[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com [00:04.87]I have nothing but respect for our young people [00:07.12]And what they're doing. [00:08.08]My thing is, we adults did not stand strong [00:11.17]And on our square [00:12.55]To bring our young people through this process. [00:14.47]I know, I was the young person [00:16.18]That had to fend for himself in the streets of New York. [00:18.88]I know what happened, with our young people [00:21.16]I say, "Look I ain't mad at you", know no matter what I hear [00:24.40]I know that you are moving through a process [00:27.61]Because they are attempting to destroy the community [00:29.77]So they're using you. [00:31.93]They are buying you out. [00:33.61]But we as adults, get to buy them back. [00:37.12]I'm ready to compete with anybody for our young people's minds. [00:41.38]And what we have to is change the paradigm of how we're interacting with them [00:44.77]Deal with them from a heartfelt place where they can understand. [00:47.65]You see because whether you realize it or not [00:49.84]It's you they're shooting in the streets. [00:51.82]You, young brothers, they're the ones that are being shot. [00:54.76]So with this entertainment or with this music [00:56.95]Maybe I don't like what I hear [00:58.33]Maybe that I don't like some of the words I hear [01:00.07]Maybe that I don't like the direction [01:01.39]But I think they're doing a pretty good job [01:03.13]Considering that we, as men, the adult men [01:05.41]Did not cover that when we should've covered that [01:07.81]And protected them when we should've protected them [01:10.30]And brought them up that so when we see an artist [01:12.61]Acting in a most inappropriate way [01:14.44]"Where is the father in this?", [01:16.06]"Where is that male mentor that can be there?" [01:18.79]We, as black men [01:20.41]Must take on the responsibility as the honorable Elijah Muhammad told Malcolm [01:24.34]Is that a nation is only as strong as its weakest family. [01:28.69]And we have got to create nations [01:31.09]We have to create relationships [01:32.80]Between the African man and the African woman [01:35.65]That creates a viable nation
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[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com[00:04.87]I have nothing but respect for our young people
[00:07.12]And what they're doing.
[00:08.08]My thing is, we adults did not stand strong
[00:11.17]And on our square
[00:12.55]To bring our young people through this process.
[00:14.47]I know, I was the young person
[00:16.18]That had to fend for himself in the streets of New York.
[00:18.88]I know what happened, with our young people
[00:21.16]I say, "Look I ain't mad at you", know no matter what I hear
[00:24.40]I know that you are moving through a process
[00:27.61]Because they are attempting to destroy the community
[00:29.77]So they're using you.
[00:31.93]They are buying you out.
[00:33.61]But we as adults, get to buy them back.
[00:37.12]I'm ready to compete with anybody for our young people's minds.
[00:41.38]And what we have to is change the paradigm of how we're interacting with them
[00:44.77]Deal with them from a heartfelt place where they can understand.
[00:47.65]You see because whether you realize it or not
[00:49.84]It's you they're shooting in the streets.
[00:51.82]You, young brothers, they're the ones that are being shot.
[00:54.76]So with this entertainment or with this music
[00:56.95]Maybe I don't like what I hear
[00:58.33]Maybe that I don't like some of the words I hear
[01:00.07]Maybe that I don't like the direction
[01:01.39]But I think they're doing a pretty good job
[01:03.13]Considering that we, as men, the adult men
[01:05.41]Did not cover that when we should've covered that
[01:07.81]And protected them when we should've protected them
[01:10.30]And brought them up that so when we see an artist
[01:12.61]Acting in a most inappropriate way
[01:14.44]"Where is the father in this?",
[01:16.06]"Where is that male mentor that can be there?"
[01:18.79]We, as black men
[01:20.41]Must take on the responsibility as the honorable Elijah Muhammad told Malcolm
[01:24.34]Is that a nation is only as strong as its weakest family.
[01:28.69]And we have got to create nations
[01:31.09]We have to create relationships
[01:32.80]Between the African man and the African woman
[01:35.65]That creates a viable nation
