well welcome to a very special edition of truth today that's gloria thomas my name is gloria i am your host and i want to thank you for tuning into the show want to thank you for your support of the show and i want to thank you for your e mails and your phone calls and watching to share in san francisco and i really appreciate your have lost their lives recently as a direct result of gun violence and i want to say a special prayer for them and their families and asked sarah for to start community at large  this prayer and that you dispatch at the sound of my voice to all the hood in families right now to all the people who have lost children as a direct result of gun violence to average people who have lost l my own true today and actually that's the name of the title of the show as true today and true today for me it was very very very painful i have been watching six or eight weeks old i was this picture was actually taken by a lady named gloria who i was named after she worked with my father at mills diner on gary and i think it's spruce and she told my father if you have a baby and you name your baby if it's a girl and you name her gloria i'll do her first baby pictures well look at this miracle this is the baby picture  and as you can see i'm just a little baby you know i'm just a little baby but i understand baby that trayvon martin was i'm the same baby that that little one year old guy who died the other day well i'm the same baby that the eight year old girl who died of violence she was this baby children who are and were ravaged countries that are being gunned down and murdered by bombs and guns and where the babies just stuck to spay b and they have every right to be alive just like i did and they have every right to grow up and and learn how to live and karen and do all the things that i've done in my life at this point i'm coming up on sixty and and i started this little baby my mother father happy that i was born excited that i came into the world my good mother said to my father the night i was born while leon i didn't know you were so handsome because he was so lit up and he was so excited that my mother gave birth to a little baby the baby was me and they were happy they were so happy i came into the world and my family was happy my whole family was happy for my parents and and i got a chance to be a little baby and do all the things that unfortunate things of the way the world has changed is that we're not seeing our children as babies you know we're not allowing them to be babies we were none of them would be safe and to be protected and to be we don't care enough about our children that we can't stop the massive distribution of drugs we can stop the massive distribution of we can't stop homelessness we can't feed people  really our nation of all the things that are taken not taken ahmad's but now taken the life of our children right now will i work in a hospital and mostly children die of sickness an illness and you know everything is done to fight to save them and everything is you know all kind of matter sense and science and technology is pulled together to fight to save a child's life because the child is in the hospital and everybody is trying to save their the state capitol asking for help for our neighborhoods to rid our neighborhoods of drugs and guns to to design employment not prisons i've been to state capitals a bit to city ha moon's bad but there's nothing i can do you know i'm so sorry but there's nothing i can do and them and i'm here today i'm grandfather better told the truth because they didn't do with this method they could do they didn't do anything violence and nobody can do anything expecting them to take some action the one thing that i'm fearful rob is just stuck in san francisco when the dust settles but people are probably be thousands last you know because that's what usually happens our more people will hunting stories about us as if we're like a thing of the past you know we used to be family see a big worked up this chemical plant or they were doctors you know a place they did this they did bad bad you on earth should we pick up a gun or pick up drugs or buy into this evolution a freedom that's been passed down from general a sense and that we took stock in what we're doing  all kinds of systems are getting fat and dry up with money and trucking their spirit with money because there is paying an off somewhere for somebody  taken place i think if i mentioned streets like of people are driving through chinatown brown it up like they're blowing black communities up the nation would stop an inch tracks and do something with people who are driving through pacific but the truth of the matter is those people tell us the truth there was nothing they could do and they did absolutely nothing and phone sacramento to city hall all over california people have come here crying and mothers broken hearted mothers broken hearted fathers asking for help and all it did was worse so that's not the solution i thought about viagra churches together got the most how take to change things i really don't and i do have my own family i know what i do with my and children of my own grandchildren but i don't really know what it's going to take to change things i do know better that things have to change and i do know that if things continue to get worse and worse and worse that maybe some of those professors i had in college were right because some of them said you know the glue in this is our social contr know they're letting the country go to pump so that they can clear out and start all over in a way that a small profit a berth for the people who are already in profit now that could be the case if that's the case to lose weight so i stuff you know i need to take better care of myself so i'm not pointing my finger at a whole bunch of people without the fingers pointing back at myself there are things that i could do to improve the quality of my life birth things that i teach in my family to improve the quality of the lives of the children in my family and you know my prayer is that somebody somebody stops learning then not have somebody tells the truth somebody says you know i read has been broken and messed up for generations it's banned in mass for generations for centuries and we know that it's broken and it does not need to be fixed and you know what life is valuable life is valuable every single child that comes into this world is valuable every single child that comes into this world has purpose and meaning how old do adults right now and have been for around time there been some of dads who could care less about all the children in the world obviously or we wouldn't be burying our children for senseless things that are causing us to bury our children my i got my t shirt and i got my family to share them because my family has family reunion several year not every year maybe every other year and we're getting ready for a big reunion now we're taking my mother to bomb our texas to celebrate her nine industry and i was given a very beautiful room and the people sacrificed for their looked out for me they didn't arrest me they didn't abuse me they didn't break my spirit with verbal abuse that it doesn't affect us that it has nothing to do with us so wrap yourself plumes laugh somebody less help somebody and remember them and laugh children need us to laugh protect them and keep