1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, the school want to ask you a question. Let's 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: just keep a real straight shot with no chasings. I'm 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: gonna get a little bit roughly. I'm here for it. 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: Those who really believed in the American process, all of 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: us straight shut, no chasing. What's your girl? Tessel figuring 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: on the black effect, podcasting that word. That word, ladies 7 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: and gentlemen, I give you figure church stake. Came to 8 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: have some church this evening. I need y'all to loosen up, 9 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: get with me on this topic. For a moment, I 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: saw that I was in a sanctuary, so I said 11 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: I might as well preach. Do your mind all right, 12 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: let me get my amen. Crowd, greetings Edwards Waters College family. 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: This is such an honor and a pleasure. I am 14 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: so grateful to have the opportunity extended to me by 15 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: Dr Hobbs. I want to say thank you the President 16 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: Faison s g A, President Johnson, Chief Williams, and also 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: for the beautiful introduction by Ms Oliver. Now I'm like 18 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: a bootleg preacher, so the more you say amen, the 19 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: faster I'll go. So can I test it one more time? Amen? 20 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: God is what all the he is? Thank you? I 21 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: just wanted to see you if I was home this evening, 22 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: So I want to talk to you. Yeah, that's right, 23 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: let's get it going. We need doing him. We need 24 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: to get him to get it popping. Okay, I know 25 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: I've been changed you already. I ain't come but yo, 26 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: um yeah, I'm glad to be here. Charlemagne calls me 27 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: the hood whisper. So I'll be speaking a little bit 28 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: loud to you today to really just speak from my spirit. 29 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: So just bear with me. I have to be honest. 30 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: I really struggled with this topic. Normally my words flow 31 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: like a river, but I found myself stuck. And the 32 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: reason why I'm stuck is because what is happening in 33 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: the movement space as we are in a place of 34 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: being stuck literally and figuratively stuck. I can't lie to 35 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: your family. I have to be honest and say that 36 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: many of the my colleagues that work in this space 37 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: that you have brought down to Edwards Waters to make 38 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: a Mallory killer, Mike Charlemagne, these are folks that we 39 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 1: have conversations daily, and we are at a place and 40 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: I was talking to this about dor with Dr Hobbs. 41 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,079 Speaker 1: We're at a place that is different this year in 42 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 1: any other year before. We expect opposition around election time, 43 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: we expect chaos, we expect confusion. But there's something very 44 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: different that is happening in the atmosphere, that is working 45 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: its way through the movement like a cancer coming out 46 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: of the George Floyd two thousand and twenty movement and 47 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: watching us go to such a level, a high level 48 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: of urgency, a high level of observation, a high level 49 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: of wokeness, a high level of people paying attention that 50 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: never paid attention before, a high level of lies by 51 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: corporate America that said they backed us. Let me say 52 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: it one more time, I said, at a high level 53 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: of even lies from corporate America that said they backed 54 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: us in our movement. And now we are seeing that 55 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: being chastised and criticized and trying to be taken a 56 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: part of in a very different way. And the morale 57 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: is low. Even with myself, I started. I've always talked 58 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: about push the line politics until something happens, and I 59 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 1: I started a training where we just brought three hundred 60 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: people from all over the country in Atlanta, Georgia to 61 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: train to be candidates and operatives and organizers in a 62 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: nonpartisan way, because I had to do that for myself, 63 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: because even myself, my morale has been taken down. Talking 64 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: to Dr Hawes before we started, she said, tell me 65 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: who's getting it right? And I was. I said, I 66 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: it's hard for me to answer that question because I'm 67 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: at a place that I've seen too much in the 68 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: last not just the last decade, but in particularly the 69 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: last two or three years, more than what I've wanted 70 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: to see. And I don't wanted to defend anybody, but 71 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: I'm gonna believer, so I'm gonna talk to you. It 72 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: looked like a church to me, so I might as 73 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: well preach. I gotta talk to you what my spirit 74 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: says to me. And so I'm a believer, and I've 75 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: been wrestling with what do you want me to say 76 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: to the students that hasn't been said before? What can 77 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: I say in this moment that is so clear and 78 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: so directly to your conscious, to prick your conscious that 79 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: speaks to you in a moment such as this. And 80 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: so I want to talk to you for a moment. 