Host Larry Higginbottom discusses the psychological component of black oppression and the writings of Frantz Fanon. He also shares his thoughts on the differing perspectives of African Americans and black people who have recently immigrated to the US.
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Observations from the Trenches
Host Larry Higginbottom discusses the psychological component of black oppression and the writings of Frantz Fanon. He also shares his thoughts on the differing perspectives of African Americans and black people who have recently immigrated to the US.
- Duration:
- 54m
- Broadcast on:
- 07 Aug 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and management of WBCA or the Boston Neighborhood Network. If you would like to express another opinion, you can address your comments to Boston Neighborhood Network, 302-5 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02119. To arrange a time for your own commentary, you can call WBCA at 617-708-3215 or email radio@bnnmedia.org. Hi, Boston, I'm Yoast Larry here, Madam, and you're listening to WBCA, 102.9 FM, again, you're listening to WBCA, 102.9 FM, the name of the program from the trenches, op-surbishment trenches, op-surbishment trenches. And I speak because for the last quarter century, I've been out here involved in mid-life services, wrap around with our community, and the things I've seen, you know, many of our folks do, really speaks about psychological impairment, really. I've gone to my closet of all my books, and I came across a book I read years ago, by psychiatrist Frances Oum entitled "The Psychology of Oppression," "The Psychology of Oppression." And he was, I believe, a French psychiatrist doing this civil war struggle for independence. And what came in my mind, when I thought about that book, again, for more information you can also read on "The Psychology of Oppression" by Brother Franz Pinal, a psychiatrist he passed away up in 1960, I believe, what came in my mind, when I thought about Adolf's American descent of slavery, we came out of that institution, we were enslaved, we were never slave, but we were enslaved, with it we have been, for four to five years, subjected to in this country, psychological warfare, psychological warfare, because after our so-called liberation, after being liberated from our enslavement, we have been constantly bombarded, right, with propaganda by our image, our self-worth, and our value. And people who will oppress other people want them also to take on those belief systems, to start believing in those things as well. And so I want to have, this is a conversation today, about the psychological warfare that we have been and will be exposed to as long as we are dealing with whiteness, because at the core, anti-blackness is at the core of whiteness, and the reason why I say that is because from the very beginning, you have to justify these atrocities, you must justify this terrible treatment, you must justify this brutality. Even once you subdue and suffocate the people, all right, you now must convince them that you are somewhat humane, and that they are the problem, that they are the reason why they are in the conditioning. Not your brutality. I thought about some of the terms that have been used to suffocate 8-0s here in America from the very beginning, referring to grown men as boy, grown women as gals, using the term you force to show your superior position with you where a successful Caucasian or a lowly and poverty Caucasian, you just say yes sir, no man. So as I've thought about my 70 years here in America, and I've thought about the term psychological warfare, I want to throw out here some terms for you to think about. And why I come to realize that many of our people are not aware that they participate in their own psychological bombardment when they refer to themselves with the "N" but with the "A" on the "N." And some with the "N" with the "E" "R" or the "B" word or the "H" word. You now become unwillingly a partner in white supremacy domination over adults because you reinforce the negativity that we are less than, that there's something wrong with us, that we must be micromanaging, that we must be heavily policed, that our intellect is always suspect. And so I want us to, I want you to take this journey with me. And I want you to think about some of the things that we unwillingly participate in our own psychological bombardment, how we also subject ourselves to psychological warfare. And unknowingly, we are assisting our own subjugation. And you might want to jot down from things that you have said or seen, et cetera, et cetera. For example, the whole thing about colorism, light skin versus dark skin blacks. Well that came about because whiteness wanted to have lightness, right, resemble it, its facial features, hair features, et cetera. And anything that was dark and pleasant, all right, had coarse hair, et cetera, was deemed to be negative or undesirable. And in this year, madness of indoctrinating us based on color or skin tone, it rewarded those who were enlightened. And to my now, these was actual rape that produced these here, light skinned men and women. These was rape. These were episodes of rape that occurred throughout our enslavement. And even after doing Jim Crow, honey is the lynching, sharecropping, this rape continued. But when you think about this here whole thing about light skinned, dark skinned blacks, it still comes down to psychological warfare. It's saying that because you are light and you resemble, all right, the conqueror or the oppressor, you are more valuable than those who resemble those who were enslaved or those who have been deemed less than. And