Be The Next Cultural Giant

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What's going on, everybody? It's your boy Dwayne

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Brandon. I just need the podcast. If you want

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to build them, how's everything today, man? Bless,

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bless and holly favor, bro. How about you, man?

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How are you? Good, good. Excellent, excellent,

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excellent. Coming to an end of the month with

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a black history considered end of the month.

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But there are some things that I want to continue

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to push as far as like we do normally every year.

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But I want to talk about the Black history giants

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that are still alive. Considering, you know,

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we've done a lot of people who are, you know,

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quote unquote, you know, past. going on, resting

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easy, however you say it. But there are a lot

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that are still alive, the giants that are still

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alive. One that just died recently was Jesse

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Jackson. A lot of people were against Jesse Jackson

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in a lot of different ways. But considering there

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are a lot of doors that were hidden that jesse

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jackson had actually opened up but you know rest

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easy to his soul but i want to consider those

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that are still actually still alive so um one

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that i'm gonna break up is that i feel is you

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know getting overlooked now is uh can he say

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his name now Woo, Al Shopping. So, I'm bringing

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up Al Shopping for one reason. One reason for

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Al Shopping is it's one thing to say, you know,

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when you're, there's a lot of people who come

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to your rescue when something tragic happens.

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A lot of people considerably just do a lot of

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talking. Al Shoplin is one person that I've known

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that has shown up in so many different instances

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for black folks, whether he knew him or not.

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And I think a lot of the era of those that are

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like him and that are from the past era that's

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moved into this era with how history has become

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and how history has changed over the years, That's

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one thing that he's always held strong to is

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the black people. Now, do you know anybody else,

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bro? Before I move on past what I was talking

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about, do you know anybody? What's a giant that

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you know that's still alive right now that you

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would consider that a lot of people might look

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over, but at the same time they're still relevant

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in some instances? This could be saying good

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is gonna be a rapper this could be whoever movie

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star whomever you feel Hey, that's that's a good

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question tricky question That's sad though. That's

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sad. Yeah, that's sad that I can't just come

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up with one off the top. Ease, bro. One is this

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like real historical that was that stood on the

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black power and then she talking about them type.

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Either either it could be it could be. the nature

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of they changed history in some kind of way.

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It could be, like I said, it could be a singer.

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It could be, you know, a historian. It could

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be - I mean, you got the Williams sisters, tennis,

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Serena Williams, Venus Williams. You got their

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father who played a crucial role in creating

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them, changed tennis for blacks. You have What's

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her name? No, Gladys Knight dead, and she dead.

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Patti LaBelle. The Clark Sisters. I know I'm

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just saying names now, but hey, these are historical

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people, I feel. Man. All right, we're not gonna

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say some big name I could say some big names,

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but I'm gonna be honest though. They got a lot

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of it's a lot of Bad things attached to their

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names. So I wouldn't I don't know if you would

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Clark Clark But say who you talking about go

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ahead Denzel Washington Who else Barack Obama,

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Michelle Obama. I mean. Those are good ones.

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You hadn't caught out a bad one yet. So, you

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good? And by the way, Gladys Knight is still

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alive though, y 'all. Gladys Knight is still

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alive. She's very much alive. Okay. You never

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know now. Another reason. I'm glad I brought

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this up, Dan. This should be a good, this should

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be a good, it's not gonna be a long one at all.

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We already at six minutes. So this is why I'm

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saying it. And this is how many people actually

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really know and think about those you know those

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parts where who's who's who who's still here

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you know what did they do what did they change

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what type of you know demographic you know you

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know situation were they tied into um was it

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just you know african -american was it african

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-american and you know whites you know across

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the board hispanics it did across all the demographic

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charts But some just actually hit hard in the

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African -American, you know, demographics. They

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didn't want anything. Oh, Stevie Wonder. Stevie

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Wonder. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah. No, no, that's

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another good one. Happy birthday. His song, Little

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Black History, his song Happy Birthday is actually

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dedicated. Martin Luther King jr. That's an honor

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to Martin Luther King jr. His happy birthday

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to that's tomorrow with the King jr. For all

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the people that didn't know that's what that

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song was originated for. Sorry. No, that's good.

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Good history. Good history fact. Now, a history

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fact is indeed worthy of talking about. Now,

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the next history fact is what I was. These people.

