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Navigating STEM, Gun Laws, and African-American Identity
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In this engaging episode of Unsolicited Perspectives, host Bruce Anthony is joined by his sister, J. Aundrea, for their lively 'sibling happy hour.' The duo dives deep into a mix of serious and thought-provoking topics, from J. Aundrea's challenging transition from a liberal arts background to a STEM graduate program, to the recent school shooting in Georgia. They tackle the state's lax gun laws and the political responses, emphasizing the urgent need for stricter regulations. As they navigate these heavy discussions, Bruce and J. Aundrea also explore the uniqueness of the African-American experience, highlighting how African Americans have developed a distinct cultural identity deeply rooted in America due to their historical severance from African origins. #UnsolicitedPerspectives #BlackExperience #GunControlDebate #ADHDInsights #AmericanCulture
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Chapters
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives
00:34 The Sibling Happy Hour
01:05 Navigating Grad School Challenges
05:08 Family Achievements and Reflections
09:12 Late Night Conversations and Rest
14:52 School Shooting in Georgia
23:47 Gun Laws and Political Responses
32:27 Moral Stance and Gun Laws Debate
34:28 Gun Laws and Background Checks
35:05 Historical Context of the Second Amendment
39:00 Mental Health and School Safety
55:40 Cultural Influence and Appropriation
01:09:10 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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Introduction and Episode Overview
00:00:10
Speaker
Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Respections. I'm Bruce Anthony. Your host here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that shape the gay society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get
00:00:32
Speaker
On today's episode, it's the Sibling Happy Hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be dilly-dallying a little bit, talking about her first week at school. Then we're going to be talking about the school shooting in Georgia. And then we're going to be talking about is the African-American experience unique? But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Grad School Challenges and Family Achievements
00:00:58
Speaker
What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it, I can't call it. Well, I can call it a little bit. You had an interesting first week of school. How was that? ah Yeah, ah grad school is ah very different from undergrad.
00:01:14
Speaker
Yeah, that's what they said. It is very different. But it's I'm in my week two now. I just completed week two. So I feel like I'm getting my sea legs a little bit. It definitely was overwhelming. I come from a liberal arts background and now I'm in STEM. So I'm making a complete pivot career-wise. So I was already apprehensive, but they assured us when they recruited us,
00:01:45
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that, oh, you don't need any experience in data science. We'll teach you everything you need to know. In my first class, my first homework assignment, he was like, yeah, we're going to have this ah long sheet and you're going to code this.
00:01:59
Speaker
yeah Go. I don't know what any of this means. I don't know half the word. It's a brand new language, honestly, in computer science and data science. It's a completely different language. So I even sent it through lectures. Sometimes I'm like, I don't know what those words mean in that. I know what each individual word means, but when you put them together in that sentence, I don't know what any of the words mean.
00:02:30
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you know so But I definitely feel a lot more confident this week because you know we are at the graduate level and yeah that means if you realize there's a deficit somewhere in your learning, it's up to you to figure it out. I've been on YouTube, watching many a YouTube video introduction to data programming and programming languages.
00:02:57
Speaker
Google is your friend. AI is your friend. or Whether you use chat, GPT or whatever you use, that they they are your friend. But yeah, so I felt ah in week two, I understood and probably like 30% of what you said, as opposed to 10%. I feel a little more confident. I feel as the weeks go on, that percentage will continue to rise. But yeah, it was definitely an interesting interesting first week.
00:03:26
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It also made me realize that I could not dedicate myself 100% to my education and work a full-time job. thats so I can't give 100% to both.
00:03:41
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I'll either get burned out or both of them will suffer. and Because I already have it in my mind to make this career pivot into data science, ah I yeah have chosen to, in the words of our father, bet on myself and and throw myself full-time into school. I was actually talking to a friend yesterday and she said, take advantage of being a student again.
00:04:08
Speaker
And I said, yeah, it's funny because I feel like I'm the student now that I wish I was an undergrad. It might have gone a little quicker and a little smoother. You know, now I do the readings. I do the homework. I go to office hours. I ask questions. I participate.
00:04:27
Speaker
you know If they need a volunteer, I raise my hand. and so like You know what I mean? Because how am I going to learn if I don't volunteer? and I wish I had known that when I was 19.
00:04:39
Speaker
you know yeah you These classes will go a lot better if you participate in them. but Yeah, you know, ah like it like we say, when a woman turns 40, she get an LLC or a degree. So you out there getting a degree, and then probably the LLC right after that. The LLC will probably follow. I intend to work ah you know for someone for a few years and get some experience under my belt before I branch out into my own consulting firm.
Humor and Awareness: Multiple Sclerosis Discussion
00:05:08
Speaker
Look, this is what we do as a family. With our brother getting his MBA last year, you getting your data science
00:05:17
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advanced degree next year, you'll finish next year. Yeah. I'll have a master's of science instead of a master's of business administration. You'll have a master's of science. and ah Well, yes, you'll have an MS degree. Don't say you'll have MS. That's some way different. Well, because you cut in before I had finished.
00:05:37
Speaker
I was saying MS degree. um Okay. but it Don't say you have MS. I wasn't going to. it that of course But you know, I guess this is a good opportunity to raise some awareness about MS. um Yes. You know, there's multiple sclerosis.
00:05:57
Speaker
Yes. If there are a quick Google search, it'll let you in on ah lots of different charities that you can ah contribute to because for some reason now we are going to be talking about MS. No, we're not. That is not on a rundown. and I don't have enough knowledge to talk about MS.
00:06:21
Speaker
I only got enough knowledge to talk about BS.
00:06:27
Speaker
but that you got a but bra You got a full PhD in that. think Well, come on now. I think that was a little, that was a shot across. That was, that was a little low. Okay. that I don't think that was really. All right. Yeah. No, but I mean, you, I'm just co-signing. Yeah. You co-signing too hard. i to Back off that co-sign. Okay.
00:06:49
Speaker
No, I'm real proud of you. I'm real proud of our brother. You know, it's remarkable when you think about our lineage. and Okay. We're going to be a little talk about ourselves a little bit. yeah Okay. When you look at our four grandparents, only one of them had a college degree and that came later in life. Yeah. Yeah. One didn't even graduate high school. Yeah. One or two. One for sure didn't even graduate high school. Um,
00:07:17
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ah I not 100% if I think it's two. Yeah, it might be two. But out of those people that, and like I said, one of our grandparents got their degree later in life, right? So like, they were already full time moms and yeah like, yeah adult children. Yeah.
