 it's appropriate between the two hats he sat different between both of them it just really ain't nothing you can tell me right now the host ma'am just that's all right that's all right it's a vibe man welcome back to the black market you know it's a lot of things I love and Atlanta is one of them and then I saw this it says Atlanta deserves a leader who cares for all of his citizens and then I saw the hat and then I said you know what I believe them we gotta have them on the show cuz if anybody's gonna run for any type of office with this kind of hat on they gotta be good people man do the honors thank you for having me brother thank you for having me name is my name is Alfred shivvy Brooks man I'm a school teacher by day former freestyle Friday Hall of Famer from 106 in part looking to make sure that we bring hip-hop culture that we bring the voice of young people to City Council it's time for Atlanta to have represent representation that is reflective of the young people that make Atlanta what it is absolutely look I went to school I graduated from the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State which by the way is ranked over Harvard graduated top 10% of my class worked as a legislative aid work for Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities on top of being a hip-hop head on top of being a father a homeowner a business owner an influencer in the education space now it's time for us to have influence on policy because we did a lot of marching for the last year fighting for social justice we did a lot of marching talking about needing police reform and these type of things but the people who are in office don't have a political will to do the right thing so now it's our time now it's our time it is our time and what is it gonna take for it to be our time listen we got 36,000 young people that are registered to vote but the problem is that young people don't get engaged and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that run for people who run for office they don't look like us they don't sound like us they don't talk like us and they don't talk for us so we get disengaged so people like yourself having platforms like you have given us the space to share and tap in with young people this how we get them inspired is how we get them activated we go out and we vote for presidential elections but when it's the local election I'm talking about this is stuff we feel right making Atlanta for example marijuana is decriminalized the person I'm running against believes that marijuana is the reason that the rest of America thinks we soft on crime and it's the reason why crime goes up mm-hmm but ever since they decriminalized marijuana it's been hard to find good weed they might them white people might know exactly what they're talking about man since since they decriminalized it like all the drug deals moved to something it's time for us honestly man it's time for us to legalize it throughout the state though yeah so what's the process into getting you into the Atlanta City Council what we need to do as a community as a community this is the real right these elections are not free they're not free it takes a lot of money to be able to send out mail or send out those text messages that get on your nerves right they get you get up though right so we need to be able to get some funding behind this campaign we need the influencers of Atlanta to not be on the sidelines and be complaining about stuff but actually activate to push what we're trying to do we need them really to get behind this this campaign and help this thing go off off the way we need it to right now though I got like six people in my race but I'm right one or two throughout the entire city like we definitely are resonating with the people and ain't nobody working harder than me well we're gonna get this shit out immediately though this one of those ones where we have to handle with a sense of urgency because you seem to be sincere and have the people's needs at heart and we gonna need some more of these hats yes I think if it was more of these hats available to the young man in the city of Atlanta it'd be a lot more cool shit going on imagine that imagine that and those hats came from a black hat maker right here in the city shout out to fruition hat company and my brother stands out in them yeah and then some people gonna watch this and be like why does everything have to be black because we don't have enough shit we need to know where our people are and what they're doing and how we can help them and that's exactly why we created this platform if there's anything I could do to help my man get elected to the Atlanta City Council and I know he gonna be in there represent my interest with this kind of shit on is that an official endorsement right there love to see you down there I want you to be on the state legislature some shit I'm gonna be you know what we gotta get you in the door man yes we'll start at city council that's how I start then we're taking over state then we're going with some you know we're going to all way up to the Supreme Court with these hats on what claim I'm million deep yeah with Steve Harvest's how long you been out campaigning man listen we have to be honest with you I've been doing the work before running for office okay right after the killing of George Floyd all right ten days later one o'clock in the morning I get the phone call that someone got a shot in the drive-thru at the Wendy's yep and that folks were going bizarre about what was going on they were they were rightfully so but the reason why I was called is because they know that people in the community trust me they know that people in the community will listen when I try to bring some calm and make some common sense about it but I've been fighting to get real police reform in Atlanta for over the past year I started marching in Atlanta in 1991 with my dad at the Rodney King yeah I've always been about doing this work we started running like hard on this campaign announced this campaign in March of this year shout out to my sister Mina we've been outside every single day with volunteers throughout the city knocking doors meeting voters you know being at every rally that we could early this morning I was out fighting to keep the encampment that our homeless neighbors had outside by the church over by the Capitol as the Atlanta police department gets ordered to come out and pull up their tents and they property and throw it all away so before I came to you to come do this I'm outside fighting for the most vulnerable people in our community and that's when I'm gonna do whether I'm elected God forbid if I am not successful in this campaign right I'm always going to be doing this work because you know that's this is the most Christlike thing I could do right hey I'm Carlos Miller are you having trouble getting out of debt well I'll sponsor pds debt can help if you're making payments every month on 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something man this is the campaign city council man for you think you can really be down there like what you think that's gonna be a problem it's a lot of old people down there you know the tide is changing bro we got six seats that are going it's going to have new people in city council and I'm not the only young forward think in person running for office right now like we it's a family of us who've been on the front lines together that all like I boom you run out who you don't see look