1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Yip yip. You know boys is back and reloaded all 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: in your mind. Yeah, now deep throating. This is for 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 1: the streets, the real, the real goading, the distenfranchise, the. 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 2: Truth, escapegoating, and they ain't know when we speak the truth. 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,319 Speaker 2: So they quoted because we wrote it. The North South 6 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 2: East coaches. The ge be mocked for keeping your head, Bobby, 7 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: it ain't no stopping and wants to be drops head 8 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 2: by then the system is so corrupt they threw the. 9 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: Rock out their heads and then blame it on us. 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: Don't get it twisted on coding. We danced to put 11 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: no butterment biscuits. It's Willie d y'all ghetto boys in 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: the house back with another episode of information and instructions 13 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: to help you navigate through this wild, crazy, beautiful world 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: in the studio. Visionary of the Year candidate for the 15 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society jas Man Terry, I love, congratulations. 16 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you somebody else. 17 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: What an honor to be doing something that helped saved lives? 18 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 3: Absolutely right? 19 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: How long have you been involved with this? 20 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 3: So? I was nominated early part of the year from 21 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 3: a friend, Maggie Noell. She participated last year fundraiser, and 22 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 3: we prepped I guess for a few months on you know, 23 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 3: the direction and if you're serious about it, and so 24 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 3: I was like, you know, I'm all in. You know, 25 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 3: leukemia actually is something that runs in my family. So 26 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 3: it was my great grandmother. So it was something that's 27 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 3: really personal to me because no one in my family 28 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 3: knew what happened to her. We like, we literally didn't know. 29 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 3: I was at the age of three at the time, 30 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 3: but my grandmother passed away within a week and a 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 3: half time period. So my family was like, what is this. 32 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 3: It's cancer, but you know, the culture wise of not 33 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 3: sharing if there's health issues and if there's information, she 34 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 3: didn't really know what's going on. So by the time 35 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 3: we found out, she passed away the following week. So 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 3: there was a lot of testing in the family, like, okay, 37 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 3: you have Liukemi or her kids, my grandmother and my aunt, 38 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 3: to my mother and now to myself, just to make 39 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 3: sure you know it's a bloodline. Especially with a lot 40 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 3: more research, you know, it's definitely more evident and it's 41 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 3: a lot more prominent. You know, there's resources to actually 42 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 3: go to. So when I was asked to be a 43 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 3: part of this and to be nominated to be a 44 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 3: Visionary of the Year. I was highly honored, honestly to 45 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 3: be a part of such an amazing organization and to 46 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 3: give back, you know, and learn in this process as well. 47 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: How old was your grandmother when she died she passed away? 48 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,839 Speaker 3: I would say she was in her sixties. 49 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm sorry. 50 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,119 Speaker 3: She was actually your great things. 51 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: This was your great grandmother. 52 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I passed away three I mean, my god, not 53 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 3: I passed away. She passed away when I was three 54 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 3: years old. So she passed away in eighty nine and 55 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,679 Speaker 3: my my mother was living. So this is my grandmother's mother. 56 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,119 Speaker 3: So yeah, she passed away in her late fifties. I'd 57 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 3: say early sixties to be honest. 58 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:07,679 Speaker 1: Wow. 59 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, so and to do to pass away and there's 60 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 3: no information, so she didn't give us an information. 61 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: You know. 62 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 3: My family's from my mother's side is from Louisiana, so 63 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 3: you know, when it comes to medicine, right, my family 64 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 3: don't believe in medicine. You know. My great grandfather, my 65 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 3: great grandmother is everything is in the pantry, you know, 66 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 3: from honey to everything that comes from the farm. So 67 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 3: trusting doctors, trusting physicians, that's been a and even as 68 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 3: a child, that's a knug something's wrong. Let me fix 69 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 3: this for you, focusing on your gut, you know, and 70 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 3: things of that. So this was her in real time 71 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 3: that she had no control of what's going on and 72 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 3: the remedies that she was possibly doing for herself. It 73 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 3: didn't help the situation. And so by the time she 74 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 3: let the family know I have leukemia, she passed away 75 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 3: shortly after, you know, so it was very devastating. Of 76 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 3: course I was a kid, but I remember as a 77 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,119 Speaker 3: child my mother and my grandmother. I remember the funeral, 78 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: I remember my grandfather, and I'm like, what happened to granny? 79 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 3: You know, like, you know, because we had such a 80 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 3: close connection. You know, even now you know, family, you 81 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 3: look so much like your great grandmother. You know, y'all 82 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 3: are similarly the same, you know, just like you know 83 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 3: all these things, and you know, to know that she 84 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 3: passed away without any research really being available to her, 85 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: you know, was it's it's a disconnect, you know. 86 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: So I'm tripping a little bit on you being able 87 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: to remember at three years old. Oh yeah, I think 88 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: my earliest memory is somewhere around five, maybe four and 89 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:47,239 Speaker 1: a half five. 90 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I remember, you know, for me energy, I 91 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 3: can't I remember smells, I remember feelings, and I think 92 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 3: that's that's energy is so important, like connecting, Like I 93 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 3: can't tell you at three years old what the conversation was, 94 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 3: but I remember what I felt. I remember the smell, 95 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 3: I remember the touch. I remember kind of these small memories. 96 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 3: But it was really like her energy that more any 97 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 3: more than anything, you know, So yeah, I do. 98 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: Do people in your family typically live to be a 99 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: long you know? 100 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, honestly, on both sides of the family, 101 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 3: they do. And I think that's a that's a beautiful 102 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 3: thing to have because growing up as a kid, I 103 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 3: had my great great grandfather, I had my great grandfather, 104 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 3: I had my great my great grandmother passed away, but 105 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 3: I had my great aunts that lived to like one 106 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 3: hundred and five one hundred. In my I believe man 107 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 3: free to live was the longest maybe one hundred and 108 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 3: six mothers. 109 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: By your grandma, your great grandma died at sixty. 110 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 3: You know, And no, no, not really, because I mean 111 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 3: I had such an older with like an older group 112 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 3: of family members to kind of connect with, you know. Now, 113 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 3: my grandmother heard my grandmother's uh, my great grandmother's daughter, 114 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,359 Speaker 3: my mother's mother. She passed away fairly early. She passed 115 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 3: away in her fifties from some issues. She was depression 116 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 3: and other things. But she passed away fairly early. But 117 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 3: along those lines, my family lives like a pretty long time, 118 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 3: to be honest, and with everything that's going on in 119 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 3: the world right now, I think about because everyone's like, oh, 120 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 3: my god, you had your great grandfather. Yeah, like y'all 121 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: didn't have it great aunts and they were like nineties 122 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 3: and eighties, and you know, I think even me growing 123 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 3: into a woman and understanding now how important information is that, 124 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 3: even on foods and like knowing your culture, you know, 125 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 3: knowing different things. It's a lot of people know nothing 126 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 3: about their grandmothers, their grandparents or didn't have the opportunity 127 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 3: I can go back to like my great grandparents, you know. 128 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 3: And then that's my mother's side, my father's side, even 129 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 3: with my great great grandfather being Jack Yates and to 130 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 3: see like the legacy here in Houston of what he created, 131 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 3: you know. And my grandmother now my great my my 132 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 3: grandmother and my father's brother. She's in her mid eighties, 133 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 3: you know. So I've always had that type of blessings 134 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 3: actually to have family around, and you know it's like 135 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,239 Speaker 3: older family. 136 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: So yeah, you mentioned your great grandfather, John Henry jack Yatates. 137 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 3: Yeah that dude. 138 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: Yeah what a legacy, what a claim? Yeah yeah, it's 139 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: how proud are you of being you know, a part 140 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:38,679 Speaker 1: of that bloodline? 141 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 3: You know. Honestly, growing up, I kind of shied from it. 142 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 3: I didn't really you know, I attended Jacky's High school. 