Accountability Starts at Home — Even When It Hurts

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Accountability Starts at Home — Even When It Hurts

The Grapevine · Thu Sep 17, 2026

Welcome back to

the award winning one-on-one seven of truth Live from the American family insurance studios.

It's your boy Ray nitty holding it down brother Z got us in the production and sound brother Emilio brother Nicholas man talking to us about something very very important.

We are being watched y'all over surveillance heavily policed

We got a few more things I want to talk to before we gotta let these brothers go.

They got a lot of work to do tonight.

First of all, thank y'all for the work that y'all are doing in informing our community.

All of our community, our black community, our Latino community, our immigrant community, because we have a huge immigrant population that actually listen to this show.

And as a son of an immigrant and immigrant parents, I thank you all for the work that you all are doing.

Real quick, I know we got to get you all out of here.

I want to talk about the other hidden dangers that isn't really being talked about, right?

The hackers, people hacking into the system and being able to access some of this information as well.

Let's talk about that real quick.

The

article that I just mentioned on Wired, all of that information was the result of somebody hacking into the system.

And then the hackers say, it's pretty easy.

It's not very hard to get into it.

They

put 1.6 million photos, 1.6 million images from 50,000 vehicles in 21 days, and it's just sitting on a stick of you to copy.

That's crazy.

That's incredible.

And some, depending on the camera, some of them were pulling in video feeds.

So there was an engineer and a musician named Ben Jordan who showed how it was unencrypted, he could tap into it, and he was able to capture video footage of folks in a market in Atlanta.

He used commercially available facial recognition technology to identify the people in video, see that they traveled to Atlanta to go to church.

They were having an argument.

that one of them, they were stressed out over finances because he was able to find their financial information online real quick and that's where they were arguing probably.

And that's, those are all flock cameras.

That's way too much information.

You can't consider an entire population of a city sus.

And we've

been hearing the police department say, oh, it's a tool that helps them fight crime and so forth.

We went through all the stats saying, and it's interesting because

I think the the stat is more than 51% of Milwaukee homicides go unsolved

or something like

that.

So we see that these cameras aren't being used to actually solve crimes.

We said that we haven't seen any evidence that shows or support that, right?

So police have many tools at their disposal to prevent and solve crimes.

You spoke about it earlier.

and how much this isn't a necessary overkill, right?

Last budget, last police budget, our budget is roughly about a billion dollars.

$310 million, if I'm not mistaken, went to police last year.

More than a quarter of our budget went to police last year.

Do we know how much it's going to with this year?

I'm

pretty sure they're asking for $345 million.

So it's the largest single thing in our city budget.

And if you believe, like I do, that a budget is a moral document, then we're saying the most important thing Milwaukee believes in is that we have to protect ourselves from ourselves and discipline ourselves with this kind of technology and guys with guns.

And I think it's important to mention that when,

like we

said, it's a moral document.

You know, your money shows where your priorities are.

And this is a...

majority, non-white city.

And so we know that there is historical legacies that come from slavery, that come from convict leasing, that

come from Jim

Crow, right?

And

we still have not got over.

So there's a presumption, right, of guilt when it comes to black people.

And

as a matter of

fact, it was codified in law at one point.

So with that being said, imagine you got all this surveillance technology with a presumption of guilt when you're supposed to be

presumed to

be innocent.

of black faces,

a presumption

of

guilt.

And it's been like that for the last 300-something years.

Man, we got some comments in the chat.

Reginald said, it's OK to tell the powers there be to flock off and go flock themselves into a frenzy.

It doesn't seem like the community is in support of it in any way, shape, or form.

Please tell the folks again about the meeting.

Where they could come the time yeah, and you said you had an email or something you all wanted

oh, yeah if you check out Milwaukee Turner social media You'll see two yellow graphics which let you know the details in case you can't write it down You don't remember it and they'll give you a little call script So if you want to call your elected official or write on the letter we gave you a sample one there to take a look at It's Milwaukee turners org or you just follow us on Instagram or Facebook, but tonight tonight's game day

5 30 p.m.

