Philadelphia Democratice Mayoral Candidate Cherelle Parker Talks City Plan & Support for Israel and Palestine

What's up. Your artist is Doug E. Fresh and you're watching, and we talked weekly you're listening to right here, we're here. We talked weeklies after the talk on w p P M l P Philadelphia, one o six point five film. We talked weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Gregory and Beautiful Laurence and beautiful let's work on your mic, spart. Let's do it onere again, check one. There we go, and we got the beautiful per wy. Don't you give me sound check? Let me see if I got you. Yeah, man, we're gonna have to I know what we're gonna have to do with that. There we go, I hear that. All right, there we go. Yes, I'm gonna have to go back and forth between you and h sizle size. Let me give you sound check real quick. There you go, sound good? There we go. All right, So we talked weeklies after the talk on w p P M l P Philadelphia, one o six point five film. We talked weeklies after the talk. And we have such a dynamic show today. I'm telling you, agent, when I tell you, this is going to be a jam packed show. So if you're listening, put on some music real quick. So if you're listening, I want you to like really tune in, you know what I mean. And if you have any questions, we're gonna you know, I want you to tune in. We got the beautiful charl Parker mayor candidate on the show to Death. We have the handsome I guess you could say that David oh major candidate Republican Party coming on the show to Death, and uh, yeah, we're gonna talk a little bit about the issues. I had the opportunity to attend a mayoral forum. What was it Thursday? When was that spark Thursday? Thursday? Yeah, and we had the opportunity to actually go and you know, and and listen to what they had to say, you know, and they had some good things to say, you know, and I think the people truly got something out of it. So without further ado, before we get into anything, you know, I gotta go with the ladies. What would you think? How did you think? My day was busy? I did a lot of running around and then I had a meet and greet with uh the potential owners or who will be adopting my dog? So that was Yeah, that was a little bittersweet because it's like, you know, they he he did so good. So I was proud of them, proud of him. But like after we left, like there was another people that joined in the parking lot and they had came to the parking lot and a dog got out the car and then my dog was like trying to pull him, trying to get over to the dog. And it was kind of like, I hope that didn't interfere with the people wanting him, the family wanting him. But then when I got home, they text and said we love him, we want him, So I kind of shed a tear because I'm like, oh gosh, she's leaving me to someone who no doubt, no doubt. Yeah, what about you, classy lady Hollott. I was trying to figure out that I need to put on sweatpants and it tak top because it was nice today. It was beautiful weather today, just you know, just it was a laid back, chill day today. I can't even say that I had a lot of a lot of thoughts about anything or did anything different. So yeah, yeah, all right, what about you see? You know what I was cool? I was for everything, you know, busy day as usual, you know, It's always one of those things where they get pretty busy and uh, you know, we gotta make sure things is good, you know. But I'm excited about, you know, everything that's going down. You know, I'm excited about the show. We got a jam packed show. But you know, we got a special guest in the house. What's up, Purple Hollletting? How would you think? How would you do? Hey? Hey, family, Peace and greetings to one and all. You know that it is inside the Black Belk. I think they called me purple today. I want to say my day was. Man, I wish it was so laid back. We were giving out food at our bi weekly food distribution from Black wol Culture Alliance and so at ten am, I was not in the bed, unfortunately, but I did get a chance to experience this wonderful weather and being community with family as we got a chance to feed our neighbors. You know, we fed over about three hundred people today and we are very blessed and able to do it, you know. And so then we get back out, we just remind everybody to vote, you know, because the election is November the seventh, and we want to drive that message because if we think that everybody knows. But you'll be surprised, man, how many people in the community have no idea that there's an election going on. They don't even know who they're voting for. They don't know what to vote for. And did I say they have no idea that there's a leuction going on and at the local and state level, which is but that's even more important. They don't even know how then up, come on down? Come on you good? Oh no, you good? And were good? We could out full house. They already know we getting getting it down, but I was telling them that every we have to remind them not only the time to vote, but there are judges going in for ten year term wile ten that part, there are judges going in for a lifetime appointments. Yeah, yeah, okay, so we need to let we need to let people know what's going on. Yeah, yeah, we definitely need to talk more about that because I think a lot of people don't get that part of the judges. The judges, that's probably the most important thing. Actually, they're the ones that's you know, locking your cousin Pookie up and giving them football numbers, right, And so we have to make sure that we have a fair time. When we happen to get in a little trouble and you know, you have to go to court and they have to make ruling on us, we want fair you, no one just you know, ruling. We don't want no one to just look at you and be like, ah, he's just another still, let's throw him in there and let him rot. We don't want that, right, so we want to make sure that things are fair and just. I appreciate you bringing that up, lady, Yes, high lecting. He always wouldn't. Hey, everybody, I know, So how was your day? How would your day? They was productive? I'm like switching hats right now, so I'm trying to mentally. I'm trying to adjust, right. So I've been on set thumbing all day and then I had like a quick meeting and now I'm here, so it's just like hat number three. But I'm all good, that's nice today. I'm happy to see my family. I miss y'all missie too. Yeah, man, we missed you already, know we missed we missed you. You know. We always have a great time though, you know, but we have a better time when you hear you know, So it's one of those things. Yeah, so you know, make sure you stay here, stay tuned, and good to have purpor here. You know, I said purple, I've seen her. Wh where was we? Y'all talk a little bit about where we was A w H Y Wow, she's doing at work. She's doing at work. I really greatly appreciate that. No, Listen, Charles and I are blessed to be part of a cohort and initiative, you know, a partnership with w H y Y, which actually is really empowerful in himself because Charles is a young black man and headlining, spearheading this wonderful you know, we talked weekly and all these endeavors in media, you know, really a change maker in the game. And I myself being the first black woman to own an independent internet radio station here, you know, celebrating proudly ten years this month. Actually we're going to be planning and celebrating queens. Thank you. So and so we are working with w h y Y, not as employees, but as partners in the community. Okay, So what wow, what a blessing to be a BIPODS, a local hyper local journalist system that is actually making tangible change in terrestrial or legacy Media. So we were there talking to renegotiating agreements. You know, we were there, you know, trying to making sure that they understand how important our voices are, you know, in elections and the amazing opportunity that you all had to be part of that word experience and you are broadcasting a mayorial film. Let's go we Talk weekly is doing the same. It's those amazing things that we talked weekly at Pcuritia one dot com, which is my radio station, Progressive Quality Radio dot com. Hey, tech, I see you take tune in every day at Picurity one account has amazing personalities. But just to be able to be you know, a little black girl, you know from around the corner, you know, to be a young black man from down the street and be making these type of strides and you know, and in local politics and local media. Man with a blessing fanstic fantastic. So let's jump right into it. So when you think you need to go to and want to go to class lads park, good news bands, you think we're ready for that. Oh you think we're ready for that? Right? Yeah, I'm always ready. All right, let's see how much banding I do? Yeah, yeah, all right. Well, as we all know, even with tonight's guests, these are going to be questions that we ask Philly rings above the national averaging crime. Y'all did know that, right, especially in violent offences, which brings me to my next story. Forty eight year old Binard Ribbon of Abington was shot six times while driving the Route twenty three sept the bus in the German Town section of Philly. Those