Speaker 1: Call zone media. I actually think I remember this vividly now.
Speaker 1: Memory is a weird thing, obviously, well not obviously, but
Speaker 1: it's a weird thing. Sometimes our brains kind of fill
Speaker 1: in areas that are murky, and we just kind of
Speaker 1: like connect dots that weren't there. But I do know
Speaker 1: that a very significant chunk of my rearing was my
Speaker 1: father being very intentional in me and my sister understanding
Speaker 1: our blackness. We would back when the library would rent
Speaker 1: movies and they would be on VHS, and some of them,
Speaker 1: I feel like, would be probably wildly inappropriate for our age,
Speaker 1: others right on task, and sometimes they looked a little dated,
Speaker 1: you know, because they were older films, and you'd have
Speaker 1: to sort of suspend youry. It would be like if
Speaker 1: you showed your kids now the first Star Wars film,
Speaker 1: to where it's like, Okay, I know this isn't the
Speaker 1: quality of film you're used to, but just stay with us.
Speaker 1: So we would watch these different black films, the autobiography
Speaker 1: of Miss Jane Pittman. We'd watch Woman called Moses and
Speaker 1: that's a movie about Harriet Tubman. We watched Tutsie, we
Speaker 1: watched the Blaxploitation films, you know, the ones that again
Speaker 1: were relatively appropriate for five to eight year old. We
Speaker 1: watched Sounder, We watched just movies about slavery, freedom. I
Speaker 1: remember us sitting down and watching Roots, just things about blackness.
Speaker 1: We went to parades and every Sunday for a long time,
Speaker 1: we would hit an area called Lamert Park. Now y'all
Speaker 1: have heard me talk about Lamert Park. I even gave
Speaker 1: an episode called Every City Needs a Lamert Park. And
Speaker 1: it's just about this like neutral zone where we get
Speaker 1: to be black people really get to be full of
Speaker 1: theirselves in the Myrt Park. It's a great place in
Speaker 1: La Crenshaw District. But on Sunday they do drum circles.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: My father used to take us there and you'd see
Speaker 1: that sort of African diaspora, you know. They would do
Speaker 1: these drum circles and my father would take me there,
Speaker 1: and eventually when I became a teenager, you know, there
Speaker 1: was a thing called Project Blow that I talked about.
Speaker 1: There was jazz clubs there, anything if you wanted to
Speaker 1: go get some dope, jewelry, some incense.
Speaker 3: Shade, butter products, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: Blackness, the Myrt Park and then where I, you know,
Speaker 1: cut my teeth, learning how to freestyle, rap and battle
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, because it was just the center
Speaker 1: of in a lot of ways, the center of Los
Speaker 1: Angeles black arts. But also it would be the Juneteenth celebration.
Speaker 1: So I remember going to the parades, I remember participating.
Speaker 1: I remember buying licorice root you know you could do
Speaker 1: your googles, and walking around with my father seeing all
Speaker 1: the red, black and green flags, and I just knew
Speaker 1: this was a day of blackness. But I don't think
Speaker 1: I really knew what it was because again, it wasn't
Speaker 1: a national holiday.
Speaker 3: This felt like a holiday just for black folks.
Speaker 1: Like you didn't see nobody else there, and I didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily know. I had a June teenth T shirt. I
Speaker 1: knew it had something to do with being free in America.
Speaker 1: I also knew it had to do with the celebration
Speaker 1: of blackness. But I participated in June teenth long before
Speaker 1: I understood Juneteenth. And unfortunately, there's a lot of black
Speaker 1: kids out here who feel the same way that because
Speaker 1: it wasn't again, it wasn't a day nobody taught us
Speaker 1: in school. Nobody we learned about Martin Luther King, we
Speaker 1: didn't learn our history. So even all this, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: y'all figured it out now like white people ain't complaining
Speaker 1: about critical race theory no more.
Speaker 3: They'dne moved on the DEI work.
Speaker 1: But the point is for y'all to actually think we
Speaker 1: was learning anything about ourselves in school is laughable because
Speaker 1: I'm like, you went to you.
Speaker 3: Went to school with us.
Speaker 1: What made you think we knew anything about ourselves. Everything
Speaker 1: we knew about ourselves and our experience was taught outside
Speaker 1: of our schools. So I didn't really know what your
Speaker 1: kids was. I had to find out on my own.
Speaker 1: So now you're gonna learn what.
Speaker 3: It is hood politics. So welcome.
Speaker 1: Before I teach you all some things, let's talk about
Speaker 1: what's going on currently.
Speaker 3: Bull look is like this, BULLUK is like this, all right,
Speaker 3: this week's it's like this.
Speaker 1: So Hunter Biden is officially guilty and the takes have
Speaker 1: been kind of strange to me. I listen, the worst
Speaker 1: thing in the world to me is when you are
Speaker 1: in a situation where somebody's takes be so bad it
Speaker 1: got you defending lanes. You understand how many times I've
Speaker 1: had to say this is by no means a defense
Speaker 1: of the Biden family, Are they crime bosses?
Speaker 3: Come on, gee, you telling me that, You're telling me that.
Speaker 1: That large cheese pizza ass family is a crime like okay, No,
Speaker 1: they basic run of the mill rich kids. Homie got
Speaker 1: caught because rich kids be thinking they invincible. Homie had
Speaker 1: a terrible tragedy and like everybody else, ain't know how
Speaker 1: to cope. So he turned to the turned to the drugs,
Speaker 1: to the kokayina right, crack is cheap, you feel me,
Speaker 1: and tried to get himself a gun and his girl
Speaker 1: was like, nigga, hell now and got rid of it
Speaker 1: because she, like you ain't right, and he got caught.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is what it is like this. Granted,
Speaker 1: none of this stuff would be in the news if
Speaker 1: he wasn't a press son. But you know what, nigga,
Speaker 1: you are the president's son. It is what it is you. Yes, bro,
Speaker 1: you was guilty like I like nobody you have. I
Speaker 1: have no pushback on that. The pushback I got is
Speaker 1: the twenty five years. Come on, gee, for for lying
Speaker 1: on twenty five years is a lot now granted again,
Speaker 1: first time offender with the drug problem. Now another thing
Speaker 1: that got me like, man, don't make me defend This
Speaker 1: is the way that the left, I mean not the left.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this the okay, the left news. So
Speaker 1: the CNNs of the world are like, oh, man, we
Speaker 1: just see you know, you know, the Biden family just
Speaker 1: coming in and supporting your family, and you know, if
Speaker 1: you've ever dealt with addiction, and you know, like this
Speaker 1: is really a tragedy. Man, Okay, y'all Okay, Now, with
Speaker 1: y'all saying that when it was when it was somebody black,
Speaker 1: when it was somebody around getting railroaded over there over addiction,
Speaker 1: y'all wasn't saying that with that, y'all got nice when
Speaker 1: it was an opioid epidemic.
