back from break shortly.

But before we get into that, I just have to reiterate it again and again.

Please understand that there will be a time where everything you are familiar with inside of this world, inside of this country will be no longer.

the systems that set in place, the way of life, the things you're used to having, the things you are used to doing.

And when that time comes, I want you to understand that we have spent so much time focused on how we look, what we smell like, what we drive in, where we live, are we being accepted, likes, all of these things.

when we could have been preparing for the worst.

And this isn't to instill fear inside of anybody.

This isn't to say that you cannot enjoy life and that you aren't supposed to live, but be responsible enough to know and have some common sense.

While you are outspending all this money on partying, on liquor, on clothes, whatever it is that's tangible.

Make sure that you are also invested inside of your own personal system or whatever system you choose to create with other people in your community or village so that when stuff hits the fan, you all will be taken care of.

That's the type of time that us as black people have to be on, right?

Although we've built this country, although we have many traditions,

Again, just pay attention to how they're raising this generation up.

They don't have any knowledge on how to survive.

Hell, some of us adults don't either.

So let's get into the habit of teaching them that.

All right, when we come back, recess from all the heavy loads.

I want to again talk about something that tickled me.

It is serious.

However, this entire situation is insane.

Federal prosecutors say a man built a lavish identity claim at times to be one of the NFL players for the San Francisco 49ers.

Allegedly, he sold women fake investments and collected approximately $1.3 million.

Two.

I'm sorry, 26 victims, to be exact.

These were 26 women that he did that too.

We got to talk about this when we come back.

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So I was scrolling through social media this weekend and I ran across something that tickled me.

Although I am not laughing at the victims because this is insane.

I am laughing at the creativity that or the extent that people will go just to impress.

a woman or themselves.

So according to NBC News, a man was accused of pretending to be a San Francisco 49ers player to defraud women according to the U.S.

Attorney's Office in Oregon.

Beginning in February 2022, Dejan Love, age 35, and Taylor Chen, age 18, created fictitious investments to defraud numerous women in Oregon, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California, according to court documents.

So authorities said both men were arrested when Chen flew from California on Monday to meet Love in Boys, Idaho.

Both were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and charge with wire fraud love would meet most of the women through dating apps and Pretend to have a lavish lifestyle on social media falsely portraying himself as a 49er

player or a wealthy real estate investor according to authorities.

The attorney's office said Love convinced victims they were in sincere romantic relationships with him that he was a sophisticated investor and that Chen was his investment advisor who helped Love to grow a fortune of tens of millions of dollars.

Love also told the victims he wanted to build wealth.

In a future with them, authority said officials added love, advertised nonexistent investment vehicles claiming these investments would generate massive returns for both him and his victims.

Court documents said Love used phone apps to create fictitious bank and investment accounts and balances to show the victims and make the scheme appear legitimate.

Authorities said Love and Chan exchanged electronic communications in which Chan pretended to be Love's investment advisor and would send messages encouraging Love to invest in new opportunities.

Love would then send screenshots of those messages to the victims to convince them to send money to either of them according to the court documents.

The U.S.

Attorney's Office said the pair would have video calls with victims to show them falsified investment gains and encourage them to part with their money.

If the victims did not have the money, authorities said love sometimes instructed them to take out a loan.

If they were left with no more money to invest or ask too many questions, they will simply block them, stop any communication with them and keep the money.

Financial records show the pair received about $1.3 million from their victims in totality, according to the authorities.

Officials say 26 victims have been identified, but the FBI believes there is more.

Talk about being a finesse king.

So my question is, what do you do?

Right?

What do you do?

Me?

Listen, I won't sit here and act as if I've never gotten finessed.

I've had someone tell me that they own businesses, that they didn't own cars, that they didn't own, right?

And obviously, you know, my discernment is one of the greatest gifts that God has ever given me.

So I don't know if me in particular

if this could ever happen to me because I'm an investigator when it comes to relationships.

I'm telling you, I'm going to dig and I'm going to ask probing questions because I already know the answer.

If you lie, it's going to be a problem.

It'll be difficult for me anyways because I'm in the sports arena.

But not to taunt the victims.

You do know you can go on Google and pull up the roster, right?

I'm just saying you can go on Google and Pull up the entire team not just the players But also the staff members

If they, if they're able to mimic Google and create a whole different search engine, then they indeed are the, the, uh, they, they should win an award for, uh, greatest finessers of all times.

So my first question will be why didn't, what did they do?

Did you not go and look up the roster or the business LLC that they mentioned?

Now the LLC may be a little bit different because anybody can create something just to create.

But how do you give so much money to someone who?

Allege that they are a part of an NFL team without going to actually Look up the roster.

