 Check it. Check it. Check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy CEO and I'm here with the lovely amazing Official miss Jamaica official miss Jamaica man. It's going down man. Hey, man. We are here man in Alabama We in Birmingham. Yes, man. Thanking God that we made it to see another day But we got a special guest today, man. Miss Paulette Porter, Robby Robby, I knew I was gonna mess that up. I got a friend a right. It's just like that So miss Robby, what do you go by Paulette? Oh, what do I do when they come down here? They see you. What do they say Paulette? Hey, how you doing miss Paulette? Hey miss Robby. Hey miss Robby. How you doing? Good? You know, I seen one of your people come by this morning, man It's just amazing the way that you interact with everybody all the love that show the love is real Hey, man, so just to tell our people a little bit about yourself. Where are we at? This is beautiful. I'm looking at all the history that we're we're just Surrounded by it's embracing us man. Give us a little spill on where we're at. How does all begin? Okay? This is the Civil Rights Activist Committee home of the four soldiers. We are here in Birmingham, Alabama and This organization was founded by Tommy Rien in 1991 and he wanted a place for the four soldiers to tell their story So we come in and we talk and we Talk about things that we need to strategize on and voting is a must We must vote if you come up in here. You can't talk politics if you don't vote so it is very important for us to continue to register our young to vote so that they can be a part of the process of The world and the foot soldiers do make a difference. Yes. They make a difference foot soldiers everyone I want to know what is a foot soldier. Yes a foot soldier was anyone that participated in the civil rights movement back in the 1950s late 50s in 1960s Perhaps you might have put money into the collection plate to help get the troops out of jail you might have Cook chicken It's a contribution. Yes. Yes. So whatever you did during that time You was labor as a foot soldier because when you think about a soldier and then much less a foot soldier I'm thinking about a soldier who's walking around from place to place helping Right and giving assistance to whoever they can assist Right, and that's what the soldiers is all about. Okay. So we are The information center for the civil rights heritage trails that you see throughout the city of Birmingham And there are over 800 trails out there. So We are continuing to Do a condition report so that we can get those signs Up to date with QR codes. So if we're not there then you can just place your phone and get the information about that sign How many foot soldiers are there? Oh You have thousands and thousands and there's not only located here. They're all around the world It's all over all over the world You have people that was here in the 60s and they're gone to other states now So they're still participating in doing what they need to do and their offices everywhere So this is the headquarters. No, this is the headquarters and we don't have another headquarters in any other state But yeah, you say you don't have offices that they can, you know, no, it's not like the NAACP Okay, that's what I was wondering. So how do they Communicate with you on what they need to do and so forth. Well any time they come to Birmingham, they will always stop by Okay, they will always stop by and Sometimes they call well, we have school groups that comes in and we go out and we speak to other States and if they call for us we come I know very beautiful in that magazine Hold on let me tell you the name Well, seriously, oh, okay. Oh, you got your notes She's clapping on me Miss no one's from Nashville, Tennessee Called and wanted to do an interview And I went up for the interview and did a They fixed me all the photoshoot and everything Beautiful, it was beautiful But it was really all about an interview like you all are doing and she just wanted to know what we was all about and what we Doing to continue the legacy of this organization. So Like I said voting is the must we got to try to continue to educate our Kids about voting and making sure that they are part of the process But I want to know because you were born and raised here, right? Yes And you became a foot soldier at the age of 13. Yes. So what motivated you to do that? Well at the time I just wanted to be able to do some of the things that we wouldn't able to do like Go to the library or either walk across the park We couldn't drink out of the water fountains. We had to have our own bathroom black colored bathrooms So not only just getting involved It was like Were your parents involved my mother was okay cuz I you know, it has to be like motive you see Because my mother She attended the mass meetings so that she could know what was going on in the city. Okay She was an out front and I remember the day that I left school She told us that morning not to get involved because she didn't want to lose her job And where was she working at that time? She was working for the Birmingham housing authority. Okay, and Got to school and unfortunately I Just got caught up I Know that I was not supposed to go but and she lost her job because of you. No, she didn't lose a girl. No She didn't lose her job, but She didn't want to and not only my mother, but other parents was telling the children the same thing because that is what the Employers was doing to them to them and they found out that their children was participating in the movement So what did she find what did she say when she finally found out that you got ahead of yourself and got in there? I Thought she was gonna who would be but she didn't She just asked me You disobeyed I see yeah, but I just got caught up mom I just