DERRICK GRACE II: How fast can somebody be a victim of gun violence?
KIDS: This fast.
DERRICK GRACE II: I bought the Glock 42 maybe 2 years ago - easy to use. This is a pistol
grip AK-47. Her name is Brown Sugar. This is the first gun that I shot that I actually
saw the dust come up off the ground as the bullet travelled. This gun packs a lot of
power. And the Uzi. This is a great gun for children to start with. I know it may not
look like it to most of dawgs because they have a different view point of Uzis. But Derrica
has shot this on multiple occasions, piece of cake.
DERRICK GRACE II: Go next. There you go young man.
DERRICK GRACE II: I home-school my children. We are currently working through volume-1
in my Unlearn and Relearn parent-child curriculum. I’m not a huge fan of these school systems.
I think they do a whole lot to dilute the mental progression of our children. So, I
think it’s absolutely necessary that we take that in our hands.
INTERVIEWER: Could you tell us just generally
about growing up in Tampa? DERRICK GRACE II: I was a terrible child.
I don’t know how many fights I got caught setting. I know I broke in at least 20 cars as
a child. Never stole anything, I just really got a rush out of the glass, bricks and glass,
it really just made my blood boil. But yeah I broke in my first house, well literally 20 years
ago. I was in third grade – same time I smoked my first cigarette, my first cigar.
INTERVIEWER: Could you just kind of talk us through why you chose to get facial tattoos?
DERRICK GRACE II: I got 33 on my face and I got one on the side of my head over here.
The ABC stands for Adversity Builds Character. We’re going go to go through it; we’re
going to grow through it.
INTERVIEWER: Can you tell us about Unlearn and Relearn? What that is?
DERRICK GRACE II: Unlearn and Relearn is a movement and a series of curriculums that
I created. The mantra behind it is us whitewashing out the traditions and the conditions we've been
taught to believe. There are so many people that have absolutely no idea why they do what
they do. They just simply do it for the sake of fitting in a tradition. Today we’re just
going to focus on money. We’re going to talk money, okay? Finances, ownership and
things of that nature.
INTERVIEWER: Why is Unlearn and Relearn better than sending your kids to school?
DERRICK GRACE II: That’s a great question. I think Unlearn and Relearn is better than
sending them to school. I think a lot of our biggest downfall is our mental dependence
on outside entities for happiness, for love, for freedom, for things of that nature, so
we have been programmed to believe I need money. So, somebody please give me an opportunity.
I need happiness, so somebody please bring that and be my friend. The biggest thing in
Unlearn and Relearn is self will. Understanding that, you are who you have been looking for
and everything you’re looking for is already within you. You have to find a reason to pull it out.
INTERVIEWER: Do you ever wish that you were at school?
DERRICA GRACE: No. INTERVIEWER: Why not?
DERRICA GRACE: Because, I will not like to be in a class 6 hours a day.
INTERVIEWER: Really, why? DERRICA GRACE: Because 6 hours? Uh-Uh.
I am not sitting down in a class writing so long.
DERRICK GRACE II: Quick answer ok? Knock ‘em
out and you get.. I give you another four pieces of candy but you are not going to get it
until tomorrow because you are not eating another candy in one day.
DERRICK GRACE II: If you lost everything today what you got tomorrow?
DERRICA GRACE: Intellectual property. DERRICK GRACE II: And what is intellectual property?
DERRICA GRACE: They can take your possessions but they can’t take your mind.
DERRICK GRACE II: If daddy had an emergency
in this house and you needed to save my life what gun would you use?
DERRICA GRACE: The Glock 42. DERRICK GRACE II: Why?
DERRICA GRACE: Because it has less strength.
INTERVIEWER: Why does the curriculum include guns?
DERRICK GRACE II: Because violence can take place at anywhere in the world at any given
moment. But I’m a firm believer if you have guns in your house and the educated mind is
far greater than the wondering mind. So I think it is very much necessary that you both
educate your children on guns and the gun rules and laws on whatever land you are on.
DERRICK GRACE II: Listen Grace how many school
shooters we have this year? DERRICK GRACE III: 45
DERRICK GRACE II: How many random shooters we had this year?
DERRICK GRACE III: 255 DERRICK GRACE II: If people got guns and children
in their house they should do what with them? DERRICK GRACE III: Teach them about them.
INTERVIEWER: Are you worried about their safety at all?