00:07:38
Speaker
And to think about that, two generations from that, and you look at us and all of our cousins, so many advanced degrees between us. I don't know if there's a cousin, obviously there are some cousins that don't have college degrees, but the number of the cousins that don't have college degrees is minimal. And of those who do have college degrees, most of them have advanced degrees. Right, most of them have advanced degrees. And even those that don't have degrees have started their own business and is successful. Our bloodline,
Balancing Life: Rest, Routines, and Responsibilities
00:08:13
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I mean, I hate to pat ourselves on the back here, but our bloodline, it's all right sometimes. It's all right. Now, is there some trauma? Yes. I believe anxiety is hereditary.
00:08:27
Speaker
Yes. Look, let me tell you something. I didn't use to believe that, but hey, I don't know if it's hereditary. You know, this goes as the nature versus nurture type of this situation. I think it's your environment, right? I think it's the stress of the environment. I think that there could be a predisposition to not producing enough serotonin or dopamine or both.
00:08:53
Speaker
Yeah, because i damn sure we'll go to our outside substances to produce both of them. Right. That all that is also a family trophy. Yeah, I can tell you that right now because Lord Jesus, boy, me and you had a conversation last night on the phone and we'll get into that in the third segment because that was an interesting conversation. Yeah. But you called me it was before midnight and I i had said,
00:09:17
Speaker
to you I was like, I want to be in bed at midnight. So we got off the phone before midnight. yes Guess what time I finally turned off my phone and all the lights. It wasn't midnight, was it? No, it was two o'clock in the morning. and yeah and and And I was like, why did I do this to myself? I don't know exactly why. I was drinking, having a good time, enjoying my light show at my house, yeah and and on on TikTok, and Instagram. And the next thing I know, it's two o'clock in the morning. But that also is rest, though.
00:09:47
Speaker
If that also is rest. like you I mean, you're not activated. You said you're you were having a drink, you're enjoying your the ambiance of your home. like That also is rest. It's not sleep, but it is rest. Okay. Well, I need to do better at the sleep part because I woke up this morning Right before 10, I was like, I got to get ready to do the show. So I was like, I got like two hours to get myself together. So you know I did my little Sunday morning routine, listened to my gospel music, get right with the Lord. right You got to get right with the Lord. Got to. And ask for forgiveness for what I'm about to do. So that's what I do, right? Because you know Sunday funday leads to debauchery. Hey, look, that's what I do, OK? That's my relationship with the Lord. Let me and the Lord deal with it the way we want to deal with it. Okay. Let the Lord deal with it the way we want. Yeah, we we got a good relationship, a good working relationship.
00:10:49
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like You know what I'm saying? I praise the Lord by listening to gospel music on Sunday, because I'm not going to go to church. But I still feel my body with the spirit. With the spirit, yes. With the spirit. And then fill my body with the spirits. I see how that, OK. You see how the connection is? Yeah, OK.
00:11:12
Speaker
But I do need to get some rest because it took me two hours and I'm learning as I'm getting older now, it is just taking forever to wake up. Not actually physically open my eyes and get moving, but to get my mind yeah going. I am so like feel like I'm in a fog for the first hour and a half, two hours. I don't handle anything serious.
00:11:37
Speaker
I mean, I do work, but yeah but but that's almost the work preparation is done before I actually start work. yeah So I already know what I'm doing. I'm not an autopilot and I kind of wake up while I'm at work because I'm being tested mentally, emotionally and physically. yeah um So I wake up.
00:11:57
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but Like on the weekends, it takes me a long time to kind of snap out of that fog. I might have to get some of that alpha brain or whatever that they'd be promoting.
00:12:09
Speaker
What got me out the fog was my ADHD medication. I take that every morning, and so usually by nine, my brain is activated. What time are you waking up? I wake up at 7.30 every single day because Roscoe wakes up at 7.30 every single day.
00:12:27
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and so ah But it's gotten later. you know When I first got him, he got up at 4.30, and then it was 5.30, and now now we're at 7.30. So it's getting in is getting later and later. But no i regardless of when I go to bed, I'm going to wake up at 7.30 in the morning. Well, my dog starts crying. She's got to go to the bathroom. um And so you know I take my medication in the morning. By 9, I'm activated till about 2.
00:12:57
Speaker
3 p.m. when it has worn off and I gotta take a supplement at all to get me through class in the evening so I'm gonna actually start taking it later in the day because most of the things that I do in the day are like after noon. Well you know hey look I don't know how we got on that topic. Yeah, I
School Shooting in Georgia: Events and Reactions
00:13:24
Speaker
don't know how. I'm not taking no medication, because I don't have ADHD. You know, that's something that you don't know. Well, you've never been tested. No, you've sent me the symptoms. You and our brother has sent me the symptoms, and I don't hit the criteria. I don't know how it would present in you. It could be that brain fog. My thing is- The brain fog is new, and that's because I'm 44 years old. OK, but I'm telling you the Buzzfeed, do I have ADHD tests, is not
00:13:51
Speaker
a clinical diagnosis. Okay. And it's not. So anybody out there who feels like they're struggling, particularly with executive dysfunction, uh, you know, maybe you might want to go and just confirm with a clinical diagnosis, whether you are neurodivergent.
00:14:19
Speaker
See, you just do a lot of words that I know individually, but not in the batches in which you put them. Oh, I'm glad that we could get some laughter. Yes, a little bit of laughter in. A little bit of laughter in for the audience, because now we're about to move into serious matters. So we're going to go from Jay being in school in Georgia. Yes.
00:14:48
Speaker
to a school shooting at a high school in Georgia. We're going to get into that next.
00:15:03
Speaker
So, like I said in the last segment, and as many of you know, there was another mass shooting at a school. The school shooting happened at Appalachia, apppaachchi Appalachia? I think it's Appalachia High School. High School in Winder, Georgia. why shoot Winder. Winder? Winder, Georgia, yeah. so East out of Georgia.
00:15:25
Speaker
Okay, probably should have let you handle this instead of me. But the the shooting occurred on Wednesday, September 4, this year, 2024, at the high school. Four people were killed, including two students.
