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EPISODE: Episode 1
What’s going on in the community in Atlanta Georgia.
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I am one of the co-founders and Chief Operating Officer for the Stafford Boxing Club Incorporated our non-profit organization, which is a yearly mentoring program for at-risk youth in the community.
So we will be able to teach financial literacy communication discipline decision making, as well as campaigning for a premium education.
These are the foundation for the Stafford Boxing Club, these 20 mentees in our program here at Panola Way elementary school 20 years from now staff for boxing mentees will be known across the world.
Can we talk for a minute girl? I wan na know your name.
Damn baby, you got skills like that.
I do oh man, so, what’s going on everybody, what is going on everybody? Yes, Lord! We back in the seats Norm talking about man real for real everybody.
Let’S do the introduction, I’m lady Stafford, the host of the Stafford show everybody already knows who this good.
Looking fine gentleman is he’s mine, hey man, I’m big Stafford man.
You know what I’m saying the co-host of the staff is show presented by talking, fight, facts, facts and to be clear.
Talking fight is in Canada, so the staffers show his worldwide.
We Global you know what I’m saying worldwide for real around the world yeah and that’s no Captain Crunch.
Okay, that was Captain Crunch.
It’S no longer cappuccino.
No, no! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No wait, wait! Wait! No! No! Sometimes we do cappuccino and then sometimes we do Captain Crunch: okay, yeah.
It’S no problem with me so check this out everybody.
We have a special special guest today for real and we’ve known him for a while.
I remember the first time when we um when we actually saw Dr DeJuan Robinson.
He is, let’s just say, he’s a community activist but let’s just say he is an activist, but there’s so much more to Dr Dewan Robinson.
So everybody please give a standing round of Ovation introducing Dr dwan Robinson, hey.
What’S going on my boy good afternoon and thank y’all for having me I’m like your wife man.
I was like what happened to the no capital, no cappuccino, yes, sir.
Yes, sir, the one excuse me my bad, my bad.
I came out the house with my glass slippers on, so let me go ahead.
Put my Gators on my bed, my bad and they cracked big time for real bro.
This ain’t, no Cinderella either, but anyway, man.
Dr the one Robinson man, we are so grateful and honored to have you bless the Stafford show um, you know Sheila and I you know, we’ve been knowing you ever since we got married that was close to what 15 years ago so because, when we moved over To uh, was it the hills of stone, no, the hills of uh? Oh so that was like a year after oh yeah yeah because of um it was, it was bruh.
It was.
I met y’all at the um, the Auburn Avenue Library, down downtown yeah yeah with uh my boy, uh Daryl Moore, shout out to Daryl Moore.
You know I’m saying if you see the one you’re gon na see Daryl them.
Boys are just you know, I’m saying peanut butter and jelly, no cappuccino for real, but man, you know before we move forward in the show man I just wan na you know you know, give someone their flowers and that’s uh, Daryl Moore, when I first met this Brother man, he had the dreads uh, he was in the process and I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way, but he was just trying to find himself during that moment.
You feel what I’m saying absolutely, and I remember you and him were having very uh significant conversation with uh kasim Reed at the time who was running for mayor for the City of Atlanta and you guys were able to come to an understanding.
And I believe you was running for something or I can’t remember what it was, but you it was like At first I was bumping heads but then y’all end up.
You know just coming together.
I was on the mayor platform with them.
I was running, but I wasn’t running.
I was running to get next to him.
I was told at the time that hey man this guy in third place it don’t look like he gon na win, but he’s gon na win old civil rights.
Guy um told me to get next to one, so I already knew that I was gon na withdraw my name when it was time to qualify.
So during the debates I knew that his name would Reed and I was Robinson I would be able to sit next to him and and to talk to him kind of like off the Record.
You know what I’m saying: let him know like: hey man, um I’ve been told to help you out.
You know what I’m saying you’re gon na need all the street help you can get um.
I don’t want no money, but when you win um, when I need you, I’m gon na call you that’s.
Those were the conversations every debate we had.
Those were the conversations, so you know every uh every chance I get um.
Every time that I got.
I was able to jab him since y’all got the box and I was able to jab him because I was anticipating him throwing a counter punch.
So, even though my job probably got under his skin, it allowed him to throw a counter punch to make him look.
Good, so so that’s what I was doing to him, yeah and and man.
I must say like uh, because of that relationship and because of that movement that you had in place to execute what you did you open the door for Daryl and I mean yeah so Daryl being at Atlanta City Hall for a minute now he ended up getting His master’s degree, the boy that got married, so man I wanted to give you know his flowers, because man, I’ve been following him.
Man and you know it’s like when we all get together.
We just just blend.
You know it’s just like hey, what’s up bro like so I’m just so happy to see Daryl go to that next level and be a pillar in the community, because we definitely need those type of people in those type of places, particularly in Atlanta, hey man, you’re Right man, he has come a long way from 2009 man.
He has come a long way when I got on when I went in the casino um I could sing held this word um.
When I told him that I was you know tired of having one foot in one foot out, he gave me a job in 2013 and Dara immediately.
I brought Daryl in and Daryl been with the cities.
