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Speaker 1: only six years old, talk about her books. Parker shines
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Speaker 1: judgment or decision about something only to find out later
Speaker 1: on your decision was wrong, your judgment was wrong. I
Speaker 1: meany times that happened you. Well, if you live long
Speaker 1: enough and if you experience long enough, well the answer
Speaker 1: to that should be many times. I know me personally,
Speaker 1: I've made the wrong call on many occasions. I think
Speaker 1: that that's what makes us human, That's what makes us,
Speaker 1: you know, normal. It's normal to to be wrong, especially
Speaker 1: when you're looking at something and you're not taking a
Speaker 1: look at all the available information or facts around it.
Speaker 1: But if you're wise enough, and if you're growing, then
Speaker 1: you are able to make better decisions over time. I mean,
Speaker 1: we all started out as a child, we all started out,
Speaker 1: as you know, having little or no knowledge, and as
Speaker 1: time went on, we've grown, we blossom, and we've been
Speaker 1: able to make decisions in our lives that culminate in
Speaker 1: oppositions and status today. You know, always say to myself,
Speaker 1: life is nothing but something total of all the decisions
Speaker 1: that you've made in life. When you look back, where
Speaker 1: you at right now is because of all the decisions
Speaker 1: that you make, whether good or bad. But one thing
Speaker 1: is for certain, to learn from the mistakes and the
Speaker 1: wrong decisions is really where you ultimately have you grow. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: and I mean a lot of times, your face with
Speaker 1: a decision you have to make and you really just
Speaker 1: don't know what the right call is. And sometimes you
Speaker 1: got this rely on your gut just hey, I gotta
Speaker 1: recall him a gut to make my the executive decision
Speaker 1: on this matter. But for the most part, most decisions
Speaker 1: that you have to make, you can make it just
Speaker 1: by knowing the information and the available facts centered around it.
Speaker 1: But remember, don't judge your book by his cover. Let
Speaker 1: me say this again, don't judge your book by its cover.
Speaker 1: And many of us have done so, only to find
Speaker 1: out that if we had just opened the book, read
Speaker 1: the context, look at the available information, study the facts
Speaker 1: on the matter, we would have made a totally different decision.
Speaker 1: We often in life, judge a book by his cover.
Speaker 1: You know, site travels at a hundred and I belie
Speaker 1: a hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second. So
Speaker 1: sometimes the immediate site of something is where we jumped
Speaker 1: a decision or a judgment. Sometimes you need to just
Speaker 1: hold up, hold up, let me get behind some of
Speaker 1: the layers. Let me look at some of the available
Speaker 1: information before I make a call. You know, when you're
Speaker 1: going out there and you're going on an interview, you
Speaker 1: should look a certain way. Why because the minute the
Speaker 1: minute you walk in there, the minute you walk in there, Remember,
Speaker 1: site is faster than sound. I believe sound only travels
Speaker 1: at what a hundred I mean a thousand or eleven
Speaker 1: hundred feet per second, while site travels at a hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty six thousand miles per se. So people see
Speaker 1: you before you speak. So when you walk in that
Speaker 1: room on an interview, be conscious how do you look?
Speaker 1: Because that's what a person is formulating information about you
Speaker 1: long before they get a chance to hear you speak
Speaker 1: about who and what you are and what's on your
Speaker 1: available resume. So we often judge a book bias cover.
Speaker 1: But if you we if we're growing, then we need
Speaker 1: to open that book up, get some more information, you know,
Speaker 1: so after I hear you, after I reach a resume,
Speaker 1: talk to you and throughout the interview. Now I can
Speaker 1: make it a informed decision. And I'm not judging you
Speaker 1: by the book the outer But in life we do
Speaker 1: that a lot. People. We judge each other harshly made
Speaker 1: many times. In many cases we judge each other. We
Speaker 1: point the finger and understanding that when you're pointing the fingers,
Speaker 1: three fingers are pointing back at you. So when we
Speaker 1: looking at something, UM, be a better listener, get more information,
Speaker 1: you know, don't always react just on your site, because
Speaker 1: that could deceive you. You know, that could deceive you
Speaker 1: because that's what you see, can affect your emotions in
Speaker 1: a rapid way, in a rocket way, and then boom,
Speaker 1: only to find out later, you know, if I if
Speaker 1: I was to walk into myself. You know, because we
Speaker 1: watch a lot of movies and we see sometimes like
Speaker 1: let's say, somebody fighting, right and the police show up.
