1
00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:08,360
Speaker 1: Real, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is DJ

2
00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,520
Speaker 1: Envy angela Ye, Charlomagne the God. We all the Breakfast

3
00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,800
Speaker 1: Club special guests in the building. Mister Bill Duke, you know,

4
00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,320
Speaker 1: you know how many times do you hear that? Every day?

5
00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,320
Speaker 1: Ten times a day. I actually happened to say that

6
00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,240
Speaker 1: to Envy previously this morning, this morning. He didn't lie

7
00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,600
Speaker 1: about something. Got to say it for us one time. Okay,

8
00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:36,600
Speaker 1: you said you taste had the bottle of beer at

9
00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:43,920
Speaker 1: what time? Now? You know you read that in that

10
00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,239
Speaker 1: script years ago in Minute to Society. Did you know

11
00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,240
Speaker 1: it was gonna be as iconic? You never never, never ever?

12
00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,879
Speaker 1: He was brothers, great, great, great directors, man, and they

13
00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,880
Speaker 1: kind of give you the freedom to as an actor,

14
00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,360
Speaker 1: to do it. So you come up with the feeling,

15
00:00:58,400 --> 00:00:59,720
Speaker 1: You come up with what you feel based in the

16
00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,640
Speaker 1: words they've written. And you still look the same now

17
00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,679
Speaker 1: as you do then. Oh, man, I wish my knees

18
00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,559
Speaker 1: felt that way. You always got a very present man.

19
00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:11,920
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know. I guess you know, big

20
00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:13,680
Speaker 1: black man, you know what I mean? In America? You

21
00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:20,399
Speaker 1: always look I guess two, no, look good. I don't

22
00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:26,600
Speaker 1: know what supposed to look like. But you look great, right,

23
00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,920
Speaker 1: don't crack when you did minutes you was in your forties,

24
00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,560
Speaker 1: late thirties. I think late thirties, late forties. Yeah, wow,

25
00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:36,039
Speaker 1: many moons ago. Man, So what do you do? Do

26
00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,200
Speaker 1: you work out? Do you drinkie green juice? Secret? Um?

27
00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,920
Speaker 1: I was five days week. I'm vegan. Um. I work

28
00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,800
Speaker 1: out three times a week with a trainer, and I

29
00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:54,040
Speaker 1: go to beakrom yoga. Yea oh man, it's rough, but

30
00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,800
Speaker 1: I love it. But I meditate every day, Chancellor meditation.

31
00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,240
Speaker 1: I'm doing that since, oh, in the seventies. Man, So

32
00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,800
Speaker 1: meditation really saves my life every day. Really, when you

33
00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,560
Speaker 1: say five days of weeks, I mean two days a week.

34
00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,240
Speaker 1: You eat meat if you want to a fish. I

35
00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,480
Speaker 1: eat a little fish or chicken because strength wise, I

36
00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,040
Speaker 1: want to some of the proteins that get on the vegetables.

37
00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,240
Speaker 1: Was good, but sometimes ate some fish. I feel stronger.

38
00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:21,399
Speaker 1: Got you all right? Well, let's talk about these documentary

39
00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,200
Speaker 1: Dark Girls and Light Girls. I was in the Light

40
00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,440
Speaker 1: Girls documentary that you did. You did a very good job,

41
00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,239
Speaker 1: by the way, and that actually was all over the place.

42
00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,720
Speaker 1: A lot of things like Amber Rose her her part

43
00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,600
Speaker 1: of that movie. That documentary was everywhere. When she said

44
00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:36,360
Speaker 1: that her family had issues with her being with Whiz

45
00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,240
Speaker 1: Khalifa because he's black, and you know, they had a

46
00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,040
Speaker 1: problem with that son show for a wedding, that's yeah,

47
00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,320
Speaker 1: that's absolutely And I was saying the same thing about

48
00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,800
Speaker 1: in my family. You know, I'm half Chinese and half Flack,

49
00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:49,760
Speaker 1: and that was an issue for the Chinese side of

50
00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,320
Speaker 1: my family too, you know, to not they didn't come

51
00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,360
Speaker 1: to my parents' wedding for the same reason. But um,

52
00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:57,320
Speaker 1: there was a lot of flack I got when I

53
00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,080
Speaker 1: posted on Instagram, okay, make sure you check out you know,

