greetings and salutation. lately my hawk watchers it feels like in every country state and city chaos and heart break a bone not only around the world but here in the united states as well there are many cities whose headlines only seem to reflect a city in a people under siege seconds when their professional sports team wins a title or when the president makes a campaign stop folks living in these cities like chicago new orleans baltimore and now houston only seem to make the news cycles when there's a murder of a station in their streets. and while the difficulties and sorrows of the citizens of these cities based on a day to day sometimes hour to hour basis are real and do deserve the newspapers and what is often ignored are their successes the individuals or communities in the

city whose talent and heart overcome their city's dire headlines in baltimore city most own most only see through its headlines of poverty and racial divisions there is a new generation of artists and thinkers who are proving there's more to their city than drugs and police violence one of them is writer speaker and poet come to fidel born and raised in baltimore can want his gift of shaping words into windows has been featured in notable publications like the root and huffington post use even share the stage with legends like angela davis today we welcome come to our stage so that he may share with you the beauty and the struggle as we start watching the hawks. with.

you that i got. this. week. and welcome everyone to watching the hawks i am tyrone and turk and i'm tabitha wallace earlier we sat down with any fidel and started by asking him about his journey in becoming a writer and poet and why in a world where everyone wants to be a movie star rock stars brought him to poetry and prose as a profession. my freshman year in two thousand and eleven i want to virginia state and i was studying sport management because i wanted to be a spoiler i had this big idea that i was going to be all of my friends agents because they played basketball and football and i was kind of a little bit smarter than them and also play sports too when i was younger i played bass man only god and we were up thirty points down thirty points or nearly i just

knew like this is it for me you know the feeling well that it had all so so fresh me had this professor name on a west and he was my english professor but he taught us a lot about black history and he forced us to really my and a little extreme views and he was always the hardest on me out of all of the students and i guess he saw potential in me way before i did so i was reading a lot of those authors i was reading a lot of j. the j. cole can dribble a ma fabulous amy winehouse i was reading a lot of my favorite artists and i was santa myself that i can do this from i will write every single day really every day i would even skip some classes to write and read and. nobody knew a stuff like two people on campus and my cousin avon and my friend back home are like call him and i read them stuff and fast forward to february of two thousand and thirteen i was a part as mentor organization and they was having

a van and they had a dance group that was performing and a mission and they backed out last minute so michael week before the actual day at a show we were discussing were we going to do in a board meeting i was like i'm a i'm a do it the animation and he was like do. ok you know we don't have enough in the loo so everywhere i turn three down thirteen came around and i was headed toward the stage it was obvious. and i was about to tell the whole slag you know i'm just not ready and when they make that i want to throw up like i thought that was a fake thing until the moment something was like. just door you know you don't have nothing to lose and i went up and i performed this my first time for misspeak in front of a group of people and i got a standing ovation in front of like two hundred people. i said to my sorrow are you not the smartest man in the world but if this your first time you can get two hundred people who you know like you can connect with this you know amount of people in you can only get better so that meg's day i want to go and i changed my

major from sports management to english in it were from that simple form of a different fraternities and sororities on. breast cancer awareness for suicide awareness for example for the stuff of veterans day i was just i don't write and i memorize and i like two days like three minute problems and then we're from been at virginia state in petersburg to the surrounding areas of petersburg. to have a fit and i came back on the bottom or and i told myself. you know you're just going to just take over the city and just use literacy to change from two thousand . i had some videos that went viral i dropped my book you know that. stuff for me you know. millions of. you know get my first newspaper article written up only it was like a lot of new stuff for me and i was just going to keep our own people and just keep

