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Episode 341- The Narrative Podcast

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Duration:: 1h 24m
Broadcast on:: 13 Jul 2024
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The Takono Music and Spirits Festival returns to Centennial Park Saturday, August 3rd from 2 to 10 p.m. And it's free! Live music from the Warren Treaty! Chris Daniels and the Kings is Callie and More. Enjoy a spirits competition. Kidzone and fireworks presented by Oxy and the City of Dacono. Admission and parking are free. The Takono Music and Spirits Festival brought to you by Breckenrich Brewery and City of Dacono. Go to thecityofdacono.com for more information. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] You are now listening to the narrative podcast with Halsey Allen. The narrative podcast is changing the narrative one episode at a time. [Music] Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to another edition of the narrative podcast. The narrative podcast is a home of original people, original people peace. Original people, reciprocity and original people, positivity and I am your host, Halsey Allen. Welcome to the narrative podcast. Welcome to all my narrators. So here we are on this fantastic Friday evening with another weekday installment of the narrative podcast. [Music] Yeah, man. So this year is worn by really quick, this month went by really quick. So we're almost into, seems like we're about to be in so far. But yeah, I've been amping up my efforts to try to, you know, do more weekday uploads of the narrative podcast. And I've been successful for the most part. I've been taking a little hiatus here and there, but being pretty much consistent, this is my third weekday upload of the narrative podcast. So fingers crossed, I have uploaded before midnight. So it officially be a Friday upload. So it will be Monday, Thursday and then today will be Friday. So that's three uploads I gave you all this week during the weekday. And fingers crossed, I can do the Saturday, full episode of the narrative podcast in a few hours, but it might be on a Sunday. I don't know. See, I'm trying to get it back to where I used to have it just like a lot's been going on, but you know, appreciate you for riding that with me. And here we go on this Friday evening for the weekday edition of the narrative podcast. For anybody unfamiliar or anybody new to my platform, how I generally start things off is what a brief overview of the podcast, just to give you full context about, you know, what this is about. And you know, to familiarize you with the format of the podcast and, you know, my presentation style and, you know, just to bring you up to speed, basically, before diving into the content. I didn't do it last night. I just kind of skip past because I started right at, you know, I believe like, I think a quarter till midnight thinking I was going to, you know, be short and sweet. It wasn't. So here I go with the breakdown of the narrative podcast. I'm going to try to keep it shorter than I usually do. I just like to give you a brief synopsis of the podcast before diving into the content. But I'm going to try to keep it super, super brief. I'm not going to, you know, go all in like I usually do on me just like glaze or surface and, you know, tell you what I need to tell you because I'm starting so late. But I like to try to cross my eyes and dot my teeth and just make sure we're on the same accord. But anyway, starting at the top tippy, the name, my name, my podcast, the narrative podcast as I don't like the false narrative. That the police wheel about original people and original people culture. So that's why I designed this platform to counter the way the media intentionally misrepresent our people and misrepresent our culture to the world. My platform, my uplifting edifier people. That's what the entire podcast is all about is uplifting and edifying original people. I get to the original people a little bit later on into the synopsis. But that's essentially what, you know, my platform is about to uplift edifier people and then also to bring awareness of why we need to share positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. And then also to inspire the listening audience to do like I do and share positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. So that's basically my mission statement about the narrative podcast and I think that's a perfect way to segue into my tagline. The narrative podcast changing the narrative one episode at the time by destroying maybe stereotypes about original people and original people culture. How do I destroy the negative stereotypes about our people and our culture by providing positive frames of reference about our people and our culture hence the title, the narrative podcast. So there you have it. I basically try to inspire, bring awareness to the listening audience and inspire the listening audience to provide positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. And by our people, I mean, original people, black people. And like I said, I, you know, I clue you in as to why I refer to our people as original people over calling ourselves black. I'm a little bit later on in the breakdown. That's my narrators because that's just basically a nod to the times that we're living in. Which is, you know, we're living in the digital information age, every things presented to us. All forms of information at the touch of a button, and people, you know, these days are telling or