1 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to Ja dot in a production of My Heart. 2 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: What's Up? Everybody? It is a pleasure to be a lie. Yes, indeed, 3 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: this is j dot Il the podcast, and you're here 4 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: with myself, Jill Scott, and Lie st Clair. Hey y'all, 5 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: and the amazing agent Graden Dandler. Why's that? Why's that? 6 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: Well up? I've always wanted to say that the U 7 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: s w z U P oh w z U P 8 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: always w a S s U P at Martin on 9 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: The Martin Show. It was That's what I thought it was, 10 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: you know, zorneils And she wrote with a whole bunch 11 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: of slang, and what is this slang? It not really, 12 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: It depends on where you are, you know. Yeah. She 13 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: explained the culture in letters. She put the letters together 14 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: in a way where you could understand how people were 15 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: really speaking speaking, right, I actually believe it wasn't Paul 16 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: Lawrence Dunbar. They used to write specifically the way that 17 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,919 Speaker 1: black people talked, Yes, him too, talked when they spoke 18 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: that way talked talked. That's right. I made it up. 19 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean he and I think that we 20 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: had got to move ourselves well anyway, we have to 21 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: start to appreciate the way that we communicate because it's 22 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: so specific and really it all kind of goes the 23 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: same way no matter where you see black people act like, 24 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: you know that there's similar ways in the way that 25 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: we respond to things in our language. Like one of 26 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: my favorite things is that when you speak with we 27 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: talked about this another time, black women from the Caribbean, 28 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: black women from the continent, and black women from the hood, 29 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: they all do this one thing, all the same thing. 30 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: Suck it to you. I didn't know that until I 31 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: got to, Oh, I yes, I have to lower my 32 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: voice in that that. What does the two mean though? 33 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: If it was there? What is the meaning of that? 34 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 1: How many ways you want to go? It's the same 35 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: as it would be for us. But you know that's 36 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I was like, if we had to 37 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: come up with this glossary, if you will, of black 38 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: leg like if that, if we had to talk about 39 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: what these things mean, they mean so many things. It's 40 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: understand some things have multiple meanings, some things have one 41 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: or two. I don't know what has one or two. 42 00:02:53,600 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: Most things that we say bad bad is that's a 43 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: good thing. I'm cool on you, I'm cool meaning I 44 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: could do without you, or yeah cool, I'm I'm cool 45 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: on that, or I'm good with it, I'm okay with 46 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,679 Speaker 1: doing whatever that is. But normally with I'm cool on him, 47 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 1: I'm cool on her. That means I'm not warm on them. 48 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not warm on them. That's a lot 49 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: to say. I'm cool, you know what I mean, that's enough. 50 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: That was a really popular thread on Twitter where they 51 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: were like when a black person says, you got the 52 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: right one, having fact not found the found the one, 53 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: you got the right one? To day, right, right? Right? 54 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: What you you in fact have not found the right one. 55 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: Actually you've actually found the wrong one. Also you did 56 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: find the right one because if you were looking for 57 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,119 Speaker 1: some ship, you found it. Right. You know what she's 58 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: doing another one it has two meetings, I mean, and 59 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: it's controversial. But bitch yeah, yeah, a very rarely used 60 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: bitch unless I'm actually talking about a bit, and then 61 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: there's normally it's a bitch ass. You know me too. 62 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: I'm trying. It's hard I do I especially with people, 63 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: and I really love bit you feel. I'm even gonna 64 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: say this. One time my daughter answered her FaceTime. She 65 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: answered her FaceTime and her friend didn't know that I 66 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: was in the room, and she was like, she was like, 67 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 1: she was like, bit. And I told my daughter, I said, 68 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 1: don't tell her, don't tell her, but Pete, the way 69 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: she said that bitch had t was about to get spilled. 70 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: The infliction of that bit like what an art we 71 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: have created with our words, in our tones and the 72 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: way we say things right Like it's it's the way 73 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: that that situation happens, right, it's the underbelly of the sound. 