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- Duration:
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- 12 Jul 2024
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(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - You are now listening to The Narrative Podcast with Halsey Allen. The Narrative Podcast is changing the narrative one episode at a time. (dramatic music) - Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to another edition of The Narrative Podcast. The Narrative Podcast is the home of original people. Home of original people peace, reciprocity, and positivity. And I am your host Halsey Allen. Welcome to the Narrative Podcast. The Narrative Podcast promotes positive reinforcement of original people and original people culture. And also promotes positive self-images of original people and original culture. Welcome to The Narrative Podcast. Welcome all my narrators. So yeah, here we are on a Thursday evening for a weekday edition of The Narrative Podcast. Now how I normally do that kick things off is I give you a brief, the new listeners, whoever is tuning in right now, a brief overview of my platform and all the nuances that need to know about The Narrative Podcast, but I'm recording kind of late. So I'm going to, you know, I'm fast forward. I'll just not do that this evening. I just did an upload Monday. And that was kind of at midnight. Like I uploaded it, I shared it on Tuesday. But I recorded it Monday evening around about this time and I just couldn't like upload it until like after midnight. It's time stamp for Tuesday, but it was actually a Monday episode. So... Here we are on Thursday, so that's why I'm going to forego the brief synopsis of The Narrative Podcast and just dive on into the content. I will at least do this. I'll give you my mission statement before diving into the content. So what my podcast is really all about, I'm dedicated towards uplifting in edifying original people and original people culture. The reason why I do that is because the media depicts us, our people, original people in the worst light possible and what I want to do is design a platform where I'm basically uplifting and edifying my people and changing the narrative about how we're perceived in the media by the media. So basically that's what my podcast is about in this entirety is just, you know, all about uplifting edification of our people and our culture. And how do I do that? I think I can share the tagline tonight with you. The Narrative Podcast, changing the narrative one episode at a time by destroying negative, by destroying negative, excuse me, I've got to run that back. The Narrative Podcast, changing the narrative one episode at a time by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and original people, original people and original 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? So like I said, I know you can hear it in my voice, I'm like lagging already, I had a really long day. So, you know, it's getting close to midnight, so I'm going to not try to rush the episode, but definitely try to get right to it. I'm over 300 episodes in. I just did a, you know, I did an upload on Monday, so if you're kind of gray about what it is I exactly do on my podcast, you got, you know, over 300 episodes, you know, catch you up. I plan to try to do another upload probably tomorrow, and I should have enough time to do an overview of recent lapses of the podcast before diving into the content. But I do not this evening, so I'm just diving on into the content with my very first section of the podcast. So like I said, it's all about providing positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. So that's precisely what I'm about to do on the product, provide some positive frames of reference about our people. By our people, I mean black people. This is the part why I usually do the synopsis about why I refer to our people as original people. But like I said, I'm pressed for time and I'm not going to get into all that this evening. But I refer to, I try to give you a streamlined version of why I refer to our people as original people, basically because it's historically accurate to refer to us as original people because we were and are the original beings of this planet. We were here about a little over 5,000 years before everybody, so that's why I refer to our people. One of the reasons why I refer to our people is original people. But anyway, that's what the platform is dedicated to. It's where it's uplifting and edifying original people. And how do I do that? I'm doing it by providing positive frames of reference about original people. The frames of reference that I'll be providing to showcase and highlight us at our best come in the form of news articles. And I do that because, you know, the media has saw our program, the condition to believe that nothing positive happens within our community. Because we're constantly showing this, you know, negative things happening in our community, us committing crimes against one another. You know, us being, behaving violent towards one another, carrying and conducting ourselves in, you know, a degenerate type of way and not really contributing anything to society. That's how the media brands us and market us, and market us, markets us to the rest of the world. It's a part of me, so like I said, I'm kind of tired. But that's essentially why I provide the positive news articles. It's just put out the positive frame of reference, positive things, do happen in our community. We do have a resolve, we do navigate