we epitomize it and internalize that binary classification when we give value and credence to folks who have light skinned, so-called straight hair, European features, et cetera. So we end up unwillingly affirming our own psychological torment by validating that. And the whole system of binary based on color, based on race, white and black, white men, supposedly more intelligent, most superior, black men, beasts of burden, someone who must be micromanaged, et cetera. And that binary system was created to subjugate us to oppression and to us to internalize over the centuries that we were less than. And I'm here to say, as Brother Franklin Ohm, who wrote the psychology of oppression, we are actually aiding our oppressor when we validate those things or emulate those things or affirm that kind of behavior. And when you say things like, for example, I hate all blacks. You heard on TikTok, another Facebook or other platform, you know, where the presenter might say, I now can't stand all black men, all black women. Now, think about this here. The last census is about, it said, the last census in 2018, I think it was, there was 40 million, eight of those members. So you got millions and millions of black men and women in those groups. When you use the word, I hate all black men or I detest all black women, you have not had the luxury of the pleasure of meeting all 10 or 15 million in that particular sex or agenda. But it's what the spirit of whiteness did. It blanketed all of us as inferior, all of us as unworthy, all of us as undeserving. So when you hear members of our own community, see, I can't stand that in or I can't stand that beat or I hate that in, I detest that in or she ain't number the age. She always was the age. What you are doing when you say that, you are affirming and validating the psychological warfare that we have been subjected to for four and five years. But you don't know what you're doing. Unwinnily, it's what you're doing. You're not saying I got an issue with Larry or an issue with Mary. You are saying, across the whole entire group, I detest black men, I detest black women or I only now want to date white men or I don't want to date white women. Well, you are affirming and validating your own internal psychological war against your group. I mean, you think about it, I've never heard any whites and I'm a baby boomer, I've been around here for, I mean, I'm standing there, I've been around for seven a year, I've never heard whites say, I hate white people, I hate all white women or Jews, I hate all Jews. I hate all Jewish women or Asians, I hate all Asian people, all Asian men, all Asian men. You never hear that nonsense, why? Because whiteness has deliberately made blackness like the scorn of the earth is primarily on the bottom of this caste system and all groups who come here have been indoctrinated and socialized to make sure they keep that caste system in effect by making sure that our group will always be ostracized or deemed less than worthy, less than deserving. And so we have to realize that we are participating in our own psychological warfare against ourselves. We do those things. And so I think it's just appropriate that we really start to call members of our own group out when they participate in this kind of behavior, because it doesn't serve as well. And I just want to just make us very conscious of it. We got to call each other out on behavior that is aiding and abetting our own oppression. Think about America, you get all these individuals, Africans, caribans, Asians, folks from India, all these formerly colonized and subjugated people run into America. And all of them are willing to embrace whiteness and do whatever pleases whiteness to advance themselves, despite all of them, where one time colonized, right, subjugated by whiteness. So when they come to America, they have no problem adapting and trying to assimilate or please the white power structure. One of the reasons why I believe that is, is because for the last 708 decades, because of independent, being from India, Africa, Caribbean, was south of the border of the Spanish, Spain left there like the 1800s. So they've been free of whiteness for like 100 years or more. But all these groups who come into America, right, they're not coming here with the same viewpoint of whiteness as ados has, they're not coming here to America with the same viewpoint of white racism or white supremacy that we have. Because they've had the luxury of six or eight decades, right, to reconstruct whiteness. It doesn't mean that it means stuff. So we mistakenly call them allies because they are, you know, of the African race, you know, being the black of the black race. But there's no lineage there. They were not subjected to 24/7 years of chalice slavery in this country. 100 years of Jim Crow, 100 years of share cropping, 100 years of lynching, 100 years of mass murder, they were not subjected to that in this country. So there's nothing that binds them to me or you, except in being a member of the black race. Now, what can they be? So they can do racism, or if they get it, of course they can. But also they reap the benefits of being accepted because they can say, no, I'm a Jamaican. I'm a Nigerian, you know, I'm from Costa Rica. I'm from India. So because they're not us, they're easily absorbed into whiteness. And the reason why it's so difficult, will always be difficult for us to be absorbed because we are the only group here where it's been a constant conflict because of how we came here. We came here in shackles and chain, shackles and chains, and we have been fighting with whiteness for four hundred and five years. That's why whiteness is so brutal