Speaker 1: My league Books has how the knowledge you want. Leik
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Speaker 1: have out the works that the whole wild world want
Speaker 1: to read. Books. Malik's Book Show bringing a world together
Speaker 1: with books, culture and community. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hi, my
Speaker 1: name is Malik, your host of Malik's Book Show. We're
Speaker 1: on episode twenty nine and we got a fiery episode
Speaker 1: coming up because it's June teenth weekend and that's the
Speaker 1: subject of episode twenty nine. I'm gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: some book recommendations for June Teeth as well as interviewing
Speaker 1: Top Shelf TV personality. Regular appears on Good Morning America
Speaker 1: and The Steve Harvey Morning Show and is the ambassador
Speaker 1: and executive chef for OH Steaks. Steaks that I buy
Speaker 1: on the regular braces that I sent to my mom
Speaker 1: every holiday, and I also send those on the Hall
Speaker 1: Steaks to someone that passed away so they can have
Speaker 1: a feast in the name of their loved one. Speaking
Speaker 1: about Chef David Rose, author of Egging, David Rose cooks
Speaker 1: on the Big Green Egg. Now, we did a demonstration
Speaker 1: here at Malik's a cooking demonstration. We had never done
Speaker 1: a cooking demonstration at Malik's and it was a hit.
Speaker 1: The food was outstanding, it was delicious. David came in
Speaker 1: the bookstore and he demonstrated his water mcgrill, watermelon sand grill.
Speaker 1: He cooked up some grits with shrimp and his cream sauce.
Speaker 1: He grilled this very tender and delicious whereby State with
Speaker 1: this secret sauce that he put on the top. And
Speaker 1: it was just a e fitful day to watch the
Speaker 1: magic of Chef David Rose. It was just beautiful. And
Speaker 1: everyone love these Fathers Day recipes that he has in
Speaker 1: his books. So all of that is taking place on
Speaker 1: episode twenty nine June Tea. My man David Rose in
Speaker 1: the house at Malik Books just did a wonderful demonstration
Speaker 1: of cooking demonstration and we're greatly appreciative. Brother. You had
Speaker 1: the crowd going, they brought lots of books, and you
Speaker 1: were just a star. That's a good thing, and that's
Speaker 1: a good thing and and food. You know, just talk
Speaker 1: to us about rather the importance of a of a
Speaker 1: good meal, of a good menu that is, and why
Speaker 1: your book is all above ye first all, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me always respect you, appreciate you, and good food
Speaker 1: is like love, man, you know, good food and laughter
Speaker 1: that cures everything. And this book right here, for sonifies
Speaker 1: all the foods I love, all the flutes I was
Speaker 1: raised with, all the foods I was taught to make,
Speaker 1: and just foods that I like in general. So on
Speaker 1: today's menu, we had a porcini rubbed ribby with the
Speaker 1: sun dried tomato, chimmy cherry. They tow it up, they
Speaker 1: tow it up completely, and we want to do a
Speaker 1: little surfing terri faction, so we had Southern shrimping grits,
Speaker 1: a little light black and seasoning on their parmesan grits.
Speaker 1: And we did a turkey sausage cream sauce today and
Speaker 1: it just went over great. And to wash it all down,
Speaker 1: because you need something to wash it down, you did
Speaker 1: a grilled watermelon saying Gria. And I think everybody left
Speaker 1: full and drunk. So I think everybody's ubering home. So
Speaker 1: we're covered there. But it was a great day, full
Speaker 1: of laughter, full of great food at Malik Books and
Speaker 1: the first of men hopefully cooking demos. I broke the ice.
