Speaker 1: And now bring my mic back. You're like that journal time.
Speaker 2: You can strikes with Waters headquarters behind.
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Speaker 1: ramdas John. I am q Ward and you are listening
Speaker 1: to say it sid for this Indeed, I stick around
Speaker 1: and still that a lot more show for you. We're
Speaker 1: gonna touch on a few more of these topics and
Speaker 1: we're gonna discuss how it feels to have to wade
Speaker 1: through all this, because if you are one of our
Speaker 1: non millenated brothers or sisters and this is your weekly
Speaker 1: dose of an alternative reality, it might not be over
Speaker 1: as overwhelming. But a lot of this stuff feels very personal.
Speaker 1: It's very triggering. It reminds us of stories we lived through,
Speaker 1: as we've mentioned, and so we're gonna discuss that a
Speaker 1: little bit as well. Also, we're gonna spend some time
Speaker 1: talking about the history of rhythm and blues. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked about the history of house music. It's black
Speaker 1: roots that go to Chicago to a very specific drum
Speaker 1: machine and some gospel samples and some disco music. But
Speaker 1: now we're going to talk about R and B and
Speaker 1: first though, we're going to talk about becoming a better ally.
Speaker 1: Bah bah. So we've asked many times for you to
Speaker 1: consider donating to the NAACP. Of course, you can always
Speaker 1: donate to Civic Cipher, But the NAACP is a very,
Speaker 1: very old institution, and they fight battles on fronts that
Speaker 1: we are just not as effective with. You know, on
Speaker 1: those fronts, they go behind doors, they do this sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. Well, we're going to let you know some
Speaker 1: of the things that your dollars go to and ask
Speaker 1: again that you continue to support the NAACP. So we
Speaker 1: got a letter from them recently and it says as follows.
Speaker 1: When we say the NAACP is fighting to end racial inequality,
Speaker 1: these aren't just words. Our work tackles every corner of
Speaker 1: American life, from clean drinking water to fair legislative districts,
Speaker 1: and thanks to our grassroots community, the NAACP has the
Speaker 1: power and resources to advance equality on not just one front,
Speaker 1: but on all of them. Here are just four of
Speaker 1: the many issues we're fighting in our work for true
Speaker 1: racial equality and freedom inclusive economy. After generations of discrimination,
Speaker 1: investments in communities and color are vital to closing the
Speaker 1: racial wealth gap. We're working with elective officials and private
Speaker 1: partners to provide resources to black businesses, implement a federal
Speaker 1: minimum wage council, student debt, reverse racist housing policies, and
Speaker 1: more police reform and criminal justice. Our criminal justice system
Speaker 1: is shaped by biased policing and unfair judicial precedence. After
Speaker 1: securing the Executive Order on Police Reform this June, the
Speaker 1: NAACP is pushing to go further now voting rights and democracy.
Speaker 1: More than a century after the right to vote was
Speaker 1: declared a fundamental right that's under attack. Since twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: the NAACP has challenged anti voter laws and over ten
Speaker 1: states and is mobilizing two million activists to ensure black
Speaker 1: voters are informed and black voices are heard. And then finally,
Speaker 1: environmental and climate justice, which disproportionately threatens the health and
Speaker 1: livelihoods of communities of color. So again, the NAACP could
Speaker 1: always use your support, and that is how you can
Speaker 1: become a better ally. Now back to these mini stories.
Speaker 1: There is a story that we had to talk about
Speaker 1: about a home that and we talked about this before.
Speaker 1: I remember this a home that was appraised with a
Speaker 1: quote black owner, the price came back at four hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy two thousand dollars, swapped out owners with a
Speaker 1: white owner, and then that home appraised for seven hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars. Nathan Connolly and his wife Shannie
Speaker 1: Mott say an appraisal company undervalued their home based on
Speaker 1: their race. Again, that comes from the New York Times.
Speaker 1: So again, this is something that we talked about on
Speaker 1: the show before. We had a few examples back then.
