Our community Needs The Village

0:00 Out. Hey, hey, it's good. Cousins and King folks, you know what day when, know what time it is, you know who it is. It is your favorite podcast and my curlman constructions. I'm your host always. Thank you so much for trying to say I know it's been a couple of weeks since you had a part. I apologize for that. Didn't with some things trying to handle up so on some business and add new sponsors to the PODCAST, son, because I busy busins. But I'm glad to be back here with you all. You know, you know how we're doing. You don't high kids. You know what it is without saying so I really appreciate you all writing in and asking about the podcast. When another one?

0:47 So of course you might have to make shit. I get a couple hours for you all this week. I'm going to have breath this week. I can't you all. We got a lot to talk about. I got a lot of discuss with you all. You gotta upcome, Guest Man. It's prom season, prom seats man. It was good to see a lot of things. The pictures that I saw social media, young ladies and young men, you know, just you know, beautiful, looking like elegant and that was some like now, I don't know some of these pictures. I saw some of these, these little girls coming out here. I'm like nosing not that could not been one of my daughters walking out half naked with that O. not at all, but not my child. I have nothing to say about it. All I know is a hope of their parents may take a good look at that again and realized that they probably shouldn't have done that.

1:56 But again, just me, could have been one of my daughters coming out like that. Nah, been a whole totally different story there. But that's a different story for another time, for another subject. I will come back and revisit that later on the right all right, but what I want to get to is Um man this. There has been a lot of it going on lately. I mean we've been seeing a large influx of it here and there, but I'm talking about my second home in Louisiana, Tree Port, three pot we got to get this thing together. We got to get this thing together. I mean there has been so many since this killings going on and on and on, but just this past weekend there were a couple, but one stood out. Tell me, more than anything a thirteen year old girl. Thirteen year old girl was shot, not ran up on and shot, not even in the streets, in shot. She was inside of her home. Got Heard me claim say that again. was inside of her home, just chilling, either playing, watching TV something. Sinceide of a

3:30 home chilling and a couple of cars shooting for whatever reason that was. Whatever reason it was about several shots and this baby was struck inside of home and succume to her injuries after they rushed it to Arshna Lsu hospital. According to man, this is this, this is hard man. But according to reports of from the article, a teenage girl sitting inside a street port Louisiana home Sunday afternoon was fatally shot by a straight bullet from one of several cars racing down the street. According to police. I want Sir name, but sisty.

4:27 She was struck before thirty pm sun it and rush to Oshna Lshoo hospital where she's succumbing her injuries. According to the street Port Police Department, at least two cars appeared to have been chasing each other outside the house where they begins shooting. Chief Wayne Smith said during a press conference Sunday afternoon one of the bullets flew into the house and struck her. The Senses Act of violence that took the life of an innocent child. That's afternoon. The streetport you see epitome of the tragic and completely unacceptable. Let this be the loudest of wake up calls to all of our public officials, community leaders citizens to come together to truly address the crime plague in our city. State Representative Tom Presley said in a statement Sunday night. Now there's also stated that there's ring footage, so everything in some of this may have been caught on some neighbors ring camera that was obtained. For the rapid gunfire that could be heard, and they was told them Ksla that they heard at least fifty shots and as of right now, at the recording of this podcast, nor rest have been made.

5:46 Look, people, put these gun we need to put these guns down. You just shooting, just shooting, shoot and shooting any thing about it is you shooting and you're not shooting it anything. You just shooting wildly, just hoping that you will hit something or hit what your support, what you're shooting at. That's why that's senseless. All of the shooting period has senses, but you're speeding down through a residential neighborhood shooting, shooting at each other, and one of these straight bullets went into a home, struck and kill a thirteen year old baby. That's hard, man, that's hard. Right now we want to send our condolences and I since prayers to the family of this child, to her parents, her friends, her loved ones. We're praying for you here currently under construction. You have our sincere condolences and prayers and will continue to pray with you and pray to God's will strengthen you throughout this ordeal. But it's got to stop. People. When is enough going to be enough? We as a community need to get together with some of

7:18 these local legislators, these local Alderman City Council members, kind of perish board members, the sheriff's deputy, Sharaff, the chief of police, whatever it may take to take back our community, because this is out of control. This is worse off than it was when the period of time or shreeport where they were game bringing pretty hard. This is even worse than that and it was bad then. I remember it clearly. It was bad then, but it was about something. At least a lot of killings in it will senseless.

8:07 Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning that that period of time that was going on in Shreeport, but this is why he worse than that. They're killing, they're shooting for no reason. They're killing and they shooting and don't know why. These children, and I'm saying children because they are probably much, much younger than I am, they're out of control. We as a community need and have to pull together to take back O will community.