Speaker 1: You broke, so now it's up to your brother, go
Speaker 1: for it. We never did anything like this and how
Speaker 1: it came together. It was amazing. It was amazing because
Speaker 1: we appreciate. But we're doing all this talking. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the author Day wrote for guess what we need
Speaker 1: to introduce your old cars as a must come to
Speaker 1: the league. Books you have egging David Rose cooks on
Speaker 1: the Big Green leg souper, salads, entrees, dessert, smoke, cocktails,
Speaker 1: breakfast items, my love letter to food. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 1: Your girl gonna love it, your baby daddy, your baby daddy, daddy,
Speaker 1: Dad is cousin he she them her, everybody. It's a
Speaker 1: book for everybody to enjoy. Well, here's the thing, you know,
Speaker 1: we wanted to build this event around Father's Day because
Speaker 1: we feel fathers, you know, need something and we are important.
Speaker 1: And therefore we thought your book would be a great
Speaker 1: gift for great holiday gift for Father's Day because of
Speaker 1: the recipes in there. You know a lot of men
Speaker 1: love to cook the group, but then they are men
Speaker 1: wanted fire to cook. So tell us why this book
Speaker 1: is essential for great Father's Day. Yes, that has done
Speaker 1: so much to you, you know, so much for you
Speaker 1: growing up raised, You gave you money, allowance, loved you
Speaker 1: wipe your dirty panthers when you're young. So the least
Speaker 1: you can do is give him an exceptional Father's Day gift,
Speaker 1: and egging is that gift. If you love drilling, which
Speaker 1: all men love drilling. My dad loves grilling, this is
Speaker 1: the perfect gift. It's the gift that keeps on giving
Speaker 1: and they'll never get tired of it because there's so
Speaker 1: much deliciousness in that. Yeah. Yeah, what's your favorite recipe
Speaker 1: in your book? My favorite recipe actually has to be
Speaker 1: the oxtails because I'm Jamaican and oxtails. That's that's my
Speaker 1: heart beat right there, Bro, that's my heart beat. It's
Speaker 1: essential to culture and community, and the Manias Bookshop is
Speaker 1: bringing the world together with books, culture and community. Yes,
Speaker 1: so just talk to the audience about how food is
Speaker 1: so essential to our culture and to our community. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely for sure. Like sole food is the food we
Speaker 1: grew up with, the food that kind of you know,
Speaker 1: brings back those memories of those first moments and those
Speaker 1: feelings and the place. It's it's a it's a time
Speaker 1: freezing moment where you realize and remember the first time
Speaker 1: you had fried chicken or hot water corn bread, or oxtails.
Speaker 1: It's like a time machine and it's love and like
Speaker 1: I always see, good food and laughter can cure anything. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's mediciable. Health is wealth, and a good meal it's
Speaker 1: very important for the soul. Amen, brother, what inspired you
Speaker 1: to become a chef? David? Mom and dad were both chefs,
Speaker 1: so growing up, you know, they kind of inspired me
Speaker 1: because they always brought me to work with them whenever
Speaker 1: I had time off. So the seeing them the way
Speaker 1: they created food and the way they inspired the staff
Speaker 1: to follow them and create this amazing food or this
Speaker 1: plant at a small seed at a young age. Plus,
Speaker 1: I love food. I love food. Jamaican's love food. I'm
Speaker 1: from the Tri State areas, so I wanted to learn
Speaker 1: learned how to create and recreate food. So cooking was
Speaker 1: the best way to go about doing it. It's so
Speaker 1: in the book, you you you wove in some of
Speaker 1: that You're making twists, some of the Asian twists, all
Speaker 1: of that, all of that food. This cookbook is my
Speaker 1: culinary road map. It's a mix of foods that I
Speaker 1: grew up on. Foods that's like countries I visited states
Speaker 1: I've visited because you know, every state every country, every
Speaker 1: region has their own style of open fire cooking and barbecue.
