Why Are We Still Failing At Protecting Our Children In 2023?

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Cousins and kin folks. Welcome,
Welcome, Welcome to the newest episode of

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your favorite podcast, Damn I currently
under construction. I am your host.

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Thank you so much for joining us
today. It's Friday. It is Friday,

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y'all. Hope everybody's had a great
work week. Hope everybody's getting geared

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up for the weekend. Hoping everybody
would get out and do something this week

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and enjoy yourself or just chill back
at home and rest and recruping and refocus

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your energy your mind from a long
work week and just chilled and just you

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know, enjoy yourself. Man.
Uh, I wanna thank y'all for joining

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us today. Look, I'm coming
in kind of hot today, cousins and

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kin folks, so please, uh
excuse me if I come in and I

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sound a little ticked, or if
I come in a little harsh, but

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god, dang it, I'm I'm
I'm, I'm I'm really really really up

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to here, fed up with the
stuff that I keep seeing. Now,

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for those of you who know me, or those of you who have followed

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us here curmently under construction, you
know the things that I despise more than

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anything anything as well, that's bullets. I know how I feel about bullets.

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You know, I have no love
when it comes to bullets for those

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who feel that they have to pick
on those who are weaker than them,

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or those who are of another of
that mindset that you just feel that you

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just have to get out and and
bullet somebody and pick on them or jump

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on them, or try to take
things that they have because you don't have,

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or whatever the reason that you have
in your mind that you have to

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do that, you have to pick
on someone. And we all know that

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bullets running packs. Bullets are never
alone, Bullets always running packs because they're

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all weak. All of them are
weak. And see the ones that follow

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the bullet are just as weak as
he is. And they're all scared.

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Yeah, so that's why they all
running pecks, so they have their courage

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to pick on somebody that they feel
as weaker than them, or that they

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can overpower, whatever the case may
be. But either way, I don't

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like bullets. I highly despise them. And I've run across another situation where

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the school system, all those that
are involved, failed this child in so

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many ways and so many ways,
and it it just it it infuriates me.

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It infuriates me because I see I'm
starting to see more and more nowadays

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used that they keep sweeping it under
the rug, or shirking it or just

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not wanting to deal with it period. And and I'm I'm I'm appalled.

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I'm highly appalled, cousins and kin
folks. Now, I want y'all to

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listen to something I did. I'm
gonna get into it. I want you

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to listen to something and see if
it bothered you as much as it bothered

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me. Hold on one second,
Cousins of the King. Foce, I'm

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gonna get that audio for you,
and we're gonna get into it. All

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right, cousins of king folks,
Here we go. It was met up

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in the Mollies and mormented Alt couldn't
see any other way else speaking or kids

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need to be sent the message that
there are other ways that none of the

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bullies in the schools were. That
was a parent, that was a parent

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of another student at this school who
made this statement. Now, let me

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let me get into what's going on
here. This and that's what that was

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the catalyst of this particular episode.
So there are students who stormed out after

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a team commits suicide over horror school
bullying attack. Say what, well,

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let me tell you what's going on. Cousins and king folks. Students at

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Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township
walked out of their classrooms on Wednesday,

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upset and angry over the suicide death
a fourteen year old a church. I'm

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gonna go see her name A Cutch
Now. Before we go into further into

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this, we want to express our
sincere condolences and prayers to the Cutch family

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and loved ones. We're so deeply
saddened by this, and we send all

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of our prayers and our loves here
and currently under construction out to this child's

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family loved ones uh in this particular
time of bereavement and sadness right now.

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And we just pray that the Most
High would cover you, would comfort you

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right now and be with you in
this time of bereavement. But it goes

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further to say that she was found
dead at her home by her family.

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I'm February dry after taking her own
life. There was a video posted on

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social media that showed several students viciously
attacking coach as she was walking with her

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boyfriend in the school hallway. Two
days later, after that attack, she

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took her life at home. Her
father is livid that the police were not

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called after the school attack. I'm
at pause right there for a second.

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I'm I'm I'm I'm hold up,
hold up, hold on right there,

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cause it's again, folks, but
pauls right there. So we have a

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physical assault on a student by several
other students in the hallway caught on camera

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showing this attack wasn't provoked by these
bullies, and the police weren't called or

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there wasn't a resource officer on site
to be involved. I don't understand that.

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Make that makes sense as as that's
the young folks say that math thin

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mathing not to me and no shape
form a fashion. This baby was minding

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her own business, walking down the
hall with her boyfriend, and y'all jump

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on her and attacked her. It's
on video, it's on camera, and

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the police weren't called at all.
But it gets it gets deeper than that.