So again, I don't want to blame the victims But there has to be some type of accountability here.

There has to be on both ends, right?

I Was sitting here this weekend trying to figure out why so many people was

uh, creating these pictures of them in uniforms.

I fell out the loop.

I was like, what is going on here?

Well, that's because they were taunting this, right?

They were taunting, uh, this situation, which it was hilarious, but I do feel bad for, um, for the victims who were involved in this scandal.

Um, so I want to, I want to say this.

And again,

It's not to downplay anyone's ability to be competent, but it's just a reminder to ladies out there.

First and foremost, don't be so thirsty or so having the need to want the company of a man so much to the point where you become obsessed or in love or whatever the case may be without even...

Physically meeting them and then you began to send funds and money and take our loan.

I'm not taking out a loan for no Negro You understand Now if I'm married that's different But this goes back to something Much deeper because again, it's not the case for all women but me personally I just don't understand how it could get to the point to where you allow someone that you have never met Even if you did beat them you allow someone

to finesse you out of thousands of dollars.

Simply because they say that they played on the NFL.

If you played on the NFL team, you need to be giving me some money.

Why am I giving you my money?

If you are trying to talk to me and you say that you played in the NFL, baby, where is the money on?

I know that's right.

Make it make sense.

I'm not giving any money to no man Especially one who states that he is a part of the national football league

He's able to scrape up a 1.3 million

1.3 million dollars With over with so far they have 26 victims and it may be more Right.

That's not that's not little money

That's a lot of money and they had to be banking on the women that you know, they can tell got money.

I Play for the Green Bay Pass.

I'm just saying right a Foster don't only study money.

They study desire They study.

What do you want?

You want love security status and opportunity a wealthy partner a future if somebody can identify the future you want desperately want

Sometimes they can create a character who appears to deliver it.

And once your heart becomes invested, your brain begins doing free public relations for the lie.

Well, maybe that's why he said he couldn't, but he explained it.

I don't want to seem insecure, right?

Now you are defending contradictions because accepting the truth would require giving up the fantasy.

Status is powerful because it makes people outsource discernment, right?

A doctor must be trustworthy.

A professional athlete must have money.

Executive must be successful.

An investor must understand finance.

A celebrity must be who they say they are.

Absolutely not.

Titles are claims until verified.

Women do it all the time, though.

How so, Meach?

Good.

They lie.

Women lie.

They do.

Yeah.

I mean, about their profession, for sure.

It's both

ways.

I

mean, not

at that extent to where you're a celebrity, you're on the team, but, you know, a woman could probably, you know, somebody could probably say they a WNBA player.

You wouldn't even know.

You think so?

I mean, you can, though.

You can say it, right?

But where's the research?

That's what I'm saying.

You can't just tell me anything.

I'm going to look it up, right?

I'm going to, I'm going to find it.

I'm going to figure it out.

If something don't seem right, I'm going to figure it out.

Like there is so many red flags.

Social media is one.

Even if you, uh, you know, talk to them via date naps or whatever the case may be, there is so much, whether it's a man or a woman, there is so much that goes into keeping up a lie.

So much that goes into making someone believe whatever it is that you want them to believe but then you got to use your common sense man You have to use your common sense Again, I'm not blaming the victims Because what what happened to them is one and sometimes Men do prey on women who are insecure or whatever the case may be but it goes back to again

Being okay with being by yourself being okay with you know traditional dating not utilizing the apps, right?

And understanding that if somebody asking you to send them some money and they're this successful That's a problem.

I don't care if they are reaching out about hey, I want you to invest in this this is I don't know you from a can of paint Why would I invest in what you got going on?

I don't know you man

I don't know you.

We got to go to break.

But when we come back, we are talking about something completely different.

Target puts a black child in a Halloween costume that critics immediately connect to the degrading visual history of blackface.

Target pulls it and apologizes.

But here's what I'm asking.

Corporations know what black people buy.

They know what we listen to.

They know how we dress.

They know who influences us.

They know when to put black people in the commercial.

So how come an institution know our consumer behavior better than it knows our history?

And bigger than that, right?

What happens when America learns how to monetize blackness faster than it learns how to understand black people?

That's what we're talking about.

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And listen, we're going to get real with this.

I just want to mention also at the six o'clock hour that we have two special guests coming on, some youth.

And we're going to talk to them about how this makes them feel as well.

But Target recently pulled a $25 children's

clown Halloween costume after black customers and others objected that is Emergy.

Emergy resemble racist blackface.

And again.

I'm not reiterating something that we are not familiar with this has been happening for quite some time.

But seems that Target keeps making its way inside of mainstream media when it comes to.

black people.

