WEBVTT - What's a Black Job? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.280 Miligu bus has how to knowledge you want, My league 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:07.240 but has how the knowledge you need. But yet they 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.560 have all the books that the whole wild world one 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:15.280 up read Milieu buts. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malie's Bookshew 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.720 bringing the world together with books, culture and community. Hi, 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.360 my name is Malik, your host of Malife's Bookshelf. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.560 All week long since that debate, people. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.040 Have been popping up asking this one question, what's a 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:40.720 black job? Well, I'll tell you what's a black job. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.520 Malik Books got all the books you need. 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:46.440 I created it. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.519 I'm the founder and the co owner of Malie's Books, 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:52.800 two locations. 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:54.720 That's a black job. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.320 Now, let's get real, right now, let's get to the 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:06.760 nitty gritty. We need to stop deceiving ourselves as black people. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:12.880 You know, good and well, what a black job is. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.119 There are certain things that. 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:23.280 Was designed for us to do in America, and no 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:24.520 white person. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.479 Wasn't going to do it. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:35.440 Housekeeping the mammies, picking up garbage and let us not 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:41.440 forget the cotton. That's a black job. Stop trying to 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:46.160 act like America don't have a history and that certain 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.400 things wasn't designed for us to do. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.480 If there was some dirty jobs that had to be done. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.000 It was black people that they relegated to do those 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.800 dirty jobs, those backbreaking jobs. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:09.200 That's what a black job is. And when the border 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.480 exploded and. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:20.040 Twelve million people enter into this nation, let's keep it 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:25.400 one hundred. Who is that going to affect. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.280 A lot of them jobs? Black people don't want to 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:29.880 do no more. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.359 But their whole lot of people on this planet will 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.280 be very grateful to do it, and they will become 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:42.160 enriched because they recycle their money in their communities and 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:47.520 they're able to expand and buy properties, buy commercial buildings, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:53.560 and grow generational wealth. All these black jobs that black 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.440 people don't want to do no more. All right, other 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:02.600 people are doing I remember doing construction and developing I 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.440 guess improving on my homes over the years. 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:11.160 Back in nineteen ninety. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.920 If you went up to home depot, you didn't see 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.680 nobody but Hispanics willing to do some labor. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.120 There was a time when black people. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.880 Were the master builders of this nation and was the 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:34.200 number one compenters, plumbers, electricians and otherwise. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:35.680 What has happened? 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.400 So the Hispanics would be up at the home depot 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:46.400 looking to get some work labor or some or skilled 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:53.240 wouldn't be no black people none, No black people whatsoever. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.040 And I remember. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:01.960 Building a room looking for someone because I'm the contractor. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.800 I know what I want done. I just hey, you're a. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.360 Comper, you know I drive all. Hey, you know how 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.520 to bank? Well, I'm gonna give you directions because I'm 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.240 on the set. I don't need a contractor. I can 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:13.280 guide you at that time. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.880 Right. Well, no black people, it's all his panties. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.880 And that's the case still today, from nineteen ninety to 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:25.200 twenty twenty. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.960 Foult. Now, they got all the skills, got all the jobs. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.720 I don't hardly see no, I mean, colleague, and I 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:38.360 don't hardly see no black tradesmen, skillsmen, compenters, builders. It's 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:43.520 very difficult to find, and particularly one this good with integrity. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:44.840 Let's keep it one hundred. 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:51.120 Now you know what a black job is the jobs 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.240 that white people. 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:57.120 Didn't want to do. Now they have brought. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:01.600 An explosion of immigrants in this nation, and they doing 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:02.800 those jobs. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:07.440 Because black folks don't want to do. See, so we're 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:08.440 not recycling much. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.360 We became middle class, working in fact, but also being 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:18.840 carpenter's plumbers, electric tradesmen, auto mechanics because of them, black. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.520 Jobs that other people didn't want to do. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:30.560 So this generation don't have lost their minds, don't know 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:37.960 no history, don't read no books about our legacy. We 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.200 just want to forget what that mean and what that is. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:48.760 America doesn't have enough jobs for everybody. So if a lot, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.080 if they let twelve million people, what they're gonna do, 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.080 they're gonna have to do for self. They're gonna have 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:58.240 to create a job. But then there were jobs I 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.520 used to I was told this one. I was asked 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.240 this question, and they say, well, if we don't let 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.000 them in the country, then won't be no food pick now, really, 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:12.200 so you would starve before you allow somebody to pick 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.080 the food. You wouldn't go out there and pick it 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.279 yourself if you had to. I mean think about that. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.400 You're not gonna pick the food unless someone else do 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.320 it for you. Now, if you that lazy, then you 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.760 don't deserve to eat because if it comes down to 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.039 us having to pick our own food, you won't have 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.760 to pick your own food. So it might not be 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.760 a job that you want to do. But guess what, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.800 back in the day, that was a black job. You know, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.200 that's what we call a black job. The fact that 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:46.080 we gotta walk around and try to make mockery of 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:57.320 what is historically have been jobs that have been designed specifically. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.240 For black people. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.599 You can call it what they want, but this country 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:07.000 has a legacy of racism and discrimination. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.240 And when you just allow. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:20.200 Twelve million majority immigrants, twelve million immigrant, majority of them 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:27.480 with no skills, they taking somebody's job, They're affecting some 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:28.360 group of people. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:35.280 They here to make a living, they here to compete 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.600 for whatever jobs that are available in this nation. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.480 Now, I'm not mad at nobody seeking a better life. 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:51.040 I'm not upset about no one seeking to change their reality. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.360 I'm not upset about that at. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:59.840 All, because if you're dissatisfied. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.720 You need to do so. I'm no body. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:07.640 Okay, So that's not my argument there, But I'm here to. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.480 Talk about a black job. What's a black job? 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:18.040 And why we seem to think that this nation didn't design. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:24.520 Or set aside certain jobs just for black folks. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:25.560 All right? 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:32.400 Now, when you got to integration and they opened up 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:44.000 you know, restaurants and universities and workplace where they hired 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.440 black folks to come in, and you ain't see it 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.800 no more as a black job. But before that, before that, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:57.000 and that hasn't changed. There's still jobs here that certain 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.920 people don't want to do, will not do, and they 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:05.240 feel the above doing those types of jobs now. But 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:11.079 after the civil rights movement, integration, all right, a lot 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.160 of jobs opened up. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.800 The quote unquote wasn't necessarily what a black job. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:22.600 See and because of the segregation, guess what black folks 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.600 had to do create a black job for themselves. Because 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.880 the white man wasn't hotting. You couldn't go in the restaurant. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.480 It you better create your own restaurant. They were hired 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.320 skillsmen come in and build beautiful homes for them. But 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.040 after that, you gotta get out. But you wasn't but 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:48.480 you wasn't allowed to work in certain places. You wasn't 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.280 allowed to go certain places, and you you she just 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:58.600 wasn't and you were not permitted to walk in the 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:03.640 front door. So let's not forget our history what a 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.160 black job is. It can be a multitude of things, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:14.400 but historically a black job with simply picking cotton and 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.480 a whole lot of other things that white folks forced 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.640 us to do and that they will would not do. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:28.560 That's a black job, and today you need to create 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:33.000 a black job. Just going to school getting a degree 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:39.080 is not enough to compete. And it's growing and ever 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:45.000 changing complex world. You could chew gum and walk at. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:45.640 The same time. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:51.080 Get your paper, get your degree, but also do for 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:56.480 self as well as you can work in corporate America 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.040 if you so desired, but you also need to do 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:06.959 for self. There's an opportunity in America to explode in growth, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:15.679 both internally and externally, both financially and otherwise. So take 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:20.240 advantage of the opportunity and don't limit yourself, but create 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.600 that black job, because that's what a black job is, 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:28.360 the one you created like I created elite books, all right, peace, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.640 hope you enjoyed what I had to. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:39.280 Say, a community, elite and just down traveling it back 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:44.160 from the thirtieth Essence Festival, I was here in New Orleans, Louisiana. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.479 Let me tell you, if you never attended it, that's successival. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:53.319 I definitely recommend it was huge. It has blown up 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.439 into a huge, huge corporate. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:02.440 Event electric I mean thousand upon thousands of thousands. This 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:07.360 is my first time ever attending the Essays Festival, and people. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.840 From all over the country, if not something from around 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:10.400 the world. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.079 Music culture, that's what it was all about. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:19.120 There were tons of activations and vendors throughout the convention. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.760 I had a festive time. Let me tell you who 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:29.520 what was said. Vacation wasn't exhausting. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.760 This wasn't no resting relaxation that I thought, you know, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.439 because the month of June we had a banging at. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.280 Believe Books, one event after a major event after another. 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.280 And so I came out here to celebrate my. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:49.720 Fiftieth well my sixtieth birthday in April's fiftieth birthday, and 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.720 we kind of targeted our birthday is a place where 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.160 we would try together and celebrate. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:02.760 But let me tell you this, this was a well 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:07.440 attended event. I'm thankful I was able to make it 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:07.920 this year. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:14.319 This the thirtieth anniversary of the Essence Festival, was a 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:19.479 huge successful. Essence Blown Up Now that's a black magazine. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.080 They've been around for a long time, and the magazine 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:30.360 a salts black woman and the culture and the beauty. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:31.120 Of black women. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:39.640 Well, this year's Essence Festival had huge partnerships like Target, 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:46.559 Aten and T Disney and McDonald's also called CoA Cola. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.360 They had huge activations. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:51.760 But I got to. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:57.120 Point out something because I went to the convention and 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:02.400 I walked around. I went to they had what was 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:08.400 called Essen's Authors, all right, because Essen's bringing authors, they 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.040 feature certain books, they have a lot of panels. So 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.680 I got a chance to stop by. I ran into 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:18.880 Michael Harritt, the author of Black History, A f also 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.240 ran into a few other authors, as well as people 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:26.560 in the industry, the publishing industry, I mean HarperCollins and 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.760 so forth. There was some legends they were honoring this year, 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:35.760 Brenda Jackson, who writes a lot of historical fiction, as 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.040 well as Beverly Jenkins also who writes a lot of 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:45.640 historical fiction. They were honored for their contribution as black authors. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:50.800 Brenda Jackson is on her one hundred and fifty book. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:52.840 Can you imagine that? 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.680 I mean, now, there are some authors that have written 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.200 a lot of books, but I ain't never met him personally, 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.440 but I met brit To Jackson and she wrote one 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.400 hundred She's on one hundred and fiftieth books. So it 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.320 was powerful to meet legends that have been in the 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:13.520 publishing industry and for quite some time as well as 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.160 it was just nice to be around. 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:16.480 People love books. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.920 We loved black. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.040 Books was kind of one of the quotes that was 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.600 on a big billboard inside the space. The activation was 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.800 a very beautiful space, and I honored to have traveled 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:35.560 out to the Essence Festival and be there to witness 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:46.320 such a well organized, curated, designed, marketed space for black authors. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.360 And it was very important that while I was there 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.000 that had I dropped by that booth because as a 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.440 black bookstore who host a lot of authors, I wanted 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:02.080 to meet as many as possible, particularly since Malik is 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.480 the height man of books. So it was a very, 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.720 very very wonderful experience. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:09.520 The place was huge. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.600 I'm be honest, I've been to a lot of conventions 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.680 in my life. That was the biggest convention, particularly a 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.760 black convention, that I've ever attended. And I got to 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:25.040 give kudos to Essens for the many years serving the culture, 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:32.160 elevating the culture, and evolving the culture. So I was 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:36.080 proud to be there. I was proud to participate. And 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.960 let me say this, you haven't attended the Essen Festival, 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.520 I would encourage you to do. So that was my 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.960 first time, and like I said, that was the thirtieth 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:50.360 and a first of the Essens Festival. So I would 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:54.880 definite return visit it again. But just let me tell 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:59.120 you some of the things that I just wanted to 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.920 point out. It's nothing, it's not a knock on the essence, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:08.000 but it's just something that because the event is all 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:12.080 about empowerment, it's all about the culture, it's all about elevation, 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.120 it's all about the black experience. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:21.959 And it was amazing to see to my surprise, like 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.560 Target had this huge booth, so they McDonalds so that 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.400 Coca Cola and. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:35.440 Target was given out this they had this. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.080 This quote it was called security bag. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.880 All right, you know something that if you know anything 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.520 about black culture, you know we say security bag. So anyway, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:52.040 they had in big letters given out bags. I didn't 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.080 find out that that's what they was given out until 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.359 I asked, I said, I asked one of the security 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.840 I said, wow, what's all these people in this line? 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.160 What are they getting? And he said getting a bag? 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:11.199 I said, what, listen, let me tell you this line was. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.240 It had a point where it say sixty minutes all right, 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.359 then it went past that to another area. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.160 Literally people were standing. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:26.600 Line for eighty minutes to get a ten cent bag. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:33.560 Now I got to ask the question, how much. 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:35.760 Do you value your time? 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:41.320 Was a target bag with a couple of two cent 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:47.840 items worth eighty minutes of your time? Well, I got 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.760 to talk about that, but I'm gonna talk about that 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.720 at a different time because I don't want to talk 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.240 about it on this segment. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:59.359 Because that's a mindset and that's something different. But the 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:06.359 essence for Vote, I thought was like prolific to see something. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.320 Organized in the way that it was and. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.960 Bringing people to get They had like three major concerts 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:19.280 hit one headline by I Believe Cash Money, one headline 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:20.760 by Usher, and the. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.359 Other headline by Janet Jocksh. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:28.119 I went to the Janey Jacks Carcle powerful. It was 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:34.640 a very very entertaining concert. Maids played Honor and Frankie 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:41.159 Belly also Victoria when they performed the very sexy and 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:47.480 classy forty five minutes of Entertainment. Now, I mean it 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.640 was entertaining. S WV put on it, put it down 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:56.000 odies but Goodies, R and B was live and well. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:00.320 Janet did her thing. She's prolific, she's exciting. She's one 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:04.439 of the most top female no just artist period in 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:05.119 the world. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.360 And her songs are. 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:13.480 Hits for days, so it was a charged up concert. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.560 I went to a brunch at the Highest Hotel. It 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:25.160 was three thousand people dressing in all white crazy. That 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.560 was the largest brunch I've attended in my life. 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.040 And people we partied. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:36.320 These bands just got to beat the capital of bands 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:37.280 live music. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:39.040 It was extraordinary. 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.960 I think this is the capitol musicians for show, especially 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.879 for jazz. I mean, we walked down Bourbon Street and 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.960 popped into a couple of places and the music was 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.600 just popping and on and culture and entertaining and exciting 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:54.280 and electric. 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:56.840 And these live bands, man. 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:58.600 They are amazing. 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:01.040 Went down the Frenchman Quarter. 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.719 You know, we took a taxi, but it was a 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.840 bike taxi, right, and the guy was like, you want 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.440 Bourmonton Street or you want Frenchman Quarter. 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.360 I was she's And then he gave me us a definition. 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.640 She said, if you want to go to the Sioux 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:18.320 and Crazy, you go to Bourbon Street. 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.320 If you want to be around adults, you go to 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:22.240 Frenchman Quarters. 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.160 I said, okay, We're going to Frenchman Quarters because I've 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:28.600 already done the Bourbon already. I do concur what he said, 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:30.800 but it was funny how he said it, because he 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:32.160 lives out there, works out. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.639 There, and he was pumping that biking. We had a 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:35.360 wonderful time. 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.000 We ended up down at Frenchman Quarters, saw a couple 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:48.840 of lines man so all week long, hotel, pool, fun, music, dancing, concerts, convention. 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:55.520 It was just a amazing five six days here. I 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.199 had a wonderful time and I'm hitting back home, and 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.119 I just wanted to give y'all taste because you know, 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:04.400 Malice bookshelf bringing a world together with books, culture and community. 