Full Transcript for What Will Them Dems Do [EP 18]

migrating over from Instagram. Who's 75 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:19.319 following instructions. Okay, who's following instructions. Let's give you an applause. 76 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:24.000 Let's give you an applause. 77 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.600 All right, So we've got a really great show today. 78 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.439 I'm really excited for one of the segments that we 79 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:35.680 have going down that is called the critical Thinking Exercise, 80 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.120 And this is something that I do on Wednesdays where 81 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:41.959 I really try to just center on one specific topic 82 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:46.639 and really get into the nitty gritty of it. Then 83 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.560 we will be joined by Ronda Gerrard, who runs the 84 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:57.399 Who's a Palestinian, brilliant woman who runs the Crimes of 85 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.920 Caucasiity page on Instagram, and she will be joining us 86 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:06.160 for sixty second headlines. We also have author Sorry, I'm 87 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:11.160 printing out my actual show sheet. Today, we also have author, 88 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:16.920 civil society leader and social entrepreneur DJ Wakali joining us 89 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:20.560 and he is somebody who I learned so much from 90 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:22.920 on Instagram and he will be joining us to talk 91 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:25.920 about the power and the importance of Pan Africanism. 92 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:27.480 So all that is going. 93 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.920 On today right here at Views from amandalain your source 94 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.879 for news and truths by any joke necessary. Thank you 95 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:43.040 for waking up on the right side of history. I 96 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.720 want to remind everybody that I'm doing a new thing 97 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:50.879 now where on Thursdays. So I was trying to I 98 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.800 was trying to post every day, but I was losing 99 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:57.040 my mind, like I just don't have the bandwidth to 100 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:02.319 do it. So Thursdays we'll all right. Sometimes it'll be 101 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:07.560 sometimes it'll be things I learned this week. Sometimes it'll 102 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:11.120 be the bonus question. This week it's things I learned 103 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:13.199 this week. So for anybody who doesn't know what things 104 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.600 I learned this weekend, just'll just give you a little. 105 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.079 Taste things are learn this week. 106 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.759 Yeah, So things I learned this week is where you 107 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.959 can call in. You can go to views Fromandoland dot com. 108 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:29.079 Go to Views fromandaland dot com and you can leave 109 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:34.439 a message saying what things you have learned this week? Now, 110 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:38.839 I will tell you this Sometimes I'm like, yeah, tell me, 111 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:40.879 like real things you learned this week. But you might 112 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:43.199 also have just learned that, like people are dumber than 113 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:49.639 you thought. So I'm not mad at those answers either. 114 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:52.839 Just for the record, okay, but you can go to 115 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.680 views frommandaland dot com leave your voice message for what 116 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:58.439 things you have learned this week? 117 00:07:58.519 --> 00:07:59.920 I believe that knowledge is power. 118 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:02.639 I believe that we need to share our knowledge with 119 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.040 our community, not cord it for ourselves. 120 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.160 So drop a message for me on what you have 121 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:09.399 learned this week? 122 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:14.360 Any words, any any information, any history, et cetera. All right, 123 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:16.759 things I learned this week? Is what's going on this week? 124 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.360 Go to views frommandoland dot com. I also want to 125 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.079 let you know that I will be debuting the next 126 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:30.279 items for sale at the Amandoland Exports shop and they 127 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:35.360 include the bam Oh my gosh, should I leave it downstairs? 128 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:40.480 Oh my goodness. Okay, talk amongst yourselves. I need to 129 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:42.759 go and get this downstairs. Talk amongst yourselves. What did 130 00:08:42.799 --> 00:09:15.799 you learn this week? 131 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:35.039 All right? I'm back. 132 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:40.399 So this week I gotta let y'all know, February first, 133 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:42.879 of course, begins Black History Month. Even though they are 134 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.519 absolutely going to be ending the formal Black History Month, 135 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:48.840 we need to keep it going because it should be 136 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:53.679 Black History Year anyway. And I will be debuting my 137 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:57.360 next drop in the Amandolin Exports store, and it is 138 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:58.000 going to be. 139 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:05.600 Why am I out of breath? Why out of breath? 140 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:05.879 Y'all? 141 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:07.759 All I do is bread down the stairs. 142 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:17.159 I'm like, okay, so get you your smart Funny and 143 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:17.720 black pen. 144 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:20.840 All right. Now, let me make something very clear. 145 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.879 Some of y'all may be like, but I'm not black, 146 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:27.879 That's not really what it's about. Like, you're supporting the 147

00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.799 concept of smart funny and blackness, okay. And me, as 148 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.159 an artistic intellectual, I believe it is imperative that we 149 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:39.320 continue to elevate intellectualism, particularly as it relates to black culture. 150 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:42.600 So you can get a Smartphnny and Black pin, or 151 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:45.279 you can get you a bonus bundle. 152 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:56.320 And the bonus bundle includes the smart Bunny and Black pin, 153 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.720 the Smart Funny and Black sticker sheets with our different 154 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:02.960 fan and the Smart Funny and Black bonnet. 155 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:13.600 And the bonnet is satin on the inside. All right, 156 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:18.240 So get you the bonet, get you the bonnet, sorry, 157 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:21.120 get you the pen by itself, or you can get 158 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:22.399 the bonus bundle. 159 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:31.840 Yeah, smart, funny in black. All right. So that's what's 160 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:35.879 going down for February first. 161 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:38.200 For the first week of every month, I will always 162 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.279 have a new drop at Amanda Land Exports. First week 163 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:44.960 of every month. I will always have what do you 164 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.360 mean in my Tabitha Browning, No shade to Tabitha brown 165 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:51.080 but she did not she did not invent merch. 166 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:55.080 Okay. I've been doing merch for a really really really 167 00:11:55.120 --> 00:12:01.360 really really really really long time, really really really long time, 168 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:03.639 so give me my props please. 169 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:08.279 Okay, So shout out to everybody who got there. Harriet 170 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.159 Tubman pins. Those are shipping out this week from Amandoland 171 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:17.200 Exports and you guys. I am so excited for what 172 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:20.639 is coming up, you know, in store with the arts 173 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:21.759 because I love me. 174 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.000 I love me the arts, okay, you know. I love 175 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:27.679 making my art. Let's get our church announcements done real quick. 176 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:32.200 Remember every day we do this Monday through Wednesday, ten 177 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.960 a m Eastern at YouTube Amanda Seel TV. 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Especially 186 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:01.879 if you can't drop a super or anything in the 187 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:04.799 cash app. That's a great way of supporting that is free. 188 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.320 If you enjoy anything I'm saying, please drop the Seals 189 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:07.720 in the chat. 190 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.279 Shout out to all of my Seal squad who are 191 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.799 over there subscribing at Patreon dot com. 192 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:16.000 I appreciate you, I love you. You know y'all are 193 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:16.919 my folks. Okay. 194 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:20.720 Also, remember that you can add a super in this 195 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.639 space to show super support for this space. So want 196 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.159 to remind you that you can do that. Let's get 197 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.200 into our word. 198 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.120 Of the day. 199 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:39.320 The word of the day is auto ooh long nanimity. 200 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:42.559 That's not the word. Hold on now, that is not 201 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:44.919 the word, Amanda, that is not the word of the day. 202 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:47.200 Let me get the right word for you. Let me 203 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:51.120 get the right word for you. The right word of 204 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:52.240 the day is. 205 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:56.799 Why is it? 206 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:59.279 Oh my gosh, i'dn't made an area, y'all, i'd haven't 207 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.159 made an ar Okay, Now I gotta get you the 208 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.879 right word of the day. Hold on for me, Bear 209 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:10.440 with me one second. The word of the day is 210 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:14.679 auto didact auto didact. 211 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:20.000 It is a self taught person. Auto didact. 212 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:27.000 Auto didact is spelled A T O d I d act. 213 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:33.200 It is a noun, and it is a self taught person. 214 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.840 Can anyone use this in a sentence? Can anyone use 215 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:41.120 this in a sentence? An autodidact is a self taught 216 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.519 person a noun au T O d I d. 217 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:46.480 A c T. 218 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:51.399 Let's see them sentences. Let's see them sentences are right? Uh? 219 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:55.559 We got Dappa Hippids said, I'm an autodidact beat maker. 220 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:01.639 We love that. Car Sen said me. It's in my bios. 221 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:03.320 I love that even though it wasn't a sentence. I'll 222 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:04.799 give you. I'll give you a little

bit of a 223 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:06.240 ding right there. 224 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:06.879 Uh. 225 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:10.120 Alicia says, I wish I was a true autodidact. I 226 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:11.559 usually use YouTube uni. 227 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:14.799 You know what, I just want to inform everybody. I 228 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:19.840 don't think we understand that. However, you learn, it's still 229 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:23.120 great even if you're not an autodidact. You went and 230 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:25.679 made it your business to learn. We gotta give props 231 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:31.080 for that. We gotta give props for that. All right, Uh, 232 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.159 thank you for the supersticker. Candice Johnson says, my brother 233 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.799 is an autodidact pianist pianists. Yes, Kalisha, this is great 234 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.279 because I'm getting to learn about all your different autodidact skills. 235 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:47.799 Kalisha says she's an autodidac seamstress, and DJ says, with 236 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:50.960 the reversal of the title of title I, we will 237 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:56.159 have plenty of autodidacts facts, facts, let's see. 238 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:59.399 Let's close it out. Elle says, as an autodidact, she 239 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:02.159 educated her self and black liberation theory to understand the 240 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.559 principles of collective ownership and economic quality. 241 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:05.159 Quality. 242 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:11.240 Yeah, yeah, we're here for it. We're here for it. 243 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:14.320 Shout out to all my autodidacts out there, And uh, 244 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:16.919 you know, I think it's something. I think the thing 245 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:23.159 about autodidacts is that sometimes we think that if we 246 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:26.639 just learned by ourselves, that's like it. But I think 247 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.080 there's something really valuable to learning it by yourself if 248 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.519 that's the only method, but then getting in conversation with 249 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:38.960 others about it so it expands perspective and allows you 250 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.759 to also get analysis points and thoughts that you may 251 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.320 not have considered, which is why like book clubs and 252 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.639 what we do at the Seal Squad passage posse where 253 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:49.360 we take a passage and we break it down together 254 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.440 and we talk about it from our own unique points 255 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:54.519 of view. That's why that's valid because you are your 256 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:56.279 own little world. 257 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:57.519 You know. 258 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:03.000 Perspective is such a great thing for expanding your existence, 259 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.519 your intellect, your knowledge, all the above. And Monique has 260 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:10.400 a great perspective. Hit that like button, Hit that like button. 261 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:13.400 All right, So shout out to everybody who is over 262 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:17.039 there on Instagram, I want you over here on YouTube 263 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:21.039 Amanda Seals TV YouTube Amanda Seales TV. Uh, let's get 264 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:25.000 into our critical thinking exercise. 265 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:31.640 An Let's. 266 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:50.519 Now you and I both know that that's one of 267 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:55.359 the hardest intros that I got any show. You'll know 268 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.480 that intro is hard as heck, So we don't play 269 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:01.039 it again. 270 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:08.400 Then let's. 271 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:26.720 Exerciss I'm sorry, I need you gotta know that I 272 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:31.319 put that together at nine thirty okay, nine thirty a m. 273 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:34.839 I put that together. I was literally fixing my tee 274 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:38.400 and I heard it in my head create a car, 275 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:40.920 and I was like h. And I got my tray. 276 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.319 And I got my oat meal and I ran upstairs 277 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:45.599 so I could record it and drop it down. 278 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:52.079 Credit up thinking. 279 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:09.519 Yeah, let's get into today's critical thinking exercise. So you know, 280 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:13.279 there's a lot of talk right now, a lot of. 281 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:17.200 Talk because this guy did this whole. 282 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:21.839 Freezing of a funding of the funding federal funding. And 283 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:25.279 I can promise you he doesn't have any clue how 284 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:28.720 federal funding works. He's literally just being told what to 285 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:32.799 do and doing it. And so he did it. He funded, 286 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.720 they fall, they froze the federal funding. People went in 287 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:44.200 a tizzy naturally, and thus, you know, the confusion spread 288 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:48.319 across like wildfire. And this was so many people that 289 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:49.480 were like, well, they said it's not. 290 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:51.599 Gonna affect Medicare. They said it's not gonna affect this 291 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:52.000 and that. 292 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:54.759 Sure, they said that, but do you think that they 293 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:56.720 even thought it through on how it wouldn't do that. 294 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:59.920 It did affect Medicare. The site was down, people could 295 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:02.440 not access the Medicare site. So if patients could not 296 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.720 get discharged, it did affect

meals on wheels, it did 297 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:09.400 effect head start, et cetera. So you need to know 298 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:12.160 that they just be saying stuff. They have no idea 299 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:16.519 how things actually need actually work. Okay, so let's just 300 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:17.079 get that clear. 301 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:17.960 Now. 302 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:21.519 What this also makes you beg the question is, Okay, well, 303 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:25.039 who's in position to challenge this type of stuff. So 304 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.039 we do have three branches of government. We have the 305 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:31.920 executive branch that's the president. We have the judicial branch that. 306 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:32.720 Is the Supreme Court. 307 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:37.559 We have the legislative branch that is the Congress. Now, 308 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:42.519 Congress is made up of the House and the Senate. 309 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:45.799 You got four hundred and thirty five members of the House, 310 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:47.400 you got one hundred. 311 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:48.119 Members of the Senate. 312 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:53.759 And the Senate is currently in a majority owned by 313 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:57.039 the Republicans. The House is also in a majority owned 314 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:00.279 by the Republicans. The Supreme Court is also in a 315 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:01.839 majority Conservative. 316 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:03.759 So this is not by accident. 317 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:06.960 This has been over years and years and years that 318 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:09.480 they have finally got all the pieces in place to 319 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:13.599 be able to push things through without hindrance. I think 320 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:18.240 it is very considerable that this person is trying to 321 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:20.759 push these things to the Supreme Court, because once the 322 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:23.519 Supreme Court makes a ruling, it becomes precedent, and once 323 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:27.200 it becomes precedent, it becomes the law of the land, even. 324 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:30.319 If it's just in precedent. So the goal is to push. 325 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:32.680 Things through to get to that point so that they 326 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:35.039 can make these rulings so that they can now continue 327 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:37.359 to dismantle what they want to dismantle, which is essentially 328 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:43.559 the entire Constitution. Now we're looking at democrats because essentially 329 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:45.400 they're the only people in place right now that could 330 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:49.599 even have access to stopping or changing things. But the 331 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:53.279 reality is is that they only have so much access 332 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:55.359 and so much power because they've really been sitting on 333 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:57.880 their laurels this entire time. 334 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:00.960 Now, I know some people may be like, you're. 335 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:03.000 All with picking on democrats, because people actually do say 336 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:04.759 damn shit like that to me. They say things like 337 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:08.319 you're picking on democrats as if democrats are like the 338 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:13.519 little kid in the corner at lunch. Democrats are not 339 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:16.240 the little kid in the corner at lunch. For the record, Okay, 340 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:21.240 democrats are elected officials that should be representing the constituency. 341 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:25.880 That's who Democrats are, and so I am simply somebody 342 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:30.119 in the constituency that is expecting them and challenging them 343 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:31.200 to represent. 344 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:36.279 I think it's very important though, to understand. 345 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:40.720 What have Democrats actually demonstrated in terms of how and 346 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:44.279 who they represent. We will get to that in just 347 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.640 a little bit, but first and foremost, I would like 348 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:50.599 us to address this which I thought was really interesting. 349 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:54.759 So this person, Leah Greenberg, said, here are some things 350 00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:59.359 that the Dems can do to try to challenge. 351 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.200 What is going on right now. Okay, but I. 352 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:06.799 Want us to use our critical thinking skills to break 353 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:12.519 down what each of these things actually mean. So let's 354 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:17.880 start with oppose all Trump nominee. Oppose all Trump nominees 355 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:23.039 until this executive order is withdrawn. So when we talk 356 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:28.960 about Trump nominees, Trump is of course nominating folks to 357 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:31.920 the cabinet, right, whether it's the Secretary of State or 358 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:34.160 the Secretary of Defense, et cetera, et cetera. 359 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.559 He is he is currently nominating all of these folks. 360 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:41.240 And what we are seeing is that Democrats are letting 361 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.160 these people get through. People like Pete head Seth, who 362 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:49.640 literally are the epitome of non I mean he is DEI, Well, 363 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:56.839 he's wei mm hmm, just white equality and inclusion because 364 00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:59.720 his whiteness is calling is considering him equal to people 365 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:02.359 with absolutely exceeding merit in. 366 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:05.200 This for this position. But because he's a white guy and. 367 00:24:05.160 -->

