Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in
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Speaker 1: When I was in eighth grade, my teacher MSUs Carwell,
Speaker 1: she said I was going to be a preacher. I
Speaker 1: was like, what not me? You can't be game be
Speaker 1: a preacher who can't like people with the same genitalia
Speaker 1: as you and be a preacher because the Bible says
Speaker 1: that's a sin, that's wrong. So no, that can't be me.
Speaker 1: Even though on that day was probably a Thursday, and
Speaker 1: we had our masses every Thursday. I delivered the first
Speaker 1: reading and once I finished, everyone stood up and started clapping. Now,
Speaker 1: if you've ever been at a mass at a Catholic
Speaker 1: church specifically, you know those types of things don't happen.
Speaker 1: Everything is methodical. It was one step and then the other,
Speaker 1: and that's just the formation of how things go. But
Speaker 1: it was something I said, or perhaps the way I
Speaker 1: delivered what I said, they got people to their feet
Speaker 1: and they started clapping. That has been my view process
Speaker 1: my entire life when it comes to my thoughts, my viewpoints,
Speaker 1: my connection when it comes to religion. But if you've
Speaker 1: met me, been in my presence, had a moment to
Speaker 1: talk to me, you know that my love for God
Speaker 1: and my relationship for God is undeniable. The chances I've
Speaker 1: decided to take, the rooms God has granted me to
Speaker 1: be in, the countless of game shows and talk shows
Speaker 1: and opportunities I've had that I took a chance on me.
Speaker 1: I said, without God, and no, I'm not perfect. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I do everything right, because let me
Speaker 1: remind you, I'm a spiritual being having this human experience,
Speaker 1: and I can't negate the fact what happens to the
Speaker 1: man's side of me, and what I mean by that
Speaker 1: is that I'm not perfect. Everything is right, but God
Speaker 1: knew me before he formed me. And for so long,
Speaker 1: I feel as though I tried to walk away or
Speaker 1: tried to push away of talking about the goodness of
Speaker 1: God and the way God has been in my life,
Speaker 1: as if it's contradictory, as if I will be condemned
Speaker 1: for being who I am. But yet I have to
Speaker 1: remind myself God knew me before I was formed. I
Speaker 1: like to say, that's not the one and only time
Speaker 1: that I've heard something of the similar nature. See, I
Speaker 1: went to Catholic schools my entire life. With that being said,
Speaker 1: I did attend Renaissance, which is a Detroit public school,
Speaker 1: my freshman year because I wanted to give it a shot.
Speaker 1: So as far as the word of God and structure
Speaker 1: has always been selled around me, I don't recall it
Speaker 1: ever being a condemnation of so much ridicule when it
Speaker 1: came to sexuality, because it was just something that was
Speaker 1: never talked about it was something that you said, oh,
Speaker 1: it's wrong, but never really explored what it looks like
Speaker 1: and what it means. And I sit there and I wonder,
Speaker 1: I want to say, the African American community, perhaps communities
Speaker 1: of color, or just perhaps my family. That's not something
Speaker 1: that we talked about a lot. We didn't talk about sex.
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about sexuality. Hush. You know, it's probably
Speaker 1: seen as an adult conversation and something that kids should
Speaker 1: not know about. But what happens as you are growing
Speaker 1: through life and you don't know exactly how to move
Speaker 1: or what things mean, and if you just have somebody
Speaker 1: to tell you to say, hey, that's that and make
Speaker 1: room for you to comprehend and understand that. I say
Speaker 1: all that to say that view process of that being wrong.
Speaker 1: Because I didn't agree with that particular point in the Bible.
Speaker 1: I felt I couldn't call myself a Christian because I
Speaker 1: always looked at Christianity, are these rules and regulations of
Speaker 1: how you have to live your life? And if I
Speaker 1: know off the bad that I am attracted to those
Speaker 1: of my same sex, well, it says right there that
Speaker 1: there's no place for me. But yet I'm thinking to myself.
Speaker 1: My God is so much bigger, God said, exceedingly and abundantly,
Speaker 1: far more than what you could ever imagine. Not one
Speaker 1: person on the earth is the same, not one, not
Speaker 1: one snowflake that falls from the sky is the same.