shots killed him, suffering wounds to his torso and throat. Video camera shows Zte Capers twenty one, pulling out a gun on the Septa bus and killing the driver while Writers looked on and panic. None of the passengers were hurt. Capers fled the scene on foot and was later caught by plane. Closed police except the police officers. According to the news outlets, the weapon has not yet been recovered. Currently, they have not revealed a possible motive. Gribbin was an Army veteran and was a scepted driver for twelve years. Ridiculous, you're not like outraged? I mean crazy, crazy crazy? What do you say to that? What do you say? What can you say to that? Well, one of the things we can ask our guesses, what is it? Going to do for safety for scept the drivers. How about that? All right? How about what are we going to do for mental real tangible change from mental health. That's okay, because how about the family issued a statement and people are upset about it. But the family issued a statement that said, listen, we apologize to you, the family of the sucepted driver. We we empathized, you know, But we have been trying to get mental health assistance for this young lady for a while now. Wow, you know, we have been unable to get her help, knowing that she was a problem to the community, and she has not been sated. She didn't choose the two or one herself. They couldn't three o two earths, you know, So what were they? What were they to do? She lost her mom last week and it caused a mental breakdown and somebody died. Those are questions that we need to ask and that's what this hundredth mayor needs to understand that this is the flight against our city. All right. So last year we covered a story about a young woman killing two state troopers on I ninety five. Do y'all remember when I covered that story. Her name is Janiah Webb from Montgomery County. She was drunk driving on I ninety five when a state trooper prepared to stop her, but was later called to an alert that a pedestrian was on the highway, so they responded to that call instead and let Web go. Webb later killed both officers and the civilian in front of the Philadelphia Sports Complex. Well Now, Web twenty three years old, was out on bond and as her upcoming trial. Web lawyers have asked that the judge postpone the trial because Web is now pregnant. Basically, while out on bond or bail, she goes and gets pregnant. The judge denied that request. Prosecutors didn't oppose the date the date change, but the Philadelphia judge declines the change. The Philadelphia judge will also use her social media posts to be permissible in court. Months before the deadly crash, Web tweeted from her Twitter account that she's the best drunk driver ever. Oh yeah, yeah, So I don't know why, but this young lady. As far as getting pregnant, is she feeling like she's gonna get a certain amount of years and not have that amount to like pro create or did she feel like there was leniency. I don't know, but the judge basically feels as though she was being irresponsible to get pregnant her. That's the trick. And that's what I've had house arrest clients. In one of them, that's exactly what they did. And unfortunately, in that situation, the judge wasn't leaning. It's like I guess they were more so concerned about the child than like her being there for the child's And that's what the lawyer is saying. Her lawyer is saying that they don't want more black and brown kids being born into the system because that's what will happen as far as where you know. So they're asking for the trial to be postponed. But it cause not takes nine months, right, and then you got three months for bonding time, so it'll be another question of having an extension. All right, So was that enough? Go ahead? What you're gonna say? No, I was just saying, wow, she's going to have baby in prison. Well yeah, because the judge declined it. He said he's not uh, he's not changing the trial day. Wow, he knows the game. Yeah, all right, Well was that enough? Bad news? Don't bring me no news? Come on, According to Fox News, Miss Caroline Mary Morrell of all Moore just celebrated her one hundredth and ninth birthday. She was surrounded by friends and family. Miss Morel said, I never dreamed of it, but thank God I'm here. Miss Morel's family was one of the first black families to move and purchase a home in art More in the late eighteen eighties. The birthday girl graduated from Lower Maryon High School in nineteen thirty four before becoming a wife and a mother. She went on to become a private duty nurse and a loving daycare mother and touching the hearts of generations of kids in Montgomery County. Now that she is a centurian, she finds ways to stay active and enjoy life. The doctor says that, she says. The doctor says, I'm in good health, said Miss Morel, And she always says the secret to live in one hundred and nine years old is to love one another, be kind to people, even to animals. Miss Morel shares her birthday with the city of Philadelphia, which just turned three hundred and forty one years old on October twenty seven. I need to meet her. I would love to meet her. A centarian. I don't know if y'all had the opportunity to see something on of showing Netflix, and they talked about going around the world and meeting these centurions. Everyone who's living past one hundred years old. I love it. And it was this young this young young man, right, gentleman of wisdom, was one hundred and five, still riding horses and doing work in the backyard. I couldn't be in the mindset. It's crazy. Stay young. My auntie made it to ninety eight m She lived by herself until ninety six. Shout out to aunt Wow. And she was the first person of color to be featured in Life magazine Wow in the nineteen twenties, the first person of color period. That's major. Oh, I love it. I love it like you all were saying to meet centurions. So are y'all? That was your good news and your bad news by your girl classic you sparkle and as always, go ahead and support. We talked weekly with either a monetary donation at you know, dollar sign. We talked weekly, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, all this social media's Instagram, and if you can't follow us, tell somebody about us. And that's it the girl ladies and gentlemen. We taught weeklies after the talk on wpp M l P Philadelphia one O six point five s and we taught weeklies after the talk. Now I'm I'm really excited. I'm excited today because we had we just have the ability to interview some good people, right, and the candidates. Uh, we have, uh, the beautiful Charrell Parker coming on mayoral candidate, and I'm excited of the energy that she given to the people. Right. David Oh, another candidate. I like him, you know, I think that you know, he's someone that can you know, relate to the people. You know. I see him out, you know, I see him doing some things, and it's hard because I think the conversation has become He's like, is it a such thing as saying a progressive Republican? David is not reallyble publican. You know, He's a He's a Democrat who had to be Republican to get a spot somewhere, you know what I'm saying. So he's always had a Democratic card. Listen, and people know that I am for I don't know what the bruise are on regular, but I'm for surreal, you know. And people know that they know that about me. But also David Oh supported my campaign last cycle for state representative, and it was an honor for him to do so. I did that because he was a Republican who was a Democratic like minded. He's like minded, so that's why I even brought him in so to find out that he was running premire. You know, if it was all different, you know, it could be something different, but the way it shook down, and all the people who end up, you know, being the nominees make it so I had to pick and choose between two good people for sure. For sure, good people for sure. The goal is definitely to see who's going to really push hard for the community because the community crying right now. The community needs to help. The community needs the energy. And you know, we're hoping that whoever becomes the next mayor will give that energy and support to the community that's needed right now. Because I think, you know, anytime we have what was this Trump talking about bad things happen in phil every bad things happened in Philadelphia come on like, come on, right, and so the national tension is focused on Philly, right, and so we need to change that energy. We need to get the people out of our vote. Is what happened, is what helped the presidential election Philadelphia. Yeah, and as far as what you just said though Purple, it's a win win for Philadelphia. We have two candidates who want the best for Philly, that's it. Their goal is the same, so that one is on its side of Trump and one is not. And that is the cleared distinction. Is that can we saygend a Republican That means you assigned and you identify with the same philosophies of that party, and if you did not, you would not be a Republican. So if you're a Democrat, that means you align with the basic philosophies of that party and that's why you're a Democrat. And if you're not, you got adoptions, you got the