City Hall room 301 B. I hope to see

you there 5 30 I'm definitely going to try and make it there I'm already downtown so it should just be a quick you know skip over um anything that you feel folks should know before you all get up out of here any outcomes any goals that you would like to see from today's meeting

yeah yeah I think that we need to

Act on the principle that a better world is possible and we have to we have to Unify together we have to show up and fight together and we also have to break bread and have fun together.

We do with neither Nicholas nor I want to be doing this We have so many of the great programs where we're addressing violence and we're dealing with overdoses and we're helping folks do martial arts and yoga and Zumba

This is not something we should be wasting our time on.

We should be building the beloved community and the city should not be wasting their time and resources on this sort of traumatizing mass surveillance.

What

about you, Brother Nick?

I mean, I think he kind of like hit it on the head.

I just think that we have to, you know, challenge unjust systems.

And I think that if we challenge unjust systems, we can change those unjust systems.

We've been doing it over at the Turners, but I think that everybody needs to, we can't just accept what is.

We have

to change what is.

We have to change reality.

And if the reality isn't good, we gotta make it good.

And the only way it's gonna happen is if we do it.

We can talk,

we can talk, we

can complain, but I would rather do something and complain.

That

makes any sense.

No, it makes a lot of sense.

Makes a lot of sense.

I always say,

I get very frustrated with people who criticize and don't bring solutions to the table.

And knowing you, brothers, bro, I've been watching you work for a long time.

You feel me?

I don't even think you remember when we first met.

Yeah, I

remember you was doing, I believe it was an apartment development or something like

that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And brother David Mohammed is who actually put, he's like, man, just look out for this brother, man.

Pay attention to what he's doing.

So it's amazing to see

what you have grown into, brother.

Your story

that

you shared that day with me, it always resonated with me, and I continuously saw you out in the community.

I continuously saw you putting people first, you know what I'm saying?

So it's amazing to see your growth, brother.

So I just wanted to share that with you.

You never know when you run into somebody again, so I want to make sure I share that with

you.

All the glory, for me, all the glory is to God.

I don't want to be honest with you.

What wouldn't be doing none of this?

if it wasn't for God.

So I just know, like my whole thing is to really try to serve the people the best way I can.

I ain't no holy human or I ain't perfect or nothing like that.

But you know, I'm gonna try to make society as perfect as possible.

You know, I just know that what we're witnessing is large scale societal issues.

And I know that we have to do something.

I hope that maybe that I can inspire other people to do it.

Cause like, you know, we spoke, I've been to

State prison, federal prison.

I was involved in the streets.

I literally have been homeless.

I got shot four times.

You name it, I've been through it.

And look what I'm doing now.

You know what I'm saying?

I

was a point in time when I was literally illiterate.

I couldn't read a book.

I went to jail to learn how to read.

I went to jail to graduate high school.

I wouldn't even have had a high school diploma had that not happened.

So what I'm saying is,

Regardless of your circumstances, you can change it.

And regardless of what happens to you, you can rise up from the mud.

And that's what I want people to do.

It's a lot of people in this city right now that are experiencing hopelessness, right?

And that's why, you mentioned earlier, you said, they called me a rapper.

They called Zora and Mom not me a rapper, right?

But I know some reliable people who've been to New York recently.

And they told me that New York has a whole new

uh energy in the air because now they have a government that's or a mayor that's defending the people and they have a person that's delivering he's actually he's not just talking he not just he ran a campaign right but

he

delivered on his campaign we're seeing it every day

and it's

giving people hope and so like i said you know like you said that he's a rapper well the rapper in new york is actually delivering so i think maybe we need more rappers to run for office because rappers are connected to the people so i just think that in the end of the day

the people who are disconnected from the problem, I mean, I don't have an issue with them running for office, but I do think more people who are connected to the problem and the people who need to run for office don't be willing to run for office

because we're disgusted with politics.

