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EPISODE: Episode 1
Furquan Stafford is a candidate running for the Georgia State Senate in District 43.
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Are we live? No, yes, we are Eric.
Are we live yeah? We are.
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It yeah, all right, everybody.
What’S going on hello and welcome to a wonderful brand new week, man we live, I’m St.
This is Lady Stafford.
Together we make the Stafford, show I’m co-host.
This is the host.
We glad that you guys tuned in to the Stafford show we have a great show for you today, um, it’s been a lot going on this this week, Sheila so uh.
Let now it’s been a lot going on throughout the weeks.
Yeah yeah.
Can you restart it yeah restart it yeah, restart it yeah? Yes, please restart.
We got a blooper going on, but you know what bloopers can be.
Funny too, though, I watch – I am one of the co-founders and Chief Operating Officer for the Stafford Boxing Club Incorporated our nonprofit organization, which is a yearly mentoring program for atrisk 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 mnes in our program here at Penola Way elementary school 20 years from now Stafford boxing mentees will be known across the world.
Hey, what’s going on everybody great start of a great brand new week, nothing but positivity in the air, whatever it is, you’re doing continue doing it.
Do not stop.
Don’T let the naysayers stop you from doing it.
It doesn’t even matter who you hear it from because you can do all things through Christ which strengthens you and don’t get lost in the sace.
No, please don’t get lost in the sauce cuz, my gosh, because that sauce has so many different types of ingredients and they’re, not even the right type of ingredients.
You might be trying to make a sweet potato pie and someone might put some something spicy up in there.
I don’t know what’s going on real, but thank you for being here today on the Stafford show.
I am lady Stafford.
I am your host.
I’M big Stafford get what I’m saying.
I’M co-host know talking about man.
Well, we have a lot going on and today we are going to be talking about something that Stafford is doing.
The Lord had told him what about it’s been about a month.
Now, maybe three weeks a little bit over three weeks since he told you about this journey that he’s on the vision the journey yeah, my gosh, that we are both on.
I we never expected expected this to happen, but it is what it is so Stafford.
Please let everybody know what you have going on hold up man.
Well, this weekend, um I was invited to the cab GOP and when I got there, I saw this uh.
I saw this sign on the table and it really hit hard for me.
It was something that I’m going to frame this, because looking at my journey and life from where I started from as an adolescent as a child, I mean I’m a type of individual that received two broken legs from my mother, husband, my sister’s father, when I was Like two years old, he broke both of my legs because my mother didn’t have a child by him.
First, my mother had a child by my father, so um um, just just looking at this, is just just totally humbling and it’s going to be a tough Journey.
Um, I have decided to run for Georgia State Senate District 43 in the cab county.
Um, never thought that I would even be talking about a cany to run for a public office.
This is something that was birthed in Me by God about three weeks ago.
Um actually came after I was you know in my biblical studies and like I say I never wanted to be in politics.
I never had no desire to be in politics, um, that’s not something that I ever even thought about doing, but God has birthed his vision in me and since then I have been on an amazing journey.
The start of it has been remarkable shout out out to the cab GOP chairwoman, Marcy, McCarthy, and everyone that’s in that organization.
I greatly appreciate you guys, you guys have totally embraced Sheila and I you made us feel like family and the thing about this situation is the theab county.
Excuse me the the uh, the GOP, the Republicans didn’t come to me.
I went to them and I told them what my ambition was and they have done nothing but embrac me.
So I know that this is going to be a huge Challenge and I say that because I’m running in a district where 80 % of the registered doters don’t excuse me, registered voters are African-Americans and historically they have a track record of voting for Democrats.
So I’m not running as a Democrat, I’m running as a Republican, and I know that in the black community the letter r in Republicans stands for racist, but I’m here today as a black man, a republican that the letter r in Republicans stands for relationships.
Relationships between whites, blacks, Asian Americans, Hispanics and so forth, and one of the things that I you know really appreciate about this this party is that the respect and the the love that we receive from people who are white black.
You know Hispanic has has been nothing but A1 and I had an opportunity me and Sheila.
We went to the um, the black Republican council meeting and met some some great people in that organization as well.
So I know that there’s going to be a challenge.
Uh Senator Tanya Anderson is the current senator for district 43 and, as a matter of fact, I had an opportunity to meet her about what two weeks ago, no it’s been longer than that because it’s been longer than that, so it had to at least been a Month ago, no, no, no, no! No! It had to been over three weeks B.
If, if I got division about three weeks ago well, this is going on the fourth week now.