143 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 3: You know, I know about my great grandfather, but I 144 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: wanted to be cool. I didn't want anyone to be like, Okay, 145 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 3: you know this is you know, this is school is 146 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 3: name and yeah you know. 147 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: It is my great grandfather school to do. I ain't 148 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: going to I ain't coming to school. 149 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, to have that knowledge, right, It 150 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 3: was just kind of like I don't want aboudy know, 151 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 3: you know. And school was different than you know, like 152 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 3: you're like, yeah, this school name after my great grandfather and. 153 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: It's a trip. How we how we trivialize things that 154 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: are mine and we we elevate these things that are 155 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: really important, Like we shy away from things like things 156 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: that we should be proud. 157 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 3: You know, you can't tell me now like I tell everybody, 158 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 3: even in in bios, you know that is that is 159 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 3: a part of that is historic, not even for Houston, 160 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 3: but just for me and my bloodline. The power, you know, 161 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 3: and think about who you are as a person, like 162 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 3: what makes you who you are? And I think about 163 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 3: myself like being an entrepreneur, being an advocacy, you know, 164 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 3: just how we connected just from talking about aggovacy, you know. 165 00:08:59,200 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 2: What I mean. 166 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 3: And and to be able to it's something that's rooted 167 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 3: in me. It's actually something that's actually it's in my blood, 168 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 3: like to create and to want to help others. And 169 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 3: how connected I am to my culture as Black culture 170 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 3: and my seeking of like where does all this energy 171 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 3: come from? You know, like what makes you you? And 172 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 3: then you have like this information to go back to. 173 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 3: You know. It's like it's powerful, you know, and it's 174 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 3: actually a great feeling, like a blessing. You know. 175 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. I first saw, I think at first came across 176 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: you on the Isaiah Factor Show and I was like, oh, 177 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: she got something. She was talking about some type of 178 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: social issue. I can't remember exactly what it was. The 179 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: way you articulated yourself. I was like, oh, yeah, she 180 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: shocked and you stood on it. It was something controversial. 181 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: You wasn't dancing around. 182 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 3: Oh no, oh no, that's not me. I wasn't raised 183 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 3: to be that way. And you know, I you know, 184 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 3: to be able to talk about culture, black culture, there's 185 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 3: no shyness about that. That's no change in my tone. 186 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 3: There's no when I'm around a certain group, you know, 187 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 3: being proud of who you are, you know, that's that's 188 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 3: that's in my blood, you know, and you stand on it, 189 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 3: you know, in any space. And so if it's something 190 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 3: dealing with health care, if it's education, if it's something 191 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 3: dealing with the financial systems, you know, advocacy is important. 192 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 3: It's in me and I have That's what I feel 193 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,839 Speaker 3: connected to do you know, even with my travels around 194 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 3: the world that I do. You know, this is all 195 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 3: a part of a learning process, you know. And I 196 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 3: don't know where it comes from, but I know. 197 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: From your great grandparents, great great grand perhaps. 198 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just his story alone, you know, being a 199 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 3: slave in Virginia, to be free and to come back 200 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 3: to be with your wife in Texas and become a 201 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 3: slave again, you know, to not only that, to kind 202 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 3: of lead the way through the mascipation to build, teach 203 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 3: your people how to build homes and with the importance 204 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 3: of land and how to read and you know, to 205 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,079 Speaker 3: be a minister to minister to people. And this is 206 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 3: how we create our own economic systems. We don't have 207 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 3: to be a part of these systems that that we 208 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 3: were given. 209 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: You know. 210 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 3: So this is a person that's been out of was 211 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 3: a slave, out of slave, came back into slavery, the 212 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 3: massurpation happened. Then create when it land where we have 213 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 3: our own land. We don't want, we don't need to 214 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 3: participate with you. We're going to create our own you know, 215 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 3: these different struggles, you know, the fights that in order 216 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 3: just to be yourself and so to know the legacy 217 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 3: that not only my great grandfather, my great grandfather's children. 218 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 3: We know what my grandmother has done with my five, 219 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 3: with my family, just who we are. It's innately in us, 220 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 3: you know. So to get on Isaiah Factor show, and 221 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 3: I'm gonna say what I gotta say, because this is 222 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 3: something that's like, you know, it's important to me, you know, 223 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 3: and it's carrying information you know, So it is you know, 224 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 3: and I'm a proud I'm definitely proud. Now I'm not 225 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 3: saying I wasn't proud as I was immature. Then I 226 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 3: didn't want to tell people, you know, this is my 227 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 3: great grandfather, this is the school was after you know, 228 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 3: I was like, I don't need to do that. You know, 229 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 3: pretty modest, you know, but that's roalsy, you know, in 230 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 3: your area. 231 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 4: So Little Boys reloaded podcast right after spot. 232 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: When you look at the racial climate in this country, yeah, 233 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: there's a lot of division and there are a lot 234 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: of people that are in high positions, especially politicians who 235 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: are flaming the hire. Yeah, considering your your lineage, considering 236 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: what we've been through historically, do you what's your concern 237 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: level that slavery could actually happen again? 238 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 3: Slavery is happening right now. 239 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: Well, I'm talking about I'm talking about slavery. You know, 240 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: they actually like actually having black folks in physical change, 241 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,479 Speaker 1: not the mental change, the change, but the physical change 242 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 1: and you know everything that came with that. 243 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 3: In certain parts of the world, that's happening still, right, 244 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 3: we're just talking about America. 245 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,959 Speaker 1: Talking about right, I don't think I don't. 246 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 3: Think that's going to happen, right. I think there's these 247 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 3: systems around us, and I know you said about like 248 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,559 Speaker 3: physically happening. You know, I don't. I don't really think 249 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 3: that's going to happen. I know, I'm not getting no chance. 250 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 3: I don't. I don't see it. I mean, what do 251 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 3: you think you think? I don't see? 252 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: I can, I can, I can. I can't say what 253 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: can and what will and won't happen, because some things 254 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: are happening now that I never thought would happen. 255 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, hell. 256 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: Donald Trump became president. We wanted the dumb as motherfuckers 257 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: in the United States of America, you know. But I can't. 258 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, but I do know this. 259 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: I'm killing everything. I'm not going to be a. 260 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 3: Slave, you know. 261 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a slave, especially knowing what 262 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: I know, knowing what they did, that information, especially knowing 263 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: that what I know, knowing that there is no get back, 264 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: knowing that there is no mercy, knowing that there is 265 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: no there is no there will be no conversations of rationalism. 266 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 3: Though, absolutely it's not. 267 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: I don't see no rationalizing, you know, Like, I'm not 268 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: na man. I already know I'm man. 269 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 3: I'm killing everything, walking everything, you know. I had a 270 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 3: conversation with a friend about how do we get out 271 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 3: of these systems? Right? 272 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 4: Like? 273 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 3: How you know? Who are well? Who are we uninterrupted? 274 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 3: As a culture? And when I say uninterrupted, meaning without 275 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 3: the trauma, without your back, your record, and you know this, 276 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 3: this poverty and all these things, who are we as 277 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 3: a culture? Uninterrupted? We are royal buildings? I know who 278 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 3: you are? Right, So it's you have to interrupt. You 279 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 3: have to interrupt in order to shake it up, right 280 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 3: I can't And so you I'm gonna interrupt you in education, 281 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 3: I'm gonna interrupt you in the financial system. I have 282 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 3: to interrupt you in so many places because the moment 283 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 3: you're uninterrupted, you train, your energy transcends. You're a whole 284 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 3: nother you are Who are you? You know what I mean? 285 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 3: In my mind I heard something like that. I was like, 286 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 3: who is Jasmine uninterrupted? You know, if I'm not worried 287 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 3: about bills, I'm not worried about walking around, if the 288 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 3: police is this, and what? Who am I? Uninterrupted? And 289 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 3: that's from now on, That's how I see myself. I'm uninterrupted, 290 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 3: you know, as a culture. So when we look on 291 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 3: the news and you see prime example, you know the 292 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 3: guy that raised two million dollars you know, for now 293 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 3: and the GoFundMe. 