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Speaker 1: bringing a world together with books, culture and community. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: I had to chime back in to the Kanye West storm.
Speaker 1: Since then he hadn't been on so many national programs,
Speaker 1: networks podcast, So I'm gonna drop my gems on the
Speaker 1: Kanye West storm about White Lives Matter, the George Floyd incident,
Speaker 1: as well as him talking about the music industry that
Speaker 1: has a lot of self destructive lyrics that is causing
Speaker 1: influential effect on the black community in a devastating destructive manner.
Speaker 1: I had to bump my episod sold about the Latino
Speaker 1: paragraph in Los Angeles. I'd have bumped that to next
Speaker 1: week because I gotta stay relevant and right now, nothing
Speaker 1: is more hot on social media than this storm that
Speaker 1: Ya has created. That's Kanye was Also, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: talking about the episode six what the Bobby Shop talks,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna bringing that to you and we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep this thing going. Oh, by the way, my name
Speaker 1: is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshew, So stay tuned.
Speaker 1: I gotta come back with part two on this Kanye
Speaker 1: West Ya storm because it's so much more has developed
Speaker 1: since last week when I did White Lives Matter based
Speaker 1: on a shirt that he wore. Now so much more
Speaker 1: has happened is continuing because he's been going on some
Speaker 1: of the top shows all over this world, top podcast,
Speaker 1: top TV show, The Tucker Carlson, The Breastlets Club, Piers Morgan,
Speaker 1: I Believe Um, and so many more. And what's happening
Speaker 1: is is Tanane West is trying to clarify his position.
Speaker 1: But one of the things that his hit a home
Speaker 1: run is profiteering off of certain lyrics that promote death, drugs, sex,
Speaker 1: Like right now there's an opening war and a fitting
Speaker 1: on war and guess what they're trying to address that.
Speaker 1: But how is the music plan apart in the culture
Speaker 1: in terms of influencing people to drugs do drugs? And
Speaker 1: are these top artists who making millions off of selling
Speaker 1: death and destruction and black on black vial islens making
Speaker 1: millions selling those types of rap songs and music. The
Speaker 1: question is, you know there are entities in industries making
Speaker 1: billions off of black talent, and this is you know,
Speaker 1: hit a home run, which a lot of what Kanye
Speaker 1: Ya was saying about why he's been saying some of
Speaker 1: the things that he was saying now it offended because
Speaker 1: you can't blanket everybody. There's always, you know, within every group,
Speaker 1: there's always people in within that group that are not
Speaker 1: a participant it what's going on. So you's trying to
Speaker 1: clarify himself, and as he should, he said, but it's
Speaker 1: certain members, all right. So this is Yaye's position right now.
Speaker 1: Hold on because this thing here is I did a
Speaker 1: I did a podcast one time called words Matter, okay,
Speaker 1: and I talked about sticks and stones may break, bomb
Speaker 1: bones and words and never heard and I said, they
Speaker 1: never say that nursery rhyme because it is a lot.
Speaker 1: Words will destroy you, Words will kill you, all right.
