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Speaker 1: talk about dreams and making dreams come true. But I
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Speaker 1: hear that there is a new Jim cro cast system
Speaker 1: and would you believe how it's affecting us today? Stores
Speaker 1: are closing. It is a lot going on on this
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Speaker 1: this is an ongoing conversation. Okay, the number to call
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Speaker 1: one fifty four thirty two. It's eight one at four
Speaker 1: six one fifty four thirty two. I want to give
Speaker 1: a special shout out to miss Mayan. How you doing? Yes,
Speaker 1: Miss Mayan is an US faithful Okay from the FM's
Speaker 1: out to Vitamin D Live shows up each time, and
Speaker 1: I want to let you know I appreciate you, and
Speaker 1: I see you and thank you for seeing me. Now,
Speaker 1: since we're talking about seeing and observing things, I got
Speaker 1: to ask you a question. When it goes down to
Speaker 1: our homeless population, do you think that changes being made,
Speaker 1: all of the money that's invested, what we got going
Speaker 1: on our community? I want to know because I just
Speaker 1: saw a story on KTLA talking about how much we
Speaker 1: spend on those who are unhoused in our community. Now,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, California has invested twenty four billion
Speaker 1: dollars of the fast five fiscal years to address homelessness.
Speaker 1: You know, it underscores the state's urgent effort to curb
Speaker 1: the intractable crises. As people are saying, now, there's an
Speaker 1: estimated of one hundred and eighty one thousand people experienced
Speaker 1: homelessness in California, and that was in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: an increase of sixty three thousand individuals in the past
Speaker 1: ten years. I mean, if you look at the fiscal
Speaker 1: year of twenty twenty one to twenty two alone, when
Speaker 1: the homeless population was estimated to be one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy two thousand, California spent two point I'm sorry, seven
Speaker 1: point two billion dollars, which equated to nearly forty two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars per homeless individual. Now, these spending efforts, they
Speaker 1: include housing and rental assistance, physical and mental health outreach,
Speaker 1: case management, and funds to purchase motels and other types
Speaker 1: of temporary housing. The question is is this money well spent?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: My brother proverb over there down in the LBC was
Speaker 1: like kick me up. When I was on the FM
Speaker 1: down was like dawn. There's rumored that these motels and
Speaker 1: hotels that were getting funding to house those who were
Speaker 1: un housed, that the funds weren't used correctly. Now, at
Speaker 1: the time, I was waiting on to hear from the mayor,
Speaker 1: from community officials to say, well, what is going on?
Speaker 1: What is there to be talking about? Now this comes
Speaker 1: on the heels of after twenty twenty two, when Governor
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom threatened to withhold one billion dollars in funds
Speaker 1: from cities and counties, criticizing their homelessness plans as inadequate
Speaker 1: this summer. In fact, he directed local governments to clear
Speaker 1: encampments or risk losing out on state funding next year.
Speaker 1: And I quote he stated, I want to see results.
Speaker 1: I don't want to read about them. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see the data. I want to see it because
Speaker 1: we don't see it as believing right now. This skating
Speaker 1: report was released in April, and the California Auditor determined
Speaker 1: that the state has done a poor job accounting for
Speaker 1: homelessness spending and tracking adults. In fact, it was stated
Speaker 1: in our quote, we believe that the state's policymakers and
Speaker 1: the public need up to date information to evaluate the
Speaker 1: efficacy and effectiveness of billions of dollars in state spending. Now,
Speaker 1: our own Mayor Karen Bass declared homelessness as a state
Speaker 1: of emergency and launched her two hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million dollar inside Safe program on
Speaker 1: her first day in office. And this is back in
Speaker 1: December twenty twenty twenty two. The initiative directs tens of
Speaker 1: millions of dollars annually towards programs that transitions homeless homeless
Speaker 1: individuals into temporary and eventually permanent housing. Now, according to
Speaker 1: a city website that tracks results, says that more than
Speaker 1: twenty one thousand people have been moved indoors since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two and more than five thousand have found permanent housing.
Speaker 1: As with the state wide homelessness programs and grants, however,
Speaker 1: critics question if the money is reducing is alt reproducing results,
Speaker 1: and is being properly tracked. So I guess I want
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Pull up on me right now.
Speaker 1: I would love for you to call me and let
Speaker 1: me know. Are you staying in the area that is
Speaker 1: fluent with those who are unhoused? Do you feel that
Speaker 1: the City of la has done a job when it
Speaker 1: comes to housing individuals who in house? And furthermore, how
Speaker 1: can you stop individuals who actually choose to live on
Speaker 1: the streets because they don't want to be controlled. They
Speaker 1: don't want to be told what time they have to
Speaker 1: come in, when they're supposed to eat, and how they're
Speaker 1: supposed to live their life. And furthermore, quite frankly, people
Speaker 1: find it a less stress to perhaps live out on
Speaker 1: the street whether than to be housed. Now, we know
Speaker 1: that we are on the cusp of but the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six Olympics. So the city has been doing a
Speaker 1: major job as far as clearing people out. But the
Speaker 1: question is what happens the next day when they come back,
Speaker 1: or when you hear stories about individuals that own houses
Speaker 1: and you got squatters in your house. I mean, you
Speaker 1: think about it. This is what we are putting our
Speaker 1: own self at risk if you think about them when
Speaker 1: we talk about cleaning up our streets. If people aren't housed,
Speaker 1: who's cleaning up the streets that is being left behind.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying these are the questions to be asked,
Speaker 1: and you know, we can't do anything about it unless
Speaker 1: we start to have the dialogue. So my thing is this,
Speaker 1: don't sit there and talk about you got an issue, oh,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight Olympics. Don't sit there talking about we
Speaker 1: got an issue? About what's happening. If you aren't speaking up,
Speaker 1: if you aren't trying to talk about it and find
Speaker 1: out a resolution. I'm just saying, let's just be quite honest.
Speaker 1: Was that a who? Just somebody just called it a
Speaker 1: pump fake? Look, I mustn't turned off. Well, miss Jacket,
Speaker 1: you got questions?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Hello, talk to me? Oh miss Pellisia. Hello? Oh it's
Speaker 1: so loud what you're doing? Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: I can't hear you.
Speaker 1: I can hear you. Can you hear me? Now?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That cand Okay? How you doing on the air? You
Speaker 1: live on the air right now in DC? I just
Speaker 1: got done talking about the story about our homelessness population
Speaker 1: and can you hear me? Okay, because it sounds like
Speaker 1: your background is loud. Okay, I just got done talking
Speaker 1: about the story of the unhoused population and how much
Speaker 1: money we're getting stud Did you want to comment on
Speaker 1: that or what you got going on? No.
Speaker 5: I was calling in because I knew it was eight
Speaker 5: o'clock and I'm on the bus headed back to my airbnb,
Speaker 5: and I just wanted to let you know.
Speaker 2: And I just saw the picture that I just sent you.
Speaker 5: I said, well, man, I think she's on the air.
Speaker 1: I showed off your pictures last week. I sure did
Speaker 1: not last week on Tuesday. Oh, they saw you out
Speaker 1: of Howard they saw you by the monument, they saw
Speaker 1: you with Miss Howard University. Yes, we ragged on you.
Speaker 1: I was hoping you could call in, but I know
Speaker 1: that because of the time difference.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I couldn't because I was in that gym and
Speaker 5: the and the it was loud.
Speaker 1: And then when I got.
Speaker 5: Out, I said, it's probably too late. And I didn't
Speaker 5: even bother to try. But I thought about you just now.