The online promotional image featured a black child wearing an orange and black costume with black gloves and a mask with an exaggerated white grin.

Target apologized.

The company said the costume was offensive, should never have been in its assortment and said it was looking at how it happened and what needed to change.

Those are the facts, right?

Now we're going to break this down because I don't want to spend an hour asking our people, black people, right?

How they feel about this, we know how we feel about this.

We know what happened when it came to the DEI situation, right?

The interesting question is how something carrying that historical Resilience move through a modern corporation all the way to a black child Modeling it.

I mean at some point people We got to pick a side and guess we have this conversation all the time There are some black people that

I don't care what Target does, they're just never going to stop shopping at what they consider to be targe.

Doesn't matter, they're going to consistently spend their money.

Once they initiated that and released that apology about the DEI situation, right?

They were protested seeing that they lost some shares, millions of dollars, all of that stuff.

But guess what?

Black people went right back to shopping at Target.

Had amnesia about the DEI situation about anything else pertaining to exploiting black people and some of the nasty parodies that Our history has showed us time and time again how much corporations like this do not appreciate or value us or our Dollars right and yet we continue to go back and shop with them so

I want you to think about what corporations know about us.

Not targets specifically, but just corporate America.

They know what black women purchase.

They know what black teenagers stream.

They know how to do what they do.

They know who influences the fashion.

They know which athlete move product.

They know which music works in an advertisement.

It's all called PR and marketing.

They know which language tests well.

They know where consumers live, right?

They know what you click the one They know what you abandoned in your online cart They know whether you are likely to buy something after seeing a celebrity wear it, right?

This is all modern day marketing

And modern marketing can understand our purchasing behavior down to the detail, the very, very specific details, right?

And yet somehow historical literacy can still be missing.

I don't believe that none of this isn't intentional.

And the reason why I say that is because the people who work inside of these corporations,

who are a part of the marketing team, the social media team, the PR team, the advertising, all of that, the branding overall, have gone to four-year universities.

And for the corporate world, you have to have a degree in this.

They've gone to universities to obtain their college degree.

When it comes to marketing and branding, they've taken courses.

Some go on to work at these organizations after college, which means that they gain some type of experience and the reason why I'm bringing this up is because Again, you cannot tell me that we're not talking emotions.

We're not even talking common sense We're talking corporate.

We're talking professionalism.

We're talking business.

We're talking degrees and colleges, right?

Anybody that has a degree

pretending to marketing or branding knows for a fact that dishing out this type of advertisement is unacceptable.

We don't have to keep reiterating our history.

They know our history.

They created our history, right?

Not created, but dictated it.

We don't have to have continuous conversations about the fact that

You know what the black face is well to a certain degree we do because a lot of youth aren't familiar with it But I'm sure that if they were to see this image, obviously they will understand that is wrong.

But where we go wrong is We start a protest everybody says hey, let's protest target, right?

They just put a child in the advertisement and gave them the black face and got them shucking and jiving and mimicking

parodies that is an insult to our entire culture, to our entire ethnicity, right?

And our ancestors.

And then after that protest, you know, takes action for the time being, after the company takes action, right?

Which is typically the first thing they'll do is apologize, put out a public statement to apologize.

Then they're gonna say, you know,

We're going to go back to our team and discuss this, and we're going to take it down and put something new out, right?

Which means that, again, they know exactly what they were doing.

All they have to do is apologize to us.

And within maybe 60 days, we'll be back.

If we can last that long, we'll be back purchasing items from their store.

Now, to play advocate.

I don't like to say devil's advocate, but I even wanna play advocate.

The challenging part about this, and we're not just talking about Target, we're talking about major corporations that carry items that we need, right?

The difficult thing about this when it comes to black people is the point that a lot of these corporations and organizations know that they have what we need.

Now, evidently you can go to Myers, you can go to Walmart.

You can go shop on Amazon.

You don't have to shop at Target.

However, there are some things that Target has that other corporations don't have, right?

But when they do this, it's very arrogant.

And the reason why I say they do it deliberately is because they know that, A, we are addicted to shopping.

We are so addicted to shopping if it's something that we want so bad We're going to get it despite of whatever the issues may be, right?

There's even some black people who would say well, it didn't it wasn't me It wasn't my child didn't happen to me da da da da, right?

Those are the that's the percentage of black people who will still continue to support businesses like this, but when there is a corporation That produces things that the masses of the people need

How do we help them accountable?

Because evidently, and again, I'm not talking about specifically target, but evidently they have things that we need, necessities, right?

So if Walmart decides to do the same thing that Target did, how can we stop shopping at Walmart when they sell exactly what it is that we need?

That's the bigger question.

