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Episode 338 - The Narrative Podcast

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Duration:: 2h 20m
Broadcast on:: 06 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

(upbeat music) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) (drill whirring) - 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 back to another all new episode of The Mighty Mighty Narrator Podcast. The Narrator Podcast is the home of original people, original people, peace. Original people responsible to the end, original people, culture. Welcome to the Narrator Podcast. I am your host, Halsey Allen. Welcome all my narrators. Hey, so I'm back up in you on Friday. Fourth of July, weekend. So, you know, or Saturday, what I say Friday? Thursday was Fourth of July. This week went by so fast, I don't know where my head's at. But, yeah, Thursday was the federally recognized holiday, but people was gonna be popping off from the works tonight and tomorrow. Grilling and shilling. Spore on alert, we're about to go into, we're gonna about to get into the Fourth of July holiday. A little bit later on in the segment of the narrative podcast, but yeah. Welcome to the narrative podcast. Welcome all my narrators. How's everybody's week being so far good, I hope? And, you know, we're about to dive into the content. So, people unfamiliar with my podcast, what I do is give you a brief overview before diving into the content. This is a weekday edition of the narrative podcast. I've been on the quest to try to do more weekday uploads. To kinda combat all this negative stuff that's been floating around. So, I wanted to try to make my presence more pronounced during the weekday with my podcast, but, you know, life been life-ing and I haven't had the free time to do it. So, you know, but, thankfully, I'm here this evening and got some pretty good content this evening and, you know, we're gonna keep working on it. Try to make my presence more pronounced during the weekday. Try to do more uploads during the weekday. And, yeah, we're gonna keep it just, just wanna keep this pumping and jumping. So, without any further ado, I'm gonna dive into the synopsis of the narrative podcast before diving into the content this evening. So, let's start at the top tippy, the name, the narrative podcast, the name of my podcast, the narrative podcast, 'cause I don't like the false narrative. Fifth to media, we use about original people and original people culture. I get into the original people part a little bit later, but let's focus on why I'm doing this. So, basically, I came up with this podcast to counter, you know, the media's intentional, false representation of our people and our culture. They intentionally misrepresent us. They intentionally use our images and our likenesses in a negative way to promote who we are as a people to line up with their agenda. And a little bit more about what their agenda is, a little bit later on in the segment, but essentially that's my mission statement. That's why I started doing this podcast is to build a platform where I'm showcasing and highlighting our people in a positive light. And I think that's a perfect segue for my tagline. The narrative podcast, changing the narrative, one episode at a time by destroying negative 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. Also here on this podcast, you know, it's dedicated to bringing awareness to all listeners, to the listening audience of why it's important to utilize your platforms intelligently to educate people about our people and our culture. And why when I say our people and our culture, I'm referring to original people, AKA black people, African-American, Negro, whatever you want to refer to it says, our people. So, you know. And the reason why we should do that is because like I said, the media just puts out negative frames of reference about our people and our culture. So, you know, people outside of our culture, all they have to go, you know, to gauge us by is these frames of reference that they're giving. You're giving negative frames of reference about our people and our culture in music, in television, in all forms of media like music, television, movies, advertisements, literature, you name it. There's not too many sources that, you know, showcase and highlight our people, you know, in a positive light. So therefore, you know, you have to utilize your platform to kind of just enlighten people. Just want to make one quick disclaimer, this podcast isn't about caring with people outside of our culture, think about us. It's not about trying to educate people outside of our culture, you know, about our people and our culture. This is about, you know, basically setting the record straight. If you want to tell our story, you know, tell it correctly. You know, tell about our true origin, our true nature and our true origin and our true nature. Who are we, you know? We're kings and queens, guys and goddesses at the universe. He was here first and everything came from our lineage. So, you know, every thing in the modern world is an indirect end result of our existence. So that's the scope we should always be focusing on. You know, that's how we should always be represented. That's how we should always be acknowledged as a people. Not how we're acknowledged in the media. You know, they always play up our worst qualities. They always catch us in ultra-rear form. They promote, propagate and generate negative stereotypes and stigma is about our people and our culture. So, you know, that's why I try to put that message out, you know, that we should be sharing positive frames of reference about our people and our culture as often as possible. Which brings me to my next point why I refer to my listening audience as my narrators. So, I call my listening audience my narrators as that's the term kind of reflective of the age that we're living in. We're living in the digital information age. We can access information at the touch of the finger. People communicate, you know, digitally. There's almost like every type of social media network has a bio section. And in this bio section, you know, you let who's ever viewing your content, you know, know a little bit about yourself. And when you make out your bio and when you upload your content, you know, you wanna intentionally put out, you know, the best possible representation of yourself. There's not too many people online these days. They intentionally, you know, promotes themselves in a negative way. There's not too many people intentionally being miserable online. It's a few, it's a few, but, you know, the few doesn't speak for the majority. There's a few people to get online, just a boo-hoo in complaint and be like, "What was me?" And like, "Oh, I lost my job, pray for me." "Oh, I'm gonna surgery, pray for me." You know, it's a whole lot of people to do that online. But primarily, the majority, people, they get online, they wanna put out the best versions of themselves as possible. You know, they wanna convey that they're living their best life. They have the most money. They're living in a nice house. You know, they live an exciting life. You know, they're jet-setting. They're always going on vacay. You know, they're rubbing elbows with celebrities. You know, they engage in like sports activities. They hoop in, they play a football. You know, they're doing something fun. They're eating at a fancy restaurant. They're, you know, doing something positive, something that, you know, reflects a good opulent life. So they're essentially telling, or narrating their own story. You see, that's why I call my target, listening audience, my narrators. 'Cause as a people, we should be telling, or narrating, our own stories. We should be telling, we should be sharing the best possible versions of ourselves as possible. Because the media is always putting out the worst possible version of our people and our culture. You see, that's why I call my target, listening audience, my narrators. 'Cause if history hasn't taught us anything, it's taught us this. If you don't tell your own story, your story will be told for you. So we should be intentional online. We should be telling our own story online. What is our own story? Our own story, you know, who we are. By nature as a people, kings and queens, gods and goddesses of the universe. We should be sharing that we're a dutiful people. That we, you know, navigate through life with a sense of urgency. That we are nurturers. By nature, we take care of things. We take care of our children. We take care of our elderly. We respect each other. We have mutual respect for one another. You know, men respect in our community, the men respect women and the women respect men. That's the story we should be telling about our people. Now we're united. We can, when we do disagree, we can settle our disputes in a civil manner. We can do it without the name calling. We can have disagreements without name calling and dragging each other up and down social media. We should be telling the best version telling the world, you know, the best possible version of ourselves as possible. That's why I call my target listening audience my narrators. As a narrator, when you listen to this show, you're tasked with the duty of telling or narrating our story on your platform. Now I'm not the content police. You're grown men and grown women. You can post whatever you'd like on your