got caught up. I was pushed out with the crowd, but now after I marched about two blocks I saw my sister After I saw my sister, I said she can't tell on me because she I Just continued it and my sister continued After we got to 16th Street Church, I think my sister stayed at the church to Help serve the truth and I went out Reverend Bevel had us going out of the church in 50s and Made sure that we stayed on the sidewalk because we didn't have a permit to march And so everything was still done in Accordingly it wasn't like this going out here and I'm are you they're getting permits They're doing everything by the law so to say no no it was it was different and I think I got a block away from the church and That's when I was put on to a yellow school bus Now you've got to realize we didn't ride school buses So that was really a treat To get on that yellow school bus and we sing those songs those freedom songs and we just Those freedom songs really helped It helped motivate motivate you're 13. Yeah 13 years old and you're You're out there and you're just singing those songs and it's it got us over. Where was your father doing this time? Where was your father? My father was living in Philadelphia at the time. My mother and father was not together Okay, so he although he was in Philadelphia. Did he do anything with civil rights? my father was in the US Navy, but Not at that time. Okay, he had been in the US Navy. Okay, so was he a part of your life at all? Oh, yes. Oh, yes sure Okay, I was just wondering because the distance and him not being there, right? Well, well, he was still a part of our lives because he called Talked and birthdays Christmas. Okay. Yeah. Okay, cool Like I said looking at the history that's wrapped around us and looking at dr. King and all the different pictures and you know Just the kids and stuff man to come in here on a daily basis for how many years you've been here We've been here since 1991 Okay, and coming in looking at all this history. I know it has to be embedded in motivation You know to just have to you know, come in and gear up for this whole the whole scene was been dope You've blessed our kids ever since we've been coming here Well, we've been here since 1991 But sure it has changed and it's a difference now because we did a rebranding in 2014 with UAB, okay, so We're trying to move it in a Direction where it can be More than just coming in telling your story. Yeah. Yeah, I get it so we want you to be involved and be diversity and Do what we need to do like I said voting got got to vote We got to educate our young about but isn't any entertainers that come through here when they come in the town To perform or anything like that? Yes, we do Ricky smiley has been shout out Ricky smiley. Yeah, I love it. Love what he does smiley has been through here and a lot of like Joseph Larry, yeah, John Lewis CT Vivian It's bored. Wow. They all been here. Yeah, I've been with those people. Wow. That's that's gotta be that's amazing Yeah And and just the I mean when I first came it was just amazing the stories that you guys Told us about the the girls that we're in the church that you know things that happen here in over history That's in our history on the 16th 16th Street. Yeah. Yeah so How was that when you know because Just run us through down and was that the worst thing you've ever seen in Birmingham? Growing up at the time I would say yes when the church was bombed. Let's talk about it a little bit Cynthia Wesley mother Miss Wesley taught me and WC Davis elementary school in the second grade So I had a chance to know Cynthia before The church bombing and not only that Cynthia Was in the band at Elman High School with me. We had band practice that Friday, okay? She played clarinet. I played clarinet my sister played clarinet. Okay, so we all was you know together and The Collins young lady her sister Jamie was in my class Sarah was the survivor Yes, cuz I heard there was one survivor. Yeah, Sarah was the survivor, but Jamie was in my class and Their sister was so you knew them personally. Yes. Yes, um, I Can remember going down to the hospital UAB the day of the church bombing because We lived in the south side Housing project, which is like three blocks from UAB and Instead of going to church that Sunday, we decided to go down to the hospital and I remember seeing miss Wesley sitting outside on the wall and Her husband was trying to console her and he was telling her That maybe Cynthia was looking for him because he had attended church that Sunday with her okay, and Not knowing that she was dead at the time, but I do remember that It was really really it was just a day of chaos. It was just oh You just didn't know what to do Oh We cried we seen It was just It was awful Wow and I know that a lot of people were mourning but How did the young lady who actually survived? How did she handle it because you know sometimes in life when you go through a certain situation and Out of everybody you survive you question a lot of things like why me? Well, she didn't Handle it I can't say how it was I do remember talking to Jamie her sister and She just told me that She felt like her playmate was taken from her because she was always get home from school and Her and her sister would play together. So Sarah I don't know Sarah was kind of bitter about it from the beginning But now she's beginning to open up and to go and out and she does a lot of speaking and She has written a book now The fifth look girl oh And do you know where we can find that book? I have it here you do. Yes. Okay. Awesome. I need to see that But okay How long did she write that book? It was just written last year in 2020, okay, so it took her a while, but she finally did it. Yes That's awesome. I know you've read it. I So just man, like I said that has