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It gets deeper than that, Cousins
and king, folks, It gets

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deeper than that. So it goes
on to say a kid is assaulted with

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a weapon and their policy is not
to Paul call the police or follow a

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report. Her father said she was
not only attacked cousins and king folks by

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these bullies, but with a weapon. On top of that, and the

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school's policy it's not to call a
police or file a report. So basically

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you're saying that, regardless of what
happened at this school, all of these

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children's lives are in danger. That
if somebody comes to this school or at

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the school and hauls off and attacks
or jumps on one of them, whether

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they're at that school or not,
regardless of whatever they use. The school's

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policy it's not is to not call
a police or follow a police report that

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you just on your own. That
doesn't make sense to me. That doesn't

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make sense to me. That doesn't
make sense at all. How if at

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any school you go to schools that
means I said my child to your school.

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That means my child is in your
care for however, meaning hours that

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they're at that school. That means
you're responsible for the well being of my

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child. So if something happens to
my child, you are responsible for that.

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But the policies in places to prevent
them from not taking responsibility. Again,

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that math is not math. Oh, but it gets better, cousins

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again, folks, Oh, it
gets better, It gets better again.

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I apologize if I sound really ticked
off, because I am, because this

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miss pisses me off. I'm so
sick of this, adults restricting responsibility when

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it comes to stuff like that in
these children. I'm sick of it.

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It pisses me off, and something
needs to be done about it. Something

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needs to be done about it,
so it goes on to say. Her

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father said on social media that uh, he took his daughter to the police

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station after the incident, adding that
if an investigation began, then the videos

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could have been discovered immediately and then
taken down. Speaking about the video,

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her father wrote, I want the
entire world to know what these animals did

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to my daughter. He believes that
the bullying his daughter endured drove her to

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suicide, and then on top of
that, he also told NBC New York

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that his daughter was taken to a
nurse at the school, not the hospital

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where she should have gone to a
nurse at the school. And even though

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she checked out, I had bruising. She I'm sorry though she blacked out.

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That mean this baby had a concussion, because this baby black that this

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baby was beating so bad she blacked
out and she had bruising all over her

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body. They took her to the
school nurse instead of contacting her parents and

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getting this baby to the hospital.
That to me, it's pure neglect.

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But then on this particular day also
that the students walked out, the superintendent

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was there. They were talking to
the superintendent, and the superintendent was like

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he was justifying the actions of the
bullets, so he was trying to shirk

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the responsibility or trying to pass the
book about what happened to these students.

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They're even telling him that, like
it's like you don't even care. It's

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like you don't even care. When
is enough going to be enough? When

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are we as adults and we as
a society going to better protect our children.

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When are we as adults in this
society going to hold our children who

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are bullying responsible for our actions.
Because bullying just doesn't just happen out of

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the blue. It starts somewhere.
It starts somewhere, and we need to

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get to the root of the problem. It's so heartbreaking for me to see

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that a fourteen year old child can
be bullied to the point and feel that

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they no longer have a way out
because no one is helping, no one

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is listening to her, to the
point that she feel that they feel they

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have to check out, that they
have to that their only recourse is to

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take their own lives. That's heartbreaking. That's heartbreaking, Cousins and king folks.

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I've experienced bullying in my own youth. I faced my bullies, I

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overcame my bullies, and that's why
I have the mentality and the attitude now

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that I have toward bullying. But
it breaks my heart that we care so

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little nowadays, or we're so afraid
nowadays of consequences, that we will not

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hold the bully is responsible, and
we won't do everything that we can to

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help our kids, and that these
children nowadays feel there to the point that

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they have no recourse when they're bullying, but to take their own minds,

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that they don't want to be here
anymore. I've seen, oh I've read

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about and this probably was not even
nowhere near the numbers that it happens,

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but I've seen and I've heard and
I've read more about more teenagers taking their

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lives because of bullying in the past
ten twelve years. Than I've seen in

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my entire life. True, we
have better access to information now with the

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Internet and social media, but I
was even shortly even better than that.

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I've seen more of it in the
past ten to twelve years than I have

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in the past twenty five. That
it's hurtful cousins and king folks. That

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is a scary and astounding number.
That You have the school sweet trying to

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sweep it under the rug. You
have the principles doing the same thing.