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:08.800 All that I witnessed out here, our witness books, witness culture, 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:14.720 and our witness community. Now I just want to touch 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:19.879 on briefly here is how much is your time worth? 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:20.640 All right? 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:29.720 Because time equals money, time can equal health, time can equal. 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:34.920 Whatever you want it to be. But the question is. 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:38.840 If a person gonna complain about how much they get 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:43.080 paid an hour, then they got to ask themselves. Is 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.040 waiting in line for eighty minutes to get a ten 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:49.080 cent bag from Target and to walk around with a 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:52.800 bag that Target is not paying you to walk around 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:58.200 and advertise them for is that viable use of your time? 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:07.600 That's where this stegment how valuable is your time. 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:13.080 Worth? Came from when I saw what I saw. 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:17.760 I saw people standing in the line an hour to 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:22.040 get a free French fry from McDonald's. 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:24.879 Right, they had a whole fashion thing that they was doing. 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.240 But on the side they're giving our free French fry 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:32.000 and people stand in a line an hour to get 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:38.000 some fries. I said to myself, No, Ray, about twenty 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:42.919 meters is the full court, even if they're charging the 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:47.080 fries five ballas how much is your time of work 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:51.120 that you were standing rid to get a free French fries, 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:56.200 to get a ten shin bang, to be in Disney 0:23:56.280 --> 0:24:00.439 line to get some free Mickey Mouse head pieces that 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:04.040 probably cost five cent for them to make, mass produced, 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:05.080 probably from China. 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:09.359 So my question is how much is your time worth? 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:12.639 How falable do you fighting your time? 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:16.760 Because for me, that should be it should be a 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:21.160 conversation to be addressed. They could have easily gave out 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:23.919 them bags as you were walking. 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:27.320 In, and Target could have did some other type of activation. 0:24:27.800 --> 0:24:31.440 But to put together an activation and. 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:31.760 To have. 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:41.520 People standing line to get at tention back, that's mind control. 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:41.960 To me. 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:47.800 You're giving them your power that you have. 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:51.919 Control over, because that's not a good use of your time. 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:52.680 Man. 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:56.040 Do you know they had a lot of vendors from 0:24:56.040 --> 0:24:59.800 all over this country came there to set up, pay thousands, 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:06.160 thousands and thousands of dollars to display their product. 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:06.199 For the people. 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:11.879 And then you take eighty minutes, sixty minutes of your time, 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:17.919 said walking around and looking at these different vendors in 0:25:18.000 --> 0:25:23.400 the different products that they created and offered into enriched 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:29.119 Black entrepreneurship. To wait in line to get a free 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:34.679 ten cent bag, that to me is kind of productive. 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:38.080 And to me, I saw that as an insult to. 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:45.399 For an activation that man, they said, I don't even 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:50.000 went one day and the thing was huge. A million 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:54.240 square foot was occupied and it was huge. And I'm saying, 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:57.800 it's about education, it's about the culture, and Target ain't 0:25:57.880 --> 0:25:58.720 about the cold now. 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:02.160 They sell the culture, but they ain't about the culture now. 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:05.760 And I'm glad to see that they selling, you know, 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:09.840 bringing in activations, black products and so forth, and selling. 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.399 It to the distributing it because some of us can 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:14.600 create a product but don't have a way to distribut it. 0:26:14.720 --> 0:26:17.639 So Target it's helping some of these activate, some selling 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:20.160 black and celebration to. 0:26:19.600 --> 0:26:22.679 Sell that product. And be distributed through CHI. That's a 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:23.440 wonderful thing. 0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:25.200 And many of. 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:28.080 Those activations or those part could have been there for 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:31.560 people to walk up and engage. But the standing line 0:26:31.680 --> 0:26:35.359 that was the main Activate the standing line and get 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:38.119 a cheap ten cent bag. 0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:46.320 That for eighty seventy sixty minutes. I thought that that 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:52.040 was insulting to me too, that you got the your. 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:56.560 Time miners, the value of your time miners, and that's 0:26:56.600 --> 0:26:58.520 not a balance or an equal balance. 0:26:58.880 --> 0:27:02.080 You're not getting a term for your time in that case. 0:27:02.359 --> 0:27:04.960 And to me, stuff like that because they had. 0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:13.760 Like they had activations of talking about economics and economic growth. 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:17.520 And business and so forth. They had an economic summit, which. 0:27:17.359 --> 0:27:23.840 Is great, which to me was also crazy because they 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:27.240 had Okay, you had to go through security to get in, 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:29.240 you had to go do a double. 0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:31.720 Security to get in that when they was required more 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:35.880 to get inside of there than it was to get 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:37.080 inside of the actual. 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:40.119