WEBVTT - Memorial Day 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:43.480 Ugh he he he laughing. If you watch Coffee Time 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.960 to Baby, you know the name Flame, my role also 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.519 known as my role Flame. Come in with last and 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.200 come in with JN love lounds. Baby, you better catch 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.440 it when you can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to politics, 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.120 shouting now comics just paying homics. What's up? Tip? Yeah 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.960 you know she raped shot towns on speaking to the ground. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.920 And second we're gonna last cut of the kicking and 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.720 at the end we leave it, which is a lift 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.039 dispirit you think you want to revisit, So your first 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.040 like a list of your folks like you slip all 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.720 folks that we take it to cain't no kiss do 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.800 what you don't no kiss do what you do. Can't 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:38.520 no kiss do what I do? No fish Flame. We 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:44.920 welcome to laugh and learn, laughing learn with Flame and 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:51.600 Louren and Nick and y'all and kindle and yeah, I 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.600 know it's a very different look for y'all today. Ain't 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.280 no makeup today, It's Memorial Day. Flame is looking a 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.840 little love lounge for laugh and learn to In about 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:05.280 forty minutes, I'll be feeling very level lounges because I've 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:10.519 already finished cooking and happy memorial data all the veterans 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.480 out there who have served this country, especially the ones 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.360 that I have been unknown, that we never knew about. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.480 And I'm not even talking about just in our life time. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.160 I'm talking about like even back when the Civil War started, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.200 because they put a lot of black men, a lot 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.640 of on the forefront to take them bullets and take 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.799 the Yeah, a lot of us that unnecessarily because they're 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:34.480 scary asses. Did I say that right? They're scary ass? 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.360 So yes, welcome to laugh and learn. I'm your host 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.519 Flaming Row. I learned with my co host Lauren Hogan 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.760 right here, and Smith is on here somewhere. Nick smiths 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.240 on here. And if y'all saying flame while you got 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.760 dressed up, yeah, not to that. And my daddy was 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.480 a vet. He was in the Navy. He's also passed on. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.639 So yeah, and in commemoration of all of the veterans 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:05.079 that if we have lost, no week, no makeup, this 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.160 is it. I wish you would have given me that memo. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.080 I would have come up here looking a little different. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.760 First of all, there's your hair and you ain't got 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:17.639 a little powder, So I'm not at all did afternoon. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.800 Happy Memorial Day, Nick. You are a vet, I'm a vet, 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.480 and and today is the day that wee, you know, 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.880 honor those who pay the ultimate sacrifice and you know, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.160 gave their lives and services this country. Um, so it's 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.239 been it's been somber. You know, you know the deal. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.760 So yeah, but let me so, let me tell you 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.840 what we're going today, because the world is somber. This 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.440 has been such a horrific week in the United States. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.240 I don't even want to do politics. I don't even 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:46.960 want to talk about all the bad stuff going on. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.800 We will long, we'll bring up one or but this 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.320 is a hodgepod. We're gonna bring on some play masks 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.760 and we're talking ship today. I'm telling you all right now, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.720 let's make Memorial Day like the family cookout because I can't. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.640 I just can't even take any or your negative comments, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:07.080 all the hate. Everybody's enraged, people on the planes fighting, everybody. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.720 We like on a powder cake waiting to explode. So 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.880 let's laugh and learn. Let us let us do what 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.640 our name says. Let's teach yourself something fun or funny, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:20.680 a memorable story, and let's just laugh. Because child, I'm 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:27.560 so frustrated that couldn't even put the makeup on. It's 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.719 been it's been a crazy week for me. I literally 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.800 called Lauren about an hour ago. I'm like, Lauren, where 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.400 are you? She's like, where are you? What you mean? 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:35.640 And I'm like, Lauring, I'm sorry, I'm just I'm not 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.880 doing well this week. And I told you that, you know. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.120 He's like, It's okay, Nick. We all have those weeks, 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:44.360 and it's just been Yes, just one, I'm here waiting, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:53.960 I said, getting ready. That's all. But yeah, I will 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.880 say that's a little fun thing because earlier this week, 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.200 I'm gonna say Friday, I heard someone very funny on 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:04.359 the Karen Hunter Show who since we didn't get a 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:09.080 chance to hear it, think of me being a fan. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.280 Great job, Flame, Flame, Do you have any more information 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.080 about what we might be able to hear that whole episode? 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.760 For those who missed it, Karen Hunter on her show 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.960 on Serious Radio Channel one six, and I'm doing Foolish 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.640 Fridays with her again on this Friday, so it might 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.880 be well. I don't know if I'm proving myself or 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.159 I'm if I'm an auditioning stage, but they seem to 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:31.760 love me because you know we're trying to get laugh 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.520 on it. There is an arterior motive. I'm trying to 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.200 get love that I was picked up on series Radio. