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Speaker 1: those that were around for the first part of the show,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the indictment of former president of
Speaker 1: the United States of America and we alluded to some
Speaker 1: of the obvious double standards that were present in that situation.
Speaker 1: I like, I see the theme coming here. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: we got a lot more to talk about. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of news that we don't get to cover on
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Speaker 1: a week show. But there's a few stories that we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about, uh where that double standard is
Speaker 1: on full display for everyone to see. So if you're
Speaker 1: not aware, stay tuned, listen up, and then you'll be
Speaker 1: able to see exactly how this country treats people differently
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Speaker 1: the double standard we live with, all right. The most obvious,
Speaker 1: flagrant recent example comes from the world of sports. There
Speaker 1: are two people named Angel Reese, and she faced off
Speaker 1: against a person named Caitlin Clark. What I know is
Speaker 1: that Angel Reese is a black woman and that Caitlin
Speaker 1: Clark what is a white woman. But you could tell
Speaker 1: the story a lot better than I could, So why
Speaker 1: don't you set us up?
Speaker 3: Angel Reese, buy you, Barbie. Oh see, I didn't even
Speaker 3: know that tournament MVP for the NCUBLEA women's tournament in
Speaker 3: March Madness, most double doubles in the history of the
Speaker 3: NCUBLEA tournament, First Team All American now national champion.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: However, Miss Caitlyn Clark, guard IOWA Big Ten Player of
Speaker 3: the Year might be National Player of the Year when
Speaker 3: it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: Incredible basketball player.
Speaker 3: Most points I think in the history of the tournament,
Speaker 3: or at least in the history of a single season
Speaker 3: for the nc double A different style of coverage, but
Speaker 3: not different style of play. Miss Caitlyn Clark is not black.
Speaker 3: Miss angel Rees is. And that's where the double standards
Speaker 3: starts because Miss Caitlin Clark does not just get busy
Speaker 3: on the basketball court. She makes sure that you understand
Speaker 3: that she's getting busy on the basketball court. And the
Speaker 3: reason why this is a topic most of you listening
Speaker 3: to this show, this became a national story because we're stupid.
Speaker 3: This didn't come a national story because of these two
Speaker 3: young ladies. Nothing that they did should have been newsworthy
Speaker 3: except be phenomenal basketball players both of them, and I
Speaker 3: mean phenomenal, not oh she's pretty good, or even more ignorantly.
Speaker 1: Oh she's pretty good for a girl. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no.
Speaker 3: These two young ladies will probably give Ramsen and I
Speaker 3: the business game after game after game, and we would
Speaker 3: just be tired and whooped like that's all that would
Speaker 3: that's all we would have to say. So if you've
Speaker 3: watched either of them play, they might be two of
Speaker 3: the best to ever play. Except every conversation from the
Speaker 3: time that game ended until today about the two of
Speaker 3: them have been about the color of their skin and
Speaker 3: the way that what they do is received by public eye.
Speaker 3: If Qwan and Ramsays were playing basketball, or Shaq and Kobe,
Speaker 3: or Michael and Lebron, or any magic and bird, any
Speaker 3: of your great rivals that you think in your head,
Speaker 3: or great players that you think in your head, were
Speaker 3: playing against each other and they were talking trash, black
Speaker 3: or white, as long as they were men, they'd be
Speaker 3: celebrated for it. Caitlin got celebrated for it. ESPN did
Speaker 3: an entire segment with different players talking about how she's
Speaker 3: the back queen because of how effectively effectively she trash
Speaker 3: talks when she plays. She's demonstrative again, It's not just
Speaker 3: that the ball keeps going in. It's that she keeps
Speaker 3: reminding you that, ironically, you can't see me. For our audience,
Speaker 3: most of you, just by hearing what I said, know
Speaker 3: what that means. But during the tournament, during the season,
Speaker 3: everything from pulling her jersey up to yelling at the crowd,
Speaker 3: to dismissing opponents, waving them off to shoot wide open
Speaker 3: because she didn't respect them enough to even guard them.
