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Was it murder or self defense?
Welcome back to another edition of the Creative Fans Podcast. Mike Jr. coming at you guys. I got the fellas here with me. Today, guys, we're going to be discussing the returned verdict for Rick Child in my book, Getting Away with Murdering Cyrus Cormac Belton. So I'm going to read what we have here, and I'm getting this directly off of CNN's site. South Carolina jury finds store owner not guilty of murder in killing of black teen. A South Carolina jury on Monday found a store owner not guilty of murder in a 2023 shooting of a black 14-year-old boy, 14 years old. The jury returned the verdict for Rick Child, I can't pronounce that first name, child 61, who is Asian, shot Cyrus Cormac Belton in the back after chasing him from his convenience store in Columbia. But he maintains that he acted in self-defense, defending his son. The killing sent waves of anguish and grief throughout the African American community in Richland County, where nearly half the population is black. After the verdict, sobs and cries could be heard throughout the courtroom while Chow sat silently frozen before slowly bowing his head onto his interlocked hands. So prosecutors and defense lawyers, closing arguments, painted a different picture of the 2023 shooting. The prosecutor said Chow acted in anger because he was wrong. He wrongly thought the teen had stolen four bottles of water from the store, while the defense lawyer said Chow fired to defend his son only after the teen pointed a gun at him. Okay, so it's more to read, but I'm not gonna read all that because I got so many questions. Because I also read that number one, the boy put the waters back. He did steal them. And as he was running from the store, he had a gun that fell out of his pocket, waistband, wherever. And a lot of witnesses say that they never saw the 14-year-old point a gun at Chow or his son. Chow's lawyer is saying that he pointed a gun at Chow's son, and he was trying to defend his son. But you still ran out the store and shot this kid in the back. And no witnesses are saying that they saw the kid point anything at him. They didn't even know the kid had a gun until it hadn't fallen out while he was running. So I've been looking online, seeing a lot of stuff, and one of the interesting things I want to talk about first that I saw the lawyer for the Asian child who killed Cormac. He's black. So I want to get you guys' thoughts on that because I feel some type of way, you know, because I'm hearing it online. They're calling this brother sell out, you know, he this and that. He got a job to do, but at the end of the day. Yeah, what? Public defender?
SPEAKER_01No, he was hired. He was hired.
SPEAKER_04He was hired. And I think that was, I think that was tactical. But I wonder what you guys think.
SPEAKER_01So can I can I fill into missing pieces?
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_01Because this, I I watched this. I f I followed this case. It's a uh a lady on uh Facebook. She's I'm not a lawyer, but, and she uh breaks down the case. So little details. So the Chinese people had a practice. Chinese people owned the gas station, they had a practice. Whenever someone would steal something, they they had like a wall of shame, right? That was their practice. They would they would put your and they had facial recognition. So when you walk, they would put your picture up on the wall. The camera, if your picture was up on the wall, if you entered the store, the facial recognition would pick you up, your face up, and they'll tell you to kick you out. So they had they had that software. So the dude walked in, he had a hoodie on, he had a backpack. The store practice is take your backpack off. They told him, they stopped him immediately. Told him to take his backpack. He took his backpack off. He did have a little bulge in his hoodie, right? He had the gun in there. So he goes to the cooler and he is doing some weird shit, putting bottles back and forth. So they honestly thought he stole something. So they stopped him and they said, hey. And him being 14, he immediately just took off running. So they they chased him. He failed. When he fell, the gun fell out of his hoodie. He went to pick it up. When he picked it up, now the gun is his mother gun. Just imagine it. He he left the house and he took his mother's gun. 14-year-old, you know, you you're taking your mom's gun, you want to be big and bad. He took his mom's gun. So he he fell, he dropped the gun. He can't leave the gun. That's a fucking mother gun. So he picked it up. When he picked it up, the man child saw him pick it up and said he pointed it and he shot him in the back. So.
SPEAKER_04Wow. Wow. Let's see. That's a little tidbit that I didn't know as far as him trying to get the gun back. A lot of unanswered, uh, a lot of stuff there. Number one, I'll start with at 14 years old, what are you doing with a gun? So the stuff that I've been seeing online, you're getting a lot of different stuff from the Asian community, right? You got some Asian people, people in the Asian community saying, raise your kids better. You know, you all we we always get that when it's us. But when a white kid does something, or Asian or any other race, they redeemable, you know, oh well, we need to get them help. But when it's us, raise your kids better. Me personally, I think everybody needs to raise their fucking kids better. And sometimes it don't even matter how well you raise them, because they still gonna make their own decisions. So miss me with that shit. But 14 years old with a gun. How is that happening?