platform. Whatever platform you would, whatever platform you occupy. But just know, whatever you post, whatever you put out in the universe, you know, unfortunately, you know, this digital media stuff, it's a double edged sword, whatever you post, you're bound to it. You know, people associate you as an individual by the type of content that you post. So if you post, you know, something narcissistic, oh, you're a narcissist. And you might not even directly agree with that. You might just be posting something and be like, here, look at this, but people, you know, think, you know, that's your personality. So you got to be careful about what you share online and how you share it. But anyway, that's essentially what I call my target listening audience, my narrators. Next order of business, you know, this is a time sensitive platform. I tried not to exceed one hour per broadcast. And the purpose of me doing that is to engage my listening audience. This is an all audio platform. Last thing I want to do is, you know, bore my listening audience to sleep. I want to keep you engaged with the content, interacting with me, attentive and interested. So I don't want to go down rabbit holes. I don't want to, you know, beat you over the head with the message. I want to keep it short and sweet into the point. I broadcast two times a week. Now during the weekday, I'm shooting for like 45. So I really try not to exceed 45 minutes on the weekday. I really want to just buy back. But, you know, when you get to talking, it kind of don't play out like that all the time. So, but I definitely don't want to exceed one hour per broadcast. And if I do exceed an hour per broadcast, it's not by much. It's maybe it's like by 30 minutes max. But anyway, yeah. So I try to keep it short, sweet to the point. I also want to engage our intellect levels. You know, I want to get with, you know, the people on the highest frequency, the middle, and, you know, even the lower register. I want to be hitting all cylinders. So that's kind of my goal. Bar is engaging the listening audience. So last, but not least. Oh, well, oops, kind of jumped ahead. Next, this is a positive space. I don't engage in any negativity, any name calling. It's a gossip-free zone. I don't go with the gossip. I really try to, you know, I'm anti-gossip. I really try to, like, get people to not go with the bloggers, the vloggers. And I try not to get caught up in that whole little thing, but as a content creator, you know, you have to address current topics. But just know when I address a current topic, it's never to clout chase. It's never definitely not to put a brother's sister down. This is kind of just, you know, framing up whatever's going on in the world from our perspective. You know, whatever's going on in the world, I'm just, like, giving an overview of whatever's going on in the world from our perspective, whether it be globally, whether it be nationally, or just something, you know, a current issue breaking news with, in our community. And the purpose of me doing that for a couple of reasons, one is to control the narrative, 'cause, like I said earlier, if you don't tell your own story, your own story will be told for you in the media, kinda goes out of their way to tell the worst possible version of our story, they possibly can, to, you know, stay in stride with their agenda, which is primarily to make money, but the other agenda is to keep, you know, those in power, in power, by using propaganda. And who is in power, who are the powers that be, powers that be are, you know, elite society, the higher echelon, aka wealthy, white people. And they control the media. Like I said, they control the media as a form of, you know, mind control, or psychological warfare, if you will, because they want to be the face of sophistication, the face of progression, the face of refinement, you know, the face of elegance, you know, and all things fancy. So it's like, you know, they want to be the face of financial wealth, basically. And they want to posture themselves as better than everybody else, like, you know, 'cause they want to promote, you know, life in excess, capitalism, you know, just buying stuff, just to buy stuff, you know, not even with any real purpose, other than to prove you're financially wealthy. This is why the elite society often surrounds themselves with status symbols to prove that they are elite, such as mansions, such as, you know, yachts, and, you know, all this stuff that you can't take with you when you leave this physical plane. And, you know, that's kind of what they base their entire existence around. It's just like the air quotes of the best life has to offer. And they want to sell everybody else that, you know, status symbols, be fine. You know, you are the designer clothes, like, if you don't have a designer, like, what are you doing? If you're not driving a foreign car, what are you doing? If you don't own an estate or a villa, like, what are you doing? You know what I mean? That's what they want to project and promote to the rest of the world. Like, you know, this is where it's at. You know, we're the cool kid table and everybody else's crumbums underneath us. They do it to everybody. They do it to everybody who isn't earning it enough where it's five or six figures are better and definitely white in addition to that. Like, so for all the people in our community they think because they get invited to these elite class parties and, um, swarees. And gotcha gotcha is, they'll never be elite because they're not white. You might rub elbows with them. You might do some business with them, but you'll never be officially elite. In the elite club, you'll never be in the elite class. You might be in the elite tax bracket, but you will never be an elite class because it wasn't intended for you to be elite. You know what I'm saying? Well, we go for the, uh, banana in the tailpipe all the time. We are brainwashed in condition to think once we ascend to that level of wealth we can buy our way out of it. But we can't. But, um, anyway, I'm kinda getting off putting the point that I want to make about the elite class is they, um, you know, they single out everybody and they try to, uh, make this doting, um, omnipotent presence over everybody, like they're the ish and, you know, nobody's nobody's anything compared to them. You know what I mean? Um, but out of everybody they do it to, they do it to our people the most because they fear our people the most. Um, and the reason why they fear is the most out of everybody in the world is because we are the most impactful, influential people. Everybody, everybody follows our lead, tries to be like us, try to talk like us, try to act like us, dance like us, dress like us, cook like us. Um, you know, this isn't an exaggeration. This is just fact, the same saying, we're better than anybody, but everybody tries to emulate us to some capacity. And, you know, not only that, out of everybody on the planet, we are the most, you know, connected to nature, meaning we don't need, you know, these material things that they value when they, they worship, we don't need these status symbols to define us, we never needed that. You know, we're just impactful, influential without them. Everybody tries to, you know, be like us without designer, without living in mansions and stuff. Everybody tries to talk like us. We are the, you know, we're the gate, we can't gate-keep much, but the one thing we can't gate-keep, like we are, you know, the curators and keepers of cool. Nothing's cool unless we put our stamp on it. If we're doing it, everybody wants to do it. And they know that. And so us being closer to nature, us, you know, not worshiping these status symbols, a few of us have gotten brainwashed into doing it, but where the majority of us like, hey, you know, I don't need this to define who I am. I'm not going to go out here and spend a thousand bucks on a shirt just because I got a thousand bucks. I'm not going to spend a hundred thousand dollars on a car just because I got a hundred thousand dollars. I'm not going to spend one point three, whatever, on a mansion, it's like I got one point three spent. Like, we make, we make it make sense. Like, you know what I mean? But in the lead class, they want to program and condition everybody to just live life in excess. And, you know, that's how they want to program and condition everyone else. And that's the reason why they single up our people out the most is because, you know, they're natural historians. They're aware of their history and they're aware of ours. They know how they came into power, how they acquired their systemic power. They know how they acquired their financial, you know, standings. And it all leads back to us. If there never was an us, there would never be a them. And they know this. And, you know, even bigger fear of that than us influencing the rest of the world into, you know, waking their open everybody's eyes to see that you don't have to live like them in order to be happy is that, you know, to put our differences aside as a people, unites as a people and reclaim everything that they took from us and are currently taking from us and do to them what they've done and are currently doing to us. That's their biggest fear. We represent their power being usurped. They know they're in power and they don't want their power usurped. So, like, I kind of went down a rabbit hole with that, but I