00:15:40
Speaker
Colt Gray is the suspect. He's 14 years old. He used an AR-15 style rifle in the shooting. He surrendered immediately and was taken into custody within minutes. His father, Colin Gray, or Colin Gray, Colin or Colin? I don't know how to pronounce it. He was either way. Colin and Colin. His father, not Colin Gray, Colt Gray's father, Colin, had given him the AR-15 style rifle as a gift.
00:16:11
Speaker
I don't know why a 14-year-old needs an AR-15 rifle as a gift, but okay. Don't let these determine that Colin Gray allowed his son to possess the AR-15 style rifle used in a shooting. This decision led to him being charged as part of a broader effort to hold parents accountable for their children's actions in the cases of mass shootings.
00:16:30
Speaker
There was a previous investigation involving Colt Gray in May of 2023. Colt was questioned by law enforcement regarding an anonymous online threats about school shooting. The FBI traced these threats back to Georgia and conducted their interviews with Colt and his father. During that investigation, Colt denied making the threats and claimed that his account had been hacked.
00:16:52
Speaker
And, you know, people love to say their account has been hacked when something on their account is not good, but okay. Colt and his father were interviewed by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. Colt denied making the threats, and his father was admitted that there were guns in the house, but claimed that they were not loaded. The sheriff's office alerted the school to monitor Colt. Authorities determined there was no probable cause for arrests or additional law enforcement action at that time. They advised Colin Gray to keep his son out of school until the matter was resolved. Colt and his father just moved to a different county, and Colt enrolled into Apalachee High School.
00:17:31
Speaker
It remains unclear whether the alert from Jackson County was communicate communicated to Colt's new school. So before we get into the Georgia's gun laws, which obviously led to this, I wanted to just get into to your thoughts because you're there. It's yeah what, 45 minutes, an hour away from you? Yeah.
00:17:52
Speaker
but around the corner from a good friend of mine, her children's high school. so um you know Of course, they're shooken up by something like this happening so close to them.
00:18:06
Speaker
and i um you know it's It's not the first time I've been like in the vicinity of a school shooting, having lived in several different places. but This one, knowing kids that are over there, was ah particularly resonated with me. What annoyed me the most, of course, was the political response, the conservative response. um They love to use this one talking point of, well you know, we shouldn't politicize this moment. But it is a political issue.
00:18:49
Speaker
um And you'll talk more about the gun laws in Georgia or the lack thereof, but this is a political issue. A 14-year-old owning and possessing an AR-15 style rifle That is a political issue. that's it's It's a cultural issue for sure. It's a societal issue, and it's unique to America. There is no other country in this world, developed or undeveloped, that has... these This is the 385th mass shooting this year in the United States of America.
00:19:27
Speaker
So I agree with you. I agree with everything. That statistic is a little misleading because a mass shooting is anything where I think it's four people, four more people have been hit. Yeah, that I mean, this so that's a mass shooting. But this is so there are shootings all the time, right, where people get hit. This is When people say mass shootings in the context of this argument, they're talking specifically of like the the the shooting in Buffalo, right or the shooting in the church of South Carolina, or the or this particular shooting, where it's an individual targeting a bunch of people that tends to be for either political reasons, racial reasons, or bullying.
00:20:19
Speaker
As far as I know, that is the definite that is the definition of mass shooting as far as the stat statistics. Okay, as defined by the FBI, an event in which one or more individuals are actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. And it's three or more killings in a single incident.
00:20:46
Speaker
Yeah, so it's OK. We're not going to get on. We're not going to fall into the the rabbit hole. Right. Yeah, yeah for sure. I just wanted to bring up to me, there's a distinction between this and let's say groups of people that are beefing, shooting and killing each other. Like they're both mass shootings, but one is ah One is different than the other in my mind. I think one is publicized. And there are many mass shootings that just do not get media attention and national media attention. Yeah, right. Yes. Yes. am Particularly school shootings and shootings at concerts or movie theaters or grocery stores. Those tend
Gun Culture and Legislative Debate in America
00:21:36
Speaker
to get national attention um because of the the nature in which
00:21:45
Speaker
Well, they're always, they're always innocent bystanders, the nature of which people are just living their ordinary, everyday lives. Right. Going grocery shopping or going to school and you can, somebody can walk in and decide that they just want to shoot the place just cause. Right. So, a fiend shooting up a crack house.
00:22:08
Speaker
ki I mean, we go specifically to our fiends. But you know what I'm saying? Like a fiend shooting up a crack house and killing five people or killing five injured and three, you know, whatever. That's not gonna, that might get local attention, maybe. Yeah, yeah, maybe. Because, I mean, you gotta think, they're wondering, will the American public care about a crack house getting shot up?
00:22:34
Speaker
No, they don't care about no crackouts being shot up. Right. OK, but that's still a mass shooting and still. OK, yeah, no, it's still a mass. So you said it was three hundred and fifty two. This is three eighty five. This job was three eight and five. Jesus. OK. This year, twenty twenty four. That is the statistic. It's only three hundred and sixty five days in a year. Right. And we are not through the year. We're not even September. Yeah, we still got three and a half more months to go in the year. Yeah.
00:23:04
Speaker
OK, so that lets you know that several happen a day. Yeah. Wow. But it is it is 100 percent a political issue. And when they say things like, oh, you have my thoughts and players, let's not politicize this is so that they can keep getting money from the gun lobbyists. Because there's absolutely something that we can do about this. Mm hmm.
00:23:33
Speaker
Well, let's let's get to that. Let's get to, you know, Governor Kemp saying, you know, let's not politicize this. Let's keep the thoughts and prayers and and why something like this can happen in your state of Georgia. So let's talk about the gun laws in Georgia. All right. No permit required for purchase. That's right. You don't need a state permit to purchase or possess a shotgun, rifle or handgun.
00:24:00
Speaker
No registration. Firearms do not need to be registered in Georgia. Hold on now. but but and I'm going to get into the rest of the laws, but I really need to see. When I was reading this, when I was researching this and I was reading this and I was like this, this don't make no sense. So not only do you not need a permit to purchase, when you do purchase it, you ain't even got to tell nobody that you got it. no And it gets it gets worse. It gets worse. Keep going. Permitless carry, as of 2022, just two years ago, Georgia allows permitless carry of handguns for residents who are not prohibited from possessing firearms. So not only can you buy one without a permit. Right. And you don't have to register it. Right. You can also conceal carry it on your person in public spaces.