getting better you know. and you do you get better and better and better and there's more it just seems like the evolution of watching over the last couple of years and that were expressed to your latest. how a young boy has been to kagan. age ten deaths in it you express what it what it feels like to be for lack of a better term being around a culture that normalizes. or you're being asked to normalize it in our lives. what is that piece mean to you and one of the things that stands out in. your piece to me is this idea that there are two bald guys want to hear what i want to hear but they're currently different. keys how my little bit about that tell me about the peace and that. you really when you're young on a form you really don't pay attention to baltimore. because you stay where you are on the why people stay where they are not i had times where mr patterson park in

a separate is the white neighborhood in a black neighborhood and all of these things make sense now because you know bottom of the first city in america to have a legal house. but i remember being in paterson park and. or even on the other side a part will ride our bikes over and a police will say i don't belong over here get on the other side of stuff like that it wasn't as dramatic as you know what our parents and grandparents because i remember my father even told me he was the idea oh don't be impassable tonight because i mean when i was younger white boys used to chase us out with bats you know that never happened but it's still the same type of culture but the first started when trying to understand a true bottom was was when i read the walk in say he was talking about a two bottom was and i was like wow. in that you know way more sad read and i start again in my more proximity to buffalo bottom or as i just i just want to do with. you know for me as

a writer i want to do that so my readers and of people who look up to me and you know help them out so i want them to understand their you know bottom or still vibe races very segregated and you know i just want people to be aware of that you know we have stores in our area on our side of the neighborhoods that are in you know other neighborhoods where you got a whole foods and i got fresh real food and we got funny foods and we've been growing up honey buns in cheetos and you know you think stuff is good for you man so you get old you know you see people like forty years old with bad babies in my forty five year old get a leg chopped off and stuff like that you know. there's the biggest thing and you know that brings up that issue you know you obviously you know i think at the core of places like baltimore the heart of this issue is is poverty you know economic distress not being allowed to you know spread your wings and fly because you're not given any opportunity to your horrible food you do and horribly school horrible

schooling you know and just like any community the you know lives in the economic stress. you know social issues are kind of used to provide a cover for bigotry we see that over and over how do we address you know the you know there's not only you know the poverty but as well as the bigotry. of these communities. as trying to unite and fix these issues i just feel like we have to. just try to. eliminate racism. and you know everybody concerns a produce race is ideas but a lot of times people who don't know that they consume and produce races you know when they say these type of people are people out at or you know you say something like you know you say if you understand. the point and. the

detriment of you know and environment create and that certain type of person right so people go off to college all the time and people say that i don't like. you know how many it would be. good and bad when they went in the cause and if i were me proud and graduate like college really messed their life right so you believe that but you don't believe. that you know you go into these black neighborhoods and you charge ten year olds as adults you know when they do petty little game you know engaged in you know violence like people born this way something in their. environment created them so if you to say cause can change somebody but you say you know put you know oppressed people will you know blame him and make him you know you know not make him a victim as you know it's like beer you know it's our believe that we just got to be equal all around the ball when it comes to like we know what you know you can

talk about how it's criminal if you talk about poverty and crime and you don't target about the surge or unemployment you going to criminal. violence and not you know in not being in the jobs in the messed up schools like this criminal in his idea but some people might see that as a racist because they see on the surface is the violence and they haven't picked up any books and really see these numbers and see how communities are affected when they lack certain things that the me rights are for my people just need to read basically adequately for the board for we are going to you know we can attack this world i think a better place for the debate and one of the things about that is is this idea of respectability as a as a white person i grew up poor. government she is you know like i had those things and powdered milk and things that people if you don't live on this side of the line don't really understand but for me the one thing that i realized was even though i

you know poor way trash where i come from. still have a certain amount of respectability that well but you probably sure it wasn't your fault that you live or it wasn't your fault where when you look at communities like baltimore and poverty is somehow the communities fault it's your fault. that there aren't jobs there it's your fault that the police have to be out there it's your fault how dangerous this and how important is it for white allies and all of us to recognize like yeah i had government cheese it does. i was still prevalent. portman's that so it's extremely important because. there's an evil mix can be got a book or a stanford again and a definitive history of races ideas in america and if there's a. couple of suasion in the data people believe that black people have to be upstanding black folks you know get discriminated against in the police will beat