Speaker 1: If God could be so intricate with that, why would
Speaker 1: he not be so intricate with us? And especially when
Speaker 1: the films came out like Da Vinci Code and speaking
Speaker 1: about how there were people that came together and set
Speaker 1: around a table decided what was going to be in
Speaker 1: the Word. Then we hear about the Dead Sea scrolls
Speaker 1: of books that have been taken out of the Bible.
Speaker 1: Then if you are of African descent, you'll see how
Speaker 1: religion was used to control us, how many of us.
Speaker 1: I can even say myself, I had to be probably
Speaker 1: a good old in my adult I don't know how
Speaker 1: old I was, But the first time I saw a
Speaker 1: black Jesus, well, okay, I take that back, because I
Speaker 1: know I've been over a different family and friends. But
Speaker 1: I'm saying like out in media or something like that,
Speaker 1: or just out as a clear representation. How about that
Speaker 1: as the standard representation, like so known, so well versed.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a norm I should say make I don't
Speaker 1: even even know if it's a normal for now now
Speaker 1: that I'm really thinking about it. But don let's stay
Speaker 1: on task. So this whole notion of how we use
Speaker 1: religion and Christianity as a way of the things that
Speaker 1: we cannot do, almost like a barrier. All I could
Speaker 1: ever think of is like, no, my God is more,
Speaker 1: says I go by many names. What and if we
Speaker 1: are all made in the image of likeness, who are
Speaker 1: you you to dictate what God is and what he
Speaker 1: can do and what he instilled? Because remember, God knew
Speaker 1: us before we were formed. Stop playing with me. So
Speaker 1: being that I never considered myself a Christian based on
Speaker 1: these rules, it was kind of like a limbo space
Speaker 1: because I was like, but I know God. So after
Speaker 1: we leave our Lady of Lasolette, that's where I went
Speaker 1: for elementary to middle school, going to high school in
Speaker 1: junior high, and then going to high school, I was
Speaker 1: at Mercy. I did go to Renaissance for a year,
Speaker 1: but at Mercy we're back in the Catholic school, so
Speaker 1: it's nothing too or it's a norm rather, So back
Speaker 1: than being at Mercy, talking about God was the way
Speaker 1: to go because it's a Catholic school and me being
Speaker 1: a speaker, and I would always say prayer on the
Speaker 1: speaker in the mornings. People always looked at me and pray. Heck.
Speaker 1: I was even a leader for this group called Cairos
Speaker 1: and what this was it was like a religious retreat
Speaker 1: where we were going for three and four days and
Speaker 1: it was all about healing. And the juniors who were
Speaker 1: selected to be leaders our senior year went the year
Speaker 1: before so that we can experience the program, and then
Speaker 1: once we did coming to our senior year, it was
Speaker 1: our time to lead. And even in that moment when
Speaker 1: we were out there, I remember it was one day
Speaker 1: after a session, we were like, oh, let's just go
Speaker 1: in prayer and they were like, Dawn, you lead it.
Speaker 1: I've always been that person where people have came to
Speaker 1: me and say, hey, don can you give me a word?
Speaker 1: Don can you pray for me? Even when we would
Speaker 1: have assemblies and say if it was bar On in
Speaker 1: the religious department, if I wanted to talk about something
Speaker 1: with the program, I had a free range to speak
Speaker 1: on whatever I wanted because people knew that they were
Speaker 1: going to get a word that was me, that is me.
Speaker 1: Then I think about when I went to Howard and
Speaker 1: I had a friend Whitney Boggs. Whitney was a writer
Speaker 1: for The Hilltop that was Howard's newspaper, and the topic
Speaker 1: happened to be on being religious or spiritual. Of course,
Speaker 1: like I'm saying the narrative of me and my connection,
Speaker 1: how I'm speaking on God, my love forgot, just my
Speaker 1: walk and I'm again I'm the spiritual being having this
Speaker 1: human experience. So everything ain't would you say, quote unquote
Speaker 1: writer whatever, there's no judgment because we're making room and
Speaker 1: I don't even like why do I feel like I
Speaker 1: have to get a clearance there? I'm making room because
Speaker 1: we're growing, okay, AnyWho? She asked me the question. She said, Dawn,
Speaker 1: do you consider yourself spiritual or religious? I had to
Speaker 1: call back at her mercy and the leaders in the department.