Independent Party, you got the Working Family Party, and you got the Republican Party. So it's a choice. Okay, well, well did you have it? Well? Coming up next, we have someone with whom I have a tremendous amount of respect for. Uh, This young lady holds her own She definitely can uh stand up with the best of us. And I've seen her the other day at the forum and I liked a lot of you know, the conversation that was going on. I liked a lot of what she had to say. But we're gonna ask some questions. We're gonna ask some hard questions. But she doesn't, she doesn't straight away from them. She tackles them head on, which I am hoping that the next mayor can do all of the problems that we're having here in Philadelphia. I need you to tackle them head on. We'll be right back after this show Sun knock up, Suck Suck Suck, suck, suck suck, suck, Suck up Weeklies. After the Talk with w P P m l P Philadelphia one six point five, that film we talked weekly, after the Talk with your boy Charles Gregory and a beautiful Lawrence and a beautiful classic lad and beautiful and a beautiful I was trying to wait for where that's coming without further ado. So without further ado, we're going to bring someone up, Miss Charrell Parker. Let's give her around the applause, around the applause. There you go, can't you hear us? Well, yes, yes, yes, I can hear you. Good evening, everyone, good evening. So we couldn't wait to interview you. We couldn't wait for you to come on. We talked weekly. We've been waiting a long time. And you know, before we start to interview, you know, something that I like to lead with is how are you? You know you've been you know, doing Ryan after Ryan, after the interview, after interview, at the campaign, at the campaign, at the at the debate, you know, so you know, I just see how you are, How are you doing? You know, how's your health? All that good old stuff. Yeah, Chard one, First, thank you so much for that question. That's not one I get a lot, right because I think people they don't ask it because they really don't want to know the answer. But I'm making it. I'm doing the best I can with what I have. Fantastic, fantastic. I'm want to start with, uh, you know, I've been following you and all of the you know, city council, everyone who put their hat in to you know, run for mayor, right, And I've seen you on you know, this this whole campaign, and and and you know you started kind of like you know, you made a joke about you know, you started in the dirt, right. They say you started as an underdog, right, But you. I've seen you kind of scale and you said you've been able to scale simply just by being you. And so I'll start right there. How important is it for candidates to really show whom they are so people can literally identified with them who's part of the community. So thank you so much for that question. You know, political pundits experts referred to the primary election that we just finished as the most competitive, the most expensive and most intense mayoral primary election in the history of my lifetime. And I'm hip hop plus one. And when you have such a competitive field of people are running at one time, you are trying to figure out how best to communicate with the public, with the people, and for me, it was a perfect opportunity to say, wait, other people may come off as being this bashment of perfection of you know, they know everything, they you know, if you just vote for me, I'll set your free. That was something I remember the all to have been saying on good times, and I wanted to be really clear that that was not who I was like that I would use my real life, lived experience, my intergovernmental professional experience at the local and state level and as the community organizer, and my humble beginnings. Along with my academic preparedness. I would use every talent and skill that I had to try to change things for the better in our city. And I didn't change based on the audience. I didn't go in front of white people, Latino people, black people, any kind of people and say, you know, well, you know, hello, this is oh hey, what's that? No, no, no, it was this is who Shirelle is. If it's God's will and you give me the privilege of serving you, I'm gonna be the exact same person that you've seen all of my life. So I'm not becoming a chameleon and changing for ay. I'm not gonna do that. And guess what, no matter the race, class, socioeconomic status, zip code, religion, actual orientational identity of the constituency I was in front of by the time I left the room, even when they disagreed with me, even when I talked about issues where people would come up and say, well, you know, it was all right that you said this, this and that, but I don't agree with you on this, but I do like the fact that, like you're human and that was it, Charles. That's the best way I can describe it. Yeah, And that's one of the things that I like to do on the show is try to humanize the candidates, because what I don't want to happen is for you know, community to feel because they already feel like do my vote count? Does my vote matter? Right? And to humanize the candidates, that's what we tend to do, right. And so let's begin with you know, how you would tell someone or how would you explain to someone the importance in voting right that they feel sometimes that my vote doesn't matter, my vote doesn't count. What would you say to that person. As a black woman who grew up in poverty and who's a history buff and so much of a first generation everything in my family, I know that as black people, we've primarily used three tools in order to gain any sort of advancement in in this this nation. One we use nonviolent social change and advocacy. So those are our marches, those those are our our ways to raise our voices in the United fashion. That's one tool. The second tool that's been very important and effective for us has been the courts. Historically, we're not voting without a civil Rights Act and a voting rights Act. How How did we do that? By voting for people and supporting people through that nonviolent social protest, along with our engagement in the voting process to elect people who would fight to and act those laws in the legislature, but also who would support judges who when they got there, they would put fairness right in the law first and foremost right. So so three tools, the non violentce social change and the protests. We used our voting rights as a tool to elect people to the legislature and then to elect judges and legislators who would support judges. Those judicial history making precedents that the court rules on, we then ensure that they're being enforced and we improve them through the law. And so when anybody says it doesn't matter whether or not you participate in the process, and a big one for me may not get to you all. But because I've been in local and state government, nothing teased me off more than hearing people say I only vote during the presidential election. What you and the president does what to make sure your trash is picked up and the plot holes that's ruining your car your car are fixed and the state where the funding for education comes from, and you know, for gun gun legislation and you and you only vote and what so we've done a poor job. We've done a poor job connecting the results and the impact on people's daily lives to the work that we do because they get frustrated. You tell me to go push that button every year shar around. My street's still dirty, my commercial quarter, no trees, it's not green, businesses run down, all of these vacancies, a lot of abandoned properties. And you want me to believe in government? Why, that's where I want to that's the challenge for people like me. How do I make it work so that you can touch it, see it and feel it. Now you're you're you're a certified English team. You're correct, you have a license. Yeah, that's correct. Right. I don't want to put it out, no fake news anything, right, that's that's that's accurate, right, Yes, it is just so so I just want to you. You want to Uh, you've been on a talking point as it relates to enacting year around schooling, right, and I want to know, uh, what is the plan based around that? Because you know, I did hear the one argument of you know as you as you outlined and you know parents, you know, Look, I want to take you. I want to be able to travel. But I'm wondering if you have spoken to even any of the teachers who, because you're teacher yourself, you have been and so how would they feel to you know, not be able to have that break for the year. You know that that that summer break to get away from the challenges of the year round or the year of you know, being in the classrooms with the students. And what about the teachers' unions. Have you had any conversation based around them and rolling out this plan and what would that look like? So that's it, Charles, That's a good question, and so one when you're running in the midst of a campaign. My job was to share a vision for the people of our great city and to let them know that if they would give me the privilege of serving as the CEO of this city, these are thoughts and ideas and that I would like to see implemented. And