Speaker 1: So this is my homage to barbecue and open fire
Speaker 1: cooking all over the world. When you know, I know
Speaker 1: that food it's so universal and so many it actually
Speaker 1: brings people together. You know. It's just like music. You know,
Speaker 1: music and you and it brings people. Sports do the
Speaker 1: same thing. I know. The food that's that is well,
Speaker 1: it really really it's crazy. You can be sitting at
Speaker 1: a dining table. You might be a different religion, speak
Speaker 1: a different language, but the food's in and y'all can
Speaker 1: just give that look he does know everything's okay with
Speaker 1: the else. So food is that one uniting front that
Speaker 1: brings everybody together, that one intangible love because good food
Speaker 1: is enjoyed near, far and wide, and everybody loves a
Speaker 1: good play of food. Everybody. Yes, yes, yes. And you
Speaker 1: know during the demonstration and you talked about you graduated
Speaker 1: on top of your class. Look, I'm Luke, that is amazing.
Speaker 1: That is and very impressive. The demonstration and your technique
Speaker 1: and the season and the sauces and all just the
Speaker 1: way you tied everybody. You know, it was just amazing.
Speaker 1: And you it's like you could read the crowd. You
Speaker 1: could read and field and sense and it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, when they got your milk, they got quiet.
Speaker 1: That's the best sound is silence and lip smacking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's news to my ass. Yes, yes, yes, it's dirty delicious.
Speaker 1: I had my samples and uh, this was a wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful event. And we're pre ship. What are you from again?
Speaker 1: Brother again? Originally from New Jersey, but I've lived in
Speaker 1: Atlanta now for the flast twenty years. I lived in
Speaker 1: Atlanta for but I'm a Jersey boy, Jersey boy. Yeah
Speaker 1: you still I mean, you know, Atlanta is considered soft,
Speaker 1: but it's still east right yeah, yeah, south east, south, southeast,
Speaker 1: southee south feet. So um, telling some of your big
Speaker 1: plans you got coming up, because uh, you know, just
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have to, you know, but just
Speaker 1: you know what you've got going on your little Yeah
Speaker 1: in the near executive yeah yeah yeah. Regular appears on
Speaker 1: Good Morning America a couple of times the times on there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: food TV personality. You know, we try to keep the
Speaker 1: resume very well rounded, you know. But in the near future,
Speaker 1: I'll be an essence fest and late July and I'll
Speaker 1: actually be doing the NBC Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks
Speaker 1: Show as well doing a couple of cooking damnas the
Speaker 1: first hour of that. All that that should be fun,
Speaker 1: That should be a brother. Well, if I'm in town,
Speaker 1: I'll look you up. Absolutely, brother, I appreciate you've done
Speaker 1: a wonderful brother, wonderful, wonderful demonstration. That's David Rose. You
Speaker 1: heard it live here at Bleak Boats. Appreciate books. Make
Speaker 1: it happen. Now they all signed that. We got him
Speaker 1: signed Eggan David Rose. On the Big Green Hey, one
Speaker 1: more thing. I don't think a lot of people know
Speaker 1: about the Big Green You know egg right? Can you
Speaker 1: just touch them that a little bit? Brother? Of course,
Speaker 1: Big Green Nag is the ultimate cooking experience as a
Speaker 1: Komodo grill heats up fast, cools down quick holes temperature.
Speaker 1: It's porous, which means it's very forgiving. You could do soup, salads, entrees,
Speaker 1: you could do indirect heat, direct heat, pizzas. And when
Speaker 1: he put the convector in there, the plates that are
Speaker 1: converts it into a convection of him. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know about many other girls that can do that, but
Speaker 1: the Big Green name can't so if you're serious about
Speaker 1: your gruling game, get you a big green actor. You
Speaker 1: heard it live, David Rohose, thank you this particular episode.
Speaker 1: I want to point out some Juneteenth books instead of
Speaker 1: doing a book with you that you can go out
Speaker 1: and purchases on the market now so you can learn
Speaker 1: a little bit more or to be able to teach
Speaker 1: your kids. One of the books that I recommend as
Speaker 1: a book that came out this uh this this year
Speaker 1: called The June Teenth Story Celebrating the End of Slavery
Speaker 1: in the United States by Eliah Augustina. Another title by
Speaker 1: our beloved Floyd Cooper, June tenth from Mazie. That's a
Speaker 1: great book to pick up, very popular. Another one is
Speaker 1: On Juneteenth by Anita Gordon read as well as a
Speaker 1: book that was put out by a beloved literary writer,
Speaker 1: Ralph Ellison called June teenth. Also pick up all different
Speaker 1: now Juneteenth The First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson.
