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W FORCY Radio. Well, good
evening and evening and evening, and welcome

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to the show of the year,
Show of the month, Show of the

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week, Show of the day.
Setting it straight with Miss Gray and my

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fabulous co host, Miss Tommy from
around the way, literally down the street,

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around the corner, probably about three
stop size, a couple of traffic

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lights, but she could get to
me and I could get to her in

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a matter of no time. How
are you doing, Tommy. I'm wonderful.

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Thank you, that's good, that's
good. I'm glad you know Rebel

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on with us. You will never
see Rebel, but you have to trust

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us that we know she's right there, right there, and if you get

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too ruly and truly, she knew
how to cut off the mike. Yes,

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the famous words of Judge Judy,
cut off the mike and get even

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when she could somone you real quick. She's our sniper in the spirit Glory

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to God, allelujah. Well,
this is gonna be the first time you're

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gonna hear this because a lot of
stuff has happened since we were last on

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a lot of stuff. Not proud
of it at all. One particular incident

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that just happened this past week.
I think it was on Friday the fifth

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in Montgomery, Alabama. The faery
captain was trying to park the ferry boat.

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This is not unusual. People are
on schedule, people paid to ride

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on the ferry. Why should it
be any different on the fifth of August

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I do not On the sixth of
August, I do not know something about

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that. Sixty sixth was the day
that man God made man kind, the

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sixth day, on the sixth day, January sixth. Last year, we

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know what happened January sixth. Now
here's August sixth as some craziness. So

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discrimination, discrimination, prejudice, I
can only imagine. But tonight I want

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to give y'all a little warning.
The man was trying to do his job

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by parking the ferry, not just
private cruiser, not a private yacht,

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not a private boat, but parking
the ferry where he supposed to park it

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to let the guests off. But
there were some people of fair skin drinking

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because they had to hold to their
cups, who refused to move their boat

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out of the way. That's what
the news is saying. I wasn't there,

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no nobody, everybody, it's all
over. It's all over. You

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talk about something that has gone viral, it is out there and you cannot

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pull it back. He was he
was asking them nicely. Did he had

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to get off the theory to go
ask them? Can you get up so

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they ain't gonna come and attack the
man and start throwing throwing hooks and you

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got people. You hear the audio, everybody's like, oh my god,

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oh my god. You know,
so here come black people running because all

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of a sudden it was one white
man and another white man and another white

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man and a white woman. And
that's the video we're seeing. It's all

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over video. They can't they can't, they can't screenshot, they can't You

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know, put images in and and
and the timing be right, and it's

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all showing. The news is showing
the same thing. But then the man

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releases his cap, and now we
got it viral now because everybody said that

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was the back back call. When
he threw his hat up in the air,

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it like he was graduating. That's
how the graduates throw their caps up

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in the air. But you know, I'm just I'm commentating on for myself.

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Okay, this is what I saw. I'm like, what is he

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doing? So then all of a
sudden, you see the water moving and

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this young black young man dives into
the water and swims over. Now you

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swims over, gets out because he's
gonna get he's gonna defend this man.

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Because they had this man on the
ground at this point, they were kicking

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him and everything. But then my
daughter shows me. She swipes left and

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show me a group of boys.
Now this is the warning I want to

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give two people, especially if you're
not of the black American race. If

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you see some young boys skipping and
heading your way, it's over. They

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ain't running, they ain't walk it
fast, they're not doing power walks.

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But they were skipping to the destination. You just did. You did,

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just just follow your needs and surrender
right there, because you're done. You're

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done. Because it was about four
or five of them and they were skipping,

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I said, oh god, what
the boy I saw? I said,

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why the boy skip it? I
said, oh, this this is

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over. This is over. This
is over. Now I know we can

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swallow about it and and yeah,
we've done it. There's T shirts out

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about it. I don't know who
it was at the house. I made

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a T shirt that quick, but
there are T shirts on the market.

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I'm gonna get one. No,
i'm'na get one, just just to be

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supportive, because you we know evil
exists. Now I'm gonna talk to my

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spiritually minded people. We know evil
exists. We know that certain incidents and

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and and occurrences and events had to
happen, especially these last four or five

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years, so that the evil could
rise to the top. And that's what

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exactly evil has done. It's risen
over six years, now, seven years,

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eight years. It's risen to the
top. Now it's out people who

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are prejudiced, people who don't like
other people because of their culture, because

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of their the color of their skin, because of what they think they see

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it's here. They're here, They've
always been here, but they just was

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able to hide it because they realized
I got okay, we had affirmative action,

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we've got laws to protect people rights, we've got civil rights. Now

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I'm gonna segue to civil rights.
We know that the Jewish culture experienced Holocaust,

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which was a gemoscide, killing Jewish
people on purpose, gassing them,

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killing them, not turning the water
holes on them, not removing them from

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their home lands and things like that, not hanging them, not molesting and

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their women. But they call it
the Holocaust of the Holocaust. They don't

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call it civil infringement of civil rights. They've got a piece of history that

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belongs to that culture all by itself, and every boy and girl gets a

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piece of that critical theory, if
you would, as a part of their

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culture, their religion, as a
part of the family discussion, as a

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part of them going from a teenager
to a young adult. And that's their

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story. But now you've got some
folk, and I know I'm gonna lose

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some people on this one. And
again, Tommy does not know anything.