SPEAKER_03The big thing is the business owner. There is possible, like when you are when you have a business, there's that gap, you know that when you open a business, you gotta allow for everything. You know that you're gonna be there to leave theft. So you always go allow for that percentage of theft, right? Then there's always the I mean all you all the small pop business gonna follow, but the big people do. No, of course, you know, if they're out, you know, you confront them if they're in the store, but once they get out of the store, then you just call the police. Don't chase after them, because what happened? What happened? They don't know if they got a gun or whatever. Yeah. And just like you said, there's facial recognition.
SPEAKER_01They had the software.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You say, okay, you gotta wait. And uh it's so trivial to loop like water. But bottle, dollar, bottle. Yeah, what is it? Trivial, very, very trivial. So, uh, if he if he did steal it, okay. Buy a whole case of what you took in your pocket, you know, it's not worth the the kids' life.
SPEAKER_04And that's what they constantly tell us to call the police. Even when they kicking our ass, spitting on us, doing this, we not to fight back, call the police. So, exactly what you said, once he got out of the store, why didn't you just call the police? Yeah, you change him. To me, that says that shows what he valued that child's life at because of the color of his skin. And he can he can get out here and say whatever the fuck, but he ain't gonna ever change my mind. Because if it was an Asian kid or a white kid, he probably wouldn't even follow them out of the damn store. That's just how I feel.
SPEAKER_03If it would have been another race, it probably just would have been the same protocol.
SPEAKER_01So does does business do do business owners who open up business in the black community owe any type of uh do they owe anything to the black community that they open up shop in? Or is is it is it kind of forget what y'all going through? I don't feel like they stereotypes.
SPEAKER_03Retribution to us. With honest God, these Americans get retribution. Yeah, they gotta get paid first. They get a check. All you gotta do is prove that you were from a furry tribe. You're from Navole. Yeah. And once that proof is there, it goes to uh United States Congress, I believe, so that they get out. I have a cousin in Arizona. They say, man, they get a check every month for the rest of their life. Yeah. For reparations. What was done to Rachel. Reparations, I'm sorry, reparations for what they've done to pillage them, take their land, take their women, which is pretty much what it's doing. Exactly.
SPEAKER_04I feel like in answer to your question, I feel like yes, yes, y'all motherfucking do owe the black community who you are putting your kids through college, you owe us something. When you set up that shit in our neighborhoods, you owe us. The problem is we don't hold their asses accountable. And that's where the breakdown comes from. Because looking at all this shit, you know, you got some of these people coming out saying, boycott us, we don't care, we don't need your money. Use a lie.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Because you embed it in our neighborhoods. And you got a lot of Asian people coming out saying that it's a lie. We do need the money. We are embedded, we are linked to the black community because of the struggle that they went through. I saw one Asian guy, I can't remember his name or his site I would like to give a shout-out, but he mentioned the fact that if it's Asians out there that think that white people are their friends, they did wrong. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I hate it was recently when white people were knocking Asians out.
SPEAKER_04Yes. And blaming them for COVID-19. Yeah. Your fucking president. Yep. So they don't really like you either. And I hate the fact that, you know what I'm saying, it it always has to be this broad umbrella of color on everything because I know some good people in every race, just like Trump knows good white supremacists in every fucking white supremacist butch. But it just it just irritates me because we have to watch this shit play out every fucking damn name. It seemed like every week we got something like this playing out.
SPEAKER_02Well, I want to just go back to the question you talked about the legal representation, right? As that lawyer, I mean, come on, man, everybody, regardless of what you think, the system is set up so everybody deserves free trial. I mean, a fair trial. And as the lawyer, hey, you know, he had, no, he has a practice, you know. And if you try to sometime not take cases based upon your integrity, you probably might not have a successful law firm because you're gonna deal with people who you know might be guilty. But guess what? If they got the right, they got the money, because you still have a profession. You still have to, you have to, you have other lawyers you gotta pay, you got paralegas you have to pay. So I'm not gonna come down too hard on the black lawyer because he did that. And sometimes we got to put ourselves, I don't condone the shooting from the story that you read, but sometimes we gotta put ourselves in another position of a business owner. Because just here in St. Louis, man, it's sad in some of black neighborhoods, there's been like two family dollars that's closed because of theft. Okay? Because of theft. You know the impact they have on the community when they shut down stores like that, when people because of theft. I'm not saying people need to die, but I think it's a big picture of, you know, why is that happening in our community like that? If you go to certain suburban areas, it might not be happening in such large numbers. Why it's not. Maybe it is and they're just not getting caught. Well, maybe it is may not get caught. But how but unfortunately, we have to realize we're in the minority. We don't control the media. Okay? We don't control the narrative. Because they're gonna always depict us and our people in an unsavory light. When you look at the news, what do you what do you see?
