AM Show HR 2 | - Feeling Personally Responsible for The Fact That Dan Crenshaw Was Elected

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, Time, Luck and Load. Michael Very
show is on the air. The phone lines will now

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be open seven one three nine nine nine, one thousand.
If you are interested in attending the event this evening,
you can go to Steve Tote's website and find out more.
I take this race very personally because I bear personal
responsibility for the fact that Dan Crenshaw was elected. When
I got involved at the request of friends who I

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won't speak for their opinion of Dan Crenshaw today. That's
not my role. But when I got when I was
asked to assist who I was told to be a
very good candidate. In twenty eighteen, he was in a
distant third place and against a very well funded Kathleen

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wall puh Puhn and a well known state rep in
the area named Kevin Roberts, and Crenshaw was in third place.
I saw in him. I should probably tell you I

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think that Congress, the lower House and the upper House,
should have some level of diversity. You got four hundred
and thirty five members of Congress. I think you should
have some mommies in there. They're not very many mommies
in Congress. I'm not saying all of Congress should be mummies.
But I think you need to have a few mummies.

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I don't mean women, I mean ladies who have born children,
so they have an experience with the reproductive process that frankly,
guys will never ever experience or really completely understand the
way they will, the way they go through it. The
hormonal change, the physical change, all of that, prenatal care,

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post birth care, and yes, the feelings that cause some
women to go into deep depression afterwards. Yeah, I think
those are things that need to be experienced by some
members of Congress. We think of Congress as this place
where former student body presidents and I am one, and
former lawyers and I am one go because they're quick

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talkers and slap people on the back and remember people's
names and all look the same. And then we said, well,
it can't just be all white guys, like that's got
to be some black grifters. Okay, we'll add some Sylvester
and Sheila Jackson Lee's to the list, and maybe some
Hispanic guys who go by Chewy or some other little
cutesy nickname. But at the end of the day, it's

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all the same thing. I do believe in Congress. You
need some people with different backgrounds. I think you need
some mommies. I think you need some older folks, some
older folks that didn't grow up in politics, some older
folks who had to live as older folks, as private people,
I think you need to have some startup business guys.
We don't have a lot of that. I think you

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need to have some Elon Musk type guys, some gunslinger,
startup investor dreamer type people. The people in Congress don't
understand private equity or how deals get done like that,
how companies get started, and yet they're making laws about it.
I think you should have farmers. I think you should

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have teachers, and yes, I think you should have people
who lost an eye and war. And that was my logic.
He's a smart guy. He is very smart. There's no
doubt Grenshall's not dumb. He's not as smart as he
thinks he is. Tucker Carlson has made this point on
many occasions. He seems to think he should be president

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or king or some other exalted title, and he's got
a lot of anger about it. The anger seems to
keep exploding over at least according to reports of various
things that at this point, I guess are allegations, but
it does seem to be a pattern over a period
of time. I feel a personal responsibility, having worked so

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hard to get him elected, to now expose what I know,
what I've seen, what I've personally witnessed. Look, I would
love to have a personal friendship with a guy with
the potential to be president, who's really sharp, with a
great military background. I would love that to be the case.

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There was not an easy choice for me to make
that I will no longer have anything to do with
you any longer. That was my choice, not his. But
I also understand that the only thing I have of value,
the only asset I have, is my reputation with you.
There are things that matter to me, my relationship with

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my family, but the only thing I have of value
that's marketable, that's how I make my living, is the
fact that you trust and respect me. I don't think
that you think that I'm infallible. I don't make mistakes.
Obviously I did in this case, but that I'm going
to own up to it very quickly. That I'm going
to have conversations about things that are awkward like this,

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that are unpleasant to talk about I just as easy
ride this one out, ride out the career of Dan Crenshaw.
Why go make an enemy with friends in powerful places?
And he does have friends in powerful places. I think
that the people who back Dan Crenshaw, I think that

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Dan Crenshaw has what in the Southern Baptist Church we
would refer to as favor checking the Black Church, I
think he has favor. I think there are people in
very powerful positions that you will never see, who have
their eye on Dan Crenshaw and view him as a

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very very useful instrument, much as they did John McCain,
much as they did George hw. Bush. And you will
notice that the people who support him come from a
certain thread of a type of people. There are certain

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issues that matter a great deal to them, and they're
not issues that matter to the second Congressional district. You
will notice that this type they are warmongers, They are institutionalists,
they are establishmentarians. They protect their own, they never leave fingerprints.
And I think Crenshaw may be one of those cases where,

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just like Epstein, an individual who is being controlled by
other people and powerful interests gets himself personally. They want
to turn you on and turn you off. And when
you start having problems. I don't know what happened in Mexico,
maybe nothing, but there is a lot written. If you

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look up Dan Crenshaw in Mexico, there are enough stories
about it that some people seem to think it's credible.
There have been a lot of questions asked that shows
a certain combustible personality that long term is not useful
to the people that have been supporting you. And you
get it off hood with air grabbing scoops mit theco very.