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are leaving a dynamic legacy behind them. You

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can consider whether the waves of life has some

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turbulence, could have been good, could have

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been bad. We can't control that part of the life,

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that part of life. But just speaking of to make

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a change in what Negro consider to be Negro -like,

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What change did they make or are they making

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changes? This is one part that I see is slowly

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becoming things like nobody thinks about it.

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So who is next? Who's going to change that? I

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keep asking this question. Who's going to change

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the course of things, the way things are going?

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Who's the next Negro in charge next, basically?

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Well, who's gonna make that next move to be like,

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okay, I'm the it person. I'm the one that's gonna

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be the one that's gonna be like, okay, this is

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gonna be known for years. This is gonna be known

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for centuries. This is gonna be known for times.

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Bro, I'm sorry. You just threw me off with knee

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growth. You gotta give it the real. You gotta

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give it the real terminology, bro. You gotta

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give it the real terminology. I know, I know,

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I know. You gotta give it the real terminology.

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Can't give it the half stuff. Like it's back

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in the day. Yeah, we went back with that one.

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It can't be just the basic word. We gotta give

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it the one that disturbed folks. You know what

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I'm saying? And you know, if nothing else though,

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it's not to say that it was. you know, just give

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it for us, you know, it was given as a whole

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terminology for ignorance, but for the sake of,

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that's what they looked at us as. But again,

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we're at a point where it's 2026. There's only

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but so much people want to do with life now.

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You can just tell nobody's driven. to like do

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anything that's historical. It's just like a

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whole lot of follow, follow, follow. We talk

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about the whole follow, follow, follow situation

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all the time, but we never like really bridged

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the gap to consider things again that are worthy

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of it. What's worthy of it? First thing. Can

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I say something, bro? Can I cut in with that?

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Yeah. I feel like also the reason why I think

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a lot of people are not making that sacrifice

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and doing like being that next leader is it's

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not excuse but You know finances financial like,

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you know economics we talked about that previously.

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Um it's a lot of survival people are in survival

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mode, you know and He was just trying to make

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it day to day, you know living you know I'm saying

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so I think that tends to make people selfish

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in a way and not care about the world, because

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like, how can you worry about a world when you

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barely got something to eat? Or your kid barely

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eating, you know? Like, it's kind of like, you

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know, that's where the mindset is, I think, 2026.

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And a couple previous years, COVID era on, you

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know what I'm saying? It's been kind of rough.

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So I think that's why a lot of people don't have

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that mindset. But then you have people like Layla

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Edwards. Let's talk about it. Layla Edwards.

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Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. Let's

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talk about it. Let's talk about it. So let's

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go. Let's let's start right there. Where you

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at? Yeah. What do you get up and do every day?

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I get up and go to work, make it happen. Stop

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right there. A lot of the situations where people

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fail to realize Nothing is just gonna be like,

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here you go, Mr. Selfish or here you go, Ms.

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Selfish. Here you go, here's a handout. It's

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not gonna walk to you. The situation for what

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you were looking for is not just gonna walk to

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you. It's not just gonna be given quickly. It's

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not gonna come like that. If it was the case,

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it would already happen by now, but you're just

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wasting time. thinking on it, harping on it,

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and you've already got the tools that you need,

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and it's right here. It's all here, the tools

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is right here. We here with it though, man, you

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here with it. We know, I was saying the mindset's

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a lot of people. Yeah, I'm giving people, I'm

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not gonna sit here, you asked a very valid thing,

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or said a very valid thing that a lot of folk

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need to hear. But the thing is, is that's the

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part that people don't wanna hear, that's the

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only way that you're gonna be able to do it.

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There's no other way. You can go get help from

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the system. The system can help you all but so

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much, but there's still a part of you that has

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to be in your brain and your juices to be like,

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look, I gotta change some things. You gotta tell

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yourself this too. Can't just get up daily and

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be like, oh man, things ain't gonna change. Oh,

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get up and be like, look, today is the day. I'm

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gonna start today. If I gotta save $2 a week.

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If I gotta start out $2 a week until I get to

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the point where I can save five. I don't like

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working up to $7 a week. Might work it up to

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$10 a week after a while. You know, you got to

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get yourself to a point though where you're disciplined.

