September 18, 2025 • 37 mins
Welcome back to another episode of Motivation Zone! This was a challenging topic to discuss. My condolences go out to Charlie Kirk's family, his wife, his children, and his friends. While I did vote for Trump, and I don't align with most liberal viewpoints, it's important to note that I wasn't a follower of Charlie Kirk, and I also stopped following Candace Owens in 2020. Personally, I believe that both conservatives and librals lack accountability and a willingness to admit when they are wrong; this mindset could lead to the downfall of America if we don't get it together and make some healthy changes. Let's talk about it!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Motivation Zone.
It is your host here, Monica Mai is super excited
to be here with you guys. And it is an
unfortunate topic that we're having to dive into. And I'm
discussing Charlie Kirk, who was a very vocal conservative, debating
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different ideas and beliefs, and unfortunately, while he was on
a college tour at a stop in Utah, he was assassinated.
And it seems to be assassinated by someone who completely
disagreed with his viewpoints. It's taken me a while really
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to consider and to think about everything that's happening and
everything being said. It is so unfortunate that we are
here to disagree with someone so much so that you
want to take their life. Life is never ever an
answer unless and this I always put this unless because
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there's a nuance to it, right, and I just feel
like there's room for that. If someone's trying to take
your life, then you have to defend your life.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
But beyond that, to just disagree with one another, to
have this much hatred is it's outrageous. Now I am
completely sorry for Charlie Kirk's family, for his wife, for
his children. It is just a very unfortunate situation, and
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I have really been praying for safety for everybody we
need to have that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It brings me.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Back to with the LBGTQ community back in the day
when there were no rights for LBGTQ, and I remember
hearing about those in that community who are getting beat
up at bars, even killed. Even when you an if
you disagree with that lifestyle, there's still no room for
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even that. And I believe that right now what's going
on you guys is there is a huge divide between
what's right and wrong. There's no standard for it anymore.
And as someone I'm just gonna tell you guys a
little bit of my background. I have always voted conservative.
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I have never voted liberal. And here's the thing in America.
I am deemed a black woman in America because I'm female,
because my skin color is African American or brown or
whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And because of that, I.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Am looked upon as someone who's assumed to have voted liberal.
The reason I have never done it is because when
I turned eighteen, this was when Bush was going up
against John Kerry, and I sat back and watched those debates,
like literally watched and just listened. And prior to turning
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eighteen and getting that privilege to vote, I used to
listen to debates, and I used to listen to friends
and family who would speak about politics. And one thing
that always dawn on me was how in the black
community it was just, oh, we vote Democrat because they'refore
the black community.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But what always threw me off.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Was every election year, every election season, whether it be local,
whether it be the presidency, whatever the case may be,
it was always the same promises being made. And any
of you guys listening in on this and you're in
a relationship, you already know that if somebody keeps making
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you the same promises over and over again, what does
that mean. That means the promises are not being met
when somebody has to keep going, Oh, you know, i'm
gonna change it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I'm gonna get it, I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'ma i'll do better, I'll do better. But every year,
every season, it's the same thing. And eventually, even in
just everyday engagements and interactions, people will get tired of
hearing that. And for me personally, when I turn eighteen,
I was like, I'm over it, and John Carrey it
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was the Shenanigans, same as today, where they're getting all
the black artists and hip hop artists and this person
and that person, and they're pandering to the black community
based on what is considered black entertainment. And that always
used to insult me because I'm sitting here like, are
you guys serious? So there's none of us who are
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beyond this. There's none of us who's actually really listening
to what's going on, who's actually really watching what's going on,
none of us actually exist, crazy, right, So I was
mind boggled by all of this, and I decided, then
I'm not going to vote for a Democrat. I'm not
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gonna vote liberal unless they are actually doing the work,
unless they come in and they say, you know what,
this is what we're gonna do, and they do it
so that way the following years, we're not having you
come back and say the same exact thing because it
hasn't been done.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That was one of my biggest reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And even when it came down to Obama and Michelle,
I remember working in Walmart at the time and I'm
just once again talking to my fellow peers, and.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'm like, why are you guys voting for Obama? It
was like cause he we need a black president. And
I'm like, is that it okay?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Of course he's well spoken. You may like his wife's fashion,
they have, you know, beautiful daughters, whatever the case may be.
But is that enough to run the country. And of
course Obama did run the country for eight years. I
must say that his run was better than Biden's when
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it came down to the security and safety of America.
But there are some things that Obama put into play
that caused America.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
To be where it is, where we are.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Currently having to now try to swim through the chaos
of right and wrong seriously and what makes sense and
what's reasonable, logical, whatever word you can pull that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
We're fighting for that right.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Now, and so fast forward. I they listen to a
lot of conservative commentators. I don't say I follow them
because to me, following somebody means that you are putting
a lot of stock into the things that they say.
For me, when I'm listening to anybody, I'm listening for truth.
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I'm listening for the reality of situations, and I'm listening
for what viewpoints they're pushing, and I'm looking for the
why they're pushing that viewpoint. And so with that being said,
Kennice Owens is one that I was listening to prior
to twenty twenty, and I felt like she was making
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some very valid points when it came down to black
community issues, when it came down to jobs, when it
came down to schools, you know, just really talking about
the issues of America. Where she lost me was when
we went into twenty twenty and the George Floyd, the
ahmad Our brand, and Brianna Taylor's situation happened. Mind you,
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I was not someone who supported Black Lives Matter. They
didn't get a penny off of me. I was so
disturbed by the way the black community in certain areas
responded to these situations. I was the one who was
arguing with other people who supported the looting and the
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rioting and all of these things that were happening. And
I don't know if you guys remember, but twenty twenty
was complete chaos. There was more than COVID happening, which
is it's so crazy to me when I take my
mind back there, but as this stuff is happening, George
Floyd is the biggest one that really caused a lot
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of things to go on, and a lot of communities
to be upside down, and a lot of actions and
conversations that probably shouldn't have never taken place.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And I'm sitting here.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Going, oh my gosh, you guys, we have to look
at this from multiple angles. So Candice is one who
decided to villainize George Floyd. And what I mean by that,
you guys, is now, George Floyd is the cause of BLM.
