00:12:12.400Just because there are so many people that don't see the dangers of what they're participating in.
00:12:21.040You know, it's it's we know this from if you read the Bible, you you you'll read one page and then three page later, three page later, you'll you'll you'll read the same story and you'll be like, wait a minute.
00:12:41.720Well, we know because we're living it now.
00:12:44.520You just say, well, it's different this time and it's not.
00:12:48.200So how do we get people to recognize that it's not different this time?
00:12:53.440It's the same thing, just different clothing like, you know, Nazism.
00:12:57.480If it comes back, it's it's not going to come back the same way.
00:13:01.840You know, it's not going to come in with a black, you know, boots in the and their armband and the swastika.
00:13:07.260I mean, you know, there are some that want that it come back that way, but most likely it's going to come back clothed differently, clothed in in patriotism, clothed in in righteousness and justice and fairness and God and all of that stuff.
00:13:24.880It always morphs to be able to get the most amount of people to go.
00:20:05.240I've had these conversations recently that have been quite interesting.
00:20:08.260You know, they're very disturbing, actually.
00:20:09.800I talked to two of Canada's most outstanding people in the last two weeks, Conrad Black, who ran a huge newspaper empire, and Rex Murphy, who's probably Canada's best-known journalist personality, because he's both.
00:20:25.560He's a great journalist, but he's a personality as well.
00:20:27.780And they remembered their university education.
00:20:33.840He's not a Canadian, but he had the same kind of memory.
00:20:36.120He talked about, they talked about their education in the humanities, mostly concentrating on English literature, and described it with tremendous fondness as a turning point in their life, as an opening up of the world of knowledge to their youthful eyes, right?
00:20:54.300Contrasted that with Yeonmi Park, who was an escapee, is an escapee from North Korea, very brave woman, who was then enslaved in China, had a life that was just sheer hell, and spent a good part of the interview telling me how much better her life was than the lives of many people she knew.
00:21:11.800She wrote a book called In Order to Live.
00:21:14.640But the book stopped at the year 2015, so I asked her what she did.
00:21:19.300She went to Columbia, took a humanities degree, which was a dream of hers, after finishing her entire education in one year.
00:21:29.760You know, her education prior to university.
00:21:38.300I said, what was it like going to Columbia?
00:21:42.720Taking a humanities degree from this escapee from totalitarianism, who was once enslaved, got to go to one of America's august institutions and be trained in the humanities.
00:21:53.280Someone who'd been exposed to George Orwell and who was motivated to write because she read Animal Farm, understood the power of literature.
00:22:00.220She said it was a complete waste of time and money, and that she was afraid to say anything.
00:24:29.720I'm not sure I have talked to somebody who has as much courage as Jeanette Shada.
00:24:40.420Jeanette is living in Beaverton, Oregon, you know, the Portland area, and she is running for school board and fighting against critical race theory in the schools.
00:24:52.020When you have Antifa threatening to kill your mayor, wow, the last place I want to be is in the center of that and in politics.
00:25:04.940She is running now for the Beaverton School Board.
00:25:11.300She's a candidate with the platform of anti-critical race theory.
00:25:16.140She was a high school English teacher at a charter school, 95% minority students.
00:25:20.940She is certified to teach English as a second language as well.
00:28:05.540But, you know, when you have bullies threatening you, calling you all hours of the night, leaving nasty messages all over your Facebook page, what do you do?
00:31:10.360Just Wednesday, I was doing sine waves on a busy intersection in Beaverton.
00:31:16.620And the same person who put out the information to start this firestorm put out another post saying, oh, Jeanette Shada is standing on this corner.
00:31:27.420So about five Black Lives Matter people showed up.
00:31:30.120But we stood there anyway, and I actually talked with them.
00:31:34.440One was a 13-year-old girl, and, you know, she's been indoctrinated in this stuff, and it's unfortunate.
00:31:43.020They wanted to yell at me after, you know, we actually had a pretty decent conversation until I told them that they really need to learn the true history of the United States.
00:31:51.420And then they started yelling at me about how this country is built on the backs of slaves and things like that.
00:31:56.540And I said, well, that's your opinion.
00:32:39.460I have a great volunteer team right now, and we have been pushing hard ever since February, and we're still pushing hard.
00:32:47.920I received 15 new volunteer submissions over the last week, and I do talk to every single one of them to make sure their heart is in it, because it takes courage to stand and do this.
00:33:05.780Even when I've been in the local news, and they've seen the nastiness on Facebook from people.