But

in the end of the day, you know what I'm saying?

We're not gonna change this demonstration if we keep on having that type of mentality.

In the black community, we have this thing called learned helplessness.

And that's because we suffered under slavery.

We suffered under Jim Crow.

We suffered under convict leasing.

Now we're suffering under mass incarceration and hyper segregation and advanced marginality, right?

But that don't mean that we can't rise above those circumstances and make real change and make society better for our property, for our children.

And that's how we gotta be thinking.

And I know that we have to

We have to try to empower the youth.

We have to try to.

And that's what the turners did.

I'm thankful to the turners in the mosque, Muhammad mosque number three.

And so it's like that.

That's what they did with me.

They took me, they taught me how to speak, they empowered me.

I didn't know that we would be changing systems until they got ahold of me and started showing their ropes.

Systems change, I was only in the direct service.

Systems change was out of my league, right?

I'm like, the system will never change, right?

Until we start getting policies changed, right?

And we start seeing like, oh, you can actually do this, this is actually possible.

So that helped me, I had learned helplessness.

I'm thinking like, man, the government, the government, they gonna do what they're gonna do, ain't nothing I could do about it.

But no, there is something we can do about it.

People are smart and people are, they plan and they think and they target issues, popular issues, and you can make a change.

And that's what we all have to do.

And no power like the power of the people and the power of the people don't stop.

And shout out to David Mohamed, man.

I gotta say,

he spent a lot of time mentoring me, showing me how to do what I do today.

So, and shout out to Emilio.

He's a great mentor of mine, too.

So, I had to mention that.

Thank

you.

Man, appreciate y'all for coming in.

A couple quick comments in the chat says, greetings to all the guests on the panel.

Appreciate you and your input.

And brother Robert said, this young man is wise as hell, man.

Keep up the amazing fight, y'all.

I will try my best to get down to the mean today.

530 at City Hall, Room 301B.

301B as in boy.

All right.

Make sure y'all pull up man.

Make a lot of noise man.

We gotta be loud about the things that we care about.

Don't sit on your couch and complain.

Get outside and get active.

You don't like being surveillanced or watched or overpoliced.

Come down to City Hall today at 5.30.

Let your voice be heard.

Don't just be heard online.

Show your action, y'all.

Don't go anywhere.

When we come back, thank you once again, Emilio and Brother Nicholas for joining us and sharing some wisdom here with our Truth Nation right here on 10170

Truth.

What up y'all welcome back to the award-winning 1017

the truth

Live from the American family insurance studios.

It's your boy Ray Nitty Prince of the city holding it down.

You already know Brother Z got us with the production and sound man It's a beautiful day man feel very insightful very insightful today Shots out to Emilio and brother Nicholas man

Yes, they said I was jumping off at City Hall today at City Hall 530 room 301 B Alright 301 B. They will be having a fire and police commission meeting about the flock cameras.

Go voice your opinions Go voice your concerns Go voice anything you have to say about this situation here.

We talked about a lot

Today, y'all, we talked about a lot.

It was a good interview to, you know, it was getting heavy.

It's getting heavy in here.

833-212-1017 is the number to dial.

833-212-1017 is the number to dial.

Today, y'all, we've been having a very, very interesting conversation.

We've been talking about.

People.

Creating space for pedophilia.

Been talking about.

People not holding people accountable.

We've been talking about.

Abusers.

What does that look like?

Let us to why don't.

Women leave abusive relationships or why do we protect abusers in the community?

And it got us to our we holding men accountable enough Or I don't even think we got into why do we protect abusers?

Think right when we were gonna get into that.

That's when our interview came I shared some of my own personal stories With a brother guru asked a question in the chat He asked you know, I said, you know my siblings went off to college so I was

Essentially alone, you're my little sister and I had to deal with it.

He says, are you mad at your older siblings for not standing up to your pops?