Speaker 1: I said, I have been asked this question and I
Speaker 1: need to know what the difference is and see for me. Also,
Speaker 1: another thing while I he had like a disconnection from saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm a Christian, is because I never studied the Bible
Speaker 1: back to front, front to back. In addition to that,
Speaker 1: we didn't go to church every Sunday we went to church,
Speaker 1: you know, on the holidays. It is what it is.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: Recall one summer I was in Bible study. That was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Oh wait, can I sing a song real quick?
Speaker 1: I know, bakroom for me is the areas the kid? Okay.
Speaker 1: It was a song called high five for Jesus. He'll
Speaker 1: lead you all the way with Christ. You can do it,
Speaker 1: just trust some men, no bad. High five for Jesus,
Speaker 1: Give high five for Jesus. Give high fih Jesus, high
Speaker 1: fi for Jesus. He'll lead you all the way with Okay,
Speaker 1: that's how I went. Oh my gosh, that just gave
Speaker 1: me so much. That just gave me so much joy.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that song since I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Thank you God. Oh they felt so good. I could
Speaker 1: see everything.
Speaker 4: I even felt my mom. Oh hey, Bobby, Oh wow,
Speaker 4: that sounds so good.
Speaker 3: My heart's racing. Wow, their tears coming down my eyes.
Speaker 1: Thank you God.
Speaker 3: Oh that felt so good. Thank you, thank you, thank
Speaker 3: you for making room for me to uh for me
Speaker 3: to give that to share that.
Speaker 1: Uh So.
Speaker 3: That was probably my unsteadiness as well, with the whole
Speaker 3: notion that I didn't believe that God would cause at
Speaker 3: a sin or you couldn't be partially so like I said,
Speaker 3: it's giving.
Speaker 1: Well, no, that's against what the book says. How can
Speaker 1: you see all these qualities of that? I mean, because
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that. And then me knowing God
Speaker 1: because just of my experience in life and how much
Speaker 1: my mom loved on me and talked about God. God
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. God ain't gonna reject you like that
Speaker 1: for loving on somebody and loving yourself because it ain't
Speaker 1: hurting nobody. So I call them, seeking for them to
Speaker 1: get the answer. And as I'm reflecting now, I can't
Speaker 1: really recall what they said. But what made me feel
Speaker 1: most comfortable about it is because my relationship and I
Speaker 1: looked at Christianity being religious and those are just the rules,
Speaker 1: and I said, God is so much bigger when I
Speaker 1: think how man created religion. God says exceedingly and abundantly,
Speaker 1: and it's interesting when we think about this whole sense
Speaker 1: of controls telling people of what they have to do
Speaker 1: based on your viewpoints, and it's like God is so
Speaker 1: much bigger. So I settled on it and I told Whitney,
Speaker 1: I said, I say, I'm spiritual so we're going through
Speaker 1: college and I remember even, uh wow, let me take it,
Speaker 1: and it goes on even more. Oh, I forgot to
Speaker 1: tell you this. So even in high school, rewind, I
Speaker 1: also recalled what really? Oh, this is what really opened
Speaker 1: my eyes when I really think about it, and how
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, this ain't this. We
Speaker 1: gotta know more. And I couldn't never stand as firm
Speaker 1: on because, like I said, I didn't know the Bible
Speaker 1: back to back, but when I took a course called
Speaker 1: war Religion. Stive. You've been listening to past episode, previous episodes,
Speaker 1: you know I've mentioned this about saying, Oh, taking this
Speaker 1: course has really got me to think how God says,
Speaker 1: I go by many names because all of these religions
Speaker 1: had the same principality loving your neighbor, respecting people, creating
Speaker 1: the life that you want, telling you about abundance and possibilities,
Speaker 1: and so many of them has similarities. It's like you know,
Speaker 1: eating You can eat fried chicken, cook different ways. You
Speaker 1: can definitely have macaroni and cheese and salads and steaks
Speaker 1: and fish so many different ways, but it doesn't take
Speaker 1: away that it is a piece of fish, mac and
Speaker 1: cheese or noodles, a salad, lettuce, and so forth. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm trying to say, right, So that was
Speaker 1: actually the key eye opener. And then of course my
Speaker 1: disposition about how who I'm loving is a sin, Well,
Speaker 1: we're given so much, we gotta make room because I
Speaker 1: gotta get to you what I got to tell you about.