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Rebel does not know anything about what
I'm getting ready to what I'm saying right

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now, and we're gonna talk about
our topic tonight. But because of what

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happened to black people, the word
civil rights was born. Our people were

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sprayed with water horses. Our people
were attacked dog guard dogs were set on

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them too, not just immobilize them
or detain them, but to kill them.

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Our people, the women were molested
and taking advantage of in front of

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their families. And lastly, our
people were hung on the highest of trees.

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Cities, communities were burnt to the
ground here in Florida. We've got

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that history right here in Florida.
Burnt to the ground, Black Wall Street,

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burnt to the ground. So that's
what civil rights came. And I'm

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sorry no other group can share that
definition. I'm you can't do it.

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You gotta go find your own because
other folks who are different from us are

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trying to say that there's civil rights
are being violated. I don't see none

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of y'all being hung on a tree. I don't see none of y'all being

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sprayed down by water hoses. I
don't see none of y'all being attacked by

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dogs. Yes, you're going through
something because people don't like you, but

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you all got to come up with
another. But don't, don't come over.

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Don't take civil rights from us.
That's ours. Affirmative action has been

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taken away, but civil rights that
belongs to the black community. And that's

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my opinion. Lastly, I forgot
who told me just a week ago,

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over a week ago that some folks
it could be a one person. I

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don't, no, I think it's
one person. And they got a little

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group that represent the transgendered population that
made a comment recently that real women born

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women, born a woman, born
a woman, a real women born a

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woman. I can't I can't even
say that right because it don't even sound

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right. But women who are born
of the female persuasion born that way.

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So folks in the transgendered arena of
culture has the audacity to say that women

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don't know how to respect, not
respect, honor, or represent they're being

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a woman, being female, So
we need to show them how. I

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am paraphrasing on that because I can't
even fix my mouth to say it.

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Now, let me tell you something. We're not calling I'm talking to my

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spiritual my my prayer warriors, and
my inecessors. This is who I'm talking

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to now, Okay, if you're
not called to that that culture. Don't

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go shaking your finger in their face
and telling them that they should be asham

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when they're going to health. That
that's not our that's not that's not our

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calling. We're not called to that. Now we met somebody may be calling

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that, but we're called to we're
not called lead those people alone. Lead

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them, Let them stay in their
lane, because now they're crossing over into

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our land saying that they want to
become women. And so if you want

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to go and have a cycle,
knock yourself out, you want to go

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and have a baby and have your
organs chase, or you can have a

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baby, knock yourself out. But
don't you dare come in my lane and

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tell me I don't know how to
celebrate being a woman, and that you're

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gonna teach me something. And further
verify this, my sister who's an aesthetician.

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I called her the other day,
but she called it should happy birthday.

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I say, uh, hey,
uh, tell me if this is

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and if you've heard this kind of
conversation in your arena of beauty and fashion,

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have you heard? She says,
yeah, we got him over here

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too. I said, so they
s appted to tech y'all how to apply

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makeup, because we've been doing that
ever since people performing in shows at seventh

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grade, sixth grade. So we
okay. So this is my opinion.

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You don't have to like it.
I'm just setting it straight from my opinion.

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This is not representing Tommy nor tray
No, nor Talk four TV.

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This is Leicia Gray saying this.
Stay in your lane. I'm staying in

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mind. But don't come over here
telling me I don't know how to celebrate

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being a woman. Don't you dare? You don't have that right? And

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like I said, you want to
go and try to have a cycle.

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I've been having one since I was
eight years old. Trust me, it

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is not happy. Trust me,
it makes room for five roids and tumors

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and if they you want to have
that. Knock yourself out. You want

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to go have a baby, Knock
yourself out. You want to define God

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and his word is marvelous work.
Knock yourself up. We don't have nothing

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to deal with you. Yes,
I'm yelling right now because enough is enough.

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Enough is enough. You stay over
there and you do what you feel

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you need to do for you,
But don't you come over here. Trying

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to take the word of civil rights
and that women don't know how to celebrate

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the femininity. And you saw those
boys skipping in Alabama, We'll be skipping

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in the spirit problem should at You
don't want none of this. I don't

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want to talk about you on my
show. I don't have room for that.