So, okay, so let’s say three and a half weeks ago I met Senator Tanya Anderson and it was nothing but divine intervention.
So when me and Sheila Was preparing for our event with our kids to go to Georgia, State University, homecoming game uh, we had some issues with renting a vehicle and when we got to the place, the the the rental car place said that they no longer had A 15 passenger van, so they said that to to accommodate us, they would give us two um Vehicles Vans, and so it was a great experience um.
I forgot the name of the rental car place place, but you know God showed out, but anyway I told Sheila to go ahead and go to Stone Crest Mall to get her eyebrows arched, and so I told her that I was gon na make a couple of Errands, real quick, and so I got to Stone Crest Mall about maybe an hour later, and so this black woman was in the chair and so the owner was, you know, doing her, eyelashes or whatever, and she got up.
She walked out.
She said bye, Sheila and I was like, maybe you know her and you she was like.
No.
I just met her here, so the owner told me that uh, her and Senator Gloria Butler were on the same political platform, and so I was like, oh really so I went outside, I said, excuse me, ma’am excuse me and she turned around and I said I Know who you are, I said I’ve been doing a lot of research about you, you Senator Tanya Anderson and she she said yes, and I said you know what I know this is God, and so I said I’m going to be running against you in the uh 43Rd district of the Georgia State Senate and then her and I began to talk about 45 minutes, the first 30 minutes.
I say what 35 minutes.
She was just me her and then Sheila came and then we to have conversations.
But I explained to Senator Anderson that I would never disrespect her or talk bad about her or do anything that I think that is inappropriate to disrespect a black woman, I’m married to a black woman a queen at that.
So I wouldn’t you know: um do what we see in politics, where we slander people name and assassin, their character, just to try to get voters and so forth, and so in this District I see there’s a change there.
There needs to be a change.
There’S a lot of things that I think is working in my advantage.
That will give me an opportunity to win this election in 2024, in spite of it being conically African-American.
With a historical background, a Democrats uh voting.
So one of the things that I think that I have in my um favor is that my investment in the community, I’m known in in the community um particularly lonia and District 43 in the Georgia State Senate, consist of parts of the Cab County which is lonia Stone Crest and then Rockdale County, then Newton County, and so these uh counties are predominately African-Americans, and so I believe that you know I represent the change.
I represent the the prayers and and aspirations of our ancestors to stand up and be a voice for Change and often times change may not come in the way that you may think it would come, and so I have a lot um of experience of getting legislative Bills passed at the Georgia state capital and I’m not a politician, nor am I a lobbyist and I have the support some some uh Congressional um accolades to support my character and our organization, the Stafford Boxing Club mentoring program and how impactful we have been in this District in this community – and so I know that I’m G have a challenge ahead.
You know, anytime, you doing something: different you’re, gon na be attacked and so forth, but I’m prepared for it.
I’M prepared for it because my journey has prepared me for this opportunity and also it’ll give the kids in our organization to see me under extreme uh attacks and how I use the spiritual gloves.
Oh spiritual gloves, I use the spiritual gloves in my mind and in my spirit to to fight this spiritual warfare, and I want to demonstrate to them how to conduct yourself as a professional how to conduct yourself as a black man.
I think it’s very important that our community see a strong black man married to a black woman with a real marriage.
This month, Sheil and I be celebrating 15 years of marriage um.
I don’t want to take too much of time talking about my candidacy, but I wanted to have an opportunity to just kind of you know introduce to everybody that I will be running for the Georgia State Senate District 43.
Um Senator position at the Georgia state capital and I had an opportunity to meet with uh lee May the former uh CEO and commissioner of the Cab County, my wife and I we both sat with him at his church and I am so grateful for the opportunity That he allowed us to meet with him in his conference room at his church, and it was a great meeting um.
He gave me some great advice, Etc, but he was also real about it.
But the most important thing that I really appreciate appreciate about Lee was that he prayed for Sheila, and I – and that meant a lot to me so as we walked out of his church.
We walked out being covered in in prayer for this journey.
That Sheila and I is going to embark on and a lot of times when people run for political positions.
Um.
It’S it’s it’s one person, but in my situation it’s me and my wife, we running as a team and so any political seat is not the candidates.
It’S always the people in the community, and I hope that the people in District 43 will vote for me because uh my campaign slogan.
If anyone can Stafford can – and I appreciate that uh slogan – it came from a lady that we met at the Georg at the Cab County, uh GOP and her name is ala Adams and we had a great encounter, and I appreciate her being a true woman of God and see the thing about me is that I walk in the love of God and by me walking into the love of God.
