1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: Media. So I saw this thing on the internet. How 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 1: many things in our life start like that? A video 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: of some sorority sisters doing their black sorority linestepping dance 4 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: thing that if you are familiar with black fraternity and sororities, 5 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: no big deal. But I kind of didn't know how 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: I felt about this because these sisters were not black. 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: Were some sort of persons of color, but they definitely 8 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: weren't black. Just kind of left me a little a 9 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: little unsure of how I felt about it. 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 2: So let's unpack some stuff here, all right. So this 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 2: has been a week. 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: I am in a different location, so if it sounds different, 13 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 1: it's because I'm sitting at my kitchen table because there 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,879 Speaker 1: was a incredible happening inside our studio, which is just 15 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: the back room of my house. I'm like, either I 16 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: am in complete misalignment, just completely of the will of God, 17 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: or I'm finna get blessings rained down on me because 18 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: got Dog finished the Bastard barbecue shot out Scratch Bastard, 19 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: probably one of the greatest DJs I've ever met in 20 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: my life, and he let me rock there. 21 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 2: It was a great thing. 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: And then I noticed that the carpet in the studio 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: up under my desk where the sound space is is 24 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: sopping wet, and apparently the little copper pipes decided to 25 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: break right at the foundation line. So I've been spending 26 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: the last few days breaking concrete. I learned a lot. Nevertheless, 27 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: he persisted, it has been fixed. I'd like to thank 28 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: my Lord it saving Jesus Christ for leading me to 29 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,559 Speaker 1: marry into a Mexican family so that I could ask 30 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 1: my brother in Lauchino shout out daxon journey. You know 31 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, for showing up with the journey, showed 32 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: up with the tools. I'd ask Dak's questions here and there. 33 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Simmer Simon from East of 34 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: the River. It helps, which leads me to the topic 35 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to cover today, which is about just really 36 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: I think, ultimately something called cultural competence tapping in with me. 37 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: So y'all may remember during Black History Month, I told 38 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: y'all I was not gonna spend any time this Black 39 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: History Month educating anyone on blackness. There has been books written, 40 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: there's documentaries, there's movies. 41 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 2: You have the resources. If you want to know, you 42 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 2: can know. 43 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: I'm just going to enjoy my blackness and ask questions 44 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: of black people, like when are we gonna let go 45 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: of this speakerphone thing. It's stuff black people do, but 46 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: that's in house. It's none of your business, speaking to 47 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: none of your business. There are a few things that 48 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: I feel like black people have made into an art form, 49 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: which is what makes this next thing something that seems 50 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 1: so intuitive to me. It doesn't seem like something that 51 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: you would need to explain. But I think I've examined 52 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: why I feel this way, and I've only come up 53 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 1: with a couple answers. 54 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 2: That I don't know. 55 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: They're kind of anecdotes, but one of which is maybe 56 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: there's something about the unique experience that I specifically had 57 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: by like growing up in such a multicultural space, not 58 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: so much like a lot of people grow up in 59 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: melting pots or whatever, or diverse areas, but you don't 60 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: really interact with those other cultures. 61 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 2: They're just your neighbors. 62 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: I truly lived tri culturally and shout out rad Mattic 63 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: like he was making fun of me for knowing what 64 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: the province was bamboo. All these fools have been like, damn, 65 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: you might be more Filipino than we are. It's just 66 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: because I be in y'all circle. You guys all know 67 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: all of the latinos, specifically the Mexican American references the 68 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: area I grew up in because I literally have been 69 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: with y'all and I'm actually black as hell, And then 70 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: you have to we all have to know dominant culture stuff. 71 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 2: Anyway. 72 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: Some of that might just be my curiosity, but then 73 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: I think there's an element of knowing how to act 74 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: when you're in somebody else's house, one of which is 75 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: knowing what is my business and is not my business, 76 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: and that, my friend, is essential to growing up black. 77 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 2: You got to know. 78 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: There are so many ways for us to tell you 79 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: to mind your business. And something is not my business. 80 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: Y'all remember the episode about the Supreme Court. Y'all don't 81 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: sign my check nor marinate my chicken, then what you're 82 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: doing is not my business. I don't know if that's 83 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: I don't know what about our culture values that so much. 84 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: But when I tell you stat of grown folks, bis, 85 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: when I tell you how your parents drill in you, 86 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: some stuff is just not your business. 87 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 2: I feel like you grow up being able. 88 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: To recognize when certain things are When I was up 89 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: in Vancouver earlier this year in February, at this like 90 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: artists retreat for like faith, art and mental health. 91 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 2: The lady that was running it gave us this motif. 92 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: She was like, Yo, there's being welcomed, there's being invited in, 93 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: and then there's belonging. To me. A good way to 94 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: say that is like if I have you over my house. 95 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're You're welcome. You're welcome here. 96 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: If I've invited you in, you get refrigerator rights, Like 97 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: you can get up and go into the refrigerator. Like 98 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: that's you know, you're you're, I'm inviting you in, I 99 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: am giving you permission. Belonging is like you ain't even 100 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: got a knock. This experience would not be the same 101 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: without you, Like something is missing if you are not here. 102 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: That's belonging. You're supposed to be here and hopefully that's 103 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: like should be the goal of humanity anyway. Now, as 104 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: Juneteenth approaches, the question I get every year, generally from 105 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: white people, but sometimes there's variations, is how should you 106 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: celebrate June teen? Sometimes I give suggestions, But in light 107 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 1: of this video, let me fall back and talk about 108 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: a bigger thing now, there's questions around the N word 109 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: that you ask ten different Black people, you gonna get 110 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: ten different answers. Trust me, I'm going somewhere with this, 111 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: and it's important, especially in light of these white South 112 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: Africans that just got here apparently being oppressed, and their 113 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: oppression is different than everybody else's oppression. There is an 114 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 1: acceptable oppression in relation to our president. Molly has done 115 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: an amazing I don't know, twenty part series on Weird 116 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: Little Guys about this white South African genocide, which is 117 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: a spoiler alert, not actually happening. But let's just say 118 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: you're a non black person, white person, you grew up 119 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: in black neighborhoods, grew up with black families, and maybe 120 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: among the homies, they have no problem with you using 121 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: the N word. Now, the cultural competency is to know 122 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: the difference between welcoming and belonging. If you truly knew 123 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: who we were and understood what we went through, you 124 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,239 Speaker 1: would understand that even with that pass, that the past 125 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: is non transferable. To me, that seems like a no brainer. 