Speaker 5: Did you see the homecoming pictures that I just sent
Speaker 5: a little while ago.
Speaker 1: No, because I've been prepping to be on air. So
Speaker 1: we got to talk like we're talking to everybody because
Speaker 1: everybody's hearing you. So you want us to give us
Speaker 1: some updates on what's going on.
Speaker 5: Yes, we spent time having so much fun. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm having so much fun. Well, yesterday and the day
Speaker 5: before I spent two days in the Afo American Museum
Speaker 5: and oh, that is just an awesome museum. I'm going
Speaker 5: to go back on Monday before I leave to come back.
Speaker 5: They're a just to kind of take it in again
Speaker 5: because it is fabulous. Uh, it's one of the best
Speaker 5: museums beside Detroit. Detroit is one of my favorite museums,
Speaker 5: believe it's not gone.
Speaker 1: I mean it wouldn't because I'm from Detroit, would it be? No?
Speaker 5: Uh uh hagnaw. That was before I met you. I
Speaker 5: enjoyed that museum that was across the street from where
Speaker 5: Rosa Parks lived at the time. So uh and then
Speaker 5: my my next favorite museum is the museum down in
Speaker 5: Alabama and uh uh no, Memphis, Memphis, Memphis Museum. I
Speaker 5: had the chance to tour it before they got the
Speaker 5: new one and the old one, and that's the fabulous
Speaker 5: museum as well. But the one in DC, the new
Speaker 5: African American Museum, which is three levels. It's the first
Speaker 5: the first two levels to make you.
Speaker 1: Cry, Oh, just how far we you know what. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you're talking about this because it's emotional because
Speaker 1: of what we came from as people, right and that's
Speaker 1: what we got to encourage people to get out and go.
Speaker 1: In fact, mister Levonn is tuning in from Facebook right now,
Speaker 1: says this day, please explain to the brothers why they
Speaker 1: need to get out and vote for VP Harris for president.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got miss Jackie above and beyond mobile
Speaker 1: signing service down in Texas says voting matters Can you
Speaker 1: talk to us real quick why you want to encourage
Speaker 1: the young people? You want to encourage our black brothers
Speaker 1: while they need to vote.
Speaker 5: Boy, I tell you if our young black brothers will
Speaker 5: go to one of these museums and see the things
Speaker 5: that we have gone through since what what was it fourteen?
Speaker 5: I think it started at fourteen seventy something with my
Speaker 5: I'm about to get off the bus. Then let me
Speaker 5: get off and get into my place that I'll call
Speaker 5: you right back.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're not on another call. Okay, okay, okay. Where
Speaker 1: the phone line is back open for individuals to call in?
Speaker 1: But that was miss Felicia, Miss Felicia Richard calling in.
Speaker 1: She's in DC right now. She was just saying how
Speaker 1: she went to the museum out there, and she said
Speaker 1: it brought her off to tears. You know, what is it?
Speaker 1: The African American Museum out in DC. But it just
Speaker 1: came to go on the heels of we're talking about
Speaker 1: the importance of voting. In fact, y'all just made me
Speaker 1: think of a new story that I pulled up. Can
Speaker 1: I tell y'all something now? I'm also going to be
Speaker 1: playing a video clip. No, we haven't done that I
Speaker 1: told you. I'm coming back and full of fact now
Speaker 1: to give you a little idea why we need to
Speaker 1: talk about while voting is so important, because there are changes,
Speaker 1: or I shouldn't say changes, things happening in our world
Speaker 1: and our community that are affecting people that look like
Speaker 1: you and me. Now, I'm not trying to get serious, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm just keeping it real so you know the da
Speaker 1: about how we make change, because if we don't, the
Speaker 1: change is going to be made for us. And I
Speaker 1: came across this one story Black Information Network and it
Speaker 1: dealt with an author and scholar, Michelle Alexander. She's here
Speaker 1: to explain how the new Jim Crow legal cast system
Speaker 1: operates in much of the same way as slavery did
Speaker 1: more than a century ago, utilizing the criminal legal system
Speaker 1: in other social, political, and economic systems and American society
Speaker 1: to discriminate against and mass incarcerate people of color. Y'all
Speaker 1: want to take a listen, all right, check this out.
Speaker 6: Mass incarceration of poor people of color now operates as
Speaker 6: a fully comprehensive and well disguised system of racial control
Speaker 6: analogous to Jim Crow. I state my basic thesis in
Speaker 6: the introduction, where I write what has changed since the
Speaker 6: collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the
Speaker 6: basic structure of our society than the language we use
Speaker 6: to justify it. In the air of color blindness. It's
Speaker 6: no longer socially permissible to use race explicitly as a
Speaker 6: justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt, so we don't.
Speaker 6: Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice
Speaker 6: system to label people of color criminals and then engage
Speaker 6: in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Today it
Speaker 6: is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all
Speaker 6: the ways it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.
Speaker 6: Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination,
Speaker 6: employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial, the right to vote, exclusion
Speaker 6: from jury service are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you
Speaker 6: have scarcely more rights and arguably less respect than a
Speaker 6: black man living in Alabama. At the height of Jim Crow,
Speaker 6: we have not ended racial cast in America. We have
Speaker 6: merely redesigned it. More African American adults are under correctional
Speaker 6: control today, in prison or jail, on probation or parole,
Speaker 6: than we're enslaved in eighteen fifty, a decade before the
Speaker 6: Civil War began.
Speaker 1: Oh, how do you feel about that? Since we were
Speaker 1: talking about the importance of voting, why people need to
Speaker 1: get out, we see the advancement of how the new
Speaker 1: racial justice system is that of reflected of the Jim
Speaker 1: Crow cast system. Yet when it comes back to pushing
Speaker 1: people in color, a lot of people of color incarcerating founds.
Speaker 1: You don't have any right except for I guess if
Speaker 1: you're Donald Trump and you're running for president. Yet there
Speaker 1: are so many people who don't understand the importance of
Speaker 1: getting registered to vote, why it's so important to get
Speaker 1: out there and vote. And when you have systems like
Speaker 1: this in place where at one time, when you're talking
Speaker 1: about marijuana people were being locked up. You're getting locked
Speaker 1: up or even keeled. If you're whistling for somebody, your
Speaker 1: life is being taken. If you're jogging, your life is
Speaker 1: being taken. If you're just sitting there watching TV in
Speaker 1: your own dang gone house. And yet people don't understand
Speaker 1: why it's important to vote, why you have to make
Speaker 1: your voice get come be heard. Change has to start
Speaker 1: with us. And when you talk about the rights of
Speaker 1: the community. When you talk about your family, when you
Speaker 1: talk about your livelihood, what are you doing to step up?
Speaker 1: I'm open enough the conversation because I would love to
Speaker 1: hear from you and your thoughts about that. Does it
Speaker 1: scare you, doesn't make you nervous, or perhaps you sit
Speaker 1: on the other end and you might just say right
Speaker 1: in fact, I'm still going for Trump. Now, we got
Speaker 1: miss Jackie in from Texas, says registrating for registration for
Speaker 1: voting in Texas closed last week on October sixth. Now
Speaker 1: there are some places, I believe in the state of
Speaker 1: California you can register and vote up until the day
Speaker 1: of election. Now the question is are you taking advantage
Speaker 1: of it? Do you have any comments about the video
Speaker 1: that I just play more poorly? What does it mean
Speaker 1: to you as a people? Now, there's so many people
Speaker 1: that stand on one end that got so much to say.
