How Grandmothers Can Fix Our Broken Society

It's all about grandmothers. Take your power. Grandmothers? Yes, every grandmother in this country is responsible, I figure, for between 15 to 100 people. A woman who lives that long and keeps her family around her, that's exactly what happens. And it's the truth of it. So I call that a community, you know, depending on where they are geographically. But that community, in the words of Malcolm X, why I ran for president on that party, it needs to create community health and community sovereignty and community... What's the word? It just keeps going. Momentum? No, it... I can't think of the word, but it's a kind of farming where it's just like... It feeds itself. It's self-generating. Do you know what I mean? The economy of that particular community is self-generating. For instance, the pineapples you grow, you sell at the market, you know, that kind of thing. But the whole community... Sustainable. Sustainable, thank you. I couldn't think of that word. Getting old sucks, man. What was the word you meant to say? You invented a good word. What was it again? Synchronicitus? Synchronicitus. Yes. Yes. We're going to use that one. But we try to do that in Hawaii where we create not an artificial economy, but a barter economy. And of course, it's all based on land as is all wealth. And because you can grow shit and feed people, and that's what matters. So the biggest problem facing us as humans is, how do we get the food in front of the hungry kids? That's our problem. But we go to all this other shit rather than that. So we need to start over, get grandmothers in charge. Every grandmother, there'll be community grandmothers organization all based on the nation of Iroquois, which was how the United States was actually founded. Because Benjamin Franklin was a fan of the Iroquois people and the way they ran their government, which was run by a grandmother's council. And that's what he invented the 13... They came up with the 13 colonies united because it was 13 tribes and the Iroquois were the judge.