294 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I ain't worth for d penny. 295 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 3: So so you know what does that look like? Right? 296 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,239 Speaker 3: And the media would show the music. We're so interrupted 297 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 3: in so many ways, right, the things that we're listening to, 298 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 3: the foods that we eat. It's a it's a part 299 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 3: of a system. Right, How do we get uninterrupted as 300 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 3: a culture? And I hate to say it, the only 301 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 3: I don't know other way but to fight, to be honest, 302 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 3: And my friends like fighting, you know, and we love 303 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 3: and you know, I I love Martin Luther King that 304 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 3: that was a he's a great man. But I also 305 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 3: unders sand with Malcolm X felt right as a culture 306 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 3: and I just feel that, you know, we're gonna have 307 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 3: to fight. It's going to be a point where sorry, 308 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:14,239 Speaker 3: it's a point where you know, I'm uninterrupted period, And 309 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 3: so by any means, in any way necessary, I will 310 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 3: not be interrupted. I don't want to hear so even 311 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 3: listening to news and sometimes with social media and all 312 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 3: these different things, right, that's interrupted. That's interrupting, like your 313 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 3: mind to think, you know what I mean, the foods 314 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 3: we're eating, it's interrupting our systems. The healthcare, all of that, 315 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So if I can be 316 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 3: in a place as simple as being uninterrupted, you can't 317 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 3: stop me. You can't stop nothing. It's nothing that you 318 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 3: can do to do that. And so as a people, 319 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 3: if we can figure out ways how we are uninterrupted, 320 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 3: meaning if it starts with the children and education, we're 321 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,479 Speaker 3: teaching our own right, if it goes into building our 322 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 3: own hospitals, creating our own willness cities, you know, creating 323 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 3: our own military, because we will be uninterrupted because everybody 324 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 3: has their hands on our culture, everybody, you know. So 325 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 3: for me, back to what you're saying about slavery, I 326 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 3: don't see it going that far, as far as chains 327 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 3: and all of that. I think as a people and 328 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 3: at this point in time in life, that we have 329 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 3: a conscious that it's awakening, that is beyond just what 330 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 3: we see right, and it's happening. So therefore, the world 331 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 3: is shifting, the earth is purging, it's you know, I'm 332 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:37,439 Speaker 3: into nature. I mean, I don't know if you know 333 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 3: that really, but so for me, the mountains, so for me, you. 334 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: Know, walking down walking on the beach in Morocco. 335 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 3: So for me, you know, that's a lifestyle that comes 336 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 3: with lifestyle, and that's something that you teach others, you 337 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 3: know what I mean, looking in different directions, you know. 338 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 3: So I don't don't see that happening. It's putting us 339 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 3: into being slaves and all of that, you know. And 340 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 3: I don't think every other culture is bad, but I 341 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 3: am focused on my culture and my goal is to 342 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 3: help us be in you know, uninterrupted period, you know, 343 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 3: the mind and to do that. And so with that, 344 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 3: I don't see it happening. 345 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 4: You know. 346 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: That's your ministry. 347 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my ministry. 348 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 1: That's your ministry. Your ministry is helping people service. Yeah, 349 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 1: that's your ministry because even when you do it with 350 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: your event center, your event center is not just you know, 351 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: fuck you pay me, it's it's yo. We're going to 352 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: provide a superiod experience, absolutely, you know, and we're going 353 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: to create a beautiful space for you to come. It's 354 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: going to be it's going to be a warm and 355 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,439 Speaker 1: welcoming space and you're going to feel it. You're going 356 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: to feel that personal touch. I mean I felt it myself, 357 00:19:59,000 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: and I. 358 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 3: You know, the reason for me opening Lace Chateau. And 359 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 3: of course all of this is energy for me, everything 360 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,919 Speaker 3: is energy. So it was to create a safe space 361 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 3: for creatives, right I complain, an't nowhere to go in Houston. 362 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 3: At some points it was like the clubs, it was like, 363 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 3: you're gonna tell me what I can We're I see 364 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 3: you profiling by the clothes or you know, just certain things. 365 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 3: I want a space where we can be safe and connect, 366 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 3: grow and learn. So it's not just opening a bar, 367 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 3: you know, lay Chatau. Houston for me is a space 368 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 3: where we can be safe and also connect. So we 369 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 3: can have greade eats, we can have music where creatives 370 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 3: from all of the world. Because Houston being such a 371 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 3: big city, there's not like a place a platform where 372 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,360 Speaker 3: indie artists just really come in. You have like your 373 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 3: warehouse lives, and you have like these other places, but 374 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 3: there's no hub of like this is where talent is made, 375 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 3: you know. So I wanted to be able to participate 376 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 3: in creating that rhythm in Houston. And it doesn't have 377 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 3: to be just a club and your normal live music shows. 378 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 3: But there's so many forms of art that you that 379 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 3: I want La Chautaud to be able to display, you know, 380 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 3: So from theatrical art to musicians to dancers, you know, 381 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 3: singers like all of that into the space and even 382 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 3: art of networking with other people. How do you get 383 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 3: into a room and connect. A lot of times we 384 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 3: want to I want to go talk to really th man, 385 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 3: I want to, you know, how do you do that? 386 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 3: How do you when you have that opportunity, how do 387 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 3: you connect? You know? So it's really like a like 388 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 3: you said, I guess a teaching space right to having 389 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 3: a safe space for culture, and then you also having 390 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 3: these different you know, different places I visit around the world. 391 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 3: I was like, I gotta I want to bring it 392 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 3: back to Houston, and if you didn't go with me, 393 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 3: I want you to be able to see through my 394 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 3: eyes what I saw. And so whether it's in other 395 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 3: countries and we come back in these different performers of 396 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 3: sounds and music to place it into the space. That's 397 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 3: what Lai's Chateau is about, you know, to create whatever 398 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 3: you want. You know. So what I initially opened, that's 399 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 3: the plan I closed during COVID and then from there 400 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 3: I reopened. And I'm like, you know, the bar industry 401 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 3: is a lot. You know, it was a lot on me, 402 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,719 Speaker 3: and I don't know how I maintained for three years 403 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 3: kind of solo. This is I've never owned a bar before, 404 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 3: never worked in the bar, but I was like, okay, 405 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 3: I have this vision, and everything just happened. You know, 406 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 3: even the guys would earn your leisure. 407 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 4: You know. 408 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:35,360 Speaker 3: I created one programming of lais Chateau, which is the office, 409 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 3: which actually today there is an event, a networking event 410 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 3: to just kind of connect with people professionals and entrepreneurs 411 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 3: in Houston and really engaging, going how do we you 412 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,199 Speaker 3: know when you're in the room, this is not just 413 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 3: looking at each other, really get to know somebody, not 414 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 3: just being around the people that you're close to, actually 415 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 3: getting in and connect. So I was able to reach out. 416 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 3: They reached out to me, Actually, hey, we like what 417 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 3: you're doing in Houston. We want to come down and 418 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 3: to see where they started from with this financial literacy, 419 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 3: even him and shout out to my guy Wall Street 420 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 3: Trap as well, that talking about the market, the stock 421 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 3: market with nineteen keys like all of them. Well, Wall 422 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 3: Street Trap met earned your leisure in my space and 423 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 3: to see where they were then and where they are now. 424 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 3: And we all are cool in these relationships, you know 425 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 3: what I mean. Lace Shatau is a place that you 426 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 3: were able to connect and to see that and then 427 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 3: to have them come out and then to not just them, 428 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 3: just different people, musicians and artists. So you know, for 429 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 3: me as a visionary, I just want to create rooms 430 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 3: and spaces and energy where things evolved, you know, so 431 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 3: instead of having a bar, now it's a creative space. 