54
00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,200
Speaker 1: La Girl's documentaries coming on tomorrow night. We were promoting

55
00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,359
Speaker 1: it and people got into arguments on my Instagram over that,

56
00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,480
Speaker 1: like why would you make such a divisive documentary? Why

57
00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,160
Speaker 1: people were saying things like this because they couldn't put

58
00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,280
Speaker 1: it into perspective. There was a Dark Girl's documentary that

59
00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,800
Speaker 1: came out first, and let's talk about why you felt

60
00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,760
Speaker 1: they need to do that one. Well, because pain has

61
00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,799
Speaker 1: no color. On the assumption is because your dark skin

62
00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,520
Speaker 1: you have pain, but light skin people don't have no pain.

63
00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,880
Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is is that our internal

64
00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,120
Speaker 1: racism is still alive, and we are still putting each

65
00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,280
Speaker 1: other down and making jokes about each other because of

66
00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,320
Speaker 1: the color of our skin. And with women particularly it's

67
00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,200
Speaker 1: it's difficult because the beauty business says, if you don't

68
00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,640
Speaker 1: look a certain way, God made a mistake, and so

69
00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,600
Speaker 1: we're going to give you cosmetics and stuff and and

70
00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,280
Speaker 1: give you lengthen your hair with extensions and blah blah blah.

71
00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,600
Speaker 1: Then we have to think with skin bleach, which is

72
00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,600
Speaker 1: globally a fifty billion dollar business, right, really, this is globally, man.

73
00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,320
Speaker 1: I wasn't gone to Africa man last year, man, and

74
00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,280
Speaker 1: on a number one polics here was skin bleached. When

75
00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,840
Speaker 1: I say, I mean liaching the whole body. I need

76
00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,480
Speaker 1: to get in on that sense everybody think I'm doing now.

77
00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,320
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks that Charlotte because everyone says that he's bleaching

78
00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,760
Speaker 1: his skin because he said he had some skin discoloration.

79
00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:19,719
Speaker 1: You can see it. He went to he went to

80
00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,200
Speaker 1: go see a germatologist. And now when people see him,

81
00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,880
Speaker 1: he visibly looks lighter in pictures and all the time,

82
00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000
Speaker 1: like Charletagne's bleaching his skin. He hates himself, you know.

83
00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,919
Speaker 1: So on and so forth. Let me ask you a question.

84
00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,480
Speaker 1: You know, what do you do when somebody or how

85
00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,840
Speaker 1: do you handle when somebody makes fun of your skin color?

86
00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:44,160
Speaker 1: Because he's visibly babe goes on every day, every day,

87
00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,960
Speaker 1: every day waffle color. Oh my god, what else do

88
00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,400
Speaker 1: you call me? I call you princess boy. And then

89
00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,360
Speaker 1: you never called me that you ever worked with a

90
00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,800
Speaker 1: light skin guy. Of course you have right, everybody many

91
00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,400
Speaker 1: with everybody. Man, they could be a little difficult. Are

92
00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,920
Speaker 1: you saying that you have evidence of that? Yes, this

93
00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,680
Speaker 1: guy now trying to under the impression that because Envy

94
00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,200
Speaker 1: is light skin, he's more sensitive, more emotional, more emotional

95
00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,240
Speaker 1: than the average person. He does. I don't know if

96
00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,840
Speaker 1: it's because of the color of his thing. He is

97
00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,560
Speaker 1: the most sensitive one in the room, but I don't

98
00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,520
Speaker 1: actually say that that's why. And then Envy and return

99
00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,240
Speaker 1: cost made a big black bully and I ain't even big,

100
00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,880
Speaker 1: but because I'm dog skin, I gotta be big and

101
00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,400
Speaker 1: black and a bully. So I'm so glad you're here

102
00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,159
Speaker 1: to shed some light on these issues that we have

103
00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,200
Speaker 1: every day in the studio. Well, uh, no, pun intendive,

104
00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:39,719
Speaker 1: but I'd like to shed some light on the issue

105
00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,200
Speaker 1: because you haven't done light skin boy versus dogskin Boy.