00:33:12.880Some of these people are teachers that are teaching your children.
00:33:16.600They're making these vile, nasty comments, and I'm just like, come on, people.
00:33:22.640If you don't like my platform, then go to the ballot box and vote, but you don't need the vitriol here.
00:33:28.440But buildbackbasics.com is where people can go to learn more, and I do answer my phone.
00:33:36.400Now I let it go to voicemail a lot because I don't know the phone numbers, but I will call back, and people are surprised that it's me and not somebody else, because I don't have a campaign manager.
00:33:47.740I have a very good media team that I hired who's handling the social media side, but I don't know if you have followed what happened in Southlake, Texas, but there's a national story about it again today.
00:34:05.580In Southlake, Texas, we had the same exact thing, and the city was kind of asleep and just didn't think that critical race theory was a big deal.
00:34:15.740And then they started to be calling, you know, some parents were called racist for bringing up, wait a minute, what are we teaching here?
00:34:22.880And the election, because of the strong pushback, the election went in favor of those who were questioning and wanted critical race theory out.
00:34:33.660There were three board members that were voted in new on your platform, and they won 70 to 30.
00:34:42.520And I thought that was pretty amazing.
00:34:44.240That was a county that voted for Joe Biden, by the way.
00:34:47.880Yeah, and I've been following that story, and that goes to show the silent majority.
00:34:55.380Like I said, I'm out there campaigning every day and talking with people, and so are my volunteers and the stories that come in.
00:35:02.060People are so tired of this, they're afraid for their children to be indoctrinated with this false narrative of if you're born white, that you are inherently racist, and if you are born of a brown or black skin, that you are a victim of the system.
00:35:20.260No, I taught kids of all races, all nationalities, all languages, and what I taught them is they are excellent human beings and have every opportunity in the world to pull themselves up.
00:35:32.860I had one gentleman named Pierre when I worked in Texas at the Alternative Campus.
00:35:42.700And he came to me with tears down his face, not knowing what to do.
00:35:46.500He had a two-year-old, well, at the time, he had a two-year-old little girl.
00:35:49.160And I helped him find the opportunity to pull out to make sure that he had a better life than what his parents gave him because his parents were in gangs and drug dealers, and he didn't want that for himself.
00:36:26.780The Civil Rights Movement, well, the Civil War, you know, we pulled out of slavery there.
00:36:30.800And even before then, the Founding Fathers didn't want slavery here.
00:36:34.000They tried to get rid of it in the Articles of Confederation.
00:36:37.200And then the Civil Rights Movement with Martin Luther King, Jr.
00:36:39.880Judge a person by the content of the character, not an immutable quality like skin color, a God-given gift that we all have.
00:36:48.080And now Critical Race Theory is making a U-turn and going pre-Civil Rights and reinstitutionalizing racism, doing the exact opposite of what they're claiming it's meant to do.
00:37:01.240Jeanette, you give me great hope, and I hope there are more teachers out there and more parents out there like you that are willing to do the tough thing.
00:37:11.300You are in really a dangerous situation, and we will keep you in our prayers.
00:37:16.680I would ask everybody who prays in this audience to put Jeanette on your prayer list.
00:37:37.740When myself, Sarah Lynn, and Fua get on the school board because we're running together on the same platform, when we get on to the school board, that's when the real work begins.
00:37:48.380Because we have to undo a lot of what the superintendent, Rodding, and this current school board has done.
00:37:55.040And we need to get schools back to being educational facilities and not indoctrination camps that they're becoming.
00:38:03.000And everybody needs to stand up and have a voice in that.
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00:46:10.740We'll talk a little bit more about killing the mob in a second.
00:46:13.380But first, what is the big story of the week to you, Bill?
00:46:16.600I think the bad economy news today, because this is the linchpin of whether the progressive movement gains even more power in America than it has.
00:46:36.800Well, let's start with Joe Biden visiting Jimmy Carter last week.
00:46:42.760I was actually happy that happened, because I don't know whether you know this or not, but Bill Clinton and Barack Obama totally ignored Jimmy Carter.
00:48:36.520And then when you wanted to get heating oil, those deliveries did not come on a regular basis because the heating oil companies didn't have the heating oil.
00:48:46.240And by the way, you didn't only have to land.
00:49:06.580So now we have a president of the United States who's basically saying, look, I'm going to try to spend trillions of dollars that we don't have.
00:49:16.420It would be like your wife walking in back and saying, you know, I'm going to I'm going to give all of our money to Bolivia and even more than we have.