432 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 3: You know. So you bring your creativity and we hope 433 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 3: you make it happen, you know, and it's all about 434 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 3: you know. When I open Lace Chateau, then I had 435 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 3: a lady because I'm in sophomore SANDERSONO, so I'm in 436 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 3: the museum district. It's their reward. I had a lady, 437 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 3: a white lady. Her name is Karen. Also. Karen came 438 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 3: in and said, oh, you're opening up a jazz bar. 439 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, I'm excited to tell her. 440 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 3: And you know, she came in as if she wanted 441 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 3: to help me with the you know, I want to. 442 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 3: I want to help you, you know, I want to. 443 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 3: I want to. I want you to be successful. Now, 444 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 3: she don't know that my great grandfather helped cultivate this 445 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 3: whole area where you living with your husband. That's not 446 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 3: too far from a massipation. My grandfather created that space, right. 447 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 3: But she doesn't know me. So she's coming in and 448 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 3: she's like, well, you know, I want you to be 449 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 3: successful in this area. And the food is great, the 450 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 3: music is great, but I think the artwork in here, 451 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 3: I think you should make it about everybody. I think 452 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 3: you should make this space not just about Black culture. 453 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 3: It should be about Asian culture. It should be about 454 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,479 Speaker 3: all these different cultures. You know, it should be about 455 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 3: every you know, because that's the way the world is. 456 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 3: And I let her talk, and I was so thankful 457 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 3: that I handled her with grace, because who are you 458 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 3: to come into my business and tell me how I 459 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 3: should make space for everybody. Did you go to Papito's 460 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 3: and you see all of these pictures of these other 461 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 3: cultures on the wall, and they have no black people. 462 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 3: Did you tell them you should make this about black 463 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 3: people too. I said, that's the problem. I should be 464 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 3: able to be proud and you should be of my 465 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 3: culture and the legacy of Arika Franklin and Ray Charles 466 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 3: and mal Davis, and you should be in here, be 467 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 3: excited to see this experience because this is a part 468 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 3: of my culture. It's not because it's only for black people. 469 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 3: She said, Well, when you have things like that, it 470 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 3: makes it seem like only black people are welcome. I said, 471 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 3: you're the only one feeling and uncomfortable. Why making what 472 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 3: my culture is doing and me promoting and wanting a 473 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 3: safe space for my people, you feel uncomfortable and for 474 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 3: you to have the balls to come into my business 475 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 3: and smile at me and to tell me be black, 476 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 3: but just don't be too black. Make it black. This 477 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 3: is this area is for everybody. You know, there's black 478 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,120 Speaker 3: people here, there's Asian people here, even more reasons where 479 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 3: you should be want to welcome and understand my culture 480 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 3: and understand the legacy. It's more than just music. You 481 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 3: comeing to eat our food and our great like understand this, 482 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 3: come in and connect with people. And I think her 483 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 3: husband was from Brooklyn, and so he was you know, 484 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 3: he was really nice, but he could feel like he 485 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,959 Speaker 3: was like, I think you were out of line. The 486 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 3: next day, the opening she sends like a flood of flowers. 487 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 3: She said, she said, you are so highly aware and 488 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 3: with the way that you handle me with care. In 489 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 3: that moment, I had no idea what I was doing, 490 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 3: Like for me to come in to tell you don't 491 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,199 Speaker 3: make your space about your culture is insensitive. And I 492 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 3: didn't even realize this because I mean, I have black friends. 493 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 3: That was one you know, I have. I've traveled around 494 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 3: the world, and the way that you broke it down 495 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 3: to me, I didn't even realize that was me and 496 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 3: my form of not being able to connect. And so 497 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 3: even with that, you know, leys Chateau, it was just her. 498 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 3: They always came after that, you know, and I forced 499 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 3: her to connect with other people. This is what life 500 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 3: is about. It's about connecting, you know, Like you can't 501 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 3: come in my business and help me to be black. 502 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 3: WI just don't be too black because you make me 503 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 3: uncomfortable with your blackness. 504 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 4: The boys revoting podcasts will be right back after sport. 505 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: Imagine going to a Mexican restaurant and being offended that 506 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: there's only Mexicans on the wall. The people who started 507 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: the restaurant, you know, like these are the people who 508 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: started the generations of people who started the restaurants where yeah, 509 00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: I think you should add more diversity here because to 510 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: make me comfortable, make me comfortable. But that but they 511 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 1: only do that to us. That's that they only I 512 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: know that for a fact, they only do that when 513 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: a black person owns a restaurant something. And like now 514 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: you put whoever you want to put on the walls, 515 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: if you if a person likes the product or services, 516 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: they they patronize the business or they don't. It doesn't 517 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 1: matter to me one way or the other. It's like 518 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 1: my music. I make my music for the people and 519 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: if you get it, cool, If you don't, that's cool too. 520 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,959 Speaker 1: But I am not about to acquiesque to your style, 521 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: to your preference to make you feel comfortable. Fuck you 522 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: straight up, right straight up like uh, and I'm unapologetic 523 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: about that. You know. Why why do we have to 524 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 1: change who we are? You know? I mean, but you 525 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: know it's like you like our talents, like what we do, 526 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: but then you want to take it and then you 527 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: want to make it the way you want to make it, 528 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: and so that you can be comfortable with it. 529 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 3: Like I said, you want to interrupt it. 530 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: You want to interrupt it, right, and. 531 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 3: So you don't leave us uninterrupted. You want to interrupt 532 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 3: in any form because I want you no, no, no, no, 533 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 3: it can't be too good, you know. And I think 534 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 3: and to go back to your point, what you just 535 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 3: said about here in America. It's a mentality. So as 536 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 3: a person that has traveled in different places around the world, 537 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 3: I didn't realize with this whitewash mentality that I've had, 538 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 3: right that when I went to other places, when I 539 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 3: went to France, went to Paris, I'm so used to 540 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 3: America has programmed us that we are the center of 541 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:58,959 Speaker 3: the world and we're not. We are behind, right, but 542 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 3: we are so great, like a concept about branding and marketing, 543 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 3: right that we go around, Oh, I'm American, you know, 544 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 3: the dollar is American. What is the dollar tied to? 545 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,479 Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like all of this to 546 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 3: not until I went to China, not until I went 547 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 3: to Europe and I'm seeing like, you know, I'm American, 548 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 3: you know, I go there and I think you don't 549 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 3: speak English, like we have been programmed honestly, so not 550 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 3: only are we as black people, right and just thinking 551 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 3: as humans, I mean just a culture of people. We're 552 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 3: American also, And when I've gone to other places, like 553 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 3: this is not in English, you know, everything is English 554 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 3: and French English, Like we have this type of supremacy 555 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 3: around the world to being like these this is it 556 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 3: and we're not, and I had someone tell me in 557 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 3: China when I was in it was a program which 558 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 3: seen what Africa and China's doing in Africa. That's the 559 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 3: whole thing. I seen that back in twenty fourteen. But 560 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 3: maybe you are in another country. I know America were 561 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 3: popular with the entertainment and you know we have this. 562 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 3: That was the first time a slap in face. I 563 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 3: was like, we are behind. I am behind right, Like 564 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,479 Speaker 3: the kids here are making the games that my children 565 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 3: will play. They're creating the technology that I will use. 566 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 3: What are we doing? I went there. My friends were like, oh, 567 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 3: see if you can get us some hair, will you 568 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 3: connect or some boutiques, some clothes And I'm like, yeah, girl, 569 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 3: I got you. I'm in China. I'm gonna be here 570 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 3: for a while. Not until I joined the Africa to 571 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 3: Business Council that Asian a Chinese girl asked me to 572 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 3: join that I realized the conversations were different, and I 573 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 3: was quiet because I'm not Africa. I'm not from Africa, 574 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 3: but there was people from Nigeria and other places in Africa. 