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Fucking who had escaped from the ordinary? You saw a
video of Kamala Harrison. Audio was down so I couldn't
tell she was sorrying. But this is odd. I don't
know if it's been manipulated by AI or not. I
suspect it has. But it's a video of Kamala Harris
talking into the camera and she looks sober, so I

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don't know. Doesn't seem believable, but yeah, anyway, my voting
choices have now been posted. Finally, the delay was all mine.
I'm not blaming our team because it was not their fault.
It was mine. I obsess over stupid things in such

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a way that it becomes almost a paralysis and I
understand for a lot of people that would seem silly,
but having been a candidate myself, I can't help but
remember what it was like to be a candidate and
trying to get people to pay attention to me and
listen to what I was going to do and how

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I would do it, and they were busy with their
own lives. I've tried to be as accommodating as I can.
I've tried to be as that's not true, I have not.
I've tried to be as diligent as I can to
find the good candidates who I think should win. Now,
let me go ahead and make this clear because people

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I think it's meant as a taunt, but it doesn't
bother me. I will lose a lot of races. I
don't have one hundred percent approval rating or win rate.
But remember I'm not a guy who's trying to get
hired on as a lobbyist by the candidates who win.
That's Karl Rove and Allen blakemore. I don't make my

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living off that. I make my living offering commentary and
observations on the air and supporting businesses who you support
with your business. That's my business model, so I don't
have to ever say I'm voting for anyone. I'm not
saying I'm some big martyr or give me a prize
for I care about our government because I live in

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this country too, and I know as well as anyone
the difference between a good office holder and a bad officeholder.
I also know how difficult it is to get good
office holders in office, because the kind of people that
the process tends to reward are malleable, little weasels who
would sell out their own wife or mother in exchange

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for getting to hold an office. And you've seen that.
You've seen that again and again and again. I also
know that there are powerful forces aligned to choose the candidates.
We have witnessed a glorious moments since twenty ten of
the public rising up and saying, no, Republican Party, you're
not choosing our candidate anymore. We don't want any more
John McCain's, we don't want any more Romney's. We've had

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enough of that. We don't want Jeb Bush. We've had
enough of that. So I have posted my ballot at
Michael Berryshow dot com. You can see it for yourself.
I did weasel out in the Senate race Wesley Hunt
and Ken Paxton. I think Ken Paxton will make a
great senator. I think he's been a great attorney general.
I've known Wesley Hunt for several years. I was one

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of his biggest supporters in his first race. We spent
the next afternoon after he lost the first race commiserating
over the race because I didn't want him to leave
the process, which he felt like he wanted to do
because it was so devastating. I go back with both
of those guys, and I think both of them being
in the race increases the likelihood that Cornyn loses. It's
hard for people to understand, but you can choose Hunt

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or you can choose Paxton. You don't need to crap
on the other one. Both of them being in the race,
and by the way, they'll both so much as admit
that having both of them in the race increases the
likelihood that the next Senator from Texas is not named Cornyn.
US Representative District two, of course, Steve Toath, That's what
we've been talking about all morning. A District eight, Jessicas

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Hartsteyle or Nick Tran. I don't personally know either one
of them. Some of the powerful forces in the area
are with Steinmann. She appairs to have a lot of momentum.
Some of the grassroots folks that I respect and like
tell me that Nick Tran is a great American. So
there's your There's District nine. Alex Meheler. Meeler is a very,

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very smart woman. She also happens to fit nicely into
the She's actually a mommy. She's also a veteran. She
also has an impressive academic background. She's also been a
bomb tech. I think it's good to have somebody in
Congress who, like the hurt Locker, has put on that
beekeeper outfit and walked out to bombs and taken the

