personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and tom. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. most folks don't like the truth. we're living in a generation. then. is confused just as it relates to the truth. where it's. power.

and the truth is minute so built up. donald j. trump say is. sweet. whatever he feels like saying. to his own. destruction. ya need to hit me today. just because you say what's on your mind then what you feel does not mean that you are a good still what over the truth. you

from somewhere you seek a certain pride in itself would be always surprised if some weirdo so if you google something university a pang campus university on 45th street and you could make one shine you know on the bottom you want to get it if you got a project. the west will be ready for a new these little butts like this these little row homes you see people living on top of each other i guarantee wherever you are from russia where they go from the only thing i know to vote him is these is called her own home. anywhere in this city and this urban in any urban area if you have an event of some light you got people to come out with good intentions dear you always got people that might not have good intentions if you live in and so much poverty you know you

guys in a ghetto and guys another who have things that are nice things materialistic then you have was called the wolves in the wolves or oh you know that's if danger to whoever you are whether you're a working man violent drug bill is so it's like you know like right now it is cold out so you see people want stuff like this this had i don't translate all blackmail so you know me i'm a musician and i'm an actor and i'm a activist so i don't want to trouble but somebody else walking out you know it is what it is is what it is. all right now you are in east baltimore and this is all tell me all this is a mall

a city right same as like a lot of black people like myself with when i was a kid become a vile close. little store. farmer scenes we have beauty supply stores so this was like a one stop shop like you come here and do everything it was a growing community during the seventy's and eighty's and this is all tell more. what happened here like any other community going to seventy's and eighty's it was a high volume of drugs and as you can see this idea became a drug trafficking environment lot of drugs and with that being said some of

those stores some of the buildings just deterring it because of the traffic of drugs and with that a little bit of violence people get shot. the crime now is undercover because. it's different drugs different drugs pills pills pills are very popular these days very popular pills are very popular people grandmothers don't feel safe walking here with groceries a mother don't feel safe would bring her son here to maybe take him to get something. just over tiling things kind of deter it does one day i'll. go make a good scene miles at this way out in most places neighborhoods of pennsylvania

more grimoires we could be trying to show you know marion barry a great school district. you could see blocks that way here for the 2nd in one case where just a couple days ago at the gas station got shot 16 times because these you go up here to know marion after school programs computer. the football team stuff look like the n.f.l. right. they got all you got everything you got to go show for it try to play sports and even if you do you know it's so expensive you got a single mother she barely could feed these kids you know each of them oh it's $300.00 on a football she might say to me playing for each of them on a 2 mile difference. difference to a young person this 1314129. miles there's 2000000 miles of a difference because because if you look at these homes where you look at these like the they look at bandit is right living in a look at the way look at be this some might this 2nd floor light is what i mean

somebody live in it 1st floor by not in the regulated by the live some i want to 2nd floor you know people that live around here some sound don't even have to go 2 miles that way right some people even the lower merion looks like it measures a kid they go to sleep at night they don't die in the heat right and it's cool this just a reality right here. it's not like just some. thing . right now still it is baltimore this is looks old calls and projects everyone lives close together close together so everybody know it's up around it as you can see is a rough neighborhood drugs police brutality high crime rate and what we eat

is as messed up. we don't have good food we're here to eat you have grocery stores where families like buy snacks like mills high poverty. low education rate. taking prednisone. a lot of killings money is sitting around here a lot of my friends lost their lives. in this neighborhood. people can't get a job they sell drugs straight here you know waves of people come boom boom boom boom boom. you know and that's how they make one is uncontrollable you got to survive look. well it's a jungle so an example you've got to act like a lion amongst other lines that act like a beast a must of the beast so this is survival of the fit is at the rose for you have to

survive people minds can expand if they close together if us trade it in they don't know how to express themselves that was full of ballots the government designed these housing projects and they keep people suppress. i believe that the environment that you grow up in plays a huge part as to what you are experiencing your life as well as what you become when you grow up. oftentimes i'm impressed bird. people die in specific

locations they utilize the flowers and teddy bears or create a memorial on the spot. so hopefully as a reminder to continue to reinforce why. not going the negative route or the dark road. in my adult life i've had 6 friends that have been murdered via gun violence in homewood. one was working as a bartender at a local bar and their patron came in and decided to shoot him inside for another young woman named jenny's tolan she was murdered in a bar of the street from the y.m.c.a. because she didn't want to give her phone number to a gentleman that was there and then there's another one of our friends named frederick douglas that was murder right on on frank's own avenue not sure for what for what reason exactly but all these places are within. 2 minutes of the y.m.c.a.