575 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 3: They were brokering deals and China, the government in twenty 576 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 3: fourteen was creating this Chinese to Africa Business Council, which 577 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 3: I have photos to show where you know, and still 578 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 3: a part of this group. We want to do business 579 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 3: in Africa. And so while I'm looking that of how 580 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 3: can I get to connect on some clothes to start 581 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 3: a boutique, and some hair, maybe some makeup, and you 582 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 3: know these smaller things, these are people my age brokering 583 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 3: big world deals, meaning creating room for tomato paste companies, 584 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 3: rice farms, you know. And I'm like, oh my god, 585 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 3: this is like on a bigger scale. You know, I'm behind. 586 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 3: I'm thinking I'm American and you know all of these no, 587 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 3: I'm behind, you are we are. America is a small 588 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 3: part of what the world is. And we made this 589 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 3: Donald Trump mentality to be like this this thing that 590 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 3: we are not, we are falling. I saw this in 591 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 3: twenty fourteen. I'm like, my god, this is where we 592 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 3: are on a scale of what the world. The conversations 593 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 3: are happening around the world, so right now to where 594 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 3: we understand where the dollar is. And I saw this 595 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 3: in twenty fourteen and to see how China has created 596 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 3: these alliances around the world. They're in Africa and I'm 597 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 3: brokering deals because they think I'm from Nigeria. I didn't 598 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 3: say I wasn't. I just you know, I'm trying to 599 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 3: understand what's going on and to see this and I'm like, 600 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 3: my gosh, I am really behind. I'm worried about weave. 601 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 3: My friend want to start a makeup line and a boutique, 602 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 3: you know, And these are real life, these are global 603 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 3: impacts around the world, you know. So as a culture 604 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 3: and I say, as an American, so not only being black, 605 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 3: but then you have to get outside of the world 606 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 3: and we've been programmed to think, oh, we big, we 607 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 3: big shit. 608 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: Well, you know, sometimes they do behaveing on us though, 609 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 1: because I was I lived in Paris for I lived 610 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: in Paris for they do. And I remember going into 611 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 1: the grocery stool once, yeah, and I asked for, uh, 612 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: a shaver, you know, a razor, yeah, and it's like 613 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: a shave, right. So I'm asking about the razors and 614 00:33:54,840 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: it's like maybe like it's like six cash registers, about 615 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,720 Speaker 1: three cashiers and they're all women and so and they 616 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 1: got people standing in the line and I'm asking about 617 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 1: the razors and she's like she's talking to me like that, 618 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 1: like like really like talking down on me like, huh 619 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 1: what And she's frowning up. Why she asked, and I'm 620 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: I'm I'm the tourists, but I'm in the tourists area. 621 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: I'm in a tourist. I know that they want us 622 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 1: to try to speak French. I got that they want 623 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,319 Speaker 1: us to make an effort to speak French. But I 624 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,759 Speaker 1: ain't got time to be making the damn efforts to 625 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: speak French. Man. I got stuff to do. I'm not 626 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: here trying to vacate. I'm trying to I'm trying to 627 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:50,239 Speaker 1: kill man. So the woman was like, what say you, 628 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:55,279 Speaker 1: And so the other lady h she She's looking at 629 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: the other lady, and I see them laughing about it, right, 630 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:05,319 Speaker 1: So I said, do you have any razors, bitch? And 631 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: the other one like, oh, they're right there, like ma, 632 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: you know, like that. But you know, excuse my French 633 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,280 Speaker 1: apartment of vernacular. But I ain't usually like that with women, 634 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 1: you know. But I mean, she just she tried to 635 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: make and she was insulting me, you know. And but 636 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: you know what another thing was feeling that at all. 637 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 3: Not until an understanding, like and she was don't get 638 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 3: me wrong, they can't be people of the culture to 639 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,799 Speaker 3: be rude. The reason why as Americans as a totality, 640 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 3: not just you and what you mean, when we go places, 641 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 3: we think we are the ship. Yeah, we think we 642 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 3: are the ship. You go to you're in another country, 643 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 3: you go to Mexico. We have had this mentality of 644 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 3: you know, I'm better than you. 645 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,400 Speaker 1: I'm American collectively because because I've never been that. 646 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 3: Way, so right, and so many people like, eh, your food, 647 00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 3: like what is this? You know, because we have been 648 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 3: pro that we are the center of the world and 649 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:07,840 Speaker 3: we're not. We're behind education, our health is bad, you 650 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,360 Speaker 3: know what I mean. Our dollar is crappy, and we 651 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 3: we it's bullshit. Not even just Europe. You go to Mexico. 652 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 3: We feel as though we're better than other people, you 653 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:18,960 Speaker 3: know what I mean. It's a mentality. 654 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,719 Speaker 1: Families have been decimated. 655 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,520 Speaker 3: Listen, listen, and so and I'll say this and I 656 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,920 Speaker 3: you know, my experience, Like for me, I'm going to Ghana. 657 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 3: So I went to Ghana January. I plan on in 658 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 3: June to be there all the way through December. I'll 659 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 3: come back and forth. But I want to plant my 660 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 3: roots in Africa. Right, And I'll say this, it's not 661 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 3: the thing of you know, I'm black and I'm you know, 662 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 3: I want to go back to Africa because that's a 663 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 3: whole other topic of we're not the same people as 664 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,240 Speaker 3: far as because we're Black African, it's completely we're different. 665 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,440 Speaker 3: We're the same of same genes, right, but we're different. 666 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 3: And me being in Africa and to not just Africa, 667 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 3: but places I've been right to go to places when 668 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 3: you see people that look like you, right, and you 669 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 3: know in America, we have always been in this capitalist 670 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 3: kind of mentality, right, money, money, money, you know, it's 671 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,400 Speaker 3: a pressure. But yeah, there's places where they're poor. You know, 672 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,440 Speaker 3: they don't have but we have a poverty, but they 673 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,400 Speaker 3: have something way more powerful, which is community. 674 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:21,000 Speaker 1: Right. 675 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 3: If somebody's out there selling chickens and eggs, it's such 676 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 3: a it's such a community based culture that is beautiful 677 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 3: to me. You know, we can come here and yeah, 678 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 3: money and all this we're so disconnected on who we 679 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 3: are and the things and the soil is bad. You know, 680 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 3: so my experience and being there and you're welcoming another feeling. 681 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,840 Speaker 3: You know, I went to Nigeria and Nigeria was cool. 682 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,279 Speaker 3: You know. I had some instance with some of my 683 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,160 Speaker 3: friends I went to college with, you know, because I 684 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 3: didn't feel even though I love the culture of the 685 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,080 Speaker 3: African Nigerian culture, to learn about it and I thought like, oh, 686 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,400 Speaker 3: you know, my ancestry say, I'm forty percent Nigerian, so 687 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 3: you know, I'm like, I didn't feel connected. But they 688 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 3: and again I am a spiritual person. It's it's what 689 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 3: felt calm to my spirit. I felt like I just 690 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,759 Speaker 3: didn't think that these are my people. You know what 691 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 3: I mean? 692 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,120 Speaker 1: I love did they make you feel welcome? 693 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,800 Speaker 3: Very welcome? Even the people here, my Nigerian friends that 694 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 3: are here barrier. It's not even the language barrier. I honestly, 695 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 3: I lived in so much afrobeats and I've talked to 696 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,440 Speaker 3: so many people in Houston. Houston alone has a lot 697 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,200 Speaker 3: of Nigerians and people culture. I love the food. I 698 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 3: just thought I did not feel like home to me. 699 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,279 Speaker 3: When I went to Ghana when I was seven years old, 700 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,440 Speaker 3: I was a turning elementary. Bush created HIZ created program 701 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,600 Speaker 3: the Multicultural Program, and it was a turner elementary where 702 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 3: you could pick Europe, Africa, China and all these other 703 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 3: countries that your study was in and the mine was 704 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,440 Speaker 3: mine was France and mine was Africa, and the focus 705 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,240 Speaker 3: in Africa was Ghana. And so I met the president 706 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,000 Speaker 3: Jerry Rawlins. It's a picture of me seven years old. 707 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,600 Speaker 3: I met him. They had me and this can take clothing. 