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Homecoming SZN Part 2: #StillVirtual
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Still working hard, still playing harder! Join along as we discuss homecoming season in the second year of the pandemic, as well as recent events in politics + pop culture. Plus, our monthly financial tip you won't want to miss!
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Three. Two. One. Let's go! Alright.
Call for Submissions: Global Health Concerns
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Do you have a passion for writing about important issues and current events? If so, now is your chance to shine. The Journal of the Student National Medical Association is looking for submissions for our upcoming winter edition. Woo, it's getting breezy out here. The theme of this edition is global health concerns, a focus on communities in need. Please feel free to submit all articles, poems, et cetera.
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pertaining to the topic of global health issues and concerns. The call for submissions is open from September 22nd to December 21st. For more information on submission and other opportunities, check out the weekly SNMA newsletter. Now, let's get to the shout, oh, oh, oh.
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Hey, everybody.
Introducing SNMA Presents the Lounge
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Welcome to SNMA Presents the Lounge. Whether you're in the student lounge, doctor's lounge, or lounging around at home, get ready to join SNMA for meaningful conversations on topics affecting minorities in medicine and groups that often sit at the margins of healthcare.
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I am student Dr. Erica Dingle, what's up, what's up? And since October is HBCU homecoming season. Let's discuss what our favorite thing about homecoming is in non-pandemic times.
HBCU Homecoming: Community and Adaptation
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So I think mine is and will always be the camaraderie and feeling like homecoming as a family reunion. And I get that even now that I'm not going to homecoming because of stupid COVID. But yeah, like just staying in touch with friends with that. That's like the biggest thing, camaraderie.
00:02:24
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Yeah, I mean, I think that no matter what they cancel when it comes to homecoming, we gonna find a way to have a good old time. And that's all period because we like I was I and some friends for like my school, we were like trying to go to Howard's homecoming, but you know, they canceled.
00:02:41
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the public events, but we're still basically like going to make a DC trip anyway, maybe like the week, weekend afterwards or so because we're not about to like not have like a good time because of, you know, like we're vaccinated. We did our part. We were, you know, good citizens of society who followed the rules and we're going to have our mask when needed. So it's like, why like get like basically cancel the opportunity to have a good time because
00:03:10
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one aspect isn't how you thought it was going to be. So yeah, we won't have the official events, but like, we can still go down and like still enjoy the city and like, try and have a good time. So we're still partaking in it. And I think that, you know, basically my best or my favorite thing about homecoming season during this time is just the fact that like,
00:03:29
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we still appreciate what homecoming means to us. And we're using the memories that we have from past homecoming experiences to basically give us energy to see how worthwhile it is to be in community with other people, especially with other Black people. And yeah, just basically appreciating the memories that we had from that period of time and hoping that in the future we'll have more opportunities to continue to celebrate homecoming.
00:03:57
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Oh, sorry. And I'm student and I'm student Dr. Isabella. Sorry. I forgot to you know, that's a fact. Yeah. Yeah, perpetrating though. So don't you self inflict an injury to people know your business. I say
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But anyway, I'm student Dr. Aldwin, and since October is HBCU Homecoming month, I would say one of my favorite parts is everybody representing, everybody putting on for the whole HBCU. You look going IG, everybody's lit. Yo, I'm from Morehouse.
00:04:36
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I'm from North Carolina, A&T, or I'm from Hampton, whatever the case may be. It's just like everybody got love for their specific school. But at the end of the day, they also got love for the totality of Black excellence and all the greatness that's there. And I love seeing everybody's energy just being promoted and everybody just getting connected to that purpose that we hear for a reason. And these HBCUs is
00:05:01
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is solidifying our futures. You've seen all these athletes going to these HBCUs now, you know what I'm saying, from high school and doing great things. You see people that initially was thinking, oh, I'm going to Harvard. I'm going to get my engineering degree. Well, how about you pull up to Hampton?
00:05:17
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How about you pull up to Spelman and get your pre-med joint or you get psychology, whatever the case may be. People are seeing the value in being around people that look like us, cherish us, and have the similar experiences and backgrounds that we do. You feel me?
00:05:35
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I think it's a beautiful thing. And, you know, unfortunate homecoming is not going to be as lit this year, but I'm always optimistic. Next year, there's always going to be a next year. And you best be sure when I'm in residency, I'm taking them days off. I don't care. I'll walk out. I'll walk out. Even if you don't give me them days, I'm making them days of priorities.
00:05:56
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It's whatever y'all, it's homecoming season in our heads. So we're going to treat it like homecoming season and that's that on that. Whatever the pandemonium says, we're not worried about it. It's homecoming season. Facts.
The Rising Support for HBCUs
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Pandemonium. Wait, Isabella, I saw that sweet and it said, I'm happy I went to HBCU before it was popular.
00:06:24
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Isn't that crazy though? Yeah, like before it was cool. Like I'm happy I went to ABC before it was cool, but let me tell
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because you know, I went a little bit back in the day. And I feel like now, you know, we didn't, these HPCs are getting money from, from these, from these big businesses. And, you know, before, like, I've had, I've had guidance counselors tell me, you know, you'd probably be better off going to France, staying the same thing and a block. Like, it's crazy how we don't even have like love for our own institutions. You know, it's like,
00:06:58
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I'm appreciative like you said that people are seeing the value now in HBCUs because I think like before it was so like, like people didn't really like think about it like that really given its due credit. I was definitely the only person from my high school who went to Howard like, and probably one of the few people. Yeah, and like I went to a big public high school. So it's like, wow, I think I only know one or two people who went to HBCUs along with me. So definitely wasn't a common thing. You know,
00:07:24
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If anybody tells you not to go to the HBCU, tell them to kick rocks till they get cellulitis. That's on fact, you could tell them to sit back. Not wishing cellulitis on people. Nah, yo. We got to support our own. Everybody wants us to go outside, but I would love for us to keep the energy at these HBCUs that have built the momentum and have history, tradition, that have created countless doctors, entrepreneurs.
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lawyers, chemists, you know what I'm saying? NASA engineers, scientists, you know what I'm saying? So many representatives across so many domains of life, you feel me? Yeah. So let us not forget and neglect our HBCUs.
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Yeah. Yeah, y
Current Trends in Medicine and Fashion
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'all. Great chat, great chat. But you know what time it is, it's time to run the list. I know it's a little bit of switch up in our typical roles, but you know, I actually had a fun time saying that. I got next on the next episode, you feel me?