8:48 We deserved that, our children deserved that, our children's children deserved that. Treeport used to be a beautiful place to live. It's it's a dangerous on now and it shouldn't be that way. It shouldn't be that way. Don't get me wrong, there is crime and things of this nature in every major city in every state in this country. Still, I'm not talking about those other states, in those other cities, talking about my second home, shreeport, Louisiana. Got To get this thing under control. We got to take back our community people. We have to. It's some particular point. That's why seems like the city is going down now, where businesses are leaving their closing the doors of the businesses are leaving. This is the thing, one of the things that help that that's making residents leave the city. She puts a beautiful place. It is. It's a beautiful place that can thrive again.

10:18 But we have to be able to take back our community and it's hurtful. It's really hurtful when you see this and you just think of the impact and and and the overall totality of everything. I mean again, this is happening everywhere, but talking about streetport. So whoever, we have to get with city council, the Mayor Chief Police, whoever to baby to band together to take back our community. Email us here at currently under construction and and give us feedback and let me know your take on it. H What do you think can be done to help clean up and take back our community?

11:24 Emails here. It under construction. One thousand nine hundred and seventy four a YAHOOCOM. That is you inder con str UK tio in one thousand nine hundred and seventy four at yahoocom. Email us here at the podcast at currently under construction and let us know how you feel, what you're thinking, what can be done, what your thoughts are, what we could possibly do anything whatever we can do by know, we need to pull together. That saying goes it takes a village to raise these children and everything or to do things right.

12:07 We need to get back to that. I've heard, and have had this conversation with some people saying that that are never happened again. Will never go back to that. I don't believe that. I truly don't believe that. I do believe that there are enough of us left who can pour into a poor some positivity and and accountability, into our youth, into these young people, and we can help turn that around and we can do it together. I believe that. I truly believe that, because if not, and this is called for what it is, we've allowed our children to go out of control and it's our fault. It's our fault. So I wholeheartedly believe that we can do this, that we can get back to that, that we can turn this whole thing around and we can go back to having neighbors that look out for each other, that look out for each other's children, that that community, that neighborhoods like one big family. We can get back to that believe that I hold heartily do. We just have to do it

13:50 and it takes us all. The text is one to do so. One can be the catalyst of change, but that one has to be able to bring, you know, to step out to do it. I mean, they can inspire so many others. So I'm all for it. I mean, I'm if it starts with me, be me, you know, except for others. I actually have had this conversation with a couple of like minded people who I'm friends with in real life and on social media, and we all have that same mentality that, you know, it starts with one.

14:33 If we can touch one, then we can. We can touch and affect many others. There's an old saying go goes each one, teach one, so everyone that we can impact. You know, along the way, that one that we impact it or each one do we do can in turn and pack someone else, their own children, their years, whoever. But it can happen and I believe it. We just have to do it. We us, you, and I yeah that that that includes me too. I have to do my part. I have to do my part, yes, and I am, but I need y'all with me. I need you with me, cousins and King folks. I need y'all with me, because we can do this thing. We can do this, we could turn it around.

15:39 We can get our community back and we can, in turn, go back to being in a village and helping to look out for each other, help raise our kids, hold them accountable, pour into them positivity and and help them along the way. I believe we can do this. Help me do this, help me, cousins and kids, folks, help me do this, because I know we can. Our children deserve it. It's hard out there right now. People, y'all know it just as well as I do. It's hard out there. It's rough on us. Let's not make it any worse. Let's turn this thing around. You and I together currently under construction. This was going to be a long part today. I just want to get this one out to you all then have a conversation with you all about that. Man, I miss h'all. I really do. Know you've heard you said it before. Like men, he don't Miss Us.

16:57 No, I really do. I miss you all, but that's why I do this thing because, again, it makes me feel like that. I'm just sitting down and run it and have a whole conversation with all of my friends with all of my cousins and King folks, because we are family. Nothing's going to ever change that. Whether you like it or not. We family, and I don't mean blood. Yeah, I've heard me say this before and I say it again. Like my Grannie always say, blood doesn't always make your family. It on the make sure related, because there are.

17:38 There are those of us who have family or there are family to others and we're not even blood related, but we do have the love, respect, commitment, loyalty and all to those family members. Have a lot of family that I'm not blood related to, that I'm so close to, that I love so very did it, that loves me so very daily, and I'm grateful for them because these are the people who got put in my life to cut to help pour into me, to help push me, to help hold me accountable and everything, and I appreciate them. I appreciate them did dearly for that. But I'M gonna get on the out of him and get out your ear for right now. But be looking for the next episode coming up in a couple of days. It'll probably are Thursday or Friday, and they were probably Thursday because I next episode after that. That bonus episode that you're going to get will be that Saturday. So the next episode will are on Thursday and then we'll get a bonus episode that's Saturday. We'd hopefully are very special guest. So be on the lookout that for that for that episode.

19:00 You all, and I'M gonna get on up out of here. But yeah, I know, I think you know my saying. You know I was saying. Let's going to say it, let's get it. It takes the village for us to make this thing happen and you all know that you are my village and we're going to continue to build this thing together, you and I, one step at a time, currently on the construction. I love you all. I will talk to you all in a couple of days. Yeah, I have a great day. Enjoy you evening and we'll talk soon. TATH