He's the creator of BLM. He didn't He's gone, He's
not here, His life is gone. So he could not
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make any decisions for the black community. He did not
ask anyone to protest for him. He didn't ask anyone
to destroy a building. But instead of looking at it
from the angle of this man literally just lost his
life in a way that was not necessary. Yes, he
was on drugs. How many people get arrested that's on drugs.
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How many people have they arrested who was literally in
the middle.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Of I guess you can say, doing the most heinous crimes.
And they are.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Still alive today, whether in prison, wherever they are, they're
still alive. To talk about it, right, So you can't
say a person deserved to die because they were on drugs.
The way that these officers handled George Floyd was unprofessional.
It was not something they should have been doing. You
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should not be leaning on a person's body and taking
away their airflow. That's just that's common sense, right. But
it was argued by the conservative parties and the conservative
commentators that George Floyd pretty much got what he deserved
because he shouldn't have been on drugs. And what's so
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crazy is a lot of the time people want us
to forget the things said on all sides. It is
getting very murky. And this is why I'm telling you guys,
don't follow anyone. Listen and watch and make reasonable decisions
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from there based on reality, based on judging the entire
situation instead of half of it. So kenn Is got
a she's just she got a huge chip on her
shoulder over BLM and she really wanted to take BLM down,
and so to take them down, she had to deny
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all of the facts of a case. And that's what happens,
ladies and gentlemen, when we get what biased. When you
are biased over something, you will refuse to see the
other side, because you're going straight for what you feel
you want to support. You're going straight for where you
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feel and who you feel you want to protect. You're
going straight for any type of I guess you can
say intentions. You want to make sure that it sways
that way. So I'm gonna constantly bash this situation. I'm
gonna constantly bash the person. And at the end of
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the day, George Floyd was a victim of something that
should not have happened, and so and so was Brianna Taylor.
And where I stopped following cannas Owens was when she
went after Brianna Taylor. It had already come out that
her and the current boyfriend had been dating for quite
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a while, that she had been done with the boyfriend
who these officers was coming after and looking for. And
I don't know how many of you guys have people
maybe that were friends or that you dated in the past,
who are no longer friends and now they're your ex so,
whatever the case may be. Who may be out here
doing some foul and crazy stuff, and they may have
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used your address to receive mail. They may know where
you live and have given you as a refer prints
to something crazy in the past, and now all of
a sudden, your address is on file as to where
to reach that person. And this is exactly what happened
to Brianna Taylor. It has not come out since the
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incident with her that she had any role in whatever
that ex was doing. And many of us know people
from our past who we have not caught up with
and that we don't know anything about what's going on
in their life currently. And imagine just because you were
once friends with that person, boyfriend and girlfriend, whatever the
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case may be, now you're being blamed for all of
the crap they're doing after you. Crazy, right, So you
can't dig up any information right now on Brianna Taylor
and say that she was participating in any crimes. And
yet these officers go to her home. Her boyfriend is
the one shooting, she's somewhat between sleeping and awake, and
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she's killed. And not only did they come up in
her home, they came up in her home with the
wrong warrant, so they didn't have the rights to come
into her home, but it happened. So Candice took this
as a way to literally bash BLM and bash every
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victim in this situation where things should have been handled better,
and she basically said, oh, well, that's on them, that's
their fault. Breonna Taylor shouldn't have been dating a bomb,
shouldn't have been dating someone who was committing crimes. Is
odd to me. And my point that I'm making with this,
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you guys, is that both sides, both conservative and liberal,
are crossing lines that have some serious consequences. We are
harming one another, and it is so unfortunate that we have.
We've gotten to this place. And honestly, if I'm to
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be honest, because I'm an eighties baby, I know that
we've been here on and off, on and off, on
and off. There are things that may happen and we
come together as a nation, but then we're right back
to all the infighting that we have going on. And
when I think about Canice Owens and Charlie Kirk, and
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I'm using them because there's some of the biggest conservative voices.
Canis have also gone to colleges to you know, debate
different ideas. When I think about them as conservatives, and
when I think about what the liberals are doing, I'm
listening to the silent harmful things, and what I mean
by silent is those things that appear to not be harmful,
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but it is. And some of America, even with the
Liberals right now, who are.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Working so hard to.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I guess you could say, push their agendas and not
wanting to change any thought or idea or not wanting
to hear the reasons, I believe the conservatives have come
to that same line in many different ways. The conservatives
have also balled up some Americans and tossed them completely
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to the side and basically said, we don't care if
you do change, We don't care if you do do
anything differently, you're still classified as this. And one of
the biggest examples that come to me when I had
this conversation recently with someone was the whole bickering of DEI.
I am not someone who's supported DEI personally and as
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a black woman in America. I have never been hired
due to DEI. Every job I ever had, I have applied.
I've done all of the tests that was demanded of me.
I passed the test at the scores that were demanded
of me. I made sure to actually do the job
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when I was hired, and very rarely did I apply
for a job and not get hired to a job
Because I'm someone who works very hard. I'm very committed
to whatever I decided to do, and that comes across
in my interviews when I talked to managers, all that
good stuff. So I've never been a DEI hired seriously,
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so to me, DEI. I understand the conversation of it.
