Community Self-Determination

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is your host. Oh man, what's my name? Of the
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rabbi and also the black unicorny bringing you today's episode. Ual.
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We we've been kind of looking over the weekend. Well,
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you know, how was your weekend? Unia? Oh?
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Yeah, it was cool? All right, all right, life is life.
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I'm just going to continue my prayers and breaths at
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this present time.
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But you know, life is life and huh okay, yes,
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all right, interesting, all right?
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Am I cool? Styles? Am I good?
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All right?
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But thank you?
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So we you know, we we we live and we learn,
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uh there there's there's there are times when when we
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wonder if we made the right decisions. Then there are
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times when we uh we we know, okay, and then
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times we know what we did we did make the
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right decision. And in the times we know we made
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the wrong decision.
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All right, and then it's time you feel like very
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confident in your decision and then your mama talked to you,
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and then you're like, oh my god, did I'll make
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a mistake.
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And maybe you didn't, because you know, from mama's perspective,
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for what happened with her in her time and her decisions,
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you may not have, you may not be doing the
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same things.
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Are doing it out of fear of not ending up
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like her?
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Yeah, yes, right, Okay, I know my mom my mother. Again.
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It's recent, in just last year or so, that I
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came to understand my mother and much of what she
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tried to avoid she really ended up driving me into.
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Okay, would you like to elaborate?
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No, I don't want to get into it. But that
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was some pot some things that happened to her, all right,
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that she tried to keep me from making some of
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the same mistakes. But the more she did that, the
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more she ended up driving me towards the mistakes she
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didn't want me to make. Okay.
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Can we talk about that, just that realm of humanity
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in general, us wanting things that we can't have, us
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being pulled away from things that ultimately pushes us towards them.
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Briefly, yes, okay, like this, had she not been pushing
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me okay, in the direction she was pushed. She didn't
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realize she was pushing me away from her mm hm okay,
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and so trying to get away from her, I ended
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up doing what she did not want me to do. Okay,
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if it makes sense there, Okay, I.
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Just find it interesting.
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And that's why long ago I thought I was gonna
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be a psychologist, because I just like the way the
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mind works properly. Oh yeah, no, it's not too late.
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I just don't have interest. I lost interest. It wasn't
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like a you know, I went for and failed out
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or anything. I lost interest because people are people are people.
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I'll leave it like that. And I also feel like
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that's a that's a passion position, Like you have to
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have passion for for that To that degree, I have
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passion to bring people joy, and I think you have
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to have for that realm, you have to have a
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passion for helping people make changes and improve themselves.
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Well, the psychologists is that kind of the first step,
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because that's where you kind of you're tested to see
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what those passions may be. Okay, and then the psychiatrist
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leads you towards solution. You know, it's ironic that we're
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talking about this, it almost leads us back into the
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This Morning Show. However, I wanted to move towards one
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of us in today's conversation, to move towards some of
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the rebelliousness that took place. I was looking at in
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terms of the slave community that that came into creation
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or into being and on this continent. And I'm looking
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at Claude Anderson's book Dirty Little Secrets, and I'm on
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page one thirty three, and he has so many facts
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here that I want us to examine. And I posted
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on Facebook that the Supreme Court of the nineteenth century,
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all right, I think it's nineteenth century or eighteenth century
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was fairer than the Supreme Court of today in terms
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of making decisions based on human nature and not political ideology. Hmm,
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what's right for other human beings rather than what's right
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for the political party.
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Do you think that came along with the monarch just
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being a monarch itself and having to deliberate for people
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and make those decisions for it.
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I think I think it came about moving away from
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my anarchy okay, okay, okay, and and trying to establish
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themselves differently than the king system you know the monarchy
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system alright, drove us all right, drove the and again
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to go back to what we talked about this morning again,
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the American Constitution and Bill of Rights is almost a
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carbon uh, a pleedgized copy of the African Constitution and
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Bill Rights that was in the existence about five thousand
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years before America was thought about. Okay, And so uh
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again we we have not we we give credibility to
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the system now because it is it has taken our system,
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if you will, and they use it for their best interests, yes, okay.
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And what we need to do is to study it
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and begin to turn it around and use it for
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our best interest. But I wanna go back. Uh here
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he talks about there were scoundrels, but they but were
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were but they were our scoundrels. Between sixteen ninety nine
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and eighteen forty five, as many as fifty slave mutinies
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at Seed took place. One of the most n noteworthy
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was the Amistard Revolt, when fifty four slaves seized the ship,
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sailed into New York and won their freedom in a
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celebrated Supreme Court case that couldnt happen today under the
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political uh uh climate that we okay, they would be
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arrested and uh and imprisoned alright, uh and uh made
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to look like like the perpetrators rather than victims. All right,
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then he goes on. In seventeen eleven, a number of
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frightened white citizens petitioned the governor of South Carolina to
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post a reward of fifty pounds for the capture of Sebastian,
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the feared leader of the band of raiders and runaway
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black slaves. In seventeen seventy and seventeen thirty five, black
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slaves revolted against the Dolphin, overtaking the crew and that captain.