Speaker 1: But when it's time to pull up the show up
Speaker 1: or call me up, it's crickets. Well, this is your
Speaker 1: opportunity right now. You can call me in the studio
Speaker 1: so we can talk about at eight one, eight four
Speaker 1: six one fifty four thirty two. That's eight one, eight
Speaker 1: four six one fifty four thirty two. We are talking
Speaker 1: about a vast array of topics that are affect in
Speaker 1: our community, things that we know that we need to
Speaker 1: take a part of, and things we know that we
Speaker 1: want to influx change. I mean, we are finding for
Speaker 1: the change for our lives. And if we don't step
Speaker 1: up as people to seek out that change, to be
Speaker 1: that change, to vote for that change, well heck, we
Speaker 1: gonna be doing the same dog one thing. And it's
Speaker 1: going to require people just like you who are watching,
Speaker 1: people that are listening, to show up and let their
Speaker 1: voice be hearned. Even mister Levan, I want to challenge you.
Speaker 1: Call me and you tell me why as a black man,
Speaker 1: if you are still tuned in why it's important to
Speaker 1: get out involved. Because I can only state my piece,
Speaker 1: But what does it mean for a black man If
Speaker 1: we're coming down to the point they talking about, we
Speaker 1: are actually I reflective of the Jim Crow cast system,
Speaker 1: how it's now used as our justice system, because so
Speaker 1: many people are incarcerated based on the color of the skin.
Speaker 1: What needs to happen within what kind of change does
Speaker 1: that look like? Call me in the studio and let
Speaker 1: me know. Otherwise, let me tell you about a couple
Speaker 1: changes that's happening in our nation. Stores are continuing to close.
Speaker 1: I was just on KTLA and I saw that Walgreens
Speaker 1: is to close twelve hundred stores across America. Are you concerned?
Speaker 1: When we talk about taxation, we talk about inflation. These
Speaker 1: are the things that matter now, I say, well doing.
Speaker 1: I don't work at Walgreens. But what if you work
Speaker 1: at FedEx that ships to Walgreens. What if you are
Speaker 1: the pharmacists at Walgreens. What if you are a patient
Speaker 1: that receives their medication from Walgreens? What does that look like? Hey, Joe,
Speaker 1: call me in this studio. I don't know if we've
Speaker 1: ever talked, but let me tell you what's going on. So,
Speaker 1: Walgreens plans to close about twelve hundred locations over the
Speaker 1: next three years as the drug store chain seeks to
Speaker 1: turn around its struggling US business. The company said Tuesday
Speaker 1: that about five hundred store closures will come in the
Speaker 1: current fiscal year and should immediately support adjusted earnings and
Speaker 1: free cash flow. Walgreens didn't say whether the store closings
Speaker 1: would take place, didn't say where the closings would take place.
Speaker 1: Walgreens operates about eighty five hundred stores in the United
Speaker 1: States and a few thousand overseas. All of the stores
Speaker 1: that will be closed will be in the United States. Now,
Speaker 1: Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. Which are the leaders, said in
Speaker 1: late June that they were finalizing a turnaround plan for
Speaker 1: its US business and that push could result in the
Speaker 1: closing of hundreds of underperforming stores. Now, also, let's take
Speaker 1: in consideration. I don't know about you, I shop in
Speaker 1: a lot of CVS's. Have you noticed that there are
Speaker 1: items such as deodorant, laundry detergent that it's locked because
Speaker 1: people are looting the stores. And you talk to the
Speaker 1: employees there or the securities there, they say, I'm not
Speaker 1: about to risk my life for this. I don't get
Speaker 1: it paid enough for this. But what's happening is is
Speaker 1: that individuals are not being able to find jobs to
Speaker 1: support their likelihood. So they said they gotta grab it.
Speaker 1: But again, it's a ripple effect that affects each and
Speaker 1: every one of us. And if you thought walk Rings
Speaker 1: was the only one closing, I'm just right here reading
Speaker 1: that seven eleven is to close over four hundred locations
Speaker 1: in the US. Hundreds of underporn performing seven eleven stores
Speaker 1: across North America are closing or closing. The convenience a
Speaker 1: new store on Thursday today. Seven and I Holdings, seven
Speaker 1: eleven's Japan based parent company revealed in its earnings report
Speaker 1: that four hundred and forty four seven eleven locations are closing.
Speaker 1: Slowing sales, declining traffic, inflammationary pressures, and a decrease in
Speaker 1: cigarette purchasing are among the reasons why the stores are closing.
Speaker 1: In fact, the chain pointed out that cigarettes, once the
Speaker 1: largest sales category for convenience stores, have fallen twenty six
Speaker 1: percent since twenty nineteen, and shifting sales to other nicotine
Speaker 1: products hasn't been made such a difference. In fact, a
Speaker 1: specific list of sorts slated for closure wasn't released. Seven
Speaker 1: eleven has thirteen thousand locations across the US and Canada,
Speaker 1: so that meaning the closures would only impact three percent
Speaker 1: of the company's portfolio. Does that concern you? Are we
Speaker 1: here to talk about it now, miss Jackie? You up
Speaker 1: here writing books and the comments. Why don't you just
Speaker 1: call me up and say it? Live on it, Miss
Speaker 1: Jaggie says per voting. Some men are saying they will
Speaker 1: follow the money, following following the money, you need to
Speaker 1: follow the right and the wrong and how it's going
Speaker 1: to affect you and your children, your offspring, your mama,
Speaker 1: your daddy's education and employment. All right, we got to
Speaker 1: call her coming off Misbelie says it's you, Yes, it's me, okay,
Speaker 1: really quickly. I just want to make sure we stand
Speaker 1: on topic, because I'm not sure if you were able
Speaker 1: to catch up with us what we're broadcasting right now.
Speaker 1: We just got off the heels of talking about voting.
Speaker 1: Then I shared it with the listeners and viewers that
Speaker 1: we have stores closing. Seven eleven is closing over five
Speaker 1: hundred stores. We got over thirteen hundred stores of Walgreens.
Speaker 1: They're closing.
Speaker 5: Yes, I heard that yesterday.
Speaker 1: What you got to say about this?
Speaker 5: Oh ah? The birth thing that comes to mind is jobs.
Speaker 5: People not having jobs, and if things go automated in
Speaker 5: other areas, that's more jobs lost, and it's not good.
Speaker 5: It's not good for the economy. It's not good for
Speaker 5: those that don't go on to school and get a
Speaker 5: higher degree of education, knowledge and understanding to be prepared
Speaker 5: to work in the workfield that is available for folks,
Speaker 5: it's not good. And one thing that we're going to
Speaker 5: have to do for ourselves is do for ourselves and
Speaker 5: open up our own stores in our own communities in
Speaker 5: order to service one another. And so then you'll still
Speaker 5: need some training even to do that, because you might
Speaker 5: have some ideas of open up a store, but you
Speaker 5: need some understanding and knowledge of how to run a business,
Speaker 5: how to keep your books and how to keep records,
Speaker 5: and how to do those taxes. So for the most part,
Speaker 5: you know, we're gonna have to do what we need
Speaker 5: to do in order to survive while these stores are
Speaker 5: closing in our communities and open up stores as a group,
Speaker 5: as a collective, just join in together, come together and say, hey, look,
Speaker 5: we're going to open up open up a store like
Speaker 5: Walgreens in our community. It's it'll be a mom and
Speaker 5: pop or a community consolidation kind of thing. But those
Speaker 5: are my thoughts. Somebody else to do it for.