74 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: There's the context right there, the whole sentence. You already 75 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: know what's about to happen. Right. A clap is coming, 76 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: A clap is coming, Okay. I would say if that 77 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: I does not get elongated, if there's no there's no 78 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 1: long it, then you're in trouble. If if the eye 79 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: is short, yep, and the ch is hard, it's it's 80 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: a problem. Yo. I really started to appreciate to kind 81 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: of like our Unseid language, and it's which is really interesting, 82 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: like post Grona, like the head nod is really interesting 83 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: post rona and knowing if a person is looking at 84 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: but when you realize that y'all are looking at each other, 85 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: and you do to be each other. It means even 86 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: more post Roman. I just right because you can't. You 87 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: don't have the full facial expression. It's just very It's 88 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: all in the eyes, in the head and the body language. 89 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 1: I feel some kind of way, you know, when I'm 90 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: out on these streets and you know, I've got a 91 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: mask on. I love the mask. I go wherever I don't. 92 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: I go wherever I want to do, whatever I want 93 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: to do. I have conversations with people about whatever. It 94 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,359 Speaker 1: feels so nice. But when I do the head not 95 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: and somebody just walks right on. But I'm like, I 96 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: caught eyes. I know you saw me, all right? Right? 97 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: How deep do I have to do? I have to 98 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: hurt my neck? Am I gonna have to hurt? And 99 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: where do you come from that? You don't know? The 100 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: head not? Where do you come from that you don't 101 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 1: know that? It's not always about they don't know. Sometimes 102 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: they know and they just don't respond. I live in California, 103 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: so yes, yes, I read somewhere, and I apologize that 104 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: I don't remember where I read it, but I ran 105 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 1: somewhere that our language and the rhythm of the way 106 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: that we say what we say and how we say. 107 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: What we say actually does like linguistically tied back to 108 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: certain African ladies. So like when we say something like 109 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: I don't know she that that. I know you thought 110 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: she was ugly, but she hugged me. You know what 111 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: we say something to two times, Yes, it does. That 112 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: reiteration the way that we do that, that's actually evidence 113 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: that that same thing can happen in other languages, in 114 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: African languages. So it's like there's science to what we 115 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: do that we brought with us that we think it 116 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: ain't nothing, but it's really something that is really a thing. 117 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: If you ask somebody, if you ask, if you ask them, 118 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: is the market far? They'll say it's five five. That 119 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: means as far as fuck. Or if you want something, 120 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: you can want it. Do you want it now? Or now? Now? Now? 121 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: Now is closest to immediate? Then? Now is now? Is 122 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: if he now as soon? You know? Black people time 123 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: is real, worldwide, worldwide, worldwide. I'm getting Black Americans like 124 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: emotional because I'm so disconnected, but I'm so connected now. 125 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: The girls all goes together, it all goes together. We're 126 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: more connected than we're not, but we definitely are American. 127 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: That is what it is we've been here for a 128 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: long time. So a lot of the way that we 129 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: see the world, the ways that we react to things, 130 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: a lot of it is definitely American. You find out 131 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: how American you are the more you travel, Like, oh, no, 132 00:08:54,840 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 1: I thought I'm claiming, So let me ask you as this. 133 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: Y'all know, I was taking a couple of classes. But 134 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: in my classes there's young people in them, and yeah, 135 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: and one of them, there's people as young as my 136 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: oldest child actually in this class. And it's interesting to me, 137 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: how do we feel like when we were younger? And 138 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 1: we've gotten away from this, thank god, But remember when 139 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: we were younger, there would be a lot of talk 140 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: around like if you if you're in a classroom and 141 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: you're you're smart, or you started talking, people say, oh, 142 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: you talk white, right, And I want to say, I 143 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: think that we've gotten away from that. I don't believe 144 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: my kids have ever been no one's ever said that 145 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: to them. However, in these classes with some of these students, 146 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: when you hear them talking, it's always amazing to me 147 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 1: that there's no hint of black vernacular. It's just it's 148 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: very I'm like, wow, so do kids not they don't 149 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: get rings for that anymore. And not that that was good, 150 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: it was just it wasn't good. But I'm just curious 151 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: about the absence of it, Like how, you know, how 152 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: do we feel about that? You know, do we think 153 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: it's necessary? Do we think that's something that a tie 154 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: that binds I don't. I don't know anymore, Like I 155 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: don't know because let's just take Instagram for instance. A 156 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: lot of these kids, they grew up around other black 157 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: children that were in really great schools, and they learned 158 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: how to speak based on who was around them, and 159 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: they sound American. They sound proper American, if that's a thing. 160 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: Like if you go to the South, like there are 161 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: times in the South, I can't understand what anybody saying. 162 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: This is. This is a whole other langue was I 163 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: don't know what you say. I gotta open my mouth 164 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: to here, you know, Like that's a different love too, 165 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: but it's different, right. I feel like the South is 166 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: still so much in tune with the culture and our 167 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: language and our food, all the things we created, you know. Here, 168 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: I feel like the South is still so linked and 169 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: tied to that. I mean, getche gotta talk. Good luck 170 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: with that but I think it's just so dope that 171 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: it's still around, if we can still here, I love that. 172 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's amazing, especially if that's if 173 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: that's your you know, actually your bloodline, and that you 174 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: have the opportunity to pass it on to your children. 175 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: I wonder sometimes, like my kids that all went to 176 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: public school, and when they talk, they philly. They're philly 177 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: throwing through all day and when I don't even know why, Uh, 178 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: it's a hard back. I think my oldest kids are 179 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: the younger ones. They get a little properly, they get 180 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: a little properly, they get a little properly, a little properly. 181 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: Here's a gag. I guess I was bucked eleven or twelve, 182 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: and I remember when that accent hit. All of a sudden, 183 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: it seemed like, oh yes, it seemed like overnight. The 184 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: same girl I was hanging out with the day before, 185 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: she had a cabbage patched out. I didn't, but she 186 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: would let me baby sit the cabbage patched down because 187 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: I wanted one so bad. I took care of that baby. 188 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: I took share that baby. That baby was clean and clean, 189 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: that baby was all right. When I brought her back 190 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: she had a stroller and everything. I was like wow. Anyway, 191 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: the next day I saw her. She was a whole 192 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: like teenager. I think she had turned thirteen, and she 193 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: was different and all I was saying. She was like, um, 194 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: you can just put it in my house. And I 195 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: was like, Plese, Dan, ain't talking like that. I didn't understand. 196 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: I just saw her. Yes, it just take relatives. It 197 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: just take a couple of relatives. And she was with 198 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: a whole group of of the other girls and they 199 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: were all talking like that, and I was like, what happening? 200 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: What did I miss? I just went to sleep and 201 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: woke up. I remember when that accent hit. It was 202 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: not always say it is an interesting decision to make, 203 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: no matter where you are, right, it's time. Maybe that 204 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 1: is a part of like growing up, because I mean, 205 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 1: d C. There are hard accents everywhere everywhere, So it 206 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: is a decision. I don't know if it's conscious of 207 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 1: subconscious that you make. Because I came to I think 208 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: I came to feeling with a little bit of a 209 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: DC accent, Like I was like, how you know how 210 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: you want her or whatever? Job down? Now it's like 211 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 1: John all day, like yeah, but right, I think mine 212 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,719 Speaker 1: just canceled out over time, you know what I mean, 213 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: especially if you're not around people. But if I go home, 214 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: if I go home and I'm around my first of all, 215 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: whenever I go back home to do a show, and 216 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: we have this part at the end of far Away, 217 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: where you know, it's like call of response, and so 218 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: all the music goes off like far away from you 219 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: and far away from here. And when you're at d 220 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: C and the crowd starts singing far Away, they'd be like, 221 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: far away from it, all, away from