81 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: And and as I I know, we're gonna have some 82 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: question and answers when I'm done setting up the narrative, 83 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: but I want to talk to you a moment so 84 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: that when we are going into the question and answer phase, 85 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: you'll know where I'm coming from. The series is called 86 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: stay Woke, and the reason why I struggle with it 87 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: is because I've seen the hash to act stay woke, 88 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: stay woke, stay woke. I've I've heard the songs, I've 89 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: heard the the the the the the collopialisms that if 90 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: you will, of what that means. And I'm wondering do 91 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: we really understand what that means? And are we in 92 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: a place that we are now stuck? I want to 93 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: examine with you for a moment and challenge you for 94 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: a moment on what stay woke really means. And it's 95 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: not in a way to criticize the term, but I 96 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: must challenge your thinking to go deeper than just the term. 97 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: Webster Dictionary defines woke as aware and actively attentive, two 98 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: important facts and issues, especially of racial and social injustice. 99 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: But I want to challenge you to move past being 100 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: woke because, according to the definition, woke is only about 101 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: being actively attentive. Being attentive is just an adjective to 102 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: be mindful. It is not a verb. It is not action. 103 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: Let me say it again, because maybe y'all didn't get it. 104 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: Maybe y'all sleep right now as I talked, So let 105 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: me speak to you. Being woke means just being mindful. 106 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: It is an adjective. It is not action. And what 107 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: I have seen in the movement is a lot of 108 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: folks paying attention, being woked, so called woke, But I 109 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: haven't seen enough action. Now I'm not talking to you, guys. 110 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: I'm talking to those who are at home, to those 111 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: who are listening, to those in your space that you're 112 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: constantly trying to motivate to get involved. We are missing 113 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: the action of what it means to be woke. Plenty 114 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: of folks pay attention. Pay means what to settle the debt. 115 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: So I stopped by to tell you just for a 116 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: moment that in order for you to pay the debt, 117 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: paying attention is not enough. Let me say it again, 118 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: in order to pay the debt, to settle the debt, 119 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: paying attention is not enough. And woke means literally in 120 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: the dictionary, if you look up woke, it says to 121 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: pay attention to be mindful. But it is not enough 122 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 1: for you to just pay attention. It is not enough 123 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: for you to just log on. It is not enough 124 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: to do with my brother. My son says, and do 125 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: tweet buys. I'm looking for somebody that's willing to get actors. 126 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: Do you think that being woke is enough to pay 127 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: down the debt? Now you might be saying, what do 128 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: you mean when I say pay down the dead? I 129 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: know y'all don't know this because y'all distinguished college folks. 130 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: But in the hood they say, pour out a little liquid. 131 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: Is anybody ever heard your cousins say they're gonna pour 132 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: out a little liquor for the homie. I know, not 133 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: y'all in the front because you got your beautiful sashes 134 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: on and the distinguished. Maybe you don't want to doctor 135 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: hobbs and know you know what it means. But there's 136 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: something called pouring out a little liquor. And what that 137 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: means is when someone passes away, they pour out a 138 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: little liquor to say, this is how I'm paying homage 139 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: to a loved one. And what I see being woke 140 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: is it's just putting a little bit on a big problem. 141 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: And I'm a wrapp it altogether. Just keep up with me. 142 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 1: I want you to imagine and I'm so glad this 143 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: is this size of water. I wasn't expecting it to 144 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 1: be this small, but I'm showing you, and that's not 145 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: a dis y'all think I'm not this in the small water. 146 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 1: I'm saying it's perfect example of metaphor where I'm about 147 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: to take you. Imagine me taking this small water bottle 148 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,199 Speaker 1: and going out to the Atlantic Ocean and pouring this 149 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: out in the Atlantic Ocean and saying, this is what 150 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: I'm contributing. I'm pouring out just a little bit of 151 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: liquor to pay homage to those who have passed. Or 152 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: maybe you're confused, you haven't got it. I'm talking about 153 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: the ancestors that are at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. 154 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: If I were to take this to the Atlantic Ocean 155 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: and say this is what I'm gonna pour on the 156 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: movement just a little bit. See, this is what being 157 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: woke is. I need you to be active so that 158 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: you can shake the bones at the bottom of the 159 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: Atlantic Ocean with some action. Maybe you didn't get it. 160 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: They didn't get it. They didn't get it. Since I'm 161 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 1: I believe I was told that my cup will overflow 162 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: with blessings So when you're saying I'm woke and you're 163 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: not taking that to action, it's just the same as 164 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 1: you're pouring this small glass of water in the Atlantic Ocean. 