was just trying to establish my base of why I'm doing this. So, I think I was starting off as the saying, you know, this is a positive space. I don't drag brothers and sisters. I don't, you know, go with the gossip. Pretty much everything I cover on this platform comes from the perspective of why. So, if I bring a brother's sister's name up, the overline point, I'm like, you know, I play, I frame it up from the bigger picture perspective. And the bigger picture always goes back to systemic programming and conditioning. So, like, the negative things that happen in our community, the flare-ups, the controversy we have with one another can all be traced back to systemic programming and conditioning where it's systemically programmed in condition to behave in a negative way, where it's systemically programmed in condition to not get along with each other. You know, we trigger each other. We've been systemically programmed in condition to trigger negative things within one another. We look at, you know, it used to be a time where we looked at our brother and sister with love. You know, all for one, one for all, it used to be a time when it was like that. Now it's like, you know, we shooting the side eye. You don't even know this brother. You don't even know this sister. We walk into a room. We shooting side eyes at each other, you know, because we've been programmed in condition to do that. So, like, when crime happens in our neighborhood, when, you know, some type of violence or some type of, you know, aggression happens where one of us is being overly aggressive when another one of us, when the fight or flight kicks in, it all goes back to systemic programming and conditioning. They, you know, they already told you, you know, they're doing it with the music, they're doing it with the television, they're doing it with the literature. They know what they're doing when they intentionally misappropriate our people when they're intentionally corrupt our images and our likenesses. And what I mean by that, they're pushing gang band culture. They're pushing, you know, violence. They're making it the glorifying guns. They're glorifying being a thug. They're glorifying being a criminal, being a drug dealer, being a drug user. You know, they're systemically programming and conditioning us. That's just on the men's side. On the women's side, they're programming our women to be whores and thoughts. Program, keep on pushing, you know, that false narrative that our sisters got attitudes. Our sisters are overly aggressive. All sisters are mean, you know what I mean? All sisters, what's their favorite one? They're angry. They push the angry black women, stereotype. So, you know, anything I cover and any type of current event that I cover or speak on or deliver commentary on, it's coming from that perspective. Never to put down a brother or sister or, you know, drag them through the mud. Now, however the exception here is, this is a place of truth. I don't sugar-coat nothing. I tell it how it is. And if a brother I feel, in my opinion, is intentionally misrepresenting our people for monetary gain, would they know they're doing something wrong? Would they know they're intentionally playing into a negative stereotype just to get, you know, to get some clicks after a content creator, to check a bag or whatever. Then I will call said individual out. But other than that, I don't say nobody's name. I don't name, drop, or nothing like that. I do tell the truth on you, though. So, the truth is the truth. And, you know, some people's going to get their feelings hurt by the truth. So, people's going to get mad when you tell the truth. Some people's going to get their feelings hurt with the truth. But I tell the truth on you. (clears throat) So, last order of business is, you know, of course you've been hearing me say it over and over again, original people. I refer to our people as original people. And our people, I mean black people. I refer to us as original people, primarily for two reasons. Number one is historically accurate. And the second reason is it unifies us as a people. So, on the historically accurate part of it, we were, in our, the original beings of this planet. We came here first. We inhabited every single part of the world you can think of. There's seven continents. We was on all of them. We was indigenously located everywhere. And then the second being that we were the original, indigenous people of this planet, being that we were located everywhere. There are many different types of us. We speak different languages. We, you know, believe in different religions, spirituality, spiritual practices, you know, have different perspectives in life, support different politics, ideologies, cultural differences, and the name of anything that separated people. We got that in our community. But the one thing that we have in common is that we're original people. Wherever we're geographically located at, we can always, we can all trace our lineage back to the original point of origin for all civilization. And then we also possess another common bond. We also have large concentration of the life force energy, carbon aka melanin. So we're bonded like that. So that's what, you know, that's why I call our people, original people to unify us and to, you know, just acknowledge that we were here first. Everything came from us. Like we mother and father civilization. Everything can be traced back to us. Especially here in America. You know, they want it in the industrial revolution. They give, give all this credit to people that didn't invent anything. When you do the knowledge, when you go back, you know, this is why they invented the patent system. Pretty much everything in America was built and invented by slaves. And then something I kind of point out every episode, if you're a narrator, you know, I gotta, you know, always cover a little sub point. You know, a false narrative that keeps on getting perpetuated about our people. They want to keep on trying to make slavery the most quintessential part of our history. And it wasn't. We had a whole existence before slavery. And like I said previously, we are the original indigenous inhabitants of this physical plane. We inhabited every single continent on the globe. You can name who is already there. There was a large concentration of us already there existing law before slavery, law before any slave boat was ever constructed. Especially here in the Americas. The majority of us already existed here. You know, that's just a fallacy for why some of us did in fact come over here on slave boats. You know, the transatlantic slave trade was real. You know, the route was real, but the time frame and then just other physical aspects of it is just a false. You know, it didn't go on for as long as it's chronicled. Our involvement in it was minute. I always want to throw out, well, you know, black people, homeless slaves. It was more like, you know, on our end of it we had, you know, we had tribal wars. Those that participated, air quotes participating in it, it was more like tribal war and, you know, they took prisoners of war and it was an indentured servitude type thing. Not just selling slaves, like it was, they had an expiration date. You know, they didn't hold them and then wait for them to have babies and then hold the babies and whip the babies and make them live in sub-human conditions. You know, it wasn't none of that. That was only y'all filthy beast that did that. But like I said, the majority of us living here in the Americas, we was already indigenously located here. And when they speak of, you know, what was done to the air quote, Native American, that was really us. Like if you read Christopher Columbus's journal, if you read Miles Stanish's journal, they talk about us. We are their original indigenous natives of this land. All these other fake tribes, the Hopian, the Navajo, and none of them. It's like you got to trace our lemmies. You got to go all the way back to the Carolinas, all the way back to the Delta. We was already here. But anyway, I digress, I can come up with even more facts than that, more excited facts at that. So I'm not just talking out of my backside. But I just want to point out that little false narrative that keeps on getting perpetuated about our people, about slavery being the most poignant, relevant, you know, part of our existence. But anyway, so this is a weekday edition of the narrative podcast. I'm going to jump into the content. I think I covered all my bases. If I left anything out, I'm over 300 episodes in that you can kind of fill in the blanks if you're still a little hazy about what I do on this platform. This is a weekday edition. So what I tend to do on the weekday editions of the narrative podcast, I cover positive news articles, and then I deliver commentary. The reason why I deliver positive news articles, well, is to stay in stride with my mission statement, which is to share positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. So the reason I feel I need to share positive news articles again to, you know, the kind of fight against the systemic programming and conditioning, because they're using the media to try to basically make it seem like nothing positive happens in our community. So they want to keep on ramming negative stuff down our throats 24/7. Every single day, you know, it's like somebody's, you know, getting incarcerated. Somebody's, you