Speaker 1: So even down to even after I left Howard, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about I was on Craigslist and there was a
Speaker 1: job opening to speak because I said, I know I'm
Speaker 1: meant to speak, that's my passion, that's my gift, that's
Speaker 1: what I do, and it's what I love to do.
Speaker 1: And it was a Christian based organization all about God.
Speaker 1: And again I never second guessed my love for God.
Speaker 1: This is when I'm in New York. And so we
Speaker 1: had to lead a workshop and at the time, I
Speaker 1: was reading a book that actually talked about a person,
Speaker 1: or no, not even about a person. At the time,
Speaker 1: I talked about how there's so many ways to see God,
Speaker 1: how you can see God in nature and life and
Speaker 1: many different people, because God says I go by many names.
Speaker 1: This person and I totally respect what they did because
Speaker 1: it's just like anybody with their brand. What didn't feel
Speaker 1: I was necessarily a great fit for their brand to
Speaker 1: speak upon them and teaching the things that they talked about.
Speaker 1: But what they did still see inside of me was
Speaker 1: that they were doing different programs with the church and
Speaker 1: still made room. And that's why I can have so
Speaker 1: much respect for this said individual, because even later on
Speaker 1: had an opportunity, you know, because of this individual. Edwena,
Speaker 1: do you feel bad if I say your name? Because
Speaker 1: I respect everything that you did and I love you
Speaker 1: to this day. Atwena Finley, she's an actress Abundant Life
Speaker 1: Creative Services. While she said, hey, Dawn, you know you
Speaker 1: know I am based on the Christian base and that's
Speaker 1: what we speak upon, so it's not congroing with the message.
Speaker 1: But when it came down to support now it was
Speaker 1: Sally Sally Vido events in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: I would go all the way to Brooklyn and volunteer
Speaker 3: to help with the church because I knew I wanted
Speaker 3: to get connected with the word.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, perhaps if I'm around and more,
Speaker 1: I can learn more what they're saying and what they're
Speaker 1: saying it is so I can find my place. And
Speaker 1: I would do that and She even granted the opportunity
Speaker 1: Edwena so that I can sit down. And do you
Speaker 1: know I interviewed Viola Davis in a hotel room. She
Speaker 1: was at Columbus Circle. I got to see where the
Speaker 1: video to the audio we sent it off. I wondered
Speaker 1: that they, Yeah, I gotta anyway. I say all that
Speaker 1: to say she still made room. But it was at
Speaker 1: that moment where I still stood farm with my belief
Speaker 1: because I said, well, God is so much bigger and
Speaker 1: so much grander and man that it is Pride Month.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you a story about a listener
Speaker 1: that Bible thumped me, and it goes further how I
Speaker 1: got to show up as to who I am because
Speaker 1: God knew me before I was swarm. So we don't
Speaker 1: take a quick break, and I'm going to talk to
Speaker 1: you about how I was Bible thumped by a former listener.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying warmer because there is any animosity.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying because I'm on the FM dial and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he's tuned in, er privy that
Speaker 1: we do Vitamin D live because it's nothing but love
Speaker 1: for this listener. But I got to tell you how
Speaker 1: I was Bible dumped on the first day of Pride
Speaker 1: by this said listener. I will release the name, but
Speaker 1: I got to say some things for the Bible pic.
Speaker 1: So hold on.
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Speaker 1: The man behind what's happening to beautiful people. It's your
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Speaker 1: All right, so we back. So, like I said, I
Speaker 1: had an FM listener called me and Bible thought me.
Speaker 1: It happened a couple of days ago. Right now, it's Saturday,
Speaker 1: June third, so this was Thursday, June first, the first
Speaker 1: day of Pride. So they called. Now I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: even say his name right now. We're gonna hold it
Speaker 1: because I gotta keep some things for the biopic. Do
Speaker 1: you think I'm playing? No, I'm serious. Uh So, he
Speaker 1: called to say. Through the grapevine, he heard that my
Speaker 1: departure from the FM dial was because I was booking
Speaker 1: too many gay LGBTQ guests. And I said what I said,
Speaker 1: I might have had one or two. What you mean now,
Speaker 1: was there conversation about wanting to have people on there
Speaker 1: who have a voice, who are in the community. Yes,
Speaker 1: because are we making room for everybody. But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: as we have to realize, and what I'm sharing with
Speaker 1: you is that if it doesn't serve you, it doesn't
Speaker 1: deserve you. Why did I entertain this conversation? Why are
Speaker 1: we on the phone this lawn? Because again, when he
Speaker 1: said caller called me, I hadn't heard from him in
Speaker 1: a couple of months. So again, what good news did
Speaker 1: you have for me? What true concern did you have
Speaker 1: for me? What true I want to say love, but
Speaker 1: that's even premature because let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 1: But what good did you have to serve me? And
Speaker 1: if it doesn't serve you, it doesn't to serve you.
