Qawi Abdul-Rahman on Justice, Community & the Fight for Fair Courts

We are loah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, y'all. We talked. We's after they talking the PPM of PEP Philadelphia one O six point five FM. We talked week lease after they talk with your boy, Charles Gerdon, beautiful, beautiful Lawrence. We are definitely in the house to day or this evening, I guess you could say this evening. We have a lot to cover. We're a little late. One of our guests fell ill, you know, and so, uh, we gave her some grace today, so she'll be back on the show, I'm sure. And then we have another interview with this brother coming in. We're gonna talk a little bit about that. And then of course we got some uh we got we got good news news, Yeah, we got goodness. All right, we got some good news and bads, and then we got the sizzle in the building. We're gonna give us some stuff, talk a little bit about some civics, right, and so before we do anything, you know, I gotta ask you guys, how would your day? How was your dating? My day was? My think was cool? I slept a little bit. I'm dealing with a lot of illness in the family. Uh death, It just strained me. A lot of other stuff that's hello, okay, a lot of other stuff that's going on. I just yeah, I think now that the spring is starting to blossom. Yeah, I think things are starting. Yeah. Well, there's another shot I want to give. I want to show this little contraption right here. No no, no, no no no, I don't know. I won't even show that. There's a name, but there is this contraption. My little brother had one of these, and he was like, little sparks. After you drink it out of this, you will not ever drink water the same. So it's like an oxenizer type of thing. You just pot regular spring water in it and you click it. So I want to know if people could come and just to tell me, is this a like a you know, they. Call it placebo? Where's your You think something going on? Is it just the led light that's making these little bubbles come up? Because I feel like I taste something different. I feel like that. So m yeah, but that was it. That was pretty much my dad. You were sold. Huh, I said you were sold. H Well he got it for again because I was like, all right, I'm gonna put it in my Amazon basket. And then next thing, I know, it's at the door, and I'm. Like, did I pay for this? Did I write it? Then I looked at it. You know you could track your orders, and I was like, oh no, no you didn't. But he was so adamant, like it was he had to drive the fact that he thinks that the water tastes different. So from what I just drank, I will say it does taste fresher. Okay, it tastes it tastes more. Refreshing, more refreshing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was my day. All right, it's so all right, cool? I do I want to know who because it's it's constant debate on what's the best water? Period without that contraption, right, but who makes the best water? And what I know? Who got the worst water? I say, yes anything. First of all, they make chocolate, so I ain't trying to drink anything that that they make chocolate from. But in any event, right, you said Nestlie. That's I hate aquafina. I hate aquafina. I hate Nestleie. Some you could taste chlorine in them sometimes. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. What's your what's your take on that? What's your the best? What's your worst. My worst is I want to say, I think it's aquafina. I think it is. Yeah, I feel like I remember they were so hyped when it came out, like yeah, and it just was terrible. It's horrible. And then I can't do the erics like I can't do uh the basket and bowl. I don't like them. I don't like the I just don't. I don't like the generic ones either, because they. Like the store brand. Yeah, they feel like mm hmmmm. But then is there do people? Do you feel a difference between distilled. Spring I don't like this and purified because they tell you that, Yeah, I like this. Still I actually drunk, still drunk, It's all right, it doesn't taste like anything. Yeah. But my favorite is smart water. Yeah, which which one. The the Yeah the smart the smart water right, and they got they have not none of the flavors. No, they have one that's they say that it's uh infuse with electrolytes or something like that. Yeah, that one, Oh, the one that got the alkaline and I like, yeah, I like the alcohol. What's the name? Was good too? What is it? Fiji Fiji water? I like you like the way Fiji tastes for some reason. Oh, I love it. I don't drink Fiji too much. All right, all right, so you're ready for good news and bad news. We got, y'all gotta tell us how y'all. I'm sorry not I'm talking about water. That's you in an aquaina. That's so, y'all think I'm buddy. I think I'm buddy. Right, what you guys? That new toy system for that? That was my song. I was trying to find this one. There you go, all right, go ahead. My day was all right. I mean, I won't be labor. It is nothing special, that's all. That's it. What you do today? Though, Sizzo, Did you go to your stage? Did you get your million dollars pictures? Your art work? None of your day? Real interest? Grocery store? What's aggravation and grocery store? Which store you're shopping at? I just I went to a shot right, and I hated it. I hated everything about it. Shot right? Which one? Did you have to take your own bags? No? They got a nice one. Now they got a nice shot right by, like you going out the Springfield, like you going out to Springfield. Yes, it's some it's some supermarkets that it's an experience, like when you go to a fresh grocer. That's an experience because they got an area to the side where you can sit down and you can eat, and you know, they got you can you can have lunch, you can, it's it's it's an experience. But then they got the ones. It's like, I want to get out of here. I don't even want to go in here. Can I order curve side? That's what you want to say. They got the ghetto. Small it's like a match box and everybody just ripping and running all over the place. So what's your favorite supermarket? Then? I don't know. I think I like, I like I'm Whole Foods. I mean that's I like going there. The Shot because like they got like all the other stuff where it's like the the owls with the vitamins, the the stuff that you know for your skin and all that. So I like that that's where they excel at. I like Trader Jewels, Treated Jewels. Trader Jews cool too overpriced, both of them. The way. You have to take your own bags, Sizzle. And shot right, you do right to take your own back. Yeah, or I don't know if they have the ones that you can buy. They used to have been cardboard. They tell you take this cardboard box and keep it. I don't mind. I don't like shopping. That was a save a lot. Save a lot. Oh yeah, save a lot, do that too, I'll do I'll do that. It's all the our Well I don't know a l DR. Right, yeah, what's it made to? Madam? What's up with you? See? How was your day? Busy? Long? All right? We need more information. It was busy, long and longer. I'm just saying like it's just running around as usual. You know, it's always just a lot preparing for the show, handling all this business. But Juneteenth is coming up. I got some news about June teams, so that might be a good look. So we talked weekly maybe at Juneteenth, covering Juneteenth, y'all. So if you do see it's, come by, get a quick little interview, sit down with us, talk to check what it's. You know, we in these streets, man, so we want to talk to the good for So come to Juneteenth right in the community. Man. You know, this is a p s A. You know what I'm saying. The commercial this is a ps A. You know, June teef is for the folk, the good old folks, people in the community. And so it's good to see a gathering of people. And as long as I have been there, I've never seen any issues, no problems or anything like that. That's why I like June teeenth. The grandmams be out there, the baby doing baby, you know, you know, the goons be out there, you know what I mean. But everybody that you know what what? That's how he said, I know, baby, what's up? Dog? Like, who'll be doing that? Now? I don't like to do that no more. What's up? Dog? Especially not how you're doing it? But that's what you're ready for. Good news and bad news. Get it to good news. Class leaves park while so we have a packed good news and bad news. All right. As y'all know, I've been doing like a sixty second Trump administration update. All right. So here's what's making headlines under the Trump's presidency. All right, there's a shutdown to try to be avoided. Congress has passed a six month funding bill now waiting on for Trump's signature, So hopefully the government shutdown will not happen. Crime crackdown, a major push against fittinhol aims to curve overdoses. So a lot of this tariff stuff that the President was talking about, he's now trying to allude that it's more for the push against Fitnahl coming into the US. Trade war escalates. European Union hits back with a twenty eight billion dollars in tariffs after Trump's steal in aluminum taxes. Did y'all hear about that? Yeah, they're they're not gonna they're saying, basically, they're not going to be bullied. This is this is Canada who the. European travel restrictions, the new visa bands could affect citizens from forty one countries, the diversity programs band, the court temporarily okay, Trump's band on DEI initiatives and government and federal contractors, which we've all been talking a lot about, and a lot of pushback and resistance has been, you know, towards the Trump presidency on those those dei's initiatives. So that was your sixty second Trump administration update. All right, So for our first good news and bad news story, there are four groups that aren't talk to buy TikTok's platform. The US operations before the April deadline. Oracle already is handling. TikTok's cloud storage is the top contender. Billionaire Frank McCort and Reddit co founder Alexis o'hanian wants to buy it and make it more user control. Microsoft is also interested in tech entrepreneur Jesse Tinsley, back by YouTube star mister Beast, has joined the race. Trump says that all bidders are strong and he wants the US to get fifty percent ownership. He also opened to extending the deadline to make a deal happen. All right, We're going to stay tuned for updates about that. Now, here's a fun twist. Mister Beest, the YouTube megastar known for giving away millions. Have y'all seen mister Beast any of his game shows? Have you know who? Mister Bee says, I've. Been watching That girl won a whole island. All right, he could end up owning part of TikTok. Again, fifty percent of this is supposed to go to the US. Now, if his group wins, we might see different viral challenges and giveaways built right into the platform. Plus oracles. Larry Elson is a close front of Trump. He could play a major role in shaping TikTok's future. This sale isn't just about business. It could change how we use social media. Also, did y'all hear that Meek. Mill put in a bid to buy TikTok? What he got that BG? Well, no, people are saying that Meek doesn't have the