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So for our preclinical students, running the patient list on the wards allows the team to address pressing matters of the day. In this segment of the show, we'll be discussing some recent events in medicine affecting our communities and the populations we serve. You guys ready to get into it?
00:08:42
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Let's get it in. Cool, cool, cool. All right, guys. First things first, I know y'all see them shoes that look like some hot pockets and some speedos mixed up in one because I was looking at those shoes.
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this week. And I was so confused. Like, what what is going on? Can someone please tell me? Well, we know we most likely know what brand that is, because the only brand that comes out with some, you know, apparel that's questionable has been Kanye's brand Yeezys. And you know, I'm not gonna hold you there's some Yeezys that I like the Yeezy slides. I like them.
00:09:22
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I feel like some of the Yeezy sneakers have been nice, but I don't know what's going on with this new loaf shoe that I've been seeing around. You called it a loaf shoe. Yeah, it's literally like a hot pocket, had a baby with a taco, and they sold that in 10 minutes. So, you know, I suppose that they are fashion forward.
00:09:48
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There is a very foundational sickness in people's minds. For them to fill that out in so, so quick of a time. Like I'm like, yo, this man could just like paint his name on a wall and sell that joint for a billy.
00:10:05
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Like he'll just do anything. It ain't even about the concept or the art of what he does. Like this man was selling white t-shirts for $200. You know what I mean? Like a couple years ago and people was literally buying them joints. It's like, bro, go to the gym. That joint, you can't wear that anymore. He's going to get sweat stains on it. Like it ain't any different than the others.
00:10:26
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Kicks, you know what I'm saying? So it's just amazing how we just are so entertained and fascinated by Kanye or these celebrities and what they put out and how we're just so quick to jump on it. And it probably $2, $3 to make that shoe. His come up on that is crazy. No wonder why he's a billionaire. No wonder why he's a billionaire, though. Smart move, bro. Smart move. The cost of a toothbrush and the cost of a taco.
00:10:54
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Facts, that's a fact We're gonna talk about where they make them and stuff cuz you know, that's another issue Ladies you gotta help me understand I mean, honestly get at me in my Instagram if you are doing this I need to know so apparently there's a new man
00:11:23
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where young ladies are making themselves look tired by adding darker eye makeup underneath their eyes. My sis, you can take the bags that I have acquired over the last two to three months that I can't get rid of because I am in a perpetual state of exhaustion. Take the bags. Why do you want to make yourself have bags? Maybe they want to look busy.
00:11:52
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Is it those orange things that those like what is what do you call the things that you use like say a spa and they put it under your does it look like that? No, they would have taken literal makeup like a darker color like almost like an eyeliner or like a some kind of like a smudge and they're placing it here and smudging it in.
00:12:12
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And their under eyes look like they look, they make themselves tired. That's a new trend. It's getting out of hand. It's getting out of hand now. Like we really need to, we need to release people. Let's sit back and start thinking before we do these trends. I think we're forgetting to sit back and like reflect on the decisions we make day to day. And that might be what, what the issue is. They trying to have raccoon eyes, you know, no basilar skull fracture. You feel me?
00:12:42
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That's how they, I don't know what's going on with that. Let me ask you to crush it all with it. How would you, so is that attractive to you? I mean, now granted, now, okay, listen. So you got a busy chick. There's a chick who's busy grinding. She got bags on her eyes. So you understand that she is grinding, right? She's tired. So maybe you cut some slack, but you got a chick and you see her putting on makeup and she makes herself look tired. What do you do?
00:13:11
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Again, there's sickness going on. I don't know. That's wild to me. What is the purpose of that? Because are you trying to make yourself look less attractive or more attractive? I don't understand the concept of making yourself- So it has to be less. It has to be less because more of the world does that. So we're going to clarify questions.
00:13:34
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That's where we're going, clarifying questions. So what is the purpose? Help me understand what the purpose of that is. I like that.
00:13:44
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Yeah. Y'all can email us with the answers because we need to know. Maybe we're missing something, guys. I don't know. They changing the standards of beauty. That's what it seems like. We're going the other way. So ladies, bring out your bonnets. You know what I'm saying? Bring out the raccoon knives. Bring out the payless shoes. All twin of these bonnets. You know what I mean?
Haitian Asylum Seekers Crisis
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But those are two examples of some crazy things that have been happening, you know, fashion wise, but on a more serious note, there's been some crazy nonsense happening, actual reality wise in regards to the border in terms like in terms of, I think it was the Texas border, where some people reside or from Haiti, trying to enter into the country have
00:14:34
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been brutalized and attacked and beaten as if they're dogs and the people doing it who have no authority to be treating any kind of human being like that. I mean, what are you guys' thoughts on that situation?
00:14:47
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You know, this, with this situation, I will say, you know, I was reading an article and even the US envoy to Haiti recently quit his job off of this situation. And I saw, I don't know if y'all saw, there was an actual IG post that they put up from Joe Biden in the early 1990s. And he was talking about Haiti, how essentially it's not, it's an island that if it flooded, no one would care about. Like y'all could check this joint out.
00:15:15
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So with that being said, like seeing these images and screens. Sorry to interrupt you all, but why is he going around then trying to preach, oh, it's so horrible or we need to stop. And he's he said that the people will pay for this. And now he doesn't want to remember what he said in 1990 something. Come on, you know, he's seen now, but I ain't enough of an excuse. And also, you know, these these politics, man, you play a role at an initial stage, but that same role you played is not necessarily what you're going to play in the future. Right. Right.
00:15:45
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In terms of his media representation and how he look, he's going to have to control and handle the situation appropriately. And he got advisors and all that. But it's an unfortunate situation where you have 14,000 people that pull up to near the gates of America. Most of them are actually not coming from Haiti, actually coming from Chile and countries in South America and Central America.
00:16:07
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where they've been there after the earthquakes happened in actual Haiti in 2010. There's people whose kids, they don't even speak Creole. They speak actual Spanish for all intents and purposes. With that being said, it's just really distasteful that we're allowing other demographical groups of people who are seeking asylum to come into America
00:16:30
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But when people, you know what I'm saying? When people that are from Haiti or people of color try to seek asylum because there's a lot of countries in South America that they're experiencing the pandemic. There's not a lot of jobs, right? So they're trying to come into the country and help support the economy. And there's a little bit of a complex situation. But at the end of the day, you see the mishandling of the situation and how certain people are treated a certain way.