You know I’m saying for 10 years now for real for real, but listen man if you would be so kind and just give people a background and a proper introduction about Dr DeJuan Robinson, his upbringing, where he’s from and how he had an opportunity to.
You know connect with the staffords man I’m born and raised I’m in Atlanta, Georgia um, I’m a Grady baby, I’m born in Greater Hospital um.
I grew up in Born homes project on Bankhead um.
My grandparents raised me, my mother.
She wanted to um, be in them streets and hang out, and I hang with guys that were selling drugs and my grandmother and grandfather.
I knew that wasn’t the lifestyle they wanted um for me, and you know she was um 21 when she had me had never hung out never partied and it was like some clicked on it when she had the baby.
She just wanted to be free and my grandparents like you can be free, but he gon na stay with us and man.
The upbringing was just the foundation man um uh.
When I turned about six years old, my grandmother would make me come in the house every day to watch Wheel of Fortune in Jeopardy.
That was my routine man.
You know, and you know you I mean you’re in the projects, your friends laughing at you cause.
You got to go in the house early, but man there were there’s rules and, and they were educational – they was born in 1914 man.
So they was all about education and God.
So I would have to read the Bible repeatedly to my grandmother because she pretended that she couldn’t read.
So she would have me, read the Bible, verse and be like read it again and I’m like Grandma come on man, I’m tired of reading the same old verse, and she would just man preparing me and I didn’t know it man.
I was only six by the time I turned seven man if I knew that there was a place, a person or a thing on that Wheel of Fortune board man.
I was solving puzzles with just two three letters on the thing I was solving them, so she was creating that in me, man, I didn’t know it and then uh when I turned um eight man, they got me and was like Hey we’re gon na give away All your old clothes and your favorite pair of shoes, you like we’re gon na, give them away because we can afford to buy you more, but the next person they’re gon na love, your favorite pair of shoes, they’re gon na love, the clothes that we bought.
You so they instill that in me, man, since I was eight man like I had to give back every year, my favorite stuff had to pack it up and give it away.
Don’T say I knew I was getting something else, but it just became who I just became, who I am man and I know I’m saying every year I still do it now.
I do it twice a year, um every time the season change when it’s time.
For me to pack up my winter and summer, I give it away man.
I get joy out of that and then, when the opportunity came man um for me to get my doctorate, humanitarian man, it was easy because it’s who I am it has it does amazing how God lined things up man it is who I am and part of That Journey was like you said when I met you guys in 09, I was coming out of a um.
Another door guard has closed on me for being a sports agent.
He was bringing me into the political realm and when I met this guy um, that was that last in the race had no shot in winning in the eyes of the voters and the and the money people that was donating money.
He didn’t have a shot to win and I obeyed the spirit and the older guys say.
Trust me he’s going to win and you know being from the projects and that’s my upbringing, I’m always going to root for the underdog.
I don’t look, I’m not an opportunist.
I don’t look for things for money.
I work for them for free, not knowing that I was going to ever call him back for a job.
I just did him just like hey man.
If I ever need you man, this number just keep your word.
You know what I’m saying I never knew, because I always thought that I would just you know to be this way.
Man, but God brought me to him and the man uh asked me man um, where you want to go I’ll, see you anywhere.
You want to go, and I didn’t know – and he was just like well since you like helping people, I’m gon na, send you to the Workforce, Development man, I’m gon na, put you in charge and giving people jobs, and he put like five million dollars in this Pot, where um, if we get people a job, because I would explain it to him how um um you’re taking people from the streets and you give them a job and they see that first paycheck they got to pay bills.
You know so I was like it can discourage some of them because they coming from a different place in the world, so he put five million dollars of the city budget in this part where, if we got you a job at the workforce, we’ll pay your um.
Your rent, your bills, your mortgage, whatever it was, we would pay that that number to that first month you work so your whole month.
Paycheck is free.
You can save that you can spend, however, you want to, but your bills and your rent will be paid.
That, first month, um, if you got a job through us, so so can y’all so can y’all.
Imagine me being from the real inner city when people found out that I had that program going.
I was in charge man.
They was lining up trying to get Mama job, Auntie, Grandmama and man.
I didn’t miss a day of work for three years.
I wasn’t late because I had done figured out that my co-workers wasn’t gon na work as hard as I did, because I came from that.
Um environment, so I cared about those people and they were just there because somebody helped me got a job, but they gave me fulfillment and I knew that um.
I was late one day.
That’S why I wasn’t late.
I was late one day lying wrapped around the corner around where my office was because they was pretending that you know so they were busy, but they didn’t want to help the people because it was so much there were so many documents you had to have.
You know to get um, you know um City, you know I’m saying, because the money was coming from the feds and a lot of people probably didn’t have the ID of the um or at least or something you know, and I would I would put it in And be like: hey man bring it back now, you know bring it back for the money we ain’t gon na pay.
It’S the way you talk to people and they would just oh you ain’t got this.
It could be five documents that they requested.
If you didn’t have one, they would turn the people away.
I’M like hey man, you can’t do these people like that they missing one document, you put them in the system and you trust them to bring it back.