00:24:55
Speaker
Now, ladies and gentlemen, i we're putting this out there for you just to examine this. Now, I know some people are going to be losing their second amendment. Look, it's right. It's right. It's also a privilege, okay? It's a right yes and a privilege. yes And with every right,
00:25:09
Speaker
and privilege, it can be taken away. like You can absolutely lose your freedom, right? You can lose your right to to ah bear arms constitutionally. You can. You can lose your right to vote. You can lose a whole lot of rights. you so it's not just like it's not Say, take away guns. Ain't nobody talking about taking away guns. They got guns. Yes. And I got guns. Yes. This is America. We're always going to be armed. I don't think you ever need to worry about that. Guns are not going anywhere. They're literally what this country was built with. Right. And me and you are pro guns. Yeah. I like guns. Well, hold on. We're not going to say that. We're not winning this fight. I definitely own firearms.
00:26:02
Speaker
and i li Everybody around me has got them. Why am I going to be the only one without one? So we are pro-gun, but we are also pro-common sense. yes And these things are are just common sense, but it gets worse. Let's talk about background checks. If you are far and long,
00:26:23
Speaker
through a federally licensed dealer, a background check is required. So that makes sense, right? yes Like if you go to the gunshot. It's the bare minimum. However, private transactions and gun show purchases do not require background checks. And where do most Georgians get their guns? From gun shows, we have gun shows down here all the time. Why? Because it's so easy for them to make a sale in the state of Georgia. Anyone can have a gun. You got a gun. You got a gun. That's how easy it is. It's just gun shows here all the time.
00:27:01
Speaker
ah I mean, obviously there are some restrictions, right? If you're a convicted felon and mentally ill individual, you're prohibited from owning a firearm. How they gonna know if I don't have to fill out a permit or submit to a background check? Well, if you're a convicted felon, you can had the gun, like you could buy a gun, right? But if you get caught with the gun,
00:27:29
Speaker
You're going to jail. yeah So I mean, there's that, but how many convicted felons in Georgia can easily buy a gun at a gun show and never register it because there's no background checks and always and registration and always have it on them. um Okay, but what about domestic domestic violence convictions? Those with domestic violence conventions convictions or protection orders are not explicitly banned under state law, though there are federal pro ah ah restrictions may apply. But in the state of Georgia,
00:28:08
Speaker
yeah you can domestically abuse your partner and have a protection order against you. yeah And you can still legally yeah own a gun in the state of Georgia. Oh, you can't be within 50 feet of me. That's okay. Because you have an AR-15 style rifle and you can just shoot up my workplace. Shoot up what? Okay. Speaking of workplace, what about employee parking lot?
00:28:37
Speaker
Employees can store firearms in their locked vehicles in the employee parking lot. The firearm is out of sight and the employee has a Georgia firearms license. That's what allowed, but that means if you register it, ah right? but Once again, we've established that you can buy a gun. Yeah.
00:29:01
Speaker
not registered. Right. Nobody knows that you got the gun. No background check. No background check. Carry it on your person. Take it to your job. Take it to your job. Leave it out.
00:29:11
Speaker
or And just decide if you at your lunch break, you know, I just want to clean my gun real fast. You know, I just want to look at it. Just make sure it's locked. Safety on something like that. put the clip Take a clip out. Make sure it there's one in the chamber. You know, just get just sometimes you just won't play with your gun at the lunch break. No, I don't understand that. No, I don't understand that. So it's these.
00:29:36
Speaker
lackadaisical gun laws. Yes. And it was because of a push state of Georgia was like, we're going to make it easier to get a gun. never This situation is where a 14-year-old has an AR-15 and kills two adults and two students. Yes.
00:29:54
Speaker
It's also amazing that, you know, nothing happened to him, that he gave up and he wasn't shot and killed because we see so many times that people without guns are shot and killed instantly. But it's a situation where a mass shooter could just... Well, the they they didn't take him to Burger King this time.
00:30:09
Speaker
Wait, wait, wait. Who got taken to Burger King? um The... Oh, God, I forgot his name, but he was the one that went into the church in Charleston. Dylann Roof? Dylann Roof, yes. They took him to Burger King before taking him to jail. ah would Say, well, no, I don't... Are you sure this is true? Yes.
00:30:27
Speaker
this ain't This ain't something that you read or songs that don't. No, it was literally like a huge story because it was like, are you have to be kidding me. The disparity in the treatment by police between black and white people is astounding. Well, I got to be real honest. When was the last time you had a whopper from Burger King?
00:30:53
Speaker
Because, I mean, the Whopper. Killed nine people. You're right. Who sat there for an hour and prayed with this young man. Yeah. Yeah. And he left one alive so that they knew for sure this was a race war. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they took him to Burger King. And sometimes after you commit ah racial violence, you need to go eat a Whopper.
00:31:21
Speaker
And some fries. I just felt bad for Burger King. That was terrible prep. I would have been the person that was working in the drive-thru, like, wait a minute. Ain't that that dude? I just, I see that on my phone. Yeah, man, we can't serve you. I don't want no. Yeah, I don't want no parts of this. If I was Burger King's spokesperson, I'd have been like, hey, look, I need y'all to, we need to clean this up. Y'all need to take this shit to Wendy's. All right, so those are the gun laws. Yes. And Brian Kemp's response where this isn't the time to politicize, this is the time that to just give our thoughts and prayers. um I'm tired of giving thoughts and prayers. Yeah. It's time to do some action.
00:32:06
Speaker
Yeah, it istime it's been time. It's been time. I know. I know Republicans that listen and watch this show are like, you will always attack attacking Republicans. And, you know, I don't mean to be attacking Republicans. I'll just add do make it so easy. Well, I know you do, but they just make it so easy because what do you stand for that is on the right side?
00:32:32
Speaker
right Right. Like, what is it that you stand for that you can look at it morally? Because that's what Republicans say, you know, that they're led by Christ. What can you say morally that your stance is on the right side? Right. I'm i'm just. When you're aligned with CEOs and not the employees, you're not on the right side. Yeah, like dont I don't get it. So when we say there needs to be gun laws and things like this, where Georgia is so lax, yeah leads to something like like this mass shooting at this school. yeah How is it in your head where you could say, no, Georgia had to write with the gun laws and think that that's morally correct?