00:16:55
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and how the Haitian people are mistreated and misappropriated as to me, they are misappropriated as if they are peasants, as if they are not full human beings. I was reading an article and they were talking about this dude, he hasn't been in Haiti for eight, nine years, you know what I mean? And they sending a lot of the people with $50 and back to Haiti, they put them on at the port.
00:17:17
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And they give them towels and toiletries and some nonperishable things that they could eat. But what is that doing for people that they're not trying to go back there, you feel me? They haven't been there for years. So you're replanting them from where they at to Haiti. They even took a dude that's from Ghana over there. And he's like, yo, I'm not even from
00:17:40
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like Haiti, you know, they just miss planning people and not really thinking of the consequences and how it affects people's lives. So, I mean, I really want to know what you guys thoughts on this, but I'm pretty passionate about this and it's like very disheartening, but I'm not surprised. It's America after all, you know, sometimes you know what America does. You know, it's crazy and Isabelle said like they were beating up with website dogs. I guarantee you, if somebody's job caught wind of a dog getting beat with a whip, they wouldn't have a job the next day.
00:18:07
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cause that's how we look at dogs as, you know what I'm saying? Like in terms of value of life. So to see the images of these cowboys as Auntie Maxine Walters called them, she was on there like these cowboys, thank you for
00:18:29
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But it was like if they were literally herding cattle. And what's crazy is the reason that I believe most of them even came here, the US Department of Homeland Security, the head of that, Alejandro Mayorkas, I believe is his name.
00:18:52
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announced in May an 18-month temporary protective status for Haitians already residing in the U.S. So I think, you know, probably getting word of that was the reason that a number of them did decide to try to seek asylum here. And to your point, you know, the numbers of them, their reports, like on CNN, they did interviews, they had been gone from Haiti for years. And to have to go back
00:19:18
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To you know such harsh conditions. We know that Haiti has been through so much over the years And I just think seeing as how we have so many like you the US is a melting pot when I consider New York a Queens New York like I have
00:19:35
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the five houses on my block, everybody's Haitian. So like, how dare we? No, seriously. And this is how I grew up. So how dare we profit off of these people who bring us their culture, who bring us the most amazing food. People work with them and they are hard workers. Just what are y'all doing? America, the land of the free, the home of the brave, this is not America.
00:20:04
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Like, but then this is America at the same time. So that's how I feel about it. You know, it's not, it's not right. And then they just got them out of there in a matter, what was it, hours or like two, over a couple of days, hours. Ridiculous. That's crazy.
00:20:26
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It's really, it's telling about our country, right? And I hope and pray that, yeah, I hope and pray that that situation ends up coming to some sort of a resolution and Biden gets his, gets himself together. I don't know who got to wake him up or give him the, whatever he takes each morning to be alert, but he got to be on high alert with that situation. So. You need a, I do kick a map. That's what it is. $70,000 Alzheimer's disease drug that has been approved by the FDA.
00:20:56
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Listen, at this time, it ain't just him. I don't know the whole Biden administration to get it together. And you know what? This is a shameless little, I felt the way about this. And then when Madam VP decides to come on the show, don't y'all be giving people negative thoughts. That's true. That's facts. All the time with COVID tests, because you might get called out. But we're not going to talk about that today.
00:21:18
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I do want to talk about that a little bit. I just want to say, I mean, I'm kind of waiting for her to say something and I feel like she's not really reigning in on the situation and talking to it in the way that we expect her to, particularly with understanding that this is a population that you have
00:21:38
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try to represent and you respect and admire and especially coming from her background, you would think that she would connect to this and her silence is kind of, it's very, again, disheartening and it's already dismantling so much that they've kind of stated that they wanted to accomplish in their respective political campaigns. So we see the cap that's going on basically with politics, right? They say one thing and do another and
00:22:07
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Everyone has their own initiatives and goals. And once they get into the position of power, you can't always trust their word. It slides out the window. Yeah, it's so true. Listen, it's definitely crazy.
00:22:22
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You know, we I like to be on here because we get to talk about all types of things. The positive things are usually my favorite. So, you know, we started off positive with our little, you know, opinions about homecoming and what it means to us. And so going back to that with, you know, it being homecoming season, we see that because it's now back to a virtual platform, most people are not really coming back.
Virtual vs. In-Person Homecomings
00:22:47
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And even though that's usually the time, I feel like
00:22:50
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towards the end of the year when we really get to come back to ourselves, come back to community, come back to just recentering ourselves. And I've always associated Homecoming to be that. And so pandemic, of course, is now making it virtual.
00:23:06
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we know that that's nothing close to the actual in person thing. But hopefully people will have the chance to still celebrate in their own ways amongst loved ones or other friends. But do you guys think that with a virtual homecoming that there's any way that it can still allow for connection or what do y'all think? Not as much honestly, when I think of situations and
00:23:31
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For example, like, passings of people you went to school with, for example, like, whether it was from COVID, from anything, there's just nothing like getting in a group of people and hugging and loving on each other to, you know, in a sense, as a form of healing. We lost a lot of people during COVID, whether it was COVID related or not. And, yeah, I mean, there's something
00:24:06
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amidst like in the presence of your people and seeing a smile and even if they're seeing somebody and it's like yo we just look we there's a friend of mine big brother we lost last year due to cancer and you know he was like the homecoming king like we honestly feel like what would homecoming be like without him and this would be the first homecoming everybody experiences without him so I know there would be tear-shed and
00:24:33
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hugs, drinks passed to his honor. Like, how does that occur online? And I know we're going to touch on the young man, Jelani Day, that unfortunately passed away, was found.
Media Bias in Missing Persons Cases
00:24:47
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But you know, like, even in that case, I'll let you see all of them. But like, in cases like those, like, there's a healing that takes place when you're like in the same space with each other. I honestly believe that.
00:25:03
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I'm going to reiterate what you said, Erica. Honestly, the virtual space just doesn't do it. You could be in a crib turning up and listening to music and doing a thing, but at the end of the day, it's all about social connections and the people that you develop relationships with and friendships and et cetera with, and being able to be present for the span of human civilization.
00:25:26
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We've been accustomed to being around each other, and so this pandemic has rewarded what our natural instincts and our natural feelings about how we see people, how we perceive of the world, and how we can communicate with each other. It's been truly changed, whether you're an adolescent, whether you're a 10-month-old, or you're an 89-year-old, you know what I mean?
