August 17, 2025 • 43 mins
This Public Affairs podcast episode covers empowering the Houston community through business opportunities, restoring cultural heritage and elegance, and building connections between youth and law enforcement.
Overview: In this week's Public Affairs podcast, host KG Smooth interviews director of Houston's Office of Business Opportunity Celenthia Hoard about certification programs that help minority and women-owned businesses compete for city contracts. Next, Kim Aitch discusses efforts to restore cultural heritage and teach etiquette and graciousness. Finally, Royal Kings founders De Valentine and Terrence Wright preview an upcoming Kids & Cops Field Day designed to bridge gaps and humanize interactions between youth and law enforcement.
2:30 - Celenthia Hoard discusses opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses with the City of Houston.
14:20 - Kim H shares how she is working to restore cultural elegance and etiquette in the community.
23:10 - D. Valentine and Terrence Wright discuss the mission of empowering youth and supporting women through the Royal Kings organization.
27:40 - The Royal Kings preview their upcoming Kids & Cops Field Day community event.
Key Takeaways:
- The Office of Business Opportunity helps minority and women-owned businesses compete for City of Houston contracts.
- Cultural heritage and graciousness have declined; we must restore etiquette.
- The Royal Kings advocate for youth and women in the community.
- Bridging gaps between youth and law enforcement starts with humanizing interactions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From your local Houston BMW Center Studios. Welcome to the
public Affairs podcast addressing local issues that affect our nation
in Shape Bar World. I'm your host KG Smooth, welcoming
on the podcast this morning. She is the director of
the Office of Business Opportunity for the City of Houston,
and we are here to talk about some things that
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got going on. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the lovely
Celenthia Hoard on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How are you, Thank you, Kg, I'm good, I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Good, good good. The Office of Business Opportunity. Well, before
we get into and you explain all of that.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yes, tell us about you.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So I'm a native from Birmingham, Alabama and by way
of Chicago, Illinois. I did most of my work in
adult life in Chicago, so that's kind of my second
home and in Chicago, and was in Chicago for twenty years,
been in Houston for fifteen years. So it might be
dating myself, but I have been a public servant for
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twenty three of those years, serving in city government, county government,
state government, usually in administration and operations. Done construction for
a number of years building buildings for the City of Chicago,
have done administration with state public health programs childhood programs.
Ran the largest Headstart program in Chicago, and here I
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am in Houston loving the Office of Business Opportunity, which
is a whole different endeavor.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh my gosh, it sounds like you have like three
lifetimes with all of that, especially the early childhood education
in the head Start.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm also a Headstar baby, so it was full circles.
I remember going to head Start as a little kid,
not being the bad kid who didn't take naps. But
that said, I ran a program with twelve hundred kids,
and then we expanded it from just head Start to
infants and toddlers. I expanded it to home daycare program,
We did workforce program, so we grew the program from
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twenty locations to twenty six locations and home daycare. So
it was really one of my best positions that I had.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh that is really awesome. Yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I mean, first of all, just early childhood education is
the most important of them all.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It is, and Headstart is just such a phenomenal program.
It's changed a lot over the years, but it is
a program that offers just more education. Because what heads
Started you get health care, nutrition, a lot of services,
with social support, so if children have issues early on,
we're able to address it. And so that was one
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of the unique parts of head Start that I loved.
It wasn't just education. Those kids got dental services, ie services,
hearing services if they needed them, so they could get
a really good head start.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah indeed. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So now let's talk about your tenure here in Houston
at the Office of Business for Opportunity.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What is that office?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, I mean, I mean it's pretty self explanatory to
the Office for Business Opportunity.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
But what does all of that entail.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It's so much more as most things in the city government.
So the Office of Business Opportunity is the arm of
government that ensures that everybody has a seat at the
table and government contracting. And so we're the entity that
ensures that there are minorities, women, the small businesses that
participate and compete for opportunities on contracts. Not just with
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the City of Houston, our office covers the nine continent
counties that are around Harris County. So if you are
a certified business with our office, you do work at
the port, you do work at isds in the area,
you do work with the County. You can do all
types of government work, and so we certify, we ensure
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compliance on contracts, We make sure that once you're on
the you're actually utilized. And then we have an office
that's run by External Affairs Division that does a lot
of outreach. So we do programming like mentor protege programs,
bonding programs on how to start your business, business plan competitions.
So we were much more than just a little Office
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of Business Opportunity.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Now were you there during Sylvester Turner's tenure and towards.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The end, yes, I was the assistant director.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, because one of the things that I thought was
just so wonderful, like when the Super Bowl came here
and how they made it, like, yo, you have to
ensured that you do black owned businesses and all of that. Yeah,
So let's talk about the MWSBE policies that the Business
of Opportunity has.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's an acronym for what Minority women small business enterprise,
and so we will certify your business. If you were
fifty one percent owner your minority then you become an MBE.
And if you a woman and become a WB and
you own that business, you operate it and you have
management and control. Then that's how we certify you. Once
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you have that certification, you're able to count toward participation goals.
And so once a prime contractor, the big contractor has it,
they have worked the subcontract out, they will find somebody
in our directory that qualifies.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
For that work.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Who's an mw ors small business, women business, a minority business,
and so those contractors. We have over five thousand certified firms,
so we have more than enough firms to utilize in
all types of industries. We have construction and goods and services.
We have lawnmowing people, we have landscapers, we have people
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who sell to other paper people who sell paper clips.
So everything that the city does, we contract that out
or we purchase it. And so we need vendors. We
need minority and women vendors to come into. Even with
the five thousand, probably need ten thousand, right, So we're
out always requ fruiting for new vendors to come in
and be a part of our program.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, that's great, especially with everything that's going on in
the political spectrum when it comes to business.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And you know DEI and you know all of all
of that.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You know some folks have lost opportunities with all of that,
but it's good to know that the City of Houston
is still keeping things like this going.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, this local program is really important to the whole
city too. We have the force behind us of the
Mirror and heedbacks. US city councils very involved and they
want to see this program stand. And so we are
constantly fighting the battles with our other politicians. But while
we're still here, we're going to ensure that minorities and
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women are on these contracts.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's I love that you listen to the Public Affairs
podcast talking to Celenthia Horde, who is the director of
the Office of Business Opportunity. We're talking about the MWSBE
policies that she just explained. So if you are a minority,
women's small owned business, there's opportunity for you. So what
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do the people that's listening, Because I'm this is an
unbeknownst to me, this is the show is very popular,
so there's a lot of people that's listening. What do
those small minority and women business owners need to do
to become a.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Part of this absolutely so first thing they need to
do is go to biz with Hugh Biz with HOU,
which is the city's procurement department, and register as a vendor. Okay,
once you get a vendor number, you don't have to
be certified to anything. You can bid on any city
contract job that you have the capacity to work on,
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and so that's the first step. But then you'll come
to our office, the Office of Business Opportunity, go to
certification and it'll say apply here, and it has checklists,
it has videos on how to apply, and we have
two classes twice a month on the second and four
thirst Tuesday, where you can come in and actually take
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a class on how to complete the certification process.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, okay, So before they do all of that, when
they just go to the website, is there anything any
sort of paperwork that they need right then?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So that's certain pertinent information.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Then definitely we sow the checklist is there, but you
need to have your articles of incorporation, need to have
your operating agreements accessible, bank statements as well as your
bank signature cards. Those are the main documents that we
will base the certification off of. Copies of any contracts
that you might have already worked on. A resume, a
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current resume updated to show that you've worked in this
field or in this area. Those are all the primary
things going to start. Well, of course your identification is
also required.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Indeed, and you all also have some new programs that
will be coming soon.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I understand we have lots of.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Things to talk about. So one it's not really new.
