Urban Economic Empowerment Show: Community Engagement

okay you ain't having much dollars look at that yeah I got mine they gave me my birthday discount on them hoes too was your birthday uh last Monday even yeah dang profit everybody Welcome to Urban economic me sure I'm on with Chris like that we about to get into put you on my iPad I crazy cuz I'm in the corner I had to prop up my iPad table go back in DD horrible sorry get no it's well that's your money that's my drink here you to go back get it yeah Chris I link it what I'm looking for the link oh there you go I'll put you on my my um put you on the iPad man what you got going on man whatever I want hell no about to fire you we live you know that right why you over here cutting up we live let me talk like that's crazy yeah I just told you that like two times doing your own thing I said Chris we live yeah you just kept going that's crazy acting up AC so yeah me oh you hear me now y all right goam it so yeah I'm gonna um share some stuff you got some information what what do you wanna would you um what you talking about sharing they had a meeting today or who me yeah just grant oh you said did I have a meeting today yeah like the FED no okay next week yeah was coming up uh but no I did take this uh atanta fed class yesterday though what kind of class uh the Atlanta fed what time was that class you couldn't get into it oh why I gotta be a member yeah pretty much how you took it you reserved it yeah it's another one on the 29th I'm just waiting for I'm waiting for the instructor to send me the slides of everything who is it about uh man to be honest it was really a bunch of stuff that um I already knew um but uh some stuff I didn't know like um it was really just a eon class um and they talked about inflation and a dual mandate so what you learn uh I think all this stuff political man yep um like they don't even cover well I ain't going to say it like this so I asked the instructor about um gdii and uh GNP GDI is gross domestic income um and then GMP is gross national product both deal with the consumer how much they're spending um how much income they have and bringing or whatever so but they don't really cover that anymore so but uh they did give me an answer about it uh they just don't what they make seem like it's really not it's not a part of the uh the AP section anymore they took it out and they may still look at it but they don't look at it like that see grow gross domestic income is a measure of the total income earned and cost incured in the production of a country's gross domestic product GDI is calculated by adding up all wages profits and taxes then subtracting subsidies in theory GDI should be equal to GDP but the different data sources used to calculate each metric lead to different results the difference between the two is called the statistical discrepancy and see the the US Bureau economic analysis prod produce both the GDI and GDP so which is why um I'm inrig is not really discussed like that so the gdr and the GDP yeah the uh Bureau of ecomic analysis they uh they do that what's up price I'm trying to figure out why they send me my damn send me the slid because I get hey what's up price I get a ctif I get a certificate every time I take one of these classes so I could potentially use these as uh uh CP CP hours yeah c c yeah credit education uh yeah CP was continued education yeah yeah so it's another one on the 29th um that one's dealing with monetary policy but like I said man I think it's all politics um and they don't they don't really touch everything bro like they know more than what they give out but because there's just so many factors and they do not share all the information so cuz they was surprised I even asked about GDI and GMP so oh but he gave me his email he said I can email him about him but uh then the lady came on and she uh she started talking about it but he said they did take it out of the um the AP um material so got you yeah they got a conference coming up oh it already passed I'm looking through this is the Atlanta Atlanta Federal [Music] Reserve yeah they got an event coming up let's see you should have you should go to it this one the central bank one uh that's in Atlanta I'm trying to see there one in Atlanta that's coming up that uh this look like they P yeah I think it's like a economic Workshop or something like that they were saying on there because one of the guys was going to go and uh the the instructor he's going to be there too but I don't know we sure it on the calendar so I'm looking oh o oober this one first through the second well they got two hold on let's see what this one is and you financial service industry conference yeah I think that's it maybe that's it it's in December oh no that ain't it then so much U let's back it let's back it up maybe it was something else St I just left Georg state judg state got nice um this one technology enabled disruption this one's October October 1st through the 2 let me check my calendar real quick this one's um technology technology changes a fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the market economy in motion reshaping the ways of producing and distributing goods and services as well as the structure of firms and Industry the purpose of the conference series is to provide better understanding of emerging and ongoing technology this one has to do about the technology no it's not that either hold on let's go back I'm tripping this uh e and this is Atlanta's yes let me see Financial Market conference let's see when that one this one was in May um oh this class is in October man octob this conferences to see so you got well that's the only ones they got listed unless it's a seminar hold on it's different things this isar webinars hold on no this is going 2023 stuff leading voices Series October 7th they got exploring emerging issues that affect us and Regional economics maybe that's it October 7th at the Atlanta Hawk and state form Arena have a big crowd the Atlanta feds bleeding voices series features Insight from Pro prominent thinkers on the complex and varied challenges facing the Nations economy and financial systems the in-person events are by it's invite only each event will be live streamed and recorded links will be posted here hold on let's go to the next one let's see research oh here we go let's see if we got it on the calendar I might have to go to Dallas to go to some of these um these fed Federal Reserve events you want me to look at the Dallas one I'm already looking at it well we want to see what you need to see for you ain't in Dallas so oh they got a women in Central Banking Workshop oh I want to go back because that one in Atlanta said Community Development let me see if they got some money well they got one in in Mexico City on November 25th third cmla Dallas fed IB EFA Financial stability Workshop that might be worth going to where it's in Mexico City in November where's that huh where's that at Mexico City in Mex actual Mexico yeah oh ain't going there oh you ain't going to Mexico at the end of the year here maybe you can't be on both sides of the fence energy ladies and gentlemen your attention please we'd like to welcome you to the swamp tonight this is um and if you are here from Gilbert if you're a fan of the Gilbert JB team here for the JB game you now make your way to the visitor side please hold on they put them over to have you on our visitor side tonight thank you so don't sit on this side oh today is 911 remembering 911 I forgot yeah I apologize okay oh so okay okay okay okay little put your little take a little moment of silence for those sacrifice um I'm tripping in Houston I'm tripping I want to show you something so while you over here looking for these events so while I was at you know I'm on my little environmental justice kit right so while we've been looking for different opportunities I notice when I do a Google search you look on the bottom of the Google it says our third decade of climate action so when you click on that for Google it brings you to the 20124 environmental report that Google is involved in how to be more sustainable while Comm are traveling on the road um and on here.com here are some green commuting tips to consider if you notice when you go to different websites you're going to begin to see how they're talking the reason I was asking you about carbon capture you're going to be getting to see a lot of information in reference sustainability carbon capture carbon waste um storage and things of that nature right so like right here on Google it's a more sustainable future through information and Innovation and as you can see it's mentioning the carbon free energy so the reason I was asking you about those Technologies because that's about to be a big thing and where the money is going to be you was asking who about the Technologies remember I asked I say what companies what publicly traded companies yeah um captured cor capture and it's because Corbin um Corbin captur Corbin decarbonization carbon carbon waste storage is is the conversation right now right it says since our since our early days we've been an ambitious journey to help build more sustainable future through our products we aim to empower individual cities and partners to collectively reduce one Gat ton of their corbon equivalent immersion by annual 2030 for our sales we have a bold goal to reach Net Zero immersions across all of our operations and value chain which includes running on 24/7 carbon free energy on every grid we work where we operate so carbon that that conversation you going to hear that a lot sustain a sustainable future requires system level change strong Environ government policies and new technologies we know that AI has potential to help solve some of the climate's biggest challenges scaling Ai and using it to accelerate climate action would be just a critical I mean a crucial as crucial as address ing the environmental impact associated with it we're committed to collaboration and playing our part every step of the way so yeah so when you when you start have that that the conversation of climate change and this why I wish some of our people would become a little bit more educated on what to ask these politicians and talk about it because you notice they say um they say uh the climate the biggest the challenges but they're also saying it's going to help right because the challenges is the is the social injustice piece of it of storing stuff in areas and causing potential health problems amongst those communities where they aim to go but you'll notice all of these websites all of these websites now are going to start talking about carbon free Carbon free energy so what's an example of carbon free energy Miss Mo hold on let me um you know what I'm gonna hold on I need these no these bugs I was trying to sit out here and watch the game at the same time but it ain't gonna work let I said you supposed to put the off on and then H how is AI gonna help for sustainability oh it's not it's probably the knowledge and the how to get information quicker type of deal hold on on right now hold on short let me take my butt to the truck this ain't working out but since the bugs is popping in my face I got questions I got questions I know I he yeah hold on let's see hold on you start to sound like one of them environmental Naes no I'm I'm looking at it from another another perspective hold on I'm G tell you you know it's two sides to the story no you already open up open up a couple question I got one more question too then no I thought I was rubbing definition of multitasking I I know somebody was trying to help me somebody was trying to help me last week and it was yeah and it was like um they were like I don't know what she got going on they was like you're not supposed to use that with your feet are you said I am that man just say he was G rub something on down no you fir you fire PR you fire man what you got going on over there man I'm over here trying to get to my car I got I got I got uh hard of hearing you know no I had a uh soda you know roll in my little CH to get to my down and stuff with you better not say that loud boy that's what I thought I heard the ding about rubbing something on your back my soda I had the soda behind me and the the uh my chips had fell so we drinking soda now what happened to him yeah what happened to the D oh not right not right now I'm break you how you back slide that fast just just today just today I didn't realize my Tru was way over here he said soda like three times like we W gonna say nothing about that