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Speaker 1: What's up? Its way up at Angela Gee.

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Speaker 2: I'm Angela Yee, and I'm really excited to have some

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's go around the room.

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Speaker 2: We have Shanay Harris Hello, we have Gail Hawkins Hello,

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Speaker 2: and we have are.

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Speaker 3: You John Garrison?

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Speaker 1: I was like, what do they have?

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Speaker 3: John?

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Speaker 4: I was.

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Speaker 2: All right, Brian, Well, thank you guys for joining us today.

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Speaker 2: So what we're talking about is the Brick City Classic

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Speaker 2: and Prudentials involvement with that and also with HBCUs in general.

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Speaker 2: All right, So did all of you go to an HBCU?

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately I didn't have the privilege to be able to go.

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Speaker 5: I'm a proud graduate of Hampton On University class of

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Speaker 5: ninety four.

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Speaker 1: Okay, great, I'm.

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Speaker 4: Gonna have the grad as well. She's going to drop

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Speaker 4: out that over eight.

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Speaker 6: I'm honest two class of ninety three Hampton alum as well.

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Speaker 1: Sus Shane and I did not go to HBCUs.

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Speaker 3: We missed out.

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Speaker 1: No, we definitely did.

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Speaker 2: And I was actually reading a report recently about how

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Speaker 2: enrollment is up more than ever and attention being paid

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Speaker 2: to hbc USE. Is that an all time high excellent.

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Speaker 2: So let's discuss that and why you think that is well.

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Speaker 7: I think we know that HBCUs work, particularly for black

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Speaker 7: students and people of color. The nurturing environment and statistics

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Speaker 7: have demonstrated that if you want black people to kind

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Speaker 7: truven track record of demonstrating that for our community.

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Speaker 1: And for Brian and Gil.

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Speaker 2: What do you guys think of you got at an

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Speaker 2: HBCU that you would have gotten anywhere else.

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Speaker 6: I think for me, I look back at my Hampton education.

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Speaker 6: I realized that was a foundation who I become as

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Speaker 6: to excel in life. I mean, it gave me a

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Speaker 6: great foundation athletically but also academically, which is most important

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Speaker 6: because I had the privilege of plan a sport as

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Speaker 6: well as going to school. And I think that the

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Speaker 6: meeting them as freshmen and continuing those lifelong relationships, and

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Speaker 6: we've stayed friends through life. Through I played basketball. I

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Speaker 6: was on the nineteen ninety one CIA Championship team.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yes you know.

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Speaker 6: And that's funny because my teammates we still have a

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Speaker 6: good morning to good night all day long. And that

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Speaker 6: goes back to our foundation of Hampton being the common denominator.

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Speaker 4: We all love it. We all stay together.

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Speaker 6: And the thing is, as I've grown professionally and personally,

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Speaker 6: I have friends that went to other HBCUs and we

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Speaker 6: It doesn't matter how we're morehouse felled me and we

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Speaker 5: And one of the things that I agree with everything

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Speaker 5: that Brian has said, we were actually at Hampton together,

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Speaker 5: one class apart.

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Speaker 1: And now y'all work together. That's amazing.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, And one of the things I have to

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Speaker 5: never seen the campus. One of the things I consider this.

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Speaker 5: It's basically as a family environment, and they really do

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Speaker 5: now godparents, they're literally their children like nieces and nephews.

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Speaker 5: But at the same point in time, it was also

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Speaker 5: Black community within itself. No one is the same, so

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Speaker 5: as other individuals as well. So just the commonalities of

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Speaker 5: as we grow at Yes, all the HBCUs we are

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Speaker 5: very special. We were speaking earlier our freshman year, we

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Speaker 3: I was.

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Speaker 2: We were talking about that y'all had curfew as freshmen,

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Speaker 5: True, no visitation, no visitation, but I think that also

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Speaker 5: that'll build relationships over time.