Like you know, I’m saying they got to work on the trucks because they’re not use the trust in the police and the government, because you know what I’m saying they ain’t showed us why we should trust them and they got one of their own in here.
Hey man D4 getting up early coming down here, y’all, don’t turn nobody away.
So I had to get gangster with everybody down there.
Like man y’all, don’t turn nobody away to come down here and then man, it they’re, spread it throughout the city, man, and it was just like man, it was.
It was this life man.
It gave me life knowing that I’m getting up every day to help somebody.
It just gave me life man, so everything that God had brought my way man.
It just been what my grandmother and grandfather and mother prepared me for, and it just became who I am um by God, because I never had to remember my grandmother’s teaching.
My mother teaching my grandfather, it’s just who I am what they gave me.
I knew what was right and what was wrong and how to live.
This life was about respect and there’s different things.
It it just became who I am man so me receiving my doctor.
Man I got excited that day, but leading up to it.
I wasn’t excited uh even after it’s hard for me to just say Dr Robinson different things, because humanitarity that’s who I am man I was just born to do it and God doesn’t allowed, like you always say the favor uh, for them to reach out to me.
Internationally man and put me in the dark the program they restarted me and, and it was theirs, you know and no said they don’t say they just followed my journey over the years.
Man and it is, it has been a blessing man.
So what high school did you attend? Oh I’m, sorry, man.
I went to Ralph Bunch middle school because my mother wanted, like I say education.
They sent me from Bankhead to Campbellton Road, the bunch for education and then they was like.
You can come back with your friends and go to D, Frederick Douglass in Atlanta, where we call it Doug 225 Hightower, and then what college did you attend? Um I went to Morgan State University man.
I went to Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland um.
I studied on political science and pre-law um.
Instead of going to law, school Man became a sports agent, a good friend of mine, Jamal Lewis, who also went to Frederick Douglass and attended the University of Tennessee got drafted by the Baltimore Ravens.
Since I was already an undergrad, he didn’t have a friend up there um.
He asked me to come, live within my junior year and I got so enamored by the sports agent and the numbers and the money and the life that man all right.
I forgot about law school, I put it in the rear and there’s.
I went ahead um straight in the sports agent world man and not knowing that law was my passion and I went.
I went on to become a sports agent after I graduated and um that ended and that’s how I got into politics and that’s how I met you guys when I that was my um first debate.
My first event, 2009 is when I oh so when you met us, that was your first one, hey man, that was my first intro Wow first introduction when I met you guys and, and we’ve been in touch for all these years.
Man and it’s been a blessing to even watch you and your wife, because y’all display with unity and teamwork is so like.
I always tell you, I admire it man because out here as a single man, I know how hard it is to find that what y’all have and – and you know you know – I’m saying despite you know, I’m saying whatever trials and tribulation y’all still together in 2023.
So I love the unity and the Teamwork, because marriage is a business is love is all of that.
It’S a teamwork in.
I think we missed steps in our on culture when we um dating and we fail to form the teamwork and the unity when we meet um, the opposite sex man.
You know – and so I just love to see that with you guys, I love.
I love love.
Man, I don’t play with it.
I respect it and when I see it man, I love it man, I respect it and just love it man.
Thank you, yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you uh, the one I I want to say this here and I want you know the people who’s watching and who will be watching to understand when I say that the one is a man that has the heart for the people.
He has that I’ve seen him, I’ve watched him and me and Sheila we were very peculiar of of who we would want to interview and bring on our platform, and when I see the one fighting for the undeserved, uh people in our community, particularly my Minds, bring Me back to when uh, I think the city of Atlanta had some money that the federal government gave for to help the homeless people and for whatever reason they didn’t use the money.
And so the city of Atlanta had to send the money back to the government and it wasn’t too many people having a voice to try to reverse that money to come back to the city Atlanta, so that it can address the homeless issues that we see in Our community Atlanta has one of the most turbulent homeless issues that I’ve seen around the nation and we have too many people in too many powerful positions not to address that because now uh, I see the homeless people around downtown under the bridges highways uh.
Those are dangerous places for people to live, because at any particular moment one of those cars can just get off track and derail off the highway and injured.
But it just it’s just sad that we see that in our community, when Atlanta has so much money.
Atlanta has so much opportunities.
Yes, there is our systems in place to prevent people from excelling, but with all the money that’s coming to Atlanta and people moving all over the country to Atlanta.
We just have too much resources to see the homeless issue that we have and when I saw you on TV campaigning and fighting, but this is nothing new for you and I even had that conversation with you, maybe about I think about four or five months.
I called you I say bruh.
This is your calling bro, because you have that Gift of Gab and you call and you anointed and you’re passionate to be able to speak to these people and bring you from the uh bro you Grady baby shower like you from the hey you from Doug the West side, all that other type stuff, so people know you in the community and they know what you stand for man.
So man.
I just want to say thank you so much bro for just sticking to your calling and not only sticking to it, but just embracing it a lot of times.
People are intimidated by their calling for you, man, you have man, you have what it takes to be.
One of the leaders that we will talk about long after you’re gone because of your commitment to the community bro, so man we’ll talk Square business, and that is no cappuccino.