I don’t see color now I am a realist.
I walk.
I live in a reality world and I see the things around me, but by me walking in the love of God.
It allows me to overlook things and continue to move forward and walk by faith, and so I’m just so thankful to God for the opportunity to even um Talk, talk about or even say about running for Senator it just it just it’s blowing my mind like I.
Never even thought that I I just it just.
I don’t know it.
Just it’s a humble, a humbling experience.
Um, you know, I’m a foster kid child.
I grew up in boy home group homes, my father, you know he was a heron addict.
He was murdered June.
The 6 I was born July, the 6 I’ve been in so many um situations, unbelievable unbelievable and one day I will, you know, write a book because I’ve been encouraged by so many people to write a book.
But me, I think everything is about God’s, perfect timing and so I’mma give it over to Lady Stafford and allow her to share some things with with us and and continue to have dialogue and engagement about this golden opportunity.
So when you were talking – and I brought this up before with the demographic area and the demographic of people, my concern is people getting out of the box, or at least thinking outside of the box.
Like you just said something, you said sometimes that person it’s just like Jesus when Jesus came right, everybody was thinking he was supposed to be like have all this um expensive, like an expensive robe on, and he was coming the way that they thought that he was Coming but he came as a servant and through uh mother Mary who was a virgin and then his father Joseph, was a carpenter and he used to work with his.
He used to work with his dad.
Well, he used to work with his dad.
Now, God is his father is our father, but Joseph is is his dad and with when, when you said that it took me to to when I was reading in my word, but I just think that sometimes in our community we expect somebody to come in a Certain type of way do it the way.
We think that it should be done, because the way we think it should be done.
That is the correct way.
That is the only way that is the way that it has worked for us for so long so and I I’m going to have a question to come.
My thing is that we need to start doing some research.
We need to start asking questions.
We need the questions and the research is the most important thing and to come to one of the Decap County, uh GOP uh meetings that we have it’s a nice breakfast.
This is like one of the first times that we have been somewhere together, where everybody, the men but exception exceptionally ex, especially especially sorry, the women that have just really loved on me.
They, like you, said earlier today, they’ve been speaking life into me, and I love it with what I just said right.
How are you going to start chipping away at those barriers for those who just think that, because you’re running for a republican, how dare you and they think that you’re going to be a puppet? How can you reach out to the people and just to let them know, look it’s not what you think.
It is that’s a phenomenal question and I’m I’m so grateful to to have opportunity to answer that.
You know I’ve been in the community uh just talking at different locations, uh the LA Fitness uh.
You know people I know from Walmart just in just in the streets like.
I am a I’m a hood guy projects, the hood, I’m just a hood guy, I’m sorry, but however I’m diverse, I can be in the hood, but I also can go into corporate setting and I can go into the pool pit and so me going into these Uh these small town hall meetings in our district will allow me the opportunity to engage with people who may have this um mindset of Republicans being a racist, uh political group and maybe thinking that I’m being used per se like a herel walker to you, know push Their agenda and, like I said before I didn’t the Republican party, never came to me.
I went to them.
I went to them and I you know express my ambition to run in a predominantly African-American District to to to win a political seat at the Georgia State Senate, and I share with them my vision but but most importantly Sheila, I think you know my mindset is A servant leader, so what I would like to do is listen to what the constituents in this District have to say that way.
It’Ll give me an understanding of what the needs are and what the wants are, and so me coming away with that information.
I’M able to collectively and strategically uh lay out a plan, a vision to address those needs in the community gotcha.
I have another question too now you have had um a lady or some ladies come on your social media platform and they did not come respectfully.
They came disrespectfully, which I totally disagree, whether it’s on your social media platform or really anybody’s social media platform, no matter what color religion or what you think about.
I have a question.
Don’T worry my issue that I have with some.
Let me repeat this s: o m e, some not all some black women, because they will come on a black man’s social media platform.
But she won’t go on a white man’s social media platform and show out and be disrespectful and just say things out of character and say things because they are emotional.
My question to you.
I know that you said by going to the town hall meetings and, of course, engaging with the community and listening and hearing their needs and they wants and to walk away with that and have a plan, a vision, a plan to be able to meet their wants And their needs, but with the black women who are, can be very disrespectful to a black man for no reason and have that I am independent type of mentality.
We don’t need the black man.
How are you going to to engage in conversation with these women and at least have them to have a an understanding of who you are what you want to do and why you are even running for you know? U, you know, we say conservative but Republican.
