WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:04.799 Hello, they're my friends. This is fifty plus. I'm James L. 2 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:09.240 Junior And as I am in navigating my fifties, I am learning a lot 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:12.240 about myself and other people. And so I come on here and I share 4 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:15.800 with you some of the things that I'm learning and one of the things I 5 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:21.359 had come across my area of life. UM. Right now, it's Pride 6 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:24.800 Month. It's a l it's lgbt QI, a plus Pride month, or 7 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:30.920 it's called Gay Pride Month, and it's naturally it's your naturally celebrated in places 8 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:35.079 that you're allowed to do it. And there's a lot of it's like anything 9 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:39.719 else, there's a lot of backlash happening towards queer people, same as with 10 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:44.119 women, saying with black folks, Latina Fithers. If you're if you are 11 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:49.960 othered in whatever part of whatever country you're in, UM, if you're othered 12 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.880 to marginalize, there's a lot of backlash. So I do several shows on 13 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:59.039 race and sexuality and mindset, and I always try to sometimes alone sometimes with 14 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:04.000 people in the field. And for me, i'm as I'm getting my fifties, 15 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:07.840 there's two things happening to me. One, I am getting very more 16 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:14.319 militant in my beliefs of fighting protest, like you know, speaking out that 17 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.159 kind of stuff. Like I know what I know. I've been around for 18 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:19.359 a long time. I know what I know. I don't know everything, 19 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:22.239 So that's the other side of me. I'm very curious. That's why I'm 20 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.640 in this business. That's why I'm an interviewer, host, researcher, writer. 21 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.359 I love hearing and talking to other people and having and seeing their opinions 22 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:36.079 and why they come to conclusions they come to. It takes a lot for 23 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.519 me to just shut somebody out, I know, on this day and age. 24 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:45.519 Not help with social media of course and certain news channels. We're very 25 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:48.599 divided machine in America. If you're watching some America other countries I cant speak 26 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:53.239 to obviously, but in America are very divided, and it's everybody's pickiner sides 27 00:01:55.359 --> 00:02:00.480 matter what it is. I'm Catholic, I'm black, I'm Latin, I'm 28 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.560 gay, I'm a Republican, I'm Democrat, I'm a Trump Republican. I'm 29 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.240 a Biden Democrat. Gets very I'm a gen xer. I'm a baby like 30 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:14.039 It's it's very everything. It's very separate, un separated and separating, and 31 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:20.479 so there are some of us out there who don't mind talking to everyone and 32 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:23.840 hearing different points of view. Now there's some folks who shall not be moved. 33 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:29.400 They're very milits and their belief I don't focus on them because that just 34 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.639 there's there's always extremes on every side. On every side, there's extremes. 35 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:36.080 It doesn't matter it's extreme, star Wars or answers extremes, so it goes 36 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:38.639 extreme everything. But the folks I feel like there's a lot of us who 37 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:42.719 are, I want to say, in the middle, just a weird people 38 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.159 who have some beliefs due to what we believe. But as some time as 39 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:46.960 we could be moved, as some as we could talk about it, as 40 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.159 time as we're open to talking about it and feeling about it. So those 41 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.360 are the folks that I like to talk to because I think those are the 42 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:59.039 folks that will give you honest answers, tell you how they feel, give 43 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.120 you and really tell you and you could really get what you can. Also 44 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:07.319 watch their body language, what they're saying, how they're saying it, um 45 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.879 while they come to conclusion, they come it's all Several things happened to me 46 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:15.319 recently that brings all this up. And one of them is a friend of 47 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:19.280 mine who I've known since high school. Actually I like him. He's a 48 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.280 funny guy. I know him and his wife. We all went to high 49 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:27.199 school together. And he's always been respectful to me. He's never been should 50 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:30.199 I say that always I'm fully who I am, my post what I post. 51 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:34.159 But he's always been very respectful to me, never crazy towards me, 52 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:40.479 never offensive. All the stuff and most of his posts are just of his 53 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:45.240 life, and he is a very outdoor life, very active life, actually 54 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:50.919 life and