Speaker 1: I remember we had maybe three or four examples, and
Speaker 1: those examples. You have to bear in mind that our
Speaker 1: content for the show comes from reputable news sources. So
Speaker 1: this made headlines as much as a year and a
Speaker 1: half ago. And then of course this story we're talking
Speaker 1: about today is a recent headline. So you can see
Speaker 1: these things are still going on. You can see how
Speaker 1: these things contribute to economic inequality, which has innumerable factors
Speaker 1: and it influences black life in immeasurable ways. And we're
Speaker 1: just talking again about one facet. Can we get the
Speaker 1: fair value of our house? You know, the same building,
Speaker 1: same content, same location. We're just black and we own it,
Speaker 1: you know, in fact, not for nothing. If I have
Speaker 1: to ever have to get my house appraised, I'm probably
Speaker 1: gonna use the same trink because it seems like it works.
Speaker 1: I can get some extra money off this property. But
Speaker 1: it goes to show you what black life it can be.
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean? And how how do
Speaker 1: I say this? So there's something that we say, we
Speaker 1: have to be twice as good to be good enough, right,
Speaker 1: something like effectually, this is what is said in black circles.
Speaker 1: We have to try twice as hard to get half
Speaker 1: a chance these sorts of things. Is this is part
Speaker 1: and parcel to our experience. This is sort of something
Speaker 1: that illustrates exactly what we're on about. Let's say we
Speaker 1: have a goal that we want to have a million
Speaker 1: dollars to leave to our children at the end of
Speaker 1: our lives. You can very easily see that, yes, we
Speaker 1: have to be twice as good, you know, to matter
Speaker 1: in a world that is not really set up for
Speaker 1: people like us to thrive. We're still human beings. We're
Speaker 1: still endowed with the same consciousness, the same intelligence, the
Speaker 1: same physical attributes and qualities and you know so forth.
Speaker 1: But there are systems in place and prejudices that exist
Speaker 1: in corners either conscious or unconscious, that work against us
Speaker 1: and our efforts to be all that we can be right,
Speaker 1: And the fact that this show exists to illuminate those
Speaker 1: things is a testament to the fact that people need
Speaker 1: to know about it, because if I was not telling
Speaker 1: you this, there's a good chance you would never know
Speaker 1: what happened. Especially if you're not a black person or
Speaker 1: a brown person, these stories perhaps don't make their way
Speaker 1: into your life, and that is I believe the biggest
Speaker 1: tragedy of all of this. It's because I do believe
Speaker 1: that if you've listened to me, if you listen to Q,
Speaker 1: if you listen to Maggie, I believe that you want
Speaker 1: to be a good person. Perhaps you want the world
Speaker 1: to be a bit better place. Otherwise, why listen to
Speaker 1: this content? And this might be the first time you're
Speaker 1: hearing something like this, And this is every day for us, right.
Speaker 1: So one of the questions that we wanted to ask,
Speaker 1: or that you know, our producer wanted us to ask,
Speaker 1: is that is it okay that we feel like this?
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna throw that one to you.
Speaker 3: I mean, the quick and easy, straightforward answer is no,
Speaker 3: is it okay to feel this way? Of course, Is
Speaker 3: it okay that we feel this way? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I like that it is.
Speaker 3: It is grossly traumatic, and we have to spend a
Speaker 3: lot of time kind of pretending not to be traumatized,
Speaker 3: thank you, because we'd be constantly angry, and if we
Speaker 3: actually thought about our reality constantly, we'd be mad a lot.
Speaker 3: And an interesting thing about us doing this show is
Speaker 3: that we're reminded of our reality far more often than
Speaker 3: really everyone else that we know. Yeah, so we have
Speaker 3: to spend a lot of time. I have to spend
Speaker 3: a lot of time trying not to be overtly angry.
Speaker 3: And I think that's why I'm the least optimistic half
Speaker 3: of Civic Cipher or third of Civic Cipher, right, because
Speaker 3: like even some of the things that the NAACP is
Speaker 3: fighting for, like I'm reading that stuff, Like you guys
Speaker 3: can't really think this stuff is ever going to happen,
Speaker 3: Like you can't like this country's going to be more
Speaker 3: financially equitable for us, Like are you is anyone paying
Speaker 3: attention to the entire history of not just this country
Speaker 3: but the world?