708 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,520 Speaker 3: And I remember asking him a question why are Africans poor? 709 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,520 Speaker 3: Like why are everybody poor? And he just looked at me. 710 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 3: He looked at me and said, Africa's not poor. Baby. 711 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,200 Speaker 3: He said it's not poor. And he explained, there's so 712 00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,200 Speaker 3: many because I had no idea when I thought of Africa. 713 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 3: We looked on the television. It was flies, kids, big bellies, 714 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 3: you know, like, oh they're poor. He said, it's not poor, 715 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,880 Speaker 3: you know. And he was telling me the food is 716 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,720 Speaker 3: so we had these tastings of like different types of food. 717 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,600 Speaker 3: That was my first exposure. 718 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:37,000 Speaker 1: Right. 719 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,879 Speaker 3: So here I am at thirty six years old. Well, 720 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,320 Speaker 3: I went to Africa at thirty five, but at thirty 721 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,600 Speaker 3: six I was in Ghana and to be able to 722 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,920 Speaker 3: connect as soon as immediate. When I was in Nigeria, 723 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:53,839 Speaker 3: Nigeria felt like everybody's chasing money. That's what the feeling. 724 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:55,799 Speaker 3: It's a beautiful place, don't get me wrong, but I'm 725 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,920 Speaker 3: energy right and I felt like this is beautiful as fun. 726 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,320 Speaker 1: And I'm going back on the cities in America. 727 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,320 Speaker 3: It was just like the energy was just it was money, 728 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,719 Speaker 3: like everything was like about money. But the minute I 729 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:15,719 Speaker 3: landed in Ghana, it's a feeling of it was like 730 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:21,080 Speaker 3: you know, it was a feeling of just peace, a 731 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,279 Speaker 3: feeling of peace, like seriously, and it wasn't because and 732 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:25,880 Speaker 3: I was like, all right, maybe it's my psych of 733 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 3: like I have always wanted to go to Ghana, so 734 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 3: I'm gonna look at it different, the air, the different, 735 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:37,160 Speaker 3: it's a different feeling, right, It's not it's different. It's different. 736 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,960 Speaker 3: Men to go somewhere and you see money with people, 737 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:45,239 Speaker 3: the faces that look like you right to go to 738 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,120 Speaker 3: the museum and this is their history. Not all it's 739 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,840 Speaker 3: not as beautiful or you know, as as big buildings 740 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,120 Speaker 3: as the States, but it's a quality that you can't 741 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,759 Speaker 3: get here. It's a feeling of like, man, this is peaceful, right, 742 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,360 Speaker 3: like this is this is to me what life feels like. 743 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,000 Speaker 3: And I feel like I've experienced some highs and being 744 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 3: around but these people, it's in community, rooted in community, 745 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,839 Speaker 3: you know, and you know you have these markets and 746 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,640 Speaker 3: people are exchanging foods and you know it's not as 747 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,920 Speaker 3: it's not as wealthy in some areas, right, but that 748 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,480 Speaker 3: is up to have peace and to have happiness. That 749 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,880 Speaker 3: is something that that money you and to arrive back 750 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,719 Speaker 3: in America and you feel it's like automatics. Soon as 751 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,359 Speaker 3: you got to the plan, you feel pressure, anxiety. Everybody's 752 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,640 Speaker 3: like it's this, it's this thing, like I got the money. 753 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 3: Oh you know, it's this, it's the news. It's it's 754 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:37,759 Speaker 3: so much pressure. But to be able to go a 755 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,279 Speaker 3: place that you just feel like, oh my god, this 756 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:42,320 Speaker 3: is peaceful. 757 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,920 Speaker 1: And I'm assuming that it's the same way when you 758 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: walk into a store. You you feel like you feel 759 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:55,759 Speaker 1: that the person is grateful that you're there and not 760 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:57,800 Speaker 1: that you feel some type of burden. 761 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:03,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a welcoming it's a welcoming feeling. It's 762 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,080 Speaker 3: a welcoming feeling that you feel. And also let's get 763 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,920 Speaker 3: to the food that is live soil. The soil here 764 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,919 Speaker 3: is dead. You know, when I was in Israel back 765 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 3: manufactured listen, food, it's dead. The food here is not food. 766 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,080 Speaker 3: When I was in Israel back in twenty I think 767 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,800 Speaker 3: it was like two thousand and eight, I was in Galileabo. 768 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,520 Speaker 3: I went to Tel Aviv. I never taste fruit before, 769 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 3: like I love fruit, but it was tastes and I 770 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,400 Speaker 3: see why they're fighting over the soil. It was a 771 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,120 Speaker 3: whole nother taste. The food was different, the food in Ghana. 772 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,640 Speaker 3: It is different. The tastes like I'm telling you, it tastes. 773 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:47,239 Speaker 3: It was great immediately what you think a great strawberry 774 00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,919 Speaker 3: tastes like and you have it in another place, You're like, man, 775 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,759 Speaker 3: this is dead. Even your stomach right. You know, your 776 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,200 Speaker 3: gut is really like the mouth of your soul. So 777 00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 3: if your gut is the mouth of your soul, what 778 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,400 Speaker 3: you put it in replenish the body. If we're putting 779 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:07,239 Speaker 3: in fake foods and eating dead corpse and all this craziness, 780 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:11,719 Speaker 3: our minds were interrupted. We're interrupted within our minds. But 781 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,600 Speaker 3: to be able to eat vibration, high level, like vibrating foods, 782 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,080 Speaker 3: like it feels different. You're not tired. You know you're 783 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 3: not big because and I eat, I'm greedy. 784 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:22,960 Speaker 1: Are you vegan? 785 00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:27,040 Speaker 3: I'm not vegan, but I think I eventually kind of pescatarian. 786 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,560 Speaker 3: The scents and sometimes I don't eat pork, I don't 787 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:33,800 Speaker 3: eat any port, but you know, I still have these slips. 788 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,720 Speaker 3: I love chicken, even chicken. Listen, I don't eat chicken. 789 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,520 Speaker 3: I try not to eat chicken here in the States. 790 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,040 Speaker 3: I'm telling you, And that's mark my word. Jasmin Terry 791 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,719 Speaker 3: said that chicken, the antibodies, the things that are in 792 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,120 Speaker 3: these chickens really mess with your brain. I love Pope's 793 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,799 Speaker 3: it hands down't care how much money I have in 794 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,920 Speaker 3: the world. You eat it, your mind is messed up 795 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,799 Speaker 3: gold Like, really do with a cleanse and go eat 796 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,560 Speaker 3: something that's like that, like the chicken. It throws your 797 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,000 Speaker 3: mind off. So if you have some imbalances, hormonal imbalance, 798 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:12,040 Speaker 3: mental balance, depression, anger, the foods we put in our 799 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:13,400 Speaker 3: body really affects that. 800 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,200 Speaker 1: So you still eat pop No, man, you cut it 801 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:17,719 Speaker 1: all the way out. 802 00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,799 Speaker 3: I cut it out when it's been a while, and 803 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,120 Speaker 3: I'll try it and every now and then I'll be like, oh, 804 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,520 Speaker 3: let me my mind. I'm telling you, like your mind 805 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:27,239 Speaker 3: is clear. 806 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,640 Speaker 1: Like, how long has it been since you've eating Popeyes? 807 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,879 Speaker 3: Man, it's been like a few years, because you know. 808 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,680 Speaker 1: Me, I bust left in the papies quick. 809 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,920 Speaker 3: Really. I love listen. I love Popeyes, I listen, but 810 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,160 Speaker 3: the hormones and the stuff in that chicken and in 811 00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,399 Speaker 3: that food, and you go somewhere else and you eat 812 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,280 Speaker 3: and you still feel different. The chicken sizes aren't the same. 813 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,759 Speaker 3: The wings we have here, these big chicken breasts. And 814 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,000 Speaker 3: then you see what the chicken because I'm like, this 815 00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:01,680 Speaker 3: is chicken, this is fish. Yeah, but it's it's uninterrupted me, right, 816 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,359 Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like nothing, this is you know, 817 00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:08,799 Speaker 3: this is food, your stomach, your your time to go 818 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,000 Speaker 3: to the party is. It's a different experience and it's 819 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,040 Speaker 3: the body. So that's why the plan is, we can't 820 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 3: get y'all want to come over here to Africa. The 821 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,680 Speaker 3: minute you are, we have to interrupt you to not 822 00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,920 Speaker 3: want to be in these places because the minute you 823 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,320 Speaker 3: go to these places, what's happening. The best thing the 824 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,600 Speaker 3: government did and gone in twenty eighteen was do the 825 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:33,520 Speaker 3: return of homecoming. As amazing as Nigeria is, Ghana is 826 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,960 Speaker 3: the right Black Americans are. I mean homes there are 827 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,960 Speaker 3: people by laying are like crazy. If you see how 828 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,000 Speaker 3: fast is going to the market is up and down, 829 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,240 Speaker 3: but it's going really fast, and you have that experience 830 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:45,799 Speaker 3: and then you think I'm going to come back here 831 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,759 Speaker 3: and listen to this absolutely, so moving to go. I 832 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 3: do want to I do want to live family behind. 