that doesn't mean that you have checked every box and that everything is already negotiated as to how you would implement it. But what I said is this is something that I would like to do. And does it mean, Charles, that that teachers and students are sitting in traditional classrooms three sixty five, you know, eight forty five in the morning. Let's say to you know, the six o'clock, six thirty seven o'clock at night. Absolutely not around public education as I profit. The concept is creative scheduling. It's not two whole months off two and a half months off in the summer so we can get back to that summer slide. No, it's creative scheduling. It's two weeks off here, it's three weeks off here. It's working with the teachers union to figure out how do we do that. But it's not just the teachers' union, it's every stakeholder who has a role in providing public education within our existing system. So for me, that's transportation, So that's the school bus drivers, are the NTAs, those are the lunch room aids, Those are the nurses in the schools, those are the people who work in the lunch rooms. That's negotiation with all of those adults. So while that part of the negotiations that hasn't taken place. The concept of us being creative with scheduling and recognizing that the traditional elements that most people in their mind fantasize are occurring in the majority of households in the city of Philadelphia. I know that that's not the case because the majority of our kids are not growing up in cosby like households. And the fact that the matter is school is not just a safe place for many of our young people, but many of the academic enrichment programs that some parents can afford for their children, whether it's arts and learning how to play the piano or some other instrument, whether it's life sciences and biotech, whether it's the building trades or coding the tech stuff. Many people they pay for their children to participate in those kinds of activities. When I came up with this concept is how do you find a way to make readily available within our current structure homework, help, tutoring everything that you know their parents out there paying for on a daily basis for their children. But kids who grow up like you did, Cherrelle, being raised by your grandmother and your grandfather on welfare and foodsteads and subsidized food. They did the best with what they have. But what about people like you and not the people and Charles you may have heard me say this. I talked to some people who said to me, well, I don't like that proposal about year round school because I like my children to travel, and my family travels and we go here and we and Charles, I was patient. I listen, I listen. I said, you know what, ma'am, thank you so much for sharing that, and it's great that your family gets the ability to do that. But ma'am, guess what, the majority of our kids are not in Disney World or even down South. That's what that we used to do. When I was growing up, everybody had a family member down south, so some people would go stay down south. That's not even the thing for most of our kids anymore. True, Agreed, agreed, agreed. Just one piece of that, all of the trades that you mentioned in terms of people you know that's out of the schools. I think it will probably be a good idea to even incorporate a lot of those you know, nonprofits, a lot of those people the community who's doing the work to you know, be part of that kind of year round expectation of educating the kids, you know, to be more inclusive with the organizations who are doing the work. You know. No, I agree with that, Charles, And listen. When I first got endorsed by the building trades, and we know how powerful and influential they are here in this city, especially for somebody like me who didn't. I'm not independently wealthy, so I couldn't sell fund right. I couldn't go say I don't need to have a fundraiser because I can put in ten million dollars of my own money. When you didn't have that, they become extremely valuable partners. But a lot of people didn't get that. The reason why they were so essential is because you partner with the entities that you need to deliver on your vision. If I want the plumbers, be electricians, the laborers, the steam fitters. President Biden was just here to announce a seven hundred and fifty million dollar grant to something people heard me talk about on the campaign trail called a hydrogen hub. That's a form of clean energy and alternative energy source. So we're talking about storing it, transporting it, employing the use of it. Guess what, that's almost ten thousand jobs that our people can be trained for. So rather than trying to fight them to say, listen, you're not black enough, you're not brown enough, building trades, you don't have enough people who look like me. We understand that we need to do work there, but you are more likely to work with me and want to help me in the plan when we're partners and not when I have a bullhorn shouting at you telling you what you're not. That's to me, not how you get somebody to want to work with you. Thanks for that, Yeah, Cherrell, This is Sparkle, another trio of We Talked Weekly. Thank you again for giving us time. Today we do a segment called good News and Bad News and we hyper focus on Philadelphia and one of the stories today was about a young lady who shot accepted driver six times and killing him. So we understand ACCEPTUS stands for the Southeastern penn Transportation Authority in Philadelphia. Mayor is going to be very limited in what they can do pertaining to SEPTA. But the question is based on the assaults, the robbery, the raps, the maliciousness that's going on. What can the next mayor do or what will you do to assist in making SEPTA services safer for both writer and drivers. So one, thank you so very much Sparkle for that question. Sparkle. Charles mentioned that I was an English teacher. So if I refer to literature a lot, don't charge it to my head and not my heart. James Baldwin, who was a civil rights activist. He was always quoted as stating, particularly one day somebody said, James Baldwin, mainstream America cares about civil rights too, and James Baldwin said, he answered, I can't believe what you say because I see what you do. I'm happy to tell you in response to that question, not just what I will do in the future to help keep SEPT the bus drivers and employees safe along with the ridership, but I'm happy to tell you that I was proud to be in the forefront when I was in Harrisburg to ensure that the penalties for creating any form of violent actions against our transport worker union employees that it was the same if it was for any other a state government employee, like a state police officer or a firefighter or police officer. So how do we do it? My platform is to make Philadelphia safer, cleaner, greener, with access the economic opportunity for all. That means any entity that has a nickel in the quarter of helping Philadelphia be safe. I want to work with them, local, state, federal government. They've been talking a whole lot in articles about she said, you know this particular agency. No, they didn't pick up what I was putting down. I wasn't just talking about one. I said, anybody at the local, state, or federal level who can help us make the public health and safety of our city our number one priority. But that's also the police departments of our institutions of higher learning. Remember the officer who got murdered at Temple right, So that's them, that's scept this police force, that's any entity that could help us. And we've got to have a comprehensive plan to do it, because if anybody's thinking the Philadelphia Police Department can do it alone, we are not, at our sixteen hundred member a compliment and that's just not going to happen. So comprehensive and appointing a police commissioner who has the ability to bring all of those stakeholders together, develop a plan, comprehensive plan for public safety in our city, and then implementing. All I have to do is the mayor is to stand up and say, we're about to make some tough decisions, and a whole lot of people are not gonna like it. Put that on my shoulder. Don't give that to the police commissioner who I've appointed. He or she is implementing a comprehensive plan that's in line with the vision that I've laid out for the city. And that means keeping accept workers safe, especially our bus drivers that are and train conductors that are interacting with the public. But that's mental and behavior health too, because again the investigation is still ongoing. You all made because your journalists and in the media, you may have gotten access to some information I haven't seen, but as somebody somewhere, somehow told me something about mental and behavioral health, you know, was involved in the story in some way. So it's a comprehen into approach that we need and we needed to make our entire city safe. Oh great, thank you for that. Yes, thank you, queen. And this is a purple how are you, sister Cherrelle Purple? So listen, no, we have to ask at this point. You know, the Middle East has been a tumultuous topic and situation here in Pennsylvania and the United