Speaker 3: You're that trash. I'm gonna just let you shoot self
Speaker 3: check you on our team.
Speaker 1: Go for it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna wave you often walk away while you shoot
Speaker 3: and miss this shot, right, It's mental manipulation on the
Speaker 3: level that I don't know that I see you regularly.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, this is Division one, this is the championship rounds,
Speaker 3: this is the essentially the playoffs, this is the tournament.
Speaker 3: She's walking away from the number one, this is the
Speaker 3: number one team in the country, undefeated. She's like, whatever,
Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna guard you.
Speaker 1: Go for it.
Speaker 3: In another game, she told a young lady that said
Speaker 3: something to her, shut up, y'all losing about fifteen.
Speaker 1: And did the you can't see me to her right,
Speaker 1: because you can't see me as waving your hand in
Speaker 1: front of your face. Yeah, John Cena made this thing popular.
Speaker 1: Tony Yale introduced it to him. Flavor Flave introduced it
Speaker 1: to him. I have to say that because everybody just
Speaker 1: says it's to John Cena, because he's the most famous
Speaker 1: of them. From being a WWE superstar and doing it
Speaker 1: in front of hundreds of millions of people on TV,
Speaker 1: it became known as something that he did. But even
Speaker 1: in the interviews, he says he got it from Tony Yale,
Speaker 1: who got it from Flavor Flav, So.
Speaker 3: That specific thing once they won. This is the thing
Speaker 3: about trash talk. This is why I don't understand why
Speaker 3: people do I guess I guess I do. People kind
Speaker 3: of get off on it. I don't understand why fighters
Speaker 3: do it. It's fighting. It's a whole different thing that's
Speaker 3: not even that's different from sport.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't play fight.
Speaker 3: You know somebody might knock you out and then you
Speaker 3: look really ridiculous if you was just trash talking the
Speaker 3: whole lead up.
Speaker 1: But I've seen that happen to Yeah.
Speaker 3: So when Caitlyn Clark is winning and she's doing that
Speaker 3: she celebrated. Like I said, they call her a clapback queen.
Speaker 3: They talk about how fire as she is, how competitive.
Speaker 3: People celebrate that in her. So when they lost the
Speaker 3: other best player on the.
Speaker 1: Court, Angel Reese, by you, Barbie.
Speaker 3: Gave her all she can handle of her own doing
Speaker 3: this is the handwaving you can't see. You can't see
Speaker 3: me right back at her, but a lot like we
Speaker 3: just popped y'all.
Speaker 1: Last week.
Speaker 3: You wish you can't see me where you at now,
Speaker 3: because that's how it goes. When you talk crazy, you
Speaker 3: better win. If you don't, you deserve to be clapped
Speaker 3: back at, quote unquote since she's the back queen crazy so.
Speaker 1: Queen Andel Reaes.
Speaker 3: Of the national champion LSU Tigers has been called by
Speaker 3: professionals in sports media classless, an idiot, a moron, and
Speaker 3: a few of those with an effing on the front
Speaker 3: of it. She's been insulted and dragged as unsportsmanlike and disrespectful.
Speaker 3: All she did was the same thing that ESPN did
Speaker 3: a whole segment on Caitlyn Clark for doing.
Speaker 1: John Sad shouted out Caitlyn Clark too oh on Twitter.
Speaker 3: If you saw the coverage of the tournament. Everyone did right.
Speaker 3: The team that they beat before they played LSU had
Speaker 3: won like fifty games in a row, like defeated national
Speaker 3: championship team, and all the coverage was about the super
Speaker 3: bad white girl for IOWA, not the whole team of
Speaker 3: sisters that was undefeated, like it was flagrant, and we've
Speaker 3: gotten to this space we're pointing out double standards like
Speaker 3: this and pointing out just flagrant overt racism is somehow
Speaker 3: intellectually beneath us. So even we like take the devil's
Speaker 3: advocate position of trying to find justification for it when
Speaker 3: it's no, we don't even have to find anything. We
Speaker 3: have video of Caitlin doing the exact same thing, and
Speaker 3: then the number one sports outlet on Earth did a
Speaker 3: full segment on how great it is that she does that,
Speaker 3: and the second a black girl did it to her,
Speaker 3: she became again classless, unsportsman, like an idiot and moron,
Speaker 3: and like I said, an effing.