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Speaker 1: Right, and their sisters and family to this.

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Speaker 2: Very and I will say all of y'all that went

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Speaker 2: to because our boss, actually THEA Mitcham, she went to

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Speaker 1: Good time, but also just really smart.

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Speaker 2: Like even Jasmine Right, Jasmine Brand who works up here

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Speaker 2: with me, she went to Morgan State and then my

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Speaker 2: business partner he went to an HBCU with my coffee

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Speaker 2: company and everything. So there's just something definitely very special

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Speaker 2: about alumni and students who have gone and attended HBCUs.

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Speaker 1: And one of the main.

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Speaker 2: Things they said they found in doing this study that

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Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely, I've had the experience of doing both. I

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Speaker 6: I've never even gone back on campus. So I went

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Speaker 1: It's a PWI. That's all you know, you go back

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Speaker 6: I just remember how professors prepared us. There was no excuses,

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Speaker 6: there was no shortcuts. They always taught us to be

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Speaker 4: That we had.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I can go to any and I travel

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Speaker 6: and we link up and then we get together and

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Speaker 6: just even if it's just to say hello, or if

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Speaker 1: But you do that with Howard alumni too.

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Speaker 4: I will do it with Howard.

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Speaker 1: They always want to battle competition, but what I love it.

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Speaker 2: It is like competitive, but it's also all family still

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And so let's talk about that Brick City Classic because

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Speaker 2: that's happening this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, yes, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And what is Prudential's involvement. What's the Brick City Classic.

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Speaker 7: Well, we are proud to be lead sponsors of the

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Speaker 7: Brick City Classic. And this is something I am so

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Speaker 7: this being an annual thing that occurred in the Northeast

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Speaker 7: being lifelong partners.

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Speaker 1: Predentia does a lot in Newark too.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, period, because I feel like when I think

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Speaker 7: Oh well, it's our DNA. We were headquartered and Prudential

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Speaker 7: because we see ourselves as an anchor institution, we've had

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Speaker 6: So for us, I was on the team that brought

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Speaker 6: the Whitniam Young Classic that took place at Giants Stadium

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Speaker 1: It back because I remember those games.

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Speaker 6: And they would be there every we were staples. Everybody

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Speaker 6: have high school students that don't know about black college sports,

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Speaker 6: and it's not just about the game. We're using a

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Speaker 4: And Norc is a staple. I grew up in these

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Speaker 6: Prudential is the staple organization's staple company in the city

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Speaker 2: For all of our people in Eastern He went to

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Speaker 1: If you've gone to Clifford Scott as.

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Speaker 4: Well, absolutely Class eighty nine. I probably shouldn't say that

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Speaker 2: Crack, it's okay. So I got to ask you, Shanna,

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Speaker 3: Hampton?

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Speaker 2: Of course, I just want to make sure. I just

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Speaker 2: want to not just because they're here, right, okay.

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Speaker 3: No, not just because the one.

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Speaker 7: I have a number of friends and family that graduated

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Speaker 7: we've had a long time history with Hampton University, so

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Speaker 2: And it's not just the big city classic Podentia does

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Speaker 7: Yes, so we see HBCUs as a pathway to economic opportunity.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's important too because I remember believing

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Speaker 5: Sure sure again. My name is Gail Hawkins. I'm a

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So we were really excited to bring that program

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Speaker 7: the idea of being able to connect to a financial

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Speaker 7: professional to support you, we think is a really critical

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Speaker 7: thing for the black community too, right.

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Speaker 2: I mean that confidence is important too, because money isn't

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Speaker 2: like our attachment to money can be a very emotional thing, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I know from many of my friends and myself, we

448
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Speaker 2: didn't have money growing up, and so you always feel like,

449
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Speaker 2: I just got to stack my money in the bank.

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Speaker 2: I gotta just do this, I got to make sure

451
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Speaker 2: in case something happens, this could all go away. And

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Speaker 2: we get so nervous about things like that that sometimes

453
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Speaker 2: it's scary to invest.