I didn't know we was still drinking soda that was true no so you bought that you know don't even drink soda oh so I drink green tea I drank green tea dyed green tea zero calories zero sugar how much water you drink today yeah how much water I didn't drink I gotta go to the bathroom right now yeah you over here I have to uh I gotta J that it was a little hot about envirment then she drink is that is that carbon free soda yeah it's definitely not carbon free talking about me today listen I'm trying to [Applause] um kind uh what all right so one of them low we already know no so we already know the adverse sides of things so you don't need to dwell on the adverse side what you need to be finding out is how how you can maneuver through these operations and how and benefit at the same time without them infiltrating just do their their mission because they gonna do it anyway whether whe you take advantage of it of the opportunities to help your community or not hold on I don't really care at all don't had a dog economic influence I had to put my stuff away so I can walk back walk back to the FR yeah I know say you get that soda my orange crush crush oh man it'll take a minute to get there okay so so you know oh I got window my here generational web credit financial literacy one more time man I'mma did you say generational we fincial yeah yeah credit generational wealth financial literacy oh my God bro those are the who said that Chris huh said that I'm saying that if I hear it one more time I'm a d I'm a break man cuz God dog they just watering all this [ __ ] down bro I'm just like man get over it man Godly stop saying it why y'all all saying this now like you don't even know what you talking about generational wealth what does that mean you might not even be here so like I said when you go to the different websites you're going to start to see a whole bunch of Corbin free Corbin capture Corbin be carbonization Corbin huh Corbin you mean cor she trying to talk proper you you know that's my Louisiana thing coming out now don't Louisiana come on over and and try to anate differently just because I got this little accent going on potatoes potatoes that don't matter tomatoes tomato whatever people's okay your people's good yeah my M say it's turning yeah it's going to New Orleans now yeah but I a I'm not in New Orleans I'm near I'm in um aalo is near Lafayette in the middle yeah they was coming to Lafayette that's the only reason I was asking yeah it's it's a it kind of curve a little bit okay well GNA tell us about curving yeah yeah so this girl thck so so there's a lot of conversation on the ground about um consent based sting trying to get individuals who on Lane in particularly the disadvantage disenfranchised uh what else you want to call it marginalized um communities who own land to hold on let me go to it carbon waste what what exactly is the carbon waste that they capturing and storing in the marginalized communities yeah that's the point of the fact that of the health issues that comes with it what is it yeah I mean is it is it sludge brackish water what what we talking be in America it could affect it it could affect all the The Bu so let's look it up he said I'm not even about to be in America I'mma let y'all I'm G let y'all deal with that man what you mean you dealing with it now a a ain't nothing gonna be done I'm G we gone yeah see I'm with Chris because it sound like they just setting up re re setting up a new chess board yeah if I can make from it now that's a different story well I like that's why I was asking you about that's why I was asking you about the different uh publicly traded companies man you didn't even respond my bad price go ahead you a answering the question about what's the this whole carbon capture when you when I think carbon I'm thinking about somebody putting a a bag or filter on a smoke stack and running it into a tank and then I I don't even know what Stu is let's go to it okay so this is the center this is international environmental law it says Corbin what is carbon cap capture and storage carbon capture and storage and carbon capture utilization and storage are processes designed to collect or capture carbon dioxide generated from high em emiting activities like coal or gas fired power production or plastic manufactur those captured immersions or then transported to sites where they are used for industrial processes or stored underground emiss emissions CCS do oh go Ahad so this is like a vapor or something that they put in a tank and then they pump it under the ground back into the ground right okay okay ccs does not remove carbon from the atmosphere at best CCS presents the emissions caused by the combustion of carbon based fuels from reaching the atmosphere provided that the capture gases are not later released oh okay so in practice CCC masked the harm harmful carbon emissions from the underlining Source enabling that source to continue operating rather than being replaced allog together generates additional risk impacts and costs associated with ccs infrastructure such as pipelines who CCS that's the carbon capture storage okay okay let me go to um and you said pipelines okay yeah pipelines y y y hold on seven reasons why policy makers should reject carbon capture and storage it's too late for that now the build out of CCS infrastructure represents serious health safety and environmental risk marginalized communities already over by industrial hazards are being targeted for CS they sure are transporting and storing storing carbon dioxide involves a massive network of perilous pipelines connected to underground injection sites each with its own set of dangers pipelines can leak or erupt compressed CO2 is highly hazardous upon release and can result in in X how y'all say as foration oh let me I can't see that oh oh let me make a bit decarbonization CC here third line oh expiation acation of humans and animals under and animals underground storage pose additional risk such as potential leakage contamination of water drinking and simulation of seismic activity these hazards apply to all the current and proposed VAR utilize utilizing CCS Technologies including carbon capture utilization and storage fossil hydration Hy hydrogen with uh CCS bio energy with ccs cold bio Energy Systems with ccs wasted energy with ccs and direct air capture which depends on CCS or CC us to manage the captured carbon so same thing that nuclear waste storage and any other storage going to do is going to contaminate the area and cause health problems so we saying CO2 yep health safety and environmental risk huh okay the two something that's on the periodic table and naturally in the earth is a problem when we put it back into the Earth and if too much of it get in the air it it causes a problem right okay CO2 I guess because it's um they said the pipelines can leak or erupt compressing are highly hazardous wait a minute is this is it um on the periodic table is it why am I seeing this I have to look it up don't let me see that okay uh okay CCs is not consistent with principles of environmental justice pollution burden communities are being targeted for CCS which brings new risk and threats Ironically in the name of environmental justice matter of fact the guy just met last week and is headed to Louisiana and Mississippi and Al Texas I think one of them um because he's the only person that has studied uh corbon captured waste and its effects I'll try to pull up his um oh somebody just came in hold on let me put them in here let's be Brandon prob oh that's umre so then it says um the US Golf Course Coast including the Louisiana Patrol chemical Corridor known as the cancer alley Northern Plains and California Central alley and the Providence of Alberta and sash kwana y'all know what I'm talking about in Canada are among those areas being targeted for CCS development such a buildout would impose new pollution and safety hazards on black brown and Indigenous communities already suffering the disproportionate and daily impacts of environmental races he miss Mo you know that's what that pipeline was about that the uh Indians was mad about yep yeah they cut up when they when they didn't want um what call to come through that time is that what that when they was cut up out there yes the pipe line people keep talking about that's oil that's not the oil it's the sludge yes from the oil right it's the waste so is that an example of carbon yeah okay okay yes yes yes and more yes as a matter of fact um the guy in um so the guy who gave that class I'mma see if I can pull it up just saying man using all these fancy terms and all that we just asking what the hell it is you know you say it's brackish water uh if you know sludge we know that I wanted to I wanted to um I wanted to show not leave $20 words and stuff I wanted to r d replacing fossil Fus carbon capture technology prolongs our dependency on it so I wanted to show well let me read this last one by my design carbon capture is a parasite where you going dang no yeah boy think you hear you y'all didn't hear that right so what I was what I was get what I was getting at is that um you know a lot of people talking about our community what we going through you know policies um what's in it for us how do we help our communities if we going through this that and whatever and there is a grant out called and I'm saying that what you saying I hear you typ that we we F we focus on the negative but we don't see how we can you what can we use to help the situation out what wait what does wait what does that mean focusing on the negative because we just focus on the effects of what's Happening we're not focusing okay you think they're gonna just come over and do it for you no what they help your community be they should they owe us they not they not well [ __ ] them you know they not them hey they should do everything they supposed to do but they not well I'm up out of here anyway so [ __ ] it but we got to do this one way or the other I'm tired of half stepping I'm tired of [ __ ] ass politics and presidential debates oh I'm G vote for this person because I think they better than the other person cuz I don't like them this is [ __ ] what why are we crying and complaining and begging people to do [ __ ] I just say we get the [ __ ] up out of here with you on the politics bro I'm tired of national politics I mean yeah it's it's just it's silly it's really silly and I'm starting to really think that or really see rather I should say how [ __ ] made a lot of this [ __ ] is you really waiting for somebody to say hey okay I'm going to do this for you if you put me in office [ __ ] you in office right now and you have done nothing so like they couldn't put like somebody like me on stage to say something because I would just require like for you to do what's needs to be done like don't talk to me about by immigrants when my ancestors built this [ __ ] up so you giving them [ __ ] that I should have and then again I could be like well since I can't reap My Rewards well let me do this let me not participate in your system or participate outside your system and reap the rewards that way by being an investor in America but living somewhere else [ __ ] it pay tax ta whatever I still don't have to deal with the [ __ ] here I don't have to vote I don't have to worry about all this other external [ __ ] that could affect me you know doing stuff for my community and all this other stuff the hell with that because I know it's not g to happen you know people want to have closed door conversations instead of just saying you know stuff out in public I'm just like this stuff is silly man it's waste of time and energy and if you can't really get on cold with 3% of the population you know what's the point I just I just go overseas somewhere go to Africa and just live out my days over there and don't have to deal with you know bread and circus in America what's going on peace fam what's going on so uh you know but this this is an interesting topic though but you asking for people to help themselves I get that because we should but we deserve everything like if I got a big scream yell hey you know you need to do something for us because of what our ancestors did that's a problem already I don't think that problem gonna ever be solved unless we just start killing people and get on some that Turner [ __ ] that's the only way this thing is goingon to happen or there's a war let's say China gets tired Russia gets tired or whatever the case and they just like [ __ ] it well we just G to team up on your' ass and just bomb