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But both the captives and the captives were killed in
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an explosion aboard that ship. But still it had happened.
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In April eighteenth, eighteen eighteen, Andrew Jackson fought the Battle
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of Swanee, Florida, against a force of Native Americans and
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Black Jackson and blacks. Jackson won, but characterized it as
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a savage and Negro war with that war went on
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for forty two years MMMM before Jackson won. Right. One
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of the longest words that the United States was ever
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in and so uh again, it's the kinds of stuff
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it's the kinds of things that that uh, we don't
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we uh, we don't know, we don't take advantage of.
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And I'm not pro proposing that we overthrow the government.
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I'm not saying that, but I believe there are things
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that we can do to take and be sure, uh
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that we leverage what I I what is for us
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rather than for other other other people I'm looking at.
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I don't know, I haven't done the research, but I
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just saw flash on my on my smartphone that the
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state of Ohio is trying to eliminate the city of
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East Cleveland. I know they're talking about moving it towards
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receivership uh huh, but now they will uh they're talk
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of the state representative at the time, one need a
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rent Is uh was sharing that there's a move to
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uh to eliminate the s the East Cleveland as a
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city altogether based on certain.
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Behaviors behaviors interesting uh, behaviors of their city's officials or
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the community members.
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I think the community at large. I think the community
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at large, uh, mostly because uh, well, you've had the
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mayor get indicted and I think convicted city planner director. Uh,
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you've had upheval and in terms of uh uh city councilmen. Uh,
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there have been city councilmen who have been charged with
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using uh city resources for personal purposes. You've had money
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and not available to repair streets. The infrastructures are crumbling.
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Literally literally literally.
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Guards even the businesses who stayed there to be a
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tax base have moved on. And so uh we see
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the possibility of the city going into receivership. But then my, my, my,
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my contention becomes, why didn't something happen before? Now, okay,
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to to save the city. All right, you had the
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uh COVID money all right coming to or the county.
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A half of was a half a billion dollars, five
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hundred million dollars. You mean to tell me it's for me, okay,
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rather than giving Palmer three million dollars to build a
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clubhouse on the golf course. That money couldn't have gone
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into East Cleveland.
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Yeah, it absolutely could have.
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But why would they do that when they could continue
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to let it die, get all of that property for
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dirt cheap and redeveloped that entire city in the image
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that they would like it to be.
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Well, you have you have a point there, You do
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have a point and then there might be some prime properties.
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Oh alright that somebody else wants, you know, yes, yeah,
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and I I noticed that. You know, see, you have
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to one thing, one of the things we have to
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pay attention to for instant Job Corps has been closed
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and it's on the if it's not in East Cleveland,
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it's right on the border, which is close to the lake. Alright. Uh.
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And I don't know if you know it or not,
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but this administration, federal administration, since they have defunded, they
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have ordered that all job course uh sites be demolished demolished, yes, yes,
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And they have gone in already and taken the beds out,
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the TV's out. I mean they they stripped the places. Okay.
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Mm and they they are d designated to be demolished
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rather than maybe someone else who has the money who
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could come back in mm alright and re establish okay established.
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Yeah, the Job Corps of privately facility.
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Yes, you can make it as domestic violence facific It's
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so many things you could do with this space that
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they clearly don't want anything positive coming out of this space.
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And they want that land in every city, not just Cleveland.
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So that tells me you know that perhaps there's something
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to miss there a miss, and then why can't the
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black community come together.
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And try to buy it?
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Absolutely?
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Why not?
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Absolutely?
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It could be our community center.
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Or something else Little Africa.
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Yeah, anyway, either way, whatever we chose to make it
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for us, we should have that option. But the fact
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that we're going straight into demolition.
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Yes, that that tells you something. There no no, no, no, no,
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no public comment hearings anything, just the demolition and uh
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available to developers.
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Yeah, we don't want to hear nothing from the community
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and what they have to say about this, which is
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co crazy because that's not democracy.
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And freedom, freedom and liberty. Yeah, your freedom and liberty. Yes,
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all right, but we we we are lib We're at liberty. See,
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that's what we do. We're at liberty to come together
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and put our peys together. Yes, alright, but then we
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have the Slocum Texas. Alright, let's see deep Elam Texas. Uh,
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you have Black Wall Street, Yeah, Rosewood, Devil's Punch Bowl, Elaine, Arkansas.
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What is doable because we also have Atlanta.
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Well, but but that's that's that Atlanta was after the
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destruct the original destruction.