them up and white people be nicer to them which is like one of the biggest myths ever going to be the boys in the first black harvard graduate and barack obama the first black president can tell you that you can with sperry's every day you can drink probably aspies lattes for breakfast lunch dinner you can wear green wrong for st patrick's day it don't matter you cannot persuade a way you cannot if a person hates the group that you belong to is nothing that you can do to persuade them not to write so we just have to understand there is love who you love where you come from and love everybody that's a reflection of you you're going to sound like people ask me all the time you know how did you make it out how did you how are you different people enable and i say i'm no different from them we are the same them in their me i just happened to stumble upon some scales and some tools as not accessible to everybody in my

neighborhood and i did allow them just like you is so many people that come from the neighborhood that's probably why i'm paul and probably you know make up all of these thing they probably say a lot of hurtful things to tabitha you know because of what chu chose to do going to say in college that i'm not like them i don't understand what it's like to be there. but only do you know you don't look down on those people because you know if you would have you know landed in a certain position from a state that you may you could have been right there with you going to stand like even if you if you read the other wes moore talks about it's a guy named wes moore has made. from baltimore in the city when i went to visit my father in prison but one is in prison door life and either one is a millionaire a new york times bestseller for like the past eight years he's been on oprah he's got all of these great things and he grew up in the same city would assign me and in the beginning of the book he says the bone chilling truth is that his life could have been you know and. you know it's like all of it is libel law when you deal

with oppression you deal with poverty. as we go to break or quaters don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover them facebook and twitter. that are. coming up and want to take center stage as a reason excerpt from the latest piece entitled no and then we welcome the fun loving correspondents from we're back in tonight to preview coming up of state to. here's what people have been saying about rejecting the sixty's. the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs a punch. is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently

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while i walk on the ground blades of grass grow plants from swallowing the blood of babies i'm supposed to pretend i'm happy although a million screams from absent sons and daughters wrap my brain. i'm supposed to pretend i'm happy while a vision in the faces of the crying children and. the want. to rest in peace to all of the children. a bully a bad day a bloody skull a body bag as long as guns thunderclap striking holes through flesh so long live the last black angles and the ones who are next i hope that the song seventy five. was going to want to put bill performing a portion of his latest piece of def. sadly the guitar to america show redacted tonight won't make the latest taylor swift album or her extravagantly capitalistic exploitation of feminism go away but it

might just take your mind off your worries e-mails benghazi and tommy linger and for half an hour for the half an hour that is the kind of help society needs right now just. joining us tonight to preview this week's latest episode are america r.t. america's redacted tonight correspondent is natalie mcgill in the. on labor day already. is that after a fact. might be a big big taylor swift listener not really. going for her and it was really weird. one of the flooding in houston can be traced back to a series a series of tragically greedy ignorant policy decisions naomi you found that some people think the free market is the answer to everyone's trouble also disaster

really so everybody's using hurricane harvey for some kind of talking point and. or no i'm sorry c m b c invited michael brown you know heckuva job brownie to talk about how important it would be. privatized relief privatized. you know flood insurance that people would get after an incredible disaster like this so. but what led us to have all this incredible destruction in southern texas was exactly that the lack of regulation and the lack of zoning especially in houston it's the most sprawling city it's like being a silly. city because what does a city needs opening for now do you need. to be developed so one of the reasons why the flooding in houston was so bad it was because they

just paved over prairie's that could soak up the water and it wouldn't have been as bad have had they not have done that so anyways i have a clip from the show that you can check. in twenty fifteen republican the texas tribune published a report about how unprepared the famously un's own city houston would be for climate change and on coming storms the journalist heard of scientists and data simulators and may be we choose because oh they're poor dictions came true they showed how local officials have been largely snow. building regulations allowing developers to pave over crucial acres of prairie land that once absorbed huge amounts of rain water but how could anyone complain when there was so much free parking. now known sitting in the parking lot we should raise this elementary