Speaker 1: Right, Like we speak about.
Speaker 3: What has become an absolute environment for us everywhere, right
Speaker 3: anywhere on Earth that's been colonized, which is about eighty
Speaker 3: percent of Earth. Racism exists because the colonizers were white,
Speaker 3: white Europeans almost always Europe is what six seven percent
Speaker 3: of the Earth eight I'll say eight percent of the
Speaker 3: land mass on Earth, they've colonized eighty percent, right, So
Speaker 3: we try to think back throughout history about the ideas
Speaker 3: that well, any people with power would have no just
Speaker 3: one group, for the history of Earth has sought to
Speaker 3: go as far away from where they're from to take
Speaker 3: everything from everyone else.
Speaker 1: Let me add something right here.
Speaker 3: If I'm in so.
Speaker 1: I I have to just so that I'm doing my
Speaker 1: job as good as I can. I have to subscribe
Speaker 1: to some far right racists pro white content, because I
Speaker 1: need to know what people are thinking about. I need
Speaker 1: to know what conversations you are listener are subjected to
Speaker 1: when you go back home and have to interact with
Speaker 1: your grandmas and grandpas with their trump hats. You know,
Speaker 1: I need to know what's going on in those circles
Speaker 1: and do my best to try to give you information
Speaker 1: to where you are armed when you are confronted with
Speaker 1: these detached realities that your people might might subscribe to.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that I've find and it's
Speaker 1: important that I share this with you. One of the
Speaker 1: things I find is that you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: times in these rooms on the internet, these places on
Speaker 1: the Internet that white oftentimes men celebrate the fact that
Speaker 1: they are these conquerors. There are these great conquerors, right,
Speaker 1: And I think it's really important to bear in mind
Speaker 1: that to conquer is sure, it's something that a person
Speaker 1: could do. You could wake up and say, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to conquer someone else. Right, It's a philosophy
Speaker 1: you could have. It's a way of life. Right, it
Speaker 1: exists as a state of mind. And there are so
Speaker 1: many others. You know. One of the things that a
Speaker 1: movie we saw recently, it was Maggie b Knowan and
Speaker 1: I she knew We saw a movie about the old
Speaker 1: movie was called Avatar, the one with the blue people,
Speaker 1: the real tall blue people on a planet long time.
Speaker 1: It was an old movie. We were watching it just
Speaker 1: because it was on And you know, I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of the characters in that movie they were
Speaker 1: based off of, like like native tribes that you might
Speaker 1: have found.
Speaker 3: A blue indigent indigenous culture. I don't even know what
Speaker 3: we call them. People right, that's very specific to us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were, they were alive, yes, so we'll leave
Speaker 1: it there anyway. But these people, of these alive beings, uh,
Speaker 1: they were not, insofar as I could tell, focused on conquering.
Speaker 1: That philosophy did not enter into their mind much like
Speaker 1: or at least not conquering to the degree of what
Speaker 1: we've seen with our European our brothers and sisters of
Speaker 1: European and well.
Speaker 3: Actually not at all, though you don't have to, we
Speaker 3: don't have to trade semantics. They weren't interested in conquering
Speaker 3: at all. Hunting, gathering, living, loving, And I think that's it.
Speaker 3: I think that that is doable now.
Speaker 1: The thing is a lot of the people that I
Speaker 1: find in these little corners of the Internet, they feel
Speaker 1: like it's eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.
Speaker 1: And that is a philosophy. I am being fair. It is.
Speaker 1: It does exist as a philosophy right for all of
Speaker 1: the jungle. But I think that as human beings being
Speaker 1: more evolved, I think that we have the capacity to
Speaker 1: cooperate with each other and uplift each other and fortify
Speaker 1: each other. And I think that our tendency over the
Speaker 1: majority of our time as humans, not Neanderthals and whatever
Speaker 1: we were before we reached this part. The majority of
Speaker 1: our time in this current form has been cooperative.