know, living well on, you know, either at the poverty line or well underneath the poverty line, they're always pushing and promoting us disenfranchised, pushing and promoting us living in poverty, living in committing violence against one another. They keep on pushing and promoting us, being ignorant, you know, being overly loud, overly boisterous. Obnoxious, degenerate, you know, acting in a degenerate type nature. So, you know, that's why I do the positive news articles. Just put off a positive frame of reference that we, you know, we excel academically. We are a dutiful people. We have, you know, entrepreneurs. We have people giving back to the community, providing solutions to the systemic problems that's created by the powers that be in concern to our people, people that's leading the charge, people that's rising in the face of adversity, making it, defying the odds and basically being the antithesis of how we're portrayed by the media. So, that's why I do the positive news articles. And then when I deliver my commentary, as I stated earlier, you know, I deliver the commentary to basically take back the power or, you know, control the narrative. As the media have us looking and sounding crazy. So, I'm delivering commentary on current events. This is just me breaking it down, making it digestible. What's going on in this situation? How systemic programming and conditioning play the role in this negative thing that happened, whether it's globally, nationally, or just something out of our community. You know, how does this affect us from, you know, our perspective? You know, I impact it like that when I'm delivering commentary. Like I said, if I ever talk about, you know, somebody's name, somebody famous, it's never the cloud chase or bash. It's basically to illustrate a point that I'm trying to make, to submit and illustrate a point that I'm trying to make. And the point that I'm always trying to make, what I try to link everything back to when I'm breaking down something that happened, especially something negative that happened, you know, in our world is just basically the linking back to systemic programming and conditioning. So, you know, but anyway, up first on this week, the edition of the narrative podcast was my very first article. I'm super light with the articles tonight because it is Fourth of July weekend. We popping off the words. I know people right now at a cookout right now. Saturday they're going to be, you know, having cookouts and still popping off the words. Sunday they're going to have cookouts popping off the fireworks. Um, yeah. So, Fourth of July is going to be off the rack. I mean, the fourth was Thursday. It's Friday, but it's going to go all the way up until Sunday. Anyway, um, the first article this evening on the narrative podcast week day edition, the headline reads, 17 year old black teen from Texas selling watermelon to pay for his college tuition. And the young brother's name is Kenny Miller. He is a Russ County, Texas native and a Henderson high senior. Um, so he got the idea being in Texas. There's a little town close to where, you know, Russell County called a great land. And great land is infamous for their watermelon. So that's a big industry and great land. Um, and then just a quick factoid about us and watermelon. Um, another stereotype, they got propagated by the powers to be. This is when they first, they started corrupting our images and our likenesses way before the Internet. Way before, uh, radio, way before, uh, television. They did it all the way back. All they had was like, um, newspapers. Back in the day and basically how our images and our likenesses got, um, corrupted far as us liking watermelon. Watermelon is basically like, you know, some of us. There are very few of us that did come over here on the slave boats. You know, they came over here with ancestral knowledge of, you know, how to cultivate the melon. Because the watermelon was originally, you know, in Africa. They bought the seeds over here where the few of us that did come over here. The majority of us was already here, but, you know, that's a whole 'nother debate where here really was, but anyway. So as the legend goes, like, we had the divine knowledge to properly cultivate watermelon, who is dominating in, you know, that industry, like we grew watermelon the best in the world. We had the most plump, sweet watermelons. Everybody went to buy our watermelons and, you know, white people couldn't figure out, you know, our secret. How do we know how to, um, you know, grow watermelon? So essentially we was dominating that industry and they couldn't cash in on it. And so what they did is they weaponized the media to come up with distorted images and likenesses, you know, with the watermelon they would have, you know, that's where the dark, the super dark skin in the big pale lips comes from. If you go back and look at these old cartoons, it's always somebody dark skin with pale lips eating watermelon, you know, they go, like, in the cartoons. They would have the little cartoon character just chopping down on the watermelon and spitting the seeds out, like with the little machine gun sound effect with the -- like that, you know, but it was the big pale lips. And basically they tried to say anybody that enjoys, you know, eating watermelon. They got the characteristics of a Negro. They lazy, you know, they were often like in the cartoons, played a little banjo music. And somebody was enjoying watermelon. And so it was a very divisive campaign that they tried to incorporate to basically halt the production of watermelon coming out of our community. When, you know, basically they tried to dig into our self-esteem, make us not want to enjoy watermelon in public and feel bad about, you know, enjoying something with all those health benefits. You know, it's rich in lycopene. It's good for the hair, skin, and nails. Good for your digestive system. Like, watermelon has so many health benefits, but they try to really make us feel bad about knowing how to cultivate watermelon. And that's where that negative stereotype comes from. But anyway, so back to this young man story. I got a little off track, but his dream is to become an executive producer of film. Oh, yeah. Now, so I kind of jumped ahead of myself. A great man is on the capital of East Texas. He's in Russ County. So that's not too far from there, but yeah. So young Kenny Miller, that's his dream, to become an executive, Hollywood film producer. He wants to do it on the big screen. He wants to do small screen, like, you know, to-be production. He has realistic, he has a realistic mindset with it. You know, he wouldn't be too versed as to do a to-be. Like, a lot of people are not to-be, but, like, when you think about it, I don't know if you all remember a cold black, or remember the cold black era. You know, that was kind of the precursor of the to-be movie. So while low on production, you can produce a whole lot of movies. You know, as long as they have a pretty good storyline and somewhat of gifted actors and actresses, then what, like, a recognized, if you have at least one recognizable name, in, like, a to-be movie, you good. Like, if you got, like, two or three B-listers or B-listers, like, it's all right. It's not as bad as everybody be trying to make it, but, you know, independence over mainstream, because they're not going to recognize your talent. They're not going to get your culture to go and try to, like, play up the stereotype. So, you know, to-be's not really all that bad, and I think that's, you know, where we need to go anyway, as far as, like, owning our own brands, streaming and all that. So he got it at an early age. He wants to be, you know, making a change. He wants to be on the creative side of me. So that's it for his story. I told you that was super short and to the point. I kind of, you know, went down. Kind of got a little long-winded, but essentially this young man, he was selling a watermelon to finance his aspirations to go to college, and he wants to go to a HBCU. He wants to go to Texas A&M. So, you know, he got options on the table, and he's well on his way. He's not, you know, I'm pretty sure he'll get a couple of scholarships here and there, but, you know, he's paying his own way, cultivating something that comes from the earth, you know, getting help from the ancestors. So, you know, his path, his trajectory, path in life, is pretty much laid. So join me into giving young Kennedy Miller of Russ County, Texas a warm narrative podcast round of applause. (Applause) All right, moving right on along. Next article on the week the edition of the narrative podcast, The Headline Reads. A 17-year-old entrepreneur launched his own sneaker brand from his mom's garage. And the name of his brand is called Dapper Shoes. That's the B-A-P-P-E-R. Shoes. S-H-O-O-Z, not S-H-O-E-S. He started promoting his brand in 2021. And this young brother is Nigerian, so forgive me for mispronouncing his name. I'm going to do my best, y'all. I'm going to do my best. Okay, it's... Oots, Wala Nag, Mati, U-T-W-A-N-A-G, capital N, lowercase N-E-T-I. So if you can pronounce it good, I cannot. Oh, yeah. The name of his website is Dapper-S-A-D-C-O-Z-A-D. And his mission statement is to inspire young African entrepreneurs to start their own businesses and create a positive impact in their community and also to provide high-quality, stylish sneakers at an affordable price that