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Of course, I am the legendary Homer.

Blow along with my girl.

Bailey Coleman.

Great morning, Bailey.

How you doing and feeling this morning?

I'm wonderful.

How are you, Homer?

I'm blessed.

I'm blessed.

I'm blessed.

Time to start the debate.

I'm just saying.

Oh.

It's going to be a debate for morning.

because because we have a interview coming up next hour

from

8 AM to 8 30 AM.

Right.

And so we're going to be getting into that.

Also, people will have a chance to win some rice and tiller

tickets.

Yes.

Yeah.

Rice and tiller.

Y'all get ready.

Absolutely.

So a lot, a lot, a lot.

So we're going to pack in everybody better be in the homeroom on time because we don't have to try to make sure that we get a lot in during this first hour.

So somebody that's trying to be late.

Wake them up.

Wake them up.

Like, this is your third time.

That's

it?

Yeah, it's your third time.

I don't know if we should give people a third time.

Like, I think, you know, after two times and I told you, the third time is out.

You feel what I'm saying?

You done.

It's over.

But I've been here for four years.

Yeah.

On time.

Yeah.

Tardy without an excuse twice.

One more time, it's a

wrap.

Yeah.

You don't think so?

No.

It's not egregious enough.

How

many times without an excuse?

Now, remember, I said without an excuse, how many times would you give them?

It depends on if they're a great worker for you.

You know.

I'm just trying to figure it out.

I'm not I'm not nickel and diamond minutes, but I give, you know, I'm

just saying how many times how

many times.

Yeah, would you?

I would nickel and

diamonds.

I would be if you're egregiously late, then we got a problem.

Mm hmm.

You know, and egregious to me, a repeated egregious is like 15 between 15, not 10.

And

your time coming down so first

10 and 30 minutes,

you

know If you agree just like that Every day then we got we have a conversation

At what point would the conversation start after day four day five of that happening?

I don't know.

Okay, and it also depends on the person.

Okay,

you know because

If you come in and you head of your business and you get all the things done that I need to get done, if we're a great team, then I ain't gonna be tripping too hard, but we don't, you know, I'm gonna need you to be.

Let me just say this.

Anybody, I have supervised hundreds.

I have literally supervised a few people.

And everyone that has ever worked for me knew what the mission was and what we were doing and what was happening.

And

that's how you create, you know?

So I know you have your stickliness and they gotta be there right on time, but I understand people are human too.

So, there you go.

I know you're you're a stickler.

You're a

stickler.

You're a stickler buddy.

We'll take advantage of that and we'll then when you do say something be like why I always come in late and you'll never say nothing.

You know what I'm saying?

So it's like I

don't I don't I

don't I don't

I don't experience that

type

because very particular when I hire people.

I'm extremely particular.

When I hire people I mean very

particularly

Extremely so yeah, so you gonna go

everybody everybody

everybody.

Yes, you listen I Let me take one of the things that I used to do I used to put them to the test before they even got in the door to see me, okay?

Okay, I mean

how did that test go?

There were many different ones, but my favorite

how

many

my

let me tell you something My favorite was having people go.

It's they never met me.

Mm-hmm

Never even saw me and I had My assistant go out and say, okay, you coming to work.

Okay.

Listen We got to get some stuff done.

Mm-hmm.

We need you to go.

I'm gonna take come into the mailroom I'm gonna show you something had them in there cutting banners

Okay.

I want to see what's going on.

First of all, you know, did they get there?

Did they arrive for the interview early?

And how many minutes early they came?

And then what they're willing to do?

I mean, not that I'm expecting you to do a whole lot.

But I want to see what your patience level is.

I want to see, you know, are you are you down for the squad?

What are we doing?

What is early to the interview to you?

To me, it's

like 10 to 15 minutes.

10 to 15 minutes.

Are you early?

Okay.

10 to 15

minutes.

They get there punctually at the time of the interview.

I'm still okay, but I'm still I'm that means I might put you to more of a test.

There you go.

Docking system.

Like

I'm not saying it wasn't a doc, but I'm just going to say, you know, let

me see what you're really going to do.