What do we do?

The protesting don't work because after a while, people just protest for what?

An apology, no.

And when we're going at these corporations who conduct this type of behavior, we need to have some type of demand to where we need verified who, exactly what decision, not an apartment, but that person needs to be terminated.

We don't want an apology.

We don't want, you know,

some type of a press release stating that it will be removed.

What are you doing about it on your end?

End on top of that.

How often are we following up when we make these requests, right?

Once we say, hey, we're protesting this, this is what we want in return.

It seemed like we get amnesia.

It seemed like we forget that this has happened and then we just

for I write back into that same routine.

Okay, it's been 30 days.

It's okay to shop at Target now.

It's been 60 days.

It's okay to shop back at Target now.

I'm gonna tell you first and foremost, I'm not addicted to Target.

I know a lot of people, especially black women who are, I am not addicted to Target, which means that I don't have to spend my money there.

And to see,

I don't know if you guys have seen the image, but if you haven't, please look it up.

Please look it up.

It is so offensive.

It is so offensive to the point where it cannot be ignored.

And at some point, again, there needs to be a larger conversation on the fact that corporations are allowed to do this.

To me, this is very antagonistic.

This is saying, hey, we got away with this and now we're going to do it again just to prove a point, just to prove that no matter what we do, you guys are going to continue to shop and spend your money at our corporation.

Got to figure this out.

Got to figure this out.

We got to go to break.

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If you are just now joining us before we went to break, I was talking about Target and how they recently pulled a $25 Children's Clown Halloween costume after black customers and others objected that it resembled a racist blackface, right?

The online promotional image featured a black child wearing an orange and black costume with black gloves and a mask.

with an exaggerated, wide grin.

Target apologized.

The company said the costume was offensive, should have never been the case, and it said it was looking at how it happened and what needed to change.

My stance is, again, there are so many black people, especially black women, I know who shop at Target didn't stop when the DEI situation happened.

probably won't stop now and the bigger question is why do we continue to let them play in our face after they've shown us who they are but also when it is a corporation not speaking about targets specifically but when it is a corporation that you know sells necessities sells things that we need how do we go about not spending our money there and

The bigger context of this story overall is the children because a lot of our youth are not aware of this history.

This isn't history that is taught at school.

This isn't history that is taught on a regular basis.

However, this is something that they should know about so that they don't assume that this behavior is okay.

Joining me, we have two special guests.

in the building.

We have some youth.

I'm going to let them introduce themselves.

They are going to mention their names.

We're going, they're going to ask, you know, going to details about how they feel.

And then we're going to hop in to a different topic at the six o'clock hour.

What's up, y'all?

Hi.

How y'all feeling?

Good.

Good.

You nervous?

No.

You nervous?

Sort of.

It's OK.

Don't be.

Y'all got it.

Y'all are brilliant.

So tell the people who you are and how old you are.

I'm Chelsea and I'm 10.

I'm Malia and I'm 12.

What school do y'all go to?

Greenfield

Middle School.

Yeah.

Yes.

So for those who are not aware, the past month, Truth has teamed up with the Safe Summer Sites.

And myself and Meach and CeCe started going to Mary Ryan Boys and Girls Club after work Tuesdays and Thursdays.

And we were working with the youth on radio showing them how to do commercials, helping them create their own run of shows, things of that nature.

And these two young ladies won.

They actually won not because it was a round for anything, but because they actually do great work.

So we're going to dive a little bit more into how that came about.

what peaks their interest, but I want to stay on this target topic just for a little while longer.

We have a caller on the line.

Dr. Andrew Ward, are you there?

Yes, I am.

Thank you so much for tapping in with us.

Do you have a comment about this advertisement with Target?

I want to speak about all these heads of ads.

where a white man is lending the black man a quarter and putting the bill in his forehead and telling him go in and get those bargains.

That's pediful.

Yes.

And that should have been off a hundred years ago.

It's been on that too long.

Yes.

Mr. Ward, if you don't.

Mind me asking the reason why I'm asking is because I have two young ladies in the studio with me And obviously we as adults know that this has been happening for quite some time But can you just kind of give us your experience growing up when you've seen things like this back in your time?

83 years old I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia had plenty of black role models and we did not take in his fame and you know that

I went to school with Hamilton Holmes and Charlene Hunter, who integrated the University of Georgia.

And Marvin Arrington was a quarterback.

He was a city council president.

And he integrated him or university.

And it was instrumental in getting Hamilton Holmes and Charlene Hunter into the integrating the University of Georgia.

