Do We Really Understand The Word Slavery? - Homeisode 45

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What's up, people? What's up? It's your boy Quincy

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Murdock with another episode of Not Just Music

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Podcast. Man, here y 'all with some more facts,

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some more history, mixed in with real life, real

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situations, personal situations of my own. How

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often do you hear people say, Man, they working

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us like slaves out here. I feel like a slave.

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You know what I'm saying? Honestly, I found myself

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saying that a lot in life. You know what I'm

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saying? And not actually knowing the true feeling

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or definition of slavery, right? So I want to

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read what slavery is, what a slave is, basically.

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Slavery is a system where individuals are treated

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as property and forced to work without compensation

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or freedom. It involves the deprivation of personal

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liberty, often included restrictions on movement,

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occupations and even choice of sexual partners.

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Historically, slavery has existed in various

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forms across many societies, with some individuals

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being enslaved due to capture in war depth. are

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a punishment okay let me stop right there with

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some individuals being enslaved due to capture

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in war that are punishment punishment let's talk

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punishment so when we're punished now when you

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do when you break things break laws now you're

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punished and what do they do they send you to

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prison so prisons it's it's laws certain laws

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and certain prisons They can actually enforce

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slavery mentality, slavery guidelines. For example,

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prison in Angola, a notorious prison in Louisiana.

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It's still prisoners picking cotton on fields.

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You have to go get your food, pick your food

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to eat. You know what I'm saying? And it could

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be 100 degree weather, 80 degree weather, cold.

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Cold, you know, 50 degrees. You got to go out

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there and pick cotton and you got to go out there

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and pick your food, basically. So they don't

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slavery is not like it used to be, but it's still

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enforced in certain ways. One thing that I would

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say when it comes to working, I'll say this.

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I know the workforces can be very tough. I know

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the supervisors can be tough. I know it can be

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a lot of favoritism. I know the responsibilities

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that black African -Americans face every day

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when they step into a job, when they step outside.

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I know that. And I truly understand that. Do

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I think it's favoritism still with other races

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over blacks? Yes. Do I feel like blacks have

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to live up to more and prove themselves more

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and be thankful you're here mentality that we

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have to have? Yes, I feel like it's still a lot.

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We still have a lot to prove. You know what I'm

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saying? And we're still at the bottom of the

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barrel, I think. But I will say things have changed.

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And when I read slavery, it says a system where

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individuals are treated properly and forced to

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work without compensation. Nowadays, you have

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that choice. If you're not getting paid. If you

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don't feel like they paying you enough, guess

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what? You have a choice. You have a choice to

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leave that job. You have a choice to, you know

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what I'm saying, find something better. We have

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choices. And that's the thing that back then

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slaves didn't have. They didn't have a choice

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to just up and quit. If they quit, they got beat

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or they got killed. They had to work on the fields.

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They had to pick cotton and this and that. or

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it was consequences. Nowadays, we have the freedom

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to just walk off a job if we don't feel we're

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getting compensated enough. We have that freedom.

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So in that sense of form, I think it favors us

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on that. I really think a lot of people use the

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slave mentality for excuses for not trying their

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best, not going to the full realm that they could,

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are doing. completely what they could do you

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know I'm saying that they best every time something

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doesn't go their way they want to blame it on

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us because I'm black or this and that and most

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cases in some cases it can be but my thing is

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you never want to rely on that and have that

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excuse have that excuse for yourself to why you

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can't make it I feel like you should think positive

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yes I'm gonna get this job yes I'm gonna I'm

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going to go out here and get it. I'm going to

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go out here and make it. You know what I'm saying?

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Forget they know. I'm saying, yes, I'm going

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to do it. I'm going to get this. I'm going to

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be able to take care of my family, provide. So

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it's the mindset that we have. And that's more

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the type of person that I am. We need to take

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back ownership. We need to take back identity.

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We need to take back. Us. How we feel. How we

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really. How we view ourselves. Stop looking at

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how the world views you. And how do you view

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yourself? Do you love yourself? Do you know you're

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special? Do you know you can make it? You can.

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And we can. So it's the mentality. And even slaves

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back then with little to nothing. They were happy.

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For some reason, they were happy people. They

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were still happy. And they've always found the

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good in the bad. What's going on? It's your boy,

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good and the bad. Okay, I got to get up at five

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every morning to go to work, right? I got to

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drive 30 minutes to this job. But guess what?