It weighed against you a little bit.

But I mean, not to where as I'm going to say, no, you're not hired.

But it was like, okay, all righty.

Let's see that first

you ain't even gonna fill out an application Do you go through some hoops just getting in the door?

I think I've you know like I'm working in a different spot now,

right?

And I see some of the You know the process is different and you know some of the people

Don't make it past because there's a whole paperwork situation now that you just got to deal with before you can even do the interview, right?

And people, I mean, they can't even make it through that.

You know, so.

It's not just some simple application.

Now you really dealing with people's lives.

You gotta go through, you know, you gotta go through.

If they can't make it through that, then I'd be like, yeah, that wasn't a good match.

You can't make it through that.

And no telling, you know, what I'm gonna be having you do because we do a lot,

you know.

So, you know, there's a whole process.

If you could get through that and we could, you know, then, hey, we're good.

But if you can't make it through.

And

there's a lot of people that can't, you know, make it through.

Absolutely.

And see, that's what I'm going like, you know, at least 10 to 15 minutes early to the interview.

It's, you know, you come walking in right at like, yeah.

Yeah,

but my thing is I want to see where your mind that I want to see if you'll fit in and be down with my squad.

Yep.

Absolutely.

So yeah.

So the whole what we was at the other station, that whole.

Oh yeah.

They come.

Oh, I ain't playing with nobody.

But that's where I'm at.

That's all.

I ain't

playing

with

nobody.

I ain't got time for that.

Right.

But that's why I had such a tight team.

There you go.

Right.

Everybody knew.

That's why when

you say

come

on, baby,

I

know

you.

But see.

But see, therein lies the thing, though.

Then

you get with

a

little bit more leniency,

you know, because you

know

how they work.

Exactly.

Because they may come in five minutes late, but how long they gonna stay with you?

They might stay with you till 10, 11 o'clock at night.

Y'all might be together the whole day.

You know, working hard.

You came in

later.

That if you coming in, you coming in at nine something in the morning, we still rolling at 10 o'clock at night.

That's how radio is.

You know that and I know that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, the ask is always there.

Be like, Hey, do you, you get what I'm saying?

Because I don't like to just assume that that person is going to be able to do it, but I do do the man.

Nobody

wanted to leave and I didn't want to

leave.

Well, I mean, that's what most won't, but some do.

And then that's when you say, okay, yeah, well, you do have.

habitualness

about

you.

And then when just as to take one with the team, you know, not just for the team, but with the team, because sometimes you have to come together and form your own radio Voltron.

Man, listen.

And be like, look now.

My squad

is always rolling.

We're missing an arm now.

Come on now.

Come on now.

Stop

it.

Stop it.

We miss an arm.

It was like, and we had another arm right here.

We fell.

We grew a

new arm.

We got it.

We got it,

B. We got

it.

Ice man.

So we on the limbs.

Listen.

Listen, my squad was ready to roll.

Always ready to roll.

Do what we needed to do.

Yeah, trust people.

Shout out

to my former squad members.

I love y'all.

We still a squad.

We still be getting together doing

stuff.

Let's see will deny.

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Let's see, will deny and say good morning.

The first test should be, in my opinion, the appearance.

Some people go to an interview dressed like they're going to the store.

What about the club?

How about that?

That part?

Oh,

I

have seen it all.

I saw what I'm saying,

especially working in health care.

I really don't see it.

But so as people are definitely chiming in, you know, the.

Listen if you can dress right now, just let me give you this if you can dress right now to go to an interview or you got one today, okay?

Just to impress

that's will do you know the same thing and I'm

not talking about impressing him at the club

But that's how they come in some of them are coming They come in

here smelling like weed

Look at life.

Yeah, and if it's a if it's a woman that is the interviewer, it'd be like, bro, I had to drop my girl off at

work.

You know, all that.

Those are disqualifiers.

And then you'll be like, they just don't want to hire me.

No, stop it.

No.

You came in in a

look at

disadvantage.

