Mayor Michael Tubbs–I'm The Mayor
Toure Show
DCP Entertainment
4.8 • 880 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Michael Tubs is the 30-year-old mayor of Stockton, California. He's inspiring, he's dynamic. He's got a story he really understands people |
| 0:27.0 | and people at their lowest |
| 0:29.0 | partly because |
| 0:31.0 | his family situation. His father has been locked up for a long, long time. |
| 0:38.6 | Your dad is a big part of the documentary and he's been incarcerated for how long a couple decades |
| 0:47.2 | 20 I'm 30 so 24 years straight and then most of the four years before that suit. |
| 0:54.7 | Long time. I mean, like, what is, what is some of the pain that you feel with him being away? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, I think growing up, I was so angry. |
| 1:09.1 | I just had a chip on my shoulder, |
| 1:11.7 | I had an attitude. I think Lava just came from a sense of loss but not even |
| 1:18.3 | able to articulate a loss because you never had it, if that makes sense. Like knowing that everyone else has two parents, |
| 1:26.2 | I have one parent, I don't know what two parents is like, |
| 1:29.0 | but I know I should have that, I deserve that, right? |
| 1:32.0 | So some anger there I think also just |
| 1:36.2 | the messaging you get particularly as a young black kid about kind of criminality |
| 1:41.4 | in crime and what type of people are in prison. |
| 1:45.0 | So I've been very, very afraid that, because I would hear all these statistics, |
| 1:50.0 | like people whose dads are in jail are more likely to go to jail, more likely to drop out, more |
| 1:53.6 | likely to have kids as teenagers, etc. |
| 1:56.3 | So I remember being eight, nine years old and being terrified of that there was something |
| 2:00.6 | in my DNA, there was something in my blood |
| 2:03.3 | that made me more likely to be a criminal, right? |
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