Speaker 1: They don't know how they got started, they don't even
Speaker 1: know who started it. But a lot of times they
Speaker 1: assumed the black man or black woman started to fight why,
Speaker 1: based on color, based on bias based on the fact
Speaker 1: that society has you know, created these stereotypes, and law
Speaker 1: enforcement are just consumed with so many of these stereotypes,
Speaker 1: just like in the black community. You know, the the
Speaker 1: police is stigmatizing stereotype as being bad, so they're judge,
Speaker 1: you know, because of the stereotype and how black people
Speaker 1: view the police department. They're judged, you know before and
Speaker 1: they might be an community doing a good act, they
Speaker 1: might be in the community doing something wrong. But because
Speaker 1: black people in the black community see the police in
Speaker 1: such a negative way that they don't even the first
Speaker 1: thing that pops in the mind is the is the
Speaker 1: police started it? You see so decent kind of things,
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that that oftentimes it's not the case,
Speaker 1: because it is. It is. The reason why the police
Speaker 1: has a bad view. The black people have a bad
Speaker 1: view of the police in the community is because of
Speaker 1: the things the police brutally and all the things that
Speaker 1: police have done the black people over not just a
Speaker 1: month or a year, but that case and centuries. Does
Speaker 1: that mean all policemen are bad, No, but it affects
Speaker 1: the whole institution because too many times have innocent black
Speaker 1: people been arrested and attacked and beaten and killed. And
Speaker 1: this is why that's a major social issue today. So
Speaker 1: a lot of books are being judged by the cover
Speaker 1: and not by the content, not by the information, and
Speaker 1: our society has plagued with judging the cover instead of
Speaker 1: the contents. We're plagued with these issues in America, We're
Speaker 1: plagued with these issues in the community. Don't judge a
Speaker 1: book by its cover. That's the point here. Don't judge
Speaker 1: your book by its cover. I know in my own
Speaker 1: personal life, I personally have made judgments about something only
Speaker 1: to find out that had I just gotten to know
Speaker 1: this person or gotten more information, I would have react differently.
Speaker 1: So it's not like it's not that is an issue
Speaker 1: that only plagues a few. It's an issue that plagues many,
Speaker 1: but I would say most in this country. You know,
Speaker 1: we're very judgmental as people. You know, we all have
Speaker 1: strong opinions. We all have, you know, very very strong opinions.
Speaker 1: We all have our own biases, our own stereotypes. You know,
Speaker 1: they know that when black people, well, let me black up.
Speaker 1: We know that when groups of people of the same
Speaker 1: ethnic group, like white people sitting around the table and
Speaker 1: they have conversations about society or people. We know that,
Speaker 1: hey that some things there if we could peek into
Speaker 1: the conversation that we will find probably offensive, you know,
Speaker 1: as as black people would probably find offensive. Okay. On
Speaker 1: the same note, if we've done this in a Hispanic community, yeah,
Speaker 1: Hispanic family, they're sitting around talking and we could chime
Speaker 1: in on what they're talking about with partly going here
Speaker 1: some things that offensive. The same note, if you're sitting
Speaker 1: around and listen to groups of black people sitting around
Speaker 1: at the dinner table, you might hear some things it
Speaker 1: might be offensive to another group. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of judging and pre judging and prejudice just going
Speaker 1: on in all groups. The reality is that we need
Speaker 1: to not judge a book by its cover. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, Yes, society, you know are you
Speaker 1: know you're more than an individual. What I'm trying to
Speaker 1: set You're also part of a collective, a try, a community,
Speaker 1: a neighborhood, a nation. You're more than just you. So
Speaker 1: don't judge a book by its cover, and be careful
Speaker 1: what you say and how you saying. I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed the episode. We're blessed to have a couple of
Speaker 1: children authors here at Molik Books. Jessica and Parker carry
Speaker 1: are in the house they knew in the book shign It,
Speaker 1: and I have the pleasure to be able to speak
Speaker 1: with them and feature them on my podcast, Release Books Show.
Speaker 1: My first question is what inspired you to become an author?
Speaker 1: Michelle Obama's Michelle Obama's portrait. Now, this is a six
Speaker 1: year old child author, and this is amazing, extraordinary, and
Speaker 1: it's just a confidence booster to be an author at
Speaker 1: six years old. And so I have Jessica, who's her
Speaker 1: mom here, I want you to tell us all about
Speaker 1: that journey. Um. So, after you know, the photo of
Speaker 1: Parker went thyrol, I really felt like, you know, there
Speaker 1: was a little moment that happened there that that I
Speaker 1: I almost missed. Um that as parents, we probably missed
Speaker 1: the little moments all the time, right, So, so she
Speaker 1: had this little moment that clearly impacted her and inspired her.