165 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: Woke is not enough. So my challenge to you is 166 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: that we moved past being woke. Woke is important. I'm woke, 167 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: I'm woke, I'm woke, stay woke, pashtag, whoa, whoa, whoa. 168 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: The question is what do we do to move past 169 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: being woke? And we need the kind of action that 170 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 1: it's not good enough to just have Lazarus open his eyes, 171 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: but somebody has to tell Lazarus to stand up and 172 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 1: rise and move forward. You didn't get that, So I'm 173 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: gonna help you get it just a little bit deeper. 174 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 1: Lazarus was dead for four days and it took somebody 175 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 1: a miracle telling him to get up and rise. And 176 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: according to vox dot com, the woke colloquial is started 177 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: four years ago. They didn't get that. Let me say 178 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: it again, staying woke started four years ago. And the 179 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: reason why I was stuck when my message on the 180 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: word woke, because I know that we are still sleep. 181 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: We are not opening up our eyes, we are not 182 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: getting up, and I'm here to tell you four years 183 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: later that somebody got to be latherrous and rise, and 184 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: that means by action, not just by looking cute and 185 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: being cute and being woke. And I'm woke and I 186 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: see what's happening. Maybe you're not getting it. There is 187 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: an anti woke movement right now by white supremacy that 188 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: is attacking the woke movement. And you are the future 189 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: leaders that are being poured into to be able to 190 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: pour what you have into the movement and being woke 191 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: with us, This is not enough. I do believe, contrary 192 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: to popular believe it. Now I'm preaching to myself. I 193 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: do believe that this generation is not dead. I do 194 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: believe that the mission is not dead. I do believe 195 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: that despite the war that's being waged on, the woke 196 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:33,439 Speaker 1: movement is not dead. I believe that we will rise. 197 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: I believe that even my generation will get it together. 198 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: There's some some missing leadership, even in my generation that 199 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: needs to understand what it means to leave to be 200 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: looked up to, to handle our maturity, and particularly online, 201 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: even myself to be better at leadership. I believe that 202 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: even my elders will remove their ego and work with 203 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: more leaders in my generation and your generation so that 204 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: we can get this thing together. I believe that my 205 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: my child, who's here sitting in the back, even though 206 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: she don't want to be in the movement movement space, 207 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: I believe that the seed that I'm planting in her 208 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: will be watered and nurtured. And it's up to you 209 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: to do it. Because I tell all the time, I'm 210 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: not gonna live forever. I'm not gonna be here forever. 211 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: Tomorrow's not promise. So when I'm speaking to you, I'm 212 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: speaking to you so that you can pay it on 213 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: and pass it on to her. I believe that faith 214 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: without works is dead. I believe that we can no 215 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: longer just pay attention by being woke, but we must 216 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: pay down the debt, the debt that has been planted 217 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: in you by your teachers, by your fessors, by your students, 218 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: by our ancestors. And I believe if we work hard 219 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: enough to pay down the debt, that America will then 220 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: pay down the debt that is old to us. And 221 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: what that means by that is, in case you're confused 222 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: on that there's a debt that is old to us 223 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: through slavery, share cropping, Redline and Jim Crow, mass incarceration, 224 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: school to prison, pipeline and so much more over the 225 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: last four hundred years. But if we are only pouring 226 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: out just a little bit instead of our entire soul 227 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: through action, then we are not moving forward. My desire 228 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: is always to inspire, but it is also to prick 229 00:15:55,720 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: your conscious to ask what are you doing besides just 230 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: being woke? Anybody? If I had to, if you were sleeping, 231 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: its time to get up for school and you woke 232 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: where you WoT? Well, what does that mean? If you're 233 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: not getting out of the bed, if you're not moving, 234 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: if you're not putting your clothes on, if you're not 235 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: putting it putting your combat boots on to get out 236 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: and help fight what we are up against through spirit 237 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: principalities and through movement. Then being woke is the same 238 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: as being dead. Y'all didn't get that. I said being 239 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: woke is the same as being dead. And when you 240 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: are operating in a spirit of action, I want you 241 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: to know that you can expect the attacks, you can 242 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: expect the blowback, you can expect to feel isolated. It's 243 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: set up so you can feel by yourself. It's set up. 244 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: No matter who's sitting on the right or the left 245 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: of you, you are. You have something in you that's 246 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: going to make you feel lonely and feel by yourself, 247 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: and feel that everything is again inso you, and feel 248 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: that nobody is out there fighting with you. That's what 249 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:12,479 Speaker 1: the enemy is designing it to do. To watching our 250 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: brother t I yesterday and I'm sure some of y'all 251 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: soul can somebody nod and see what's going on, and 252 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 1: remember he made a post and said, I feel by myself. 