00:24:06.960 He's willing to do what they want him to do, 368 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.359 they're like, yeah, that's fine, put him in. Now, they're 369 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:17.519 still getting nominees approved, and the Democrats are actually allowing 370 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:19.880 for some of these nominees to go through. So one 371 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:22.039 of the things that they can do is to put 372 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:24.279 a stop, be a stalwart and put a stop on 373 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:28.680 this and say we're not going to approve anybody until 374 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:31.960 you until you repeal this executive order. 375 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:36.200 Now, the next thing that was suggested is that. 376 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:43.440 They do that they stop unanimous consent. Okay, she suggested 377 00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:48.480 deny unanimous consent to slow Senate proceedings. So let's talk 378 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:54.839 about what unanimous consent is. Unanimous consent is something that 379 00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:58.160 happens in the Senate. Now, at the beginning of every session, 380 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:00.960 there's a rules package that each the that both both 381 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:03.519 chambers decide on the Senate and the House to side 382 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:07.279 on their rules package. So for instance, last Senate, I 383 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:13.000 mean last Congress, they was pressing McCarthy, and they had 384 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:16.000 created this rule that says that whenever they don't like him, 385 00:25:16.039 --> 00:25:18.599 they could vacate the House speaker. That was literally what 386 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:21.000 he had to accept in order to get the House 387 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:23.920 Speaker job, and then they still vacated him. Any who, 388 00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:25.880 they don't have this, let's go around, Mike Johnson doesn't 389 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:28.519 have to worry about that. Nonetheless, the rules package gets 390 00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:31.200 set in place, and when it comes to the House 391 00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:35.440 and the Senate, they vote differently. In the House, you 392 00:25:35.559 --> 00:25:38.599 are an individual, but you are a part of an 393 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:43.799 entire consortium. You are representing your district, you're not representing 394 00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:48.480 your state, so you require everybody to go along with you. 395 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:52.440 A majority in the House is a twenty is two eighteen. 396 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:55.240 That's a simple majority. That's two hundred and eighteen of 397 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:57.559 the four hundred and thirty five. And the two hundred 398 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:00.559 and eighteen right now is actually what we're publicans have 399 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:01.119 in the House now. 400 00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:03.839 There are two seats that are vacated. 401 00:26:05.000 -->

00:26:07.359 One of them is the guy who went over to 402 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:11.640 be National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz. The other is Stephanik 403 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:14.759 who we can't stand her. That's the one who said 404 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:17.519 that Israel has rights to palisign because of the Bible. 405 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:22.039 That's who that is exactly. So she is now the 406 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:26.599 ambassador to the UN. Both of their seats have been vacated. 407 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:28.680 Even if they were filled with Democrats, which they're not 408 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:34.079 going to be, it still would not create a majority 409 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:38.160 of Democrats in the House. So when they vote in 410 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:40.880 the House, oh my god, I just hit the heck 411 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:42.079 out of my elbow. 412 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:50.519 Funny bone. Okay, I gotta rub it out. 413 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:53.000 I remember one time going to my friend's brother's little 414 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:54.759 league game and like someone got hit with the ball 415 00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:56.160 and he went to rub it and they were. 416 00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:05.759 Like, let that little rub it out. To this day, 417 00:27:05.799 --> 00:27:07.680 I am forty three years old and I still remember 418 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:12.519 that when I have to rub some pain out. Okay. 419 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:17.359 Any who, So, you have this situation with the House 420 00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:20.680 where they're voting is a majority when it comes to 421 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:23.119 the sentiment, with the sentiment. When it comes to the Senate, 422 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:26.960 they have what's called unanimous consent. I don't think you'll 423 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:29.880 understand how the Senate votes. They don't be having to 424 00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:32.240 be there. A lot of times they'll literally just like 425 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:34.440 send an email out like hey, y'all cool it this, 426 00:27:35.400 --> 00:27:37.319 And then if one of the senators is not cool 427 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:39.680 with it. Then their assistant will hit back like, hey, senators, 428 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.039 so so it's actually not cool with this, and then 429 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:44.559 they're like, oh my god, I guess we gotta go 430 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:47.799 to work, and then they come into work and then 431 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:49.599 they got to do to do with the debate and 432 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:52.319 all of that. But unanimous consent is the fact that 433 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:54.960 they will literally just send out an. 434 00:27:54.839 --> 00:28:00.440 Email called a hotline. It's fine in a moment, sand 435 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:05.880 In sending emails to you you you yes, it's literally 436 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:07.559 gon a hot line. 437 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:09.839 Do you know

how bugged out that is that it's 438 00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:11.839 called a hot line? And they will literally send out 439 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:14.000 that email. And so what they're saying is what this 440 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:17.000 young lady is saying is there should be no hotline 441 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:22.000 emails moving forward, everything has to go to a vote. 442 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:29.680 The vote is called the vote requires cloture. Cloture sounds 443 00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:33.200 like the name that a Kardashian would give to one 444 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:36.160 of their lines, Like I feel like if Chloe Kardashian 445 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:37.200 started her own line, it. 446 00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:44.160 Would be called cloture. Right, you want closure, don't you? 447 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:45.279 Like? 448 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:47.519 I feel like that's what the eye would be. Cloture 449 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.359 is a proceeding to close debate and move it to 450 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:53.359 the next vote. 451 00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:59.000 Cloture happens after the debate. At the beginning of every vote, 452 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:01.119 the majority leader will. 453 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:02.920 Say, I John, these is the rules. 454 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.559 Y'all got thirty minutes each, Damns and Republicans to talk 455 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:09.599 about this. Figure out who you wanna put it in 456 00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:14.119 that thirty minutes, and after that clouturre in all right now. 457 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:16.319 The only thing that stops this is a filibuster. 458 00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:19.640 In the filibuster, someone can be like, well, okay, I 459 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:21.279 know we only had thirty minutes, but I'm actually going 460 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:24.599 to philibuster us there, and I'm just gonna talk. And 461 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:27.680 philibuster means you're just talking NonStop and you have to 462 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:30.240 remain standing. You can tap in and tap out, but 463 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.119 you gotta continue standing. For the record, the longest filibuster 464 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:35.319 of all time was against the Civil Rights Bill, and 465 00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:38.480 it was done by strom Thurmond. That's how dedicated he 466 00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:40.160 was to us not having civil rights. He was like, 467 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:41.960 I'm gonna stand up here and just talk because I 468 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.279 hate these blacks so much, so I'm gonna just talk. 469 00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:46.720 Do you understand how much tatre do you have to 470 00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:49.440 have to drive yourself to hoarseness just to stop us 471 00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:52.720 and being able to like leave any who. 472 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:55.039 That is what happens. 473 00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:57.839 So they get in there, they debate, and then the 474 00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:59.240 majority person says. 475 00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:02.440 All right, so we did our debate. Let's cloture it. 476 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:05.880 There has to be three clotures, three votes, and there 477 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:09.559 has to be thirty hours between each culture. During each 478 00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:12.039 thirty hours is when you can try to whip up 479 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:15.559 votes or chat or have a glass of Hennessy or. 480 00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:18.279 Whatever to try to convince the other people, like, nah, 481 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:20.160 you know how you had voted last time. I don't 482 00:30:20.200 --> 00:30:21.759 think you really understand what we were talking about. 483 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:24.400 Come on, over, come on, over come on, over Rarely 484 00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:26.240 does this effect it really is this effective. 485 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.240 But this is the process. This is the process. 486 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:35.519 And they're saying that you should just demand all of 487 00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:39.240 the clotures, all three clotures because sometimes baby, they'll literally 488 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:41.920 in the rules package make a rule for if they 489 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.039 don't have time to do all the clotures, that they 490 00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:46.000 can just change the rules. This thing is a whole 491 00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:48.279 made up game. I don't think you understand that the 492 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:51.400 government is UNO. You know how all of us make 493 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:53.640 up our own rules in UNO, Like they have the 494 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:55.799 rules in the box, but don't nobody really follow them rules. 495 00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:58.880 That's what the government is. It's uno like there's rules 496 00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:00.920 on the paper. But they'd be like, okay, but this time, 497 00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:03.480 you actually can't hit a draw ford with a draw 498 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:05.799 ford and you actually can't hit a reverse to a 499 00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:06.839 draw for So. 500 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:13.079 This is not really gonna change like closure, Like how 501 00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:13.680 do I put it? 502 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:20.759 Them saying that they will bring everything to all the clotures, 503 00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:23.640 like they'll say no to push to all the clotures 504 00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:25.640 isn't really gonna change anything because they don't have the 505 00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:28.160 majority in the Senate. But it just slows things down. 506 00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:31.640 And the last thing is to force quorum calls at 507 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:37.119 every chance. Quorum is a word meaning everybody that has 508 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:37.440 to be. 509 00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:40.519 There is there. Again, I told you them sending folks 510 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:41.200 is lazy.

511 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.200 They're they're bougie and lazy, and they owed you know 512 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:45.720 they'd be the whole They be the ones who be 513 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.440 in there for thirty years. Those are the real life, 514 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:52.880 long living, forever politicians that being there, they don't want 515 00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.839 to leave their office. Quorum is when it says when 516 00:31:56.839 --> 00:31:59.839 someone says, well, we're not gonna do the email thing. 517 00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:04.599 You gotta physically be here to vote. 518 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:06.119 You gotta physically be here to vote. 519 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:10.720 So in order to get quorum in the Senate, there 520 00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:14.839 has to be fifty one people there, the majority of 521 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:15.319 the Senate. 522 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.839 And they will even if somebody's really like not trying 523 00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:19.279 to come through. 524 00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:21.720 They will even send the Senate Sergeant today office like 525 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:26.000 a I'm gonna need you to come on. We're trying 526 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:29.960 to quorum. Okay, we're trying to quorum. Get it together. 527 00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:36.039 So again, this is not gonna stop anything. It's just 528 00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:40.599 gonna slow things down. So I do appreciate this person's 529 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:44.640 effort at saying like these are different tactics that the 530 00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:47.880 Dems can deploy. But the truth of the matter is 531 00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:51.839 a lot of this is optical. A lot of this 532 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:54.880 is not actually changeable. I know that's the word I 533 00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:57.119 made up. You can use it, feel free. It's not 534 00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:01.759 actually changeable because they waited so long. And the truth is, 535 00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:07.119 I don't believe that Dems actually really want change. I 536 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:11.079 don't believe that Dems actually are here for anything progressive, 537 00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:14.640 and so that is why they always really show up 538 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:17.759 just to pacify. But you know what this is stet 539 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:22.279 a piece oracle on Instagram. Yeah, Dala Len, She's gonna 540 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:25.160 speak to you because sometimes y'all don't want to hear me, 541 00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:26.680 so I'm gonna let somebody else say it. 542 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:33.839 The Democratic Party is not progressive, and it is not leftist, 543 00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:39.319 and it does not represent the left politic in this country. 544 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:45.160 The Democratic Party functions to preserve the status quo of 545 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:51.440 the two party system, capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy by 546 00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:58.920 very effectively quenching and neutralizing the spontaneous revolutionary sentiment that 547 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:05.680 periodically arises in this country. You have witnessed this repeatedly 548 00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:11.760 over the last ten to fifteen years, through the spontaneous 549 00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:18.400 uprisings that emerged after the murders of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, 550 00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:24.840 George Floyd, the spontaneous uprising that emerged after the election 551 00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:32.360 of Donald Trump. Every single one of those revolutionary sentiments 552 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:40.039 was effectively quenched by the Democratic Party, how pandering and 553 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:47.760 symbolic gestures of representation that made you believe that real 554 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:54.199 change was on the horizon. By continuing to allow the 555 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:59.559 Republican Party to execute each and every one of its 556 00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:04.519 prime misses. The Democratic Party have run out of boogeymen. 557 00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:10.440 They've already let abortion rights lapse. However, they have not 558 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:16.679 used any of their majorities over the past thirty years, 559 00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:24.880 going back to Bill Clinton to enshrine abortion rights, and 560 00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:30.159 as a matter of fact, abortion rights have lapsed under 561 00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:36.039 the Biden administration. For years they have said, oh, if 562 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.920 you elect the Republicans, they're going to start World War 563 00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:45.719 three and start a war with iron. Open your eyes. 564 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:51.320 What is happening right now in the Middle East that 565 00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:58.760 is not only funded by the Biden administration, but it 566 00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:04.320 is encouraged and it is the explicit policy. And to end, 567 00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:12.159 I'm going to say this, the ultimate symbolic gesture, the 568 00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:24.679 most effective pandering in history that has quenched any revolutionary 569 00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:31.239 sentiment in this country, that has effectively neutralized the spontaneous 570 00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:38.239 uprising that should have led to certain change, was the 571 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:44.480 nomination of Kamala Harris and the ultimate election of Kamala 572 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:52.440 Harris as vice president and now the coronation of Kamala 573 00:36:52.559 --> 00:37:00.199 Harris as presidential candidate for the Democratic Party without any prime. 574 00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:06.199 This isn't even actually a joyous moment. It just it 575 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:09.679 feels so good to see another system, see what I see. 576 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:17.320 Okay, I know that's a hard pill for some of 577 00:37:17.360 -->