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And that's the part that a lot of blacks, ain't

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gonna say the Negroes, blacks, we are hard headed

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and we don't want to do things a certain way

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or adjust our lifestyles. to do less you know

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just so we can and this is the part where I say

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it makes you more humble it makes you more it

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makes things more gratifying because the case

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of one you don't have to always sit here and

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think like oh I gotta go make myself look good

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for such -and -such or this person or to look

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good for this don't look good for anybody for

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the sake of a time just lay it back lay back

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for three four years lay back for five years

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Stack your money get yourself together get yourself

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straight for your kids and my thing is if you

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already have a key This is the whole situation

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now if you already got a key, you got a double

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up your hustle. You got a triple up your hustle

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So many girls in this part Hi, I'm Ebony Valentine,

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owner of Ela's Braids and Beyond, located in

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braids in town. Because you got to work, but

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a lot of us a lot of us are hustlers before we

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have kids like me I was a hustle before that,

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you know, like it got to be any and Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying. Yeah,

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and yeah, I started out this year saying be selfish

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And what you just said, you know, sometimes you

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gotta be selfish, like stop trying to impress

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people by how you look and save that money. Cause

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a lot of us are living in this fantasy world

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where we're trying to live up to other people

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expectations. We're trying to make other people

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like us or love us. You know what I'm saying?

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When we don't even love ourselves, like that's

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a cover up for how we feel about ourselves. So.

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At the end of the day, when you going through

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that hard time, ain't none of them people gonna

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be there. When them lights get cut off, I guarantee

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you they ain't, them same people ain't gonna

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be there. You know what I'm saying? When you

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need something to eat, you need to feed your

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babies, them people ain't gonna be there. You

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know what I'm saying? So at the end of the day,

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like you say, it's about getting up and getting

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it and being more independent and less dependent.

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Know what I'm saying? And that's where I'm at

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with it. I've been there with it. And it took

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me going through hard things to get it. A lot

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of things. I had to follow my head. You know

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what I'm saying? Like, when I was at my lowest,

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the same people I was high, high geeking and

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going out partying, having fun with, all them

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chicks that was around me when I was doing good

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were nowhere to be found when I hit a road bump.

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You know what I'm saying? Let me hold something.

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I'll pay you back. Couldn't even let me hold

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nothing. I got more selfish. I told myself, if

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I struggled alone, I'ma celebrate alone. You

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know, if I had to come up about this alone, I

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can live through life alone, man. You know, and

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that's just how you gotta be, man. And having

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somebody else come in the picture is just extra.

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You know what I'm saying? That's how you gotta

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look at it. Getting a partner that's extra. But

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you should already still you should be fulfilled

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just by yourself alone first Mostly you got to

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be that go -getter by yourself and then like,

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you know You add on another person like you say

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that's just icing on the cake my pee So this

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is this is something I'll get ready to get into

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now this is this is a I'm gonna give you a prime

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example of why I feel a lot of it becomes after

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a certain time frame, it becomes an excuse. I'm

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gonna tell you why. For years and years, blacks

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never had anything. They had way less. I mean,

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you got people living in houses, five, six people

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in one house, one bedroom, everything, kitchen,

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everything, and everybody can see everybody.

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Don't even got a bathroom, no, none of this.

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But there's a part that was in them and they

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wanted it. They wanted something more than what

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they had. Meaning, now it's like everybody is

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so much to have, nobody wants to try to do anything

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different. Considerably, Blacks are almost -

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Ain't that crazy though? When you didn't have

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opportunities, imagine those people were trying

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to make opportunities. and squeeze things that

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make something happen. Now you got all these

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resources available to you. All this overtime,

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these jobs are all for you. I don't want to work

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overtime. I'm tired. I don't want to work Saturday.

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But okay, but you want these things though. You

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want to eat out every day, but you don't want

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to work that extra overtime. I told you, hey,

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my bills hit, man, my bills kicked my behind

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beginner of this month. I call my mama, say,

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Mama, I'm Lord have mercy. What I do when in

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the next day, hey, I need some overtime balls.

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I've been working 10 straights Monday through

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Saturday over 50 hours. I'm back in the green.

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You know what I'm saying? I'm a hustler. So that's

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what I'm trying to say. Like. You have to you

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have to be a go getter if these resources. I'm

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sorry. I'm sorry to cut in. But like you say,

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it's crazy how. They had less and was trying

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to make more out of what they had. And we have

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all this and we don't even want to use what we

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got. We got all this stuff like tours. You know,

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we baby, we spoiled in a way. Really spoiled.

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And this is this is this is the reason why I'm

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bringing it up like this. Like considerably.

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Doing this right now is making history like every.

