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Speaker 1: Every day.

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Speaker 2: Wait, Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 3: Y'all done? Morning?

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Speaker 4: Everybody is dj n V just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.

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Speaker 4: We are the Breakfast Club. Lona Roses here as well.

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Speaker 4: We got some special guest joining us this morning. Yes, indeed,

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Speaker 4: we have a Landy Smith here.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 6: We have Cee, Sir Williams, good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 4: We have Fredrika Newton, good morning morning. And we have

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Speaker 4: fred Hampton Junior.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 4: How y'all feeling this morning?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 7: We're blessed man Black and blessed man, blessed Black and

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Speaker 7: Holly favor. Yes, Sir Landy, why we all gathered here

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Speaker 7: today with all these amazing people?

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Speaker 2: Brother?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 7: We we had a New York Fashion Week show about

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Speaker 7: about a month ago, man, and we were blessed to

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Speaker 7: have these individuals show up and walk on the fast

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Speaker 7: on the on the runway with us, along with uh

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Speaker 7: doctor Bernice King and Aliosha Sabbaz, the daughters of Malcolm

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Speaker 7: X and Marin Luther King. And the response to it,

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Speaker 7: the way that black people have responded to seeing these

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Speaker 7: people on the runway, knowing that this history wasn't that

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Speaker 7: long ago, Like that, try to tell us that it

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Speaker 7: was has been powerful man so actively black. The company

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Speaker 7: that I founded, we were built with the intention to

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Speaker 7: uplift and reinvest back into the black community. And uh,

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Speaker 7: these incredible legends have been supportive of the brand.

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Speaker 3: So when you when you, I want you all to

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Speaker 3: know man Cecid Williams.

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Speaker 8: Right, y'all know this legends picture right here, the brother

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Speaker 8: drinking out of the white's only water found. I always

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Speaker 8: wanted to ask you, mister Williams, was it a spontaneous

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Speaker 8: active rebellion or something something you plan to do as

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Speaker 8: a statement.

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Speaker 6: It was a little bit of both.

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Speaker 9: I was thirsty, but also there was a middle of

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Speaker 9: the sunshine of the summer. You know, it was evident

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Speaker 9: to myself t shirt. But also this was not the

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Speaker 9: first time I did this. There were many other times

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Speaker 9: that I felt I wanted to look close. Really I

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Speaker 9: was not satisfied, but living on the status sqrore and segregation.

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Speaker 6: So this was.

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Speaker 9: Something that I had done many times, and my mother

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Speaker 9: wanted me not to do it anymore. But I did

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Speaker 9: it again and this time it was photographed.

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Speaker 3: Did you feel fear in that moment or was your

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Speaker 3: faith stronger than your field?

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Speaker 9: None?

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Speaker 6: Whatsoever?

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Speaker 9: This is about fifteen to twenty miles from Orangeburg and

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Speaker 9: on Highway twenty one and coming back from an assignment

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Speaker 9: for Jet magazine.

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Speaker 6: But I never sent this picture to Jet.

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Speaker 9: It was something that I held in the family, and

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Speaker 9: I knew I would get chewed out had I, you know,

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Speaker 9: given it to my mother and father to see, So

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Speaker 9: I hid it from them and never sent it to

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Speaker 9: Jet either.

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Speaker 8: Wow, how did they get it?

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Speaker 6: Maybe three or four years later.

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Speaker 9: I showed it to them in a conversation one Sunday

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Speaker 9: afternoon doing a dinner. It kind of came out and

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Speaker 9: then I got chewed out.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 8: What did that single act teach you about the power

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Speaker 8: of defiance in the faith of injustice?

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Speaker 9: Well, living in South Carolina, being a child of segregation,

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Speaker 9: it was something that we encountered all day long, from

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Speaker 9: birth to death. We in South Carolina during that period

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Speaker 9: of time felt again we were treated as subclass human being,

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Speaker 9: not being able to go to a store and go

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Speaker 9: drink of water out of a fountain, or having to

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Speaker 9: theater and having to sit in a separate place or

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Speaker 9: not at all. So but again one thing that I

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Speaker 9: would like to that's maybe out of characteristic of many

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Speaker 6: People at the time as well.

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Speaker 9: You can't just put a blanket statement against that all

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Speaker 6: There were many good hearted.

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Speaker 9: White people at the time, and they were friends of

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Speaker 9: There were some people in South Carolina again who live by,

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Speaker 9: who treated us as a status quo not being able

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Speaker 9: to do this or that.

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Speaker 4: So crazy to think about it, like, you know, when

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Speaker 4: you have these conversations, we're really not that.

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Speaker 6: Far removed from that at home.

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Speaker 4: That's not saying like you don't you don't really think

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Speaker 4: about it like you said earlier, like we're not far

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Speaker 4: removed from racism. And even in the story that my

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Speaker 4: dad told me, I'm like, this is crazy.

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Speaker 2: This is what fifty years ago, sixty years.

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Speaker 8: I got got one of my aunts. She said, I

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Speaker 8: don't know nothing about no I don't know nothing about

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Speaker 8: no integration. Yeah, she knew was segregating schools.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we had ruby bridges walked the roung way as well.

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Speaker 7: And it was a powerful moment because everybody remembers that

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Speaker 7: picture six year old little girl being escorted into the

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Speaker 7: school by federal marshals and Ruby just turned seventy one,

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Speaker 7: but you know, black on cracks, so she looks forty

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Speaker 7: five and she walks out on the runway. It made

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Speaker 7: it real to people like that same little girl in

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Speaker 7: that black and white photo is walking right here in

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Speaker 7: front of me. So that's that's the power of having

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Speaker 7: these individuals here with me, showing you know how close

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Speaker 7: we are to everything that we still fighting to this day.

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Speaker 4: Do y'all hate you, I'm sorry, Do y'all hate white people?

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Speaker 4: God damn right, And I'm gonna tell you why. When

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Speaker 4: I talked to my dad, my dad has a feeling

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Speaker 4: towards white people, right, And I always joke and I

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Speaker 4: laugh about it. But then when he tells me his

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Speaker 4: history of him being in the military, and you know,

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Speaker 4: they're in the same barracks. Then when they go get

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Speaker 4: barracks they go get food, he can't. Yeah, he talks

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Speaker 4: other stuff, and why he looks at white people the

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Speaker 4: way that he does, I understand it. So that's why

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Speaker 4: I ask you the same, each one of you.

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Speaker 9: Well, that's brought to the forefront by Landy Smith and

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Speaker 9: again the fashion show. In fact, he labeled the fashion show.