00:33:18
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ah that's That's the question that I have. right When Democrats are saying, look, we're not trying to take no guns away, but it shouldn't be so easy. it shouldn't be just any know it is so the The gun laws right there that I went through, it is easier to get a gun than it is to get your driver's license. Yes, in the state of Georgia, yes.
00:33:42
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It is easier to get a gun than it is for you to vote. You got to take a written test. You got to take a road test. You got to take an eye test. You got to do all this stuff to get your driver's license. I'm going to be real honest, because I went to the aquarium. It is easier to get a gun than it is to see every exhibit in the aquarium. Yes. Because that aquarium is vast. It is easier to get a gun than it is to see every exhibit at the Coca-Cola Museum. Yeah.
00:34:13
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It is easier to get a gun than it is to get really great service in the city of Atlanta.
00:34:22
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Now that's factual. that All of everything that I'm saying is factual. Now you tell me how that makes sense. I'm sorry. It doesn't make sense to me. And making it so that there are automatic background checks. That you do have to register your gun. That you do have to have a license. yeah You still get to have a gun. It's not an inconvenience. It really is it isn't.
00:34:48
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I mean, you have to show your ID to at least get alcohol to buy cigarettes. You don't need that to get a gun. Think about that in that context. right And when I give you those examples, when I give you those facts and you still say to me, nope, my second amendment right. Okay.
00:35:06
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All right. And then what I will also say about the Second Amendment is that it was written before there was a national army, before there was a legitimate police force. Militias were needed at that particular time yeah because hell, the country wasn't fully formed yet. You have people who still believe and are a part of actively militias. Yes.
00:35:29
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And i'm not I'm not anti-malicious. I'm not i'm not anti-malicious. Black Panthers were technically a militia. Yes. OK, so I'm not anti-malicious. I'm anti-hate-malicious, but that's a different thing. But you got to remember, like the United States wasn't all the United States. right The Second Amendment was written. right like they would They had just finished fighting.
00:35:54
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Oh, no, actually it was written before the Civil War, but it was actually the Civil War. Like some of the stuff in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution led to the Civil War. So all of this stuff was written. Yeah, I'm sorry. It was written by dudes who owned people. Well, yeah, there's that too. So it's like, I'm not really considering them the moral authority on much of nothing. Well, yeah, there's that too. And also they had no idea what type, it was light. I don't think light was even invented yet.
00:36:24
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I think people are still doing candles. yeah You know? Electricity. I don't think electricity. That's a good question. I don't know. They didn't have cars. We was riding around a horse and bike. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So they had no idea that guns. Look, they was shooting little ball pellets. Yes. They were shooting cannons, OK? They were using a musket, right? When the musket take a long time to load up and to shoot. I don't even think that you could even use a functional musket anymore.
00:36:57
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was so Thomas Edison opened the Pearl Street Power Station in New York City, the first electrical power plant to produce and carry electricity to homes in 1882.
00:37:10
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they'd have They was lamplight. 1882. Yeah. 1882. They wrote it by a candle. When when was the Bill of Rights and the Constitution written? 1776.
00:37:27
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by Lamplight. It was 105 years after the fact. Right. So they could not possibly no i have conceptualized an AR-15 style rifle. So, okay. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
00:37:43
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If y'all are completely against Georgia, I truly make got laws i really can our i not i sure think if somebody went back in time and showed that what an AR-15 style rifle could do, the founding fathers might have made some revisions. like and They may have been slightly horrified by this weapon of mass destruction.
00:38:07
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Yes. Yes. Because it could have been, if a person had an AR-15 during that time period, it could have been one person versus a whole army and that one person could win. Yes. but So I think, that of course they couldn't conceptualize something like that. They couldn't. They know had to load their weapon and fire off one shot and then re-flow with a stick and some powders and all kinds of things.
00:38:37
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and took It took minutes. They didn't even have too toothbrush and tooth and toothpaste at that time. No, they had wooden teeth. what that So that's a myth. I know. Didn't have wooden teeth, but but he had some jacked up teeth. We've gotten way off topic. We have, we have. The point is, this is a political, yeah it is a it is a cultural problem. It is a societal problem. We do not do enough for children as far as their mental well-being. We are dropping the ball as a society. We are dropping the ball as a society when it comes to really being zero tolerance on bullying. What that really means is punishing the correct child
00:39:25
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not just suspending all the children or expelling all the children, punishing the correct child, doing thorough investigations, really advocating for these kids who are experiencing, I don't even know if this young man, I don't know what his motivations were for this. I don't think we know that yet. I mean, his lawyer might know.
00:39:50
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But typically what you see, or they they, a lot of when it's a school shooting, you see, you find stuff, oh, they were bullied or they were, you know, it's never the popular kid. Like it's never the captain of the football team.
00:40:04
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No, I ain't never seen the captain of the football team right do that. You know, it's really making schools in these public spaces that kids have to be in safe spaces for them. So yes, this is a societal issue and we need to, the same way that you make them get their immunizations for school, you also need to do wellness checks and make sure that their mental health is where it should be for their age.
00:40:35
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But this is also very much a political issue. And when they deflect by saying, let's not politicize this, it's because you don't want to take responsibility and accountability for the fact that you had a hand in this. You're going to hit them with that. And that there is blood on your hands.
00:40:55
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You're coming with that thunder today. It is what it is. it But you you speak say nothing but facts. These are children and educators who who who just are in then a place of learning and they have to fear for their lives.
00:41:14
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We're not doing nearly enough where we can't even even though we're supposed to be pro-life, right? We can't even protect the children of this country. we have to We're fighting about whether or not there should be universal free lunch. So protecting their lives clearly is is at the bottom of the list if we can't even agree that they should be able to eat. Say it again. Say it again. Triflin, we can't even agree that kids should be able to eat
00:41:54
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So I am hoping that people get out there and exercise their right to vote and think about what is so wrong about being responsible for your weapon. Why are you so anti just being held accountable for the weapons that you own?
00:42:21
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making sure that there is a background check that's been run on you, that you've applied and have been approved for a permit, and that you have registered this gun with the state so that they know that you have it. And keep it locked.