We got to get ready to take care of some bills, but when we return because of the fact that, like I said, we do have.

special guests coming in from 8 to 8 30.

Okay.

Yeah, that was weird.

Let's go to break.

I'll come back.

See the inside working

speak.

Yeah, that

inside.

Yeah,

that was will be black.

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Yeah.

Let me

just have another cup of coffee over here because I know I didn't hear what I

heard.

I don't drink coffee but I

feel like

I need to take some hot chocolate.

Good morning Xavier.

Great one Xavier.

How you doing and feeling that song.

Yeah.

Boy out MKE can't wait to call in after hearing that

See y'all got my jam

on this morning.

We're doing it right No acronyms All

right But

we're getting ready to go into this and I know that it's going to be a debate

for a lot of people in my opinion because everybody has different viewpoints and I think some of the people who are closer to the family and those who have a disdain in my opinion for law enforcement are going to always continue to even things that may be right there in front of you.

Choose to look at it with different classes and it's like no matter what That picture that shows the actual gun and his finger definitely on the trigger with Princess Smith That don't mean nothing.

They planted it.

You know what I'm saying?

It's just you know, some people in my opinion are just gonna be that

way

It's just me putting a question.

Well, you want to put play the clip first?

Okay.

Okay.

Then we can have this debate.

I've

seen the clip already.

Yeah, I know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So for those who haven't seen the body cam footage, again, as we had told you

was

going to be released 15 days after the incident, but the family of whoever the victim may be, they get to see the body cam footage within 48 hours.

Right.

So now it's the public's chance to see the video.

of the shooting of the officer and Prentice Smith, who was shot and killed by a law enforcement officer with MPD.

So we're going to play this WISN 12 news clip and we'll talk about it.

So Xavier, if you can play that clip.

We're getting it together.

We're getting it together.

Probably an ad playing.

So we're getting it together.

able to join us.

for the public release of this video,

since they saw it.

Right, Eric, which is why we are showing it to you this afternoon.

Police say Prentice Smith was armed with a handgun and exchanged gunfire with the officer.

Now, Smith's family does not dispute he was armed, but say he never shot at the officer.

Here's what the video provided to us just within the last hour shows.

Get on

the ground!

It's from September 8th.

It starts with police chasing a car wanted in connection to a shooting out of Glendale.

The suspects jump out of the car and that's when police are seen running after them.

The officer is heard telling Smith to get on the ground three times.

The 35 year old cop with three years experience eventually catches up with Smith and we will let you see what the footage provided shows

next.

Officer and Smith are so close the camera actually goes black.

We did freeze the video as the picture clears up and it shows Smith on the ground with a gun in hand to the officer.

Then you heard calling for backup Derek.

And Hannah, the police union just issued a statement saying the officer was shot in the leg.

Well, yeah, they had previously said that you can't necessarily see his injury, though, from this video that was provided this afternoon.

Again, Smith's family disputing he ever fired his weapon.

The police department today doubling down on the exchange of gunfire in a press release issued this afternoon.

We have, of course, asked for an interview with MPD.

And we know, meanwhile, while Tosa police are the ones leading this investigation, we've also asked them for.

update.

and a Hillier live in the newsroom here at four o'clock in just minutes ago as we mentioned Milwaukee Police Association president Alex Ayala posted a statement on social media about this video saying in part the officer pursued an armed man repeatedly gave him the opportunity to surrender and confronted an immediate deadly threat to protect the surrounding community.

He referring to the officer demonstrated extraordinary courage and we came frighteningly close to mourning another Milwaukee police officer.

A statement from Alex Ayala with the Milwaukee Police Association.

Police tell us the

the Chevy Equinox police were chasing is part of that separate shooting investigation Hannah mentioned from Glendale.

Police say the man who owns that vehicle fired a shot at his pregnant girlfriend in Glendale the day before the police shooting.

Police have not found that man as of today.

We are not naming him because he has not been charged with a crime.

It is unclear if he in fact is the same person who was with Prentice Smith in that vehicle right before that police shooting.

Bailey What's your truth?

