WEBVTT - Lies About Black People 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.560 My league buns has how to knowledge you want. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.400 My league Buds has how to knowledge you need. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:06.920 My leg puns chat. 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.360 They have out of books that the whole wild world? 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:11.880 What of reread Malague Buks. 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:18.120 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf, bringing a world together 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.840 with books, culture and community. Hi, my name is Malik, 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.680 your host of Malik's Bookshelf, and we are excited about 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:32.640 this upcoming week. And I'm excited that I'm closely approaching 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.680 my one hundred episode. Now this is ninety eight ethpisode 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.240 and this particular episode. 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:48.040 Is Lies about Black People, a book written by doctor 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.280 Omi Congo that I was able to interview and do 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.040 a podcast all in the same day last week. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.800 So I'm gonna feature that conversation and it is a 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:05.040 explosive talking about his book Lies about Black People. We 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.640 got some solutions. We don't always want to talk about 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.920 the problem. We do got to come up with solutions. 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.319 But let me tell you this, we got some exciting 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:20.520 things coming up this week. This year at the Los 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:26.560 Angeles Times Festival Books, Elite Books is featuring seventy wonderful authors. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.760 Eight of saddles are April Showers, Fred Smith, Kim Johnson, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.280 DG Charles Lucky, DZ h Your Minor, Nick Brooks, Kayrie, 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.920 Na Michael Harriet, Jess Good and Carry Parker in the Hearts, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.480 Morgan Parker, Shannon Wayne, Larry Parris and Langston Charanelle and 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:48.560 Shawnnie Gibbs and Doctor Murio, Book Kate all that. Melite 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.760 Books Booth eight eighty and five thirty seven at the 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.680 Los Angeles Times Festival. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.880 Books But It's not Aver. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:02.160 Milite Books were selected again to be the Children's special 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:07.040 seller for the Children's main stage. They have graced us 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:12.720 with hosting over thirty authors that are doing book signings. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:14.240 Here's the line up. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.079 Here's some of the authors you can expect signing at 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.800 the Children's booth six oh three by the main stage. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:28.520 We got what Tiffany Hattis, Todd Parr, Michelle Kutson, Doctor 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:34.440 Seema Jasmine, David Shannon, you know Blimpy, Coco Millan in 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:40.359 the Game, He's there, Brady Smith, Bernie Salzburger, Allison Boss. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.280 That's DJ twitch wife, she's keeping the legacy going. She 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.440 got a children book about dancing, So come out and 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.160 get a book signed. Rest in peace. DJ Twitch. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:51.520 We also got. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.079 Doctor Ellen O'so wrote a whole bunch of boy books 0:02:55.080 --> 0:03:00.440 about Siyence. She got to come through, Muriel Surrema, Selena Young, 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.320 Emily Errol, Eli, Duncan Dorri Wayne shinning Hell. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.079 Listen, this is all. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:11.040 These authors at the children's stage, gonna be signing the book, 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.960 gonna be performing, and Belik Books is graceton honor to 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:20.200 be hosting the book signings. So hey, We've been packing 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:25.080 all week, stocking books all week, ordering books all month 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.680 to get ready for the Los Angeles Times first book 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:32.560 at USC this April twenty and twenty first, And combined 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.880 between all the authors on the Children's stage and all 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.080 the authors at Leak Books Booth eight eighty and five 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:45.080 thirty seven, we got about forty five authors that we 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:51.560 are hosting doing book signings. Some of these are performing 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.800 on the main stage. They're doing book signing at our booths. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:00.680 And this is a moss up undertaking. Filling up my 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.440 van full of books, My books are stocked up in 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.880 the store. You can go to my Instagram can see 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:11.360 the whole journey. But this is a massive undertaking. I'm 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.440 grateful for the volunteers and people coming forth and assisting us. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.039 You know being blessed. Don't don't don't don't ask for 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.400 success if you're not willing to work for you ask 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.440 for these things. But it requires work, and you know what, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:33.520 we're working around the clock to make this a wonderfully experience. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.239 So come on out to USC to the Los Angeles 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:42.680 Times Festival Books April twentieth, twenty first come see all 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.160 the different authors out there and come by Malik Books. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:47.440 Come through. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.599 My guest today, oh Man come go wrote the book 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.000 lies about Black people. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.520 Now, what's the subtitle right here? How to combat race, 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.440 the stereo types and why it matters. So we give 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.479 it solutions. We ain't talking about the problem almost definitely. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:06.800 We want solutions. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.160 Because we're tired of di checting the problem. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:10.240 We need solutions. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.760 No absolutely, I mean the book has you know, twenty 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.479 three chapters and the last five or so chapters are 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.800 all about solutions. But you can't talk about the solutions. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.839 Do you know the problem? Should and understand it. So 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.599 we break down all the stereotypes. Black people can't swim, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.680 black people are bad with money, black people can't live here, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.600 black people are more likely to be criminals. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.200 Media images about black people. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.159 We talk about all of those joints, and then we 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.039 talk about how to combat those stereotypes in our everyday 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.799 lives and in our professional lives as well. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.040 What was your inspiration for one to write a book? 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:40.840 Was you just fat up? 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.600 Was you just well, you know, across the country, I'm 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.960 working with schools and corporations and government groups, and in 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.200 all of these places, everybody's asking me questions of coming 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.240 out of twenty twenty people everyone's talking about Black lives Matter, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.320 but people were just really scratching the surface on what 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.640 black lives Matter means. So I wrote the book for 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.680 people who wanted to take it to a deeper level, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.960 to really understand what it means to live in a 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.760 society where our lives matter go beyond the talk. So, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.160 to be quite honest, I originally wrote it for like, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.839 you know, suburban white moms and stuff, but then I 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.960 superb white. But then I went online and I asked 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.320 for you, this is this is what happened. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:16.120 This is what happened. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.599 I went online and I said, Yo, what were the 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.960 lies that you were told about black people? And the 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.520 majority of people who responded were black people. And that 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.640 was when it just kind of flipped the mind in 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.120 terms of what this book was needed for. So even 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.080 though my original intent was to educate more people about us, 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.440 it's really more design to educate us about us as well. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:40.120 So basically you meant in the room, yeah, very yes, absolutely, 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:41.360 it's sive subject. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.360 That's right. A lot of people it's difficult to. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.000 Talk with, you know, but we have to deal with it. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.440 We have to excided. My doctorate on jay Z. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.080 I teach a class on Jay Z at American University, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.720 so I caught him a lot. One of the things 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.400 he says is, you know, you can't heal what you 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.719 don't reveal, you know. So in here we're revealing the story, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.240 we're revealing the history, where did it all come from. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.480 I also interview people on their anti racist journey, So 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.320 some black folks, Asian, white folks, and Jewish folks. They're 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.120 all talking about lies they were told about us and 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:11.720 how they work to overcome them. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.720 And so that's another powerful part of the book. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.960 And then I also have activities that people can do 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.480 at the end of each chapter as well, to die, 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:19.520 you know, to record their. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:20.360 Own racist journey. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.520 And of course, as the MC and spoken word artists, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:28.040 I got some of my original poetry poet, Yes, author, Yes, 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:28.880 give me some more. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:34.240 What else, professor American? You know you know what I mean? 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.440 So we get it in. It's yoga Wifelate studios. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.840 Because you can't have your health and that you know, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.280 if you want to be great, you gotta. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.600 Have your health, mind, body and soul. Yes, sir, we 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:45.440 gotta coach the bay. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.920 All this book lies about black people. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.600 You gotta pick up all books are. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.440 So, particularly Malite Books dot. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.440 Com and Elite Books to locations Westfield code c more and. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:00.000 Come through. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:06.480 Doctor o me Congo did some poetry later on that 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.840 evening hosted that Malik Books where I did an interview 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.200 with him and the discussion and the book signing. But 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.080 I wanted to feature some of the poetry that he 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:19.800 recited that same day that evening as we conducted our 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.320 book signing that Malik Books Enjoy. 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.840 Let me tell you some history will always repeat itself 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.080 when you don't get it right. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:27.880 Get around. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.240 We see it being. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:34.640 Repeated up and then they want to take it away. Absolutely, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:35.400 you know what I'm saying. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.640 We didn't please them, and then they start changing the landscape, 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.480 changing the way they do things, banning more books of 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.640 critical race theory. Yes, and then you know that you 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.000 know changes are coming back and they putting us to sleep. 