[00:05.40]I have nothing but respect for our young people
[00:06.91]And what they're doing.
[00:08.13]My thing is, we adults did not stand strong
[00:11.35]And on our square
[00:12.83]To bring our young people through this process.
[00:14.74]I know, I was the young person
[00:16.13]That had to fend for himself in the streets of New York.
[00:19.11]I know what happened, with our young people
[00:21.52]I say, "Look I ain't mad at you", know no matter what I hear
[00:24.62]I know that you are moving through a process
[00:27.54]Because they are attempting to destroy the community
[00:30.35]So they're using you.
[00:31.80]
[00:32.26]They are buying you out.
[00:33.69]But we as adults, get to buy them back.
[00:37.47]I'm ready to compete with anybody for our young people's minds.
[00:41.25]And what we have to is change the paradigm of how we're interacting with them
[00:45.17]Deal with them from a heartfelt place where they can understand.
[00:47.84]You see because whether you realize it or not
[00:49.92]It's you they're shooting in the streets.
[00:51.48]You, young brothers, they're the ones that are being shot.
[00:54.20]So with this entertainment or with this music
[00:56.72]Maybe I don't like what I hear
[00:58.58]Maybe that I don't like some of the words I hear
[01:00.09]Maybe that I don't like the direction
[01:01.55]But I think they're doing a pretty good job
[01:03.01]Considering that we, as men, the adult men
[01:05.63]Did not cover that when we should've covered that
[01:07.75]And protected them when we should've protected them
[01:09.92]And brought them up that so when we see an artist
[01:12.59]Acting in a most inappropriate way
[01:14.10]
[01:14.41]"Where is the father in this?",
[01:16.27]"Where is that male mentor that can be there?"
[01:18.95] We, as black men
[01:20.06]Must take on the responsibility as the honorable Elijah Muhammad told Malcolm
[01:24.59]Is that a nation is only as strong as its weakest family.
[01:28.26]And we have got to create nations
[01:30.58]We have to create relationships
[01:33.19]Between the African man and the African woman
[01:35.47]That creates a viable nation