What's your thoughts on this after seeing the video and troop nation give us a call 8 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 we want to hear your truth For those of you who had a chance to not only see it when we played it, but you may have even went to the YouTube page and watched it so what's your truth and then we have the picture that

Of that the close-up picture of the

right

in Princess Smith's hand with his finger securely grasped around the trigger

Okay First of all I know there's a debate going back and forth Over the you know whether or not he's shot

the picture is up

on our YouTube and Facebook page.

But yeah, you can go ahead, baby.

We're still on screen

of whether or not, you know, he shot the police officer.

But if there were no shots, you know, going back and forth, how did the police officer get a bullet in his leg?

How did he get shot?

You understand what I'm saying?

Yeah,

I mean, you're going to tell me he shot itself.

That's what.

family and some community people are saying.

So he shot itself.

OK, so I'm going to stop in the

chase and I'm going to shoot myself.

Haley,

I'm just saying.

I

get it.

I get it.

You know, I

understand that the family is grieving and something like this happens.

It's such a shock.

You know, it's such a shock and you don't want to look at it realistically.

You know, but.

I mean, also my other takeaway from this again, why should you call friend

or

people you hang out with?

Because he wouldn't even, he would not have even been in this situation had he not been rolling out with his buddy to own the Equinox.

Wouldn't even been in the situation.

And where he at?

Haven't caught him yet from the.

Latest report even after this video

Yeah here willy-nilly running free doing whatever he trying to do

And

somebody son somebody brother somebody friend Is now about to be buried because he was hanging out with him You know, I mean he would never been in the situation at all But that's just me

That's just how I feel about it.

You got to watch who you call friend watch who you associate with watch who you around Ladies this goes for you too because you just never know now do you you may have a friend And they doing something they shouldn't be doing that they know was wrong Messing with somebody else's man or somebody whatever it don't even matter and you caught in the crossfire You know so

Watch who's around.

Watch who you put yourself around.

Correct.

But also get it back to this.

You know, yeah, it's I mean, if you I didn't see the hand on the little clip or whatever I didn't see or whatever it is.

However,

it's finger on the trigger.

Right.

I see all that before it was

quick.

Mm hmm.

But there's that there, too.

And and then there's that video.

We got to get ready to take care of some bills.

And like I said, we got a very they

said his gun misfire.

Is that what it but it still hit the police,

right?

That that is the alleged story that that we're hearing.

Yes.

That that all with his finger on all of this is alleged that he

suppose it

right.

But I mean, this video, you know,

Yeah, I mean it kind of puts everything into perspective.

And

you know

people always say oh cops, cops, cops are bad.

Clearly this is a black cop.

So is it a racist situation now?

I have

not hit the gavel not one time.

These two

colors together look like they match.

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Welcome black truth in the morning.

Of course, the legendary home or blow along with my girl Bailey Coleman and our turn to hear your truth.

What what did you see?

And I know even outside of this because it's The video is posted on our Milwaukee carrier as well as on civic media pages So you have a chance to watch it dissected What did you see?

Did you see something that in your opinion?

was a justifiable reason for that officer to shoot and kill

Uh, printed Smith, uh, did you see a overreaction?

I mean, what, what is your truth on that?

And.

But because, because in the end, and it's, it's really going to be curious because, you know, our special guests, um, who will be talking about jury, you know, being a juror and the importance of it or whatnot.

And this is why I say that when you get those.

Summons to report.

Yeah

as for jury duty.

Yeah,

that that is important because if something like this was to go to court then you know, you would want to in my opinion be able to say, okay, I Report the jury duty, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, you know your viewpoint

let this be the case.

I gotta do

right

I know all about

it.

That keeps

me off the journey.

I

know all

about it, y'all.

I don't like, you know.

Yeah.

So we'll talk more about that.

But yeah, you

know,

it's important that the community we speak out and you get to hear our thoughts and like I say, I think that when your person.

So when I say your person, a family member or friends with.

the person then I think sometimes that your viewpoint is always going to be different no matter what, you know, they could show you whatever and for you nothing is going to be swayed

in

that.

