And I've got aunts, uncles, and siblings, all age ranges. I say that to say we're not all being killed by the police. I even have obviously in my family I won't say obviously, but listen, I got people in my family that have committed crimes. I got people in my family that have been arrested. Never ever police brutality or anything like that. They were committing crimes, and they got arrested. It happened
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 5:00
And both those statements will cause the person who it has been instilled in. When they come up on those type of people who they've been taught to hate, it will make them want to lash out at them and fight them. So then when the police pull somebody over now you get to talking reckless to the police and then you wonder why the police pull you out the car. Now, again
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 5:00
And so should you talk to your children to be aware of their circumstance, of their surroundings, to be aware and alert in their circumstances, to make sure that they are paying attention to what is going on? Should you teach your children about looking at people's body language and not so much what people are saying, but the tone of their voice? Is their tone rising? Is their body language getting aggressive? Okay, if it is, back up. Are we teaching people that?
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 3:48
And so I say that to say I don't believe that cops are necessarily trigger happy just waiting to kill black people. It's not an easy thing. And for me to be alive as long as I have been and I cannot say in my town, which at one point the town I grew up in was the fourth most dangerous city in the US. Not in the state, not in the east, but in the US
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 3:33
There have been numerous black men and women who have been killed at the hands of white police officers in situations that they should not have died from. And it was because the police officers used excessive force, whether they used it because they were racist or if they used it just because it was a black man. And they just assume that black men are criminals. And so I have to do what I have to do to protect myself
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 4:41
I mean, could the teenagers get into some tough, some tips here and there, especially after hours, after a football game? Of course been that way. But in general, I see folks taking care of their families out and about, working, shopping, eating together, laughing. Even today at the grocery store, the cashier that took care of us was a black lady, like a teenager. The guy that was bagging was like a teenager. He was not black
Luce Fonrose
@ilovelucee · 5:00
We didn't have that experience. But it's important to acknowledge that just because that wasn't your experience doesn't mean that that's not somebody else's experience. And I tell myself that all the time. So the shirts, I don't like it, but it's real. Nonetheless, though, I do feel like kids that age, even though I did say that, yes, a lot of kids do have that experience
Rich Cornell
@Animal913 · 1:47
People can't be, oh, that's your opinion. This is my opinion. Let's have a conversation. No, it's got to be yelling and screaming, and you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong no matter what. I agree with you. I definitely do not believe that black people are perpetual victims. And it's all in the mindset. Look at some of the most famous black people came from being dirt poor
SOUL MIND
@BEAUTIFULSOULMI · 4:19
If a child is experiencing death after death after death in their family, and it just so happens this is a family that has been subject to brutality or killed for no reason. That's a discussion that you have to have with those children because their uncle is gone, because their mom is gone, because their grandmother is gone, because their father is gone
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 0:22
Hi. I love Lucy. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts on this topic. Appreciate you. Thank you for the parts that you agree with with me and my thoughts and the parts that you disagree with. So thank you so much for sharing and appreciate your reply. Thank you
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 0:14
You. Hi, Annabelle. 913. Thank you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts on this. I appreciate you. Thank you for your opinion and adding value to the conversation. Have a good one
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 5:00
I don't know their parents, but I can pretty much guess that these children have not lost parent and grandparent and aunt, uncle to police violence. Now, could they have lost family members to gang violence, street violence, random drive bys? Of course. That's the life that we live in the hood. And to be clear, because I know you said I haven't had to have these talks, I won't have these talks. My son was almost 27, the eldest one
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 0:11
I didn't even realize I reached that five minute limit. I try not to do that, but anyway, I'll just wrap it up and say thank you so much for coming by and sharing your thoughts on this. Thank you
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:52
People that were guys doing the wrong thing out in the middle of the night doing illegal stuff get shot. What are we saying to that? What are we saying to that? What are we saying to our children about that? That it's not just non black people, but people in your own community. You're not even safe around a lot of people in your own community, let alone people outside of that. So I agree with you, SIS, 100%
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 5:00
I always say the same thing, like, yes, that is terrible. No, the cop should not have did that. Yes, the cop should have been punished. But when are we going to have the real conversation about black on black crime? When are we going to have that conversation? I'm just wondering. I just want to know when are we going to have that conversation?
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:20
They don't know what to do, and so they're just acting out. But we're three years removed from that. So why are people turning to violence? It goes back to my swell that I made about why are we so angry? And I'd like to know from this standpoint of black on black crime, why are blacks so angry? Why are we so angry? Why is the world so angry?
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 5:00
I'm going to argue that fact, but I will argue the fact that cops are not running around here blasting folks, because I ain't seen it. And I live in a well right now, I live in a different town, but I grew up in a very dangerous city. I see a cop blast one person. So if that's the narrative we're forcing down people's throats, it's like it's not even true. And we're almost creating it to
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 3:54
And this was not cops. The cops came to clean up the scene. The cops came to investigate the scene. So the violence is crazy. But again, I'm not going that narrative that the cops are shooting at somebody, not in this case, not in most cases. These are folks from this neighborhood probably shooting up their own neighborhood. And what's worse and I get it, but it's so bad. Nobody's going to see anything, right?
But unfortunately there are people that will be this way regardless of that shirt and then to install that within the child. It doesn't just become an outfit for them. You are programming them and it becomes them and they form whatever type mindset they form from it. And it could be good, bad, but most of the time it sets them up to sort of be victimized and feel a victim. See, everything in our minds will affect our body and our body affects our minds
But as for that shirt, in no way, shape, form or fashion was that ever going to be a great idea, especially not on those babies. And if you have a message, why use that message, that taunting message, that traumatizing message, that distressful message. Find a way to be more, more powerful words. Use uplifting words that don't put fear in people. We have to really consider that ourselves, too. And that's why I say accountability
Moe Johnson
@NeophyteSavant · 5:00
So when it comes to children, people know that people have a soft spot in their heart when it comes to children, but at the same time, don't try to bring out what people out of people what may not even be in them. In other words, some people don't care one way or the other. Of course some people is going to yo, yeah, I like that, man. That's right. And they're going to be for it
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 2:34
And so, yeah, why don't you wear the shirt, mom, dad, or whoever, put them on them? You wear the shirt if you want a message, but don't do that to the babies, in my opinion. And don't put that fear in them where they got to walk around every day looking at the cops some kind of way, because one, they have a greater chance of being killed by someone who isn't a police officer
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:48
Because for me, I don't feel the need to have to advertise that because I already know internally that my life matters, that my son's life matters. And I have this conversation with him. He gets it. I co parent with his dad, and so there are some things his dad will buy him that I will not
Nobody has any kind of awareness of being polite enough to keep their filthy mouths shut. So if you want to be obvious about something and put clothes or something of that nature on a child or even a grown up, you're asking for somebody to say something about it. You're asking for trouble. And when you get it, you get an argument. Maybe that's what's maybe that's what they want