I understand, well, you know, everyone needs to get out
and earn their spot. I agree twenty thousand percent. But
then the conversation between these conservatives have become well, for example,
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there was this thing flying around about black pilots flying
planes that tripped me up so hard when I heard
them saying this, and I was just having this conversation
with someone else, I'm like, why would any conservative, Candice, Charlie,
any of them get up before their massive audiences and say,
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if a black pilot is flying a plane, I don't
trust it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It could be DEI.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The reason why I have a huge dog on problem
with that is because when you say things like that,
you're telling the whole country to not trust anyone black
in a position because it could be Dei, which is
crazy because there are plenty of people plenty of black, white, green,
otherwise people out here earning their spot, no matter the race,
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the background, whatever, is plenty of them, plenty of people
working so hard regardless of their backgrounds. And to say
you don't trust someone in one of the most I
guess you could say serious positions that we have. And
then I asked the person I was recently having this
conversation with, I said, have you ever heard of black
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pilots bringing down planes? Have you ever heard of these
things actually happening? Like to say something so broad and
so crazy when we don't have any examples of black
pilots not being certified and able to fly, but they are,
is crazy. And to me, that's not one of those
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jobs that we would play with when it comes down
to DEI, to me, that's just too crazy for me
to just hire someone who isn't fit to do the job.
Who can't you know, like even now, just to get
a driver's license, I can imagine it's even more so
to fly a plane that your health has to be intact.
You have to have the proper vision in order to
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even fly, and right now, if your vision is low
past a certain point, they won't even issue you a
driver's license in any state. Really, I don't know too
many people who can't see who's driving a car. Name them,
I don't know them. Okay, So that was one of
the things to me. I'm using these things as an
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example to get to my conclusion of a point here
of this podcast. When people do that, when they loop
everything in a box. When you say something in the
example of I don't trust black pilots to fly a plane,
now you're putting every hard worker, every honest person, every
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person who has sacrificed something to get what they have
and who is not a part of whatever the idea
is that you have about DEI. Now you're putting them
all in that box. And the problem is, now everybody's
walking around going, oh, yeah, I remember when so and
so said this, and I feel the same way now
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because I trust that person. I've listened to that person,
and I just believe what they say. And everyone on
the left and the right who has an audience, they
are drawing to themselves people who are radical, die hard followers,
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who will not judge things that are being said. And
this is where I'm getting to you, guys. With anything
that's going on today, we have to start judging what
we're seeing, judging what we're hearing, and what that means
is put laying it all out, laying the cards all out,
and starting to separate them based on ethics, what's ethical, right,
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based on what's reasonable, what we can like. Maybe this
is not something that's gonna make or break ups. Maybe
we can come meet in the middle on this idea,
meet on the middle on whether it's to bring this
thing to fruition, whatever the case may be, we can
come together on this so it's reasonable, we can reason
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with one another. Right, then we need to have our
separation between what's right and what's actually wrong. And I
do believe that on both sides, both conservatives and liberals,
that they're all finding it very hard to humble themselves
and say when they're wrong. And regardless of our feelings.
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Right now, with everything that's going on and the situation
that's going on with Charlie Kirk, it is so unfortunate
that we've gotten here. Is so unfortunate that someone heard
his viewpoints and decided to end this man's life over
something they did not agree with. But here is the
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truth for you, guys. He was not always right either,
very vocal, very hard to working in what he was doing,
but not always right, and I feel like moving forward, Okay,
both sides, both the liberals and the conservatives, need a balance.
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We need humility. We need to get back to right
versus wrong. We need to be able to disagree with
each other's lifestyles and leave each other where we are.
There are a lot of people I disagree with with
the things that they do and say, but what I
do is leave them to it respectfully.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I have nothing in me that wants to see harm
come to them now. Mind you, Once again, like I
said in the very beginning, if someone's coming from my life,
that's a whole nother story, that's a whole another thing.
And in a lot of these situations between the liberals
and the conservatives, there are a lot of career ending
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things going on. A lot of people do feel like
their lives are being tempered with on both sides literally,
And that's I think where we need to start to
really have a serious conversation. We can't have conservatives villainizing
an entire group of people over something. Not everyone is accepting,
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not everyone is DEI, not everyone is lazy, not everyone
is just you wanted to get a job and not
do the job. Not everyone is in that category, so
we can start there by not putting everyone in a box,
but calling it what it is. If you are a
DI higher then we feel this way. And there are
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certain industries that should for sure never accept di See
how basic and simple that is. But to throw everybody
in that box is so messed up, right, And then
with the Liberals, it's one of those things. I think
what's going on is accept us, accept us. You have
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to support us, you have to support everything. And I
feel like with the liberals, they need to get to
a place where they are able to be themselves and
live the lifestyles that they want and not include everybody
in it. Because the truth is, here's the truth, here's
a truth card. Everybody's not going to accept your lifestyle.
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Everybody doesn't like your lifestyle periods. Doesn't matter how many
laws you put into place trying to force people to
like it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
No one.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
None of these people are gonna like it, the ones
who don't want and therefore they need to get more
accustomed to continuing to create their own spaces. Liberals are
struggling right now because they want to be accepted so badly.
It's almost like one of those individuals that school, college,
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it could be high school, wherever, where they feel like
an outcast. They may dress differently from everyone else, but
the more people disengage from them, the more of their
confidence they lack. And so then they decide, well, let
me try to dress like everybody else. But they don't
like that style. They liked the way they dressed before.
They were actually confident leaving the house in that outfit,
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but what ended up happening is someone didn't validate them.
So now they're changing up and trying to fit in
or put it on that outfit and getting very loud
in the middle of the whole entire room, screaming.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Look at me.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And I think that all of us need to get
to a place where we have a level of confidence
in ourselves that we are not seeking so much validation.
But the left really has a problem with that, and
I do believe that is the reason why we ended
up here with the Charlie Kirk situation and his assassin.
