WEBVTT - Standing on Legacy feat. Jasmine Terry 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 Yip yip. You know boys is back and reloaded all 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.480 in your mind. Yeah, now deep throating. This is for 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:11.240 the streets, the real, the real goading, the distenfranchise, the. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.520 Truth, escapegoating, and they ain't know when we speak the truth. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.319 So they quoted because we wrote it. The North South 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.919 East coaches. The ge be mocked for keeping your head, Bobby, 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.040 it ain't no stopping and wants to be drops head 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.120 by then the system is so corrupt they threw the. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.080 Rock out their heads and then blame it on us. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.800 Don't get it twisted on coding. We danced to put 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:39.400 no butterment biscuits. It's Willie d y'all ghetto boys in 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.360 the house back with another episode of information and instructions 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.400 to help you navigate through this wild, crazy, beautiful world 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.000 in the studio. Visionary of the Year candidate for the 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:57.200 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society jas Man Terry, I love, congratulations. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.240 Thank you, thank you somebody else. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:03.080 What an honor to be doing something that helped saved lives? 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:04.000 Absolutely right? 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.480 How long have you been involved with this? 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.920 So? I was nominated early part of the year from 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:16.640 a friend, Maggie Noell. She participated last year fundraiser, and 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.200 we prepped I guess for a few months on you know, 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.080 the direction and if you're serious about it, and so 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.679 I was like, you know, I'm all in. You know, 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:29.160 leukemia actually is something that runs in my family. So 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.720 it was my great grandmother. So it was something that's 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.120 really personal to me because no one in my family 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.520 knew what happened to her. We like, we literally didn't know. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.200 I was at the age of three at the time, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.200 but my grandmother passed away within a week and a 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.400 half time period. So my family was like, what is this. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:53.440 It's cancer, but you know, the culture wise of not 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.160 sharing if there's health issues and if there's information, she 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.280 didn't really know what's going on. So by the time 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.200 we found out, she passed away the following week. So 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.480 there was a lot of testing in the family, like, okay, 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.640 you have Liukemi or her kids, my grandmother and my aunt, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.799 to my mother and now to myself, just to make 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.720 sure you know it's a bloodline. Especially with a lot 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.400 more research, you know, it's definitely more evident and it's 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.800 a lot more prominent. You know, there's resources to actually 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.400 go to. So when I was asked to be a 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.760 part of this and to be nominated to be a 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.680 Visionary of the Year. I was highly honored, honestly to 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.240 be a part of such an amazing organization and to 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.160 give back, you know, and learn in this process as well. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.600 How old was your grandmother when she died she passed away? 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.839 I would say she was in her sixties. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:46.799 Oh wow, I'm sorry. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.119 She was actually your great things. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:50.480 This was your great grandmother. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.160 Yeah, I passed away three I mean, my god, not 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.400 I passed away. She passed away when I was three 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.640 years old. So she passed away in eighty nine and 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.679 my my mother was living. So this is my grandmother's mother. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.119 So yeah, she passed away in her late fifties. I'd 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:06.720 say early sixties to be honest. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:07.679 Wow. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:12.160 Yeah, so and to do to pass away and there's 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.240 no information, so she didn't give us an information. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:16.480 You know. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.240 My family's from my mother's side is from Louisiana, so 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.040 you know, when it comes to medicine, right, my family 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.760 don't believe in medicine. You know. My great grandfather, my 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.560 great grandmother is everything is in the pantry, you know, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.280 from honey to everything that comes from the farm. So 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.720 trusting doctors, trusting physicians, that's been a and even as 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.920 a child, that's a knug something's wrong. Let me fix 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.000 this for you, focusing on your gut, you know, and 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.480 things of that. So this was her in real time 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.160 that she had no control of what's going on and 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.560 the remedies that she was possibly doing for herself. It 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.600 didn't help the situation. And so by the time she 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:58.200 let the family know I have leukemia, she passed away 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.600 shortly after, you know, so it was very devastating. Of 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.480 course I was a kid, but I remember as a 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.119 child my mother and my grandmother. I remember the funeral, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.120 I remember my grandfather, and I'm like, what happened to granny? 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.280 You know, like, you know, because we had such a 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.640 close connection. You know, even now you know, family, you 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.920 look so much like your great grandmother. You know, y'all 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.159 are similarly the same, you know, just like you know 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.320 all these things, and you know, to know that she 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.200 passed away without any research really being available to her, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.080 you know, was it's it's a disconnect, you know. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.120 So I'm tripping a little bit on you being able 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.479 to remember at three years old. Oh yeah, I think 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:46.480 my earliest memory is somewhere around five, maybe four and 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:47.239 a half five. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.279 Yeah, so I remember, you know, for me energy, I 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:55.560 can't I remember smells, I remember feelings, and I think 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.560 that's that's energy is so important, like connecting, Like I 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.320 can't tell you at three years old what the conversation was, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.359 but I remember what I felt. I remember the smell, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:09.400 I remember the touch. I remember kind of these small memories. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.680 But it was really like her energy that more any 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.120 more than anything, you know, So yeah, I do. 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.760 Do people in your family typically live to be a 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:20.599 long you know? 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.760 Yeah, you know, honestly, on both sides of the family, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.520 they do. And I think that's a that's a beautiful 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.240 thing to have because growing up as a kid, I 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.680 had my great great grandfather, I had my great grandfather, 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.960 I had my great my great grandmother passed away, but 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:38.520 I had my great aunts that lived to like one 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.520 hundred and five one hundred. In my I believe man 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.520 free to live was the longest maybe one hundred and 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:44.800 six mothers. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.719 By your grandma, your great grandma died at sixty. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:53.200 You know, And no, no, not really, because I mean 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.599 I had such an older with like an older group 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.640 of family members to kind of connect with, you know. Now, 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.839 my grandmother heard my grandmother's uh, my great grandmother's daughter, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.359 my mother's mother. She passed away fairly early. She passed 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:12.760 away in her fifties from some issues. She was depression 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.320 and other things. But she passed away fairly early. But 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.000 along those lines, my family lives like a pretty long time, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.000 to be honest, and with everything that's going on in 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.800 the world right now, I think about because everyone's like, oh, 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.280 my god, you had your great grandfather. Yeah, like y'all 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.640 didn't have it great aunts and they were like nineties 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.839 and eighties, and you know, I think even me growing 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:40.760 into a woman and understanding now how important information is that, 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.280 even on foods and like knowing your culture, you know, 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.480 knowing different things. It's a lot of people know nothing 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.320 about their grandmothers, their grandparents or didn't have the opportunity 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.599 I can go back to like my great grandparents, you know. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.640 And then that's my mother's side, my father's side, even 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.640 with my great great grandfather being Jack Yates and to 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:05.120 see like the legacy here in Houston of what he created, 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.800 you know. And my grandmother now my great my my 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.200 grandmother and my father's brother. She's in her mid eighties, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:16.440 you know. So I've always had that type of blessings 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.480 actually to have family around, and you know it's like 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.239 older family. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.760 So yeah, you mentioned your great grandfather, John Henry jack Yatates. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.440 Yeah that dude. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:34.400 Yeah what a legacy, what a claim? Yeah yeah, it's 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.520 how proud are you of being you know, a part 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:38.679 of that bloodline? 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.600 You know. Honestly, growing up, I kind of shied from it. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.880 I didn't really you know, I attended Jacky's High school. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.120 You know, I know about my great grandfather, but I 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.120 wanted to be cool. I didn't want anyone to be like, Okay, 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.480 you know this is you know, this is school is 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:55.560 name and yeah you know. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.920 It is my great grandfather school to do. I ain't 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.080 going to I ain't coming to school. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.920 Yeah, so you know, to have that knowledge, right, It 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.280 was just kind of like I don't want aboudy know, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.920 you know. And school was different than you know, like 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.000 you're like, yeah, this school name after my great grandfather and. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.520 It's a trip. How we how we trivialize things that 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.880 are mine and we we elevate these things that are 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.960 really important, Like we shy away from things like things 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:28.960 that we should be proud. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.120 You know, you can't tell me now like I tell everybody, 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.160 even in in bios, you know that is that is 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.800 a part of that is historic, not even for Houston, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.200 but just for me and my bloodline. The power, you know, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.120 and think about who you are as a person, like 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.280 what makes you who you are? And I think about 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.800 myself like being an entrepreneur, being an advocacy, you know, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:59.200 just how we connected just from talking about aggovacy, you know. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:08:59.600 What I mean. 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:04.120 And and to be able to it's something that's rooted 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.040 in me. It's actually something that's actually it's in my blood, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.840 like to create and to want to help others. And 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.680 how connected I am to my culture as Black culture 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.880 and my seeking of like where does all this energy 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.640 come from? You know, like what makes you you? And 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.920 then you have like this information to go back to. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.080 You know. It's like it's powerful, you know, and it's 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.680 actually a great feeling, like a blessing. You know. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:39.040 Yeah. I first saw, I think at first came across 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.880 you on the Isaiah Factor Show and I was like, oh, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.680 she got something. She was talking about some type of 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.800 social issue. I can't remember exactly what it was. The 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.360 way you articulated yourself. I was like, oh, yeah, she 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:57.880 shocked and you stood on it. It was something controversial. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.320 You wasn't dancing around. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.640 Oh no, oh no, that's not me. I wasn't raised 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.760 to be that way. And you know, I you know, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:14.240 to be able to talk about culture, black culture, there's 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.080 no shyness about that. That's no change in my tone. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.560 There's no when I'm around a certain group, you know, 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.199 being proud of who you are, you know, that's that's 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.160 that's in my blood, you know, and you stand on it, 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.720 you know, in any space. And so if it's something 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.880 dealing with health care, if it's education, if it's something 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:37.760 dealing with the financial systems, you know, advocacy is important. 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.680 It's in me and I have That's what I feel 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.839 connected to do you know, even with my travels around 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.480 the world that I do. You know, this is all 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.240 a part of a learning process, you know. And I 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.800 don't know where it comes from, but I know. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.600 From your great grandparents, great great grand perhaps. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.840 Yeah, yeah, just his story alone, you know, being a 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:06.000 slave in Virginia, to be free and to come back 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.440 to be with your wife in Texas and become a 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.760 slave again, you know, to not only that, to kind 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:16.640 of lead the way through the mascipation to build, teach 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.840 your people how to build homes and with the importance 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.640 of land and how to read and you know, to 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.079 be a minister to minister to people. And this is 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.720 how we create our own economic systems. We don't have 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:32.640 to be a part of these systems that that we 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:33.160 were given. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:33.720 You know. 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.080 So this is a person that's been out of was 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.760 a slave, out of slave, came back into slavery, the 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.800 massurpation happened. Then create when it land where we have 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.880 our own land. We don't want, we don't need to 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.480 participate with you. We're going to create our own you know, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:50.040 these different struggles, you know, the fights that in order 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.439 just to be yourself and so to know the legacy 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.320 that not only my great grandfather, my great grandfather's children. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.960 We know what my grandmother has done with my five, 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:04.520 with my family, just who we are. It's innately in us, 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.760 you know. So to get on Isaiah Factor show, and 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.800 I'm gonna say what I gotta say, because this is 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.160 something that's like, you know, it's important to me, you know, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:17.520 and it's carrying information you know, So it is you know, 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.200 and I'm a proud I'm definitely proud. Now I'm not 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.680 saying I wasn't proud as I was immature. Then I 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.880 didn't want to tell people, you know, this is my 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.720 great grandfather, this is the school was after you know, 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.160 I was like, I don't need to do that. You know, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.480 pretty modest, you know, but that's roalsy, you know, in 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:34.000 your area. 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:39.360 So Little Boys reloaded podcast right after spot. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:51.960 When you look at the racial climate in this country, yeah, 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.920 there's a lot of division and there are a lot 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.920 of people that are in high positions, especially politicians who 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:08.920 are flaming the hire. Yeah, considering your your lineage, considering 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:14.720 what we've been through historically, do you what's your concern 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:19.200 level that slavery could actually happen again? 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.199 Slavery is happening right now. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:28.400 Well, I'm talking about I'm talking about slavery. You know, 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:33.040 they actually like actually having black folks in physical change, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.479 not the mental change, the change, but the physical change 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:41.080 and you know everything that came with that. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.840 In certain parts of the world, that's happening still, right, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.160 we're just talking about America. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:54.959 Talking about right, I don't think I don't. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.400 Think that's going to happen, right. I think there's these 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.600 systems around us, and I know you said about like 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.559 physically happening. You know, I don't. I don't really think 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.520 that's going to happen. I know, I'm not getting no chance. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.120 I don't. I don't see it. I mean, what do 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:08.640 you think you think? I don't see? 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.760 I can, I can, I can. I can't say what 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.480 can and what will and won't happen, because some things 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.720 are happening now that I never thought would happen. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.000 Absolutely, you know, hell. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.640 Donald Trump became president. We wanted the dumb as motherfuckers 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:26.080 in the United States of America, you know. But I can't. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.880 I don't know, you know, but I do know this. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.200 I'm killing everything. I'm not going to be a. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:32.920 Slave, you know. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.960 I'm not going to be a slave, especially knowing what 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:40.640 I know, knowing what they did, that information, especially knowing 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.960 that what I know, knowing that there is no get back, 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.240 knowing that there is no mercy, knowing that there is 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:52.520 no there is no there will be no conversations of rationalism. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.960 Though, absolutely it's not. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.840 I don't see no rationalizing, you know, Like, I'm not 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.160 na man. I already know I'm man. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:06.600 I'm killing everything, walking everything, you know. I had a 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.320 conversation with a friend about how do we get out 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:10.640 of these systems? Right? 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:11.120 Like? 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.640 How you know? Who are well? Who are we uninterrupted? 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:20.120 As a culture? And when I say uninterrupted, meaning without 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.960 the trauma, without your back, your record, and you know this, 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.520 this poverty and all these things, who are we as 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:32.320 a culture? Uninterrupted? We are royal buildings? I know who 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:38.120 you are? Right, So it's you have to interrupt. You 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.320 have to interrupt in order to shake it up, right 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.800 I can't And so you I'm gonna interrupt you in education, 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.800 I'm gonna interrupt you in the financial system. I have 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.280 to interrupt you in so many places because the moment 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.880 you're uninterrupted, you train, your energy transcends. You're a whole 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:54.760 nother you are Who are you? You know what I mean? 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.280 In my mind I heard something like that. I was like, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.440 who is Jasmine uninterrupted? You know, if I'm not worried 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.640 about bills, I'm not worried about walking around, if the 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:10.280 police is this, and what? Who am I? Uninterrupted? And 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.720 that's from now on, That's how I see myself. I'm uninterrupted, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.280 you know, as a culture. So when we look on 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:20.240 the news and you see prime example, you know the 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.600 guy that raised two million dollars you know, for now 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.480 and the GoFundMe. 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:28.840 Yeah, I ain't worth for d penny. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.520 So so you know what does that look like? Right? 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.239 And the media would show the music. We're so interrupted 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.160 in so many ways, right, the things that we're listening to, 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.720 the foods that we eat. It's a it's a part 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.320 of a system. Right, How do we get uninterrupted as 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.920 a culture? And I hate to say it, the only 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.600 I don't know other way but to fight, to be honest, 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.920 And my friends like fighting, you know, and we love 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.960 and you know, I I love Martin Luther King that 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.680 that was a he's a great man. But I also 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:04.119 unders sand with Malcolm X felt right as a culture 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.280 and I just feel that, you know, we're gonna have 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.480 to fight. It's going to be a point where sorry, 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:14.239 it's a point where you know, I'm uninterrupted period, And 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.120 so by any means, in any way necessary, I will 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.480 not be interrupted. I don't want to hear so even 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.720 listening to news and sometimes with social media and all 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:29.000 these different things, right, that's interrupted. That's interrupting, like your 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.760 mind to think, you know what I mean, the foods 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.399 we're eating, it's interrupting our systems. The healthcare, all of that, 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.480 you know what I mean. So if I can be 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:42.040 in a place as simple as being uninterrupted, you can't 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.119 stop me. You can't stop nothing. It's nothing that you 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.000 can do to do that. And so as a people, 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.280 if we can figure out ways how we are uninterrupted, 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.560 meaning if it starts with the children and education, we're 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.479 teaching our own right, if it goes into building our 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:03.080 own hospitals, creating our own willness cities, you know, creating 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:07.880 our own military, because we will be uninterrupted because everybody 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:12.000 has their hands on our culture, everybody, you know. So 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.919 for me, back to what you're saying about slavery, I 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.920 don't see it going that far, as far as chains 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.040 and all of that. I think as a people and 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.280 at this point in time in life, that we have 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:29.119 a conscious that it's awakening, that is beyond just what 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:33.080 we see right, and it's happening. So therefore, the world 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.120 is shifting, the earth is purging, it's you know, I'm 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:37.439 into nature. I mean, I don't know if you know 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:43.080 that really, but so for me, the mountains, so for me, you. 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:48.680 Know, walking down walking on the beach in Morocco. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.160 So for me, you know, that's a lifestyle that comes 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.119 with lifestyle, and that's something that you teach others, you 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.800 know what I mean, looking in different directions, you know. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.639 So I don't don't see that happening. It's putting us 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.919 into being slaves and all of that, you know. And 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.359 I don't think every other culture is bad, but I 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.040 am focused on my culture and my goal is to 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:13.639 help us be in you know, uninterrupted period, you know, 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.840 the mind and to do that. And so with that, 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:17.879 I don't see it happening. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:18.240 You know. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:19.320 That's your ministry. 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:21.440 Yeah, that's my ministry. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:30.399 That's your ministry. Your ministry is helping people service. Yeah, 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.639 that's your ministry because even when you do it with 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:38.439 your event center, your event center is not just you know, 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.320 fuck you pay me, it's it's yo. We're going to 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:47.240 provide a superiod experience, absolutely, you know, and we're going 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.160 to create a beautiful space for you to come. It's 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.080 going to be it's going to be a warm and 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.439 welcoming space and you're going to feel it. You're going 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.000 to feel that personal touch. I mean I felt it myself, 0:19:59.000 --> 0:19:59.280 and I. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:09.919 You know, the reason for me opening Lace Chateau. And 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.919 of course all of this is energy for me, everything 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.919 is energy. So it was to create a safe space 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:20.240 for creatives, right I complain, an't nowhere to go in Houston. 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.800 At some points it was like the clubs, it was like, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.320 you're gonna tell me what I can We're I see 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:30.000 you profiling by the clothes or you know, just certain things. 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.800 I want a space where we can be safe and connect, 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:36.240 grow and learn. So it's not just opening a bar, 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.280 you know, lay Chatau. Houston for me is a space 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.840 where we can be safe and also connect. So we 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.560 can have greade eats, we can have music where creatives 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.439 from all of the world. Because Houston being such a 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.640 big city, there's not like a place a platform where 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:53.360 indie artists just really come in. You have like your 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.080 warehouse lives, and you have like these other places, but 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.680 there's no hub of like this is where talent is made, 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.280 you know. So I wanted to be able to participate 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.639 in creating that rhythm in Houston. And it doesn't have 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.120 to be just a club and your normal live music shows. 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:11.840 But there's so many forms of art that you that 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:15.199 I want La Chautaud to be able to display, you know, 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:19.399 So from theatrical art to musicians to dancers, you know, 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.159 singers like all of that into the space and even 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.840 art of networking with other people. How do you get 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:27.760 into a room and connect. A lot of times we 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:29.720 want to I want to go talk to really th man, 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.400 I want to, you know, how do you do that? 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.280 How do you when you have that opportunity, how do 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.639 you connect? You know? So it's really like a like 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.720 you said, I guess a teaching space right to having 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.119 a safe space for culture, and then you also having 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.200 these different you know, different places I visit around the world. 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:47.440 I was like, I gotta I want to bring it 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:50.040 back to Houston, and if you didn't go with me, 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:51.520 I want you to be able to see through my 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:55.240 eyes what I saw. And so whether it's in other 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:57.679 countries and we come back in these different performers of 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.480 sounds and music to place it into the space. That's 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:04.399 what Lai's Chateau is about, you know, to create whatever 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.320 you want. You know. So what I initially opened, that's 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.400 the plan I closed during COVID and then from there 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:14.200 I reopened. And I'm like, you know, the bar industry 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.119 is a lot. You know, it was a lot on me, 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.719 and I don't know how I maintained for three years 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.680 kind of solo. This is I've never owned a bar before, 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:24.440 never worked in the bar, but I was like, okay, 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.760 I have this vision, and everything just happened. You know, 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:29.359 even the guys would earn your leisure. 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:29.800 You know. 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:35.360 I created one programming of lais Chateau, which is the office, 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.680 which actually today there is an event, a networking event 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:42.000 to just kind of connect with people professionals and entrepreneurs 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:45.480 in Houston and really engaging, going how do we you 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:47.199 know when you're in the room, this is not just 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:50.679 looking at each other, really get to know somebody, not 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:53.080 just being around the people that you're close to, actually 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:56.200 getting in and connect. So I was able to reach out. 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:58.639 They reached out to me, Actually, hey, we like what 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.639 you're doing in Houston. We want to come down and 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:05.760 to see where they started from with this financial literacy, 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.600 even him and shout out to my guy Wall Street 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:13.240 Trap as well, that talking about the market, the stock 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:17.720 market with nineteen keys like all of them. Well, Wall 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:21.040 Street Trap met earned your leisure in my space and 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:25.000 to see where they were then and where they are now. 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:27.440 And we all are cool in these relationships, you know 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:29.760 what I mean. Lace Shatau is a place that you 0:23:29.800 --> 0:23:32.240 were able to connect and to see that and then 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:34.840 to have them come out and then to not just them, 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:38.359 just different people, musicians and artists. So you know, for 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.480 me as a visionary, I just want to create rooms 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:44.760 and spaces and energy where things evolved, you know, so 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:48.879 instead of having a bar, now it's a creative space. 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:52.720 You know. So you bring your creativity and we hope 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.440 you make it happen, you know, and it's all about 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:58.840 you know. When I open Lace Chateau, then I had 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.480 a lady because I'm in sophomore SANDERSONO, so I'm in 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:04.080 the museum district. It's their reward. I had a lady, 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:08.160 a white lady. Her name is Karen. Also. Karen came 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:11.480 in and said, oh, you're opening up a jazz bar. 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:13.400 And I was like, yeah, I'm excited to tell her. 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:16.480 And you know, she came in as if she wanted 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:19.720 to help me with the you know, I want to. 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:21.280 I want to help you, you know, I want to. 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:24.600 I want to. I want you to be successful. Now, 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:29.720 she don't know that my great grandfather helped cultivate this 0:24:29.800 --> 0:24:32.240 whole area where you living with your husband. That's not 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:35.920 too far from a massipation. My grandfather created that space, right. 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:38.119 But she doesn't know me. So she's coming in and 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:39.960 she's like, well, you know, I want you to be 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:44.359 successful in this area. And the food is great, the 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:47.520 music is great, but I think the artwork in here, 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:50.560 I think you should make it about everybody. I think 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.680 you should make this space not just about Black culture. 0:24:53.680 --> 0:24:56.040 It should be about Asian culture. It should be about 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:59.479 all these different cultures. You know, it should be about 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:02.640 every you know, because that's the way the world is. 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:05.520 And I let her talk, and I was so thankful 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:08.600 that I handled her with grace, because who are you 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.840 to come into my business and tell me how I 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:16.200 should make space for everybody. Did you go to Papito's 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:20.200 and you see all of these pictures of these other 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:22.200 cultures on the wall, and they have no black people. 0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:24.840 Did you tell them you should make this about black 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:28.320 people too. I said, that's the problem. I should be 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:32.800 able to be proud and you should be of my 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:37.040 culture and the legacy of Arika Franklin and Ray Charles 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:38.879 and mal Davis, and you should be in here, be 0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:41.480 excited to see this experience because this is a part 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:44.280 of my culture. It's not because it's only for black people. 