Our largest program, Meet the Buyer, is coming up in December.
This is how you meet the procurement officers that do
the purchasing, the primes that get these contracts and you
might want to sub contract with them. It will be
at the George R. Brown and so they can go
to our website registered for that. We have capacity to
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up to one thousand people, so we're ready for that.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Last year we had a.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Huge number of people to come out and we have
all types of vendors there. So you get to meet
the primes and that's really that's really vital because you
have to make relationships, right. People work off of relationships.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
That's the one.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We're also going to have a mental protege program which
we're bringing back. We have an interagency protege program. We're
I have our own and we're working with our construction
primes to put together collaborative to help support those small
and mid sized firms as they go through the process.
We also will have a small business reserve, meaning if
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you're a mid sized firm, you will get to compete
in your own marketplace against your peers on different opportunities,
and only certify firms can bid on those opportunities. So
that is going to be essential.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Wow, it sounds like a lot, and you guys are
doing a lot for the people, especially for the business community.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Anything else that that people should know.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Absolutely, So doing business with the City of Houston, people
think it's hard, it's not. You just got to be present, right,
and so there are bid opportunities that come out. So
if they subscribe to Obo's newsletter and our e blast
by going to our website, what they'll get is every Monday,
they'll get an e blast with all the opportunities that
the City of Houston has to offer. So we send
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out before the bid even happens that there are going
to be construction opportunities, there are gonna be goods we're purchasing.
There's opportunities to be a consultant, you can be a realtor,
you can offer insurance to the city, and so those
come out every Monday from our department. Also, go to
the Biz with Hugh site and register as a vendor
and then indicate what area of business you're in. That
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way you can get direct emails from procurement on what
they're going to be purchasing, and so it's pertinent that
people do that. But it's secondly most important that you
be present at big proposal meetings. They have pre bid
meetings where they talk about what the scope of work
is and what they're looking for. Why do you want
to be there because the prime contractors are there and
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those are the people you need to meet, and you
can't meet them if you're not in a room. So
if you're there, you can meet them and make that contact.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
So get all the information.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Houston, TX dot gov slash obo. Yes, HOUSTONTX dot gov
slash obo. Clenthia Hoard, the director of the Office of
Business Opportunity, thank you for coming on and sharing this.
This is vital information.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yes, thank you so much for having us where always.
We're on the seventh floor, six eleven Walker Street. You
can walk in and someone can help you one on one,
or you can call us. Email us. We are available,
have a YouTube site, Instagram, Facebook, follow us on our
social media platforms.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Indeed, we will thank you so much. Celithia Hoard.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to the Public Affairs Podcast.
My next guest is the founder of kim Aiks Camera
Ready and the president of the Citywide Beauticians and Barber Association.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the vivacious Kim h on
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the Public Affairs Podcast. How are you, Dona?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I am excellent. I am excellent, truly blessed and really grateful.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I am glad that you are here. You know, when
you called me about.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Talking about what elegance means in the black community, I
was like, Oh, we need to have this conversation.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
How our kids.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I don't know where we dropped the ball with teaching
our children the proper way to do things from you
knowing dinner placements, like you know, how.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
To hold a glass, how to hold a knife and fork?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, how to tie a tie, all of these things.
So what are you doing here? What what is this?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
So for it is about restoring our cultural heritage of greatness.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
That's what that's about to me.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
And I did a piece on another station and it's
I've just kind of gone down the rabbit hole about
excellence and elegance and what does it mean to be.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Elegant? And I grew up in a space where my.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Pastor was elegant the people around me. I went to
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church and Reverend will You May loss
And was my pastor.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
And the way that he moved.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
But you also knew that he was very powerful, but
he was never loud, right, he was gracious always, and
you know, Beyonce says, you know, always be gracious. You know,
your best revenge is your paper. And I just kind
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of wonder as I moved through. I still live in
their ward, so as I moved through the neighborhood, and
I'm seeing kids in their cursing and boisterous and even
I'm sixty one years old. So we were written, yes, yes,
in this phase, but we would have never cursed in
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front of our elders.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Never.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
I mean, you might have known a couple of curse words,
but I mean it was like, oh, but it was
that respect.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Entered the gas station one day and the kids were
like four kids, and they all had to be under
the age of sixteen.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
And the what I was.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Pleased about is the little boy opened the door and said, oh, ma'am,
let me get the.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Door for you.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
But the words that were coming out of their mouths
and they didn't make the connection that you opened the
door for me, but the world without yeah you you you.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Have assaulted my whole hearing. And now I want to leave.
And I think that.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
We don't really digest where did we lose that? And
is that important? Because now you're going to have hals
and have not. The middle class is shrinking, and so
how are you going to make the jump?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
How do you think we can reclaim the elegance to
get back to how we carried ourselves Because I'm with you,
like I am so sick of these teenagers out in
public with their pajama pants and crocs on in a
T shirt, like I cannot stand that, like nog you
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wear this at the house, not to come to the
mall pajama pants and slides or pajama pants and crocks
and a T shirt like knock it off. That's not
like my nieces and nephews would never could go anywhere
with me if they just like that.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Don't you remember that?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I remember when I had an afro and I'm walking
out of the house with a comb in my hair
because I had been somewhere or whatever, and I was like, oh, okay,
my mother almost yanked a hole in my head, like
where are you going with a comb sticking out of
your head? That is not it's inappropriate, right, And I
think that we've missed out on appropriateness and so using discretion.
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There is a time and a place for everything, right,
house clothes were just that if it's for the house,
if you're wearing pajamas. I've seen in the airports now
full fledged pajamas, house shoes and a blanket.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And that's so crazy to me because my thinking is
the opposite, like I need to be airport fresh, like
my flying out outfit when I'm at the airport is
the is the fly the freshest one because.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Because I'm going to be seen?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
And so what is it about our self esteem? What
has influenced us so that we have no care about
how people perceive or see us or even how we
see ourselves.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I think there's a couple of things, Kim who I
could go down that I could go there, but I
don't think we have the time. But yeah, there's a
couple of things that I can think of, one being.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
The rise of social media.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And these narratives that have been just put out there,
and that was a slow drip that now the cup
is full and people are, you know, moving with that
sort of ideology. I also think that it is our
oppressors and if you know, you know, you know, the
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things that they constantly put out to purposely destroy absolutely
the minds of young people and just the community as
a whole.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So yeah, it's it's been by design, and we we
fell for it, and now we're yes, we feel for it,
and now we're in it, and you know, and we're
trapped in the way up right and can't get out.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Spider is coming.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
To devour you.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Interestingly enough, I always Real Housewives of whatever reality show.
Business has made being filled with drama and acting out
a priority for people, and so a lot of times
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I've been to restaurants that I've gone to for long
periods of time, but when it starts being people that
are showing up that have a lack of discretion, they're
acting out their cappin or snapping back or whatever that is,
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and just have a whole lack of respect for whatever
establishment that that is when they start to treat everyone
like that because they are oppressor, does see us as
a monolith. Right, so y'all almost be the same. So
when I say, hey, you know, I like this a
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little bit different, I get a whole attitude. But before
everybody's before y'all start showing up in your pajamas.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
And that is a problem, right.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I didn't have it. Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
What are you doing to help combat this or do
you have something to bring it all together?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
So yes, yes, So what I am doing is encouraging
and sometimes you'll see it on my social media, encouraging salons.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And people. There are people that teach etiquette.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
There. There are lots of people that teach etiquette and
manners will get you places that a degree won't absolutely okay,
and so you can walk into these rooms and so
there are etiquette coaches and so we have a series
of classes.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Even for hairdressers.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Oh nice, right, that you know talking about etiquette, because
I did Beyonce Bowl and what I tell stylists and
oh I want to do this, I want to do that. Well,
there's a certain way that you have to act around celebrity.