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Speaker 9: This is not a fashion show. Pictures like this are

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Speaker 9: just evidence of time and period we lived in America

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Speaker 9: that seemingly in today's society. Some people want to bring

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Speaker 9: it back, but it's long gone. But people at me

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Speaker 9: who had experienced this and people that were on the

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Speaker 9: show that was put together by this amazing brother who

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Speaker 9: has brought forth this apparel that again has criss crossed

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Speaker 9: across America and being put into the hands of today's generation.

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Speaker 9: T shirts and other things that he makes. We're not

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Speaker 9: going to stand for again segregating America. It's going to

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Speaker 9: be something that is long gone. And to answer your question,

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Speaker 9: there are again many many good white people. And again

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Speaker 9: there's a myths I think that all white people are bad.

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Speaker 8: I was growing up in South Carolina was such a

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Speaker 8: a lot of good white people, but then we were

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Speaker 8: also aware of the white people who treated us like

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Speaker 8: sad as cool, like there's a certain places you knew

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Speaker 3: So it's just it's just, i don't know, talk kind

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Speaker 3: of different.

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Speaker 1: But the tag team. But you first, I'm chairman, Fred

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Speaker 1: Himpton Jr. I'm honored to be here again, conch fits

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Speaker 1: salute to this brother and his wife, his team. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Because say everything's political, including fashion

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Speaker 1: able to get this peel in the apple sauce, these

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Speaker 1: type of discussions, it's a revolutionaries. It's a misnom about

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Speaker 1: like it's motivated your moves, how we move, it's a

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Speaker 1: hatred for someone else. Comandante uh Ernest though Chakovar said,

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Speaker 1: you know, a revolutionary no matter how preposterous it may sound,

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Speaker 1: it's got about the most sincereous sentiments of love. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying this sort of abstracts sort of way,

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Speaker 1: but we're talking about the work such organizations the Black

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Speaker 1: Panther Party. The motivation of getting up with the first

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Speaker 1: free breakfast programs, free busting programs, survival programs was not

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Speaker 1: directly at a hatred for anyone, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: But again, motivate for love for people. But let me

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Speaker 1: say this, though, I think all black people should get

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Speaker 1: like a mass Nobel Peace Prize, all of us.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: The fact that we ain't just on mass snapped out.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, it's a run that we

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Speaker 1: ain't motivated at a hatred. But again, and sometimes even

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Speaker 1: though it's a reactionary response is kind of justified.

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Speaker 2: But again, for the record, it's a motive. Got a

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Speaker 10: Like to echo if I could, Hi, I'm Frederica and

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Speaker 10: Huing Newton was my husband. And what came to mind

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Speaker 10: when you when you even asked that question was quote

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Speaker 10: from Hue that said, what motivates people is not hatred,

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Speaker 10: but it's love for other people. So my mother was white,

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Speaker 10: and she introduced me to Hue because she was doing

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Speaker 10: only one that they trusted to do the real estate work.

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Speaker 10: So I couldn't. I did not grow up hating anyone.

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Speaker 10: But what I do hate is white supremacy and the

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Speaker 10: impact on black community. I actually hate that and the

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Speaker 10: impacts of the impact that has had on us. So again,

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Speaker 10: as my brother said, so eloquently as he always does,

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Speaker 10: as he always does, is that the Black Panther Party

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Speaker 10: service was out of love, out of love for black people,

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Speaker 10: out of love for oppressed people. And it wasn't it

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Speaker 10: wasn't guided by hate. So it's impossible for me to

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Speaker 10: hate anybody. I mean, I'm sorry, no, no, go ahead, now.

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Speaker 3: I was glads.

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Speaker 8: What's the biggest misconception people still have about the Black

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Speaker 8: Panther Party.

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Speaker 10: I think there were two, and you can, sir join me.

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Speaker 10: One of them is that women were not in leadership

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Speaker 10: in the Black Panther Party.

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Speaker 11: Women were, in fact.

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Speaker 10: Seventy percent of the membership at one point with women.

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Speaker 10: And the fact that Black Panther Party was a racist

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Speaker 10: organization and we worked in coalition with all organizations whose

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Speaker 10: common fight was against oppression. So those were two misnomers.

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Speaker 10: The history likes to talk about the misogyny and division

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Speaker 10: between black men and black women and the party, and

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Speaker 10: we came in with our own stuff. The average age

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Speaker 10: was seventeen in the Black Panther Party, so you had

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Speaker 10: pimps and educators, you.

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Speaker 11: Know, all.

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Speaker 10: And so we fought against we fought against homophobia, we

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Speaker 10: fought against misogyny and these things were we were called

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Speaker 10: out for those things. So you know, we were young

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Speaker 10: men and women whose motivation was love and people were

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Speaker 10: like his dad put their lives on the line and

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Speaker 10: gave them their lives out of love, not out of hatred.

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Speaker 12: Did your mother ever, I know you said that your

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Speaker 12: mother was white. She see her face any hardships, I did.

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Speaker 10: My mother's whole whole business was dismantled as a result

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Speaker 8: So how do you just always protect the legacy of

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Speaker 8: Speaking of fashion, Uh Lanny, why was it important to

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: So one the tagline for Actively Black is there's greatness

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Speaker 4: How difficult was it getting everybody in and how how

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Speaker 4: Did y'all have any concerns, any security concerns at all?

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Speaker 7: My man came and made sure we were we were,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, respect, no touch on his love of respect. Are

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Speaker 10: If I could say something about licensing rights and bootleg

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Speaker 11: Stop that.

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Speaker 10: For a few years And he didn't have to. He

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Speaker 3: Man of integrity.

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Speaker 14: What does it mean to be actively black?

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Speaker 7: That's such a layer question. And there's a reason why

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Speaker 7: So it's a double entendre. I want our people to

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Speaker 5: Owned, which just really confuses me.

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Speaker 7: You know what I mean, Because when we think about

442
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 7: the European designer that our people will spend our money on,

443
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,440
Speaker 7: we look at something that's made in Italy or that's

444
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 7: Parisians as a feature, right, black owned is not a description,

445
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 7: it's a feature. We are the most creative people on earth.

446
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:29,560
Speaker 7: We are the most soulful people on earth. It's a

447
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,600
Speaker 7: feature to be black owned when you think about what

448
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 7: we've created from nothing, and so I champion it. But also,

449
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 7: I'm not a designer.

450
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Speaker 3: You know.