126 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 1: There's a relation. You have to earn that with every 127 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: new group of black people, because you truly understand what 128 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: it means to be one of us. That is a 129 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,239 Speaker 1: cultural competency to me. So I don't know those ladies 130 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: or the connection they may have to a black sorority. 131 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: They might be a chapter of one. I don't know that. 132 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: That's why I said I don't know how I feel 133 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: about it. I'd have to do some more investigation. They 134 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: are not the point of this discussion. The point of 135 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: this discussion is asked answering your question about how you 136 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: should participate in Juneteenth and in any other cultural celebrations. 137 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: I live five to ten minutes from Monterey Park. Is 138 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: the northern part of East Los Angeles, which is I 139 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: don't know. I would venture to say one hundred percent Asian, 140 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: specifically Chinese. I would venture to say that is probably 141 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: the largest population. I'm not checking any of this information. 142 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: That is the center of the Chinese American community in 143 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. It's like their Boyle Heights. Every year they 144 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: do a Chinese New Year celebration. Now, when I used 145 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: to work in Diamond Bar, this is a very la statement. 146 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: It's also a large Asian population. You know, parents would 147 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: like bring the little red envelope with twenty dollars. You know, 148 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: they would dress up, they would do their thing, and 149 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: and it was great. I appreciated them inviting me into 150 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: the experience, but I kind of knew what was my 151 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: business and not my business. I will go to the 152 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: Chinese New Year celebration. Sure, I'm gonna bring my kids. 153 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 1: We'll watch the dragons walk by. It'll be a great time. 154 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: We'll eat dumplings. But the thought has never crossed my 155 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: mind to put on an outfit and get up under 156 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: that dragon, because that's not my business. 157 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 2: That's y'all's business. 158 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: Now, if you particularly say, hey, I want you to 159 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: handle this, if you walk up to me specifically at 160 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,679 Speaker 1: hand me a sparkle and say, okay, way a bit 161 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:57,079 Speaker 1: like this, that is because you specifically right now invited 162 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,719 Speaker 1: me in. But I still understand there are certain things 163 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: that are none of my business. While I feel very 164 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: connected to many cultures, I just understand there are certain 165 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 1: conversations that are just not mine to have. There's some 166 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: cultural expressions that are ancestral you, that are sacred to 167 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: that community, and some stuff is meant to be shared. 168 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: But either way, it's not my position to make them 169 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 1: share things that they may find sacred. Some things come 170 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: out of joy, some things come out of oppression, and 171 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: some things are just that. 172 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 2: Family. 173 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: The point is, I'm cognizant enough to understand that there 174 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: are some things that are just off limits for me 175 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: because I don't have the sweat hour. I feel the 176 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: same thing about being black. There are certain things that 177 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: no one on this earth will understand if they did 178 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: not walk, if they don't walk through this world in 179 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: a black body, especially in America, there are certain things 180 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: that we have created out of our need for survival. 181 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: You know why there are HBCUs, it's because colleges were segregated. 182 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 2: We had to do that. 183 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: Why the parts of the pig that we eat is 184 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: because that's all y'all would give us. Why our neighborhoods 185 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: look the way they look, redlining y'all made us be 186 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: over here. These were things that came out of our 187 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: oppression of Sure, we made treasure out of our trash. 188 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: Sure we made beauty out of chaos. And there are 189 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: certain things that we just give and freely and invite 190 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: y'all into a lot of that is our music. We 191 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: invite you into our music. Please enjoy, sit down, sit 192 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 1: a spell. 193 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 2: Have fun. 194 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: There are things about our music that I've said many 195 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: times about being black. It's truly a meritocracy. If you 196 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: can sang, you can sang. I have a homegirl that 197 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: wrote a poem about she saw this white lady singing 198 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: wade in the water and her The reframe in the 199 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: poem was what water? What water are you waiting in? 200 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: You have to understand where that song came from. This 201 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: is about I mean, wade in the water. God's going 202 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: to trouble the water. There's a lot of things happening here. 203 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: There's a reference to Jesus performing a miracle. There's us 204 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: traveling among river lines to get to cross the Mason 205 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: Dixon through the underground railroad. There's the waters of us 206 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: crossing the Atlantic Ocean and actually surviving. You know some 207 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: of our ancestors who decided they would take the ocean 208 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: over slavery. When we talk about wading in the water, 209 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: there's a depth of pain to this, and if you 210 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: truly love us, you would know that you didn't experience this. 211 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 1: So my encouragement this year is just pull back and 212 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: say where am I welcomed? What am I invited to? 213 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 1: And where do I be long walking into any cultural situation. 214 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: That's all I ask. So listen, put your Jim Bay 215 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: drums away, take off that damn daishiki. You look ridiculous 216 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 1: and had us played a barbecue, enjoyed this catfish and 217 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: listen to the speeches and dance awkwardly when the DJ starts. 218 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: You're welcome. I don't know those sorority sisters. I don't 219 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: know their history. They're not the point. All I'm saying is, 220 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: have some antendants tap in with me