D.L. Hughley

We alluded to this earlier.

We didn't always get along.

It was your mother and Jasmine Sanders.

It was you.

It was you.

You were mean.

Hey, nigga, I'm not the convict right now.

Hang on, baby boy.

Watch your mouth, nigga.

I was going to put some money on your books.

Watch your mouth.

The truth of the matter is, I saw you a certain way, and it only took a conversation of having...

Had it not been for your mother and Jasmine, who encouraged us to have a conversation with each other, and it changed how I felt.

And as a matter of fact, when it happened to you and CNN happened, I was one of the very first people who called you and had a conversation with you.

I was proud of the way you comported yourself then.

I had never seen somebody have such a public excoriation and handled this, because we're used to seeing people being cowed and humbled.

But you became, like, there's an old saying that without a death, there can't be a resurrection.

And the reason these people are here now

Because this version of you is the thing you always were supposed to be.

You were always supposed to be.