451
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Speaker 7: I didn't start this because I was a designer. I

452
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 7: went to design school. I'm a former basketball player. Hurt

453
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 7: my knee thirty days after I signed my first NBA contract.

454
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Speaker 7: This is not a world that I even thought I

455
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 7: was going to be in. Actively. Black is a purpose driven,

456
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 7: mission driven thing. I didn't even start this to make

457
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 7: the most money possible. It was how do I create

458
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Speaker 7: something that can uplift my people? And in twenty twenty

459
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 7: when after the murder George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and

460
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 7: Nahmad Aubrey, I saw a lot of the brands that

461
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 7: I grew up wearing make performative declarations about what they

462
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 7: were going to do for black people and never do it.

463
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 7: And you see four years later that's what it was.

464
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,200
Speaker 7: It was performative. It was part of a marketing strategy.

465
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Speaker 7: And so my thought was, it's time for us to

466
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Speaker 7: stop asking for a seat at the table and build

467
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,920
Speaker 7: our own table. You know, the McKenzie report that came

468
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 7: out in twenty twenty four says black people today it's

469
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 7: been between twenty to twenty five billion on apparel and

470
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 7: shoes annually. So when I'm talking about a reparation, it's reclamation.

471
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Speaker 7: It's something that if we turn our influence, our global

472
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 7: influence inward to something that we own that champions us.

473
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Speaker 7: How powerful is that if we're giving back to not

474
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Speaker 7: only these folks, but to our community at the size

475
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Speaker 7: that we are. Now, what happens when we build the

476
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,640
Speaker 7: black owned version of Nike? You know what happens when

477
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 7: actively Black is a multi billion dollar brand that can

478
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 7: keep doing what we're doing.

479
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Speaker 9: And by the way, Matt pickaback on, that image of

480
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 9: drinking out of the fountain had been you might say,

481
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 9: stolen over decades, used without giving asking permission.

482
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 6: When Lady Smith, an active right.

483
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,640
Speaker 9: Came in to photograph us, he said he was going

484
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 9: to give us a contribution to our non profit museum.

485
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 9: We have the first and only civil rights museum in

486
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Speaker 9: South Carolina, the South Carolina Civil Rights Museum. And forty

487
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 9: five days after again this brother and his brand, his

488
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 9: crew came in and photographed us and put this image

489
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:36,679
Speaker 9: on his peril. We got a check from him, well,

490
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Speaker 9: PayPal if.

491
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Speaker 6: You want to.

492
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 9: And then again after the New York Show again they

493
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 9: sold I think maybe about fifty thousand dollars more T shirts.

494
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 9: They sent me another check, so they reciprocate. But what

495
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 9: he's doing here is so ingenious because it's little known

496
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 9: that the power impact of one image, say an image,

497
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 9: an image is eight times more, if active, than the

498
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 9: written language. And educators should begin to use this in

499
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 9: our systems today, teaching everyone and having that power and

500
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 9: capacity to see no longer is it really going to

501
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,919
Speaker 9: be a reading, writing, and arithmetic. It's going to be reading,

502
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 9: writing and seeing or looking and with AI making his presence.

503
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 9: So this brother is using images to make an impact.

504
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 6: So what.

505
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 9: My fellow individuals here are doing and myself, we are

506
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 9: bringing it again the sacrifices that we where we paved

507
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 9: the way for today's generation forward and the power and

508
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 9: impact to make this relative today is immeasurable by again

509
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 9: such access.

510
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Speaker 6: What he's doing to put images on.

511
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 3: T shirts looks so clean in that picture. What you

512
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 3: was doing for money back then?

513
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Speaker 9: By the season, I was taking pictures. I took pictures

514
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 9: ever since I was nine years old, and at twelve

515
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 9: years old, I found out I could make money. I

516
00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 9: did a waiting for thirty five dollars.

517
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Speaker 5: Wow.

518
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 6: And we're homeboys in.

519
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 9: South Carolina's home state. So you know, as you know,

520
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 9: we don't give up. But by the way, when you

521
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 9: ask a question about again.

522
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 6: About you know, what's.

523
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 9: Happened today and things like that, we're not going back.

524
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 9: We as the people have fought too long and too hard,

525
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 9: and not only that, we have the stamina to face

526
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 9: anything that's going on in America today. We're not going

527
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 9: back to that. The young people not going to stand

528
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 9: for it. The middle aged people are not going to

529
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 9: stand for it. And the old people like us who

530
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 9: have actually experienced this, we're not going back. It's going

531
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Speaker 9: to be we're going forward with democracy, freedom and justice.

532
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Speaker 8: Do you believe today's generation carries the same spirit or

533
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 8: sacrifice that your generation did?

534
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,159
Speaker 9: Yes, it's just that it has not been focused on

535
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 9: and utilize. But things like this act that this brother

536
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 9: put together will help to materialize this. It would be

537
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 9: amazing of how he has really put into motion millions

538
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 9: of people across these the states, which simple as simple

539
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 9: as an image on a T shirt, this classic image

540
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 9: here of Huet Newton, a statement that again you can't

541
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 9: really measure the impact.

542
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 6: That that will be to young minds who.

543
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 9: Are growing up and again reading, writing, arithmetic had its

544
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 9: place in our education. But again it's a different thing

545
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 9: again five and six years old people, our students and

546
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 9: our youth using cell phones. And so it's amazing of

547
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 9: what the future is going to bring with this kind

548
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 9: of instant learning that we are now accustomed to.

549
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Speaker 8: You you know, you know, Landy, you have put a

550
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 8: post up and you said all the black people who

551
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 8: have said posted and reposted, I am not my ancestors.

552
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Speaker 3: Get ready.

553
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 8: The chance to prove that statement is coming soon. It's

554
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 8: easy for us to talk tough while not living in

555
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 8: Jim Crow and this Jim Crow two point oho is

556
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 8: fully installed. Were going to see that ancestor in passing

557
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 8: in real time.

558
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, so how do you?

559
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Speaker 8: How do you want folks to show up? Because I

560
00:26:58,040 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 8: agree with you, I don't know if they got the

561
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 8: we got to stand.

562
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Speaker 10: Yeah.

563
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Speaker 5: I love the optimism here, you know what I'm saying.

564
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 7: But you know, I see people make that statement I

565
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 7: am not, we are not our ancestors, and it.

566
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 5: Pisches me off.

567
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 7: You know what I mean when you think about the

568
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 7: sacrifices that were made. We can't stay out of certain stores,

569
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. I've been telling people, hey,

570
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 7: Lululemon don't want you, come get these types from actively Black.