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We can do it.
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Yeah, Okay, he done, or the rebuilding of Greenwood and
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a Tulsa right, Well, they came back and destroyed it
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the second time. So we know that the violence is
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going to be perpetrated, So why don't we do it
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in such a way where we are prepared for those
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kinds of repercussions or pushbacks from them.
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And strictly for safety.
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No one is talking about going and assaulting some other
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place that has nothing to do with us. We are
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talking about protecting our own We are talking about our
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own safety. We are talking about when someone comes with
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bullets our way, with bombs, our way, with lynchings, our way,
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that we have mechanisms in place to protect us. And
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now because we're not just letting this isn't the age
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of just letting anything happen. As you can see down
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what was that Cincinnati Daton on that bridge. Yes they
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had a hard time getting back home. Yes, they had
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a hard time getting back home. So yes, they are
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preparing in secret. They are marching, they are reading. They
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are like you know, battling each other, mma ing with
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one another, uf seeing with one another, wrestling with one another.
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Excuse me, I couldn't think of the word for some reason.
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But yes, they are wrestling, they are preparing, They are
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literally getting combat ready. And what we have seen since
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Trump has taken office for the second time is just.
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A teeny tiny bit of.
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The preparation that they have been taking along with Project
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twenty twenty five.
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Everybody thought it was a joke, but we see it
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in real time.
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And well, you're watching, you're watching the militarization of each state,
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all right, that he feels that he cannot control all right,
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troops being put in to force them into compliance, if
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you will. It's very interesting, and it's very interesting how
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we're seeing by watching it happen and almost feeling it
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can't happen to us, but it is.
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It's literally happening.
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And people don't understand not only how the shutdown is
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affecting them, they're not understanding how everything that the Orange
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Man has been doing since taking office in January is
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affecting them directly. You may not see it today, you
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may not see it next week, but I promise you
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in the next couple of years you will feel it.
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No, I think you're seeing it today. I disagree with
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you there. I think we are seeing it today.
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I agree.
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We just don't know what to call it.
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I agree with you, I think we are, but people
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aren't tuned enough to see it in real time, to
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not only know what to call it, but to identify
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it as well.
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I just I feel, especially with our young people, that
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that they feel that they're included. Yeah, and this can
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happen to everybody, but he's oblivious. Okay, how old you
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say is? Let'll see, I think he turned twenty. Yeah,
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I think he turned twenty.
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They understand. Yeah, no, and they're like very much, so.
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Just not again again.
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I know.
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I don't know like my mother did, I don't know
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like my grandfather did, but I know what this thing
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tastes like, smell like, looks like okay, sounds like where
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you don't have that experience okay at all. And then
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somebody who's twenty years younger than you, okay, definitely don't
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have it at all, okay, And and they don't want
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to be told that this this is what it looks like,
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taste like, smells like, feels like it sounds like.
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They want to forget about it. They want to ignore it,
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they want to forget about it. They want to act
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like it never happened. We're in a totally different place
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today and we're.
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Not and we're not. Okay, that's that's even if we are,
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they're trying to move it back to when all right,
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and I don't want you to have to know what
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it smells like, taste like, feels like, sounds like. I
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don't want you to have to go through that. But
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if that's what's necessary, that may be what's necessary for
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them to understand where we are. Mm hmm all right. So,
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but then it comes out to beef. In some instances,
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what we call a cell a place of privilege among
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young black people or young people of aff origin uh
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and and people who of African origins who think they
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are included, right, could be a form of self help
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self hate uh and whether they try to remove themselves
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from the blackness of being black all right and be
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and be and be equated with and validated. Okay, how
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close can I be to the other ethnicity all right?
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Rather than how can I claim, reclaim claim or reclaim
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my own authenticity all right and my own reality and
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really define myself okay, rather than waiting for them to say, oh,
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oh you belong good boy, Yeah you're not like the others.
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Yeah, I feel like, that's what a lot of people
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of African descent in this country strive for to hear
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you're not like the others, to hear you're better than
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those others.
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I've been told, oh years old, that was that was
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very you're very smart. Okay, wells, who so what does that?
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Because you really don't realize how offensive that is with
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your passive blind racism. You don't understand how you are
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currently in real time insulting me. So imagine if the
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people that are insulting me don't even realize they are
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insulting me, how can a young person of African descent
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in this country and that's nineteen years old, realize that
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they are being prejudiced against, They are being in a
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we put in a position where they are and salted
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and they don't even realize.
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They say, thank you, thank you so much. Oh my god,
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I've been waiting to hear this.
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Thank you.
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Well the right the white validation, if you will, okay,
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and you know, then we want to go on to
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and we don't understand that this self hate. Uh and
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Borol shares with us that this is the foundation for disunity. Okay,
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because if I accept the fact that I'm different. Oh
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you know, you know you're different from the others. Okay,
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Oh you're you're so intelligent, yo, you're you know, Oh
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you you articulate so well what you know what I
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just yeah? Right, okay.