00:25:47
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Like, even, you know, I had a patient last week while I was on the stroke team, and, you know, he was suffering from delirium. And he's like, man, like, this whole time, like, during the whole week, he's like, yo, I miss my wife. Like, I've been married to her for 71 years. I haven't had the opportunity to be around her because of this pandemic.
00:26:07
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I need to get out of here." And he's at the same time cussing and all of that. So you see just like these little nuances that be happening in people's lives. And I think this is something that can create permanent damage in our communities and in our livelihoods because it's not something that we're naturally used to. And so we have to figure
00:26:30
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You know, it's just hard, man. I mean, we got to figure it out at the end of the day with this pandemic. I understand that we got to keep ourselves safe, but, you know, to what extent and what is the cost that it's going to take, you know, at the end of the day, five, 10 years down the line. Research is already showing that a lot of children that are growing up now, they're
00:26:51
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having difficulty with reading social cues. And so they're predisposing themselves to, you know, other psychological conditions based off of that, right? Like autism, things of that nature. So even one year of not being in school where kids are used to playing and that is natural for them where they are. And now we're talking about taking kids out of school again, is where we found ourselves in a hard place in regards to, you know, the actual
00:27:20
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Homecoming is a hard place where you just want to be out there, but you want to be safe and you want to protect everybody else. But also, how about protecting your mental health and your peace? That provides positive energy and positive good support when you're out there. It's a trade-off for sure. It's definitely a trade-off. I know some people who also said they don't think they'd even go to Homecoming if the option was a lot because they don't think we're 100% out the woods. Everyone has different opinions with it.
00:27:50
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I'm going the week after. I'm going, but let's just consider it a DC trip. We're not gonna call it homecoming. Let's just call it it.
00:28:00
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for all sakes and purposes of this recorded podcast. Yeah, but Erika already alluded to this, but you know, another fellow HBCU alum, just like, well, yeah, he was actually an HBCU alum from Illinois State University. He was a grad student and aspiring doctor, Jelani Day. He was reported missing since August 2024. And then two days after he was reported missing,
00:28:29
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or was it two days after or no, actually a whole month after he was reporting missing and was now when they actually found his body. And so he they said that he was two days after his disappearance, his car was located an hour north to where he lived with the clothes he had been wearing when he was last seen. There was definitely complaints that his
00:28:48
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missing situation had gotten way less media attention compared to a white woman named Gabby Petito, who's also reported missing and had her body found as well. And I actually just read through like Gabby's case and like it's crazy how like
00:29:05
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there's like a page on CNN that has like so much details in terms of like every single day what like from the day that basically from even days before that she was reporting missing like reported like when she spoke with her parents the last time she sent a text like all that and they have in such detail versus with Jelani's situation like all I can get is like maybe like a one-page article I'm just like oh they had
00:29:27
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like found out that he was missing that he wasn't getting much like media attention. The parents are complaining about that. And then he they just find his body like a month later. So I think I don't know his story gives me he gives me get out vibes in terms of just like another black person missing that no one knows what happened to them. And we just like we just turned the page we just
00:29:52
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like change the channels if it's like nothing versus like say if it's a white person like we're locked in we want to know what's going to happen and it's just so sad because there's so many like the list of missing persons is so long and I feel like the list the list of missing black persons is even longer and just the fact that there's
00:30:10
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little to no closure with all those missing people really concerns me. But you guys feel free to tell me what you guys think, what you think of Cheers something like this. If anybody has done something to that beautiful black man, you know what I mean? I don't mean to judge, but you going someplace, you going to hell.
00:30:31
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And I mean, like, no, honestly, like, that's like, because it's just so saddening this he wanted to be he was aspiring doctor, actually, in graduate school to be a speech pathologist. And they even said investigation show that his phone is still missing. And they said they found his wallet in a different location than where his body was found. Wow.
00:30:58
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I'm not a detective, but at the same time, it's like, yo, somebody did something to it. It just seems like that in my soul after reading that and just really doing my research on this. And again, mentioning how there's a disparity with how we perceive and view Black people when they're missing versus other people, white people that are missing, other people. There's not a lot of, obviously, media attention on this or media outcry.
00:31:25
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And honestly, it's up to us to promote this like, you know, celebrities, like people that got the social media maintenance and the social media opportunity to put this word out and make sure that people is aware like, yo, this is one of us. And his family needs answers at the end of the day, like they're
00:31:44
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you know, this is not cool. But on the other hand, we have what's his miss Petito, dog, the bounty hunter was pulling up, knocking on doors like, yo, we're going to find this man. We're going to find her boyfriend, who her boyfriend has been missing for the last, I believe, eleven, twelve days.
00:32:01
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So people topping on there like real quick and they like, like I said, there's outcry about that. But for this young man, like it's just very sad and just reading the story of like what he could, the potential. I hate seeing that where somebody has so much potential and then something happens to them and he could have been, you know, somebody that was revolutionary or transcendental in the field of speech pathology or whatever he wanted to accomplish.
00:32:27
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So the onus is really on us, you know, to, you know, really put the word out and really support his family and allow them to have the resources to feel comfort and supported. And, you know, obviously there's a mental health aspect that we also gotta also navigate and talk about.
00:32:42
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with his family and this is very disastrous. Somebody that didn't commit crimes was an upstanding citizen in the world. Even if he wasn't, still would have been disastrous. That's true. That's a fact. Rest in peace to the King, man. If there is foul play, I hope they find who did this.
00:33:07
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Yeah, it's crazy. I've seen reports about this syndrome, missing white woman syndrome, which
00:33:17
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You know at first it's kind of like ha ha ha But then you actually realize like wait, no, this is actually something that this actually happens, you know, because I have friends in my inbox like girl follow this story It's just it's screams found play and I was like, where do y'all we don't find in this and it's blasted everywhere But to your point earlier, you know Young Giovanni day was missing for how long and you know I saw a report
00:33:47
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Yeah, I saw it was like a news report, like just a regular late night news. And his mother was being interviewed. And the anchor was like, you know, I'm really sorry that this is not getting the coverage that it should have been getting all along.
00:34:10
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And it makes you wonder, what do you have to go through in order to get that type of coverage for somebody that you love, care about, that doesn't show this typical behavior? A missing person's report is not enough. And yeah, this is just what we face on the regular.