571
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 7: We can't stay out of certain stores, and they tell

572
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 7: us they don't want us. So I don't know that

573
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 7: we have collectively our generation and the younger generation shown

574
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 7: that we have that level of sacrifice and grit that

575
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 7: it takes. You know, people gave their lives.

576
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.

577
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 7: I'm reading rereading ASADA's biography and just when you read

578
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 7: the things that she went through as a revolutionary for

579
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 7: our people, I don't know to me, people that's willing.

580
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 5: To give up so much for the struggle. It's people

581
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 5: that have told.

582
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Speaker 7: Me, man, I love actively black silently, but I can't

583
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,719
Speaker 7: publicly support it because I might lose this or somebody

584
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 7: might be So if if you scared to lose a check,

585
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 7: if you're scared to what these people are gonna think

586
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 7: of you for being boldly black, then you don't. You're

587
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,199
Speaker 7: definitely not our ancestors. Because our ancestors are willing to

588
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 7: die for this. And so that's what I meant by that, Like,

589
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 7: we're gonna find out soon we see what's happening in

590
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 7: this country. We're gonna see who's willing to actually stand

591
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 7: up and be like our ancestors.

592
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 8: You know, brother Seeson, you've witnessed you know, segregation, civil

593
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 8: rights marches, movements like Black Lives Matter. How do you

594
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 8: see the evolution of protest in America?

595
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 9: Well, I think today with social media and other kinds

596
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 9: of things that we have in our society that runs

597
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 9: rampart through all from middle school children on up, we

598
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 9: have different tools for today's environment and for today is

599
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 9: our position and the things that are again oppressive to

600
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 9: us as a people. But one thing is gonna remain

601
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 9: of the same we as African Americans have as a

602
00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 9: stamma we he come from again, see very apply what's

603
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 9: out the in our DNA to withstand the heat, withstand

604
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 9: the pressure, and to move on. But again, as I

605
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 9: say there a minute ago, I believe that today's generation

606
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 9: we have the they have the capacity to do it.

607
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 9: It's just that they have not been focused in the

608
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 9: right and so we're kind of running around englessly without

609
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 9: the unit say their leadership to what we can do today.

610
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 9: But just for example, suppose, for example, people of color

611
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 9: were to unite. Suppose Jewish people, Hispanic people, African American people,

612
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 9: our Indian brothers, our East Indian brothers, our Native Americans.

613
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 9: So by the way, whose history has been wiped off

614
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 9: the face of the earth by may or the fact

615
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 9: that they just stood down and withstood European settlements in

616
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 9: this country. Just think if people of color would unite.

617
00:29:55,240 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 9: They just think of the political possibilities of that coalition.

618
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 7: I think, I think we I think we have to

619
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,719
Speaker 7: be we have to unite ourselves first. That's that's you know,

620
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 7: there's there's so there's so many things that divide us.

621
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 7: We still got diaspora, a wars, We still have so

622
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 7: much toxicity when it comes to even between black men

623
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 7: and black women. I think if we can unite first,

624
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 7: I think everybody else gonna follow our.

625
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 5: Lead like they always do, you know what I mean.

626
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 7: So yeah, that's that's part of my plan and my

627
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 7: mission with Actively Black is to be that flag, that

628
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 7: banner that we can all fly under. I'm not just

629
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 7: building this just for Black America. I'm building this for

630
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Speaker 7: the entire diaspora, you know what I mean when I

631
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 7: say actively Black.

632
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Speaker 13: I know there's always the conversations about reparations. Is there

633
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 13: a way do you guys feel like and is there

634
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 13: a way that you feel like you could ever be

635
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 13: really repaid for what your families have had to go through,

636
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 13: what you've had to experience, Because people make that conversation

637
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 13: so simple of like we should re receiving this because

638
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 13: we went through this, But you guys personally experienced so

639
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 13: much loss and hurt, like is that or is there

640
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 13: a real antwer to that for you?

641
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: No, of course, no matter resources can commensate. You know

642
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and I'm gonna say this, the terrorism

643
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: that we've been subjected to. In fact, we say that,

644
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: you know, every day is septimty eleven for us, and

645
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: in fact we define these some of the Fourth Fro

646
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, amongst other days. It's one of our

647
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: Septement eleven stories. Uh, we say yesterday and two of

648
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: our twin towers quote unquote Feil chairman friend defensing the

649
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: Marl Claque. But just the question of resource, I mean,

650
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: reparations are deep. Uh definitely, Uh, economists the resources player

651
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: key roll. But the political significance of this is important too,

652
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: how we view ourselves. A lot of our people don't

653
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: think were worthy of being attacked, and like we have to,

654
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So for the rooting class

655
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: in particular, to acknowledge that, you know what I'm saying again,

656
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: these we are we are I say, black people, We

657
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: the ov not the old g's. We had the original

658
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: victims of terrorism, people who have been terrorismals. So euphanism

659
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: as slavery, Jim Crow red lining, deaths passing away. So

660
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: just so that that discussion, I mean that that's hop

661
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: and so many other communities different people don't reparations. Why

662
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: is it such a position not to talk about that

663
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: with the black community and reparation even more than the economics. Uh,

664
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: the bodies the most valuable resources that they have been

665
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: stolen from our people. With black bodies. We got political

666
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,479
Speaker 1: prisoners who are still locked up. We got to get that,

667
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: you know, say, and the resource the finance too.

668
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 10: You know, I wanted to address the question that you

669
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 10: asked before about the ancestors and how does it feel.

670
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 10: It saddens me when when I see those posts on online,

671
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 10: but it also makes me think that it's it's real

672
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 10: evidence of of lack of education around what ancestors. So

673
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 10: it's by design, And here's evidence that there's misinformation. Even

674
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 10: my own grandchildren when I when I overhear what they're learning,

675
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 10: what they're what they're taught in school. And my own

676
00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 10: son and my grandchildren get no history on revolutionary organizations

677
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 10: like the Black Panther Party. So this is just further evidence.

678
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 10: When you see something so ignorant that says we are

679
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 10: not our ancestors, I said, you're actually not. But had

680
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 10: you read about what your ancestors actually did, what they

681
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 10: actually did instead of the sanitized version of Martin and

682
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 10: Malcolm and the Black Panther Party and all the history

683
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 10: that was erased. Then you would be proud to say,

684
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 10: I want to be like my ancestors.

685
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 11: That's my goal.