it, all, away 222 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: from away from him. I was cracking the fall away 223 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: from Him. I was like, oh my god. And it's 224 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: it's always funny to be because it's like it's so clear, 225 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: and it's like four hundred people singing that at one time. 226 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: It is hilarious to me. It's a hilarious to me. 227 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: Ain't nothing like it? Ain't I love nothing like home. 228 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: And you get home and you hear how your people talk, 229 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: and you remind you of where you've been and what 230 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: you saw, what you didn't heard, pranking and so long 231 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: area go home, I'd be like, oh, it's nothing. I 232 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: still I'm a I'm a big fan of decent, Like 233 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: that's sid decent. Yo, that's decent. Like I feel real 234 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: good when I hear it decent. Yeah, that's Philly's funny 235 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: because my kick having teenagers, it's like you always hear 236 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: it go. Like when I first got the Philly, the 237 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: first time I heard the word bull and I was like, 238 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: but now the kids they say the bull. They've changed it. 239 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: Older Philly guys say the bull and these young ones 240 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: say bull with like an L. It's hilarious how over time. 241 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: And in DC it's the same thing. When we were 242 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: coming up, we used to say Joe after everything was Joe, 243 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: what's up? Joe? Now it's mon Joe. The song is, 244 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: but it's Mochella. But it's Mochella. The big go Gold 245 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: festival they had was called Mochella Wow. So it's funny 246 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: to see how things from generation to generation change for teams. 247 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: Father used to say joker all the time. I used 248 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: to love Joker, old school Philly guy Joker. And it's 249 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: like you can always tell when a guy has like 250 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: an old head in his life because he's gonna say 251 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: some of his old heads sayings and mix it in 252 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: with his sayings. And I just love that it's generational, 253 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: it's it's geographical. You know, there's so many ways for 254 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: us to identify ourselves. I think it's amazing. It's cool 255 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: because a lot of times people figure out all the 256 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: differences and languages when you get to college and then 257 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: you realize. I mean, it wasn't til college that I realized, Oh, 258 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: Chicago people sound like they're from the South sometimes depending 259 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: on what part of Chicago they're from. I don't understand. 260 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: How did that happen? You know? What? They say the 261 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: same thing about Philly. I was like, what in other places? Like, Oh, 262 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: you're sound like you're from the country, And I'm like, 263 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: I sound like I'm from the country. What you mean, No, 264 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: I don't. I say that with Californians and Californians and 265 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: Chicago they have a similar like rhyming thing. I don't know, 266 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: their rhyme pattern is the same when they talk. I 267 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: don't know, you know what I mean, Like the way 268 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: they were just kind of sing together. I see that. 269 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: I would say that all black languages, whether it's like 270 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: from the hood or from wherever state you're in, city 271 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: or in Like, they're also musical New Orleans very music. 272 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: All the world Louisiana. Oh, it's wonderful. It's Louisiana best. 273 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: I agree, hands down, Oh, I agree, hands down. The 274 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 1: beast to hear the black and the white folks, no matter, 275 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 1: will you. I want to hear the Cajun folks talk. 276 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: I want to hear everybody and they get. Did you 277 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: ever see meet Joe Black? Yes? Yes, Remember when Brad 278 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,880 Speaker 1: Pitt killed the Creole accent? When he killed that Mama 279 00:17:53,920 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: weak could have killed that. He killed that everything and 280 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: be iri he did, he did, He did a great job. 281 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: I can't it's that accent is wonderful, no matter who's 282 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: saying it. It's just it's just good it is. And 283 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: I know this is one you love Jill because she's 284 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: a poet and she's one of my favorites. Is that 285 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: Sonny Patterson? Okay, do it. I can't do it. I 286 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: don't want to do it out of respect. I can't 287 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 1: do it. I can't do it. Okay, there sounds too 288 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 1: like for Maryland music. Maryland people do not say mercy. 289 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 1: What if they say what I'm stay saying. I've heard 290 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 1: several people called music mrsic. I think that's a black 291 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: thing though. I think that's an old black person thing. 