00:49:25.720I'm just going to send everything to Bolivia.
00:49:49.300So whatever we do is going to be negated by what China does.
00:49:53.580And there's Joe with the sunglasses on, you know, and then he's basically saying we want to control the economy from Washington, not the private sector that created all these jobs under Trump.
00:50:06.500OK, we're not going to no, no, we're going to tax them as far as we can.
00:50:11.720But not only that, if you buy stocks, which helps corporate America, all right, expand R&D, all of that, we're going to tax you 50 percent if you are if your assets are over one million dollars.
00:50:27.080Well, the big players in the market, of course, their assets are over 50 percent.
00:50:31.880So now you take a chance because the stock might go down.
00:51:08.020You're going to get twelve hundred here.
00:51:10.200And so two states, Montana and South Carolina, basically said we can't now fill the jobs we have because people are getting so much money from Joe.
00:51:40.740So let me ask you this, because I came out with this, I think, on Monday or Tuesday.
00:51:45.600I don't know if you saw the latest from Bank of America.
00:51:49.260But they they talked about their, you know, the investor calls and all of these CEOs are talking about, you know, why their company is doing well.
00:52:00.960And what the and the mentions of inflation were up week to week on those investor calls by eight hundred percent.
00:52:10.540It is the highest on recorded in recorded history of a spike in inflation talks about why we're not going to have the quarter we were going to.
00:52:22.160And so Bank of America wrote this and I want to quote this to you.
00:52:25.500Inflation trends running hot as margins hit record highs.
00:52:28.760The mentions of inflation quadrupled year after year after last week's mentioned had jumped nearly eight hundred percent year over year on an absolute basis.
00:52:39.000Mention skyrocketed skyrocketed to record highs pointing to at the very least transitory hyperinflation ahead.
00:56:49.640So, um, killing the mob is a, uh, history of organized crime and we take you right up to the present moment.
00:56:56.540So a hundred days ago, when Joe Biden came in, the first thing he did was knock out all the border protections that Donald Trump had installed.
00:57:07.100It took Trump three years to get the border under control.
00:57:11.880In a day, Biden knocked out all the border protections, stopped the building of the wall and basically stopped people from, um, being confined to Mexico.
00:57:25.300In that time, 400,000 migrants have arrived in the New York, in the United States illegally.
00:57:32.940Now, some of those want asylum, but it's 400,000.
00:57:36.700Just picture that from Brownsville to San Diego, 400,000 foreign nationals are here in a hundred days.
00:57:43.720What that did was it diverted all of the border patrols attention and every other federal agency on the border to care for those people, to feed them, to shelter them, to process them.
00:57:55.840So what then was that was lacking drug interdiction that was left to the side because all of the people in charge of the drug interdiction had to be used to help the migrants.
00:59:18.920They are the ones that retail the drugs to the addicts on the street.
00:59:24.440The mafia doesn't see that, but the mafia controls that.
00:59:28.600They allow the drug gangs to operate, and the drug gangs then pay them an enormous amount of money for the privilege of selling drugs in Harlem or in Bed-Stuy or in Compton, California.
00:59:46.120So today, there are more drugs in the USA than at any other time in history, and the mafia chieftains love Biden because Biden has an open border policy.
01:00:03.180First of all, there's also the benefit directly to the cartels, not necessarily the U.S. mob, but the cartels, because they're making about $14 million a day on human trafficking across the border.
01:00:17.180So there's another boom industry for them.
01:00:20.340The human trafficking is chump change compared to what they make importing hard drugs into this country.
01:00:27.180Hard drugs is a billion-dollar industry.
01:00:29.240All of our social problems, right, the opioid crisis, organized crime, homelessness, organized crime.
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01:05:36.900Bill, before the break, we were talking about the cartels and the mob here and what's happening on the border.
01:05:43.800Let me take you to the mob in the labor unions.
01:05:48.960And we have now this push for labor unions, unlike I've seen at any time in my life.
01:05:57.280I remember in the 70s when labor unions were being pushed, but there was an outcry for some of those labor unions back then by regular people.
01:06:09.500Or so it seemed to me, you know, I was younger.
01:06:12.640And so it seemed to me just watching things that there was some call for labor unions because it was out of balance.
01:06:19.160Right now, Americans do not want labor unions.
01:06:22.920And they are we are being smothered by very powerful labor unions like the teachers union.
01:06:31.540Some unions in the United States of Trump.
01:06:35.860I have a big chapter on how President Trump, when he was a businessman in New York, had to deal with the concrete union that put up his buildings.