686
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 12: And it's so scary because they're really trying to delete

687
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 12: and get rid of all of our history. So, like

688
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 12: you just said, your grandkids, they don't the things that

689
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 12: they're being taught. It's not even of what you all

690
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 12: went through or actually don't know the first thing about it,

691
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 12: you know.

692
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 14: So it's like, how does history lessons go for you?

693
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 14: Are you their teacher?

694
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: Then?

695
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 12: Like do you how do you handle that when you

696
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 12: see what they're being taught and what they're not being taught?

697
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 10: I thank god I have a museum that they as

698
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 10: as Cecil so aptly said, black people are visual and

699
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,720
Speaker 10: the Black Panther Party knew that and they're visual learners.

700
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 10: We weren't necessarily a reading community. So at the beginning,

701
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 10: at the end the front and the back of every

702
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 10: Black Panther Party newspaper which is in publication for thirteen years,

703
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 10: there was images. Emry Douglas a Sally Dixon were our

704
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 10: artists and they painted, they drew what was more impactful

705
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 10: than what they would have read had they read. My

706
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 10: kids are the same way. They come and they see

707
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 10: the images in the museum and they ask questions. It

708
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 10: impacts them. When I brought my granddaughter to the Actively

709
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 10: Black show two years ago and my grandson this time,

710
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 10: and they were blown away. My grandson way, hold up,

711
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 10: that's Ruby Bridges, Nana, and when it was Tommy Smith

712
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 10: and John Carli.

713
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 9: What.

714
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 10: He's fifteen years old, so he is learning some history,

715
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 10: but to see it in living color and him wearing

716
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 10: he only wears actively black. He only wears actively black

717
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 10: apparel to school. This almost makes me cry because he

718
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 10: only would wear Nike before. He would only wear Nike,

719
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 10: and I try and to talk to him about what's

720
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 10: going on, but he only wears actively black.

721
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: You know.

722
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 3: The beauty of what Landy's doing though.

723
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 8: He got the images, but then he got the people

724
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 8: to tell the story.

725
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 3: What scares me is that we live in.

726
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 8: An era where people can make up images and make

727
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 8: up stories.

728
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 3: Behind those images.

729
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 8: So I don't know why we have so much faith

730
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 8: in you know, the images of this error moving forward?

731
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think that was also part of

732
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 7: the strength of what we did with the show, right,

733
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 7: it was not just the imagery, It wasn't just the videos.

734
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 5: Is people being able to see them in person, you know.

735
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 7: So I know one of the things we've talked about,

736
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 7: doctor Eliosis Abiza talked about, Doctor Kenye has talked about

737
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 7: is taking what we did in New York Fashion Week,

738
00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 7: going on tour, letting people see Cecil Williams, Fredrika Newton, Sherman,

739
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 7: fred Hampton Junior in person, seeing Ruby Bridges walk out

740
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 7: in person, because that, you know, AI can't do that, you.

741
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 12: Know what I mean, and something I think is really

742
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 12: really dope, you know, but I just want to make

743
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 12: sure it's true your clothing products are made from cotton

744
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 12: from black farmers or is that a specific line specific line?

745
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 7: So you know, when Trump announced the one hundred and

746
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 7: fifty percent tariffs, it really impacted us. Most of our

747
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 7: performance apparel at leisure apparel is made from overseas, so

748
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 7: we were trying to look to find the domestic partner

749
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 7: to see what we could get done here in the

750
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 7: United States. And I thought about these black farmers who

751
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 7: have lost ninety percent of their land in the last

752
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 7: seventy five years. So we used to own twenty million

753
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 7: acres of farmland black farmers. We now only own three

754
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 7: million acres of farmland, and in the next twenty years

755
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 7: that could potentially go to zero. So we partner with

756
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 7: bridge Forth Farms, a fifth generation black farmer, and we

757
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 7: to cotton directly from them. So the hoodie I'm wearing

758
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 7: right now, it shows on the back it says made

759
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 7: from cotton.

760
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 14: From cotton.

761
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 7: So when people when people buy this product, when they

762
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 7: buying this hoodie and they buying a cotton shirt, there's

763
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 7: money that's going directly to these black farmers who have

764
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 7: been historically discriminated against from the government, and there's some

765
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 7: power in it. It's a story of reclamation. People don't

766
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 7: understand that the entire United States economy was built off

767
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 7: the backs of slavery and cotton. And we're talking about

768
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 7: trillion trillions of dollars in today's money that was generated

769
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 7: that our people were kept out of. So what happens

770
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 7: when we reclaim this thing that was once used.

771
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 5: To enslave us? What if we use that to save us?

772
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?

773
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 7: And that's what I've been trying to get people to understand,

774
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 7: especially about this collection. In particular, I had black people

775
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 7: telling me, man that the cotton shirt is too expensive,

776
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 7: the hoodie is too expensive. It's like, man, you'll go

777
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 7: spend eight hundred dollars on that Louis. You'll go spend

778
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 7: it on that Gucci. But you're telling me that this

779
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 7: collection that is literally from cotton grown by black farmers

780
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 7: that are supporting us, that that black dollar recirculates in

781
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 7: our community, it's too expensive. And that's an issue of

782
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 7: how we value ourselves versus the things that we value

783
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 7: from other people, not understanding that we are the sauce

784
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 7: and the seasoning. We are the originators of all of

785
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 7: this that gets colonized, repackaged and sold back to us.

786
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 14: That is actively black though.

787
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 3: That is dope.

788
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 14: That is a flex made from cotton grown by black farmers.

789
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 4: No, you cooked up with Michael Jackson State and did

790
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 4: a Michael Jackson collab. How difficult was that?

791
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 7: Honestly, you know these collabs have come in away, that

792
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 7: these doors have been opened where now it's they're they're

793
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 7: coming at us. I got a shout out Damon John,

794
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:04,959
Speaker 7: founder of Food, because it started with him. He reached

795
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,439
Speaker 7: out to do a Footboo collab we sat down, talked

796
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 7: about it, got everything straight, and he asked me, what

797
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 7: else are you working on? And I showed him a

798
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 7: concept of a Black Panther actively Black collab because the

799
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 7: movie that came out in twenty eighteen was such an

800
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 7: inspiration to me. He picked up the phone in the

801
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 7: middle of the meeting and called the head of licensing

802
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 7: for Marvel and Disney and said, y'all need to see

803
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 7: what I just saw. So our first major collaboration was

804
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 7: for Wakanda Forever, and when that happened, it just kind

805
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 7: of opened the floodgates. The Bob Marley estate reached out

806
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 7: ahead of the One Love movie, So that's how we

807
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 7: got that collaboration.

