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Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's bookshef bringing the world together
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Speaker 6: Last week was my one hundredth episode. I titled it
Speaker 6: Why I Do what I Do. I hope you enjoy it,
Speaker 6: and if you hadn't listened to it, I definitely costed
Speaker 6: you to go back, or it hastened you to go
Speaker 6: back and peep out my last episode, which was the
Speaker 6: one hundred Why I do what I do? And I
Speaker 6: kind of tell you in detail, a deeper and more
Speaker 6: insight to my passion and the work and mission that
Speaker 6: I'm on here at Milite Books and Malise's Bookshelf the podcast. Also,
Speaker 6: what I want to talk about is this upcoming Wait,
Speaker 6: it don't stop at Milite Books. We still got it popping,
Speaker 6: we still got it going on. We are in an epicenter,
Speaker 6: a community bookstore that's hosting one icon an event after another,
Speaker 6: and this Tuesday coming up May seventh at seven pm
Speaker 6: at Milite Books. We're gonna be doing a discussion book
Speaker 6: signing with a new author just up and coming, and
Speaker 6: he's blowing up. I haven't seen articles in the La Times,
Speaker 6: the Washington Post, the People's Magazine. The AP News then
Speaker 6: popped them up on their news line. This guy, Ladariu
Speaker 6: Williams wrote a book called Blood at the Route, and
Speaker 6: it's the first I'm assuming the first, at least in
Speaker 6: this day and time. Book there's kind of a parallel
Speaker 6: to Harry Potter, but from a black perspective, where the
Speaker 6: highlighted and featured person is named Alite, a man, a boy, right,
Speaker 6: so his name has to be the same name as
Speaker 6: my name, Elite, And he's the main character in the
Speaker 6: book Blood at the Root. And I'm going to be
Speaker 6: interviewing the Darren Williams about this book. But this book
Speaker 6: is a magical. It's a Wii book and it's magical.
Speaker 6: It's full with powers and fantasy, and it's a book
Speaker 6: where it shows a strong black male character so that
Speaker 6: we can relate to in a different way. A lot
Speaker 6: of these fantasy books don't always feature black as the
Speaker 6: main character, but this one fleets out only a black person,
Speaker 6: but a male. And so this is what his mention
Speaker 6: was and what spurred him the right screenplays and the
Speaker 6: right movie squips and the pitch his book deal.
Speaker 7: It's because he wanted to see stronger movies, books and
Speaker 7: series to talk about that all feature that is a
Speaker 7: strong black male character.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna have the pleasure to interview on them.
Speaker 6: But if you can't make Blood at the Root book
Speaker 6: launch party this May seven, seven pm at Malik Books
Speaker 6: in the Westfield CoA see tomorrow pre order order the
Speaker 6: book from Malikbooks dot com.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you.
Speaker 6: Or wherever books are sold, but I'll say this, I
Speaker 6: got a chance to read it, and I.
Speaker 3: Hope to see this book.
Speaker 6: Won't tell you turn into a TV series or a movie.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you you know.
Speaker 6: HBCU is the backdrop of the story that teaches Maliite
Speaker 6: how to cultivate and harness his power within him and
Speaker 6: also how to control it.
Speaker 3: Malik doesn't know who to trust and how to trust.
Speaker 6: But alone this journey, he's able to discover his true
Speaker 6: self and his legacy. Blood represents who Malique is, and
Speaker 6: Roots represents the legacy and history and ancestrals of Malite.
Speaker 6: So those two combined makes a world win of fantasy,
Speaker 6: of power, of excitement of HBCU schools, and a strong
Speaker 6: black male character, so a blood at the root. We're
Speaker 6: gonna be talking about it with the author in person.
Speaker 6: Book launch party at Malik's Books and Westfield Clova City
Speaker 6: Mall May seventh at seven pm.
Speaker 3: Come through. Now it ain't over.
Speaker 6: It ain't over because on May eleventh we are hosting
Speaker 6: in partnership with b Shop as Black Scholars Achievement Program,
Speaker 6: which is an la USD program within the school district.
Speaker 6: Now this collaboration is bringing Grace Spyers. She's an actress
Speaker 6: of community activists and a New York.