to be something that she holds very very dear to her heart and That next time maybe we come through and try to get hold of right now on the show So when you look at like that was other instances as well, give us some more examples of things that happened during that time that that really That that really caused Things to be dim at the time, but at the end of the day it was just a part of our history and we have to talk about it Of course, you know bull corner was the city commissioner at that time and I was afraid of Because of the things that he did to the blacks here in city of Birmingham such as you know on doing the demonstration He he would ride around in a white army tank He wouldn't get out and be among the firemen's and the police officers. No, he stayed in the tank Hmm scared scared. Yeah, and Of course Walter Gaston the young man That we use for our logo where the dog bite him inside. Mm-hmm. I grew up with him Okay, so It was just oh Just to think about some of the things that occurred during that time and how We had to run How they put the water dishonors How the dogs attacked it us? And not even that. It's just the way that that the police officers would Just hold you just hold you for the dog to bite you. Oh, it was just terrible. It was just terrible But I know that this city And Martin Luther King named it like the most racist city in the South. Yes And I wanted to know because with you growing up and living here I want to know what you experience personally not just seeing anything But just what was your personal experience the most? I Want to say racist thing that you've ever had to encounter and how did you handle it? The most racist thing that I had to encounter was We live not far from five point south and What amazed me is how we had to Stay on a route to go to the store. Hmm It's like we couldn't walk across the park We had to go a certain way and For us not to be able to walk on One side of 20th Street. Mm-hmm We had to make sure we go across The street to the hardware store up in five point south and we go to the Hill Grocer Store Do what we need to get and get back and we had a route and If you get off of the route then you had The white people will come out and call you a little nigger Come here you little nigger. We had to run for our lives because What what they have done if they would have called us Mm-hmm and our parents might have not known where we was If they would have called us but We always travel in a group You have two or three that would be with you So we never did go to Places alone, you know, like if I decide to just go to the store. Mm-hmm It was always someone with you So being it over the years being able to see all of these changes that happened from a place where it was such a Racist out in the open straight in your face calling you all these different names trying to kill you trying to do all to all of the gradual Improvements so to say where it's not so in your face anymore because I'm it's out there But it's just not so in your face anymore, right? It's not so in your face anymore and It's like feel about it's like damn if you do and damn if you don't it's like Before you knew who was who now since this is more covered. You don't always know Exactly well, and you know Even back during those times I often think about the times when I was young and it seemed to be that to me I looked up to bubbling and I looked up to Skeeter Lane and I looked up to The people in my community mr. Lutha these guys were black business owners who own stores and we only went to those stores and This was a time when we was coming out of Segregated, you know the times where we were separated and the thing I can say is I look more up to those guys during that time Do you remember those times? Yes? Yes? Yeah, you had people like Even time Iran himself time. He was one of those people that you look up to Reverend shuttlesworth was a person that you looked up to Mr. James Armstrong Abraham Woods these will Richard Ayrton was the mayor here. Sure. We looked up to him. We was glad for us to have a Black male. Yeah, and and dr. Ayrton was the mayor for over 20 years here in Birmingham and Even where you may bail he I think he served as eight years as the mayor here So we we just we just got to continue To improve I know and we got to keep God in our lives I Told some young kids that was Sunday. I came by here and they was around to Gabrielle eating and The young man asked me about the situation Friday with the very And I My response to him was keep God ahead of your life and vote He said to me, how do I talk to? Constituents about voting because most of the young people don't feel like they vote matter Yes, it does. We got them make them realize that that vote matter And you gotta do it keep God ahead of your life and vote because they feel that there's so much Yeah, crooked Things that goes on in politics politics. I feel like it's not gonna be an honest Count or honest, you know what I mean? I want you to go to the poll to vote Every time the poll open if it's a candidate that's running that you don't want to vote for Write your own name on it. Just vote and put it in it No, but before they vote they need to go and research because some people go and vote and just go any mean and mindy moe And just pick anybody they need to know who they're voting for That's the education part of the voting process that we need to continue to educate our kids about right Something you said earlier you said That when you had to run or you know walking on that side of street and the white people come out and call you niggers and all of that How from a point in back in the days when you had white people looking at you and calling you niggers compared to today's society where As I said, it's not so in your face, but now you're seeing