narrating their own stories of, you know, we do a lot of sharing online. Every platform has a bio section and your bio section. What usually happens is, you know, people give you a little breakdown of who they are as a person. Their hobbies, their interests, and that'll give you a clue about what type of content you're going to see from, you know, that person's profile, like whatever platform they're on, whether it's, you know, Facebook, whether it's Instagram. It was the other one. X, Formley Twitter, you know, TikTok, you know, whatever, you know, like all platforms basically have a little bio section, and then after the bio section, you go through and see, you know, what type of content they're on. The content they're uploading, and like most people online, people basically. The Dakono Music and Spirits Festival returns to Centennial Park Saturday, August 3rd from 2 to 10 p.m. And it's free, live music from the Warren Treaty. Chris Daniels and the Kings is Callie and More. Enjoy a Spirits Competition, Kid Zone and Fireworks presented by Oxy and the City of Dakono, Admission and Parking are free. The Dakono Music and Spirits Festival brought to you by Breckenridge Brewery and City of Dakono. Go to thecityofdakono.com for more information. We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is working to responsibly meet rising energy demand. So everyone can get to where they want to be. You've arrived. That's energy and progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. You know, share content reflective of the best possible version of themselves. So it's essentially when people are sharing things online, they're telling or narrating their own personal stories. And when they're doing that, you know, they're putting out the best possible version of themselves. You know, you can be anything online, so why not be the best? Why not, you know, flood the internet with, you know, the best version of yourself? You know, living an opulent life, being happy, you know, winning in life. That's what, you know, the typical imagery that people share, you know, that's the typical content people share about themselves. And I want that to be, you know, the goal for our people is to share the best possible versions of ourselves online to tell or narrate our own stories, you know, from the best possible perspective. The reason why we want to do that, because the media intentionally misrepresents our people that put out the worst possible versions of our people and our culture. So to counter that, we need to be putting out positive frames of reference and, you know, sharing the best possible versions of ourselves. So it doesn't, you don't necessarily have to share stories about a celebrity, you know, people you don't know. It could just be something positive you're doing in your life, your family, something, you know, that's the type of content we should be sharing online. We should be playing into the negative stereotypes and the negative stigmas, you know, the media portrays and propagates about our people and our culture to the rest of the world. So when they do that, basically, it's just a form of psychological warfare is programming and conditioning, and, you know, it's basically what they do. And try to use, you know, the negative imagery to kind of push their agenda and make, you know, author people's perception of, you know, our people and author our own perceptions of how we view each other. You know, by watching the content that they put out about our people and our culture, you know, we'll, you know, on a subconscious level, you know, we'll believe, start to believe. I'm supposed to be degenerate. I'm supposed to be, you know, if you're a man, I'm supposed to be a drug builder. I'm supposed to be a pig. I'm supposed to be a gangbanger. You know, I'm supposed to be, like, criminalistic by nature. I'm supposed to be, you know, doing things not on the straight, narrow, like, I'm supposed to, you know, screw over everybody like I screw over. I'm supposed to, like, you know, be violence and aggressive. And then on the female side, you know, they want them to believe that their whores are supposed to, you know, have attitudes and be angry and, you know, flop. You know, their sexuality and engage in degenerate behavior and unlabeling like behavior. You know, that's what they try to program and program and condition our people to do. And unfortunately, the program means kind of working. But anyway, you know, becoming a narrator, that's kind of a solution to that problem. You see, because even though the media has a wicked, horrible agenda, at the end of the day, it's a business and business is all about supply and demand. If we don't create the need, create the demand for degeneracy, the media will stop supplying degenerate content. If we exhibit in display, you know, how we want to be portrayed, how we want to be perceived, you know, they will respond in kind and provide the type of content reflective of the way we want to be viewed and perceived by all. Yeah, stop, you know, putting up the image of the gangbanger, the thief, you know, the guy that doesn't take care of his responsibility. It doesn't want to be a father to his child. You know, the criminal people, you know, the guy that's breaking into your house, breaking into your car. The guy sticking you up, robbing you, you know, they'll quit pushing that image. And then in the women, they'll quit pushing the image of, you know, the mammy, the, you know, the whore, the stripper, the twerker, you know. Around