Speaker 1: Us, exactly. And it was a point before we had
Speaker 1: desegregation were we had to rely on one another. And
Speaker 1: it's amazing how when we look at the economy, how
Speaker 1: people of color, specifically African Americans, are the leading force
Speaker 1: and impact of what's driving this economy because we're so
Speaker 1: many consumers that we are the poorest, and we do
Speaker 1: not pour the money back in ourselves. And it's not
Speaker 1: that we aren't equipped. It doesn't mean that we don't
Speaker 1: have the numbers. Why is it that we simply aren't
Speaker 1: doing it? Do you think we don't trust each other?
Speaker 1: Why do we always feel like the grass is green
Speaker 1: on the other side? Have we forgotten to talk about
Speaker 1: talked with it and other what's going on?
Speaker 5: Oh, it's a lot, it's a lot to digest. It's
Speaker 5: a lot, and it's been digest over the and swallowed
Speaker 5: and bought back up again in many different ways. But
Speaker 5: we just gotta change our mindset. We got to get
Speaker 5: it together.
Speaker 1: Wake up, you know everybody know, most sleeping in bed.
Speaker 1: It's time to wait.
Speaker 5: God, we got we got to and and we can't
Speaker 5: find it in a cigarette and in a brown bottle?
Speaker 1: Oh snatch? Are you trying to go there? Huh? I
Speaker 1: think sometimes we're trying to use it as escaping or numbing.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you think about it, we've been
Speaker 1: through so much. It's like just looking for a moment
Speaker 1: to exhale, to breathe.
Speaker 5: And I'm telling you that UH the first once that
Speaker 5: elevator in the African American Museum drops to the first floor,
Speaker 5: the beginning of time, when we were picked up from
Speaker 5: the differing from the west coast of Africa and brought
Speaker 5: to the many different countries of North America, South America,
Speaker 5: the Caribbean and made to do what we were made
Speaker 5: to do here in America. It's tearful, it's hurtful, it's
Speaker 5: gut Richie. And the one thing that just hurt me
Speaker 5: so was to see the number of children that were here,
Speaker 5: that came here on buses to tour that museum, how
Speaker 5: they just walked through and didn't look like they were
Speaker 5: digesting anything except for the music part of our culture.
Speaker 5: That that hurt me for to see them not digest
Speaker 5: the information from a great people like African Americans of
Speaker 5: this country. And what all we have done in the
Speaker 5: many ways, it's all in that one museum. The great now,
Speaker 5: how great we are, how we've been able to take
Speaker 5: something and nothing and make something out of it from
Speaker 5: the time we arrived and look at and look at
Speaker 5: what we have done in the field of of UH,
Speaker 5: of creation, creating better ways to do things, to entertainment,
Speaker 5: to sports, to engineering, to agriculture, science, mathematics, building, It's
Speaker 5: just it's so much to digest. It's just overwhelming. And
Speaker 5: I don't know and understand. There is no other museum
Speaker 5: that tells that kind of story about a people.
Speaker 1: But yet.
Speaker 5: We don't have nothing that celebrates us. There's no Chocolate
Speaker 5: city anywhere in America.
Speaker 1: DC is known as the Chocolate City. You taking that away? Well,
Speaker 1: I know, but.
Speaker 2: They don't really.
Speaker 5: You know, some people are still call folks still call
Speaker 5: it chocolate City. But I don't hear these young folks
Speaker 5: calling it chocolate city.
Speaker 1: You know, but there's no Africa town.
Speaker 5: There's a Vietnamese town, a Bangladesh town, there's no Africa town.
Speaker 5: We're trying to make le Park in Africa town, but
Speaker 5: you know, there's no sign that says you are in
Speaker 5: Africa town.
Speaker 1: That's true because we got little Ethiopia here in lam
Speaker 1: you got Korea Town where people living. But what about us?
Speaker 1: And you're right for you to talk about how magnificent
Speaker 1: the things that we've done, especially when we came here
Speaker 1: for nothing. It's amazing. How if we can only just
Speaker 1: happen too this power that we got. Yeah, because we
Speaker 1: get we get confused. It's like, do you know that
Speaker 1: we are the toughest of the toughest.
Speaker 5: Yes, we are.
Speaker 1: We broke them like it's in your lineage. So how
Speaker 1: could you not even believe in yourself and feel like
Speaker 1: you can't do nothing? Because there is a high probability
Speaker 1: that your ancestors survived thousands, maybe even millions of miles
Speaker 1: to make it here in the US with no food,
Speaker 1: with no water, and still came out to get make
Speaker 1: sure that you was produced. And we are rise. We
Speaker 1: will rise.
Speaker 5: We have risen in many fields. But they will not
Speaker 5: acknowledge us, they will not give us our due.
Speaker 1: Now, Miss Jackie just made a point. You said, well,
Speaker 1: how come we don't have our own Africa town or
Speaker 1: Africa city. Ms Jackie right here on Facebook says, maybe
Speaker 1: that's something to be brought up with the city council
Speaker 1: and with the city mayor. That's something worth fighting for.
Speaker 1: I mean definitely, I mean we do have to choose
Speaker 1: to be the change that we wish to seek, right, yes,
Speaker 1: And I think it also starts with conversations like you
Speaker 1: and I are having. Shoot, I was just thinking about
Speaker 1: it right now. I'm like, well, I be dog. I mean,
Speaker 1: we are at our humble beginnings. But I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe vitamin D. We need to orchestrate a trip to
Speaker 1: go over to DC and to see this museum to mind,
Speaker 1: because you know, you're talking about these young people. You
Speaker 1: don't feel like they digested it. Is it fair to
Speaker 1: say that the disconnect is there? This form of racism
Speaker 1: that we are experiencing right now is completely different than
Speaker 1: that of our ancestors or perhaps your grandparents it was
Speaker 1: probably they're great great great great grandparents. But the thing
Speaker 1: is is that it's almost like they say, a wolf
Speaker 1: in sheep's clothing. It's presented in a different way. It
Speaker 1: comes in a different form where I feel like our
Speaker 1: children and our young people aren't able to really digest. Hello.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I'm listening to you, and I'm also searching
Speaker 5: through some of the pictures as a reminder of some
Speaker 5: of the things that I saw yesterday. Ah oh, we
Speaker 5: can't depend on our schools to teach our young people
Speaker 5: our history.
Speaker 1: Of course, Well you better not be a s I
Speaker 1: see you in Florida because they're taking it all out
Speaker 1: the books again while we need to get up and
Speaker 1: vote exactly. Hello, I think we just lost Miss Felicia.
Speaker 1: Now Miss Jackie, don't play with me. Miss Jackie out
Speaker 1: here writing books and stuff. Yes, I'm calling you out,
Speaker 1: Miss Jackie. She's writing books and stuff. I'm calling her
Speaker 1: because don't be writing no books on the social media's
Speaker 1: and not just call in this. We call them miss Jackie.
Speaker 1: She don't even know. Don't play when me play with yourself?
Speaker 1: I mean, so, what's up? What's up? Miss Jackie? Hi?
Speaker 5: Hone?
Speaker 2: How are you? Everyone? So?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? What all this you typing? Go ahead? And
Speaker 1: Tallas what you're talking about? Ma'am?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you called. I was gonna call you.
Speaker 2: I'm driving home. What I was saying is, you know
Speaker 2: I don't live there. I am from California, originally born
Speaker 2: and raised, went to the school in the valley. I
Speaker 2: was one of them children that they rode to Big Yellow, this,
Speaker 2: that and the other. And what people are not paying
Speaker 2: attention to is that, you know, we want to make
Speaker 2: a lot of different changes. There's a reparation, there's all
Speaker 2: kinds of different opportunities out there, but it's gonna have
Speaker 2: to take a collective effort for everybody to get involved.