I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart: he’s using cappuccino now: yeah yeah, yeah yeah, I’m switching it up, I’m Switching gears, but man people need to know bro that you are a civil rights icon bruh, in my humble opinion, bruh, because every Generation has their group of people who they can relate to and so uh God bless his soul.
Congressman John Lewis, he didn’t went home, uh Vivian.
He didn’t win at home uh.
It’S a lot of great icons that you had an opportunity to talk with and meet, and now I believe that they instill those qualities and that vision from the past so that you can carry on the marathon for real.
I’M gon na tell you this man, I pre.
I appreciate that brother, I’m serious.
I do appreciate that man, but I’m gon na tell you I’m gon na tell you what the difference is now man and I’m gon na tell you why I’m not gon na say it’s not harder.
It’S more stressful because back when Martin Luther was coming up, Malcolm uh, European new and all those guys that um um that I look at man look forward to Marcus Garvey, all those guys um um.
You mentioned CT Vivian John Lewis, all the Civil Right guys they were fighting against the the white oppressors.
They knew what they were going to get.
They knew that if we went there, I’m saying they’re gon na put water hose on us.
I put the dogs on those.
We could be killed, beating bad going to jail that took a lot of um courage, man and you knew what you were fighting against, and God bless people like the late Aretha Franklin, uh Harry Belafonte that we’re using their entertainment gifts and the money they receive to Bail all those people out the Black Panther, the Civil Rights guys.
You know, I said those people were performing and building these people out, but I’m gon na tell you what the difference is um today, bro and the reason why I thank God so much because it’s a different stress, it’s a different strain and and to me it’s A harder fight today only because we fighting against black folks to do right by black folks bro man, how hard that is: listen, bro! You fighting against in a city where we didn’t have a black mirror and majority black city council, black police, chief, black fire chief black everything.
We are fighting, homelessness, jobs and everything against black folks who from Atlanta, I don’t think people be knowing how hard that is.
Man and the reason why I say it’s hard because, even though God is my Foundation y’all, I still believe in the America mix the philosophy I believe in The Godfather philosophy.
Like sometimes you got ta cut the head uh off that deer and sit in the bed and let them folk know you mean business.
I I’m just saying I’m.
I ain’t all the way there.
Yet sometimes you feeling, like you, got to show these fools and that’s the hard part is that you know that the God within you that the vengeance is here.
You ain’t gon na get nowhere about trying to shake somebody up and make them do right.
So they’re, sitting down there speaking and gathering at people man.
How long have we been doing that man too long bro? He has yielded some positive results and it do but bro when I go to bed at night and when I see these people around the city that are in charge – and I said – and I see them up there, making the wrong votes against the people and doing This in the third – hey bro, that take a lot of stress.
Knowing that I can make a phone call.
You know what I’m saying to do XYZ, but to not make that phone call and to continue to get up and fight the right way and to be professional and respectful towards people that are showing the the people in the streets who mean nothing so much disrespect.
They disrespecting the city, the culture, everything, and these are black folks.
Man, like that’s hard man, that’s hard man for me to stay in good character and not be the fool and go left man that’s hard and I’m fighting against these folks every day for our people, man, that’s a hard fight.
Bro! I don’t tell you no lie.
I, and because I don’t have that um better half that you have man, I come home and talk to God, so much in Cry, tears at home! That’S why my home is My Sanctuary because I come home and I have to cry to get it out.
You know I have to cry and get it out and the next day I’ll be refilled and ready to go, but I have to come home man and really cry that’s why you’ve seen a lot of time come home and cook I come home.
I sit down.
Man, listen to my music and that’s how you know what I’m saying I listen to my music man.
I cook a lot man.
I sit here and eat and I just cry man because it’s like man, God.
Why, like I understand that, I’m talking like you say I embrace it now.
I know I can’t be Jonah.
I can’t run can’t y’all too many whales out here to swallow me up, but I can’t run so I embrace it.
I even though I be like man like why you got me caring so much and fighting against my brothers and sisters who don’t care about our people.
That’S hard! Bro, hey bro, that’s hard bro, but it goes back to God says I ain’t saying he doing this, but when he told Moses I’m going to harden Pharaoh hard he’s not gon na.
Let the people go.
So when you read that and understand God’s word, you can’t get mad at Pharaoh.
God said: I’m gon na hurt his heart ain’t gon na.
Let him go so so the issue is always with God.
That’S why God say a reason with me: let’s talk about it, you know what I’m saying like I do.
What I want to do my thoughts and my ways ahead.
So whatever he’s doing hey, we can’t we can’t um question it.
God is God he do what he do, but I still be like God, man how we got these jumpers like we got Andre he’s two years older than I am born and raised in Atlanta West Side call.
Your hype went to Benjamin e made and we got the fight and orca with a black mayor who, from here who young to help our black women and our black men and our black teens.
Oh man do y’all understand how mad I really beat man.
I have to get up there and smile and keep it respectful and keep it none of the Norms, keep it in proper context with him, because me me being combative with him and calling him out.
I just turned 46.
I know that ain’t gon na help, so I have to sit there and keep talking to him, be like hey, bro, hey man, we got to do something like every time.
There’S a killing and I either know the mother.