you to death and you know we'll just suffer the cost that may or may not happen but I just don't see you know how like Community activism you know can can I ask you a question yeah I feel I feel like Asian people are like a similar type of minority right as far as size it's probably less of them than us but why does it seem like they have it together and they ain't also not telling America they need to do this or do that like it it seems like that's a option too like that we could turn up ourselves too like a lot of other communities have done and overcame you know the BS I answer that for you idealistically that's great that's great but that's an idea to me it's more of a fantasy it's more of a fantasy I like the idea it's good that's why I said 3% of the population could get on cold perhaps you know people like I said earlier people want to have all these backdoor conversations you know [ __ ] the back doors man the closed doors all of this other stuff like get on code don't hey they don't want to give us this okay we take something away but we can't do that it's just too much division you cannot you cannot uh shift anything with too much division you got [ __ ] that believe in rappers you got [ __ ] that follow rappers you can't do you can't get on cold with nobody like that it's just not gonna work it's just that's what this place is made for it's made for confusion one person over here that person over there that person no it's not made for you to group up that time is already passed we had that back in the 60s back back in the 70 this time it ain't that time is over with cuz this is a different type of propaganda now so you got to actually unplug how many people going to unplug from the bread and circus that's what you essentially asking for you know back in the day could you could get on colde with churches and so forth and so on and come up with an agenda now bro this place is too big now you got black people everywhere so trying to get millions of people on cold and we out here debating debating on relationships you can't get on cold and we and we can't even get along with our own genders come on bro like seriously that that's hilarious that's well I would say though like they're having those same issues like they having the same gender they having the same not like that if you're if you're in their spaces you'll see the same type of things going they got the same type of YouTube Pages where they talk about the different Age The W they kind of do the same things if you if you look around around you're talking about you're talking about them you're talking about them riding off of our uh degeneracy and creating a niche market through it but it by by by far by far they don't go through the same things cause like I always I said this to my man the other day is just I said I said this to my man the other day I said in New York City if you ride the subway right you will see a a average Mexican man with his wife right and and her head is in his lap and I'm talking about average like I remember I seen a couple this dude had on two different color sneakers like two different styles and everything all at the same time but you know what they understand the survival of it right they understand the survival of it you can't go up to no woman with mismatch sneakers on and think you even gonna get a conversation like that is just like it's it's impossible it's impossible number two um to answer the Asian thing it's right in front of your face every major city has a Chinatown right and you know what happens in that Chinatown they have stores specifically for their culture and their lifestyle they have their own eye doctors they have their own Dentistry they have their own real estate you ain't gonna see no Chinese person outs unless you got a dope sneaker store patronized no black men right and then you have to understand that there's studies that show like when they come from Shanghai or they come from you know right outside of China which is Hong Kong they come with a gang of money already and so when they come in they come with the the the sense of Commerce well there a lot Asians a lot of different types of Asians too well I'm talking chese people I'm talking about the ones with the money right so the two with the money is is either Chinese or Japanese Japanese being that they got reparations and Chinese Indian people too Indian people well that's different okay we gonna talk about the Indians well look at what Obama did with the H1 v1s in in DACA right that's what they capitalize on and before that yeah if you I don't know if y'all ever been to India like I have it's the reason why I'm an atheist right India is the most like ruthless place I've ever been to on the face of this goddamn Earth and so when you look at them if you're not a Brahman or harisha you don't make it out of India the doll don't make it out the angori don't make it out right because it is it is poverty on a level and ruthlessness on a level that you'll never see and and look at it and think about Brahman right Brahman Indians shout out to KLA Brahman Indians right they they they're they're if you go into a 71 or or sometime a Subway look at how they look at you if you're darker than them look at how they act like they don't even want to take your [ __ ] money I thought she said her mom was poor like her mother is a Brahman bro 100% Brahman but Dre you pointing out you pointing out a lot of facts here all I'm saying too to add what you saying is what is our only Advantage when it comes to anything think about it what is our what is our advantage cultural relevance cultural but they always but they always appropriate right Chris like think about this I you know me I I'm deep into the political space right now even though I told everybody that woman wins don't call my [ __ ] phone but I said but I've said to them how come you listen never in the history of the United States of America did you don't know what Donald Trump eat you didn't know what Joe Biden ate how come I gotta know this woman wash her Greens in the tub she ain't never tell she ain't never tell no goddamn Mexican I make a mean taco right but I got to know that you watch Greens in the tub think about her d PE I remember my mama cleaning up the house playing Miles Davis a bramen [ __ ] Indian who could barely Miles Davis man look listen y'all ain't gonna be over here talking about I'mma talk about but bottom line is the bottom line is I yo the bottom line is y'all I'm telling y'all I never thought in my life that I would see propaganda on the level that we were taught about of Germany I never in my life but I but I'm telling you listen we got we got one of the biggest propagandas and he a [ __ ] PES got listen you you listen did you just say yes yes listen me and go at it me and pl go at it on Twitter on a daily basis with no proper etiquette bro really got some real like Venom TS ples being a person that's from Orlando and that grew up in Florida and saw what his music did to the mentality of us had us running around talking about if you don't do XYZ you ain't no real in or if you don't do this you you a FN and not a goon and I just literally see weed still we us still that was like the Bible to us the real test listen his name we GNA call him by his real name we gonna call him call you Al [ __ ] yeah [ __ ] used to wear things with goons on it with a [ __ ] with a face mask do you remember for one year straight do you remember for one every mixtape do you remember one year straight pla walked around with a ski mask on do y'all remember that for year straight this you can't C no black you can't yo what is he talking about and see this is what I've been telling people when we do those political spaces I said listen y'all I said I want y'all to understand something November 5th come and she wins you got to turn on your TV and hear F Jones cry like you could pay your bills you gotta hear Joan Reed celebrate like that woman you got to hear all this propaganda and guess what your kids are going to [ __ ] starve and I said I hope and like and anyone tell me oh I'm playing the couch I said I hope that couch fit right under the bridge that these people are going listen I'm telling you someone said to me the other day they weren't ready for us Dre they weren't ready for ad or FBA I said how many black people are in America he said 30 million I said you know it's 25 a million 25 million illegals right now that home Homeland Security just put that [ __ ] out and you think they weren't ready for you and these [ __ ] is getting 13,000 y'all [ __ ] ain't even seen 13,000 and these I said all right all right New York City look like a mother listen when I'm in New York on a yo man I said look y'all could play this game if y'all want this [ __ ] is for Real y'all can play listen if we don't step up and do like listen we talked about this [ __ ] since pre since the lockdown we were telling people listen it's the little window to get money is now y'all are y'all gonna get it and how many people fell off the show nobody want nothing to do with it okay well listen good night aene what what's crazy I was talking to one of my uncles and he was like you know from the military he was telling me that the reason why they bringing lot of them over there like that is because we to we feel like we're too good for those low level jobs how y' how y'all feel like feel about that there you go M you know that's true um I I feel the way it's not low we look at it as low level but it's not or labor labor jobs like work labor jobs those cats come in and get the the contract licenses to do those labor jobs and our folks we would just rather work instead of go take the test to get the the the licenses and that's that's one of the areas that and the people that they're talking about I don't think it's it's everybody but we have a demographic of individuals that just took took the role of not wanting not wanting that job but in the same sense the jobs that they're going after is limited um space for them in that case in point case in point I was at at the geoscience black geoscience conference this past weekend in Atlanta and the room was filled with more Continental Africans meaning they just left got here than it was um African-Americans or black Americans what whatever you want to call them why do you think that is the the the because the the discipline is not exposed in our community right so so right now you have so a lot of the jobs like the scientist type jobs is a turn off to our community yeah because they just not exposed enough yeah it's not exposed enough but right so you to work this shitty a lot of stem a lot of stem in particularly the research type stem job so so a lot of the funding a lot of the funding that they're putting out to help our community matter of fact um there's a professor there's two professors to be exact but this one in particular at Tennessee State University he came to the conference specifically to tell the geoscientist because he's a geoscientist but he's a l he's his um career predominantly is in land surveying where he was studying the red lining and um resoning and all of that stuff right and then it it it folded over into G GIS mapping where you map out different areas you know when they when they getting ready to go in politically and change your lines up and all that great stuff well anyways which folded into geoscience right so he came there to tell the geoscientist that hey you need to connect with um our communities which are black communities or rural communities are marginalized disadvantaged disproportionate whatever you want to call call it right because they need the science to help their community and so the funding is coming out for these researchers to go into the communities and help rebuild but what's what happens is because we don't know about it it gets in the other people hands and it goes from being revitalization to gentrification for their benefit and not ours and so in my opinion in ref to the jobs they're getting in some of the space we talking about the labor but in actuality in um the the spaces they're getting into is the res the stem jobs and that's a reason for that though nobody wants to work a shitty job for 1250 that can't cover [ __ ] but you got [ __ ] like this you giving the immigrants that's crazy well I mean don't we have the same opportun to take advantage of it like the same way that they do yeah we do yeah you're right with contractual Services you're talking about the labeler but the same labeler becomes a contractor and take the contracts and become the primes