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:52.680 That's right? 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.240 Can I read this one? He was reading my mind, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.520 so you know. I just it's what was called actually saw. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.520 You can also check it out on the YouTube channel 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.400 when I perform, and it's called critical racist theory. I 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.800 guess we can't teach why Native Americans had tears on 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.920 that trail. I guess we can't teach why Japanese Americans 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.400 who aren't turned in those camps in jail. I guess 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.920 we can't teach why Jews flamed the Holocaust, came to 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.760 America and were forced to reverse sale. I guess we 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.680 can't teach you about those who had their right stall 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.760 that stone wall as they cried and wailed. Too many 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.600 in America caught up in ignorance and denial. They'd rather 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.840 have you forget history than learn about his tribulations and trials. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.520 They'd rather not teach you the history so white folks 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.960 don't feel guilty. They think white kids who only see 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.920 themselves as evil and filthy? But where were your laws 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.439 when I was learning about me? When my history books 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.199 taught that I only came from slavery. Well, my mathematics 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.280 classes left out black contributions. Well, my science class has 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.080 left out our contributions to evolution. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.800 When my class has talked about America's. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.079 Hopes and intentions, but they didn't lift my hopes by teaching 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.880 me about black inventions. You don't think that I felt 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.400 guilty like the three if there's summer Man, when y'all 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.240 taught that I was only civilized when you brought me 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.040 to this land Nubia. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:06.559 But I ain't gonna be selfish. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.800 It ain't just my history dismissed because I can talk 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.800 about a Latino, Asian, Indigenous, and Jewish. Because y'all want 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.000 to exclude the Chinese Exclusion Act from the books. Y'all 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.119 want to talk about all Latitos being labeled as Chicanos 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.000 and crooks. And even though there are white Muslims, that 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.640 narrative won't work because y'all want to teach that Muslims 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.040 are just terrorists who murder and her You don't want 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.760 to teach Islamic contributions to science and math. You don't 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.360 want to teach about Native Americans. So which as president past, 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.959 But maybe at the end of the day, we're all 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.440 fools arguing about something that isn't even taught in schools. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.160 But to me, CRT in critical race theory is culturally 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.880 relevant or culturally responsive teaching. Hear me for teachers teaching 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.839 and reaching for the truth. Your efforts I applauded for 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.280 the rest of y'all. If you didn't want history taught, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.640 why did y'all to record it? But I digress because 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.959 my faith in white students is stronger than yours. I 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.400 know they can handle full history and all of its flaws. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.720 They can learn the evils of some white people because 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.880 those evils were defeated, and when we teach some of 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.959 the history, they inspired to never repeat it. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:06.640 I know that white kids age. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.240 Sixteen to nineteen can handle sixteen nineteen, even white kids 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.400 in elementary and preteens, because too many students get angry 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.400 when they find out the truth about America's complete history 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.040 that wasn't taught in their youth. America can only be 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.880 as good as this promise when we teach history in full. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.040 So let's support our teachers and teaching the truth in school. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.560 Woo give it up, gear it up. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.600 That's was beautiful, my brother, It's very beautiful. How long, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:32.600 we take you right there. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.800 So if if less than an hour, like everybody got 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.959 even right on to it. I think about poems for 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.120 a long time, but when it's time to write, it's 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.559 got a it's gotta flow. So I just sit down 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.120 and it's just glos. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.160 You know yours. You know that, you know that poetry 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.160 is the language of God. You know you're telling them. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.679 You know that that poem, brother was like telling a 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.080 thousand years of history. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.079 Certain, you know that's why poetry is the language you 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.880 got why because you know if I tell you go, 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.319 we're sit down and read. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.400 A thousand years of history. The best way to tell 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.000 that is in the poetry. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.559 I was support as simblies, And that's why we have 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.840 ancient books that teach thousands of years in a few papers. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:19.520 That's right, it's the language of God. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.920 It's only what the communicate that I'm not sitting down 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.480 read no million pages. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.240 I mean, that's what the reasons I started doing. You know, 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:29.959 the spoken word of hip hop was you want to 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.000 reach our youth. You know, aren't gonna pick up the 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.280 books first. Maybe they go to them later, you know, 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.360 after hearing the poem or hearing the other album you 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:37.679 know to hip hop joints and stuff. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.400 You know, I remix rappers. You know that's your kids. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.240 You can rap it out swearing. You know some of 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:43.320 those you know are in this book. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.000 You know I took biggies uh ten crack commandments and 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.280 made it. You know, the ten anti racist commandments. You know, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.040 just way used to get them attracted to this information 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.959 so that they can be inspired to carry it on. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.520 Drop those ten commandments, my brother. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.360 So the rhyme goes like this, I've been in this 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.960 land for years, see me as an animal and racist slides. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.360 I wrote, y'all, Emanuel, a step. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.920 By step booklet for you to get time we learn 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.400 how to be anti racist. Let me lay out the 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.240 blueprint of how to do it. Want to be an 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.559 anti racist? This is how you pursue it. See it 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.640 ain't good enough to say what you ain't. You gotta 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.200 do the work. Box that hate out the paint. Start 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.880 by checking yourself and while you have those fears, look 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.160 at who's been teaching you those racist ideas. White hate black, 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.520 black hate white black had black. When it comes to 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.199 being racist, we should all step back, check it off. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.880 From how we police clothing and behavior to how our 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.040 systems based off a need for white saviors from power 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.240 and from power and body, the class of biology. The 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.840 racist roots of society are our biography. But this ain't 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.760 got to just be just because of how it was. 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.920 We can't keep that status quo just because with our 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.160 future on the line, I believe that it's time to 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.280 look into the mirror, start to change our design. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:53.600 Runo, Runo. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.440 Got to let people know the racist views you hold 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.959 and how you plan to let them go. Number two 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.800 is a good net move. Get a good reading list 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.040 that challenges your views. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:03.920 Number three. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.200 Never trust nobody who says they ain't racist when their 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:08.360 actions speak loudly. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.439 Number four. Know you heard this before. Some of my 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.880 best friends are black. Don't say that anymore. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.440 Number five. You don't want racism to stay alive. Learn 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.640 how it all started, then make sure that it dies. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:20.560 Number six. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.160 Post racial rhetoric forget it. Think voting for Obama stop 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.880 and racism forget it. Number seven, this rule is so underrated. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.480 Understand why our neighborhoods are still segregated because money and 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.320 the race don't mix. Like Donald Trump, with real ethics, 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.520 find yourself in peach real quick. Number eight never keep 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.000 no hate in you, exercise it all. Exercise it as 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.880 all casts. Maybe let some friends go too. Number nine 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.200 should have been number one. To me know from day 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.400 one we've been in racist society. Number ten a strong 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.640 word called alignment. Deal would like minded people is your 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.600 next assignment for all of these rules, your racism starts 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.440 to shake up, if not maybe one hundred more years. 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.120 Before we wake up. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:06.120 Come on, come on, yeah, how we see and feel 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.080 in ourselves. You've got to love yourself to be yourself. 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.680 In order to be yourself, you got to know yourself. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.440 And so we gotta do better at making that transition 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.600 so that we can pass that torch on to. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:20.520 The next generation. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.400 So when somebody walks up to that person, that kid, 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.600 and say, you know that black is ugly, No. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:27.160 It's nothing. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.480 Black is beautiful. Black is the essence of life. Black 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.680 is the root of everything. So all the colors and 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.000 what barrel and what color do you get? 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:38.880 So without black being. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.560 First, ain't no other color. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.280 Now, now that you said that, and you talk about this. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.640 Yeah, So I have a whole chapter on our language 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.720 and it's quality. Chapter five is racial vocabulary. And one 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.360 of the things like challenge people to do in that 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.440 chapter is to really this is a sharp home. What 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.720 makes me bipoc? Is it my locks, the way I talk, 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.240 the way I rock my socks. What makes you white? 