States, and of course right here in Philadelphia, you have some polarizing you know, people who stand with Israel, people who stand with Palestine. But so I have to ask you. You know, as a politician, there's a photograph circling around with you holding you know that you stand for Israel. I would like to give you an opportunity to say, is that your stance? Is it not your stance? If so, why did you choose a stance and can you explain your thoughts on it or did you do it or did you make that stand? So one purple, thank you for the question and an essence not coming to a conclusion without sort of asking the question. And first I want you to know that although the mayor does not have one ounce of influence on deciding what public policy is like in the Middle East, I do understand that what is happening there has a significant impact on our Jewish community and our Muslim community here, and I respect that one thousand and one percent. I wholeheartedly reject anti Semitism, I reject Islamophobia, and I reject hatred in all forms. I would love to see a cease fire, and I pray for peace for Palestinians and Israel, Israelies so and the entire Jewish community. So I want to be really clear about that. Just for the record, it was a photo of my being at a rally about peace, and I was there, and I was supposed to have participated in an act about a week before. I attended that event, but because of the campaign trail and I was running, I couldn't attend. And it was when the initial activity had occurred. So when some people saw me there and that had been the first time, it was also when some other heinous, tragic, you know, activity had occurred in the Middle East, and it was that some people thought that I was choosing one side or the other. Now, what I thank God for is that people in the Muslim community who know Charrelle Parker said we know her, and we know that that's not the case. We know her longstanding relationships I'm talking about in a substantive way. We know that she is no Johnny come Lately a supporter of the Muslim community. So we know that the way people attempted to interpret my support against that act of hate and my affirming that I don't support that active hatred that occurred. I'm happy that there was a constituency who said, Charrell Parker, we know who you are, right, So I pray for peace, for the Palestinian community, for the Israeli community, and I reject anti Semitism, I reject Islamophobia. And that would be like, let me give you an example. If someone attempted to say, the Muslim community, you know, sort of reflects an active terrorism that was committed by Hamas. If anyone attempted to do that, I would tell them you are not going to do that, because that is not accurate. I know the Muslim community, particularly here in our region, we've work together, We've been partners fighting for racial, social economic justice here in our great city. And nothing about that with me is going to change now for all of you, and I thank you for this outlet to be able to share this. I've also seen people. I've also seen people attempt to use this as a tool to get to some other things that they never had another vehicle another way, right. So I also saw some people saying, you know what, this is a great opportunity to do X, Y and Z, and you can't stop that from happening in your life. I don't care who you are when that happens. But I thank God for those people who said to me, my brothers, my sisters, who says Grell, we know you. We've been with you too long. Keep pressing, keep doing what you're doing and trying to move our city forward. So thank you so very much for the question. Yeah, I appreciate you for saying that. And you know, what we attempt to do is to you know, give platform for people to be vocal and tell their own narrators. I think one of the things when it comes to especially as it relates to the community, we get a little nervous, a little you know, tight lip when it comes to people coming into the community saying, oh, what do you think about this, and then going back and changing a complete narrative, right, And so one of the things that we always stand on is we want to ability. We want the ability to tell our own narratives because if we don't, someone else will, and they may do it in a way that ain't necessarily the case, so to speak, right, And so we wanted to be able to give you that platform. So thanks for that. One of the last question this time flows. One of the last questions that I have is in concerns to us concerning black media right oftentimes, especially independent we don't get the opportunity to have quote unquote a seat at the table. Right. Oftentimes there are the gatekeepers or people who kind of like box that out. And as I've been a firm advocate on you know, people within the arts, because we're in the arts. You talk about trades, you talk about people who's you know, doing things and supporting the community. What would you do as a mayor, if and when right to make sure that people like you know, us, people within the arts, people within these you know communities that's uplifting and enhancing and amplifying the voices of the community. What would you do to put in place to make sure that things like that don't happen when it comes to independent media or people with the small voices that's not like the legacy media. So you know one I don't know if you all know this, but in the primary election again and thank you for when you open Charles, you referred to me making fun of myself when I told you I just wasn't the underdog in the primary. I was under the do you if you read the if you paid attention to those polls. But I didn't even make it to my own victory party that night because I had a dental emergency so I was at the University of Pennsylvania where everybody else was at the party. And one of the things that occurred afterwards was the Philadelphia A journalist Black journalists were having an event. When the doctor has said, listen, you just coming off this trail. You ended up here. You weren't even at your own party. You need to continue to take these antibiotics and and and just rest up a bit. Well, they had this event. It was important for me to get up and get there because I needed to signal to them, Look, although I've been victorious in this primary election, you need to know that you will be a priority for me. Communicating with you will be a priority for me. I made it to that that that event. That goes back to my stance. You know, don't simply listen to what people say. Check out what they do, check out the substance of their action. And the reason why I bring that up is because, Uh, there was the email controversy right that occurred between my some staff members. It was inappropriate. I didn't like it. When I learned about it and what occurred, I took full responsibility for it. I said, it's not a reflection of me and who I am and how I think. But it's my campaign, so I have to own what comes out of it, and I did just that. But my my, my behavior, I've never not been available. Now tell you what I am learning that I am going to do. And this is really different from me, you know, Charles, I have and I'm what I told you, I'm hip hop plus one. But I was talking to a friend of mine who who was saying, what what what? How are you different from the Charells in your thirties when you had just got elected the public office in two thousand and five, but when you were interning, I was very much a people pleaser. I've been a fixer all of my life. I've always been good at taking care of other people, and I've had a difficult time say no because I never wanted to disappoint people. I'm happy to tell you that, thanks to God's will, I'm in a place in space in my life that I finally learned that I can't do it all right, and so sometimes the answer will be no, no matter how disappointing it may be. I always try to have an option. You know, I can't do it right now, can we do it at another time? If I can't do it, can I send a surrogate or somebody else who's a part of my team. But I now know that I have the power to say no and that the answer won't always be yes. And you that might seem like it's something small to a whole lot of people, but for a person like me who's been the people a sort of people pleaser is the way I often refer to it as I come a super duper long way with that. So you know that sort of where I stand. Access is I'm going to be accessible. That's who I am. That's who I've always been, and my actions, you know, reflect that. And so you know, you call, you all called, and I understand that you were working for some time, like trying to you know, work with us to get this, to get this schedule. I'm here, that's right. We appreciate you. You know, we pulled off the gas on that because we really appreciate U. We really appreciate giving you giving us the access and given you know, journalists the access, especially journalists in Philadelphia, because we're having a challenging time here and a lot of that is because we don't have the access. So it's people like you who are in those leadership positions that can now say wait, wait, wait wait, let's make this a little bit more equitable. And so I appreciate you taking a