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I don't have time for that.
The time is winding up. Just

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in case people don't realize that time
is really winding up. And for those

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who are Christian minded, you you
study the Bible at least all the way

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through from Genesis the Revelation. Once
in your life you know that some other

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things as supposed to be happening,
it's not. Jesus is coming, but

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he's got one big thing he's getting
ready to do. He's coming from one

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thing, and one thing. I'm
to bind him up for a few years

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now. One year could be seven
years to God. Our seven years could

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be one minute to God. But
we do know there's some other action that's

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gonna be taking place. God is
already confirmed. He's coming after every one

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of our enemies, those who the
latest word that got today, those who

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you least expect. Because I was
like God, you're still on your benches

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as mind tour. He said,
yeah, these are the ones you don't

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know about. I said, my
god, he's I just don't want your

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feeling sorry for him. I've said
my peace, play with it if you

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want to. But right now,
once I get off this program, I

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would be skipping in the spirit.
I'll be skipping in the spirit using my

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scriptures that are in black and white
and read depending on what kind of Bible

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you have. Now I'm gonna segue
to Lady Tommy because guess what. Now

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all of the gift giving, the
book bags or is over. There was

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three weekends here, three weekends back
to back. They said, we're gonna

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give back. We'll keep giving.
We're gonna keep it open. Even if

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we said we go to two o'clock. If we got backs, you come

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on, we're gonna give it to
we We can't. We have no more

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to give. Nobody. I don't
think nobody even tried to write a grant

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the Walmart of Target because you weren't
going to get anything anyway, because they've

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already promised the commissioners and the mayors
in Central Florida, you got whatever you

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all need. We'll donate. We're
donating for your causes. And they told

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them we're gonna have three back to
back in two different cities, through two

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different three or four different cities,
and they were successful with it. So

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now just the case you don't realize
that school is in I don't know,

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I hope that you. I'm sure
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summer readings. I'm gonna let I'm
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I want Tommy to take the check. And hey, everybody, yes,

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the storm of oh even it blew
over. Come on now, it's

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oh glorious, come on now,
come on now, So to see this,

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how no God is he all damed
me to say when I had to

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say prior to and try, you
gonna have to listen to that front piece

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because yeah, I had to redefine. I had to define civil rights and

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who it really belongs to. But
we didn't going there, and we talked

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about the little incident in Montgomery,
Alabama was doctor King, uh okay in

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the white chair, and they got
T shirts. I want to get a

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T shirts. I just want one. I just want one. I probably

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wear it around the house, but
I just want one. And you know,

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okay, there we go, and
the boy that those into it.

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But I was telling Tommy in the
in the audience, when you see I

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gave the fair skinned people a little
morning. When you see some adult younger

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do up black boys skipping, it's
skipping. There's a group the last screen

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shot, the last group of boys
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captain guy. They begin to skip. When you see some fellas skipping,

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you need to go. You just
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over. It's up. They weren't
power walking, they were jogging. They

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took off their shirts and they began
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like this. There we go.
Yeah. So anyway, all right,

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so Tommy's up. Now she's gonna
talk about summer is over. It is

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done. It's done, it's done, it's done. My god daughter called

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me this morning. I said,
why do you sell something? I had

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to go to a teacher training thing. She said, I don't mind going,

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but I had to go. I
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I said, where y'all started?
She said, we start the ten?

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I said, as the lass.
She said, well, it's almost got

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it. I'm tried. She it
snuck up on them. So Miss Tommy,

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you're up. Yeah, I'm sorry, I can find unmute. But

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who this was some heavy and heavy
heavy stuff first thing off. But can

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I pray because we have it?
Who But missus Grace says, she has

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something on her chest, she has
something on her chest. So I'm gonna

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just take the moment to pray,
Father God and the name of Jesus.

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We know that you sit high and
you look low. You're covering us,

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You're protecting us and those that are
not of you, that are not trying

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to please you, that are not
trying to praise you, that are not

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exalting your word as you you would
have it to be done, Lord God,

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I have pity for those. For
Father God, like Miss Grace said,

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we're gonna start skipping in the spirit
because it's time to take it down.

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It's time to remove, it's time
to eliminate. Because Lord God,

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we know that you reign. We
know that you're coming back, and you're

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only coming for those without spot of
blemish, because you're the one that wipes

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us clean from all our sins.
We can't do it, but we know

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that you have the power. And
I pray, Lord God that the ones

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that are hearing from you today,
those ears that here, Miss Gray,

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let them adhere to your word.
Let them read your word, study your

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word, and know that your word
is true and real. It does not

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become void in no form of fashion. So we just want to thank you

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for this time. We thank you
for the warning. We thank you for

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your word. We thank you for
our fellowship and time, for your audience

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as well as for ourselves. We
thank your Lord God for all you doing

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with us, about us and gonna
use us in every way. In Jesus

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Mighty and precious name. We pray
amen. We needed that. But I

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just want to ask to my parents. You don't got the book badge,

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you don't got the pencils, you
got the prayper. Did you go see