will reflect, excuse me, African culture. So it's pretty much simplistic. All you got to do is type it in the browser. You got his mission statement. You can see the brands of shoes he has and it's pretty next-level stuff. Very affordable. The proof will be in the pudding when you get a pair of issues as far as the durability goes. But it can't be any less durable than, like, say, you know, Nike or Puma or Converse. I don't see it being less durable than those brands. Just by, you know, what I've seen when I went to the website, but go check that out. So that article was super short and brief until the point. So let's give a warm narrative podcast round of applause for this young, innovative Nigerian young brother whose name I cannot pronounce and I'm not even going to try. But, yeah, the name of his brand is called Dapper Shoes. [ Applause ] All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Keeping it moving right along. The next article on the narrative podcast week day edition, The Headline Reads from Incarceration to Entrepreneur. Very simple, huh? The brother's name is Ed Hennings. Ed was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was formerly incarcerated. He was locked up on a charge of first degree homicide, class A felony. Basically, what happened was, according to his story, he had an altercation in the street. Everybody was, like, being really aggressive towards him. There was one back and forth in the arguments. And basically, he pulled out the hammer and blam blam. You know? As I went down, he got locked up. And by the way, his story is more complex than what I'm saying. But to keep, you know, in stride with my invisible time limit that I set for myself, I'm just going to give you the streamline version of his story. But you can definitely do your googles because his brother is, you know, a motivational speaker as well. And he also has a boot brand. So, yeah. But anyway, after he owned the report, he got a whole lot of stuff, but anyway, back to his personal story. He got incarcerated. Became a model prisoner. And then I think, you know, obviously he got him a jailhouse lawyer. Look at the dynamics of his case. Walked down some time as a trustee. Got some much shaved off his sentence as a trustee. And then got him a jailhouse lawyer and just, you know, basically finangoed an early parole. Got paroled out. Of course, when he got paroled, obviously he could not find work. Having that on his jacket, but he didn't let that slow him down. So instead of trying to like ask for jobs, he created his own opportunity. He started small. He had his own barbershop. So obviously he learned how to make good use of his time while on the inside. You know, he got, you know, like a lot of prisoners do. Just like locked up, they learned how to cut here. He learned how to cut here on the inside. He got outside, opened up his own barbershop. And then after he had his own barbershop, he started selling, making on his own apparel, selling it out of a barbershop and they just kept on, you know, adding dimensions to the space that he already had. And then just kept on platforming from there. He became a motivational speaker. He also got his own brand of beard oil. He's a serial entrepreneur, barbershop, beauty shop. He also got his own trucking business. And he has his own line of boots. And when you go online, you will see his, you know, motivational tale of how he became an entrepreneur on the website of his boot brand. And the name of his boot brand is Ed Henning's coke. That's just what it is, Ed Henning's coke. And it's a complete line. You go to the website in edhenning's sco.com. And when you get there, you will see a picture of him. The types of boots he has, and then a quick little bio. You know, telling, you know, his first job where he was only making $7.25 an hour is a barber. I think that's a little exaggeration, because barbers can sit there on prices, but of you. And he got pretty much an extensive line. It looks more like a work shoe trucker type deal, but I guess New Yorkers, they will call them butters. It looks something similar to tins. Very sturdy looking. I would definitely bust these in the winter. It looks like you would get a lot of wear out of them. It looks very constructed, very sturdy. You know, do man stuff, landscaping in them, yard work. You know, like alpha male stuff, y'all betas wouldn't know nothing about that. It's scared to get some dirt up underneath your nails. But, uh, yeah. So the brother, like I said, he's a motivational speaker. He does TED Talks. Um, serial entrepreneur. Um, he's also an author. He's written books. Um, his biggest selling book is called the 180 mindset shift. And I believe that's on Amazon books. Um, so yeah, do your googles on Ed Hennings. Go check him out. You got all kinds of motivational speeches on YouTube. Um, like I said, serial entrepreneur. He does beard oil. He got his own, um, trucking company, barbershop/beauty shop, nonprofit organization. Um, you know, and like there's, he's one of them type of brothers. There just ain't no ceiling. And he's coming out with more stuff. He's coming out with more books and more businesses. Um, uplifting and edifying the community. Sharing his experience. Um, pushing the message that don't let your current situation be your final destination. Don't accept your circumstances rise above it. Um, you know, definitely an eye opener that there is no excuses. Um, you know, if you against the world, there is no excuses. You know, like this brother was incarcerated for murder. So anybody getting out of jail talking about, they can't do it. They're full of it. It is hard, but it can be done. And he's living proof that it can be done. I know everybody's situation is unique and everybody experiences losses, but if you're a drive and determination is great enough, can't not slow you down. Um, that brother's living proof of it. He's definitely a motivation, inspiration to me since I read his story. So, you know, it's that my game up and keep on on the days. I feel like I don't feel like doing it. But, um, anyway, join me in giving Ed Hennings a warm narrative podcast round of applause for his many, many entrepreneurial endeavors. [Applause] Well, y'all, that's it and that's all for the news articles. It was super light tonight. Um, and then yo, this has never happened all since I've been doing this. Um, all the stories that I covered this evening was all about brothers. This ain't never happened since I've been doing this. Just every single article that I covered this evening was all brothers. No sisters. And I think it's a special reason why that's never happened because the reason is the media goes out of this way to keep stories like that from surfacing. You see, every time my brother's in the media, it's in a negative light. We're going off to jail, we're selling drugs, we're engaging in some type of violence, never nothing positive. So they go the extra mile to dig up negativity about brothers. They want to really tarnish the reputation of black men, the original man. They really want to just make us out to be lower forms of life, the scum of the earth. That's how they got us. They got its abusive in relationships with our women. You know, they got us as, you know, a scourge of society, what do Hillary Clinton call us, super predators. You know, that's what the image of our, us that they want to perpetuate. But tonight, I think we changed the narrative. But yeah, so now this is the next part of the narrative podcast week, the edition. My speaking point, my speaking point is just, I'm delivering commentary on a few topics. And just breaking it down from our perspective. So the first topic I want to talk, I think I already said it, the Fourth of July, weekend holiday. So many of us are celebrating right now, popping off fireworks, queuing. You know, some of us gopping down right now on the grill. If you grilled out, you grill leftovers from the fourth, you reheaping the leftovers from the fourth. For some of us, we intend to like grill out, you know, all the fourth of July weekend, because some of us probably, you know, was working on Thursday. You know, all the government offices was closed, but like, you know, private sector companies, they had to go to work. So a whole lot of private sector employees that's today, tonight's their fourth of July. Tonight, and all this weekend. Hospitals, you know, they work on holidays or holidays, but yeah, but the Fourth of July holiday. In the whole, at what it means, you know, for our people. So this was the Revolutionary War. This is basically the war that defined America. This is, you know, the war where America defended its shores against the British, the colonial British. Who, by the way, didn't actively participate in the slave trade? So when they had the African slaves over there, it was more like an indentured servitude thing. There wasn't, you know, weapons slaves, like the Americans was the one. So would that have been a necessarily bad, bad thing had they won for us as a people? Because we was forced to fight net war. As slaves, we was forced to fight net war. And then we was forced to fight in the Civil War that came, you know, after that. We still didn't get our freedom. And then so fast forward to modern day. Here we are celebrating the independence of a country that don't like us, let alone love us. When we're sitting up here celebrating some of us wearing their old glory, posting little Instagram pictures, you know, the red, white and blue theme, tablecloth, red, white and blue outfits, red, white and blue with the stars, just in this delusional state. We have a lot of support of a country where we can't even get, you know, our own neighborhoods established, our own businesses established. In a country where they don't want us to do nothing. We're just in the state like, damn, if we do, damn, if we don't. And the kicker is that they owe us, we built the country. That's the kicker, we built it, we can't, you know, we'd arrive in the danger fields of the world. No respect, no respect. We can't get any respect. Literally every immigrant that immigrates to the shores of America has zero respect for the American Blacks. And had it not been for us building and constructing America, there would be no place for them to immigrate to. And yet, when they come over here, they show us such little respect when they really should be bowing down, thanking us for all our contributions to this country. 