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I believe we have a lifestyle because this person, you know,
was trying to represent LBGT with its dealings and then
also trying to come at Charlie Kirk with other things
that they felt Charlie Kirk did not agree with them
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on or support, and that right there is the reason
why we're here, because we need to stop looking for
validation with others. And I believe that also as conservatives,
we and people really need to call a spade a
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spade when it's there. If you're talking about something in particular,
let's stick to that instead of looping everybody in. And
also give people a chance to change. Yes, things have
been this way, yesdi have has been a thing in
certain areas, in certain industries. But can we give people
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a chance for that to change? And I believe Charlie
Kirk made some very valid points when it came down
to things like abortion, when it came down to things
in the black community as well, because I've watched several
of his videos about this, and we're talking about single parent,
single family homes and dealing with the mothers always raising
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children and raising the suns and whether these things have
an effect on the community as a whole. And I
believe personally that it does. But we have to rightfully
balance these things. And one of the biggest things in
one of the debates he had with a young man
who wanted to talk about the black community, was that, yes,
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it's on the black community to change it. But then
also at the same time, there was there is no
systemic racism, and that's not necessarily true either. There have
been situations and issues where someone of a certain background
or nationality was out trying to get a job and
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they were not able to attain that job, not because
they weren't fit, but because they didn't want to deal
with someone of that nationality. That has been a thing,
and that's a thing in recent years, and with Charlie
Kurt being thirty one years old, and I guess you
could say individuals in certain generations there may not be
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an experience of that because things change century to century,
decade to decade, things change, right, and the more we
go into this life, some may have experiences that others
haven't had. And one thing I want a conservatives to
really stop doing is only pandering and catering to the youth.
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I see that happening a lot, and I feel like
right now, even in twenty twenty five, we do need
to start talking amongst our own age groups, and like,
right now, I'm an eighties baby, I feel like those
from the fifties, sixties, seventies, if the forties, wherever, they
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need to be having a conversation amongst one another as well.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
This is not just a youth thing.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
The youth are very much so still affected by the
traumas before them. And what I mean by that is, say,
for instance, your grandmother, your great grandmother, or your grandfather
great great grandfather experienced certain discriminations if they had businesses
that were burned down to the ground that they were
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trying to build.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
These things are very much so real.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
And one example Charlie Kirk made was that back in
the day, back during slavery, people worked harder, and that's
so much, that's so much truth to that. But at
the same time they work harder and lost more they did.
It's just a real thing. And if we think about
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all the black communities that have been burned down, have
been washed out, if we think about the hard work
of someone in the past and their children and their
children's children coming into these next generations, they're still feeling
those traumas, or they're still being raised or taught by
somebody who had that trauma. Because once again, racism on
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either side, whether it be white, black, whatever, it's taught right.
You don't just come to these conclusions on your own
unless you have experiences. And so that generation is trinkling
down and teaching the younger, and then we're getting a
lot of the results that we're getting in beliefs and
how we behave and when it comes onto the black
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community hip hop and entertainment, a lot of this stuff
really does need to stop. But it has to start
at the age group that's really pushing this out there,
and it's not necessarily the youth turning around and pushing.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
That back on older groups.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
And I have always said our name drop some rappers
that I'm like, I need you guys to come out
and straight out just dis denounce the gang life. That's snoop,
that's fifty cents TI. A lot of these rappers who
are out here who are very popular behind the scenes,
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they may have their little groups of kids and stuff
that they may talk to or whatever and encourage. But
how often are we seeing our very popular hip hop
artists get out here and say this.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Is not it and literally push that at.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
A volume that is so loud that the youth start
to see this is not it.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Let's choose something else.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
But yet we keep having these young rappers popping up everywhere,
trap rap whatever, whatever the terms are, and they're out
here talking about killing and doing all of these crazy things,
drug dealing, whatever, and so that is a huge issue.
And I feel like with the conservatives, with liberals, we
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have to start having a conversation amongst our age groups
about what.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
We can do different.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
And there are some age groups out here, unfortunately, who
think they have done nothing wrong and don't do anything
wrong and they just know everything. There's an age group
out here for that. It is something else, you guys.
And I hate that we have conservatives and liberals. I
hate that we're split the way we are. I hate
the red versus the blue. I don't like this attitude
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because it means that there's such a disagreement on how
to move forward and do things that we have to
separate the way we are. And that's jacked up to me.
As far as the liberals go, there's not too much
I agree with on that side.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
It's very hard for me.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I am not a person who is a full open
door person in the sense of let's just open the
door and let the floodgates do what they do. I'm
just not that person. I am also not someone who's
not open to change and trying new things because something
isn't working. So I'm not uptight either. I feel like
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you have to find something in the balance, you know.
And that's just my thoughts on this. I feel like
we have to start treating each other better on all fronts.
I have listened to a lot of things that have
been said, even after what happened to Charlie Kurk, which
is so unfortunate, and I am just really upset with
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all of it. I'm really upse said with how we
treat each other. And I will end on saying this
to you guys who may listen to this podcast and
may hear me all the way through. I want to say,
start at home. Everything that needs to change starts within.
It starts with us. It starts with the mirror. And
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when Michael Jackson came out with that song Man in
the Mirror, I'm gonna tell y'all that song is a
is amazing, and not only is it amazing, it is
something that is so accurate and we have to start here.
If you have children, you teach your children right from wrong.
You teach them what it truly means to control emotion,
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what it means to be hurt and feel a certain way,
but have a better response about it. Be active in
each other's lives when it comes down to your home
and your loved ones, be active, have conversations, be on
it with one another. And also I would say, let
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us all be willing to change and be willing to learn.
None of us, at the sound of my voice, none
of us knows it all.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
None of us.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Also, at the sound of my voice, all of us
get it wrong sometimes, and that is all of us,
and that's important to know. So let's start with ourselves.
I would be working on myself. It's so much you guys,
that I want to learn and be better about. And
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it will come in time. We have to be patient
and apply it as we see it and quickly change
and adjust as we see it happening. But it can
be done. You guys, just know that. So I appreciate
you for listening. And this is just my thoughts on
it all. There is enough blame to go around. There
is no such thing I feel like in any of
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this right now where there's not some blame in the
way we treat each other. It has to stop, and
I hope it does. And so you guys, until next time,
and if you have any comments, please do feel free
to hit the link and let me know your thoughts
on this entire situation. And if you understand somewhat o
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where I'm coming from. I do believe that I'm probably
one of those other voices out there, because right now
is the very split voices either here or there. But
I'm trying to be somewhere in the middle, which I
believe I really am. You know, that's just where my
heart is, truly. So you guys, let me know your
thoughts on everything, and until next time, you guys, Chat soon.