which is unique because that's where a lot of our kids go. basketball is a easy game for kids to pick up on because all you need is a vast. you can get lost in a game for hours or years or even a lifetime for some people like michael jordan or kobe bryant. able columns on a motivation and more importantly in gives them an opportunity to excuse.

a lot of kids who look good. athletes and entertainers so even want to be rappers want to next le bron james or they want to be their neighborhood gangsta the neighborhood drug deal that's fascinating into so kids they get tense to see in their environment and they have options list like evil you selling crack rock or you got to we can jump shot in order to excrete the hood. back in and. i. was going to let him call my dear me for a year. so what's up man for the day i need to speak this is some of the best of his aussie. deal is she. coming also so like you shall before. class was for most. women tell you what you guys cannot be

a real bad people. all of the reasons were because there was division you know in the principle behind dividing that's why member were united states of america divided states. this whole area was black so what happened was they put dead highway didn't care to put the highway right down the middle right smack down the middle. of this most prosperous inner city community called jackson ward which actually was named black wall street this was prosperous and then they divided it right here and as we crossed over into this section you want to see the transition. government housing became high crime drugs everything in addition to the highway as i mentioned some of the black own businesses left their businesses to go to other

areas as. area right here and then be king the ghetto this is one of the high crime areas right now. as we see the difference here books ace government housing. you know businesses. welfare food stamps you get hooked you get hooked and basically you just barely get along and you're living off of the government see blacks did better when we didn't give him. we were getting help we did better because we had to we were forced to do for ourselves where you start giving people help and paying them then this what happens these people are used to a check which is only enough for them to live in this kind of condition who wants to open up a business in a high crime area. because then you get rubbed. seemed wrong. wrong just don't call. me that is yet to shape

out these days become educated and indeed from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. lead.

ah no no. no shots no. action oh. well you. know it's true. which your thirst for action. there's a low blow number of opportunities here in western pennsylvania as well as so not only did our industries move but a lot of our people moved as well which forced even more businesses to move it's extremely difficult to run a business in a place like home well just because one there is not of

a lot of people there and then to the people there don't have the necessary means to take advantage of extra things one of the unique businesses that has been able to bend a steadfast place to look to and home with i think they're you know at least 15 years old and mr and mr bundy has been there you know making. making those done for for kids to make sure that they have food before they went to school for 4 generations upon generations so even in those situations where if mom and dad couldn't take care of kids knew that they could go to the bakery and grab a donut or grab something to make sure that they had so food in order to get food a day so. i don't know how they did it but they found a way to to be a constant presence in that neighborhood despite what has gone.

on their good or bad you know i am very compliant we're homeward. if the neighbor or lutherans you know or somebody has moved their ear i don't see any new businesses coming in right now a couple big companies k.f.c. . from way maybe meet their quota here whatever company calls for you know they've been gone for you know 56 years you know yeah i found on they've been out of here. you know. that's just a tough bar in a round the guns in murders did take place right out avenue is one of the busiest roads and western pennsylvania is one of the longest and straightest rose so people arrive from the a fluent neighborhoods out on the side of western pennsylvania and they ride through homewood through traffic every single day to go to work which is crazy if you go on a news it'll say you know somebody got hurt or going home with us so it's not

a place that you want to pull over and stop and maybe grab a donna and coffee rather than the same traffic. you know. we've got here is the most number one you know most one of the capital murder. something's not so great. to talk about your food and how it impacts because you thought hostages thought it was $60.00 thought it was you start it was $60.00 though gas saw you know how it all enough to sell a food amount so make a living now was there see what the see and say it's all we got what will face i was angry so when i saw my anger it's fun that's. hostile so the bit i'll commit i think about it every bycatch ahead i want to cut that ad which it sounds to.