Blake Gump, this would be an interesting time to hear from you because again in the footage we see Blake Gump's house.

And also he informed me that

last night that there was another shooting right by his house.

And that's crazy.

So Blake Gump, if you're able to call in, definitely be interested in hearing your viewpoint, especially now that you've been able to see the body cam footage as well.

833-212-1017 because we only have up until eight o'clock and then we'll be switching gears.

So we want to hear from

as many of you as possible to give your thoughts and I want to know why so many in my opinion just have this disdain.

I gave what I think the reason is, you know, for some people.

No matter what law enforcement does they'll never be right in their opinion

and

mine

Right

and sometimes it's that the closeness of it's like I don't care if he had a gun and he had his finger on the trigger You still shouldn't kill them,

right?

You know you got that

and

I think it's some emotional things that go along with that But I'm gonna the truth is the truth for me.

You know what I'm saying?

I'm I'm gonna speak my truth

that part

we do have Blake gump

on the truth call in line 833-212-1017.

Great morning Blake Gump.

How are you doing feeling?

What's your truth and your viewpoint on this?

You're on the air, Blake.

Gump.

I see Washington threw a lot of nonsense, man.

Good morning, my brother.

Good morning, my sister.

I'm doing well,

man.

Good

morning.

It'll be 55 Sunday.

It'll be 55 Sunday if I can look at you.

But last night when I came home from the lake, the opposite block.

Supposed to the 35th center.

They had 36 three cut off.

It was a shooting somebody got shot up But seeing that Sleeping through stuff.

I go sleep through and watching the world's alert man is now the family sees what happened and The thing about a dude won't turn yourself in how you how you man gone?

You ain't you ain't touch yourself in and you the heat from the situation, right?

That's why that's why I will call into a lot of stuff because my anger

It lays dormant, but I don't deal with it.

I'm at home.

We cut from that claw.

Ain't no way you know

it's

kitchens, man.

He just upset a whole world of people that had nothing to do with his life.

And then his man is finished and laid down.

He still ain't turned himself in.

That ain't no man.

So, you know, watching what's going on and everybody mad about what's happening to block me quiet over there.

But then now, just like I said the other night,

I decided the other side to the left of me.

You see in my house on the news this morning.

Yo, I was talking about me with the rose in my head, but let somebody walk up on me.

Ain't got nothing on me, but man, I'm a nice dude.

Don't bother me.

That's why I'm moving.

I'll just find me a cork.

I'm gonna tell you Friday when I see you on her.

Oh my God, dude, I'm so packed and ready to go.

Y'all have a good day.

Baby, Michael loves you.

Y'all

keep doing a good job, man.

All right.

Thank you.

Um, yeah, let's see, uh, on our YouTube page, uh, Minister Kevin.

said, I seen a brave officer chasing an armed suspect in a manner which his only intention was to make an arrest.

That part,

you know, um, Mr. Kevin also said, uh, people never want to take accountability for themselves, nor their children's choices.

Uh, Laurent Taylor said, ain't nobody turning themselves in.

Let me say this, Armani.

Sad and and DT DVT trailblazer Bailey I'm confused on the humor you see in the situation You always seem to laugh at situations like this.

I do not laugh at situations like this.

I may point out things that You may feel or other people may feel are humors or in some way, but those are things that people are thinking

Why is it this why is it that it's my job to ask the questions and I do You know and whether you like how we feel or how someone else feels about it.

That's all you That's it that's all

eight three three two one two ten seventeen We want to get your viewpoints on this again.

We've heard

from the family when they initially saw the video clip of the body cam and Now we've all had a chance to see it.

She feels that you know her son Didn't do the things that they said that he did to end up ending up dead and We've had a chance to see the video footage and again, this is where you get to speak in

and speak out as a community.

We've got Al, MKE.

Great morning, Al.

Love you, appreciate you.

You've seen the video footage.

I would take it.

What's your truth?

Well, you know, I'm gonna say it's a sad case for both the police officer and the family.

I think the problem right now is there's a disconnection between black people and police officers.