292 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 1: No listen, because I've listened. I mean a general southern 293 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: black thing like for exit. I have somebody in my 294 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: family and I saw this me one time and cried 295 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: laughing because I have a person in my family that 296 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 1: does this. Can I say crayon a oh yeah? And 297 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: I grew up with kids who couldn't say orange, they 298 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: say oh yeah. We had this discussion about the different 299 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: depending on root water, water, water. It ain't no orange 300 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 1: in the beginning. Water that's Philly. Yeah, water, but it's 301 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: Water'm gonna get water, ice water, yeah, water, ice water, 302 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 1: ice water, water. I struggled with water, water, water. I 303 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: did Flint. It was a movie about Flint, Michigan, and 304 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: the character that I played, she says water. And that 305 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: was a hard task, is trying to force myself to 306 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: remember as much as we were talking about water, how 307 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:11,880 Speaker 1: much I had to say water, the water. Naira Sharif 308 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 1: shoutouts to Naira because she's still fighting a good fighting Flint. 309 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: They still don't have a clean one. Yeah, I was 310 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: just thinking. I was like, damn, Joe, that was I 311 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: was supping to watch that. I still don't have clean one. 312 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 1: We'll be back after the break some bullshit. I found 313 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: some black people slang. It's just two words, but the 314 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: way that we say this ship it matters. Okay, okay, 315 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: give it up, give it up, big daddy. You straight? 316 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: What does that mean? That means you're ok? Yes? Thinging 317 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: ding ding ding ding. Okay, we're gonna need sounds like that. 318 00:20:55,760 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: You strike like motherfucker, because it could get us. I 319 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: just need to know how you asked that question. Is 320 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: you straight? Are you straight? Are you okay? Are you straight? No? No, 321 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: Maybe I'm saying it wrong. Maybe I need your assistance. 322 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 1: You straight? Meaning did you get enough? Oh? Yeah, okay, 323 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: here's another one. You straight? Yeh right, Yeah, you're you're good, 324 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 1: You're welcome. Could okay? Can you straight? All right? I'm sorry. 325 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: That's that's the one. That's the one that that is 326 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: that is supposed to invitation. It is an invitation for 327 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: a confrontation. Do you have a problem? Do you have 328 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: a problem straight? Which is no need to say sorry, 329 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 1: yeah you're straight? Oh right, yeah, you're straight? You're straight? Yeah? 330 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's go downd What I was looking for? 331 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: What now? I want to make sure that I say 332 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: these people's names and I know I'm gonna do it wrong, 333 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: so of my apology in advance. Okay, this is co 334 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: wroten co wroten by a day at food, bucola and 335 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: quaiku bake cold did right. Similarities between African American vernacular 336 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 1: English and African languages number one the habitual use of 337 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: tense markers. In the case, we are using the term 338 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: habitual tense market to refer to the words or phrases 339 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: that indicate that someone does routinely or consistently, in other words, habitually, 340 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: like for example, habitual markers typically using a A V 341 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: are be and stay. The more natural way to say 342 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 1: this phrase is he be fighting. And if you want 343 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 1: to add more emphasis, is he's stay fighting. That makes 344 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: our listens in the world. This says in the Europal language, 345 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: the habitual tense marker. It goes on to go in 346 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: more detail, but it says it has very similarities to 347 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: the Eurobal language, where you do those same things like 348 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: and be in stay. So the act of doing something 349 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: is you're doing it a lot, and the fact that 350 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: you do it all the time is you stay. So 351 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: there's the same kinds of patterns and language. How about 352 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 1: we talked about the repetition to add emphasis like now 353 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: now or ugly ugly. There's another one where it says 354 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: in this case so there's a longer and more complex 355 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: topic about contradictions, but it says something similar happens in 356 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: A A V English, where it says all of becomes 357 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 1: all of, and words like out to become about to 358 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: and going too becomes garner. The same thing also happens 359 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: in europe language, where you much together two words together 360 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: and be two words become one word. So where does 361 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: Finna come in? I think Finna's like that too. I'm 362 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 1: about to, I'm about fixing to fixing. I think Finna 363 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: comes from fixing too. That's why I'm just glad we 364 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: got to do that econic stage. But here's my favorite. 