Speaker 3: I mean to say that you're right, wouldn't even be
Speaker 3: saying enough. Like, look over the readings and the ideology
Speaker 3: of conquerors with regards to the very cooperative people they
Speaker 3: can conquered. You like, listen to and read about how
Speaker 3: they speak about our Aboriginal and Native people of this country.
Speaker 3: The people that conquered them almost not almost made very
Speaker 3: very light of how cooperative and accepting they were as
Speaker 3: they planned to.
Speaker 1: So watch this. So for those people who end up
Speaker 1: on those corners of the Internet affirming how great a
Speaker 1: conqueror the White Clan has been over throughout history, the
Speaker 1: rest of us really don't see it that way. We wonder, like,
Speaker 1: why do you need so much? It's like we feel
Speaker 1: like it's crazy to need to want more than you need.
Speaker 1: Why would you want more than what you want? You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's a tree that grows apples, right, and if
Speaker 1: I'm hungry, I can go to the tree and take
Speaker 1: an apple and eat it. I don't need to take
Speaker 1: the whole tree. I can't eat all the apples. That's
Speaker 1: and then the tree.
Speaker 3: Even if you took the tree for yourself, why do
Speaker 3: you have to take everyone else's tree?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm trying to say. It's just it's
Speaker 1: the craziest thing, and so I just wanted to offer that.
Speaker 3: Now, Oh before I forget what I was going to say,
Speaker 3: Racism exists in the entire colonized world. Nowhere does it
Speaker 3: exist so flagrant and violently as it does here. So
Speaker 3: is it okay to feel how we feel? Was the question?
Speaker 3: My trauma starts there. My children are beautiful. I know
Speaker 3: you think that about your kids too, and you should.
Speaker 3: But my kids are incredible.
Speaker 1: I know he's going to say, but, but.
Speaker 3: They're not going to always be kids. Specifically, my boy,
Speaker 3: as his arms and legs grow muscles, and the sun
Speaker 3: kisses his skin a little bit more, and if one
Speaker 3: day he doesn't wear his hair, how it grows out
Speaker 3: of his head but he decides he wants to twist
Speaker 3: it or braid it or lock it. How fast does
Speaker 3: he go from this beautiful thing to something that, as
Speaker 3: Ramses would say, scares people. I think that's crap. Until
Speaker 3: he turns into something that they hate. You don't seek
Speaker 3: out and destroy things you're afraid of. You run from them,
Speaker 3: when you run towards them to kill them. That is
Speaker 3: not fear. So yeah, it is okay for me to
Speaker 3: feel this way, because how could I not. It is
Speaker 3: not okay that I feel this way.
Speaker 1: Now. I want to get back to what it means
Speaker 1: for us to go through these stories every week. Again,
Speaker 1: we have a heavy dose every week. As we shared
Speaker 1: on the show before, Q and I often will take
Speaker 1: turns watching videos where we know we're going to see
Speaker 1: some trauma, We're going to see black death or black harm,
Speaker 1: and you know, we've come up with a system that
Speaker 1: we think works for us, but it's only the only
Speaker 1: thing we can say is that it works as good
Speaker 1: as it can. We try our best not to watch
Speaker 1: everything so that we're not overwhelmed and we don't become
Speaker 1: desensitized to the loss of human life, in particularly the
Speaker 1: loss of black life. One of the stories that we
Speaker 1: didn't get to this week is and I know that
Speaker 1: we both saw this one, but this gives you an
Speaker 1: idea of how heavy this stuff can be. I'm not
Speaker 1: a soft person. I mean that from the bottom of
Speaker 1: my heart. I am not that, But I am a
Speaker 1: human being who feels things. I think that's the hardest
Speaker 1: thing I could say. I'm forty where somebody would say
Speaker 1: something to me. You know what I'm saying, I've been
Speaker 1: doing this right. We saw a video some police officers,
Speaker 1: three police officers, and it was on a man and
Speaker 1: it was punching his dude in the face. And then
Speaker 1: an officer grabbed his dude by his hair and he
Speaker 1: picked his head up. He slammed his head into the concrete.