black folks calling each other Niggers and stuff like that. How does how do you feel about that? Because I can't really answer something that because I was never in that in those years of you know Okay, and something like that. Well, I feel I Know that I hate to see our own call each other That okay But they'll say it's not nigger is nigga never ignorant getting goals accomplished So they put an acronym and a meaning behind it So what do you think about that and to further go in the detail? They do it because they feel like it takes the power away from the word The way that it's expressed by the ones who used to use it Right Because you give them power over your life when you let them use that word to control the narrative on how your attitude swings Yes, I feel that way and I think that was something that Jay-Z talked about with Oprah Winfrey Cuz Oprah couldn't get past the fact that the hip-hop culture used that word so loosely But at the end of the day, he told her the same thing You know, it's like you're giving people power over you to use this word to control the narrative on your attitude And the way that you carry yourself. Yes. So you have to take that power away Right, that's it I mean, that's that's it. That's what they do. Yeah. Yeah So that's and I think a lot of times the way it's not really the words the young people use It's the way that their character is when they're using it a lot of time There's conflict in the way that they behave your patterns happen and there's a lot of dysfunctionality in our youth So therefore when they're using this word and you look at them You don't see the part where it could be something that would be taking power away You see it as a way that we're looking at it in a negative way So we have to be careful while we're using these words and educate our youth on why we do what we do If we're gonna do it because hip-hop has become a thing to where it is embracing our culture It has made a lot of entrepreneurs. It has felt a lot of babies and mamas So we got to be able to deal within a way that we can balance our people if we're not doing that then then I don't see the use in not liking something walking away from it and not dealing with the facts because these are our children That's right. And that's what we that was the reason we started boss talk 101 was to do things to Be a part of a solution instead of a problem to help our youth and we've seen so many different lives change We are seeing people on the course of changing as we do the channel And I think that's the most important part. No, everybody's not all the all the way that right We're not all the way right, but we're evolving daily So at the end of the day, we don't put a person in a box to say they can't change So there is an opportunity for everybody that we deal with on boss talk So you answered the question for yeah Yeah I wanted to I wanted because there's a bridge we want to be a bridge and not a wall because it there is sometimes where We didn't educate on why these things was happening and there has to be people that step up and say this is why it happened Or this is what we're doing because hip-hop and that generation of hip-hop baby don't really know more than Luther King But that's why I said because then as I said you experienced the animosity of using of being called that word You know what I mean compared to a lot of younger kids now who are using it loosely or a lot of people have never been You know in that situation That's the reason why I wanted to know, you know, you're feeling your feelings toward it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know Today If you call me that today It's not like when you call me that back Okay, it's not the same Because if you want to call me that today see I know better now Yeah, I'm 71 years old So, you know, I know I know about that. It's so so you can't you can't take Because you call me that now if you call me that now and if you come in my face and call You look around and you look at the kids that come through here today, you know And what are we trying to do to connect with those children that's walking these these streets and and and you know Is there anything in the community that's being done to try to hang out and deal with the youth? Well, we do have the urban impact that's a part of the 4th Avenue business district here in Birmingham Okay, that we had a meeting yesterday Where we are trying to come together Alliance and and and make sure that we have the resources for the kids when they come by here, especially the homes is just really really bad now and Don't take them and put them in jail. Let's see if we can take them and do something with them and to help them to keep them from being in the situation that they're in by Giving them the resources they need or Doing what you Yeah, it's it's to me. It's it's a mind see and I've said that many times because and it's recently I really just thought about it because a lot of times they take kids or adults throw them in jail because they commit all these crimes But the reason why I thought about it because since we started this podcast And we've spoken to so many people who've been through trouble times and overcame it as they got older And when you really realize where it stems from it stems from whether a single parent household The father was absent. They are the mom threw them out on the streets So it's a lot of mental illness that stemmed from childhood that haven't been Properly treated with counseling with being shown that there it can be a difference You can live a different life. They're thinking that this is all for me right here because of my environment You know what I mean? And and you we we got to realize there is so much happening in the world today That Everyone mine is not Able to take what's