Hi, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Motivation Zone.
It is your host here, Monica Mai is super excited
to be here with you guys. And it is an
unfortunate topic that we're having to dive into. And I'm
discussing Charlie Kirk, who was a very vocal conservative, debating
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different ideas and beliefs, and unfortunately, while he was on
a college tour at a stop in Utah, he was assassinated.
And it seems to be assassinated by someone who completely
disagreed with his viewpoints. It's taken me a while really
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to consider and to think about everything that's happening and
everything being said. It is so unfortunate that we are
here to disagree with someone so much so that you
want to take their life. Life is never ever an
answer unless and this I always put this unless because
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there's a nuance to it, right, and I just feel
like there's room for that. If someone's trying to take
your life, then you have to defend your life.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
But beyond that, to just disagree with one another, to
have this much hatred is it's outrageous. Now I am
completely sorry for Charlie Kirk's family, for his wife, for
his children. It is just a very unfortunate situation, and
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I have really been praying for safety for everybody we
need to have that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It brings me.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Back to with the LBGTQ community back in the day
when there were no rights for LBGTQ, and I remember
hearing about those in that community who are getting beat
up at bars, even killed. Even when you an if
you disagree with that lifestyle, there's still no room for
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even that. And I believe that right now what's going
on you guys is there is a huge divide between
what's right and wrong. There's no standard for it anymore.
And as someone I'm just gonna tell you guys a
little bit of my background. I have always voted conservative.
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I have never voted liberal. And here's the thing in America.
I am deemed a black woman in America because I'm female,
because my skin color is African American or brown or
whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And because of that, I.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Am looked upon as someone who's assumed to have voted liberal.
The reason I have never done it is because when
I turned eighteen, this was when Bush was going up
against John Kerry, and I sat back and watched those debates,
like literally watched and just listened. And prior to turning
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eighteen and getting that privilege to vote, I used to
listen to debates, and I used to listen to friends
and family who would speak about politics. And one thing
that always dawn on me was how in the black
community it was just, oh, we vote Democrat because they'refore
the black community.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But what always threw me off.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Was every election year, every election season, whether it be local,
whether it be the presidency, whatever the case may be,
it was always the same promises being made. And any
of you guys listening in on this and you're in
a relationship, you already know that if somebody keeps making
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you the same promises over and over again, what does
that mean. That means the promises are not being met
when somebody has to keep going, Oh, you know, i'm
gonna change it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I'm gonna get it, I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'ma i'll do better, I'll do better. But every year,
every season, it's the same thing. And eventually, even in
just everyday engagements and interactions, people will get tired of
hearing that. And for me personally, when I turn eighteen,
I was like, I'm over it, and John Carrey it
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was the Shenanigans, same as today, where they're getting all
the black artists and hip hop artists and this person
and that person, and they're pandering to the black community
based on what is considered black entertainment. And that always
used to insult me because I'm sitting here like, are
you guys serious? So there's none of us who are
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beyond this. There's none of us who's actually really listening
to what's going on, who's actually really watching what's going on,
none of us actually exist, crazy, right, So I was
mind boggled by all of this, and I decided, then
I'm not going to vote for a Democrat. I'm not
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gonna vote liberal unless they are actually doing the work,
unless they come in and they say, you know what,
this is what we're gonna do, and they do it
so that way the following years, we're not having you
come back and say the same exact thing because it
hasn't been done.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That was one of my biggest reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And even when it came down to Obama and Michelle,
I remember working in Walmart at the time and I'm
just once again talking to my fellow peers, and.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'm like, why are you guys voting for Obama? It
was like cause he we need a black president. And
I'm like, is that it okay?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Of course he's well spoken. You may like his wife's fashion,
they have, you know, beautiful daughters, whatever the case may be.
But is that enough to run the country. And of
course Obama did run the country for eight years. I
must say that his run was better than Biden's when
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it came down to the security and safety of America.
But there are some things that Obama put into play
that caused America.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
To be where it is, where we are.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Currently having to now try to swim through the chaos
of right and wrong seriously and what makes sense and
what's reasonable, logical, whatever word you can pull that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
We're fighting for that right.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Now, and so fast forward. I they listen to a
lot of conservative commentators. I don't say I follow them
because to me, following somebody means that you are putting
a lot of stock into the things that they say.
For me, when I'm listening to anybody, I'm listening for truth.
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I'm listening for the reality of situations, and I'm listening
for what viewpoints they're pushing, and I'm looking for the
why they're pushing that viewpoint. And so with that being said,
Kennice Owens is one that I was listening to prior
to twenty twenty, and I felt like she was making
(07:40):
some very valid points when it came down to black
community issues, when it came down to jobs, when it
came down to schools, you know, just really talking about
the issues of America. Where she lost me was when
we went into twenty twenty and the George Floyd, the
ahmad Our brand, and Brianna Taylor's situation happened. Mind you,
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I was not someone who supported Black Lives Matter. They
didn't get a penny off of me. I was so
disturbed by the way the black community in certain areas
responded to these situations. I was the one who was
arguing with other people who supported the looting and the
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rioting and all of these things that were happening. And
I don't know if you guys remember, but twenty twenty
was complete chaos. There was more than COVID happening, which
is it's so crazy to me when I take my
mind back there, but as this stuff is happening, George
Floyd is the biggest one that really caused a lot
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of things to go on, and a lot of communities
to be upside down, and a lot of actions and
conversations that probably shouldn't have never taken place.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And I'm sitting here.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Going, oh my gosh, you guys, we have to look
at this from multiple angles. So Candice is one who
decided to villainize George Floyd. And what I mean by that,
you guys, is now, George Floyd is the cause of BLM.