I asked because I was until I learned of the abuse they suffered that I didn't.

It gave me a better understanding.

I definitely.

Had.

feelings toward my older siblings, but not because they didn't stand up to my pops.

It wasn't because of that.

It was because I felt like they left me.

I felt like, and you know, my sister left and she had a kid right away.

She had to deal with that through all of high school.

So so many things, but I couldn't process all of that as a kid at that time.

I just know that they got to not be in the house with the monster and I had to stay there with monster.

Okay, that's what I That's what I knew

brother guru

Yeah, I felt away, but it wasn't because They didn't stand up It was because I felt left I felt abandoned And it felt like you know Nobody checked on me So those were the feelings I was Processing as a kid

That's why I'd be like, I probably do need a little therapy.

I probably do process things a little bit.

Aggressively.

Why do communities protect abusers?

Right?

That's the harder question.

The Milwaukee Courier.

We did talk about this.

The protection of black men, particularly over truth and the blind eye.

We intentionally turn toward it if they are men of community value.

the double standard of accountability in the black community.

Reverend Dr. Selena Carter.

Axel was coming up, founder of Spirit of Excellence frames the cultural route.

Plainly African American women have a strong loyalty to the race, culture and family.

Says that women are told from a young age.

That what happens in the home stays in the home.

I remember hearing that.

I remember hearing that from other family members.

Don't tell anybody your business.

You don't want your business out in the streets.

Some Black survivors describe an unspoken protective instinct specifically tied to a history of Black men being disproportionately targeted by the justice system, silence framed not as excusing abuse, but as an attempt to avoid feeding the narrative that criminalizes Black man for it.

that instinct is understandable historically.

But researchers and advocates are direct that it still leaves real victims unprotected in the present.

We let them hold deacon roles, we let them be pastors, we let them hold seats of power.

Let them be community leaders, community organizers.

We problem up.

Knowing.

We let them be presidents.

Elect them twice.

I love the poorly educated.

Twice.

We let them insight riots on Capitol Hill.

And we protect it.

We protect it.

We don't address it.

We protect it.

We don't call it out.

We enable it.

So when you create an environment that shows the young boy right now, when you speak up, when you fight back, you get beat harder.

When you ask for help, they say, keep your business out the streets.

When you run away, they take you back.

Always putting you back in the environment that you are trying to escape, not removing.

Or helping remove.

The monster in the room.

And my pops has since passed.

Rest in peace to his soul.

But I grew up never making peace.

Never making peace, never having the conversation.

To be like, why did you put us through that?

Even on his deathbed, I could see.

I could see the.

Shame.

sadness in his eyes.

He couldn't look at me in the face.

It was years.

It was years I've seen.

I stayed away from home for a long time because I didn't know how I would react to seeing him.

Now that I'm an adult and I could hit hard, I wanted my licks back.

For me and my mom.

So I stayed away from home.

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie.

I kind of want to go a couple rounds.

Pause.

You feel me?

Put the gloves on.

I wanted my lick back.

I could not get the image of revenge out of my head.

Not that I'm old enough to fight.

I'm strong enough to fight now.

This is like, you ain't gonna do that to me.

I promise you.

You feel me?

Try it.

See what happens.

It's a different conversation now, right?

Yeah, see what happens.

Try it now.

We're not little no more.

I'm not little no more So you almost got this chip on your show when we get back y'all we'll get right into this chip on the shoulder that I developed The revenge that I wanted but it was really callous in my soul We'll get into that right here on the award-winning one on one seven the truth

What up y'all welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one seven of truth.

It's your boy Ray nitty holding it down brother Z got us on the production and sound talking about Why communities protect abuses Why We talked about wanting that lick back now that I was older I stayed away from home

833-212-1017.

Did you deal with abuse?

Did you deal with a parent that was abusive and then you got out of it and then you hadn't seen them in a while?

So I developed this chip, y'all, on my shoulder.