going on and what's being given to us today When I grew up my grandmother my great aunts It was a root there and until we get back Where we can have that root And branch out You do the branch out But you got to have that solid foundation And I think that's where a lot of us are missing In the black community that foundation That's very important. I totally agree. I agree. I totally agree that foundation, you know A house that's being built on a rock instead of built on sand. See what I mean? You got to have a house on the rock. Yeah, and that's what people don't really really You know, they don't understand that you know that and that rock stands in god It stands in family it stands in a mother and a father being there for their children That that's the rock the rock is the fact that you can stand on something and I call it christ But that's it, you know other people might call it something else and they got to get there But I call it christ, you know, and uh, you know, you know, he told peter something. He said on this Rock I build my church in the gates of hell should not prevail against him right now So, you know, that's where it based, but i'm just saying it's something about foundation that's right And he made that statement because of what peter had said that he was the christ And he he recognized the christ in in jesus and that's what made him say Flesh and blood didn't reveal it to you. You see what i'm saying? So this is where you you got to be able to understand The foundation the history I thought about that as well genealogy. Yeah, if jesus genealogy is important I always got to be as well, you know Knowing where you come from knowing where you come from these people including They don't know Who their father is grandfather nothing and then when you don't know where you're from you feel like you don't belong anywhere That's right walking in And just like you talk about um Having that foundation that root It's okay. I'm What came to my mind is is it because more people are having kids at a younger age? So some of these grandparents and great-grandparents are so young. Yes That they're not they don't have that wisdom yet because wisdom comes with age And you have to realize that If you're not educated and you didn't have the upbringing from their root Mm-hmm You can't you can't you can't You can't think that you can get out here and do things that First of all Laws are there and we know Here we go back into the justice party, you know, we we we i'm about done with that, you know, it's it's like I told my husband on friday. I'm done. You could just stick a fork in there. I'm done I don't even know which way to go, but i'm not going to give up on god No, you can't I got to keep him ahead of me And I want him to just stay with me just be with me Just hold my hand and guide me and lead me the way you want me to go Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, there's a like I said, there's a big You you got to look at the way things transpired you look at our our youth and you look at The mother the grandmothers today you dealing with the grandmothers today You do have the traditional grandmothers that's going to be okay, but then you have those that was in the crack era Yeah, I don't think about them too because crack was a pandemic that hit us by storm before that it was heroin There was things that was injected into a depressive state of people people who had already been depressed people had already Look at the stories that that she tells here today. Now you can't not in your mind Not understand when you think about uh our our people and what they've been through as I was saying, you know Our people have been through a lot and and and other races and cultures have choose to ignore What the people have endured from slavery all the way up until now And so we acted like there needs to be no reparations There need to be no understanding of the conditioning of our people or anything and then we we know what happened It's all over the walls. We see that and and you know how much counseling it would have to take for somebody who Wasn't wasn't There's something inside of us. I know do you see what I'm saying? I think about I think about I think about Like you said the counseling When when when I was coming up it it's like My mom would tell Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't behave this way. Don't do this. Okay. You're not being obedient, but listen Mm-hmm when When mama Mama used to discipline us. Okay. Yeah, my dad mom too I mean she would she had four girls. That mean that was four splits in that house Okay, along with her that's five. Yeah Okay That's real. Hey, that's a I wouldn't want to be in that. My mother was I couldn't deal with Yeah, my mother was she just hey, she just didn't tolerate If you wouldn't go behave or the discipline she she'll let you have it So there was no stepdad that came in No, no, okay, but I had my grandfather's okay My mother had about and then I had a lot of uncles Yeah, yeah, man, I tell you man And that's what we're talking about is for us when it comes down to the family and that root You see what I'm saying. I know what you're talking about. Yeah So if someone wanted to become a foot soldier, how could they do so? Well, first of all, they just come in and fill out a membership form Okay, and just go to work. Is there a fee with the membership form 25 dollars and that's the one time fee? Yes Okay, awesome. And that membership is for life. Yes Okay Wow, you know, um Like I said, I appreciate you for uh Finding the time. Yeah, finding the time man We we wanted to come through here and we wanted to get this done and I think I hate God has blessed us to make it happen You are the reason for the season All right, you know what I mean? So I like that Ms. Paula, just um, you