You know the Father, the uncle somebody I’d be like hey mayor, hey man, what we gon na do: hey man, let’s, let’s try this like.
We can’t keep going this direction.
We got ta.
Try this! This ain’t gon na hurt you.
But let’s try this, like you know, so it just be so hard man to it has to be hard bro.
I don’t care a lot bro, it’s hard, bro and I’ll be so ungrateful because it’s so hard, I’m even more grateful that God chose me to do it.
So I’m just expressing my frustration with y’all nah bro that God chose me to do it because it’s such a hard battle and for you to choose me for this hard-ass battle, hey man, I’m that’s your humble sir, like I say man I play whatever tune.
He tell me to play, I play it, I don’t say nothing until I still come back to them later, like hey God.
That was a hard note.
You had me to play man.
You know I can’t sing.
You had me up there singing at home, but I’m gon na do it man but I’ll, be like God, man why man like man, it’s it’s a hard fight, y’all, it’s a hard fight! No! But but let me let me say one thing: now I get what you’re saying about having to fight with those that are in a position right that look like us.
They look like us.
At the same time, the people in the community really need to be doing something too because check this out in certain communities.
People say the black people will say: oh, we don’t have jobs, we don’t have this okay.
Well, there are some jobs that come there, but look how you treat that job, that that that place of employment either you’re breaking in or you’re consistently stealing, and then you have people now, especially after the covet they apply for the job.
They don’t want to work.
They’Re half doing it or they call off and they’re not being responsible and that’s what they signed up for that’s the application.
They filled out.
That’S the interview that they went through.
Okay, another thing all right: so people in the community can talk about this and talk about that fight, each other.
I get to sell drugs and just be so disrespectful to each other and be watching these shows, which is just crazy.
They choose to be followers.
They don’t want to be leaders, it’s almost like the people in the black people in the community.
They don’t want any better.
They can’t they can’t even keep their community clean.
Like I’ve seen it like they will there be a garbage.
Can I’m not saying that other ethnics don’t do it, but because we’re around our people more, I see certain things it’s like they don’t want to change.
They don’t want to be held accountable because who would put a do you think? Let’S be real? Do you think that someone would put a 500 Fortune company like off, of Wesley Chapel Drive or in certain places downtown? No because they’re going to destroy it? So so we need to start taking accountability and changing, but for somewhat odd reason I don’t know they just they won’t yeah can.
Can I pick it back up there.
So here’s the other thing that I see that as a race in the community that we have – and that is like she was talking about keeping the community clean.
I don’t understand how people be driving down the street the one and then they just throw trash out.
The window right and then you expect people like she said to come into the community and put their investment, because, most of the time when people come into a community and they build a business, they borrow that money from a bank.
So there’s an obligation and responsibility to repay that loan.
So then people will always do what’s in the best interest of the bottom line.
The bottom line is, am I going to get an Roi return on investment? The other thing is that our community is so focused on uh.
How can I say it? They’Re focused on materialistic things, yeah being a bad B yeah or I’m sexy this.
I always takes so much work just to be a bad B and sexy well take some of that hard work into your family into your kids into yourself.
You know what these black women and and I’m vending to check this out.
She made it too, so I’m gon na check this out our black women, we we are lost.
Okay, let me tell you, let me give you an example of how lost we are.
I do watch clips and I don’t watch the show, but I watch the clips.
It’S called the baddies or baddies West Coast right, so these females are coming into a reality, show being getting pimped by black women that are on the panel who they are gon na pick and choose who’s actually going to be on the show they will have them.
Fighting cursing had them doing push-ups and sit-ups just to be on the show.
Black women can be very selfish.
It’S all about me! If you don’t have a car, if you don’t have a money, if you don’t have a place to stay, if you don’t have a 401k or insurance, I can’t get with you because it’s a total waste of time.
But yet you don’t have anything you don’t even you have absolutely nothing and the way that the black woman think and how disrespectful we are towards ourselves with each other and then the men we don’t even uplift each other, because we’re always trying to compete with somebody.
We don’t lift up the black man because of the generation that started all the way with slavery.
Black women don’t want to change, it’s all about them and then they’re raising their children check this out, they’re raising their little girls to be just like them.
Raising hoes and prostitutes: let’s just keep it real, because I’m not going to sleep with you.
Unless you give me some money and then you got these kids on the social media.
Dancing to these grown songs, shake it! I’M throwing money.
We in the club right that pole, she does it like this, and this is how I’m gon na do it, because I can take all this.
No, you can’t take reading a book take getting into God’s word.
We in the black community.
We always want to say something well, uh the religion and God and these people, and they were slave uh owners and all that we all know about that.
But it’s like the black community doesn’t even say anything about God.
Nobody wants to do the right thing.
Everybody just wants to do the wrong thing, because doing wrong is easier.
You get more likes, you get more, we need to shape up, and I can’t even imagine the the what’s on your shoulders because you’re having to deal with the people in the community that you’re trying to help and then you’re trying to talk with the people that Are actually in power? That’S black, but they’re selling out, because the only best interests right, the only best interest that they have is for themselves and their family.
So the community needs to start getting together and stop voting for these people and start doing research on these doggone people, because you can take it behind to the club.