Speaker 1: Now do I think there was complete malice in this
Speaker 1: conversation with said individual?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: But again, Dawn, why are you entertaining this conversation? Now?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep going, but let me just tell you.
Speaker 1: Once I even hung up this phone, I wanted to
Speaker 1: jump on Facebook life so quick to share with the
Speaker 1: family about what this is, what this meant, and how
Speaker 1: it made me feel. And I had to say, way
Speaker 1: to mend because I'm maturing and as this young ram
Speaker 1: or mature ram is developing, you realize you can't just
Speaker 1: keep bumping your head into everything. You gotta breathe it out.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't because I was gonna come a place
Speaker 1: for so much anger, but I needed to let it
Speaker 1: meddle land, settle land in my thoughts of what I
Speaker 1: wanted to say, how I want to say it, my
Speaker 1: intention for saying it, and more importantly, why I gotta
Speaker 1: say it. That's why we have in this commonversation. Now,
Speaker 1: I guess right. So I go on to tell him.
Speaker 1: The moment I walked through the door, I was very
Speaker 1: transparent of how I'm showing up. So this is not
Speaker 1: about a sense of am I uncertain about who I am?
Speaker 1: Because all I'm doing and all I will continue to
Speaker 1: do because God promised me exceedingly and abundantly for more
Speaker 1: than with anyone, any person, anything, any whatever could imagine.
Speaker 1: And I promised God that I was going to force
Speaker 1: myself out of hiding because I pray for this very moment.
Speaker 1: I pray for this opportunity. I have been dreaming enough
Speaker 1: this moment since I was a kid, and I promise
Speaker 1: God that if I ever had this moment to live
Speaker 1: out my dreams, that I am going to show up
Speaker 1: as all of me because I want God to use me.
Speaker 3: Because I got these dreams, Oh my yd and chefs
Speaker 3: on there that can cook food from all over the world, and.
Speaker 1: I got this voice over booth.
Speaker 3: Who record, and I'm getting like six five six figures
Speaker 3: just to record this audio. And if I can imagine
Speaker 3: and have these dreams of being maging and Oprah. And
Speaker 3: there's no disrespect I say this all the time. It's
Speaker 3: just that we just supposed to dream big, and I
Speaker 3: admire so much. I'm just like, Wow, God, what you
Speaker 3: got for me? And if God knew me before I
Speaker 3: was formed, And if I can imagine that because God says,
Speaker 3: have a vision, and then God said, I'm gonna double
Speaker 3: down on whatever that is tenfold, triple fold, it just
Speaker 3: exceedingly far more than if I can imagine it. I
Speaker 3: wounded because God promised, and we got to remind ourselves
Speaker 3: that we're here for a good time, not a long time,
Speaker 3: and we gotta make it count and making it count
Speaker 3: as being used by God and not second guessing how
Speaker 3: you were created to be used because God said, I
Speaker 3: knew you before you were formed. So I know the
Speaker 3: vision that God has placed on my heart.
Speaker 1: And all the.
Speaker 3: Things that God has created me with has gotten me
Speaker 3: in countless romes amongst some of the biggest celebrities in
Speaker 3: the world. I've been on so many game shows, featured
Speaker 3: on so many talk shows, just by being whim from
Speaker 3: being a guest to now being able to go behind
Speaker 3: the scenes.
Speaker 1: I mean, just cross it.
Speaker 3: When I'm pulling in as a guest doing a lot,
Speaker 3: to know I'm pulling is as somebody behind.
Speaker 1: The scenes, to see how it works. Because God sitting on.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you exceedingly and abundantly, far more.
Speaker 1: Than what you could ever imagine. So I'm sorry you
Speaker 1: don't get to define me and tell me, oh my
Speaker 1: God is.
Speaker 3: And it just makes me think about this conversation I
Speaker 3: had with my good friend Jennifer, one of my best friends.