I didn't go home for a while.

Missed out on a lot of time with family, people that I love, my cousins, Yats, Kenesha, Tracy.

Everybody back home my aunt my uncle auntie Jeanette Uncle Ken Missed out on a lot of time Because I was resentful because I didn't want to go home because I didn't know how I was gonna react to seeing somebody that Caused so much pain in my life

Pain to me pain to my mom pops past.

I said I saw him on his deathbed tears Rolling out his eyes as if he wanted to say sorry but because of what he was battling.

He didn't even have the strength to speak I Saw it in his eyes.

He couldn't look me in the face more

than five seconds at a time.

He would always have to turn his head.

He would always have to, you know, look the other way.

As if like...

Yeah,

it's

like it's just so much shame Just so much shame like Didn't even have the strength to say sorry because he just couldn't But I saw it in his eyes All right, so silence Framed not as excusing abuse but as an attempt to avoid feeding the narrative

That criminalizes black man further the instinct is understandable historically, but researchers and advocates are direct that it still leaves real victims unprotected in the present So none of this is about blaming survivors, okay or about excusing abusers it's about understanding why

Why didn't she just leave a why didn't anyone say anything?

Or almost always the wrong first questions Okay, the right first question is what made leaving or speaking up so dangerous in the first place Start with that question

Let's get into our men holding other men accountable enough fact checked and confirmed by CDC Intimate partner violence data and multiple black men's mental health researchers This is gonna be interesting a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is a number to dial 40 percent 40 percent of black men have experienced physical

sexual or psychological violence from an intimate partner per Black Health magazine.

No, BlackHealthMatters.com.

A real underreported number since men in this position are frequently told to man up or have their experience dismissed as impossible or really just a joke.

So the flip side is the honest accountability question research and advocates constantly point to the same finding.

Men are far more likely to change harmful behavior when confronted by other men.

They respect not just by the partners.

They're harming or by outside institutions.

I want y'all to listen to that again.

Sit with that again.

Researchers and advocates consistently point to the same finding.

Men are far more likely to change harmful behavior when confronted by other men they respect, not just by the partners.

They're harming or by outside

institutions.

Okay.

The barrier is cultural, not just individual boys are taught from a young age to handle challenges without complaint.

And when they fail to meet that resilience standard, whether as a victim or by being called out for causing harm,

The response is often punishment or ridicule rather than honest engagement.

OK.

What real accountability actually requires?

We're going to get into that.

Don't get into that.

What does real accountability actually require?

So some uncomfortable version of this question.

When a man in your circle crosses a line with a partner, does the group actually say something to him directly?

Or does the group just quietly protect its own comfort by staying silent and letting the woman absorb the fallout of speaking up alone?

Do y'all check y'all homies?

Do y'all check y'all friends or family members?

Do you?

How many can say they actually do?

Don't worry, I'll wait.

Because we see so much men, so many men, and other humans as well, right?

But we talking about men right now.

Domestic situations, we see it so many times.

Man, woman getting into altercation, group of men that could intervene.

Some may be friends of the person, standing around, laughing.

Not intervening watching this woman get beat I Understand people be like man, it's hard to intervene these day cuz you got people to just be killing people Understandable we talking about your home either the person you came with

Do you hold them accountable?

Or do you just pull your phone out and record it so y'all could laugh at it later?

Or so you could post it on social media later?

You know a trend I hate the most right now on social media check on your peoples You would pull your phone out and record somebody's

Body, car, whatever, laying in the street.

Just to say, check on your peoples.

I don't want that to be the way I found out about my peoples because somebody just said, check on your peoples cause they wanted some likes.

Let's go talk to Blake.

Blake, how you doing?

Off work, man.

What's that in?

Man, I can't complain.

Talk to me.

Accountability.

Accountability to me is being there for your children no matter what.

Knowing that they look at you like they see the world.

And most men are cop-outs.

I am not a cop-out.

I got three older girls.