Speaker 1: And a new one that came out recently, Free at Last,
Speaker 1: a June teenth poem. And that's why, Sir Jonah Kincaid Roy.
Speaker 1: So these are some of the titles that I recommend
Speaker 1: there for all ages. They filled with a lot of
Speaker 1: beautiful illustration. They give you great contexts about June teenth.
Speaker 1: So pick up your copy of Leak books dot Com
Speaker 1: or your local bookstores. Leak is in the community, and
Speaker 1: I'm interviewing the community about the June teenth. I have
Speaker 1: a teacher right here. I don't know her name, but
Speaker 1: I'm about to find out. I want to get your
Speaker 1: thoughts on June teenth. That's the first national holiday this year.
Speaker 1: Give me your thoughts on June teenth for what it
Speaker 1: means to you. Oh gosh, I did not expect me.
Speaker 1: I know, I put people on the spot. I'm on
Speaker 1: the stump. I need to talk to the community. I
Speaker 1: need to find out. You know this the first year
Speaker 1: June teenth is you know, it's the day that people
Speaker 1: in blacks that is, it was enslaved in Texas. Didn't
Speaker 1: even know that the Mancipation Proclamation was signed and blacks
Speaker 1: was freed in the Confederate state. So in eighteen sixty five,
Speaker 1: in June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, someone general went down
Speaker 1: there and told, hey, you know, slavery is over, and
Speaker 1: they started celebrating. So ever since that day they have
Speaker 1: they've been celebrating. Now it's a national holiday. There ain't
Speaker 1: been one for forty years, a new one that is,
Speaker 1: so you know you're in the community, tell me your thoughts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I will be honest. Um, I did not
Speaker 1: know about it beforehand, and I do acknowledge the fact
Speaker 1: that it's it's a problem. Yeah. Um, so now that
Speaker 1: I have a school teacher like you mentioned, I'm more
Speaker 1: than happy to of course kind of spread the knowledge.
Speaker 1: And I'm thrilled that it is a holiday wonderful. One
Speaker 1: of what Malik Books has a lot of books on
Speaker 1: June teams so you can share with your kids and uh,
Speaker 1: beautiful illustrations and part of this podcast I did, uh,
Speaker 1: I guess I did. I mentioned that is about six
Speaker 1: seven books that I recommend for June teenth for kids,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, well, hey, you you the future,
Speaker 1: You're teaching the next generation, so we definitely encourage you
Speaker 1: to get some books on their teaching kids. Yeah. I'm thrilled.
Speaker 1: It's my first time here, so I'm really happy for
Speaker 1: to top about the place and everything. Thank you so much, well,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you appreciate. This is the month that
Speaker 1: we all been waiting for. The June team celebration of
Speaker 1: national holiday we've been waiting for this wonderful day were free.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking to a couple of people that's coming
Speaker 1: through Malik Books. This young lady wash your name Deanna,
Speaker 1: So Deanna, tell me your thoughts about June teenth and
Speaker 1: what it means to black people in the market. Well,
Speaker 1: June teenth, to me means celebration of being black, African American,
Speaker 1: being free and educating yourself. And what do you think
Speaker 1: that we should be doing on June teenth. We should
Speaker 1: be celebrating, we should be joining with our family and friends.
Speaker 1: We should be talking about how we're going to join
Speaker 1: together as a community and as people and continue to grow.
Speaker 1: I want to for wonderful, wonderful. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you for your few words. Malik is on the stump.