through life, you know, with a sense of urgency. We care about one another just basically to, you know, be the reverse of how we depict it in the media, the way the media intentionally depicts our images and our likenesses in a negative way to push their agenda. But on any way, diving right on into content with some positive news articles. After the positive news articles, I also deliver commentary about current events going on in the world. And I do it from our perspective, like how, you know, how the news affects us as a people, whether it's, you know, globally, whether it's nationally or just something, you know, that impacts our community needs directly. And the purpose of me doing that, of delivering commentary is basically to control the narrative. It's like I said, the media that have this upon, you know, looking and sounding crazy. And history hasn't taught us anything. It's taught us this, that if you don't tell your own story, your own story will be told for you. So that's why I deliver, you know, commentary on, you know, whatever's going on in the world or in our community or just, you know, how news affects us as a people. But like I said, I'm diving straight on into the content this evening. You know, I try to upload earlier tomorrow. If I do a week, week day edition tomorrow. So I have more time to give you a brief overview of the narrative podcast to, you know, better prepare you for the content that I'm going to present to you. But I'm pressed for time this evening trying to make it before, you know, midnight. Trying to get it uploaded before midnight, should I say. The first article on the week day edition of the narrative podcast, The Headline Reads. Teacher retires from school after 30 years and opens a local bar and lounge in her city. And sister's name is Lolicia. I believe I'm pronouncing her name correctly. Lol, I-C-I-A day. She is currently 53 years young and a resident of Duncanville, Texas. And the name of her establishment is called The Day Drink Lounge. So she was inspired by her parents. Entrepreneurial endeavors. The article didn't say, you know, what type of businesses or parents ran, but, you know, that's what inspired her to become an entrepreneur after teaching. She had a bit of experience as an entrepreneur. Before, she opened the drink lounge. Apparently she spent some time abroad and she had her own plus size boutique in Paris, France. So while she was over in Paris, France, she ran her own plus size boutique for a few years. And then at some point she became-she got along into education and became a teacher. And-or an educator didn't say, like, if she was a teacher or a principal or just a faculty member in her way, but, you know, I thought that was a good progressive story to share about, you know, somebody possessing different levels of intelligence and being versatile and dynamic. Whereas we're always depicted in the media as being lazy, especially black Americans. Yeah, they love calling this lazy. And projecting images that will reflect, you know, laziness about us. So if you want to see what the her-the stab-the-the types of drinks and other services or establishment provides, you can put her up online at bfw.com or drink bfw.com or follow her on Instagram @daydrinkbfw. The physical address is 215 West Camp Wisdom Road, Suite 5, Duncanville, Texas, 5-7-5-1-1-6. And once again, the sister's name was "Lolicia Day." And the name of her establishment is called the "Day Drink Lounge." So let's join me in to, you know, put them together. Let's give her a warm, narrative podcast round of applause for her establishment and all her entrepreneurial endeavors throughout her lifetime. [applause] All right. Next article on the weekday edition of the narrative podcast, the headline reads, "Two Black Women, Superintendents. Now leading Oklahoma's largest school district." And the sister's names are Jamie Polk and Ebony Johnson. Sister Polk is assistant superintendent of the Oklahoma School City, Oklahoma City Public School Assistant, while Sister Johnson is the superintendent of the Tulsa Public School System. And that's really kind of all the article said. It was just super brief. You can do your googles to find out more about their both, their respective backgrounds in the, you know, education profession, the teaching profession. But let's give them a warm, narrative podcast round of applause for their achievements. And then just one little sidebar that I want to throw out there, you know, that's always great to hear about us, you know, in the educational field, you know, because when we're dealing with our children, the best people to teach our children is us because they're not, you know, people are going to be as receptive to our children as we are, especially in the public school system. You know, not to say there hasn't been some really impactful dynamic teachers from other cultures that have, you know, been an instrumental tool into crafting and molding the minds of some of our best, you know, thinkers and, you know, successful people in our community that can contribute, or tribute, excuse me, you know, their success to, you know, probably a teacher outside of our community. But, you know, overall, we need to teach our own children. We need to have our own institutions at all grade levels. We need our own, you know, vocational training facilities, our own community colleges, our own traditional four-year colleges, grade school, middle schools, high schools, you know, we need our own, just, you know, just putting that out there. But that's great. Then