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the guidance counselors. Did you go
to the trainings or the information that they

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gave for you to come in early
to prepare your child? Have you sought

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any information to see what type of
school year this is gonna be, whether

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they're changing the testing however they're doing. Because so easy, we run and

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get a a new book bag.
And in the book bag they tell you

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a list of stuff that you need
but have you going to meet the teachers,

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because some schools do it pre school
pre school opening. Am I saying

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a great pre school opening? Have
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you meet the teachers, cause I've
heard some schools have had meet the teachers

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already in schools just going back.
But so often there may be a parent

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here and a parent there, but
the parents that need to find out for

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the ones that may have trouble may
not understand. Uh, those are the

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ones that say, you're not challenging
my child. But what it really means

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is that teaching is enhancing what's being
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home, because teaching starts at home
first the teacher can introduce something new,

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but homework that's to reenterrate and give
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in school. So my question parents, what are you doing to prepare your

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students for school? Too often?
I ran u three years in a row

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at my church. I ran a
book bag drive. But before you could

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get a book bag, we had
four tables set up. One was our

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libraries you could register for a library
card. The other one was our health

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department, so that you know by
immunization and whether that child is up to

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date information that you can call and
get updated information to make sure your child

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have their immunization set up. We
had Valencia as well as Seminole state information

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there because we have seniors that are
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our last, but not least,
we had a girl's mentoring program that was

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an excellent program. Every year they
took kids were girls on a tour to

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a different university, whether it was
found Florida State, University of Florida,

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Alabama, Tuskegee, wherever they would
go on trips. They went to DC

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and they went from several states.
This mentoring program. Every girl had to

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learn how to speak in public.
This was an awesome Have you found a

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program for your child there? These
are tools that young ladies and hopefully we

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have some young men programs around that
can help them teach them to prepare for

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a society, whether they want to
go to college or whether they want to

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go to technical school, cause everybody's
not college material. Parents, please recognize

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that your child may not They might
want to become a barber, that's a

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profession. H What is a cosmologist? That's a profession. You got the

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welding, you got plumbers, you
got like tuition, these are all technical

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schools. Find out what your child
is interested in to help steer them that

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way. I get it. Moms, your single parents, and you have

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to work. But do realize sometime
you might have to take a day off

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here and they're just to see where
your child is, what your child needs,

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what direction this child need to be
going in. Because I'm gonna tell

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you now, a lot of the
guidance counselors are not doing their job,

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and if you're not there to have
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you are setting your child up for
failure. And it's too often. And

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also what I did when I read
our program, we had an elementary school

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teacher, we had a virtual school
teacher administrator, we had a middle school

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teacher as well as a high school
teacher. And when my last year,

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we had someone preparing your child for
college. And in order to get any

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of those book backs, you had
to hear at least one or two of

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them programs and visit those tables to
educate yourself in some form of fashion to

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prepare your child for the next school
year. We even had information for how

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you can get free internet because at
that time children will having they just started

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having children to have an online class
as a part of their curriculum. So

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my quest to you is what are
you doing to prepare your child for school?

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And there's all new types of programs
and information that is going out,

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but unless you seek some of this, you will never get it. If

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I still had a child in school, I'd probably be more a bressed.

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But I'm just saying to you,
I don't have. I got everything in

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college now, and believe me,
I stay on my granddaughter as well as

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my youngest daughter. They're classing and
whatever. That's part of my job.

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If you don't think cause you send
them off to college, you don't ask

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them. Yes, you do,
whether you pay or not. And fortunately

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my granddaughter she is a free ride. But guess what, we stay on

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her and make sure she stay in
line because that's one less bill she or

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we have to deal with later.
So look into it. And another tip

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I will say to you, regardless
of whether your child is applied for college

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or wherever, their scholarship for even
these technical schools, look for those.

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There are scholarships out there that if
you're the only one apply and you're not

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even in that major. Guess what
they'll grant you that that scholarship. So

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take advantage of these things. It's
not too late, because scholarship granting starts

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at the beginning of the year.
You start your child writing them essays,

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getting the information so that they can
apply and apply. Now all of'em.

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They have books and bonds and Noble. You can check with your guidance

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counselor at that high school level.
They have information about different grants that you

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can might you may be able to
check the book out or have your child

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spend an afternoon or after school and
go see what scholarships are available. You

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gotta take the time. So that's
my t Oh, how are you preparing

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your child for the new school year? You got anything? I'm sorry,

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go ahead. I wanted to just
add a little piec. I know that

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parents are on an uproar here in
central Florida one county about no cell phones

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being in the classrooms, no cell
phones being on. But I can understand

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a part of where that came from. Possibly, and I know parents are

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saying, well, what if there's
an emergency, Well we gotta go old

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school. You call the front office. You go to the front office,

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you talk to the front office secretary, the front desk receptionist, and if

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you got to pull your child out, you do it then. But I

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remember when my twins school went on
lockdown and we are posting up. The

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police pushed us all the way back
into a neighborhood. That's the furtherest,

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that's the nearest place we could be
the park to wait. And already parents

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are like, when my kids said
there was gunshots and they said listen,

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and none of that was true,
but it had rolled us up so much.