school to the ground and make it a used car dealership but those local officials like mike talbot the former head of harris county flood control district said the idea that these magic sponges out in the prairie would have absorbed all that water is absurd how i knew it was witchcraft kick your meter one's out of here and your number spelled scientists. and that's going to remain is that we talked about a lot on this show and magic. for eighteen years that i was in charge of it and the new guy pretty much thinks the same thing he does so. we have politicians and bureaucrats who think mater is magic yeah right it's hard to make sure. those things or doesn't do things let's not give any credit to it and i'm sorry but the other time or that really got on the micro wires t.v. stations like why do you see this over and over again with cable news channels like

rolling out people who arguably failed their jobs when the playground tell us what not to do that during the war in iraq prisoner what are they doing right here ok and then we know there's a minister who had been he's been on t.v. before so he's experienced a lot of monegan you know it was worthwhile when you call people like oliver north right and star brown and the like what should we do and then just say whatever this guy says to the. muslims are. wrong i don't just put your figures in here and i wasn't. speaking with your fingers and it was just something that i used all the time the pearly whites only. no it isn't no longer about making when you're. getting mosquito bites things are a bit different to bay and you apparently have the story yeah so it's a lot less about capture the flag and more about perpetuating our country's thirst for endless war. our capture the flag

and in these camps you probably know there was no recent huffington post article that came out that highlighted these summer team camps that i guess gave you the experience the military life and minus you know minus the homelessness minus the p.t.s.d. minus the lack of health care that you would experience once you have military right green leaves that part out but there's this one camp in particular in kentucky called military adventure camp when the camp director lovingly coined a military does the way and they have a picture of you have been a are. there now actually yes there are girls girls there with their crush. i mean girls have to make sometimes better boys exactly and everything so usually are old but yeah so this camp of particular stands out because they have a sniper course where kids are given assault rifles and taught how to shoot at

human shaped targets so you know how good you are the kids at these camps were talking like sixteen teenagers like very only are two years away from being able to add up and go fight or don't like middle schools like. discovering their bodies right. i taught our tree at a boy scout camp and i got to tell you they were not militaristic all they wanted to do was like the girl scout camp that was across the lake literally in like a movie and figure out how to get across that you know like i gotta go to class because i got to figure out how to get over there. by writing you know like say we're going to sneak over to the girls and have like be trapped. for the right i'm going to get i know it's like an adventure military camp. to use along but. those are all girl i know and they're all scout. thing i don't think that's.

so what else can we expect this week on redacted tonight apparently you guys did the best work and there are some other people and there is this one. with the hair and you know the hair yeah so we covered in as rand cover ever. so basically how long yeah oh you mean the piece of land without a jesus moment about the soul of their party and the lawsuit basically a lawsuit being tossed out because the judge said you couldn't prove. anybody was hurt by the d.n.c. favoring clinton but of course like in the. details that came out revealed that they had no interest in being having a democratic process about this at all and that essentially they could just pick whoever they want to have. this not felt yeah not really sure who are picking hand . you know if they have to be democratic i mean they're only called. they go back to my boss tweed star you know you i think it was. in the back room of

cigars or just pick who we want you know kind of someone i was pro-choice said a lot of all three are really showing. that sense this is really. it is not her extraordinary time. and i think that we can all agree that and i'll say this because thank you good for the good work that you guys do because man we need we need a good chuckle every now and again especially with the dire news that we're presented with. so thank you again for the good work you're doing. and don't miss redacted tonight which airs every friday. an hour to america amber ducted tonight the v.i.p. very important person redacted tonight which features exclusive interviews and panels every thursday r t america well natalie would go only on with her bonnie thank you so much for coming thanks for having a. wonderful we have

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