Speaker 2: Because one person is not gonna make no change. And
Speaker 2: Rome damn patrol was not built in a day.
Speaker 1: But what that change is gonna look like and what
Speaker 1: is it going to require?
Speaker 2: It is gonna requires police being pulled up, hard work, research.
Speaker 2: Because when you go for people, go for four people
Speaker 2: you got.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go ahead, you said. When you go for people,
Speaker 1: whatn't Now when you.
Speaker 2: Go before individuals, city council that and now you have
Speaker 2: to know what you're talking about, because first of all,
Speaker 2: you got to make sure they listen to you. Go
Speaker 2: to some of them meetings and those meetings allow you
Speaker 2: two to four minutes to speak. And if you get
Speaker 2: a collective amount of people, they'll bring things before the
Speaker 2: city again that following week and it can be an
Speaker 2: ongoing thing. It may take time. Believe park could be
Speaker 2: changed into a lot of different things. You know, it's
Speaker 2: gonna take time. It's gonna take money, and of course
Speaker 2: they're gonna say they don't have it, But then they
Speaker 2: got these things called grants and people invest in these businesses.
Speaker 2: Silent partners just set the other, you know, to improve
Speaker 2: what's going on, to decrease the bad that's going on.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna take us starting with ourselves and have
Speaker 1: this conversation and to be honest, and like you said,
Speaker 1: it is not gonna stop. It doesn't stop overnight. The
Speaker 1: change is not gonna happen overnight. But that's just like
Speaker 1: any seed that.
Speaker 2: You planned, right, you gotta planet make sure you nurture it.
Speaker 1: Also, I had with it. Go ahead, mister Levaughn. He
Speaker 1: was on and he was like, well, Dawn, can you
Speaker 1: go ahead and spread a word as to why black
Speaker 1: men need to get out and vote for VP Kamala Harris?
Speaker 1: Could you piggyback on that on why it's so important
Speaker 1: to vote.
Speaker 2: It's important to vote because this is gonna affect everybody.
Speaker 2: I don't care if you don't vote. It's gonna affect you,
Speaker 2: your mama, your daddy, your sister, your brother, your pet
Speaker 2: in the backyard, that bird that's flying over in your house,
Speaker 2: and the insects and pets that are running around in
Speaker 2: your home that are unwanted. Go expect your dollar bill.
Speaker 2: It's gonna affect how you you know, how you live,
Speaker 2: eat and breathe.
Speaker 5: Hm.
Speaker 1: And what would you say to somebody that says, well,
Speaker 1: my one boy, that vote ain't gonna change. Why are
Speaker 1: you trying to pressure me to vote.
Speaker 2: Well, one your vote, one vote won't may not you
Speaker 2: may feel not feel a ZOUGHI walk change anything. But
Speaker 2: all of them are affected collectively. That's why they have TAMPA.
Speaker 2: They have to tabulate the votes. That's why we have
Speaker 2: the early voting. That's why the opportunity is given as
Speaker 2: a woman speaking woman, a woman without a woman, there
Speaker 2: would be nothing. Period. We say Christ was here and
Speaker 2: mayor and his mama didn't give birth that or that
Speaker 2: that okay, Science and loans says a woman go bear
Speaker 2: bear a child. Man ain't bearing nothing without us. Nothing exists,
Speaker 2: start from the beginning.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for Sharon. And then I saw you
Speaker 1: put another comment. You may mention. You said why these
Speaker 1: young kids aren't paying attention at the museum, And you said,
Speaker 1: a lot of things that are going on in the home.
Speaker 1: A lot of our children are not being taught because
Speaker 1: the parents are not taking the time out. More of
Speaker 1: their time is being spent in front of the PC,
Speaker 1: a laptop, a tablet, a cell phone, or a gaming system, etc.
Speaker 1: But not the textbooks. Well, look at our economy and
Speaker 1: what's going on right now. I can't afford to be
Speaker 1: in the house, because how we're gonna pay these.
Speaker 2: Bills right right? Gotta be working down, so.
Speaker 1: Work What are we supposed to do.
Speaker 2: Well? I believe that you know, with skill training, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of free training out here that the state
Speaker 2: is giving out. The state's a city, a county that
Speaker 2: you may qualify for whatever reason. If you're a blue
Speaker 2: collar worker or you low income, you know, get get
Speaker 2: some of the skilling together. You get skills. People don't
Speaker 2: teach you what they want you to learn anyway, but
Speaker 2: get skilled so you can revamp and learn something else.
Speaker 2: So you can learn how to do something else. Become
Speaker 2: your own soul provider, how you make the living, how
Speaker 2: you feed yourself, learn a new skill, be open minded.
Speaker 2: For those that are disabled, there's things for them as well.
Speaker 2: Get a support advocate. There's so many there's a resource
Speaker 2: out there, but they don't care you how to obtain it.
Speaker 2: Some people don't have common sense, common senses far a
Speaker 2: lot of people are missing that.
Speaker 1: Then a skilled sense you talk on right, because you
Speaker 1: just gotta know how to think and how to move.
Speaker 2: You gotta think. You gotta think for tomorrow. You can't
Speaker 2: think for a minute because a minute already bathed. I
Speaker 2: just talked about it five to day.
Speaker 1: Hello, Well, thank you for that. I appreciate your comments.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, don't be afraid. Save this number and call
Speaker 1: me at this number when we live.
Speaker 2: Alrighty y Will Dollard.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you everybody in LA and everybody that's online.
Speaker 2: I want you all to share this link. Share the link.
Speaker 2: This woman has got information out here that we all need.
Speaker 2: It takes more than us, takes more than her and
Speaker 2: I and five brothers on the line to get the
Speaker 2: message across the any and everybody that wants to know
Speaker 2: you got it. If you want to change, make some change,
Speaker 2: you gotta be about to change. You gotta partake in
Speaker 2: the change. Catch you be silent if you say, if
Speaker 2: you see something, say something. I all And at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, everybody gets your ass out there
Speaker 2: and damn vote shit, vote for something, but you need
Speaker 2: to vote for the right thing. Okay, child's affected, your
Speaker 2: dog is affected. Jimal and your daddy, your sister, your brother,
Speaker 2: your social security, your check, your car, you driving that car?
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 2: Oh wait, don't get me started anyway, You'll have a good.
Speaker 1: Day, love yourself. That was missus. Jacqueline. There were no
Speaker 1: lines being told here listening. Walk up, roll up, pull up,
Speaker 1: get up, speak up for yourself because if you don't
Speaker 1: stand for nothing, you're gonna fall for anything. Right, It's
Speaker 1: so interesting we talk about we want this change, people say,
Speaker 1: don we need some vitamin D. But when it's time
Speaker 1: to pull up for the change, to show up for
Speaker 1: the change, sometimes it's nothing but crickets. Then you look
Speaker 1: left or right and you're wondering, well, who's the blame. Well,
Speaker 1: sometimes you got to look in the mirror because you
Speaker 1: got to be the change that you wish to seek.
Speaker 1: And if we don't come together as a community to
Speaker 1: share our resources to provide the information, well heck, we
Speaker 1: can go fast a long, but we know that we
Speaker 1: can go further together. And as I report it, there's
Speaker 1: so many stores and businesses that are closing down. What
Speaker 1: does that mean for us? Like Miss Felicia said, why
Speaker 1: are we relying on other communities to support us when
Speaker 1: we've been at the situation we've been put at the
Speaker 1: bottom of this whole social economic society. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if that if I said that right, but pushed
Speaker 1: us down so low. But we've only had to push
Speaker 1: up to even get to where we are right now.