'Cause they so quick to say, well, you know, my father, he come from the old country, ethilly. He don't speak a little English, and he got his own business. You know, Asian people, Chinese, Korean, they come over here. We got our own, we got our own, we got our own, we built it, we ain't got nothing. You know, we even get disrespected in our own community, from our own brothers and sisters, from parts of Africa. You know, Nigerians. Kenyan. You know, brothers from Mozambique. From the Congo, Somalia, Egypt, coming over here waving their finger at us. Y'all lazy, y'all lazy. We built this country, we can't be too lazy. From the islands, Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, yeah. Wagging their finger and shaking their head, looking at us, you know what I mean? But we built this country. And that nobody, no disrespect. This the part where I tell the truth, ain't no brothers and sisters, no where around the world. That endured what we endured. Had to suffer, well, we had to suffer. Not just with slavery, but with the civil rights movement as well. But we celebrate in the Fourth of July, what is the significance, what is this hold over us that we want to, you know, celebrate holidays. They have no meaning, they have no significance, they don't serve us as a people, you know, things that will just never be on the inside of. Such is the Fourth of July. Such is Juneteenth, I already went on, I already kind of went in on Juneteenth several times. Christmas, Easter, coming up. You know, is Easter coming up? I don't even celebrate them, so I don't even know the water, but, you know, the only legit kind of holidays I feel like it's cool for us to celebrate is Memorial Day because we started Memorial Day. Veterans Day because we do have veterans that fought in all the wars that need to be acknowledged. And Labor Day, because I do believe we started that as well. I have to do my googles, but I'm pretty sure we do. I think I read it somewhere. I'm not sure. I'm not talking about it. Yeah, it's one of them things where we just, like, all our sources that come from our libraries, you know, they, you know, were excited that we started it. But other sources say we didn't directly start it, but any time when the other sources say we didn't directly start something, we directly started something. We started Labor Day, so those are the holidays I feel, you know, we shouldn't feel bad about celebrating Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Labor Day, because we started all of them. Pretty much. I mean, Veterans Day is, like, for everybody that fought in the armed services, but Memorial Day, we definitely started that, definitely Labor Day. But all the rest of them is this kind of bull crack, you know, the only other significant greeting card holidays. I don't, you know, feel too bad about us celebrating this Mother's Day, Father's Day, because you definitely need to sell appreciation to your mother. That's the portal into this universe. It needs to be acknowledged at all times, not just on one specific day, but as you had to have a day, I ain't mad at Mother's Day. Even if you don't have a biological mother, a birth mother, a female, an affluent female in your life that gave you some type of positive reinforcement needs to be acknowledged, as well as a male in your life. They gave you some type of positive reinforcement growing up, needs to be acknowledged that day. It doesn't necessarily have to be your biological father, it could be your uncle, it could be your big brother, or whoever. Grandpa, same deal with the mother, it could be your grandma, because a lot of us was raised by our grandmothers. I ain't team, big sis, some type of female that gave you positive reinforcement growing up. Those are cool holidays to celebrate, but the sports and July stuff, this is just like, you know, we're under a spell. We got to sit up here and try to mimic the oppressive, you know, they come up with this white supremacy under the guise of being patriotic, being loyal to America. They equate white supremacy with being patriotic. It's like, how can you love America, but then hate the people to build America? You don't make no sense, I can love America, but then hate the people to build America. I'm an American, I'm American, I'm American, but you hate the people to build it. Are you sure you're American? Are you sure? Because there wouldn't be no American who had it not been for our people, you know that right? You know that right? So, for all my immigrant family, my Irish, my Polish, my Danish, my other issues, Asian, Italians, Mediterranean, Greek, you know what I mean? You're welcome. On my own, on my own brothers and sisters, the immigrant to the shores of America, you're welcome. Enjoy your fourth of July. And just know, while you popping off new fireworks and going to them cookouts, we are the reason why that's possible. And never forget that. Never let it bring out your face, no disdain or disrespect for the America Black, the original, indigenous people of this land. And that's all I got to really say about the fourth of July. Next, going on, kind of trending, the BET Awards. Not gonna lie, not gonna lie, fam, I've been done stop watching that long time ago. It was, I don't even know how many BET Awards ago was with Lil Nas X, I said, "Oh no, never again." And I ain't watched it, never again, because it just meant an absolute shit show, part of my language. I try not to curse on here because I think cursing kind of takes away from what I'm trying to build here. But like I said, I stand on truth on my platform as well. And like every single BET Awards show since like 2020, since like 2020, since like 2020, it's been an absolute shit show, like, oh my God, like that's us. You know, this is what we are to the world. No defining moments. Nothing, 'cause like when BET first came out, it really was. It embodied the acronym, Black Entertainment Television. You can be from our community and find entertainment without feeling degraded. You can actually find programming on BET that you can connect with and not feel immediately dirty after watching it. But not since 2020, since 2020, it's just been one cringe after another cringe after another cringe after another cringe. It's been cringy ever since 2020. It's like, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, every time you tune in to watch BET. But this year I will say, this year was the exception to the rule. I will say shout out to Mrs. Taraji P. Henson for bringing some social awareness, some much needed social awareness to the platform. And that's kind of where it stops, 'cause like every single female artist like, what the freak is that? What is that a stack quote now? Why you gotta show your butt naked ass on stage and twerk your butt cheeks, clap your butt cheeks? Why every single last female artist got to get up on stage and clap her butt cheeks in front of thousands? What are we saying here? Why you gotta lay on your back and spread your Vijayjay in front of the world? It's a time and a place for everything, and that's not the time and the place for none of that. And I ain't going hard in the paint on sisters, on brothers too, like you need to pull them, pants up, sagging to your kneecaps, some of y'all don't even be having fresh straws on, be having Hershey streets. You know? So it's like it used to be a once upon a time where BET meant decorum and dignity. It used to feel good watching it. But like, you know, like I said, Thrasi's message on the BET Awards, you know, how she came up out, it's about us, it's about us. I feel that, I feel like the last time when she hosted, they set her up, it was a big set up. Talk about doing it for the culture, I don't remember what year that was, where his sport of culture was the tagline. And, you know, that night it was an absolute shit show, but, you know, since then, I felt like she kind of took the rings and kind of, you know, redeemed her. Like, redeemed BET, just some small capacity, because like, you know, it ain't her network. She was just giving a small little opportunity and she ran with it and put the focus where the focus needed to be. So, salute her for that. Now, what her message was, was basically, she was talking about Project 2025, which is like a, some pretty gotcha gotcha legislation. It's like close to a thousand articles in the legislation, but particular piece of that legislation that