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Speaker 3: Angela.

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Speaker 5: It's very interesting. I always say that money is not

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Speaker 5: a tangible good if you cannot be put to use,

457
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Speaker 5: It's just a piece of paper. It's the thought process

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Speaker 5: behind it. It's the planning short term, mid term, and

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Speaker 5: long term, and you have to do it with a partner, right,

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Speaker 5: because sometimes people don't know what to do with it,

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Speaker 5: so they do nothing at all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the word.

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Speaker 5: It's all beauty of compound and interests over time, save early,

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Speaker 5: and save often.

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Speaker 2: Right, because that the money that you get just letting

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Speaker 2: your money sit in the bank is nothing compared to

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Speaker 2: if you invest that money.

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Speaker 6: That's absolute nothing compared. Just like getl some a compounding interest.

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Speaker 5: Around interests over time, save early, save often.

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Speaker 2: And even when it comes to HBCUs and you guys

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Speaker 2: partnering for that. I also think it's important seeing everything

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Speaker 2: that's happening with our education system, what's happening in Florida

473
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Speaker 2: right where they're trying to erase our history and say that, oh, well,

474
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Speaker 2: you know, slavery wasn't so bad, they had a chance.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and it's ridiculous the things that we're seeing happening.

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Speaker 2: That's why it's really important for us to be able

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Speaker 2: to take that power back and awesome. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: a shame and we should never have that happening, and

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Speaker 2: we have to make sure we fight that politically.

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Speaker 1: But I also feel like.

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Speaker 2: It is up to us to also, at the same

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Speaker 2: time simultaneously educate each other and ourselves and HBCUs are

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Speaker 2: really important in that aspect too.

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Speaker 6: I think what you said earlier you talked to earlier.

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Speaker 6: We started interview offer with why do you see the rise?

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Speaker 6: And I think that you're seeing the rise and used

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Speaker 6: because of some of the things that are happening across

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Speaker 6: the last four to eight years, our young black students

489
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Speaker 6: are saying, I want to go where I feel like

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Speaker 6: I'm at home. Right, like you said in Florida, there's

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Speaker 6: no reason why we should be talking about slavery was

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Speaker 6: a good thing for anybody.

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Speaker 2: What benefit can we get out of that's place to stay?

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Speaker 4: How can we get out of that?

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Speaker 6: And then we see all the affirmative action laws starting

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Speaker 6: to change, and we have documented proof that says that

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Speaker 6: other schools when they eliminated affirmative action, the minority enrollments

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Speaker 6: went significantly down. Well, we know those students that don't

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Speaker 6: go to those schools now have homes that HBC use

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Speaker 6: and you see enrooment going up. So why why wouldn't

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Speaker 6: you go someplace where you're going to get a top

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Speaker 6: notch education, You're going to have a tremendous uh social

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Speaker 6: aspect to college, because.

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Speaker 4: That's part of college.

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Speaker 6: At that part of it, we lact like it's not,

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Speaker 6: but socially we do want to thrive and prepare ourselves

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Speaker 6: for the professional world where we can go to companies

508
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Speaker 6: like Crudential, we can go to other fortune five hundred

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Speaker 6: companies and do exceptionally well. You mentioned your boss earlier,

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Speaker 6: thea being a Hampton alum, right, and look at all

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Speaker 6: the Hampton and alums that are doing things and not

512
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Speaker 6: just Hamtled all the black college alums that are doing

513
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Speaker 6: significant and have significant contributions to society. It's something we

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Speaker 6: should all be proud of and know that we have

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Speaker 6: a home. And no matter what a sbec you go.