253 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: That's what the enemy is trying to do, to make 254 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: you feel that you're by yourself when you're not. And 255 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: if you don't get that, I don't like the sugarcoat 256 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: stuff and play games. If you don't get that that 257 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: it is designed for you to feel isolated. It is 258 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: designed for us to tear each other apart instead of 259 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 1: locking arms and understanding that you're not in this war 260 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: by yourself. But there will be some times that you 261 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: will have to stand so low. Don't low? Are you 262 00:17:54,000 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: prepared to stand alone? What happens if the person next 263 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: to you don't show up? What happens when the other 264 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: people don't feel the room. Are you prepared to stand alone? 265 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: The attacks are gonna come, The isolation is going to come. 266 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: It's coming on me now, it's coming on my colleagues. 267 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: Now we are even in a place where we want 268 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: to give up. If I told you something different, I 269 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: will be lying to you. The documentary that came out 270 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: just yesterday about and I'm not here to promote it, 271 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,479 Speaker 1: but I gotta tell you a lot of time we say, well, 272 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about it because I don't 273 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: want to bring like, No, let's talk about it so 274 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: you can know what it is that we're fighting. Because 275 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: keeping your head in the sand and pretending like it 276 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: don't exist, it's coward me. I'm a M six DEGNA 277 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 1: from the Air Force. I believe in hitting it straight 278 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: on the documentary on the Greatest Lie Ever told, the 279 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: George Lord's Story, where we're looking at Kanye West, who 280 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: said white Lives Matter last week, and Ray J standing 281 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 1: together at a documentary that is absolutely promoting everything that 282 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 1: we have been against, everything that we have been fighting for. 283 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 1: But people are so caught up in the social media 284 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: drama that you think it's about Kim Kardashian. For those 285 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: that don't know you think it's about Kanye. Do you 286 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: think it's about ray J? You didn't even pay attention 287 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 1: that the documentary that they're standing against is basically saying 288 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: that George Floyd deserved to die. Social media has the 289 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,199 Speaker 1: the mindset so twisted and so confused that you're not 290 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: even seeing that they are. They are so caught up 291 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: in themselves that they can't see they are part of 292 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: a part of being something that is orchestrated that says 293 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: that their own black life does not matter. And you 294 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: don't have to agree with Black Lives Matter the organization. 295 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: I have my concerns as well, But what I'm talking 296 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,199 Speaker 1: about is my black life. What I'm talking about is 297 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 1: ray J's black life. What I'm talking about is Kanye's 298 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: black life, because I think he learned this week that, oh, yes, 299 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: you two are black. A man, y'a don't want to 300 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: say it. I'm not the only one gonna say it. 301 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:44,199 Speaker 1: I think he learned this week that you too are black. 302 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: It's been so much that we've been wrestling on how 303 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 1: do we continue to reach are you? How do we 304 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: show you that their space in this for you? How 305 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: do we become leaders? How can I be a better leader, 306 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: a better example, and it's something I wrestle with every 307 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: single day because behind social media, and behind being on 308 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: the ground for real, and behind going on national TV 309 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: and and fighting my enemy, I also have to do 310 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: internal fighting among each other. And that is where we 311 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: lose our momentum because we are so caught up in 312 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: our own personalities, our own ego, our own desire to 313 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: be seen, that we don't even see what's being orchestrated 314 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: around us is so much bigger than just one man 315 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: and one woman. I am not a righteous person, meaning 316 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: I don't do everything right, but I stand on righteousness. 317 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: I am not a perfect person, but I am indeed 318 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: a writer. I don't say everything the way I should 319 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: say it, but I'm for show say what needs to 320 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 1: be said. This is where we are with things, family. 