00:00I want to talk about some of the police brutality that's going on right now in the United States
00:06and that's a big, it's finally on entertainment, social media, as well as a political platform
00:12right now. What are your thoughts right now on police brutality in America, especially
00:16as it targets young black men? Yeah, where do we start? That's something
00:21where you need more than a day, more than a month, more than a year, because it's been
00:27going on for so long. But me growing up and being a young black male, my whole life always,
00:33I knew that I had to be more cautious with the police. You know, when I had like some
00:39of my, you know, Chinese friends, white friends in the car, there was one time a police was
00:44behind us and he put on his sirens. I'm like, put on your seatbelt, don't say nothing, you
00:49know, et cetera, et cetera. And they're like, why are you freaking out? I'm like, I just
00:52need to be cool and calm, like don't say nothing, react. And the police went past us. But
00:57it's just like, it's crazy how for me growing up, that's always kind of been like a threat
01:03to me. And it's real. Because in this world today, what we're seeing what's going on is
01:08real life. It's been happening for a long time. But it's just, it's a tough position
01:12for both two doing that job. I mean, if you're going to live in fear, though, if you're going
01:19to be afraid, don't do that job. Let the next person do it. Let somebody do it who's brave,
01:25who's going to put their life on the line because we can't be murdering, murdering innocent
01:29people. And I just think it's, it's not even a color thing. It's a human thing. It's good
01:34and bad. I mean, we have good cops too. We got good cops, we got bad cops. You got good
01:39people, you got bad people. You got good sports stars, you got bad sports stars. That's life.
01:43Right. You know, so I think it just starts with us understanding each other. You know,
01:49I think a lot of people think you have to be able to relate to the person. But a white
01:54kid from Wisconsin is not going to relate to me fully. You may like understand me, but
01:59you can't truly relate. Right. And I think that's where the world have to, we have to
02:02realize we really want peace. If we really want to make a difference, if we really want
02:06to make a change, we got to learn and live in peace and not worry about understanding,
02:11but just letting that person live their life happy and peace and not living in fear.
02:16Did your father give you any tips growing up? Like, look, son, okay, when you, like,
02:20once you started driving, like that instance you just mentioned, conduct yourself this way,
02:23move this way. Let me, let me tell you what my pops is. Y'all know what my pops is from
02:27one of the murder capitals, Callio projects, gold teeth, masterpiece, gangsta rapper. And
02:33this dude would literally tell me growing up as a kid, when you see the cops, you better be
02:37the nerdiest damn kid ever. Right. Don't speak back, do whatever they say.
02:41Because for us, one wrong move could be your life. And that's something my dad knew. And
02:48that's what we got to educate. It's the sad truth, but we have to educate our young black
02:54men to, if you want to be walking home that next day or waking up, sometimes we can't just
03:01do what we want to do in that situation, which is sad. I've been in situations where I got pulled
03:06over and I really, I feared for my life sometimes. But like I said, it's good and bad. You know,
03:11you get some people who abuse their authority. I had that with basketball coaches. You know,
03:16my coach had, one of my coaches at USC, one that didn't recruit me, he tried to use that
03:20power against me, tried to make me quit. I didn't quit. Right. But that's something we
03:24had to deal with. You had to learn how to, you know, live your life and still, you know,
03:31cooperate so you could see another day. But my dad used to say, yeah, like when I get pulled
03:36over by all his brothers, he may be the most gangster one. When they get pulled over by cops,
03:40yes, sir. Right. It's that put my hands up. Like you said, your job is to come home. Yeah.
03:44Yeah, definitely. Thank you so much for touching on that.
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