Message-Wu-Tang Clan

[00:05.40]I have nothing but respect for our young people [00:06.91]And what they're doing. [00:08.13]My thing is, we adults did not stand strong [00:11.35]And on our square [00:12.83]To bring our young people through this process. [00:14.74]I know, I was the young person [00:16.13]That had to fend for himself in the streets of New York. [00:19.11]I know what happened, with our young people [00:21.52]I say, "Look I ain't mad at you", know no matter what I hear [00:24.62]I know that you are moving through a process [00:27.54]Because they are attempting to destroy the community [00:30.35]So they're using you. [00:31.80] [00:32.26]They are buying you out. [00:33.69]But we as adults, get to buy them back. [00:37.47]I'm ready to compete with anybody for our young people's minds. [00:41.25]And what we have to is change the paradigm of how we're interacting with them [00:45.17]Deal with them from a heartfelt place where they can understand. [00:47.84]You see because whether you realize it or not [00:49.92]It's you they're shooting in the streets. [00:51.48]You, young brothers, they're the ones that are being shot. [00:54.20]So with this entertainment or with this music [00:56.72]Maybe I don't like what I hear [00:58.58]Maybe that I don't like some of the words I hear [01:00.09]Maybe that I don't like the direction [01:01.55]But I think they're doing a pretty good job [01:03.01]Considering that we, as men, the adult men [01:05.63]Did not cover that when we should've covered that [01:07.75]And protected them when we should've protected them [01:09.92]And brought them up that so when we see an artist [01:12.59]Acting in a most inappropriate way [01:14.10] [01:14.41]"Where is the father in this?", [01:16.27]"Where is that male mentor that can be there?" [01:18.95] We, as black men [01:20.06]Must take on the responsibility as the honorable Elijah Muhammad told Malcolm [01:24.59]Is that a nation is only as strong as its weakest family. [01:28.26]And we have got to create nations [01:30.58]We have to create relationships [01:33.19]Between the African man and the African woman [01:35.47]That creates a viable nation