00:42:40
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yeah Keep it locked. if you And I'm sorry, if you can't vote or you can't buy a drink or or a pack of cigarettes, you don't need to own an AR-15 style weapon. Well, there this is what I own it, yes. and like I agree with that. But you know there are things where kids go out hunting. you know Parents take them out hunting. And I'm not opposed to that because the deer population in Maryland is out of control.
00:43:12
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um i don't I don't, I don't know what that means, but okay. Okay, okay. So that, you know, no, I'm not anti-hunting. I don't think a kid shouldn't be able to shoot a gun or learn how to handle a gun safely. I think that's actually a good idea to make sure the kids know how to handle a firearm safely in the off chance that they're ever in a situation where they have to pick up a firearm. I don't know.
00:43:41
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This is America, so y'all hear that and think, that's crazy, why would a kid ever be in a situation where they have to pick up, but this is America. This is America, so yeah. And we've had 385 mass shootings. Yes. Just this year, so. No, I think teaching kids gun safety, I don't think that's, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Letting them own their own AR-15 is insane.
00:44:12
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And that's the reason why they arrested the daddy. Yes. That and plus he was under investigation and then they moved counties. Like you knew something was up. Especially because you
The African-American Experience: Uniqueness and Identity
00:44:25
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knew. You have been officially alerted. You knew. That there is something going on with your son. Enough that the FBI came to speak to you. I mean the sheriff's office came to speak to you. Both. Both. Both. Yes. So.
00:44:41
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the fact that you would then give this young man ah a gun as a gift. And I'm sorry, parents, if y'all act like y'all don't see some signs in your kid's behavior that is troubling.
00:44:56
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Parents don't want to admit that. Because then they look at it as how have I failed. And you're being a little too self-absorbed about yourself. And you need to be thinking about the world at large. But that takes a lot for people to do. What is the goal of parenthood? What is the goal of parenthood? It is to raise productive adults that they can go out into the world. That's the only, literally, your only job as a parent is to teach this new person how to be a person.
00:45:26
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and then let them go. you So yeah, the father failed. Yeah, no, he did. and he needs to be held And he does need to be held accountable. Because at the end of the day, I know that they adultify black children. So I'm aware of that when I say this. And I don't agree with that. A 14 year old is a child.
00:45:54
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a freshman in high school, or maybe he was in eighth grade, or like I don't know, but that's a child. I mean, he was obviously in high school. Oh, well, because, he that yeah, he was a student at that. So a freshman in high school, that's a child. That is a child. He was in middle school the year before, that's a child. That's a child, yeah. And so, if if if the father is not responsible, who the hell is? What'd you say, what'd you say, adultify black kids? Yes, the adultification of black children.
00:46:23
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ah ah where where ah you know people like, ah you saw it with, the oh my God, I can only remember, martin Trayvon Martin, yes. I can only remember George Zimmerman's name and I did not wanna say his name first. you know Trayvon Martin was a child, yeah was but he was tall and they like to adultify black children. So if it was a 14 year old black child,
00:46:51
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you would I guarantee you the press or how the media would handle that child like an adult and how the justice system handles that child like an adult, you understand about the adultification of black children.
00:47:08
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Well, that's interesting and a perfect segue because you sent me a video and it asked a very interesting question that I had never thought about before. Is the African-American experience unique? And we're going to get into that next.
00:47:36
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So Jay, you sent me an interesting TikTok. And the question was, is the African-American experience unique? Yes. I was like, that is really, I never really thought about it. So I watched the the TikTok and you were like, this is a good topic to talk about. And I agree. and So the person speaking, his name is Shahid Bawson. He was born shannon mo sharon Shannon Morse in Boulder, Colorado. He's an American man.
00:48:03
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ah He's known for his controversial and criminal activities, but has also emerged as one of the most unique and influential public intellectuals of the Muslim world. He was born June 5th, 1971. He was raised primarily by his mother after his parents divorced. He grew up struggling financially. they was They was poor. He worked as a young age. He converted to Islam at the age of 22, being inspired by the autobiography of Malcolm X. Reading that book will definitely inspire you.
00:48:31
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He became active in the Muslim community and married a Palestinian woman named Asia. ah He was convicted of killing a man in 2006 using chloroform. that's That's some cold stuff. That means you held it on way too long. Right. He was also involved in ah and orchestrated a kidnapping. He was sentenced to death, but it was later overturned for the murder. He was sentenced to death because of the murder, but was later overturned. There was conflicting reports about what actually happened, whether it was a setup where he invited a man over
00:49:07
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under the pretenses that the man was going to be lured for sexual interaction from from a woman and didn't get in and made sexual interactions towards. so he like that The stories, we don't know. What we do know that is that when he got his opportunity to present his case in court, his conviction was overturned, and he's out of jail now.
00:49:31
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And despite his criminal background, he's emerged as, you know, like I said earlier, a public intellectual in the Muslim world speaking out against consumerism and for social injustices.
00:49:42
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Since being released from prison, he has been working as a PR strategist, as a local consultant for an NGO that's a non-governmental agency for human rights groups and political ah politicians globally. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to paraphrase the transcript of what was actually said. And then to give you guys some context, because when when I get posed a question, is an African-American experience unique,
00:50:10
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You're going to say, well, of course it's unique because African-Americans, your experience is unique to you. But that question in and of itself doesn't give proper context of what he was actually saying. So and here's the transcript from the video in which you know you sent me, Jay. And especially the African-American experience is literally not duplicated anywhere on earth in history. African-Americans are a completely unique phenomenon as a people.
00:50:38
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who are who they are culturally, what they are history what their history is, what their experience is, isn't duplicated anywhere on earth. You don't know where you come from. You don't know what country you come from. You don't know what culture you come from. You don't know what language you come from. You don't know where religion you what your religion was. Before you, like I said before, you're more American than anyone because you don't have any other identity. Actually, your entire identity is American based. That's not the case for anyone else.
00:51:09
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I'm Irish American, I'm German American, I'm Italian American, I'm Jewish American, I'm this or that, the other. You can say African American, but you don't know anything about Africa. You don't know anything about which part of Africa you come from. Africans don't call themselves that because they know their tribe, their language, their region, their country.