00:37:22.079 y'all to swallow. I know some of y'all got angry 578 00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:27.840 watching that, but that really is legit. And if you 579 00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:30.079 really sit with yourself and you do the math and 580 00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:32.800 you add it up and you take out your own 581 00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:38.840 self serving ego or self protective behaviors, you'll see it. 582 00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:43.480 And once you see it clearly, then you can absolutely 583 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:48.239 better direct your energy to how you can use your 584 00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:52.920 critical thinking skills to create the change that you wish 585 00:37:53.039 --> 00:38:00.159 to see. 586 00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:07.760 Let's thank you. 587 00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:18.039 I really just wanted to play it again. 588 00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:22.480 Somebody who was always exercising their critical thinking skills is 589 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:26.599 our next guest, who's coming to the stage for sixty second. 590 00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:29.760 Headler sixty head. 591 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:32.760 And one has a news drive. 592 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:43.440 Let's give a great Amanda Land. 593 00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:52.480 Welcome to Ronda Gerrard, author, Hello, professor, how are you love? 594 00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:56.440 I am better these days. 595 00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:57.559 You're better these days. 596 00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:59.360 Better today and the day before. 597 00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:00.800 Yes, talk to me. 598 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:07.679 Because we saw Palestinians coming home and watching those Palestinians 599 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:13.079 walk home, walk in flip flops, barefoot, holding their pets. 600 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:17.039 These people would not let go of their pets. They 601 00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:20.719 think that they're going to let go of their land. 602 00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:24.480 I don't think so. Palestinians still have the keys to 603 00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:29.840 their old houses. So watching so many of us just 604 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:34.880 marching home. It means everything. It just means the entire world. 605 00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:37.679 It means that we can all go home. It means 606 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:45.880 that every single exiled, depopulated, ethnically cleansed. You know, people 607 00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:50.480 can go home and will go home. We will all 608 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:53.559 get to go home. We are actually winning and it's 609 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:56.599 terrifying those in power. 610 00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:01.440 Tell me about that, because I see them really like upset. 611 00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:05.800 They're like, this is a sign of weakness. 612 00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:07.000 What's that about? 613 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.440 It is it's because they know they're losing. They know 614 00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:14.199 that even with millions and billions of dollars in aid, 615 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:19.079 they are still losing. You know, they are. They don't 616 00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:21.079 have enough bombs, they don't have enough guns. They don't 617 00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:21.840 have enough. 618 00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:26.159 I'm like, y'all got all the guns bombs in the world. 619 00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:27.320 I gotta stay losing. 620 00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:32.960 Yeah, because people do not give up. People continue to 621 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:36.280 fight for what they know is theirs, which is their land, 622 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:41.000 and they're right to be on that land. And they 623 00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:43.239 know that the land is theirs. That's why they go 624 00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:47.199 home to it. You know, people in the north of Palestine, 625 00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:52.559 you know that are on the you know, apartheid line 626 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.280 or borders they want to call it. With Razza. These Israelis, 627 00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:01.039 so called Israelis, they are being offered money, They're being 628 00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.920 offered vouchers, all sorts of shit to go back to 629 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:07.639 their settlements, and they're not going. They're like, that's not 630 00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:11.000 enough for us. You need to give us more. That's 631 00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:13.800 how you know they're settlers. Okay, that's how you know 632 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:19.800 those Europeans pretending to be natives are just settlers because 633 00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:22.719 they don't want to go home. The only people fighting 634 00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:26.000 are the people who are being indoctrinated from the age 635 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:31.400 of eighteen to join Israeli offensive forces, occupying forces, and 636 00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:35.679 Palestinians don't need a voucher to go home. Palestinians are 637 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:38.440 going home too rubble. We are seeing videos of them 638 00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:43.400 jokingly saying, oh, the crip looks great. Look it looks 639 00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:46.000 so good, and then the camera pans and there's. 640 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:49.079 No, there's no they don't give a shit. 641 00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.320 They're just like, this is our home, so it is 642 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:56.039 just so joyous to see it. And yes, it's you know, 643 00:41:56.119 --> 00:41:58.960 there are so many martyrs there's Today is the one 644 00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:03.599 year anniversary Hindrada being shot by her family three not 645 00:42:03.800 --> 00:42:06.199 by her with her family, but yeside her family by 646 00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:11.800 the Israeli's three hundred and fifty five times three hundred 647 00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:15.519 and fifty five bullets. Who were they supplied by? They 648 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:18.679 were supplied by the Biden administration. They're going to be 649 00:42:18.679 --> 00:42:20.719

continued to be supplied by Trump. But we need to 650 00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:24.679 remember Biden was the fascist too, and we need to 651 00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:26.880 accept that, and we need to accept, like, I. 652 00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:30.039 Love Kamala to please of course Kamala. 653 00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:33.320 People really are constantly like she's it's different. 654 00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:35.000 She's married to a Zionist. 655 00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:37.760 Oh my god, it doesn't even matter, right. 656 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.039 She could be does because people need things to make 657 00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:40.519 sense for. 658 00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:42.559 That to be married to a Palestinian. She could be 659 00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.440 married to a Palestinian and still be a piece of 660 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:50.639 shit Zionist who is supporting think about it. She it's 661 00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:53.639 because people don't. They think she has no power. They think, oh, 662 00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:56.960 until she's president. She doesn't actually have power. She's just 663 00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:01.159 you know, Vice President Barbie. It's like she's an actual 664 00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:03.840 person who makes choices. She could have quit, she could 665 00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:06.679 have said, because of this genocide, I will not continue, 666 00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:10.480 but instead she pretended to run for president because she 667 00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:11.760 loves us so much. 668 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:14.960 You know what I had people telling me yesterday, they 669 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.280 were like, because people to this day will still be like, Amanda, 670 00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:21.679 you are part of the reason why this person is 671 00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:25.039 in power. You should have been encouraging people to vote 672 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:25.920 for Kamala Harris. 673 00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:27.960 And I'm like, I will never I. 674 00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:31.199 Never said don't, but I never said do because I'm 675 00:43:31.239 --> 00:43:33.599 never gonna encourage you to vote for someone who is 676 00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:36.920 staunchly standing on genocide. Like, I'm not going to do that, right, 677 00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:39.480 I'm going to provide you with information and then you 678 00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:40.280 can make a choice. 679 00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:42.239 But I'm not gonna stump and I'm not. 680 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:46.280 Going to endorse somebody who is actively saying I will 681 00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:48.719 not only support this genocide, but I will make sure 682 00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:52.719 that America continues to be the most lethal lethal military 683 00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:53.159 in the world. 684 00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:54.159 Lethal. 685 00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:57.360 Lethal is just another word for deadly. That's what lethal 686 00:43:57.559 --> 00:43:58.239 actually means. 687 00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:01.760 And so people are you know, so I said, well, 688 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:03.519 she should have asked for as a ceasefire. If she 689 00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:05.679 was really trying to win, she would have demanded a ceasefire. 690 00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:07.400 And they're like, well, that would have just been in name. 691 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:09.480 She would have just been faking. Is that what you 692 00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:13.280 would have preferred she did. I'm like the mental gymnastiques, 693 00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:17.800 seriously acrobatiques, it's small Boles is looking at him like, 694 00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:20.880 you win, seriously, got nothing on me? 695 00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:24.320 Yeah? I mean, and why do we always have to wait? 696 00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:27.519 You know? They constantly hold this hostage and say the 697 00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:29.840 Dems are always like if we're not an empowered, if 698 00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:34.239 you don't donate fifty dollars today, then there nobody will 699 00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:34.559 have right. 700 00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:38.280 Where does all that money go? She raised one billion dollars? 701 00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:40.039 Where is it? 702 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:42.679 Is that money going to be used to help bail 703 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:45.079 out the people who are going to now not have 704 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:47.840 jobs because this guy has implemented. 705 00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:49.000 Schedule F which we are about to talk. 706 00:44:48.840 --> 00:44:51.800 About next, because that's what I want to know. Are 707 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:55.079 the Democrats have a billion dollars that was donated to 708 00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:58.440 them for a campaign and they didn't win. 709 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:02.119 Where the am billions? Let's go to try to. 710 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:04.719 Win in in to try to win a mid term 711 00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:05.880 in two years? 712 00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:08.039 Like you said, keep waiting, keep waiting, keep waiting. 713 00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:11.679 They went to the open bar at the parties, you know, 714 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:14.400 I mean they went, they did. I don't know what 715 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:17.719 they were drinking, but that shit was expensive. And I 716 00:45:17.719 --> 00:45:20.360 think they still owe money to their party planners. If 717 00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:21.360 you follow the money. 718 00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:22.599 Yeah, yeah, you're you're serious. 719 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:25.639 I think so. I've heard that people are still owed money, 720 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:29.000 people who perform, people who went, which serves them. Right, 721 00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:31.679 That's what you get for being, you know, the clown 722 00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:34.079 for Empire. I mean, it's just ridiculous. 723 00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:36.920 It is Hello, Cat, this is Lando. 724 00:45:37.400 -->

00:45:39.920 Oh my god, Lando, Hello, what a beauty? 725 00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:41.159 This is Lando. 726 00:45:41.239 --> 00:45:44.880 Orlando has a tumor, So Lando gets to do whatever 727 00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:50.400 he wants. Love Orlando comes up here and we just adjust, 728 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:51.360 We just adjust. 729 00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:52.199 Well. 730 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.760 I end up speaking about the whole Federal aid funds 731 00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:56.639 thing for like the first portion of the show, so 732 00:45:56.639 --> 00:45:58.880 we don't got to reiterate that. So let's just get 733 00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:02.239 into I don't know if you saw this whole thing 734 00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:04.480 about the fork in the road email. 735 00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:05.280 Did you see this? 736 00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:07.199 Yes, it's hysterical. 737 00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:10.880 It's hysterical, but it's also very real, and I don't 738 00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:15.239 think y'all understand it he being talking about this. Okay, 739 00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:20.960 So the Trump administration is literally offering nearly all federal 740 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:27.920 workers the opportunity to resign from their posts now and 741 00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:33.760 still retain full pay and benefits through September thirtieth. They 742 00:46:33.800 --> 00:46:37.199 sent out a notice via an email blast from the 743 00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:40.119 US Office of Personal Management, the OPM. 744 00:46:40.239 --> 00:46:41.880 This came out Tuesday, afternoon. 745 00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:44.280 Oh my god, Lando, You're killing me. 746 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:46.760 This came out Tuesday afternoon. 747 00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:50.360 And one thing I want to point out is that 748 00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:53.239 the person that sent this I feel very offended. But 749 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:58.840 her name is Amanda Scales. I don't like how close 750 00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:00.199 that is to my name in. 751 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:03.480 The bizarro world. She is the bizarro world version. 752 00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:04.400 Okay. 753 00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:06.519 So I went to an Urban Lea conference my junior 754 00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:08.559 year of high school and when I got there, my 755 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:12.119 name tag said Amando Scales and they were like, well. 756 00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:12.760 We can't change it. 757 00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:15.840 So for three days my name was Amando Scales at 758 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:18.840 the Urban League conference. And ever since then, I always 759 00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:21.199 be having a surplus of clothes, and so every season 760 00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:23.679 I will do like a giveaway to my friends and 761 00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:25.960 I call it an a Mondo scale sample sale I 762 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:26.679 have been doing. 763 00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:30.880 I've been doing. This is high school college. 764

00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:33.400 I just did the Mondo scale sample sale when I 765 00:47:33.559 --> 00:47:37.239 moved here to New York from LA. So this is 766 00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:39.599 the email blast that was sent out you guys. So 767 00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:42.079 it's the fork in the Road email. This is literally 768 00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.800 like an email style and this is a carbon copy 769 00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:49.679 they said of what ya man's dion dion, which your 770 00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:53.000 man's elon sent out to the Twitter, folks. 771 00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:56.280 So the email says two. 772 00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:01.039 During the first week of his administration, President Trump issued 773 00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:04.800 a number of directives concerning the federal workforce. Among those directives, 774 00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:08.519 the president required that employees return to in person work, 775 00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:10.960 so anybody who doesn't want to do that, you can go. 776 00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:15.639 Restored accountability for employees who have policymaking authority I don't 777 00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:19.159 know when that was lost. And restored accountability for senior 778 00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:24.360 career executives. Basically, though, that's abbos. This is what the 779 00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:30.760 real thing is, y'all. They're basically saying you have to 780 00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:34.679 pledge your allegiance to Donald Trump if you want to 781 00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:35.519 stay working here. 782 00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:36.679 Now, some people. 783 00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:41.960 Are like shock, horror, but this is literally what he 784 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:45.119 said he was gonna do. Schedule F was already on 785 00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:50.079 the agenda that him and his consiglieri Steve Bannon had 786 00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:51.519 talked about during his first term. 787 00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:52.360 Now. 788 00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:56.639 Protect Democracy dot Org cites this move as problematic. 789 00:48:57.159 --> 00:48:59.000 I'm just gonna read this, even though y'all already know it, 790 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:03.239 We're gonna read it. A core tenet of democracy is 791 00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:06.400 that the government should work on behalf of the public. 792 00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:10.000 It is in recognition of this principle that public officials 793 00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:14.039 are required to take an oath to uphold the Constitution. 794 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:20.639 The Constitution a reminder, in the words of Georgetown University 795 00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:26.320 Public public policy professor Donald moynihan, that their deepest loyalty 796 00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:31.159 is to something greater than whoever occupies the White House 797 00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:32.079 or Congress. 798 00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:36.920 Civil servants are really supposed to be serving the people. 799 00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:40.440 Yeah, what are your thoughts, period? 800 00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:41.320 Any thoughts? 801 00:49:41.559 --> 00:49:43.800 First of all, the four pillars that he talks about, 802 00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:46.440 he rips off Islam first of all, talk to me 803 00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:50.159 about five pillars. Yeah, I'm just kidding around, but basically 804 00:49:50.199 --> 00:49:53.920 like he's just constantly ripping people off. But I thought 805 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:55.920 it was hilarious just because I thought of it as 806 00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:58.559 like receiving a text that was like type one to 807 00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:02.440 opt into keeping your job literally type two to say 808 00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:09.840 fuck the United States. Oh oh excuse me, that's my fault. Sorry, 809 00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:16.280 send me the bill of any kind of yeah, Venmo immediately. 810 00:50:18.639 --> 00:50:21.519 But yeah, I mean I think that it's like this 811 00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:24.880 this kind of like you know, AI murdering people. It's 812 00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:27.239 just this idea of like we will text you, you'll 813 00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:31.360 tell us that you don't want your job anymore and 814 00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:34.800 and just reply resign. Just just it's like no, you resign. 815 00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:39.719 You resign. Everyone who works for Trump is Trump. You resign, No, 816 00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:43.079 you're fired. But the idea is that, like, let's make 817 00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:46.920 it as easy as possible to shrink the government, you know, 818 00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:50.400 And part of me is like, yes, dismantle this entire place, 819 00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:53.360 scrough it, it doesn't matter, just just end it all anyway. 820 00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:57.440 It's collapse, collapse that collapse. But yeah, he is a liar. 821 00:50:57.639 --> 00:50:59.679 He you know, whoever falls for this, I feel bad 822 00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:02.000 for that, and ultimately. 823 00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:03.480 The right because they're not going to get paid their money. 824 00:51:03.519 --> 00:51:06.800 They're not. They're not, you know, And ultimately I think 825 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:10.480 that buried in here is the whole We're all going 826 00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:12.679 back to work five days a week. So he this 827 00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:16.000 man does not care about disabled people. This man does 828 00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:18.679 not care about people generally, but he really does not 829 00:51:18.840 --> 00:51:22.199 care about disabled people and telling them go back to 830 00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:24.760 either you go back to your office or we're going 831 00:51:24.840 --> 00:51:30.000 to fire you anyway, So, you know, any just denial 832 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:33.599 of the fact that COVID exists, still long, COVID still exists, 833 00:51:33.639 --> 00:51:36.119 and people are still sick and cannot A lot of 834

00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:39.400 people just also just cannot go to their office and 835 00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:42.880 can do their job just fine. In a very short 836 00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:46.599 amount of time actually daily. Imagine that efficiency. But yeah, 837 00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:51.760 and I just think it's it's just him also every day, 838 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:55.159 every day proving that the Dems could have done so 839 00:51:55.320 --> 00:51:59.880 much to protect people, to ensure that our rights are codified, 840 00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:04.440 all sorts of stuff that they could have done, and 841 00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:06.920 he just he just proves. He just proves it every 842 00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:08.960 single day with his little Donald Trump show. 843 00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:12.239 I think people wonder why I go on and on 844 00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:14.719 about the Dems, and it's because I want to get 845 00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:19.400 it through y'all's heads that you cannot keep investing your 846 00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:22.239 energy into a group of people that has no interest 847 00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:27.119 in saving you. And that's what Until I see majority 848 00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:29.719 people getting that, I will continue to send that message 849 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:34.159 like these they're they because we have to have another 850 00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:36.679 party or a revolutionariod. 851 00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:39.480 Yeah, and we're gonna and it's gonna end up being 852 00:52:39.480 --> 00:52:40.840 a revolution in order to get another party. 853 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.400 That's right exactly. It just goes in hand, hand in hand, 854 00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:46.559 and you can't separate that, right, you just can't. People 855 00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:51.920 have to revolt in order to have the actual you know, 856 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:54.880 government or whatever in place to make sure that we 857 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.960 all actually are constantly taking care of each other. That's 858 00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:00.280 what Mutual Aid is. That's what all of this. Seeing 859 00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:04.039 the fires in La here and seeing who actually showed up, 860 00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:07.679 you know, it wasn't it wasn't. It wasn't the government. 861 00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:12.440 It was incarcerated people who put out these fires, and 862 00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:15.039 it was other people taking care of each other. That's 863 00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:17.639 who it was and that's who it continues to be. 864 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:22.039 People are posting up at an RCO right now distributing 865 00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:25.639 mutual aid to each other because there is no government building, 866 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.039 There is no structure that actually provides the people right 867 00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:34.400 using whatever is you know there, the kindness of this 868 00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:38.079 whoever owns these businesses or whoever cares enough to say 869 00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:42.679 you can come here and set up shot. Yeah, exactly. 870 00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:45.239 And that's what we're seeing when we see what's happening, 871 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:47.599 when we see this genocide in Palestine, when we see 872 00:53:47.599 --> 00:53:50.800 what's happening, and so then when we see what people 873 00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:54.039 are capable of doing to take care of each other 874 00:53:54.519 --> 00:53:57.320 in the absence of actual structures. 875 00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:00.679 I mean right now in the Congo, they got so 876 00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:04.840 mad about what's going on they went to Conshassa and 877 00:54:04.920 --> 00:54:07.280 started burning stuff up, Like you know what, if y'all 878 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:09.719 don't get it together, we don't get it together, give 879 00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:12.440 us the guns. If y'all army ain't going to be affected, 880 00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:13.960 then give us the guns so we can do it. 881 00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:21.360 Yeah, exactly, and purge the entire continent of the French already. 882 00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:25.559 Let's go everybody, let's you know, just it is just 883 00:54:26.639 --> 00:54:31.719 everybody else models for us how to actually be free. 884 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:35.440 It seems like, and we let's go, let's wake up, 885 00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:38.320 let's just do this because there's no other way around it, 886 00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:40.280 and it's not going to be fun and it's not 887 00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:42.800 going to be easy. But seeing what just happened to 888 00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:47.480 these communities in Altadena is just it just shows us like, no, 889 00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:50.639 they're not going to help us. Things are just you know, 890 00:54:50.679 --> 00:54:53.639 and we don't have to be sort of like Debbie 891 00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:55.760 Downers or whatever you want to call it, and say, oh, 892 00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:58.920 everything's going to be terrible, but no, climate catastrophe is 893 00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:01.800 coming for all of us. You know, what do you 894 00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:04.079 what do you think happened with all these bombs dropping, 895 00:55:04.119 --> 00:55:07.119 all these all the phosphorus. It's affecting us, It all 896 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:08.320 everything affects us. 897 00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:10.880 Can you talk a little bit about that, because I 898 00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:13.960 think a lot of folks don't know or realize how 899 00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:17.079 the bombs actually work. Like I think folks think a 900 00:55:17.159 --> 00:55:19.360 bomb drops and the people who are there that are harmed, 901 00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:20.039 like that's it. 902 00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:24.320 No, it continues, It continues for generations. And it also 903 00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:28.480 just continues and reverberates.