Speaker 1: I've known her since I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 3: I met her my freshman year ever Renaissance, and we
Speaker 3: were talking because we're working on a project that I
Speaker 3: can't wait to release to you.
Speaker 1: She was on an assignment with a job and the
Speaker 1: assignment was ending, and so she was going to be
Speaker 1: without a job, and she was sharing how she's holding
Speaker 1: on to her faith about God is going to provide
Speaker 1: and remind her, Remember, you have survived one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of the worst days of your life, so why would
Speaker 1: this be any different? Right, whatever you're going through? Just
Speaker 1: as a side no, and she said a person called
Speaker 1: her and said, oh my gosh, well, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Are you worried? And she said no.
Speaker 3: And she basically was saying she didn't carry that because
Speaker 3: she said to them, you don't know the conversations I
Speaker 3: have with God.
Speaker 1: You don't know the conversations I have with God. And
Speaker 1: I felt that, See.
Speaker 3: She's referring to her unwavering faith because God is a provider,
Speaker 3: do you know. Within days later, she texted me and said, Dawn,
Speaker 3: I got a job. I said, a man, God is
Speaker 3: gun and I had to reply to her in the
Speaker 3: text you don't know about the conversations I have with God.
Speaker 3: So back to said caller.
Speaker 1: He proceeds to ask me, Am, I familiar with various scriptures,
Speaker 1: and you know, like a fish eyed fool, I sat
Speaker 1: down at my computer to look up the said verses again, Dawn,
Speaker 1: why are you entertaining this conversation in the midst of it?
Speaker 1: I said, that's the very reason why I feel as
Speaker 1: though I never subscribed to Christianity because I feel as
Speaker 1: though people use it as a tool to tell you
Speaker 1: everything that you aren't and what you cannot do. And see,
Speaker 1: when I think about my God that says exceedingly and
Speaker 1: abundantly for more than what I could ever imagine. What
Speaker 1: resonates with me is my God that tells me all
Speaker 1: the things I can do, who I can be, because
Speaker 1: it's exceedingly and beyond any type of comprehension. It's even
Speaker 1: more as I think about, like my mind really got
Speaker 1: expanded to this referring to the world religious class. I
Speaker 1: took it mercy. And even when the film Da Vinci
Speaker 1: Code came out and they said all these people got
Speaker 1: beyond this table and started writing out what was to
Speaker 1: be in the Bible, and people, based on their own
Speaker 1: opinions and views, they struck out things that they weren't
Speaker 1: comfortable with. And it's no secret because we hear about this,
Speaker 1: what that did, see scrolls, and there's so many other things.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, it's not like I'm just pulling this
Speaker 1: out on the air. Google it, check it out for yourself.
Speaker 1: Ask somebody, this is not anything that's unheard of. We
Speaker 1: even hear about the Black Madonna and how when we
Speaker 1: think about the representation of religion, especially Christianity, has always
Speaker 1: been a not melanated figure. I'm just saying, I feel
Speaker 1: like God is just so much bigger. And when God
Speaker 1: says I go by many names made in the image
Speaker 1: and likeness, why do we feel as though as a
Speaker 1: one limit of one way to get to God. But see,
Speaker 1: as I'm being Bible thumbed, this is what this listener
Speaker 1: wants to instealing me. I mean, I can't recall all
Speaker 1: the verses, but it was like Romans sixteen, and then
Speaker 1: was it Proverbs twenty or Acts? Something Bible thumbing me?
Speaker 1: And I said to him, I said, this is the
Speaker 1: very reason. And I a pause for a second there
Speaker 1: because when I said acts, it made me think about
Speaker 1: my brother Proverb and he told me early on he said,
Speaker 1: I think he said Acts nineteen. I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: he said, Dawn, guard your heart. He said, you're stepping
Speaker 1: into something and you're gonna have to guard your heart.
Speaker 1: And as I'm reflecting more, it just makes so much
Speaker 1: more sense to me. And furthermore, this makes me think
Speaker 1: about all the time, why are we entertaining certain situations.
Speaker 1: Then I'm thinking about I was talking to my friend Shelley,
Speaker 1: that's one of my best girlfriends. She moved over us.
Speaker 1: She left she from LA and then moved over to
Speaker 1: the Virginia. I'm like girl anyway, but we couldn't be
Speaker 1: any closer. I'm telling her, I'm like, girl, I got
Speaker 1: Bible dumbed. She said, Dawn, that wasn't nothing but the devil.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying that she's saying he's the devil,
Speaker 1: but that energy of that darkness, what did it serve?