Speaker 1: Do me, fevor Maggie can find out what video that
Speaker 1: was because I don't have it right here, but we
Speaker 1: like it's hard for me to even talk about it, like,
Speaker 1: it's like, what is wrong with y'all? Why? Why is
Speaker 1: that not? How can you feel good about that? Even
Speaker 1: if somebody hurt you.
Speaker 3: This person has already been subdued. This person is mounted,
Speaker 3: This person is laying on their stomach, no weapon, not
Speaker 3: posing a threat. There are three officers present. One of
Speaker 3: them has gripped the side of this person's head by
Speaker 3: the roots of their hair and proceeds to pummel their
Speaker 3: head and their face into the concrete. There is no
Speaker 3: explanation as to why that was necessary or how that
Speaker 3: person who clearly doesn't have a stable mental situation. So
Speaker 3: here's here's a peace officer.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that man solicit So these these guys, Uh, Maggie,
Speaker 1: just let it. Let us know that these officers are
Speaker 1: from Arkansas and they're on paid leave right now, paid
Speaker 1: because the lead because the investigated. The investigation is going on.
Speaker 1: Because the video isn't enough, right, we got to so again,
Speaker 1: journalistic integrity compels us to tell as much of the
Speaker 1: story as we know. At this point, the officer said
Speaker 1: that this the gentleman that they were subduing, was he's
Speaker 1: the person that initiated the the altercation. And that's really
Speaker 1: as much as I got, you know. And then the
Speaker 1: video picks up and it's someone just kind of filming
Speaker 1: the officers. And then if you've seen the video, hopefully
Speaker 1: we've given you enough if you want to look it up.
Speaker 1: But I take our word for it. This is not
Speaker 1: worth watching unless you really enjoy watching people get harmed,
Speaker 1: which I don't. It discussed. It just discussed like it
Speaker 1: turns my stomach. I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 3: Actually doing it that every time. Exactly, it doesn't go
Speaker 3: away with my stomach every time. So you can see
Speaker 3: on the officer's face as soon as they see that
Speaker 3: they're getting filmed, because someone's like filming from like the
Speaker 3: backseat of a car. Some I don't know exactly where
Speaker 3: their vantage point is, but you could you could tell
Speaker 3: they're not close to the officers. They've zoomed in all
Speaker 3: the officers and they're.
Speaker 1: Watching the officers just beat this guy and like Rodney
Speaker 1: King beat him right. It surprises me that after that
Speaker 1: officer slammed his head into the to the concrete with
Speaker 1: all his strength, that demand didn't die. He's here people,
Speaker 1: right in the concrete. Do you know that sound that
Speaker 1: a head makes when it hits the concrete. I know
Speaker 1: that sound. He did it on purpose, and then they
Speaker 1: kept beating him after that. Nobody was like, WHOA did
Speaker 1: we wake up this morning to end the life? Because
Speaker 1: that's what it sounds like we're doing. Nobody stopped. You
Speaker 1: might have noticed, however. What you might have noticed, however,
Speaker 1: is that when one of the quote unquote good guys intervenes,
Speaker 1: they get strapped up by their neck, sure or by
Speaker 1: her neck. Yeah, you've seen that. And they do it
Speaker 1: to police officers too. They'll do it to each other.
Speaker 3: There is no equity in being the good guy in
Speaker 3: that situation. You subscribe to what they subscribe to, or
Speaker 3: they will make sure that they alienate, harm at least
Speaker 3: alienate and harm you physically and probably and most likely
Speaker 3: make you a pariah professionally as well.