Right, And this isn't just something 904 00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:31.559 that happens far away. Everything that happens far away catches 905 00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:34.320 up to us. Look at these Santa ana wins too. 906 00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:37.440 These winds are powerful that came to you know, they 907 00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:41.039 come every year to la and indigenous people, people who 908 00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:44.280 are the real original stewards of the land. They knew 909 00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:47.719 how to deal with the Santa anoins. They thought of 910 00:55:48.480 --> 00:55:52.320 the environment around them as spiritual, right, not just something 911 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:55.320 that you have to you can control or you know, 912 00:55:55.440 --> 00:55:58.119 forced to be a certain way. Right, we have to 913 00:55:58.159 --> 00:56:00.840 have to actually realize that we're not always in control. 914 00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:04.760 And how can we treat the earth? How how are 915 00:56:04.760 --> 00:56:07.119 we actually interacting with it? And it's like, you don't 916 00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:10.880 it's not a hippie thing, right, It's like it's smart, 917 00:56:11.199 --> 00:56:13.119 this is real. This is like you know, a dude 918 00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:16.000 once told me and my girlfriend, like, why why are 919 00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:18.760 you wearing COVID masks? I don't believe in science? And 920 00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:23.320 this dude was waiting for an elevator that is an elevator, sir, 921 00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:27.039 you know, you don't, you don't have to believe in science. 922 00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:30.360 Just it's just really, it's real. It's just real. So 923 00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:33.039 these bombs that are full of phosphorus and all sorts 924 00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:36.159 of chemicals that are being dropped even far away. Where 925 00:56:36.239 --> 00:56:40.440 is that that is right by the Mediterranean Sea? Eh, 926 00:56:40.519 --> 00:56:43.800 it borders everything and then it goes into the Atlantic. 927 00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:46.440 And all of this is real, all of it affects. 928 00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:49.360 This is not just like we are on the same rock. 929 00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:50.840 This is a planet. 930 00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:54.719 And that just reminded me that one time I was 931 00:56:55.800 --> 00:56:57.880 I was with the homeboy and he had brought his homeboy, 932 00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:01.840 and his homeboy was fine, and then my homeboy had 933 00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:03.639 went to the bathroom, and so we were chit chatting 934 00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:09.760 and I said something about Venus the planet, and he said, oh, 935 00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:13.800 you believe in that, and I said believe in what? 936 00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:20.320 And he said space? Y'all, Oh my god, I'm the 937 00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:28.000 head out that man, say you believe in space. 938 00:57:29.199 --> 00:57:32.000 That's the thing

about fine people. Sometimes they're not the smartest. 939 00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:38.000 They have fine people privilege. Okay, it's difficult to have 940 00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:40.280 conversations about planets with them. 941 00:57:40.760 --> 00:57:43.400 My vagina zipped up ran and hid in the closet. 942 00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:45.519 It looked out of here. It's over. 943 00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:50.360 Yes, goodbye, Well, thank you so much for joining us. 944 00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:52.599 Is there anything that you would want to inform the 945 00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:54.519 people about that we did not talk about today that 946 00:57:54.559 --> 00:57:55.800 you feel like they need to know about. 947 00:57:56.199 --> 00:57:59.159 No, just free palest signed for us. All we must. 948 00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:02.760 We must cantinue to fight and be open and listen 949 00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:06.239 and be free. And yeah, oh, I know. 950 00:58:06.199 --> 00:58:06.960 What I want to ask you? 951 00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:10.280 What made you start Crimes of Caucasity Because I was 952 00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:15.880 following crimes of Caucasity for like years and then you 953 00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:16.360 were like. 954 00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:16.719 It's me. 955 00:58:17.239 --> 00:58:18.920 I'm Palcidian, I will I've. 956 00:58:18.800 --> 00:58:19.920 Run crimes of Caucasic. 957 00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:24.920 I am Laurona. I Honestly, it was the crimes, the 958 00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:29.360 caucacious crimes, the fact that the Caucasians continue to caucate. 959 00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:32.800 It was so overwhelming that I had to create a 960 00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:37.719 kind of, you know, way to archive for the people 961 00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:40.840 these caucacious crimes. So now I have to figure out 962 00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:43.840 a way to migrate it off of METAK and there's 963 00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:45.639 just so many different ways we can do it. It'll 964 00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:48.039 be fun, and I'll be it'll actually be more interesting 965 00:58:48.079 --> 00:58:51.159 because we'll be able to go into detail of these crimes. 966 00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:54.559 So they're saying that Blue Sky is going to build 967 00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:56.800 like their version of IG. 968 00:58:58.079 --> 00:59:01.320 It's really hard though, because Blue Sky Israeli investors too. 969 00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:04.440 I'm very I know, I just found out. I don't 970 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.840 know what to do. I think that they're just everywhere. 971 00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:08.159 So how do we? 972 00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:12.480 Yeah, exactly, I don't know. I don't know what to do. 973 00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:16.039 Let's why can't we just start Let's start our own 974 00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:21.440 app where it's just I G It's Tumblr, it's it's 975 00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:26.159 the word press stuff, it's sub stack, we call it domsack, 976 00:59:26.239 --> 00:59:28.559 whatever you want to call it. You know, let's just 977 00:59:28.599 --> 00:59:33.159 start our own platforms and let's not use AI people 978 00:59:33.239 --> 00:59:35.760 because it is not cool. 979 00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:37.079 Is trying to start an app? 980 00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:41.880 I have dated people who have started to have tried 981 00:59:42.039 --> 00:59:45.199 and the former zipping up of the nether region. 982 00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:51.119 Yeah, it is really a trying journey trying to start 983 00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:51.360 a NAP. 984 00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:55.079 Yeah, I bet it is. I know what to do. 985 00:59:55.679 --> 00:59:57.480 I don't know what to do. You just you know, 986 00:59:57.679 --> 00:59:59.280 you just blew my Blue Sky joy. 987 01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:03.920 I'm sorry. I didn't I didn't blow. I didn't do that. 988 01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:08.480 Israeli did that. Such colonialists ruin everything. 989 01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:12.679 Fair, they do ruin everything, don't they? 990 01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:17.519 Well, I am so happy that you joined us and 991 01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:20.880 so happy that we got to connect. And the last 992 01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:23.559 time I saw you was at Columbia University when we 993 01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:26.559 were at the people's graduation, and. 994 01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:34.280 Uh, you know, I feel like I like Colombia. 995 01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:37.639 I'm really curious to just see where these colleges go. 996 01:00:39.480 --> 01:00:47.079 Colombia just ahead, speaking of space, Columbia just chastised a 997 01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:53.239 graduate student publicly because she dared to mention, uh, Palestinian 998 01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:57.599 astronomers and what this guy looks like in ASA with 999 01:00:58.159 --> 01:01:01.840 for her astronomy class. You can look the up. Yeah, 1000 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:04.159 there were just two lines in her syllabus about the 1001 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:06.840 Palestinians and how it's difficult for them to see this 1002 01:01:06.920 --> 01:01:10.039 guy the astronomers of Azza. But you have to believe 1003 01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:14.320 in space too, and I don't know Columbia believes in 1004 01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:15.199 space at this point. 1005 01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:19.039 Well, you know, I think it's really interesting. I don't 1006 01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:21.079 know where they're resting their hats because I just saw 1007 01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:22.159 Jade Vance. 1008 01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:22.960 Do a whole video. 1009 01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:25.360 I mean he was speaking in a whole video, but 1010 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:26.800 he he did a whole speech where he said the 1011 01:01:26.840 --> 01:01:27.840 professors are the enemy. 1012 01:01:28.719 --> 01:01:31.719 Hilarious. But yeah, they'll they'll always say that about us. 1013 01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:34.639 They'll always just be like, you know, and and and 1014 01:01:34.679 -->

01:01:36.800 then the people will think, oh, they want us to 1015 01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:41.119 be stupid, you know, or they're touting stupidity. No, they're 1016 01:01:41.159 --> 01:01:47.679 really just touting their own ideas of you know, what 1017 01:01:47.920 --> 01:01:51.039 knowledge is, what is science? What is science? It's just power. 1018 01:01:51.079 --> 01:01:54.239 It's just their way of trying to say that this 1019 01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:58.119 small percentage of people is actually, you know, the problem, 1020 01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:00.880 when it's really not that. It's always the one percent 1021 01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:05.519 that's the problem. Always just keep our eyes focused, let 1022 01:02:05.599 --> 01:02:11.840 us check out blueprints of guillotines, let us think about ways. Yeah, 1023 01:02:11.960 --> 01:02:16.519 what did people do in the past. I don't know history. 1024 01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:23.280 History, Well, we are somebody's history. What does Howard Zen say? 1025 01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:28.280 The life is just a sequence of histories something like that. 1026 01:02:29.199 --> 01:02:32.159 So thank you so much. Where can people get more 1027 01:02:32.239 --> 01:02:33.719 of your dopeness? 1028 01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:37.079 You can read my books. I've written three books. You 1029 01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:40.280 can get them for a dollar used you know, I 1030 01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:43.039 don't get any money from my books, so just seek 1031 01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:46.840 them out and get your fix. And also there will 1032 01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:50.199 be a mini doc about me called Ronda by the 1033 01:02:50.239 --> 01:02:55.559 great film director Sterlinghampton, the fourth and that will be 1034 01:02:55.599 --> 01:02:59.760 premiering in February and then in hopefully March or April. 1035 01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:04.480 Our cartoon number one Family number one, Happy Family USA 1036 01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:09.320 will be coming out from A twenty four and it's 1037 01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:12.679 about a Muslim family navigating nine to eleven post nine 1038 01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:13.079 to eleven. 1039 01:03:13.719 --> 01:03:18.239 So and you're acting or to doc no, no exacting. 1040 01:03:18.480 --> 01:03:23.280 The second one is a cartoons are voicing. Yes, I'm voicing. 1041 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:27.360 I'm voicing Grandma, a badass who kind of will remind 1042 01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:32.400 you a little bit of Kenny from South Park. She 1043 01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:36.280 is in a cobby, so you only see her eyes, 1044 01:03:36.320 --> 01:03:37.440 but she is quite sassy. 1045 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:42.119 But you only see your eyes. 1046 01:03:42.199 --> 01:03:44.719 Yeah, you only see her eyes and they look like mine, 1047 01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:45.480 so they're just like. 1048 01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:47.440 Love it. 1049 01:03:47.719 --> 01:03:50.119 Well, I'm excited for all of the things, and thank 1050 01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:52.639 you so much for joining and stay stafe out there. 1051 01:03:52.519 --> 01:03:54.559 In the way for being you. 1052 01:03:54.679 --> 01:03:59.320 We love you, appreciate you. Yeah, I'll give it up 1053 01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:01.119 for the Girah. 1054 01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:06.800 We're so lucky here at views from Amanda Land. We're 1055 01:04:06.800 --> 01:04:11.320 so lucky here from views from mandaland people. We are really, 1056 01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:20.679 we are really just a great community. For those who 1057 01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:22.719 are just joining us, please let me know where you're 1058 01:04:22.840 --> 01:04:28.679 joining from, and please let me know what you are here, 1059 01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:32.199 what your day is like. Our guest is texting me 1060 01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:35.159 instead of coming on. It's driving me a little. 1061 01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:37.960 Crazy, but please let me know. 1062 01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:53.719 And it is time for me to remind you that 1063 01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:58.119 this is a show that we do for free. And 1064 01:04:58.159 --> 01:05:00.360 when I say we, I mean me. 1065 01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:13.480 Hey, oh hey, show your love, show your love, drop it, 1066 01:05:13.599 --> 01:05:14.559 drop it, drop. 1067 01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:18.760 It, show you love, show your love. 1068 01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:23.800 Come on, y'all, I said, hit me in the cash 1069 01:05:23.800 --> 01:05:28.639 shat baby, Hit me in the cash shat baby bear, 1070 01:05:29.119 --> 01:05:32.079 or drop a super for me, or drop a super 1071 01:05:32.119 --> 01:05:32.440 for me? 1072 01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:35.800 Gee bay, Yeah, drop. 1073 01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:38.400 A super, drop a super. I do this show for 1074 01:05:38.440 --> 01:05:42.519 free every day for you and me. I keep you informed. 1075 01:05:42.679 --> 01:05:45.920 That is what we do for free. It's called community. 1076 01:05:46.159 --> 01:05:49.079 C O M m U N I T y y 1077 01:05:49.239 --> 01:05:54.519 y y y yay guy God shout to everybody. 1078 01:05:54.599 --> 01:05:59.159 Dropping a super shouts everybody who's checking in every morning. 1079 01:05:59.760 --> 01:06:12.480 Here at views from a man Joe. When I tell y'all, 1080 01:06:13.599 --> 01:06:15.559 we as a people need to get it together with 1081 01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:20.039 time zones. Okay, folks do not be knowing time zones, 1082 01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:22.480 and it'd be driving me crazy. I'm seeing some of 1083 01:06:22.519 --> 01:06:24.920 y'all say, I confuse the time zone. I said, the 1084 01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:26.880 show is at ten am Eastern, and. 1085 01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:28.239 Y'all talking about one pm. 1086 01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:31.480 When you live in California, you know you don't live 1087 01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:32.880 three hours ahead of New York. 1088 01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:37.719 You know you don't you left three hours behind New York. 1089