we have, you know, teachers and, you know, faculty members and principals and whatnot in public schools. But, you know, the ultimate solution to that problem with getting equal education, with getting that playing field level is to, you know, have our own. And we should never feel bad about wanting to have our own. Everybody else has their own. And it's no big deal. They like to try to use this Jedi mind trick on this, like, oh, well, you know, that's what, you know, Dr. King was fighting for us to integrate in society. He wasn't fighting for integration. You know, he was never, ever not no time during his, you know, stint as a community activist. Was he ever campaigning or petitioning for integration? He was campaigning and petitioning for equality. We can be equal and not live amongst you. We just want to be left to model. We want to go out in public. We want to, we don't want to have a special drinking fountain. And we have to drink out of, we want to go 300 miles to a toilet. When, you know what I mean? Like, poop is poop. That's what he was fighting over. Like, we're not doing that. We're not going 800 miles to outhouse to use the toilet. You know, that's all he was fighting for. He never once said, you know, give up our own schools, give up our own banks, give up our own homes, our own movie theaters, our own cafes, night clubs, dining establishments. He never said, give none of that up. He just said, we want equality. He never said, you know, integrate, never. And that's just something they always try to twist and warp. You know, and try to skew the narrative to make us feel bad about wanting to separate from people that don't want us around. You know, yes, we should all be sitting at the proverbial table of brotherhood, just as people. But, you know, we're just not there yet. And it's not a dream, it's not obtainable. But, you know, that was never his ear quotes dream. His dream was just, you know, for us to be treated like human beings. That's what his dream was. But I got a little long wind beat. I just want to point that out the best way for us to have, you know, quality education to where, you know, we'll be productive members of society as if, you know, have our own institutions, but, you know, I digress. Let's put our hands together and give these two sisters a warm narrative podcast round of applause for all their years as educators in the public school system. [ Applause ] >> So, let's super breathe into the point, y'all. Last article of this evening, the headline reads, "Black Woman Becomes a Black Nurse" at the same hospital where she was once a janitor. And the sister's name is Janice Pardoni. Chibis Andres Andres, J-A-I-M-E-S-A-N-B-R-A-D-E-S. I believe I'm pronouncing it correctly, but if I'm not, you know, my apologies, but, yup, she started out as a custodian at a bayside medical center. So, and she apparently read them between the lines. That's really kind of all the article says. She must have been attending, you know, night school or something and got her registered nurse's degree at some point and became, you know, a clinical nurse for that hospital. She got her nursing degree in 2020. And so, now she's a full-on nurse at that hospital. So, let's put them together and give her a warm narrative podcast round of applause for her accomplishments. And just to reiterate the purpose of me delivering these news articles is just basically putting out positive news in the atmosphere about our people and our culture, because the media is just like, you know, a drama factory. They just recycle and, you know, redistribute our pain and our trauma. They keep on constantly beaming these little images of us in turmoil, in disarray, being disenfranchised, disenfranchised, just down bad all the time. So, you know, we have to keep on utilizing our platforms to promote positive reinforcement in our community and, you know, uplifting and edifying each other because the media is just going to, you know, vilify us and try to make us, you know, look worse than what we really are and try to just make us, you know, pain us out to be just really unpleasant. And, you know, really just, you know, I can't even think of the word for what I'm trying to say, but just, they want to just make it super ratchet all the time. So, that's the purpose of me sharing positive news articles is just kind of, to, you know, reverse that way to try to demonize us and stigmatize it. It stigmatizes with these, you know, these false images of us. So, last thing, I got some commentary, a few articles that I want to just, you know, deliver my commentary on very briefly, some things going on in the media that I think we should be paying attention to. And, you know, I'm just going to unpack it, how it affects us and the significance of it as it relates to us. And I already told you why a little bit earlier. So, diving on into the gut. My first speaking point of the day, which is really just the follow-up, I covered this story on my Monday upload, weekday upload of the narrative podcast. This story is about the creators of the video game, Assassin's Creed. I think the company is called Ruby Soft. Basically, what they did with this, they added a new installment to the franchise. They pulled it directly from the pages of history and created a fictional character for their, you know, their interactive gameplay, Assassin's Creed, where basically you choose a character who is an assassin, like it's in the name, it's in the title. And, you know, this interactive gameplay, you can become whatever said character that