SPEAKER_04Well, when does it stop? And I think that's the question. I had the conversation with my wife, because she loves uh she loves her Chinese place that she goes to and gets her rights. And I asked her, would she be able to boycott? And that's how we got on the subject of do you punish them all for what this one guy did? And initially I was like, no, because it don't seem fair, because I don't think they all feel that way. But I watched this other lady online, truly wish I couldn't remember who she was too, but she said something that resonated with me. What she said was, shit, they do it to us, basically. They clump us all, they punish us for one person. All four of us sitting here, we've been punished for what that boy did. If we walk into that Asian store, now we thieves. We finna steal something. They do it to us every fucking day. So maybe it's time they feel the pressure of the black dollars if we start doing it to them. See how they feel.
SPEAKER_02But on the flip side of that, too, you gotta look at it like this. This younger generation that we call the white ends, right? It's it's sickening in a sense because you see guys in summertime walking around with footies on the shit.
SPEAKER_03It's hot. Actually, I hope. What's gonna ask a kid that?
SPEAKER_02Right. I mean, we could do that. And the thing is, I've been to Asian places. I don't, if you gotta look, some of it is about respect. Maybe if the young man would have went in and then didn't have a hoodie on or didn't look that way. Unfortunately, we're gonna get we're gonna get stereotyped.
SPEAKER_04But ain't y'all tired of dressing and altering ourselves just because we're taking away from who we are. Black women can't wear their natural hair on the noobs. We can't wear our natural clothes because our ass is too big to make the flat other people's asses look flat. We can't do this, we can't do that, we can't wear our hoodies. When are we gonna be allowed to be our fucking selves? Unfortunately, it's always I mean, I heard what you're saying, and it's it's unfortunate, but we tired of that shit, man. We are tired of it. You know what I'm saying? We want to be who we are.
SPEAKER_02Guess what? You gotta police your own. You gotta police it, and you can't you can't leave it to the Asian community, the white community. We gotta police think about this, though.
SPEAKER_04Every time we tried, what did these motherfuckers do? They destroyed it. Black Wall Street. Every time we had to try to have a town where they wasn't involved, where it was just us policing ourselves, doing our own fucking thing, they destroyed it. And now when we you put your shit in our neighborhood and we come in it, you treat us like shit and shoot us. What the fuck do you want? All like Godfrey said, they just want us entertaining them. Dance, nigga dance. You know, you can't have shit of your own. Only come out your hole when I want to laugh or I want to watch you play football, do some stupid shit that I feel is entertaining to me. We sick of the shit. When does it end?
SPEAKER_02I think it's not, first of all, it's not going to end. That's the thing we need to realize that, man. It's in. We can get pissed off and upset about, but you know what? You got a system, man. And it may not seem fair. You can look at it like a game. You got to know the rules of engagements in order to know how to play the gadget. You got this system. Either you're gonna know how to operate within the system, to better yourself, to enhance other people. If you go against the system, you're going against your own interests.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And so what good is that? You're not gonna penetrate the system, man.
SPEAKER_04Well, I think it's frustration. Like we say the why ends, I think it's frustration because they don't see a way out either. You know, we we look at them and we say, oh, they're just ignorant, they this and that. But think about what they're thinking about. They don't see a way out either. You know, if I'm here in my 50s and I'm still having to deal with it, I'm still gonna get looked at like shit when I walk into that Asian person's place. What do you think they're seeing like shit? My ancestors, they died for nothing. King died for nothing.
SPEAKER_02Man, you know what? But I agree with that. But unfortunately, man, you have a situation like say, take the fire department, St. Louis City Fire Department. Dude, when we came on 20 years ago, man, we had thousands of fucking people applying for this job. Thousands of people. You couldn't, man, if you made it on, man, it was like, hey, you was one of the lucky ones. Because it was so many people, 3,000 people, 2,000 people. Now, they can't keep motherfuckers in. They can't get people, especially our people, when you can tell a young black man, hey, guess what? This is a job for you that you can get with a pension. You start off making $60,000 a year minimum in the situation. They are there are opportunities out there, man. We can't keep blaming that shit about opportunities. Guess what? They got better opportunities than we did.