How are you going to do that baby? You know what I ain’t going to lie.
You you, you boy, hey, hey man, hey man, hey man for real man, I’m talking about they need to.
They need to be answered because they’re out there.
Well, it’s a great question number one is, in my humble opinion, not all, but there are a high percentage of just angry black women, and you know I think they have the mindset of anytime, that there is a alpha black man to stand, stand up and say Things that they want to come, and they want to say disrespectful things and so forth, and so for, but how I engage with them is, is listening to them, but then I respond to them in a very positive way.
Right.
One thing about me is that I’m very patient and I’m very consistent.
Let me give you an example.
So it was this woman on the Facebook named, don’t say her name, I can’t say her name, no, don’t say her name, we’re not going to start anything well.
Anyway, this woman, this black woman um she jumps on my Facebook page and she begins to attack me.
She says that you know uh, you will never get my vote.
You and I just listened to her and I was like okay Bet, and so you know I said I respect that, but then I came back to her and I was like you know.
I explained to her reasons why this District should um elect the first africanamerican Senate at the Georgia state capital.
Now let me move the African-American and the first and all that to the side, but let me just say why you should uh vote for a black Republican for this elected seat and I you know shared my my points with her, but that wasn’t good enough.
Then she said that I abandoned New Birth and all this other type stuff.
So then I showed her a picture with me and Bishop Eddie l, l, the former pastor of Newber Missionary Baptist Church.
God bless his soul that wasn’t good enough.
She still come back and attack me you.
I don’t trust you d d.
I said Well w you ask Eric long.
You know Bishop Long’s son about me.
You know he can tell you, because he SE me go through some extreme uh situations at New Birth, where I shouldn’t say no, don’t say no don’t.
But anyway, the late Maya Angelo wrote a poem and it’s called Still I Rise, and when the dust settle in that situation at New Birth still iise, everyone counted me out.
Everyone threw dirt on me, but in order for a seed to grow it got to have dirt.
However, I walk in the love of God.
I have my focus on God, but to answer your question: is these type of type of uh situation is preparing me to have engagement with black women, who feel the need to be disrespectful? Some may be bitter because of them being single in the buch of kids or things didn’t work out or something happened in their personal life with their father, a black man may have not met their expectations, so they want to attack or it may be, because the System has mentally uh equipped him to think that you don’t need a man, Etc.
Most a lot of black women have become materialistic um, and so the money, the career, the houses and all that stuff have replaced a strong black man.
So my rebuttal to them is like w.
You get to know me W.
You ask people in the community about me, like my wife say, do some research and from a by partisan recognition, I’ve received what two congr Proclamation about my character and my leadership in this District by someone who’s, not a republican.
That’S a fact.
That is a fact.
That’S a fact, and on the 19th of November this month we are receiving a congressional award for our community work in the black community in this District.
So the thing that I think that these black women should look at as like, if, if I’m a conservative, black Republican and I’m getting recognition by someone who’s a Democrat and who has a huge voice in this District.
It must be something about him because, most of the time when a black man is running for uh, any type of political SE, as a republican, the black community say he’s Tom he’s a cornball he’s a, and let me make this clear.
I am not the honorable Judge, Clarence Thomas, I am not Congressman.
Tim Tim Scott.
I am not colen pow.
I am not um.
What’S my Herman Kane, I’m, not! God bless his soul.
I’M not uh, Dr Ben Carson, I’m not Hershel Walker, I’m furquan Stafford! I’M me! I’M different and the unique thing about my situation is: 85 % of the population in District 43 is African-American, so my heart, my passion, my concern is for the black community.
I just so happen to be affiliated with a different political party because of their their their values.
They line up with my belief, my core values, and let me be clear, let me say this just because I’m a republican that I’m not going to face opposition from white men and women in this political party that just not going I mean I’m in tune with Reality – and I’m also here to say that I as a black conservative, I served um in cassim Reed political campaign when he was first running for mayor for the City of Atlanta.
I served both of us served in Congressman Hank Johnson when he was first running for a political office um I participated in the rainbow push Coalition and I am so grateful for the opportunity to be a part of that movement.
At that particular time.
I had some grooming from some great black men, I’m talking about man, man, man shout out to Janice Mattis Tina Jones, Joe Beasley.
I really appreciate you guys.
I really really really do the NAACP, Dr RL white, former president Atlanta chapter um, so I mean it’s not like.