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Speaker 2: To and ran, when you bring up a front of

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Speaker 2: affirmative action, I think it's so important to note that

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Speaker 2: it's not that black students, black or brown students don't

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Speaker 2: belong to be some you know, to be at a

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Speaker 2: university because they didn't have the uh, the stats to

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Speaker 2: prove that they should be there. They do belong there, right,

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Speaker 2: and affirmative action is not saying, oh, well, you know,

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Speaker 2: you would not have gotten into the school any other way, X, Y,

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Speaker 2: and Z, But it's just making sure that the students

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Speaker 2: who deserve to be there, are there, and they do,

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Speaker 2: and I just feel like, you know, we see all

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Speaker 2: these other reasons why students are being admitted to these universities,

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Speaker 2: these p wis, and a lot of times it will

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Speaker 2: be like, you know, family went there, somebody made a donation.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that go on behind the

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Speaker 2: scenes financially for students to be there, and students who

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Speaker 2: belong to be that you shouldn't have to feel like, oh,

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Speaker 2: they don't want me there. I've heard so many different

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Speaker 2: stories now about students who you know, were being recruited

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Speaker 2: as athletes and then you hear something that coach said about, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: now maybe I don't have to. It's just ridiculous, you know,

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Speaker 2: the things that people have to go do that. So

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Speaker 2: that's why I think it's really important. And I love

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Speaker 2: the fact that you guys are recruiting these students from

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Speaker 2: HBCUs to come to credential.

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Speaker 4: And exciting part.

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Speaker 6: I know Shanna hasn't mentioned it, but they have the

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Speaker 6: prudential fellows that are students at Hampton that are coming

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Speaker 6: home for the game and they want to make sure.

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Speaker 4: They said, if we get our fellows back, and I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna win.

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Speaker 1: That's all I know.

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Speaker 4: We will, we will battle.

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Speaker 1: We will be on Monday. Okay, be like, listen, the

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Speaker 1: coaches are talking.

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Speaker 4: The coaches are talking a lot. I hear there's a

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Speaker 4: lot of talk coming from and it's a lot talking.

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Speaker 1: Gramblin people up here.

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Speaker 2: Because it's fair time have your family.

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Speaker 1: Rooting for Hampton. All right, anybody have any predictions on

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Speaker 1: the game.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna let's talk go first.

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Speaker 1: But I need, like, I need something more, you know.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to score?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I like to bet.

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Speaker 6: All right, I'm gonna say Hampton thirty four gramblin thirty one.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you think.

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Speaker 1: A close game, you're an athlete and we're looking at you.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say Hampton thirty four gramblin thirty one. Okay.

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Speaker 5: What about the Battle of the bands?

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Speaker 1: That's a whole nother con that's the bouttley.

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Speaker 5: Yes, the Battle of the band.

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Speaker 1: That's vibe and let me tell you and that everyone's

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Speaker 1: a winner.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, And the full halftime show will be broadcast as well,

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Speaker 6: with one siting that that you know, using a TV

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Speaker 6: they show only part of the halftime show. They're showing

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Speaker 6: the full both both bands will get their just excellent

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Speaker 6: Saturday excellent.

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Speaker 1: Where can people watch and where can people get tickets?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 6: So to watch the game, it could be on the

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Speaker 6: NFL network this Saturday, wherever the NFL Network is on

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Speaker 6: your local broadcast, it's at three pm kickoff. Tickets at

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Speaker 6: brick Cityclassic dot com. You can get to tickets at

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Speaker 6: brick Cityclassic dot com.

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Speaker 2: All right, And once again, any last things that y'all

584
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Speaker 2: want to plug before we wrap up.

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Speaker 7: Well, I just want to reinforce just the importance of

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Speaker 7: this conversation and the idea that this is our moment

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Speaker 7: as a community, and this idea that black people, Black

588
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Speaker 7: Americans are really focused on building wealth.

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Speaker 3: It's in every conversation I've.

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Speaker 1: Had, you know.