shout out my brother Devin Barrington Ward okay but shout out Lilliana and Katie Kissel right shout out Ro Helio and Larry Carter I know he got a hat like this right you know like there are young people throughout the city who are running for office and I think now it's just it's that time you know it's more Millennials and Gen Z then there are any other age group in America it's more of us right and so you know the thing is is that our average politician is like 65 that's the problem that's the problem oh that's white folks everything bro yeah and it's people but in a city like Atlanta it's people who look like us that create policies and laws that are the most harmful to us because they be the only guy half of the information they don't be out here like that it's true be out of touch you got to really be among people and we do too much about people without people right I want you to get elected and don't forget about traffic when you get elected traffic needs to be addressed traffic in the city of it right job people need to go to work at like 10 o'clock in the morning cuz yeah we got a like change the schedule the problem man we got so many different issues why that's the case though but a lot of it has to do with like our public transportation system is more inconvenient than it is like helpful right I'm saying so like in the potholes too a lot of traffic results of people trying to swerve potholes that's a fact that's a fact but imagine though like honestly like if people could do they work on the way to work taking public transportation just say it man it's time to update but yet a pothole the roles are raggedy yeah I live in Atlanta you're going up Boulevard it's like riding on gravel bro it's trash I see I seen a dude take his rims off just said fuck it yes put some big ass I know you don't bend some rams put some big-ass SUV tires on you know like the police rims just that's a fact what do you think though from your opinion what do you think is the most important thing going on in the city that we should be focused on the most important thing that's going on in the city it's a lot of disruption they're trying to displace people and that's why it's so much tension like Atlanta's growing so fast and the people who's not willing to accept the change of being forced out yeah you get what I'm saying like it's driving out a whole lot of the whole lot of the things that make Atlanta Atlanta was was the peace in the calm but now it's so much bullshit you what I'm saying I don't know I think right now man we we are at a place where Atlanta is not gonna be Atlanta anymore if we are not intentional about what we do right now right plain and simple like I think right now like we got folks you know running around using crime right just the overarching word crime to try to win votes to scare people to change that's the thing about it they trying to make Atlanta sound way worse than it actually is not that's the thing though right so like first off like y'all know we got the weather I ain't gonna name the blogs but they out there that every time somebody see a car window get broken into or whatever they put it up on the store and try to make it seem like yeah but that never happened anyway the numbers are lower than they have been for the last 10 years right now when it come to auto theft when it come to car breakings and all the things and 60% of the car breakings are auto theft is when people leave their keys in a car right most of this stuff is preventable most of the gun crime that's occurring right now is with stolen firearms have been stolen out of vehicles like it's just some common sense things that we could do like listen I'm all for gun rights I own several firearms right but when you leave your vehicle don't leave it in the armrest under the seat lock it in the trunk lock it in the glove compartment you know I'm saying like it's just common sense things that we need to start taking responsibility for that that will titrate stymie off a lot of the stuff that we dealing with plain and simple we want to make it safer we got to do our part to right it's a lot of that going on but you know that's the city that those are the things that happen in the city that make it the city it's a major city exactly it's a major city but we also got to make sure that it's a city where we don't criminalize blackness we don't criminalize that's the one that's the you put it perfectly when you asked me what I thought it was that's what I know it is criminalizing black yeah yeah cuz I don't think the people who like you said that that are in the position to make decisions understand exactly what Atlanta is right now yeah and it's like since the world shut down it's like the importance of this place because it never lost its freedom you know I'm saying like even during the quarantine mm-hmm it still was a certain level of doing our thing doing yeah yeah but also look the governor Georgia basically made Atlanta the playground for America for a long time right you know I'm saying and I think there were some there's some dangers in that as well but right you know Atlanta is supposed to be like a safe haven for blackness and black culture yeah cuz this is a very given city correct yeah correct we supposed to be the city that's too busy to hate exactly and we supposed to be the city that has young forward thinking progressives right in the city council and in these positions to help us get our voices across yeah so we don't lose the essence at some point even when folks get into office I think we do a disservice when we stay in office until we die in office right and I think too often that happens a person I'm running against been in office since 1994 right we don't know them it's for watching it's folks watching this show right now when even born yet right since that person they definitely gonna vote for him no but if they voted all so that's the part that we got to do better on right we can't complain we're not getting police reform but don't vote we can't complain that Atlanta's getting unaffordable and don't vote like we can't complain about these things but not put people in the position to who actually want to do the work right well you got to do your part too because if you win this shit I want you to wear the biggest hat that you can fucking and some and and we're gonna get a grill we're gonna highlight my boy grills by Scottie and already how that we're gonna get a grill we're gonna get a shirt right when is the election the election so early voting starts October 12 early voting starts October 12 that's less than 50 days away well do me a favor man you got to come back before then let's do that I need you to I need you to get in here and I want you to come back and use this platform because it's a lot we have a lot of followers that I can catch it on to the black market who are interested in making a change and just knowing that it's somebody who can reach out and connect to some stuff like this that's bringing some you know that's bringing hip-hop but it's still a certain level of seriousness that's approached about it I think they're gonna be respected I love that you're cool brother and I wish you much success and these hats are flying as hell man this the black market man come on man shit man you in there bro hey man look with your help we gonna make this a definite I know a few people thank we can make a few calls we need we need a much love brother that's it 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