addicks only times for any all you do is like controlled lot say the habits when we behave but our city you know is what we use. so you got a pool so we're going to soldier that's what i live on in the. grotto you got a club. you know we know. we had a bottom you have to climb all the way to how old the metal you are yet to make a name for yourself l primary right now was so capital that is comparing it to like a war zone actually nice a more severe shot of baltimore. in saudi arabia. is probably crazy yet like. whole crowd a lot of people. my senior year i found out i was having a baby by a woman that i wasn't going to marry so i dropped out of school was living out of my parents' house was broke and started dabbling in some things that i didn't need to dabble and put myself in a situation to almost be murdered in 2011 as

a result of that experience that's when i made the decision to start doing what i do what i did it was a basketball team start to focus more in on my basketball career. basketball it's a competition with yourself. you have to conquer yourself. it's a game where you have to learn to share and play with your teammates and more importantly compete against the other team as well as the environment. when people think about the ball they don't look at it in that aspect where you break it down because it's a personal battle it's a battle of amongst your team and other people. it's about almost you and the environment. it's a game of skill it's a game of aggression. and physicality where you're forced to tremble you're supposed to shoot. the force and do

a lot of things that people take for granted in every day movement it's. just that that. ash that i've been able to maintain from my childhood and carry over into my adulthood is what is allowed to be so much different than everybody else and create an opportunity where people say we could work to find other children in the father's neighborhoods primarily in homes where i start as a consumer pull it said teach them how to harness that energy and maintain that energy into their adulthood so then they can continue like i said to do some of the things that i'm it's not take it further and further and further down.

so will be also right now is a war. and to many people every day out there we day i don't want to stick my life in philly put up are you to somebody and that's the number of show us another woman who who meaning come on us a mother who got a i'm tired of seeing what mothers have to bury the blacks on earth and that's just it isn't as it is plain as i can put it i don't want to see people getting killed and miss where you griego i don't need to see people getting killed in russia i damn sure don't want to steal your children for those. primaries based on no drugs. you know people who didn't kill the anything. 95 percent of the crimes. or least 85 percent of chromes is drug related.

you know we're a weirdo right now currently where no. well one. murder capital in united states we also number one in her way addiction here. why because we have the port which is right there we're willing to the edge of the east coast so a lot of things come through the ports and the way kids get involved with drugs growing up and in a city soon as you step outside your door. being go you're right there. actually someone who may actually when you step outside your door scuse me do you know what i'm just a wee from scuse me you know that's a don't. mean you know got some coke. me you know got some pills. right now in the community is going through

a change because it changes going on in his community because john hopkins in a real estate value is going up so a lot of these residents is not going to be here to do too much longer and they're going to bring in the good food because it's already southwest everything is about spacing right now and everything so you've got well you've got wealthy people living next to like poor people. so eventually to poor people it's going to it's going to it's not going to be around anymore. they're moving a poor people out to the county this way so homeowners. they give the voters and voters the meaning give you access to another house you don't have to pay new money just move wait on it but the thing about it you may be away from the city. so right now in the city there's a growing. epidemic of just like well the conflict is is no

inclusion for the people as they are ready. best to call flick the conflict is there's no inclusion. everyone does a resident right now they're not included in no future plans best the conflict. desk changing because donald. donald trump is sending you oh basket full of contaminated food it already had and in it and people do not like so donald trump has really stepped in a lot of people who really have freedom of choice you don't have a freedom of choice which you know you're eating with the government giving you can usually call it a go get food at a market mail misstatement yes if you're on the welfare and you want to have their donald trump basket he said when you like go a basket full of food go and see

a government get it so you can is no more purchase things are changing in the rich want access to the city. in with that comes. gentrification a lot of things give expose right now. you know. a lot of people go to church busy. and. you know they give offerings you know i'm a speaking bedouin you want to listen or i'm just going from my observation but at the same time when they're in the. same people that they were a lot of dispersed. never be there for them financially and it never has.

the fingers together you're going to squeeze it in there and make sure you figure stays off to your movie to go into this position and then be sure you set your. and properly bring the got out and keep it i love. all right so the. old saying well ok forget what you saw in the movie sorry if you shoot the way bishop didn't want peace you'll never get anything. i don't know. no shots. actually

just felt. good to. know. which your thirst for action. i don't have faith in this government official of president i don't have faith in the system i say i've got it i'm too liberal the system designed for people like this. as long as there are. different people you're different it's also a job we also hold. most people in philadelphia ballot 2 paychecks away from homelessness.

to new york police officers face a judge pleading not guilty to assault charges they were filmed shopping of elderly protester. police brutality protests in the u.s. are expected to break record numbers for a turn this weekend. marches and demonstrations also taking place around the globe in what's being described as the most intense swell of support for the bloc lives mother movement since its inception and 2030. police brutality has spilled over the american border to mexico with violence erupting over the death of held in custody reportedly arrested for not wearing a mask in public.