He's the creator of BLM. He didn't He's gone, He's
not here, His life is gone. So he could not
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make any decisions for the black community. He did not
ask anyone to protest for him. He didn't ask anyone
to destroy a building. But instead of looking at it
from the angle of this man literally just lost his
life in a way that was not necessary. Yes, he
was on drugs. How many people get arrested that's on drugs.
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How many people have they arrested who was literally in
the middle.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Of I guess you can say, doing the most heinous crimes.
And they are.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Still alive today, whether in prison, wherever they are, they're
still alive. To talk about it, right, So you can't
say a person deserved to die because they were on drugs.
The way that these officers handled George Floyd was unprofessional.
It was not something they should have been doing. You
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should not be leaning on a person's body and taking
away their airflow. That's just that's common sense, right. But
it was argued by the conservative parties and the conservative
commentators that George Floyd pretty much got what he deserved
because he shouldn't have been on drugs. And what's so
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crazy is a lot of the time people want us
to forget the things said on all sides. It is
getting very murky. And this is why I'm telling you guys,
don't follow anyone. Listen and watch and make reasonable decisions
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from there based on reality, based on judging the entire
situation instead of half of it. So kenn Is got
a she's just she got a huge chip on her
shoulder over BLM and she really wanted to take BLM down,
and so to take them down, she had to deny
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all of the facts of a case. And that's what happens,
ladies and gentlemen, when we get what biased. When you
are biased over something, you will refuse to see the
other side, because you're going straight for what you feel
you want to support. You're going straight for where you
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feel and who you feel you want to protect. You're
going straight for any type of I guess you can
say intentions. You want to make sure that it sways
that way. So I'm gonna constantly bash this situation. I'm
gonna constantly bash the person. And at the end of
(12:09):
the day, George Floyd was a victim of something that
should not have happened, and so and so was Brianna Taylor.
And where I stopped following cannas Owens was when she
went after Brianna Taylor. It had already come out that
her and the current boyfriend had been dating for quite
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a while, that she had been done with the boyfriend
who these officers was coming after and looking for. And
I don't know how many of you guys have people
maybe that were friends or that you dated in the past,
who are no longer friends and now they're your ex so,
whatever the case may be. Who may be out here
doing some foul and crazy stuff, and they may have
(12:53):
used your address to receive mail. They may know where
you live and have given you as a refer prints
to something crazy in the past, and now all of
a sudden, your address is on file as to where
to reach that person. And this is exactly what happened
to Brianna Taylor. It has not come out since the
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incident with her that she had any role in whatever
that ex was doing. And many of us know people
from our past who we have not caught up with
and that we don't know anything about what's going on
in their life currently. And imagine just because you were
once friends with that person, boyfriend and girlfriend, whatever the
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case may be, now you're being blamed for all of
the crap they're doing after you. Crazy, right, So you
can't dig up any information right now on Brianna Taylor
and say that she was participating in any crimes. And
yet these officers go to her home. Her boyfriend is
the one shooting, she's somewhat between sleeping and awake, and
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she's killed. And not only did they come up in
her home, they came up in her home with the
wrong warrant, so they didn't have the rights to come
into her home, but it happened. So Candice took this
as a way to literally bash BLM and bash every
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victim in this situation where things should have been handled better,
and she basically said, oh, well, that's on them, that's
their fault. Breonna Taylor shouldn't have been dating a bomb,
shouldn't have been dating someone who was committing crimes. Is
odd to me. And my point that I'm making with this,
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you guys, is that both sides, both conservative and liberal,
are crossing lines that have some serious consequences. We are
harming one another, and it is so unfortunate that we have.
We've gotten to this place. And honestly, if I'm to
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be honest, because I'm an eighties baby, I know that
we've been here on and off, on and off, on
and off. There are things that may happen and we
come together as a nation, but then we're right back
to all the infighting that we have going on. And
when I think about Canice Owens and Charlie Kirk, and
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I'm using them because there's some of the biggest conservative voices.
Canis have also gone to colleges to you know, debate
different ideas. When I think about them as conservatives, and
when I think about what the liberals are doing, I'm
listening to the silent harmful things, and what I mean
by silent is those things that appear to not be harmful,
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but it is. And some of America, even with the
Liberals right now, who are.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Working so hard to.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I guess you could say, push their agendas and not
wanting to change any thought or idea or not wanting
to hear the reasons, I believe the conservatives have come
to that same line in many different ways. The conservatives
have also balled up some Americans and tossed them completely
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to the side and basically said, we don't care if
you do change, We don't care if you do do
anything differently, you're still classified as this. And one of
the biggest examples that come to me when I had
this conversation recently with someone was the whole bickering of DEI.
I am not someone who's supported DEI personally and as
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a black woman in America. I have never been hired
due to DEI. Every job I ever had, I have applied.
I've done all of the tests that was demanded of me.
I passed the test at the scores that were demanded
of me. I made sure to actually do the job
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when I was hired, and very rarely did I apply
for a job and not get hired to a job
Because I'm someone who works very hard. I'm very committed
to whatever I decided to do, and that comes across
in my interviews when I talked to managers, all that
good stuff. So I've never been a DEI hired seriously,
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so to me, DEI. I understand the conversation of it.
I understand, well, you know, everyone needs to get out
and earn their spot. I agree twenty thousand percent. But
then the conversation between these conservatives have become well, for example,
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there was this thing flying around about black pilots flying
planes that tripped me up so hard when I heard
them saying this, and I was just having this conversation
with someone else, I'm like, why would any conservative, Candice, Charlie,
any of them get up before their massive audiences and say,
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if a black pilot is flying a plane, I don't
trust it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It could be DEI.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The reason why I have a huge dog on problem
with that is because when you say things like that,
you're telling the whole country to not trust anyone black
in a position because it could be Dei, which is
crazy because there are plenty of people plenty of black, white, green,
otherwise people out here earning their spot, no matter the race,
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the background, whatever, is plenty of them, plenty of people
working so hard regardless of their backgrounds. And to say
you don't trust someone in one of the most I
guess you could say serious positions that we have. And
then I asked the person I was recently having this
conversation with, I said, have you ever heard of black
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pilots bringing down planes? Have you ever heard of these
things actually happening? Like to say something so broad and
so crazy when we don't have any examples of black
pilots not being certified and able to fly, but they are,
is crazy. And to me, that's not one of those
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jobs that we would play with when it comes down
to DEI, to me, that's just too crazy for me
to just hire someone who isn't fit to do the job.