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Speaker 7: To be able to do that as a community, have

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Speaker 7: those community conversations. That's why we thought it was important

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Speaker 7: to support a campaign like Blueprints to Black Wealth, but

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Speaker 7: also support trusted institutions where people really draw from those

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Speaker 7: networks to learn more information, to connect and HBCUs are

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Speaker 7: a critical part of that component for us at Prudential.

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Speaker 2: And Yeah, lastly, what have you seen differently as far

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Speaker 2: as the mindset and investing in the past couple of

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Speaker 2: decades from when you first started in your position to

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Speaker 2: where people are now.

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Speaker 5: Like I said, one thing with the for example, the

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Speaker 5: women market. So, for example, patriarchs historically would always will

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Speaker 5: their assets to their son and son in law. And

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Speaker 5: due to the fact that women are now being highly educated,

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Speaker 5: not just here in the domestically, but around the world

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Speaker 5: now a lot of the money is being allocated to women.

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Speaker 3: Not to mention, women are now in the workforce.

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Speaker 5: We're making money for ourselves, but with that in mind,

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Speaker 5: we're also educ each other. So one of the trends

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Speaker 5: is that I love that the female market has more

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Speaker 5: of a voice, and we're starting to become even better

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Speaker 5: savers because we now are partnering with financial advisors and

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Speaker 5: we're also talking amongst ourselves as opposed to not just

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Speaker 5: shopping or cooking. We're also taught having financial conversations. I'm

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Speaker 5: hearing more of that, and that's more of a trend.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I love it. You know, I got my whole.

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Speaker 2: A woman team investing, so that's amazing to me.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I hope you continue to have these conversations and we

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Speaker 2: do a lot more together.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you all for coming up here, and I.

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Speaker 5: Would like to also say that, of course I've been

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Speaker 5: a Prudential for eleven years. I want to personally say

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Speaker 5: thank you to Prudential fall that you've done in the community.

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Speaker 5: But it also warms my heart because I am a

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Speaker 5: Hampton alumni strong nineteen ninety four. Of course I went

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Speaker 5: to NYU, but Hampton is very dear to me to

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Speaker 5: have Prudential as well as Hampton joined for us as

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Speaker 5: a family. And again it has not just happened overnight.

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Speaker 5: This has been all over ten years and it's been

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Speaker 5: over millions of dollars have been invested in our community,

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Speaker 5: but also within Hampton University, which I'm very proud of,

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Speaker 5: so we'll be servicing that community as well as recruiting.

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Speaker 5: But again, I just wanted to say thank you to

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Speaker 5: Prudential as well as on the Hampton blend. So it's

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Speaker 5: the best of my both worlds.

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Speaker 1: As Podental put your money with your mouth.

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Speaker 6: I could just on behalf of the Brick City Classic team.

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Speaker 6: I want to thank Potential as well because they have

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Speaker 6: been a true corporate partner as we bring this game,

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Speaker 6: and I think for us to continue with we need

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Speaker 6: everybody to get out.

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Speaker 4: We need.

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Speaker 6: We need to see people out at the game on

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Speaker 6: Saturday afternoon three o'clock. Brick Cityclassic dot com to get

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Speaker 6: your tickets. But most important, thank you for being such

647
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 6: a great part of the work we're doing together to

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Speaker 6: change our community, to raise awareness about ABCUS, but also

649
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Speaker 6: focusing on increasing black wealth.

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Speaker 2: And I'm glad y'all brought this game back to I

651
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 2: think it does bring a lot of attention to it.

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Speaker 1: But I remember back in the day.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right, the family outsav have a good time. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: So we hope everyone comes out and joins us because

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Speaker 7: we'll all be at the game.

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Speaker 2: Bre City Classic dot com and you guys can come

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Speaker 2: out and tell Gate two because you'll know that's part

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Speaker 2: of it. Absolutely all right, it's way up with Angela. Ye,

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Speaker 2: thank y'all so much for coming through and I will

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Speaker 2: see y'all at the game.

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Speaker 4: Sounds good, Thank you, Thank you,