WEBVTT - Rebuilding The Black Wall Street 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.960 Hey, everybody, I'm to meet a D. Mallory and it's 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:11.880 your boy, my son in general. And we are the 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:17.080 host of street politicians, the place the streets and Politics meets. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.640 You are hilarious sometimes not all the time, but you're 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:24.880 finally a little bit to that. Listen. I'm just trying 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.960 to have a good time. It's June teeth. You know, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.800 we're celebrating being black, you know, and loving to be 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.960 being semi free, semi semi semi free. You know, we're 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.760 moving in the process, and you know, we're moving on 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.920 the trajectory of freedom. So I'm just celebrating my blackness 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.760 and my trajectory to freedom. Yeah. You know what's It's like, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.800 it's a time that I can feel in my bones 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:58.240 something can happen, something great can happen. How we get 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.120 there is gonna take us to even grow in our 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.560 own leadership. And that's and that's what's in front of 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:10.520 us that even we the evolutionary that's right, even we 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:14.199 have to grow. Um. You know, we talked last week 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.000 about this idea that people will say, Well, I don't 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.520 hear y'all talking. I don't hear you saying it's not 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.520 always time to talk. Sometimes you have to sit back 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.759 and really strategize. And I've done this many times where 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.120 you know, you don't see me as much in the 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.319 public sphere, um, where you know, of course you see 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.600 me with a state of emergency, but on other things, 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.960 we're kind of putting pieces of a plan number one, 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:46.720 the number one, but you know, we're putting pieces of 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:51.720 a plan together. UM. And I what I what I 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:56.280 appreciate about this moment that we're in. It's so powerful. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.360 It's like pregnant with opportunity. You've got all the things, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.040 you have administration in place that knows they cannot become 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.080 president again without us, so we can really kick them 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.040 into gear, if you will, If we come together right, 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:18.079 then you have, um, young people that are bold, courageous, intelligent, amazing, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.760 creative all over the country. They are doing great work. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.880 You also have change. You have some painful change. And 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.280 I think with those shifts, with some of these difficult 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.360 conversations that we're having in the movement, it's important and 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.600 they had to happen. This is not new, right, so 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.480 we have to have those like a birthing process of 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.960 a new thing. Um. And And even though it's still 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.200 a passing of the baton, but they always are sort 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.120 of innovative moments, and so it's a good place to be. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.919 But in order to really kick us to the next spot, 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.960 we're gonna have to be extremely strategic about and so um, 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.959 there's a lot to learn. And it's like we've got 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.480 to and the book is is that a state of 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.960 emergency is that you've got to educate people um on 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.360 where we've been. Then you've got to bring them up 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.280 to speed on a strategic plan and then execute. And 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.560 we've got a little bit of time to be able 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.480 to do all those things. And then of course in 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.760 the city we live in New York City, we've got 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:23.080 to educate people on ranked choice voting, bring them up 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:27.320 to speed um in terms of the strategic process, and 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:31.679 then executed during an election. It's a lot to do, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.519 a whole lot to do. It's a lot to do, man, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.840 and and and the guns is going crazy in the streets, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.720 were being gunnsce a wearness months and they're just out here, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.480 these young boys just out here shooting each other. Man. 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.160 And I've really been, like you said, been just being 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.240 quiet and solid because I'm tired of saying, let's stop shooting. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.800 And I really realized that we have to do something 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:57.040 bigger than that, you know, shoutouts to New Pole. Um. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.600 She organized a couple of weeks back, organized a peace 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.800 treaty with some of some blood and crypt gang in 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.760 and Um Brooklyn that she asked me to help her facilitate, 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.160 along with my brother A. T. Mitchell. And it was 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.600 and it was really you know, enlightening. I sat in 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.599 the room with these young brothers and just listening to 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.120 their mind states. And then there's some young brilliant brothers, 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.320 you know, they're just they're according to gang culture and 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.240 and a lot of them are are believe in myths, 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.160 you know, and they're seeing people as quote unquote opts 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.000 that are not and and the rules of engagement are 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.039 so off man. So I realized that there has to 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.320 be a restructuring of mind states. There has to be 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:43.440 a reconstructing of what manhood looks like and what you know, 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.720 realness and this quote unquote vision of quote unquote gangster 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.479 looks like. You know. So I've been That's what I've 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.080 been contemplating lately, just sitting back, being silent, saying, you know, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.040 I know there's something I need to be doing right 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:00.279 now and just asking for clarity, just to deform relate 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.479 what that looks like. So you know, we're all on 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.440 our missions. Man. We've got a great show coming up today, 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.960 UM a lot of information that we're gonna pack into 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.800 uh the entire show. In fact, we won't have two 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.640 guests because this one guest is about five guests and 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:20.920 one person. His name is Leo Alexander. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.720 He is an entrepreneur, a businessman. UM he is some 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.039 people call him a patent master, where he has the 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:33.359 patent for so many different um innovative, innovative ideas. He 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.279 has the patent for so many different inventions, a lot 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:42.200 of technology. Also did great work during covid um the 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.400 height of covid to get masked out, making masks and 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.920 getting them distributed to communities. A black man again in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.839 who believes that Tulsa should be everywhere, that Black Wall 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.679 Street should be everywhere, and so he's gonna be coming 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.600 on now. Before we do that, we're gonna go to 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.000 our resident red expert, LaToya Bond. Thank you, Jamica and 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.360 my son, and welcome to the brand market I'm LaToya Bond, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.679 your resident brand whisperer. Today we have a special brand 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.359 and as you know, Tamika de Mallory is also the 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.360 one of the co founders of Until Freedom. And one 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.479 of the ways that you guys can support the work 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.120 that they do is by purchasing merchandise. And I have 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.560 to say the merchandise is pretty fly, it's great quality, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.840 and it's unisex. It works your men and women. I'm 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.920 gonna toss back to Tamica and my son so they 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.359 can tell you all about Until Freedom and how you 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.520 can support their movement. For us, freedom is when people 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:47.159 like us, freedom fighters protesters are no longer needed on 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.080 the front lines every day. UM, the way that we 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:54.400 are now, freedom would quit organizations like ours out of business. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.560 It would mean that men and women and children and 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:03.640 our siblings wouldn't be being killed, shot down and dealing 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.440 with so many of the ills that are oppressing black, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.560 brown and disenfranchise folks across this country and across the world. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:17.480 I feel like, UM, people think that freedom is not possible, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.960 it's not attainable, But we believe that there is a 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.360 beloved community and that when we get to that place, 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.440 it would be true freedom to make a speech. Although 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.600 it was amazing, it wasn't the one. No, it's not that. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.480 It wasn't the ones. And I heard the speech the 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.000 next day that to me was even more moving. I've 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.360 heard the speech three years ago that was more moving. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.680 I'm glad the world, you know, finally heard, recognized. You 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.320 know what we've all known for this time when you 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.920 know what she always tries to fight that. She's pretty 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.400 much our leader. But the reality of situation is, we 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.240 don't move in fere you know, we we understand, we 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:01.040 understand what comes with this work. You know, like marcol 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.480 Mix said, if you're not willing to die for it, 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.400 and you gotta take the world freedom out of your mouth, 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.200 you know. And each one of us here, which has 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.560 made a commitment to this life, we've made a commitment 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.840 to our people. We have made a commitment to the 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.960 betterment of our communities. I look at my son that 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.720 he did and said, this world just has to be 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.080 better for him. That's when it was for me. So 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.280 of course we are concerned, we pay attention, we're conscious, 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.040 but I don't move in here. And you know, because 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.320 I know where my heart is. I know that God 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.600 got us. I know that we're here for the purpose. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.199 I know that we're living out our purpose. I know 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.040 that exactly what I said before, I was put here 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.440 for this exact moment. So whatever comes with that, if 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.319 my life is, you know, however long I live, I'm 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.160 gonna live in in authenticity. I'm wanna live in fighting 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:50.200 for my people. I'm gonna living to justice. Visit until 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:55.880 freedom dot com for more information. I fight until Freedom. 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.160 Thank you to mek In, my son. I know you 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.679 weren't expecting this, and I know that you didn't create 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.960 this platform to promote your own business. However, you guys 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.160 are on the front line fighting for us every day. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.120 You sacrifice so much, you give so much so that 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.160 I think it's important that the community know how they 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.520 can support your work and how they can support your movement. 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.600 If you guys are interested in having your products featured 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.000 on the brand market, you can find us at the 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.000 BBM Agency on Instagram and click the link in the 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:29.520 bio for more info. We're gonna hear right now from 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:35.400 Leo Alexander of Notivating. His company is has an interesting name, 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.000 and he's gonna tell us more about what it means 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.520 and what he's doing there in Tulsa, Oklahoma. So thank 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.040 you so much for joining us later, thanks for having us. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.200 So tell us about your company name, what is, what 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.400 does it mean? And so we can make sure we're 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:57.120 saying that no problem if nor devoni it's innovation spelled backwards. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.560 So a lot of times, uh, we as inventors have 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.720 to look in the mirror. When you put the word 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:07.079 nor di finding the mirror, it just speaks out in innovation. Now, 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:15.720 innovation is quite different from invention, and innovation. Invention is typically, uh, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:20.920 what inventors do when they have one Eureka moment, one 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.840 Eureka moment that they want to commercialize. And that Eureka 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.720 moment could be something as simple as a hairclip, right, 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.280 and that hairclip, Uh, it's something that you work the 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.880 rest of your life selling. Well, that's an inventor, and 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.679 we understand that there's places in the market for that. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:43.520 But innovators are actually those that actually have a certain 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:49.400 set of skills that are resourced the line directed at problems. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:56.560 Innovators bring solutions to problems and that's what our company 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.839 has been doing for the past thirteen years. And that 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.040 what we promoted. It's a totally new name. It's annulgrom 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:09.240 in uh in the world of technology. Wow. So you 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:15.760 are such an innovateur that everything I imagine you know, 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.280 but you know you're You're so much of a creative 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.920 person that I imagine everything you do has a purpose 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.760 all you know. Obviously the name of your company has 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.960 a purpace. Um. And now you're in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Is 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.600 that where you're from? How did you end up in 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.120 Tulsa when you when you was your family raised there 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.480 after thirteen years of developing our company the way that 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:44.720 we did. Uh. As you know, we're an international company. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.960 I typically lead off with everyone saying that I was 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.080 only born in America, but I was made in China. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.240 My company, my company started in Houston, Texas, but I'm 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.720 from Louisiana. And as a as a young man, the 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.760 term black Walls Street never meant a GPS location to me. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.920 The black Wall Street meant that there was a stock 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.240 market or a wall Street out there that fit my 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:15.840 criteria as a black man. Black Wall Street meant economics. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:21.040 It did not mean a GPS location. It wasn't Greenwood. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.480 In fact, I didn't. I was even I was totally 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.480 unaware of the massacre that occurred, because coming from the 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.400 Deep South, when you heard the term black Wall Street, 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:39.160 you always thought back to the prosperity, the great things 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.400 that you had heard about in those in those stories 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:47.040 from uh, from our ancestors, right, the stories of how 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:54.520 these these entrepreneurial minded individuals built an entire economy for 0:12:54.600 --> 0:13:00.600 themselves and then really motivated generations to come. I'm a 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.080 product of black Wall Street, even though I'm not from here. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:08.440 So four years ago, UM I made the conscious decision 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:13.040 to move my manufacturing company No Devani and e O C. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:19.040 To Tulsa as a means of rebuilding what I always 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:23.400 thought was the Black Wall Street. It was necessarily Greenwood 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.000 or or anything else. It was just that we had 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.880 the capacity and the resources and we wanted to be 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:35.280 the staple of the rebuild. Well that's that's amazing, And 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:40.280 it says that you are award winning innovator. And and 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.760 I'll tell us some of the things that you create, 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:48.559 Like I heard of some things that people would be surprised. Well, Uh, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.480 one of the things that always shocks people is all 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.120 of us are in the world of streaming right now 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:59.319 and remote and distance communications, but one of the first technologies, 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.680 the Colonel techn knowlogies that made even streaming possible was 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.679 the ability to share the screen of your phone to 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:11.640 another device wireless. Right. We call it miracasting or screen sharing, right, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:17.200 but the inventor of miracast technology uh the way that 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.880 you shared a smartphone to any other mobile device and 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.320 exactly the messing ground for what we know is uh 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.160 screen sharing and streaming. So a lot of a lot 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:35.240 of my my earlier technologies were around energy UH and 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:41.560 and really monitoring UM different assets for our US government. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.200 So where are you guys from. Originally you guys are 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.120 from implement areas where you have blackouts and brown outs 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:54.040 mm hmm. Sometimes you know we're in New York City, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.920 blackouts are happening. But you have a lot less of 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:03.720 them now because after two thousand and seven, you wouldn't 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.160 have known that the until the companies wouldn't have known 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.400 that you had a black unless you call them. And 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:14.240 now the poll top transformers tell the utility companies their 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.720 health and condition. Well, my technology, the UTMD monitor was 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.320 the was the purpose for them doing that. It initiated 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.360 the term smart grid, so our own smart grid system 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.440 back in two thousand and seven, and it's part of 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:34.560 our national uh uh, our national power grid. Right now, 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:39.040 every utiler the company utilizes some bit of that technology. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.360 Is there is there so like I guess you signed 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:47.640 in the a's and is there profitentiality for when you 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.040 helped to design? Like in other words, the better question 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:55.440 is absolutely you design and invented more. I think we know, 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.600 um the things we're probably using every day that you 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.920 would never be able to tell us that you actually 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.040 were involved in. From two thousand and from two thousand 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.040 and nine to now, I've developed two hundred and eighteen 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.960 unique electronic products that plug into a wall. Accompanies that 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.680 I'm still under gag order about speaking right uh. Some 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.600 would say that every five minutes, you're gonna interact with 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:26.560 something that I've uh, something that either has our kernel 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.240 technology embedded in it or something that I personally designed. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.400 This is the black history and the black present we 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.240 should be talking about. We're supposed to be celebrating brothers 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.160 like yourself. Well yet we don't even know that this 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.640 is happening, you know, So I just want to applaud 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.840 you and say, you know, give your flowers now and 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.440 said that we truly appreciate you know, your contributions just 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.680 to culture and just to our living. The living that 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.600 we exist in right now is a result of a 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.560 lot of things that you've done. And I just want 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.800 to ask this. You know, you said that you you 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.400 went to Tulsa because you wanted to recreate that you 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:07.399 wanted to build that you It was anonymous with you know, innovation, 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.240 It was anonymous with you know, black people building and growing. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.080 What do you think it's gonna take to actually rebuild that? 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:22.480 Look at before I answer that question, I gotta get 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.639 my I gotta get my guy in here, all right? 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:31.960 Is that okay? And you know how much we love you? 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:39.000 How are you doing it? Genius? Yeah, man, he is 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.080 a genius. You know, we didn't know about him, reverend, 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.000 and we're learning, you know now about this this gentleman, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.359 Mr Alexander, that it should be you know, we should 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.320 all be applauding his work and supporting him, helping him. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.600 And I'm sure you're there trying to figure out how 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:59.440 you can help. Right. It was basically linked to civilizations communications, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.960 So we must know who he is and and tell 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.280 our sorry, because it defies all the reasons like recism. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:10.480 So that once you're on the inferior, but the interior 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:16.000 part of it, the reasonably on scientifics. It's not true. Yeah, listen, 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:21.359 advice and I'm an explosation. God me ever made some 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:27.640 of the black childing to garden himself and justifies all 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:32.639 that footres that's that's powerful. The last time we saw you, 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.000 it was where my son and uh, that's how we've 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.000 seen the reverend was at um when we cried together 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:44.200 when we got the conviction. Uh chovinks the Chauvin trial 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:50.000 and me you him shocking and we cried as he 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.080 and he looked at me and said we we He 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.080 actually lived to see a man get charged with killing 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.159 the black man. That's why when you get when you 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:01.240 when you make election and fellow prime, which is touch out, 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:06.040 when you make h blacks hate crime. Dude, choose the Asians. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.800 Now let's touch out. Well. Was a national application problem, 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:15.600 not just local question. I want to know that. What 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:16.960 do you like? I was about to ask you, what 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.240 do you think it's gonna take two we build Black 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.520 Wall Street to get to get us back to that 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.320 level of prominence where we build our own cities and 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.800 have our own running organizations and have our own coach 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.360 everything that our own things. What do you think it's 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:36.359 gonna take? Well? I think, um, first we need to 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.440 kind of change the narrative and change the educational structure 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:45.560 of what our own Black Wall Street is today. If 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.560 if I tried to promote one Wall Street for one 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:54.720 black economy, um, I would literally be going against my 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:59.400 moral compass. Let me, let me, let me explain that understand, 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:04.439 our our economy is a global one and the color 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:10.480 of that economy should also be multiple colors. The only 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.640 way that that the Indians and the Asians got their 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:18.879 China towns and their Indian towns was by building or 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:24.280 cultivating uh, those talents into products and businesses that the 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.840 world wanted to buy. You use to those uh town 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:33.920 a block block massage pols and restaurants or something that's 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:38.120 not that's not the strip beyond that, that's where they're 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.800 going to get the clos stuff that that's the point. 