I come from a long line of proud and accomplished people

Yes, and you agree that they obviously that this is completely unacceptable

I Know and I have called tried to call all this and tell them I couldn't get through they were talking about do it online If I could talk to somebody they will hear from me quickly,

but you know what mr. Word dr. Word we are gonna call for you

We will call on your behalf.

Thank you.

And thank you.

Absolutely.

Thank you so much for tapping in with us and thank you so much for enlightening us on your history as well.

And thank you for being willing to give your testimony to the youth.

So I talked to you guys, I showed you guys this image and I'll talk to you about the history of it.

How do you feel about this?

It's racist.

Absolutely.

What is the first feeling that you get when you see a photo like that?

So remove the information I gave you and just think about just viewing it without that knowledge.

Would you automatically assume that it was racist?

Like, would you know at your age does something seem off or would you just assume that they're just advertising a costume?

Well, my teacher taught me about blackface because we read a book.

So I would know that it's racist.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah Yeah, which is amazing because a lot of teachers don't teach that What about you Malia?

Um, I did not know any information but like from the standpoint that I didn't I would think that it looked kind of weird because it's just Like not something you see all the time

right and the biggest

Point of it all too is it doesn't even look like a clown costume I think that's what's frustrating me the most right like when you look at this photo Nothing about this photo says clown Nothing about this average this target advertisement says clown right you have obviously the exaggerated face mask with the exaggerated lips the little hat

Um, and then it's, you know, brown and orange with the black gloves.

This does not appear to be any type of costume that references a clown, which means that they deliberately, um, they have deliberately did that, right?

So as youth, my question to you all is, and we know you can't, you can only answer hypothetically because y'all don't work and buy your own stuff.

Um, do you feel that there should be some accountability for that child's parent?

Oh, it was after a child.

Well, no, the child is a part of the picture.

So what they do is my daughter, Callie, um, she used to model.

She started modeling when she was one.

and they will bring you in and say, well, first they'll reach out the modeling agency and they'll say, hey, we have a job, you have an opportunity with Boston Store or with Target, would you be interested this date this time?

Say yes, absolutely, sign her up.

And then you take that child in, and when they're under a certain age, they have to tell you ahead of time what the photo shoot is, which means that,

99.9% the parents were aware of this prior to it being released.

They were aware the moment that they stepped foot onto the set.

Do you believe that the parents should be held accountable to?

Yes.

Why?

Because if like if you would have known I feel like you wouldn't want your child

to be the face of that.

Exactly.

Exactly.

That means that we have to do a better job, not just as a people, but as a community.

What advice would you give to, so let's take this young man into consideration, right?

Let's remove the parents, let's remove, you know, Target.

I can imagine that he don't want, he's probably feeling away because he don't completely understand what is happening, right?

What advice do you have?

for the young man who is in this advertisement.

Pay attention.

Yes.

Yeah, Malia.

Yeah, I agree with Jolie said.

Pay attention and try to be more cautious of things that you agree to.

Exactly.

I'm glad you said that, right?

Because this helps youth understand that when it comes to making business deals, they have to have some type of say so or understanding too.

For those who are joining us,

We are talking about the advertisement that Target put out of this young black boy reenacting black a blackface character And we were talking about the accountability of the parents.

How do you allow your child, right?

How do you allow your child to be a part of this and I'm not cutting anybody any slack because again

I have a daughter who used to model and we were always made aware.

If they're under a certain age, we were always made aware ahead of time of who the company is.

You are physically there during the photo shoot, which means that because you have to get your child dressed.

If they're old enough to get themselves dressed, you still have to be there with that child.

So obviously we are not upset with the baby who's a part of this advertisement, but whoever the parents are,

You got to come front front center.

We got to have a conversation because this is absolutely not cool.

It's putting out the wrong message and common sense shows that this costume has nothing to do with Halloween or I'm sorry with being a clown.

Has nothing to do with being a clown.

This is a type of representation that is being sent to our babies.

This is what they consider to be this is what what is considered to be I guess okay, because we keep going back spending money with Target, right?

We've been through this with the DI situation and then we protest what 30 days and then everybody go right back to spending their money I'm telling you right now Target won't get another dollar out of me.

I'll go to Walmart I don't even like going to Walmart, but I'll go to Walmart or Myers before I ever spend another dollar at Target

Let's talk about it.

We got a special guest in the building.

We're going to have some great conversations today.

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Okay, um, so

For those who are joining us, we were talking about the situation with Target and the advertisement that came out with the blackface.

However, we're going to switch gears a little bit.

So I just wanted to reiterate that I am very appreciative of Brother Aziz and David Muhammad for conducting the Safe Summer Sites.

As a result, right?

Myself, Meach and CeCe went to Mary Ryan Boys and Girls Club.

Shout out to Harvey Skels Jr.