Speaker 1: And when you think about it, we are truly magical
Speaker 1: beings because who else can withstand all of this and
Speaker 1: still be up line at the forefront. It's gonna take
Speaker 1: some change, it's gonna take for people to speak up.
Speaker 1: So I just want to remind y'all call me in
Speaker 1: the studio eight one, eight four six one fifty four
Speaker 1: thirty two. I do have an advice letter that I
Speaker 1: want to get to, and I guess I could get
Speaker 1: to that now, and because I want to talk about
Speaker 1: breast cancer awareness. I had a guest on Thursday, But
Speaker 1: first let me jump into this Vitamin D advice letter
Speaker 1: subject should I move back in with my mom?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: As a preface, we've been talking about this, uh the
Speaker 1: store's closing. We talked about we in a financial situation.
Speaker 1: I don't know what your deal is, but pull up
Speaker 1: subject should I move back in with my mom? Dear down.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling. I'm twenty three and single and I got
Speaker 1: a good job, but the city I'm in is really expensive.
Speaker 1: After I pay off everything, I only have like eight
Speaker 1: hundred dollars left for the whole month. I want to
Speaker 1: go out and do a lot of stuff and go
Speaker 1: on vacations. But I don't want to get into insane
Speaker 1: credit card debt like most of my friends have done already.
Speaker 1: My mom says that I can come back home, which
Speaker 1: isn't far from from my job, and I can help
Speaker 1: her out too, because she needs the financial help from
Speaker 1: me as well. Dawn. I'd actually be saving about twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars a month if I moved back to
Speaker 1: help her, and that's after me giving my mom a
Speaker 1: thousand bucks a month. Me and my mom have a
Speaker 1: great relationship, Don, and we're super close too, and I
Speaker 1: want her and I want to help her out and
Speaker 1: spend more time with her. But part of me feels
Speaker 1: like if I move back home, I'm somewhat failed in
Speaker 1: the real world and couldn't make it out there on
Speaker 1: my own. Don, What's wrong with me? Why am I
Speaker 1: thinking like this? Signed Pat Kingsley in San Diego, California. Well, Pat,
Speaker 1: hold up, wait a minute. If you've got eight hundred
Speaker 1: dollars after you pay all your bills, I must say
Speaker 1: you probably are a head of most There's so many
Speaker 1: people out here living paycheck to paycheck. Inflation is real.
Speaker 1: The lack of jobs out here is real paying jobs
Speaker 1: where people can afford to live their life. Now we
Speaker 1: are in one of the most expensive states in the US, California.
Speaker 1: Now here's what I want to say, Pat, if you
Speaker 1: are debating whether or not you should go home, I
Speaker 1: want to say that you are very fortunate that you
Speaker 1: have a loving and supporting family member that you can
Speaker 1: go to when you need help and love. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of people who don't even have that. Like I
Speaker 1: just think about myself, and you know, this is really
Speaker 1: personal for me. I went ahead and I left home
Speaker 1: after college or even after high school to go to
Speaker 1: college in Washington, d C. And from there I went
Speaker 1: straight up to New York. And at that point, that's
Speaker 1: when my mom transitioned. So that wasn't a moment where
Speaker 1: I felt like I had a home to go back to. Yes,
Speaker 1: the rest of my family there, but if you are
Speaker 1: someone who has lost a parent or parent figure, that's
Speaker 1: a different kind of home. Since so the whole idea
Speaker 1: of going back and having that reliance or that reassurance,
Speaker 1: that's not a choice for me. And I'm feel as
Speaker 1: though it probably worked in my favor because that's why
Speaker 1: I have been so gun holed to go about my
Speaker 1: dreams and to live my dreams wide away. But you, Pat,
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to up level the quality of
Speaker 1: your life. Sometimes we can let our ego get in
Speaker 1: the way of being in a situation. But it's not
Speaker 1: that you're not capable. It's saying, hey, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: I don't know how old your mother is, but time
Speaker 1: isn't stopping. And if you know that you have the
Speaker 1: ability to go home right now and still live your life,
Speaker 1: perhaps it's something to consider. We know that stress is
Speaker 1: the number one killer. There are so many people stressed
Speaker 1: out right now, trying to figure out how to pay
Speaker 1: their bills, trying to figure how they going to do
Speaker 1: the next thing because they simply don't have the money,
Speaker 1: and guess what, then they get sick. Then it's like,
Speaker 1: well what do you do? So Pat, my choice on
Speaker 1: this ends is say go ahead and move in with
Speaker 1: your mom, but don't get out there and get too
Speaker 1: buck wold and going on all these trips and drinking,
Speaker 1: because let's face it, twenty three is a party in
Speaker 1: age and not realizing the responsibilities that you have at
Speaker 1: home and the things that you need to do. Okay,
Speaker 1: but remember we're here for a good time, not a
Speaker 1: long time, so make it count. Go ahead, I say,
Speaker 1: go ahead, and move back in your mouth. It's not
Speaker 1: like you don't have a job. Shoo. If you were
Speaker 1: able to afford twenty five one hundred dollars a month
Speaker 1: on your rent and you still got over access and
Speaker 1: amount waiting for you after you pay your mom one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, go ahead and take advantage of that. I
Speaker 1: think you would be a fool if you didn't, not
Speaker 1: if you said you ain't handle job, and you at
Speaker 1: home sitting on the couch, and I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: baby girl, but you do so use your olive branch wisely.
Speaker 1: You know, in some communities the child is unable to
Speaker 1: move off the phone home or not allowed or it's
Speaker 1: not condoned, rather until they are married with children, until
Speaker 1: they have a good supportive But I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is. I don't know if it's our community, and
Speaker 1: check me if I'm wrong. But oftentimes it's like, well
Speaker 1: you eighten and grown, it's time for you to get
Speaker 1: out the house. Sometimes I feel like maybe perhaps in
Speaker 1: the African American community, we can do more with our
Speaker 1: foundation about supporting making sure we have things in place,
Speaker 1: having these conversations on how to invest your money, why
Speaker 1: life insurance is important. He we know last month, September
Speaker 1: was Life Insurance Awareness Month. We have several of yours subscribers,
Speaker 1: followers of Vitamin D who work in the tax or
Speaker 1: life insurance industry that can show us how to appropriately
Speaker 1: use our fund. So while we're gonna stop here for why,
Speaker 1: and since we talked about how last month was life
Speaker 1: Insurance Awareness Month, well we know that this month is
Speaker 1: Breast cancer Awareness Month. Now. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: had a chance to tune into the last episode, and
Speaker 1: if not, you can listen to it on all platforms
Speaker 1: when you listen to your favorite podcast. But it was
Speaker 1: all about breast cancer awareness. I had Jan Austin as
Speaker 1: well as Chandra Fitzpatrick on to talk about Miss Chandra
Speaker 1: being a three time cancer survivor and Miss Jan she
Speaker 1: walks over at UCLA, she works over at UCLA, and
Speaker 1: she talks about how she is a valuable resource for
Speaker 1: information and all the things that we can see that's
Speaker 1: going on in our lives. These are the people you
Speaker 1: need to reach out with. Well, here's the thing that
Speaker 1: I thought was interesting. They called me after the conversation.
Speaker 1: They were like, Dawn, you did not mention the whole idea.