Who can't you know, like even now, just to get
a driver's license, I can imagine it's even more so
to fly a plane that your health has to be intact.
You have to have the proper vision in order to
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even fly, and right now, if your vision is low
past a certain point, they won't even issue you a
driver's license in any state. Really, I don't know too
many people who can't see who's driving a car. Name them,
I don't know them. Okay, So that was one of
the things to me. I'm using these things as an
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example to get to my conclusion of a point here
of this podcast. When people do that, when they loop
everything in a box. When you say something in the
example of I don't trust black pilots to fly a plane,
now you're putting every hard worker, every honest person, every
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person who has sacrificed something to get what they have
and who is not a part of whatever the idea
is that you have about DEI. Now you're putting them
all in that box. And the problem is, now everybody's
walking around going, oh, yeah, I remember when so and
so said this, and I feel the same way now
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because I trust that person. I've listened to that person,
and I just believe what they say. And everyone on
the left and the right who has an audience, they
are drawing to themselves people who are radical, die hard followers,
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who will not judge things that are being said. And
this is where I'm getting to you, guys. With anything
that's going on today, we have to start judging what
we're seeing, judging what we're hearing, and what that means
is put laying it all out, laying the cards all out,
and starting to separate them based on ethics, what's ethical, right,
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based on what's reasonable, what we can like. Maybe this
is not something that's gonna make or break ups. Maybe
we can come meet in the middle on this idea,
meet on the middle on whether it's to bring this
thing to fruition, whatever the case may be, we can
come together on this so it's reasonable, we can reason
(22:09):
with one another. Right, then we need to have our
separation between what's right and what's actually wrong. And I
do believe that on both sides, both conservatives and liberals,
that they're all finding it very hard to humble themselves
and say when they're wrong. And regardless of our feelings.
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Right now, with everything that's going on and the situation
that's going on with Charlie Kirk, it is so unfortunate
that we've gotten here. Is so unfortunate that someone heard
his viewpoints and decided to end this man's life over
something they did not agree with. But here is the
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truth for you, guys. He was not always right either,
very vocal, very hard to working in what he was doing,
but not always right, and I feel like moving forward, Okay,
both sides, both the liberals and the conservatives, need a balance.
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We need humility. We need to get back to right
versus wrong. We need to be able to disagree with
each other's lifestyles and leave each other where we are.
There are a lot of people I disagree with with
the things that they do and say, but what I
do is leave them to it respectfully.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I have nothing in me that wants to see harm
come to them now. Mind you, Once again, like I
said in the very beginning, if someone's coming from my life,
that's a whole nother story, that's a whole another thing.
And in a lot of these situations between the liberals
and the conservatives, there are a lot of career ending
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things going on. A lot of people do feel like
their lives are being tempered with on both sides literally,
And that's I think where we need to start to
really have a serious conversation. We can't have conservatives villainizing
an entire group of people over something. Not everyone is accepting,
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not everyone is DEI, not everyone is lazy, not everyone
is just you wanted to get a job and not
do the job. Not everyone is in that category, so
we can start there by not putting everyone in a box,
but calling it what it is. If you are a
DI higher then we feel this way. And there are
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certain industries that should for sure never accept di See
how basic and simple that is. But to throw everybody
in that box is so messed up, right, And then
with the Liberals, it's one of those things. I think
what's going on is accept us, accept us. You have
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to support us, you have to support everything. And I
feel like with the liberals, they need to get to
a place where they are able to be themselves and
live the lifestyles that they want and not include everybody
in it. Because the truth is, here's the truth, here's
a truth card. Everybody's not going to accept your lifestyle.
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Everybody doesn't like your lifestyle periods. Doesn't matter how many
laws you put into place trying to force people to
like it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
No one.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
None of these people are gonna like it, the ones
who don't want and therefore they need to get more
accustomed to continuing to create their own spaces. Liberals are
struggling right now because they want to be accepted so badly.
It's almost like one of those individuals that school, college,
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it could be high school, wherever, where they feel like
an outcast. They may dress differently from everyone else, but
the more people disengage from them, the more of their
confidence they lack. And so then they decide, well, let
me try to dress like everybody else. But they don't
like that style. They liked the way they dressed before.
They were actually confident leaving the house in that outfit,
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but what ended up happening is someone didn't validate them.
So now they're changing up and trying to fit in
or put it on that outfit and getting very loud
in the middle of the whole entire room, screaming.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Look at me.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And I think that all of us need to get
to a place where we have a level of confidence
in ourselves that we are not seeking so much validation.
But the left really has a problem with that, and
I do believe that is the reason why we ended
up here with the Charlie Kirk situation and his assassin.