Speaker 3: That's when y'all got nice.
Speaker 1: So like, no, no, bring that same energy, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, actually the energy that should have never
Speaker 1: been brought in the first place. Let me keep it real,
Speaker 1: but like, let me be on my hating right now, Like,
Speaker 1: don't like y'all being too nice to this man.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Granted it's the niceness that we should have all been getting.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep keep coming back to that, but like,
Speaker 1: don't make me defend this boy.
Speaker 3: Guys twenty five years wow.
Speaker 1: Also, what's going on right now is this parliament, this
Speaker 1: European parliament election thing that I really don't understand. I'm sorry, y'all,
Speaker 1: let me keep it a buck. I need to learn
Speaker 1: a lot more or about whatever this voting process is
Speaker 1: and how they're saying it's turning to the right, when
Speaker 1: it seemed like the more I read they getting little
Speaker 1: more centered than anything. I was more worried about, you
Speaker 1: feel me when Lapin in them was on some like
Speaker 1: we need to leave the we need to leave Brexit
Speaker 1: and all that. Either way, I don't understand it. Anyway
Speaker 1: that's going on right now. So y'all hearing me tell
Speaker 1: you what my homework's finna because I don't understand. I
Speaker 1: don't understand their parliament at all. I got a parliament
Speaker 1: show coming up, but it's about the Kinnesset in.
Speaker 3: Israel to explain that.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, in what's going on, it's like this
Speaker 1: is choop of capital. Bro DJ Quick and problem got
Speaker 1: a record together and it's hard. All right, back to business.
Speaker 1: So what you may or may not have learned is
Speaker 1: about the Emancipation Proclamation. Right that President Abraham Lincoln, in
Speaker 1: a stroke of political genius, And I'll explain to you
Speaker 1: why this was political. Genius declared freedom to all of
Speaker 1: the slaves in the Confederate States. Now, if they had
Speaker 1: already seceeded, then America don't have no jurisdiction over those
Speaker 1: states because they rebel states.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: So it wasn't what like you're the deck deloration was
Speaker 1: a type of political maneuvering that allowed I don't know
Speaker 1: why I'm talking so slowly like this because I'm putting
Speaker 1: on my teacher hat here, but it allowed Linking to
Speaker 1: at least present a moral high ground. There is obviously
Speaker 1: no internet happening, so it's not like nor is there
Speaker 1: any television.
Speaker 3: It's not like.
Speaker 1: He could just call the press conference and let all
Speaker 1: of the country know this's what he doing. The word
Speaker 1: gotta spread much slower, right, So you do you make
Speaker 1: the magic pacent proclamation? Yea, Remember like the war's happening
Speaker 1: right now. People jump insides if you are if you're
Speaker 1: an African slave, and a Union army pull up and
Speaker 1: they like, you can fight for us, nigga, you are
Speaker 1: you gonna stay on that plantation?
Speaker 3: No? You were like, why would anyone do this?
Speaker 1: I think that it's important to remember, Like I'm getting
Speaker 1: ahead of myself, but I need you to remember like
Speaker 1: that emancipation wasn't like understand this, It wasn't just given
Speaker 1: to black people. We fought hard on the ground, shooting
Speaker 1: actual guns in the Union military while still not having
Speaker 1: the same rights and privileges of white Union soldiers. At
Speaker 1: least we wasn't slaves over here being promised our freedom
Speaker 1: if we fought in this war. It was like if
Speaker 1: there was any moment to put it all on the
Speaker 1: line and the risk at all, it would be for this.
Speaker 1: This was your shot. Like we like, what do we
Speaker 1: get to lose? I'm gonna die on this plantation or
Speaker 1: I'm a die fighting for our freedom. That was on
Speaker 1: one tier. On the other tier, you have somebody like
Speaker 1: Frederick Douglass, which we should do a whole story on
Speaker 1: Frederick Douglas going from slavery to freedom, teaching himself how
Speaker 1: to read and write, and please, if you get a chance,
Speaker 1: go look at his Fourth of July speech in him
Speaker 1: explaining like y'all calling this y'all's day of freedom, but
Speaker 1: you definitely not talking about us.
Speaker 3: How why would you expect any.
Speaker 1: Of us to celebrate the fourth of July. This ain't
Speaker 1: a day for us. We still slaves, right. Frederick Douglas's
Speaker 1: role in moving Abraham Lincoln from trying to save the
Speaker 1: Union to full abolitionist, it's Frederick Douglass. It's their friendship.
Speaker 1: It's him coming to the White House, being one of
Speaker 1: the first African American freemen to be in the White House,
Speaker 1: to explaining to him the moral conundrum that he is
Speaker 1: putting himself in by trying to threadn impossible needle. It
Speaker 1: was Frederick Douglas that was explaining to Lincoln that you
Speaker 1: are in your only solution is full abolition because you're
Speaker 1: dealing with people. You can't play cake. This is impossible
Speaker 1: to play cake. There is no ways for you to
Speaker 1: playcate this now at this point, you have heard the
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson episodes where the episodes that are on Behind
Speaker 1: the Bastards, where Jefferson worked very hard and turning himself
Speaker 1: into a pretzel and being able to articulately explain that
Speaker 1: what we are doing is in fact, morally beyond a
Speaker 1: shadow of a doubt evil, saying things like, yo, if
Speaker 1: God is as just as we say he is, then
Speaker 1: a day of reckoning is coming and God is not
Speaker 1: going to be on our side. We are wrong, turning
Speaker 1: himself into a pretzel and then trying at least can
Speaker 1: we stop importing new slaves like you like, knowing enough
Speaker 1: cognitively to know what he's doing is wrong, but can't
Speaker 1: get himself in actuality because the comforts that slavery gives
Speaker 1: you was too much for him to let go of.