I do do not have any involvement in Black organizations that uh may be connected to the Democrat Party or people who are Democrats and just happen to be African-Americans, but at the same time I’ve also, you know experienc certain things with white people who are true Republicans And I my experience with that is you know, God can use anyone to bless you if you stuck in one mindset you going to miss out on a lot in life and, to be honest, I had some white folks really come through for me in some really Tough times in my life, you know: RCW, oh yeah, attor attorney, um, Johnny, Jonathan yeah attorney, Jonathan Hibert, my boy JT.
You know what I’m saying I can remember.
Years ago I was uh living out in uh Potter Springs, and I was going through a relationship with this woman and it it.
You know it was tough from a spiritual and mental aspect, and so I can remember like that Spirit of death, suicidal was just trying to get me to take my life, and I can remember the Holy Spirit like I was in my word strong and I was Actually, I literally stood on the Bible and just just praying out to God, and I can hear his voice saying: hey, you need to get out this house and run to the nearest church and ask for prayer, and I didn’t remember that there was a church on The corner – and it was about a two and a half mile uh Journey jog I mean I was just jogging.
I just bust out the door.
I didn’t even close the door.
I just ran and I came to this this church on on the corner.
It was Legacy, it was a white white man at at the time.
I didn’t know he was the pastor, but he was putting some letters on the signing board and I told him I said sir.
I just need some prayer.
I just need some prayer and so man we prayed, he told me he said: Hey, listen, um won, you come to service, Etc.
I said okay, I will, but when I left from being prayed for at that particular time time, it gave me hope it gave me strength to to just deal with what I was dealing with at the time and when I came to service, I was the only Black person in that service and to be honest with you – and this is no lie me and the pastor became so cool that he allowed me his Pastor study to to to to do research, um, yo man, this yo, Pastor, Ben B, man.
I love you, man, him and his wife man.
I didn’t had some good folks, man, I’m telling you that with white that really came through and then I also went to a all-white College in Mook Nebraska, so I was coming from College Park, a black community.
I was coming from Gabby Road Old National, so my mindset was just Street in the city and that experience in a small town of Nebraska with 8,000 white folks changed my life.
It gave me the opportunity it gave me the experience to learn how to talk to white people, because at that point I didn’t know how to talk to white folk man.
I was, I was Hood.
I was Hood.
I hey sh, look sh we sh week.
You see what I’m saying like man hold up.
You feel what I’m saying like.
I was just just programmed to be talking that way, but when I got around them and that exposure it gave me an experience that has lasted to today, and it has elevated me.
It has allowed me to go into different types of groups that I normally wouldn’t be able to go in, because I wouldn’t know how to conduct myself, and so I’m grateful for that experience.
But you know going back to you know: Pastor Ben bun man.
It was people at the church left because me and Man became super tight man, I’m talking about super tight.
They left the church because me and him, and he was like man – I’m not F – to leave I’m he said.
No, he told me said: I’m not F to abandon you like that.
You know, because I see God in you and if they left, that means that the spirit of God wasn’t really in their heart and in the process man I met my partner named Joe tally.
Man and I love that boy, man, I’m serious man – I mean that man – that is my that’s my brother from another mother.
But anyway, you know going back to what you was saying about dealing with.
You know black women who feel the need to just be disrespectful towards black men, um a power like myself respectfully I embrace that man.
I look forward to having engagements with you and I hope that after we finish um having dialogue that you’ll walk away, feeling encouraged that you know what this black man brings hope to our community to our boys and young girls who who need a black male role Model to look up to I’m not saying that I’m perfect, but what I am saying that I I have been a man of character in the community for many many many years.
You know, like my partner trap, Dr Travis Barber, you know he he would tell you.
I have a heart of gold.
I love to serve people.
I love to help people and that’s just who I am, and this opportunity gives me a different platform to be able to serve my community in a way that I just don’t think that Senator Tanya Anderson has been able to do that.
Respectfully and one of the things that my mentor told me, Melvin Everson was that uh when Nathan Deal won the Georgia uh nomination to become governor, no one thought that he would ever win, but he laid out the facts.
That’S all he did was lay out the faction, so I plan to do the same thing.
I’M not going to attack this black woman, I’m not! I’M GNA lay out my my vision.
I’Mma lay out the facts and I’m allow uh the people to make the choice, but at the end of the day I want people to be open-minded.
I don’t want you to be like well.
Historically, I’ve been a Democrat, I’m a vote Democrat, but you can be a a you know, Democrat and still voting for the same person, but not getting no results or no improvement, and – and I will say this here me being on this side – gives me the opportunity To go to the Republican side and say: hey man, listen, it was the black community that voted me into this seat, and so it’s important for me to uh.