financial backing for TikTok, which is worth three hundred billion dollars. Yeah, just like I'm laughing, that's what they were like, you don't have this. This is this is this is old white money, right right, Well. I mean mister Beach, just mister beast. Did oh you said? Okay, yes, yeah, well mister s old but his people. Yeah, this is long, this long money, all right, that's long when he got them? Yeah yeah yeah, all right. Well did you hear about the two Virginia High school track runners? I did? All right, So this is about Aliyah Everett. She insists that the incident was unintentional, and she says people are misinterpreting the video all right. The video shows that Everett hitting the runner, Kaylin Tucker, in the back of the head with a baton once Tucker began to pass her. However, Ever, it claims that a. Second video angle shows her arm got stuck and she lost balance after getting tangled with Tucker. Tucker, after being hit, was diagnosed with a concussion, and Everett's family says that after the incident, she received death threats. Everett said, I hope she's okay, and I hope she recovers, and I would never try to hurt somebody. Everett is being charged with a misdemeanor assault and battery. Do you think the punishment fits the crime. Uh? Yeah, I just don't get why she did it, period. That was a little crazy. She said, why she did it. She was losing and got mad and couldn't have something control. But yeah, you don't do that during the track. Me though, that's the orum. This is something I ran ran right, I did too, But so which which is curious for me to you know, if you know how like those batonsa is. I don't understand how she got a concussion from that unless she hit her and she got hair braids and everything, and so I don't see the force that she did give her. But if if she did right, because I don't want to take away from that being injured or anything. Uh yeah, Like it's a decorum. It's like this etiquette that you have when you're running right, when you're on the track meet, and like these are although they quote unquote a rival team, y'all still a team together and y'all running right. And so I guess during the time, it wasn't nothing like this. During the time, it was the occasional bump or occasional somebody step in your lane type of thing. I'm saying, Yeah, I mean, we all team. You don't know what that means. I do, that's what you mean, because they're actually opponents. Said, although you're people they're running against, technically we're all eighteen, right, So it's at the coreum that we all had. Because you're all running right, right. And so after the game, you know, after the run, you know, we usually go back and shake hands. That was good, I got you next time. My god is the you know, stuff like that. But I just don't understand how. I don't know what that was for. I never saw anything like that, and so they probably trying to make an example while of her, and uh, I mean she's still young. Though that might have been too little too much. I mean, they could have smacked on the back of the hand. It was just like I think I personally think that. Even how she's talking after I'm talking about the young lady who hit the girl, she's even saying. Oh, my arm got up. I didn't see that. You didn't see what her arm getting No, I'm saying she's saying that. So if she's saying that, she's still covering up for her actions, meaning she's still she He's that type of person that if you did something like that and now you're not even taking accountability, this is who you are. So I don't know if she picked it up. I don't know if it's embedded in her, but whatever it is, it's showing that's the type kid that she is. So I'm not when you say why, I can't understand. Why she did it. She did it because she was losing. She's a sore. Sport and she still got that same energy. She's like, I would never hurt nobody, Like okay, it's almost like you know what I was losing. I gotta ask God to help me with that. Like, whatever it is, just come with it, humble, because it clearly shows that you hit somebody and the other thing, like you said. Those batons are really light. I ran track teen years ago, but I do know that the girl. Who got hit with it, she didn't even know that she got hit until she got hit, so she felt something. So even though it was it's a thin object, you can't fake the fact that when she felt it, her reaction, even if it wasn't know because if it was to the point she would have just kept running and and and passed her and just you know, uh speeded against her. But it is what it is. And I just really think that those parents need to talk to their daughter who did who was the assailant, to say, you know, it's got to be better, because I think what didn'tis. Happened with the ice skaters. What were their names? Yeah, like you you can't Yeah, you're. A sore sport, that's all, Bosino said. I totally agree. I mean, yeah, it's one of those things like how I just don't get. I don't get, like how you literally you're in front of the world like you had the audacity. That's my thing. It was just the audacity, he said, Uh, she busts her in the head because she was losing. It's just that. Yeah, and real, real, for real, for real, if the if she would have taken her what she did at least to take it on the chin. But she cried, like, even if you ain't crying a lot, you cried, lay said everybody. She said, nobody is worried about monumental Hmm that killed me, I said, m yo, that was wild to hear. Look to see them real tears. Yeah. Yeah, And you on television and got caught. That's that was the crazy part. But all right, okay, so this next story is about the Civics moment. Story is brought to you by. Ev EV Every Voice, Every Vote, a collaborative project of the Lynfest Institute for Journalism, with Leeds support provided by. The William Penn Foundation. You can learn more at www dot every voice, dash every vote dot org. Also note that the editorial content is created independently of the project's donor. So Philadelphia is taking. Care of Business Clean Corridors Program better known as TCB. Now, this initiative is changing the game when it comes to keeping our neighborhoods clean and vibrant. One thing everybody say about Philadelphia, they call it Khiladelphia or filthy Philadelphia. So the mayor heard it and said we're going to do something about it. Under Mayor Cherrelle Parker's leadership. The initiative is putting local nonprofits to work beautifying business districts and surrounding area, and the results they speak for themselves. Since January, TCB has expanded from one hundred and sixteen to one hundred and fifty five clean corridors, covering one hundred and thirty six miles of the city. Over three hundred cleaning ambassadors are out there every day. Nearly forty four hundred trees have been planted. Y'all remember that back in the day, with the trees and stuff and vacant lots they were once eye sores are now maintained green spaces. Hopefully we can get gardens in there, fresh fruit at least, you know, we'll be able to hopefully give that food away kale, spinach. But this isn't just about cleaning streets. It's about people. TCB creates jobs, strengthening small businesses, and giving opportunities to local minority own cleaning companies. Commerce director Alba Martinez put it best. She said, TCB. Cleaning ambassadors are on the front lines maintaining these business corridors. In twenty twenty four loan. They collected over one hundred and seventy seven thousand bags of litter, with litter levels dropping in eighty more jobs opening. Up next year. TCB isn't just about cleaning up Philly. It's about a better future for all of us, the people, the nonprofits and mayor Charrelle. One thing I can say is I've been seeing her in them streets, like she has been really at the podium speaking. I mean even with the airplane that happened in Northeast. Like, she's been extremely visible. So I will say that, ya, any any feedback on that? No, why are you doing lis like that? She called you out see. Those lips, was like, I don't have my I don't have my theme music. What happened to it moment? Right? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, that's how we're doing it. All right, good, I'm glad. I know. Now all right, this next story, I'll just say, hold on to your pearls or not. So I came across a powerful article in the Philadelphia Tribune by well known attorney Michael Cord. You know, yeah, Now that's somebody who's really for the people, who has made extreme changes in the city of Philadelphia. So this this this article exposes a chilly, chilling piece of history. So did you all know that white people once made shoes from the skin of black people? You knew this, did you know that? Says a Yeah, he did. Okay, So a Philadelphia. Doctor even wore shoes made from black cadavers dissected at medical colleges. But it didn't stop there. Black skin was also used for cigar cases and saddles. This was part of a long history of brutality, including torture methods like the Derby dose, where enslaved people were forced to consume human waste, and also from casket spiking, a method involved a coffin lined with spikes, shredding the victim's body as it tumbled. By the time that the casket was opened, the victim's body would be mutilated beyond recognition. These are the dark truths that we can't afford to forget. So it was a lot more so you guys check that story out again. It was written by the well known attorney Michael Cord in the Philadelphia Tribune, and that was just my small excerpt on what I got from it. But it was a lot of stuff that was in different articles in eighteen eighty eight that were published, and it gives you delve more into this information that I just shared. Yeah, it was better. I mean, you want to talk about little black babies being fed the crocodiles. You want to talk about dentures, people slaves, teeth being pulled out of their mouths and used, and you're talking about man all types of them being quarter by horses. And it's just a lot of things. When you talk about women being hung up upside down while they're pregnant and being cut open, and I mean the brutality that our ancestors faced, it was just atrocious, right, And so it's one thing to It's one thing to acknowledge it, it's another one. It's another to say we need to just get over it and forget about it, right. And so I think that's where the challenge that the people or this discourse that's happening with quote unquote wokism or critical race theory. You know, it's why should you know we put guilt in the babies, so to speak? Right, And it's bigger than that. It's American history, right, it's not happening now that we know of right, and there are some good white folk out there, right, And so We're not blaming everyone. We're just saying this was a historical. This is historical, it's factual, and it was American history. So acknowledge that. That's cool. Point. That's it, that's all. That's it. Yeah, well that was your good news. I did yet some good news and your bad news. Good news and bad news from class Lady Sparkle. And also, you guys, don't forget that we are independent radio. We rely on your contributions. If you want to send in a monetary one, you can always do that at our cash app, which is dollar sign we Talk Weekly, or if you want to give in another kind of way, you can always follow us on any of our platforms at we Talk weekly dot com. You can comment, you can share, or you can subscribe or visit us on our website. At www dot we Talk weekly dot. Com we talkweekly dot com. Man make sure you like to subscribe, makes you share, make sure you tell tell a friend and tell a friend to make sure you follow we Talk Weekly. Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe and donate if you can dollar sign we Talk weekly on our cash shap. 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These are the background singers and we came to make some noise. We can to bring that noise today. So that's that's what we do. That's right. How did you guys get together? Man? So it started with I've been doing this on my own for almost three years now, and man, I guess each of these people here have different background stories. Most of us went to the same church together, and we just kept going this one her, this is. My one of my assistants, said, one of. Like the my my biggest support of my biggest suitar to hear, she's some assistance. So we just been building it. The same thing with upstairs with the band, just meeting through people Kepta network and capt saying it was just like God, her damn bab here we are awesome. Well, could you guys do we talked weekly? A favor? Yeah? Can you give us a drop in a melody type way type way? Okay, so we talked weekly. Yeah, guys, So we're gonna do something like the WA talk weekly. Come in here with us, wait talk, we come. In here them we talk. We come in here now we talk. Come in here, we talk. We come in here now we's TALP make me come. In We talked weekly in the building. We talked. We we have to talk with w PP and my P Philadelphia one O six point five FM. We talked weekly. You have to talk with your boy Charles Gurgen and beautiful Classic Due beautiful Lawrence is all right, so you already no, sister, why don't you holler at me? All right? So make sure you guys subscribe till we talk weekly on all social media and major podcast platforms. And if you want to support us even further, you can make a donation to dalasign cash app dalasign we Talk weekly on cash cash app, or you can go to we Talk weekly dot com, where there's an option to make a donation via paypath. Yes there is, there is, all right. So Wendy Williams, she is speaking out against the conditions of her her guardianship in an interview on the View. So for those she called in, yeah she wasn't there. Yeah, yeah she called in. But you know, for those of you who aren't aware, a guardianship is a court ordered arrangement where a judge appoints a person or organization to make decisions on behalf of a child or an incapacitated adult excuse me, thereby granting the guardian powers are similar to that of a parent. So the State of New York has three types of guardian and ships. One is the Article eighty one. They also have Article seventeen dash A and guardianship of a child. So in order to qualify for Article eighty one guardianship guardianship, the court has to determine that the person is unable to provide for their own personal and financial needs, and that they're incapable of making decisions on their own and ask and they also have a risk of harming themselves, but they're unaware that they actually need assistance. So in twenty twenty four, Williams Wendy Williams team had reported that she was diagnosed with aphasia and frontal temporal dementia. So Wendy Williams called the view. She called in and she was stating that she was having a little adjucta, so she went to the hospital. So she said, it was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incompetity in capat now I can't even say it right incapacitation which I don't have. She said, how dare they say I have incapacitation? I do not. So she's talking about those who are over her in her guardianship. So she also described her living conditions where she says that she's staying on the memory unit floor where there are like seventy eighty ninety year old people and they don't On this floor, you don't remember anything, and that's why I guess it's called the memory unit floor. But Wendy Williams, who is sixty, says she stays in the bedroom majority of the time. So during the interview, the view holds Sonny hostin. She had to read a statement from her guardian lawyer. Her guardian lawyer about the guardianship and said that the guardianship was issued by a judge that declared you legally incapacitate after a diagnosis of frontal temporal dementia and says that then says you have not been kept from your family and you are not receiving excellent care. So Wendy Williams kind of fired back and she was just like, I need them to get off my neck. So, you know, lately Wendy has been speaking out against her guardianship. So Wendy is just tired of this Britney spears like guardianship and she wants to get her life back. So I hope you know a lot of people are just like Wendy Williams on the View, like they were like wanting that to kind of be like her comeback or whatever. You know, she still has her her strong following, but yeah, I would love to see a Wendy Williams come back. And and she really didn't sound like there was anything wrong with her. For context, can you give because you mentioned Britney Spears about her guardianship just kind of to explain that a little bit. For other conservative ship. That she is. She still in it. No, oh, I think she she finally got out of it. But it's like when you're it's it's similar to a guardianship, like you you have no control over like cause Wendy was Wendy was explaining like she was like I can't all my clothes and everything that I had, and they they have control over that, Like she can't have the stuff that she wants to have, she can't make her own decisions. And the guardian what's her name, uh, Morris Morrissey. I think her last name is his first name Susan, I can't remember. But she's pretty much like appointed by the judge to control Wendy williams every move. So now what they're saying is that the judge is basically like, oh, you're doing too much now we need to make you know the facility that you're staying in stricter so you can't get out. Because I think she was able to, Like I think she had a family member come and the family member was able to take her to the hospital. Yeah the need, Yeah, take her to the hospital where she got her own evaluation done, and she's accord into the evaluation, like she doesn't have what these what they said that she has. I've been watching that story too, and I feel like I when I say I love me so Wendy Williams' she's a cancerine too. I think that. I think that when she first did this, and I say did this, it's her and her husband were getting a divorce, and I think she was trying to protect herself so he couldn't get her money. And then I think it went a little too far, and now it's like, oh, crap, Like. You know what I'm saying. I think. So you're saying that she was seeking to. Protect her assets. Yeah, I No, I don't I think that. And I'm not really sure on the legality of the wording, but I think she was trying to do something that would not allow him to take her money from her, and I think that it got a little too out of hand. Now she says she has Graves disease, So I think when she passed out and all that stuff, I don't think that was fake. But I think that they capitalized off of what her illness is. And I think that her strategy was probably going to work. But then when people got involved that she didn't know start to looking over her money, I think it went too far. But I don't think nothing is her frontal cortex all of it. I don't think nothing's wrong with my girl. Because she's talking and she's asking appropriate questions. She sounds like Wendy. She sounds feisty and ready. She did so exactly. She really did to me. That's why I was like, she might have a point. She might have a point, and like, you know, maybe they need to do something like I don't know how that will work because everything is like core ordered and it's like I don't know if they can appeal or something like that, but hopefully she can get out of it. Brittany got out of hers with her dad, but it. Was the people that did it too. Yeah, so maybe there needs to be a movement like start the Free Wendy Williams. I know some people are already saying that, but yeah, like they did for Brittany. Yeah, absolutely all right. So Offset is sounding off on Elon Musk following Must's support of Ben Shapiro's campaign to pardon Derek Chauvin, who was sentenced in twenty twenty one for the murder of George Floyd. So in a post on Instagram, Offset wrote racist b playing in black folks faces, and he added driving Ferrari not Tesla. So the rappers outrage stem from Elon Musk posting a video of conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro calling for President Donald Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, accusing the Black Lives Matter of causing billions in property damage. So Ben Shapiro also claimed that Derek Chauvin's knet on Gerald he just went just saying a bunch of stuff. But he also stated that a lot of these things weren't true, but he was just stating them. Derek Chauvin's knee on George Floyd's neck did not cause the immediate death of George Floyd, and he attributed the death to use of fentanyl. In addition, Ben Shapiro wrote a letter to President Donald Trump, which was included in this whole petition that he has created for people to go and sign to support this cause. I will not give out the website addressed to this because it's just a bunch of buffoonery, if you ask me. But part of the letter, which was a little lengthy, that he did put in there, he says, and this is a letter to President Donald Trump. He's saying, we write to urge you to immediately issue a pardon for Officer Derek Chauvin, who was unjustly convicted and is serving currently serving a twenty two and a half year cent for the murder of George Floyd and associate associated federal charges. The mayor of and I'm kind of skipping around, the mayor of Minneapolis prejudged the outcome of the trial and immediately issued a large settlement to the Floyd family. Then President Biden, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and others prejudged the outcome of the trial and took to national media to create pressure on the jury to go along with their preferred narrative. Under these circumstances, there was no opportunity for blind justice to work, and a man is now riding in prison because of it. Make no mistake, the Derek Chauvin conviction represents the defining achievement of the movement in American politics. The country cannot turn the page on dark, divisive and racist error without writing this terrible wrong. Derek Chauvin was sentenced to twenty two and a half years in state prison to run concurrent with a twenty two year federal sentence. So offset just joins a long list of celebrities calling out Eli Musk for his political stances