Speaker 1: So the question is if a person is signing talent
Speaker 1: and the issues that they are spearing in the rap
Speaker 1: are affecting the society in a negative way while they're
Speaker 1: signing these type of artists and allowing them to say
Speaker 1: these kind of things that promote the degregation and the
Speaker 1: death and destruction of a group of people. Now a
Speaker 1: group that Jake has target was Jews, right all right,
Speaker 1: now they are upset over the words they he chose,
Speaker 1: and they have a right calls to be right. Then
Speaker 1: why shouldn't black people be upset over lyrics that promote
Speaker 1: the destruction and death and the you know, and the
Speaker 1: sex and oh, you know, of our culture and of
Speaker 1: our people. Why shouldn't black people be upset when the
Speaker 1: the airwaves are consumed with sex, drugs, murder of black
Speaker 1: on black? Why shouldn't black people be upset about that
Speaker 1: and be upset about industry that is promoting such lyrics
Speaker 1: that lead to devastation and destruction Because words matter, Words
Speaker 1: would destroy you, words would influence you, and and they're
Speaker 1: trying to put a muzzle on yate. People are apologizing
Speaker 1: on behalf of ya. You see what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is is what my take on what
Speaker 1: took place and what's going on is the fact that
Speaker 1: why are that these industries allowing, even the artists are
Speaker 1: talking to why are they're allowing these kinds of words
Speaker 1: to devastate a underserved people who already a devastated who
Speaker 1: already suffered from drugs, alcohol, teenage pregnancy, poor health, diabetes,
Speaker 1: high blood pressure, um mental health. Why are certain industries
Speaker 1: able to profit and offer this and then nothing and
Speaker 1: then they are unapproachable. They are unapproachable, you see what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So, but the thing is, this is a
Speaker 1: real conversation that needs to be addressed. And that's the
Speaker 1: point that you was trying to I think was trying
Speaker 1: to say. Now, he can't blanket every whole group and
Speaker 1: the whole religion because everybody ain't participating in that. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Everybody ain't, you know, doing that,
Speaker 1: So you gotta be specific and and and zone in
Speaker 1: too what it is or the person or the groups
Speaker 1: that are involved in the destruct definite destruction of black
Speaker 1: race and Black nation and black culture. And and now
Speaker 1: he's out there on the island on his own, got
Speaker 1: Black people not liking what he was saying, You got
Speaker 1: Jewish people not liking what he's saying. You got white
Speaker 1: people and all kinds of people upset about what he's saying.
Speaker 1: And then you got people who love what he's saying,
Speaker 1: who look what he's saying, and who agreed with what
Speaker 1: he's saying. So the question is, now, I don't know
Speaker 1: the percentages. I don't know how what percentage like this,
Speaker 1: like it or don't like. But all I know is
Speaker 1: when you went on Paris Morgan uh show, he apologized, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it was an apology. Did He
Speaker 1: was saying that he should if he hurt anyone from
Speaker 1: what he said, that he's sorry and he would love
Speaker 1: to give you a hug. Now. I think that that's
Speaker 1: noble of him, because all Jewish people are not involved
Speaker 1: and what he's saying, you know what I'm saying, So
Speaker 1: you can't blank it millions of people when you need
Speaker 1: to focus on if you have something to say about
Speaker 1: the industry, focus on the executives and the people in
Speaker 1: charge that it allows this to what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: I think that he understands that understands that now and
Speaker 1: he's course correcting now I'm giving you what he we're
Speaker 1: saying um and woven into all this is you know,
Speaker 1: my take or on this whole thing, and that is
Speaker 1: I think it should be addressed that for far too long,
Speaker 1: you know, and we're all guilty of it. We have
Speaker 1: listened to things that have danced and and had drinks
Speaker 1: over and celebrated and exalted on things that you know,
Speaker 1: glorified black destruction. And I think that Kanye West is
Speaker 1: that is making this an issue. This should be addressed now,
Speaker 1: for for for for right or for wrong. The reality
Speaker 1: is that that needs to be addressed. And this whole
Speaker 1: thing where they're trying to shift to this George Floyd
Speaker 1: and make that an issue, and they want to sue
Speaker 1: for two hundred and fifty million, well good up. Because
Speaker 1: opinions shouldn't be able to be sued. You should be
Speaker 1: allowed to say what you wanna say without having the
Speaker 1: threat of being sued. It is your opinion. It could
Speaker 1: be wrong, and I don't have to agree with it
Speaker 1: or listen to it. But I didn't see that. I
Speaker 1: didn't listen to the whole three ey that that drink
Speaker 1: Drink Champ interview with three and a half out, and
Speaker 1: I didn't listen to the whole. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what he said about George Floyd, but I do know
Speaker 1: this censorship is the saving grace of America. And if
Speaker 1: it wasn't for free speech, there would never been a
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King. There never would have been a w
Speaker 1: either Boys, a Book of t Washington or UI Newton.