00:51:30
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Like saying European American. I'm not European. I'm specifically Irish and German. But you can't say that. You are American. You are the original Americans. You know, everyone else is immigrants. You can't even be called immigrants. You're originally American. Your culture is as close to being indigenous culture of America.
00:51:50
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as their as they can be without you being the indigenous people. You're the indigenous people of the entity called America, called the United States. Everything else came from elsewhere. Your culture is only one that came from right there because you were cut from everything else, cut off from everything else. There's nobody else like that. There's nobody else like that in the world. There's no other culture like that in the world.
00:52:17
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So listen to what he's saying. He's saying that we don't have a history as African-Americans. Our history, as African-Americans, is American history. We don't know anything about Africa. And when people say, well, you do know what country you come from, Africa, that's a continent. OK, ladies and gentlemen, African is a continent. I mean, generally,
00:52:40
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um ah Black Americans of the diaspora, right former and descendants of enslaved peoples, generally are from northwestern Africa, come from the west coast of Africa, because that's where the ships landed.
00:53:00
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ah in the um ah What is the the triangle called? I don't know. Oh, in the slave trade Bermuda Bermuda is not the Bermuda triangle. now That's not a triangle in the slave trade. Right. That's where the ships landed. So primarily like Nigeria, Cameroon, that area is by and large where descendants of enslaved people came from. But we don't but we don't know our trial. And that's that was by design. By design, we were
00:53:35
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mixed up, mixed around so that we couldn't communicate easily. Right. and that's what so So people were people say, you know racist people used to say it back in the day and probably still some of them say it back in the day and want you to go back to Africa. Go back where? Where? Any connection. Don't i have any idea where where my people come from and we're probably a mixture of a bunch of different tribes. and Once again, I had to point out, Africa is a continent, a whole continent made up of several countries.
00:54:05
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The United States is the United States, their states. um America is one country. America is part of three countries that are in North America, including Canada and Mexico. yeah Africa is an entire continent. Is it continent? Yes, with 54 countries. like it's Think about that. North America is a continent with three. Africa is a continent with 54.
00:54:31
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54 countries. so So it's like there is no connection. The difference between us and Canada, so they're not not the difference between Georgia and Florida. It's not the same. it's not It's a continent. So you can't just go back. It's not just a place. It's not just an island I could go to. It's an entire continent.
00:54:54
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So you're 54 cuts. we We are. When you think about it, and when everybody, you know, and when racist people like like to say, you know, you're not true American, we are the very definition of America. Everything that we are is absolutely American and our culture.
00:55:10
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Yes, it's completely unique to America and was born here, right? We this when you think of African American and culture in the United States and beyond, but let's just focus right now.
00:55:26
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for this particular moment on the United States. We influence everything culturally, whether it's our music, our food, our arts, anything, yeah anything we do influences the entire country.
00:55:43
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The thing that I hate the most is when I see bad African-American vernacular English being passed off as ah the way Gen Z talks, but everything about Blackness since we were brought to these shores has been consumed commodified and consumed by the American population, like everything we do.
00:56:11
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So I want to give you guys an example, something that that you I can put in contextually, that you will understand what we say, the Black experience influences everything. okay Let's take music. And and besides that we have established all music,
00:56:30
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We originated, we created, and and typically gets taken over. you know I've gone through this before, country, rock and roll. It was all started by black people. Yes. But let's go with music and let's go with something that more millennials and Gen Z will understand, but no more millennials and Gen X will understand, but Gen Z might understand it as well because they've been brought back into pop culture. and That's the story of New Edition and New Kids on the Block.
00:57:00
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both from the Boston area. yes so New kids in the block word was they weren they were discovered or put together packaged by a gentleman in the Boston area, music producer in the Boston area. and They gained so much attention and blew up. They eventually left this person that created them. and That person said, I'm going to create the white version of this group.
00:57:28
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Same type of music, same dancing, same formation, everything. yeah and I'm just going to make them white. I'm going to take some white kids from the same city, from Boston, and create a group that's exactly identical to New Edition. So much so that New was still in the name. This is an old playbook because the Jackson Five and the Osmonds. Yes, but that's so far past. People might not even know who the Osmonds are. Right. But just know that this is an old playbook.
00:57:59
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People know who the new kids on the block is because Joey McIntyre is still out there. Donnie Wahlberg. Donnie Wahlberg. Donnie Wahlberg is still out there and they're on tour. This is an example of cultural appropriation. That's constantly a thing. But what else is very unique to the African-American experience is we're not just a national Our culture isn't just a national kind of phenomenon. It's a global phenomenon. No, it's a global commodity. So much so. Breakdancing was an Olympic event. Yes. That is specifically. Now, we have to give a shout out with breakdancing to the Latino community because they were- But once again- Yeah. Once again, what are Latinos mixed with? They are either white, indigenous, or black.
00:58:58
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or a combination of those things. Yes. Well, specifically Puerto Ricans. Yeah, they're African in descent. So and it was Puerto Ricans and blacks, it's specifically Puerto Ricans and blacks that created breakdance, right? It's not an Olympic event. I mean, not anymore. It won't be in LA. Well, because you know why? Because again, we can't have nothing.
00:59:25
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You all ruined days and that's not even just not coming back. So when, when, when Shahe brought this topic up and you sent it to me, it made a lot of sense because there are no, there is no other group of people that have been to this displaced. There have been groups of people that have been displaced, but they always knew where the point of origin was. They always held on to their culture.
00:59:55
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right And everybody that immigrated here, whether you were Irish, German, Italian, you had a culture from which you came that's been passed down. My best friend is Italian. She understand, or Sicilian, she, which you had to, there's a difference between Sicilian and Italian. And there is a culture yeah of which It's been passed down. It's been and diluted like yeah everything. When you come here, you're yeah told to you assimilate yeah yeah and to American. But if that was the case, they'd be assimilated into black culture, which is has not been the case. right They assimilated into the dominant culture. And a lot of people are going to say, that's not true. Black people who haven't you know are not that important. The fact of the matter is,
01:00:43
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you know If it wasn't for slavery, if it wasn't for slavery, this country wouldn't exist. Yeah. It would not exist. Yeah. They wouldn't. America would have long since- Certainly not as an economic powerhouse that it is today. Absolutely not, right? If it were for black people, African Americans, this country would not be what it is today. We have been there on the front lines, every major war, going back to the Civil War. Hell, even going back to the French and Indian War, it was they were saying some black people fighting. They had slaves fighting in an army as well.