Speaker 1: So we don't have.
Speaker 3: To try to dig and figure out why it's covered differently.
Speaker 3: We don't have to dig and figure out why people
Speaker 3: are responding to it differently, because you know who wasn't offended?
Speaker 3: You know who didn't call her out of her name,
Speaker 3: Caitlyn Clark. Yeah, because Caitlyn Clark get busy. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: in her mind, I'll see you again. Yeah, and we're
Speaker 3: gonna get right back at it. She knows that she
Speaker 3: gives that and deserves to get it back. Alla, Steph Curry,
Speaker 3: I can't get mad when they showy, y'all, shimmy.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So it's this position of her being somehow this victim
Speaker 3: when all that was done to her is what she
Speaker 3: does to everybody else.
Speaker 1: I want to add something here. I read an article
Speaker 1: from ugh New York Post, but there was an interview
Speaker 1: with Caitlyn Clark. She's the white woman in this story. Again,
Speaker 1: forgive me. I'm not a sportsperson and I'm awful with names,
Speaker 1: so I repeat them just in case you're like me.
Speaker 1: But Caitlin Clark did an interview and to your point,
Speaker 1: she said, I haven't been on social media since we lost,
Speaker 1: and I'm not mad at She gave like an amazing interview,
Speaker 1: Like I was like, pretty close to man. She should
Speaker 1: be the BABA for this week because she spoke up
Speaker 1: for Angel Reese, saying everything that you would expect She's like,
Speaker 1: she's an amazing competitor. That's part of the game, you know.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. There was a couple of things I
Speaker 1: wish she would have said, but that does likewise, But
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that she intentionally left them out. It
Speaker 1: probably didn't occur to her say things a certain way,
Speaker 1: or like, hey, this coverage is unfair. Maybe she doesn't
Speaker 1: have the same context or the same view. Maybe she's
Speaker 1: been absent. But I did appreciate her response the way
Speaker 1: she bigged up Angel Reese and she So Another part
Speaker 1: of this story that you are a listener may or
Speaker 1: may not have heard about, is that Jill Biden, the
Speaker 1: first Lady. Say her name again, because it's Jill and
Speaker 1: Joe sound the same. Jill, doctor, I should say, doctor
Speaker 1: Jill Biden, the first Lady of the United States, invited
Speaker 1: the losing team along with the winning team to the
Speaker 1: White House, right, And I guess that that's never been
Speaker 1: done before, and what not two hundred years? Sure?
Speaker 3: Sure, And so what people were opposed to just started
Speaker 3: back into eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: I'll just say that. So what people were saying is
Speaker 1: and you could correct me or jump in because I'm
Speaker 1: absolutely certain whatever you're about to say is going to
Speaker 1: be accurate. Okay, So what they were saying is, well,
Speaker 1: you know what if we had lost. If LS Louisiana
Speaker 1: State University had lost, Doctor Joe Biden would not have
Speaker 1: invited all the black girls to the White House having lost.
Speaker 1: So this is what it means to be white on
Speaker 1: full display because she's like, oh, well, both teams were
Speaker 1: really competitive and they did a really great job. Let's
Speaker 1: have them all come to the White House. And so
Speaker 1: I believe it was Angel Reese and her team. I
Speaker 1: think that there's some sort of like unity in this decision.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they said,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's okay, you can take the losing
Speaker 1: team to the White House. That's totally fine. We would
Speaker 1: go and hang out with Baraka and Michelle, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like that would be fine for us,
Speaker 1: you know. So the reason I brought that up is
Speaker 1: because Caitlin Clark was asked about that would she visit
Speaker 1: the White House if that invitation from Doctor Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was authentic, was was genuine, And Caitlin Clark said, no,
Speaker 1: I would not go. That's not how it works. Angel
Speaker 1: Reese and the ladies from LSU deserve to have their moment.