01:06:49.080He says, I had these guys in my office and I had to negotiate with them because they ran the union in killing the mob.
01:06:55.120I take you minute by minute through the assassination of Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters Union boss, who was mobbed up.
01:07:02.460But today, some mobs are compromised because of the pension funds.
01:07:07.240Of course, there are billions of dollars in those funds.
01:07:10.380Pension funds and unions were used to build Las Vegas.
01:07:14.420That whole city was built on mob pension fund money.
01:07:18.060The teachers unions in America, very powerful.
01:07:20.800And what the Biden administration Democratic Party is doing is putting together a coalition of union workers, of African-Americans, of other minority people, and of white liberals, particularly women.
01:08:03.960The Democratic Party are going to enhance their power as much as possible.
01:08:07.280Bill, there's one story that we covered this week, and I don't think anybody else was covering it.
01:08:14.040And I highly recommend it to you, especially because of unions and mob connections.
01:08:18.460But a little known benefit for the United States Federal Reserve, and I guess for the labor unions in some way or another, is in COVID emergency relief.
01:08:34.720I was wondering, who is going to bail out the Fed?
01:08:37.840I mean, you know, everybody's too big to fail.
01:08:40.440The Fed has $9 trillion now on their balance sheet.
01:08:44.680How are they going to get rid of that?
01:08:45.960How are they going to sell all of those bonds when nobody is buying?
01:08:49.640Apparently, in the COVID relief, they're now, the Fed is now allowed to sell to anyone where they couldn't do that before.
01:08:57.760So now they can sell to anyone on the open market.
01:09:00.380Well, guess who is now required, as of 2022, to invest one-third of their pension funds in Treasury bills?
01:24:37.900And this hour is going to be a power hour that you don't want to miss.
01:24:41.740I'm going to introduce you to a couple of people that have started a movement called the Voices of Black Mothers United.
01:24:53.900It's a new movement to unite mothers of fallen children and community partners to amplify their voices in an effort to heal and strengthen the community.
01:25:04.000We always say, why is no one talking about the kids that are being killed?
01:25:46.360If you are a homeowner, you're the type who is fiscally responsible right now, you could be a phone call away from a massive change for the better in your financial life.
01:25:55.440Mortgage rates began sinking over a year ago, and they are in the 2% range now.
01:26:01.740If you have a 4% mortgage, even a high 3% mortgage, if you can get it down to 2.7, 2.5, 2.3, oh my gosh, the amount of money that you will save every month.
01:26:14.260Now imagine if you roll in your credit cards.
01:26:17.720If you have high interest credit card and you know that debt is just toxic, as those interest rates begin to rise on credit cards, and believe me, they will soon, you are going to have trouble even paying them, let alone paying them off.
01:26:35.300Roll them into your mortgage without resetting your loan, and save money, get that monkey off your back, and be financially secure.
01:27:17.800I want to reintroduce you to a friend of the program, a friend of, I think, Freedom in America.
01:27:26.640And a guy that I'm sorry I didn't know a lot earlier, Bob Woodson.
01:27:32.860He's the founder and president of the Woodson Center.
01:27:35.240He has a new book that is coming out called Red, White, and Black.
01:27:38.820But I have him on because it's the Woodson Center.
01:27:42.380This is a, if you really want to help, you really want to help, donate your time, your energy, your prayers, or your money to the Woodson Center.
01:27:56.360And Bob Woodson, he's been in the inner cities forever.
01:28:00.900And he actually is teaching the things that strengthen people, not tear them down.
01:35:01.920Here's what you have to do to your house to get it sold and get you the people as well to help do that.
01:35:10.680And on the other end, they're going to make it as painless and as good of a deal as you can possibly get on the house that you want to buy.
01:36:07.620On July 4th, 2004, when my daughter and her best friend were shot with one bullet, caught in the crossfire of guys shooting at each other.
01:36:20.740Now, I played this back over in my head, because if the police was there, could they have de-escalated and stopped them from shooting or deterred them from shooting?
01:36:36.300And perhaps if that happened, the girls would be alive today.
01:36:40.740Now, I just can't imagine communities without the police right now, and yes, I do agree with you in terms of activities that some police officers may do that is outside of what they're sworn to do.
01:37:03.500However, we need the police to regulate in our communities.
01:37:12.620The number of shootings right now and violent killings is just off the charts.
01:37:20.640I have talked to so many African-American parents and grandparents that say they are afraid of some of the youth in their community.