365 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 1: This is something that I do all the time that 366 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: I get called on all the time. I put the 367 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: words in front of everything that's mom, I gotta go 368 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 1: to the ross as Mama, don't come in here, because 369 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all got the Roman is the 370 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 1: real thing. Yeah, yeah, I put the in front of 371 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 1: a lot of things. I don't know if they're are 372 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 1: some sort of similar. You've got to look over there. 373 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: But we do add s is to most things too. 374 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,479 Speaker 1: There is, there's always an s. There's this shrimp is blural, y'all, Like, 375 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: let's just just finalize it. Like shrumps, it's plural. You 376 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: don't need never to put a nass on it. It's 377 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: not shrimps. The shrimp and the singular and plural the 378 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: same word. Oh okay. I like when people say the 379 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: Macy's and the North stroumps the North. I say the 380 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: Macys too, but you don't say ne me Marcus. You say, 381 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: I say yeah, I say it all. It's terrible, but 382 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: I feel comfortable. My boyfriend is from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Come on, Chattoga. 383 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 1: So his accent is really, really thick, and he says, 384 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 1: the noch drums, come on, you want to go to Trumps. 385 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: I said, not Notch Trumps. It's nord Strum Nord No, No, 386 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: we don't know about No one cares. Its victorious. It's 387 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: just funny. A Victoria's secret secret. I thought it was 388 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: Victoria's secrets, secrets. I thought it was a secrets. I 389 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: believe it's Victoria's now. I want to tell you all this. 390 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: Jamie Lee Curtis went on Twitter piste off. Did y'all 391 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: hear about this? No? Piste off? Because maryam Webster now 392 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: recognizes the word. But irregardless, no, no, that is a 393 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: win for blacks everywhere. Irregard. You don't know how much 394 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 1: you'll say. I guess I do, says what about flustered? 395 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: Is that a word? Yeah? Is that? I thought it was. 396 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go for frustrated frustrated. No, I hear 397 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: frustrated a lot. I'm very frustrated frustrated. I hear that 398 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: a lot. I want to know what is the cutoff? 399 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 1: When do we allow black folks to say whatever they 400 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 1: want to they want to say it as long as 401 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: they're understanding. The answer to that is yes, that's the 402 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: what about? You know? What about the grammar warriors? Because 403 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: you know, some people just really are not They're not 404 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 1: for the ships. I like to write with the proper 405 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: commas and semi colon's and such. I like to write 406 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: with them unless I'm writing poetry. But I only need 407 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 1: that because I need to understand the flow of your intense. 408 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,719 Speaker 1: If that was the point and at the point stopped, 409 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: then now you're onto the next thing I need. I 410 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: just need you to put a capital letter. I need 411 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: you to have a period. So for you, it's about mechanics. 412 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: It's not necessarily about the words or the way that 413 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: they're spelled or what they're as long as I can 414 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: understand you, as long as I can understand you, and uh, 415 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: I don't know, like I mean, I feel like it 416 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: sometimes it is like we have our own language and 417 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 1: we also most of us have our bill player voice, 418 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: so we know how to do it, when to do it. 419 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to not colode switch on purpose? 420 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: Have I ever tried to Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, 421 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: catch yourself like okay, yeah, like agent, you know, screw 422 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 1: the bill talk lady, like, let's kill her? Can we 423 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: kill her though? Can we kill the bill lady? Yeah? 424 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to know her that well, I don't know. 425 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: I feel like it's because at this point too, with 426 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: the whole cultural depth and stuff, I'm like, I don't 427 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: want to give you that comfortability because you're not ready 428 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: to hear white folks talk back to you the way 429 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: that you talk to each other. I just got called 430 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: girl a couple of days ago and made you uncomfortable. 431 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: It makes me uncomfortable every time, But I just got 432 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: called girl in my I want to pick up my 433 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: watch and the owner is an Indian man, and he 434 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: came out with the what's going on with you? Good? 435 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: And I was like, look around. It just felt it 436 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: just we're in the South here, so you know, it 437 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: just felt wrong. So my reaction is, uh, I normally 438 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 1: look around, and then I laughed wholeheartedly. Oh, you're so sweet. 