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Whatever, there's false narratives that were
coming from their kids' cell phone because

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the kids were test texting them.
So we're like, oh my god,

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there's been gunshots over and okay,
the ambulance just pulled up. Oh my

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god, it's only because one student
had a panic attack. There's no gunshots.

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Swap was there, yes, but
there were no gun shots. So

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I think this is what the school
is getting there from, because they rot.

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You know, the kids are saying
things and they're not true, and

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they getting their parents all hyped up. So now they're saying, no cell

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phones, we don't want them all, we don't want them near you put

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them in you I think you could
put them in your backpack, but the

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backpack got to be put up somewhere, I think. But I do know

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there's no cell phones, and I'm
not sure what the disciplinary action will be

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if if a cell phone is founding
you while you're in class. Well,

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you know, our classrooms has phones
in them that the teacher can access or

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they can call into the classroom,
so that might help decur some of that

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also. But one of the things
too, I think sometimes a teacher's hands

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are tied. I tied, you
know, because if the child has a

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phone, you know, you asked
a child for it, and then they

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don't want to give it to you. You can't, you can't like manhandling

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and take it from them, and
so it becomes an issue. But you

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know, one thing that that might
be something you know, like if your

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phone doesn't work, you're still able
to have down now on one might maybe

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something to shut it, shut systems
down for the phone. Because one thing

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I see kids using cell phones as
it is bullying, you know, taking

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pictures, posting stuff online, social
media, body shaming, you know,

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fights, that type of stuff.
So, like I said, old school,

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we didn't. We didn't have cell
phones. In fact, when I

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was there was no phones in classroom. If you had to if you wanted

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somebody from the office, you had
to give a child ask and they go

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down to the office or something like
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And so, you know, and
I get some Sometimes you do need

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the technology piece, but I think
it's over overrated in some instances. It's

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like you they can't survive without the
phone. You know, you go to

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places people are families sitting at the
table, everybody on the phone. You

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know, you could have done that
at the house. What's the difference that

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you're in the restaurant and so,
And I think just getting back to that

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family piece of having talks with your
kids what's going on, find out what's

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going on in school, or talk
about resources, talk about plans, you

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know, things that they can be
doing. You know, just put put

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the phone down for at least thirty
minutes. See if you can do that,

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no one, no phone at the
table. Parents include it and and

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and see what you're able to to
just discover, you know, how creative

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you are, and you find out
the people we don't even know how at

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aalk because it's so used to get
in their communication peace and and and and

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skills from social media. Well,
on social media, you're able to see

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anything it said. Oh, that's
how we're supposed to be active, We're

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supposed to be doing that in the
community. And that's a false narratively.

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Even with television. Oh that's how
they act. That's what I want to

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be, you know, and that
some of that reality TV that stuff is

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made up to hype you up and
get the ratings in. But people don't

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want to understand that adults either.
You know, this is not some of

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this. Come on, folks,
all of this is not real. A

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lot of it is. Some of
it is. But you know, you

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have to be mindful and create your
own family. What do you want for

402
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:50.960
your household? How safe do you
want your kids to be? What a

403
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:54.320
safety mean to you and your family? You know, what does having mean

404
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:58.920
to you and your family? How
as we as a family gonna get from

405
00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:02.639
court point at a point? Bet
you know, having those those those dialogues

406
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:06.039
and then one of the things to
tell me that you were saying with the

407
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:08.800
guidance counselor. And I don't know
about Florida, but I think in Virginia

408
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:15.159
they even took that piece away where
you're doing more guidance. It's more testing

409
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:20.480
stuff going on now, and record
keeping is not so much as the you

410
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:23.119
know, you go to the Gudans
counselor say I need help well figuring this

411
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:28.039
out. Un you have something that
will do it, you will. But

412
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:34.760
unfortunately they've gotten away from it because
they've gotten away from teach necessarily teaching now

413
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:37.880
the teaching tests how to take these
tests. You know, in school,

414
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:43.039
we got it all so how you
treat other people, manners, you know,

415
00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:47.039
uh, goals, we all of
that stuff. We had all of

416
00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:52.079
that, you know, incentives,
you know, learning how to make purchases,

417
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:53.599
that type of stuff. They don't. They don't do that type of

418
00:35:53.639 --> 00:36:00.719
stuff anymore. And so it's it's
very unfortunate that, you know, because

419
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.480
everyone is not a test taker.
I don't know what would happen if I

420
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.079
was in school now with that because
I was not a test taker. You

421
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:10.360
know, I can retain some information, but when they came to the test,

422
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.039
I would freeze and second guest myself. And I know a lot of

423
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:19.199
people are like that to test anxiety, and so that could be at a

424
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:21.719
turn. You could be a great
student, but when it comes to that

425
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:25.159
test, test doesn't necessarily mean you. It just means you working under pressure,

426
00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:30.000
that's all. It's just adding some
extra stress to you. So but

427
00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:35.360
yeah, I agree with you.
Finding resources. Churches, you know,

428
00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:40.280
they could step up, offer a
resource fares so that nature educational careers.