sism. Yeah, I just wanted to thank you for sacrifice in your time to come and sit down with us. We don't take that lightly. And I just wanted to say you kind of just answered my question. But we know that time as a mayor in an empoverished city coming off especially a post pandemic year where we saw record numbers of murders, and being a mayor is a twenty four to seven job, no disrespect to our current mayor, what specifically will you do for your own self care when you get to that point where mentally like our current mayor who felt like he couldn't wait till he got to the point where he's no longer mayor, and all it takes for that media outlet to take that one little SoundBite that you say and just turn that into just a whole fiasco, like how will you deal with that? And how will you deal with your self care? I know you said saying no, but you can't always say no, you know what I mean, Like, you can't always turn your phone off in like, how will you take care of yourself? So it's your is your name, Lauren? Yes? Yes, Lauren, Okay, I was addressing the correct person. Lauren. I have really and I really do meanness. I am so happy that I can't paign as my authentic self and I did not try, uh to profit myself as this bastion of perfection. It's because of that that I acknowledge my humanness. Uh. And I've also said publicly that you know, no one should look at me as if I'm a superwoman, right because I'm not a superwoman. I have a super you know, a super a loving village around me. I'm super scheduled, I'm super organized, but a superwoman is something that I'm not. And because of that, because of there are so many people. My former husband and I, you know, we work extremely hard to co parent our son together, you know, while I'm in the midst of of you know, doing my life's work and pursuing my passion, you know, and my purpose, and he and I are working hard to keep things going. And my son's godmother and his grandmother, all of that helps. So I've got to stay girded, you know, and my daily realities with my family, with the people who help make this work. And I also have to recognize that I am going to be functioning if it's God's will and the people give me the privilege of serving as their mayor. I know that there are people right now that are planning my demise if I win. There are people right now who are hoping that if she does win. We can't wait until they have the first screw up. Somebody told me at a forum, you know, you know, if you do when as soon as the first homicide comes, they're gonna say, see, we told you she was the wrong person up for this job. As soon as the first price, as soon as something happens in city government. And listen, because we're talking about twenty six thousand people, human beings who do the jobs. Undoubtedly there is going to be a crisis. There's gonna be a flaw, somebody's gonna do something wrong, and as soon as that happens, they're gonna say, see, we told you it shouldn't be her. Lauren, guess what I've learned that I can't do. I can't let fear of that happening paralyze me into inaction. I've got to stay focused on what I can do right so that plan, say for cleaner, green, or economic opportunity for all every stakeholder, every partner, every community. You know, you ask the question purple about the faith based about sort of you know, those questions and concerns. We have to have every member of our spiritual and faith based community actively involved and engaged on the ground and helping us tackle the problems that we are facing because we can't do it by ourselves. So, Lauren, when I get tired, and if if I sat here and I told you that I'm not tired right now after being out all day, and I said, well what time is? They said, well, look you started at eight thirty, right, I'm tired right now. But guess what I ask for this? I ask the people to give me the ability to do this. And while I'm on the trail, it's gonna be uncomfortable questions that are asked. They're gonna be you know, challenging issues that I'm going to have to address. And Lauren Charrelle Parker's not always gonna get it right. She's not going to be perfect. And if but if you find one person who is, let me know, because we went to the heavens because they don't exist down here on the earth. Even if they even if they want you to think that's who they are, I'm telling you that's not me. We talked talking wpp MP Philadelphia one o six point five film. We talked weeklies after the talk. Two questions for you and then we'll let you leave. I appreciate your time and giving it to us. I want you to think about it, and the first thing that comes to mind. Who is Charrell Parker? Charrel Parker is a text book case study on how you turn power into pain through her real life, lived experience. I didn't know when I was growing up without my biological father being present, losing my mother at a very young age, having many of my family members deal with challenges, losing my grandmother, of helping to take care of my grandfather. Learn that's where my skill set comes from. When you hear me say I'm really good at taking care of people and fixing things for other people, because I learned how to do that as a child. But I didn't know, Charles, that all of that was preparing me to meet this moment. Every crisis that I've had in my life so you know, sometimes when I'm talking to journalists, you know, people like to remind you about things in your life that that you're you're not proud of, or that you know you're not happy about. And for me, that's a dui that occurred in twenty eleven, not something that I'm happy that happened in my life. But guess what, it was a real life, lived experience. You couldn't have told me back during that time that that real life, lived experience would have helped to prepare me and strengthen me and guird me and prepare to meet this moment, this critical moment in our city's history. I wouldn't have believed that because it was so much pain that I went through because I was living a public life. But and that was an experience, and I do understand that other people may experience something like that in a lifetime, not the point it happened to me, and I lived a public life. Guess what, I didn't know it would help me, that it would, it would be added value for one. Just like you heard me say that you watched during times of challenge how people around you respond. That taught me something too about how people who's there who's for you? Who leaves when times get hard? It reveals who people are. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. I said, way, you smiling and you happy to be around me when the times are good. I just came through one of the worst personal and professional life experiences that I've ever had in my life, but you disappeared. It revealed things to me about people, places, and things, but it taught me great lessons. So that's who I am. You know, a Charles product, the very humble beginnings, first generation college graduate, Ivy League graduate, great professional development opportunities that I've had in my life. And I'm proud to tell you that I've done some good things right. But all of that, all of that helps to shape me. So I hope that somebody will look at my life and say, wait, she's not one of these people who was born on third base, hit the ball and you know, act like they knocked it out of the park right. She started, she started behind the home plate, right, and and she can do this. That means I can do it too. So I hope I'm motivating, inspiring, and encouraging somebody to say, no matter how many people tell you, you're insufficient that you don't have enough money. You're not born of wealth. You come from the wrong side of the tracks, You're not qualified. If you just keep your eyes on the price and stay focused, you can do what your life's desire, as long as it's you and you're not trying to be phony and act the way somebody else wants you to wear the mask and Cheril, you should talk this way. You talk with your hands. You talk with your hands. Charrell, you're too expressive. Your voice is too loud. You need to tone it down. You're just a little too passionate. Some people might get uncomfortable with the way you communicate. If me be and me makes you uncomfortable, and I'm walking in my path and my purpose and that makes you uncomfortable, is that your problem on mine? Thank you all right? And last question we promised, Thank you again. So just an fyi, we talk weekly, reach two point two million homes, isn't it right, Jerel. So there's a lot of people, even non Philadelphias, that are watching this. So my question is I have a twenty six year old son who is licensed to carry, and he has his hair in twisty's and like the locks, and he's a black young man who lives in Philadelphia. The biggest thing that a lot of what Philadelphians are saying is that stopping frisk has hurt our city at mass incarceration. I'm an early seventies baby, so we around. I'm right there at the you know, at Hip Hop plus one, so we know what that epidemic looks like. And I hear that on your campaign trail a lot. What is the difference between terry stops and stopping frisk? So thank you for raising that. And it's a very good question because I've