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Brilliantly 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: Boring since eighteen sixty five is a service mark of 11 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: the PNC Financial Service Group, Inc. P and C Bank 12 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: National Association Member FDIC. 13 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 2: What I really appreciate about what y'all been doing, man, 14 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 2: is the presence that you're. 15 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 3: Building on the continent. Man. You know what I'm saying. 16 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 2: It's like it's so necessary and people need to see 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 2: it from you too. You know what I'm saying, Because 18 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 2: obviously I have a voice and my own my own lane, 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 2: but as an African that's like mixed race, and you 20 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 2: know what I mean, I've got ways for people. 21 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 4: To discredit the situation. 22 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: Discredit my opinion as it pertains to Black American people. 23 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 3: I mean, especially in the age of FBA. 24 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, But can we talk about that? 25 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 4: I know, my bad, can we talk about that? 26 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 3: Though? 27 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 4: I want to hear vixed. I'm glad you brought that up, 28 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 4: because Vic, if you don't know his background, his father 29 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 4: is from Ghana and his mother, your mother is from America. 30 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 3: Right, yeah, she's white, white America. 31 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 4: So in all right, this is a very sensitive topic 32 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 4: right now. 33 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: Hureka, she don't do it to read I Love you 34 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: hitting colors one through twenty. 35 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 4: You know, I think. 36 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: They got like hundreds of thousands of. 37 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 4: Computers, but they got their first AI bods. Boy, FBA, 38 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 4: don't do it? Love you? How is that for you? 39 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 4: How is that for you? 40 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 3: I think it's really funny. I like, I kind of 41 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 3: have a good time with it. You know what I'm saying. 42 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 2: The division between Black American people and Black African people 43 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 2: is manufactured. 44 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 3: It's an agent of the state. The division between black. 45 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 2: Vision, between Black American people and black African people is manufactured. 46 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 3: It is an agent of the states. It's used to 47 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 3: keep us. 48 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: Divided so that we don't unify Black Americans with the 49 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 2: most culturally impactful with the most impactful culture on the planet, 50 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 2: with Black Africans that are the fastest growing population with 51 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 2: the most resources. They don't want Black American people, the 52 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 2: most culturally impactful group on planet Earth, to link up 53 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 2: with the most resource rich continent, which, as you guys 54 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 2: obviously know, is the only place where the birth rates 55 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 2: are on the rise and will be the majority of 56 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 2: the human beings. And if you look at places like China, 57 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like when the population increases and. 58 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 3: Certain certain moves are made, I mean to to economically. 59 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: Benefit from that. I mean, the possibilities are we just watched. 60 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 2: The possibility is so fucking massive. And what the powers 61 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: that be really don't want is that Black American people, 62 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: who have been able to just in this past hundred 63 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:49,559 Speaker 2: years man like dramatically change the landscape of culture globally. 64 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 2: You know, they don't want us to connect, you know 65 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And that's where that's where I find 66 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 2: my greatest criticisms with FBA is not FBA as an 67 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 2: idea of foundationally black Americans, Like I believe whatever you 68 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 2: want to call it, that Black American people are obviously 69 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 2: their own culture. 70 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 71 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: They are their own I mean, they have their own cuisine, 72 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 2: they have their own dialects, they're basically their own language, 73 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 2: their own literature, their own contributions to science. 74 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 3: Technology, math are everything. You know what I'm saying. 75 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: But was it Malcolm X that said, uh, if a 76 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 2: kitten gives birth in an oven, does it give birth 77 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 2: to cookies? 78 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 79 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 4: Like with that, Malcolm X, a beanie seagull? 80 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 3: That would be funny if I mixed up, Malcolm, if. 81 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 4: You put pictures in the oven, not make them biscuits, 82 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 4: biscuits biscuits funny? 83 00:04:50,480 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 2: I do think I don't know bo both con. 84 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 3: My big point, though, man, is that, like. 85 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 2: I just think that, like the group online that is 86 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 2: pushing an anti African narrative, it's just misguided and I 87 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 2: feel like they're misguided by design though you know what 88 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: I'm saying, in the same way that the Africans online 89 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 2: that are pushing an anti black American narrative are misguided. 90 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 3: They're misguided by design. 91 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 2: Like I've had these conversations in Africa many times when 92 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 2: African people will ask me, they say black Americans. Why 93 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 2: are they so aggressive? And you know what I mean, 94 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 2: why are they so angry? And why can't they figure 95 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 2: out how to rise in society? Like Africans are often 96 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 2: colored with so many negative stereotypes of Black Americans because 97 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 2: the media has painted Black Americans in yeah, I mean 98 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 2: and intentionally derogatory light in order to keep them exploited, 99 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, and in order to make 100 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,559 Speaker 2: the world feel like but I guess, yeah, my point 101 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 2: being that it's just two different strokes of the same 102 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 2: brush because at the same token, like, uh, the media 103 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 2: has and continues to paint Africans as having no contribution 104 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 2: to history, saying that the Pyramids are created by you know, 105 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: aliens or goddamn motherfuckers look like Brett Farv, you know 106 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like, just because they don't want to 107 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 2: acknowledge the greatness of black people. 108 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 3: And so you know what I mean. 109 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 2: I appeal to like both to both FBA and to 110 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 2: African people of the continent to you know, recognize our 111 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 2: our necessitated unity, Like we don't get free until we 112 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:54,559 Speaker 2: all get free. 113 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 3: You know That's how I feel. 114 00:06:59,320 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 4: Ernest, what's up? 115 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: You ever walk into a small business and everything just 116 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: works like. 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