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This job is paying you. This job is putting a

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roof over your head. This job is feeding your

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family. This job is providing. This job is putting

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money into that business that you want. You know

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what I'm saying? Until it comes off the ground,

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it's providing it. Always look at the good with

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the bad. Yeah, it's going to be some bad with

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everything. But look at the good in that bad

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situation. Your supervisor might not like you,

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but every day you're able to step on that floor,

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punch that clock and get paid to work. Something

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slaves didn't have back then. It's a blessing.

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Change your attitude. Change your perspective.

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Always view. Look at the positive. Even with

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a whole lot of negative. And that's one thing

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I think blacks back then had. They always looked

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at the good. They always looked at the good.

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And they always made a way. Goes into my next

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key. Make a way. A lot of inventors invented

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things because they didn't have desperation.

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So a lot of individuals. Hey, a lot of individuals

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back then, black individuals, they succeeded

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more when they didn't have, when they were at

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the bottom of the low, bottom of the bottom.

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So if you got to get two jobs, get two jobs,

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three, four, whatever you got to do to make ends

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meet. You have that ability now. You have that

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right now. They can't just shut you down. Yeah,

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they might not bluntly shut you down. Some of

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them will use the race code. I admit this. Some

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will use the race code, but we're at a better

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playing field now than we were back then, most

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definitely. So I find myself using that term,

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using that saying lightly now because I am blessed.

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Every day we wake up, every day. We get to go

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outside of our house every day. We get to eat

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at the same restaurants as everybody else. It's

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no every corner you go on. It's not harassment

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all the time because of your skin color. And

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we can vote saying we can vote. Use those. Use

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those things that those people back then didn't

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have. Our ancestors didn't have and fought for

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so hard. Take advantage of it. That's another

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thing. Take advantage of these things. That our

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ancestors and blacks didn't have back then. That

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we have now. Let's utilize it. Let's make something

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out of it. Instead of just letting it go from

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the wayside. It's a blessing we have more rights.

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You know what I'm saying? Innocent until proven

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guilty they say. Judicial system. Say what you

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want. America. Probably has the most fair. fair

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fairness judicial system out of the whole world

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and even though it is a lot of verdicts that

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probably you know went against blacks it's it's

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a lot of black people that actually succeeded

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in the judicial judicial system and beat them

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charges it's a lot of people of color that beat

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the system also so we have to put light on that

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part too that's not just talk about the brothers

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and sisters that's getting thrown away from the

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system. Let's talk about the brothers and sisters

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that's beating this system. Let's talk about

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the ones that's making it. Let's talk about the

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black lawyers that's becoming lawyers. Let's

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talk about how these black kids are becoming

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nurses and doctors and lawyers and policemen.

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The good black people that want to change the

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police force and want to bring change to the

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community. Let's talk about that. I'm saying

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let's spread light onto the positive. Let's spread

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light more onto those things. And I feel like

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once we spread more light onto the positive,

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I feel like, and we compare and contrast. Then

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from now, I feel like a lot of black people,

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a lot of people will look at things differently

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in a different light. You know what I'm saying?

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I really feel that way. So don't use slavery.

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Don't use your skin color black. Don't use that

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as an excuse. We are an even playing field, more

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of an even playing field than we were back then.

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It's a lot of opportunities out here. What I'm

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doing right now, using my voice, this is an opportunity.

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This is a blessing. I'm thankful for this because

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you know how much they want to shut black African

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-Americans in general up. They don't want us

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to talk. They don't want us to expose the truth.

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This is a blessing. And I can do this now freely,

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something that slaves probably couldn't even

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do back then, speak out. And some of us are still

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in a slave mentality. We still don't speak out.

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We still won't use the resources that we're given.

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Change that, people. Change that mentality. Be

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something. Be great. Know that you are something

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special. Know that you can make it, whatever

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you put your mind to. And it's just like that.

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Thank y 'all for watching another episode of

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Not Just Music Podcast. It's your boy Quincy Murdock.

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Wanted to talk on slavery today. You know what

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I'm saying? Change your mindset. Actually look

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up the definition of slavery and ask yourself,

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are we really being treated like slaves? Is this

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really a slave situation? Slavery situation.

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Love people. Peace. Q.