128. We Need Culture Reform | Guest Craig Long

#ITSNEEDED

Ryan Tillman

Blacklivesmatter, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Policebrutality, Culture, Cops, Politics, Lawenforcement, Breakingbarriersunited, Racism, Business, Police, Government

5 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Before we can talk about police reform, we need to talk about culture reform and personal responsibility. Today Craig Long joins us to talk about decisions he made that led him to prison. He also talks to us about how taking control of his own life helped him build back his life and become a successful entrepreneur.

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0:00.0	People always holler police reform.
0:02.5	I always say before we can have police reform, we need culture reforms.
0:06.9	If we want to talk about prison reform, we need to talk about personal reform too.
0:12.7	What's your personal value system that you, what's your personal principles and values that you live off of?
0:19.2	Do you have value systems of respecting yourself?
0:22.0	If you respect yourself, then you will need to respect other people as well.
0:26.2	So before we can even have any type of reform, people need a personal reform, which is a personal
0:33.0	responsibility reform, learning that, hey, things are going to get hard, understanding things are hard, but I made them hard. It wasn't a system that made it hard. I made them hard. So before we can get into any of that, we have to get into, well, how did the individual change? Did he had, was he ready, willing, and able to change his own stuff?
0:54.8	I could easily, when I was locked up, fell right into the enterprises that go on in prison.
1:01.0	You have the personal, again, it always goes back to the individual.
1:04.9	You have the personal responsibility, the personal choice.
1:08.9	God gave us all the ability to decide, make a decision for
1:12.3	ourselves.
1:16.1	Yo, what's going on? Welcome to another episode of the Istida podcast where we discuss real
1:20.5	issues involving law enforcement in the community. It's your boy Ryan Tillman founder of Breaking
1:24.3	Bears United and I am joined by the Leiskin Wonder himself Mr.
1:28.1	Oh no, what's the po-po.
1:30.2	What's up?
1:30.7	What's up, brother?
1:31.3	How you doing?
1:31.9	I'm doing good, bro.
1:32.8	I'm tired.
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