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Speaker 1: money making Conversation, Gina Yahai, nice to leave you. How

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Speaker 1: sure it's more than sixteen thousand dollars perscribed. I mean

426
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,200
Speaker 1: and the checks just keep coming in. I've never seen

427
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,399
Speaker 1: anything like it. So obviously I get a check as

428
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 1: a writer, producer, I get extra check as a co creator.

429
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,120
Speaker 1: Then I also because I'm a comedian and I'm a performer,

430
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 1: I wrote myself in as an actor. I've always worked

431
00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 1: to be the best friend of somebody else to sitcom.

432
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,399
Speaker 1: So when we I writing it, I was like, um,

433
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,400
Speaker 1: I think I be sure that needs the best friend.

434
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:04,800
Speaker 1: What do you think, guys? I think she needs a

435
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 1: confident And I created this character. They didn't know I

436
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 1: was creating it for myself, right, this character. So you

437
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,160
Speaker 1: know you've got all those checks plus to repeat fees.

438
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 1: You know, during the pandemic when there was a lot

439
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 1: not a lot of material because a lot of shows

440
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,119
Speaker 1: got shut down, our show got repeated a lot, and

441
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,440
Speaker 1: these sex just kept coming in and mail box money,

442
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 1: mail box money, come on now day, Oh my days.

443
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is madness. And I was like, no

444
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 1: one of all these white boys love being writers on

445
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:40,360
Speaker 1: the shows because these checks keep currently. Just Gina, Uh,

446
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 1: I still get checks from Jamie Fox show, that's Naty.

447
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 1: I still get checks from Sister Sister, that's Ny seven.

448
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 1: I still get checks from from the Parkers. That's two thousands.

449
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: So you do those checks will keep coming. And that's

450
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: why you go, how these people living because they're living

451
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 1: off residuals, they're living all for royalties. And I just

452
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: feel it's such a blessing that Chuck really saw that

453
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 1: and say, look, I'm gonna be I'm gonna do right

454
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: by you. Okay, I can have you sitting over here

455
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,880
Speaker 1: as a consultant, but the real money in the game

456
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: is writing, co producing, co creating. Put your name in

457
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: those different titles. A check comes with each one, and

458
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,439
Speaker 1: now that allows you to pay it forward with your

459
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: other peers on the show and educate them about the

460
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: process of Hollywood really works. Isn't that really the process?

461
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,639
Speaker 1: You now know? Now you can share how Hollywood works exactly.

462
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: I'm learning as I go, And then as I learned,

463
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: I called my all my people and go listen, this

464
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,199
Speaker 1: is what we gotta do. This is where the money's at.

465
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 1: We got to create, We got to create. This is

466
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: and what he wants to be in front of the camera,

467
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 1: which is all good, but your mency of the people

468
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: behind the camera who are created writing those flips. Now,

469
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 1: let's go back let's go back to let's go back

470
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: to my favorite part of your career stand up comedy.

471
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Speaker 1: Uh my degrees in mathematics. Okay, I got graduated with

472
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: you're an engineer. So, like I said, I know we've

473
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: never met Gina, but I just feel that we have

474
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,479
Speaker 1: such a bond because we we journey. I come from

475
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: a big family, six histers, two brothers, Houston, Texas. And

476
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: your book cat Handed talks about uh Nigeria and it

477
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: talks about polygamy and talk about the British rule. It

478
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: talks about how people are considering what you're doing to

479
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: being sending for all asious living a lifestyle of polygamy,

480
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: but talked to about how that really was an advantage

481
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 1: and also since a royalty, like we joked off air

482
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: that in my family and my mom and dad just

483
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 1: my dad was in Nigeria having six sisters in two

484
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: and two sons. He was in great shape, three sons,

485
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: he was in great shape. So talk about that whole lifestyle.

486
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: And then we want to come with your transfer over

487
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: to London, England, how that lifestyle and then we're gonna

488
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: talk about coming to America. Let's get started in Nigeria. Yeah,

489
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously polygamy was wide the practice. Uh. My

490
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: grand father had many wives and many children, and it

491
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: was a matter of survival. It was a matter of

492
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: keeping a closeness in the family. And the whole family

493
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 1: lived on one compoint pound and that's how it was.

494
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 1: And it wasn't seen as citizal to white people came

495
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: over and we're like, what are you're doing is wrong?