00:34:33
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It happens all the time, and the scary part is that there's still people who have been missing for months, and they have no idea. No one's done anything about it, and it's sad to hear. Well, once again, our country, and it's many, many issues. Just on that note, because it sounds like a lot of the things we're talking about is more so abnormalities versus things that are going right.
Celebrity Influence on COVID-19 Information
00:34:59
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But our good sis, Nicki Minaj, I don't know, man. Your good sis.
00:35:06
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I don't know. I may have to, you know, when it comes to Nikki, it's like, I don't even care to hear about what she's doing. Like outside of her music, because I'm afraid of what I'm going to hear. So she's one of those people I just I don't even pay attention. Like I've just say, Oh, she brought she released this new album Q and like, I don't care to know her husband. I don't care to know. I heard she got a baby too. Like that's just not
00:35:31
Speaker
There's so many things that's changed, I think, since I was hip to Nicki and just her coming out as an artist. And I feel like now she's like a family woman now and everything like that. But there's even some abnormalities in her situation being a family woman that is worth discussing here. One being, I mean, I think the most public thing was her husband, right? Being like the sex offender, registered sex offender.
00:35:57
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Yeah, we're going to talk about what that is. And then this COVID vaccination scandal in terms of saying that, like, that her cousin's friend's balls were student doctors. So I would say genitals swelled after receiving the COVID vaccine. So she claimed that. That man had a hydroceil or a raucous seal, whatever that joint is called.
00:36:28
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As much time as this deserves, it really doesn't. This was like, I'm so tired of these people who had got the, and yes, I'm biting this off of what I've seen. So y'all don't have to tell me, Oh, she got that from someone, not y'all, but like the listeners just in case people who received their science test handed down.
00:36:50
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back in elementary junior high and high school. I am tired enough trying to tell me what to do, how to do it with my health. I really am. I'm safe. And what's going on with the body. I'm tired. I'm the one who had three teachers in their classroom. Like, huh? You think you want to spread the thought to him for credible? Nah, because I only have one teacher in my classroom.
00:37:09
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That's my pride. I'm tired. I'm tired. And then the biggest thing with this story was, OK, allegedly, and her cousin's friend in Trinidad. So now we're shining all of this light on Trinidad. And they're like, uh-uh, no. We don't accept this information. Right. Right. So apparently had some swelling, other things after receiving this COVID vaccination.
00:37:36
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It seems to be overshadowing the fact that her husband was recently arrested for not registering as a sex offender. And this is 20 years later after one of, I don't know how many there were, hopefully, you know, not a lot, but a lady named Jennifer Ho came out.
00:38:04
Speaker
I hope that's the correct pronunciation. I apologize if it's not. Did an interview in terms of this assault that took place years ago and how Miss Nicki Minaj has been calling her, harassing her, and
00:38:22
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pretty much trying to get hurt. I don't know if it's to stay quiet as much as to just let it go. But she's tired and this information came out. So it was like perfect timing. Let me say something crazy, perhaps. I don't know. Or it was just a crazy situation overall. Either way. Yeah, either way, it's just crazy. I still don't get it either. Is you just have, sorry, Alden, go ahead.
00:38:48
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Nah, it's all good and I was just gonna say just going back real quick to Nikki in terms of what she said, even Dr. Fauci, the great Dr. Fauci, who has created the Fauci Effect.
00:38:59
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But anyway, he has dismissed the claims about the impotence. He said, basically, we can't blame Nicki Minaj, but we kind of could. But she needs to really think twice about putting information out there that has no basis. I mean, she literally has 22.6 million Twitter followers, you feel me? Right. And a Twitter deactivator, once she put that up, it was like, oh, that's misinformation. You can't be saying stuff
00:39:23
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like that, you know what I mean? You know, majority of those followers do not have a scientific background, so they don't eat up whatever she says. That's just dangerous. Because to some people, she is God. Literally, people will jump off a bridge for Nicki Minaj, you know what I mean, at the end of the day. Right, right. All the Barbies, Team Barbies, shooting on the team. When it was that kid versus Nicki Veef, man, the Team Barbies came out, so I don't know.
00:39:49
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But I wish when things like this happen, these celebrities consult a doc. Why don't you get on IG Live or do an interview with a doctor before you put out information that I understand that it's very anecdotal at the end of the day. Because we know when we talk about humans, we could create a story. Or we could address the fact that he may have testicular information or whatever the case may be. But we may just assume that's due to the vaccine, just due to
00:40:18
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like it's arbitrary like he got the vaccine three weeks ago but you know he's just attributing it to that but it could have been just a natural process of course and he could have already had the testicular swelling but it just you know just happened to for him to just notice it at the end of the day.
00:40:34
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Right. So with that being said, I wish that more celebrities, they took the opportunity to like, yo, you got enough doctors you talk to. So just reach out to one of us and let's have a real conversation before you put out all this information. You know what I mean? Like, yo, like, yeah, this vaccine is terrible. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, and all that. This is the problem. No, it's all of the different. No, it's really all of, this is what I've decided I might be wrong.
00:40:58
Speaker
But everybody has an opinion. And at the end of the day, none of these opinions matter. That's what it is. And you have a bunch of people tossing their
00:41:10
Speaker
opinions with the most audacious, unmitigated gall. I'm sorry, I'm exhausted. Everybody wants to be an expert, but nobody wants to put in the time, the research. Respect to the people that do and who make decisions based on their own research. I really don't know how much research one can do without
00:41:34
Speaker
being in this space meaning like the healthcare space where you've learned body processes disease processes inflammatory processes responses like and I think people just think oh it's a vitamin is so this is so that yes we know I'm sorry I'm on a soapbox but I'm exhausted I'm tired
00:41:56
Speaker
Like, yes, we know Eastern medicine works, right? We know, like, herbs and, and teas. We know they work. We do, but obviously there's something that's not working well enough to keep COVID from happening, y'all. So, you know, when you say, oh, I'm the vaccine, it doesn't, it doesn't keep you from getting COVID. We know that. We knew that. Like, you mean, how long you been getting vaccinated as a child? Like, did y'all's mothers, not y'all.