Speaker 1: It's important that we say his name, so we will
Speaker 1: say his name, Randall Worcester. I believe that's how I
Speaker 1: say his last name. That's I know, the sauce, so
Speaker 1: I've always heard it as Worcester Sauce. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's if I've ever been saying that right, but anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Randall Worcester, and he's the person who is another
Speaker 1: recent victim of police violence. And again we're talking about
Speaker 1: what it means for us. And we know that even
Speaker 1: black people that don't work in a media space like
Speaker 1: we do might not have to deal with the amount
Speaker 1: of stuff that we have to deal with, but that
Speaker 1: amount is still not zero, and their personal connection to
Speaker 1: seeing black bodies, just like there is being harmed day
Speaker 1: in and day out, story after story over and over again,
Speaker 1: can be overwhelming. And it's just something that we all
Speaker 1: need to keep in mind because it's the sort of
Speaker 1: thing that makes you want to pull into a well
Speaker 1: lit gas station before you get out of your car
Speaker 1: and interact with the police. There is a real, primal fear,
Speaker 1: not imaginary like we often say, happens with the police,
Speaker 1: a real fear because again, the police have the real guns.
Speaker 1: So let's just keep that in mind. Moving on, it's
Speaker 1: time for the away Black history fact. This one comes
Speaker 1: to you from Hip Hop Weekly Magazine. We pulled a
Speaker 1: story from the Library of Congress, and today we are
Speaker 1: discussing the history of rhythm and blues. So depending on
Speaker 1: what station you're listening to, you might get an R
Speaker 1: and B song after this, or it might have heard
Speaker 1: one before we started talking. But it's important that you
Speaker 1: know the history of all the music. Any music with
Speaker 1: the beat goes back to Africa, because that's where the
Speaker 1: drum comes from and that's where the heartbeat comes from.
Speaker 1: So we like to claim all that, but certainly R
Speaker 1: and B is a little bit more of our modern history.
Speaker 1: The term rhythm and blues, often called R and B,
Speaker 1: originated in the nineteen forties when it replaced race me
Speaker 1: music as a general marketing term for all African American music,
Speaker 1: though it usually referred to only secular, not religious music.
Speaker 1: The term first appeared in commercial recording in nineteen forty eight,
Speaker 1: when RCA Victor Records began using blues and rhythm music
Speaker 1: as a descriptor for African American secular songs. The migration
Speaker 1: of African Americans to urban centers in the Northeast and
Speaker 1: Midwest during the early twentieth century helped to bring various
Speaker 1: regional styles of African American music together to influence one another.
Speaker 1: The migration also created new markets for these styles of music.
Speaker 1: Early on, the term rhythm and blues was used for
Speaker 1: boogie woogie, African American swing, jazz, and blues. All these
Speaker 1: styles of music influenced the development of what is called
Speaker 1: rhythm and blues today. The meaning of the term continued
Speaker 1: to change over time, and today it is still used
Speaker 1: as an umbrella term for many different African American music forms.
Speaker 1: Historically speaking, though, a rhythm and blues as we understand
Speaker 1: it today most often describes a style of music that
Speaker 1: developed after World War One that combines elements of gospel, blues,
Speaker 1: and jazz with a strong backbeat. The African American styles
Speaker 1: that emerged in those years were often played by small
Speaker 1: groups that emphasized rhythmic drive over the instrumental and harmonic
Speaker 1: complexity of the swing orchestras. Their vocalist often sang in
Speaker 1: an uninhibited, uninhibited, and emotionally direct style. In major cities,
Speaker 1: teenage vocal groups with little or no instrumental accompaniment were
Speaker 1: a growing presence. They took their inspiration from both gospel
Speaker 1: singers and successful African American pop stylists. The term doo
Speaker 1: wop is well known now, but it was not applied
Speaker 1: to these groups until much later, and it refers to
Speaker 1: the vocal vocabs and nonsense syllables these groups saying to
Speaker 1: compensate for their lack of instruments. All these styles were
Speaker 1: significant to the development of rock and roll a few
Speaker 1: years later, though it began as a general term for
Speaker 1: African American music. The synthesis of styles that became what
Speaker 1: is now called rhythm and blues caught on among a
Speaker 1: wide youth audience during the post war period and contributed
Speaker 1: to changing the racial divide in American society and music
Speaker 1: of the mid twentieth century. Initially, white artists such as
Speaker 1: Elvis Presley performed and recorded or covered rhythm and blues
Speaker 1: works by African American composers in order for those songs
Speaker 1: to be marketed to white audiences, but the effect was
Speaker 1: to bring both audience audiences and artists with an interest
Speaker 1: in this style of music together. The development of rhythm
Speaker 1: and blues occurred just as segregation became a growing social
Speaker 1: issue in American society. Both young black and white people
Speaker 1: wanted to see the popular performers of the day, and
Speaker 1: mixed groups of youths sang doo wop together on the
Speaker 1: street corners of many urban centers. This provoked a strong
Speaker 1: reaction of proponents of segregation and was one reason why
Speaker 1: rhythm and blues and early rock and roll were often
Speaker 1: seen as dangerous to America's youth. But with young people
Speaker 1: of all backgrounds identifying with these new musical styles, a
Speaker 1: generation was becoming ready for a more equal society today.