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And that person you're not supposed to though, Yes, you're
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shocking to them to encounter someone of your stature, of
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your addiction, of just your everything, and to walk in
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with all oozing, all that black riz, all this rich blackness,
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all this soul and still be able to articulate yourself
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and still be able to move in a room and
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the way you're trusted, the way you talk, the way
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you everything.
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Well, also to them to throw that off, I feel,
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is to move away from the old plantation founder plantation
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foundation that has been laying with us, okay, and and
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move us away from being plantation protectors.
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Plantation protectors, y'are so busy trying to protect the protest.
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Uncle rugas was Uncle Rua, Yes, okay, plantation protectors. And
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so I think that foundation was laid doing doing during
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early slavery days. But then after the UH Emancipation Proclamation
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and reconstruction and new reconstruction UH to some degree, the
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Kraal gate has been opened, all right, and so we
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can't really at this point close them again. But we
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can take and put bridles on the horses and control them, okay,
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through the educational process where we we're in control of
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the curriculum and we teach it in such a way
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where it perpetuates the dominant culture as the superior culture. Uh,
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and anything less than the ones who are in control, right,
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and and so then we're the superior. We're we're superior.
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W You're only superior because you're in control.
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There is nothing else about you besides that.
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And you're keeping control because you're more violent. I if
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if I'm making sense, it's like.
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A bully maintaining control over everyone.
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Yes. Uh. If you compare black man and black woman
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of America to other organized nations around the globe, we
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find that no other people was such a particular peculiar
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type of psychology or psychological basis for socializing with one
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another within the mental parameters of the so called freed slave.
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Lies m your oppressor's idea of ecrippling self sabotaged behavior.
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Just so if we don't measure up, all right, it's
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you you almost self sabotage.
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I forget it. I can't even you.
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You give up on yourself before you even try, before
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you even put your your anything out there, before you
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even educate yourself on how to do it.
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You say, I can't do that, that's not possible.
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And not only that, but we try to keep one
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another from crowd the crab mentality for climbing out of
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you know.
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Yes, instead of pushing each other up and out and
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pulling each other up.
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But my question becomes in that is that a false narrative?
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Is it is the crab? Is the crab below reaching
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up to pull the other one down, but reaching up
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to grab holes so they both can be pulled out?
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Is it? I don't know, cause okay, but we have
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we have been taught that's what it is, and so
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we blindly accept again somebody else's definition of what's taking place.
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See now I feel like I have to go boys
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some crabs and see for myself.
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Okay, all right, well.
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Okay, let them just with no lid?
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Is the glass half full of if it's half empty?
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All right? Could it not be both?
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It?
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Is? It is? Okay? Okay? Yes, it could be that. Oh,
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I see you're up there and you're on your way out,
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let me grab hole, so as you on your way out,
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I can and then maybe the next person can grab you, know,
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so maybe just only you getting out, okay, because if
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that one crab gets out, is he gonna reach back
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and get another crab and pull him up.
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I'm very much so like a put me on person.
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I'm very much so like I'm gonna put you on,
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like I'm gonna tell you about it. And if we
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got that mentality with each other a lot more in
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a lot of different realms.
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We'll be pushed to the moon.
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And then sometimes is it is it that we don't
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I've had uh uh something stuck in my tooth for
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three years okay, and could have been a source of
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irritation f t for me m for three years the
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dinist couldn't get it out, alright, Okay, today it came out.
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Was it time you just had to wait for time? Okay, alright?
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Or was it I finally did the right thing to
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get it out and it was really a piece of
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plant or silicon or something like that was stuck okay.
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Uh And and my tooth in between or in between
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my teeth alright, So are we using one of the
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right methods, okay, or or is it time I I
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I think I think it's more that we're not using
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the right methods mm hm uh and and to throw
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away I'm I I and I I I don't really
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like doing this, But I look at my I went
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to HBCU, and I look at the students that those
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of us who went to HBCU's over against those who
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went to other institutions. And there's a difference in the
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functionality mm uh and the uh the confidence mm like
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socially you mean no, just just you know, there's just
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a k the confidence in my ability to perform.
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You feel like our higher phrase. Well, you see, you grads.
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Are better better able to have more confidence in being
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able to function.
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Why do you think is.