SPEAKER_01So I I think that but I think what Mike is saying, man, you gotta realize though, as black people, we're being attacked on multiple fronts, man.
SPEAKER_02We're attacking ourselves.
SPEAKER_01So we we were attacking ourselves because sometimes when I grew up, I always was taught, don't be a product of your environment. Because the environment was made, I'm put in the because then you know they call it the trap, because it is a trap. I grew up in the trap. And I'm being attacked on the educational front, on the banking front, on the housing front. We are being attacked. So all the programs, all the systems that have been taken out of the community, this black is have nothing to do. All this gun culture that white America is in love with that floods our community with guns, the drugs that are infested, yeah. That's by design, man. That is a yes, that is design. We are being attacked. So if you want to talk about the young man having a gun, how did the gun get here? The young man still in the water, why do the Asian people think it's okay to chase and gun down a 14? Do you remember when you was 14-year-old? Do you remember the dumbass decisions you were making? Yeah, the boy probably ran because, and as black people, if we want to pay it back or pay it forward the way they're doing it, us, I don't think we stick to our gumptions. If you're talking about calling a boycott, man, we're gonna do that shit for two weeks, and then we're gonna be off that shit. And that's what's wrong with us. If we wanna, so you talked about how do we, how do we fucking go on offense?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01This is what Trump said. He changed the name Department of Defense. I ain't on defense no more. I'm on Department of War. I'm on offense. This is war. So fucking take it too. We gonna boycott, we're gonna sick too, but everybody gotta be, everybody gotta be involved. So if we want to police our own, because you're talking about policing your own, that means I gotta get Pookie, Ray Ray, my son, grandson, nephew, daughter, niece, all of them in line. And we don't do that, man. We are. Why is that?
SPEAKER_02Because you know, it goes back, it it goes back to a culture. You know, I said a lot. Yeah, I know you did. But I was saying it goes back to how fragments fragmented our our the black culture is because when the slavery came, that's what they did. The slave owners adopted these measures to keep us in line, and unfortunately, it's still today on how it impacts us. So it but it takes enough people to say, hey, like my son Jeremiah, I tried to talk to him, and Charlie and I said the same thing, look, man, don't be walking around with a city all like that. You look like just every other dude out here, okay? And unfortunately, people are not gonna take the time to see who's who.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_02Right? They're not gonna take the time that this is a good kid who don't do drugs, or don't do that. But if you look like all them, and this look, and you're one of them. And unfortunately, it's the ones that do get killed or hurt that's not into that stuff. It's a trap. It's a trap, but it takes us, the parents, the older culture, to kind of do what we can to teach our kids, man, to see to adopt some of these things. It's gonna help them because they gotta realize it ain't gonna get no easier for young black men. It ain't gonna get easier. No. It's only gonna get more difficult.
SPEAKER_04Is that it's not gonna change. I think the frustration comes that these young kids today, they don't understand why and they don't believe that, but we get persecuted. Because the sad part is we get persecuted for something we can't take off, our skin color. You know what I'm saying? You can take off a hoodie, your son can take off a hoodie, but if he still got his hair in cornrows, he's still one of them. You know what I'm saying? I can I can take off all the clothes I want. I can I can pull my pants up, but if I if I like cornrows or the fact that I'm just black, I'm still a threat. And I walk into a store, I can be as educated as I want to be, but there's somebody watching me until I get out that fucking stool. That's fine. I'm glad he's out of there. Well, it ain't fine for me because I'm spending my money with you. You know what I'm saying? Treat me like you would want to be treated. I got a question for you when you come.
SPEAKER_02I ain't gotta spend my money there, of course. Okay, okay, but okay, but if they if they're not making you feel, they might be watching you. But sometimes how you conduct yourself could play a part on how they treat you. Yeah, you're still being watched, but you're getting. In a different way that don't come across as insulting or offensive to you.
SPEAKER_04But why we gotta be watched when the white dude next to me, the one stealing shit, he ain't being watched at all.
SPEAKER_01I'm not saying yet, why do I have to conduct myself in a certain way when you steal and copy my culture?
SPEAKER_02Right. Right, right, right. All these questions you say, look, I understand because they're it. Of course they do. But the thing is, it ain't gonna be fair. It's never gonna be a level of playing for you.
