WEBVTT - Replay* Deeply Rooted with Brea Baker 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:00.840 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.199 Mallory and the ship Boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.240 We are your host of t M I. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:11.920 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and Inspiration, New Energy. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:15.720 What's up, my Son Lennon? 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.239 Greetings, Tamika D. Mallory. How are you feeling to that. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:20.560 I'm doing okay? 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.160 Okay until freedom down today a little until. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.680 Summertime. I love. 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.800 It's way too hot outside. 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.640 You say that every week every week. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:44.040 I went outside and I've seen the devil licking somebody's 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:44.600 face out of it. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.639 But it's better than it was last week. A little bit, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:49.840 but it's better. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.560 Yeah, the heat is still on hell man. 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.480 I mean that's just a reality. I think. You know, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:57.400 when you hear. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.840 Certain groups of peace people trying to deny that climate 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.479 change is real, I mean, it's actually playing out before 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.080 our eyes like we see it, so I can tell 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:09.160 me that's not real. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:16.280 AnyWho. You know, I'm really about to like change my profession. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.760 I'm telling you because I would like to focus on 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:20.800 quality control. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.360 That's what I want to focus on. That's the thing 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.240 I want to focus on. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:30.560 I realized that I that in my third life because 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.920 I have one that is an organizer for social justice. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.520 I have another one that is an event planner, and 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.720 then I have a third one that should be in 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:48.559 customer service and quality control. I had an experience during 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:55.040 my family reunion where you know, I checked into an 0:01:55.080 --> 0:02:02.080 Airbnb and when I got there, beautiful space in a 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:08.799 town that does not have much my family's town in Moreauville, Alabama. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.520 You know, it's there's a there's two different sides to 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:19.440 it with like like with many areas that's heavily populated 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.800 with black boats. You got downtown some kind of like 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:29.560 some would say uptown, you know, and there's some white money, 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.280 and there of course are black affluent people there as well. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:38.680 But it is a very very very country town, small town. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.639 And so when you think of and there were there 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:48.200 used to be businesses that were like amazing, right, like 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:53.320 you know, factories and lots of businesses, and all of 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.400 that was purchased by big business and then they shut 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.639 production down and so for years and year in years, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.080 those jobs have not returned. So there is the tale 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:04.880 of two cities. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:05.440 Again. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.400 There are people who are retired, people who you know, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:14.160 moved there for various reasons to teach college to you know, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.000 maybe it's just they found a good town that they 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:18.840 like to spend the rest. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:19.360 Of their lives. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.400 You have that, and then you have people who are 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.559 absolutely struggling and really suffering with a lot of desperation. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.640 So when you see beautiful airbnbs popping up because people 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.640 are starting to invest in this area again, it's really cool. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:41.480 Shout out to my cousin OLA's Garden, Kim Abney, who 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:46.360 has opened up a number of rentals and airbnb properties 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.120 and they are phenomenal beautiful. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.320 You walk in the details is. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.120 Just like his mama, my auntie Ola May Abney taught 0:03:55.160 --> 0:04:01.080 him this other Airbnb very nice, walked in, loved beautiful. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.160 But as soon as my and my brother Milton is 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.080 with me, so it's not just me because I know 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:07.240 y'all gonna say, oh. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:08.280 She always got something. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.000 Soon as we walked into the bedroom, he's helping me 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.640 put my suitcases up. You clearly see a stain on 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.599 the bed. Then he pulls the cover back and there's 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:27.040 another stain. Now, these two stains are more than likely clean. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.440 They're more than likely clean. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.880 Right, And in fact, I'm just gonna make this my 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:37.080 thought of the day today because it's so it's just 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.960 these two stains are there. More than likely it's clean 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.960 and it's wear and tear. It looks like an old 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.520 oil stain or something. But the bed looks clean. It's 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.799 just it has these two stains on it. So immediately 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.880 I reach out to the management and say there's stains 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.640 in the bed, and their response and by the way, 0:04:58.680 --> 0:04:59.719 I don't hear anything back. 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:01.720 Is on three hours before. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.840 I had to send an email going through all of 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:08.200 this to get the attention of the individual. And eventually 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.279 she calls me back and she's like, yeah, well, but 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.760 it's definitely clean. I understand what you're saying, and I 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.880 believe that it's clean. But I should not have to 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.000 sleep in a bed that has stains on it, regardless 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.960 of whether it is clean or not. Whether it's clean 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.800 or not is not the point here. The point is 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.080 there should not be stains in the bed. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:31.360 Now. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.200 Let me just say from the onset that it was corrected. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.440 But it was corrected after having to go back and 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.279 forth with this woman several times, and then eventually she 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:49.520 said to me, oh, and she said, well, this one 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.560 is busy, which is the lady who is the cleaning person. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:58.800 She herself this woman was with her family, and she's 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.120 telling me all of these things and continueing to say 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.480 and then texting me that I know for a fact 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.479 those sheets were washed, that bed was clean, those it's clean. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.240 Still not did it? 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:12.839 She didn't get what was going on. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.440 She did not understand that when you check into a hotel, 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.360 you check into a rental property, you don't want to 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.839 see any type of stain. And by the way, that 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.440 is called wear and tears. So what you do when 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.559 it has a stain on it, it's time to throw 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.279 it out and get new ones. This happens all the 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.719 time when you are running well, no one else has 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.840 ever complained. Meanwhile, my brother, he's like you, he ain't 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.880 trying to have you know, Milton, it is not that serious. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.640 It's fine. When he looked at it, he was like, nah, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.480 this is a stain. Like and you know, I'm the 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.520 one and all of the guys around me would be like, 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.960 oh boy, here she go to glass the four, this, that, 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.599 that and the third. But even he was like, no, no, 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.719 that's a stain. It's two stains, and it's one under 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:03.120 the comforter. In my thought of the day today is that, 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.800 of course, as a black woman. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.520 You know, I want to I should be. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:16.760 Able to say and defend my position as black women, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.920 and I would imagine black people we are constantly shrinking 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:30.400 ourselves so that we don't upset, annoy, agitate others, or 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.920 bring further harm to ourselves. So all of the hotels 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.320 in this particular area, it's places that I personally would do. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.200 I don't like to stay. This is my mother's hometown. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.240 I love it there, love it there, grew up there, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.960 can't wait to go back. But I don't like staying 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.640 in the hotels. So the idea that there are Airbnb 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.360 properties that are very nice popping up is really really good. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.280 And I don't want to put myself in a situation 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.680 where I have a bad rating or you know, where 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.000 these people can write whatever they want. I've already been 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.680 down the road with Airbnb where somebody blatantly lied, the 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:15.960 management company blatantly lied. Airbnb knew it from reading all 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.320 of the messages back and forth between us, but still 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.960 told me that they cannot delete the comments on the 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.920 review that was left for me because. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.120 It still is up to the will. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.640 Of the property manager, even though they read screenshots and 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.520 saw that it was a lie, and it's very basic. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.640 They tried to say that I had an additional person 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.199 in the house above the people that were supposed to 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.120 be there, but then it was proven that that was 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:49.920 the driver who dropped off our bags and was only 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.400 in the house for maybe fifteen minutes, and it was 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.120 proven in the messages, but they still left on my 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:01.000 comment thing, you know, my review and Airbnb that I 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.360 had an additional person in the house and so I 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.319 violated the rooms right and Airbnb could not and would 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.439 not do anything about it. So therefore, here I am 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.480 dealing with this sheet situation. And instead of me doing 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.000 what I know how to do, which is to write 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.600 and be very clear about why this is problematic and 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.320 to make my point and also to demand of this 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.320 woman to stop telling me like I'm a child, over 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.360 and over again that the sheets are clean, I am 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.440 unable to do that because I need to try to 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:40.920 protect my name, my brand, myself physically. Who knows like 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.200 this is a white woman in a country town somewhere. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:45.920 I don't know what the hell she might do. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.160 I have no idea I know her husband is, I 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.280 don't know how children are, so I don't want to 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.199 get into a back and forth with this woman. So ultimately, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.000 if you read my messages, I'm saying I'm my apologies, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:02.280 I'm sorry, I'm the freaking customer, and I'm apologizing to 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.400 the lady and trying to be as nice as possible 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.000 to try to de escalate or whatever you want to 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:13.360 call it, diffuse any possibility that this situation was somehow 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.959 backfire on me. And I just feel like that is 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.000 the most uncomfortable for the rest of my trip. It 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.640 was in the back of my mind that this woman 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.920 had been extremely rude to me. I mean, it goes 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.520 on and on, and we don't have the time to 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.880 talk about it today, but it was nothing that I 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.280 could really do because I wanted to be in a 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.840 comfortable place where I could stay for my family reunion 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.360 and also not interrupt other people for feeling like. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:41.520 They needed to protect me. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.240 So, you know, that's a that's a it's a very 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.319 uncomfortable place that we as black people are constantly trying 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.560 to shrink ourselves so that we don't upset other people 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.679 even when they're doing us wrong. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.640 Yeah, that's that's really a real thing. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.920 I go through it all the time, you know, I 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.320 try not to be as aggressive when I'm communicating with 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.760 certain people, understanding that I speak with the level of 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.080 passion that I've been told is aggressive and scared people. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.760 You know, a lot of times, in certain situations where 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.640 I don't even think I'm wrong, I apologize because, like 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.959 you said, you fear the backlash of what can come 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.040 out the situation. You know, we constantly have to do that, 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.760 you know, and knowing how picky you are, and it's 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.959 nothing wrong with being picky when you're paying your money 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.360 for something, you know what I'm saying, and that's customer service. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.079 Like you know, you know, I play with you a 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.600 lot and go, oh gosh, it's gonna go with the 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.080 reality situation is, it's not like you're wrong. You don't 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.960 want dirty civil where you don't want dirty cheeks, you 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.520 don't want dirty things. You don't want to overlook that 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.440 as a state on you, and you don't really have to, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.880 because when you provide a service, especially when people have 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.720 to lay in their heads and live living borders, it 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:56.920 should be immaculate. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.600 Actually, it should be an immaculate space. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.040 To where the sheets where people have to lay their 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.440 body or they don't know if this is a fucking 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.040 comestain or whatever stain that comes from somebody else, like 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.120 nobody should have to guess what kind of stain is 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:11.839 on the sheet in. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.680 The blanket, you know what I'm saying. And you and 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:15.120 if you. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.480 Don't see that you're willing to move past it, then 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.880 you you shouldn't have to. And when you bring it 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:24.360 to someone who is providing the services to you, when 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.600 you bring it to their attention, it shouldn't be any pushback. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.280 It should just be like, oh my, I apologize, you know, 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.000 even though they're clean, I understand, I apologize. I'm gonna 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.920 make sure I get you guys some fresh sheets, and 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.200 that's it. It really shouldn't be much more than that. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.480 But that's just not where we are, you know. And 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:45.920 unfortunately we live in a time where, you know, especially 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.800 as black people, that we, like you said, we have 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.840 to try not to say as much and try to 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.960 cause as less problems because we always gonna be seen. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.200 And unless unless it's a videotape or something, just like 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.319 you said, you you had the whole screenshots of text 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.560 messages would showed that somebody lying on you and you 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.640 still had to deal with the backladge. So it's just 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.400 like a lot of times you want it, it's even 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.480 worth it. You know, you got to weigh your options. 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.080 Do I even standing up for myself or do I 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.960 be quiet? Because I know standing up for myself can 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.000 give me ostracized and you know, in ridiculed. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.640 So it's a lot man. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.160 And meanwhile, this white woman got to walk away from 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.240 the situation. And by the way, the way Airbnb works 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:34.200 for people who don't know, you make a review first 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.400 and then she makes a review after, so they and 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.520 they don't get to see it until after they make 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.280 their review. But nonetheless, you make a review first and 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.160 then they make a review. So for me, I and 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:52.120 you know, I'm just, I'm just like systems and customer 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.680 service and quality control needs a new focus. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.760 It really does, because. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.520 People are spending their money services that they don't like. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.000 Products are coming. Listen the way in which people the 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.360 clothes are being made. Everything is just being thrown together 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:15.400 and people are basically being forced to to I don't 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.480 know what you call that. I got some moose from 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.120 my hair and the top of the moose bottle was 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.840 cracked open, and they were trying to tell me, oh, 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:24.720 there's no way. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.240 To exchange it. And this, this, and that. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:28.920 I had to go all the way to the corporate 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.760 office to get five dollars. But if you mailed me 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.240 something and it's broken, you're supposed to replace it. Like, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.880 how dare you even think you can have a policy 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:39.800 that says that you don't have to. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.080 So this is something that for me is a real passion. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.520 I have no idea the process. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.400 Of getting you know, scooting myself from one world to 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:53.200 the next, but I really I wish that and when 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.640 I go and come back that I would be in 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.320 quality control and customer service. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.000 Well, listen, man, I know if you and customer service, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.040 the customer service is going to be immaculate because what 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.720 you demand from customer service, it's pretty much what we 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:11.200 all shit. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:11.400 You know. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.560 Like I said, I joke about it a lot. But 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.600 should we should have Queen Sip? Should have people you 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.000 know what I'm saying. We should have people who want 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.760 to be actually like their job, like their attitude shouldn't 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.240 be like you bothered them because you're asking them to 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.440 do things to make you comfortable as a customer. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.600 You know, yeah, we shouldn't thank you very much. So 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.560 do we have a music spotlights? Listen? 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:37.800 I don't want us to just be giving the music 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.320 spotlight to people that don't deserve it. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.960 So I don't have a music spotlight, but I do 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:48.440 want to highlight a clothing brand that has beautiful clothing 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:53.920 and it is my guy Smith is Smith, and it's 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.040 called Actively Black. 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.600 Actively Black. This is a shirt. Look see this. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.920 Let me say that a more confident Okay. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.520 Yeah, this is this is one of the shirts black 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:10.160 and cocky. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.280 Yeah, Actively Black man. So they sent me a bunch 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.720 of stuff. Shout out to him. Listen to me. It 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:20.520 is quality sportswear, quality sports where they sent you a 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.080 whole box of stuff. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.040 I'm getting ready to start going through it for my travels. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.320 Shout out to Landy Smith. Shout out to Actively Black. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.800 If you do not have some of their clothing, then 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.120 you need to go on actively black dot com right now. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.200 They partner with Alan Everson. I've seen Obama and some 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.680 of their clothing. You know they're doing. They're doing amazing things. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.640 It's just one of my premium brands, top brands. He 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.960 sent me a box of stuff that I'm gonna work 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.640 out it and some it's fly stuff. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.200 It is work. It ain't just worker. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.120 It's quality sports were Man, it's real quality, high quality 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:58.520 sports with Wow. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.080 If you look at what I've had a. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.959 Shorts from last year that I got that's still in 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.199 tip top shape like this, I work out in them 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:08.760 all the time. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:09.800 My favorite work out you. 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.440 That's what I was gonna say that well, a little 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.439 different from you. They also sent me a box, and 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.600 I'm so proud of Actively Black. First of all, I 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.840 remember when you first started promoting them, a lot of 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.879 people didn't know who they were. And this was like 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.639 at the very beginning of folks saying we need to 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.879 buy black, and you were immediately on Actively Black. So 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.760 shout out to you for that, especially after the Nike 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.600 situation when we decided to not wear like y'all don't 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:35.720 even miss Nike anymore. 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.760 Like actually I told you. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.639 I don't even see it anymore as something like I 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.399 don't feel I. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.480 Don't I just don't feel attached to it. So that's that. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.040 But but they sent me things and the quality, like 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.480 you said, is so good. It's so it's such a 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.560 good brand. And so for people who are like you know, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.159 I want to support some black owned business, but I 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.400 want myself to be because sometimes let's be clear, try 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.400 to support our own and the stuff don't be that 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.879 good quality, like I'm just saying, and it's not just 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.520 our own. Sometimes we support other brands and the equality 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.440 is not there, you know what I'm saying. And then anyway, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.720 it's not their customer service quality I got. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:19.680 I could go. 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:20.840 On, but I won't. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.760 Customer service Actively Black they definitely have good customer service 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.720 and they have a heart for the community and the people, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.760 and a lot of folks are starting to get into it. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.960 You know, people have been supporting them, So keep supporting Actively. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.639 Black because I am actively Black. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:41.760 All right. 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.159 Family, So today, you know, we always have our friends on, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.440 but today we got our little sister, and I am 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.919 really really excited because this is a young woman who 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.680 is an example of what we tell our young people 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.480 they need to do. She's not waiting for anybody to 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:04.639 give her position. She's not waiting to be lifted and 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.720 we need to pass the torch and no, no, no, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:13.240 she is blazing her own trails and carrying the torch 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:17.800 all at the same time. And we're just I don't 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.920 know my song, what's the word. It's not just excited, 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:31.040 it's elated. It's elated crowd to have this young woman 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:36.879 as our sister, our colleague, and the struggle and just 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.040 so many things, and I can actually cry because it's 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.960 just that deep knowing, you know, watching all of us 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:47.320 grow over time, but especially watching Bria Baker, our young sister, 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:52.000 go from on the streets, on the ground to putting 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.679 it in a book and now she has such an 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.920 amazing project. Let me tell you a little bit about 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.000 Bria Bacon. Now, y'all know I don't read bios on 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.159 this show. It's very limited, but in this situation, we 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:05.720 want to make sure that. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.439 Our sister is properly introduced to all of you. So, 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.280 Brian Baker is a freedom. 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:14.960 Fighter and writer and a national and global strategist. 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.680 Come on, now, tell them exactly who you are. 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.640 She has contributed to dozens of electoral and advocacy campaigns, 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:27.040 including the twenty seventeen Women's March on Washington, the twenty 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:32.400 eighteen student walkouts against gun violence, and Jamani Williams successful 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.679 bid for New York City Public Advocate. Ria has a 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:40.200 BA in political science from Yale University, where she served 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:45.239 as president of Yale's NAACP chapter and co director of 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:50.480 the AIDS Walk New Haven, Okay. Now Ria has a book. 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:55.240 It is called Rooted, the American Legacy of Land Theft 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.560 and the Modern Movement for Black land Ownership. 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:00.600 It delves into one of the. 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:06.040 Nation's first and stealing and hoarding the land, and follows 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.360 Ria and her family on a personal journey to preserve 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.040 her ancestors land in North Carolina. 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.040 Ria, thank you so much for joining us on Tami. 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:19.440 Sah no is going to make me cry because they 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.200 are being too kind, like little sister. 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.280 But like I was just following. 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:27.560 Around, happy to learn at y'all's feed and Carmen and 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.000 Linda and just learn so much from the two of 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:36.439 y'all though, of course through gathering and other spaces. But 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.159 it is just so special to get to talk to 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.000 y'all about a book after having been the little intern 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:46.040 volunteer assistant who was taking notes all those years ago. 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:48.919 Yeah. Well, I just want to say, first of all, 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:53.679 I'm very proud of you, and this book is just 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.440 pretty much a testament of who you are. 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.600 You know, like you always found. 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.800 That needed to be spoken on, Like even when I 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:04.720 go to your social media, you speak on the things 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.760 that we need to say talk about, but nobody actually 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:11.800 highlights and you have a knack for that. You know 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:15.040 in this book right here just pretty much speaks to 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.320