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In part? I don't. I don't think it's it's the answer,
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but it may be one of many answers. Is that
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one of the institutions to hbc used you have to
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matriculate in a different kind of way to to graduate
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all right, and and that that that that that that
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working the system to get out of it all right
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is different than working the system of uh, say, the
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schools that operated by the dominant culture. I think that
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the dominant culture is almost set that if you do
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the academic work, alright, don't y yeah yeah yeah yeah,
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okay yeah, But in the HBCUs there's some other challenges
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that have to be navigated. The money may not always
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be there, okay, uh, like it is maybe at Ohio
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State versus a Wilberforce or Central State. Okay, the uh
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the amount of the if you have a certain gpa, uh,
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you can get into Ohio State, alright, just on your GPA,
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mm say safe a student has a full uh uh.
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Just hypothetically, a student who graduates from high school with
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a straight age alright, automatically goes to can go to
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a state school alright, and his tuition, uh, room and
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board is paid for. All he has to do is
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buy his books and his personal money. That does not
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apply to Wilberforce or Centralcy necessarily. Okay. And so now
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you may not be able to get in, like you're
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graduating this coming June. You may may not be able
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to get in in August. You may have to go
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to Bowling Green alright, but you will eventually in uh
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uh Ohio State at Mansfield, you know something like that,
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the Mansfield location. But you're in the the state, that
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state system. If if I'm making m making myself clear there,
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so that's it, it's it. That's kind of uh uh
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I I I feel the kind of uh uh I
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I listen to some people who have they have all that,
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they have all the uh, all the colde languages, all
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the terms, all the trends mm, but they can't they
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don't know how to matriculate. M use 'em to. They're sitting,
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they're they're sitting demonstrating that they know the terms, they
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know the trends, they know. Okay, it's like having a
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uh a a I I give you it a example.
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It's having a toolbox of all the modern tools, alright,
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and you can sit and tell what's in your toolbox
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cause you don't know how to use one of 'em.
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Mm.
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Okay that I if I that that's a oversimplification, Yeah,
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but that's that's kind of what I I I feel
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is uh happens. And then when you uh, when you
486
00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:04.199
look at look at the you look at oh man,
487
00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:09.800
uh the people the people who black, white, green, and purple.
488
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:13.679
For instance, seven hundred and fifty thousand people have been furloughed.
489
00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:19.760
Uh uh in the federal government from this uh shutdown?
490
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:25.480
How do you really they are seven hundred and fifty
491
00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:28.599
thousand people who make the government, make the government work.
492
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:31.280
They said they'll get more.
493
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:35.000
Huh, they'll get more. Okay, they gonna get more. They
494
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gonna pay those others that they are.
495
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:40.400
No, they're not that, they're not less. No, they're not.
496
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:41.480
See that's the thing.
497
00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:44.000
So they're not gonna be paid at all once the
498
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shut is over.
499
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:49.840
And from what I'm hearing, these seven hundred and fifty
500
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thousand furloughs are permanent, permanent layoffs. They feel the government
501
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:00.000
it's it's top heavy.
502
00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:05.360
So they're not even interested in replacing. No, these people.
503
00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:09.119
No, you remember your boy said he was gonna drain
504
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the swamp. I I.
505
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Okay, alright right by are you f alright?
506
00:36:18.119 --> 00:36:23.559
Alright, alright, alright. So if if I'm gonna control, okay,
507
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:26.639
the more the the fewer people I have in place
508
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:30.679
to get the job done. Okay, One, the more I
509
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.840
can control, and two, the more money I saved to
510
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.519
give back to No, how are.
511
00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:41.039
Things going to efficiently and effectively be ran?
512
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.880
Well, where you have ten people doing now, one person
513
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:50.400
is gonna have to be done. Do it mm hm mkay.
514
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:54.599
And what he's saying is they th they believe that
515
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one person can do what ten people have been doing.
516
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:07.199
Mm and but also but well and also now you
517
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:15.159
also have the possibility of digital employees. Yes, of course,
518
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:18.559
so bots can. Will we be doing some of the replacements?
519
00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:20.920
Of course? Of course. All you gotta do is programming.
520
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:22.960
Once have somebody the program.
521
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:26.280
One person, a man. The robots. The robots ain't going.
522
00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:31.360
Don't need vacation. Uh, they don't need the weekends and
523
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:37.239
holidays off. Okay. Oh see, I mean that is when
524
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:42.000
we look at this. So then then then if we're
525
00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:46.440
already at the bottom of the wrong okay, where does
526
00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:51.440
that leave us as other people get displaced themselves.
527
00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:57.480
It leaves us worrying about ourselves.
528
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.119
No, it doesn't leave us. It leaves us becoming forgetting
529
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us other foolishness. And you're find I said.
530
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:11.840
It leaves us to focus on our yes okay, and
531
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focus on our people, our community that should look like
532
00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:19.559
where it should be, all of those things. That's what
533
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:21.800
we need to focus on it and get on one
534
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:24.320
the core for it. I understand people have plans out here.
535
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I understand that people have objectives, and they want to
536
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:30.159
make sure that their own objectives are.