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:46.560 She said, Well, when you have things like that, it 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:49.480 makes it seem like only black people are welcome. I said, 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:53.359 you're the only one feeling and uncomfortable. Why making what 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:57.520 my culture is doing and me promoting and wanting a 0:25:57.560 --> 0:26:00.359 safe space for my people, you feel uncomfortable and for 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:05.080 you to have the balls to come into my business 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:08.080 and smile at me and to tell me be black, 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:10.560 but just don't be too black. Make it black. This 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:13.160 is this area is for everybody. You know, there's black 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:16.120 people here, there's Asian people here, even more reasons where 0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:19.160 you should be want to welcome and understand my culture 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:21.840 and understand the legacy. It's more than just music. You 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:24.800 comeing to eat our food and our great like understand this, 0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:27.679 come in and connect with people. And I think her 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:31.000 husband was from Brooklyn, and so he was you know, 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:33.679 he was really nice, but he could feel like he 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:35.959 was like, I think you were out of line. The 0:26:36.000 --> 0:26:39.080 next day, the opening she sends like a flood of flowers. 0:26:39.320 --> 0:26:42.320 She said, she said, you are so highly aware and 0:26:42.359 --> 0:26:44.320 with the way that you handle me with care. In 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:47.760 that moment, I had no idea what I was doing, 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:49.800 Like for me to come in to tell you don't 0:26:49.800 --> 0:26:54.199 make your space about your culture is insensitive. And I 0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:56.520 didn't even realize this because I mean, I have black friends. 0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:59.560 That was one you know, I have. I've traveled around 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:02.000 the world, and the way that you broke it down 0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:03.879 to me, I didn't even realize that was me and 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:07.119 my form of not being able to connect. And so 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:10.480 even with that, you know, leys Chateau, it was just her. 0:27:10.520 --> 0:27:13.679 They always came after that, you know, and I forced 0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:16.120 her to connect with other people. This is what life 0:27:16.240 --> 0:27:20.120 is about. It's about connecting, you know, Like you can't 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:24.080 come in my business and help me to be black. 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:25.840 WI just don't be too black because you make me 0:27:25.920 --> 0:27:29.520 uncomfortable with your blackness. 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:37.000 The boys revoting podcasts will be right back after sport. 0:27:40.600 --> 0:27:45.760 Imagine going to a Mexican restaurant and being offended that 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:48.639 there's only Mexicans on the wall. The people who started 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:52.080 the restaurant, you know, like these are the people who 0:27:52.119 --> 0:27:55.560 started the generations of people who started the restaurants where yeah, 0:27:55.600 --> 0:28:00.720 I think you should add more diversity here because to 0:28:00.760 --> 0:28:05.840 make me comfortable, make me comfortable. But that but they 0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:09.439 only do that to us. That's that they only I 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:13.080 know that for a fact, they only do that when 0:28:14.040 --> 0:28:18.760 a black person owns a restaurant something. And like now 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:21.240 you put whoever you want to put on the walls, 0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:23.960 if you if a person likes the product or services, 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:28.080 they they patronize the business or they don't. It doesn't 0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:29.919 matter to me one way or the other. It's like 0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:33.679 my music. I make my music for the people and 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:37.840 if you get it, cool, If you don't, that's cool too. 0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:41.959 But I am not about to acquiesque to your style, 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:47.120 to your preference to make you feel comfortable. Fuck you 0:28:47.160 --> 0:28:51.760 straight up, right straight up like uh, and I'm unapologetic 0:28:51.800 --> 0:28:55.840 about that. You know. Why why do we have to 0:28:55.960 --> 0:29:00.080 change who we are? You know? I mean, but you 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:07.360 know it's like you like our talents, like what we do, 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:09.680 but then you want to take it and then you 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:13.640 want to make it the way you want to make it, 0:29:13.680 --> 0:29:15.600 and so that you can be comfortable with it. 0:29:15.760 --> 0:29:17.560 Like I said, you want to interrupt it. 0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:19.520 You want to interrupt it, right, and. 0:29:19.440 --> 0:29:21.960 So you don't leave us uninterrupted. You want to interrupt 0:29:22.080 --> 0:29:24.640 in any form because I want you no, no, no, no, 0:29:24.800 --> 0:29:27.320 it can't be too good, you know. And I think 0:29:27.680 --> 0:29:29.040 and to go back to your point, what you just 0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:34.000 said about here in America. It's a mentality. So as 0:29:34.000 --> 0:29:37.240 a person that has traveled in different places around the world, 0:29:38.000 --> 0:29:44.640 I didn't realize with this whitewash mentality that I've had, 0:29:44.920 --> 0:29:46.800 right that when I went to other places, when I 0:29:46.840 --> 0:29:50.440 went to France, went to Paris, I'm so used to 0:29:50.680 --> 0:29:53.400 America has programmed us that we are the center of 0:29:53.400 --> 0:29:58.959 the world and we're not. We are behind, right, but 0:29:59.040 --> 0:30:03.200 we are so great, like a concept about branding and marketing, 0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:06.560 right that we go around, Oh, I'm American, you know, 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:08.840 the dollar is American. What is the dollar tied to? 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:10.479 You know what I mean? Like all of this to 0:30:10.520 --> 0:30:12.920 not until I went to China, not until I went 0:30:12.960 --> 0:30:16.160 to Europe and I'm seeing like, you know, I'm American, 0:30:16.240 --> 0:30:17.640 you know, I go there and I think you don't 0:30:17.680 --> 0:30:21.840 speak English, like we have been programmed honestly, so not 0:30:21.880 --> 0:30:25.680 only are we as black people, right and just thinking 0:30:25.680 --> 0:30:29.920 as humans, I mean just a culture of people. We're 0:30:29.960 --> 0:30:32.920 American also, And when I've gone to other places, like 0:30:33.280 --> 0:30:35.360 this is not in English, you know, everything is English 0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:39.120 and French English, Like we have this type of supremacy 0:30:39.200 --> 0:30:42.200 around the world to being like these this is it 0:30:42.240 --> 0:30:45.040 and we're not, and I had someone tell me in 0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:48.440 China when I was in it was a program which 0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:51.320 seen what Africa and China's doing in Africa. That's the 0:30:51.320 --> 0:30:53.680 whole thing. I seen that back in twenty fourteen. But 0:30:54.840 --> 0:30:59.960 maybe you are in another country. I know America were 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:03.520 popular with the entertainment and you know we have this. 0:31:04.560 --> 0:31:06.280 That was the first time a slap in face. I 0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:09.440 was like, we are behind. I am behind right, Like 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:12.479 the kids here are making the games that my children 0:31:12.520 --> 0:31:17.160 will play. They're creating the technology that I will use. 0:31:17.800 --> 0:31:20.880 What are we doing? I went there. My friends were like, oh, 0:31:21.080 --> 0:31:22.440 see if you can get us some hair, will you 0:31:22.480 --> 0:31:25.120 connect or some boutiques, some clothes And I'm like, yeah, girl, 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:26.600 I got you. I'm in China. I'm gonna be here 0:31:26.640 --> 0:31:30.560 for a while. Not until I joined the Africa to 0:31:30.640 --> 0:31:34.480 Business Council that Asian a Chinese girl asked me to 0:31:34.600 --> 0:31:38.600 join that I realized the conversations were different, and I 0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:40.920 was quiet because I'm not Africa. I'm not from Africa, 0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:44.200 but there was people from Nigeria and other places in Africa. 0:31:44.280 --> 0:31:48.160 They were brokering deals and China, the government in twenty 0:31:48.240 --> 0:31:53.000 fourteen was creating this Chinese to Africa Business Council, which 0:31:53.000 --> 0:31:55.400 I have photos to show where you know, and still 0:31:55.440 --> 0:31:57.840 a part of this group. We want to do business 0:31:57.840 --> 0:32:01.040 in Africa. And so while I'm looking that of how 0:32:01.040 --> 0:32:03.000 can I get to connect on some clothes to start 0:32:03.040 --> 0:32:05.160 a boutique, and some hair, maybe some makeup, and you 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:08.200 know these smaller things, these are people my age brokering 0:32:08.320 --> 0:32:12.600 big world deals, meaning creating room for tomato paste companies, 0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:16.760 rice farms, you know. And I'm like, oh my god, 0:32:17.280 --> 0:32:20.680 this is like on a bigger scale. You know, I'm behind. 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:23.440 I'm thinking I'm American and you know all of these no, 0:32:23.560 --> 0:32:27.880 I'm behind, you are we are. America is a small 0:32:28.000 --> 0:32:31.120 part of what the world is. And we made this 0:32:32.040 --> 0:32:35.800 Donald Trump mentality to be like this this thing that 0:32:35.840 --> 0:32:38.320 we are not, we are falling. I saw this in 0:32:38.320 --> 0:32:41.160 twenty fourteen. I'm like, my god, this is where we 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:44.920 are on a scale of what the world. The conversations 0:32:44.920 --> 0:32:47.920 are happening around the world, so right now to where 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.520 we understand where the dollar is. And I saw this 0:32:50.560 --> 0:32:54.520 in twenty fourteen and to see how China has created 0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:57.360 these alliances around the world. They're in Africa and I'm 0:32:57.360 --> 0:33:00.560 brokering deals because they think I'm from Nigeria. I didn't 0:33:00.560 --> 0:33:02.720 say I wasn't. I just you know, I'm trying to 0:33:02.760 --> 0:33:05.840 understand what's going on and to see this and I'm like, 0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:08.920 my gosh, I am really behind. I'm worried about weave. 