and decisions, such as Cardi b Eminem's, Stephen King, Tyler the Creator, and Jimmy Kimmel. That infuriates me. It does, it does, And I guess what, I never really followed Ben Shapiro until I saw this story, and he has a huge amount of followers. So it just kind of makes you angry. So, I mean, some of which because I do recomments, and the reason I recomments is because I like to get a consensus of what people say and how they feel. But a lot of people, a few people were kind of speaking out against it, like oh, yeah, no, that's not cool, and you know that's wrong. And even one person who I know is a conservative right commentary person. He even said, like he called him out, and he was like, I'm gonna I'm not gonna name his name, but he called him out and he said, yeah, back then, you were supporting George Floyd. So now you're just trying to get people to follow you and you're just trying to get attention. So I don't know, it just yeah, it infuriates me. I should Yeah, all right, So I do have a celebrity sizzle, believe it or not. I haven't had this in a long time, and I'm super excited for this one. The Celebrity Sizzle Award for this week goes to DJ ja Z Jeff, and he is showing up in a big way after producing Philadelphia's Sonic ID for the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup Tournament. So Fifa announced, for the first time in FIFA World Cup history, the twenty twenty six tournament introduces city specific sonic Identities, which is a celebration of unique energy and cultural vibrancy with local producers for each of the sixteen whole cities. So. In an interview with The Inquiry, Jazz Jeff explained how he created a marriage of Phillies neo soul and culture to produce the perfect sonic ID to represent the city. So he said, when I understood that the sonic ID was pretty much telling the story of Philadelphia, the first thing that came to my mind was gamble and huff. So this is the biggest sports event to come to Philadelphia ever. So if we're gonna do it, we're gonna show people who we are. So Jazzy Jeff's song Will song will be played during FIFA events and matches at the Lincoln Financial Field. So that's yeah. Each and what I thought was pretty cool was that each city has their own little like vibe, kind of like musical vibe and all that based on the culture of the city that they're gonna play in those whole cities during the you know, World Cup people World Cup in twenty twenty six. So go and check out Philadelphia's sonic I d created by DJ Jazzy Jeff. That's dope, that's doe man, I'm your girl, Laurence Sizzle and that was the sizzle. And that was a sizzle. Ladies and gentlemen, boy charged Greg with the beautiful. Classy lady sparkle Laurence Sizzle. Yo that was dope. Shout out the jazzy jeff Man. Shout out to Philly in the building. Man, Philly's been winning lately. Let's keep that up. Let's keep that momentum. Uh, you know, I'm super excited that the birds year we pulled that chet. People have been coming here just to tour Philadelphia. Always do that. No, I mean it's even more like the And then what the initiative with the TCB that Mayor Charrella is doing, Like they know that people are coming here looking at us. Yeah, all right, no doubt our mayor not sure if I'm with that dollar hike on parking going to talk about that. We are already struggling. You want to increase parking. There is something wrong with but there you go. We talk weekly, have to talk with wppmm P Philadelphia one o six point five of film. We talked weekly. After the talk, I'm gonna go to one of our young journalists. I don't want you to go there when we come back. After that. We got a dynamic interview and we'll be right back after this show. Hello, no reporter, Ella presents a new recipe that can help me looking over to you. Ella. Thanks fellow. Now that follows upon us. What's not a better way to start the fall seasons than an easy and simple recipe? Hope care bet. It is the most delicious and easiest food you can make for yourself, family and friends and your community. Take a look, right, we're gonna. Make pumpkin bread, So make sure you screenshot this recipe and let's get started. First, preheat you ouve into three fifty degrees in one of your bowls. Picture flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice with your fork. Mix Now with your second bowl, mix your sugar, oil and apple sauce with a whisk. Once everything is mixed together, add your pumpkin and mix again. 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Well what did you think about this recipe? I think that this recipe is perfect for the horizon fall weather. Substituting the egg with the apple sauce is a great option for others with an ecology. Thanks wella. I'm Ala Kanzon, reporting for Youth Civic News. Back to ULLO. We talked weeklies after the talk on WPPM and P Philadelphia one O six point five film. We talked weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Gregory and. Beautiful Classic Ladies and the beautiful Lawrence. All right, so who do we have today? You know, this is my favorite segment of the show. Why because I get to talk to the good old folks that's really in them streets, that's doing some good work. So who do we have to day? Who do we have to date? All Right? So today I am excited to announce that we have cow we at Dual Rockman. He's an attorney but affectually called Esquire by his family. Rachman was born on Plattsburgh Air Force Base in New York, and he was instilled a deep sense of duty of community, later shaping his path into law. Mister Rockmand's family relocated to the Richard Allen Holmes located in North Philadelphia when he was a child, But after earning his political science degree from Cheney University and his Juris doctorate from Thomas School of Law, he gained twenty five years of legal experience, serving his Philadelphia community and earning the first Judicial District of Pennsylvania pro Bono Public Award. Presently a resident of West Philadelphia, a proud member of Omega Sci Fi Fraternity Incorporated, mister Rockmand is a dedicated, youth youthful football coach, husband and father. Y'all already know what to do. Let's give a warm. We talk weekly. Welcome to kwee at Dulrockmand. My brother, my brother, how are you? How are you are you? I'm good? Got you first of all. First of all, my brother, ramadamu barritt Ramadammobadi. You know what I'm saying. You know, this is we in a holy month right now. You know, I think it's good. We're getting off those things, you know, trying to replenish our soulf so we can go forward. And so first of all, I usually start with how was your day? But since you went around about how's you around? But not coming? My brother? One of the things is it's been a beautiful day. Unfortunately, the Gray let us know that the days move too fast. So when people ask me how's Ramadan? It's moving too fast because you know, we have opportunity to have extra prayers, do extra you batter and the fact that I can't do it soon it's starting to bother me. You have we half way through thes the fifteenth Ramadan. Fifteen, halfway through right the first the first there you go, there you go. So let's start from the beginning. You know, you know, you've you've been pretty active with kind of like your just civic engagement period from like your family and shout out to tell you know, Richard island Ram squad in the building and I remember those days, you know, and you're coming back and now you what's fully shout out to West's where I'm from, you know. So, so when we talk about kind of like how everything started, let's are from the beginning what got you involved in just kind of noticing that there's some challenges in our hoods right in Philly and then wanting to make the steps to fore change, so to speak. Firstly, it's peculiar because I wanted to be a veterinarian. Ah, so I'm actually University of Delaware planning for Tubby Raymond Biology major. Shout out to doctor Chapman, who was also a veterinary prevet guy who's my vet now going to Tuskei University for veterinary school. My brother got arrested for homicide and at that point I knew that he didn't do it because we knew who did do it. But more importantly, anyone to do so that term you would hear growing up, anyone would do is not until it affects your life that you realize it means anyone would really do so. After eighteen months sitting at Holmesburg, I realized that I may not be able to help him, but it's gonna be a lot of people after him, because there was a lot of people before him that's going to need representation. Who's going to understand the dues and don'ts in our community? Do try to listen to the police as best you can. Don't think that they're not gonna mess with you because you didn't do something. Just because you didn't do something don't mean you can't end up on state road, in state prison or the like. You know what, I'm gonna park it there real quick. So what would what advice would you give someone that that may be in their car right and it gets stopped by the police, What advice would you give them? Police? Walk up, knock on the door, boom, and go all. Right, let's before you park it there, tell me a little bit, Tell me a little bit of what you want me to do. Are we dealing with a person who has the paper Delaware tag on their car, with the tent all the way around the car, who just ran a stop sign, who breaks don't work, who has the whole front bumper off. If it's that person, he's in trouble. Let's go. Let's go with the average person. The average person, me and you. They got their registration. Everything is good, Everything is fine. What I tell people is, don't wait for the police to walk up and knock on the window, rolling window down. That eases some of the detention. Maybe not all, but it eases some of the attention. One of the things that we often forget is is a lot of bad cops. But I believe it's more good cops than bad cops. So if you get stopped by the police and you engage in a manner that we all know. You may not think you were going too fast, but we know we're going fast. You may not think you ran to stop sign, but you didn't stop all the way and look both ways. You may not thought you ran that red light, but you've seen it was yellow, and you still want to keep on going. So at the end of the day, you know he's not stopped you typically for nothing. I'm talking about guys like us, and when he stopped you, officer vicens registration insurance. I've already got that for you, and I got that for you. We already women need to be not know what you stopped me for. Not to try to taggonize and create a situation is a kend. I was a kind to living in West Philly and Richard Allen had I didn't have to shovel. I never had to shovel because they shoveled for us. But when I moved on Woodcrest, my first house outside of the area, my next door neighbor, mister Ken, my other next door neighbor, I will shovel. And what that meant was, I'm shoveling for myself and for them, because I know a neighbor is a neighborhood. So if you treat your neighbors properly, now your neighborhood to be treated properly. And while I'm saying that, we're telling them what the