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.680 Understand there is an arterior motive because there's always a 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:43.280 method to my madness, isn't it? Lauren, Well, you did 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.640 a great job. Thank you Nick. Thank you Nick. Y'all 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.240 have to listen to Karen Hunter on Fridays Series Radio 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.479 Foolish Friday. We have a great time. We cover a 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.719 bunch of subjects. I do might ask hesh we because 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.920 y'all know I'm gonna love guru. I've been since I've 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.560 been the husband and the wife, sometimes in the same night, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.560 depending on who turned it was, how much money was 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.800 involved and what they're in the week. I never bottomed 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.800 on Tuesday because tusday was talk on the read or 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:07.840 night and you don't want to bottom at the takover reader. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:12.120 Let me just say anyway, and that is great. And 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.280 then my show with Tisha k who will be our 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.680 very in Who will be our in student Studio Special 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.680 Guests on the fourteenth of this month, came out on Friday, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.280 right and it's doing pretty good. Tisha Kay has Tasha 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.800 Ka surprised everybody with this interview because everybody so used 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.080 to being messy and going throwing dirt and slinging. She 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.880 shows you that there's another side. That's growth. I'm telling 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.760 you all right now, nobody stays the same because if 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.599 you stay the same, you stay in the same place. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.960 You gotta do something different in order to grow. What 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.039 is that quote I've gotten on my one of my 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.719 Instagram pages from Coco Chanelle. She says, in order to 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.840 be different, you must be in order to be Yeah, 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.279 you must be daring or something. What I got it wrong? 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:59.080 But y'all know, just google this ship. I don't know. Um. Well, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.400 I know we're gonna have a show filled with laughter 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.440 because you want to keep it light, but we do 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.960 have to discuss one heavy topic to start. Um, it 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:11.200 has been a hundred years since the Tulsa massacre or 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.480 race mass crut should say, and um Greenwood, So we 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.880 just want to talk about that briefly. We're going to 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.040 acknowledge some things around it and then we can get 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.440 to the laughter. But we'd be remiss if we didn't 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.520 start to show off by acknowledging this so well before 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.160 you started giving us a tangibles. Nicholas. I want Lawrence 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.720 Roight emotional on this because when Lauren was telling me 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.920 about this on her draft here this morning, Lauren was 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.320 charged up about you were you were well, you were 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.400 you were ready to hit stop I was. I watched, 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.960 Um there was a documentary actually on the History Channel 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.520 that premiered yesterday, and I watched it and I was 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.560 just really angry, you know, and um it was a 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.840 two hour documentary. It was really heavy, and I think 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.000 what probably made it even worse is that they tied 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.200 in a lot of what was happening around Black Lives 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.320 Matter and George Floyd and Brianna Taylor and just um 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.920 a lot of different just police involved shooting, you know, 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.160 and it just it was very upsetting. So what I 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.800 was saying to Flame was that I know that there's 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.240 been so many talks about reparations and things like that, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.680 and the government it's kind of taking the stance of, well, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.120 we don't really know how to provide reparations for slavery 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.560 because we can't really you know, track who's descendant of 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.320 who and those sort of things. But in the situation 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.440 of Tulsa, there, you guys can very easily track who 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.760 deserves reparations in this instance, UM, and there's just never 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.720 been just has been brought for those UM family members 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.600 that lost their lives a hundred years ago. Tell them 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.800 what triggered the whole incident because that was so interesting 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.840 because I never knew that. Oh okay, so what triggered 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.120 the incident? Based on what I was watching last night, UM, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.319 there was a man by the name of Jake Rowland. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.560 He worked at UM this all white shoeshine parlor. The 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.880 white owner of the parlor had about four black employees. However, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.600 when it was time for them to use the restroom, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.880 they were never allowed to use the facilities that were 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.800 in the shoeshine parlor. So what he did was he, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.160 you know, set up this negotiation where his UM black 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.520 employees could go to the Drexel Hotel, which was right 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.960 in the middle of Greenwood, UM, and they could go 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.960 eitherre to use the facilities because that's where the colored 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:18.640 toilet was. So UM Jake Roland went to the Drexel Hotel. UM. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:23.000 The elevator operator was a white woman, and UM Jake 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.400 got into the elevator and the story goes that, you know, 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.600 the elevator jerked or something happened when she moved elevator 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.800 and he ended up like stepping on her foot or 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.760 bumping into her accidentally, and of course she's screaming and 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.840 oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god. So 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.439 you know, Jake being fearful, he ran out of the 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:47.600 Drexel Hotel and that's literally what started this whole huh. Um, 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.560 it was the catalyst, will say that to this whole massacre. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.240 You know, they arrested him, he was brought downtown to 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.840 the jail, and so, of course, throughout the couple of 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.520 hours after he was arraigned, this white mob of almost 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.640 seven your people assembled because they were telling the police officers, 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.600 we need to go and lynch him. You know, he 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.120 assaulted a white woman. Um. There was a lot of 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.800 dog whistle terms being used, you know, they were saying, 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.160 you know, assault was a dog whistle term for you know, 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.480 another black man raping a white woman. Um. So, throughout 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.959 the course of the evening, all of these white men 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.920 assembled to basically to have Jake lynched. But at the 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.719 same time, you know, in Greenwood, there was um, I'm 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.160 gonna get anybody's name wrong, but it was J. B. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.560 Stratford and A. J. Smitherman. They were kind of like 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.000 the leaders of the town and ow Gurley, who was 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.000 actually the architect behind Greenwood. They all basically assembled and 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.040 said we need to go protect him. So lots of 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.520 you know, war veterans in the black community came down 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.720 to protect Jake and that started this whole How dare 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.560 you come down here? And that's literally how the massacre started. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.520 So it shows you that Karen ain't just started. Huh, 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.600 Karen been going on for hundreds of years, Karen even 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:00.560 just And secondly, uh, why do they loved the holiday 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.600 black men and wape raping white women? You ain't baby, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.240 Do you understand you ain't got the rape a white woman. Now, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.280 all you got to do is play for professional be 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.640 a professional athlete. You ain't got the ripe ship. They're 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.160 gonna give it to you. And I'm not saying all right, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.800 white women, So for y'all get on your bandwag and 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.600 get the holland screaming crame who Flames said? Flames said 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.600 what Flames see? I said, You ain't ain't nobody running 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.080 around try to rape nobody white woman because you're white. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.480 That is a that is such a myth, but they 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.520 have used that to be a power play for such 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.000 a long time, which is why black women get offended 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.720 when they say when they see these black men marrying 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.320 these white women, because they feel like all of that 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.319 is just pushing back the narrative. And when they're saying, oh, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.960 your trophy as a white woman, my trophy would be 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.720 a smart woman. I need a backbone. I need somebody 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.160 who's gonna hold me up because I'll work. I just 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.319 need a woman that's gonna clean and you know, make 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.560 sure I washed my ass, like at least twice a week, 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.800 because you're not on bathe that only bathe on show 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:08.040 that you're real tall. Today I did not, UM, but yeah, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.320 that's kind of the background of it. It's just even 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.400 with that, even with that, I don't know about you, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:18.040 but I will freely admit I was not familiar with 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.560 Black Wall Street and any of that until I went 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.920 to college. I never heard that in grade school, high school, 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.640 in life. It was not until I was at the 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.319 University of California, Berkeley with a woman named June Jordan 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:35.120 who taught women's studies UM, and she was this countercultural 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.240 lesbian who talked about everything you weren't supposed to talk 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.760 about UM, and she uh introduced, Look, there was no 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.440 black Wall Street. What are you talking about black Wall Street? 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.720 Broke never had never heard of it. And I think 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.959 this is also part of the you've mentioned before in 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:53.000 the past, the whitewashing of our history and that not 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.000 getting it correct. And I was telling Flame too. There's 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.240 just so many instances of this that we can talk about, 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.160 of just things being covered up. You know, we've talked 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.160 about Seneca Village, which is now the beautiful Central Park, 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.640 and um even Lake Lanier, which is like the biggest 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.480 tourist attraction in Georgia. You know, that was actually a 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.960 black town called Oscarville that was bulldozed by you know, 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.840 white folks and then flooded into this beautiful tourist attraction 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.080 that generates millions of dollars a year. So there's Martha. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.840 They there's so much that has been until we have 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.320 a true reckoning. And this is where I go back 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.440 to UM. You know, it begins with an apology. It 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.240 begins with apology. We still as a country have not 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:39.920 acknowledged our history. We have to recognize that we live 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.280 in a country just admit it. We live in a 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.720 country that was built on the backs of slaves, that's all, 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.000 and was stolen from other brown people. We stole the 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.640 land and then you know, we stole this Now. I 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.040 don't really want to build it up myself. Now, come on, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.960 what we're gonna do, y'all? We need to get some 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.280 labor over here. So that's exactly what happened, and all 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.200 we have to do is just talk about it. We 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.000 have had more years in this country. There have been 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.360 more years of this country in existence with slavery being 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.200 a part of it than without. So to act like 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.200 it's not real and not something that we need to 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.720 discuss so that we can at least begin the process 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.760 of healing and recognizing where we go is just ridiculous. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.560 Everything else is performative. I knew about that, like near 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.160 because I knew. I heard the stories about it that 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.760 you know, supposed to be kind of haunted. Very poetr guys, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.440 y'all put these stuff up, all these dead bodies. Um, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.800 this house is clean, y'all need a little midge bitch? 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.880 What was her name from the movie Humans? Get the 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.040 house clean? Get the What was the name? I know 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.440 what I'm saying. What was her name this house is Caroline. Caroline. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.400 Oh my god, I told you I'm in a move today. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:50.040 Y'all go broll with it today. But that is very 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.920 and all collectively, all the black tragedies that we have 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.080 had don't even if we if you put them all together, 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.160 according to this country, they still don't even measure to 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.280 the Holocaust. And this will be all of us, from 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:09.720 Rosewood to Lake Lanier, to the village to uh to 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:14.280 Toss the Oklahoma. According to them, all of ours combined 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.239 won't even line up to just to to the Holocaust. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.600 This is what we're saying. So when we say that 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.000 we don't care about what's happening with other cultures, that's 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.520 not what it is. But we're too concerned about what's 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.680 happening with us. I ain't got time to worry about 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.800 what's happening over here over there. Help us fix our ship, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.400 then we'll help you, because as you can see, once 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.840 they're done with us, y'all just nixt up on the 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.480 sad blood because what they want is what they want 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.800 and they're not gonna stop until they get it. They're 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.800 doing it in our face. The GOP is doing in 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.720 our face, and then telling me what I didn't see 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.360 with my glasses on off, I can see the bullshit 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.760 that y'all pulling. That y'all telling me I didn't see Flame, 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.200 you didn't. That was just the normal tourist day on 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.600 January six. What are you talking about? It's like any 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.120 other tour of the capital, you know. And that actually 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.960 that he even think his mouth to actually say that 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:07.040 out loud publicly to us, like we stupid Flame. That's 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.520 not the problem is the others who sat there and 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.480 they signed, they co signed on this. The fact that 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.880 there were not ten who believed we at least need 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.600 to have a commission to take a look at what happened. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.480 Ten people don't tim Republicans don't believe that. Not ten 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.720 Republicans believe that it's necessary to examine what happened on 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:30.240 January six, completely free of bias and completely free of 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.120 political uh political bias. Right, Um, just like we did 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.240 with September eleven, we had to take a look to 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.800 see exactly what we're wrong. There were failures all the 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.800 way around. How do we prevent this from happening again. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.280 We cannot sit here and say that we know for 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.480 a fact we will not have another siege on the 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.240 capitol the way we did on January six, there's nothing 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.720 that tells me that that could not happen again. Well, 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.800 I think that's two that speaks to when we talk 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.520 about history, because I think there's a lot of parallels 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.320 that we can kind of draw in the situation from 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.600 Tulsa to what's happening around this whole January six commission. 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.080 And the instance of Tulsa, you know, they had a 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.399 lot of white newspapers that we're putting out these narratives 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.639 saying that, you know, the black people were at fault 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.639 because they came downtown and they started this, and you know, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.320 it's we don't need to take any responsibility for this 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.840 kind of thing. So and I think in this instance 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:23.159 of the January six um riot that happened, it's another 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.120 of well, we don't really need to take any fault 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.040 behind this, We don't need to investigate this for let's 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.600 just kind of move on, you know what I mean, 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.040 And and we don't address the traumas that are occurring 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.240 in the country, history just continues to repeat itself, and 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.639 that's what we're seeing again in this instance. So, um, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.040 I don't know, I know, we want to keep it 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:45.600 light and everything. But um, overall that actress was Zelda Rubinstein. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.960 Zelda Rubinstein just like they're out there for you. Um. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.840 But overall, UM, I really just think that, UM, I hope, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.320 I really want to encourage everybody to go and watch 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.720 this documentary about Tulsa and really just get some rich 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.119 his srea about what happened a hundred years ago and 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.520 also to let's just talk about They also made a 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:09.399 comment about JB. Stratsforuld have the biggest hotel in basically 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.879 the nation at that time, and how you know, we 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.280 talked about how, you know, black folks don't have things 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.439 like generational wealth and we're not giving back to our 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.119 own communities. But you know, Black Wall Street was the 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.320 biggest example of this, and they were saying how JB. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.159 Stratsford could have been the next Marriott or you know, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.840 the next Hyatt or whatever you want to call it. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.720 So um, overall, there's just there's a lot of wrong 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.800 that's been done to our community and we need some 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.080 type of reparations. There was that was a show that 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.959 came on last year. We talked about it on here. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.720 I couldn't think of it was real abstract, but they were. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.160 They brought shed light to the whole Tussa thing. They 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.439 had the two little twins. Remember the movie it came up, 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:50.160 was real crazy with andrelu Ellis and Journey small ay 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.320 um whatever. It was that they revisited a lot of 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.600 the black Head that we didn't get taught in school 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.520 because they never taught us in school about the Tulsa. 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.120 Ris was never taught that in school either. So when 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.080 I started hearing about that, I'm like, where did that happen? 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.199 I never remember reading or hearing about that when I 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.000 was in school. But when its not a watch man, 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.040 uh miss j watch not watch the other one like something, 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.840 that's it country. So anyway, when they did that, when 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.880 they had their rights, because they relived that, they replayed 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.360 that acted it out. One guy was like, they got 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:26.359 a piano. I don't even have a fucking piano. The 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.520 jealousy of you worried about what somebody else has has, 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.520 even though that it was racist. But that's why I 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.280 tell people all the time, baby focused on you. If 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.439 if I'm focused on me, I can't worry about this 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.520 person get more than me or this person has less 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.639 than me. I'm focused on me. If everybody focused on 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.120 the sales, but that was not even that that just 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.840 that was the first time I really started hearing because 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:50.560 I had heard it before, but I didn't believe it 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.240 because it wasn't in the history books that we were 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.639 taught in school. So I'm like, I never heard of 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.920 that ship. Y'all made that up. They have since implemented 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.680 um this curriculum though about Tulsa into the Oklahoma school district. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.439 So I will say that they're trying to right some wrongs. 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.160 You know, it's not a better way than never situation, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.719 but they are, you know, trying to implement what actually 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.840 happened in that town. It's a part of their curricula. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.520 Can we also shout out That's why I think it's 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.879 interesting that Howard University is having this conversation to write. 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.480 Howard is saying, you know, we need to re examine 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.280 who decides that this is the history we need to 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.080 teach and these are the classics, and uh, let's let's 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.760 reexamine that. Guess what, there were black voices, There were 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.080 voices that were women. There are women that there were 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.119 women who were counterculture who are strong voices. Why are 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.000 we not examining these? I can make a strong argument 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.480 that I genuinely believe Nikki Giovanni should be included in 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.119 any of the greats when we're talking about commentary on 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.240 the political diaspora or where we are as a community 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.760 and as a culture. But I don't know that everyone 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.919 knows Nikki the way I think they should. Zora Neelie Herston. 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:57.440 There's so many black female writers who I feel like 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.320 we're able to maybe move and talk about things in 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.439 different areas that others just weren't giving voice to. Right. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.359 So yeah, so anyway, yeah, I definitely agree. So for 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:09.879 those of you all who are unfamiliar with Nikki Giovanni, 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.000 not only is she a great point, but she don't 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.920 man speaking her man. Oh, she's flaming Monroe before even 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.800 flame Monroe was born. That lady plays no games with you, 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.000 A and be. She was the first woman to blow 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.639 the whistle on Bill Cosby and he destroyed her career. 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.520 Payback is a bill, Bill You're now two oh seven days, 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:30.960