to us because we have, we are the only group that's never been what I call totally subjugated or colonized. These other groups, although once colonized and subjugated because of independence, whiteness doesn't mean to them what it means to us. So again, it's all about mind, influencing the mind, how one thinks about oneself. That's why, as I reread passages from Franklin on, Franklin on work, you can read it too. I encourage you to read it, Franklin on, Franklin on the psychology of oppression, but came to my mind and my title today is real simple. For four hundred and five years, we've been subjected to psychological warfare. Real whiteness and the name of the game is to get you, us, to inflict that, that psychological pain on ourself. Well, whiteness can stand back and say, no, it ain't me calling you in. It's not me calling you in, being with no more. It's not me lynching you anymore. It's not me murdering you, murdering you anymore. It's not me doing these despicable things anymore. We're doing these things now. And so people forget the origin of the oppression, which was the spirit of whiteness. And so we got our work cut out for that if we move into this century, the thirty six years left in this century, thirty six years. And I would really employ the group behind us, baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Z, the millennials, to really start to call our group out when it involved itself with self-inflicted, psychological warfare. Because words matter. What you think matters. And think about this here, as I thought about it, too. The so-called remedies that were used to address our treatment of twenty-fourth and years of enslavement, I need a Jim Crow from reaction, DDI, what we're going to call them, you know what I mean? Also now, although we did not create those initiatives, also now they are deemed unworthy or they're deemed not as a slight or as an insult. Think about that. So remedies that was created, the so-called address, the past harm was done to us because the whiteness, those same remedies now are deemed, right, as an insult, you know, shows you got no skills, no intelligence, means a very highly skilled and educated people. That's the vile spirit of whiteness. So we got to work cut out for us if we move forward. But we need to be three countries of the psychological warfare that we've been subjected to for four and five years, eight oaths. And that's going to always be in play as long as it's as long as the construct of whiteness is prevalent. It's never going anywhere. That's why I say to people, don't hurt yourself. Don't do things that hurt yourself. Don't give the spirit of whiteness opportunity to stand and judge you adversely because they're being indoctrinated in groom to always give you the worst treatment, the worst consequences. And yes, yes, yes, to the folks in the back row, there's always been good white people, there always will be, always has been, always will be, to no avail. They could not be rent, I would enslave it. I'm sure there was someone who thought it was almost wicked treatment, no one the man could not change it, could not stop it. I'm sure doing sharecropping, Jim Crow, black cold, just a member of the white community thought, you know, it was very despicable and terrible the way he was treated. During a hundred years of lynching, likewise, the point I want you to understand, it didn't change that construct, it did not change the reality of us being a persecuted group in this country. It did not change the fact that it was psychological warfare going on against us to convince those whites that they should be really enabled to inflict those those are inflictioned upon us, inflict those consequences, consequences upon us, and then stop them from doing that. I'm sure some did, but as a group answers no, because for any oppression to occur, you must have the consensus and the willingness of the group to inflict it every day in action. They the one who got to be there, excluding, denying, you know, judging every day white people, every day members of the community, they are greatly needed to inflict the pain because without them it doesn't work. So yes, yes, yes, you've always had great, good white people, you always will be. I work every day with good white people, every day, there was never the issue, they couldn't stop this here construct from becoming a reality. And when I say that America is a white man's country, it's not to be mean-spirited, you know, looking for dialogue, it is what it is, they own all the wealth, that's true, control all the resources, that's true, these are the institutions, that's true, the regs that govern these institutions are written through this in the right row, that's true. And they also have what, all the weapons, all that's true, that's true. So when I say that, right, it's not to stir up controversy or that conversation, it's to say, okay, give it a reality, how do I, the member of the adults community, how do I thrive and prosper if that's the reality. The only saving grace I can see for the middle of my community is A, don't do things to hurt yourself, where they can stand and judge you adversely, and B, you need to be highly skilled out here to do well in America, because the system of capitalism is steel-based in capitalism, it's not, that's not system of economic capitalism, and labor is needed in all facets in this here system. And the good thing is you got going, young people, your next generation needs in millennial, that was not there when I was born in '53, all, all occupation now are open to you. You don't have to be, just stuck on entertainment, singing, dancing, rapping, shooting the ball to entertain white