106
00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,400
Speaker 1: I think it's more you two are inspiring me to

107
00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,679
Speaker 1: make that movie right now. Remember, and y'all, y'all should

108
00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,600
Speaker 1: be starring at it, you know what I'm saying. But no,

109
00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,400
Speaker 1: I think it's an issue internally, and I know we're

110
00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,840
Speaker 1: joking about it. But then the thing is is that

111
00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:59,440
Speaker 1: a lot of children are suffering from this, you know,

112
00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,280
Speaker 1: on the plague. You know, they're being bullied either their

113
00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,320
Speaker 1: their their their the kinky hair you look like a

114
00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:18,880
Speaker 1: tar baby, uh, and little girls being calling tar babies,

115
00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,119
Speaker 1: and light skinned girls are being taken into bathrooms held

116
00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,080
Speaker 1: down and theirs being put in their hair and they're

117
00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,239
Speaker 1: pulling the hair out by the roots slice of course,

118
00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,440
Speaker 1: the neckan's face sliced and ear rings pulled through their

119
00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,480
Speaker 1: It looks that people think they think they're too cute.

120
00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,440
Speaker 1: It's madness, and I think if we could. My belief

121
00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,000
Speaker 1: is we can cure our internal rifts that no one

122
00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,320
Speaker 1: can touch us from the outside. But until we learn

123
00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,760
Speaker 1: to heal that. You know, here's the ironic thing. Well,

124
00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,839
Speaker 1: light skinned and dark skinned women are bickering about skin color.

125
00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,400
Speaker 1: White females are going to tanning s allonspice twice twice

126
00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:00,360
Speaker 1: a week, crinkling their hair, getting butt lips, lifts and injections.

127
00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,120
Speaker 1: Don't you find out a little a little ironic. Yeah,

128
00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,640
Speaker 1: it's like they planted the seed to make us think

129
00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,480
Speaker 1: that what we naturally have is bad. But that's there,

130
00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,400
Speaker 1: you go. We all give with each other. Like we

131
00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,600
Speaker 1: talk about my wife. My wife is light skin. She

132
00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,080
Speaker 1: got cut in the face and by a dog skinned girl,

133
00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,880
Speaker 1: and they called her casper, and they called her white goals.

134
00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,280
Speaker 1: And you know, it's a problem with her own community.

135
00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,400
Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day, we're all black,

136
00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, There's only one race man,

137
00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:29,840
Speaker 1: the human race, you know, and we all why are

138
00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:40,240
Speaker 1: you laughing for? You're just crazy man, right, I'm telling

139
00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,040
Speaker 1: you it's very difficult every day. But m yeah, no,

140
00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:45,840
Speaker 1: that's why I was saying. And he did have an issue.

141
00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:47,760
Speaker 1: You know, his wife did get her face cut because

142
00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,640
Speaker 1: of the color of her skin, basically, and people do

143
00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,640
Speaker 1: automatically assume, Oh, she thinks she's cute, she thinks she's better.

144
00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,600
Speaker 1: Where did these stereotypes come from? No? I mean I

145
00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:57,200
Speaker 1: even think of a movie like New Jack City when

146
00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,480
Speaker 1: Nino who was dog skin stabbed Christopher Williams character in

147
00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,800
Speaker 1: the Hand. I never liked you anywhere. You pretty mother

148
00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,400
Speaker 1: who said lightskin people were pretty. All light skin girls

149
00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,160
Speaker 1: ain't pretty. And people would say things like, oh, you

150
00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,080
Speaker 1: know he wasn't light skin, she wouldn't be cute. People

151
00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,160
Speaker 1: say stuff like, hey, light skin, peak got good here. Yeah,

152
00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,000
Speaker 1: well it goes back to neo colonialism. You know. Once

153
00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:20,480
Speaker 1: we were slaves and the ruler was white. Uh, and um,

154
00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,640
Speaker 1: everybody wants to be like the person in power. And

155
00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,080
Speaker 1: so the lighter skin slaves right in the house because

156
00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,320
Speaker 1: they the master had sex with the female slaves. They

157
00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,800
Speaker 1: were ladder and he took better care of them than

158
00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,280
Speaker 1: he do. You know, do you know that the brown

159
00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,320
Speaker 1: paper bag test? Here's what's crazy, man. Somebody just did

160
00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,440
Speaker 1: that this morning with Tyrese. You know, you know you

161
00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,760
Speaker 1: know that. Uh, until the forties and fifties on the church,

162
00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,680
Speaker 1: certain churches, there was a brown paper bag nailed to