Speaker 1: So this is part of why I was like, man,
Speaker 1: does that is that that feels like a baba for us?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like you? I mean you,
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's baba worthy. I know.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm not of saying that what usually happens
Speaker 3: should happen.
Speaker 1: But you know some some people don't do that. No, No,
Speaker 1: you're right, So that's why I was kind of thinking
Speaker 1: about it. But anyway, there's an a double standard for
Speaker 1: you there. Let's move on, all right. So this one
Speaker 1: comes from CNN. I'll just read it. She was going
Speaker 1: to get mad and some steam already coming out of
Speaker 1: his I might walk out of the studio. He sent
Speaker 1: this one over for this week. I might walk out
Speaker 1: of the studio. I'll read it. The executive director of
Speaker 1: a police union in California has been placed on leave
Speaker 1: and is facing federal charges after allegedly importing drugs from
Speaker 1: overseas and distributing them throughout the country. I'll read the
Speaker 1: first part of that again. The executive director of a
Speaker 1: police union in California has been placed on leave. I
Speaker 1: didn't say under arrest on leave, Okay, all right, I'll
Speaker 1: continue likely paid. Joanne Marion Segovia sixty four, ordered thousands
Speaker 1: of synthetic opioids, including valeral fentanol, that were disguised as chocolates,
Speaker 1: wedding favors, and makeup, According to the criminal complaint filed
Speaker 1: Monday by the Office of the United States Attorney, Segovia,
Speaker 1: who serves as the executive director of the San Jose
Speaker 1: Police Officers Association, allegedly used her personal and office computers
Speaker 1: to order the opioids and made shipments using the union's
Speaker 1: ups account. The complaint said, so, what we have here
Speaker 1: is the police bringing in drugs and distributing them throughout
Speaker 1: the country.
Speaker 3: Don't say that like that, Ramses drug trafficking, said how
Speaker 3: they would say it if it was you. They wouldn't
Speaker 3: say rams is bringing in drugs. They would make you
Speaker 3: sound as criminal as possible.
Speaker 1: Help me out, go ahead, I'm loving it. Drug trafficking
Speaker 1: across borders. They would probably create a thug too, probably
Speaker 1: with that afro grown out of your head. Yes, king, thug.
Speaker 1: Do you think they would call Joe and Mary Marian
Speaker 1: Segoiva sixty four a thug under no circumstance. Isn't that funny?
Speaker 3: And you know, use words like a leged here, but
Speaker 3: the evidence is overwhelming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's on the computer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's not going to be called a thug at
Speaker 3: any point. Well, somehow she'll end up the victim here,
Speaker 3: I'm certain.
Speaker 1: So well, I mean, leave tells me everything I need
Speaker 1: to know, because, as you know, we're talking about double standards.
Speaker 1: So let's just lean into this one. Let's say I
Speaker 1: was a police officer, right, do you know how many
Speaker 1: police officers they would sit in my house, They would
Speaker 1: beat me up a little bit and arrest me in
Speaker 1: front of my children.
Speaker 3: Well, they would make sure there were cameras sure, so
Speaker 3: that it looks like they were doing the job, that
Speaker 3: they were bringing down justice in one of their fellow officers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they got one of the bad ones, one of the
Speaker 3: bad ones, the bad apples.
Speaker 1: So again, this illuminates very different and these these examples,
Speaker 1: we're not stretching at all for these examples. They're very
Speaker 1: very obvious. These aren't obscure little stories or whatever this is.
Speaker 1: You can see this in your own mind's eye, how
Speaker 1: this would play out differently if this was not a
Speaker 1: sixty four year old white woman with I think she
Speaker 1: has blonde hair, right, Americans love blonde hair. I love
Speaker 1: afros man. That's why I got them. I mean I
Speaker 1: got mine in my son's you know, so we got them.