Speaker 1: You know, they would never have been Malcolm X, Muhammad
Speaker 1: Ali and all the many other great revolutionaries have stood
Speaker 1: up and stood against oppression and wanted to make changes
Speaker 1: in America. They're never would have been any of them
Speaker 1: if it had not forben for speech, and before black
Speaker 1: media starts trying to censor black people who think different,
Speaker 1: we need to examine that because for far too long,
Speaker 1: white media has censured the black voice. That's why my
Speaker 1: league books exist, and that's why we give voice to
Speaker 1: the voiceless. Listen um. There are decent people all over
Speaker 1: this country and all over this world, you know, and sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, people make a mistake and say something inappropriate
Speaker 1: and in the wrong way. I don't think that that's
Speaker 1: worth to be hated and ridicute. It should be a dialogue.
Speaker 1: It should be hey, you know, I think it was
Speaker 1: immature to just say that. But sometimes when a person
Speaker 1: is hurting, they said in a whole lot of ways
Speaker 1: and you might not like and they're rough feathers, you
Speaker 1: know how he is. And I think that a lot
Speaker 1: of people, you know, look at the Will Smith slap.
Speaker 1: I don't know what got into him, but he went
Speaker 1: up there. It's a lot of the day life of
Speaker 1: Chris Rock on National TV. Now that's emotional, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know so sometimes man, you do things that
Speaker 1: you go back in your examine and you have to man,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, of course correct. Now, all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is the Kanye storm, you know, shouldn't be all of
Speaker 1: a sudden diverted because of what's perceived what he said
Speaker 1: about George Floyd. Now, and that seems like a lot
Speaker 1: of attention is trying that he gave two million to
Speaker 1: the daughter and for her education and other things. But
Speaker 1: the y'alli is that, Um, we need to protect free speech.
Speaker 1: We need to stand up for free speech, and we
Speaker 1: need to not have censorship. We need to have be
Speaker 1: allowed to have our opinions even if you don't agree
Speaker 1: with it, but be respectful of it. You know. We
Speaker 1: gotta learn how to agree, to disagree and still get along.
Speaker 1: I don't know why a person will have so much
Speaker 1: intense hate for someone who just agreed different. And I
Speaker 1: think that in order for us to bring the temperature down,
Speaker 1: we need to reach a point where we allowed to
Speaker 1: say what we need to say and have a dialog,
Speaker 1: have a dial loog. So this this Kanye West. You know,
Speaker 1: things be going on for two weeks, and I got
Speaker 1: a bump my segment about the Latino power grab in
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles. I gotta push that back another way
Speaker 1: because this right here is sucking up all the oxygen world.
Speaker 1: Why so you either be on time or you late.
Speaker 1: So I'm coming on time and I'm chiming into this
Speaker 1: subject matter because I think that this is a real issue.
Speaker 1: We need to address all them things, all death and destruction,
Speaker 1: this being spewed all over the radio. Let's just keep
Speaker 1: it where. We are influencing kids and youth, and that's
Speaker 1: our future, and we need to encourage them to be
Speaker 1: more than drinking and drugs and having sex with our
Speaker 1: responsibility and buying taking all your money and buying all
Speaker 1: that bleed and ain't buying no property. Crying about gentrification
Speaker 1: when the black community was the gold mine. Now you
Speaker 1: were complaining about outside is buying it up and building
Speaker 1: more time million dollar complexes, when the gentrified and blighted
Speaker 1: area was there for a decade and we didn't take
Speaker 1: our own money in our own community and build up. See, guys,
Speaker 1: the things that need to be we need to focus on.
Speaker 1: We need to get real about the things that we're
Speaker 1: spending too much time on destroying each other. This black
Speaker 1: on black crime needs to stop. This black on black
Speaker 1: crime needs to stop, and we need to come together
Speaker 1: and stop it so that we can then be able
Speaker 1: to sit at the table with other civilized nations and
Speaker 1: have a dialogue. Because this is ridiculous all over this world.
Speaker 1: Our perception they sold black women in Hollywood is what
Speaker 1: as being a mean and angry on most of these shows.
Speaker 1: This is the image going all over the world. I
Speaker 1: talked about this. We talk about this on The Bobby
Speaker 1: Shop Talks that I've been airing for the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: The Bobby Shop Talks to you Ain't hurt that. Go
Speaker 1: back and listen to my old episode the Bobby Shop Talk.