she was pointing out was the clause where there was, you know, talking about being homeless. And if you're a narrative podcast listener, you know, just a few episodes ago, I talked about, you know, the house passing legislation that's kind of indicative of the Jim Crow era. And if you don't remember what the Jim Crow era was, was basically like, it's, there was making it a crime to be poor. Essentially, like that's why they even invented mass incarceration was to lock up the poor. They released us out of slavery, but the gotcha gotcha was, oh yeah, now we're going to lock you up for not having the financial means to purchase farmland, till the farm, you know, and buy the supplies needed to, you know, share crime. So now you got to go to jail for not having nothing. And so now we're re-insurrecting laws reflective of the Jim Crow era. And history can and does repeat itself. So also in that era, you know, we had a little law called, you know, reckless eyeballing. There was a time where, you know, people from our community couldn't give a white person eye contact. We had to look at the ground. We couldn't speak above a whisper. And we still can't because slavery never been abolished. And any nine to five or can kind of attest to that, because when you're trying to, you know, a searcher opinion, or your perspective on something, when you're talking to an employer, or a higher up, the first thing they'll say is you're being aggressive. And then ask you why you're yelling. You know what I mean? So, you know, it ain't went nowhere. It just took a different form. But yes, she was particularly talking about Project 2025 and that, you know, those articles within those articles of legislation, they was like having it essentially being targeted towards the homeless and, you know, our people. There's a whole lot of our people that would be susceptible to this law because a whole lot of our people are homeless, primarily because we don't have our own communities. We don't have, you know, when we integrated, we lost a lot. You know, they finessed us into integrate. We had our own movie theaters. We had our own laundromats. We had our own communities. We had our own churches within our community. The church used to be the cornerstone of the community. Like the church, the black church used to be the internet before the internet. You needed something. You went to church. Like you needed a new car. Somebody fixed the car you had. You know, they say that in the church announcements. And be like, oh, yeah, and then they have respected people from the community in the church, business owners. I need help if you're looking for a job at my shop. You know, I need help at the restaurant. I need help at the bank. We had institutions where we could take care of ourselves. And so when we integrated, we lost a whole all that. You know, and they always try to finesse it. Be like, you know, try to put it on the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. You know, he wanted us to be together. Yeah, he did want us to all sit at the proverbial seat of brotherhood, but he didn't want us to sacrifice having our own financial autonomy. He didn't want us to sacrifice us having our own. He didn't want the integration to come with us having to give up, having our own neighborhoods, owning our own houses, having our own infrastructure. So don't keep on letting them do that. Spend the conversation like that. As it's all right, like if you're into dating outside of your race, I got a whole lot of relatives that are products of, you know, biracial relationships. So I'm not against that. Like, I mean, that's your business day. Who you want to date? You know what I mean? Now, I mean, personally, I want to date a sister. You know, I want to marry a sister. You know? So, like, that's really kind of all that came with integration was the ability to, you know, date outside of our race and to openly date outside of our race. That's all we really got out of it. And to go to be educated, you know, with white people, we drank out the water fountain, which ain't all that now, because, you know, that's how a lot of communicable diseases get passed in the public water fountain, how dirty that is, like. But essentially, that's really all we got. You know, we don't even have lunch counters anymore. So we was fighting to get, you know, serviced at lunch counters, and now there ain't no lunch counters, period. And a few of the lunch counters that are to do with this, you trust me and believe me, you don't want to eat beer, because you already know what type of service you're going to get, and you know you're going to get some actually, if you go eat at one of them lunch counters in one of them small, hip towns. But, yeah, I kind of got off base. Like, that's where she was really speaking about, you know, is them bringing her back to 2025. And then she rounded out saying playing chess. It's like, you know, it's time for us to play chess, not checkers. So I lock in with her in that respect. We do have to start playing more strategic. We have to take emotions out of it when we're picking our elected officials. We got to, you know, look at policy, what's in it for us, and that don't mean, you know, Biden's the answer, don't mean Trump's the answer, don't mean none of them's the answer. What it means is, you know, who's in it, who got the best interest in it for us? Because the current guy, he ain't doing nothing. Kamala Harris, who is supposed to be our sister, she, like, even before the election started, she was like, well, I'm not going to do nothing just, you know, exclusively for the black community. She went out of her way to say that. Like, she didn't even have to say that. You know, you were a politician lie. Like, all the rest of the politicians, she went out of her way to say, I'm not going to do nothing just for the black community. She volunteered that information on her own, so. You know, a lot of people was mad at Donald Trump talking about, they're going to take, oh, the black chives, the guess what? They keep on bringing up his criminalistic past, but guess what? He's going to the black neighborhoods. They're talking and having the conversations that need to be had. And the Biden administration's ice cube came up with contract for black America. Biden administration said, talk to us after the election. And then after the elections, they never delved into the contract with America. No articles of it. None, not a single article that they consider about contract with black America. So they don't want us, the current administrations don't want us to have no tangibles. And they're being super transparent with that, that they don't want to have us have any tangibles whatsoever. And then also to take away the current tangibles we barely have, the current programs that we barely have that are helping us. They're trying to take those away right now before the election. Is Trump any better? Not too much better. I mean, he's still a scumbag. He's a politician. He's a scumbag, but he's an honest scumbag. Some more scumbags go. I mean, does he deserve all this villainy that he's getting? So again, like she said, we got to play. We got to thank strategic in this whole political picking type thing and really do your due diligence on the whole election process. I mean, because quite frankly neither party is for us, like, you know, we created the Republican Party. Just if you didn't know, the Republican Party was originally designed for us and mine. So the Democrats ain't never had us in mine ever, but somehow we got finessed in the being Democrats. Like if it were to have been left up to the Democrats, they would never would have abolished slavery if they would have had their way. You know, the independent party, grassroots party, we can't trust none of them. So basically, we got to keep our poker face on and just, you know, be shrewd. Businessmen and businesswomen and keep out emotions when, you know, during the political process, not just in the generals, but locally. I know it's super boring and it's not interesting, but we have to know about, you know, what's locally happening in our states. We have to educate ourselves, what's happening in our states. Not only educate ourselves, but take action and be some type of involved with our school districts, some type of involved in, you know, the cabinet meetings, how, you know, the money's getting spent. Is any getting funneled into our community? And we definitely, definitely above all, we got to mobilize and do for self above all, because we can't trust none of these votes. You know, that would be folly to put all our trust in there. We got to trust each other. That's what we got to do. Because this system, it ain't never meant us any good. And like I said, the powers that be, they don't want their power usurped. And our people present the biggest opposition of their power being usurped because out of everybody, we've proven time and the time again that we are the ones. If anybody's going to rise up and overthrow the unjust, this our people, we've done it time and time again, all since America has been in existence. And if anybody's going to rise up to resist any unjust acts that this country inflicts on the people, it'd be us. We will be the first to resist. So next order of business, it's not super duper pointy and relevant. It kind of borders on the line of gossip. And I told y'all I don't do gossip, but if I talk about