and so when are we gonna learn to take our skill set and that's the area I think that we're losing in I think that we're losing in the skills when we have the skills and our demand is to ensure that we get a fair share of these contracts at the table because almost every business in the country benefits from government contracts but they wouldn't they probably wouldn't survive right every company get some form of Contra have some form of contractual services with the government for either service or products right and so with that being said a lot of these individuals are coming in matter of fact we asked one guy it was a Mexican guy there and then there was like a in that Indian guy right and we asked him hey how did you get into what what made you wanted to study geoscience and the first thing the guy said was the money he said I went to study petroleum engineer and I got introduced to geoscience and geoscience was just a little bit easier well not necessarily easy but you know it was like less conflict to get in and um and got their school undergrad paid for grad and now they're in doctoral level um education and there doing research for and so they getting all these big stiping big grants you know money to start companies this that or whatever whereas we our kids get exposed to just the medical field in the aspect of Nursing and maybe some doctoring but not in the research of and there's a lot of because it ain't it ain't shared it's not shared that's what I'm saying what I'm what I'm saying what what I'm saying is saying to answer um um Mar question is that the folks that we entrust to uh bring this information back because of their high level education and the positions they been put in they ain't bringing it back they Ain putting bring right they're not bringing it back and they're not ensuring that th those areas are getting it down and I will go flick up clicking up and moving away right and I would say to the comment to the comment person right that has access to it is is your job to so after school there's opportunity for after school program it doesn't necess you don't have to give me something in the institution for me to teach something to a kid I'll just create a program and and and hopefully that the neighbors bring their child that's where we falling off if we're not look at look at the look at the camps that Dr May did this summer St look at the look at the educational curriculums that uh AR we got a lot of people people with a lot of um evidence-based educational curriculums outside of the school system that we can duplicate across the country to the boys and girls are men and women who don't get it and the only reason I bring that up is to how was going to start this conversation initially not from the environmental Injustice side or social injustice side but to say okay what about this Justice what about what about that you could take and transform your community it's there but what happens is a lot like right now somebody say hey Mo you ain't got before people watching your shows why you keep com putting our content with hopes that somebody tap in and take the information and help their Community because when we do it in our community we'll come to your community as well but you got to tap in we can't do all the work Whoever has access to the information the how tools and can put their hands on the money you can't expect them to come build your community what you need to do is come train with them and bring your team with you so that y'all can do the same thing in your community cuz I'm telling you after going to this conference they this this the when they speak on when they speak on climate change they're not really just speaking on climate change just for the WEA you know you to be prepared for what they're doing with the weather and the rization they're pushing it out there because the money that's going going through there is funding to revitalize why do you think the inner cities are getting revitalized not um y'all calling it Justified they calling it revitalized like you might want to watch pay attention to how they're using their words because and then now that they've done all of the C well majority of the Cities guess what they they're targeting the rural areas you know why because we got a lot of our people who have passed a airs property that they're coming in which is what I was talking about earlier to ask permission to come on their land and do what store nuclear waste carbon waste um and all the rest of the stuff that they do they're coming because they've ran out of the areas of where they can go now they coming now they gonna make it even worse for you and they gonna bring some more jump back to your communities but if if I give you money to help your community combat the situation and you don't take it I'm coming anyway I'm going to I'm going to take your land just like they tried to do to the lady in Hilton Head and I'm going to do it anyway so either you gonna take you gonna take something and I know I get Chris Point why do we have to go through all of that well that's the land we live in I get that I I definitely get that but this is for other people you know none of this stuff don't make I'm sorry it don't make sense you know it's just a bunch of [ __ ] to me when it comes to all the stuff that I hear when I hear people you know you know [ __ ] the white man and white man this the white man that but I'm like bro you're still here like like what is all of this energy for and for one you're not teaching nobody [ __ ] you have literally nothing to offer besides [ __ ] the white man which I think is weird I'm just like like I get it okay [ __ ] the white man but you're not you're not fighting him any way or you making you going to work for him huh exactly I don't even know who the white man is anymore in this whatever context they're using so I'm just like it's it's really weird and I'm just like I would rather you just say oh I'm getting money okay I'm fine with that that's better off oh man [ __ ] the white man I ain't with that but you going to clock in you you paying income tax so forth and so on so it ain't really [ __ ] the white man it's you know you don't have you don't have nothing going on so but I was just saying all that to say just like when people talk about this Unity crap I just find it very crazy that the argument steer in One Direction and like they have this really like utopian idea and I'm just like I can't get with the Utopia stuff man I'm not with everybody unifying it's never going to happen it never has happened you know like I said you may have 3% of your ethnic group that may do something or unify but you know trying to get this person and that group and that group and that group I'm like you can't even do the first common thing to get on cold and that's you know relationships family you can't even get that right first but you want to unify preach let me oh I'm sorry go ahead no no no go no I just want to ask like all right so that that brings me to another question because I'm with you on that I've been for a while of course I've been thinking about moving elsewhere as well or at least operating from somewhere else of course still receiving certain benefits have property here and stuff but right yeah I thought about like wouldn't we also run into the same problem once we go to another country we G it's gonna be a political landscape it's gonna be people trying to you know maybe challenge the land that you stand on change rules that might disadvantage your kids so don't you kind of run back into the same problem not necessarily here's why here's why so the concept do you you think the propaganda is here worse now it could be propaganda everywhere in every country however yeah it's kind of country by country right so would you deal with would you rather deal with the stuff here than you than anywhere else so I'm not saying that it's some type of Escape right but I'm pretty sure the problems I'll have lesser problems dealing with that type of stuff anywhere else besides here and the only reason why I say that is because from what I hear other places are different that's not the say you won't encounter problems but if I can get away from the [ __ ] here because like I said this is a circus man we all gota we all know that and it could be a circus elsewhere but I think the circus here is worse that's just my opinion whether I go to Tanzania Ghana Germany England wherever hell South America whatever the case is all I don't have to stay there I'm not bound to that place because my citizenship is here and of course you can get dual citizenship elsewhere I would rather just get paid from my investments here and live somewhere else that's a bit more peaceful and where I don't have to deal with silly [ __ ] that goes on here I have to be honest I think this is the worst place to be if you really trying to get something done and to really build or really unify because I'm not saying you can't but the unification that people talk about that was in the past that that time is gone this is a whole different world now we got too many different evils and too many different too much different propaganda to fight against so to answer your question yes you will run into other problems in other countries but I don't think those problems will be bigger than the problems here that's all I'm saying all right now that I'm away from white folks let me say this no I hold on I want I want Maris to respond to that okay oh you want me to respond to do you kind of see what I'm saying though oh yeah I see what you're saying I I've just been you know I've had people that I've known who moved to other countries me just watching other people other countries and there are tradeoffs I think it depends on you as an individual if the trade-offs make sense and if you're where you're going make sense or not because some people could argue they can find their little pockets here in America where they ain't gota worry about no BS and kind of get away from everybody still you know live okay but you know in other countries their political systems can be different unstable you know all kind of things absolutely I'm stud happen I'm studying to be a financial advisor and they tell you political risk is worse outside of America I agree with that that that's factual however I may find a pocket here somewhere in the United States but I'm still a [ __ ] so I ain't escaping that nowhere but if I can silence a lot of the noise but still and still deal with a little noise here here and there wherever that is I'm fine with that well got one one more question so I I'll have to ask this yeah why is it right that we were just kind of saying that Elite people were coming from other countries to do that exact thing in America why are we going the opposite direction like why are they coming here if they are Elite already finding their little pockets and able to flourish as black people you know why oh go ahead no no go ahead that was that was pretty much it oh well one they wasn't born here and nine times out of 10 if you if your ancestors came over here slaves nine times out of 10 people who come over here they getting a benefit before we do and then they blame us to say oh you know you didn't take advantage of what we giving you well we don't even know about whatever they're giving that's some crazy [ __ ] so yes somebody that's foreign can come over here and do well cuz they don't deal with the same [ __ ] we deal with that's just like that's why I asked y earlier what are our advantages our advant we had I think cultural one we can we can move some [ __ ] culturally with Trends and everything we can whoop everybody's ass if we had if we needed to but we don't use that strength we we canum the highest we can run the fastest we can fight but we don't utilize those to our advantages in every sector so so well let me ask you this what advantage that's an advantage advantage of as so what advantage does a Nigerian black person have in America that we don't have outside of their family structure they come from they no there's no such thing as a poor Nigerian Coming to America just I was saying like the elite these Elite I'm saying I'm saying an elite Nigerian so think think about it this how I think about this right so I think about this in terms of exports and imports if I can get a foreigner to come to my country and contribute to my economy and then they do well I mean these are people who are not going to jail who are not you know not [ __ ] up [ __ ] basically they come over here and being productive why would I not