Speaker 4: Times bestseller who wrote the book I Am Enough and
Speaker 4: I Can Believe. Both of those books we got free
Speaker 4: for children out at Cleveland High School coming up this
Speaker 4: signing day May eleventh, between one and eleven.
Speaker 3: Grace bid is gonna be signing in person. That's right,
Speaker 3: signing in person.
Speaker 6: These landmark books I Am Enough and I Believe I
Speaker 6: Can Now you gotta come on as a family event.
Speaker 3: Everything is free. The books are free for the kids.
Speaker 3: Now go their thoughts, but free for the kid. Bring
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Speaker 6: When you get there, they're gonna have you register, but
Speaker 6: just to let Malik know you coming so we can
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Speaker 6: and RGVP from our website. We just want to know
Speaker 6: who's coming out so that we know to have the
Speaker 6: right amount of book. We're giving away the hundreds and
Speaker 6: the hundreds of these books and partnership with b Shop Now, Now,
Speaker 6: this is the kind of thing LSUSD is doing for
Speaker 6: the community, underserved communities, and b Shop is Black Scholars
Speaker 6: Achievement Program is committed to make a difference in the
Speaker 6: inner cities of Los Angeles. So you gotta come on
Speaker 6: out this Saturday, May eleven at Cleveland High School. Come
Speaker 6: get a signed book by Grace Buyers from eleven to
Speaker 6: one pm.
Speaker 3: Take some pictures. This is gonna be epic. You gotta
Speaker 3: come on out. Malik Books won't bill. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: on the set. We excited. You gotta come on out.
Speaker 3: But it ain't over. And it ain't over. We got another
Speaker 3: event to announce.
Speaker 6: We got the epic, iconic Shining Henderson coming.
Speaker 3: To Malate Books May fifteen.
Speaker 6: Now you might not know that name, but that's Shaquille
Speaker 6: O'Neill's ex wife, Shanni, the creator of basketball Wise.
Speaker 3: Now she didn't remarry, So.
Speaker 6: Her name is Henderson, and she's been a lot of
Speaker 6: things and she's evolved over these years.
Speaker 3: But she got her new book out called Undefeated.
Speaker 6: That's right, Los Angeles is Undefeated, and Shanee Henderson is
Speaker 6: going to be on set at Malikue Books on May
Speaker 6: fifteenth at seven pm.
Speaker 3: Is going down. Listen this book Undefeated, Changing the rules
Speaker 3: and winning on my own terms.
Speaker 6: It's an electric and powerful and inspiring and motivating story
Speaker 6: about Shannie Henderson having to change her life as a mother,
Speaker 6: as a wife, and as a producer and creator of
Speaker 6: Basketball Wise, one of the more successful reality shows on television.
Speaker 6: So I'm happy to announce this iconic entrepreneur, producer, author,
Speaker 6: Seannie Anderson coming to Elite Books on May fifteenth at
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Speaker 3: So I'm going to feature on this.
Speaker 6: Episode a personal conversation I had the other day with myself,
Speaker 6: just talking about the trials and triviulations as a father
Speaker 6: to Dark.
Speaker 3: Just to talk.
Speaker 6: About how I was processing.
Speaker 3: My track and being a father.
Speaker 6: I'm what I'm saying is how I process being a
Speaker 6: coach and a father to my daughter, and how those lines.
Speaker 3: Sometimes become blurred and.
Speaker 6: It's hard to separate the tooth, and how sometimes your
Speaker 6: daughter wants you to be the father and sometimes I'm
Speaker 6: still being a coach.
Speaker 3: But at the end, how proud.
Speaker 6: I am of her overcoming some obstacles that we will
Speaker 6: face as a family, but more importantly in her life.
Speaker 6: This was the emotional roller coaster during this time and
Speaker 6: it's sometimes it still is, but I just wanted her
Speaker 6: to know that I'm proud of her.
Speaker 3: And I did this episode from the heart. So enjoy
Speaker 3: it and Daya mal.
Speaker 2: Shait have division form Pree Lambs. Baby girl overcame a
Speaker 2: lot to get to this point.
Speaker 8: I'm proud of her. Whatever way this ends.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, I'm recording this video let her know I'm proud
Speaker 2: of her. Don't matter how it ends tomorrow, I won't
Speaker 2: be proud of her. And I just want her to
Speaker 2: know that it's sometimes being a father and also coaching
Speaker 2: can bloody lines.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm already an Ella copy up parent.