Speaker 1: What happened with Ananda Luis? Now you remember a former
Speaker 1: MTV VJ Ananda Luis right, Well, she came about just
Speaker 1: a couple days ago and revealed that her breast cancer
Speaker 1: has metastasized after she decided to keep her tumor. Ananda,
Speaker 1: she's fifty one. She announced back in twenty twenty that
Speaker 1: she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer, noting that
Speaker 1: she had declined to get a mammograms for years due
Speaker 1: to the fear of radiation and exposure. Now do a
Speaker 1: recent roundtable discussion on cancer with CNN, Ananda revealed that
Speaker 1: she went against her doctor's recommendation to have a double
Speaker 1: misectomy following her diagnosis. She says, and I quote my
Speaker 1: plan at first was to get out excessive toxins in
Speaker 1: my body. I felt like my body's intelligent. I know
Speaker 1: that to be true. Our bodies are brilliantly made. She
Speaker 1: continues on, I decided to keep my tumor and try
Speaker 1: to work it out of my body in a different way.
Speaker 1: Looking back on that, I go you know what maybe
Speaker 1: I should have. What do you think about that? You know,
Speaker 1: there are some people who don't like going to the doctor.
Speaker 1: Feeling is though if I disclose some information, you gonna
Speaker 1: find something that's wrong with me. There are some people
Speaker 1: who figure if I don't know, it won't hurt me.
Speaker 1: And then you have others which I probably go into
Speaker 1: this bucket, who are here for herbs, vitamins for healing.
Speaker 1: But at what point do you trust your doctor's orders now,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. I actually had a non to
Speaker 1: on vitamin D. This is vitamin D oh a few
Speaker 1: stages ago. How about that a few seasons ago where
Speaker 1: we were not in the studio and she talked about
Speaker 1: the importance of getting mammograms. Take a listen.
Speaker 4: We need to do rammograms even though there is this
Speaker 4: small amount of exposure to radiation, because the risk out
Speaker 4: or the reward outweighs the risk.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: The risk of that little bit of radiation is nothing
Speaker 4: compared to the reward of finding out what's going on
Speaker 4: in your body so that you can be proactive, maintain
Speaker 4: more control, and not find out about something when it's
Speaker 4: further down the line. Now, I'm lucky in the sense
Speaker 4: that I didn't wait until it was a stage four, right,
Speaker 4: because that's a harder process to deal with in the body.
Speaker 4: A stage three isn't great, so it's in my limbs,
Speaker 4: and that does make it more difficult. There are more
Speaker 4: things you have to do. There's a deeper dig and
Speaker 4: I wish I had found it earlier. I would have
Speaker 4: if I've been doing mammograms. And that's the part I
Speaker 4: needed women to understand. Yeah, there's a risk, but there's
Speaker 4: a way bigger reward.
Speaker 1: The greater the risk, the greater the reward. Lord, you've
Speaker 1: heard me say this quote countless of times. You know
Speaker 1: that I personally have been affected by breast cancer. My
Speaker 1: mother transitioned from stage four breast cancer. So I myself
Speaker 1: had started my mammograms when I was still in my twenties,
Speaker 1: just because of how rampant it goes in my family.
Speaker 1: The question is are you looking after your health? Have
Speaker 1: you decided to show up for yourself? I think sometimes
Speaker 1: we believe that if we don't know, it won't hurt us.
Speaker 1: But just like Ananda stated, sometimes this whole thing that
Speaker 1: we operate in fear of not wanting to do something
Speaker 1: or because we don't know how to do something well,
Speaker 1: we stay stagnant. And in this situation, she says, well,
Speaker 1: there was a fear about being exposed to the radiation
Speaker 1: that it will cause cancer. And she said, perhaps I
Speaker 1: would have caught it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: That was Ananda back in twenty twenty one talking about
Speaker 1: her stage three diagnoses. Here we are fast forward three
Speaker 1: years later and now she's at stage four. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you or somebody you love has been affected
Speaker 1: by breast cancer, but if we don't know about our
Speaker 1: health and taking better care of ourselves, we won't be
Speaker 1: here to enjoy our families, to enjoy our loved ones,
Speaker 1: to really live our life in abundance, exceedingly and beyond,
Speaker 1: because if you don't check yourself, you may end up
Speaker 1: wrecking yourself. And I guess it was just kind of
Speaker 1: hard for me to even pull up that clip and
Speaker 1: to listen to it because at that time she was
Speaker 1: stage three and I didn't see her current clip of
Speaker 1: her discussing her stage for breast cancer. But I do
Speaker 1: remember how optimistic she was about how it could dissolve
Speaker 1: or to go away. And don't get it twisted. Prayer
Speaker 1: changes things. Prayer changes things, indeed, But guess what faith
Speaker 1: without works is dead. Perhaps there is a way, or
Speaker 1: how about the consideration that God places doctors and medical
Speaker 1: professions here for us, for us to take advantage of
Speaker 1: those services of these people, these skilled professionals, to support
Speaker 1: us in healing. I feel as though sometimes as people
Speaker 1: we get so caught up on the left and right,
Speaker 1: the white and the black, the yin and the yang,
Speaker 1: and not realizing how they're one and the same. What
Speaker 1: are these things work together so that we can be
Speaker 1: a better people, a better society, a better community. Miss
Speaker 1: Jackie just commented on she put colon cancer. I presume
Speaker 1: that somebody in her family or she has been affected
Speaker 1: by somebody close with colon cancer. I don't know what
Speaker 1: your thing is, but you got to check up on yourself,
Speaker 1: which reminds me. I've told you guys that I may
Speaker 1: mention of this before, but Black Men's Wellness Day, right,
Speaker 1: you heard me talk about this over and over again.
Speaker 1: Because we are on this topic. I just want to
Speaker 1: remind you that on November second, Black Men's Wellness Day
Speaker 1: will be taking place in Los Angeles, California, and it's
Speaker 1: a walk to save black men's lives. They will have
Speaker 1: free health screenings with professionals with your interest at her
Speaker 1: I'm talking about people with color. I'm telling you the
Speaker 1: information you need is right at this event. We're talking
Speaker 1: about std we're talking about blood pasture, we're talking about cholesterol.
Speaker 1: We're talking about simply knowing your numbers because when you
Speaker 1: know better, you can do better. So therefore you can
Speaker 1: be better. And since we're talking about the African American
Speaker 1: Male Wellness Agency, i'd let you know right now what's
Speaker 1: happening at Crenshaw mal If you know somebody that's over
Speaker 1: here in the area that's a black man that needs
Speaker 1: to talk, well, will man, real talk is taking place
Speaker 1: right now at the Museum of African American Art. It's
Speaker 1: located in Suite two eighty three, that's the second floor.
Speaker 1: Go see Jade and tell them that Dawnlight the break
Speaker 1: of day told you about the organization and told you
Speaker 1: about the event. It doesn't end to eight o'clock, so
Speaker 1: you still have time. I opted not to be available
Speaker 1: to take kind there because I had to make sure
Speaker 1: that I was here with you, me and you to
Speaker 1: talk about the things that we go through. So if
Speaker 1: you know a young man, a young person that could
Speaker 1: benefit or older men that has been going through some things,
Speaker 1: because black men are known to be suffering what twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty percent higher of some type of emotional distress
Speaker 1: in their counterparts. Simply because we aren't talking, simply because
Speaker 1: we aren't talking about the pressures that are going on
Speaker 1: in society. Well, this is a safe haven. This is
Speaker 1: a circle. I've been talking about this for a while,
Speaker 1: how we need to get together and have these conversations
Speaker 1: that are going on in our community. So whether it's
Speaker 1: our mental health or our physical health, check up on
Speaker 1: your wellness and as h Miss Jaggie said, you get
Speaker 1: your breast check this month, please do it. All you
Speaker 1: gotta do is call and make the black doctor apponement.