SPEAKER_04White boys run around sagging, braiding their herbs and shit. Yeah, you're infected. But it's cool what they do. But what we doing, we a threat. Man, I'll give you a perfect example, man. Uh a while back during my Black Power X-Clan days. Well, maybe not even that far back. It may have been in my 30s. But I was walking, I walked into a uh gas station. In here, I think it was the one on, maybe the one on Kings Highway, or it may have been Grand, one of them. But it was Middle Eastern in there. I don't know where from, but we in the black community call them A-Rabs. I was immediately when I walked in there, the guy behind the counter was like, hey, what's up, bro? You sound pissed me the fuck off.
SPEAKER_03It sounded just like a pissed me the fuck off.
SPEAKER_04I looked at him. I said nothing. And I turned around and I walked out and I went to another gas station. I got offended because I didn't like how he was coming at me. Because I know that ain't you. You don't talk to your people. If a white boy walked in there, you wouldn't be, hey, what up, bro? Fuck you, man. Fuck your gas. I don't need to spend my money here. I had enough to make it to that other gas station. Where when I walked in, there was a white guy behind the counter. He ain't say shit to me, which I accepted that better because at least he didn't insult me. And I as a people, I'm just fucking tired of it. I'm extremely tired of us having to alter everything. They take everything from us and say it's great because they have it now. These people have told us that big lips and big asses is ugly. And now they're getting lip injections and shit and ass implants, and now it's beautiful. But it ain't on us. When it's natural on us, you know what I'm saying? My big ass lips have been big ass lips all my life. And it just gets frustrating, man. I hate that again, it always comes back to race, but we are the most, like I was telling my wife, we are the most hated race on this planet. Yeah. Everybody hates us, including us. We hate each other.
SPEAKER_03And I believe that crab in the bucking metal has been imprinted on upon us, and we still have that to this day. And I believe, though, the other races, no, man, if we were to ever come together, it'd be just like Black Wall Street. Once you have, look at the uh I used to stay out and see that once you have your own money, like a bank, once you have your own newspaper, which Jewish community out there have, now you now need your own army too. Well, pretty much their community is their army. They pretty much have their stores, their things. So they think the money will circulate in their community about four or five times before it leaves that community. And your own education. Yes. We probably circulate one time and it's gone. Yep. You know, we don't spend money with our own. And that's the reason why we're that crab, but he got more than I won't go over here and spend the money.
SPEAKER_04And what you said is very important, JB, because at some point in our history, we had somebody that tried to give us all of that. You know what I'm saying? We had Bill Cosby tried to buy NBC. Look what they did to his age. So yeah. Locked his ass up. Well, Bill Cosby, he was because he was a predator as well. Who wasn't? Harvey Weinstein was. They still support his ads. But they still support him, though, man. See, and that's the thing. We still support, but that's the thing that pissed me off, man. We are so critical of our. I don't give a fuck, man. That nigga, he ain't molest my mom. By that news station and put our narrative out there. And see, that's how they get us. That's exactly how they get us. Harvey Weinstein could own the fucking news space. He's still gonna own that motherfucker. Uh, what's the dude that married his own fucking daughter? He was probably molesting this whole time. Biddy out. Well, yeah. This sick motherfucker married his fucking daughter, he was probably molested. And ain't nobody giving a shit about that. But Bill Cosby put a fucking drug in somebody in some bitch shit and fuck. He was adopted daughters. That don't make it no better, nigga. That's from the hurt. Yeah, they don't make it no better. I'm saying top gets flexible.
SPEAKER_00L L A blood.
SPEAKER_04Because you telling us we don't want shit to do with y'all. We don't want y'all in our neighborhoods. We don't want y'all co-mingling. But when we try to go get our own shit, oh wait, we don't want you doing that either, though. We don't want you happy over here doing your own shit now. But so what the fuck are we to do?
SPEAKER_02I mean, I I think about I listened to the situation you talked about with that, you say you went to that gas station. See, I you know what? In situations like that when people would, you know, because I went to, you know, we went to Mailville, it was all white, scary at the time. Yes, we did. And even in the military when I went in, it was totally in the early 90s. People would come up to me, and I feel you trying to come up to me in that kind of way. I don't even get offended. If that was me, I walked into the A ramp store, I probably wouldn't have bought the gas. But once he came in, hey bro, I would hit his ass with, good evening, how you doing tonight?
SPEAKER_01You don't scrape white on you and L S.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no, I would squirt that's not white because I speak proper, that's white. That's another thing, too. I disagree with you. That's another thing too. We we we shun we shun each other because we don't speak with a slang and we don't what because I know I use proper English is.