Speaker 1: I should say nothing wrong with people have wond here
Speaker 1: though we loved all too. You know, that's how we
Speaker 1: do it over here. All right, let's move on this one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna kind of stand in solidarity with again with
Speaker 1: our trans friends, because I think that this also shows
Speaker 1: an example of double standard in this country. So Q
Speaker 1: sent this one over, I believe. So I'll read Tennessee State,
Speaker 1: by the way, Tennessee is tripping. I know, we know
Speaker 1: Tennessee is tripping right now. We just don't have enough
Speaker 1: show to get to everything that Tennessee is tripp We
Speaker 1: know that. Please forgive us for not as is Florida.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Tennessee State Representative Gloria Johnson had a discussion
Speaker 1: on the drag band bill. I'm using air quotes because
Speaker 1: I think that's name of it, drag ban bill. Okay,
Speaker 1: the bill seeks to ban drag readings to children. Right,
Speaker 1: so you might ask yourself, why do drag people need
Speaker 1: to read to children. If I'm honest, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I suspect it probably has something to do with
Speaker 1: inclusivity and teaching children, exposing children to different types of
Speaker 1: people so that they don't grow up afraid or prejudiced
Speaker 1: or whatever. Right, and people who are trans people, you
Speaker 1: know whatever, Whatever the intention is there, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: there's some deeper purpose and it's not nearly as sinister
Speaker 1: as folks make it out to be. But that's not
Speaker 1: the point I'm trying to make right now. I just
Speaker 1: need to get past that because some people's minds go
Speaker 1: to like a really dark place. They think that drag
Speaker 1: means sexual, you know, or something like that. Like if
Speaker 1: I were to say I sleep in the bed with
Speaker 1: my son, people get weird because they're like, you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to sleep in your bed. No, we're going to
Speaker 1: sleep as my child. You know, you do what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So people's minds always go to this weird sexual place
Speaker 1: with stuff, and I want to make sure that we're
Speaker 1: addressing that before we get here. Okay, So there are
Speaker 1: people they dress up and then they read to children. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're with me, then allow me to read this Woman.
Speaker 1: Representative Gloria Johnson asked her constituents about their feelings on wrestling,
Speaker 1: and she made some incredible points. She said, men wear
Speaker 1: tights and they wear makeup. And she made another interesting
Speaker 1: point by saying that drag people are dress in drag.
Speaker 1: They often don't show any skin, and especially not at
Speaker 1: a school, they're fully dressed up right. I don't imagine
Speaker 1: these drag shows are as popular as people are making
Speaker 1: them out to be, or like as common, you know.
Speaker 1: But the point is is that wrestling is geared toward children,
Speaker 1: and no one has anything to say about it. So
Speaker 1: that's a glaring double standard right there. And then, last,
Speaker 1: but not least, I have to mention a double standard
Speaker 1: that came up this week as well. Representative Jasmine Crockett
Speaker 1: said on MSNBC as she was discussing the January sixth
Speaker 1: choir song while I went to number one on iTunes.
Speaker 1: While she was describing how they went about making the song,
Speaker 1: She's like, hey, they have this equipment. They were able
Speaker 1: to put this song together and get this, you know,
Speaker 1: the president reading the Pledge of Allegiance and put out
Speaker 1: a song and went to number one. How is this possible?