01:01:19
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I wasn't volunteer. You had to do it. But you had no choice. fair And not only like our achievements in this country just that have our contributions to this country. Yeah. You like peanut butter? You're welcome. we ah met it So it is. It is. African American experience is more unique. Yeah. Is the most unique experience.
01:01:46
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to any other group because no other group has has experienced absolutely what we have. Yeah. It's important to note that I believe Shaheed was talking about the United States specifically. Yes. But i would I would posit that throughout the Americas, the black experience in America,
01:02:13
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I mean, obviously, is there is some uniqueness to the experience in the United States ah and the continued experience, but there's the continued experience throughout the Americas and the Caribbean.
01:02:29
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um ah but ah but that's not too When we say this, we're not saying that This is not the oppression Olympics. that's That's not what we're saying. We said our experience is unique. Unique. It was just unique. And I think it's an important topic because we have been getting some some hate from Black Brits um who are not the same.
01:02:57
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if ah about, we don't know where we come from. We do, we come from America. when we When you ask us where we're from, we're from America because our entire identity, our entire cultural identity is American. When you make fun of the names that we create, just know that those are the only true American names.
01:03:19
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and Emma and and Ashley and and and and but Jennifer, these are not American names. Shiquita is though. It is. Because it was created here. Yeah, that's true. LaWanda, she's American, so put some respect on her name. Debricashaw Ferguson.
01:03:45
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American, but some respect on his name. You can make fun of our names all you want, but they're the only true American names aside from and obviously the indigenous. But I want to also make sure that we separate out. We understand that we are stolen people on a stolen land. So that when we say that we are true Americans, we're embracing this American identity, but we understand that it is
01:04:13
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problematic. But, but also we understand that we ain't got no damn choice. Not a choice at all. We were brought here forcibly. So luckily our indigenous brothers and sisters understand our situation.
01:04:28
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pick that get yeah yeah and So ah shout out to y'all and you know, there's always love ah there. But But it is a unique experience. and And I think when other Black people in other countries try to understand the Black American experience, they're using their own experience as a barometer. And you can't because our start the middle and the present okay and our future is always going to be unique and a distinct experience because the project of America itself of living here, of being an American is such a unique experience globally.
01:05:15
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um so our our history and who we are and who we've become, who we made ourselves into, the global power that we've made ourselves into, um is our American story. and we do not american still Is the story. We do not have our African story. We don't have it. There is a quote, and I wish I could remember who who said this, and I'm probably paraphrasing as well, but
01:05:47
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The one thing that the black man has to understand is that we were once African and that we will never be African again. There was a concerted effort to disconnect us wholly and completely from Africa. They took our names. It was strategic. They took our names. They took our language. They took our religion. They suppressed our cultural practices. The only things that we still retain any essence of would be in our food and our dance.
01:06:18
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yeah That's literally the way that we dance and the food that we make. That's probably the only cultural connection that we can still maintain with Africa.
01:06:32
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but And it's been mixed together by the different tribes. Right. yeah it's There's a mix and and there's a little bit of... Mac and cheese is American. is but you know saying like that I don't think that's American, I think that's Italian. ah well yeah But I'm saying in the and the black culture, like they don't really have they don't really make mac and cheese in the Caribbean. Okay, yeah, you're right. Yeah, they don't have them we I don't think they make mac and cheese in Africa. As far as cuisine is concerned. Everything mixed in, right?
01:07:01
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But if if we were to say that we kept any bit of our culture, and there are also things, you know, within, even though we were converted to Christianity, we still have, our church is still very different, right? Because we do things like call and response. ah Churches are we very different. Yes. We still uphold oral traditions. We tell stories. That's how our, our information is passed. Like we still do those things. We still maintain those things, but our connection to Africa was strategically severed in order
01:07:40
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to to have any shot of maintaining some sort of complacency with enslavement. They had to completely cut us off strategically. We didn't even know when Haiti got free. no no right And that's that's much closer than Africa. we We didn't even know that. We are so cut off.
01:08:07
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from everyone else, we didn't know how black people were being treated in Central America or in South America, how black people are treated in Canada. We have we were completely cut off and isolated. So you have to understand, no, we're not African-American because there are African-Americans. There are Africans immigrated here from various countries and and have become citizens and they are African-American.
01:08:37
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We are black. And that is a cultural identity. We do have a culture. You all mass consume it on a daily basis. So don't act like we don't have a culture. We absolutely do. We even have our own language, our own African-American vernacular English, which again, you all consume.
01:09:00
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on a daily basis.
Closing Remarks and Teaser
01:09:02
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So we have a cultural identity and it is American and it is unique to the experience of any people's anywhere.
01:09:12
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Yeah, that's well said. It was well said, and it was long winded. But it was well said. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I've been on my cell box a lot today, so I'm sorry about that, but for sure it was going to run a little long. Yeah, it was going to run a little long. And it was another thing that I wanted to get to. but You did. And that we can't get to it. No, but I apologize. I'm going to leave people with a cliffhanger if you want to know what we were going to get into.
01:09:39
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Oh man, no, this show comes out before that show. Well, we're going to talk about it on After Hours Uncensored, which we're about to film right now. And it's about my superpower and what I want to have in the superpower. My sister has a bunch of questions. And guess what? Because it don't make no damn sense. It makes perfect sense to me. Ladies and gentlemen. And guess what? We're not going to put on the main show. If you want to hear If you want to hear that, then join our Patreon page. If you want to be highly confused and slightly annoyed. No, stop. I'm trying to sell this. I'm trying to sell this. Join patreon dot.com backslash un solicit persec on the solicit perspectives after I was uncensored. It's $5 a month.
01:10:18
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talking straight ish, which is my show. It's $5 a month. You can get both shows for $9 a month. It's good. And you can find out what we're going to talk about. I normally would jump to my sister and say, hey, what do you want to lead the people with today? But she's been talking the whole show. Shoshina left y'all with a lot. On that note, I've got to say, thank you for listening. I got nothing left to take. Yeah, you got nothing left to take. And you won't let me get out this to my last little second. We're talking over the damn show. Sorry. You did it again. Anyway.
01:11:19
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01:12:16
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catch you next time Audi 5000