There's a certain way that you have to act in
these certain.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Rooms, certain decorum.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Certain decorum, and you need to know that.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
So what Citywide Beauticians and Barber is doing is really
kind of training people to be a better version of
themselves and understand discretion and graciousness in that way and
then hopefully that filters down to their clientele.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Nice And how do people get in touch with you too?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
See w b b A dot org as well as
the kim A I T c H which is the
kim H but and on Instagram c w b as
in boy, b as in boy as in apple follow
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us uh and as the classes come up, come and
join us. And if you are someone who teaches U
etiquette and that kind of thing, would you please please
contact us because we'd like to put you on and
partner with you.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So I'll go on to c w b b A
dot O r g let's c w b b A
dot org. The illustrious kim H the founder of kim
H Kimer Ready and president of Citywide Muticians and Barber Association.
So good to see you, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
For coming always, thank you and.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
To everyone listen to the podcast. Be back after this
from your local Houston BMW Center Studios.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Welcome back to the Public Affairs podcast addressing local issues
that affect our nation in shapell World, I'm your host.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
KG Smooth.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
We got the Royal Kings in the building this morning
on the Public Affairs Podcast. He's the founder of Royal Kings.
Also actor extraordinaire.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
What else you, Dodd? Just all around fly guy? What
else do you?
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:33):
The many many hats, actor, influencer, kids book author, motivational speaker,
motivational hip hop artist, an ambassador, talking mister swagnificant talking
Zaddy Claus.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
You know, Saddy Claus is crazy. It is crazy.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I got a lot of names, but man most impoorantly.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You know him as d Valentine.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Ladies and gentlemen, man, good to see you and you're
broad your Yeah, I see with you.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Tell us you do everything.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
I mean, I'm a man of many places and many
talents and stuff. So yeah, so mentorship, mental health and
wellness speaker, author, trainer.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, viral.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Advocate for many people.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So yeah, Terrence, Right, Ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure, man,
No doubt you guys are doing something incredible.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
On Saturday it's a kids and cops field day. But
before we talk.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
About Saturday, let's talk about the Royal Kings. You know,
I've there's there's a lot of silver haired, black and white.
You know, there's all kinds of men's groups together. I
remembered you all being affiliated with another group, and now
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here we have the Royal Kings.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
How did that come about? Right?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Well, the way the universe aligned sometimes, you know, great
group group of fellas. And two years ago, me Valentine
just connected working with the at the time the Salt
and Pepper gang and guys and me and this guy
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right here. You know, we just connected on so many
levels and decided that we want to really just hone
in on our community and use our platform to really
focus on working on our kings and supporting our queens
and just making sure that the mission aligned with our
values and that things.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So copy that. No, there is absolutely turn into the
Royal Kings.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
And you know, a year later, we're here and my
brother Valentine and some really strong in their community type
brothers working together to you know, normalize the conversations for sure.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
So what is the mission of the Royal Kings. Yeah, so,
you know, the Young Kings. Man, I had the Young Kings,
you know, for a while. When my son was at
the age of ten, I got custody of him. I
was always in his life, but I got full custody,
you know. I started the Young Kings, right, and the
kaves for knowledge, the eyes for integrity, the inner nobility,
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and the geis for gentlemen. And I've always wanted to
have like a group of brothers that could come together
that kind of you know, looked up as big brothers
in the community.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Now they call us.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Unks fast forward twenty five, they call us unks now, right,
But I've always you know, looked for these guys to say, man,
we need some big brothers in the community, right, somebody
that these young men can look up to and say,
that's exactly how you know, I want to be when
I get that age. But they got to start, now
what I'm saying, So, like you said, you know, used
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to be you know, part of SPG, and that's what
I was looking for from it. That's what my brother
was looking for from it. And now we got the
Royal Kings. So we're on this mission to stand you know,
tall as pillars in the community, to uplift the you know,
the young men, and to support the women.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
You know, the women out there need all protection, right,
talk about it. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
You know, I see a lot of men trying to
compete with women out here instead of collaborate. And I
don't too often, way too often, you know, we asking
women what they bring to the table instead of you know,
building the table.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Right.
Speaker 8 (27:39):
So for us, man, we show up. We show up,
and you know, for the young men in the community,
we show up. For the women you know in the community.
We got a lot of dope events that are coming up,
a lot of great things that we've done. We're not
just doing it in the Houston community. You know, we're traveling,
so you can book us. We'll fly out make a difference,
you know, I can't tell you man, it's it's heartwarming
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to us that when we leave a city, our impression
still stays there, you know, with the young men, the
older men, you know, and also the lady.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
So we may have impact.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
The honor of being out Indianapolis and connected.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
With the yes, sir, Yes, we was out there heavy
and we had.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
The pleasure of connecting with the first black mayor of
Lawrence out there and great, great woman out there doing
some amazing things. And we did the back to school
backpack giveaway. Being able to connect in the community, and
it doesn't matter where we go, is to leave that
impression of you know, togetherness. We're working in collaboration as
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you know, black and brown, mellanated people, you know, to
stand proud and to understand the power in our voice
and the power and the things that we do, especially
when we're to be of service of others.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Right and see, that's the thing the world, old kings,
you know, I want everybody, not just Houston, Texas. But
you know, when you hear that name, I want you
to think about it as like the superheroes. You know,
we come out, we solve problems, you know. So and again,
we don't have a limitation. You don't have to be
a certain age range, you don't have to look a
certain you don't have.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
To be black, you don't have to have you don't
even have to have the beer. Right, let's clear that
up right now.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
I know me and my brother here, you know, some
of the guys we got the platinum beers, right, but
you don't. You don't have to have a it's not
a requirement. It's not a requirement to be a part
of the world, Kings. It's not a requirement you know,
for us to you know, to claborate, elaborate. Yeah, now
we just we got this look, but that's not what
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makes us.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You know, Yeah, what is one of the things that
you all see with our young men these days that
just requires some immediate attention from the collective.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
They need a reference of what that looks like as
as a mentor, a male figure in his community, working
with his brothers, looking out for his sister, treating his
woman correctly, taking care of your home, and giving these
brothers a reference of what that's supposed to look like
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because a lot of.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Them don't have reference of it.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
A lot of them don't know what that conversation sounds like,
or they don't never seen mom being treated and having
doors open for so, you know, they grow up and
they don't have reference of those things, and it's not
you know, it's not their fault. But you know, if
we can use our platform and give them reference and
plant those seeds of oh, I've seen how my mom
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responded when that man opened the door for and maybe
that's something I can do, you know, what I'm saying,
and just to be able to plant that seed is
it can be a great thing, you.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
Know, in a piggyback on what he's saying. Excuse me,
I just saw somebody gonna hate me for this, but
you know, I just saw online. I think it was
in Louisiana with all the guys wearing the red dresses, right,
and I came to find out that it was for
you know, certain calls right that they do that. But
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some people don't know that of course, right, So everybody's
looking at that and they're just like, hey, you know
what's going on? And for me, I feel like sometime
in a comments to say, okay, so y'all got suits
on what do y'all do? And I think the image
is the first thing, Like that's powerful enough. Just seeing
a black man in a suit, smiling, standing in.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Unity with his brothers.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
That is a statement so loud itself, right, Like I
don't really expect for people to say, okay, y'all are
good now what right? But luckily we do have something
more to offer than just a substance, like we're standing
on it. We got substance because we're showing them how
it looks how it talks, how you know, walks, and
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how we communicate with each other as well, because we're brotherhood.