Speaker 1: Plus he really like, he really liked that black pudding
Speaker 1: and all that. To say, the build up before we
Speaker 1: even got to war. I think it's something that has
Speaker 1: been flattened where there are stories of Lincoln trying to
Speaker 1: appeal to the moral compass, then he tried to appeal
Speaker 1: to the practical compass of the white population. Then he
Speaker 1: tried to appeal to the financial like, trying his best
Speaker 1: to make I don't know what to tell y'all to
Speaker 1: say that you need to stop doing this. And some
Speaker 1: of it was political theater, some of it was maneuvering
Speaker 1: that may not have necessarily done something. The Emancipation Proclamation
Speaker 1: was one of those strange things. Now, remember the thirteenth
Speaker 1: Amendment is what ended slavery, okay, which is not the
Speaker 1: emancipation Proclamation. However, having said that on January first, eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty three, the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, it
Speaker 1: was a document for which declared that quote, all persons
Speaker 1: held as slave within the rebellious States are and henceforth
Speaker 1: shall be free. So he just made this, he made
Speaker 1: this statement. Now, since even though they call themselves in rebellion,
Speaker 1: they are still a part of the Mountain, You still
Speaker 1: part of United That's still your president. You could pick
Speaker 1: jo Jefferson Davis as much as you won't. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, this proclamation again was a much
Speaker 1: more political than it actually was practical. The practical one
Speaker 1: was the thirteenth Amendment. Now with that, the freedom that
Speaker 1: we actually got was much more complicated. Now, even this
Speaker 1: particular proclamation, now before you get excited about it, like
Speaker 1: really understand what was happening. Okay, this proclamation didn't emancipate
Speaker 1: people in parts of Louisiana, in states of Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: West Virginia, even though each of those states they are
Speaker 1: already about slavery before the war was ended. They've already
Speaker 1: said we got to stop do this, stop doing that,
Speaker 1: even before the war was before the whole surrender before
Speaker 1: all that happened. Now, remember this is eighteen sixty three.
Speaker 1: The Civil War ain't over till eighteen sixty five. They
Speaker 1: still fighting for it. So remember this emancipation Proclamation. It's important,
Speaker 1: but it's a maneuver. But either way, at this point,
Speaker 1: according to the proclamation of the President, they done gave
Speaker 1: us free. Right. But like I said, ain't no internet.
Speaker 1: So how fast do you think this word traveled? And
Speaker 1: even before you think about how the word traveled, if
Speaker 1: you are a slave owning man, let's just let's just say,
Speaker 1: and you way out west and you get a telegram
Speaker 1: that says, hey, homie, the President said, you got to
Speaker 1: set everybody free. Now, Remember, ain't nobody on your campus
Speaker 1: can read, Nobody on this plantation can read, and you
Speaker 1: the only one with the mail. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: if you get your report card. They used to mail
Speaker 1: report cards when we was kids. If you get a
Speaker 1: letter home from school and they say to the parents
Speaker 1: of and you get the mail first, let's say it's
Speaker 1: on a Friday, is you really.
Speaker 3: Finna hand them that letter?
Speaker 1: At least wait till the weekend over, Like, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna tell them, I'm failing all my classes if I
Speaker 1: could stop them from knowing, Like, why would you tell?
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm not gonna tell y'all until I absolutely
Speaker 1: have to. My sister used to like again back when
Speaker 1: they used to mail report on my sister hit her
Speaker 1: report card all the time, Why the hell would I
Speaker 1: show you this? Absolutely not I'm not finna show you, right, So,
Speaker 1: the news didn't actually reach all of the Western States
Speaker 1: until much later. As a matter of fact, it was
Speaker 1: two years later. Matter of fact, they didn't even know
Speaker 1: the war was over. The war ended April nineteenth and
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five, but again, that was way over there
Speaker 1: in Virginia. That's where Robert Elite surrendered. How long you
Speaker 1: think it take word to go, especially a word that
Speaker 1: you don't want to get out mant to pace a
Speaker 1: proclamation in eighteen sixty three, we were supposed to be free,
Speaker 1: But it wasn't until June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, that
Speaker 1: Union troops under the commander of Major General Gordon Granger
Speaker 1: actually arrived in Galveston, Texas.
Speaker 3: That was the final city on June nineteen.
Speaker 1: When he got there and looked around and was like,
Speaker 1: what are y'all doing that? Can you imagine that? Can
Speaker 1: you imagine finding out till two years later you were
Speaker 1: supposed to be free, Like wait, wait, the war over?
Speaker 1: You still hoping and praying and calling all Jesus, hoping
Speaker 1: at this thing in and it's like, oh no, nigga's
Speaker 1: been done. What oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the war
Speaker 1: been done. Y'all could have left two years ago, nigga.
Speaker 3: What So?
Speaker 1: June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five marks the last plantation where
Speaker 1: the last slave was notified.
Speaker 3: That they was actually free.
Speaker 1: That is why we call it June teenth. And I
Speaker 1: don't know why it's not called June nineteenth, but probably
Speaker 1: some sort of Southern something. But June nineteenth is the
Speaker 1: day that eighteen sixty five is the day that we celebrate.
Speaker 1: We don't celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation. Hell, will't really even
Speaker 1: celebrate the thirteenth Amendment. We celebrate June nineteenth. It's when
Speaker 1: the last of us was able to leave that plantation.
Speaker 1: There's even stories of Lincoln going up and down the
Speaker 1: coast trying to tell everybody.
Speaker 3: Like, hey, it's over ya, y'all free? What? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Nik can go home now? Now again, let's just say
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to humanize the moment. Let's just be
Speaker 1: I think there was a Dave Chappelle skit. Let's just
Speaker 1: say somebody walks up to your plantation while you are
Speaker 1: actively beating the snot out of some man and.
Speaker 3: Says, hey, uh, hey they free.
Speaker 1: Now you know you can't this outlawed, You can't do
Speaker 1: this no more?
Speaker 3: Like wait, what.
Speaker 1: While you gotta whip in your hand and everybody watching
Speaker 1: you beat the snot out of this man, wouldn't you
Speaker 1: be terrified? Like, Oh, I just I wonder what that
Speaker 1: last moment was, Like, uh, what what do we?
Speaker 3: What do we?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: What do we?
Speaker 3: What do we? What do we? Really? Sorry about that?
Speaker 2: Bro?
Speaker 1: No, man, you're gonna you're gonna try to fight it.
Speaker 1: You're trying to be like you know, you're gonna like
Speaker 1: still try to exert your power because what they honestly
Speaker 1: believe was if we let let them free, a race
Speaker 1: war will start. They are going to do to us
Speaker 1: what we did to them, and you know they lucky.
