WEBVTT - Deeply Rooted 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:00.840 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.199 Mallory and the ship Boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.000 We are your host of t M. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:09.639 I Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and Inspiration, 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:11.960 New Energy. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.400 What's up, my Son Lennon, Greetings, Tamika D. Mallory. How 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:19.320 are you feeling today? 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.840 I'm doing okay, okay. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.119 Until freedom down today a little until. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.680 On time, summertime. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.760 I love. It's way too hot outside. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.720 You say that every week every week. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:44.040 I went outside and I've seen the devil licking somebody's 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:44.640 face out of it. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.639 But it's better than it was last week. A little bit, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:49.880 but it's better. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.560 Yeah, the heat is still on hell man. 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.480 I mean that's just a reality. I think. You know, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:57.400 when you hear. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.840 Certain groups of peace people trying to deny that climate 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.479 change is real, I mean, it's actually playing out before 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.080 our eyes like we see it, so I can tell 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:09.199 me that's not real. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:10.520 AnyWho. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.319 You know, I'm really about to like change my profession. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.760 I'm telling you because I would like to focus on 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:20.840 quality control. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.200 That's what I want to focus on. That's the thing 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.240 I want to focus on. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:30.600 I realized that I that in my third life because 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.920 I have one that is an organizer for social justice. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.520 I have another one that is an event planner, and 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.720 then I have a third one that should be in 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:48.600 customer service and quality control. I had an experience during 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:55.040 my family reunion where you know, I checked into an 0:01:55.080 --> 0:02:02.080 Airbnb and when I got there, beautiful space in a 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:08.839 town that does not have much my family's town in Moreauville, Alabama. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.520 You know, it's there's a there's two different sides to 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:19.440 it with like like with many areas that's heavily populated 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.840 with black boats. You got downtown some kind of like 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:29.560 some would say uptown, you know, and there's some white money, 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.280 and there of course are black affluent people there as well. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:38.720 But it is a very very very country town, small town. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.680 And so when you think of and there were there 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:48.200 used to be businesses that were like amazing, right, like 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:53.320 you know, factories and lots of businesses, and all of 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.400 that was purchased by big business and then they shut 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.680 production down and so for years and year in years, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.040 those jobs have not returned. So there is the tale 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:05.480 of two cities. Again. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.200 There are people who are retired, people who moved there 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:14.600 for various reasons to teach college to you know, maybe 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.520 it's just they found a good town that they like 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.399 to spend the rest of their lives. You have that, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:26.200 and then you have people who are absolutely struggling and 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.320 really suffering with a lot of desperation. So when you 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.400 see beautiful airbnbs popping up because people are starting to 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.200 invest in this area again, it's really cool. Shout out 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:42.480 to my cousin OLA's Garden, Kim Abney, who has opened 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.680 up a number of rentals and airbnb properties and they 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.680 are phenomenal beautiful. You walk in the details is just 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.360 like his mama, my auntie Ola May Abney taught him 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:01.720 this other airbnb very nice, walked in, loved beautiful. But 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.520 as soon as my and my brother Milton is with me, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.040 so it's not just me because I know y'all gonna say, oh, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.720 she always got something. Soon as we walk into the bedroom, 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.960 he's helping me put my suitcases up. You clearly see 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:19.880 a stain on the bed. Then he pulls the cover 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:25.039 back and there's another stain. Now, these two stains are 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:30.599 more than likely clean. They're more than likely clean, right, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.200 And in fact, I'm just gonna make this my thought 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:40.400 of the day today because it's so it's just these 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.159 two stains are there. More than likely it's clean and 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.360 it's wear and tear. It looks like an old oil 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.720 stain or something. But the bed looks clean. It's just 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.359 it has these two stains on it. So immediately I 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.960 reach out to the management and say there's stains in 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.760 the bed, and their response and by the way, I 0:04:58.760 --> 0:04:59.719 don't hear anything back. 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:01.760 Is going on three hours before. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.880 I had to send an email going through all of 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.240 it to get the attention of the individual. And eventually 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.279 she calls me back and she's like, yeah, well, but 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.800 it's definitely clean. I understand what you're saying, and I 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.880 believe that it's clean. But I should not have to 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.040 sleep in a bed that has stains on it, regardless 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.000 of whether it is clean or not. Whether it's clean 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.800 or not is not the point here. The point is 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.120 there should not be stains in the bed. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:31.360 Now. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.200 Let me just say from the onset that it was corrected. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.480 But it was corrected after having to go back and 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:44.279 forth with this woman several times, and then eventually she 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:49.520 said to me, oh, and she said, well, this one 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.560 is busy, which is the lady who is the cleaning person? 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.680 She herself, This woman was with her. 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.000 Family, and she's telling me all of these things and 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.680 continuing to say and then texting me that I know 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:05.840 for a fact. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.479 Those sheets were washed, that bed was clean, those it's clean. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.240 Still not did it. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:12.880 She didn't get what was going on. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.440 She did not understand that when you check into a hotel, 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.400 you check into a rental property, you don't want to 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:20.640 see any type of stain. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.400 And by the way, that is called wear and tears. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:24.720 So what you do when it. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.719 Has a stain on it, it's time to throw it 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.599 out and get new ones. This happens all the time 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.400 when you are running. Well, no one else has ever complained. Meanwhile, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.880 my brother he's like you, he ain't trying to have you. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:42.360 Know, Milton, it is not that serious. It's fine. When 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:43.960 he looked at it, he was like, nah, this is 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:44.359 a stain. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.680 Like and you know, I'm the one and all of 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.400 the guys around me would be like, oh boy, here 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.599 she go to glass the four, this, that, that and the third. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.400 But even he was like, no, no, that's a stain. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.839 It's two stains, and it's one under the comforter. In 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.120 my thought of the day today is that, of course, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:09.880 as a black woman, you know I want to I 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:16.160 should be able to say and defend my position as 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:20.239 black women, and I would imagine black people we are 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:28.960 constantly shrinking ourselves so that we don't upset, annoy, agitate others, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:34.320 or bring further harm to ourselves. So all of the 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.640 hotels in this particular area, it's places that I personally 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:39.320 would do. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.880 I don't like to stay. This is my mother's hometown. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.240 I love it there, love it there, grew up there, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.000 can't wait to go back. But I don't like staying 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.640 in the hotels. So the idea that there are Airbnb 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.360 properties that are very nice popping up is really really good. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.360 And I don't want to put myself in a situation 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.280 where I have a bad rating or you know that, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.800 where these people can write whatever they want. I've already 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:09.160 been down the road with Airbnb where somebody blatantly lied. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:15.680 The management company blatantly lied. Airbnb knew it from reading 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.760 all of the messages back and forth between us, but 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:23.640 still told me that they cannot delete the comments on 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.520 the review that was left for me. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.240 Because it still is up to the will of. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.880 The property manager, even though they read screenshots and saw 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:35.760 that it was a lie and it's very basic. They 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.199 tried to say that I had an additional person in 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.720 the house above the people that were supposed to be there, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.680 but then it was proven that that was the driver 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:50.160 who dropped off our bags and was only in the 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.200 house for maybe fifteen minutes, and it was proven in 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.720 the messages, but they still left on my comment thing, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.920 you know, my review and Airbnb that I had an 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.360 additional person in the house and so I violated the 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.880 rules right and Airbnb could not and would not do 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:09.839 anything about it. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:11.400 So therefore, here I. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.640 Am dealing with this sheet situation. And instead of me 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.640 doing what I know how to do, which is to 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:23.160 write and be very clear about why this is problematic 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.160 and to make my point and also to demand of 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.000 this woman to stop telling me like I'm a child, 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.160 over and over again that the sheets are clean, I 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.360 am unable to do that because I need to try 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:40.720 to protect my name, my brand, myself physically. Who knows 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.200 like this is a white woman in a country town somewhere. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.120 I don't know what the hell she might do. I 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.360 have no idea I know her husband is, I don't 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.480 know how children are. So I don't want to get 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.240 into a back and forth with this woman. So ultimately, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.000 if you read my messages, I'm saying I'm my apologies, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:02.320 I'm sorry, I'm the freaking customer, and I'm apologizing to 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.400 the lady and trying to be as nice as possible 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.000 to try to de escalate or whatever you want to 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:13.360 call it, diffuse any possibility that this situation was somehow 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.960 backfire on me. And I just feel like that is 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.000 the most uncomfortable for the rest of my trip. It 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.680 was in the back of my mind that this woman 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.920 had been extremely rude to me. I mean, it goes 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.520 on and on, and we don't have the time to 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.920 talk about it today, but it was nothing that I 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.280 could really do because I wanted to be in a 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.840 comfortable place where I could stay for my family reunion 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.520 and also not interrupt other people for feeling like they 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.400 needed to protect me. So, you know, that's a that's 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.240 a it's a very uncomfortable place that we as black 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.960 people are constantly trying to shrink ourselves so that we 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.720 don't upset other people even when they're doing us wrong. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.520 That's that's really a real thing. I go through it 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.640 all the time, you know. I try not to be 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:06.080 as aggressive when I'm communicating with certain people, understanding that 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.080 I speak with the level of passion that I've been 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:13.280 told is aggressive and scared people. You know, a lot 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.320 of times, in certain situations where I don't even think 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.720 I'm wrong, I apologize because, like you said, you fear 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.520 the backlash of what can come out the situation. You know, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.040 we constantly have to do that, you know, and knowing 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.640 how picky you are, and it's nothing wrong with being 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.920 picky when you're paying your money for something. You know 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.760 what I'm saying, and that's customer service. Like you know, 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:37.439 you know, I play with you a lot and go, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.840 oh gods, it's gonna go. But the reality situation is, 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.160 it's not like you're wrong. You don't want dirty civil 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.960 where you don't want dirty cheeks, you don't want dirty things. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.320 You don't want to overlook that as a state on you, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.280 and you don't really have to, because when you provide 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.600 a service, especially with people have to lay and their 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.960 heads and live living for us, it should be immaculate. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.480 Actually, it should be an immaculate space to. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.400 Where the sheets where people have to lay their body 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.120 or they don't know if this is a fucking comstain 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.400 or whatever stain that comes from somebody else, like nobody 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.240 should have to guess what kind of stain is on 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.199 the sheet in the blanket, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.640 And you and if you don't see that you're willing 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.600 to move past it, then you you shouldn't have to. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.760 And when you bring it to someone who is providing 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.720 the services to you, when you bring it to their attention, 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.560 it shouldn't be any pushback. It should just be like, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.600 oh my, I apologize, you know, even though they're clean, 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:32.680 I understand, I apologize. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.920 I'm gonna make sure I get you guys some fresh sheets. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.199 And that's it. It really shouldn't be much more than that. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.520 But that's just not where we are, you know. And 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:45.960 unfortunately we live in a time where, you know, especially 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:47.800 as black people that we like you said, we have 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.840 to try not to say as much and try to 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.000 cause it's less problems because we always gonna be seen. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.200 And unless unless it's a videotape or something. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.720 Just like you said, you you had the whole screenshots 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:04.320 of text messages would showed that somebody lying on you 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.280 and you still had to deal with the backladgh. So 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.960 it's just like a lot of times you want it, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.920 it's even worth it. You know, you got to weigh 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.880 your options. Do I even standing up for myself or 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.160 do I be quiet? Because I know standing up for 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:22.000 myself can give me ostracized and you know, in ridiculed. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.680 So it's a lot man. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.240 And meanwhile, this white woman got to walk away from 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.240 the situation. And by the way, the way Airbnb works 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.880 for people who don't know, you make a review first 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.480 and then she makes a review after, so they and. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.520 They don't get to see it until after they make 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:41.160 their review. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.760 But nonetheless, you make a review first and then they 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:45.520 make a review. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.520 So for me, I and you know, I'm just, I'm 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:49.080 just like. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:55.680 Systems and customer service and quality control needs a new focus. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:14:00.679 It really does, because people are spending their money services 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:01.520 that they don't like. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.440 Products are coming. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.400 Listen the way in which people the clothes are being made. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.240 Everything is just being thrown together and people are basically 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:16.280 being forced to to I don't know what you call it. 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.880 I got some moose from my hair and the top 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.840 of the moose bottle was cracked open, and they were 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.760 trying to tell me, oh, there's no way. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:25.720 To exchange it. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.040 And this this and that I had to go all 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.400 the way to the corporate office to get five dollars. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.920 But if you mailed me something and it's broken, you're 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.560 supposed to replace it. Like, how dare you even think 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.440 you can have a policy that says that you don't 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.080 have to. So this is something that for me is 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.280 a real passion. I have no idea the process of 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.920 getting you know, scooting myself from one world to the net, 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.600 but I really I wish that and when I go 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.080 and come back that I would be in quality controlled 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.360 and customer service. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.040 Well, listen, man, I know if you and customer service, 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.040 the customer service is going to be immaculate because what 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.720 you demand from customer service, it's pretty much what we 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:11.200 all shit. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:11.400 You know. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.560 Like I said, I joke about it a lot. But 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.680 should we should have Queen Silp? Should have people, you 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.000 know what I'm saying. We should have people who want 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.760 to be actually like their job, Like their attitude shouldn't 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.280 be like you bother them because you're asking them to 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.440 do things to make you comfortable as a customer. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.600 You know, yeah, we shouldn't thank you very much. So 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:34.960 do we have a music spot? 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.360 Like, listen, I don't want us to just be giving 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.360 the music spotlight to people that don't deserve it. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:44.000 So I don't have a music spotlight, but I do 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:48.440 want to highlight a clothing brand that has beautiful clothing 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:53.920 and it is my guy Smith is Smith, and it's 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.480 called Actively Black Actively Black. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.640 This is a shirt. Look see this. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.000 Let me say that a more confident Okay, yeah, this 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:10.000 is this is one of the church black and cocky. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.240 Yeah, Actively black man. So they sent me a bunch 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.720 of stuff. Shout out to him, Listen to me. It 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:20.520 is quality sportswear, quality sports. Where they sent you a 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.080 whole box of stuff. 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.080 I'm getting ready to start going through it for my travels. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.320 Shout out to Landy Smith. Shout out to Actively Black. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.800 If you do not have some of their clothing, then 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.560 you need to go on actively black dot com. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:35.120 Right now. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.200 They partner with Alan Everson. I've seen Obama and some 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.720 of their clothing. You know they're doing. They're doing amazing things. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.920 It's one of my premium brands, top brands. He sent 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.160 me a box of stuff that I'm gonna work out 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:49.640 it and some it's fly stuff. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.760 It is work. 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.600 It ain't just worker, it's quality sports. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.560 Were man it's real quality, high quality sports with Wow. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.000 If you look at I've had a free shorts from 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.919 last year that I got that's still in tip top shape, 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.760 Like I work out in them all the time. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:09.840 My favorite work out you. 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.480 That's what I was gonna say that well, a little 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.479 different from you. They also sent me a box, and 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.600 I'm so proud of Actively Black. First of all, I 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.879 remember when you first started promoting them, a lot of 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.879 people didn't know who they were, and this was like 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.639 at the very beginning of folks saying we need to 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.919 buy black, and you were immediately on Actively Black. So 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.760 shout out to you for that, especially after the Nike 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.600 situation when we decided to not wear night y'all don't 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:35.760 even miss Nike anymore. 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.000 Like actually I told you, I. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.920 Don't even see it anymore as something like I don't 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.480 feel I don't I just don't. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.480 Feel attached to it. So that's that. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.040 But but they sent me things and the quality, like 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.479 you said, is so good. It's so it's such a 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.560 good brand. And so for people who are like you know, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.159 I want to support some black owned business, but I 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.400 want myself to be because sometimes, let's be clear, try 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.400 to support our own and the stuff don't be that 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.879 good quality, like I'm just saying, And it's not just 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.560 our own. Sometimes we support other brands and the equality 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.440 is not there, you know what I'm saying. And then anyway, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.680 it's not their customer service quality I got. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:19.840 I could go on. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:20.840 But I won't. 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:26.760 Customer service Actively Black they definitely have good customer service 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.760 and they have a heart for the community and the people, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.800 and a lot of folks are starting to get into it. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.840 You know, people have been supporting them, So keep supporting 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:36.160 Actively Black. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:41.760 Because I am actively Black, all right. 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.159 Family, So today you know, we always have our friends on, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.440 but today we got our little sister, and I am 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:53.960 really really excited because this is a young woman who 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.680 is an example of what we tell our young people 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.480 they need to do. She's not waiting for anybody to 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:04.639 give her position. She's not waiting to be lifted and 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.960 we need to pass the torch and no, no, she 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.720 is blazing her own trails and carrying the torch all 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:18.000 at the same time. And we're just I don't know 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.959 my song, what's the word. It's not just excited, it's elated. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:32.040 It's elated crowd to have this young woman as our sister, 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.600 our colleague, and the struggle and just so many things. 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.280 And I can actually cry because it's just that deep knowing, 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.399 you know, watching all of us grow over time, but 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:49.960 especially watching Bria Baker, our young sister, go from on 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.359 the streets, on the ground to putting it in a 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:56.679 book and now she has such an amazing project. Let 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.840 me tell you a little bit about Bria Bacon. Now, 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.760 y'all know I don't read bios on this show. It's 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.760 very limited, but in this situation, we want to make 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:09.119 sure that our sister is properly introduced. 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:09.040 To all of you. 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.359 So, Bria Baker is a freedom fighter and writer and 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.240 a national and global strategist. Come on, now, tell them 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.840 exactly who you are. She has contributed to dozens of 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:25.080 electoral and advocacy campaigns, including the twenty seventeen Women's March 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.560 on Washington, the twenty eighteen student walkouts against gun violence, 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:34.560 and Jamani Williams successful bid for New York City Public Advocate. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:39.200 Ria has a BA in political science from Yale University, 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:43.800 where she served as president of Yale's NAACP chapter and 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.840 co director of the AIDS Walk New Haven, Okay. Now, 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:53.040 Ria has a book. It is called Rooted, the American 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:57.520 Legacy of land theft and the modern Movement for Black 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:01.560 land Ownership. It delves into one of the nation's first 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:07.320 and stealing and hoarding the land, and follows Ria and 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:11.280 her family on a personal journey to preserve her ancestors 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:13.040 land in North Carolina. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.040 Ria, thank you so much for joining us on Tami. 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:19.439 Sah no is going to make me cry because they 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:21.879 are being too kind, like little sister. But like I 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:26.320 was just following around, happy to learn at y'all's feed 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:30.480 and Carmen and Linda and just learn so much from 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.480 the two of y'all though of course through gathering and 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.720 other spaces. But it is just so special to get 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.159 to talk to y'all about a book after having been 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:45.280 the little intern volunteer assistant who was taking notes all 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:46.040 those years ago. 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:47.320 Yeah. 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:49.080 Well, I just want to say, first of all, I'm 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:54.000 very proud of you, and this book is just pretty 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:56.520 much a testament of who you are. You know, like 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:01.760 you always found things that needed to be spoken on, 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:03.919 Like even when I go to your social media, you 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:06.480 speak on the things that we need to say talk about, 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:08.639 but nobody actually highlights. 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.000 And you have a knack for that. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.320 You know in this book right here just pretty much 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.080 speaks to who you are, Like, what made you say 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.080