 You are watching... During the day, mild mannered day and at night, super hamlet. Ta-da-da-da-da-da-da-da! Comedy Central! Neetra Van. I'm a vegetarian, and I used to work at Bloomingale. This is my favorite bag, the 85 bag. I think of myself as every woman and some men. Not too long ago, I went uptown to pay a bill and I held the door open for a woman because she had a cane in one hand and someone was holding her arm and I held the door open for her and she said to me, Thank you very much, sir or miss. For y'all that don't know, my name is Cabrini Green, Harlem Watts Jackson. My favorite sport is running. I'm in the 10th grade. I'm 17 years old and I have two children. My son's name is Kwanza Yu-Hur-Ru-Rizak Jackson. My son's name is Tom A. Tequila-Watusi Jackson. So I started missing all our days in the school and I started feeling really dizzy all the time and even though I wasn't eating very much, I started getting a whole lot of weight that you did. So on this one day, I was getting ready to demonstrate the back walkover and I threw up. But no, I wouldn't have been embarrassed and nothing like that because I could have played it off or blamed it on somebody else. You know what I'm saying? But this other girl, she said, My brother told me, you let Andre get all over in your panties you to make him buy you a Big Mac or nothing. My mom was flipping some cornbread with black eyed peas, candy and collardine with neck bones and some craft macaroni and cheese. I said, I said, how am I supposed to know how that happened? I said, how am I supposed to know how that happened? You didn't teach me nothing about stuff like that. The school don't tell you nothing about stuff like that. You're asking me how that happened? You know it didn't happen the way Mary got Jesus because we're not Catholic. I mean, you know, don't get me wrong, I love my mama you did. But that day, she was getting on my very last nerve. You know what I'm saying? Anyway, you know, my mama didn't hit me or nothing like that because we got a good kind of a communication gap going back and forth. The scene was about, you know, I was staying at home I watched on TV, I watched, you know, So Far but I hate them things. I was watching Gilligan's Island's reruns The Jetsons, The Flintstones. You know, I really love The Flintstones because they're cracking me up, you know, because Fred had about that big and will my body about that big get babbled. No, no, no. But, but anyway, you know, after about nine months of looking out of style and out of shape, I finally gave birth to Binky. We called Kwanza, Yuhuru, Razzak, Jackson, Binky for short. And that same day, Anze came to the hospital to visit me. You know, he stepped into my room just as big as life looking really good. I mean, really jeek, you know what I mean? I didn't hardly recognize him without his radio and everything. And he said, he said, he said, he said, Hey, Slim. And then he took a little bitty diamond ring out of his pocket. It wasn't in a box or something like that because he got those sophisticated continental ways, you know. He said, yeah, Slim, Slim, this is your pre-engaged ring because I've been thinking about planning on wanting to be asking you, will you marry me? And it was just a little bitty chipper for diamond ring but it looked it good to me. And then we took some pictures of me in the ring and him in the ring and me in the baby and him in the baby and me in the ring and the baby and him in the ring and the baby. And we decided to cry and I almost threw him on the floor. That kind of thing, it irked me, it gets to my nerves. I don't want to deal with that. I said, buzz, buzz, buzz, diapers. So when he was alone again, he said, you still haven't answered my question. Will you marry me? And I looked at him, you know, he was so fat. He had some smooth, brown skin and soft, baby, brown eyes. And I was looking at him and he was looking at me and he said, well, and I said, you got to be on drugs. What would I look like? 16 years old, married some 17-year-old boy. Boy, boy, you don't see your boys. I'm a man. I thought I meant you be a man. You didn't even have a driver's permit yet and you can't even grow on my stash. It's not interesting to learn no kind of a wife's routine unless there's going to be some cash, money involved. You know what I'm saying? I just said no. So I was like, why should I get married to get my baby a last name? The baby can have my last name. It's Jackson's name is Andre. I may be a product of Chicago Public School System, but I can read. And I've been reading about wife abuse and child abuse and what they call that, macho satanism. So I said no, Andre, because I have plans for my life. I'm going to go on to finish high school, go on to college, give me a good education, get out and give me a job, like a honey bear or a Dallas Cowgirl cheerleader or a manager at a Burger King or McDonald's restaurant. You know what I'm talking about? Something to make a difference that people laugh. What happened after that was me and my friends would get together and talk about our experience with our children and our young men and things like that. And I was saying, you know, tell them about the time when me and Andre were together for the first time. And he said, he said, he said, Slim, I will make this real good to you. And then we did it. You know what I'm talking about? That's what he said. Was it good to you? And I said, compared to what? He said, did you have an organism? That's just that me and my friends would be having. We decided to start this new group of which I'm an international chairperson and the group is called Stop in the Name of Love. That stands for single teenagers oppressed by pregnancy. T-shirts, stop watches, stop class. We got a thing you can put in the back of your car and go like this. We're going to do things that I've been through and they can learn from my experiences, right? So, you know, if y'all want to join the group, just see me after school, all right? Central.