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I believe we have a lifestyle because this person, you know,
was trying to represent LBGT with its dealings and then
also trying to come at Charlie Kirk with other things
that they felt Charlie Kirk did not agree with them
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on or support, and that right there is the reason
why we're here, because we need to stop looking for
validation with others. And I believe that also as conservatives,
we and people really need to call a spade a
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spade when it's there. If you're talking about something in particular,
let's stick to that instead of looping everybody in. And
also give people a chance to change. Yes, things have
been this way, yesdi have has been a thing in
certain areas, in certain industries. But can we give people
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a chance for that to change? And I believe Charlie
Kirk made some very valid points when it came down
to things like abortion, when it came down to things
in the black community as well, because I've watched several
of his videos about this, and we're talking about single parent,
single family homes and dealing with the mothers always raising
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children and raising the suns and whether these things have
an effect on the community as a whole. And I
believe personally that it does. But we have to rightfully
balance these things. And one of the biggest things in
one of the debates he had with a young man
who wanted to talk about the black community, was that, yes,
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it's on the black community to change it. But then
also at the same time, there was there is no
systemic racism, and that's not necessarily true either. There have
been situations and issues where someone of a certain background
or nationality was out trying to get a job and
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they were not able to attain that job, not because
they weren't fit, but because they didn't want to deal
with someone of that nationality. That has been a thing,
and that's a thing in recent years, and with Charlie
Kurt being thirty one years old, and I guess you
could say individuals in certain generations there may not be
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an experience of that because things change century to century,
decade to decade, things change, right, and the more we
go into this life, some may have experiences that others
haven't had. And one thing I want a conservatives to
really stop doing is only pandering and catering to the youth.
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I see that happening a lot, and I feel like
right now, even in twenty twenty five, we do need
to start talking amongst our own age groups, and like,
right now, I'm an eighties baby, I feel like those
from the fifties, sixties, seventies, if the forties, wherever, they
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need to be having a conversation amongst one another as well.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
This is not just a youth thing.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
The youth are very much so still affected by the
traumas before them. And what I mean by that is, say,
for instance, your grandmother, your great grandmother, or your grandfather
great great grandfather experienced certain discriminations if they had businesses
that were burned down to the ground that they were
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trying to build.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
These things are very much so real.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
And one example Charlie Kirk made was that back in
the day, back during slavery, people worked harder, and that's
so much, that's so much truth to that. But at
the same time they work harder and lost more they did.
It's just a real thing. And if we think about
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all the black communities that have been burned down, have
been washed out, if we think about the hard work
of someone in the past and their children and their
children's children coming into these next generations, they're still feeling
those traumas, or they're still being raised or taught by
somebody who had that trauma. Because once again, racism on
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either side, whether it be white, black, whatever, it's taught right.
You don't just come to these conclusions on your own
unless you have experiences. And so that generation is trinkling
down and teaching the younger, and then we're getting a
lot of the results that we're getting in beliefs and
how we behave and when it comes onto the black
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community hip hop and entertainment, a lot of this stuff
really does need to stop. But it has to start
at the age group that's really pushing this out there,
and it's not necessarily the youth turning around and pushing.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
That back on older groups.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
And I have always said our name drop some rappers
that I'm like, I need you guys to come out
and straight out just dis denounce the gang life. That's snoop,
that's fifty cents TI. A lot of these rappers who
are out here who are very popular behind the scenes,
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they may have their little groups of kids and stuff
that they may talk to or whatever and encourage. But
how often are we seeing our very popular hip hop
artists get out here and say this.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Is not it and literally push that at.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
A volume that is so loud that the youth start
to see this is not it.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Let's choose something else.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
But yet we keep having these young rappers popping up everywhere,
trap rap whatever, whatever the terms are, and they're out
here talking about killing and doing all of these crazy things,
drug dealing, whatever, and so that is a huge issue.
And I feel like with the conservatives, with liberals, we
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have to start having a conversation amongst our age groups
about what.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
We can do different.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
And there are some age groups out here, unfortunately, who
think they have done nothing wrong and don't do anything
wrong and they just know everything. There's an age group
out here for that. It is something else, you guys.
And I hate that we have conservatives and liberals. I
hate that we're split the way we are. I hate
the red versus the blue. I don't like this attitude
(33:51):
because it means that there's such a disagreement on how
to move forward and do things that we have to
separate the way we are. And that's jacked up to me.
As far as the liberals go, there's not too much
I agree with on that side.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
It's very hard for me.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I am not a person who is a full open
door person in the sense of let's just open the
door and let the floodgates do what they do. I'm
just not that person. I am also not someone who's
not open to change and trying new things because something
isn't working. So I'm not uptight either. I feel like
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you have to find something in the balance, you know.
And that's just my thoughts on this. I feel like
we have to start treating each other better on all fronts.
I have listened to a lot of things that have
been said, even after what happened to Charlie Kurk, which
is so unfortunate, and I am just really upset with
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all of it. I'm really upse said with how we
treat each other. And I will end on saying this
to you guys who may listen to this podcast and
may hear me all the way through. I want to say,
start at home. Everything that needs to change starts within.
It starts with us. It starts with the mirror. And
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when Michael Jackson came out with that song Man in
the Mirror, I'm gonna tell y'all that song is a
is amazing, and not only is it amazing, it is
something that is so accurate and we have to start here.
If you have children, you teach your children right from wrong.
You teach them what it truly means to control emotion,
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what it means to be hurt and feel a certain way,
but have a better response about it. Be active in
each other's lives when it comes down to your home
and your loved ones, be active, have conversations, be on
it with one another. And also I would say, let
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us all be willing to change and be willing to learn.
None of us, at the sound of my voice, none
of us knows it all.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
None of us.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Also, at the sound of my voice, all of us
get it wrong sometimes, and that is all of us,
and that's important to know. So let's start with ourselves.
I would be working on myself. It's so much you guys,
that I want to learn and be better about. And
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it will come in time. We have to be patient
and apply it as we see it and quickly change
and adjust as we see it happening. But it can
be done. You guys, just know that. So I appreciate
you for listening. And this is just my thoughts on
it all. There is enough blame to go around. There
is no such thing I feel like in any of
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this right now where there's not some blame in the
way we treat each other. It has to stop, and
I hope it does. And so you guys, until next time,
and if you have any comments, please do feel free
to hit the link and let me know your thoughts
on this entire situation. And if you understand somewhat o
(37:23):
where I'm coming from. I do believe that I'm probably
one of those other voices out there, because right now
is the very split voices either here or there. But
I'm trying to be somewhere in the middle, which I
believe I really am. You know, that's just where my
heart is, truly. So you guys, let me know your
thoughts on everything, and until next time, you guys, Chat soon.
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