I also feel there's been a lot of damage.

by police officers being done, but you can't say all of them is bad.

I think we all just have to come together and find a common ground.

But the bigger question I have for you and Bailey is, is why is it they don't want the deployables to leave?

And this has nothing to do with the young gentlemen because that's still somebody's child.

Why is it?

They don't want the deployables to leave.

Why is it they fighting so hard to keep the deployables here?

That's what I don't understand.

Because if the deployables was gone, we wouldn't deal with this.

And it's more of the black people and the politicians that's fighting to keep them here.

White

people don't do that.

They push us out.

To give my and Bailey can give her viewpoint.

I think, unfortunately, out in Truth Nation that so many people have just begun to take this as normal as opposed to the fact that, unfortunately, it's common.

Just because something is common does not mean that it's normal.

And when you start to normalize some things that

Unfortunately have become too common like there are people that when you I don't think it's a time that I watched the news and it's part of my job as a radio personality and being in media.

that even if you get to turn the news off, we have to turn the news on because we want to be able to give you as much factual information.

We want to be able to research all of the information so we can have receipts to kind of black up our opinion, our opinions and our narratives of the situation.

So I think that so many people in our community, I can speak of that when you see them on the news, they'll be like, yeah, because they shoot out here every day.

they shoot out here every day so it's like and they haven't moved you feel no sense or it's like if I was somewhere and they were shooting every day I'd be out there with Bailey in Shea Shea Fufu land you feel no sense because what I'm not gonna do is keep playing with my life like that and don't don't don't think that it ain't moving my way it is moving my way

rapidly.

I'm in the Sherman Park area.

So it is rapidly moving my way.

So, you know, some of the off air conversations to be a belly have, you know, I was like, okay, baby, you still got that opening.

And it's not leaving Milwaukee.

But again,

no, you're still in Milwaukee.

Right.

Yeah.

So you got to still, you know, think about your family, think about your safety, think about your health, because we already have health conditions.

So that's my thing with it.

I think that

We have normalized situations that are not normal in a lot of other areas that have some black people and a lot of white people in my opinion They don't hear gunshots every night.

No,

they don't see reckless driving in their community They get to leave their picture window open.

They don't have they don't use steel bars

doors and and on their windows and things like that because they have neighbors that and they respect each other as neighbors and when the disrespect happens they either go into the HOA or they're calling the local law enforcement and saying hey I've asked him to keep this off my lawn and he keeps doing it and they gonna pay them a visit and the problem is nine times out of ten gonna be resolved but when you become used to it and and normalize it

It's like I ain't moving because they're going to still be shooting wherever I go.

No, they're

not.

No, they're not.

So that's my Bailey.

When we come back, I'll let Bailey, but thank you out in cage.

Keep listening to one.

Yeah.

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Our MKE ended up asking our opinion, me and Bailey and I gave mine.

Bailey, what is your thought of why they won't.

Let us just get rid of the deplorable that are part of the problem

well I Think you said something more like why why are they okay with them being here?

Yeah, that was the other part of it.

Yep,

you know Part of it I think has to do with whether or not we stand up to it to even if it's just on an individual level You know And then

I agree with Homer, it's been normalized, so we know that's just Pookie doing what Pookie does.

Ain't nobody gonna, he ain't gonna bother nobody until he does.

So and so ain't gonna do nothing until they do.

And sometimes you have to start with just like them being on your lawn.

You go out there, you watered it, did all the things.

Cut it trimmed it real nice, you know, and then they just come out and try and kick it in your front yard or something.

I don't know.

So, you know, it just depends that

they don't clean up behind their dogs.

Yeah, you know, they got a bag in their hand.

They got nothing.

They just let the dog do what it do.

And but

people

gotten used to

it.

Your neighbor has to do that, too.

Right.

Right.

Your neighbor.

But then the other part of it is I do feel like.

There are certain elements or certain folk that go, okay, as long as they stay over there.

As long as they do it over there.

That's it.

In the hood.

That's where they at, right?

And I think our people that are in the hood, some of them get a mindset of, we got the ones that are just like, I don't want to be bothered.