429
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.320
Law enforcement could do that. If
you're talking about how to bridge a gap

430
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:51.159
between certain communities, bring some resources
to them, show the they had a

431
00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:54.159
community engagement piece. I'm not sure
if all law enforcement does, but that's

432
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:59.800
a way to go into your neighborhoods. Provide them real resources, show them

433
00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:02.440
that you know, you're trying to
help because in your goal is not to

434
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:07.719
have them blocked up, it's to
help them be successful in a community because

435
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:12.239
that not only helps the community,
but that helps law enforcement as well because

436
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.920
you're building a relationship. So these
are some of the things that I think

437
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:20.960
that would would be would be great. And using cope for skills, you

438
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:24.119
know, breathe, take one day
at a time, learn how to communicate.

439
00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:29.119
Everything doesn't have to be an argument. Be big enough to back down,

440
00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:32.360
you know, because they don't if
you're not thinking. When when you're

441
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:38.239
that angry and you're not thinking you're
allable to do anything and say anything,

442
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:43.119
and you know that's not your intention, but you're doing stuff and heat of

443
00:37:43.199 --> 00:37:47.960
passion, anything can happen. And
you know, now we have to really

444
00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:54.559
I thinks if services are not no
longer present in your community, just get

445
00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:58.760
three of your home girls homeboys,
and y'all talk and say, okay,

446
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.760
what can we do here? The
barbers I mean a lot of barbers along

447
00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:06.280
all over the world that really come
together and will come to you. I

448
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:12.239
know, believe my daughter's school went
to a church location, uh last Saturday

449
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:16.079
and and provide a hit free haircuts. You know, I mean you're gonna

450
00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:20.280
have to come up with because it
doesn't I mean, unfortunately, it may

451
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:23.639
or may not be present the churches. You're gonna may have to talk to

452
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:27.239
your church and say, you know
what we need to do. Not only

453
00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:30.440
do we need to provide the backpacks
for our the kids whose families attend this

454
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:34.360
church, but let's open it up
for the just the community. We got

455
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.119
three streets that we sit between.
Let's offer up let's get you know,

456
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:42.239
a postcard out to them. But
Thanksgiving that school is over with. I

457
00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:45.199
mean that's done. But Thanksgiving is
coming up. You know, churches can

458
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:50.000
do that, but you have to
take the parishioners to bring it up as

459
00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:52.880
a suggestion and say, okay,
you know what, pastor, you don't

460
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:54.880
want to do it. Can we
just use the parking lot to do the

461
00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:59.199
turkey dinner? You know? Can
we use the kitchen, we'll clean it

462
00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:01.239
up, we'll about well, you
know, buy the food. There are

463
00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:05.280
people who are on food stamps and
things like that. Yeah, you're not

464
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.360
spending them all up. I know
some families needed, don't get don't don't

465
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:13.400
text me with with with any negative
comment here. Some of you know that

466
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.599
you have extra and you could buy
an extra turkey, and just one turkey

467
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:22.880
could possibly feed three families. And
I'm gonna talking about a single mother anymore.

468
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:28.079
But that's the people are out here
struggling, and if you could make

469
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:30.800
a difference, this is the way
we put a dent in it. You

470
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:35.440
could put a dent in it.
At least the three your neighbors on your

471
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:39.079
block, they're good to go.
And that's one neighborhood and it's the oh

472
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:42.559
I feel the un north there.
It's three of us. So there's three

473
00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:47.840
neighborhoods between Florida and Virginia that we're
taking care of for things getting there.

474
00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:52.119
You go, that's that's that's what
we're gonna have to piecemeal it. We're

475
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:57.039
gonna have to take it back one
neighborhood at a time. We're not it's

476
00:39:57.079 --> 00:40:00.039
not community anymore. It's neighborhoods now
that make up the community. They make

477
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:04.679
up the city, that makes up
the county, that makes up the state.

478
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.199
So just do what you need,
what you can do. Everywhere I

479
00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:14.719
went to the end, the publics
had their school supplies on the end gondola,

480
00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:16.039
So you don't have to go look
it for it. It's right there.