01:06:37.800 --> 01:06:40.320 You know that because when you live in La y'all, 1090 01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:45.079 you always behind. You get everything late New Year's. 1091 01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:51.880 Everybody's like new Yeah, you like ooh n yeah, ooh 1092 01:06:52.159 --> 01:06:53.239 n yea. 1093 01:06:54.199 --> 01:06:56.719 And then when we have international folks, they'd be like, 1094 01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.119 I don't know the time zone. I'm like you who 1095 01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:09.360 the world clock? The other the world clock? Okay, Now, 1096 01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:11.280 while we. 1097 01:07:11.280 --> 01:07:14.679 Are waiting for the guest, we have my episode this 1098 01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:21.920 week for Small Doses Podcast is side effects of leaving Instagram. 1099 01:07:22.719 --> 01:07:24.800 The reason why you hear surprise in my voice is 1100 01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:29.639 because when I recorded this episode, I didn't plan to 1101 01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:32.840 air it this. I didn't plan to leave Instagram this week. 1102 01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:34.760 Like that was just something I did on the On 1103 01:07:34.840 --> 01:07:38.360 the it just came to me when the whole boycott 1104 01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:40.079 and Target and all that and people being like doing 1105 01:07:40.079 --> 01:07:41.800 boycott because I'm still there, I said, let me just 1106 01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:46.559 demonstrate that, you know, boycotts are about. 1107 01:07:46.480 --> 01:07:48.239 Them losing money, not you losing money. 1108 01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:51.800 And then it turns out that this episode was scheduled 1109 01:07:51.800 --> 01:07:54.320 to air, which lets me know that I am on 1110 01:07:54.599 --> 01:07:57.920 path because there is no such thing as coincidences. I 1111 01:07:58.119 --> 01:08:01.039 created an ai Twitter, and the a Twitter in like 1112 01:08:01.079 --> 01:08:04.519 twenty four hours became a racist, misogynist piece because it. 1113 01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:08.400 Had learned from Twitter how to exist. So like we 1114 01:08:08.440 --> 01:08:09.960 as humans, like, that's what we're doing. 1115 01:08:10.039 --> 01:08:12.599 We're like learning how to exist and we're continuing to 1116 01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:15.280 do so within the confines of spaces that continue to 1117 01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:17.520 give us new ways to exist in horrible ways. The 1118 01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:20.479 Internet literally like fostered this like new way of existing 1119 01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:22.560 that is a whole other version of being a ass 1120 01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:25.680 motherfuck And so when these people wake up every day 1121 01:08:25.720 --> 01:08:27.920 and they will come find your page and on my page, 1122 01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:29.520 you got to follow me to even do shit. So 1123 01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:31.640 there's a whole step that they got to take to 1124 01:08:31.760 --> 01:08:33.520 then just be mean motherfuckers. 1125 01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:38.680 That alone, that alone would make you say, you know what, 1126 01:08:38.920 --> 01:08:42.000 I'm a head out. I'm a head out because who 1127 01:08:42.039 --> 01:08:44.439 needs this? But you feel like you need it because 1128 01:08:44.479 --> 01:08:46.920 there's this whole world now that's been created that says that, 1129 01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:49.399 like you have to be on here or else. 1130 01:08:52.239 --> 01:08:52.359 X. 1131 01:08:53.399 --> 01:08:54.359 That's how you feel. 1132 01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:59.119 You know how many people I have like pressuring me 1133 01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:00.359 to stay on Instagram. 1134 01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:02.079 We need you here. 1135 01:09:03.359 --> 01:09:06.920 As if they are tethered to Instagram. There are so 1136 01:09:07.119 --> 01:09:13.319 many free options. I'm here, I'm on Blue Sky, I'll 1137 01:09:13.319 --> 01:09:14.079 be on Twitch. 1138 01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:18.760 Why are people consistently telling me, no, we need you here. 1139 01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:23.520 That's what they want. They want you to leave. What 1140 01:09:23.560 --> 01:09:26.640 what are you talking about? They didn't even know what 1141 01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:30.840 they want. They just want money. But this weird, Like, 1142 01:09:32.279 --> 01:09:33.800 I don't know, y'all be freaking. 1143 01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:36.359 Me out with that we need you here at Instagram. 1144 01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:38.880 It's an app. 1145 01:09:40.439 --> 01:09:42.840 I think some of y'all just don't remember life before Instagram. 1146 01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:46.319 And maybe that's what the difference is because I was 1147 01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:48.039 here in the world before Instagram. 1148 01:09:48.079 --> 01:09:50.520 I was here in the world before social media. 1149 01:09:51.159 --> 01:09:59.159 So shout out to all my myspacers, shout out to 1150 01:09:59.239 --> 01:10:03.600 all of us, and shout out. 1151 01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:19.039 To everybody who just is really it's really killing me. 1152 01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:27.800 When I do things like on point and then it 1153 01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:28.560 doesn't happen. 1154 01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:40.520 Hold on, okay, uh let me. This person is driving 1155 01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:45.760 me crazy. When I'm trying to do. 1156 01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:48.520 A show and I ask every I asked ahead of 1157 01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:50.399 time do you have everything you need? 1158 01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:55.840 And they say yes, and then they don't. I'm like, ah, 1159 01:10:55.920 --> 01:10:57.880 all right, our guest is coming on. 1160 01:10:59.399 --> 01:11:02.600 I'm really looking looking forward to this conversation because when 1161 01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:07.119 people are talking about what do we need to do, 1162 01:11:07.399 --> 01:11:11.640 what can we do? Some people's idea is, well, we 1163 01:11:11.640 --> 01:11:16.760 can leave, we can leave. And I'm not

saying that 1164 01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:20.239 you can't leave, but I'm saying that when we are leaving, 1165 01:11:20.279 --> 01:11:24.279 we need to have a consciousness about where we're going 1166 01:11:24.319 --> 01:11:27.239 and about what the world is actually existing as because 1167 01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:30.319 you know, Americans, we have a. 1168 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:35.960 Very very siloed idea of what the world is. 1169 01:11:37.239 --> 01:11:42.399 That's by design. We have a very what's the word 1170 01:11:42.439 --> 01:11:45.279 I'm looking for? What am I looking for? 1171 01:11:45.359 --> 01:11:48.920 Guys? Myopic? We have a myopic idea of what the 1172 01:11:48.920 --> 01:11:49.479 world is. 1173 01:11:51.520 --> 01:11:56.479 And this is really scary to me because so many 1174 01:11:56.520 --> 01:11:59.000 people are waking up right now, like to a lot 1175 01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:03.239 of things all at one time. They're realizing not only 1176 01:12:03.279 --> 01:12:06.319 that the government that they serve is not something to 1177 01:12:06.359 --> 01:12:09.840 serve that the government's supposed to be serving them. They 1178 01:12:09.880 --> 01:12:13.359 realize that like, okay, that whole John F. Kennedy thing 1179 01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:16.199 like ask not what your ask, not what you can 1180 01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:18.039 do for your ask, not what your government can do 1181 01:12:18.079 --> 01:12:22.680 for you, but what you can do like what no, no, 1182 01:12:23.239 --> 01:12:25.239 I am asking what can the government do for me? 1183 01:12:26.479 --> 01:12:30.800 As I should be and I think it's really important 1184 01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:32.640 that we understand. 1185 01:12:33.760 --> 01:12:36.199 This is a time of great awakening for folks. 1186 01:12:36.600 --> 01:12:41.520 So just give yourself the ability to expand your mind 1187 01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:48.760 and your consciousness. Today's Amandoland ambassad this week's ambassador, this 1188 01:12:48.840 --> 01:12:51.520 week's and oh my god, I can't talk. This week's 1189 01:12:51.520 --> 01:12:54.640 amandaland Ambassador of the week is gonna be talking to 1190 01:12:54.720 --> 01:12:59.319 us about uh Pan Africanism. That's what we're gonna be 1191 01:12:59.319 --> 01:13:03.439 talking about today. So let's let's get into that. 1192 01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:22.600 Are we ready? Yeah? I think we should get into that. Amen. Nope, nope. 1193 01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:24.800 I did a whole new Ambassador of the week, and 1194 01:13:24.880 --> 01:13:26.039 that is what we're gonna play. 1195 01:13:29.079 --> 01:13:31.039 I did a whole new Ambassador of the week and 1196 01:13:31.079 --> 01:13:32.319 that is the one we are going to play. 1197 01:13:32.359 --> 01:13:36.960 So let me just get things together because that is 1198 01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:42.239 what is supposed to play. So our Ambassador of the 1199 01:13:42.239 --> 01:13:47.920 week is coming on right about

now when this finishes 1200 01:13:48.399 --> 01:13:55.079 loading real quick right here on the computer which is 1201 01:13:55.119 --> 01:13:56.720 taking forever. 1202 01:13:56.960 --> 01:14:10.840 Amen, distinguished, get. 1203 01:14:14.319 --> 01:14:17.760 Our Ambassador of the week this week is DJ Bock Holly. 1204 01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:23.880 Welcome to the show, past African writer and leader. 1205 01:14:23.960 --> 01:14:27.560 Hello, DJ, Hello, Amanda, how are you doing? 1206 01:14:28.239 --> 01:14:30.039 I'm good? Where are you joining us from? 1207 01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:33.920 I'm joining you from Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, 1208 01:14:34.079 --> 01:14:36.520 and it's great to be here today. 1209 01:14:37.000 --> 01:14:40.239 Hi, it's crazy. Wait actually, hold on, hold on, hold. 1210 01:14:39.960 --> 01:14:48.880 On, Oh, gret. 1211 01:14:49.520 --> 01:14:51.079 Hook one of my Kenya bracelet. 1212 01:14:51.159 --> 01:14:59.800 Real quick, all right, real quick, jumbo jumbo. 1213 01:15:00.520 --> 01:15:01.079 How about. 1214 01:15:02.920 --> 01:15:05.319 I went to Nairobi. I went to Nairobi and I 1215 01:15:05.399 --> 01:15:10.960 went to the Masaimara. 1216 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:12.760 Oh you did? 1217 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:18.920 I did experience incredible. I really love Kenya. I really 1218 01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:21.239 love Kenya. I mean I've I've been to Ghana, I've 1219 01:15:21.239 --> 01:15:22.800 been to Togo, and I've been to Kenya, so I 1220 01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:26.159 haven't done like enough of that complent continent. But I 1221 01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:30.439 really loved Kenya because I felt like there was a 1222 01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:31.399 a chillness. 1223 01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:37.520 There was a chillness and then there We also went to. 1224 01:15:39.199 --> 01:15:42.000 One of the slum is not the word, one of 1225 01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:46.039 the what's the proper term undocumented? 1226 01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:47.760 Say one more time? 1227 01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:49.760 Informal settlements. 1228 01:15:50.000 --> 01:15:52.359 Yes, So we went to one of the informal settlements. 1229 01:15:52.840 --> 01:15:57.399 And I began working with one of the schools in 1230 01:15:57.439 --> 01:16:00.359 the informal settlements. And so every year I spawn answer 1231 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:03.279 our high school students to be able to go to 1232 01:16:03.359 --> 01:16:06.520 high school. So I sponsor I sponsor twenty eight high 1233 01:16:06.520 --> 01:16:08.920 school students in Kenya to attend high school every year. 1234 01:16:08.960 --> 01:16:10.800 So I've been doing that for the past three years. 1235 01:16:11.000 --> 01:16:15.520 Ah, that's a same me our family, you know. Yes, 1236 01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:21.239 for me, that is going beyond the sentimental declaration of 1237 01:16:21.319 --> 01:16:22.199 us being family. 1238 01:16:23.000 --> 01:16:25.560 You're living it out in that sense. 1239 01:16:26.399

--> 01:16:29.199 Well, that is what brings us to our conversation today 1240 01:16:29.279 --> 01:16:34.720 about Pan Africanism, right because the concept of family on 1241 01:16:34.760 --> 01:16:38.960 a global diasport scale. So please talk to us, let 1242 01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:43.239 us in on where pan Africanism exists in twenty twenty five. 1243 01:16:44.920 --> 01:16:49.079 All right, you know where to begin because there's a 1244 01:16:49.079 --> 01:16:51.960 lot to unpack there. And first of all, thank you 1245 01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:56.760 for having me. You know, it is really really great 1246 01:16:56.800 --> 01:17:00.279 to be able to have this conversation with yourself, fund 1247 01:17:00.319 --> 01:17:05.199 with everybody, all the viewers. It is really something that 1248 01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:09.640 I cherish when we are able to talk about pan Africanism. 1249 01:17:10.239 --> 01:17:14.439 And for me, the starting point. People need to understand 1250 01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:19.119 that the early one hundred and fifty years ago, Africa 1251 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:22.239 as we know it today did not exist. And what 1252 01:17:22.279 --> 01:17:26.479 do I mean by that? The political boundaries, the political 1253 01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:33.279 borders that define Kenya, contemporary Kenya, contemporary Togo, or Nigeria 1254 01:17:33.439 --> 01:17:36.439 or any African country for that matter. And there are 1255 01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:39.880 fifty four of them. They didn't exist at all. It's 1256 01:17:39.960 --> 01:17:44.479 only when there was the partitioning in the infamous Berlin 1257 01:17:44.640 --> 01:17:50.279 Conference in Europe in the late nineteenth century. That is 1258 01:17:50.319 --> 01:17:53.520 when the partitioned then chopped up Africa, you know, like 1259 01:17:54.479 --> 01:17:57.960 a piece of meat. And then now, Vuala, we have 1260 01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:02.800 the borders that we have today. Why I say that 1261 01:18:03.720 --> 01:18:07.920 is once we realize that, then we begin to see 1262 01:18:07.960 --> 01:18:13.239 that pan Africanism is not just a historical or romanticist 1263 01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:19.560 notion of African unity, but pan Africanism is what defined 1264 01:18:19.680 --> 01:18:23.439 us for ages, for ages and ages until the late 1265 01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:28.920 nineteenth century. So from where I sit, if Africa always 1266 01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:34.640 existed as a unified entity with multiple kingdoms, multiple communities 1267 01:18:35.319 --> 01:18:40.439 that existed and traded with each other, with unified languages, 1268 01:18:40.880 --> 01:18:44.880 you know, whether they're the Bantu languages or the Nilotic languages, 1269 01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:48.600 they are different language classes. But the point is that 1270 01:18:48.800 --> 01:18:52.800 Africa was existing for all that time, speaking those ancient 1271 01:18:52.920 --> 01:18:57.279 languages many that we still speak