808
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 5: We've got one with the Tupac A State as well.

809
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 7: So now that you know, they saw that we operated

810
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 7: in excellence in the way that we executed on these collaborations,

811
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 7: So now the doors have been opened. So we got

812
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 7: a Bosqueyach collab coming out this December. It'll release that

813
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 7: art basel all of these these these legends in black history, charlamage.

814
00:39:58,239 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 5: You wearing the Mhammad Ali collab that we got.

815
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 7: Lanni Ali literally told me, she said, we've done collapsed

816
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 7: with every brand you could think of. But my husband

817
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 7: stood for way more than what he just did in

818
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 7: the ring. I believe actively black can tell a story

819
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,760
Speaker 7: they can't tell. So I think that's that's the power

820
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 7: of what we're doing with actively black.

821
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,439
Speaker 8: I want to ask you, brother, fred your father once

822
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 8: said you can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill

823
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 8: the revolution. So what does that revolution look like in

824
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 8: twenty twenty five? I want you to chime in on

825
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 8: that to Frederick.

826
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Speaker 1: A couple of things. I think people get involved in

827
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: struggle or become quote unquote conscious one of three ways inspiration,

828
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: aspiration or desperation, And there's are definitely different depthent times.

829
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: That's them to the war and the revolution. The war

830
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: you get your respective armies, you suit up and you boot

831
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: up and you get out to get out. Revolution you

832
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: gain the mass and participation on the masters of the

833
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 1: people these times right now, quote from Lennon and say

834
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: what it takes people twenty years and learn in ordinary times,

835
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: they can learn in two years, and revolutionary times often

836
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: said that I'm a revolutionary in reaction every time. So

837
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,760
Speaker 1: right now you see, like at warp speed, the different

838
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: type of discussions you look in nineteen sixty sixty during

839
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: the Black Power movement, you had a different sort of athlete,

840
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: you had a different sort of entertainer. It was a

841
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 1: climate where Marvin Gaye was able to go against Bear

842
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: Gordon Red records, I'm gonna put this song out, what's

843
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: going on, whether you like it or not. It was

844
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: a climate where James Brown, who had a whole totally

845
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: different song played at first, well, ah try Brown, I know,

846
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: see man, I mean, went to drove down on him

847
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: and he say get up to ante. He came back

848
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 1: out said I'm black and I'm proud. Even at different

849
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,760
Speaker 1: street tribes, a lot of people refer to as the gangs.

850
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: You had the Devil Disciples in Chicago's get up publicly

851
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: and say we now renowned ourself that we know it's

852
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: the Black Disciples. Due to doing doing part to the

853
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: political education we received from chairman I hotly respect chairman

854
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: with the black chairman for wepons, the party impacted on

855
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: them the vice laws.

856
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 2: I said. The FBI tried to post the vice laws

857
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 2: in Chicago to him.

858
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: They'd give them a certain portion of the West Side

859
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: if the Path of Party couldn't open a free medical

860
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: center chairman Fred won these brothers and sisters to a

861
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: point of unity. But they subsequently worked to the Free

862
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: Medical Center and by the government's own account, they own records.

863
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: They say it was a record load. So they call

864
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: black on black crime. So to go to the heart

865
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 1: of the question, that's what is these type of dynamics,

866
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying where you know that it's

867
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: our relationships, our music, our discussions.

868
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 2: It's a whole. You can feel it.

869
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 6: You know.

870
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: My mother tells me, I like to call them war

871
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: and love stories. She comes, you know, saying two three

872
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: in the morning, you know, say coming down street.

873
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 2: The people.

874
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, uh not not drunks or wine.

875
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: Here is who are demoralized even the terms with you

876
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, who the more they are power

877
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: to the people, you know what I'm saying, A different climate,

878
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. And you can see it even

879
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: now I'm watching right now your cargo. You can see

880
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: it the type of discussion that are being up and

881
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people are forced to have the discussion

882
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: and say this enclosing, people talk about the segregation like

883
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: oh we stuck together, Oh no, this is all so

884
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: you cannot negate the lot of people were forced together.

885
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

886
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: You talk about the sixties, this, don't get don't talk

887
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 1: about the nice things you got, you get. You cannot

888
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: negate Nixon's role. You know what I'm saying. I'm gonna

889
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: say this, he turns more than me black. He turns

890
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: more than me black. But now he don't believe me

891
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: like I can live it right now. Hear what you're

892
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: saying now, chairman.

893
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 7: Yeah, the the lines have been drawn, and and to

894
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 7: your points, it's forcing people to pick which.

895
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 5: Side they're gonna be on.

896
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 7: And for a long time, when we got comfortable, there

897
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 7: are a lot of our own people who would straddle

898
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 7: that line. And now that the lines are drawn, where

899
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 7: you're seeing the Black History Museum being attacked, when you're

900
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 7: seeing these things happen, where's so blatant you can't hide

901
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 7: behind straddling that line. And and we're even seeing it

902
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 7: with actively Black. A lot of black people who are

903
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 7: afraid to put on the brand because it said actively black.

904
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 7: They're now like, yo, I need that because whether you

905
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 7: wear this or not, your your your melanin ain't gonna

906
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 7: change you black and you're gonna you're gonna and you're

907
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 7: gonna be treated as such.

908
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

909
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 7: So if that's the case, you might as well, you know,

910
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,439
Speaker 7: rep this gang. You know what I'm saying, Like, let

911
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 7: this be the set that you claim. You know, the

912
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 7: the the KKK, the Proud Boys, they still walking around.

913
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 7: We should have no beef with another black man while

914
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 7: these people who have taken our lives are still walking around.

915
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 7: You want to you wanna you want to run up

916
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 7: on somebody, run up on these white supremacists. You know

917
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 7: what I'm saying. And so I think that's what you're

918
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 7: saying is we're gonna see our own, who may have

919
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 7: been turned against each other, We're gonna be forced to

920
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 7: come together to turn against the real opposition.

921
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 12: Fredie, you can see someone look is miss Frederica and

922
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 12: miss the Seacool.

923
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 11: You are killing me.

924
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 6: The whole time.

925
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 14: You know, you've just been saying the names, brother, Frederica.

926
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 2: Brother.

927
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 9: The path forward for us after the Americans and people

928
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 9: of color is we've got to write our on stories.