You can take your behind to go sleep with somebody.
You can take your time to be on the social media and do things that’s not even going to do anything for you, your family or Generations.
That’S going to come after us, because some of us are being bad examples to this generation and the other generation.
None of these women – nobody of these, so many black people, don’t want to stand up for what is right.
We just want to sit back and just get money.
We don’t want to get off of these assistants because it’s too easy for me.
I just want to sit back and get paid and get lazy.
I don’t want to teach my kids anything.
They don’t need to have an education.
I don’t need to have an education, so don’t sit here and tell me and complain that you don’t have this and you don’t have that when you don’t want to do anything about about the problem or even correct the problem, because you’re too busy doing BS stuff And I don’t want to hear it anymore: y’all women, so nasty y’all got some very nasty attitudes and I had to work on myself.
So don’t I and I’m coming to you all like this, because I don’t have to put a cap on it.
Y’All don’t put a cap on when y’all be disrespecting somebody and disrespecting the elders, I’m putting a cap on nothing, Miss Stanford.
You hit the nail on the coffin, it is a two-way street and it is – and it’s just it’s stressful, on dealing with our community, because I have to tell them the same thing: man we want them to do this now, y’all got to clean up and do Xyz now you got ta, you know to be responsible for your kids.
If I’m down here fighting, you know, I’m saying about this and y’all just letting your son do whatever they want to do the moment he burned that gun home, and you know he doing something at the moment you didn’t sign his life away or his freedom away, Because only two things gon na happen, we heard him.
We was kid and that’s to show enough truth.
So it is man fighting our community and fighting downtown man.
It’S a lot man, it’s a lot and that’s why I say these times are such harder times, because back then the Black Panther didn’t have to fight the community as a whole, because they was pretty much squared away everybody pretty much on the same page, all the Kingdom they have to fight the community on certain things because they’re about pretty much on the same day, man, we so divided with hey man, it’s it man and you know what and you know what man.
So we were talking about, the hardener of Pharaoh’s heart.
So now the the Supreme Court then demolished the affirmative action things for for those trying to get into these prestigious colleges.
And so I look at you who went to hbcus and now that it’s been so many African-Americans to get through that affirmative action Loop within the system to get that premium.
Ivory Lee education it’s over with now so now it’s an opportunity for the hbcus to kind of you know, build up its momentum and we looking at a byproduct you, Dr Dewan Robinson of HBCU.
Now let me be clear: I love Georgia, State man, you already know bruh I mean I, I I’m sorry man I mean I went to TSU for a little bit Texas University, but I love Georgia, State man and Georgia.
State has become predominantly African-American, and you know, even though it’s still uh have the overseer of the Board of Regents for the University Georgia system.
I get that we have a black president, and so that’s a start.
However, I think that, with the affirmative action coming into play, breakfast it’ll be a lot of change.
A lot of people who were able to get through that the loophole at timing up so we’re gon na have to really come together as a community, because things are definitely changing, and so it could be a blessing in in Disguise, because I believe like with so Much uh division.
This would cause us to kind of come back and address the issue like you alluded to it always a blessing in disguise man because, like you, say, Georgia State, I love Georgia State.
I love how they then put the money in the community and they didn’t upgraded Georgia State, like none other yeah and charging way less and more house and Spelman that are um voted like the top two hbcus or every year.
They sit like right in the top.
Five but man most black universities like more house than Spelman ain’t; nothing but pimps, man, ain’t, nothing but pills man.
They haven’t upgraded that College in them.
Dorms all of the King.
Was there it’s terrible man, fifty thousand dollars a year and you ain’t getting the kids.
Nothing except for, if you’re in Atlanta and probably some other black cities, if they see more houses, to spend my application you’re going to get a job, but it should be more than that man, like they ain’t nothing, but pimps.
More House of Spelman should have owned.
All of Atlanta, by now they ain’t brought up nothing.
Georgia State came in bought off everything downtown and around they.
They spared no expense whatever it is.
Hey man, we’re gon na, buy more house, and Spelman ain’t bought nothing all that land around the egg used to literally everybody else, buy it up.
They should have been buying that land uh have a student housing or having the programs.
Everything that you need in Atlanta.
More house and Spelman should have owned it.
Georgia State should have been buying land from Morehouse and Spelman because they had too big of a head start.
You had a way bigger Head Start: they’ve been charging people way more and now uh Georgia State have become the university in Atlanta straight up, but right now the HBCU man.
They are pimps, look how they did Dion Sanders at Jackson, State Jackson State brought in – and this is what they reported they’re saying what prime say: that’s what they reported.
He didn’t want to see it because he didn’t want to blast black University man.
They brought in 180 million dollars in three years of everything they were doing.
We talking about hotel flights.
Every game was sold out.
Y’All couldn’t get this man the money that he was asking to stay, but y’all made 180 million in three years, but you couldn’t get a man, the money that he wanted.
That’S the plight of black college man.
They dislike most black preachers, man, pimps man, pimp the culture.
You know I’m saying I’m just saying: that’s what they do to our culture: man, hey man, hey, hey man.
I agree with you on that.