537
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:33.880
To go for They want to go to the funders
538
00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:41.639
who are displacing them. And people, listen, you can't ride
539
00:38:41.719 --> 00:38:47.159
to freedom on Pharaoh's chariot, all right. You know, you
540
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:50.239
can't eat the oppressives food and think you're gonna be
541
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:56.400
free from him. Hello, can't sit it this table and
542
00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:00.079
be free also, And so we have to have we
543
00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:04.199
have to be well some we have to develop our
544
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:10.320
own okay, resources and put them in place. Right, that's
545
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:17.199
that's again and now again. No, uh, maybe maybe, and
546
00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:19.360
that's some people who will take better task on this.
547
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:24.239
Maybe separate and equal really works better for us.
548
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:28.599
Maybe, right, I'm going to try it again, right.
549
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:34.440
I know, I know I'm better prepared to balance my
550
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:44.599
checkbook than my grandson. M M. I know I'm better.
551
00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:49.159
He he's better. He's in a better position to make
552
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:53.760
more money than I am. All right, but I'm in
553
00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:56.440
a better position to balance my checkbook than he is.
554
00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:00.880
If you can't manage, what you're bringing is coming right
555
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.239
back out, so it doesn't matter, it doesn't It is
556
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:05.239
coming right back out.
557
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.280
So these are the kinds of things that we Okay,
558
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:15.679
I'm better able. Even my son okay, okay, who does
559
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:21.280
not have property, has four cars but doesn't have his
560
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:26.559
own house. HM. And he has four cars that each
561
00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:31.880
year those four cars go down in value. Right, Well,
562
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:37.400
if he had his own house, it's going up in value.
563
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:46.639
Yes, I know, I definitely And transparency, transparency, transparency or.
564
00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:51.840
W Look, I am was not the most financially disciplined person.
565
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:56.079
I just wasn't Like a lot of African descented folks,
566
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we are.
567
00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:59.079
Not naturally taught that.
568
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:03.760
We don't get sit down and talk about portfolios like
569
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other ethnicities.
570
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:06.760
So what I did.
571
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:09.519
I knew my dad was better with money.
572
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:12.719
I let him hold my money until I was comfortable
573
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with myself and I had enough self discipline to be
574
00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:17.840
able to hold my own money. And then I opened
575
00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:20.119
numerous different types of accounts for this and that and
576
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:22.599
so on and so forth. But that comes with educating
577
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.800
yourself on financial literacy. It's just you just have to
578
00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:29.920
if you haven't been taught these things, you have to
579
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take those extra strides.
580
00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:32.119
So I'm just imploring you.
581
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All again to plooring to yourself whatever way that may
582
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look like for you at this present time. However comfort
583
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:40.840
level you are at at this present time. You got
584
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to start somewhere, just do it.
585
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:47.559
But the institution, the peculiar institution of slavery, all right
586
00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:54.800
and the after effects all right, First us to be
587
00:41:55.000 --> 00:42:01.800
financially literate, h yes, because we could not put our
588
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:07.320
moneyes into black banks. So how did we become during
589
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:12.840
that period of time economically one solvent two in position
590
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:13.880
to buy land?
591
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:17.239
I mean you say you mean white banks, right, we.
592
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:20.760
Can up any white banks, yes, well, at and during
593
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the at the at the end of at during the reconstruction,
594
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:29.599
there were no black banks right even up until the
595
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:34.280
do through the depression, alright, y you you talking about
596
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:38.119
uh the sixty five to uh the twenties at sixty
597
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:45.880
years later, alright, we're financially able to save Cadillac Rum,
598
00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:51.320
alright because white folks had their money in the white system, alright,
599
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:57.960
and the white system collapsed and they were killing themselves
600
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:01.920
and we were sitting fat still eating collar greens, cold bread.
601
00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:07.159
Do you think the system doing this again?
602
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:12.559
I see it in part, yes, all right, because.
603
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:17.599
People have a nest egg of cash and survivor kick.
604
00:43:18.519 --> 00:43:20.079
I think if you take it out of the out
605
00:43:20.119 --> 00:43:21.880
of the black white banks.
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00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:28.400
Put in black banks, credit unions, floor boat.
607
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House.
608
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You have to diversify the same weeks for sure, because
609
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you never know what's gonna happen. You just don't and
610
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:38.239
you know, Lord forbid, we don't.
611
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:42.239
Again, we're not trying to incite any anxiety is into anyone,
612
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:44.519
but this is a season of preparation.
613
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:49.880
Mm hmm. Well what about gold and gyms? Yes, gold,
614
00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:53.199
silver and gems, gymstones, gyms.
615
00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:57.519
Absolutely. I love me a beautiful pearl, but yes.
616
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:05.440
So there are things happening globally alright that we're not paid.