0:33:09.360 --> 0:33:12.600 My friend want to start a makeup line and a boutique, 0:33:13.000 --> 0:33:16.440 you know, And these are real life, these are global 0:33:16.520 --> 0:33:20.440 impacts around the world, you know. So as a culture 0:33:20.480 --> 0:33:23.240 and I say, as an American, so not only being black, 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:26.080 but then you have to get outside of the world 0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:29.480 and we've been programmed to think, oh, we big, we 0:33:29.640 --> 0:33:30.120 big shit. 0:33:31.240 --> 0:33:33.560 Well, you know, sometimes they do behaveing on us though, 0:33:33.600 --> 0:33:36.640 because I was I lived in Paris for I lived 0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:40.200 in Paris for they do. And I remember going into 0:33:40.240 --> 0:33:46.200 the grocery stool once, yeah, and I asked for, uh, 0:33:47.120 --> 0:33:50.680 a shaver, you know, a razor, yeah, and it's like 0:33:50.760 --> 0:33:54.320 a shave, right. So I'm asking about the razors and 0:33:54.840 --> 0:34:02.680 it's like maybe like it's like six cash registers, about 0:34:02.720 --> 0:34:07.720 three cashiers and they're all women and so and they 0:34:07.760 --> 0:34:10.800 got people standing in the line and I'm asking about 0:34:11.000 --> 0:34:17.440 the razors and she's like she's talking to me like that, 0:34:17.640 --> 0:34:20.680 like like really like talking down on me like, huh 0:34:21.000 --> 0:34:24.200 what And she's frowning up. Why she asked, and I'm 0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:28.040 I'm I'm the tourists, but I'm in the tourists area. 0:34:28.400 --> 0:34:30.239 I'm in a tourist. I know that they want us 0:34:30.280 --> 0:34:32.960 to try to speak French. I got that they want 0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:36.319 us to make an effort to speak French. But I 0:34:36.360 --> 0:34:38.759 ain't got time to be making the damn efforts to 0:34:38.800 --> 0:34:40.680 speak French. Man. I got stuff to do. I'm not 0:34:40.800 --> 0:34:43.560 here trying to vacate. I'm trying to I'm trying to 0:34:43.640 --> 0:34:50.239 kill man. So the woman was like, what say you, 0:34:50.400 --> 0:34:55.279 And so the other lady h she She's looking at 0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:57.520 the other lady, and I see them laughing about it, right, 0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:05.319 So I said, do you have any razors, bitch? And 0:35:05.360 --> 0:35:11.000 the other one like, oh, they're right there, like ma, 0:35:11.360 --> 0:35:15.080 you know, like that. But you know, excuse my French 0:35:15.080 --> 0:35:18.280 apartment of vernacular. But I ain't usually like that with women, 0:35:18.360 --> 0:35:20.560 you know. But I mean, she just she tried to 0:35:20.560 --> 0:35:23.040 make and she was insulting me, you know. And but 0:35:23.400 --> 0:35:25.680 you know what another thing was feeling that at all. 0:35:25.719 --> 0:35:29.080 Not until an understanding, like and she was don't get 0:35:29.080 --> 0:35:31.000 me wrong, they can't be people of the culture to 0:35:31.040 --> 0:35:34.799 be rude. The reason why as Americans as a totality, 0:35:34.880 --> 0:35:38.000 not just you and what you mean, when we go places, 0:35:38.320 --> 0:35:41.799 we think we are the ship. Yeah, we think we 0:35:41.960 --> 0:35:44.920 are the ship. You go to you're in another country, 0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:48.360 you go to Mexico. We have had this mentality of 0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:50.080 you know, I'm better than you. 0:35:50.120 --> 0:35:53.400 I'm American collectively because because I've never been that. 0:35:53.440 --> 0:35:57.160 Way, so right, and so many people like, eh, your food, 0:35:57.520 --> 0:35:59.560 like what is this? You know, because we have been 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:03.160 pro that we are the center of the world and 0:36:03.200 --> 0:36:07.840 we're not. We're behind education, our health is bad, you 0:36:07.880 --> 0:36:10.360 know what I mean. Our dollar is crappy, and we 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:14.680 we it's bullshit. Not even just Europe. You go to Mexico. 0:36:15.000 --> 0:36:17.680 We feel as though we're better than other people, you 0:36:17.680 --> 0:36:18.960 know what I mean. It's a mentality. 0:36:19.520 --> 0:36:21.719 Families have been decimated. 0:36:22.480 --> 0:36:25.520 Listen, listen, and so and I'll say this and I 0:36:25.560 --> 0:36:28.920 you know, my experience, Like for me, I'm going to Ghana. 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:32.160 So I went to Ghana January. I plan on in 0:36:32.280 --> 0:36:34.799 June to be there all the way through December. I'll 0:36:34.800 --> 0:36:36.960 come back and forth. But I want to plant my 0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:40.560 roots in Africa. Right, And I'll say this, it's not 0:36:40.640 --> 0:36:42.560 the thing of you know, I'm black and I'm you know, 0:36:42.800 --> 0:36:44.560 I want to go back to Africa because that's a 0:36:44.560 --> 0:36:48.040 whole other topic of we're not the same people as 0:36:48.080 --> 0:36:51.240 far as because we're Black African, it's completely we're different. 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:54.440 We're the same of same genes, right, but we're different. 0:36:54.880 --> 0:36:58.560 And me being in Africa and to not just Africa, 0:36:58.560 --> 0:37:02.200 but places I've been right to go to places when 0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:07.080 you see people that look like you, right, and you 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:10.000 know in America, we have always been in this capitalist 0:37:10.080 --> 0:37:13.000 kind of mentality, right, money, money, money, you know, it's 0:37:13.000 --> 0:37:16.400 a pressure. But yeah, there's places where they're poor. You know, 0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:18.440 they don't have but we have a poverty, but they 0:37:18.440 --> 0:37:20.400 have something way more powerful, which is community. 0:37:20.800 --> 0:37:21.000 Right. 0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:24.640 If somebody's out there selling chickens and eggs, it's such 0:37:24.719 --> 0:37:29.200 a it's such a community based culture that is beautiful 0:37:29.239 --> 0:37:31.200 to me. You know, we can come here and yeah, 0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:33.600 money and all this we're so disconnected on who we 0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:37.239 are and the things and the soil is bad. You know, 0:37:37.320 --> 0:37:41.600 so my experience and being there and you're welcoming another feeling. 0:37:42.560 --> 0:37:44.840 You know, I went to Nigeria and Nigeria was cool. 0:37:45.440 --> 0:37:47.279 You know. I had some instance with some of my 0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:49.160 friends I went to college with, you know, because I 0:37:49.160 --> 0:37:51.560 didn't feel even though I love the culture of the 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:55.080 African Nigerian culture, to learn about it and I thought like, oh, 0:37:55.120 --> 0:37:58.400 you know, my ancestry say, I'm forty percent Nigerian, so 0:37:58.640 --> 0:38:01.880 you know, I'm like, I didn't feel connected. But they 0:38:04.719 --> 0:38:07.400 and again I am a spiritual person. It's it's what 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:11.680 felt calm to my spirit. I felt like I just 0:38:11.719 --> 0:38:13.759 didn't think that these are my people. You know what 0:38:13.800 --> 0:38:14.080 I mean? 0:38:14.120 --> 0:38:16.120 I love did they make you feel welcome? 0:38:16.320 --> 0:38:18.800 Very welcome? Even the people here, my Nigerian friends that 0:38:18.840 --> 0:38:22.520 are here barrier. It's not even the language barrier. I honestly, 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:24.560 I lived in so much afrobeats and I've talked to 0:38:24.600 --> 0:38:26.440 so many people in Houston. Houston alone has a lot 0:38:26.480 --> 0:38:29.200 of Nigerians and people culture. I love the food. I 0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:32.600 just thought I did not feel like home to me. 0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:36.279 When I went to Ghana when I was seven years old, 0:38:36.360 --> 0:38:40.440 I was a turning elementary. Bush created HIZ created program 0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:43.600 the Multicultural Program, and it was a turner elementary where 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:49.160 you could pick Europe, Africa, China and all these other 0:38:49.200 --> 0:38:51.600 countries that your study was in and the mine was 0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:54.440 mine was France and mine was Africa, and the focus 0:38:54.480 --> 0:38:57.240 in Africa was Ghana. And so I met the president 0:38:57.320 --> 0:39:00.000 Jerry Rawlins. It's a picture of me seven years old. 0:39:00.160 --> 0:39:02.600 I met him. They had me and this can take clothing. 0:39:03.120 --> 0:39:06.520 And I remember asking him a question why are Africans poor? 0:39:07.840 --> 0:39:10.520 Like why are everybody poor? And he just looked at me. 0:39:11.040 --> 0:39:15.400 He looked at me and said, Africa's not poor. Baby. 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:19.200 He said it's not poor. And he explained, there's so 0:39:19.239 --> 0:39:21.200 many because I had no idea when I thought of Africa. 0:39:21.239 --> 0:39:25.080 We looked on the television. It was flies, kids, big bellies, 0:39:25.800 --> 0:39:29.640 you know, like, oh they're poor. He said, it's not poor, 0:39:29.880 --> 0:39:31.880 you know. And he was telling me the food is 0:39:31.920 --> 0:39:34.720 so we had these tastings of like different types of food. 0:39:35.080 --> 0:39:36.600 That was my first exposure. 0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:37.000 Right. 0:39:37.320 --> 0:39:39.879 So here I am at thirty six years old. Well, 0:39:39.920 --> 0:39:42.320 I went to Africa at thirty five, but at thirty 0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:44.600 six I was in Ghana and to be able to 0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:47.920 connect as soon as immediate. When I was in Nigeria, 0:39:48.400 --> 0:39:53.839 Nigeria felt like everybody's chasing money. That's what the feeling. 0:39:53.920 --> 0:39:55.799 It's a beautiful place, don't get me wrong, but I'm 0:39:55.920 --> 0:39:59.920 energy right and I felt like this is beautiful as fun. 0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:03.320 And I'm going back on the cities in America. 0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:06.320 It was just like the energy was just it was money, 0:40:06.400 --> 0:40:08.719 like everything was like about money. But the minute I 0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:15.719 landed in Ghana, it's a feeling of it was like 0:40:16.280 --> 0:40:21.080 you know, it was a feeling of just peace, a 0:40:21.120 --> 0:40:24.279 feeling of peace, like seriously, and it wasn't because and 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:25.880 I was like, all right, maybe it's my psych of 0:40:25.920 --> 0:40:27.680 like I have always wanted to go to Ghana, so 0:40:27.920 --> 0:40:31.200 I'm gonna look at it different, the air, the different, 0:40:31.239 --> 0:40:37.160 it's a different feeling, right, It's not it's different. It's different. 0:40:37.160 --> 0:40:40.960 Men to go somewhere and you see money with people, 0:40:41.360 --> 0:40:45.239 the faces that look like you right to go to 0:40:45.320 --> 0:40:48.120 the museum and this is their history. Not all it's 0:40:48.200 --> 0:40:51.840 not as beautiful or you know, as as big buildings 0:40:51.880 --> 0:40:55.120 as the States, but it's a quality that you can't 0:40:55.120 --> 0:40:58.759 get here. It's a feeling of like, man, this is peaceful, right, 0:40:58.840 --> 0:41:01.360 like this is this is to me what life feels like. 0:41:01.400 --> 0:41:04.000 And I feel like I've experienced some highs and being 0:41:04.040 --> 0:41:07.680 around but these people, it's in community, rooted in community, 0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:10.839 you know, and you know you have these markets and 0:41:11.200 --> 0:41:14.640 people are exchanging foods and you know it's not as 0:41:14.880 --> 0:41:17.920 it's not as wealthy in some areas, right, but that 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:21.480 is up to have peace and to have happiness. That 0:41:21.600 --> 0:41:24.880 is something that that money you and to arrive back 0:41:25.000 --> 0:41:27.719 in America and you feel it's like automatics. Soon as 0:41:27.760 --> 0:41:31.359 you got to the plan, you feel pressure, anxiety. Everybody's 0:41:31.400 --> 0:41:33.640 like it's this, it's this thing, like I got the money. 0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:36.000 Oh you know, it's this, it's the news. It's it's 0:41:36.040 --> 0:41:37.759 so much pressure. But to be able to go a 0:41:37.800 --> 0:41:41.279 place that you just feel like, oh my god, this 0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:42.320 is peaceful. 0:41:42.440 --> 0:41:44.920 And I'm assuming that it's the same way when you 0:41:44.960 --> 0:41:51.120 walk into a store. You you feel like you feel 0:41:51.440 --> 0:41:55.759 that the person is grateful that you're there and not 0:41:56.040 --> 0:41:57.800 that you feel some type of burden. 