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May 4, 2020 22 min

“REMAINING FOCUSED “

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Greetings, greetings, welcome to another episode of Truths of Power. I am your host, Tara, it's a Real Big Night, and today I want to talk about remaining Oakies. But first, I wanted to get into what happened up in Georgia. Recently in Georgia, there was a guy, he was jogging.

He was jogging around the neighborhood, just mounting his own business and some of our premises. And we don't have to suspect them up here in West premises, because it's so far. They just walked this guy down and sat him. And that sat him down, but drove him down and sat him.

And it goes into a little bit of what we got going on tonight, what we're talking about tonight. Now, in this system of like supremacy, black people, we are at war. We have to come to grips with that. We have to come to terms with that.

We are at war. Every time we step out of the house, understand that you are on a battlefield. You have to treat it as such. And I know that it's a hard thing to come to grips with, because some of you've been told your whole life that you must pray and forgive.

Now see, the thing is, I want people to miss my true things. I pray. I do. I pray a lot.

Because I think it gives you a better conscience and a better feeling of your spirit or self. However, what I don't do, I don't cover behind my religion and what I believe in my religious beliefs. I don't cover behind it, because if you think for one second, then I will stand in any place and let anybody haunt me. You have lost your fucking mind.

Now, I don't want to speak on too much, but they shot this guy and the DA out there enjoyed to basically say that they were in it within their rights to attempt to make a citizen of rest because they suspected him. I'll be an assessment. Now, first thing is first, if you suspect somebody to be an assessment in your neighborhood, then the first thing you should do is call out the police on the cops or things of that nature. However, they didn't happen.

They want to take matters into their own hands. But I think it is this. How would they know what a suspect looked like? I mean, I just be perfectly honest.

I don't want everybody perfectly honest with myself right now. Just think about it. You were not known what a suspect or anybody resembling a suspect on the news would look like when they say constantly put on those cars. But the guy didn't look like any type of suspect they had on the news out there in Georgia.

You know what that's all I mean? They just wanted to run down and chase the guy down and shoot him and kill him. We haven't heard from the family yet in due to both in John's family, forget about Nick Kelly's. We don't know how they're going to react to this.

We really don't. But I'm going to tell you right now, if anybody was doing type of home to my family, my loved ones, your whole family going in there. It's not just going to be you who did it your whole family is in danger. I promise you.

I know all about how I'm going to sell perimeters and how to get around all that shit. I promise you. They're going in there. Everybody.

I'm cleaning everybody out. But back to the lesson. Well, I just want to touch on that for a moment. Just to let make you realize that we have visual entities, racist bit busy answers out here still, and we always got to get on our square and stand on it.

Well, really want to talk about remaining focused. We got to remain focused on our goals. We got to remain focused on eradicating system matter, white supremacy, and one of the things that we got to remain focused on is economics. Right.

Even in times like this, we got to remain focused on economics. That's got some beautiful game. Another day from the brother make people see what's happening about recession, recession stops. Basically, what that means is take a stock like carnival, right?

It's been a $50 steadily for the last 10 years, I think. That's been there. Hey, right now it's worth $13. Eventually, this kind of economy will boom again.

We know this or effect, it will boom again. So what do we need to do? We need to invest in carnival crews, I think on American Airlines at this point in time, I think that's like it's at all time low until the economy comes back and then it's going to boom and take off like never before. There's always some opportunity in a Mr.

Chaos. Always, always. You just got to be able to seize the moment and remain focused on what you're doing. And I think that's part of the problem.

We don't like to remain focused. I want you guys to seriously think about something during this quarantine. What exactly did you take advantage of? What opportunity did you exactly take advantage of?

Because I'm here to tell you that the government and people in it are definitely taking advantage of what's going on right now. We are in the middle of war. We are in the middle of some biochemical things taking place. We've recently said they have some Asian killer horns or something like that in Asia.