617
00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:10.199
We we we're looking at Lily for turn to Gucci alright,
618
00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:12.920
rather than looking at what's happening glob globally.
619
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A lot of people don't even know. We're in a
620
00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:17.000
shutdown right now.
621
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:21.079
You you you absolutely right about that.
622
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:27.280
Are you gonna shut down y'all cause you didn't know?
623
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:31.320
And and and and now there's a there's a chance
624
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:34.559
that you may have a mutiny in in the military
625
00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:39.400
because law enforcement and military people right now are going unpaid.
626
00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:46.280
How long do you think they, as in the military
627
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:47.760
will go without.
628
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.000
I don't know, I I you know, I don't know, mm,
629
00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:51.480
I I don't know.
630
00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:55.639
I know when I was in the army and these
631
00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:59.800
things would occur. They normally didn't last longer than two weeks.
632
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.280
These things happen, shutdowns happened.
633
00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:04.960
The last one happened was thirty five days right.
634
00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:08.960
Again under the Trump administration early twenty twenty. No late
635
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:13.000
twenty twenty, excuse me, but they happened before in like
636
00:45:13.079 --> 00:45:18.880
twenty ten, twenty twelve, things of that years, those years
637
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:22.159
back then, and they didn't last longer in two weeks.
638
00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:24.960
I was a soldier and I still went to.
639
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:29.639
Work and everything, like everything was everything because you get
640
00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:33.079
to a certain point when you're in the service where
641
00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:36.320
you are, you know, just to take the orders.
642
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:40.760
That's your job to take orders, whether you're getting paid
643
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:41.000
or not.
644
00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.320
Had that time because it got to the point, you know,
645
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:47.039
two weeks is a little scary.
646
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:50.519
You already you're missing that's a full you know, pacem y. Yeah,
647
00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:51.559
it's a full pay cycle.
648
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:52.920
So it was.
649
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:56.960
Discussions in the bay of Okay, if this continues, what
650
00:45:57.239 --> 00:45:59.639
will happen? And bay is pretty much like a garage
651
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:02.079
warpace for work, depending on their jobs and what do
652
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:04.119
they do. I was a mechanic, so I worked in
653
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:07.199
the mechanic's bay. I was a mechanic for weapons anything
654
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:09.199
from a N nine to a triple seven houser.
655
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:15.519
Mainly Maroons use those those big houser So you.
656
00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:17.800
Know, going back, I one of the things I think
657
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:20.320
we have to look at again is a crabby of
658
00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:24.440
barrel mentality. For when there are are those of us
659
00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:29.360
who strive to do something or be something other than
660
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:34.559
a servant of the a uh oppressors system, we find
661
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:38.239
ourselves being hated by people are oh of our uh,
662
00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:44.360
of our kin and kind? Ok M. And then who
663
00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:52.719
sh who show us no love? Where does the w
664
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:55.079
First we have to find where does this kind of
665
00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:56.079
thinking come from?
666
00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:57.239
Mm?
667
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:01.960
This self hatred? Is it? Is it a n a
668
00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:08.440
chemically fixated part of black men and women? What? H
669
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What can we if it's chemically induced because of s
670
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:17.440
A circumstances, an environment cause a certain chemical reaction, how
671
00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:23.840
do we take and neutralize it? How do we take
672
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:42.639
in how do we investigate genetically psychologically the afro centric
673
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:48.079
social sciences m HM, so that we can take and
674
00:47:48.159 --> 00:47:51.239
do some social engineering if you will, do you.
675
00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:54.280
Think I mean MM social engineering?
676
00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:58.480
Okay, i'm'a asking bas based from a black perspective, Okay.
677
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:02.760
Is that pretty much like how korans and yes, I
678
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:04.079
figure in.
679
00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:07.840
The rights of passage quansa yes.
680
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:11.199
Right, implementing those rituals and those.
681
00:48:11.679 --> 00:48:17.960
Just but it didn't take hold in the masses. Yes, okay,
682
00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:20.280
that's how do we get it to take hold in
683
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:27.840
the masses? Okay, so that we can so that it
684
00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:30.719
can become culturalized.
685
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:38.760
And like a cultural standard. Yes, that's the thing. Making
686
00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:40.239
it a cultural standard.
687
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:44.320
Becomes a core value, core value value. Yes, yes, So.
688
00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:50.320
Why that triggered the quants of thought because that's basically
689
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:56.480
how it was. Introducing those afrocentric sociolo ideas is so
690
00:48:56.679 --> 00:48:59.480
so important to retrain our brains.