481
00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.079
And if anybody says to me,
hey, missus Grail pastor Grail,

482
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:24.920
doctor Gray or whatever, you know, we we we fell short. We

483
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:29.159
have some kids that don't have back
that not only they only have backpacks,

484
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:30.480
they just really don't have the schools
supply. They don't have pencils, they

485
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:32.719
don't have pay Okay, not a
problem. How many you need, what

486
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:37.280
you need, how much you need? And I guarantee, y'all, I

487
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.119
could call my my two girls here
and say, hey, just send me

488
00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:43.199
a couple of gift cards, so
we can go ahead and knock this out,

489
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:45.800
trade and say, hey up here, I got I got five families

490
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:50.159
that just they're just not gonna do
what they need, trade what they need,

491
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:57.639
what they need. This is where
we're at now. I'm telling my

492
00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:00.840
classmates, this is where we're at. Now. We're gonna the piecemeal and

493
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.519
most of your stuff. It's gonna
be non traditional. It's not the traditional

494
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:08.639
way anymore. Those folks, those
agencies, those services don't exist anymore,

495
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:13.119
or they're very minimal. Our food
bank here is about to give out a

496
00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:21.000
food now that I don't understand because
my stores are still open and they still

497
00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:24.199
got over. But they they they
they said, everything is is leaving the

498
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:28.639
store. There's there's not leaving the
store anymore. It's staying right there and

499
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:31.559
they're trying to sell everything they can
because they don't even know where they went.

500
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:37.960
Took my daughter and I went out
to lunch today, went to Red

501
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:46.320
Lobster and thank god, the wait
staff was in the kitchen cooking. Let

502
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:49.480
me. Let me said, y'all
they get that, Tommy got that.

503
00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:52.199
But yeah, sure you did,
you hear me the wait staff because the

504
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:54.840
girl she brought out the crab legs
with Belisi. I said, boy,

505
00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:58.199
they put girlic on that. She
goes, no, I put it on

506
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:00.360
the top. I said, you
hump. She said, but I put

507
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:02.920
your butter. Now you want the
little baby but take I said yeah,

508
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:07.280
but you yeah, I put the
butt underneath there. So that this kind

509
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:09.880
of said, and and belife is
like I know, beliefs prayed like Nord.

510
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:12.960
Don't let them say nothing, non'
let mamma say nothing, because I'm

511
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:19.440
wanna say, you fixed our food. The wait staff fixed the food today.

512
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:22.840
And they were out of beverages because
they're beverage container. Something happened to

513
00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:25.480
it. They don't even know,
and they can't if you if you want

514
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:30.960
to carbonated drink, we gotta go
to the to the to go section side

515
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:35.519
because the cans sold us. It's
for the people to go for that side

516
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:39.000
of the restaurant because then and we
can't give me a free refill if you

517
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:42.800
got a bad if it's a bad
verage because we only could use one can

518
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.639
for you. If you if if
you, I said, it's just a

519
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:49.079
few months ago. They were out
of broccoli. They just ran out of

520
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.559
broccoli. The truck came the day
before So this is where we're at,

521
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.440
and we're gonna report to you what's
happening. When I hear it, you'll

522
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.320
hear it. I promise you,
because if you got understand where we're at

523
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:05.840
right now, it's not time for
you to be stingy. It's not time

524
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:10.719
to eat well on what No giving
sacrifice, sacrificing something. Making sure your

525
00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:14.920
neighbors are taken care of. Make
if you still have elders in your life,

526
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:19.519
make sure they'll taken care of.
I don't care if they got six

527
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:22.440
children, six adult children. You
call your aunt, you call your uncle,

528
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:27.159
you check on her. If God
puts that on your heart, you

529
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:30.199
go get him and make sure he's
eating well. That's what I learned this

530
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:35.599
week. My aunt said, got
this saying what she said. A mother

531
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:42.920
can have six children and take care
of all six, but one can't take

532
00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:50.239
care of one mother. And when
the words say honor that father, that

533
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:55.519
mother, that that day is may
be long. That's the only commandment that

534
00:43:55.599 --> 00:44:00.280
has a promise. You don't honor
your parents. And I'm not saying make

535
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:04.119
to help them move in with you
have you you go and get them a

536
00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:07.960
new wardrobe, get them something.
No, that's not what it says to

537
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:13.480
honor them. And maybe you need
to look up the word the definition of

538
00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:15.679
honor and then go google it too, see what the Google is saying about

539
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:23.119
honor. But I've said this before
and I'll say it again. If you're

540
00:44:23.119 --> 00:44:30.760
an adult child and you have an
adult parents still living, they're your responsibility.

541
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:36.840
Whether you like it or not,
your responsibility. It's not by how

542
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:39.440
the relationship went. You got to
close your eyes and rest every night.

543
00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:45.159
My mother has been gone, my
father's been gone for over thirty years,

544
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:50.519
and I'm reaping the blessings from taking
care of them. Because now I can

545
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:52.639
sound it off, I can help
another family understand. Okay, Now,

546
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:54.840
did you check this source? Did
you check this source? Did you have

547
00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:58.719
this? Did you call the health
department because you because they could do this?

