WEBVTT - Buy Black 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.120 Welcome to Carefully Reckless, the production of Our Heart Radio 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:20.640 and the Black Effect. And just like that, we're back 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.720 on the air. Welcome to yet another episode of Carefully Reckless. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.560 It's your Girl. Just hilarious. And this topic will forever 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.720 be debatable because if it's one thing our people, meaning 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.760 the black community, likes to do, it's go toe to toe, 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.960 flow with the flow, and they love to debate on ship. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.760 So grab your tea in your halls because it's story 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:44.080 time today. I got two stories, very interesting. The first one, 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.000 I was sitting at a black owned restaurant beautiful. I'm 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.920 talking about superb. The ambiance is everything. It's in Baltimore City, 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:55.440 downtown near Harbor East, right. It's called Black Swan b 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.120 l K Swan. Now, Black Swan has only been open 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.280 for a matter of weeks and they're already booked up 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.360 with reservations all throughout the summer. So it's hard to 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.040 get in there unless you jest him saying, unless you 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.959 get care But y'all ain't me, so y'all gonna get 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.720 in at the end of this year. Right. So I'm 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.480 sitting there, I'm chilling. It's a table next to me 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.679 full of females. Now they know who I am, they speak, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.440 we take pictures. Everything's cool, But I hear them running 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.360 their mouth about the prices of the food. This is 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.080 what the girl said, verbatim. Who the funk they think 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.839 gonna pay forty two dollars for a salmon? Nobody's paying 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:30.920 forty two dollars from the salmon, Like I'm not doing it. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.280 They're tripping. They're tripping her home girl said, what the 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.039 type ship? Day on? It's thirteen dollars for a shot 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.640 of Henny. Now listen, I said there, I ate my food. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.679 I ain't say ship. You know I'm not too nosy 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.920 because I listen, I've been there before as well, just 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.680 not in a black owned restaurant. I say this ship 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.440 about white restaurants. The funk I'm talking about five star 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.160 Michelin restaurants. I say this ship. But nevertheless, I've been there, 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.800 so I didn't say ship. Their bill came, they all 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:02.360 complained purposely about food not being cooked right, that they 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.480 ate that they never sent back just so they can 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.360 get a discount off of their fucking food. When I 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.760 tell you, that ship makes me so sick to my stomach. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.880 It discussed me that that happened. I ain't say ship 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.720 I was piste off about it. I did damn sure 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.480 of telling they asked when they got the funk up 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.920 and left. I called their waiter over and I called 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.919 the manager over to. I said, it was nothing wrong 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.120 with them girls food. That's why they didn't send it back. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.360 It was nothing wrong with the drinks. That's why they 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.040 didn't send it back. They didn't feel like they should 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.120 have had to pay that much. Because this is a 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.840 black establishment. That's another form of tearing down your own 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.240 fucking people. It's not about bullying all the time. It's 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.280 not about that that got under my skin, all right. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.200 Story number two cool. I'm from Baltimore City, home of 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.799 the crab. We love crabs on some of crab legs, 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.280 blue Crab snow Crab, king Crab, we love it all right. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.720 It's a crab spot. All over Baltimore crab spots, but 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.320 it's one particular one that I liked going too. I 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.440 used to like going there. Their business hours are Monday 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.440 through Sunday. The hours are different, but the business days 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.880 remain the same. Right I go on a Monday afternoon, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.639 it's a sign up in the door, be back at 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:18.120 two pm. Had to run out. Cool, come back two pm. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.519 Nobody there. This is strange. I called, Hey, let it 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.000 go to voicemail. I see people in there, though, you 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.400 know what I'm saying. I see people heads moving around 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.200 and ship. They ain't asking the phone. Cool, whatever, I leave. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.800 This is how bad I wanted these fucking crabs, y'all. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.520 Crabs in Baltimore are like crawfishing New Orleans. That's how 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.160 it is, like. That's how deeply in love we are 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.080 with crabs and ship. I came back five pm. The 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.760 door was still locked. I called this time they answered. 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.560 I say, oh, y'all gotta sign on the door that 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.160 said that y'all would be back at two pm. Oh yeah, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.280 it was definitely a family, like we are we closed today? 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.200 Why the funk wouldn't you say that? Then? Why wouldn't 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.360 you put that ship on the door. And if you 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.520 had definitely the family, why the funk? Y'all in there 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.960 and I see y'all like I see y'all a custilet. Okay, cool? 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.640 But I was so pissed because, bitch, I've been wanting 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.080 crabs for three hours. Now, Subtract the crabs, all right? Cool? 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.320 If it was anything anything. If it was chicken, I 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.440 don't give a up. It was a black owned florist. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.359 You have to be more professional than that. Why didn't 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.080 you say we're closed for the day or anything. Now 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.279 we got definite family, Like, so, yeah, we closed, but 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.680 you put a sign up that said you would be 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.919 back at two pm. Why did I go the next 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:34.120 day and that sign was still up there? Still up there? However, 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.960 they were open, but the sign was still up. So 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.159 I never even tried the door that day. The next 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.119 day I went home, I called around like three, waited 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.320 an hour. Called. I said, yo, like, y'all still grieving, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.719 you're still going through y'all? You know your thing or y'all. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.560 The girl said, this is the girl that hung up 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.560 on me yesterday. I lied to you. Not now this 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.600 Bottomore City, anything is liable to happen. I said, yes 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.800 I am. She was like, yeah, well we're closed today 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.600 to you hung up on me? Hung up back on me? 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.440 You on me? Like, I said, alright, cool whatever. After 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.440 they hung up on me, I called back to be petty, 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:06.920 just to hang up on them and ship you know 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:08.920 what I'm saying. Called from a different number and just 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.800 hung up on their ass like I was mad or whatever, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:12.240 so they knew it was me. They put two one 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.400 to together, got the same voice. Voice is very distinctive. Whatever. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.640 So that's the end of that story. So those are 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.240 two different stories. Okay, now we're gonna head over. It's 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.599 a carefully reckless discussion. Hold up, Hold up, I know 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.800 the ship getting good, but listen to just a couple 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.039 of seconds of a commercial. If you love me, you'll listen. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.880 Now let's discuss this. That's two different stories. That's an 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.880 upside of having a black owned business, and then that's 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.240 the downside of supporting a black owned business. Okay, the 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.960 first story where I was talking about black Swan, Now, 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.560 it's a beautiful restaurant. If you visit Baltimore, you have 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.960 to go, but you have to make your reservations, Like 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.000 right now, if you want a reservation for Christmas, nigga, 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.719 you better call tonight and ask the niggas do they 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.920 have any reservations open for Christmas? You know what I'm saying. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.840 Like it's really really nice in it's downtown, you know, 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.440 surrounded by a bunch of white businesses and ship, you 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.480 know what I'm saying. So, first of all, that's something 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.640 big to me. I don't know if that's big to 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.840 anybody else's ship is big to me because there's been 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.480 a stigma put on black businesses. Majority of people think 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.720 black and both white, that black businesses belong in the hood, 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.440 that they only flourish in the hood, they only prosper 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.360 in the hood. No, that's a stigma. That's something that 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.320 we've been conditioned to fucking think. Not true at all. 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.600 This is in the middle of Harbor East, surrounded by 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:36.479 Ocean Air and Nando's and t Volls. These are nice establishment, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.240 you know, restaurants and ship you know what I'm saying. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.919 That's been around for years and years. The problem to 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.920 me when I was sitting next to that table of 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.359 black girls, that pissed me off because would you have 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.559 had that same fucking energy sitting in Ruth Chris, where 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.800 salmon is fifty dollars and up. You can't get no 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.640 salmon for no forty nine forty seven dollars and no 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.640 fucking roof, Chris. But you think, because you're in a 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.400 black establishment at what it's supposed to be fift a 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:06.080 dollars for nine, you want some McDonald's prices because we're 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.880 black because because this is a black owned establishment. If 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.880 you can pay a hundred and twenty dollars a plate 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.520 at roof Chris, you can pay a hundred and twenty 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.480 dollars a plate at Black Swan. Do you you understand what 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.360 I'm saying. That's what I don't like, and it's kind 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.520 of fucked up, you know, And of course I wanted 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.840 to say something, but like I said, they were still human, 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.720 and a lot of people are ignorant. They were ignorant 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.960 to their actions. They didn't even know any fucking better. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.440 How disgusted they made the people around them. I wasn't 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:36.960 only when I heard them, you know what I'm saying, 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.240 It was even white people in that bitch looking at 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.280 them like, are you serious? Right now? Are you fucking 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.440 serious complaining about a thirteen dollars shot When y'all same 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.560 bitches will go and pay for a section at a 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.480 club and pay for fifty for a bottle of cosami 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.040 goes when you can stop by the bar, you can 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.040 stop by the fucking bar and get the same bottle 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.920 for under fifty dollars? Is you goofy? That ship pissed 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:04.200 me off. Now the second story, the unprofessionalism that I 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.440 experienced with the black owned crap spot. I was mad 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.680 at that ship. They couldn't get past their fucking egos 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.280 enough to realize we are running a business. Now. I 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.760 get the death in the family, but it's so many 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.240 of y'all. One of y'all couldn't cover that store, couldn't 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.160 open that store. Y'all was in the fucking store. Y'all 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.800 just had the door locked. You're not at a funeral, y'all. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.680 We wasn't sitting in there praying and crying, y'all. We 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.600 wasn't sitting in there reminiscing about whoever died or nothing. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.760 Y'all were in their bullshitting. I can look through the 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.640 door and see you guys, y'all didn't feel like opening 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.160 the store. That's what it is a lot of times, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.200 and I've experienced this more than once. We have to 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:46.440 do better as black businesses if we want better. Now. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.200 That's not in all cases, because it's dudes and don't 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.880 for customers, and then there's dudes and don't for black 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.400 business owners. You know what I'm saying, The dudes and 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.840 the don't. The dudes prioritize your cuss to my service. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.800 I'm talking about get back to your customers as fast 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.040 and quickly as you can, as respectful as you can, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.319 even if you're not having a good day. I'm not 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.319 sposed to know that I'm a customer. There's a lot 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.839 of attitudes that that happened, even in white businesses. Listen, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.760 I remember working at McDonald's right in the hood podcasts 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.160 Cold Spring. I used to work in a drive through 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.680 at a McDonald's in the hood. I never gave nobody 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.000 no fucking attitude. Never, And that's when I was going 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.080 through ship, going through relationship ship. I was pregnant, I 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.000 was hot that and wasn't working the ice cream machine down. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.079 All the funk I was craving was ice cream and 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.800 fries with extra salt. Then you understand what I'm saying. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.440 All of that, They never ever knew what the funk 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.280 I was going through. Man, I got locked up all 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.600 that ship. I was on the fucking run working in 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.880 the window at McDonald's. Nobody ever knew any of that 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.199 ship because it was always it's a great dad, McDonald's. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:53.680 Something to take your order? Would you like to try 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.400 to mc double with the mix sauce of it? You know, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.240 I was always like that, like how y'all pull up 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.480 the Chick fil a? That's how I always as was. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.880 But I had other co workers that would be like, 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.960 how you doing can take? Is that all for you? Ma'am? Ma'am? Hello? 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.600 Is that all? Excuse me? I can't hear Can you 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.640 tell your kids? Be quiet? I'm talking about you liable 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.800 to hear anything. And the motherfucking drive through in McDonald's 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.319 in Baltimore City, West Baltimore City. I don't know how 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.880 East get down because I don't be over there like that, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.880 But I'm from West and that happens, and I still order. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.199 I still go for my son and deal with the attitude. 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.760 But why must we A lot of black people have 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.800 attitudes when they fucking working at white companies. That's why 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.120 we should try our best not to do it when 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.280 we have our own fucking companies. It should never happen 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.080 because customers don't do anything to you off the rip 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.480 like you got some nasty customers. But your job is 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.800 to always be professional. You can't let nobody see you sweat. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.760 That's in customer services. When you're working with the public, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.680 you must understand that they put the fucking sign on 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.640 the door. False advertisement is one thing that gets up 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.160 under my skin with black businesses. Stop it, stop it, 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.559 stop it. I don't want to see y'all in the comments. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.600 Oh white businesses do it too, and my fucking white 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.679 are you white? We're not worrying about their asses. I'm 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.640 worrying about the betterment of us as a people and 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.479 as black creators, as black business owners, as black CEOs. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.120 That's what I'm warring a But I'm not wearing on 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.000 white people. Let them do what they do. Who cares. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.000 But when you're putting your money into your community, you 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.719 are old that respect because no, I don't have to 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.079 spend my money here, I can go to a white company, 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.560 you know. And then when we say ship like that, 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.040 we're bashed because that's the reality of how the funk 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.160 we feel when we feel slighted by our own people 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.760 who don't want to be professional for free. It's nothing 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.520 to smile, It costs nothing to say how is your day, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.800 thank you, thanks for shopping with us, come back again. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.000 It costs nothing. And then you got your black companies 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.720 who are a one and everything. I'm talking about customer service, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.760 I'm talking about food, like the restaurant Black Swan everything. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.200 Them bitches just had to find something to complain about 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.640 because it was too damn good. And one of the 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.080 comments is that disgusting me. Even further was a comment 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.800 that one of my people made who walked in with me. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.439 When they looked around, he was like, Okay, now, let's 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.400 look like a white person restaurant. This looks like the 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.600 white people did it. Why the funk would that even 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.720 come out your mouth? That's shipping on us. Do you 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.480 not know that? Oh my god, the ignorance. You don't 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.080 even know that you're shipping on us? What do you mean? 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.599 What the fund does white people establishment look like? Like? What? 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.320 Then does that mean like when people be like, oh, 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.040 you look gay? What the fund does gay look like? 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.800 What the fund does a white person establishment really look like? No? 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.480 Black Swan was created by a team of black people, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.800 very close knit friends who've been in businesses for years, 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.760 who've been in the business for years. You know, they 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.760 waited for the right time, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.839 We got a lot of other black restaurants too. We 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:49.400 got Nacho Bangers shout out to him, black owned good food. 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.880 We got Poppy Cuisine that's cat and that's fella's point. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.080 That's where all the white people live. But I ain't 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.120 gonna say this ship look white, this ship looks like 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.079 the white people did it. We're giving them too much 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.920 fucking power when we speak that ship over ourselves, and 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.319 then y'all wonder why they treat us like that sometimes 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.600 because we give them too much fucking power. We give 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.800 them too much fucking credit. Another thing, why do we 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.880 always expect discounts from my own people? And I know 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.760 this is cliche, but I'm gonna keep some im gonna saying. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.280 I'm gonna be the hundred person to say, you will 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.560 stand in the fucking Gucci line, you will stand in 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.319 the Louis line. I'm talking about for hours, no appointment. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.760 You're sitting there, standing in fucking line, watching other people's shop, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.600 waiting for your turn. But let you be at a 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.680 black owned boutique and somebody wait too long to come 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.240 over to you. Oh my god, like I can't get 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.079 no help? Like what is it? You wouldn't say that. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.760 I wouldn't dare say that to Marry Claire at fucking 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.000 Louis Vuitton. You would never say that. That ship pisses 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.720 me off. I hate it. Don't expect cheap product because 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.840 you're putting a stigma on us. We've put the stigma 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.680 on ourselves. Everything we do is is supposed to be cheap. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.000 Are we supposed to look out? Man? Look out for me? Man? 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:58.720 Look out? Look out? How to funk? I'm gonna make 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.760 my money if I'm looking out for you, It's not 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.200 gonna work. I got cousins who don't want to buy 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.960 my waste trainers. My doctor who waste trainers. Come on like, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.880 come on, no, And because I didn't give any out 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.800 for free, they brought them from waste watchers. Ain't that 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.560 a bit? You went to go buy them from somewhere else? 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.400 You ain't jumping waste watchers dems? And be like, come on, 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.040 can you look out for me? Can you? Can you? 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.520 Because I'm your fucking cousin, you' supposed to get something 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.040 for free? If I give out all my ship for free? 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.920 Out of funk? Am I making money? I don't get 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.120 up and go clocking every day? You know what I'm saying. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.680 Y'all got job security, y'all got jobs. I got a 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.120 lot of family members with great jobs, man, because I 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.200 won't give them a discount. All my ship. Bit you've 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.360 got job security. You know what I'm saying, ain't no 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.440 selling the Internet wiped out? What the funk I'm gonna dude, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.560 you work for the government, Bitch, you are secure as 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.960 securitis can be. I's fucked up. I do not like that. Now. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.400 I'm not saying I won't be a celebrity if the 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.120 Internet is wiped out. But my Internet, my platform, y'all 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.160 are my people. The Internet is how y'all know to 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.360 listen to carefully reckless every Wednesday. The Internet is how 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.280 y'all know. I sell waste trainers, and y'all know I 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.120 got them on my webs site. You know I have 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.320 another business launching messy pauses for canins is for dogs 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.800 where I'm selling doggie clothes and um you know, doggie 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.480 playpens and doggie beds and all that type of ship. Man, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.280 don't shoot on your black creators, don't shoot on black CEOs, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.200 don't shoot on black businesses. And back some time ago 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.080 addressed some ship about black businesses. But it's nothing other 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.400 than what the funk I'm saying now. We need to 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.680 better ourselves if we want better results. I don't care 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.440 if you sell makeup. If you do make up, if 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.800 you you know whatever. If somebody complain about your product, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.360 don't fight them in the comments. Don't tell a bitch 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.400 pull up what type of ship you on? And nobody 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.760 Saphora or Mac telling somebody to pull up because somebody 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:46.280 complained about a fucking product. No, you apologize to keep 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.080 it moving. You can even do one further acts. Okay, 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:50.920 what do you suggest I do? Because I'm telling you, 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.200 your customers make you better. They're the one buying the ship. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.000 They're the ones that have to put this ship on 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.480 their face. They're the ones they gotta walk out and 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.240 this ship. Trust me, they're a opinions and their feedback 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:05.040 and their suggestions matter for the betterment of our brands, 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.200 for the betterment of our companies. You know what I'm saying. 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:12.120 Your brand is everything protected, especially in your business, and 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.840 we have to do better as black customers and uplift 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.920 these businesses. Help them improve, help us improve. When I 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.320 first started selling my waist trainers, I had a lot 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.280 of complaints. I don't like the double band just and 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.440 make my back fat roll up, you know, up into 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.360 the back of my neck. On all that ship I 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.840 listened to that ship. I didn't say, oh, bit, this 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.240 ain't for you. You know what I'm saying. No, I 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.440 listened and I went through six or seven fucking vendors 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.000 before I found the right one waiting for samples and ship. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:40.560 I was ready get up and go to China my 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.960 goddamn self. But you know, no, I'm not. You know 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.160 what I'm saying. But yeah, I just wanted to sound 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:47.760 like that was something I would do. And ship. No, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.720 I'm scared, you know, kind of scared to go over there. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.600 I don't know what the funk. You know, they got 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.120 different bugs, Like I'm kind of scared to go to 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.680 Africa because the mosquito the ship heard. Get a bit 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.880 about mosquito over there, you might collapse. I don't know. 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.120 It's just I'm scared of the hugs in different countries. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.640 I ain't working with it. But um, that's a whole 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:08.200 another topic for a whole another episode. The point is improvement. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.520 We need to help each other improve. You don't see 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:16.400 Gucci putting Louis down. You don't see Boltega putting down product. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.080 You don't see that ship. You just see them copying 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.520 the same different styles selling that ship because they know 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.000 we're all gonna run to the fucking store and buy it. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.639 Let's do the same with our ship. Let's do the 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.800 same within our companies. Now we got a commercial and 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:31.679 if you click off of this podcast, I swear I'm 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:37.760 gonna beat your ass. Listen. Now that brings me to 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.760 Jazz fix my mess. Now, y'all know I always come 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.159 to y'all to get your feedback, because you know I 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.000 need that, I said on Instagram, I see a lot 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:49.080 of black people bashing black businesses. Your take on black 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:53.800 business bashing go Humbled and Hungry Underscore on Instagram said 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.000 as a black entrepreneur, I find it very disheartening that 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.720 we are so impatient with our brothers and sisters. We 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.480 will wait in a McDonald's line for shitty service and 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.560 keep coming back every time, knowing that we get bottom 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.439 level service and mediocre product. But let a black business 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.960 owner make one simple mistake, and now it's this is 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.480 why I don't support black businesses. That's asked backwards. We 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.840 do easily subscribe to large corporations, but when it comes 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.440 to doing business with one another, it's almost as if 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.560 we look for problems or reasons not to support, and 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.119 you are fucking right, Chef Serenity and shout out to 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:28.880 you because she's a chef, so she has her own 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.840 black owned business as well. Chef Serenity humbled and hungry Underscore. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:34.959 Check out her fool y'all. I don't know where she is, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.520 but she just spoke some real ship. I have no 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.919 words for that, because when you're right, you're right hot. 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.960 Nina Star with two rs Underscore says, Black White, Orange, 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.640 It doesn't matter if the customer service is weak. I'm 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.800 not supporting and don't lie and have store hours, but 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:57.280 your store is never open. Thank you, thank you so much. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.680 That's what the funk I'm talking about, Emma, thank you, honey. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.359 That goes back to story number two. I told y'all, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.680 oh my god, that ship pisses me off. Don't do that. 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.080 Don't do don't do that, dope girl, Slim says. I 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.560 don't see why we can't give constructive criticism, reviews, help 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.840 one another to improve, and stop putting failure and black 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.440 in the same phrase. Remember what I told you about 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.160 that stigma. She also said, Also, black women slash men 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.359 are starting to take over the beauty industry, which once 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:30.120 was dominated by non black people. We are raising quality 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.880 and standards, so let's help each other instead of bashing. 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.520 We are in a time where entrepreneurship is more accessible, 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.080 which means more people are trying it and may learn 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.320