00:42:27
Speaker
family members not get them vaccinated as children. I'm sure you didn't go to school then. You stayed home. Exactly. It's just so much like I just wish people would think for a second and you know I know there's a mistrust in the government and the government is just it's it's shooting itself on the foot people are continuing not to trust the government we have conspiracy theorists everywhere and you know it's it's just
00:42:56
Speaker
It's crazy, bro. Yeah. I want life to get back to somewhat normal, like I'm over it. That's the fact. And that's why they need us. And, you know, that's, yo, that's why I tell them, like, if you from the hood or like you from an area where there's mistrust, like pull back out there, like offer your advice, your expertise. If you're a physician, medical student, like, don't be afraid to put yourself there in that position where people they know you so they can connect to the realness and the transparency that you possess about what's going on.
00:43:26
Speaker
But we got to put ourselves there so that we can communicate that. And I think we can transform this dynamic, especially in Black communities in regards to not necessarily wanting to take the vaccine. One of my boys called me the other day, two-hour conversation, and another boy called me. We had a one-hour conversation about the vaccine.
00:43:45
Speaker
You know, when I followed up with them, I was like, well, how's everything? Told them it's that 60% of people, they get secondary symptoms from getting a vaccine. I like reassured them because reality is like, if you don't know about it, if you don't research it yourself, you know what I mean? Like, you're not necessarily going to be in tune with what's going on. You need an expert to put you on.
00:44:03
Speaker
receive receive everything that people tell you about it when you don't have your own basis in research. And that's, that's important. So she got to be careful. She regardless needs to be careful as soon as she married that guy. Like I don't even know where to be out here.
00:44:19
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Right. Saying whatever. Right. Like, we know it's not, you know, her husband, a sexual offender,
R. Kelly Verdict and Justice System
00:44:27
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R. Kelly, another example of a sexual offender, he was found guilty on all kinds of sexual assault. You know,
00:44:35
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We, I knew that was going to happen, but I think that like we're all, we were all kind of questioning, is this going to be another one of those things where if you're powerful, you have money, you can just get away with it. Scott free. Um, but thankfully he was found guilty on everything. Um, cause he's like, cause he's black. I didn't think it would go.
00:44:57
Speaker
This isn't like a Harvey Weinstein. Oh, I got you. Okay. Yeah, I agree. I knew like music. He's not innocent though. He's not innocent. That's what I want to put. He absolutely should have suffered.
00:45:14
Speaker
for every charge, and I've been charged for all of his counts. And he was charged something with racketeering. Y'all told me that means... That's mad random. I don't know where that came from, but okay, maybe he has something to do with his sexual assault business. I don't know what that means. Yeah, he hired and probably put in people to work to get that bread, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, telling people, like, you do this and that if you don't, then you got to pay up, type of thing. I don't know the exact situation, but...
00:45:42
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and guilty on one count of racketeering eight counts of violating the man act which prohibits transporting individuals across state lines for the purpose of prostitution
00:45:57
Speaker
I can't you can't I mean it's just very unfortunate how you could be at the pinnacle of success in black culture and then just fall so low and stoop so low and granted we know R. Kelly has had in his history you know a lot of trauma and
00:46:16
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whether it was, you know, being molested, you know, by his older sister and, and, uh, you know, other members in his family, whatever the case may be.
Trauma, Therapy, and Personal Growth
00:46:25
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Trauma, trauma, trauma. That's what we gotta fix. We gotta stop the, you gotta stop the plug. You gotta stop it. Right. You know,
00:46:32
Speaker
but it doesn't make it any less worse or better that he experienced that, you feel me? But at the end of the day, I feel like it's something, like you said, that we got to address early on and that we got to assess what traumas we have in ourselves and be able to communicate that, see a therapist, see, you know, connect with ways in which we can internalize that in a healthy way, right? Instead of externalizing it, where it's like we're doing the same thing that we experience.
00:46:58
Speaker
And I see it like this. We are what we experience. So if you're experiencing that trauma, then you will unfortunately do that same trauma to someone else, potentially. And some people, they deal with trauma differently. Somebody see their boy get shot. And one person's going to be like, I'm shooting everybody up. What's up? Or another person's going to be like, I'm depressed. Or another person's going to be like, I'm going to hurt myself.
00:47:20
Speaker
Yeah, you bring up a good point though in terms of healing like so we see what can happen when you don't heal and then you have a situation with like Jenny Jenny, Jeannie Mae and Jeannie. Yeah, right. So Jeannie Mae turns out pregnant.
00:47:35
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and I mean they're married so that's fine right at this age who cares but she initially didn't want to have children with her previous husband and it was a major point of contention in her previous relationship
00:47:50
Speaker
But in an interview that she recently did about, you know, her being married and actually having being pregnant, like they went through therapy and found almost like love in the hopeless place, Rihanna Plagg. And the healing turned out to be something beautiful. So I mean, really, it can
00:48:14
Speaker
unhealed traumas can really block your blessings, right? Look here. I'm saying. No, that's a great example to bring up. I mean, that's literally the polar opposite of situations. So that was a great example. And, you know, I'm so happy for Jeannie Mae and the fact that she's getting to experience this new chapter in her life, you know, and especially for another woman, because, you know, women, we go through a lot. So whenever we get something good happening to us, I got to give us our flowers.
Breast Cancer Awareness and Research
00:48:41
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But another situation that typically affects women is breast cancer. And this October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so we do need to talk about that. And being aware about all of the women who are affected by this horrible, horrible disease. And so according to breastcancer.org and Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, about one in eight women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. It also has the highest mortality rate of any cancer in women.
00:49:09
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between the ages of 20 and 59. So those are just two facts out of many facts, especially for black women. Breast cancer is actually more common in black women compared to white women and women under 45 and black women are more likely to die of breast cancer. So that's so especially for now, people of our community, the stakes are even higher, right? And so it's definitely something worth discussing. And look at that age range.
00:49:39
Speaker
Crazy. 20. Age 20. And I don't know about y'all, but I can think of people in my age range that have suffered. Some have lost their lives. Some have battled really, really hard for years. I mean, like years. And it's crazy. It's getting younger and younger.
00:50:04
Speaker
Right. Yeah, I mean, and that's why prevention is key, as we mentioned, you know, just being able to follow up with your physicians and allow them to provide recommendations and based off of your family history, but also based off of your diet, your environment, you know, there are certain criteria that predisposes people to have an increased rate of breast cancer. And so with that being said, you know, you know, creating that communication and dismantling that barrier between health care providers
00:50:33
Speaker
and the actual community. Oftentimes you see, like I know, unfortunately, a lot of people in the community, they're like, oh, I'm not seeing my doctor. And then they miss that chance to be like, let me discuss what's going on. And then the doctor's like, huh, light bulb. Like, all right, so you've got a family history. Oh, do, do, do, do you do this and that? Like, all right, yo, we're going to have to get you a mammogram, ASAP Rocky, so we can check on you.