691
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:05.440
And also it negates it's so it's it's so important
692
00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:12.679
to understand Greek Leonard organizations. They're not Greek organizations. They're
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00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:18.840
Greek Leonard organizations that are steeped in black culture, black
694
00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:26.400
and black history. Even the Masons, all right, and the Masons,
695
00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:31.320
although they have taken and incorporated the Scottish Rites or
696
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:42.039
York rights masonry, masonry is African. Hello, yes, but they're
697
00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:47.039
people who are seeing all right, all right, and as
698
00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:51.960
part of the self hate because they're striving the black
699
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:56.280
the Greek Leonard organizations, the Masons, the Shriners, because who
700
00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:59.679
are striving at a different level than everybody else. You
701
00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:03.400
have you try to take and and and paint it
702
00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:06.920
as something European, and it is not. It's not.
703
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:10.599
It's not. And if the Euros want to do that
704
00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:12.639
for themselves and they're organizing, they.
705
00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:16.920
Take, they take it, and they're utilizing our systems again
706
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:19.960
for their benefit.
707
00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:26.440
Could a private black chapter sue a white chapter.
708
00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:27.639
I don't think so.
709
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:27.960
No.
710
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:33.960
The alphabet is the alphabet, you know, How can I
711
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:38.360
sue you for being a and and and and the
712
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:39.760
Greek alphabet is.
713
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A and O intellectual property.
714
00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:45.440
No, it's it's it's it's it's the it's the alphabet
715
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of everybody.
716
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:48.920
But what it represents to you.
717
00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:51.920
But now if you take it, try to use it,
718
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:54.760
if you try to use the same letters that I
719
00:50:55.119 --> 00:50:59.559
use in conjunction with you, okay, okay, all right, Oh
720
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:04.440
make a sigh five. Okay, Now that becomes a different thing.
721
00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:09.599
Now you can say omega five, okay, but you can't
722
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:13.760
use it as omega PSI five. Okay.
723
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.679
When it comes to just real quick, on our way out,
724
00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:21.320
when it comes to black Greek organizations, was there a
725
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:26.480
reason they chose to stay Greek and not induce comm
726
00:51:26.760 --> 00:51:28.440
gods or Egyptian gods.
727
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:36.119
Or I think because again because in this country, basically
728
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:42.639
it's where the Greek organizations began. Okay, Greek lettered organizations
729
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:47.000
began then and then start in Europe. Okay, So it
730
00:51:47.119 --> 00:51:49.280
was in this country that you got Greek. And so
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what happened is that we could not get into the
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white Greek lettered organizations.
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So we started all we don't leave, y'all. And now
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they're fighting to get into so okay, okay, okay, all right,
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so that's okay. Cornell University, all right, was where they
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kind of started.
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Uh. You had the Boulets, which was the first black
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Greek lettered organization, okay uh. And they became they they
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were so exclusive that this is just a brief I'm
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not going into the deep deep stuff, right, just s superficially. Uh.
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You had to be a doctor's or a lawyer's son
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to become a bulet.
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Uh.
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And so they had girlfriends, and the girlfriends all the
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guys in the Bulets kind of quit their girlfriends and
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the girlfriends got new boyfriends and convinced them to start
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another organization called Alpha Phi Alpha and then they created
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uh Aka Alpha Kappa.
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Alphakay, real quick, do you agree that with the statement?
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Because this statement has been thrown around a lot for
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some reason in my atmosphere recently. Where as America is
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the new room, would you agree with that?
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No?
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Why not?
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Rum really didn't rule anything?
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And what I hear, I think maybe if they said
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the new Greece or Greeks, I still can't.
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I can't jig with that statement.
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Basically, I think when America started out kind of being
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and got away from all, right, was being the new
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the the the the new Israel.
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Get away from it?
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And Jonathan Khan uh Demonstrations said in his book uh
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the Harbinger and the Mystery of the Shamita. Mm you
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remember by whom Jonathan Kahn? Oh, thank you k K
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A K A h A N. I think it is
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Mystery of the Shamita s h E M I T
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A H. I think it is okay, okay, the Mystery
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of Shamita and the Horbar read the Harbinger first, okay,
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and then the Mystery of the Shamita.
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Okay.
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I will do that and so people get also. I
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I'd love for you to get uh the Color of
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Law by Rothstein R O T H S T E
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I N and get uh breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch.
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The wil Lynch papers or letters are not authentic, but
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the system that it illustrates is real. The methods that
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they use to colonize, terrorize, domesticate, and condition the slaves
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in this country. That system did exist, does exist and
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is existing, and so we need to understand that. Okay,
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all right, listen, you got any final words before we
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get out of here.
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I just say they provise as on gifts. Just make
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sure to open your eyes and look around.
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And this is a ride by along with the black
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Unicorn saying I will drink from my part of the
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river and no one shall keep me from it. You
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have been listening to black thought to spark everything mischange,
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so inform, to inspire and to impact all. Wolvu ninety
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five point night in friend. We will see you next time.
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Until then, shalom haabab.
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