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completed episode you know mixed mastered you

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know seal the deal put all the bells and whistles

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words together upload it put it out right it's

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history now the reason why I'm bringing it up

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like most don't do it and can't do it So those

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parts where you see people that cannot do things

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is Where you where your niche is like some people

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you you might just have a phone or you might

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just have a lawnmower or you might just have

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a pressure washer and that thing just might just

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have You something is something around you that

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is driven and ready just for you. But if you

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don't ever put it to work and never at least

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try, how will the effort ever be seen? How will

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the history ever be created? You know, I don't

00:22:44.470 --> 00:22:48.750
have every every tool that I need to like be,

00:22:48.930 --> 00:22:53.529
as I say, to be the the the best podcast or the

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best content creation. But I have all the tools

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that I need to get that up. So that's like you

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just say like you just say like you just say

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you got all that resources sitting around there

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What if you got that lawnmower for example when

00:23:08.630 --> 00:23:11.750
somebody come by? Like man, can I use your lawnmower

00:23:11.750 --> 00:23:14.049
to most somebody grass man? They go, you know

00:23:14.049 --> 00:23:17.569
and you give them the lawnmower They just stole

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the idea now. They gonna go out there and get

00:23:19.849 --> 00:23:23.529
some money I'm putting this with just life in

00:23:23.529 --> 00:23:26.549
general now. They they done took your ideas.

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So Long story short, you can sleep all you want.

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You can think all you want. But if you ain't

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doing it, somebody's going to steal your idea.

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Somebody's going to be moving up the chamber

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while you're still stuck. Like, that's what life,

00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:43.640
work, whatever. Like, you can sit there and exaggerate

00:23:43.640 --> 00:23:47.480
all you want. But life ain't going to stop. And

00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:50.680
you only fail when you stop. If you ain't trying

00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:55.980
to move, you stuck, stagnant. You already done,

00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:59.839
you know, you defeated. But like you say, like

00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:03.799
we might not be the best, but we're constantly

00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:05.980
working, we're constantly moving, we're doing

00:24:05.980 --> 00:24:08.140
something. That's a lot of people just standing

00:24:08.140 --> 00:24:11.759
still out here, not doing anything. So, you know,

00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:16.119
yeah. Yeah, that's why I said is you have to

00:24:16.119 --> 00:24:19.599
look at the efforts. A lot of people don't even

00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:22.059
put in the effort. And that's all I'm saying.

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The reason why I brought up historians and ones

00:24:25.069 --> 00:24:28.089
that are still alive, you look at the efforts

00:24:28.089 --> 00:24:30.430
that they put out. Look at the efforts that they're

00:24:30.430 --> 00:24:33.130
doing. Look at putting yourself in these places

00:24:33.130 --> 00:24:35.670
that a lot of y 'all won't even go. Y 'all just

00:24:35.670 --> 00:24:38.890
sit at the house and consistently shoot the content

00:24:38.890 --> 00:24:41.690
about it. But y 'all ain't out there in the field.

00:24:41.970 --> 00:24:44.930
You won't go go see it. You won't go touch it.

00:24:44.930 --> 00:24:47.569
You won't go be part of it. You won't go march

00:24:47.569 --> 00:24:50.309
for it. You won't go, you know. whatever the

00:24:50.309 --> 00:24:52.390
case did it, you got to stand on something for

00:24:52.390 --> 00:24:55.849
it. You know, and the efforts that you're showing,

00:24:56.490 --> 00:24:59.269
the proof that you're showing, meaning when you

00:24:59.269 --> 00:25:02.190
get on here or, you know, you show your videos

00:25:02.190 --> 00:25:05.210
and you putting it out, don't just be the one

00:25:05.210 --> 00:25:06.690
that's just sitting here like, look at this and

00:25:06.690 --> 00:25:09.190
I'm showing you this. Be the one of the ones

00:25:09.190 --> 00:25:13.289
to be like, I'm here, I'm here on site, you know,

00:25:13.470 --> 00:25:15.349
putting in that effort and that work. Can I say

00:25:15.349 --> 00:25:18.390
this? Can I say this? I want to send you some

00:25:18.390 --> 00:25:21.599
videos. and maybe you can put them in or something

00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:26.700
though, but the year George Floyd died, me and

00:25:26.700 --> 00:25:29.480
my artist, Rachel Rich was out there protesting.