163
00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,800
Speaker 1: the church door. Wow, if your skin was darker than

164
00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,040
Speaker 1: the brown paper bag, couldn't go to church. Wow, that

165
00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't be allowed. The church is that deep even you'd

166
00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:03,160
Speaker 1: be that is absolutely that's crazy. But that's that's to

167
00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,000
Speaker 1: the alley that we've faced and today it's still going

168
00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,840
Speaker 1: on when I travel um one of them. It's not funny,

169
00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,880
Speaker 1: but one of the biggest consumers of skin bleach is

170
00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,720
Speaker 1: Indian and Indian men. And because if your skin is

171
00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,000
Speaker 1: lighter in the Indian culture means you're working in the

172
00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,960
Speaker 1: office because you haven't got to the sun. If it's dark,

173
00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,800
Speaker 1: it means you're work in the field. So Indian women

174
00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,600
Speaker 1: want lighter men because it means they have better jobs

175
00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,079
Speaker 1: for the house. Negro field negrontality is even an Indian

176
00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,400
Speaker 1: go Yeah, and then are bleaching the whole facing and

177
00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,559
Speaker 1: the whole bodies. Wow, that's toxic. Do I look like

178
00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:41,120
Speaker 1: I'm bleaching? No? After he does, but I didn't know him.

179
00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,800
Speaker 1: I think he was, but he had to be because

180
00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,520
Speaker 1: its entire bodies. This tam caused his face. Duh, thank

181
00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:50,079
Speaker 1: you mister Duke for shedding somebody. Yeah, he had this

182
00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,000
Speaker 1: coloration on it around his eyes looked like a rack

183
00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,160
Speaker 1: home when it was how do you have it was

184
00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,839
Speaker 1: so dark? Now he's talk about the dark stuck goes Iraq.

185
00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:07,520
Speaker 1: Does this happen every day? Somebody? Absolutely? It's healing up

186
00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,000
Speaker 1: in here. You know what I mean. I want to

187
00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,600
Speaker 1: ask you about this article that a TV editor road

188
00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,560
Speaker 1: on deadline dot com. She said that ethnic diversity. She

189
00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,760
Speaker 1: said that the pendulum may be swinging too far and

190
00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,000
Speaker 1: that too many minorities and ethnic people are getting these

191
00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,520
Speaker 1: roles and white people can't get roles now because they're

192
00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,480
Speaker 1: purposely making these roles for ethnic people. Well, we're still

193
00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,920
Speaker 1: looking for forty acres in the mule. Maybe this is

194
00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,920
Speaker 1: it coming you know what I mean. Did you get

195
00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,000
Speaker 1: your forty acres? You get your Maybe it's my forty

196
00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,480
Speaker 1: acres of the mule coming out. I mean, it's like,

197
00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,360
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is, man, is that percentage

198
00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,199
Speaker 1: wise if you look at the number of television shows

199
00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,640
Speaker 1: and three or four of them are black and very successful,

200
00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,000
Speaker 1: I'm not in the same thing they're not. But in

201
00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,839
Speaker 1: ratio to what's on the air and the number of

202
00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,120
Speaker 1: films that are made yearly, there's no comparison. I mean

203
00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,240
Speaker 1: there's no I don't know what they're talking about, but

204
00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,760
Speaker 1: there's no comparison. So we shouldn't even be jumping for

205
00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,360
Speaker 1: joy right now. Uh. If for the next ten years

206
00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,480
Speaker 1: you would see an increase in employment, we see images

207
00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,280
Speaker 1: that reflect our humanity and not just our ethnicity. We

208
00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,440
Speaker 1: see more directors producers owning content. We see us getting

209
00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,200
Speaker 1: into the gaming market, which we're not yet. That is

210
00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,760
Speaker 1: like grand Theft Auto made two points in two point

211
00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,320
Speaker 1: two big end dollars in three days, and we're not

212
00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,600
Speaker 1: in the gaming business. I mean, we should be celebrating

213
00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,280
Speaker 1: the fact that we're more exposed, but we're not in

214
00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,720
Speaker 1: a film and television business anymore. We're in the media business.

215
00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,559
Speaker 1: And until we get into that business, I say, the

216
00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,160
Speaker 1: kids don't want to be Steven Spielberg, try to be

217
00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,679
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs because you know the thing is, and they'll

218
00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,439
Speaker 1: say it this way. You know, we're playing checks in

219
00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,880
Speaker 1: a chess game. Make any sense? Yes, do you feel

220
00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,640
Speaker 1: like you would discriminated against because are you kidding me?

