Sam Simmons

What about us?

It's like, if a Black man deals with his trauma, if he deals with his trauma,

you won't have to feel like you have to fix it.

And then you can focus on your own stuff.

Yeah.

But again, in our community, Black women have been put in the position of elevating their male partners over the cost of themselves.

So we've had conferences around domestic violence.

Last year was around the family.

And this year is around Black fathers.

Now, we've talked about fathers in the past, but we're specifically talking about Black fathers and how do we allow them, and I'm going to say it, allow them to be involved in a child's life early.

Well, see, I'm fine with the others.

See, too many folks want to get straight to the kumbaya.

I don't have time for that.

I personally don't have time for that.

There's other folks who get that, right?

And I don't really talk, you know, yeah, resilience is a great thing.

We've dealt with that.

But behind that suffering, you know, you got beautiful suffering that looks good, but it's funky behind closed doors.

Okay?

And call that resilience.