We're not a men's group. We're not a group of
men with beards, you know, and suits. That's not what
makes us right. We want to show up in the community,
we want to show up online. We want to show
up for the world and let them know with a
young king, how we're supposed to carry himself, you know,
and how we're supposed to treat his queens.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
For sure, and y'all are doing just that. You're listening
to the Public Affairs podcast. We are talking to the
Royal Kings De Valentine and Terrence Wright kids in Cops
Field Day this Saturday, the twenty third going to be
on cutting. That's one twenty nine, twenty two Cut and Road.
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I love this. I love this.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
There needs to be you know, more more, a better
relationship with law enforcement. When I was coming up, we knew, right,
we knew who the officers were. They some of them
lived in the neighborhoods, you know. Now that's not the case.
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They live in all out somewhere. They're going training, they're
trained that these millenated folks are a threat.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And then when they come in and they get.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
The job and on the beat in the streets, getting
the hood, all they see is the threat right in
the neighborhood. They've never been in that part. So I
think that this is fantastic that you all are bridging
this gap. Tell us about it, but yeah, what they're
gonna do, what we're gonna have.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
So this was an event that I wanted to put together,
and the Royal Kings and myself, we're doing a multi
law enforcement agency event where we're bringing in law enforcement
from Dallas and Galveston County and HPD and working with
the Asian Asian Peace Officer's Association. We're inviting them guys
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out and to really have a conversation where we can
bridge the gap. Have the kids come out and they
can see officers of law enforcement outside of arresting somebody,
outside of asking somebody for their information or you know,
putting cuffs on somebody. So one we can get a
different perspective, right and then two, you know those officers
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from their perspective, they can have that conversation of you know,
what makes us feel more comfortable with each other when
we do have these interactions so maybe it's not so
awkward all the time.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
And then just to have some fun.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
So we got we got a band, we got DJ,
come on, you know, we got a lot of games
out there, food trucks, we got a whole thing. Sponsorship,
shout out Special Good and Action definitely contributing out there.
They're going to be out there. We have h G
B who contributed, uh Target Home Depot, and just so
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many peopleeople who see the mission and understand how important
these type of events are.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
So man, it's a great I love it.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
And again, this is something that you know, Terrence himself
kind of you know, single handedly put together. And I'm
trying to keep up right, I'm like, okay, you got
another sponsor. Man, let me hopy and.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Get the DJ.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
But I love it.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
This is what brotherhood looks like, right, because this is
something that I've been wanting to do since I started
the Young Kings.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
All the way back in twenty eleven, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (35:32):
So to actually have a group of brothers that are,
you know, thinking on the same wavelength, this is what
it looks like.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Right.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
He took the action and took the step forward to
make it happen me myself. I was telling him about
the Black Law Enforcement Association. I'm like, look, man, I
just took this class. I learned some great things, right.
Shout out to them too, Shout out to the Black
Law Enforcement Association of Sergeant Eric Carr.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Classes where you just kind of learn the ins and outs.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Man, you know, to really be on the other side
and learn that these cops, hey man, they're scared just
like just like you, just like us. They want to
go home, right, some of them they got a little
PTSD right because of some things that have happened. So
when they pull you over, you got to know how
to comply. You got to know how to react, you know,
so for him to, you know, just take action and
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make sure that this thing was fun.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
You know.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
Like we got the cops coming out in their uniforms, right,
they come in and playing clothes, right, because they're human.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
They're human just like us.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
So we want to bridge that gap between law enforcement
and the youth, you know, and say, hey, let's try
to get back to I don't know, maybe to where
we never were.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
To be honest with you, now that I think about.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
It, we don't necessarily want to go back. We want
to create a new perspective that that maybe that's that's
something that we can create and you know, start that seed.
And especially you know, Houston's third large city. We got
a lot of stuff going on as we can start
somewhere like Houston again, we got the officers coming down
from Dallas. We're going to work with them on some
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projects in the future. And it's really just starting to
plant those seeds again, even in our officers to say, hey,
you know, this is something that maybe I can start.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
To think about.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
But if I do participate in an event with the
person that lives down the street that I ain't never
really had a conversation with.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
Yeah, because as I was talking, I was thinking about
how we used to be. But it ain't even that
it is something. It's a new movement. It's a new movement.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
We want to be completely different, not just you know,
having new officers, but we want all the officers to
have an understanding and a perspective of you know, we're
all neighbors and even if we have different cultures and
different backgrounds and ideologies right and beliefs, that we should
all have at least a common understanding that we all
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got to live together, and you know, the longer we
get along, the better that's going.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
I do remember a time when I don't know about
you guys, but you know, it wasn't a bad idea
to grow up and want to be a cop, right,
like a police officer.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
I do remember those times, those times a little bit.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
I don't know if I don't think I necessarily wanted
to be a cop.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
But you know, it was something that was like, okay, hey,
those guys are cool, right, cool with us?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Well, I do remember there.
Speaker 8 (38:23):
So we had the programs that kind of educated our
kids and said it was okay, hey you can still
be cool, you know, and say no, hey you can.
The police officers they cool, but man, we don't have
it no more.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Right then there was there was a small reference of
good law enforcement, right and now.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
We don't have it.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
So you know, we want to make sure to step
out and just be those new advocates, you know, and
say hey, it's okay on both sides. We want, you know,
the law enforcement to come back and say, hey.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
We we we we we we.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Want you to do your job, but we want you
to understand, right right, it goes both ways.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
And for the youth, they.
Speaker 8 (39:12):
Have to they have to know that they're doing their jobs,
but they have to respect the authority to many of
them are trying to have court on the streets.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I want to talk to a veteran veteran officer to
see when in the timeline did the way that they
were trained changed, because it used to be more community.
As I said earlier, you know, we knew the officers
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in our neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
It was it was like that.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Now, you know, throughout time it has slowly shifted to
a more military style of policing.
Speaker 7 (39:57):
You know, so especially in the area like Third Board
right that has had so much transition and change, where
it's predominantly black neighborhoods, it's you know, typically more impoblished
neighborhoods where you now have these new homes being built.
So now with those new homes, you have these police
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officers that are being required to come and kind of
police these areas where you have new homes coming up,
but they're not familiar with the people in those neighborhoods.
So the person that's been sitting in front of their
house for the last twenty years is now being questioned,
why are you sitting out here. So it's difficult to
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avoid those things when you have people coming into the
neighborhood who aren't familiar with the people in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Right, that's different.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
That's a big change.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
And again shout out to the Black Law Enforcement Association
because that question or that you know, topic you just
brought up. They talk a lot about that in class.
One thing I actually didn't know is that law enforcement
was actually started because of slavery. I didn't know that
before this class.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
To protect the property.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Yeah, and they talked about the history of it, so
even the mentality of it, you know, throughout time, the
time has evolved.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
Now as far as right now, we got some very.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
Challenging political things that are going on, right and you
got those type of minds working in the system. So
the challenge now is we're dealing with politic you know,
political differences. You know, we're dealing with racial Even.
Speaker 7 (41:40):
More reason for us to start to educate our youth now, right,
give them perspectives now the things that are going on,
so they don't grow up not believing or thinking that
those things are important.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
So bring it back around. That's it.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
So this side of that, kids and cops Field Day one,
twenty nine, twenty two, Cutting Road here in Houston. Pull
on up ten am to three pm. It is going
down this address. What what is?
Speaker 7 (42:11):
This address is northwest Houston behind the target, there's it's
actually at the address is Church of Champions.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
But there's a.
Speaker 7 (42:22):
There's obstacles back there, there's food trucks back there.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
There's plenty of parking.
Speaker 7 (42:26):
So we're gonna have everything from face painting to the
jazz to you know, great food, some games, some obstacles,
will have fun, some water games. So we're gonna keep
you cool, the cool coming in and making sure that
we stay cool out there and hide.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
I'm gonna have to pull up then.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
I think I was gonna I was gonna ask you
will you be there?