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.680 Is it because you're always right? Is it the privilege 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.240 is assigned as a birth right? What makes you Asian? 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:11.440 Bro? 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:13.000 Is it your soul? 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.000 What does a Korean have in common with the Pakistanio? 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.360 And why do we thankfully stop using oriental? What makes 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.600 you Latino or is it LATINX? Who decided which term 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.440 was the best? Are you Native American or are you Indian? 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.920 Maybe it just depends on the city I'm in. Are 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.440 you a Jew or are you Jewish? Is it about 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.080 your collective history? Or because people assume you're all rich. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.360 I look at my dark pants and I definitely don't 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.760 look like that. So who decided with my brown skin 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.560 that I'm black? Seems pretty whack? When you call someone 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.600 a term, is it because you mean it? Or is 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.720 it because you don't want to offend? And it's convenient? 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.960 At the end of the day, the scriptors we use, 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.440 matter and offering are based on racist stereotypes that we 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.320 must shatter. A few years ago, you know, I stopped 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.840 using the term people of color, and I stopped using 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.920 it because it was minimizing and I talk about this 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.480 in the chapter. It was minimizing the experiences of everybody 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.720 who's put into that group people of color. For example, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.000 when we look at COVID related hate crimes, was that 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.520 a people of color issue NO that primarily affected a 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.719 community the Asian AAPI community primarily? When we look at 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.080 a lot of the anti immigrant sentiment that happened around 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.080 twenty sixteen, was that a people of color issued NO 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.920 that primarily affected a Latino community? On our police shootings, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.399 it's not a people of color issue. That is a 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:34.160 black issue, right, And so when we start using terms 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.479 this language people of color and just throw it all 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.960 in together, we have to be mindful that we're minimizing 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.480 the experiences of groups within them. So I encourage people 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.440 and I never use the term minority because I was 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.119 always saw it as a black person that I'm part 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.600 of a global majority. So while black and brown, so 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.440 why would I limit myself to a country when I 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:53.959 got a continent, I got a globe. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:54.680 Do you know what I'm saying? 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:56.399 Where most of the people look like me in some way, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.320 shape or for one little shades of different air and there. 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:03.080 So that's what I'm saying using language that minifizes us, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.119 you know what I mean, because if you talk about 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.760 yourself small, they ain't gonna let people treat you small. 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.320 And so just that alone, we have to be mindful 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.440 of that. And if we do that, we're gonna start 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:14.840 to think of ourselves in a better life. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.640 You know. To me, the word black is you profined. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.399 No matter the way you're born at you're on this planet, 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.840 you have a connection, that's right. It doesn't mean the 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:26.119 complexion of your skin. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.720 It means the origin of your essence, meaning that you 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.520 was first, meaning that when you take. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.120 All the stars away, what color is dark black, meaning 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:37.679 that you was first on this planet. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.320 You was the first mother for a teacher and the world, 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.879 and you are the mother of Silver's ain't no woman. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.600 But when you say people of color, right, white is 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.640 also a color. But when they say people of color, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.000 they put that put that's like having a white piece 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:57.000 of paper and everybody else's colored in. So even historically 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:00.119 it's not accurate because black people were here first. So 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.520 it still is a Eurocentric notion by putting white people first, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:04.840 when historically it's not true. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.600 They always looked at it is that white is the 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.240 absence of color, you know, it's. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.879 What it's about the browns, right, So it's about so 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.520 it's there, right, But I just think it's the side. 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:21.120 Yeah. 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.800 We live in the world of opposes, and when when 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.840 white say white, they're not really referring to the color 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:28.359 of the skin. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:34.520 They refer to the origin in essence of them being that. 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.360 You make a good point because one of the things 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.200 that I bring up in the book, you know, it's. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:41.040 In this country. 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:47.520 You can't have white without black if you remove black 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.000 people from everything. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.080