you pick. And the characters are, you know, ranging from, you know, different corners of the globe, different nationalities. Nobody ever said anything. You got, you know, you got an Irish character who was an assassin in that video game. And the Irish character adorns, you know, a classic ninja or shinobi garb. And nobody said culture or appropriation. Nobody said, you know, they're culturally appropriating Japanese culture by putting this Irish guy in shinobi garb. They also have a character who descends from the Middle East. And mind you, this is all fiction. A character that descends from, you know, from the Middle East is a Middle Eastern bit scene in the video game. That character is adorned in traditional Japanese ninja or shinobi garb. Nobody said nothing. So fast forward to the point I'm making, Ubisoft added a fictional character who just happens to be black. But this fictional character was based on a real life person who was alive and was a samurai. So the black character is a samurai garb and, you know, apparently, like everybody in the, you know, cosplay community, the Japanese community, they were outraged and they wrote, you know, a complaint letter talking about, you know, they need to remove this character from the game. And then also, mind you, the game's not even out-chit. A playable version of the game's not even posted in shock to, like, November. So the game's not even out-chit. And they talk about removing, you know, this black character with a samurai, I guess they're called skins, a samurai skin in the video game. But the thing was he was based on the actual real life brother by the name of Yusuke. He existed in that era. He was over there in Japan. And he was, you know, the personal bodyguard of the feudal lord of Japan. And, like, I think it wasn't, like, either the, you know, at the turn of the century. Somewhere through, like, the 17th or the 19th century. But it's documented in history. If he really did exist, he was over there in Japan. He was, like, the personal bodyguard of, you know, the feudal lord of Japan at that time. And so, you know, the creators of this game basically created this fictional character as homage to Yusuke. And so this offended people in Japanese culture. And, you know, they wanted the character removed from the game. They said it was cultural appropriation. So, just recently, Ubisoft has taken to X, formerly known as Twitter, with an apology letter apologizing, you know, for them not basically getting around, you know, getting history wrong. But they didn't actually get it wrong because it actually did exist. So I guess they're apologizing for them being offended by their accurate portrayal of history. I'm kind of confused. I don't understand, you know, why the Japanese culture is offended by this fictional character. And not to be picking on Japanese culture, but I must say this, like, what if we, our people, original people, black people, what if we got offended and start taking all our shit back? How impactful that we are to everything. What if we got mad and just start, you know, gatekeeping and start taking our stuff back and you're like, you can't participate? Like Asian culture, they love hip-hop. There's an ongoing debate right now about, you know, who were the originators of the art form. But I'm going to get into that a little bit later. Just I'm framing that up to like, what if we get, get, get, get, get that. So like all these, you know, Japanese MCs, like you go on TikTok right now and see over a thousand Asians on there from all, you know, over the continent of Asia, Chinese, Japanese, Laosian, Cambodian, Korean. What if we said y'all can't rap no more? What if we, um, told all Asians y'all can't DJ anymore? That's black, that's black, you know, that's cultural, cultural appropriation for you guys to DJ. Don't break dance no more. Huh? Don't sell no more Korean fried chicken. That's culture appropriation. Yeah. Out in Brown corrected somebody on the show about that, you know. A chef, an Asian chef was like, you know, it's just one of the most popular delicacies. It just, it beats so food, and he corrected her on the spot. You know, he is like, you know, why so popular? Because, you know, black GIs over there, talk them how to fried a chicken. So that's Korean chicken. You know, without us, there wouldn't be no Korean fried chicken. Um, no karate. For Japanese, huh? And then not for nothing, they keep on giving martial arts to, you know, Asian culture when, you know, this historic documents, it's like literally, uh, the hieroglyphics in Egypt, which is now the area now known as Egypt. A was originally called Chemit, that depicts an ancient fighting form. Self-defense, like thousands of years before the air quotes, martial arts was created. And the martial arts is a kind of, and after a term, that's something the colonizers came up with. That has nothing to do with their defense fighting style. But, um, you know, there was a cat named Boli Homaru from the northern part of Africa. And he went over there, he developed his fighting style, called the "Monto Arts", which, you know, incorporated, uh, you know, like a stick, or they probably were both staff, and, um, he had made some offensive strikes, and, like, summer salts. That's what that consisted of, their fighting style, and basically, like, you know, the elite guard of the pharaohs, you know, he trained them in that art, and then he went out to the continent of Asia, and you got to keep in mind the geography of the earth was different back then, so it was, like, really