to death. Then why 1272 01:18:57.359 --> 01:19:00.239 in Heaven's name should we just let go of that 1273 01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:07.039 completely and insist on clinging on these borders that are 1274 01:19:07.079 --> 01:19:11.359 imposed on us. Now that these borders are here, then 1275 01:19:11.399 --> 01:19:13.960 it's okay, you know, we can live with that. But 1276 01:19:14.119 --> 01:19:18.039 what we must not live with is this notion that 1277 01:19:18.600 --> 01:19:22.319 Kenya is completely different from Togo or from Uganda, because 1278 01:19:22.359 --> 01:19:23.880 that's not true. 1279 01:19:25.479 --> 01:19:30.359 Why do you feel like there are African people who 1280 01:19:30.920 --> 01:19:34.039 are against this unifying thought? Because I know that there 1281 01:19:34.159 --> 01:19:36.319 is a push now to like make it so that 1282 01:19:36.359 --> 01:19:38.680 you don't need visas on the continent to go to 1283 01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:41.760 different countries. And know, Ghana just opened its borders so 1284 01:19:41.760 --> 01:19:43.439 that you don't need a visa if you are from 1285 01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:45.239 another country on the African continent. 1286 01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:47.720 What do you feel like is the counter argument to this? 1287 01:19:49.640 --> 01:19:53.520 The counter argument is the fact that today's generation of Africans, 1288 01:19:53.760 --> 01:19:57.520 virtually one hundred percent, this is the only Africa that 1289 01:19:57.560 --> 01:20:02.439 they have known, and the vast majority of Africans, unfortunately 1290 01:20:02.680 --> 01:20:05.000 have not even had a chance to travel to other 1291 01:20:05.079 --> 01:20:11.600 African countries, including neighboring countries, partly because of the economic situation, 1292 01:20:11.800 --> 01:20:16.359 but also because the transport infrastructure is nothing to write 1293 01:20:16.399 --> 01:20:20.520 home about when you're talking about cross boundary highways and 1294 01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:26.079 railway networks. So because for example, imagine somebody who was 1295 01:20:26.119 --> 01:20:30.720 born in Togo, let's give them fifty years ago. Because 1296 01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:34.159 Africa is the most youthful continent. Our median age is 1297 01:20:34.239 --> 01:20:37.720 less than thartic. Globally, we're the most youthful continent. So 1298 01:20:38.279 --> 01:20:41.840 somebody who's fifty years old in Togo is already crawling 1299 01:20:41.880 --> 01:20:45.600 towards you know, seniority in terms of age. So this 1300 01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:51.199 person would have been born sometimes in nineteen seventy four. 1301 01:20:52.159 --> 01:20:54.520 Okay, yeah, nineteen seventy four. 1302 01:20:54.720 --> 01:20:59.039 Yet despite being fifty years old, the vast majority of 1303 01:20:59.079 --> 01:21:02.880 fifty year olds have never ever left the African country. 1304 01:21:03.760 --> 01:21:07.359 And the same applies to the younger generation, whether it 1305 01:21:07.439 --> 01:21:10.319 is Gen Z or the younger millennials or Gen Alpha. 1306 01:21:10.840 --> 01:21:14.119 They also, the vast majority, of course, have also never 1307 01:21:14.239 --> 01:21:19.119 left their particular African country. So because of that, you'd 1308 01:21:19.199 --> 01:21:22.640 find that a Ghanayan or a Tanzanian, you know, the 1309 01:21:23.159 --> 01:21:28.039 only identity they know as an African is Tanzanian or Ghanayan. 1310 01:21:28.920 --> 01:21:33.319 So to them, the whole notion of their first of 1311 01:21:33.359 --> 01:21:38.439 all African and then Tanzanian is really something that it 1312 01:21:38.520 --> 01:21:42.000 is not their lived experience. It may be something that 1313 01:21:42.079 --> 01:21:45.640 people like myself may argue for, but their only lived 1314 01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:48.720 experience is the fact that they're Ghanaan and their passport 1315 01:21:48.760 --> 01:21:49.479 says Ghanaan. 1316 01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:52.880 So when your nationalism is holding. 1317 01:21:52.560 --> 01:21:56.840 Them exactly exactly, so they cling to that, which is 1318 01:21:56.880 --> 01:22:00.600 why we have to be super pragmatic and practical innovative, 1319 01:22:01.159 --> 01:22:05.720 so that such people we can begin to take practical 1320 01:22:05.800 --> 01:22:08.920 steps that will help them to now appreciate the fact 1321 01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:12.840 that we are one point two or one point three 1322 01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:20.720 billion people in mainland Africa that share so many similarities. 1323 01:22:21.399 --> 01:22:24.640 So the sooner we get accustomed to that, the more 1324 01:22:24.680 --> 01:22:28.039 we you know, reached out reach out our hands and 1325 01:22:28.119 --> 01:22:31.119 our hearts, the better off we shall be. And I'll 1326 01:22:31.159 --> 01:22:36.359 explain letter later on practically where we're better off economically 1327 01:22:36.439 --> 01:22:40.600 and culturally and socially and spiritually if we are truly 1328 01:22:40.760 --> 01:22:42.439 united as Pan Africans. 1329 01:22:44.039 --> 01:22:46.199 Are Americans included in that in any way? 1330 01:22:48.600 --> 01:22:55.279 Yes, you see African Americans. Black Americans are not sure 1331 01:22:55.720 --> 01:23:01.560 which is a politically correct term, but see the one. Yeah, 1332 01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:06.359 the fact that there's African in that phrase means that 1333 01:23:07.800 --> 01:23:11.880 they are African. And this includes not just Americans, but 1334 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:18.600 Africans in the diaspora. Whether therefore, fathers came to our 1335 01:23:18.600 --> 01:23:22.800 first generation Americans or whether they came forcefully during the 1336 01:23:22.840 --> 01:23:29.279 slave trade Transatlantic slave trade, they're still African. And one 1337 01:23:29.319 --> 01:23:31.319 of the things that we argue about when we talk 1338 01:23:31.359 --> 01:23:34.960 about Pan

Africanism is the fact that this is not 1339 01:23:35.159 --> 01:23:40.520 limited to Africans who are living on the African continent today, 1340 01:23:41.199 --> 01:23:44.640 because that sort of exclusion is a very thing that 1341 01:23:44.680 --> 01:23:49.479 we're fighting against, and we wouldn't wish our fellow Africans, 1342 01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:53.760 people in whom the African blood runs in their veins, 1343 01:23:54.359 --> 01:23:58.720 we wouldn't want to exclude that. And the sooner both 1344 01:23:59.039 --> 01:24:04.119 Africans in mainland Africa, in the Motherland, and African Americans 1345 01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:08.960 begin to realize that we are one. We may have 1346 01:24:09.039 --> 01:24:12.560 been separated by the Atlantic, but we are one, you know, 1347 01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:15.960 the sooner we realize that, the better off we shall 1348 01:24:15.960 --> 01:24:20.760 all be. Because for Americans when they come to Africa, 1349 01:24:22.039 --> 01:24:25.920 many of them speak about just feeling a sense of belonging. 1350 01:24:27.640 --> 01:24:29.359 It's it's really wild. 1351 01:24:29.720 --> 01:24:32.479 And my mother is from Grenada, so I know that 1352 01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:37.239 feeling when I go to Grenada. And when I was 1353 01:24:37.359 --> 01:24:39.760 landing in Ghana for the first time and we were 1354 01:24:39.800 --> 01:24:44.680 like just approaching, you know, looking out the window, I 1355 01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:49.159 could feel I felt different. I felt like I had 1356 01:24:49.239 --> 01:24:55.159 like an electromagnetic connection that was pulling me like come. 1357 01:24:54.960 --> 01:24:58.439 On, come on home. So it's not. 1358 01:24:58.720 --> 01:24:59.600 It's not made up. 1359 01:25:00.520 --> 01:25:05.479 Yeah, And here's the thing, because for some of them, 1360 01:25:06.760 --> 01:25:09.960 or all of them, or most of them, the fact 1361 01:25:09.960 --> 01:25:12.960 that you have lived in America all your life, I 1362 01:25:13.119 --> 01:25:19.359 understand that sometimes beyond that initial euphoric feeling sense of belonging, 1363 01:25:19.840 --> 01:25:26.159 because we are culturally different, purely because we live in 1364 01:25:26.199 --> 01:25:30.600 separate places, you know, so sometimes there's a cultural clash, 1365 01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:35.720 there's a cultural shock, and when that happens, sometimes there 1366 01:25:35.720 --> 01:25:38.039 may be people who may then look at that as 1367 01:25:38.159 --> 01:25:42.800 evidence that oops, this is not what I thought, or 1368 01:25:42.840 --> 01:25:47.079 a sense of anti climax. But my experience from talking 1369 01:25:47.119 --> 01:25:50.039 to those who then stayed a little bit more, you know, 1370 01:25:51.079 --> 01:25:57.239 is this they begin to realize that despite these cultural shocks, 1371 01:25:57.279 --> 01:26:03.960 despite these cultural differences and linguistic differences, economic differences, that 1372 01:26:04.079 --> 01:26:06.520 at the end of the day, when I call your 1373 01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:10.039 sister or when you call me brother, it isn't just 1374 01:26:10.119 --> 01:26:15.359 trying to be cute. There's actually that sense of hey, 1375 01:26:16.039 --> 01:26:18.439 my sister, my brother, you know. 1376 01:26:19.119 --> 01:26:20.800 So my thoughts on that. 1377 01:26:20.760 --> 01:26:26.119 Would be that it's so so important that we continue 1378 01:26:26.159 --> 01:26:32.880 having these immassive experiences as a matter of policy from 1379 01:26:33.039 --> 01:26:37.079 African governments and of course now African Americans that as 1380 01:26:37.119 --> 01:26:42.880 a matter of policy we begin being very intentional about 1381 01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:48.520 im massive experiences, especially for African Americans in Africa. Yeah, 1382 01:26:49.239 --> 01:26:52.319 and the more that happens, the more we realize that 1383 01:26:52.399 --> 01:26:56.880 we truly are family. Despite our evident differences, we still 1384 01:26:56.920 --> 01:27:01.159 a family and are better off with that realizing than 1385 01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:02.560 sweeping it under the rug. 1386 01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:06.640 Now, you mentioned that you were going to talk about 1387 01:27:06.760 --> 01:27:12.560 what ways like Pan Africanism can be applied practically on 1388 01:27:12.600 --> 01:27:17.359 the continent. I know you mentioned like railways that are interconnected, 1389 01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:18.520 et cetera. 1390 01:27:18.640 --> 01:27:19.720 Can you give me more about that. 1391 01:27:21.479 --> 01:27:25.279 Absolutely, here's the thing. Here's the thing. 1392 01:27:26.840 --> 01:27:31.600 Unless we begin to show that we are better off 1393 01:27:31.880 --> 01:27:38.159 economically and socially and even spiritually by exalting Pan Africanism 1394 01:27:38.399 --> 01:27:42.199 and not by quenching it and not by pushing it 1395 01:27:42.239 --> 01:27:47.560 to the sidelines, we have a responsibility to meticulously show 1396 01:27:48.159 --> 01:27:50.399 how indeed we are better off. And I'm going to 1397 01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:53.960 attempt to do that briefly. Number one, when you're looking 1398 01:27:53.960 --> 01:27:58.199 at it economically myself, I think now I've been to 1399 01:27:58.279 --> 01:28:02.560 about half of Africa, probably twenty five countries or so. 1400 01:28:03.359 --> 01:28:06.680 And I remember Manda. The first time I went to 1401 01:28:07.439 --> 01:28:12.159 d Car, Senegal, I had gone there. I used to 1402 01:28:12.159 --> 01:28:14.680 be part of what was known as in the media. 1403 01:28:15.279 --> 01:28:19.560 In the media was this global collective of independent media 1404 01:28:19.640 --> 01:28:25.479 activists that really sought to answer the question how can 1405 01:28:25.600 --> 01:28:29.680 information make a lasting difference for the underprivileged people, for 1406 01:28:29.760 --> 01:28:33.479 the

marginalized people. So through that I got to visit 1407 01:28:33.840 --> 01:28:39.640 Senegal and I remember standing in the streets of Senegal 1408 01:28:40.560 --> 01:28:44.800 and having Hibiscus Jewish that is very common in Senegal. 1409 01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:50.439 I think they call it bizzarp and I remember feeling like, 1410 01:28:50.520 --> 01:28:54.640 these are my brothers, these are my sisters. But shock 1411 01:28:54.720 --> 01:28:57.319 on me when I started walking in the streets of 1412 01:28:57.359 --> 01:29:02.279 the car and they speak love, I speak so hely. 1413 01:29:04.039 --> 01:29:09.079 They speak French. I speak English. So to my great 1414 01:29:09.199 --> 01:29:13.000 shock and dismay, we could only use sign language, you know, 1415 01:29:14.640 --> 01:29:18.439 to people who look like me. So I remember that 1416 01:29:18.600 --> 01:29:21.159 was quite a road awakening. And that's the time I 1417 01:29:21.199 --> 01:29:23.600 decided I'm going to learn French. And I did learn 1418 01:29:23.640 --> 01:29:29.000 it because I realized that since half of Africa they 1419 01:29:29.039 --> 01:29:31.960 are so called Franco in Africa, you know, they speak 1420 01:29:32.000 --> 01:29:34.880 French and the other half speaks English and. 1421 01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:36.960 A small fraction speaks port of Guese. 1422 01:29:37.479 --> 01:29:41.359 If I want to be a Pan African, I do 1423 01:29:41.479 --> 01:29:44.359 not want to be limited to only one half of Africa. 1424 01:29:45.199 --> 01:29:52.199 So that realization alone made me realize that we must 1425 01:29:52.239 --> 01:29:56.600 be able to work on these practical barriers that actually 1426 01:29:56.680 --> 01:30:00.800 stand in the way of Pan African Now it economically 1427 01:30:01.159 --> 01:30:04.039 how I've then been able to benefit I'm going to 1428 01:30:04.199 --> 01:30:08.359 use myself as a care study for that. Is when 1429 01:30:08.399 --> 01:30:12.079 I started working at the United Nations Environment Program for 1430 01:30:12.119 --> 01:30:14.520 a couple of years and no longer worked there, but 1431 01:30:14.600 --> 01:30:17.800 I did work there for a couple of years. I 1432 01:30:17.840 --> 01:30:22.079 was in charge of an original African program for young people. 1433 01:30:22.399 --> 01:30:27.079 I was a youth myself back then, and I remember 1434 01:30:27.119 --> 01:30:30.039 how it was easier for me to communicate. 1435 01:30:31.079 --> 01:30:33.640 And one of the things that in fact helped me. 1436 01:30:35.159 --> 01:30:37.159 To be good at that job was the fact that 1437 01:30:37.359 --> 01:30:41.399 I could communicate a little bit more with the other 1438 01:30:41.479 --> 01:30:45.720 African youth, whereas there were other equally qualified people who 1439 01:30:45.800 --> 01:30:48.600 might not have been able to communicate because they didn't 1440 01:30:48.720 --> 01:30:55.159 understand any French. Now, at a trading level, if one 1441 01:30:55.239 --> 01:31:00.199 is able to understand these different African languages, whether it 1442 01:31:00.239 --> 01:31:05.079 is French for English speaking Africans or even one of 1443 01:31:05.279 --> 01:31:09.359 you know, my own advocacy is for major African languages 1444 01:31:09.399 --> 01:31:12.520 to be taught all over Africa so that we're not 1445 01:31:12.720 --> 01:31:16.319 limiting ourselves to either French or English. 1446 01:31:17.039 --> 01:31:19.600 Back to that, if I. 1447 01:31:19.479 --> 01:31:23.600 Was able to do my job very well because of 1448 01:31:23.640 --> 01:31:29.279 that Pan African spirit and notion, yeah, and because of 1449 01:31:29.319 --> 01:31:32.560 the practical steps that I took to you know, to 1450 01:31:32.600 --> 01:31:36.960 be truly Pan African, even linguistically, then it means that 1451 01:31:38.399 --> 01:31:41.439 there are millions of Africans who are not trading with 1452 01:31:41.560 --> 01:31:45.880 each other because they are not having a conversation with it. 1453 01:31:45.880 --> 01:31:50.520 It's true, what's communication at the base, right, I mean, 1454 01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:53.560 it really just opens the conversation. But you have to 1455 01:31:53.600 --> 01:31:56.760 have the mindfulness to want to be able to have 1456 01:31:56.800 --> 01:32:00.159 those conversations and to see those people as your people, 1457 01:32:00.399 --> 01:32:03.760 which require conversation, right, Like, if if you don't be 1458 01:32:03.800 --> 01:32:05.279 if you don't feel like people are your people, then 1459 01:32:05.279 --> 01:32:06.600 you may like be like, well I don't need to 1460 01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:09.239 talk to them, but you going to Senegal and being like, well, 1461 01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:09.720 these are my. 1462 01:32:09.680 --> 01:32:11.119 People, but I can't even talk to them. 1463 01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:15.359 So that's that's that's what No. I really I do 1464 01:32:15.479 --> 01:32:19.920 understand that, and I see how I see how so 1465 01:32:20.039 --> 01:32:21.680 many of us in the States, like we have been 1466 01:32:21.720 --> 01:32:26.479 sequestered to not look at our people as our people. 1467 01:32:27.079 --> 01:32:29.880 There's been this idea that if you see African people 1468 01:32:29.960 --> 01:32:32.680 from the continent as your people, that you are somehow 1469 01:32:32.720 --> 01:32:36.880 denying yourself your identity as a Black American when that's 1470 01:32:36.920 --> 01:32:40.199 just simply not the case, Like it's just identifying that 1471 01:32:40.319 --> 01:32:44.039 we are. We are a part of a whole, but 1472 01:32:44.159 --> 01:32:47.119 we have our individuality. Now, we have some questions that 1473 01:32:47.159 --> 01:32:49.800 people have submitted, so we're going to get to them. 1474 01:32:49.800 --> 01:32:54.840 Of those questions, Karazenne says. Doctor says, mister mcqually, what 1475 01:32:54.920 --> 01:32:58.319 does Marcus Garbage