Speaker 1: And I understand if you are scared, you being scared
Speaker 1: is not gonna change the results you and being scared
Speaker 1: is not gonna make it dissolve you being scared, it's
Speaker 1: gonna keep you stuck in the same place. Each one
Speaker 1: reach one, each one teach one, and it starts with ourselves.
Speaker 1: So I want to open up the phone lines so
Speaker 1: we can get this conversation going. Otherwise we might can
Speaker 1: cut it short so that we can continue to talk
Speaker 1: about the things that are the heart of the matter,
Speaker 1: things that are important to us. So if you are
Speaker 1: tuning in right now, I want to encourage you to
Speaker 1: call me. Call me in the studio eight one, eight
Speaker 1: four six, one fifty four to thirty two eight one,
Speaker 1: eight four six one fifty four thirty two because I'd
Speaker 1: love to hear from you. If there's anything that's going
Speaker 1: on in your mind, if you got a praise report
Speaker 1: about some great things that are going on in the community,
Speaker 1: pull up on me, okay. I want to hear from
Speaker 1: you and owns another great thing that's going on this Saturday?
Speaker 1: Is there anybody going on today's the Soul Well I
Speaker 1: will be there along with the African American Male Wellness Agency. Yes,
Speaker 1: the organization I just discussed about about the Real Men
Speaker 1: Real Talk and the Black Men's Wellness Day. Well, we're
Speaker 1: going to be out there spreading a word about what's
Speaker 1: going on in our community. So I have to see
Speaker 1: somebody up there, and if so, pull up on me.
Speaker 1: Make sure you say hi, make sure you say hello,
Speaker 1: so that I can meet you and that we can talk.
Speaker 1: I know several individuals have came up and said, Hey, Dawln,
Speaker 1: I want to meet with you and I. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't have time just on location and times that are
Speaker 1: available to meet with everyone end Sometimes it's better just
Speaker 1: to be in a comfortable with some environment. Now, there
Speaker 1: are some listeners and viewers that I had met up with.
Speaker 1: In fact, I was just talking about last Tuesday, Miss
Speaker 1: Jackie was in town, so we had grabbed coffee earlier
Speaker 1: in the day. But this is a great space, a
Speaker 1: great place for us to pull up and meet. So
Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna be on Saturday, okay. And also
Speaker 1: I would love if you can get the opportunity to
Speaker 1: make sure that you share this podcast with somebody. I
Speaker 1: am working on diligently coming in every Tuesdays and Thursdays
Speaker 1: to give you some resources, some information to keep you
Speaker 1: excited about your life. But we gotta spread the word
Speaker 1: so we can keep this good thing going. Because when
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm mess necessarily making the money that's gonna
Speaker 1: put the dollar dollar bills y'all in my pocket. But
Speaker 1: I'm hoping I'm sowing seeds right now because the vision
Speaker 1: is to keep building with this and make this of
Speaker 1: a network of my own. But I need to hear
Speaker 1: from you. I need to hear from you. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna just be enough to say, oh, Dawn, I was there.
Speaker 1: I'll listen to the playback. I need to hear you
Speaker 1: live and full effect, to know that my words are
Speaker 1: not falling on deaf ears. I want Vitamin D to
Speaker 1: be the hub where we're shedding light on resources and information. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I want to leave this open. If nobody's calling in,
Speaker 1: well honey, it's time to get out the door. Now
Speaker 1: is miss Latasha. Here is Miss Tatasha. Now, thank you,
Speaker 1: Miss Jacquelin. I really appreciate you. Thank you. Yes, as
Speaker 1: Miss Jaqueline said, we're talking about sponsor shit, this is
Speaker 1: what listen, ask, you shall receive, seeking you shall find.
Speaker 1: And let me just say another thing when Miss Jaqueline,
Speaker 1: it really meant a lot that we did meet up.
Speaker 1: She reminds me, because I know, like sometimes you just
Speaker 1: feel like you don't know what's happening, you don't know
Speaker 1: which direction you're going. She was like, dn you did
Speaker 1: what you said that you were gonna do. She said, Dawn,
Speaker 1: you said that you were going to get back in
Speaker 1: the studio. You said that you were going to get
Speaker 1: up the phone calls. Yes, I did you know? I
Speaker 1: don't have life tattered in my mouth for nothing. As
Speaker 1: we know, life and death are in the power of
Speaker 1: the tongue. So we have to choose to speak life
Speaker 1: over ourselves, through us and for us, and more importantly
Speaker 1: by us our brothers and sisters that we are sitting
Speaker 1: in left and right. We gotta choose to speak life
Speaker 1: so that we can create the life that we want.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, well, let me be a shining
Speaker 1: example by no means of my saying that I'm perfect,
Speaker 1: but I'm a firm believer of speaking and creating the
Speaker 1: life that you want. And I'm just happy to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I need to go back into archives
Speaker 1: and pull up the clip, cause that would be an
Speaker 1: awesome moment. I said, Okay, this is the vision to
Speaker 1: get back in the studio and then come back present
Speaker 1: of myself in the studio. Right, Yeah, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: the way I want to do it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if anybody wants to call in with any stories or
Speaker 1: any information. Are there any resources that we need to
Speaker 1: go ahead and move along to share with the community. Well,
Speaker 1: now's your time to pull up on me so we
Speaker 1: can get this good word out. Call me in the
Speaker 1: studio eight one, eight four six one fifty four to
Speaker 1: thirty two. Again that's eight one, eight four six one
Speaker 1: fifty four thirty two. I'd love to hear from you
Speaker 1: right here, right now, okay, And if not, I guess
Speaker 1: we gotta be out of here. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you each and every one of you so much for
Speaker 1: pulling up on me, showing me some love, those who
Speaker 1: called in, and of course those who commented. And I
Speaker 1: just want to say as a reminder to get out
Speaker 1: there involved shooting about what sixteen days from today, in
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks, we will have the verdict
Speaker 1: of who our next president is. Are you gonna be
Speaker 1: about of that change? Are you gonna walk up, drive up,
Speaker 1: speak up for the change that you wish to see? Listen,
Speaker 1: you ain't got to tell me, and you ain't got
Speaker 1: to prove it to me, show me, say it loud
Speaker 1: and praus, do it with your chest, put some chests
Speaker 1: in it, put some funk on it. That's what we
Speaker 1: need to do. Okay. Well, all right, well listen. Subscribe
Speaker 1: to the podcast. It's available wherever you get your favorite podcast.
Speaker 1: You know that we're all on all social media at
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Speaker 1: on your relationships, on your career, on anything dealing with
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Speaker 1: That's Vitamin D at Dawn Dai speaks dot com. Also,
Speaker 1: if you would like your own dope of vitamin D,
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Speaker 1: And what do I say?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: I always say I'm in the business and making dreams
Speaker 1: come true and I damn shall we got forget about mine?
Speaker 1: So until next time that'll be on Tuesday. Almost forgot.
Speaker 1: I got a special guest a tutoring program Duran. They
Speaker 1: passed a baton. He's coming. Okay, until next time. I
Speaker 1: foundly always remember you are your greatest gats act, get
Speaker 3: Your vit in D right with me, and get excited
Speaker 3: about your life