the way, girl with the attitude, you know, being lazy on the phone, gossiping all day with no, you know, business about yourself, no sense of urgency. You know, they'll quit promoting those images about us. If we quit, you know, regurgitating the negative stereotypes and statements online. But longer story short, that's why I call my target listening audience, my narrators. You know, living in this digital information age, we have the unique ability to tell or narrate our own stories. And that's why I call my target listening audience, my narrators. The next order of business, the narrative podcast, is a positive space. I just share positive content. I don't try to use this space for anything negative. Like I said, I'm just, I don't exist to uplift and edify our people. I don't try to, you know, engage in gossip and slander and none of that, you know, I don't endorse that. I don't, you know, stamp that. So I would never try to, you know, jump in the rumor mill and, you know, put my two cents on gossip. It has no place in my life and, you know, I want to encourage my listening audience to not make it a home in your life. Because gossip is kind of what's destroying our people. You know, it's like almost a trillion dollar a year business for, you know, affluent people within our community to be at odds with one another. Hurling in sauce and airing out, you know, personal business online and taking cheap shots at each other. So like, you know, it's like almost trillions of dollars to be made off of that. So I try to discourage my best against it. I try to keep this space very positive and uplifting and, you know, just something nice to listen to. I mean, as an alternative for the message, the online message, this, you know, being circulated on a daily basis about our people and our culture. However, I do tell the truth. I'm very truthful. This is a space of truth also. I don't talk about other people, but if I feel like a celebrity or somebody famous is intentionally, you know, utilizing their platforms to intentionally project negative stereotypes in the effort to acquire monetary gain. I will cause said individual out on that for basically playing the game and, you know, misrepresenting our people and our culture to the world. Like, you know what I mean? So, you know, make a fool out of yourself, but don't make a fool out of all of this. That's, you know, my thing on my platform. So basically, any time I mention a famous person's name, it's never to, you know, drag them down, try to, you know, defecate on them. I'm not trying to name call them. The Takono Music and Spirits Festival returns to Centennial Park Saturday, August 3rd from 2 to 10 p.m. And it's free! Live music from the Warren Treaty! We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is working to responsibly meet rising energy demand, so everyone can get to where they want to be. You've arrived. That's Energy in Progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. Name, you know, drag your name through the mud or none of that. Basically, if I mention a famous person's name, it's just basically a vehicle to illustrate a point that I'm trying to make. And everything that I frame up in regards to our people and our culture, if anybody from our culture is engaged in something negative, like if it's like breaking news, you know, if it's like the breaking topic, I frame it up from the perspective of, okay, this is why that happened. Which, like, almost like 99.9% of the problem, anytime, anything negative happens in our community, you can almost, you know, like clockwork, trace it back to systemic programming and conditioning. This is why that happened. This is why this person acted like this. This is why this person said that to her, his brother or sister, this is why they, you know, are going back and forth. They've been programmed and conditioned to do that. Because, like I said, the media that control all forms of media, that control the news, that control, you know, music, movies, television. This is, you know, they insert their views about our people and our culture, like on the real, like, super slick way. And, you know, everybody else just basically believes that because they don't know a lot of us that haven't met a lot of this. And, you know, all they have to go on us is what they see on the news in movies, what they hear in music, you know, and of course it's the worst possible version of us. So, you know, anytime we're acting out, anytime we're committing crimes against each other, it's because we've been programmed and conditioned to do so. And that's the way I try to, you know, frame up my commentary every time I'm talking about her any time I'm talking about somebody famous. It's never to, you know, denigrate them or talk bad about them. I really try to discourage against that, but, you know, so yes, we have, you know, our in-house issues, yes, we need to take accountability and all that, yada, yada, yada, yada. And be the bigger person and not be controlled, yada, yada, yada, we get it, but, you know, we can really blame a good 90% of every negative thing that happens in our community. We can trace it back to, you know, systemic programming and conditioning. So, yeah, next order of business, this is a time sensitive platform. I try not to exceed one hour per broadcast because number one, this is an audio platform. So, you know, I can't see you guys, you can't see me. I have to keep you attentive and entertained and wanting to participate in the content and wanting to keep