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fuse off of them. I think the kind of person
who can do that should be one four hundred and
thirty fifth of Congress. You need that perspective in there too.
I like the fact that she's raised kids. I like
the fact she's given birth. I like the fact that
she's had to go through that whole process. I think,
you know, we have this idea of Congress as they
make these big, important laws. The fact is most of

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our lives forget the entertainment that is politics and sports,
most of our lives is a man and a woman
and their children. How are we gonna feed them, How
are we going to clothe them? What time do they
get to bed? Their education, taking them to school, picking
them up, taking them for events, taking them for sports,
taking them for ballet, taking them for dance, taking them

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for volleyball, taking them for confirmation, taking them to sunny school,
taking them to church, taking them to the doctor, losing
their first tooth, having their period, having a bar of mitzvah,
having a kinsinetta. That's raising children is in every species,

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that's the most important thing we're going to do in
our lives. Often you hear Congress talk about that. The
closest thing we ever get to a conversation about human
beings and children is the abortion discussion. And I'm pretty
well convinced that at least half of the conversation on
abortion is being conducted by people who have never had
a child, will never have or raise a child, and
think that children are disgusting. That's not about a choice,

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that's about a deep psychological hatred you have for babies.
Some people hate babies. Some people hate old people. I've
noticed this. I don't know why. I think it's cringe.
I think they suffer they I think it's something they're
uncomfortable with. It's ikey, like the word moist to some people.
I don't know why the word moist bothers people, but
apparently it does. Alex Miheler Congressional District Risco Caine was

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tapped by Dade Feeling to lead the charge against Ken Paxton.
It destroyed the House session, It destroyed the Republican Party
in say Texas. That will reverberate for years. He took
money from Colony Ridge and was a spokesman saying that
it's the American dream appears to be getting cat well.

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I think Alex Meeler's a much better choice in that race.
How about that? And I think that the grassroots liberty
and East end of Harriskont I think they agree. Should
be interesting to watch If the mother sues, that'll be interesting.
A female high school student in Nebraska who walked out
of class as part of an anti ice protest hit
by a car. Her mother is angry that the school

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allowed and even encouraged the walkout, saying about her daughter, quote,
I don't feel she's informed enough to have made a
decision like the one she made by doing a protest.
She points out that her daughter was even allowed to
make her protest poster in class. The story from wo

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WTTV in Omaha.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
The Fremont High school student who was hit by an
suv during a student protest is at home recovery. She
says she's doing fine, just some bumps and bruises and
a little sore.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
I think it.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Mostly got me in my legs, because my knees are
really what's bugging me right now.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Okay, did you see it at all? Did you see
the car at all?

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I remember was that it was read?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
The girl's mother is upset. She feels this entire incident
should have never happened.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
No, not at all.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
I'm angry. I'm first of all, I don't feel that
she is informed enough to have made a decision like
the one that she made by doing a protest. I
don't feel that any of the young people that were

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involved know enough about what's going on to do or
set up a protest, because I don't feel they know
what their protests being.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
The mother of the student hit by the suv believes
the high school bears some responsibility for what happened.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
My daughter was allowed to make her poster in class
in school to career colass Where are the teachers and
why weren't they paying more attention to what these kids
were doing?

Speaker 1 (17:25):
I feel the school is quite a big out fault
for this.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
There are some students at Fremont High who are concerned
this incident will damage the school's reputation.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
You know, I'm always careful with a subject like this
to involve my children because they get to live their
lives separate and apart from my show and what I
talk about. But I'm gonna and I'm not a perfect father.
My mother's my wife and a perfect mother. I don't

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mean to suggest that we are. We've been blessed with
two wonderful kids who never caused us any trouble, sweetest dispositions,
and I do think, I do think that part of
that is the lottery I've watched. You don't know how
people raise their kids. You don't know what kind of
signals they're giving and what kind of discipline their giving

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or not, which is usually the problem. But I've seen
some really good people have some kids that end up
just terrors, and maybe the parents in their own way
unintentionally contributed to that. I don't know, but I don't
think so. I think that you have some in every
in every crowd, you know, you're gonna have a you know,

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a person who's unstable. You have a person who's crazy.
You have a person who's homicidal, a person whose self
wants to self harm, all those sorts of things. But
I think by and large, good parenting wins, not every time,
but most of the time. I just don't think that
most people understand what good parenting looks like. I agree
the school had no business allowing the kids to make

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posters in the classroom, but take some personal responsibility. That's
your kid who did that. There are a lot of
people in this troubles me who believe I'm just figuring
it all out. I don't know how to do all this.
I got a kid and all this, and the school's
not doing their job, not doing their job. What which

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part of the not doing their job? If you want
to control what your kid learns, then be the teacher.
Oh I can't teach well, then a school failed you.
If you can't pass down what you learned, then you
were failed and you failed yourself. Where is your personal responsibility.