police, while I'm not leaving that now you have a personal shovels. They car out your neighbor, You park your car in that spot, neighbor, knock on the door and say could you please move your car and not shoveled out, and you go right to philth farm Field to your neighbor. The police don't stand a chance. That's what That's the point I'm trying to make. So oftentimes we say respectful people will treat the police respectfully. The disrespect for people don't care because you treat your neighbor the same way you treat your cod interesting. Interesting, and so I totally agree with that. But what do you say to the mom right that that is terrified? Son just scot you know, their license. They finally start the mom like, oh, I'm scared because you know, we know what's going on with these kids. What would you tell the mom? Like how would you cause you know, you know how these black folks, right, we the only ones that have to give that talk. Unfortunately, you know we have to give that talk to the kids. But what do you tell the mom? Like, how would you coach her to talk to her son? New son just riding her you know, got a new car all, Like, what would you tell her? The same thing you tell your kids about anything else that you do, the same way you told your kids to go to school minus manners, be respectful in school. The same way you tell your kid to go to class and be quiet in class and do your work, to mind your business. Those are the things that good moms and dads are doing to their children all the time, and the fact that you gave your kid a proper upbringing, it's gonna be a lot easier to deal with them. But I also tell people this PHILOPI has one point six million people in it. One point six million. We start talking about the crime, do we really have crime in the city? One point six million people? So when you start talking about homicides, there's less than one percent of one percent. When you start talking about police really shooting people in the street at traffic stops, I can't even say that's less than one percent of Well, that's that's there's a negative number, right, We still do one point six million people. So if you really look at it in the grand scheme of things, we're not that unsafe in the city. Not that that's safe from each other, nor we're not safe for the police. So if you just treat your kids to be respectful, the percentage of bad officers are just as small as the crime that's happened against people travel traffics. I totally agree to that, and I think the issue is and I'm very I'm very hard on legacy media because they lead with if it bleeds it, if it leads. If it bleeds, it leads, right. And so if every day we turn on the TV and the first thing that come on in the news is somebody got shot, somebody I killed, Rob, X, Y and Z, you would think that nothing else happened in Philly, but that bad things happen in Philadelphia, right. That's what the present, That's what I'm saying. And so when you have that, then then the perception. Now perception becomes reality, yes, right right, and so now we believe that yo, Philly is off the up, all right, So now everybody's scared, and so moving forward, what do we do right, because you civiically engaging in the community. If we know that what you're saying is a fact, right, then then how do we re educate the community. It's the easiest thing, brother, it is stay involved in the community. Black flight, black flight, So we prevent the black flight. If our best and brightest minds leave the neighborhoods, how do we re educate our best and brightest minds. Got to realize what they're telling us a lies. We I coach at thirty third in Diamond to this day, I started at leven faces will be more. I started coaching at the black Hawks, where I played under Untamishi. I seen the tenor and the philosophy of the program starting to change. So I moved, but I didn't go for I didn't go out to the county and I stayed in the hood. I went to Logan Cowboys, which at that time was Nice Town Titans. From their officer Art said listen, I'm gonna step down. I need somebody to come take over this program. And I ended up a thirty third in Diamond Shot Brain Mansion. So at the end of the day, this is how you change it. When they see coach Q who's a lawyer, who's running to be a judge, and he's still in the neighborhood, still here with the kids to do the things the neighborhood that needs to be done, and not afraid of coming out here with our kids, not afraid of our kids, not afraid of our own community. It makes it a lot easier to re educate. Now talking about that, you said, running for judge, let's talk about that. So I was trying to walk through that. We gotta know, we gotta make him a person first, right, we said, So this is this is how we do it. Right the best you see how I jumped in there. So, so what we like to do, right is because we're hard on candidates, candidates, and so because we like to keep the accountable, right and for us, right, we interview everyone. We interview everyone, especially candidates, and what tends to happen is people don't even know who they are. Every mayorial candidate came on, that's. Right, that's right. And so and the thing is is like somebody might jump in the race. It's like where you come from and you're talking about you doing stuff for the community. Who are so no one would have known that trajectory that you said from being in the hood, right talking to Miss Johnsing, your neighbors doing this for them, you know, shoveling snow from the kids, you working with the kids playing football, transferring over there, not going out of the hood. You could have went to the count that now be painted a picture of who you really are. Right. So with that said, right. Sereverybody right right, right, all right, I took the hell Mary. So as as you said, running for a judge, this is a special election coming up. Tell us first before I even get into the disparities, and a lot of Philadelphia. Axouneries are coming out tell us the importance of the special election for judges that people don't realize. Well, one of the things that people don't realize is since you guys have had every type of candidate on probably outside of the presidential because they know they're afraid to come to talk to us. Yeah. So if you're dealing with the governor, the president, the mayor, if you look at their office themselves, how they really affect your daily life? They don't. Who affects your daily life? Who gets to tell you whether or not you can see your son every day or every other weekend for two hours a day, or the security guard watching you. Who else get to tell you whether or not you have thirty days to leave your property you're going to be locked out? Who else has the ability to say your sentence is twenty to forty life of person. And we're talking about someone who affects your life those ways. But more importantly, adjustment also sittings you to death. The governor can't do it, The president can do it, the mayor can't do it. None of those people who we elect and we have all the big turnouts for can affect your life daily The policies and stuff may influence your life, but they can't affect your life. You're talking about I'm telling you right now today you walk into court, you're walking out in handcuffs. We're talking about you have your son, we're taking your son from you, giving it back to the mother whoever. Right then in the court, right we're talking about your going in knowing that you had a home over your head, to have nothing, to being homeless. That's what a judge has the impact. But we don't think about judges that way. And the sad part is, and this is the part that a lot of people don't know, but being in a system for over thirty years now, from a public defender in Dade County, Florida, to being a law cler for ten years for Joel Johnson the family court, for being in private practice also for twenty years, it is not a portion of courts that they can put me in that from day one, I'm not ready to be able to be on the bench and understand what needs to be done to be treated fairly and justly in a courtroom. Unfortunately, an assistant a city of Philadelphia, major cities in particular, when the judges are elected. Typically, they put them where people matter. The less you hear about how these judges. When you go to CJC and a person gets sentence in there, you'll hear people in the hallway or that judge never practice criminal law. But why then when they put that judge and then we have civil law, why not put them over there. They get their practice with our life. They get the practice with our children's lives. They get the practice when they didn't have an opportunity to learn to sharpen their tools before that. They get to learn once they become a judge with our lives because our lives again don't matter. When you think about civil court, judges are moved out of civil court when they mess with that money. When them big firms say we have a medical mad practice where we're looking at one hundred million dollars settlement and the judge messed that up, that judge is gone. That judge is not going as quickly when the person is like you were talking about exonerating people coming home. When a person isn't found guilty by a judge who let evidence in, this shouldn't be let in a judge who would not declare a mistrial because the evidence was not right, that judge is not going to be moved from criminal court, that judge may be applauded for doing what they're doing. Can you tell, you know, for our people that are watching, like, what are some of the things that you feel like separates you from the other candidates that are running well? I mean, if you know you know. One thing, I can say, this is very simple when you asked, Because everybody grew up. Some of us grew up in projects, some others didn't. Some of us grew in a single family home, some of us didn't. We all went to law school, we all took the bar, we all practiced some type of law. Again, if you're going to be put in the proven ground where it deals with our lives, you want someone who knows how to deal with our lives when they come in. For example, and I magine you have a kid who is sixteen years old, because that's just when they tended to deliver. Now, Tiff and Brodgruben learn from Brown eight on. Once he just a place in Richard Outen. Tiffrian Brown was a known notorious drug corner. Suppose I walk down to the corner and I'm just shaking somebody's hand. Friends of mine are there, and I'm standing. I'm just looking up and down the street. A court can say I'm a lookout. That means I'm a conspiratory to a drug activity because I'm from the neighborhood. I know people in the neighborhood, and I know how easy things can happen. So I'm looking have been down the street. No candidate can tell you this part of life, because no pandidate knows this part of life like me. So now he's sixteen years old, whether he was selling drugs or not, as irrelevant the fact that he was adjudicated linquent for selling drugs at sixteen. Then at eighteen he is again arrested and convicted of selling drugs. You heard me say, adjudicated at sixteen, convicted at eighteen. Why is