Speaker 3: Black people love Jesus And this is biperia.
Speaker 1: You have to remember, and I'm going to reiterate this
Speaker 1: a little later, that the spiritual foundation of black people
Speaker 1: in this time is a big reason why there wasn't
Speaker 1: a slaughter. Now, remember Nat Turner was a pastor, and
Speaker 1: the slaughter that you know, white people were so worried
Speaker 1: about is not ununderstandable. But I'm gonna argue was bridled.
Speaker 1: He believed he was on a mission from God. That
Speaker 1: man was in his mind obeying Jesus and demanding the
Speaker 1: freedom from him of his people and tossing off the
Speaker 1: shackles of his oppressors. He's looking at the same Bible
Speaker 1: you're looking at and being like, I don't think y'all
Speaker 1: supposed to do this to us. But the next step,
Speaker 1: some of you may already know, after Juneteenth, after the
Speaker 1: end of slavery, was supposed to be reconstruction. And reconstruction
Speaker 1: is a much longer conversation, but it was the process
Speaker 1: of trying to put the world back together. Now, if
Speaker 1: you could go back to the Lost Cause Myths episodes,
Speaker 1: that'll tell you a lot more about how reconstruction worked,
Speaker 1: as far as like if there had to be martial
Speaker 1: law down there, because again, everybody terrified that we're finna
Speaker 1: light the world up right, how do you integrate these
Speaker 1: people into a system that was already designed to hold
Speaker 1: them back, figured out ways, we started voting. We started
Speaker 1: electing just hundreds and hundreds of black people to office,
Speaker 1: and then that's when the Black Code started. But I'm
Speaker 1: moving on too far into the future. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to this moment in eighteen sixty five. So Granger and
Speaker 1: his men went from street to street and they were
Speaker 1: just yelling out, Hey, the people of Texas are informed that,
Speaker 1: in accordance with the proclamation from the Executive of the
Speaker 1: United States, all slaves are free. Just going just yelling,
Speaker 1: like since there ain't no internet, they just going door
Speaker 1: to door, like, hey day free, y'all can't do this
Speaker 1: no more. Now, there's a lot of great, great, great,
Speaker 1: great places where you can look up and again, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hit you to a documentary.
Speaker 1: That I was a part of a little later, but
Speaker 1: the Jack Miller Center, the African American History Museum in DC. Like,
Speaker 1: there's so many places you could see all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But according to the Jack Miller Center dot org, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read this to you. Between nineteen thirty six and
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty eight, the Federal Writers Project So Interesting conducted
Speaker 1: interviews with twenty three hundred former slaves who were still living.
Speaker 1: This included a number of them who lived in Texas
Speaker 1: when they received word of the proclamation in June nineteenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen six or eighteen sixty five. Since that was the
Speaker 1: day that the last of the ex slaves learned of
Speaker 1: the poclaation, June nineteenth was chosen to be celebrated as
Speaker 1: June teenth. The emancipation had left an inevitable mark on
Speaker 1: all those former slaves who were interviewed by the Federal
Speaker 1: Writers Project. For example, please remember this name purely. Coleman
Speaker 1: was freed on June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, and shared
Speaker 1: his first experience of freedom when he was interviewed on
Speaker 1: June nineteenth, nineteen thirty seven. He remembered his owner telling
Speaker 1: him and the other enslaved men working on the field
Speaker 1: that you're all as free as I am, and the
Speaker 1: men began shouting and singing in celebration. Now, although many
Speaker 1: African Americans have rejoiced that the first June tenth, they
Speaker 1: also experienced a lot of uncertainty of what that freedom meant.
Speaker 3: Margaret Nilman, she was also interviewed in this thing. Now.
Speaker 3: She was out in Fourth Worth.
Speaker 1: She talked about how the freedom brought an absolute explosion
Speaker 1: of violence against African Americans, a lot of them who
Speaker 1: were shot, tortured, and lynched by the hands of the
Speaker 1: Klan because the clan immediately was formed right after we
Speaker 1: got set free, right, And then it led to the
Speaker 1: question of like, dog, is this what freedom is? Is
Speaker 1: this what like if we just get enslaved, did we
Speaker 1: just get freed from being enslaved to just being hunted
Speaker 1: right after? Are we even really free? It's a weird
Speaker 1: way to exist. And nonetheless, none of that takes away
Speaker 1: from the beauty of that last day, where that last
Speaker 1: black face was able to walk away from an institution
Speaker 1: that America has yet to fully reckon with.
Speaker 3: And now we had.
Speaker 1: Parades and as of June of twenty twenty one, it
Speaker 1: was finally recognized as a national holiday.
Speaker 3: But it's also a.
Speaker 1: Very complicated one because we're still talking about reparations. There
Speaker 1: were wrongs that were never made right, whether we're talking about, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Homestead Act, and like I said, like I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: you know, redlining and mass incarceration.
Speaker 3: These things that.
Speaker 1: The experience of the African American as That's why I
Speaker 1: say it's complicated, as no parts of me would ever
Speaker 1: want to live in any other era as a black
Speaker 1: man in America.
Speaker 3: Like, let me not be foolish. There's still some wrongs
Speaker 3: that have not been made right. The you know, the.
Speaker 1: And of course, like changed behavior is important, you know,
Speaker 1: but the repairing of the breach, which is what reparations
Speaker 1: is about, Like you're repairing the things that were taken,
Speaker 1: and rather than seeing that sort of repair for what
Speaker 1: we went through, we just continue to see an.
Speaker 3: Evolving version.
Speaker 1: Of the type of oppression that we experienced in So
Speaker 1: this is why I say complicated. Yes, the institution discourage
Speaker 1: of slavery has been removed from our laws, but the
Speaker 1: discussion among black people is like, yo, are we truly
Speaker 1: free in the sense that was this wrong made right?
Speaker 1: The reason why we can say that is because you
Speaker 1: still needed a civil rights movement, you still needed a
Speaker 1: Black Panther movement, you still needed a Black Lives Matter movement.
Speaker 1: You know, they're there. These things still needed to happen.
Speaker 1: And of course, you know, people don't change overnight. But
Speaker 1: my god, that was eighteen sixty five, y'all, like come on,
Speaker 1: So yeah, So that's what also what makes this holiday
Speaker 1: complicated is that it just kind of doesn't feel complete
Speaker 1: in to the extent that it could be. And of
Speaker 1: course I don't have to tell you.