0:41:58.040 --> 0:42:03.359 Yeah, and it's a welcoming it's a welcoming feeling. It's 0:42:03.360 --> 0:42:06.080 a welcoming feeling that you feel. And also let's get 0:42:06.080 --> 0:42:09.920 to the food that is live soil. The soil here 0:42:10.040 --> 0:42:12.919 is dead. You know, when I was in Israel back 0:42:13.680 --> 0:42:20.520 manufactured listen, food, it's dead. The food here is not food. 0:42:20.600 --> 0:42:23.080 When I was in Israel back in twenty I think 0:42:23.080 --> 0:42:26.800 it was like two thousand and eight, I was in Galileabo. 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:29.520 I went to Tel Aviv. I never taste fruit before, 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:32.480 like I love fruit, but it was tastes and I 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:34.400 see why they're fighting over the soil. It was a 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:38.120 whole nother taste. The food was different, the food in Ghana. 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:41.640 It is different. The tastes like I'm telling you, it tastes. 0:42:43.000 --> 0:42:47.239 It was great immediately what you think a great strawberry 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:50.919 tastes like and you have it in another place, You're like, man, 0:42:51.000 --> 0:42:55.759 this is dead. Even your stomach right. You know, your 0:42:55.800 --> 0:42:58.200 gut is really like the mouth of your soul. So 0:42:58.239 --> 0:42:59.759 if your gut is the mouth of your soul, what 0:42:59.800 --> 0:43:02.400 you put it in replenish the body. If we're putting 0:43:02.400 --> 0:43:07.239 in fake foods and eating dead corpse and all this craziness, 0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:11.719 our minds were interrupted. We're interrupted within our minds. But 0:43:11.760 --> 0:43:15.600 to be able to eat vibration, high level, like vibrating foods, 0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:19.080 like it feels different. You're not tired. You know you're 0:43:19.120 --> 0:43:22.160 not big because and I eat, I'm greedy. 0:43:22.280 --> 0:43:22.960 Are you vegan? 0:43:23.239 --> 0:43:27.040 I'm not vegan, but I think I eventually kind of pescatarian. 0:43:27.120 --> 0:43:29.560 The scents and sometimes I don't eat pork, I don't 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:33.800 eat any port, but you know, I still have these slips. 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:37.720 I love chicken, even chicken. Listen, I don't eat chicken. 0:43:37.760 --> 0:43:40.520 I try not to eat chicken here in the States. 0:43:41.080 --> 0:43:44.040 I'm telling you, And that's mark my word. Jasmin Terry 0:43:44.160 --> 0:43:47.719 said that chicken, the antibodies, the things that are in 0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:51.120 these chickens really mess with your brain. I love Pope's 0:43:51.760 --> 0:43:53.799 it hands down't care how much money I have in 0:43:53.800 --> 0:43:57.920 the world. You eat it, your mind is messed up 0:43:58.040 --> 0:44:00.799 gold Like, really do with a cleanse and go eat 0:44:00.880 --> 0:44:04.560 something that's like that, like the chicken. It throws your 0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:08.000 mind off. So if you have some imbalances, hormonal imbalance, 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:12.040 mental balance, depression, anger, the foods we put in our 0:44:12.080 --> 0:44:13.400 body really affects that. 0:44:13.880 --> 0:44:17.200 So you still eat pop No, man, you cut it 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:17.719 all the way out. 0:44:17.719 --> 0:44:20.799 I cut it out when it's been a while, and 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:23.120 I'll try it and every now and then I'll be like, oh, 0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:26.520 let me my mind. I'm telling you, like your mind 0:44:26.560 --> 0:44:27.239 is clear. 0:44:27.040 --> 0:44:29.640 Like, how long has it been since you've eating Popeyes? 0:44:31.400 --> 0:44:33.879 Man, it's been like a few years, because you know. 0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:36.680 Me, I bust left in the papies quick. 0:44:36.920 --> 0:44:40.920 Really. I love listen. I love Popeyes, I listen, but 0:44:41.640 --> 0:44:44.160 the hormones and the stuff in that chicken and in 0:44:44.239 --> 0:44:47.399 that food, and you go somewhere else and you eat 0:44:47.480 --> 0:44:51.280 and you still feel different. The chicken sizes aren't the same. 0:44:52.040 --> 0:44:54.759 The wings we have here, these big chicken breasts. And 0:44:54.800 --> 0:44:57.000 then you see what the chicken because I'm like, this 0:44:57.040 --> 0:45:01.680 is chicken, this is fish. Yeah, but it's it's uninterrupted me, right, 0:45:01.960 --> 0:45:04.359 you know what I mean? Like nothing, this is you know, 0:45:04.440 --> 0:45:08.799 this is food, your stomach, your your time to go 0:45:08.840 --> 0:45:12.000 to the party is. It's a different experience and it's 0:45:12.000 --> 0:45:15.040 the body. So that's why the plan is, we can't 0:45:15.040 --> 0:45:17.560 get y'all want to come over here to Africa. The 0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:20.680 minute you are, we have to interrupt you to not 0:45:20.719 --> 0:45:22.920 want to be in these places because the minute you 0:45:22.960 --> 0:45:25.320 go to these places, what's happening. The best thing the 0:45:25.640 --> 0:45:28.600 government did and gone in twenty eighteen was do the 0:45:28.600 --> 0:45:33.520 return of homecoming. As amazing as Nigeria is, Ghana is 0:45:33.560 --> 0:45:35.960 the right Black Americans are. I mean homes there are 0:45:35.960 --> 0:45:38.960 people by laying are like crazy. If you see how 0:45:39.000 --> 0:45:41.000 fast is going to the market is up and down, 0:45:41.080 --> 0:45:44.240 but it's going really fast, and you have that experience 0:45:44.320 --> 0:45:45.799 and then you think I'm going to come back here 0:45:46.200 --> 0:45:50.759 and listen to this absolutely, so moving to go. I 0:45:50.920 --> 0:45:55.000 do want to I do want to live family behind. 0:45:56.680 --> 0:46:00.399 So this is the thing. I want to be able 0:46:00.440 --> 0:46:04.040 to have experiences in other places. Right I do. But 0:46:04.120 --> 0:46:07.760 like I said early on about not feeling like that's home, 0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:12.120 you know, I believe we are in the indigenous people 0:46:12.160 --> 0:46:15.680 of America. We are the indigenous people. I do believe 0:46:15.680 --> 0:46:18.719 that the Moors were already here and they these that's 0:46:18.760 --> 0:46:21.040 our family, like black people were already here in America. 0:46:21.120 --> 0:46:23.920 I don't believe though, because I'm black, I'm from Ghana, 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:26.920 and I'm from Nigeria, and I'm from these other places. 0:46:27.040 --> 0:46:29.719 I do believe that we are indigenous people of America 0:46:29.960 --> 0:46:32.480 and it is very important for us to get our 0:46:32.560 --> 0:46:34.600 land here by any means. 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:38.080 So do you believe, So you don't believe that Africa 0:46:38.400 --> 0:46:42.400 is the cradle of civilization, then I but know, I 0:46:42.440 --> 0:46:44.760 do believe all civilization started. 0:46:44.800 --> 0:46:47.359 All civilization does start in Africa. I do believe that. 0:46:47.800 --> 0:46:49.439 But even when I was in Ghana and I went 0:46:49.520 --> 0:46:53.520 to and I've toured Cape Coast, the Door of No Return, 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:57.759 that's where the last place the Africans were, and they 0:46:57.800 --> 0:47:00.000 shipped them to the States they shipped them to Jamas, 0:47:00.400 --> 0:47:05.880 the Caribbean areas all over. I'm just saying that I 0:47:05.960 --> 0:47:11.400 believe black we were already here and I know what 0:47:11.440 --> 0:47:13.480 I feel like, and whether people believe it or not, 0:47:14.719 --> 0:47:18.160 this is our land. We were already here. The story 0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:22.400 of Africa just try all these slaves, millions of slaves. 0:47:22.400 --> 0:47:25.080 It just came through America. Brown black people were here. 0:47:25.239 --> 0:47:29.560 Their mores were traveling all over the world before the slaves, 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:33.720 before this even happened. So you're telling me my great 0:47:33.800 --> 0:47:37.640 great grandparents people were Black people were already here, right, 0:47:38.040 --> 0:47:41.919 And the idea wasn't that the Europeans the ones that said, hey, 0:47:42.320 --> 0:47:46.040 let's make black people. You know, slavery was a former 0:47:46.080 --> 0:47:49.719 technology where it's wrong, right. What they did to us 0:47:49.719 --> 0:47:52.120 in America is like the worst, right, But it was 0:47:52.160 --> 0:47:56.480 a former technology. The Middle Easterns came with were some 0:47:56.560 --> 0:48:00.400 of the ones that influenced the Africans to rally up 0:48:00.800 --> 0:48:04.920 the black people to ship them off in this slave trade. 0:48:05.000 --> 0:48:08.239 Because we were able to stay outside. White people were coming. 0:48:08.280 --> 0:48:10.600 They had white slaves too that came into Africa because 0:48:10.600 --> 0:48:13.640 they wanted to take and the they were dying, they 0:48:13.640 --> 0:48:17.080 were dying. They couldn't survive there the heat. You know, 0:48:17.120 --> 0:48:20.160 their bodies were not a lot of the Middle Easterns 0:48:20.200 --> 0:48:23.879 that were in Africa, right, you need to get more 0:48:23.960 --> 0:48:27.640 black people. And yes, Africans were. They were selling off 0:48:27.680 --> 0:48:32.040 other Africans for trade for money, right. But my point, 0:48:32.080 --> 0:48:36.680 what I'm saying is that in America, black people were 0:48:36.719 --> 0:48:41.120 here already, not Christopher Columbus. And I'm not just saying 0:48:41.520 --> 0:48:44.680 the Native Americans. Those are still a part of indigenous people. 0:48:44.760 --> 0:48:48.640 There are indigenous Black people here that were already here. 0:48:48.880 --> 0:48:52.520 They needed more in order to do what they were doing, 0:48:53.200 --> 0:48:55.439 you know, So does that make sense? 0:48:55.719 --> 0:49:00.960 Like I just feel like where were You're seeing something 0:49:01.000 --> 0:49:04.279 that I that I have knowledge of already. I just 0:49:04.280 --> 0:49:04.920 wanted to hear. 0:49:04.760 --> 0:49:08.960 You said, yeah, I think we were already here. Honestly, 0:49:09.000 --> 0:49:11.160 I don't think that, and I don't think that we're 0:49:11.200 --> 0:49:14.520 the same people. I think what they're doing right now 0:49:15.000 --> 0:49:18.439 in these forms, they're trying to turn us against each other. 0:49:19.520 --> 0:49:24.879 And the job rolls in Black Americans and Africans. So 0:49:24.960 --> 0:49:27.319 because right now, you think about in music, think about 0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:31.120 what's happening right now, think about in jobs like even 0:49:31.120 --> 0:49:33.359 with Black Panther, these movies, right you just think about 0:49:33.400 --> 0:49:37.719 what's going on in this moment. It's to steal, to 0:49:37.880 --> 0:49:42.600 keep black people at a lower level, yes, perpetuate the 0:49:42.680 --> 0:49:45.319 lit and to turn instead of us bridging the gap 0:49:45.360 --> 0:49:49.000 between Black Americans and Africans. Oh no, no, no, we 0:49:49.040 --> 0:49:52.439 got to turn, y'all. Y'all are better than them. Think 0:49:52.480 --> 0:49:55.239 about what's happening when there's job rolls and in healthcare, 0:49:55.440 --> 0:49:59.439 and yes, a lot of African people are more well, 0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:02.440 often edgy that we are the opportunities here in America 0:50:02.640 --> 0:50:05.480 as black people. When you think about, they're turning us 0:50:05.480 --> 0:50:08.879 against each other. Even with this music situation right now, 0:50:08.920 --> 0:50:10.680 of course we connect with music. Oh I want to 0:50:10.719 --> 0:50:12.920 go to Africa. Oh, afrobeats and all this. Think about 0:50:12.920 --> 0:50:16.799 how fast this is going right and where is black 0:50:16.840 --> 0:50:19.879 people at this moment, even with this whole immigration thing 0:50:19.920 --> 0:50:24.560 that's happening with what is it Florida about the immigrants 0:50:24.600 --> 0:50:27.040 that can't work, You can't be with your families and 0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:30.280 all of that. I mean, because I'm for my people, 0:50:30.320 --> 0:50:32.640 this is the perfect time for black men that need 0:50:32.760 --> 0:50:35.719 jobs and need, you know, to have different trades. Go 0:50:35.760 --> 0:50:39.040 get those jobs, Go get your land. That's what other 0:50:39.080 --> 0:50:41.680 people are doing when they come here. You know, why 0:50:42.120 --> 0:50:43.600 why are we like, oh, I'm not gonna do that. 0:50:43.640 --> 0:50:45.719 I'm not cleaning up toilets. I'm not gonna go build. 