Speaker 1: You know, she saw some of herself up there in
Speaker 1: that portrait of Mrs Obama, and I felt like I
Speaker 1: wanted to do a few things. I wanted to write
Speaker 1: a children's book to kind of memorialize that moment for her,
Speaker 1: because while she was only two at the time, and
Speaker 1: while she was clearly inspired, I don't think that she'll
Speaker 1: fully realize the magnitude of what happened that day and
Speaker 1: how it impacted her life and our life until she's
Speaker 1: much older. So I wanted the picture book to to
Speaker 1: serve as a as a reminder, a tangible reminder and
Speaker 1: memory of what happened that day. UM and I also
Speaker 1: wanted to UM take the opportunity to UM share art
Speaker 1: and Miss Obama's portrait with people all over the world
Speaker 1: through um our illustrator Brittie Jackson's beautiful renderings. Hi, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Well hey you heard this is organic, this is live.
Speaker 1: This is what happens at League Books. This is what
Speaker 1: happens when you are Yanny and you're natural. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: we're doing a book signing and guess what. Some customers
Speaker 1: came in, so the two beautiful books. Parker looks up Parker.
Speaker 1: Shauns on why I was interviewing Jessica Parker and Parker
Speaker 1: carry One lady said she was about to cry just
Speaker 1: walking in the store because we had these books, and
Speaker 1: how beautiful the stories you heard it. Lyne and so
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing here in the community. That's what
Speaker 1: we bring to our community, you know, And this is
Speaker 1: why I love what I do, and I've been doing
Speaker 1: it since who this week was hot in the news.
Speaker 1: Student loan debt big the public debate. Everybody wants to
Speaker 1: chime in on it. President Biden announced forgiving student debt
Speaker 1: student loan debt, I blink and then maximal modis ten thousand.
Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about it. It's all over social media. You
Speaker 1: is all over the media, is all over the newspapers
Speaker 1: for giving ten thousand dollars of your student debt. Different
Speaker 1: groups of people with debating whether or not this is
Speaker 1: good for America during the time of reflection and recession.
Speaker 1: People debating whether or not they should be just waiving
Speaker 1: the ten thousand dollars debt from somebody who wiefully took
Speaker 1: out a loan. Ten thousands is not a lot, but
Speaker 1: for some it is a lot. And people were debating,
Speaker 1: you know, whether or not the tax people should fund
Speaker 1: the build for billions and beings and billions of dollars
Speaker 1: of student loan relief. Reality is that, yes, people did
Speaker 1: take our loans in order to go to college. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: this is a huge amount of money. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, hey, you know, I don't know the impact
Speaker 1: that this is going to have on society. I don't
Speaker 1: know the impact overall in the relief this is gonna
Speaker 1: make in a person's life. But I do know this
Speaker 1: is that there will be a tomorrow we will having
Speaker 1: historic account of what it's going to happen. And this
Speaker 1: is not going to change the fight that we're paying
Speaker 1: over a hundred dollars to fill up our cars today.
Speaker 1: This is not going to change the fact that it's
Speaker 1: a whole lot more money in order to buy the
Speaker 1: goods and services just a year ago. This is not
Speaker 1: going to change the fight that this ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: had interest rates have risen multiple times. There's ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars student loan relief is not gonna change the fight
Speaker 1: that the stock market has been pumpiting. There's ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars not gonna change the fight that America has given
Speaker 1: billions and billions and billions of dollars to the Ukraine
Speaker 1: War and yet has never done anything to rebuild the
Speaker 1: inner cities of America. There's ten thousand dollars student loan
Speaker 1: relief is not gonna change the fact that our supply
Speaker 1: chain is all disrupted. There's ten dollars dollars student loan
Speaker 1: relief is not gonna change the fight that mills of
Speaker 1: people have lost their jobs, lost their businesses, and lost
Speaker 1: their livelihood because of these mandates and decisions made by government.
Speaker 1: And one more point, this ten is not going to
Speaker 1: change the fight that the crime rate is escalating all
Speaker 1: across this nation. So while we're sitting around debating back
Speaker 1: and forth whether or not whether we should be given
Speaker 1: out ten dollar knowledge student loan relief, the reality is
Speaker 1: that we are a lot of other issues that are
Speaker 1: facing America, this plaguing America, and its affecting our communities,
Speaker 1: and this ten dollar knowledge is not gonna change any
Speaker 1: of it at all. Thanks for listening to me Leak's
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