Speaker 1: So she says, I've never seen tablets in prisons, and
Speaker 1: they used tablets to record this and text their family
Speaker 1: members and to review their own discovery. Exactly that too,
Speaker 1: but with laptops and so forth. And I got to think,
Speaker 1: and you know what, there's been so many rappers that
Speaker 1: have had to record their stuff over the phone, you know,
Speaker 1: rap songs. I think Wayne did one of them, doll Wayne.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I think that that also shows that there's
Speaker 1: a different way that the country treats people, you know,
Speaker 1: given the color of your skin. So with that said,
Speaker 1: we'll leave that right there. All right, now, it's time
Speaker 1: for the Way Black History Fact. Today's Way Black History
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Speaker 1: can look it up yourself. But you don't just have
Speaker 1: to use Wikipedia if you don't trust it, because it's
Speaker 1: everywhere we're going to talk about California. California was named
Speaker 1: after a black woman. I was born in California nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty two. I lived forty years in my life and
Speaker 1: then I found that out in that word, and you
Speaker 1: know what. Even the paintings of Kalipa, the ones that
Speaker 1: I found on the Internet, and the paintings that I
Speaker 1: would come across when I was younger, not knowing this,
Speaker 1: none one of them ever depicted her the way she's
Speaker 1: described in the story. But we'll get there. She should
Speaker 1: be real brown, but we'll get there, all right. Khalifa
Speaker 1: is the fictitional queen of the island of California, first
Speaker 1: introduced by sixteenth century poet Garcia Rodriguez de Montavio in
Speaker 1: his epic novel of chivalry La Sergas the Esplandian. I
Speaker 1: think I got that right, written around fifteen ten. The
Speaker 1: California is a region of North America, encompassing the US
Speaker 1: state of California and the Mexican states of Baja California
Speaker 1: and Baja California. Sir take their name from Califia and
Speaker 1: her kingdom. In the novel, Califia is a pagan warrior
Speaker 1: queen who ruled over a kingdom of black women living
Speaker 1: on the Island of California, an island off the coast
Speaker 1: of Asia. Califia is convinced to raise an art army
Speaker 1: of women warriors and sailed away from California with a
Speaker 1: large flock of trained Griffins so that she can join
Speaker 1: a Muslim battle against Christians Christians who are defending Constantinople.
Speaker 1: In the siege, the Griffins harm the enemy and friendly forces,
Speaker 1: so they are withdrawn. Khalifa and her ally Rodario fight
Speaker 1: in a single combat against the Christian leaders a king
Speaker 1: and his son, the Knight Esplandian. Khalifia is vested and
Speaker 1: taken prisoner, and she converts to Christianity. She marries a
Speaker 1: cousin of Esplandian and returns with the remainder of her
Speaker 1: army to California for further adventures. All right, So that's
Speaker 1: the story in brief. The name of Khalifia was likely
Speaker 1: formed from the Arabic word Khalifa Khalifia, which is ta
Speaker 1: get that right, oh, clifan religious state leader that is
Speaker 1: known as caliph in English or Khalifa in Spanish. Similarly,
Speaker 1: the name of Califia's realm, California, likely originated from the
Speaker 1: same route, fabricated by the author to remind the sixteenth
Speaker 1: century Spanish reader of the Reconquista, a century's long fight
Speaker 1: between Christian Iberians and Muslim Arabs that had recently concluded
Speaker 1: in Spain. The character of Califia is used by Rodriguez
Speaker 1: de Montalio to portray the superiority of chivalry, in which
Speaker 1: the attractive virgin queen is conquered, converted to Christian beliefs,
Speaker 1: and married off. The book was very popular for many decades.