00:50:57
Speaker
So putting the pieces together and putting that puzzle so that we can formulate the best way to combat health disparities like this. We got to be out there. We got to make sure that we're talking about this and we make this a presence. Even if you're not an OBGYN or even if you're not a family practitioner, if you see a patient, a black patient, or if you see a patient that is suffering from health disparities, being aware of these kind of things like, hey,
00:51:22
Speaker
me as a future neuropsychiatrist, it's not out of my way to say, hey, have you gotten your mammogram? Because you could have metastatic lesions that can go up to your brain. I mean, it's not necessarily common from the breast, but still, you have to think about the person from a wholesome perspective. One small thing could lead to bigger things and spread out and cause disastrous effects. Hypertension can cause you to have kidney failure.
00:51:49
Speaker
And that could cause you to have cardiac issues. And then that could cause you to have prayer for artery disease and atherosclerosis, all that. So just being mindful of how we can be total health care physicians and health care professionals in this space, especially for our communities is 100%. And just because you have a mammogram, don't think that that's a test for the older. Oh, yeah. There's other tests. Younger women in general, I think younger women sometimes just kind of say, oh,
00:52:18
Speaker
My mother got that when she was whatever age, but younger women and younger African American women in particular, we are more likely to present with the triple negative subtype of a disease, which is more aggressive and more highly associated with mortality. So when do those self breast check exams, when you're in the shower, ladies and gentlemen, definitely ladies like get that done. You know, that's, that is one of the first things
00:52:46
Speaker
that can alert you like, hey, something's going on. And there are organizations that we're going to discuss that are really doing important work with regards to Black women and with breast cancer. One is the Sisterhood Network, which is a national African-American breast cancer survivorship organization that's committed to increasing local and national attention to the devastating impact that breast cancer has had in the African-American community. I think that's dope.
00:53:16
Speaker
that we have organizations like these. That's amazing. And there's more, you know, there's Sister by Choice, there's African American Breast Cancer Alliance. So there are, you know, active, there's activity occurring to make light of the disparities that are occurring in the black community when it comes to breast cancer. And so we definitely have to support
00:53:38
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these organizations as best as we can to get the word out. And so all the women who may be dealing with this or maybe anyone out there who has loved ones who could be dealing with this, you know, just know that we at the lounge, you know, we're here for you. We support you and we're, you know, sending all of our love and hope that you guys can get through that difficult time because we know how tragic it can be. Yeah. Shout out to you, man. One hundred percent. Can we also go? Oh, sorry.
00:54:07
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Now, I was going to say, like, just, you know, all the women that have been devastated with breast cancer, you know, we appreciate you and we stand in solidarity with the challenges you face because we know breast cancer could be very devastating and, you know, take away so many aspects of women's livelihood. And so with that being said, being able to be on this platform and
00:54:28
Speaker
promote awareness, education, and understanding about why it's necessary for black women and just women in general to be in tune with their bodies and what's going on. It's a beautiful thing and never be ashamed to address this issue. Never be ashamed whenever you see your physician to ask some questions about what's a mammogram or how can I get this diagnosed or what are my predisposing factors.
00:54:52
Speaker
or how can I address this issue where I can move forward in a positive way in my life and not really, you know, have negative circumstances from this. So we celebrate you for real. Yeah, and I was going to say, can we also kind of mention about how
00:55:11
Speaker
persons of color can participate in clinical trials to help support organizations and breast cancer research. It's okay for you to participate in these trials. They're here to help and to help people in the future. And one specifically, the Metastatic Breast Cancer Project.
00:55:32
Speaker
where they utilize patient and clinical data as well as genomic data from tumor tissue, blood, and saliva to generate a genomic and clinical landscape of the disease that will help to inform future research. So your suffering now could actually help somebody in the future. So I hope people consider getting that information out there. It's definitely valuable and can help save a life in the future.
00:56:00
Speaker
Yeah, I'm always down to encourage more people of color, specifically black people, to participate in clinical trials. I know there's the medical mistrust. I know we're afraid to agree to sometimes things like this because we don't know how our bodies are going to be utilized. But I do think that it's there. The lack of black people participating in clinical trials is very apparent. And it's there for a good reason. But I think that we can possibly
00:56:27
Speaker
do our own research and try our best to move forward in a way that we're comfortable in order to help the next generation of other people who look like us who could be suffering from such a debilitating disease. So yeah, thank you, Erica, for pointing that out. But yeah, that's, I think, all we got from on the list, we probably gonna move it on, move it on, move it on to Aldi.
00:56:52
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And yeah, with the financial segment, because you know, you got this money. We getting this money, we getting this bag, but you know, it's the financial corner because we outside on the corner, but we getting this bag in a very legal way. You know what I mean?
00:57:13
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Yo, but on this topic, you know, I wanted to stress the importance of, I know that we study so much, right? And we spend so much time, you know, learning so much about medicine. And I always talk about this. But if we studied as hard as we did for medicine, as we did for our finances, we wouldn't be stuck with these corporations trying to take advantage of us.
00:57:34
Speaker
At this point in time, the average credit card debt in America stands at $6,270. So if you did, oh, that's from personal experience or? Oh, yeah, not playing. I'm messing with you. I was very open and honest about my struggles. There was a time where that was me and then some.
00:57:59
Speaker
Yeah, now I feel that, but honestly, and in financial illiteracy has cost Americans $415 billion in 2020. So you imagine, you know, like how much influence finances have over our daily lives, right?
00:58:15
Speaker
from our light build to our investments, to our estate, to our opportunities to build more wealth. And with that being said, oftentimes, you know, we neglect this aspect and we get stressed over it. Like people, every day they go to work, they work, they work, they work, they put in these hours, but never realize that the hours you put it in don't necessarily translate to the long-term generational wealth that you want to see.
00:58:39
Speaker
And in order to do that, my tip today is put yourself in a position. You are the average of the six people that you spend the most time with. So think about the six people you spend the most time with. If you hanging around with hustlers, you're going to probably be a hustler.
00:58:55
Speaker
You know what I mean? If you're hanging around gang bangers, then you're probably going to be a gang banger. If you're hanging around Bill Gates and entrepreneurs, then that's what your trajectory is going to be like. And I feel like networking is part of this process. If you're not there to receive the knowledge, if you're not there to be fruitful, look at the way the mentality is, right? 50 Cent when he met Pop Smoke.