Junior's legacy of promoting Pan Africanism mean 1476 01:32:58.359 --> 01:32:58.640 to you? 1477 01:32:59.199 --> 01:32:59.319 Now? 1478 01:32:59.319 --> 01:33:02.720 I don't know if you know this, but they just pardoned, 1479 01:33:02.920 --> 01:33:06.439 posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey here in the United States when 1480 01:33:06.479 --> 01:33:08.399 Biden was leaving his presidency. 1481 01:33:10.079 --> 01:33:10.800 So that's a thing. 1482 01:33:11.920 --> 01:33:15.520 Great question, great question, and thank you very much for 1483 01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:21.399 that question. Actually, it has a bit of sweet ring 1484 01:33:21.840 --> 01:33:25.960 for me, that question, because as somebody who is truly 1485 01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:32.000 appreciative of Marcus Garvey myself, I wish that more Africans 1486 01:33:32.039 --> 01:33:37.760 in the Motherland would also be much more conversant to 1487 01:33:37.800 --> 01:33:41.039 this work and a few other people, you know, in 1488 01:33:41.079 --> 01:33:45.920 the African diaspora. And for me, uh, the fact that 1489 01:33:46.039 --> 01:33:50.760 he was a thought leader, the fact that he was 1490 01:33:50.800 --> 01:33:51.279 able to. 1491 01:33:51.279 --> 01:33:53.880 Speak in a very. 1492 01:33:55.279 --> 01:33:59.960 In a very powerful way, able to speak, you know, 1493 01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:04.640 to who we are, to our identity, you know, to 1494 01:34:05.000 --> 01:34:08.760 really articulate a lot of issues that made people feel 1495 01:34:08.880 --> 01:34:10.880 That's exactly what I was thinking. 1496 01:34:11.399 --> 01:34:11.680 You know. 1497 01:34:12.000 --> 01:34:15.199 It's like you took that from my heart and then 1498 01:34:15.439 --> 01:34:17.920 you put words to that. The fact that he was 1499 01:34:17.960 --> 01:34:22.239 able to do that, I think for me his legacy 1500 01:34:22.479 --> 01:34:27.880 and frankly, I have in the past embraced that challenge 1501 01:34:28.159 --> 01:34:32.000 that people like me and other people who are thought 1502 01:34:32.079 --> 01:34:37.000 leaders today must be able to continue with that. Of course, 1503 01:34:37.000 --> 01:34:39.840 give it our own fingerprints, give it our own soul, 1504 01:34:41.520 --> 01:34:45.960 but at the same time not just look back nostalgically, 1505 01:34:46.439 --> 01:34:51.239 you know, but rather pick the button and now, like myself, 1506 01:34:51.279 --> 01:34:52.399 since I'm a writer. 1507 01:34:53.800 --> 01:34:54.560 And a thought. 1508 01:34:54.439 --> 01:35:00.000 Leader, to be able to mentor others mentor other athlet 1509 01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:04.439 cans mentor other people in the African diaspora, so that 1510 01:35:04.479 --> 01:35:08.760 we truly articulate our experience. And I'll give you an 1511 01:35:08.760 --> 01:35:14.279 example to that as a direct answer. Very briefly, there 1512 01:35:14.279 --> 01:35:18.720 has been this TikTok trend of this indigenous Australian man 1513 01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:23.640 that has been used as a prank during first times 1514 01:35:25.079 --> 01:35:29.399 and it has gonned millions and millions of views because 1515 01:35:29.479 --> 01:35:32.800 America has the creative fund for the TikTok users in 1516 01:35:32.800 --> 01:35:36.439 the US, people have even made a lot of money. 1517 01:35:37.640 --> 01:35:42.600 So the other day I did a video explaining how 1518 01:35:43.479 --> 01:35:48.880 we must not have modern forms of exploitation of black 1519 01:35:48.920 --> 01:35:53.640 people of indigenous people, but then caught that or sugar 1520 01:35:53.680 --> 01:35:57.800 court that, so that it appears like just entertainment. 1521 01:35:58.439 --> 01:36:00.640 Yet there are layers of fat that are. 1522 01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:05.640 Perpetuating, uh, some stereotypes of black people of indigenous people. 1523 01:36:06.199 --> 01:36:09.199 So we've got to be able to day, you know, 1524 01:36:09.600 --> 01:36:13.560 in the spirit of Marcus Covey, of Malcolm X, you 1525 01:36:13.560 --> 01:36:19.640 know of uh, even Martin Luther King and other even 1526 01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:23.000 Bob Marley for me, you know, uh, we must be 1527 01:36:23.119 --> 01:36:28.840 able to then articulate today's issues in an equally perful manner, 1528 01:36:29.239 --> 01:36:30.800 if not more powerful. 1529 01:36:32.279 --> 01:36:35.479 Which I don't think people understand how valuable that is. 1530 01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:37.880 Like that's what social media ends up really being for 1531 01:36:37.960 --> 01:36:40.039 a lot of you know folks, it's being able to 1532 01:36:40.159 --> 01:36:45.760 articulate today's issues in a succinct manner, in an entertaining 1533 01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:47.439 way at least you know where. 1534 01:36:47.279 --> 01:36:48.319 People can get it. 1535 01:36:48.880 --> 01:36:52.960 And it's music has always when you said about Marley, 1536 01:36:53.000 --> 01:36:56.119 you know, music has always had a real stronghold and 1537 01:36:56.199 --> 01:37:00.279 that area, but I think it's really social media has 1538 01:37:00.279 --> 01:37:04.439 become its own natural space for that as well. Now, 1539 01:37:04.439 --> 01:37:08.000 this is a really interesting question, Orlando asked, I don't 1540 01:37:08.000 --> 01:37:11.560 know for sure, because America does propaganda very well. What 1541 01:37:11.600 --> 01:37:16.039 does acceptance for LGBTQ plus people look like on the continent? 1542 01:37:16.079 --> 01:37:16.199 Now? 1543 01:37:16.199 --> 01:37:18.800 I know in certain places like Ghana and Uganda in 1544 01:37:18.840 --> 01:37:23.239 particular come to mind where they are very hostile to 1545 01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:27.640 the lgbtq A plus community. But in general, what would 1546 01:37:27.640 --> 01:37:30.600 you say is the vibe on the continent? 1547 01:37:33.279 --> 01:37:33.920 Great question. 1548 01:37:34.039 --> 01:37:37.000 Again, I'm a firm believer that we must be able 1549

01:37:37.039 --> 01:37:41.079 to talk about everything, and any time when we don't 1550 01:37:41.079 --> 01:37:43.800 want to talk about some stuff that in itself is 1551 01:37:43.840 --> 01:37:50.279 a symptom of a deeper problem. So the direct answer 1552 01:37:50.279 --> 01:37:53.760 to that is that it definitely is still a big problem. 1553 01:37:54.039 --> 01:37:58.119 And I think one of the areas that you know, 1554 01:37:59.279 --> 01:38:05.840 potential bone of contention is when people in America or Europe, 1555 01:38:06.000 --> 01:38:12.079 including our fellow African Americans, or rather African brothers and sisters. 1556 01:38:12.520 --> 01:38:17.439 Sometimes when I find this attitude of you know, a 1557 01:38:17.560 --> 01:38:23.520 measure of non acceptance or unwillingness to talk about this, 1558 01:38:24.239 --> 01:38:30.359 sometimes they look at that as proof of either and 1559 01:38:30.479 --> 01:38:36.640 civilization or total intolerance, when in fact, I like to 1560 01:38:36.640 --> 01:38:39.279 say that even America itself, you know, has had this 1561 01:38:40.239 --> 01:38:46.479 progression over the years, I think fifteen, twenty years ago 1562 01:38:46.880 --> 01:38:52.800 or twenty five, just having public figures who are very 1563 01:38:52.840 --> 01:38:55.479 open about their sexuality, you know, it was not as 1564 01:38:55.479 --> 01:39:00.479 common as it is today. And as I recall, immediate 1565 01:39:00.479 --> 01:39:03.680 from a president Joe Biden even went ahead of Barack 1566 01:39:03.680 --> 01:39:08.520 Obama in you know, bringing this conversation out especial azation 1567 01:39:08.600 --> 01:39:12.039 of gay marriage. So we also find it to be 1568 01:39:12.119 --> 01:39:18.279 a little bit unfair when Americans then forget the fact 1569 01:39:18.319 --> 01:39:21.199 that they also have had to take time, you know, 1570 01:39:21.319 --> 01:39:25.760 to come to terms with some of these things. So 1571 01:39:26.439 --> 01:39:29.960 I think it's an area that my direct answer to 1572 01:39:30.319 --> 01:39:35.199 this very good question is that they are pockets of acceptance. 1573 01:39:35.680 --> 01:39:39.640 But at the moment, it's just pockets of acceptance. 1574 01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:42.840 Where would you say, off top of your head is 1575 01:39:42.880 --> 01:39:44.439 a pocket of acceptance. 1576 01:39:46.960 --> 01:39:51.479 I think amongst the younger generation. But even then, like 1577 01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:53.399 accepting their friends who are gay. 1578 01:39:54.279 --> 01:39:57.800 But like in terms of places like is South Africa 1579 01:39:57.880 --> 01:39:59.560 considered a more progressive place? 1580 01:40:00.039 --> 01:40:01.560 Yeah, yeah, South Africa definitely. 1581 01:40:01.840 --> 01:40:06.720 In fact, South Africa is way ahead of others. Then 1582 01:40:06.760 --> 01:40:11.640 in a country like Kenya, whereas it is not out 1583 01:40:11.680 --> 01:40:16.640 in the open, but amongst

friends, for example, people do 1584 01:40:16.760 --> 01:40:21.319 not shan their friends because they're gay. Yeah, they don't 1585 01:40:21.359 --> 01:40:24.039 do that at all, especially in a place like Nairobi. 1586 01:40:24.800 --> 01:40:27.359 Yeah. 1587 01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:32.840 Last question, do you think President Troy of Burkina Faso 1588 01:40:33.159 --> 01:40:39.319 is going to effectively unite Africa? 1589 01:40:39.560 --> 01:40:39.880 Again? 1590 01:40:40.000 --> 01:40:43.920 Great question, And I'm a huge fan of Ibrahim, really 1591 01:40:43.960 --> 01:40:45.880 huge fan. In fact, for two years a man that 1592 01:40:45.920 --> 01:40:51.479 I have done Pauls asking Africans whom they think is 1593 01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:55.159 the best president on the continent and for two years 1594 01:40:55.159 --> 01:40:59.760 in a row four and twenty twenty three Ibram Trare 1595 01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:04.840 on and the people who are supporting Ibrahim Trare and 1596 01:41:05.039 --> 01:41:09.439 not just young people, they're even older people. I think 1597 01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:13.479 number three things. Three things I want to articulate ya. 1598 01:41:13.600 --> 01:41:19.680 Number one, Africans got have gotten fed up with business 1599 01:41:19.760 --> 01:41:22.920 as usual when it comes to matters of presidency and 1600 01:41:23.600 --> 01:41:28.319 leadership of countries. They've gone completely tired because the big 1601 01:41:28.359 --> 01:41:34.000 Man's syndrome became so big on the continent that a 1602 01:41:34.039 --> 01:41:37.640 lot of presidents just seem to lower it over the people. 1603 01:41:38.439 --> 01:41:42.039 Yet that is also in a weird way topic for 1604 01:41:42.079 --> 01:41:46.640 another day though, a product of Western style democracy that 1605 01:41:47.720 --> 01:41:51.560 was just copy and pasted into Africa about sixty years 1606 01:41:51.600 --> 01:41:53.960 ago or fifty years ago for some countries. 1607 01:41:54.439 --> 01:41:57.880 So that bred this big man syndrome. And then the 1608 01:41:57.920 --> 01:41:58.439 Cold War. 1609 01:41:58.880 --> 01:42:02.199 You know, you had America supporting people like Mobutus as 1610 01:42:02.239 --> 01:42:07.279 a SECO, who had American Belgium playing their role in 1611 01:42:07.319 --> 01:42:11.720 the tragic assassination of patrist La Mumba and then supporting 1612 01:42:11.760 --> 01:42:16.520 Mobutu and other dictators purely because it was a geopolitical 1613 01:42:16.600 --> 01:42:20.479 game for them. So to an extent, the world helped 1614 01:42:20.520 --> 01:42:24.520 in breeding these big man syndrome of the continent. Enter 1615 01:42:24.640 --> 01:42:27.760 Ibrahim Troure, a young guy you know, who is doing 1616 01:42:27.760 --> 01:42:31.800 things very differently, who is standing up to the bully 1617 01:42:31.840 --> 01:42:36.199 to hegemony, you know, and that has really resonated with 1618 01:42:36.359 --> 01:42:43.560 Africans across the continent. However, on the matter of uniting Africa, 1619 01:42:44.640 --> 01:42:48.640 I think he is triggering a spirit of pan Africanism 1620 01:42:49.239 --> 01:42:54.279 and servant leadership and making African realize even more so 1621 01:42:55.000 --> 01:42:58.760 that in their own respective countries they deserve to have 1622 01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:04.399 presidents who are leaders, yes, transformative leaders. So that alone 1623 01:43:04.800 --> 01:43:09.680 is a step towards uniting Africa. But on his own 1624 01:43:10.079 --> 01:43:14.800 He still faces the crazy challenge of Franco for Africa 1625 01:43:15.039 --> 01:43:20.560 and Anglo for Africa and lose for Africa. He still 1626 01:43:20.600 --> 01:43:24.079 faces the challenge of eighty to ninety percent of his 1627 01:43:24.159 --> 01:43:28.359 fellow presidents who look at him and see more of 1628 01:43:28.399 --> 01:43:32.279 a nuisance, yes, more of something that has seen in 1629 01:43:32.319 --> 01:43:37.399 their own countries. So from that perspective, it is still 1630 01:43:37.439 --> 01:43:40.479 a marathon that is in the first quarter and not 1631 01:43:40.600 --> 01:43:44.319 a sprint that is towards the finish line. 1632 01:43:45.520 --> 01:43:48.399 Well, I feel like a lot of Americans are in 1633 01:43:48.439 --> 01:43:53.119 a sprint towards trying to find where they can live 1634 01:43:53.159 --> 01:43:55.119 in the world outside of this country. 1635 01:43:55.800 --> 01:43:57.680 There's a lot of Americans that are looking. 1636 01:43:57.880 --> 01:44:02.079 To come to the car And I wanted to bring 1637 01:44:02.079 --> 01:44:04.239 you on because I did. I wanted to have an 1638 01:44:04.279 --> 01:44:08.479 actual voice of somebody who lives on the continent who 1639 01:44:08.960 --> 01:44:15.039 is mindfully looking to bring together diaspora. And I hope 1640 01:44:15.079 --> 01:44:18.800 that you guys were really listening, because Americans have a 1641 01:44:18.840 --> 01:44:23.880 habit of going places without really understanding the landscape, without 1642 01:44:23.960 --> 01:44:28.800 really taking into account the unique politicisms and the unique 1643 01:44:28.920 --> 01:44:33.239 cultural setup of those places. And I think a lot 1644 01:44:33.319 --> 01:44:37.399 of Americans really do look at Africa as a country 1645 01:44:37.880 --> 01:44:41.439 and even though to your point, pan Africanism would be 1646 01:44:41.920 --> 01:44:44.479 you know, including an inclusive. 1647 01:44:44.000 --> 01:44:45.880 Of everybody, regardless of border. 1648 01:44:46.239 --> 01:44:50.840 There are still unique tribes, there are still unique climates, locations, 1649 01:44:50.840 --> 01:44:55.039 et cetera that do need to be regarded and embraced. 1650 01:44:55.199 --> 01:44:58.159 So I really want to thank you for coming and 1651 01:44:58.239 --> 01:44:59.039 you guys. 1652 01:44:59.319 --> 01:45:03.359 So I get so much information and knowledge about the 1653