929
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 9: You see, it's a difference in say, let's say a

930
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 9: famous fable is Native Americans on the shores of plumbous

931
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 9: rock and they see three ships come over, and the

932
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 9: guy gets off the ship and says, I discovered America

933
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 9: or whatever. The Indians didn't write those stories. It was

934
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 9: written from a European standpoint. So we've got to today

935
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 9: the path forward with us. We've got to write our

936
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 9: on stories, we've got to tell, we've got to make

937
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 9: investments and so forth. I admire what you're doing in

938
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 9: my town of Orangeburg, the town where there's two HBCUs.

939
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 9: You have established the crystal restaurants. I started to bring

940
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 9: you a crystal Hamburger by the way. Okay, well come

941
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 9: back and see see our museum. But we've got to

942
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 9: invest and become we are the world's greatest.

943
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 6: Prosumers, you know, consumers.

944
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 9: We all really move that though other than say we

945
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 9: are also producers. We make things, We manufacture things. Content

946
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 9: creation for example, or something we could do, and the

947
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 9: power we have to on podcasts such as we're doing

948
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 9: making reaching millions of people at the time. This is

949
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 9: what we've got to do in the path forward, to

950
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 9: come together and come to groups of what's happened to day.

951
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 9: And this is what if if I were Hugh and Newton.

952
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 9: I may Cecil Williams, Yes, from the small act of

953
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 9: defiance that I did.

954
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 6: But this is what we must know today to get

955
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:15,720
Speaker 6: it all together.

956
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 3: Mister fred rig.

957
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 10: As a seventy three year old woman, my act of

958
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 10: revolution looks different than when I was seventeen, and so

959
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 10: all I can not All I can do. What I

960
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 10: can do, first of all, is know that revolution looks

961
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 10: like many things in the world that I live in

962
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 10: and that I create. Revolution looks like bringing people who

963
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,439
Speaker 10: wouldn't ordinarily be together in the same room together. People

964
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 10: who wouldn't never embrace this Black Panther Party not only history,

965
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 10: but be proud of it, are now proud of it.

966
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 10: As a result of the work that we've done. There

967
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 10: are organizations that asked me to speak, that visit our museum.

968
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 10: As Lanny said earlier, who would never I'm talking about

969
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,959
Speaker 10: black people who would never have embraced his history before

970
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 10: out of fear. But because we talk about heightening the contradiction,

971
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 10: they are now forced forced to embrace this history. And

972
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 10: so I can't speak to the broader what revolutionary, what

973
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 10: revolution looks like, but I can do my work to

974
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,240
Speaker 10: make sure that this history is available. So that people

975
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 10: learn about our victories and our mistakes. One of the

976
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 10: things we talk about is for young revolutionaries today to

977
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 10: make sure that they address their own mental, spiritual, and

978
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 10: physical health. That you cannot be impactful and effective if

979
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 10: you are broken inside, if you're not whole. And that's

980
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 10: one thing that I mean, we were fighting for our

981
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 10: lives every day. We didn't have the luxury to meditate

982
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 10: like this woman did or even know the importance of

983
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 10: so as a result, you have a lot of wounded

984
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 10: comrades who have not who didn't have the luxury of

985
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 10: taking care of themselves, have trauma that was never addressed.

986
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 10: So that's what at the museum and the doctor Huey P.

987
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 10: Newton's Foundation just celebrated thirty years this month of existence,

988
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 10: and at this museum, thank you. We we address all

989
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 10: of the needs, the physical and emotional needs. We have meditation,

990
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 10: we have sound baths, we have I mean, this month

991
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 10: we're just full of full of activities so that we

992
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 10: can keep ourselves healthy while we fight this war.

993
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 3: I'm glad you said I could always say.

994
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 8: I feel like our generation is the first generation that

995
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 8: has the luxury of healing.

996
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:49,280
Speaker 13: Yeah, all, thank god, Thank God, we were somebody yesterday,

997
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 13: like even a luxury to just kind of like take

998
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 13: the time to educate yourself, like stop like and just

999
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 13: watch something or learn something. A lot of times people

1000
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 13: didn't have that, Like you literally had to fight every

1001
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 13: minute of your life just to be okay.

1002
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 10: Twenty four hours a day. We didn't just check in

1003
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 10: and punch of time clock and we didn't get paid.

1004
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 10: So it's completely volunteer and we live collectively. And at

1005
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 10: night you were on watch to make sure that the

1006
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 10: police did not didn't shoot up where you were living.

1007
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:19,240
Speaker 10: So this was I mean real life for a revolutionary

1008
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 10: at that time, and so we didn't have the luxury

1009
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 10: to even talk about recreation or taking care of ourselves.

1010
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 10: I think when I met Erica, when Erica Huggins, when

1011
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 10: she came home from prison, she was the first person

1012
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 10: I knew in the party who would meditate, and she

1013
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 10: taught She brought Hughey to that practice where he started

1014
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 10: to meditate and to embrace this whole spiritual aspect of revolution.

1015
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 10: We can't be effective if we're not taking.

1016
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:45,720
Speaker 11: Care of ourselves.

1017
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 3: Can I ask? What was Huey P. Newton's vision for

1018
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:54,280
Speaker 3: freedom beyond revolution? Like what did peace look like to him?

1019
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 10: Piece I think was the absence of any fear, the

1020
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 10: absence of to live life without fear of gosh, it's

1021
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 10: a question that I never asked him. I don't know

1022
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 10: that he ever attained I don't know. I know that

1023
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 10: he didn't never attain himself in his own life. But

1024
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 10: I think maybe peace was the absence of feeling fear

1025
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 10: about being black, you know, just to to feel to

1026
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 10: know that your children were not subject to the same

1027
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 10: things that he was, that our grandchildren could could live

1028
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 10: a life.

1029
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 11: I don't know.

1030
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 10: It's so hard to visualize because I've never had.

1031
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 7: It, and we and we've been so we've been so conditioned,

1032
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 7: and you know, when you just said that, it sparked

1033
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 7: you know, I want to make sure I recognize her,

1034
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 7: the black woman behind actively black. He's here, Beyonca Winslow.

1035
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 7: I could not do this without her. But we're getting

1036
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 7: ready to welcome our first child into this world. Thank you,

1037
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:58,399
Speaker 7: Thank you. I got a son on the way. There's

1038
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 7: there's greatness in his DNA. But when you said that,

1039
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 7: one of the things that I started thinking about was

1040
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 7: I gotta have conversations with him about when the police

1041
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 7: get behind you. This is how you gotta react that

1042
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,720
Speaker 7: that fear that we don't even realize is embedded because

1043
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 7: we've had to deal with it for so long, the

1044
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 7: things that that we have to prepare for that other

1045
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 7: people who are not black, they don't have to think

1046
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 7: about those things. So when you say that peace is

1047
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 7: like the absence of fear, that was that really struck

1048
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 7: me because it's been heavy on my mind the world

1049
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,720
Speaker 7: that my son is getting ready to answer.