Speaker 2: And so I'll be wanting this more than my own
Speaker 2: children a lot of times because I see some mental
Speaker 2: and I be wanting them to achieve, you know, to
Speaker 2: get to that next level. But they gotta want it
Speaker 2: and gott to see it in in mind. My problem
Speaker 2: is a lot of times I want it more than them,
Speaker 2: and that's when it hurt you, because I'm trying to
Speaker 2: hold on until they find a way to believe, like
Speaker 2: I believe in them.
Speaker 8: Somebody gotta believe.
Speaker 2: You know, you ain't born always believing in it in yourself.
Speaker 8: It's when people point out the.
Speaker 2: Gifts in you and encourage you to be you because
Speaker 2: you don't always see it yourself because you're too close
Speaker 2: to yourself. And I'm just trying to say it enough
Speaker 2: and long enough for her to believe in something that's
Speaker 2: inside of her that I.
Speaker 8: Believe is a gift, a talent.
Speaker 2: This in her It's like look, my job as a
Speaker 2: parent is to be a guid and to help facilitate success,
Speaker 2: and that comes with gruth and I gotta help them
Speaker 2: believe what sometimes they don't believe.
Speaker 8: And I got off the sideline.
Speaker 3: I was retired from track.
Speaker 2: I came back to the sport because I saw a
Speaker 2: gift and my baby girl, and I wanted to help
Speaker 2: her facilitate that because.
Speaker 8: You don't see that all the time.
Speaker 2: And when she was eleven, she won the Junior Olympics
Speaker 2: eleven years old in the eight hundred meters and her
Speaker 2: team almost set the national record in the fourth by
Speaker 2: eight hundred.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 8: At eleven, she went two nineteen.
Speaker 2: I mean she went in the finals, fourth and came
Speaker 2: out the winner, dropped four seconds in the finals.
Speaker 8: The god came out in her.
Speaker 2: I've been chasing that guy and her every since and
Speaker 2: she's sixteen, and she showed me.
Speaker 8: That guy in her and random last year they.
Speaker 2: Would know and I ain't never forgot that race.
Speaker 8: I cried when she went.
Speaker 2: I cried.
Speaker 8: I knew the sacrifice that.
Speaker 2: It took to win it, and I was so proud
Speaker 2: that I'm proud of her them, and it's because she
Speaker 2: fought back in a lot of ways.
Speaker 8: And I didn't even realize.
Speaker 2: That she was able to come back from what she
Speaker 2: came back and to beat here at the Shaya Division
Speaker 2: for Free Limbs.
Speaker 8: After what we went through.
Speaker 2: And I mean, man, a lot of people can relate,
Speaker 2: particularly when an illment comes out of nowhere and affects
Speaker 2: not only their lives but all of us.
Speaker 8: Who loved her, And.
Speaker 2: It just blew me away and it changed our direction
Speaker 2: and it became more of us just loving her and
Speaker 2: accepting the situation and trying to get some normancy. And
Speaker 2: I mean because we were facing with a lot of challenges, man,
Speaker 2: that we had to overcome academic challenges from this thing year,
Speaker 2: physical challenges.
Speaker 8: I mean this thing here, man, it took about two.
Speaker 2: And a half years for us to.
Speaker 3: Get back to.
Speaker 2: A level of I'm you know, normancy what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And so when it came to the ac.
Speaker 9: Athletics, I was like, oh, man, I think that might
Speaker 9: be a thing in the past. I just didn't see
Speaker 9: us even being able to get back to that, you know,
Speaker 9: so that this is this is quite a surprise.
Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't believe that we was going because
Speaker 2: it's so much has happened, and a lot of things
Speaker 2: have changed the way we particularly our baby and her
Speaker 2: thinking and so forth, and the way she see the world.
Speaker 8: Stuff.
Speaker 2: It's just all of this affects it and it affected us.
Speaker 2: They're just things that were more important than athletics. You know,
Speaker 2: we were faced with a lot of academic challenges because
Speaker 2: of this thing here. I don't care what them doctor say,
Speaker 2: this thing he affects your learning, Okay.
Speaker 8: I don't care what they were saying that.