folks, all these occupations now are open to you. If you're quite those skills, they're not not like it, but you can get in there and make that good money and take care of yourself and your family on your turn. So it's a whole new day in 2024. But the psychology of oppression, the psychological warfare, is still ever-present, and we must stop being unbundly, allies, and doing it to ourselves. And I would encourage all of you for more information to read, fresh but known, classic work, the psychology of oppression, the psychology of oppression. She was, I think, Nigerian psychology, five cultures, I believe, passed away back in 1960s. But great, great, great work. And when I read this past week, you know, I thought about my group, eight of us, American descendants slavery, we come out of the institution. We were not slave, but we weren't enslaved, that's true. And what came to my spirit was this year's simple statement, for four to five years we've been on the psychological warfare. The actual physical violence has curtailed to a great degree because of our relentless pushback, but the psychological warfare has never ceased, never ceased. So again, I'm your host Larry Higginbottom. You're listening to WBCA 102.9 FM, again, WBCA 102.9 FM. One nameless program is op surveys from the churches, op surveys from the churches, op surveys from the churches. When I speak about things I see out here in the last quarter century, doing direct mid-health services in his home, and I want to say that we've always been subjected to psychological warfare. In the last 40 plus years, you know, since Keaton was murdered, we have become one of our own worst enemies, because of the things that we do. And so we've got to take ownership of that, and we've got to call our people out on that. We've got to know the origin of it, do a presser always want to make you feel that you are the reason why you're down there in the gutter, that you are the reason why you can't make it, that you are the reason why life is all so horrible for you, that all you got to do is work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstrap, and you can make it in America. That's been the biggest propaganda life loaded. And if you're not doing well, it's something that you're not doing right. And so I say to you, it is time that we start to call out members of our community who are doing things when they embrace those concepts and those words, we must call them out on that, and you're hurting us, you're not helping us, you're not making it better for us, you're hurting us, we must do those things, because it's the truth, they're not helping us. So I encourage all of you who are in my voice to think about that, we've been on the Second World War Fair for 45 years, and it's up to us to be conscious of it, and to demand a different outcome. Well, I'm going to take a break for a second, I'll be right back, again, you're listening to WBCA 102.9 FM, again, WBCA 102.9 FM, I'm your host Larry Larry Higginbottom, you can listen to op/servision matrices, and my title for the day, my comment, hello, speech today, having revisited friends from known, the author of the psychological, the psychology of oppression. What came to my spirit was for four to five years, this country, we have been out under constant psychological warfare, I shall be back in a minute, and I shall continue. Revolution wasn't televised in the '60s, is it going to be televised in the '90s? Well, you know, the catchphrase, what that was all about, the revolution would not be televised. 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We listened to WBCA, 102.9 FM, in WBCA, 102.9 FM in Boston. My topic for the day, I was going through some of my old books years ago, and I came across one, one of my favorites, by Dr. Fran Stenone, in a titles called the psychology of oppression. He I believe is a librarian psychiatrist doing the liberation against France. He spoke about how the first of the use of psychology, in addition to actual violence, the psychology of oppression, once they had colonized them, sub-sub and also suffocated them, not to use different forms in the mind, the mind, control the mind without you will succumb to your condition. What came to my spirit was 8 of us, Americans in this labor, we came out of the institution. It's been 4 in 5 years of psychological warfare, from the time we got in 1619 to the day, it's been 4 in 5 years of psychological warfare, and I thought about a lot of the adjectives that we have had to endure, you have to combat a lot of these stereotypes, the N word, the B word, H word, being called boy, gal, yes ma'am, no ma'am, all these things show that the white community was superior. Those are all elements of psychological warfare. It's called the hood, you know, high-risk, you know, all those words are psychological warfare, to make it seem that something is wrong with you. And you go on the other here, like you know, the 7% of the kids are born out of wedlock, you know, you look on the news, you're all talking about murder ratings and Chicago, you know, things of that nature. But if you go to the FBI database, right, although blacks lead and murder blacks, but when you break down or you use the psycho-educational status, the veterans are those who are killing themselves come from the lowest element of our community. As a matter of fact, I read a stat where there's about 10 million families comprised black American, black American in this country, 8 of this country, 22.2%, 22.2% of those, right, living homes where either they're at or below the poverty line, think about it, of those 10 million plus black families, 22.2% of those live or live at home that are at or