Speaker 1: Adnan Cortes read it, and it was selected by author
Speaker 1: Miguel de Serrantes as the first of may popular and
Speaker 1: presumed harmful books to be burnt by characters in his
Speaker 1: famous novel Don Quixote. Califia has been depicted as the
Speaker 1: spirit of California and has been the subject of modern
Speaker 1: day sculpture, paintings, stories, and films. She often figures in
Speaker 1: the myth of California's origin, symbolizing an untamed and bountiful
Speaker 1: land prior to European settlement. In nineteen thirty seven, Lucille
Speaker 1: Lloyd unveiled her drift titch I believe I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how to say this word. Mural origin and development of
Speaker 1: the name of the state of California, also known as
Speaker 1: California allegory, which was displayed at the State Building in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles until nineteen seventy five, when the building was
Speaker 1: demolished for safety reasons. The paintings were archived, and in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one they were restored and mounted in the
Speaker 1: California Room of the California State Capitol, whom forty two
Speaker 1: oh three renamed the John Elberton Hearing Room. The regal
Speaker 1: central figure shows Queen Califia depicted as a Mayan warrior princess,
Speaker 1: holding a spear in her left hand and examining a
Speaker 1: gyroscope in her right hm right. In nineteen thirty one,
Speaker 1: Diego Rivera finished his first US mural, The Allegory of California,
Speaker 1: for the Pacific Coastock Exchange Building now the City Club
Speaker 1: of San Francisco. The publication of Our Roots Run Deep
Speaker 1: The Black Experience in California, Volume one, was the lead
Speaker 1: story in The Sunday Examiner and Chronicle on February first,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. As reporter Greg Lewis pointed out the
Speaker 1: book's depiction of the Queen Kalifia's story as particularly noteworthy.
Speaker 1: An exhibition featuring Queen Califia followed in nineteen ninety five
Speaker 1: at the Historic State Capitol Museum in Sacramento, with subsequent
Speaker 1: showings in the sixth floor gallery of the San Francisco
Speaker 1: Main Library and the Los Angeles Central Library. In nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight, the California Council on Humanities funded the Seminar
Speaker 1: The Black Queen Primary Sources in California History to promote
Speaker 1: additional primary source research in California African American history. The
Speaker 1: mural of Queen Kalifia is featured at the top of
Speaker 1: the new African American Freedom Trail brochure produced by Reunion Education,
Speaker 1: Arts Heritage and San Francisco Travel in November twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and four, the African American Historical and
Speaker 1: Cultural Society Museum in San Francisco a symbol a Queen
Speaker 1: Kalifia exhibit curated by John William Templeton, featuring works by
Speaker 1: artists such as the author Right and James Gayle's artistic
Speaker 1: interpretations of Califia. The show displayed a nineteen thirty six
Speaker 1: treatment of Lucille Lloyd's California Allegory Triftich, with Queen Kalifia
Speaker 1: as the central figure. Templeton said that Kalifia is a
Speaker 1: part of California history, and she also reinforces the fact
Speaker 1: that when Cortes named this place California, he had three
Speaker 1: hundred black people with him. Templeton pointed out that Columbus
Speaker 1: had a black navigator and that Africans were seen by
Speaker 1: Europeans as being culturally advanced in the fifteenth century. William E. Hoskins,
Speaker 1: director of the museum, said that very few people know
Speaker 1: the story of Queen Califia. He said, one of the
Speaker 1: things we're trying to do is let people have the
Speaker 1: additional insight and appreciation for the contributions of African Americans
Speaker 1: to this wonderful country and more specifically to the state
Speaker 1: of California, adding that quote the Queen Callifia exhibit is
Speaker 1: particularly poignant. So now whenever I say California, I know
Speaker 1: that the lady on the I think it's not the
Speaker 1: state flag. But there's like a one of those flags
Speaker 1: that has that lady on it, and she's it's about
Speaker 1: as white as the flag as the background of the flag.
Speaker 1: That that was a reimagining of the original symbol of California,
Speaker 1: which depicted Queen Califia with her brown skin, a very
Speaker 1: intentional reimagining. Sure, I'm sure yeah, and so it's important
Speaker 1: to know that because that gives you another example of
Speaker 1: how history tends to get whitewashed, and there's less for
Speaker 1: us to be proud of, even if it's just an
Speaker 1: imaginary story. You know, we inspired this man to write
Speaker 1: this novel and this queen who was so powerful. It's
Speaker 1: sad that that was taken away from us when the
Speaker 1: truth is we should have grown up with that, I think,
Speaker 1: and little black girls should grow up with that. There's
Speaker 1: no version of this country that allows us to grow
Speaker 1: up with that. Well, I think we're getting closer, but
Speaker 1: we'll leave it right there. So once again, I have
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