496
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: It's time forward playing to these deities. You're gonna worship

497
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: this white God and this white Jesus and basically forced

498
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: their religion and their lifestyle and their beliefs on the

499
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: African people. And and basically a lot of our stuff

500
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 1: got sort of watered down and lost over the years,

501
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: and to a certain point, we've forgotten some of our original, um,

502
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: you know, traditions because it got beaten and stolen from us,

503
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: you know. Um. So that was where my father, so

504
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: my mother came from that, my mother's father. She had

505
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 1: lots of brothers and sisters from various wives of her father,

506
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: and all the all the women lived on on on

507
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: the compound. And it's not always not always happy, you know,

508
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 1: love and the happiness because my mother was mother was

509
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: poisoned by one of the other wives because there was

510
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: some jealousy. There's a hierarchy and my mother's mother was

511
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: the first wife and so she, you know, she was

512
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: top of the hierarchy and was prone, she was prone

513
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: to resemblement from the other wives. It was like an

514
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: episode of dynasty or something. It's like a real soap

515
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 1: popular happily, But that was the tradition and that was

516
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: the life that my mom came from. But as a daughter,

517
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: which was kind of the patriarchy in Nigeria's race. Und

518
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: as a daughter, you know, a lot of times the

519
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: daughters weren't always educated. They were motherhood and wiped him.

520
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: But because my mother was keenly intelligent and her father

521
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: was a well traveled businessman. He was traveling all over Europe,

522
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: traveling over the America, was doing business. So he was

523
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: quite an open minded and well traveled guy. And he

524
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: chose to educate my mother because you could see that

525
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: my mother was extremely intelligent and and she sent her

526
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: to really good schools and she was said and my

527
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: mother became one of the youngest headmistresses school you know,

528
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: school principles in Nigeria. She was in a school principle

529
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: before she was twenty four years old, so she was

530
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: highly educated and eventually she ended up coming to England

531
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: to further her studies. And it was in England that

532
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: she met my father. But basically she was kind of

533
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: like forced to go over it right when she was

534
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,199
Speaker 1: killing her mother was killed by the other wife because

535
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: she was so educated and so beloved by her father.

536
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: My mother, her mother had begged her father to send

537
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 1: her away, that she's in danger from the other wife.

538
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: She was envious of her education and the fact that

539
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 1: she was so beloved by her father. So after her

540
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: mother died, her father was like okay and sent her

541
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: to England. Said, look, his money, go to England, further

542
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: your studies, make her life in England. Because you know,

543
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: England was seen as the motherland. Nigeria was a British colony,

544
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: so England was seen as the motherland of night soildren.

545
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,479
Speaker 1: A lot of Nigerian's wanted to go to England to study,

546
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 1: gain those qualifications and then come back and bring their

547
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: their new qualifications back to my jew and help build

548
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 1: the country. So my my my grandfather sent my mother

549
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: to England to study, and that's where she was and

550
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: that's where she met my father and that's where my

551
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: history begins. Well your history, well your history is a

552
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: great history, you know. And the cat Candid. Let's talk

553
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: about that titler because I want to go. I'm talking

554
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: to Jeanie Yashure. You know, she's the co executive was

555
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: just He's the co creator, actress, co starring on this

556
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: series Bob Hearts Bob Hart ab a showl Up, which

557
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: is a cb A hit series. Now, when when I

558
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: talk about this about you in general, Um, what I

559
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: want to make sure people understand is that cat handed

560
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: is a word for clumsia, awkward. You know, she's left handed.

561
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: That's what cat means left in the British terminology. So

562
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: when where where are we leaving with? Is we leading

563
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: with the word awkward tired to cat? Are we lean

564
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: the word clumsily? Tired to cay or just a fish

565
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: out of water? Which one of those terms. Oh, there

566
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: are so many meanings for the box. As you you said,

567
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: cat candid is a British old British word for left

568
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: handed also means clumsy or good, which I don't believe

569
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: we are. I think we're living in a right handed world.

570
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: So we're perceived as clumsy. If I'm at a bar

571
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: and I'm next to you and I'm talking, I'm gesticulating

572
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: with my left hand. I'm gonna knock over your drink

573
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: because you've put your drink on the right hand side

574
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: of your body, which is your dominant hand. My left

575
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: hand is my dominant hand. I'm gonnaknock your drink over,

576
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna call me clumsy, but it's not.

577
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: It's a right handed world, and I'm just clumsy in

578
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: it because everything is catered for right handers. So that's

579
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: why cat handed means it's clumsy and all. It also

580
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: talks about my journey. My journey has never been straightforward.