439 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: I haven't been called a girl in so long. You 440 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: can call me miss gott what I need? You know 441 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: what I mean? I I that's the way that I 442 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,719 Speaker 1: deal with it because I just think they're hilarious. Like, 443 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a child. Do you know? I'm 444 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: not a girl? But that's sweetest and not for nothing. 445 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: To jail, it's not for nothing. If he really did 446 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: have an accent, must be considered that he don't know 447 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: the history of the country he lived. It felt like, 448 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: I'll say this, I don't know that man, but it 449 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: did feel like he's in the South and he had 450 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: taken on the behaviors of what he's seen, and there 451 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: weren't out of I doubt very much. There's a lot 452 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: of black people in that particular jewely store it's not 453 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: like it's like, you know, super expensive or anything like that. 454 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: But in the area where we are, there's not a 455 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: lot of black people, and if they were going somewhere, 456 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: they would probably go somewhere else. It was like a 457 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: state jewelry. That kind of mean, did you feel like 458 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: he would have called your girl regardless of what you 459 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: look like? Yes, yes, I do. I think that there 460 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: is a special way that black language should be viewed 461 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: because really, when you think about it, it's that's very 462 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: different experience. Ends. Then let's say go in someplace and 463 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: speaking French. As long as you were proficient at it, 464 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: it wouldn't make a French person uncomfortable to hear you're speaking. 465 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: But for us, there's a there's a real like consideration 466 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: around who is allowed to who should speak this language 467 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: because we build this thing. We built this thing right 468 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: away of us to communicate, right, because we were talking 469 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: about some black American ship, even though we didn't even 470 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: know it was inspired by our home. But yet and 471 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: still this language was a constant building of understanding and 472 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: all of this and for you to just get it 473 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: and use it no, right, So, like I said, has 474 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: its own set of rooms. I mean it really does. 475 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: I mean, and that's why we love it because that's ours. Yeah, 476 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: I mean, because I can imagine that if you're not 477 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: from let's say, Patois, there might be some things and 478 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: feelings around that, like, hey, you know, I don't just 479 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: want you just doing that. If that's not make Sun 480 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: tried it. He did it perfectly. But hey, people ain't 481 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: like to hear coming from right right h. So I 482 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: don't really want to communicate with y'all like this. Basically, 483 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll be 484 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: right back. Oh my god, y'all go. We did not 485 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: talking about black people in the way they named their kids. 486 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: Who no, no, but we must. I'm gonna talk about names. 487 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: The names are important. If we're gonna talk about language, 488 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: names are important because I love your middle name. Yes, 489 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: we spoke about it. First of all, our parents are 490 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: revolutionary state. They have pushed back on these European names 491 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: and came up with a name that they's sound comfortable with. 492 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. My name is Jill. I appreciate 493 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: the episode of Black because I thought differently after that. 494 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: So this is my thing, right, These names that we 495 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: grew up in some ways kind of making fun of 496 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 1: These are the most These are absolutely cultural identifiers that 497 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: we should be really proud of and that we have 498 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: embraced over the years. But there is still some stigma 499 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: about having a name that identifies you so specifically as 500 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: an African American from the gate, and I think I 501 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 1: would love to have more access to that personally. When 502 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:35,479 Speaker 1: you have an opportunity and you go to Google, go 503 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 1: to Google and look up ebonnets and look at the cartoons, 504 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: I don't want to just do it, just do it. 505 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 1: I just was saying, I'm glad we got through that era. Listen, 506 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: it's one after another, It's one after another after another. 