listening to me. So, you know, the last thing I want to do is just board listening audience to sleep by, you know, not having clear speaking points and going down rabbit holes and rambling and ranting, you know, so I try to keep it clear and concise. My content is digestible, easy to follow, and so basically I ain't trying to hold you. So, you can listen to it and, you know, get, extract some knowledge out of it and, you know, think critically with it, but, you know, it's just like I don't want to just sound like, "Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom." So, that's why I try to keep it short, sweet to the point. So, I'm not rambling and ranting and, you know, I'm just keeping you guys attentive and entertained and informed. So, which brings me to my last point before diving into the content this evening here on the narrative podcast. I refer to our people as original people on this platform as opposed to black. Because black is, number one, we're not black. Black is a color. We're actually, if we want off color, we're brown. Dark brown. And for those of us that are super dark, complex, they're not black, they're mahogany. But anyway, you know, the reason why I refer to our people as original people is, you know, for a combination of reasons, first reason being just basically to point out the first reason is historical relevance of the word original. We were and are the original people of this planet. We existed thousands of years before any other civilization. So, we was here first. That's why I refer to our people as original people. And then, in contrary to all, you know, popular belief, you know, being the original people, we inhabit it pretty much every corner of the globe you can think of. And we didn't get there on slave boats to all these different places that we existed. You know, the false narrative about our people, you know, that the media tries to weave, that tries to pump up slavery. They try to make that the most influential period, time period in our lives when, you know, we existed long before slavery. We existed like thousands of years before the transatlantic slave trade. So, we were kings and queens, guys and goddesses. We ruled all that we surveyed, you know, slavery. It was a dark time in our history. Some of us were captured in the slave trade. Some of us were sold into slavery, but not all of us. Not all of us got to all these different places in the world. On slave boats, it was already just originally, indigenously located there. Especially if you're talking about those of us living in America, in any of the Americas, in the Spanish-speaking country, who was already, you know, who was already there. Large, a concentration of us was already there. Large concentrations of us were already living here in America long before the slave trade. So, like, you know, when they talk about, you know, the pilgrims wiped the Indians and took this land, we were the original natives of this land. You know, Indian is a false, you know, named a queen because of old Chris Columbus. He thought he went to India, and we called the people in the land, Indians, but if you, you know, go to the Library of Congress, read his diary. He said the people that live here are gullible, not just the people, the black people that live here. He didn't say the red people, he said the black people that live here, in his, you know, journal. He described the people here as black. He didn't say they were copper. And then also in my own Spanish, he got the journal too, describing the people that lived in America. So, like, point being, if we didn't all come from slaves as a false narrative, and if you just critically think, you know, they just really be capping about slavery. Because first of all, they say slave boats, there were no boats in early civilization. There were ships, people got around through ships, and the typical ship could only hold 30 to 40 people, but yet we show illustrations of hundreds of slaves packed down, packed in a ship in the lower gallery, galley. And that's like impossible, back then, way back then. The typical ship would only hold 40 to 50 passengers. So, during the transatlantic slave trade, they wouldn't even have a complete 50 to go get slaves. You know, they'd probably start off with 50, and then by the time they got to Africa, only like 20 or 30, out of their original 50, because some of them would stop, you know, not come back aboard the ship and stay in one of them little ports that they go to to replenish their supplies for the trip and not come back. Some of them would die at sea. So, by the time they get back to Africa, they only had like about 20, 30 max, and then slaves that could only take probably like about 40 or 50, not hundreds. So, what was going on? There was enslaving the people that already lived in those lands. That's what was going on. So, yes, our people here in the Americas, we was already here, they put us on plantations, they called us black, because the original, the so-called Native Americans, the ones that get the paycheck, they're not the real natives. But anyway, I digress, I got a little long windy. I just want to point out the reason why I refer to our people as original people from the historical standpoint. The next reason I refer to our people as original people is to denote unity, because as I said, there are many different types of us. Hailing from many different land masses, speaking many different languages, believing in all these different things we believe in. But the one common thing we