take that and then you got somebody that's in the hood that's not we comparing it to you we're comparing it to you in this situation we comparing it to you yeah to me over between a foreigner and myself yeah because you're thinking about leaving and they're thinking about coming but y'all both are valuable well I'm saying you can you can benefit I me as I could benefit another person's economy with my American dollars and my American you know hustle and muscle or whatever the case is and these people come over well [ __ ] they giveing money they give opportunities I'mma take it nine times out of 10 they family undone the research there's some opportunity that they see cuz let's be real America's about money I'm an American I can go anywhere and [ __ ] move somebody's economy which is why you got people right now that's Americans that go to other countries and the locals there like man the Americans coming over and they they making all the prices go up yeah causing that inflation that's what I heard happen in Ghana yeah that's the type of power that Americans have when they go to other countries foreigners don't have that type of power they come to get some of that even the brokest American they know you're going to come to their country and consume because you do it in your own country so if you come over here hell yeah the economy gonna be booming but a foreigner they don't get that they trying to come and get some of that American dollar American power and they bring some of that home I've seen this firsthand too some of the forign people from India so forth they come on they come over here take advantage Bill [ __ ] and send that money back home so you know they taking full advantage so you can look at it as a win-win honestly yeah no I understand I was just thinking it was just interesting yeah just to think of like if you got two you know a Nigerian and African-American both of them got their money right this Nigerian says I want to live in America and then go back home and visit Nigeria but this african-amer says I want to go live in Nigeria and then maybe visit America every once in a while yeah it's it's really a win-win on both sides but like I said nobody's going to turn Americans down with their money because they come to spend now if you got a record obviously you know they G like what you doing over here what you got going on but if you got paper man and you coming in talking about buying and investing [ __ ] all right we'll let you you know you good we give you a temporary Visa then you can get citizenship here and here you know so it's like I said it's a win-win on both sides and that's essentially something I would do I would live somewhere else and come to America here and there yeah I think I I ultimately feel the same way but I go back and forth um yeah you know I can't really tell until I go over that because then the other component is what about that that ingred that essential ingredient we talked about earlier which is the family so of course you know if you just like by yourself doing your thing living as a nomad it don't matter as much but once you got a family then those the politics and those things start to matter more stability start to matter more you know so I I don't know how I will feel okay I'm over here living in you know I'm saying uh Rwanda you know because you know it's popping is doing good but then once I have kids and then I realize okay this this is this is a dictatorship and you can't really like vote certain rules in and out maybe I might not feel the same way right I feel you on that I feel you on and matter of fact my I had a friend her her and her family it's eight of them they all moved to Tanzania now they income wasn't would you say like they I don't think they may have been middle class or maybe below I was like damn working class yeah I would put it like that yeah that's a better way to put it so they move sh they been gone theyve been gone a while now but I'm just like yeah it's a lot to think about with that espec especially you got a family me I'm single I ain't got no kids I can do whatever [ __ ] I want and not have to worry about much but family that that's a different conversation for sure yeah but definely something I've been thinking about yeah Dre know all about that Dre expertise yeah about what sh no mad life you damn right that listen if that woman gets elected I'm out I ain't playing no games I'm out but um what I wanted to say is is that to your question and I wish Brandon was here because he's in Chicago and see we I'mma just be honest and this is not insult on a personal level this I'm not a your M Dre yeah you kind of chopping in yeah hold on yeah yeah yeah hold on one second y'all hold on give me one second I should because I went to another part of the house where the Wi-Fi changes I have two modems all right so what I'm about to say is not meant to be insulting at all it it just isn't but it's the truth yo the government knows black people don't know politics and what happens is is that me I could say this now because I've given up like but me being in the reparations fight the last year working with task force trying to get us lineage base reparations yo we are silly as hell bro and when you look at Chicago it's sad what happened to the natives of Chicago the black na of Chicago right but here's the thing it needed to happen for them to wake up if you remember the Democratic primary debate when Biden was running they asked him about reparations and he said we need to invest into the Latinos and the Hispanics they're the future of this country what did Biden do on his first day in office he signed in his he signed 18 executive orders to reverse border security y bars and so you are in a point now where in Chicago for years they would said we're underfunded we don't have money for the inner city yo think about the food deserts in Chicago do you understand how much money these people gotten there's an article posted on Twitter where Eric Adams the M what what what my God like I was saying um I'm such a good person um there was an article where Eric Adams um have to give he they're giving $4,000 to migrants just to move out of the shelter like how crazy is that you know how many black people a't got $4,000 in their bank account and y'all think this has happened St I like how you put that together yeah that is fact because I do remember him telling all the black off telling him y'all gonna have to respect these you know different you know Hispanic people because they gonna be a bigger population than you and then he proceeds to make that a reality that is an interesting way to frame that I'm just like you want me to stay here and accept that and be like oh okay you know I'll just wait you know until we on I'mma wait till we unify that way we can create some [ __ ] that don't make sense to me I'm sorry that don't make sense to me or I mean I think we could unify with people who already got some [ __ ] that sound that that sounds good in theory I I'm idealistic towards that I I really am I really am because they gonat but the you know the only R this is why I hate that or I love the fact how tribes were separate but if me and you were next next to each other you know we could get on some turns because I got my people and you got your people but you got [ __ ] in Detroit you got New York you got Orlando you got Houston you got LA and then all these other cities in between how we supposed to unify with them this is how we I guess I guess you're right I can't just name a a central body that okay if you go plug in with them you good right you know they got it together they're they're they're similar to like the ebo tribe who has a mentorship for all their young youth you know we so we so spread out now so oh that's not how we do it in Cali oh we don't do that we don't do it like that in New York like we can't have unification if that's the starter of the conversation like you been from California means nothing like we're we black [ __ ] like that should be the common denominator like you may do things differently I get it but what matters is like listen this [ __ ] ain't working what they doing we all see that so it can't be like oh here down in Florida man that's how we do it or down in Texas hey we do it like this no we can't have that that's a conversation that needs to be blotted out like first of all you gota but you know what's crazy you know what's crazy about that Chris is that a Dominican and a Puerto Rican won't get along with each other amongst each but let a black be in front of them and then they become Blood Brothers it's something about the Spanish language for their culture that binds them together right and and so getting back to what I was saying that shows you the difference is that when you look at what California the Senate of California did were trying to give illegal migrants $150,000 down payment on a house where black people make up 7% of California's population and make up 80% of skid row and we think that's by mistake right when you look at New York city where the average rent price is 2700 which most American black people cannot even fathom affording especially by themselves and you're just giving these people numerous amounts of money $6,000 EBT cards some people getting $10,000 EBT cards they getting and then it's like listen to what Nancy Pelosi said to Bill Maher Bill Mah said to her don't you think that's kind of crazy giving 150,000 to illegal migrants and then she was and she act like she didn't know now mind you she is a senator of California but she act like she didn't know right the policy but he said well the undocumented you know what she said well we want all of them to be documented so it's they're creating they're creating middle class while you suffer and you know what we get we get Jo and and Vibes and as a black man look let me tell you something I'll be somewhere butt necking in Asia looking at y'all like right well that's what y'all wanted but we got to be more politically astute we have to not play this game you know one of the things that hurt me the most and I'm not a fan of Obama at all but listen we all fell for the Obama Kool-Aid but when Michelle Obama got up at the DNC and said my parents raised me to look at people funny who took more than what she they needed and this woman got three Mansions worth over 100 million and she's telling poor black my family look that people took more than they needed yeah you may not you may not what she said you may not enjoy the advantages that PRI Generations got from affirmative action who you think she's talking to but you know what a Casio Cortez said the day the day before Michelle spoke at the DNC newcomers illegal migrants newcomers this is your time this is your story and like Chris say we just out in the we just out in the we just outside huh we just we looking inside the window like they eating all they're doing right all they're doing is like a mother telling their children I know you're hungry I know why you're hungry I know you're starving but we're GNA feed the neighbors and when you watch us feed those neighbors it's going to make you feel better because your neighbors are that's what they're doing right and and unless you grow unless we like I said we said this even during when when Mo Chris and and myself and when it was like 10 people in the show and most of them fell off we said this then like listen y'all this is the time for us to come together and get some money and do what we got to do because once they shut that faucet off to us it's over look at us now m I know somebody that literally barely knows me she knows me but barely knows me and she hit me up the other day for grocery money and I'm just sitting there like and I'm looking at her and I didn't tell her no I gave it to her because it was just like for you not to even know me on that level and ask me for grocery money I just gave it to her cuz I know you need it and she was like oh you know I'm GNA pay you back I said I didn't I didn't tell her you know cuz I said yo maybe that that could be me you know I do for my brothers I do for myself but the point that I'm making is yo we man listen to be honest with you and I'll shut up if white folks wasn't struggling they would even be they would find a way to Trump would even be in a discussion but I talk the white Carpenters electricians hvacs and plumbers and when they see legal migrants get a hammer and a and a veneer put in their hand and they can't even speak English and don't even know the job and taking over construction sites and these people are union