Speaker 1: The way our women are portrayed. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We have to come to grips with dealing with these
Speaker 1: images and these perceptions that are being thrown out all
Speaker 1: over this world. People have this perception of black people
Speaker 1: in a negative way, and they look at only individual
Speaker 1: black people like Obama and um Oprah and Sabrina Williams.
Speaker 1: The people like that. They look at them different, They
Speaker 1: look at them as individuals, but as a group, as
Speaker 1: a society, as a culture, we are stereotype and they
Speaker 1: look at us in a negative way. They look at
Speaker 1: us as as you know, I'm not even gonna say it,
Speaker 1: but that's the reality. They don't look at us in
Speaker 1: a favorable way, and we need to realize that why
Speaker 1: because what they see is black and black destruction and
Speaker 1: that what they here is what music that that talks
Speaker 1: about what goes on in our communities, what sex, drugs,
Speaker 1: death and murder. All right, So that's my take on
Speaker 1: the Kanye West storm. So hey, tune in next week.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna talk about. Well I
Speaker 1: do know what I'm gonna talk about, but it might
Speaker 1: get up because this is topic peace Enjoy. Part six
Speaker 1: of barber Shop talks accept your own and be yourself?
Speaker 1: And what is myself? A righteous Muslim? Is that right?
Speaker 1: And now? Who want to accept that? Who want to
Speaker 1: go back to what they was cut off from about
Speaker 1: we already talked about society. Gonna look, we already talked
Speaker 1: about slavery. Oh you know that they were saying slavers.
Speaker 1: They changed our little and they change our name, they
Speaker 1: change our culture, they change that they change that. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well if they changed it, then what were we before
Speaker 1: the change? And can we go back to the change? Okay?
Speaker 1: But can we go back before? But you know, when
Speaker 1: you're looking at a situation, you're talking about going back
Speaker 1: to the roots, and which which grows the branches. Well,
Speaker 1: most people ain't gonna go as deep as going back
Speaker 1: to the roots. What they see is what they see,
Speaker 1: and that's the branch. And so most people they don't
Speaker 1: want what you and I might believe in think, they
Speaker 1: want what society. So because we're talking about the brands,
Speaker 1: so we're talking about credibility, we're talking about the people,
Speaker 1: you know, the most successful people we see every day.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that the problem is going
Speaker 1: to continue because they don't until until we find a
Speaker 1: way to make the change, until we find a way
Speaker 1: to be affected. Yes, what we can do? So how
Speaker 1: can so? How can we make the change? First? We
Speaker 1: got to change not number one. Second, then we gotta
Speaker 1: find a way to civilize the uncivilized, to make the
Speaker 1: healthy unfortunate change for the better. And that stiffer what
Speaker 1: you say, we have to make a change, which part
Speaker 1: of the people you're trying to make the one that
Speaker 1: already make any thing that trying to be out here
Speaker 1: trying to teach, or the one that had not even
Speaker 1: accepted the change, the ones that have not changed and
Speaker 1: need to change the need that the orphans, the disenfranchise,
Speaker 1: they all pressed, they're ignorant. They're gonna have to try
Speaker 1: to find there, try, They're gonna have to try to
Speaker 1: find a way where they're gonna have to say, you
Speaker 1: know what, this is not working. We could be more advanced,
Speaker 1: maybe do that and try other avenues were here that
Speaker 1: all the time. If this ain't after, you gotta go
Speaker 1: down an avenue. You know, we're we're in this condition.
Speaker 1: We're in the scene like beginning worse. The duty of
Speaker 1: a civilized person civilized uncivilized. I think about it. You know,
Speaker 1: people come here this morning and like I'm not in
Speaker 1: social media that gonna hear people talk this morning out
Speaker 1: So you do believe it's our obligation to try to
Speaker 1: civilize or or educated the miseducated, teach them. Absolutely, that's
Speaker 1: why we were chosen for the job to teach them.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. But but but look at
Speaker 1: it today, Man's Roscoe. It's the hardest job Roscoe in
Speaker 1: the world. Brother brother yesterday, I got told that more
Speaker 1: than brother yesterday in Roscoe. Right, you're a Manchester and
Speaker 1: man got killed a rapper? What all you going on?