I got three younger boys.

My boys have never seen me in the streets.

They have never seen me sell drugs.

They have never seen me with pistols.

They have never seen me with gang members.

My daughters have seen all of that.

But then I'm a teacher.

I'm a nurse.

I'm a mentor.

I'm an entrepreneur with my own company and businesses.

All my kids are A students.

Now they see what a man is.

I'll always take care of my kids.

I'll take myself for child support.

All six of them.

All of them have my last name.

They all have a place to stay and wherever I reside at.

And there's no arguing and fighting with a woman, man.

They produce life.

I was watching the game the other night.

It probably watered me.

And I looked at all them people, like women had all these people.

Ain't no man had no baby, man.

And y'all here slapping around and checking and trying to be little women, man.

I better get it together, dude.

Comrades, color don't play.

And

I'm

so glad I never mistreated women when I was younger.

I made my sister tough, but I've never put my hands on a woman.

And when I did, it was my kid's mom, the one that did that bogus stuff to me.

But she hit, she threw something at me and I drew my hand back.

She was like, I dare you.

And I slapped in her leg instead of hitting in her face.

Other than that, man, I ain't never put my hand on the woman that I was making love to or trying to save her from getting hit by a car.

But me and better get it together, Jack, because as you see, dude, we just got pops going over his old baby mama house.

They ain't playing with us.

And I hate that they think that we shouldn't have, they not.

They pushing out watermelons, man.

You don't see nobody.

We had to have babies, did you know?

One

is done.

And all kids

wear it coming out, too.

Wait, what about watermelon?

He said they pushing out watermelons.

My cousin told me I said having the babies like pushing the watermelons out your new new.

I said, whoa.

Man.

No, thank you.

Bikini style, please.

So all these men out here doing the wrong, brother like you, me and Homer, man.

We just got to be the presence and show them what real men are.

There's no excuse for a man.

Get it together, Milwaukee.

Man, I appreciate you calling in.

Cousin Blake, thank you for joining us on the award-winning 10170 Truth.

Speaking of cousin, I forgot to tell you and Shannon the other day Yeah, jazz tried to self-perclaim herself Truth Nation's favorite cousin.

So y'all

got

smoke

with jazz Just like you know jazz like to fight.

I don't want no smoke with jazz.

That's Jazzy Blanco but

Jazz know who truth favorite cousins is.

We the cousins.

We the cousins, Jazz.

All right.

We the cousins.

All right.

You, you the auntie.

You can be the favorite auntie, Jazz.

All right, but we the cousins.

You gonna figure out what Sherwin and Bailey and Homer.

Sherwin's

definitely the weird uncle.

Sure about the text me right now as fast as Mark Chambers did when that lady said his name Mark was out there just looking hoping like let's see what they talking about today ill to row He coming down the city hall All right y'all don't go anywhere when we come back we're gonna wrap this thing up with how are we building new good men and something I want to share with you All right, don't go anywhere

We'll be back right here on the award-winning 1017, The Truth.

This for the sons with no father figures in their life.

This for the baby mothers who never gonna be a wife.

This for the daughters who lost their innocence to the streets.

This for the brothers in them trenches where it ain't no peace.

I forgot to call and check on you like I was poster.

I forgot to help you take some weight off your shoulders.

I forgot to give

you love when that's what you lacked.

I forgot to pray for you when that's what you lacked.

One on one, seven to truth.

It's your boy Ray Nitty.

You already know Prince of the City, man, live from the American Family Assurance Studios.

We having a real good conversation today, man.

833-212-1017.

First of all, thank you to everybody today.

If you called in from 12 to 2 with me and Shannon, thank you.

If you shared your story, if you shared your truth with us, thank you.

Thank you because we understand a lot of times.

It takes a lot.

It takes a lot to call.

or radio station and be vulnerable over the airwaves of hundreds of thousands of people that's listening.

But you came and shared your truths with us here today.

So thank you.

Thank you and know that.