have in common is that we can all trace our lineage back to the original point of origin, which is Africa, but we can have a debate where Africa actually was later. But we can all trace our lineage back to Africa, and we have high concentrations of carbon, AKA, melanin in our scheme, and that's our common bond that binds us together throughout all those differences that we have in our community as a people, those are the common bind ties that bind us together, is we all possess the same genetic makeup. We all have the same constitution, we can all trace our lineage back to the original point of origin for all civilization, so we are original in that sense. We all have an unspoken bond as a people, no matter where we're at in the world. We all, you know, vibrate and move on to the same frequency, but, you know, that's the second reason why I refer to our people as original people as an attempt to unify us as, you know, a people. Because, you know, everybody identifies themselves, you know, by their nationality, you know, I'm Jamaican, I'm Haitian, I'm this, I'm that, you know, I'm Nigerian, I'm, you know, I'm from Canada, I'm from the UK, I'm from Germany, you know, whatever, whatever, but, you know, the one thing we all have in common is that we're all original people, so that's why I refer to our people as original people, so now that you are up to speed with everything you need to know about the narrative podcast, I'm going to dive on into the content. If you're still a little hazy about my content, I'm over 300 episodes in, you can go, you know, check me out wherever you get your podcast from, I'm on every distributor podcast, you can think of. All you gotta do is just, you know, look me up Halsey Island narrative podcast and you'll see my entire episode catalogs. So without any further ado, I'm going to dive into the content, but, uh, this is a weekday edition of the narrative podcast. And on the weekday editions, what I tend to do is, you know, I stay true to my mission statement, which is to share positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. And the best way to do that is by sharing positive news, because, as I said, you know, the media's job is to program is in condition us with negative news. They want us to have us believing nothing positive ever happens in our community. We're never engaged in anything positive. You know, we're living in war torn communities. We're always committing crimes against each other. So, you know, when I stumble across a positive news article, what I tend to do is I just save it, you know, screenshot it and take bulleted notes and just put it out in the atmosphere. For listeners that, hey, you know, we do positive things. You know, we do excel academically. We are entrepreneurs. We are leaders within our community. We are good mothers. We are good fathers. You know, we care about our fellow brothers and our fellow sisters. You know, we're respectful to one another. We want to build strong, healthy communities. You know, just basically the opposite of how we're depicted in portrayed in the media, which is lazy, violent and degenerate. So without any further ado, I'm going to dive on into these articles with the first article this evening on the weekday edition of the narrative podcast. The first article, the headline reads, former black school teacher launches her own academy and YouTube channel. And the sister's name is Dr. Taylor D. She's currently at 1.5 million views on YouTube. She has her own learning academy and her obviously like in the headline, her own YouTube channel. So Dr. Taylor D has a doctoral degree in curriculum and instructions, a master's degree in youth development, leadership from Clemens University and a bachelor's degree in early elementary education. So basically, she has all this education. She obviously wants to impact the youth in the Carolinas sidebar, which is where the original people were originally inhabiting this land like we was already located in the Carolinas along the Delta. And if you know about Gullah Gucci culture, then you know, you know about the Mississippians, Indians, you know. But anyway, the article goes on to say she started her YouTube journey by converting an old seatless bus into a mobile platform. A mobile, you know, yeah, a mobile platform for promoting music movement. The Dacono Music and Spirits Festival returns to Centennial Park Saturday, August 3rd from 2 to 10 p.m. And it's free live music from the Warren Treaty. This Daniels and the Kings is Callie and Moore. Enjoy a spirits competition, Kid Zone and fireworks presented by Oxy and the City of Dacono, admission and parking are free. The Dacono Music and Spirits Festival brought to you by Breckenridge Brewery and City of Dacono. Go to thecityofdacono.com for more information. We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is working to responsibly meet rising energy demand. So everyone can get to where they want to be. You've arrived. That's Energy in Progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. What do you say? My bad. I lost my place. A seatless bus into a mobile platform for promoting music movement across the Carolinas. She created two programs, one called... One called Tumble Bus and another program called Beyond Fit Keys. She was also able to launch... Right now, work... launch right now works education and also her own media channel called Tailor Kids TV Media. She also writes children's books. She writes songs, choreographs, dances and creates video content on YouTube. So