Speaker 1: I'm in the community. I'm talking to people coming into
Speaker 1: the Malik Books and I need to know how you
Speaker 1: celebrate June team by buying black Financial freedom is freedom
Speaker 1: exactly physically free, but we need to be financial. Financial
Speaker 1: literacy is the most important skill that black people need
Speaker 1: to catch on too quickly quickly, especially with the economy
Speaker 1: and the state that it's in right now. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: have for us by us there, you go and you
Speaker 1: heard it from the streets. I must get her on
Speaker 1: record because it's very important. Yes, right, what would you want? Like?
Speaker 1: You don't think happy? Jun Team? Freedom is beautiful, Freedom
Speaker 1: is not overrated. Please continue to recycle your black dollars.
Speaker 1: And you heard it from Secret Weapon. Anything I gonna
Speaker 1: say about the June Team now, peace, you heard it.
Speaker 1: You heard it from Secret Weapon. Alright, Malik's bookshelf. It's
Speaker 1: all about community, it's all about culture. And this week
Speaker 1: we have a celebration for the first time a national
Speaker 1: holiday hasn't been a national holiday and commissioned by the
Speaker 1: president and over forty years with this national holiday that
Speaker 1: was signed in the law. It's called June teenth. Now
Speaker 1: some of you might not know much about June teenth,
Speaker 1: but it's a celebration that has been taking place since
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five when this enslaved that is, black people
Speaker 1: in America in Texas finally found out that slavery had
Speaker 1: in It had been approximately two years years since the
Speaker 1: Emancipation Proclamation before the people of Texas, the slaves, the
Speaker 1: blacks in Texas found out that President Lincoln had using
Speaker 1: his powers as Commander in Chief to free enslaved people
Speaker 1: in the Confederate States. It had been almost two years
Speaker 1: before these slaves in Texas knew. They kept this hidden.
Speaker 1: They kept it as a secret, and Gordon Granger arrived
Speaker 1: in Govelston, Texas and delivered a General Order number three
Speaker 1: telling the enslaved people of Texas of their freedom for
Speaker 1: the first time. It was hidden, it was kept a secret.
Speaker 1: They were still thinking they were slaves. But the Union,
Speaker 1: the Civil War was over. The Emancipation Proclamation was already
Speaker 1: you know, signed by President Lincoln. Yet the black people
Speaker 1: in Texas were not aware that slavery had ended in
Speaker 1: the Confederate States yet. So a general went down there
Speaker 1: in Galveston, Texas and revealed to the enslave black people
Speaker 1: the General Order number three. And so since June nineteenth,
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five, the day the General Gordon went down
Speaker 1: to Texas, that's how it became juneeenth. June nineteenth of
Speaker 1: every year the former slaves of Texas had a jubilee,
Speaker 1: a celebration, and celebrated their freedom every year since then.
Speaker 1: Now that has become a national holiday that is now
Speaker 1: being celebrated all ass the United States. So many culture
Speaker 1: events are being planned. I live in l a and
Speaker 1: many many celebrations of being planned. I'm participating in one
Speaker 1: called Black on the Block on June Team this Sunday
Speaker 1: the nineteen. Well, what is else on June nineteenth? Is
Speaker 1: Father's Day, But it's getting drowned out as far as
Speaker 1: in my community is being drowned out because we're celebrating
Speaker 1: June Tea. My wife asked me, she said, um, what
Speaker 1: do you want to go to this jazz consin on
Speaker 1: uh June nineteenth. I said, no, I want to go
Speaker 1: back on the block. I wanted to set up and
Speaker 1: want us to bring our books. I want us to
Speaker 1: represent because it's a day to celebrate, but there's also
Speaker 1: day of representation is also data center. You know, a
Speaker 1: message and that we're resilient and that we are forging
Speaker 1: a path forward in a way to make ourselves financially independent,
Speaker 1: because you could be free physically, but we need to
Speaker 1: be free financially independent, because then you can forge a
Speaker 1: path in the future for today and for tomorrow in
Speaker 1: your next generation. So June Team is a celebration that
Speaker 1: we need to embrace because it's not only a day
Speaker 1: or freedom and celebration and jubilee, but it's also a
Speaker 1: day that we could come together and do something that's
Speaker 1: very important, and that is support each other as we
Speaker 1: rise economically. I'm part of this event that's coming up
Speaker 1: Black on the Block and it's about two hundred vendors.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be entertainment and it's you know, two hundred
Speaker 1: black vendors, and the purpose is to recycle the Black
Speaker 1: Dollar June Team. We need to pull money together, and
Speaker 1: we need to support each other. We need to not
Speaker 1: just remember the history, but we need to do something
Speaker 1: about our history. And one way we could do something
Speaker 1: about our history and our future is that we need
Speaker 1: to pull money together and build and do for self.