He's a club manager over there.

We went to the Boys and Girls Club for a month, right Meach?

About a month.

And we go every Tuesday and Thursday after work and we were teaching the youth about radio, media, helping them with commercial reads, all of the above.

And I get there and I see my cousin.

I say, what's up Mario?

He said, what's up?

What you doing here?

Oh, I got the girls here.

OK, cool.

They go up, do their podcast, long story short.

They were the winners of what we were doing, which means that they got a chance to come down here and host with me today.

So again, say hello to the people.

Chelsea and Malia, introduce yourselves, how old you are, what school you go to, and what's your career?

What's your job?

That includes after school activities.

Chelsea, you want to go first?

OK.

My name is Chelsea.

I'm 10 and I go to Greenfield Middle School.

What's your active school activities or in school?

Um, I do cheer right now.

That's it.

Okay, Malia.

Um, hi, my name is Malia.

I'm 12 and I go to Greenfield Middle School.

Um, in school, I was in yearbook club and out of school, I am a dance company member at Danceworks MKE.

Okay, okay, I see you.

So, walk us through the journey of what you guys learned at the Boys and Girls Club about media, about radio, and if you were doing this prior, like if you were writing podcast shows prior to us coming in.

What did

y'all learn?

Going into the Boys and Girls Club, it was my first time doing something like that.

And I learned a lot about how like you want to be confident when you're speaking and

Fluid and all that kind of stuff.

Yes.

Yep.

And how can I help you?

Like outside of the Boys and Girls Club, how can speaking confidently help you in the real world?

It can help you seem more like more mature.

Like when you're speaking to people, you don't seem super like scared and tiny.

You seem big and confident.

Absolutely.

What about you Chelsea?

What did you learn?

I feel people listen better.

when you're talking confidently than when you talk quietly and shy.

Yes.

Yep.

That's the fact.

Now, tell the people what your name is.

What's the name of your podcast?

It's called the MC radio show.

And what is it was he's there for?

Well,

yeah.

And what is some things that you guys talk about?

Music, music.

All right.

So let's get into it.

I want you guys to

Pretend that this is your show because as of right now you are a co-host.

This is your show So I'm going to follow your lead and allow you to to dictate how this goes You want to start out with music or what do you want to start out

with?

Do you want to start out with music?

I don't care.

Okay.

All right.

So what you got Malia?

Um at the Mary Ryzen Boys and Girls Club.

We were talking about award shows

because

music

And we were talking about how the VMAs are becoming very popular right now.

Do you believe that a lot of the awards given to some entertainers are fair or do you

believe is rigged?

No.

Why do you believe is rigged?

Because most of the time it depends on either fan votes or just how much you listen to them.

And I feel like some people

They're just like, I don't know how to explain it, but like I don't think they deserve the award that they got.

So

who is some of the artists you believe should have not gotten an award?

For what?

For at the VMAs.

Or artists or whoever it is, who is someone that you seen get an award and you was like, no way.

How did they beat this person?

I don't really know like who I think should have beaten a person.

But I think that at award shows, thanking Beyonce should stop.

That should no longer be a thing anymore.

So you're saying Beyonce should no longer be allowed to win awards, right?

Well, no, like being everybody has to thank her.

Oh,

in their speeches.

Right.

Wow.

You know what?

I'm not mad at that.

I'm not mad at that.

What about you, Chelsea?

She won Best Album of the Year.

And I feel that she only Had one song that was actually like people listen to mostly mm-hmm So why win best country album of the year if you only have one song

Good right make it make it make sense make it make sense.

How did you guys become interested in the world shows?

I had

like two days prior to going to the Boys and Girls Club, I had seen this thing to vote for the VMAs.

And I was like, and then I couldn't stop thinking about it.

So when you had the idea to make a radio show, that's what I chose.

Yeah.

So let's move into a different topic.

One, because.

We have youth up here not as often and I love to get you guys this perspective on things, right?

Because you're reaching so many listeners not just in Milwaukee, but around the world There's people who listen from Australia, Switzerland, Switzerland, Memphis all types of places You guys come from a big family.

Yes

How big?

Seven people.

Yes, seven people your parents and Three other siblings, right?

Yes, that's not included

your grandma, your aunties, so on and so forth, right?

Do y'all feel like every time you look up, especially when y'all go to Danville, Illinois, that you got another cousin, another

brother's

here?

Yes.

So when your daddy said, hey, when y'all walk in and say, hey, you know that's your cousin, how do y'all feel?

What is y'all response like?

Are you confused or are you like, what is happening?

Who is that?

Yes, very much.

I was like, who's our cousin?

He was like, Jazz.

And I was like,

I don't know who that is.