321 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,439 Speaker 1: I hope that as you continue, and I'm putting up 322 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: my notes because now I'm just talking to you. I 323 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: hope that as you continue this series that you continue 324 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: to hear from these speakers. I hope that they are 325 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: also challenging you in a way to make you leave 326 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: this place, Like you said, agitated, inspired and motivated, but 327 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: also asking what are you going to contribute to the game. 328 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: That's what I call it, the game the movement. What 329 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 1: are you? What are you giving? What are you pouring 330 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: of yourself? Are you giving your soul? Are you giving 331 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: it all? Who are I'm speaking to the front row 332 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: because you are the leaders? And what does that mean 333 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 1: to lead? To be cute, to have your name on programs? 334 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 1: Or does it mean more than that? Are you organizing 335 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: outside of this HBCU. Are you talking to the hood? 336 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 1: Are you going beyond those that had access those that 337 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 1: did not have access to the education that you're being afforded. 338 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: Are you meeting them where they are? Are you looking 339 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: for Lazarus? Are you only talking among yourself with your 340 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: echo chambers? Are you only preaching to yourself, to your 341 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 1: own crowd, to your own sororities, to your own fraternities, 342 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 1: to your own group. That is not what God told 343 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: me to tell you today. Get outside of yourself and 344 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: gonna wake up Lazardus. It's been four years. We've been 345 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: talking about being woked for four years. Leverus was dead 346 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: for four days. If somebody don't know they woke now, 347 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: then they ain't never getting up. Let me say it 348 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 1: one more time in case you out and get it. 349 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: If somebody don't know they woke back, now, they ain't 350 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: getting up. I know a lot of speakers will tell 351 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: you everybody different. I'm not Harriet tupman. I'm not one 352 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: of the ones mother that's gonna say. I wish I 353 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: could have freed a lot more, not me. I'm honking 354 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: the horn one time. You either coming or you're not 355 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: a man. Yeah, And I mean I'm honking at one time. 356 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: Maybe it's just me. My mother was a bus driver. 357 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: She drove the bus. After she drove the bus, she 358 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: was the cafeteria lady. That was back when you had 359 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,479 Speaker 1: two and three job. I don't know if y'all had 360 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: a grandma like I did. I need somebody to wake 361 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: up in here this evening. I know that I'm gonna 362 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: keep going the longer. If the less a man's. Yeah, 363 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: better started a man and so I can wrap up. 364 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get some a man's out of y'all before 365 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: since said and done, better start raising the man's and 366 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: doing something. I'd be it per all night. Hold y'all up. Now, 367 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 1: hey man, my grandmother drove the bus, and she told 368 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: me you better make sure you own this bus. Stop 369 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 1: when I come around this corner. They are from a 370 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: different generation. I know because I spoiled my baby. She 371 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 1: if I told her be on the bus stop. Literally, 372 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: her bus stop is in front of our house, like literally, 373 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: and she still think I'm supposed to take her to school. 374 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 1: Because it's a different generation. They got access to stuff 375 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: we we didn't do, and that's fine. I love doing it. 376 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: I believe in breaking generational curses. I want things to 377 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 1: be better for her than what they were for me. 378 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 1: But I was raised by my grandmother that told me 379 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,679 Speaker 1: I better be on that bus stop on time. And 380 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: she said, when I come around this corner and you're 381 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: not on that bus stop, you're gonna be walking to school. 382 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: And Grandma meant that, and you always got a test 383 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: Grandma to see it if if if, if it's real, 384 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: and she made a believe out of them. I had 385 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: to walk to school because the point was to be 386 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: ready when I come around this corner. See, my grandmother 387 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,959 Speaker 1: believed in the raption. She believed that it's gonna come 388 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: a time that you're gonna have to be read and 389 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: the truff is gonna be blown one time freedom is coming. 390 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: One time we ain't doing no double back in the round, 391 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: and see ya also used to double backing around. I'm 392 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: here to tell you sometime, you got to be ready 393 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: the first time. Some of these speakers tell y'all, oh no, no, 394 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 1: let's come back and get him. Not Auntie, aunt he 395 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: tes hawking the horn one time. I'm not Harriet. This 396 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 1: is two thousand twenty two. If you don't know you 397 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: won't freedom in two thousand and twenty two, then you 398 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:15,199 Speaker 1: don't must have don't want no freedom. Y'all need to 399 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: stop get out the mindset of quoting what a slave said, 400 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: I wish I could have freedom? What that back in 401 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: eighteen y'all Collins, What year was it when Harry is 402 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: said that? Eighteen? What seventy? I don't know the year, 403 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: but we know it was a long time ago, don't 404 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: we So here y'all quoting quoting what a slave said. 405 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,679 Speaker 1: Do do y'all get that? They don't get it. They 406 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 1: think they'd be saying something brother online, if I if 407 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: they was free, I could have freed. That's what a 408 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,120 Speaker 1: slave said. We're into that and shut out to Harry talking. 