DERRICK GRACE II: Oh, no, not at all, not
at all, they are very, very mature for their age and when you actually take the mystique
out of a gun, kids aren’t that much interested in it. It’s just like a toy, like they going
to play with a toy for a little bit and then they going to be like, 'Ok. I want a new one.'
DERRICK GRACE II: Oh what if I bought you this?
DERRICA GRACE: I am gonna die if you bought me that.
DERRICK GRACE II: You’re going to die if I bought you that?
DERRICA GRACE: Yes, I'm gonna die, oh look at this Hello Kitty one.
DERRICA GRACE: This be easy peasy.
DERRICK GRACE II: A lot of shooting takes place after night or they take place after
dark. So essentially what she has to do, she has to locate her round, I’m sorry her magazine
in her weapon, chamber a bullet while answering questions from my curriculum. 3, 2, 1 go.
Who is Huey P Newton? DERRICA GRACE: An African political activist
a revolutionary who along with Bobby Seale co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.
DERRICK GRACE II: What do Osama Bin Laden, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussain all have in common?
DERRICA GRACE: They challenged the dollar bill of the western banks.
DERRICK GRACE II: Are you a buyer or a seller? DERRICA GRACE: Seller.
DERRICK GRACE II: Good job.
DERRICA GRACE: I started using guns when I was 3 years old.
INTERVIEWER: Were you scared? DERRICA GRACE: No.
INTERVIEWER: Why not? DERRICA GRACE: I don’t know, but I wasn’t scared.
INTERVIWER: Do the kids have their own guns? DERRICK GRACE II: Yeah, Derrick, Derrick has
his own gun, he has the Uzi, the .22 long rifle and I’m going to buy Derrica a .22
long rifle as well. INTERVIEWER: A rifle for a six year old?
DERRICK GRACE II: That’s typically how they say you should start. They say you should
start them with rifles cause most handguns because they are so small and they pack a
lot of power and recoil so a lot of children aren’t strong enough for handguns.
DERRICK GRACE II: Now we are gonna work on
that, you might not be quite strong enough for that yet.
DERRICK GRACE II: People are doing the most
weirdest things, they are shooting up Wal-Mart’s, they are shooting up movie theatres, eateries,
like you could literally just go grab a soda and get shot.
INTERVIEWER: In 2014, you had a shooting incident?
DERRICK GRACE II: Yeah.
DERRICK GRACE II: Tiffany, which is my youngest daughter’s mother, I was gonna retrieve her
from her mother’s house but I remember her mother storming down the drive way and her
son was there too. He swung one time, I just leaned out to the left and start firing out
the passenger door, shot her, shot her in the hand and I ended up shooting him in the
arm. It is a traumatic experience on both ends. Especially, when they are 2 feet away
from you, you know you smell somebody’s flesh burning when you see the blood. My situation
was self-defence.
DERRICK GRACE II: I think it played a huge part in me not being arrested.
INTERIWER: Don’t you think that if guns were
illegal less people would be killed to gun crime?
DERRICK GRACE II: No, I agree a 100%. But I think our country is so deep and far invested
into that mentality, it would be impossible to get guns off the streets.
DERRICK GRACE II: Big dawg time c’mon. Other
way, other way, flip that clip. There you go, lock it in. There you go.
INTERVIEWER: Is this their way of being protected?
DERRICK GRACE II: Absolutely, this, this is definitely a way of preparing and protecting
them. I have full confidence in my six and nine year old that should an emergency arise,
we don’t get out alive, we definitely will put up a great fight.
INTERVIEWER: If someone broke into your house, I mean,
would you really want your kids to shoot them? DERRICK GRACE II: I will absolutely want my
kids to take lethal action. No you can’t violate or force your way into this house
at all. I would much rather them have the peace of mind knowing that you no longer exist
than worrying about are you gonna come back or will this happen again.
INTERVIEWER: People have made complaints about you.
DERRICK GRACE II: Right oh yeah, got a lot of
those. When the kids first started demonstrating with guns on the internet, it’s a part of the
sheriff’s office, called ‘Child Protective Services’, and they came here, and they was
like, 'Oh we got a complaint. Can we come in? Can we look around? Can we interview your children?'
The answer to every question was absolutely not, you are not coming in, you are not gonna
search, you are not gonna interview my children. We are exercising our second amendment.
Have a nice day.