Speaker 3: That I am not.
Speaker 1: Saying I am not grateful for the completion of of Juneteenth.
Speaker 1: But again, I don't know if I've said this already
Speaker 1: or I'm going to say it later on.
Speaker 3: In this thing, like.
Speaker 1: All the rights we have as black people, we fought for,
Speaker 1: like they were not given. We had to force them
Speaker 1: out of the hands of the clenched fists of the nation.
Speaker 3: We to pry our liberties out of their hands.
Speaker 1: So just I don't know, I still celebrate Juneteenth because
Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, slavery's over. Some tips I would
Speaker 1: like to give you one of which may seem like
Speaker 1: it's a little far fetched, but I need you to
Speaker 1: understand this. It's can any of y'all say the word
Speaker 1: nigga that's.
Speaker 2: Nice even or not.
Speaker 1: The realities of what it meant to be a slave
Speaker 1: descendant in this country as a black person in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways still sits in our bones because of reconstruction,
Speaker 1: because of mass incarceration, redlining, all types of ways for
Speaker 1: which the country attempted to keep us as deeply as
Speaker 1: they as much as they possibly can disenfranchised, and how
Speaker 1: every step of freedom and liberty we had was not
Speaker 1: given to us. We fought for it, and the ways
Speaker 1: for which we were able to sort of judo our oppression,
Speaker 1: sometimes into beauty, making treasure out of trash, empowering ourselves,
Speaker 1: taking things that were meant for evil to use Bible,
Speaker 1: you know, God turned around for good, one of which
Speaker 1: is nigga, which might be a bigger discussion later. I
Speaker 1: guess it's all tied to Juneteenth. Is again a lot
Speaker 1: of times we're in places where black people are being
Speaker 1: free to be themselves, which means we gonna say nigga
Speaker 1: a lot among each other. And the question that some
Speaker 1: of y'all may ask is when is it appropriate for
Speaker 1: a non black person to say nigga? I mean, the
Speaker 1: short answer is never, But obviously it's more nuanced than that, because,
Speaker 1: first of all, we don't even agree among ourselves whether
Speaker 1: it is or is not appropriate, or when is the time?
Speaker 1: And in front of what company, won't even agree on.
Speaker 3: Who's black Like. There's so much nuance there.
Speaker 1: And I think that if you go back again to
Speaker 1: the discussion with culture and who wasn't a side like
Speaker 1: why we said we didn't want to hear Drake not
Speaker 1: we didn't want to hear Drake say nigga no more obvious.
Speaker 3: Well maybe not obviously. It has nothing to do with colorism.
Speaker 3: It's not that. It's culture.
Speaker 1: The history and the baggage of what it meant to
Speaker 1: be hard are nigga like. It sits in our bones
Speaker 1: and it's something that we know even currently, were we
Speaker 1: be transfixed to a different time, what it would mean.
Speaker 1: So there's this understanding that when I look at this
Speaker 1: person and this black man is black woman across from me,
Speaker 1: I know the ways for which they would have suffered
Speaker 1: because I would have suffered the same way were we
Speaker 1: in the environment that our ancestors were in. Because again
Speaker 1: j Cole is Justice light skin, red men, light skin,
Speaker 1: Meth method Man's light skin. They're all very fair skinned men,
Speaker 1: Clay Steph, there's no question about their blackness because there's
Speaker 1: a cultural understanding of who and what and how. That
Speaker 1: is a little more like we said that the boundaries
Speaker 1: are more gray than we would like to admit. But again,
Speaker 1: it's not his color that is keeping us away from that.
Speaker 1: It's an understanding of our experience. Let me give you
Speaker 1: an example as somebody who's actually black, you know, and
Speaker 1: I say that, of course with big air quotes, like
Speaker 1: there's never any question.
Speaker 3: Like sometimes I know a.
Speaker 1: Lot of Puerto Rican people that have to like prove
Speaker 1: they're like no, seriously, like I'm black. Look at this nose.
Speaker 1: Let me show you a picture of my auntie. Let
Speaker 1: me show your picture my grandfather. Let me show your
Speaker 1: picture of this. I'm like, okay, if you have to
Speaker 1: go out of your way, now, this is my opinion,
Speaker 1: you have to go out of your way to prove
Speaker 1: to me that you are as black as you say
Speaker 1: you are. That should give you pause as to how
Speaker 1: freely you speak, because it's not necessarily about the right
Speaker 1: or privilege to use a certain term. It's about an
Speaker 1: shared experience. In my view, the reality is there are
Speaker 1: in every hood in America, there's a white family who
Speaker 1: grew up right alongside us. Who you from the black
Speaker 1: part of town. Your parents just like worked at the
Speaker 1: right factory and they made friends with this family. Some
Speaker 1: of y'all grew up with us. I know down South
Speaker 1: there's men that go y'all, little boys, y'all go mudding
Speaker 1: y'all learned that that was the thing and the whole
Speaker 1: time in your truck, you banging three six mafia, it's
Speaker 1: gonna rub off. You're gonna start talking the way your
Speaker 1: friends and your rappers talk. Now again, like I said,
Speaker 1: the jury is still out among black people how often
Speaker 1: when we should say nigga and if it's appropriate, But
Speaker 1: we say it among ourselves because we understand that nuance. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe in your circle of friends, offline, among each other,
Speaker 1: you've been given a pass. But to me, and here's
Speaker 1: my advice if you are one of those, to me,
Speaker 1: it is not something that you should fight to defend
Speaker 1: if you truly understand our experience.
Speaker 3: What am I saying by that?
Speaker 1: Like I have some friends of mine who are certified
Speaker 1: be Fellon crips gang members, hold low riding driving de Cambodian.
Speaker 1: You would only know if you saw them they are
Speaker 1: black as hell. The way they carry themselves. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: have no idea. You would be like, oh, and I'm
Speaker 1: some pretty strange some brown niggas over there, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Like that's what you would think because
Speaker 1: they black as hell, and even them in my presence,
Speaker 1: who they say nigga among each other, and I know
Speaker 1: they do, but they understand the black experience well enough
Speaker 1: to know that, like, out of respect for you and
Speaker 1: what you've gone through, I'm not going to talk to
Speaker 1: you that. I'm not going to assume that I can
Speaker 1: speak that freely now among theyhood among They said, that's different.