0:50:45.760 --> 0:50:47.480 I don't want to do those jobs. This is the 0:50:47.600 --> 0:50:50.560 time for us to wake up and to focus and 0:50:50.600 --> 0:50:53.239 go get those jobs. I'm not knocking any immigrants. I'm 0:50:53.280 --> 0:50:57.040 not saying about the my Mexican friends or not, but 0:50:57.080 --> 0:50:59.560 I am about my people at this point. Go get 0:50:59.560 --> 0:51:02.799 those jobs up, you know, go get its time, like 0:51:02.920 --> 0:51:05.680 in order to have the revenue and some power, because 0:51:05.680 --> 0:51:08.640 that's what's happening in other cultures. We're still asking people 0:51:08.719 --> 0:51:12.120 to help us, help me, help me, help me, serve me. 0:51:12.440 --> 0:51:15.480 We're so in this slave mentality, like you said, and 0:51:16.160 --> 0:51:18.600 those people will be in change. Possibly that would be 0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:22.680 the case, because we're so like, tell me what to do. 0:51:22.719 --> 0:51:25.279 These people from Mexico coming here, they're not teaming tell 0:51:25.320 --> 0:51:27.160 me what to do. They coming in here, like we 0:51:27.280 --> 0:51:29.880 gonna live together in this house together, we're gonna build, 0:51:29.920 --> 0:51:32.120 we're making money, then we're gonna own the small company. 0:51:32.120 --> 0:51:35.400 Then we're gonna eventually create the consulting company and you 0:51:35.520 --> 0:51:39.359 work from there. And we're still asking. So I just said, 0:51:39.360 --> 0:51:41.560 it's a deference in everybody's against us, you know, as 0:51:41.640 --> 0:51:42.880 black people at this point. 0:51:43.000 --> 0:51:46.440 Yeah, we gotta know that, we gotta know that we 0:51:46.600 --> 0:51:52.560 on own. We all we got Let's talk about let's 0:51:52.560 --> 0:51:58.319 talk about leukemia and lymphoma. Both of both leukemia and 0:51:58.440 --> 0:52:04.560 lafhoma are a blood cancers. But what's the primary difference 0:52:04.600 --> 0:52:05.279 between the two. 0:52:06.400 --> 0:52:09.920 Honestly, I would have to have somebody I'm still learning 0:52:10.040 --> 0:52:12.680 about what's the big difference to be honest, I I 0:52:12.680 --> 0:52:14.920 don't want to give a medical to say exactly what 0:52:15.000 --> 0:52:19.120 it is. My only focus with leukemia. It is a 0:52:19.120 --> 0:52:21.919 blood disease and there's so many different levels of it, 0:52:22.600 --> 0:52:25.600 and I honestly, I can't say exactly what the difference is. 0:52:25.640 --> 0:52:26.680 And I'm still learning. 0:52:27.920 --> 0:52:32.239 Forms of it. And you know it it uh, it 0:52:32.280 --> 0:52:34.080 attacks the body at different stages. 0:52:34.239 --> 0:52:35.439 Yeah. 0:52:35.520 --> 0:52:37.920 Yeah, Well it's good that you're that you're doing it. 0:52:37.960 --> 0:52:40.359 I mean, it's a worthy cause. It's good to see 0:52:40.400 --> 0:52:42.160 you involved in that. I did want to ask you 0:52:42.239 --> 0:52:51.080 this about your your tranquil persona. Yeah, yeah, tranquil persona. 0:52:51.320 --> 0:52:56.040 You know, my friends, my friends always say. 0:52:55.680 --> 0:53:00.840 Yeah, yeah, you know, like you you you have like 0:53:00.920 --> 0:53:07.719 a persona where it's like like you know, an unbothered persona. 0:53:08.120 --> 0:53:14.759 It's like you're unbothered, and it's hard to find that 0:53:15.239 --> 0:53:19.120 these days. Everybody's so angry. Everybody is very angry. But 0:53:19.200 --> 0:53:22.239 you have this, this persona. But you alluded to it 0:53:22.280 --> 0:53:26.640 a little earlier about the club business. The club business 0:53:26.680 --> 0:53:28.680 is a very brutal business. I used to own a 0:53:28.680 --> 0:53:33.160 bunch of clubs, and so it's a very very brutal business. 0:53:33.200 --> 0:53:38.640 And to see you in the bar business. You're in 0:53:38.680 --> 0:53:39.160 the bar. 0:53:39.160 --> 0:53:41.839 Business and skincare business too, yea. 0:53:42.640 --> 0:53:44.680 But but but I want to talk about I want you. 0:53:44.840 --> 0:53:46.640 I want to mention the skincare business, but I want 0:53:46.640 --> 0:53:50.160 to talk about the bar business, particularly in particular, that 0:53:50.280 --> 0:53:53.200 is a very brutal business. How do you maintain your 0:53:53.239 --> 0:53:55.400 sanity in a business like this? 0:53:58.680 --> 0:54:01.520 So when I first arted, I died the first year. 0:54:01.840 --> 0:54:05.760 I know what. I knew nothing about the bar business. 0:54:06.000 --> 0:54:07.680 You know, I had to figure out how it was 0:54:07.760 --> 0:54:11.680 going to protect myself from people from stilling. Oh man, 0:54:11.880 --> 0:54:14.760 these bartenders are cold. I mean I had people they're counting, 0:54:16.320 --> 0:54:19.480 they count ways, you know, to count the liquor, and 0:54:19.520 --> 0:54:21.879 then you know the money and their friends are taking money. 0:54:21.880 --> 0:54:23.480 Like it was so much to learn in a year. 0:54:23.520 --> 0:54:25.680 But I did it. I did it, and then when 0:54:25.719 --> 0:54:27.839 I tell you, it made me so sharp, like as 0:54:27.840 --> 0:54:30.040 far as now I can go in and identify. That's 0:54:30.040 --> 0:54:31.400 the whole reason. Now I don't want to have like 0:54:31.440 --> 0:54:34.200 a full offering. You need a really really good team, 0:54:34.480 --> 0:54:37.120 you know. So I have to understand what's my strengths. 0:54:37.320 --> 0:54:39.640 I like to create, you know what I mean. And 0:54:39.840 --> 0:54:42.759 the bar was just the small part of it. And 0:54:42.840 --> 0:54:44.960 I was just like learning as I go. But the 0:54:45.000 --> 0:54:49.000 first year I died, I mean, seeing people steal, people 0:54:49.000 --> 0:54:53.640 complaining fraudulent money, you know, people that it was hurtful 0:54:53.640 --> 0:54:55.320 to me because I'm like, man, you're not see that 0:54:55.360 --> 0:54:56.960 I'm doing this for us. Why would you come in 0:54:57.000 --> 0:54:59.080 here and try to give me counterfeit money? 0:54:59.440 --> 0:54:59.560 You know. 0:54:59.680 --> 0:55:02.120 I'm literally getting into it with guys like really, like 0:55:02.600 --> 0:55:05.160 you know, what is this? You know? So it was 0:55:05.160 --> 0:55:08.279 a it broke me down. But in that breakdown, I 0:55:08.360 --> 0:55:11.640 was so strong. Oh my god, I honestly, and I 0:55:11.640 --> 0:55:13.719 mean just working in and banking in general when it 0:55:13.719 --> 0:55:15.360 come to count money, like I could count money with 0:55:15.360 --> 0:55:17.080 my eyes closed, you know, and all of that, but 0:55:17.120 --> 0:55:20.400 to actually know and to have a system, I did it, 0:55:20.680 --> 0:55:23.600 you know, and I don't know. I just knew that 0:55:23.719 --> 0:55:27.880 was a way of getting people to connect socially. We 0:55:28.040 --> 0:55:30.239 like to drink in Texas, and I wanted to get 0:55:30.239 --> 0:55:34.600 people in the room. You know. I had a therapist 0:55:34.640 --> 0:55:36.799 asked me that. She asked me what my mom did 0:55:36.800 --> 0:55:38.960 and what my father did. And because at the time 0:55:39.000 --> 0:55:41.200 I was like thirty when I opened the bar in 0:55:41.280 --> 0:55:44.640 third Ward, rent about twelve thousand dollars a month for 0:55:44.680 --> 0:55:48.040 this huge space right there on Sophomore Center. Just saying, now, 0:55:48.080 --> 0:55:51.920 it was a big house. It's a pink house, that's 0:55:52.000 --> 0:55:55.719 what's called. It was called chateau like back in the day, 0:55:55.920 --> 0:55:57.680 but it has been the other names. But it was 0:55:57.719 --> 0:55:59.879 a huge like mansion the state that was a bar 0:56:00.200 --> 0:56:03.640 right there on that corner. I just went for it. 0:56:04.280 --> 0:56:07.880 I think in my mind, I think I'm unstoppable, to 0:56:07.960 --> 0:56:11.000 be honest, and I know that I feel like I 0:56:11.040 --> 0:56:15.160 have this magic, which I call it my magic, that 0:56:15.239 --> 0:56:18.200 if I think of something, everything else is gonna connect 0:56:18.239 --> 0:56:21.040 with it. I mean, I know how I'm gonna pull 0:56:21.080 --> 0:56:22.480 it off or what I'm gonna do, but I know 0:56:22.560 --> 0:56:25.360 that my mind, if I think of something is gonna happen, 0:56:25.760 --> 0:56:28.239 and then everything else just kind of codes along with it, 0:56:28.560 --> 0:56:30.960 and it connects the dots. I had never owned a 0:56:30.960 --> 0:56:33.080 bar before. I didn't even know how to make drinks, 0:56:33.360 --> 0:56:39.480 to be honest, So I'll just and then I called, uh, 0:56:40.040 --> 0:56:41.719 one of these I ain't gonna say his name, but 0:56:42.200 --> 0:56:45.759 you know, in a male dominant industry, these promoters and 0:56:45.800 --> 0:56:47.920 all these guys with these bars, like, hey, can you 0:56:47.920 --> 0:56:49.480 help me? I want to learn how to you know, 0:56:49.480 --> 0:56:50.719 how do I get a look at license? Oh? Man, 0:56:50.719 --> 0:56:52.480 you can't get a look at like you need attorney 0:56:52.560 --> 0:56:54.920 to get a liquor license. You need all of this. 0:56:55.760 --> 0:56:58.040 And then it was like nobody wanted to really help me. 0:56:58.800 --> 0:57:00.840 You won't come just promoting in my space. You know, 0:57:00.920 --> 0:57:03.600 you can come in when I say that, even the 0:57:03.640 --> 0:57:06.120 people that I thought we were cool, that these promoters 0:57:06.160 --> 0:57:08.960 and you know, and you know, I'm on the corner 0:57:08.960 --> 0:57:10.880 of Sophomore just Santa Cino at the time, and so 0:57:10.920 --> 0:57:13.240 this almeta, you got fifty fifteen, you got a turkey 0:57:13.320 --> 0:57:16.400 leg hut, you got all these places. And I'm like, man, y'all, 0:57:16.560 --> 0:57:19.520 I want to learn. Can you see nobody? All right, 0:57:19.880 --> 0:57:22.800 I'm gonna do it. So I didn't get attorney, get 0:57:22.800 --> 0:57:26.760 a local license. I didn't even have all the stuff 0:57:26.760 --> 0:57:30.200 to uh open the bar. I literally had to learn, 0:57:30.520 --> 0:57:32.560 like literally just kind of learn what do I need 0:57:32.600 --> 0:57:35.160 the permits? You know what is this? And I had 0:57:35.240 --> 0:57:39.280 one guy who had a prominent live music venue who 0:57:39.400 --> 0:57:42.080 was calling the City of Houston on me because he 0:57:42.120 --> 0:57:45.479 didn't understand how I got the building that I got 0:57:45.520 --> 0:57:48.600 and how it passed all the codes. White guy here 0:57:48.640 --> 0:57:53.360 in Houston been making money off he was making money 0:57:53.400 --> 0:57:53.720 off of. 0:57:55.160 --> 0:58:02.400 Man, Let's put him out there, let's exposure. Come on, Jed, 0:58:08.280 --> 0:58:09.800 give me the name, do the rest. 0:58:10.600 --> 0:58:12.919 You know, I ain't gonna put him out there like that, man, 0:58:13.040 --> 0:58:16.240 but I will say that I even went to him 0:58:16.280 --> 0:58:17.520 and was like, hey, you know, I want to open 0:58:17.560 --> 0:58:19.720 a lot of music video You know you had this 0:58:19.840 --> 0:58:23.160 place for a while ago and musicians and stuff. Can 0:58:23.200 --> 0:58:25.800 you you know your bar is closed? You know, Oh, 0:58:25.840 --> 0:58:27.720 you ain't gonna be able to get that building. That's hard, 0:58:27.720 --> 0:58:29.800 That's that's just too much. You're you're not going to 0:58:29.840 --> 0:58:32.000 make it a year there, And I did. I made 0:58:32.000 --> 0:58:34.560 it three plus years, and then the pandemic came until 0:58:34.560 --> 0:58:35.120 I closed. 0:58:36.440 --> 0:58:38.680 And now you're back at it again, and you're. 0:58:38.480 --> 0:58:42.760 Going again and again. We're gonna run it in. You 0:58:42.800 --> 0:58:45.440 know what I'm saying, I'm backing better downtown right across 0:58:45.440 --> 0:58:46.440 from the Toyota Center. 0:58:46.520 --> 0:58:51.640 Yeah yeah, great, great location. Thank you from great hospitality, 0:58:51.760 --> 0:58:58.080 great service. I attested that how do somebody get in 0:58:58.120 --> 0:58:59.600 touch with you if they want to reach. 0:58:59.440 --> 0:59:03.160 Out, So they go to the website which is Blaschateau 0:59:03.200 --> 0:59:07.200 Houston dot com, where they can locate when we have events, 0:59:07.200 --> 0:59:09.440 if they want to book the venue, they can also 0:59:10.320 --> 0:59:17.240 email us at info at Blayschateau Houston dot com as well. Yeah, Jasmine, 0:59:17.320 --> 0:59:19.640 Terry ya, thank you, thank you. 0:59:22.400 --> 0:59:25.000 This episode was produced by a King and brought to 0:59:25.040 --> 0:59:25.439 you by 0:59:25.680 --> 0:59:30.040 The Black Effect Podcast Network at iHeartRadio