below the poverty line. Well, those are poor folks killing each other. When I look out here on TikTok or from these Facebook platforms, you see some of the ridiculous things that have been done by some of my young folks, that's from that element. Those are poor kids doing some less than a zombie thing. But the image is that, back on black crime, as though there's a wave, an epidemic, a black woman killing themselves, no, it's not. Again, it's like a lot of warfare that gets you to believe that murder's a rampant, it's not. None of my friends, when I was growing up, got murdered. In my adult life, I don't know any of my male friends or friends I know where their kids got murdered. Why? They were not in that lifestyle. They were not in that lifestyle. But if you go by what you see on the 6th, 11 o'clock news, you would think that A, they just randomly killing each other. Again, it's like a lot of warfare to make you think and believe that false image that they want you to believe about your community, violence, and they need a heavy, handed up police. But they're really saying, we don't want this here, foolishness to come over to our community. We don't want to come over here to West Rock Berry or down there on the waterfront. Let's keep it contained over there in the hood. In terms of high risk, those are all terms to the mean you, to make you think you're less than. Again, elements, let's talk about the whole affair. We need to be mindful of that. We must call out members of our community who are engaged in that kind of nonsense. And you're not helping us, you're not helping our image. We've had the image problems in 1619 when we arrived on these shows and shackles and chains. You're not helping us. You're not helping us combat whiteness. And whiteness at its core is anti-black, anti-black, always will be. So you're not helping us when you deliberately go out there and so comes that kind of lifestyle and do those things where the people that you're keeping on the edge are supposed to live in a hood with you because you ain't hurting nobody else, we must call our members of our community out on his behavior. And I contend when the researchers years or decades of now think about rap last 30 years, they're going to call rap, I believe, one of the greatest agents of white supremacy. Because in the last 30 years, that medium has done nothing but glorify what? Homicidal action, by males, only sexualized women, women are open to prostitution. They say, hey, man, if you can buy my, buy do my hair, do my nails, do my feet, pay my rent, right? You can have my body, well, that's prostitution. And I believe when they really, when they do do the assessment of rap, when they look at it, you'll say, well, it might start out as a great communication tool, but it went to the dogs, it'd been in the gut ever since. And I believe they're going to say, call rap what it is. One of the greatest tool of a psychological warfare ever used against who? Ain't those people? And I think they're also going to call out the owners of distribution of that toxic message. The Jews, whites, Asians, because you would never allow these artists to put those lyrics out of their way about Jewish women, Jewish men, white men, white women, Asian men, Asian women, but you elect these fools. And I put it out all under the bed of their freedom of speech. You know, their artistic, artistic freedom, that's garbage. When they critique that form, that platform, they're going to stay in the last 30, 40 years, it's one of the greatest tool of a psychological warfare used against our community. You go on these platforms, and you can see often, many of my young men, these are young guys now, you know, 15, 16, 17, 18, maybe 19, 20, you know, already engaged in the life of crime, and many of them know how they're going to end up, either crippled, maimed, murdered, or imprisoned, but -- and then make money from these record companies being rappers, and they're peddling methods of death, no standards. So again, we must begin to call ourselves out, call out members of our community, who are engaging in psychological warfare against our people, because they're not helping us, they're not helping us at all. And so, as I thought about reading that -- that the book by Brother Franklin on, these are cosical oppression, it came to my spirit for four to five years, we had been in a psychological warfare with whiteness, because once you colonize and subdue with people, you now must turn to psychological tools to keep them off balance. And for a number of our people, they are off balance. They are out of order, and they are -- I was sending me from the fan. And we got to be able to call them out on that, say, "Hey, bro, you're hurting us." But still, just the experiment I'd like for you to use, I've done it many times, but there's how I work with it. You can do it with the N word, the B word, H word. If you say the N word, you say five times, I hate that hand, I just test that hand, you know, can't stand the hand, they didn't took my money, whatever. Now, make that same statement saying, "I hate that, brother, I can't stand that, brother." That brother took my money, that brother took my woman. You see, the viciousness is not there as it is if you use the N word. It's hard to kill your brother, it's hard to dislike your brother, it's hard to dislike your brother if he did your own. But if the N person did that, "Oh, he or she, naming he, has no value to you," that's all psychological warfare. And matter of fact, if a person came from another country, they were swear that ados invented that word, the N word, it was where we did it. Because our celebrities, our entertainers, have made