Speaker 1: That's something that they need to discuss. And probably them
Speaker 1: niggas that put them on gave them that particular pass.
Speaker 1: But that's not They understand our experience well enough to
Speaker 1: know that even though they from the field, they put
Speaker 1: in more work than I did, still they understand that
Speaker 1: I am, in fact they black men and they are not.
Speaker 1: They are Asian men, and they understand that. And that
Speaker 1: respect is to me the reason why they have a card,
Speaker 1: and the fact that they understand that I should lay
Speaker 1: that card down.
Speaker 3: It's not. It's actually the more I understand about your experience,
Speaker 3: the more I know that just doesn't really have it
Speaker 3: has no business coming out of my mouth because I
Speaker 3: didn't as much as as much as I've been around y'all,
Speaker 3: as much as the odd is just how I talk,
Speaker 3: I understand I personally grew.
Speaker 1: Up, you guys know, in a Latino community. I speak
Speaker 1: a lot of better Spanish than a lot of my
Speaker 1: Latino friends. I know there are some things that, even
Speaker 1: though I may have a better understanding in them, it's
Speaker 1: not my place because it's not my experience. So to me,
Speaker 1: if you feel like you have the right to defend,
Speaker 1: if you're not black, and you feel like you have
Speaker 1: the right to defend or the need to defend your
Speaker 1: right to say to say nigga, I feel like you
Speaker 1: missing a point and you really don't understand us.
Speaker 3: I feel like that is proof that you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: In my mind, among homies, people give each other passes,
Speaker 1: and who am I to talk about your friendship because.
Speaker 3: Listen, among my homies, there are a lot of non.
Speaker 1: Black people say nigg and they say it to me,
Speaker 1: but we are talking among ourselves. They all know better
Speaker 1: than to talk like that to my brother, or to
Speaker 1: my sister, or to my cousins, or like they know
Speaker 1: better because they understand that this is very relational. And
Speaker 1: I understand y'all's experience well enough. So when you get
Speaker 1: that close, that much proximity, you don't you understand, is
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to get at. So should white people
Speaker 1: say nigga. Like again, I mean, you should black people
Speaker 1: say nigga. I'm just saying, the more you truly understand us,
Speaker 1: the more you'll be able to answer that question yourself. Now,
Speaker 1: having said all that, New York is an entirely different planet,
Speaker 1: like I have no idea what to do.
Speaker 3: They done already made their decisions.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that the Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, they have all the
Speaker 1: rights and privileges of black people. At least the New
Speaker 1: Eurekans are like the Dominican Americans because a lot of
Speaker 1: times the Dominicans be black as hell, look black as me.
Speaker 1: But when they're immigrant, when they're like first gin, they're like,
Speaker 1: I know black, I ain't know black, Like they don't
Speaker 1: want to be black because they understand that, like to
Speaker 1: be black in America is to be at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the wrongs.
Speaker 3: So but they were like, nigga, you black as hell?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's a whole other discussion that I'm not
Speaker 1: equipped to talk about, because New York's a whole different planet.
Speaker 1: If you ain't one of them, you should consider the
Speaker 1: things I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: For this last part, I want to answer some questions
Speaker 1: or a question I get from the collection of the
Speaker 1: diaspora of the boiled chicken people, the people that don't
Speaker 1: season air food or wash their legs.
Speaker 3: I love y'all.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you do season your chicken
Speaker 1: and wash your legs, but that's probably because you met
Speaker 1: us start using wash cloth. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this
Speaker 1: is unfair. I'm just popping off because it's Juneteenth and blackness. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the questions you guys often ask me, and I think
Speaker 1: it's very genuine. How do you celebrate Juneteenth? What is
Speaker 1: the most appropriate thing to do?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: I understand this question for a number of reasons, probably
Speaker 1: because all the stuff we just went through in what
Speaker 1: is Juneteenth, and that the fact that it's only been
Speaker 1: a national holiday for two years now, right, it's a
Speaker 1: holiday that wasn't official, but it was.
Speaker 3: It was kind of a holiday.
Speaker 1: It's like a holiday light We had parades, you know,
Speaker 1: Black people celebrated it in certain ways where we went
Speaker 1: and just did really black stuff. But yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I get it. Your issue is let me first reflect
Speaker 1: the issue. Let me catch everybody up to like the
Speaker 1: issue that they're probably coming at this as it's at
Speaker 1: least white Americans, because this is obviously a uniquely American celebration.
Speaker 1: America tends to suck all the meaning out of their holidays,
Speaker 1: like and especially ones that have to do with somebody
Speaker 1: else's culture, Like do you really understand Cinco Demayo? Do
Speaker 1: you know that this is not Mexican independence, like that
Speaker 1: this had to do with the war against the Friend.
Speaker 3: Do you understand that?
Speaker 1: Do you understand that in Mexico this is like this
Speaker 1: Sinkle de Mayo barely is a blip on the calendar.
Speaker 1: The independence is in September. That's that's when they go off.
Speaker 1: And if your idea of celebrating it is cosplay, y'all
Speaker 1: be putting on some breros and and making incredibly nasty nachos,
Speaker 1: you know, and your little and your little taco bars.
Speaker 1: For some reason, somebody told y'all ground beef belongs in
Speaker 1: a taco. Like it's just just everything's wrong. You called
Speaker 1: it sinko, They drinko. You're just gonna go get drunk,
Speaker 1: which is in your defense what you do for Saint
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day, Like, y'all just you just don't know how
Speaker 1: to suprate. You just suck all the meaning out of
Speaker 1: holidays Easter is like, I mean, it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: a religious one, but what are you doing Easter? You
Speaker 1: just you just watch sports and just like Thanksgiving is
Speaker 1: Turkey Day, you just eat and watch college football, Like
Speaker 1: there's the meaning is always secondary to you.
Speaker 3: Church, what's the fourth version? Quadr? I don't know.
Speaker 1: They just don't have Chrispin doesn't mean any what's the
Speaker 1: true spirit of Christ? Every movie you watch about the truth,
Speaker 1: none of it has to do Like Halloween is just
Speaker 1: spooky day, like you just you just dress up like
Speaker 1: that's what y'all do, Like your holidays have no meaning,
Speaker 1: and you, for some reason think it's okay to cosplay
Speaker 1: stuff that comes from other cultures like that, you just
Speaker 1: and the problem is if you cosplay black stuff, it's blackface.