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Why was your child leaving school? There were her other
parents who are friends of mine, who think I'm a
weirdo because we did not condone drinking. I wasn't raised
to believe kids should be allowed to drink. My wife wasn't.

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My wife didn't want our kids dating in high school.
She didn't believe it was appropriate. You're welcome to think
that's weird. Fine, it's a different tradition and the belief
that at that age you should be focused on personal
growth and development and academics and not other things. They

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went to homecoming, they did all of those things. However,
if you don't have a strategy for how you're going
to parent your child, you end up leaving two chance
how they're going to turn out. You have more than

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a responsibility of providing sufficient food, clothing, and housing and
maybe transportation to your child. How did you think it
was a good idea to hand them over to the
school and expect the school to instill the same values.
That's why so many parents are mad at the schools,
the public schools. Oh well, Michael, your kids went to
private schools. Private schools are worse. Let me tell you

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something you want to get a really scary liberal woman
who wants to inculcate children with terrible ideas. She ain't
at the public school, She's at the private school, trust me.
And there are those types at every school. There are
also wonderful teachers at every school. We had conversations about this.

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We had conversations about a boy and a girl and
what makes them different. And it's more than just a
wiener and a who who hormones, reproduction, growth and development,
bone man, bone density, strength, size, voice, Adam's apple breasts. Yeah,
it's not a pleasant conversation to have, but you damn

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well better do it. It's kind of like slaughtering beef.
I don't want to be the one to gut them,
have the blood everywhere and saw and cut and hack
and refrigerating it. But I surely like steak. So at
some point, as a parent, you're going to have to
address this. My kids knew when there was an issue

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that might arise at their school that we were going
to have to discuss it at dinner. And no, I
don't think they wanted to discuss it every day dinner.
I don't think they looked forward to that, but they
knew we were going to and they knew they were
going to have to contribute. It's okay, we can disagree.
You don't have to agree with my choices on everything,

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But I am going to understand how you're developing. What
is your process, What are the inputs you're drawing from.
How do you come to conclusion if we're not parenting
our kids, we're leaving them to the state, which is
apparently what's happening there. Don't be surprised by what you're
going to get back. Go ahead and say it. Sorry
to Michael Verry show. Wait to hear what's going on

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in Harris County. Commissioner Tom Ramsey's our guest in about
fifteen minutes to discuss same, and after that, I'll take
your calls on the candidate you are supporting and in
what district. Just a word of advice. If the reason
you're supporting X is because why is an idiot? It's
not as compelling as you think it is. You should

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also be able to say something quickly about that person.
I don't mind why is awful X is Just think
through that for a moment. Anyway, that will not be
for a couple of segments yet. Thirteen year old girl
stabbed a deat the Northwest Houston. The person taking into
custody for the stabbing, ten year old boy, Popo, believed

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that the thirteen year old girl was part of a
larger group between twenty and thirty people who came over
to the apartment complex and near two ninety and Tidwell
and started assaulting people. They believe that the incident stemmed
from an earlier disturbance at school that involved several teens.
The story from kp RC TV when we go off

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to war, when we exercise. Hell see, this is one
of your job is open? What was that? Chad labeled
the wrong cut? You said it? You just threw Chad
under the bus. You'd have been better off eating that one.

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Oh do we not have the audio? You go on
the website to get it? Oh my goodness, that's ghetto.
You go, what is this two thousand and five? You
can't pull the audio file? Oh my goodn Chad, you
work at channel too. Don't worry. I'll talk rest my stuff.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Aving dozens of young people in with a teen girl
down here in Northwest Houston.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, police say that the case is different for most
for one disturbing reason. Kay Paris too. News reporter Ricky
Munos is live to explain this morning. Ricky, hey there, Now,
this is a type of story that you sit back
and you hear it and you're like, what did I
just hear? A thirteen year old girl is now dead
because police say a ten year old boy stabbed her
and that all happened right around the corner right behind him.