Now, I know the media like to do fear tactics and things like that. Just like they try to do with the African killer bees and all the rest of this. This will be a swarm of killer bees come from Africa to the United States. I don't know how many people remember that.

But for huge accountants, we had to notice how are the bees going to first synchronize themselves and continue to fly together and make it all the way from Africa. And there were those climate changes ups and downs and the climate changes and make it across the ocean to the United States and then somehow start camping. So, I don't know if they're Asian thing, but the thing is with the Asian hornets are where they get going on. Not that they're trying to make Asian people basically don't lose their honor wherever white supremacist status.

I'm not coming to the I don't feel any simply for them personally because simply because of the fact Asians as a group have totally anti-black sentiments. They have anti-black policies and stuff like that. We go shopping and spending our money with them economically. So I don't feel sorry for me at all.

I'm here to tell you is that I'm on the right now, but I'm here to tell you is right now. I'm predicting this right now. There's going to be another COVID crisis, another corona crisis, and it's coming soon. It's coming soon.

So, why is the premise is that we're not a bad thing, go to waste. They were not a bad thing, go to waste. They were not let anything be socially damaging or anything that could be financially damaging to the country. Once you are on the country, they're going to bounce back, but it's just a fact that at this present time everything's kind of down right now.

But once you get everything together, it's going to boom back up. But we got to remain focused. Focus. Focus on our goals.

We have to. And also we have to remain focused on eradicating by supremacy, not broken economics. Now, I do get economic gain. Well, I mean, people have guns, not merely based on not many black people have guns based on what I've seen.

But, okay, anyway, based on what I've seen, I don't think so many black people have guns and basically it's disheartening because when it's time to go to war, who's going to be the defenjoo? A lot of black people are afraid of guns. They're not afraid of killing each other or shooting each other. Well, some people are afraid of guns or whatever case may be, but they need to get over there because people can shut down and we need needs to be able to defend ourselves.

There's more in blank theory. I'll strap everywhere I go at our times. I've got to be caught with it, then without it, because I refuse and I do mean refuse to be anybody's victim. I think all these things, trust me, it was awesome amboys, and everyone just knows me around it.

Trust me, it was just nobody around it. I promise you, I promise you that. And I'm not trying to, like, on the top guy in the world, tough guy in the room, but I am trying to tell you this. Then I have made preparations just in case.

You know, you always want to fill in those holes of your just in cases. This happens, you want to be prepared. This happens, you want to be prepared on every single level. Always make sure that you fill in your just in cases.

This will be going to come in your just in cases. Just in case this happen, I'm going to do this. Just in case this happens, I'm going to do this. And that goes with just being prepared to being able to plan for the future.

But in the wake of Instagram, things being instant, snutchet, things being so fast and quick, and the age of social media, it can be argued that that's a contributing factor to people having an attention deficit. That can be a contributing factor. Want some quick attention? You want to answer a round post something?

Get some lights? Maybe some comments? Maybe make you feel good about yourself? Maybe not?

Who knows? But you got to do some quick instant gratification. And that affects your ability to remain focused at times. I want to tell you I want to show you guys.

I was working on my master's at David University, right? And I was like, you know, when it comes down to the semester, I kept making straight B's every semester. And for those who don't know how master programs work, master programs work like this. If you get two C's within any time of the program, then you have failed that program.

I kept getting straight B's. And that's a big point of average. However, having a B is too close to having a C, right? So I'm thinking to myself, I'm going, name, name, and what can I do?

Because I was found myself distracted because it was like, even one of my professors in the office, he was like, Hey, man, it seems like everybody's kind of getting this, except for you. What's going on with you? I'm distracted. I'm distracted.

You know, like, I'm just kind of distracted. I was working overnight, 12 hours, you know, coming to dinner, going to school and all the rest of the time, I was like, I'm just like, I don't know. I just like, I didn't know how to sign a song. So I was like, man, I was like, man, I'm just distracted.