One, hey man, look bro real talk and they just Square business.
Man, interest uh.
If it’s always an issue that I see with the hbcus with the black leaderships, that’s controlling the money.
You see on TV that the kids having problems getting their refund checks.
Uh the houses is, is barbaric.
Is nowhere in the world that these hbcus should be living? That way, you see what I’m saying and you right, bruh Morehouse man that college is trash.
When I mean trash, I’m talking about the Cosmetic all that money that it came through that University, but the leadership everything resting lies on leadership.
The leadership has taken advantage of the of of the people that entrusted them with that money.
Every time just like uh uh Morris Brown Lost His accreditation because the black leadership, the money, uh Clark Atlanta same thing.
They had them sleeping out there sleeping outside in Clark, University sleeping outside bro.
It was like they were just twiddling their fingers.
It was like they wasn’t even trying to hurry up and getting embarrassed.
Bro, it’s embarrassed and then you you got Spelman.
You know Spellman actually is named after rockefeller’s wife.
You see what I’m saying most of these hbcus uh names are behind white people bruh and, and we call them hbcus because back in the day, black folks didn’t have the money to start no College.
It was the white folks that started these colleges bro and that’s just real talk, but a lot of people don’t want to talk about that.
So when you walking around say well uh, I’m a product of Morehouse, do you research, your more house when you say you’re, a product of Spelman, do you researching on on Spelman now I will admit that the women that come out of Spelman, they are very business – Minded they about their business Etc.
But I’m with you about economic, empowerment, bro all that money didn’t come through Spelman all that money didn’t come through uh, more house now Morehouse School of Medicine they doing some renovation down there.
You know they upgrade.
You know medical facility to compete with some of the big houses and Morehouse School of Medicine is a great medical school, but I’m with you bro it’s nowhere in the world that Morehouse should not have brought up all that property over there.
Spelman more I mean just everyone Brett and when you go on the campus of Morehouse bright, it is it is.
It is man, I’m trying to come up with a word uh.
You said that it’s trash, let me tell you something: man more house and Spelman – should have got together and bought the West End Mall.
It shouldn’t have been um this dilapidated and trash all these years.
Man, you know what I’m saying: majority of y’all students walk up there and that’s the only quality of life area.
Man and y’all did not come together and buy the West End Mall.
Do you know how much governmental system they would have got all the alumni would have supported like you got so many people that would have supported that um that um effort and then you could have gave more jobs to your college students uh.
Had you put the money in the community and upgraded things man, but they just and that’s a um.
That’S a subject that uh most people from Morehouse and Spelman will have one-on-one, but in a public platform they will not call their school out um.
They were not um, dare them to be better man and and it’s and it’s that’s the reality when it comes to our people, man, and that’s why I say man, the fight just be so man.
You ain’t got to tell us man, I mean cause bro.
We dealing with it, you know what I’m saying like we trying to do something for the kids, but yet we dealing with folks who feel like they entitled.
Oh I’m in this position, and I have this type of power over you but bruh.
It was a sacrifice.
Bruh it, it reminds me of the book that uh, you told me to read.
I read it three times: uh the miseducation of a negro by Carter G Wilson, the same thing that this man wrote In the book like almost a hundred years ago.
It’S it’s it’s! It’S a reality today, it’s on autopilot, you see what I’m saying you don’t even have to tell nobody, hey man um.
You need to do this.
Of course you need to do that.
You don’t they already.
Just lined up just go sit at the back of the door, hey what you doing so so anyway.
Man, like I’m totally in compliance with what you saying man, and I also would like to just piggyback on some too how these black ministers and preachers have violated our community.
They have raked the pockets of the black people, bro all the hundreds of millions of dollars that have come through the black churches, and you still don’t owe none.
You still paying a mortgage note on the property and the building that you own and you talking about.
Let’S do fish fry and all this, and the only thing you can do is do a food drive bro you, you should be ashamed of yourself bro, you feel I’m saying and that bar over there talking about taking the large property and growing grass, you can’t be In your word, talking like that bro that’s foolish talk and we are some of the most vulnerable people in the community of black folks bro.
We won’t read, we won’t study, but we always following these charismatic leaders who talk good and look good and all that other type stuff man just straight cap bruh and I’m tired of seeing it bro.
I’M tired of you, black folks thinking that it was your degree that got you in this position.
No, it wasn’t.
It was the people that came behind us who got beat up by dogs, holes down by water hanging from treason, and it wasn’t too long ago.
It ain’t even been over 100 Years, yet it been it.
Ain’T been a hundred years, man and man.
You black men in the community, y’all, don’t have no backbone.
You got a gristle, and I said I said again: you ain’t got a backbone.
You got a gristle bruh, you feel what I’m saying, how women going crazy.
No one want to step up cause, they scared to say something because they think they gon na lose it man.
You don’t owe nothing anyway, bruh, because when you die they gon na take away either that or your family gon na got dog on me fight over it.
You feel what I’m saying the little job that you think you holding to, that is not job security.
Bruh snap, you got ta be willing to take the stand.
Bro stand up for something, but it’s an old saying that I was reading in the scripture.
That said, hey man, if you fall for anything, you’ll lose everything.
