00:00I want to talk to all the young people in the audience right now.
00:03I want y'all to listen and all the young people out there.
00:06With all the injustice and the hatred and everything that is happening,
00:10not only in the world, but in our country,
00:12right now I need for you young people, I need you guys to be educated.
00:15I need you to listen. I need you to pay attention.
00:21And I need you to go ahead and understand that you have a voice
00:24and it is okay to use it when you see something bad happening.
00:28So make sure that you stay educated
00:31and you do not let people tell you what you think you should feel.
00:37So many times we ignore what's happening within the world
00:40and it is not Charlottesville's problem, it's our problem.
00:43It is an exemplification of hate.
00:44It shouldn't be.
00:45It is for so many people, I think we're processing just how unexpected something like that was.
00:49But it was interesting because I was listening to the, I think,
00:51the vice mayor of Charlottesville speaking on NPR.
00:54And he's saying it's not unexpected.
00:55Charlottesville is an area that closed down their schools
00:57rather than integrating them.
00:59And for so many times we've liked to ignore the hate to say,
01:02well, look, we've made progress over here.
01:04And rather than just ignoring this hate,
01:06we are now forced to face it
01:09and we're forced to deal with the repercussions of it
01:12and forced to really make sure that there are real consequences
01:14because so many people were able to go to the rally
01:16and then go home to their families
01:18where Black Lives Matter protests have been criminalized from the get-go.
01:22You asked, how's my community doing?
01:24I think it's a tale of two cities.
01:26I think yesterday people were rather sad
01:28because of what everything that was going on, angry, upset.
01:31But on the other hand, I literally saw 150 book bags
01:37handed to people throughout the community
01:39by a group of young Black men and young Black women
01:42at Tonsila Park,
01:43which is a park within the traditional African-American community.
01:46They have free food.
01:47They have music.
01:48They gave back.
01:48They made sure that the community was well-spared and taken care of.
01:51It's heartbreaking.
01:53And unfortunately, it's not new.
01:54And this is what happens when you ignore the past.
01:57You keep repeating and making the same mistakes.
01:59It's just going to come back and bite you.
02:00And it's biting us really hard.
02:02In light of recent events,
02:03we just wanted to say to all of the young ones at home watching,
02:06no matter who you are, where you come from,
02:09or what you look like,
02:09you are beautiful and you are important.
02:12So keep spreading love and positivity, all right?
02:14God bless.
02:15I'm going to make her death worth something.
02:18No mother should have to give up her 32-year-old child.
02:21And I know people die every day.
02:23I'm not special that way.
02:25But if my child's death was for a cause,
02:28I'm going to speak for that cause,
02:30and I'm going to make that cause important.
02:33The people here of Charlottesville,
02:34white people, Black people,
02:36yellow people,
02:36old people,
02:37young people,
02:37we're a community that rallies and rides together.
02:40This is a community that I saw pick me up
02:42in my darkest and deepest moments
02:44to encourage me.
02:45And they've done the same thing for other people.
02:47We're a resilient group.
02:49And sometimes we may get knocked down,
02:50but we always stand back up.
02:52That's who Charlottesville is.