SPEAKER_03But apparently, that's our thing, and they copying that.
SPEAKER_01Your slang is what they like. I don't want to use my my native tongue. It's your native tongue. So, I mean, you know what? This this is hitting on because, man, we we on Juneteenth, and I I feel like black culture should mobilize, and we should come up with like an agenda on how to, if this boycott, uh like let's do a call, a call, put out a call to order, all black people. This is what we're doing. We need, like Joe said, we need our own banking, education, financing. We need our we need to do something, because you're right. It's never gonna, we're gonna have to conform unless we're going off.
SPEAKER_03And and once we're going on. You got your own, you ain't gotta have a lot of things.
SPEAKER_04We have proven that we can do exactly what what Mike just said. Most definitely. Because if if you Lil Wyans can flash mob and go fight, you can flash mob and boycott. Yeah. We boycott the shit out of Target to the point to where they was like, oh my God. You know what I'm saying? We need help, please come back. And when they did the DEI stuff, and that wasn't just us. So we know we can mobilize, it's just a matter of what's convenient for me. You know what I'm saying? Oh, well, I like my this or that. So I ain't finna stop doing that, you know.
SPEAKER_03So I'm gonna sit this one out. And all you gotta do is, I mean, like I told you, they their market like hair care, but there are black people that have hair care. There are black people that do need nails and not many of them. Let's give a shout out. Not many, but there are there. And that's the thing is we just they just we just come too comfortable of going to them. Yeah. So if you were the boycott, you got to say, okay, yeah, I'm used to going to this person, but for the sake of what we're doing here, I'm grade trying to find a black person to do my name. Yes, I'm the R and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_01Do you know any black nail salons?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you know any black nail salons. I know.
SPEAKER_01There's a uh anybody who wants Chinese food, that's the black-owned Chinese restaurant. Shout out to uh left, lefties, Jefferson, St. Louis. Okay. Get you some black Chinese. If you ain't got a you got a craving for Chinese food, we boycotting. You don't gotta get your Asian Chinese food from there, go to Lefty's.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. And it's probably just delicious. I've never had it, but it sounds delicious.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but you did have it. He got it before.
SPEAKER_04Oh, you did?
SPEAKER_00No, so that was lefty. Oh, it is very delicious. And it is delicious.
SPEAKER_04So, are we boycotting or not?
SPEAKER_02No, they're not gonna boycott. They're not gonna boycott. What do you do that you deal with Asian?
SPEAKER_03I think I totally do it anyway. Does your wife somewhere? Does your wife celebrities somebody have to say we're gonna do this to get a big push behind?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you need other, you gotta mobilize other people that have more of a reach and an influence. Right. For it to be effective. Think about it. The civil rights movement, man, would not have been as effective. And that's the difference in Martin Luther King and some other civil rights activists. Dr. King knew he needed the influence of other people to help push the narrative to get the civil rights feel. Malcolm X figured that out too. And Malcolm X started one way, but then he figured it out as well. Yes. You gotta get certain people. So you're gonna need people from all walks of life that believe in the cause that you believe in to get the results that you want.
SPEAKER_04Yes. So what I'm hearing is to avoid us, boy, Kanye Allen's Asian people, we need y'all to stand up. If you feel like this was an injustice, we need y'all to stand up. And I know a lot of you are online already. I've seen the post, and I know this is not everybody's sentiment. Everybody doesn't feel the way that one guy feels, the way that some of the people coming out saying we need to raise our children better. Miss me with that narrative. I agree. Some of these kids need to be raised better, but at the end of the day, they're gonna make their own decisions. You know what I'm saying? You can you can put all the love into it. Because I'm gonna tell you like this. I still joined a motherfucking gang. My mom was the best. She was the best mother ever. And she didn't know I was in a gang. But she was the best. And I still made my decision to do that because I wanted something to do. I was trying to be something that I wasn't. So kids gonna make mistakes, they're gonna do what they do, but stop persecuting an entire people and an entire race just because of that. Because if we do that shit to y'all, y'all will feel it. And black people, let's start making people feel it. Our dollars are powerful. Start making them feel it. When we ain't shopping, we ain't buying, they're gonna have to move up out of that neighborhood. Yeah, you may miss your rice, but go home, fry your own damn rice. Or go to lefties. Lefties. Yeah, yeah. Lefties. Oh, there it is. Thank you guys for listening. You know, this one really broke me up, but I'm I'm gonna leave it here. You guys check out our website, thefreeagentfans.com. God bless and good night. Amen.