Speaker 1: According to Billboard, since twenty seventeen, the R and B
Speaker 1: hip hop category has been the dominant music genre on
Speaker 1: the US Billboard chart, becoming bigger than pop and rock.
Speaker 1: R and B and hip hop have really come to
Speaker 1: define modern popular music with the rain that hasn't led
Speaker 1: up since, growing in market percentages year over year and
Speaker 1: accounting for almost thirty percent of all on demand streams
Speaker 1: in the US the first first half of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: The R and B hip hop variety is still far
Speaker 1: and away the industry leader, producing new hits and superstars
Speaker 1: every day. Now, I do want to that comes from
Speaker 1: the library comngress again. Now, I do want to mention
Speaker 1: that this is not just an American thing. The same way
Speaker 1: that American music and culture was spread throughout the world
Speaker 1: later movies, the infrastructure that was built was on the
Speaker 1: back of jazz music. Jazz is another black art form,
Speaker 1: American black art form, as is rock and roll. It
Speaker 1: did not start with rock and roll, did not start
Speaker 1: with Elvis Presley. Many folks attributed to Chuck Berry on rightfullys.
Speaker 1: And but the point I'm making is that World War One,
Speaker 1: we sent our troops around the world. Those troops took
Speaker 1: jazz music, black American jazz music around the world, and
Speaker 1: then that turned the world onto American music, American culture,
Speaker 1: and American entertainment. And you know how you nowadays see
Speaker 1: black people's music being exported around the world. That started
Speaker 1: way back then, and it was through the military, sending
Speaker 1: our military around the world, and at different parts of
Speaker 1: the world. It got away from us, you know, but
Speaker 1: we are here to make sure that the story is
Speaker 1: told the right way that you know, one thing about
Speaker 1: black people I believe is very true is that we
Speaker 1: have no problem sharing our culture. What you and I
Speaker 1: always say is we don't mind if you eat from
Speaker 1: our table, just save us a seat. And I think
Speaker 1: that that is would be said about you know, black music,
Speaker 1: black culture, elements of black culture all around the world.
Speaker 1: We love sharing our culture. You know, I've as someone
Speaker 1: who's been around the world, que has been around the
Speaker 1: world two to see Black American culture celebrated in places
Speaker 1: where you wouldn't expect it to be celebrated. It's one
Speaker 1: of those few things that does give me some satisfaction
Speaker 1: and a little bit of hope that, you know, again,
Speaker 1: like Breonna Taylor, we weren't just born to die. We
Speaker 1: can be beautiful and strange for a few years and
Speaker 1: enjoy ourselves and smile and raise our children.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for allowing me to share the history
Speaker 1: of R and B with you, because music is something
Speaker 1: that is of course near and dirty cues in my
Speaker 1: heart as you as you may or may not know,
Speaker 1: where DJs and this is our background and we come
Speaker 1: from hip hop radio, so any chance we can talk
Speaker 1: about music, will take it.
Speaker 3: They love our rhythm. They, however, do not seem to
Speaker 3: love our loes.
Speaker 1: Okay, I knew something profound was coming. I had to
Speaker 1: pause for it. But yeah, you're not wrong there que anyway,
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for us here on Civic Cipher.
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Speaker 1: We bring it to you as it happens the streets.
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Speaker 1: What's happening?
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