00:03I know you're busy I know you're busy you're doing great things a lot and you got a new book
00:08yes that you just dropped yes so up from ashes the streets prison and redemption
00:14is definitely a story of uh redemption survival it speaks to inter intergenerational trauma
00:23and abuse I was a victim child victim of abuse by my mother a single parent because of the abuse
00:31she
00:32suffered in Mississippi in the 40s and it just tells how unfortunate unfortunately especially
00:39within melanated households that that ugliness just continued and then it speaks to uh the next
00:46level the the maltreatment of children and the criminal justice system because once you begin
00:53to abuse your child the first thing they would want to do is go out and seek some type of
00:58friendship
00:58or family but oftentimes that's gangs or the bad element and next thing you know the criminality
01:05and that's exactly what happened uh but my story has a pretty good ending I think and it's still going
01:16good idea言 ...
01:17so
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