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm free on the twenty third, So yeah,
I'd love to have you there. Man.
Speaker 7 (42:56):
Matter of fact, this brother is and if you y'all
don't know, brother is in great shape, right right right,
We got we got an obstacle course for you.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Man.
Speaker 6 (43:06):
Well let's go.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
We gotta come out with you.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
The Valentine, founder of Royal Kings and Terrence Right, the
event coordinator for kids in copp Field day this Saturday,
save the date, ten until three at one twenty two
Cutting Road up on the that's what you say, that's
the north.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
Side, north side, down the street from Willowbrook mall.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Oh, okay, okay, up that way. All right. Well, we'll
see you gentlemen on Saturday. Man, thank you all for
coming through.
Speaker 6 (43:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (43:35):
I appreciate the invitation anytime. Absolutely bless is my brother.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
And to everyone listen to the podcast, I'm KG Smooth
and we will see you next week
From your local Houston BMW Center Studios. Welcome to the
public Affairs podcast addressing local issues that affect our nation
in Shape Bar World. I'm your host KG Smooth, welcoming
on the podcast this morning. She is the director of
the Office of Business Opportunity for the City of Houston,
and we are here to talk about some things that
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got going on. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the lovely
Celenthia Hoard on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How are you, Thank you, Kg, I'm good, I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Good, good good. The Office of Business Opportunity. Well, before
we get into and you explain all of that.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yes, tell us about you.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So I'm a native from Birmingham, Alabama and by way
of Chicago, Illinois. I did most of my work in
adult life in Chicago, so that's kind of my second
home and in Chicago, and was in Chicago for twenty years,
been in Houston for fifteen years. So it might be
dating myself, but I have been a public servant for
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twenty three of those years, serving in city government, county government,
state government, usually in administration and operations. Done construction for
a number of years building buildings for the City of Chicago,
have done administration with state public health programs childhood programs.
Ran the largest Headstart program in Chicago, and here I
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am in Houston loving the Office of Business Opportunity, which
is a whole different endeavor.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh my gosh, it sounds like you have like three
lifetimes with all of that, especially the early childhood education
in the head Start.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm also a Headstar baby, so it was full circles.
I remember going to head Start as a little kid,
not being the bad kid who didn't take naps. But
that said, I ran a program with twelve hundred kids,
and then we expanded it from just head Start to
infants and toddlers. I expanded it to home daycare program,
We did workforce program, so we grew the program from
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twenty locations to twenty six locations and home daycare. So
it was really one of my best positions that I had.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh that is really awesome. Yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I mean, first of all, just early childhood education is
the most important of them all.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It is, and Headstart is just such a phenomenal program.
It's changed a lot over the years, but it is
a program that offers just more education. Because what heads
Started you get health care, nutrition, a lot of services,
with social support, so if children have issues early on,
we're able to address it. And so that was one
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of the unique parts of head Start that I loved.
It wasn't just education. Those kids got dental services, ie services,
hearing services if they needed them, so they could get
a really good head start.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah indeed. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So now let's talk about your tenure here in Houston
at the Office of Business for Opportunity.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What is that office?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, I mean, I mean it's pretty self explanatory to
the Office for Business Opportunity.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
But what does all of that entail.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It's so much more as most things in the city government.
So the Office of Business Opportunity is the arm of
government that ensures that everybody has a seat at the
table and government contracting. And so we're the entity that
ensures that there are minorities, women, the small businesses that
participate and compete for opportunities on contracts. Not just with
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the City of Houston, our office covers the nine continent
counties that are around Harris County. So if you are
a certified business with our office, you do work at
the port, you do work at isds in the area,
you do work with the County. You can do all
types of government work, and so we certify, we ensure
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compliance on contracts, We make sure that once you're on
the you're actually utilized. And then we have an office
that's run by External Affairs Division that does a lot
of outreach. So we do programming like mentor protege programs,
bonding programs on how to start your business, business plan competitions.
So we were much more than just a little Office
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of Business Opportunity.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Now were you there during Sylvester Turner's tenure and towards.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The end, yes, I was the assistant director.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, because one of the things that I thought was
just so wonderful, like when the Super Bowl came here
and how they made it, like, yo, you have to
ensured that you do black owned businesses and all of that. Yeah,
So let's talk about the MWSBE policies that the Business
of Opportunity has.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's an acronym for what Minority women small business enterprise,
and so we will certify your business. If you were
fifty one percent owner your minority then you become an MBE.
And if you a woman and become a WB and
you own that business, you operate it and you have
management and control. Then that's how we certify you. Once
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you have that certification, you're able to count toward participation goals.
And so once a prime contractor, the big contractor has it,
they have worked the subcontract out, they will find somebody
in our directory that qualifies.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
For that work.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Who's an mw ors small business, women business, a minority business,
and so those contractors. We have over five thousand certified firms,
so we have more than enough firms to utilize in
all types of industries. We have construction and goods and services.
We have lawnmowing people, we have landscapers, we have people
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who sell to other paper people who sell paper clips.
So everything that the city does, we contract that out
or we purchase it. And so we need vendors. We
need minority and women vendors to come into. Even with
the five thousand, probably need ten thousand, right, So we're
out always requ fruiting for new vendors to come in
and be a part of our program.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, that's great, especially with everything that's going on in
the political spectrum when it comes to business.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And you know DEI and you know all of all
of that.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You know some folks have lost opportunities with all of that,
but it's good to know that the City of Houston
is still keeping things like this going.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, this local program is really important to the whole
city too. We have the force behind us of the
Mirror and heedbacks. US city councils very involved and they
want to see this program stand. And so we are
constantly fighting the battles with our other politicians. But while
we're still here, we're going to ensure that minorities and
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women are on these contracts.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's I love that you listen to the Public Affairs
podcast talking to Celenthia Horde, who is the director of
the Office of Business Opportunity. We're talking about the MWSBE
policies that she just explained. So if you are a minority,
women's small owned business, there's opportunity for you. So what
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do the people that's listening, Because I'm this is an
unbeknownst to me, this is the show is very popular,
so there's a lot of people that's listening. What do
those small minority and women business owners need to do
to become a.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Part of this absolutely so first thing they need to
do is go to biz with Hugh Biz with HOU,
which is the city's procurement department, and register as a vendor. Okay,
once you get a vendor number, you don't have to
be certified to anything. You can bid on any city
contract job that you have the capacity to work on,
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and so that's the first step. But then you'll come
to our office, the Office of Business Opportunity, go to
certification and it'll say apply here, and it has checklists,
it has videos on how to apply, and we have
two classes twice a month on the second and four
thirst Tuesday, where you can come in and actually take
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a class on how to complete the certification process.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, okay, So before they do all of that, when
they just go to the website, is there anything any
sort of paperwork that they need right then?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So that's certain pertinent information.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Then definitely we sow the checklist is there, but you
need to have your articles of incorporation, need to have
your operating agreements accessible, bank statements as well as your
bank signature cards. Those are the main documents that we
will base the certification off of. Copies of any contracts
that you might have already worked on. A resume, a
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current resume updated to show that you've worked in this
field or in this area. Those are all the primary
things going to start. Well, of course your identification is
also required.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Indeed, and you all also have some new programs that
will be coming soon.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I understand we have lots of.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Things to talk about. So one it's not really new.
Our largest program, Meet the Buyer, is coming up in December.