that he has four points on his record? The number only goes up to five at eighteen years old. You got four points on your record four So imagine now at forty is that sixteen eighteen year old the same person at forty Typically not not, typically not. But the sentence in guidelines give you some wiggle room if you understand who you have in front of you. So if you have a person. Now, when he comes in, he says, listen, Judge, I know I made a mistake, but I have a family at home, I have a mortgage, I work at Septa, I work at whoever the city. I'm paying card notes. I'll take my kid to football practice. There's no way in hell I could send that person to prison. I couldn't do it. One day in prison could have that man lose everything. Not only he loses everything, but his family loses everything. And if you don't have a judge, they have that sympathy and understanding, that person goes away to jail. I ran for judge the first time because of this same incident. I had a guy who I represented who was twenty two years old. He has some simple possession marijuana possession as a juvenile. That's the extent of his record. He had a domestic case, and I don't take kindly domestic I did't grow up in domestic violence situations, so I don't take kindly to it. But what he did do is after him and his girlfriend had an argument in the car, he called his mother. He took the girl to his mother's house. They had to sit down immediately with his mother and cried in front of his mother. For a black man, what does that mean to me? I got the punishment that the courts couldn't give me. I had to admit to my mom I did something to my mom, cried in front of his mom. His mom took the girl home. The DA forced the girl to come, made her come to court, and the judge sent him the jail for six months. You mean it, tell me that's his kid that needs to go to jail for six months. We're not talking about the crime, we're talking about the punishment. So when you're talking about how do I distink myself from them, I know I have kids who may not eat, and we feed our kids every Friday and Saturday. So the day before the game, like in college, they gave us the meal. That's what we do for our kids to get them understand this is what happens in college. On Friday, you're gonna have a meal table. You're gonna get to eat pasta, this, that, and the third out there again, you're gonna be able to eat properly. Now I can't tell you what the kid may eat for the rest of the week. Salt pepper ketchup Chicken Way streets on their side. I don't know. I don't think we don't have for the rest of the week. But you got to understand who you're dealing with to really be able to aid them. The criminal justice system have a lot of resources, but if you don't understand what a person needs to use the resources, there is no rehabilitation because we constantly hear about hurt people hurting people. We have a lot of incests, a lot of molestation. We have a lot of things to go on with these kids in our community, and then at sixteen seventeen, we want to call these kids monsters and villains and the like. How and if you can't see that person fool that person, you'll never be able to judge that person properly. So that's what makes me different from a lot of people. Wow, that was profound. What do you see that currently is in the Philadelphia traditional system that there's a gap that you could fill? Well, and I know what you just said about what separates you, but what do you see currently? One of the things that I see currently is, like I said, we have resources, but you have to be able to recognize the calling out that oftentimes, thus the young black men won't ask for so when they come in the courtroom and they sitting and they doing this and they leaning, they're calling out believe it or not, and if you can't recognize it. Coaching these little kids have shown me a lot of things. And I tell my coach, I say, listen, we have to be mindful of who you have to chastise roughly in front of kids, who you got to pull to the side, who you have to coddle. You have to understand what it will take to get the best that's out of that player. And that is one of the things that I've learned. I don't care what candidate you have to come on here, not one of them will say they're doing something in the community with our kids. Not on Yeah. I mean, so I want to know, like because because you know, we got a few comments here and pretty much the consistence is that it follows kind of the trajectory of what we hear about d a crash now, right, that he's soft on crime, right, that he's that he's he's just simply you know, there to kind of forgive. And I totally don't believe it. And I feel like he was a breath of fresh air for me, you know, personally, especially after someone like a Lynn Abraham. Right. And so, so when when we talk about how we control crime or how do we make Philadelphia safe? Where do you fit in line when it comes to like this gentleman saying that you potentially may be soft on, uh soft on criminals, and that Philipladelphia may not be safe. What do you say that people who, to the contrast, feel to like Philadelphia has been sought for criminals, right, and certain judges just kind of like you know, kind of gives them a pass, so to speak, right, And so what do you say to that? What I say to that person is pay attention to the really the numbers. When I went away to college in nineteen eighty six, we had nine state correctional facilities. Nine, we're over twenty now now one of them are empty. And who fees most of these systems? Philadelphia? So how soft are we on crime? If these twenty plus facilities are full or almost full, and they're coming from Philadelphia and Allegheny County? How soft are we on crime? Are we soft on the crime that we should be soft on? When you're talking about kids who are stealing, you're talking about kids who are trying to eat, and again that's not everyone. And for that person who's talking about that, and let's talk about basic understanding, there are some people that should not be in a sandbox with me and my family. And what we're talking about is this. We're talking about being able to recognize the difference between a person who needs an opportunity to be reabilitated as well as a person who needs to have someone to show them, because everybody hasn't been shown how to be a productive citizen. Although we want to believe that everyone hasn't been shown that. There are kids on my program who run the house at ten eleven years old. Run the house what they say, go at ten eleven years old, So at fifteen sixteen, how do you tell them anything? So it's not about being soft on crime, because we have laws. But when you have laws, should it be a law in fact that I'm charging you with the hardest, harshest of crimes for the same crime that if a white person who have done it with them not gotten in charge the same way. We never talk about that aspect of it soft on crime. How people who shoot check the stats and see how many people up on state road with one hundred thousand dollars bell five hundred thousand Dodar bells right now, Checking stats and see how many people are sitting with twenty thousand dollars bells for having a gun. Who's convicted they shouldn't have had a gun on them if you check the stats, that's not faccial. The same way, we have one point six million people in the city and the crime is not where it's supposed to where people think it is. It's the same way. So no, I would not be soft on crime because the same way your grandmother I would protect the same way protect my grandmother, the same way you want to protect your kids, the same way I will protect my kids. So no, sitting on a bench doesn't mean that you give people a pass because you look like them. Of your color don't mean of your kind, hey, but you have to understand what kind are they? Are they the kind that needs some help? How many kids really you have never got hugged? Shit? That part people? I mean, being a football coach is more than just coaching Little league football is trying to make men. And if you're trying to make men, you have to be well rounded and give them everything when they see me out there and say, coach, why do you do this your kids? None of your kids out here. You still out here buying kids helmets and cliques and making sure these kids are fair. These not your kids, they are my kids. So that's the same person. I'll be on the bench if you harm someone. I don't know if you harm my family, and I want you to harm my family. So therefore I would have to do as needed for the city to be protected. Yeah, And I like to hear that because for me, I like to see that people are normalized, right, Yes, which is the reason why I try to get to know who you are first, right, because what happens is as I stated, like, you see these glamorized campaigns, right, make them you have dynamic, you know, you know agents and everything you know, try to get you its places. They make you look fantastic right doing the job. I get it. But then when again in it's like, yo, you said that you would do X, Y and Z right, So how how would you once you become judge, right, how how would you suggest not even just you, but any other person that got on the bar, well got on the chair, you know, how would you suggest people hold them accountable right for doing things that they said that they was and not doing anymore right. And so if someone you know, are upset or feel like they're not doing these judges aren't doing what they saying that they're doing, then how do they hold them accountable after that? But the question is you got to first voting to people that should be there. That's right, vote hundred, that's the vote first. That's gonna talk about them, but go ahead, that's the first part. So a person don't is not doing what they need to do. Your here in the streets that this judge is is slamming people who shouldn't be slammed because at the same time, and I don't want to try to bash the brother who did put the statement out about being soft on crime, But until it affects your family and you see your family un justly sentenced, that's when it hits home. There's a lot of families who had people unjustly sentenced, so it's already hit home for them. Now the question becomes, are you out voting to make sure it's not done to somebody else's family? So that's how you hold them accounta But I tell you it's easy to hold me accountable. I'm in thirty thirty Diamonds typically from April to November. Coat your people, children, I'm not hiding I've been there forevers Listen, I've been attorney here in the city the same way, and the person can say he didn't do this. I'm in the same spot every year, thirty third in Diamond from April to November, and I'm near. So if you think I was that bad of a person, I didn't care I sold people out of I'm near. Yeah, one hundred percent. Now you there's since you brought this up. When we talk about firearms, right, there's conversation and there's a lot of issues as it relates to legal firearms and these goost guns and everything that's coming in. How would you suggest, uh, we as Philadelphia as a community, that we handled