Speaker 1: You look like a menstrual show. You can't you cannot win.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes black people really just be like we
Speaker 1: just want a day where we ain't got what's called
Speaker 1: a white gaze. Do y'all know what the white it's Listen,
Speaker 1: if you a female, you understand the white gaze because
Speaker 1: it's the same as the male gaze. Like y'all just
Speaker 1: can't do nothing without eyes on you.
Speaker 3: You understand.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you understand that ladies just at the club
Speaker 1: just trying to dance with their homegirls, and y'all just
Speaker 1: and a lot of time women just are some Some
Speaker 1: women just be comfortable in their body and they dance
Speaker 1: because they can dance.
Speaker 3: And you just enjoying yourselves.
Speaker 1: You don't want an arbitrary penis just leaned up against
Speaker 1: you, you know what I'm saying, Like, I get it, Like
Speaker 1: you dancing to be sexy because you dancing to be sexy,
Speaker 1: not because you need eyes on you. I understand that.
Speaker 1: I throw parties. I understand this. Sometimes sometimes you want attention,
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't. And it's up to us to understand
Speaker 1: us as in cisgendered men, to understand which is which
Speaker 1: you dancing with your girls, you dancing with your girls.
Speaker 1: I get it, that's what y'all need sometimes. Like and
Speaker 1: I know I'm a male, I'm a little different, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I don't look at the homies and be like we
Speaker 3: need to just go.
Speaker 1: Dance like I just that just that just don't that's
Speaker 1: not something that happens. Like I'm just saying, like that's
Speaker 1: not natural to me. Yeah, it's not that unless we
Speaker 1: like going to see some like break dancers like on
Speaker 1: some B boy stuff, or it's just like, yo, we're
Speaker 1: trying to kill a cipher. That's different. But I'm not
Speaker 1: going to the club dance in a circle with my homeboys.
Speaker 1: I'd be I'm a married man now, so it's different.
Speaker 1: But like most of the time, it was to try
Speaker 1: to catch a glimpse of some nicely shaped females, like
Speaker 1: that was the goal. Anyway, you don't want the male gaze,
Speaker 1: is the point, just like sometimes we don't want the
Speaker 1: white gays. Sometimes we just want times but we just
Speaker 1: don't want to explain ourselves. And then other times we
Speaker 1: be telling y'all, man, learn something, go learn about our culture.
Speaker 1: Don't be looking at us explain. So you like, okay,
Speaker 1: well guess I'll pull up to come understand what's happening.
Speaker 1: So I'm at the Quanta celebration. You the only white girl.
Speaker 1: You got your Nigerian you know, head wrap on, and
Speaker 1: now we're judging you for like I get it, you
Speaker 1: can't win. It seemed like y'all don't know how to
Speaker 1: just enjoy stuff without like you be in your head.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that's why I feel like while y'all y'all just
Speaker 1: don't dance that well. Now I'm just saying is again
Speaker 1: these are gross generalities. It's because y'all just be in
Speaker 1: y'all head. And I understand sometimes you in your head
Speaker 1: because you got such history of messing up.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 1: Now here's some suggestions I know that every year. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you an example. We live in a part
Speaker 1: of town very close to Asian communities. I live in
Speaker 1: an area called Boyle Heights. To the west of me
Speaker 1: is downtown right like right across like eight minutes away
Speaker 1: and connected to downtown is Chinatown, a little Tokyo. The
Speaker 1: other direction you got East LA. But the north side
Speaker 1: of East La is a city called Monterey Park. Now,
Speaker 1: if you've seen The Brother's Son, it took place over there.
Speaker 1: So it's a largely Asian, specifically Chinese space. So every
Speaker 1: year for Chinese New Year, they have a parade, and
Speaker 1: you know what we do, We just go and watch.
Speaker 1: I don't wear no costume, I don't have my kids
Speaker 1: dress up, don't. We don't throw themed parties at the house.
Speaker 1: I'm not mixing culture like where there's like geishas here,
Speaker 1: like you know, like, it's pretty simple. They pass out
Speaker 1: the little envelopes for the kids, got like twenty dollars
Speaker 1: in I let my baby go get one of those.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: They usually have like little shrines or exhibits set up.
Speaker 1: We walk through, we look at the exhibits, we read
Speaker 1: the things, get some dim sum, and go home. It's
Speaker 1: not that hard. I don't have to put together. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is get out your head. It's not hard.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there's a parade somewhere. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: there's a music festival. Crenshaw in LA does the you know,
Speaker 1: the La Mirt Park Rising during June teen. There's usually
Speaker 1: an MLK parade out here too, which is in January.
Speaker 1: Of course, a different thing, which I'm usually telling you
Speaker 1: don't go to that because at least in La, it
Speaker 1: almost always gets shot up, so don't do that. But now,
Speaker 1: the Lamurt Park Rising is a music fest, and of course,
Speaker 1: like sometimes that might be a little two turned for you.
Speaker 3: I get it. But if you're in the hip hop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just go down there, get some jerk chicken. You
Speaker 1: can visit a museum, barbecue, stay home. In Oklahoma they
Speaker 1: do a June teeth on the East. It's a festival
Speaker 1: I performed at many times. There's a whole lot of vendors,
Speaker 1: whole lot of blackness. It's not that you're not welcome.
Speaker 1: Of course, you're welcome. Go see the show on the
Speaker 1: Juneteenth on the East they got a booth with cigars.
Speaker 1: They do a car show. There's like motorcycles. Everybody we
Speaker 1: loud and black and you just we're just enjoying ourselves.
Speaker 1: We're being ourselves. We're being It's not that you're not welcome,
Speaker 1: but don't come in a day shiki Like, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say, Like, you can participate in something
Speaker 1: without cose playing it if you want to go learn.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure leading up to that, like, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure in every city there is some sort of Afro
Speaker 1: studies department that you know what I'm saying, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure there's some sort of documentaries you can watch. Matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I am going to link in this show
Speaker 1: a documentary that I'm a part of. I'm not in it,
Speaker 1: but I did a part of the soundtrack. It's about Juneteenth.
Speaker 1: It's called June teenth, Faith and Freedom. It's on YouTube,
Speaker 1: you can look it up. It's about an hour long.
Speaker 1: A lot of my friends worked on it. Now it's
Speaker 1: put together by this thing called Voices, which is a
Speaker 1: partnership of this extremely Christian organization called The Daily Now,
Speaker 1: before that turns you off or maybe turns you on,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but before you draw any conclusions about
Speaker 1: the fact that this is definitely faith based, it's because
Speaker 1: abolition was.