01:37:32.180And it's a new kind of thing that there is this drug culture that has taken over.
01:37:41.540And if your kids don't get caught up into it, your kids can be killed by it easily and they need the police.
01:37:50.640I talked to some people who are marching with Black Lives Matter and didn't believe any of the stuff that Black Lives Matter says politically.
01:38:40.440When someone see me doing better and me doing positive things in my community, we're hoping that becomes contagious.
01:38:50.360And that's the healing and advocacy part of it.
01:38:54.820I think the, hang on, before we move on, I don't know if you remember.
01:38:59.820I think it was about the same time you lost your daughter, the Amish shooting, where all of those girls were shot.
01:39:07.240And the healing that happened in that community was phenomenal because of forgiveness and perspective.
01:39:16.700And I just feel, I mean, I don't want to live like the Amish, but I feel like we'd be a lot better off if we were Amish, you know, and had that attitude.
01:39:25.520And if we learn to forgive, you know, one of the things that I teach our youth in the community is this five-self check.
01:39:58.240I can guarantee you those two guys who were shooting and killed our girls probably don't even know what they were shooting over at this point in time.
01:40:08.640But yet I'm left with a lifetime of a broken heart because of something that could have been solved or resolved.
01:40:22.240But yet me, myself, as thousands and thousands of other mothers, we're left with broken hearts.
01:40:32.060Could you imagine the mother of a two-year-old who were sleeping in their crib and a bullet goes through the window and kills that child?
01:40:48.760I've thought about this many times with, you know, we've had problems in the family or whatever, and I've thought about I can't lose this child.
01:40:57.520I mean, I don't know how you even go on, and especially when it's something like your kid being shot in a crib.
01:41:14.440And you have more and more children, innocent children, that are dying just like that.
01:41:23.680So when you said a minute ago, you said if the police could have intervened, maybe my daughter and her friend would be alive.
01:41:34.040How do you deal with the, like, for instance, the story in Ohio recently where the police did intervene, and I think they did the right thing,
01:41:44.060but now they're being charged as killers of this young teenager, but they were trying to stop the other teenager from being stabbed.
01:42:56.400No one else's actions who cannot say to articulate how to diffuse a situation, how to get out of a situation, how to walk away from a situation.
01:43:30.980But I just want to continue our conversation here with Sylvia, because we only got to one of the three points of what your organization is doing.
01:43:41.360And I think it's important that you express it.
01:43:43.480Can you stay with us for a few more minutes?
01:43:49.060We're talking about the Voices of Black Mothers United initiative.
01:43:53.400And I don't think that this is an organization that's going to get very much mainstream coverage, because it is looking at a different way of dealing with what we're dealing.
01:44:05.260And they will actually talk about the violence that is happening in their own communities.
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01:47:02.440Advocacy, meaning that we actually go into the community to try to help heal the community.
01:47:11.400We start with the mothers who've lost children's daughters and then we pour that over into the community where the mothers are healing.
01:47:23.360The community can heal long as we hold on to hunger and unforgiveness, unforgiveness, and that makes us and then makes outside of our homeless will.
01:47:42.360So you go into the community and you have volunteers from faith-based organizations, but excuse me for saying, but some faith-based organizations are less faith-based and more political-based.
01:47:56.840But you are talking about people who are really faith-based and you are bringing peace to the community and to the families.
01:48:06.680We're talking about the faith-based that goes outside of the church walls.
01:48:12.980We're talking about the faith-based who's willing to walk the streets and talk to the drug dealer and talk to the drug user to say, this is not life.
01:48:25.760This is not living because that escalates over into violence every time.
01:48:46.880We, if you, if you go on our website and took violence-free zone Milwaukee, where we have our violence-free zone efforts, where neighborhood leaders, many of them ex-offenders themselves, through God's grace,
01:49:01.300they became transformed, and they became transformed, and they are witnesses to others that transformation is possible.
01:49:07.460Six months ago, the Alliance of Concerned Men, one of our groups in D.C., Glenn, actually went into one of the worst crime areas, and for three months, they didn't have a single act of violence.
01:49:22.880Now, that should have been celebrated, but it was reported and ignored, and there are other islands of excellence that have been created by people indigenous who are faith-centered.
01:49:34.980But also, I want Sylvia to talk about the other initiative where mothers are working with the police at the site of a homicide, and as a consequence of changing the way the police process that, they have dramatically increased the number of closures, so people are encouraged to testify.