This is how you meet the procurement officers that do
the purchasing, the primes that get these contracts and you
might want to sub contract with them. It will be
at the George R. Brown and so they can go
to our website registered for that. We have capacity to
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up to one thousand people, so we're ready for that.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Last year we had a.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Huge number of people to come out and we have
all types of vendors there. So you get to meet
the primes and that's really that's really vital because you
have to make relationships, right. People work off of relationships.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
That's the one.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We're also going to have a mental protege program which
we're bringing back. We have an interagency protege program. We're
I have our own and we're working with our construction
primes to put together collaborative to help support those small
and mid sized firms as they go through the process.
We also will have a small business reserve, meaning if
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you're a mid sized firm, you will get to compete
in your own marketplace against your peers on different opportunities,
and only certify firms can bid on those opportunities. So
that is going to be essential.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Wow, it sounds like a lot, and you guys are
doing a lot for the people, especially for the business community.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Anything else that that people should know.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Absolutely, So doing business with the City of Houston, people
think it's hard, it's not. You just got to be present, right,
and so there are bid opportunities that come out. So
if they subscribe to Obo's newsletter and our e blast
by going to our website, what they'll get is every Monday,
they'll get an e blast with all the opportunities that
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out before the bid even happens that there are going
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There's opportunities to be a consultant, you can be a realtor,
you can offer insurance to the city, and so those
come out every Monday from our department. Also, go to
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people do that. But it's secondly most important that you
be present at big proposal meetings. They have pre bid
meetings where they talk about what the scope of work
is and what they're looking for. Why do you want
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Speaker 3 (11:37):
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Speaker 1 (11:38):
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Business Opportunity, thank you for coming on and sharing this.
This is vital information.
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Indeed, we will thank you so much. Celithia Hoard.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to the Public Affairs Podcast.
My next guest is the founder of kim Aiks Camera
Ready and the president of the Citywide Beauticians and Barber Association.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the vivacious Kim h on
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the Public Affairs Podcast. How are you, Dona?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I am excellent. I am excellent, truly blessed and really grateful.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I am glad that you are here. You know, when
you called me about.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Talking about what elegance means in the black community, I
was like, Oh, we need to have this conversation.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
How our kids.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I don't know where we dropped the ball with teaching
our children the proper way to do things from you
knowing dinner placements, like you know, how.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
To hold a glass, how to hold a knife and fork?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, how to tie a tie, all of these things.
So what are you doing here? What what is this?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
So for it is about restoring our cultural heritage of greatness.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
That's what that's about to me.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
And I did a piece on another station and it's
I've just kind of gone down the rabbit hole about
excellence and elegance and what does it mean to be.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Elegant? And I grew up in a space where my.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Pastor was elegant the people around me. I went to
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church and Reverend will You May loss
And was my pastor.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
And the way that he moved.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
But you also knew that he was very powerful, but
he was never loud, right, he was gracious always, and
you know, Beyonce says, you know, always be gracious. You know,
your best revenge is your paper. And I just kind
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of wonder as I moved through. I still live in
their ward, so as I moved through the neighborhood, and
I'm seeing kids in their cursing and boisterous and even
I'm sixty one years old. So we were written, yes, yes,
in this phase, but we would have never cursed in
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front of our elders.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Never.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
I mean, you might have known a couple of curse words,
but I mean it was like, oh, but it was
that respect.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Entered the gas station one day and the kids were
like four kids, and they all had to be under
the age of sixteen.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
And the what I was.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Pleased about is the little boy opened the door and said, oh, ma'am,
let me get the.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Door for you.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
But the words that were coming out of their mouths
and they didn't make the connection that you opened the
door for me, but the world without yeah you you you.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Have assaulted my whole hearing. And now I want to leave.
And I think that.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
We don't really digest where did we lose that? And
is that important? Because now you're going to have hals
and have not. The middle class is shrinking, and so
how are you going to make the jump?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
How do you think we can reclaim the elegance to
get back to how we carried ourselves Because I'm with you,
like I am so sick of these teenagers out in
public with their pajama pants and crocs on in a
T shirt, like I cannot stand that, like nog you
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wear this at the house, not to come to the
mall pajama pants and slides or pajama pants and crocks
and a T shirt like knock it off. That's not
like my nieces and nephews would never could go anywhere
with me if they just like that.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Don't you remember that?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I remember when I had an afro and I'm walking
out of the house with a comb in my hair
because I had been somewhere or whatever, and I was like, oh, okay,
my mother almost yanked a hole in my head, like
where are you going with a comb sticking out of
your head? That is not it's inappropriate, right, And I
think that we've missed out on appropriateness and so using discretion.
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There is a time and a place for everything, right,
house clothes were just that if it's for the house,
if you're wearing pajamas. I've seen in the airports now
full fledged pajamas, house shoes and a blanket.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And that's so crazy to me because my thinking is
the opposite, like I need to be airport fresh, like
my flying out outfit when I'm at the airport is
the is the fly the freshest one because.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Because I'm going to be seen?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
And so what is it about our self esteem? What
has influenced us so that we have no care about
how people perceive or see us or even how we
see ourselves.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I think there's a couple of things, Kim who I
could go down that I could go there, but I
don't think we have the time. But yeah, there's a
couple of things that I can think of, one being.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
The rise of social media.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And these narratives that have been just put out there,
and that was a slow drip that now the cup
is full and people are, you know, moving with that
sort of ideology. I also think that it is our
oppressors and if you know, you know, you know, the
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things that they constantly put out to purposely destroy absolutely
the minds of young people and just the community as
a whole.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So yeah, it's it's been by design, and we we
fell for it, and now we're yes, we feel for it,
and now we're in it, and you know, and we're
trapped in the way up right and can't get out.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Spider is coming.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
To devour you.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Interestingly enough, I always Real Housewives of whatever reality show.
Business has made being filled with drama and acting out
a priority for people, and so a lot of times
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I've been to restaurants that I've gone to for long
periods of time, but when it starts being people that
are showing up that have a lack of discretion, they're
acting out their cappin or snapping back or whatever that is,
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and just have a whole lack of respect for whatever
establishment that that is when they start to treat everyone
like that because they are oppressor, does see us as
a monolith. Right, so y'all almost be the same. So
when I say, hey, you know, I like this a
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little bit different, I get a whole attitude. But before
everybody's before y'all start showing up in your pajamas.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
And that is a problem, right.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I didn't have it. Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
What are you doing to help combat this or do
you have something to bring it all together?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
So yes, yes, So what I am doing is encouraging
and sometimes you'll see it on my social media, encouraging salons.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And people. There are people that teach etiquette.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
There. There are lots of people that teach etiquette and
manners will get you places that a degree won't absolutely okay,
and so you can walk into these rooms and so
there are etiquette coaches and so we have a series
of classes.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Even for hairdressers.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Oh nice, right, that you know talking about etiquette, because
I did Beyonce Bowl and what I tell stylists and
oh I want to do this, I want to do that. Well,
there's a certain way that you have to act around celebrity.
There's a certain way that you have to act in
these certain.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Rooms, certain decorum.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Certain decorum, and you need to know that.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
So what Citywide Beauticians and Barber is doing is really
kind of training people to be a better version of
themselves and understand discretion and graciousness in that way and
then hopefully that filters down to their clientele.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Nice And how do people get in touch with you too?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
See w b b A dot org as well as
the kim A I T c H which is the
kim H but and on Instagram c w b as
in boy, b as in boy as in apple follow
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us uh and as the classes come up, come and
join us. And if you are someone who teaches U
etiquette and that kind of thing, would you please please
contact us because we'd like to put you on and
partner with you.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So I'll go on to c w b b A
dot O r g let's c w b b A
dot org. The illustrious kim H the founder of kim
H Kimer Ready and president of Citywide Muticians and Barber Association.