It's help out there.

It's help out there.

You don't have to go through these things alone.

Fellas, you don't have to be silent.

You got weird old partners that's saying weird things.

You don't got to be silent and just laugh it off.

You don't have to because that friend could be laughing his way into your daughter's room.

So be careful of the friends you keep.

Or the friends you enable.

How are we building new good men?

How are we building new good men?

It's a real.

Existing program worth naming directly.

And I got to do this delicately because I don't want to get no letter sent to me.

About a grandmaster.

OK.

But I want to talk about the order of the Knights of Pythagoras KOP.

Right.

You don't know, I'm a member of Prince Hall Masonry, King David Lodge, number 10.

Well, we make good men better.

And Knights of Pythagoras is the youth.

side of Masonry where they take young men and show them real life skills.

Give them real lessons.

Teach them discipline, nice suits.

Dress them up to teach you how to tie a tie.

Teach you how to respect women.

Teach them how to put God first.

It's community-based mentoring organization for boys, roughly from the ages of seven.

Let's say 20, but I feel like it's 18 if I'm not mistaken, but we'll say seven to 20.

Sponsored by Prince Hall Masonry, Prince Hall Mason's National.

So youth-led program.

Meaning the young men themselves take on real leadership roles under adult supervision, of course.

Not just passive instructions and one thing I will say That Masonry has done for me in my life it has made me slow down Made me sharpen up Made me more disciplined made me more aware of humanity and civilization and even being more intentional of how I interact and treat

humanity and civilization.

Wanting harmony for the world, our communities, our families.

So I'm thankful for the leadership of.

Sean, a James C. The honorable.

Get a letter if you say wrong.

I'm trying to make sure I'm saying things right.

But I'm honored for the leadership, the dedication, and pushing men in the right direction and uplifting young men on the way.

So if you got young kids, if you got young men in particularly, and you want them to be around a solid group of young men that's teaching them real values, real skills, financial literacy.

It's some real dope brothers in Mason Reed that I met, man.

That's doing amazing things in this city.

And I hear about, you know, places like Big Brother, Big Sister, they're short on mentors.

It's over 400 kids on the waiting list.

Think about how many kids not even on the waiting list that need a mentor.

Let's think about that.

Think of the kids that parents didn't even sign up for mentors.

It's way more than 400.

Way more than 400.

So if you got a kid, reach out.

Reach out.

You got a young man.

Reach out.

We want to make...

New good men.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Decentralized.

I don't know what type of sorcery you talking about.

But if you got young kids And there's something on the starlighters they have that wrong for the young women as well But I think if I'm not mistaken young guys could be a part of the starlighters as well But community service getting involved with the community helping one another building community reestablishing community Protecting women and children

All right.

The program's training curriculum directly targets the accountability gap.

This show just discussed leadership, anger management, decision making or radical or or editorial and debate skills.

Damn, told me up to now.

Team building, explicit skill building around exactly the behaviors that go unaddressed when men don't hold each other accountable.

KOP's own stated mission to share

teach and demonstrate the principles of manhood to young men enabling them to achieve their dreams and become men who are strong, responsible, and productive, with mentors who are Prince Hall Masons already established as professional and community leaders.

It's not restricted to just the sons of Masons, y'all.

So any young man of good character can petition to join a local council.

Meaning this is a genuinely open door, not a closed family network.

Man, thank you all for your time.

If you want to know more about KOP, the Knights of Pythagoras, if you're interested in getting your young kid signed up, hit me up, man.

You know where to find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, RAY, NITTI.

Join the conversations.

Don't go anywhere, y'all.

Up next, we're gonna have a best of jazz, Tyler.

But tomorrow is Friday.

We gonna do something special on Friday, man.

My quote, if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything by Malcolm X. Y'all know what it is, man.

It's your boy Ray Nitty, Prince of the... You already know.

Don't go anywhere, y'all.

Have a good time.

Brother Z, we out!