everything what a few means and things here and there, so and 55 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.479 so I'm fine. So I mean, we're we're fine. I don't know 56 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.240 what do you think is personally or whatever. I'll get to that kind of 57 00:03:55.240 --> 00:04:00.719 stuff. But he supports my work and it's for me. It's okay. 58 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.719 So talking to him, I feel like I would get some abuenttion to hear 59 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:09.199 from him. So he actually posted some stuff and I have a dark sense 60 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:12.080 of humor. I would looks you can ride you and so so, I 61 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:15.639 mean there's flax and I would saying tragedy signs. There's always the humor somewhere, 62 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:17.519 things that happen to humor somewhere. It's not for everybody, but for 63 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:19.879 me, I can look at certain things. Ago, Okay, you know 64 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:23.920 what, that's funny. I can be a Democrat. I'd say, the 65 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:30.560 air quotes a Democrat just literally by voting only. And if if I see 66 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:34.720 a Democrat a joke towards a Democrat, it's kind of clever and funny. 67 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:39.079 I would totally acknowledge it. That was really funny. That was very clever, 68 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:44.920 you know, um and vice versa. So he posts some stuff and 69 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:49.079 he had this meme that was it's actually I would say, I say it's 70 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:55.519 anti gay, so to speak, because it's kind of a joke about UM 71 00:04:57.079 --> 00:04:59.519 taking straight people from me, you being here and stuff like that and all. 72 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.480 I kind of anyway, I actually kind of found it funny. So 73 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.480 are you true they're trying to find that kind of chuckled but like, that's 74 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:10.199 very clever. The person wrote it is kind of funny that I want to 75 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:12.399 that person's website, and the rest of the friend of me I was, 76 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.240 I can't. I can follow that website, and so I put a happy 77 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:21.560 emoments my funny emoji. So my friend my friend got back to me and 78 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:24.920 this is what This is what he wrote. I'm I saying his name and 79 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:30.360 thing thinks it's not really important. But what he wrote is important because I 80 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.480 think I always say when one person feels it, it's not just one person, 81 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:47.079 it means that people feel too. Uh. I want to go and 82 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:58.240 get to so you okay, So I'm trying. I'm trying to get I 83 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:03.399 kept out here it is, he wrote. I am not anti bleep. 84 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:09.439 I just dislike the sense of hate I feel and hear sometimes towards straight people 85 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:15.920 like we're the enemy. Um anyone call a lot of things that there's nothing 86 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:18.480 to do with really note at that, but that those that those two sentences 87 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:26.079 are very important. And I'm like, he feels that way, really like 88 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:30.879 he feels like they're being attacked kind of on some level as straight folks are 89 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.360 being attacked. And I am you know, at my first you know a 90 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:36.240 lot of people's first instincts are like, you know, fuck that, you 91 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.600 go off the whole thing. I'm like, no, it's not it. 92 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:46.279 Because if he's saying that, there are others. So he says, I 93 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:53.959 just dislike the sense of hate I feel, and here sometimes towards straight people. 94 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:55.759 I didn't first, well, I didn't respond because I was like, 95 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.279 nothing from respond. I just like, I'm I'm not gonna get into a 96 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:02.120 discussion with that. But he sometimes feels that that's happening towards straight people. 97 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:08.480 So I always wonder what is he reading, what is he seeing, what 98 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:13.120 is he hearing, because he could be hearing actually direct people, I guess 99 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:16.079 gave people going off on straight folks. That's toally possible, It's totally possible 100 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.839 that could happen, he said. Sometimes. You say, oh, he 101 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:24.279 said sometimes, But there are folks who believe that's happening all the time. 102 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:27.920 That's why there are laws being brought up, in things being passed, so 103 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.319 they feel like we really are attacking. And I was like, you know, 104 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:40.879 for straight people this whole time before that kept us everybody else who was 105 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:45.199 marginalized down. If you lived an other, if you lived in lifestyle that 106 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:49.199 was not straight, there there were laws maybe you could you couldn't discuss it 107 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:53.079 or talk about it was all hidden in the shadows. And I always hear 108 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:57.319 these phrases, not from this guy, here from other people. Queer people 109 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:03.800 are shoving their lifestyle down Ours wrote um there's a group called Tarya on A's 110 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:07.600 a couple whose nickname is Taria Are the Young Gonnarrest. This number one's up 111 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.360 in the country in America, and people are like, they're shoving it down 112 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.720 rights when they show it to the two girls hanging out or kissing or whatever. 