Speaker 2: You know, I think they live in some you know,
Speaker 2: telling some falsehoods and living some lies when they say,
Speaker 2: you know that this stuff don't effect that. You know,
Speaker 2: this illment don't affect you. You're learning and the medication
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, don't effect and it do and it
Speaker 2: affect the whole lot, and you're like your person not
Speaker 2: a whole lot.
Speaker 8: So just to get back.
Speaker 3: You know, to where we.
Speaker 8: Found where we was not feeling you know.
Speaker 10: Like what's the word right here? Like panic, nervous.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's crazy when you can't ride a bike,
Speaker 8: can't leave you in water. O.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like I'm like one I open all
Speaker 2: the time, Like look, you know, just in the back
Speaker 2: of your mind, wondering if something's gonna happen. So this
Speaker 2: right here man was devastating to us and came out
Speaker 2: of nowhere.
Speaker 8: But my baby fall back through that and made it
Speaker 8: year after prelambs the physical fault.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm proud of her, Like she might not understand
Speaker 2: that because as a parently push push and push and
Speaker 2: push and push, and the lines get blurred and so
Speaker 2: they don't you know, sometimes they can't they You know
Speaker 2: what kind of parent would I would I be if I.
Speaker 8: Didn't push right?
Speaker 2: If I would let her make decisions that affect her
Speaker 2: life long that not help us hurt her.
Speaker 8: You know, kids don't choose sometimes the right things.
Speaker 2: But we got to help them choose the right things
Speaker 2: so they can see this is in their best interest.
Speaker 8: So I'm just I'm just grateful and thankful.
Speaker 2: And whatever happened tomorrow, hey, I'm an accepted and embrace
Speaker 2: her and.
Speaker 8: Huger and pickre up.
Speaker 10: Just that.
Speaker 8: Hey, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: Know, just think here can continue. You know, we got
Speaker 2: a pr and we gotta be the.
Speaker 3: Top nine that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it might not and if it don't happen,
Speaker 2: oh well, I'm proud of you I love you and
Speaker 2: I'm very grateful to have this opportunity to be a
Speaker 2: spectator because a whole lot of people got eliminated, a
Speaker 2: whole lot so us. You know this, California, you got
Speaker 2: thirty million people, so you got a lot of people
Speaker 2: in this game, in this sport, in track and field.
Speaker 8: So for us to get to the Southern Section Division
Speaker 8: four finals.
Speaker 2: Which is the most competitive, your Southern Section wins most
Speaker 2: of the medals at the state meet, Southern Section dominates
Speaker 2: the state meet. Then this ain't you know, this is
Speaker 2: on a continuous basis. So you get to the state
Speaker 2: meet out of the Southern Section, you have your work
Speaker 2: cut out for you. This is the hardest in the
Speaker 2: state of California.
Speaker 3: It's you.
Speaker 8: It was unique about the State of California's that it
Speaker 8: ain't for one state chain.
Speaker 2: Ain't no divisional state winners. This one state champion in
Speaker 2: each event. One hundred, two hundred, four hundred. Texas can't
Speaker 2: say that, Florida can't say that. A lot of these states,
Speaker 2: all they do is have divisional state title winners, but
Speaker 2: not in California. You can win and you could be
Speaker 2: in the smaller school two hundred people or less in
Speaker 2: your school.
Speaker 8: And win the state title.
Speaker 2: That's how they do it out here in California, and
Speaker 2: so it's the most covenant.
Speaker 8: Award you can win because you are the state chat.
Speaker 8: They don't have.
Speaker 2: Look, football got different divisional state title. Basketball got different
Speaker 2: divisional title, but track got one. That's the difference. When
Speaker 2: the person tell you that the col from your state champion,
Speaker 2: they are one hundred percent the only state champion. That's
Speaker 2: how it is every year in track. So kudos to CIF.
Speaker 8: For holding that down for all these.
Speaker 2: Years and decades because we then interview when it comes back.
Speaker 8: But hey, I'm proud of your baby.
Speaker 2: I just want you to know and I'm taking any
Speaker 2: anyway even if she do on PR she was slow.
Speaker 8: Hey baby Gool, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: I love you, and I just want you to see
Speaker 2: the God in you, the gift in you, and.
Speaker 3: Be you.
Speaker 8: Love you.
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