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You have schools putting policies in place
to protect predators like this. You have

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the police not wanting to do anything
about it, basically saying that, oh

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well, if we start an investigation
now that it gives them time to uh

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get the tapes and erase it.
You're not even in trying to investigate.

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We are failing our children on a
level unlike any other. It's unprecedented.

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It's unprecedented. No parent should have
to be burying their children, especially to

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the point of to bulliant and like
this. We need to get to our

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police. We need to have our
community, We need to get better involved.

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We need to be able to hold
these schools, these principles, these

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system principles, these school board members, these superintendents, and all of these

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that are involved, who will not
step up and do what it's right to

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protect our children. We're not gonna
have a future if this continues. Our

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babies should be able to the only
thing at at fourteen, fifteen, sixteen

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years old that you're supposed to be
worried about at that particular time is what

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I'm gonna do. From homework,
getting ready for college, SATs, acts,

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dumb stuff that kids do, It's
the only thing they're supposed to be

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worried about at that point in their
lives. It's the only thing that y'all

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that the kids that A should be
worrying about, not getting bullied, not

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worrying if they're going to have to
deal with that the next day and day

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and in the day out. And
nobody's helping me, not to the point

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where I'm tired of this, nobody's
helping me, nobody's listening to me.

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I'm going to take my life.
It should never ever ever get to that

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point. No child should ever have
to be worried about that. I've said

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this before, I say it now, and I continue to say it.

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You let the child's supposed to be
able to be a child as long as

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possible. So we need to be
trying to We need to get with the

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school boards, the superintendents, the
teachers, whatever we have to do to

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get something set in placed to be
able to deal with this. The police

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department's involved, if we have to
go to your local councilmen, Alderman's whoever,

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whatever we have to do to get
something set in place to where we

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can hold these bullets responsible for this. I'm sick of it. I'm sick

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of seeing our children taking their lives. I'm sick of her cousins and king

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folks. I hurt for this family
so bad, and for all the other

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families that are out there who've experienced
the same thing of their child taking their

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life or feeling they we pushed so
far to they have no choice but to

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take their own lives behind bullying.
This baby was assaulted, assaulted at school

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own camera with a weapon, and
they did not follow police. Reporter called

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the police. They did not take
this baby to the hospital to be seen

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about. And kids baby as was
blacked out and had who's this out over

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there? Beat this big? They
beat this baby with a weapon. This

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baby problem. I had a good
cussion because she blacked out. That's bad,

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that's bad. I'm pissed the hell
off cousins a king, folks.

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Something that we we we we we
need to do better. Our children should

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be protected at all cause I don't
kill what color, black, white,

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blue, kids? I said.
I I read some comments under there and

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it it it blew my mind that
someone even had the audacity or the unmitigated

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goal to say, this isn't a
black problem, this is their problem.

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We have enough problems in our own
community. I could care less what color,

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what race, what creed this child
is. I could kill less.

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That doesn't matter to me. All
of our children should be protected. All

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of our children should be protected.
All of our children should be protected at

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all times. We have to do
better. Whatever I can do to get

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a voice to out there about that, I'm gonna do it, and I

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pray that this family can get some
type of justice done about this. Again.

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We send our most heartfelt prayer us
in condolences to the Kusch family from

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us here are currently under construction.
We love you, We're praying with you,

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and we prayed that the most high
cover and comfort you right now and

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your time of bereavement. All right, cousins of King, Folks, that's

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tied episode for the day. I
actually had a whole completely different episodes set

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and ready, but I saw this. It it it that that that episode

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went completely out of the window,
completely out of the window. Be cause

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you already y'all know how I feel
about bullies, how I feel about bullying.

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And I'm so tired of seeing our
children taking their lives or feeling that

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they've been pushed so far that they
have no other records than to check out.

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That's hurtful, that's hurtful. I'm
gonna get on out of here,

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cousin. It's a kid, folks. Remember we do this thing twice a

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Man, I'm I'm I'm I'll just
gotta forgive me cousins of king folks because

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I'm I'm ah man that that's that's
hurtful. That as that's hurtful. Cousins

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of king folks, that is hurtful. But again, I'm gonna get on

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out of here. I love y'all, cousins and ken folks. Thank you

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so much for joining us today.
Remember our model. It takes the village

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to make this thing happen, and
you all are my village. And we're

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gonna continue to build this thing together, you and I step by step,

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one break at a time, Carl
do on the construction. I love y'all,

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cousins and king folks. I will
talk to you all and a couple

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of days. Have a great weekend. Be safe. I love y'all. Peace Mmm