113 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:20.000 And I was that that that's shoving. But first of all, there's 114 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:24.800 double intondrance shoving down throat. But I always find it very interesting because I 115 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.920 think people do believe that. People really do believe that. They believe that 116 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:35.879 us just existing, people who are black just as existing, or a Latino 117 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:41.600 just existing, or gay just existing, or polyamoritional state. You just existing 118 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:48.679 and asking to be left alone but be able to live your life fully in 119 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:54.559 the open. That's shoving it down your someone's throat, but your lifestyle because 120 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.759 it's normal quote unquote normal. It is not showing downy body's throat. There's 121 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:05.440 normal. You're being abnormal. So my my my normality is this you can't 122 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:13.639 be this um White's feeling like they're being erased and jobs and jobs, and 123 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:18.159 it's like no, it's like, actually what I see it as, of 124 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.559 course, is for so many years you don't had to worry about it or 125 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:28.320 think about it because things were in place where you didn't have to worry about 126 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:33.360 it thinking about it. There are some cities that were probably because I see 127 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:35.919 in la over the last forty years. Englewood, for example, when I 128 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.600 first got here, was white, and then it was black. Then it 129 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.480 was Hispanic, then it was Histanic in black, and then the blacks one 130 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:48.720 somewhere else and it became Hispanic, and now it's coming white again. There's 131 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:50.799 technical things happens, like there are cities in parts of the country. I'm 132 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.559 sure they were like there are no black folks here, Latinos here. Now 133 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.080 they're here. And so for some folks who never had to deal with Latinos 134 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.080 weren't thinking, what are you doing here all of a sudden, you know, 135 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.000 and instead of just working them in and going they're great, it's a 136 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:05.399 no big deal. It's like they're people and they can help the economy. 137 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:13.440 It's they're coming in. They're shoving themselves down our throats. So for someone 138 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:18.159 to say they feel like sometimes there's hate towards straits, it's interesting to me 139 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.039 because I kind of I hope on that I will sit down where you want 140 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.000 to and talk to you about this one of these days, Like one day, 141 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:26.519 if you're seeing this video and you know what I'm talking about, you 142 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:30.879 talk to me. Let's talk about them. I love talking about it because 143 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:35.519 I feel because for me, it's not the majority of the movements that are 144 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.720 out there are not about hating white people. There is hatred towards white We're 145 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:43.080 absolutely right, is hate tord straight, but there is hatred to state people. 146 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.480 White people are there is because of the people who have been hurt by 147 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.559 said straight people, sad white people said this group said males. There's I 148 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.720 mean, we've there's so many different things that happened. Is that people want 149 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:00.159 their equal time. They just want to be They just want to live their 150 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:05.480 lives as freely as possible. And so I just think that's why trams are 151 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.200 getting you know, attacked right now, and drag queens. There's all stuff 152 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:11.919 that's not quote unquote normal to a lot of people. So it's like, 153 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:15.559 Okay, we gave them gay marriage, we gave them this game that now 154 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.919 something men won't be women and women want to be men, and they want 155 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.159 dressing, drag and drag and all this pedophile I mean, I've been seeing 156 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.240 this whole pedophile word thrown around. It's like pedophile, it's a serious word, 157 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.200 rumors, all that stuff. Those are serious words, and to apply 158 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:37.960 them to a group of people where there are really no it's no proof, 159 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:43.879 no major proof that a whole group of folks that's all they are. It's 160 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:48.639 like they are always bad apples in