1050
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 10: It's true. I mean I wore out my carpet when

1051
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 10: my son got his driver's license, in particular because I

1052
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 10: wasn't afraid that he would get an accident. I was

1053
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 10: afraid that he would be killed by the police. And

1054
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 10: I don't you know, that's not something that everybody has.

1055
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 10: White folks don't grow up thinking that they're gonna have

1056
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 10: to have that talk with their kids. But that's in

1057
00:51:54,960 --> 00:52:00,280
Speaker 10: our DNA. That's that's reproductive survival success.

1058
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 11: To make sure that our kids know the real truth.

1059
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 10: That's a revolutionary Yet, to have to prepare your kid

1060
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 10: to live, I want to. I want my grandchildren not

1061
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 10: to have to prepare their sons and daughters in the

1062
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,720
Speaker 10: same way I had to prepare their dad.

1063
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 4: Well, we appreciate you for joining us. How can people

1064
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 4: pick up some of your clothesline and.

1065
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 7: Actively black dot com. You can find us on all

1066
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:32,319
Speaker 7: social networks Actively Black. What you see here is the

1067
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 7: result of the tribe of so many black people supporting

1068
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 7: Actively Black. That fashion show. We didn't have any major

1069
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 7: sponsors who funded it. We had to come out of pocket.

1070
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,919
Speaker 7: We had to come out of what was generated because

1071
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:48,800
Speaker 7: people supported the brand. And that's the importance of buying

1072
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 7: Black owned. That's why it's important to buy Black owned.

1073
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 7: It's not just another T shirt, it's not just another hoodie.

1074
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 7: It allows us to reinvest back into our communities. It

1075
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 7: allows us as actively Black to support these living legends.

1076
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,359
Speaker 7: I just got to say this one last thing because

1077
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 7: it's what inspired me to reach out to these living legends.

1078
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 7: I read a story that Rosa Parks was facing eviction

1079
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 7: in the later part of her life, and that pissed

1080
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 7: me off because how can somebody who made so many

1081
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 7: sacrifices for us, all the people who made money off

1082
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 7: of the movement, how could nobody have been taken care

1083
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 7: of her?

1084
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

1085
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 7: And when I read that story, I was like, who

1086
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 7: can I find who's still living that we can support.

1087
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 7: And so the first people I reached out to were

1088
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,760
Speaker 7: John Carlos and Tommy Smith, famous for that nineteen sixty

1089
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 7: eight photo at the Olympics, and that was our actual

1090
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 7: first collaboration. And I did it because I was able

1091
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 7: to sell this product and cut them a check.

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

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00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 7: We got to take care of the ones who paved

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00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 7: the way for us so that we can continue. So

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00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 7: that's why I champion buying black owns so much. Have

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00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 7: some grace for black founders. We get less than zero

1097
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 7: point three percent of all venture capital investment. We are

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00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 7: building from underneath the ground. When you look at skyscrapers,

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00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 7: they dig one hundred and twenty meters deep in the

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00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 7: ground before they start building upwards. A lot of times

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00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 7: our own people give up on us before we've even

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00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:12,760
Speaker 7: cracked the surface. We are building from underneath the ground.

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Speaker 7: We need y'all support so that we can actually build

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00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 7: the skyscraper so you can see that one day. You know,

1105
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,439
Speaker 7: there's no reason why we shouldn't have our own Nike.

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00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 7: That's what actively black is. When we build this multi

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00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:27,359
Speaker 7: billion dollar brand, it's not for my personal wealth. It's

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00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 7: for us to uplift our people actively Black dot com.

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Speaker 8: Hell I want, I want, I want a brother, sister, Frederica,

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Speaker 8: give them the museum websites.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some people can donate.

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00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,800
Speaker 6: Well, you can go to Cecil Williams Music.

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Speaker 9: I'm sorry, South Carolina Civil Rights Museum. But we also

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00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:47,240
Speaker 9: have a way of like PayPal and the email address

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00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 9: there and several other ways. But we're easily find We're

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00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 9: again in the college town of Orange, big South Carolina,

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Speaker 9: and we need your supporter, even dollars. One dollar helps,

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Speaker 9: So please support us as that's right.

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Speaker 7: If you part guests, I want to make sure you

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Speaker 7: get this and then and then so so Fridie could

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00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 7: close us out, make sure you got that.

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Speaker 5: What's that?

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Speaker 10: What's the museum Black the Black Panther Party Museum on.

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Speaker 3: We'll Fredrika, he just gave it to me.

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Speaker 11: That's all I said. Was on Instagram.

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Speaker 10: Is at the Black Panther Party Museum and the doctor

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00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 10: Huey P. Newton Foundation celebrating thirty years this year. Please

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Speaker 10: come visit us in Oakland, California, Black Panther Party Museum.

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00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 10: We're open, I mean we're and we're packed. So this

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Speaker 10: month celebrates the Black Panther Party History Month and we're

1131
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Speaker 10: full of celebrations, so please visit us there.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, okay uh. Also I'm thank you for having

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Speaker 1: us here. Finsfide Saluta our fellow Paltlis Clinch fist salut

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00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: is actively Black the Civil fourth International Revolutionary Day come

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Speaker 1: to Chicago. Also the Hampton House dot org. We get

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Speaker 1: programs going to child homem Chamber of Friend Hampton maybe

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Speaker 1: Illinois again Hampton House dot org. On the close out

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Speaker 1: to this quo back minutes to doctor U. E. P.

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Speaker 1: Newton pictures were for a thousand words, but action and supreme.

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Speaker 2: Way.

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Speaker 6: This is a quality product that this brother.

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Speaker 9: One of the things that impressed me, like I've had

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Speaker 9: many few and thank got so much for or something. Well,

1144
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 9: when I first felt the quality of the materials and

1145
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 9: what he was doing, that convinced me that this was

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00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 9: the right brothers the sport. So it equals anything that's

1147
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 9: out there, you know, all the apparel that he is

1148
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 9: making now and all the things that he does, he

1149
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 9: deal he works at the top of the line, first class.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely right.

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00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 2: Well, it's the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Thank you guys, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 7: Every day a week ago, clicks up the breakfast Club'll done.