548
00:44:58.760 --> 00:45:00.480
Did you do that? No?
No, no? Did you talk

549
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:02.360
with the doctor, Talk with the
main the office manager that she knows or

550
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:06.480
he knows everything. Don't don't forget. Try to leave a message for the

551
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:08.800
doctor. Talk to that office manager. She'll know everything and she'll get everything

552
00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:12.360
or he'll get everything. To the
doctor that you need. What do you

553
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:15.199
think what you know? You need? Health stuff? Okay, let's find

554
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.519
this. See if there's an agency
out here that giving away some diapers,

555
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:22.559
some adult diapers, and that you
know, we gotta ask, we gotta

556
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:30.719
ask. That's where we're at now. That's where we're at now. So

557
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:36.760
do what you need to do.
But these children and your children are watching

558
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:42.239
you. Because my daughter was telling
me that a group, uh, I

559
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:46.760
guess some foster care homes also brought
some students foster care students and they have

560
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:50.519
their haircuts and and it's other.
Her calls spates were like, oh,

561
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:52.559
I don't want to do it.
I'm like, look look at that and

562
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:58.559
just really and I think the people
left because they felt the disrespect. But

563
00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:00.760
my daughter, she got one person
and she just love it. But my

564
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:04.960
kids used to ride around in their
car seats with my disabled folks that I

565
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:07.840
was picking up and taking to work
and dropping them off at work and picking

566
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:10.880
them up and taking them home.
They they know about disability in this house.

567
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.639
They're not scared of anybody that looks
different from them, or who makes

568
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:24.639
weird noises or who drools that.
How are you raising your kids? How

569
00:46:24.679 --> 00:46:28.440
are you raising them? Because they
look they're mimic just like Tommy said,

570
00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:30.960
they mimic. It's like Tracey's head. You see something over here, and

571
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:36.039
the oh, that's how we supposed
to behave Okay, everybody wants to get

572
00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:37.800
a sex tape. Okay, that's
how we that's how we become a millionaire.

573
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:43.119
I look at these housewife series and
I'm I'm really I'm I'm really kind

574
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:46.239
of getting over it now because yes, they got a therapist on set,

575
00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:52.800
and they get drunk, and they
know they can't handle their liquor. They

576
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:54.840
know that, and so they get
drunk, you know, so they can

577
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:59.559
stay on thinking that that's their tenure
that keep them on the show. No,

578
00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:05.239
after while, you become og,
you know. And Andy Cohen said,

579
00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:07.760
okay, it's trying to roll you
out. Yeah, we got a

580
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:10.679
new crew coming in, so Tray, you wanna go ahead and end this

581
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:14.920
because we only got a couple more
minutes. I mean, I think you

582
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:19.519
your ladies pretty much said at all. You know, and I know things

583
00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:23.320
are tight for everyone, but if
you have an extra something, then it

584
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:29.159
would be helpful because you know,
typically there's they always would talk about the

585
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:38.000
people who uh underserved or or don't
have the means. But you right now,

586
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:45.119
you have people that were probably uh, mid level earners and and they're

587
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:49.960
searching. They you know, they
don't make enough to do this, but

588
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:54.679
they make too much to get that. And so take that into consideration,

589
00:47:54.920 --> 00:48:00.639
you know, because you could make
a dollar more or extra and not qualify

590
00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:05.719
for any services. So you know, just just reach into your heart and

591
00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:09.239
see what you have this extra that
you can just give to someone you know,

592
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:13.440
and and you know, whether you
think, uh, you know,

593
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:15.679
don't try to second guess if they
need it or not. Just you know,

594
00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:20.599
if you see someone that looks like
they're they could benefit, just just

595
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.519
just gift them with it. And
and especially right now, you know,

596
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:30.199
shelters and uh homeless shelters is about
to be cooler, so you know,

597
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.719
it's a different rap. And then
you know, also I'm I'm talking to

598
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.840
my plus size women. If you
have any clothes, you know, then

599
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:43.519
it donated to to to a shelters, homeless shelters by the Women's Shelters or

600
00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:47.840
even Fifth Store, because it is
hard to find clothing for or plus size.

601
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.960
Usually find a smaller ones, but
plus size it is very hard.

602
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:59.440
So that's my spill for today.
Well, thank you for that. We

603
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:01.360
only got us in a minute here
to go. We want to thank you.

604
00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:07.199
Thank you for allowing me just to
you know, I had to bet.

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Yeah, And God, I'm sitting
here repenting in tongues while Tommy was

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praying because I totally didn't even think
about it. I was that hot,

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you know, so God, please
forgive me, audience, Please forgive me.

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I need to put prayer first,
but please be safe out there.

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Be safe out here, and you
need to continue to check yourself. We're

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out. See your same time,
same station next week. Thank you,

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ladies. Bye,