01:49:55.980I would, Sylvia would talk about the role that mothers are playing, actually working with the police at a homicide scene, and acting as a liaison with the families, and as a result of building this trust, they have had some dramatic results of closing homicides.
01:50:33.940He's the ex-police chief who saw the need to change how the homicide scene is processed.
01:50:44.140And one of the things that he brought to the forefront is that it's very difficult for them, as a police officer, to assess the homicide scene in the hope to get clues to close those homicides and yet deal with a distraught family.
01:51:03.580We, as advocates, we will go in with the police to homicide scenes because we mothers who've lost children know better how to deal with a family that's distraught and has just received news that their child or loved one is deceased and been killed, actually.
01:51:35.680The police are allowed to get clues to help solve that homicide more so than them dealing with a distraught family and then the clues and the evidence is messed up on the other end.
01:51:53.920So they deal with their job and we deal with the family in terms of guiding them and calming them and getting them to the point of where they know that the police at that point is not their enemy.
01:52:09.120And if they know that, then a lot of times they can, the police can get information from the family that helped close their homicide.
01:52:21.640So is this part of the second part of the initiative, family and community intervention, or is this promoting positive policing?
01:52:33.040It is actually a little bit of both, but it's community intervention more so because we are out there, hands on, boots on the ground with the community.
01:52:45.820But another part of our community intervention is actually doing work in the community as a prevention measure.
01:52:58.460We have mothers who's organized as an organization and what we do is we try to engage police and community in conversation.
01:53:15.280We just had an event, in fact, in Alabama, where the police came together with mothers who lost children to violence.
01:53:25.680There was a conversation, so each side listened to one another.
01:53:30.080And as a result, as a result of that, the police sheriff department actually, the next day, reinstituted sensitivity training of how a police officer should actually deal with the families.
01:53:50.720So it is, you're not, you're approaching the police in a different way to where it's not an adversarial.
01:53:57.360It is, look, we have a problem in the community, and you may not understand some of this, and so let's work with you because we don't want this to happen, right?
01:54:24.800The majority are good police officers who are sworn to protect.
01:54:30.100So we have to have that conversation where the community break down those barriers and those defenses against police to where they can do what they're sworn to do.
01:54:43.040So, Sylvia, if I may, in beginning to understand what's happening, the communities that are under attack where their kids are being killed, that's a lot of parents that are grieving and are probably not the ones to be getting good psychiatric advice or care on a regular basis.
01:55:09.920And so they're prey to people who would prey upon them for a political agenda or whatever kind of agenda.
01:55:18.380And when these attacks continue to happen, it's not just that it's one kid being shot like it would be maybe in my neighborhood.
01:55:28.740It's that that kid has been shot and four other people on my block or in my neighborhood are also grieving and none of us have been dealt with.
01:55:39.280Nobody's actually dealing with the problem.
01:55:41.500And so it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.
01:55:43.920And when you're going and you're looking for blame and everything else, I mean, if you don't have help, you know, you're prone to all kinds of things.
01:55:54.600Is this a too simple of an explanation or am I on the right path at all?
01:56:01.160One of the things that we do in our advocacy department, we actually help people get mental health services.
01:56:10.800In fact, at our community forums, we bring in a mental health specialist on the spot to where the victims can actually talk with them and understand that it's not a taboo on you if you have to have mental health services.
01:56:36.360And if we could continue to encourage that, you have more people getting better.
01:56:44.680I would imagine, Sylvia, just because we went through some family therapy, we had a suicide attempt in my family, in my household with my children this last year.
01:56:59.200And when we went through the therapy with it, he said, what's your biggest fear?
01:57:17.000I mean, you you told the story of your granddaughter, you know, a mom who comes out and, you know, thinks, I don't want to bring a gun or I don't want to do this.
01:57:28.320You if you make one mistake or you even think that you've made a mistake, that's got to weigh you down.
01:57:38.140And that's not something you deal with quickly.
01:57:40.680That that has got to fester in you for a long time.
01:59:38.380I'd like to further a conversation and Bob, the same with you.
01:59:42.740I know we're probably not the the you know, the press that would be the most helpful, but we want to be as helpful as we can be.
01:59:52.020And I have a feeling you're not going to get mainstream press to really expose what you're doing, but I think it's really important.
02:00:00.320And we'd like to help in any way that we possibly can, please, let's continue this conversation.
02:00:06.200If you would like to find out more about this or you would like to make a donation and help the people who are actually trying to heal, you can go to the Woodson Center dot org.
02:00:17.280That's Woodson Center dot org or Voices of Black Mothers United dot com.
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