each bunch. And what's ironic is that 161 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:50.279 a lot of times and maybe it's the ones that are, I mean, 162 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.960 who knows, Maybe it's the ones that are that are being shown. But 163 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:58.639 most of it seems like a lot of the molesters has happened in my own 164 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:05.679 family were from priests and youth counselors and people who were in positions of power 165 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.759 over children, over their constituency people, you know, politics, religion, 166 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.240 a lot a lot of those are telling evangels. All this stuff is coming 167 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:22.879 up more and more, and many of them identified as straight. There's both 168 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:28.799 boys and girls. As someone who was violently sexually assaulted myself by a marriage 169 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:33.919 and a fied who's straight, it's like it's it's it's just this thing that's 170 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:39.360 happening, but that's something separate. It's a little girls and pageants and cheerleading 171 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:45.600 uniforms. We're in makeup somehow that's okay, but not but not drag queens 172 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.720 who there are only a few in the country that have actually gone to a 173 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:54.440 school allow them. It's it's events, I mean, or there's some people 174 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:56.519 and some parents have brought their kids to maybe to drag brunch or whatever. 175 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.960 I mean, I wouldn't a drag brunch, but maybe there's always that one 176 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:05.519 or two. You see that example, So it's not made up their video 177 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.399 out there, But is it a real problem? And I'm going like, 178 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:11.320 no, I have so many kids and grandkids and these nephew seals have never 179 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:16.120 had drag queen comes to their school ever. There's never a never a question, 180 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.919 never never, So I'm like, I just it was never. I 181 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.320 mean, just I don't I just don't see it as a problem as it's 182 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:28.320 it's an actual problem. Um. And I'm just I'm not just watching MSNBC 183 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.320 or CNM, I just rereading. I mean, I'm watching all kinds of 184 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.519 stuff and I'm out there in the world, so I clearly see it differently. 185 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.600 And so as I get older, I just really welcome talking to people 186 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:45.639 from doing points of view about how they come to these conclusions of what they 187 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:50.399 think, why they things is happening, And um, how I was in 188 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:52.120 a car receie with somebody who say, we why don't why don't these girls 189 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.000 or these guys come forward and tell people if they've been raped earlier. And 190 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:03.039 I'm like, as a person who didn't come forward and myself, it's like, 191 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:05.519 there's a lot. There's shame, there's guilt, there's like what could 192 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:09.399 have I done? Would they believe me? There's a lot it goes on. 193 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:13.039 It's not it's never like you just go to the police station and eighty 194 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:15.159 I was raped and they believe you. It's like it's never, it doesn't 195 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.480 aways happened. It's many cases where it doesn't happen. A lot of sense, 196 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.480 a lot not sensitivity too that are happening out there too. So I 197 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:26.840 mean, it's it's just fascinating to me that because there's times when there's times 198 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:28.399 where I do feel like because I supposely as I get older in my favorite 199 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:33.440 like, oh I see a situation, How can not everybody see it that 200 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.279 way? If I see someone TV or see something in the TikTok video or 201 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:41.240 someone, I'm like, there it is it's on canters to what happened, 202 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.559 and literally there are people were saying twain different things I really said because I 203 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.320 go to the comments, always go to the comments. Sometimes they're hilarious. 204 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:52.480 Guys say that. But a lot of folks, like the insurrection January sixth, 205 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:56.519 I don't understand. It's like I don't understand. But on the side, 206 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:58.639 on the side. On another note of that, I know some folks 207 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.720 who want to for Trump. I actually I have fans. I'm sure for 208 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.840 Trump, I'm sure, and but I don't think they're bad people. I 209 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:09.000 think some are bad people, but a lot of them aren't. I And 210 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.720 I get why his popularity, why he became popular, and what he is 211 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.000 and what he represents to some people. I totally get it. I said, 212 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:24.320 we can't do anything until we get until people start realizing this stuff and 213 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.399 not just shutting out um. And of course there are some people on the 214 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:31.000 left who are very extreme too. There's left with the on the extreme. 