Speaker 3: It's because the Civil Rights movement was.
Speaker 1: If some of y'all got evangelical baggage, and I totally
Speaker 1: understand it, that you have that Black church with all
Speaker 1: of its problems and we got them is very different.
Speaker 1: The Black Church, for most of the time that this
Speaker 1: has been a country, has been the moral compass. It's
Speaker 1: been the conscious of the country. It's been Black church.
Speaker 1: That's where we've organized, where we've strategized, has caused movements,
Speaker 1: the civil rights movement, you know, and even if it's
Speaker 1: not even and sometimes like it just church period, you know,
Speaker 1: like even if we're talking about like the Nation of
Speaker 1: Islam or or you know, Muslim communities, we're talking the
Speaker 1: Hebrew Israelites, which is a sect of sort of a
Speaker 1: black version of a type of anyway, we'd be a
Speaker 1: whole other conversation about the Hebrew's lights. But either way,
Speaker 1: faith spaces has been where black people have organized the
Speaker 1: whole entire time. So you cannot from the civil rights movement.
Speaker 1: You cannot extract the Baptist Church from the civil rights movement.
Speaker 1: And it's the same with Juneteenth. You cannot extract the
Speaker 1: role the church played, specifically the Black church, from the
Speaker 1: abolition of slavery.
Speaker 3: It's just impossible.
Speaker 1: So the people to tell this story in its totality
Speaker 1: are these people. I understand that, like the lines between
Speaker 1: sacred and secular for other cultures might not be as
Speaker 1: blurry as are, but for us, it's like you couldn't
Speaker 1: because we face such such such deep oppression in the nation.
Speaker 1: It was impossible to exist in this nation without some
Speaker 1: sort of spiritual foundation, and that out of that spiritual foundation,
Speaker 1: out of that tradition of Moses and the children of
Speaker 1: Israel being freed from Egyptian slavery and like that, it
Speaker 1: was hard for us to not see ourselves in that,
Speaker 1: and that be a part of the way for which
Speaker 1: we understand our existence in this country.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, obviously every black person ain't no Christian, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Or come from that. But what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is that faith is in some way. That's
Speaker 1: why I mentioned Nation of Islam was you know, and
Speaker 1: five percenters Hebrew is Arelite. Just the church, mosque, temple,
Speaker 1: synagogue has always been a place where we've organized.
Speaker 3: So anyway, look at the doc. Teach your kids. Go
Speaker 3: gets a barbecue.
Speaker 1: Like some of y'all weirdos have gone down to Gettysburg before.
Speaker 3: Well, go to Galveston.
Speaker 1: Now, if there's no parade, there's probably some sort of
Speaker 1: like community like flea market or street fair somewhere in
Speaker 1: the black neighborhood in your town. And if you ain't
Speaker 1: got one in your town, go find one. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure in the rural list of areas, if you drive
Speaker 1: a little bit further, you're gonna find some black people,
Speaker 1: right and just go visit again.
Speaker 3: You don't have to overdo it. You don't have to.
Speaker 1: Don't corner no old black dude. You know, you gonna
Speaker 1: find some You're gonna find some hoteps. You're gonna find
Speaker 1: some brother omar's that umar that feel like you ain't
Speaker 1: got no right to be there, And that's cool. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about that. You know, every black community got the overwoke.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you got to be able to read
Speaker 1: the room and respect the place. Like there has been
Speaker 1: times that I've had to read the room listen. I
Speaker 1: have two daughters, and one of the one of the
Speaker 1: oddest moments is if each of my daughters have a
Speaker 1: friend over and then some of my wife's friends come over.
Speaker 1: There's ten women in my house, and sometimes my teenage daughter,
Speaker 1: when she was younger, she would have, you know, girls
Speaker 1: spend the night. And I don't know if you know
Speaker 1: how Now again, these are grossy and I'm just saying
Speaker 1: this is my experience between my sisters and my daughters
Speaker 1: and my wife. Like girls just they y'all just be
Speaker 1: like in y'all draws and just going to the bathroom
Speaker 1: and y'all shower while you talking and having conversations and
Speaker 1: just it's the I'm like, I don't it's like y'all
Speaker 1: treat the house like a locker room. Like y'all just well,
Speaker 1: y'all that comfy with each other. I just I you know,
Speaker 1: they my daughter are homegirl, they share bed. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just don't.
Speaker 3: We didn't. I we just don't do that.
Speaker 1: So at that point I'd be like, I know I
Speaker 1: live here, I know I have a right to be here,
Speaker 1: but I should probably Sometimes when the older ones and
Speaker 1: my wife has friends over and they're discussing, they're teaching
Speaker 1: the little ones, you know, things to do about their
Speaker 1: menstrual cycle, how to prepare for this. So that means
Speaker 1: my wife's professional, unbelievably attractive homegirl who I've never thought
Speaker 1: about as anything other than just my wife's homegirl, are
Speaker 1: now talking about their period. It's probably time for me
Speaker 1: to go. They didn't have to tell me. I'm just
Speaker 1: like this, all this seems I should probably walk away.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying you, Jo Antennas, there are probably times
Speaker 1: white people when you can understand that, like the conversation
Speaker 1: is probably not for me, and if not, it maybe
Speaker 1: take some black people with you to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should probably should probably walk away from this. Just
Speaker 1: ask me the questions, just read the room. That's that's
Speaker 1: my advice. But all in all, guys, listen, it's a
Speaker 1: great thing to celebrate. It's a moment where our country
Speaker 1: got it right. There's probably a parade you could participate
Speaker 1: without cause playing and just enjoy the day, barbecue and
Speaker 1: celebrate with us.
Speaker 3: I hope that helps. And please, please, please, I'm speaking
Speaker 3: specifically to the white women. Don't try to learn no
Speaker 3: African dances. Don't go get your hair braided. Just I'm
Speaker 3: begging you. Don't go get your hair braided. Please, do
Speaker 3: not try to learn no African I'm begging you. Just
Speaker 3: go watch the sisters.
Speaker 1: And maybe if one of them want to pull you
Speaker 1: to the side and show you how to do something
Speaker 1: that's different, let them lead the way.
Speaker 4: Okay, just I'm begging you. Hood politics.
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Speaker 1: let nobody lie to you. If you understand urban living,
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Speaker 3: These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
Speaker 3: next week.