Speaker 1: And then not only that, but another rapper just got
Speaker 1: killed in Hollywood. You see what I ain't. So the
Speaker 1: point that I'm making is as the killing is increasing,
Speaker 1: people young people taking out young people like it ain't
Speaker 1: nothing and for nothing. So we're getting worse, We're not
Speaker 1: getting better. When you look at up the door when
Speaker 1: when we when our people was released from Shateau slavery,
Speaker 1: we wasn't that here came banging killing each other. That
Speaker 1: wasn't even in existence. Do you look at the nineteen ten,
Speaker 1: the twenty thirty forty, where are we game banging on
Speaker 1: each other? So we have got we have gotten worse
Speaker 1: that we gotten further away from slavery. So we gotta
Speaker 1: do something the same man, this ain't We can't go there,
Speaker 1: So we can agree. We gotta do something. We gotta
Speaker 1: make a change. We gotta make an impact, we gotta
Speaker 1: make a deal. We gotta teach we as men, we're
Speaker 1: the men, were the we're the leaders of our society. Well,
Speaker 1: I think we're the leaders of our society. We gotta
Speaker 1: step up a department. Not too many men now just
Speaker 1: stepping up to the plate. Why because we men, we
Speaker 1: want to go to strip bars, we just want to
Speaker 1: watch football and basketball. Say, here's the thing, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We know that's the problem. That's my point. We know
Speaker 1: that that's the problem. The thing is we gotta spend
Speaker 1: more time to address the solution. And the solution is
Speaker 1: difficult because so many of us don't want it and
Speaker 1: it's hard to implement. The solution is what you say,
Speaker 1: accept your own and be yourself, the step up and
Speaker 1: be in se is here and here, And one good
Speaker 1: example of that's from the Nation of Islam even prior
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy five. And you look at what what
Speaker 1: the Honormalijah MOHAMMEDD did with the Nation of Islam prior
Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy five. How these black men was working
Speaker 1: number one in fishing port, how the all printed press
Speaker 1: called the World School. Yeah, all these things. But then
Speaker 1: the solution is economic development. So so so whatever, that's
Speaker 1: the solution, economic development. What happened after that, they came
Speaker 1: in with a new religion for our people it's called materialism.
Speaker 1: It's called getting that bag, it's called all his other
Speaker 1: foods in it. It's called t working, it's called all
Speaker 1: the Then start getting the white men who started getting
Speaker 1: cloth to freedom. They're getting right. But here's the thing
Speaker 1: that's you know, we can we can phistophically talk about
Speaker 1: you know, you know, from one era to another and
Speaker 1: why we went from this to that, But the problem
Speaker 1: is it remains an issue, and then we have to
Speaker 1: brother change and we have to be effective enough then
Speaker 1: we understand economics is the key to our to thrive
Speaker 1: and to elevate and to evolve. And it does it
Speaker 1: take education? Yes, does it take us heaven and agenda
Speaker 1: that focus on our own aspirations and own desires that
Speaker 1: would cause a explosion of creating a generation of change
Speaker 1: for our future and our success. Well, hey, you know
Speaker 1: it's tough, it's real. It's the task is before us.
Speaker 1: I don't expect society to solve the problem. But if
Speaker 1: you're out here and you listen to this podcast, if
Speaker 1: anything that you can do to make a difference, start
Speaker 1: with yourself, then the family, then your friends, and then
Speaker 1: hopefully your neighborhood, your community, and so forth. Were in that,
Speaker 1: we're in with that. I hope you enjoyed this episode
Speaker 1: of Barbie Shop Talks. Come back next week for Part
Speaker 1: seven of Barbie Shop Talks. My book review for this
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Speaker 1: This book, well, why not this book? I'm already talking
Speaker 1: about Kanye West and his thoughts about black ownership as
Speaker 1: well as the Bobby Shop Talks where we talk about
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