Be a man of my word.
I’M not the type of person that say something for the sake of votes and then get into position and not come through.
My word is my Bor.
That’S why God that’s boom.
That’S exactly one of the reasons too uh.
You asked a question: did you ask why or you can’t believe that God chose you yeah.
I couldn’t believe.
Okay.
Well, that’s one of the reasons because if you think about it a lot of times those who are black that run for office, they say and they act and say the right things during during during their campaign election and then when they get elected.
Then they come in and they totally forget and that’s something that I want to say because I don’t want to forget.
That’S why you’ve been chosen, because there are certain things that you will say that nobody else will say because – and this is not to put anybody down – this is not to put anybody down, but the majority.
No, I’m not going to say the majority.
Some, let me say again s o m e, because sometimes when we talk, people start getting emotional and they don’t hear the words that you’re saying some people won’t say things that you will say like when you said when we went to the dcap GOP, what the R stands for in the black community, I’m going to post that video because they were shocked like you, you heard people in there saying and then someone says we have to change that and it’s just and it takes me back like even with Moses Moses.
Well, this is not you because Moses was always would doubt himself and then where he started off with and then they, the the daughter, found him in the river and then he grew up with the luxuries and anything he wanted and then all of a sudden it Pricked his heart because of how the Jewish people were being treated and then he ended up killing one of the guards and then he had to flee and during that time that he had to flee.
That’S when God was shaping him and talking to him and molding him and and just putting his word into him to be that leader to lead them out of Egypt.
So if you go back to those stories and probably stories in a book, if you don’t read the Bible, that David was it Elijah that went and went to David’s house and asked we were listening to it.
How many kids do you have? Because he said that the king is in this household and he the father, called all of his sons, but he had forgot about David, because David was out there attending to the Sheep.
So he wasn’t like his other brothers because of at the time, because of the way that he looked because he was outside.
He was probably a little bit dirty and he had his the the cane or whatever he had to have, and he wasn’t dressed all nice and had the nice rings on and the chain I’m just being sarcastic and the glasses on his hair might not have been Combed and looking good so people were just passing over him and he said this: is him H? So if you, if you go back and you you read your word and you study your word or even some books that you may read, if you don’t read, read the Bible that there are stories of people who you would not even think.
Oh, my gosh, they picked him, they picked her.
I can’t believe it, but don’t count that person out because that person is going to say what the holy spirit is telling them to say and being obedient to God go here.
Go there say this, and I and – and I will say this when I got this Vision, man, so many amazing things – I mean it’s, it’s been crazy and this past weekend I had an opportunity to speak at the cab GOP and I had an opportunity and and And that’s where I didn’t get the whole video, but I am gon na we’re gon na po, I’m gon na post, video and and and this is where I got this sign from – and I looked at it and it said reserved for feror Stafford, Georgia, State Senator Candidate D, District 43 vote the cab red the Cab County Republican party.
I saw this on the table.
I was like man, Lord, I, Lord Lord, you just oh you just told me this like three weeks ago, almost 30 days ago, and now I’m doing this and I’m meeting these people and stuff just happening like so.
If God gives you a vision, he will provide provision.
I am a strong believer in that I mean that’s just how I live my life.
I’M G be honest with you, because everything it seem like every task that God has for me, is a trailblazing task, and so this journey that I’ve been on with CP plas.
Sometimes you know it just like this God said do it.
I did it and, like my wife was saying um in the word of God, Joseph prospered, no Abraham prospered because he listened and obeyed God, and I promise you like.
The enemy was coming to me.
In my mind, said boy: you better not say that in front of the white folk boy, if you say it boy boy them white folk boy they going but they need, but they need to know so they didn’t know so you can bring some things to well.
I think they knew.
I think that I think that it was just a shock for for a black man.
No, I think, one of the lady that was next to me because some let’s be, let’s be honest – let’s be honest, I know that we are around some very educated people and I also know not only are they educated, they do have some type of common sense.
That’S true, and I do know that they also have some wisdom and knowledge because whatever they’re doing they’ve been doing for a very long time, so I’m not trying to be duh but the lady.
Next to me, I really I’m telling you she really did not think that now, I’m not saying she doesn’t watch the news.
I know I’m not saying that she doesn’t watch the news right and I think I think it’s 5050 yeah it’s 5050.
I do, but let me just say this, though real quick before you come attacking anybody, whether it be Stafford me or anybody, who’s, doing something extraordinary that you may not agree with, especially how, because God’s ways are not our ways.