That's them

long as they

over there and Then we got the ones that are participating in it and they're like well, so-so's doing it.

Why should not?

You

know,

they sitting in their front yard You know having a party

getting

drunk doing all the things

why

should not I mean we neighbors you know, so It takes

everybody kind of working together in the right direction.

And that's why a lot of people form homeowners associations.

Not necessarily for the do's and such, but so that everybody kind of has a set of rules that they can go by knowing that you want your lawn cut.

You know, your lawn should be cut at a certain

level.

And people of like people of like minds because you want to live in peace.

And this is, you know,

Yeah.

So there's a lot of reasons and there's a lot of reasons why people go, okay, this is how it is here.

Let me take my family over here and see if it's better for them.

And a lot of people do that.

And, you know, it's never that, you know, we talk about Shae Shae Foo Foo Leonard, what you call.

I, you know, when I first moved here, I lived in West Dallas.

I didn't like it at all.

I was like, where are my people at?

So I did move to the north side.

Some of y'all know I lived off of 69th floors for a long time, just me and my child.

But you know, when the area starts getting worse and you got your little baby, he grown now.

But when it started getting worse over there, I had to move.

I had a baby and it was just me and the baby, you know?

So I mean,

It's not and it should you should not be Guilted because you want better and I think that's what tends to happen and

how about safer you just want to

be a

little safer So we joke about it and stuff like that, but women and men alike

Everybody was crying Bailey.

That's why I say that so often you have to laugh to keep from crying because it will it will depress you you will become depressed by

Just saying like this is life.

This is all I have to look forward to for the remainder of my life and That's not true There has always been and I will continue to say this there's always been poverty in most of the black communities in my opinion There's always been but we still had a neighborhood We didn't just get used to calling it the hood and that's it

Because again, I will continue to say this when we think about the hood, no matter how good you try to make it and all of that.

Yeah, it's a negative connotation.

It is.

It

is.

It is what it is.

But we try to make it sound like it's cool.

It's just a little shooting.

Yeah, OK, some people get killed, but that ain't nothing.

I still would rather be in the hood.

I'd rather go here and be selling dope and get chased and then get indicted.

You know what I'm saying?

Well, another one just gonna pop up like that is not something it's okay if we have low test scores in the schools that are in our community.

It's okay if we bring guns up to the school that we go to or that our children go to.

You don't hear about a lot of that in some of the outline MPS schools.

Period or whatever school system it is.

You know what?

Let me just say this You don't hear about it, but it goes on and sometimes it's deeper than you think Mm-hmm.

Okay, especially in these suburban schools y'all know They got different levels.

There's different levels to it.

Yes Okay, there's all kinds of drug levels out there and it's a lot different than what you hear.

Yeah, cuz they got the

Cocaine and here and you know,

they know how to shoot guns,

right?

We've had that discussion.

Yep.

So it's all at a different level just at a different level.

Absolutely.

And you know,

you color crime.

Yes.

Versus some of the things that we do.

And when we get caught, like I say, we also don't give up when we set out these vendettas against somebody.

It's like, nope.

You know, you can try to mediate.

You can try to do all of

the things to be

like, look, look, it's too many kids over here.

I don't care.

I don't when a person says that and you're talking about not just the adult that they may have an issue with.

Right.

But it's like, man, it's mothers, it's grandmothers over here, it's great grandmothers over here.

It's this, the kids walk to school this way

and this

and the other.

And you hear people that will look you dead in your eye with no flinching, no smile, talking about, I don't care.

And they use other colorful language when they saying it.

Right.

And, and, and this is what we are.

Surrounded by oftentimes

absolutely

and you're supposed to still be the rose you feel I'm saying inside the middle of this and Salute to all of the roses that are out there because they are still trying to stand tall and make a way

But then

we hear about some of these innocent roses being murdered or shot And caught up in the the violence.

Yeah

from those who really don't give a damn.

Yeah,

and those are

part of the deplorable that I think our MKE is talking about because that's how I feel.

You know what I'm saying?