00:25:30.259 --> 00:25:33.059
We was doing it in our city. When George Floyd

00:25:33.059 --> 00:25:36.559
was out there, when he had died, you know, there

00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:39.579
was a lot of protests going on. We was out there,

00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:42.640
you know, and it was dangerous. Like white guy

00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:46.220
pulled up with a shotgun, was like threatening

00:25:46.220 --> 00:25:50.269
to kill all the people protesting. Like it was

00:25:50.269 --> 00:25:52.950
at Statesville, North Carolina. And I actually

00:25:52.950 --> 00:25:56.309
made the page front page of the newspaper. Like

00:25:56.309 --> 00:25:59.589
with the march, I send that to, you know, a matter

00:25:59.589 --> 00:26:01.490
of fact, you had cut my hair. I had like the

00:26:01.490 --> 00:26:05.789
fade, you know, high tide fade. But, uh, yeah,

00:26:05.930 --> 00:26:09.849
like I that's prime example. I'm out there. I'm

00:26:09.849 --> 00:26:12.049
saying I'm out here. And most of what I talk

00:26:12.049 --> 00:26:14.890
about, I'm out here. You know, I don't live it.

00:26:14.890 --> 00:26:16.910
I experienced it some way. You know what I'm

00:26:16.910 --> 00:26:21.480
saying? So Be I'm out there as much as I can

00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:24.960
as much as you know, I still separate life You

00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:27.500
know you got to work and then you got a you know

00:26:27.500 --> 00:26:30.160
You you got your stuff when you can do your activists

00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.799
and your podcast and it you know It's all about

00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:34.599
balance and that's another thing. We got to stop

00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:38.420
making excuses make time for Know I'm saying

00:26:38.420 --> 00:26:41.720
make time for it. Even if I work a nine to five

00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:44.319
guess what? I can still make time for this I

00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:46.779
can make time for that. You know, you can make

00:26:46.779 --> 00:26:48.970
time you guys gotta balance it You know what

00:26:48.970 --> 00:26:51.789
I'm saying? It's about balance. So don't use,

00:26:51.789 --> 00:26:54.269
oh, I got a job. I'm working as an excuse to

00:26:54.269 --> 00:26:57.650
put everything else to the side. No. You just

00:26:57.650 --> 00:27:03.930
got to find an excuse. So y 'all have a idea.

00:27:04.089 --> 00:27:07.930
And this is something I'm going for, you know.

00:27:08.269 --> 00:27:10.470
Every time we put out something, it's always

00:27:10.470 --> 00:27:14.829
going to be history. That's history made. So

00:27:14.829 --> 00:27:20.809
we have. a very big array of things that are

00:27:20.809 --> 00:27:25.410
going to change on the way how the website is

00:27:25.410 --> 00:27:29.289
being created now is a lot of differentiation

00:27:29.289 --> 00:27:34.549
of feelings, emotions, and things that are driven

00:27:34.549 --> 00:27:38.289
towards blacks and at the same time is creating

00:27:38.289 --> 00:27:44.400
a lane to show a lot of blacks and inventors

00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:47.039
and people that are like I say that's doing stuff

00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:49.140
and you gonna see some bad because the case of

00:27:49.140 --> 00:27:51.680
we need to see bad too because that's going on

00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:54.039
that's the only way we're gonna clear up the

00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:57.200
nature of what's going on period because we can't

00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:59.339
have nothing to talk about if we're not seeing

00:27:59.339 --> 00:28:02.470
any bad But it's a good thing about all aspects,

00:28:02.730 --> 00:28:04.829
yes. Yeah, if it's a good thing once we get to

00:28:04.829 --> 00:28:06.230
the point where we can just talk about stuff

00:28:06.230 --> 00:28:08.150
that's good, good, good, but until then, you

00:28:08.150 --> 00:28:09.569
know, the work that we have to do. Sometimes

00:28:09.569 --> 00:28:11.970
the bad things motivate people. Sometimes the

00:28:11.970 --> 00:28:14.089
bad things wake people up. You gotta talk about

00:28:14.089 --> 00:28:16.289
it. You gotta talk about it. Yeah, it has to

00:28:16.289 --> 00:28:18.430
be talked about. So, you know, scare them straight.

00:28:19.809 --> 00:28:22.849
If nothing else though, if nothing else, if it

00:28:22.849 --> 00:28:25.069
ain't scared and straight is giving them something

00:28:25.069 --> 00:28:26.970
to be like, okay, you know what? I ain't doing

00:28:26.970 --> 00:28:29.470
it the right way. I ain't gonna do it that way.