Speaker 1: So I want to be part of the celebration. I
Speaker 1: don't want to just listen to jazz music and participate
Speaker 1: on Father's Day. We can do that on another day.
Speaker 1: I'm a father twenty four seven, three hundred sixty five
Speaker 1: days a year. Anywhere. We can do something later on.
Speaker 1: But on June nineteen, this Sunday, all over this nation.
Speaker 1: I just came back from d C, and d C
Speaker 1: is celebrating. I was listening to the radio. It's all
Speaker 1: kinds of celebrations taking place out in Maryland, out in
Speaker 1: d C. All across this country. It's a jubil lee.
Speaker 1: It's a session celebration. It is a national holiday. And
Speaker 1: if you are blind and you are not celebrating June teeth,
Speaker 1: I think you should re examine that. Why, Because if
Speaker 1: you don't remember, and if your freedom don't mean nothing
Speaker 1: to you, it won't mean nothing to no one else
Speaker 1: and your kids. If your freedom it's not celebrating and exalted,
Speaker 1: you know. And if you don't praise you know and
Speaker 1: blessed uh your history, no one else will. That's an
Speaker 1: important day to remember our past and to remember our
Speaker 1: future more most importantly why because things are never gonna
Speaker 1: stay the same, and what we need to do as
Speaker 1: a people is to pull our money together. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here watching and that's why this June teem
Speaker 1: is culture and is community. But here's the thing I'm
Speaker 1: sitting around watching. You know, all these people talking about
Speaker 1: h don't make this like a commercialization. Don't make this
Speaker 1: into you know, spending all your money in corporate America.
Speaker 1: And here you on national TV. You got an opportunity
Speaker 1: to tell people what to do, and you learn about
Speaker 1: what we shouldn't do, what we shouldn't do is waste
Speaker 1: time and telling you what another person needs to do
Speaker 1: with that money in order to to to participate on
Speaker 1: June te What we need to do is tell our
Speaker 1: community and our people to support block business, support local businesses,
Speaker 1: go out and let's pull this money and let's do
Speaker 1: for self. June Tief is about freedom. What we need
Speaker 1: to become financially freedom, not being dependent on handouts and
Speaker 1: government aid. We need to rise up and pull money.
Speaker 1: We have one point five trillion dollars. We need to
Speaker 1: show our jubil lee, our June Team that we know
Speaker 1: how to pull this money and do for self. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm suggesting, That's what I believe we should we
Speaker 1: should be focusing on, not trying to tell a corporation
Speaker 1: what they should do if they want to participate and
Speaker 1: make proud of and make clothing and make items and
Speaker 1: jump on the bandwagon. What's so big. But what we
Speaker 1: need to do is figure out what is best for us.