Listen, in so many different generations, what is one pro of having a big family you like and what is one con?

I think a big pro is that you have a lot of people you can depend on.

Even though they're far away, it's like you can still talk to them and all kinds of stuff like that.

Yes.

What is

a con?

What don't you like about having a big family?

I don't really have one.

You know, what about you, Malia?

I think it could get really crowded and hard to remember everybody.

OK,

now let's minimize this.

Let's be specific.

What is a pro and con about having a large family inside the house?

Multiple siblings.

A pro is, honestly, I don't know.

A con is that it's loud, like a lot.

people get into arguments very easily and just it gets chaotic.

Who's the oldest?

Um, our older brother who is 13.

Okay.

And then who's after him?

Me.

And then who's next?

Chelsea.

Me.

And then who's next?

Cheyenne.

Okay, how old is Cheyenne?

Nine.

Nine.

Okay, so you guys aren't that far apart from each other.

Chelsea, does Cheyenne bother you?

Y'all need a year apart?

Does she get on your nerves sometimes?

Yes.

How's the whole?

She acts the same question over and over again Even though I answered it like five minutes ago.

So do you have a direct message that you want to say?

If you can look her dad in the camera and say anything, what would you say?

No Wow

That means don't ask me for nothing What about you Malia?

You are close in age with your older brother, but also what you two years older than Chelsea.

Yes

Okay, and you guys are close in Asia, you do a lot together, but it doesn't have to be Chelsea, any sibling.

Is there anything, if you could tell them anything, what would it be?

It would be that,

I feel like Karan and Cheyenne think of Chelsea as their mom-a-duck and they water behind her at everything that she does.

Do you see Chelsea face?

She is all

I'm getting for that.

It's true, they're always in her room, even though she just got a new one.

Karan slept with her the first night she was in her new room.

and he almost cried because my mom forced him to sleep in his own bed.

So she has allies in the house.

Right, they're just ducklings.

I just follow her around like... Do you have any allies in the house?

Who's your ally?

I'm not cool with people.

It's

not

like... Bro, bro.

Look,

her dad is like, what about me?

Hey, here, here, me, me, me.

Okay, before we go to break, if there's anything you guys...

Just pretend like your dad and I'll send him right here.

Right, let it go.

Anything you want to tell your parents that bothers you in the household?

What would it be?

Not putting your business out there.

I'm talking about whether it's with the siblings or whatever the case may be.

Turning off the Wi-Fi.

They be turning off the Wi-Fi on y'all?

To force us to go to sleep.

They take away our electronics and turn off the Wi-Fi at unreasonable times because as a person who's at dance until 8.30, it is not very fair.

What?

Oh, wait.

I

said, I wrote a strict program over here.

What about you, Chelsea?

I don't have anything to say.

Oh, she's smart.

She said, nope.

You are not going to put me on punishment when I get out.

So we got to talk about that when we come back because I imagine a lot of parents would be in agreement with that.

But do we think that that's a little bit too strict?

Hmm.

Y'all can't see me.

I'm rubbing my hands together like Burbank.

We got to talk about this.

We got some accountability.

We got to go to break.

We got Malia and Chelsea in the building.

And Mario is in the building too.

We got a quick conversation about why he is cutting off this Wi-Fi on these babies knowing that they got jobs at 8.30, right?

Who's wrong?

Is it the children from not going to bed on time or is it the parents?

We want to hear from you, 833-212-1017.

Do not touch that dial.

She girl, Jazz Tyler.

Oh, drill, y'all.

Stop playing with my

name.

I ain't gonna say it.

No more.

all I am related to.

So they won the competition for the Boys and Girls Club.

This was not done on purpose.

We didn't even know until I got there.

I seen Mario.

It's like, oh, okay, it's a family affair.

If you are just not joining us before we went to break, I asked a very important question about households, right?

The pros and cons of being siblings, having multiple siblings, so on and so on.

Chelsea said, I asked her what was a pro and con?

She didn't have any pros.

The con was she is accusing allegedly her parents of cutting off the Wi-Fi in the entire household after a certain time, right?

So we

have

some it.

We have some in her father.

He is now being held, right?

He's in court.

We are officially in court because he had some explaining to do.

What's up, Maria?

Talk to me about this because I know it's all jokes.

You know, but I have a feeling that there are a lot of parents who may agree with this.

So how did this happen?

Well, me and my wife, we do conscious parenting.

You know what I'm saying?

We want to try to have that balance of, you know, they get to, you know, get their little screen time, socialize with their friends or whatever.

And then, you know, they still got to be able to function the next day.

or like school or whatever activities that we got going on.

