WEBVTT - Flashback to Boosie Badazz and Flame Monroe Interview 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:08.840 Yeah, I love you, Ratchet to sit down. Did you 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.080 come to the most prominent form for you? Wait your 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:12.959 ass up early in the morning? But they tell me 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.200 what was y'all? I said, Hell, yeah, I'm getting the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.880 stagers Waller Ship three People's Choice. Actually, I got you 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.600 trauma made people. I can't believe you guys are the basket? 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:34.080 What did we know? This breakfast club? I'm telling, I'm telling. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.360 What's you doing? Hall of yo? This is your time 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.159 to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.360 Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. We 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.440 want to hear from you on the breakfast Club. Hello, 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.120 who's this yo? Caesar? Hey, what's up? Broke? Get with 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.800 your chest? Hey, Caesar, I'm meant to using a non 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:59.880 name everybody. Oh my goodness, do you want to to 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.520 your name? Now? Man, I just get off my chests 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.640 real quick. I don't sting you walking you because I 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.200 don't like when Charlot mane and if you do that 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.399 you um, but yeah, get on my chests. Um. I 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.560 don't like when people be kind of take I don't 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.440 like when other people be trying to take other people 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.160 back and steel hold like a like a like a 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.320 brudge against it. You know, like for example, if a 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:29.679 dude peaks on a girl and he like, I forgive you, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:34.039 I take you back, but like what week years down 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.560 the road, you still like throwing it back in my face. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.000 That's like, come on now, so this just happens. This 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.920 just happened to you, Caesar, I don't know. I mean, yeah, 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:45.520 I mean, but this, this is like, this is like 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.040 some long ago types up you know I'm talking about 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.000 like even nowadays, you know, like I see my partner 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.240 goes through with versa. He seems go through it with gods. 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:59.080 It's like, hey, girls, you know well, I would say 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.480 that sometimes they trigger you. You know, so you might 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.680 have forgiven somebody, but that doesn't mean that you completely 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.600 forget it, And so there might be certain times when 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.840 you fall back into some old habits. It takes a 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.440 long time to build up that trust, show us an 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.200 effort on both people's parts. Though I do agree, you 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.600 can't just keep on beating somebody up after you said 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.320 let's work on it. But every now and then, you know, 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.160 you don't intend for it to happen, but you get 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.000 a little mad. You're right, you're right, You're right. We 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:27.560 are you when we all get trying to you know, 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.960 love our best lives out here. I feel you well, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.040 thank you, bro, good luck man? Hello? Who's that? Yo? 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.720 What's wrong for something? Bro? What's up? Man? You want 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.960 to hoilight Charlotte? Yeah? Hey, First of all, knowledge want 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.160 to give you your your roles now, you know for 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.120 the work that you do men for mental health, Like 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.800 I mean, you do a great job now with not 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.640 just word but you know trying to wait for people 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.680 to really you know, to heal and to deal with 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.200 the mental health. Right, thank you king man. It's all good. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.280 I think I think some teeth got to man. I 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.359 created to get pressing future and said that I make 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.200 the look good. You guys get it, No make we 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.800 look good. I make stuff look good us. That's what 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:13.040 the teachers said, every person's future, right, Okay, struggling you 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.359 know the pressure and that different you know, denis right 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.160 and basically hand a little. You don't see what's going 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.960 on because like you know, my nominoe issue, it's not 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.120 like a cold when you eat the simple you know 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.239 what I'm as for people who the peoples up and 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.960 other so basically you know when I kill people here 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.760 in man, go get your hair done. That never was done. Guys, 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.000 to get your beer saving put your out and on 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.520 him and look good. All right? Bro okay, yes sir, 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.120 Well thank you man. You have a good day. Man, 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.520 have a good morning, all right? Bro? All right? Man? Hello, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.880 who's this? This is Tim? Hey, good morning. I'm gonna 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.520 get it off your chest. Oh my god, it was excited. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:57.880 Good morning, y'all. It's my birthday. Happy day. Oh my gosh, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:02.080 I'm the same. I'm excited. Sorry what you're doing this weekend? 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.280 Well right now? Um, later all my mom's gonna come 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.080 get me and go to star stuff. Oh that's really nice. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.800 I like that day with your mama. Enjoy your day, mama, 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.839 Thank you. I have a question for Charlomagne though, Yes, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.120 ma'am Charlomagne. I've been buying all these books right because 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.640 you're recommend it though, but only book. I don't have these, George, 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.560 anybody I can get it for a birthday care? What 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.400 you want? You? Y'all? Got you? Which one you want? 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:30.200 See both? First one? All right, I got you. I'm 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.200 gonna put you on hold and get your address. Oh 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.800 my god, thank you so much. Y'all. Have a blessed one. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:41.799 Thank you a kid. Hello? Who's that? Hey see from Miami, Miami? 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.279 What's up? What's up? Good morning? I just wanted to 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.679 get off my chest that I'm going to be losing 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.400 my job because of the COVID vaccinam. But I've been 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.000 up all night just like focusing on my business. So 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.520 I just wanted to shut it out. Okay, shut out. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.679 What do you work? I worked for a darknothin company. Ahead. Yeah, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.080 so business is my purse baby. Um. You can find 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.240 me on Instagram at my purse baby website is my 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.600 purse baby dot com. It's m Y p r F 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.640 b aim b watch. Okay, all right at it? Well, 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.719 thank you mama. I love you guys, love you back. Hello. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.560 Who's this? Good morning? Quill claim out of dum cliff up? 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.359 Getting off your chest? Um man. Just with this Henry 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.040 Roth situation with him drink drunk driving, Um, I had 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.320 a similar experience to where I could have send somebody's 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.400 life back in twenty fifty and I just want to 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.120 encourage people not to drink and drive. Man. That was 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.720 the day that I decided to stop drinking. It's been 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.080 almost six years and I haven't had a drink. Um, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.640 my family and I were driving and end up bad. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.960 So I want to encourage people not to drink and 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.400 drive and and and just don't do it. Man. I 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.520 agree with you, brother. I can't believe people still doing 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.680 that in two thousand twenty one. Man. But you know, 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.080 people make poor choices every day. Be But you know 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.080 the worst thing about drunk driving, man, is that it's 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.480 not even about you. It's about what you may do 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.159 to somebody else. Absolutely right. You got a lot of 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.679 people depending on you, and you know you put yourself 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.320 in the baskett to where you put your family in 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:19.440 a situation and somebody else's family potentially. Definitely all right, man, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.520 have a going Hey, can I shut out my page 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.080 our family fitness page? Oh yes? If everybody can follow 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.760 us on Instagram and Edmondson strong E d m U 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.480 N D s O N Underscore s r O n G. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.120 If you have a bus that you have a good weekend, man, 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.719 get it off your chests eight hundred five eight five 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.320 one on five one. If you need to vent, hit 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.080 us up now. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, the 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:49.640 Breakfast Club. Hey, this is your time to get it 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.680 off your chest. Whether you're man than from you on 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.640 the Breakfast Club. You got something on your mind? Hello? 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.880 Who's this? Hey? Man? I just wanted to say I 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.800 love y'all show man. I've been watching it forever. A 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:07.320 shout out to you, m V Charlottagne and Mush from 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.480 a little small town in Michigan. And uh damn, I've 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.120 been trying to get to you forever. This is crazy 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.520 man work right now? Okay, but it's all right, good, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:20.480 all right, we'll talk to us. What's up? Um? I 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.080 work for a screen playing company. I'd love to make 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:29.040 y'all some T shirts? All right, gets up that Michigan 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:34.320 want apparel, Larson Graphics, Vassar Michigan, Carol Michigan. Okay, all right, 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.720 bro and checking in. Have a good week in man. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.120 Not a man of many words, but the side. Hello, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.240 who's this? Wow? His my name is Kingsley hopefully on 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:48.720 the Arkansas Hey, get it off your chests, Brody Hensley 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:56.640 Soliman and guarding every radio. Hey, thank you's got my check? Letten? 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.320 Thank you? Want to think all through y'all? Well, what 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.720 y'all do? It's a blessing. I've been going through a 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.720 lot of mental mental battle financially, spiritually, emotionally, um finitial 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.600 want to thank all y'all for what y'all do, for 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.880 your list service, mcle Pjy, for your for your car showing, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.000 for what you do, and for Charlomagne Gud for your 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.160 mental health awareness and just thank you. I do. I 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.080 do have your book um that you send shook one, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.080 but I would love I would love the other ones 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.480 who don't read all State of Emergency. I'm reading fifty 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.280 cents Huncial Heart Michael Todd to be on my list. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.480 I just think all y'all because it's just hard being 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.439 alone and it's doing nobody really know you know you're 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.640 gonna want you going through. It's just hard to get out. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.079 So I have to appreciate all y'all and I probably not. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.000 I got two radio I got, I got two good 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.160 ones for you. I'm gonna send you, Um, I'm gonna 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.280 send you resumemnicum my Grandmother's hands, and I'm gonna send 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.560 you doctor to Walker the Unapologetic Guy to Black Mental Health. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.199 Thank you Charlomagne guy. How different from into my information 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.720 and yet stay on hold, Stay on hold, I'm gonna 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.319 get your address all right. Hello, who's this. What's up? Ivy? 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.079 What's up? Uncle Charlocks? Hey, Angela Peace? King? How are you, sir? 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.640 Doing well? Just supporting me from Atlanta? Just to talk 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:10.960 to y'all again. I wanted to get off my test. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.640 I'm both to big of people talking about the Brefence 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:19.000 Club is ntire black and it's transphobic, homophobic when y'all 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.080 ain't nothing but support. Man, I'm a part of the 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:25.240 LGBT community, and like it's just positive. Everybody is upset 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.800 because y'all had Boothy up there, But man, y'all not 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:29.600 bias at all up there, and that's why I put 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.120 you up. Bro. Well, thank you, I appreciate that. I'm 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.079 glad that you got eyes, my brother. I'm glad your 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.880 third eye is open and you can see what's really 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.640 going on and not believe narratives. Oh yell, no doubt, 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:45.719 no doubt. Glad, Thank you, King. I appreciate you got 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.120 the books, y'all. Hello, who's this? You're what up? Versus clubs? 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.480 A little hounda civic? What up? Little hunta civic? What up? 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.320 Getting off your chest? Yo? Gas prices is ridiculous when 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.000 you're gonna play a little hunts sis on the radio. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:57.800 What the hell are you talking about a little crazy? 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.560 I ain't even gonna lie. That's two different things. You're 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.600 talking about get gas prices and you wanna get played 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:02.920 on the radio. Which one is I guess. He said 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.120 he want to get played on the radio so he 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:10.760 could pay for his gas prices. Oh, don't take much gas, though, 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.960 I would say that spit your rapper, go? He said, 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.000 what your rapper? Yeah? You ever heard my song? No? 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.560 That rap? Now? Go? I can't wrap my themes on man, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.600 you gotta plays on the radio. Have a blessed day, sir, 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.000 have a blessed that. I hope you live as long 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:30.600 as a civic class. Get it off your chest. Eight 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.760 hundred five eight five one on five one. If you 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.720 need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:40.160 Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Yeah, it's the world most 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.920 dangerous morning shore the Breakfast Club. Charlomagne and God Angela Ye, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.120 dj Envy is not here, but we have a very 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.280 special guest. Today feels divine because she is the secondary 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.559 least off Black Privilege Publishing. She has a book called 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.839 Shallow Water. She's a writer, a spiritual advisor. Her name 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.080 is miss Anita Copax. What's happening in the need up? 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.439 I'm so happy to be here, so honored, thank you, 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.480 thank you, thank you. How are you? I'm amazing. I'm 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.680 feeling a little nervous because this is like it's surreal 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.240 to be sitting in here with both of you right now, 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:18.079 and I'm like just feeling so blessed you are. You 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.800 should be nice and comfortable. Let's talk about Shallow Waters 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.280 and the meeting even of the title, Yes so well, 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.560 Shallow Waters is about yem A Yah. And what's funny 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.640 is that when I was telling Charlemagne about the book, 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.200 you know, he had already read the book, and I 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.280 was like, do you know who yem Yah is? And 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.000 he's like, I've never heard of her. And I was like, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.760 I bet you have, bet you have. And I was like, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.720 you remember the poem from Love Jones? And he started 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.680 reciting the poem and then he was like, oh, are 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.680 you yeme Yah? Yeah? Hell you must be oh shoon. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.040 And I was like it was like we've been saying 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.760 her name this whole time, you know, like in our 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.400 culture and so many of us don't know who she is. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:04.480 So Yamya was said to be a black mermaid who 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:09.760 watched over our ancestors as we went over the Middle Passage, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.920 and she would watch over the the ancestors that made 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.200 it and the ones who were either thrown over or 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.360 jumped off, and she watched over their souls. And Beyonce 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:26.040 reference to me too in a Black Parade. Which so, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.760 with all of these references you know in movies and music, 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.200 why do you think it's taken so long for someone 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.600 to tell a story about I feel like it is 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:38.920 her time for me. I feel very passionate about black 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:43.520 women being divine beings and the world is not going 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:48.040 to be right until everyone realizes that. Oh absolutely, I 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.560 think black women are the closest thing we have to 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.560 God on this planet. They are got Yeah, I agree. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.680 How long have you been working on this? Well? Listen, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.280 I put in my days that I had like writer's block, 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.000 so all together from the beginning, like thought to now, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.920 it has been seven years, and I had two years 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:13.319 of writers wow, which I actually put in there because 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.600 during the time of the writer's block, I felt like 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.360 it was there because I had to grow into who 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.960 I needed to be yep in order to write the 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.440 next part Wow. And so it was a process. It 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.520 was a process, and it was magical, I have to 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.640 say that. So one of the historical figures within the 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:39.280 book is Harriet Tubman. And while I was writing, I 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.640 was the editor in chief of Heart and Soul magazine 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:47.000 and I wrote this one part in there where Harriet 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:51.400 Tubman gave a two year old a tincture to be 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.880 able to fall asleep while they're on the underground railroad. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:56.760 And so when I wrote it, I was like, you 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.239 know what, I don't know if she really was herbalist. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.400 I'm going to take it out. And then the next 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.240 day I went to the city. I had a sales meeting. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.880 It was in the middle of this restaurant, and after 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.559 the sales meeting, this woman walks up who was just 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.520 in the restaurant And she walks up and she goes, 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.760 did you know that Harriet Tubman was an herbalist? Wow? 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.600 Like didn't say hi, nothing, And I just was like 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.400 my heart was like what. I was like, why did 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.000 you just say that to me? She's like, I don't know, 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.320 because it's Black History months and I just felt like, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.080 you know, you would want to know that. That's amazing, 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.720 And so I was like all right, all right, Mama, Harriet, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.560 I'm staying and I'm not taking it out. So I 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.000 felt guided. I felt guided when I was writing it. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.960 So this is considered a young adult novel. It is 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:47.640 considered an adult novel, okay, but the process is so 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.440 that people give it to their children. Now you start 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.720 off shallow waters talking, you talking about the Negro Mother? Yes, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.720 by Lanston. What does that passage mean to you? Who? 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:05.200 That passage means so much? Shall we read it? We're yeah, 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.160 you read it. Look at my face. Dark is the 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.920 night yet shining like the sun would Love's true light. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.240 I am the black girl who crossed the dark sea, 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.720 carrying in my body to see to the free The 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.400 Negro Mother by Lengthston. Hughes' right, what does that passage 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.280 mean you? So I'm getting emotional because that passage. Like 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.640 when I was writing this book and I was writing 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:32.360 about my ancestors going over the Middle passage, it was 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:37.000 the first time that I actually felt it. My kids 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.720 sometimes would see me crying on the floor, you know, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.360 because I was feeling it. I was like, oh my gosh, 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.320 this is not just a story like our people went 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.920 through this. And so what I've infused into this book 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.760 is that black women remember who they really are, because 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.040 we'll never ever be straight up Africans. We are the 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.240 daughters and sons of the diaspora, the ones that have 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:05.120 been taken. So if we remember and connect to our 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:10.520 spirituality and then add that to the resilience and the 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.320 strength that our ancestors gave us by going through this 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.840 middle passage, we are unstoppable. That's what That's what the 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.280 book symbolizes. Yeah, yeah, all right, we have more with 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.560 Anita Kolpack when we come back, so don't move. It's 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:32.280 to breakfast Club. Good morning, to Breakfast Club. Charlomagne and Dad, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.160 we are to breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.840 Anita ko Pack. She has a new book, Shallow Water, 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.640 is outright now. Charlomagne, Well, what would you say is 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.240 the biggest theme in the book. The biggest theme of 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:48.400 the book to me is you may realizing her powers, 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.280 like understanding who she is. Kind of reminds me of 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.200 Mary's Blige and her documentary saying she didn't know who 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.280 she was. Yeah, that she had when she was younger. Yeah, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.880 and that's such Black women feel that way. I completely 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.359 did not understand my power when I was. Sometimes I 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:10.000 don't want to understand it right now. Honestly, I'm still growing. 