carpenters and Union electricians in New York City and their degenerate son can't even get a job at shot right no more because that's being given away yo I'm telling you these white folks ain't playing these white folks ain't playing with with with this so and I'll shut up on that but I just wanted to give you a in depth look at what why and what who and how I don't mo mo where you at I'm right here yeah put that in your yeah that you know they ain't gonna do nothing not New York and Chicago we G to take what we can get and we gonna get something at least the little bit we can uh cuz I show can't move to another country and government benefits work everywhere don't it huh listen I've lived in other countries and I don't think I want to go live in another country because just like was spoken before you still at some point you still to get involved with their politics and all the extra stuff that goes on I've lived in Germany for four years and I think I've been in other countries for nine to 12 months a piece in other places and which uh which part of Germany Mo and our near Frank okay okay okay okay so North Central yeah Frankfurt like North Central okay yeah you know you still gota learn the customs and ways of the other countries right you know I I um some some Avenues are much larger for me to fight however if we all can gain some insight on some things that we can benefit from I think that it's uh that we should share and so I only can share what we we about to get involved with in our area the environmental did hey Mo did you tell Chris the good news that that diet that put you on working no Dre Dre don't ask bro cause she remember I called you I called Mo last week she said she was on she said she was M because I mean some chips Dre he just want to tail c i oh you already back back the first week I didn't back the first week you're not telling the truth okay what's where price go man price where what happened to the St I know not about get on that that soda is right there you don't even drink soda like I told you that my niece um not you not you Mo no oh that fuss but look I do want to share something so I know and and I I definitely understand everything that everybody saying but but there's there some small things I I can't talk on a global level okay but let's talk about some environmental stuff Community stuff yes okay you better tap in why you playing I'm the one that helped you out you ain't help me do nothing with the companies yeah I did you probably didn't even look did you I had already seen those I thought you ain't seen I thought maybe you had um no I just want to share um some little stuff that we're doing that may could help somebody oh sparber yes that's my um my lady her people yeah um I want to just share okay so I want to share this guy right here right he's the for representative of South Carolina in that Spartanburg area I just read his bio he's gonna be we have a retreat this weekend we're taking some um there's a group two groups that got funded by um Department of energy uh to to uh come out and help R areas with this grant right here well not with this grant hold on let me go back I do with it let me go back so we're applying for you know I can't save the world but there are some things that I we can do just you know to patch up some of the things that we need we can patch up some stuff right hold on let me find it because I gotta oh man I'm G bring it up again we write well we're writing this grant uh I'mma show somebody might be interested they may be in a rural area and say man I understand all everything y'all saying but you know I may not be able to leave so can I get some right is there anything that can help me right now and but in order to get in this space right here you're gonna have to get involved with your you with your local University and your your researchers your scientists you know Public Health uh environmental science uh psychology folks because you're going to need some power players on the team to help you write or to give you the data you need to support what you're trying to do because just saying we ain't got it they ain't gave it to us we need it it's not going to help you're going to have to get some people who knows how to go and do the research in your demographic and pull the data that um that speaks to the this disproportionate um marginalized um you know pollution in your area um toxic waste all of that you got to get the data so you got to partner if you have a nonprofit you have to partner with these universities who are accredited and who voice is going to weigh just a little bit heavier than yours so we're putting in for this grant right here um it came under the inflation reduction act and it's called a community change Grant and so we're going after this grant but before we were after the grant or before we submit the grant we have our last project we we did a project and taught the kids a stem project and taught the kids how to test water because there's two um plants in that area there's a nuclear plant um Weston house and then there's International Paper right and both of those affect they have horrible air quality you know a lot of uh the water and soil is horrible in the area so it got a lot of challenges a lot of things going on so the first thing they did was went into the high school created a high school um science club and taught the kids how to test the water so yes we relying on the experts to come and share what's going on in the community but we also teaching the youth on how to come up with that data on their own so if it does not agree you have some evidence-based information to plea your case when you're when you're speaking on um these things that plague your community so that's the that's the overall Grant they were going after so after the science the two science clubs oh we did water quality and air and air quality right um testing the water and the air food deserts that's coming up in November but before that we went after capacity building grants so we having a capacity building Retreat matter of fact I went two of us got to attend the um I told you went to the geoscience conference we got to attend that conference last weekend I invited an in a came out cuz you know an loves science he's into science and so he got to talk to talk with the scientist and all that and the keynote speaker was his one of his son's Bas basetball coaches all something with basketball but anyways nevertheless so he's going to come down to our Retreat try to understand the social side of things but so this Retreat we have coming in he's one of the guys that are coming um and he rewrited two communities using environmental justice funding so I'll talk about him first so the retreat is another uh pillar of the community change Grant to share uh how we building capacity capacity on the size of skill sets who can you bring to the table to help advocate for these challenges going on in your community because a lot of the environmental challenges is affecting the mental or maybe the health of the people and the the adults and the kids right so one of the people that we Benchmark is Harold Mitchell Jr he was a former representative Carolina so I read this by you say Harold Harold M Jr is a result result driven CEO and former state representative with a proven ability to leverage leadership Str strategic vision and public policy experts to drive organizational growth and positive social impact in 1998 he founded the Regenesis project an environmental justice organization in response to a spat of respiratory illnesses in neighborhoods near waste and toxic chemical facilities in his community Regenesis re received a $20,000 EPA Grant and began conducting a community Le planning process to chart the necessary infrastructure projects needed to repair the history of form and rebuild the arkright and Forest Park communities since the Inception Regenesis has executed a plan of cleanup Redevelopment and revitalization that now serves as a model for Meaningful environmental justice to date almost three million in federal state local private sector and philanthropic Investments have been leveraged towards site cleanups economic development affordable housing and health care for communities affected by the environmental racism now the Regenesis Institute is launching its second phase to complete the vision the community outline while helping expand the Regenesis model to lead the just transition Additionally the Regenesis Institute has launched a first of its kind accelerator for communities like Spartenburg to lead their own social economic and climate resilience transformation Mitchell was a member of the South Carolina House of repres uh House of Representatives from the 31st District serving from 2005 to 2017 he received the national black caucus of state legislators Regional legislator of the Year award in 2015 he's a long life resident of sparber so this guy he took his he he took 20,000 begin the plan come up with the strategy on how he was going to do it and now he's up to 300 million I can tell you right now we've we've we are at man probably almost almost a half a million at the at the start of what we're doing and so he's going to be there we're going to have a lady by the name of Dr the Addie uh and she is with I think I got that right here it is oh I think it's the must have got it wrong I think it's R TI I put RFI is RFI hold on let me find her she's coming out of Florida I think it's R TI T and she there she go RTI and she's going to do what's called a Nar she's the narrative change researcher so Dr we I think it's Yanda Eddie is is a narrative change researcher within the RTI transformation Research Unit for Equity as a health communication scholar her research interest revolve around identity and culture in Health Equity messages messaging narrative storytelling intervention and a mediate representation of Africa and the black diaspora Dr Addie brings her diverse background in communities and journalism public health and history to Pro to projects focused on improving Health Equity recent projects include tailoring diabetes oh oh somebody coming in hold on let me get them diabetes self-care wellb Pages for black women for the center of Disease Control and prevention and providing dissemination support for the durm community safety documentary heart um serving our neighbors in crisis before joury rti in 2023 Dr Edie was in orise Health Communications fellow with the CDC she has also served as a research associate for the center of public interest Communications a principal co-investigator and project manager at the University of Florida's Center for African studies and obam presidential appointed press assistant for the US Department of Agriculture and an English teacher volunteering with the Peace Corps in Panama she is also two times Us full bright Grant to Nigeria so she's going to be she's going to do she's going to talk about narrative change basically how you communicate what you need in your community so she's going to um try to educate the individuals in the room on how to change how they dialogue about what they need so to speak so that's that's her job that's what she's coming in so she's going to take you know sometimes we only have the emotion and frustration of what's happening to us and we don't know how to communicate what we need to change our situation and so that's her job if that makes s sense and then we have um oh Dr mlan and she's coming from the harambe house oh did I see it think I think it's see it comes harambe where harambe from M Mo um she's oh no that's the name of the organization oh where is that at where's that located I think Hilton Head okay okay so Dr mlan Dr M mlan she's also known as Mama V I think I said right is a distinguished fellow for movement Elders at Groundswell Dr mlan she's 50 years old veteran of the people's movement for justice and self-determination worldwide is the executive director executive director emiritus for the harambe house and citizens for environmental justice which she found in 1990 Mama bajita um has worked in the field of Education Community Development public health environmental justice and people's Liberation struggles for over a decade for over five decades she has championed youth leadership development through the black youth lead leadership development Institute since 1988 where over 3,000 young adults have been trained and put to work for their people considering a an environmental justice Pioneer Dr mlan has engaged with communities all over the world assisting in building their capacity to