409 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,679 Speaker 1: And we love hair to but I'm trying to get 410 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: your understand where your mind said that they you're getting 411 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,239 Speaker 1: this SI. I'm talking, y'all love giving when I get one, 412 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: at least one. Amen. You're up here quoting I wish 413 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: I could have freed more if only they knew they 414 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 1: was free. No no, no, no no in two thousand 415 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: twenty two. If you don't know you free in two 416 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: thousand twenty two, the bus ain't coming back to pick 417 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: you up. The reason why I say this because I 418 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: need you to move with some urgency to the bus stop. 419 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: The reason why I say this because I need you 420 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: to get ready on time. The reason I say that 421 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: it's because I need you to be early, not late. 422 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: That's what leadership does. If y'all didn't get that, then 423 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: go look up the story of Moses. Maybe y'all got 424 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: time to talk to people for forty years in the 425 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 1: wilderness and end up missing the Promised Land because you 426 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: steady talking to everybody else instead of being the new 427 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: generation of Joshua that say they're going on over. Maybe 428 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: they didn't get it. They didn't get it, Mama. I know, 429 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: I got some elders in the house and understand about 430 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: the new generation of Joshua. See y'all wasting y'all time 431 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: talking to those that don't want to be free. Remember 432 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: when Martin Luther King said, I'm not gonna get there 433 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: with you. I'm gonna I wish I would sit up 434 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: here and go and think I'm gonna help you, and 435 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna. Oh no, I'm going somebody gonna get left, 436 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: and it ain't gonna be me. Moses stayed in the 437 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 1: wilderness for forty years, talking to the same people that 438 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: he freed. The Lord kept telling him stop trying to 439 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: prove who I am. If they didn't see it through 440 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: the ten different things that I did to to Fayro, 441 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: then they must don't want to be free. But he 442 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: kept on saying, well, here, go to water, here, go 443 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: to Manna. Here told the Lord said, don't hit the rock. 444 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: I've already showed him who I am. And here you 445 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: foolish enough to keep hitting the rock. And because Moses 446 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: was not obedient, he had to watch everybody else go over. 447 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: Y'all better get some obedience in your life and go 448 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 1: on over to the promised land. I know they tell 449 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: you to go back and get them, go back and 450 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: get them one time, though one time, somebody say one time, 451 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: we ain't coming back. Around the second time, because what 452 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: happens is you're going to get lost. What happens is 453 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: you're going to lose. You're not gonna make it over. 454 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,719 Speaker 1: You won't see glory because you are busy spending time 455 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 1: arguing with those that were destined to be slaves. Let 456 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: me give it to you another way, and I'm gonna 457 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: shut up. Y'all know when the ministers say they're gonna 458 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: shut up, they go about another ten more minutes. Just 459 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: bear with me, But I gotta get these babies got 460 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: to get it. Did y'all see the Titanic? Let me 461 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: give it to him this way. Maybe they didn't get 462 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: the Moses in the Joshua. Let me give it to 463 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: you this way. Y'all remember and raise your hand. You 464 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: saw the Titanic, My students, okay, and my eldest too. 465 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: I love it that we got both generations. You remember 466 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: when Jack got on the boat. Remember Jack didn't have 467 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: no business on the boat. I know y'all getting because 468 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: I heard my lord, my lord, I better. I'm getting 469 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: rid of to freesisting on up Jack. Never we're supposed 470 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 1: to be on the boat, and here it is. What 471 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: was her name? Rules? Thank you? I like a talking church. 472 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: Here it is Rose that's so caught up behind Jack. 473 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: Ain't nothing wrong with me and a little Jack. I'm 474 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: about to go there. I'm the only one that met 475 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: a Jack in my life. They ain't gonna meet it, 476 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: but I met a Jack. Ain't nothing like a little Jack. 477 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 1: Look at my disting with students. They don't want you 478 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: to know, Dr Hobbs. I'm gonna go ahead and tell it. 479 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: Ain't nothing wrong with meeting a little Jack. Jack put 480 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: something on Rose. Excuse me, the roles they've never seen before. 481 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: Ain't nothing wrong with it. Out met a Jack had 482 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: me doing poetry all on the stage. Can I tell 483 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 1: you all the truth? But y'all want me to I'm 484 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: the only one man to Jack. Okay, dere girl, I 485 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: was doing poetry on the stage. I called my mama. Mama, 486 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: I ain't ever seen nothing like it. I almost, and 487 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: I mean almost, ordered that brother a basket, a fruit basket. 