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Step by the way.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
You won't be able to see it, but it's around
on the right and to my left.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
There's still blood on the floor, there's still trash everywhere.
But let me show you what this scene looked like
overnight to look at your screen.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Now.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
This all happened here at Could Creek Apartments at the
corner of Grove Street end Dow Road. Here's video from
that complex last night. Police say they were called out
here around eight pm for what they describe as a
large fight outside. Investigators say there was not a one
on one confrontation. They estimate between twenty and forty people
showed up, mostly teenagers. In the middle of that crowd,
a thirteen year old girl was stabbed. Houston Fire took

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her to the hospital, but she died. Police say a
ten year old boy to officers he stabbed her. That
tell us he lives in the apartment with his mother.
Investigators believe this attack is stemmed from us something earlier.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
In the day out of school.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Because of the child's age, this case, now, this case
now enters a different legal space. Police say he's just
old enough to face charges under Texas law.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Take a listen, you know it's a ten year old.
That is the minimum age of criminal responsibility in the
state of Texas. So charges could be filed. That'll be
up to the district attorney.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
That decision now goes to the DA's office, and then
Homicide is still under investigating this incident. Of course, we're
going to stay on top of this and keep everyone
updated on air and online on click to Houston dot com,
But for now reporting life in at Northwest Houston.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
I'm rickon when you'll skip here. What kind of kind
of people twenty to thirty people thirteen years old go
over to an apartment complex and start assaulting people. I
don't know that I should blame.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
This ten year old. Maybe he was getting his butt kicked.
Maybe this was like pony Boy I saw the outsiders.
Maybe this was like Ralph Macchio and who was it?

Speaker 1 (27:08):
What was his name? See Thomas Howell, stay true pony boy.
Maybe this was associates just roughing up a greaser, you know,
maybe he got held under the water too long. Somebody
had to be stabbed, somebody got to get cut. You
have any any suspicion what community this might be with

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a cutting instead of a shooting. Ramon. So here is
what I'm about to say. Everybody knows, just nobody else
feels comfortable saying it, And I think that's probably problematic
for our country if you cannot say these sorts of things.
And here it goes. So Corey Crenshaw, friend of mine,

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used to be the district attorney in Beaumont, which is
how I knew that. My brother n him. And then
he became a Houston City councilman. I supported him, and
he he posted the other day there was a vacant
lot that had become a trash dump, and he wanted
it cleaned up the city council and is a conference
part of his job to represent. They got it cleaned up.

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And I learned when I was on city council that dumping,
particularly in lower class black communities, is a real problem
and it makes the people crazy, the people who live there,
because you have a lot of people like Joyce, the
Sage of Sunday Side. Imagine Joyce in a neighborhood, and

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you can imagine her on the northeast, you can imagine
her Naker's homes. You can imagine on southeast or the southwest,
Hiram Clark, Clodland, a Dutch set of gas Lakewood. There's
all these different communities, Cashmere Gardens, you can go on
and on and on, Trinity Gardens. That that you have
these older black folks who lived there forever in what

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used to be a respectable neighborhood. They own their own home.
They have for many years, many years, some of them
fifty years and more. They can't get enough for the
house to sell and get out and move on. Big
Mama or whatever they call her, is the patriarch of
the family, her kids and their kids and then their kids' kids.

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Many of them have lived there, gone to school there.
They still come back there. Every holiday is there, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving,
every birthday is celebrated there. Big Mama is the rock
of this family, absolute rock of this family. And it's
not a fancy home, but out of that home. A

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lot of families, a lot of individuals were given a
shot at an education and a career and some stability,
and that might have been the only stability they had
in their home. And if you were to actually find
out how little Big Mama had left over after she
bought groceries and bought school uniforms, not just for her kids,
for her kids' kids. She's still tied at the church.

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She still took care of stray people in the neighborhood.
She's a rock. Without her, it all goes to hell.
And when next door to her is a dump, imagine
how she feels. Imagine how she feels. That doesn't happen

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in white neighborhoods because white people won't allow it to
It doesn't happen in Hispanic neighborhoods. Mostly if you own,
it doesn't happen. If you rent, it's more likely. But
let me ask you this, what do we learn about
white privilege that some people don't tolerate trash in their neighborhood.

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Because I'm gonna tell you this, in my community, snitches
don't get stitches, snitches get richest. I just made that
up on the spot, Ramona. That was good. It doesn't
really make sense, but it sounded good. Like boom. It
came quick quick, I tell you, yeah, we're gonna tell
off on you. You don't stuping. I never who's gonna
tell off on you? Yeah, we'll call the cops.