speak for themselves as well as participate substantially in decision-making processes that impact their daily lives for 35 years she has fought for environmental justice in marginalized and disenfranchised communities throughout the USA under the leadership under her leadership the harambe house has partnered with the Department of energy the Environmental Protection Agency the agency for toxic substances and disease registry the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute for Environmental Health Science over the past several decades working for environmental and and economic Justice for marginalized and disenfranchised communities throughout the United States of America she has worked tirelessly to bring attention to the plight of people of color of who live near nuclear weapon production sites and to address the impact of radiation she is a high school graduate of the Commonwealth School of Boston graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston has a master's of education for Harvard and Antioch and a Doctorate in Education from Harvard School of Education she is the is the 2017 recipient of Sierra club's Robert Bard environmental justice award and the American Public Health Association Damu Smith environmental health Achievement Award so um so on so on so on so she's another one and then we're going to have um Cal Bryant EPA so Kyle Kyle Bryant he is an environmental scientist working in the EPA bridge program is currently assigned to the resource conservation and Recovery Act divisions uh ass section uh environment uh enforcement and compliance branch KY has over 15 years of experience in environmental field Cy earned his BS uh degree in Zoology with a minor in chemistry from Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley Georgia his undergrad years he had interim intern and Co-op experience with the US Department of energy Nevada operations office in Las Vegas Nevada hising so on and on on so he worked for EP yeah so I said that to say this so we're we're having a we've got funding through um we got affiliated with the environment of Justice because our new representative he's all about Environ uh he came from Minnesota got a lot of funding to help out the communities way he was so now he's coming here so we're going to take that $20 million change Grant and we have a whole bunch of little initiatives to help that area and and more um right now I think all the grants we have in on Florida is going to come out to about 36 million but in order to do that right what has what what you what you have to do what I'm what I've learned in my three months of watching and learning how how they put this together to be effective in a community so we talk about our community we talk about we talk lot about what we don't have and what we can't do but it's very rare I'm seeing people talking about what we can with what we have or what's available to us or what they would allow us to have access to and so the only reason I continue these shows because sometimes I'm just trying to share the the little thing that we can do to help your current situation or if you're like me and involved in the community how to be able to help your community or or at least get the conversation going with people who know what to do right because everybody don't know what to do your local folks don't know what to do um and we know that because if they did something will probably be be being done right but in the so what we're doing right now we're riding off a history's uh infrastructure which has either worn down or is in the process of wearing down and so many of the communities um are in need of new infrastructure or new processes and so many of our politicians who are running for our local offices they got the title but they don't know what to do with it and in order to learn what to do with it you're going to have to get out and get into other spaces where they're doing it you're going to have to participate in these confer in these science conferences or these research conferences cuz again we went we went to the geoscience conference blindly the the professor from Clemson who is one of our funders um she's funding our our stems program with 100K and she said hey do you all have any scientists that are interested in going to the National Association of black geoscientists and um I gave them a week nobody came back with her she asked again I raised my hand and I was like I'll go and she was like you're not a scientist are you not even into that and I say I know but it's something I can learn I might can learn something and so me and another young lady now she's very sign Savvy um and all into Environmental Protection or climate change and that conversation she knows it on a global level and so she's learning on a on a on a micro level but we went and lo and behold we get there and those young young adults who were geoscientists start giving their present matter of fact I'mma share it I'mma share my um let me stop sharing I'mma share the um the the pro the um the presentations I'm G share I can't play it but maybe one day we'll get on and I'll play it for you all not live though um let me go to let me go let I'm going pull it see if they haven't taken it down I'm going just share the topics I'll just go through the topics so you can all see the type of things they're studying so while we were there they were sharing um about um the different uh rocks water uh cement you name it they did all of these different types of tests but it was two presentations or three that struck our attention the one on uh carbon storage the reason is because we know that the environmental just I mean the doe Dev uh Department of energy and the EPA um have a lot of conversation about carbon waste right now and and they're look they're doing consent site as I stated before in the rural areas or the disenfranchised or marginalized communities for airs property they're looking for homeowners to give consent to come and store these things and so that's how we know about that and two um the professors the food insecurity Dr padet at Tennessee State University and Dr Archer on L land survey and and mapping and red lighting and um resoning that struck our attention because our next mission in November is to bring down the doctor from San Diego about in food insecurities and then the third thing that struck our attention is one of the research projects was on Buford and the water erosion on the river banks on the on the coastal bre Banks so all of those struck out our attention while we there um any questions while I look for this link real quick share with y'all let's see nabg n a b n a b g y'all probably went watch uh football on me or something one of the questions that I had when you when you're talking about like the money the money that is funding this like what are y'all then how are yall utilizing the money are y'all like sending kids to school or how does that how does how does that part like how do you benefit how's the money spent I know you saying you're going around and figure out what's the way to I don't know if you're saying to spend it or to get it oh both so there's different types of funding that's available there is so um the fund that we got for the stem we connected the college students with the high school students and to teach them stem and we started with the water and air testing so that lasted for like I think nine weeks that program lasted nine weeks so one we're teaching the young people and exposing them to Career fields that they can go in but actually exposing them to what it means and how to do it to peque their interest that's one so we use the funds to we pay the kids for participating like in our Seal program we paid the kids $250 per participant per um per month to participate in that program and we paid the college students um to participate as well so we offering the college students internship and we offering the students um an understanding of a career field and how the how to to help their Community if they so desire right that's one set of money another set we um got to to start up a nonprofit but to but to train the individuals who are going to um be members and who are going to uphold that nonprofit for the advocacy of their Community the second one that change grad that's massive because that's 20 million that involves um um uh how uh building up units housing units um that that involves a lot uh I had to put my hands on it to to get narrowed down I haven't gotten involved with it yet because another group of individuals on our team is doing it but that one is Encompass of a lot so what I'm saying is you have these grants or these fundings that's there is an opportunity to expose the youth for the areas that we need them to go into to help our community in their their fields and their studies and then I'm saying there's Grant there's other grant opportunities to give the college students um um experience so when they go after particular jobs and then there's also for your seniors housing units for you to build housing units not for just yours but also for for affordable housing so if I show you the units that har Mitchell built that he built those little townhouse type um houses right for that Community around that area that was just abandoned so to speak so this work here reminds me of Garfield's conversation of the 100 men and women team and an abandoned town where can you get the money from how can you build it up how can you create a Municipal like the mun so the L Richland area one of the towns in L that area so you got East over gasin and Hopkins well East over actually is a municipality so they actually have a mayor and a whole government system so our the the representative elect he's already brought in 1.2 million for them already that they are strategically strategizing and revamping and putting things into place into that area so I'm I'm thinking along the lines of what you're say when you said okay can't we get something go into a pocket area and then begin to build that same area a friend of mine well not in the east of of the Hopkins area started a clinic because one of the doctors when he um retired from his regular job he went and helped him up uproot a a Family Practice Clinic so they have a full-fledged Family Practice Clinic going on with doctors three doctors um some nurse practitioners some RNs so they're really taking what they have or what they have access to and they are putting the necessary things that we need for a Community Health Care um Recreation housing um the uh we also the food and security Peaks um we targ get in the black farmers and that farmland and teaching them about the new technologies or or a lot of the funding available to them because think about it a lot of money come out that can benefit I'm not talking about the people who on the corner and have no clue that's not the folks I'm talking about I'm talking about individuals who really have have it together and just don't know because they've been so busy on the ground doing the work they have no clue how to write that proposal to bring in that money that they gave to Black Farmers to help their land to produce better crops that's the individuals you know we're helping so there's a lot of Farmland out there we um in November we gonna have a whole plan for them and and to help them and facilitate that so my that's in South Carolina this is South Carolina yeah so the guy who who I jumped on the team with what we did was he's establishing a team so we're going to we're when we get this right we're going to go into other communities and teach them so there's a guy in Charleston I talked about Harold Mitchell in Spartenburg and I talked about Dr mlan in the Hilton Head area but there's another guy he's not on the he actually did what's called environmental justice Academy for them for nine months every Saturday for nine months prior to this Retreat so this is the second level of where they are he came in and T to them about the dudes and the D and all of the nuances around it right and he um matter of fact I'm G bring up the curriculum that they use he his name is Omar Omar muhamed and he's the post he's him and Harry Mitchell they're like the poster child of these grants because they were able to build up their Community um and change it based off of this funding that was my that was going to be my next question I swear I was going to say so have the any of these programs have been proven to like actually improve a community oh that was going to be my my next question that was the first guy I'm I'm gonna bring up let me