if one of them will know about everything she currently has going on right now as far as what she's doing for the youth, you follow her on her own site at drtailord.com or go over check her out, her YouTube channel out. Tailor D Kids TV on YouTube is just typing in the YouTube browser. Tailor D Kids TV, her follower on IG at Tailor D. And that's it and that's all. Let's put our hands together for our very highly intelligent, highly accomplished sister, Dr. Tailor D. [applause] Next article on this week's edition of the narrative podcast, headline reads, 18 year old, high school graduate launches podcast and book about becoming a CEO. And the young brother's name is... Hard and trying to floss my place in the notes again. So the young brother's name is... Michael Connolly, Jr. Mikey for short. So during, he got the idea for his brand during high school, he wanted to become a CEO. And he had an educator, one of his teachers say, you know, it's unrealistic for you to be a CEO. And so that's him encountering an educator who looked up to tell him he can't do something, inspired him to want to become a CEO. And he named his business, the Realistic CEO Podcast. And on his podcast, he interviews like the most affluent people in the world of business coming out of our community. He interviews real estate investors, stock brokers, you know, all the movers, all the movers and shakers in the finance world. He interviews on his podcast. He also has his own website called Realistic CEO, and that's our Realistic CEO.com. He also has co-written a book with his father based upon, you know, his, you know, childhood growing up from middle school all the way up into high school. It's called, I am the CEO, and currently he's planning to study communications and journalism when he goes to college. The article didn't say what college he, you know, decided to go to, but he's going to college. And when it goes, it's going to take up communications and journalism. And if you want to know anything more about what the young brother is doing, you can hit him up at Mikey, M-Y-K-E at Realistic CEO.com or call him directly at 413-356-0820. All right. Very accomplished young brother already. Only 18 has a clear trajectory in life. He didn't let a naysayer break his spirit and tell him not to follow his dream, you know. That's a good example of, you know, never give up, stay determined and you can do anything when you put your mind to it. Because a lot of people is going to put you down so you can't do it and try their best to, you know, deter you away from your calling. So that's why I shared that particular story because I think we're all, you know, diamonds in the roof with all, you know, CEOs in the making. So, you know, this, uh, joined me into giving this young brother a warm their, uh, warm narrative round of applause for his accomplishments. And then just, I just want to point out right quick, um, the articles are much longer. I'm just taking the highlights from the stories because they're like almost like a page and a half long. So, I'm just like, giving you the bulleted highlighted notes, the like, um, the turning point of their careers, the turning point of their educations. I'm not going to tell you every team detailed in the article. This is like, he was 10. He did this. He was high school dad. You know, like I said, this is a time sensitive platform of five, you know, went into it into super detailed the way I came across the articles like we'll be here for like three hours. But anyway, last article of the evening, the headline reads black mom and son make history as the new owners of a previously owned Korean beauty supply store. And the mother's name is, Nika. Slade. It has two ends capital in lowercase in E. K. A slave in her son, Cameron, Cameron with the, uh, K, not a C. And the name of their establishment is called beauty plus. And it's located in Maple Heights, Ohio. And you can find out more about it at beauty plus shop at star beauty plus shop on Instagram. So basically how they acquired the shop. Nika. I want me to remember that. I wonder what ever happened to little bitches. Well, he ain't little bitches. He's a super grown man. Now probably got grandchildren. Anyway, got off track. Anyway, so Nika. Used to be a licensed cosmetologist for over 30 years. And then eventually she started selling products online. And then she acquired her first brick and mortar location in 2018. Or excuse me, in 2021. And the name of their original shot was called play beauty supply. And that was located in Richmond Heights, Ohio. So after the first after they found out they can do it, the article goes on to say it was just like, uh, you know, like fate. It was a calling for fate. There was this in that neighborhood one day. And they got the talking to the former proprietor of the beauty shop. And basically, you know, they hit it off. He was looking to retire anyway, get out of that neighborhood. He had been in that location for over, you know, a little over a decade. And then he just decided to go on and sell that location to Nika and her son. And you know, the rest, as I say, is history. And that's kind of crazy because, you know, our people and unfortunately, most Korean shop owners that's in the beauty supply game do not treat our sisters with dignity. The dignity and respect they deserve, you know, for patronizing their business. So, you know, it might have just been fate given them a hand to get out of there before, you know, an ugly turn of events because I don't know what