Speaker 1: And what's best for us is that we need to
Speaker 1: make clothes. We need to make those cups, We need
Speaker 1: to make all of those things just being sold in
Speaker 1: different department store to celebrate June Team. We need to
Speaker 1: do those things. We don't need to worry about what
Speaker 1: another corporation is trying to do. We need to focus
Speaker 1: on what we need to do, because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: stop UH. These corporations agains, pay their toxics. That's the reality.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get there. What we gotta do is figure
Speaker 1: out how to pull this money, how to do for self,
Speaker 1: how to make Listen, if you're out there and you
Speaker 1: want to help UH, support and participate on June teeth
Speaker 1: by local support a black business. These are things that
Speaker 1: you can do. Go out your weight two. I'm just
Speaker 1: not saying do it just on June team, because you
Speaker 1: could do this all the time. You could do this
Speaker 1: every day, but on June teeth in particular, go out
Speaker 1: and support a local black business. Go out and support
Speaker 1: your neighbor, go out and support your community. These are
Speaker 1: things that are simple and it can be done. Their
Speaker 1: celebration is taking place all over. Businesses gonna be out
Speaker 1: there showing you and repping what it is that they
Speaker 1: stand for and have. We're gonna be out there. All
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, it's always about the Benjamin. It's always
Speaker 1: about economics, It's always about the money in the end,
Speaker 1: and we need to galvanize our unity and pull money
Speaker 1: when we have these kind of opportunities. We have a
Speaker 1: national holiday this around freedom, and what's more important than
Speaker 1: find natural freedom. You already physically free, but we need
Speaker 1: to become financially free, financially independent, financially strong. To meet
Speaker 1: June Team is about economic growth as well, not just
Speaker 1: being free physically. You could be you know, you could
Speaker 1: be physically free and still be enslaved economically and oppressed economically.
Speaker 1: It's important to understand that your money matters, and that
Speaker 1: there are people who's the volunteer their services for seven
Speaker 1: years in order to get a person to marry them
Speaker 1: or to get a certain amount of money. So we
Speaker 1: should never think about slavery without thinking about economics as well,
Speaker 1: because slavery was about economics, so freeing you physically, there
Speaker 1: still was an economic component. So we turned around and
Speaker 1: become ships propers. We can't. We turned around and got
Speaker 1: worked for slave wages. See so Ju Teeth is about
Speaker 1: what It's not only about being freed, but it's also
Speaker 1: about financial freedom, financial liberation. It's more than just being
Speaker 1: freed physically, and we need to celebrate and pull our
Speaker 1: money and do something for self, because no one is
Speaker 1: stopping our rise. It's only us. If we can't pull
Speaker 1: our money together, can't funk nobody else. You can't fult
Speaker 1: the government. You're free to do what we want to do.
Speaker 1: We can do tremendous amount of things on our own
Speaker 1: with our government aid or government and says we could
Speaker 1: pull our money together and build If twenty if forty
Speaker 1: million black people pull twenty dollars a month into a
Speaker 1: black fund, that's eight hundred million dollars, and if in
Speaker 1: a year's time that's twelve billion dollars. How much good
Speaker 1: in the hood can twelve billion dollars do? You can
Speaker 1: build schools, you can build housing, you can build supermarkets,
Speaker 1: department stores, you can develop land and agriculture. We could
Speaker 1: do this all on our own. We're already the money
Speaker 1: we have. That's what June team should be about, because
Speaker 1: we already physically free. Should be about economic freedom, economic liberation.
Speaker 1: We need to pull this money, get this money, secure
Speaker 1: the bag. We need to you know, build, develop. You know,
Speaker 1: we're part of this country and we need to play
Speaker 1: our part. And there's things that we can do to
Speaker 1: be more great than we already are, and we need
Speaker 1: to pull this money in order to do it. And
Speaker 1: so to me, June Team is a day of celebration.
Speaker 1: It's a day of jubilee. It's a day of our exhaltation,
Speaker 1: it's a day of our rise. So let's do this physically,
Speaker 1: but let's do this spiritually and fine naturally, and let's
Speaker 1: build a future for the next generation of change. And
Speaker 1: we could do that. I hope you enjoy episode twenty nine,
Speaker 1: June tenth. Let's celebrate our rise for our financial freedom.
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