I'm distracted. He said, well, you need to get rid of that distraction, whatever it is. And you know, the stretch was social media. So I made a peg with myself.

I said, listen, we're going to get rid of this social media. So because I get like, raise up and getting on getting better grades. And then eventually we're going to make time on society, right? And all the time, I'm going to make time on society.

You have to have a 3.5 and over, over 3.5, a cumulative leg. And you can't let it drop, right? So I got really social media. Then I'm talking about the whole semester.

You know, when I really got this from the Bronx, I said, the Bronx James. Because every time the player starts, he has something called zero dog, 30. And he just veers off a social media. And that's what I did.

I just stayed off a social media, he's like, you know, social media for three, three months. One time, as a matter of fact, one time it was five or three months. For five months and 13 days, I did not get on Instagram, Facebook, no form of social media. I had to leave the ads for my phone.

They didn't want to see it. They didn't want to hear about it. Stay focused. Then guess what?

I got all of those days I was talking about that I wanted. You guys stuck in 4.0s, 3.7s, you know, every semester. A couple of them bringing up my cumulative average. All because I remain focused on it one goal.

I say, you know what else? I say, I'm not even a well. I used to like going out here right now and doing stuff like that. I don't have been a type of person to, to a club, I used to like to go out here and I say, you know what else?

I don't go out. I'm just going to stay in my apartment. I don't want my study. Do you know I'm not going to go on a bit?

No, I'm not going to go study. I'm going to stay focused. I'm going to remain focused. I'm going to go to the gym to get my physical, to keep my physical strength.

I'm going to pray, to keep my spiritual strength. I'm going to read, to continue to have the mental ability, the mental capacity that I need. I'm going to continue to work. They have the economical capacity that I need to function and life.

And I'm going to graduate with honors and law behold, make 13 2017. It'll probably be 9am in the morning, I think, Xavier's kind of convocation center in the gym gymnasium as a matter of fact. I graduated with honors and my master's program. I meet the honors society and everything.

Everything I wanted just from remaining focused being disciplined. I got everything I needed and everything I want just from doing that. Just for saying listen, I'm not put on my energy towards this and this only and I'm going to make this happen. And the same thing goes for new artists politics, the movie that's on Amazon Prime right now.

Same thing with that. I put all my energy into that one thing and always say this before I start something important. I got to be willing to give us some things that I'll be able to make up some sacrifices. I said that I'm going to sacrifice everything right now to make this movie happen.

Everything I remain focused. I remain vigilant hyper vigilant. And I did not let up. I continue to go after it go after it go after it.

I put out trailer after trailer for money into it. And I saw Amazon Prime right now. It would have been movie at the eighties if not for this COVID-19, but I ended up having it on Amazon Prime. Not even at the last time, because it was 24, we were supposed to put it right.

But Amazon had a problem with the picture that I had originally. The post that I had originally. Right? They had a problem with it.

So that delayed it for like five days. And within those five days, I'm going to tell you right now, within those five days. I did not sleep now when. All I did was make preparations to make sure that this movie gets played because I made a promise.

So the people that were in the movie, I made a promise to the people around me that I was going to get that done in a timely manner. And I put all my energy towards it. I put everything towards it. And now it's here.

I want you guys to go straight in there by the way, if you ever seen it, if you listen right now, go straight in New Orleans politics on Amazon Prime right now. You will not be disappointed. It's directed written produce executive produce by yours truly. Okay.

And I say you have a vision in about it and I'm going to continue to remain focused. But this is, but I'm trying to tell you don't do as long as examples of gathering main focus and put all of your energy towards it. So if you hit the ground in the morning, you should be ready. You should have that fire in your eyes.

You should be ready around as well. Ready to compete and ready to give you all to what you want to do. Thank you guys for joining me tonight. Thank you guys for joining me.

Like I said, go stream Amazon, go stream New Orleans politics on Amazon Prime right now. And I want you guys to have a good night. I just want to the panel.

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