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.760 It's not a physical locale. Uh. When you super teles 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:47.960 on now and you can push a button and become 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:53.720 those machine, that's global man, who you are? That that's colorless. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.159 And I think that we must think in terms of 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:04.840 we can we can launch to the world we're gonna do. 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:10.120 I agree with you that everyone needs to support, purchase, 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:15.840 patronize whatever our products, services and everything that we put 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.399 out right because of course, the way the economy moves 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.280 is that people are engaged. It's not just one community. 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:26.720 But the ownership piece is important, and that's I think. Okay, 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:28.800 so you were getting ready to go to go ahead, yeah, yeah, 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:35.600 So so understand we haven't had the ability as a 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:40.960 as a culture to actually walk into odds and say, 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:45.440 these are our ideas, Wizard of Oz, where can these 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:51.800 ideas be created? We have taken our talents two other companies. 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:57.240 Those companies has embodied those those talents into products and 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:02.159 then it goes out to the market as brands. Understanding 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.399 that what I'm trying to build is all of the capacity, 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:10.000 all of the enablement tools, the actual factory, the actual 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:14.840 ability to actually take out of your mind those things 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:18.760 and turn them into a tangible reality without you thinking 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.320 about what you needed to go ahead and make that happen. 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:24.440 Just bring your talent because all of the other resources 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:29.639 are here. That's why, that's why I bootstrapped my entire operation. 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:34.960 I have never gotten a venture capital loan, jump on 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:37.919 a pitch stage in front of a group of Anglo 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:41.200 Saxon saying, please give me two hundred tho dollars because 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:44.399 I have an idea. The minute you give the minute 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:46.680 you give your idea to them, for that two hundred 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.800 thousand dollars, you have already taken away our chance of 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:55.320 victory period period. So what I've what I've started to 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:59.880 do is now build all of that infrastructure. If you're 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:04.240 if you're a medical professional and you want to build 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:08.080 medical solutions, well, I built an entire sector of innovation 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:12.800 and development that will enable you to build that device 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.520 or take that service over the network. We needed to 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:20.399 own our own infrastructure, right, So in two thousand and twelve, 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:23.640 I became one of our nation's common carriers that has 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:27.000 fifty giga hurts and spectrum nationwide. Is not another black 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:30.040 man that can say that to his credit today. Right, 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:33.440 But we were always looking at the wrong things. Were 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:36.720 we're looking at the smaller parts of the prize. Infrastructure 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:40.480 is is required. You can't you can't take your dreams 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:42.800 to the yellow brick road. Of the yellow brick road 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:46.760 hadn't been built, right, So my goal was to come 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:49.440 and tell us the later groundwork, put the infrastructure down 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:53.320 and then build the yellow brick road. And if black 0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:56.280 Wall Street needed an oyes, well, I took up the mantel. 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:00.200 In nation means a lot and here's the access mere 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:04.840 shift in Paradise. We will will have my black Wall Street. 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:08.040 We'll have a street to what we can do and 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:13.560 black Wall State in Black World Country. I think it's anation. 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:17.560 It's amation. We have an ability to create a nation 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:20.359 within the nation. It only takes one speration to do it. 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:22.800 The thing is, we have to change the way we're thinking. 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:25.600 It's really good to see you, Redam Jackson. I'm so 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:29.200 glad you're in Tulsa to um, you know, being able 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:32.200 to uh go back to a place and I know 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:35.800 you've been many times, but to see so many young people, 0:24:35.880 --> 0:24:40.720 particularly commemorating and learning more about Tulsa. So many people 0:24:40.840 --> 0:24:43.399 had did not know, they didn't know the full extent 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:45.720 of the massacre. And I know this is something you've 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:49.240 been teaching for a long time and finally people are 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:53.040 beginning to listen, um and hopefully uh in your life 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:56.520 at this point, after your accomplishment so much, you are 0:24:56.640 --> 0:24:59.840 beginning to see the fruits of your labor that they 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:03.080 are so young folks who are who are beginning to 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:05.320 get what you've been telling us for a long time. 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:09.480 Really ride the Master. For example, people did not know 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:13.040 that the ten album they were different, a better share, 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:16.680 and that means that it is the shaffs the drop 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:20.399 um save all the company and usually played to drop bombs. 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:23.320 So the first bomb was not dropping here Shima, I 0:25:23.359 --> 0:25:29.560 mean Pearl Harbor dropping here on learning a lot about 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:34.280 what happened, and they sampataple on the hotel people motel 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:37.080 for the house probably were down the man las day, 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:41.160 by the way. Uh John Rodgers, you know Don John Rodgers, 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:44.080