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.840 I'm still growing, you know when I when I think 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.080 of all the historical figures you have in shallow waters, 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.919 and how do you got to give me? I wonder 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.760 what advice do you think our ancestors would give us 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:26.080 right now? Mm? So my ancestors told me when I 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.880 was in Peru, My ancestors told me that it's time 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.520 for me to let go of the pain, that they 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:37.080 let it go when they passed out of the flesh, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.000 and that I still have it because we are them, 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.720 We are our ancestors. It's in us. We're literally created 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.000 from them, and so the pain is still within us. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.080 And they said let it go. We've already let it go. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:56.399 And I think there's so much pain that we still 0:17:56.440 --> 0:18:00.480 have as a people. And if we let that go, 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.560 what are revenge? Right? Imagine the space that is created 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.560 and what we can create when we let that pain go. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.880 But we can't let it go without fully acknowledging it, 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.080 fully going into it. So why is it important they 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.520 heal from our ancestral trauma? I guess you kind of 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.440 answered it just now. But you know what would you 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.280 say to trauma, is we're still holding onto pain. I mean, 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.160 there's so many there's so many things. I mean, we 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:35.080 had our babies taken from us and sold into slavery, raped, beaten, killed, Like, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.680 there's so many things that happened that I mean, I 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.240 I just think America is lucky that we're not trying 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:48.600 to get revenge. That's one of the things that's on 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.480 my mind. What do you think is the biggest thing 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.119 you want people to take away from Shallow Waters, Miss Anita? 0:18:55.280 --> 0:19:01.720 I really want them to remember who they are and 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.280 to take action. So, if there's something in your soul 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.080 that you want to do, do you want to write 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.280 a book, Do you want to write a movie. Do 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.240 you want to be a scientist, Do you want to 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:16.040 be a doctor? Go and do that. Follow your heart, 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.680 find a time to be quiet, shut down, turn off 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.359 your phone because all of the waves that are around 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.080 is that's all noise. And you know what's funny. I mean, 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.760 I'm just thinking of my mom. Any black person I 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:34.600 talk to anytime I talk about the magic, right, They're like, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.960 oh yeah, yeah, you know, my aunt, she's got that power. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.879 She has dreams, she has prophetic dreams. Literally everybody other themselves. 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.920 My mom before there was call her id. The phone 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.080 would bring and she'd be like, oh, yeah, that's Sharon. 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.280 You know she forgot her homework. She wants me to 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:54.960 bring it. Before she even answered the phone. I'm like, really, Mom, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.320 how did you know that? Now you think something and 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:03.560 it pops up on your phone. That's true, right, It's 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.600 so true. How how can we celebrate Yemya this week 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.920 other than going out in cop and shallow waters. Yes, 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.680 by shallow waters. If you are by the ocean, go 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.520 and thank the ocean. Send out our energy to our 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:21.520 ancestors who were not able to make it over. Send 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.000 the energy to the ones that are throughout the diaspora. 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.000 Give them. What do we do? We gave a gym. 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:28.840 We gave a gym to the ocean. Right, did we 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.400 gave a crystal? So we just held a crystal, put 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:36.080 your intentions in it, throw it into the ocean. And 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.919 I just think that's a beautiful way to just celebrate. Yeah, 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.920 I feel like her daughters are rising and she's very powerful. Well, 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:46.760 I am happy to be on this journey, which you 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.000 missed the need to give me your twitters and Instagrams 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.399 and all that good stuff. So my Instagram is a 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:55.920 need to co patch a n I T A kop 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:00.680 Acz and it is available everywhere you buy books right now. 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.240 Shallow Waters or the audiobook is out to your sister 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:07.399 or yes, my sister Michelle she read it. And the 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.440 reason I did that was because we used to listen 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.480 to audiobooks when we were younger. And I also loved 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:14.879 when she would read to me. Even though she's my 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.040 younger sister, she would still read to me and I 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.679 loved it. So I was like, wouldn't it be awesome 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:25.480 to have that sisterhood energy in this? So that's why 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:27.720 I had her. It's an amazing read. I want all 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.120 of y'all to connect the Yemi yatists week. Go out there, 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:34.800 grab Shallow Waters, available everywhere you purchase books right now, 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.800 Buy it for your kids, read it for yourself and 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:41.840 congratulations again you miss Anita, Colpax Queen and me to 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:44.360 cole Pack. Thank you very much, Thank you being here, 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:48.359 mister Breakfast Club. So Breakfast Club, your mornings will never 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.399 be the same. 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