Remember that oh mercy, but what I want you to ask yourself is before you come attacking.
What are you doing in the community? What family or families – and you don’t have to always post anything because you might not have social media? What are you doing for a family? What are you doing doing for families? What are you doing when you see these young girls, whether in the mall or out walking around? Do you take the time out to talk to them to sew a positive seed into them, or what about the Young, The Young, the young boys, the young boys and the young girls? Are you sewing a positive seed into them to let them know that they are somebody, do you say you are love, so what what are you doing? Are you feeding families? Are you helping anybody out? Are you going to the schools? Are you serving or do you just go to church on Wednesdays and Sundays, and praise the Lord and get all Holi and Sanctified, but then once you leave that parking lot, it’s just all that gets erased.
So before you come attacking anybody look in the mirror.
I look in the mirror all the time.
What did I do wrong was I part of the problem.
Did I speak to that young lady wrong because I went into the business, but she had an attitude, so I had to check her real, quick and had to say a few curse words um.
What what did you do did? Did you do what Jesus would do? I’Mma tell you like this: do you check yourself no seriously, I want to know.
Do you all check yourself? I’M I’mma tell you, like this check, mark check yourself before you come and if you want to know something, like my husband said, you can always look at his wife, which you, which is me you can go on my social media platform and see what I have Going on, if you would like to have a discussion, I would love to have a discussion, but I don’t do that back and forth.
I don’t do all that type of cursing.
I don’t try to prove I’m right and you’re wrong.
The only thing we do is ask questions and agree to disagree, but at least have an understanding of the.
Why? What where and how and I had to say that man, because we’re not all that women we’re not all that I forgot what I was gon na say.
Is God there’s a difference between being conceited and having confidence? We get Confidence from God, it’s called God confidence, but that does not give us the right to mistreat each other and talk to anybody.
The way that you want to talk to them, because we both know, let’s just keep it real.
Are you let me fix my hair, I know my eyes are a little.
Are you going to go to somebody else with that same type of attitude and that same type of so what hold up hold up hold up check this out? I’M just asking a question hold up so when you say type of people be specific, don’t don’t? Oh white people, Asian Asian Americans, Hispanics! Okay, do you all get up in their face with that? With that same type of attitude, do you all come on their social media page and be disrespectful like that? I would I would like to know I don’t I don’t hey baby hold women Lynch, the black men, oh yeah, yeah, yeah! No, no! No! No speaking of that say what you said earlier today when we was when we was driving.
Oh, that the um white people don’t have to Lynch black people anymore, more because black people Lynch each other, because we do ande speaking about Republican for races.
There aren’t aren’t some of us black people races against each other.
Now you all are going to get mad, but I’m just bringing it to the Forefront, see I’m not emotional, I’m bringing facts because I see it and I hear it we’re both out there.
I see it all the time hey, we are in these streets.
Now, let’s be clear: if you go into the community, say man, you know Stafford every time I go into a place.
People say Stafford where your wife at because we always together, we do everything.
I’M privileged to be one of many people, men in the world, to be able to build something from Ground Zero with his wife.
It’S not like she doing her thing and I’m doing my thing and then we trying you know come together like we.
We came into this marriage with a wood nickel, oh mercy.
We came in this with a wood nicker and together it’s been a slow but steady, uh building Foundation like it took us.
It took us about 15 years to build our foundation pretty much yeah it took.
But now it it’s it’s it’s I mean I see the light at, don’t get, but don’t get upset everybody with what I just said.
Just listen to what I said: rewind it listen to it again, told y: it’s not going to be me.
It’S going to be us and really sit back and really think about everything that we said.
Don’T take it personal because you can’t take it personal, because some of the things that I said it still goes for us too, because we’re not perfect.
Oh babe.
Let me tell you before I forget so yeah, because it’s almost about that time, so, in other words, voting for me, you have a voice, a representation on the Republican side in the state of Georgia.
Now, from a federal standpoint, uh there was the the electrical elector electoral vote.
Yes was uh Democrats, so they said that the state of Georgia is blue, but Georgia is like a swing state, but that’s on a federal level.
I’M talking about on the state level.
On the state level, the the state of Georgia is conservative, the governor is Republican, the house is Republican, the Senate is Republican, so the Democrats, they have to you know, come up with a legislative Bill, get a group of uh.
You know Democrats either house or Senate to you know, vote.
Then it has to go through the pipeline at the end of the day, the Republicans got to sign off on it.