488 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: He was a barber. I want to make sure he 489 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: had protein to get through today. Mama. They ain't that. 490 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: They don't want to admit it, but I'm admitted. I 491 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: called my girlfriend. I think I should send on something. 492 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: Do you think it I ain't never bought a man 493 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: nothing of my life before that Jack. Make you by 494 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: that Jack, if you will meet you with Jack. Now, 495 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: the devil is a lie. Y'll have to sit up 496 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: here like you if you want to. Girl. I was 497 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: on one hundred flowers. I almost hit the sand button. 498 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: I needed to know that the brother had protein to 499 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: get through today. I didn't want a week on the job, Mama. 500 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: They don't want to admit it, but I'm a god 501 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: to admit that I've testified in the hurt. I was 502 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: doing all types of poetry, all on the stage. I 503 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: had to testify, so I know what the Jackie is. 504 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: They don't want it me. That's all right. I'll tell 505 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: the story for you. Don't worry about it, girl. I 506 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: really was on the stage doing poetry now, bo Gods, 507 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: ain't that sad? So I know I know what a 508 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: Jack had due to your spirit. So Jack, I assisted 509 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: the pack. Jack was a Jack and and got all 510 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 1: up and rolls his spirit and soul to the point 511 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: that Rolls forgot what her destiny was. Work with me here, 512 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna wrap it all together. When it was time. 513 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: When when the ship began to sink, her life boat 514 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: was prepared for her. I think the word says what 515 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: he will prepare a what before my ends? A table 516 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 1: was prepare for Roles. A place was prepared for Roles. 517 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: But she got so caught up in the jack. Just 518 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: work with me here. The jack is the principalities in 519 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: your life. The jacks are the nouns in your life, person, 520 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: places and things distracting you. Roles got so caught up 521 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 1: in the jack in her life that she couldn't understand 522 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: that the place was already prepared for her. So here 523 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: it is. She was in the life boat and got 524 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 1: out the lifeboats. See that's what y'all doing when you're 525 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,759 Speaker 1: leading and you're going back and getting them. And then 526 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: they you were already all and owned to freedom. They 527 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,759 Speaker 1: were already free from fay Roe. Bear with me, I 528 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,319 Speaker 1: do metaphor surreal. Y'all got to keep up. I'm trying 529 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:53,439 Speaker 1: to tie it off together. She was already going over 530 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: to America, the Promised land. So then she gets out, 531 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 1: the climbs up the rope to go back to an 532 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: area that God already took her from. And we find 533 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: ourselves guilty. What that we call the survivors syndrome. We 534 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: feel we got to go back and get everybody. That's 535 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: why y'all be always quote if I was here and 536 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 1: talking and I could have free, We're gonna free, and 537 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 1: we're gonna free, and whoever gonna be left gonna be 538 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 1: left because we are at a pivotal time where you 539 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: cannot use your talents and your gifts or distractions. Know 540 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: the difference between educating someone and motivating someone and it 541 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: being a Jack who was already destined to drown. Everybody 542 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:45,360 Speaker 1: ain't gonna go. Everybody ain't gonna make it. You're the 543 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,760 Speaker 1: new generation. So then she gets climbs up the rope, 544 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: goes down to the belly of the ship in a 545 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,720 Speaker 1: heavy dress, climbing and pushing that we know that wouldn't 546 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: have happen in real life, for real, climbing and pushing 547 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: through the water to get to something that was already 548 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: destined to die. You're chasing things in your life that 549 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:15,600 Speaker 1: you should have left behind. You're chasing people in your 550 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:23,319 Speaker 1: life that you should have left behind. Remember in the 551 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: movie when Jack said, I'm just glad to be sitting 552 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 1: at the table with you find people, y'all, remember that 553 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 1: he had already saw his highest point he was comfortable 554 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: when he was given at that moment, he knew that 555 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 1: I wasn't supposed to be here in the first place. 556 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 1: He knew that if he died right then and there, 557 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 1: he had already done what he was called to do. 558 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 1: But you rose, you went and went and looking for 559 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 1: somebody that was satisfied with their mission. Everybody mission ain't 560 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,439 Speaker 1: the same, And I know I'm talking to somebody in there. 561 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 1: Until you go down and you risk your life to 562 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: get Jack, and you bring Jack up in the ocean, 563 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: and you sit on a raft on the table, whatever 564 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: it was, it almost lose your life behind somebody that 565 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:28,560 Speaker 1: had already completed their mission. And the reality of it is, 566 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,400 Speaker 1: if that had been real life, because we know that 567 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,759 Speaker 1: was fiction, rules would have died. That's just the reality. 