WEBVTT - The Reality of Being Married to Medicine 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.840 What's the family. It's your girl to make a d mallory, 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.840 it's your boy in general. And we're your hosts of 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.520 street politicians, the place where the streets and politics meet. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.800 So it's Thanksgiving, and you know, obviously we all love 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.759 the family time and the food and all the good things. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.800 But the food. Yeah, but you know, I've never I 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.160 don't know, since I was a kid, my parents kind 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.280 of messed me up because they like celebrate the stuff, 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.760 but then they talk about the history of why we 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.159 shouldn't be celebrating it. Some things. They don't celebrate everything. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.680 There's a lot of things my parents would never, like 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.960 you we never maybe twice in my life that I 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.200 had a Halloween because they, you know, talked about how 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.919 during that time of year, black folks were being lynched 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.520 and killed and like they you know, made it very 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.800 clear that Halloween night was not a good time for 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.920 a black people, especially in the South. And so you know, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.360 even thinking about Thanksgiving and you know, this is something 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:14.040 started I think in like sixteen twenty or sixteen twenty one, uh, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.800 and it was the first meal of the pilgrims coming 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:22.720 to America. And it's like there's so many there's so 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.680 much and they called it the New World, right, and 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:31.919 it's just so much history that is that most people 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.199 don't know, and it's so it tastes Actually, we should 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:41.479 really have some black historians to come on and talk 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:48.240 about how holidays that we celebrate now our our our 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:54.360 our holidays that were started by people who were also colonizings. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.560 Let's just say that's that's the most simple way that 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.720 I could say it without trying to act like I'm 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.280 in his story, and like these people were colonizers, right, 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:09.639 So they were stealing land, stealing people, enslaving people, and 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:14.520 then you know, creating holidays along the way, which have 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:19.680 now become part of capitalism in our society, spending a 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:25.959 whole lot of money to celebrate holidays that colonizes started. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.920 Sometimes some holidays they actually were like Veterans Day that 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.440 actually is a holiday that that black people started. But 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.920 they these colonizers, like with everything else, take over the 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:46.560 holidays and make them white holidays and then attach capitalism 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.080 to them, and really we lose the essence of like 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.160 how these things really began and where it came from, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.240 and what was the real history, whether the history is 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.560 good or bad. So I think we would do our 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.200 We wouldn't be doing sir this or a good service 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.320 to our audience not to mention the controversy around the 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.680 idea of Thanksgiving and tell folks that they should do 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.799 the research where they can do, like my family, talk 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:15.040 about the issues with the colonizers and what happened to 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.359 the Native Americans, if you will, They weren't Native Americans. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:24.600 They were just native people to the land before folks 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.000 arrived and started their things given so I means a lot. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:34.720 I think for me, I've been indoctrinated into these holidays 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.080 who so long. You know, my kids love Halloween and 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.680 I and I felt like the bad guy because as 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.280 I've become became more knowledgeable and understanding the history, I 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.760 wanted to be like, man, I'm not doing Halloween, you 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.800 know what I'm saying. But it's something that they love. 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.840 They loved going to get their candy, and they love 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.000 to go do the doors. So I didn't want to 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.280 personally take that from them. You know, I want to 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.120 educate them as they get older on what the actual 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.280 meaning of Halloween and where comes from. So I always 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.720 want them to be informed and knowledgeable about what's going on. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.560 Also with Halloween, it's it's something that my family, you know, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.960 always celebrate. It was like probably my favorite day of 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.080 the year. You know, I've seen all my cousins and 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.360 aunts and uncles that I never hadn't seen all year. 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.359 It was just that one day we will all go 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.880 to one of our family member's house and we would 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.920 eat and we would laughing with Joe, can you see 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:32.039 your favorite uncle and your favorite cousins? Halloween? I said 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.080 Halloween first, and I said, you said Halloween again because 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.400 I was sitting and life, Listen, what am I to? 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:44.359 I mean Thanksgiving? Thanks So that was one of the things. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.359 And as we get the knowledge and understand how the 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.440 natives were slaughtered during this time, it's definitely something that's 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.760 something that we really want to celebrate, but you know, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.800 we don't want to take away that family cornie at 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.680 the same time, so you know, it's it's like we 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.720 have to teach the history right at the same time. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.600 And I think that's with every area. We have to 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.640 teach the history because while you know, we're celebrating it, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.159 and I guess I have some hesitancy because it feels 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.920 and we talk about being walking contradictions every day, because 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.240 you know, it feels so to think of the Native 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:23.240 people to this land and to know that this time represents, 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.159 for so many of them, as you said, a time 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.400 when their people were slaughtered. It represents a time when 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.640 everything that they once knew was taken from them. And 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.640 then a holiday was created and people celebrated without even 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.479 really discussing the nature of like the remembrance of the 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.760 Thanksgiving holiday in this and this time period. And so 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.440 I just, you know, I think you're right. You have 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:55.240 to teach the history of these holidays and so much 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.520 history to your children so that when you are really 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.360 kind of just taking a day off from work, getting 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.800 the day off from work and getting family together, that 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:09.040 it's not lost on us as a people, everything that 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:14.080 this country has done and how we um, you know, 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:18.080 I guess how we have to respond to capitalism when 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:24.960 we're not respected as full citizens still, you know, and 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.960 we're talking about the Native people and now we call 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.080 the Native Americans, but even we as black people in 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.960 this nation have never received our full rights and been 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.080 respected properly. And so you know, they use these holidays 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.680 because they like our one point five trillion dollars, that's right, 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:48.000 And I think that's that's what actually was the catalyst 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:53.880 behind my boycotting and boycotting black owned businesses. You know, 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.520 I think we're seeing what happening with Kyrie, and I 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:02.040 think this listening to the seeo oh, his his verbage 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.400 and just responding and the way he spoke of Kyrie, 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.960 it was like somebody that he didn't even see as 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.600 a human being. He's seen him on his property. You know, 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.120 we we we chose to just just disregard this person. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:20.040 You had, you know, a partnership with somebody and because 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.560 of one misstep or mishappened, you know, you chose that. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.040 You know, I'm willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.920 millions of dollars that need be to show that I 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.080 have some level of power. And that that that really 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.200 bothered me, understanding that what if this is the only 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.360 way that Kyrie was able to feed his family? What 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.640 if all of these things negatively affective and nobody cared 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.200 about him as an individual. And I'm like, damn, I 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.240 don't see people do that to their own culture, you 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.680 know what, to our culture. So I said, you know what, 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.720 we have to start empowering our culture. So we're able 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.679 to make those breakages or those you know, we're able 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.880 to separate from organizations and people who don't mean us well. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.640 So I say, I have to push back on that. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:09.240 I feel like maybe it doesn't happen as often, and 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:14.200 I don't have in this minute, uh several examples, right, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.280 just because it's not something that I watched. But I 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.920 know that there's been NBA teams that or NBA owners 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.680 that have been forced to sell their teams for saying 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:27.040 racist things. I know that there have been endorsement deals 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:32.440 by you know, some athletes who have lost endorsement deals 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:37.200 because of domestic violence and or again racist comments or whatever. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.000 So I'm not gonna say that the that they that 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:46.480 they never hold white folks accountable, because that's that's not 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.320 my conversation. I'm looking at. I'm looking at what he's 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:53.560 being told, you know, what he's been accused of in 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:58.520 the level of ament. Right, So when you talk about 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.560 when you talk about the those owners, those owners have 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.200 full text message. When they're calling people niggers, they have 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.480 like like they have whole and the thing is they're 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.400 selling it to their friends. When you gotta sell the company, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.840 they're still making money off of it at the bottom line. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.640 So these are older this is a game, you understand 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.120 saying it's it's really just a game that they're running 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.400 that we know. I know the game that they were like, Okay, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.320 I gotta sell this to my friend. I gotta be 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.760 in the cut because they caught me being racists. All 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.480 me and all my friends is racist anyway, because they 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.480 just didn't catch the email that he said to me. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.240 But I'm the one that got caught. So we all 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.600 gonna play in this game. So I know that game 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.880 you're playing, but it's but it's actually your words and 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.439 it's actually vulgar. It's to the point where it's like them, 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.120 we can't even sit in the same room because we 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.160 know that you're you had ill intention and you felt 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.960 these you felt very negatively. That that's when there's accountability. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.720 But for somebody, a lot of these these owners our 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:59.280 friends with racist non racist KKK members, they fund those things, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.800 they in rooms with them, they're in close proximity two 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.920 things that as anti black all the time, and there's 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.360 no accountability to that, right. So for for Kyrie to 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.200 be held to that stated for posting up a damned 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.760 documentary when ninety percent was about black history, and in 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.360 a couple of the instances in there probably was something 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.480 that he didn't even pay attention to because it wasn't 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.960 something that he was focused on, you know what I'm saying. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.920 And Okay, we we give them the accountability he apologized. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.360 You give him maybe a game or two or whatever 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.480 it is. But to completely sever ties with that man 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:38.839 from million dollar businesses and and um um partnerships that 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.120 he had because you said he stepped over the line 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.560 like he's some type of boy or some type of kid, 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.840 it was. It didn't even make sense to me. So 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.480 understanding that that's a possibility that they can do stuff 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.440 like that made me say to myself, I can't I 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:57.640 can't knowingly allow that to continue to keep happening to me, right, 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.160 I can't be aware that they have people that can 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.920 cut ties with me, cut ties with people that look 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.960 like me, people that are start works in our culture, 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.720 people that we idolize in the culture, and we haven't 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.120 created anything or funded anything that can make sure that 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.440 they can still feed their children. Like, for me, that's 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.160 just not okay. So I say, you know what, First 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.720 of all, I'm not buying anything Nike again, and I 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.160 was one of a major support of Nike. First of all, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:25.959 I'm not but I'm personally not buying it again. I 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.120 don't really see when I never even wear anything that 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.800 I bought again. But secondly, I want us as a 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:37.839 people to to normalize holding people accountable who don't value us? Right? 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.360 Why are we giving our our dollars to people who 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.680 we know do not value us? How do we how? 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.960 Why aren't we able to say I'm not gonna spend 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.760 thousands of dollars with people who are able to lose 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.160 millions of dollars just so that they can make a 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.520 point about how they're not going to deal with certain 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.000 type of AGAs for months? So why can't we say 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.520 I'm not gonna even give my money to somebody, right 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.160 we I'm not gonna continue to make somebody a billionaire. 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.800 I don't know why we don't think that we need 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.840 to show that we have some level of respect for ourselves, 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.559 because if we don't respect ourselves, how can we expect 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.560 anybody to respect us? So I'm I proposed on my 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.720 page that we stopped buy a Nike at least for 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.600 this holiday season. I personally I don't ever see me 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.360 doing it again. But I'm saying those who need to 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.920 see the increments to understand the power that you have. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.360 Say for this whole holiday season started with UM, started 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.959 from last week when I first said to do it. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.520 I want to make sure that that Black Friday, it's 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.600 us buying black, it's making sure that we're invested in 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.640 black UM companies and organizations. So I've been posting mad 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.320 crazy different black owned businesses on my pages so that 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.600 you can go to that, you can support that, you 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.559 can spend your black dollar with your black and the 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.959 visual organization and your black people so we can watch 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.960 the black dollar flourish through our community. And then I'm 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.520 continuously doing on that and I'm saying I want you 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.160 to see your power. I want you to understand that 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.320 Black Friday is is generally when we go out and 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.840 spend the most money. So why are we invested in 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.920 our own communities? Why we are we investing We got 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.960 Sneakers that's way better than Nike. But for somehow we've 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.240 trained our minds that if we don't have these Nikes, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.079 that some level of status we lose or continue to 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.520 make these people billionaires that don't even value us. Is 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.319 it makes sense? So I'm I'm I said to myself, 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.000 I know I'm an avid Nike buyer, and I want 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.200 to discipline myself. I want to prove to myself that 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.760 I'm I'm work. I'm worth more than these sneakers are. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.040 You know, I'm worth more than this status quote is. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.360 I feel violated. So I'm willing to sacrifice something. So 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:51.520 I'm asking everybody continue on Black after Thanksgiving, Black Friday. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.320 Don't go on and spending. Find a black organization, find 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.320 a black company, find some black sneakers to bid they have. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.960 Go to my page. You'll see hundreds of people that 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.319 you can go to. And yeah, because I'm gonna have 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.199 by the by the time tomorrow, I'm gonna have a 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.480 hundred people on it because I probably got about forty 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.200 or fifty different organizations that you can go to. You're 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.840 talking about, Yeah, it's about forty different places. And they're 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:23.240 not organizations. They companies, organization, companies, organizations. Some of them 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.560 as companies. Organizations have a mission or they should have 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:34.920 a mission to some type of service. Companies are for benefits, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.560 and that's good. We should have all those dynamics. But dynamics, 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.880 but these people. And that's and the reason why I'm 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.600 making the distinction. We have an organization and we have right. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.520 Oh yeah, I mean, of course you could buy organizations. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.000 That's what I'm saying. That that's true. I'm not saying 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:59.600 that's true, flat out that's true. However, the bigger point 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.640 is that there are a lot of companies that we're 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:07.480 posting that you're posting UM, and we need to make 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.360 sure that those companies understand that money is being pushed 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.440 in their direction and they got to do business right. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:22.760 Whole link with about sixty different high end black owned Yeah, 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:29.040 do business, guys and your business quality business. That's the 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.760 reason why I said that. But you're right, I stand 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.240 correct that there are organizations, not just Until Freedom, but 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.120 many who have their own merch and T shirts and 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.120 things of that nature. So that's important. But I was 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:45.680 specifically focusing on the companies and making sure that these 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:51.640 companies are doing good business with the clientele UM and 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.360 making sure that people can reach you, you know, and 0:15:55.440 --> 0:16:01.600 that your your information, your financial collection and stuff is good. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.880 You know, your e commerce is set up properly, like, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.520 please make sure that you do all of that. Most 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:11.680 of the companies are already ordered something. Um. So most 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.680 of the companies are, but there are some who still 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.960 need to get their their things together. And it's okay 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.240 to say, hey, well I'm working on this and I'll 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.280 be ready in two weeks, three weeks or whatever, um, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.280 But I'm not necessarily ready to start taking orders that 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.120 I can't fulfill because I don't have the shoes, I 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.600 don't have the merchandise. Like, let's be for real, so 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.520 that you know, it's a good experience. Now, of course, 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.480 we have to have patience because we know that our 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:44.280 people do not benefit from the way that capitalism operates. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:48.840 With white folks and big businesses like a Nike or 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.560 any other kind of business, we don't have that. So 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.080 we are trying to get ourselves to that level. And 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.040 sometimes it takes a little bit of patients, but doing 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.440 bad business is never accepted. Will no matter what level 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.560 we were at, definitely have to do good business. So 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.720 you know, we we're gonna show our economic power this 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.320 holiday season. You know we're going to divest and invest 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.760 in us man. So by black man, go to my 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.680 page and you'll see all of the black designers there, 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.600 so many from high end you know, shoes and clothing 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.399 to sports in athletic with whatever you need. We got 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.520 it on my page, Man by Black speaking of of 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.800 you know, buying black caring for ourselves as black people. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.399 We talk on to show a lot about Black women health. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.119 We had coach Jesse on. Now we have another guest 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.800 that's coming up, and you know, I think it's so 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.959 important because we're trying to focus on everything our mental, 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:52.159 our pocketbook, our physical. We're trying to make sure that 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.840 even our brothers get an opportunity to learn about women's 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.359 health because that has been such a disconnect. Just like 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.520 you mentioned and then the last show, you never even 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.280 knew that there was a reason for you to care 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.639 about these things that was women's business take care of. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:11.280 But we want to normalize conversations around health disparities and 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.040 around you know, things that, um, you know women, ways 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.560 in which women take care of themselves, need to take 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.720 care of themselves, um, and really just making sure that 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.160 as we talked about our economic power, we're not rich 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:28.439 and sick, you know, rich and day you know, you know, 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:33.000 have a thing. Yeah, we have things and don't have life. 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:38.159 And so this Thanksgiving season or whatever, I think that 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:43.199 there's another term that folks started calling and no friends giving, 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:48.439 friends giving, friends giving, family giving during this time. A 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.520 big part of it is making sure you have but 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.760 tomorrow when you walk into your family home and you're 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.240 about to pick up that that whatever with with the 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.160 um Queen of fool Is said, what you eat also 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:06.840 impacts a woman's reproductive system. When you're putting that good 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.800 macaroni and cheese and all of that good stuff that 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.760 I plan to eat in your mouth, just know that 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.560 it's also impacting your body. Let's go to our guests, 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.439 so at least, you know, we now have started to 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.560 bring new friends onto the show because the last few 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.840 weeks it's been a lot of new friends joining us 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:36.800 and people who quickly become family because they're doing such incredible, incredible, 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.600 incredible things. Um, you know, Black Folks is just doing it. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.199 And I love the fact that our show, you know, 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:50.120 unapologetically focuses on black excellence. And certainly our guest today 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:55.879 is an excellent black woman. Uh Dr Simone. Most of 0:19:55.920 --> 0:20:00.000 you know her from being on the show, married to medicine, 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:04.600 but there's so much more to this woman born in Nashville, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:09.159 went to Spellman College, and you know, all the Greats 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:13.280 went to Spellman more House, So all the Greats um 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.720 to Spellman and and O. B. G. Y N, who 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.080 is also an activist in her own right for black women. 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.359 She has a family, a husband that you've seen on 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.840 the show. She's got two children. So much with this woman, 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.240 and we're gonna learn more today about Dr Simone. Thank 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.560 you so much for joining Street Politicians. Thank you so 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.560 much for having me. It is an honor to be here. 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.439 It is definitely honor to have you. How are you 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:43.080 feeling today? I am doing great and would love to 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.159 just share some of the things that I have learned 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:50.280 over the years about black women's health and the importance 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.960 of black women taking care of ourselves and putting ourselves 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.879 as number one. We're speaking of taking care of ourselves. 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.199 You tell us about you because we don't know. We 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:03.840 see you on the show and we see this beautiful, 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:08.119 dynamic black woman, but we don't know about your background 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.639 and how you got started. I'm originally from Nashville, Tennessee, 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:17.320 born and raised. I was born and raised by two 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:21.400 a two parent home with an alcoholic dad. My mom 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:25.840 divorced him around the time I was fifteen. Sixteen years old, 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:30.440 but early in my life, probably eight to ten years old, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.480 he just wasn't as functional as a dad, couldn't keep 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:38.280 a job, wasn't home a lot. When he was home, uh, 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:42.720 highly intoxicated. So that was my life. And my mother 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:46.080 was really smart. She worked really hard, She kept a 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:50.240 full time job, and she took really good care of 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:56.000 my sister and I. Education was always what she preached 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:59.760 and there were no other options other than education in 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.760 the household. I grew up there. When I was twelve 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:08.320 in junior high school, I was asked by my teacher 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.439 to do a research paper on what I wanted to 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.480 be when I grew up. And at the time, at twelve, 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:19.280 I knew that I wanted to help handicapped children. Nashville 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:24.320 had something every year called Special Olympics where they would highlight, 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.119 you know, handicapped children and we would go out volunteer 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.040 and participate, and I knew I wanted to be in 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:34.840 that arena helping handicapped children. And I went to my 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:39.119 dad and asked him, Hey, you know, I have to 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:43.600 write this research paper and I want to help handicapped children. 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:46.480 And he said, well, I such and such does that. 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:48.600 She didn't make any money. You're gonna want to be 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:52.479 a children's doctor so you can make money. And I 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.000 went to the library because at that time we didn't 0:22:55.000 --> 0:23:02.520 have Google. Um this was then early uh late seventies, 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:04.679 early eighties. So I went to the library, got the 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:09.280 encyclopedia out and found out a children's doctor is a pediatrician. 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:15.119 And I patterned the rest of my school into becoming 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:19.399 a pediatrician, which which meant taking a science, a math, 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:23.080 a foreign language in English every year because that was 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:26.760 gonna be required for me to go to college college. 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:30.840 When I got to high school, I was fortunate enough 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:34.880 to have a black guidemce counselor, and she said to me, 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:38.600 I want you to go to an HBCU, she said. Now, 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.159 I sit on the board at Lane, she said, but 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:44.359 I want you to aspire to go higher than that, 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.840 to look at a school like Spellman. So after I 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:51.959 did my research on Spellman College, I did a senior 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:55.959 weekend at Spellman and knew I was home. Now I 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:58.480 had to come home and sell it to my mother, 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:00.920 who at this time is for you're a single mother. 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:06.520 She's thinking she can't to Ford Spellman College. Most of 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:10.520 the people I graduated from high school. They went to 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:14.119 Tennessee State, Middle Tennessee State, those schools, and so I 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:17.399 had to convince my mother that Spellman College was it. 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.479 We would apply for financial aid and we would just 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:25.040 make it happen. And that's exactly what happened. I um 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:30.640