01:45:03.359 --> 01:45:08.760 continent from Djbuquali on Instagram, so please follow DJ, and 1654 01:45:09.319 --> 01:45:13.199 thank you so much for schooling us and you know, 1655 01:45:13.239 --> 01:45:15.800 bringing Prian Africanism to twenty twenty five for us, because 1656 01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:19.640 I feel like that's for a lot of people, their 1657 01:45:19.680 --> 01:45:25.079 only concept is like rooted in Marcus Garvey and that 1658 01:45:25.279 --> 01:45:28.600 is a century ago. But this is still here, it 1659 01:45:28.680 --> 01:45:31.039 is still thriving, and folks like you are still pushing 1660 01:45:31.079 --> 01:45:31.920 us forward towards it. 1661 01:45:31.960 --> 01:45:32.760 So thank you so much. 1662 01:45:33.920 --> 01:45:38.680 Is your most welcome, Your most welcome, and anybody who 1663 01:45:38.720 --> 01:45:43.479 wants to learn more about Pan Africanism, especially the founding 1664 01:45:43.520 --> 01:45:48.600 presidents of Africa or historic leaders, either for better or us. 1665 01:45:48.439 --> 01:45:51.479 I just googled my name dij Bokelly and then add 1666 01:45:51.720 --> 01:45:57.319 Savannah Footprints Savannah Footprints, and then you'll be able to 1667 01:45:58.039 --> 01:45:59.600 see the book that I've written. 1668 01:45:59.239 --> 01:45:59.880 On this matter. 1669 01:46:01.359 --> 01:46:03.840 Having said that, thank you very much Amanda for what 1670 01:46:03.840 --> 01:46:06.720 you're doing. You know, I like how this is done 1671 01:46:06.720 --> 01:46:10.720 in a fun manner. I say, life is too short 1672 01:46:10.760 --> 01:46:13.960 to be too sad us all the time, even when 1673 01:46:14.039 --> 01:46:16.960 we're handling say as matters. So I like the fact 1674 01:46:17.000 --> 01:46:21.600 that we address deep issues, but with good vibes. 1675 01:46:21.640 --> 01:46:27.119 You know, yes, deep issues with good vibes. 1676 01:46:27.239 --> 01:46:30.800 I like that, yob, deep issues with good vibes. 1677 01:46:30.880 --> 01:46:33.439 Y'all go and get the vent of Prints Wisdom Whisperers 1678 01:46:33.600 --> 01:46:36.279 from Historic African Leaders by Djbquali. 1679 01:46:36.359 --> 01:46:39.319 Thank you so much, and you have a fantastic rest 1680 01:46:39.359 --> 01:46:39.880 of your day. 1681 01:46:40.439 --> 01:46:43.520 Alrighty YouTube, bye bye. 1682 01:46:44.479 --> 01:46:44.680 See. 1683 01:46:44.760 --> 01:46:48.760 Y'all were international here, Okay, we international. 1684 01:46:49.520 --> 01:46:50.319 That's what we're about. 1685 01:46:50.359 --> 01:46:55.560 We're international because it is imperative that we continue to 1686 01:46:55.720 --> 01:46:59.680 expand our consciousness. I know a lot of people dropped 1687 01:46:59.680 --> 01:47:02.920 out of the live because his accent was foreign to them. 1688 01:47:04.680 --> 01:47:05.239 I know that. 1689 01:47:06.079 --> 01:47:08.479 I know that a lot of people just was. 1690 01:47:08.479 --> 01:47:11.840 Like, oh, I'm having to like understand something a different sound, 1691 01:47:13.640 --> 01:47:17.399 and that's just that's just that's extra for me. I 1692 01:47:17.479 --> 01:47:23.520 promise you. I promise you, and I commend everybody who 1693 01:47:23.720 --> 01:47:29.920 stayed and listened, and we have to understand again that 1694 01:47:29.960 --> 01:47:31.800 we are not simply a country. 1695 01:47:31.880 --> 01:47:35.560 We are on a planet. 1696 01:47:36.159 --> 01:47:41.479 We are on a planet, and there's our pasts, there 1697 01:47:41.479 --> 01:47:43.680 are presence, there's gonna be our futures. 1698 01:47:43.800 --> 01:47:47.520 So thank you again so much to djbo Quali. 1699 01:47:48.039 --> 01:47:51.960 And I've really make it my business on these apps 1700 01:47:52.159 --> 01:47:56.119 to follow folks who are from different places, who have 1701 01:47:56.279 --> 01:47:59.520 different knowledge that I have, so I can learn and 1702 01:47:59.600 --> 01:48:03.760 expand and just really continue to keep my curiosity, which 1703 01:48:03.960 --> 01:48:07.119 I which is what I think really keeps us sane. 1704 01:48:08.199 --> 01:48:12.039 At the end of the day, let's get into let's 1705 01:48:12.039 --> 01:48:15.399 close out the show. How about that. Let's close out 1706 01:48:15.399 --> 01:48:24.600 the show, y'all. Nope, let's close out the show a man. 1707 01:48:30.880 --> 01:48:30.960 A. 1708 01:48:37.640 --> 01:48:46.880 So you know, curiosity is really really powerful. 1709 01:48:48.640 --> 01:48:54.560 Curiosity is a thing that is an action that can 1710 01:48:54.680 --> 01:49:01.560 keep you going. It can literally keep your mind at work. 1711 01:49:02.279 --> 01:49:06.239 And the first thing that is troubling is your mind 1712 01:49:06.279 --> 01:49:10.439 being atrophied or your mind going into stasis and paralysis. 1713 01:49:11.800 --> 01:49:14.560 Right now we're experiencing shock and awe. 1714 01:49:15.439 --> 01:49:18.159 That is the effort of this government right now to 1715 01:49:18.239 --> 01:49:19.319 create chaos. 1716 01:49:19.840 --> 01:49:23.319 This causes you to be so overwhelmed that you just 1717 01:49:23.960 --> 01:49:25.760 shut down. 1718 01:49:27.079 --> 01:49:31.399 What they don't want is curiosity. What they don't want 1719 01:49:31.800 --> 01:49:35.039 is for the opposite to happen, is for the shock 1720 01:49:35.439 --> 01:49:39.800 to actually light a fire, to spark an ember that 1721 01:49:39.920 --> 01:49:41.520 makes you say, you know what, I actually want to 1722 01:49:41.520 --> 01:49:44.840 know more about that. Actually, I actually want to understand. 1723 01:49:45.159 --> 01:49:47.039 I want to understand that a bit better. Actually, you 1724 01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:48.560 know what, I want to see what that really means. 1725 01:49:50.039 --> 01:49:51.680 I know right now some of y'all feel like, but 1726 01:49:51.760 --> 01:49:54.199 I'm still really in the shock, and I get it. 1727 01:49:54.760 -->

01:49:56.720 But so much of the work that we're doing here, 1728 01:49:57.039 --> 01:49:58.720 and that I'm doing in any of spaces, any of 1729 01:49:58.760 --> 01:50:03.560 the spaces I'm in, is trying to continue to cultivate curiosity, 1730 01:50:03.600 --> 01:50:08.239 to keep those those embers always lit, even when you're resting, right, 1731 01:50:08.319 --> 01:50:11.119 even when you're taking a moment to step back, the 1732 01:50:11.159 --> 01:50:15.000 embers never die, because that is what's going to keep 1733 01:50:15.039 --> 01:50:21.520 you always looking for spaces of hope and solution and compassion. 1734 01:50:22.119 --> 01:50:25.600 Curiosity is attached to empathy. Wait, but why do you 1735 01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:26.319 feel that way? 1736 01:50:26.600 --> 01:50:27.880 You know, when someone says to. 1737 01:50:27.840 --> 01:50:30.640 You, I'm upset, Instead of you going into devents, it's 1738 01:50:30.640 --> 01:50:35.399 your curiosity that makes you go into compassion instead of 1739 01:50:35.399 --> 01:50:38.680 you defending why they shouldn't feel that way. Well, why 1740 01:50:38.720 --> 01:50:41.359 do you feel that way? And now what you've done 1741 01:50:41.399 --> 01:50:44.920 is created connection. What these people want you to do 1742 01:50:45.279 --> 01:50:47.600 is they want the exact opposite. They don't want connection, 1743 01:50:47.680 --> 01:50:52.600 They want you to disconnect. They want everything to be 1744 01:50:52.880 --> 01:50:56.479 crazy and nonsensical for you, so much so that you 1745 01:50:56.560 --> 01:50:59.880 just go into a little ball of silence and fear. 1746 01:51:00.920 --> 01:51:05.399 But we're not going to do that right now. There's 1747 01:51:05.399 --> 01:51:06.119 a lot going on. 1748 01:51:07.479 --> 01:51:11.159 I suggest that you lean into whatever is sparking your 1749 01:51:11.199 --> 01:51:14.159 curiosity because you're not going to fix anything if you 1750 01:51:14.199 --> 01:51:15.279 can't fix anything. 1751 01:51:16.079 --> 01:51:17.800 Because you can't fix everything. 1752 01:51:19.039 --> 01:51:21.880 None of us can lean into the thing that is 1753 01:51:21.920 --> 01:51:23.239 sparking your curiosity. 1754 01:51:23.760 --> 01:51:25.720 Wait he said what he did? 1755 01:51:25.760 --> 01:51:25.840 What? 1756 01:51:26.439 --> 01:51:28.439 Because there's stuff that's happening that's off the radar. 1757 01:51:29.239 --> 01:51:32.640 They're apparently wanting to take away the ability for wounded 1758 01:51:32.720 --> 01:51:38.600 veterans to be able to get both money for being 1759 01:51:38.680 --> 01:51:42.520 disabled as well as retirement funds. 1760 01:51:42.960 --> 01:51:44.880 They are apparently working. 1761 01:51:44.560 --> 01:51:48.640 To create legislation where there's going to be like women's 1762 01:51:50.279 --> 01:51:54.960 healthcare centers across the nation, which essentially are centers where 1763 01:51:55.000 --> 01:52:02.319 women are encouraged not to terminate pregate and sees. And 1764 01:52:02.399 --> 01:52:05.600 it's all based on a quote unquote Christian mindset whatever. 1765 01:52:06.199 --> 01:52:08.000 But these are the types of things that are going 1766 01:52:08.079 --> 01:52:10.640 under the radar, but that may spark your curiosity. 1767 01:52:11.119 --> 01:52:13.039 So when you feel yourself getting overwhelmed in. 1768 01:52:13.000 --> 01:52:15.840 The shock and awe that they are enacting right now, 1769 01:52:16.079 --> 01:52:19.439 when you feel yourself just getting so angry watching the 1770 01:52:19.520 --> 01:52:24.119 smugness of these individuals, thinking that they're smarter than you understand, 1771 01:52:24.239 --> 01:52:28.239 and know that your curiosity will keep you moving in 1772 01:52:28.279 --> 01:52:29.640 a direction towards solution. 1773 01:52:30.319 --> 01:52:32.760 Don't let them kill it. 1774 01:52:34.920 --> 01:52:36.359 Ts n. 1775 01:52:41.880 --> 01:52:44.319 All right, y'all, Time to head on out of here. 1776 01:52:45.279 --> 01:52:48.479 I hope everybody had a great day. I had a 1777 01:52:48.520 --> 01:52:52.119 great day. This is views from Amanda Land. For everyone 1778 01:52:52.159 --> 01:52:54.880 who joined us at the end, I hope that you 1779 01:52:55.800 --> 01:52:56.600 cut a little bit. 1780 01:52:56.439 --> 01:52:57.399 But you're gonna get more. 1781 01:52:58.079 --> 01:53:02.760 For everybody who is following me on Instagram, I want 1782 01:53:02.760 --> 01:53:05.920 you to know that I'm leaving Instagram. My last day 1783 01:53:06.000 --> 01:53:08.680 is the thirty first, so make sure that you follow 1784 01:53:08.720 --> 01:53:12.600 me over here as well as on Blue Sky, as 1785 01:53:12.600 --> 01:53:17.000 well as on Twitch. I want to thank our guests, 1786 01:53:17.119 --> 01:53:21.439 Rhonda Gerar and DJ Willquali. Look at this show man. 1787 01:53:21.560 --> 01:53:25.039 We had a Palestinian and we had a Kenyon. This 1788 01:53:25.199 --> 01:53:28.600 is where we are. We're in the world, baby, where 1789 01:53:28.600 --> 01:53:34.399 in the world. Remember, I will be dropping some new merch. Yes, 1790 01:53:34.600 --> 01:53:38.279 and remember whenever I'm dropping merch, I'm dropping items that 1791 01:53:38.319 --> 01:53:41.479 I have designed myself. So for Black History Month, go 1792 01:53:41.520 --> 01:53:44.159 to Amanday go to amandoland Exports dot com and get 1793 01:53:44.199 --> 01:53:48.000 yourself a smart, smart, Funny and blackpin. You can also 1794 01:53:48.039 --> 01:53:51.039 get the bonus bundle which includes the smart Funny and blackpin, 1795 01:53:52.920 --> 01:54:08.279 the sticker sheet in the bony. 1796 01:54:01.960 --> 01:54:04.359 With us in on a handside. Baby. 1797 01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:09.119 Okay, so all of that is going down. All of 1798 01:54:09.119 --> 01:54:12.399 that is going down. Also, want to remind everybody to 1799 01:54:12.560 --> 01:54:18.000 lead as this week, Yeah, with your

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So I want our guests to 1838 01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:31.520 be addressed by mister so and so or miss so 1839 01:56:31.640 --> 01:56:35.600 and so, or if they specifically have a pronounced preference 1840 01:56:36.199 --> 01:56:40.000 addressing them in that way. Okay, I do not like 1841 01:56:40.239 --> 01:56:43.199 we in class, all right, I don't even like we. 1842 01:56:43.239 --> 01:56:46.199 Y'all call me Amanda, even that at this point feels 1843 01:56:46.239 --> 01:56:51.399 too informal. I'm like, ah, hi, Bubba, my baby, my 1844 01:56:51.479 --> 01:56:55.600 baby Lando. So thank you to everybody out here who 1845 01:56:55.680 --> 01:56:56.560 sent us supers. 1846 01:56:56.560 --> 01:56:58.079 I'm showing y'all love right now. 1847 01:56:58.439 --> 01:57:04.319 Remember pleasebscribe right here before you go, please replay the episode, 1848 01:57:04.720 --> 01:57:07.960 and please remember that we are each other's business. When 1849 01:57:08.000 --> 01:57:10.680 we look out for each other, we lift each other up. 1850 01:57:11.479 --> 01:57:15.600 It means I mean that now more than ever. So 1851 01:57:16.119 --> 01:57:19.840 you guys, let's get into our sixty seconds of stillness 1852 01:57:21.720 --> 01:57:24.279 and shout to Panta di di'adrial, who said I'm looking 1853 01:57:24.319 --> 01:57:25.640 fierce today. 1854 01:57:29.079 --> 01:57:35.239 I love it. Thirty seconds, U Sameness. 1855 01:57:36.840 --> 01:57:38.560 I always say that I'm going to have my act 1856 01:57:38.560 --> 01:57:40.840 together for the thirty seconds of stillness, and then I 1857 01:57:40.880 --> 01:57:43.239 don't have my act together for the thirty seconds of stillness. 1858 01:57:43.359 --> 01:57:46.039 Like this happens every time. I want you all to 1859 01:57:46.039 --> 01:57:49.399 know that every time I'm over here rushing to try 1860 01:57:49.399 --> 01:57:51.520 to put up the thirty seconds of stillness and it's 1861 01:57:51.520 --> 01:57:58.039 never ready. So I want to apologize. But now you 1862 01:57:58.079 --> 01:58:02.720 can get into you're thirty seconds of stillness. 1863 01:58:37.760 --> 01:58:39.720 I enjoyed laughing and learning with you. 1864 01:58:39.840 --> 01:58:43.199 Please make sure to like, comment and subscribe and tell 1865 01:58:43.239 --> 01:58:47.800 your brands. Also listen to the podcast. It's available everywhere 1866 01:58:47.840 --> 01:58:52.319 pods or castage. Listen a free by subscribing to Patreons 1867 01:58:52.479 --> 01:58:55.720 Amanda Seals. Come on and join the Seal Squad use 1868 01:58:55.800 --> 01:58:59.239 from Mandoland Live, turning them eastern Monday through Wednesday, with 1869 01:58:59.399 --> 01:59:02.880 content on Thursday and Friday at YouTube Amanda Seo's TV. 1870 01:59:03.279 --> 01:59:03.880 By Friday. 1871 01:59:03.920 --> 01:59:08.680 Ye mm hmm