568 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 1: You can't possibly believe that she would have been the 569 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 1: only one when the sharks was eating up everybody else, 570 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 1: when the freeze was freezing everybody else. Don't you be 571 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 1: a fool and think you can afford to take that 572 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: type of risks. You would have dined right along with Jack. 573 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,840 Speaker 1: Be careful who you go back and get. Be careful 574 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:01,560 Speaker 1: in understanding your assignment. Understand your assignment ain't everybody else. 575 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,839 Speaker 1: You better be at the in that lifeboat and say, hey, Jack, 576 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 1: you coming okay? Then cool. You better be the man 577 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: that was in the other boat that said if you 578 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,839 Speaker 1: don't shut your mouth, we're putting you out. Do y'all 579 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 1: remember that part what she kept saying, Let's go back 580 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 1: and get them. He said, no, no, no, because they'll 581 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,600 Speaker 1: sink us all. This is where we are to place 582 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,399 Speaker 1: in the movement. They're trying to sink us all. Mother, 583 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:33,880 Speaker 1: They're trying to get you all, my child, you, our elders. 584 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:38,279 Speaker 1: They're trying to sink us all who among you. We'll 585 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:43,319 Speaker 1: move forward to the Promised Land being woke. It's not enough. 586 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,600 Speaker 1: And I wasn't even planning on talking about the Titanic, 587 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,760 Speaker 1: but didn't I say at the beginning about the Atlantic Ocean, 588 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,279 Speaker 1: you better start pouring something in the game that's gonna 589 00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:00,319 Speaker 1: make our ancestors bones tremble. You better start it is 590 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,200 Speaker 1: something in the ocean that will wake up the chains 591 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 1: of our ancestors. And in order to do that, you 592 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 1: need to focus on your mission, your calls. Don't be 593 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 1: distracted by the jacks. Oh Jack's ain't gonna wake up. 594 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,040 Speaker 1: Oh Jack's sin't coming. All jacks are not meant to 595 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:24,800 Speaker 1: be free. Ask him once, maybe twice or three times. 596 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,439 Speaker 1: But when it's time to haunt the home, you better 597 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,839 Speaker 1: be found ready. I'll say this at our clothes. A 598 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 1: lot of times online they like to say the greatest 599 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,960 Speaker 1: all times. Willie D said, tells you one of the 600 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,280 Speaker 1: greatest all times in commentary, which was an honor because 601 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,680 Speaker 1: Willie D and Scarface are icons in our hip hop culture. 602 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,960 Speaker 1: But I always when somebody tell me you to go 603 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,359 Speaker 1: to you to go. You know y'all love saying go go, go, 604 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:59,920 Speaker 1: go go. There's going to become a time where the 605 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:05,279 Speaker 1: goat won't mean anything at all. You may have heard 606 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:11,080 Speaker 1: where they'll divide the wheat from the tears. The new 607 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,959 Speaker 1: International version said they're dividing the goats from the sheep. 608 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 1: When people tell me I want to get involved, I 609 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,200 Speaker 1: sent you a d M. I didn't get nothing back. 610 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 1: Can I tell you there's going to be a time 611 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:29,480 Speaker 1: where the goat will be divided from the sheep. I 612 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,359 Speaker 1: didn't make this up. This is what the word said. 613 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,560 Speaker 1: The goat will be divided from the sheep, and the 614 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,000 Speaker 1: sheep is not those who go along to get along. 615 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,120 Speaker 1: The sheep are not those who are quiet and say nothing. 616 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 1: The sheep are those who are about the father's business, 617 00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:47,480 Speaker 1: the shepherd's business, the least of these. When I was hungry, 618 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,799 Speaker 1: did you feed me? When I didn't have clothes? Did 619 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,160 Speaker 1: you give me clothes? When I was in prison? Did 620 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:57,799 Speaker 1: you see me? That is the shepherd's business. And there 621 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,080 Speaker 1: will become a time where you'll be be divided. So 622 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,680 Speaker 1: although you may aspire to be a goat on earth, 623 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:09,040 Speaker 1: there's a time where the sheets will matter. And if 624 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,879 Speaker 1: you're not a religious person or a believer, then don't 625 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:13,759 Speaker 1: worry about it. If I'm wrong, then I guess we 626 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:21,920 Speaker 1: don't have nothing to worry. And crazies that doctor Hobbs. 627 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,520 Speaker 1: Just imagine if I'm right, what will be your answer 628 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,319 Speaker 1: when the question is asked, have you been about the 629 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,000 Speaker 1: shepherd's business? Your answer of saying I has had? I 630 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,040 Speaker 1: sent the d M Chasa never got back to the 631 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:40,480 Speaker 1: answer is what did you do to be about the 632 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:48,160 Speaker 1: shepherd's business. Don't worry about being the goat. Worry about 633 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:54,600 Speaker 1: the shepherd's business. Tend to his flock. Be the leaders 634 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,239 Speaker 1: that you have been destined to be, But do not 635 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:06,080 Speaker 1: waste time talking to a wolf and sheet's clothing. Who 636 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,480 Speaker 1: that was a bar? Let's say that one more time. 637 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:13,080 Speaker 1: Do not waste time talking to a wolf and sheet's quote. 638 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:21,560 Speaker 1: It's all end with that. Thank you, Thank you. 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