So it just makes sense to start that go to bed process at a certain time and it starts with the Wi-Fi.

Once that Wi-Fi turned off.

Yeah, it's a wrap.

You know, that's okay.

That's the routine.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, all right, we're going to take our showers.

We're going to do our hygiene stuff.

Yep.

Get ready to pick out our clothes for tomorrow and go to bed.

Some people may say that's extreme until you remember that, hey, can't take TV, right?

You can take the devices out the room, the tablets and the cell phone, but the Wi-Fi, the TV is still connected to the Wi-Fi.

So I wanted to just mention that before anybody say, why don't you just take the devices, right?

No, everything is shut down.

Have you seen any changes in their behavior after shutting down the internet like that?

No, okay, so we coming off summer break, so.

I expect a little, not resistance, but a little bit of transit, like a little more time.

I'm

gonna

give them a little more grace to transition to actually like being in their bed,

you know what I'm

saying?

Cause like, I ain't, I'm gonna say it.

So a part of the go to bed routine is that when they all in their bed snug under the covers, you know what I'm saying?

I come in, rub their backs.

Give them little massages or whatever, and they go to sleep.

So that's like the final, you know what I'm saying?

Like once I do that, that's how you really, really know.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, all right, that's it.

You know what I'm saying?

So I do expect, because you know, the summer is, it's a lot more relaxed.

You

know what I'm saying?

Because the whole schedule is different.

But now we right back in going to school, getting up at six in the morning, got a school bus to catch or whatever.

So yeah, the routine is

you

know, but they used to it.

You

know,

it's not like we just started this last week Yeah, or you know I'm saying so I got five kids.

Yeah, we started this you know saying like with the oldest all the way down And that's one of the benefits of having like our kids so close in a just like okay They see one doing it or they see two doing it.

Yeah, and it's like, okay.

This is normal This is how it's supposed to be.

Yep.

So

I know we gonna go back to you too, Malia, because I know that you mention it.

How you feel about this, Chelsea?

And just for context purposes, for those who are not watching, but if you are listening off the app or on the radio, Chelsea is a young lady who thinks before she talks, and she's brilliant.

Because when we asked her some questions, she looked right across the room and was like, no comment.

So when we're talking about the Wi-Fi being shut down in the household completely at a certain time, Chelsea, how does that make you feel?

I'm okay with it because I've downloads.

Oof!

Oh!

Pew!

Pew!

Pew!

Pew!

Shots of fire!

She basically said, let me stop instigating.

She's basically saying, you can cut the Wi-Fi off, but I got you two premium, baby.

I can watch my downloads.

One law,

one

rule,

one standard.

If the device is not turned

in,

then it's kind of like, okay.

I'm not saying like, so like I said, we coming off the summer.

So it's like, you know what I'm saying?

Go to bed, you know what I'm saying?

Just don't be up all out in the kitchen.

You

know what I'm

saying?

If you want to have your little device with your little downloads.

We all have downloads, bro.

But you know

what I'm saying?

That's just like cool for like the weekend and the summer.

But since we started this whole back to school thing, it's like turn it in.

Like put it in my hand or put it in my room or you know what I'm saying?

I make sure it's charged up sometimes.

Sometimes I forget to charge them up,

but hey,

you'll live.

You know

what I'm saying?

So she cool with that.

I'm cool with her having her little downloads.

That's fine.

But when it's time to turn it in, turn it in.

You have to.

So I want to ask you this, right?

So it is jokes, it's fun, it's laughter, but on a serious note, at 10 years old and 12 years old, what is something you guys appreciate that your parents do as it relates to discipline?

Especially because you're a dancer.

So what can you correlate something that they do to helping you be disciplined in what you do outside of school or during

school?

Like Like you're saying when like the stuff that they do at home will help me in dance

Yeah, what's something that they do that you feel is very effective like whether it's advice Whether it's setting something in place like shutting down the Wi-Fi at a certain time What are some things that your parents implement that you feel you can take as an individual and it actually helps you stay disciplined in school or in sports

at home

it's like my parents um oh

my

god it's okay at home my parents um they don't like they're not like always on top of me for doing stuff because they know i'll get stuff done but like when i don't and like they ask me multiple times it like they kind of force me to do it so like i am

Accountability, right?

Yeah, so I'm trying to keep myself accountable for doing my splits every day doing my turns all that stuff But I'm not at dance so it'll help me improve myself

Yes, so I'm glad you mentioned that because a lot of youth especially my children They don't understand why I'm asking like a lot of the pushback when I'm like hey clean up the kitchen, man I ain't the only one who ate I ain't even make all this mess

And once my two oldest became seniors, they really was giving me havoc because it's like, I'm not even here.