know, um, if you ever need anything from boss talk 101, you know, we love you We've been coming down here for many years before we had even got it We hadn't even thought of a boss talk or none of this, but God already knew. Okay. You see what I'm saying He already knew so when we came that first day back in 0908 or whatever one of it was it was around that time And the kids we on oh, it was little But at the end of the day it was so much They were so into the books and everything that you guys had going on here and I just want to tell you thank you You know me and my wife we we we come down here and like I said it every time I come through I I take a memory back with me And it's because of you and people like you who who you know Stand in the gaps and and keep the history going You know a lot of times the schools are not telling the children like they used to And so we have to make sure we that's another thing. Uh, I a lot of kids come in and tell me that We don't we don't learn that in school. We're not taught that in school. How can I change? um, I don't know but That's my Goal is to get especially in the birmingham city schools This needs to be taught in the city schools here in birmingham. Wow, okay Uh, hopefully it would get where it can be worldwide, but we are planning to do um Something with the city schools to educate our kids about the civil rights movement here in birmingham It was It was something in the story that I don't want to forget It was this boy up on the pitch He's been here for years and you always gave me the story on the young man on the on the picture Uh, that's one of the boys that was killed The day of the church bombing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because we you talk about the girls and um Was johnny roberson and I can't think his name right now Yeah, I just know I always with you that that stuck out to me because it was a guy I'm like what the heck in the and I didn't know about it. You know, it's just those stories that stick with me Like man, you know like man, I remember she told me about this We had our little book that y'all gave us some little pamphlets and stuff, man. I was so excited um, I'll never forget it. It was me and one of the kids the first time was jessica and and uh, uh Papa mj and you I believe that it was and then we came back with the kids and it just like I said Not a time that we didn't come down through here and say hey, man. If I'm coming back from I'm stopping through I got to go see my people Let's follow it. We love it. Hold on. I want you to elaborate on um the upcoming event in july next year That's going to be happening here. Hey Oh, they're having the world game is going to be in birmingham next year july is a seven eight nine 10 11 and 12th, I think And that's a momentous occasion for here because it's never happened here in birmingham before. Where is it going to be? It's going to be all over the city of birmingham. They can have some things at the uh legacy arena There's going to be some things happening over at the um sloths furnace So whatever needs to be I think they're going to do A beach over at sloth furnace for the volleyball and they just going to fix it up. So We're all excited about it. That's a lot of sports. There's a lot of different guests Maybe we just make a trip down through here and hang out You don't find you because we know you got the keys to the She said park that car right there and don't worry about nothing. Just come on in You don't have to book the hotel. You got to have everything in advance. Yeah, because I'm sure every the whole time I'm going to be packed That's going to be people here from everywhere. There's going to be a lot of people here in birmingham Y'all going to be ready or are you y'all going to be ready for that? Don't you see how city is just Oh, it's just blooming there. I can't imagine how this wing plays line going to be I'm going I'm going there next when I leave when I get up. Yeah, right here's what's going to get up and put Yeah, I'm going right next door and get my chickens. Oh, and I'm moving on You got to come by green acres chicken. You got to And that got me in here because I'm like, man, I got to get over there next man Is there anything else that we might have forgotten to touch on that you'd like to elaborate on Other activities that may be coming up Well, we'll like I said, we're just getting it. We're excited about the world game. So We're doing things to try to make sure that it all is together Prep and prepare no prep and prepare. Amen, man. So man, we love you miss parley Thank you. So we love you and I love you all. Hey man boss talk 101. It's official Now we can start Say thank you so much for inviting us in and um, like I said when we come through here, whether we setting up or not We're stopping and I thank god for you and I know that he's going to continue to bless people through coming through this establishment And we're going to keep you in our prayers as we always ready do and we just you know We just thank god that you was able to you know, let the people see because the people now can say You know what when I go through that I got to stop by there. Yes, you know 1707 4th avenue north of Birmingham, Alabama Man, that's a good way to end man. Hey, man. It's been another great segment of boss talk 101 and we out Hi, I'm the daughter of eco and miss jamaica shamaria and I just want to talk a little bit about how I met this beautiful young lady right here And when I was younger I came here on a trip to Alabama in this beautiful civil center And I read books and she shared her wisdom on The civil rights movement and everything in between So I just wanted to share how much that I respect this woman and How much that I love that she's in my life and I thank you so much I love you dear