507 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: I refuse to let racist bummed me out word because 508 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: we was just celebrating our language. You're gonna ain't on 509 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: my language parade. I'm not trying to reign on your 510 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:08,720 Speaker 1: language parade. But I promise it amazes me the propaganda 511 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 1: that surround us that, for whatever reason, how do you 512 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: aspire to be everything that black people are and at 513 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: the same time despise it and ridicule it. I don't 514 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,320 Speaker 1: understand that they want are really not. I lose love 515 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 1: all of yourself, honey, love all yourself because I can't 516 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 1: guarantee the rest of the world will. And if you 517 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: have a little twang in your voice and you say 518 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 1: things from deep down in the place that that only 519 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 1: people like you understand, uh, that's all right, and I will. 520 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 1: I don't have any problems listening with my mouth opening 521 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 1: in my eyes wide trying to catch it, because we 522 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: come from American places, but we are really really the 523 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: same people. And to that lady that calls me from 524 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: Sally Madge, she's going to get Margaret's voice, and it's 525 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,959 Speaker 1: nice to speak to to you as well. Yes, yes, 526 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:57,800 Speaker 1: I'm not available right now, but we can talk a 527 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,160 Speaker 1: little later. Maybe keep it doing business hours. Can you 528 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: really trick anybody? What was that movie? Uh? Man, thank you? Oh, 529 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: I didn't see it, but I know it with my 530 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 1: man from Sorry to Bother You, where he absolutely the 531 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: character absolutely used this extra Caucasian sounding voice in order 532 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: to get sales. Yeah. Yeah, I think that while we 533 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 1: are here unfortunately or I mean we're bilingual, you know, 534 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 1: by by cultural um, that we're probably going to have 535 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: to use these words and these the sound for something. 536 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: But if where we can find them, and where we could, y'all, 537 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 1: And now I'm saying no, meaning I don't know, I 538 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: O W n oh no. Where we can use our words. 539 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 1: We absolutely have to because it feels good. It feels 540 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,120 Speaker 1: good to be us free. There's a music in our language, 541 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: there is a music in us I gotta hold onto that. 542 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:12,320 Speaker 1: That's powerful. I'm fitting to get off of here. Yeah, 543 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: I love you so much. Talk to you all later. 544 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:33,959 Speaker 1: How do you eat an elephant? One? By time? Hey y'all, 545 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 1: it's me Eves the producer again, and it's time for 546 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 1: me to bring you the resources for this episode. The 547 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,400 Speaker 1: post that Agent was reading from earlier is about the 548 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,440 Speaker 1: similarities between A A V and the African languages that 549 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,840 Speaker 1: the author was studying. Agent also mentioned a Twitter thread 550 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,799 Speaker 1: about black units of measurement. I'll link to both of 551 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 1: those posts in the description, and as a gentle reminder, 552 00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:01,440 Speaker 1: African American Vernacular English, African American English, or African American language, 553 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,480 Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, is not broken language, 554 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 1: and it's valuable whether or not non black folks choose 555 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,520 Speaker 1: to use it, and use it poorly at that anyway, 556 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:19,440 Speaker 1: speak on no respectability to see here. Thank you for 557 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:40,680 Speaker 1: listening to Jill Scott Presents j Dot il the Podcast. 558 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 1: This podcast is hosted by Jill Scott, Layah st Clair 559 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,640 Speaker 1: and Age of Graden Danceller. It's executive producers are Jill Scott, 560 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: Shawn g and Brian Calhoun. It's produced by La Saint 561 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,760 Speaker 1: Clair and me Eves Jeff Coke. The editing and sound 562 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:04,959 Speaker 1: design for this episode we're done by Christina Loranger. Ever 563 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:09,240 Speaker 1: notice look, okay, I'm gonna read the cartoon. Okay, okay, 564 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 1: you see the picture? Okay? Ever noticed how Negroes are 565 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: always on cell phones? Why would a race that can't 566 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:22,959 Speaker 1: speak anything but unintelligible gibberish be so obsessed with communication devices? 567 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:31,680 Speaker 1: These races because ain't never vote Democrat? Something I need 568 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,359 Speaker 1: more crack because I feels like I'll be crawling all 569 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 1: over my skin and stuff. This is what's happening. This 570 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 1: is what these people are doing. This kind of ship. 571 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I sucked them because honestly, what you're not 572 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: gonna do is try to make me a shame of 573 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,239 Speaker 1: some ship that's fucking beautiful, just because you don't want 574 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 1: to understand that and just because you ain't ship. What 575 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,440 Speaker 1: you're not about to do is have me think that 576 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,640 Speaker 1: it's something after you try to keep me from even 577 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:04,719 Speaker 1: knowing how to read. 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