221
00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:59,720
Speaker 1: Big black ball, big black ballheaded? Uh? You know me

222
00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:05,320
Speaker 1: detective And for the work. Yeah, but I got some

223
00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,040
Speaker 1: good roles too in terms of some of the shows,

224
00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,160
Speaker 1: and my humanity was shown more. But in those days, um,

225
00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,840
Speaker 1: there weren't many of us who were dark skinned black

226
00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,679
Speaker 1: men who were allowed to be in leading roles, etcetera.

227
00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,720
Speaker 1: So you know when you scared me to when you

228
00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,079
Speaker 1: was in the predator and he was putting that stuff

229
00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,200
Speaker 1: around your eyes and it was like you were preparing

230
00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:26,960
Speaker 1: to die. And I like, boy, the predator, the bad man.

231
00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,800
Speaker 1: If he killed this one, he got me. So I'm

232
00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,720
Speaker 1: still trying to get him too. Man, he's evasive. He's evasive.

233
00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,040
Speaker 1: Put it that way. Now you're doing the Mahalia Jackson movie,

234
00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,559
Speaker 1: executive producing that. Well, that's the rumor. Um. The producers

235
00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,839
Speaker 1: are talking to me right now. They're still raising the funds,

236
00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,400
Speaker 1: et cetera. But one thing that is happening. I'm getting

237
00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,280
Speaker 1: ready to go in a couple of weeks to Chicago,

238
00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:59,839
Speaker 1: and we're working on a television series, uh called the Blexicansslexicans, Yes,

239
00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,920
Speaker 1: black Mexicans. What it happened. There's a black family in

240
00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:07,280
Speaker 1: a Mexican family, um, and the young black man reaches

241
00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,760
Speaker 1: out to a Mexican girl. They get married and they

242
00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,959
Speaker 1: have a young girl and she's a Blexican. But the

243
00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,480
Speaker 1: black father hates Mexicans and the Mexican father hates black people.

244
00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,000
Speaker 1: And so it's about it's a comedy dramedy type thing,

245
00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,040
Speaker 1: and we'll start filming it around three weeks and so days.

246
00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,400
Speaker 1: Some black people in a Mexican make some pretty babies.

247
00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,680
Speaker 1: I used to date this girl named Kanna Modena. She

248
00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,199
Speaker 1: was a Mexican black. Murder was so fun and she

249
00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,880
Speaker 1: used to give these great hand jobs. Okay, that's a

250
00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,360
Speaker 1: lot of information and a lot of it. That's a

251
00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,880
Speaker 1: lot of I just thought about it. When you say

252
00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:41,840
Speaker 1: now I have a question, I mean the hand job part.

253
00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,000
Speaker 1: I mean up util that point everything was good for

254
00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,360
Speaker 1: a full name and everything I used to call it moa.

255
00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,800
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound now, Bill, did I have a question

256
00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,720
Speaker 1: for you? Somebody wrote this into me right from my

257
00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,600
Speaker 1: asking just yesterday, and I want to see how would

258
00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,560
Speaker 1: you say one should respond to this? Is this offensive? Now,

259
00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:05,120
Speaker 1: she's a black girl and she was out in Orlando

260
00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,600
Speaker 1: and her girlfriend starts talking to um a guy and

261
00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,400
Speaker 1: he had two white friends, and one of the white

262
00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,680
Speaker 1: guys gave her a kiss on the cheek and called

263
00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,800
Speaker 1: her his jungle princess. Now, she said, I'm open to

264
00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,800
Speaker 1: all races. I've never dated a white guy because of

265
00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,400
Speaker 1: the ignorant ways they tried to hit on me, she said.

266
00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,200
Speaker 1: Normally they call her things like chocolate queen or mocha latte.

267
00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:25,760
Speaker 1: He took it too far, and I had to put

268
00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,200
Speaker 1: him in his place. I realized after he might not

269
00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,600
Speaker 1: have meant it in a rude way, But why do

270
00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:31,880
Speaker 1: white guys think it's appropriate to hit on a black

271
00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:36,440
Speaker 1: girl like that? She should have called him my cracker boo?

