00:00all right so i'm gonna talk about something that's on my mind because like i just i gotta get it
00:03out
00:04so over this last weekend valentine's day weekend my wife and i we was at ruth chris right we went
00:09to ruth chris that was our first time and i did a video on it and like we were just
00:13like grateful
00:14to be there because last year around this time we couldn't afford to be there we couldn't afford
00:19much of anything so you know we just did a video like i was just so grateful right but there's
00:24one
00:24thing that i do have to talk about i don't know what it is with us and i and i
00:32hope you understand
00:33what i mean when i say us i don't know what it is with us like we feel like we
00:39have to bring this
00:40like street energy everywhere we go like why am i sitting down with my wife at ruth chris
00:51cutting into this nice ribeye and i see dudes walking by
00:58with they pants sagging with they jeans sagging with these bubble coats with they hoods on
01:06like yo we we gotta stop like we we gotta stop and and and i know listen some of y
01:15'all gonna be like
01:15oh you was just thanking god for this now you judge listen i'm not judging i'm not judging them
01:20and i'm not trying to be cynical but we have to like yo we we gotta understand like yo there's
01:26a
01:26time and place for every first of all like we we we have to understand that how the world reads
01:33us
01:34is our is a reality like yo the way you present yourself is how the world reads you we already
01:41are fighting an uphill battle at times and i understand there's a lot of systematic things
01:46but like why are you like we gotta do better like at ruth chris this is supposed to be an
01:55establishment that you know what kind of establishment you're gonna see that's the thing
01:58like you know you're not going to no applebee's you know you're not going to chili's you know you're
02:03not going to uh texas row house you know you're not going to you know i'm saying there's nothing
02:07against those places i'll eat at all those places i'm not too bougie for none of them places
02:11but like you know you're not going there why are you bringing this like energy why are you bringing
02:18this like attire that come on jean sagging you can't you eating that ruth chris you can go buy a
02:25belt
02:27i i just i i hate that for us i hate that we do that like us men we gotta
02:32do better as men like
02:33go get yourself a pair of slacks go get yourself you know i'm saying a belt go get yourself you
02:38know i'm
02:38a nice collar shirt a sweater uh a coat something a blazer it's like come on come on you don't
02:45gotta
02:46there's a there's a time and place for all that i got nothing wrong there's nothing wrong with you
02:50know i'm saying sweats and jordans and jeans and bubble coats i own all of that stuff but why are
02:57you
02:57bringing that kind of attire to an establishment where you know you know what the standard is over
03:03there i i hate that we i just hate that we do that i just had to get that off
03:07my chest
03:08one last thing one last thing because see sometimes again some of us sometimes we we want
03:15access to certain opportunities we want access to certain doors open we want a certain level of
03:20respect right we want access to certain levels of society and things of that nature if you want that
03:27you also have to understand that your presentation matters your presentation matters it's a reality
03:33whether you whether you want to accept it or not it matters how you present yourself in certain spaces
03:40you
03:41you
03:42you
03:42you
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