833 00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:00,399 Speaker 3: So this is the thing. I want to be able 834 00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:04,040 Speaker 3: to have experiences in other places. Right I do. But 835 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,760 Speaker 3: like I said early on about not feeling like that's home, 836 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,120 Speaker 3: you know, I believe we are in the indigenous people 837 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,680 Speaker 3: of America. We are the indigenous people. I do believe 838 00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,719 Speaker 3: that the Moors were already here and they these that's 839 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,040 Speaker 3: our family, like black people were already here in America. 840 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,920 Speaker 3: I don't believe though, because I'm black, I'm from Ghana, 841 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,920 Speaker 3: and I'm from Nigeria, and I'm from these other places. 842 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,719 Speaker 3: I do believe that we are indigenous people of America 843 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,480 Speaker 3: and it is very important for us to get our 844 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:34,600 Speaker 3: land here by any means. 845 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:38,080 Speaker 1: So do you believe, So you don't believe that Africa 846 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:42,400 Speaker 1: is the cradle of civilization, then I but know, I 847 00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,760 Speaker 1: do believe all civilization started. 848 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,359 Speaker 3: All civilization does start in Africa. I do believe that. 849 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,439 Speaker 3: But even when I was in Ghana and I went 850 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:53,520 Speaker 3: to and I've toured Cape Coast, the Door of No Return, 851 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,759 Speaker 3: that's where the last place the Africans were, and they 852 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,000 Speaker 3: shipped them to the States they shipped them to Jamas, 853 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:05,880 Speaker 3: the Caribbean areas all over. I'm just saying that I 854 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:11,400 Speaker 3: believe black we were already here and I know what 855 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,480 Speaker 3: I feel like, and whether people believe it or not, 856 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,160 Speaker 3: this is our land. We were already here. The story 857 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,400 Speaker 3: of Africa just try all these slaves, millions of slaves. 858 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,080 Speaker 3: It just came through America. Brown black people were here. 859 00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:29,560 Speaker 3: Their mores were traveling all over the world before the slaves, 860 00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,720 Speaker 3: before this even happened. So you're telling me my great 861 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,640 Speaker 3: great grandparents people were Black people were already here, right, 862 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,919 Speaker 3: And the idea wasn't that the Europeans the ones that said, hey, 863 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,040 Speaker 3: let's make black people. You know, slavery was a former 864 00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,719 Speaker 3: technology where it's wrong, right. What they did to us 865 00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:52,120 Speaker 3: in America is like the worst, right, But it was 866 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:56,480 Speaker 3: a former technology. The Middle Easterns came with were some 867 00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,400 Speaker 3: of the ones that influenced the Africans to rally up 868 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,920 Speaker 3: the black people to ship them off in this slave trade. 869 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,239 Speaker 3: Because we were able to stay outside. White people were coming. 870 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,600 Speaker 3: They had white slaves too that came into Africa because 871 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,640 Speaker 3: they wanted to take and the they were dying, they 872 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:17,080 Speaker 3: were dying. They couldn't survive there the heat. You know, 873 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,160 Speaker 3: their bodies were not a lot of the Middle Easterns 874 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,879 Speaker 3: that were in Africa, right, you need to get more 875 00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,640 Speaker 3: black people. And yes, Africans were. They were selling off 876 00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:32,040 Speaker 3: other Africans for trade for money, right. But my point, 877 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:36,680 Speaker 3: what I'm saying is that in America, black people were 878 00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:41,120 Speaker 3: here already, not Christopher Columbus. And I'm not just saying 879 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,680 Speaker 3: the Native Americans. Those are still a part of indigenous people. 880 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,640 Speaker 3: There are indigenous Black people here that were already here. 881 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,520 Speaker 3: They needed more in order to do what they were doing, 882 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,439 Speaker 3: you know, So does that make sense? 883 00:48:55,719 --> 00:49:00,960 Speaker 1: Like I just feel like where were You're seeing something 884 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,279 Speaker 1: that I that I have knowledge of already. I just 885 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:04,920 Speaker 1: wanted to hear. 886 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,960 Speaker 3: You said, yeah, I think we were already here. Honestly, 887 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,160 Speaker 3: I don't think that, and I don't think that we're 888 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,520 Speaker 3: the same people. I think what they're doing right now 889 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,439 Speaker 3: in these forms, they're trying to turn us against each other. 890 00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:24,879 Speaker 3: And the job rolls in Black Americans and Africans. So 891 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,319 Speaker 3: because right now, you think about in music, think about 892 00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:31,120 Speaker 3: what's happening right now, think about in jobs like even 893 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,359 Speaker 3: with Black Panther, these movies, right you just think about 894 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:37,719 Speaker 3: what's going on in this moment. It's to steal, to 895 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:42,600 Speaker 3: keep black people at a lower level, yes, perpetuate the 896 00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,319 Speaker 3: lit and to turn instead of us bridging the gap 897 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 3: between Black Americans and Africans. Oh no, no, no, we 898 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,439 Speaker 3: got to turn, y'all. Y'all are better than them. Think 899 00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,239 Speaker 3: about what's happening when there's job rolls and in healthcare, 900 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:59,439 Speaker 3: and yes, a lot of African people are more well, 901 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,440 Speaker 3: often edgy that we are the opportunities here in America 902 00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,480 Speaker 3: as black people. When you think about, they're turning us 903 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,879 Speaker 3: against each other. Even with this music situation right now, 904 00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:10,680 Speaker 3: of course we connect with music. Oh I want to 905 00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:12,920 Speaker 3: go to Africa. Oh, afrobeats and all this. Think about 906 00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:16,799 Speaker 3: how fast this is going right and where is black 907 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,879 Speaker 3: people at this moment, even with this whole immigration thing 908 00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,560 Speaker 3: that's happening with what is it Florida about the immigrants 909 00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,040 Speaker 3: that can't work, You can't be with your families and 910 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,280 Speaker 3: all of that. I mean, because I'm for my people, 911 00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:32,640 Speaker 3: this is the perfect time for black men that need 912 00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,719 Speaker 3: jobs and need, you know, to have different trades. Go 913 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,040 Speaker 3: get those jobs, Go get your land. That's what other 914 00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,680 Speaker 3: people are doing when they come here. You know, why 915 00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:43,600 Speaker 3: why are we like, oh, I'm not gonna do that. 916 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,719 Speaker 3: I'm not cleaning up toilets. I'm not gonna go build. 917 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,480 Speaker 3: I don't want to do those jobs. This is the 918 00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,560 Speaker 3: time for us to wake up and to focus and 919 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,239 Speaker 3: go get those jobs. I'm not knocking any immigrants. I'm 920 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:57,040 Speaker 3: not saying about the my Mexican friends or not, but 921 00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,560 Speaker 3: I am about my people at this point. Go get 922 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,799 Speaker 3: those jobs up, you know, go get its time, like 923 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,680 Speaker 3: in order to have the revenue and some power, because 924 00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,640 Speaker 3: that's what's happening in other cultures. We're still asking people 925 00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:12,120 Speaker 3: to help us, help me, help me, help me, serve me. 926 00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,480 Speaker 3: We're so in this slave mentality, like you said, and 927 00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,600 Speaker 3: those people will be in change. Possibly that would be 928 00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,680 Speaker 3: the case, because we're so like, tell me what to do. 929 00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,279 Speaker 3: These people from Mexico coming here, they're not teaming tell 930 00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,160 Speaker 3: me what to do. They coming in here, like we 931 00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,880 Speaker 3: gonna live together in this house together, we're gonna build, 932 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,120 Speaker 3: we're making money, then we're gonna own the small company. 933 00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,400 Speaker 3: Then we're gonna eventually create the consulting company and you 934 00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:39,359 Speaker 3: work from there. And we're still asking. So I just said, 935 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,560 Speaker 3: it's a deference in everybody's against us, you know, as 936 00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:42,880 Speaker 3: black people at this point. 937 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta know that, we gotta know that we 938 00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:52,560 Speaker 1: on own. We all we got Let's talk about let's 939 00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:58,319 Speaker 1: talk about leukemia and lymphoma. Both of both leukemia and 940 00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:04,560 Speaker 1: lafhoma are a blood cancers. But what's the primary difference 941 00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:05,279 Speaker 1: between the two. 942 00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,920 Speaker 3: Honestly, I would have to have somebody I'm still learning 943 00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,680 Speaker 3: about what's the big difference to be honest, I I 944 00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,920 Speaker 3: don't want to give a medical to say exactly what 945 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:19,120 Speaker 3: it is. My only focus with leukemia. It is a 946 00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,919 Speaker 3: blood disease and there's so many different levels of it, 947 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,600 Speaker 3: and I honestly, I can't say exactly what the difference is. 948 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:26,680 Speaker 3: And I'm still learning. 949 00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:32,239 Speaker 1: Forms of it. And you know it it uh, it 950 00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,080 Speaker 1: attacks the body at different stages. 951 00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:35,439 Speaker 3: Yeah. 952 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well it's good that you're that you're doing it. 953 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,359 Speaker 1: I mean, it's a worthy cause. It's good to see 954 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,160 Speaker 1: you involved in that. I did want to ask you 955 00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:51,080 Speaker 1: this about your your tranquil persona. Yeah, yeah, tranquil persona. 