But if you stand up for something bro, you be attacked by your own kind.
That’S it hey man, that’s the straight up! Truth, man, it’s like when our brother um Christ roamed the Earth uh he had to fight against the old preachers man.
He wasn’t doing.
Never fighting against.
No I’m saying the same folk.
We fighting against man, the Pharisees and the Sadducees wanted to.
You know the one to control the people and wonder want to charge the people for the Sabbath and wanted to do all this type of stuff.
Same fight.
Man, you know what I’m saying we just fighting it same fight of the old man.
It’S just you know.
I I counted all joy, brother and sister.
That’S why I take me vacation.
I get gone five, seven days to recharge up.
Could I ask God if you want me out here, fighting this fight man and dealing with all this, then you got to give me some balance in life because I am not trying to be stressed and dying.
I got to get myself.
I have to get massages y’all um on once a week.
I have to get a massage once a week because I be so tense and so tight man, because my body or a character stress and the tension um internally.
So man I have to have like you, have to bless me to make money a certain ways, because I had to get massages.
You know what I’m saying.
I have to go on vacation to get away and just get peace, because it’s a lot man, I’m fighting.
The city, the county, the school board, the community trying to get they man it’d be a lot.
Man like I come home.
Sometimes I just be like man like you know it it’d be a lot man um.
So I do to be honest with you bro when I be hearing from you whether this be a text.
Yo energy been the same since 2009.
.
It’S always uplifting and positive, but to be honest with you bro little do you know man people be needing it man when you out here in the world and you fight man, you got to have somebody that can recharge you outside of God.
You know what I’m saying: you’ve got to have somebody in the flesh that can speak to you.
I could send you a text and read jokes you and be like okay, I’m not I’m not out here alone, like you know what I’m saying like he, he or whatever he all right God, you got him, send a message to recharge me: hey bro! You just! Never know how much that be needed like like this, for real, like you say, no cappuccino and no Captain Crunch both of them like man that be needed so much because I’ll be at home sometime man just be this be down in my spirit and sometime man.
That’Ll reach out, I can see something on Instagram got another friend, he’ll, send me stuff and I’ll go on YouTube and watch it.
Man, I’m gon na re-jump and I’ll be live man.
You know, but man I be needing that because majority of my friend not spiritual and they ain’t, and they can’t pour nothing into me except for the world and stuff.
I don’t be needing that I’ll be needing something else to pour into me.
So yo Texas always be right on time, he’d be uplifting and then, like you know, for whatever reason God be having you sending them voice and voice messages and voice messages, be I’ll.
Be okay, okay, I’ll be needing that for real, though man, because hey bro, it can be a lonely fight sometime out here, man, it can be a lonely fight for real on front line out here in the city, finally gets all the mirrors and city councilmen and Police it can, it can be a lonely fight, bro.
Well man, you know we, my wife has been correcting me when I say fillers so she’ll touch me she’ll.
Do something to correct that, so I’m trying to talk without saying feelers.
But what I would like to say is that we are very honored to have you on the show to talk about those issues that are playing our community and the top issue.
That I see is black folks fighting against black folks over resources that they really don’t own you’re supposed to be a good Steward over those resources and uplift.
The community – and I just think that oftentimes when black people get into Power positions and have access to millions and millions of dollars, they change they changed because they never had that they they changed because they don’t want to see someone else get to their position.
So they guard it tightly and then they become a very uh.
I would say a bad front gatekeeper.
I I was gon na say slave master, but that’s but that’s it, but that’s incorrect.
I would say a gatekeeper to the the resources that can bless those in the community, man and so, but I also want to say this, the one you are an amazing father, man, your son, he is man, please continue to protect him uh.
He has a Godly spirit, he’s respectable.
You can see pureness in him bro and I just love the way that you raising your son, bro you’re, an amazing father oftentimes.
Like my wife said, we do not uplift the black man for being good Fathers.
We always uh beat them down for not being a good man or not being a good father.
They could be a good man and they can they’re doing the best that they can or they’re doing something.
But the the the mother always has something negative to say because for her, that’s not up to her standards, that’s not what she would do.
That’S not what she wanted him to do.
Let him do what he needs to do and just say.
Thank you.
I appreciate it because it’s like these women just think a man is just automatically supposed to have it.
You knew who he was before you even got into the relationship so put that responsibility on you and it’s like two women like we talked about women, black women.
Don’T want to build with a black man because they have to already have it and see.
They’Re really, they’re really cutting themselves off short because with building with with your your husband and building something with your wife, you’re going to be going on a journey.
And it’s going to be a good Learning Journey, because you’re going to find out things about yourself, you’re going to find new things and then vice versa, with both of them and learning how to work together, learning how to communicate more, whether it’s business or personal.
We don’t black people really don’t know how to communicate.
We just want to have a disgusting attitude and then, like us, women like I used to be like this.
I just have an attitude with Stafford because I’ll think something negative right and he ain’t even do nothing.
He didn’t do anything, but my way of thinking was off so he’ll be like what’s wrong, nothing, what nothing and then he’ll say okay later on you’re, going to end up telling me and then I’ll end up telling him like we hold on to something that you
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