215 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:33.399 And I was saying this on to the front of mine. I wish I 216 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:37.320 never hear the word I. I never hear the word work woke any ever. 217 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:39.639 Again, I don't hear it, because now it's been turned inside out 218 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:45.759 and says a word that now is annoying, um, because they usually word 219 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:46.960 woke on everything. It's like, that's the last thing I want to talk 220 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:48.799 about, is woke. And this one either, like I don't even want 221 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:54.639 to hear that either. Um. But this should be conscious television, should 222 00:15:54.639 --> 00:16:00.919 be conscious music, conscious videos, conscious work, conscious art, as well 223 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.080 as fun crazy, flimsy yard and funness and lightweight. That I means should 224 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:10.720 we both um, And it's okay to have it. But I just I 225 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.080 just keep encouraging conversation. That's the way that I do on my private zooms, 226 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:19.679 as I do here with you guys. I just I really encourage conversation 227 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:26.480 and really listening to other people and just listen to why they feel. The 228 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:29.840 way this was doing. My thing was done during during a messaging so I 229 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:36.120 can't take touch helped tone from text message. But I believe him when he 230 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:41.559 says he feels that sometimes and m but I'd like to go deeper in that 231 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.279 at some point whatever. But I just want to share that with you guys. 232 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:51.879 I'm just it's I understand the devisiveness. I understand people feeling and it's 233 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:56.559 very rightly so who are fighting for their lives and their well beings. Um 234 00:16:56.679 --> 00:16:59.559 So I'm up down playing that at all, or shore we say that I'm 235 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:04.319 play ample at all my life for very many different reasons. I feel I'm 236 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.640 on edge a little bit, deciding where I'm going to travel, where I'm 237 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.599 not going to travel, where parts of town I go to a part of 238 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:12.920 town I don't go to a time of night with time of day. I'm 239 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:18.839 watching all that it's been. That's been the last few years period. I've 240 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.200 had rifles in my face. I've had been accused of things I like I 241 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:23.920 said, I've been hurt, but all this stuff in my fifty four years, 242 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:29.240 I've had all of it happened. So it's it's because of color of 243 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:30.279 my skin, because of what I look, because I'm tall, big, 244 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.880 fat, whatever, all our place. Um And I'm still trying to live 245 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:38.799 my life as freely as possible in the midst of all of a sudden's going 246 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.039 on. So yeah, I just encourage this, im. I'm just staying 247 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:47.759 some some feelings I had and just encouraging everybody to listen to people just say 248 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:49.000 that's what they're saying. Is kind of like you ask questions like why do 249 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:52.759 you feel that way. What if you see that makes you feel away? 250 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.680 And sometimes you can educate someone else if you're in the mood. Everybody's in 251 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.359 the mood. But you could be like, you know, um, maybe 252 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.000 you didn't know this, but that's just one incident, or that's something that's 253 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.359 happened twice. But really here's what's you know? Or come with me and 254 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:10.759 let me show you another side of blank whatever that is. You know I 255 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:12.200 don't like Chinese food, Well let me take it. We've been trying. 256 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.240 No, I don't had well we take your place has great atmosphere, you 257 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.440 can try some stuff that's right, But nine like, there's just I just 258 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:22.119 feel like we could if we take time to really listen to each other. 259 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:25.200 Who knows where we can accomplish. I said, there's some folks who can't 260 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:26.359 do anything with them. That's fine, but I'm talking to the folks state 261 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.440 that we're all like, we just live. We all want the same things. 262 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:34.880 That's all our lives and who as a piece? And and I feel 263 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:37.920 like and I feel like we are shoving sometimes in most throats where we just 264 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:41.039 because we just want to breathe. There, you know, that's it. 265 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.039 Fifty plus there's on all social media social media, it's on all streaming service 266 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:48.519 platforms and on YouTube. At jail Jamdia, I'm James lo Junior. Or 267 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:49.240 talk to you next time.