00:28:29.470 --> 00:28:31.109
I ain't going down that road. Yeah, I'm gonna

00:28:31.109 --> 00:28:34.490
do it the right way. So that's what, yeah, it's

00:28:34.490 --> 00:28:37.069
a message. It's a message and a lesson in how

00:28:37.069 --> 00:28:41.589
it is. Everything we talking about, man. It's

00:28:41.589 --> 00:28:43.690
like putting up a mirror and showing you, you

00:28:43.690 --> 00:28:46.329
know what I'm saying? And I think a lot of people

00:28:46.329 --> 00:28:49.430
wear that mirror to a lot of people. You might

00:28:49.430 --> 00:28:51.630
touch on something that might be you and you

00:28:51.630 --> 00:28:53.650
can think about it and I hope you, you know,

00:28:53.650 --> 00:28:56.089
you think about it and read it, read it as an

00:28:56.089 --> 00:28:59.450
eight and be like, okay, like I might need to

00:28:59.450 --> 00:29:02.650
correct it. You know, I might need to think differently.

00:29:03.369 --> 00:29:05.430
Like that's, that's our goal. That's the goal.

00:29:05.509 --> 00:29:07.529
You know what I'm saying? It's to actually have

00:29:07.529 --> 00:29:11.569
it resonate with you. You think hard on it. So

00:29:11.569 --> 00:29:15.630
yeah. If anything doesn't else you can be motivated

00:29:15.630 --> 00:29:18.150
motivated by something be motivated by somebody

00:29:18.150 --> 00:29:20.309
that's doing something You know, that's doing

00:29:20.309 --> 00:29:22.809
something that's getting moving in a direction

00:29:22.809 --> 00:29:26.349
this That's gonna change what's what the course

00:29:26.349 --> 00:29:29.309
of life is, you know, we always speak of things

00:29:29.309 --> 00:29:31.849
like that I try to always give something as a

00:29:31.849 --> 00:29:37.789
life driven in also Hey do better, you know fix

00:29:37.789 --> 00:29:42.529
this God Keep guiding your life, ask for help,

00:29:43.029 --> 00:29:45.150
you know, stuff like that. That's all that stuff

00:29:45.150 --> 00:29:48.650
that needs to be given to folk. Not just the,

00:29:49.329 --> 00:29:52.509
hey, look who's hating on who today. Hey, look

00:29:52.509 --> 00:29:57.930
who's beefing with who today. Hey, look who's

00:29:57.930 --> 00:29:59.930
hating on who today. Who's beefing with who today?

00:30:00.890 --> 00:30:02.990
That's commonality now. I think that's about

00:30:02.990 --> 00:30:07.029
getting old with some folks. But y 'all can come

00:30:07.029 --> 00:30:08.720
over here, y 'all can get some stuff. We got

00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:11.019
something for you that's positive, Drew. Anything

00:30:11.019 --> 00:30:12.819
to say on my last time, bruh, before we close

00:30:12.819 --> 00:30:15.579
this out? We done. Yeah, we done. QuincyMurda

00:30:15.579 --> 00:30:19.319
.com, man. Y 'all check out my website. Again,

00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:21.980
people keep finding, be one of the ones that's

00:30:21.980 --> 00:30:24.259
gonna change the world, man. There's still a

00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:25.920
lot to do out here. There's still a lot of inventions

00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:27.799
that need to be invented, stuff that needs to

00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:30.700
be recreated. AI ain't gonna last us but so long,

00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:32.819
so we gotta find some kind of loopholes that's

00:30:32.819 --> 00:30:34.359
in there. There's some black folk just out here

00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:37.799
that's coming up with some stuff. But stick around

00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:42.079
to the next time Autism community. I love y 'all

00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:45.480
y 'all continue to stay Motivated don't let none

00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.880
of the stuff that's going on especially with

00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:51.859
the person that you're taking care of or You

00:30:51.859 --> 00:30:54.900
know the person that's in your life Don't let

00:30:54.900 --> 00:30:57.279
it get you down. You know it's another it's a

00:30:57.279 --> 00:30:59.319
it's a green light in there somewhere It's a

00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:01.420
very bright light in there somewhere to just

00:31:01.420 --> 00:31:04.380
keep pushing till y 'all see Till next time we

00:31:04.380 --> 00:31:05.740
love y 'all peace