So good to see you, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
For coming always, thank you and.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
To everyone listen to the podcast. Be back after this
from your local Houston BMW Center Studios.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Welcome back to the Public Affairs podcast addressing local issues
that affect our nation in shapell World, I'm your host.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
KG Smooth.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
We got the Royal Kings in the building this morning
on the Public Affairs Podcast. He's the founder of Royal Kings.
Also actor extraordinaire.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
What else you, Dodd? Just all around fly guy? What
else do you?
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:33):
The many many hats, actor, influencer, kids book author, motivational speaker,
motivational hip hop artist, an ambassador, talking mister swagnificant talking
Zaddy Claus.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
You know, Saddy Claus is crazy. It is crazy.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I got a lot of names, but man most impoorantly.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You know him as d Valentine.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Ladies and gentlemen, man, good to see you and you're
broad your Yeah, I see with you.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Tell us you do everything.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
I mean, I'm a man of many places and many
talents and stuff. So yeah, so mentorship, mental health and
wellness speaker, author, trainer.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, viral.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Advocate for many people.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So yeah, Terrence, Right, Ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure, man,
No doubt you guys are doing something incredible.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
On Saturday it's a kids and cops field day. But
before we talk.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
About Saturday, let's talk about the Royal Kings. You know,
I've there's there's a lot of silver haired, black and white.
You know, there's all kinds of men's groups together. I
remembered you all being affiliated with another group, and now
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here we have the Royal Kings.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
How did that come about? Right?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Well, the way the universe aligned sometimes, you know, great
group group of fellas. And two years ago, me Valentine
just connected working with the at the time the Salt
and Pepper gang and guys and me and this guy
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right here. You know, we just connected on so many
levels and decided that we want to really just hone
in on our community and use our platform to really
focus on working on our kings and supporting our queens
and just making sure that the mission aligned with our
values and that things.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
So copy that. No, there is absolutely turn into the
Royal Kings.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
And you know, a year later, we're here and my
brother Valentine and some really strong in their community type
brothers working together to you know, normalize the conversations for sure.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
So what is the mission of the Royal Kings. Yeah, so,
you know, the Young Kings. Man, I had the Young Kings,
you know, for a while. When my son was at
the age of ten, I got custody of him. I
was always in his life, but I got full custody,
you know. I started the Young Kings, right, and the
kaves for knowledge, the eyes for integrity, the inner nobility,
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and the geis for gentlemen. And I've always wanted to
have like a group of brothers that could come together
that kind of you know, looked up as big brothers
in the community.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Now they call us.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Unks fast forward twenty five, they call us unks now, right,
But I've always you know, looked for these guys to say, man,
we need some big brothers in the community, right, somebody
that these young men can look up to and say,
that's exactly how you know, I want to be when
I get that age. But they got to start, now
what I'm saying, So, like you said, you know, used
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to be you know, part of SPG, and that's what
I was looking for from it. That's what my brother
was looking for from it. And now we got the
Royal Kings. So we're on this mission to stand you know,
tall as pillars in the community, to uplift the you know,
the young men, and to support the women.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
You know, the women out there need all protection, right,
talk about it. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
You know, I see a lot of men trying to
compete with women out here instead of collaborate. And I
don't too often, way too often, you know, we asking
women what they bring to the table instead of you know,
building the table.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Right.
Speaker 8 (27:39):
So for us, man, we show up. We show up,
and you know, for the young men in the community,
we show up. For the women you know in the community.
We got a lot of dope events that are coming up,
a lot of great things that we've done. We're not
just doing it in the Houston community. You know, we're traveling,
so you can book us. We'll fly out make a difference,
you know, I can't tell you man, it's it's heartwarming
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to us that when we leave a city, our impression
still stays there, you know, with the young men, the
older men, you know, and also the lady.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
So we may have impact.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
The honor of being out Indianapolis and connected.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
With the yes, sir, Yes, we was out there heavy
and we had.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
The pleasure of connecting with the first black mayor of
Lawrence out there and great, great woman out there doing
some amazing things. And we did the back to school
backpack giveaway. Being able to connect in the community, and
it doesn't matter where we go, is to leave that
impression of you know, togetherness. We're working in collaboration as
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you know, black and brown, mellanated people, you know, to
stand proud and to understand the power in our voice
and the power and the things that we do, especially
when we're to be of service of others.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Right and see, that's the thing the world, old kings,
you know, I want everybody, not just Houston, Texas. But
you know, when you hear that name, I want you
to think about it as like the superheroes. You know,
we come out, we solve problems, you know. So and again,
we don't have a limitation. You don't have to be
a certain age range, you don't have to look a
certain you don't have.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
To be black, you don't have to have you don't
even have to have the beer. Right, let's clear that
up right now.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
I know me and my brother here, you know, some
of the guys we got the platinum beers, right, but
you don't. You don't have to have a it's not
a requirement. It's not a requirement to be a part
of the world, Kings. It's not a requirement you know,
for us to you know, to claborate, elaborate. Yeah, now
we just we got this look, but that's not what
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makes us.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You know, Yeah, what is one of the things that
you all see with our young men these days that
just requires some immediate attention from the collective.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
They need a reference of what that looks like as
as a mentor, a male figure in his community, working
with his brothers, looking out for his sister, treating his
woman correctly, taking care of your home, and giving these
brothers a reference of what that's supposed to look like
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because a lot of.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Them don't have reference of it.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
A lot of them don't know what that conversation sounds like,
or they don't never seen mom being treated and having
doors open for so, you know, they grow up and
they don't have reference of those things, and it's not
you know, it's not their fault. But you know, if
we can use our platform and give them reference and
plant those seeds of oh, I've seen how my mom
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responded when that man opened the door for and maybe
that's something I can do, you know, what I'm saying,
and just to be able to plant that seed is
it can be a great thing, you.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
Know, in a piggyback on what he's saying. Excuse me,
I just saw somebody gonna hate me for this, but
you know, I just saw online. I think it was
in Louisiana with all the guys wearing the red dresses, right,
and I came to find out that it was for
you know, certain calls right that they do that. But
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some people don't know that of course, right, So everybody's
looking at that and they're just like, hey, you know
what's going on? And for me, I feel like sometime
in a comments to say, okay, so y'all got suits
on what do y'all do? And I think the image
is the first thing, Like that's powerful enough. Just seeing
a black man in a suit, smiling, standing in.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Unity with his brothers.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
That is a statement so loud itself, right, Like I
don't really expect for people to say, okay, y'all are
good now what right? But luckily we do have something
more to offer than just a substance, like we're standing
on it. We got substance because we're showing them how
it looks how it talks, how you know, walks, and
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how we communicate with each other as well, because we're brotherhood.
We're not a men's group. We're not a group of
men with beards, you know, and suits. That's not what
makes us right. We want to show up in the community,
we want to show up online. We want to show
up for the world and let them know with a
young king, how we're supposed to carry himself, you know,
and how we're supposed to treat his queens.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
For sure, and y'all are doing just that. You're listening
to the Public Affairs podcast. We are talking to the
Royal Kings De Valentine and Terrence Wright kids in Cops
Field Day this Saturday, the twenty third going to be
on cutting. That's one twenty nine, twenty two Cut and Road.
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I love this. I love this.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
There needs to be you know, more more, a better
relationship with law enforcement. When I was coming up, we knew, right,
we knew who the officers were. They some of them
lived in the neighborhoods, you know. Now that's not the case.