956 00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:56,040 Speaker 3: You know, my friends, my friends always say. 957 00:52:55,680 --> 00:53:00,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, like you you you have like 958 00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:07,719 Speaker 5: a persona where it's like like you know, an unbothered persona. 959 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:14,759 Speaker 1: It's like you're unbothered, and it's hard to find that 960 00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:19,120 Speaker 1: these days. Everybody's so angry. Everybody is very angry. But 961 00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,239 Speaker 1: you have this, this persona. But you alluded to it 962 00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:26,640 Speaker 1: a little earlier about the club business. The club business 963 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,680 Speaker 1: is a very brutal business. I used to own a 964 00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:33,160 Speaker 1: bunch of clubs, and so it's a very very brutal business. 965 00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:38,640 Speaker 1: And to see you in the bar business. You're in 966 00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:39,160 Speaker 1: the bar. 967 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,839 Speaker 3: Business and skincare business too, yea. 968 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,680 Speaker 1: But but but I want to talk about I want you. 969 00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:46,640 Speaker 1: I want to mention the skincare business, but I want 970 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,160 Speaker 1: to talk about the bar business, particularly in particular, that 971 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,200 Speaker 1: is a very brutal business. How do you maintain your 972 00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,400 Speaker 1: sanity in a business like this? 973 00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,520 Speaker 3: So when I first arted, I died the first year. 974 00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,760 Speaker 3: I know what. I knew nothing about the bar business. 975 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:07,680 Speaker 3: You know, I had to figure out how it was 976 00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:11,680 Speaker 3: going to protect myself from people from stilling. Oh man, 977 00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,760 Speaker 3: these bartenders are cold. I mean I had people they're counting, 978 00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,480 Speaker 3: they count ways, you know, to count the liquor, and 979 00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,879 Speaker 3: then you know the money and their friends are taking money. 980 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:23,480 Speaker 3: Like it was so much to learn in a year. 981 00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:25,680 Speaker 3: But I did it. I did it, and then when 982 00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:27,839 Speaker 3: I tell you, it made me so sharp, like as 983 00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,040 Speaker 3: far as now I can go in and identify. That's 984 00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:31,400 Speaker 3: the whole reason. Now I don't want to have like 985 00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,200 Speaker 3: a full offering. You need a really really good team, 986 00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,120 Speaker 3: you know. So I have to understand what's my strengths. 987 00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:39,640 Speaker 3: I like to create, you know what I mean. And 988 00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,759 Speaker 3: the bar was just the small part of it. And 989 00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:44,960 Speaker 3: I was just like learning as I go. But the 990 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:49,000 Speaker 3: first year I died, I mean, seeing people steal, people 991 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,640 Speaker 3: complaining fraudulent money, you know, people that it was hurtful 992 00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:55,320 Speaker 3: to me because I'm like, man, you're not see that 993 00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:56,960 Speaker 3: I'm doing this for us. Why would you come in 994 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,080 Speaker 3: here and try to give me counterfeit money? 995 00:54:59,440 --> 00:54:59,560 Speaker 2: You know. 996 00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,120 Speaker 3: I'm literally getting into it with guys like really, like 997 00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,160 Speaker 3: you know, what is this? You know? So it was 998 00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,279 Speaker 3: a it broke me down. But in that breakdown, I 999 00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,640 Speaker 3: was so strong. Oh my god, I honestly, and I 1000 00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,719 Speaker 3: mean just working in and banking in general when it 1001 00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:15,360 Speaker 3: come to count money, like I could count money with 1002 00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,080 Speaker 3: my eyes closed, you know, and all of that, but 1003 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,400 Speaker 3: to actually know and to have a system, I did it, 1004 00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,600 Speaker 3: you know, and I don't know. I just knew that 1005 00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,880 Speaker 3: was a way of getting people to connect socially. We 1006 00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,239 Speaker 3: like to drink in Texas, and I wanted to get 1007 00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:34,600 Speaker 3: people in the room. You know. I had a therapist 1008 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,799 Speaker 3: asked me that. She asked me what my mom did 1009 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:38,960 Speaker 3: and what my father did. And because at the time 1010 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,200 Speaker 3: I was like thirty when I opened the bar in 1011 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,640 Speaker 3: third Ward, rent about twelve thousand dollars a month for 1012 00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:48,040 Speaker 3: this huge space right there on Sophomore Center. Just saying, now, 1013 00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:51,920 Speaker 3: it was a big house. It's a pink house, that's 1014 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:55,719 Speaker 3: what's called. It was called chateau like back in the day, 1015 00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:57,680 Speaker 3: but it has been the other names. But it was 1016 00:55:57,719 --> 00:55:59,879 Speaker 3: a huge like mansion the state that was a bar 1017 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,640 Speaker 3: right there on that corner. I just went for it. 1018 00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:07,880 Speaker 3: I think in my mind, I think I'm unstoppable, to 1019 00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,000 Speaker 3: be honest, and I know that I feel like I 1020 00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:15,160 Speaker 3: have this magic, which I call it my magic, that 1021 00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,200 Speaker 3: if I think of something, everything else is gonna connect 1022 00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,040 Speaker 3: with it. I mean, I know how I'm gonna pull 1023 00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:22,480 Speaker 3: it off or what I'm gonna do, but I know 1024 00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,360 Speaker 3: that my mind, if I think of something is gonna happen, 1025 00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,239 Speaker 3: and then everything else just kind of codes along with it, 1026 00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,960 Speaker 3: and it connects the dots. I had never owned a 1027 00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:33,080 Speaker 3: bar before. I didn't even know how to make drinks, 1028 00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:39,480 Speaker 3: to be honest, So I'll just and then I called, uh, 1029 00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:41,719 Speaker 3: one of these I ain't gonna say his name, but 1030 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:45,759 Speaker 3: you know, in a male dominant industry, these promoters and 1031 00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:47,920 Speaker 3: all these guys with these bars, like, hey, can you 1032 00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:49,480 Speaker 3: help me? I want to learn how to you know, 1033 00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:50,719 Speaker 3: how do I get a look at license? Oh? Man, 1034 00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:52,480 Speaker 3: you can't get a look at like you need attorney 1035 00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,920 Speaker 3: to get a liquor license. You need all of this. 1036 00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,040 Speaker 3: And then it was like nobody wanted to really help me. 1037 00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,840 Speaker 3: You won't come just promoting in my space. You know, 1038 00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:03,600 Speaker 3: you can come in when I say that, even the 1039 00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,120 Speaker 3: people that I thought we were cool, that these promoters 1040 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,960 Speaker 3: and you know, and you know, I'm on the corner 1041 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:10,880 Speaker 3: of Sophomore just Santa Cino at the time, and so 1042 00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,240 Speaker 3: this almeta, you got fifty fifteen, you got a turkey 1043 00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,400 Speaker 3: leg hut, you got all these places. And I'm like, man, y'all, 1044 00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,520 Speaker 3: I want to learn. Can you see nobody? All right, 1045 00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,800 Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it. So I didn't get attorney, get 1046 00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,760 Speaker 3: a local license. I didn't even have all the stuff 1047 00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:30,200 Speaker 3: to uh open the bar. I literally had to learn, 1048 00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,560 Speaker 3: like literally just kind of learn what do I need 1049 00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,160 Speaker 3: the permits? You know what is this? And I had 1050 00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:39,280 Speaker 3: one guy who had a prominent live music venue who 1051 00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,080 Speaker 3: was calling the City of Houston on me because he 1052 00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,479 Speaker 3: didn't understand how I got the building that I got 1053 00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:48,600 Speaker 3: and how it passed all the codes. White guy here 1054 00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:53,360 Speaker 3: in Houston been making money off he was making money 1055 00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:53,720 Speaker 3: off of. 1056 00:57:55,160 --> 00:58:02,400 Speaker 1: Man, Let's put him out there, let's exposure. Come on, Jed, 1057 00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:09,800 Speaker 1: give me the name, do the rest. 1058 00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:12,919 Speaker 3: You know, I ain't gonna put him out there like that, man, 1059 00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:16,240 Speaker 3: but I will say that I even went to him 1060 00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:17,520 Speaker 3: and was like, hey, you know, I want to open 1061 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:19,720 Speaker 3: a lot of music video You know you had this 1062 00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,160 Speaker 3: place for a while ago and musicians and stuff. Can 1063 00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:25,800 Speaker 3: you you know your bar is closed? You know, Oh, 1064 00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:27,720 Speaker 3: you ain't gonna be able to get that building. That's hard, 1065 00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:29,800 Speaker 3: That's that's just too much. You're you're not going to 1066 00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,000 Speaker 3: make it a year there, And I did. I made 1067 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,560 Speaker 3: it three plus years, and then the pandemic came until 1068 00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:35,120 Speaker 3: I closed. 1069 00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:38,680 Speaker 1: And now you're back at it again, and you're. 1070 00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:42,760 Speaker 3: Going again and again. We're gonna run it in. You 1071 00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:45,440 Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, I'm backing better downtown right across 1072 00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:46,440 Speaker 3: from the Toyota Center. 1073 00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:51,640 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, great, great location. Thank you from great hospitality, 1074 00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:58,080 Speaker 1: great service. I attested that how do somebody get in 1075 00:58:58,120 --> 00:58:59,600 Speaker 1: touch with you if they want to reach. 1076 00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:03,160 Speaker 3: Out, So they go to the website which is Blaschateau 1077 00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:07,200 Speaker 3: Houston dot com, where they can locate when we have events, 1078 00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:09,440 Speaker 3: if they want to book the venue, they can also 1079 00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:17,240 Speaker 3: email us at info at Blayschateau Houston dot com as well. Yeah, Jasmine, 1080 00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:19,640 Speaker 3: Terry ya, thank you, thank you. 1081 00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,000 Speaker 4: This episode was produced by a King and brought to 1082 00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:25,439 Speaker 4: you by 1083 00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:30,040 Speaker 1: The Black Effect Podcast Network at iHeartRadio