happened. Because the Asian community, like we was like thickest thieves in the 70s. I don't know where, you know, the separation came from, but like it was some time like in the mid 80s to like. Early 90s, the division, when we started separating, you know, they started, you know, coming into our neighborhoods, opening up their shots and, you know, treating us very poorly, talking to us very poorly. But, you know, not to say not to be pessimistic and say we can never mend the fences because there's a whole lot of, you know, super cool people in the Asian community. There are like super active and on the same page as us, but the unity isn't as quite as tight within our communities as it once was in like the 70s and early 80s. Like, I don't know what happened, but we need to give back to that. But anyway, got a little long winded, let's, you know, put them together for Nika and her son. You know, having a successful business and providing a service for our sisters who just, you know, they naturally queens by nature. So, you know, our sisters, they queens by nature, and we, us men, we're kings by nature, and our queens, they, you know, they want the world to treat me. I want to be looking nice and smelling nice and, you know, and feeling like, you know, a natural woman, like they're the Franklin song, you know, that's why they visit and frequent. Those beauty supply chains, all the time, that's just that their inner goddess in them. They want to be looking their best at all times. That's why they stay on to them little spots. So, it don't be to attract men, it's for them, you know. But anyway, join me in the given Miss Nika and her son Cameron, a warm narrative podcast, Round of Applause, for Star Beauty Plus. (Applause) All right, now, next, I usually have a speaking point, and like I said, my speaking point is just basically about commentary, and when I'm delivering commentary, it's never from the space of, you know, nothing negative, and I usually comment say on, you know, things happening globally, things happening, you know, nationally, for things happening, you know, within our community. And the purpose of me doing that is basically to control the narrative, because the media have us looking and sounding, all kinds of crazy. They have us looking and all weird, having us, you know, look degenerate in nature. So, when I usually deliver commentary, that's just me, you know, in an attempt to try to control and take back the narrative and unpack it through our eyes. That's why I deliver commentary too, after I'm done with the articles during my weekdays episodes of the narrative podcast. But I don't really, I don't really have nothing to talk about tonight. Nothing super pressing that I think deserves, like conversation at night. So, like, I'm going to kind of break my own rule a little bit. Well, I don't, I'm not, I'm not, well, yeah, I'm all, I like, because I'm so stressed out about it. I'm not stressed, but I'm just, I'm kind of at a loss of words when I want to talk about this person, actually, in our community. See, my thing, my big emotional trigger, my biggest pet peeve is when people insult my intelligence. After insult my intelligence, I have, you know, no respect for you after that. You cannot redeem yourself again in my eyes after you intentionally insult me. So, in this person within our community has habitually insulted us, has habitually insulted our intelligence on every turn, and continues to do so, and is not no type of remorseful about it. And I'm all the way done with their answers, so I'm like, I'm, I'm like, I'm beyond, like, angry. So, I'm going to try to, like, get through it and just do my commentary without calling her out of her name, and, but, like, she's really getting on my nerves with her antics, but, you know, I'm going to talk about the, you know, the first lady, the first female vice president ever in history. First female multi-ethnic because she's not black, she's a multi-ethnic, so that's, you know, strike one, she tried to pander and just say she's assisted. And so the thing that's irritating me is her pandering, like I'm really, really sick and tired of this lady pandering and doesn't have our interests, our best interests at heart, at all. And a lot of those on her side and say, give her time, you know, she's a vice president, she can't do nothing, but the one thing she can do is to, you know, play her position. She ain't got to do all the extra, just, you know, just keep it, keep it generic. You don't have to, like, really sell that. It's really irritating every time. The Dacono Music and Spirits Festival returns to Centennial Park Saturday, August 3rd from 2 to 10 p.m., and it's free. Live music from the Warren Treaty. We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is working to responsibly meet rising energy demand, so everyone can get to where they want to be. You've arrived. That's Energy in Progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. I'm seeing Kamala Harris on television. She's engaging in the negative stereotypes for black women on television. She's engaging in the negative racial tropes of our people on national television. And she was quiet as a church mouse during the election, but now, as the, this year's general election is nearing, she's just, like, turning up more and more and more, just embarrassing the hell out of herself, or excuse me, embarrassing the hell out of herself, and then embarrassing our community as well. Just like sit shell ass down, lady. I'm sick of here, you