seen people, especially when they're trying to engage in what I would call trickery, right, they say things that they know are emotionally polarizing for people as a way to say, see, you know, if you support her, this is what you're going back to. And nothing could be further from the truth. You know that there was a federal lawsuit that was actually settled, and what came out of it was called the Bailly Consent to create and for the first time in the history of our city, we have a third party, independent Verifire, reviewing the stops. So we're collecting the data on the stops, and we're having a third party to review those stops, and as that has progressed, we have more work to do in that area. And so I want to acknowledge that one thousand and one percent what you have heard me say that I fully support and in no way, shape or form. Under a Parker administration, what I say to a police commissioner you our Philadelphia Police Department, they are not allowed to employ the use of what are called terry stops. Terry stops means that a police officer must have just calls and reasonable suspicion that a crime has occurred, will occur, or is being committed in order to stop you. Is that happening right now, Chirelle, Absolutely it is. But what people wanted me to say on the campaign trail is that I would not allow that to happen. I want to say to each of you that I do not apologize for saying and telling people in this city rightfully that I will use every legal and constitutional tool that is available to ensure the public health and safety of our city, and that means the use of terry stops. Now. The one thing I also want to add here is that when we talk about employing the use of terry stops. It also has to be clear that under park administration, I will have zero tolerance for any misuse or abuse of authority by law enforcement. If you are a police officer in the under a Parker administration and you're found to have missues and abuse your authority, you will be fired, sue us in court, or we will see you in arbitration. But there will be no room for police officers who missuse and abuse their authority under a Parker administration. And it's not either or because just like you just and thank you for describing your son, my son is eleven. He's chocolate like me, and he wears his hair it locks because he wanted his hair. Likes his dad's hair. Well, when his dad had hair, he wanted locks. And so when you talk about that Profiley, that of sort of that mass incartational over incarceration, I know exactly what that risk is. And with that being said, I will not have a police department under Parker administration that thinks it's okay to do that. Because my son looks the way he looks, that's not something I would tolerate. Can I also add this for those people who have a concern about this issue. I would encourage you to talk to to talk to a victim, a victim, a victim who after an investigation, was a curd has occurred. And you find out that there was a car full of semi automatic weapons and the people who actually gunned your son down and and and broad daylight had these automatic weapons in the car, and they drove by police and you know, they had a tag that wasn't right or maybe somebody reported it and in it and and they didn't stop the car for one reason or another. And then you look at mother and that father and that sister in the face and they say, if the cops have been doing their job? And X who called called it in to say that the car looked like this with the tag lopsided or the tag not on and somebody called that in and for whatever reason, the cops didn't stop that car. Had they stopped that car, just maybe those weapons would not have been used to murder my child. I want us to think about that side of it too, because as I've been on the trail, I've talked to people who've been victims of violence and who are very angry about the police not doing their jobs, even when they've been called about it percent. I think we agree with that. We agree with that. I think you know it's the wrong interpretation of from those bad apples that's considering it being constitutional but not really constitutional. Right. But I think that you're one hundred percent accurate, and I think most of the most of the community would actually agree with you. They want the violence to stop, they want to stop being the victims of the crime that's happening in Philadelphia. And I want to thank you for coming to the show. This is the last question that I This is like a curve ball that I throw all of my guests, you know, And I want you to think really hard about this, right, really, really really hard. I want you to dig in your purse and I want you to tell we talk weekly. This is the exclusive. I want you to tell we talk weekly. The one thing that no one else knows about, Charill Parker. The one thing I mean, you know, I know you got your son on your hip every day, so even the stuff you didn't whisper them, right, So I want you to tell us the one thing that no one else knows about, Charrel Parker. This is what you know. This is something that I've said. But even though I've said it before, it's actually two things. Even though I say, if people look at me like girls, you're right, but it's true. It's really really true. Like I am a mean cook, right, I don't care whether or not you think I am, because you're like, well, how do you have time to cook? You're never home? You always I'm a mean cook and I can jam. Okay, Oh, I can put it down. I can, I can cut it run. I'm gonna have to take your word for it. I'm gonna have to take your word for it. But I want to thank you for coming to the show as you like, like I said, as advocates of the art. So I would hope as mayor you definitely you know you don't stick that arm out and continue to support the arts because it is that is the support that people like us need to continue to do what we do, to continue to give people like you the platform to actually clear the air, right to say the things that sometimes the legacy media don't allow you to do right. And we consider ourselves, you know, focused on solutions, right, and so it's not about pointing fingers, right, but it's about Okay, we point the finger. We're going to allow you the opportunity to clear the air when we're not trying to push you to any narrative, right, and so that's what we talk Weekly does. So we just want to thank you for coming on the show, and we just want to offer you the last word to talk to the constituents, talk to the community, and any any last words that you have for them. But we really appreciate you for coming to We talked Weekly today. Well before she does that, I just Charrel. This is Stacy Charrell, another co host here. I just wanted to sec congratulations again. I got the opportunity last week to watch Charille receive the Sammy Award from the Labor from the Friends of Labor's Local three thirty two union, and your speech brought the house down. You're just phenomenal. And her award was for standing Community Leader, right, and I know this just is one of many that you will receive. So thank you for all that you've been doing in the community. And congratulations again on receiving that. FAMI, thank you so much. And you know, mister sam State and Senior and the laborers, they helped to start my career and so that you know that wasn't just an award, that was that that meant something pretty heavy to me. And and I listen, I want to thank you all for just giving me an opportunity to talk with you, uh on on on this evening. And Charles, you just said something that jobed my memory when you said we want to focus on solutions. That's what you just said, right, you said so. And on the campaign trail, I described some people being what I call expert a o p S, expert a OPS. They are expert articulators of problems because they can tell you about the problem, like they know everything about the problem, and they can stay on the problem, but they are short on potential solutions and saying well what about this? Well what about that? Or you know, I am a I'm a high energy person naturally, that's just who I am. I'm also a fixer, right, and I want to I want to fix things. So I get really really drained when all people want to do is to sort of talk about problems and they're not talking about potential solutions. So thank you all for sort of framing our conversation tonight, like from that that perspective, like, yes, this this is something that is a challenge, but you know what are the potential solutions to addressing it. That's who we are. That's what's going to make our city, you know, get better. You know, not for people who just want to tell us, cause I know what that's like when you come from, you know, the humble beginnings I come from. Some people just want to focus on everything negative. I think, God, my grandmother pushed me, you know, And don't you use as an excuse that you don't have this. If you want this, you go get a job and you go work for it. Don't use this as an excuse that your dad's not there. You got a grandfather, you got uncles, you got people in the community, You've got coaches, you've got mentors. Don't you tell me about what you don't have as a reason for you not to