something gossip-ish, it's never from a negative space. This involves brother Rick Ross, Rick Rose, whatever his moniker that he prefers, the rapper, he had an incident in Canada. There's a whole lot of footage circulating. I don't know if he got hit with a drink or punched. So I don't know. I can't see it. You know, the blogs are saying he got punched in the face. I'm not seeing where the dude's fist actually connected to his face. You know, I did see like a little drink, a little cup like in it. I didn't actually see the punch. I watched it and watched it. I didn't actually see a punch. If y'all saw a punch, good. I didn't really actually see it. I saw a whole bunch of people huddled around. I saw some scrambling. I saw some scrambling. I actually kind of just don't even engage stuff like that. I actually try to scroll past, but when it's viral, you can't unsee stuff like that. Since I can't unsee stuff like that, I got to speak on it and it's in my spirit to speak on it because I think, you know, all the backlash and the key key key in about whatever happened or didn't happen to him, it's like, you know, we be offering each other up to the oppressor. We don't all have to like each other. R.I.P. Rodney King. Rodney King, you know, he was made famous for asking the rhetorical question, "Can't we all just get along?" And the answer to his rhetorical question, no, we can't. That's just human nature. Everybody can't like each other. So this is why the biggest pushback we get in the movement because we get, you know, we get caught up in emotion. We get caught up in the, "I don't like you." And that's all right. It's really all right if you don't like somebody. You don't have to pretend to like somebody you don't like. They don't make you less of a brother, a good brother, it don't make you less of a good sister. If you don't like somebody, you don't like somebody. It is what it is. We can't all like each other. We just can't. We can't all just kumbaya get along. You know, you got your own blood relatives that you really kind of don't want to be around. But I digress. So for whatever reason, the people don't like Rick Ross. What we need to start doing is get on cold and stay codified. And always, always know through whatever the situation and look at the bigger picture. And the bigger picture is a white man got comfortable enough in his own skin to put hands on a brother. That's the bigger picture of what happened in Canada. And Canadians ain't too thrilled about Americans in general. And they do the black people that live in Canada is super dirty. So you get this big, super mega rap star got all this money and influence and affluence goes over to Canada has a back and forth with a guy who shouldn't even been ten inches, let alone ten feet, like ten feet, let alone within ten inches of him. So what I'm saying said all that to say, it was a setup from the get up. And I think the Drake thing with the back and forth with the Drake, I think that was, you know, I think that was a finesse. I think it was some racial type ish. He was like, yeah, you in my, this is, you know, Canada, I'm ripping Canada and da, da, da, da, da. You know, the undertones, I'm getting the racial undertones from there. Like how, you know what I mean? How hard in the paint you going to go for Canada? Because Rick Ross didn't diss Canada, he dissed Drake. He didn't diss Canada, he didn't say F Canada. He was going that back and forth with Drake. So how do you, a white guy, like all of them black dudes, people that live in Canada, they wasn't offended enough to like find Rick Ross and put hands on them. But you, a white guy, want to put hands on the brother. Smells racial to me. Because the black people that live in Canada, like it ain't that crucial. Like he's a rapper, we in the streets for real. Like he's an entertainer, that's how the black people took you. So how do you, as a white guy, a guest in the house of hip hop, get so amped up, that you go and want to put hands on the entertainer. It's not adding up. And then we setting up in our community, we kick giggling and key keying and like, oh, the person in the face, Rick. Oh, they did Rick dirty, they did Rick dirty. And so, you know, all the people that's giggling and key keying, they got a history of, you know, having a back and forth with him. But they obviously ain't looking at front light from that perspective. They looking at it like, well, he shouldn't have been running his mouth. That's what he get. Especially, you know, his child's mother. But, you know, I would say the most progressive person that had the most progressive thing to say was, I gotta say, shout out to D1. He put it in perfect perspective. It does need to be a better conflict resolution. You know, and he didn't find it too funny. A whole lot of other, you know, people that had disagreements with Rick Ross. When they got interviewed, they didn't, you know, they said they didn't find nothing too funny about it. They wasn't on the best terms with Rick Ross, but they didn't want to see him, you know, get punched in the face for being a rapper. And Black, a rapper in Canada. So, like, the only thing I would have to say in that instance, we gotta stay on code no matter how you personally feel about a brother or sister. As the old saying goes, if you don't have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. Just say no comment. You know, we can always exercise the no comment options. I think more of more celebrities within our community exercise, no comment. You know, a lot of hip hop beats would never exist if they just wouldn't say nothing. But a whole lot of rappers wouldn't be unalive right now. Had a people just like, when they got a microphone in front of them, they just, you know, they gotta get on team. You know, some things you do gotta talk about. At some stance, you gotta stand on your square of truth and, you know, be prepared to deal with whatever consequence comes with it at some point in time. But most of the time, there's an old saying. Part of my language again for Carson, bullshit ain't about nothing. Half good, 90% of the hip hop beats would be bullshit. You know, it don't be when you strip it down to the bare bones, it don't be about nothing. It's usually a misunderstanding, an artist getting misquoted by a hip hop platform, and then they fan the flames and they milk it until they can't getting up no more views and clicks on it. But in this type of situation, man, I just, I feel personally, it was like racially motivated. I don't think it had anything with, you know, defending the honor of Canada, defending the soil of Canada. I think it was, you know, a white, I call them white delusionists, delusional, not white supremacists 'cause they're delusional if they think they're better than somebody. At the core of it, he tried to use, you know, the Drake beef to get into position to just be able to do something, have a pass to do something to a black guy. So, final word on that is, man, we need to stay codified, stay on code, get out of our fields. If you don't have nothing nice to say about another artist, if you don't like somebody, just don't say nothing. Like, like, especially if you ain't going to say it to their face, 'cause this world is small and people will hop up on you. So, if you're not going to keep that same energy when you see them in their face, then don't say nothing at all. But, yeah, final word, let's stay on code. Let's always look at the bigger picture. And whenever possible, you know, our brothers and sisters in entertainment, when they're doing these interviews, when they're going on these podcasts, you know, because like, you know, the world wants to know how you feel about this person, this person said this, blah, blah, blah. You know, you do got the right to say, you know, no comment. I don't feel like talking about that. There's a plethora of ways to answer them questions to deflect them type of questions. Just deflect those type of questions, you know, 'cause y'all know the game, like the podcasters, the interviewers, they're just trying to, you know, they're trying to stir it apart. You know, no comment is a plausible answer. I don't feel like talking about that. That's a plausible answer. It's an answer. You answered the question. I don't know. I don't care. You know, I don't feel no type of way about it, whatever, but, you know, don't, what I'm saying is, like, don't take the bait. Stop taking the bait. Well, I think I went well over my time limit. I sat for myself. I had a few more things that I wanted to talk about, but I guess I'll save those topics for tomorrow's edition that I'll be uploading in a few hours from now. I'm thinking probably like five is six ish for the full episode of the narrative podcast, but this weekday edition is most definitely done. So join me this weekend for a full edition of the narrative podcast. The difference between the weekend edition and the weekday edition is the weekend edition has. I got it divided into sections. Each section has speaking points. So I think I got like about four more sections. I'll just go through my episode log and you can be note the differences between the weekday and the weekend episodes. I don't really got enough time to, you know, break down how, you know, how they differ, but they're different. The formats are different. The weekend and the weekday formats are different. 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