it. Some people argue about you know, the gun the gun laws, right, they should be stiffer. Some people argue with One of the things that I always argue is, you know, make it easier to get licenses, because then you know that you know pretty much who has a gun, right. But you know, when I got my gun license, they made it so hard to get a license. So if that's the case, right, something is small as well. At the end of your name. You know, why does your license say junior on it? But this document say it doesn't say junior. It's like, come on, I mean not putting on so so something like that that would then put somebody to say, well, then forget a license, then then I'll carry another way. So that said, what do you suggest as it relates to gun control? Again, I'm I'm a historians. I'm gonna start off. I'm not going around the bust of the question. I'm just gonna tell you how I look at the question Ali North, the Iron Country scandal. What was that about cocaine and guns being running our community and particularly Compton art imitates life? What was it called X? Remember Ice c was X and he said the freedom that we have may not be free. And this guy said, you mean all the time they've been paying us the hauled cheese and were hauling guns, and what they do They just took the guns and put them in the community. I believe when you start talking about these ghost guns and other guns in our community, just like we talk about cocaine in our community, people are putting them there. People so cracked because of the exponential amount of money you can make off a small amount. So if I get twenty eight grams, and I started twenty eight grams, and I put a little superior bie and some bacon powder, and I slow it up and break it up and make it bigger, and I'm coming back in sixty grams. Now I'm doubling my money off that won twenty eight grams. Let's talk about that part. Well, if you go to buy a block, you go by block nineteen, and that clock nineteen to five hundred dollars. How can a hellum a seld on the street for two hundred to tell them for two hundred, I got it for free. I'm not gonna pay five hundred lose be on it. It doesn't make sense. So we all know that when it comes time for these things to get on the streets, either you're getting it for free or you get it for next to free. So even speaking about that, a lot of the crime is because of like just say, minimum wage Pennsylvania is, you got Delaware who's increased their minimum wage. You got New York Philadelphia hasn't a lot of times we've even talked about the abortion rate abortion rate is high with the black community because they feel like they can't afford it, not because they don't want the child on other reasons. It's they can't afford it. So do you. Think that if the minimum wage was to go higher or more money into the city for our children, would that help with the crime rate from the youth? Absolutely? I believe that would help with the crime rate. And the crime rate again is relative. So growing up with Richard Island, we had Harrison School which is now closed. What's the elementary school which is now closed? Carmen which is now closed, which is now Spring Garden. So we start talking about elementary schools in the neighborhood or the neighborhood. Kids didn't change, kids are still there, but where are they going to school? At? Are they even going to school? Do you even have options for the schools that they had when I was growing up? Kearrny is now in a Blue ribbon school. Out to Kearney there's a Blue Ribbon school, but you know it's a Blue rim school for nor the Liberties. What's that? Northern Liberties now three or four hundred thousands of homes. So at the end of the day, yeah, minimum wage is important, but we cannot start without making sure our kids are educated in order to get these jobs. How many kids can't read or write? Oh man? They was talking about that, and they're saying that some of the quality of the learning that some of the kids are they're not getting anymore learn cursive heavy. It's heavy. So so let's let's let's jump into let's jump into how people are right. So I'm gonna start because you mentioned this and I wanted to jump on this because this is we do these little civic moments, right and for every voice, every vote, and we talk a lot about the importance of voting and how some people feel like why should I vote and my vote doesn't count, or you better vote you know x y and z because the ancestor is in X, Y and z. Right. So I just want to ask you the question that I start with as the civics moment moment, Why is it important to vote? Well, it's important to vote, and particularly to understanding who you're voting for, because it's only way you want to have change. You think about how Wilson Good, what is Wilson Good known for? M An You're the bomb and that's what he's known for. No one talks about Wilson Good when it comes to making sure builds can be taller than where yours. This city, this city said you couldn't build the build the bigness of Look at the west side now of Market Street, Comcast one and two, Liberty one and two. It looks totally different than the east side of Market streets? And why does that look? Because they wanted to make sure our sister Surrel park a good bad how we want to think about her, She understood one thing. We have to go ahead and put a shot into the community in order to be able to grow that community. The east side of Market Street is horrible. Nothing is going on the east side. But Wilson Good is only known for Old Sage Avenue, not for theation of the west side of Market Street. That's insane to me. And because we voted for a black man, the first black man in the city, we don't even give them the procestests needed. So then we start saying we're just going to vote for anybody instead of voting for people who can help our community. John Street, the revitalization of our communities, getting the blight and stuff off the streets, something as simple as that. We don't even talk about that anymore because we let people coming like Mary Kenny, who tapped out in the middle of his second tenure and said, okay, this is where we are and how's how's even the mayor? What made him a mari quality in the first place. We went from having Rizzo, who is a high school graduate running the fifth largest city in the country. His brother is the chief of police, the other brothers the chief of the fire department. We are crazy. Today is long, but we will vote for other people because we think the ice is colder. We will hold their feet to the fire more than we will hold our own. So we are nonpartisan, right, we don't lean to any side. The one thing that we always say is that we're going to support people who we know is support in the community. Right, how would you how would you manage your your your judge ship being fair to everyone that's within the community. How would you run with it? And and that's that's the that's the thing I don't see. And again we talk about race doesn't matter. Race doesn't matter because I want to see more of us in the court than anyone else. But because you see a sprink fling with someone else in the courtroom. Don't mean, oh I get something surprising. Facts is still the facts. Poor is poor. I had a professor Salima in law school said, listen, rock mind, it's not gonna worry about color, this, that, and the third he was he was a guy who was down with snick back in the day. He went to the Peace Corps. He did all those things, but he said, I'm at an age where I see poor would be the nominating factor. The thing that people are talking to ever about Trump and it's different policies. They're affecting all poor people, the appellations, North Philadelphia, South Compton, l A. It is hurting. It's hurting everyone who was poor because people believe that poor doesn't affect color. Color affects poor because if you're poor, it doesn't matter what color you are. So you're I'm sorry, no grad finish. So when the people come before you, regardless of where they come from, wherever zip code they come from, a lot of these stories are the same. When the stories, what the story is. If the person is white or Hispanic Asian, whoever comes before me, and this story is such that they need to be rehabilitated the same way a black boy who I can see needs to be really abilitated. They get the same They get the same benefit. There is no well, because I'm here now, I'm only gonna look out for my people. That's not what it's about. It's about making sure fairness is for everyone. Yes. So you're running for both the Court of Common please yes, and the municipal court. Yes. So with majority criminal cases being held for court at arrangement, which court would you see yourself being more effective in? That's hard to say because once one of the court, I'm gonna piggyback back on the question. He said, how do you hold the judge accountable by making sure you hold the people or the president judges accountable? What do that mean? They go ahead and assist and point judges to where they want them to go. If I get into municipal court, municipal court deals with preliminary hearings. They deal with summary offenses, misdeman charges, DUIs. It could be marijuana possessional attempt delivered, which is a felony, but the first time it would still be a municipal court, landlord tenant, small claims court. What if they say, okay, well, we know that you can affect whether or not a count made sense and how they arrested this person and why this person is sitting in jail with four five hundred thousand the bell. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put you over here in landlord tenant, so you don't get to be effective at all. You're over here landlord tenant only dealing with this. But on the flip side of that, I'm even more effective because I get to save people homes. So we talked about criminal I see both sides. I've had family members who was evicted. I've had my friends who was evicted. I have kids who's been evicted and they trying to figure out what to do, coach what we need to do my mom, you know. So I see how affect every aspect, whether it's landlord tenant, where it's the criminal justice system, whether there's family court when it does with custody, or juvenile court because juveniles are being arrested again just because anyone to do. So the fact that I think I could be helpful, but I can't even see where I would go because I don't have the determination of court I will be in although I'm in municipal court or common police court and they want to send me the civil right away. So I know I would help on that vein. But what if they sent me to Justice dependency court or I'm just dealing with DHS cases. I'm saying just but at the same time, I'm able to benefit there because I know just because for example, you have a mother, they say, well, Mom, you're never home, but then I'm never home. There's gotta work three jobs. Do I take your kids away from you because of poor economic situation? Well, mim, your lights are off. That's because y'all raised the electric bill because the rent went higher, because the subsidies are now going Wow, So mom would do I can't take a mom's child when other than not having a financial resources, she can't provide. But she's a great mother. Why not have a system to aid her to make sure her being a great mother fits her financial needs to where now they both meet each other. The same way we have bringing kids out here who can't go to school because they don't have the money. We know, we don't let him go to college. We don't give a dad. We can't figure out how to go to college. You just don't go you don't have the money. Well, I don't think a person should lose her child. Well what would you do? Would you offer different resources? We absolutely, we have resources in the system. We have resources in the system. Unfortunately for us, a lot of time, the resources are not drawing her out to our community. We have them. Wow, uh yeah, So so there's no question about your qualityifications. Let's let's talk a little bit about some of the achievements and affiliations Chainey University of Pended Bachelors of Arts and Political Science Boom, Saint Thomas Scott School of Law, Juris Doctorate degree Boom, Florida State and Federal Bar Association, Pennsylvania State and Federal Bar Association, Delaware Federal Bar Association, New Jersey Federal Bar Social That sounds like I'm spitting bars, right. Who's who amongst students in American College of Universities Gamma Theta Upsilon, International Geography Geographical Honor Society, Alpha Phi Sigma National Honor Society, Alfa Kappa New Honor Society. And this one was a mistake of his. It's okay, Omega Fraternity Incorporated. Everybody makes mistakes every now and then. But my brother, my brother. He who's your fraternity? I like my brother. You know what I'm saying. You got that blue white one though, you know, I mean it's all that that looked like blue and white to me. You know what I'm saying, some child to my brother in Cheney's the blocking me. It's all good, you know game. Oh and so with that said, right, uh, how can so when when they go to the polls, how do they find you? Do? You know, like your batt information and all that. Yet we don't have that. Ye, we actually want the nineteenth when we go back to Harrisburg for just to pick the ballot numbers. Okay, and again what she asked me about running for both courts. Typically once you figured you a little bit, Typically once you get your ballot position, then you make the termination which one you will continue to pursue because same For example, I have a higher number on CP and a lower number on MC. Well, because I'm not backed by the party and it's going to cost an astronomic to Waney money anyway, I would just go on one. Court, gotcha, got you, gotcha? But all of your background, you can run in any court. I mean, it's what it's so definitely heavily qualified and yeah, man, thing we always say to the show is once you come to the show, you're a friend to the show, so you're always welcome to come back. And next time you'll be back, I'm sure that you'll be on the bench. So you got promise you'll come back to talk about you know where we are next. That said, how can they get in contact? What you find out more about you and all of your campaign and all that good stuff. Okay, my Instagram is call we abdul rock Mond for judge and that's q A w I A B d U L hyphen r A H M A N the number four judge Instagram the same thing. What's that email? It's the same as call we abdul rock mode Ford Judge at gmail dot com. Fantastic. Okay, Yeah, I want to shout out to United for Strife. Valentino, my little sister for bringing you know, for letting us know about this, because you were very, very knowledgeable of Philadelphia, your native of Philadelphia. And the the the justice system. So we need more representation of that because we talk about it a lot here where people on the streets, as far as even the police officers. Let's just say, you see a crowd outside of a barbershop, people who don't know think that there's some mayhem going on, and these are men just talking. So when you know what you see and what you've grown up in, really short story, I work in the medical feel. There was a nurse who saw a patient and the woman kept hitting her head. Well, she was now going to be put down for schizophrenia. Well a nurse came in and said, no, she has hair extensions that weave. She's scratching her head. If that black nurse didn't come in to talk to this white nurse who was about to put her down for schizophrenia, she wouldn't have had that type of representation. So I say all that to just wrap it up to say a lot of times you need that representation to know what's going on in your community. So thank you for joining us. Cultural competence, I mean, people need very least a quick class on cultural cofegence. It's just some things you can't even teach. You have to just grow up in it too, you know why. Actually I did a class with some of the judges. It was dealing with interpretation and how we speak and whether or not a court reporter gets it down properly, because all that is important lost in translation. That was the name of the of the of the talk, and it was it was an article that ran in the inquiry when they brought me to talk about it. That's one of the things I said, Well, we can have sayings in our neighborhoods outside of join. They think join is just joined is a join. But at the end of the day, if you see, I don't fool with somebody, there was an intimidation case or case that deals with some violence, that could be I don't mind harming this person. Had nothing to do with that. Loss in translation, that's right. Yeah, yeah, it was a It was a case where I mean gentlemen went to the bathroom and was like, Yo, I'm about to blow this thing up. They interpreted as like, Yo, you really gonna blow this up like our own little cloachialisms and some of the things that jargon and some of the sayings that we say, and so yeah, there you go. So, my brother, it was a it was an absolute pleasure to have you here. You're more than welcome to come back. You know, we try to we like to try to peel back the layers and get past like what you're running on, because it's easy to follow the script, right, and that's what generally happens. You know. They go on these you know, these pressed junkets and these little conversations and they follow the script. But when they kind of get pulled out, well who are you, it's like, wait, what, that's not what we came to talk about, right, But you're the real deal. You fish your tissue and it's good they hear. It's a it's a brough of fresh air to know that there's people in the streets. And one thing that we say that we don't we don't support any party. We support the people who's really doing stuff in them streets. That's who we support. So kudos to you, my brother, and yeah, just you know, I decide to know, I pray to the law, continue to bless your means, and uh just continue, you know, continue to fight a good fight. We need people out like there out there in on streets and protecting those kids. Listen, you are a ad hot slash hybrid father to a lot of these kids, right, and that's one of the things that you know, believe it or not, they want to see these young men want to see because they don't get an opportunity to see it. And the first time they do see another figure there, they become intimidated and it becomes like yo, who are you yes, because they never see that. Yes, but that hugged thing is real. It's real, hugged this young man that I was talking to any crowd in my arms like yo, and it's real, you know. And so I'm always about spreading the love and as men, you know, standing on our own too and showing these young men that, yeah, we hear from you know. One of the things that I think quickly got lost was how we grew up. It was like, uh, you know, you respect OJ's you know, and the ogs used to protect the young like yo, go in the house or get off the porch is about to go down like that. Type. Now it's like every man for itself. It used to be no women, no kids. Now I'm seeing kids and women getting shot and or type of never was like that. And it's this new culture shift that is happening that I don't know what to put the finger on, but we need to change that that that, you know what, whatever this this chemistry, this environment is, we need to get back to how it was. You know, you can argue with it. You can, you can get mad at it and get mad at your folks already said what I said. But yeah, so my brother, thank you for coming to the show. Is it anything for any of those who might be watching you today? What would you tell the young man or or a mom or father that's looking at you today? And usually, UH have have like challenges or reservation when it comes to judges, right, because a lot of us don't have. A good EU relationship with judges. Right, then who look like us? The question really is When I started coaching liter League football in Miami, Florida, I asked the kids, I said, tell me who knows someone who's a teacher, Tell me who knows someone who's a doctor. Tell me who knows someone is a lawyer. No one raised their hand. Do you have any family members that's in jail, somebody who has a gun? Everybody shot? Everybody raised their hands. So when you say we have reservations, it's not because we have a reservations because we don't know. We don't know any so we don't know how to respond or how to do it. So what do we do? Then we do the fallback. White is right. We're in a bad situation. Brother in the bastard. We can't believe that just neither want to. Be what who is hey? And it's a shame that we still have that mindset that how he qualified. To do it. Wo, but random from for my brother over there. You know, I catch you a little longer than I mean, we usually do it half an hour interview, but you were spitting bars and I liked that you was good information. That's that's a sign that we like you, you know. Sure, So continue to do what you do, my brother continuing again, like your people, he's more than welcome to come back. So just reach out towards it. If you're getting closer to So when when is the actual election? P Twenty May twentieth sizzle? You talked about that, So we'll talk a little bit more about when they come out and vote, when to go out and vote, and how important it is to make sure that you vote. And so we'll follow this gentleman up to May. And we only got what two months now, three months? Jeez, I just came up fast. But we don't even think about the primary no more. We just think of the next president. Yeah, and so we got better at your life. That's right, that's right. Still we talked about the local, the local folks. You get involved with the local folks. We don't do that too much. But then you go, ladies and gentlemen, I don't want you to go anywhere. What I saw a show. We all here like last year, ladies and gentlemen. I talked Greg with the beautiful ladies, beautiful Laurence Sizzle and. Uh, we'll see you next week. On the other side, we out here like, lest you one more. How can they get in contact with you so they. Know call you the rock mind for Judge, call you their mind for Judge at gmail dot com. There you go, you and were out here like last year. Please