doable to, like, go there in, like, no time. But, uh, you know, it was said he went from northern Africa, went across, uh, you know, the west, you know, the Middle East, and, you know, basically arrived in Japan, and, you know, taught that art form there. Not only that, you know, they were saying, also, in lore and legend. Also, it said, you know, he basically was the forefather of Buddhism, taught meditation, and, um, elevation, and all that centered type stuff. And then, also, not for nothing, all the, um, Japanese, Chinese philosophers studied in the first college in the world, which was in Egypt, or ancient Kenya, all of them went over there. All the, um, what do you call them, um, advisors to the emperors, all of them guys studied in Kenya. But what if we took all our stuff back? What if we just set up there and watched everything y'all do and say, "Y'all can't do that, that's black?" "I can't break dance no more, stop racking." Stop trying to make these type of street clubs that we wear. You know, and if you're like a martial arts buff, you know, a whole lot of these new martial art movies, guess what, the theme songs in these movies, they're hip-hop, and not just not any hip-hop. There's golden era hip-hop in these video games. They're not paying the golden era artists for them. Golden era artists, they're getting their royalties, for having their music in these, you know, video games and, um, Kung Fu movies. What if we said, you know, give our stuff back to y'all? To them. Like, and then as long as we're talking about apology, if we're making video game creators apologize, how about the, uh, where's our apology for the way we get portrayed in video games? How ignorant they got us, uh, talking in a grand theft auto. You know, it's always every video game genre, I don't care what it is, it's the black character. And the, uh, gameplay, just doing something really stereotypical all the time. Where's our apology? So they need to cut that out with that bull crack. You know, it was a time where you can't, and then I'm also going online or going on and to say this, you can never, ever accuse the original man of, uh, you know, culturally appropriating anything. You can't accuse us of a culturally appropriating anything because we are the culture. We are the mothers and fathers of civilization. And that's in science. Everybody has, you know, African being there. Everybody has the Negroes gene. Everybody. That's genetics. Everybody got the Negroes gene. You can't isolate. They've been trying to do it for years. It had never happened. Everything came from us. And as far as our connection to Asian, as original people, we was, we was, we existed everywhere. Seven continents, there was a large concentration of us everywhere. On every continent you can think of when we didn't get to autumn places, you know, our slave boats. So there was already large concentrations of us, and like every part of Asia you can think of. There was already large concentration of us in the Middle East. There was already large concentrations of us in Europe. UK, the Mediterranean, Australia, Germany, Switzerland. You know, all Spanish-speaking nations. So I just don't get why, you know, this company is apologizing to them. And they borrow more from our culture than we borrow from them. You know, you know what I mean? Like, I don't give it. But anyway, Ubisoft has officially put out an apology for this character that offended them so badly. Next subject I want to touch on is, there's a brother by the name of the White Jackson. The White Jackson has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit with this hotel and this hometown of Michigan, a hotel in Michigan. Yeah, so the name of the hotel was called the Chanola Hotel. He filed his lawsuit on July 3. So that was just this month. So he went to go apply for the job in January, he sounds about right. He said between January and April of this year, on the website it says it's a luxury ear quotes hotel. But which has nothing to do while they would deny him for a law school. Basically, so I'm just giving you the streamlined version, because like I said, I'm trying to have this uploaded before midnight. Longer story short, the brother went to apply for the job. He turned them down. He applied for the job originally under his government name, which is the White Jackson, the white around your mouth. No, I'm just playing. But his name is the White Jackson. He went and applied for the job and they didn't give him an interview. They probably sent him one of those generic, you know, if you have your application on file, you know, should something come up or, you know, how they do when they see the little generic rejection letter. Like we move forward, you know. We appreciate you for applying for it. But at this time we have decided to move forward. We had a cool, so they hit him with one of them. He goes reapplies for the same position under a different name. And the last name he used kind of sounds like from the tiny hat community. So this time when he goes apply, now you're all that. Your qualification feels all that's like optional. You don't have to say you're African-American. You don't have to say you're a disabled veteran. None of that. You don't have to volunteer the information, you know, in the application process anymore. You can say don't wish to self-identify to all that. So this time, you know, he fills out the application. Don't wish to self-identify, but check the name he uses. He uses John Jabrowski. Jabrowski, J-E-B-R-O-W-S-K-I. So that kind of sounds like he's from the tiny hat community, don't he? And so when they saw that on file, they offered him an interview. So not only did they offer him, you know, an interview, they offered him multiple interviews for their hotel. Now, they're in conjunction with Sage Hospitality Group. Their brand, you know, Ambassador released the statement, "We take this allegation very seriously and we do not tolerate the discrimination of any kind. We are committed to fostering inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed and are dedicated." Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, come on, we know what this is. We know what this is. They know they had a demographic. They know what type of people that they want employed working for them. You know, a whole lot of other kind of hotels that do that is like the Luxor hotels in, you know, Las Vegas, Hilton, they do it, they discriminate. Big time. Yeah, Paris Hilton, her family, they discriminate who else share it in. But I can go on all day naming the, you know, so-called luxury brands that discriminate against our people, employing our people. You know, it's a tragedy, like, so to like to, um, it really kind of all depends on what state you're in. If you're on the at-will state and you try to file a discrimination lawsuit, it's kind of like really good luck with that. Because when you live in an at-will state, it can say everything is justified. It's typically when you want to file a complaint, when you want to sue somebody for discrimination. You've got a first file, you know, a file at an at-will state. You have to go to, like, I think they got, like, civil rights type committees or boards or something. You've got to go before a civil rights board or committee and file a complaint. And you got, like, 180 days to file the complaint from the time you felt, you know, you didn't receive equal treatment, whether it's, you know, somebody didn't deny you, like, if somebody denied you privileges, like, they denied you service, you went to a store, and they wouldn't bring you up or take your order, or, like, on the job tip, if you felt that discriminated against you for your, you know, background, for your ethnic background, for your race, color, creed, religion, etc., da-da-da-da-da, all that. You got to get it. You got to go file the complaints. And you have to be super thorough in your complaint, or to dismiss it automatically. You have to have exact times, exact dates, witnesses, you know, the dialogue, perbatim, like, you know, what made you feel it was like race related. This treatment, mistreatment of you, how was it race related, give examples, you know, they want pictures, they want emails, all of that, just for them to investigate it. To say it has merit to have, you know, to get the claim investigated. And then they have to investigate it before, you know, you're allowed to take them to district court. You have to, like, they have to go through the investigation proceedings, and then after they close their file, you know, you can petition your right to sue. So, like, it happened in January, and they're just now filing the lawsuit, so I'm guessing he had to go through that, you know, civil process for all that. And then when he files a suit, he's probably only going to get, I would say, I would say, if he gets awarded anything, after legal fees, he's probably only going to hit him for, like, about 50, 50, 70 bans, you know. Nothing's crazy, like, it ain't going to be, you know, like, 1.5, no 1.8. You're going to get, like, probably like, 40, 50 bans. But for the simple fact, though, you know, the embarrassment, the humiliation, all that, have the credentials, you know, a perfect fit for the job, but you just don't want a brother or sister working at your establishment. So, which goes back to the point of us having our own. We don't have to worry about that. We have our own. We have our own hotels. When we have our own restaurants, when we have our own grocery stores, when we have our own schools, when we have our own apartment complexes, you know, what are they calling communities? Gated communities, condos, you know, everybody else got their own. We don't got our own. So, this is what happens when you don't have your own and you have to go big, you know, who, for a job. Because it's clear cut night and day, like, he saved all his evidence. It's like, I don't even know if you don't get no justice out of that. There ain't no justice. Come on. But like I said, you know, with the law in the at-will state, when you're at-will, they usually side with the employer, because at at-will states, they can change your hourly rate of pay without notice. They can dismiss you without notice. They can change the scope of the job at any given time, even in the application process. They can post something on a job board and say, we need people with XYZ, you know, credentials, and then you might have XYZ credentials. But then you would get excluded from the interview after they find out your background, but they can cover their behinds by saying, oh, you know, we changed it. And they're allowed to change it if they're, you know, following at-will procedures. So it's a slippery slope. It's really hard to prove most attorneys pass on that type of case. You have to have something really concrete, really solid, or attorney to, you know, take up a discrimination case, take up a wrongful termination or retaliation case. Because it's really arduous litigation. Because they can literally just be playing ping pong. You know, if you don't have, you