00:59:15
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He was amazed because when Popsmoke was in the room, he was writing down, he was on the phone and Popsmoke was just on his thumbs like, boo, boo, boo, like this typing stuff. And 50 was like, yo, bro, why is he just typing? He's mad disrespectful. But come to find out, he was on a Notes app, writing everything 50 was saying about being transcendent and being generationally wealthy. You know what I mean? Right.
00:59:42
Speaker
And with that being said, I want you guys to focus on, of course your academics will also focus on being where you can learn, where you can educate yourself, listen to podcasts, read books. Even if you read 10, 15 minutes of a book a day, that is necessary in order for you to acknowledge the growth that you can have from a financial perspective. I recommend Earn Your Leisure Podcast where it's like a plethora of information.
01:00:09
Speaker
Like they have Shaq on there, Rick Ross, like building businesses and building entrepreneurship is so important, especially for our communities where we lack the dearth of knowledge. If you don't seek it, then you won't know it. And if you won't know it, then you won't acknowledge it. You feel me? Right. So with that being said, I want you guys, like one of my tips is put yourself in a position to be financially literate.
01:00:32
Speaker
Find somebody that knows something more than you and keep them in your circle. Cause if you don't keep them in your circle, then you're going to be squared in. And if you square it in, then you won't know what opportunities and what you could accomplish and what is out there for you at the end of the day. You know what I mean? So I hope Isabella and Erica, I hope y'all feeling like y'all could like create a circle.
01:00:54
Speaker
I'm totally, I agree with that completely. I do think that you are your company, right? Like you could be completely different from a group of friends, but if you're associated with them and they see you moving with them, someone's going to assume just based on looking at you that, oh, y'all are all the same, right? So it's something about the company you keep. And so I think that definitely translates to even money and resources. If you're, if you're keeping company who
01:01:19
Speaker
aligns with your goals and aligns with your visions, then naturally, you're only going to come closer to those goals and those visions. So I think that that's all, that's the bulk of honestly, I think financial success and just even social opportunities and just getting to whatever, quote unquote, your bag is, your company will definitely influence that quite heavily. And so I'm totally in accordance with that.
Financial Planning for Medical Students
01:01:45
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Yeah, I love the idea of financial planning at this med school level. In fact, I would like to because I'm a part of Region 4 for the culture. And I would like to announce we're having a financial planning workshop, actually. And it's going to be held October 5th at 6.30 PM Eastern Standard Time. There is a Zoom link registration. But you can follow.
01:02:14
Speaker
You can follow Region 4 on Instagram, Region 4 SNMA. So if you see that, sign up because there is so much that we need to learn about budgeting, relocation, planning for residency. That's the stuff that nobody prepares you for. I've seen so many posts from
01:02:36
Speaker
People transitioning into residency from last cycle where they were like listen Save your money people because they don't tell you how much it's gonna cost When you're waiting on that first paycheck for months, you know
01:02:52
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So even if it's rationing out your student loans, or if it's finding a lucrative side hustle, I don't know what we really can do. In basic sciences, I feel like I can't do nothing but sleep, eat, and read my jobs. There's not anything else is like, you're killing yourself, yeah. But even, I mean, if you're listening and you can think of some things, connect with us right into the show. We would love to hear ideas.
01:03:18
Speaker
Yeah. Our resident financial guru here. He comes with it. He out here with properties. He's talking about starting a tour of it. We can't keep up. We can't keep up, but it's all right.
01:03:33
Speaker
We're going to do it together too. I invite y'all to join me. I invite anybody that listen to the podcast, let's talk business. Let's stop talking about how many chicks we could get or let's stop talking about how many clubs we're going to or how many trips we're going on. How about we talk about how many businesses we created in medical school or how many books we sold, writing them joints together. How many cars we bought.
01:03:56
Speaker
and put it and rent it out on Toro or whatever. You know what I mean? Like, let's talk about branding and upgrowth together. Because I feel like everybody, we do this thing on an individual basis, right? But I think anybody that's winning, like think about Bill Gates, think about Kanye, all these people, they never win without a team. You know what I mean? They got people that are not celebrities that you don't know about, that's in the background, that's working on the marketing, that's working on them.
01:04:22
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their software that's working on their intellectual rights and properties. They got people behind them that's working on specific aspects. So I think if we could target all our strengths and work together for a common goal of building wealth, like the sky's the limit, especially we as medical students, we have the power to do this. It's just a matter of having intent.
01:04:45
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and having the initiative to say this is important to me. Instead of going through this process and being like, I'm going to be a doctor. I'm going to make more like a lot of money. Bro, you're going to be working $100 weeks. Like that's not making money. Making money is what we're doing right now is doing what you love and sitting here and collecting that check.
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Which I feel like we can let them to check, you know what I'm saying? It's not a direct check, but shout out to sponsors. Like, we need to try to sponsor this, like, we need to check. Okay, sponsors. Looking for the sponsors. Shameless Quag, I love that. Sponsors, looking for sponsors. Seriously. And before we end, you know. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Although, again,
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Two years in a row now, we can't be together for homecoming. Just, I know, take, whether you went to an HBCU or not, right? Like, love is love. Take some time to reflect, reminisce, bring yourself some joy, bring others joy, and take care of yourself, because we
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We're really in tumultuous and unprecedented times. It hit me when Alderman said like these children are growing up and starting to manifest symptoms of some of these psychological disorders that we learn about in school and it's like they're not even given a fighting chance and it has nothing to do with them. And you know I can only imagine
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Yes, the children are affected, but you know, we're affected too. Some of us are still online and for school. It's just things are different and change can sometimes be really, really hard, but it can change can become a beautiful thing. So as well.
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you know, remember your mental health always. We at the lounge we support you guys and we hope you're taking the time to decompress because we know especially if you're in medicine as well we know how rough it can be. We were just talking not too long ago before this recording started that you know it's rough but you know going through this process but we we were made to make it through and we have to make it through to
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be representation for our patients who look just like us and who are depending on us to treat them. So thank you guys so much. And that is our show. Thanks so much for joining us for this episode of The Lounge. Yeah, let us know your thoughts about the discussion we had today by emailing us at podcast at SNMA.org. Don't be shy. We waiting for you.
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Bye!