see if I can you know what yeah let's see the proof see the pro I'm about to show you cause um I'mma go I'mma come off the live well y'all talk about something real quick I gotta go to the restroom but I'm GNA come off the live because I want y'all to see the videos I want y'all to see Harold Mitchell's video of his community what he's done and I'm G show you muhamed's that's L though you guys talk until I get back I gotta go to restroom yeah yeah no that's that's that's lit though I mean because from from my perspective I'm with you on like every other day I wake up and I'm like man I'm I'm done with Y you know what I'm saying like something else triggers it that makes me lose hope I'm not going to lie but then the the pragmatic part s it was like you know I still this is still my home I still got family still got community so even if I go move somewhere else or do whatever type of situation I'm I'm still gonna be have a vested interest in the politics and what's going on and you know how it's affecting the people lives that I'm connected to you know yes I'm sorry y'all I'll be back keep talking price back on here yeah man to go get some food man but y going in I went and got some food I feel man yeah I'm about to go get me one of these keto [Laughter] snacks man I'll be out here feeding man they got this thing they got this thing from Quest the company the uh Quest it's like these little cake Donuts man I'm so ad them things oh yeah Quest man they good bro I work um I work in the nutritional Department in um in the grocery store yeah bro quest Quest Bars uh them cookies is whack though I ain't gonna lie them cookies cookies whack I go to Lenny and Larry for the cookies Lenny and Larry's got the best protein cookies but what is it called Lenny and Larry oh okay okay I think I has like like these little figures with heads or something like that oh no it's uh it's it's plant-based man they used to be better though man I ain't going to lie they used to be a whole lot better but they changed the ingredients they made the [ __ ] more healthier so which was good but you but it ain't good yeah you can tell the difference in taste but man oh they still they still pretty good but uh I I have to try a lot of that stuff um but you know some of that [ __ ] just nasty bro it's just you try to convince yourself like ah this straight till you tell somebody else to try they look at you crazy yeah real talk I'm like no ain't it bro no but it ain't on my dime though so it's all good so yeah that's a factory yeah yeah see what Mo talking about see what kind of proof she got Mo not be coming over here with words shall what how know w i just be messing with Mo Moi Mo into some stuff man I'm starting to think she she down with Illuminati she [Music] be out what day she in there talking about she talking got these millions man like Mo when was you going to tell us about that oh well here's I be thinking about when they be talking about these carbon credits and everything and and now she talking about this social justice uh initiative but at the end of the day I know some companies when they don't use their credits they get to sell their credits to other companies and and stuff like that it's like I'm trying to make sense out of all this yeah you said some companies sell companies credits Stu what did you say again they have an initia they've been talking about carbon credits it was part of this whole Paris oford This Global uh environmental thing that you only supposed to deposit so much carbon emissions so I'm just talking to oh okay trying to figure out what Caron emission is so once you exceed yours if I got a company and I don't use all my credits I can sell my credits to you and therefore when you exceed your 20 credits you know I can sell you five credits or you know that's crazy well but I mean that's what they've always done I mean you had findes yeah but you think about it the fine for EP violation under the old code uh when Exon go and spill some [ __ ] in the ocean they pay a $25,000 fine so it sounds like a lot of money but some of these spills have been so uh expensive that it's cheaper to just pay the fine I give you $25,000 a day and I'm just not gonna clean the [ __ ] up until the target area dissipates you know whatever the pollutant was it dissipates enough that you know now done pass and the f is over with so yeah just like look this a lesser two evils for us so I'm I'm just trying to see how the communi benefit from the whole social justice thing right what what even is a carbon capture and and all that cuz I see people talking about that and this projects out there you got people doing seaweed up there in like New Hampshire and I think in Florida they got these seaweed projects that release good CO2 into the atmosphere and take out bad CO2 or whatever but it it's projects out there but so so Mo so was Mo basically saying that the what she was reading was saying that they shouldn't be doing this because it's it's too risky who should be doing what uh capturing carbon no she's saying people are doing the carbon or they coming up with these systems to uh pretend for lack of a better term like they participating in the road to be uh making uh renewable Solutions business is going to DOS business but for us to say that you know for us to say okay we want to do something or we want change or whatever then it'll be real easy to say okay that's that's real easy stop consuming [ __ ] you know but we're not going to do that so right come up with other ways not so impactful on the environment so as a business yeah I'm G say yeah I got this robust Pipeline and I pump this [ __ ] underground and I'm pumping it underground into a modul Community or I'm dumping the waste into the water system where these people live these CEOs and shareholders don't live in these areas so I I get all that part I'm just trying to wrap my mind on around what's this fix supposed to be about and and they're they're rewarding people or they're giving grants to people to come up to enable us to do life in a more environmental friendly way so I that part I'm just AR yeah I'm not trying to argue against it I'm just I'm just saying I'm not convinced because I'm hearing a whole lot of wording and jargon and Concepts that you're not explaining to me what that looks like at Ground Zero I'm not I'm not hearing that all right yeah and I guess that's why she was saying like you know they're trying to educate people on it and going to conferences because it's it's it's some hard stuff probably to grasp because it's you know well that's that's what I'm saying compated to get the public Buy in you gonna have to put that [ __ ] in Lan's turn and I I I've had some geology I've had some Physics I've had this but okay the process that you just named describe that to me what you look what it looks like on the ground yeah that's all I was saying but because when you say carbon capture I Think About Vapors but then she gave us an example of the pipeline that whole pipeline was carb and captur being pumped from Canada to the US in the form of sludge which is [Music] a t tetracycline or something that's the byproduct it's not it's not carbon [Applause] yes yes SE be done by Friday about th tomorrow too far actually I could be doing by tomor actually I know you so he we got coach in the house G what's up man what's up where you been trying to make sure the group pH start growing baby hey I was talking to uh one of my battles uh if not yesterday day before he getting ready to do a uh I think it's a group home he said he called it foster care but he got a foster care he started he had a property and uh when his niece wanted to get it started doing foster care gonna start off with like three kids and I would tell them about you and you know what your operation was and uh it's different well the thing was he was going through his walk through with the uh Social Services folks and they was like man this property can you can put uh you can do 6 to8 and they was like nah we don't want to do 6 we want to do no more than three you know where they at right now and I was like when you start scaling I mean I gotta get you linked up with I was talking about you I said I get you linked up with my man he got a whole operation where he do the special needs and and all that uh the biggest thing is man having a staff man more than anything is having a staff bro small they small right now it's only like the staff is only like three people man you need he if he got three staff you need six if you got three need six man um that's the biggest issue that I've had in staff trying trying to grow is because they on his waiver that they have they got a thousand people waiting to be picked so you just got to be had to St to to suffice what they got going on all he for there's a need in this area so U like I said man check what the Department of Mental Health and see what y'all got going on down there no hey man g i I ain't built for that bro that's my man want to do that hey man find a find a little cousin that want to then nope man I'm about I'm about I'm I'm about all done with family no news is good news right now with family find a good friend ex ex-girlfriend or somebody y walk away with all damn Dam excuse walk away with something man we gotta walk away with something man pass something man no you know what I'm meeting More Strangers on the internet that's about about uh about that work than I am with don't feel mad about that brother mad New York [ __ ] I wish I been doing Ali my whole life I trade him for most of the people I grew up with no I I get it bro I I get it man you know what I mean so the the the mess that we grew up with man we don't have no control over that no people who we meet going forward that's on us right that's yeah I told a battle about you hey man he ever want to come to Alabama here in Mississippi no no he's in uh North Carolina I wouldn't mind man once I get S I'm about to do another house here within the next couple months yeah man that that video that I sent you about uh how they doing the uh people locked up that's in your backyard Brother people doing you see on um on Facebook or IG on IG about uh they sending the the inmates to work and they making them they they making them work seven days a week 80 hours no questions asked oh yeah yeah can't say no yeah that [ __ ] C right yeah that sound that probably sound like posman they they probably doing that in Mississippi too Chris I believe that Lou forever yeah man I'm gonna be for real with you they throwing these these young people these days they throwing rocks at the jail house though yeah I don't know how much fight I got in me for that right there yeah I yeah I feel they they actually throwing rocks at the jail house like every day they let they let you know how much scamming they doing how many bags they got how many KS and sticks they got and I do it in front of your mama house so keep throwing jails at them rocks at them baby I can't fight that battle no more yeah I with you on that why I try to catch before they get there my age group six to 14 man yeah my age group six to 14 I think we got a chance with those everybody else older if you want to fall in line that's cool but if you don't hey man let the white man Teach while I was with uh TR truth story and he got one of the best say in the world man Teach the babies can't help adults man because adults most times don't want to help themselves so teach the babies it's hard to teach an adult man it's it's damn impossible because you want to be right I don't want I don't need to be right I want to learn so I don't need to be right right nah I want I want to learn so damn being right teach me show me I got two ears and one mouth brother for a reason you know so yeah man I I want to learn man um I had to sit down what four or five years to get this group group pump thing right yeah you know so if you wouldn't have learn it's out that'll be learned man but if you got 25 excuses you got 25 excuses too they waiting on you out the way right you know let's get it man we out here to get it man we just spread out bro I know it's easy to get it's easy to get frustrated with these [ __ ] you grew up around very easy but we exist man we just spread up bro it might be 100 in Texas 25 in Alabama 40 in Georgia 6 in Florida three in in California so since they say we but 7% of the population still we out here just gota find a way to get together man maybe not on the same page but at least have the same goal yeah I ain't been sparing a ride on nobody don't inbox me talking about hey what do I