know, your case has to be airtight. And even if you're out of airtight case, some instances, you will have to have the minimum of 5K to retain an attorney for them to message. Because if you don't have retainer money, when you get the calling around trying to find a lawyer to represent you in the case like that, that'd be like, yes, sounds like you got a case low, but, you know, unfortunately, we can't represent you. Our case load is too heavy. Our case load is too heavy. That's lawyer talk for, like, you, yeah, we ain't getting that for this. Like, you know what I mean? Because you're only going to get, like, probably like, like I said, like, probably like 60 bans max. And, you know, our attorney fees, our time, we were more than 60 bans, so, you know, it ain't even worth our time to do it. But, you know, also people have represented themselves in cases like that and when, but you have to, like, do your due diligence. You got to save them emails. You got to set, like, you know, keep those recordings. If you got something recorded, witness statements, like, you have to have everything, like, tele-punched. You have to have it, like, you got to really, like, cross your eyes and vagities to win in the discrimination cases. And then last thing I want to touch on is the mother, our brother, Roger Fortson. He just recently got on the live, or I think it was back. And, um, May, if you don't know who that is, do your googles on that, I'm just bringing his name up because, like, I think, you know, we need to keep the conversation going because the conversation that died down and if you're not familiar with the conversation, basically, he was a young airman serving in the Armed Forces, our United States Armed Forces. He was an airman and he got gunned down by a deputy sheriff. They went to the wrong apartment, hadn't properly identified themselves as law enforcement. He was on the computer, FaceTiming with his girlfriend. So we didn't hear him knocking, actually, because he's like, you know, he kept caking with his boo thing. And, you know, they kind of just forcefully entered his, tried to enter, you know, enter his apartment. Now, or my mind's you, he's got military training, he's in the Air Force. So, you know, his military training kicks in when he got faced with that aggression. The police just trying to forcefully enter his home. So we got his weapon out ready for whoever, because they hadn't properly identified themselves. And then, you know, they get in there, they see the weapon, they don't give him, like, you know, time to, you know, whatever, however it go, like, basically his presence was intimidating towards him because he's a brother, he's in the military. So he probably got like a military physique too, in conjunction with having a firearm, and that frightened they little part of my lungs and pussy asses. And, you know, they let something off in him, and now he's not here no more, because, you know, they wanted to kill one of ours. And that's all it is. When you break it down, I'm not going to go into super detail, but you can just Google his name. Roger Fortson, U.S. Airman, you can type that in the browser, U.S. Airman, Roger Fortson, his mother, has been advocating for him since, you know, he's been under live. They just recently put him, his body to rest. The incident happened on May 3rd. I think they put him to rest, like, towards the end of May, early June. And now it's just like, we're just around now, July, people don't stop talking about it back in like the first week of June, so we need to keep that conversation going. And if we don't stay vigilant on that, it would just, you know, slip through the cracks. So, all through your social media, you know, justice for Roger, justice for Roger, check online to see, you know, if they're doing any go fundmies or whatever. For what happened, being a crump is representing this family. So, you know, we still got to push the line, no, don't let up on social media. I know there's a lot going on in the world, but that's an atrocity. Our brother in the armed forces fighting for a country that we know that does not love or respect this, just met with aggression in his residency. They don't even show him the proper respect when they enter his dormisile to even figure out if they have the right apartment, but they can clearly, upon entry, they can see, you know, he's a member of the armed services. I know they see that. They see his poised military discipline, you know, and I'm pretty sure he had, like, a military memorabilia on his walls or somewhere in the house. So, they don't even respect him as a soldier, and they just, like, gun them down like an animal. And then I'm more shocked, I haven't heard anything from the military community. I haven't seen any veterans posting on their websites, because there's a whole lot of, you know, armed servicemen who have social media accounts and our content creators. I ain't heard nobody in the military social media sphere talking about this. So, like, that just shows you how much they care about us. But we need to care about each other and, you know, just keep on blowing that up on social media, justice for Roger Forza, and commend his mother, Shanti. Shanti Shanti Shanti, C-H-A-N-T-E-M-E-K-K-I, and keep on committing his mother. She's been advocating for the family ever since he's been under live. So, that's all I want to leave out on, and, yeah, I'm in this episode right here. Join me next time for another on the episode of The Near the Podcast. 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