know, referencing like, "Oh, I'm about to go make me some greens," and dancing and just all this, just basically man, she acting like a man me, bro. I'm sick of her man me answers. And if you don't know what a man me is, a man me is, was, you know, a sister that was just, you know, obsessed with caring for white people, with the white children, and just, you know, from a place of self-loathing of how much she would care for the white children. Like, there was so much better. Like, that's what a man me means, if you don't know what a man me is, she's a man me. She's like, "Man me number one right now." We got a whole lot more manmies, but like I said, I don't do any name calling, and dragging people through the mud, this platform is the uplift and edifier of people, but this is also a place of truth, and I got to tell the truth. I'm 110 percent disgusted and absolutely sick and tired of her antics. Stop misrepresenting our people like that. You don't got to turn up like that. Like, nobody buys it that you're just 110 percent black. You're a multi-ethnic, you got some black in you, you didn't grow up with the black experience, not get the fuck off. Part of my language, but like I said, you know, this situation with her is irritating me. Just the hub inherent disrespect she has for our community. You know, she's gonna sit up there with a... It's a rising pincin to talk about how I'm out here in the streets. What streets you out here in? You ain't out here in these streets. What streets are you out of here, lady? You ain't out here in those streets. You don't have our best interests at heart. You said it from the very beginning when she was in her very first press conference. She said, "We're not going to just talk about only black people's issues, but then you need the black vote." So here it is, election time. We don't have anything in legislation from either candidate. We got the liar, and then we got the guy that just don't care. He checked out as soon as he got in. He like mentally checked out. As soon as he got in office, he's not even trying to hide it. He don't care at all. He ain't even trying to keep up appearances. You don't care at all. Kamala Harris, she's extra, bro. She's extra for no reason. You don't need to do all that. That's my frustration. You don't need to do all that. You got the job. The job's yours. Nobody else wants the job. You don't have to do all this pandering you're doing. Just say what you got to say. Don't try to put no fire your advisors. Whoever is advising you to try to use the nuances of the black woman in the effort to gain the black vote. You don't have to do that. You're like embarrassing yourself, and you're embarrassing our community in the process because you don't be cooking no soul food. You don't be cooking no greens. You don't be out in the streets. Knock it off. You don't know anything about our culture. You don't know you're not connected. You're not. Knock it off. You know what you know, but you don't know us. It's just irritating. If you want to embarrass yourself, embarrass yourself, but don't embarrass us, stop misrepresenting this. As a community, we need to start banding together and start dragging these clowns off stage that intentionally misrepresent or misrepresent our people. And whip they ass. Not physically, mind you, I don't promote violence, but like we need to just like give them like a real psychological smack up, a verbal tongue lashing. They need to know. Every time they jump up to misrepresent our people, we need to like unplug the microphone, rip them down off the podium, pull the blankets up often, kick them on the streets butt naked, and kick the bums out the joint. Like just give them the bums rest up out of here. You're not going to keep on getting on these platforms embarrassing us. If you want to embarrass yourself, embarrass yourself, but don't embarrass all of us. Don't try to put us in your bullshit. Like that's all I want to really commentate on this evening. I'm trying not to call the lady out of her name, but you know, it's too much, it's too much. Please knock it off. Please take it down. Twenty notch is respectfully, humbly respectfully. Miss Kamala Harris, take it down the notch, chill out. You're not about that life. You don't be in them streets. You don't know cornbread from pork crackling. Like knock it off. Please, respectfully. So that's it for this edition of the week day edition of the narrative podcast. 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And, you know, that's with the bookstores all about people's transformed work and book form. They put it either in a hardback or a softback, depending on what you want. So that's what I did. I'm Poetizer.com. I transformed my work, which is a 30-page book of poetry. Into a book, and I titled it The Black Card and what it's about is this all-encompassing look about who we are as a people. You know, everything we go through as a people, you know, our ideals, our beliefs, our values, you know, just our day-to-day struggles, positive and negative as original people, or black people. You know, basically, that's what the book is about a day in the life of black people. It's really smart. It's really witty, very creative, rich, organic. You'll enjoy it. People outside of our culture, you can also enjoy it. If you consider yourself open-minded or progressive, you would definitely want to just buy it as a reference tool for our people, so you can connect and interact with us better. 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