Whereas me I’m already at the table respectfully and I got respect at the Georgia state capital, so I can go to them and say: Hey listen! This is what this community need.
I want to put this bill.
How can we get resources to this District uh? This is predominantly African-Americans, so me talking about uplifting.
The black community is not going to be an out of bound thing, whereas a lot of times you have black politicians who are running as conservative in a white community and that you know they keep bringing up black black black black, and you know to that particular Group of constituents it may not sound good to them, but that’s not the case in my situation.
I’M I’m representing black people period, but they bring something to the table.
However, however, however, however, I have a different Vision.
I have different morals.
I have different um ethics that I stand by and my inspiration goes way back to when I was like.
In my you know, late 20s mid 20s and I had an opportunity to do research about Frederick Douglas and when I learned about Frederick dougas, a Republican and during that time, where he self-educated himself.
And during that time.
If a black man or a black woman was caught trying to learn how to read and write, that’s a death sentence, you getting hung, and then he created the first black newspaper and then just think about it like.
So during that time it was slavery, so Abraham Lincoln had this type of respect for a black slave to come to him, because his wisdom, his his intellect, was on on such a high level that he went to him to to to get an understanding and run Things by him to make decisions that will affect the entire country.
That blew my mind and I was like from that point on it inspired me to be a reader of books.
I read a lot of books, I’m reading I’m reading about four books right now and that’s because I want the knowledge you know it was a old saying that I used to hear coming up.
You know in the hood.
They said if you want to hide something from a black man.
Put it in the book, because a black man is not gon na discipline himself to sit down and read and write, and I’m looking at during the times of slavery, where people was willing to put their life on the line, to learn how to read and write And I’m looking in 2023, where it’s such a difficult task to even get the kids to behave on the school bus to go to school, but then once they get to school, they are you know, distraction and so forth.
They don’t want to learn so forth and so forth.
So now the teachers and the parents are are bumping heads because, because the child may not be, you know acting right or it be May or it may be, miscommunication between the two.
It’S just a lot going on, and so that’s that’s where I want to step in and provide leadership to bring about a common um goal, a common interest in the community and the school district and local businesses.
How can we impact this community to the point that we can be self efficient? How how can we impact our school system? How can we um um make sure that teachers are getting paid, make sure that people who are in the cap County School District getting paid, be? You are a executive level or you may be a janitor? How can we not? You know get to a point that every time I look on TV, I see the Cab County School District in the news for something that shouldn’t be in the best entrance of this particular School District.
So when these type of things happen, where you know the employees not getting paid, then you have to look at the leadership and then so, if the leadership is not what you know, what what’s the purpose of the board of directors, I mean the Board of Education.
What you know the superintendent and all this other type stuff, because I know for a fact that the people who are in executive position at the C County School District.
I know that they’re getting paid, oh yeah, so that same level of respect need to be trickled.
All the way down to the janitor, you know what I’m saying it shouldn’t be: no reason why there is an issue with payroll period, you you know, and every time I turn around it’s something going on in the C County School District.
So I say to myself: where is Senator Tanya Anderson like this? Is this is her District? She should be going and meeting with these folks.
I don’t know if she is, but you know there should be some documentation that you’re having um conversations with these people, because your best interest interest is in the constituents the family.
So now you hear stories about people who not getting paid four weeks.
Then next thing you know by the time they get paid, they late on their rent, so then rent coming right, and so they not able to get up out of this cycle.
So it’s a poverty um system that they being entrapped in and they trying to do their best to you know, serve the community through their job description, but they’re not getting compensated for their efforts, and so that’s the type of person I am and I’m not even Elected yet, but I’m talking about these issues because I’m watching and I’m seeing and so having a voice, you know I have that type of Courage that type of um leadership mindset to hey man bro.
We need to come to the table.
How can we fix this? That this is not going to happen so me, being elected into this senate seat will give me the platform and the resources and the authority to bring about awareness that’s going on, so we can resolve this, and you know what US black people.
We got to learn how to work together because for some reason this jealousy and envy has become the number one ingredient for our mass destruction.
We constantly hating on each other, like my wife said that we ain’t got to worry about the white man: lynching.
We lynching each other and that’s a fact.
That’S a fact.
That’S a fact, and so I want to thank you for tuning in to the Stafford show, and I want you to remember in 2024 vote Stafford for Senator District 43 and if anyone can Stafford, can that’s no cap for real vote red for real thecab County shout Out to Mar MTH for real, we coming GOP for real Stafford boxing huh, the making of champion.
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