succeed. That is it's still dry. It sounds corny. It drives me to the day. That's why I work so hard at what I do, and I want to remove every barrier to having access to a village and quite frankly, the sense of connectedness that I had growing up. Because although we may financially have been living in poverty, guess what I was village rich. I was resource rich in the community. So somebody could be saying, but wait, Charielle, how you gonna talk about that free cheese and your grandmother taking you to the three two cent apace looking up that that colored money, them purple twenties, green tins and them brown. Tell us about that. But I looked at you in that outfit sitting on Santa Claus lap, and girl, you would fly when you were four years old? How'd your grandmother and your family do that? The village? That's what the village makes a way out of no way. So that's what I want for our people. You want to reduce violence. Give a man or woman access to the ability to take care of themselves, their families, to own a home, stand up straight with a living wage, their own healthcare, a four one K for retirement security, access to workforce development and training. I have a can do spirit and I want that spirit to resonate throughout the city of Philadelphia systemically. Thank you all for giving me an opportunity or time. Gentlemen, the Parker man, you're a candidate, and so listen. You know it's one of those things that uh, you know, we we try our best to do right. We try our best to be fair, right, We try our best to you know, straddle that line of of course opinions, all of us have them, right, all of us have opinions. But and being responsible, right, we have to understand that it's not just us, you know, talking and listening and watching. There's tons of people watching, right, And we don't want to sway anyone when it comes to what the issues are, what the solutions will be. But we do want to offer opportunity for those who claim to fix those issues or you know, those problems right to tell the people how they're going to do it. And we wouldn't be doing the community to do justice that it deserves. As we're talking that we're on these airwaves talking about how you know, we're so called journal so we're really want to amplify the you know, the community and give them a way of finding out how to get resources, of finding a way to move forward. We wouldn't we I mean, you can call us out on it. We wouldn't be you know, it just wouldn't be right for us to do right, and that would be something that we would have to take, you know, back to the community to say that we really didn't do our jobs right. And so we stand on what we do here. We talk weekly. We're unapologetic about it. We're going to ask the hard questions, but we're gonna be fair about it. So what do y'all think? How Lenton Sis? What we I mean, what did you think about that? I know you're working over there, you're about you're about to do the scissor in a minute, but what are your thoughts on an NFL. I'm like over here multitasking. Yeah, I I you know, I thought it was awesome. You know a lot of what she said is h pretty profound, and that's what the city needs. I think right now. The most important thing is we need a mayor that the city needs that can and it's not you know, the mayor is not going to be able to solve all the problems, like the most pressing one like the mental health, the crime of course, public safety. Those are huge issues that we need addressed. And like I don't want to say like who I think is the right person for the job, but like, you know, I just hope that the right person for the job gets at What about you? Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm a non traditional journalist. You know, I'm very opinionated where I stand, and that's why I unapologetically stand with Cherrell, you know, and I and it's not and it's not against any other culture or any other race. But she had a black mom. I'm a black mom, all right, So I know what a black mom know what to do, and it's time for us to have a black mom running this city. I stand with that, and that's bottom line. So I supports you, rel I love I again. I feel like David Oh, I've heard his platform. You know, I've been able to be in n city Hall to watch all of them do their thing. And I say this, when you're trying to make decisions, go to these people's district. They were both sitting council people. Go to that district, what do it look like, Go talk to some of the people in their residents, like, don't just go with the rhetorican and ya YadA YadA. Oh my god, you see that picture not gonna see. And for me, because I went to Charrelle's district, I see that one of the cleanest in the city. So what she talked about being is one of the cleanest. I said, Oh yeah, she gonna do that. She did it already, one of the greenest. I go to her neighborhood, like I got trees and stuff. Oh, she's going to do that. You know, I've been able to see it. So I would just take something. I mean, you live in Philly, is a short drive away to these different districts. I think it's the ninth district and district at Lord's anyway, find out their district. Go be, you know, inform yourself. Knowledge is power, and today she showed us that she has the knowledge. I was. I was pleasantly surprised. I mean, and I was a real critic to uh, you know, to actually not just not just to her, but just to all of these politicians. Man, I see them talking. I see them talking and not not being around and that frustrates me. And you know, I keep telling you, like you, I see you active, and you're around, You're in I've been in the streets and pulled up like yo, what's good? What's hollering? Like what can we do? Right? And so I see you out in the streets and I see you working. And that's the important thing for me in terms of really being out there and supporting the community. And wanting to see the best for Philly. Wanting to see the best for Philly, not not pontificating about what's the best thing. It was, Nah, like doing the work. That's just do the work to show up what they I want to say about her, her sance like on Cops and the stopping fridsk and staring again. I go, if you are in any hood, stop and pull over at the senior and say, hey, how safe do you feel in your neighborhoo? And what do you want? That's true? No shine times out of ten, that's senior is going to tell you that they scared to go to the store, you know, and they they want something done about this crime in the city. And that's what's real. My grand mom need to be safe. So I'm not really here for the games no more. We're at a state in time where although Gunbonce is coming down historically, it's still at a historical rate. It's not time to play no games people. Somebody was just shout out for the second arch. I live out the street. You know what I'm saying. It's done that those games of time is done to say a tangible change. And I feel like she's going to deliver the tangible change. You're not gonna be flip floppy about it. She's staying at her and told down where she said. And I'm always saying I'm Muslim. So i want her to very publicly take a stance on it. And I'm glad that she did. I was going to ask the I'm glad that you asked. I mean, I'm musclim and so it's really important to you know, hear her stance, especially when you're seeing pictures and signs and you know, it's easy to take a narrative and run with it, take a screenshot. And I think a lot of journalists, not even you know, like I call myself a loose journalist, also a non traditional you know, the only real journalist in here. I got a credit sizz you know, she just graduated, got her degree in journalism, right, and so so I say that. I just say that to say that as we practice and try to sharp on not acts, to be better and given the information and you know, the community, the communication of what's going on, it's important to be accurate and calling it what it is. But you are a journalist, Yeah, I don't say that. Don't say that you don't need a degree to be journalists. And that young lady, I forget how old she was at the time, but I'll never forget her. The one that was I think she might have been sixty years old. But she pulled out her phone and she recorded George Ford, she want to pull you want to pull a surprise for that journalists, But like, are a journalist? I got you? Got you and and the formalities of it. And they just told us that w h y body just that that on Friday? Shame. But also I was at the master it on Friday, and there are a lot of Muslims in that mass jed who are now disassociating themselves with Cherrell. Like seriously, I don't know if she understands what she's done or what that picture has done. But in some things you can be silent about and some things you can't. Yeah, Yeah, that's why it was important. I wanted to ask that because you know, in the community, when you in the community, that's the type of things that you hear, you know, and it's like, yo, we're not messing with her no more. I mean, she literally took a stance and it was just like a done deal when it came to that david Os here, he's at the door because someone go and get him. You want to go to the Citilans and do the civilis real quick before you come