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They live in all out somewhere. They're going training, they're
trained that these millenated folks are a threat.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And then when they come in and they get.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
The job and on the beat in the streets, getting
the hood, all they see is the threat right in
the neighborhood. They've never been in that part. So I
think that this is fantastic that you all are bridging
this gap. Tell us about it, but yeah, what they're
gonna do, what we're gonna have.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
So this was an event that I wanted to put together,
and the Royal Kings and myself, we're doing a multi
law enforcement agency event where we're bringing in law enforcement
from Dallas and Galveston County and HPD and working with
the Asian Asian Peace Officer's Association. We're inviting them guys
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out and to really have a conversation where we can
bridge the gap. Have the kids come out and they
can see officers of law enforcement outside of arresting somebody,
outside of asking somebody for their information or you know,
putting cuffs on somebody. So one we can get a
different perspective, right and then two, you know those officers
(34:23):
from their perspective, they can have that conversation of you know,
what makes us feel more comfortable with each other when
we do have these interactions so maybe it's not so
awkward all the time.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
And then just to have some fun.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
So we got we got a band, we got DJ,
come on, you know, we got a lot of games
out there, food trucks, we got a whole thing. Sponsorship,
shout out Special Good and Action definitely contributing out there.
They're going to be out there. We have h G
B who contributed, uh Target Home Depot, and just so
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many peopleeople who see the mission and understand how important
these type of events are.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
So man, it's a great I love it.
Speaker 8 (35:08):
And again, this is something that you know, Terrence himself
kind of you know, single handedly put together. And I'm
trying to keep up right, I'm like, okay, you got
another sponsor. Man, let me hopy and.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Get the DJ.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
But I love it.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
This is what brotherhood looks like, right, because this is
something that I've been wanting to do since I started
the Young Kings.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
All the way back in twenty eleven, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (35:32):
So to actually have a group of brothers that are,
you know, thinking on the same wavelength, this is what
it looks like.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Right.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
He took the action and took the step forward to
make it happen me myself. I was telling him about
the Black Law Enforcement Association. I'm like, look, man, I
just took this class. I learned some great things, right.
Shout out to them too, Shout out to the Black
Law Enforcement Association of Sergeant Eric Carr.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Classes where you just kind of learn the ins and outs.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Man, you know, to really be on the other side
and learn that these cops, hey man, they're scared just
like just like you, just like us. They want to
go home, right, some of them they got a little
PTSD right because of some things that have happened. So
when they pull you over, you got to know how
to comply. You got to know how to react, you know,
so for him to, you know, just take action and
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make sure that this thing was fun.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
You know.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
Like we got the cops coming out in their uniforms, right,
they come in and playing clothes, right, because they're human.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
They're human just like us.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
So we want to bridge that gap between law enforcement
and the youth, you know, and say, hey, let's try
to get back to I don't know, maybe to where
we never were.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
To be honest with you, now that I think about.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
It, we don't necessarily want to go back. We want
to create a new perspective that that maybe that's that's
something that we can create and you know, start that seed.
And especially you know, Houston's third large city. We got
a lot of stuff going on as we can start
somewhere like Houston again, we got the officers coming down
from Dallas. We're going to work with them on some
(37:08):
projects in the future. And it's really just starting to
plant those seeds again, even in our officers to say, hey,
you know, this is something that maybe I can start.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
To think about.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
But if I do participate in an event with the
person that lives down the street that I ain't never
really had a conversation with.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
Yeah, because as I was talking, I was thinking about
how we used to be. But it ain't even that
it is something. It's a new movement. It's a new movement.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
We want to be completely different, not just you know,
having new officers, but we want all the officers to
have an understanding and a perspective of you know, we're
all neighbors and even if we have different cultures and
different backgrounds and ideologies right and beliefs, that we should
all have at least a common understanding that we all
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got to live together, and you know, the longer we
get along, the better that's going.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
I do remember a time when I don't know about
you guys, but you know, it wasn't a bad idea
to grow up and want to be a cop, right,
like a police officer.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
I do remember those times, those times a little bit.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
I don't know if I don't think I necessarily wanted
to be a cop.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
But you know, it was something that was like, okay, hey,
those guys are cool, right, cool with us?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Well, I do remember there.
Speaker 8 (38:23):
So we had the programs that kind of educated our
kids and said it was okay, hey you can still
be cool, you know, and say no, hey you can.
The police officers they cool, but man, we don't have
it no more.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Right then there was there was a small reference of
good law enforcement, right and now.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
We don't have it.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
So you know, we want to make sure to step
out and just be those new advocates, you know, and
say hey, it's okay on both sides. We want, you know,
the law enforcement to come back and say, hey.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
We we we we we we.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Want you to do your job, but we want you
to understand, right right, it goes both ways.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
And for the youth, they.
Speaker 8 (39:12):
Have to they have to know that they're doing their jobs,
but they have to respect the authority to many of
them are trying to have court on the streets.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I want to talk to a veteran veteran officer to
see when in the timeline did the way that they
were trained changed, because it used to be more community.
As I said earlier, you know, we knew the officers
(39:41):
in our neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
It was it was like that.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Now, you know, throughout time it has slowly shifted to
a more military style of policing.
Speaker 7 (39:57):
You know, so especially in the area like Third Board
right that has had so much transition and change, where
it's predominantly black neighborhoods, it's you know, typically more impoblished
neighborhoods where you now have these new homes being built.
So now with those new homes, you have these police
(40:18):
officers that are being required to come and kind of
police these areas where you have new homes coming up,
but they're not familiar with the people in those neighborhoods.
So the person that's been sitting in front of their
house for the last twenty years is now being questioned,
why are you sitting out here. So it's difficult to
(40:40):
avoid those things when you have people coming into the
neighborhood who aren't familiar with the people in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Right, that's different.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
That's a big change.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
And again shout out to the Black Law Enforcement Association
because that question or that you know, topic you just
brought up. They talk a lot about that in class.
One thing I actually didn't know is that law enforcement
was actually started because of slavery. I didn't know that
before this class.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
To protect the property.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Yeah, and they talked about the history of it, so
even the mentality of it, you know, throughout time, the
time has evolved.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
Now as far as right now, we got some very.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
Challenging political things that are going on, right and you
got those type of minds working in the system. So
the challenge now is we're dealing with politic you know,
political differences. You know, we're dealing with racial Even.
Speaker 7 (41:40):
More reason for us to start to educate our youth now, right,
give them perspectives now the things that are going on,
so they don't grow up not believing or thinking that
those things are important.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
So bring it back around. That's it.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
So this side of that, kids and cops Field Day one,
twenty nine, twenty two, Cutting Road here in Houston. Pull
on up ten am to three pm. It is going
down this address. What what is?
Speaker 7 (42:11):
This address is northwest Houston behind the target, there's it's
actually at the address is Church of Champions.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
But there's a.
Speaker 7 (42:22):
There's obstacles back there, there's food trucks back there.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
There's plenty of parking.
Speaker 7 (42:26):
So we're gonna have everything from face painting to the
jazz to you know, great food, some games, some obstacles,
will have fun, some water games. So we're gonna keep
you cool, the cool coming in and making sure that
we stay cool out there and hide.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
I'm gonna have to pull up then.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
I think I was gonna I was gonna ask you
will you be there?
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm free on the twenty third, So yeah,
I'd love to have you there. Man.
Speaker 7 (42:56):
Matter of fact, this brother is and if you y'all
don't know, brother is in great shape, right right right,
We got we got an obstacle course for you.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Man.
Speaker 6 (43:06):
Well let's go.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
We gotta come out with you.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
The Valentine, founder of Royal Kings and Terrence Right, the
event coordinator for kids in copp Field day this Saturday,
save the date, ten until three at one twenty two
Cutting Road up on the that's what you say, that's
the north.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
Side, north side, down the street from Willowbrook mall.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Oh, okay, okay, up that way. All right. Well, we'll
see you gentlemen on Saturday. Man, thank you all for
coming through.
Speaker 6 (43:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (43:35):
I appreciate the invitation anytime. Absolutely bless is my brother.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
And to everyone listen to the podcast, I'm KG Smooth
and we will see you next week
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