Speaker 1: She said, Dawn, you have to learn to get your limits.
Speaker 1: Because I even said myself, just like I said to you,
Speaker 1: I said, I entertained it along. Probably just shared and
Speaker 1: talked too much. This was somebody's this your friend, or
Speaker 1: this was a fan that was on the radio. We
Speaker 1: got to use our power of discernment. And see, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that I'm getting it now because i know where
Speaker 1: I'm going. And you know, they say life is the
Speaker 1: greatest teacher, because sometimes you got to take the test
Speaker 1: before you learn a lesson. Catch it. So again she says, Dawn,
Speaker 1: that ain't nothing but the devil. We're trying to get
Speaker 1: in your way. Because we can't negate the fact of
Speaker 1: me standing who I am. Because again I've been transparent
Speaker 1: from walking in from day one. How I connected with
Speaker 1: so many of my FM listeners in just five months.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying this to be braggadocious. I'm saying
Speaker 1: but the connection that I was able to do by
Speaker 1: just standing in who I am, and that's why I
Speaker 1: say my God is so much bigger the God I
Speaker 1: said served. So I proceed to tell say a Carler,
Speaker 1: I said, it amazes me how us as African American people.
Speaker 1: And this is not saying that I am saying the
Speaker 1: FM diw this is the reasoning behind it. I'm saying
Speaker 1: that this conversation and this narrative can exist. And let
Speaker 1: me be clear, he is not the only person that
Speaker 1: has said something about this or may mentioned. I had
Speaker 1: another FM listener who I'm very i'd say close with.
Speaker 1: We've established a great relationship for rapport. But I was
Speaker 1: never bible thumped by her. She just said, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if that was a reason, and I just said, hey,
Speaker 1: all I know is that they decide to no longer
Speaker 1: continue with this program and we departed ways. So I
Speaker 1: said it amazes me how us as African American people,
Speaker 1: those of African descent, who have literally lost our lives,
Speaker 1: been beaten, disenfranchised. I mean, look at all our health
Speaker 1: diseases because of the color of our skin, or even
Speaker 1: think about discriminating someone else, and it baffles me that
Speaker 1: we could be more willing to accept somebody that is
Speaker 1: an abuser, perhaps an alcoholic, a serial adulteress or adulterer.
Speaker 1: You have condemn something or someone based on who they love.
Speaker 1: Does this not sound insane to you? If God knew
Speaker 1: us before we were formed, and God is love and
Speaker 1: all you're doing is looking for love somebody that wants
Speaker 1: to receive her love, you find something wrong with it
Speaker 1: so much so that you look at it as a
Speaker 1: disease and lash out, thump on somebody, a beating for
Speaker 1: being who they are, even if you are sharing the
Speaker 1: good news. This is what I'm sharing with him, because
Speaker 1: we hear this so often and for some reason we
Speaker 1: find disregarded. But I just say, we gotta have a conversation,
Speaker 1: and I just want to be real with you because
Speaker 1: I want you to know who I am and how
Speaker 1: I'm walking. Because God said, Dawn, I'm here to give
Speaker 1: you exceedingly and abundantly for more than what you could
Speaker 1: ever imagine. And I know that I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to show up as all of me because that's what
Speaker 1: God promised me. And if I can walk away with
Speaker 1: somebody saying, Dawn, you inspired me, Dawn, you gave me
Speaker 1: another reason for living. Dawn, your words captivated me. Dawn,
Speaker 1: I's got this new job doing.
Speaker 3: I saw that this opportunity doing. Can you come and
Speaker 3: show support because you made me believe again.
Speaker 1: I gotta show up as me. So I want you
Speaker 1: to see me because I planned to be in here
Speaker 1: for a long time. I didn't know or feel I
Speaker 1: was going to have this conversation. I was supposed to
Speaker 1: be talking to you about a film, which we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to. I've been really finding my way a lot
Speaker 1: with Apple TV Plus, so i'mna say it. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna talk too much, but I wanted this to be
Speaker 1: the message. And you know, even back to say a
Speaker 1: caller when I'm naming out these things about even being
Speaker 1: a molester and all that, and I wanted to highlight
Speaker 1: that because I'm not sure if I mentioned out of
Speaker 1: all the things that he could ask not heydn were
Speaker 1: you beaten? Hey, Dawn, do you have trouble with alcohol?