it so prevalent, just so nonchalantly, you go on this platform, right, TikTok, whatever, although, you know, they have a lot of good things going on. But unfortunately, for our people, they started to talk for the opening mouth, coming out, what's coming out, the N word, the B word, the H word. Also I did a little experiment with some of the females that I also work with counsel. I said, instead of calling them a B, say, "I hate that sister. That sister did me wrong, that sister made me mad, that sister took my money, that sister took my man." The viciousness dissipates, compared to you say, "I hate that B, I can't stand that B, that B did me wrong, that B took my man," whatever. You see the energy for self-destruction dissipates. You might be a separate your brother, right, but you will kill the in person. You might be a separate your sister, but you will annihilate that B, do you see what I'm coming from? That's all psychological terrorism, that's all psychological conditioning. To make you who have been victimized by the white oppression, to now self-inflict pain on yourself, and the realtor can sit back to see, see, it ain't us, they stand to themselves. They stand about themselves. It's like they washed their hand, now there's interest, after 400 years also now, they can walk away from it. That's why you don't do yourself. We must be able to call out our people, to our people, "These are trending." That's why I kind of realize young people, and I believe they come your own, you come your own conclusion, that we as black Americans need our own schools. We need our own schools to teach our children about whiteness, about the relationship. It's four to four to five years, but also about capitalism, how it works, how it functions, and how it rewards people. I would not be known no more my time on civil rights, voting rights, human rights. We've been fighting that fight for 160 years, we've done a great job, we had to, but I wouldn't fight that no more. I would put my time on a crime essential high-income skills and letting my kids and my children know that we are not the end, or the be, or the ages, and teach them about white oppression, especially these psychology, the psychological warfare that we have been subjected to for four to five years. Just my thoughts, as we, as I, in my group, the boomers get out your way, and something for you to think about, Gen X, Gen Z, and Millennium, because why? Every generation has to deal with whiteness. Your turn is here, if we get out your way, it's your turn now, but you need to be mindful of the psychological warfare that we have been subjected to since day one. We must begin to call out members of our community who are engaged in those kind of behaviors. They are detrimental to our own well-being. Come on, they're not happening, they're not, they're not happening our image whatsoever. They're part of the problem. So without winding down, some, some of you think about, hopefully, but remember now, no one's coming to save you, no one's coming to make it better for you, no one's coming to make it better for you or for us, never having ever will in this country. It's a dust, and the first start is better, Gil's got him and said, "The revolution starts in your mind. The revolution starts in your mind. It won't be no group project, it won't be no group they tank, it won't be no marching down main street with, you know, where they parade, it'll be when you kind of realize that you're on the wrong page, that you're going the wrong way, that you're doing things without order." That's when you know that you've got to change, because if you don't change, no one's coming to make you change, no one's coming to make life better for you, because the end of the day is on you, it's on me. If I had to transform my way of thinking almost four decades ago, so were you. And my life is better for doing that. But also, I've been a blessing to other people, and so were you, because you're being watched, like I'm being watched, they're young folks immemulate you, young ladies, young ladies only immemulate you. So how do you plan to carry yourself? It's important. Well, as I get about here, I'll be back next Wednesday with a different observation from the trenches, and again, I'm not here to insult or offend anybody, but to give you a different food for thought, because we have gone the wrong way. I think you know that we've gone the wrong way, and no one's coming to save us, no one's coming to make it better for us, never have, never will. It's up to you and I to decide how we want to live out here, do we want to be an asset to our community, right, we want to be about self-elevation, or do we want to stay down here in the market of Maya? That call is our call, but you've got to be mindful of technological warfare that we've always been subjected to for our whole time here, for the whole time we've been here. You've got to make sure that you teach your children to have respect and love for themselves and for the group, because there's a group go, they go, because we are part of the group. If the group is despised, you'll be despised, there's no getting around there. So until next Wednesday, you know, be well, you've been listening to WBCA 102.9 film, I'm the host Larry Gaimatum, name of the program, I'm the basement trenches, I'm the basement trenches baby. My thought for the day was, 25 years of technological warfare, we're still on the warfare. Till next Sunday, next Wednesday, be blessed and God, God bless you, bye. The preceding commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and management of WBCA or the Boston Neighborhood Network. 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