581
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: I've had to duck, dive, and weave and and circumvent

582
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: various obstacles that been put in my way. So that's

583
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: also another meaning of cat handed, in that my journey

584
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: has been im conventional. Also, khat is another word for pooh.

585
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: And I know if you knew that, I did know that,

586
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: not my research. I didn't know that in my research.

587
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: You know our researching your girl. Yea. Many cultures, African

588
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: culture and Middle Eastern culture, the left hand is the

589
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: hand that's supposed to be the one that's used to

590
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: wipe your bottom after you do a pooh kat is

591
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: another word for pooh, so kat basically means pooh handed. So,

592
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: though are very and as a Nigerian, because my family

593
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: is African, I was born left handed. For a long time,

594
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: I was forced to write with my right hand because

595
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: the left hand is seen is unclean. And even in

596
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: the Bible, you know, there's terms that say, you know,

597
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: Jesus sat on the right hand side of God. The

598
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: right hand is always the good side. The left hand

599
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: is always seen as unclean. So when I was a kid, yeah,

600
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: I was forced to write with my right hand, forced

601
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: to cook with my right hand, forced to do it.

602
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: So if my mom walked into the kitchen and I

603
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: was stirring apart of food with my left hand, I'd

604
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: get a slap around the head and all that food

605
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 1: would go in the flash and we'd start again. So

606
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: hence that's why the title of the book is that,

607
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: because it encompasses various aspects of my life on my journey. Wow,

608
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: you're amazing, uh, And I want to wrap up by

609
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: asking a couple of more questions. One, why did you

610
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: write the book? Because it's a memoir, you know, and

611
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: a memoir is usually told you want people to be

612
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: motivated by your story, which I am motivated by your story.

613
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: But why did you write the book and also become relatable?

614
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: I felt a lot of your story was relatable because

615
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: if in the beginning and you know, well, you know,

616
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: you may be in London, England, but you dealt with racism,

617
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: just like I deal with racism in America, and sometimes

618
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: we don't understand that there's a Black Lives Matters the

619
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: movement in London as it is in America. Talk about

620
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: the importance of the memoir and also talk about how

621
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: timely this book is because it also is a history

622
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: lesson book. It walks through the path of how basically

623
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: you can say that you know, Nigeria was was was

624
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: undermined it and basically robbed and the jury and the

625
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: success and the wealth was brought into British museums. So

626
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: talk about that and help us out as as we

627
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: as we recommend people to pick up this book because

628
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: it is an amazing book. Cat Candid, Yeah, I mean

629
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: why I wrote the book. Originally it started off as

630
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: just on Instagram, there was a hashtag slowback Thursdays where

631
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: you past old pictures. And I was posting old pictures

632
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: and writing the story behind the pictures. But I post

633
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: a picture and write an elaborate post explaining the history

634
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: behind the picture, and people were really interested in saying,

635
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: oh my god, your stories is so good, why don't

636
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: you write a book. So I started keeping those posts

637
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: in a folder, and eventually a literally agent saw my

638
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Speaker 1: post and contacted me and says, you need to write

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to talk about my history because people

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Speaker 1: So people think that American racism is the be all

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Speaker 1: what you know? You don't realize that a lot of

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Speaker 1: the black people that are from the islands, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad,

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Speaker 1: So we should these are all Caribbean descendants of slaves.

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Speaker 1: The British did their slavery slightly different from America, and

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Speaker 1: and sole black people. They didn't bring them all to England.

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Speaker 1: They hid their dirty doings and put the black people

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Speaker 1: on Caribbean islands for the for the sugar plantations and

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Speaker 1: on Caribbean islands, and that's where all those black people

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Speaker 1: Black people in the Caribbean almost suffered exactly the same cruelty,

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Speaker 1: the history of Africa, Nigeria in particular, and the history

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Speaker 1: Belgians were the terrible slavers, the Dutch, the South Africa,

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Speaker 1: you know, all of it. So I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: of what when I explained that, and then when I

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Speaker 1: People think called England so genteel racism doesn't England and work.

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Speaker 1: You're now discovering it with what happened with you know,

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Speaker 1: my life running away from skinne, being abused racially at work,

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Speaker 1: being pulled over by the police all the time for

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Speaker 1: no reason. The only reason that less black people die

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Speaker 1: at police hands in England is because our police do

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Speaker 1: some of that in my book. I mean, there's obviously humor.

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