Speaker 1: His first question was, were you molested? Do you see
Speaker 1: the narrative? I said, no, not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 1: And I said if I had been, I said, could
Speaker 1: you imagine how offensive that would be? Again, do you
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying? You got people out here losing
Speaker 1: their lives by taking their own lives because they simply
Speaker 1: can't breathe with the pressures of life. You got people
Speaker 1: out here who are losing their hair, diseases that are
Speaker 1: creating or being developed in their bodies because they can't
Speaker 1: love who they love. They can't simply love because it's
Speaker 1: not what you can imagine. It's unbelievable. We can't say
Speaker 1: that this is something new under the sun. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that, Oh, that's the reasoning for it to
Speaker 1: be okay. We're talking about people loving on people. People
Speaker 1: that have inspired us, Marsha P. Johnson, people have changed
Speaker 1: the political climate of life, Angela Davis, people that have
Speaker 1: said I'm breaking barriers when it comes down to media entertainment,
Speaker 1: Grew Paul Laverne Cox creating literature and dance that have
Speaker 1: inspired us all Alvin Ailey, Langston Hughes being declared as
Speaker 1: one of the greatest singers of our lifetime Whitney Houston.
Speaker 1: So what do you want to erase their history? You
Speaker 1: want to throw them away for loving who they love?
Speaker 1: Thank you, James Baldwin. What we're really talking about here? Huh?
Speaker 1: What is God really about here?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 1: I gotta know because when you want to hold this
Speaker 1: scripture and you want a Bible from somebody, I gotta
Speaker 1: ask you, Oh, do you think that you are? Because
Speaker 1: if you serve the God and who you say you serve,
Speaker 1: and you stand by that God, what place you got
Speaker 1: thinking that you can judge as God? Because this said
Speaker 1: individual that you could be condemning, that could have been
Speaker 1: a person to save your mama's life, who transitioned from
Speaker 1: stage four breast cancer, or perhaps got your baby off
Speaker 1: of drugs because they were able to get them the
Speaker 1: mental therapy that they need, or perhaps provided space for
Speaker 1: an Olympic gold medalist because they were a foster child.
Speaker 1: What are we talking about here? Would you rather for
Speaker 1: somebody to be in a house in which they are
Speaker 1: beaten every night, could possibly move molesting your young baby,
Speaker 1: committing adultery and doing so many destructive things to themselves
Speaker 1: and other people, but yet we're talking about somebody that
Speaker 1: wants to love. So I want to let you know
Speaker 1: who I am because I'm telling you what God promised
Speaker 1: me as.
Speaker 3: Exceedingly and abundantly for more than what you could ever imagine.
Speaker 3: With what I do for work, what I do with
Speaker 3: my life, and who I love with my family, how
Speaker 3: I'm inspired, there's no limit to what my God can do.
Speaker 3: I hope this is a reminder for us to make
Speaker 3: room for people to exist because God said so much
Speaker 3: bigger and rather than you're trying to condemn, why don't
Speaker 3: you make room to overstand because I feel what's going
Speaker 3: on right now is a lot of understanding and things
Speaker 3: haven't changed and people are still going to keep on living.
Speaker 1: So may we continue to be brave. May we continue
Speaker 1: to walk with pride because love is the way I'm
Speaker 1: doing day. I'm here and I'm queer, all right, Oh damn?
Speaker 1: Best if you don't the vitamin Indeed, I didn't know
Speaker 1: I was going to do it like that, but hey,
Speaker 1: it's me. So if you're still here and you enjoyed
Speaker 1: this episode because I told you, Vitamin D is all
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Speaker 1: Because we're worth it and we deserve it, so we
Speaker 1: need to catch it. Okay, it would mean the world
Speaker 1: to me. And this is my dream and I just
Speaker 1: want to show you who I am. So when I
Speaker 1: tell you about these amazing things we got going on
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Speaker 1: You can call in, I can have you video time in.
Speaker 1: I'm saying God said exceedingly and abundantly, So I'm showing up.
Speaker 1: So pull up on me.
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Speaker 1: I want to hear from you. Okay. So now, if
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Speaker 3: Uh? You know I always say I'm in the business
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