272
00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:44,640
Speaker 1: How about that? Thank you? Crackaboo? Calling me jungle princess? Crackaboo?

273
00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,200
Speaker 1: How about that? And you say crackabay, kackabay. Wouldn't that

274
00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,880
Speaker 1: work out a little bit? But then so I'm reading

275
00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:56,320
Speaker 1: my responses to this question, and some people are saying

276
00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,960
Speaker 1: things like, well, you know, he probably might have just

277
00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,600
Speaker 1: not known. Maybe he wasn't trying. How do you tolerate

278
00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:08,200
Speaker 1: that kind of ignorance? I mean, my jungle what jungle princess? Look? Man,

279
00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:09,840
Speaker 1: you know that kind of ignorance. I don't know how

280
00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,240
Speaker 1: she can even tolerate it as Oh, he didn't mean that,

281
00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,720
Speaker 1: Yes he did, he don't. What does he call what

282
00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:23,160
Speaker 1: does he call his white girlfriend? Um? What? Why? Uh? What? Crackabay?

283
00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,560
Speaker 1: I'm just something saying it's just like probably Nubian white queen.

284
00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:32,680
Speaker 1: That's what they say. Yeah, sure, uh, I think it's

285
00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:37,160
Speaker 1: just insulting and ignorant. That's you know, stupid. Do you

286
00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:38,680
Speaker 1: know you got to go. You know, I just want

287
00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,480
Speaker 1: to ask one more questions. Do you think that others?

288
00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,120
Speaker 1: Because I always say I don't want to see any

289
00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,800
Speaker 1: more slave movies because I want to see other stories

290
00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,280
Speaker 1: told about the black American experience, Like we've had successful

291
00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:49,960
Speaker 1: stories like why does it always have to be about

292
00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,520
Speaker 1: slavery or the butler or stupid stuff like that. Well,

293
00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,440
Speaker 1: I mean those movies have their meaning too, and I

294
00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,240
Speaker 1: think that they have their validity. For me, I agree

295
00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,520
Speaker 1: with you. Humanity should be displayed on a much broader

296
00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,360
Speaker 1: panel and a much broader platform. Um. And I think

297
00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,720
Speaker 1: it's up to us, um right now. You know, the

298
00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,640
Speaker 1: traditional ways of distribution and movies are part of the

299
00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:19,800
Speaker 1: reality of media. But at Sundance this year they had

300
00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:25,240
Speaker 1: this film celebrated that was made by three iPhones and

301
00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,720
Speaker 1: it's got made your distribution. So if we want to

302
00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,840
Speaker 1: tell our story, those of us who have those skills,

303
00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:34,720
Speaker 1: there's nothing stopping us. But we're waiting for somebody to

304
00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,200
Speaker 1: save us, or somebody to give us permission discover ourselves

305
00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,400
Speaker 1: to make any sense. Absolutely, that's what has to happen now. Man,

306
00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:47,840
Speaker 1: We appreciate you joining us, and by the way, you

307
00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,040
Speaker 1: mentioned that you're gonna stop by asking that I'll be

308
00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:56,600
Speaker 1: in your hometown this weekend too, do the show in Poughkeepsie. Yeah,

309
00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,920
Speaker 1: this weekend. Great, great, great man, thank you. Baravon theater

310
00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,480
Speaker 1: something called the Midtown okay, the main Street. Yeah yeah.

311
00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,359
Speaker 1: His next question is gonna be where is the weed at?

312
00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,920
Speaker 1: But you tell him you don't roll like I don't.

313
00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,520
Speaker 1: I don't roll like that. Man, you can't take it.

314
00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,600
Speaker 1: The weird is I don't know into that, but my

315
00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:20,080
Speaker 1: cousin can't. It's the Breakfast Club by the way. Last

316
00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,159
Speaker 1: thing by the Dark Girl's Book. Girl, Yes, I have

317
00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,440
Speaker 1: that home. I love that book. It's right on my um.

318
00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,600
Speaker 1: It's like my coffee table book. Yeah, Amazon dot com

319
00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,880
Speaker 1: or in uh, you know what. The Dark Girl's Book

320
00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:35,280
Speaker 1: is a table The book just pictures a beautiful cover. Yes,

321
00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,840
Speaker 1: that's a beautiful girl to check it out. Yes, very

322
00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:38,080
Speaker 1: true